Garden in the Morning
Art Print - Roberto Lombardi
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Every morning during summer months I go outside not long after dawn to water my vegetable and herb garden. By the time I’m done preparing the plants for the day they are glistening, glowing with joyful radiance, ready to meet the sun as it rises over the crest of the tree tops. Like those plants, we need daily sustenance to prepare ourselves for the day and to raise our consciousness and spiritual awareness.

Early morning activities should be chosen with care. They set the mood for the rest of the day. We have many choices: hatha yoga, prayer, meditation, journaling — these are all things that give sustenance to our inmost beings, and prepare us to live in spiritual sunlight.

Many times I’ve awakened while being given instructions by my guides. Pay special attention to your thoughts while waking. You see, all night long we are communing with spiritual beings — our spirit guides and angels. If they want us to remember something that thought will be in our minds as we regain consciousness in the morning. You might want to put these thoughts into a special bedside journal labeled “Self-Improvement Insights” or something similar.

Just as plants cannot thrive without water and sunlight, we need spiritual sustenance to sustain our journey toward higher consciousness. We need higher consciousness to put the chaos and confusion of life into perspective, to maintain peace of mind.

Today’s key thought: Spiritual sustenance - meaning practices and personal rituals that give us spiritual strength.

It Is Your Mind…
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Most of us are victims of mind control foisted on us by media and corporations, governments, cults, and even some community leaders. There is a way for spiritually aware people to escape and heal from this assault. Simply put, we must elevate our consciousness.

Initiates into the spiritual life can do this by finding a source of higher consciousness vibrations, and aligning their energies to it. For example, prayers, spiritual music, yoga, pranayama, qi gong, or whatever attracts you with spiritual higher consciousness beauty. An initiate could also find a guru, preacher, or spiritual master and emulate that person.

I’ve found Baha’i prayers to be a powerful source of higher consciousness vibrations and I use them to align myself daily. I also recently enjoyed my visit to a pyramid on Mt. Shasta where two unseen spiritual entities aligned me to the powerful healing vibration of the pyramid energy. I would love to go back! I also align to higher consciousness by listening to Jo Dunning’s Abundance Project recordings at World Puja, and recently joined her Instant Access program. I also get a charge from evangelist Joel Osteen’s uplifting, encouraging sermons and recently read one of his books.

As you can see, I like to diversify my higher-vibrational sources. Clinging to only one source would be like putting my mind into the control of another. Cult mind control is as dangerous as mind control by corrupt governments or media sources. I seek the light of God wherever it may be without prejudice regarding the source. Escape from religious prejudice is a great gift and a door to enlightenment.

After finding the Light of Lights within, you may see these methods and holy books as fingers pointing at the moon. They are. But they are still helpful for alignment with higher consciousness. To find a compatible, open-minded, open-hearted group of light seekers is a profound blessing. Group consciousness can amplify our own efforts to transform spiritually, especially if that group doesn’t limit our options and resources.

The point is that we, as spiritual beings, must choose to control our own minds rather than let media moguls manipulate and lie to us. We need to be discerning about who or what we open our minds to. The choices are ours alone, and nobody else can choose for us. Either we control our own minds by elevating our consciousness, or corporate media will gladly take over.

Key thought for today: Elevate your consciousness - meaning, bring yourself out of the morass of human misunderstanding and confusion by aligning yourself with the spiritual light.

Finestra Sul Golfo, Palermo, Italy
Art Print - Andrea Del Missier
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Distractions are very common during our work days. A distraction may be something as little as a dog barking outside, or something as complex as an unexpected phone call with someone who doesn’t ever want to ever stop talking. How we deal with petty irritations that take our minds off our work tells us a lot about the level of our spiritual consciousness connectivity.

The first line of defense is prayer. Ask Spirit to remedy the situation. Say, “God, I need help because __________ is keeping me from being able to work. Please change the situation so I can get some work done.” Now often, this leads to a swift dispersal of the distracting energy.

What if it doesn’t? What might that mean? My first thought is that faith might be lacking. Do you really believe that Spirit (God) answers prayers? Do you have faith that your spirit guides are watching out for your best interests? Words of prayer without the faith are rather empty. Along with faith goes gratitude in advance for the solutions you’re asking Spirit to enact on your behalf.

Another thought that comes to mind in the case of an unanswered prayer is that the supplicant may need patience, and Spirit is using the situation for your benefit, for patience-training purposes. If you have ever prayed for patience you may be getting lots of tests like these! After all, dogs do eventually stop barking and talkative phone callers do eventually hang up. Patience is nothing more than waiting without complaining (internally or externally).

What you may need is a better attitude toward distractions. Perhaps you need more flexibility so you can cheerfully handle these types of events. Go with the flow and be willing to change your plans for a few minutes, or hours, or however long it takes.

Send your love to the dog, to the too-talkative person, or whatever energy assails you. Your love energy will penetrate the distracting energy and change it to something more compatible with your purpose in life. Try it! Love starts with you!

Today’s key thought: Gratitude in Advance - meaning that you know Spirit will help you, so thank Spirit, your angels, and your spirit guides now.

Starry Night over the Rhone, c.1888
Poster - Vincent van Gogh
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The person who expects the unexpected and welcomes surprises as challenges rather than as roadblocks is going to be much more comfortable with difficulties than is an inflexible person who has rigid expectations of what life should provide. We’ve entered an era during which humanity may experience devastating shocks on both a personal and global scale. We need to be willing to accept unwelcome changes and move ahead gracefully.

Water is a flexible element. It flows downhill in whatever channel is most convenient. If a river’s course is suddenly altered after thousands of years, the water doesn’t stop to complain. It doesn’t put up a fight. It just keeps flowing on in the new direction, regardless of traditions of the past.

We need to be like that water, ready to take our place in the new world, and willing to give up the past without resistance. Embrace the present moment as it is our opportunity to free ourselves of useless desires for things that can no longer be. It is also the best time - the only time we have - to alter our attitudes and accept the challenges now before us.

Elevate your consciousness! Let the bird of your spirituality fly high above the morass of human controversy and denial. There are things we can’t change (the world’s corruption) and there are things we can change (our own outlook on life). This is the only real freedom we get - the freedom to mentally, spiritually fly above each unpleasant situation because our consciousness has been raised to a level above the evil that plagues humanity.

The more people are able to elevate their spiritual consciousness — the more there are doing it — the more likely it is that there will be a massive shift in consciousness for the vast majority of humanity, and when that happens, evil will be overwhelmed by goodness, and love will finally prevail.

You can be part of that change by preparing yourself spiritually to be flexible enough to flow through turmoil and chaos when it appears in the civilization around you, without any trauma to your emotional or mental bodies.

Remember this phrase: Fly Above The Situation - meaning, mentally soar in higher consciousness when difficulties assail you.