Karma

All we do builds or breaks up a vibration. Everyday we end up with a mathematical sum of the positive or negative deeds done throughout the day which affects the total global vibration either by lowering it or raising it.
In every situation, we have the choice to expand within it. We were born with a certain level of consciousness which is our karmic footprint and which we will need to work on to expand. If, for example our learning lesson is the need to learn to trust, we will attract all those situations that will put us in a position to learn to trust. The need to learn to trust will be sending messages at a subconscious level to the Universe which will look after different situations to teach us the lesson we need to learn
We resist what we need.
We attract what we need.

The Peak Experience

The spiritual path is very personal but here are some rules and conditions that apply to all. It is never organic, so does not follow a straight line and cannot be compartmentalised. That is, it does not follow a logical path and cannot be analytical.
One cannot control the spiritual path because it works with energy which contracts and expands. Energy can only be experienced as it evolves. The spiritual path has periods of intensity as well as periods of stagnation, so it is difficult to understand it or see the logic. We try to judge our spiritual path which cannot be done – this because we are in great need of stability and to judge our progress or lack of it is futile.
With some, the knowing becomes a matter of life and death, but the answer to this will be a deep void of silence pushing us back to the reality of the spiritual path. So the spiritual path is the dynamic relationship between us and the Divine which gives rise to the different motions of the relationship which cannot be controlled. One can create the circumstance whereby the spiritual path can expand and move forward. The process cannot be controlled but we can create environments that allows for the expansion to happen with for example meditation, mantras and keeping our psyche uncluttered in any way that works for us.
The spiritual path can be the path of greatest illusion or greatest reality depending on whether we decide to cultivate a sense of freedom and service, or if we opt to feed our ego. How fast or deep our spiritual life progresses does not depend on us. The spiritual path is a gift of love and it does not matter how fast you move in it. God loves us unconditionally whether we make progress or not.
When creating the right environment, we receive love in as much as we can handle, but if we open ourselves up more, we will receive more. By knowing our gifts and talent s which are unique to us we can hasten the process of experiencing love because through them we open up a channel to a higher vibration.
The peak periods in the Spiritual path come unannounced and are the visualization of the next step – a preview, so to speak. It is a period of intense expansion. In the peak experience, problems or suffering are integrated. We should not throw any experience of our life away because once we integrate it, it will become the building block for the next step. A peak experience makes you free, If the end result is that it makes you proud or egoistical, throw it out. An authentic peak experience becomes a source of strength each time you connect with it.

Seeking Our Own Truth

Because we are working on ourself, we are moving into a higher vibration. As we progress in our path, subtle as well as dramatic changes begin to occur and our life is different. One important aspect is that we will have a hunger to know more about ourself, according to the judgement and interpretation of certain events that occurred in my life and how we were influenced by others. Because of this, the information that I have will not be relevant if I move out of the present consciousness. My ‘ME’ story is in fact not my story but the interpretation of events that took place in my life that I got stuck with. Once the shift in consciousness takes place, a certain void will occur where we do not know ourselves anymore, since we now see things from a higher perspective. Therefore it is important for us to drop our story NOW. We do not need to repeat it to ourself or others. Once we are strong enough to do this, it is like a re-birthing experience and we may not even be able to recognize ourselves.
Now it is the time to dissolve blockages and allow for healing. To affect deep healing, once can root himself into the NOW moment. If we catch ourselves moving into the ‘ME’ we just have to let it go. As we journey forward into the way of openness, we receive new information (the truth of who we are), which will be our guiding power which we will flow with. We will realize that one of the tools is the capacity to let go. So what is changing is the perception as well as the fact that we will become better equipped to move into higher consciousness.
Sometimes we discover truth by an exercise of contrast. This happens because we have a dualistic mind. As we move into higher consciousness, both ends of the contrast become the truth in a unified way and there is no longer duality of the mind and therefore we see deeper into things. We will no longer need to analyse because ‘what is’ will be the truth. We have to re-work who we are in this context. Good and bad will not disappear but will be the contrast of each other and both are true. We are presently living in situations where the consciousness is not elevated, so we are living in a superficial reality which we have through a higher consciousness which results in chaos. The movement of consciousness will separate us from each other. These are times of transition where we have pieces of the old and pieces of the new coming together which can be quite confusing.
So now is a time of healing and integrating our experience into a harmonious one where I can see that in all the aspects of who I am, I reflect God.

Seeds of Opportunity

Every moment in our life throws seed of opportunities because we are part of this evolutionary process. We are completely oblivious and unaware, therefore we miss these opportunities. If we live in awareness, we will see these seeds which will present to us opportunities for growth. Through our own free will, we can disrupt this process but if we live lives where we flow in this process, we see each moment as opening up something. We do not talk of positive or negative experiences but just experiences without labeling. The mind puts things in compartments to feel safe but like this we kill the moment.

What we think was a negative experience could be the best opportunity to grow spiritually.

1. No Labels – They prevent me from seeing reality as it is.

2. Every moment is neutral because it is up to me to make these seeds grow. The
worst thing that can happen is an emotion or blockage that has made its home in
my psyche.

3. To find balance in all circumstances. The balance we achieve is sometimes the
result of a compromise, sometimes by finding a balance in a dysfunction. We
will sense this because we still feel some level of discomfort in the
situation. The knowledge of this is positive and the fact that we acknowledge
that in this situation means that there is still some area in our lives that is
trying to mature.

One has to carry the dysfunctional balance with deep awareness and acknowledge the situation as being neutral. If we get stuck in the inner drama, we kill the seeds of opportunity. We must commit ourselves to allow the seeds of opportunity to manifest in our lives which will then open up new doors.

The spiritual life has many perspectives like a crystal with many facets, which will present different directions and opportunities. We will never know the best direction but by moving into the spiritual life and seeing different aspects of the prism, we will be presented with different spiritual impulses which will then take us through our own process to the best possible us.

Fear restricts our vision which does not allow the multi-faceted aspect of our vision to develop.

Signs of the Times

The current times are particularly unique to other periods in history. We are experiencing chaotic times on both a macro and a micro level. Around the world various types of upheaval is taking place, both as natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, eruptions and global warming – and man made disputes like wars, famine, displacements of thousands and dismantling of whole systems such as the health and financial ones.

On a personal level we are finding ourselves likewise unbalanced – not quite knowing where we stand with our belief systems, emotions, desires and general mental stability. What worked before is now becoming questionable and often needs to be changed.

As our planet and the universe move through a Galactic electromagnetic shift which peaks around 2012 we are finding ourselves experiencing fast changes in our way of behaviour and relationship to others. This will cause friction and uneasiness urging us to act in often unusual ways to balance things in our own lives.

We are starting to realise that our past stability in certain areas of our lives was often a dysfunctional balance, This is causing the need to act in even drastic ways, where before we would think twice to act in such a way. The same is happening with worldwide rebellion of suppressed peoples who had put up for years with corrupt leaders.

It is now, more than ever, that we need to find our balance by being aware of the occurring shift in the general consciousnesses and realise that the apparent chaos is all leading to a cleansing of past distorted realities. Meditation practices should help us ground ourselves and understand the changes surrounding us – all for the better of mankind.

Article and Photo by Mary Attard

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Knowing Thyself

Why should we know ourselves? Who are we, anyway…..

Our spiritual life provides us with a clue. Many are those who like to stay in their comfort zone, a place where they feel safe and unthreatened. This is done through an identity acquired through beliefs and attachments to which they can relate and therefore feel safe.

Our beliefs about ourselves also contribute to our perception of who we are. If we tend to be easily angry, for example, it is a sign that we let ourselves believe that we are certain of what we think or say, as if we hold the whole truth about anything. Our beliefs get challenged and our identity bruised…..

One need to be aware that having an identity is nothing more than enclosing oneself in a box where two things might happen. Either, one becomes too big headed and thinks that he knows it all or else feel deluded and helpless. Both situations cut a person off from being open to growth and expansion.

To grow spiritually we need to strip ourselves from any attachments to let ourselves be open in receiving new insights. Having no particular identity gives one a great sense of freedom. There is no argument to win or lose and other aspects to a situation could be happily explored.

As a baby in his mother’s womb is nourished through the umbilical cord, we, likewise, get our inspiration to our ongoing needs from our higher universal powers that get tapped to us through our higher chakras that connect us to our divine source. But we need to let this route open for such reception. If we encase ourselves with a patina of ‘identity’ issues we are risking losing this spiritual nourishment from reaching us.

Like a child we need to be open to possibilities and viewpoints beyond any rigid thinking while still using our discretion.

It is a time of taking decisions boldly – rather than keep deliberating about them - with the understanding that in spite of the best of intentions our decisions might still be faulty (on hindsight) - and that is fine too provided we can learn to take home something out of the outcome – whatever it is.

Our actions need to be motivated by love but without the necessity for attachments to results that will hold us back in our spiritual growth.

We are free beings nourished by a higher source. That is what we are. Any acquired identity will only handicap us from moving forward.

Article and photo by Mary Attard