Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Tragedies
So I have
been considering the symbolism behind the tragedy at the elementary school in
Connecticut. A crazy, irrational and out of control mind strikes out at the
innocent and they are unable to defend themselves. This reinforces the feelings
of being out of control and helplessness over becoming a victim. The world is
not safe, it is unpredictable and uncontrollable and we never know when
something or someone could come and destroy us. These are rampant ideologies in
our culture. And we have the choice to let these events drive us more deeply
into fear and victimhood. Or. We can use this event as an opportunity to
realize where our true power lies. Our power, and with it our sense of safety,
does not lie in the mind, that seat of rational and irrational thought. Our
mind cannot make sense of events such as these because it is our minds that
create them. Our minds are blessed tools that when used by our greater self to
serve us can reap us great benefit. But our minds are servants, not masters.
Our Being, our Divine essence of the god that we all are, is the true source of
our lives. Reliance on the mind alone leaves us in fear, worry and victimhood.
Trust in the true nature of who we are, however, brings all the blessings of
the divine to our door. Open hearts allow Universal energy to flow through us
and connect us to All That Is. Tragedies are one way to awaken us to what is
important – the people in our lives who we love. But tragedies are not the only
way to open our hearts and to know the love that we are – we can make that
choice at any time. How about now?
Monday, December 17, 2012
Smooth and Easy
GS: You are in the process of shifting into a new mode of operating in physical
reality. All of you are. However, some are taking the fast track and others are
choosing to ease their way into a new way of being. This is purely a matter of
preference and does not affect the outcome. The shift is occurring. You are all
releasing your minds' hold on your decision-making processes and choosing the
heart instead. Choosing your own connection to Source instead. Horrific events
stir up much fear and feelings of helplessness. The only solution to fear and helplessness
is claiming your own power over your life. Your power is mighty and invincible
but is only effective if you recognize it and use it. You are always creating
your life. It is your choice to do so by conscious choice or by default, letting
whatever passed down family or cultural belief system emerge victorious amidst
the chaos of your unexamined mind. The greatest service your mind can perform
is to question its own authority. Heart does not need to question because it is
the connection to your greater self, your source and true identity. So question
what you are thinking as you think and ask yourself “Is this my head or my
heart?” and you will find your way into the new shift of being easy and smooth.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Endless Love
GS: The
depth of love in your life is endless. It is the fabric of your being. All that
unfolds before you are variations on how love can be made manifest in your
life. However, your perception can turn the love that is before you into other
shapes and patterns. Lack of knowing, perceived knowledge of lack both contribute to the
bending of love into what appears to be pain, sorrow, terror or grief. Group
tragedies can serve to awaken people up to the importance of love and to the
total unimportance of what most minds think about on a daily basis. But instead
of awakening love, sometimes these public tragedies also serve as an excuse to ramp
up fear and a sense of helplessness. The Course in Miracles states that in my
defenselessness, my safety lies. If we know that we live in a safe universe, we
have no need to defend ourselves. We know that all that exists is love, even in
what appears to be horrific and senseless acts. If we believe in an unsafe
universe, we feel helpless, out of control, and wait in frozen fear for the
next shoe to drop. Yet that is all of the mind, this terror, this fear. When we
trust in the power of our own beings, when we trust in the source of our beings
which is love, we know that all we experience and all we create are
variations of the love that we are. If we cannot see the love, we are falling
into the mind’s traps of fear and worry. Stay in the heart and see the love. See
the love in the hard places in the world, in your experience. And from this viewpoint,
all things are possible.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Feel the Moment
GS: Much
of your concerns can be answered by staying in the present moment. How can you
best serve yourself at this moment? What activities can you participate in that
would bring ease and grace into your now? How can you express your love to that
which appears in front of you? Worries about the future, grief and regret over
the past do not serve you and only take your focus from the present. When you
truly understand that nothing real ever dies, that you cannot make mistakes and
you are never alone, your being is freed to expand into the present and able to
create your heart’s desires. Feel the moment. Be aware of what surrounds you.
Appreciate the body that serves you most faithfully with every breath. The desire
for comfort and joy is a blessing the Universe bestows upon you in this present
moment. All that is required of you is to pay attention and notice.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
The Present
Once again I find myself being reminded to stay present. All our power, all our divinity, all our capacity to create is focused and actualized in the present moment. All that we need to manifest, all that we require to create is present in the here and now. What is presented to us on the plate before us is the meal for us to experience, digest and appreciate. The more we focus on what is not present, what is not in front of us on our plate, the more we diffuse our power and lessen our ability to create the life we consciously choose. Let me truly see all that is around me now without judgement. Let me appreciate each and every cherished participant in my present experience. Let me love myself as I am at this precise exact moment in time and space and know that I am enough just as I am right now. Let us all choose peace this day, this moment, and receive the present that the now has to give to us.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
A Safe Universe
GS: The value of
knowing who you truly are and the extent of your own power is priceless. From
this point of awareness, all things are possible. Your mind is not always
comfortable with the multitude of choices that the Universe can manifest. Thus
it attempts to limit your choices so as to make your life seem easier. However,
what these limits do is cause you to doubt life and your own ability to keep
yourself safe. If you live in a Universe that can harm you, how can you ever be
safe? If you have no power to defend yourself from this unsafe Universe, how
can harm be kept from you? By embracing an unsafe Universe, you guarantee that the
mind’s guardians of worry and fear have a fixed place in your life. BUT, you
have the choice to see the world differently. You have the choice to see your
power differently. You can view the Universe as Safe. You can see that your power
has no limits. From this perspective, all possibilities are available to you
from which to choose. By centering in your heart, by aligning your will with
your Divine Source, the most beneficial and delightful choices can be
made. Blessed are you who are fearless, who embrace your life with joy and
enthusiasm, who trust that the Universe is safe, who knows that the
Source of All is inside the centers of all. We who have chosen to have eyes to
see and ears to hear can accomplish whatever we choose. Blessed be.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Love Generator
I ran across a line in the I Am Discourses yesterday that really struck me. It was about consciously generating Divine Love. I have been concentrating on receiving Divine Love and letting Divine Love flow through me but it never occurred to me that I can be a source of Divine Love, that I can consciously choose to generate Divine Love and give it to the world. Let us all be great big Love Generators today and all days. Let Love and Joy radiate out from us and be reflected back to us a thousand fold. The Source of all power and energy is in us. Let us light up the world! Blessed be.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
The B's Knees
Some of the information I read talks about how we are all one and that God is inside us. Others talk of spirit guides and angels that surround us and offer support. So is guidance separate from me or is it a spiritual extension of my Being? I look down at my body and ask: Is my knee a part of my greater body or an individualized presence that helps me walk? My knee certainly has a voice of its own, sometimes creaking when I walk, offering opinions on which direction is comfortable to move. I can talk to my knee and direct my energy to my knee. I can listen to my knee and receive information that can benefit both my knee and my body as a whole. But the knee is not the body anymore than any other part by itself is the body. Yet the knee contains the DNA of the whole within each cell. The body can live without some parts, like a knee, yet cannot survive long without others, such as heart and lungs. But none of the parts can be the whole body by itself. The parts are not the whole but the whole is in the parts. But I think the key is realizing that I am my knee and I am my body depending on where I focus my attention. And, of course, knowing that I am more than my physical body. So, to bring it back to spirit guides, I believe that my guides and angels are parts of me, like my knee, and that they are a part of a greater me, like my knee is a part of my body. So we are all one yet we can support ourselves using greater parts of ourselves in service through divine love. And as I give attention to something, so do I direct my energy.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Truth
I have had issues in the past with inadvertently saying something that caused upset in someone else. I usually felt blindsided by these incidents because I was not intending upset. At the time of one of the more dramatic incidents, I realized that I was not responsible for other people's feelings and that became my mantra when others chose to become upset over what I viewed as an innocent expression of me. However, I became aware of a new level of thinking this morning about this issue - speaking my truth.
GS: Your truth is the essence of who you are. When you are open to expressing the being that you are, your truth is your voice. Your truth is your action. Nothing and no one can assail your truth, the truth of who you are. There is no need to defend, no need to protect, no need to censor. Be the truth of who you are. Speak the words that come from the divine center of love that you are. Fear not the power of your words but embrace this power, trust this power that each word you speak from your truth blesses the world and allows the energy that flows through you to be made manifest. Speak the words. Let them flow forth as a gentle rain upon a thirsty world. Let the words fall as they may, trusting that they will find their way to ears that choose to hear. Your words do not depend upon others’ need to hear. They are in themselves reason to speak. Trust the words and your voice that would speak them. Bless the world with your words.
GS: Your truth is the essence of who you are. When you are open to expressing the being that you are, your truth is your voice. Your truth is your action. Nothing and no one can assail your truth, the truth of who you are. There is no need to defend, no need to protect, no need to censor. Be the truth of who you are. Speak the words that come from the divine center of love that you are. Fear not the power of your words but embrace this power, trust this power that each word you speak from your truth blesses the world and allows the energy that flows through you to be made manifest. Speak the words. Let them flow forth as a gentle rain upon a thirsty world. Let the words fall as they may, trusting that they will find their way to ears that choose to hear. Your words do not depend upon others’ need to hear. They are in themselves reason to speak. Trust the words and your voice that would speak them. Bless the world with your words.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Free Falling
GS: You
are indeed on a precipice. Your world is on a precipice. The energy you feel at
this time is excitement mixed with a little fear of the unknown. Anticipation,
as it were. Stay in the present moment with this energy. Now is not the time to
run off into dark hallways of imagined pasts or futures. Feel the energy as a
gateway into your access to your greater self. Feel the potentiality of this energy.
Feel all possibilities open up before you. Picture yourself on your cliff about
to jump off or perhaps even imagine that you have already jumped off and are
now free falling. Now falling through space and time is a very pleasant
experience if you can remove from your mind any beliefs or fears around hard
landings. This energy is not about landing. This energy is about releasing yourself
from limitations and embracing your own power. The seat of your power is in the
core of your being and is not affected by falling or landing or your own
perceived monsters. Sink into your center and know your true being and all the
outside world will fall into line – as you speed through your space and time in
free fall.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Our Heart's Desires
Conscious
creation contains several steps. Two of the key steps for me at this point are
determining what I want and believing it is possible to have what I want.
Somewhere along the line, I got the idea that what I wanted was in danger of
being snatched from me or denied completely by malevolent forces. What I wanted
was a treasure to be hidden and protected from the bad meanies out to get me. And
it sometimes seemed simpler to not want anything and just cope with whatever
trickled down the Universal pipeline to me. I have done such a great job of
protecting myself that now I am not always aware of what I want. And when I
do happen to ask for something and actually get it, I feel oddly uncomfortable,
like the Desire Police are going to come up to me at any minute and say “Hey,
you, what do you have in your hands? Where did you get that? Who told you that
you could have it?” Add to that mix an unhealthy dose of parental and societal
expectations of what one is supposed to want and do in her life and you end up
with one confused human being. And I do not believe I am alone in my confusion.
Who could possibly be an authority greater that our own selves in determining
what we want? We know what feels good, what delights us, what brings us joy. But
do we believe we can have these things? Do we feel someone else has to suffer
or do without if we obtain what we want? Does this make us selfish or a more
empowered and joyful person? What if all things are possible, especially
including actualizing our heart’s desires? What if we live in a safe and beneficent
Universe? What if the Universe wants to serve us and bring to us whatever we
ask for? What if by serving ourselves by bringing ourselves joy, we serve
others by showing them what is possible for them too? What if we are the
determiners of what is real? Conscious creation requires stepping out of the box of beliefs in limitation and scarcity and stepping into a world where anything can happen if we but make it so.
Monday, December 3, 2012
The Present in the Past
GS: The
past is always open to interpretation as the only part of the past that
actually exists is the part you hold onto in memory in the present moment. These
parts of your past are chosen by you and are fed energy by you here in the now.
Being fed energy, these pieces of your past can grow, morph or change as your
viewpoint on your past changes. This can
be used as a learning tool for the evolving soul or as a method of browbeating
yourself for perceived failures or inadequacies. This is always your choice.
Thus you can experience a trauma and in your memory of this trauma learn to
release the feelings that were generated and held onto and move your viewpoint
from hurt and anger into one of love and acceptance through forgiveness. Or you
can continue to focus on the trauma, feeding the trauma more energy as you
remember, continuing the trauma’s effect in your present life and perpetuating
the sorrow, rage and violation into your daily life. The willingness to
consider different perspectives, different choices, different ways to direct
your thoughts is always the first step to a happier present. Allowing the gift
that all experiences can give to come forth even over a traumatic event is a
sure way to heal. There is always a gift, something to be learned or realized
that the trauma played out for you in graphic detail. Choosing the extent of
the past’s influence upon you is determined by you in the here and now. Choose
wisely for a happier life.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
One and Many
GS: Your
destiny is of your own making. There is no grand plan in which you are an
integral part. Rather it is more a design that comes from the heart of your own Being that spreads out into all directions with the urging to experience as
much as possible. From this creative impulse, your lives travel outward into
many dimensions. You, the you that you live with every day, are in the center
of your dimension and your you-ness also radiates outward from your position in
time and space. You are the still point within your self and your self is the
still point within a greater self and that greater self is a still point within
an ever greater self and so on. You are the one and the many. There is no
paradox here, this is not a polarity of thinking. The same thing can be two
things at once, depending upon your perspective. Feeling One and Many at once
can open yourself up to the knowledge of your own divinity.
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