WHERE WE CELEBRATE OUR 100TH POST, PART ONE
Are you there?
Yes, we are here.
As you know, this post will be our one-hundredth. It seems like only yesterday I was trying to figure out how to start this blog, how it was going to look, what tone it should take, how often we should post and so on. Now, here we are, posting our 100th conversation.
It is as exciting for us as it is for you to have reached this point in our journey together. It was always our dearest wish for you, once we began these discussions, that they should continue as long as you desired, as long as they challenged you and brought you enjoyment. It is very gratifying to us that after a year and one half, we are all still engaged in this work, speaking to one another on a regular basis about some of the most important issues that face humans on the physical plane, and that we continue to share these conversations with anyone who chooses to find their way to them. It leaves us with a great sense of satisfaction, joy and appreciation.
I feel the same way. And so, I thought it would be a nice idea, as a way of celebrating our 100th post, to explore again some of the guidance that you have provided for all of us during our conversations together. It’ll be our way of helping our readers re-align with the energy of who they really are and why they have come, which is, after all, the focal point of our work together.
This seems like an excellent idea. How would you like to proceed?
I thought we’d concentrate on the topics our readers believe have been the most influential. Let’s start with what I think is probably the most important idea for us to focus on and that is loving ourselves.
Very good.
LOVING OURSELVES
When I think about this idea of loving ourselves, I automatically think of Louise Hay. Louise was one of the first spiritual teachers I encountered when I started doing this work almost forty years ago. Throughout all of her work, all of her lectures and books and seminars, the one idea she returned to over and over again was self-love. Even if you can’t manage to do anything else, she would say, do your very best to love and accept yourself for who you are, warts and all. Her chief mantra, the affirmation she stressed the most in her work, was “I love and approve of myself.” It took me many years before I realized what this statement truly meant and how important it was to the kind of spiritual work I’d begun doing.
You are correct when you say that loving the self is perhaps the most critical idea for any human person to become aware of and to accept, for love is the substance of which you are made, is it not? Unconditional love, the love that sees past what you humans like to refer to as your “faults and peccadilloes,” the pure, focused energy of Source that all human persons seek to find within themselves – this is the energy that has not only created you and the physical world that you inhabit, but it is also the same energy that has created everything that exists in the Universe. In loving yourself, you literally summon this Universal life force energy into your physical form and into all of your earthly experiences. When you are in a place of remembering your true nature, it is this energy that flows unrestricted in, around and through your vibrational field. It is this energy that you utilize to create the experiences that you so fervently desire. And once it is called forth and grounded within your own field, it is this energy that you can then send out into the physical world to be shared with those around you. This is why the practice of self-love is such a vital part of your journey, for love is the key to remembering who you really are. It is at the heart of all that you do and all that you are. It is the light that shines eternally within the hearts of all beings in the Universe and it is there for you wherever and whenever you need it. It is who you really are.
FORGIVING OURSELVES AND OTHERS
I realize that forgiveness, too, is a very important part of our journey towards remembrance, but it is also, I think, one of its more challenging aspects. Forgiving others. Forgiving ourselves. It’s very hard to do sometimes. If someone has hurt us, shamed us, belittled us, lied to us, or in any way treated us without the respect that we feel we deserve, we often hold onto that hurt, refusing to let it go, determined to find relief through some sort of reckoning for those who have done us wrong. If the hurt is strong and deep enough, it frequently becomes the only thing that we can think about. We fight and argue inside our heads with our victimizers, complain to our friends about how poorly we’ve been treated, justify our point of view to ourselves and others and plot retribution against those we feel have injured us. And none of that ever really satisfies us. Not really. It’s even worse when we’ve injured ourselves, for then not only do we feel wounded, but we feel guilty as well, guilty over the hurt we’ve done to ourselves. It’s like a vicious circle. And yet we continue to do it, even though it often makes us miserable.
And so, in situations such as this, where you feel that you have been unjustly treated, by yourself or by others, you must ask yourself these questions: How long will I allow this to go on? How long before I exercise forgiveness, for others or for myself? How long do I want to hold a grudge? How long do I want to continue to punish those who I feel have hurt me? How long do I want to torture myself over what I see as my mistakes or torture others for the mistakes I believe that they have made, both now and in the past? How long do I want to avoid responsibility and instead blame others for the experiences that I myself have created? How long before I finally give up and let all of it go and forgive? How long, how long, how long? If we were standing in your physical shoes, we would spend no more time than is absolutely necessary in waking up and taking that one short step to forgiveness.
You’re right, of course. We do waste so much of our valuable time and energy holding grudges and nurturing resentments when it only takes a small commitment on our part to let it all go, to realize that a lack of forgiveness, whether of yourself or others, only does harm, to everyone concerned, and that if you really love yourself and your fellow human beings, you would make forgiveness a priority in your life.
Indeed.
GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION
Our friends Abraham like to say that appreciation is the key to all of this work that we humans are doing. That the frequency of appreciation is the closest to the frequency of Source energy, and that the more we practice appreciation for who we are and what we are experiencing, the easier our journey towards remembrance will be. Abraham also points out that appreciation focuses our attention on those things or experiences or people in our lives that already bring us pleasure and fill us with joy, and since we are able, through the Law of Attraction, to more readily manifest those experiences that draw our focus and attention, it only makes sense that appreciating what is, what is right in front of us, can only serve to bring us more of what we love.
Our beloved friends, collectively known as Abraham, are indeed among the wisest of all the entities, physical and non-physical alike, that have chosen to work with human beings and assist them on their journey towards awakening. And we agree with what they have to say about the value of appreciation. It is the practice of appreciation that most quickly opens your vibrational channel to Source energy. When you appreciate who you are and what you have, when you truly value the experiences that you are creating for yourselves, the Universe responds by sending you more of what you desire, more of what makes you feel good, more of who you really are. By practicing appreciation, you literally send a message to the Universe that says, “I remember who I really am. I remember why I have come. I am a being of love and light and I am here to create, to use the energy of my true self to manifest Source in physical form.” When you are able to say words such as this to yourself, the Universe has no choice but to send you more of what you desire.
KINDESS AND COMPASSION
There is a quote from the film “The Philadelphia Story” that has always stuck with me, and I’m paraphrasing: “You’ll never be a first-class human being until you’ve learned to have some regard for human frailty.” This quote could actually fall under a number of the categories that we are discussing today – forgiveness, loving yourself – but I thought I would include it here because it seems to me that accepting human flaws, whether yours or someone else’s, requires a great deal of kindness and compassion. We so often respond with frustration, scorn or criticism when we are confronted by the attributes of others that we see as less than perfect. But there is a better choice we can make and that is to practice empathy and understanding. After all, we can never really know for sure why another person acts the way they do, what’s going on inside their head, what lurks beneath the surface of their character or how it was formed or what they were taught.
That is why it is so important to bear in mind that each and every one of you is on your own, individual journey towards remembrance. You are all in the same boat, so to speak. Even though it may appear otherwise, no one is here to deliberately make life difficult for another. This only occurs because each of you has forgotten your own true nature. In a real sense, when someone hurts you or another, they are ALWAYS doing so from an unconscious position. They literally have forgotten who they are and are acting in the only way that they believe is appropriate for them. This is not to say that harmful behavior should be tolerated, ever. Simply that, when this type of behavior is exhibited, compassion, kindness and understanding rather than condemnation and ridicule are the best responses. So be kind, be compassionate, be caring and loving, for by using these qualities you also facilitate remembrance of who you really are.
Well, I thought we might be able to cover everything in one posting, but we’re nowhere near being finished, so I guess we’ll continue our celebration next time.
Until next time then.
Thank you all.
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