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Guidance

By Spiritdancer  |  2010/07/26 22:51 Posted in Angels, Ego, Fear, God, Heart, Inspiration, Peace, Spirituality, heart speake  |  Comments (0)

Guest post from the Angels via Ann Albers

Today wish to speak to you about guidance. Each one of you is made of the very same light that moves the stars in the heavens, causes the seeds to burst forth and grow into full bloom, and guides you in all of your interactions. This light is known by so many names – God, Love, Universal Intelligence, and so forth. This light is nothing less than the love that created and sustains the universe. So too, it creates, sustains, and guides you, for it IS you.

It is the human mind that makes you feel separate from this light. It is human fears and anxieties that make you forget that you are eternally connected to the source of all creation and that this love WANTS you to feel at peace, WANTS you to feel in harmony with the universe, and longs for you to know the love that created you and guides you. What the mind wants however is entirely different. It wants the illusion of control. It wants certainty, predictable outcomes, and assurance that it will be the boss. As you learn to surrender your mind and to listen to your heart however, you find a divine balance between the two. The mind was intended to serve the heart, not vice versa.

So when when you find yourself in fear or in challenging times, know it is a human tendency to start strategizing, reacting, figuring out ways to manipulate the universe. Far better however, to stop, breathe, sit in silence and ask yourself, “What do I really want out of this situation? What is my heart trying to tell me?” Ask, “Heart, what do you want? What are you trying to tell me?” Invite the presence of God within you to speak clearly through your heart. And then, listen, not so much with your ears, but with your inner knowing. Be willing to ‘hear’ things your mind might disagree with.

Suppose you want desperately to get a new job . In every minute of your spare time, your mind says, work, work, work! Send out resumes every moment. Make those calls! But your heart says, I want to go outside today and relax and read my spiritual books. I want to reconnect with myself and God. And during this quiet time you realize there is something else entirely that you want to do with your life. You want to go back to school or change careers. Now dear ones, now that you have gotten in touch with your hearts, now the universe can and will support you. Now doors will open. Now you will receive inspiration and guidance.

When the mind is trying to control the heart, you can only be guided into situations that force you deeper into your heart. When the mind is honoring the heart, you can be guided easily towards the heart’s goals.

Only when you are at “one” with your true self will God guide you in your outer world towards your goals. Suppose your earth said, “I do not wish to revolve around the sun now! I want to go in a different direction.” Well my dear friends, she would not receive any help and assistance in that endeavor because she was created to go around the sun. And so guidance would be withheld until she said at long last, “Ah it is in my heart to revolve around the sun as gracefully and beautifully as I can.” So be it! Guidance would be immediately forthcoming.

Suppose you want a relationship to make your life more interesting, or to help you feel happier. If you insist, we can guide you toward one to do just that, however realize you will attract someone who wants YOU to make their life more interesting and to make them feel happier as well. And this will drive you deeper into your heart and you will say, “But I want a relationship with someone who is happy with themselves, and feels good about their own life.” And then the realization will follow, “I want to feel happy with myself and good about my own life.” Then dear ones, you will receive guidance as to how to go about realizing this truth, and in this deeper truth you will attract healthier and happier relationships.

Suppose you say, “God I want more money! I want to be able to pay my bills more easily.” Well dear ones we could guide you there in a heartbeat, but many times we do not because what you really want, underneath these desires is, “God, please show me that you really love me, support me, and care about me.” Far better to ask for this, because it is a deeper truth and in this deeper truth you will be guided in many ways that show you how much God loves you. You will develop faith, trust, and an awareness of greater truth, perhaps even in different directions than you might have chosen had the money come easily, and then… the money will come as well.

There are always very deep desires beneath the more human ones. Dig deep into your hearts, find them and ask for them, because these are the prayers that are answered in beautiful ways that you might not even imagine. In asking to feel your light, the light of God’s love, and the universal support for you, you are admitting to yourself you are worthy of it (and this is truth). You are admitting that you are a valuable part of the universe. You are allowing the Divine to guide you as was originally intended, and you are surrendering to a grander vision of your life than one you could ever dream for yourselves.

So by all means, pray the very human prayers for we care about your human life, but don’t forget to dig deep and see what prayers the heart is trying to pray underneath these human desires. You all want to know God’s love. You all want to feel safe and secure in that love. You all want to feel that your life has purpose. And we can easily guide you in these endeavors, for a life centered on love is one in which your material needs will truly be satisfied, your desires for connection will be upheld, and a joy that is natural to the soul will be allowed to shine through you to others on this school called Planet Earth.

God bless you! We love you so very much.
– The Angels

Guest post by Ann Albers copyright 2010

See the best and let go of the rest

By Spiritdancer  |  2010/07/11 16:22 Posted in Angels, Fear, Peace, Prayer  |  Comments (5)

Guest post by Ann Albers

We hear your prayers and know your worries dear ones, but if you knew the truth of God’s love for you and the reality of life on earth you would never have to worry again. You would trust that wherever you find yourself, all is in perfection. You would know that whatever anyone else is experiencing is exactly what they need at that point for their soul’s education. And in releasing your worries you would find boundless energy – for your fears drain the very life force out of you, focus you on negative realities, and prevent you from your natural state of creativity and well being.
Worry is a learned behavior. It is not a natural state of being for the soul. It is taught to you from an early age. You learn that if you care, you will worry. And yet, dear friends nothing could be farther from the truth! To worry about your future is to focus on and therefore lend energy to the very reality you wish to avoid. To worry about another is to focus on a negative reality for their future. Every thought you think, and every word you utter is a prayer. And while none of you would ever consciously pray for the worst for yourself or another, that is exactly what you do each time you send a worry out to the universe. It is a weak prayer, thankfully, but nonetheless a command to the universal intelligence. You do not want to create all you worry about dear ones! You want to create the beautiful dreams you dream with conscious intent.

So what to do when worry arises? Ask yourself, “What if my worry came true? How would I handle it?” Sometimes just looking fear in the face causes it to dissipate. Then say to yourself, “What is the best that can happen?” Allow yourself to envision the best possible solution. Ask yourself also, “What are the facts right now… today?” Remind yourself that you can always handle today. Envision the best for tomorrow.

And above all else, dear ones, when worry arises, say a prayer for the outcome you DO want. Instead of worrying about your children’s safety and fearing the worst, pray for the best. Instead of worrying about whether or not you can pay your bills, pray for financial security and plenty of abundance. Instead of worrying about your health or the health of another pray for their well being and vitality. Instead of worrying about Mother Earth, pray for her well-being. In this fashion you become powerful creators for what is good, true, healthy, joyous, and everlasting here upon your earth.

God bless you! We love you so very much.
– The Angels

Guest post by Ann Albers copyright 2010

Living in the moment and the flow: Part III

By Spiritdancer  |  2010/06/18 02:12 Posted in Joy, Living in the NOW, Peace, The Law of Attraction  |  Comments (6)

In this video Abraham does a really good job of explaining why “Now” is all there really is.

Living in the moment and the flow: Part II

By Spiritdancer  |  2010/06/16 22:34 Posted in Joy, Living in the NOW, Peace, Simplicity, Talks  |  Comments (2)

More on why the “now” is the most important thing.

Living in the moment and the flow: Part I

By Spiritdancer  |  2010/06/14 18:37 Posted in Joy, Living in the NOW, Peace, Talks  |  Comments (8)

Here I talk about living in the moment and why it’s such a good thing.

How to understand, find and live your life purpose

By Spiritdancer  |  2010/05/18 01:33 Posted in Fifth Dimensional Living, Peace, Purpose, Uncategorized  |  Comments (2)

Realize your connection to God and God’s plan for your life.  This plan is also your soul’s plan.  When you came to Earth you had a plan for how you would express God’s love here.

To trust is the foundation, understanding that there is a divine plan or dream for your life.

But you must understand that although you will be afraid, you can’t find this dream from a place of fear.   Love not fear is the path to finding this dream.  So the true foundation under the other foundations it that God loves you.  And from that place you must realize that you are taken care of, that you truly live in God’s grace.  These are major points to get across.  If you don’t realize that it starts with trust and knowing that God is there for you in every aspect of your life then you will be fearful and being fearful, it will be difficult for you to find the path that you seek.

Joy and play are clues to your path.  But if you don’t understand that you are taken care of then these joys and moments of play will be overshadowed by dark clouds of fear and foreboding.   You will be frightened about the next problem to come down the road.  So discovering our dream has to start with faith and trust.  Then we can proceed in a relaxed and peaceful way to understanding what our mission here on earth is.

What is God’s plan for our lives?  Everyone does have a plan. This is also a major point hat must be made.  Many people feel that they are not important, that their lives are meaningless and serve no purpose.   But your life does serve a purpose and it is important!  We are all God’s children.  This is a noble and important fact.  Now some religions want you to believe that you are an evil fallen creature that is not good enough for God.  From a certain perspective this is true.  We are all journeying up the road of perfection on our way home again.  But that does not mean that we are to feel bad about ourselves and focus on our lack of perfection.  Fear and guilt will not get us to Heaven.  Instead the path is to make more perfect that which is not perfect.  To always seek greater perfection.  And we do this though expressing love for our fellow man as well as the other living creatures on the planet.  Love is the way to heaven. How does all this affect our life purpose.  Our truest dream is God’s dream for our lives, which is our souls truest dream for our lives. And this dream is our life purpose.  This dream is greater than any dream we could ever imagine.  This dream has to be separated from ego or false dreams, the limited dreams and aspirations of man that usually revolve around our survival.  Our power comes from being connected to God’s grace and love and letting God’s love for the world move though us as freely as possible.   Therefore our purpose is to live God’s dream for our lives in the world as freely as possible.  There are three aspects to this.

1.  There is understanding this whole idea.   Many do not. (Awakening)

2.  Then to discover our life purpose. (Discovering)

3.  And finally to life our life purpose by sharing God love with the world. (Living)

There are many out there who want you to believe in the adage “Do what you love and the money will follow.” The idea that one had to first find their dream on their own and then figure out a way to make a living at it and then they would be happy.  This is incorrect.  First comes the happiness which comes with a realization that God loves you.   Then comes the understanding that God has a plan for your life, a greater dream.  Then we will want to share that love as much as possible with the world.  Thoughts about how to make a living and how to make money will only block the flow of God’s love. Give these things as little thought as possible because they are inherently fearful.   Trust is the key.   It is also better to share your love with the world in the most unconditional way possible.  This is scary and does not make sense from a worldly perspective, but it is the best way.  Do not concern yourself with survival issues.  Once you realize God’s dream for you life you will become aware of all the Heavenly help that is available to you.  Then you will not feel so alone and you will feel free to help others without being overly concerned about your own well-being.

Focus on others. How can you help them?  What can you do for them?  Always believe in the unlimited not the limited, because it is from the unlimited that all things come.

This path is a path of discovery where every step of the way it is revealed what God’s plan or dream for you life is.   This journey can take a day or a lifetime.   But is essential that you become couscous of this process.   The more conscious you are of this process the easier and faster it can happen.   Some times this is delayed because there are things you need to learn that you would not want to learn if you knew the overall vision for your life.  But if you approach every situation as a lesson to help you then you can speed things up, because as soon as you have learned what you needed to learn you will be released from that lesson plan so to speak.  So each step of they way more and more will be revealed and you will be equipped with more and more tools to help you along the way.  Joy is a beacon and so is love and play and how you feel.

Once you understand what your purpose is, the next essential part is to start sharing that with the world as much as possible in as many ways as possible and as unconditionally as possible.  Let the energy, love energy, God’s energy, flow out to the world.   This is why it is important in the beginning to know that you are taken care of.    When you fully embrace your purpose you will be are transformed from a human being to a human angel on Earth.   This is a very important step because now we can assist in the creation of Heaven on earth.   This is done with the power of love as express by your purpose.   When you’re living in alignment with this divine plan for you life you will be as happy as you can be because nothing feels better than to do God’s work.  You will feel complete and whole like this is what you were born for and it’s true, it is what you were born for.  When you are not doing this work you will always feel the angst, that something is just not quite right.

Not to worry there is lots of help to help you find that place and there is no reason everyone on earth can’t find this place.

Once your realize your life purpose, once your realize that you are doing what you came to earth to do.  Then you will naturally want to share it as much as possible.  It’s just built into you.  You will want to share it.  The problem is people become overly concerned with their survival and then the energy becomes stifled.  A contraction occurs so to speak.  This is where trust comes in.  We have to remember we are taken care of and this is a difficult thing to do on earth.  This is why it is vitally important at this point to live in the spirit and to depend on God for all things.  If you try to live your purpose but depend on the world to do it you will only have failure. So a good spiritual foundation is essential.

Do not go back to the old way of depending on the world.

Pray and meditate as much as needed until you find that place of peace where you know without-a-doubt that you are taken care of.

So sharing is the next part, share your love with the world because that is what your dream, your purpose is–love, the form does not matter, in the end it is love, God’s love going though you, into the world in what ever form it takes.  Our dream, our art, our love… to be effective it must be shared.   And we do not just share it conditionally, for only fame or fortune, to get rich or for what we can gain.  Because love needs nothing, it only goes out to do good in the world.

We must share our dream with no thought of return.  This is the only way to maximizes the benefits to others.  And this is the purpose of our life here to help make the world a better place,

…to bring — Heaven to earth.

How to Get Your Life on Purpose

By Spiritdancer  |  2010/03/06 01:44 Posted in Peace, Purpose  |  Comments (2)
by Ingrid Bacci, PhD

Each of us has an inner compass, an infallible mechanism for self-direction or guidance. You can call it your inner pilot or, if you like, you can call it your soul. It doesn’t matter what you call it. What does matter is that whenever you are actually listening to this inner compass and following its guidance, you tend to feel peaceful, focused, dynamic and alive. When you do not listen to its guidance, you tend to feel scattered, unfocused, nervous, lethargic, and possibly ill. What most people don’t understand is that there is a timeworn, ancient and reliable process for learning how to stay in touch with the focused, peaceful and dynamic part of you that wants to take you to your true goal, and to support you in putting on that incredible theatrical performance that is your life.

That time-tested, age-old process has one defining characteristic. It involves undoing the

negative habits that keep you from owning your soul, your life purpose.

Let’s say the same thing in another way. Most people think that if they could only identify their purpose, they would be happy, focused, energetic and alive. They think that what is keeping them from pursuing their purpose is that they don’t know what it is. But that is not the way things actually work. Finding your purpose is like finding a clear-running current in a river: it takes you effortlessly along your way, but only once you get past all the log jams and garbage that choke up some of its tributaries. Similarly, if you get rid of your own log jams, your purpose will take you effortlessly. You will recognize it by the fact that where you are feels right. You will have let go of resistance to the current of your life.

The problem, of course, is that most of us are addicted to the log jams of our lives. We may say to ourselves that we would rather not have them, but we cling to them. We cling to worry, to fear, to self-doubt, to procrastination, to staying in intolerable circumstances, to accepting abuse, to giving abuse, to self-medicating with drugs, food or alcohol, to seeing life as unfair, to blaming reality, others or ourselves for our situation, to thinking someone or something else is supposed to save us and make it alright, and so on. We cling to what we say we don’t want.

I have written about some of these issues and how to free ourselves from them extensively, in my first book, The Art of Effortless Living. Stay tuned also for my next book, currently being completed. In the meantime, here are a few reminders about finding your purpose, becoming the champion of your life, and truly learning to live your dreams:

1)      Practice centering yourself every day of your life: through meditation, yoga, breath awareness, prayer, and so on. Make inner peace your strongest value, notice when you let something else take priority (something like anxiety, fear, disappointment, restlessness) and return to making your center the most important thing.

2)      If something in your life is not working for you, you have three options: change yourself, change the situation, or leave the situation. If changing yourself (for example, listening more, or becoming less impatient) is not the solution to the problem, work on changing the situation (telling others in a respectful but firm way what you need in the situation). If changing the situation doesn’t work, then summon up the courage to let it go. Leave the job that doesn’t work, the relationship that is abusive or demeaning, the social network that is no longer life affirming for you. You can’t get what you want if you don’t have the courage to leave what isn’t working for you.

3)      Practice courage. The word courage is derived from the French word for heart, spelled “coeur.” To have courage is to have a big heart, and to have a big heart is to have courage. Be courageous, step out for what you want. Give others their due, and don’t try to force your opinions on them, but have the courage and the heart to live a life that makes sense to you. There is no other way.

4)      Remember that this world needs people who are calm and courageous, people who own their own power. Give to the world by giving the best of yourself: your inner peace and your courage. You will profit, and so will everyone else. Yes, even if they get mad at you at times, and resist the direction you take, your calm and your courage are the best gifts you can give to others. Why? Because every person finds their purpose when they build their calm and their courage, and every person learns how to do that primarily from having the example around them of other  individuals who are doing the same thing.

by Ingrid Bacci, PhD

Money Cannot Buy Happiness, So Man Gives Away Every Penny of His 3 Million Fortune

By Spiritdancer  |  2010/02/10 15:36 Posted in Money, Peace, The Economics of Love  |  Comments (2)

Posted by TelgraphPost.co.uk

Karl Rabeder grew up poor and thought that life would be wonderful if he had money. But when he got rich, Karl discovered that he was unhappy … so he decided to give away every penny of his £3 million fortune:

“My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come.”

Instead, he will move out of his luxury Alpine retreat into a small wooden hut in the mountains or a simple bedsit in Innsbruck.

His entire proceeds are going to charities he set up in Central and Latin America, but he will not even take a salary from these.

“For a long time I believed that more wealth and luxury automatically meant more happiness,” he said. “I come from a very poor family where the rules were to work more to achieve more material things, and I applied this for many years,” said Mr Rabeder.

But over time, he had another, conflicting feeling.

“More and more I heard the words: ‘Stop what you are doing now – all this luxury and consumerism – and start your real life’,” he said. “I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things that I did not wish for or need. I have the feeling that there are lot of people doing the same thing.”

However, for many years he said he was simply not “brave” enough to give up all the trappings of his comfortable existence.

The tipping point came while he was on a three-week holiday with his wife to islands of Hawaii.

“It was the biggest shock in my life, when I realised how horrible, soulless and without feeling the five star lifestyle is,” he said. “In those three weeks, we spent all the money you could possibly spend. But in all that time, we had the feeling we hadn’t met a single real person – that we were all just actors. The staff played the role of being friendly and the guests played the role of being important and nobody was real.”

He had similar feelings of guilt while on gliding trips in South America and Africa. “I increasingly got the sensation that there is a connection between our wealth and their poverty,” he said.

Suddenly, he realised that “if I don’t do it now I won’t do it for the rest of my life”.

Mr Rabeder decided to raffle his Alpine home, selling 21,999 lottery tickets priced at just £87 each. The Provence house in the village of Cruis is on sale at the local estate agent.

All the money will go into his microcredit charity, which offers small loans to Latin America and builds development aid strategies to self-employed people in El Salvador, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Chile.

Since selling his belongings, Mr Rabeder said he felt “free, the opposite of heavy”.

But he said he did not judge those who chose to keep their wealth. “I do not have the right to give any other person advice. I was just listening to the voice of my heart and soul.”

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Find the place where everything feels ok

By Spiritdancer  |  2009/08/19 07:19 Posted in God, Joy, Peace, Spirituality  |  Comments (0)

Today while I was alone and cleaning up the house. It came to me that I was at peace in that moment. And then I realized that we are always at peace but choose to leave that place. Basically we have to find the place inside where everything FEELS ok. It may not be ok materially or financially or what ever but if we can find that place where it feels ok that is the place of peace, that is where God is. The trick is and I’m working on it, is not to leave that place. Of course then the world will assail us saying “ you must leave peace because…” and it will give is its myriad reasons why we must leave peace. But it’s a trick and a lie. I know because I’ve left peace many times, gone deep into hell. Only to discover there’s no there there. And the world will tempt you with this lie. “ Follow me, leave peace for now, it’s only temporary. Do what I tell you and I promise I will give you peace when you do what I want you to do. When you do what you have to do.” It’s a lie that can go on and on and on. The temptations, the temporary replacements for peace look very good; money, fame, things, jobs, business, struggle. The people, places and things we feel we must have or do first before we can have peace. It’s a lie because the reality is that PEACE IS NOW. Peace is here. This is a reality and a truth I feel and know right now. The thing is how long can I stay here? And, if I stay here, can things based on peace come from here? Could I have a life based on peace and not fear? “The world says “NO you will die if you stay in peace!” But what if my garden was made of peace and everything that grew out of it was made of peace. And what if that’s how I lived, a life made from peace. THAT would be cool and THAT, I’ve decided, is what I want.