No Matter What

One hundred will say wonderful things to you and one will sling arrows.  Where will you place your focus?  Most humans will be drawn to the arrows.  Why?  Because negativity fuels the ego.  It bolsters the sense of separation, without which ego cannot survive.  Positive strokes do the same thing, but most are not aware of this.  Let neither affect you.  Be not built up or torn down by what others think, say, or do.  Simply be.  Be at peace by being who you are.  You are loved no matter which voice you listen to or what happens around you.  Focus on that.  This is the truth that most people long to hear, and so they cling to the praise and allow the arrows to slay them.  Love cares not about garlands or arrows.  Love lives within all.  Be loved and be at peace.

Note from Suzanne:  You may enjoy my latest blog post about the spirit of a young woman who was determined to let her mother know she is still very much with her after her death:  http://suzannegiesemannwhatsnew.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-irrepressible-spirit-of-carly-hughes.html

Clean and Clear

“I’m not myself today.”  It is good that you notice this.  Awareness is key.  Then you might ask whose energy are you carrying around?  What is it that is blocking your true nature from shining through?  Energetic cleanliness is all-important.  Those around you may carry quite a different vibration from your own.  When interacting with others, if you are sensitive, you may pick up and take on others’ vibrations and issues as if they are your own.  This can happen subtly, without your awareness, until you become aware that there is no known reason for your less than positive mood or for your lack of vitality.  Practice energetic hygiene, cleaning your energy through meditation, and focus on each of your energetic centers (chakras), visualizing them clear and perfectly balanced.  Do this regularly, but most especially when you are “not yourself.”

Undying

Roses on a gravestone.  Ashes on a shelf.  The love of your life is gone.  Or so you think.  This is when we ask you not to think.  Thinking takes you to the false belief that your beloved is never to be seen or felt again.  Oh, how thinking does you a disservice.  Get out of your head and abide in your heart.  This is where your beloved awaits you.  This is where they speak to you, at times in a whisper, at others in a shout. 

“I live!  I am here!  I have never left your side.  Please, I beg you, do not think that.  Meet me in the heart, which knows the truth.”

The head will try to tell you that the sense you have of your loved one’s presence is foolishness.  Be a fool, then.  Do what it takes to set thinking aside.  It matters not what others think.  They have not felt what your heart knows.  And yes, the heart knows, beyond thinking, what is real, and that is love … everlasting and undying.

You cannot kill the spirit.  Death is not the end.  Ask the heart.  When your thinking brain no longer serves you, then you will be joined once again with those you have lost.  Do not give it a second thought.

The Most to Teach You

All are of the Spirit … not just the beautiful beings, not just those who smile, not just those who make your time worthwhile.  The same spirit that breathes you breathes all others.  Those who seem the least of you may in fact be kings.  Make an effort to spend time with those you might not be drawn to.  The last one chosen for your team may well have the most to teach you.  All are in your path for a reason.  If you do not want them on your team, what can you learn from that?

Always the Answer

Compassion is always the answer, for it is born of love.  When you do not know how to respond in the face of very human reactions, whether of another or even yourself, turn on the compassion.  Compassion does not say, “I agree with your actions.”  It does not say, “I like what you say.”  Compassion says, “I know that we as humans are often less than loving, but inside each of us is a place where we are equals.  From that place of pure spirit, I connect with you and send you love.”  That is compassion.

Revealed

The real you is concealed behind a costume.  You call it a body.  The real you will not disappear when the body lives no more, for the real you is eternal.  You exist to grow in this realization, but the real you has always known this.  It is the body which has concealed this truth.  And so, it is merely a matter of stripping away the costume bit by bit.  Most humans do not like being naked.  They feel somehow ashamed and exposed in this state, but is this not learned behavior?  All of life is about unlearning.  The body is beautiful, to be sure, but what lies behind the costume is beautiful beyond measure.  Unlike the body, it is the same within all of you:  pure spirit … Love.  It is what binds you, connects all of you as one, yet masked in your bodies you do not see it.  Be naked in spirit and feel the love.

That's the Spirit

That sense you have that someone in spirit is around?  Honor that.  That feeling that the dream you had was a visit?  Honor that.  You are consciousness … spirit here and now.  Those you think you have lost are consciousness … spirit here and now.  How else would you experience those in spirit except through the spirit … with consciousness, which is omnipresent and separate from the body?  Is it all in your imagination?  What is imagination, but the non-physical use of consciousness?  You are all in the imagination of Consciousness.

Those who have passed are not dead and gone.  Their bodies may have returned to dust, but the spirit is as alive as yours is and always will be.  Honor that.  Speak to them, share with them, and continue loving them as they do with you now and always.  How could it be any other way, when all that exists is consciousness … spirit? 

Feeling better now?  That’s the spirit.  Honor that.

How You Could

“How could you?”  Three disparate words, which when put together and added to another phrase bring your vibration instantly plummeting to earth.  “How could you be so ___?"  "How could you do such a thing?”  "How could you, how could you?"  Do you see the effect that words can have on you?  But only if you allow them to.

How you could allow this to happen is quite simple.  You are human.  Words have been used against you in the past like weapons designed to cut, and they were most effective.  From the moment you began to awaken, however, and you remembered that you are only temporarily human but also an eternal spirit, you began to take back your power.  Realize now the power of words to take you instantly back to that state of slumbering.  Acknowledge that you sleep no longer and do not fall into the trap of believing you must act upon the vibrations certain words carry.

How could you have done anything less than loving in the past?  Because you were in human-mode.  Now you know better.

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Checking In

How many times throughout your busy day do you think about one who is not physically present, such as a dear friend or parent?  If you are honest, you will admit that at times you can spend most of a day so fully focused on your own life that one who is beloved by you does not come to mind.  This is how it often is with your unseen helpers in spirit.  They are there to lead and guide you, but so busy do you become and so focused on your physical world that it becomes easy to forget your other Team.  In so doing, you are missing out on a vital source of assistance.  Take a break every now and then—a vital love break—to reconnect with the greater aspect of you.  It need not detract from your busy schedule.  That five minutes that you would take to check your messages, you could check in with your higher self.  Do this several times a day.  Take a spirit break, and you will find the connection quite refreshing.

Controlling

How much control do you have?  As much as you want.  The question becomes, how much peace do you want?  Control is of the ego, peace is of the spirit.  The two cannot exist well together.  The more you try to control a situation or others, the farther you are from a state of peace.  The more at peace you are, the less desire you have to control anyone or anything.  Are you afraid of being out of control?  Fear is also of the ego.  Do you wish to be a prisoner of ego or a free spirit?  Why do you feel the need to control?  For you are focusing on the false you.   It is that simple.

In Review

The question has been asked:  Is there a review of the life upon passing to spirit?  This has been reported by those who taste a bit of the world beyond, but who return immediately to enjoy more of the earth experience.  The answer is yes.  All are treated to a slide show of sorts in which scenes of an entire earthly existence are played out in rapid succession.  But these are not static photos.  These are full-immersion replays in an instant during which the soul re-lives those moments which either added to or detracted from the soul’s growth.  You will re-experience the moments that you have enjoyed, and those you have buried in your memory, and those which you though mattered not at all, but in fact mattered greatly. 

You can have such a review now if you wish, but it takes courage.  You know of those still in basic school who take advanced courses, do you not?  You can be like them and perform an experiential life review whilst sitting in the silence.  Ask to be shown where and when you might have chosen better as well as where and when you truly made a difference.  The results may surprise you.

Do not judge yourself as you do so, just as no other will judge you when you ultimately review your life.  See all experiences as the growth opportunities they were and are.  Take that awareness and apply it liberally to each experience from now on and you truly will be in the advanced class, helping all other students around you.

Heavy Lifting

You cannot lift a boulder that is too heavy for you.  And so, you have several choices. You can leave it there blocking your path and make no progress.  You can break it into smaller pieces and carry off one or two stones at a time.  You can ask for help and move it with those who are best suited to help you.

At times in your spiritual journey you find that you are making no forward progress.  If you are brave enough to look into the darkness and shine a light, there you may find not just small stones in your path that need clearing, but a major boulder.  We have now exposed some options for you to take.  If you are brave enough to expose the boulder, then you may be ready for the next step.  Prepare to widen your path.  Beautiful things lie ahead, we assure you, but at times you must do the heavy lifting.

Dealing with Differences

People make mistakes.  Can you forgive them?  People say and do things that do not agree with you.  Can you forgive that?  If you cannot, you may be spending much of your time alone, for no two humans think and act exactly alike.  This is the reason for relationships, to provide you practice in many aspects of being human:  accepting and allowing, surrender, forgiveness, and love.  Does this mean you condone non-loving behavior?  Not at all, but you see the human side in relation to the purely loving soul within and you understand there is growth to be had, perhaps within you as well.  Seeing this, you then make a more loving decision as to how to respond.  It is all a dance:  back and forth, yin and yang seeking harmony.

Free

When you have no more fear or worry, then you are free.  When you have no need to stand out or surpass others, then you are free.  When you no longer judge and make comparisons, then you are free.  Are you beginning to see how enslaved you can be to the human side of you?  The essential part of you that is spirit is always free, but it becomes buried under human ways, which are nothing more than habits.  Repeat as often as necessary, “I AM free.”  It is one of the many tools you can use to return to Love.

Making Room

Run, run, run away.  Run away from your problems, your challenges, and your issues, but they will run right alongside you.  “Look at me!” they say.  “Stop and face me.  All I want is to be noticed, not ignored.”  Can you see this?  Your issues are friends that will continue to pester you until you pay attention to them.  Once you acknowledge them and send them gratefully on their way for the lessons they brought you, they will do so.  All they want is your attention.  By resisting them you only allow them to cause you more challenges, until one day you can ignore them no longer.  Be brave and allow them to speak to you.  Look them squarely in the face and deal with what they have to say.  It is only in ignoring them that they truly cause you problems.  By acknowledging them and allowing them to move along with love, you have created room within yourself for more of your light to shine.

Floating Along

Things do not always go the way you want them to.  What a blessing.  You are not in control.  What a gift.  Can you be comfortable with that?  What a test.  Welcome to being human.  The greatest test you face is being, and being here, and how you react to that.  There are no right or wrong answers to this test, rather what you do with it.  If you wish to find peace in the face of uncertainty, unpredictability, and conflict, then learn to allow.  Allow life to unfold with all of its uncertainties and conflict.  Flow, and bend, and observe.  The drama will always be there.  Will you fight the current or float peacefully?  The choice is always up to you.

Take Notice

Take time for yourself today.  Stop and see something you might have passed by in your hurry to get somewhere or to get it all done.  “It” will always be there, as will that place you are rushing to.  This moment here and now passes you by when you focus on all that you imagine needs to be accomplished.  What about you?  What about breathing?  What about you causes you to rush and hurry and endlessly do instead of pausing to be?

Be still and notice.  Notice the flowers.  Notice each grain of sand or stone in the walk.  Notice the breath.  Stop and take notice.  Take notice with you wherever you go, and you will notice that peace and gratitude walk with you.

Your Best Friend

You become frustrated with the body, with its limitations, aches, pains, breakdowns, and weight gains.  You then proceed to judge it and see it with disdain.  Do you realize that your body is as much a best friend as is your best friend?  Apply the same teachings we have given you about how to see others with the eyes of the soul to the body.  It is your constant companion, and yes, of course, the temple of the soul.  It is only here for a short time, whilst you who inhabit it are eternal.  How do you wish to treat it? 

Yes, you have heard these concepts before, but have you perhaps forgotten to apply them?   Fill the body with naught but light.  Worship and thank it for its faithful service, even if it does not meet your expectations.  Then, push aside your expectations and send your body the gift of acceptance and love.

The One Constant

What do you know with certainty?  Do you know that the sky is blue?  Is it really?  Do you know there is no death?  You trust that life is eternal, but what do you know beyond all thought and beyond anything the senses tell you?  I AM.  This you have always known.  This never changes.  I AM.  What is the first thing that occurs to you without thought upon opening your eyes after sleep?  I AM.  It may not be a conscious thought, but it is the awareness underlying all thought and experience. 

“So what? You ask, and we answer you:  The one constant in all of existence is this IAM.  This same I AM exists in all that is with varying degrees of awareness.  You can now look upon others and recognize I AM in them.  To what end?  To see the connection, the oneness, the Light that binds all.  I AM … Add any modifier you like to this Truth for the experience and the learning, but ultimately life is very simple.  It all comes back to I AM.

Rewriting the Past

You are always encouraged to live in the present moment, but at times it is necessary to dip into the past in order to heal.  Go back in your memories to a painful time … one which if you dreamed of it now you would call it a bad dream.  Why do you call it so?  Because of what was missing at the time.  What is missing in all events that cause you intense pain is a focus on the greater reality of which you are a part.  Perhaps at that time you did not know that you are an eternal soul, born in this world for a temporary experience so that the soul may grow.  This awareness changes one’s perspective greatly.

If you found yourself in a nightmarish situation with no other perspective than the human viewpoint, then of course you would despair.  There is such aloneness when you do not remember that you walk with angels.  As you awaken to this Truth, you can go back to the bad-dream memories of your life and relive them through the eyes of the soul.  Infuse them with Christ-love, Buddha mind, soul awareness.  Feel how the dream would have changed had that awareness been present in you and others. 

No longer carry past pains to your now-moments.  Rewrite the past with soul awareness and heal the present. 

The Universal Language

Note from Suzanne:  I received an email from a woman wondering what would happen if a loved one who had passed wanted to communicate with a family member through a medium but they did not speak the same language as the medium.  I asked this question to Sanaya, and they answered:

What are words, but visualizations of concepts and feelings.  They are a step in the process of communication that is unnecessary in the non-physical world.  Once you no longer have a body, you communicate soul to soul, light to light.  Some of you do this now.  You know love when you feel it, as you know fear and other strong feelings.  You know a tree when you see it, without any need of labeling it as such.  When with someone who does not speak the same language in the physical world, you can communicate through pointing at objects, gesturing, and mimicking emotions.  There is no need for any of this once you can communicate solely through the vibration of thought. 

During a reading it makes no difference if a spirit speaks a different language than the medium.  The concept, object, or feeling are sent to the medium as a frequency that the medium’s brain will recognize and “translate” into words.  It is merely an extra step to do so.  This is why certain feelings are common to all of you now.  All souls, whether here or in the hereafter, know love when they feel it, so spend the day speaking love, why don’t you?  It is the universal language.

Scrubbed Clean

Are you feeling offended?  That is ego.  Are you feeling put-upon?  That is ego as well.  Fearful?  Angry?  Judgmental?  Oh, the many faces of ego.  Were you to stop and think about them all they would astound you, and they are oh, so changeable.  They are called masks for a reason.  All of them superimpose your natural state, which wears neither a smile nor a frown. 

Your basic essence is Love.  Try as it might, ego cannot mask that forever.  Love is too powerful.  Unless one’s wounds are so deep that one’s true essence is buried beyond awareness, love will continue to remind you what is real.  Step out from behind the masks and reveal your Self to the world.  You are beautiful without the masks or the makeup.  That shiny look … it is worth exposing.

The Best Policy

Honesty is the best policy.  Why is this?  Because a part of you always knows truth, is truth, has no opposites, is only Love.  That is spirit.  There is another part of you that feels it must protect itself, make itself look better in some way, or come out ahead.  This is ego.  This is the part that cares not about truth, but about separation.  This is the part of you that fears.

Why do you want to speak anything but truth?  It is a good question to ask anytime anything less than truth is upon your tongue.  Acknowledge ego and tell it to go away.  Bring love to the forefront, and with it, honesty.

Unbalanced

You are whole already.  You are complete.  Nothing is lacking in your basic essence as spirit.  Picture a sphere filled with love, filled to overflowing.  That is you.  Relationships merely add a different dimension.  You will appreciate the play on words.  Relationships exist for you to realize your fullness, your essence as love.  They are not necessary for your completion.  They only add to the joy of this awareness or detract from it for the lessons they bring.

Picture each of your relationships like a yin-yang symbol.  There you are with the other, dancing back and forth, seeking balance and harmony.  Where there is imbalance, there is a lesson.  Is one of you giving more than the other?  Is one of you giving less?  Then that relationship is out of balance.  Ask yourself why, and there you can see what the relationship has to teach you.

Well Armed

You agreed to this … not to the pain, but to the relationships which would bring your soul the most growth.  It is a fact of life as a human that some of the greatest growth results from pain, but principally when you recognize the pain as growth opportunities.  The way to peace is always found through love.  Where do you then end up?  In the heart, at the very center of you.  This place takes you to a state of neutrality, where you then can choose how you will react when you step out of the center and back into the world of opposites.

You knew it would not be easy when you came here, but you did not come unarmed.  Use those arms to embrace life, with all of its challenges and opportunities.

Stew

Yes, spirit recycles.  All of life goes in cycles.  You call this reincarnation.  Some are happy to learn that you are given a choice to come back and continue the soul’s growth.  Some are filled with fear:  “If reincarnation is a fact, does this mean I will not see my deceased love one when I pass from this lifetime?”  Have no fear.  As the soul goes through each lifetime, it changes.  The goal is always in the direction of a higher vibration of consciousness.  In this way, each soul moves to the astral world with a unique flavor.  In the spirit world, just as in the physical world, all of these flavors combine to make a unique taste. 

Think of consciousness like a stew.  In the physical world the ingredients are coarse and do not always mix well together.  In the higher dimensions the ingredients become more fine and blend better.  When Spirit makes the decision to take on more growth in the human laboratory of learning, a bit of the heavenly stew takes form once again, now with a bit of a different flavor than the last time, but with hints of the old.  Should you run into this new soul in this lifetime, you might sense something familiar in their flavor.  Trust us, however, that the familiar flavor that your loved one developed whilst in the human form that you knew and loved will be quite recognizable to you when your time comes to add your improved flavor to the mix.

Perhaps now you will understand why some groups here you find a bit distasteful.  It is the blending of flavors that are not in resonance with your own.  Never forget that the basic ingredient of all recipes is love.

Heaven or Hell?

The question has been asked, "Is there a place after passing from the body of great horrors and gnashing of teeth that you would know of as hell?"  There is no such place, geographically, but there exists the possibility of experiencing such a state of mind.  Understand that there is naught but consciousness ... all is thought.  This state of mind in which you exist now is thought solidified.  It can be a heaven or a hell dependent upon your thoughts.  Even those who have found themselves in what most would consider the direst of conditions have sung songs and found peace.

Hell is a state of mind.  What you experience immediately upon departing from the physical body depends greatly upon your belief system ... your thought system.  Do you believe such a place exists?  Do you believe that you deserve to be there?  Many do.  This coalescence of consciousness creates a thought form that some will experience, for they have manifested this with their thoughts.  Understand us well, however, that the basic essence of all that is is Love. 

The higher vibrations of non-physical form lend themselves to realities that are far less lasting than those which you experience now.  The non-physical worlds last only as long (in a world where there is no time) as the thought forms exist.  Always the force of light will overcome darkness and make its way into the consciousness of those who may be experiencing exactly what they expected to experience upon passing. 

"This is not my true home," will be the realization of those who have raised their consciousness through their thoughts and actions as a human to move on to the realms of greater light.  Understand that these states of consciousness are completely a fabrication of a lesser mind.  One can pass through this state as quickly as one passes through a cloud of smoke or remain there until one's consciousness expands through awakening.  It is completely by choice.  It is not a place of punishment, but a place of erroneous thinking.

And what of those who perpetrate acts of what you would call evil?  They may not even pass through this state, believing that their actions were warranted.  There is a major difference, however.  They are immediately shown the full effect of their actions on their fellow beings and are held accountable for the failure to add to the light.  They are surrounded by love so that they realize the missed opportunities to make more optimal choices, but are not able to partake of the higher state of consciousness until they make the necessary adjustments and grow.

Do you believe there is only one Power, one Force, and that it is Love?  Then you need have no fear of encountering anything less than this upon passing.  It is fear alone accompanied by erroneous belief systems--most often due to what others have taught and instilled in one's consciousness--that bring about the fear of a hell.  You may very well be escorted through such an environment by your heavenly escorts upon passing, but only to show you the results of lower souls' consciousness holding such a possibility in thought-form.  You will feel no fear, for you already know Truth in your soul.

Fear not.  Fear is a construct of a lesser consciousness.  Hold your awareness on the truth that your soul already knows:  that all that exists is Light and that you are That, and this shall be your experience, both here and in the hereafter.

 Note from Suzanne:  The transcript and recording of the latest public session with Sanaya is now posted on my website.  We experienced a very timely and powerful message, which you can experience by clicking on the MARCH 1 link and "play" button at:    http://www.suzannegiesemann.com/sanayasessions/  (Please join my email list while there if you would like to be informed of future postings).

Another's Drama

Others come in and out of your life for a purpose.  Loyalty is an admirable trait, but it does not require remaining available for another beyond the useful service of the friendship.  When another ceases growing in spite of your interactions and your combined energies reach a state of dissonance, the relationship may have served its purpose.  Another’s drama need not become your drama.  You always have a choice.  Are you able to see beyond the other’s drama to the beautiful soul within?  Can you send that soul love and compassion?  If the answer is yes and the human drama has become too much, then perhaps you may choose to move on.  One can be detached and still send compassion and love.

Of Service

Are you feeling frustration with a friend or partner?  Why is that?  It is because you perceive something relative to your own thoughts or actions which are different and you judge them as lesser or wrong.  And what happens next?  You perceive a better way and you entertain thoughts of how you could or should change the other.  For some reason—and there may be many—your friend does not change.  The reasons why matter not.  What matters is that you, my friend, experience frustration rather than peace.  Is it your place to change or in some perceived way improve them? 

If you are less than peaceful over your friend’s situation, then the place to focus your attention is on yourself.  Even if your friend has asked for help or asked to be changed, if you are feeling frustration, your friend is still in your life for a reason:  to teach you. 

Peace and unconditional love.  These are the qualities of higher consciousness.  If you are not experiencing these, then focus not on changing your friend, but on changing yourself.  You can stay with your friend or walk away.  Whichever you choose, if you do so with peace and with unconditional love, then the relationship has been of service.

With Trust

To do something out of desperation reveals a lack of remembrance of your true nature.  Desperation contains angst, worry, fear … none of which are characteristic of your basic nature, which is love.  You are spirit, a beautiful soul who is loved immensely at all times and beyond time.  May these words awaken this awareness within you.  In that awareness will you see that there is never a need to do anything out of desperation.  Desperate, fearful acts are the sign of a human being who is out of alignment with the soul.  There is no shame in this.  May your desperation serve merely as a signpost.  As you see that sign, turn in the other direction from wherever you find yourself, and head toward the heart.  There you will find peace, comfort, and your one true Home.

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Rest in Peace

Fear is a funny thing.  You do anything you can to avoid it because you fear being afraid.  You worry about things that might or might not happen, creating as assortment of frightening scenarios in your mind.  These become contagious.  You always have a choice—to be afraid or at peace, but so many choose the fear.  Why?  Because it is the easiest option.

Did you ever think about this?  How easy it is to run and hide, to avoid, to worry.  These things keep the mind occupied and focused on the self, keeping one believing he or she is helpless and powerless.   Ah, are you beginning to see the work of something you recognize here?  Yes, fear is a mighty tool of the ego.  It is one of ego’s favorite ways of keeping you enslaved.

If you truly recognized your innate Power and the peace that underlies your current reality, you would bypass ego completely and go straight to the silence, into the heart, where fear has no hold.  Rest in peace, my friend.  This is far more than a phrase you say to the dying.  It is one of the greatest spiritual directives for those who choose to truly live.