Open Your Heart and The Blessings Will Follow

"I have learned that as soon as I am able to shift into a positive and appreciative attitude about whatever I am confronted with, the Universe will work with me to ease my way.  This has happened for me over and over again.  I know in my heart I am no different than anyone else;  this is available to all of us.  When we are living in inner harmony, when we are allowing our Spirit to lead, we continuously and consciously fill our lives with blessings."

It's always challenging to stay in alignment with our Spirit.  Our egos have been conditioned to be very powerful and we have been programmed to believe fulfilling our ego-needs will help us survive (and maybe that used to be true.)  So whenever we're not looking, our egos will jump back in bringing us our old insecurities and new ego-driven goals.  Our egos will do what they do best which is to separate us from Source and interfere with our well-being.  No big deal though.  Just remember to notice.  When you are feeling driven, overwhelmed or unhappy, it's a sure sign your ego has grabbed the steering wheel of your life.  Take it back, put your Spirit in the driver's seat.  Perhaps the following will help.

QUESTIONS TO PONDER:

1.  When do I notice Spirit is most active in my life?

2.  What conditions do I create that unconsciously invites my ego back in.  (For instance... do I get too busy?  Do I forget to take care of myself... forget even to take deep centering breaths.  Do I stop doing some sort of daily practice?)

3.  What blessings have occurred when I've faced challenging times in my life and have shifted into a positive and appreciative attitude, surrendering to the leadership of my Spirit?

4. What beliefs might I carry that keeps me from doing this more consistently?

VISUALIZATION
Find a quiet comfortable place where you know you will not be disturbed.

(You can do this for yourself by reading a few lines at a time, close your eyes until you can see or feel what is being suggested, and then open your eyes and go through the next few lines, repeating the process. OR, you can record this or share with a friend where you each read the visualization to one another.)

Begin by taking some deep centering breaths. Breathe until you begin to let go of your day. Breathe until you begin to let go of your thoughts. Breathe until you begin to feel your body relax. Send loving energy from your heart to all the cells in your body.  Then focus again on your breathing until you begin to sense that place of utter stillness deep inside.  

Transport yourself to a beautiful spot in nature.  To a place which through its very beauty will put you into a state of deep relaxation.  Spend some time looking at the vibrant colors and the physical beauty before you.  Breathe in the fragrances.  Feel the sun beaming down on you warming your hair, warming you skin.  Listen for all the natural sounds, the birds singing and chirping, the leaves rustling in the breeze, perhaps the sound of water lapping up on the shore.  Take a moment to touch the trees or the rocks or the sand, feeling their texture and their energy.

Find a comfortable place to sit looking out over this spot.  And now, call to you an image of the most difficult challenge you are facing currently in your life.  Let this image come to you in full force bringing whatever feelings it evokes in you.  Take time to honor all these feelings.  If you notice anger, see yourself stomping that challenge and stomping all those you might imagine are connected with it.  If you notice sadness, see yourself crying and honor the grief which is arising.  If you notice fear, take a deep centering breath, go into the fear and know that no matter how scared you may be, Divine protection always surrounds you.  After you honor and see yourself expressing these feelings, allow them to release, to move on for the moment.  

Take another deep centering breath and begin to focus on what is beautiful in your life.  Focus on your loved ones, your friends, your pets.  Focus on your garden or the beauty of the sky.  Focus on your heart and how you can breathe Divine love in and out through it.  Perhaps you will want to rub your hands together, place them over your heart, and notice as the tension begins to melt away.  

Now imagine that you can beam Divine love to those challenges.  Notice what happens to the feeling of challenge as the love arises.  Is it softening?  Is the stress beginning to melt away?  Are you aware that you can hold this current challenge with all the feelings it evokes and hold a joyful heart at the same time? 

Ask for an understanding of why this challenge is in your life right now.  Ask how this experience can help your soul development.  Ask what blessings might be hidden within it.

As you go through the coming week, notice your challenges and do your best to honor your feelings, to beam them with love and to remember to uncover the hidden blessings.

Sending you love and wishes for ease on your journey, 

Judith

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En-Lightening Up

"We are made of light.  Light cannot be contained.  It beams itself everywhere.  The boundaries of our body are simply something we choose to create in order to work through our dramas on the Earth:  dramas that come from our experiences in other lifetimes or dramas that develop as our egos attach to our cultural belief systems."

Everything in the Universe is energy.  Energy is made of the same substance as light.  We are literally light beings who have chosen to incarnate into 3-dimensional bodies.  In these 3D bodies, we have the opportunity to work out issues that our soul has carried from other lifetimes.  Since we have free-will, we can also choose not to work out these issues, which creates more of these dysfunctional patterns. The choice is truly ours.  The more we can identify both the dysfunctional patterns and/or beliefs we came into this life with, and the patterns and beliefs we have attached to as we have gone through this life, the more we can make these choices consciously and increase our potential for En-Lightenment.

QUESTIONS TO PONDER:

1. What patterns keep reoccurring through out my life to cause me pain?

2. What beliefs do I hold about myself and about my world that feed this suffering?

3.  How will my life change if I fully transform those patterns and shift those unhealthy beliefs about myself and others? 

4.  What fears do I have about changing myself and my life so profoundly?

VISUALIZATION
Find a quiet comfortable place where you know you will not be disturbed.

(You can do this for yourself by reading a few lines at a time, close your eyes until you can see or feel what is being suggested, and then open your eyes and go through the next few lines, repeating the process. OR, you can tape this or do this with a friend where you each read this to one another.)

Begin by taking some deep centering breaths. Breathe until you begin to let go of your day. Breathe until you begin to let go of your thoughts. Breathe until you begin to feel your body relax. 

Send loving energy from your heart to all the cells in your body.  Then focus again on your breathing until you begin to sense that place of utter stillness deep inside.  

Imagine a beam of brilliant white/gold light coming down from the heavens and hovering just above your head.  When you feel ready, breathe this light through your crown chakra and allow the light to travel to every cell in your body.  Notice how this feels.  Notice the light massaging all your cells.  Let yourself luxuriate in this feeling.  Notice what is happening with your heart as you do this.

Now imagine that you can take this feeling and walk with it into every part of your life. You can feel this sensation while you are at work.  You can feel this sensation with any interaction you have.  You can feel this sensation no matter what is occurring in your relationships. 

Imagine too that you can feel this sensation as you drive your car, buy groceries, pay bills.  See yourself feeling this sensation as you drift off to sleep and as you wake up.  Notice how the quality of your life would change.  Notice how any negative judgments about yourself and others would seem irrelevant.  Notice how taking just a few minutes to pull that light down and through you can shift your entire experience of being human on Planet Earth.

As you go through your week experiment with this light, experiment with being the light-being you are truly meant to be.

Sending you love and blessings, 

Judith

If you like the quotes and process presented in this blog, be sure to order the kindle edition of Empowering the Spirit from the link below. (It will also be released in a new print edition in late Fall.)

 


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