Unpack Your Love

"I believe we are all held safely by Love."

"Unpack your Love" is what came through the meditations. "Unpack it. Open it. See into all it's light and shadow.  Inspect all that is included in your thinking about Love." 

My Love includes Attraction, Sex, Parenting, Kindness, Hurt, Compassion, Self-Loathing, Abandonment, Attachment and Detachment, Unconditional Trust, Grief, Joy and sushi! I guess this is NOT a carry-on bag?

I had only experienced Love like an ON/OFF switch. I loved my husband and he loved me. That was it! But I never knew how much Love could grow, that Love takes many forms, and that Love can show up in many different ways. Then Life and Death circumstances showed up and taught me more about Love. 

Experiencing my husband's complete surrender to an illness and his complete trust in me to care for him changed me. I saw how friends, new and old, supported us. In this way we have all been changed. And when Mike died I came to know him in another way. This changed me too. 

It was the hardest work I have ever done, but he and all my friends helped me to live again. Slowly I have come back from Hell. Slowly I have gotten to really know my authentic self. And it is Love in all these many forms that has shown me the way. 

Love begets more of itself; I have seen this. And I have experienced how Love surrounds and dwells inside all things. And through all of this I have felt Love get bigger and bigger and bigger. And it makes me wonder, "Just how big can Love get?"

To some this may sound cliche and simplistic. To others it may seem impossible. But Love grows exponentially when you nuture it. This is my Truth and to this day this Truth undergirds all my doings.

My own path is still uncertain, the details on how to make my dreams come true are fuzzy, but the clarity of how Love serves to guide my way is crystal clear. To this I am completely reverent. 

Gary Zukav, author of Seat of the Soul says, "Reverence is engaging in a form and a depth of contact with Life that is well beyond the shell of form and into essence."

I believe holding reverance for Love has caused me to look for Love in every circumstance. And in doing so Love teaches me to listen for it's lesson. This reverence for Love, in all it's forms, involves caring for my own well being first... and from this creates a great compassion for everyone else. This way instead of being ruled by or resistant to life's happenings I am moved forward by Love's immense power. Love has shown up in many forms for me over and over like this. In this way I have moved mountains.

I can move these mountains because Love has shown me they do not exist. 

What resides inside your ideas of Love?

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Becoming a Magician

"This is how I want to spend my life, 

collaborating with forces of inspiration 

I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand." 

~elizabeth gilbert from her book Big Magic. 

My life is everything I make it. In this way I am a magician!

Magician suggests things like: amazing feats, extreme skill, and secret slight of hand. I view a magician as one who grasps the unseen and harnesses it to become reality. My magical talents are derived from common sense knowledge, everyday emotion, consistent practice and unconditional trust that all is well.

At the highest level of interpretation, magic indicates there is an intricate and complex web of influences that binds the Universe to itself, and to everything else. So, for me, magic is essentially about communication, but on subtler levels...beyond the material world.

If you want to magically manifest your heart's desire into a mundane world, you will have to come to terms with the actuality, the workings and the efficient manipulation of this web, understanding its laws and vagaries. This web is what causes so-called 'coincidences', or those freak connections that we make right when we need them most. It is this system that brings the teacher to the student at exactly the right time, puts the very book we need on the bookshelf just when we needed it, draws the right person, website, or blog into our lives at the opportune moment.

Therefore it is essential, in order to achieve your highest possible destiny, that you do the work toward understanding this web of life. And in so doing, you too will become a team player... one who manifests all manner of things for your highest good and the highest good of others.

You can start today by experimenting with the way this web works. Begin by becoming aware of thoughts you are transmitting to yourself and others. What we put out eventually finds its way back to us - colored by everything it has touched along the way. This is the single most practical reason for positive thinking!

We need to consider our overall direction too. Are we doing things to actually fulfill our aspirations? We need to look at how every single action we take can be made into an act of magic. People miss this concept all the time. Begin today the practice of holding this idea in the forefront of your mind. Pay attention today how this practice alone changes the way you approach your daily activities.

Acting with intent is another practice you can begin starting right now. For instance, if you cook a meal, cook it with the intention that it will sustain the very spirit of those who eat it. And back it up with deep abiding feelings. If you do the washing up, do it remembering that you are washing away the stains of the world. And make sure to back it up with the love and good feelings of being one who serves. If you are driving to see a friend, regard the journey as another step in your growth and development. Feel the excitement and wonder of the multitude of unknown good and gracious possibilities to come.

Get the idea?

Practicing everything with intent and deep abiding feeling plugs you into the clear and crystalline flow of your Emotions. Your power to manifest lies here - for Emotion is more than just a passing party or storm that happens to you. Emotion is energy. Emotion is that which connects you, a mortal human being, to the unseen spirit, the eternal spirit part of your being.

We are meant to use Emotion to create. Taking back this power takes daily practice. Daily practice strengthens this power. And...from personal experience, let me tell you it really gets the mundane stuff done quickly, efficiently and with a fuller heart than I had ever imagined!

Lastly, when working with your Emotions to become one who manifests, remember one thing - if you aren't happy with your life the way you've made it so far, accepting your inner magician is one way to access your power within. Working with your inner magician will make your life something brighter than it is and something way more satisfying.


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