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Articles: Loving Yourself in the MeantimeThe soul's purpose is evolution. As both individuals and a race, we are seeking to experience ourselves as the grandest version of the greatest vision ever imagined of who we are. Our soul is after the highest feeling of Love we can imagine. We want to feel and know ourselves fully in our own experience. The highest feeling is the experience of Unity with All That Is - Perfect Love, which is the sum of all feeling, like white is the sum of all colors. Love is not the absence of hate, anger, greed, lust, but love is the inclusion of all such feelings. For the soul to experience Perfect Love, it must experience and integrate every human feeling.According to God in Conversations With God Bk. II, scripted by N.D. Walsch, the only problem of humanity is lack of Love. Love breeds tolerance. Tolerance breeds peace. Intolerance produces war and looks indifferently on intolerable conditions. The fastest way to get to a place of love and concern for all humankind is to see all of mankind as family. The way to do this is to stop separating ourselves and let each person find the peace within. This one simple change, finding the peace within, could, if undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict, prevent injustice, and bring the world to everlasting peace. God tells us, what’s needed is not a change in circumstance, but a change of consciousness. Life, and our whole worldly drama give us the opportunity to know experientially what we know conceptually. Until the concept becomes experience, it is only speculation. You could not choose / claim / experience Who You Are if you already were It, like a candle in the sun could not know fully its own light. It’s necessary first to release / deny / forget our connection to God in order to fully experience it by choosing it. Our own lives are the way they are because of the choices we made or failed to make. You have drawn the people, events, and circumstances of your life to you as tools with which to fashion the Grandest Version of the Greatest Vision you ever had about yourself. This process of creation and recreation is ongoing, never ending, and multi-layered. It’s all happening right now and on many levels. So, bless the Process, and accept it as the greatest gift of the Kindest Creator. Embrace the process, and move through it with peace, wisdom, and joy. Use the Process, and transform it from something you ‘endure’, to something you engage as a tool in the creation of the most magnificent experience of all time, the fulfillment of your Divine Self. The universe merely provides us with a field of experience, a range of objective phenomena. We decide what to label them. All events, all experiences, have as their purpose the creating of opportunity – nothing more – nothing less. There are no ‘bad apples’ or sinners, only people who disagree with your point of view on things, people who construct a different model of the world. God reminds us that no person does anything inappropriate, given their model of the world or universe. Do not require others to define themselves according to your terms. Judge not, neither condemn, for you know not why things occur nor to what end. People’s ideas of right or wrong change over and over, often established by time and space, locations, boundaries, judgments. A thing is not intrinsically right or wrong. It simply IS. We can’t know cold without hot, up unless down, left unless right, love unless fear. Do not condemn one and bless the other. To do so is to fail to understand. Life is about Love. Love is all there is, all we need. Love is the experience of Oneness, the union of mind and heart. We attempt to create this union with others before first creating it within ourselves. That’s impossible. You can’t get love from outside until you are love on the inside. Too many people are trying to solve the problems of the world when they haven’t yet straightened out their own lives. We seem to have a hard time understanding that we are the love we seek. The Being in the heart of each of us is Pure Love, yet we fear to be who we truly are. We must 'ge't that loving ourselves is all that really matters, then we can love others. Our job is to put Love into action in every single aspect of our lives. As each of us shifts, we facilitate healing and growth for others, by becoming a living example of Love – that’s how Jesus taught Love. Until we can recognize ourselves as love and live in harmony with our true identity, our inner void grows deeper, wider, more painful. Other people can’t fulfill your needs – they may want to and try – they can distract you and make the need seem less urgent, or cause you to temporarily forget. It won’t disappear. It keeps coming back to haunt you until resolved. Unfinished business from the past doesn’t just disappear. If not dealt with, it remains buried inside, usually resurfacing later in unexpected and troubling ways. Problems must be worked through and released or else remain a barrier to your growth and development of spirit. You open up the gift of the present by closing up the past. Your task is not to seek for truth, love, happiness, peace, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Your part is simply to allow all obstacles you have interposed to be quietly removed. Let go. Hold onto, hide, and judge nothing. It’s time to reclaim our power and accept responsibility for creating what we get in life and begin to consciously create joy, freedom, and abundance. We created it, we can recreate it. People need Love. God is Love. People need God. The feeling of Unconditional Love is our experience of God. We can’t fill the vacuum once filled by God with anything else. When we believe we don’t have enough love in our lives, we enter into what Iyanla Vanzant calls ‘the meantime’. The ‘meantime’ is the place to do your healing and cleaning. It’s also a catalyst to a deeper awareness of love for ourselves and others – a therapeutic review of beliefs, notions, ideas, or perceptions of what love is about. We come to the meantime to facilitate a shift in consciousness. So the question remains, What do we do in the ‘meantime’? While we are in the process of figuring it all out and getting our lives together, clearing away anything that seems to be blocking that feeling of being immersed in Unconditional Love. To complete the journey without becoming worn out, you must learn to walk through your stuff, embrace it, accept it, and love it. Its all the ‘stuff’ you hold onto, that keeps you from the true and honest experience of Love. We seem to hang onto a certain amount of excess baggage. This weighs us down on life’s journey. Sooner or later, we all come to the point where we’re ready and willing to take responsibility for our own ‘stuff’. We own up to the fact we are the only ones who can clean up the mess. It’s time to clean the closet of our mind and subconscious. Let go of what no longer fits or serves. Like laundry, we let old hurts, fears, and angers build up to overwhelming. We carry our unhealed upsets as burdens. We need to clear the heart to be open and ready for the grandest experience of all, True Unconditional Love. Owning our own ‘stuff’, and taking responsibility for cleaning it up opens the floodgates of healing in our soul. The meantime is a process divinely designed to help us clear out our stuff. Stuff is what the meantime is made of. All the stuff you need to know, feel, and need to sort out and heal comes to life here. It’s up to you to break the mold, the pattern, to change what is not serving you as you learn how to love yourself unconditionally, no matter what’s going on. Life is our opportunity to get clear, get real, and heal self in preparation for giving and receiving the one thing we all want, pure, honest, unconditional love. Trust, faith, truth, patience, honor are the cornerstone principles of all life’s relationships. These are also things we receive in the presence of unconditional love. Our partners in our relationships in life gift us with revealing our ‘stuff’ to us – a divine opportunity to clear it up. We often find ourselves in resistance to our own stuff and try to dump it on others. We project, shame, and blame, creating guilt, anger and fear, often because we find it hard to take responsibility for our own ‘stuff’. This disempowers us. What we don’t realize is that if we don’t own it, we can’t change it, heal it, or give it away. To keep doing the same things and expect different results is evidence of insanity. The Law Of Attraction states we will continually bring people into our lives who act out aspects of ourselves which we don’t yet accept. We tend to dislike and resist in others what we suppress in ourselves. Dare to unmask that aspect of yourself which destroys relationships, kills your spirit, and keeps you from fulfilling your dreams. That aspect is your ‘shadow’, the sum total of all traits not yet embraced, those parts of yourself kept hidden, denied, or suppressed. Carl Jung described it as the person we would rather not be. The process of embracing our shadow heals us. Once you take back and love all aspects of yourself, you are whole. And, once you’re whole, you’re healed. Healing is a process, it takes time, and happens in stages. We tend to experience the process as painful as long as we resist it, and want to hold on. Michael Ryce describes the best way to accelerate healing is to apply the Cosmic Grease of willingness to embrace with love whatsoever you find inside yourself. It speeds up the process immeasurably. When the old ‘trash’ surfaces, its not fun, but sorting through what comes up in the presence of Love, is what clears it out. Your Forgiveness does not change the past, but it changes the reality in your mind about the past, thereby changing your perception of the experience. Processing is the capacity to hold a space of Conscious, Active, and Present Love when unresolved issues, or something less than love surfaces. Allowing our deeper issues to surface in the Presence of Love burns them off. They lose their charge. The only permanent solution is to understand and heal what is at the root of the reality structure causing the pain, not just settle for superficial bandage to cover it up. It’s the main key in healing, releasing the painful component of everything unlike love. This gets you in touch with the Aliveness within. Happiness is a state of mind, a choice we make, not the result of possessing things or being in control of people or circumstances. It’s the patterns in your head that make you unhappy, not outside circumstances. 'A Course In Miracles' states repeatedly that sickness is of the mind, which is in need of healing. Know you have the power to change. To transform your way of thinking and being, you have to merge / integrate what you used to be with what you can be - your old and new self – and create a new vision. We all have given our power away, suffering from a basic sense of inadequacy, unworthiness, feeling we have made terrible mistakes, fearing sooner or later we’ll be punished. So, we hide our ‘stuff’, hoping nobody finds out. Until we bring it to light, and acknowledge the wounds and patterns, see and accept them, there’s no way we can heal them. We won’t know and own our own power until we know who we are and feel worth it. When doubt and fear are dismantled, we can actualize our indwelling potential. Real growth comes from true self-acceptance and love. In CWG trilogy, God asks that we include ourselves among those we love, actually recommending we put ourselves first. The highest good for you is also the highest good for others. Our first relationship must be with ourselves. Not a single one of us is any better or more worthy than another in God’s mind. God observes we have merely lost our way. Where we’re heading does not match where we said we wanted to go. We have to be the change we want to see. We are all doing the best we can with the understanding, awareness, ability, and knowledge we have. Conditions can change as quickly as we can change our thinking about them. We need to increase the balance, harmony, peace in our lives, stay centered, live in the NOW, decrease our reactions to triggers and others’ emotional gyrations. We are participants in, not victims of a world we influence by every choice we make. We alone bear the ultimate responsibility for defining ourselves and the terms of our lives. Own it, and you can change it. Life is a series of problems, personal choices, and decisions, and the working through of the effects and consequences. Do we want to moan about it, or solve them and go beyond them? We can choose to see problems as opportunities for growth in this game of life. God reminds us in CWG that what is needed on our planet is a massive shift in consciousness – a change in our awareness, plus renewed respect for all of life, and a deepened understanding of the inter-relatedness of everything. We are told that we can’t produce the society we have dreamed of until we see with wisdom and clarity the ultimate truth: that what we do to others, we do to ourselves, what we fail to do for others, we fail to do for ourselves; that the pain of others is our pain, and the joy of others, our joy, and that when we disclaim any part of it, we disclaim a part of ourselves. Its time to WAKE UP and reclaim our Divine Heritage as Who We Really Are. It’s all part of the Divine Plan. It was necessary first for you to forget your connection with God in order to fully experience it by fully creating it. You are in the process of experiencing yourself by creating yourself anew in every single moment. As God Is - Through you. Do you see the partnership? It’s a holy collaboration – truly a Holy Communion. Ours is a race awakening – the paradigm is shifting. The world is changing. The groundwork has been laid for a new experience of a larger reality. The planet’s greatest spiritual revolution and our grandest adventure has just begun. Dare to be the cause, not the effect of your experience. Each person can be the difference, creating positive change. Everything depends on who you think you are and what you’re trying to do. You have the ability to choose which, of all the experiences ever imagined you choose to experience now. Seek and find the peace within. Embody the consciousness we are all ONE, and there’s enough. These simple changes, if undertaken by everyone could end all wars, eliminate conflict, prevent injustice, and bring the world to everlasting peace. Change yourself – change the world. Stop separating yourself. See all of humankind as family. Wake up. Pay attention. Strive to see the perfection. Need nothing. Desire everything. Choose what shows up. Hold onto, hide, and judge nothing. Feel your feelings. Honor your Truth. Keep the Faith. TRUST. Create a new vision. Sounds like kindergarden instructions. Are you ready to be a conscious participant in this game of life – this Grand Adventure? Give yourself permission to develop yourself to your highest potential – to Be Who You Truly Are. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within each and everyone of us. Dare to be all that you can be !!! |