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Your Heart Centre and your Spiritual Path

People move along their spiritual paths at different speeds. We are all naturally in a form that supports us developing spiritually: souls within a physical body (within an astral body and a mental body). Our karma propels us through our own unique path.

At the same time as going through our karmic journey, lifetime after lifetime, we go through our spiritual journey on our unique spiritual path.

Sometimes people go backwards for a while on their spiritual path, by being selfish, or viscious and tyrannical, by being greedy, by being hateful, by lying to themselves and others, by buying into glamour. There are lots of traps to slow people down on their spiritual path. Another way of putting it is that there are lots of tests to see if the soul and personality is ready to move forward, or if they need a lifetime or a hundred or so to do some learning before moving forward again.

People can go sideways on their spiritual path, or tread water, say, if they get caught up in a habit or a teaching that helps them behave the same way, day after day, and year after year, content as they are to avoid change. There’s no looking in the mirror, no self-reflection, no breaking out away from old rules or beliefs, no moving on. Some teachings and groups are like that, and if people try to change they get banished or punished for trying to go beyond the accepted norms.

There’s another way people go sideways these days. Screens. Attention and focus goes outwards. Some of the time, or a lot. Attention can also go outwards looking at what others are doing. Too much attention can be given to television, streamed programs and some podcasts, and the news, or people’s opinions.

Spiritual progress happens when at least some attention is given to what is going on inside oneself. Paying attention to your feelings, noticing your thoughts, and being calm and quiet on the inside is what is needed. This can come about in such simple ways like sitting outside with a cup of tea or coffee, going for a walk in Nature, sitting in a hot tub, or experiencing the period of time after being in the gym, or doing yoga, or swimming, or other exercise. Physical activities are also great ways to shift and get rid of negative energies and associated negative timelines.

Meditation is for some, the way to gain the awareness of their inner spiritual realm.

When a soul senses the opportunity to come into what will form into a body at conception, it comes into the heart centre. Here’s a clue. If you really want to connect with the soul, and with the Source, meditate on the heart centre, at least for part of a meditation practice. Where the heart leads, the mind follows.

The heart centre is to do with love (definitely not ego), it is connected to the Infinite, and following your heart is a good idea.

Meditation focused on the heart is effective, and can help you consider how best to love your self in practical ways and appreciate yoursel. It can help you consider how to love others in your unique way, including in the all-important practical ways. The same goes for treating the planet properly. And if you want a good quality purpose in life, the heart centre is the place to find it. The heart centre is where you can find peace. The energy of the heart centre influencing the mind is a powerful combination. Heart centre energy can help open up intuition and be on your best timeline. It can help people know how to be safe in a changing, and sometimes challenging world. (The mind worries, the heart loves.)

Focusing on your heart will really move you along your spiritual path.

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Be Prosperous in Loving Ways

It is obvious to say that money has an effect in the world. Large amounts of money put into all kinds of activities have effects and also consequences. People choose what to put money into depending on their priorities. Some people just want profits regardless of the consequences, other people might take into consideration the immediate effect on people and the environment and do something that benefits the world.

It is an imperfect world, so there are also people who will try to do something knowing it can have a short term negative effect, but in the big picture, in the long term the effect will be positive.

In old prosperity thinking, no consideration was given to the effect of an activity, or the effect it would have on other people’s health and lives. It was all about the individual getting rich and having a great life. When rich, some people might get involved in philanthropy.

In those older times, there were less people around, there was more space and there was less pollution. The build up of greenhouse gases due to industry, vehicles and ships that would cause problems with our weather later was just beginning.

The notion was that there was the individual and their family, and then there was the world, to use and gain from.

Now, more people realise that they are part of the world. If they want themselves and the people who are important to them to be prosperous, and that includes their children and future generations, then they need to fund and do activities as thoughtfully as possible.

The very notion of what prosperity means is evolving, as our understanding of how we fit into the environment and society evolves.

It is an evolving situation we find ourselves in. It is an imperfect world (or a perfectly imperfect world from a spiritual point of view, which, like the grit in the oyster, helps us develop spiritually, into the equivalent of the pearl). 

A key to being prosperous and creating prosperity in this evolving world is to make choices that seem loving, and to do what you do in the most loving ways you can.

Also hold in mind that even as there is a lot of Light stirring up and clearing the old, that Light is also bringing in new ideas and supporting energy. That’s the good news. 

New prosperity starts with being open to the wonderful new energy coming in, and letting it grow inside. When ready, it can be expressed in the world.

Here’s a meditation on prosperity you might like to listen to:

A meditation to listen to: A Golden Glow of Prosperity

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The Future Is Yours

I haven’t posted in a while. Life has been busy with its up’s and downs and mostly enjoyable and virtual stuff has been kept to a very happy minimum.

The world seems to be going crazy, which is good, as all the Light pouring in has flushed up a lot of the junk and old karma that has been previously hidden. And the Light is chewing through the junk. I’ve written about the Light bringing up to the surface what needs to be brought up for negation in previous posts.

People don’t like to change, but humanity has got to where it is by carrying on in ways that are unsustainable, and in ways based on greed, selfishness and sometimes hatred towards others.

Lightworkers can choose to tune into the energy, the Light coming in and go with the flow of it, and life can get easier as they make the necessary changes. There are previous posts which explain how to open that big heart, connect with intuition, and become aligned with the Light, so as to make changes in life. It’s all about getting onto the best timeline, which tends to be less about what we as personality-individuals think we want, but rather about what God wants for us, that will make us happy. It is all about what we need rather than what we want: as individuals and as humanity as a whole.

Anyone can, if they choose to, tune into the Light and the Love to have insights into what they can do to change as a person, and what the most loving thing they can do to make life better for themselves and also for others. The Light works through people to bring about Loving changes. You usually know what needs to be done because it feels important to you.

There are people who are happy and comfortable with how things are in the world, who don’t want the change, and who will try (ha, ha) to oppose it. The Light comes from an Infinite source, so guess whose reality is going to be created.

There are a lot of changes that need to happen and life will look very different in, say, even fifty years. Someone called Meher Baba said that around the beginning of the Twentieth Century the energy was 75% dark and 25% light, and that by 2069 it needed to change to 25% dark and 75% light, and He did the energy work and set the timelines for this to happen. So hang on to your hats.

Even the grumpy ones should be happy with the improvements after that.

After that change, there will be more, as humanity and creation will keep evolving in a spiritual sense. To give you an idea of what that means, the human system of mental body, astral body and physical body, will be able to handle more refined energy and in larger amounts. Which also means more chakras. So in future lifetimes there will be upgraded energy systems and different karma to go with that. All souls are on a journey. To where? (Mentioned in previous posts.)

The future is yours.

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Valentine’s Day: romance and relationships, a spiritual view

Ah, l’amour. Spring is in the air (in the northern hemisphere any way). I felt I should do something for St. Valentine’s day, that feast of chocolate, fizzy alcohol, food, and I’m sure there’s something else… Oh. yes, meditation, that’s it!

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Karma, love and relationships

On social media there are posts from people who want a loving relationship, and they want to meet their Twin Flame, or their Soulmate. These are fairly recent fashionable labels in the history of spirituality. (It needs also to be said that some people are happy not being in a relationship and have no interest or need for one.)

The idea is that with a Twin Flame or Soulmate everything is going to be perfect. The connection is going to be deep, loving, spiritual and mystical, and give the person who wants this kind of relationship everything they want, when they want it, and how they want it. They are going to be so happy. All the time.

Sounds realistic?

It can be interesting to look at relationships through the lens of reincarnation and karma.

Before reincarnating back into the physical, a person will have gone through and reviewed their last life. With the help of spiritual helpers on the inner planes, and perhaps their guide, and possibly a spiritual Master, they will have a look at what they need to learn to develop spiritually. The spiritual helpers, the guide and any Master will be looking at the big picture which may include millions of lives into the future. They will help choose the karma for the next lifetime. They will help choose the karma that person will have including the karma to do with love and relationships. The aim of reincarnating time and again is to learn, develop understanding through experience, and so develop consciousness and become more loving. Life is a school. The spiritual helpers, guide and Master will help choose the gender and the personality to wear for the next lifetime. (You have many personalities through all the lifetimes and usually alternate gender according to the Law of Opposites).

There will be people in the person’s soul family that they tend to come down with into matter. They will come down at the same time to play their part in life. They will have the ideal karma, gender and personality to learn from as they come down as well.

The people you find around you have incarnated before with you, sometimes they have done this many times. Everyone plays different roles in different lifetimes, so two people will be siblings, parents, children, grandparents, friends and enemies. Many permutations of relationships get explored and karma either created or worked through.

When people reincarnate into physical reality again they (usually) go through amnesia so they don’t remember what was said on the inner planes and they don’t recall their last life. The amnesia helps because people just get on with life rather than have information and energy bleeding in that could interfere.

It’s all karma. Two of these people who came down round about at the same time will meet, gaze into each other’s eyes, fall in love and have plenty of energy going forwards and backwards between their chakras as their karma plays out and they form a shared timeline. It’s the best relationship ever, they think. It is not uncommon for two people to be married in past lives say twenty or thirty or so times. They really help each other learn about love and grow bit by bit in love and consciousness through those lifetimes.

Life, and karma is about learning, developing understanding through experience and then growing in consciousness and becoming more loving. The karma someone has, or two people have, may be just to have one relationship for that life. Possibly a very long relationship, where the personalities the souls are wearing match well, and where the personalities help them learn to love each other more.

The karma a person has may be for more than one relationship, perhaps several with all the other souls in the soul family that came down at about the same time. More than one relationship can be a preparation for the special, important relationship of that lifetime; people in the soul family help in the preparation for it.

There are so many different kinds of relationships, and so much to learn about love. It is worth remembering that the different scenarios are agreed Upstairs on the inner planes for each lifetime. Perhaps there was agreement Upstairs that when the two souls were in physical matter they would love each other and have a harmonious relationship, or perhaps they wanted to learn about making up after arguments, or they wanted to learn about self-love and get out of an abusive relationship, perhaps they wanted to learn how to forgive, or how to be compassionate, or selfless, or completely devoted, or mutually supportive and strong as a couple. Perhaps there is a need to learn (possibly lifetime after lifetime) how to look after the same person through terminal illness, or help them through addiction. Perhaps the relationship for one soul is to learn how to let in love, or to love.

Learning about love is definitely not always easy on the personality, even if there is a gradual increase in ability to love, and in consciousness along the way.

There is a difference between being in a relationship to get love and to let in love. There is also a big difference to getting love and being in a relationship to give love and be loving (though not at the expense of themselves, the exception being when one soul so loves another soul that they are willing to sacrifice their own physical existence to protect and save the other person).

Happy love and relationships.

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Karma: Why are things the way they are?

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