The idea that nothing is true except what we comprehend is silly, and that ideas which our minds cannot reconcile are mutually destructive, sillier still. Certainly nothing could be more repulsive to our minds and feelings than the spectacle of thousands of millions of universes - for that is what they say it comes to now - all knocking about together for ever without any rational or good purpose behind them. I therefore adopted quite early in life a system of believing whatever I wanted to believe, while at the same time leaving reason to pursue unfettered whatever paths she was capable of treading. - Winston Churchill, My Earl Life
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This is your center of love. Self-love, friend love, love for the world, love for life, love for your pets. Love is our purest connection to the Divine and to our eternal selves. It’s no coincidence that what is arguably our most powerful and important chakra is right in the middle, with three above it and three below. It is the meeting place of the higher and the lower, the balance between the physical and the energetic. When this chakra is out of balance, all the others feel it. In some ways, it is our essence chakra, the chakra that breathes life into our mind-body system. If this chakra was ever to close, our connection to our source would close. This would result in chronic physical illness, depression, fatigue, and deep feelings of fear and separation. Being in touch with our heart chakra can be like flipping a magical switch in our lives. Healing this chakra flows powerful healing out to all the others. The more we open up to and receive love, the more blessings seem to flow effortlessly into our lives. Our health improves, our finances improve, and we feel a general sense of love and exuberance for all of life. Signs of good chakra health
Optimism, joy, focused on solutions rather than problems, a sense of well-being, a sense of being taken care of and guided, love for life, love for all people, love for ourselves, excitement, good physical health
Signs of being blocked
Depressed, anxious, feelings of isolation, feelings of fear and paranoia, anger, frustration, chronic illness, a sense of being alone in the universe, working endlessly and never getting ahead, focused on problems and negativity
Heart Chakra Affirmations For more Heart Chakra Healing, check out the Heart Chakra healing package. It includes 5 guided meditations, these affirmations, sound healing, and a workbook! Excerpt from "The Nature of Personal Reality"Affirmation means acceptance of your own miraculous complexity. It means saying "yes" to your own being.
It means acquiescing to your reality as a spirit in flesh. Within the framework of your own complexity, you have the right to say "no" to certain situations, to express your desires, to communicate your feelings. If you do so, then in the great flow and sweep of your eternal reality there will be an overall current of love and creativity that carries you. Affirmation is the acceptance of yourself in your present as the person that you are. Within that acceptance you may find qualities that you wish you did not have, or habits that annoy you. You must not expect to be "perfect". As mentioned earlier, your ideas of perfection mean a state of fulfillment beyond which there is no future growth, and no such state exists. "Love your neighbor as yourself." Turn this around and say, "Love yourself as you love your neighbor," for often you will recognize the goodness is another and ignore it in yourself. Some people believe there is a great merit and holy virtue in what they think of as humility. Therefore to be proud of oneself seems a sin, and in that frame of reference true affirmation of the self is impossible. Genuine self-pride is the loving recognition of your own integrity and value. True humility is based upon this affectionate regard for yourself, plus the recognition that you live in a universe in which all other beings also possess this undeniable individuality and self-worth. - Seth & Jane Roberts, The Nature of Personal Reality Every morning after I wake up, I tell myself the Universe loves me. I say it in my mind, slow and soft. The Universe loves me. As I wake up more, I take some deep breaths. I then remind myself that everything in this Universe was created from one source. I remind myself that this is more than a spiritual philosophy, but a fact. The entire Universe, at one time, was compacted down into one primordial atom. Everything that the Universe would be was in that atom. It all exploded outwards in what we call the Big Bang, and as those original elements sped outwards they crashed into each other, creating new elements, and fusing together to become stars. From those stars, even more fusing and birthing happened, and somehow, in stars that died billions of years ago, a chain of events began that would lead to me. The Universe loves me. I remind myself each morning of the cosmic beauty of this world and this Universe. This Universe that I am a part of. I remind myself of the vastness, of the power of it all, and how it's all love. It all came from one source. It always has been love. Always will be. And all of that out there, it sees me with as much wonder, awe and love as I see it. And then I remind myself, that every single person who walks on this Earth was created from that love also. The Universe loves me. And all the people with me? They're the Universe too. In the same way I look out at stars and see the Universe, what's out there can look back at us and see the Universe also. So if the Universe loves me, and people are the Universe, then everyone in this world must love me also. The Universe loves us. Which isn't to say everyone likes me. Nor that everyone approves of me or even wants me here. That's a different subject all together. It's only to say that within each person is a cosmic love, a love tied to the primordial atom from which everything originated. The essence of every person is tied to creation, and that creation is love. People are love. People are the Universe. The Universe loves me. Then I remind myself that every tree I see, every strip of concrete, every house, every bird, every star in the night sky, it all came from that same powerful, intensely hot and mystical singular source of energy and matter.
It all came from that one source of love, and it all loves me, because it all is love. It's not that the trees and the birds choose to love me. They just are love. They were once the Oneness as much as I was. It's all love. Love is radiating from the core of everything. It's up to me whether I decide to focus on that or not. I used to wake up and focus on worry. I worried about what negative things people would say. If they would like my creative projects. If they would yell at me and make me want to retreat inside of myself. I worried people would offer me opportunities, only to decide later I wasn't good enough and then rip them away. I worried about things hurting me, physically and emotionally. I looked out at the world and the Universe and I did not see love. I saw only things to be afraid of. When that worry starts to creep back in, I breathe in I am the Universe, and I breathe out The Universe is Me. The Universe loves me. It also loves you, and you are love. Which means, because you, at your core are love, you naturally attract love to you. It's harder for you to conjure up thoughts and feelings that reject love because that's like swimming up a river. So if you aren't feeling the love, if you're feeling sad, afraid or worried, take a deep breath, and know, the Universe loves you. Everyone and everything around you, in its cosmic core, loves you. Relax, let go and fall inwards to your core, into the love. It's already there. Breathe into it. The Universe loves me. During all my years running this website, I have continually put an emphasis on the small stuff. Appreciate the small stuff. Celebrate small steps. Make small changes for big results. However, when it comes to knowing there is something or someone supporting me from a Higher Place, I rarely allow in small signs of support. For God or the Universe to prove it's got my back, I almost always demand a HUGE sign. Bring me a million dollars and I'll know you're real!!! The more I demand these massive gestures of reassurance, and the more they don't show up, the more alone and afraid I feel. The more alone and afraid I feel, the more I question if anything is ever going to show up. This doubt feeds into itself, I shut down more, and what I receive slows down to a trickle, thereby digging my fear in deeper. This morning, I was having one of those days where I just couldn't get a grip on my trust. I wanted to know when and how for everything in my life. The more I became unnerved by the idea of the unknown, the more I wanted to stop doing everything. I just wanted life to pause so that I could catch my breath. Just for a moment. During all of this, I also finished off the last of my coffee beans. While I sipped the last cup of joe I could make before I bought more, I began trying to reconnect to my Source, to the God that is always with me and here for me. I kept saying, "Just show me a sign. Show me you're with me. Show me you got me." The more I said these words, the more angst I felt. And then I realized - by asking God to show me a sign, I'm declaring I'm in this alone. I'm not saying, "I know you got me," and going from there. I'm saying, "I don't believe you're here, so prove you are." By the laws of the Universe, this disbelief is the only thing that can be reflected back to me. My need for proof is the very thing that pushes its existence away. Feeling into this, I switched my phrasing to, "I know you're here. I know you got me. I know I'm not alone. I know that even when I feel anxious like this, you're with me. Even when I'm FREAKING OUT, you're in me and around me. We're in this together." I then visualized golden rivers of energy pouring down me (something helpful I learned that I share further in my anxiety support package). I saw and felt all this beautiful energy in me and around me. With that, I finished my coffee and began to feel better. Not okay. But better. Sometimes, better is the exact thing we need to reach for. Feeling better got me to some clarity, and with the clarity I released some deep resistance, and with the release I truly started to feel I wasn't alone. As I got more clarity on where all this fear was coming from, I headed downtown to do some stuff (like buy more coffee), and then went over to my parent's house. And I went right past the grocery store, totally forgetting to buy my life giving coffee. Dang it! Oh well. Just as I stepped inside, I remembered - the coffee! I went in the kitchen and there on the counter was a big bag of coffee beans! Say what!? I had that tingling sensation of coincidence and synchronicity. Hawaiian Kona coffee, none the less! Way better than the kind I buy. I was surprised because neither of my parents drink coffee. I asked what it was for, and they said they'd just bought it at an auction during their Kiwanis club meeting. Without trying to seem too desperate, I asked who it was for. They said it was for me, of course. They know I love my coffee. I stared at the big bag of beans, knowing it would make my morning so much better. Not just because I wouldn't have to pretend tea is a proper substitute for coffee. But because I had my sign. I wasn't alone. Ask and you shall receive. It wasn't a million dollars (or was it - coffee is essential!). But that's okay. Because to God, the big stuff and the small stuff is all the same. If I can receive a bag of coffee right when I need it, I can most surely receive a million dollars. The Universe has my back. All is well. The Law of Attraction says that that which is like unto itself, is drawn.
In other words, that which you think, in any moment, attracts unto itself other thoughts that are like it. That is why whenever you are thinking about a subject that is not pleasant, more unpleasant thoughts regarding that subject are quickly drawn. You find yourself, in very short order, not only experiencing what you are experiencing in this moment, but reaching into your past for more data that matches that vibration - and now, by the Law of Attraction, as your negative thought expands proportionately, so does your negative emotion. It is natural that by knowing what you do not want, you are able to clarify what you do want; and there is nothing wrong with identifying a problem before beginning to look for a solution. But many people, over time, become problem oriented rather than solution oriented, and in their examination and explanation of the problem, they continue the perpetuation of the problem. - Abraham & Esther Hicks Money, and the Law of Attraction |