Maintaining unhealthy relationships drains our life force, while letting go of them empowers us to create space for new relationships that enhance our spiritual growth. Blessing and releasing unhealthy relationships with unconditional love and integrity can teach us how to forgive our past, heal ourselves, and generate positive energy to progress on our spiritual path. It’s important to break clean from an unhealthy relationship and stop investing energy in it. If we don’t, we often continue to desperately keep it alive while knowing in our hearts that our spirit has already left it, causing us to feel dead inside.In preparing to bless and … [Read more...]
Where Love is Present There Are Always Miracles
Where love is present, there are always miracles. While many of us are reluctant to apply the word miracle to ourselves, this reluctance only diminishes the power of love that we source through us. Recognizing that I had the power within me to invite miracles unleashed a force of love upon a dis-ease trying to take up residence in my body. So I reminded myself, “What is not love is always fear, and nothing else,”1 suggests A Course in Miracles. Some of us believe that angry, ass-kicking sentiments such as “waging war on cancer” and “kicking cancer’s ass” give us power over a relentless disease, but they only deplete our healing power. The … [Read more...]
The Flow of Forgiveness
“If we want freedom and peace and the experience of love and being loved, we must let go and forgive.” ~ Eric Butterworth Generating a mutual flow of forgiveness renews connection, enhances the sharing of vulnerabilities, and heightens intimacy in our relationships. It is at the core of every soul-hearted relationship, and is an essential dimension of being love. Forgiveness is the willingness to let go of any resentment, judgment, or grievance toward someone who has injured us. It has two essential parts: a release of negative feelings previously held toward the person who has offended us, and an engagement in positive feelings toward that … [Read more...]
Your Greatest Gift of Love is Your Presence
The primary element in love is our divine presence. When we are truly present with another person, not distracted or guarded, we open a portal of loving energy that facilitates communication and healing. Presence is having the conscious awareness of what’s happening moment to moment without being caught up in your own thoughts. Looking deeply into another person’s eyes, giving them our undivided attention, and listening with an open heart are all elements of being present. Our divine presence, more than any other aspect of love, answers the basic connection question, “Is that person there for me?” It is in this sacred space of presence that … [Read more...]