Anyone who has read all of the preceding blog entries will realize this is a short list of how to put yourself on the path of greater joy. You shine your light and others sense the change in you - and that changes them. The net result raises the vibration of the field in which we co-exist. And this birngs us closer to God, which is synonymous with love.
- Allow others to be who they are. Allow yourself to be who you are.
- Cultivate authentic relationships with yourself and others. See God in yourself and the other.
- Release judgment. Find a way to discharge negative feelings about past experience and current impressions. Look for the learning, good outcome or opportunity.
- Act on your intuition. It's your first impression of something you saw, felt, experienced.
- Love yourself. Put yourself first. By taking care of yourself first, you stand powerfully to help others whether it is your spouse, children, parents, friends, co-workers or a stranger.
- Be present. Participate in the now fully. When someone speaks to you, give them your full attention. When you commit to something, be fully present in it.
- Live from your heart. Listen to your feelings. What is your feeling about something you are doing, wanting, something happening around you. Follow the best feelings you can in any moment. What brings you the greatest joy? Follow it.
When you focus on the Emotional Guidance Scale in everything you do, you will increase your and the collective vibration. That is what the Ascended Masters have done. It is what we (can) do - with free will, of course!
In the words of Jean Houston, "We are the neurons or the cancer of the planet." You choose!
The Institute of HeartMath® offers opportunities for self-improvement, which in energetic terms means raising your vibration by elevating your feelings. Recall Abraham-Hicks' emotional guidance scale (depression and rage as low vibrations and love and joy as high vibrations). In addition to free downloads and monitoring products, HeartMath® offers self-help that includes these inexpensive books:
Visit HeartMath® and explore their vast resources to help you reconnect with the joy in your life. Just like a child learning to walk, your future begins with your first step. It is all about free choice. You are responsible for how you respond to your life. When you proactively choose, you gain control of your life and rediscover the joy you knew as a child taking those first steps to walk.
The "light" is the all-permeating love of Source (God). "Darkness" is the absence of "light". Now you ask, "How can there be absence to something that is all-permeating?" The Emotional Guidance Scale espoused in great detail by Esther and Jerry Hicks in their book, The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent offers a great answer.
Light is love. Darkness is depression, a disconnection. An example of the scale includes these sensory descriptors: Love - Joy - Gratitude - Appreciation - Optimism - Hopefulness - Frustration - Disappointment - Doubt - Revenge - Insecurity - Depression. (Do an Internet search for "Emotional Guidance Scale Esther and Jerry Hicks" to find the Hicks' list.)
First, you decide how you want to proceed by asking yourself:
- How do I feel about what I am doing right now?
- Do I need to change what I am doing?
- Is this taking me where I want to go?
- Does this achieve something that helps others, too?
This is your navigation and motivation because you want to feel the best you can in any moment about what you are doing! Accept that in any given moment you are doing the best you can with the information at hand. Let go of things you could-have-done-better by learning the lesson. This is cranial hemispheric cooperation, you might say. The sensors move the pointer on the scale (Emotional Guidance Scale), whereas the analyzers read the scale and adjust the environment.
With practice, you find yourself moving around at the higher end of the scale. Stay focused on what you want in life and let others fend for themselves!
In the words of Esther and Jerry Hicks, "When you continually look for a way of looking at everything that feels slightly better than what you are currently feeling, you are getting closer and closer to seeing your world as your Inner Being sees it. And, in the process, you will be leaving resistance behind. Your own resistance is the only factor that keeps you from realizing all of the wonderful. All things that you consider to be bad exist only because of resistance to your natural Well-Being."
The 3D experience of life based on quantum reality is a soup of probabilities in which you attract what you desire. Be the creator of your soup!
Imagine one drop water in the Atlantic Ocean. Each drop of water is a part of the whole ocean, yet each has experienced a unique path in the hydrologic cycle of the planet. Likewise, each of us is a piece of God-consciousness in the All-That-Is. We proceed through the cycle of life like a drop of water proceeds through the hydrologic cycle….over and over, coming and going. Like the water drop, each of us is forever.
Furthermore, we have divinity in our DNA and a process of development that has seeding of purpose. What purpose? We are each an expression of God (aka creative energy, Source, universal intelligence). This means that God experiences itself through us. Since God is love, our purpose is to express ourselves with love.
So, you ask, “What do I do with that nebulous response?” Abraham-Hicks identified an Emotional Guidance Scale which is the range of emotions from love (connection) to depression (disconnection). We express ourselves with love in each and every moment by reaching for the best feeling place right now, and now, and now, always reaching for the best feeling place. For example, choose to see the cup as always half filled!
Here is a short list for ascension:
- Expand your consciousness. See yourself as more than an expression of your biological parents and the physical environments in which you live. Things that you like or dislike may not have any basis in your current life experience. Perhaps you have meditations or dreams in which those who are no longer physically present communicate with you. Everyone has intuitions (gut feelings) about something about to happen. All of these are your consciousness trying to expand beyond your current belief system.
- Release bias. Accept that for all you know or have learned, you do not know it all. Much of the science and history we have learned are theories in which the events are made to fit the story that current experts choose to put forth. What we know is a limited view of the whole picture!
- Success is living joyfully as you define joy. Whatever you do, do it because you choose it. Why? Your light shines brightly when you live joyfully, and, end-of-life transition is an easy passage because joyful people have no regrets.
- Ancient remembrance. We hold innate truths within. People like Gregg Braden show us the evidence of these truths, such as our ancient history of self-destruction, missing scriptures, and artifacts that defy documented archeology. Organizations such as HeartMath measure our consciousness connection with Earth. We must allow ourselves to relearn our relationship with Earth.
