Karma quote 4 thought

As I read this quote, I share it with you and sense it prompts new degrees of reflection.  How does it resonate with you? 

"How people treat you is their karma and how you react or respond is yours." 

Jaikaur Leblanc & Interview on authentic living

I had the pleasure of connecting with Jaikaur through a series of synchronicities. She is a healer and spiritual teacher. Her insights stem from views on physical and non-physical existence. I found her blog, discovered her radio show, and resonated with a kindred spirit in a way that defies logical explanation. It is a heart-warming experience to share dialogue with her. She has generously opened herself up here;

Who are you at this moment?

An experience and expression of energy moving through time and space, intimately engaged with matter. As such, I enjoy the pleasures of my physical senses and engage in the dance between the body and spirit, the infinite and finite, the known and unknown. It is an experience of mystery and mastery, with joy and growth as both carrot and the stick!

And, I am a woman, an incarnation whose roles of daughter, mother, sister, friend, and partner are wonderful workshops in which to play with and give expression to my paradoxical nature. I learn and share with others in their paradoxical, infinity-contained within matter- journey of a human being. As a woman-a leader, healer, teacher-my infinite creativity is asking of me what is it I want to create with my being.

When have you known spiritual crisis?

Spiritual crisis has often been a part of my life, simply I did not apply this label to these experiences. I have almost died three times-the last time I had no pulse for over a minute-and yet at the time, understood that I was simply being asked to live more fully vs simply going through the motions. There was no discrepancy between my expectations, knowing, and experience and so I did not label these times of NDE or crisis.

What I did experience as spiritual crisis was when the spiritual community I had lived in for decades, raised children with, and helped grow, did not stand up in truth and integrity for our stated values as a community. Instead, they chose to accept the offer of financial reward for their silence and their averting of their eyes from wrong being done by one of our ministers.

My mind struggled to understand how people whose identity was to stand for the truth could instead be consciously choosing to not do so, and for money no less! Through my meditations, I came to the understand that this crisis was serving to upgrade my understanding of the Divine as well as my own divine strength and understanding. The crisis served as an effective way to get my full attention, and in the end, has served me enormous gifts.

Describe an experience that touched your heart deeper than you thought you could reach.

The experience of bringing children into this world and raising them has touched me very deeply. Through our love for each other, I have experienced the healing benefits of unconditional love that wise ones teach, laying down my mind’s judgment, making room for compassion, grace, and joy.

My children’s gift of unconditional love has made it possible to enjoy realms of understanding not otherwise available to me, certainly not through my mind or five senses alone. I have now the understanding that the sacrifice a person may make for another is a very pure expression of love. In parenting, the day to day sacrifice of one’s own desires to care for and serve another being is divinity in action.

How do you understand the concept of a miracle?

A miracle is simply allowing that which already exists in the realm of infinite possibilites to manifest into our five senses realm. What makes a miracle possible for us to experience in our 5 senses world is our conscious choice, our conscous updating of our beliefs, our faith and trust in our infinite being, and ability to intentionally manifest through our imagination into our physical world. As I like to say, the physical manifestation is simply the period at the end of the manifestion sentence!

What advice would you offer people who resist change or letting go?

Change simply is...without our body’s letting go of the air within our lungs and to make room for new air, we would die within minutes. We have been taught to fear change and to equate change with scary and bad. Many definitions we were raised by are definitions. It is our responsibility as an adult to update, much as we have updated the size of our clothes from what we wore as a 10 year old!

An exercise I share with students is to ask them if they are happy with all the aspects of their life. If not, would they not seek to change them vs babysit their unhappiness? Not letting go is a choice, and choice is our gift to exercise. Our bodies are often better teachers, more wise about living than our minds are, for our bodies are living in the now and our minds are often in either the past or the “what-if”of the future. Our bodies do not lie, whereas our minds can be as prostitutes in their need to maintain control.

Which instance(s) in your life remind you blessings are unexpected?

I was the oldest of 7 children and by the time I was out on my own, I did not feel the need to mother any others. And, it seemed as though that was to be, with previously undiagnosed infections creating various challenges to becoming pregnant. I let go of needing to have children and promptly got pregnant, had a healthy baby, and through parenting, have embodied more wisdom and knowing than through my intentional studies with masters. Who knew of the wealth and blessings that becoming a parent would gift me with-certainly not me and my lack of need to have children!

Why do you encourage others to quiet the mind?

As the sound of our soul is most often a quieter voice than our mind’s noisy voice, it behooves a person to learn how to hear the quieter voice within. Our conscious choice is required to hear the quieter voices of our soul and heart amidst the Greek chorus of all the voices within us.

What is a Greek chorus? It is the many voices within us that clamour for our attention and want to direct us.... the voices of our parents, teachers, media, ancestors, friends, doubt, despair, love, awe, joy. As conscious adults, we are required to assert the stewardship of our life’s journey, using the North Star of our heart and soul. Daily meditation of some sort is an essential component of being able to hear the difference in the voices within us.

As Buddha reached enlightenment, he briefly sensed this could not be taught. What is your view?

Teaching is a sharing of what has been experienced-whether with one or millions-that may or may not be relevant to another’s sovereignty, growth, or journey as an infinite soul and spirit. My wisdom is simply another ingredient-along with their own ingredients/wisdom-in the life soup of experiences. The universe is constantly evolving, in motion, nothing ever truly the same from moment to moment. This is the amazingness of being an aspect of infinity, we truly are infinite, and as such, our self is without peer, precedence or other.

And so, at the most level of truth, the journey-be it a day trip or enlightment-is personal, is one's own. There are many very good road maps for wisdom and living offered by those who have travelled their life journeys before us. And their map is simply that...a map, not the experiences, learning, and wisdom unique to ourselves and the vastness of our soul’s uniques evolution.

What do you say to the idea every person is his own guru?

Yes, we are our own guru-that which takes us from dark/unconscious/non-truth to light/conscious/truth-and, we need each as gurus as well. As human beings, while we are sovereign in soul and destiny, our means to do so are through our community of experiences with each other. Another paradox, another both-and....the hallmark of the Divine!

How would you describe your legacy?

As a woman who loved her gift of life, who served those who shared her life, and who gave wisdom, love, and joy freely.

Who inspires you?

People who engage with their soul’s depth, dimension, and expression in their daily living. People whose roles in life are simply vehicles of expression for their heart, soul, and spirit.

If you took on a form other than what you presume to be, what would that be and why?

I feel joy and wonder at Bird’s ability to dance with the unseen air and winds between the earth and heavens. In many traditions, Bird is considered the animal which travels between the physical and the spiritual worlds. I would like that life as a bird which seems happy and in ease with dancing in-between worlds,and it’s dance with the unseen.

Anything else you would like to add that makes your life authentic and truly meaningful?

Magic abounds on this planet we call Earth and the choice to consciously engage in joy, love, and beauty is one that results in receiving the awe, wonder, and bliss of living our divinity through our humanity.

I really appreciate all your candid reflections.  Connecting to soul means being present and raising awarness on different levels. As you imply, every step of everyone's journey is useful experience. 

If you would like to learn more about Jaikaur, find out about her workshops and other endeavours,consult her Women's Grace, Grit, and Gratitude" website http://www.jaikaur.com and her Blog Talk Radio show http://www.blogtalkradio.com/JaiKaur

7 Ways to forgive your negativity

Many people find self-forgiveness to be very difficult. You may not realize how hard you are on yourself. Now is the moment to recognize you have a choice. You can decide to step back, explore and reframe what stands out.  Consider 7 ways to forgive lingering negativity;

1) Sense layers of experiences remain hidden inside you.

2) View forgiveness as an evolving process now and always.

3) Learn to discern when and whom you offend and why.

4) Recognize as you forgive others, you can also forgive self.

5) Open the mind to see beyond linear cause and effect.

6) Ponder the relevance of emotions as a guage for loving and accepting yourself.  

7) Accept all thoughts and feelings as teachers.

Love can heal anything

How often do you hear people say something is wrong in the world or in the lives of other people? How often do people discern opportunities to heal misunderstandings within themselves? Some human beings are not yet consciously aware of the nature of their misplaced beliefs. The power of expanding love can heal anything. Consider these points;

1) Judgment- Judging is the ego mind's reaction to soul telling you aspects of inner self require attention and healing. You unconsciously awaken to hidden fear. Love is many things you progressively discover through experience.  It offers grace, mercy and recognizes unacknowledged virtues of every soul.

2) Negativity- Being negative results from rather twisted conditioning. You unconsciously grow to model what you are shown. You may also be resisting mentally some inner truth or past experience you find difficult to grasp. Love offers feelings of warm attachment to uncover and soothe hidden wounds.

3) Indifference- When a person evolves not to care, to feel apathy, this can be the absence of emotion or conscious suppression of feelings.  It may result from denial of pain or choice not to feel. Love infuses feelings of appreciation and reason to develop different sensibilities.

4) Rejection- Refusal or denial of what is results from ingrained beliefs.  You rebuff what does not fit your comfort zone. This shapes conscious behaviour.  Reactions shift energy balance to imbalance. Love offers insight into experiences of unconditional acceptance and absolute compassion.

5) Guilt- Guilt implies you believe right and wrong exist and you believe you have done something wrong. Love offers complete understanding and forgiveness, as well as deeper insight into hidden intention for self-blaming.  The impulse to attribute fault emerges.  Self-love helps determine the why.

6) Hatred - Extreme aversions or hostilities draw attention to inner resistance. You may have one view of reality and refuse to accept other views. To develop negative energy about anyone who refuses to agree or appease your ego, is a habit that can be healed.  Justification and excuses for anger need to be dissolved. Love offers affectionate concern for all creatures and difference.  Love recognizes equality.

7) Anger- This suggests hidden grief and other unacknowledged feeings.  Anger takes form in bursts of displeasure or indignation. Yet, people rarely get angry for reasons they assume. Love offers kind reasssurance, goodwill and benevolence to encourage a person to look deeper for real reasons for anger and reactions to conditions.

8) Fear- Distress or perceived threats arise based on expectation. Love brings you back to the present, offers heightened awareness of the moment and reasons to dissolve unfounded apprehension.

9) Doubt- Distrust about uncertainty means you snese reasons to feel unsettled. Love offers reasons to reinforceunwavering faith, trust and enthusiasm.

10) Dissatisfaction- A sense of lack or void is grounded in the physical world and reminds you that you forgetvalue to be found in a spiritual perspective. Love offers what is truly needed to satisfy the needs of the soul.

11) Relationships- The state of your relationships results from an absence or presence of positive energy.  Love offers tools to help you uncover reasons for your feelings and the nature of your interactions. This provokes you to view your thoughts and behaviour differently.  It also empowers you to learn new things about your unconscious sense of commitment and intimacy.

12) Impatience- To be deluded by the notion of time is to give away inner power. Love offers reason totranscend illusionsof human perception. You learn toassert loyalty to timelessness. This shifts your energy focus to formless realms. What happens nextgoes beyondimagination.

7 Ways to make core adjustments

Human conditioning encourages you to continue living as you do without question.  Every person can evolve to recognize certain perceptions and behaviours would benefit from changes. Consider 7 ways to make core adjustments;

1) Tackle what you fear. Discomfort and restlessness reveal things that you deny or avoid. When you repress something, it gradually surfaces to reveal itself. As you come to identify the source of your fear, you are empowered to the truth as it is, that fear is all in the mind.

2) Recognize value in extremes. Emotional tailspins suggest you are not dealing with key lessons you incarnate in the physical to learn. To sense intense energy is no accident. It invites you to be more honest.  Anger is always misplaced and urges you shift focus back to love. Extremes point out you misunderstand who you are and why you exist now. Making hasty judgments about senses or emotion expands your insight into the power of fluctuating energy.

3) Re-interpret inner storms. When the mind is quiet and conditioned reactions subside, its easier to make sense of turbulence. Physical choices do not control you and neither does a passing environment. Perceived mistakes and reasons for resentment pave the way for deeper healing. Its an opportunity to review where you are and grasp intrinsic value.

4) Detect ego patterns. Assumptions about ego are misleading. Its not necessary to change who you are in relation to what you experience, only to dissolve negative reactions. One can evolve to discern absolute soul ego reflected through misplaced human ego, grow to act more maturely.

5) Reconnect with soul. As you meditate and take other steps to reach your inner self, you consciously link layers of the mind that are fragmented to delude you. An absence of mental discipline permits the mind to drift and dissociate.

6) Align energy and intuition. This helps one grasp how a soul pre-selects the person with whom to associate in a given incarnation. Despite this, soul does not exert absolute control over the body and must adapt to the personality and internalized conflicts of the body.

7) Tailor how you use energy. To reach a productive phase of contact with soul means you recognize options for energy expression. You shape the direction and intensity of vibration.  How you respond to negativity, whether or not you flinch at difficult conditions that present, determines how much energy remains to be used for other purposes.