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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

Oct 30 2019

Fear Free Living

Goodness is all around but I am consumed by fear
Fear of not being enough, fear of being alone
Fear of aging, fear of not being lovable
Fear of living in poverty, without joy

photo by M.T Eglassier

I get totally caught up with all my fears
They loom just in the background
Then they pounce upon the scene
Catching me off guard and unprepared

I usually then just crumble and enter darkness
Give in to the power of the fears
Wallow in them a few days, overeating, self-bashing
Until I somehow come into greater balance

This endless cycle is the dark side of me
I seem to always be trying to avoid facing the fears
Trying to hide from them so they won’t “get me”
But really the fears keep erupting over and over again

I am not my fears
But goodness knows they run me
I want to outpace every one of my fears
Escape to a fearless space of balance

How to begin?
How to get rid of these obsessions?
How to be my best, fearless self?
How to pull more of my goodness to the forefront?

 

If this is even a tiny bit of where you are, turn to your eternal self. That is found inside, in the quietness, in the listening part of you.  That part of you that is beyond the body and mind, and beyond the doing. That part of you that is eternal and always connected to the Greater Whole.

Every single one of you has this part of you within. But it stays in the background until you seek more balance, more peace and more fear free living.  Consciously stop doing, enter into stillness and breathe. Try doing this lying down. When you begin to feel a quietness, soak that energy in and let it fill your entire being.  As the quietness and breathing begin to settle you, bring your most fearful energy forward for rebalancing.

Consciously bring the fear energy into the Lightness you are experiencing. Call for that fear to clear your energy field from wherever you first took it into you. Call for it to be transformed by the Silence, the Balance and the Wholeness you are  experiencing.  Give thanks and return to the tranquil space you are creating for yourself.

Do this often. It works. It is one way to fear free living.

 

 

 

 

 

Written by Robbins Hopkins · Categorized: General · Tagged: anxiety, balance, blocked energy, facing fears, fear, fears, how to, inner peace, peace, poetry, silence, stop doing, struggle

Oct 16 2019

Being My Best Keeper

When I am mired in the minutia of life, I sometimes lose myself
I wonder why the grind keeps calling me to attention
I get into  production, creating, and reaction flows
That I know so very well, I forget to drink my favorite tea

Photo by Tuan-nguy-n-minh

I forget to water my beloved plants
I stop looking up to the cerulean blueness of our planet
I forget to eat and stay seated far too long
I stop deep breathing and stretching

When I emerge, I feel both delighted and stunned
Hours have passed and I have dutifully accomplished my goals
But my sense of peace has been neglected, set aside
And I wish again that I knew how to both produce and stay connected

I long to live this life with bountiful ease and grace
But sometimes determination to produce is a delight
I love the ability to concentrate with all my being
With my heart and my mind and my energy

I would also like to remember to take a break
Smell the roses and think about my blessings
Take the time to be at peace in the production mode
To be both productive and lovingly attentive

I do owe this to myself
So perhaps this is about loving self
In a happy, renewing way
Remembering to be my best keeper

Perhaps I am a bit afraid that
In taking a break or a deep breath
I will not have the commitment
To return to the production grind

Perhaps these habits are really about fear
Fear that I won’t accomplish what I want to
That I can only focus on one thing at a time
That if I deviate from my goals, I will fail

There always seems to be other areas of growth
Calling to me to attend, to realize, to take note
Nudging me towards more love for self and others
Keeping me moving forward using the fullness of me

So, I commit to more little love breaks
More time to reconnect with the blessings I have
More time to trust that all is well, even if I take time to breath
Even if I stop, make my favorite tea, and drink it up completely!
 

 

 

Written by Robbins Hopkins · Categorized: General · Tagged: balance, blessings, choice, ease, failing, fears, inner peace, intention, loving self, peace, poetry, stay connected

Aug 21 2019

Pain Comes from Blocked Energy

In meditation, it is Divinely given repeatedly that all imbalances in our lives are due to our inner unseen blocked energy. Imbalances cause all sorts of pain. Pain comes from imbalances including, financial, mental, relationship, emotional, physical, health and professional imbalances, among others. What if you seriously undertook the belief that all things are possible with God/ Divine Source/ The Oneness ? Literally, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by trying this.  What is holding you back from going inside, identifying your own blocked energy and focusing on it long enough to clear it and thereby clear up your life’s imbalances?  Even the smallest efforts help. All clearing you do now will release you permanently from those imbalances causing stuck energy.

You actually come into body to clear as much blocked energy as you can in your lifetime. Your major reason for coming into body is to learn you are loved beyond anything you can fully imagine.

Photo by Mohamed Nohassi

You originally took on all you stuck energy in your mind, body and soul. Therefore, because this was taken on in body you have to clear current blocked energy while you are in  physical body in this dimension. This does not magically happen when you are out of body! For chronic migraine headaches, cancer, insomnia, shame, anxiety, pain, failing relationships, or depression, etc., unseen blocked energies must become unblocked for full physical rebalancing to take place. Medications and supplements can help you along the way and but they will never fully heal the basic causes of the imbalances you are experiencing.

To begin to truly touch to your blocked energy, you have to face the parts of yourself that are out of balance. When you are out of balance, there is too much dissonance within for you to receive the love that is available to you from Divine Source, from others and from yourself. When blocked energy is present, you keep having repeated imbalances in the same areas until you do the inner work to clear unseen blocked energy that is causing the imbalances.

This approach to healing comes from 38 lifetimes spent in this dimension. We get all the chances we need to clear blocked energy, over and over again, lifetime after lifetime. The shortest way to clear chronic blocked energy is to look inside to determine where to begin. Sit in Sacred Space and ask, “What do I need to clear that is blocking me from wholeness?” You will get the guidance you need but you have to seek it with your intention and commitment to heal.  Each time you call for specific clearing in Sacred Space, you will clear some of the blocked energy you have been carrying. Each time you will “lighten your load”.

How to begin. Take my free tutorial to help you effectively name the imbalances you want to address. It is three short sessions under 15 minutes, given over three days, to help you begin to name the trauma energy you are experiencing. Begin this today!  This information has been given to me in meditation for 30 years in this lifetime so that all of us in body can learn how to heal major issues we are living with.

If you truly set an intention to heal your anger, your judgement, your fear, your pain or your grief, etc., you will be led in how to do this. If you take a step in this direction all the additional energy and guidance you need will be given. Try these steps for success.

Steps*

Begin with my healing yourself tutorial

Use The Six-Step Spiritual Healing Protocol

Use the new protocol information for chronic imbalances 1  and  part 2

These resources offer a cohesive method for healing blocked energy that will work every time you use it. The alternative is to continue with these same imbalances repeating  again and again until you face the stuck energy in Sacred Space and command it out of your field. All that I am offering you here has been Divinely given to help you come into greater and greater balance. Share this with others who want more balance in their lives!

The healing you need begins with you.  You have to choose to use your free will to focus on what is blocked within and causing imbalances in your life. You are the one to call in the healing and rebalancing you need. No one else can really do this for you. All the help you need however, is available if you begin to call for your own healing of blocked unseen energies affecting you daily.  Blessings upon all your efforts!

 

 *If you want more support in this process, get my book, The Six-Step Spiritual Healing Protocol available through Amazon for under $4.00 for the kindle version.

Written by Robbins Hopkins · Categorized: General · Tagged: asking, balance, blocked energy, chronic illness, clearing, clearing energy, facing fears, healing, how to, naming, not healing, pain, six-step, spiritual healing, spiritual healing protocol, spiritual work

Jul 17 2019

Mother Earth is Calling

Mother Earth is hurting daily
She is God’s Presence in form
Here to support our human journeys
Yet, repeatedly trying to warn us about her plight

Photo by Stephen Leonardi

We cannot hear her speak to us
We deny her specific intelligence
We desecrate entire areas of her Being
Through ignorance, greed, and apathy

Pray for the healing of our Mother Earth
Pray for the restoration of her vast imbalances
Pray for her profound degradation, to penetrate our knowing
Pray for Divine Energy to help us understand her importance

The beauty and splendor of Mother Earth is all around us
Draw in her nurturing and healing vibrations
Take time to expand into nature, to unfurl your energy
To breath in the wonder energy of the Divine

Mother Earth exists to show us another way to peace
She presents vast and varied forms, we need but look to see them
Nature’s gifts are freely given to all humans
Soak in the Divine vibrations of her beauty and splendor

Mother Earth calls out to us daily somewhere across the globe
Causing the heat, the destruction, the fury, and the invitation
To listen, watch, think, and change our destructive ways
To open our hearts to how we are desecrating her presence

Photo by Fabian Struwe

When we are in nature, we are close to Divine Energy
We are able to delight in the delicate blooms Mother Earth produces
We are able to feel the power of the vast blue seas
We are able to set down our daily worries through the beauty she creates

She however is suffering deeply from our inability to honor her among us
To attend to her needs for the earth, the air, the sky, and the sea
Who among us desires to have Mother Earth continue to be degraded?
Who among us will step up to honor and nurture our Mother Earth?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Written by Robbins Hopkins · Categorized: General · Tagged: balance, beauty, choice, goodness, healing, Mother Earth, one power, oneness, pain, poetry

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