Suzanne Giesemann's Blog, page 22

Aware

No other’s words can make you feel a certain way, good or bad.  How you feel in response to one’s words is always, always a result of your interpretation of them.  Should another be radiating less than positive energy, you may be sensing this at a non-physical level and this is felt in the physical body as discomfort.  If one does physical harm to you, then of course you would feel this in a less than positive way.  When it comes to words, however, you have instantaneous control over your reaction.

How often do you say, “Oh, she makes me so mad,” or “He makes me feel so good.”  Reexamine these beliefs if you wish to find peace.  In regards to verbal exchanges, all comes back to your thoughts.  If you are feeling bad, get to the root cause.  This is a simple lesson today—one of the most basic—but because of ego’s influence, it is also one of the most difficult to remember.

All You Need

Pray not for what you would like.  Pray not for what you desire.  Pray to be the clearest possible instrument for Spirit—for God—to flow through you.  God is Infinite Intelligence.  God is pure Love.  God is Omniscience and Omnipotence.  How could such a Power not know what is best and what is needed for you at this moment?

Praying for God to give you anything at all or to change things to the way you desire them is limiting Omniscience.  What if you were to know and trust that Spirit IS and Spirit knows what is best in the long run?  This take trust.  This takes faith.  Surrendering and allowing take faith, and trust, and simply knowing that you exist and are having these life experiences for a reason.
“Oh, God, Infinite Being, I AM your instrument, and I thank you.  Allow me to trust so that I allow You to flow through me.”  This is all the prayer you ever need. 

Free

Expectations set you up for a fall.  Yes, we have spoken on this topic before, but we cannot stress this too strongly.  If you had no expectations and simply allowed life to flow, your life would be far more peaceful and the outcome just as great if not greater than any you could envision or expect. 

Set an intention for your life or a certain event or experience to unfold for the greater good, and then let it go.  Expectations set up a vibration that limits outcome.  Be free.  Just be, and come into alignment with your Highest Self.

A Clean Slate

The holidays … some look forward to them with great anticipation and some dread them.  What a perfect example of how thoughts directly determine your experience.  What is a holiday, but a date on a calendar associated with time, which is nothing but an artifice to allow you learning opportunities.  How can a date provide such variations of experience?  For the thoughts you associate with it are based solely upon your memories and beliefs. 

What do the holidays do to you?  Absolutely nothing.  What do your thoughts do to you?  Absolutely everything when you allow them to dictate your experience. 
How would you like to experience the holidays this year?  Take control of your life instead of allowing life to control you.  Wipe the slate of your mind clean, which you can always do at any moment, and design the perfect holiday for yourself.  If that holiday is filled with love and compassion for yourself, that is a good way to start.

Gifts

You wish to raise your spirits?  Move your attention away from the self and focus on those around you.  Choose one who appears in need of a smile and give them one.  This simplest of actions—not the smile, but the shift of focus from self to Self—will move you from the trap with which ego so often ensnares you. 

All humans face challenges.  In this you are not alone.  By helping another to lighten their load you lighten your own.  It is that simple.  Yes, of course you know this, but do you see how ego keeps you trapped:  In focusing on your own concerns you forget the simplest of gifts.  In giving to others you give to yourself.

Note from Suzanne: The latest public session with S...

Note from Suzanne:  The latest public session with Sanaya contains a discussion of a highly useful mantra for coming more into alignment with one's spirit.  The full transcript and a recording of the session are found as the first entry in the list under "special sessions with Sanaya" on Suzanne's website:  http://www.suzannegiesemann.com/sanayasessions/

Throttling Back

Sloth.  You know this as laziness, and with this word comes what to you is a lower vibration.  But what of the animal by the same name?  He is a slow-mover … actually a bit of an adorable creature who does little harm to others and is quite content to hang around and observe with a bit of a smile on his face.  It might serve some of you well to slow down a bit and be sloth-like for a while.  This constant going and doing allows little time for simply being.

“Oh, but who has time for that?” you exclaim in your exasperated state.  And how did you get into that state?  What beliefs told you that being a sloth is a bad thing?  Envy the sloth,  and then try mimicking him for a while, if only for a short while each day.  Do nothing, and then, that which you do, do it slowly and simply observe.  What you observe—most especially in yourself—may astound you.

With Just a Bit of Effort

Judgments are obstacles to the soul’s growth.  Beware now that you do not judge yourself for judging.  That is the ego’s trap, to keep you in judgment.  It is the human way to judge polarities:  good or bad, nice or despicable, and with these judgments come feelings and emotions which are of the body, not the spirit.  To focus on and develop the spirit takes a deliberate effort, which is all part of the learning game. 

If raising your consciousness—the entire purpose of you being human—has come into your consciousness, then be aware of how often you judge and who you judge.  Most often these are merely habits.  With a little bit of effort and intent you can rise above the human tendency to judge and merely observe with the eyes of spirit.  From this viewpoint all is neutral and there is nothing to judge.  There are only opportunities to apply the healing balm of love.

Smooth

Pick up a stone from a river bed and feel its smooth edges.  How did it get that way?  From years and years of having water flow across its rough surface.  Do you feel at times as if you are being worn down by life?  Or could all of these lessons—challenging as they are—be a way of smoothing your rough edges … polishing your soul until it shines?

Life need not always be so difficult.  Much of how you handle it is dependent upon your reactions to your challenges.  Do you stand up and fight, or do you let the rushing water flow right off your back?  Embrace the flow of life.  There is purpose in all around you and purpose in you being here.  Go with the flow.

The Best You Could

As you awaken more and more to who you are and why you are having this experience, you will look upon past thoughts and actions and recognize the cause of behaviors which now you would not repeat.  From your new perspective you can understand why you thought, spoke, and acted as you did, so we ask you to maintain this new perspective born of a higher consciousness and judge not your past.  Feel no regret, no embarrassment, no disdain.  See with the eyes of the soul which now guide you and see yourself—your less awakened self of the past—only with compassion and understanding … the same compassion and understanding you would have for a child who is growing and learning. 

There now.  Self-nurturing … it comes as a result of waking up and growing up.  Be kind to yourself.  You might say, “you are only human,” but it is precisely the remembrance that you are more than human that has allowed you to put your past actions in perspective.