Stop. Shift. Breathe love

I made myself a promise this year to watch my thoughts like a hawk, and shift to better feeling ones the minute I noticed anything less. It has become like a game for me. “Ooh caught myself in a lower vibe! Stop. Shift!” I breathe into my heart, and think better feeling thoughts until I spin up into joy once again.

I got ungrounded, left body mid-step in February, and came back crashing on the tile. Ouch. Pain. “What the?” “Wait! Stop. Shift! This is the best thing in the world! I’m getting my prayer to re-align my body answered. Awesome. I’m not even going to hurt much.” Divine love poured in swirling through me, and even though I got slowed down, I didn’t hurt much at all given the magnitude of the injury.

The same week, someone I care about received a difficult diagnosis. I started to feel sad and powerless. “Wait a sec, Ann! Stop. Shift! This is their chance to deeply heal. This is my chance to help facilitate more miracles. I can do this. They can do it!” Divine love flooded through me. They’re doing their part. I’m doing mine. They are healing!

The same week a dear friend moved suddenly, in a sad space, without giving me any time to say goodbye. “Wait. Stop. Shift!” I breathed into my heart, gave thanks for the laughter and times we’d shared, and intended to have more in the future. Divine love and appreciation poured into me. I felt joy for my friend’s, and my, evolution.

A glass I love dropped to the floor, spilling the proverbial milk all over the kitchen. Darn it. “Wait, Ann! Stop. Shift. I watch the pretty white liquid crawling over and coating the tile, and admire the sparkly broken glass in the sun. I give thanks for “Dixie” my Dyson vacuum who really sucks 🙂 Soon I’m online ordering a replacement glass. No biggie. I feel empowered. I celebrate the minor victory. Divine love pours into me. Nothing like a mystical experience rather than crying over spilled milk!

As a result of keeping my vibe high or at least returning to a higher vibe, I’m living in a flow that just carries me with ease. I’ve been working overtime, doing the newsletters and social media posts, learning technical skills, suddenly creating art, spending more time with family and friends, gardening, cooking, crafting, answering thousands of emails, and the list goes on, but it all seems to happen one happy moment at a time.

This is the power of 5D living vs. 3D. Get the energy right, rest when tired, move when inspired, and let things flow.

I’m learning to use my mind as a tuning tool, rather than allowing it to be the boss of me! I used to think thoughts just happened. Now I’m learning to choose them consciously for the vibration they provide. I’m concerned less about what I’m thinking about and more about how it makes me feel.

Love is in circulation always. It might not feel like love when you hear bad news, break something, have someone aim their pain at you, watch the news, lose a job, don’t get the house you bid on, or one of a million other things we might call disappointing, but love is still there. We find it by tuning into it. We tune into it by using the power of our mind to focus on something – be it a thing or a thought, that feels better. It sounds so simple, but we’re all learning to change old habits so we can better feel this circulation of love.

The energies ARE strong now. Our soul is calling us with all the things that have been stored up inside. We’re feeling our dreams and our desires. We’re feeling the inklings of dreams as yet un-clarified, pushing up from within. And we’re also feeling the fact that we can’t create them as easily the old 3D way – “by the sweat of our brow” as the saying goes. We have to create by “high vibing” – by getting our energy into a space that matches our dreams.

This is why so many are feeling the urge to sit, rest, relax, and dream rather than do. Effort without the right energy is a real chore these days. Inspired effort, however, is a flowing joy when you’re in a higher vibe.

So if you feel like you want to get going but don’t feel like doing anything, get going instead energetically, by gradually shifting your energy to match your desires, one better thought at a time.

Here are a few pointers to help you stay in an experience of the circulation of love

1. Remind yourself constantly, “I am Loved”

This may sound silly but we need reminders. Put up signs on the fridge and the mirror, or in your purse or wallet to remind yourself, “I am loved.” Repeat to yourself often, “I am loved. I am loved. I am so loved. The universe loves me. The Source loves me. The angels love me. I am loved!” Put it in your own words. Talk to yourself and tell yourself truth.

Then when you see evidence, tell yourself again, “See! I am loved.” If you see a beautiful sky, remind yourself, “I am loved.” If you taste good food, remind yourself, “I am loved.” If you appreciate anything in your home, tell yourself, “I am loved.” If someone does something kind for you, say to yourself, “I am loved.”

Then when something not so enjoyable happens you will be in the habit of reminding yourself, “I am loved,” and return to feeling the circulation of Divine love.

2. Stop. Shift. Breathe Love

I have been doing this one for decades, but especially this year. When you catch yourself feeling bad, or having negative thoughts, say, “Stop! Shift! Imagine breathing into your heart and think of anyone or anything you love. Do it for 30 seconds to a minute.

Research by the HeartMath Institute now shows that this type of breathing creates heart coherence, and then the heart triggers the vagus nerve which gets the brain waves in coherence, thus telling the body, to rest, digest, and work in harmony – scientifically and spiritually! If you want to take their free video class, you can here.

3. Listen to your body. Listen to your Heart

When you’re tired, rest. When you feel like moving do so. When you feel an urge to stretch, do it. If you can’t visualize it. Dogs, cats, birds, and kids are great at this! Love must be kept in circulation in our physical bodies as well as our souls for us to feel good.

Likewise, if you have an inspiration to do something then do it soon as you are able. If you have the inspiration to dream about something, make time to dream. Listen to your own feelings in a given moment for your own guidance and then you’ll be in Divine flow, feeling the circulation of love. It really is that simple.

4. Stop focusing on others and tend to your own flow

Whether or not you experience the circulation of Divine love has absolutely nothing to do with anyone else. Love is flowing directly to you at all times. It is nice when we feel it from others, but no matter what anyone is or isn’t doing has nothing at all to do with your relationship with the Source. So for an optimal experience of Divine love, tend to your own vibration, one better feeling thought at a time, rather than focusing on what the world or anyone else is or isn’t doing.

Love is always there for us, flowing within us, to us, through us. We can find it easily in a high vibe, and when we’re not there, we can work back into a space of feeling it once again. With practice, it gets easier. Don’t wait for the world to give you love to feel good. Find the higher vibe, and let the love in easily. Then you’ll be in charge of when you feel good, and when feel God.