A number of experiences that I gave to myself over the weekend just past have brought me to the subject of today's post.
The first experience was listening to a song written and performed by a French-Canadian group called Harmonium who were active in the 1970's. It has been some time since I listened to this particular CD, although it is one I always enjoy. One line from one of the songs really stood out for me this weekend: "On a mis quelqu'un au monde, on devrais peut-etre l'ecouter." Translated into English this means, "We brought someone into this world, we should perhaps listen to him or her."
On Sunday morning, I wrote a testimonial of my beliefs and conviction about the times we are living in and what they might mean for those of the Christian faith. It was a passionate appeal to those who look to One outside of themselves for their salvation, to look again, and this time, to look within and see the Christ consciousness as a potential, an incredibly beautiful and powerful potential, within them. I asked a Christian friend if she would do me the honour of reading it, of 'listening' through the text to what I had to say. She emailed me back almost immediately indicating that she would, so I sent the text to her.
On Sunday afternoon, I sat with a woman who is becoming my friend and listened as I love to, with all of myself, to her descriptions of her life experiences and her feelings about them. And as I listened to her, I also was able to hear my own insights into her experiences and to offer them to her. She chose to hear what I had to say about some of her experiences, some which had brought sadness and confusion to her. She later told me that my insights had resonated with her, had brought some new understanding to her of why certain things had happened in the ways that they had happened. She appreciated the depth of my listening, my hearing her. I appreciated the depth of her listening to what I had to say, to her hearing me.
On Sunday evening, I spoke over the telephone to the woman who had agreed to read my testimonial presenting my beliefs and convictions about the times we are living through as they pertain to Christians. It very quickly became apparent to me that although she had read the words, she had not 'heard' them. They hit a wall of 'this is the way it is because this is the way it is.' I felt unheard, my wisdom unacknowledged. In fact, she implied that I was blind to the truth and that I might find my way to it eventually.
I was very sad about this. I felt unheard and I realized that I have often felt unheard in my life, that I have given myself over and over again the experience of feeling unheard. And I have this to say: We should listen to each other, now more than ever. We should listen to each other and we should assume that we each are speaking profound truths and great wisdom. We should do this. We should do this now.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Embodiment of Unity Consciousness
Okay, friends. This is another fairly dense packet of information coming at you because, frankly, that is where I am at today. Take a deep breath, and dive in.
In the past, many of us have sought to transcend the physical and somehow go beyond it. We put our excellence, the grandness of our being, outside of our bodies. It is within the body that it exists, and it is the body, in its innate wisdom and knowing, that can guide us to the metaphoric heights we have chosen to ascend.
We are exploring and experiencing unity consciousness from within the physical body and the energetic, emotional and mind bodies. We are not leaving behind the physical body or the mind / ego, or the lower emotional states as we do this; we are incorporating unity consciousness within our bodies and our feelings and our Being here on this Earth.
Look to your body's experience of being in the world. You naturally shift your consciousness from the individual embodied Self that you are in the world of form and the All-That-Is/Larger Self that you are as soul-self. You do this time and time again, unconsciously for the most part, and effortlessly. Your body is a joyous participant in this process. There is nothing 'less than' about the body. It is a miracle of being incarnate as consciousness in the world of form. It is a gift of magnificent proportions to All-That-Is as it experiences moments consciously. The more conscious you are of the gift that you give through your being in the world, the more personal and intentional the gift becomes.
Love your body, celebrate the fact that you are in a body. Thank your body for its being and becoming. Breathe in love of life and gratitude for each moment. Breathe out joy in simply being.
Unity consciousness is not something outside of us which we need to find; it is within us and waiting for us to seek it there and to make room for it in our busy lives and crowded consciousness. It is not something to which we 'escape' from this world. Rather, it is something that we bring to this world through the conduit of our presence here in physicality. Take a deep breath as you let this sink in.
And there is more truth for me to share with you this morning.
Each of us brings an individual and infinitely precious hue or radiance to unity consciousness. Your contribution is unique and informs the Whole of it. You do not 'take from' unity consciousness, rather, you give to it of your consciousness, individuated and inimitable. You inform it. You incorporate it within your being.
You embody unity consciousness and any person who comes near you partakes of your consciousness stream whether they speak to you or not, whether you speak to them or not, whether they are consciously aware of you or not... This is what we are doing here; we are sharing All that we are with All-That-Is.
Breathe and feel. Breathe and feel your being in the world as a gift to ALL.
When you feel that wave of Oneness washing over you and through you and out from you in all directions simultaneously, know that you inform the Oneness through your experience of it. Know also that the gift you give is good and true and lovingly received by ALL.
And so it is.
In the past, many of us have sought to transcend the physical and somehow go beyond it. We put our excellence, the grandness of our being, outside of our bodies. It is within the body that it exists, and it is the body, in its innate wisdom and knowing, that can guide us to the metaphoric heights we have chosen to ascend.
We are exploring and experiencing unity consciousness from within the physical body and the energetic, emotional and mind bodies. We are not leaving behind the physical body or the mind / ego, or the lower emotional states as we do this; we are incorporating unity consciousness within our bodies and our feelings and our Being here on this Earth.
Look to your body's experience of being in the world. You naturally shift your consciousness from the individual embodied Self that you are in the world of form and the All-That-Is/Larger Self that you are as soul-self. You do this time and time again, unconsciously for the most part, and effortlessly. Your body is a joyous participant in this process. There is nothing 'less than' about the body. It is a miracle of being incarnate as consciousness in the world of form. It is a gift of magnificent proportions to All-That-Is as it experiences moments consciously. The more conscious you are of the gift that you give through your being in the world, the more personal and intentional the gift becomes.
Love your body, celebrate the fact that you are in a body. Thank your body for its being and becoming. Breathe in love of life and gratitude for each moment. Breathe out joy in simply being.
Unity consciousness is not something outside of us which we need to find; it is within us and waiting for us to seek it there and to make room for it in our busy lives and crowded consciousness. It is not something to which we 'escape' from this world. Rather, it is something that we bring to this world through the conduit of our presence here in physicality. Take a deep breath as you let this sink in.
And there is more truth for me to share with you this morning.
Each of us brings an individual and infinitely precious hue or radiance to unity consciousness. Your contribution is unique and informs the Whole of it. You do not 'take from' unity consciousness, rather, you give to it of your consciousness, individuated and inimitable. You inform it. You incorporate it within your being.
You embody unity consciousness and any person who comes near you partakes of your consciousness stream whether they speak to you or not, whether you speak to them or not, whether they are consciously aware of you or not... This is what we are doing here; we are sharing All that we are with All-That-Is.
Breathe and feel. Breathe and feel your being in the world as a gift to ALL.
When you feel that wave of Oneness washing over you and through you and out from you in all directions simultaneously, know that you inform the Oneness through your experience of it. Know also that the gift you give is good and true and lovingly received by ALL.
And so it is.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Exploring and Experiencing Unity Consciousness
Once again I invite you to journey through my words to a place beyond words.
The first time I experienced unity consciousness, I was walking in the forest on a trail at Warwick County Park in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was a beautiful day and I was in heaven on Earth as I walked along. My thoughts were full of joy, wonder and amazement at this journey in time and space that all of we humans are on. Suddenly I was confronted by a realization of unity with all other human beings in a sort of wave of Oneness that flowed out from where I stood on the hillside. I was in awe of all of these humans being. I was in honour of each and every one of them, although I was only aware of the collective of our consciousness of being.
Since that day, years ago now, I have experienced a similar sensation many times. The sense of it has expanded beyond human consciousness into all that exists in the world. It always feels like a wave or flood of being, pulsing in spherical infinity. It always feels a bit crowded, close might be a better word, but also peaceful and harmonious. It always feels as if it is expanding outward and lately it also feels as if it is flowing inward, toward my heart, as well - sort of like breathing out and then inevitably breathing in.
It is being One with. It is not an experience of Oneness by one who is not part of the Oneness. It is being the Oneness. Perhaps that is why it feels like a flood or wave. It takes over my being when I experience it, so that there is nothing which is not me and nothing that is not also everything else all at the same time. Yet, a fraction of a second later, I AM conscious of myself having been of the Oneness. Perhaps there will come a time when I can somehow combine self-individuated consciousness with unity consciousness, but up until now I have not experienced that.
When I experience unity consciousness, there is no possibility of experiencing any need, desire, want, lack, hunger. Can you understand what I mean? In unity with ALL, there is nothing that is not part of the Oneness. There can not even be the shadow of an outline of wanting. Thus there is a sensation of total peace with ALL-That-Is.
Where does this unity consciousness reside? How can you experience unity consciousness if you have not already done so?
Well, I'm no expert on the subject, but I believe that when we center ourselves in the heart and open the heart to the world with no judgement, with total acceptance, with unreserved love, we bring ourselves closer and closer to the experience of unity consciousness.
I also believe that our soul-selves are always in unity consciousness, as are the plants, trees, rocks and animals of the natural world that surrounds us. I read yesterday that the word 'nature' comes from a latin root word meaning to be born. So the natural world is continuously being born, becoming itself in an unfolding of life force energy, of love of being alive. It is such a beautiful impetus to being and becoming!
So, as we spend time in the natural world, in loving witness to its continuously becoming is-ness, and as we connect more and more with our soul-selves, we also invite unity consciousness into our experience.
The word consciousness can be misleading. We tend to situate consciousness in our heads. This is not of the head. This is not of words or thoughts. This is of the heart and of the soul. It is beyond all words. Even the little words that I have used above to try to describe it to you are nothing in comparison to the experience itself.
Having experienced unity conciousness, we can no longer understand death or life as we have previously. We are beyond many of the constructs of human understanding of what it means to be in the world, of what it means to be an individuated self in the world. This is exciting, but it can also be disorienting. And we're not running a race here. Take your time and feel your way into it. Explore and experience unity consciousness. It partakes of the unconditional love that is of the ALL. It will change you irrevocably, if it has not already done so.
Bon voyage!
The first time I experienced unity consciousness, I was walking in the forest on a trail at Warwick County Park in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was a beautiful day and I was in heaven on Earth as I walked along. My thoughts were full of joy, wonder and amazement at this journey in time and space that all of we humans are on. Suddenly I was confronted by a realization of unity with all other human beings in a sort of wave of Oneness that flowed out from where I stood on the hillside. I was in awe of all of these humans being. I was in honour of each and every one of them, although I was only aware of the collective of our consciousness of being.
Since that day, years ago now, I have experienced a similar sensation many times. The sense of it has expanded beyond human consciousness into all that exists in the world. It always feels like a wave or flood of being, pulsing in spherical infinity. It always feels a bit crowded, close might be a better word, but also peaceful and harmonious. It always feels as if it is expanding outward and lately it also feels as if it is flowing inward, toward my heart, as well - sort of like breathing out and then inevitably breathing in.
It is being One with. It is not an experience of Oneness by one who is not part of the Oneness. It is being the Oneness. Perhaps that is why it feels like a flood or wave. It takes over my being when I experience it, so that there is nothing which is not me and nothing that is not also everything else all at the same time. Yet, a fraction of a second later, I AM conscious of myself having been of the Oneness. Perhaps there will come a time when I can somehow combine self-individuated consciousness with unity consciousness, but up until now I have not experienced that.
When I experience unity consciousness, there is no possibility of experiencing any need, desire, want, lack, hunger. Can you understand what I mean? In unity with ALL, there is nothing that is not part of the Oneness. There can not even be the shadow of an outline of wanting. Thus there is a sensation of total peace with ALL-That-Is.
Where does this unity consciousness reside? How can you experience unity consciousness if you have not already done so?
Well, I'm no expert on the subject, but I believe that when we center ourselves in the heart and open the heart to the world with no judgement, with total acceptance, with unreserved love, we bring ourselves closer and closer to the experience of unity consciousness.
I also believe that our soul-selves are always in unity consciousness, as are the plants, trees, rocks and animals of the natural world that surrounds us. I read yesterday that the word 'nature' comes from a latin root word meaning to be born. So the natural world is continuously being born, becoming itself in an unfolding of life force energy, of love of being alive. It is such a beautiful impetus to being and becoming!
So, as we spend time in the natural world, in loving witness to its continuously becoming is-ness, and as we connect more and more with our soul-selves, we also invite unity consciousness into our experience.
The word consciousness can be misleading. We tend to situate consciousness in our heads. This is not of the head. This is not of words or thoughts. This is of the heart and of the soul. It is beyond all words. Even the little words that I have used above to try to describe it to you are nothing in comparison to the experience itself.
Having experienced unity conciousness, we can no longer understand death or life as we have previously. We are beyond many of the constructs of human understanding of what it means to be in the world, of what it means to be an individuated self in the world. This is exciting, but it can also be disorienting. And we're not running a race here. Take your time and feel your way into it. Explore and experience unity consciousness. It partakes of the unconditional love that is of the ALL. It will change you irrevocably, if it has not already done so.
Bon voyage!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The Power of Water
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, we are made largely of water. Babies are about 90% water. Children are about 80% water and adults are about 70% water.
Not only are we made largely of water, but water informs us, carrying hormones, glandular secretions, nutrients, wastes and more subtle substances to and through every cell of which we are comprised. And water, as we now know, actually changes its formation as it is informed by energies as subtle as thought and feeling. Way cool.
Water replicates information. Your beliefs, feelings, expectations and knowing exist as energetic structures and they are carried throughout your biology and replicated by water. As you internalize a belief or idea, it travels through your entire body and is endlessly replicated by the water within you. Ultimately, you and your experience become the living embodiment of this belief or idea.
This is a natural and ongoing process. It is happening all the time. So, the belief that you are healthy and that you never catch colds informs your biology actually and literally. The belief that life is joyful and effortless informs my biology and creates my experience of the world.
Only in your reorientation to what is not, do you prevent this from happening. Every thought and feeling informs the water of which you are comprised. So every time that you change your mind, you change your reality. You are constantly creating. Are you creating consciously and consistently, or are you constantly creating something else?
It is as if you threw one rock into the pool and watched it ripple out and its vibrations take over the previously still surface and inform the entire body of water. But then, you threw another in a different spot and then another after that. So there was interference of all kinds and the clarity of your original creative intention was not only diminished, but actually incapable of replication and embodiment due to the subsequent conflicting energy waves that rippled out upon the body of water which is the pool of your experience in three dimensional reality.
Don't throw intention after intention, choice after choice, into the timeless pool of energetic potential which informs your experience of being in the world. It is challenging to learn focus and faith, consistency and cohesion, yet that is the whole point. If it were easy, it wouldn't be nearly so much fun when you get it right. And we go further now, in any case, as we enter into this time of unprecedented change. We begin to work much more directly with our own energetic state and freqency. We become the rock, the hand that throws, the pool itself and the waves of energy playing upon its surface.
So if you would become a conscious co-creator in 2011, look to your own frequency, your own vibration and feeling. Monitor that and observe its fluctuations, its feel and colour. Mimic water's mutability.
Notice water. Notice how it reflects, takes on and enhances colours, how it effortlessly permeates everything, how it flows and transforms itself into gas, back into liquid, then to solid ice and back to liquid and gas again. Feel its joy by feeling into its unique molecular structure and chemical composition - not through the mind, but through your intuitive knowing, your heart center of feeling, your divine sense of things beyond words.
We experience more and more of what we actually are. We become more and more what we intentionally position ourselves energetically to be. So practice being the rock and the hand that tosses it, the choice, the intention and the vibration itself, rippling out energetically and playing in the world of form. Inform your own vibration. Raise your frequency. It comes easily enough through intention, through the breath, through centering yourself in the heart and finding the unconditional love that resides there.
If you would experience abundance, fill yourself with the feeling of abundance, its energy, its joy. That is all. Be that and go about your day being that. If you would experience balance in your body, or good luck, fill yourself with the feeling of balance, the feeling of good luck. Be that and go about your day being that.
Practice consistency in your vibration. To do that you will need to become more and more self-referent, self-centered. Otherwise other people's energetic vibrations will influence your own. So practice and play with it. It can't hurt and it has a very real potential to help.
Play with the power of water. Mimic its joyfulness. Be the self you wish to be in the world. It is time for this now.
Not only are we made largely of water, but water informs us, carrying hormones, glandular secretions, nutrients, wastes and more subtle substances to and through every cell of which we are comprised. And water, as we now know, actually changes its formation as it is informed by energies as subtle as thought and feeling. Way cool.
Water replicates information. Your beliefs, feelings, expectations and knowing exist as energetic structures and they are carried throughout your biology and replicated by water. As you internalize a belief or idea, it travels through your entire body and is endlessly replicated by the water within you. Ultimately, you and your experience become the living embodiment of this belief or idea.
This is a natural and ongoing process. It is happening all the time. So, the belief that you are healthy and that you never catch colds informs your biology actually and literally. The belief that life is joyful and effortless informs my biology and creates my experience of the world.
Only in your reorientation to what is not, do you prevent this from happening. Every thought and feeling informs the water of which you are comprised. So every time that you change your mind, you change your reality. You are constantly creating. Are you creating consciously and consistently, or are you constantly creating something else?
It is as if you threw one rock into the pool and watched it ripple out and its vibrations take over the previously still surface and inform the entire body of water. But then, you threw another in a different spot and then another after that. So there was interference of all kinds and the clarity of your original creative intention was not only diminished, but actually incapable of replication and embodiment due to the subsequent conflicting energy waves that rippled out upon the body of water which is the pool of your experience in three dimensional reality.
Don't throw intention after intention, choice after choice, into the timeless pool of energetic potential which informs your experience of being in the world. It is challenging to learn focus and faith, consistency and cohesion, yet that is the whole point. If it were easy, it wouldn't be nearly so much fun when you get it right. And we go further now, in any case, as we enter into this time of unprecedented change. We begin to work much more directly with our own energetic state and freqency. We become the rock, the hand that throws, the pool itself and the waves of energy playing upon its surface.
So if you would become a conscious co-creator in 2011, look to your own frequency, your own vibration and feeling. Monitor that and observe its fluctuations, its feel and colour. Mimic water's mutability.
Notice water. Notice how it reflects, takes on and enhances colours, how it effortlessly permeates everything, how it flows and transforms itself into gas, back into liquid, then to solid ice and back to liquid and gas again. Feel its joy by feeling into its unique molecular structure and chemical composition - not through the mind, but through your intuitive knowing, your heart center of feeling, your divine sense of things beyond words.
We experience more and more of what we actually are. We become more and more what we intentionally position ourselves energetically to be. So practice being the rock and the hand that tosses it, the choice, the intention and the vibration itself, rippling out energetically and playing in the world of form. Inform your own vibration. Raise your frequency. It comes easily enough through intention, through the breath, through centering yourself in the heart and finding the unconditional love that resides there.
If you would experience abundance, fill yourself with the feeling of abundance, its energy, its joy. That is all. Be that and go about your day being that. If you would experience balance in your body, or good luck, fill yourself with the feeling of balance, the feeling of good luck. Be that and go about your day being that.
Practice consistency in your vibration. To do that you will need to become more and more self-referent, self-centered. Otherwise other people's energetic vibrations will influence your own. So practice and play with it. It can't hurt and it has a very real potential to help.
Play with the power of water. Mimic its joyfulness. Be the self you wish to be in the world. It is time for this now.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Always in Love
Eternity is in love with the creations of time. Oh! I love that notion! I read it somewhere and now can't find the source quotation, so can't give credit where credit is due. And I've probably got it just slightly off of the original phrasing, but I think you can grasp the rich, deep meaning of it.
Eternity is in love with the creations of time. We are not little just because we are small, not small just because we are little.
Here is a quote from a channelled message from Archangel Michael: "To be given form and focus is the great joy of All-That-Is..."
This is what we are doing here, you see. We are God being in the world. We are that which is ALL being not everything at once. We are giving God form and focus through our being. And we are beloved for our service in this way. We are so very loved for being not All-That-Is even as we are and always have been All-That-Is.
Eternity is in love with the creations of time. Our greatest service is provided in the here and now of the present moment. That focus, that point of presence, is our gift to the All-That-Is. And when you feel this, when you feel the enormity of the service which you render to the Absolute, to the ALL, to That-Which-Cannot-Be-Named because it is so much the ALLness of ALL, you know your true worth and purpose here. Then your love for your own sacred self expands to encompass all that you are. And from that moment on, you can no longer entertain a sense of yourself as being less than the most joyful, radiant, brave, honoured, delighted, delighting, self being in the world in some sort of miracle of not-being ALL that you truly are.
Eternity is in love with the creations of time. We are not little just because we are small, not small just because we are little.
Here is a quote from a channelled message from Archangel Michael: "To be given form and focus is the great joy of All-That-Is..."
This is what we are doing here, you see. We are God being in the world. We are that which is ALL being not everything at once. We are giving God form and focus through our being. And we are beloved for our service in this way. We are so very loved for being not All-That-Is even as we are and always have been All-That-Is.
Eternity is in love with the creations of time. Our greatest service is provided in the here and now of the present moment. That focus, that point of presence, is our gift to the All-That-Is. And when you feel this, when you feel the enormity of the service which you render to the Absolute, to the ALL, to That-Which-Cannot-Be-Named because it is so much the ALLness of ALL, you know your true worth and purpose here. Then your love for your own sacred self expands to encompass all that you are. And from that moment on, you can no longer entertain a sense of yourself as being less than the most joyful, radiant, brave, honoured, delighted, delighting, self being in the world in some sort of miracle of not-being ALL that you truly are.
Water Is
Water is the most joyful
substance on Earth.
A fragment
of the purest water
is always water,
even as it transpires, evaporates, rises, cools, expands,
is joined by other
pure fragments of water,
turns purple-blue and storm-cloud grey,
rains down on waiting leaves,
sluices through undergrowth, and finds its beloved Earth again
then streams down, always down,
until salts penetrate its purity
and then again
the evaporation and the rising and the transformation
again and again.
And always in love and always joyful.
Even when it doesn't know exactly what it is or why,
water is a fragment of something so glorious,
even muddied
it is
always in love and always joyful.
We are made up largely of water, infused with energy and intentionality, intelligence and awareness. We are individuated pieces of the divine essence of ALL-That-Is. We are always in service to the ALL, whether we remember this, or not. And our service is in our being, not in our doing. It is through the simple fact that we are here being in the Now, no matter what is happening around us, no matter what we are doing, that we provide form and focus, creations of time, to that which is Eternal, to that which is the ALL.
Fragments of the divine we are, fragments of the divine, always in love.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Endless, Effortless Bliss
I live in the beautiful countryside southeast of Montreal. The Green Mountains of Vermont press themselves lovingly over the human defined border between the United States and Canada as if it were nothing but a line on a map. Those vast masses of rock and earth are so unconcerned with our boundaries and borders. (Smile)
City-dwellers flood our little village every weekend. The local people tend to do their shopping and errands on weekdays so as to avoid the crowds of city folk who bring their money and enthusiasm to our little boutiques and restaurants and to the ski resort on the north side of Mount Sutton.
This weekend, I drove down the expressway to Montreal to visit friends, do some serious shopping and see my dentist for a cleaning and check-up.
There is nothing quite like the city of Montreal in the month of February. The sky was pale blue, almost white and then later turned a steely grey. The wind was bitterly cold and the pot-holes were deep and numerous. Piles of brown-grey snow lay everywhere. The buildings and roads and sidewalks all looked the same brown-grey. The traffic was continous and pressing. The air was dry and dusty, blown into eyes and hair by the strong wind. Trash and litter, strewn across streets and sidewalks, was blown by the wind into corners and across the street in front of my car as I drove from one place to another. No music played on the car radio - I had lost contact with my favourite radio station, which is in Vermont and plays lovely classical and baroque music commercial free. Oh, how bleak a scene was this?
I drove the Decarie Expressway, Sherbrooke Street and DeMaisonneuve. I waited at endless traffic lights and merged into countless lanes as I crisscrossed the city, trying to fit into one day what would normally be done in three. I could not even begin to remove the smile from my face. I was in heaven on Earth, dear friends. I was in heaven on Earth.
I passed the dump truck test easily. There was a double dump truck filled with dirty snow and road grease, coughing smoke into the city air and roaring just beside me as I sat waiting for the light to change. I loved it unreservedly and enthusiastically. I loved the noisy drill-like tool that my dentist used to super-clean my teeth. I loved the sound of the X-ray machine that she used also. I loved the sidewalks and the cars and their drivers, and the pedestrians scurrying under the bitter wind. I loved the long line at the check-out area of Ikea. I loved the mini-van that cut me off as I tried to get across four lanes of inner city traffic to make the turn onto Jean Talon. I loved it all and couldn't get out of the blissful state that I was in even if I had wanted to.
I suppose that it is the breathing of total acceptance which brings me to this, or perhaps it is the experience day after day of joy and gratitude. Perhaps it is the constant centering of myself in my heart and the way that peace comes in and sets up its own bliss factory right inside of me. Whatever it is, I rejoice. I had been uncertain of how visiting the city would be for me. I spent time with two dear friends, which was wonderful, but I was not at all sure that I would be able to easily maneuvre my forested self through the streets of the city.
Endless, effortless bliss was my experience of the past two and a half days. I slept less than usual and was very tired by Sunday evening, once again tucked into my quiet home on the mountainside, but the joy was strong within me through all of my moments, through all of the comings and goings of these very busy days.
Endless, effortless bliss is my sense of self being in the world wanting for nothing, lacking nothing, trusting completely in the energetic dance of self with world. Endless, effortless bliss is my experience lately. Take a deep breath. Can you feel it as I do?
City-dwellers flood our little village every weekend. The local people tend to do their shopping and errands on weekdays so as to avoid the crowds of city folk who bring their money and enthusiasm to our little boutiques and restaurants and to the ski resort on the north side of Mount Sutton.
This weekend, I drove down the expressway to Montreal to visit friends, do some serious shopping and see my dentist for a cleaning and check-up.
There is nothing quite like the city of Montreal in the month of February. The sky was pale blue, almost white and then later turned a steely grey. The wind was bitterly cold and the pot-holes were deep and numerous. Piles of brown-grey snow lay everywhere. The buildings and roads and sidewalks all looked the same brown-grey. The traffic was continous and pressing. The air was dry and dusty, blown into eyes and hair by the strong wind. Trash and litter, strewn across streets and sidewalks, was blown by the wind into corners and across the street in front of my car as I drove from one place to another. No music played on the car radio - I had lost contact with my favourite radio station, which is in Vermont and plays lovely classical and baroque music commercial free. Oh, how bleak a scene was this?
I drove the Decarie Expressway, Sherbrooke Street and DeMaisonneuve. I waited at endless traffic lights and merged into countless lanes as I crisscrossed the city, trying to fit into one day what would normally be done in three. I could not even begin to remove the smile from my face. I was in heaven on Earth, dear friends. I was in heaven on Earth.
I passed the dump truck test easily. There was a double dump truck filled with dirty snow and road grease, coughing smoke into the city air and roaring just beside me as I sat waiting for the light to change. I loved it unreservedly and enthusiastically. I loved the noisy drill-like tool that my dentist used to super-clean my teeth. I loved the sound of the X-ray machine that she used also. I loved the sidewalks and the cars and their drivers, and the pedestrians scurrying under the bitter wind. I loved the long line at the check-out area of Ikea. I loved the mini-van that cut me off as I tried to get across four lanes of inner city traffic to make the turn onto Jean Talon. I loved it all and couldn't get out of the blissful state that I was in even if I had wanted to.
I suppose that it is the breathing of total acceptance which brings me to this, or perhaps it is the experience day after day of joy and gratitude. Perhaps it is the constant centering of myself in my heart and the way that peace comes in and sets up its own bliss factory right inside of me. Whatever it is, I rejoice. I had been uncertain of how visiting the city would be for me. I spent time with two dear friends, which was wonderful, but I was not at all sure that I would be able to easily maneuvre my forested self through the streets of the city.
Endless, effortless bliss was my experience of the past two and a half days. I slept less than usual and was very tired by Sunday evening, once again tucked into my quiet home on the mountainside, but the joy was strong within me through all of my moments, through all of the comings and goings of these very busy days.
Endless, effortless bliss is my sense of self being in the world wanting for nothing, lacking nothing, trusting completely in the energetic dance of self with world. Endless, effortless bliss is my experience lately. Take a deep breath. Can you feel it as I do?
Friday, February 18, 2011
Intentional Becoming
Take a deep breath.
I can remember a time when I had to really work at it to enter into an Alpha state, a truly meditative state transcending the normal functioning of the mind in wakefulness. Do you recall such a time?
Now, I can put myself there so easily and immediately that I have to be careful NOT to be there when I am driving, walking down the aisles in the grocery store (other people, other grocery carts), or figuring out my tax returns. The other day I was trying to figure out the change in my hand in relation to the amount needed by the cashier and I got into a muddle. I used to teach maths and arithmetic and have always been good with numbers. I ended up just handing her a twenty and saying, "Sorry to be so slow; I'm barely here today." And I really meant it; I was barely present in my body on this beloved Earth.
Do you remember being taken to task for 'daydreaming?' Oh, my goodness. My old grade school teachers would have a terrible time with the me that I am currently being. I'm off in the etheric realms often during the course of the day. And when I speak of it to others, they tell me that they are also. And all over the internet I find the words channelled through human beings as they are in trance, in that Alpha state, in a daydream of channelling their higher selves, the unseens on the other side of the veil who have much to share with us in light and love.
What I am trying to say is that it is different now than it has been. Last night, lying awake at 3:00 am, I felt an expansiveness deep within me where before had been a smallness, a huddled Self. Where before I felt the need to hide from the World, I now feel free rein to BE who I truly AM. There is an expansion within me where there used to be a contraction. It feels wonderful.
This expansive propensity to fly off into the etheric realms can be balanced by regular exercise used intentionally to bring myself back into my body. Yoga works well for me in this way. I love to dance and walk the land as well and doing these things consciously can bring me back into the world and into my body, fully present in the human being a Self experiencing the Now. That's what we're doing here, after all. It's not about getting away. It's about being fully present. For some reason, doing the dishes has a wonderfully grounding effect on me. It has something to do with the simplicity of the action and the flow of water over my skin. Needless to say, my kitchen is very clean and tidy most of the time.
We are moving more and more into awareness of Unity as a field of being of which we are a part. This is, for me, the ALLness of my being in the world. We are becoming more and more conscious of ALL that we are. The effortless turning into the consciousness of non-verbal beingness, the alpha state of the deeply meditative mind, is only one aspect of our being. There is also the stretch of muscle and the play of light and shadow and the emotions that come up in us, move through us, are released.
Through the breath, the breathing, we expand our consciousness to include that exalted state of consciousness that knows the ALL. This is our divine knowing. Through the peace engendered in us by this divine knowing we embody compassion. We are becoming something more than we have ever been and it isn't just you and I who are doing this; it is global.
We are going through a change the likes of which we humans have never known before. It is momentous! I choose to do this intentionally and consciously. Otherwise, I would feel like a spectator at the greatest show in the Universe with eyes closed and ears muffled. What would be the point of that?
We are becoming something different than we have been, individually and collectively. I am intentionally becoming the expanded Self that I sensed deep within me at 3 o'clock in the morning. To do this, I am using, among other things, intentional breathing and intentional movement to bring me fully into my body. I am joyful in this. It feels as if I have been waiting all of my life for these days of unprecedented change to come upon us.
Sing in the change that we would become. Intend and expand into your intention through your breath.
Breathe and feel.
Feel and know.
Know and become.
I can remember a time when I had to really work at it to enter into an Alpha state, a truly meditative state transcending the normal functioning of the mind in wakefulness. Do you recall such a time?
Now, I can put myself there so easily and immediately that I have to be careful NOT to be there when I am driving, walking down the aisles in the grocery store (other people, other grocery carts), or figuring out my tax returns. The other day I was trying to figure out the change in my hand in relation to the amount needed by the cashier and I got into a muddle. I used to teach maths and arithmetic and have always been good with numbers. I ended up just handing her a twenty and saying, "Sorry to be so slow; I'm barely here today." And I really meant it; I was barely present in my body on this beloved Earth.
Do you remember being taken to task for 'daydreaming?' Oh, my goodness. My old grade school teachers would have a terrible time with the me that I am currently being. I'm off in the etheric realms often during the course of the day. And when I speak of it to others, they tell me that they are also. And all over the internet I find the words channelled through human beings as they are in trance, in that Alpha state, in a daydream of channelling their higher selves, the unseens on the other side of the veil who have much to share with us in light and love.
What I am trying to say is that it is different now than it has been. Last night, lying awake at 3:00 am, I felt an expansiveness deep within me where before had been a smallness, a huddled Self. Where before I felt the need to hide from the World, I now feel free rein to BE who I truly AM. There is an expansion within me where there used to be a contraction. It feels wonderful.
This expansive propensity to fly off into the etheric realms can be balanced by regular exercise used intentionally to bring myself back into my body. Yoga works well for me in this way. I love to dance and walk the land as well and doing these things consciously can bring me back into the world and into my body, fully present in the human being a Self experiencing the Now. That's what we're doing here, after all. It's not about getting away. It's about being fully present. For some reason, doing the dishes has a wonderfully grounding effect on me. It has something to do with the simplicity of the action and the flow of water over my skin. Needless to say, my kitchen is very clean and tidy most of the time.
We are moving more and more into awareness of Unity as a field of being of which we are a part. This is, for me, the ALLness of my being in the world. We are becoming more and more conscious of ALL that we are. The effortless turning into the consciousness of non-verbal beingness, the alpha state of the deeply meditative mind, is only one aspect of our being. There is also the stretch of muscle and the play of light and shadow and the emotions that come up in us, move through us, are released.
Through the breath, the breathing, we expand our consciousness to include that exalted state of consciousness that knows the ALL. This is our divine knowing. Through the peace engendered in us by this divine knowing we embody compassion. We are becoming something more than we have ever been and it isn't just you and I who are doing this; it is global.
We are going through a change the likes of which we humans have never known before. It is momentous! I choose to do this intentionally and consciously. Otherwise, I would feel like a spectator at the greatest show in the Universe with eyes closed and ears muffled. What would be the point of that?
We are becoming something different than we have been, individually and collectively. I am intentionally becoming the expanded Self that I sensed deep within me at 3 o'clock in the morning. To do this, I am using, among other things, intentional breathing and intentional movement to bring me fully into my body. I am joyful in this. It feels as if I have been waiting all of my life for these days of unprecedented change to come upon us.
Sing in the change that we would become. Intend and expand into your intention through your breath.
Breathe and feel.
Feel and know.
Know and become.
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