Discern love as the ultimate goal

Many people go through phases where they change their minds about goals.  Maybe you outgrow some of your previous plans.  Maybe an invisible light bulb goes off in your head.  Whatever the reason, you feel diverted to a more suitable direction and ease into it.  

You may reflect on what has happened in your life and instinctively choose to take the world by surprise.  You may slowly work to change a low opinion of yourself.  In your own way, you are already sparking your own chain reaction.  You may ask yourself whether you're ready.  You need only reconnect with your authentic self to be true to your goals.

No matter how you appear or portray yourself on the surface, on the inside, you always sense the truth.  If your harbour thoughts or perpetuate behavior that deviates from pure love, then you experience discomfort.  Your feelings and sensations are clues about whether you approach or distance yourself from what feels right.  Did you forget again?

Huge numbers of people echo negative thoughts and feelings in their heads.  You may feel guilty, inferior, discouraged, defeated, afraid.  Each negative thought you create and buy into pushes you further away from reconnecting with your spiritual core.  To pick yourself apart on the surface is to ignore the powerful spiritual being you are. 

As you learn to step back, you gradually see that you are not trapped in a reality controlled and exploited by other people.  This is just an imaginative merry-go-round.  You can get off any time you choose.  The more stress you feel under, the more apt you are to perpetuate a false sense of inadequacy, or to find outlets for grief and judgment. 

Reassure yourself.  You discern precisely what exists, but you have been conditioned to deny it.  Love is the ultimate goal.  It surpasses any temporary feeling, acquisition, relationship or apparent possession.  Anything you think you understand is only a phase in a process.  Self-centredness is dissolving as you deepen your spiritual awakening.  Interactions set patterns.  As you gain insight into different points of view, you realize you have more than one purpose.  They evolve with you.  Discern love is what you are.

To act on inner knowing or not?

You may not realize it, but what you will learn is far less important than why you are choosing not to act on what you have already learned thus far.  That's right.  Stop denying all those things that make sense.  Stop disregarding what you want. Cut it out!

Every moment of every day, you are discovering new things about your soul, how you have conditioned yourself to function and why.  Yet, you are not necessarily applying this knowledge.  You are not necessarily changing your thoughts and habits and patterns.  What is stopping you? More to the point, who is stopping you?

You are more than your body, more than your brain, more than the limits you have evolved to place on yourself.  Imagine how life would evolve as you choose to dissolve the parameters you have placed on how you think.   You already know the answer.  Why not go there?  Why hold yourself back?  Why hesitate from accepting and embracing the unthinkable? Because you can? Or, is your ego in charge?

The only struggles you experience are those you create.  We each have the creative power of the universe that works with us to reinforce what we already believe is real.  A true teacher teaches precisely what he discerns he must learn.   Work at your own pace.

Be where you are and rediscover your heart

Analysis of the week on dream submitted by A.E. of Maryland, U.S.A.

Dream : We have tickets to see The Hip show in Toronto. Since we are in town, it seems a cool thing to do. My husband goes to the theatre with someone. I need to drive my Nana's car somewhere and will meet them. I get lost, but finally manage to get there, leave the car and head to the theatre. I am delayed by a series of bizarre events, notably, being trapped on the roof of a skyscraper by armed gunmen. I don't recall how I escaped, but I did, and ran to the theatre. I get there and get up to first row balcony. My husband is waiting with other people. There has been no opening act, just a video montage of The Hip career. I have not missed the live show. Just as I arrive at my seat, the group appears to take the stage.  They decide to walk past the first row of the balcony and then down the stairs through the crowd to get to the stage. The lead singer sees me. I think how awfuI I must look, yet he comes to take me in his arms and kisses me.

Predominant Emotions : self-consciousness,  inadequacy, disbelief, relief, surrender.

Interpretation : Human beings traditionally think wholeness is like unattainable perfection. Wholeness simply has roots in humility. It reminds you of the role of balance and the different choices you can make in your life to re-establish this. As you are in the process of learning more about yourself, every choice you make is liberating. Ask yourself about the choices you make and the directions in which you’re moving in your life.  Are you moving toward greater well-being or, further away from who you really are? The nature of emotions you generate and to what degree they guide you, are a helpful gauge.

This dream invites you to change the way you see yourself. Rather than fragment or separate different aspects of your personality, rather than decide what you would like to keep, and what qualities you will fight against or repress, you are invited to embrace and accept them all.  Live beyond appearances and expectations.  As you change your thoughts, you realize your mind creates the world in which you live.  You're in the process of uncluttering views. Focus on where you are rather than where you're not.

Yielding to your positive and negative energy will help you to understand different parts of yourself and how they contribute to your completeness. As you identify reasons for experiencing feelings such as fear, anger, excitement, relief and passion, you will evolve to stop focusing on comparisons.   It is an inner need to separate into opposites that prevents you from focusing on the love that is within and surrounding you always. 

The more you ignore or deny what you know inside, the more it will corner you.  It may take the form of a monster in a dream, but it is really just a piece of yourself that has been rejected.  Your mind can twist and contort ideas based on your assumptions about what you should be doing or thinking.  Yet, in your heart, you already know what is right.

3 Signs that you move to master your life

Humans will often question, "am I there yet?" or, "what do I have left to learn?" Suffice is to say that if you still exist in this world, you still have much to learn. Yet, regardless of age or life experience, you can always gain new insight into progress. How would you describe your mindset now? Consider 3 signs that you are moving to master your life:

1) You are no longer bothered by what people say or do.  As you evolve to get-to-know and accept yourself, you no longer care about the approval or rejection of others. You no longer nurture self-criticism, justify guilt, fear or shame. You no longer hang on someone else's words, regret what may have been or dwell on emotional turmoil. These ephemeral states are seen as tests. Your inner calm reflects how you are moving "into your own."

2) You are willing to give anything up. No matter what you have earned or acquired, you would have no trouble giving it all away or dealing with conditions if you lost it all.  As you become more highly-evolved, you realize you only imagine worry.  You discern everything you need already exists.  If you decide you can be anywhere you wish, you will be. You begin to experience sharing what you have far beyond objects and lessons. This strengthens your inter-connectedness with all. We don't have to "get anywhere" because we already are "there," right where we need to be. You already have it all.

3)  You realize your perceived enemies are wounded parts of yourself. Anyone who seems to "have it out for you" simply reflects a part of you yet to be accepted and integrated. As you grow to sense your role is to heal all your wounds, this includes loving and forgiving yourself and people who may not reciprocate. Who you really are is unrelated to your physical body and perceived capacities. Your ego is an imperfect filter that you move to transcend.

Extract the extraneous

How many people do you know who can't seem to figure out why they don't have the life they want? These same people are unaware that what they think they want is really what their peers and their external influences dictate. Is something wrong with this picture? Would you rather not decide for yourself what contributes to your happiness and make more proactive choices?

When people other than you dictate your reasons for happiness, they design what they think you desire, but they don't really know you. Only you can truly evolve to recognize what makes you feel happy. When you finally have the job you have been desiring, all the money you want and are the envy of your peers, you will still sense a mysterious hole. Perhaps your ego has been driving your desires rather than your heart? When your heart is at the helm, you set a course to make the most honorable and righteous choices.

Some people assume being happy means being the centre of attention, having certain material possessions, or something that evokes  jealousy in others. When you are happy inside, you are making choices that lead you to feel good without harming others. When you refuse to succomb to fear, judgment or doubt, then you find the money, the conditions and the people to perpetuate your state of inner happiness. This will flow effortlessly.  You realize you have everything you need and always did.

When it comes right down to it, you are not a porter, so stop carrying other people's baggage. Discard what you don't need. Extract the extraneous thoughts and feelings which are in your head but were never yours. Explore why you chose to adopt certain points of view. What did you gain already? What will you gain from accepting that people will not always react the way you expect? What can you learn about your own core hopes and dreams by filtering out the confusion and arrogance that your ego created?