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Jul 25 2018

Experiencing God From Within

“God is in the heart and soul of every being. And when you open within yourself the secret temple in your heart, then with the all-knowing intuition of the soul you shall read the book of life.” Paramahansa Yogananda (1)

What does this mean? You have to go within to fully actualize who you are. You are vastly more than the localized body and life you live day to day. You are connected to the non-local energy of All That Is, all the time, whether you know it or not. If you want to fully reap those benefits, you have to go to Silence within and listen to the still small voice of God which is delivered through the intuition of your soul, your eternal self.

Yogananda continues, “Then and only then will you contact the living God. Without this feeling in your heart, there will be no answer to your prayers. You may attract what your positive actions and good karma permit you to have; but to receive a conscious response from God, you must first attain Divine attunement with God.” (2)

Divine attunement with God refers to actively going into Silence with the express purpose of making conscious contact with the energy of God/Divine Source. As you discover imbalances within, you clear them and come into greater attunement with Divine Source. You have to want to have a personal exchange with Divine Source to have that manifest. Attunement means coming into balance, into the same frequency as God. This only happens in the quiet conscious seeking of Divine Source.

You may be afraid of what you will feel or be told about your faults if you expand your personal relationship with the living God. The truth is that you are so loved, way beyond the ability of your imagination to comprehend this. You are first and foremost here to develop a two-way relationship with All That Is. You are here to heal that which is not who you truly are; your fears, your anger, your unforgiveness, and your self-criticism.

You are here to seek peace and joy within. You can’t do this anywhere else. You can’t do this when you leave your body or when you take a different form from your human body. You have to find this path to the living God while in a human body. That is the reason you are in body. When you find this path to God, you can create the life, relationships, peace, and loving wholeness you are seeking. You get as many chances as you need to do this.

Begin now and expand the time you currently allot to experiencing connection with God. Every moment you allot to connect with Divine Source comes back to you one hundredfold. (Mark 10:30, King James Version)

Conscious Seeking of God

1. Find a place where you will not be disturbed

2. Open Sacred Space (even if you are unsure about what that fully means just yet)

3. State your intention for being with Divine Source/God/All That Is/The Oneness

4. State your hesitations, your concerns, your troubles, your hopes

5. Be quiet, listen and be present

6. Give thanks silently or through writing to All That Is about what you are learning

7. Return frequently to experience clearer direction and connection with the energy of God, that energy within you and surrounding you throughout the Universe

Remember you are already hard-wired to Divine Source! You are simply amplifying that connection. There is no one right way to do this. There is only the way you learn to make space in your life for a living connection with God.

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Who is Paramahansa Yogananda ( 1893-1952)? He is widely regarded as one of the preeminent spiritual figures of our time who draws on his own direct experience of God. He teaches us to seek and pray the way that saints, sages, and mystics have sought God over the centuries- the way that brings life transforming responses. He has introduced millions of readers to the enduring wisdom of the East through his life story in Autobiography of a Yogi.

Notes 1 & 2, Yogananda, Paramahansa, In the Sanctuary of the Soul, Los Angeles, CA., Self-Realization Fellowship, 1998.

Jul 18 2018

Coming Out of Illness

This poem is written in first person and in the present moment. It captures part of my healing journey in the past. It also captures the journeys of several of my clients through their years of healing and is based on the feelings and stories they have shared with me.

I have been unwell for over 20 years
I think of myself as unable to heal
I suffer some of every week, most days in fact
I keep trying to heal and I keep being unwell

My world is filled with pain and sadness
I have little energy most days
I would love to be normal
I would love to have things run smoothly
In my body and in my life

I have become accustomed to illness
I have lots of doctors
I have lots of tests and meds in my daily routine
I am without much lasting joy
though it does show up sometimes

SEEKING THESE 20 YEARS

I found a way to be quiet
I found a way to look at my feelings
I found a way to listen to the still small voice
I found that I am not my illnesses

I found a way to disconnect from the past
I found a way to look at all that hurts
I found a way to command the fears out
I found that I am more than my old stories

I found a way to listen
I found a way to set down
I found a way to ask for help
I found a way to trust I could be well
I found that getting well begins within

Jul 11 2018

Forgiveness is Profound Love

I have been watching Kurt Seyit and Sura, a Turkish/Russian love story beginning in Russia during the Russian revolution and moving to Istanbul. It is magnificent and heartbreaking based on a true story. I have been wondering why I have been so engaged with this series. In silence today, I realized that it is because the main characters get caught up in their inability to forgive themselves and each other. This is the tragedy of their lives. There is enough self-recrimination and numerous missed opportunities to set down the past that literally wrings their souls and apparently mine as well. I found myself literally yelling at the television with total frustration at both the main characters. They simply had to forgive themselves and each other and move on, as deep hopeful love awaited them.

Forgiveness is profound love. If you do not forgive yourself, you cannot forgive or truly love others. You can play at this forgiveness for as long as it takes but unattended forgiveness remains a thorn in your soul. Where are you carrying unforgiveness? Do not let it remain and fester. It has the power to completely destroy your sense of peace and your ability to truly love others. It has the power to make you feel vulnerable and unsafe. You may feel that if you move on in your outer life that the old unforgiveness will disappear. This is not the way it works. You have to name the unforgiveness you still carry towards yourself and towards others before you can truly command it out of your energy field. You can be free of old unforgiveness but you must make that happen.

Most people have no idea that unforgiveness literally sets up house in your body. It affects your energy level, your immune system, your resilience, your overall health, your self perceptions, and your total well being. It is a powerful negative presence within. There is a type of blocked energy that I call spell energy that can remain in one’s soul for lifetimes. Spell energy refers to energy that has been in your field for a spell of time in the past and though the circumstances around that energy may have changed, it remains energetically present in your energy field though perhaps not in your present awareness. Seek this unforgiveness out wherever it resides.

One more confounding truth is that unforgiveness can reside at the unconscious and supra-conscious (soul) levels for lifetimes. Therefore, if you do begin to clear for unforgiveness, use the Six-Step Spiritual Healing Protocol that will prompt you to call for healing at all levels of consciousness and through all lifetimes. One of the major reasons you get pricked again and again with unforgiveness is that you need to clear this for once and for all in your energy field to be free of attracting it again to yourself. If you need to forgive yourself or another, your soul will place you in repeated situations where unforgiveness unfolds until you get that you have to heal this within yourself.

You are on a journey to peace whether you accept this or not. That is basically what we are doing here, trying to become more peaceful inside. Holding onto unforgiveness is not peaceful. It needs to go. Command all unforgiveness of self out of your field if you have the slightest hint of its presence within. If you suspect you carry this and do not know what it is about, enter into Silence and ask to be shown or guided to the unforgiveness you still carry.

I had some unresolved issues with a brother for years. I did not know it was unforgiveness. I asked about the imbalance in our relationship and was shown some deeply unkind things I had done to him as a child, totally forgotten by me. Those mean acts and their consequences were still within me and I had not forgiven myself for that treatment of my brother. When I did finally do the forgiveness work for me, I saw it expand to forgive his actions towards me, as well. Our relationship in present day totally changed. This journey awaits all of us but the seeking has to begin with you.

When you do decide to check in on unforgiveness, and figure out where that energy might be, use the Six-Step Spiritual Healing Protocol to help you include all the various strands that might accompany that unforgiveness for you. The Force is with you but you have to actualize it in your life for it to flourish.

Jun 27 2018

Journeying to Peace

Did I come willingly seeking Divine Knowing?
Absolutely not
I came kicking and screaming
Furious and in severe pain

I came with profound anger, rage, and indignation
I came with pride and ego in unhealthy portions
I came with self-condemnation and judgement
I came broken beyond belief

I eventually gave Divine Source the time of day
The doors were astoundingly still open to me
In all my disillusionment and blame
In my self-created darkness, I could still enter

I was so full of rage it took years to clear the inner sources
Years to write out all of the furiousness of my existence
Seven years of daily digging up pain brought me to
Know I was eternally loved, warts and all

The warts were the point of this life
I was to look at all my issues, name them and cast them out
I was to work in partnership with Divine Beings
Those who had already done this and knew the way

This journey is available to all beings who seek
Ask and you shall receive
More than you can possibly imagine
We are here to journey within to Peace

Jun 06 2018

Calling on Angels

One consistent message from the Angels is that humans do not ask for enough help. We often choose to go it alone rather than to call for support, healing, or help in accomplishing something in our lives. Angels are available to everyone regardless of your specific beliefs. They do not belong to any religion or set of beliefs. They do respond however to the laws of the Universe, the most basic one being Love. This Universe was created in Love and is governed by Love. Thus, effective work with the Angels comes about when you are working from a place of Love.

What does it mean to work from a place of Love? You are heard and responded to when you are trying to create more Love, being motivated by a sense of doing good in the world, or when you are trying to face imbalances in yourself so that you can express more Love in this life. There is a huge difference in calling for help from Angels in order to have something of a material nature manifest such as a new car or a piece of jewelry and calling for help with clearing anger you are carrying with another person. The desire to have material things can sometimes be a call coming from Love or can simply be a desire to have something you want. Often you are the only person who knows whether your call is based in Love or in some type of lack, fear, anger, desire or, resentment, etc. The distinction is important.

Anything coming from a place of Love will be responded to by the Angels. So, where in your life are you trying to create more Love? Ask for help with those issues you are facing which are coming from a place of Love within yourself. This applies to your call for Angels to help other people as well. If the call is based in Love, it is sure to be answered.

Why haven’t my calls for help been answered in the past? There is a profound difference in calling for help for self or another from a place of fear rather than from a place of Love. If you are afraid for your child and your call for help comes from that base, it may or may not be heard. Clear your fear for your child first and then make a call of help for your child from a place of Love. This call is sure to be heard. Make sure that all your calls for Angelic or Divine help come from a place of Love within yourself rather than from a perceived sense of inadequacy, fear, or lack. These calls then will be responded to without a doubt.

When I was near the end of my 19 years of chronic back pain, I finally realized that I wanted to be well so that I could work with others in healing. I was no good at being able to help others while being in so much continuing pain myself. I called on Divine Source including the Angels to help me heal so that I could help others heal. This was a turning point for me. I had to call for help from a place of Love for true help to manifest for me. Then, from every direction, help came pouring in for me.

Angelic help also works when you are afraid, suffering, beating up on yourself or feeling depressed about your situation. Even if you are struggling to understand how to love yourself, this is still an act of self-love and your call for healing will be heard.

You might start with Archangel Michael unless you already have a relationship with another one of the Angels. His energy is the broadest in scope of the Angels and if he is not the right Archangel for you, he will help connect you to the other Archangels when needed. If you do have a relationship with an Angel or feel drawn to Angel energy, use it more. What you focus on grows. Your relationship with those amazing Divine Beings will expand and flourish the more you request their presence in your life.

Angels cannot help you unless you specifically call them into your life. Angels can be anywhere and everywhere because they are Spirit Beings. Their energy is unlimited so they await your calls for support and help each and every day.

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