The physical is just as important as the spiritual. Take care of your body today with a quiet day of rest. Without neglect of the inner you pay attention to the outer you. Often the striving for inner balance and perfection takes precedent, leaving the physical body trying to catch up, but care of the physical is equally important, for it is your vehicle through life.
Pay attention to what your body tells you about yourself today while you simultaneously give it a day of calmness and retreat from the usual. It is all you have as you navigate life. Without strain, without overtaxing it, treat it kindly and lovingly today. In return it will do the same, offering your spirit refuge in a kind and loving home. Your body and your spirit will thank you for taking care of them so tenderly.
Every day offers opportunities for change, growth, and awakening. It is the little things you do, the small steps you take that add up to the giant leaps. It is the daily doing of life with intent to be aware of the self as a being of energy, learning to flow smoothly with life’s ups and downs, that will transport you and transform you.
You are all capable of the highest achievements, of the impossible because you are all beings of the highest order and that is the order of love. Seek love in all its many forms as your goal, but it is the love of compassion awakening within you that will have the greatest effect within and without. Seek that, for self and other, and all will be well.
Freedom comes only when one finally frees oneself from that which lies within, from that which imprisons one long after the prison bars are gone, long after the time of actual imprisonment is over. To imprison oneself is as defeating as being held in check by another. Freedom is a sense of being, a sense of knowing that you are worthy, acceptable, and that your life’s experiences made you strong, understanding, and desirous of more than the mundanities of life.
But such things of freedom and worth can only be delivered by the truths of the inner self being exposed to the truths of the outer self. Jailer and jailed are one and the same. Until they free each other, freedom will remain on the outskirts of life, a distant dream. Dream bigger. Dream beyond the place of stagnation, sadness, and fear. You hold the key. Use it.
Who do you generally blame? Do you tend to blame yourself when it is not your fault? Or do you choose to blame another when really you are to blame? Who you choose to blame on any given day is an indication of what is going on inside you. Rather than look for who to blame, rather than become defeated by yet another day of self-blame, turn away from blame completely and ask the self another question: How can I stop blaming and heal instead? Find the answer where all answers lie: Within!
No one can control the weather… so why worry! – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Master out-of-body explorer Robert Monroe discovered, in his inter-dimensional travels, that when we sleep we attend school.
The energy body of human beings leaves its physical body partner every night and goes to classes where it is taught, by those more advanced, on how to wake up to its greater wholeness and advance to fulfillment during its life on earth.
Most of us transition back into our physical body and, as we awaken, quickly forget where we’ve been and what we’ve been taught. Often the lessons take the form of vaguely recalled dreams.
We may reencounter our nightly lessons later on as we move through our day, as they come in deja vu experiences or simply “knowings” that inform our perspective, decisions and actions.
Robert Monroe shared a valuable lesson from one of his nightly classes that he recapitulates in his book, Far Journeys:
“The major underlying cause of human worry relates to the Law of Change. All human conflict relates to this law. Some worry that change will take place, others that is will not. Wars are fought to resist change or to accelerate it.”
“At the individual level,” he goes on, “this translates into various forms of indecision. Fear enters into the pattern, fear of the consequences of any decision or action. The pressure builds up, intensifies as the decision is put off, delayed. The result accumulates toxins in all parts of the human system until there is failure or severe reduction in operating efficiency. Indecision is the Killer.” *
Monroe’s suggests an antidote to indecision by making three lists. On list A, we write all the things we are worried about but can do absolutely nothing about, for example, worrying about what the weather will be like tomorrow. Our task then is to destroy this list. Why spend energy on worrying about things we cannot control?
On list B, we are instructed to list all the items we are worried about that we can do something about today. We are then asked to immediately take some action, however small, on items on this list. These actions will release the flow of damned energy within us.
On list C, we are to write all the hopes, needs, and desires, however large or small, that have yet to be fulfilled. Then we are asked to take one item from this list and perform at least one action today, however small, that advances us toward the fulfillment of this hope, need, or desire.
An alternative, and perhaps more user-friendly approach to the list method is to simply notice when we find ourselves in a state of worry or emptiness and identify what the core issue is and what list it belongs on. If we can’t do anything about it, we throw it away by taking our attention off it, i.e., by focusing on breathing. If we can do something about it, we define and take action, however small, that advances it in its accomplishment.
A few decisions and we could be soaring along on our own revitalized energy… – Photo by Jan Ketchel
If we follow either of these programs we will indeed reclaim and revitalize energy that has festered in a toxic pool of indecision and inaction. Furthermore, we will emotionally find ourselves on a path of serenity, as our definitive actions will move us closer to unburdening ourselves of worry and advance us more swiftly toward fulfillment.
Whether we remember our nightly lessons or not, we can advance ourselves every day by simply making our lists and taking action. It’s a sure way of releasing toxic energy and taking control of the life we are in, while simultaneously setting us on the path to creating a new, more fulfilling life.
