Finding The Gateway To Your Soul

You heart is the gateway to your soul and soul connection with another begins with you connection to your own soul through activating your heart in a way that transcends what we have come to know as love. The love emanating from your soul is pure and unconditional.
Begin to focus on your heart to open the energy vortex know as the heart chakra, focus on love and understanding without conditions.  Reflecting on love only expands your capacity to love and your capacity to receive love.
When you perceive love as a rarity you will experience love as being in limited supply but in reality love is all there is and we are here in the physical experience to remember that love is what we are here to express.
Love is the greatest power available to us and yet it is so under utilized.  Tap into the power of love and you can transform every life condition.  There is no compromise to this.

Love in its purest form is transformative.  Get in touch with your soul and align to the understanding that love is all there is.  We can either live as though it isn’t and suffer the human condition or live in the state of love anf transform your world from the inside first until the outer human experience reflects the power of love as you.

The True Test of Friendship

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UNLOCKING YOUR INTUITION - Part 3 - Silent Meditation Process

Silent Meditation Process

Begin by first taking a few deep breath’s.  As you inhale notice anywhere in your body where you are holding tension and as you exhale allow this tension to relax with the breath.

Pay full attention to the breath and release all tension. 

Continue in this way and allow your body to succumb and become pliant.  When you feel sufficiently relaxed begin to pay attention only to your breath.

Take deep slow breaths, noticing and feeling all the sensations associated with the air entering your body through your nostril and follow the path of the breath to your lungs.  Pay close attention to only the breath.   The key now is to focus on the breath to the exclusion of all else.

Continue with this concentration on the breath and as you do so if thoughts arise, remain detached from the thought, don’t react in any way and go straight back to observing your breath.

As you continue on with this process you can begin to slow down the breath and maintain an even count on the in and out breath.  For example, breathe in to the count of 6 and breathe out to the count of 6, if you like you can extend this somewhat as long as it is comfortable and you aren’t struggling for a breath. This all should be done with ease.  Counting the breath also helps keep the thoughts at bay.  Continue doing this until it becomes natural and you no longer need to count the breaths. 

From this point, while maintaining the rhythm, focus on the breath and just listen to the silence.  Do this for as long as possible.  Remember to allow thoughts to pass without reacting and come back to the breath and get back to the silence wherever possible.  Over time the silence will begin to be the place where the still small voice of your intuition will begin to make it-self heard more and more. 

Note:  You may not always receive intuitive impressions during the meditation itself but the practice will open up the channels so that in your day to day activities you will start to get feeling responses to various situations.  In the initial stage it is important to acknowledge these impressions as doing so further opens the intuitive channels.  You can also just intend to get an answer to a question and let it go, but ensure you are observant of your environment.  Sometimes answers don’t come in the way you expect.  An answer can arrive though something a friend says in passing that just happens to be the one thing you needed to hear at that moment or you notice a sign that gives you the insight you need.  Look for synchronicities they are everywhere and notice your feelings, your gut instinct will be talking louder than ever and the more you notice the impressions, the more your intuition expands.

UNLOCKING YOUR INTUITION - Part 2

 Once you become aware of your thought patterns spend time throughout the day disengaging with the thoughts.  Those repetitive thoughts will come and go but your job now is to just observe without attachment.  Don’t try to stop them (what you resist persists) just notice and let go.  Do this with the intention of getting to a place of no thought, just presence.  Continually come back to the present moment, engaged fully in whatever you are doing without the background noise of your thoughts.   Thoughts will pass through your mind but strive to observe them without reacting and just let them go, much like swallowing food without it touching the sides.  You could say something like “there goes another thought”  and let it go.

By learning to control your thought, you gain an opportunity to embrace present moment stillness that results in a direct line to your intuition.  The ‘control’ I am referring to, is your ability to observe your thought with detachment.  The happy consequence of this being the dissipation and erosion of the energetic interference associated with the thoughts that run your mind and stand between you and your intuition.

When you have reached this point you will have gained some mastery over the mind and which thoughts you allow yourself, as a conscious gatekeeper, to entertain or let go.   Your thoughts will pass through you without leaving any stains upon your mind that could later form into a habitual negative thought pattern.  Anyone who has gone through the 10 day silent Vipassana Meditation Retreat will have become aware of, during the breaks between the meditation practice, the repetitive self talk that goes on when there is little external stimuli to distract you from what is continuously going on in your mind.    Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, can be truly illuminating for those willing to undertake this challenging retreat.

Mastery over your thoughts is also one of the first stages of enlightenment and a great first step to activating the inner voice of the higher mind otherwise known as your intuition.

Mastery over thoughts leads to extended moments of Presence.  Where else can you go when thoughts of the past or possible future are no longer engaged?  You have nowhere else to lose yourself and a happy consequence of this is you will be that you are nurtured and nourished in a blissful state of present moments.

When the mindless chatter is harnessed, the silence becomes a world of insights, intuition, inner urgings and your spiritual senses become heightened as well as expanded. 

Go to Part 3 for the Silent Meditation Process

UNLOCKING YOUR INTUITION - Part 1

Intuitional data gives us the ability to grasp a universally guided understanding or insight into matters outside our conscious reasoning from a spiritual source.  Intuition transcends time and space. The guidance you receive when followed can be life changing and life altering.

 On a day to day basis our intuition can guide us by generating a good or bad feeling about choices we are considering, warnings about people or to simply alert us to take a different route to work, only to find out later a major car crash had occurred on your usual route which would have delayed you for quite a considerable amount of time.  It can also give you a positive feeling of warmth and positive feeling about certain people, choices or ideas you are considering. 

In the beginning intuition is sensed most often by a feeling, but over time we may sense in other ways such as words and pictures to accompany our feeling senses.  As our use of intuition matures a kind of synthesis of all your senses occurs.

To be able to distinguish intuition from ego however can take some time.  An ability to maintain a certain detachment from your own wants and desires is important.  

To awaken the intuitive impressions the best place to start is with meditation.  Meditation is always one of the best means to activate the inner voice as it is through quietening the ongoing chatter of the mind that we begin to hear something more.  Stillness Speaks as Eckhart Tolle so eloquently stated.  It is stillness that awakens the deep inner resources that is innate in all of us.  We are intuitive beings and always have been but through our conditioning and our absorption in our daily external life we lose sight of what is our true essence.  We all can commune with our Source yet we assign that ability to a few whom we believe has an exclusive connection to the Divine Source, yet the truth is we are all capable and are born with the same gifts.  We just need to spend some time to re-awaken what always ours to begin with.

If you can spend at least 15 minutes a day in meditation that would be a good start, more of course would be much better however a minimum of about 15 to 30 minutes a day is ideal.  For the purpose of awakening the intuition, I would recommend a silent meditation rather than a guided meditation, however if it is easier to begin with you can listen to a guided meditation and progress to a silent meditation.   *See Part 3 for silent meditation guidelines.

You can also begin by paying attention, throughout your day, to your thoughts and just observe them.  Notice the endless chatter that is constantly running your life.   Perhaps it is your fears speaking to you, or you have thoughts centered around disaster thinking where you anticipate everything going wrong before there is any evidence of anything possibly going wrong, maybe you are constantly concerned with how others perceive you, or continually berating yourself because of your insecurities.  Notice the pattern of the repetitive thoughts.  Notice whose voice it is that is running your thoughts.  Is it your voice or is it the voice of a parent or primary care giver of your childhood.  Just this observation alone can bring many insights and empower you to control your thinking.  Remember ‘energy follows thought’.  If your experience is giving you feedback contrary to your intention or desire then examine your thoughts.  99% of our thoughts is unconscious, in other words our minds are constantly circulating thoughts out of habit rather than intention.  When you become aware of your habitual thought patterns you become empowered to change them consciously.  It takes time and perseverance but it will be well worth the effort. 

 Article continues in Part 2

BE LIKE THE WIND

Be like the wind
Bending and flowing into the space of life
Allowing no mask to form around you
Letting no barriers to block your Light
Let if flow

Be like the wind
Permit experience to wash around you
Touching your skin
But leaving no marks upon your Soul
Untouched and free

Be like the wind
Let it carry away your tears
Cleanse all the lessons of life
Without hardening your Spirit
Let it be

Bend like the wind
Feel it flow around you but not change you
You understand its nature
And your Spirit remains unaltered
You are free

Be like the wind
Be like Spirit
You are a Soul incarnate
A light emanating to the world
Flowing with the moment, in and out of time

Be like the wind

Stella Solaris: Let Go & Let God

Stella Solaris: Let Go & Let God: Sometimes when you find yourself in a situation where you just don't know what to do, your best and only option is to 'Let Go & Let God' a...

Let Go & Let God

Sometimes when you find yourself in a situation where you just don't know what to do, your best and only option is to 'Let Go & Let God' as the timeless saying goes.

It works. Give your problem over to a higher power in complete faith and trust and allow the best solution to emerge for you.

By giving your problem over to Source energy,  means you are allowing for infinite possibilities, that is not limited to solutions  within your human experience but from an unlimited source of possibilities.

When you let go of a problem in this way, life and the situation itself, becomes an adventure as you anticipate how everything is about to unfold without limiting the outcome in anyway.

Do this and enjoy the ride. 

Part 2 - What to do when everything changes or WTH... How did I get here?

Relationships are meant to help us with the unfinished business of our childhood and other significant life events. We unconsciously attract people with qualities of the primary care givers of our childhood and the people with whom we need to balance karma with. We are not victims of our experience at all. We unconsciously choose our partners for the lessons that we are scheduled to learn. Our partners show up at the right time to activate particular insecurities and fears reminiscent of our childhood or other poignant life events.

The good news is that these relationships that are karmic in nature, if we truly understand the lesson being gifted to us, will take us to another level of relating and consequently closer to our Soul Mate or Twin Flame. We need the lesson in order to be ready for the vibrationally higher level of relationship of our Soul Mate or Twin Flame.  Relationships, particularly Karmic Soul Mates or Karmic Twins, have an intensity that is compelling and magnetic with good reason. If the intensity wasn’t felt then you may not take the opportunity that the Universe is providing you to complete a soul assignment.

For the purposes of this article just understand that your relationship experiences serve a purpose along the way to meeting your true Soul Mate or Twin Flame. Accept with love the relationship endings of 2011 for it offers you a stepping-stone to a greater love in 2012 and beyond but only if you have truly learnt the scheduled lessons. If you don’t learn the lesson, you generally get to experience it all again but it will be presented to you in another human form than the previous one although there are some who come together again and again until they finally learn the lessons together.

Don’t blame or resent the deliverer of the lesson (your partner or ex-partner), you can of course go ahead and blame him or her but it won’t elevate your consciousness to a higher level and blame will inevitably just prolongs the time apart from your Soul Mate.
To find the lesson of your relationship, it is best to take the other person out of the picture altogether and just focus on what the experience brought up for you. What types of fears and insecurities surfaced, what boundaries were not honored, what was you intuition telling you or your gut telling you that you chose to ignore. Honestly explore the relationship not with the intent of apportioning blame but to look closely at your own role in the relationship, examine your choices, be honest about the fact that you probably always knew it couldn’t work but you went ahead anyway. Ask yourself what lies you had to tell yourself in order to overlook the things that were bothering you throughout your relationship.

Where in your relationship were you not your authentic self and you hid aspects of your real self for fear you wouldn’t be accepted? How often did you overlook or didn’t address things that were bothering you? Did you allow your life take a back seat to your partners, making their life more important than yours and losing focus of you own life path? These are the types of questions you keep asking regardless of whether it is relationship, life path, work, finances, or family issue that is causing unexpected or unplanned changes in your life. Just persevere and keep asking questions until you get the insight.

It may be, you have to look at every aspect of your life at once as sometimes events work synergistically to point you in the right direction and sometimes the major lesson comes from only one aspect of your life such as a relationship breaking down and everything else in your life has a supporting role to get you back on your path.

The next step is to forgive & release blame and take full responsibility for your choices. Keeping with our relationship example, doing this will help you understand the nature of the lesson. When the lesson is learnt, really learnt, you will notice a shift. It will be as if the entire sting has been taken from the experience and you will feel free to release yourself from the connection. The intense quality that bound you to that relationship will no longer be so compelling and magnetic.  Now the next part of your journey to love has been given a boost of higher consciousness and as a natural consequence of this you are brought a step closer to your Soul Mate/Twin Flame or true purpose. Do not resist or fear the changes, embrace them knowing you are being gifted an opportunity to get back on your path so you can experience the immense peace and joy that is just awaiting your discovery.