Turn it Around

What is it that you criticize in others?  What is it that elicits at times a derisive laugh?  Could it be that you have the same trait?  Could it be that in focusing your attention on that other’s actions the ego is diverting attention from your own?  “Oh, no!” you protest.  “I do not do that!”  But, in fact, all of you have within you the dark and the light—the full range of experiences.  Criticizing another can serve to highlight a “hot spot” area for you.  Why is this area so sensitive?  Dig a bit deeper and shine a light there.  There you will find a tightly wound belief system in great need of light … of love.

Pull the thread around that tightly wound wound and you will find a place that needs healing.  Criticisms are often tied to “shoulds” in your world.  What belief is holding that critical “should” in place?  Could you discover the answer, you would find far greater peace the next time that wound is prodded.

Ever Changing

Are your feet firmly planted in the ground?  Then how can you hope to fly?  It matters not how spiritual one is.  If one wishes to grow, one must be willing to move and change.  There is no one correct answer, one belief system when it comes to being enlightened.  There is only Love.  There are many pathways to explore and be Love.  As for your human reality, the perspectives are limitless.  If you choose only one and dedicate your life to staying with that one belief, then you have planted yourself, have you not?  There is nothing wrong with this, but be aware that when the winds of change blow that you bend with them to see how the view changes.

Self Healing

Does it become tiresome to be around those who speak often of their ailments, aches, and pains?  Yes, of course, feel compassion for those who prolong their problems by giving them power.  And now how about your own wounds … those silent ones you carry around in your emotional body?  These are the ones you have carried since childhood or adolescence—the ones you allow to define who you are.  Perhaps you do not do so publicly, but do you not return to those events over and over as excuses for the way you are now?  Can you not thank them for their service and cease giving them power?  Can you see how they have shaped your life and now reshape your future free of scar tissue?

It can get “old,” as you say, listening to others go on and on about their aches and pains.  Send them much love.  And then ask, what goes on inside of you?  There is no need to carry around old wounds.  Have they served you long enough?  Set them free in an instant.  Send yourself love, and start anew.  It is that easy.

Signs

Yes, your loved ones send you signs from the other side.  They whisper in your ear, but you do not hear them, and so they manipulate your physical world in such a way that you will notice.  Did you see that butterfly land on a finger?  Did you see that bird peck a window?  Did you see, did you see?  Yes, seeing is believing.  It is a way of saying hello.  No, your loved one has not returned to life as a lesser being, but keeping in mind that all is Spirit, and therefore not lesser or greater, there is a temporary blending of consciousness for a purpose.

Picture your remote control cars if you will and you will have some idea of the process.  It is a cooperation of minds to make a point.  And what is the point?  For you to take notice.  Are you paying attention?  That is your loved one’s consciousness blending with yours to get you to notice that butterfly, that bird, that penny, that cloud. 

Your loved ones are not gone forever.  Spirit is eternal.  Consciousness continues, and it continues to do its best to say, “Hello.  I am still here, and I love you still.

Note from Suzanne

Many of you have asked if you can get a recording of the Heart Meditation from my new book, Wolf's Message.  Guess what?  I've teamed up with my new musical partner, the amazingly gifted transformational music composer Jim Oliver, (www.JimOliverMusic.com) to provide you the meditation as a gift from our heart to yours!  I have an appointment in a Dallas recording studio Monday morning and Jim and I have selected just the right music for this project.  I will debut the meditation at the Celebration of Wolf's Message on October 19th in Oxford, FL (see my website's calendar of events - tickets going fast), and the free MP3 will be available on my website October 20th!  Mark your calendars!

The Best Policy

Why do humans lie?  Most often it is a protective measure.  We are not going to tell you an action is right or wrong, for there are only learning opportunities, but as with most actions, motive is all-important.  Why you waver from the truth is all-important for the soul’s growth.  Is it self-serving or in service to others?  Do you see the difference?  If you are about to stray from what you perceive as the  truth merely to help yourself feel better or look better in another’s eyes, better to think again.  If it is to protect another from harm or pain, we would advise you to tread carefully.  Lessons are often learned the hard way.  Truth is advised in most cases.  As always, let your heart be the judge.  The heart always speaks Truth.

All in Perfect Order

You become frustrated when things do not go as you planned.  Anger flares and you clench your fists.  If you could only see the big picture you would see the perfection as well.  How many times have you looked back and seen the perfection in retrospect?  You were not ready for your plans to unfold or your plans were not the best for you or the greater good.  When you feel frustration, stop.  Remind yourself that you are not the limited being you believe yourself to be.  Rise above your limitations and see from this higher aspect of yourself.  From this viewpoint there is no anger, no frustration, no lack at all.  All that is lacking at your level is understanding.

Whose Way?

“Have it your way” … a slogan with which you are well familiar.  There is great pride in this for the human, for the ego so enjoys having things go exactly as it wills.  Having it your way gives ego a great sense of power and independence.  That is fine when speaking of how you wish to enjoy your food, but what happens when one ego interacts with other egos?  Can you all have it your way?  Not when you remain at the level of the ego.  This is when it is most helpful to transcend the ego, to rise above your limited desires and viewpoints and declare, “May I have it Your way” – a request in which you recognize a greater Power that encompasses all of the egos involved. 

That Source of all of you who have your own view of what is best can always be relied upon to make the best choice for the greater good.  This requires surrender … something ego is loath to do, but oh, the results are so much greater when you realize that your way may be limited compared to that of the expanded Self.

"Learning Opportunities"

When you realize you have made a mistake, how do you react?  The answer is most telling.  The more upset you are, the greater the gift if you can see it as such.  Mistakes in themselves are not the gift, but they can easily lead to learning.  Do you tense and think, “Oh, I must be perfect!”  Do you worry what others will think?  What do those reactions teach you?  And what of the reaction of others?  Do they not also have much to reveal and teach?  Ah, yes, gifts abound in so-called “mistakes.”  “I cannot believe I made that mistake!” you say, and perhaps now you can believe and will smile at the gift.  Is not all of life a gift?

Reflections

The face tells a story.  Have you been tense most of the time?  Have you been sad or angry, or have you smiled and been relaxed?  Patterns in emotions become patterns in the face.  You as a human being are a pattern of you as a transcendent spirit being.  And so it is with the emotions.  What you are on the inside is reflected on the outside.  Be aware of what you are reflecting to those around you.    You are doing the same to the heart.  You are pure awareness at the center … pure love … but often this awareness does not reach your human awareness.  Pay attention to what you are projecting with your physical body and you may become aware that higher choices at all levels may serve you better.

Through the Eyes of Love

What would happen if you were to remove the word "I" from your thoughts and vocabulary?  Where would "you" go?  Immediately the ego reacts, fearful that it would disappear or be ignored.  Know this: where there is fear, the real "you" is not the primary focus.  The real you is a focus of consciousness, of pure awareness, of immense love.  The real you is having the experience of playing human.  The real you has no identity apart from others around you.  The real you simply IS.  The real you decided to see what kind of experiences it could have if it took on the role of being human.  It decided to see what it could learn, to see how it could expand itself and be love in even more ways than it already is.

If you could see that there is no "I" but simply pure awareness having the experience of being aware in billions and billions of forms, the you that thinks it is "I" would be far more peaceful, for there would be no strife, no competition, and no judgment.  There would be no fear, no unrest, and no disease.  There would be only love looking out of a pair of eyes.  That is the real you.  Those eyes would have no need to use a word such as "I."  They would see only the Self looking back.  They would see only Love.`

Passages

You see death as such a tragedy, when that is because of its effect on those left behind.  Yes, they are gone from your sight, and yes, you no longer have the body to touch, but it is far from a tragedy for those who have passed on.  That is what they have done ... passed on to another chapter in the eternal life of the soul.  They are no farther away than your thoughts, and far more real than you think. 

Celebrate this new chapter in their life, for they are in a far more gentle place, a far more peaceful place, enjoying reunions with loved ones and experiences beyond anything you can imagine whilst confined to a physical body.  Things they did not understand whilst in human form are now clear to them, and so they continue learning.  May some of those things be more clear to you now as you adjust to life without them.  May you now also understand that you are here to love and to learn.  

Does not the passing of one you hold dear bring out the love more strongly than anything they may have done in life?  So many of a loved ones faults are swept to the side when they pass as you focus on their loving qualities.  If you could only all learn to do that while here!  But this is the blessing of life -- that it provides you so many opportunities to love.  And so, yes, this is the blessing of death, which is nothing but a passage, as important and normal as birth.  Celebrate the life -- that part of all of you that continues before, during, and beyond these passage points you call birth and death.  Most of all, celebrate love, for that is what links all of you along this journey with its inevitable passages.

Love in Action

When those around you are hurting, you hurt.  This is empathy.  You feel their pain for you all are connected.  What happens to one truly does happen to all.  This is oneness.  You band together when there is a loss for the heart knows no other way.  Like a moth to a flame, the spirit ensures that those who are hurting are surrounded by love and are supported.  It is the same at all levels of existence, whether in physical form or not.  Those who are hurting are met with love and are supported upon crossing the veil.  As above, so below.  Whether human or spirit, God sends angels to lift those in pain. 

You are the eyes and ears, the hands, and arms and legs of Spirit.  It is empathy and compassion which set you in motion.  Love in action.  It is a beautiful thing.

In Their Face

Look your fears in the face and laugh at them.  In this way you take away their power.  In truth, they have no power, only that which you have given them.  Upon realizing this, you can take them away in an instant and laugh, not really at your fears, but at yourself for ever having been afraid or doubting.  Such characteristics are very human, and so it is understandable that you would doubt and fear.  Rise above the role you play and step into your full magnificence as a spirit-being-playing-human and you will see why you do the things you do.  When you can laugh at yourself (with a dose of compassion, we might add), you will have succeeded in setting your fears aside once again.  Once again?  Yes, they come and go as you continue growing, but far less often.

Moving On Up

You are part of a self-informing system.  What you learn adds to the whole and adjustments are made.  What works is used and what does not is discarded, and thus evolution of the soul progresses.  What do we mean by “works”?  What adds more love, more wholeness to the system.  Of course at the highest level all is already whole, but certainly you can see that there are levels where the wholeness has been fragmented.  You are a piece of that wholeness, helping to bring all back to oneness through your choices.

There will be many, many times in your journey when you make choices that come from the human side and not the spirit.  There is no shame in this.  The awareness inherent in the soul will guide you to make higher choices the next time.  Each time you do so, you have moved up the evolutionary ladder.  Yes, of course you may slip back from time to time, but recovery is not a matter of making up for lost ground.  Recognition that you could have chosen better and intention to make higher choices the next time move you instantly to a higher rung.  

Do not worry about how low you started or how high you are now.  Simply enjoy the view and be love.  Growth is the natural result.

Letting it Flow

There is no end to the ideas you can birth, no end to the creativity that flows through you.  If you think that all of your ideas come from within your brain, then of course you will feel limited.  When you come to know that you are connected to and a vital part of the Infinite Source of All Wisdom and Creativity, then you become a faucet for the flow.  Do you realize now that you control this flow?  Will it be a tiny drip or a full-force gushing from the well?  Make the connection with your intention and prepare for a deluge.

Easy

Overdoing it.  You have a habit of this at times, do you not?  And what happens when you become a bit too active, a bit too emotional, a bit too anything?  Why, you experience the opposite of whatever you experienced as the pendulum swings back the other way.  The soul is always seeking balance, and overdoing takes you away from the center.  Are you feeling frazzled, hyperactive, or any of the many ways the body and spirit work together to try and give you notice that you have strayed quite a bit from the center?  Pay attention.  How do you return?  Ease back into it, for this is what the center represents:  peace and ease.  Easy does it, my friend.  Easy does it.

On Stage

All the world’s a stage, yet some of you have stage fright.  Do not be afraid to show the world who you really are.  If the thought frightens you, then you are thinking as a human.  There is no shame, no embarrassment, no fear of ridicule when you step into and accept the fullness of your true self, your spirit, and allow it to shine through.  Do not worry.  There is no need to say anything profound or to act in any way that makes you uncomfortable.  Simply stand tall on this stage you call the ground beneath your feet.  Do not look for a spotlight, but feel the light of love which burns inside of you and turn it up.  Simply be, with no need to act or do or recite lines.  Simply BE love.

Tests

Every so often you are given tests.  They are not pass-fail.  They are “what did you learn?” Do you not realize that everything follows the edict, “as above, so below?”  Your life is not pass-fail.  It is all about coming into a body where you can live in an environment resplendent with choices.  When you make choices that come from love, the soul evolves far faster than when you make choices that are less than loving.  In making your choices you learn what love is through a reward system known as feelings.  When you pass to the other side you will be the only soul who judges yourself.  All other souls of a higher consciousness will look upon you, surround you with love, and ask, “What did you learn?” for what you take with you from this grand test you call “being human” adds to the Consciousness of the whole.  Do you see how very important you are?

Rejoice

Seriously … this is how you do so many things.  Have you not been told, “Do not take life so seriously?”  Yes, we are aware of the challenges many of you face, but they would be far easier if you would find the roses among the weeds.  “Be as the little child.”  This is quite good advice.  Learn to laugh again.  What makes you joyful?  If it was a certain person and they are no longer in the physical world, do not focus on the past.  They are well and want you to be joyous as well.  At the soul level, all that exists is love.  Find that love beneath the serious human side of you and rejoice at the beauty life has to offer.