Learning, Exerting and Making Sacrifices

People who do not understand why we are on earth also cannot understand the concept or goal of Initiation. They feel they can do without all the effort. Isn't there enough pain without always trying for some nebulous something that is not fully understood? What is not realized is that there is a subtle or etheric earth. Some call it heaven or a higher invisible dimension. The soul wants to return to that other place of light and harmony. The problem is that the light of many souls is dimmed and the return to a higher vibration requires true knowledge, exertion and making sacrifices. All religions, even the most primitive, have this tradition of the fall of man followed by his redemption and return to the Creator Mother and Father God.

There is no physical distance between heaven and earth. the distance is in our consciousness. Once the majority of souls return to stability, everything will be different. It is true that our inner life is constantly tried and tested. There is so much disorder on the planet right now that can easily undermine our spiritual goals if we do not become a spiritual warrior. What humans must understand is that there are inferior earthbound souls that tempt human beings. These souls have not yet developed love for God and life. How can this happen? Quite easily. When a soul enters matter, it enters limitation and bondage because the soul forgets its spiritual identity. A great many very advanced spirits forget all about their origins until they meet someone who has or is experiencing a direct connection with the Divine, reads or hears something that triggers a forgotten memory.

Matter is our cross of forgetfulness until we make a consistent contact with the higher Self and the energy of radiant Light. So, we could say that we are the cross because the cross is made up of the four elements. If what I am sharing sounds true to your heart, the following is a suggestion that may assist in your spirit work on matter. Each day stand and face the four cardinal points of the universe in turn. Each of the cardinal points is ruled by an Archangel. Yes, they do exist. In the East is Mikael, in the West Gabriel, in the North Uriel and in the South Raphael. This rite of turning and facing the four cardinal points before a prayer or meditation invites and assists you in communicating with the four dimensions of space. The movement and call will help you transform limitation, a sense of separation and memory loss of who you really are. For those who read this idea for the first time, know it is far from a new thought. The Christian religion devotees make the Sign of the Cross. The Rosicrucian symbol consists of a red rose in the center of a cross. There is also a parallel between these symbols and that of the Grail, the emerald cup. The cross and the cup are always figures of man. It is on the cross that the rose will bloom if we love life and the Divine.

Have a good weekend, a stable one. I invite your comments and suggestions.

Wriggle Out of Karma

Every once in awhile, I find an author/teacher whose understanding is identical to my own. We reach true understanding through experience, analysis, meditation and deep thought, which eventually lead to ancient answers, the truth. Those who have some knowledge on the subject of karma do their best to let destiny work itself out without avoiding it. They feel this attitude will set them free from all debt. This process of obligation and paying off causes from the past may take centuries to completely remove. While you are paying debts off, it is very likely you will incur new debts.

I have always taught that there is another path. Deliberately work day and night on your own enlightenment and apply the way of the saints, prophets and mystics. What they do is find opportunities to help our people, nature and causes. Sometimes, this asks of us some form of sacrifice. I find it heartwarming that the energy in the United States of America is swinging towards helpfulness, kindness, generosity and love. Open minded people have been talking about how we are all one since the 1980's; now it is time to do something about it. Through the application of the ancient truth behind a genuine caring and reaching out to others, we remove ourselves from the ordinary laws of destiny...karma as typically experienced. Notice, I said a genuine caring. A true lover of life and opportunity is not a fatalist. We make up our own mind and take destiny in hand.

A few people cry that their astrological chart states bad aspects for them and they give up hope. The inner man, the spirit, is above a birth chart, above the stars and planets and their influence, above karma, above all else. Destiny cannot touch your spirit. We can get out of from under the shadow of moral debts that we have incurred to others, animals, nations and all life including our self by continuing to identity with our innr Self, create and lift consciousness. Your inner Self is capable of setting things right. To chart this course, be confident, absolutely convinced that nobody or any event will burn out your inner spark. Tap into your inner freedom of spirit. Stand tall and have the courage to advance. As you lift your consciousness, you will realize that in the realm of selfless love and purity, there is no such thing as karma. We can turn any situation around by accepting the gold of our true Self. Keep this focus and the debts of the past when we were not so enlightened will be taken care of.

Master of Your Choice

In today's world, there are endless tools available to help us heal regardless of the trauma we have experienced. We are the ones who must be responsible for our actions. As Henry Thoreau wrote: "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." In order to change on any level, the first thing we need to do is get unstuck. Look closely at how you perceive yourself. Most limitations to success come from internalizing negative messages from people and past events. These can easily be overcome. We have the power to succeed. What is needed is taking the right action and allowing our awareness and choice-making ability to open up to grander possibilities.

We can take the best products for our body but if we do not watch our thoughts and love our self first, we fall short. Loving yourself first means guarding the gates to the body, mind and soul and not allowing negativity in any form to remain in our mind. Regardless of appearances, every one of us has incredible blessings. Be thankful and embrace them. It is possible to change your thinking and actions. By taking small and steady steps while focusing on the blessings, we allow our dreams to blossom and be realized. As Marcus Aurelius said, "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

Take time out each day for at least 15 minutes and allow yourself to feel the energy flow through you. Then, when you feel centered either go to your computer and write on a blank page or pick up a pen and paper and write a record each day of how you feel. Talk out your problems on paper. I have done this all my life and it works beautifully. Psychologists have discovered that people who keep a journal and write down disturbing experiences in their lives and give their impressions about those events actually make a striking improvement in their immune function. Don't keep your problems bottled up. Every day when you are alone, sit down and write out what you feel is both pleasant and unpleasant. Don't read it over. If you use a journal, put it away somewhere in safekeeping. If you use your computer to record your private feelings, use a new email address and do not allow anyone to know the password or to send you mail to that location. Keep your journal absolutely private. You can either do it for a week with one particular issue or until you have nothing to report to yourself. Read your comments the next day and then delete them.

This old practice of mine takes care of everything. Clarity, surrender, new ideas and a higher intelligence takes over. Later, when some of the material is read, it reads like fiction. You will also observe your own growth. Writing is a totally different dimension than speaking your troubles out. Speaking out loud, the problems become bigger, tremendous, voluminous in size. When you write it out and read it the next day or whenever and delete it, it takes on a totally different energy. It is out of your brain. It is out of your cells. The best part is that you are free and can stay centered. It is possible to free yourself of old patterns and guilt.

Energy Centers

Are you aware that depending on where you were born and raised on our world determines how many subtle energy centers you have in your spiritual field? We accumulate spiritual congestion in our spiritual body, which is not addressed by traditional physicians as a rule. We are capable of healing ourselves when we have the knowledge that there is a personal magnetic field, which has to be healed. People in the Eastern part of the world have seven magnetic centers or chakras. Here in the Western world we have nine energy centers. Because we have more, it does not mean we are more spiritual. There simply is a difference in the magnetic field of different races. Research describes eight energy centers for true American Indians.

Each subtle energy center has its own color. A friend told me yesterday that she has a mass in the thyroid area. According to the ancient teachings, if the color magenta is low over the thymus glad, her immune system is sick. I plan to call her today and suggest that she visualize magenta and demand that the color return to the area of imbalance. There are some common products such as fluoride and sodium fluoride that diminish the color magenta and energy in the immune system. Every center in our aura, subtle force field, acts like a transformer in an electrical plant. Balance is the goal for this form of self-healing.

There are many tools available to balance and clean our energy centers. Different instructions are offered according to the part of the world that you inhabit or the particular teacher's preference. The bottom-line is that the energy centers regardless of their number must be balanced with each other. Every day we are exposed to environmental poisons, the rays from our computers, television, microwaves, cell phones and for some people ongoing stress. When one of our energy channels shuts down or even weakens, it is a form of congestion and impacts our emotional, mental and physical health. I suggest that you explore the subject of color healing and your energy centers. Knowledge of your energy centers is only a glimpse into the vast storehouse of data available for self-healing. Look upon the magnetic energy as an alkaline medium to keep your body balanced. When the physical magnetic fields are balanced, your electrical field, the spirit energy activates. The electrical energy works in an acid medium. There is another circuit of energy to achieve balance, which will be briefly discussed tomorrow.

Inflexibility

When something goes wrong in our lives, it is not God's fault. If we become too rigid and do not want to change or too one-sided in our opinion, situation, possession or relationships, our conditioned state of mind can actually result in experiencing a traumatic fall or breakage of bones. Falls and breakage are two manifestations. There are other reasons more complex. Normally, the culprit in our lives is the personality. It simply does not want to give up its power to the inner spark, which is an emanation of God. The inner spiritual part of us actually understands what is best for the body it is using. Because the spark is ignored the majority of the time, people suffer needlessly. I will give you a recent example using a longtime distant friend who called me two days ago.

The woman is single, a senior and living in a condo complex in a large city. She normally uses public transportation. Approximately six years ago while shopping at her local grocery store, she fell and fell hard. She went to her Internist who told her that her spine was out of alignment and she could use some therapy. True, but what she really needed was a visit to a good chiropractor. Because of her fear of chiropractors she did refused that option. Living in daily pain, she has become crippled, bent and uses a cane. An old boyfriend from her young adult years living out of state, sent her a gift check for $15,000 to help her with her personal needs. She already had excellent medical coverage.

Did she use the generous check to recover? No! Does she have anyone to drive her to the store for food and other needs? No! Does she use the money for a cab to get to the store? No! Does she befriend other owners living in her building? No! Does she call a Human Resource Center requesting a volunteer to help her? No! Does she call Meals on Wheels for disabled people? No! Right now, she is literally starving to death because it has become too difficult to take a bus to any store. She doesn't want to become friendly with her neighbors because then it may take up her precious time on the telephone. Just think! If she would use that money for a laptop, she could call PeaPod, a grocery online service, and the groceries she chooses would be delivered to her doorstep. By remaining rigid, she is committing suicide through her choices. She is saving the money until she needs it. Perhaps, she is thinking of her funeral.

I mention this craziness because it is very common. People deny themselves life in hundreds of different ways through the choices of the personality. I have observed in my own personal life and through other people's stories that we may experience trauma to learn to love ourselves and receive from others with gratitude and joy. For many, it is easier to give than receive. If a personality has a low sense of self, it often is more difficult to receive. I am sure that there must be someone in her large condo complex who would gladly take her grocery shopping. She does not have a family and has forgotten that other people are our extended family. The $15,000 sits in a bank. It is a gift of friendship ignored and a life wasted.

Making Yourself Fit

In this particular instance, I am referring to making yourself fit on the mental and spiritual level. Injuries, imbalances and limitation on any level prevent us from being the jewel we really are. Guilt is one of the worse culprits. It is always wise to inspect your life and see where you are at the moment and where you are going. I frequently mention the negative programming we have endured must be deprogrammed from the fetus to the third year of life. The fetus feels the emotions of the parents. There is also trauma as a result of our being hypnotized and conditioned in the brain and emotions through destructive experiences. I used to offer Rebirthing sessions and the participants came face to face with their hidden
pain. So, what else can we do about our inner wounds?

Scientology asks their members to subject themselves to sweat baths five hours at a time for two weeks or more. Rebirthing also suggests water therapy. Everyone does not have the luxury of spending hours in water. Memory is in the brain, the muscles and the connective tissue in the bone marrow. It seems to be recorded on the cellular level. Negative memory is likened to a spell. I remember reading information Rev. Hannah Kroeger wrote twenty one years ago stating that programmed people need a formula of herbs called Birthright. It contains blue vervain, rosemary and calamus root. She suggested drinking one cup two times a day for fourteen days. The formula brings out amazing results. We have to make ourselves free from what binds us.

We help make our self fit by loosening constrictions that hold us back. The rips in our personal aura need to be healed. Any type of violence makes deep scars in the psyche of a person, particularly children. Almost everyone has a phobia that usually stems from injuries and neglect of the spiritual body. What happens in most people is that the inner self closes down when a terrible incident is experienced.
I have witnessed through laying hands on others and calling on a Higher Power to intervene, the hypnotic shell can be shattered from inside. This also works beautifully in absentee healing when the patient is ready and willing to cooperate. What occurs is a breakthrough to a higher level of energy, which is light. With the person's cooperation and acceptance, it becomes a spiritual rebirth. Frequently, a spiritual healing will begin a mental/physical healing. There are many forms of help.

Take Control of Your Thinking

How are your New Year resolutions holding up? Deciding to say a daily mantra, meditate, exercise or be brave and begin a cleansing diet all will help regenerate, inspire and get the results you desire. To create a disciplined mind, learn to concentrate. Early in life I trained my thoughts by staring at a blank wall for long periods of time. The focus was to strengthen awareness of my own spiritual identity. I also love to learn new things but learning is not thinking necessarily. It fills the brain with data, which is needed to develop the power of thought. I would spend time focusing on an idea and translating it in order to use it in daily life. When I would focus on the blank wall, visions and messages, which are ideas coming from a higher energy, would usually occur.

I look upon this type of thinking as soul thinking. It is a means to increase one's light, energy and healing. The power of focused thought is translated into a higher activity of mind. We can heal ourselves and others through the power of directed thought. If we can change our diet and exercise habits, why not change our thinking? When we become deep thinkers and actually understand what we are thinking about, our thoughts become a powerhouse. An inner realization happens as a result of our taking control. Whether your thinking process is logical or a form of inner realization, both methods eventually lead to a destination where you begin to know your true Self.

We succeed when we sustain a faith in our choice, plan and focus. Failure occurs when we start thinking that there is no time for exercise, meditation or any of the other helpful tools that strengthen the mind and heart. So, when you really think about this subject, it has to do with strengthening the will, changing habits, putting yourself in a training mode and believing you can do something worthwhile that will definitely help overcome obstacles. Stop asking yourself if you have time to do something or feel good enough to do it. If you knew it was right when you had the original thought, just go ahead and take control by using your will. By the way, do not allow anyone to meddle with your will or you try and undermine someone else's will. It is the power of will which pushes us ahead.