IDENTIFYING AS WORD 2

p.172-176

You have to say on a certain level that “I will allow myself to begin to experience my experience in a dimensional way that exceeds the limitations that I was told I was allowed to have.” When you say, “Yes,” to this, you actually unlock a door in perception, in the perception of other realms of experience. And they can begin to address you through your consciousness. p. 172

This is a tough one for many of us. We have been taught to live in limitation, and we have also learned to define ourselves within limitation. If we perceive the world and other people as being unsafe, then we learned it is best to keep your head down. If you have a gift, keep it to yourself.

We could go about telling ourselves and everyone else that "the world is perfectly safe because it is an illusion to begin with," and if that works for you—use it.

What is more effective for me is to focus on my awareness of my Higher Self and reinforce the awareness that “nothing of importance can be taken away from me.”

So however you make that commitment, 

“I will allow myself to begin to experience my experience in a dimensional way that exceeds the limitations that I was told I was allowed to have.” say it often, remind yourself of it often and let it work for you.”

My ego became all involved when the book started speaking of clairvoyance, etc. I had the ridiculous image of me wearing a robe and a turban on my head holding crystal ball. And then I began to thank how cool it would be to have those other gifts; then I ought, "Well they haven't manifested yet, maybe I’m doing something wrong." And,of course, I wound up getting myself tied up in knots.

Then I recalled 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing."

I discovered that one of the things that is going on with me lately is I am more aware and more compassionate. I am allowing myself to be much less judgmental of others and myself. If the thought or the urge to judge comes up (which it often does) there is a little more room inside me to decide to do the loving thing rather than the judging thing. 

 I am learning that I am not consciously in charge about how my growth and awareness shows up. I am here to do the work, and one myself up to the possibilities. 

As I continue to open myself up to Divine Love and Grace, I continually allow myself to go beyond these self-imposed limitations as well as those limitations I might have culturally inherited.

IDENTIFYING AS WORD 1

p. 165-172  

Finishing up the chapter on Boulders and beginning Identifying as Word.

Marvelous mediation and imagery at the end of the Boulder’s chapter, encouraging us to see ourselves in perfection.

Here is another place where willingness and intention are so important. You might not be able to “see” yourself in perfection, but you can be willing to do so, and that is a step. I found it helpful to imagine myself looking in a mirror, and seeing this being of light looking back at me. I did not have to define it or even be too specific about the image. OR you could imagine what it would be like to have LOVE looking back at you, or JOY or HOPE—you pick.

Once you have a feel for this, you can create and recreate this image whenever you want. Just taking a break for a few seconds to recall that sense of love or perfection can be life changing.

Luke 11:24-26The Danger of Emptiness

24 “When an evil spirit comes out of someone, it travels through dry places, looking for a place to rest. But it finds no place to rest. So it says, ‘I will go back to the home I left.’ 25 When it comes back, it finds that home all neat and clean. 26 Then the evil spirit goes out and brings back seven other spirits more evil than itself. They all go and live there, and that person has even more trouble than before.”

The above quote is not about fear, it is much more about the action(s) involved after we release a boulder. “Nature abhors a vacuum” and so does Spirit. 

You could look at this next chapter as “filling up” the space vacated by the boulders we are  letting go of, but it is so much more than that.

There is a huge shift in focus here, and you will be able to sense that because there is a distinct change in language in this chapter. The language and concepts become much more metaphysical, and really begin to push us to a deeper awareness  our perfection and power as creator.

A powerful aspect of this shift is that instead of talking about getting rid of or releasing negative energy patterns of thought and action, the focus now is on the essence of who we are as perfected beings. So we are pushed to focus now on Truth rather than what is getting in the way Truth. This is a huge leap in learning—like going from multiplication tables to calculus. 

I found myself becoming resistant here, like Paul, wanting to figure everything out; wanting all the answers right now, so that I could feel safe.

So now I come face to face with my biggest challenge—to love and accept myself as God does. As I have so often reflected, this is not new or revolutionary. Myrtle Fillmore’s declaration is the foundation of Unity prayer and much of the Unity movement, “I am a Divine child of God I do not inherit illness” or I could say, “I see myself in the  perfection in which I am created.” or in the language the book might use, “Word I am Word as a reflection of my Divine Nature and Divine Truth.”

A word of caution(?). We are encouraged to be aware that we do not know how this perfection will be expressed in the physical world. It might be expressed with a complete healing of our imbalance or illness; or we might hold our infirmity differently, more lovingly-i.e. we might realize our illness or physical imperfection is allowing us to be more compassionate of others or that it is opening our heart and insight in some other way; or we might find that we are healed but not cured—we might still have all the symptoms, but we are joyfully unattached to them.

“Now this means you can be healed and you can be changed. It does not mean that we can undo things, in some cases, that have been presented to you karmically or through physical changes that cannot be rebirthed in this body. ” p. 167

Although the book and guides work very hard to explain everything, there are time when we are simply thrown back into mystery, that which we cannot fully comprehend with our thinking mind.

We enter into the PROCESS of realization/acceptance of this Divine self that we are. 

And here is decision one:

Am I entitled to be in my perfect self, in a perfect manifestation of myself that translates into physical form? Am I now allowing myself to have permission to believe that this can be so?

I think any of us who have gotten into this book and not thrown it away yet or moved onto a favorite mystery novel can truthfully say “Yes” to those questions. Doubt only arises in the ego, which we all have, but if we allow ourselves to see through the doubt for a moment, and not argue with it or even think about it too much, we will become aware of that deep truth sense that says “Yes.”  and the “Yes” does not have to be overly emphatic—-we are acknowledging the Possibility that this true.

We ended just opening the door to: 

“Decision two is a different kind of decision. It’s a decision about the willingness to acquire the ability to emerge from this process with new abilities that you will hold in consciousness that will then be translated into your experience in the physical realm.”

Here is the challenge, to get out of our heads which thinks, “Oh, that’s a nice idea,” and move into our soul’s awareness that says, “I am willing to allow my spiritual growth to manifest in all ways to me and through me, physically, mentally emotionally and spiritually. 

As the guides would say—“Thank you and Good Night.

Peace,

Gerry

BOULDERS 3

P. 156-164

This class starts with the idea of channeling energy, which we all do, but here with a special emphasis on healing.Those of you who are familiar with Reiki, Healing Touch or other forms of energy healing are well aware that you are not using your own energy for healing another, nor are you dictating or directing what the energy should do. You are opening yourself up as a channel, a conduit, for that healing energy of God/the universe to flow through you. 

I believe we are involved in a similar kind energy exchange when we pray for someone. The most effective prayers are those that originate with love, and where we hold the other person in the highest loving vibration as possible, and do not dictate the outcome (which we are not in control of anyway).

Simply put, identifying with the energy of the Word is not about the ego or control. It is Grace. It is openness to the Divine flow, to you and though you.

And, as was mentioned before anything we put in the context of “I am the Word through…”  with willingness and intention raises the frequency of whatever it is we are holding int that energy.

As the book states simply and powerfully:

“God within you is working on the boulder and the Word is the frequency of God in action.”

Then we move to a “new willingness to change.”

“I am willing now to stand firm in my willingness to see that which I need to clear once and for all to bring me into alignment with my own Christed Self. I am willing to become aware of those behaviors and those patterns, those belief systems, those boulders of pain that stand in the way of my achievement and my design as a Christed Being come into form. I affirm now that I am being supported in this release in perfect ways by the energies, the powers, the guides, and the teachers who are working on this passage into Christed Self awareness and achievement. And I do this now with joy and with willingness. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”

The more aware I become, the more I realize what works and what doesn’t. I also become aware that what is NOT WORKING is painful.(It’s probably always been painful, and either I was totally unaware or worked very hard to cover it up—like being in denial of an addiction for example).

I don’t know about you, but I was relieved when I was told I did not have to know “all my stuff” in order to have it be part of this process of healing and release. I might not know exactly what it is that is causing my pain, but I can be aware I am out of balance, something is not right, or I’m holding onto a pattern of thought or behavior and do not know why. I can still put all of that into the “Word” so it can be healed and released.

Then we come to our old friend Suffering. a favorite catch phrase to many is “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” That always sounded  very wise, but I never really knew what it meant because I certainly continued to have my share of pain and suffering and I could not usually differentiate between the two.

Recently I became aware of my personal dynamics around suffering. I will describe it this way:

“Suffering comes from being angry at what is, and the reason why suffering keeps repeating itself is not only because I am trying to control something I cannot, but because I am also blocking myself from experiencing the feelings which are being generated by this life circumstance. (I think I am avoiding feelings such as grief, loss, etc. but all I am really doing is creating more suffering by NOT allowing myself to experience the feelings.)

And the book goes a step further: 

“Suffering is what occurs when man establishes a pattern of pain and then rotates it, as it were, through his consciousness and it cycles and cycles and cycles. Now sometimes when this happens, a creation is formed. A pain creation. And the pain creation hangs out in the auric field and feeds off the energy of what is being expressed emotionally, and we can call this if you wish, a parasitic energy or a demon, although we dislike the word because it has connotations to it that are inappropriate, misleading, and create fear. This is not a chapter on demons. This is a discussion of boulders.”

First off, I believe this is what Eckhart Tolle referred to as the “pain body” in The Power of Now. (Up until now I only had a vague idea of what he was talking about.)

And also, to get it out of the spooky realm, what is being described above is not an obscure principle. It is even detailed in a form of psychology called Psychosynthesis. 

In short, we all have a constellation of sub-personalities that we have created. The “inner child” is a very obvious and publicized one, but all of us have a “rebellious adolescent”; a “rigid parent”, a “self-righteous preacher” and all sorts of other “voices” inside of us. Most of us are aware that these bits and pieces of our psyche can show up without our asking, and that they seem to have a life of their own. These “scraps” of our identity can be triggered by outside circumstances. For example, when I hear people getting angry at one another, I automatically “get little” and start feeling like a scared child. The response is no longer rational, but it “takes me over.” I would encourage all of us to think of some of our own examples here.

We are not intending to give any more power to these energies we have created; we are becoming aware they no longer serve us(they are boulders and we are releasing them). 

“I am Word through my intention to now release myself from any energies that are externalized or have been created by me that operate independently from my own consciousness, that may be impacting me in a negative way. I am now choosing to release any and all parasitic energies that I may be holding in my frequency that are not mine, that are inherited culturally or have been given to me or created by me in any lifetime for any reason. I am now resolved that I am being supported in this release by my guides and teachers, and that I am cleared perfectly of any negativity that has created suffering and the pattern of suffering in my life. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”

We will finish up on Boulders and begin a new chapter: IDENTIFYING AS WORD.

Peace, and gratitude for our shared journey.

BOULDERS 2

p. 151-156

I think we can all be in agreement that “Boulders” are more patterns of thought and behavior than they are physical objects in our living space, and we are all in the process of clearing, cleansing, and dismantling old patterns of thought and behavior that no longer serve us.

When we “Word” something, “Word I am Word” through this pain in my shoulder, or my anger, or my willingness to grow, or whatever it might be, we are literally taking that thing, that pattern or that pain and raising it to a higher frequency so that:

1. it can transform,  
2. be released;
3. or so we  hold it differently, see it, relate to it in a different way.                 

Our statement of “Word” is an affirmation of our willingness and our intention. 

What I was lead to discover in speaking this past week was this progression: 

1)Awareness(of the pattern, problem or pain I wish to release OR what I wish to enhance); 

2)willingness and intention; 

3)affirmation and prayer(taking the “formulas” right from the book.) 

I was also blessed with this funky little image of the guides/angels/Holy Spirit helping us along the way. There is an Olympic sport called “Curling.” It seems like a form a shuffle board, but instead of a puck they use this stone with a handle on top, and instead of a wooden surface it’s on the ice. Well, one of the competitors “bowls” the stone to the target a number of yards away. Here is where it gets interesting. Two or three other team members have these “brooms” and are sweeping like maniacs in front of the stone to make the path smoother, get rid of any debris and also to help guide it (without touching) to its proper place. 

So the work and effort is ours—the throwing and aiming of the stone, but there are guides and angels who are working like crazy to help it get to the right place.

Here’s a little youtube clip if you’ve never seen it before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xFxC-JgWtk

I found the book to be a little confusing in speaking on surrender.

At first it says:

“When we speak of surrender, and we speak of surrender as, “God, I can’t handle it, I can’t take it, it is too big for me,” what you are doing is you are releasing a boulder and you are aligning to the great powers that will clear it for you. We are doing the same thing with intention to the extent that you understand “I am Word” is not the ego self, it’s not the personality. It is the Christ within you that achieves the work and deserves the glory. “I am Word through my problem” brings that action to the problem.”

And then:

“Now Paul is wondering, “Can’t we just say, ‘I give up’? Can’t we just be powerless? It’s so much easier than memorizing a meditation or standing on a corner and seeing everybody as perfect.” We can say yes, if you want to surrender, you will be worked with at that level as well. ”

Those two forms of surrender seemed pretty much the same to me, although the guides seemed to suggest that the second one—Paul’s “I give up”—-is quite limited.

The clarifying point comes right after this:
“But if you can understand that one of the things that will happen, indeed, when you create a new pattern is that in likelihood you will be required to confront that thing that you have created and say, “I give up. I give it to the Christ. I am Word through this thing I see before me. Take it, take it, take it,” you are also saying, “I am in the process of reclaiming myself as my Divine Self.”

One of the ways I make this distinction is that there is "helpless" or “victimhood” surrender—the kind that says “I can’t do it; I will let God (as an outside source) do it for me.” and “empowerment” surrender when I realize in my current state of mind and awareness I am not able to change or handle this (I’m doing the same thing expecting different results), but I am willing to be be open to be guided by God and Spirit to hold this thing and work with it differently. In other words I am dropping the ego’s solutions and opening up to my soul’s solution. Surrender in this case is the recognition of a power greater than my ego which is truly in charge, but which also a part of my Self.

The paragraph on p. 155 beginning with “Now to the extent…” is asking us to BE GENTLE with ourselves. PLEASE!!!!!!!!! 

BOULDERS 1

p. 139-151 (I am including two classes 2/15 and 2/22)

Removing boulders is like rolling away the stone that covers the crypt you are in.

You are not dead, just in the dark, and feeling trapped as if this is the way it is always going to be. Oh, yes, you read books, go to workshops, journal, mediate, do yoga, drink green tea, and you can see bit of light creeping in from from where the boulder is not quite flush with the ground, and somedays the light seems brighter than others, and somedays it’s pretty dim and somedays you wonder if it is there or was there at all.

It’s time to roll back the stone and sit in the light, because the Light is who you are.

(I realize we all have more than one boulder, more than one negative pattern that we have inherited or created, but I still think rolling back the stone and coming into the light is an apt metaphor.)

In the next few pages the guides seem to bounce back and forth describing the process as not being easy, it is a “substantial undertaking” and that it is not “abracadabra” yet at the same time telling us “We are going to blast it, as it were, and transmute it;” and “Now earlier in this chapter we said it’s not going to be abracadabra. A magic wand is not going to come down and tap on your boulder three times and get it out of the room. But what we are going to tell you is this. It does not need to be dismantled through an extended process that requires that you hold, hug, embrace, touch, examine, and self-identify as your boulder. ”

Do not be overly confused with the seeming contradictions here. There are simple yet powerful principles to be aware of: 1) old patterns of thought are being released; 2) what we call ‘time’ is a measurement of change in the material world, it has nothing to do with Spirit; 3) releasing an old pattern is about raising your frequency so that it no longer “sticks”—-willingness, intention, openness, awareness, being willing to experience that which you choose to let go of(and that might sometimes be difficult and painful). 

What we might begin to perceive as a negative pattern of thought, action or belief that no longer serves us has probably been around for quite some time—it has taken root, it has been reinforced by others and sometimes by our culture until it eventually becomes part of who we think we are. So to the ego, this kind of transformation/transmutation is like losing a part of yourself—and so old Mr. or Ms. Ego is going to hang on and fight for dear life. All of this is part of the dismantling of the boulder that we need to be aware of. (There might be anger, grieving, and a sense of loss as well as becoming comfortable with a “new identity” that we might need to contend with.)

Here is one the keys on p. 145: 

“Now we are not doing it. You are going to do it. And you are going to choose one thing today that you want to clear and clear once and for all in the Christ frequency that we claim as Word. You are going to do this with an intention to decide, once and for all, that it is your divine right to be without this thing that has created your pain, or that you give power to in such a way that it creates your pain.”

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“Now when you say, “I am Word through this thing that I identify as my pain,” you are bringing the Christ frequency to the energy that has been created in pain, and that begins to work on the pain.”

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Let me choose something I think most of us can identify with. It is a huge boulder of mine and I feel if I can release/dismantle this one, everything else will follow in a much smoother way.

OK here it is: “NOTENOUGHNESS.” There are many ways of describing this—unworthy, unloveable,… No matter how we might define this one it always ends up with me giving my power away somehow, becoming a victim to a set of thoughts ideas, fears, and circumstances.

So here is the boulder I wish to clear. I created it. I was not born with it, but through a number of life circumstances (embarrassing situations, “mistakes,” religious teachings, etc.) I started to take in the message—“I am not enough” and if, like me, you were surrounded by many others who either consciously or unconsciously carried the same message (of notenoughness), then you could never get the affirmation or support you needed to deny the implications. So we say to ourselves, “It’s probably true; I’m not enough.” And that thought becomes part of the definition of who we think we are, and we find ways to affirm that and make it into the truth as life goes on. We can even "protect"ourselves by creating an inner voice that reminds us of our notenoughness, so if someone else says something demeaning, we have already "beaten them to the punch." I think you can see how deeply we can be rooted in this kind of thinking, so much so that we think it is who we are.

On the outside we might appear to be serene and in charge, but my insides are holding on as tight as they can, attempting to ride out the storm of life.

Obviously this pattern and many like it are painful to carry around and to feel. 

Here is the first step provided for us:

“when you work on this, you have to work on it in several levels.

The first level is the creation of the pain:

“I choose this one thing now that I am going to undertake to clear from my consciousness once and for all and I am going to affirm this: In my intention to release this pattern of [fill in the blank], I am now willing to undertake the exercise that follows. In this work I will become actively engaged in the focus and responsibility of my own healing through my understanding that it is my will in alignment with the will of my Creator that supports me in choosing to release that which creates my pain.

“I do this now with the understanding that I will have to see the pain that I am releasing and I must address it clearly and with light. I do this now with the intention to remove myself from the role of victim that may perpetuate this pattern and give me solace on any level. I affirm that I am releasing any blame attached to the creation of this pattern that supports me in holding it to me to affirm my worthlessness, or my rage, or my entitlement to my anger.

“I choose today, once and for all, to decide I can change my life for good. I affirm this now in the highest frequency available to me at my present state of awareness of my Christed Self. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”

More to come as we dismantle all those patterns that no longer serve.


“the next step of the clearing is to actually create a frequency of a high enough level that you can begin to clear the pattern in its cell memory of the body that you are in, which is also the attachment and the embellishment of it on many, many levels.”

We've explored this idea before in a general way, and here is tis very practical application.

If in your past state of mind you were velcro, then everything stuck to you and you probably did not know why. You were just always in victim consciousness.
Now, however through Awareness, willingness, and intention you are raising your vibrational level to be more like teflon. Less and less stuff sticks--because there is nothing for it to stick to.

We are no longer justifying any pattern of thought or behavior that would in anyway support the idea of separateness, and as we do that we become more and more clear, more and more truth, more and more love.

“The process of clearing a boulder is as follows:
“I am Word through this thing I see before me. Word I am Word. I am Word through this creation of pain that I have manifested for whatever reasons that is now obstructing my spiritual growth. I am now choosing to relinquish any and all attachments to this patterning of pain and all that it has created in my life. I am now willing to achieve a Christ consciousness that does not align to this pain but clears it from my cellular memory, from my auric field, from my awareness, from my physical reality in perfect ways.
“I am a Creator working in tandem with the Great Creator, I am a Light working with the Great Light, and I am a Christ working with the Great Christ in frequency. I am in alignment now with the vibration of the Word and I choose to release this boulder of pain in a perfect way that will result in my Creative Self working through this issue quickly, easily, and with consciousness. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”

I would encourage all of us to repeat the affirmations/prayers in this chapter. This is not usually a one shot deal.

Peace.

LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING 4

(p. 133-138[end of chapter])

Here is the continuing mantra, that we can say out loud, quietly(when you are alone, driving in your car, dusting, etc.), or shout it from the rooftops-sky write it, paste it on your dashboard, your bathroom mirror, your shower, the back of your eyelids—BE CREATIVE.

“I am Word through my being.” Affirm this. “Word I am Word. I am Word through my vibration. Word I am Word. I am Word through my knowing of myself as Word.” WORD I AM WORD.

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“So get out of the way, allow yourself to be who you are in truth: “I am the Word, I am the Word, I am the Word. I am an aspect of the Creator made flesh, as are all men.” Period.”

When the guides reminded me to “Get out of the way” I again became aware that it is not the personal me that is evolving. It is not the personal me that is Word. It is the “Me” that is in my knowing of Oneness, no separation.

Stop affirming what you are not.  

I don’t think we just disappear when we realize this fully (but what do I know?). We might still be occupying these self-same vehicles we are in, but now with the deepest sense of love and reverence to all beings—BECAUSE WE ARE ALL ONE. 

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We did not get into the chapter called Boulders yet, but I would like to share a few thoughts.

This is not a chapter about what is wrong with you! It is not a chapter about what you need to change in order to be good or whole or enlightened.

It is about becoming aware those thoughts, ideas, patterns, etc. which we have created individually and culturally that no longer serve us and then being willing and open to letting them go. (or what ACIM refers to as “unlearning.”

Any form of judgment, guilt, recrimination, unforgiveness about ANYTHING (especially towards ourselves) lowers our vibrational level. All of the above were old methods we might have used to correct behavior in the past. They do not work, in fact, they so drain us of energy that the real work becomes even more difficult. 

So let us be aware of any negative thinking that might creep in with this next chapter, and drop it quickly.

As someone mentioned a couple of weeks ago, because we are always thinking, we are always creating. We are not always aware of what we are creating. We are not always aware that we are strengthening ideas and patterns of behavior that have been part of our lives for many years and which we not longer need.

As we become more aware, as we align our frequency more and more the the consciousness of Christ (through awareness, willingness and intention), the old stuff begins to drop off, there is nothing for it to stick to. That’s great news!

LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING 3

(this covers p. 126-133)

We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. . . Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.     Thomas Merton

We are reminded here that it is the thoughts that I cling to, that I hold onto in my creation that also create the frequency that I live in.

There is a metaphysical maxim that states, “Energy follows thought” or here we could say “Frequency follow thought.” 

I’ve often wondered how or why my thoughts could affect my energy level. When I think in terms of thoughts and the frequency/energy they create, the idea made a lot more sense to me.

Negative thoughts are “heavy” they can literally weigh me down.  Healing, healthy, affirming, loving thoughts truly lighten the load.

And my thoughts, my frequency are not just men alone—the effect everyone and everything.

LUKE 9: “12Every thought that you think is heard literally around the world. 13The consciousness of man is shaken by your every thought. 14And so it is through thought that you teach, no matter what you are saying or doing, and no matter where you are.”

Excerpt From: Regina Dawn Akers. “The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI).

But this is not about avoidance either. I know I have some mistaken notions about that. There have been times in my life when I was in a job I did not like or experiencing an unhealthy relationship, and I felt as if I was supposed to stay in it, until I had “fixed’ it or until I no long had any bad feelings about it. That kind if thinking was “mistaken metaphysics.” Of course, there will come a time when we will not be bothered by anything—but until we reach that level of consciousness, lets be kind, gentle, and loving to ourselves and not deliberately put ourselves into situations where we tend to become victimized. As we continue to realize who we truly are—the Christ Consciousness, we will be less and less weighed down by negative circumstances. 

So I have to focus on living life as lovingly as I can and grow in “wisdom, age, and grace.”

And the here is where discernment enters the process. I’m hoping I can explain this one simply. 

The book and practically all other spiritual literature, including the Bible uses the concept of judgment as an action or thought directed to another person. Since we never know what is going on in the heart of another, we are directed not to judge. (It is also pretty clear when we begin to judge another that we easily lose track of our own stuff.) My judgment can also be directed towards, books, movies, and life events in general when I start labeling things as being good or bad. Again, I think we can see how that kind of energy and thought simply adds to a sense of separation.

Discernment, which is also described as a gift of the Holy Spirit is an intelligent and intuitive action determining what is best for me—-not good or bad, but what works for me now. 

I might find that I am perceiving myself to be in a difficult place in my life where I feel as if my energy is low and my ability to cope is not very good, and so I might rightfully discern that I need to stay home and pray, mediate, watch TV, have a ham sandwich, rather than go to the party my in-laws are having where there is going to be a lot of drinking and loudness, etc.

That is perfectly valid. I am not judging anybody, I’m simply aware that this is not right for me at the time.

At some other time in my life, I might decide to go to a similar kind of party because there are some people there I would enjoy seeing or I want to support my spouse or some other valid reason. Again, I am not judging..

HERE IS THE BIG CHALLENGE. Discernment only works in the higher frequencies. I can use my ego mind to rationalize practically any behavior—-that is a lower frequency of thought, but a very seductive one. 

The results of discernment are not always fun or enjoyable. Sometimes my inner voice is leading me to thoughts and actions which are difficult and push me towards growth. So discernment is not necessarily about what make me feel good—it is about WHAT IS RIGHT FOR ME. And being able to know this—to be in MY KNOWING takes practice.

We are already aware of energy and frequency and how we respond to it, we just have not been aware of our knowing.

We know when something is bothering someone close to us; we know when we have entered into an angry situation even if it does not appear that way; we know when we have been “slimed’; we know when we are loved. Practice this knowing.

There is a continuing “infinity” loop we follow here. I raise my frequency through love, I see you more and more as the consciousness of Christ/Love, and therefore I see myself more and more as the consciousness of Christ/Love and as I see myself more and more as the consciousness of Christ/Love, I see you more and more as the consciousness ofChrist/Love and so on.

It’s not the old falsehood, “Well, if you don’t love yourself, you can’t love anybody else.”

Love and the expression and flow of Love is a matter of degree. You (and everyone else) is already “it” as you raise your frequency in consciousness, the flow from you and towards you increases until there is the awareness of Pure Love.—that’s it.

Peace, be well.

To all of you that were there last Sunday 3/1—thank you for letting me share my music. I would love to be able to do that again some time.