Willingness to embrace both the light and the dark sides of ourselves

“The more you allow a person to be - you know, take away all their masks, all this multi-mirror show that they constantly do…like people telling you what they think you want to hear. Just letting them share whatever they want. If they want to cry, that’s fine; I’ll probably cry with you. If you want to be angry, that’s fine; use me as an emotional vomit target; I’m not going to take it personally and, you know, be upset with you later. Just share. Share for the sake of sharing. Let it all out. And this is why we’re in, again, so much discord and so much uck right now – it’s because it’s purging. It’s like everybody’s vomiting an it’s like clearing up the closets, letting everything come to the forefront now - so that we can finally heal and deal with it. Because all those other lives have been running form it. Like, you know, in the Bugs Bunny cartoons: when he tries to escape the hunter, sometimes he puts on a fake moustache, you know, and a hat and a western outfit, and points to the side and says, ‘He went that way.’ That’s what we’ve been doing to our darkness, to that part of ourselves that we’ve been hiding from. The misunderstood. Because it’s all arbitrary costumes…all the different forms we take on in past lives. You can run but you can’t hide.” – Jessica Mystic (‘A Fireside Chat with Zany Mystic,' 14 March 2009, www.bbsradio.com and www.jessicamystic.ca). 

Excerpt from SynchroDestiny. Harnessing the infinite power of coincidence to create miracles

By Deepak Chopra

(Rider, London, 2003). p.188-192.

I am that involves looking at everything in the world, everyone else in the world, and realising that you are looking at another of yourself. You and I are the same. Everything is the same. I am that, you are that, all that is that. We are all mirrors for others, and we need to learn to see ourselves in the reflection of other people. This is called the mirror of relationship. Through the mirror of relationship I discover my nonlocal self. For this reason, nurturing relationship is the most important activity in my life. When I look around me, everything I see is an expression of myself.

            Relationship, then, is a tool for spiritual evolution, with the ultimate goal of reaching unity consciousness. We are all inevitably part of the same universal consciousness, but the real breakthroughs happen when we start to recognise that connection in our daily lives.

            Relationship is one of the most effective ways to access unity consciousness because we’re always in relationships. Think of the web of relationships you have at any time - parents, children, friends, co-workers, romantic relationships. All are, at their heart, spiritual experiences. When you’re in love, for example, romantically and deeply in love, you have a sense of timelessness. You are, at that moment, at peace with uncertainty. You feel wonderful but vulnerable, you feel intimate but exposed. You’re transforming, changing, but without trepidation; you feel a sense of wonder. This is a spiritual experience.

            Through the mirror of relationship - all relationships - we discover extended states of awareness. Those whom we love and those whom we are repelled by are both mirrors of ourselves. Whom are we attracted to? People who have the same traits as we have, but more so. We want to be in their company because subconsciously we feel that by doing so we, too, might manifest more of those traits as well. By the same token we are repelled by people who reflect back to us traits that we deny in our own selves. So if you are having a strong negative reaction to someone, you can be sure that they possess some traits in common with you, traits that you are not willing to embrace. If you were willing to accept those qualities, then they wouldn’t upset you...

            The next time you’re attracted to someone, ask yourself what attracted you. Is it beauty, or grace, or elegance, or influence, or power, or intelligence? Whatever it is, know that quality is also blossoming in you. Pay attention to these feelings, and you can begin the process of becoming more fully yourself.

            Of course, the same is true of people who repel you. In becoming more fully your true self, you have to understand and embrace the less attractive qualities in yourself. The essential nature of the universe is the coexistence of opposite values. You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you. You cannot be generous if you do not have a tight-fisted person inside you. You cannot be virtuous unless you also contain the capacity for evil.

            We spend much of our lives denying that we have this dark side to ourselves, and then end up projecting those dark qualities onto other people in our lives. Have you ever known people who naturally attract the ‘wrong’ people into their lives? Usually they don’t understand why this happens time after time, year after year. The truth is not that they attract that darkness, but that they are not willing to acknowledge it in their own lives. Finding a person you dislike is an opportunity to embrace, and to discover a new facet of yourself. It is another step toward developing your spiritual self. The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you’re with people who recognise and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It’s only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgements occur.

            When we are willing to embrace both the light and the dark sides of ourselves, we can begin to heal both our selves and our relationships. Start very simply, with the most distasteful person you can think of. For example, think of Adolf Hitler and say, ‘How could I possibly be like Hitler?’ Most people refuse to accept that they contain even the smallest shred of an Adolf Hitler. But think more deeply. Have you ever expressed prejudice toward any group of people just because they had a certain name, or a certain skin colour, or a certain accent, or a certain disability? If you can think of any example of that in your life, then you must embrace the similarity between yourself and Adolf Hitler. We are all multidimensional, omnidimensional. Everything that exists somewhere in the world also exists in us. When we embrace these different aspects of ourselves, we acknowledge our connection to the universal consciousness and expand our personal awareness.

            There’s a wonderful Sufi story that illustrates how this mirror affects our lives. A man entered a village and went to see the Sufi master, the wise old man of the village. The visitor said, ‘I’m deciding whether I should move here or not. I’m wondering what kind of a neighbourhood this is. Can you tell me about the people here?’ The Sufi master said, ‘Tell me what kind of people lives where you came from.’ The visitor said, ‘Oh, they were highway robbers, cheats, and liars.’ The old Sufi master said, ‘You know, those are exactly the same kinds of people who live here.’ The visitor left the village and never came back. Half an hour later, another man entered the village. He sought out the Sufi master and said, ‘I’m thinking of moving here. Can you tell me what kind of people live here? Again the Sufi master said, ‘Tell me what kind of people lived where you came from.’ The visitor said, ‘Oh, they were the kindest, gentlest, most compassionate, loving people. I shall miss them terribly.’ The Sufi master said, ‘Those are exactly the kinds of people who live here, too.’

            This story reminds us that the traits we see most clearly in others exist most strongly in ourselves. When we can see into the mirror of relationship, then we can begin to see all of our selves. To do this, we need to be comfortable with our ambiguity, to embrace all aspects of our selves. At a deep level we need to recognise that we are not flawed simply because we have negative traits. No one has only positive traits. Recognising that we have negative traits simply means that we are complete. And in that completeness we gain greater access to our universal, nonlocal selves.

A Wise Heart

“You can be foolish and react with negativity, have an emotional outburst, or vent your uncontrolled indignation, but this won’t change the other person and only makes you look ridiculous and feel enraged. Not only does being foolish not give you what you want, a foolish heart makes things worse. It causes you to act before you think, lash out before considering the effects, and become so invested in being right that you sacrifice all hope for peace and tranquillity for a temporary moment of control.” - Sonia Choquette (The Answer Is Simple…love yourself, live your spirit, Hay House, London, 2008, p.96-97).

Excerpt from The Answer Is Simple…love yourself, live your spirit

By Sonia Choquette

(Hay House, London, 2008, p.92-94).

“I learned (accidentally) to engage the wise heart when I was about ten years old. Walking home alone from school one day, I encountered a group of public-school kids who taunted and teased me for being the ‘Catholic girl in the stupid uniform.’

            Embarrassed, afraid and outnumbered, I didn’t know quite what to do. My fearful self wanted to cry. My instinctive self wanted to run. My courageous self wanted to fight back. Yet my higher self even then knew than none of these options would serve to protect me or get me out of the predicament I had fallen into. The only option left was to be quiet and do nothing - in other words, not to react.

            I looked my tormentors right in the eye as they heckled me, but held a neutral expression. I revealed neither fear nor anger, much the way my older brother often looked at me when I taunted him. To my surprise, it worked: My neutrality and absence of reaction disarmed them. In a matter of less than five minutes, they became bored with their game and moved on. I stood immobile for a few more moments as the pack began to drift away, then I continued slowly on my route -or at least until I turned the corner and was out of their sight. Then I ran the rest of the way home as fast as I could.

            The first person I encountered when I arrived home was the very same brother I often attempted to torment. He listened dispassionately as I spilled the details of my frightening story, telling him how I refused to react or show any fear and how, to my surprise, the other kids eventually moved on.

            His only response was: ‘That was wise,’ and he, too, sauntered away. Thinking it over, he was right. It was wise to hold my tongue, to look them in the eye and to wait it out rather than react. And it wasn’t something I normally did. In the midst of the threat, I accessed a wisdom that I didn’t know I had. And that wisdom spared me from a number of possible unpleasant outcomes - it saved me from harm.

            Since then, I’ve often thought about wisdom and how it protects and serves us in all situations. One thing I’ve learned is that in order to access it, we need to forfeit the need to be ‘right.’ The minute we believe we’re ‘right,’ someone else must inevitably be ‘wrong.’ And as long as there’s ‘right’ versus ‘wrong,’ there will be conflict.

            This isn’t to say that you shouldn’t have morals, values and convictions and stick to them. It just means that what you feel is right isn’t necessarily what feels right to someone else. Respect these differences in opinion and perspective. While it’s important to live with your inner morals and guidance, it’s not loving to impose them on others - especially by the use of force -and doing so will bring only harm.

            Having wisdom means developing a respectful sensitivity and clear understanding of other people’s rights, too. Simply put, ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ That’s it.

            To be wise means to bite your tongue, bide your time, forgive the moment and respond to a difficult or infuriating situation with love rather than fear or anger. Having a wise heart entails being in control of your passion, instead of allowing it to control you. It means channelling your aggression or passive aggression into thoughtful actions rather than being enslaved by your reactions. Engaging the wise heart asks you to embrace the old adage ‘This, too, shall pass’ and choose to live in the peace and calm that comes from using your higher reason, as opposed to constantly facing the damage control that hotheaded emotional reaction necessitates.”

The Basics of Nonviolent Communication

(A workshop in San Francisco)

With Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD

cnvc.org

Part 3: Empathically Hearing Others

“There’s only two things that human beings are ever saying: please and thank you. That’s all human beings ever say. The only thing is jackal-speaking people have learned to say please in a suicidal way. Think about that for a moment. What are human beings ever saying except,’ Please – you’re behaving in a way that isn’t meeting my needs’ or ‘my needs are not getting met by something else, will you please do this to meet my needs?’ We need to know how to say that well to survive in the world. When our needs are not getting met we need to know how to say ‘please’ in a way that makes it enjoyable for people to give it to us.”

“With giraffe ears all you can hear are feelings and needs. You can hear no criticism.”

“Do not hear thoughts. Only use the thoughts as a window. Look through the thoughts to the needs that are behind. Hear the needs behind. It’ll be a whole different world. Don’t hear thoughts.”

[i.e. you hear the positive message: ‘please, please, please’]

“It demonstrates that you value what’s alive in that person, that you’re taking th time to try to connect with what’s alive in that person. When people trust that that’s what has interested you already we can solve anything. What makes it hard to resolve things is when people feel the other person is only interested in winning. They don’t care about me. They’re just out to show me I shouldn’t do this.”

“Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks. You’ll live longer…Do not hear what the person thought. Whatever thoughts they express, never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you. So we’ll show you other options than that. We’ll show you never to hear a criticism…”

“That’s how I would say ‘bullshit’ in giraffe. Giraffes are not nice. See, much of, I think, the violence in the world is created by nice people. So, don’t mistake the word ‘non-violence’ as being nice.”

[You can only hear the person’s heart with giraffe ears, he says. “And you don’t need to say it out loud. You can do it silently.”]

“You’ll show that your attention is here [in the other person’s heart] by your eyes because when we’re hearing what is in a person’s heart, our eyes are different than when we’re hearing their criticism. Or when were making the criticism. Our eyes – it’s not subtle.”

The jackal: “I need reassurance that if you’re there you’re doing it for you and not for me. You see. They want to be sure that if you’re giving you’re giving out of self-fullness, not selflessness.”

[Don’t do it if you’re not 100%].

“I would suggest you heed Joseph Campbell’s advice when he, having studied all the basic myths of the world and the basic religions concludes that if there’s one wise thing that seems present in all the basic religions it’s this: Don’t do anything that isn’t play. Yes, don’t do anything that isn’t play. And it’ll be play if you’re meeting your own needs. So don’t do things for other people.”

[The issue/general fear for a jackal is really feeling that their needs matter to others. “Just takes empathy. But there’s a lot of pain in there to get through before she can hear your sadness that their needs aren’t being met.” “Empathic connection before education.”]

“And the solution will find us when the connection is made: when the connection is there the conflicts usually resolve themselves.”

“There’s plenty of resources for getting everybody’s needs met. But we lose that when we get up into our head and start to analyse wrongness…It’s not necessary to compromise. Everybody’s needs can get met. Nobody has to give in. nobody has to give anything up.”

“Don’t hear it. Don’t even hear expectations. Hear what the need is.”

[You don’t have to meet their need – there are 7 billion other people out there who can do that].

“The other person can hear a ‘no’ if they first hear empathy for their feelings and needs. That will leave them feeling at least that their feelings and needs matter. But, then again, you’d have to learn how to say ‘no’ in giraffe…Never use the following words when you’re saying ‘no’ in giraffe: no, I can’t, I don’t want to, I don’t have time, it’s not possible.’”

“Hear the need behind the ‘no’ – find out what the need is that prevents them from saying ‘yes.’”

“All no’s are tragic expressions of a need. So say the need that keeps you from saying ‘yes.’ Don’t say no.”

[We never tell them what they’re feeling but:]

“See we never say ‘you’re feeling.’ We always say, ‘Are you feeling?’ We may be wrong but we’re trying to get clear what’s going on in this person. Are you feeling afraid and need to protect yourself?”

“Try to hear the feelings and needs without you.” [Take/leave yourself out of it].

“I’m saying that the purpose of this process is to get everybody’s needs met, and that the needs are met by people giving willingly, not out of any coercive motivation. And I’m saying that, when you say ‘no,’ it gets in the way f the likelihood that everyone’s needs are going to end up getting met.”

“It’s important that I not think that her reaction was because of what I said. If I expressed my feelings and needs it would be impossible for a person to react this way if they heard it. they would have gotten a gift. They would have the eyes of a little child getting a gift from Santa Claus.”

“If you want to have people understand you differently, never tell them, ‘You’re misunderstanding me.’ Never say, ‘That isn’t what I said.’ Say, ‘thank you for telling me that’s what you heard. I can see I didn’t make myself clear. I’d like to try again…”

[It’s easy to get empathy from a jackal – if they don’t hear what you are really saying, keep asking them what they heard you say, and say it again in a different way. ‘Three ear pulls and I got it.’ And there are some eight-pull jackals out there too though.]

[That precious connection does the healing, not your advice, etc.]

I interrupt when they talk about the past because we don’t heal by talking about the past. We heal by talking about what is alive in us right now. We’re stimulated by what’s in the past but it’s what’s here now. And when I connect at that level they won’t keep talking about it. They’ll heal.”

“Just be present, not trying to fix things and when that happens there’s a very precious connection. That’s what I mean by enjoying it.”

[Someone else can’t cause our emotional pain. Emotional reaction: that part is up to us. It’s not the stimulus because different people react in different ways to the same events. Creating pain on top of pain by how one looks at it.]

Giraffe Gratitude

1.      “So that’s the first thing we need to say in appreciation. We need to bring to the person’s attention concretely what they did that made life more wonderful for them.”

2.      “Second, at the moment we’re giving the gratitude, to say how we feel at that moment about the person having done that.”

3.      “What need of yours was fulfilled by my saying what I did that leaves you feeling hopeful and relieved? And that’s the third thing we need to see in a giraffe gratitude.”

[And it’s also important how we receive gratitude.]

“If you want to terrorise a jackal, express love or appreciation.” [Sincere gratitude or love makes them nervous and scared.]

“See, jackals have this dangerous concept in their heads: deserve. It’s a very violent concept. Se, it implies you have to deserve appreciation…See, the concept of deserve is a key ingredient in a violent way of life. If you believe in deserve, you think certain things are worth things, and you’ll set up a very destructive correctional system. A very dangerous concept.

            The main reason that I believe gratitude is so scary for many of us to receive is beautifully and poetically written in A Course of Miracles where they say it’s our light, not our darkness, that scares us the most. See, having been educated in this jackal way to hate ourselves, to think there’s something wrong with us, it’s a big jump to really see what I was saying, that we have enormous power to make life wonderful. And there’s nothing we enjoy doing more than exercising that power. That’s unfortunately a pretty big jump for us to come to but we can come to it. So that’s how we say gratitude: observation, feeling and need. Same literacy. Make sure it’s coming from the heart to celebrate and revel to praise, compliment, reward.”

VIDEO:

The Basics of Non Violent Communication 3.1

Greg Hildebrandt, Jack the Giant killer

You are frequently feeling the disquiet of others

By Saul 

Channelled through John Smallman, 15 January 2012

(Excerpts)

Attitudes are changing – sometimes in what must seem to you to be the most unlikely of places, and this is not “chance” or “luck,” but is the result of your intent for this to happen…

Now, with ever-increasing numbers of you intending to release any unloving attitudes to which you are still attached, those choosing to continue clinging to them are feeling quite threatened.  This is because, without their having made a conscious choice, their issues are, nevertheless, coming up to be acknowledged, addressed, and released; and this is extremely uncomfortable for people who have for a long time relied for their self-esteem and self-confidence on inflexible ideas and beliefs which they have unquestioningly accepted as true. To have those beliefs shaken or stirred up is most unsettling, in fact quite frightening, and it is these people who are being so effectively helped by those of you who volunteered to help by working with and releasing more general issues.

When people’s ideas and beliefs are shaken up, their energy fields become disturbed and cause turbulence to flow out from them, affecting many others; and this turbulence is what many of you are picking up on and experiencing as personal doubts and skepticism about the awakening process.  Understand that you are in fact frequently feeling the disquiet of others who have very little idea of what is going on, and for whom the idea of awakening or ascending probably makes no sense at all.

Intensify your focus on the Light you are all bearing, and strengthen your intent for it to burn brightly in everyone as you also maintain your intent to release all unloving attitudes and behaviors in preparation for your awakening.  By doing this you help those along who are having difficulty seeing or following their path to awakening.  All the help and loving energy that you offer is exponentially expanded and strengthened by the divine energy field as they meld, integrate, and interact together.  Doing this is essential; you are here at this time to do it; you are greatly honored for doing it; and your success is divinely assured.

www.johnsmallman.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/you-are-frequently-feeling-the-disquiet-of-others

You have undergone the very convincing but completely unreal experience of intense suffering

 'All shadows will have dissipated as the clarity of Reality surrounds you'

By Saul

Channelled through John Smallman, 26 February 2012

any of you are feeling down and depressed as it seems that your awakening is not getting any nearer.  You feel that you have been holding the Light, changing your attitudes, practicing loving behavior and yet nothing is happening that indicates your efforts are in any way effective.  Remember, the illusion is fighting for its existence, it is a collective egoic structure that is maintained by fear, suffering, and violence, and what you see happening, if you focus on the bad news around the planet, are its death throes.  It is making its last desperate efforts to renew itself, but its foundations are crumbling prior to its inevitable collapse.  Continue to have faith in God’s divine plan for you to awaken into the brilliant Light of eternal day where all that has caused you pain and suffering will be gone, leaving only Reality, Love, the absolute bliss of being one with your Father, complete, joyful,and forever at Peace in the enlightened Knowledge of His loving embrace.  Then all will be clear and all shadows will have dissipated as the clarity of Reality surrounds you.

You have been working your way homewards towards this glorious conclusion to the game of separation in which you have been engaged for many lifetimes, and that conclusion, that awakening into awareness of who you truly are is fast approaching.  Do not let the apparent reality of the illusion, with the chaos and confusion it is spreading in its final attempts to convince you that it is real, drag you down into a morass of self-doubt and self-recrimination about your worthiness to experience God’s Love for you, or, worse still, into doubting the existence of God.   You are, you always have been, and you always will be perfect creations of your divine Father, forever at one with Him in Heaven – Paradise, Reality – because there is nowhere else.  That is where you are, and the realization of that, the awareness of that, the truth of that will show you, once and for all, that you have been asleep and dreaming of a nowhere place that you had made up in your minds to amuse yourselves.  The amusement ended, and since then you have been endeavoring to awaken, and the moment for that to happen is at hand.

God in His ineffable Love and Wisdom could not and would not allow you to remain asleep and unaware of who you really are, which is why He provided you with all that you need to awaken, and why He has been actively encouraging you to do so since you first entered that unreal state.  He knows you want to wake up, He knows you have undergone the very convincing but completely unreal experience of intense suffering, and He wants only for you to release yourselves from that nightmare by embracing one another in the Love that is your true state of being.  Love is infinite, utterly complete in and of Itself, and within It nothing that is unloving can possibly be present.  Your awakening is a process of letting go of anything that is incompatible with that divine state, and you have been working towards it for what seems like an interminable length of time.

The point at which you started to realize the insanity of behaving unlovingly was the moment when it became possible for you to consider letting go of the illusion, because it became immediately apparent that what you were experiencing so vividly could only be unreal.  Nevertheless, you were reluctant to disengage from the behaviors that had become endemic as you sought safety, acceptance, and love in that strange illusory environment from which they had been excluded.

Those very behaviors that you thought would protect you were, and continue to be, the ties that bind you to the illusion, because, as you have often been reminded, anything unloving cannot be present in the state of Love.  You have been reluctant to release them because of the intense sense of insecurity with which the illusion presents you, and because as you look around you you see intense suffering from which you wish to be separated.  But separation is suffering, it is the delusion that separation from others provides you with safety and security from attack, and enables you to attack others to keep yourselves safe. As all are one to attack anyone is to attack yourselves.

Your awakening process continues to move rapidly forwards because your awareness of this truth is intensifying and spreading, and more and more of you are intending to cooperate in loving behaviors that will enable you to release that fearful need to be separate.  It seems to many of you that you have one foot in Reality and one in the illusion – you believe that there is only oneness, that separation is an illusion, and yet you are still experiencing separation.  However, this concept is in itself a great step forwards.  And with each step forwards you increase your acceleration towards your inevitable arrival at your heavenly destination.  Just continue holding your Light on high; doing so reminds you of your divine heritage and strengthens your intent to awaken, and this will assist and encourage others to do the same.  It is an acceptance of the reality of your oneness and it helps to further dissipate the sense of separation that binds you to the illusion.  The bindings that remain are far fewer then ever before, and are now close to breaking. You know this, so relax into the certainty of your impending awakening.

With so very much love, Saul.

www.johnsmallman.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/all-shadows-will-have-dissipated-as-the-clarity-of-reality-surrounds-you

All your issues are coming up with an intensity that very few have experienced

By Saul

Channelled through John Smallman, 8 January 2012

Many are feeling very stressed and enervated as the issues that they need to address and release in order for them to awaken demand their attention.  Your awakening is guaranteed, and the moment when it will happen is approaching very rapidly.  Consequently, the issues that attach you to the illusion have to be dealt with.  You know this deep within yourselves, and so they are being driven up into your awareness to enable you to acknowledge and release them.

They are basically your fixed ideas and beliefs on which you base your judgments: I am being abused; I am a helpless victim of circumstances; these people are forcing me to do this; I am of little worth; it's not my fault; how could s/he treat me like this; I will not put up with this; s/he is wrong and should not be allowed to get away with it; they deserve punishment; what s/he did was unconscionable. . . on and on – a litany of unloving thoughts and attitudes.  To awaken you have to release all of them and embrace acceptance, forgiveness, and unconditional love.

Because you can feel the approach of the moment of awakening, you are also experiencing a sense of urgency which is pushing these issues into your conscious mind so that you can release them.  It is stressful because you have believed in the righteousness, dignity, and integrity of those attitudes for a very long time, and have attached yourselves to a right and an expectation of restitution for the wrongs supposedly inflicted on you – you have (within yourselves) demanded justice, and you know that God has seen how you have been wronged and that therefore these wrongdoers must be punished by Him.  But, there is no one on Earth who has not offended or harmed another; so none of you can be innocent!

However, as you are constantly being reminded, all that you are experiencing, all your suffering, is illusory, and to awaken from the illusion you have to release your belief in it because none of it ever happened and no one deserves God's punishment – there is no such thing!  God's divine justice envelops all in His infinitely loving embrace as He welcomes you Home in the beauty of your eternal innocence.

Until you release your unloving attitudes and forgive yourselves and all others for all the perceived wrongs that have been committed, you will be unable to awaken – because to harbor those attitudes in an awakened state would cause you suffering way beyond anything that anyone has experienced in the illusion, even if that were possible, because the contrast between the infinite Love that is Reality and the unloving attitudes that maintain and support the illusion is itself infinite. There is just no point at which they could meet and interact.  The illusion and all it seems to consist of could only flee from even the thought of making contact, because Reality, Love, God is anathema to it.  So, all your issues are coming into your awareness with an intensity that very few have experienced before, and it is shocking and unnerving for you.

Nevertheless, you have an infinite abundance of kind and loving assistance to help you to release them.  All that is required of you is your intention to release them all and to open yourselves to accept, receive, and be enfolded in the divine field of Love of which you are all essential parts.

There is no need for effort, striving, fighting, or conflict of any kind, these feelings are fear-driven remnants of the belief that you have offended or attacked God, are unworthy of His Love, and can expect and deserve His punishment.  Nothing could be further from the truth because you are perfect divine creations permanently at one with your Father.  Just let go of your fears, doubts, and anxieties and allow the knowing deep within you to come to the surface of your awareness, which will confirm for you that you are infinitely loved by your Father, that absolutely nothing can or ever will harm you, and that eternal bliss is your Home and your destiny.

With so very much love, Saul.

www.johnsmallman.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/all-your-issues-are-coming-up-with-an-intensity-that-very-few-have-experienced

Love is becoming fashionable

By Saul
 
Channelled through John Smallman, 4 January 2012

When you come together in groups to pray or meditate and you hold the intent that humanity awaken, your individual intents are very much strengthened and intensified. As the moment of awakening draws ever closer, more and more of you are doing this, and as a result the momentum carrying you towards that point in time is far too powerful for anything to divert it or slow it down. It is becoming an intense and exciting ride to a most glorious destination, and your sense of exhilaration when you arrive there will be mind blowing!

Where you are at present is the culmination of eons of struggle and many lifetimes in the illusion, as you sought to make sense of it. But it makes no sense, and the imaginary paths that you invented to lead you Home were not very helpful because so many of them involved harsh judgment of those on paths other than your own. Finally, enough of you realized the insanity of this approach to finding your way Home, understood that your Father is infinite loving kindness, and began to practice being loving kindness yourselves. This brought you some peace and stillness which enabled you to hear the spiritual guides who had always been with you. These first ones shared their experiences, which encouraged others to adopt these new attitudes, even though the vast majority of humanity were too bound up in conflict and struggle to even consider attempting to embrace such a seemingly weak and ineffective way of living.

However, the numbers now embracing loving attitudes and living kindly, peacefully, and compassionately has swelled enormously over the last three or four decades, and their influence is growing exponentially. The peace and calmness they enjoy and demonstrate can be clearly seen as they practice this enlightened way of living in every corner of the world, and their numbers are growing daily as people from all walks of life in every country on the planet seek respite from the pain, suffering, and anxiety that the old ways of living support and maintain by their merciless and crushing attitudes of judgment and disdain for those of whom they disapprove.

Humanity is opening up to Love! For eons only a few in each generation did this, but now millions are doing so, and it is changing the world dramatically. Love is becoming fashionable! Fashions have always come and gone, were embraced and then discarded. However, once you open to Love and experience the peace and calm and the reduction in stress and anxiety it brings, and realize what you have been missing up till now, then you quickly decide that this is not just another passing fad, but a way of life that you will engage in permanently. And what happiness that decision brings you! Your sense of being lost, confused, forever running and getting nowhere dissipates, and you find that life has a meaning and value you had never before experienced – so you embrace it and want only to share it.

This is what is going on all over the world right now! People are discarding their attitudes of fear, doubt, and anxiety, and embracing the Love that has always enveloped them. Yes, It has always been with you, but in the fear engendered by your supposed state of separation from God you dared not believe that It was there for you. Now, as you open yourselves to accept and receive It, you are discovering others doing likewise, and like you, they also become open and willing, wanting to share It everywhere, indiscriminately.

In short, a sea change has occurred. The Love constantly sweeping across the planet is being accepted with a grace and gratitude never before seen on Earth. You are alive and present in a time of unprecedented hope and confidence in your abilities to heal the Earth and all whom she shelters. And that hope and confidence is utterly justified because it is backed by your Father’s loving Will that you awaken into Reality. Joy and amazement far beyond your ability even to imagine will be eternally yours when that happens. Know that, and hold the intent continuously and confidently for it to do so, because your Father has promised it, and that is an assurance that will be honored.

With so very much love, Saul.

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