I will know the truth when my only motivation is to be truly helpful.
I will know that I am fully supported when I turn my focus from my outside perception of the world to my inner world.
When I recognise that I have everything I need in this moment, and trust that everything is exactly as it is supposed to be, will I know peace.
When I know peace, I can share peace.
Peace is available to me in every moment.
This is the only moment
As she turned her attention away from what she needed to do to get what she thought she wanted, and instead directed her focus on to the individual small steps that she was guided to take in order to be truly helpful, something miraculous happened.
She was reminded, once again, as she was every time she detoured from the path and found her way back, that she had always been, was and would always be, provided for. There was no need to worry, no need to try to figure things out, and the more she struggled, the more she would experience struggle.
When she allowed herself to surrender, to rest in love for herself and the world, when she forgave herself for trying to do everything herself and ignoring her small, kind voice of inner guidance, she was granted the feeling of peace she hadn’t realised she was missing, and followed her nudges to places where things fell into perfect place without any effort on her part. These places allowed her to feel truly valued, truly valuable, truly loved, and truly peaceful.
It doesn’t matter how many times you mis-step, you can always give up struggling and allow yourself to float and be held by the Universe. You are always supported. There is nothing you cannot come back from. We all have a choice – we can run the uphill race to the top of an imaginary ‘success’ mountain, or we can tune in, let go of thinking we know the best way, and allow the still small voice of our heart to lead us to somewhere far better than we could have ever imagined
There is grey here. There are so many unknowns and my brain just wants to be pointed in a direction with a clear goal and told to go. Run with it. Go ‘do’. And yet, here we are, in the grey. Where there is no alignment in one particular direction, and where creating boundaries and fences and rules for myself won’t help my fundamental uncomfortableness with this situation.
Here, is an invitation to sit. To not do. To not constrict, and restrict, but to expand, to create opportunity, to allow more in, rather than block more out.
Here is where we meet the grey.
Here is where we make our choice – to run, or to stay.
To choose the unknown with an open heart, and ask it what is has to teach us, or to run blindly away and hope we already know best.
I am choosing to stay. I am choosing to sit with the grey and see what happens. I want to know what it has to teach me. Do you?
Can physical distance bring you closer? Yes.
To yourself? Yes.
To others? Yes.
To the Truth? Yes.
There is no distance between the Truth and Love
I wish I had more to offer you at this time. I wish I had the answers or the tools or the shortcuts to help us navigate the things we’re all facing individually, and collectively.
The truth is, I don’t. I have tools, and have made meditations available for free on my website (dm me if you want the link), and as A Course in Miracles so poignantly points out throughout, I do not know what anything is for.
I can choose to judge everything that is happening, and assign it good or bad or scary, and I can (and have) over consume information – like if I just keep reading I’ll find the answer.
Or I can use this time to surrender and sink deeply into my own understanding of what love is, honour you, and how you may be feeling and processing, respect each person’s choices and feelings, and use this time and space of change to let go of everything I thought I could control, and learn what we are truly capable of, when we turn our focus on what we can do to help each other and our world.
I choose not to fight. I choose to surrender. I choose to follow the guidelines set by our governments, with loving intention for global healing, without any attachment or stress about what that might look like or how it might come about. This is how I can be of service, in some very small way. Sending you love
On a purely physical level, fear creates stress. Stress creates inflammation. Inflammation weakens the immune system.
On a spiritual level, ACIM teaches that all healing occurs at the level of the mind. Fear comes from a lack of acceptance of our experience. Peace and holistic wellness comes from a being with what is, doing what we need to do, without attachment or fear of any unknown outcomes. Knowing that all is well.
It is too easy to feel the collective energy of fear and lose ourselves in it. So I am reminded daily of my wellness, and that we are surrounded by love, if we choose to see it. All is well, and exactly as it is supposed to be for our higher learning and consciousness.
When I bring my attention to the still place inside me where I know love is, I can expand that sense of peace outwards and know there is no need to be afraid, and that we are all one. How can we support each other if not through expanding our sense of peace and love out into the world (and supporting our immune system in the process)?