Grace Is You

In the simplicity of it, there is no trying, no reaching for the natural state of grace that belongs to each person. It is quite the opposite. 

The misalignment of understanding the nature of love and grace has meant that many have become relentless seekers, searching for an elusive state; a euphoria that is never achieved, that you put outside of yourselves. Some have been instructed to believe that grace only comes with the purest heart, thoughts and deeds. Such a misconception. There is nothing to this state of grace but being; letting go and accepting all that you are.

That is the answer, allowing everything in the moment, even the tiny voice that says, ‘You are bad for that thought and even worse for that comment.' Fight nothing. Surrender to everything. Acccept, with gentility, the nature of all things. Nothing is to be improved. Everything is in its wisdom.

When you can stop trying and start being you will understand the true nature of love and grace. You will be it, it will be you, inseperable in your mind as it has always been in your heart.

Accepting Each Moment

There is a simple joy and feedom in accepting each moment for what it is. There is nothing to do, nothing to say or even think. Acceptance is an embrace of self and of what is.

And when what is becomes all that is, you will cry freedom to the universe.

Be As You Are

In the letting go of judgement on your being; in the release of self-criticism that attempts to contain you, you will find great peace and contentment.

How can you be who you are and flow in the way of the universe if you cannot accept the whole of yourself? How can you love others properly if your eyes are trained for fault? How can you bring goodness upon your life if bitterness guards the door?

When you can let go of self-criticism you will find peace in all circumstances. Your life is a product of you, therefore in the acceptance of yourself comes an acceptance of all you create. You will not berate yourself if you do not create perceived miracles in every moment because you will accept and honour the perceived limitations of yourself on this plane.

You will learn to view your limitations not as limitations, because you will not have expectations on what should be. You won't see what is not - just what is. A person only finds limitations when expectations are set.

In the acceptance of self, you will find acceptance of others. You will honour their perceived limitations through loving eyes and an open heart. Soon, even their limitations will not be seen as such, but just as what is. And then, when what is becomes all that is, you will cry freedom to the universe.

If you can live as yourself in every moment, without the burden of self-judgement, you will fully awaken. If you cover your true nature to appease the rule-makers it will lead you to break your spirit, lose your wings. They will judge you for dancing when you should be walking, for laughing when you should be in serious discussion. Your true nature is unlimited perfection and you are not the property of shadows.

Love that you are. Be as you are. In this state you will fly.

Forgiving Equals Freedom

There is great relief born from holding your dignity when someone wrongs you. There is an all-encompassing freedom of spirit when you forgive them for it. Joy springs up within and lightens your being. Tension and anger dissipate.

When you forgive, the person who wronged you no longer has a hold over you. Nourishing your sense of peace and wellbeing is more important than waging a battle or making someone suffer for their actions. In the greater picture, there is only one energy, so battle with anyone is really just battle with yourself. War wages daily inside and outside of most people. It is love being blocked by fear, which creates misalignment of energy, which creates discomfort and bodily disfunction.

What can be gained by holding onto anger, other than dis-ease? A sense of being ‘wronged’ is a belief that you are victimised. You can win over that belief by reaching for the higher place within and finding the love that flows. Redirect your stream of forgiveness toward others as they fight their own inner battles. That is your freedom. That is winning.

Freedom of Mind and Body

At this time, it is more relevant than ever to keep a free and perfect image of yourself in your mind and heart. That is the truth of who you are; a limitless, fully aware, untarnished energy that exists in a continuum of pure isness. 

As you sit within the constraints of a physical body, perceiving yourself from this limited perspective, you cannot imagine the extreme freedom, beauty and expansion that you truly are. You are the exact opposite of a constrained physical body. The closest you can come to understanding this is to ‘feel’ it, to feel the magic and beauty in everything around you and the love that glues it all. Feeling it can move you into it, and out of the confines that keep you small.

Despite how it may appear from where you sit, nothing is bad, wrong or broken. It is only your limited perception that sees it that way. Struggle is false. Hatred is false. Everything that is not of love is merely a creation of the limited mind. It is no more real than a nightmare. Your greater, all-encompassing self knows the truth of who and what you are, and rejoices moment to moment even as your limited self wallows in its struggle.

If you seek freedom from limitation, keep your face to the light, your mind to the truth and your heart open to receive. 

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Fighting for a Cause

Here’s the crux of it… If you stand for a cause it’s because you wholeheartedly believe in the existence of its opposite. You fight for peace because you believe in war. You fight for health because you believe in disease. Believing in something makes it real and gives it substance. If you support the fight against cancer it’s because you believe in cancer. This belief energy is surging from you and so you breathe life into the idea of cancer, which is probably not your aim.

Many people feel obliged to fight ‘good causes’ and rally support against what is ‘wrong’. Yet this ‘wrong’ only exists because of the belief in it and the energy focused upon it - positive or negative. That is what breathes life into it, like wind to a flame. Are you fanning the flames of ‘wrong’ by believing in it?

If you truly want the outcome of peace and love, remove your attention from all the so-called ‘wrong’. Your joy and peace are your main order of business. If you are at peace and if love is your guide, you have no fight, therefore you do not vibrate loud signals that create and recreate unwanted circumstances.

Anything ‘negative’ that exists, like war, disease, cruelty etc only exists because there was enough belief in it by enough people to give it life. Many of those people were the ones who so desperately wanted it gone. That is the power of creation.

It is fruitless to fight for peace or health or justice. Let it go. Find your inner peace, your love, your joy. That is what will change the world.

Manifesting Your Dreams

If you want to manifest your dreams, be in allowance of the flow rather than trying to control or manipulate your dreams into reality. The flow is the smoothest, quickest path to your desired experience and it is not controlled by measures such as time. Time is your construct, and as you fret that time is dragging for your desires to manifest, time then has the power over you and appears to slow to a stop.

Timing is always driven by the vibrations of your being. When you have an urgent need for things to happen right now, you project a lack of those things loudly in your vibration and so that is what you are given to experience more of. It matches your vibration. Worrying about how long something is taking is counter-productive to achieving it quickly.

The quickest route to living your dreams is to be your happiest self, acting with joy and positive expectation, while removing flow-blockers from your mind like 'when' or 'who' or 'how'. Be joyous in each moment with your desires vibrating happily within your being and you will find the results you expect to arrive in perfect timing to the perfect outcome of what you were seeking. When this happens you will wonder at all your previous stressing and striving, and marvel at how brilliant the universal flow is.

Be in excitement over the manifestation of your dreams rather than lamenting the particulars of time etc that might get in the way. Be a surge of positivity and possibility and you cannot fail to live it out as it beams out of you. What you are inside is directly represented outside of you. Hold in your mind the perfect outcome of the manifestation and then get out of your own way!

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Let Your Love Light Shine

Why search for a light source outside of yourself when you can switch on your own inside? You are all the light you ever require. 

When you understand the truth of your wholeness as an awakened aspect of universal energy, you no longer require others to be anything for you. You are complete within the light of your true self. Others can be who they are with all their faults intact and it means nothing to you. You can smile at them and love them without limit because you are lit from within. You are no longer waiting for them to meet your needs and make you complete, or solve your problems. You don’t even require them to be good or behave in a way that keeps you in a happy place because you are always there regardless. This is the owning of your wholeness and it frees you up to love. 

In this wholeness of self, you are beholden to nobody and nobody is beholden to you. That is not to say that you do not love, or seek love, but you do it in such a greater capacity. Love is all around. Joy is all around. You will discover this as soon as you let go of making others your saviour. You will find it around every corner because, in truth, it is within you so how can it not be everywhere else? 

If you do not feel such freedom and cannot find the ability to love with such completeness, it is because you are not clear about the truth of who you are. You are blocking yourself from the knowledge. If you could, in this moment, let go of the need to make the people around you responsible for your happiness, you would fly. There is such freedom in accepting responsibility for your own situation in life, for your own joy. It is the only place from which you can be fully in charge of your life. 

If you are making others responsible for your happiness then nothing changes unless they change and they are not likely to change just because you want them to. When you accept that they are in charge only of their own happiness, then you can make it your business to be in charge of yours. You can start by letting them off the hook. Care about how you feel by choosing peaceful, joyful, positive experiences. Turn negatives into positives by thinking differently, don’t wait for others to be everything you want or you will wait forever. Be happy now, be responsible for yourself now and watch the amazing changes in your life.

It is time to shine from within — not for the sake of lighting the path of others but for the sake of shining in the light of your true self, your true, joyous ‘love light’. 

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Abundance is Yours

If you are worried about lack of abundance, quell your fears. Brush them off. You may have traces of this fear in your vibration and so it manifests as lack. But there is no such thing as lack in actuality. There is no lack of anything anywhere. There is whole, complete, unlimitedness of all things. 

You are being provided for in every moment by the great abundance of All That Is; that sees no small unworthy being; that sees only life-force calling and so it answers grandly or minimally depending on your vibrational signal. You are abundance whether you see it or not, whether you broadcast it or not. You are surrounded by it, you are within it, it is you and you cannot ever be anything else. You may perceive yourself as limited but it is a mirage, a manifestation of a mind wrapped in fear.

If you want to see and experience this abundance that you are, hold the balance within — the still flame, the knowingness, the wise one within the core of your being. Walk forward in this grand, unlimited energy, not the shrinking energy of fear and loss. Within the grand energy you will only see and experience an abundant universe. It is yours.

Finding Your Way 'Home'

In this moment we are going to talk about ‘home’. Home feels, to most people, like a safe place, a place where you can be yourself, feel comfortable and calm. It is a place where everything feels ‘right’. Home is comfort to you.

At an indefinable time in your understanding of history, there was such a place for all beings. Home. It was the safest place where there was nothing but comfort, joy, acceptance. It was like a long, warm, never-ending embrace. This place, this home, was and is a place of all things. You could call it the universe - the entirety of all that is. While being at home in this place - as in your own place of ‘home’ now - it was and is comfortable. Yet sometimes you have a yearning to get out and have a different experience.

So, back in those far mists of time, the comfort of home seemed limited and the energy that is all of you, decided to explore existence away from home, or out of the comfort zone. But you went knowing there was always a way to get back. It was born as a desire to be ‘home’ and the signpost pointing the way was/is none other than the ego or the ‘negative’ non-comfortable experience.

The negative experience shows you that you are on the wrong path to finding your way home. It guides you by its uncomfortableness. It shows you what is wrong in order that you remember what is right. Ego or negativity is seen as the devil, literally, in this human world. It is shunned. It is not wanted. It is shut out. But it is the only real tool to finding your way back. Without it, without the experience of not feeling comfort, of not feeling at home, you would not find home again - you would not know what it looks or feels like. Non comfort is obvious, and so in that moment of non-comfort you have a simultaneous knowing of comfort. You must keep bumping into the walls, travelling the wrong paths, in order to understand completely how the right one feels.

So, as best you can, embrace the negative, the ego, the wrongness. Thank it for being there, for showing you the way home. We are all on our way home yet while we fight against the negative, we are not seeing the true path. Be thankful for the guidance. Where there is sun, there is always a shadow. Let the shadow show you clearly from which direction shines the sun.

Children & Peer Group Pressure

Q) Parents often worry about their children being led into harmful peer group situations. What can you suggest to them?

A) As a parent, the best thing you can do is to hold the energy of being true to yourself - your inner wisdom. Demonstrate this to your child, and gently explain that she/he doesn’t have to do anything that feels ‘wrong’. If their friends are trying to lead them astray, that is when their inner compass comes into play. Everybody has an inner compass that is directed by feelings - what feels right or wrong in a given situation. The more you demonstrate the ability to rely on your own inner compass, and show your child how to find theirs, the better they will handle such peer group situations.

Kicking up a fuss or dolling out severe punishment to your child for 'bad' behaviour only serves to strengthen the vibration of the behaviour. Its powerful energy of 'unwantedness' then runs rife in both your vibrations. It becomes a big deal and big deals hang around until their energy is snuffed out. Snuff it out by removing your attention from it and keeping a positive outcome in your mind. That will change the energy and dissipate the harshness.

You can do no more than be an example of what you would like for your child. If you want your child to rely on their inner wisdom instead of bowing to peer group pressure, show them that you rely on yours. That is your work. Theirs is to manage their own self based on the world they experience and the people in it. If they are handed the right tools, they will manage well.

Calling Your Kindred Spirit

Q) If someone is calling a soul partner, or kindred spirit energetically, are the calls heard?

A) Yes, the calls are always heard. The partner calls too. It is more about whether you hear each other, whether you are receptive — tuned into each other’s frequency. Many distractions plague you all.

Q) How do you send the message clearly?

A) Send it from your heart, from your true self. Not from a place of need but from a place of alignment. Your partner’s soul will hear it and stir. It cannot not.

Q) What if you feel a little eager to meet this person?

A) There is always eternity.

Q) Thank you for the reminder. It is so simple, yet we complicate it.

A) Indeed. So be it. Simply stay true to yourself and watch it become uncomplicated.

Dealing With Physical Illness

Q) Can you suggest how to remove focus from physical ailments when they constantly call to be viewed?

A) It is like a catch 22 situation. They are viewed so they are called forth vibrationally into manifestation and so they are viewed again and so called forth again, etc.

Q) How is that pattern broken?

A) When a situation comes to the forefront, such as physical pain, calm your mind. Concentrate on your breathing. Don’t give into the pain - or to the drama of it. Rise above the physical pain by embracing the core of your true being, which is pain-free. Know that the pain is more of the ‘smoke and mirrors’ of physicality. It is not real except to serve as an expression of your vibration. If you care about not recreating pain, work to change your vibration so that you cannot create the pain again. Make it your business to activate love, acceptance, happiness and joy in your life and watch those pains and ills subside quicker than high tide.

The Wise Self

Your Wise Self never leaves you. There are merely veils of noise and commotion that fall over your inner voice until it is in the misty distance. Accessing your Wise Self is about finding ways to calm the noise/activity and disperse the mist. 

This mist is like a swarm that follows you, gathered over a lifetime of your experiences. It habitually falls over your inner self when you are among the clamour of daily life. This foggy self (often referred to as ego) acts quickly and irrationally, usually out of fear, often without love. Its actions and decisions are based on the unclear view; the prejudices gathered by stumbling around in half-light and bumping into others who are doing the same. It is always obvious when it is in charge.

Having the Wise Self there at all times is about honouring your inner voice and not allowing the fog to thicken. Speak your truth quietly. Before you speak, stop and listen to your inner voice, then speak. You will discern the difference. The quiet, calm, true self speaks without resistance or malice — just clear, concise, honest words.

Negative Behaviour

Q) Can you please elaborate on this statement…‘Their “negative” behaviours are not my concern.’ 

A) This is a nice mantra to remember whenever someone shows a behaviour that could be deemed negative. Their stuff is not yours, even if it is directed at you. As often as you can, turn your mind away from the behaviour of others and acknowledge that it is no concern of yours. Nobody else will ever be what you want all of the time or act according to the rules you have defined for your happiness. They are who they are and do what they do for the sake of satisfying their own set of happiness rules, and it is of no concern to you.

Your concern is your own peace and joy. This does not come from trying to change the world and make everybody fit with your version of a perfect world, it comes from choosing peace and good feeling in each moment. By stating that others’ behaviours are not your concern, you are turning away from the turmoil of being open to wounding by them. This is a peaceful movement, a dedication to the wellbeing of yourself. 

You cannot make another person change so rather than trying, be at peace the best you can with yourself and the world as it is. In this place of calm, you will not experience such negativity because you will have risen above the vibration of it. Suddenly, people will become nicer and more obliging because that is what you will see wherever you look, and you will come to expect it more often than expecting negativity.

So You Seek Happiness?

It would serve you well to dedicate a portion of each day to feeling happy. Create happiness. Do whatever makes you happy in the moment… music, reading, laughing, walking in nature, talking, painting, star-gazing, playing, swimming, hugging, tinkering; whatever it is that brings you a feeling of joy, do it. Make it a priority.

Most people spend the majority of their time on labour-intensive pursuits or self-destructive ones, that have the ultimate aim of providing happiness. The happiness usually wears a grand guise like wealth, status, fame, or something vastly different to how you feel now. But that targeted happiness is ‘down the track’ after a lot of work, time and often pain. We say take the joy now without the slog. Take the happy each day! The hard-slog pursuits are vibrationally lower than the joy that can be achieved by simple daily happiness. Happiness is healing. It lifts your vibration, which heals your mind and body. When you achieve this sort of daily joy, the slog might seem a little less important.

Dedicate your time to daily happiness and it will improve your life beyond what you can expect from the labour-intensive pursuits. If you are waiting for happiness you will not find it. It must be with you, in you, a part of you, every day. Happiness is easy, as easy as smiling.

Moving Beyond a Sense of Lack

Q.  I am often in a feeling of lack when I observe things in my life that aren't flowing as I would prefer. How can I move beyond the lack?

A. Remember to take on the feeling of it all. Have it all in this moment, regardless of whether you physically have it. That is the key. 

Physicality offers many tricks of the imagination. It can fool you into a belief in poverty and lack, which is not so, in truth. You cannot lack because of your true nature/true being. You are an aspect of All That Is, like a drop of water is an aspect of the ocean. One is the other, so you cannot be without. When you mind wanders towards this trick of the imagination, stand up and remind it that you are not lacking. Ever.

You are always all things: the abundance, providence and prosperity of All That Is. You have limitless resources of love and abundance and all things - any desire of your heart. There is never a moment that you lack, except when the curtains are drawn over what is, and all you see is the back of the curtain. The physical experience, in your current reality, can often be like sitting behind the curtain. Yet drawing the curtain is as easy as believing and knowing the truth of what is. It is just a curtain, a veil. Nothing more. Draw the curtain, remove the veil and see. See and believe because abundance IS the truth of what is. There is no lack. No lack of love, no lack of money, no lack of health, no lack of creativity and opportunity; no lack of anything. Lack is a state of mind only. The physical experience of it is just a manifestation of its thought vibration upon your being.

Q. And when I am bound to the place behind the curtain, how can I find a way to always be within the understanding of limitlessness? 

A. Tune more often to the truth within your being where it is written loudly and clearly. You know it but you choose to tune out when you are caught up in the play-act going on around you. Get back to your core, to the whole unlimited you. Listen to the quiet voice inside.