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The Energy of Love
Susan Helene Kramer
My heart beats
on the energy of love
love love love love love
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1. Universal Order |
45. Breathing Out Love |
Plotting a course
unlimited by time and place
when using the energy of love
Excerpts from book contents:
Scientific laws provide harmony and balance
Selfless love provides harmony and balance
Both carried out
through pervading energy of the universe
A life lived lovingly in concert with natural laws
integrates spiritual consciousness
into material living
2. Earth—The Planetary Airport
Earth lies below our feet.
We touch down, rest, and refuel as needed.
At the earth airport we get
everything we need to function and grow; all the raw materials to maintain and
sustain. Each day we take off on our individual flight, coordinating our course
around others' flights in progress.
Our body, like an airplane,
transports us through life.
As we fly our body-plane in
the clear open sky we look down on the broad expansive view. We can use these
moments to look back on what scenes we have already experienced, then by
looking forward, see where that course of events is leading us. We can decide
whether course changes—attitude and actions adjustments—will lead us to a
destination more in line with our goals.
In every ongoing moment we
can make the course adjustments that will maintain our sense of balance by
living our life lovingly for the highest good.
Living a balance life, we
maintain harmony with the rest of creation. By maneuvering our plane around
turbulence, our takeoffs and landings in others' lives are smooth, even
uplifting.
Touching down on planet earth
resting, refueling
zooming off again in our body-plane
A trip enjoyed thoroughly
when maneuvered in flight
for the highest good
Polite, thoughtful
interaction is consideration.
Points of view are formed
from personal experience; our past experiences uniquely our own. We all react
differently, even in the same circumstance.
We can keep our personal
point of view while accepting that others' points of view are valid for them by
remembering that current perceptions and reactions are based on past input.
Politeness and considerations of others' ideas and feelings lends to mutually
relaxed interaction; expansion of our experience base.
Practicing consideration relaxes everyone
allowing exchanges that broaden our views
Broadened views extend our reality
into realization of our intertwining roles
in each others' lives
From one of the parts to parts of the One
Insightful is having the
whole picture in sight.
To develop insight follow a logical line of reasoning to the source of
the issue.
Analyze calmly
Consider calmly
Evaluate
We need to act on the
highest good; the option that leaves our body feeling relaxed and our mind
peaceful.
The benefit of taking time
to develop insight is an increase of harmony in every aspect of living.
See what's visible
Exploring what's hidden
Pull out from within
harmonious decisions
Insightful living
from logical thinking
A rose plucked from the bush
continues to emit fragrantly
After leaving, the presence of people continue in our life through the influence
they had in forming who we now are.
We become aware of the
consciousness of continuance while acting with caring love. Our caring actions
are like a boomerang—the energy coming back later in an improved world.
Existence continuing
from what's set before
Moving onward
Expanded by lovingness
6.
Attunement with our Creator-Sustainer
Every atom in the universe
is powered by intelligence, as the harmoniously vibrating energy we can our Creator-Sustainer.
The energy is intelligent because every atom interrelates and cooperates forming molecules, then the larger systems of
minerals, plants, animals.
The pervading energy—the
pulse of Creator-Sustainer—is non-judgmental. We know this by observing
electrical energy: it is just present to be used for good or bad as we choose.
Whatever attitudes and thoughts we choose to give energy and time to produce
like results in actions, circumstances and relationships.
Positive attitudes and
uplifting thoughts create harmony, beauty and love in our life. negative destructive thoughts create experiences of
loneliness, separation and fear that we will lose what we have.
The experience of universal
consciousness is essentially harmony; connection we feel as lovingness. Our
Creator's will for us in the long run is to come to know and experience the
perfection of harmony, resulting when we act for the highest good of each
circumstance at each moment.
As we attune our mind and
subsequent actions with the natural intelligent harmony, as we are all destined
to do, we reap lovingness in our life.
Thoughts
our creations
producing our choices
Harmonious thinking
lovingness in living
That which is personally
special we hold precious.
It is beneficial to hold
people and things precious because we learn how to treat them well, with
carefulness. Practicing carries over into all aspect of living. The more people
we hold precious, the more we stay in consciousness of caring, becoming
predominantly caring people.
Caring—the ability to hold
precious—comes from our place of ever-present happiness, the state of awareness
that experiences joy and peace, regardless of the up and down events in living.
Holding precious
Manifested caring
from our place of joyfulness and lovingness
The more we experience preciousness
the more we are living in tune with our eternal Self
beyond limiting time, place, space
8.
Traveling through Transitions
Traveling to an unfamiliar
destination along an unknown road is a transition.
Body, mind and emotions are
tuned to a higher pitch during transitions, drawing on our reserves. To do what
is unfamiliar takes more concentrated energy than repeating habitual actions.
We can draw in fresh energy
to keep up with above normal need by increasing aerobic activity and upgrading
already available energy through deep relaxation and meditation.
During major transitions,
such as the death of a love one, keeping some familiar habits in our daily
routine provides us continuity and stability, giving the untraveled road ahead
an underlying stable base.
Traveling through transition occurs more easily
by carrying along baggage of familiar habits, activities
9. The
Preciousness of Friendship
A friend cares for us
unconditionally.
Material possessions
eventually wear out, even with perfect care. But, when we treat our friends
with preciousness our love for them and their love for us grows
and expands.
In the consciousness of
being and having a friend we operate outside the wold
of cause and effect. A friend's love and care is with us when we are up or
down, poor or wealthy, sad or happy.
Friendship is our soul in action
Showing friendship is beyond
the laws of physics, not dependent on a certain time, space or circumstance for
its manifestation.
Beyond wealth
Beyond fame
Beyond anything else
is the preciousness of friendship
Meeting of
Minds
Emotions
Egos
Penetration of
Minds Emotions
Egos
Surrender
Opening
Minds
into release of
Emotions
Looking beyond ego
by loving unconditionally
Meeting of Self
Clear insight
Manifestation of wisdom
Peaceful Acceptance
Allowing others their ways
while retaining personal harmony
Personal Equanimity
The balance that looks
right and left
forward and back
without falling over
in changing circumstances
Nonsense: having no sense
about priorities; right action.
Essentials before
nonessentials
We are naturally
lighthearted. It is nonsense to let small obstructions blind us from our long
range essential goal: realization of our underlying immortal nature.
Running through a puddle
quickly and lightly makes more sense than dallying in the mud. Avoiding
mud-clogged ways by taking big steps of change for the better puts us on solid
ground.
Have none of nonsense
With lighthearted attitudes
positive acts
put the sense of essential
loving and giving
back into living
True satisfaction is
contentment in all aspects of living.
Even when life is full of
turbulent events we preserve our sense of contentment by doing what our
conscience tell us is right.
Following in inner guidance
of our conscience is the buoy that keeps us afloat in the tossing seas of life.
When that unpredictable wave threatens to pull us under we can hold tightly to
the direction of our conscience, being supported till the waters of life's
events are once again settled into gentle swells.
True satisfaction
Contentment maintained through life's turmoil
by holding onto the life preserver of conscience
consistently
Clarity, sincerity: seeing
an issue without bias, then acting for the highest good.
Our actions are effectively
sincere when we have pierced to the core of understanding preceding and current
information.
Sincere communication comes
from clarity of perception.
Clear perception with sincere intention
Effective communication
Adding lovingness to clarity
and sincerity brings about transformation in ourselves
and in others by our example. Touching all with lovingness also develops our
consciousness of being an interwoven part of creation.
Evolvement of consciousness
from piercing clarity
loving sincerity
Buddies
Rosebuds
enjoying the prospect
of blossoming
over a lifetime
of caring and sharing
with one another
Buddies
The condition underlying
outer expressions
of unconditional love
Why are we here, anyway? Perhaps to become conscious of our inherent roots, nourishing us
from the ground of changelessness.
A tree grows from a seed
planted in fertile soil, its systems developing into maturity. The underlying
roots, sunk deep, and hidden in stable earth, support exposed parts. From this
example, we see that underlying structures, though hidden from view, support
outer forms.
Could we have our visible
outer form without a strong underlying reality? Each of us is planted in a
womb, maturing in the process of growing outwardly, before using much energy
looking inwardly for the source supporting our visible form.
Like the tree, our roots are
hidden from our physical eyes and senses. But, by following our inner guidance
with a loving heart, we travel the labyrinth till meeting with and experiencing
our Source. Then we feel the completeness of knowing ourselves, and understand
we are here to become aware that we are one of the parts and part of the
wholeness of uncreated and created reality.
Growing daily outwardly
then diving into the crystal pool of consciousness
Coming up clear and refreshed in the
knowledge
of wholeness in outer, inner, and Universal Self
19. Why
the Right Choice Might Feel Difficult
It takes more energy to climb
a hill than to descend it, but the view as we climb becomes increasingly
expansive.
We usually have several
choices in resolving a situation. Making the effort to do what we feel is right
reaps positive results. When we slide along in the groove of least resistance
life becomes monotonous, boring.
What seems difficult, but
right, leads to unbroken peacefulness, satisfaction. Following our conscience
expands our consciousness of being linked within the larger reality; it is
positive use of energy with its like result.
Making right, but seemingly
difficult decisions, aligns us with the constantly flowing universal energy,
felt as body heat—fueling us amply to carry out what is right.
Right, but difficult
aligns with harmony
energizing from the Universal Source
Just love all
Happiness is the Source of all
Therefore
loving all is being
with unlimited happiness
Crystal heart
Clarified mind
purified by caring
Bursting forth
from prison of self-centeredness
into prism of lovingness
Shining crystal heart
Ultrasound clear away
attached debris.
Ultrasonic communication is
a relaxed accepting attitude that clears away debris between minds that has
prevented the flow of caring thoughts, feelings, actions.
Our acceptance of what
others are experiencing and expressing according to their need and past
conditioning frees us to relax and allow the warm undercurrent to flow openly
between. We are released and cleared of interfering words and actions.
Ultrasonic communication
Total acceptance
Clearing away the grit of interference
from our mind
Leaving space for communing
while communicating
Thoughts
ideas energized
Creation
thoughts energized
Forms in creation
ideas in use
Ideas mulled over, thought
about, finally organized into a plan of action.
Following an organized plan,
revising as we proceed by incorporating upgraded input, produces a result
beyond the expectation of our first concept.
Ideas compound from ideas
preceding, each a building block of the finished product.
By logically and lovingly
bringing our ideas into thought and form, we harmonize our creations within the
order and beauty of the natural universe.
Creator
Creating from ideas
into harmonious formats
Moving along
stepping in time
in time, in tune
in tune within time
Giving in living
melody succinct
sharing our time
in tune within time
Tuning our life strings
to play living chords
of harmony, lovingly
in tune within time
In tune with life's rhythms
of comings and goings
comings and going
in tune within time
We invest money; our return
includes a dividend.
We invest caring and sharing
in a relationship; the return a greater awakening of our vital energy.
By expressing lovingly, our
personal experience of harmony is compounded many times over the initial act.
Expressing lovingly compounds instantly
Its interest and dividends
our increasing awareness
of harmonious interconnection within the creation
With love, like begets like
and then some
26.
Repetition in Personal and World History
Paying attention and
learning minimizes the need for repetition.
We repeat, repeatedly, till
we consistently remember that which we need for our knowledge and growth; our
personal history becoming part of world history.
To learn more about
humanity's process, (which begins within and manifests in action), we can study
and analyze the events down through the ages. What we personally do not
learn through this process, we repeat, till we grow beyond that which mankind
as a whole has experienced.
On this planet civilizations
have risen and fallen repeatedly; repetitiously.
In our personal life, we
rise by applying energy in a positive way to our interests, and we fall if our
actions are not in harmony within the natural universal orderliness and
guidelines of sharing, caring, surrendering to the
highest good in all circumstances.
History repeats repetitiously
until actions are instilled
with natural orderliness
infused with lovingness
27.
Substituting Action for Neediness
We feel the need for
completeness when we are out of balance within our
mental/emotional/physical self.
We can institute
self-motivated positive activity when we feel we need something or someone to
make us feel happy.
Positive action taps into
our natural source of energy, aligning our mind with our underlying harmony—our
state untouched by neediness.
Physical, emotional, mental
conditions three
balanced productively, happily
through positive acts
brought into harmony
Getting up
and out when feeling down, or lying down, draws fresh energy into our body,
lifting our spirit.
Freshly energized, our
attitudes and perceptions clarify, sharpen. The grit of indeision and staleness falls away, just as a whirling
strainer throws off chaff, preserving the nutritious kernel.
It takes initiative to get
going. When feeling low, if we will take a moment to think back about how good
we have felt during and after exercising, we will have the incentive to et ourselves out and energized, relieving our down attitude
and mood.
When lying low
Sit up
Get up and move
29.
Lovingness with the Creation flows from Loving our Creator
We love our mate, then the
child that follows.
We draw our energy from the
ever-flowing Source to use in our actions that follow.
Lovingness for another
expresses in proportion to the loving energy we first feel with our
Creator-Sustainer.
Feeling appreciation and gratitude
for the beauty of creation
allows us a glimpse of and experience
of our Source
Light
melding atoms
Atoms
split in light
Atom within atom
Light within light
forever
So, who shall be first
and who shall be last?
First
those rightly doing their task
So, who shall be first
and who shall be last?
Last
those who think
there is a first and a last
Standing at high noon
in the fullness of 'son' light
Keeping our personal actions
light and bright, by doing what is right, keeps us integrating the
consciousness of our Highest Self. In 'son' light we radiate caring,
never casting a shadow of negative energy upon anyone or anything.
We become as a lighthouse,
shining our beam of unconditional love. All that returns to us from this
state is our own reflection shown to us by others' shining faces.
Clear and right
shining bright
Self in light of love
After polishing up our
actions and manner of relating, we become that shining beacon. Becoming
aware of our brilliance is a gradual process that is enjoyable all the while,
because we continually feel more of our state of lovingness while relating
lovingly. The effort to polish up our life worth the
return of always feeling like a source of lighthearted love.
Standing still, feeling warmth
Shining bright, radiating love
Overcoming all by being overcome
with daylight, our Creator's light
as in high noon
33.
Redirecting Stressful Energy
Stress is energy without
direction.
Taking the undirected energy
of stress and applying it useful relieves stressful feelings.
At the first sign of
distress we can take a moment to breathe in deeply and then let go while
relaxing on the out-breath. Controlled breathing cuts the edge off
agitation. Next, change activity and surroundings. Focusing the mind on another
activity redirects stressful energy. Choosing to live for the highest good
directs our energy in a positive manner.
Directing our energy for the highest good
serves us best
eliminates stress
We easily make time for the
people we want to be with and the things we want to do. It is harder to arouse
energy for what we are procrastinating about, or do not really want to do.
We feel a burst of energy to
get the job done by adopting a positive attitude toward what we put off doing
by saying, "The quicker I get it done, the sooner I'll be through."
It is the attitude in our
mind about people or things that focuses the necessary energy in our body to
fulfill our desires.
Energy is flowing through us
all the time from the permanent source of our Creator-Sustainer. By our
attitudes and will we are choosing how much current to draw from the
inexhaustible supply. When we really want a certain result we
make the time and space to create that reality.
By our free will
we make space in our time
to fulfill desires
35. In
Consuming We Contract; In Loving We Expand
Consuming—Contracting
Loving—Expanding
We might think it is the
opposite, that by consuming we are gaining and by loving we are giving
ourselves away.
It is what we do after we
consume that matters.
If we use our consumption to
fortify ourselves solely, we are reinforcing the false idea that we are
separate from that which is outside our own body.
When we use our personal
gains as tools of sharing by including others in our circle of caring, we are
effectively using our consumption to expand our capacity of loving.
Loving more and more and more
erases the barrier we thought were there
Filling our life
with more and more and more
Love
Acting for our own and
others' highest good is the best way to show we care. Caring removes borders of
self-centeredness.
It is from feeling that we
are interrelated, intermeshed within creation, that we
naturally act for the highest good. Eventually, we feel so comfortable
interacting with others that we realize that no one is really a stranger, rather, all are aspects of our universal Self.
Seeing that everything is an
aspect of ourselves, our thoughts, and their subsequent actions, we naturally
begin to care about the good of all.
Stretching ourselves far and wide
Embracing creation in our love
Traumatic events
Sudden changes in our reality
Part of life
We react emotionally,
mentally, physically to trauma.
What changes is changed;
there is no reversing. We use our free will to resist change or we adapt
gracefully.
During trauma it is okay to
allow ourselves to feel and express naturally. Knowing there will be a level
plateau ahead for recuperation allows us to express fully as befits the
situation, and then go on.
Experiencing fully
learning and growing
Experiencing some more
learning and growing
into the full blossoming
of our humanity
We call a person difficult
when we get uncomfortable feeling in our body while with them or thinking about
them. Their actions, or what they screech,
across the grooves of the record we have playing in our mind. It is unpleasant
being around people who are difficult for us.
We can protect ourselves
from the uncomfortable affects of difficult people
by:
1. Avoiding contact with them;
2. Observing what they do or say while maintaining neutral feelings and
thoughts about them;
3. Doing the opposite of being the mental observer by being surrendered and
open to their form of expression; allowing new grooves of a different reality
to be recorded in our mind and stored for reference. During this new recording
we do not have to give up our own position or way of thinking; we are expanding
our experience base.
Difficult people may not
have contact and personal experience with their underlying state of
harmony. We learn mainly by trial and error. After we have
continual problems in relating harmoniously we begin to ask ourselves why.
After the reasons outside ourselves are exhausted we begin personal
self-improvement. This is the last resort but the right place to get to
know our underlying happy, harmonious Self.
The sincere desire to know
ourselves—our Source—leads to experiencing our underlying harmony, which imbues
our subsequent thoughts and actions. We begin having easy relationships
in all aspects of living.
Beautiful uplifting music is
made up of the harmonious blending of separate notes. We are each like notes of
music, acting in phrases, and when conscious of our grace and balance, forming
melodies and symphonies with others and all around us.
Outer actions are reflections
of our state of consciousness
Happiness emanates from underlying harmony
In processing we take in,
mull over, come up with something different. And
in that middle space we digest and integrate new insights into our
consciousness, or we suffer indigestion by only partially understanding and
analyzing what is going on with us.
While still digesting,
before the additional insights are integrated usefully, our thoughts, words,
and actions reflect the undigested state we are operating in. We are not
manifesting the final outcome of our new insights. When we are in distress, we
are still in processing mode; out output is not reflecting a finalized state.
Facing our issues of
conflict takes courage and applied energy. Processing can be facilitated by accepting
that our goal is what benefits us in the end. Living each
moment for our highest perceived good flushes out discrepancies between our
words and actions. As we live in line with our highest thoughts and
words, we purify our mind, pushing out undigested remnants of our past. As
these old issues come up to our consciousness they can be burned up by our most
current consciousness of what living for the highest good means to us.
Energy applied to living the highest good
Processes
Digests
Integrates
Resulting in clarity of mind
relaxation with life
Science has shown that
physical form is compressed energy. To our eye matter appears solid, unmoving,
unchanging. In reality, everything is changing its form at varying rates.
Our bodies change a lot over
our lifetime; from a speck at conception to billions of cells at maturity; in
flux of renewal continually.
All the while our bodies are
changing they are occupied by the same consciousness of Self. In whatever form
our bodies appear, at whatever age, we are each always able to say: it is me.
During all the changes of
our bodies and surroundings, we preserve our happiness by adapting to and
accepting the format of the moment; gracefully flowing from this moment's form
into the next.
Within the changing format
of energy-matter a consciousness persists, untouched by change. Our connection
within the unchanging consciousness is our feeling of love, manifested by care.
Love stands on its own;
using form, time, circumstance as tools.
Transient forms
usefully employed
expressing love
Target.
Aim, fire,
bulls-eye.
The target is what lies in
front of us in our personal circumstances: people, places, things.
When we feel energy build up
in our body and mind, we aim that energy at one of the targets in our
lives—firing—by directing energy through our words and actions.
We hit, but it may not be
the bulls-eye of the right target.
Pain,
disharmony, alienation—our clues that we directed energy to an inappropriate
target. We
can make amends by redirecting our energy usefully, harmoniously.
If we are being targeted by
misdirected energy, we can preserve our personal balance by getting out of the
way. We never need to be fuel for another's disharmony.
Energy is motion, naturally
discharging. By upgrading our state of consciousness, we learn to aim and
fire our energy where it will serve the highest good.
We are each responsible for
our words and actions.
Taking aim
Firing
Targeting the highest good
Beyond bonding
Dissolving
Dissolving separate aspects
into union of Oneness
Transcending time, place, space
by fires of lovingness
One shared consciousness
Perfect human love
Truth. If we live the highest truth we are
aware of in each moment; we retain our natural feelings of ease and
harmony. Doing less, we fall from our highest state of happiness,
producing discord.
We are made of integrated
systems—body, mind, emotions—powered by ever-present universal energy; every
thought and action affecting bodily systems.
As we become more conscious
of truth, through the wisdom gained in daily living, our actions follow the
upgraded lead.
The important point is for
us to follow the highest, clearest directive of our personal conscience at each
moment, to moment, to moment.
Our life is like a garden.
From the beautiful flowers of our lovingness, we produce fruits of abundance in
peace and harmony.
Truth—Harmony
Deceit—Discord
by our free will
it's our choice
44.
Surrendering to the Highest Good
The highest good is a
win-win situation.
By accommodating ourselves
to the guidance of our conscience we win; we remain peaceful and content, able
to rationally consider and decide on a best resolve in any situation.
Surrendering to the highest
good allows the pieces of the puzzle to fit together even before we know how
the finished puzzle will look.
From our individual
viewpoint, we cannot see around the corner, but from the vantage point of the
overview, the view of harmony—the highest good—all angles are visible.
Our conscience is tuned in
to the channel that has the overview. By aligning with this higher view we can
see the best course of action to follow.
As we align within our
situation, we experience our state of harmony, and those around us are able to
more easily see their place in relation to us.
Personally surrendering
to the harmony of the whole
allows our insightful peacefulness
to overflow
We can't see air
but we breathe in in
We can't see love
but we breathe it out
through our actions
As sun rays warm and
energize us, the rays of our actions carry our love.
Like the sun, our inner sun
shines, independent of an outside source.
We are rewarded and expanded
during our acts of unconditional love. Every time we breathe out a loving act,
a spontaneous in-breath of warm-feeling contented energy fills our body; a
cycle recharging us and creating an ever more vibrant experience of love.
We breathe in and out
but not just air
Love energizes us
over and over and over
by its expression
Our lives are like honey
combs with spaces to fill our time as we choose. Most spaces are filled with
activities to maintain our body and lifestyle.
We also have spaces
available for the intertwinings of relationship. As
we relate one on one we weave out threads of
separateness into a tapestry which seems solid and permanent.
When a personal relationship
disintegrates we feel pain as the cloth of our bonding is torn to shreds.
It hurts to rip apart from the relationships we create.
We begin reweaving the torn
threads into a more refined tapestry by surrendering our actions for the
highest good. By upgrading our self-centered feelings into caring actions we
relax and regain our sense of balance and harmony. Evolution is a natural
building and tearing down process that makes space for refined, redesigned
structures. A relationship needs to be condemned and demolished when one
or both can no longer grow within the current set of circumstances, conditions
and interactions.
It is okay to begin
rebuilding with a different set of circumstances and another person. We again
take up our threads and begin reweaving a new and more refined pattern into our
relationship cloth. It is a natural evolution.
Eventually, we create an
intimate relationship out of mutual unconditional caring love, steeped in
harmony, withstanding all external pressures and changes. It is a tapestry
whose threads are pure liquid silver, whose lightness and love is eternal and
indestructible by mortal happenings. This kind of relationship is created
when we live lovingly for the highest good of ourselves and simultaneously for
the highest good of the relationship.
The pain of disintegration is
a fiery refining process. Consciously allowing, surrendering, letting go of an
unworkable relationship forms a bridge to a better life for both.
We create our reality as we choose
based on past experience, insights
In one area of another
we're in process of building up
or tearing down
Pain is perceived when we feel we've lost
But in reality we're rearranging
to fulfill our needs and desires
till we learn to relate
with unconditional love
Love is our Self;
transcending time and place.
Even when
a loved-one dies, our feelings continue, unchanged.
Love is our connection
within immortality. By our increasing lovingness and care in daily living we
come to greater awareness of our underlying Self.
Proficiency in love grows
and develops by practice, till it comes through our actions at all times;
gracefully uplifting any situation to its highest capacity.
What is love?
Love is us
manifesting through our purified mind
in caring thoughts, actions
The more often we are loving
the more often we are being our Self
While standing on the edge
of a cliff we are supported on solid earth. Falling off the cliff we
immediately panic, perceiving ourselves disconnected, separated.
Solid ground is our state of
naturally flowing harmony, experienced by tuning what is best for us at each
moment. Acting from harmony we feel connected with all aspects of
ourselves, interconnected with others, the whole creation and encompassing
all—our Creator-Sustainer.
When we fall from our
natural harmony we can choose to get right back up on solid ground by
harmonizing our actions with the highest truth we are aware of.
A continuing attitude of
lovingness assures that our actions will be tuned in with the greatest presence
of harmony.
Keeping our feet on solid ground
harmoniously relating, interrelating
produces peace in our lives
and by our example of love
Peace on Earth
49.
Understanding our Body Signals
Energy is continually
circulating throughout our body, concentrating in the area of need at the
moment.
Our bodies are designed to
focus energy according to changing needs and desires—instinctively for our
protection and consciously by our will power. In a situation where we
need to run away we have that burst of energy available, instantly.
We react to all stimuli. If
we pay attention to the area of our body where we are feeling increased energy
we can more easily assess what is happening with us.
We universally feel
emotional energy in specific locations in our body. Fear is concentrated
in our abdomen, though when transformed into love through caring and sharing,
we feel the energy in our upper torso and arms—the location leading to
constructive action.
When in a situation where we
are confused about our feelings, we can get an accurate answer by placing our
hand on the area of our body where we are feeling the strongest energy.
Generally, below the waist signals feelings of separation, the desire to have
someone or something outside ourselves make us feel
complete and happy. Warm energy above the waist signals feelings of
connection, wanting to share that which we are and have as an extension of our
innate sense of completeness.
Learning to read our body signals
allows us to understand the situation at hand
Full understanding
Conscious choices
50.
Plotting a Course Unlimited
What dimension is unlimited
by time and place?
Love
Caring beyond ourselves
brings warm-feeling energy into our body, into our waking consciousness to be
used in interactions. Love propels us to break free from the idea that we
have a limited supply of mental, emotional, physical energy.
The unlimited energy brought on by lovingness
catapults us beyond
concept of limitation
Our inner guide—our conscience—is
awakened and developed by our being unconditionally loving in daily living. As
we incorporate lovingness into every circumstance in living, we preserve our
awareness of harmony and connection as interwoven threads in the cloth of our
Creator in creation.
Plotting a course unlimited
unbound by time and place
when using the energy of love
Deep within each of us is
our place where no disturbance can exist. Like the roots of a tree below the
ground—secure and steady—our deepest roots channel our life-sap of vital energy
into our limbs for interaction in the world.
Our deepest roots are our
natural state of peace and bliss. In meditation and quiet introspection
we bore deeply into our internal-eternal Source, consciously widening those
life-giving channels of nourishing contentment and bliss.
The opening channels allow
us to integrate peacefulness and balance into our fast-paced living, taking the
edge off our worldly state of frenzy.
Incorporating love into
meditation and introspection opens wide the access to our even deeper universal
root where we are all interconnected.
Ever-flowing harmony and
love energize us completely, allowing us to extend the branches of our arms
into the many leaves of action in our life.
Roots set in harmony
holding us upright, balanced
in everyday living
There are positive and
negative charges within every atom of creation. These opposing energies
cooperate causing motion, the flow of energy. Some energy solidifies forming
physical matter; some is felt but unseen as in heat and electricity.
When confronted with
adversity in other people we can retain our peace by assuming a neutral
position. Example: While driving a car we can go forward, backward or remain in
neutral—as at a stop light—to avoid a collision while traffic crosses our path.
Adversity in people or a
situation is 'cross traffic'. Allowing their opposing
energy to go by while remaining in neutral keeps us out of an accident of
conflict.
Our self-centeredness tempts
us to pull out of neutral into conflict because we feel our point of view is
being jeopardized. But, within the negative or opposing side of peace,
there is no resolve that serves the highest good. Decisions out of strife fail
as they are not born of balance and harmony—nature's way to maintain universal
order.
Handling adversity
pausing, waiting
while opposing energy passes by
later, adversity harnessed
into cooperative action
Balanced use of energy
Liquid
silver; valuable, held dear, expandable, expendable.
Time flows with a variable
volume. When we are energetic we get more done in an hour than we would at a
casual pace.
One hour may always be 60
minutes, but we can make it more valuable—liquid silver—by increasing the
quality we put into those 60 minutes.
All aspects of living can
have the quality of liquid silver by always acting from the highest
consciousness. Each moment we use our free will to decide how to act. We
can upgrade—viewing our time as precious silver or downgrade—viewing our time
as dust, to be whisked away. Our choice.
Time
given quality
brightened capacity
flows through our lives
as liquid silver
Giving, without expecting in
return, is a true gift.
Warmth energizes our body
when we are sharing freely.
The reason we feel warmly
energized in giving freely is that we are not cluttering our mind with thinking
how our gift will be repaid. Without these nagging thoughts, our natural
harmony can arise in our consciousness. This is in tune with nature's balancing
principle of surrendering to another for the benefit of the whole.
Example: The sun's energy is
used by the plant to form its leaves. The leaves provide our foot and we use
the gained energy to maintain ourselves and share with others, who in turn
share with different people; on and on.
We harmonize with nature's
way—interaction amongst all the parts to maintain the universe—as we give and
share lovingly; freely.
That which flows through us lovingly
The True Gift
55.
Maintaining Wholeness in Relationship
We enter a relationship to
interrelate, all the while retaining individuality.
While retaining our
individually a blending takes place in order to achieve mutual long range
goals. Individual energies are aligned so the combined energy can be used
effectively.
Though each has merged some
personal desires into common goals, the two individuals maintain basic
qualities that sustain them as a person while relating in cooperative ways.
From our state of wholeness
we share our best for the highest common good in the relationship.
Wholeness imparting balance
into Oneness of relationship
Individual wholeness
out-branches from personal integrity—living according to our conscience every
moment. When our actions follow our conscience we maintain natural ease; we
harmonize with what's for the moment—whether alone, with a partner, or relating
in the community.
Personal
wholeness—integrity, balance—is the strong foundation of a productive life and fulfilling
relationship.
Relating with personal integrity
maintains harmony within diversity
56. Faith
and Trust—Useful Tools
Looking back in our lives,
we see that all our problems had workable solutions, showing that current and
future situations will also be resolved. Knowing this, we can relax our
tensions and misgivings about being able to cope with anything that comes up in
our life.
Faith: the belief and trust
that everything works out.
Faith and Trust
useful tools
when recognized as allowing us
to remain calm
becoming aware
of the best workable solution
in each situation
In addition, by making our
best effort from this point forward, we can have 100% faith that our future
will bring us closer to realization and knowledge of our permanent reality of
peace, bliss, joy.
57. Easy
Communication in Relationships
When we
have a loving attitude while communicating the correct words come out of our
mouth.
The attitude of caring is
the key to enter the world of easy communication. It is our choice to
flip the switch to care whenever we choose. We keep ourselves from
communicating effectively in our relationships until we choose giving, caring,
sharing feelings.
The mind and body function
as partners—as we direct—by our attitude of the moment. When we are in a caring
mood we are relaxed, feeling our natural harmony in body and mind. From this
easeful space and place our kind thoughts come through us into our words.
Easy
words; easy communication.
Caring attitudes
creating harmony in body and mind
making communication fine
58.
Analyze, Accept, Incorporate Repeatedly
All our actions
are our choosing
Allowing someone else to guide us
is our choice, too
We each author our destiny
We interrelate; give and take.
There are always at least two ways to act in a given situation. We can choose
to act for the highest good, or not. The result of not actin for best is
disharmony; a sense of separateness. Harmony—feeling connection between
ourselves and others—allows our greatest joy.
Here is a four-part
technique to gain conscious control and understanding of our mind:
1. Analyze the motives for past or planned actions.
2. Accept that those motives were or are valid.
3. Incorporate past lessons learned—wisdom—into current action.
4. Repeat the entire process: analyze, accept, incorporate,
as an on-going pattern in living.
Personal action in harmony with the highest good
preserves personal peace
And when everyone's actions
preserve personal peace
we will have WORLD PEACE
59.
Thoughts on my Brothers and Sisters
In the integration
of body, mind, emotion
energized by the spirit of love
I would like to see
my brothers and sisters
interacting harmoniously
Caring
Sharing
our enlivened communal energy
with all creation
For ultimate happiness
prioritize. Separate needs from desires; resolve to pursue the ultimate goal -
one and the same for all - sustained happiness.
Using energy in seeking
ultimate happiness, communion with our Creator-Sustainer, we feel satisfaction
within, a knowing that we are on track.
The process of learning to
commune with the harmony permeating every speck of existence goes inversely
hand in hand with fulfillment of worldly desires. The less able we are to find
true happiness through acquiring possessions and relationships, the more we
look for the experience of lasting happiness and joy—driving us at last to look
within.
The more we strive
outwardly, the quicker—through getting discouraged by disappointments—we decide
to tune inwardly, aligning with our state of underlying happiness.
Energy travels in orbits,
like the planets in our solar system. What goes out comes back with the same
force. Sincerity in looking for sustained happiness draws this energy to us;
like begets like.
We search as much as
possible for happiness in worldliness; then the world by its temporary highs,
shows that the direction is really the journey within to our roots born of the
harmony of love and kindness.
Searching high and low
and everywhere else
leaves only one place to look
in our hide and seek game of life
Within
The life of a relationship
is like the life of a plant; growing and flourishing when nurtured—fading away
when neglected.
A relationship grows when
fed with the flowing waters of sharing, and the essential nutrient of love.
Indifference in a
relationship is like drought to the plant; neither survive.
Relationships are precious;
sustained with mutual energy. Both need to share and be receptive to the
other's love; forming a circle, expanding continuously.
We grow in the ability to
love the more we share lovingly; relationships give us the opportunity to
develop our capacity to love fully.
Two
exchanging lovingly
sharing, caring
expanding rapidly
feeling whole, complete
alive
in relationship
There is no way to change
another's mind-set.
What does transform is our
unconditional love and acceptance of a people, just as they are. Our acceptance
and love softens another's mind, which 'lets down'
its defenses, and in that momentary relaxation slips beyond its rigidness to
its permanent state of Self-sustained love.
Example: Ice will stay keep
its form in a cold strainer, but when exposed to heat it melts through.
The ice is like our hardened set patterns, ideas and attitudes. The strainer is
the mind structure with its techniques and devices. The heat that melts icy
attitudes is unconditional love. We need to act from the greater level of
harmonious acceptance in order to bring others to their state of love.
Enlightenment is the outcome
of giving up rigidness in favor of loving attitudes.
What happens to the mind
when we do not give in to its self-centered ways? It instead becomes our useful
tool, aiding us in expressing ourselves lovingly; efficiently working out daily
problems. When we try to change another's mind-set to our own point of view, we
are giving our mind a false power that will eventually self-destruct in its
fickleness and changeability.
Only our Self, existing as
the state of unchanging love is a constant reality.
Let us go for the
unchangeable; live the unchangeable, through unconditional love every moment.
Through unconditional love
live in enlightenment
lightened thoughts, words, deeds
the happy way to exist
63. Casual
to Commitment to Marriage
From an ongoing
relationship, a point in time comes where another level must be entered for the
relationship to grow into permanence.
Unconditional acceptance,
unconditional love, is the binding ingredient allowing us to cross successfully
into the permanence of marriage.
The partners must feel they
will bear with future situations, no matter what the other is going
through. The decision to commit comes at the point in time when we become
detached enough to observe how the other is on a regular basis. From this
observation point, we need to ask ourselves if we could maintain our
peacefulness and caring under those circumstances in a daily living situation.
It is important to face this analysis so the relationship can, if seen to be
unconditionally acceptable, be allowed to expand to the level of life mates.
If both can
not fully accept each other unconditionally, it is time to back off into
a less involved relationship. This is not the time to plunge ahead into a
live-in situation in hopes of working through obstacles. Pain and discomfort
result when obstacles are compounded by living together. The relationship
becomes a head-to-head situation, because the two minds are trying to work out
issues that are inherently part of each person's point of view. Whereas, unconditional acceptance from both, for each other, is the
harmony of hearts cooperating for the highest common good.
Relationship communion is union
The marriage union
being sustained
by unconditional acceptance
unconditional love
64.
Discipline with Ourselves and Children
Mostly, our guideline for
behavior was instilled in us as children; modified in our current life from
trial and error.
We guide our children according
to what we think worked for us. As our consciousness expands, our ideas of
effective discipline change.
Unconditional love allows us
to bear with the shortcomings children exhibit in their behavior.
Self-discipline in our
children comes from teaching them the benefits of self-motivated right
behavior; allowing them to interrelate harmoniously. Teaching children
self-motivation gives them an effective grounding in time and energy
management, carrying into adulthood.
We instill a child with
personally motivated self-discipline by:
1. Being a living example;
2. Planning with and helping the child implement a schedule for all that needs
to be done during the day and coming week, month, semester, etc.; the child
gaining practice in time and energy management in the process;
3. Setting obtainable rewards for positive actions;
4. Letting the consequences of negative actions be known to the child.
We are in transit
Individual voyagers
traveling with others in the boat of life
Self-motivated self-discipline
allows time for completing
that which we choose
65.
Friends to Lovers; Commitment to Marriage
Bonding:
Friendship grows, deepens,
expressing mentally, physically, emotionally.
Bonding
On
Never ending
Deepening levels of
Intimacy
Nearer every day to experiencing
Genuine Love
Marriage:
Comin' together one on one
Carin' and sharin'
enjoyin' the fun
Two lives alignin'
setting forth goals
Two hearts in harmony
no matter what goes
or comes a'knockin'
shakin' their ways
Together by choice
the rest of their days
66.
Conscious Communion; Conscious Harmony
Communion: Awareness that if
we were not preoccupied noticing other faces or bodies, we would be enjoying
our inner, unseen to the physical eye, mutual state of bliss.
It is the perception of our
physical eyes in seeing separate forms everywhere, that
seems to override the perceptions of our bodily feelings telling us we are
inter-linked with each other.
Looking around we see the
variety of individual forms everywhere. When we close our eyes we perceive our
presence amongst the same scene, even though we are not seeing with our
physical eyes. Wherever we are we perceive our own presence
and identity, regardless of open or closed eyes.
Beyond the perception of seeing
with open eyes and perceiving with feelings is the awareness of harmony. In
harmony we feel ourselves integrated, part of the
scene of each changing moment.
In this state of completion
we feel settled, comfortable, in communion with everything and everyone
surrounding us.
One of the parts
part of the One
in conscious communion
conscious harmony
67.
Children and Adults as Evolutionary Partners
Children show us that our
boundary of caring needs to extend beyond ourselves.
Whether we birth or inherit
them from other relationships, children stretch our edges of responsibility as
we fulfill their needs.
It is through bearing the
responsibility for children and childlike elderly parents that we experience
our interconnection between the generations. What we were given growing up and
have expanded upon so far, we pass on for the benefit of our children; each
successive generation evolving in consciousness.
In the family setting we
give for the welfare of our mate and children. Giving for a child's benefit is
not give and take. We give, give, give, and do not receive in kind; a child
does not have the capacity to give back evenly.
What we do receive through
caring for children is a shredding of our self-centeredness, our cage; our
concept that we are here on earth only to satisfy desires of our own mind.
We give to our children
while they are growing up. What they give back to us is a permanent experience
of ourselves as expansive beings, capable of feeling within the framework of
others' lives.
Growth, through taking responsibility
a natural expression of living
68.
Progression of Evolving Humanity
Instinct: Preservation and reproduction of the
body.
Mind: Analysis; planning; arranging the
situation to fulfill personal desires.
Emotion: Expression of feelings; first step
beyond self-preoccupation.
Love: Giving, caring, sharing.
Considering others' needs and acting for the highest good of the situation.
Selfrealization: Experiencing happiness as a quality of one's own
being.
Universal Consciousness: Communion. Experiencing
one's self within every atom vibrantly. At will, using the infinite
resources to create that which uplifts, energizes, harmonizes.
It is our destiny to have
simultaneous use of all steps in the progression. In universal consciousness we
have full control over the use of our energy in daily living; flavoring well
how we manifest with instinct, mind, emotion, love and selfrealization.
The fragrance of a blossoming rose
permeates the garden
69.
Relationships as Mirrored Images
With everyone and everything
we relate. Relating repeatedly forms a relationship.
In relationship, we react to
each other's thoughts and actions, on the diverse and deep levels of our
being. We see the outer layers of visible activity and observe the inner
motive stemming from past personal background and current desires for the
future. We face continuing variables in the projection of ourselves and
others in a relationship.
By communicating with love,
we communicate with and experience the unchanging soul of another; the depth of
relationship untouched by variables.
Mirrored images
of unconditional love
bouncing back and forth between
experiencing warm energized
bodily feeling
brightening each other's day
70. The
Safety-Grip of Conscience
A father holds his son's
hand lightly, but securely, as they walk briskly along the beach. The child
does not even have to watch his dad while they go along; the handhold between
them providing security and guidance to travel safely around obstacles strewn
over the beach.
In daily living, we are the
child; our Creator-Sustainer the caring parent. Our handhold is our conscience,
holding the Creator's hand of all-wise consciousness. As long as we hold
tightly, by following the guidance of our conscience, we travel safely along
the paths in life and grow into fuller consciousness of our Creator and fuller
consciousness as humans.
Taking hold of life
by following the direction
of our conscience
leads to experience of
Universal Consciousness
71.
Designing and Blueprinting a Relationship
The blueprint for building a
relationship comes from the co-designers.
When a solid foundation of
friendship is laid, the visible form of the relationship will have many room;
serving the needs of each with common areas in time and place for sharing.
The blueprint for a
relationship can look perfect on paper, but the adjustments needed in daily
living call for ongoing revisions.
Communicating our needs and
expectations must be conveyed during the designing phase of the relationship,
before the first set of working drawing can be made.
Even though we are
blueprinting a relationship, our highest personal goal of living the most
conscious good we are aware of is the top priority for maintaining a loving
relationship. All other projects and goals need to be supportive of our choice
to live as our most conscious selves.
The blueprint for living
built upon by giving
The blueprint for a relationship
manifesting through lovingness
With space for alone time
alongside joint ventures
The rooms of our house
becoming the form called our home
72.
Identifying with Spiritual Reality
Often we wonder how to
identify with spiritual reality in everyday living.
Spiritual reality manifests
when we feel and act on uplifting qualities. Some impulses that uplift are
joyfulness, lovingness, goodness, kindness, gentleness, caring, giving. These
qualities take us beyond self-centeredness, allowing us to interrelate with
others and the rest of creation in positive ways.
In positive intermingling
and reaching out beyond ourselves through our thoughts, words and actions, we
tune into the prevalent harmony of the universe. The whole creation is formed
from the interactions and harmonious functioning of each of the parts which
overlap and form the ever-changing patterns of existence.
As we use care to overlap
our energies with one another, weaving the fabric of our existence, we are
acting as harmonious parts of the whole. We feel happy reaching beyond
ourselves. By thinking of and acting in ways that reach beyond our
self-centeredness, we are harmoniously authoring our destiny.
We came here via our
parents, and as harmoniously compounded beings in a continually creative
universe, we go on creating out of our environment at all times—mentally,
emotionally, physically.
Identifying with spiritual reality
when living in
peacefulness
kindness
gentleness
lovingness
Just as warp and woof
threads are interwoven to form cloth, people weave their complementary energies
through interchanges, forming harmonious bonds.
As with the separate threads
of cloth, we have our own thinking mind, body, personality. When we come
together and share from our natural attributes we can create a rich living tapestry
that has no existence when the threads of separate lives are lying apart.
Lives interwoven
in lovingness, caring
Creating a masterpiece
of fulfillment from sharing
74.
Religious Doctrines; Moral Precepts
Religious doctrines and
moral precepts: external guidelines to be used till we develop the
consciousness to follow our personal conscience. They are our seeing-eye
dog while we are blind to our permanent nature of unconditional love and
acceptance of ourselves and all.
As we grow in lovingness and
acceptance, we begin to act naturally in ways that are respectful, helpful and
giving. As we develop and become attuned to following our personal conscience,
we have less need of the outer guidance systems.
Being able to act
spontaneously for the highest good is the goal of religious doctrine and moral
precepts.
Transferring obedience from
outer guidelines to the voice of our conscience is a gradual process. The
transfer is complete when we act for the highest good in each moment. Till
then, we have the time-tested precepts to fall back on.
We claim our personal freedom
by choosing to follow our conscience
in all circumstances
75.
Developing Devotion from the Emotion of Relationship
The emotion of relationship is
raw material; in time becoming devotion—the condition of supportive care.
Emotion grown up
Devotion
The transformation coming
with the change in attitude from "what can I get from this
relationship?" to "I want to share what I have with this
person."
Caring arouses warmth in our
body and contentment in our mind. In the overflow we feel a sense of
interconnection with the creation.
By devoting our emotional
energy to caring connections, we open ourselves to feeling our inner Source of
sustaining contentment and joy.
Caring
Sharing
Transforms emotion
Becomes devotion
On the shoreline
white-capped waves
rolling in
gracefully subsiding
As immortal souls we enter these bodies
filled with vibrant energy
growing in love
experiencing our harmonious place
in the creation
Then, sliding out
rejoining our Creator-Sustainer once again
matured, enriched
able to enjoy the fullness of our eternal home
we ventured from as babes
As we feel in our thoughts,
we feel in the actions following them.
The fullest experience of
body, mind and emotion results from incorporating love into our visualizations.
With a loving attitude we
reap harmony. One seed of love sprouts producing many fruits. Every time we act
lovingly we awaken or reinforce lovingness in ourselves, in others.
Every vision we imbue with
lovingness manifests love in our own life and in everyone that touches our
lives. We feel most complete when we completely give ourselves up to
living lovingly.
Loving feelings
in our visualizations
manifest lovingness
in our realizations
Self-knowledge: knowing and
being able to draw from our inner Source.
Self-knowledge forms the
foundation for building a happy fulfilling life. When our actions are inline with the highest good we are contributing to our
sense of wholeness and well-being—just as a house built upon a foundation with
straight and true lumber creates a framework that perfectly supports its
visible outer coverings.
By our actions we are known
With the insight of self-knowledge
we can create beautiful actions
Self-knowledge is like
drinking from an ever-flowing spring of clarity. When we need guidance in any
situation, the way that preserves our personal peace comes to mind. It is an
open telephone line from the pervading universal cellular harmony to our
conscious mind.
The more we converse on the
open direct line to our all-knowing Source, the more we can use and incorporate
these directives reliably. After awhile, the
flow becomes so integrated into our waking consciousness, that the best resolve
is automatic. This is open communication in its purest sense, the ultimate
application of self-knowledge.
Some techniques to develop
the connections with our Source are ethical living, caring actions, meditation
and self-analysis.
Self-knowledge
brought out from within
imbues our daily actions
with truth and harmony
Our bodies are the vehicles
for our expression of thoughts, feelings and actions.
The physical-mental body is
made up of the composition of flesh and personality; playing a self-composed
symphony. Our notes are all our own choosing—forming harmony or
discord—inspiring others or keeping them separate.
We are most useful when we
are ripe in the knowledge we are more than flesh and personality. We experience
our own depth of perception and expression by seeing and feeling deeply with
other people and forms of nature, by incorporating our unseen transcendent
qualities of care and love.
There is more to see
than we see with our eyes
Our wholeness is deep
Our depth is complete
when we meet and reflect with clear sight
80. Using
Cause and Effect for Positive Results
Cause and effect is a
scientific principle.
In everyday living our positive
choices result in like outcomes.
We also get a positive
result when choosing the best way out of a bad situation. When outer
circumstances are bleak, we preserve our sense of inner harmony by following
our conscience. Doing what is best now insures a better future.
Using this principle, we
maintain our natural ease. It is our choice, by our will power, to follow the
direction of our conscience. The more easeful we are feeling, from following
our conscience, the more clearly the best solutions come through to our
consciousness.
Positive results
from positive thoughts
Lovingness, incorporated
with wisdom, allows our natural harmony to flourish.
Harmony is prevalent in every
atom of creation, seen in the cooperative interaction of atoms forming
molecules, combining into the complex systems of the universe.
Our bodies are built by the
harmonious interactions of each organ and system, cooperating for the good of
the whole. Nature's way is built to keep us and the physical universe
functioning harmoniously.
We make the choice to follow
nature's lead, achieving harmony in our daily living, by acting lovingly, with
care, for the highest good—the wisest good.
Our loving actions, when
combined with wisdom, give us the feeling in our bodies and minds, felt by our
sense of ease, that we are in tune with the situation
of the moment.
Wisdom
lovingly applied
cooperates with the natural harmony
82. Some
Ideas for Balancing Body-Mind Energy
Our minds and bodies are an
interlocking unit, one affecting the other; we can alter a thought, mood,
attitude, or level of physical energy by:
1. Exerting will power to substitute other attitudes;
2. Aerobic activity such as walking, swimming;
3. Meditation and deep relaxation.
Ups and downs
tempered
transformed into
awareness of happiness, harmony
by balancing mental with physical activity
83.
Appropriately Expressing Instead of Repressing
Energy naturally expresses.
The universe is the sum of
coordinated movement interrelating in visible form made up of invisible energy.
Could energy ever be repressed permanently if it is constantly in seen or
unseen form by its nature?
Repressed emotions build up
heat (concentrated energy), and are felt as stress. Stress can be dissipated
through brisk physical activities such as walking and swimming.
Emotional feelings can be
expressed in various ways which bring up feelings of harmony, such as creative
activities of poetry, art, song, dance, and caring lovingness with family,
friends and community. And, loving feelings can be expressed esoterically by
feeling appreciation for surrounding beauty and for the Creator of beauteous
harmony. Service in the community gives us the feeling of being interconnected
in the larger world family.
The key, when feeling the
need to express is to do it—energetically and lovingly.
What's going through us
is for our use
Living lovingly
expresses fully, appropriately
Taking a leisurely drive we
enjoy the passing scenery without worrying about our destination.
During the journey of living
we should enjoy what every moment holds, without putting off our goal of
happiness or fulfillment for the distant future. We limit our opportunity to
enjoy the present, by thinking the future will be
better.
Life's a string of connected events
giving shape to our time
Integral links
in the whole experience of living
We enjoy the present moment
with the depth and insight we have gained in living up till now. Past positive attitudes and choices compound, leading us to
naturally fulfilling outcomes in the present. And today's positive
actions continue this process into our future.
Today's decisions shape
tomorrow's outcomes.
Living each moment
from our highest consciousness
insures a continuously more fulfilling
experience of life
Simple, Light, Bright
Free, Easy, Flowing
Clear and Expanding
Love and science are one.
One plus one equals two, whether on the addition chart or in a relationship.
Scientific
law—harmony—pervades the entire universe. Predictable mechanisms—predictable
responses, interwoven, interrelated as the workings of a fine watch.
As we interact harmoniously,
we align with the basic precept of nature: cooperation. Through harmonious
cooperation we become increasingly aware and conscious. As our consciousness
develops we find we can harmoniously function with anyone and anywhere under
all circumstances, just as mathematical scientific principles are present and
function everywhere.
Vibrant bodily energy comes
up for our use when we align within nature's laws. We become an asset to
everyone as we manifest within the sound principles that keep our universe
running rhythmically, harmoniously. When we are feeling this great energy
enlivening us by our state of harmony, we most easily manifest accepting,
unconditional love. Our energy radiates from us, warming everyone, just as
predictably as the sun radiates and warms all it touches with its rays.
Radiating as the sun, we
feel exquisitely good, as we are being sustained by our alignment within the
harmonious mathematical workings of the universe.
Can one imagine the bliss
and love possible, if alignment within the laws of creation
are so enlivening, what alignment within the creation's Creator must be
like?
Science is absolutely loving
instilling harmony, balance
into every action or our lives
Love is absolutely scientific
instilling harmony, balance
into every action of our lives
87.
Personal Integrity in Daily Living
Personal integrity is living
in accordance with our highest state of consciousness.
We continuously create our
reality by our choices, moment to moment, creating and maintaining harmony by
following our conscience and acting for the highest good.
Personal integrity takes
courage.
We are being courageous in
living according to our conscience when it would be easy to hide from others
that we are not following our conscience. It is easier to slide down the hill
of life, maintaining or digressing in our current state of consciousness, than
to follow the sometimes hard climb up the path of what we know is right. The
reward for continually upgrading our personal integrity is that we become more
conscious of our harmonious, self-effulgent nature.
Through living with personal
integrity, others notice we can be trusted, we become
a trustworthy friend - an asset to our world family.
Personally integrate
highest consciousness
enjoying happiness
in harmonious living
Streaming bright
Loving light
Surround, penetrate, permeate
our night of self-ignorance
With remembrance of
the Self
that formed us of
gracefully enlightened
Love
Author
Bio
Susan
Helene Kramer is a graduate of Peabody Institute Dance of Johns Hopkins
University, and an international author of more than 50 books and thousands of
articles on rhythmic dance, ballet, music, philosophy, meditation, yoga, social
issues and practical spirituality for children, teens, adults and those challenged,
with some translations in Dutch, French, German, Greek and Spanish, and with
her husband, Stan Schaap, lives in The Netherlands.
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1st printing 1996
Santa Barbara, California USA
2nd printing 2002
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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page first published to the internet January 5, 2002;
updated September 8, 2017
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