Merry Mom’s Day, all!

The Dance of Mom

She swings her hip on which baby sets,

She reads story to the rest.

Feet glide along floor

As she moves food and more.

Doesn’t matter if the grace is not perceived.

Reality is the love received,

From God to Mom and Mom to child.

He knows Mom’s heart, hearth, and hum.

Blessed is His creation called Mom.

Irene

This year’s special is a little different, but still true to the healing power of God’s love in our lives. This year it’s a long distance healing session for $25 (reg $60), good through the 18th of May, 2012.

Have a blessed Mother’s day!

Irene

Joseph Joubert

How many times have we heard words that tell us or imply that we are not worthy?

How many of those times did we accept them as being true?

Eleanore Roosevelt had it spot on when she said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” How true this is. But as children, it is our innate nature to trust those whose care we are in. So we tend not to question their criticism, only accept it as truth.

But how can that which brings us down be truth?

God’s love being The Infinite Truth means by Its nature that anything connected to it is of the highest nature. We are His creation of Love and from Love. There is nothing inferior in that. To allow ourselves to accept and believe that we are unworthy of love, abundance, and all that He has to offer us is an insult to our Creator. Jesus gave His life to show us what love is and how its power is truth. To deny God’s gifts is the same as turning our back on Him.

So why do so many think of themselves as unworthy, whether it be on a conscious or subconscious level? I understand the subconscious level, but I do not understand the need for self-deprecation on the conscious level.

If an artist’s paint a masterpiece, do we claim it to be worthless or unworthy. Do we claim the work of Michaelangelo to be unworthy?

Do we realize that we are claiming God’s work  as unworthy when we degrade ourselves?

And how are we supposed to bring up the world and those around us by acting small? (Thank you Marianne Williamson and Nelson Mandela)

It is by realizing how empowered we are as children of God that we can be His expression manifest.

And guess what? YOU ARE WORTHY!

As God’s children, He created because He loves us and to manifest His love through our being and our actions. And as His children, we have all that He Is within us. For there is no life without His Spirit within us and of our own selves we do nothing. So how can we possibly be lacking the ability and awareness to love, create, fulfill our purpose, and be His finger manifest?

Maybe it’s what we want? Is it simply easier to say “I can’t” than to call on Him and go for it?

Beliefs are a powerful things.

What do you choose to believe?

The way of the downtrodden, or the way of the empowered?

It is our choice. And that’s another gift that He gave to us. Do we accept the gift of choice and make our own decisions? Or do we continue to blindly accept other people’s negativity and take that on as our own.  We can choose to give away our power to other people’s perceptions. Or we can listen to the One True Love and accept our power as an infinite expression of God’s love and know that we are worthy simply because we are His children. If loving parents see their children as worthy, how much more than does the infinite love of our Perfect Parent see us?

Choices are powerful things too. It’s a good thing we have them. (Thank you, Lord.)

Blessings

Irene

Encouragement builds confidence. It’s an internal growth that develops when one feels encouraged. Confidence comes from within and is the result of proper and timely encouragement as the child grows. The more confident one is, the more self-sufficient and steadfast to who they are to become.

By contrast, praise requires external acknowledgement which creates a dependency on approval from others. The more needy one is for approval, the more they can succumb to the wishes of others due to fear of rejection or not knowing what they truly believe.

Examples of Encouragement vs. Praise:

Praise: “I like what you did.”    Encouragement: “Wow, you were very creative with that.”

Praise: ” I’m proud of you.”   Encouragement: “I’m happy for you that you had the initiative to work so hard at that. Great job.”

Praise: ” I love that.”   Encouragement:  ” Those seem like some great ideas. What other ideas do you have?”

The primary difference is the “I” and the “you”. The key is whether the  message is geared toward making you happy, or helping the child realize that what they think and feel matters. And asking questions are a huge key to developing encouragement. The partner key is then to actually listen to what is being shared.

Other examples of encouragement might be:  “You seem to have some real talent there.”,  “Which one feels right to you?”,  and “How do you think we should proceed?”

Of course, it all must be sincere or the recipient will see right through it. But it just takes the  desire and some practice to retrain oneself to offer encouragement instead of praise.

The development of happy, strong, productive, and emotionally well-adjusted children is key to any prosperous and joyfilled society.  Sounds like a Divine goal to me. Least of all, our children are worth it.

God bless our children.

Blessings

Irene

Expectations are those things that we want in the way that we think we want them. But when we say a prayer asking for something, God knows best to what we want. We only think we do. Letting go of how we envision our prayer fulfillment and letting Him work His magic for us can be very difficult.

When we set up expectations, we limit ourselves to what is currently in our perception. But our Lord’s perception and awareness is infinite. How much more then can we be gifted when we allow ourselves to open up to that infinity and all that He wishes to give us?

God answers prayers in one of three ways:

Yes, Not yet, and I have something better in mind.

So wouldn’t that mean that the more we trust in God and what He knows instead of what we think we know, then the easier and more fulfilled our prayers become?

I’m not saying it’s easy, only simple. But like everything else, it takes practice to learn how to let go. I know that I still have much to learn and am appreciative of life’s challenges that provide such opportunities before me. That part has gotten much easier for me. After all, it’s all a part of riding His Hand.

Trusting in Him so that our partnership can grow into a vision in His name will yield what we want. But this way, it will be exactly what we want.

Blessings

Irene

Self acceptance is a necessary awareness to wholeness and health. The greater the self-acceptance, the less stress on the soul and the greater the inner peace.  That increased inner peace then affects our physiology in healing ways.

To consider oneself as “unworthy” as I have heard some people say, or some feel subconsciously, does no one any good. How can we honor our Creator when we condemn His creation? The more we accept ourselves as His beautiful works of art, the more we honor Him and each other. This in turns reminds me of what Jesus said about loving God and each other.

To accept yourself at an even deeper and greater level than you do now might seem frightening as it is like jumping into new territory. That’s understandable but no worries. The part of you that is feeling the fear of letting go or growing is akin to your ego. It is, in a sense, afraid of dying. You can let it know, or remind yourself, that it is not dying but evolving and evolving closer to God.

Several years ago the awareness was graced to me that as I seek Truth, I will find Myself. Since then I have learned that the more I learn who God Is and grow in my relationship with Him, the more I learn about who I am and the greater I keep accepting who I am in that relationship. The more I open myself to God’s love and unknown, the more I allow His grace to flow through me and the more I grow toward and with Him. You can too.

The answer is in the question and in the trusting of God. Can you ask yourself, “What would it be like if I were to accept myself more?” Can you ask it with a child’s curiosity? Can you ask it with an honest wonderment of the unknown? Then let it go and let God. Let it go to the Infinity of God and all the possibilities He has available to you. Let go of expectations of what you may think it should look like, and be open to the surprises that His Love wishes to share. And then check back with yourself in a few months and ask what you notice and what’s different and enjoy.

Blessings,

Irene

Special thanks to Dr. Richard Bartlett of http://matrixenergetics.com for the awareness that the answer is in the question, of which I am only beginning to learn and am very excited about.

Accepting a helping hand or steadfastness of a friend standing with you are metaphors for trust. This is much like what it is when we trust God, for our Lord is always there with His helping hand and standing with us when we need support. Deep and profound healing requires trust as our systems use it as a resource for healing. We need to feel safe when we undergo the healing process. And the greatest safety lies in trusting in God. Where is our safety if all else is weaker than God and we look elsewhere?

This does not mean to not trust someone that we do, because it is His Spirit within us that gives us life. When the Spirit is partnered with one’s consciousness and heart, they are most certainly trustworthy. But it does mean to let ourselves be open to unknown Truth He holds for us. Our limited awareness tends to create expectations about how things are supposed to be instead of letting God’s love create a whole new world for us by being open to His infinite possibilities. And it is within one of these unknown possibilities that the healing we need can be accessed.

Once we learn how to settle and center ourselves into a state of presence and stillness, then we can access different parts of our system that want help. I always begin with prayer, and then open myself to listening to what comes. The question becomes to notice what I notice or observe. When I notice a part of me that feels “off” or “not right” somehow, I use my trust in God to allow it to heal.

Notice that I didn’t say, “make it heal”, but rather to allow it. I let go and let God. I hold in my awareness the piece requesting help and the intention of letting go and letting God, knowing that healing will happen. I know that that the Holy Spirit will work it’s magic as that is the nature of God’s Love. It is the healing power. So it simply does what love does if we let it. And healing happens.

It’s something that anybody can do. It just takes some education and practice, just like anything else worth doing.

Blessings,

Irene

(Graced to me tonight as I opened myself to God and listened.)

Blessings,

Irene

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.

God created us to help elevate others when they’re not feeling as strong. Once they are strong again, then they can be more efficient in helping others. And the more lifting and elevating of others we do, the closer we are to God and His Graces within us and around us. The stronger, wiser, calmer, and more loving we become. the flowing of God’s Love elevates all that are touched by it.
But it’s hard to lift others when we ourselves are “down”. Too many people focus on helping others without properly caring for themselves, leaving themselves in need of care. Many seem to think that taking care of themselves is somehow being selfish. But our bodies are a gift from God. Self-care has nothing to do with selfishness. Self-care is about honoring the spirit of God within us.
We are the spirit of God manifest. The more we allow our hearts to connect in oneness with God’s Love, the more His Hand is allowed to work through us.
Elevation from within to the elevation of all.
Thank you, Lord.
Blessings,
Irene

I was speaking to a friend today who seemed to have little understanding of exactly what intuition is. As I tried to explain it to him, I realized that my communication of it was inefficient. I know what it is and how to recognize it. But I’ve been developing it for so long now that I almost forgot what it was like before I began my training and I’m not sure how to explain it. Here goes attempt #1.

I’m well aware that the expression of intuition comes in many forms, i.e. gut feelings, visions, sensing when one decision is better than another without knowing why, etc. But the bottom line is that it is the communication of the Holy Spirit to us. Our sensing or “hearing” that communication is our sixth sense awareness.

As God’s children, we are spirit and inseparable from Him. It is God’s Love, the Infinite Consciousness that He Is, that makes it impossible for us to be separate from Him. Any sense of separation is an illusion and the reason for our pain.

But when we open ourselves to hearing Him, we open ourselves to All that He Is. That includes His guidance and messages that we can experience in so many ways. Gut feelings, instincts, dreams, visions, and sensing things that are intangible but real are all examples of the Holy Spirit letting us know something that is helpful if we listen.

Most of us can probably remember a time when someone told us something and it didn’t feel right. We couldn’t put our finger on it, but something just didn’t feel right. Then we find out sometime down the road that the person lied. Where does that sensation of something not feeling right come from?  It is God’s Spirit within us that is our life. Without It there is no life. Of our own selves we do nothing. It all comes from God as we are infinitely connected as One and His Love provides us the touch of the Holy Spirit. Our intuition. Our connection between the physical/limited awareness and the spiritual and unknown.

I think my friend is much more intuitive than he realizes. I think, rather I feel/sense that his lack of awareness is more about not knowing how to identify or be aware that many of the things he knows are intuition. He simply hasn’t been taught intuitive awareness. If and when he does learn intuitive awareness, he’s going to know a great empowerment and feel like he’s been invited to a party with God. It’s going to be a lot of fun! I know. I’m still there.

Let’s be open to hearing God by allowing our intuition to grow. Then more of us can party. The more the merrier!

Blessings,

Irene