Robbins Hopkins

Spiritual Health: Being at Peace in Everyday Life

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Who Knows Me as Deeply as You Do?

Who knows me as deeply as you do?
Inner peace is my lens on this life
Balance and rebalance are my goals
This choice can be so lonely at times

When I am truly alone, though,
I feel total, whole, and at peace
No one takes that away from me
Wholeness is impregnable, safe

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I have a secret place within
When there, I  never feel alone
I  know I AM One with All That Is
I am seen and have always been loved

I am inured to harshness around me
No one can infringe or tread on me now
I am impervious to careless slights
Inner peace is my ultimate safe place

How do I truly know this?
Nothing around me has changed
All the same ones are still here
All the same games are in play

I am the one with the inner secret
I know Peace as others miss it again
I am the one singing of Compassion
Having touched to Wholeness, Beauty and Grace

It is not that I am somehow gifted or special
I am a devoted traveler along the way
I embrace each day clearing away the detritus
Knowing no end to the waste and darkness within me

Someone told me to keep on, keeping on
To never swerve from the path of clearing
To hold fast to the signs being given
Clearings are the direct path to Oneness

I persist and insist on being clean inside
To stay the path by facing my darkness myself
To demand of myself the time to keep listening
The inner strength to root out all offal and waste

I’d like to share space with all seeking
But you don’t fit in my inner place
The doorway opens only to me
And you would feel strangely out of place

You have your own paths and doorways to discover
They reside just past the business of your own mind
Your doorways within are always open to you
But each has to cultivate your own space within

Our journeys are vastly different
Though the methods can be much the same
We each have our distinct pasts to heal
Therefore, the journeys must be our own

So here’s to finding your own magical space
One that feels as soft as worn flannel pjs
Space that is delicious and welcoming you
Space where you know you are always safe and free

May your journey be swift to find
The place inside where Peace resides
Keep casting out the vast darkness
So only Love and Peace remain

This is the only way to know
The Great Oneness of All That Is
We clear away all the darkness
Then only the Light can shine through

When we’ve been here ten thousand years
We finally know we are whole
We then fully love and give back
Never to leave our home again

Banished Again Today

I am utterly lost, I feel alone
Suffering has come to stay
There is no energy for life today
Perhaps never to return

Is there lasting relief, somewhere?
Nothing holds a bright spark for me
Why does the Lightness come and go?
This darkness envelops me so

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Something is so deeply amiss
I am warring within my self
My heart wants to soar and soar
My mind says, no way, no way

Fear keeps chanting
You are of no use, no use
My mind keeps repeating
Who do you think you are, you are?

Why does this harshness slay me?
I slip into my littleness
I forget who I have truly been
I believe the critic, yet again

Is there any hope left for me?
Do I deserve to be happy?
Can I pierce this raw energy?
Drawn knots keep me so deeply bound

Abject fear has a grip on me
Writhing and grabbing my insides
Shaking me up from head to toe
What is it I need to let go?

Ah, the belief that I am of no count
Worthless, washed up, and bottomed out
The thought that I have nothing to offer
That I am needy, small, and such a bother

Who is this harsh and bold critic?
She resides here permanently
Ever lurking in the background
Constantly preparing to pounce

I command total rejection of her spells
Never again to believe the taunts and lies
I command her to leave me in peace
I command in all the help I need

I cast her away from me
I see her crumble and flee
She is never to return in any way
She is totally banished again today

 

 

 

What is Spiritual Healing?

This is true for all beings. Spiritual healing can transform the misperceptions you carry and the blocked energies that affect your life.  When you feel unworthy of being loved or lost regarding next steps in your life, spiritual healing can help you. Spiritual healing works on how you feel about yourself and others, from the inside out. Therefore looking inside, listening, being in Silence, brings these issues to your awareness. Spiritual healing encourages you to connect with the Divine Source within and around you for clarity, support, guidance, and for the healing of stuck energy. If you command out specific blocked energies that are causing specific problems, you will see positive changes.

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Spiritual healing differs from other forms of healing in that the work is always carried out in a consciously sacred environment, one you can set up to suit yourself. Therefore, when you call in Divine Source/God/The Great I AM, you will be working in partnership with Divine Energy. This is a universal truth not just true for a few. All human beings can cultivate a special connection with God. All of you are wired for Divine connection. You are by virtue of being in body, already connected with Divine Source. You have to be the one to activate this connection though. Otherwise, the connection remains dormant. It is never withdrawn, it simply waits for you to activate it. It is not a given that you will knowingly connect with Divine Source unless you make it happen. You can choose to live your life with a robust conscious connection with the Oneness/All That Is or choose to live with no conscious connection the Great Spirit at all.

Some people choose not to activate a conscious relationship with God. They feel there is no Divine Source and that there is nothing beyond this physical lifetime. Others feel that believing in something you can’t see is foolish. There are tons of reasons for not believing in God. Mostly, however, those are based on inaccurate human definitions of an all powerful God who controls absolutely everything. When you look around, there are millions of things happening daily that point to seeming reasons for believing there is no God or at least one not available to you. However, all those incidents, conditions, or imbalances are the results of individuals who are not plugged into God energy. Divine Energy works through you and when you are not open to it, your energy can get channeled into actions, issues, and deeds that are not of the Light. Activate a relationship with Divine Source today! 

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God energy is within, as well as throughout the Universe. Everything about you is wired for connection to your higher self, to your soul, and to the partnership with Divine Oneness. This Divine connection is like having faith that you have insides to your body. You can’t see those insides, though you feel their presence acutely when things go haywire. You get told that there are arteries and veins, tissues and bones inside your body casing. You mostly believe this even though very few people have seen the inner workings. You know there is something inside of you that needs attention and care.

God’s energy is like that. You can go along as disconnected as you choose, and suddenly, one day, you have an awakening to something larger than daily life and bodies. Something brings profound changes to your life.  You may be one of those to get a switched on Light experience. However, waiting for that to happen can be a long wait.

I entreat you to  consider asking for help to connect with Divine Source energy today. Make the choice to explore the possibility that there is something not only beyond what you can see but eternally present with you.  This is a leap of faith, but it is one that will enrich every aspect of your life. Go inside and face the skepticism, the fear of being more than what you see, and call forth the opportunity to grow peace of mind. Also, keep doing this regardless of the nay saying in your mind. Keep showing up and asking for connection.

The main reason to seek Divine connection is that is how you cultivate peace of mind. All the misperceptions you carry about yourself, all the anger and obsessions you feel towards yourself and others, all the discontent you feel with parts of your life are all indications that seeking within is waiting. The mind will run us if we do not actively counter the darkness we carry within. Every single step you take to address that which is out of balance will expand your consciousness and bring you closer to inner peace, health, and well being.  Try it over and over again, without giving up. This is the most important step you can take in your life. No institution, pathway, or specific teachings are needed do this. Just simply begin. All you need will be given as long as you continue to show up. This is the first step to spiritual healing. The rest will be given for eternity.

 

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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.

Where is God ?

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God is within you because you are the creation of Divine Source. You can’t really be separated from that Divine energy but you can actively diminish your ability to receive Divine support and clarity. Perhaps you have never had a Divine moment that you know of. Perhaps you like your life that way. You can go along for lifetimes without consciously activating your spiritual self, your connection with God/All That Is/Divine Source. The colors of your pallet however are likely to be muted in various ways. This is because existing only in the realm of human awareness is a limiting perspective on what you are doing here. When you narrow your focus to the externalities of life, you become increasingly consumed by human endeavors and the Divine Light and Love gets completely lost.

If you are at all curious about Divine energy, begin now to learn about this dimension of life. Ask for a Divine course to unfold for you so that you can grow in the conscious knowing of God/Spirit/Perfected Love. Do this any day of your entire life and it will be given. Spend time in Silence to determine what you need to let go of.  This is a different way to live. Knowing Divine Light, Love, and Connection is like adding color to a washed out landscape. It is like adding music to your day. It adds a huge portion of love to everything you touch. It is transformational and it is available to all people. However, you have to begin the activating, seeking, and exploration of this for yourself.

One active myth is that you have to be “a good person” to know God. If you feel you have made too many unforgivable mistakes, are not worthy of a connection with Divine Energy or just feel too negative about life, you may have mentally closed the door to Spirit/God/The Oneness. Then you make no effort to check out this Divine part of yourself. Here’s the truth though. One major reason to check out Divine Presence is to begin to heal all negative perceptions you hold of yourself. If you have messed up again and again, the EXACT place to address this is in Sacred Space with Divine Oneness. In Sacred Space, you can call for forgiveness, receive that forgiveness, completely set down your issues in the past, and make new choices. Truly, you get all the chances you need to make changes. The slate gets wiped clean because you call that energy for yourself.

You are nudged towards Divine connection through repeated unpleasant circumstances. Recurring physical pain, recurring failed relationships, recurring work trauma, addiction, chronic illness, and recurring acts of anger, etc. are all ways that you are being invited to go within. When you go within, the Silence and stillness enables you to figure out where you most need to focus, what needs healing and how to proceed.

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By far, the biggest myth carried by humans is that God should make everything work perfectly otherwise there is no reason to believe in God. The reason to believe in God energy is that you are God energy in form and action. You are God personified and you get better and better at knowing that Divine energy, being that Love energy, and spreading it in the world. You are already wired for God because you are in body. You get as many chances as you need to activate this energy in the Earth dimension. So begin now wherever you are. Begin the search (or deepen the one you have) for your own connection with God. Go within and seek that two way connection. It will manifest in tangible ways and that energy will lead you to clear all your blocked energies of any kind to expand your conscious knowing of The Oneness/All That Is/God/The Beloved. Use the Six Step Healing Protocol to get you started. Keep doing the work. Keep showing up in Silence, no matter what. Keep seeking and you will find you way ahead.