UPDATED Beloveds,
I am sure you have noticed we are not in Kansas anymore (Wizard of Oz movie reference.) For a few weeks now we have been pummeled with the most intense solar flares in 25 years. Our bodies and minds may feel like scrambled eggs. We are being shoved out of our comfort zones, none too gently. I know a few people who are doing incredibly well, bliss bunnies. For myself, I don’t know what is happening, can’t tell up from down and have incredible chaos in my house. I feel frequently fogged and comatose energetically yet also alive, open, vulnerable, trusting, curious. I am not afraid. (pause for ticker tape parade) I have not had less financial resources in over 25 years, my work is still at a stand still and yet I have this irresistible faith all is well. I know how powerful my work and presence are, I affirm my own self love and stand firmly for my own good, I am shifting the focus of my last special relationship away from seeing the other as my source to knowing my own love is the ground that holds me. I am experiencing delightful social interactions out of the blue, having such open hearted and intimate conversations almost daily, making new friends and having new experiences often. For the last few weeks, my body often feels like it is in some weird bog of heavy oozing sludge, my mind is frequently fogged and yet I trust this is finite and definitely leading to my, to our good. Go figure. During this time, all non essential activities have stopped as I know my body is taxed to the max with this level of physical transformation. My house is a mess, we are often eating out, I only put my clothes away sporadically, my to do list is frozen, I rest as much as possible. I use to panic in these times, afraid I would never be able to function well enough to take care of myself and my daughter or that the experience would never end. Now a deeper faith holds me. Be aware of how intense these times can be for some of us energetically sensitive beings. Be kind and gentle. Darlings, this is the time to take impeccable care of your body, spend time in silence and nature, stick to whatever ritual or tradition that holds you steady, spend time with like hearted friends or family and keep affirming your self love, even when your heart does not yet feel it. Hold with me knowing all is well as we swirl through the unknown into the unknowable. See the articles below for a further taste of the journey of Love and of these times.
http://www.nicolyachristi.com/Love-in-a-Cold-Climate.html
…Rise in Love, or Fall
The teaching of unconditional love at a consciously awakened level is the highest of all. Everything that exists and every word, action or deed, is an expression (and teaching) of unconditional love, even when delivered through an un-integrated, dysfunctional personality caught in reaction for it bestows upon us an opportunity to practice unconditional love.
Every dysfunctional external reaction and action we experience conveys a higher calling from Soul to Self for us to align with and embody, and respond with unconditional love. When another speaks against us or treats us with disrespect we must remain ever mindful that we have a choice – we can choose to either rise in love, or fall – in counter-reaction and the resultant conflict.
Choosing to rise in love does not for a moment suggest we must remain in any situation which may cause suffering to us. On the contrary, in such circumstances we would be wise to seek to establish and maintain a physical, emotional, mental, psychic and energetic distance between the other and ourselves.
Unconditional love seeks not to support suffering, yet instead invites us to understand and meet the needs of another, whilst, at the same time, understanding and meeting our own.
Who Am I to Who I AM
Individuals working at this level of Self-Realization will experience an overwhelming evolutionary compulsion (conscious or unconscious) to manifest ultimate tests, presenting as the seeming antithesis of unconditional love!
Unprecedented challenging circumstances will crash into their lives like an evolutionary tsunami. Those who choose to stand, unwaveringly, in the centre of the initiatory fire of unconditional love, will undergo an unprecedented shift into Who I AM consciousness and awareness.
And so it is that the spiritual teaching of unconditional love will bombard us with the most extenuating trials, ordeals and circumstances, the very moment Self recognizes it is ready for this high-level initiation.
The Penultimate Level of Self-Realization
The high level teachings of unconditional love are not, by any means, light and fluffy. They call upon us to rise in love in the most challenging of situations, to integrate and embrace the very essence of what unconditional love is, and to become elevated and uplifted by the consuming darkness that can present to the one who steps forth to embrace this ultimate initiation. It invites us to BE unconditional love, most especially when immersed in intensely challenging circumstances.
Unquestionably, this level of initiation, this ultimate rite of passage, this new dawn breaking out of the dark night of the soul will throw our lives into chaos, and turn our world upside down until we are spinning from the unplanned for, the unexpected, the uninvited and the seemingly ‘negative’
circumstances assailing us from all directions. Only when immersed in such trials and tribulations can we face the ultimate test that precedes an evolutionary leap in Selfrealization and Self-actualization.
How simple is the concept of unconditional love when practiced in ideal circumstances? However, committing to Selfintegration and Self-mastery, so as to be able to fully embody unconditional love as our day-to-day reality, brings an unprecedented intensifying of uncertainty into our lives. It
exposes us to an externally generated set of experiences/tests that include the irrational and contrary, the unfathomable and perplexing, and invites reaction, projection and accusation through the medium of others, to test if we shall rise in unconditional love, or fall victim to our un-integrated emotions.
If you are one who feels centered in love, connectedness, goodness, truth, harmony, integrity, open heartedness, gentleness, selflessness, loving kindness, humility, tenderness, are deeply grounded, consciously awakened and psychospiritually mature and integrated and yet your life continues to feel outside of your control, seemingly dominated by one relentless challenge after another, think twice as to just why this might be before arriving at a conclusion that suggests that the reason for this is a result of your psycho-spiritual healing process (and this may well be the case). Instead, consider that you just might be in the midst of a profound initiation preparing you to take an unprecedented leap in your own conscious
evolution.
An Evolutionary Leap into Unconditional Love
Unconditional love elevates us to such a level of awareness that the one who lives, sleeps and breathes it discovers they can step into any situation, without reaction, attachment, personal agenda, condition, or any (conscious or unconscious) ‘driver’ to manipulate a desired outcome.
This high teaching requires us to let go completely into the moment, the unknown, to trust, and to be anchored in unconditional positive regard and unconditional love towards all – all of the time – irrespective of whether we are enraptured in sublime bliss or in the midst of chaos and turmoil. It invites us to relinquish the more subtle levels of attachment, and any need for physical evidence of the spiritual as a condition for embracing unconditional love.
Through the teaching of unconditional love, we encounter our innate and infinite capacity as pure love. Those who walk this path are Beacons of Light, even in the darkest of times and conditions.
The Diamond Path to Enlightenment
Cultivating unconditional love as a core spiritual practice catalyzes an uncompromising and radical evolutionary push to our psychological edges. We are exposed to residual elements of our own hidden agendas, motivations, ulterior motives and strategies, conditions, attachments, unspoken
needs and expectations, intricate and complex defense mechanisms, and unconscious patterns that can only be dissolved in pure love.
Only when we have healed our historical wounds (including karmic), and integrated our psychological shadow, can we fully embody living unconditional love, at every level of our being. Only then are we able to experience and express the full spectrum of our humanity. Only then can we shine fully in our true identity as Divine Love incarnate. Only then do we step upon the Diamond Path to Enlightenment.
The Diamond Path to Enlightenment is a transcendental path we step onto when we have fully understood the meaning and purpose of true compassion (to suffer with), and how to transcend it to its higher octave – pure unconditional love.
Expressing unconditional love towards Self is equally as important as expressing it to another. If an act we believe to be one of pure love causes even the subtlest of discomfort within us, then it is not unconditional love. In its pure essence, unconditional love infuses us with a deeply felt sense of peace, fulfillment, and radiant wellbeing. Ultimately, it is unconditional love that will lift humanity out of suffering, and catalyze an accelerated and unprecedented evolution of personal and global consciousness.
Unconditional love is multi-layered from its outer levels to its inner core. Its core essence transmits a necessity for transcendence from compassion (suffering with) into fully embodied unconditional love and integrated neutrality.
Teetering on the Edge
So, if it feels as if life is throwing you a seemingly unending round of challenges and yet you continue to fly onwards and upwards into higher and higher levels of consciousness, frequency and vibration, if you continue to act only from purest intent, and if you have cultivated an unwavering capacity for unconditional presence in absolute neutrality, in any situation, then your connection to Higher Self, Soul and Spirit will strengthen and expand to unquantifiable levels.
Even though you may feel exhausted by the intensity of those life circumstances that assail you, at this pivotal juncture on your journey of enlightenment, understand that you may be teetering on the edge of merging with, and living, the very heart of pure unconditional love.
Know this – there is no lotus flower without the mud from which it grows. If you are as the lotus flower rising out of the mud, if you are a beacon of Light even in the midst of darkness, if you are able to remain centered in love, no matter what, then know that something profound is unfolding, something so extraordinary that when you emerge from the other side of this transformational process you will never again be the same.
In transcending the level of consciousness that is preoccupied with the existential question of who am I to becoming anchored and centered in Who I AM, you will have truly liberated and lifted your Self into a whole new spiritual reality…
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How can you make the most of this month?
Turn your fears into delighted anticipation of a great surprise that is supportive and satisfying beyond your wildest imagination. Release the past, forgive the past, and dissolve old beliefs and patterns. Drop the need to know, the need to control, the need to be right. Trust the heart, be creative, and dream big! The sky is the limit. Be excited and inspired rather than fearful. Face the unknown with confidence and a willingness to have everything turn out well. Watch Martyrdom. You are never the victim. Get help when you need it. Your support people will be your best reference point when you feel lost. Rely on your spiritual practice whatever that may be. Do something daily. Be compassionate around others who are having a difficult time without matching them. Make a separation. Don’t be afraid to say no to what does not feel right. Trust spirit and the larger order of things. Anchor the belief that it will all turn out OK.
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