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“What’s Love Got to Do With It?” [JH]
http://sundancewellness.blogspot.com/2012/10/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it.html

Relationshipping Series:

Part I: “Soul-Mates” [JH]

http://sundancewellness.blogspot.com/2012/01/relationshipping-part-i-soul-mates.html

Part II: “Good Relationships” [JH]

http://sundancewellness.blogspot.com/2012/01/good-relationships-relationshipping.html

Part III: “Connecting to Source Love” [JH]

http://sundancewellness.blogspot.com/2012/02/connecting-to-source-love.html

 
Part IV: “Soul-mating - Relationships – Sourcing” [JH]
http://sundancewellness.blogspot.com/2012/02/soul-mating-relationships-sourcing.html

Part V: “Relationships in 2012 and Beyond” [JH]

http://sundancewellness.blogspot.com/2012/09/relationships-in-2012-beyond.html

Other Posts:

“Love or Ego-attachment?” [Eckhart Tolle Quote]

http://sundancewellness.blogspot.com/2012/09/love-or-ego-attachment.html

“What is Love?” [Carol Dombrose of Angel House]

http://f13dna.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-is-love-by-carol-dombrose.html

 

“What’s Love Got To Do With It?”

October 22, 2012

“What’s Love Got To Do With It?”

by John Hutchinson

“A life without love is a waste. ‘Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?’… Don’t ask yourself this question…  Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn’t need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the center …or you are out, yearning.”  ~ Shams Tabrizi

How is it that sometimes we touch Love’s center, or perhaps better said, we feel the oneness of Love’s center in all things… and at other times we are off-center, in a space of yearning, which can lead to “looking for Love in all the wrong places”… looking to others to provide love to us?

Love that expects something in return is most likely a need and desire within our psyche that is not really love. The inner child always wants to be loved. A part of us always wants to be loved. But what is that desire? Could it be a longing or homesick feeling for the true self and Love Center that is our connection with Source, with God, with Primary Life Energy?

We can experience Love in a spiritual or transcendent sense which lifts us to a place of self acceptance… to a sense of ‘okayness’ within. This energy of Love may come through any number of different ways. There are few words to describe this expansion of heart energy. And how do so many become seemingly detached from this primary life energy source? I suspect in some ways it is domesticated out of us in the process and demands of surviving in our environments.

As newborns we show up and are emotionally open and vulnerable to the actions and energies of those to whom we are dependent for survival. The quality of Love a newborn receives from others is dependent on the degree to which the caregivers are centered in Love or lost in their own pain-bodies from their own past experience. So, we can see how it is complex from our first breath. And from day one our personality is affected through our environment and mixes with the predispositions we bring with us through genetics and whatever other factors may be involved. Certainly from a spiritual perspective we can suggest that there may be some pre-birth contracts, purposes, or plans that we bring with us when we enter this 3rd dimension in physical form.

What if, before birth, we also were one with the Love Center of Life’s Source, whatever we may call that or however we may wish to imagine it. It must be quite a shock to show up in the chaos that often surrounds the birth experience after being in the Universal Love Center, even before womb-time. I realize this is all speculation, even though some declare it as more than that.

Now, let us suppose we flash forward several decades or so and we find ourselves in various types of relationships. We connect naturally through family, through work, through interests, through school, through social events, and by happenstance, or as some would say, synchronicity.

So there are many different types of relationships. When we look at the relationships between people who wish to be partners we also find different reasons and rhythms of attraction and connection. At one level, two people may connect for a physical relationship, simply to enjoy the pleasures of our human body. Some people may also connect at a certain stage in life to form and generate a family within the social norms and expectations and through their own want or need to do so.

From a psycho-spiritual perspective, partners may be attracted to one another for different reasons:

• Attracted through physical appearances;
• Attracted due to similar interests, values, ideas;
• Attracted by personality type, sometimes similar, sometime opposite;
• Attracted to another’s aura or energy;
• Attracted through chemistry… sensual and sexual energies;
• Attracted to material life situation, successes, finances, accomplishments, possessions;
• Attracted to a shared sense of purpose, vision, mission, calling;

What we often do not understand or realize is that we are often attracted to our own projections onto another person according to what we wish for, and in some cases, to what we lack in our own lives. The openness of hope for love with another often blossoms, with or without the projections, into infatuation and acceptance of each other. In many cases, this feeling of Love with another is due to how we feel when we are with them and may easily be combined with shared energies if the two people are sexually engaged. The energy transfer in open sex can often provide a shared desire that feels like a tear when two are physically separated to different locations.

 

The experience of falling in love and feeling love for another is perhaps the closest we come to heaven on earth, so to speak. To put it another way, the ecstasy of intimacy may mirror the spiritual connection in the present moment of an oneness with Life’s Source and Love Center… or spiritual oneness. Truly the feelings of love in the moment may have a quality of ‘eternity’…’forever’… and timelessness… again, mirroring spiritual Love.

 

And as most humans know, the projections of partnering and accepting can and usually do change. We discover our imperfect humanness and that our partner was not all that we projected them to be. Our fantasies are broken by real life. Some of the reasons for partnering may have somehow disappeared. The one who was so loved, becomes the one who becomes the object to ‘blame’ for our newly discovered unhappiness… or we fault ourselves for making a mistake… or for not seeing more clearly from the start.

 

Of course each person has their own version… our own story… and if we tell if long enough, we begin to believe it.

 

What I say and write is only my opinion. So now that I made that disclaimer, I will continue as if I actually know what I’m talking about. If it is useful for you… good. If you find it does not connect for you, that’s good too. Simply let it go.

 

It seems that most people have some type of spiritual awakening along the path, even if it is not labeled as a “spiritual awakening.” Many have visited guides, teachers, counselors, ministers, gurus, and others. We have the opportunity to learn at every moment. Most of our striving, trying, and doing are within the context of our social and cultural milieu along with our unique personal development and experience. What remains in the shadow of our unconscious can easily and often does have the tendency to control or at least impact our thinking, feelings, and actions.

 

The more aware we become… and there is always more to become aware of… the less likely we are to get lost in unconscious attractions, attachments, and behavior. On the other hand, each time we do get lost in the next adventure, it is also ‘grist for the mill’ of learning as we walk along our journey’s path.

 

It seems to follow that as we open to and experience ‘Source Love’ more directly in our own present experience, the more we can offer love to others in a way that is not looking for something in return. When we are disappointed or feel hurt in a relationship, it is a clear signal that we were expecting something different and were expecting something in return for giving Love…. Another teachable moment… Ideally, it seems that the more two people are actually experienced in Source Love, the more likely they will be able to openly be in and co-create a relationship… Source Love is always here. If we feel something else toward another person, we know we are dealing with some issue within.

 

Now, to be very, very clear…I hope… this does not mean in any way that we stay in a relationship or abusive situation just because there is love there for the other person. To appreciate that same Source Love first coming to us, we will honor and respect ourselves and move away from that energy that is reactive and abusive because of the shadow aspect of the other… and we must be reminded of the shadow in our own psyche that may have attracted the other… two unconsciously dancing shadows.

 

As humans and Being, we are complex and have many different energy patterns we carry. Most agree that if we had no imperfections, we would probably be elsewhere! This is to remind myself and others to be gentle on ourselves… to be as aware as possible… to trust our deeper intuition… and to continue to live with loving kindness as our guide.

 

Sometimes, I receive emails from friends, acquaintances, and others who read something I have said in my blog… and they say how much it hurts to want a relationship so much and yet they feel a bit powerless to actually make it happen… Or they have recently separated from who they thought was “the one”… Or others simply wonder if relationship is actually possible. In all these scenarios it depends a lot on not only how we define relationship, but what we are looking to ‘gain’ by being in a relationship.

 

I do not know if there is “one” person out there, a soul mate for each person. I suspect it is a bit more complex than that. On the other hand, we are all soul mates of the One Life that is ALL Life… Personally, I sense that the traditional paradigm of a fixed relationship, cemented in time and or space, is something that has been shifting for perhaps 30-40 years. That is part of many of our experiences and yet we may still be clinging to an idea that there is one person ‘out there’ that is perfect for us. It may be so. And I do not live by that ‘concept’ any longer which, for me, seems more of an expansion of my own openness rather than a resignation or loss of hope. It is freeing.

 

I contend that we must be somewhat together ourselves…FIRST… to the point of not ‘needing’ a relationship to fulfill some internal need for love and acceptance from the outside. When we feel good about ourselves, then we are better able to be present for others without expecting or wanting something in return.

 

If we truly bring the Source Love that runs to and through us to each moment and each encounter, without expectations or sets of rules about what a relationship should be, we perhaps can be in relationships that are truly timeless.

 

So the question remains: “How do we consistently connect with Love at the ‘Primary Source’ level?” Many of us know the words or theory or teachings… and yet find ourselves feeling a bit disconnected at times.

 

This subject has been addressed by most spiritual teachers every-where and every-when. Each of us has to find that wakefulness to the present moment beyond the shadows and blaring noises of both the unconscious energies of the psyche and the constant traffic of our egoic mind... Here are a few thoughts and avenues to consider:

• Perhaps for some it takes a mindful inquiry into our experiences, feelings, and reactions as we go through the day.
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• Some find it useful to practice some form of meditation or contemplation.
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• Using our cognitive and creative abilities to grow positive thoughts to replace useless negative self-talk can provide a shift in attitude and feelings since thoughts and feelings are intricately entwined.
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• Asking for help from your deepest Source of Love within, from the divine, from your guides and angels… whatever you wish to call the unseen wise ones … can bring intervention and synchronicities.
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• Asking to talk with someone you trust who has the skills and wisdom to help you through some of the learning transitions… perhaps as a guide, counselor, or coach.
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• Explore and discover a way to let go of unwanted emotional states and restore a sense of centeredness.
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• Dreams can provide new information regarding unconscious dynamics and patterns and even connect us to direct messages from the realms of Wisdom and Love.
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• Visualization and guided meditation or imagery works for many.
• Guided Meditation by Drunvalo Melchizedek - http://tinyurl.com/8skme6j
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• Spending time in nature can connect us to the wonderful natural sense of Life’s Oneness, power, and presence. Watching nature can teach us how to ‘be.’
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• There are many specific spiritual schools and religious groups designed to take you through their teachings…which may be helpful for some.
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• Many have experienced an opening through creativity, art, books, and stories of others.

There are always an infinite number of possibilities and an infinite number of possible outcomes based on the decisions and circumstances of our journey.

As long as we are looking to receive love from others and from a romantic relationship without the Love being present within that brings peace and acceptance, we will find disappointment. Relationships if they are to be satisfying, will take striving… that’s work… just as the path of being a spiritual warrior or warrioress takes work.

Learning the art of Present Moment living will help being present now and means learning to actually let go of yesterday’s emotional disappointments, hurts, pain, regrets, perceived failures, etc…. In addition it means letting go of any anxious and fear-based thoughts of tomorrow that our egoic mind wishes to conjure up to cast its spell and keep us away from this Present Moment of Now! The art of letting go of the past and future is liberating since we are no longer being controlled in the present moment. Letting go often involves forgiveness… forgiving ourselves and forgiving others…

Its work and it’s worth it. And it’s also simple… we just need to choose to do it.

So, what’s Love got to do with it?

Everything!

Let us consciously plug into the One Love so we may channel and give that Love to the world around us and to the people in our lives. May Love be our soulmate…and maybe someone will show up who also is mated to Love!

Relationships in 2012 & Beyond

"Love is a state of being.

Your love is not outside your body;

it is deep within you.

You can never lose it,

and it cannot leave you.

It is not dependent on some other body,

some external form."

 

~ Eckhart Tolle, in Practicing the Power of Now, p.72

 

 

Many people are in a relationship with a partner. Others are open to a new relationship. We are all in relationships of one form or another with family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, etc.

 

The words of Eckhart Tolle ring true and we must tap into the inner Source and resource of Love if we are to have a sense of inner peace and acceptance. Whatever you may call this inner Source of Loving Life Energy, it seems to be the key to what is labeled "self-esteem"..."self-worth"... "self-love"... which in my opinion is really an acceptance of the Love of "God"..."Goddess"... "Source" to ourselves. It involves coming to a realization that Life is One and we are all much more than individuals; we are a part of the unity of all that is.

 

The core of Love at the innermost part of our being is Being itself. It is from this centered space that we can be most in relationship without the neediness or codependency that can take us into the land of the lost... or at least feeling lost.

 

Centered in the love within our soul can be compared with coming home to a true sense of integrity within which provides a foundation or reference to respond with loving kindness, rather than reacting from some egoic concept, expectation, want, or other form of attachment.

 

Of course, we are all human 'beings' and are in a universal learning laboratory of sorts. Therefore many interactions within relating with others will provide lessons. It seems to work out best when all the people involved are at least open to learning and growing; an openness to possibilities.

 

When we look outside ourselves for something to fill a void within our soul, we will most likely find disappointment around one of the corners. Now it is true that there are experiences that can only result in satisfaction as we are in relationship with others. The natural human needs for social contact, as well as sensual, sexual, touchy-feelly contact... the touch or hug as well as the companionship and sharing of life experiences... they are all the wonderful interactions we share with others. We also partner for other purposes of specific cooperative missions, raising a family, business opportunities, just plan fun, and many more. 

 

LOVE is an inside-out job! Love is something we can feel within and share. When I truly am in touch with that energy of Source love, then there is a sense of respect for all of Life; and a love for all that comes into my sphere of consciousness. Others who may not be in touch with that "Source-Love" in the moment may have wants and expectations and desires that may be different than my own sense of direction, wants, and needs. It is here that something happens that we often label as "conflict." And it is in this moment of difference that the learning moment arises. Unless we choose to avoid  it...deny it... withdraw to some other place or activity... blame the other so we can maintain our own 'pure sense of being right'... all forms of avoidance.

 

There is much that can be learned in the whole area of "conflict resolution." Because I needed to learn how to deal with conflict and differences, I studied it, practiced it, and became a teacher for peer mediation as well as doing mediations in various settings. Without going into it in depth, there is a necessary shift that needs to occur to find out what we have in common, beyond the differences. And also an acceptance that differences are not wrong, they are just differences. There are ways to communicate with love that are not just venting, blaming, attacking, or controlling through the silent treatment...

 

We all have our concepts and world views and various ideas about this, that, and everything else. And beyond and beneath all the mental chatter with which we become so easily identified, there is the stillness and the center of Being...of Life... of Love...

 

If we could only do one thing each day, it seems vital that we visit our "Home" within... visit the Source and Energy of Life... which to me, is the 'Sacred Spirit' and Breath of Life within All that is....

 

The quickest way for me is simply to be present now... with my breath, the sensations within, the Life Energy streaming through the body at all times.... and as we turn our attention to these other areas the streaming of thoughts may subside to a level that we can be with what is... If other things, like feelings or body tensions, come to the fore, we can notice them and breath into them...accepting all that arises gently letting them come and letting them go... just as our breathing is a sort of death and rebirth with every cycle.... so to is Life... ever new and renewed in this Present Moment...

 

Much Love,

 

John

 

 

 

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The Divine Within - Carol Dombrose

The following message was delivered to the Church of the Angels by our friend Carol Dombrose,  Oct. 2009

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I am here today to speak to you about the Divinity that lives inside of you.   I came to speak to you of how deeply you are loved.

At this time in our history, we are being called to recognize a higher self that lives within us.  Barbara Marx Hubbard calls it the Universal Self.  Others call it the Divine light and love that lives in our heart.
 
Neale Donald Walsch was once asked during a Q & A session after one of his talks if he could sum up what God wanted us to know about Him in just one paragraph.  He said he could do it in 5 words.  “You’ve got Me all wrong”. 
 
We have been taught to believe that the God we seek lives outside of us, in a heaven that we can only hope to reach after we die.  But we are not separate from God.  The God Source of life and love lives inside of us.

When we know our own heart, we remember who we are, we remember the light that we are. We need only to look inside our own heart to know love at a deeper level - to find God.
I felt that connection to life when I was 5 years old and the oak tree in my front yard was my friend.  I talked to the tree and took care of its leaves in the Fall when they fell to the ground.  The whole world was mine.  I could live in peace, give love to my doll, build castles in the sand, have a tree for my friend.  The whole world was a place to love. 

But then as I grew and was trying to live the life I was taught to live, I can see now that my spiritual self – my connection to love that I wasn’t even aware of was keeping me on the path I was meant to live. 
 
A defining moment in my life was the death of my husband in 2001.  He was such a loving man I thought that my time with him had taught me all there was to know about love.  Yet after his death, I kept hearing this call to go deeper into love.  I was not really sure what that meant, but I felt pulled into a deeper connection to the Source of love.
 
Within months of Larry’s death I was led to an old farmhouse and 3 acres of land in Strongsville where I started what is now called Angel House:  Life Enrichment Center.  As a Psychologist, just talking to people about their problems didn’t seem to be enough.  We needed to go deeper into who they were, into their creative self, their spiritual self.  This is what I wanted to provide at Angel House, a safe place for people to explore the deeper self. 

I did that by providing in addition to counseling, classes in the creative and healing arts.  I didn’t think of Angel House as also being my place to explore.  But this is where my journey into the dimension of deeper love began.  And to my surprise, I have found that the journey led me right back into my own heart. 
 
When I was a child, we had a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus hanging in our living room.  When you came in the front door and looked straight ahead, there He was.  I loved that picture and it always brought me great comfort. 
 
When my parents both died and we were preparing to sell the house, the only thing I wanted from the house was that picture.  It now hangs in my bedroom.

When I was in high school, a teacher told me that when Jesus died on the cross, his heart was pierced by the soldier after He had died so his heart never healed and would always be open to us. 
 
So, sitting in church one day, I was thinking about that image and decided that I would crawl into the opening in His heart and then I would always be safe. 
 
As I grew Spiritually, I encountered difficulty in dealing with the church in my life and ended up leaving the church for what I thought would be a short time until I could work out my difficulties.  However, I have never gone back.

During that time, Jesus got shut out of my life along with the church.  Although I had left Him, He never left me.  He came to me in a dream when I was going through a very difficult divorce.  The divorce took five years to get resolved and my life changed considerably during that time. 

In the dream, He was leaning against a rock and He said to me, “You don’t have to stay here with these people, you can move on.”  The dream was very comforting. 

That was my last encounter with Jesus until many years later when I was learning how to do the healing energy work of Reiki.

Before we started our training, the instructor had us do an imagery.  She led us to a temple and asked us to open the door to find our Reiki Guide.  When I opened the door, there stood Jesus.  I was upset and tried to make Him go away saying that I wanted my Reiki Guide.  I finally had to concede that He WAS my Reiki Guide and go with it. 

The Instructor then said that our Reiki Guide handed us a gift.  Jesus gave me a box and said, “In here is all you will ever need.”  I thought that it probably contained many things and when I needed something, I could open the box and find it there.
 
Then in my imagery, I opened the box and the only thing in the box was a Heart!!
Now I knew that He was back in my life and I would need to learn more about Him.  A book that was suggested in the reading list from the Reiki training was “Jesus Lived in India”.  I bought this book and began to read about this part of His life.  Now He was becoming a person to me, someone I could identify with and this felt very comfortable.  I was glad to have Him out of the church and back into my life.  He had been a good friend to me. 
 
When I was getting attuned with the Reiki energy into my hands, He again spoke to me and said; “Now your hands are my hands and my hands are your hands.”  Now I was deeply connected to Him.

In May of 2009 while I was doing my morning meditation before arising, I was talking to Jesus and in my imagery, I saw his heart, with its open wound, come towards me and merge with my heart. 

Now the safety I wanted by hiding in His heart as a teenager, was in my own heart.  Our fusion was getting stronger.
Two days later I had this experience that I recorded in my journal:  “I like to go in my imagery to a quiet place next to a waterfall where I could meet with Jesus and feel safe.  For sometime now, I have been unable to connect to Jesus and thought it was because I was distracted and not focused.  Also, for the last couple of weeks, I have no longer felt Larry’s presence."

So this morning, facing that same difficulty, I became aware that the reason I could no longer find Him ‘out there’ was because He was not ‘out there‘, but was ‘in here’ ~~ He is part of me.  This is also true of Larry’s energy.

I realized that I had assimilated them, their energy, into myself and we are not separate.  They continue to live now through me.
 
None of these ideas are really new to me, I have said these words before, but I have never felt it like I do now. 

So Jesus also is not someone “out there” but someone who lives inside of us.  Inside our heart with the Love Source that is part of us. 

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Jesus ascension and the term Ascended Masters now has a different meaning to me.  Ascension is another word for evolution.  Evolution is a process of Ascension.  Ascension is something we can all achieve while we are alive.  We do not have to wait until we die to find heaven.  It is the emergence of more complex forms of existance.  Our ascension begins right now, into the divine realm that is right inside of us.  And we can live in and from that space.

In our evolution we are moving toward the Christ consciousness.

We were taught that Christ came and lived His life to show us the way – the way to Ascension – Yes, our own Ascension to connect to the Divine that is right inside our heart.
Christ taught us all what we needed to know but through the years it was twisted and turned to fit what was the thought of the day and the way of human life that was limited.

We are now getting back in touch with Christ’s original message.  Heaven - What we are looking for is right inside of us.  And we can reach that place by opening to and accepting the divinity that lives in our heart.  
 
I would like to share with you a short meditation because the experience of personally connecting to the Divine within is stronger than any words I can say. 
 
Close your eyes if you are okay with that.  
 
Take a deep and steady breath in, exhale slowly, 
 
Take another deep and steady breath in, breath in pure white light through your nose and let that light reach and touch every corner of your being. 
 
Exhale that pure white light forming a circle around you with it.

Breath in deeply again and let pure white light touch the very center of your heart where you and God meet and touch and create together.

Exhale and let the assuredness of your breath circle you...

Breath in pure white light and as you exhale let the light go as high as wide and as deep as you can imagine it can.

In your minds eye while enfolded in your circle of your pure white light take yourself to the center of your heart.

Notice a small chamber in your heart center that contains within it a powerful spark of light.  That is God’s outpost in you.
 
Take another deep breath into your heart and connect to that powerful spark of light.
Exhale and feel yourself expanded. 

Take another deep breath and connect deeper, deeper, deeper still until you are no longer separated from that powerful spark of light.

Exhale a long steady breath, allow it to circle around you.

Rest comfortably now, you are about to receive a message that is spoken to you from the source of your creation:

“I am here with you, my child, I am here.  I am here to help you fully awaken, I am here to watch over you and to love you as you fully awaken to your power and use your divine heritage to lead by example.
 
I am in awe of the masterpiece I created.  I am in awe of your beauty, and your courage and your commitment.  And I am honored to have a part of me living inside of you.  Here in the center of your heart is where I have kept company with the most powerful part of yourself awaiting your arrival. 
 
Will you cease looking for external understanding to validate your eternal worth?  Your worth has always resided in here in the center of your heart with me.  I want you to know that your very presence when fully awakened allows every other being of my creation a greater opportunity to experience there own greatness.
 
You have been created to make a difference in my world and I love you.  Will you believe me when I tell you how grateful I am that I created you exactly as you are?  And will you come to peace knowing that truth.  Do you know how much I love you.  Never push me away and I promise to daily show you the many ways in which I love you.  May the light of all that is good and great and powerful and wise accompany you on your MAGNIFICENT  journey.  I travel inside of your every footstep.”     
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In closing, let me leave you with this thought:

Inside your heart is where you find the Divine within.  Go there when you feel afraid or uncertain, you will find comfort, go there when you feel good and celebrate together with the Divine within you.  Know that you can never be separated from this Divine light.  It is part of you, it is who you are, you are never alone.  We are not separate from Source.  

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There's is Always Help Present

There are times when I slip into the notion that I am alone or disconnected from Life. Now I know this is not true. But it still happens. My experience tells me I am not alone, due to the direct intervention of guides, Spirit, angels, Source [or whatever you wish to call it] throughout my life.

So when I get a bit confused and think I'm in this by myself, I recall the wondrous grace that Life is... the miraculous gift that we are here at all... and it helps me to remember this in the present moments.

I read a saying the other day that I liked a lot. It said: "Impossible is only an opinion." Another similar one adorns a drawing I have in my home that says: "The Impossible Dream... isn't!"
I'm not sure how these might relate... but there you go... Welcome to now!

Much Love, John

Are you happy?

I was sitting in the lobby and someone asked, "Are you happy?"

Now "happy" is quite a loaded word, so I simply said "yes" to steer away from a philosophical conversation that might stray toward a monolgue without a listener.

Happiness can be a nice feeling... I suppose the opposite, beyond "unhappy" might be described as "sad."

Feelings are quite dependent of what we hope for, what we want, what we are attached to, and what we expect and anticipate. When circumstance align with our desires, we sense "happy"... and when the situation is not what we want, we may sense a disappointment or "sadness."

Now in the midst of feeling the feeling, we often are not aware of why we feel the way we do. We are often simply lost in the sensation on the moment. Which is quite natural of course.

Then there is the moment after the moment... and it is the moment of discovery.

It is a time when we can become of aware of our mindset, our perspective, our viwpoint, our attachments, desires, and wishes. It is a time that throws light on our values and beliefs.

All of life is one connected energy system beyond our "individual" perspective and filters. Life continues to shine through the stained glass window of our form, usually labeled by caretakers. Let us be reminded that the distortions are a normal part of life... light may be consistent and is always refracted in some way by the form it passes through. I suspect the Infinite Source ...the Creator-ing of ALL is  One consistent energy and is also reflected in each aspect and creation.

One/Love/Light/Life/Energy... Infinite/Mystery

Our feeling often say more about the filter than the Source of Life Energy moving through All...

Anger, Depression, Power, and LIFE

Spirit of Frankness ... Feb 29, 2012

The following is a dreamtime experience that brings a few things to awareness... it reflects the current state of affairs of Life in several areas of consciousness...

I am with a group of others and we are in spring training of sorts... practicing... not sure exactly what the game is but we are coming together as a team... then I see one guy head a soccer ball and it goes a really long way and I am amazed at far the ball goes off his head... seemed super-natural in a sense...

We are in a team meeting of sorts or at least in the same room. I go off to the bathroom and am standing at the urinal relieving myself. One of the leaders, Frank Geist, comes in and is saying I need to get fired up more... he takes his penis, which is quite large like a hose and aims it at me and urinates on me... getting pissed on pisses me off and I point my smaller penis at him and urinate on him as well... the conflict does the trick of getting me fired up and the energy flowing... I know that he was doing it for that exact reason, not because he was angry at me...

So what is the message from my Higher Self and team leader, Frank Geist ...?

• We are in prep mode... still in training... always practicing...
• We have extraordinary power that goes beyond old ways of seeing what is possible...
• We need to be "frank" with ourselves and others even if it is not what their or our ego wants to hear...
• Honest "frankness" and conflict can fire up our energy and passion... motivating us and others... it can keep us in touch with Spirit... [Note: "Geist" is a German word meaning "spirit, mind, or soul"]...
• Sometimes leaders just need to be aggressive and fire up the team for action...

A Look at Anger and Power

Life Energy is power... powerful... full of power... As humans, our ego sometimes uses that power as anger when the ego does not get what it wants. We see this in acting out behavior of children of all ages... and within ourselves... We also may have been domesticated to suppress our life energy, power, and anger... this most often can lead to passivity and also to depression.

Do your easily express your power and are you able to feel the power, even if it comes through as anger... or being pissed off? Injustice when we or others are mistreated can bring up sympathy and sadness as we identify with the "victim" of a situation. And there is also anger that drives and fires us up to take action.

If you are feeling depressed, it could be that you are reacting to a situation and feel powerless... then at times our tendency can be to give up and so we generalize and get pissed off at "God"...the Universe...and Life ... it is as if a part of us decides to turn our power and life energy back on itself... resisting and refusing to let the Life Energy flow through our being.

A few options:

• Recognize 'what is' and see if a part of you is actually sabotaging your Life Energy.
• If you go back to where the energy became low, identify the situation or person.
• Deal with the situation or person through direct communication if that is possible, sharing the facts and your feelings.
• If you cannot get back to the point where you first lost your energy, you can do an energetic exercise such as screaming into a pillow... pounding a pillow... saying whatever comes up... and it is good to bend you lower back when pounding the bed or pillow... simply to release and unblock some of the blocked areas often in the lower back.
• Know what situations over which you have little or no influence and may not be able to impact change... Acceptance is a key once you recognize the situation.

There are several things here as we recognize an unresolved conflict and find ourselves in a 'victim' state in which life is seen as being against us in some way.

The ego part of us is a domesticated aspect that has developed certain ideas, wants, desires, and other aspects that produces a certain identity. We are so identified with who we think we are and what life is that a conflict or psychic pain is created whenever there is some difference between our "false" or domesticated self and who we are in our essence. Spiritual teachers have often pointed to the path of liberation is to let go of the "false" self... the ego self... the wants and wishes... the expectations of what should be...

We are going through times of transition as always and it may or may not be more intensified now. It is my sense that many of us are going through a much bigger process than we can see right now... it is a period of dealing directly with ego and personality issues as we are being drawn to transformation... and expanding consciousness... becoming open to loving service in new ways. In the Native American and indigenous teaching of many places, this can be seen as the period of the Shaman's Death... in order for us to serve for the good of all... there is a profound death to ego... a letting go of old ways of thinking and seeing the world... it is a time of death to the "false" selves that have been created through the domestication process and various cultural world views... and also our specific experience... and it is part of the natural and spiritual journey.

We are being asked to let go... to endure the natural disorientation that accompanies change... to call our deepest Life Energy back... to call Spirit back to our life... at least to our consciousness, since Spirit never actually leaves...

Sometimes it seems that our life gets tougher or seems to get worse in some way... this can be the storm before the new pattern emerges... the Shaman's Death of dying to the old self so that the new can continue to emerge into this moment...

"God"... "Source" ... "Great Spirit"... "Energy of Life" ... whatever we chose to call the mysterious source of Being and Life... is always present... there are  guides, guardians, angels, Higher Selves, and the interconnected web of everything that we are a miraculous participant in. We can shift our perspective from an ego-centered world view... "there is no 'I' in 'team'"... to at least opening to realizing we part of an amazing adventure without end... A Love story outside, within, and beyond time! The egoic energy often just wants some company in the illusion and feelings of 'misery'..."misery love company"... We are called to experience our life and learn so that we may  be a contributing team member to the greatest game of ALL! We are all members of the same team... some realize it now... and others will realize it in some other now! In the Spirit of "frank"-ness... let's get our butts in gear!

Special message and invitation... from John and ?

This is intended as an invitation to an adventure with the intent of providing focal points of positive energy.

As with many of you, we are receiving information from the realms of the unseen... for now we shall call them guides, teachers, and guardians... they are here now, even though most of us cannot see them...

I was provided the following information and was also shown I would be an "Air Traffic Controller" since I am getting toward the end of my 'training.' Sometimes our conscious mind does not know what things mean until the meaning pops into our awareness. I was told of a guiding point, a lodestar, that is connected with energy fusion... and then a flash of a expansive energy field around and through our earth like an energy disc of a different plane or dimension... then the number 13 flashed into awareness... then the image of 12 around a center point of focalization... and I imagine each one of the 12 in the circle will be a focal leader with 12 or more around them...and so on and so an....

We are all connected anyway... this format seems designed to fuse and focus energy...my best guess it has to do with ongoing transitions as we move toward expanded awareness and living from unconditional Love, Peace, and Unity... the transcendence of duality... as far as I see now, these are some of the affirmations we live through...

• We affirm we are one Life Force and One with Source... sometimes referred to as 'God'... "All That IS"
• We intent to align as best as possible with the direction of Source energy...
• We call back our life spirit and full Life energy in healing any personality issues so we may be more fully open to the dimension of guardians and teachers who are helping us constantly including in the hours we sleep...
• We intent to continue to focus Love and Peace within our individual expression and outward in our transitioning world...
• We are open to seeing the world in new ways according the the 'knowledge' that comes in to our awareness...
• We are open to Life in various forms and in various dimensions both within and beyond our mental concepts of time and space.
• We affirm the sanctity of the body, the earth, and honor the oneness with Love's Source.
• We affirm we are Loved and we are Love within this Oneness of Life in motion....and we are part of a tremendous adventure... without end...

We can be seen as ambassadors or agents of Divine Love... If this short message touches something within you, let me know you are interested in continuing to receive and share information back and forth.

I imagine there may be occasions when we are asked to focus our energy on specific areas, but that is just a guess at this point...

If this is something that you do not connect with at this time, that is fine... let me know or If I don't hear from you, I will not send you future messages for this focalizing group... I will only send info as I feel directed and I'm not sure how often that will be...

May the Source of all continue to bless us with the Love and Peace that is always here.... John

added March 5, 2012

Fusion13 – Intro Links

If you have an interest in the concept of our Higher Selves and soul clusters joining forces to help usher in Loving Kindness, you are invited to check out any or all of the following links on the Fusion13 Adventure Blog:

1.    Fusion13 Adventure Blog: http://F13DNA.blogspot.com 

2.    F13-0 Welcome to the Fusion13 Adventure and Blog [March 3, 2012]

3.    F13-1 Initial message and invitation...

4.    F13-2 Clarifying the Great of Adventure - Fusion13 (Feb 27, 2012)

5.    F13-3 Synchronized Support [dream and comments]

6.    F13-4 The Spirit of Frankness - Dream and Comments

7.    F13-5 Adventure Update Feb 29, 2012

Expect the unexpected and ...

May Loving Kindness be our Guide... John

 

One-dering with Source

I wonder...

As Life... the "Source" and "Mystery" ... seems to be in all things and in all places... and often experienced within my innermost being and essence.... I wonder why it is I reach out to others as if nourishment lies in their power... what can someone else provide that I do not already have from the Source of Living Water... that flow of Life that will indeed quench my thirst and wet my most parched earthiness...

I wonder...

The richness of friendship does bring a smile to my face and a gentle soothing to my heart... and is nurtured as I find the fullness of Love and acceptance of this present moment ...

Here... there is truth... naked and raw... being in this moment of reality ... not of what was...or what might have been... or what might be... just being here and feeling the heart stretch out to embrace the truth that is here... Life's Essence...

Life is ... my thoughts and feelings often distort its treasure beneath illusions through stained glass windows... and I admire the beauty of the various pictures and colors and nuances... sometimes forgetting to take in the Light from the Source of all light ...

I One-der...

Fill me this day with Light and Love... as I am reminded I am One with Source Love and Mystery...

Wishing you love and light on your journey,

John

 ... and welcome to the Present Moment!

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 John Hutchinson - Denver, CO

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