Suzanne Giesemann's Blog, page 12

Heavy Lifting

You cannot lift a boulder that is too heavy for you.  And so, you have several choices. You can leave it there blocking your path and make no progress.  You can break it into smaller pieces and carry off one or two stones at a time.  You can ask for help and move it with those who are best suited to help you.

At times in your spiritual journey you find that you are making no forward progress.  If you are brave enough to look into the darkness and shine a light, there you may find not just small stones in your path that need clearing, but a major boulder.  We have now exposed some options for you to take.  If you are brave enough to expose the boulder, then you may be ready for the next step.  Prepare to widen your path.  Beautiful things lie ahead, we assure you, but at times you must do the heavy lifting.

Dealing with Differences

People make mistakes.  Can you forgive them?  People say and do things that do not agree with you.  Can you forgive that?  If you cannot, you may be spending much of your time alone, for no two humans think and act exactly alike.  This is the reason for relationships, to provide you practice in many aspects of being human:  accepting and allowing, surrender, forgiveness, and love.  Does this mean you condone non-loving behavior?  Not at all, but you see the human side in relation to the purely loving soul within and you understand there is growth to be had, perhaps within you as well.  Seeing this, you then make a more loving decision as to how to respond.  It is all a dance:  back and forth, yin and yang seeking harmony.

Free

When you have no more fear or worry, then you are free.  When you have no need to stand out or surpass others, then you are free.  When you no longer judge and make comparisons, then you are free.  Are you beginning to see how enslaved you can be to the human side of you?  The essential part of you that is spirit is always free, but it becomes buried under human ways, which are nothing more than habits.  Repeat as often as necessary, “I AM free.”  It is one of the many tools you can use to return to Love.

Making Room

Run, run, run away.  Run away from your problems, your challenges, and your issues, but they will run right alongside you.  “Look at me!” they say.  “Stop and face me.  All I want is to be noticed, not ignored.”  Can you see this?  Your issues are friends that will continue to pester you until you pay attention to them.  Once you acknowledge them and send them gratefully on their way for the lessons they brought you, they will do so.  All they want is your attention.  By resisting them you only allow them to cause you more challenges, until one day you can ignore them no longer.  Be brave and allow them to speak to you.  Look them squarely in the face and deal with what they have to say.  It is only in ignoring them that they truly cause you problems.  By acknowledging them and allowing them to move along with love, you have created room within yourself for more of your light to shine.

Floating Along

Things do not always go the way you want them to.  What a blessing.  You are not in control.  What a gift.  Can you be comfortable with that?  What a test.  Welcome to being human.  The greatest test you face is being, and being here, and how you react to that.  There are no right or wrong answers to this test, rather what you do with it.  If you wish to find peace in the face of uncertainty, unpredictability, and conflict, then learn to allow.  Allow life to unfold with all of its uncertainties and conflict.  Flow, and bend, and observe.  The drama will always be there.  Will you fight the current or float peacefully?  The choice is always up to you.

Take Notice

Take time for yourself today.  Stop and see something you might have passed by in your hurry to get somewhere or to get it all done.  “It” will always be there, as will that place you are rushing to.  This moment here and now passes you by when you focus on all that you imagine needs to be accomplished.  What about you?  What about breathing?  What about you causes you to rush and hurry and endlessly do instead of pausing to be?

Be still and notice.  Notice the flowers.  Notice each grain of sand or stone in the walk.  Notice the breath.  Stop and take notice.  Take notice with you wherever you go, and you will notice that peace and gratitude walk with you.

Your Best Friend

You become frustrated with the body, with its limitations, aches, pains, breakdowns, and weight gains.  You then proceed to judge it and see it with disdain.  Do you realize that your body is as much a best friend as is your best friend?  Apply the same teachings we have given you about how to see others with the eyes of the soul to the body.  It is your constant companion, and yes, of course, the temple of the soul.  It is only here for a short time, whilst you who inhabit it are eternal.  How do you wish to treat it? 

Yes, you have heard these concepts before, but have you perhaps forgotten to apply them?   Fill the body with naught but light.  Worship and thank it for its faithful service, even if it does not meet your expectations.  Then, push aside your expectations and send your body the gift of acceptance and love.

The One Constant

What do you know with certainty?  Do you know that the sky is blue?  Is it really?  Do you know there is no death?  You trust that life is eternal, but what do you know beyond all thought and beyond anything the senses tell you?  I AM.  This you have always known.  This never changes.  I AM.  What is the first thing that occurs to you without thought upon opening your eyes after sleep?  I AM.  It may not be a conscious thought, but it is the awareness underlying all thought and experience. 

“So what? You ask, and we answer you:  The one constant in all of existence is this IAM.  This same I AM exists in all that is with varying degrees of awareness.  You can now look upon others and recognize I AM in them.  To what end?  To see the connection, the oneness, the Light that binds all.  I AM … Add any modifier you like to this Truth for the experience and the learning, but ultimately life is very simple.  It all comes back to I AM.

Rewriting the Past

You are always encouraged to live in the present moment, but at times it is necessary to dip into the past in order to heal.  Go back in your memories to a painful time … one which if you dreamed of it now you would call it a bad dream.  Why do you call it so?  Because of what was missing at the time.  What is missing in all events that cause you intense pain is a focus on the greater reality of which you are a part.  Perhaps at that time you did not know that you are an eternal soul, born in this world for a temporary experience so that the soul may grow.  This awareness changes one’s perspective greatly.

If you found yourself in a nightmarish situation with no other perspective than the human viewpoint, then of course you would despair.  There is such aloneness when you do not remember that you walk with angels.  As you awaken to this Truth, you can go back to the bad-dream memories of your life and relive them through the eyes of the soul.  Infuse them with Christ-love, Buddha mind, soul awareness.  Feel how the dream would have changed had that awareness been present in you and others. 

No longer carry past pains to your now-moments.  Rewrite the past with soul awareness and heal the present. 

The Universal Language

Note from Suzanne:  I received an email from a woman wondering what would happen if a loved one who had passed wanted to communicate with a family member through a medium but they did not speak the same language as the medium.  I asked this question to Sanaya, and they answered:

What are words, but visualizations of concepts and feelings.  They are a step in the process of communication that is unnecessary in the non-physical world.  Once you no longer have a body, you communicate soul to soul, light to light.  Some of you do this now.  You know love when you feel it, as you know fear and other strong feelings.  You know a tree when you see it, without any need of labeling it as such.  When with someone who does not speak the same language in the physical world, you can communicate through pointing at objects, gesturing, and mimicking emotions.  There is no need for any of this once you can communicate solely through the vibration of thought.  During a reading it makes no difference if a spirit speaks a different language than the medium.  The concept, object, or feeling are sent to the medium as a frequency that the medium’s brain will recognize and “translate” into words.  It is merely an extra step to do so.  This is why certain feelings are common to all of you now.  All souls, whether here or in the hereafter, know love when they feel it, so spend the day speaking love, why don’t you?  It is the universal language.