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Spiritual Health: Being at Peace in Everyday Life

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Jan 23 2020

Spiritual Living

There is a space beyond my mind and body where energy flows without hindrance. Where I am one with the Universe and we commune through energy alone. It is the energy of Love and Acceptance, the energy of Infinite Possibility and Grace. At times I have felt so connected, my body vibrates, totally alive with the recognition of Source Presence.  This tells me I count. This tells me I am a person of substance. This reminds me that I am always seconds away from checking in and touching to Divine Energy.

Photo by Paul Gilmore

I am not sure I could always live in that space. It is exhilarating and phenomenal. It moves me beyond body, thought, or encumbrances. It is all encompassing though eventually I am delivered back to this dimension, more peaceful and gentle, more centered and grounded. I marvel at these experiences. They come upon me when I least expect them. When I am seemingly just going about my business. They catch me like a practice in reverie, though without the thoughts and without anything of human substance. I am floating along in wholeness, existing in vibration.

These experiences remind me that I am more than my words, more than my convictions, more than this body. I am of the Oneness, eternal and always growing. I have a trajectory of being that eclipses all the negativity I have ever touched to. I cannot die and fade away into nothingness. No one really does that. I change states and keep on moving along. If I so choose, I can continue to explore pure Love, call it to myself, and  keep setting down all that does not serve me. I can face my demons and amazingly, they leave me. I can create the Peace I seek. I am always connected to Love and Wholeness, regardless of the the ever present darkness, visible daily.

So I belong and I don’t belong. I belong to a world of ever changing possibility. I don’t belong to the woes, slings, and arrows that continue to challenge me to make a choice for Love. Those are the trail signs helping me to follow the Light. I do belong to seeking and wonder. I do belong to an inner knowing of integrity with self and others. I do not belong to the suffering of the world though I touch to it daily. It is my choice not to remain there.  It is my choice to make another move towards clearing and balance, towards loving and forgiving, towards prayer and re-centering.  I do belong to the vicissitudes of life though knowing they are informed by the blessings of a spiritual path evolving the formation of my human self.

 

Written by Robbins Hopkins · Categorized: General · Tagged: choice, free will, goodness, infinite possibility, inner peace, Love, oneness, peace, poetry, prayer, seeking, source, spiritual learning

Jan 15 2020

Grow Peace and Balance

When you clear away blocked energy, you expand your sense of peace and balance. If you do not do this, it is likely that your blocked energy will continue to expand and contribute to imbalances of heart, body, mind, and soul.

Photo Chris Gallimore

Blocked energy is anything causing imbalance for you. Resentment, fear, rage, grief, depression, pain or judgement are good places to start.

To effectively clear away blocked energy, you need to open Sacred Space and work in partnership with Divine Source energy. This means essentially you work in Silence first, listening and getting ready to call for clearing. Then you call in the clearing you need.

There is no map to doing this inner work. Each of you creates the steps you decide to take. You are in charge of what you live with and what you set down.

Strong negative emotions do not bring you peace and balance. They point to were the imbalances are and where the work is needed to set those down. They point the potential way to peace. However, you have to take the steps to clear the stuck energy that is causing strong negative feeling and thoughts.

You can set down anything you decide to set down in Sacred Space because you will get the vibrational help you need to do so. Perhaps you have hoped or tried in the past to set down sorrow, anger, disappointment, feeling unappreciated, etc. When you work in partnership with Divine energy, your chances of being successful soar.

If you do not believe there is Divine energy, start here.  Clear that blocked belief so that the Divine energy becomes accessible to you. Every person is already wired for Divine connection because that is where you come from. Yet, your free will means you can remain as disconnected or as connected as you want to be to Divine Source energy for as many lifetimes as you so choose.

No one else can take this spiritual journey for you. The Divine Beings around you always support your journey but the desire to try to connect is always yours. Fear, disillusionment, anger, blame, abuse, unfairness, poverty, jealousy are all reasons you may not choose to open to Divine Source. However, Divine Source energy is beyond all human imbalances and darkness. You can not get to this energy through your mind. You have to use your heart and take the risk to connect.

Photo by Joel Mott

Human beings activate Divine energy, love, forgiveness, kindness, acceptance, concern for the greater whole, etc. in this dimension. You are the ones to manifest this powerful force for Love or not. God is not the director making everything happen. God energy is inviting you to act from a place of Love and Balance. You have to avail yourself of Divine energy.

Your free will extends literally to anything you think you want and are actively pursuing. There are consequences to your actions but you can try anything you are determined to do. Everyone makes mistakes on this journey. That is how you learn.

The journey to balance, peace and success begins with one area of darkness you want to set down. Begin there and move on. Do not bury the tough issues or the negative feelings. Those are the starting points to developing peace within and without. There is guidance waiting to help you but the journey begins with your determination to set down that which is not serving you.

 

Resources

This Six-Step Spiritual Healing Protocol is a place to start.

This free, short Healing Yourself Tutorial is another place to start. (I narrate it.)

This is part 1 protocol healing steps if you are dealing with Chronic Issues.

This is part 2 protocol healing steps if you are dealing with Chronic Issues.

For more in-depth background, see my book.

Written by Robbins Hopkins · Categorized: General · Tagged: balance, blocked energy, choice, clearing energy, facing fears, goodness, healing, infinite possibility, inner peace, Love, one power, spiritual healing

Dec 18 2019

Inner Work Begets Miracles

Miracles have a tenuous place in the present world
They are often subject to deep suspicion
Because if miracles can truly happen
Your whole sense of a world without miracles will be disturbed

Photo by Abigail Keenan

What if heart surgery can be received without cutting
Or if bones can be realigned by merely calling that to happen
What if you can schedule your perfect vacation with Divine Presence
What if you can heal from cancer through deep clearing of stuck energy

What if you can learn how to tell if you have an infection or virus
Or call in healing for toxic, damaging relationships
What if you can heal your immune system by calling in healing
What if you can receive all the energy you need through Divine vibration

Even if all these shifts can happen and they can
Every step to arrive and experience Divine healing
Must be taken in a Divinely ordered manner
To manifest a sure knowing of the vastness of the Universal Energy

This ordered manner though is not your concern
You just need to begin your inner work
All else is given as you move from topic to topic
Once you make a tiny effort, you will get powerful support

Photo by Brian Mann

Start with that which is the most disturbing for you
Do not let those issues fester, they sap your energy
Suspend your misgivings and try, open Sacred Space,
Call in what you need and give thanks for what manifests

You will be heard though it may be a long road
To the place where you think you are going
You have to go through every step between the present
And where you hope to arrive. One day or months may be needed.

Start now and keep returning, there will be no regrets
Frustration at times, questioning at times, of course
Every time you clear stuck energy, you will feel lighter
You will feel more confident in being able to create peace

If you never start, you will be faced with the same issues repeatedly,
Even the next time your soul returns here for another run at life
You can really never escape the areas that need healing
Your soul is eternally calling you to your best self!

Resources

This Six-Step Spiritual Healing Protocol is a place to start.

This free, short Healing Yourself Tutorial is another place to start. (I narrate it.)

This is part 1 protocol healing steps if you are dealing with Chronic Issues.

This is part 2 protocol healing steps if you are dealing with Chronic Issues.

For more in-depth background, see my book.

Written by Robbins Hopkins · Categorized: General · Tagged: asking, clearing, clearing energy, facing fears, go within, goodness, healing, inner peace, listening, loving self, naming, peace, poetry, seeking, silence, spiritual healing

Nov 28 2019

Practice Love

The new day dawns with shimmering light
All the past can be set down
No matter the darkness or sense of hopelessness
Today holds infinite possibilities

Photo by Tim Marshall

The shining warmth of the sun
Calls you to your best loving self
You can listen or you can ignore this
You can clear the past or wallow in it

You have infinite choices though at times
You are unable to make a new choice
Because you have not finished
The past choices you are living with

Who among you can be in the present moment
Without having blessed the past
Clearly decided to move on
And called in the love you need to be present

There is vast and ever expanding love
Within and all around you, daily
You are absolutely able to call this to yourself
But you may need practice in doing this

You may need to take a walk
You may need Silence
You may need to reach out to another
You may need to be kind to yourself

Cultivating love is a practice
It takes some experimenting
To know what you need to grow love
What your heart needs to be love

So try giving your past worries and trauma
To the Light of the new day
And call in Love to replace the darkness
Hope to replace the woe and heaviness

Photo by Ari He

A new day awaits you every 24 hours
The possibility of refreshing love and kindness
The opportunity to make a new start
The determination to be the love you seek

You are never alone even if you can not see the support
You can always be connected to the Wholeness
It is a matter of choosing love, kindness, and forgiveness
These acts set us free from the past to be present now

In the present moment, the past is gone
You are the one to set the past down
You are the one to take a different direction
You are the one to live in love and possibility

Be your best self today
No matter what you encounter
Hold the space for kindness
Love is just waiting to be activated

Banish any unloving act, word, or deed
Strike unloving energy from your daily routine
You are already love embodied
You simply have to embrace this and actualize the love you are

Become better acquainted with you as love
You were conceived in the loving image of Divine Source
Practice love over and over again, with the dawning of each new day
You are loved beyond anything you can ever imagine, for all eternity
 

 

Written by Robbins Hopkins · Categorized: General · Tagged: best self, choice, infinite possibility, kindness, Love, loving self, oneness, poetry, setting down

Nov 20 2019

Earning Respect

What does it really mean to earn respect? Running an establishment, owning a lovely home, being in charge of a department, or having a prestigious job? Perhaps. There is a more lasting method of earning respect than may be possible through public indications of success. There is a deep inner state you can cultivate through earning respect for yourself. This can be a long journey but it begins in small steps.

Photo Tiago Filipe Ferreira

One of the first steps to earning respect is learning to tell the truth. This takes practice. First, you have to recognize the truth for what it is to you. The extremes fueled by emotions nor the extremes fueled by wanting to please others rarely represent the truth. Truth is found between the extremes of our unexamined feelings and the fear of not pleasing others. Truth is between these opposites and only you can determine what your truth really is. Only you can call yourself to the full picture of truth for you. This is a step in developing respect for yourself. A few exchanges help to capture this.

Heart-felt emotions, not full truth
George, you are a slimy jerk having RSVP’d saying I was coming to this party. What gave you that right without even asking me?  You just totally ignore my wishes, set me up for failure, and expect me to bow and scrape because you want me to. Just leave me alone! You make me so angry!  

Giving in to pleasing others, not full truth
George, I know you really want me to go to this party. I am not happy about this but I will go.  I will put a smile on and act as if I like these people and what they stand for. If this is what you want, I will go. But you owe me! 

Beginnings of speaking truth
George, I already told you, I am not going to this party and pretend to be happy about who these people are and what they stand for. It is not something you have a right to expect of me. You may have the finesse to pull this off and be comfortable yourself.  That is fine. I know I do not and I will not put my self in harm’s way in order to present a united false front to these people.

To even get close to the third example of beginning to speak truth, you have to determine what truth looks like. It changes through time, through your experiences, through your failures and through the conscious development of who you truly are and how you show that to others. You are the only one who can begin to see the balance between your strong emotions and the desire or perceived need to please others. Somewhere in between the extremes, truth can be found.

Further along the path to speaking truth
George, I know you want me to go with you to this party. I get that. If I could find anywhere within me that I could do that, I would, for you. However, I feel so totally like I am play acting when I am in those people’s company. I can not put myself in that environment without feeling I have let my own self down. I hope you can understand this. I am sorry to disappoint you, truly, but I won’t be going.

When you speak from a place of deep and full truth, you earn respect for yourself. As you earn respect for yourself, you can hold that space for others you encounter. Search for the full truth of a situation. It is likely to be found between the strong emotional reactions and the total giving into what is expected by others. Earning respect for yourself is something you can cultivate, grow and get better at. It also has longevity and solidity not to mention that the process of earning respect for self enables you to be your best person.

Written by Robbins Hopkins · Categorized: General · Tagged: balance, earning respect, how to, loving self, naming, peace, respect, speak truth

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