So I’ve been in a thoughtful mood recently and here’s one of the musings I’ve been having. Thought you might enjoy.

Everything and everyone is connected. Everything is in a constant state of dynamics. So as we elevate ourselves, those around us also elevate after some time that the dynamic forces at work have been allowed to manifest. If we don’t properly care for ourselves, then as we are “down”, that energy will tend to create the dynamics to bring those around us “down”. It tends to depend on which energy is stronger at the time.

Recall a time when you were feeling pretty good, then you come home and someone else there is in a foul mood. Did they take it out on you somehow? Did you let it get to you? Did it affect you somehow?

Most likely it did. The same is with the reverse. It comes down to A) how present we are to be able to see what’s going on and then take the time to decide how do deal with it, or B) if we are not present and we tend to react instead of observe and decide. When we are present, we become aware of our choices. We have the power to choose how we want to deal with it.

It goes along what Eleanor Roosevelt said. She said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” That is one of my favorite quotes, and it’s true. There have been many times that someone has said something negative to me and it then brought me down. That is, I let it. Why? Ignorance. I didn’t know who I was and how it is God’s Spirit and God’s Love within me that is the true me.

I know that all pain expressed comes from pain felt. So I hold to the awareness that if the negative person wasn’t in the kind of pain they were in, then what they said or did would have been different. And it would have been positive, because their pain would not have blocked the path of God’s Spirit from shining through.

And I pray to God to help me continue to grow in that awareness that I may know it in myself and others. What better way to begin to help others than to see God, His Spirit and His Love as each person’s essence?

Blessings,
Irene

Resource Tip: Presence (being grounded/in the now/centered) is key to healing and awareness. Holistic healing therapies are great for helping one to gain presence as are being out in nature, some breathing exercises, some meditation, some kinds of exercise, various exercises in observation, and spending time with God. Feel free to share more if I missed any.

Let’s see what happens next.

Listening is a skill that seems all too lacking in today’s society, and probably every society. When we get wrapped up in trying to fulfill our needs, whether they be current or all the way back from (unfulfilled) childhood, we have a blockage to our listen potential. We become “out there” instead of centered within ourselves. True listening skills come from a place of desire. We have to want to listen. We have to want to hear. If our subconscious is dealing “Me, me, me…I need, I want…”, then that’s the channel it’s going to be tuned into. Listening skills are like going to a symphony. We can tune into the winds, the percussions, the strings, and to each individual instrument as well. However, we don’t get the full picture until we open ourselves to listening to it all.

Opening ourselves to listen to God sounds easy, but not necessarily. I know that I had a period where I struggled with the “I’m not worthy,” garbage. So how was I to truly open myself to hearing and listening to what God’s messages would be to me? I might be faced with Him revealing to me that my negative thoughts about myself were true. So I kept myself some protective layers to keep from hearing too clearly. But I kept praying for truth, strength, and to know our Lord. And He granted it. Slowly and surely, the layers peeled off and I became more and more confident in truly listening. Of course, the negative thoughts that I had about myself were untrue. They were only my perceptions that I let myself believe.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”    Eleanor Roosevelt

God listened to me and my prayers with all His heart. He listened and still listens from the Love that He Is. I have been saved by His Love. Jesus saved us with His Love. All things heal with Love. How empowered can we truly be then if we listen (and act) from a place of love? Real love. No conditions, but the kind of love where what matters is being there for another person according to how and what that person needs, as opposed to what we may want for them. I’m talking about love that is within us as graced us by His Spirit within us.

Listening from love is how miracles happen.

Blessings,

Irene