Times of change

Hello Everyone,
I hope you are well and staying warm after the huge snow storm and cold temps.

Onto other things:)

We are in a time of great change. As you can see all over the world there is unrest. There is wide spread rioting all across Europe but our news barely gives it voice. We live in a world of inequality. In truth we live in a world of power and control and that is not reality. We are meant to live in a world of mutual respect and love of self, others, our source and all of life. We are so out of balance, now the scales have tipped and there is no going back. If you look at the power and control wheel you can see us all over it as individuals, corporations, religions, countries and continents. We are not willing to change as individuals so how are we to change as a nations. We are screwed! People say I am crazy for the way I live and see the world, through the eyes of Love Source. As our world changes we will all be forced to look at ourselves inorder to overome the changes we are facing. Are you ready? Love is the only reality and you get there through your own heart with acts of self-love, acceptance and forgiveness. I ask everyone, "Who are you really?" Explore and discover:)
More soon,
LoveSteven

What a world we live in...

Hello Everyone,
Fall is my favorite time of year. The change in the horizon, the transition of nature, the cooler days. I love it. It means my work on the farm and gardens slows and I am not so busy canning and freezing. Freedom at last.
We often love the change in the seasons but we resist change in ourselves or how we live. We are in the middle of our illusion and it all seems normal. Normal to judge, fear, stress, and doubt. We keep it all hidden under the surface and want to take a pill to solve it. We want a quick fix. The ego is in control. We are creatures of habit. We are consumed with the bad habits of avoidance, blame, shame, guilt, and all out denial. I see the broader world as a reflection of us as individuals.
Look at the BP oil spill, it is a reflection of us.
First, they avoided dealing with the problems that were already showing up within the drilling rig. Next they denied that oil was leaking from the well after the rig exploded. Then officials minimized the amount of oil leaking into the ocean and the environmental impact.
Before congress all the corporations involved just blamed each other for the problems with no one wanting to take responsibility. Finally, government officials declared that the crisis was over, the oil was cleaned up and the rest is gone. Millions of barrels of oil just dissappeared under the surface of the ocean. It isn't our problem any more , right.
We sweep everything under the rug. We act like it never happened and never really deal with the issue. We are so good at telling ourselves what we want to hear not what we need to hear. We take the same actions in our daily lives. We know that the world is changing and we must change with it, yet we resist. We are all like alcoholics. We will not do anything about our situation until we are forced too. Soon enough we will be forced too.
Think about it!
Love Steven

Feels like fall

Wow, this morning the temps dipped into the 40's. Time to get into fall mode and back to work.
I have spent most of the summer outside, growing food, baling hay and tending to the farm.
I love it all and it takes up all of my time while the sun shines.
Now that fall is approaching we can get back to business so to speak. I have a lot of new opportunities presenting themselves at this time. At the beginning of summer I combined my two groups into one. We will get back to a fall/winter schedule starting Sept. 8th. I have an opportunity to facilitate a group in Stevens Point, which will probably start in Oct. after I get the details worked out. I am still looking for several new group members. We will more then likely meet everyother Monday from 6 -8 pm at New Directions Counseling Center on Hy 10 east.
I will also be broadening my programs at Peaceful Solutions Counseling and will begin a group for at risk youth at Storefront Learning Center, if funding is secured. I am very fortunate to be able to do good work in many diverse settings with so many wonderful individuals always teaching only LOVE.

Enjoy, LOVESteven

A Monday in August

Hello Everyone,
WOW, lots going on in the world, lots of change whether we like it or not. The time of all of us to change our perspective on life and how we live is upon us, yet no one wants to listen. It is the ego and conditioned thought that continue there work. I have told many that we as Americans are resistant to change. We are all like the alcoholic who will not address the problems until he hits bottom. We will hit a bottom and all be forced to look at ourselves. I think the BP oil spill says it all best. Continued acts of denial, minimizing, blaming and avoidance. All alcoholic behaviors and also on the Power and Control Wheel. As a government official said last week of the millions of barrels released in the Gulf of Mexico, We cleaned up a quarter of it, some continues to be cleaned up on shore lines and the rest has disappeared.
What a crazy world we live in. It is time for a change and that starts with each and everyone one of us.
LoveSteven

Summer point of view

Hello Everyone,

My mentor says I should just talk on my blog about everyday life. I am not sure I know how to do that. My life is not that special and it involves a lot of work so I am usually working on the farm rather then talking about it. Plus who wants to read about that anyhow. I don't get it. Most people don't have anything productive to do but read blogs. This time of year I am growing and harvesting my food for the year. This morning I picked massive amounts of cucumbers, zucchini and herbs for pesto. This past weekend we went to a friends and picked massive amounts of raspberrries and blueberries for freezing, plus a friend dropped off a case a peaches to be canned. In addition, I had a tree fell due to yet another storm. A friend who has kept track of our local rainfall says we are up to about 19 inches in this rural area. I also had a calf born, mom had a fever and didn't want to feed the newborn then due to all the moisture the calf was invested with maggots and had to be treated and taken away from mom due to all the wet fields that created the infestation in the first place. Mom is doing fine and the baby is warm and dry in the barn eating very well and all will be fine. Is that enough for you. All the while I must remember who I am and through all this I am being shown the future.
LoveSteven

Monday July 19th

Good day everyone,

I hope you are well and enjoying all the rain. We have gotten over 6 inches in just the last week!
Even though we are still in a drought the surface ground is soaked.

I did my first video session on Skype yesterday. How wonderful this technology is to be able to see someone in another state and feel like they are in the same room with you.

If you check out the website you will see new pages for testimonials and affirmations, check it out. The affirmations come up really cool. I love it!

As I keep meeting more people and experience more of the Love Source from Within I see so much discord in everyone. So much fear controlled by the mind of the lower human ego. It keeps us prisoners to our pain. Everyone is in pain although we are meant to celebrate our time here on earth. I told a young lady the other day; "We put so much work into feeling bad, why don't we put work into feeling good. Try to LOVE YOURSELF TODAY in this moment. It works, trust me you just need to keep it up.

LoveSteven

Monday am

Good morning,
As many of you know we are sitting pretty on rain since our very dry spring. We are now around ten inches total for the area since June. Good news for the garden and the land.
All else is good:) I continue to neglect this blog, my website and such as summer is here. I would rather be outside with my gardens and animals. I often feel more connected with life then people because so many of us are afraid of life and truly living. We all stay in the ego mind of limitation and run from truth, which is what I am all about. That truth is Love. Do you truly Love Yourself in that state of Grace? If not, you have work to do. Everyone has work to do but everyone avoids, denies, blames and shames themselves into inaction.
Love ya, back out into the true reality, nature.
Steven

Friday morning

WOW, it is summer!
Where does the time go? Is Earth moving fast these days or what. Lots of anxious people in the world, lots of movement and chaos. It is all part of the changes to come.
I hope you are all well and enjoying the rain and sunshine. Several posts back I said to pray for rain. Will please stop because we have gotten rain and many prayers have been answered. As of Wednesday I have measured more then seven inches of rain in the last two and a half, three weeks.
Bring on the garden growing season. I should have my first zucchini by Sunday.
Love to all,
Steven

Thursday evening:)

Hey,

I am starting my fifth continuing care group at Peaceful Solutions Counseling tonight. I am so excited.

As you can see we have the new website up but we are still working on it. Next week I meet with a young man who wants to create a video for the site based on myself and my work. I am excited about that also.

Finally, I am heading to the Twin Cities for the weekend to see clients and go to the Indian Store for my favorite incense. One more reason to be excited.

Love ya all,
Steven

5am

I woke up this morning at 4:30 am, as I often do. I was up and outside by 5am.
When you live in the country and get out early it is so calm, quiet and peaceful.
It made me think, all the choas of the world is not caused by this.
Enjoy your day
LoveSteven

Observations for a spring morning

Hello Everyone,
I was in the barn with my baby chicks ( who have grown so fast they are starting to get feathers) reflecting on my week and all the interesting individuals I have met. I think about all the struggles that they where experiencing not realizing they have control over their life when they see the truth of who we all truly are. In that moment I heard this phrase travel in on a light breeze, " You're wonderful it is true the only thing holding you back from this is you!"
LoveSteven

Observations for a changing world.

Hello Everyone,

Why is it that our mind takes something that's so simple, for example, writing a blog and make it into something that we want to avoid and pretend doesn't exist even though we carry that energy with us as that ill at ease inability to cope. I think we apply avoidance in so many ways in our life and we are stuck in the illusion of separation from ourselves. It is almost like we live in one big alcoholic system. So much of what I see in the world is very simualr to alcoholic behaviors. We avoid and create conflict with others to avoid ourselves and our fears. We avoid what we want most which is to know ourselves and something greater than ourselves. We have been conditioned to fear change and in that conditioning we've created hell on earth. The only one that we are hurting by this indecision and ability to truly look within and change is ourselves. We fear what we do not know, which is ourselves and our source, which are One. We are only keeping ourselves from a we deserve most which is Love from Within, it is the Love Source, the Love of all existence, all of the universe, beyond words
I never know quite what to talk about but it always seems to come out nonetheless.
When I have an audience I never shut up, yet I have trouble sitting in front of this computer even though I have a NaturallySpeaking device to help with dictation. I happen to have the TV on. I'm watching one of those travel shows on public television. I find television a needless distraction of violence and ego driven thoughts that separate us from what is real. I think television was initially invented as a great communication and entertainment device but now it's all we do, sit in front of it and never use our creative mind.
As I'm watching this show the host is talking about a place of pilgrimage. The setting is a beautiful church where everyone gathers to worship and be in the mystery that is God. It is beautiful as everyone stands in the majesty of the moment, then it dawned on me, most people think that's such a setting is the only place you can find God. Celebrating God in such a ritual is wonderful, but you can also know the Truth of Love which is God from Within us while sitting there watching a documentary on such things.
We've been sent in the wrong direction. We have become misguided in the ego driven mind, which is this world. We need to be brought back to a place of balance. The return to balance is taking place, can you feel the drama? It is taking place all over this world, the slow drip of change. It has indeed been crazy in the world and things are changing. We need to all adjust to the changes and see what's important, which is ourselves. Everywhere I go I see the same things over and over and over. An inability to truly embarrass what we have been given we only see the material instead of what is at the core of all our stuff, US! Look at yourself, forgive yourself, accept yourself and love yourself, it is the greatest gift you possess.

LoveSteven

Hello, I hope you are all well.
I am good, just not enough time in the day. Do you notice time going faster, I do.
Sometimes I get jealous of people who live in an apartment, condo or even a home in the town where they don't have to deal with much. I on the other hand live on a farm by myself and I try to balance raising my own gardens, fixing up an old farm and raising animals, in addition to working in my office and in another therapy office. Sometimes it becomes overwhelming. It is at those times I remind myself that I am the lucky one. I have a Divine connection to nature, to my surroundings and to my food. I am grateful every day that I have to haul buckets of water and hay to feed my cattle. There is nothing better than a herd of herbivores greeting you with a cheery good morning on a sunny spring day. Living the way I do reminds me of who I am and what I'm capable of. Living in relative isolation allows me to focus on myself for if I do not take care of myself I cannot guide or assist others in healing. I call it selfishness for the highest good. Not in an arrogant way of selfishness such as a Paris Hilton but the selflessness in Spirit.

On to office matters. We continue to work on the website. Progress is slow due to the fact that we have so much going on. The new site will be awesome, with an all new look and photography, anaffirmation page of positive messages, and a video blog, which will tie me to the computer and get me over my fear of writing and blogging. We're even talking about having a tele-class either through conferencing on the phone and computer or through Skype in order to broaden our audience to people who do not live near me. We are very excited and can't wait to present it to everybody.

I have to say that the groups have been going wonderfully. I have two groups going at my office and one at the other therapy office. All of my groups refuse to end. This is a challenge since I cannot move on with more people and start new groups. My goal is to create one big group and keep introducing the smaller ones into the larger as I work with new members for the first 3 to 4 months of healing and awareness. I also have to say that to this day it still awes me that I have come to this place of helping others as I learn to help and heal myself. My journey and all of our journeys never end and we are all at the cusp of a new beginning. It is so exciting to see all of my groups bloom and prosper in their own conscious awareness in their daily lives. As we all come from different walks of life we all realize that we are one in our struggles and one in our hearts. What I also see in many is extreme difficulty overcoming their fears. I see many who call themselves healers, intuitives and psychics who say that they will help others when they have not healed themselves. This sets a dangerous precedence for continued dysfunction. We have been so conditioned to think that we need to find happiness outside of ourselves. We are willing to go to a psychic to tell us what we want to hear rather than what we need to hear to truly bring that happiness in. Yes, I challenge but it's my job, I see the truth and to be honest the truth of this world is bullshit in most cases. I often say that I see dysfunction on a global scale whittled down to each and every individual on the planet. A good example is what's going on with the volcano in Iceland. Volcanic ash stopped airline traffic for a week in Europe and what do the airlines want to do but to sue for lost revenue. They expect to be compensated for a natural occurrence. They say where is our money, where is our money. What about, where are the people, are the people safe. We have forgotten about people and have replaced it with money. The Catholic Church is another prime example. My master often says when did God become money?They say that they preach the word of God yet they do not take responsibility for their actions. Don't they preach that everyone should take responsibility for their actions. Why do they not practice what they preach. Like Caroline Myss says, organized religion is nothing but a costume party. They say that they are above everyone else because they know God, when in truth, we are all equal in that knowing of God. Taking responsibility for our actions, being just, moral, non-judgment, love & respect to ourselves, others and all of life are of Spirit. Denial, minimizing,rationalzation, judgment and blaming are of the human ego and that has become our world. We have been mislead to look for God outside of ourselves. There is no one above another, we are all One, we are all Divine Beings having a human experience. Look for God within with your own self love and find that grace and goodness that you are, always and then you shall see it in all the world.

I have spouted enough for now. Everyone take good care of yourselves. And remember that before you came, while you are here, and after you have gone, you are loved, lovable and loving, always and forever.

LoveSteven

I am truly blessed:)

Hello everybody,
I hope this message finds you well and enjoying an early spring. I am so blessed to live on a farm, to be connected to the soil, and to nature. I feel this many people are disconnected and they don't even realize the beauty around them anymore. On Sunday morning I woke up at 5 am so I thought it would go out and do chores. When I walked out the door it was totally quiet and the sun was just starting to light up the distant eastern sky. That is when I heard the call of my local ringneck pheasant friend. He had been coming into the yard all winter to eat the dropped seeds out of the birdfeeders. I have known this rooster for several years and only heard his call every morning but on this morning there was celebration in the air. As I said it was totally quiet, with no traffic on the distant highway and my rooster called out his morning cry. I was hauling hay out the barn for the cattle when I heard another rooster crowing off in distance, then I heard another, then another. That morning I heard four pheasant roosters crowing and I realize that my friend was not alone any longer, he had competition. I am so blessed to hear such song before the din of traffic began and again their song of joy would be drowned out by the intervention of mankind. I find that truly sad. I trust that we are at a time when all our wrongs will be corrected.

Everything else is going very well. The office has been very busy with groups and individuals coming from all directions. The first group I started is now into its sixth month with no end in sight. They refused to stop meeting. Last week the second group hit week eight and they are following the mind set of the first group in refusing to let the group finish at twelve weeks. Everyone I've been working with in a group setting says that there are with me for the long haul. In that I am truly humbled and grateful for the experience with all these woderful people. I have the wonderful opportunity to see miracles happen all the time. I wish everyone could see what I see. I see the grace of God's love in all people without judgment. Yet we live in a world where God is judgment. In this world there is no truth, in this world we have it all backwards. Sadly, as human beings we have to learn the hard way. We run and run until we can't run anymore and that's what's taking place right now. Please do yourself a favor and stop running. Learn to love yourself, accept yourself and forgive yourself and all those around you and see the truth as I see it, that we are all One. The following is a testimonial I received from a woman I felt I needed to share. I often don't know how to take what I do too seriously but I find that others take it very serious. I am just here as myself to do God's good work which is to teach only LOVE, in helping others to see their own value and goodness and light. Allow yourself to see your Love.
Enjoy the following:

Steven- you’ve given me and my teenage daughter so much hope after one meeting that I wish we had met you years ago. You have had a profound impact on us and literary helped save my daughter’s life for she was in a very dark place suffering with depression and dealing with suicide of a classmate. She started to feel like life is worth living again after her visit with you. She had given up on God and religion and you provided her with the hope she needed of a higher power. She told me that you have helped her more in 1 hour then almost 6 months of therapy.
You have an amazing gift. I have enjoyed reading your blogs and all the wisdom within. I continue to enjoy the wonderful music that you gave us. You have truly touched our lives and inspired us with healing and love thorough a very difficult time.
Love Sharon B. Twin Cities

LoveSteven

What's new

Hello Everyone,

Well the weather sure is warm and unwinter like. It is a nice change as far as caring for farm animals is concerned. The buckets are never frozen and everyone is comfortable. The bad part is that we have had no snow cover and very little moisture all winter. I think I brought out the tractor only twice to plow the driveway. Prayer for rain.
Otherwise things are going very well. We have made progress on the new website and the new brochures are a great success.
I am currently running three groups. Two at my office downtown and one at my job with Peaceful Solutions Counseling. They are all going very well. The Saturday morning group has been meeting for almost six months. We have such fun in our journey of self discovery that no one wants to stop. In a survey I recently gave out the group members they stated they where in this journey with me for the long haul. How wonder is that. I look forward to all the discoveries to come.All for now.
I have to go and shovel out the frozen now thawed and gross duck pen. Wish me luck.

Love to All, Steven

PS. Enjoy the following passage.

Anything Can Be Overcome, Hope in Hardship

There is nothing in our life that cannot be overcome with time, love, friendship and attention to the matter.The journey that each human being makes through earthly existence can have hardship as often as it is touched by joy. When we encounter adversity, the stress we feel can erode our optimism, eventually convincing us that the issues we face cannot be overcome. In truth, there is no situation so dire, no challenge so great, and no choice so bewildering that it cannot be overcome. Though we may believe that all avenues have been closed to us or that our most conscientious efforts will come to naught, we are never without feasible options. The best course of action may be veiled in doubt, but it is there. When we are honest with ourselves with regard to this simple fact, we can overcome anything because we will never stop looking for a solution to the challenges before us. Self-trust coupled with a sturdy plan is the ultimate antidote to adversity’s tendency to inspire disillusionment in the human mind. As difficult as the obstacle plaguing you seems, it is no match for the love of a supportive universe that has been a part of your life since the day of your birth and will be with you forevermore. Try not to be misguided by your fear as this gives rise to the notion that there are problems without solutions. If you believe in your capabilities and dedicate yourself to the creation of some form of resolution, you will be surprised to discover that paths that were once closed to you miraculously open. Even if all you can do is change your perspective to turn an impediment into an opportunity to grow, you will have found the hope that is an inherent element of all hardship. Remember that your destiny is a product of your own creation. Even when it seems you have nowhere left to turn, there is a solution waiting for you. The only insurmountable obstacles are the ones you create in your own mind—and these can only exert power over you if you let them. Uncertainty will always be a part of your existence, but perseverance and mindfulness will never fail to see you through to the other side of hardship where joy can thrive. Try and remember that no matter what life places at your feet, there is absolutely no situation that cannot be resolved with time, love, trust, and friendship.

New stuff is finally coming!

Hello everyone,

As you know I'm so bad at blogging. I continue to avoid my fears of writing. But now I have a new tool called NaturallySpeaking to help me in this process of blogging and writing. Now I just have to quit avoiding the computer. I would so much rather spend my time farming and creating then sitting in front of the screen. I see the computer as one of the greatest distractions we have in our society. Just another reason to avoid ourselves.

And with that I put in this quote from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Buddhist master who was an author and founder of the publication, Shambhala Sun. This publication is devoted to Buddhism, Culture, Meditation and Life. Here is the quote," Many people try to find a spiritual path where they do not have to face themselves, but where they can still liberate themselves. In truth, that is impossible. We have to see our gut, our real shit, are most undesirable parts."

That quote says it all and even if we aren't on a spiritual path, but are seeking happiness and contentment. In the end we need to be able to look within to get results. Still we use avoidance behaviors, distractions, rationaling, blaming and addictions to not deal with what we want most. To know ourselves and to be happy and content. Instead we create hell and keep running from ourselves. Why do we keep doing this, we just keep creating more chaos and dysfunction and no one wants to look. So what is it going to take, the collapse of the world as we know it for us to look. I am afraid so. I see society as the alcoholic, unwilling to change until we hit a bottom and what a bottom we are going to hit.

Onto more positive news: My groups are going very well. My first group is going into week 19 with no end in sight. Everyone feels that each Saturday we can share and find that place of peace and carry it into the following days of our week. The other group met for the first time last week, eight participants in all with a waiting list for another group starting in April. In the groups each week we share our personal struggles, our observations and our knowing that something greater is working in our lives. We manifest grace in the sharing and realization that we are all one in our struggles, are perceived suffering in our doubts in a world that is backwards and in that we discover our light.

To let you know we finally have new brochures and business cards at the printers as I speak. This is been a long and somewhat painful process but we are very happy with the results. We will be taking down this website temporarily and putting up our new website Surya Wellness Center. The new site will have video testimonials and also a podcast blog. I guess I will have no choice but to take all this seriously. A lot of very positive things have happened in my work and I wish to share this grace and love with all people, all over, at the same time just being me.

Love to all,

Steven

Happy New Year, 2010

Today, New Year's Day, I was in my kitchen cleaning a mirror that hangs on the wall.
It is an old window made into a mirror that has three panes.
On the back of the mirror was a card attached, it was dated Christmas 1994.
Here are the contents of that card for this New Year 2010.

Dear Steven

See a reflection of yourself in each mirrored pane of this gift to you from me.

Pane One:
Your courage with strength to attain your goals - both physically and spiritually.

Pane Two:
Your blooming artistic talents that are bursting forth in so many mediums.

Pane Three:
Your expressions of faith, hope and love in the life you lead within yourself and with others.

May the Christmas of 1994 fill your life with peace and joy.
Keep your courage up and remember to be good to yourself in the New Year.

Love,
Jan Gabler

At the time this card was written I was sober two years and still very afraid of life.
Jan mentored me to trust the journey and stop avoidance behaviors. She was a dear friend then and is still a dear friend now as she is in her 80s.
She took me in at a time that I struggled deeply within myself.
She believed in me even when I did not and every time I read this card it reminds me of all that has taken place in my life. I am truly grateful. I learned to face my fears and stop avoiding what a wanted most of which was to love myself. Use these words the Jan wrote so many years ago to ring true in your life in this New Year.

Peace to you in 2010.
Steven