Letting Go of Your Negative Energy

We all have negative energy buried deep within us. On a subtle, mostly subconscious level, that energy is taking a toll on everything we do. At the very least it is occupying space that could be filled with positive empowering energy.

There was a time when I focused exclusively on the positive, while neglecting to give due attention to getting rid of the toxic negative residue that had accumulated over time. This was partially because I wasn’t fully aware of its presence, and partly because I didn’t understand the implications of not dealing with it.

Where does negative energy come from?

Throughout the course of our lives, we’ve all had experiences that were difficult and painful to deal with. These would be obvious sources of negative energy. We may even recognize that the trauma of those extreme experiences may have left us somewhat emotionally scarred. Naturally, finding a way to let go of the residuals from those experiences would have lasting benefits.

What you may not realize is that, in addition to those more obvious sources, there are little things that you might be doing every day that generate equally damaging negative emotional and neurological side effects. Here are some possible candidates.

7 common negative energy generators

1. Viewing life through negative filters. Our perception creates our view of reality. If we see life through negative filters it will skew the way we experience everything. More specifically, it will amplify the negative and minimize the positive. On an emotional level we will generate and store that negative energy and, like small doses of poison, it will accumulate and destroy the quality of our life.

2. Being judgmental. This is a trap that is easy to fall into because we readily associate a person’s conduct with their personal identity.  The thing is, we all display different kinds of behavior at different times and there are a lot of variables involved. Stress not only eats away at our emotional resources, it also has a negative influence on the way we conduct ourselves and the way we respond to others. If we want others to give up the benefit of the doubt and resist the temptation to judge us, shouldn’t we be willing to do the same?

3. Assigning blame. Whose fault was it? Why do we ask that question? We usually ask it because we are looking for someone to take responsibility for something. We want to pin the blame on them so it doesn’t get pinned on us. Getting someone else to take the rap might leave us feeling like we dodged a bullet, but all we really did was release a flood of negative energy that will weaken our character. One of the best ways to empower ourselves is to simply accept responsibility.

4. Collecting negative emotions. Holding on to negative feelings of any kind is like drinking poison. We all have pleasant and not so pleasant experiences. If we collect the memories and feelings attached to unpleasant experiences they will accumulate and eventually dominate our perception. If it was unpleasant, let it go and move on.

5. Making comparisons. This habit comes from a scarcity mindset that feeds on the idea of competition. The underlying premise here is that in order for someone to win, someone else must lose. Life is not a contest with other people. We should all strive to be the best possible version of ourselves because that is who we were meant to be. We’re all completely different so any comparison is just an irrelevant mind game. Let it go!

6. People pleasing. No matter who you are, some people will like you and some will not; some will agree with you and some will disagree. Don’t worry about it, and by all means, don’t keep changing yourself in an attempt to live up to the expectations of others. This will only create internal conflict and confusion. Learn to connect with your true self and the rest will automatically sort itself out.

7. Playing the victim. Much like assigning blame, this one also goes hand-in-hand with not accepting personal responsibility for our life. If we see ourselves as a victim, then we are helpless to create positive changes. Helplessness is a negative, limiting mindset with potentially crippling side effects. Accepting responsibility for your life is empowering because it puts you in control. Letting goof the victim mentality will eliminate huge amounts of negativity from your life.

Letting go as a way of life

Recognizing the value of letting go of negative energy doesn’t help much if we don’t have the right skills to actually do it. So, is there a way to stop creating negative energy and to eliminate the harmful accumulation that is interfering with our ability to create the life we really want?

Some years ago I discovered an amazing skill called the Release Technique. Even though I wasn’t totally convinced that releasing would have the profound results they claimed it would, I gave it a try. All I can say is that the experience was absolutely transformational. From that point on, I never underestimated the damaging effects of negative energy or the empowering benefits of letting go.

Change Your Thoughts and Change Your Life

We never, ever, see the world as it is. Our awareness – our beliefs, past conditioning  upbringing, and the list goes on – these distort everything we see. They creep into every interpretation and misinterpretation.

This is obvious; you must have seen it for yourself. The same person can elicit very different reactions, wildly varying feelings in a crowd of onlookers. One man looks at a beautiful woman; he feels a sense of yearning. Another sees a potential new friend, and yet another shies away – he will never be good enough for her.

One of the most painful misinterpretations lies in self-perception. How do you see yourself? Realistic self-concepts are rare, but a negatively distorted perception ruins lives. Weaknesses are magnified, assets and strengths are ignored. We have a tendency to compare; this leads to low self-esteem; a strong feeling of inadequacy and constant unhappiness.

A low self-esteem is the proverbial ball and chain; it drags you down in almost every area of your life – from your romances and your relationships to your work, your ability to achieve your goals.

This is a mixture of techniques that has worked tremendously well – it is based on cognitive psychology, with a touch of Zen.

Self-Concept Inventory

Bring to mind an issue, something that is holding you back or causing you fear and sorrow. Perhaps it is your physical appearance; perhaps it is the way you relate to others. It could be something in the way other people see you, a part of your sexuality. It could even be your performance in your school or work.

Find a journal, and begin writing. Write down the positives and the negatives in as much detail as you can. Be honest, be deep, and don’t censor yourself. Let it all pour out unto the paper.

An example: you might be feeling insecure about your physical appearance. So write down everything about it – your style of dress, your facial features, specific body parts, skin, height and weight.

The next step is to begin to organize it. On a fresh sheet of paper, dig out each description and write them on a new line. Mark each description appropriately: a + sign for the positive, a – for the negative.

Some Examples

Here are a few random personal examples, taken from a wide area of possible topics:

* [-] Physical: Too tall, potential dates feel intimidated.
* [+] How I relate to others: Good listener.
* [-] Work: Very bad with accounting and record-keeping.
* [-] Personality Traits: Too sensitive, emotionally weak and easily hurt.

Examining our weaknesses

The first thing we have to realize is that there is no such thing as perfection. Everyone has flaws, imagined or real. The problem lies not in having flaws, but in using them to attack ourselves, in giving them more power and attention than they deserve.

Our self-inventory are unlikely to be accurate; examination is vital – seeing facts for what they are is refreshing, empowering. Find a fresh sheet of paper, and begin to revise your weaknesses with these rules, taken from Self-Esteem :

1. Remove all negative labeling. A friend was condemning himself, calling himself a loser because his business wasn’t making him much money. Such descriptions are painful; cut all such words from your description.

2. Replace negative labels with accurate language. What are the facts? They are all you need – not the labels, not the insults. For instance, his business made a thousand dollars profit the last year. That is all he needs.

3. Be as specific as you can. We often take one situation and generalize the effects across a wide spectrum. He had generalized a perceived failure in business, seeing as a reflection of his totality, his entire value. He had ignored everything else in condemning himself – his family, his friends, his personal growth – that makes up his life.

4. Find exceptions. Sometimes we generalize in a different direction – deeper instead of wider. A failure in one business might be taken to mean a guaranteed failure in all future ventures, causing him never to try again.

5. Find corresponding strengths. Very often, there is something positive to be found in an event or personality trait, one that we have ignored by focusing on the negative. What is it?

Reframing Sensitivity

It might be helpful to see an example; so let’s have a look at a personality trait:Too sensitive, emotionally weak and easily hurt.

The first step was to remove the negative label – emotionally weak. It was a label, a criticism, and not a statement of facts. It served no real purpose. The other two were closer to descriptions of reality, so they stayed.

Too sensitive, easily hurt.

Next, I rewrote it to be as accurate as possible. I investigated – why did I start calling myself easily hurt? I realized I was quite sensitive to criticism; one comment could stay in my head for days and weeks.

Too sensitive to criticism, easily hurt by it.

Next was specificity. Was I sensitive to every negative remark? No, I handle constructive criticism very well. In fact I welcome it. Abuse by someone who had done it in the heat of the moment doesn’t affect me very much either – I understand how wild emotions could lead to words one doesn’t mean. Calculated attacks cut me the most.

Sensitive and easily hurt by calculated attacks.

Last, and most important, was to find exceptions and strengths. I had taken many attacks to heart and brooded over them for days; but there were also times I didn’t.

I also found corresponding strengths. I had considered being sensitive a weakness, but it carried many benefits – in social situations, it put me at a distinct advantage. Some have said it helps me in my writing; others have said it is a blessing once I achieve my career goal of being a counselor.

Sensitive and easily hurt by some calculated attacks. But it helps in social situations, writing, and my future career.

In addition to this, I wrote down the specific instances and memories of exceptions and blessings.

Additional Examples

A reader might struggle to see how this applies to some of the other traits; it might be helpful to examine briefly another trait.

Before: Too tall, ladies feel intimidated.

After: I am 6 foot 4. One or two women in a crowd have been intimidated. There will be a few more in the future. But most have no problem with it; in fact, many will like the sense of security a tall man gives. There are also other benefits – in certain social situations, in leadership, and in many sports.

What a difference it makes! The effects of an unexamined label can be drastic. In my teens, I was so insecure about my height that it crippled me socially. One or two girls had been intimidated by my height; I took it to heart, and without examination, let the memories grow into a crippling label.

Understanding

Sometimes, a reframing and examination is not enough. Understanding will be helpful for the more painful labels.

A close friend was upset because he wasn’t doing very well after a few years of business; he was barely paying the rent. When I talked to him, I reminded him of what he had gone through in the past few years. He had gone through a nasty divorce; it had triggered severe depression and several bouts of anxiety. He had spent most of his income, energy, and time on mental health professionals, and was only recently well enough to dedicate more time to his business.

I walked him through the various steps, asking him to see his situation objectively. His competitors had begun their ventures the same time he had, but they were driving fancy cars, and that upset him. But he was still making a small profit; he was still paying the bills. It was therefore inaccurate for him to call himself a “failure”.

In fact, how could he blame himself? He should have been proud of having the courage to go through what he had gone through. It had been a tough few years, and he did extremely well considering the circumstances. Understanding is vital for deep sorrows; I have described it in more detail here. You might also like to read the guilt series – The Importance of Overcoming Guilt, and A Guide to Handling Guilt and Self-Punishment.

I also asked him what benefits he got out of it. He paused for a few minutes, and began nodding. “I’m far stronger emotionally now. I can handle things I could not handle before. I’m more compassionate, I connect better with people.”

Can you see how this would make a positive difference in your future life and business?” I asked. He nodded silently, a slight smile on his face.

The emotional charge

This next step is one that regular readers will be familiar with, for I sing its praises all the time. But don’t let that put you off – loving and neutralizing the emotional charge that accompanies your weaknesses is one of the most powerful steps you can take.

Your emotions underlie your thoughts; they are intimately connected. We’ve worked on the level of thoughts up to this point, to boost the speed of your internal change, work on the emotions as well.

This has been covered in detail in the emotional mastery series, but here is a quick summary.

Welcome the emotion, feel it completely without necessarily acting on it. Emotions are there to be felt. If we don’t feel them, instead trying to avoid them, run away from them, they just go deeper in our systems, showing up in other ways – aches and pains, addictions, influencing our behavior. Just relax into it – the body might tighten up, so just keep relaxing. Feel it through the body, without thinking about it. Explore how it feels. Ride it out, and it will release its hold on you.

The first option is to heal the negative label directly; think of the weakness and heal how it makes you feel. The second is to go back in time. Find the first date that stood you up, the first time someone laughed at you for being overweight, and heal that pain.

Your New Description

The next step is to simply write up your new description of the situation or yourself. Many flaws and setbacks might still be there, but this new description is rooted in reality and not clouded by judgment, emotions or time.

This description, then, is something to be obsessed over. Read it constantly; think about it every chance you get. You might even carry it around in your wallet or purse. You could also leave it in prominent areas of your bedroom, your office – anywhere you spend a lot of time. Let this practice remove the misinterpretations that has been hurting you all this time.

Any time you are feeling down, turn to this new description. Heal and release the emotions your old description brings up.

Remembering the Exceptions and Strengths

The final step is to analyze the exceptions and the strengths. You’ve remembered the exceptions to your perceived weakness, their corresponding strengths. More importantly, we should focus on specific situations.

Take your time here, and dig up compliments, awards, and everything else you can think of. Write them all down, big or small. The reason for this is simple: many brains are wired to remember the negative and forget the positive. Our self-image, our very happiness – they are then created around our negative distortions.

For instance, I have always thought of my teenage self as shy and awkward around the opposite sex. Certain painful memories reinforced that image – I had latched onto the negative and distorted them so that they seemed to represent my entire past. Upon investigation, I began to recall many positive experiences with the ladies – in fact, they numbered more than the negative.

There might be discomfort at this step; many of us will have been raised to be humble. People tend to respond negatively to those we see as boastful or proud. But it is perfectly fine to blow your own trumpet in private – it is healing to your self-esteem.

Contemplating the Exceptions and Strengths

Meditate on this – close your eyes and repeat the benefits and strengths; relive these instances. Feel them.

Write down these instances in the same way you’ve written down your realistic view of your weaknesses. Read them, obsess over them. There is no major difference in the way we’re handling these and the way we handle our weaknesses; we’re giving them extra attention.

These forms of affirmation and contemplation are different from wishful thinking, building castles in the air. We are not imagining a false reality – we are basing them on reality, specific memories and instances.

Reference From: advancedlifeskills.com/

30 Ways to Quickly Improve Your Life

1. Create a feel good morning. Start the day off spending some time (at least 20 minutes) doing whatever makes you feel good, even if you need to get up a little earlier. Start your day by connecting with yourself.

2. Get enough sleep. Make sure you go to bed early enough to get however much sleep you personally need to wake up feeling rested. You cannot function optimally if you start out tired.

3. Take a wake up shower. I think of it as water therapy. It makes the transition from sleeping to up and going much more enjoyable. Besides, I like to start each days life experience clean and refreshed.

4. Breathe. The very force of life is maintained and fueled by the simple act of breathing. Stop doing it for 5 minutes and nothing else matters. Periodically it is very beneficial to take slow, deep, controlled breaths and fill your lungs with oxygen.

5. Dress to feel confident. Some clothes just make you feel better about yourself. The way we present ourselves sends powerful signals to others, but also to our own nervous system.

6. Preview your day. Take a few minutes to visualize how you want your day to go and what you intend to accomplish. See your day’s life experience unfold in a natural and satisfying way and allow yourself to look forward to it.

7. Don’t over schedule yourself. This helps prevent stress and creates a sense of control. Drop nonessential activities to create a feeling of manageability. Find ways to reduce the feeling of being rushed.

8. Do one thing at a time. Try to lay out your schedule so that you can focus on just on task at a time. Allow sufficient time to make a meaningful dent in each scheduled activity. If you can’t do that then reduce the number of things on your list.

9. Clear your head. During the transition between one activity and the next, take a moment to clear your thoughts. Close one mental file before you open the next. This will help you focus on the task at hand.

10. Get up and move. Find ways to incorporate some walking into your day. Park farther away, use the stairs, or walk to lunch. Do whatever it takes to get some fresh blood flowing through your system.

11. Eat like you care. You wouldn't put sugar in your gas tank so don’t put garbage in your body. Your energy levels, mental clarity, and your entire life experience require that you eat the right amount of healthy food. Eat as if you care.

12. Limit distractions. Creativity and productivity are focus related. Don’t purposely invite distractions into your productive times. If need be, deal with the distractions first so you can focus on the job at hand.

13. Smile at everyone. When you smile at someone else, most of the time they will smile back. It’s a quick way to communicate friendliness to everyone who makes eye contact with you. You can lift their spirits and feel good doing it.

14. Be polite. When you are courteous, you show honor to others. When people feel honored by you it tends to foster mutual respect. Being polite and friendly will help bring out the best in those around you. It will improve their life experience and yours.

15. Express appreciation. Look for opportunities to legitimately commend others. Say thank you and acknowledge their efforts. The more appreciation you show, the more others will try to do nice things for you.

16. Show empathy. You can do this by validating other people’s feelings instead of telling them they shouldn't feel a certain way. Everyone is entitled to their feelings and your validation can do wonders for their confidence.

17. Eat slower. Take time to chew and taste your food. This will make the experience more enjoyable and improve your digestion. Eating slower helps you feel satisfied with smaller meals and avoid overeating.

18. Focus on the moment. Wherever you are and whatever you are doing, try to be aware of that moment. Spend as much time as you can fully engaged in your own moment to moment life experience. As the saying goes, be here now.

19. Take pride in everything you do. I truly believe that if something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. Nobody benefits from a halfhearted effort. Doing your best will give you a greater sense of accomplishment and self-respect.

20. See the good in others. Everyone has something to contribute, some gift or talent that makes them special.  When we train ourselves to see the good in others it changes our life experience and our world suddenly fills with possibilities.

21. Cultivate patience. This can be challenging when you are in a hurry but it also brings a more relaxed feel to your life. Lack of patience can foster rude behavior and a negative life experience. Allowing extra time makes it easier to be patient.

22. Always be honest. Speak the truth tactfully. It is better to side step an issue then to needlessly hurt people’s feelings. But lying is never a good idea. Don’t excuse lying by breaking it up into degrees; a little lie is still a lie.

23. Laugh often. Laughter is powerful. It makes you feel good and it is contagious. People have healed their health and their broken lives with laughter. There is too much sadness it the world and laughter is a good antidote.

24. Be grateful. Before you go to bed, review your day and count your blessings. We all have much to be grateful for, we should take some time to feel grateful every single day. The closer you look, the more reasons you will find for gratitude.

25. Greet others. If someone looks at you, say hello. Extend a warm greeting to strangers and watch what happens. Even grumpy faces will often light up with a smile and a simple greeting. Help others enjoy their life experience.

26. Get regular exercise. Set aside time for regular exercise. Workout, play racket ball or tennis, run or speed walk, go dancing, hiking, or whatever you like to do. Just make sure you do it at least three times a week for no less than 30 minutes.

27. Learn new things. Our minds are built for learning and that’s good because there is a lot we don’t know. Learning is a way to keep life interesting and exciting. The ability to learn is a gift that we should always appreciate and use.

28. Share what you have. We all have something to share; time, money, talent, joy, knowledge, friendship, whatever. Sharing sends a message of abundance to our subconscious and adds the joy of giving to our life experience.

29. Enjoy some daily quiet time. There is a lot of noise and activity that fills our days and we need to balance that with some quiet time. It is important to reflect and get centered. I like to do this in the morning so it doesn't get missed.

30. Continue to grow as a person. Keep working to raise your awareness and further your personal development. This adds increased dimension and depth to our life experience. Life is a process of growth, embrace it.

Clarification of the Soul

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Each time you understand an issue or an identification with a past conflict or a now-unnecessary defense, you discharge feelings associated with the issue and work through the feelings and the beliefs about it. As you have seen many times, working through an issue – which involves ceasing to be identified with it – typically allows the arising of an essential state. In this process of working through an issue related to any essential quality, the personality confronts the part of its structure that substitutes and compensates for the lack of that true quality. For example, issues around essential strength will uncover the false strength of the personality. When this compensation is seen through and the essential strength is freed, there is no more need for the personality structure of the false strength. 

When the issues are clarified, it is easier to become aware of the movement itself, of the wheels in motion – not of what is being churned but of the actual churning itself. When you become aware that you are the machine in action you are completely convinced that the activity itself is what is churning up problems, only then is it possible for the wheels to stop… When the activity stops, you recognize that most of your thoughts and desires and efforts are resistance and what you have been resisting is the present moment, the now. 

This process of clarification – which is the clarification of the soul – is the development of the Personal Essence, what we call the Pearl Beyond Price. The development of the Pearl is a process which keeps moving towards further clarification until it becomes the Supreme Personal Essence. Each essential state has become personalized as the personality has become clarified, as each essential aspect has become you. You yourself become the personal essential reality, and thus, this reality can be integrated at the level of the Pearl. When you experience Compassion, that Compassion becomes you. “I, personally, am Compassion. I am Value, I am Truth”. When you own it, it is no longer you experiencing it, but you know you are it. 


Personality and soul 

The thing that we experience as personality at the beginning, and for a long time on the path is actually nothing but the soul. The personality is our soul, but our soul imprinted and shaped by past experience. Our past experience shapes and forms our experience of ourselves and of our conscious and dynamic soul, and obscures its true nature by remaining as residual content in our true nature. These residues are the self-images, the internalized object relations, the reactions, the suppressed feelings, memories, and the many defenses we use to protect ourselves. The process of clarification is basically the dissolution of these residues through the light of understanding. This way the personality reveals itself as the soul developing towards individuation. The soul develops into the Supreme Pearl Beyond Price, which is the individuation of Being. This is the embodiment of Being.

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You Cannot Run From the Past Forever

We all have pasts and pain and although some worse than others, its all relevant. Yet, as human beings we spend our lives running away from whatever hurts, from that which is too painful to look at, and for many of us, that which we don't even know is causing us pain. 

Pain is easily disguised and takes many forms. Our pain sends us signals everyday, begging us to look, and face it. Most often our pain comes out through our relationships. Relationships with our parents, friends, and spouses, even our colleagues and bosses. Our unresolved pain is forever triggered in the universe's attempt to help us to resolve it. In relationships its often those who we are the closest to that seem to mirror our inner conflict and turmoil. That is why so many teachers and spiritual principles are based on the fact that relationships are our biggest teachers, because they enable us to take a deeper look at what is really going on within ourselves. 

When our pain is triggered by another human being our instant reaction is to get defencive, which is completely normal. We want to protect ourselves from those threatening feelings that are coming up, those feelings that we have put away for so long. So we think that by getting defencive we can avoid those feelings we hate to feel, yet it doesn''t work that way. Because in a situation where both people are on the defencive, nothing gets resolved. 

The question is, can we try and face that which we hate to? Can we be vulnerable so that the other knows that they have triggered a wound of ours? Here is where we as both men and women have pride. Pride as well as feeling that showing vulnerability means we are weak. The other issue is that we feel that if we show our vulnerability then the other has the 'upper hand' and so begins the power struggle. 

There is not one person on this planet that has not had some form of emotional pain in their pasts. So why not acknowledge that it is there, and make it relevant in our lives because its a part of who we are. Our pain wants to be seen, wants to be heard, so see it for what it is so that it doesn't have such power over us, so that we can let it go. The thing is, we wont die and nothing is going to happen to us if we go to that place. We will still wake up the next morning and life will carry on. Our pain cannot destroy us, it only brings us to the most real and authentic parts of ourselves. 

People have become so desperate that they will do anything to avoid feeling. From drinking heavily to drugs, eating, to splurging on new cars, clothes, the latest of everything so that they can make themselves believe that everything is A OK because their outer world looks that way. And many go through their whole lives avoiding it only to find that it has manifested into their physical bodies as deathly illnesses and diseases as well as depression and anxiety. Trust me I have first hand experience in this.

Now I am not saying that we have to now go and sit and think of our pasts or those things that are causing us pain but realise that when the time comes that we are again triggered by it, we need to open our minds and have a deeper look at what it is, and where it comes from. We need to just acknowledge that it is there. Just like you wake up one morning and say "wow I am in a good mood', you can do the same for something painful that has come up. 

Often we don't know where its coming from, so we just need to sometimes sit with it. Sit with it meaning feel it. We are so quick to brush things off as being silly or invalid, but nothing we feel is silly or invalid, and the act of dismissing and rejecting those feelings is basically the rejection of ourselves. 

As much as we would all like to be, we are not just Joy. In fact, talking about that which is painful and uncomfortable will only eventually make it less painful.

More of God's light

I wish you peace, joy and harmony during these days of challenge and blessing that are preparing the way for a New Earth. Your physical bodies are transforming just as the Earth is, and there are some new capabilities and awakenings now possible within you that you may not be yet aware of. 

To understand this, it is first necessary to understand that the physical body that you were blessed with at birth is but a denser and more coalesced form of your larger energy body which resides multidimensionally, radiating through time, space and physical manifestation much as a star radiates its light into space. 

Your energy body is magnificent, complex, and for most people is largely invisible until such time that a spiritual awakening happens, or a lucid dream or near death experience brings you into direct contact with the living consciousness of your larger, multidimensionally embodied form that exists far beyond your physical body. 

Through your energy body, you receive light, love, spiritual sustenance, and also spiritual guidance. All who incarnate upon the Earth are blessed with the company, protection, love and guidance of a team of non-physical beings whose task it is to support you and be present with you throughout your life experience. These loved ones of spirit carry within their consciousness a larger awareness of your purpose for incarnating, the learning that needs to happen, the people you need to meet, and the testing and challenges that you will face. 

Because of the nature of physical embodiment, most souls do not have access to their soul memories, and there is a necessary forgetting that happens as the soul becomes more incarnated. These loved ones from the spiritual realms are present to assist you, so that despite the forgetting process, you will be guided in the ways that you need to at all times. 

At this time on the Earth, the very nature of physical reality is transforming. More of God's light has penetrated from the spiritual dimensions into the realm of physical matter, and so all incarnated beings are going through a transformation process within their physical bodies. 


For most at this time, the changes are not felt or experienced as transformation, but rather are invisible or seen as symptoms related to stress or aging. For those lightworkers and faithful servants of God who carry within their hearts a direct and conscious commitment to spiritual life, you may be aware of the accelerated nature of your own purification process, and you also may be seeing new capabilities that were not possible even a short time ago. 

There is a new manifestation within the human energy and physical body at this sacred time of transformation on the Earth, which is the light body. During the process of spiritual transformation and purification, old and outdated parts of the self are released. During this process old patterns of negativity and separation from God are transformed and transmuted, freeing the individual to move more completely into their true spiritual identity. 

As this happens, God's light begins to shine more deeply into the cells and tissues of the physical body, transforming the atomic and cellular structure of the body at a more accelerated rate. A new vibration of God's light opens up within both the physical and energy body, creating a light body that is capable of anchoring and radiating the spiritual dimensions of God's light into physical reality. 

Why is this important? The light body eventually begins to transform the physical matter in its vicinity, so that the Earth and all people and physical objects that have proximity are beneficially affected and begin to receive greater spiritual light. Thus the doorways are opened for people to begin to have a more direct, tangible, physical and emotional experience of God's reality and God's love. 

Many blessed souls on the Earth today carry pure hearts and an inborn faith that has carried them throughout life, regardless of whether or not they can actually feel God's living presence. Now, as the human light body develops and evolves, the network of human consciousness will be able to more directly perceive God's living presence within physical manifestation, regardless of whether faith is present. God's presence will become as real as the feeling of sunlight warming your skin, and the development of the light body is a significant part of this holy process. 

During this sacred time when greater light continues to strengthen upon the Earth, be attentive to your sacred physical form. Listen to its guidance, to your intuition and to your dreams. If symptoms and challenges arise, understand that these are activated by the greater light which is purifying and transforming old energy patterns, some of which you may have lived with for a very long time. Know that you are loved, watched over, and blessed, and trust in the process you are being led through. So many loving beings of light are present with you and with all souls who pray for healing and transformation. With all love and blessings, Amen. 


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Turn Your Worries into Action

Have you ever worried all night long and found yourself in the morning exactly in the same situation you were in the night before, except more sleepy and tired? 

In spite of worrying all night, you didn't solve anything, learn anything new, or acquire any possession, except perhaps a headache. God gave us the ability to worry to help us assess the risks facing us, and to plan appropriate steps to meet our needs. The purpose of the "work of worrying" is summarized in the saying, "forewarned is forearmed." If you only worry and not take the next step, that is action, you don't ever get out of the swirling waters onto the shore. 

To learn to stop worrying, retrain your brain. Just as you train your body position and your muscles to learn a golf swing, you can train your brain to take a swing at your worries. However, you have about one minute to bounce that worry off you when it tries to seize your mind. If you let those first few seconds slip, that one worry will spread its tentacles and multiply into dozens of related worries. Catch it young. You can break a single stick with ease; it's difficult to break a bunch of them together. 

When a worry strikes you, get out of that bed, even if it is the middle of the night. Do something physical for five minutes such as, climbing up and down the staircase, do jumping jacks, stretch, sing or whistle. Then sit at the desk and write down the problem that you were worried about. Write down three actions that you can take to address that problem. Note the earliest time when you can act on them. 

Think of a positive self-affirming thought, for example, "Positive solutions come to me. I am a problem solver." See yourself as a person who has all the capabilities to meet the challenge. Blow your breath into both your palms and say to yourself, "I just blew off my worry," and go to bed. Then, the next morning, follow those three actions you wrote down.

Affection

One of the ways in which our fears have power to wound us most grievously is through our affections, and here we are confronted with a real and crucial difficulty. Are we to hold ourselves in, to check the impulses of affection, to use self-restraint, not multiply intimacies, not extend sympathies? One sees every now and then lives which have entwined themselves with every tendril of passion and love and companionship and service round some one personality, and have then been bereaved, with the result that the whole life has been palsied and struck into desolation by the loss. I am thinking now of two instances which I have known; one was a wife, who was childless, and whose whole nature, every motive and every faculty, became centred upon her husband, a man most worthy of love. He died suddenly, and his wife lost everything at one blow; not only her lover and comrade, but every occupation as well which might have helped to distract her, because her whole life had been entirely devoted to her husband; and even the hours when he was absent from her had been given to doing anything and everything that might save him trouble or vexation. She lived on, though she would willingly have died at any moment, and the whole fabric of her life was shattered. Again, I think of a devoted daughter who had done the same office for an old and not very robust father. I heard her once say that the sorrow of her mother's death had been almost nullified for her by finding that she could do everything for and be everything to her father, whom she almost adored. She had refused an offer of marriage from a man whom she sincerely loved, that she might not leave her father, and she never even told her father of the incident, for fear that he might have felt that he had stood in the way of her happiness. When he died, she too found herself utterly desolate, without ties and without occupation, an elderly woman almost without friends or companions. 

Ought one to feel that this kind of jealous absorption in a single individual affection is a mistake? It certainly brought both the wife and daughter an intense happiness, but in both cases the relation was so close and so intimate that it tended gradually to seclude them from all other relations. The husband and the father were both reserved and shy men, and desired no other companionship. One can see so easily how it all came about, and what the inevitable result was bound to be, and yet it would have been difficult at any point to say what could have been done. Of course these great absorbed emotions involve large risks; and it may be doubted whether life can be safely lived on these intensive lines. These are of course extreme instances, but there are many cases in the world, and especially in the case of women whose life is entirely built up on certain emotions like the love and care of children; and when that is so, a nature becomes liable to the sharpest incursions of fear. It is of little use arguing such cases theoretically, because, as the proverb says, as the land lies the water flows,--and love makes very light of all prudential considerations. 

The difficulty does not arise with large and generous natures which give love prodigally in many directions, because if one such relation is broken by death, love can still exercise itself upon those that remain. It is the fierce and jealous sort of love that is so hard to deal with, a love that exults in solitariness of devotion, and cannot bear any intrusion of other relations. 

Yet if one believes, as I for one believe, that the secret of the world is somehow hidden in love, and can be interpreted through love alone, then one must run the risks of love, and seek for strength to bear the inevitable suffering which love must bring. 

But men and women are very differently made in this respect. Among innumerable minor differences, certain broad divisions are clear. Men, in the first place, both by training and temperament, are far less dependent upon affection than women. Career and occupation play a much larger part in their thoughts. If one could test and intercept the secret and unoccupied reveries of men, when the mind moves idly among the objects which most concern it, it would be found, I do not doubt, that men's minds occupy themselves much more about definite and tangible things--their work, their duties, their ambitions, their amusements--and centre little upon the thought of other people; an affection, an emotional relation, is much more of an incident than a settled preoccupation; and then with men there are two marked types, those who give and lavish affection freely, who are interested and attracted by others and wish to attach and secure close friends; and there are others who respond to advances, yet do not go in search of friendship, but only accept it when it comes; and the singular thing is that such natures, which are often cold and self-absorbed, have a power of kindling emotion in others which men of generous and eager feeling sometimes lack. It is strange that it should be so, but there is some psychological law at the back of it; and it is certainly true in my experience that the men who have been most eagerly sought in friendship have not as a rule been the most open-hearted and expansive natures. I suppose that a certain law of pursuit holds good, and that people of self- contained temperament, with a sort of baffling charm, who are critical and hard to please, excite a certain ambition in those who would claim their affection. 

Women, I have no doubt, live far more in the thought of others, and desire their intention; they wish to arrive at mutual understanding and confidence, to explore personality, to pierce behind the surface, to establish a definite relation. Yet in the matter of relations with others, women are often, I believe, less sentimental, and even less tender-hearted than men, and they have a far swifter and truer intuition of character. Though the two sexes can never really understand each other's point of view, because no imagination can cross the gulf of fundamental difference, yet I am certain that women understand men far better than men understand women. The whole range of motives is strangely different, and men can never grasp the comparative unimportance with which women regard the question of occupation. Occupation is for men a definite and isolated part of life, a thing important and absorbing in itself, quite apart from any motives or reasons. To do something, to make something, to produce something--that desire is always there, whatever ebb and flow of emotions there may be; it is an end in itself with men, and with many women it is not so; for women mostly regard work as a necessity, but not an interesting necessity. In a woman's occupation, there is generally someone at the end of it, for whom and in connection with whom it is done. This is probably largely the result of training and tradition, and great changes are now going on in the direction of women finding occupations for themselves. But take the case of such a profession as teaching; it is quite possible for a man to be an effective and competent teacher, without feeling any particular interest in the temperaments of his pupils, except in so far as they react upon the work to be done. But a woman can hardly take this impersonal attitude; and this makes women both more and less effective, because human beings invariably prefer to be dealt with dispassionately; and this is as a rule more difficult for women; and thus in a complicated matter affecting conduct, a woman as a rule forms a sounder judgment on what has actually occurred than a man, and is perhaps more likely to take a severe view. The attitude of a Galileo is often a useful one for a teacher, because boys and girls ought in matters that concern themselves to learn how to govern themselves. 

Thus in situations involving relation with others women are more liable to feel anxiety and the pressure of personal responsibility; and the question is to what extent this ought to be indulged, in what degree men and women ought to assume the direction of other lives, and whether it is wholesome for the director to allow a desire for personal dominance to be substituted for more spontaneous motives. 

It very often happens that the temperaments which most claim help and support are actuated by the egotistical desire to find themselves interesting to others, while those who willingly assume the direction of other lives are attracted more by the sense of power than by genuine sympathy. 

But it is clear that it is in the region of our affections that the greatest risks of all have to be run. By loving, we render ourselves liable to the darkest and heaviest fears. Yet here, I believe, we ought to have no doubt at all; and the man who says to himself, "I should like to bestow my affection on this person and on that, but I will keep it in restraint, because I am afraid of the suffering which it may entail,"--such a man, I say, is very far from the kingdom of God. Because love is the one quality which, if it reaches a certain height, can altogether despise and triumph over fear. When ambition and delight and energy fail, love can accompany us, with hope and confidence, to the dark gate; and thus it is the one thing about which we can hardly be mistaken. If love does not survive death, then life is built upon nothingness, and we may be glad to get away; but it is more likely that it is the only thing that does survive.

All is well !!

Yours is not a perfect world, and yet it is. It is exactly what all of us, the guides, angels, and beings of light, intended to create. In fact, it is far more grand that we could have possibly imagined. You are a part of this group as you are but a piece of Spirit expressing itself. So, sometimes when you look around, you see, pain, suffering and unfairness and we say that these are exactly the catalysts for change that are they to help you grow. 

Look around and see the kindness of another. See beauty and light for it exists everywhere, even in the most seemingly dark of places. There is always light. Some of you carry this light within your eyes and it lets others know that things are truly okay, some of you it is in your touch and some of you it is in your smile. Some of you shine brightest from your heart, igniting the other three in such a way that you actually glow in a way that others can see and feel. 
Shine your light and make it bright as it will help to guide those behind you who cannot see their own light. The more lights you gather, the brighter you all become. Let there be light. This will help the transitions be smooth and harmonious for everyone involved and brings great blessings that you may not yet see. 

I am light. I shine bright. I trust that all is exactly as it should be right now, and all is well. 


Life is filled with changes... 


Change symbolizes growth and evolution, and is always happening. So, move with the current, go with the flow. It is in the resistance of change that creates chaos and unpleasant experiences. It is like fighting against the natural order of the Universe. Be open to all that is possible for you. 

Set your intention everyday to be open to the new opportunities and experiences to come your way. Look at all the different ways and options that are available to you now and ground your ideas into the physical realm. Bring balance into your spiritual and physical world and use the tools of the mental and emotional worlds. In other words, let your spirit soar with all the possibilities. Use the power of affirmations, and open you heart to all the love and joy that the Divine Universe has to offer and take steps each day that bring you closer to your desires. 
There is a solution to every situation that sometimes seems insurmountable. It is only in the realm of time and space that you cannot always see the bigger picture. If something has been created in your life that you do not desire, ask your angels to help you see the answers you seek. See all things through love and expectation and then flow freely with life force energy to help you through the changes. 

I flow freely with the river of life. I am free to choose my own thoughts and feelings; I am open to receive. 

The Time for Forgiveness

Now is a time for letting go of things of the past that have caused heartache, and of the judgments which have been made in order to ease the heart's pain through a sealing off of forgiveness toward the source of the wounding. This sealing off prevents further healing from taking place, not only in the specific relationship within which the woundedness occurred, but also within the deeper recesses of the heart and body that holds an area of dysfunction which remains 'raw'. 
Resentment, judgment, and an unwillingness to forgive binds us to the past as much as the heaviest chain of association and commitment. It holds us in a place of stasis so that no further movement is possible in the area in which forgiveness has not taken place. This unwillingness to let go is based on a desire to relieve pain by hardening the heart, therefore creating at one and the same time a sense of invulnerability to the repetition of being hurt again, and also a sense of being able to do something, internally, to rectify the situation. 

However, hardening of the heart is a false solution to a real problem. What hardens the heart also restricts the flow of life energy to all parts of the body and consciousness. What hardens the heart also limits the capacity of the soul to enter the body because the hardness effectively creates a closed door to the soul's expression. It is only the softening of the heart that can produce a healing of the body and soul. It is only the melting away of anger that can free the consciousness to become aware of life's gifts so that resentment does not predominate. Where anger, resentment, and blame prevail, there life cannot be experienced in its fullness, but only through the small crack in the armor that judgment and lack of forgiveness permit. 


The necessity for letting go of the past becomes more critical today as the presence of increasing light exposes to awareness those things that one has held onto that cannot merge with the higher light. These areas of opacity prevent further healing from taking place, and, if held onto with great force, can prevent the soul from receiving that which it seeks the most – namely peace, and a sense of trust once again in life's wholeness. 

The belief that one is in charge of one's own life is true in relation to the things we choose to create or to refrain from creating. Yet, this is always qualified by the fact that we interact at all times with other planes of existence, and so what we choose to create on this plane will interact with its effects on other planes and bring to us consequences that are unforeseen, since we were unaware that they existed within a larger picture. 

Thus, it is with forgiveness and its absence. The higher spiritual planes cannot penetrate the heart that is hardened by a decision to remain closed to love and to remain anchored in blame. In order for grace to prevail, there must be a willingness to let this go. 

Therefore, to those of the earth who are presently engaged in conflict with the full sense of justification that it must be, let it be said that there can never be a state of peace that arises out of victory in such conflict, for peace can only arise out of letting go of anger and blame. It can never arise out of victory over another whom one, for the moment, has defeated. 

In this moment of time, before the entrance into the physical plane of even greater conflict than is presently occurring, and in order to prevent such conflict from taking place, let us diligently cleanse our hearts of all that we hold of antagonism toward others and of judgment toward ourselves and others, so that in this crucial moment of planetary transformation, we can contribute to the outcome of ongoing change by becoming a force for peace. 


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