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Title: Love Is in the Air: Five Steps into Joyful Abundance
Author: Judith Pennington
Article:
Love is in the Air: Five Steps into Joyful Abundance
What is it that brings about healing and attracts love, joy,
peace and prosperity into our lives? As a journalist, writer and
author, I've studied science and spirituality for decades and
perhaps like you have formed a seamless belief system that makes
sense of everything.
So I'm excited when I see proof of it, which comes over and over
again and most recently in an e-mail message from a new friend
of mine in Pittsburgh. He wrote to say that when we hugged, he
felt the direct transfer of something from me into his chest. It
didn't carry any emotional impact, but a physical shift in his
energies transpired and the next day rid him of a misconception
that had caused him a great deal of anxiety.
Could I explain what had happened, he asked? Were these two
events connected? What isn't, I laughed in delight, replying
with the lessons my inner voice of wisdom had just been teaching
me!
Bearers of light
I spoke to David of liking him from the moment we met, as I'd
sensed something very special in him. He was coordinating the
Sunday service at his Unity church, and as he stood at the
podium, speaking so gently of love, my heart opened and I became
aware of the high spiritual energies in the room. I was there to
speak and my travel fatigue instantly melted away.
During the "meet and greet" portion of the service, I hugged
David gratefully for the love he had given me. So it was not I
who healed him, but the Love in him that did the work. When we
are open and ready for change, love responds and Light flows
into and through us, bringing about the transformation we seek.
My seven-year-old grandson understands this perfectly. He
delights in creating "pictures" to give away, and alongside many
of his colorful airplanes and butterflies are the words, "Love
is in the air."
In this cosmic sea of spirit, composed of energetic waves of
thought and feeling, love flows through every person and event.
I bring to you some gift of wisdom, a loving thought or touch,
and you say something that enlivens me, perhaps opens my heart
to a new understanding of us both.
This is what the Hindu mystic-poet Kabir meant in saying,
"Sometimes we are a wave, sometimes the ocean. We come here to
bring each other to God." When we are calm and peaceful, we
float restfully in the ocean of the OneMind, immersed in its
expanded perspectives and at-one with its rhythmic flow. When we
are disconnected, we break into separate waves, but even then we
call each other back to the One.
Waves in flow with the ocean
What separates us from the OneMind and its peace, joy and
fulfillment? It is always stress, fatigue, fear and distrust,
tensing us into waves of rigidity and resistance. Many of us
fear being hurt and shrink away from life, closing our hearts to
the healing Love in and all around us. At times we feel cold and
alone, perhaps rejected, abandoned, unsure and confused. But in
truth, Love has not abandoned us. We have become oblivious to
its presence.
This separation is why we so often feel lost and unhappy. The
closed heart, by virtue of its separation, cannot be enriched by
All That Is. The law of magnetic resonance, governing the law of
attraction, cannot bring riches to poverty, nor peace and
happiness to a conflicted bodymind trapped in anger or judgment.
When we are experiencing inner conflict and are out of integrity
with our souls, we feel a gnawing hunger, a thirst for what is
missing, and usually try to satisfy this craving with love
relationships, euphoric chemicals, career achievement and/or
material possessions. Our busyness almost distracts us from the
cold internal knot of separation, but not quite.
The only way back to the ocean of the OneMind is to open our
hearts to the light and unfold, petal by petal, into our
blossoming.
Nature shows us what to do, especially in the springtime. Out of
dark, quiet winter comes a season of warmth and renewal.
Brightly colored plants and flowers draw us to the wondrous life
force swirling into the curve of a leaf, colorful patches of
wildflowers and the light mint greens of budding trees. Seeing
the magic of spring, we remember how the Creative Force sweeps
into every thing: in sheets of rain upon a rushing river; the
pealing laughter in a child's perfect cartwheel; the sparkling
spiral star-dance of our magnificent Milky Way.
Because of this visible and invisible evidence of love, I trust
and believe what my inner wisdom tells me: that all waves come
to empty our darkness so that Light can flow into the bodymind,
enabling us to gently unfold and flower into lives of beauty and
joy. Our inner wisdom whispers that each and every wave helps us
grow and is called, by our nature, into being.
When we listen to our souls very closely, we hear that this is
our dearest wish and the work that we came here to do. The open
heart knows this and does it willingly, with excitement and
gratitude, understanding its soul's purpose and the ultimate
meaning of life.
The secrets of an open heart
All the same, life is sometimes like a banana peel. It seems
that everything conspires to trip us up, throw us off-balance
and slide us down some slippery slope, whereupon we close our
tender hearts for our own protection. How to open the heart,
then, when it closes suddenly or over time?
STEP 1. The most immediate antidote is to breathe and relax
inside the remembered assurance that every wave comes out the
OneMind and so must be a wave of love calling us back to Love.
Knowing this, we breathe deeply and evenly, becoming perfectly
present to the flow of air into the nose and back out of the
mouth.
Your can deepen this relaxed, peaceful state of consciousness by
counting breaths or following the wind of your breath into your
diaphragm and back out of your body. Research has shown that
focusing on the breath relaxes us, and focusing on two things
simultaneously, like counting and the movement of breath,
produces a deeper state of consciousness akin to meditation.
Another heart-opening technique, especially useful during
conflict, is to close your eyes and focus on the space between
your ears. Try this now, to see for yourself how this diffuses
thought and relaxes the body. It works just as well when we
focus on the space between the eyes or any two objects. Just as
in a guided meditation, the act of imagining space shifts our
brainwaves into the alpha bandwidth of vibration. This relaxed
peacefulness neutralizes the patterns of overexcited,
hyper-aroused physical tension that create most if not all
illness and disease, according to neurofeedback research.
STEP 2. When we repeatedly experience this meditative state of
mind, we extend it into everyday life and are better able to
stay united with the OneMind. We are less upset by our own
thoughts and by external events, so we live happier, healthier,
more balanced lives.
Rooted in the transcendent perspectives of the OneMind, we
consistently respond to life peacefully and the heart is better
able to stay open. When conflict comes up, we breathe, relax and
allow that wave of thought energy to wash into and through us,
neither holding on to nor resisting it. This is called peaceful,
nonviolent non-resistance. We "hold our seats," as Buddhism
teaches and remain peaceful.
It is easy to do this because we know who we are. We are souls
observing our selves and what happens in this earth plane for
the sake of learning. We are not trapped here, but choose to be
here. In this sense of choice and freedom rests fearlessness,
courage and the ability to stay peaceful.
By remaining open-hearted, we stay connected with our soul's
infinite wisdom and its creative solutions. We understand how to
respond-what, if anything, to say-because our inner wisdom
prompts us. In the silence we are able to listen to, hear, feel,
sense and see the transcendent perspectives of our open, loving
hearts.
Our intuition is an inner knowing of spiritual truth. It expands
us beyond the ordinary thinking mind into the transcendent
sixth-sense perspectives of inner knowing, feeling, sensing,
hearing and seeing. Going deeper within our souls, we observe
that any and all negative thoughts are erased from our minds and
replaced by a clear sense of direction. At the same time, the
Light heals physical discomfort, pain, stress and fatigue.
STEP 3. Sometimes our hearts are opened by another person's
kindly word, smile or touch, as with my friend David. Sometimes
the opening occurs during a walk in the woods, as nature
delights us and points the way home.
But what if someone is yelling at or demeaning us in some way
that causes pain?
We can ask that person to please calm down so that we may listen
better to what he or she has to say. If the person does so and
we wish to listen, but nevertheless begin to lose our peace, we
can draw our full attention to the heart and center the busy
mind in the heart.
The energy of the heart will relax our thinking. We can open to
the heart's love and ask for the OneMind to help us flow into
Love, so that this light circulates into every atom and cell of
our bodies. Be assured that it will. This heart-centering will
help us listen better to the other person and return love. By
the law of magnetic resonance, the other person will attune to
our energies and grow more loving.
This has been proved in experiments conducted by The Mind-Life
Institute in cooperation with the Dalai Lama, the spiritual
leader of Tibet. A Buddhist monk and veteran, 30-year meditator
was placed in a room with a professor outraged by the idea of
reincarnation. The man berated the monk loudly and to no avail.
The monk listened placidly and did not flinch once; in fact, he
was hooked up to electrodes and there was no "startle" response
whatsoever. Finally the professor grew just as calm and willing
to conduct a reasonable conversation.
Try this for yourself. Be the peacemaker and see what happens.
STEP 4. We can keep our hearts open by freeing ourselves from
judgment. The verbal thinking mind loves to name everything and
remember similar situations that it then relives and discusses
with itself. The ego says, "Aha, I recognize who this person is,
because So-and-So was that way, too. This person is devious and
dangerous." Even if the ego is right, this judgment narrows our
perspectives and our ability to clearly perceive the full truth
about the other person, who, like us, is much more than what was
done.
A single, solitary judgment triggers a volley of thinking that
closes the heart, blocks inner wisdom and separates us from
ourselves, the other person and God! Moreover, constantly
reliving the past keeps us from being fully present to the
now-moment and serving as a creative, shining light to other
people.
The antidote is not to let the thinking mind name, categorize,
judge and persecute anyone-us included. We can move the naming,
thinking mind into silence by teaching it that no matter what
comes up within us or in external reality-an angry person, the
loss of a job, illness, the death of a loved one-it is a wave of
experience that brings healing and growth. It comes to rid us of
what is no longer needed and to evoke in us anything that might
be missing. In the world of Spirit, nothing is lost. All is
accounted for.
STEP 5. We can be at-one with goodness by keeping our hearts
open, rejoicing in the beauty of the world and seeking something
to love in every person we meet, including the derelict on the
street who teaches us that this is not who we want to be. Even
if we feel repulsed, we can look at this person closely enough
to find something in him or her to love. Some facial
characteristic, some trait...because if love is in the air, it
is also in each of us, even at our worst.
Do we have to judge or detest that derelict? My inner wisdom
says no, because this person has just given me the gift of
knowing myself. I am grateful for that gift and can reach out to
return love without needing or expecting appreciation.
In my experience, we come here to open our hearts and love
ourselves, others and God. If we feel cold and aloof or separate
and apart much of the time, there is a very good chance that our
lives are cloudy and gray.
Do you have all of the love, money, happiness and peace that you
want in your life? If not, check to see if your heart is open
and joyfully aware of the abundance in each and every precious
thing in you and your life.
If your heart is closed, you can open it easily with these
mind-expansion techniques which enable us to become present to
the present. In opening to Love, you will be enlivened by its
joy and peace, so that everything you need and so richly deserve
will come to you. All else will be pruned away, healed, to make
room for fresh growth.
This is the simple and magical secret of life: You have within
you all the Love needed to create and attract the life you want.
Love calls you to shine your light, for love and love alone will
heal our world.
If we stay peaceful, we can catch the waves of love upswelling
in our hearts and ride them with perfect balance into our
everyday choices and actions for economic parity, social justice
and environmental responsibility.
To create a perfect planet of peace and love, all we have to do
is remember that love is in the air. We can bring its Light into
being with the thought of it, the need of it, the hope of Love
that is it. In this wave is the spiritual awakening of our world.
Judith Pennington is a writer, singer and coast-to-coast teacher
of meditation and the evolution of human consciousness. She is
the author of a ground-breaking book, The Voice of the Soul,
about her extraordinary journey into inspired writing, the
guiding wisdom of the soul and the science of spirituality.
Visit her primary website, www.eaglelife.com, to check for a
workshop near you, sign up for her free e-newsletter, "The
Still, Small Voice," and read complementary articles in her
paid-for e-magazine, OneWorld Spirit, devoted to art, beauty,
truth, spiritual politics and global peace.
About the author:
Judith Pennington is a writer, singer and coast-to-coast teacher
of meditation and the evolution of human consciousness. Visit
her primary website, www.eaglelife.com, to check for a workshop
near you and sign up for her free e-newsletter, "The Still,
Small Voice," and subscription e-zine, OneWorld, dedicated to
art, beauty, truth, spiritual politics and global peace.
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