Three Steps To Developing More Kindness

“First, our ability to feel kindness for others must begin with our ability to feel kindness for ourselves. Our vagus nerve which connects our brain with our heart, our gut, and much of our body–influences our ability to get calm. Calmly hold yourself with tenderness.  Send yourself ‘messages of kindness’ which can calm your body and nurture goodwill toward yourself. Create a message for yourself that is clear and true, and speak it to yourself with kindness. We must give ourselves love before we can give it to others.

Second, we are wired to be comforted by loving touch. ‘Soothing touch, in particular, fosters your ability to regulate emotions.’ Simple daily practices include savoring the sensation of a hot bath, the warmth of a cup of tea, petting your animal, or sliding into soft sheets at the end of the day. Cousineau writes: ‘The experience of touch is much more than skin deep: you emotionally tuck yourself in to comfort and use it to purposely recode your caring circuitry.’ Let yourself experience touch in a safe and compassionate way.

Third, letting kindness in means that we open ourselves to others in a way that makes us feel vulnerable. We can practice taking in the good every day, and in doing so, rewire our brains ‘to offset the negativity bias inherent in the base model of our brain.’ We can do this on a daily basis by noticing or creating a beneficial experience–something that is good for us–being present, then noticing any sensations we feel, and finally, savoring and recalling the experience, pulling it up in our memory banks and reliving the good in it.

We can create a mind that is bent toward kindness. As we bring daily focus to simple practices that rewire our brain toward kindness, compassion, and caring, we take ownership of our response to the world. We get to shape the inner contours of our brain, and we can do that in a way that lets us make the choice to understand others, to have faith in humanity’s goodness, and to bring kindness to your interactions rather than criticism.”  www.upliftconnect.com

Positive Thinking ∞The 9th Dimensional Arcturian Council

“Greetings. We are the Arcturian Council. We are pleased to connect with all of you.

We have the tendency to see the bright side of a situation, because we are in a frequency range where the thoughts that can come to us also must be of that same high frequency. Therefore, we are not choosing to see the bright side. The bright side is just a match to our overall vibration.

If you want to change your experience of something, you can change your thoughts about it. But to us, that is going about the situation backwards, and it is often the hard way to go about it. You will often find yourselves lying to yourselves to try to get you to see the situation differently.

Now, of course, there is a benefit to looking for the positives in a situation. But first, you often have to go through the negatives to get there. You have to be honest with yourselves. You have to be genuine and authentic if you are ever going to get to the truth of who you are. The truth of who you are would never lie to itself. Therefore, we recommend that you let yourselves think the thoughts and feel the feelings that come up when you have a messy or unwanted situation in your lives.

Do so, because they are the path to releasing what you need to release. They are the path to the calm center that you are looking for within yourself. And when you find your calm center, you are essentially finding us, and others like us.

You are finding the high frequency part of yourselves that never waivers, and when you find that truth, that unconditional love, that Source Energy within you, that’s when you will only have access to the bright side. That’s when the thoughts that occur to you will be the highest vibrational thoughts, and they will come not because you forced them into place with the ‘power of positive thinking.’ They will come because they are a vibrational match to the real power that exists within you – the power of Source.

We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.” danielscranton.com

If We Take A Look Around Us

“If we take a look around us, we see people who are living like dead people.  Albert Camus says that there are thousands of people moving about around us that are carrying their own corpses.  Thanks to the practice of mindfulness, we come to life again immediately.  Being alive is being in the present moment, in the here and now, and that is possible through mindful breathing.  In Buddhist meditation, we practice resurrection every moment: ‘Breathe you are alive.’

The Holy Spirit is present with our mindful breath: ‘Give us this day our daily bread.’  This is the  very practice of living in the present moment, this day.  We must not lose ourselves either in the past or in the future; and the only moment in which we can touch life is the present moment.  In Christianity, we find the same teaching as in Buddhism.”

Thich Nhat Hanh, “True Love,” p. 82-83.

Being In Love

“Being in love is so good for you. Often when people are newly in love, things that have been bothering them for a long time get better. Something wonderful is calling the majority of their attention, so they’re holding themselves in a better vibrational place, so the stuff they’ve been wanting all along can now zoom in.”

Abraham Hicks, 7/11/99

 

 

Get Into A Relationship For The Right Reasons

“First, make sure you get into a relationship for the right reasons. (I’m using the word ‘right’ here as a relative term.  I mean ‘right’ relative to the larger purpose you hold in your life.)

As I have indicated before, most people still enter relationships for the ‘wrong’ reasons– to end loneliness, fill a gap, bring themselves love, or someone to love — and those are some of the better reasons.  Others do so to salve their ego, end their depressions, improve their sex life, recover from a previous relationship, or, believe it or not, to relieve boredom.

None of these reasons will work, and unless something dramatic changes along the way, neither will the relationship. 

If you both agree at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation– an opportunity for growth, for full Self expression, for lifting your lives to their highest potential for healing every false thought or small idea you ever had about you, and for ultimate reunion with God through the communion of your two souls — if you take that vow instead of the vows you’ve been taking — the relationship has begun on a very good beginning.”

Neale Donald Walsch, “Conversations With God,” p. 141.

The Law of Attraction Assembles Happy Relationships…

“Asking your relationship with any other to be the basis of buoying you up is never a good idea, because the Law of Attraction cannot bring to you something different from the way you feel. The Law of Attraction cannot bring you a well-balanced, happy person if you are not yourself already that. The Law of Attraction, no matter what you do or say, will bring to you those who predominantly match the person who you predominantly are.

Everything that everyone desires is for one reason only: they believe they will feel better in the having of it. We just want you to understand that you must feel better before it can come to you.

In simple terms, if you are not happy with yourself, or with your life, the attraction of a partner will only exaggerate the discord, because any action taken from a place of lack is always counterproductive.”

Abraham-Hicks, Excerpted from The Vortex on 8/31/09

The Divine Masculine Heart

“The divine masculine heart is opening…
Bravely yet cautiously

Slowly yet trustingly

Gently feeling his way
Into the new paradigm

I see so many of you beautiful men boldly leading the way
Choosing to be vulnerable
Feeling
Breathing
Opening to new possibilities
Knowing there has to be a better way

And in doing so
Discovering your true strength
Your humble power
Your sacred mission
Coming from within

Dear women…
If you want your man to open his heart
To you
And to himself …

Don’t criticize him
Don’t judge him
Don’t belittle him
Don’t control him
Don’t force your expectations upon him
Or try to change him in any way

A man cannot open his heart
When he feels attacked
Threatened
Disrespected
Or unworthy
When he feels the need to adorn his armor
And defend his honor

A man can only open his heart
In a sanctuary of safety
In the presence of love
In the freedom of being himself

A man can only open his heart
When he feels
Accepted
Revered
Honored
Respected
Trusted
Adored
Appreciated
Loved
And free

For these are the qualities of unconditional love
Gifts given and received by those vibrating
In the state of unconditional love


Acceptance
Unlocks the gates to Heaven

Trust
Unleashes the power of freedom

Reverence
Beholds the light of Divinity

And love
Opens the door to miracles

~ Karen Star

Divine Providence

“You cannot always explain why things unfold as they do.  ‘But I was ready to serve!’ You say, ‘ready to do something good.’  Yes, and then your plans went awry.

And that is what we wish you to notice.  Your plans come from your perspective.

You are looking at life from one level, whilst those in spirit who are helping you are looking as if from a balcony. 

There is, indeed, a higher perspective.  From the street level, so to speak, you cannot see two cars coming at each other.  Bushes and trees may be in the way.  From the balcony perspective, the bird’s eye view, all is clear.

Have faith when things do not go as you planned that there is a reason.  Even if that reason never comes to light, trust that the Light flows through all of you and has the best interests of the whole in mind.  Order out of chaos … yes, indeed.  Divine Providence is at work.”

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Appreciation Vs. Gratitude

“Appreciation is a higher vibration than gratitude because in appreciation there is no awareness of what you’ve overcome. In gratitude, it’s like I’m grateful that I no longer cannot pay my bills, and it doesn’t have to be that way. Often when you’re grateful, you’re grateful that this is no longer in your life, where appreciation is a higher vibration because it contains less resistance.

Meditation is resistance-free also, and what we’ve said is we would rather see you in appreciation than meditation because in appreciation you are alert and in the active mode of being able to receive an impulse or an idea, where in meditation you’ve quieted your mind enough that even though an idea comes, it comes with less momentum.

Let’s clarify that (this is really good) – let’s say that you’ve been focused upon something and it’s something that doesn’t feel good, and you have a lot of momentum going; you’ve been talking to people about it and there’s quite a bit of momentum going about it. And you’d like to have different thoughts about it, you’d like to feel differently about it, but it’s difficult for you to do that because you’ve activated so much about what you don’t want that there’s a lot of momentum about what you don’t want. And when you think about this subject, you get what you’ve been thinking about, and so the momentum just gets more and more and more.

So then let’s say that you decide that you will meditate, and so the next morning when you awaken before all this momentum has really gotten strong, you sit and you manage to quiet your mind; you focus upon a sound in the room – maybe the air conditioner, it doesn’t matter what it is – you focus upon something that isn’t very interesting but that does hold your attention, and you manage to quiet your mind so that you feel that detachment that our friend was talking about earlier. And in the process of that, since there is no thought active, then there is no resistant thought active and your vibration rises.

Well, as your vibration rises, now you have access to pure, positive thoughts, but there’s not much momentum about these positive thoughts because you have quieted your mind – you’ve slowed your mind so that you’re not in vibrational sync with what you don’t want, but you’re not in a place where you could really receive something like we’re delivering to Esther right now – you’re not up to speed with it. There’s no resistance in your vibration, but you’re not up to speed with what your Inner Being would want to give you about all of that. You’re not up to speed with all of it.

So then you move into your day – you’ve become more active with your mind, you begin thinking about things that you appreciate, you begin getting up to speed. And now later in the day when you’re momentum is faster, now the benefit of that meditation then kicks in where you receive an idea, and because you’re up to speed, you receive the idea.

So we’re talking about two things: We’re talking about the tuning, which is resistance or not resistance, and then we’re talking about staying there long enough that there is momentum. Momentum and Law of Attraction are the same word, really, because what you focus upon is going to garner more and more and more momentum.

~Abraham speaking in Atlanta, GA on October 28, 2017