I love the angels’ message this week. Who would have thought that a shortage of TP and other goods would have such deep spiritual roots in the receiving or blocking of Love’s eternal flow?
Lately, I feel this receiving, or blocking, very, very strongly in my body. I know many of you are feeling the same. When I am relaxed, happy, focused on something good, appreciating my garden, breathing in the cool autumn air, thinking of a craft project, or a friend or client whose valiant efforts at reaching for light inspire me right back, my body feels wonderful. In a few seconds of appreciation everything unwinds.
Then two seconds later, when I realize I just received 50 more emails since I last checked, remembered that estimated taxes are due, need to file the alarm permit, get contracts to the center for next year’s classes, mail a birthday card I forgot, and more… all of the sudden my back slides off-kilter and I feel a pinching pain. I catch myself. Stop. Breathe. Receive. Bring myself back to the moment and look around at all the good. Quickly, my body goes back into place and I feel good again. Life is responding to our energy more quickly than ever these days!
The supply of love is either blocked or received. It never stops flowing. Whether we’re aware of it or not, this is just the way the universe works. There’s no end to the emanations of love and guidance. There’s only an opening to it or a blocking of it. We are much like those docks, with tons and tons of supply waiting to come in – either allowing or blocking.
Most of the time I’ve practiced allowing, especially this year. At the slightest sign of a negative thought, as soon as I catch myself, I stop. Breathe. Focus on something better – a rose in the yard, the pumpkin muffins in the fridge (not to mention the real whipped cream!). Suddenly I’m allowing love to flow.
This isn’t about negating your feelings. It is about feeling them, learning from them, and then deciding to feel better in whatever healthy way you can. Feeling good is feeling God. Feeling bad is pinching off that love. The reason everyone feels so amazing in heaven is because the allowing or pinching is no longer optional. The love is overwhelming. You can’t deny it. You let it in and in a grand way and it permeates every aspect of your entire being, and it feels good. I’ve been there. Total, beyond words, bliss! It is SO much harder to stay focused on, and open to loving feelings on earth. As the angels mentioned last week we’ve been conditioned to be “reactors” to the world around us, instead of “creators.”
What if we were taught as children that life happens and sometimes things feel bad, but we can always go within and find things to feel better about? Kids actually do that before they’re conditioned otherwise. I’ve seen them bang themselves up, have a good cry, look around, then start to focus on something more fun. In a short time, they’re all better.
We may not be able to stay unblocked and receiving at all times, but if we think of ourselves, like those docks, with love waiting at the borders, then we’ll know when we’re open to it or not. We’ll feel it.
When your docks are open, guidance flows without effort. For example, last week I did a long hike back along the creek in total bliss. Suddenly I started to get a feeling that I wasn’t alone. It wasn’t fear – just a little knowing. Within a few hundred yards I smelled the “marking” of a very large cat in the area! Although I was almost at my picnic spot, it didn’t matter. I just turned around calmly and started hiking back. No thought. No fear. Just the natural guidance that let me know I was in someone else’s territory and in this wondrous dance of life it was my turn to leave. Easy peasy.
So while we’re mostly not out in the woods dancing with nature, we dance with life all day every day in one form or another, and we need our “docks” to be open to the goodness, grace, and guidance that is being offered as often as we can. As we focus on love, and good feelings, we “unclog” our own “supply chain” and help to get the world going and flowing again too.
Here are a few pointers to help you unblock your supply chain from Source…
1. Make Connecting with Love a Priority
Self-care is essential right now. Physical maintenance is, of course, required, but beyond that, we must care for our essential “Self.” Do you feed your mind junk or goodness? Does what you watch, read, listen to, and most importantly think about things that uplift you, or do you focus on things that make you feel pinched off from love? There is an infinite number of ways to connect with the experience of Love:
• Take time each day if only for a few minutes to breathe deeply and relax into the arms of your angels.
• Take a few really deep breaths now, and with each one breathe in love. It takes little to no time at all and it is a way you can connect with Love.
• Give yourself a hug right now. It is a beautiful way to connect with Love.
• Look around and start to appreciate the first thing you see. It is a way you can connect with love.
Caring for yourself in this way seems small, insignificant, and yet it is a profound shifting of energies to focus on love.
Never underestimate the power of a single, simple act of love, kindness, care, or even self-soothing.
2. Listen to your body
The body doesn’t lie. All physical ills come from a usually cumulative effect of tiny pinches. We have a need to stop for a moment and breathe and we don’t. We think of something that upset us. We fear something. These things may be tiny but the cumulative effect is a lot of tensing and pinching in the body and for the body to operate effectively it needs flow – good circulation, unimpeded nerve signals, digestion that flows easily, etc.
As you breathe and relax, the flow is opened up once again. As you think of something that feels like love, the flow opens up again. When I catch myself as the slightest sign of physical discomfort, if I stop, breathe, and receive, things go back to good quickly. If I ignore my body too long, I have to concentrate even more deeply and consistently on the loving feelings to unwind. This is just the way it works.
The bad news is that we may have built up years of pain from tiny pinches. The good news is that we can allow the spiritual energy, circulation, nerve signals, and digestion to flow again with a willingness to create regular tiny openings to love. Appreciate this. Enjoy that. Soothe yourself. Breathe. Watch a video you like. Laugh. In these tiny moments of love, the body starts to recalibrate and open once again to the eternal flow of well-being. Guidance will come as well, letting you know the kindest steps to take on your path of feeling better.
3. Stop Judging / Start Discerning
Judgment – playing God and deciding what belongs on earth and what does not – pinches us off from love very quickly. DIscernment – deciding to honor the Divine within and being clear about what belongs in your life or not – opens us up to love very quickly.
For example, say you see something that you absolutely cannot stand. It might be a person’s way of speaking, acting, or being. It may be a horrible mess people are making on the earth. It may be a report of how many people died today. Judgment says, “That should not be!” and in that instant of fighting something in our minds, we block the flow of love.
Instead, if you say to yourself, “That behavior doesn’t belong in my life. I will focus on better. I love to focus on all the amazing people doing amazing things in this world. I love to focus on environmental groups and beautiful nature… ” In this positive, discerning focus, you are open to the flow of love.
Spirit never asks us to like things we don’t like. Spirit doesn’t ask us to pretend everything on this earth is warm, fuzzy, honest, or beautiful. Spirit just says, “Stop fighting the world. Focus on what you want in your own life.”
Live and let live, and let yourself focus on what feels more like love. That is the quickest way to open to the flow of Love, right here, right now.
The angels like to say: Judgment says “no right to be.” Discernment says, “Not right for me.”
It is fascinating to see our world, and our internal state, become such an obvious mirroring of our pinching off or receiving the Supply of Love that is endlessly waiting to flow up from within us, to us, and through us.
Be kind to yourself these days. Choose the most comforting, soothing, sweet thoughts and actions you can. Give yourself permission to ignore the bad and focus on the good, to shift quickly from problems towards dreaming of solutions, and when you can’t quite get your mind off a painful topic, distract, nap, or do anything to open to Love again. We can be the ones who unclog God’s circulation and flow in this world by opening up to love, one thought, one moment at a time.
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