Robbins Hopkins

Spiritual Health: Being at Peace in Everyday Life

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Confronting Rage

Rage is unbridled anger spewing out. It is usually aimed at someone or something and we call it rage because we have no control over when it erupts or who it hurts. It is worth addressing directly!

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Where can you start if you have raging reactions with yourself or with individuals? The good news is that it is possible to clear your own energy field of the underlying issues manifesting as rage. Begin by listing the issues that trigger your anger and rage. What situations get you into your state of rage? There are reasons for rage, but if they have not been addressed for years and years, these reasons may simply feel like part of “who you are”. Rage in not a personality trait. Rage is a response to deeply hurtful issues which have not fully healed. Only you have a sense of what triggers your anger and fans the flames into rage.

Rage is tricky when power issues are also involved such as with blowing up with your children, with a spouse who makes less money than you, or with an employee who works for you. Saying you are sorry for your anger or rage response is a necessary first step but it is also insufficient. Stopping the behavior is the only completely acceptable way out of anger and rage. These are some of the triggers for anger or rage.

  • Negative judgment of others’ behaviors
  • Feeling overwhelmed by the implications for you when another person “slacks” off
  • Feeling disrespected and/or belittled
  • Feeling disempowered to bring about any change
  • Feeling challenged by another’s words or behaviors
  • Wanting things to go the way you want them to go regardless of other viewpoints
  • Feeling unheard and unimportant
  • Carrying old unhealed feelings about anger and rage experiences in the past
  • Choosing rage in order to remain dominant in a relationship
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Any of these triggers can cause anger and rage, or not. The issue is whether you can heal the feelings you have that cause the explosive responses. Healing your rage really has nothing to do with the situation or the other person(s) involved. The rage is coming from within you and has to be healed from within you.  As Einstein has noted, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

These incidents of rage have to be healed from a higher level of consciousness. The Six-Step Spiritual Healing Protocol leads you through a process of clearing. When working in Sacred Space and in partnership with Divine Beings, you have a real opportunity to succeed in clearing rage from your energy field.

Quick Overview of Steps

  1. Open Sacred Space
  2. Make a list of the feelings you felt when you reacted with anger that grew into rage
  3. Name the trauma energies you carry which fueled the rage
  4. Call for the clearing of the trauma energies you felt
  5. Give thanks

Example Case

Brad frequently yelled with rage at Tim, his son, when he was “goofing” off and not doing what Brad thought he was supposed to be doing. Brad called him lazy, self-involved, a total waste of a person, and not even worth his time, among other things. He also lambasted Tim regularly for being a slob. This caused anger responses from Tim, frequently strained interactions between Brad and his son, and more and more distance between them.

Brad identified the following trauma energies he was carrying which caused him rage at Tim.

  • Rage, anger, and blame with Tim trauma energy and all symptoms
  • Fear that Tim was going to fail his classes trauma energy and all symptoms
  • Fear that his son would always be a failure trauma energy and all symptoms
  • Fear that his son had no good motivations trauma energy and all symptoms
  • Anger at Tim for squandering his opportunities (that Brad was working hard to offer him) trauma energy and all symptoms
  • Anger at his own Dad (for browbeating him all through high school) trauma energy
  • Resentment that his current boss blasted him regularly (for any small oversight) trauma energy

All these trauma energies were cleared from Brad’s field by using the Six-Step Spiritual Healing Protocol and new ways of working with Tim slowly came into their lives. He returned often to clear for other triggers he realized he was carrying which was helping in all the places anger and rage had been showing up.

Look at your rage and anger!  Figure out what is behind the strong emotions you feel. Ask for Help in Sacred Space and clear for all the trauma energy you can name that might be fueling your rage. More peace, balance, and health awaits you.  Your body, your energy field, your family, friends, and colleagues will all benefit from your doing this inner work!

 

 

 

 

 

Do Your Inner Work and Heal Your Life

When you do not pay attention to your inner self, the unhealed energies build up and your body and life start to manifest imbalances. Your inner self includes your thoughts, your dreams, your imaginings, your feelings, and your self-talk. Your emotional, physical, and mental energies are affected. The longer you put off attending to your inner self, the louder your body and life circumstances scream at you through pain and feeling stuck, “Pay attention!”

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Most of us have grown up taking baths or showers, washing our hair, brushing our teeth, hopefully exercising and paying attention to what we eat and generally caring for our bodies. Few of us, however, do inner work as part of our daily routine. Inner work focuses on strengthening your relationship with All That Is/God/Divine Source and using that power to clear out your unhelpful patterns and feelings. Inner work can clear all the thoughts, feelings, fears, perceptions, and doubts that negatively affect your daily life. Inner work is more than prayer and meditation. Inner work means listening in silence and acting on what you hear as you connect with Divine Presence.

Many of you suffering from chronic imbalances already have clear motivation to do your inner work. For everyone else, consider this is an invitation to become proactive in doing inner work so that you clear old stuck patterns from your field before they create physical, emotional, or mental imbalances for you.

Some of the hardest issues to clear are familial patterns of fear, doubt, uncertainty, abuse, and judgment. What we grow up with sticks to us in one way or another. Just this past week a hidden pocket of old judgment reared its ugly head for my attention and clearing. Though I had probably had those issues with me since I was 21, I had never realized them until now. Inner work is continuous, throughout all eternity. The Ascended Masters have shared that they do this type of work continuously even after ascending, meaning after they die, with the knowing that they are both human and Divine. They have shared that they work daily on their inner issues as well. The process never stops. However, only you can begin this work and it takes determination and practice. Inner work is your regular spiritual maintenance program.

What issues are strongly affecting you?  Name one of them and use the Six-Step Spiritual Healing Protocol to clear it from your field. Then pick another one and do it again.

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A client shared that she was still carrying anger at her ex-husband for his lack of attention to their children’s needs. This was causing frequent anxiety and panic attacks. There is nothing we can do about another’s choices. We can only change our relationship to those choices. My client used the Six-Step Healing Protocol to clear for negative judgment and perceptions of her ex-husband, anger at his lack of attention to their children, resentment and rage that she always has to pick up the slack, and anger and yelling trauma energy when disagreements arose.

She realized that all the old patterns of their marriage were still unhealed and within her, even after their divorce.  After the work, she said she felt lighter and less anxious. She has had a noticeable drop in panic attacks. She was seeing other ways to negotiate with her ex-husband rather than getting angry and feeling resentful. She did not know her old unhealed energy could actually be healed. She reported feeling more optimistic.

Do not wait another day to begin!  Take the time in Sacred Space to name the issues draining you and do your inner work! If you want more help, sign up for my beginning tutorial which can have you doing your inner work effectively and confidently in three days in under 10 minutes each day.  Every single person in body really needs a way to do inner work! Discover yours.

How do I get started healing when I don’t feel confident?

I really don’t feel confident in where to start asking for healing. There is so much information in the book that it is a bit daunting. What would you recommend?

If you want to focus on emotions that are causing you trouble, take a look at the tutorial on my website which will take you step-by-step though dealing with an unpleasant emotion or feeling (rage, shame, guilt, irritation, fear, blame, bashfulness, etc.) that causes imbalances in your life. The process is set up for a few minutes work over three days. You end the tutorial with calling for the specific healing you need based on the steps in the tutorial. Sign up for the tutorial on the website and get started!

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Authentic Prayer and Global Healing

Sermon – Comm-Unity On the Hill Congregation, Washington, D.C.*

Rev. Robbins S. Hopkins, Ed.D.

Thank you for asking me to speak.  It is delightful to be here this morning. The question I am exploring today is, “What is authentic prayer”?  Just plain and simple, authentic prayer is prayer that works.  It is prayer that brings results. It is prayer that produces energy shifts.  Authentic Prayer is powerful business.  Well then, how do we accomplish this?

The Bible has a few things to say to us about prayer.

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of him” (1 John 5:14-15).

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds ….” (Philippians 4:6-7).

“And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. (Ephesians 6:18).

“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express” (Romans 8:26).

 

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The week before Hurricane Irene, exactly 7 days before it hit this area, we decided last minute to book a house in North Carolina for the week for my husband and myself.  We have been going to the beach in August for 41 years and we realized we were not going to go because none of our family were free to join us.  We discussed this at length and decided to make a reservation and take a weeks’ vacation just for us. That felt very wonderful, celebratory in fact! One day later, we realized that there was a Tropical Storm in the Atlantic. We thought, we had better arrange for trip insurance in case something more serious became of this storm. We called for the insurance and were told that we could not get insurance now because there was a named storm in the Atlantic, specifically now called IRENE.  So, my energy was very focused on this storm not only because of this reservation but also because I had been going to the North and South Carolina coasts literally all my life except for 4 years when were lived overseas.

So the prayers began in earnest.  Every time I went into prayer, I got the feeling I was simply nipping at the heels of Hurricane IRENE. I did all the things I usually do in working at the global level but I could not feel any shifts in energy which is how I know the prayers have been effective.  One day about the 4thday into the prayer effort, I finally asked in sacred space, “How do we do this?” I was feeling overwhelmed and completely under effective.  Someone had shared with me that the Hurricane itself covered an area as large as Arizona.  This left me totally amazed.  I could feel the power and strength of Irene when in prayer and something I called powerful fury but I did not know how to address it in prayer.

To continue reading this sermon, follow this link to the full  text.  http://robbinshopkins.com/sermons/authentic-prayer-and-global-healing/

 

*Comm-Unity on the Hill, meets at 10 Street and G Street, N.W. in jointly shared space with  First Congregational Church of Washington D.C..  Services begin at 1 PM on Sundays.  Comm-Unity can be reached at cothdc@verizon.net or  703-379-4450 . All are welcome.

** This sermon was preceded by a guided meditation for the congregation. This was offered October 2011

 

 

WORKING OUT with DIVINE PRESENCE

When we are on a conscious spiritual journey, sooner or later we spend time in Silence. But this is just the beginning of our potential journey.

In search of peace by Bindaas Madhavi

After Silence, we may need to spend time on imbalances in our field.  This can happen when our “quiet time” results in tough, yucky stuff appearing on the scene.   Thoughts and feelings which are out of balance, unpleasant, heavy or unprocessed do frequently show up.  Unsettling issues are a part of our dialogue with the Greater Whole.

This is the Divine Presence talking with us about what we need to focus on  to remain in balance. Unsettling feelings are not the result of being in Silence. They are the result of our seeking inner peace! When we go into Silence we are seeking peace, balance, wholeness and centeredness.  If we have unresolved issues with a co-worker, a spouse or a friend, we are likely to have them pop up after a period of sitting in Silence.  In fact, many people never go into the Silence for this very reason.  They are afraid that issues they do not want to look at will show up.

Guess what?  Unpleasant issues, thoughts and feelings are ALREADY in our energy field, draining us of our Light and life force energy!  They are already causing imbalance.  Just because we are not thinking about them, does not mean they go away.  In fact, because we are trying to “resist” them, they are even more demanding of our attention. The quickest way to resolve any unpleasant issue is to work in sacred space with our unresolved thoughts and feelings which are causing us stress or anger. 

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It is easy to say well “she should do this” or “he would be a whole lot happier if …”. However this will never bring resolution to an imbalance affecting us.  These responses are actually a  form of gossip and can perpetuate and expand the imbalance.  As long as we focus on what others could or should be doing, we miss the lesson for ourselves.  We are the ones who  have to take the steps to re-establish inner peace for ourselves. Then others sense a shift in us and they are also affected by our coming into greater balance.

Coming into balance and inner peace is our part of the partnership with All That Is.  No one else can do this work for us. The more we engage in this self-work,  the more expansive our inner peace becomes. It begins to permeate our entire being and all our affairs for the positive.  If this is hopeful or of interest to you,  keep seeking and you will find exactly what you are meant to discover.  There are infinite ways to undertake a work out process from Silence to release.   Here is one you might try and adapt for you own purposes.

WORKING OUT with DIVINE PRESENCE

When we notice charged feelings and thoughts, causing imbalances, one option is to work them out within a sacred space, through writing to Divine Presence and then letting the imbalances go.  Here are some steps towards that goal.

1.  Open a sacred space in which to work.  This gives us access to Divine wisdom, energy, love and support even when we are writing by ourselves. ( See Note A, for ideas of how to do this.)

2.  The letter

  • Get a journal solely for these writings and date each letter. Sign your name as you would in any letter.
  • Address the letter to Dear God/ Beloved Oneness/ Perfect Love/ Great I AM/  Mohamed/Mary/Jesus/Buddha/Saint Germain/Ascended Masters, etc.
  • Keep this journal in a safe place where you are sure no one will find it or read it.

3.  Explore the specific situation around which you have strong feelings which is causing you imbalance.

  • Begin by writing about your feelings.
  • Write as clearly as possible and with total honesty.
  • Include thoughts as well as feelings about the situation.
  • Write as much as you can until you feel really done.
  • Sign your letter each time you finish for the day

4.  Ask in the Silence what fears and blocked energy you are carrying which are manifesting as imbalanced energy specifically related to you journal topic.

  • Specify the fears and other blocked energy in the journal as notes after your letter.

5.  Go into a space of stillness and call for the sacred flame (within all of us) to consume all blocked energies you have identified which are causing turbulence and imbalance in your energy field from their originating source in this lifetime or from any previous life form you have taken.

  • If forgiveness comes to mind forgive self and others completely.

6.  Give thanks for the healing support and vibration clearing of your energy field.

7. Continue to write about this imbalance as long as it remains in your consciousness following this process each day you write about it.

  • Every time you enter into stillness for clearing, healing energy will consume the low vibrating thoughts and feelings separating you from Peace.
  • You are only responsible for your own feelings. If you change, others involved in your situation will be profoundly affected as well.
  • Take as much time on the issues as you need, knowing that your desire and intention for Inner Peace will be completely supported.

NOTE A:  Here is one way to open sacred space.  ” I call forth my Highest “I AM” Self , the Angelic Host, the Ascended Masters (Jesus/Krishna/Mary/Mohammed/ Moses/St. Ignatius/Buddha ,etc.), the Nature Intelligences, Cosmic Light Beings of the Universe, Divine Ancestors and Divine Physicians  to help me hold this sacred healing space.  I may then say, “Spirit of the Living God/Great Oneness /Divine Wholeness/Holy Spirit, come forth into this space dedicated to wholeness and balance.  My thanks.”