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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 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.