FEAR TO LOVE

Fear: False evidence appearing real and by definition is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, and likely to cause pain, or a threat. A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined.

Love by definition is profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person, a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend, and mankind. To want the best for you neighbor in spite of your liking him or not!

As you see Love and Fear go hand in hand, for the true opposite of love is fear. Love expands while fear shrinks. In fear you become closed while Love opens. In love one trusts while in fear there is doubt.

How do you move out of fear? By first recognizing what your fear is, perhaps it is a lack of trust that everything is going to be ok; a lack of trust that the Universe truly loves you, or a lack of trust in your own self to create positive events in your life. To release fear you must first affirm that you know and trust that you are attracting wonderful events and people into your life.

Now, how do we trust in the Universe and trust yourself? The answer is with love. Love is the most powerful energy in the Universe, and it can override all other energies. You must begin to approach each moment with love and an open heart. Follow this exercise: practice feeling love and trusting in yourself and the Universe. Send little beams of love to everyone you pass whether driving or walking by someone, while at work practice sending love to your co-workers. Answer the phone with love. Respond to requests with love. Keep practicing!

Being loving in every moment is a challenge, especially when you are around people who at the moment don’t appear to be giving love in return. These people need your love the most, as they are a reflection of where you are not being loving to yourself. Send them more love. The more love you can send, the more you will raise your vibration, initiate the Law of Attraction in the most powerful way, and create a positive force in the world.

If you can operate from a place of love more often you will feel more joyful and peaceful and attract much more love into your life, which will help raise your vibration permanently.  Remember, whatever energy you put out into the world is being reflected back to you. Our outer world is simply a mirror of our inner world.

 

 

QUIETING THE MIND

If you observe your problems, you will notice that most of them are rooted in your mind. The basic premise is the same: some external event happens; you choose to see only one side of the story, and then interpret the situation such that it causes some form of mental conflict, resulting in some form of emotional suffering.

While it is easy to simply say, “drop your problems”, you and I both know that it is not that simple. We all have had years and years of conditioning in attracting problems and conflicts. So much so, that the simple concept of ‘stop thinking about problems’ will not be so effective you need tools that strike at the problem’s root.

Let’s try this exercise; close your eyes for a few minutes and during these minutes, send out the intention that you want silence and stillness, and you do not want to be pulled away from this silence by thoughts. (Pause your reading and go do this.)

Okay, so what happened? You probably noticed that the moment you become silent, thoughts started popping up – random and unrelated thoughts. These thoughts become a form of distraction, pulling you away from your inner silence.

This was only an experiment where you consciously observed your mind and tried to become still, but could not. Imagine the state of your inner space, while you are going about your day, unaware of the polluting in-coming thoughts.

As a result, your inner space becomes cluttered with useless information, with thoughts that are not conducive to your well-being, or expansion. Because your inner space is cluttered, your inner clarity and in-born wisdom become distant and foggy. Essentially, you've lost touch with the part of your inner self that is sacred, wise, peaceful, and eternal.

The distractions that you've  declared as urgent and important, such as watching TV, updating your Facebook and Twitter pages, checking email, etc. all pull at you. They all pull at your attention, distracting you and taking you away from things that are truly important to enlightenment, and things that will bring lasting happiness and fulfillment to your life. And whether you recognize it or not, the information that you expose yourself to, fills your inner space on some level, and affects your emotions and desires (programming which we will cover later). If you’re not careful, you may find yourself rushing through life, spending your precious time on this planet focused on that which does not matter – and then wonder where did your life go?

AFFIRMATION: “My conscious mind is at peace as I go through this day, as I am sensitive to the eternal peace of Creator’s presence within me.”

GRATITUDE AS AN ATTITUDE !

     "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
    ~ Cicero, ancient Roman philosopher 

Gratitude is an attitude that can profoundly change your consciousness. When you live your life in gratitude, it can affect your being at a biological level, training your mind and body to live in a higher state of health and well being. It opens your heart and directs your energy to that which you love and what brings you joy, and in so magically attracts more of the same. For example: whenever I receive something I really like I say "thank you, more please!" It is a way to give and receive. The more you value and feel grateful for anything, the more there will be to feel grateful for. When you grateful you experience all the beautiful qualities you feel grateful for all over again. What you appreciate, appreciates! If you really wish to do something, bask in the energies of gratitude.

Are you grateful for everything you have presently? Are you consciously aware of the gift of life that you've been given? You should be. Do you know that for the Law of Attraction to work you must include the Law of Gratitude?

Those who lack an attitude of gratitude in their lives always seem to find themselves a little less happy, less fortunate, not having the lifestyle they wish to have. They see themselves as a product of their environment that the system is against them wondering why they can’t get ahead.

The act of gratitude is not something you do just once and you are done. Every day, remember to express gratitude for this gift, of life and all the things and experiences that you have been blessed with. Every moment of the day be observant about remaining in this attitude of gratitude. People often ask me, "How often do you pray?" Without fail, I reply, “There is never a time I am not in the awareness of Spirit, or, in gratitude for the abundance of good surrounding me.” Feeling grateful is a skill we can develop with practice, reaping its rewards along the way.

 

THE ART OF BEING HAPPY

As I sit and ponder this idea of being happy, a quote comes to mind " The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things" by Henry Ward Beecher.  Not always the easiest thing to do, but worth a try if we are to find it right?

It's so easy to think you'll find happiness once your problems in life are all solved, of course the issue with that is there's always another problem right around the corner, just waiting to steal your happiness.  If you are going to live happily you have to learn how to do so regardless of what problems there may be. If happiness is a destination you are waiting to arrive at then you could be in for a long ride. The assumption here for people is that happiness comes from outside of you. It does not. While there are obviously things that happen in your life that make you feel either happy or unhappy, the fact is that these experiences come and they go.  The key to life is that it is never an outside job.

Living happily depends mainly on your inner life, meaning your thoughts, emotions, desires  your entire mental and emotional scene. Happiness is about what you think and believe, how you feel, how problems affect you. This may sound obvious, but often we focus instead on our external lives, on getting and spending and “having fun” and then wonder why we are not happy. But it’s when our inner lives are serene that we are happiest – and this is inner peace.

The difficulty is that our inner lives are based on patterns and habits. Those beliefs that have been seeded in our subconscious mind and control our every step.  In this state you don’t choose, occasion by occasion, how you respond inside. This happens and you feel angry; that happens and you feel sad. Because of these habits, events don’t necessarily leave you with inner peace. So the key is to change the patterns and acquire new inner habits, new programming.

So then we are tasked with the idea of reprogramming ourselves to be happy, how? First, decide to be happy and consciously choose it every single day. This idea of course is about becoming mindful, getting off of auto-pilot. Mindfulness is a key inner skill because, as it gets stronger, it lets you focus on your own inner life and catch your habits in the act. Once you can see what they do the change you are seeking often happens of its own accord. Next, value happiness, Your choices are based on your values. If you regulate happiness to a low priority in life, other choices will take precedence. Where’s happiness located on your list relative to work, taking care of others, spending money, etc.? We move to Benevolence: It comes as a surprise when you first hear it but benevolence or love starts off as a practical skill which counteracts negative emotions like anger and hatred, terrible wreckers of happiness. Try it the next time someone annoys you: put yourself in their place and ask yourself what they might be thinking or feeling to behave like that. It doesn’t mean they should get away with it, but if you get into the habit of thinking more tolerantly – understanding that their actions are also ruled by inner habits – you’ll find you can react with less anger. And less anger equals more happiness for you, because you are more equipped to choose your response.  Another important concept or skill to practice is that of Letting-go: This is particularly helpful when we are unhappy not getting what we want. We have been programmed to believe more is better, whether it’s clothes or money or even love. But letting go helps us to release the notion that we have to be in control, or have material things to be happy. In letting go we also learn how to practice forgiveness. Bad things happen to good people. Good people make bad mistakes. There’s nothing you can do about it other than forgive and move on to making yourself happy again. When you hold onto bad feelings from the past, you prolong your suffering. Don’t give unhappy thoughts a home. Let negative thoughts and feelings drift away, and as they drift away.

Create positive ones to balance-out the negatives. You need to generate a minimum of five positive moments to offset the negative emotions that are automatically aroused by a bad situation. Keep a list of what makes you happy, and generate at least five of those experiences to eliminate the negative. Practice being happy, because it is like a muscle - it gets stronger the more you exercise it. Keeping yourself happy is like staying in shape. You’ll become better at it the more you do it. It will become easier to do. And eventually it will become a habit, a new program seeded in your subconscious mind that you’ll really miss when you don’t do it.

You can face any challenge in life if you have faith in yourself and in a higher power. To renew your energy, you need to make time to replenish your spirit through whatever acts or rituals that make your heart sing! Happiness is your natural state of being, claim it!

 

Dr. Edwige  

WHAT ARE ENERGY, VIBRATION AND FREQUENCY

 Everything in the Universe is energy and all energy exists at different levels of vibration and frequency. We are moving from third dimensional consciousness to fourth and higher, as is the earth.  Consciousness and vibrational frequency are perfectly correlated. When you're lower in frequency, you're lower in consciousness-your perception is dulled-and you view things through a foggy lens. When you're higher in frequency, you're higher in consciousness, your perception is heightened and you see things more clearly the higher you go. Just as when you ascend in an airplane, you see a larger picture the higher you climb, and the brighter it becomes as you break through the clouds

Raising your vibration allows you to connect more directly with your Higher self , it vibrates at a higher level creating and using this relationship to your Higher self allows for information to be more easily accepted by the conscious and actualized. In other words, once you begin to raise your vibration, you can better understand life and everything in general, you will feel more at peace, in touch, connected, and happier.

            So what exactly is energy? You see everything in the universe is made up of energy and matter; everything that is energy and matter has an energetic vibration. Energetic vibrations attract similar vibrations. You've heard of the Law of Attraction- like attracts like, it's more like energy attracts energy. The human body and outer experience is comprised of >99% energy and <1% matter. What is interesting is that we tend to focus 99% of our attention on what we can see, matter which is <1% of what we are working with. The fact is it is the invisible energy and matter, and this energetic vibration, that has the greatest weight and pull on your life’s outcomes. Your reality is a direct reflection of what your energetic vibration is attracting.

            There are two forms of energy: kinetic and potential. Kinetic energy is in motion and potential energy is stored in matter- motionless. Kinetic energy is at work for you right now, and potential energy is stored away waiting for direction. You have as much energy as you need to perform the goals you think about. You have unlimited power and energy, but this energy will not be revealed to you until you raise your vibration to the level of consciousness in which this energy exists. What you see in your human experience is matter, solid, liquid, or gas.   Solid matter consists of tightly packed molecules with a low vibration in a specific shape and size. Solid matter is dense, heavy, and restricted; remember in an earlier chapter how the choice of words can impact you? The molecules in liquid matter are more spread and fluid thus a higher vibration. The molecules in gas are the most spread out and free to flow in all directions giving it the highest vibration. The higher your energetic vibration is, the lighter, happier, and freer you will feel and become. It is important to note that your thoughts, intentions, and emotions indicate your vibration. This vibration is also influenced by your experiences and environments. When you become conscious of your vibration and its role in your life, you can choose to raise your vibration by choosing positive thoughts and emotions that feel good to you and align with the greater good of all. Destiny does play a part here regardless of conscious thought, for I was shown how I wrote in the pages of my Akashic record all that I was to do in this life. Your level of consciousness and vibration become significant in how your destiny plays out, and whether or not it is miserable or miraculous. For example, the car accident: It was my destiny to awaken at that time, but since my vibration was not as high as it is now, I became a match to the car accident. My chaos into harmony moment. It could have played out any number of ways, because only the fact that I was to awaken was in my akashic record, the how to was totally up to me, or should I say my vibration.  Lower vibrations result in more suffering and often include: negative thoughts (complaining, excuses, blaming), negative emotions (anger, fear, shame, jealously, guilt, sadness), and negative outcomes (conflict, pain, illness, loss, accident, trauma, drama). Higher vibrations result in more love and include positive thoughts (gratitude, appreciation, abundance), positive emotions (peace, joy, compassion, acceptance), and positive outcomes (health, happiness, success, and prosperity).

Most important is How you feel vibrationally speaking that is. The emotional vibration that you emit attracts situations and scenarios to match the feeling you put out. “What you put out is what you get back.” We’ve all heard it. The universe is neutral; it does not favor anyone. The universe simply gives you what you ask for. The universe - GOD only vibrates one way, in one direction, that is Love and flow, you are either in the flow or not. GOD doesn't pick and choose for you, you pick and choose by what you vibrate to. The higher your vibrational frequency, the more you are able to comprehend because you are allowing a greater Flow of Life Force through your mind and body. Vibrational frequency depends on the amount of Life Force you are channeling through you. Life Force can also be characterized as God Energy and Intelligence, or love, and is continually emanating from Source. The lower your vibrational frequency, the less you are able to comprehend because your ego is restricting the flow of life force/God energy and Intelligence/love through your mind and body. Your fearful ego uses judgment and resistance to choke off the Flow. To overcome this you must override your ego, non-resistance and a commitment to allowing Love to flow through you no matter what is happening around you is key. The more you allow the essence of God to flow through your mind and body, the higher you in vibrational frequency becomes, and the more creative you'll become thus giving way to a more authentic empowered you. The lower you are in vibrational frequency, the less creative ideas and empowerment you experience and can utilize because your ego is choking off the flow and allowing less of the essence of God to flow through your mind and body.

 Higher vibrational frequency not only makes you wiser and more powerful, it moves you out of struggle, turmoil and pain, and places you in the realm of joy, ease, peace, and harmony. So the key to claiming wisdom, creativity, and empowerment and every possible blessing-is in raising your vibrational frequency, which is done by allowing more Love to flow.

There are many ways to raise your vibration to a place of love, compassion, appreciation, and abundance. Below is a list of the more obvious, it's your call. What brings you joy? What makes your heart sing? Do it!

Meditate - be still and know that I AM

Focus on raising your vibration - practice, practice practice

Think happy thoughts - it's your choice

Become present in the now - it's important to become mindful - get off of auto-pilot

 

WHAT I HAVE DISCOVERED

I was asked recently can one be Metaphysical and a Christian, so I thought that I would share my thoughts on the subject. You see, I’ve considered myself to be a Christian for the majority of my life, considering I attended all Catholic schools throughout childhood and even attended an all girl High School at a convent. Which of course created issues within itself!  

As an adult I was able to lay to rest the guilt and conflicts that are often a result of the Catholic dogma. You know what I mean, you’re a sinner and you must live a life full of our rules so that you may be worthy of eternal happiness when you die. Well, to the average person that statement may seem normal, but to me it just raised a red flag. What about happiness here and now doesn’t that matter? At that point I started moving away from the Catholic church, and started seeking answers in the “Christian” world. Which of course presented a whole other list of rules. I remember one church I attended. The single ladies had to sit in a area by themselves, as did the single men, and the married couples could sit with each other (what a concept)! They still had Wednesday night Bible study, and their interpretations weren’t too far off from the “Catholics”. The only difference I could see was that the “Christians” didn’t have saints, and didn’t kneel throughout their service.

I still had many unanswered questions. Then one day I started searching for answers that made sense to me, and that is what lead me to Metaphysics. You see within these teachings you are taught that not only is God within you, but you have a direct connection to the “Creator”. That got my attention, but what else is there?

This is what I found: The highest quest of human growth and awareness is to discover your ultimate Self-Reality; i.e. the relationship of man-woman and the Universe. To know that there is a Supreme Universal Intelligence, or God that resides somewhere in the deeper levels of the human mind. To make direct contact with this Supreme Universal Intelligence Mind, or God. To experience this presence. “Know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” This is the realization of oneness with the Creator. Then to bring it forth into the conscious mind and surface daily life. Finally be guided intuitively in every action you take. How do you begin? Meditation, and that my friend is another article, for there are many methods, but the main thing to remember is to quiet yourself and listen.      

You see you are not a sinner, but simply here to experience life. To expand anyway you so choose for this is a free will zone. Yes, free will. There is no good or bad, right or wrong, black or white, it just is. Get out of judgments and separation.  You either get on the path of life and take the short road (meaning doing things that better serve you) or you get on that path and take the long route, (lots of detours, and hardships) but in the end lessons have been learned. How else are we to grow?

You see it isn’t about religion and which one is right or righter! It’s about connecting to the truth; you are Divine created in the image of God. That means something! Wakeup know how important you are, and that you are here on Mother Earth for a reason. Get on the path of life and live each day as the blessing it truly is, and the blessing you truly are!

By Rev. Dr. Edwige

Namaste’

Moderation In All Things

 

Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. (Philippians 4:5)

The person who chooses to live within Moderation will seldom be faced with extreme situations of his own making.

On the surface, moderation simply means avoiding extremes. It involves finding strategies and habits that can be maintained over the long-term, without cycling between one extreme and the other.  At a deeper level, moderation is a commitment to balance and wholeness. It is rooted in the recognition that each person has many different (and often competing) needs, desires, abilities, and goals. Living up to your full potential means finding ways to incorporate all of them into your decision-making processes and choices.

How badly do you want peace of mind? Badly enough to really change the way you’re living life? If so, and of course this must truly be your desire if you are to make a change, because nothing beyond God will help you as much on a practical level as an understanding that moderation is the philosophy of those who have greater peace of mind.

Moderation doesn’t seem to get a lot of play these days. Everything is presented in extremes. We have extreme sports, extreme deodorant, extreme energy drinks, to name a few. We seek extremes because we erroneously believe that the more intense an experience is, the more pleasurable it will be.

As we increase our stimulation, our appetite consequently rises to meet it. We then need even more stimulation to achieve the same pleasure the old level of stimulation gave us.

When we feel unhappy and bored there are two ways to revive our feelings of enjoyment and pleasure. One is to seek new things and more stimulation. You can start going out more, having sex more, and buying more new things and experiences. But the pleasure you get from ratcheting up the intensity of these experiences will eventually end in a plateau. The alternative, is to have a oneness of identity with God, and then continue life, neither craving and running after any whim or fancy of enjoyment that may come along, nor withdrawing either. As you would live in your oneness with God, choose to live your life in moderation, being always aware to avoid extremes. So, don’t spend too much or too little. Don’t work too hard or too little. Don’t overeat. Don’t under eat. Don’t sleep too much. Don’t get too little sleep—this is living in moderation.  To cultivate the virtue of moderation is to seek greater enjoyment and pleasure in things you currently do, while expanding in to the new gracefully, and with ease. This will help you to avoid the tearing emotional extremes that make life filled with constant turmoil or contrast. Leaving little time for peace of mind, where both love and God can be enjoyed to the fullest.

Reconnect with Your Senses. We live in a society saturated by stimulation. We have become numbed to nuance. You don’t need new stimulation; you need to rediscover the hidden layers of ordinary experiences . Stop inhaling your food, as I often remind my husband. Start allowing yourself to enjoy it by tasting all of the unique flavors and textures in each mouthful. Instead of doing a keg stand and chugging cheap beer, learn to savor and appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into a quality brew. Enjoy looking at the at the night sky, be in awe of the magnificent work God has done! Start actually thinking about how touching your partners skin feels. Many find themselves  walking through life like zombies, on auto-pilot. Wake up and start delving into the wonder of the world!

Get Reacquainted with Your Attention Span. Whenever I watch older movies from a few decades ago, I am reminded of just how much slower the pacing of the action is. Things seem to happen in real time. I even feel annoyed by it. But the problem is my attention span, not the movie. Even when my computer decides to go at a snail’s pace, I can sometimes get frustrated. But then I think, it was only a few years ago that I had dial-up.” Our expectations for speed and stimuli have gotten unreasonable. Start stretching your attention span by watching old movies, reading a good, long book, or going for a long walk to nowhere. And when you get restless, try to put things in perspective.

Stop multitasking and be present in the moment. If you’re like me, you’re always doing two things at once: talking on the phone and surfing the net, surfing the net and watching TV, watching TV and reading a magazine, you get it. But this craving only begets the need for more stimulation. Try to do one task at a time. Quit mindlessly distracting yourself every moment. Concentrate your senses and focus on whatever it is you are doing. Begin living in the NOW!

So the next time you hear the words, “everything in moderation,” don’t just think about your diet, but look at everything in your life!