Occupy Your Heart

Vibrational Glue

A few years ago I read P.H.D. biologist Bruce Lipton’s book, The Biology of Belief.  My heart soared to learn a traditional scientist was confirming what New Thought has been teaching since the 1890’s; our bodies can be changed as we re-train our thinking.  Now he as a new book, co-authored with Steve Bhaerman, Spontaneous Evolution.  Here is a most hopeful paragraph.

“At the current time, many people find themselves transfixed by disturbing symptoms that seem to mark civilization’s devolution.  However, this myopic focus distracts us from seeing the Light in the darkness.  Whether you call this Light love or knowledge, its flame grows brighter every day.  The Light reveals a birthing process as the old way of life falls away and a new one emerges.”  The book goes on with stories demonstrating how life is in a constant state of perpetual re-creation.

Charles Fillmore the mystic, in The Twelve Powers of Man, called the spiritual power of Love the glue that binds the universe together.  Spontaneous Evolution, a book based on science and education, calls love the vibrational glue that will help manifest our destiny.  I believe one of the things humanity is experiencing in this time of great shift is the unification and balancing of the masculine and feminine principles; the unification and balancing of the powers of mind and heart.

Each of us bears responsibility for this shift.  The more we can come to understand and release past programming, become aware of current reality and open ourselves to future possibilities, the more we will help move humanity through the shift.  It is the individual awakening of a critical mass of humans that is required.  One simple practice can facilitate our awakening by building a bridge between our mind and our heart.

Every time you find yourself thinking about something, pause and check what is going on in your heart.  Every time you find yourself feeling strongly about something, pause and examine your thoughts.  This can be done a hundred times a day in less than a minute’s total time without anyone even noticing you are doing it.  The simple act of noticing will quickly train you to use both mind and heart in every choice you make.  This is the marriage no man can put asunder.

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Get A Life

Rumi the Persian poet says this;  “In times of sudden danger, most people call out, ‘O, my God.’  Why would they keep doing this if it didn’t help?  Only a fool keeps going back where nothing happens.  The whole world lives within a safe guarding.  Fish inside waves, birds up in the sky, the elephant, the wolf, the lion as he hunts, the dragon, the ant, the waiting snake, even the ground, the air the water, every spark flowing up from the fire, all subsist, exist, are held in the divine.  Nothing, no one is ever alone, not even for a single moment.  All giving comes from the divine.  No matter who you think you put your open hand out towards, it is the divine which gives to you.” 

So here’s an invitation to a practice you can use when things aren’t going quite the way you wish.  In whatever you face, you are to say to yourself alone, “get a life!” if you want your life experience to change.  What kind of life?  You are limited only by what you can imagine, focus upon and believe.  So imagine, focus and believe and allow the divine to fill your hand in ways even greater than you dreamed.  You don’t have to create all of it; just open the door and be willing to be filled.

Still think you would like to change someone else?  Change the environment to one that supports their highest good; the environment you are offering them with your thoughts, your words and your personal energy.  You don’t need to say a word and certainly should avoid criticism or even suggestions about what you would like to see them do.  Not a word!  Appreciate what is, and appreciate the best they can possibly be as though it already is a fact whether you ever get to see it or not.

This is using your personal power of seeing/visioning the very best to pour the energy of positive change into the world.  That’s a gift you can give every day, but remember you are not on earth to change other people.  You are here on the planet to create a life!  A fabulous life.

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Love’s Energy

Do you know that people can feel you?  It may not be conscious but they will respond to the feeling.  The energy we send out will repel or attract and those around us will behave accordingly.  Our job is to offer the energy of love.  That’s it.  That’s how we each transform our own little corner of the world and co-create a world that works for all.  Where do we start?  With our relationships

Dr Michael Beckwith once said,  “All the love your heart can hold, all the success you are meant to experience is already within you, begging to be released through your love energy. Today, open the floodgates of your heart and pour out a blessing of Love into your own life. Then see how outrageously rich you are in the gifts of the Spirit.”  There are a couple of things worth noting here.  First, you already are all that you need; love, success, joy.  All of it.  Second, open your heart and pour out all that energy and you are outrageously blessed.

The first relationship we have is the eternal one between our Spirit and our Creator.  That is why we already are all that we need.  Our next relationship is between our Spirit and our human self.  Our human self must come to realize the truth of our nature and once it does, the pouring out of love can begin.  This comes gradually, over time and with practice, but it is there for every one of us.  The more in touch we are with our own love nature, the better all our relationships will be. 

I heard this story of a man overcome with joy during a great Sunday service and he began dancing up and down the aisles shouting, “Lord, fill me.  Fill me Lord, fill me now.  And he hears a voice say, “I am filling you, but you keep leaking.”  That’s exactly what happens, it’s an energy leak in us.  When we have a relationship rift with someone, the energy of love is leaking out of us.  There’s a place in us where darkness is, where love cannot live and we bring light into that darkness by healing the relationships within ourselves then with others.

I think that’s the kind of thing Jesus was saying.  Our whole life is on the line.  “I came that you might have life and have it abundantly,” and when the energy of separation begins to build in me, he’s saying, “make this primary.”  Make it primary in your life that you don’t allow this stuff in you.  Reschedule your day if you have to.  If you recognize a breach in love, climb all over it right now.  It’s primary to heal that because if you don’t, it leaves another measure of darkness in both of you.  “Oh there’s a relationship hurt, I feel something, I feel separation, what am I going to do?”  Allow your Spirit to shine through your humanity and radiate the love that you are.

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The Power of Love

   February is love month, and I’m living proof that is true because Christopher and I met on Feb. 10^th, 1998.  The love we share has grown every day since then.  So, what does love do?  Take the loved one out for Sunday brunch, and have a nice nap in the afternoon?  I don't think so.  Today, love discovers its power.  Today love recognizes that it alone calls this world and all reality into existence by its very longing for itself.  Love's longing for itself; isn't that a soul stirring thought?  All the love that's in you, longs for love.  All the love anywhere is seeking more of its own kind.  Our longing is our call to life.  The longing in our hearts is God, by whatever name we understand, calling us to our true joy, our right relationships, and our passion for life.

   There are some things I deeply believe.  There is only one presence and one power in the universe and each one of us arises out of and lives through that power.  This is the very foundation of our oneness with each other.  We each carry the creative power of the Divine and as such we are each responsible for what we contribute to life and how we experience life.

   Some would argue, “I didn’t ask for THAT to happen to me!”  No, you probably didn’t.  Karun Gandhi, the grandson of MK Gandhi didn’t ask to be beaten twice in one week, once by a white person who hated him for his dark skin, then again by a gang of black boys who hated him for his light skin.  He was only twelve.   After 18 months with his grandfather he came to understand that hatred arises from fear and responding with hatred only increases the fear.  He made a choice in his spirit for peace and says now that nothing could ever steal his peace again.  He takes responsibility for what he contributes to life and for how he experiences it.

   The same is required of each of us.  We must take full responsibility for our lives and come to peace through the power of our spirits before we can feel the longing and the passion that arises from the love that we are.  As we connect with the power of love, we attract the love in others.  As we become firmly grounded in our true joy, our right relationships and our passion for life, we discover the power love has to change reality, and we become a creative force for a world of beauty and unity.

   We are not alone in this journey.  More and more of our sisters and brothers are recognizing that finding our unity and caring for each other is the next great evolutionary leap we must make.  Go to You Tube.com and key this phrase into their search bar at the top. 

Occupy Wall St - The Revolution Is Love 

Then imagine how much more love you have the power to bring into your immediate world.

   May you be blessed with true joy, right relationships and passion for life.

Abundance in 2012

Learning about you

Charles Fillmore, the co-founder of Unity said there is a divine law of equilibrium that corresponds to the law of balance and poise that holds the suns and the planets in place.  The law of balance that he spoke of is based on love and justice.  Love and justice is your true nature.  It is who you are, and you can’t be anything else.  Being created in the image and likeness of God means your nature is the nature of God.

Let me ask you some questions about your nature.  Can you accumulate your own wealth for your own use, and never give any of it to help another person, or to help an organization you believe does something worthwhile for others?  Are you capable of hoarding it all for yourself, and being happy doing it?  Can you play a Saturday game of golf or tennis, and fully enjoy the strength and health of your own body, knowing there are people dying of cancer, children being born with Aids, elderly suffering with Alzheimers, and do nothing about it?  Can you enjoy the smooth relationships of your own small family, knowing there are people who suffer because of family violence, and don’t even know healing is an option?  Can you join a wonderful community and take what you need from your time there and give nothing to support it?  Of course you can’t.

   The point I’m trying to make is that living a life of love and justice isn’t some distant goal you have to accomplish.  You are already doing it because it is your nature and you can’t help it.  What we can accomplish is to make our lives of love and justice more powerful, more effective, by making that twelve inch journey between heart and head; by becoming more aware, more conscious of our true nature.  How many of you consciously think of yourselves as a force of love and justice?  What would happen if you did learn to think that way all the time?  Suppose every conscious decision you make, every waking action you take, was based on the clear realization that you are love and justice in expression.

   Know the truth about yourself, and watch your life expand!

Abundance 2012

Learning About Others

Whether we think the world is a wonderful place or think it’s an awful place, we mostly operate on unconscious assumptions.  We have assumptions about the ways love can show up in our lives.  We have assumptions about what will make us happy or unhappy.  But if we take the time to notice the daily details which comprise the quality of our lives, gratitude blooms.  Here are some ideas to ponder from Rabbi Pliskin's "Happiness: Formulas”

“Right this moment, there are a multitude of people all around the planet involved in serving you. Many of them you will never meet in person, but you will benefit greatly from their activities.
There are farmers who are planting and harvesting for you.
There are people in the clothing industry who are weaving the cloth and designing clothing you will eventually wear.
There are trucks, boats, and planes that are shipping the food
you will eat, the clothes you will wear, and many other items
that you will buy or use.
There are people who are involved in making certain that
you have water, electricity, phone service, and books.
The postal authorities are busy at work
delivering the letters you sent and bringing you mail that others
have sent you.
There are inventors who are working day and night on items
that will one day be yours.
There are engineers, mechanics,
and a wide variety of laborers all around the globe
who toil for your benefit.
There are medical researchers working to
find cures for illnesses that might one day save your life.
Whenever you see a large crowd of people, it is a
reminder to be grateful to all of those who are involved in one
way or another in enhancing the quality of your life.”

So, what are you contributing to enhance the quality of life for others?  Begin to look at what you do, whether at work or in your leisure time, as sacred service.  Recognize that you touch the life of every being on the planet with everything you do.  Even the simplest, most ordinary activities are a blessing when you make it your intention to be a blessing.  Try these words as a reminder in the morning.  “I am blessed and I am a blessing.”

We are all one family.  Our personal energy interacts with that of everyone else.  Everyone; two legged and four, wings or fins or none of these.  Learn to look for the sacred in each and you will discover how much more joy is waiting for you and how very much you are loved.

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Abundance in 2012

More of Learning to Ask

   The first barrier to asking for what we want is ignorance, and the second barrier to asking for what we want is limiting and inaccurate beliefs about ourselves and those with whom we share our world.  Parents, schools, the media, religious training, and the medical profession have programmed us all with some of them.  Have you ever heard any of these phrases at home, or, worse are you saying them to your own children?  “You’re so selfish, all you think about is yourself.  As long as you live in my house you’ll live by my rules.  When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.  You don’t understand enough, I know best.  Just shut up and do as you are told.”  At school, the one who ask questions or asks for the teacher’s help is the brown-noser, the teacher’s pet.  The media sets unreal standards of wealth and beauty and character.  The Marlboro man never cries.  Church doctrine, misused, can be devastating.  “It is more blessed to give than to receive” has created generations of martyrs.

   Stop listening to that stuff and use your Divinely seeded intelligence!  You won’t receive if you don’t ask and you won’t have anything to give if you don’t receive!  We are taught not to question the doctor’s diagnosis, prescription, or the amount of time we have to wait for our so-called appointment.  The programmed message is that we are too ignorant to participate in our own health care.  All of these messages and others like them warp our understanding of who we are and what is possible for us, and we come to believe we don’t deserve any more than we get.  We all have limiting beliefs.  What are yours?

   The third barrier to asking is fear.  Fear of rejection, fear of looking stupid, fear of being seen as powerless, fear of humiliation, fear of punishment, fear of abandonment, fear of endless obligation.  Can you identify your fears about asking for what you want?  We already know what the worst thing not asking gets us.  Nothing.  Nothing but a life of quiet desperation.  What is the worst thing that could possibly happen if you asked mother, spouse, boss, child, authority figure or God, to give you what you want?   Even if the answer is “no” there is a blessing in it.  Maybe we need to learn to ask more clearly or improve our timing or learn who is the right person to ask.  Any time we learn something, we have received something.

   The fourth barrier is low self-esteem.  Believing my needs are not important, I’m not worth it.  The Alladin Factor by Canfield and Hansen suggest we look to the person on our left and the one on our right.  Only one of the three of us is OK.  We are suffering from a national epidemic of low self-esteem.  Would you pick yourself out of any given crowd of three people as the one who was OK?  As the one who was truly worthy of the abundant life, the kingdom of heaven as your dwelling place, right here and now.  Low self esteem is immensely dangerous.  Those who suffer from it become either manipulative, aggressive or hermits rather than being able to face life with faith and joy.  Remember who you are: a spiritual being created in the image and likeness of the Divine.  Low self esteem is a huge lie.

   The fifth barrier to asking is pride.  How many of you are familiar with the Marine Corps cadence count.  Guts, guts, pride, pride, loyalty, loyalty, one, two, three, four, United States Marine Corp.  We women have enough trouble with pride, but men have really had it ground in.  Asking is equated with being a wimp, a failure, not pulling your own weight.  You’re weak. You’re needy.  If you ask, you will be judged as not having enough, or doing enough, or being enough.  So what.  If you don’t ask, you won’t be able to have enough, do enough or be enough, and neither will anyone else.  Stop and think about this for a minute.  If I have to ask someone else for something, I’m afraid it means I’m weak.  If someone else asks me for something, I don’t look down on him or her, I feel needed and valued.   Why am I so much more generous in my opinion of others than in my opinion of myself?  Or am I being generous to others?  Maybe it’s my arrogant pride that says “I’m good enough to help you, but I’ll never let you think I need you for anything.”  Excessive pride and low self esteem are two sides of the same coin and neither one serves us.

   By the way, I’d just like to let you know that all my “I am Prosperous” affirmations really did work.  They led me to discover the critical importance of asking, and my prosperity has been continually increasing ever since.  So my prayer for you is that you will go out and catch a good dose of “Gimme” consciousness and begin to put it to work for yourself.  Discover the limiting beliefs you have accepted from your environment and choose again based on your adult intelligence.  What are your fears?  They are usually silly shadows without real substance.  How would you measure your self esteem?  As a child of the divine you should have a healthy dose of it.  A sense of pride is a good thing, but excessive pride blocks every area of abundance.

   Take this journey of inner exploration.  Take all the time you need.  Then choose again.  No one and nothing outside of you can block you from a life of complete abundance.