Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:33 pm by globalturbo
Your quiet periods are essential for your health and happiness
03/03/2013 by John Smallman
We are all one – humanity, other citizens of the Universe, and all in
the spiritual realms – as you well know. However, on Earth it is very
difficult for the majority of you, the vast majority of you, to
acquire a true understanding of what that actually means. You
experience life as individuals with individual needs – shelter,
clothing, food, rest, an income – and to imagine yourself as one with
all sentient life, let alone your immediate neighbors, is enigmatical to
say the least. And yet it does make sense because you can see that
what one does often affects another; and you feel compassion for the
suffering of another, which you would not if you were not all connected,
all one.
As all are one, to awaken is a collective event — an event for which
you have been preparing for a long time, and now that moment is drawing
closer. You have heard that before, many times, and it is becoming a
little like a bad joke as you wait expectantly and see no sign of it.
Frustration and disappointment have upset many of you, undermining your
faith at times. But those periods pass, and your faith strengthens
again as you maintain your intent and allow us to offer you succor and
guidance in your daily interludes of quietness and prayer.
Those time periods are essential to your well-being, and during them
you have an enormously powerful effect on the divine energy field
enveloping the planet because you interact with it by opening your
hearts to receive the abundance of Love that is the energy field in
which you have your eternal existence.
Often, maybe most of the time, you do not feel it or sense it; but it
envelops you always, and it shows itself when you make choices that
bring you peace and relieve your stress or anxiety. You are never
alone, unsupported, although in the physical dimension the opposite is
definitely experienced. But when you accept that experience and
surrender to it, its intensity decreases, because by surrendering you
allow the divine energy field to strengthen and fortify you, and you
experience that as a reduction in fear, anxiety, or stress, similar to
the release that you feel in those daily interludes of quietness.
It is impossible to overstress the importance of taking time out
regularly every day, to be alone, quiet, and relaxed, as you allow the
divine energy field to meld ever more fully with your own. The more
integrated these energy fields become the more easily you can relax into
the Love that embraces you, letting it suffuse you and then flow
through you to interact with all in your vicinity, everyone on the
planet, and the planet herself, thus reiterating your oneness with all
of creation.
You are divine beings because God created you as such, and that is a
changeless, eternal state. You have just forgotten how to access it,
and to awaken is to access it once more. Whereupon you will recognize
it and recognize yourself as the divine being that you are. It is a
wondrous state, quite beyond description or imagination while you
believe in and support the illusion that you experience as so real and
solid. Your daily periods of quiet solitude will bring you ever closer
to that natural state as the stresses and anxieties of daily life fall
away.
Initially your mind will be busy with thoughts rushing in to fill the
space that you are attempting to make there in which to be quiet and
peaceful, because it is used to busyness and feels uncomfortable when
stilled. Do not judge yourselves as wrong or failing when this happens,
because you have made the intent to still your mind and with practice
you will succeed. Just persist, accepting whatever occurs – maybe
streams of thoughts that you will want to judge as unwholesome,
inappropriate, or evil! – because your ego-mind will do its utmost to
engage your attention using the strangest and most unsettling of shock
tactics in order to regain your attention.
However, these periods of quiet, undisturbed peace will become for
you the most important parts of your day, because with practice they
will deepen and intensify, and your mind will be less frequently
disturbed by trains of thought that carry you away into distracting
inner turmoil as you automatically and without awareness engage with
them. When awareness returns, as it will, do not berate yourselves.
Instead, be pleased that your awareness has returned, and honor it for
doing so. To berate or judge yourselves as wrong or inadequate is just
to follow another distracting thought train, until your awareness
returns once more.
Ask for help and guidance during those periods you set aside daily
for quietness of mind — and you will receive it. Oftentimes, any
anxieties or worries that were unsettling you will dissolve during these
quiet periods. The problems or issues causing them may not be
resolved, but you will feel more at peace and better able to cope with
them. Your quiet periods are essential for your health and happiness,
so indulge yourselves by allowing yourselves to take time for them.
With so very much love, Saul.
Thanks to: http://johnsmallman.wordpress.com
03/03/2013 by John Smallman
We are all one – humanity, other citizens of the Universe, and all in
the spiritual realms – as you well know. However, on Earth it is very
difficult for the majority of you, the vast majority of you, to
acquire a true understanding of what that actually means. You
experience life as individuals with individual needs – shelter,
clothing, food, rest, an income – and to imagine yourself as one with
all sentient life, let alone your immediate neighbors, is enigmatical to
say the least. And yet it does make sense because you can see that
what one does often affects another; and you feel compassion for the
suffering of another, which you would not if you were not all connected,
all one.
As all are one, to awaken is a collective event — an event for which
you have been preparing for a long time, and now that moment is drawing
closer. You have heard that before, many times, and it is becoming a
little like a bad joke as you wait expectantly and see no sign of it.
Frustration and disappointment have upset many of you, undermining your
faith at times. But those periods pass, and your faith strengthens
again as you maintain your intent and allow us to offer you succor and
guidance in your daily interludes of quietness and prayer.
Those time periods are essential to your well-being, and during them
you have an enormously powerful effect on the divine energy field
enveloping the planet because you interact with it by opening your
hearts to receive the abundance of Love that is the energy field in
which you have your eternal existence.
Often, maybe most of the time, you do not feel it or sense it; but it
envelops you always, and it shows itself when you make choices that
bring you peace and relieve your stress or anxiety. You are never
alone, unsupported, although in the physical dimension the opposite is
definitely experienced. But when you accept that experience and
surrender to it, its intensity decreases, because by surrendering you
allow the divine energy field to strengthen and fortify you, and you
experience that as a reduction in fear, anxiety, or stress, similar to
the release that you feel in those daily interludes of quietness.
It is impossible to overstress the importance of taking time out
regularly every day, to be alone, quiet, and relaxed, as you allow the
divine energy field to meld ever more fully with your own. The more
integrated these energy fields become the more easily you can relax into
the Love that embraces you, letting it suffuse you and then flow
through you to interact with all in your vicinity, everyone on the
planet, and the planet herself, thus reiterating your oneness with all
of creation.
You are divine beings because God created you as such, and that is a
changeless, eternal state. You have just forgotten how to access it,
and to awaken is to access it once more. Whereupon you will recognize
it and recognize yourself as the divine being that you are. It is a
wondrous state, quite beyond description or imagination while you
believe in and support the illusion that you experience as so real and
solid. Your daily periods of quiet solitude will bring you ever closer
to that natural state as the stresses and anxieties of daily life fall
away.
Initially your mind will be busy with thoughts rushing in to fill the
space that you are attempting to make there in which to be quiet and
peaceful, because it is used to busyness and feels uncomfortable when
stilled. Do not judge yourselves as wrong or failing when this happens,
because you have made the intent to still your mind and with practice
you will succeed. Just persist, accepting whatever occurs – maybe
streams of thoughts that you will want to judge as unwholesome,
inappropriate, or evil! – because your ego-mind will do its utmost to
engage your attention using the strangest and most unsettling of shock
tactics in order to regain your attention.
However, these periods of quiet, undisturbed peace will become for
you the most important parts of your day, because with practice they
will deepen and intensify, and your mind will be less frequently
disturbed by trains of thought that carry you away into distracting
inner turmoil as you automatically and without awareness engage with
them. When awareness returns, as it will, do not berate yourselves.
Instead, be pleased that your awareness has returned, and honor it for
doing so. To berate or judge yourselves as wrong or inadequate is just
to follow another distracting thought train, until your awareness
returns once more.
Ask for help and guidance during those periods you set aside daily
for quietness of mind — and you will receive it. Oftentimes, any
anxieties or worries that were unsettling you will dissolve during these
quiet periods. The problems or issues causing them may not be
resolved, but you will feel more at peace and better able to cope with
them. Your quiet periods are essential for your health and happiness,
so indulge yourselves by allowing yourselves to take time for them.
With so very much love, Saul.
Thanks to: http://johnsmallman.wordpress.com
