Some beauty for your soul

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way." -Vincent van Gogh

HEALING PRAYER

I ask the Great Unseen Healing Force To
Remove All Obstructions From My Mind
and Body

I ask This in All Sincerity and
Honesty And I Will Do My Part

I ask This Great Unseen Healing Force To
Help Both Present and Absent Ones Who
are in Need of Help And to Restore Them
to Perfect Health.

​I Put My Trust In the Love and Power of
God.

-Spiritualist Church

 - Vincent van Gogh -

Sarah McLachlan

In the arms of the angels ... may you find some comfort here ...
   Listen to the song here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SiylvmFI_8&list=RD1SiylvmFI_8#t=46

WELCOME NEW STUDENTS!

Welcome to our new students and classmates: 

 Hemant, Claudia, Berta, Terry, & Manuela 

We have students from the USA, India, Switzerland, Germany, Lebanon, and Croatia. Our school is a multi-cultural school. Everyone is welcome from every religion, culture, and nationality. You don't need a VISA and there are no walls or borders. The only walls are the ones you hide behind. The only borders are self-created. Here in our school, we affirm your innate freedom. Your school cannot give you something you do not have. It can only point the way to the freedom within you. Your school and all its lessons, all its messages, are simply signposts along the way. Follow them! Listen to the angelic voices softly calling you home. Listen! Can you hear? The voices of the angels are not different from the voice of your own Heart, the voice of Intuition, the voice of God.  

 

Angels and Acceptance

Acceptance, as defined by the angels, is not a passive sit back and do nothing state. Acceptance means moving in harmony with what IS, willing to let go and move in another direction when so guided. The spiritual path is a journey away from stress to the peace that comes when we let go, accept what is, and flow with creation as it manifests itself in each changing moment. 

Angels are effective precisely because they do not engage in hopeless struggle. Angels simply allow the work of God to flow effortlessly through them. Angels do not sit around pondering problems and they never worry. “Can any of you, however much you worry, add a single cubit to your span of life?" (Matthew 6:27) If a very small thing is beyond your powers, why worry about the rest?”

   

fear not!

Do not fear losing hope. It is the fear of losing yourself. It is like standing at the river with a thimble, hoping to quench your thirst. The angels say, why not just jump into the river…become the river…let the river carry you in its direction, instead of struggling to go in your direction. Why not just breathe and relax and stop being the doer — and let the great river of life and light carry you, do everything for you.

FAITH AND EXPECTATION

 
Faith comes from God. Expectation comes from ego.

Faith is a vital, expansive part of life. Faith is a light shining in your heart. Faith exists in the now. Expectation jumps in and crowds out the innocent, expansive energy of faith. Faith can let go. Expectation can only grab. Expectation insists on its own way and experiences a big letdown that can lead to depression and resentment when it does not get what it wants. Expectation travels heavy with demands, attachments, and ego. Faith travels light. Faith holds a vision put there by God. Expectation takes hold of that vision and calls it “mine.”

A beautiful understanding of faith can be found in the words of Sun Bear, a medicine chief and sacred teacher of Chippewa descent, “If our vision or medicine told us to move again we would do that, because we cannot be arrogant. We must accept what our vision tells.”

And from Hebrews 11:1, comes this philosophy, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

A HEALING MEDITATION FOR BODY, MIND, SPIRIT

Your body is a vessel. The body contains not only what you eat and breathe, but also what you think, imagine and feel. We are affected at every level by what we think and believe. Your school guides you to becoming aware of the beliefs that form your reality. Your school encourages you to become free of beliefs you have been holding onto since childhood, even lifetimes, which form your identity--your false identity.

Your school reaches deep within your conditioned mind to free you from the beliefs that limit and control your life, so you can think for yourself.

Pains and illnesses in the body are directly related to your thinking. We cannot help but have certain pains in the body, because the body is physical, subject to the physical laws of the universe. But the way you respond to pain also determines the way pain manifests.

Some people feel a small pain in their body and react with fear or anger. Some people run immediately for pain pills. Some want to learn about that pain, why it is there and what it means. Some respond with love to the place of pain.

This is not to say that all pain and illness can be healed by our thinking, but our thoughts can make pain and illnesses worse and harder to heal from. We are whole beings. What affects any part of body, mind, or soul, affects everything.

What you are not aware of controls you. When you become aware of limiting beliefs, they begin to lose control over you.

A HEALING MEDITATION

Imagine that your body is slowly being filled with Soft Healing Golden Light. Give this light a fragrance that appeals to you. You are now being filled with Soft Golden Healing Fragrant Light. Gentle and warm, this fragrant golden light begins to fill your body.

See yourself standing in a warm fragrant golden puddle of Light
Your toes are filling with this light
The light is covering and filling your feet
Up to your ankles
Moving up through your calves
Deep into and around your knees
Up through and into your thighs
Deep into your hips, both hips equally
Healing, balancing your hips

Let your hips receive 
Let your hips receive
Let your hips receive

Aligning and balancing your hips
Now the light moves deep into your belly
Around to your lower back

Swirling through all your sexual creative organs
Healing, Warm, Passionate Light
Moving now into your solar plexus
Filling your solar plexus 

Calm Healing Warm Fragrant Golden Light
Moving up through your spine
Filling your back and each vertebra 

Upward and inward into your heart
And lungs
Penetrating each organ
With healing golden light

Continuing into your heart
Completely filling your heart with Golden Fragrant Light
The light circles upward to your shoulders
Releasing all burdens
Your shoulders letting go, relaxing
Floating within the light

Warm Golden Fragrant Light
Flowing down into your arms
Your hands
Your fingers

Breath deeply
Inhaling fragrant warm golden light.
Up to your chin
Filling your neck
Filling your mouth
Tasting warm golden light

Nectar on your tongue
Filling each tooth
Filling your head
Shining out through your third eye 

Becoming your hair
Up through the crown of your head
A Warm Golden Healing Crown of Light 

Your whole body filled now
With Healing Fragrant Warm Golden Light
Your whole body 
Breathing Golden Light
Free of pain
Whole, Complete, Healed 
Now and Forever.

THINK FOR YOURSELF

When you mindlessly believe what you have been taught or conditioned to believe, you are letting others do your thinking for you. This keeps you imprisoned by other people's thoughts. It takes courage to think creatively, to think ‘outside the box’ in ever-evolving circles, curves, swirls, mandalas, and lines that expand into infinity—and finally, to realize there is no box at all.

Be willing to be courageous! Be willing to give up false ideas of lack, loss, fear, and limitation! Be willing to live your True Magnificence!

Never Blindly Believe Anything!
Do not believe anything you read here.
Contemplate what you read.
Find out for yourself what is true.
-from Lesson One

Intimacy, Closeness, and Friendship

The closer we get to people, the more is required of us. Intimacy doesn't always feel "good." It's harder to hide our darkness from others the closer we get. True intimacy requires that we SEE our darkness and OWN that darkness, instead of blaming it on the other. And that we be willing to see that others are a reflection of who we are. Too many people just cut someone lose at the first sign of conflict or disagreement, without bothering to work it through -- which requires some effort. Real intimacy calls for effort and nurturing; otherwise relationships can easily fade away.

So do what you can to nurture your friendships. Our lives on earth are so fleeting. We may think we have lots of time, but we don't. Look at where you are holding onto darkness in the form of hurt, blame, and judgment. Do not harbor resentments and old hurts. Left unresolved, they turn into bitterness, and bitterness is much harder to resolve and let go of. 

If someone chooses to walk out of your life, gently let them go. Feel your pain. When you do, all the angels will shower you with raindrops of love. That pain will blossom into a beautiful flower, a mandala of love. You will come to understand that God is your best friend. Angels are always with you. You are never alone, even when you think you are.

ANGELS Are Watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSgojJukJdc

ANGELS Are Watching. You might like to watch other people's experiences with angels. And maybe share your own, if you have any.

On Being An Empath

On my website I have a link to learning what it is to be an empath: http://healing.about.com/cs/empathic/a/uc_empathtraits.htm Here is a "Ted Talk" on being an empath, also called Highly Sensitive People. You might be interested in viewing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi4JOlMSWjo .  It's not easy being an empath, as some of you might know. Combined with having had a near-death experience (NDE) and working with of all things...angels...makes it doubly hard. Trying to fit into the world when you are different is always challenging.
I think dogs are natural empaths. Penny was. She was the sweetest being and I miss her each moment.

Remember

"We do not become healers.
We came as healers. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become storytellers.
We came as carriers of the stories
we and our ancestors actually lived. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become artists. We came as artists. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become writers … dancers … musicians … helpers ... peacemakers.
We came as such. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not learn to love in this sense.
We came as Love. We are Love.
Some of us are still catching up to who we truly are."

Clarissa Pinkola Estés (*1945) US American Jungian psychoanalyst, post-trauma specialist, poet, writer, The Contemplari manuscript, "A Simple Prayer for Remembering the Motherlode", 1976, 2012

about your teacher...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiAWfu7cu8&feature=youtu.be

This is a video of Jamestown, New York, where I grew up. Well, I  grew up in Falconer and Kennedy, very small villages -- part of the Jamestown area, the same county, separated only by an imaginary line you drive across. Jamestown is also where I am visiting right now, where my mom lives. Well, actually, this moment I am in Cattaraugus, way out in the country. The Amish live around here. It is very rural. Amish horse and buggies drive by, but not so many cars. Hills, trees, and fields. In the summer the fireflies light up the fields and the stars turn the sky into brilliance.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

When the soul is awakened, it is as if that person were to wake up in the middle of the night among hundreds and thousands of people who were fast asleep. He is sitting or standing among them, hearing about their sorrows and miseries and their conditions, hundreds of them moving about in their sleep, in their dreams, not awakened to his condition although he is near them. They know little about him, as each one is absorbed in his own trouble. This awakened soul, standing among them all, will listen to everyone, will recognize all that they think and feel; but his language no one understands; his thoughts he cannot explain to anyone; his feelings he cannot expect anyone to feel. He feels lonely, but no doubt in this loneliness there is also the sense of perfection, for perfection is always lonely. Imagine living in a world where nobody speaks our language. Yet he knows the world’s language. The experience of the matured soul is like the experience of the man who watched a play performed on the stage at night, and in the morning he saw the same stage again in the sun and saw that all the palaces and gardens and the actors’ costumes were unreal. Daily Meditation of January 9, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Fake Olive Oil bad for our health in USA

https://livingtraditionally.com/fake-olive-oil-companies-revealed-stop-buying-brands-now/ Fake Olive Oil Companies Revealed – Stop Buying These Brands Now! This is disturbing! 70% of Olive oil available in stores in the US has actually been cut with cheaper, nastier oils – meaning its fake!

NEW YEAR MESSAGE 2017

The New Year Message for 2017 

is now posted on my website 

and you can read it here:

🌟INTO THE SILENCE🌟

What you give out comes back...

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I had the honor of meeting Nisargadatta Maharaj in Mumbai, India. I will never forget the way his piercing eyes looked into mine. People have said he was harsh. To me he was the gentlest man I ever met. 

"When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected." -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Wishing you Love, Abundance, Peace for 2017