Your mission this year, should you choose to accept it, is to shift from fear to love.
Fear raises its head all day long- ‘I can’t finish this by then’, ‘how can they ask me to do that?’, ‘she doesn’t listen to me’, ‘ he doesn’t respect my work’, ‘they’ll never give us what we need’, ‘I’ll never be able to please them, ‘I’ll never be able to afford that’…..
Sound familiar? OK, now how does love sound? ‘Sure, I can get that for you’, ‘Praise Be, I have what I need’, ‘ I can’t wait to see how this turns out!’, ‘I’m glad to help you with that’….. Allow grace to enter and fill your life.
How would your day flow if every time you had thoughts of lack or worry, you KNEW you were supported, guided, strong enough, smart enough, had all that you needed to meet your life challenges?
What helps you shift thoughts of lack or fear to ones of love, acceptance, joy, thanksgiving, praise?
Thank God/Spirit/Allah/Divine Wisdom in advance that you have enough, are enough, know enough, give enough. Affirm that this is true when you encounter fear. This is the paradigm shift for a new era. This is our mission for responding and working with love and grace in 2012.
New Ways of Responding
If you fear the unknown, uncertainty, fear what lies ahead in your future, share your gifts with others lovingly and joyfully. Actively cultivate a caring network of friends and colleagues by offering assistance, information, resources they may need to support their work. Focusing on ways to share your gifts helps you shift your focus from fear to support.
If you fear change, know that marvelous transformation awaits you. Embrace the wonderful opportunities presented to be more fully awakened, alive, passionate, living on purpose. Transformation is the theme of this year. As you raise your vibrational energies, you respond to your world in more caring, compassionate, inspired ways. As you move through your fears, you model for others how to live courageously, authentically, whole.
If you fear losing someone dear, know that you can never be separated from God or the God of your being. You are the one you’ve been waiting for. Welcome your sweet loving presence home in your heart. Rejoice in your loving presence.
When you are worried about finances, give freely and joyfully to a good cause. Give with an open heart. Practice giving with love and care and build your giving muscles. Focusing on what you share takes your mind off what you may lack. Such giving clears your emotional hose- allowing for more abundance and positive energy to flow through you. As you give, so shall you receive.
Drinking the Sweet Water of Life
If your life is a glass of pure water, infused with Spirit-filled energy, do you see it as half empty or half full? Do you let the water retain its purity or will you add sludge to it from your worries, fears, doubts, concerns? Sip joyfully the refreshing elixir of life. Let it sustain you, renew you, and replenish your soul.
Aaahhh, doesn’t life taste sweet!
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Hi,
I am connected to you via the EQ network group, hence I found this blog.
What an appropriate and helpful blog – it’s almost like it was meant for me! I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment and your reasoning makes great sense to me.
Going through some difficulties just now; overcoming some serious health concerns, facing redundancy for the second time in three years and not having much success looking for a new job (senior finance roles at Director level hard in short supply in the UK).
I have been working with a counsellor since May last year and we have made a lot of progress; health worries appear to be based in emotional issues stemming back to early childhood (40+ years!).
I have realised that I have very few true friends in my network and have found my counsellor to be a great support – not unlike scaffolding. I have done precisely what you suggest to try to cultivate stronger, more meaningful friendships, especially with colleagues who have faced the same redundancy issues as me. Giving out love and support in the hope (but not expectation) that what I give I will receive. However, as people have left and moved on with their lives, I’ve been left behind and I feel rather disappointed that the support I showed has not been reciprocated in any way whatsoever; it has just been taken, leaving me somewhat depleted, since I believe that to give love you must also receive it. I have a strong spiritual connection with my counsellor – right from the start I felt an instant recognition; a connection that I couldn’t explain – and my counsellor felt it too.
I have long felt that I would love to add my counsellor to my network of friends but when I scraped together the courage to discuss it I was advised that due to ethical considerations it was not possible to have anything more than a professional relationship; we cannot ever be friends it seems because we met in professional circumstances.
On the financial side I have indeed carried on giving freely – and even decided to pay my counsellor a small bonus (less than her fee for an hour’s session) in recognition of the help she has given me and the high regard I have for her. So imagine my shock and upset when she refused to accept it on the grounds of ethics. It seems I can’t even give it away! Bloomin’ ethics!
As a professional myself, I do understand the role of ethics and boundaries but I also believe in the bigger picture – so big that in a spiritual reality theses earthly, man-made rules and boundaries fade into nothingness; they are immaterial. In the bigger picture I believe spiritual growth and love overrides everything else – it’s what we’re here for. I should say that I have no lingering religious beliefs in the traditional sense; I do believe in the eternal spirit and am drifting towards the view that we’ve all been here many times before and will continue to return for many times to come.
So, finding that your advice is quite a bit harder to put into practice in this version of reality than it may appear. I guess you’ll tell me to keep going, but it feels like trying to live authentically is much like swimming against the tide!
Regards
Ian