Do you remember our Soul Star ritual? We connect with laser beams of
light with each person who is reading this. Now, you might think this
is silly since you don't know who is reading the newsletter or when they
are reading it. But what if I told you that Soul Star Connection
transcends both of these issues because it is about our Oneness? Do you
still feel resistance to actually bringing your focus to visualizing
the laser beam of light extending from your soul star (about a foot
above the crown of your head) linking to others' soul stars? And then
there is our group soul star linking to each of us from above. Can you
actually take a moment and close your eyes and visualize this?
Did you close your eyes and do that? Did you notice how you didn't
want to? Meet the ego (again). The ego doesn't want to disappear into
Oneness. Soul Star ritual is just one of many ways of attuning to our
Oneness.
What would it be like if you practiced knowing Oneness -- with vigilance, with commitment, with knowingness, with passion?
What would it be like if Oneness can have your attention even one third of the time?
What would it be like if you lived your life from a sense of Oneness
instead of separation? How would your world be different? And, how
would you show up differently in your own life and in your
relationships?
More kindness…? More love...? Ahhhhh...
Many of our thoughts and behaviors are based from our sense of separation.
What would it be like to bring intention into action and live from Oneness?
My beloved friend, Pamela, demonstrates attunement to our Oneness as she calls upon guidance daily with this invocation:
"I ask for support, from all the beings of light who form the
embodiment of Divine Consciousness, to assist me, in aligning and
balancing my humanity with my divinity, so I may truly say and feel, "We
are One, We are One, We are One!"
Ahhh… why not try it on and invoke along with Pamela?
What does it really mean if we live with the awareness of our Oneness? What actions and thought patterns change?
Maybe, just maybe, we wouldn't be so harsh in our judgments. Maybe, just maybe, there would be more compassion.
If we practice this knowingness as if we really know
it, then we may be less invested in what our thoughts tell us…thoughts
that separate us from one another. If we practice knowing this
knowingness, our hearts may be more open and we may experience more
reverence for all of life.
Slow it down. Truly, how would your life be different -- your moment to moment experience -- if you practiced feeling into Oneness?
Would you be willing to practice Oneness? Is there a way you can make it more real for yourself?
The ego doesn't really understand this Oneness thing.
For your Spirit, Oneness is not a concept, but a reality.
Thus, the more time we spend in SoulTime, the more it is a natural experience to be in Oneness Consciousness.
So, how do you tune into Soul Time? What does Soul Time mean to you?
Obviously, it wouldn't be time in your head, trying to figure out
things. Soul Time wouldn’t be when you are identifying with judgments
about yourself or others. So, what is Soul Time?
People often experience Soul time when in nature, when meditating,
chanting, doing yoga, dancing, creating art work, or simply looking at
the blue sky. It is important to know yourself well enough to know how
and what helps you to disappear into Soul Time.
But perhaps more important is for you to know how to identify the inner experience of Soul Time.
How would you describe Soul Time for you?
Some descriptions that I have heard from people include: Spaciousness,
allowing, softening, surrendering, opening, identifying with nothing
that is happening, living in the vastness of the big "I' as in "I am
everything and no-thing" -- rather than the little "i" who is identified
with how people see you or how you think they see you, what you are or
aren't accomplishing, reacting and believing in your reactions, etc.
etc. etc... (This etcetera is endless -- meaning, everything that
happens to you can be personalized and made into something by your
ego.)
Soul Time is a Coming Home -- a Remembering and Returning to the
Essence within that does not fluctuate with the life circumstances.
In this essence, Oneness is an experience that there is no true
separation -- that your essence is the same essence within every person,
every being, everything. This is reality.
So, how come we forget it so quickly?
The undertow of this dream -- this world of duality -- that we live in is so strong that there needs to be effort
to remember until awakening happens and then it is effortless. If
awakening hasn't happened yet, the effort is required and it is so worth
it. Think of it as a spiritual practice, a discipline, a path to commit
to...and then, just witness... witness... the unfoldment...
The Witnesser is part of the remembering... the witnesser observes
everything that unfolds, from thoughts, to body sensations, to breath,
to life circumstances and events, to relationships, to triggers and
reactions. The Witnesser is the hum that is constant. It is always
there. It is not your mind thinking or your heart feeling or your body'
sensations. There is no judgment in witnessing, no evaluation.
Everything -- mind, heart, body, life circumstances -- are observed by
the witnesser, including judgment, including a sense of separation and
aloneness...
Witnessing... observing... from deep inside, a lens of seeing. And the
nature of everything you see is that it all comes and goes…and comes
and goes. Thoughts, feelings, life circumstances... the witnesser
remains steady, just there, witnessing...
Ground in the Witnesser. Find Witnessing more fascinating than the comings and the goings that the witnesser is witnessing...
Witnessing loosens up the habit to identify with the mind, the
sensations, the life circumstances, all of which change. Ultimately, we
always hurt when we identify with that which is impermanent.
Witnessing is a gateway into Soul Time.
Until we share next time, practice witnessing, prioritize Soul Time, open to Oneness.
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