Caring for your Heart

Love Note/Principles of Spiritual Healing 6

We have arrived at the last installment of this series as we discuss the M in ANTHEM, standing for Match Your Highest Intention.

It can be said that while Attention (the other critical component of healing) is the path, Intention is the engine of both healing and manifestation work. It’s what drives you to evolve, change, grow. In that respect it’s akin to desire.

Yet while desire carries its own fuel in the form of the emotions it invokes, intention makes you work to produce the energetic fuel it requires, and therein lies its spiritual usefulness. It teaches you to first become aware of the energies you’re putting out and then to transform them – tune them – to resonate with what you want to have, do and be.

Thus your Intention offers you a challenge. If you meet it you will succeed in reaching your goal or carrying out your mission; the result may be highly specific or far-ranging depending upon the vantage point you start from. If you fall short of whatever you have intended, you will simply be given another challenge, and another and another. The process, which some have referred to as the future calling you forward, in fact is endless and within it there is no such thing as failure.

So how do you energetically match your intention? The means is both simple – meaning there are no complicated steps to learn – and difficult in that it can take a lifetime to master. It is an iterative two-pronged process of holding your intention uppermost in mind, using every sensory means at your disposal, while holding in unconditional love the parts of yourself that are out of energetic alignment with it due to a belief in unworthiness, impossibility, undesirable consequences or fearful side effects. Eventually all judgments dissolve back into the cosmos of illusive thought forms from where you got them and all parts re-integrate into the Self. It is a process of culling your truth from all the untruth and allowing the pure light of that knowing to mold your future in its image.

Unconditional love – in its myriad forms of awareness, allowing and acceptance – has been treated at length in this series. The other side of this work, holding an intention, also requires love – no surprise, since I’ve been writing an ANTHEM to Love – in the form of giving yourself permission to dream. In this space you entertain the possibility that anything can come true AND realize that even if it doesn’t the dreaming itself was worthwhile. After all, this is why we go to the movies, read novels and play as children, isn’t it?

The inescapable result of aligning with intention is expansion, which in turn brings us closer to grasping and acting from our true nature as part of the Oneness. And that is the one intention that was programmed into our being from the beginning of time.

If you’d like some help in energetically matching YOUR highest intentions, get in touch with me here.

Love Note/Principles of Spiritual Healing 5

In the fifth installment of Principles of Spiritual Healing we’ll explore the E in ANTHEM, which stand for Energy Follows Awareness.

This may be the one principle that is most familiar to those of you who have done some energy healing work. It’s mentioned a lot. Yet many don’t understand its full implications or power. Awareness makes everything possible – in fact consciousness is the stuff of which our universe is composed, and awareness combined with energy (otherwise known as emotion) is how your reality is created. (That process of manifestation will be the subject of another post.)

Awareness allows you to bring energy to an area that could use it (like a tired part of your body), and it’s also the means to move energy out of an area where it is stuck or create a more complete and balanced flow in your body. And these are just the physical benefits.

Emotionally, awareness equates to light and love, which are other names for energy. And love is what all the neglected parts of yourself are wanting. I’ve written about this before, so there’s no need here to repeat it all. But please don’t underestimate the power of being present, in love, with the aspect of you that is hurting, fearful or angry. Awareness alone brings hope, comfort and the ability to let go of whatever burden you’re carrying. Nothing more is needed, as long as the awareness is deep, pure and there for as long as is required.

Cellular memories are released under the gaze of non-judgmental awareness. Limiting beliefs are exchanged for higher truths. Traumas soften their sting. And perhaps most importantly we reconnect with our Divinity simply by allowing ourselves to be aware of (remember) who we are, why we came here and how vast is the love available to us.

I highly recommend that you take a few minutes a day (at least) to bring awareness to your self and all its magnificent elements. Notice the sensations in your body, pay attention to your emotions and what they feel like (and where you feel them), observe your thoughts and who’s doing the thinking. And just be with whatever you find. The energy that your own awareness carries is a powerful healing balm. Use it liberally.

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.