Robbins Hopkins

Spiritual Health: Being at Peace in Everyday Life

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Your ‘I AM’ Presence Awaits

The ‘I AM’ Presence is your unconditional connection with Divine Source/God/All That Is. Every person has this connection regardless of life circumstances. To activate that energy you have to claim that connection out loud for it to fully activate. Otherwise, you can spend you entire life missing out on working from your highest self.

 

Speak the following out loud.

  • I call forth my ‘I AM’ Presence as I prepare to confront my daughter about her recent behaviors and grades.
  • From my ‘I AM’ Presence, I bless the marriage of Johan and Moan, for their highest good to manifest.
  • From the combined power of my ‘I AM’ Presence and God’s Glory, I command an honest, wise, collaborative, and people serving federal government manifest for this country.
  • Through my ‘I AM’ Presence, I call forth the most perfect professional position for me at this time.
  • With the power and determination of my I AM Presence, I command the deepest cleansing for rebalancing the Nation’s mind, body, and soul manifesting as systemic racism in the United States of America.

 

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You are made in the image of God. You have seeds of God-ness all through you. You have to call forth the I AM power and energy for it to fully come alive in this dimension. Know and prepare for your negative feelings, discord, and negative thoughts to come to your surface as you begin to use this energy. By working with the I AM Energy, all that is not a part of this energy will show up for healing. If you ignore these issues, they will increase in severity without fail.

 

Doing your inner work is your side of the equation in your relationship with God. You can choose to go through life and ignore this inner work. However, as you are everlasting in spirit, you will have to address the imbalances, sooner or later. If you do it sooner, you will be free of those negative thoughts and feelings and their consequences sooner. However, it is your choice. You can take all the lifetimes you want to come to a place of doing inner work. However, the imbalances when ignored, grow bigger and bigger.

 

Every human is here potentially growing in the understanding of being created and sustained in Love. Regardless of what is around you, your core energy is Love. It could be covered over with fear, abuse, addiction, negative self-perceptions, arrogance, violence, or anger but at the core, all humans were created and sustained in Love. How to start?

 

Say these out loud. Hold the space for healing. Give thanks.

1. From my ‘I AM Presence’ I bring my feelings of ______________________ to this Sacred Space for healing and rebalancing. (shame, guilt, apathy, sorrow, fear, anger, desire, pride, arrogance, jealousy, self-hate, being a loser, etc.) Thank you for the healing. 

2. With my ‘I AM’ Presence I call for clearing of the core reasons for my _________________________ that is no longer serving me or anyone else around me.  (lying, cheating, embezzling, hatred, racism, competitiveness, mistreatment, violence, abuse, excessive drinking, addiction to ________, suspicion, etc. )Thank you for the healing. 

3. Through  my ‘I AM Presence’, I forgive wholly and completely ________________________ . ( myself, all those I have hurt, all my colleagues, my brother/mother/aunt/cousin/neighbor, etc. Thank you for the healing. 

4. From my I AM Presence, I call forth Divine help and guidance for _______________________. ( my relationship,  my next professional steps, my physical pain, my daughter’s job search, the future of my department, George/Janice/Shiela, the mess I have made of_____, etc. Thank you for the healing. 

 

Work on any of the above issues for a few years and watch your life grow and change!!  See my blog, found under Learn on the home page,  at www.robbinshopkins.com and search with the words ‘I AM’  or ‘I am’ and see all the other posts on this subject.

A Call to The Spirit

Help me find enough love
to gift myself some slack

Help me see that I am
Enough every single day

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Help me hold onto the sense
Of beauty surrounding me

Hold me close when I dive
Into my deep unending darkness

I fear at times I will
Forget the way out

I fear at times that I know not
What is truly good for me

Help me connect to Divine Love
When it sometimes feels like two ordinary words

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Help me see love and kindness
In every direction regardless of swirling emotions

Bring me into a space of peace
When I cannot create it myself

Hold me in the Light
When I can only focus on the bitterness

Keep me safe from despair
And open to infinite grace

Be my partner in this life
When at times I feel alone

Heal my heart of continuing sadness
With gentleness and strength

Hold my hopes for delivery
Until I can manifest them myself

Grant me the next steps into the Light
I have been wallowing in darkness too long

Effective Global Prayer

We have so much need for prayer now especially as we work through this pandemic and all it means. I have found myself called to prayer several times a day some days.  Amidst the Corona virus (Covid-19) pandemic, there is always something to pray for daily. The more of us who pray, the better our world will be. We are always heard and we can plug into a huge power house of Divine Beings waiting to work with us. I have gotten a lot of questions about how to pray effectively especially recently during this pandemic.

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Effective Prayer

  • Pray from your heart, not from fear
  • Pray in partnership with Divine Beings, meaning OPEN SACRED SPACE to pray
  • Pray from your RIGHT to be heard in that you are in physical body and that Right is given to each person
  • Pray knowing that every time you pray it adds to the goodness of All That Is
  • Pray knowing that the darkness manifesting is never stronger than the Light
  • Pray with the awareness that in partnership with Divine Beings, miracles are possible
  • Pray knowing we humans in body are the only ones to call the Light here, no others have that same job
  • Pray knowing we have to call in the Light, as  Divine Source has granted us absolute free will
  • Pray knowing you are always heard

Others have asked me what global issues are being indicated for us to pray for. Here is a beginning list. Add you own issues!

Global Prayer Issues

  • Divine transmutation of Corona virus to a harmless state
  • Healing for all immune systems, secondary imbalances, and fear for those with Corona virus
  • Clearing of all root sources of fear, anxiety, stress, suffering, and exhaustion due to Corona virus
  • Clearing all root sources of anger, rage, abuse, and violence manifesting with Corona virus restrictions
  • Alleviate world economic trauma and individual hardship due to Corona virus pandemic
  • Healing for sorrow and loss for all those suffering among us due to Corona virus
  • Divine inner healing and combustion for expanded consciousness for all
  • Healing for Mother Earth in all her forms
  • Root imbedded healing for institutional hatred and mistreatment for racial, ethnic, religious, sexual preference, and gender differences, etc.
  • Root source healing for misogyny, hatred of LBGTQ persons, hatred of the “others”
  • Root source healing for mistreatment of immigrants and refugees
  • Clearing of root sources manifesting as obsession with getting and having money, greed and the economic divide
  • Root source healing for abuse of; power, privilege and position trauma energy
  • Root source healing for opioid addiction (alcohol, sexual, drug, gambling, hoarding, spending, etc.)
  • Root source clearing for all forms of abuse (domestic, sexual, racial, religious, physical, mental, emotional, verbal, etc.)

Example

I open Sacred Space with the billions of Divine Beings surrounding our planet in this time of need. I ask for us to partner together for powerful healing to occur worldwide. I open my heart, mind, and soul to transformational Light within and surrounding us in the Universe. I call for healing to enable me to pray from a powerful place of love and goodness.

I call forth the Divine power and presence for all humans to clear all root sources of anger, rage, abuse, and violence manifesting especially now with Corona virus restrictions around the globe. Let all detox from this be completed in Divine space (quantum space, God space, etc.). My profound thanks for this healing work and all the Divine Beings working together with me for healing and wholeness.

_________________

May you and all your loved ones be safe and well. May we tap into the powerhouse of The Oneness and those billions of Divine Beings surrounding our globe to call forth the effective healing needed by all of us during this time of uncertainty, loss and illness.

 

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.

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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.

 

Meditate!

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Meditate! It is truly the best way you can take care of yourself. This does not take the place of exercise and healthy eating but it does expand your ability to cope, to feel at peace, to feel connected to Divine Wholeness, to figure out your feelings and address them and a myriad of other positive effects.  In these bodies, at this time, meditating is essential to stay centered and positive. There is so much to be fearful of, so much to drain your energy, so much to worry about, and so much to knock you off kilter. Meditating allows you to recenter, to just be in the present moment and to breath fully. When you seek the Stillness and Silence, you will also become aware of what is bothering you, what you are afraid of, how you are not attending to yourself, and how you are being taken out by your unprocessed feelings about everything.

Why don’t you do it? I have heard every excuse in the book about why people don’t meditate. These reasons for not meditating keep growing until you try it. Until you really sit and be still, sit and be with your racing mind, or sit and seek connection.  You may be afraid of what you will find within. You may feel that meditating does not immediately respond to the issues you are facing. You may feel that seeing one more friend or doing one more round on the track is more beneficial than being still.  Whatever reasons you have for not meditating, they are not serving you well.

Meditation expands your sense of personal power, personal efficacy, personal integrity, and inner peace.  Meditating supports all of the efforts you are making in the outer world as well. It enables you to determine what is affecting you in negative ways. Meditating is a self-loving act of the hugest proportions.

The racing mind is always there.  When you meditate, you can learn to set down the racing mind and to breath in Silence. You learn that you are not alone when you meditate, you are connecting to the energy of Wholeness, Goodness and Eternal Connection. You are way more than your body and your life. You are literally here to learn how to Love more, yourself and others. All the rest is the staging that you are moving through for these learnings.  The only lasting thing you will create in your life is Love. All else is transitory. Even a legacy, being remembered for who you were and what you accomplished  is transitory.  However, the Love you give and receive is lasting because that shapes your soul, your eternal energy, and your consciousness.

As we know from science, matter does not disappear, it changes form. We change between form and formlessness again and again in our eternal journeys. What we take with us is the ability to manifest LOVE!  Meditation is an inner process to help you learn how to truly love yourself, others, and all that you are facing, even profound loss.  You can persistently try to do this through focusing on your external life.  It is much easier though to learn about loving self and others through an inner journey, even for extroverts, than to repeatedly make the same poor choices, to your repeated dismay.

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Meditation is a learning process. You have the option of working through ineffective beliefs, reactions, and feelings without negatively affecting others and therefore yourself in real time. It is a win/win process.

The issue for many people is what to do with the feelings that come up in Silence. FACE THEM!! That is how you set them down and move on.  Name the feelings and command them out of your energy field. Unless you already have a process you love that does that, use the Six-Step Spiritual Healing Protocol as a way to clear out unhelpful  thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. Further, if you simply show up in meditation, open Sacred Space and sit, you will be led to the issues you most need to clear. The biggest boon is that as you show up, you get better at meditating. You will, with time, feel more peaceful. Keep showing up and trying this! You will also get more proficient in realizing where you are stuck and in clearing out blocked energies so that you can move more lightly through your day.  Meditate!

All else will be given.