“Loves Heals” stated boldly the black and white sticker someone
placed on the back of a “no parking” sign. It was small yet not too shy in
broadcasting this universal truth to passerby. I smiled as I pondered the
message. What is it about love that heals? I thought to myself, is Love a healer on its own or does it require a transmitter, a conduit, a
messenger?
Working with animals and people as my 'ministry' and service, I encounter again and again that which facilitates profound joy and expansion of the spirit through companionship with animals. By virtue of their conditioned-free, judgment-less acceptance of us, animals awaken us to the pure essence of love. Many of my clients and students attest to the intensity of their kinship with their animals and their gratitude for being accepted by their furry (and non) companions just for who they are with no complex stipulations or expectations. We all crave it so since the feeling of unconditional love bears a residue of familiarity to us. It inspires the energy of spirit as originating from a place deep within our soul. In their ability to love us unconditionally, animals re-member us with our own God-like self from which some of us have become too detached in our daily pursuits for peace, happiness, and "more."
As humanity we are going through powerful shifts in our evolutions. Our global consciousness and awareness are being asked to open up to levels that will either wither us into dust, or lift us up to a new level of be-ing in unity and collaboration with one another and that giving life-force creator of all creations.
This is a time of great awakening (a rude one, if we resist or ignore the signs along the way, as I myself had a taste of and have written about in previous blog articles and my upcoming book). In the current planetary circumstances that are upon us we are the only ones to shift our fate and destiny. But how?
Recycling helps, praying helps, noticing the intuitive voice within that is our soul's cry for attention certainly helps in making us more fulfilled. Yet something bigger and more prevailing exists within our reach: the energy of love.
I am not talking about the emotion of love felt on a human level, such as "being in love with another," or "the honeymoon phase" of new relationships. I am referring to the much more profound force of Divine Love that is omnipresent, dizzying, full-filling, and all-encompassing all-that-is and all that is life to the smallest sub-atomic particles!
This purity of love has no human interference, no density, no thought process, no mass, no body. In fact, as soon as we apply thinking, we lose touch with this consciousness! A Course in Miracles reminds us that "I am not a body, I am free - for I am still as God created me." Studying this concept over many days, I asked for some guidance around that. I wanted a felt-experience of what it means to be free yet "not be a body." The answer came in a dream - in it I was not a body, I was floating freely and lightly as an energy being; the sensation of pure JOY and PEACE were profound and beyond words. No worries were present. There was no sense of past, future, present, money, bills, sorrows of the world, animals and people's suffering, tasks, to-do lists, etc. No-thing existed in that realm of pure and utter freedom from form. There was also no thought whatsoever! I remember "floating" there in bliss-land for a few long minutes (or was it seconds? months? years? - doesn't matter really). I remember smiling, I remember my heart - it expanded in luminosity and L O V E. I was all heart and nothing else for those few blissful moments in my dream.
And then it all ended abruptly!
In the dream - as I was floating in thin love-based-air, I "bumped" into someone else. That is, I touched his (it was "He" for some reason) body and wooooop - I came into mine! I once again returned to my physical body. "He" got all upset that I bumped into him and began scalding me. I felt shameful and confused. And herein lies the core of our separateness: Once I became a body again, with thoughts, plans, goals, unconscious processes, ego, fears, etc - I lost consciousness! I was no longer connected to that Divine essence that is the real "me." And so I became a body again bumping into other bodies that are seemingly unrelated to one another.
Don't get me wrong - of course having a body is GOOD THING. It is a marvelous thing. It is a joyous thing! But when we begin to identify with it as if we are it, we lose something of great value: our connection to the fountain of our origin, were we are much more than a body, we are extensions of GOD; able and equipped to experience this life as God.
Yet it is only through our "connective tissue" to the greater consciousness, we may become the vessel for this divine pure love. As soon as we engage our human mind in reason or analysis, we “come back” into our physical body and tend to bump into each other with less tolerance and lack of compassion.
Gratitude and compassion are messengers of Love. They are the components that carry the spiritual molecules of love by transcending the physical illusion of mass, time, and space. Through intention we can choose to mindfully tune in to the purity found in living through these virtues rather than through our ego-self that is much harsher and at times unkind (to ourselves and others). By so doing we extract the necessary ingredients for connection to the infinite One Mind. We then automatically become conduits to love and are better able to assist in the production of miracles and healing of all conditions. It is through us then that Divine God Love is expressed and therefore can produce healing. Our main purpose as humans is indeed to be the vessel for God to express love onto all of His creations. It is our job to facilitate the conditions for the transmission of such love. In making ourselves available through inviting our Spirit-Self or soul to lead the way, we allow the process of purification of the mind to take place in transforming that which is mortal (what we think is our given reality) into that which is eternal and infinite and therefore of God essence.
Thought interferences with the process of connecting ourselves with the infinite One Mind where all answers exist and plenty abides. This connection to Source energy allows the conduction of love-essence to flow through us and facilitate healing on a much deeper level than any man-designed therapeutic method could ever reach. Thought is a mechanism of brain activity, while consciousness is the universal spiritual flow that is consciousness.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” taught the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Indeed, as humans we are filled with too many filters, fears, judgment, and other attributes of the Ego-mind. As spirits, we make ourselves available to the transference of pure divine love to flow through us. As we aid God in the transmission of love-energy, we participate in global healing of any condition where love is blocked. This of course is how prayer and techniques such as distance or remote healing produce change in the quantum energetic field of their recipient.
Another teaching by A Course in Miracles states that “A miracle is a universal blessing from God. Miracles occur naturally as expression of love…through miracles love is expressed. In this essence, everything that comes from love is a miracle.”
If everything that comes from love is a miracle and if miracles are expression of God’s blessings upon us; it thus implies that everything that is not love is not of God and therefore is mortal and unreal. Since we all have originated from this love source and possess within us an eternal, abundant divine element, it is unnatural for us to experience anything but love!
Indeed, ‘miracles are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong” is further taught. We can then appreciate that all situations where anything other than the existence of abundance (as it is the expression of love), are in fact symptoms pointing to something that has gone amiss in the natural flow of miracle-production. All lack is a manifestation of blocked love. For if “God is love” there could never be anything that is of God that is lacking anything, unless it is unwelcomed by the human ego. For example thoughts and unconscious beliefs of undeserving are an expression of us blocking God’s abundance and love from entering into our lives. Thus any circumstance that presents as lack can be viewed as an underlying obstruction of love for self and/or other (usually when love is blocked for another it is also blocked for the self or vice-versa). This of course can be represented in many forms such as lack of money, health, vitality, relationship, joy, harmony, or peace.
To find your way out of an undesirable condition of lack try the following steps:
1. Imagine your own private technology: A “Love-ometer” decorated to your liking with special switches, gauges, and indicators that give clue to the level of pure divine love in your life.
2. Centre yourself through deep mindful breathing and grounding (this need not be efforted or lengthy).
3. When ready, let the breath carry you to your heart-space, the “storage room” for divine love, and invite the answers to come onto your field by honestly asking yourself:
Working with animals and people as my 'ministry' and service, I encounter again and again that which facilitates profound joy and expansion of the spirit through companionship with animals. By virtue of their conditioned-free, judgment-less acceptance of us, animals awaken us to the pure essence of love. Many of my clients and students attest to the intensity of their kinship with their animals and their gratitude for being accepted by their furry (and non) companions just for who they are with no complex stipulations or expectations. We all crave it so since the feeling of unconditional love bears a residue of familiarity to us. It inspires the energy of spirit as originating from a place deep within our soul. In their ability to love us unconditionally, animals re-member us with our own God-like self from which some of us have become too detached in our daily pursuits for peace, happiness, and "more."
As humanity we are going through powerful shifts in our evolutions. Our global consciousness and awareness are being asked to open up to levels that will either wither us into dust, or lift us up to a new level of be-ing in unity and collaboration with one another and that giving life-force creator of all creations.
This is a time of great awakening (a rude one, if we resist or ignore the signs along the way, as I myself had a taste of and have written about in previous blog articles and my upcoming book). In the current planetary circumstances that are upon us we are the only ones to shift our fate and destiny. But how?
Recycling helps, praying helps, noticing the intuitive voice within that is our soul's cry for attention certainly helps in making us more fulfilled. Yet something bigger and more prevailing exists within our reach: the energy of love.
I am not talking about the emotion of love felt on a human level, such as "being in love with another," or "the honeymoon phase" of new relationships. I am referring to the much more profound force of Divine Love that is omnipresent, dizzying, full-filling, and all-encompassing all-that-is and all that is life to the smallest sub-atomic particles!
This purity of love has no human interference, no density, no thought process, no mass, no body. In fact, as soon as we apply thinking, we lose touch with this consciousness! A Course in Miracles reminds us that "I am not a body, I am free - for I am still as God created me." Studying this concept over many days, I asked for some guidance around that. I wanted a felt-experience of what it means to be free yet "not be a body." The answer came in a dream - in it I was not a body, I was floating freely and lightly as an energy being; the sensation of pure JOY and PEACE were profound and beyond words. No worries were present. There was no sense of past, future, present, money, bills, sorrows of the world, animals and people's suffering, tasks, to-do lists, etc. No-thing existed in that realm of pure and utter freedom from form. There was also no thought whatsoever! I remember "floating" there in bliss-land for a few long minutes (or was it seconds? months? years? - doesn't matter really). I remember smiling, I remember my heart - it expanded in luminosity and L O V E. I was all heart and nothing else for those few blissful moments in my dream.
And then it all ended abruptly!
In the dream - as I was floating in thin love-based-air, I "bumped" into someone else. That is, I touched his (it was "He" for some reason) body and wooooop - I came into mine! I once again returned to my physical body. "He" got all upset that I bumped into him and began scalding me. I felt shameful and confused. And herein lies the core of our separateness: Once I became a body again, with thoughts, plans, goals, unconscious processes, ego, fears, etc - I lost consciousness! I was no longer connected to that Divine essence that is the real "me." And so I became a body again bumping into other bodies that are seemingly unrelated to one another.
Don't get me wrong - of course having a body is GOOD THING. It is a marvelous thing. It is a joyous thing! But when we begin to identify with it as if we are it, we lose something of great value: our connection to the fountain of our origin, were we are much more than a body, we are extensions of GOD; able and equipped to experience this life as God.
Yet it is only through our "connective tissue" to the greater consciousness, we may become the vessel for this divine pure love. As soon as we engage our human mind in reason or analysis, we “come back” into our physical body and tend to bump into each other with less tolerance and lack of compassion.
Gratitude and compassion are messengers of Love. They are the components that carry the spiritual molecules of love by transcending the physical illusion of mass, time, and space. Through intention we can choose to mindfully tune in to the purity found in living through these virtues rather than through our ego-self that is much harsher and at times unkind (to ourselves and others). By so doing we extract the necessary ingredients for connection to the infinite One Mind. We then automatically become conduits to love and are better able to assist in the production of miracles and healing of all conditions. It is through us then that Divine God Love is expressed and therefore can produce healing. Our main purpose as humans is indeed to be the vessel for God to express love onto all of His creations. It is our job to facilitate the conditions for the transmission of such love. In making ourselves available through inviting our Spirit-Self or soul to lead the way, we allow the process of purification of the mind to take place in transforming that which is mortal (what we think is our given reality) into that which is eternal and infinite and therefore of God essence.
Thought interferences with the process of connecting ourselves with the infinite One Mind where all answers exist and plenty abides. This connection to Source energy allows the conduction of love-essence to flow through us and facilitate healing on a much deeper level than any man-designed therapeutic method could ever reach. Thought is a mechanism of brain activity, while consciousness is the universal spiritual flow that is consciousness.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” taught the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Indeed, as humans we are filled with too many filters, fears, judgment, and other attributes of the Ego-mind. As spirits, we make ourselves available to the transference of pure divine love to flow through us. As we aid God in the transmission of love-energy, we participate in global healing of any condition where love is blocked. This of course is how prayer and techniques such as distance or remote healing produce change in the quantum energetic field of their recipient.
Another teaching by A Course in Miracles states that “A miracle is a universal blessing from God. Miracles occur naturally as expression of love…through miracles love is expressed. In this essence, everything that comes from love is a miracle.”
If everything that comes from love is a miracle and if miracles are expression of God’s blessings upon us; it thus implies that everything that is not love is not of God and therefore is mortal and unreal. Since we all have originated from this love source and possess within us an eternal, abundant divine element, it is unnatural for us to experience anything but love!
Indeed, ‘miracles are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong” is further taught. We can then appreciate that all situations where anything other than the existence of abundance (as it is the expression of love), are in fact symptoms pointing to something that has gone amiss in the natural flow of miracle-production. All lack is a manifestation of blocked love. For if “God is love” there could never be anything that is of God that is lacking anything, unless it is unwelcomed by the human ego. For example thoughts and unconscious beliefs of undeserving are an expression of us blocking God’s abundance and love from entering into our lives. Thus any circumstance that presents as lack can be viewed as an underlying obstruction of love for self and/or other (usually when love is blocked for another it is also blocked for the self or vice-versa). This of course can be represented in many forms such as lack of money, health, vitality, relationship, joy, harmony, or peace.
To find your way out of an undesirable condition of lack try the following steps:
1. Imagine your own private technology: A “Love-ometer” decorated to your liking with special switches, gauges, and indicators that give clue to the level of pure divine love in your life.
2. Centre yourself through deep mindful breathing and grounding (this need not be efforted or lengthy).
3. When ready, let the breath carry you to your heart-space, the “storage room” for divine love, and invite the answers to come onto your field by honestly asking yourself:
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Wow ... good article ! Really liked the last section ...
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