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We, as Light Workers, must continually strive to reach for and remain in higher frequencies of light and energy. To Live in the Light requires constant vigilance of our thoughts, emotions, and perceptions until it becomes a natural habit. Paying attention to how we think and respond to our external world, and putting forth the effort to remove judgment from our perceptions and reactions, rewards us with strength of character.  Practicing non-judgment builds integrity, clarity and courage in daily life!

As humans, it is far easier to be drawn to and partake in lower frequency energies.   We may say, “But I want nothing to do with the violence and abuse that occurs in our world.”   Violence, cruelty, etc. are the most blatant of the lower energies, with FEAR at the root of all the lower energies.  But even gossip and getting sucked into drama and hysteria on a regular basis, are lower frequency energies.

Every time we react to situations with anger, bitterness, confusion, fear, judgment, etc, we are drawing ourselves toward lower frequencies, and in turn, giving those lower frequency energies additional powers to grow, strengthen, and reach toward the critical mass consciousness needed to control us and keep us from our rightful evolution into higher planes of consciousness.

One may ask, “But how else am I to react to the horrors, atrocities, and other cruelties and deceit committed on this planet?  It does anger and frighten me!  And it fills me with discouragement and apathy.”

The fear we are bombarded with by external forces CAN be overcome. But to change as a community, a state, a country, a continent, and a world, we must first change as individuals.  We do this by changing our perception.

Begin by following these simple steps:

1.    Learn to DISCERN (or filter) what information we take in.

2.    Learn to NEUTRALIZE our EMOTIONS.

By mastering both discernment and emotional neutrality, we weaken and defuse those powers (lower frequencies) that are holding us back on the ethereal planes.

But how do we discern and neutralize our emotions?

Discernment

DISCERNMENT is that ability to intuitively know within one’s whole being what is appropriate for one’s healthy survival and growth . . . with consideration for what is appropriate for all those involved (for the good of the whole).

DISCERNMENT is not judgment!  It is not deciding what is right and wrong for others.  DISCERNMENT is a personal and intimate awareness of what is correct for oneself.  Discernment creates integrity. Discernment creates an integrated person.  Discernment requires clarity, courage, and self-honesty.  It requires trust in oneself, and trust in the Universe.

On the ethereal planes, discernment is our filtration system.  It allows into our spiritual bodies (aura fields) that which is appropriate at this point in time.  This filtration system works on a higher consciousness level.  It does not need our mind or emotions to function!

To acquire discernment:

• Take responsibility for all of your actions (and inactions). Do not fall into a victim role.
• Speak with clarity and intention.  Do not speak to fill “empty space”.  Speak with integrity, thoughtfulness, and from the heart.
• Meld your heart and your mind as one. Learn to “feel with your mind” and “think with your heart”.  When you accomplish this task, there will be no conflict in the decision making process, no conflict between your logic and your feelings.  Exercise: Envision a golden thread connected to the center of your mind (behind the third eye) and another connected to your high heart center (the thymus gland behind your chest). Pull these two golden threads outward and together so that they meet midway (approximately 12 inches or 30 cm) directly in front of you, (about chin height).  At this point, picture the mind and heart merging into one vibrating and pulsating Heart/Mind system.
• During meditation, bring in Platinum Light. To do this, first practice flooding your core (from center above to center below) with golden-white light. Then flood your whole sphere (four body system) with golden-white light.  Once you have learned to comfortably hold the white light, practice this process of flooding the core and sphere with platinum light. If you are sensory, you will feel this light as a cooler, denser, or metallic (like liquid mercury) light.  The platinum light will act as an automatic filter of discernment!

Emotional Neutrality

Emotional Neutrality is that ability to listen and speak with total calmness.  When emotionally neutral, one feels a strong sense of being grounded to the earth, and of speaking from that place of the “melded heart and mind as one”.  It is that ability to communicate without using an “emotional plea” to persuade others to our way of thinking.  Quality journalism and documentaries are created using emotional neutrality.

Being “emotionally neutral” does not mean you are numb to happiness, sadness or any other emotion.  It does mean you are on top of your emotions, with a sense of self-control, not being pulled under by your emotions or over-reacting.   An emotionally neutral person chooses when they want to exhibit strong emotion (such as whole-hearted laughter or a resounding anger). Anything involving the arts is best created with a full involvement of chosen emotions.  Remember that it is your right to enjoy life to its fullest!

• Can you take in information without being swayed by strong and intense internal feelings (i.e. anger, resentment, judgment, disappointment, etc)?
• Can you do the same when you articulate your ideas to others?

A good test to know if you have acquired emotional neutrality is to notice if situations that used to get you “all wound up” still do.  Topics such as politics & religion, people behaving rudely or with violence are great testing grounds to measure our emotional reactions.

To acquire emotional neutrality:

• When confronted with an intense emotion, observe the emotion as if you are feeling it in slow motion. Observe the emotion’s intensity.  Observe how it is affecting your body: muscle tension, body temperature, heart rate and pulse, depth and rhythm of your breath, etc.
• As you observe an emotion and its affect on your system, allow yourself to detach from the emotion.  Just observe it as if it belongs to someone else.  Imagine that you have no connection to it, no investment in it!  This detachment will bring your body responses back to a state of calmness.
• Every time you feel a strong reaction to an emotion, go thru this process. Then choose whether you want to fully invest in that emotion.

As Pema Chödrön, an American Buddhist nun and author of When Things Fall Apart, would say:  “Catch the emotional reaction & drop the story line.”  The “catch” is the observation; the “drop” is the detachment.

Pema Chödrön advises us to live in a state of loving-kindness and tenderness-of-heart. Living in accordance with this doctrine is a wonderful way to develop emotional neutrality! Loving-kindness and tenderness-of-heart exist in the realms of higher light frequencies.  These qualities create a softness of heart, which produces a profound strengthening of character, a melding of the heart-mind, and a grounding discernment.

* If you have the opportunity to hear Pema Chödrön speak [listen here with Bill Moyers], you will understand this concept of softness of heart simply by listening to the quality and vibration of her voice.

:: Obtaining Discernment and Emotional Neutrality requires practice, practice, and more practice, until it becomes an everyday part of your life!

Copyright © 2009 by Constance S. Reuschlein

EGO is a tool for our personal development. It is what gives us personal identity and, if kindled with loving tenderness, leads us to strong, healthy self-love and self-esteem.   Our ego gives us a point of perspective within self, it gives us the belief in “self”.  In meditation, we  experience ego as our window to duality.  It is what creates our vision of black and white, good and bad, right and wrong.  Ego is what creates JUDGEMENT – judgement of ourselves and others. 

Without ego we would be self-less.  We would have no judgement. We would not see our self as SELF! That may sound weird, but without ego, we would understand ourselves as beings of energy, light, and love. We would understand our individual physical form, with mind and emotions, as an immense gift — A gift that allows us to create, to dance, and to play in our magnificence with all other “beings of light” (also appearing in physical form). 

Why do I bring up the subject of EGO?  The ego self, and its effects on energetic healing, fascinates me.  Working with healing energies for self-healing is truly amazing.  I find I am willing to accept whatever is taking place as divine beings work on my etheric bodies, chakras, etc. My ego doesn’t seem to get in the way. However, if I am working on another person, there are times when my ego thinks, “What if my client isn’t feeling or sensing anything happening?  What if he/she is disappointed? Blah blah blah . . . ?”   Essentially, the ego is attempting to drag down ones self-esteem.

Hearing such words within, I (hopefully) allow them to float away.  Healing is NOT something which “the personal-self” or “the ego-self” has control over.  Instead, we are simply allowing our bodies to be channels for pure divine energies to move through and connect to others.  

Our physical form plays an important role in this process.  It acts as a powerful conductor and conduit for the healing taking place.  The movement of a hand, a light touch, a tone vibrated through our vocal cords, or a color, symbol, or word floating through our intuitive mind, all play an important part in this divine process.  Again, the personal-self or ego-self has nothing to do with the healing process!  The client/patient will receive whatever is appropriate.  All that is necessary of the healer is a purity and innocence of heart, and the intent to be a pure channel for the transmission of love, light, and healing energies. The healer refrains from all judgement!

I hope you will consider following this example in all areas of life, not just for the purpose of healing.  Ask your ego to kindly move aside, as you INTEND to see your world without judgement, but instead, as a world of unique and extraordinary diversities — A world where we can allow differences to exist, simply because we have no judgement, no duality thinking!  Without judgement we will truly begin to see each other as being of light. 

I am offering us this OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE OURSELVES and change our world . . . one self at a time . . . with loving light!

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There is this sparkling, clear stream.  Its currents flow uninhibited in gentle, swirling ripples. This stream is the flow and energy of life. And we are the twigs and leaves floating down this stream.   Rocks and driftwood abound in this stream as well.  And they are the obstacles in this stream of our lives.

The twigs and leaves flow down the stream effortlessly.  Effortlessly . . . until hitting obstacles in their path:  rock or driftwood.  More twigs and leaves come along, get stuck, and form a pile of debris.  This is what happens in our lives.  We get stuck and sometimes we don’t know how to free ourselves.  The ‘stuck’ feels static, unmoving, frustrating, maybe paralyzing.  So we wait.  And we wait.  Wait for the rain, the wind, the “other” to free us.  The rain, the wind, the other is grace.  We wait for grace.

[Of course, not all wait for grace.  There are those of us who are robust, driven, enduring.  We are the ones who plow forward, pushing forth with determination toward our desired outcome.  Not always getting what we anticipated, but at least we did what we could.  We are the shifters and the shapers!  Yet still, the rains come . . . ]

So the rains and winds come, free us, and we flow again down the stream uninterrupted . . . for a while.  But another obstacle comes along.  Maybe it’s a bigger rock or piece of driftwood.  And we get stuck again, this time, with an even bigger pile of stuck debris.

Sometimes these obstacles are an important part of our journey.  Maybe they have a purpose we cannot yet fathom. Obstacles can completely change our path in life or maybe just re-direct us temporarily.  Obstacles allow us time to see.  Time to breathe and grow. Time to capture a new perspective.   Time to pay attention to our intuition.  Depending on the point of perspective we take, and how we choose to perceive, we can create lives filled with struggle and turmoil, or relaxed lives of enjoyment, understanding, and detachment from the outcome, even while pursuing our desires and goals.

Let’s say a beaver comes along and sees that piled up debris as a perfect home site, so turns that static pile into its dwelling.  The beaver’s dam now interrupts and changes the stream’s flow, or maybe stops the flow completely.  The beaver’s home (us) re-forms the landscape, creating a pond or small lake, diverting or drying up the stream.  Such is the nature of our own lives.  We make plans, we get stuck, the situation changes, we scrap our plan and we begin again.  If the plan or the intention is something we deeply desire to fulfill, we will come back to it again, later, at what becomes a more appropriate time.

“Coming back to it” forms a circle.  That is the progression of life in all things.  When we look back, when we sense that profound ‘awe’ of our life experiences, our struggles, our learning, our coming back to the starting point, we have this feeling of arrival.  But it was never about the destination.  It was about the process . . . the process of becoming.

Our successes and accomplishments in life are more about these processes we undertake in arriving at our goals, rather than the actual arrival at the destination.   How we get there is more important than the badge of glory or plaque on the wall.  Certainly that trophy, that symbol, is something to take pride in.  It is a reminder of the journey, the trials and tribulations, the growth towards a bit of wisdom that it represents in our lives. 

So appreciate the experiences of life: the hardships, the joys, the pains, the laughter.  And learn kindness, tenderness, and love along the way.  That is what makes us strong and wise.  It is our experience and wisdom that makes life worth living, and cherishing. Experience your life.  Experience your obstacles.   Ask for divine intervention (often and fervently!), step into life’s flow again, and enjoy the continual process as it repeats itself with deeper and more profound meaning. Then when you are ready to move on beyond this physical plane, you will do so with satisfaction, joy, and pride.

With loving kindness,

connie

*Above photos are views from our hike in the Organ Mountains, of New Mexico, just 45 minutes from home!

Dear Dad,

I want to be more like you. You were a kind and loving father, and you cared so much for humanity, for equality and fairness.  

A driven, ambitious, and successful man, you continually searched for answers to problems, whether they were mechanical engineering problems or world disasters.  You took charge and resolved the issues at hand.

I never realized how unusual it was to have a Dad like you. You didn’t brag or flaunt your achievements.You took it for granted that what you did was “matter of fact”, what anyone would do when there was a problem to resolve for those less fortunate. 

Since Carole is the journalist of the family, she was given the assignment of writing your obituary.  I know it was hard for her. She did a fantastic job – no frills, just facts.  Your accomplishments took up TWO columns of the newspaper.  Surprised us all!

Before they closed your casket, I slipped my note (and a chocolate) into the little “secret drawer” compartment, along with the rest of the family’s notes and trinkets to you.  In my note, I asked you to please send me advice. Teach me.  Tell me how to endure, how to persevere.  But mostly, how to bring to fruition the projects I start, how to combine my analytical self with an “action” self.

Since you left this earth plane, you’ve been there for me whenever I have called to you.

You started leaving me messages soon after I returned home.  I would wake up in the morning after a previous night’s prayer to you, and find I had a new perspective, a new driving force within.  After a while of pushing myself along through each step, each phase, I began to notice that a seed had been planted within me.  It was the seed of ambition!   That was another key component I was missing.  It’s not just about enduring and persevering.  One has to have ambition too!  That’s so obvious to me now.  But it was a missing puzzle piece in my life.

Thanks, Dad, for finding that little piece of the puzzle and sending it to me.  My life has been changing.  I don’t desire to have the forceful drive that you had on this earth, but I’m discovering that I can fuel that drive within to whatever degree I want.  I can decide how much of that ambition and drive I want to use.  It isn’t a characteristic that I am lacking, just one that had to be discovered.

I now have lots of seeds to plant in my new garden, Dad.  Thanks for helping me plan it, water it, and weed it.  It’s fun having you around.  You seem to have lots of time for me now.  And I notice you are laughing, you are so light hearted, so relaxed now.  But I also know you are very busy building bridges!  And you are likely telling the “authorities” how they could be doing things more efficiently, and accomplish a lot more than they are currently.  My Dad, what guy! 

Hey Dad, by this coming spring I’ll have a bountiful harvest to share with you!

With BIG love, Connie