Why Education is so Important

With all the youth in the midst of their year-end examinations, I thought it would be nice to send them some love and encouragement on their paths.

I remember so well the conversations I would have with my mom when I was a teenager. Mom used to tell me that education was important, not so much for the content of what we learned, but that it was more about the discipline of committing to something and seeing it through. It was not so much about the parrot fashion cramming of lots of irrelevant facts, but more about learning the skills to process information, in other words learning to think for oneself.

As a young student, we are oftentimes frustrated because of the limiting subject choices that are offered. We ask: "How will I ever use this seemingly irrelevant information that I have to squash into my brain? What is the point when we have search engines, computers and calculators, and so on?"

The point is that learning is a discipline. It is like gym for the brain. Arnold Schwarzenegger never became the strongest, buffest man in the world without spending hours in the gym pushing weights. You have to exercise the brain to keep it agile and supple. It really doesn't matter which courses or subjects you choose. It is the brain gym that counts. Mom always told me that the more languages you were able to learn at a young age, the more easily you would be able to pick up yet more languages when you were older. Have you noticed that those who speak more than three languages seem to have an absolute ease at learning more? Their brains are so developed with regards to languages. It is as though the pathways are connected and open.

The Maths we study at school goes far beyond the realms that we will utilise in our daily lives, however it stretches our brains so that we are able to think outside of our little boxes and imagine and create, because that's where our destinies lie. Our futures depend on our ability to become entrepreneurial and to think for ourselves.

Gone are the days where each learner is assured of a job. Gone are the days of being a button pusher or clerk. Machines and computers are taking over those rolls, and we humans are required to be thinkers and creators.

When I cut out of a piece of cloth and sew a duvet cover or a slip cover for my couch, I am truly grateful for the spatial concepts I learned in Geometry. When I write my blog I am grateful for all those boring lessons I endured in English. I was never an 'A'' or a 'B' student in English. I struggled with poetry and creative writing and yet today I am a self-published author. I learned the grammar and I persevered with the discipline and today it has paid off.

I studied to be a ballet dancer at University and after 3 years as a professional ballet dancer, I realised that it wasn't the profession for me. However the discipline I endured became instilled in me and has enabled me to stay at my computer and write into the early hours of the morning. Working as a performer has helped me with my speaking career. Learning choreography and lighting helped me with my photographic career. Every bit of learning has been utilised. Not a single thing I ever learned has been a waste of time.

So, I want to encourage you, if you are in the process of trying to cram much seemingly irrelevant knowledge into a brain that feels the size of a pea. Never give up! Every scrap of information that you can gather will reward you in years to come and if you invest the time and discipline now, you will be so glad you did.

I encourage you to see education as a wonderful opportunity that will open doors for you that you can't yet see. Commit to study because it is the best exercise for your brain and the more supple your brain, the more choices you will be afforded as you enter the world of adulthood.

Good luck sweet students of life! I am sending you love and the will to persevere. May patience be your constant buddy and determination your guiding spirit. You can do anything you put your mind to.

all my love
Nicolette

Who Would you be?

Who would you be without the thought that you are not good enough?
Who would you be without the belief that you are imperfect?
How would you feel without your debilitating self-judgements?
Who would you be if you were to remove the layers of doubt you hold about yourself?
Who would you be without the thought that you are different to all other human beings?
How would you feel if you could live without fear, fear of judgement from yourself and fear of judgement from others?
How would you feel if you entertained the notion that we are all the same?
How would you choose to live your life differently if you didn't entertain any of those perceptions?

You'd be perfect, powerful, content and free!

You are not your mind.
You are not your thoughts
You are not your ego nor your emotions
You are the silent observer of all of these attributes
You are above your mind
You do not have to play victim to the movies your mind plays out
They are merely memories of a time gone by.
Your mind can never give you anything new.
It is like a computer. It only gives you what you have fed into it.

You have a duty to observe your mind and steer it towards happy memories
You hold the power key over your mind
The choice of whether you replay the happy DVDs or the unhappy ones are entirely up to you.
Did you know that?
Did you know you have the ability to choose the life you have?
Did you know that you cannot focus on a happy thought and an unhappy one at the same time?
It is impossible. Try it! You can't.
You get to choose which script you want to run with, which thoughts you'll use to sculpt your life going forward.
Life doesn't have to be the way it is. You don't have to be the next accident waiting to happen.

We spoke two weeks ago about DNA, which is only responsible for 1.5% of our human encoding procedures. The rest is up to YOU. Think about it!

What are you doing with your thoughts? Thoughts can decimate and destroy, but they can just as easily create and inspire. Thoughts are powerful so use them well.

Do you choose to believe that you are unworthy of love? Then look at your life and reward yourself for that which you have brought to fruition. What you believe about yourself is what you manifest.
Do you think you are worthless? Then notice when others talk down to you and abuse you. You attracted what you yourself perceived to be true.

I'll say it again. You are not your thoughts. You are more powerful than your thoughts which are merely a memory bank. Erase those thoughts that don't serve you and replace them with new, powerful, loving thoughts.

You are a powerful Spirit. You are perfect just as your Creator made you. Now YOU believe in YOU!

Have a beautiful week dear Soul

love
Nicolette

Share

I have been pondering a lot lately about capitalism, politicians and life. I continually ask myself: "What would it take for all of humanity to live harmoniously, where we all share the wealth, we share the world's resources and we give of ourselves to one another?"

The burgeoning heaviness I feel in my chest is of a lethargy and laziness to act. In my fully satiated, plumped up state of indulgence, why rock the boat? Why change the status quo?

With all the uprising and striking and calls for more stringent methods of fairly distributing the wealth, I have been challenged to think outside of my cosiness. Only when our protected little world is threatened by strikes and empowerment issues, our own young struggle to find employment, the increasing costs of food and amenities start emptying the coffers, do we start to question, or certainly I did.

I think we can all admit that there is an uneven distribution of wealth. I think you'll agree that if we all share, no one needs to go without. But somehow we point the finger at the politicians as if they can make it all right, as though all the sharing has to come from them. We're happy to share as long as it doesn't affect us, as long as that share doesn't come out of our pockets. We sit in our well-appointed castles and throw stones. We want everyone to have food in their stomachs. But we don't eat a little less.

We are happy to share as long as our pie doesn't shrink. Yes, we're happy as long as someone else does the giving, not us.

Wow! Isn't it time to look within and notice that we are at the helm of the ship? We are the creators of that in which we find ourselves. We don't have equal distribution of wealth because some of us have much more of the pie than we can eat. We are greedy little capitalists. We all are. It is a human condition. Some of us are a little bit more and some a little less, but capitalists on the gravy chain is what we all are.

I am not pointing fingers at the 'haves'. Just watch the 'have-nots' that manage to get onto the gravy train and notice how quickly they hoard and stash away more than they could possibly consume in a lifetime. WE ALL DO IT.

So, to come back to my initial question, "What would it take..."

It would take for ALL of us to share, ALL of us to only eat what we each need, not what we want. It would take for ALL of us to know the difference between our WANTS and our NEEDS. It would take for ALL of us to care about the needs of others and to care about others' suffering. We need to see everyone else as the same as us with the desire for survival and to not suffer. We need to see others as shareholders on this Earth that we born into freely and that we each have an equal right to inhabit. We need to escape our capitalistic values of first come first serve and sorry for you if you snooze.

I want to leave this last thought with you. "Who stole the first piece of land that was all of ours, and duped us into believing that it was theirs to sell to us. Who started all this land ownership when GOD gave it to all of his children to share?" One greedy little capitalist who changed the face of the world as we know it. And because we were so easily misled, we now scramble and fight over land which was never ours to own in the first place. We compete and fight for qualifications and jobs that earn us paper money. Our concrete jungles are squeezing out all of nature in our bid to turn every bit of available land into a money making opportunity.

We need to share. You and me. We need to give a portion of our pie to those who don't have any and I don't mean our rejects and our scraps. We need to relinquish our entitlement and share the good stuff, not our left overs.

This week ask yourself what you'd be prepared to share. When you die and you cannot take all your unfinished pie with you, will you have regret for all those who went without because of your stockpile?

You have to be fearless to share. Think about it.

all my love
Nicolette

Do Not Assume - DNA

Genes are a fascinating subject and I was blessed to attend a talk by William Brown on DNA some years ago. Actually, to be quite frank with you, I was rather bored at the thought of spending and hour and a half listening to a bunch of scientific facts which were just going to prove what I already knew, that our genetic structure or patterning was something inherited and was therefore unpreventable and irreversible. I mean our genes make up who and what we are. Isn’t that what we have been taught?

Contrary to popular belief Brown told us that it is not some kind of scientific formula that makes us inherit our looks and the same illnesses our forefathers and mothers suffered. He shared how new research is showing that the scientific formula that constitutes our genes is only 1.5% responsible for our human encoding procedures. The rest of our development is attributable to morphogenetics and this is to do with our thought patterning.

There is only a 1.2% difference in nucleoid sequencing between a human and a chimpanzee. The actual catalyst that causes the human embryo to take on the form of a human being is the collective thoughts that are formed in and around conception. So our thoughts are at the pivotal point of our creation.

This is very important because we can no longer blame our forefathers for our deformities, our illnesses or our looks. We have to look deeper at our own thought forms and redirect these to positive construct. Our thoughts have a direct influence on what happens to us in terms of our physical development, our health, growth and mental well being.

I was delighted to awaken to this realisation. We are responsible for who and what we are.  We are not just dealt the cards. We are not just accidents waiting to happen. We do not have to accept the plight and suffering of those who came before us. We have a choice to repeat the patterns by succumbing to the thought patterns of our forefathers or we can create a new legacy for ourselves and our offspring by challenging and changing our thoughts. We need no longer assume any predicted outcome. We need to be co-creators and work with our genes in raising them to a higher vibration.

Do you think I am going kooky?

Science has now proven that different frequencies are capable of completely restructuring our genes. It has also shown that DNA is not only a morphic field, but is also a storage system encoding information. We were taught that our cells store vast amounts of intergalactic information and that our DNA has the same properties as crystals and that is why we can interface with them.

Here are a few more exciting facts. As we raise ourselves to a new level of consciousness, we are creating another chromosome. We are changing our DNA. Brown said that all our DNA is of extra terrestrial origin. It is scientifically proven. We all belong to the Tree of Life. We are all family. We all belong to one another.

The only thing that divides us is our thoughts. The thing that destroys and corrodes our genes is fear. It is a de-coherent frequency.

I hope I have inspired you to watch and steer your mind this week. You have a duty to raise your DNA to a new vibration with the power of your mind

 

Have an excellent week

 

lots of love

Nicolette