Our "gift" is to receive. When we are in a constant state of receiving love then we are taken care of from the deepest level.  When we allow love to live through us then and only then can we take action. Love guided action. You go to the presence within (your soul, spirit, presence, love) feel it become one with it. allow it to move through you. Allow it to speak through you. Feel the love within you connecting to God, your source, the universe the nature behind nature. Let that heal you.

Do not presuppose anything.  Let go of your ideas on how your life should be.  Let go of any ideas on how your day should go.  Surrender to the presence within and not to the ego.  Do not let your ego guide you.  When you are complaining or chasing after materiality and attention and praise it is your ego speaking.

When we are afraid,  we cannot be accepting.  fear creates tension which in turn creates a wall which we believe will protects us from what ever we fear.   That wall keeps out everything even the good that is coming to us.  Release the tension face the fear and allow the good.

Change who you are and your circumstances will change.  If you stay where you are  you will always get the same things in life. How do you know how to change? Where to change?  What to change about your personality?  Ask!  Ask The Presence within and listen for the answers.

No one wants to get stuck in life doing the same things getting the same results. You must become a better you to have better things whether it's physical, mental emotional spiritual you must raise your vibration to that which you desire. Think about the person you want to be.  How you live your life as that person.   See what you do as that person when you get up in the morning what you do before breakfast what you eat for breakfast. how you live your day. The people we see that live a certain lifestyle LIVE that lifestyle.  You don't have to become like them if you don't want but, you must live a life as they would.  Your inner presence will guide you to living the life you want to have or vibrate to.

Within me there is a perfect form a form Divine.  I am now all I desire to be.  I imagine daily my beautiful being until I breathe it into being. I am a divine child all my needs are being now and forever supplied. 

You can't actually use the process (feeling love) to get anything.  You just have to feel love.  Love will bring all the good to you.  You can't feel love and focus on something you want and expect it to bring it to you.  It may but, love also says no for your benefit,  So that you are on the right path to learn what you need to learn to fulfill your destiny. What love will do is guide you to the best place for you, giving everything you ever wanted whether or not you genuinely  knew you wanted it.
Make your decisions from a place of love! 

Wisdom from Billy Phillips-Kabbalahist
The biggest conflict on earth is not between religions, between nations or between enemies of any kind. The greatest of all conflicts exists between our ego and the truth. So next time someone says something about your character that causes you pain, stop and consider that maybe, just maybe, it might be true.

 The absolute best time to be silent is when you have a burning need to answer that person back. The perfect time to answer back is when you're scared into utter silence.

"Abra cadabra" is an Aramaic/kabbalistic word meaning "as i speak i create" indicating the power of the spoken word. Share praise and compliments and good wishes with everyone you meet over the next few days. With each kind word we share, we bring into existence a packet of positive energy (code name: angel) that brings positive influences into our life. With each negative word uttered and each judgmental statement spoken, we arouse a packet of negative energy that tips the balance of our lives towards the negative.

2. Arabs aren't dying. Israelis aren't dying. Christians aren't dying. Filipinos aren't dying. Syrians aren't dying. It is human beings who are dying. When we realize we are all God's children -- different, the same way the organs of the body are different with different functions -- then the one body of humanity, in all of its diversity, will unite and stop dying.

Hate has no power, except for the power we believe it has. Hate cannot exist in the presence of true love. Hate only exists when there is a lack of love within someone. Love is immortal. When we love forever, we will live forever. We only age and die because of the lack of love that we share with others. It is ego that prevents us from loving forever, and thus living forever. Kabbalists work at removing all self-interest and ego so that they can achieve immortal life in this world.

3. We are not here to transform our ego. We are not here to be kind and loving people. We're here to attain immortality & endless joy. Transforming our ego and becoming kind and loving people is HOW we get there. Forget morals and ethics and noble ideals. True transformation is all about creating a win-win paradise for everyone. Especially ourselves! That's the paradox behind unconditional love for others.

4. We can only share what we have! So we can't change the world until we change ourselves. People who are busy changing the world are merely fueled by inverted ego. Activism is egoism—unless that activism is directed inward at our own negative traits.

Most times—not all the time—but most of the time, we are not looking for the truth. We think we are, but we are not. We are looking for facts and evidence to support what we already believe or desperately want to believe. The quest for truth is the most difficult path in life. The ability to embrace the truth once we find it requires almost super-human courage and will. If you know ahead of time that truth will shake you to the bone, you will draw the courage from the Light hear the truth so that you be able to live the truth.

The Torah and the Bibles of many religions often instruct us to kill our enemies including men, women, children. Biblical scripture, by design, is a code. The enemy is our own ego. Period. The enemy is our doubts about the existence of the Opponent and enemy that lives within us

Feeling love.  You can just feel love and that's great!  You can also use your chakras and love.  I use my Root Chakra and feel love being created.  I feel it moving through my body and out.  the root Chakra is the creative source.  You create love and feel it moving through your body.  It is a very powerful feeling.  Feeling that feeling of love in that area is much better than obsessing about sex.

You don't have to feel love for someone as a matter of fact it's probably best if you don't.
Just feel love. If nothing else,  just doing that will change your life for the better dramatically.  When you feel love you raise your vibration to the level of Love.  The level of all healing, the level of all good.  So if you want healing, if you want good in your life feel love.Feeling love you can feel a connection between you and the other.  If you feel love for someone or something it creates attachment.   Attachment isn't bad until you have to detach  then that might involve pain.  Having a connection is, I believe, much better because when you disconnect it's not as painful.

Love is...The Presence Within.  It is difficult at times to keep that connection.  There are so many distractions in our lives.  Our day to day distractions of dealing with each other. Complicated distractions such as illness, or job concerns.  It is a moment to moment thing.  We must remind ourselves to feel love.  Moment to moment.  To allow that power to take over our being.

As things happen from within you must go within to get your answers. I have health issues so I go within to that place (in this case it's a Doctor's office) and I talk to the Dr. or Dr.s there.   they tell me I must go to the place that is ailing and speak with it.  Ask it's forgiveness.  Ask it what I must do to improve that area of ill health.  I get many impressions of eating the right "color" of food for that area.  i.e. red food for the heart. Yellow food for the spleen and Pancreases and so on.
Going within is the most powerful thing I find that I can do to correct the outside issues.

surrender to Love and it's purpose for you.  Allow love to place you where you need to be to be the most effective.

Think of how powerful surrender is.  Think about when the Japanese surrendered to the US in World War II.  Look how powerful they have become. 


When you feel love just feel love you can feel a connection to  you can feel a connection to things and people.  When you feel love for something or someone you become attached and when that love is no longer there you feel heartache. Attachment is like a cord connecting you to the other person when the cord is broken there is a feeling of loss.  When you just feel connected it means you are on the same wavelength as the other.  When the connection is not there it's not there but, there is no sense of loss.

You can still retain the essence of the connection but not be attached to the thing you are connected to.  This will also resolve a lot of co-dependent attitudes.

Addictions come from not being love.  When you feel the feeling of love you don't need anything else.  When those feelings come up whether it be addiction to food, alcohol, drugs, exercise, money, power or even another person, these all say you are not feeling the feeling of love. Addictions take us out of our feelings. 

Yet, nothing can compare to the feeling of love.
Stop searching for love.  You are love.  Just feel it and allow it to draw to you that which you need. 

Love will not give you everything you want.  It will give you your hearts desire. You do have to know your heart.  Then you will know it's desire for you. 

I did my first full Qi gong exercise as taught by Dr. Wu "Qi gong for Total Wellness"  At one point you "send your eyes out into the Universe"  I go beyond the Universe and end up in...well...heaven.  Today I got the message to connect to the Galactic Center.  Anyone who knows me knows I dislike these Metaphysical made up terms.  I find them full of hubris.

Although, I do try to follow my guidance.  So I did.  I connected to this "Galactic Center" and found myself instantly grounded and centered within myself.

Today might not come again but, the choices we are offered will. If we choose wisely then the choice returns at a higher level of consciousness, if we choose poorly then the choice returns in a more difficult form, the choices are always offered again in some form or another.

 

Forgiveness.  In so many situations I have learn forgiveness to heal. When I first read "A Forgiveness Meditation" by Stephen Levine in his book "healing through life and death" it became my most powerful thought.  I started forgiving people throughout my life and asking for their forgiveness.  Today as I was working out I thought about my life and it hit me. I have not forgiven my life!  Life itself is a living breathing thing and as such creates situations for you to make you stronger or learn etc.  I needed to forgive my life!  I've been very blessed throughout my life in many many ways. There are things though I thought could have been better.  So I relaxed, closed my eyes and brought my life into my heart.

A FORGIVENESS MEDITATION
© 1991 Stephen Levine
[To be read slowly to a friend or silently to oneself.]
Begin to reflect for a moment on what the work “forgiveness” might mean.
What is forgiveness? What might it be to bring forgiveness into one’s life, into one’s mind? Begin by slowly bringing into your mind, into your heart, the image of someone for whom you have some resentment.
Gently allow a picture, a feeling, a sense of them to gather there.
Gently now invite them into your heart just for this moment.
Notice whatever fear or anger may arise to limit or deny their entrance
and soften gently all about it.
No force.
Just an experiment in truth which invites this person in.
And silently in your heart say to this person, “I forgive you.”
Open to a sense of their presence and say, “I forgive you for whatever pain you may have caused me in the past, intentionally or unintentionally, through your words, your thoughts, your actions.
However you may have caused me pain in the past, I forgive you.”
Feel for even a moment the spaciousness relating to that person with the possibility of forgiveness.
Let go of those walls, those curtains of resentment, so that your heart may be free.
So that your life may be lighter.
“I forgive you for whatever you may have done that caused me pain, intentionally or unintentionally, through your actions, through your words, even through your thoughts, through whatever you did.
Through whatever you didn’t do.
However the pain came to me through you, I forgive you.
I forgive you.”
It is so painful to put someone out of your heart.
Let go of that pain.
Let them be touched for this moment at least with the warmth of your forgiveness.
“I forgive you, I forgive you.”
Allow that person to just be there in the stillness, in the warmth and patience of the heart.
Let them be forgiven.
Let the distance between you dissolve in mercy and compassion.
Let it be so.
Now, having finished so much business, dissolved in forgiveness, allow that being to go on their way.
Not pushing or pulling them from the heart, but simply letting them be on their own way, touched by a blessing and the possibility of your forgiveness.
And now gently, giving yourself whatever time is necessary, allow the other person to dissolve as you invite another in.
Now gently bring into your mind, into your heart, the image, the sense, of someone who has resentment for you.
Someone whose heart is closed to you.
Notice whatever limits their entrance and soften all about that hardness.
Let it float.
Mercifully invite them into your heart and say to them, “I ask your forgiveness.”
“I ask your forgiveness.”
“I ask to be let back into your heart.
That you forgive me for whatever I may have done in the past that caused you pain, intentionally or unintentionally, through my words, my actions, even through my thoughts.”
“However I may have hurt or injured you, whatever confusion, whatever fear of mind caused you pain, I ask your forgiveness.”
And allow yourself to be touched by their forgiveness.
Allow yourself to be forgiven.
Allow yourself back into their heart.
Have mercy on you.
Have mercy on them.
Allow them to forgive you.
Feel their forgiveness touch you.
Receive it.
Draw it into your heart.
“I ask your forgiveness for however I may have caused you pain in the past.
Through my anger, through my lust, through my fear, my ignorance,
my blindness, my doubt, my confusion.
However I may have caused you pain, I ask that you let me back into your heart.
I ask your forgiveness.”
Let it be.
Allow yourself to be forgiven.
If the mind attempts to block forgiveness with merciless indictments, recriminations, judgments, just see the nature of the unkind mind.
See how merciless we are with ourselves.
And let this unkind mind be touched by the warmth and patience of forgiveness.
Let your heart touch this other heart so that it may receive forgiveness.
So that it may feel whole again.
Let it be.
And now gently bid that person adieu and with a blessing let them be on their way, having even for a millisecond shared the one heart beyond the confusion of seemingly separate minds.
And now gently turn to yourself in your own heart and say, “I forgive you,” to you.
It is so painful to put ourselves out of our hearts.
Say, “I forgive you,” to yourself.
Calling out to yourself in your heart, using your own first name, say “I forgive you,” to you.
If the mind interposes with hard thoughts, such as that it is self indulgent to forgive oneself, if it judges, if it touches you with anger and unkindness,
just feel that hardness and let it soften at the edge.
Let it be touched by forgiveness.
Allow yourself back into your heart.
Allow you to be forgiven by you.
Let the world back into your heart.
Allow yourself to be forgiven.
Let that forgiveness fill your whole body.
Feel the warmth and care that wishes your own well-being.
Seeing yourself as if you were your only child, let yourself be bathed by this mercy and kindness.
Let yourself be loved.
See your forgiveness forever awaiting your return to your heart.
How unkind we are to ourselves.
How little mercy.
Let it go.
Allow you to embrace yourself with forgiveness.
Know that in this moment you are wholly and completely forgiven.
Now it is up to you just to allow it in.
See yourself in the infinitely compassionate eyes of the Buddha, in the sacred heart of Jesus, in the warm embrace of the Goddess.
Let yourself be loved.
Let yourself be love.
And now begin to share this miracle of forgiveness, of mercy and awareness.
Let it extend out to all the people around you.
Let all be touched by the power of forgiveness.
All those beings who also have known such pain.
Who have so often put themselves and others out of their hearts.
Who have so often felt isolated, so lost.
Touch them with your forgiveness, with your mercy and loving kindness, that they too may be healed just as you wish to be.
Feel the heart we all share filled with forgiveness so that we all might be whole.
Let the mercy keep radiating outward until it encompasses the whole planet.
The whole planet floating in your heart, I mercy, in loving kindness, in care.
May all sentient beings be freed of their suffering, of their anger, of their confusion, of their fear,
of their doubt.
May all beings know the joy of their true nature.
May all beings be free from suffering.
Whole world floating in the heart.
All beings freed of their suffering.
All beings’ hearts open, minds clear.
All beings at peace.
May all beings at every level of reality, on every plane of existence, may they all be freed of their suffering.
May they all be at peace.
May we heal the world, touching it again and again with forgiveness.
May we heal our hearts and the hearts of those we love by merging in forgiveness,
by merging in peace.

Feeling  the feeling of Love I have found it very challenging (a good challenge) to Keep feeling love. why can't we feel love all the time.  I believe it is because we are conditioned, if you will, to expect something back when we love, whether it is love in return, money, friendship, quid pro quo. We place a condition on our love.  We started out as naturally loving beings but, sometimes that love wasn't returned or the other person wasn't doing their job for us.  So we made our love conditional. Getting something in return.  When i first started dating I fell in love quite easily.  My relationships would end with the other person saying you are smothering me with your love. I believe I was just loving and the other person did not have the capacity to accept that love.  In reality there were times I remember hoping the person would love me back as much as I loved them. They didn't have that capability to do that. It's like giving a gift.  Sometimes it is wanted and appreciated for what it is and sometimes the other person feels an obligation to return in some kind the kindness you have shown and sometimes you expect to get something of equal value in return.
What we don't realize is the love we give does not have to be returned to us.  It can be given to someone else to keep the flow of love moving so it will not stagnate. It will eventually come back to us perhaps not by the person we gifted but, from someone else that was gifted by another.

Have you been editing your life? Instead of allowing the Presence Within to give to you freely have you been dictating what you  do and don't want to experience actually avoiding what it is you don't want? As it has been said before the universe works in spirals not directly.

So your life does not go directly to it's objective. I have fought the flow and paid the price but, now I am allowing and going with the flow and reaping the rewards.

Sometimes we fear that something bad will happen to us if we just let go. But, if you are feeling love, just feeling love feeling that joy, nothing bad will happen to you.  You are protected by love. Challenges will come up.  When we are challenged we are offered a choice, perhaps several choices. You make the choice from that feeling of love and/or joy. We can know immediately after we make the choice whether it was a choice that progresses you, stagnates you or reverses your direction. Listen.  Listen to your heart and your inner beingness. Often when we have bad dreams or nightmares it is our self conscious telling us to wake up we are not listening to the direction that we are being given. Feel love.

So often we look at  our imperfections and focus on them rather than looking on  our perfections and expanding them.  Within all of us is a part that is perfect.  That is free of dis-ease full of health and happiness.  There is also a place of peace.  If you could imagine going within to meet up with that part of you that is perfect in your place of peace.  Imagine the surroundings. what is it that makes this a place of peace? What are the colors of this place.  The feeling of this place, the smell of this place. The sites and sounds of this place.  Once you have it firmly in your mind allow that perfect part of you to come in.  Again, feel what it would be like to be perfect. Feel the body you would have if you had perfect health being perfectly happy and in joy. Even if you have difficulty in imagining perfection feel the perfect energy and allow it to saturate your body.

Follow your heart. Most people follow the money. Which ironically is what police do in murder investigations. Stop killing yourself! Follow your heart and the money will follow you.

I am a chemical petri dish!  I have done so many drugs in my life both for health and recreation.  I now live on at least ten meds a day for heart diabetes etc.  I am sitting here meditating and saying I want to be pure again!  I want to cleanse all these drugs and impurity from my body.  My inner voice my presence within tells me "You are pure." "all of the substance you have taken in is an illusion." "You can force it from your cells and let it drain away." go to the part of you that is perfect. perfection and raise your physical body to that vibration.  Take on the vibration of a perfect body and allow it to vibrate off the imperfections the darkness. This perfect body is not who you were when you were born or who you were growing up but the pure perfect form of who you truly are. 

Follow your heart!  It is the greatest advice anyone can ever give. Your heart  won't lead you directly to the place you want to go but, it will lead you to places where you will learn the things you will need when you get to where you want to go.

Listening to another person's philosophy make the effort to go within and create for yourself. There is some great wisdom and truth out there.  But, do not follow it blindly because it sounds beautiful.  That is the way to oppression.

What do I believe in?  This is a very difficult question because most of what I believe in are things or people I can rely on.  I believe in the Presence Within because I've found I can rely on it. I believe in love because I can rely on it.  Not the love between two people because I have found  that is not reliable. Do I believe in God?  I believe there is a God or source of all goodness a creator. Although the concept is very chaotic because who knows what God is going to do next. I  am finding that God is a stabilizing force (which with my previous statement makes it a paradox.)  With all of the interconnectedness. God can be relied on when we feel that interconnectedness.  

It is easy to figure out what you believe in.  Surrender to it.  A few years ago I was in a hospital dying (according to the doctors) I had congestive heart failure and pneumonia (lungs half filled with fluid) I believed this was the end.  So I made peace with my life and told God "I'm ready"  but, take me quick,  I don't want to suffer."  I ended up living because my belief that I was dying was false.  It was an illusion.  The only reality is Love.  If you are sick or in a bad place in your life surrender to it.  Surrender to the illness.  It will prove to be an illusion.  Surrender to whatever you believe in.  If it's real it will remain.  If it is an illusion it will leave your life. 

Love

The reason I speak so much about love is that it has changed my life in very subtle amazing ways.  I had a friend on my massage table a beautiful  man.  I told him just to feel love.  He later asked me how he was supposed to do that.  I told him to remember a time when he was in a relationship and deeply in love.  Now take the other person out of the picture and just feel the feeling he had when he himself was in love.  When you just feel the feeling of love you find yourself at peace.  You can walk out the door and just feel love. You connect to nature.  You are part of nature.  You are part of the asphalt that your car drives on.  You are part of the homes along the street.  It feels like what God is described as being everywhere.  You don't demand anything of all of this.  That would be conditional love.  You just feel love and allow it to be.

there are several ways to get this feeling of love.  I just discovered a video of two guys falling in love.  Interestedly they were hired to make a porno (so I can't show the video here) but, as soon as they met you could see, hear, feel the connection and throughout the video which was more of a behind the scenes vid than anything.  I watch this video to inspire me.  To show me how love develops and feel it in myself as if I were one of the guys.  Another way is to go within to The Presence Within and ask it how to feel love.  You  could also go to the energy of love within you.  Sit there with it describe it to yourself how it looks like, feels like, sounds like until you have a clear image of it.  You may want to ask that image how to develop your feelings of love.

Definition of insanity...  We live our lives the same way at the same vibration expecting our lives to turn out differently. 

I had a dream this morning I was in a place and met a young man who I was very attracted to and it seemed he was attracted to me.  Then my friend Gary came along (Picture Tom of Finland looks perfect body great personality) and then they weren't there. I thought this guy had gone off with Gary. I felt bad that I had lost this guy.  Then I realized in the dream that I could match Gary's vibration and attract guys to me.  In truth there is no law of attraction. When we get to the point that all is one we will not need to use the premises of the Law of Attraction, but until then anything that can help,  use it.

Energy is movement. Vibration is movement.  Everything vibrates whether you can see it or not. People vibrate animals vibrate nature vibrates.  If you look through a very powerful microscope you will see your hand vibrating or a leaf The vibration is what makes it look alive!

We find people we admire and then match our vibration to meet theirs.  That is why it is a good idea to become the best person you can be to inspire others.  We are not here for ourselves but to help others.

Matching someone's vibration does not mean you become that person.  You take on certain character traits of that person and match them to your personality.  This is why it is said that every person in a dream is you.  Every person you meet or have some contact with is you or a part of you.  You can enhance  yourself to match that part of you and become better. They have given you the example.
Gary is a very attractive person in a lot of ways inside and out.  Do I want to be Gary. No. Would I like to be more like him. Definitely!

Say you want to be a great yoga instructor.  Find a person you admire as a yoga instructor and imagine what it would feel like to have that energy.  Feel that energy coursing through your body.
The same is true of being an athlete  or an engineer or a great philosopher.

A thought just hit me as I'm writing this that I could use the energy of a great writer.  I will work on that!  YAY!

Money, Love,Relationships,Career whatever you want in life.  There are times when we don't feel the "flow" of money or any of these things.  What happens when you don't say have a lot of money coming into your life.  You feel tense.  Ironically it's the tension around money energy that keeps it away.  Somewhat like a dam.

Once you release the tension the money flows. 

How to release this tension.  A lot of the tension comes from thinking that these things can only come from specific sources.  Money comes from your job.  You rarely see it coming from elsewhere. If you see your job as your source of money then if something happens to your job what you believe as your source may dry up.  Your actual source of money, relationships et al is in reality God, the Presence Within that is connected to God or your source.  This is an unlimited source.  Whatever comes from this source is unlimited.  It can flow, say, money to you from many different areas,  some of which you may not have ever thought of.

Allowing your unlimited source to flow money to you takes the tension away.  You will get it in the best way ever because your source is also all knowing.
These thoughts are also true of relationships.  There was a time that the only source of relationships were immediate social interactions.  Now those interactions have expanded to work, bars, sports, activities, hobbies, the internet.  Your source can put you in the relationship you desire and is the perfect relationship for you.

And so on with any area of your life.
Give your problems to your source.  Imagine walking around inside you and finding your source of all goodness.  It could be like a well from which things flow. Imagine pulling a lever and money flowing out of this well or source or imagine going up to your Presence Within and giving it the problem.  Allow your presence to figure out the perfect solution and let it be.

A friend asked me about the quote from Henry David Theroux "Men living lives of quiet desperation" and what is that about? I went within to my presence and asked the same question and I heard "because they do not feel connected".  I asked "connected to what?" the answer I received was "to anything!"

 They do not feel connected to the people around them or animals, the trees, bushes, lakes rivers, desert to nature itself. They may not be  feeling a connectedness to spiritual source.

 This can mean you as your own spiritual source,The presence Within you  or you may believe that Source or God whatever you wish to call it can take the form of a specific religion.  Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, etc. There are a myriad of forms God can present itself to you. When we feel connected to people or things around us we do not feel lonely or desperate. We know there is help if we need it, something we can rely on.

 A lot of people do not have a “fallback” or feel there is nothing there to help them in times of desperation.  As Carl Jung has said that “whether or not you believe in God you must (for your own mental health) believe in a source outside yourself greater than yourself because we all have those times when we can’t depend on ourselves".  We must be able to believe that there is something “out there” that has the answers we need.

Another message I got from within was that people don't realize how remarkable they are. Perhaps this is because people think they have to feel remarkable to be remarkable. 

The thing about remarkable people I’ve found is that they don’t feel remarkable. I’ve known quite a number of people with IQ’s over 150 a couple of them 160 and 165.  What I realized is that these people don’t think they are smarter than anyone else they wonder why people ACT so unintelligent.  People who are creative geniuses rarely know they are geniuses.  They see others that they admire and wonder why they can’t be at that level?

How to realize that you are remarkable.  First believe that you are.  Everyone has some remarkable trait.  Second, listen to people when they compliments  you .  As in Gestalt Therapy if someone comes up to you and says you’re a horse’s ass you can write them off.  If two people say you’re a horse’s ass you can write them off but, it will give you pause to think about it.  If three people say you are a horse’s ass  you better start looking for a tail.

The same is true when several  people compliment you on an area of your life you work in or love to do. How often when someone compliments us do we automatically accept it? Probably not. We need to accept the fact that others believe we are remarkable and then look and see for ourselves ways in which we are remarkable.

What is the greatest power we have available to  us?  God?  The Universe? Or Source?  Whatever you want to call this power outside yourself greater than yourself.  No, God is really not available to us at all times at least a lot of people believe that.  It's Love.  Love is available to us at all times. We don't have to see it although we can.  We just have to feel it.  Once you feel love it can do incredible things in your life.

Quite a number of years ago I was in a very metaphysical space and most of my friends knew it and some even tolerated it.  I got a call from one friend Max whose lover Steve was dying in a hospice of AIDS.  Max asked me to come and he asked another very spiritual person to be there also.  I sat by Steve's bed and put my hand on his are.  I went within and heard the message just give him love.  That's what I did.  I sat there sending love into his body.  The doctors had given Steve morphine to keep him out of pain.  I kept sending love (in the end I found out it was 3-4 hours that I had sat there.  All of a sudden I felt the ceiling open up then I felt Steve leave his body and I saw his body shrink.  I was awestruck!  Max looked at me knowing something had happened and said" he's gone isn't he?"  I was in such a state of awe all I could say was "yes!".  Max started wailing.  I could not be there for him right then because of the awe I had felt. 

I find that when I feel love there is no judgement of others.  You see them as wonderful.

There is no judgement of events.  They just are. There is no judgement.  I always heard about connecting to nature that we must feel a connection to nature and I tried but the connection eluded me until I just felt love then the connection just happened. Feeling love brings about remarkable things like Peace within.  Will it solve all your problems perhaps if they were meant to be solved or perhaps you were meant to solve them with love.

Forgiveness happens when you realize you did nothing wrong.  When you realize the other person did nothing wrong. Forgiveness happens when you can release the pain and you realize that the pain was all illusion.  Forgiveness happens when you realize that we are all one!

Surrender to the feeling of unconditional love.  Surrender to the thought of unconditional love Give yourself up to unconditional love.  When you don't have any expectations of nature you truly connect to nature.  When you don't have any expectations of animals you truly connect to animals. When you don't have any expectations of people you truly connect to people.

Know your own truth.  Know yourself.  Being Clairsentient (some call it an em path)  I pick up on other peoples feelings.  Sometimes I take their feeling in.  I did this recently with a "homeless" man I met.  I did not realize it at the time but the next day I felt despair in the morning and early afternoon.  As I questioned it within myself I realized that it was not my despair but his that I had taken on.  I then gave it up to God or my source and the despair disappeared. We are all empaths to one degree or another and we all take on others feelings or moods to some degree or another.  We must know who we are to know what is ours and what is someone else's.  That way when we take on these emotions we know that this is not our truth.  We can then release it to our higher power. We clear ourselves.

Your actions help define who  you are.  If you are a compassionate person you will take compassionate actions.  Look to your actions negative and positive to see who you are.  Seek to embody those positive actions to create more positive actions.

If say you are a vegetarian because you wish no harm brought to animals but, wear leather belts and shoes do not put yourself down for these actions but embodied being a true vegetarian eventually you will find other means of clothing yourself.   If you are a vegetarian because you want a healthier lifestyle embody the healthier lifestyle. 

You have access to all the answers you need to every question.  It is your presence within you that will give you the answer you ask for. How does it do this?  It is connected to your source.  It receives the answers from your source and passes them on to you.  It sees the bigger picture and how you need to go to get where you are going.   When you look at a map to take a car trip, you see that most places you need to go you cannot get there by a direct route.  The same is true with the places you go in life.  It's rarely a direct route or perhaps you find that the direct route was not the best way to go.  Enjoy the scenery along the pathway of life.  Trust that you will get where you are going and that it will be the best place for you.

As I sit meditating today I grounded myself as I was taught by sending energy or "roots" down into the earth to the core and bringing up golden energy into the first Chakra.  I imagine these "wheels of light" as turning clockwise.  I got the message from my presence within just to allow the energy to flow as it will.  I then saw this energy moving around the root chakra and spinning it clockwise and then moving to the other side of my sacral chakra spinning it counter-clockwise and so on up my energy system. until it moves up and out of the top of the head.  I was then guided to bring energy down from spirit on the opposing side of each Chakra so that it look like a helix within my body.

I thought how could this be?  The Chakra energy would stop moving with the opposing forces hitting either side.  I was told by the presence within that in a fully realized being there are two parts to the Chakra Vortexes a "front" and a "back", if you will each spinning opposite ways.  The Yin and the Yang. 

I end with the Indian greeting. Namaste' which means literally "The Presence Within me honors The Presence Within you".

What are Chakras?

The word chakra comes from a Sanskrit (East Indian) word that means wheel. For thousands of years, they have been visualized as round balls of light that can open, close, darken, brighten, and spin. Their locations represent different aspects of human experience. Our emotions, physical health, and the ability to connect with others are all thought to be reflected in the condition of the chakras.

Brief Descriptions

• First Chakra–
• Also known as the Root/Base Chakra. Located at the base of your spine. Associated with our sense of security in the world, survival, self-esteem, shelter and food, the material things in life, and making money. This is where our physical and emotional stability and balance co-exist. Body- spine, nervous system. Color- red.
• Second Chakra–
• Also known as the Sexual/Spleen Chakra. Located in the curve of the sacrum. Associated with sexuality, sensuality, procreation, passion, emotion, and creativity. This is where the energy of our ancestors exists. Body- spleen, digestive organs, sexual organs. Color- orange.
• Third Chakra–
• Located in the upper stomach area just below the rib cage (behind the navel). Associated with our sense of personal power, the ego. This is where our energy comes from when we compete, protect, control, transform, and make choices. Body- stomach. Color- yellow.
• Fourth Chakra–
• Located in the area of your heart. Associated with unconditional love, compassion, joy, unity with all living things. Body- lungs, heart. Color- green.
• Fifth Chakra–
• This is the bridge chakra which allows us to receive nurturance and permits us to express our deepest truths. Located in your throat. Associated with creative energy, communication, and self-expression. Body- immune system, hormones. Color- blue.
• Sixth Chakra–
• Located just above and between your eyebrows. Also known as The Third Eye. Associated with intuition, deep wisdom, and spirituality. Body- pituitary gland, mental and spiritual processes. Color- indigo.
• Seventh Chakra–
• Also known as the Crown Chakra. Located just above the top of your head. Is thought to be our gateway / connection to the Spirit world. Here we feel and know that we are One with all that is, was, and will be. Color- violet.

I started out asking the big three questions.  Who am I? What do I want? and What is my purpose.  I have since learned that the Presence is who I really am and I am exploring that.  I want a lot but, the basic things are still what I am aiming for.  Home, family, relationships, Love.  I believe the rest all comes after that.