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Love Note/Principles of Spiritual Healing 4

Welcome to the fourth installment of this series. Today we take a look at the H in ANTHEM, which stands for Harmonize with What Is.

I’ve decided to write this post backwards. That is, I want to talk first about the ultimate fruits of this practice and then wind my back to how to begin it. I’m doing it this way because, unless you know what awaits you, you may not be motivated to practice this or understand why it’s so important to your spiritual evolution.

Ultimately Harmonizing with what is allows you to partake of and enjoy ALL that is, which is so huge and magnificent from this vantage point (3D reality) that you have no idea of its true scope and splendor. It includes more manifestations of consciousness, beauty and creativity than you can even imagine, and you get to share in it all, like a cosmic candy store. Although you will not experience the full magnificence of All That Is while living in 3 – or even 4 or 5 dimensions – you can, however, catch glimpses of it – and receive any bits you require or desire, but since reality is primarily energetic, you can only do this through the energetic act of harmonization.

In order to get to that point you must first experience other beingness in a specific way, close-up in a kind of energetic merging, which is like looking at the world through each pair of its eyes (and ears and all other senses both recognized and not). Other beingness, by the way, includes animals, plants, buildings, stars and rocks as well as other human beings. And harmonizing with it requires full acceptance, appreciation and compassion.

So now we’ve come full circle around to your healing task, because the only way to develop real compassion for any and all other forms of being (consciousness) is to cultivate it for yourself. Therefore, the practice of harmonization must first address yourself with all your “flaws”, shadows and emotionality. In other words you must learn to be in the same room (energetically speaking) with all parts of yourself, especially the ones that have been screaming at you out of fear, anger or unrequited grief and the ones that have been hiding out of shame.

This principle, like the others, is an aspect of Love and, as such, is both gentle and powerful. There is nothing much to do to harmonize with yourself, except to remain conscious, which means to embrace all aspects of you within the whole of your Divine Self, which is made of Love. Harmonization does not mean reliving the traumas of the child or engaging in the drama or acting out the feelings. These are all acts of losing the Self. It DOES mean allowing yourself to feel whatever your upset, fragmented self is feeling and holding that part in love. This is a re-discovery that leads to integration.

You’ll notice that I’ve used the word feel frequently. This is how we contact the world of energy, which makes feeling a critical element of any healing exploration. The most evolved human beings feel in full consciousness, and all the time, meaning they are not afraid to feel – and in fact draw strength from it – while they act, relate and create. And this is the harmony I wish for you.

Contact me if you’d like a session in which you get to take the first steps toward Harmonizing with What Is.

Love Note/Principles of Spiritual Healing 3

Welcome back to the third installment in this series. Today we look at the T in ANTHEM, Trust your Desires.

Over eons of time, human pathology has become so severe that people no longer even recognize what they want. They see it in reverse – through the lens of what they DON’T want. You may have heard of polarity reversal, the state, resulting from stress, in which your energy flow changes direction. It’s one of the most common hindrances to healing because when you’re in this state, all energy inputs simply become more fuel for your current trance, drama or dis-ease. Many brain scientists have even said that evolution has given us a negativity bias, a tendency to focus on what can hurt us, as a survival mechanism, unpleasant though it may be. If you’re in danger of being eaten by a tiger, you better focus on the threat at hand rather than some pleasant daydream.

But situations in our modern lives are rarely this dire, and a state of physical stress is rarely helpful (and, engaged in often enough, can even create some serious diseases). The good news is that un-reversing the polarity can be as simple as tuning in to and stating what you desire. Simple, yes. But don’t let that fool you. Doing this is one of the most powerful healing acts you can perform.

In fact full healing REQUIRES you to invoke and identify with (in other words become) the beingness behind the objects of your desire. This might be the sense of freedom that a new car would give you or the knowledge that you are loved underlying the ideal relationship. Invocation, the act of calling in, means recognizing those states as available to you – at any time and in any situation – and claiming them as your true, Divine nature.

By the way, that’s why the uprisings going on around the world are so spiritually significant. People are starting to claim what is rightfully theirs, and, in the collectiveness of the rebellions and the compassion and solidarity expressed in them, they are encouraging others to claim their Divine rights as well.

Saying what you want in the midst of a reality that looks very different from that requires you to trust the desires that your innate wisdom reveals to you and to believe in the abstract existence of a state which, at the moment, is not being reflected back to you. This is just another way of saying that you need to imagine it. Imagination is one of the simplest things we can do. Yet most people, once past childhood, only partake of this act in the form of worry about the future or regret about the past. The healing imagination, on the other hand, creates the future you prefer and can even rewrite your past.

Did you always wish for your mother to appreciate you (rather than criticizing)? Imagine it.

Would you have liked your father to give you permission to be who you truly are? Imagine it.

Do you want to be doing the work you love for abundant compensation? Imagine it.

Would you like a juicy relationship full of laughter and sharing? Imagine it.

So how do you know when you’re doing it right? By how you feel. Feeling good – joyful, lighthearted, creative, empowered – is your sign that your mind is where it needs to be for your highest good and your greatest healing.

One final note.The Gift is a process I designed to help people reclaim the power of imagination, reconnect with their desires and trust their hearts. If you like the idea of this path to healing, contact me to begin.

Love Note/Principles of Spiritual Healing 2

First of all, please excuse my lateness in publishing this post. I was without electrical power for several days, which set me back somewhat in my work. But the return of electricity was accompanied by a surge in my personal energy, and I’m excited to be communicating with you again.

“In the beginning was the Word,” the Bible says, and from that entire worlds were created. Many students of metaphysical thought, such as myself, believe the Word stands for vibration, the energy of Creation. And yet we know that words themselves have power, that when we pronounce the name of something – anything – we are forging an intimate energetic connection with its essence. And this gives us access to it. Its as if a thing’s name is the key that allows us to bring to bear on it the impact of our intention and creativity

And so we come to the second principle of spiritual healing, the N in ANTHEM, which stands for Name it to Release it.

When we name what we are feeling or the thought we are having, or even simply bring our recognition and focus to a bodily sensation, we open an energetic channel, a conduit between our conscious awareness and everything that ever caused or lent energy to the object of our focus. And it is through that energetic channel that the sensation, emotion or judgment may be released.

The name for this energetic connection, coming to us from the world of physics, is resonance. I’ve found resonance to be one of the most – perhaps THE most – powerful tools for healing that we have. In fact I have often been amazed to find that simply naming a thing was enough to let it go.

But there is a trick, a sort of key to the key. And it is this: The awareness doing the naming must, itself, be completely detached from the thing being named. It may not be caught up in the drama that the conscious (ego) mind has used to continually energize the thing you’re wanting to release. And this ability to remain the calm center of the energetic storm is the province of the Higher Self alone, that all-knowing and embracing witness to outer experience – and it is powered by Love. So we arrive at another realization, that each letter of ANTHEM represents a different aspect of Love, the only real healer there is. To heal is to sing an anthem to Love.

Many have written of the Higher Self and many have wondered how to know what it knows and make use of its power. The truth is that the Higher Self is not hard to contact. It simply requires surrender to its presence, the simple recognition or statement (there’s the power of word again) that I AM and therefore I know and do. All else follows naturally, including the return to wholeness, power and joy, which is the desired goal of any healing journey.

In summary, just as Creation requires the Word of the Creator, healing requires you, as the creator of your life, to consciously use your words, your awareness and your love to vibrate and thereby liberate your being.

Love Note/Principles of Spiritual Healing 1

Wow, I feel like I’m returning from a long voyage.

I have not posted in quite some time because I’ve been playing with new modalities and gathering experiences. It has been quite interesting and rewarding.

But now I’m ready to begin communicating with you again, in the form of a series of posts on the foundations of spiritual healing. This new beginning coincides with the week of my birthday – always a good time for starting things – as well as the debut of my new radio show on News for The Soul (every other Friday at 2 pm ET). It’s Fall here on the East Coast of the U.S., and the air feels crisp and full of new energies.

I love acronyms, so this series will be based on one. The word is ANTHEM, and today we’ll discuss the A, which stands for Allow everything.

The only force that truly heals is Love. The spiritual meaning of love is unconditional acceptance. To those of you who have been working on healing for some time, it may be obvious by now that the LACK of that kind of acceptance of self – with all your faults, flaws, feelings and perceived failures – is the only thing standing between you and experiencing life as you truly desire. But for many this is still a fairly new concept, since we put so much energy and focus into the outside forces (like other people) that we THINK are the cause of the problem. Some examples: My body won’t do what I want it to, My boyfriend (or husband) doesn’t love me the right way, My job doesn’t make me happy, The economy is terrible and that’s why I’m poor.

So how do you get to that unconditional love of self that I’ve asserted is the answer? By fully allowing everything you see “out there” to just be without trying to change it. When you do that, for some magical reason you begin to turn the focus around to the being within yourself. Your first realization is that you are the only being you can change. Then, with your new focus of Allowing, you start to spend time with your various parts/aspects withOUT trying to change them and Voila!, one day you finally realize that all parts of you really only want love and that you have actually begun to give them that. Take a moment (or two) to congratulate yourself. I knew you could do it, since we were all born to create, face and resolve all our challenges and issues. With Love. It’s how we were designed.

Allowing each and every part of yourself – the fearful parts, the angry parts, the sad parts that don’t want to get moving – at first can seem like a big, complicated job. But the wonderfulparadox of healing is that this level of allowing brings about the full integration, and even dissolution, of all the parts into the whole that is You. And that makes life a lot simpler, as well as more joy-filled.

It can be a bit (or a lot!) scary when you first commit to Allowing everything. It feels at first like giving up a safety net because we associate resistance with protection. So keep in mind that I’m here to help. And remember that the rewards are well worth it.

The next post in this series will appear one week from today.