“Create God like thoughts by thinking of Him as beauty and fragrance in the flowers, color in rainbows; love, wisdom, and power in all human minds; and as vastness in the ocean and the skies.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
Dear Friends,
I was sitting in my office today performing one of my least favorite things to do, paperwork! I was feeling my energy dip and a bit of negativity seeping in. I looked down at my day timer and read the quote above for this week. I then looked out at the trees, observing the birds fluttering around and felt a unity of connection with all of life going on around me. I then looked down at my paperwork and felt a closing off of energy again in the form of irritation. I pondered on how to feel the connection of life force in everything I do no matter what the task. And I reflected on how to apply this connection to health concerns and emotional issues that face us in our lives every day that can create turmoil and suffering.
When I step into my role of energy worker/healer/educator I AM connected to this one source the energy field that connects all of us. I realized that just because I am doing paperwork or something I do not particularly like to do, I am still connected to the energy of Love, it just depends on whether I am conscious of it or not. I then reflected about how paperwork connects us. Often when we are dealing with paperwork whether it be bills, bank statements, insurance issues etc., there are other people on the other end of things connecting with us to help make this world function.
I decided instead of trying to see the paperwork as God to feel the paperwork as a connection to other human beings and to keep feeling the life force energy that is flowing through me even as I go about taking care of the mundane tasks of life. I can feel the energy inside of me that is always there moving the cells, molecules and atoms that make up my physical being. The mover to me is God, or life force or whatever higher power you want to call it.
We often look at something that is unwanted as malevolent or bad such as a health condition we might be experiencing. I pondered, as I often do, on how we can shift the energy around something that we experience as “bad”. When we experience diagnoses such as cancer, heart disease, or arthritis, we are experiencing a slowing down of life force energy that becomes stagnant and congested.
What I mean by this is that the unwanted thing we are dealing with is often a lack of connection with our higher power that settled in our body as heaviness, dullness and lack of vitality. We may believe that heart disease is genetic but it is often the thought that heart disease is genetic that can cause the slowing of vibration. Because often the next thought will be that “there is nothing you can do about it”.
I am realizing that we do not always have to name what it is in us that has created this heaviness or go through years of counseling to try to figure it out. All we have to do, is look out at the trees, birds, life fluttering around us and really connect with the energy that is moving through these things. And then feel this energy moving in our own bodies. Once we do this, we connect with the energy of miracles.
We do not even need to sit in meditation for hours to obtain this clarity of connection although meditation is a wonderful practice to have. But if free time feels like a limited resource then you have within you the power to connect with universal source in an instant.
Look out the window and feel the energy in the life around you. Breathe, take it in, smile in the connection that is you with everything else around you. Then go about your day, knowing that you have just raised your vibration, connected with the life force around you, and in doing so moved the molecules in your body towards a higher level of functioning. The minute you feel your energy dip, you can do this again in an instant. Observing your children, animals, loved ones can have this same profound effect on you. When you observe these things in Love, that Love is you and in you and creating you.
Wishing you all the feeling of connection with all of life no matter what you are doing or experiencing. Once this happens, you discover freedom on a deep and profound level. And ordinary things in life that once created frustration can now create peace. And challenging issues are transformed into Love.
Namaste,
Rosemary Veilleux RN