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Mar 12 2010

Getting Help from God

Devon was facing a killer week of projects, papers and exams. He had 1-2 pieces due every day for 6 days with a couple of exams thrown in for good measure. Additionally, he was managing an eleven day concert tour with fourteen guys up and down the East Coast, beginning immediately after his mid-terms. He also had an eight person road trip

with friends from all over the country heading to a rural farm house directly after the concert tour and a few family commitments, including at least one birthday. To put it mildly, he was crazy stressed.

His strategy was to ask Divine Presence everyday to order his day with grace and ease to allow him to work as effectively as possible. He enthusiastically reported that he was knew without a doubt that he had been supported by Spirit because he had produced a 5 page research proposal, 2 page dance paper, an online blog post for his employer and reviewed all the technical terms for his exam in one four hour block of time . He was elated and knew Spirit had been helping him. Of course, he had called that energy to his situation. He even finished early with time to edit footnotes. He was most enthusiastic about how this had all gone.

Chester, who was his brother’s legal guardian, was feeling compelled to confront his brother with the threat of committing him because of his recent erratic behavior, due it seemed, to a lapse in taking his drugs for a mental condition. Though Chester was relatively sure his actions would provoke serious anger and blame from his brother, he felt he had no choice. Chester went ahead with the confrontation and the implied threat of legal action. This resulted in months of estrangement, tension, anger and irritation between Chester and his brother.

In a similarly charged setting, Lisette felt she needed to move to file in the county to have her 88 year old mother’s driver’s license taken away.

Every time she thought of taking these formal actions, she felt woozie and lightheaded. She realized that this was not sitting well with her though at the same time, she felt she had to move ahead because her mother was not competent to drive. In talking with Lisette, she decided to try asking for a sacred solution for her situation before she filed the legal papers. She was optimistic when she left saying that she would surely try this before moving ahead with the legal steps with the county.

There are always options of a Divine Nature which can save us untold heartache and pain, anger and blame. Try a Divine Solution first with very charged situations.

Tori was deeply concerned about her husband. He was depressed, overweight, lethargic and prone to colds and illness. Her husband, Bim, was not open to prayer or to Tori’s comments, “designed to help”. She was very frustrated not being able to do anything helpful for him and yet she feared he would not get any help until he was really sick. She decided to try to work with his Angels and to offer prayers for her husband through them.

In enlisting their help, she said, “I speak to the Angels around my husband. I call forth Bims’ Highest Divine Energy to lead him in perfect ways from the darkness he is in. Consume the lethargy and the source of depression that is draining his energy. Guide him to his life’s purpose and to the joy that is within. Thank you. ” This is a paraphrase of the first prayer she said and others followed until there was visible change in his energy.

Martha was repeatedly angry with her mother. After visiting, she usually spent the hour retuning home fuming about the visit. This tension had been going on for a number of years but recently it was becoming deeply disturbing to Martha. She did not know why she was so very angry. She reported feeling horribly unloving and mean whenever anger erupted which was after all visits and most phone calls with her mother. She took her anger into sacred space with another person. She prayed for the core blocked energy manifesting as recurring anger be completely released from her field. She called in the Angel of Compassion to be with her in all dealings with her mother.

These are all examples of ways to call the Divine Presence into our lives. Divine Energy is totally surrounding us, all the time, in infinite amounts. We are free to use this energy everyday in all the ways we can imagine. We get notably more powerful responses though if we come to this Divine Energy Source, demonstrating some basic spiritual truths.

Give over control of projects, outcomes, efforts, and the methods you think may be required to manifest the results you want. Allow Spirit to work through you for the Highest Good as you create.
Hold the space for a Sacred Solution to a difficult situation. Call that Energy right into the midst of your life.
Live knowing that all people are Spiritual Beings at their core, regardless of their behavior. Call to the Light in others, enlist their Highest I AM Presence, when entering into prayer.
Work with the Angels (or Ascended Masters) when direct prayer with or for a person seems impossible or unwelcome.
Call God to clear all the core blocked energy manifesting as negative feelings you may be carrying towards yourself or another.
Activate your own relationship with God, even if you are unsure about the characteristics of that relationship. It is more wondrous than one can imagine.

Mar 04 2010

Silence for the Dubious

When people say, “you need to be in Silence”, there is usually a vision of sitting, perhaps cross-legged with eyes closed and breathing deeply for 30 minutes or so, while being left alone by the world. The thought of this for many people is simply a non-starter and blocks our energy before one can even fully consider it. Sometimes in our lives, such time is non-existent no matter how much we would love to have that experience.

Still, the place to spend time with All That Is/Divine Presence/God is in Silence. When we show up for this time together, we are the ones who are greatly blessed because we are loved, supported and calmed energetically in ways that generally don’t happen in the world. Silence with God is spending time with God without your own agenda.

The main ingredient we need to be successful in making time with God’s Energy is intention. Here are some examples of how to do that. One can dedicate 10 minutes of a walk with the dog to being with Divine Presence.

Another option is to dedicate time while working in the garden or the yard to connecting with God. Open a sacred space by calling in Divine Beings or Divine Light and call God into your time regardless of what you may be doing. Another place I used to have time with God was in the bathroom. That was at a time that I could reasonably count on having a few minutes to myself there. I would seek that time and space at all times of the day and usually that was honored!

We can listen to uplifting music and intentionally invite Divine Presence into our space. This is not Silence per se but it may get us into Silence with grace and ease. The more we intentionally connect with Divine Energy, the more we notice a shift in the vibration of energy around us. This is the Holy Spirit showing up to be with us because we asked. One could read a spiritual book while asking God to enter into this space and time with you, as well. If you are reading poetry or prose, take a section, read the piece three time out loud and then sit in the Silence of that energy. You will be ministered to through Sacred Presence. Usually there is a great calm that comes over us even if we only have 15 minutes.

Any sacred time can be carved out and dedicated to God. You can be watching children playing a sport and while sitting apart for the crowd, take 15 minutes to dedicate special time with God. You can arrive early for an appointment and sit in the car listening to classical music or simply recline with eyes closed and ask God to connect with you. The ways are infinite.

The challenge is to regularly invite God into your life. Don’t talk about it and despair or simply close the door on it as being an impossibility. We are in great need of the Presence of God. That energy is incredibly calming, supportive and filled with Divine Love which is totally different from human support and love here. However, we need to knock on the door with GREAT determination, seek without giving up and keep asking for connection and communion with God by showing up every day in one way or another. We are the only ones who can gift ourselves with Divine Grace. It is all around us but we have to say YES and show up. So, do what works.

For those of you who are finding time in Silence, there is another step which can be taken to expand your conscious knowing of God. After you have intentionally connected with God, you may come out of that time and realize you have something you want to pray about, ask forgiveness for, call Divine Presence into or clear some blocked energy you have become aware of. This is not Silence. This is working with God to call forth this energy for a specific person, situation or purpose. This is unifying prayer. Each of these experiences is still being with God but the focus changes to your own thoughts, questions, needs, etc. This is a natural outgrowth of being in Silence with God.

Muriel was just coming out of a twenty minute session of Silence with God. She immediately saw the face of her sister in front of her. Her sister had passed away two years earlier.

She did not know what the image of her sister actually meant, but the experience felt uncomfortable within. She loved her sister deeply but there was an uneasiness when her face appeared to her. Muriel took two minutes more in Silence and realized she needed to ask forgiveness for the way in which she had behaved when she needed to help take care of her during her illness and when she needed to suddenly do all the extra things for their parents when her sister was sick. Right then and there she asked for forgiveness for those unkind feelings, hasty words and old anger. She felt a perceptible sense of Lightness in her chest and heart area. She knew she had actually been forgiven in that moment. She was amazed that it was so easy to release that old energy. In fact, she had not really remembered her feelings until her sister’s face appeared to her. This was the Holy Spirit working with Muriel to help her clear her soul energy from this stagnant, stuck feeling that was still with her two years after her sister had died.

This is an example of how seamlessly this Divine Energy can work with us. Muriel was in a deep communion with All That Is/God and she simply knew she needed to ask for forgiveness. Without showing up for time with God, she could have carried that draining energy for years and have it show up in all sorts of unhelpful ways.

If we begin our personal relationship with God in Silence, we will be blessed in ways we can never imagine. Show up, dedicate time to God, keep the appointment, be in the Silence, and listen. This is how we come to a place of balance and wholeness through Divine Grace. Even if you have no visual for God, no sense of what or who God is for you, even if you don’t even know if you believe in God Presence, do this anyway. There is a deep magic, that surpasses all understanding, whose doorway will open to us. When this happens all our fears become less powerful, we become more capable of gratitude, we can release that which is not serving us or others very well. If we have just even a few minutes, we will be ministered to. We are deeply loved beyond anything we as humans can comprehend. However, we have to chose to enter into the Silence before we can gather this blessing for ourselves and for others.

Jan 21 2010

Those Among Us

Earlier this month, I went to the Dominican Republic. I thought we were going on vacation and in part, we were. However, there was a broader purpose for my being there. On the first morning I went into Silence, as is my daily custom, and listened for any people or places which needed prayer. I was guided to call in healing energy to clear aspects of the energy of criminal intent, present in the DR. In listening further, I was invited to include Haiti in the prayers as well.

Haiti is on the western end of the same island as the Dominican Republic. We were on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. I did expand the prayer focus to include Haiti. More imbalances were named for healing during the hour and over the next two days. Corruption, domestic violence, ethnic hatred, subjugation energy, financial instability, energy of poverty, violence, abuse, fear of being poor, and many other areas were identified for re-balancing. For each imbalance, the century of the original blocked energy was given. Also the type of blocked energy (emotional, mental, thermal, spiritual or physical) when this imbalance first appeared was specified as well.

This process is the exact same process I have learned to use with individuals when clearing blocked energies showing up as imbalances in the body. To do this work effectively, we need to really grasp that all imbalances either personal or global are directly due to blocked energy coming from someone or somewhere. When the blocked energies are cleared, the body, the sea, the earth’s crust can heal itself because balance is the natural state of all living entities.

We humans must call Divine Presence into our lives so that this Presence in its myriad of forms is “allowed” to work with us. Each of us has the sovereign right to live our lives any way we so choose. We can ignore or accept anything we want. We have all the time we need and all the help we need to bring peace and balance to our lives but we have to ask for the help we want and are willing to receive. As we know, with some of the conditions at the global level, we are running short of time.

When we call in Divine Presence, what is needed is specifically provided. After many hundreds of these experiences, I know this will always happen. The outcome may not happen as I envision it, but the energy is always re-balanced in one way or another. We are the hands of All That Is upon the Earth and we have the power to call Divine Intervention into lives and aspects of our Earth where imbalances are manifesting.

There seemed to be an urgency in the work I was doing in the DR. After 3 days of deeply focused healing energy for Haiti and the Dominican Republic, I was invited to extend the boundaries of this work to all of the Caribbean and Central America. The process started all over again and continued for two more days. Then I got an email from a spiritual healer and friend who suggested that I listen to the sea creatures around the island. How she got that message, I am not sure but I have stopped asking the “how” questions with this type of work.

That evening I set up a sacred healing and wisdom “virtual” circle as I do with all healing work. I invited the sea creatures to join us in spirit and I waited. I had never worked with sea creatures before and was wondering how I would know if they were there and if I was hearing them. I settled into a comfortable meditative state. I listened for a long time and heard nothing but felt the energy of Peace and Harmony, or what I sensed as that. After about 20-30 minutes, as clear as a bell I heard, “we would like to work with you in this healing”. I was at once both thrilled and floored! I knew the voice was not mine because I would have never even thought of such a thing. I had thought we were simply meditating together. We then spent a very powerful hour together exchanging energy and it seemed like we were playing in God’s space for lack of a better description.

The next day right before 6 PM, we felt the earth shake very clearly. We went outside and it stopped. My husband checked the seas from the third floor to see if a very low tide was indicating a tsunami. No low tide was evident. We surfed the cable TV but did not get news of the earthquake for about two hours. I was stunned. In all the time I had spent in prayer, I had never once even considered working with the earth energy of the island. It had not been given or I had not heard it, and I had not thought of it, either. Immediately I thought that perhaps I had missed something very important in the prayer dialog of the week. The devastation in Haiti was enormous and the faces of those affected were heartbreaking.

I went into prayer and I wrote my spiritual colleagues to see what they were picking up about the earthquake and my work in the DR. I eventually learned that I was not to have focused on the earthquake. Our work was the clearing of the blocked energy which would affect the rebuilding of that area of the world, now especially with Haiti but more extensively as well. The prayers were now to be, Come Divine Intervention for the Highest Benevolent Outcome for Haiti and her people on all levels.

Of all the information given though, about the work that was done, that of the sea creatures took my heart. I was told that they quelled the seas to prevent the tsunamis which were being formed as a result of the violent shaking. This broke open every boundary I had ever erected between humans and sea creatures. Of course, they knew there were imbalances of a major order and offered to help. The sea creatures in connection with Divine Grace in many forms, quelled the imbalances in the water, averting the tsunamis.

Never mind if this does not seem plausible. It is not plausible with our minds. This is only plausible and possible to grasp with our hearts. This experience though has dramatically changed my view of sea creatures and I will never swim in the oceans again without thanking them for their presence here among us and for all the healing energy they are bringing to our world.

Jan 12 2010

Loving Oneself to Wholeness

Whenever Joyce looked in the mirror, she was angry with herself and angry at her body and mad with the world. She was heavier than she wanted to be and had been that way for over 10 years. The negative messages were really getting more and more self-punishing. “You are good for nothing, you are a lazy bum, you are ugly, ugly, ugly, you are a failure”, etc. Saying that everyday was like taking a poison bath in the morning. She often had to have three cups of coffee to counteract the lethargy that immediately descended upon her after taking her shower, where she also saw her body in the mirror. Somewhere in the recesses of her mind she thought that saying such awful things might motivate her to do something about her weight and general health. These raw self messages though made her feel worse and worse over time.

Bob feels a deep loneliness in his life which descends upon him regularly on Friday evenings. He has been through lots of relationship but none of them have worked out.

He wants to be in a great relationship where he can love and be loved. He spends weekends going from bar to bar hoping to meet someone of interest. That is mostly depressing and he often comes home with his insides churning from a sense of failure. He has lost weight, is increasingly down and has nearly constant indigestion at this point. This malaise is creeping into his weekdays as well. His thoughts are filled with images of being alone and of feeling unlovable. Bob is still trying out new places on the weekends but he is pretty sure he will continue to fail.

One way to work out negative feelings towards ourselves is to do something or find some place where we do feel good about ourselves and hope it transfers to the areas we are beating ourselves up about. Giving to others is a tried and true way to generate love within. We can also try new things such as diets, dating services, exercise, reading other’s stories, or travel in the hopes of finding something to blast us out of where we are. All these steps could bring us some relief.

We probably all know if what we are doing does not work, we need to try something else. However, realizing we are doing the same thing over and over again which is not working, is the kicker. Something about a familiar though unhelpful pattern is better than the unfamiliar, more risky option. Clearly though, repeating what is not working is a road to more pain.

What to do? TAKE THE FEELINGS INTO SILENCE FOR HELP.

Imagine there is a space inside of you where you are truly loved, because there is. Imagine that you can go there whenever you want to, because you can. Imagine that there is a plan for you full of abundance and joy, because there is. Simply sit and speak to the Divine Universe, which is all ears.

Devon on the mountain by Maya De La Rosa-Cohen

People ask me what I do in Silence. I open the space with Divine Energy. I invite all Divine forms of energy to join with me for the purpose of creating more wholeness and peace. I am still for as long as I can be which varies by the session. Then I scan my sadness and my fear and I speak of it out loud so that I can call in Divine Help in alleviating the stuckness I feel. Working with Divine Intervention, Knowing, Love and Presence informs and fuels my intention to feel better about myself. When I release my sadness and my fear, I feel better. When I call in Divine Intervention right into the source of my sorrow and sense of failure, I experience a shift in the heaviness of carrying those misperceptions I have been feeling.

Each person has internal Light which we were born with. It may be dimmed though through unloving messages from our growing up, due to traumas in our lives or by unloving messages from our own personal fears.

We have not however come here without a rudder, without direction, or without purpose. The feeling though of sailing without a rudder may well be an indication that we might go within and ask for help. When we do this, we then have to wait knowing that we have been heard and we will get all the help we need. This help may not be in the form we expect to receive it. This help may still require us to do something new, to risk.

If you are not sure you “have done enough to get the help you need” here are a few pointers.

1. Do not judge by appearances. If you go into Silence and then immediately go out and do just exactly what you have done before the Silence, like berate yourself, simply stop. Accept that you are between unhealed and healed, which you are. Realize that you have moved closer to wholeness, through that realization alone. Congratulate yourself and let it go.

2. Talk to yourself in a loving way, such as, “this thought is not loving and has no power, so I let it go.” ” I am lovable and capable.” ” I am getting all the help I need even though now, I do feel lousy.” ” I call into my life good thoughts and feelings about myself and ask for help in guiding me to people and places where this can occur.”

3. Ask once and give it time to manifest in your life. Do not pick up your issue every day and re-ask for the same help, as if you have not been heard. If you can’t help doing this, figure out what fear you are still carrying that is fueling this response. It could be the fear of not deserving any help in this life. A feeling of fear can completely block your receiving the support you seek. Go after the fear face on! Call for the Light to dispel this fear you have. Fear has only the power we, ourselves, give it.

Love is the absolute way to Wholeness. Love and joy are ours when we face our fears and let them go. Loving oneself manifests Wholeness. When we face tough issues alone though, we often can’t access enough Love ourselves to shift our energy. That is one MAJOR reason to work through it with Divine Presence which is within. There is ALWAYS enough Love to take us to Wholeness if we seek within, in the Silence.

The first step towards Loving oneself to Wholeness is often the hardest. Ask, seek, sit in stillness, scan for fears and sadness and wait holding the space for shifting energy. Wholeness can come to each and every one of us. Love is everywhere present, all knowing and all powerful. Loving oneself is one major highway to Wholeness. Try it and let me know what you find.

Nov 19 2009

How Does Spiritual Healing Work?

Spiritual healing is the healing of the unseen energy in our energy field. It is not magic! We know that we are out of balance if we become angry or afraid about something in our lives. Anger, fear, shame and guilt each have a unique vibration which is different from the vibrations of joy, laughter, contentment and love. When we carry anger in our energy field regardless of its origin, the vibration of anger permeates our body. That vibration leaves our body when we reach resolution regarding the anger. Or, the anger vibration may remain in our energy field for years, if it is not completely resolved, released or the person forgiven, who is related to the anger. Spiritual healing is the process of releasing blocked energy which is not serving us well in our lives.

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. -- Peter Minnard by Fountain_Head (Extremely busy.....) — Not merely an absence of noise, 'Real Silence' begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. Peter Minnard Photo by Fountain_Head (Extremely busy.....)

Spiritual healing recognizes that our thoughts, feelings, actions, memories, experiences and bodies are all one interrelated flow of energy impacting each other in thousands of ways every day. This is the mind, body, spirit connection. Every thought and feeling we have resonates throughout our bodies. If we experience trauma, sadness, abuse, fear, abandonment, our body registers this emotional content in the body. When we are stressed, out of balance, we are more vulnerable to contract infection, virus, parasites, etc. When we are out of balance emotionally or mentally, this ALWAYS shows up in our bodies, sometimes immediately and sometimes years later but it ALWAYS shows up.

The way to stay healthy and in balance is to do our inner work. This work most powerfully consists of identifying and releaseing blocked emotional, mental and spiritual energy which is manifesting as pain, hurt, anger, broken relationships, poor communications, repeating confrontations, back pain, cancer, ADHD, depression, infections, irritable bowel syndrome, etc. and all other types of imbalances in our physical bodies.

Each and every one of us is here to learn to be in greater states of Peace and Joy. Some of us recognize this and others among us do not. We can choose to ignore our inner work but eventually we have to do the work to find Peace and Contentment in our daily lives. We can spend lifetimes on the externals of what others think of us, on material possessions and on public attributes of prestige and success. The externals however have next to nothing to do with feeling successful, peaceful and balanced inside. The goal of spiritual healing is Peace and Wholeness inside. Then our lives, our relationships, our jobs and our bodies come into greater and greater balance.

When we release deep sadness, un-forgiveness, resentment, hatred, judgement, shame, fear, etc. our minds and bodies come into greater balance. When I open a sacred space, I call Divine Presence into this dimension to work with me to help others who are in need. As I begin to work with another, I don’t know in my “human mind” exactly what blocked energy may be manifesting as infection, inflammation, Parkinson’s, Alzheimers, Crohns or Grave’s Disease. I do know that some set of blocked energy is manifesting as imbalance in the body. I also know that Divine Knowing knows all. Through listening, with the intent to come into balance, we will learn to identify the imbalances and then they can be cast out of our energy fields allowing the body to heal.

Some people come to me for a “quick fix”. Those rarely manifest. We have to steadfastly seek to connect with Divine Energy because the outer world is more visible, more tangible and seemingly more real to many of us. Until we have real experience with Divine Presence, the thought of this Presence is a vague possibility. We can experience Divine Presence though other people, nature, creations, etc. but we have to eventually go inside and have a dialog with Divine Presence and ourselves to find Divine Connection. God/Divine Presence/All That Is is within. Our I AM Presence, the part of us which is wholly connected and balanced, is within. If we seek with the attitude that we will get our body fixed and go right on with our behaviors and thoughts which have brought us to imbalance, we won’t be able to sustain any form of balance, mentally or physically.

Our bodies and more importantly our souls won’t allow us to be out of balance without letting us know in very powerful ways. We get as many chances as we need to release resentment, rage, blame, self-punishment and un-forgiveness but there is no way to fool the body into balance. We come into balance when we are done with giving our power and attention to negative energy which is manifesting as imbalance.

To Begin Inner Spiritual Healing Work:

1. Relax into Silence with the spoken intent to connect more deeply with Divine Presence. I intend to connect with Divine Presence. I open a Sacred Space for healing and wholeness. Wait there a while and be.

2. Identify a negative draining thought, feeling or emotion which is in your immediate energy field such as rage, for example. Or name the diagnosed imbalance you want to clear blocked energy for, such as breast cancer.

3. State aloud with conviction, With the Energy of the Most High, I command out the blocked core source of the rage I am feeling, (of the breast cancer, I am manifesting) through all time and space, with the intent to come into greater Balance and Peace. I affirm my desire to connect more deeply with Divine Presence in my life.

4. I offer my deepest thanks for this support and for the power of this healing within me.

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It may seem easier to get medical drugs, therapies and pills to take care of a situation. However, the same imbalances that brought the last sinus infection, the last back ache, the last heart attack, the last cancer stay with us unless we release the thoughts and feelings that have caused the imbalances in the first place. We get all the chances we need to come into balance. If you want to be done with chronic imbalance, go inside. Work with Divine Presence with the intent of creating more Peace and Balance, Health and Wholeness. All healing modalities can be supported and strengthened with inner spiritual work. Release that which you know is out of balance and all else will follow.

Begin Today. Sit today in Silence and cast out that which is manifesting as imbalance in your life. Repeat these processes frequently until the negative emotions have left your being or until the physical imbalance is re-balanced. Healing comes a little at a time. Keep calling out the imbalances, a little at the time.

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