unconditional love

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 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.

Love Note/When is a handicap a gift?

Today my good friend Lynnea sent me a video about an autistic boy. (You’ll find a link to the video at the end of this post.) I won’t give away the details, but you know the plot: A person overcomes a handicap to accomplish something amazing, their achievement is celebrated and emotionally shared by lots of people, and the viewer sheds a lot of happy tears.

This was one of several videos in the same genre I’ve seen recently, and it’s gotten me thinking about the entire issue of disability and how it relates to those of us who find ourselves in the fortunate position of being able-bodied and fairly healthy. What I realized shocked me at first, and then unfolded into a revelation that has since become one of the major spiritual themes in my current life. I now pass it on to you in the hopes that it may assist you in your own spiritual evolution.

First the shocking part – I found myself envying the handicapped subjects of the videos – their perseverance, their certainty of their path, the mastery they achieved, and the bond they formed with those who witnessed the results. I asked myself why can’t I do those things? And would it be easier if I had a tangible handicap to overcome?

Of course I immediately tried to cancel this question (since thoughts create, and what could be created here feels a little scary), but it was too late, and anyway, I assured myself, I know better than to resist the flow of a thought that is about to uncover a major piece of my shadow. To the contrary, I welcome it, since I have come to love my shadow as much as my light, as they are but two sides of the same coin of my spiritual Self.

The answer that immediately came from Sam-el (my Higher Self, who revealed this name to me about a year ago) was that I DO have a handicap, and I have yet to overcome it.

As I asked Sam-el to go on, I heard that EVERYONE comes into this life with a lack or disability, that the physical ones are only a small portion of the spectrum, and that we CHOOSE to take them on for a common purpose. Once that purpose is achieved, the disability becomes irrelevant to our lives, but that in order to compel us to achieve the purpose, the specific disability must be something particularly difficult for the individual ego to bear.

Disabilities can be things like poverty, a less than pleasing appearance, or a lack of freedom, support or community. In my case, Sam-el revealed, my disability is the lack of several types of partnership that I have always fervently desired and am not currently enjoying in my life – the intimate kind; the sustained, soul-based work/business variety; and the type that comes from a group of people working together, up close and persistently, on a cause that is dear to their hearts.

This lack has caused me to cry myself to sleep many nights, scheme about how to fill it many days, and feel sorry for myself more times than I can remember (or like to admit). It is (or at least feels) even harder to bear because I HAVE experienced all these kinds of partnership in the past, and the brief intervals when I had them brought me so much peace and fulfillment. (I am after all a Libra, and one that has partnership written all over my chart.)

So then I asked the next logical question (and perhaps, you dear reader have already asked it yourself and are wondering when I’d get around to answering it, or perhaps since you’re so wise you already know the answer!): What is the purpose? And will knowing it help me rise above my disability, which means, will the knowledge end my suffering?

And Sam-el, who never fails to oblige me with answers when I ask the right questions, replied:

We take on disabilities to experience our Divinity.

By now I realized that I was onto something, perhaps even the core of life itself, the driving force of our evolution as spiritual beings. But to understand how and why this was so I had to examine my own disability and see what it had to teach me – maybe even finally LEARN the lesson in order to harvest the Divinity within.

So I asked, What is the gift of my aloneness?

And this time my answer came as a stream of questions.

Did the loss of your intimate relationship not force you to own your projections and encounter the hidden aspects of yourself, in the process healing (and loving) all of your Being, and learn how to give unconditional love to others? And did this not make you a better healer as well as a more peaceful human being?

Has your aloneness not provided the quiet (and the motivation) you needed to go within and commune with me? (This I heard from both Sam-el and God him/herself.)

From that communing have you not experienced Bliss – physical, emotional and spiritual – reliably and repeatedly?

Have you not felt the embrace of ascended masters, angels and beings of all realms and dimensions, and known the purity of love as it resides in your own heart?

Have you not co-created a community of souls around the world bringing peace and healing to Earth, and have you not felt their hearts beating with yours, their laughter and tears, their very breath and life energy surging in your own body?

Has your lack of partnership in work not forced you to realize your abilities and capacities as a business leader? To know in your gut that there is nothing you cannot do in this area, to commit to mastery of your field – healing and teaching – and to grow stronger and more confident with every step on this journey?

Have your clients not been your lovers as well, with an abundance of unimpeded unconditional love passing between you and them in each and every session?

Has your daughter not come to know you as a model of womanhood, as someone she can count on and take inspiration from, as a fountain of love for her?

And then I heard perhaps the most important truth of all.

Your lack, and the pain it has caused you, has made you feel different, BE different from others. And that single difference is the chink in the wall that has enabled you to tear down the entire illusion of a fixed world, run by one set of rules that applies to everyone and by which everyone is judged.

That single difference is strong enough to break through the density of matter, the oppression of bad news, the inertia of all you thought you had become and were stuck doing. It is enough to bring into question Identity and Duality themselves, the bedrock of our 3D existence.

So here’s the Truth, the core of my lesson: Nothing is as it seems. The Real lies within. Life is a game which we all play with the same FULL spiritual deck, and whose rules we get to make up as we go along. I am not alone and have never been. My aloneness has set me firmly on the path of spiritual mastery. And, like all journeys, this one has no final destination, and can be enjoyed, if I choose, for its own sake .

As for partnerships, who’s to say if mine are better or worse than those of my neighbor to whom I compare myself. Or perhaps she’s just got a different disability; may she discover its gift and thereby experience her own Divinity. For mine I’m eternally grateful.

Now here’s the link to the video I mentioned at the start of this post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y80BBjJAUaI