Category: Spiritual Writings

Create A Reality Based On Love

“Once you develop a relationship with your Higher SELF, you move into the stage in which you learn/remember how to translate these light packages delivered via the unconditional love of your inner messages. This translation can only occur when you are attuned to your higher states of consciousness, as in meditation.

If your consciousness is calibrated to the fear-based emotions of fear, anger, sorrow, guilt, etc. your consciousness will be too low to receive and/or resonate to these higher dimensional messages. Because this life can be very challenging, it is easy to walk around in a state of fear-based emotions and not even notice it.

However, if you create the habit of taking a second to check in with your emotional state, you may be surprised how often the ‘habit of fear’ predominates over the ‘habit of love.’ Once you remember to recognize when you have fallen into a fear-based emotion, you can transmute your fear-based emotions by sending yourself unconditional love, unconditional forgiveness and unconditional acceptance.

Of course, your emotions respond to your thoughts, so fear-based thinking creates fear-based emotions. This habit of fearful thinking traps you in a lower dimensional state of consciousness. Making the appropriate changes in your life will not occur while your emotions are spiraling deeper and deeper into fear, anger, victimization and sorrow.

Fear is not just your enemy. Fear is your choice. Listen briefly to fear’s message, in case it is a necessary warning. If it is a warning, say thank you, and take care of the issue. If it is not a necessary warning, transmute it into love by praying that all Shadow within yourself be understood and taken away.  Refuse to live a reality based on fear.

Choose to create a reality based on love.”

Suzanne Lie, Ph.D.

 

Keep Invoking The Light

“Keep invoking the Light until there Is nothing but light.

Never hold a resentment against anyone. Rise above the situation and fill your heart with My divine Love and compassion and there will be no room for any resentment.

Where there is Light there can be no darkness, for darkness is the absence of Light. Keep in the Light, keep invoking the Light until there is nothing but Light, Light, and more Light.

Never draw the darkness to you by your negative thoughts. Think Light and create Light. Think good and create good. Think Love and create Love all around you. You do your part, do what I ask of you and let My peace and love infill and enfold you.”

www. findhorn.org, Guidance received by Eileen Caddy.

A Scientific Formula For Happiness

Enhance your social connections.  Social connection is the biggest factor affecting happiness, multiple studies have found.  One of the most convincing is the Harvard Study of Adult Development which, for more than 80 years has followed the lives of hundreds of participants and, now, their children.

Engage in random acts of kindness.  Random acts of kindness can make you feel happier and less depressed and anxious, according to a series of studies from Sonja Lyubormirsky at UC Riverside.

Express gratitude.  Writing down three things you’re grateful for at the end of each day, and why they happened, leads to long-term increases in happiness and decreases in depressive symptoms, according to a 2005 study from Martin Seligman, director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Practice mindfulness.  Exercises like meditation that teach your brain to focus on the present instead of the past or future can increase feelings of self-acceptance, according to a 2011 study from the International Journal of Wellbeing.

Practice self-compassion.  Be present in the moment rather than dwelling on the past or looking anxiously to the future.  Understand that setbacks are part of being human. Cultivate a warm, supportive inner voice.”

Excerpted from “How to Be Happy, According to Science” by Alison D. Rayome, CNET.com, 10/26/20.

The Power To Make It Come True

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.  You may have to work for it, however.”  Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach.

Have you ever wondered where your deepest wishes come from?  If your wish comes from your peaceful inner being in a silent time, then perhaps your Higher Self has suggested your wish.

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.
~ Deepak Chopra

You might think that this message or wish is coming from your intuition or instinctual knowing.  Such insight is understood without the conscious mind’s input.  Your powerful impressions can help to guide your life.  Did you know that your intuition IS your Higher Self speaking to you?

There is a higher more powerful part of you. Your higher Self will come through your intuition, coincidences and synchronicity of all kinds.
~ James Van Praagh
So suppose you have a thought.  This thought has occurred to you often.  It has come when you are resting or in a peaceful, “no thought” place.  The thought may be connected to a yearning of yours.  You may dismiss the thought as silly or not convenient to act upon.
Say the thought was telling you to go somewhere.  Remember the Richard Bach quote… “You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.  You may have to work for it, however.” 
Maybe the work you have to do to make your wish come true is to ready yourself to go out and walk or drive somewhere.  If you are feeling lazy, maybe working for a wish is too much effort.
But if you believe that your Higher Self often gives you messages or a wish, then perhaps you should make the effort to act on the thought.

 

Your Inner Being is always guiding you toward what you are wanting.   Abraham-Hicks 4/14/98

To double check on the wish and how to make it come true, go within and Ask, “Should I get ready and go out now?”  If you feel that the wish or message should be acted upon, then you will feel a positive response from your inner Higher Self.
The true spiritual aspirant is the one who bears witness to the self in the real world; one who, in a split second, witnesses the thoughts, feelings and emotions that arise in the mind, and is able to either say, “Yes go ahead,” or, “No do not go ahead with this course of action.” This gives one the opportunity to act in accordance with their higher self at all times.
~ Swami Sai Premananda

Keep A Very Open Mind

“There is a right time for everything.

Always wait for that time and the seeds of truth will fall on fertile and prepared ground and will take root, flower and flourish.

A closed rigid mind can never grow and much will be missed in this life. Ridicule nothing you hear, keep a very open mind and see the most amazing things develop.

You are moving into new realms, therefore you must expect unusual and unexpected things. There are no fixed forms and patterns, nothing to go on or grasp with the human mind.

You are walking in the ways of the Spirit and therefore will be able to understand what is happening with the Spirit.”

One of the co-founders of the Findhorn Community, Eileen Caddy, received guidance from the “still, small voice within” and shared it with the community for more than 40 years until she passed away in 2006. We continue this tradition as her guidance is as relevant today as it was when she received it.

Findhorn Foundation, findhorn.org

 

How to Practice Breath Meditation

“Breath meditation is likely the most popular and straightforward meditation practice. It is also the basis of many other forms of meditation. Try these essential instructions.

Find a quiet and uplifted place where you can do your meditation practice. When starting out, see if you can allow 5 minutes for the practice.

1. Take your seat. Sit cross-legged on a meditation cushion or on a straight-backed chair with your feet flat on the floor, without leaning against the back of the chair.

2. Find your sitting posture. Place your hands palms-down on your thighs and sit in an upright posture with a straight back—relaxed yet dignified. With your eyes open, let your gaze rest comfortably as you look slightly downward about six feet in front of you.

3. Notice and follow your breath. Place your attention lightly on your out-breath, while remaining aware of your environment. Be with each breath as the air goes out through your mouth and nostrils and dissolves into the space around you.

At the end of each out-breath, simply rest until the next in-breath naturally begins. For a more focused meditation, you can follow both the out-breaths and in-breaths.

4. Note the thoughts and feelings that arise. Whenever you notice that a thought, feeling, or perception has taken your attention away from the breath, just say to yourself, “thinking,” and return to following the breath. No need to judge yourself when this happens; just gently note it and attend to your breath and posture.

5. End your session. After the allotted time, you can consider your meditation practice period over. But there’s no need to give up any sense of calm, mindfulness, or openness you’ve experienced. See if you can consciously allow these to remain present through the rest of your day.”

Lion’s Roar – Buddhist Wisdom For Our Time