All That Matters

A time to take stock.  That is what this day represents to you in a world in which time holds meaning.  You see your lives in chunks called years.  How would you characterize this one?  Yes, of course we often caution about looking into the past, but we also share that life is for the growth of the soul.  The question that matters at this moment is, did you bring more love into your world in the past chunk of time you call a year?  Remembering that there is no right or wrong, what does your answer compel you to do?  You need not do anything.  You need not think in any certain way.  We merely wish to remind you that Love is all that matters.  Happy New Year.

Note from Suzanne:  I turned on Pandora radio as I sat down here after meditating to type this message from my notepad.  Carrie Underwood was singing a song I’d never heard (“So Small”).  I received such a jolt just now as I heard her sing, “Love is all that matters.”  Thank you, Spirit, for this beautiful confirmation.  May this be the mantra for all of us every day of 2015 and beyond.  Love to all of you …

 Lyrics to "So Small" sung by Carrie Underwood":

What you got if you ain't got love
The kind that you just want to give away
It's okay to open up
Go ahead and let the light shine through
I know it's hard on a rainy day
You wanna shut the world out and just be left alone
But don't run out on your faith
'Cause sometimes that mountain you've been climbing
Is just a grain of sand
And what you've been out there searching for forever
Is in your hands
And when you figure out love is all that matters after all
It sure makes everything else seem so small
It's so easy to get lost inside
A problem that seems so big at the time
It's like a river that's so wide it swallows you whole
While you're sitting around thinking about what you can't change
And worrying about all the wrong things
Time's flying by, moving so fast
You better make it count 'cause you can't get it back
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing
Is just a grain of sand
And what you've been out there searching for forever
Is in your hands
Oh, and when you figure out love is all that matters after all
It sure makes everything else seem
So small, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing
Is just a grain of sand
And what you've been out there searching for forever
Is in your hands
And then you figure out love is all that matters after all
It sure makes everything else
Oh, it sure makes everything else seem
So small

Motive

Why do anything at all?  Why get out of bed?  These are not rhetorical questions, but the most important questions you can ask yourself.  Stop before doing anything and ask in each moment, “What is my motive in doing this task?”  If it is to build up your sense of separation from others (the goal of ego), please realize that this may be a habitual thought pattern that can be broken if you are interested in your soul’s growth.

So, what is a motive worth acting upon?  Any, if it leads to soul growth, but the optimal motive is simply, “for the experience of it … to be love and to love.”  Do you see how simple it is?  But this takes awareness rather than sleepwalking through life.  If you are going to get out of bed, you might as well choose wisely.

Closer

“I want, I want” … two words which can take you farther and farther from peace  They are intricately connected with the thought, “I need.”  Be careful of these thoughts, for they are all part and parcel of the illusion of separation.  As you awaken and come to realize your true nature, you realize how easily needs are met.  It is the human who thinks it needs and therefore wants more, more, more.  How much is enough?  When do you “arrive”? 

Basic needs are always met.  Your most basic need is love, but you are already That.  It is the human who fears and suffers from perceived lack.  Want nothing.  Need nothing.  This is a high level of mastery, but even a few steps in this direction will lead you closer to Home, to Love.

Beloved

All are loved equally in the eyes of God.  Do not waste a single breath feeling unworthy or unlovable.  Guilt is a necessary learning tool, but do not allow your past actions to make you feel less than any other.  Use them instead to propel you to make higher choices in the present moment.  You are loved.  It can be no other way, for you arise from the Source of All Love and are sustained by that Love.  When you fail to recognize this, you cut yourself off from this Source, but only in one direction.  Love flows to you and through you at all times, but it is you who allows yourself to feel it from within and without. 

All are loved equally.  Looking about you, you can see how the human experience distorts this Truth.  Bring the Truth back into focus and be loved, Beloved.

Special

What is the greatest challenge facing you and all of mankind?  Your sense of separation.  You fail to see that there is only one Source and one Vibration that connects you.  There is only one Mind and one thing that matters … Love.  Of course, failing to see this is one of the main rules of your current reality, for if all of you suddenly had your vision restored, there would be nothing left to learn and no growth would take place.  And so, because evolution of the soul is the purpose of all life, urging you ever closer toward unity with your Source, you will stumble about not realizing that you have no need to boast or judge or fear.  All of these actions arise from ignorance of your unity.  All of these hold you prisoners of separation.

See yourself not as special, which separation wishes you to do, but see yourself and all others as Special (with a capital S)  because you are a manifestation of the one Mind, of Spirit.  Each of you has gifts of the Spirit which it will serve you and others well to use, but these do not make you any more special than any so-called “other.”  All are Special.  Celebrate All of You.

Never Alone

Do you often feel that you are alone, even in a sea of people?  Oh, little one, you simply need to go inside.  How many suffer years and years not knowing that you have constant companions who are exactly the kind most dream of … wonderful listeners who judge you not, excellent teachers who share only when you are ready, friends who love you without condition.  Why have you been unaware of these friends until now?  You have been looking around you, not within … within the greater Mind of which you are a part, within the loving Heart which makes up all that is. 

Set the intention of kindling a new and greater relationship with your team of unseen Helpers and spend time regularly in the silence.  We are excited for you.  This is the start of something wonderful and the end of fear and loneliness.  Welcome Home.

(Original artwork by artist Barry Mack, www.BarryMackArt.com)

On This Christmas

On this day a child was born … a gift to the world.  It matters not your belief system.  This child grew to be a man who modeled loving-kindness, acceptance, and forgiveness.  You could all use such a model today, could you not?  Such a soul lives within you with the self-same traits.  Will you be a model of such in the coming year?  We celebrate your birthday every day, wishing you the gift of awakening to your gifts.  Be that which you are.  Come to know yourself as a Christ—one with God, Love itself.  Now that is cause for celebration.  Happy birthday to Jesus the Christ and to the Christ within you.

No Regrets

When you have regrets, go back to the point when you made your decision.  Recreate that moment.  Step into it.  What was your heart telling you?  Feel it now.  How did it feel?  Can you feel the tightness that radiates to the gut?  And you ignored it, did you not?  If you cannot feel that tightness as you go back in time, then travel up to your head.  Your thoughts were racing, were they not?  There was great excitement, causing hormones to flood your system and overcome the heart’s built-in advisory system.

Ah yes, regrets.  All can be traced back to ignoring the body’s built-in advisor, which is intimately connected to the soul.  The soul is always willing to advise you if you will only stop and listen.  But then, once you listen, you then must decide whose guidance to follow, the lower self or the higher. 

What wise teachers you have!  If you wish to have no regrets, be a good student.  Listen to your teachers and do as they say.

Sun and Rain

Rain falls.  There is no other way.  It is part of the weather cycles you experience.  And after the rain, of course, comes the sunshine.  Some areas of your planet receive far more rainfall than others, but still it cycles.

Into every life rain falls; for some more than others.  And onto every life the sun shines.  You may be going through a period of rain now, but eventually the sun will shine again.  Weather the storms.  For some they last longer than for others.  With will, intention, and desire you can move from the rain forest to the sun-drenched beaches, but even there the rains do eventually come.  No one is immune from rain, so accept this integral part of your earth experience with understanding and your time there will be far easier.

Who Me?

Humans are quite amusing.  You project your problems and unwanted traits onto others.  You are quite good at pointing at another and pointing out their faults without admitting that you do the same thing quite often.  You will argue that this is not so, for you are human.  Humans do not like to take responsibility for those aspects that could use a bit of polishing.  But here is the key:  Yes, you are human, but there is a part of you that is quite a bit more polished—a part that shines and twinkles if you will set it free.

The next time you point a finger at another human, say instead, “There they are, acting human just as I AM.  May the latter two words give you pause, and in that pause find it within your Self to rise above your humanness and change that within yourself which you feel need to criticize.

With Understanding

Perspective is everything.  Do you realize that a person’s anger and cruelty are a result of their pain?  And what is the cause of that pain?  The great distance or disconnection from their true self … from Love.  Those in pain may be the last to admit this, for many have buried their past hurts so deeply that they know nothing but anger or cruelty.  Those who know love can often not conceive of what it is like to know not love and to have been treated brutally.  Imagine such a situation when all one has experienced is darkness.  Now surround the one in that situation with light.  That is compassion.  It is born of empathy.

Return not anger with anger, but with understanding and love.  Yes, deal with inappropriate actions appropriately, but infuse the situation with what is missing … with love.

Perfect!

Perfection … such a limiting word.  Perfection is part of your world of duality, for in your mind it has an opposite.  Perfection, therefore, boxes you in.  How do you know what perfection is?  This is a human concept.  What if you saw all as perfect?  Yes, we know that in so doing you are giving definition to the word, but try to feel perfection without defining it. 

Perfection is a state of mind.  Can you be satisfied knowing you have done your best?  That is perfection.  Feel that.  Can you be at peace when a thing does not look or turn out as you wish?  Ah, perfection.  Let go of rules and concepts and know that all is in perfect order all the time.  That is perfection.

Note from Suzanne:  The link I included in my announcement yesterday about my SOAR course being available online did not lead to the video/landing page.  The correct link is www.SuzanneGiesemann.com/soar   As Sanaya reminds us today:  all is in perfect order!  :-)  xxoo

Are You Ready to Let Your Spirit S.O.A.R?

From Suzanne:  My "Let Your Spirit S.O.A.R! course is now on video! Spirit truly collaborated on this project, and you will FEEL the energy. Thousands have kick-started their personal transformation in my workshops, and now I share the info one-on-one with you. Please take 4 minutes to watch the video that describes the course and let YOUR spirit tell you if this is for you: http://www.suzannegiesemann.com/soar/

Modeling

Is Santa Claus real?  Yes, quite real.  As real as you are.  He exists as a concept, an entity in Consciousness, the One Mind, and you carry out his actions, do you not, giving gifts and bringing smiles.  Is the Christ real?  Yes, as real as you are, and you carry out his actions, do you not, playing the role of the Comforter and modeling loving kindness.  Is Buddha real?  Yes, as real as you are, and you carry out his thoughts and actions, do you not, bringing peace to those around you. 

Forms of Consciousness do not need physical form to be “real.”  They may have walked the earth or they may never have existed in human form, but because they are held in Consciousness as distinct “forms” they live on in your consciousness.  All is a play of the Mind, and you have the great honor—and if you choose to see it this way—the great responsibility to carry out the legacy of those who truly modeled Love, to be their model in human form.  Your choices are limitless.  Who will you model today?

Making Every Moment Count

Why is it that you do exercises and rush through them? Are you simply trying to get them over with?  Why do them at all?  In doing a thing quickly and shoddily you barely reap the benefits.  We use this as an example, but it applies so much to human nature in general.  You go to great effort to start an activity, and then you shift your focus elsewhere or do not apply yourself fully.  The result is less than optimal.

If you are going to do a thing, be with it.  Notice how often ego tries to distract you, keeping you always seeking greater pleasure, when the greatest pleasure is simply being.

One Thought at a Time

All that you see is an expression of God ... of Spirit … of Consciousness.  How could it be any other way when there is none other than God?  You do not resonate with what you see?  Could it be a use of free will gone awry?  Could it be a lesser evolved soul still learning?  Somewhere in all that you see can you find the Divine?  Start with yourself.

There is no-thing that did not originate in Spirit.  No-thing is truly real in the sense that you know it.  All is a projection of Consciousness—the Mind of God, as are you.  What are you projecting?  What have you called into your consciousness and for what reason?  Are you not at peace?  Claim your divinity and call unto you the full power that is yours to change it, one thought at a time.

Aware

No other’s words can make you feel a certain way, good or bad.  How you feel in response to one’s words is always, always a result of your interpretation of them.  Should another be radiating less than positive energy, you may be sensing this at a non-physical level and this is felt in the physical body as discomfort.  If one does physical harm to you, then of course you would feel this in a less than positive way.  When it comes to words, however, you have instantaneous control over your reaction.

How often do you say, “Oh, she makes me so mad,” or “He makes me feel so good.”  Reexamine these beliefs if you wish to find peace.  In regards to verbal exchanges, all comes back to your thoughts.  If you are feeling bad, get to the root cause.  This is a simple lesson today—one of the most basic—but because of ego’s influence, it is also one of the most difficult to remember.

All You Need

Pray not for what you would like.  Pray not for what you desire.  Pray to be the clearest possible instrument for Spirit—for God—to flow through you.  God is Infinite Intelligence.  God is pure Love.  God is Omniscience and Omnipotence.  How could such a Power not know what is best and what is needed for you at this moment?

Praying for God to give you anything at all or to change things to the way you desire them is limiting Omniscience.  What if you were to know and trust that Spirit IS and Spirit knows what is best in the long run?  This take trust.  This takes faith.  Surrendering and allowing take faith, and trust, and simply knowing that you exist and are having these life experiences for a reason.

“Oh, God, Infinite Being, I AM your instrument, and I thank you.  Allow me to trust so that I allow You to flow through me.”  This is all the prayer you ever need. 

Free

Expectations set you up for a fall.  Yes, we have spoken on this topic before, but we cannot stress this too strongly.  If you had no expectations and simply allowed life to flow, your life would be far more peaceful and the outcome just as great if not greater than any you could envision or expect. 

Set an intention for your life or a certain event or experience to unfold for the greater good, and then let it go.  Expectations set up a vibration that limits outcome.  Be free.  Just be, and come into alignment with your Highest Self.

A Clean Slate

The holidays … some look forward to them with great anticipation and some dread them.  What a perfect example of how thoughts directly determine your experience.  What is a holiday, but a date on a calendar associated with time, which is nothing but an artifice to allow you learning opportunities.  How can a date provide such variations of experience?  For the thoughts you associate with it are based solely upon your memories and beliefs. 

What do the holidays do to you?  Absolutely nothing.  What do your thoughts do to you?  Absolutely everything when you allow them to dictate your experience. 

How would you like to experience the holidays this year?  Take control of your life instead of allowing life to control you.  Wipe the slate of your mind clean, which you can always do at any moment, and design the perfect holiday for yourself.  If that holiday is filled with love and compassion for yourself, that is a good way to start.

Gifts

You wish to raise your spirits?  Move your attention away from the self and focus on those around you.  Choose one who appears in need of a smile and give them one.  This simplest of actions—not the smile, but the shift of focus from self to Self—will move you from the trap with which ego so often ensnares you. 

All humans face challenges.  In this you are not alone.  By helping another to lighten their load you lighten your own.  It is that simple.  Yes, of course you know this, but do you see how ego keeps you trapped:  In focusing on your own concerns you forget the simplest of gifts.  In giving to others you give to yourself.

Note from Suzanne:  The latest public session with Sanaya contains a discussion of a highly useful mantra for coming more into alignment with one's spirit.  The full transcript and a recording of the session are found as the first entry in the list under "special sessions with Sanaya" on Suzanne's website:  http://www.suzannegiesemann.com/sanayasessions/

Throttling Back

Sloth.  You know this as laziness, and with this word comes what to you is a lower vibration.  But what of the animal by the same name?  He is a slow-mover … actually a bit of an adorable creature who does little harm to others and is quite content to hang around and observe with a bit of a smile on his face.  It might serve some of you well to slow down a bit and be sloth-like for a while.  This constant going and doing allows little time for simply being.

“Oh, but who has time for that?” you exclaim in your exasperated state.  And how did you get into that state?  What beliefs told you that being a sloth is a bad thing?  Envy the sloth,  and then try mimicking him for a while, if only for a short while each day.  Do nothing, and then, that which you do, do it slowly and simply observe.  What you observe—most especially in yourself—may astound you.

With Just a Bit of Effort

Judgments are obstacles to the soul’s growth.  Beware now that you do not judge yourself for judging.  That is the ego’s trap, to keep you in judgment.  It is the human way to judge polarities:  good or bad, nice or despicable, and with these judgments come feelings and emotions which are of the body, not the spirit.  To focus on and develop the spirit takes a deliberate effort, which is all part of the learning game. 

If raising your consciousness—the entire purpose of you being human—has come into your consciousness, then be aware of how often you judge and who you judge.  Most often these are merely habits.  With a little bit of effort and intent you can rise above the human tendency to judge and merely observe with the eyes of spirit.  From this viewpoint all is neutral and there is nothing to judge.  There are only opportunities to apply the healing balm of love.

Smooth

Pick up a stone from a river bed and feel its smooth edges.  How did it get that way?  From years and years of having water flow across its rough surface.  Do you feel at times as if you are being worn down by life?  Or could all of these lessons—challenging as they are—be a way of smoothing your rough edges … polishing your soul until it shines?

Life need not always be so difficult.  Much of how you handle it is dependent upon your reactions to your challenges.  Do you stand up and fight, or do you let the rushing water flow right off your back?  Embrace the flow of life.  There is purpose in all around you and purpose in you being here.  Go with the flow.

The Best You Could

As you awaken more and more to who you are and why you are having this experience, you will look upon past thoughts and actions and recognize the cause of behaviors which now you would not repeat.  From your new perspective you can understand why you thought, spoke, and acted as you did, so we ask you to maintain this new perspective born of a higher consciousness and judge not your past.  Feel no regret, no embarrassment, no disdain.  See with the eyes of the soul which now guide you and see yourself—your less awakened self of the past—only with compassion and understanding … the same compassion and understanding you would have for a child who is growing and learning. 

There now.  Self-nurturing … it comes as a result of waking up and growing up.  Be kind to yourself.  You might say, “you are only human,” but it is precisely the remembrance that you are more than human that has allowed you to put your past actions in perspective.

See Me Now

“If you could see me now …”

We ask you to picture your loved ones on the other side, arms outstretched, and a smile on their face.  Picturing them thus is far less painful than focusing on the past or on their loss.  Doing the latter causes a release of chemicals in the body which results in physical pain in the heart area.  Certain emotions do this.  Thoughts are quite powerful.  That pain in the heart will keep you stuck in thought patterns as the body becomes addicted to this feeling. 

Picture instead the good times and immediately transfer that physical feeling to the knowing that your soul has of your loved one’s ongoing presence in your life.  “If you could see me now …” they say, and now flood that heart space with love.  This is a different kind of feeling than pain.  It comes from the knowing of the soul that you are still as one and always have been so. 

Clear the head of the recurrent thoughts which trigger pain and hold the intention of finding this knowing of the soul that brings peace.

That Which Lasts

It is quite easy to become seduced by human charms.  These come not only in the form of charismatic persons, but in fancy things and gadgets that appeal to the eyes and other senses.   There is nothing right or wrong in this.  Enjoy them while you are human, but do not become so caught up in the seduction that you forget there is another reality.  In that reality all that matters is love.  In truth, the same rule applies in your reality. 

Seductive goodies exist around you now, and so they can actually serve as yet another test.  Appreciate them.  Have fun with them, but ask yourself frequently, “What is real?”  The answer is:  that which lasts … that which never goes away, never breaks, never fades, never dies.  Only Love is real, and You are That.

Teamwork

Body, mind, and spirit … in this reality in which you find yourself, they work together.  Spirit and mind express themselves through the body.  You say, “Listen to your body.  What is it telling you?”  This is good advice, but the body does nothing on its own.  You are far more than the body.  It is directed by the other two team members.  Spirit is at work all the time and all around you, but in this dimension it is often unnoticed without body and mind.  Mind appears to make decisions and choices, but these are for naught if not impelled by spirit and enacted by body. 

All is a team effort, as is everything in your world.  Were it not for your personal team’s interactions with other teams around you, little would be accomplished and growth would be stymied.  Listen to your body.  Use your mind to make the highest choices.  Honor the spirit, and then see these three aspects in all around you.  This view changes things, and change—most especially in the direction of growth toward love—is the name of the game.

Variety

Why do some die young?  The answer, if you truly want to understand it, requires that you understand the purpose of all Life.  Life goes on in multiple dimensions, not just in the experience as human beings on Earth.  All beings in all dimensions are extensions of the One Consciousness extending Itself for the experience … for the growth to be had.  And so, all of life is about increasing one’s capacity to Love, for that is the essence of this Force.

Why do some die young, and some die in middle age, and some die old?  For the variety of learning opportunities that this variety offers.  If all died at exactly one hundred years of age, this lack of variety would impede the growth opportunities.  Does not much soul growth come from the uncertainty of when a soul will depart this physical experience?  Does not much soul growth come from what you perceive as your greatest challenges?

Know that those who die young most definitely do go on.  They go on learning and growing and loving in other realms whilst keeping up with your growth here on earth.  You are still together, for what Love has brought together, no physical absence can keep apart.  You will be with them again in a similar dimension.  At a soul level, you are together now, but for now, whilst you remain in human form, you are simply experiencing different growth opportunities. 

Love.  They brought more of it into this world and it continues on because of them.

Round and Round

How many ways can you worry?  And about how many things?  Your weight, the rent, your family, your health, your safety, your job, your future … Ah, do you feel it?  That worry is wrapped up in what?  In fear.  The worries seem to be without limit once you get in the habit of worrying, and fear becomes your constant companion.  Like a gerbil on a wheel, round and round you go with your worries.  See your worries for what they are, and then see who you are.  Step to the side of the wheel.  It will stop going round once you stop giving it power. 

Now stand in your full glory and realize that there is only fear and Love.  The choice is yours.

Above It

Fear is crippling.  This is true, but only because and when you fail to notice its grip on you.  Fear is of the ego, born of ignorance of the truth that you are far more than the ego.  You are gods … all of you.  Is this blasphemy?  Is this pantheism?  Not at all.  What is a god?  An all-powerful being, born of love, free to move about in consciousness and to create realities.  You are limited to this reality only by your fear, only by your lack of awareness—ignorance—of who you are and of the power that flows through you as you.

Yes, you say, and how does that help me to pay the rent?  When you can rise above the fear of any situation at all and see from a greater perspective, other options come into view.  Above the fear there is peace, just as above the storm clouds there is light and blue sky.   Enough said.  May these words sink in to your heart and dispel the fear, which has never been real, only a part of the illusion of separation.

Spinning

Be aware of habits and patterns.  The human does not like change, and so you get into ruts … well-worn paths you follow, most especially in your interactions with others and most especially with those most close to you.  

You are having this earthly experience to take back a higher vibration than that with which you arrived.  This happens through learning, which results in soul growth.  Learning does not take place without change.  Change does not take place when you repeat habits and patterns. 

Examine your reactions to interactions.  Others may not realize they are in a rut.  Once you see this in yourself, will you keep spinning your wheels or try a different path today?  This does not mean that a completely new path is necessary.  Perhaps a tiny response that would be different than your normal one could result in a (w)holy new outcome.