Reach inside for the key

Analysis of dream submitted by P.

Dream- Herse driver stands on a beach beside trailer towing a dingy.  A man, woman and child leave in a larger boat. Driver waves goodbye, then, realizes he does not have a certain key. He drives a distance along the water and keeps family in sight. He heads them off where they have to pass closer to shore. Driver waves his arms to get their attention. The man comes ashore in relatively calm water. He jumps off the boat, gives a key and returns to family. Driver opens trunk and uses key to open the casket. He puts something inside. Then, he tries to run, but feels paralyzed and cannot move.

Name three key issues you grapple with now in waking life:

1) When to have children
2) Legal obstacles prevent freedom to travel
3) Family health issues (life and death matter)

Notice what stands out:

The herse driver represents endings and new beginnings. He transports a casket that symbolically contains something you have outgrown or no longer need. Part of you resists lessons available to help you move on. Deciding to appreciate where you are helps you to sense reasons to stop struggling. If the mind focuses on something or somewhere you are not, you miss the value of just being and opportunity to surrender.

To feel immobilized suggests your unconscious desires are not yet aligned or 'in-sync' with current conscious wishes. When ego mind imagines fear and soul echoes love, this can result in confusion. Misunderstandings about imortality trigger physical experience that humbles you and offer new insight.

Helpful people or guides are never out of reach. Your intution directs you to what you need. This includes family, support systems or, the appropriate moment for certain biological and other life choices. Your thoughts and emotions create your life. Boats symbolize coping mechanisms at your disposal. 

Part of you is ready and willing to confront the unconscious and whatever frightens you. That part is shifting your sense of reality and what is possible. If you are not completely honest with yourself and others about what you really want and how you feel, then you permit fear to control you and obscure truth.

Grasp an unfathomable mystery

When something mysterious is drawing you into it, how do you describe it? Could this be a dream? Where is the exit? The sensation is beyond name and form, has no link to dogma, no label of a particular philosophy.  This transcends any words that can be used, and still, something is dying to reveal itself.

Untapped wisdom is awakening.  It is spreading.  Mystical sensations and events are available to any being that truly wants them.  Every moment, you are given opportunities to select among what comes your way. You prioritize, discard and ignore based on what you are ready to accept. In which ways do you already begin to grasp an unfathomable mystery?

1) Experience a sense of indescribable awe and wonder

2) Free the mind from human time and associated anxiety

3) Enter realms beyond the physical without fear

4) Explore the reach of prayer, meditation and loving service

5) Sense love as a divine musician composing and playing soul

6) Gain insight into unity, sensitivity, humility and balance 

Raise your frequency & redefine success

As you realize energy expands from your personal vibration, you grow aware that conscious intention brings into being and also dissolves all experience.  Situations arise not because you attract them. You choose to identify what is already available within your energetic field. As you notice the mind and soul are aligned, everything you focus on is part of your normal. 

Notice why you are fighting or searching.  As the searching stops, the thinking also stops.  You come full circle.  Consciousness is never absent. You recognize who you are and feel success.  Thinking is triggered by emotion.  Both can seem like noise.  These are categories you create, merely versions of reality. You step back to realize you think yourself into being.

Take this further. As you learn to engage more consciously with abilities and opportunities you already have, you also begin to detach from feelings and patterns that do not serve you, like fear. As you reinforce a perception of reality that uses unlimited love to help others, you glimpse directions that empower, encourage and inspire the self too. When choices grow from love, they build higher frequency. This nurtures faith in intuition. The mind expands.

In my case, one example of loving myself echoes in writing. A turning point for me was when I submitted a piece to a peer review. That led to being invited to a conference in a foreign country to share my insight, and genuinely value others' work. Positive energy reverberrated when I met a man in a public bus. Trust and the universe responds.

Anyone familiar with The biggest risk ever series of posts knows core energy vibration rises consistently as you trust the loving voice of intuition. When you sense something with all your heart and soul, you move from believing to a state of knowing your own hidden treasure. This soul journey is ever-present as events unfold in different areas of your life.

Notions of success are all about being present in a given moment.  As you shift consciousness, a given experience expands to take on greater dimension, significance and unexpected teaching roles. You never stop learning about the power of compassion and doing 'the right thing.' It accelerates vibration, frequency and the will to promote greater transparency. The experiment is your life.  Notice what fuels your human journey under all mental activity.

At this moment, part of the mind is clear and part of it is not.  You may still exert more energy than you need to in certain relationships or work situations. You tolerate more than successful people around you seem to and yet, you are discerning a growing capacity that is helping.  You are realizing you need not lower your core energy vibration. This happens when you permit emotion to control you. To choose instead not to sacrifice creative self-expression will bring people into your life who raise your frequency. It is already happening.  Success is reinfoced by energy to which you are receptive.     

• Imagine 3 unexpected things that would expand your self-love and acceptance
• Envision 3 professional experiences that would change the course of your life
• Visualize 3 personal developments that would enable you to listen to what you feel

10 reasons to be grateful for difficulty

Energy is in constant motion. It takes form in relationships and circumstances that encourage you to explore emotional turmoil. The universe creates situations that relate to all your choices. This is karma in tow. Not everyone grasps the basis for karma. Consider 10 reasons to be grateful for difficulties;

1) It is opportunity to challenge your anger. Negative energy hides true reasons for upset. As you identify discomfort, you grow aware of parts of personality you can change, and shift mental focus to what you want to strengthen.

2) It draws attention to buried pain. Unless you heal root causes, suffering will not change. Only self-awareness permits you to reframe and heal painful memories. Knowing about your emotions and why you create them enables you to compare what you created before to how you feel now so you learn to create different feelings. This is a meaningful healing process.

3) It encourages you to heal a competitive nature. The desire to compete, to accept a challenge, to fight a court case, to defend your belief of innocence in any argument, all reflects deep-seated fear. Unless you address core reasons for inadequacy and insecurity, you fight misplaced battles you do not win. From the soul view, only love exists. It teaches how ego and emotion are measures of unacknowledged pain.

4) It suggests you to stop viewing self as victim. Contrary to popular belief, every experience you encounter is appropriate at a given moment. On some level you may not be aware of yet, you deserve every experience you get. When you do not choose to let go of expectations, you resist forgiveness of self and others and refuse to surrender to the moment.

5) It invites you to give up judging. No situation is good or bad. You attribute labels based on misunderstandings. You discover judgments obscure the truth. This  perpetuates discomfort and inner restlessness. You resist unconditional self-acceptance. You learn judging mirrors what you do to self.

6) It teaches how the soul communicates. Difficulty is soul's way of telling you healing is required. The remedy is not to withdraw from sources of hardship, but to realize how you contribute to them and learn to search inside the self for causes of apparent pain.  You are guided to speak from the heart rather than listen to ego-mind.

7) It teaches you to learn trust. Every experience is a test for awareness and faith in what you do not understand.  You are reminded it is not always clear why you exist right now. What matters is that you discern which parts of you prevent you from using your gifts to the best of your ability.  To develop deeper emotional awareness empowers you to make more responsible choices.

8) It teaches you escape is not the answer.  Part of you gets confused when you do not experience joy, harmony and enthusiasm.  Choosing to avoid difficulties simply means the emotions underneath them will create new hardships to get your attention until you listen. 

9) It brings out support in those around you.  Uncondtional love and support surround you in unseen ways, regardless of your actions.  Perceived difficulties also invite empathy and understanding from people you know and do not. They offer love and support.  This teaches you what soul wants you to do-to love and accept all of self. 

10) It prepares you to handle other hardship.  In some sense, each obstacle you face and work through can make other ones less intimidatng and easier to manage. You gain confidence as you reach each milestone.  You sense meaning and purpose in each hurdle.  Inner changes have already begun.  As you consciously intend harmony, cooperation and service to others, then you realize you exist to experiment with your life.  You figure out how to get out of vicious circles.   

Mother Theresa's Prayer

May today bring you peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.

10 Steps to take a quantum leap

When human beings speak of quantum anything, they imply something significant, but cannot always clarify it in words. The mind-centred self wishes to move ahead. The heart senses pure love without doing. Mind is in process of aligning with the heart. Consider10 steps to take a quantum leap;

1) Establish a baseline. Know where you stand. Are you self-directed or directionless or somewhere in-between? Originally, nothing exists. You start and end here. As you open mouth and mind, everything appears. Hindrances obscure your inner view.

2) Notice self-created limits. Misperceptions grow from the invention of time. Energy is fragmented in the mind to change shape, to create doubt, fear and incompleteness.

3) Turn off the mind. It is grounded in a human-conceived past or future and all that is external. This is not where you are. Conscious cooperation is crucial to discern and break mental patterns. To awaken the heart, sense the inner body.

4) Recognize problems do not exist. Sources of any perceived discomfort are not found in the present.  Problems are views of situations that may happen, that invite attention now, or that benefit from being accepted as they are.

5) Focus on a given moment.  To deliberately focus on the now shuts off the fear and pain inthe mind. You also heal others through example and vibration. Mental discipline enables you to attune to an ongoing transformation.

6) Stop basing identity on suffering. Who you are has nothing to do with perceived suffering. You are not what you seem to have or what you falsely assume you lack. You are not attached to situations.  A timeless essence shines through.

7) Feel grateful for everything. Learn to use your senses more fully. Develop compassion for everything.  Visualize a single focal point.  All experience is meaningful. Feeling will get you closer to your authentic self than thinking.

8) De-emphasize results. When you focus on a goal, on what has yet to be done, this is attachment. The ego mind perpetuates competitiveness and restlessness. To sense relief is to be okay with doing or not doing in the moment.  View the self as always doing well, without measuring quality or quantity.

9) Strengthen inner harmony.To gain insight into the power of energy vibration, a person may chant mantras aloud. As a person advances in understanding, mantras and other toning can be done internally. Voicing words silently attracts revelant energies into core or spiritual centre. You realize what is.

10) Accept pure love is universal.  Love only seems to expand as you detach from illusions of the mind. In truth, love is everyone and everything. It does not change.  Only the degree of intensity felt or layers of vibration experienced differ based on what you allow or resist.