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Open Your Heart

April 16, 2013 by Suzanne M. Baker

I talk a lot on this blog about opening the heart, but what exactly do I mean? I mean allowing yourself to feel more unconditional love than you ever have before. When you do, you will see just how beautiful life is.

For a long time as humans, we forgot about unconditional love. We lived in survival mode, and love became a luxury we couldn’t afford. But without love, we are only half alive.

Love allows us to thrive, and in my own life I have been deeply reminded of this. I have been given the highest unconditional love that has shown me what my heart is capable of. In trusting the immensity of this gift, a chain reaction has occurred, leading to yet more love all around. Now, I adore every human being on this planet, and I have new eyes to see the world. I am in love with life, and my heart is opened for good.

Last week, I walked through the airport and saw every human being through the lens of unconditional love. I saw each person’s struggles as though they were my own. I thought how beautiful and courageous each one of us is and how much love we long to hold, if only we would allow ourselves to. I realized that I believe deeply in each of us here and how pointless my ego is. All my cold judgment melted away, and my fear became meaningless. Everything made sense that used to puzzle me before.

Pondering the ills of the world, it’s so clear that all anyone needs is to be loved. It is that simple. And when someone receives unconditional love, they come alive to who they really are! Everything that used to hurt begins to heal more rapidly than the mind can believe.

You see, the truth is that we settle for problems but none of them are really real. They are created out of limitation that has simply forgotten love.

Unconditional love has no limitation. It has no requirements or deficiencies. You don’t have to feel “worthy” of this love because you already, emphatically are it. And once you accept this love, you realize how easy it is. Life used to seem so difficult, but now it is effortless and pure.

Each gorgeous human being who crosses your path is asking you to feel unconditional love, and in so doing, fully love yourself. They are trying to get you to open your heart as you so deserve to do. Your soul is asking you to do this right now – to love bigger than you ever thought you could. And all you have to do is let yourself be as you naturally are. Once you experience the fullness of love, you won’t ever want to go back. You will see that all the time before you simply forgot how you’re meant to live.

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Your Perfect Journey

April 2, 2013 by Suzanne M. Baker

I think a lot of us can feel that we aren’t doing things “right” on our spiritual journeys. We listen to what some guru says and then apply it to our lives. But all too soon, our humanness makes itself obvious. We feel as though we’ve failed our pious instructions.

But there is no “right” way to go about your perfect journey. Your life is an original unfolding of magic that cannot be defined. For your life is revealing the infinite magic that is already in you.

Nothing can take this magic away, and nothing can make your finding it less special. You see, enlightenment is rediscovering who you have always been. And how you find yourself is completely up to you.

No one can tell you how to do it. Yes, a spiritual teacher can point out the ways that you are limiting yourself. They can help you to expand your awareness. But such expansion has nothing to do with judgment. It isn’t about analyzing what is “wrong” with you. It is only about increasing love.

You are here to open your heart to more love than you ever have before. And the way that you do so is unique. There is no other path like yours. There is only how much you want to grow.

Just by living during these accelerating times, you are being offered countless opportunities to grow with love. You are being given experiences that are both painful and glorious, and they will change your soul forever. And the only thing this growth requires is trust in your spectacular self.

You are already, naturally trusting. Just think about the trust it took for you to come here and live your human life. So allow yourself to trust, and watch it bless your life a thousand fold! Watch it give you perspective in your relationships and allow you to see the love in every human being. Let trust empower you and enable you to truly learn. Let it illuminate your experiences with gratitude because your heart is opening again.

Trust your spiritual curiosity, and you will see life for the sacred classroom it is. Find your growth reflected in the walls around you and the people you share this room with. Grow, sublime being, and let your unfolding unfold, however that happens to be. Unveil your own magic like clouds recede to blue, and then open that sky to the entire cosmos! There, you will find yourself and the answer to every question you have asked. Such is your perfect awakening and your sublime spiritual path.

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Empower Yourself

March 19, 2013 by Suzanne M. Baker

One of the most fulfilling aspects of writing a blog is meeting fellow writers and readers, and sharing ideas. This is what Share the Spiritual is all about. To each of you I’ve been privileged to connect with, thank you from my heart! In the future, I hope to collaborate on a post with Spencer from England at Share the Love. His poetry is refined and sublime, yet utterly revolutionary with love. For today, I’d like to share the work of another blogger the world needs to hear. Alice is an exceptional writer who is helping humanity to awaken. Enjoy her empowering, bold message!

 

Stop Blaming God by Alice of Awakening Starts Now

Thank God for _____; I guess what I prayed for isn’t part of God’s plan for me; This must be a test from God; Things aren’t working out so well… what’s God trying to say to me?

Blah blah blah. It doesn’t matter.

Whether you praise God or get angry at God, you’re still blaming God. Whether for positive or negative reasons, blaming is the act of assigning responsibility to something/someone outside of yourself. It’s an excuse. You give up all your integrity and power away every moment you blame another for anything, without exception, and that includes an external deity that’s separate from who you are.

One of the first signs of awakening humans is a new perspective on what God is, and their relationship to It. At some point, whether suddenly or gradually, you realize that God is not an invisible old fickle man in the sky who only doles out favors for you in return for your devotion. Instead, you come to know God as the ever-compassionate All That Is that is also all of who you are. The final realization is: Wow, I Am God also!

Whatever you are, God is. Whatever God is, you are. It knows only as much as you know, and doesn’t know what’s best for you any more than you do. God makes no decision on your behalf – the Compassionate One cannot by essence inflict Its will upon you. When you pray, you make-believe that you’re speaking to God, but all along you’re talking to your Self, pretending to be a puny little helpless human when you’re a God Self in your own right.

Your prayers are always answered. Why? Because as a Creator Being, you’re the one that allows the answering and not-answering of your prayers. There is no other God that says yes, no, or not now for you. That’s always been you. To say that God has blessed you with this or God is punishing you for that is to do yourself an enormous disservice to your God Self, and only slows your progress to permanent Freedom, which can only be had through taking full responsibility for all of your creations.

You were created from All That Is, and as such, have been given full Creator rights. God gave you full creatorship to answer all the prayers you ever uttered, and by the choice of your free will, you decided for yourself whether or not you wanted to grant them. If a prayer was answered, it was because you believed yourself worthy of it. If not, there was something in you that didn’t truly want it, or felt that you deserved it. At no point was there ever an outside force that judged whether or not you will have your prayers fulfilled. For the awakening human, there will come a time when he/she will let go of praying altogether, as I have, preferring to sit with Self instead and speak your wishes directly to It.

You, dear God, need to stop this childish game of blaming an external God – can’t you see that, in this circular relationship, you only end up blaming yourself? As long as you give up your responsibility, you will always remain helpless and hopeless – two things that will instantly dissolve once you choose to reclaim your Creatorship.

Be God. Be responsible. Answer your own prayers. Choose what you want, and let You, God, give you exactly what you want. If there ever was a plan from Source, that was the only plan It had for you – to allow you to create and enjoy without limitation, so that It may enjoy Its creations through you.

So dear Creator, let’s end the blame game today – and start creating the way to your Freedom!

 

Alice is the author of five blogs, including Awakening Starts Now. For years, Alice devoted herself to actively ‘seek’ via various spiritual/religious studies and practices. Then one day, she woke up to an inner message that said,  “All the answers are within. Seek no more.” That same day, Alice dropped all her ‘spiritual’ methods and affiliations and began the inner look of her Self. She stopped ‘seeking’ and began to ‘find’ her own truth.

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You Are Intuitive

March 5, 2013 by Suzanne M. Baker

You are deeply intuitive, whether you realize it or not. Every day of your life, you are sensing what’s around you and using it to inform how you act.

As you go about your day, you are picking up the energy of people and the environments you travel in. Deep down, you know what’s really going on with everything that you experience.

We are all incredibly intuitive. Energy is always palpable, and our beings sense the truth. We are constantly fielding detailed information. We simply have to remember this about ourselves.

Just walking down the street, we know what the person passing by is feeling and everything to be aware of. We are linking with each other’s thoughts and signaling how we really feel. We can sense each other’s beliefs and all the ways that we judge. We know when actions are suspect and when words don’t reflect the truth.

Right now, we are living in times of increasing transparency that are asking for the truth. This starts with what we tell ourselves inside before it manifests in the world. When you choose to live with truth in your life, you honor your amazing self. And then you see that the real truth is completely full of love.

When you see the truth about the things you go through, you find that they’re helping you to grow. You don’t have to be a victim, and blame becomes a thing of the past. When you align with what’s really going on with you, you no longer have to hide yourself. You get to be your real you, standing strong and empowered, and more intuitive than you ever knew.

If you haven’t already done so, start trusting your intuitive abilities, and they will become obvious every day. Pay attention to the stuff you “just know” and have always suspected is real. Trust what you feel deep down instead of clouding it with thought. Listen to your most loving inner voice more than what people say. When you do these things, you will see your wisdom unveiled in specific ways.

You are incredibly intuitive, right now as you read these words. When you embrace this fact, your intuition will lead you from one miraculous connection to the next. You will be absolutely amazed by the magic that manifests. And then you will see that your intuition has always been available in your life. It is a compass for your soul, steadfastly guiding you towards the truth.

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Feel

February 19, 2013 by Suzanne M. Baker

During these times of great transformation, we are being called to feel everything we haven’t allowed ourselves to feel before. We are being asked to feel the emotions that we have denied and shunned deep inside. And this is because feeling allows us to heal our emotional wounds.

You see, as we go through life, we tend to store painful emotions in the body. This pain remains lodged within, unable to be healed. In order to dislodge it, we must feel it in the healthiest way possible. When we do, pain moves through us and can be released. We become free of the wounds we have buried.

Empathy helps us with this. When we empathize with ourselves or another, we validate what is being felt. We accept emotions with love, and this enables us to feel them and then let them go. This is how we stop the madness of suffering.

And that is why the best way to support others is to allow them to learn the lessons they came here to experience. This means standing by someone as they endure their difficulties but not interfering, yet indeed holding their hand through life. We must give others the space and freedom to be human and to feel what they came here to feel. We must experience life deeply instead of avoiding, fixing, or judging all that we go through.

We are here to feel things that we can only experience while living a human life. We are meant to learn from our emotional adventures and assist one another in doing this. That is how we experience the growth that our souls’ earnestly desire.

Allow yourself to feel what life brings up in you so that you can fully experience it. You don’t have to react to these experiences or hold on to them – or let them rule you in any way. You simply have to feel them. And once you do, you can let them go because they’re no longer in the present moment. They don’t have to stick around and define beautiful you.

You are here to love, to cry, to laugh, and to feel moved with every fiber of your being, without having to judge any of it. You are here to feel all the nuances of experience, utterly and completely, and take this wisdom with you forever. This is what allows you to gain precious experience. This is how you allow your gorgeous soul to grow.

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Believe

February 5, 2013 by Suzanne M. Baker

What do you believe? The answer shapes what you experience. When you shift your belief, you shift your experience. If you want to do this, here’s a little exercise to help.

Take a look at the thoughts that are creating barriers throughout your day – the excuses and limitations that are keeping you from your dreams. Write down these beliefs that are holding you back. For example, “I never have enough time” or “ I never seem to fit in.” Once you have your list, replace each negative belief with a positive one. “I don’t have time” becomes “I have all the time in the world.” “I don’t fit in” becomes “I am extraordinary and one-of-a-kind.” Or perhaps, “Life is full of suffering” becomes “Life is a sacred opportunity to experience love.” See how expansive your new beliefs make you feel. Realize you have the power to choose them.

When we choose more expansive beliefs, it becomes obvious that unlimited potential is at our fingertips. Each moment offers infinite possibility to create a higher dream. And then we realize that our old beliefs were steeped in a lot of fear, and we can have love instead. In fact, I believe this is what we’re here to do. Choosing love is the spiritual journey.

The problems that directly affect our lives are showing us our fearful beliefs. They are ours to take responsibility for and heal. And this starts on the inside. We must go within and find where we have created each discordance – each opportunity for growth – and then heal it with forgiveness and love. As spiritual healer Dr. Hew Len teaches, you can do this by saying the following words: “I am so sorry. Please forgive me. I love you.” When I say these words, I feel that I am curing the root of my problems – my belief in the absence of love. And, as Dr. Hew Len teaches, we can do this with any problem we see in our reality. That’s right, all the discord in the world. Whoa.

You see, the work that you do to heal yourself helps all of us to heal. This is what the Christian story of Jesus is all about. He showed humanity how to get back to love, starting with each person, from the inside out. When you love yourself as much as you can and forgive your human mistakes, you do this. When you believe in yourself with an open heart instead of fear, you help transform us all. This is one of the most important things you can do with your life.

When you leave this world, your loving beliefs are all that will remain of this temporal experience. You see, life is a precious opportunity to see how we’ve been denying ourselves love so that we can accept more of it. When we do, we remember that this is our natural state. Finally, with grateful hearts, we recognize ourselves again. And at last, with sublime awareness, we get back to God.

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Evolve

January 8, 2013 by Suzanne M. Baker

Back in November, my Spirit Guide gave me some invaluable information about the spiritual evolution that we are all going through. She told me that things in our world are not going to get better right away and that final Ascension won’t happen as soon as we have hoped. She did tell me that Ascension would become common knowledge by 2015, and although I was excited to hear this, I felt disappointed by the rest. You see, I’d been expecting the craziness that we’ve been living in to end any day.

But then I began to see this as escape, and I know that escape is not spiritual evolution. We can’t expect someone else to solve our problems for us; we must solve them for ourselves. In solving them, we find empowerment. We spiritually evolve.

The process is the purpose. As humans we are being given the chance to help create the peaceful world we long for, and by doing so, embody our highest dreams. In fact, we are already doing this, and I’ve felt it with all of my being.

We are creating a new humanity at this moment. Thanks to the tireless work of many, we are ascending with our beautiful Earth as safely and collectively as possible. We might not realize this because we don’t see the sky falling, but Ascension doesn’t happen externally. It has always been an internal shift.

You see, sooner or later in life, we realize that all roads lead within. Eventually we find that we are creation itself, gazing out upon the dream we have created. Everything is always and only inside, and everything else is just a reflection.

I feel this internal shift towards Higher Consciousness, and it is magical beyond words. I sense the heightened energies I’m being given so that I can manifest my greatest dreams. I see that I get to actualize everything I could ever hope for in the years ahead. And I know that in this lifetime I will embody my Higher Self.

What a thrilling time to be human and to pioneer this Golden Age! We have been given so much to make it happen, and we must each play our part in the play. When we do, we will be awe-struck by the gorgeous world we’ve helped to create. We will be utterly and completely amazed by how powerful we really are.

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You Are Invited!

December 18, 2012 by Suzanne M. Baker

I keep thinking about that sadly beautiful movie, Babette’s Feast, and how it coaxes gratitude out of the disappointments of life. The film centers around a dinner created by an extraordinary chef, Babette, who has experienced tragic loss in her past.

Babette was taken in years ago by two gentle sisters who live an austere existence. The sisters tend to a devoutly religious community and have remained in this small parish all their lives. Long ago, they gave up their personal dreams for its beliefs. Now old and gray, they are gathering for a special dinner. And Babette has secretly spent her life’s fortune to create it.

The dinner begins, but because of their strict religion, the sisters and their friends try to deny the pleasures of the feast. They are determined to speak only scripture and to eat in silence otherwise. Yet as the lavish meal progresses, the guests go through a kind of transformation. Despite their fears of the bountiful meal, they begin to feel joy stir within their hearts. Despite the sadness of their personal hopes that never came to pass, they begin to feel gratitude for each other and for this occasion to be honored – honored as we all deserve. And somehow this honoring brings out truth and spirit, and the old friends realize just how much they love. Their love transcends their human plight, and before our eyes they experience a shift in consciousness.

That a feast can bring something more spiritual than abstinence is profound. I think this movie tells a fitting story for where we are right now. We are all being invited to sit at that beautiful dinner table and recognize the tremendous love we feel for each other here. And, at the same time, we are being shown just how much we have been denied.

Humanity is seeing that the abundance of love has been squandered and measured, and downright stolen, when it was always our birthright. We are ready to say goodbye to a world where our dreams had to be put aside, and, like Babette, where the artist had to endure life-shattering tragedy only to sacrifice for her art.

We will rise above the unbearable violence and injustice here and know blissful peace. It may take time to get there, but the outcome is certain, and the way to get there is love.

Let us feel gratitude for the love each soul has shared with us and taught in this heart-wrenching world. We are so brave with love to be here in the first place, and so lucky to watch our spiritual evolution unfold.

A spiritual feast is being laid before us – higher consciousness, and it is more glorious than we could ever hope! Let us receive this honor together instead of fearing as we’ve been taught. What a precious gift to be part of this momentous time for humanity – this resurrection and heart-opening growth. Celebrate with me, dear friend, and welcome awareness to our earth.

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Let Beauty Guide You

December 4, 2012 by Suzanne M. Baker

Beauty is a divine guide to steer by. It shows us how to create a harmonious world. When we create with beauty and insist upon it in our lives, we see that beauty has always been integral to us.

I think that we are each here at this time to bring beauty back to humanity in our uniquely special ways. I know for certain that my personal mission is to show people the emotional beauty that is already in them, that always goes back to the spiritual. Of course, beauty can seem silly because we have been taught that it’s not important. We have been trained to resist beauty, to avoid looking it in the face, and to even to suspect it of deception. We have been told to be clever instead and to mask how we really feel. But when we resist beauty’s call, we lose our very selves.

Humanity has forgotten so much beauty, and so we have forgotten ourselves. We have created ugliness instead, and so we have greatly suffered. So often, too, we have let others tell us what is beautiful, even when it is not. We haven’t listened to what moves us to the core, and so we’ve confused beauty with artifice that has no lasting value.

If you look closely, you will notice just how well we have all been trained to uphold what is trendy and fashionable – to fixate on celebrity, royalty, and society, and to admire exclusivity. The very hierarchy that harms us has been made to seem desirable. It goes without saying that this is not beauty. 

I have always felt that our modern world is lacking beauty, and this feels incredibly jarring. Since I was a child, I’ve noticed that so much of what humanity creates is ugly, wasteful, and depleted. It feels painful to see the endless waste, to see the ground robbed of trees and ripped open, the sky filled with toxic smoke, and the land covered in barren asphalt and concrete. It is bewildering to me that humankind can render places completely devoid of life – places that once sang with the beauty of nature.

We have destroyed our very home by letting our egos take over with short-term greed. We have devalued beauty and sold it quickly at perilous cost. 

Beauty is calling out to humanity, if only we will listen. We must realize that we are responsible for what we create, and that creating with beauty resonates with the soul.

Beauty sparks our greatest passions and reminds us of the exquisite creativity that we are capable of – the one-of-a-kind talents we have each brought to this earth. And when we give in to the creative flow of beauty, we find our beautiful selves again. We get back to the innocence inside – that pure, unaffected, uncalculating, and unpretentious source within all life; our spiritual beauty beyond compare.

Right now, we are being given giant opportunities to open ourselves up to spiritual beauty so we can emerge as upgraded human beings. If you haven’t already done so, open yourself up to the energies of transformation that are flooding our planet and allow them to bring out the exquisite beauty in you. Allow yourself to fully feel the emotions that beauty stirs up, whether from a haunting piece of music, a romantic poem, or the kindness of a human being. Let yourself be moved by the sublime, the poetic and the profound, and love this feeling with all of your heart!

And let yourself be moved by nature most of all because it holds the most healing beauty. Have you ever noticed the tremendous peace that being in nature can bring? This is because nature doesn’t judge. It encompasses all-accepting unconditional love. This is your essence too. So let the beauty of nature show you your authentic self that is forever loving and uniquely gorgeous with light. Let it whisper the sublime truth that opens your heart to how divinely beautiful you are.

 

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