Mmmmmm…. creamsicles.  I especially love the contrast of a vanilla creamsicle with an orange popsicle coating, icy cold on a hot August afternoon.  It figures that the temperature is a balmy 75 degrees f. in our part of the Pacific Northwest today.  Maybe I’ll save my creamsicle indulgence for Sunday, when it’s predicted to be in the 90’s.  But don’t let my restraint stop you from celebrating National Creamsicle Day in grand style.

Contrast is a very powerful tool when it comes to personal evolution and creating the life of our dreams.  Some understanding of what contrast means to growth, how to recognize contrast for what it is, and how best to utilize contrast is essential to being a deliberate creator in this attraction based Universe.

When I’m experiencing something unpleasant that I would really rather not have to deal with, in that moment of negative experience I Know what it is that I Don’t Want….. Which helps me to more clearly understand what it is that I do want.  It sounds simple enough to understand, this principle of contrasting life experience.  Hot exposes cold.  Up exposes down.  Unwanted experience exposes wanted experience.

Living and loving with Peaches has helped me to learn some very critical truths about contrast and how best to utilize it to improve my life experience.  Contrast can be a very important and beneficial tool in manifesting the life of my dreams.  For anyone who is committed to joyful life experience, the inherent hazard in experiencing the contrast of negative feelings is the danger of getting stuck there, of allowing anger or resentment or hurt feelings or depression to become an ongoing way of life, in wallowing in it.  It can be a very real danger for some.

Most of us, I think, are sort of acclimated to experiencing negative emotions.  We learn it in school, we’re bombarded with fear and judgment and harsh realities of every description by television media.  Magazines, newspapers, gossip of every description in the home, in the office, in the neighborhood, these are all prevalent, and so often serve to feed the monster of negative thinking, thought pollution that is the equivalent of smog, trash and acid rain in environmental pollution.  In our culture, the 2 biggest commodities are fear and sex… and sex (as a commodity) is heavily regulated, controlled and limited.  The use of fear (violence) is a wide open, largely unregulated market and a prime driver of the epidemic of negative thinking that plagues our society.  Now that’s scary!

Shel Silverstein illustrated the point with great humor in his song “Show it at the Beach”

“They’re sure we’re going to grab it if it gets within our reach,
So they won’t let us show it at the beach.

But if you’ve got a gun it’s legal to display it on your hip;
You can show your butcher knives to any interested kid;
But if it’s made for lovin’, then you’d better keep it hid,
And they won’t let us show it at the beach.”

As a joyful creator, a being of Light, and a Child of God, what I love best about being married to Peaches is that negative emotion does not stick to her.  Peaches recovers from negative feelings more quickly and more thoroughly than anyone I’ve ever met before.  Besides the obvious child-like aura of charm that this trait casts around my beloved wife, this emotional resilience also makes Peaches (and those like her) the best of all possible co-creators in this attraction based, contrast driven environment called life.  With Peaches, it’s safe and desirable to occasionally experience the contrast of negative emotions, because I feel assured that there’s no chance we’ll spend any more time than is necessary within the negative experience, as we use the contrast to launch ourselves into greater alignment with joyful manifestations than we could have reached without passing through the powerful contrast.  (When we experience that which we do not want, we know more clearly what it is that we do want.)

What too often happens with brilliant, luminous, grounded creators is that they find themselves in love with and/or intimately bonded to a lover (or family member) who holds grudges, can’t let “it” go, wants to fight and argue, complains endlessly, focuses on the negative, and/or engages in gossip.  For anyone committed to living deliberately and consciously creating the life of her dreams, nothing and no one can keep us from fulfilling the manifestation of all that we desire… but we can get into situations that dramatically slow us down.  And for the less focused, less determined deliberate creator, it’s most certainly possible to allow ourselves to be dragged back into the sleep of the damned by well meaning loved ones (and not so well meaning loved ones) who believe that the only way to get along in life is to fight for what they want.

And so on this day of honoring delightful contrast (creamsicles and hot august days), I’m declaring my deepest appreciation and love for my beautiful co-creator and wife.  As Abraham-Hicks has said,

“One who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful than a million who are not. And two who are harmoniously focused and connected to the Energy Stream brings about a co-creative endeavor that cannot be matched by anything else in all of the Universe.”

Thank you, Peaches, for being my harmoniously focused co-creator.  You light up my life.  Together, we cannot help by light up the entire Universe!

XO,
K