Fever Reliever

When one has a fever, you dab the forehead with a cool, damp sponge.  The opposite of heat is cold, and thus you bring the fever down.  When one has a fever, you do not make them more hot.  And so, we ask you to pay attention when one you are with displays anything less than love.  Do not fan the flames of anger or frustration with more of the same.  Apply the healing balm of love.  It is the miracle drug all have been seeking for centuries.  It remains elusive, for so many fail to see that love heals all.  When applied liberally, balance is achieved.  Try it, why don’t you?

So Simple

As above, so below.  On earth as it is in heaven.  The two worlds are not so very different when you bring them together at the point where both worlds meet.  Where is this?  Most certainly not in the head.  Most certainly it is in the heart.  You wish to walk in two worlds at once?  Focus on the heart.  Go there often.  Be an angel to those around you.  Feel yourself surrounded by angels.  Be a heavenly emissary of heaven on earth so that others may know they walk with angels, too.  Activate your heart light and shine.  This light shines above, around, and within.  As above, so below.  It is so simple.  It is right before your eyes, but you cannot see it.  Get out of the head and into the heart.

The Healing Touch

Connection.  It is all important.  The healing touch of a hand on a shoulder does wonders.  A soft caress for no apparent reason speaks volumes.  Do not send love merely with the eyes or a kind word.  These are healing in themselves, but in a human world where most fail to feel the interconnectedness of all that is, touch is a gift of utmost importance.  Touch often and freely and open hearts as you do so, least of all your own.

Note from Suzanne:  As I type this from the hand-written message received in meditation, Madonna is playing on the radio, singing over and over, “Put your hand on my skin … Put your hand on my skin ... ”  Once again, the timing is Divine!  Blessings to all!

Into the Depths

Profound.  What does this mean?  Deep … from the depths.  There in the depths, all is still.  At the surface, the waves and ripples keep you from experiencing stillness and peace.  Thoughts are shallow when they arise from this more disturbed vibration at the surface.  Understanding is profound when it comes from the state of expanded consciousness, where peace prevails.  Profundity is accessible to you now.  First, you take a deep breath, then sink slowly or dive head first to that place where all is still.

Louder Than Words

Oh, what you can learn when you listen.  What is your body telling you?  If it had a voice, it would speak loudly.  That ache, that pain, that dizzy spell ... There is a loud message there for you.  Do not cover it up with a Band-Aid.  Listen and ask, “What are you telling me?”  That pain in your heart … that burst of anger or frustration … what is it saying to you?  You wish to experience harmony and peace?  Listen to the voices which speak loudly, yet use no words.

Just Thinking ...

If you are filled with strife, you are thinking like a human.  If you are filled with fear or anger, you are thinking like a human.  You will always think, for you are consciousness incarnate, but you are also consciousness discarnate, and that is the part of you that feels no fear, no anger, no discord.  Would you like to experience such a state without leaving this bodily experience?  Shift your focus and place the intention.  Now step outside the box you have placed yourself in.  How did you do that?  By thinking.  Do you get it yet?  Peace is only a thought away.

The Fulcrum

Like a pendulum, your moods shift back and forth, back and forth, but always there is a fulcrum point bringing you back to balance.  Were it not for this point, you might continue to tip until you toppled over, never to return to a sense of peace and normalcy.  But yes, this point exists, directly in the center of all things, all thoughts, all emotions, pulling you back when you begin to swing too far.  Do not fear; the center is there.  To move beyond the swing, when the back and forth becomes too tiresome, rise above the motion to that fulcrum point and rest a while.  When you have experienced enough rest, return to experience being, but perhaps without swinging so far now that you know the way home.

Special Invitation

From Suzanne:  While I am home this week visiting at the halfway point of our summer tour, I am going to hold a special session of sharing with Sanaya.  I have decided to open this up to anyone who follows Sanaya's daily messages and is near enough to The Villages, FL, to attend this Friday night at 7 PM.  There is limited seating, so it will be first-reply-by-email, first assured a seat.  The only cost is a $2 donation, 100% of which goes to the church where the event will be held.  Please send an email to info@suzannegiesemann.com if you would like to attend and I will send details.  (If you have already received a separate email about this gathering, there is no need to respond).  Love to all, Suzanne

Retreat

Soldier on.  Do not give up.  Yes, it is quite acceptable to curl up in a ball, retreating from the world for a while.  We understand why at times you do not wish to open your eyes again.  Repeat after us, “This is not who I am.  This is not the ultimate reality.”  Inside you know this.  Go to this place when you feel you cannot handle your challenges one more moment.  Breathe deeply to wash out the stagnant energy.  May you then see your way to return to your current reality with new strength and a new perspective, buoyed by the knowledge that “this too shall pass.”  All is temporary in the physical world, save one thing:  the love of Spirit.

Excitable

Excitable … that is what you call one who reacts with great swings upward in the face of events.  Picture a pot of boiling water that simmers.  Turn up the heat and the bubbles boil with great fervor.  Do you boil and pop when the heat is turned up?  It is not necessary.  In the physical world, this is the normal reaction, but you are not of this world.  Remove yourself from the stove when things get too hot for comfort.  Allow things to cool down as you observe and decide if you want to be part of the stew.  Like a fine seasoning, you add a unique flavor to the mix, but you need not blend in completely.

On Purpose

Into every life come challenges.  Were it not so, there would be no point in being human.  How you handle them is the test—the test of being human.  You cannot stay here forever.  The human body is a beautiful instrument, but it does break down.  At times this is intentional, caused by poor choices; at others, merely the aging of the machine.  Before it gives out on you, you may want to use it for the purpose for which it was designed.  It houses and expresses the most beautiful treasure of all—the spirit that is you.  Treat this vessel with love and respect.  You have a lot more learning to do.

Sanity

What is sanity?  Thinking and behaving as others do, within a set of norms.  What happens when one thinks outside of these parameters?  “They are off in their own little world,” you say, and this is labeled insanity.  Most definitely, if one acts and thinks in a way which causes distress or harm to self or others, this is a problem that requires correction.  We wish you to understand that often these souls are walking in two worlds at once and cannot discern the difference. 

Sanity is best described as balance.  In the case of most humans, you are imbalanced … so fully focused on the human experience that you forget your true home—even now—is in heaven.  The heart is the bridge between these two worlds.  Find balance by living from the heart, and you will be fully sane.

All of Eternity

You want to charge off and change the world.  Can you do it in one day?  It took Someone else seven days to create it.  Relax.  You have a lifetime and then some to change just one person, and you are that one.  As you change, so do those around you, but do not even worry about others.  Yes, help others.  Yes, teach, and serve, and please, and calm, and cheer, and encourage others as the opportunities arise and as you are guided to do so.  But focus first on the self.

All are aspects of the One.  As the one known as you learns to love fully, you are better prepared to help others.  What do they teach you on your airlines?  Put the oxygen mask over your own mouth first so that you can help others.  Take in a deep breath now and relax.  You have all of eternity to heal.

Selectivity

Copycats.  At times you ridicule those who imitate another.  Is not imitation a sign of flattery?  Choose your examples carefully.  What behavior do you wish to mimic?  It is far too easy to be a copycat in a world where violence and anger prevail.  Choose a model who stands out for their uniqueness of high vibration.  Yes, then you will stand out and shine out in the best possible way.  Be unique.  Do not mimic the crowd.  Tread where few cats dare to tread, then let your unique roar be heard.

How Much You are Loved

When you gaze upon a mountain, that is how much you are loved.  When you see a beautiful flower or hear the most melodious song, that is how much you are loved.  When you behold a newborn child and your heart opens wide, that is how much you are loved.  We cannot show you the full Force of how much you are loved or you would fall to your knees and be unable to function.  That is how much you are loved … that much and more than you have yet experienced.  Combine all of the instances you have experienced of loving another—of loving all others—and you will begin to get a taste of how much you are loved.  The amount you love yourself is infinitesimal compared to how much you are cared for, Beloved.  Open your heart to this love and heal.  Open your heart to this love and grow.  Open your heart to this love and blossom.  Be Loved.

Play On

There is no dress rehearsal.  There is only the performance.  “But what if I mess up my lines?”  Then you have a choice:  You can slink off stage and sit behind the curtain as the play goes on without you, or you can hold your head high and realize that you are needed on stage.  Others make mistakes as well.  Fear not.  All are on the same stage.  No one is watching only you.  It is all one interactive show.  Play your role to the best of your ability, and if you do not like the role you have chosen, change it.  Have a chat with the Director if you need some guidance, then get back on stage and try out your new lines.  Make them up as you go along in this play we call “Leela.”

Note from Suzanne:  After typing up this message, I googled “Leela” – According to the Hindu belief, “Leela is the playful nature of Supreme Consciousness.  The play is beginningless as well as endless.”  May your play be a wonderful adventure.

In the Face of Chaos

You live in an orderly universe.  Your planets follow orderly, predictable paths.  The sun always rises and sets.  Where there is seeming chaos in nature, there is actually an underlying order.  Study your fractals and you will understand this.  At a personal level, you may experience chaos in your life, but on the grand scale order prevails.  It is the Law of Life.  You do not have the big picture at this time.  There is a reason for that as well.  You learn to come to a place of peace within the chaos, and that is part of the Plan.  Can you find peace at any time without having the big picture?  It is a choice.  Peace always lies within, where chaos cannot enter.  Go there often—your true home.

Super!

A reader asks, “The more I give, the more I'm expected to give, it seems. I don't like these feelings of resentment, but, I too, need to feel love from others that's truly just love being given with nothing asked in return. Does Sanaya have words to address this?”  Sanaya says:

Superman.  He leapt from building to building, performing great feats of generosity with no reward.  He did so anonymously, returning to the state of being a humble reporter.  Anonymity.  Can you give in such a state, hiding the giant “S” on your chest under your outer clothing?  In your case, that “S” stands for Spirit.  All of you wear this special suit.  It is the human side, dressed in human clothing, that needs reward, that desires recognition and payback. 

Do you not realize that it is impossible to leap from one tall building to another and not be seen?  Great deeds and small deeds are noticed.  The Spirit needs no acknowledgment.  The rewards are intrinsic.  Love is all that matters.  Feel compassion for the side of you that craves recognition, and for those who do not realize who they are, then let the great “S” upon your chest shine.

Along the Way Up

There is no time period for grief.  It is a process.  Yes, much of it depends upon your thoughts, beliefs, and choices.  Some of it is physical and chemical, brought about by the same thoughts, beliefs, and choices.  Know that you need not be a victim.  Choose to be in control of your emotions.  Yes, feel them, even when painful, and know that the opposite emotions also exist.  Strive always for higher vibrations, but be compassionate with yourself along the way up.

Earning Your Wings

A woman writes:  I am just losing faith by the minute watching two of my friends in Hospice die.  As a child in church they taught us that God was omnipotent, loving and created each of us the way we were supposed to be. We are not created equal. Some are born with horrible lives to bear. Why would a loving God create us with the possibilities of having things like cancer? I am sick of the answers that ministers give us saying we have something we need to learn, or someone around us needs to learn something from our suffering I just don't get it and it is getting harder and harder for me to believe in anything spiritual.

Sanaya Says:  Does a child understand why you must at times induce pain to ensure its safety?  No, it does not.  Yet, if it feels your love, it will trust.  It is all a matter of trust, perspective, and love.  Those who suffer misfortune do not always see the reasons.  We can only ask you to find the love in the situation and to bring love where love is seemingly absent.  Many misfortunes occur as a result of the human’s free will.  We look down upon this and send our love, knowing that misfortune is but a temporary facet of a multi-faceted existence.  Look around you.  Love is there.  The greater perspective will come at some point, perhaps not whilst still in human form.  When it comes—this understanding—you will see and feel the reasons, and you will understand.  For now, yes it is challenging, this human life.  Faith and trust come by grace.  Do not cease praying for the gifts of trust, patience, and love.

Nary a moment passes that you are not loved
Like a hand that strokes the face, velvet-gloved
You feel the soft caress, a breeze that blows
Across the mind, in an instant it shows
That you are never alone, despite your fears.
Love, its magnificent head it rears.
In small ways and great
This is your fate
To discover the Presence in spite of your doubt.
These are what all the tests are about.
These challenges are not just "pass or fail."
It matters not if you rant and rail,
For life is ongoing; there is no end.
These tests are actually a gift we send
To strengthen your trust
Yes, faith is a must
If these trials and tests you wish to survive.
This is the challenge of being alive.
In the end you'll see that this is one book
With a succession of chapters, each one with a "hook."
To rise above is what you learn
And in so doing your wings you earn.
With faith you'll rise, with trust you'll soar.
Through these tests life brings on the way to Heaven's door.

Your Own Good

Does a parent give a child everything it wants?  If so, how does the child learn?  If not, what is the reason?  It is for the child’s growth and learning, or as you say, “For their own good.”  Do you get everything you pray for?  Why do you think this is?  There is a reason for everything.  You cannot always see the greater picture.  Trust that all that happens is for your own good.  Surrender the desire to have everything you ask for.  With surrender and trust comes peace … for your own good and the good of the Whole.

Fantastic

Comment from Suzanne:  It appears Sanaya is responding today to a comment from a follower who asked (in response to yesterday's post "Unlimited"), “What is the difference between opening up to the greatest possible outcome and fantasy?”  Sanaya says:

What is fantasy?  Imagining things beyond what most humans would consider realistic.  What is realistic?  See the root word “real.”  Who or what determines reality?  Your current perceptions.  If a thing is outside the human brain’s capacity to perceive, to many this becomes “unrealistic.”  Does this make a thing unworthy of thinking about, of believing?  Fantasize all you want.  This is using the gift of creativity. 

What if the Creator, using Consciousness, had not fantasized about a creation so splendid that it could also create, and reason, and love?  Fantasizing is a gift of the Creator.  Fantastic!  You are given permission to dream big, too!  Thank God … no limits were placed on you.

Unlimited

Expectations … they can be enjoyable, but they can also lead to disappointment, can they not?  What if you had no expectations?  What if you simply set an intention for the greatest possible outcome resulting in the greatest possible good for all?  What if you then sat back and allowed that to unfold?  Why, you could not even imagine such an outcome!  Your limited perspective would limit you. 

Your expectations have limited you.  Can you let go of expectations and allow things “beyond your wildest expectations” to unfold?  Can you imagine how fun and freeing such an attitude would be?  It is.  Try it.  The results will be beyond your expectations. 

Who is in control Here anyway?

Note From Suzanne:

In response to the comment from Papaj on today's post from Sanaya ("The Real You"), John, I DON'T do that!  And that's what's so magical.  I simply surrender and let the words flow from above.  Everything is so much easier when we just surrender!

The Real You

Come in from the rain.
No longer suffer pain.
It's time to dry the tears
That have plagued you all these years.

So many suffer sorrow.
Afraid to face the morrow.
They hold onto the past
Where painful memories last.

The joy lies not ahead,
When there you look with dread.
Nor does it lie behind
Where the memories remind.

The joy lives in the now.
In this moment you find how
To open up to Truth itself
'Tis the way to peace and health.

The joy so naturally follows
The one whose pain he swallows
And surrounds it with the Light
No longer filled with fright.

Free now just to live
And in this moment give
The Present its full due
By stepping into the real you.

Gift-Wrapped

“Words are cheap.”  What does this mean?  You can say anything you want, for it costs you nothing.  What is truly in your heart?  It costs you nothing to share love with all, but so many hold back in sharing this gift.  It costs nothing to say “I love you,” yet you save this for only a few.  Words are cheap.  Love is free.  When you give freely, you receive in abundance.  Be Santa Claus, the bearer of gifts of love.  Your bag will never empty as you reach inside and give to others what they need more than any other gift you could give them.   

Bending

At times you waver.  This is doubt.  Doubt comes from being human and is understandable.  Have compassion for the side of you that forgets to trust.  And then, into your life come angels, in the form of messengers who carry just the right words to put you back on track.  You hear their words and once again stand tall and firm in your awareness of who you are.  Now, once again, you are strong. 

And so it goes, this game of bending in the wind like the tall tree.  There is no shame in this.  It is for this reason that you are created to be flexible and not break when you waver.  We will continue to send you messengers until you no longer need them.  That is Love.  Spread it around.

911

You have your police force to keep control of things and give you a sense of peace.  But what happens when they are not around?  Then you become nervous.  You feel a sense of danger.  But do you not realize they always respond to your call, your cries for help?  Do you not also realize** you have your own 911 line?  Your personal team will respond when you put out the call.  Your league of angels is always nearby.  Just as you rest safely at night in your bed knowing that order prevails because there is a force assigned to maintain order in the physical world, rest at peace now, knowing that your personal Force is only a call away.

**As I received these words in meditation, a vehicle outside suddenly turned on a siren and sped by.  Amazing.

Abundance

Cornucopia … abundance … it does not always come at once, and it may not last.  All things come and go, ebb and flow.  Does that mean you give up?  No, you press on, knowing that abundance is your true nature.  As spirit, you have everything you need.  Love is abundant, but you shut it off when you experience the ebbs of human life.  You control the flow of love and gratitude.  All else flows from this.  When what you desire as a human dries up, open the flood gates of gratitude and let the love flow abundantly.  The tide will come back in.  It is the Law of Life and of Rhythm. 

Gratitude

You are not autonomous.  Thank God.
You do not act alone.  Thank God.
You need not fear.  You have help. 
Thank God.
When things go well, thank God.
When things get out of hand, call on God.
Are you beginning to get the picture?
You are loved.  Thank God.

Walls

Let down your walls, those barriers which hold others at arm’s length.  What if there were no distance between you at all?  “Why, then people would know my secrets!” You all have them, these shameful things you know about yourself which you think would keep others from loving you.  Do you think others’ secrets are any different from your own?  On the other side of their walls are the same little lies:  “I am not good enough.  I am not worthy.  I am no good.”  And so, you all put up barriers which keep you from discovering the truth.  This truth can only be felt when love flows freely among you, but it begins with yourself, inside your self-imposed barriers.  When you have built up enough of this love inside of yourself and around yourself, the walls will come down from the sheer force of it.

Wounds

You are all wounded beings.  There is not a one of you who has not suffered some perceived hurt as a result of your group illusion.  You say harmful things to one another and do harmful things, and all out of ignorance.  You do these things at the human level, when in ignorance or denial of your true nature.  That nature is love, and that love is the only salve that will heal your wounds.  The wounds began long before you were aware of much.  Little babies incur harm from those not yet awakened.  Go back in time to when the child in you was wounded and send that child love.  Let it know that it has always been safe and loved as spirit.  This is how wounds are healed.  Continue the healing process now by loving yourself, and then pass it along to others, for you are all wounded.  It is the nature of being human, but now you know the nature of compassion.

Buttons

“You push my buttons.”  What does this mean?  You place blame upon another for knowing exactly what it is that “makes you angry” or causes you upset.  Isn’t that interesting?

Buttons are programmed, and oh, so totally illusory.  They are not real at all, yet you have made them so real that others know exactly how to get a reaction out of you.  Who is in control here?  You say that you do not want to give up free will and be like a puppet on a string to God, yet look who you allow to push your buttons and thus pull your strings.

No one outside of yourself actually causes you anger or makes you react in any way other than your very choosing.  You push all of those buttons yourself.  It is a choice that becomes quite unconscious after a while.  You can program new buttons.  It is not without effort, but quite worthwhile.  Or why not have no buttons at all and surrender completely to your Source?  You will find it far preferable to being prodded by all of those button pushers.