Friday, March 30, 2012

A Higher Reason for Feeling Love

There is a higher reason for feeling love and joy. It's why you came here. You came here to feel in your body, the love and joy of Divinity. Divinity flows through you and the more love and joy you feel, the more open you are the the creative and dynamic flow of the Creator.  The side effect of this is that you emanate more love and healing from yourself to the people, animals and world that you love.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Pullling out of Grief


How can you pull yourself back up when you are grieving? This past week I have been absent from blogging due to the very sudden and traumatic loss of one of our dogs. It felt to me like the world had collapsed. The grief came in suddenly like a cement truck dumping it's load on top of my head. I was angry and felt extreme despair.
So I asked myself, what would I suggest to someone else who wanted to process their grief? The thoughts that came through were exactly what I had to do myself and it was very difficult to step up to the plate and practice what I preach. First of all, I had to feel all the emotions in my body as feelings on a physical level. It was extremely painful and so very difficult to do. Then the story would start. And I had to convince myself to drop the story. The ability to focus directly on the feelings in my body and drop the story came and went, came and went, came and went. And as the process continued it started to get a bit easier to feel the feelings and drop the story. At times I did not even want to drop the story. But it's coming along, slowly but surely.
Interested in more about this technique? Eckhart Tolle's CD set "Living the Liberated Life and Dealing with the Pain Body" is an excellent choice for listening and learning.
Till next time, many blessings, Maureen

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Do you Really Want to Feel Better?

Well now maybe you don't care about feeling better for yourself. But think about it this way. You feeling better affects everything else. What is it that you care about the most? What do you care about passionately? Do you have a "cause"? The best thing you can do for your "cause" is to emanate love and joy. Not to say we don't get feelings we don't like. Just to say that when we do it's important to process them and let them go. In other words, to feel more neutral about a situation or a person rather than being against it. As soon as we are against anything we are in a relationship with it. And that will definitely keep the situation or person present in our life. 

Being neutral about something actually allows it to fall away from us. You've heard "what you resist, persists". It's true. What you obsess about and feel about, your bring about.
Some years ago I would psychically pick up the anguish of animals. Like really pick it up big time. I didn't feel the physical pain, but I felt the anguish like there's no tomorrow. I remember hearing something on the radio, while I was driving, that made me feel like banging my head against a wall. The story of animal abuse on the radio caused me to feel the anguish so intensely I was almost incapacitated. I would avoid stories and situations about animals specifically because of this. I would ask myself " how can I feel good when this terrible stuff is happening to beings that I love?"

One day I figured out that me, feeling the anguish, was like jumping into quicksand with someone being swallowed up by it. How can I help someone else when I'm in the quicksand with them? That is resonance and entrainment. Resonance is what allows the transfer of energy to take place. Entrainment is when two frequencies come together to become similar in frequency. Compassion, love and joy are high frequencies. Grief, anger, anguish and fear are low frequencies. When you maintain a high frequency you give the other person (or animal) something to entrain to. i.e. a higher frequency. And when you get it, that the frequency you carry manifests your reality, it becomes really important to hold your high frequency especially so that others can entrain to it. You can't help someone by jumping into the quicksand with them. 

When I finally understood this concept I was able to block out the anguish of the animals that I'd been picking up, and stay in a higher frequency. It wasn't joy, but it was definitely compassion. This was the best thing I could do for the animals. As well, holding a high frequency of peace and love in general, would affect the city I lived in, and fewer animals would be abused because there would be more peace and harmony in general. Love on, people, love on.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

How does Anger Hurt Me?

Okay, so you aren't yet convinced that staying angry at your neighbour actually hurts you? Studies have shown that when you are angry your immune system shuts down. In other words, you open yourself up to getting sick. As well, your DNA coils up tighter. That makes it difficult for the RNA to get in to make "parts" to repair your body.
Well, you may say, it's perfectly human to get angry. And you are right. But get over it. The sooner you can digest and process your negative emotions, the sooner you can get on with feeling good. After all, that is what you want to experience, isn't it? Or are you still following along with me, yet to be convinced that feeling good is really more fun?
How do I process and digest my emotions then? First of all, you need to feel them. As in feeling in the body. This is definitely not about going on and on in your head about the story. Drop the story. It's useless, and going over the story time and time again will perpetuate your negative emotion. Instead, just feel it in your body. Breathe. Meditate. It will pass. But get out of the story.
How do I get myself out of the story? You just stop. That is a conscious choice. Just stop the story. And why would I do that, you say? Because it makes me healthier, it makes me feel better, and it's the best dog gone thing I can do for myself and the planet.

Do you really want to feel good?

People are always saying they want to feel better. But is that always true? Check deep inside of yourself. Do you really want to forgive your friend for stealing your lover, or your crazy neighbour for partying till the wee hours of the morning? Unless you can say yes, then perhaps you don't really want to feel peace. Do you think it's easier to stay angry at someone who hurt you? After all, you may not think they deserve to be forgiven. It might even feel good to stay angry.
The problem with staying angry is that you are really hurting yourself. As well, you are giving your power away to the other person. And finally, you are letting them decide how you feel.
Ask yourself if you really want to allow the other person's actions to be the deciding factor on whether or not you have a lovely day, or a lousy day. Only when you can truly say yes to wanting to feel good, can you start to change how you feel.
This can be said for all feelings that don't feel very good. Are you still grieving over a loss? Does it feel good to feel bad about that loss? Will the loss continue to decide how you feel today or any other day? Or do you choose now to set yourself free?
Carlos Castaneda said it best when he said: "We can make our self miserable, or we can make our self strong. The amount of work is the same."
Are you ready and willing now to change how you feel and let go of your story? That is when the fun really begins!

How You Feel Affects the World

Okay, first things first. Understand that how you feel affects the world around you, both in a positive and in a negative way. "Smile and the whole world smiles with you." This is much more than just a cute old saying. It's actually true. Search and read about the "Maharishi Effect". When you have people in a city, meditating peace, it drops the crime statistics in that city. When the group meditation for peace stops, the crime statistics go right back up to where they were before. This study has been done several times and in different cities and the results are always the same. Deepak Chopra talks about the blood serotonin levels of the people that are near a large group of people meditating. The bloods levels change even in the people who did not participate in the meditation. Mother Teresa said it best when she said "God doesn't care how much you do. God cares how much love you do it with." She really understood this concept. If we are scurrying around, cranky, doing good works for others, it does not have as beneficial of an effect as if we did it with joy. It just doesn't. So for a start, really understand that you are always responsible for how you feel because it affects everyone around you, and in a much bigger way that you ever imagined! What's wonderful about this is that we can choose how we feel! Want to buy into that concept? Stay tuned. :o)

Welcome to my blog.

Welcome to my blog. When I initially thought about blogging I really didn't have the commitment or time to write regularly. Finally though, the time has come. My postings will generally be about life, consciousness and love. The views presented in my blog are my own.

At this time on earth I believe we are in a very important time when change can happen very quickly. How you feel each moment of each day, is your vote in the collective consciousness of the human race and the planet. If you are hoping to have a peaceful and harmonious place to live here on earth then it is important to feel peaceful and harmonious. If you choose to be angry at the people who are creating war, you are only adding to the low frequencies on the planet. Choose to live in a state of love and joy, despite anything showing up in your life that would normally cause you to feel a lower frequency, such as anger, grief or despair. We are responsible for the energy we bring with us into a room, and the energy we carry around with us all day. What kind of contribution will you make to the collective consciousness? Why did you come back here?

It is such a simple recipe for harmony, but at times difficult to actually do. Join me on a journey of discovery to create a lighter life for yourself, and for the greater whole.