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<p><b>CREATING OUR SACRED PERSONAL TEMPLE: OUR BRIDGE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH</b></p>
<p><b>In order to make it a peaceful spiritual enjoyment for our souls to move forward on our glorious path of inner progress, we often need to vitalize our…</b></p>
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<p><b>CREATING OUR SACRED PERSONAL TEMPLE: OUR BRIDGE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH</b></p>
<p><b>In order to make it a peaceful spiritual enjoyment for our souls to move forward on our glorious path of inner progress, we often need to vitalize our inspirational momentums counting with a sacred place at home. This dedicated to our true nature place will be used not only for our prayers but for our meditations as well. We will need just a short time to see the wonderful results. Step by step our personal shrine will be filled up with great cosmic blessings. We will be able to perceive amazing sights being projected to us by our always fascinating spiritual world. Also, celestial music will be attracted to our cell. Our ears will appreciate God’s music healing us, and then sweet fragrances arising from God’s flower garden will be perceived by our noses. And more importantly, we will feel Jesus Christ’s gentle touch in our hearts so our hearts will soften with His Divine Essence.</b></p>
<p><b>It sounds so fantastic. Doesn’t it?</b></p>
<p><b>Well, mystics thru History have used efficiently powerful sounds to invoke cosmic forces to help them perform apparently great miracles. This is what every single mystic has done; to dedicate a small place from his home to God.</b></p>
<p><b>The rewards of building up such a place are indeed so great. The more we dwell here, the more we learn to appreciate its potential as a reliable magnet which attracts the very best from our spiritual world.</b></p>
<p><b>Allow copying a part of my past log entries:</b></p>
<p><b>As we heal ourselves and others we begin to experience the wonderful effects of the amazing Light of Lights in our lives. We become starving for this divine light. We only quench our thirst with the holy water coming from the magnetized water from the King of Kings. Besides of feeling our magnetic field expanding step by step we start to sense the glow, a loving effulgence radiation around us.</b> <b>What a blessing!</b></p>
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I'm a member here and elsewhere and something struck me. Activity across the board seems to have gone 'quiet'. Both in terms of content but also in terms of communication from a broad spectrum of friendships that had arisen over a period of years. Many friends seem to have receded back from whence they came; and given we now post date the 'shift' - I find this puzzling.<br />
I include myself in this for I have also become quiet. However cannot discern any particular reason for it to be…
I'm a member here and elsewhere and something struck me. Activity across the board seems to have gone 'quiet'. Both in terms of content but also in terms of communication from a broad spectrum of friendships that had arisen over a period of years. Many friends seem to have receded back from whence they came; and given we now post date the 'shift' - I find this puzzling.<br />
I include myself in this for I have also become quiet. However cannot discern any particular reason for it to be thus.<br />
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<h1><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Present Moment and the End of Suffering with Eckhart Tolle</strong></span></h1>
<p class="prod_para">For two years, a small man sits quietly on a park bench. People walk by, lost in their thoughts. One day someone asks him a question. In the weeks that follow there are more people and more questions. Word spreads that the man is a “mystic,” and has discovered something that brings peace and meaning into our lives.</p>
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<h1><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Present Moment and the End of Suffering with Eckhart Tolle</strong></span></h1>
<p class="prod_para">For two years, a small man sits quietly on a park bench. People walk by, lost in their thoughts. One day someone asks him a question. In the weeks that follow there are more people and more questions. Word spreads that the man is a “mystic,” and has discovered something that brings peace and meaning into our lives.</p>
<p class="prod_para">It sounds like fiction, but today that man, Eckhart Tolle, is known world wide for his teachings on spiritual enlightenment through the power of the present moment. His first book, <em>The Power of Now</em>, is an international bestseller, and has been translated into 17 languages. More than 20 years have passed since Eckhart Tolle answered his first question on that park bench. While his audience has grown, his message remains the same: that it is possible to stop struggling in your life, and find joy and fulfillment in this moment, and no other.</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Sounds True:</strong> Can you describe to us your own experience of spiritual awakening (and of course, can you define spiritual awakening as well)? Was there a singular event that occurred or has it been a gradual process?</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Eckhart Tolle:</strong> Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep. The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word <em>Budh</em>, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness. All this implies that humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.</p>
<p class="prod_para">This is why some spiritual teachings use terms like shared hallucination or universal hypnotism to describe normal human existence. Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.</p>
<p class="prod_para">The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability to channel, to heal, to foretell the future, or other paranormal powers—all such phenomena are of value and are not to be dismissed, but none of them is in itself indicative of spiritual awakening in a person who experiences them. They may occur in a person who has not awakened spiritually and they may or may not accompany the awakened state.</p>
<p class="prod_para">Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state. So what is it that we awaken from when spiritual awakening occurs? We awaken from identification with our thoughts. Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind—the incessant voice in the head. Thinking is compulsive: you can’t stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don’t even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.</p>
<p class="prod_para">In the unawakened state you don’t use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don’t see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns. Your sense of identity, of self, is reduced to a story you keep telling yourself in your head. Me and my story : this what your life is reduced to in the unawakened state. And when your life is thus reduced, you can never be happy for long, because you are not yourself.</p>
<p class="prod_para">Does that mean you don’t think anymore when you awaken spiritually? No, of course not. In fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect. For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.</p>
<p class="prod_para">For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering. That was certainly true in my case. For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense fear, more intense than I had ever experienced before. Life seemed meaningless, barren, hostile. It became so unbearable that suddenly the thought came into my mind, I cannot live with myself any longer. The thought kept repeating itself several times. Suddenly, I stepped back from the thought, and looked at it, as it were, and I became aware of the strangeness of that thought: If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me—the I and the self that I cannot live with. And the question arose, Who is the ‘I’; and who is the self that I cannot live with?</p>
<p class="prod_para">There was no answer to that question, and all thinking stopped. For a moment, there was complete inner silence. Suddenly I felt myself drawn into a whirlpool or a vortex of energy. I was gripped by an intense fear, and my body started to shake. I heard the words, Resist nothing, as if spoken inside my chest. I could feel myself being sucked into a void. Suddenly, all fear disappeared, and I let myself fall into that void. I have no recollection of what happened after that.</p>
<p class="prod_para">The next morning I awoke as if I had just been born into this world. Everything seemed fresh and pristine and intensely alive. A vibrant stillness filled my entire being. As I walked around the city that day, the world looked as if it had just come into existence, completely devoid of the past. I was in a state of amazement at the peace I felt within and the beauty I saw without, even in the midst of the traffic. I was no longer labeling and interpreting my sense perceptions—an almost complete absence of mental commentary. To this day, I perceive and interact with the world in this way: through stillness, not through mental noise. The peace that I felt that day, more than 20 years ago, has never left me, although it has varying degrees of intensity.</p>
<p class="prod_para">At the time, I had no conceptual framework to help me understand what had happened to me. Years later, I realized that the acute suffering I felt that night must have forced my consciousness to withdraw from identification with the unhappy self, the suffering “little me,” which is ultimately a fiction of the mind. This withdrawal must have been so complete that the suffering self collapsed as if the plug had been pulled out of an inflatable toy. What was left was my true nature as the ever present I AM: consciousness in its pure state prior to identification with form. You may also call it pure awareness or presence.</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Sounds True:</strong> In your own life story there seems to have been a relationship between intense personal suffering and a breakthrough spiritual experience. Do you believe that for all people there is some connection between personal suffering and the intensity that is needed for a spiritual breakthrough?</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Eckhart Tolle:</strong> Yes, that seems to be true in most cases. When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream. On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or outer, are breaking down or are not working anymore. On a personal level, this often means the experience of loss of one kind or another: the death of a loved one, the end of a close relationship, loss of possessions, your home, status, or a breakdown of the external structures of your life that provided a sense of security. For many people, illness—loss of health—represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.</p>
<p class="prod_para">For many people alive at this time, loss is experienced as loss of meaning. In other words, life seems to lack purpose and doesn’t make sense anymore. Loss of meaning is often part of the suffering that comes with physical loss, but it can also happen to people who have gained everything the world has to offer—who have “made it” in the eyes of the world—and suddenly find that their success or possessions are empty and unfulfilling. What the world and the surrounding culture tells them is important and of value turns out to be empty and this leaves a kind of painful inner void, often accompanied by great mental confusion.</p>
<p class="prod_para">Now the question arises: What exactly is the connection between suffering and spiritual awakening? How does one lead to the other? When you look closely at the nature of human suffering you will find that an essential ingredient in most kinds of suffering is a diminishment of one’s sense of self. Take illness, for example. Illness makes you feel smaller, no longer in control, helpless. You seem to lose your autonomy, perhaps become dependent on others. You become reduced in size, figuratively speaking. Any major loss has a similar effect: some form that was an important part of your sense of who you are—a person, a possession, a social role—dissolves or leaves you and you suffer because you had become identified with it and it seems you are losing yourself or a part of yourself.</p>
<p class="prod_para">In reality, of course, what feels like a diminishment or loss of your sense of self is the crumbling of an image of who you are held in the mind. What dissolves is identification with thought forms that had given you your sense of self. But that sense of self is ultimately false, is ultimately a mental fiction. It is the egoic mind or the “little me” as I sometimes call it. To be identified with a mental image of who you are is to be unconscious, to be unawakened spiritually. This unawakened state creates suffering, but suffering creates the possibility of awakening.</p>
<p class="prod_para">When you no longer resist the diminishment of self that comes with suffering, all role-playing, which is normal in the unawakened state, comes to an end. You become humble, simple, real. And, paradoxically, when you say “yes” to that death, because that’s what it is, you realize that the mind-made sense of self had obscured the truth of who you are—not as defined by your past, but timelessly. And when who you think you are dissolves, you connect with a vast power which is the essence of your very being. Jesus called it “eternal life.” In Buddhism, it is sometimes called the “deathless realm.”</p>
<p class="prod_para">Now, does this mean that if you haven’t experienced intense suffering in your life, there is no possibility of awakening? Firstly, the fact that you are drawn to a spiritual teaching or teacher means you must have had your share of suffering already, and the awakening process has probably already begun. A teacher or teaching is not even essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. Secondly, humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening. For many individuals alive now, this means: they have suffered enough. No further suffering is necessary. The end of suffering: that is also the essence of every true spiritual teaching. Be grateful that your suffering has taken you to this realization: I don’t need to suffer anymore.</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Sounds True:</strong> Your teaching about “the power of now” seems so simple. Is that really our primary spiritual task—to fully engage the present moment?</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Eckhart Tolle:</strong> Identification with thoughts and the emotions that go with those thoughts creates a false mind-made sense of self, conditioned by the past: the “little me” and its story. This false self is never happy or fulfilled for long. Its normal state is one of unease, fear, insufficiency, and nonfulfillment. It says it looks for happiness, and yet it continuously creates conflict and unhappiness. In fact, it needs conflict and “enemies” to sustain the sense of separateness that ensures its continued survival. Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends. The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.</p>
<p class="prod_para">The present moment, at best, is a means to an end, a stepping stone to the future, because the future promises fulfillment, the future promises salvation in one form or another. The only problem is the future never comes. Life is always now. Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do—it’s always now. It’s all there is. And if you continuously miss the now—resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments—the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be “yourself.” And so you are disconnected from the fullness of life that is the “suchness” of this moment. When you are out of alignment with what is, you are out of alignment with life. You are struggling to reach a point in the future where there is greater security, aliveness, abundance, love, joy ... unaware that those things make up the essence of who you are already.</p>
<p class="prod_para">All that is required of you to have access to that essence is to make the present moment into your friend. And you may realize that most of your life you made the present moment into an enemy. You didn’t say “yes” to it, didn’t embrace it. You were out of alignment with the now, and so life became a struggle. It seemed so normal, because everyone around you lived in the same way. The amazing thing is: Life, the great intelligence that pervades the entire cosmos, becomes supportive when you say “yes” to it. Where is life? Here. Now. The “isness” of this moment. The now seems so small at first, a little segment between past and future, and yet all of life’s power is concealed within it.</p>
<p class="prod_para">When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake. The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is. Some people do it because they can no longer stand the suffering that comes with nonacceptance of the isness of this moment. They are almost forced into awakening. Others have suffered enough and are ready to voluntarily embrace the now. When you become present in this way, the judgments, labels, and concepts of your mind are no longer all that important, as a greater intelligence is now operating in and through you. And yet the mind can then be used very effectively and creatively when needed.</p>
<p class="prod_para">Now the question may arise: Would there be anything left to strive for when you are so present in the now? Wouldn’t you become passive in that state? Many meaningless activities may fall away, but the state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you. When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You do what you do because the action itself is fulfilling. Whatever you do or create in that state is of high quality. This is because it is not a means to and end, and so a loving care flows into your doing.</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Sounds True:</strong> Being “in the present” sounds so obvious, and yet is quite hard to sustain. Do you have any practical tips for people for maintaining awareness of the present moment?</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Eckhart Tolle:</strong> Although the old consciousness or rather unconsciousness still has considerable momentum and to a large extent still runs this world, the new awakened consciousness—presence—has already began to emerge in many human beings. In my book <em>The Power of Now,</em> I mention ways in which you can maintain present moment awareness, but the main thing is to allow this new state of consciousness to emerge rather then believe that you have to try hard to make it happen. How do you allow it to emerge? Simply by allowing this moment to be as it is. This means to relinquish inner resistance to what is—the suchness of now. This allows life to unfold beautifully. There is no greater spiritual practice than this.</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Sounds True:</strong> On your video <em>The Flowering of Human Consciousness</em>, you talk about a new consciousness that is emerging in our time. What do you mean? Hasn’t the present moment always been available to genuine seekers? What’s new about our current time in history? Are you pointing to a certain evolutionary process—an acceleration in human spiritual development?</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Eckhart Tolle:</strong> Yes, the present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. Seeking implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status—or spiritual attainment. Seeking means you need more time, more future, more of this or that. And there is nothing wrong with it. All that has its place in this world. To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B—for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.</p>
<p class="prod_para">You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life. For that you not only need no time, but time is the obstacle to that realization, seeking is the obstacle, needing to add something to who you are is the obstacle. The story of your life, how it all unfolds, whether you succeed or fail in this world...Yes, it matters, yes, it’s important—relatively, not absolutely. Only one thing is of absolute importance and this is it. If you miss it, you miss the deeper purpose of your life, which I call the flowering of human consciousness. And ultimately nothing else will satisfy you.</p>
<p class="prod_para">Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness. Later others appeared, some of whom became famous and respected teachers, whereas others probably remained relatively unknown or perhaps even completely unrecognized. On the periphery of the established religions, from time to time certain movements appeared through which the new consciousness manifested. This enabled a number of individuals within those movements to awaken spiritually. Such movements, in Christianity, were Gnosticism and medieval mysticism; in Buddhism, Zen; in Islam, the Sufi movement; in Hinduism, the teachings called Advaita Vedanta.</p>
<p class="prod_para">But those men and women who awakened fully were always few and far between—rare flowerings of consciousness. Until fairly recently, there was not yet a need for large numbers of human beings to awaken. For the first time in human history, a large-scale transformation of consciousness has now become a necessity if humanity is to survive. Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity, and probably the planet, would not survive for another hundred years if human consciousness remains unchanged. As I said earlier, evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.</p>
<p class="prod_para">This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Sounds True:</strong> How much time and effort is required to realize “the power of now”? Can this really occur in an instant or is this the work of a lifetime?</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Eckhart Tolle:</strong> The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.</p>
<p class="prod_para">Whereas it requires no time to awaken—you can only awaken now—it does take time before you can stay awake in all situations. Often you may find yourself being pulled back into old conditioned reactive patterns, particularly when faced with the challenges of daily living and of relationships. You lose the witnessing presence and become identified again with thevoice in the head, the continuous stream of thoughts, with its labels, judgments and opinions. You no longer know that they are only labels, judgments, and mental positions (opinions)—but completely believe in them. And so you create conflict. And then you suffer. And that suffering wakes you up again. Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence. “How long is it going to take?” is not a good question to ask. It makes you lose the now.</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Sounds True:</strong> How would you recommend that people listen and watch <em>The Power of Now</em> teaching series in order to get the most out of the teachings? In your opinion, why are audio and video teaching tapes such a powerful way for people to learn?</p>
<p class="prod_para"><strong>Eckhart Tolle:</strong> If at all possible, you should not be engaged in other activity while you are listening or watching so that you can give your complete attention not only to the words but also to the silent spaces between the words. You will most likely learn many helpful facts about the emerging state of presence as well as the obstacles you are most likely to encounter.</p>
<p class="prod_para">But this is only the secondary function of these tapes. Their primary purpose is not to convey information, but to help you access the state of presence as you listen. As in all true spiritual teachings, the significance of the words that are being spoken goes far beyond their informational content. Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken. All that is required of you is to be in a state of attentive listening. Don’t just listen with the head. Listen with your entire body, so to speak. Feel the aliveness, the animating presence, throughout the body as you listen.</p>
<p class="prod_para">I recommend that you listen and/or watch these tapes over and over. Each time you listen, it will feel as if you were listening for the first time. Each time you listen, you will grow in presence. But do not listen compulsively. Allow a gap of at least two or three days, and ideally more, before you listen to the same tape again. Each time after you finish listening, just sit in silence for a few minutes.</p>
<p class="prod_para">Enjoy the greatest adventure a human being can be engaged in: to be part of the emergence of a new consciousness.</p>
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<p><a title="About Eckhart Tolle" href="http://www.soundstrue.com/authors/Eckhart_Tolle">About Eckhart Tolle</a></p>
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<p> </p> SPIRITUAL molecule - a documentary about DMT and ground-breaking scientific research.tag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2012-02-23:2344239:Topic:779682012-02-23T22:34:13.586ZLUMIN - living lighthttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/LUMIN
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/97714910?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/97714910?profile=original" width="282"></img></a> <span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>SPIRITUAL molecule - a documentary about DMT and ground-breaking scientific research.…</strong></span><br></br></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/97714910?profile=original"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/97714910?profile=original" width="282"/></a><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>SPIRITUAL molecule - a documentary about DMT and ground-breaking scientific research.</strong></span><br/> <a href="http://www.inner-light.ning.com/forum/topics/spiritual-molecule-a-documentary-about-dmt-and-ground-breaking-sc?xg_source=activity">http://www.inner-light.ning.com/forum/topics/spiritual-molecule-a-documentary-about-dmt-and-ground-breaking-sc?xg_source=activity</a><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Terence McKenna - Timewave Zero 2012</strong></span><br/> <a href="http://www.inner-light.ning.com/forum/topics/spiritual-molecule-a-documentary-about-dmt-and-ground-breaking-sc?commentId=6370783%3AComment%3A105843&xg_source=activity">http://www.inner-light.ning.com/forum/topics/spiritual-molecule-a-documentary-about-dmt-and-ground-breaking-sc?commentId=6370783%3AComment%3A105843&xg_source=activity</a><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>If you would like to start other new discussion in English, click here:</strong></span> <br/> <a href="http://www.inner-light.ning.com/forum/topics/description-of-how-to-register">http://www.inner-light.ning.com/forum/topics/description-of-how-to-register</a></p> Transformation of our DNA - 2012+ shift process updatetag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2011-11-21:2344239:Topic:742872011-11-21T03:59:20.539ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
<p>Thanks to Ed Howes for sharing this great article. Hold tight everyone. This process can feel really challenging right about now, but, we are not alone. <em>wa-doo,</em> (and so grateful for these sharings) ... I have been experiencing so much of this, from feeling pretty darn complete (excited) with the inner work, really feeling a completion, but at same time and somewhat disoriented at times, ungrounded, but relieved and more present than ever before as well, and grateful, so grateful, to…</p>
<p>Thanks to Ed Howes for sharing this great article. Hold tight everyone. This process can feel really challenging right about now, but, we are not alone. <em>wa-doo,</em> (and so grateful for these sharings) ... I have been experiencing so much of this, from feeling pretty darn complete (excited) with the inner work, really feeling a completion, but at same time and somewhat disoriented at times, ungrounded, but relieved and more present than ever before as well, and grateful, so grateful, to have completed that, also some of the feeling of wanting to be "home", and so excited to be here now, and to be moving forward into a new and empowered chapter, the feeling of having drifted from my family of origin, and being ok with it!, surrendered, feeling complete somehow, and also sooo tired!, but restless with this feeling of not-doingness, but also enjoying it?, and at the same time I am crazy passionate for my "new life" and have been bombarded, in a divine and heavenly way, with so many callings and visions as to what I can do in the new world. It is so exciting! and big! I mean, they can be small things or large things, but the energy behind and underneathe any of it is biggness. living our biggness, our big hearts, our big souls, so much big love, even in the small things. you know what I mean? also feeling strong promptings to connect more deeply with women at this momentous time - even started a women's circle for friendship, joy and power here in my new town where I am bursting to connect in new circles and11 members signed up in 2 days while it was also the 11/11/11, so thought that was cool and it made my heart so happy, hoping the first meeting/greeting goes well and wonderfully, especially with my power sisters, but I know my brothers have been feeling this too.. Part of me is feeling a wonderful clear vision of how I will be teaching, how and what I would like to be teaching in the new chapter. but that is for later too and right now I feel also soo tired and mostly simply wanting simple true connections with others where there are no teachers, just beingness and togetherness, no matter who comes from what perspecitve at all. where everyone is together and in their own unique self. it's just all happening anyways. woa! ... so much going on ... <em>inside</em>. and the process continues. with many blessings as well.</p>
<p>... and I'm THIRSTY, ALL the time, I am so darn THRISTY (needing TONS of water), anyone else??</p>
<p>anyways, for those also experiencing this stuff... this article is for YOU. xxo</p>
<p><em>many blessings and soooo many (cosmic and earthly) hugs</em></p>
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<div id="main" class="title"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Transformation of our DNA is Leading Us To Universal Truths</strong></span></div>
<div><div><p><br/> We have been stuck in a Universal Time Matrix that has been disconnected from higher dimensional frequencies for thousands of years. Our DNA is finally catching up and breaking through restraints which have halted our progress. Somehow, we've agreed to do all of this to ourselves. However, humans will soon know and understand why 97% of our DNA has a higher purpose and why its transformation is leading us into an awakening that we never could have imagined.<br/> <br/> True Self Realization and Soul Awakening requires expansion of our existing beliefs (beyond the restrictions of your programmed belief system - Opening up to the Absolute Universal Truth). We come into this planet knowing the Universal Truth. As we grow up we disconnect from the Universal Truth and inherit our family's belief system. Our parent's beliefs usually end up being the foundation of our beliefs. The foundation of this belief creates our restrictions. The Universe has no restrictions. We create the boundaries based on our beliefs. These boundaries limit our spiritual growth / inner development which affect our DNA and vice-versa.<br/> <br/> Our DNA exists not only biologically, but dimensionally as well. Scientists study the aspects of the DNA phenomenon and have learned much. What they do not yet understand is that our DNA is much more than a functioning biological entity. It is our harmonic signature Universally. <br/> <br/> If we were to hear the tones generated by each segment of each strand of our DNA, we would find that they create a collection of harmonic frequencies that when combined, duplicate our exact harmonic frequency. That harmonic frequency is our Universal identifier. There is no other who carries that frequency which is our own. In essence, we exist with our own harmonic resonance.<br/> <br/> Our genetic structure operates much in the way a satellite system works as a transmitter and receiver. It is our biological and energetic connection to all things not only environmental but Universal. The frequencies found within our genetic structure are very fine. Light in fact.<br/> <br/> According to the findings of the Russian Scientists, the genetic code follows the same rules found in human languages. By modulating certain frequency sound patterns on a laser ray, they are able to influence DNA frequency and genetic information. The most interesting aspect of their discovery is that simple words and phrases can work just as well as laser beams. Man can literally reprogram his genetic blueprint through words--which explains why affirmations and hypnosis can have powerful effects on mind and body. Healing with sound and words lies within man's power.<br/> <br/> <img class="align-center" src="http://preventdisease.com/images/1Spirituality.jpg" width="418" height="386"/></p>
<p>This discovery also points to the significance of sound frequencies and vibrations in the origin of human life and the possibility that creation was generated by waves of consciousness. The Phantom DNA effect is a case in point: the energy field of a DNA sample remains detectable by laser light even when the physical sample is removed. At a fundamental level, man is pure energy. In Wave Genetics, the junk DNA functions at a rich infrastructure level of super codes and wave communication, realized in material form as crystalline structures--dynamic gene-holograms in liquid crystals of the chromosome continuum. What this model suggests is that the human gene is part of larger holograms (multiverse) of wave information reality. Hyper-communication, in the form of remote sensing, remote healing and telepathy, is definitely a part of the human protocol.</p>
<p> Scientists are aware that 97% of our DNA is, as they call it "junk DNA". They call it junk because they don't see that we have any use for it. Only 3% of our DNA is wrapped up in the spiraling double helix strand. During the time of the 75,000 year cycle when we are exposed to the most torsion energy waves and it affects our DNA by reorganizing the 97% "junk" DNA from a 2-strand double helix to a 12-strand helix advancing man in a leap of evolution.<br/> <br/> Empty space is not really empty but filled with the invisible torsion wave energy at different degrees of concentration. Thus, as the stars and planets drift through the galaxy they pass through different concentrations in very exact intervals of time, with precise cycles that can vary in length from thousands to millions of years. As planets move through periods of high concentration of these torsion waves a transformation affects the DNA structure on the planet, which causes more highly evolved forms to more rapidly replicate than less evolved forms of life. Ample evidence of this is seen to occur through our fossil records which evolution has shown this to occur in sudden jolts rather than as a gradual process. The effect has been named as "punctuated equilibrium" by mainstream biologists.<br/> <br/> Our current solar system has major cycles of approximately every 25,000 years (procession of the equinox) and a really high shift of incoming torsion wave energy every 3rd cycle or 75,000 years. The year 2012 is our solar system reaching this 75,000 year arrival point in our cycle. The torsion energies have been noticeably increasing since 1998.<br/> <br/> All matter harnesses torsion waves to sustain its existence. An atom is actually a vortex of aetheric energy, where the negatively-charged electron clouds are pressing in towards the positively-charged nucleus. Geometry is also a major factor in the quantum realm, since it represents the natural form that vibration creates in a fluidlike medium. These naturally occurring aetheric vibrations will cause atoms that are released from a tiny nozzle to gather into perfectly geometric microclusters, which act as one large atom in their own right.<br/> <br/> When a planet reaches this 3rd set of 25,000 year cycles the energy upgrades automatically whether its inhabitants are ready or not. The extent of these leaps vary. This current cycle propels our evolutionary processes up to the point that there will be a really big change which is ascension. This ascension process happens routinely in planets through the solar systems as they evolve. That is why in the past 50 years there has been an increase in "communications" of ascended masters from the "other side" that have too, gone through this process ions ago. They are here to help us make the transition of these new torsion energy waves coming in and their effect on all matter. However, their "help" never infringes on individuals free-will.<br/> <br/> Higher frequency energies being transmitted by the forces of light onto this planet allow individuals that are open to receive (through their beliefs and mindset) to activate their higher Chakras (7 to 15), which opens their central channels (Universal Kundalini), raise their frequency and DNA between NOW (2011) and December 2012. These activations help bypass the restriction programs being activated on this planet. The restriction program energies get activated in March 2011 (force field of energy that restricts human ascension process) and is planned to go full force in December 2012. Those that do not raise their frequencies will fall into these energies and will not be able to ascend to the higher dimensions (beyond dimension 11.5). The DNA of most people on this planet has already been mutated. That is why only 3-5 DNA strands are active instead of the 12-48 DNA strands<br/> <br/> The distortion of this planetary grid system thousands of years ago caused a mutation in our DNA structure. The original human had minimum of 12 DNA strands, 12 fully activated higher senses (5 lower and 7 higher), full access to the higher divine mind and memories of life experiences in all time lines. The average human being today has only 3 to 4 DNA stands active, 5 functional senses and no memories of who they are and why they are on Earth. Those that are awakening are seeking higher level answers and processes to activate their higher DNA strands and raise their frequency.</p>
<p align="left">We need to clear all past issues, forgive ourselves and others, release all negative energy patterns in our system, generate loving thoughts for ourselves and others, expand on the restricted planetary belief systems and open our mind set to the universal level this initiates the basic process to open ourselves to receive our full power.</p>
<p align="left">Activating the pineal and opening the higher heart center (sacred heart at the thymus) with activation and clearing of the seven lower Chakra Seals speeds up the process, opens the higher Chakras, raises our frequency levels and opens the the higher paths through the central channel to our higher layers<br/> <br/> On an esoteric / spiritual level, almost all teachers agree that the objective of this school we call earth is to teach us to love one another. The more unpleasant the world -- and its leaders and controllers -- may look to us, the more inclined we are to not act the same way... and that ultimately IS the whole point.</p>
<p>In more scientific terms, we can argue that we are going through an energetically-programmed evolution at this time.</p>
<p>Evidence shows this energetic evolution has <em>direct effects</em> on our level of consciousness -- and even the structure and function of our own DNA. </p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>What is Ascension?</strong></span> <br/> <br/> It's graduation day...moving from the 3rd dimension to the 4th density dimension (although some sources state we'll move from 3D to 5D). All planets do it as they evolve, since torsion waves see to it that things progress. What happens to the 3rd density earth? It physically goes through a rebirthing process to start the cycle all over again taking millions of years and millions of stair-step jolt cycles to evolve upwards again. However, ascension takes place far in advance of earth's changes, so it isn't an issue to life forms on earth.<br/> <br/> Third dimensional humans experience themselves separate from each other and preoccupied with issues of survival and self-awareness. <br/> <br/> Fourth dimensional humans have the conscious awareness that they are a part of each other and connected by loving energy-Oneness. Supposedly a 3rd density body could not live on a 4th density planet, as the DNA would no longer be supported by the torsion waves of that area. Some sources state that we will have telepathy and able to instantly "think" into being what we want. Consequently, the ability to controlling your thoughts will be paramount. 4D earth will look just like 3D earth but your daily physics involved will be different. The ascension will happen instantly (although some cultures state their sources say it's a 3 day process which you are in darkness for those 3 days.) You may wake up one morning and the colors in your room are much brighter and when you jump, instead of coming right down it takes you 30 seconds to float down. <br/> <br/> So, essentially, "ascension" is just another name for the process that beings go through as they change densities. Contemporary metaphysical scientists, such as Gregg Braden, call it zero point energy, the photon belt, or aetheric energy. As our solar system passes through this invisible density of energy, significant changes are translated down to the physical level, since torsion energy affects all matter.<br/> <br/> This process of change is known as the Awakening, or as the Ascension process. We need to transcend our fears and learn about love, real love, which has to start with the self. Because until we can love and trust ourselves, we cannot truly love or trust anything or anybody else.<br/> <br/> <strong>The Symptoms</strong></p>
<p><strong>-</strong> 1. <strong>Body aches and pains</strong>, especially in the neck, shoulder and back. This is the result of intense changes at your DNA level as the "Christ seed" awakens within. This too shall pass.</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> 2. <strong>Feeling of deep inner sadness for no apparent reason.</strong> You are releasing your past (this lifetime and others) and this causes the feeling of sadness. This is similar to the experience of moving from a house where you lived in for many, many years into a new house. As much as you want to move into the new house, there is a sadness of leaving behind the memories, energy and experiences of the old house. This too shall pass.</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> 3. <strong>Crying for no apparent reason.</strong> Similar to #2 above. It's good and healthy to let the tears flow. It helps to release the old energy within. This too shall pass.</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> 4. <strong>Sudden change in job or career.</strong> A very common symptom. As you change, things around you will change as well. Don't worry about finding the "perfect" job or career right now. This too shall pass. You're in <br/> transition, and you may make several job changes before you settle into one that fits your passion.</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> 5. <strong>Withdrawal from family relationships.</strong> You are connected to your biological family via old karma. When you get off the karmic cycle, the bonds of the old relationships are released. It will appear as though you are drifting away from your family and friends. This too shall pass. After a period of time, you may develop a new relationship with them if it is appropriate. However, the relationship will be based in the new energy without the karmic attachments.</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> 6. <strong>Unusual sleep patterns.</strong> It's likely that you'll awaken many nights between 2:00?4:00 a.m. There's a lot of work going on within you, and it often causes you to wake up for a "breather." Not to worry. If you can't go back to sleep, get up and do something rather than lay in bed and worry about humanly things. This too shall pass.</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> 7. <strong>Intense dreams.</strong> These might include war and battle dreams, chase dreams or monster dreams. You are literally releasing the old energy within, and these energies of the past are often symbolized as wars, running to escape and boogeyman. This too shall pass.</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> 8. <strong>Physical disorientation.</strong> At times you'll feel very ungrounded. You'll be "spatially challenged" with the feeling like you can't put two feet on the ground or that you're walking between two worlds. As your consciousness transitions into the new energy, you body sometimes lags behind. Spend more time in nature to help ground the new energy within. This too shall pass.</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> 9. <strong>Increased "self talk."</strong> You'll find yourself talking to your Self more often. You'll suddenly realize you've been chattering away with yourself for the past 30 minutes. There is a new level of communication taking place within your being, and you're experiencing the tip of the iceberg with the self talk. The conversations will increase, and they will become more fluid, more coherent and more insightful. You're not going crazy, you're just Shaumbra moving into the new energy.</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> 10. <strong>Feelings of loneliness, even when in the company of others.</strong> You may feel alone and removed from others. You may feel the desire to "flee" groups and crowds. As Shaumbra, you are walking a sacred and lonely path. As much as the feelings of loneliness cause you anxiety, it is difficult to relate to others at this time. The feelings of loneliness are also associated with the fact that your Guides have departed. They have been with you on all of your journeys in all of your lifetimes. It was time for them to back away so you could fill your space with your own divinity. This too shall pass. The void within will be filled with the love and energy of your own Christ consciousness.</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> 11. <strong>Loss of passion.</strong> You may feel totally disimpassioned, with little or no desire to do anything. That's okay, and it's just part of the process. Take this time to "do no-thing." Don't fight yourself on this, because this too shall pass. It's similar to rebooting a computer. You need to shut down for a brief period of time in order to load the sophisticated new software, or in this case, the new Christ-seed energy.</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> 12. <strong>A deep longing to go Home.</strong> This is perhaps the most difficult and challenging of any of the conditions. You may experience a deep and overwhelming desire to leave the planet and return to Home. This is not a "suicidal" feeling. It is not based in anger or frustration. You don't want to make a big deal of it or cause drama for yourself or other. There is a quiet part of you that wants to go Home. The root cause for this is quite simple. You have completed your karmic cycles. You have completed your contract for this lifetime. You are ready to begin a new lifetime while still in this physical body. During this transition process, you have inner remembrances of what it is like to be on the other side. Are you ready to enlist for another tour of duty here on Earth? Are you ready to take on the challenges of moving into the New Energy? Yes, indeed, you could go Home right now. But you've come this far, and after many, many lifetimes it would be a shame to leave before the end of the movie. Besides, Spirit needs you here to help others transition into the new energy. They will need a human guide, just like you, who has taken the journey from the old energy into the new. The path you're walking right now provides the experiences to enable you to become a Teacher of the New Divine Human. As lonely and dark as your journey can be at times, remember that you are never alone.<br/> <br/> <strong>Sources:</strong> <br/> <a href="http://www.selftransform.net/" target="_blank">selftransform.net</a> <br/> <a href="http://2012forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=17884" target="_blank">2012forum.com</a><br/> <a href="http://www.rexresearch.com/torsion/torsion4.htm" target="_blank">rexresearch.com <br/></a> <a href="http://divinecosmos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=422&Itemid=70" target="_blank">divinecosmos.com</a><br/> <a href="http://www.crimsoncircle.com/" target="_blank">crimsoncircle.com</a><br/> <a href="http://mary-desaulniers.suite101.com/dna-changes-a93447" target="_blank">suite101.com</a><br/> <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/peterr/ascension/dnacellularchanges.html" target="_blank">angelfire.com</a></p>
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</div> What you can do when you've been hurt: 10 happiness tips and practicestag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2011-08-05:2344239:Topic:636822011-08-05T02:14:03.218ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
<p style="text-align: center;">10 Happiness Tips for People Who Have Been Hurt</p>
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<p><strong>“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ~Unknown</strong></p>
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<p>Maybe someone hurt you physically or emotionally. Maybe you’ve survived something else traumatic–a natural disaster, a fire, an armed robbery. Or maybe you’ve just…</p>
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<p><strong>“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ~Unknown</strong></p>
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<p>Maybe someone hurt you physically or emotionally. Maybe you’ve survived something else traumatic–a natural disaster, a fire, an armed robbery. Or maybe you’ve just come out of a trying situation, and though you know you’ll eventually recover, you still feel pain that seems unbearable.</p>
<p>Whatever the case may be, you’ve been scarred, and you carry it with you through many of your days.</p>
<p>Most of us can relate on some level to that feeling. Even people who excel at taking personal responsibility have at least one story of having been hurt. Though some of us have endured more serious situations, you really can’t quantify or compare emotional pain.</p>
<p>When you’re hurting some people might tell you to “Suck it up and deal” as if that’s a valid solution. They may say “It’s all in your head” and assume that reasons away the pain. But none of that will help you heal and find happiness from moment to moment.</p>
<p>Like everyone, I’ve been hurt–in both profound and trivial ways. I’ve dealt with it using the following ideas: <span id="more-2908"> </span></p>
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<p><strong>1. Define your pain.</strong></p>
<p>It’s not always easy to identify and understand what’s hurting you. Some people even stay in abusive relationships because it’s safer than acknowledging their many layers of pain: the low self esteem that convinces them they deserve abuse; the shame over being treated with such cruelty; the feeling of desperation that convinces them there’s no real way out.</p>
<p>The first step toward finding happiness after having been hurt is to understand <em>why</em> you were hurt; to get to the root of everything that makes the memories hard.</p>
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<p><strong>2. Express that pain.<br/></strong></p>
<p>There’s no guarantee you’ll be able to communicate how you feel to the person who hurt you; and if you can, there’s no guarantee they’ll respond how you want them to. Say what you need to say anyways. Write in your journal. Write a letter and burn it. Get it all out.</p>
<p>This will help you understand why you’re hurting–and what you’ll do in the future to avoid similar pain–so you can feel empowered instead of victimized. Research has actually proven that people who focus on lessons learned while journaling find the experience more helpful than people who don’t (focus on lessons).</p>
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<p><strong>3. Try to stay in the present.</strong></p>
<p>Reliving the past can be addictive. It gives you the opportunity to do it again and respond differently. To fight back instead of submitting; to speak your mind instead of silencing yourself. It also allows you to possibly understand better. What happened? Where did you go wrong? What should you have done?</p>
<p>In other words, it allows you to torture yourself. Regardless of what you <em>should</em> have done, you can’t do it now. If you have post-traumatic stress disorder, you may need professional support to avoid revisiting the incident. If you don’t, you need sustained effort. Fight the urge to relive the pain. You can’t go back and find happiness there. You can only experience that now.</p>
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<p><strong>4. Stop telling the story.</strong></p>
<p>It may seem like another way to understand what happened; or maybe it feels helpful to hear someone say you didn’t do anything wrong and you don’t deserve to hurt. In all reality this just keeps you stuck right where you are: living your life around a memory and giving it power to control you.</p>
<p>No amount of reassurance will change what happened. You can’t find happiness by holding onto a painful story, trying to place in new, brighter light. You can only find happiness when you let it go, and make room for something better. You don’t need another person’s permission to let go and feel OK.</p>
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<p><strong>5. Forgive yourself.</strong></p>
<p>Maybe you didn’t do anything wrong, but you blame yourself. Or maybe you played a role in creating your current situation. Regardless of what happened, you need to realize what you <em>did</em> is not who you <em>are</em>. And even if you feel immense regret, you deserve to start today without carrying that weight. You deserve a break.</p>
<p>You can either punish yourself and submit to misery, or forgive yourself and create the possibility of happiness. It comes down to whether you decide to dwell or move on. Which do you choose: anger with yourself and prolonged pain, or forgiveness and the potential for peace?</p>
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<p><strong>6. Stop playing the blame/victim game.</strong></p>
<p>Maybe you were a victim. Maybe someone did horrible things to you, or you fell into an unfortunate set of circumstances through no fault of your own. It still doesn’t serve you to sit around feeling bad for yourself, blaming other people. In fact, it only holds you back. You can’t feel good if you use this moment to feel bad about another person’s actions.</p>
<p>The only way to experience happiness is to take responsibility for creating it, whether other people made it easy for you or not. You’re not responsible for what happened to you in the past but you’re responsible for your attitude now. Why let someone who hurt you in the past have power over your present?</p>
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<p><strong>7. Don’t let the pain become your identity.</strong></p>
<p>If everything you do, and all your relationships center around something that hurt you, it will be harder to move on. You may even come to appreciate what that identity gives you: attention, the illusion of understanding, or the warmth of compassion, for example.</p>
<p>You have to consider the possibility there’s a greater sense of happiness in completely releasing your story. That you’d feel better than you can even imagine if you’d stop letting your pain define you<strong>.</strong> You can have a sad story in your past without building your present around it. <strong><br/></strong></p>
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<p><strong>8. Reconnect with who you were before the pain.</strong></p>
<p>It’s not easy to release a pain identity, particularly if you’ve carried it around for a long time. It may help to remember who you were before that experience–or to consider who you might have become if it hadn’t happened. You can still be that person. That person who doesn’t feel bitter or angry so frequently.</p>
<p>If you want to feel and be peaceful and happy, start by identifying what that looks like. What you think about, what you feel, what you do, how you interact with people. Odds are this process will remind you both how you want to be and how you <em>don’t</em> want to be.</p>
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<p><strong>9. Focus on things that bring you joy in the moment.</strong></p>
<p>You don’t have to focus on completely letting go of your pain forever–you just have to make room for joy right now. Start simple. What’s something you can enjoy in this moment, regardless of what pain you’ve experienced? Would sitting in the sun bring you joy? Would calling your sister bring you joy?</p>
<p>Don’t think about the totality of the rest of your days. That’s a massive burden to carry–haven’t you hurt enough? Just focus on now, and allow yourself a little peace. You’ll be surprised how easily “nows” can add up when you focus on them as they come.<strong><br/></strong></p>
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<p><strong>10. Share that joy with other people.</strong></p>
<p>People often isolate themselves when they’re hurting because it feels safer than showing people their vulnerability. What they fail to realize is they don’t have to feel vulnerable all the time. You can choose certain people for support, and then allow yourself time with others without involving your painful story.</p>
<p>You can share a meal, a movie, a moment and give yourself a break from your anger or sadness. You don’t have to carry it through every moment of your day. Don’t worry–if you feel you need to remember it, you’ll still be able to recall it later. But as you allow yourself pockets of peace, shared with people you love, you may find you need that story a lot less.</p>
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<p>Everyone deserves to feel happy. Everyone deserves a little peace. One more thing we all have in common: we can only provide those things for ourselves.</p>
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</div> a message from urieltag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2011-07-25:2344239:Topic:627822011-07-25T14:24:19.707Zangel8752http://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/tempsitter
Message from Archangel Uriel as transmitted by Jennifer Hoffman -<br />
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As co-creator of your reality you work with the Universe to move the energy on the material plane. The earth is the place where you choose to experience polarity in its manifestation as light and darkness. In this plane you have dominion and the Universe responds to ...your needs, it is of service to you. You have chosen this model so that you could return to your power, divinity and wholeness on your own terms, so you could…
Message from Archangel Uriel as transmitted by Jennifer Hoffman -<br />
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As co-creator of your reality you work with the Universe to move the energy on the material plane. The earth is the place where you choose to experience polarity in its manifestation as light and darkness. In this plane you have dominion and the Universe responds to ...your needs, it is of service to you. You have chosen this model so that you could return to your power, divinity and wholeness on your own terms, so you could decide when this would happen for the individual and collective energies of the planet. Each of you plays a role in this process and by learning to manifest your own kingdom of Light, you reconnect to home, the Source, and bring heaven to earth.<br />
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The kingdom you manifest is reflected in your reality. Is it different from the life that you want to live and the blessings you wish to receive? You receive the abundance and joy that you believe you deserve. Every aspect of your kingdom is your manifestation. All limitations that occur in your reality are of your own choosing. Every aspect of darkness and fear is your creation. The Light is always available to you but you must issue an invitation for the Light to enter your kingdom. You set the energy for your kingdom of Light through your intention and the Universe responds to your requests, without judging your choices. Set your intention for effortlessness, joy, peace and abundance because you alone have that power. The Universe cannot create your kingdom for you and cannot manifest what you are unable to envision for yourself.<br />
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Your kingdom may feel empty and lonely, dark and fearful. You are not alone on this journey and there are legions of angels who wait for you to invite them into your kingdom. If you feel unsupported you have forgotten that you are loved beyond measure, even in your darkest hours. You struggle with the darkness because you have forgotten that the Light is of service to you and waits for your invitation. Every time you call out for help you are inviting the Light into your kingdom. But you do not have to wait until you need help. You experience fear to remind you of the unconditional love you came from. You can be in this energy at all times and every moment is an opportunity for you to affirm your connection and create a kingdom of Light to receive the unlimited abundance of the Universe.<br />
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Your spiritual journey is one of reconnection and remembering that you came here to create your kingdom of heaven. Your mission is to reconnect the material and spiritual planes, to bring heaven on earth, and to assist in the earth's ascension into higher dimensions. You have the power to choose the timing and manifestation of this process, to bring the kingdom of heaven to earth for all of humanity. What does your kingdom look like? You choose its every detail and energy and can choose abundance or lack, pain or joy, love or fear. Build a kingdom of Light and the darkness cannot enter. The time to begin is now, your soul longs for home and the kingdom of heaven but you have the power to create that kingdom where you are and that is why you are here. ...MEDITATION... bits "n" pieces.tag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2011-07-09:2344239:Topic:617022011-07-09T04:44:01.040ZRobert Shackethttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/RobertShacket
<p>Only when the Master within takes control will you realize that the "ego" driven vehicle is not our destiny.</p>
<p>Whether you call it a path...a journey...or an adventure, we have a destination.</p>
<p>Our destiny is to evolve into what God intended us to become and it will unfold in its own time.</p>
<p>Only when the Master within takes control will you realize that the "ego" driven vehicle is not our destiny.</p>
<p>Whether you call it a path...a journey...or an adventure, we have a destination.</p>
<p>Our destiny is to evolve into what God intended us to become and it will unfold in its own time.</p>