This is so beautiful..We hear so much spoken of our distrust in one another, our differences, our fear. This so beautifully shows our compassion and spontaneous moments of love for one another
I dreamt last night that I was high up in a building where the floor had virtually collapsed and I had to get down to the ground. I was very scared at the prospect of climbing down as I felt I would surely fall and perish. I realised that I needed help and yet there was strong resistance to ask, I felt that I had to do it alone, that in some way I should do it alone.
I vaguely recall some people talking to me and suggesting that I could ask for help. Eventually I acquiesced and a young man came to my assistance helping me easily and effortlessly down to solid ground. I was so relieved and very grateful. People around were so happy to see me. However, to my horror I looked in the mirror and saw that I was wearing a face-mask, the type of ‘beauty’ mask we apply to help our skin, that dries to a chalky white.I must have forgotten to remove it and I was SO embarrassed and immediately attempted to wash it off. I was simultaneously aware that I was holding a make-up brush with bronzing powder so that I could reapply another ‘mask’!!
My dream was showing me so vividly that so many of us live life wearing a ‘mask’. We use it to cover up who we ‘think’ we are. We hide behind it so that we don’t allow others to see our true human self, the part of us that has ‘negative’ emotions. The part of us that thinks negative thoughts about ourselves and others. The part that wants revenge or thinks a moments thought of jealousy or envy.
When we begin our spiritual path, we are so often ashamed of these types of thoughts that we have had in the past, or goodness ‘now’..when ‘I shouldn’t’ be thinking them!! However, as many spiritual teachers have taught us, they are just thoughts, just energies of our Lower self, not the thoughts of our Higher Wiser True Self. Our Higher Self will accept that we have these thoughts and not condemn us for having them. Our Higher Self will react by saying, ‘Oh that’s just a thought, an energy,’ not grasp on to it and letting it go.
We attempt to cover up this Lower self, by wearing a Mask and pretending that we don’t have negative thoughts, that we are perfect, that we never become angry or frustrated or hurt by another.
Can we recognise our own ‘masks’ and gently allow ourselves to remove them, to reveal our true and wonderful self?
Below is a clip from the film ‘Pleasantville’ which has the most wonderful spiritual teaching 🙂 I can’t say too much about it just in case you haven’t seen the film, however the film refers so beautifully to us wearing our masks 🙂 living in world that is without colour or emotion
‘When you begin to understand Law of Attraction, and you understand that which is like unto itself is drawn, then it is easier and easier to understand that you are offering a signal, and the entire Universe responds. And when you finally get that, and you begin to exercise some deliberate control about the signal that you offer, then it really begins to be fun, because then you recognize that nothing happens outside of your creative control. There are no things that happen by chance or by circumstance. There is nothing that is happening because of something you vibrated a long time ago or in a past life. It is not about what you were born into. It is only about what you are, right now, in this red hot fresh moment emitting.’
Abraham with Esther and Jerry Hicks, Excerpted from the workshop in Seattle, WA on June, 20 1998
I love this quote from Abraham 🙂 I have many clients who are experiencing difficulties in bringing their true love/life partner into their lives. I can truly empathise with the frustration and disappointment they experience when yet another ‘partner’ turns out to be ‘not THE one’. Who is almost a carbon copy of past ‘loves’
It is my experience that we can hold the Intention and desire to attract him/her into our life, however, unless we are willing to look at the vibration we are emitting, we will continue to attract people into our lives who resonate with our current vibration.
I will explain further. We may be holding emotions, negative beliefs, traumas, programming and negative or distorted expectations. These cause us to attract individuals with the same vibration. For example, the energy of Abandonment. Many individuals may have experienced Abandonment in their life, through personal experience or, unbeknown to themselves, inherited the energy/vibration from their parents/ ancestors. This vibration causes the individual to either abandon or to be abandoned. It may also lead to self-sabotage, hence it feels like a self fulfilling prophecy, ‘ I am always abandoned..no one loves me…I am unloveable…I am unworthy of another’s love’. The beliefs associated with this type of vibration are numerous!
In order to identify and clear the discordant energies responsible for our being abandoned and through our willingness to look at our energy we can ask, ‘What vibration am I emitting?’ ‘What is at the root of this vibration?’ As a consequence, through clearing the energies our vibration is changed and we have a better understanding, even an ‘Ah-Ha’ enlightening moment for our repetitive experiences.
I liken our energy to a radio frequency. We can retune, recallibrate our vibration, our personal signal, to a healthier, balanced lighter signal, attracting individuals who are vibrating on this ‘new’ healthier frequency who will value, respect and love us for who we are. The ‘other’ individuals are still available on a different ‘station,’ however we are now tuned to a healthier frequency of like minded vibrating souls.
Through my work with the Emotion Code and the wonderful assistance from our Guides/Angels/Higher self, I can speak from personal experience of identifying and clearing emotions and energies that were preventing me from attracting a wonderful partner into my life. I have attracted into my life a partner who is entirely different to previous boyfriends. He is resonating with the same beliefs and core values that I now hold about myself, relationships and life. We aren’t identical, we have different paths and understandings and he has a ‘normal’ job 🙂 However he entirely ‘gets me’, values me and respects me as an individual as I do him. Most importantly, I love, value and respect me.
It was worth clearing my Heart Wall, Pain Body and numerous negative beliefs to ultimately change my vibration to actualise him into my life. It wasn’t instantaneous, there were a couple of ‘near misses’, where I could have ‘settled’. However, I held true to my faith, intending that he is already with me… with the extra essential ingredients of Gratitude and absolute knowingness. I directed and sent my Intention out into the Universe and just over 12 months he appeared as if by ‘magic’ 😉
‘Oh no not a whole year!?’ I hear you cry. I admit there were times when my faith wavered and I would lie in bed talking to my Angels asking, ‘Just when would he appear?’. However, I realised that Divine Timing plays a huge part in intention setting. He wasn’t ready to appear until the time was right. He was still involved in a relationship that was coming to an end at it’s own pace. Perhaps those involved needed to learn and grow from that relationship, that isn’t for me to say or comment on. I just know that we were led to meet and we had the choice, through free will, to begin this journey together. Who knows where that will lead, only we can decide.
If on reading this you feel that you can see similarities within your own life and you have a longing to meet your ‘beloved’. Perhaps changing your vibration will allow you to bring that happiness into your life? The Law of Attraction and Power of Intention is our given right, we are all capable of working with it :-)Willingness and loving yourself is the place to begin
I love this quote from John Lennon. So simple and yet so profound.
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
John Lennon (1940-1980); musician, founding member of the Beatles
We are programmed from birth to behave in certain ways, think in certain ways and be a certain way. It is interesting to stop and ponder our thoughts and behaviour…to see if those thoughts/behaviour are really ‘us’, who we really are, and ask the question ‘Is this me, my true Self? Or, is that ‘self’ a construct of my ancestors, my culture, my education, the result of programming,inherited beliefs and conditioning? Of course, not all programming is negative. For example, we are programmed/trained to avoid putting our hands in an open fire, look before we venture across a road etc. However, some programmes are limiting and potentially damaging, for instance young boys who are admonished for openly crying… ‘Boys don’t cry’ ‘Only girls cry.’ How many men are carrying the trapped energy associated with the stigma of crying, or worse, the trapped energy of unexpressed emotions.
Perhaps stop for a while and ask yourself the questions ‘Who am I, What makes me happy, brings me joy? I believe that it is vital to ask ourself what brings us happiness. Are we stuck in patterns of beliefs and behaviours that are limiting the joy in our life? Do we allow/gift ourself time to nurture our ‘Self’ or are our programmes dictating that our time is spent working/giving of ourself when we truly need to switch off the ‘phone, close the door on the world for 20 minutes and nurture ‘me’
During an energy session, the client may be asked if they have any negative programmes. If so and it is appropriate, they are identified, released and replaced with positive, life enhancing programmes that are for the Highest good. It is surprising how many of us are unaware of the programmes we hold.
Another wonderful quote I came across quite by chance :
‘ Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that; because what the world needs is people that have come alive’ John Eldridge
That ‘aliveness’ might be as profound and life changing as a new career or as simple as taking time out to learn to draw, play a musical instrument or have a scented bath once week. If that makes you come alive, the world and it’s vibration will be lifted 🙂 It appears that our negative programming can be preventing us from allowing the opportunity to be alive and to ‘be’ our true Self.
Proof Of Heaven, a Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife by Dr Eben Alexander
I loved this quote from Dr Eben Alexander…what a beautiful reminder of the truth of who we are….
…”The message had three parts, and if I had to translate them into Earthly language, I’d say they ran something like this…
‘You are Loved and cherished, dearly, forever’
‘You have nothing to fear’
‘There is nothing that you can do wrong.’
However, our negative programming and beliefs would have us believe otherwise and I consider this to be a great and disturbing sadness. Our Ego holdsfast to these ideas in an attempt to remain powerful and vital within us. If we can gently remind ourselves that we ARE truly loved, always. Learn to love ourselves, acknowledge and let go of our false beliefs and troubling emotions.This enables us to gradually open up and accept that we are LOVE. I believe that ‘God,The Universe,That Which Is,’ is pure divine love and pure divine love can hold no thoughts of punishnent or anger…it is PURE LOVE and not an energy of duality. During our time here how often do we punish ourselves with thoughts of ‘we are not good enough, pretty enough, patient enough, clever enough…
During the times that I work with clients and in times of personal moments of doubts about the existence of this unconditional love, there comes a moment of pure knowing – a knowing that the words of Dr Alexander are a truth.
Here we are again, another day when we are able to offer thoughts of love to our Beloveds….a day when we can demonstrate our love by sending cards, flowers, chocolates and sharing special meals…whispering sweet nothings
There are those who revel in the idea of doing this whilst waiting hopefully to receive a token of another’s love for us in return…and those who have no beloved, or in a relationship where romance is not celebrated.
Some would say that every day is a day where we can exchange those special words and feelings; whilst others would argue that doing so would dilute the sincerity, that we would somehow become ‘used to it’..it would no longer be special.
Who am I to judge? I only know that each and every day I say a silent prayer of gratitude to all the people in my life…including those who push my buttons…especially to those, because they have been my greatest teachers
Having spent a good deal of my life in nursing, experiencing the frailties of life.. the one experience that remains etched on my mind is of a young man admitted to CCU and died very suddenly of a Heart Attack. His young wife was distraught, understandibly so…but more so because he had wanted to make love to her that afternoon and she had declined as she had wanted to watch the Wimbledon final.
My heart went out to her, her anguish at putting the TV before her love for her husband…but bless her, how was she to know. It taught me a lesson..well two, not to miss an opportunity to let our beloveds know that we love them and also to have love and compassion for ourselves for the times when life takes over and we forget.
We forget that we are loved, we forget that we are loveable. If today you are ‘alone;, celebrate your love for you…do something wonderful that says ‘I love you’ to you. Know that you are special and valuable and there is a greater force around us that loves us unconditionally, whether it be Valentines day or any other day.
Below is a link to a study by the Institute of Heartmath on Heart Coherence. Research has identified that the Heart radiates an electromagnetic field which surrounds the entire body to a depth of 15′, sending signals to every cell of our being.
Apparently this heart field connects us to each other, the earth, space…anything that has an electromagnetic quality. As such the state of the of our own individual field may have an impact on other’s moods,attitudes and feelings…whether we are conscious of this or not. How many times can you recall walking into a room and feeling the ‘mood’ of another without even talking to them? Or had a conversation with someone who suffers with perhaps depression and you begin to feel in a low mood too?
They go to suggest that the mind can access information through connecting to the heart, otherwise known as ‘ heart intelligence’.. information which includes and transcends the 5 known senses and literally tells our body what to do
There is an opportunity for individuals to take part in a study to determine if holding positive individual heart coherance can have a positive effect on global coherance. Follow the link on the video presentation if you are interested or would like to take part
Emotions Can Change Your DNA
Cheer up and think positive thoughts: We all give words of advice like these at some time to a friend, relative or colleague who is ill, worried or otherwise out of sorts. Can’t hurt. Right?
Actually, scientific evidence in the last half century clearly shows that your emotions – the good ones and the bad – affect you in multiple ways: health, schoolwork, job performance, relationships and much more. Whether you feel them naturally or intentionally – ‘today I will think only good thoughts’ – your emotions are kind of like the old adage, “you are what you eat.”
Throughout much of human history, academic scrutiny of emotions was largely the province of philosophers. Historical records abound from the ancient Chinese, Greeks and other cultures with philosophical discussions about human emotions. The nature and meaning of emotions was prominent in the minds and writings of Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, St. Thomas Aquinas and Machiavelli among others.
It was not until the 19th century … that substantial written empirical analyses of emotions began to emerge, when noteworthy figures such as Darwin and Freud took more scientific approaches.
After being within the domain of philosophers for thousands of years, emotions are now closely scrutinized in 21st century research laboratories, where scientists can actually observe their effects on human DNA.
Many Institute of HeartMath members, supporters and followers may recall past discussions and references related to the institute’s research on the effects of emotions on human DNA. Here we refresh the record with another look at some of the fascinating findings for those of you who are new to HeartMath and unfamiliar with them.
Cell biologist Glen Rein … and IHM Research Director Rollin McCraty conducted a series of experiments in the early 1990s involving DNA and intentionally generated emotions. A decade later interest in these experiments persisted. After numerous requests, McCraty summarized their data and published the results of the research in 2003 in a brief report titled Modulation of DNA Conformation by Heart-Focused Intention.
“The results provide experimental evidence to support the hypothesis that aspects of the DNA molecule can be altered through intentionality,” Rein and McCraty wrote. “To our knowledge, this study was the first to correlate specific electrophysiological modes with the ability to cause changes in a biological target (DNA) external from the body. The data indicate that when individuals are in a heart-focused, loving state and in a more coherent mode of physiological functioning, they have a greater ability to alter the conformation (shape or structure) of DNA.”
Participants in the experiments … included a test group of individuals trained and experienced in HeartMath’s coherence-building techniques and a control group who were not. Each test group participant held a DNA sample in a test tube and was directed to use three different methods – one at a time in separate trials – to make a sample wind or unwind. Each control group participant only focused on achieving the same result using one method.
It is important to note that the purpose of training test group participants in HeartMath techniques was so they could generate high states of coherence, which the researchers believed would be key to proving their hypothesis: Heart-focused intention can change the conformation of a closely controlled DNA sample in a test tube. Coherence is a state marked by more ordered, or coherent interactions between the body’s various systems, including more ordered heart rhythms.
Results
Nonlocal studies … In their report, Rein and McCraty addressed the issue of whether test subjects’ physical proximity to DNA samples – they did, after all, hold the test tubes in their hands during the experiments – could cause them to change in any way. The issue was whether the energy from the electromagnetic field generated by the human heart could make changes to the DNA samples.
“A number of nonlocal studies in which people hold an intention to affect a biological system over longer distances have also revealed dramatic effects,” Rein and McCraty wrote. “In these studies the distance between the targets and the people holding the intention are well beyond the range at which conventional electromagnetic fields could conceivably mediate the effect.”
They cited one of the nonlocal studies they conducted in which an individual was 0.5 miles away from a DNA sample. “In this example, the intention was to increase the winding of the DNA. … Results from a series of five nonlocal trials (including the 0.5-mile test) demonstrated a significant change in DNA conformation.”
The results of Rein and McCraty’s experiments … raises some interesting possibilities, which they discuss in their report.
“While the DNA utilized in this experiment was derived from an exogenous (external) source, it is likely that an individual’s own DNA would be more ‘tuned’ or resonant, and therefore even more responsive, to that person’s intentions,” they said. “Thus, though clearly in need of further testing, it is conceivable that individuals could influence their own DNA through a top-down process such as that described … potentially producing effects of even greater magnitude than those observed in this study.”
Following are other potential implications from these experiments. The authors note that they require further research:
Whilst watching the film adaptation of the book ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ on a quiet boxing day afternoon… I have watched it twice in the last two months and along with ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is one of my favourite films :-)…I heard something that spoke to my heart.
It tells of a woman recently divorced who has a strong desire to ‘find herself’ and takes a year out to travel to Italy..to Eat…India…to pray…Bali..yes you’ve guessed, she found the love of her life, her true soulmate…ahhhhhh!! Bliss. It wasn’t an emotionally comfortable journey for her; learning a good deal about herself and a dawning realisation that she was afraid to love again following a painful divorce. A true story of a spiritually brave woman, who asked ‘God’ for help and then followed her heart and found the love of her life.
Listening to the credits, I heard the words of a wonderful song, which I confess, I can’t recall hearing at the first veiwing! I googled youtube to see if I could find the lyrics and here they are, quite appropriate I feel, for this time of year…A new begining for 21/12/12…a new beginning for 2013…a new begining each day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Better Days, by the Goo Goo Dolls. “For the chance that maybe we’ll find better days!”
Lyrics:
And you asked me what I want this year
and I try to make this kind and clear
just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days
’cause I don’t need boxes wrapped in strings
and designer love and empty things
just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days
So take these words and sing out loud
’cause everyone is forgiven now
’cause tonight’s the night the world begins again
I need some place simple where we could live
and something only you can give
and that’s faith and trust and peace while we’re alive
and the one poor child who saved this world
and there’s ten million more who probably could
if we all just stopped and said a prayer for them
So take these words and sing out loud
’cause everyone is forgiven now
’cause tonight’s the night the world begins again
I wish everyone was loved tonight
and somehow stop this endless fight
just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days
So take these words and sing out loud
’cause everyone is forgiven now
’cause tonight’s the night the world begins again
’cause tonight’s the night the world begins again