Things change all the time. If you are in a rut, keep that obvious truth in mind. You can feel really stuck on any given day, but if you change one thing, take one action in a different or new direction, everything can change. If you trust that you are guided and opt for a positive outlook, with a positive openness, you can be sure that things will shift for you. Sometimes they will shift abruptly and sometimes more slowly, but your job is to be aware of the shift that is presenting itself to you, asking you to take a different path now, to think in a new way, to process things differently, to look at life with new eyes. Everything is an opportunity that is waiting to be accessed. Look around you today and notice where you are being offered a new opportunity. Are you ready to say, “Yes!”
The early morning, when you have just woken up and are just recalling your dreams and still half asleep, is a good time to connect with us on the other side of the veil. There is little to interfere with a communication then, for you are still partially in our world. The atmosphere is different and you can sense things differently too. You are more attuned, more open and more receptive. This time of the day is a good time to begin a new practice, to remain a few minutes in that receptive and open state and see what comes through the veils to guide you. Journaling is a good practice, for we often can come to you more easily than any other way through the hand holding a pen. We suggest you give it a try. Ask a question. Perhaps you might ask us: “Dear One, what would you like to teach me today?” Or: “Dear Helper, what guidance do you have for me today?” Or anything that makes sense to you personally. We will make the connection and give you an answer. Just be there, ready and waiting, pen in hand.
Healing is more about what happens on the inside than what happens on the outside. Everyone has some healing that needs to be done. A life, once begun, will always be a life of healing, for that is what the human experience is all about. It’s about finding the path that heals old wounds, whether from a previous lifetime or the one amazing life you are now living. Healing is about finding your Self, the central character in the life you are living. It’s about finding your center and your grounding in the life you are in, and knowing just why you are there. Many people never quite find that Self, but you are one of the lucky ones, for you know who you are, why you are there, and what your healing journey is about. Keep connected to that knowing, for it will lead you forward to your next place of healing work, within the Self that you really do know so well. Even if you wonder if you are there yet, in more ways than one, you are!
The truth about relaxation is that there cannot be relaxation if we are not in the truth.
If we tell a white lie, even if exquisitely justified, we will experience an excitement to the nerves that innervate our eye muscles, which will in turn throw our eyes slightly out of focus.
In fact, if we mistakenly misstate our age, with no intent to deceive, our eyes will be thrown out of focus. If we then state, or even just think our true age, our eyes will be restored to normal immediately.
The subconscious mind is responsible for this glitch. It knows the truth and cannot help but register a reaction, however subtle, to untruth. This is not from the place of morality or judgment; it’s simply the subconscious mind’s unswerving loyalty to the truth.
The subconscious mind is wired to do the right thing. This is how it keeps our physical body alive. Nonetheless, it is a true servant to the suggestions it receives from the conscious mind. It exercises its creative power to manifest anything we want, even if what we want serves not the true needs of the self. It will fully manifest a life of error, if that is what we choose to explore.
However, every thought and every action have an effect, which is often called karma. If our thoughts and actions misalign with the truth, the body will register a reaction that indeed, keeps the score.
Our thoughts and actions are constantly straining our central nervous system, often resulting in various states of dis-ease. Often this can manifest as physical symptoms that are erroneously thought to be physical problems, when in fact they are actually but feedback mechanisms from the body that reflect the disordered effects of our current state of mind.
Relaxation requires a quiet mind, where thoughts do not impose themselves upon the body.
The eye, like all senses, is a passive sense. Light waves impress themselves upon the retina, reflecting what is in the world outside of the eye. It does not see from the inside but is only impressed upon, like a small reflecting pool. Seeing is a completely receptive, inert state.
If we squint and tryto see, we completely contort the eye and interfere with its receptive ability. To see best, the eye must be left alone, completely relaxed, to receive its impressions. To trust the eye, is to completely relax one’s grip upon it.
Taste is another sense that requires complete passivity to deliver a true flavor. If the mind decides to think and talk when we eat, we hardly taste our food at all. We cannot make ourselves taste.
The sensory capacity of our taste buds passively receives impressions from the food. It requires of our mind to relax its thinking, and passively be present and attentive to these sensations, to know the fullness of the flavors of what we eat.
Even touch is a passive sense. Although a massage therapist might be quite active in giving a massage, they must really be quite passive in order to receive the true state of a client’s musculature, which allows them to truly connect and know how best to touch.
Relaxation requires trust in the body, and trust in the subconscious mind.
If we passively let go of trying to control the non-activity of our senses, they will operate most efficiently.
If we center our attention on our eating, refusing thinking and talking, we will have a pleasurable and fulfilling culinary experience. This includes not listening to podcasts when we eat!
When we touch another, if we take our mind off our thoughts, we can, in the experience of sympathy, register the truth of that other person’s state of being, and instinctively deliver the right touch. And yes, when we actively touch, we are taking action, but it is action informed by the truth passively received.
When we act in alignment with truth, we are, and deliver, calm.
A path to relaxation is to intend that the conscious mind stay in alignment with truth. That truth is best known through passive presence that follows the guidance it receives from its senses and the natural wisdom of the subconscious mind.
Beyond the senses is the wisdom that all guidance arrives when we are calmly, passively available to receive it. If the mind is actively fretting about what decision is right, it is too distracted to take in the myriads of signs from spirit, often arriving through the subconscious mind, that point to the right path, the path of true knowledge.
Ego, for all its valiant efforts to anxiously do the right thing, is at its most mature when it waits, gets calm, and truly listens and receives the truth, from which naturally flow its true marching orders.
Life moves quickly and before you know it you have missed out on something that you once thought was important. But now, if you step back and look at all that you have experienced in life, and at all that you have discovered about yourself, you may realize that perhaps those dreams were not to be a part of this lifetime. Perhaps there was something else you set out to do that did not come to consciousness. Perhaps old dreams are no longer viable, just as old habits are no longer necessary. Perhaps the life you have led all these years was the exact life you needed. Ponder today the broader aspects of the life you have led and where it has landed you. Without regret, ponder the good and the bad, the exciting and the miraculous, and be in awe no matter what dream you once had. For you are a being who has truly done what you needed to do. And that is something to really be in awe about!
