Dear Friends, As you might have noticed, I took a month off from writing my ezine.  I have been very busy developing some other materials and securing some other opportunities.  It was my first break from writing this in a year-and-a-half.  But I'm back!  Hope you enjoy!  And as always, thank you for reading and magical blessings to you!

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ~Anais Nin

Realizing Our Oneness with the Divine
 

Are you feeling that you don't have enough love in your life?  Are you feeling worried about your mortgage payment?  Do you long for the relationship that will last and bring you happiness?

If you are wishing and desiring any of these or something else, there is an answer to your longing that can quench any desire you have.  The answer is in recognizing your oneness with the Divine and realizing that anything you want lies available to you in your own consciousness; it merely awaits you to take off the blinders and see it.

Recognizing your connection to Source, the Divine, God, the Creator, whatever you've termed it, is at once simple and complex; it's a paradox like all great truths seem to be.  The simple part is that in order to truly find happiness, we have to be connected to the Divine, to feel our greatness, our abundance, our infinity.  The complex part is that we are human, and it seems to be our nature to fall out of that feeling of Divine Grace that is truly ours.  If we are connected to Source, then we are also in the moment, feeling our own power, feeling a connection to all things.  When we are connected, we are allowing spirit to flow through us.  It's the times when we are disconnected, the times that we forget who we really are, that we have fear and anxiety.  And when we are disconnected, we have a disharmonious relationship with ourselves, others, and the world around us.

The answer is to understand how to tell when we are not connected and then, make the necessary shift to reconnect.  Pay attention to what you're feeling, both in your body and also emotionally.  If you're feeling aches and pains or you're feeling depressed, stressed out or anxious, down on yourself--or anything that you don't want to be feeling--you are disconnected from the Divine.

Think for a moment about what troubles you, what your worries are?  If you're like most people right now, you probably have concerns about the economy, the environment, and maybe you have some personal health or money concerns.  Whatever you're troubled about or feeling anxious about reveals your negative beliefs around those issues.  And these negative beliefs stem from your deeper feeling of separation from the Source.  Each time you get thrown into worry or doubt or fear, if you would gently bring yourself back to your connection with the Divine, how quickly would your worries dissipate? 

As Florence Scovel Shinn puts it, "Cast any burden to the superconscious mind (or Christ within) where it is made light or dissolved into its native nothingness."  If we are connected and truly feel that we cannot be separated from the Divine, then we have faith, not fear, and we allow the Divine to flow through us and guide us to right action.

Did you know that negative emotions like fear, guilt, apathy, anger have a very low LOC or Level of Consciousness quotient as David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. points out in his book, Power VS Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior.  These lower levels of consciousness that calibrate an LOC below 150 actually steal our chi, our life force energy, causing illness and ultimately death.  Positive emotions like love, joy, peace and compassion which calibrate at higher levels from 500 and up, reinforce our chi and bring us energy, vitality and health.

So raise your level of consciousness by making this commitment to simply begin to pay attention: when you have a negative feeling or emotion come up, rather than allowing yourself to go down that negative road, use it to reconnect yourself to the Divine.  Rather than having the thoughts that you are not happy with something in your life and feeling lack, try noticing where it's already happening.  If you're not feeling abundant, how can you tap into the ways in which you are infinitely abundant and prosperous.  Begin to realize that everything you want lies in you since ultimately, you are part of the Divine and the Source of all things.  You cannot will anything to happen; you can't force anything to come to you; you can only allow and accept.  When you awaken to the fact that everything you need and ever will need is inside yourself, you can let every anxiety, worry and fear go and just surrender to the truth of who you are.

Practicing yoga, qi gong or some other energy based practice, and doing meditation can also help you discover, maintain and enhance your connection to the Divine.  Yoga and qi gong help keep our body in balance, raise our chi and ultimately bring us closer to the perfect union of mind, body and spirit.  Regular meditation practice also helps us feel our divinity and raises our consciousness.  These practices also help us cultivate more love, peace and compassion in our lives and hence vibrate at a higher level.

Of all relationships, the most important is the one we have with ourselves and the Divine; since that one dictates what all our other relationships will bring us.  Ultimately if we are connected to Source and thus in a joyful, peaceful, loving relationship with ourselves, we will find that we are in joyful, peaceful, loving relationships with everyone and everything in our lives.

Love and Blessings~