This was recorded on the night of 11-11-11.  Video 47 here was a little practice for this one, in which I ask you to do a visual meditation in which there is no audio/spoken word on this end for most of the video.  What I suggest you do is to allow the light you see to penetrate your heart.  Take the light into your heart and be aware of the true loving power that is in your heart, trusting that you are powerful.  If you allow your mouth to form a smile for the time you are watching, and you allow yourself to know that the will and the wisdom of your heart has great loving power, notice how you feel when the video is over.

 

 

The question has come up so many times in the last year or so.  Given the strange and chaotic state of the world, people often write or speak of their frustration in not knowing what they can DO about the problems of the world.   What can YOU do about the mess the world is in?  An essay received via email today provoked the following response from me.  Here is that response.

Dear Suzy,

Good points are made in the essay you forwarded, yet the suggested responses to these realities fall short.  It is suggested there that we ostracize the bad guys, stand up and make a stink with our legislators, find somebody else to yell at or otherwise find ways to vent our anger at the nebulous system.  

These responses have been shown over and over again to be counter-productive.

We are in the middle of a revolution.  It is a revolution of consciousness.  It will not be won by taking up arms, by screaming in the streets or by any letter writing campaign.  The revolution will be won based upon what we are being, not just what we are doing.

As we choose to be the loving beings that we are at depth, the collective consciousness will suffocate egoic ignorance.

There are many more people in this world who are either innocent or well-intentioned than there are those who would like to control the world and usurp its resources.  We are being called to respond to the challenges of life with love, with a sense of unity, and with compassion.  Loving actions are a natural mirror for what is inside of oneself that one is willing to see and with which one is willing to identify.  (OK, read that last line again; it does make sense.)  The ultimate “key to the kingdom” is to identify with the heart and choose more and more consistently to reflect that knowledge in your actions.

This requires awareness, trust and courage.  Awareness is just the willingness to see what is in front of you.  Many today would rather hide, pretending that they do not see.  They hide behind alcohol, food, drugs, stupid television, sexual excess, or anything that will divert their attention from reality.  Trust and courage become more possible as one moves beyond avoidance, powerlessness and fear.  

We have been conditioned to be fearful and to have a sense of powerlessness.  This is how the dark or corrupt forces want us to be.  We are being called by a higher power to wake up.

Our system of government in the United States is broken and is beyond reform.   It will be replaced as a natural outgrowth of the revolution of consciousness.  No blood.  No marching in the streets required.

Still, the mind wants to know: what can we DO now?   What we do as individuals makes an impact on the collective.  So helping others to wake up is important.  We can wake up to the fact that most of our religions---ALL of the major ones---are spiritually draining of the collective called humanity.  It is time for us to dump these religions.  Any worthy religion unites and empowers.  The major religions of today do exactly the opposite: they weaken and divide.  So key number one in responding to the call of the day: Dump divisive religion now.  Believing in a very separate-from-you, schizophrenic god who damns and tortures those who break "His" rules is spiritually life-draining. 

Key number two is to commit to living a more conscious, loving and aware life.  Be willing to see what is in front of you and then more and more consistently respond to everything with love.

Key three: drop judgment.  If we are all indeed One, then judgment of another is judgment of Self, and hence self-abusive.   Exercise discernment and prudence about where and to whom you give your energy, but ix-nay on the udgment-jay.

Key four: Bless the so-called “bad guys.”   The corrupt who torture, enslave, poison and bankrupt us are just ignorant.  Send them your love, not your resentment or anger.  It is your love and your love alone that will win the revolution of consciousness.  And the result will be an era of harmony, one beginning sooner than many think.  

Key five:  See everyone and everything you experience as your teacher.  Their lesson is to love.   The most challenging of people and experiences are opportunities to choose a loving response.  As we more and more consistently do this, we raise our own---and the collective—-vibration; we raise our consciousness.

I explore this consciousness revolution in more detail in my new book, The Wake Up Book, that will be available starting this Friday at www.YourPauseButton.com  Without presenting anything dogmatically, the book guides  readers to discover their own truth by consulting the will of their hearts.  

Thanks for all the great work you do, Suzy.  You, too, are a “wake up artist.”
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All Love,

Carlo Ami

P.S.  For a sneak preview of the book, please go to

http://www.yourpausebutton.com/books/the-wake-up-book/excerpt

Carlo Ami at Nighttime Lava Flow into the Ocean in Hawaii

It sure is strange what is going on for so many of us at this time.   We want stress relief.  We want to learn how to trust.   The world is shifting as we are shifting.  Many of us feel less grounded, more chaotic.  Lots of people tend to think that this is a “bad” thing.  Is it, really?

The mind tends to lead us down all sorts of dead-end alleys, self-destructive paths and pain extenders.  Its basic design is to help us to take care of practical matters like when to eat, when to pee and what to do when there is a red light in traffic.  If we misguidedly make the mind our master in dealing with emotions and our spiritual nature, we set ourself up for a treadmill of pain...until we change our mind about how to use it.

It seems that the natural way to ground oneself is in the Earth.  As we are evolving individually and collectively, we are being pushed to consider another source for our grounding: our heart.    I see this intuitively as a truth.  If we see the Earth and the mind as vehicles, rather than as who we are, then the question arises: To who or what do I identify myself with as me, as my essential self?

When we have been challenged by stress, by the apparent chaos of life, how do we respond?  The old-school way takes one of two approaches:  The first is to look for ways to explain and solve it with the mind: psychological theory, religious scriptures, common sense, or what some teacher told you about how you should think.

The second approach, also very common and generally counter-productive, is to use the mind to “explain a problem away” or to avoid it as much as possible.  We can convince ourselves that a challenge is not a challenge if we tell ourselves so often enough.  When that doesn’t work, it is easy to slide into avoidance behavior such as addiction to distract ourselves from the pain we experience.  This kind of short-term “solution” not only numbs us temporarily, but it saps our strength to physically and emotionally deal with what is in front of us to face.

Especially during this high-change time of the Summer Solstice, we are served to find our balance in attuning ourselves with---and identifying ourselves with---the heart.  I suggest that you play with this as you have times when you are challenged emotionally.  See your heart as the essence of who your are, as your true home, and as your conduit to the feeling of connection with all Life.

To try to explain with clarity and verification why we are experiencing what we experience is futile.  Yet, taking two simple steps can make a significant impact on your success in more gracefully moving through life.

1. See everything that happens to you and all of the people in your life as your teachers.  Seeing anyone as simply a terrorist or tormentor wastes the lesson they have for you.  And it is suitably difficult to be upset with someone if you recongnize them as teaching you something of value.  Sometimes, their lesson to you is to say goodbye to them.  Sometimes their lesson is for you to be more loving.
2. Identify with your heart.  While so many identify with the neediness and chaos of the ego, seeing and feeling yourself as the will of your heart is empowering.

Are you dissecting what has been said so far here with your head?  Please stop it, already!  Pause for a moment and ask your heart: "If you are me, what would you have me know right now?"   Close your eyes as you ask this and then hush up and listen, feel.

In these shifting times, the messages that the apparent world gives to you can be food for the useless ego:  That you need some pill to make you happier, that your next partner will be kinder to you and that will solve all your problems, that the world will treat you better after you have lost a few pounds,  that the next job will be more supportive of you….

A major step along the path for so many of us as we learn how to trust and integrate the often simple perspective tools for stress relief comes when we more fully allow our lives to be managed by the will of the heart.

An experiment:  Read the sentence below three or four times and then close your eyes, focus on your heart, and be aware of any feelings or thoughts that arise:

I attune to the loving will of my heart

as I sense my true loving power

connected to all of creation

as one loving body.

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On Thursday evening , June 24, 2010, hear Carlo Ami on BlogTalk Radio's "I Love Authors" Show with Melissa Lierman.

See http://www.blogtalkradio.com/iloveauthors for details.