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Robyn M
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Channeled Teachings
It is time to pay attention to your thoughts, and to your responses to other people. How often do you catch yourself thinking thoughts of resentment or anger towards another person? How often do you dwell and obsess about ‘negative’ things that have happened? How often do you thoughts go round and round about similar things? How often do you attract more of the same, so that those thoughts can continue to go round and round and round? This is where the change needs to be made. Stop the negative thoughts. Each time you catch them starting to go round, replace then with something positive, something about the kind of future you would like to have. If, for example, someone ignored you when you spoke to them, instead of letting the resentment start to go round and round in your mind, simply acknowledge ‘oh…they didn’t listen to me…ah well….I envisage a future for me where people do listen, a future where I am happy and feel fulfilled.’ You see the difference there? The old pattern will drag you down and keep you in the mud, so to speak, but the other, envisaging the future, feels much more positive and filled with hope and excitement. This tactic can be used every time you catch yourself thinking negatively. It is a universal truth that what you focus on you draw to you. You may focus on love and patience and expect that from your partner, but it may come from friends and family and not your partner. It may be that the reason they continue to push your buttons is so that you can continue to learn, to recognize your buttons and to resolve them. Learn what you can, and you may find that once you stop resenting your partner’s behavior, it stops arising as much as it used to. With regard to your responses to other people, this is an interesting thing for you to watch. Observe how you respond when people criticize something that is important to you. Observe how you respond when you yourself feel criticized. Observe how the people you are with interact with you. Observe your physical, mental, and emotional responses to them. When you feel those old buttons being pushed, pause, take a mental and emotional step backwards, and think for a moment. That is all it takes to break the cycle. Think carefully about the best response and then speak, calmly and clearly, words of wisdom. Often other people are not used to you standing up for yourself or for what you believe in. They will, at first, be surprised that they did not get to walk all over your beliefs as they used to. In the past when someone has condemned you or your beliefs, or something you care about, you may have felt the anger immediately rise, your resentment may have kicked in, and your mind may have started getting into ‘verbal attack mode’, whilst perhaps you also felt a light sweat break out over your body because there was a part of you that was afraid to stand up for yourself. Maybe you got into an argument, maybe it got all nasty, and maybe you walked away feeling ‘crushed’ and ‘valueless’. How about we replace that with, you speaking quietly and calmly to the person, putting across your views, or simply saying that you acknowledge that not everyone else shares your beliefs, but they are yours to hold, and you embrace them, and that you fully support and encourage that person in whatever beliefs they hold. Smile. Walk away. The way you have spoken has been gentle, and it has not inflamed their desire for a good argument, and you have acknowledged their own beliefs—whatever they may be—and because you spoke so calmly and confidently, you have left no room for debate. You expressed yourself clearly. This often ends an argument, because an argument cannot progress if inflamed passions are not fully involved. Now, take a look at the two responses in those paragraphs. Does not the second leave you feeling lighter, more in control, more in the embrace of your own power? This is all as simple as flicking a switch and then paying attention. You may find yourself slipping back into old reactive patterns, but the more you become aware that that is what you are doing, the more you will be reminded to choose the new way, the peaceful gentle way. The result will be: more peace and gentleness for all involved, and the full embracing of your own power. Do you think it is worth trying? We do! The inner Light that burns within each of you. What do you think this is? A flicker of potential? A tiny part of who and what you could be? A small part of you that is worthy? That Light that you see, is all that you are. There is no darkness in your ultimate truth. You were made of Light. You are Light. But, around that Light you have wrapped darkness. You have allowed the Light to be almost smothered. What happens if you smother that Light completely? It is not possible to smother the Light completely. It cannot be done. However, there is a balance in life and beyond life. The more you invite in the darkness the more work you will have to do in dealing with the consequences. A choice to hurt is an invitation to be hurt. I choice to hate is an invitation to be hated. A choice to inflict misery is an invitation to misery to enter your life. You will pay the consequences of all your actions. At the end of your lifetime you will have to face up to all that you have done, and see it for it's reality, and understand it by experiencing it from both sides. To atone for the harm you have done, is partly achieved through at-one-ing with the victim, i.e. becoming one with them, to experience, as they did, the harm you inflicted. The Light is always within you no matter how many times you decide to hurt another person, no matter how many times you choose misery and anger. The Light does not go away. It's always there, like a tiny candle ready to ignite into a flaming ball of Light the moment the opportunity presents itself. What kind of opportunity? A single moment of pure love. In that moment your Light would burst into flame. In that moment of Light you would see the truth and you would know your reality. You may, of course, choose to descend back into the shadows, but you will have known love and you will be forever changed. How do you make the Light burn brightly every moment? Simple. You make all your choices from love. All your choices -- how you think, how you speak, how you interact with people, how you go about your daily life. What does 'living from love' achieve for you? What you give, you shall receive. The more love you give the more love you receive, though it may be that you give love to one person and received love from several other people (neighbors, fiends, relatives etc). More than that, however, you will find yourself existing joyfully. You will wake happy each day, feeling the love that is your innate truth. There as days when challenges arise and you may find 'living from love' difficult, but in those times love is even more important. You will find that to deal with the situation 'from love, patience and understanding' will achieve far better results than a fight or an argument, and the solution will be long lasting -- whereas a blazing argument merely heats tempers and encourages bitterness. Egos are often the prime cause of arguments, each person desperate to be right, and for what? Does the world change if you are right or wrong? Are the hungry fed and the miserable comforted on the basis of your being right? No, so, in reality, what do you achieve? A boost to your ego, a sense of power. These are weak things in the face of tolerance, weak in the face of love, and false in the face of reality. The greatest people you will ever meet with be the truly peaceful and wise ones. You will remember them. You will love them long after they are gone. Whereas the power hungry will soon be forgotten. Your Light is always burning. Only you can decide how brightly. A world illuminated by people who have chosen to embrace their Light and burn brightly? What a wonderful thing that would be! Our question is: how will you choose to live today? What does a new year offer you? It offers you the opportunity to live a year of 'making a difference'. You could live this year earning money, spending that money, eating, drinking, socializing, watching television, and see the days slip by one after the other. Or... You could choose to make this the year you live a greater life. Live with love in your heart, help other people, nurture the planet, be kind to all life forms. You could spend time in mediation or prayer. You could do healings on yourself and the world. You could seek a greater wisdom. You could embrace your divine reality. You could live as a Soul upon the Earth. In the first choice, nothing will change. In the second choice, ALL will change. Every year things happen upon the world which you deem as terrible. Yet, you do not change. Isn't a new year also a good opportunity to change? To enlighten your life? You may think one person cannot make a difference. You are wrong. One person can make all the difference in the world. One thought of love makes all the difference in the world. Life is a joyous experience, and yet so many people seem to focus in negative aspects of life -- on anger, resentment, bitterness, greed. Wouldn't it feel far better to focus on positive aspects of life -- love, friendship, family, laughter, flowers, sunshine? What you focus on is what you attract into your life. Take responsibility for that. A man does not reach the top of a mountain by an act of desire. He achieves the mountain top by taking one step at a time and putting in the effort required to get him to the top of the mountain. Work is required. Commitment is required. Form that commitment and effort, the joy will be insurmountable. If you desire for your life to change, you will be required to put it the effort, to change your habits and thought patterns. But, with commitment, you will achieve the results you seek. Some people feel it should all be easy, that there should be no effort required. But, we say to you: these habits that you put into place, these responses to life and people, it was you who put them in place, and it is only you who can change them. It will only be as hard as you make it. You could choose to make the changes easily, knowing you will benefit. To live with a peaceful heart is as easy as choosing to live with a peaceful heart, and choosing to respond to situations from that peace. It is all in your hands. The state of the world is representative of the state of humankind. What would happen if humankind were to change? Well...why don't you see for yourself. Change you and see what happens to the world around you. If a village were to change, what would happen to their nation? If a nation were to change, what would happen to the world? If a thousand people in every city in the world changed, what would happen to the state of the world. Test the theory and see for yourself. WE cannot change your world. YOU created it, and YOU can heal it. The only question is: do you want to? If you do, then make this the year you put in the effort to do so!
How often do you eat something and pay attention to how it makes you feel? How often do you listen to your body's response? For example: if you eat a banana, do you participate fully in the experience? Do you taste it, feel how it affects you emotionally, and feel the effects upon your physical body? Most people don't. Most people eat food and focus only on the flavor. This has lead to a society that does not understand correct, and individual nutrition. Nutrition cannot be based solely on what 'experts' say is correct, because not all people are the same. One of you may have a body that does not resonate well with cooked potatoes, while another person's body resonates in harmony with potatoes. One person may find capsicum suits their body and another person may find it does not. To learn correct nutrition, each person needs to understand what is right for their body. This means going back to the very beginning. Start with a banana. Peel it, smell it, take a small bite. How does it feel in your mouth? Chew. How does it taste? How does it make your body feel? How does it affect your emotions? Where in your body are you feeling a response? There has to be some response. If you insist there is not, then you need to switch off your logical mind and simply allow yourself the experience. If a banana is in harmony with your body you will feel a sense of joy while you eat it. Your energy will lift, you will feel happy, and you will feel your heart sing. This is the response your body is likely to give you. Now, try the same thing with a slice of white bread and butter. You may find that your energy neither rises nor falls, but feels rather flat and unresponsive. This is because it is not a terrific food, but also not a very bad food. Now, try the same thing with a chocolate. You will likely feel your taste buds dance and your mouth sing for joy, but that is the basis of a material world, surface response. Go deeper than that. Feel how your energy and your emotions respond. You may find that your emotions remain flat, that the only thing getting excited is your mouth. The response on an energy level, and on an emotional level, is not there because the food is not giving you the kinds of energy your body thrives on. Try a salad for dinner, and really pay attention to the meal. You will likely find a lightness, a lift in your energy, an enjoyment. Some of this is because you know that a salad is good for you, the rest is because it is energy your body enjoys. Of course, if the leaves have been sprayed with something harmful, then your experience may be less than enjoyable. If you eat a fruit which has been sprayed, then waxed, and your washing of the fruit has not remove the wax and the spray, you will feel ill. The purer your diet, the faster you will feel the stomach pains. That pains are an extreme reaction, verging on your body screaming at you to not eat this ever again. The purer your diet, the healthier your body, the less tolerant you body will be to that which is bad for it. Take the time to fully experience the food that you eat. Allow yourself the pleasure of knowing how each food item affects you. Over a course of time you will learn what foods make you rejoice, what foods energize you, what foods calm you, what foods lower your energy levels, what foods brings a calm emotional state. You will learn how to eat for the mood you are in or the work you have ahead f you. Be in touch with your body. Understand what your body does and does not like. Live according to that. Eat what you need for each day, for each work, for each emotion. Learn to balance yourself, mentally, emotionally and physically, through you diet. This is a fascinating topic, and there is so much we could say, but for now it is important that you simply take the first step. Where is it in your body that you hold stress? What part of your body suffers when you are 'burning the candle at both ends'? People suffer from stress in different ways. Some carry stress in their shoulders, others suffer emotionally, becoming distant, moody, or quick to anger when they are stressed. Some carry it in their gut, feeling a twisting and a turning when the stress becomes too much. What we have referred to above is emotional stress. Physical stress is handled differently. When you place yourself under physical stress, working long hours, working two jobs, giving up sleep time, you reach a point where the physical toll is becoming obvious. Your heart beats a little faster and harder. Your gut aches. You find it hard to concentrate. You find it harder to remain patient. Many of you (particularly mothers) ignore the symptoms. You put yourselves on auto pilot and just plough through the work. You do it because it needs to be done and you don't even consider tiredness. When you had a new born baby there was much to do and weariness did not change that. You did what had to be done because it had to be done. You ignored your fatigue. You became experts at pushing yourselves too hard. As your children grew up a bit you got some more sleep, so you felt rested again. You still, however, retained that ability to start a job and keep going until it was done, ignoring fatigue. Mothers truly are super women! However, the toll needs to be considered. The stress that you place on your body, be it the shoulders, the heart, the gut, the lungs, these can all result in illness if left unattended. How can you rectify that? Simple. Very simple. Though you may wish to do this in a supportive environment. If you have felt that your heart was not quite right, sit, quietly, and talk to your heart. Apologize for the stress you have placed it under. How your hands out before you, and visualize them as hands of light. Ask your heart to release all of its burdens into your hands, and ask that they be instantly transmuted into love. You may need to ask your heart to release these burdens several times, each time assuring your heart that it is okay, that you do not need your heart to hold on to these burdens. You may find this a painful process. You may find grief rising, or pain, but it is better that you see it, know it and are able to release it. Ask your Guides and Angels to support you in this process. Know that you are surrounded by love as you work through this process. When you feel you have released all that your heart has held, place your hands over the heart, and thank the heart. Send your love to your heart. Tell your heart how much you appreciate it's work, it's continued beating. Spend some time doing this. It is a simple process. It may cause issues to rise that you would prefer not to deal with, but sooner or later you will have to deal with them. It would be better to deal with them before the issues become an illness. The same process applies to shoulders, lungs, gut, any part of your body. You can work through the body itself. It is all a process of helping your body to release that which it has held on to, those burdens which it has harbored, so that your body can function well, and maintain a level of good health. Of course, you still need to pay attention to your thoughts, actions and diet, but, what we have shared with you here is just one step, one thing you can do to help yourself. You may choose to do this as a group, and support each other. If you have had a traumatic life it would be best not to try this alone, but to definitely have that group support, or the support of someone your trust. Many people have, for so long, carried their burdens like badges, assuming they have no effect upon the body. They do have an effect, and if left untended, they could result in a deterioration of your health. Regaining your health is far more difficult that maintaining it. If you are always under stress, it is important you find ways to release that stress and find some peace. It might be a sport, it might be a walk along the beach and then some time sitting on the sand in the sun. It might be spending time with people you love. It might be in meditation. It might be sitting on the back doorstep in the sun with a cup of tea. Find your stress release. Stress is not a badge to be proud if, it is detrimental to your health. Behavior that results from stress is not justified, it is detrimental to the health of you and every one around you. Do not carry your stress, and do not carry anyone else's stress.
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