Using What You Get From

Aloha,

I'm Reverend Cindy Paulus and I thought I'd talk about a very important and very difficult subject today and that is how we put into practice what we get from meditation and prayer and affirmations,

What we get from spirit.

I've been doing this work,

Prayers,

Meditation,

Since I was 14 years old so it's a long long long long time and it's interesting I see new people coming into the field of meditation or mysticism and they get so excited and that's a wonderful feeling it's like being in love in the beginning and they think that it all can be made into a moment of reality and their life will change but it's really a lifelong practice and I had all these amazing mystical insights and ecstasies and bliss I experienced when I was young and that so attracted me that I would want to spend all my time in meditation and that's kind of the reason why a lot of people aren't given more energy of the highest light and the highest love and enlightenment because it comes down to what you really do with it.

You know this has been realized by people for a long time if you think back to the 60s and when people were experiencing acid and taking you know anything,

Mushrooms,

Taking trips,

Marijuana and they'd have all these insights and amazing experiences but the problem was they couldn't integrate it into their lives and the daily practice of making their own life better and making other people's life better and so it comes to mind that quote that says the way you do anything is the way you do everything and this is something you experience when you're doing Zen practice.

The idea is to take every single moment of your life and really reflect that highest energy,

That vibratory light and that love and that enlightenment in every moment you're living.

Of course this is difficult.

I mean there's been very few people that have accomplished this.

Christ did,

Buddha was enlightened,

Krishna and some fantastic teachers but a very very very small percentage we were able to attain mastership to that level.

So obviously this is a life long practice and it's taking every single day and every single lesson and every single meditation and everything you learn and integrating it into your very being,

Into your body,

Into your mind,

Into your emotions because you're really only as strong as that button that can be pushed that can actually drive you over the edge and I believe that what we're going through right now is very testing times and all of those buttons that we have are being pushed.

All of that image that we might have in our mind of a spiritual being can be tested to see if you really can take what you find your true self and the highest that you are and bring it into everything that you are integrated into your very life,

Into your very being and this is just an amazing process of learning and growing that we go through and it's not just us.

This is what's happening in humanity right now.

We've seen this.

People who thought they were secure and everything was fine,

They're losing what they thought was secure around them.

There are changes happening now that we've never seen before in this world.

I mean that includes what's going on with the planet,

With Mother Earth and the changes happening with the climate,

The changes happening with more and more disasters,

Natural disasters,

The changes that are happening with the pandemic,

The changes that are happening with more and more people wanting equal rights.

These changes are all part of the same energy field.

There's a beautiful Sikh prayer for peace that goes,

God a judges us according to our deeds,

Not the coat we wear.

That truth is above everything but higher still is truthful living.

Know that we attaineth God when we love it and only that victory endures and consequences of which no one is defeated.

And when we think of that,

This is repeated in so many,

So many religions.

I was reading a quote the other day that said,

I'm trying to remember who it was,

It might have been Einstein,

But the quote said,

God has no religion.

So what we learn in our spiritual practice,

Depending on what you may call it,

Is really only valuable if you can live it.

I think everyone's learning,

It's not just a matter of going to church on Sunday,

That's why so many people are not going to church on Sunday,

They're trying to do a daily practice,

A daily living practice.

It's great to be inspired and we all need to be inspired,

But we need to be inspired every day.

We need to be inspired by a practice that encompasses all of living,

All of life,

All of light,

All of humanity.

We're all in this together and we've never seen that more than we've seen in the last four months.

So what I'd like to do is work with you on being inspired to get to that highest place within,

To experience the most love,

The most light,

And realize that isn't our goal,

That is just something we use to put into practice in our life.

Mysticism,

I love mysticism,

I followed the path of the mystic my whole life,

But being a mystic isn't escaping from life.

We are not hermits,

We're not going to the caves,

We are taking that energy that we get from our teachings,

From God,

From light,

From love,

And turning that over into our lives to serve.

And it's not easy.

I think maybe that's why I like it so much.

I've never been bored in my practice throughout my entire life because I'm always learning more and I'm learning more in these last few years of all these changes than I've ever learned before.

And I'm continuing to learn.

We have to be able to roll with the changes.

We have to be able to now more than ever trust in what we are inside,

To overcome the lack of security,

And to be able to survive this changing landscape of the world we live in.

Can you do it?

Yes,

Of course you can.

You know,

We aren't given more than we can handle,

But I have to say right now,

We are sure being,

I was reading this quote that said,

Sure glad God has faith in the fact that I trust him to be able to give me everything that he's given me to handle.

I actually know it's Mother Teresa that something said something like that.

Yeah,

We're being given a lot,

But yes,

We can handle it.

And you know,

There are so many people,

I see on Inside Timer,

So many people that are out there now doing the best they can to help everyone.

You know,

And we're all joining hands in a way we've never joined before,

Psychically,

Spiritually,

In light.

We are all forming this amazing network of people who are here to help us make this time of transition done with ease.

And you know,

Yes,

There are gonna be many things that rattle our cage.

And that's an opportunity to call upon what we have inside to face those changes,

To find that peace within,

To have a core in our being that we can count on to get us through the storms,

The changes.

So let's take a few breaths and let's just call upon our highest self,

Breathing in the light of love,

Breathing in that light and allowing it to fill our body and our mind and our emotions.

Breathing in deeply and letting go of any tensions that might exist.

Breathing in for the count of three,

Holding for a couple of seconds and just releasing any tension there in your mind,

Anything in your face,

Your jaws,

Your body.

Let all of your body be at ease.

Let all of you come to this very moment.

Breathe in peace.

Breathe it in and hold it for a couple of seconds and breathe out feeling that complete sense of well-being and that inner peace.

Breathing in love and finding that place of love,

That spark that connects you to God there within your heart of hearts.

Breathe it in and let it fill your body,

Mind and soul.

Breathe in the highest energy from the source and let yourself be aligned.

Find that alignment in your soul that aligns you so that you're completely aligned not only in your spine but in your mind and your emotions and your body and breathe in that alignment like that staff.

Yea,

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I shall fear no evil for thy rod and thy staff.

Right?

That staff is you.

That staff is your spine.

That is your alignment.

That is your sense of your inner alignment that you can count on and once you are aligned in your spine just do a scan right now.

Do you find your your body aligned?

Allow that light to come from your highest chakra down to your throat,

Down to your heart,

Moving on down to your third chakra,

Your second chakra,

Your root chakra.

Breathe in that alignment from the root chakra to your head and breathe out that light going through all of your chakras,

Clearing any of the stress that needs to be cleared away.

Breathing in perfect alignment and now allowing that total alignment to bring you to that highest place within you.

That place where you can go to the sacred part,

That sacred light within your soul and for a moment from that place,

That objective observer,

That place within,

Ask yourself what can I do?

What can I do to live my light and love and serve with the fullest of my capacity in life?

Think about something you might need to work on in your life.

Something you've seen that might have been causing you trouble.

Something that might push your buttons and ask for some help from the highest source,

The light of light to work on that part of you that can make you a better person,

That can make you more effective,

More powerful,

More loving,

More worthy in your life.

What would that be?

It could be anything.

It could be listening.

It could be not talking when you have an answer but understanding that the person you're talking to needs to talk.

It could be how you are living your life.

It could be a relationship.

It could be something that you came to this planet here for to work out.

Whatever that may be,

Allow it to come to you now and allow that something you need to work on to be put into the light.

Place it.

Place it into the light and see yourself knowing that you can work on that issue and see how you feel once you have been able to understand that issue and work on it and how you feel once you've accomplished that overcoming of anything that keeps you from what you came here for.

Send all of yourself right now to that place of light and love.

Know that you have the power to be able to learn your lessons and live your light and live with love.

Take a moment to allow the energy of the ultimate unconditional love and understanding to fill you.

Know that you can do what you came to accomplish here in life.

Embrace it.

Believe it.

Be aware of the power behind your vision and your goal.

And now with a few deep breaths,

Come back totally and allow yourself to absorb the energy of that feeling so that you can embody it.

And as you come out of meditation,

Write down what came to you.

Make a goal.

Create a plan of action.

Work on that.

Make that part of your life work.

And I send you my deepest love and appreciation for the work you're doing.

And I thank you so much for taking the time to be aware of what you need to accomplish in your life and the best way to accomplish it.

With light and love always,

God bless you.