choice | Robbins Hopkins

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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?