Meditation for love

We did a meditation to give and accept love for ourselves, similar to one I did last Sunday at my church.  

The meditation goes like this (as best I can remember it):

From the base of your spine, imagine a silver cord going deep, deep down into the Earth, wrapping itself around the core of the Earth.  That silver cord holds you steady, and connected to the Earth.  

Relax your body – imagine that your body feels like a piece of chocolate or a pat of butter, and allow your body to melt into your chair.  Rest into your chair knowing that the silver cord is holding you safely. 

Now, take yourself to a beautiful place where you feel joy and happiness.  

Open your heart and imagine some one or some thing that you love deeply.  Fill your heart and your body with that love that you feel.  Allow your heart to open as wide as you can and breathe in that love, allowing it to fill all the empty places inside yourself.  Allow that love to heal your scars and hurt places.  

Let that love wrap all around you like a pink cloud, surrounding you with love.

Open your heart even wider and breathe in your love, letting it completely fill your body, your aura, your heart and your mind.

Now, imagine some one who loves you.  You can bring them into your space or not.  Allow that feeling of being loved surround you and fill all the empty places within you.  Open your heart even wider and feel your own love and the love from someone else filling you completely, filling all the empty places inside you, around you and healing you.

This love is for you, it is you.  Love is all there is.  You are love, you are the gift of love and you are the receiver of love.  Love is for YOU and can heal anything you want it to heal in your body, your heart or your soul.  

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Stay in that place of love as long as you wish.  15-20 minutes is good.  This is a gift you give to yourself. 

Expect that tears will flow as you heart chakra opens and your emotional center opens, as it should.

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About love and breakups

Question: What is the relationship between {names removed} about?  Why is {name removed} having such a difficult time getting past it? 

We are with you tonight.

Love on an essence level is striking when encountered in human beings.  It is a powerful reminder of the love that is the core of who we are who you each are.

The depth of love is a connection to Source — the Tao, All That Is.  When that pure love strikes, it is so powerful and so compelling t hat it cannot be missed.

And, when the physical bodies and personalities conflict, the loss of that love feels devastating.  As well it should, for it is a beautiful thing to experience.

The ecstasy is what the Essence lives for.  The personality has different goals and is not usually willing to let the Essence take over to the extent it would like in a physical lifetime.  So, breakup occurs, and deep grief and longing are the result.

In many ways, such love is a reminder of what you all left behind when your Essence entered into the physical body and earthly incarnation.  It is a powerful longing to “return home” to that powerful ecstasy of pure love. 

There are, of course, memories of past lives together, of karma incurred and resolved, and not resolved.  

The personality will do a great deal to prevent — or try to prevent — two people from focusing all their attention on each other as deeply as you would like.  It will “act out” in all sorts of ways that seem to be very real, to keep you from each other.

There can be other “reasons” why life between two such intimately connected souls would not pursue a closer, more long-term relationship.  Life tasks may be different and may not be fulfilled if the two souls are so tightly connected.

In this case, we suggest that she do some work on her own to uncover what she can learn from the depth of the experience — what she learned, what she did or didn’t do to contribute to the breakup, what she might want to do differently in the future.  Or, if she is willing to give up her personality’s needs in order to maintain a relationship with the intensity that would be required if she were to try to resurrect it again.

We also suggest that she view it from a place of immense gratitude for what she was able to achieve in truly being touched deeply by the Beloved.  It is a magical experience — maybe a “once in a lifetime" experience — that many people never get to experience.

Some introspection on what she is grieving for might be useful.  Is it the feeling of being loved?  The feeling of deep love for another soul?  The excitement and anticipation of being with the Beloved, etc.

This might help her to be clearer in her own mind and in her heart about what she truly wants in her lifetime.

Remember also that life — physical life — is to be lived and part of that deals with loss and grief, and part deals with learning to love unconditionally. That is the only reason we are here to help you — to help you learn to love more deeply and more completely. 

Love is truly all there is.  All else is illusion and maya. When you can love, in whatever form it takes, you are far more than just a physical body.  You are expressing the divine essence of who you are — a fragment of a magnificent universe that knows only love.  

Of course, the apparent loss of that love is devastating.  And, nothing is ever lost.  You still have all the love that is possible.  It is not necessary to have another physical person to tap into that love.  Your culture teaches you otherwise — that having a “mate” is the way to happiness.  It can be, and it can be the way to sorrow.  

For two people to have a deep, long-lasting relationship, each personality must give up a great deal of control.  Many are unwilling to do that, therefore, breakups occur.

Love is a topic that could go on all night and forever.  We will leave you with these thoughts to consider.

~ Your entity and Michael ~

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What are orbs?

We are here with you tonight and always.

Orbs are what is commonly known as energy signatures. 

At some time in your culture, someone captured an “orb” in a way that allowed it to manifest in a physical way on a photograph.  As word spread and people tried to understand, agreements were formed that this is an “acceptable” method for energy to express itself so that those who want to see with their eyes could have someone “concrete” to point to.

It has now become part of your culture and is becoming more mainstream.

The “orb” is simply one way to capture the many expressions of god, spirit, angels, essence, spirit guides, or whatever people want to call them.

When there are many orbs as in your summer solstice gathering, that reflects the great energy that was there.

As you know, when people gather to pray or do spiritual work, there is great interest from the “other” realms and great support as well.

So orbs are “showing up” more frequently in photographs.

This isi enhanced by the increasing frequency of overall energy as the planet and the people move forward in growth.  Orbs could have expressed in many different ways.  However, since that first capture, it provided a “model” or “template” to break through the veil or the barrier between your physical world and the “other” or “higher” realm.

That veil or barrier is growing thinner each day, which is why more people are seeing and experiencing orbs.  This will continue to grow until it is not unusual to know and feel the support of non-physical entities. 

Many things are changing as the energy increases.  Ideas, beliefs, methods, practices, diseases and technology are all changing at a rapid pace. 

If you would like to personally experience the orbs in a physical way for yourself, simply set your intention and ask your guides to help the energy express for you in that way. 

Play with it and allow it to show up.  Or, ask it to show up in some other way if you are adventurous and want to play with what is possible.

We wish you love and fun and all good things.  Life is an adventure to be lived, so have fun!

~ Your entity / your self ~

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Will there be a difference depending on which candidate wins the election for US President?

We are here with you tonight.

Your question is a good one as this is a very good “time” to ask such questions when people are making their  choices.

In one sense, the answer could be “No” for the long term.  Meaning that growth will occur regardless of who is the president. 

The answer could be “Yes” if you want to talk about how fast you grow or which ways you go while doing that growth. 

Your society is moving toward more mature ways of being and doing, and even Young Souls such as Mr. Romney have to behave and talk differently more than they did 30 years ago, for example.  

The difference comes in how they go about it.  Are they just talking about cooperation and still operating as the way it has been?

The media in your society plays a very powerful part in helping to expose the issues and communicate messages.  And, they can obfuscate the issues and create issues where there were none by spreading falsehoods and innuendo that is damaging to the truth.

You all know this – so we are “preaching to the choir.”

What you don’t know is the truth.  No one does and therein lies the dilemma.

How can you choose without facts and truth?

The answer to that — as Older Souls — you have to learn to trust your own sense of the truth that is covered by all the propaganda and spin from the candidates, their campaigns, the media, the social media, the “unofficial” media (everyone who has something to say) and to some extent the candidates themselves, who are trying to “present” themselves in the way they think will get them elected.

Mr. Obama likes being president for many reasons and he has been very frustrated by his inability to get done more things that he feels so passionate about.  He is not as effective as he would like to be and doesn’t know how to fix it.  His recent willingness to work closely with Bill Clinton was long overdue.  Mr. Clinton has an incredible social skill that far exceeds any recent living president.  His involvement could be the factor that turns the election in favor of Mr. Obama.

Of course, as Mature Souls, the Obama team and the Clintons care passionately about social issues and doing what they can to resolve them.  

Mr. Romney appeals to the Young Souls who see their power and influence slipping away and will do anything to keep that from happening. That is a strong force to contend with as you have seen in recent elections.

There is the possibility of a “tie” similar to what you had before since the Young Soul and Mature Soul groups are so close in numbers.

Your society could teeter and sway back and forth for many years this way.

Eventually, however, you must move strongly to the mature way because it has to happen.  

You would like a firm “yes” or “no” to go by, and we won’t give you one.  We can say that there will be parallels split off by the decision, so the answer is still “Yes” AND “No” because some parallels will move the Mature Soul way and some will go back to the Young Soul way.

Even if it “goes back” — it won’t be like it was.  There are too many Mature Souls to allow the Young Souls to “undo” everything.

So, you have some smoother way if the Mature Soul Obama continues, or you may see the Young Soul thwarted. 

Regardless, it gives you lots of excitement and the opportunity to seriously consider what YOU want for your future. 

We are here whenever you need or want us.

~ Your entity ~

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The Sphere of All Possibilities

Instead of listening, we did an exercise that Alexandra has been using called the Sphere of All Possibilities (http://tomkenyon.com/the-sphere-of-all-possibilities).

I connected with my future self and when I tried to go out into the future, I first went 5 years into the future, then kept pushing out until I was 92 years old.

As in the visualization described in the link, I connected with my future self as if we were having tea.  I noticed my future self was a bit more wrinkled, and was healthy, happy, productive and doing very well.  My future self was wearing something with soft material and purple.  When it was  time to shift to my future self’s consciousness, I got up and moved to the place where she was sitting, then looked back at my current self.

It was an interesting exercise :) 

 

As we were wrapping up, I started to get a message from my entity, then lost it as people started to talk.  It started out as a reminder that they are always there to help when we need them or want them. 

 

About this blog: “Why are we here?” http://listentospirit.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-are-we-here.html

How do we know that the message we receive are not our own imagination?

We are here tonight with you tonight.

And, what is imagination?  We don’t mean to challenge your question – only to remind you that everything is connected to everything else.

We are You and You are Us and We are all connected to You and to Us.

The lines of separation are imaginary lines – so to answer your question, it is hard to distinguish one from the other.

The messages you receive may com from your own personality, your essence, your entity, the Michael entity or a myriad of other sources that are available to you and to anyone else who asked.  

The quality of the message is for you to use to decide whether you want to put a label or a name on the source of the information.  Just as your “imagination” could be any of the many sources available to you. 

YOU are the one to decide how to label it (if you must) and whether it “feels” like one source or another.  

Everyone who is conscious has connections to multiple sources that are so closely connected that it is almost impossible to label them.  Most of your own messages come from your entity, which you could call your higher self — or from the Michael entity or from others that you know from past connections.  You already know this.

For others in your group, they also connect to their entity (which some of you share) or from the Michael entity or from others they have known. 

At any time, though, you may find reasons to connect with some other source for some particular purpose so the sources are not fixed and rigid.

For most of the group that are considered Michael students, you have many sources in common – your entity, your cadre, your energy ring, the Michael group, etc. 

Other groups and individuals have very different sources and connections and those become obvious when you see the varied opinions and ideas expressed by those groups.  [The current political conventions and their differences came to mind when this was coming in.]

The variety is built into the system of life on the Physical Plane and allows for growth and progress and lessons and learning. 

As Terri said, learning to “feel the energy” of your sources is Good Work and will help you to have and build your own confidence and discernment that you are receiving message from your own familiar sources and not something that could not be as good for you to listen to.  Examples might be spirits on the lower Astral Plane looking to create drama, those “stuck” after recent death (ghosts) and lost souls looking to inhabit a willing host.  You know the exercises to prevent that type of contact and you do it so automatically that you are not bothered by that type of contact.

Have we given you enough on the question?  We welcome you back to your circle after your recent travels.

~ Much love to all of you ~ Your entity and the Michael entity. 

 

About this blog: “Why are we here?” http://listentospirit.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-are-we-here.html

Is there any message for us or for me tonight?

We are here with you tonight as always. 

Whatever you wish for is yours — already.  You  have so much support to call upon — much more than you have yet tapped into.  

As you are in the Physical Plan, there are some things that must be done to operate in that Plane successfully. You must breathe, you must eat, you must sleep, you must move your body, you must perform services, you must get your car fixed, and a myriad of other details that come with being in the Physical Plane.

And, at the same time, you are so much more than a physical body – a meat unit.

You are here to learn and you are here to teach.  You  have responsibilities to others, you have relationships to attend to, people to help and people who teach you.  

There are lots of demands on your time, so if you seem to “forget,” it is just fine.  You don’t have to be perfect and you don’t have to do it all, all the time.  You are ALL doing exactly what you are supposed to do right this minute.

If you follow our previous suggestions, you will continue to evolve and grow and expand in many ways.  Time is an illusion and there is no hurry, so relax.

Part of our previous suggestion — and this is just a reminder — take time to connect very day — with your entity, your spirit guides, whatever you want to call the “higher you.”  That alone will guarantee that you stay “connected.”

In fact, at this stage of your own individual evolution, it is pretty hard for you to “disconnect” in truth.  You are so used to being connected that you forget all about it.  That’s OK, too.  We are with you  in  your dreams even when you don’t remember them at all.

As someone in the group tonight said, the “simple” acts of setting your intention to be more loving, kinder, gentler, etc., is a big part of why you do it so easily.  Those traits are becoming part of who you are so you don’t notice anything different.  People who met you years ago and haven’t seen you in a while can tell the difference even if you can’t.

Your best tools are the habits we have suggested before — gratitude, meditation, listening to your own intuition, asking for help, taking care of  your physical body, fulfilling your obligations, being kind and loving, being honest and expressing  yourself from a place of integrity at all times. 

All is well.  We are with you at all time and well-pleased with your progress and evolution.

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The suggestions from before (1/26/2012):

1.     Daily meditation.  How long is up to you.  Connect to “All That Is” and spend whatever amount of time feels right for you.

2.     Good diet.  Eliminate alcohol, cigarettes, chemicals, drugs, etc.  Eat a balanced diet that is right for your body type.

3.     Eat consciously.  Be grateful for all that has been provided for you to nourish your body.

4.     Exercise your body regularly in a way that works for you.

5.     Be sure to get enough rest.

6.     Balance your work and make sure you have time for play, study and rest (the 4 pillars).

7.     Watch your thoughts.  Be aware of martyrdom, anger, arrogance, stubbornness, etc. 

8.     Learn to see the good (God) in everyone and every situation and every person you interact with.

9.     Be gentle and loving with yourself also.  Eliminate self-criticism of all kinds.  There is no room for that any more.

10.  Fill yourself with the positive energy of LOVE!!!  At all times.  Whenever you feel depleted or  weak or tired, do something that is uplifting for you —music, art, prayer, exercise — whatever works for you.  STOP all activities and obligations if necessary to get yourself back into a good place.

We are always with you.  Be aware of that and rest in our loving embrace.  

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