Spiritual love, a gift from the Father, tries hard to shake me free from the mother persona I’ve acquired on Earth. I am female, and a mother of five Earthlings. I trained myself over the course of many years to watch out for these little ones, to hover over them, helping, guiding, and loving them. In this process I gained knowledge of many fears as I struggled to keep my children safe.

I need to relieve myself of these fears, and yet I loathe to let go. I cling to the silly idea that somehow my fear will keep me from danger, and instead, the fear keeps me from total enlightenment.

The greatest fear, and the one I’ve had the hardest time letting go of, is the fear of death. How deeply ingrained has this fear been, to infiltrate my trust in the universe, to stab me with a sword of darkness? When did I receive this fear? When did I allow it in?

Fear of death does nothing for me. It only keeps me from oneness with the Divine Light.

It is a fact that my existence here on Earth (I like to call it Terra) is simply a gift of the Divine Will. If Divine Will didn’t want me here, I could be eliminated in an instant.

The fact that you are still breathing means that there’s still a reason for you to be here. There is nothing to be afraid about. We all exist on the basis of Divine Grace.

I have done terrible things in this lifetime, for which I am deeply regretful and for which my spirit sighs with sorrow. Those things were done out of ignorance. I was not aligned properly with Divine Spirit. I did not know the consequences of my ignorant actions. I beg for forgiveness and know the most difficult forgiveness must come from my inner self.

I asked Divine Light for reasons why I’m still alive. Here’s what I was told.
Reason #1 - You are beautiful.
Reason #2 - We need you. You are a beautiful part of what is.

That’s all I was told. I guess I was hoping for some kind of precognition of some great benefit I’d give humanity in the future. I didn’t get that. I just got Divine Love and Acceptance. For this, I am grateful. I know I don’t deserve to be here. But Divine Grace sustains and keeps me here anyhow. Gratitude is the only realistic response.

Can you relate?

This world, our Beloved Mother, is now being tested by letting more of Father (the God-light) in. This is the result of letting the two merge.

Human consciousness is the result.

So before this, was I unconscious? The errors we make are due to ignorance and lack of spiritual education. The more we spread spiritual love consciousness, the lovelier our world will be.

Human consciousness is generally a much lower vibration of consciousness than is the Divine Consciousness, however we can alter that with meditation on raising our vibrations to resonate with love consciousness… and then expand that outward to share the bliss and joy with all human beings in our home, in our town, in our region… keep expanding outward, ever outward, include all the people of the world. As individuals we can have a positive effect on others involved in discord, even if they be on the other side of the planet!

The earth now rises up to become enlightened - one mind-spirit, one heart, at a time.

Patricia Singleton started her blog, Spiritual Journey of a Lightworker, only last month, but already makes an impact with soulful biographical memoirs and a collection of inspiring posts encouraging forgiveness, honesty, and gratitude. As I read through the entire blog last night, starting with the first post and ending with the most recent, I repeatedly saw parallels between her experience of life and mine.

For example, she wrote about her Past Life Experiences but reserved judgment, writing, “I know that not everybody believes in past lives. I wasn’t sure myself for a long time.” It sounded like something I’d say. I’m interested in this phenomena and have written of my own experiences with it, but am cautious and temper my enthusiasm with a bit of old fashioned skepticism.

Also, Patricia had name issues. For a long time she rejected her childhood name, ‘Patricia’, preferring to be called ‘Pat’. That reminded me so much of what I’ve gone through with my name. I never liked my full name, Linda Jo Martin. And for a while I changed my name to something totally different - both first name and last. I even had my driver’s license changed. My father was devastated because he had named me. Then a few years ago I had a change of heart. I changed my name back to my birth name legally, and even decided to use my full name on my professional writing website, dreaded middle name included.

Patricia’s reasons for changing names are different than mine were, and she wasn’t quite as radical in her change, but when she wrote of this name issue in her blog, in her post, What’s In A Name? - it was done with passion and a determination to get the facts out in the open. I was impressed and reminded of my own name journey. At the end of the article she invites us to call her Patricia - which I found touching, and it made me feel like a part of her spiritual family. So there’s another reason I felt synchronicity with my own experiences while reading her blog.

I also identified strongly with Patricia’s posting on Forgiveness, Done In Layers. She talks about accessing anger, and releasing it. As different aspects of the anger surface, the release needs to be done again and again. I found her explanation of the process of forgiveness to be accurate and insightful.

I count myself fortunate that I’ve met Patricia and connected with her group of lightworkers online (see her blogroll!) . . . I met her this week at Chris Garrett’s new message board, Authority Blogger. Thank you Chris, for providing the opportunity for bloggers to connect.

Patricia had a difficult early life. Her blog tells the story of her childhood, and how she overcame adversity, embraced forgiveness, and became aware of her status as a lightworker, here to teach and heal humanity. It is a rocky path many of us walk upon to reach a place of understanding wherein we can help others effectively. Patricia is one of those whose road led from treachery to truth, from misery to maturity. This is definitely a blog worth reading. I’ve subscribed to her emails so I won’t have to miss another episode. Long live this blog! . . . and may the light of this lightworker be known to many.

The link: Spiritual Journey of a Lightworker by Patricia Singleton.

This is a simple five-step method for clearing emotional distress.

1. Get some rest. If you haven’t slept recently, lay down and rest for a few minutes. Give yourself a break.

2. Relax. Rest until your muscles start relaxing. Relax them intentionally if need be, by sending the command, “relax” to your various muscle groups starting with your feet and moving up to arms, shoulders, and head.

3. Breathe. A simple 4/8 breathing pattern will do the job. Breathe in through your nose to the count of four, and then purse your lips and breathe slowly out through your mouth to the count of eight. Do this at least five to ten times in your relaxed condition.

4. Rejoice. Breathing leads naturally to rejoicing because you are alive, and the breathing reminds you of that. You are a point of consciousness using a physical body to navigate through an evolving moment of time. Forget all your sorrows as you rejoice in being here now. Center yourself in this awareness of who you really are, and you will be able to make more appropriate decisions about how to feel and react in the situations you’re enduring.

Be grounded, knowing that your physical body is part of Mother Earth, and your consciousness is a gift of Father Spirit, implanted in the part of earth you occupy. You are here for a purpose, alive on earth, and in this, you have the reason to rejoice. You know who you are, and you are equal to and independent of all others, though through Father Spirit and Mother Earth we are all related.

5. Be clear of all emotional struggles. If something doesn’t feel good - it is a struggle. Don’t be afraid to eliminate cording between you and anyone else involved. If a relationship is good enough to keep, it will naturally build new cords of love as time passes. Don’t be afraid to start over with the people you love and are attached to.

To eliminate all old cords, many recommend cutting them mentally, however I prefer to dissolve them. The reason I do this is that cutting cords leaves traces of them wrapped around your emotional body. Instead, visualize the cords dissolving naturally, dissipating into nothingness, and be sure the dissolving reaches to the ends of any cording wrapped around you. In this way you free yourself from all attachments and come back into your own power. You become your own leader and your higher self, aware of its reality and conscious presence on this earth, guides you to appropriate decisions and harmonious emotions.

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This came to me in a flash of inspiration and I wrote it down. As soon as I had a need for it - I tried it - and it worked for me. I hope you’ll find it helpful should you be dealing with depression or other difficult emotional conditions.

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If emotional distress continues, have a look at a few of my other sites: EFT Joy and EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT has been very beneficial to me and I recommend it for everyone. If I were ever to actually set up a healing practice, I’d be using EFT and dowsing along with my other energy healing techniques.

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Submitted to The Carnival of Healing #92