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Breathe

March 20, 2012 by Suzanne M. Baker

Breath is life, but so often we restrict it. We block the flow of energy that is essential to our being. Your breath is trying to remind you just how spiritual you are. Because your breath shows you your God force.

For myself, when I fully breathe, the energy of life flows through me. And I feel electric to the core. Every cell of my being is charged and lit up! And then I remember that this electricity is love.

My attachments dissolve and are replaced by complete acceptance. The entire world wraps its arms around me, and I see that I am this world. I no longer feel separation or need. The unconditional love that I feel is overwhelming, and I realize that no one ever needs to be fixed, but rather celebrated. I LOVE everyone, including myself, exactly as we are.

Each one of us is this love that is so deep and all-encompassing. We have simply been blocked from the truth because we’ve been controlled for a very long time. We have been taught to restrict ourselves with shallow breaths that stunt the inhale and manage the exhale. But we are intended to breathe openly and fully.

When we breathe in an open and continual manner, air or prana life-force is allowed to flow into the body, and this also releases stored emotions. Considering all that humanity is going through in our evolution, it is vital more than ever to breathe freely and naturally again.

Once upon a time, humans subsisted entirely on prana air. We had an open channel to the universe. If you haven’t already done so, dear friend, you can reawaken this channel through breathing exercises. The following is my favorite method, but experiment and find what feels best for you.

When you breathe, open your mouth wide and inhale air deeply through your mouth and into your stomach. Your stomach should actually inflates and expands. Then, with an open mouth, exhale freely, completely and all at once with a natural rush, without any control whatsoever. Do not restrict the exhalation by slowing it down, but make a loud and full breath out. Your shoulders will probably shift and release some weight. Then inhale again almost immediately, without a pause. Allow your breathing to form continual waves that crest and fall, crashing to the shore, receding and building back up again. This kind of free breathing is incredibly detoxifying and healing. It connects us to the greater spiritual reality and to our authentic selves.

Breathing is so much about receiving. It is allowing ourselves to partake in more than we ever thought possible. It is owning what is already ours in each present moment. In fact, to not take what the universe naturally gives us is selfish. Let us instead accept all that is being offered and be a moving part of divine exchange. Let us enable ourselves to give in return, in our own uniquely gorgeous ways. Then, we are truly participating in the celebration of life.

Spring is calling us to partake in all that we naturally know, but have somehow lost along the way. When we fully breathe, we resonate with the authenticity of being. We resound with the electricity of all-encompassing love.

* Robert Winn teaches breathwork with tremendous wisdom, openness and humor. His Soul Breathing site has some fantastic exercises on it. Pheonyx Roldan Smith also teaches breathwork, and exudes love and acceptance. I also recommend the following books containing breathwork exercises: The Hathor Material by Tom Kenyan and Virginia Essene which includes prana breathing techniques, and Pleiadian Initiations of Light by Christine Day which teaches about heart breathing. These books are “out there,” and they are amazing. Breathe on beautiful friends!

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Cuckoo

March 13, 2012 by Suzanne M. Baker

Have you noticed that anything freely spiritual is considered cuckoo by mainstream society? There is a conditioned belief that spirituality outside the strict boundaries of religion is questionable and downright suspect. So often, we’re made to seem unintelligent if we believe in our greater reality. We are naive if we believe that anything exists beyond the five senses.

Don’t you think it’s interesting that just the mention of extraterrestrial life and spirit guides is enough to make most people feel very uncomfortable? They so quickly begin to make fun of these ideas. But oh my fellow humans, there are dark reasons why.

Those who have controlled the money on our planet have wanted us to feel ridiculous so that they can be in charge. Awareness of the true expansive universe and our own spiritual power threatens them, and so they have made us feel like outcasts. You see, calling people crazy is a control tactic. Humans have been persecuted for revealing the truth for millennia. We have been dismissed as inferior rather than aware.

Division has been upheld in our religions by design so that we act separately and are therefore weaker. In this way, the truth remains suppressed. We have been encouraged to fight with one another so that we lose the big picture and stay ignorant of who’s really controlling us. It’s an intentional campaign that restricts us in the dark and keeps us defending that dark.

The truth is that we have been trained to be so incredibly limited, and to be fearful of being ostracized by deviating from those limits. Consequently, we have settled for so little in our lives.

Reality is actually limitless beyond the imagination, and once we remember this, we become free. So the next time that you hear someone say that a right brain idea is cuckoo, remember that they’ve been taught to respond in this way. We’ve all been raised to be submissive and to let others be in charge, and this is what is truly crazy.

But we have the power to act how we authentically feel, regardless of the conditioned opinions of others. We can champion the truth and add to our tidal wave of change – our transformation that is growing stronger every day, and knocking the corrupt off their stolen thrones.

I am tired of fiction and mystery. I am fed up with watching the truth become obscured. But we no longer have to hide our powerful selves or muffle our wise voices. It is time to say what’s what and to speak from our hearts. It is time to see what has always been right before our eyes.

This unveiling is a resurrection! And it is happening right now. Each of us can help, so let’s be brave, be loud, and not care what others think. Do not follow by doing what you’re told, but get in touch with your soul and act with your own guidance. Decide for yourself if you want to stay with old ways that will get progressively worse, or help to create a blissful new world. You can make a tremendous difference in our great awakening just by remembering who you are and how expansive reality is. You can move mountains with your unique gifts as we change this prison into a sublime paradise.

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Teach

March 6, 2012 by Suzanne M. Baker

The human experience teaches far more rapidly than any other method, and you are incredibly brave to have chosen it. Regardless of anything you may think you haven’t done “right” in your life, the truth is that you are here to learn. You see, the universe never judges you, for you are accepted and loved just the way you are. You must never beat yourself up or put yourself down. Putting yourself down is not humility – it is a lack of reverence for the sacred in life. You are so incredibly sacred. You are an expression of divine love who is so incredibly special, and you are here to teach us all.

Everyone is a teacher. Many people take on roles that are designed to teach, but attract tremendous criticism. Perhaps you’ve experienced embarrassing situations that leave you feeling vulnerable, but these are meant to teach everyone involved about love.

As humans, it is so easy to judge what others endure as failure, but this is just our own fear in disguise. We are all teaching each other through our difficulties. We are pointing out the ways that we suppress love and asking that we give more of it.

The great news is that this earth school is evolving, and someday soon we will be learning through more positive means. We will enjoy the bliss of creation and continue to grow, instead of suffering as we have been taught. For now, do not allow your sacred self to suffer. Do not let the difficult things that happen to you transpire in vain. Oh my God, I know just how hard they are! But use them. Let them be wake up calls that show you what you want to learn.

The justice in life is learning the lessons, and thereby expanding your love within. Injustice is suffering and repeating that suffering over again. Every bump in the road is here to get your attention and teach you something invaluable to your soul – something that you came here to study. You might not know what it is for a little while, but some day soon you will. And you may find yourself saying, “Thank you!”

And when you overcome your relentless human challenges, you become an expert on the issues you have battled. You have learned through sweat and tears, and now you can teach others what you know. Your greatest problems become your greatest gifts.

This is one of the most beautiful exchanges that life offers. You see, we are all mirrors, showing each other what we need to see. Participating in this human experience is like saying, “I will be who you need for me to be, because I want to help you.” We are so compassionate at heart.

Thank you for teaching me every day, beautiful souls! It is an honor to share the mirror of life with you.

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This Momentous Age

February 28, 2012 by Suzanne M. Baker

The immensity of what is happening to us as humans is impossible to convey. The times that we are living in are more momentous than any era the universe has ever known, or ever will. For ages upon ages, we have been in Plato’s’ cave evaluating shadows on the wall, but all that is changing now. We are suddenly being set free and are finally walking out of the darkness. We are finally expanding our view.

Humans are experiencing an unprecedented spiritual awakening that is unparalleled in its scope. For you are living during the most transformational time that any civilization has ever known.

The wider world will not end in fire or ice, but rather it is being reborn. Everything is changing to a higher expression, including our very selves. Many have worked tirelessly to make our rapid evolution the most natural process it can be. And to me, these changes have felt intuitive and magical, albeit painful for sure.

Things will undoubtedly get more dramatic, but one does not have to be “new age” to know our new world. Each of us are naturally going through initiations in life, and these are clearing our shadow pain, so that we can embrace our new earth. We are all being offered this chance, and I am eternally hopeful that most of us will take it.

Seizing this opportunity requires that we choose love over fear. During these times, it is vital that we recognize fear for what it is and choose to embrace the beautiful and astounding new. Many of the changes that are happening in our world are not perceptible unless we awaken from learned programming. Ever expansive awareness is crucial.

But, what is happening to us is stupendous! We are growing every day as we move away from separation, frustration, and fear. We are remembering at the soul level that we are made from a love so incredible that it is impossible to describe, and this is our true reality.

I want to focus on what is so immensely exciting about our times and let this be a catalyst for positive action. The spiritual reasons behind what we are going through exhilarate me! And I continue to be blown away by signs throughout our world of rising consciousness. These signs herald a spectacular unveiling. They signal dramatic innovations that will solve our problems in miraculous ways.

My guidance shows me again and again that we are receiving so much help from above through our evolution, if only we knew how much. So many fellow humans are working hard to help us embrace our new world. Because humanity has suffered enough.

We have waited millennia to live in truth. Now, the puzzle pieces life are being put together. Our own mystery is being solved. Ancient treasure is being unearthed and the very sky is being opened. Get ready to be amazed! Get excited, and bring your unique talents to our table to put into action!

You chose to be here and now is the time. Let us do what we came here to for our collective enlightenment. Let us welcome this thrilling age. This is the most momentous time that you will ever know, and I am grateful to be going through it with you.

* See links for past posts about our rapid evolution.

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Open

February 21, 2012 by Suzanne M. Baker

What if there were no map lines drawn? What if the world was wide open (it is) and we were one (we are!). While human, we tend to focus only on immediate radar and only the storms that are affecting our own backyard. Planet earth is trying to show us that we must expand our thinking. We are being challenged to become increasingly aware. Awareness is everything, and when we open ourselves to it, we remember that the greatest awareness is love.

So many of us are opening to love. We are looking beyond what’s right in front of our noses and asking how we can serve in bigger ways.

I have felt our one-ness with all of my being, and it happened when I put my dream to help others ahead of separate desires. I stepped outside of my personality and finally saw reality as it really is. I remembered that we are simply moving parts of one all-encompassing whole, and it felt blissful beyond!

The truth is that each creation of the heart is linked to the next, and each is an essential part of our us. This is becoming increasingly evident. So many of us are experiencing tremendous synchronicity right now. It turns out that we have always been working together to create the dream of life. With this in mind, when you create something for yourself, open your view to include others and the world. You can help us in infinite ways with every dream from your heart.

Let life be an open question that welcomes greater possibilities. Free yourself from the restrictions that have been holding you down. Break out of closed conditioning. Open your arms in acceptance and let all judgment melt away.

Open as you breathe in the present moment of right now. Open yourself up to receive all that your heart desires and your soul deserves. Let more love into your life, for the heart is a flower, simply waiting to be opened by you.

You are ever increasing love. You are an integral aspect of the divine energy that flows throughout creation. You are an essential part of us.

You see, we have never been separate from each other. We have always been interconnected to all that is. The human experience has simply masked the euphoric truth. The illusion of being divided is nothing but a temporary exercise that enables dramatic growth.

Every day now, we are opening ourselves up wider to our true reality. We are ready to lift the veil of separation and to remember that we are one, for how could we be here without each other? Indeed, how could I be here without you.

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Unconditional Love

February 14, 2012 by Suzanne M. Baker

When our first baby was just a few hours old, my husband and I looked across the room at him sleeping, and simultaneously realized that we had fallen in love with him. Completely. This tiny being had illuminated our world with a love so deep that it changed our lives in an instant. The love we felt was unconditional and transformative in its power. And it was forever.

While watching our children grow up, we have experienced a deepening of this love. We have seen our sons emerge as whole little people, complete with the brightest light as well as hidden shadow. In fact, we love our children all the more for their human-ness, because in their eyes we see ourselves. Even negative behavior can be endearing, because it reflects the human journey of finding one’s way.

Most of all, we recognize our sons beyond shallow definitions. We are aware of their souls that transcend their human beings.

In reflecting upon this love, can we try harder to emulate it in other relationships? Can we strive to love the fullness of each person, with all of their light and shadow? I see that I often expect too much from people who are navigating their way, just like me, through this difficult human experience. And to love only the surface “good” in another is limited, incomplete, and unreal. But if I love deeper, I receive deeper love. When I am grateful for the wholeness of another, I am more accepting of myself.

You probably have someone close to you in your life whom you feel pure, unconditional love for. Be it a child, a partner, a parent, or friend. You love their whole human self, with all of their greatness and faults, including vulnerabilities and strengths. In fact, their vulnerabilities make them all the more lovable; the love that you feel is deeper because it is so real.

Think of this person now, and try to look at everyone in a similar way. Each of us is so much more than we might notice, if only we look deeper beneath the surface.

You have probably received unconditional love from someone in your life as well. With this person, you feel trusted, fully loved and always supported, regardless of your human difficulties. Reflect upon this feeling now, and turn to it with the other relationships in your life. I know how hard it can be, but imagine if we could give unconditional love to all of the people we know. What magic this would bring! To give this love reminds us of the place we come from – the place that reflects who we truly are.

Love is unconditional. We don’t have to need, want or ask for it. It is already ours. You are embodying it right now in your spectacular self.

The greatest gift that we can give to others is the greatest gift that we can give ourselves, and it is remembering unconditional love. The most important thing that we can do while human is to put this love into action, especially now as we create our new world.

When your life is over, what will matter most will be the times when you gave unconditional love – the times when you chose this all-encompassing grace over getting swept up in negativity and judgment. Remember, life on earth is so full of judgment because it is an excellent place to learn more about unconditional love. We are learning through contrast here, and although our lessons might be beyond comprehension to the human mind, they will always make sense to our hearts. They are lessons of love, and love needs no explanation.

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The Love Within

February 7, 2012 by Suzanne M. Baker

So many of us can feel like we’re not good enough in life. Our egos might scramble to prove otherwise, but so often, self-defeating thoughts lurk in the back of our minds. These sabotaging beliefs take a heavy toll on us, but we have the power to change them. We have the ability to take charge of our beings.

To fully love oneself within the human condition is undoubtedly a challenge, but I believe that it is one of the main reasons we are here.

Now self-love is entirely different from pumping the ego up. And self-love is the key to spiritual growth. See, when we don’t love ourselves enough, we act selfishly. We never get enough validation from within, and so we seek it outside of ourselves with a hunger that negatively impacts our relationships.

You see, how we treat ourselves is how we treat others. When we think so little inside, we tend to not see the value in those around us. But, when we completely value and love ourselves, we can completely value and love others. When we build love from within, we create a solid foundation from which to live.

This is how we become centered and whole, and able to contribute our strongest gifts to the world. This is how we flourish and shine.

Every person deserves this. You deserve this, beautiful friend. Because if you don’t already know it, you are so spectacular and limitless, and love is your truest nature. You are so incredibly loved in this universe, and God wants you to know it, and to fully believe this for yourself.

Everything starts from within, and when we truly love ourselves, we remember that love is who we are. Love is the everlasting answer to everything. It is like a network of light that connects us, and when one soul brightens, the rest surge as well. We are one after all, and this becomes obvious when we love.

Your life is a grand mirror of yourself that is reflecting your inner world. Your beliefs and thoughts are being shown back to you so that you can really see them and really grow. This is the golden opportunity that your life affords.

Your spiritual journey is a path of self discovery that is leading you to expand the love within. When you shift by completely believing in yourself, and overcome the external challenges telling you otherwise, you accomplish what you came here to learn.

You are here to learn how to love yourself more. You are going through this human experience to become ever brighter in this way. When you do, you shine out with a radiance that no one can deny.

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Humility

January 31, 2012 by Suzanne M. Baker

It’s so easy for human beings to feel inadequate. But it turns out that we’ve been taught to feel this way. We have been raised to emulate an artificial humility that separates each beautiful soul from God, and therefore, from ourselves.

This conditioning encourages us to feel guilty for simply being born. As humans, we have “sinned,” and so we must atone for our very existence. We have been taught to feel that we will never be enough – that we are flawed and that nothing can fix us. Therefore, we must follow those in control.

This limiting mindset allows authority to dominate. And it is something that many religions uphold. Because, as harsh as it may sound, we live on a planet of masters and servants.

What better way to manage the masses than to make them feel like failures? What better way to dominate than to make the problem eternal? We have been controlled for eons by systems of judgment and violence, and by our own egos. But it is time to reclaim the benevolent power of our true humility.

Authentic humility champions everyone. It wants to serve humanity. True humility is eager for each soul to be strong so that we can all help in illuminating ways. To be truly humble is to feel a profound reverence for all life and to care deeply for everyone with unconditional love. It is to be awestruck by the wonder of the sacred that is all around us and in our very selves, for indeed we are each incredibly special.

Such humility is our inherent spiritual grace. And it demonstrates our direct connection with God. It comes naturally when we have awareness of our conditioning. And it shines when we put the ego’s selfish concerns aside.

There are so many luminous teachers walking among us right now, and they embody humility in its most enlightened form. They do not try to push anyone to do anything, but are gentle in their power. They lead with peace, not force. The truly humble know that hierarchy does not exist in the divine universe, and so they bring heaven to the human experience, something possible for each one of us to do.

Authentic humility is in such sharp contrast to the definition that we’ve been taught – the image of a worthless human begging for salvation, that it boggles the awakening mind. And if we can’t recognize divinity in ourselves, how will we ever recognize it in each other? How will we see our interconnection to all life and take responsibility for being here?

We have been separated from God, and our egos have grown rampant. It is time to stop following that which doesn’t have our best interest at heart. It is time to stop allowing others to dominate and ruin our planet in the process. lead with steadfast, compassionate humility. Let us lead with steadfast, compassionate humility that reveres the sacred in all things. We are the meek who shall inherit the earth, and it is time for us to shine.

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Forgive

January 24, 2012 by Suzanne M. Baker

Forgiveness is letting go with love. It is an act of liberation amidst our human struggles – amidst the things we came here to learn. So many of us are facing especially painful challenges right now because we are evolving towards greater love. We are being pushed through situations and relationships that are asking us to forgive and thereby release all that is not love. For only then can we rise to meet our new reality – our ascending earth.

So often, we need to forgive ourselves the most for how we’ve handled life’s difficulties. This helps us to forgive others for their human-ness as well. Compassion and self-compassion are entwined with the ability to forgive.

For myself, when I am feeling hurt by another, it helps to write down their perspective until I am truly standing in their shoes. It helps to recognize that we just see life so differently from each other. If I become aware of individual needs, fears, and motivations, I can get to a place of saying, “I understand, and I release you.”

Of course, sometimes one may never understand. But then we remember that the heart always does. My heart often reminds me of this. When I finally forgive, I remember that I planned to work through certain issues in this life, and my loved ones have enabled my growth. They have reflecting my issues back to me. They are pushing me to face what I wanted to learn. Over time, I will feel grateful for what they have taught me. What I have gained is to grow stronger with love.

Forgiveness is breaking free. It is letting go of our pain so that we can be healthy again. When we forgive someone, we release them, and this allows us to heal our own wounds, for surely we have suffered enough. When we set people free, we too become liberated. And then we learn to accept each other exactly as we are.

But, how do we forgive those who truly mistreat us? By loving ourselves too much to let their poison hurt us any longer. Forgiveness is always a gift to the self, otherwise we are holding onto toxic emotions that only harm us. When someone mistreats us, they do not love themselves. It is that simple.

Of course, forgiveness never means going back to be treated this way again. We let the other person go completely from our thoughts with love, and no longer give them our energy. We soar once again with our health and freedom restored, essential rights we had sold far too hastily.

To reach for the lantern of forgiveness can seem humanly impossible. Here we find ourselves in pain and in the dark, and it feels so much easier to resist. But, if we let go of the disease of feeling wronged, and leap towards what is being offered, the dark becomes illuminated with love. Love is what this leap of faith requires, and then we remember that love is who we are. This is who we have always been, and to forgive is to embrace ourselves again.

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Who Are You?

January 8, 2012 by Suzanne M. Baker

Life is a mirror, and we learn from the reflections that catch our gaze. The trick is to distinguish between what is ours and what is not. Some of what I see in another is not them. It is my own reflection. Others may see their issues reflected in me, but it is their stuff, not mine. Knowing how to identify what’s what is life changing. Even the process of discernment teaches immensely. We learn not to take on what isn’t ours and to own what is, and we become stronger in asserting our truth.

This lesson was recently delivered to me by our five year old son, Alex. He came to me crying because another child had called him mean. Now Alex had been kind to the other child, but had not done what was asked of him – to give away a favorite toy. In being called mean for this, Alex felt hurt and misunderstood, and I saw much of myself in his eyes.

I told him something to this effect, “Don’t listen to what others tell you, if you know that it’s not true. You know who you are, so be strong in yourself. Don’t let another person get you upset or make you feel like you have to defend yourself, because you know that you were kind.”

My son took the lesson to heart and bounded away happily. And in presenting me with this situation, he taught me something I’ve been trying to learn all my life. I have often reacted to what others say as though it’s the absolute truth, when I know very well that it is not. It is their reflection, not mine.

The legend of the Oracle at Delphi advises us to “Know thyself,” and this is the key to each spiritual journey. To get to know our true selves in this human experience requires digging deep rather than listening to how others define us. It means coming to a place where we can say, “I know who I am without the need for approval or validation.” It is fully believing in your true self – your non ego self, so that you get to live your life with integrity and the high standards of your loving soul.

In the past, I have not been strong in myself. I have shown a slightly different face to different people in order to please them. I have hoped that they will like me better, but ultimately this serves no one.

We don’t have to please anyone, and when we live with authenticity and integrity, we honor everyone. We become strong in ourselves, regardless of external circumstances. We shine with all of our magnificent colors blazing strong, unafraid of being judged or misunderstood, because we know who we are.

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