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World Invocation Day

World Invocation Day

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From the annals of the Ancient Wisdom comes a tool and technique for humanity to help the world.

World Invocation Day is a World Day of Prayer and Meditation when men and women of every spiritual path join in a universal appeal to divinity and use the Great Invocation.

Together we focus the evocative demand of humanity for the light, the love and the spiritual direction needed to build a world of justice, unity, and peace.

WORLD INVOCATION DAY (also called the Festival of Humanity and the Christ Festival) is the spirit of humanity aspiring towards God, seeking conformity with the will of God, and dedicated to the expression of right human relations.

This is celebrated on the Gemini Full Moon every year. It is a day wherein the spiritual and divine nature of humankind will be recognized.

This year the full moon of Gemini is on June 3, 2023, at exactly 8:41 pm Pacific, 10:41 pm Central, 11:41 pm Eastern in the United States.

Festival of Humanity (World Invocation Day)

At the time of the Festival of Humanity (World Invocation Day), the Hierarchy will, under the guidance of the Christ, let loose the will-to-good upon Humanity, producing seven great results:

7 Great Results

  1. Power will be given to the disciples of the world and the initiates among humanity so that They can direct efficiently and wisely the coming process of rebuilding.
  2. The will-to-love will stimulate the men and women of goodwill everywhere so that hatred will gradually be overcome, and humanity will seek to live together cooperatively.
  3. The will-to-action will lead intelligent people throughout the world to inaugurate those activities which will lay the foundation for a new, better, and happier world.
  4. The will-to-cooperate will steadily increase also. Men and women will desire and demand right human relations.
  5. The will-to-know and to think correctly and creatively will become an outstanding characteristic of the masses. Knowledge is the first step towards wisdom.
  6. The will-to-persist (which is an aspect of devotion and fixed idealism) will become a human characteristic – a sublimation of the basic instinct of self-preservation.
  7. The will-to-organize will further a building process which will be carried forward under the direct inspiration of the Hierarchy. The medium will be the potency of the will-to-good of the New Group of World Servers and the responsive goodwill of humankind.

You can use the World Invocation below to help humanity and Planet Earth align with and ultimately achieve this Divine Plan.

This ancient invocation comes to you and to all of the citizens of this beautiful world without any religious dogma or denomination.

The name of God and the definition of God can be whatever and however you envision God to be.

This ancient invocation, as all prayers and invocations do, relies on the Universal truth and principle that “Energy Follows Thought.”

What Can You Do To Help

You can choose to use it by saying it or thinking it on World Invocation Day or as often as you like, trusting that when you do, no matter how often you do it you are doing something to help the world be a better place.

You may find that using this invocation brings to you a sense of peace.  You may be prompted from your Soul to use it often.

If you are someone who likes regular schedules and rituals you may like to use this invocation at specific events or times of the day, with other spiritual practices in which you engage.

Or you may simply read it or say it at times of need for the experience it gives you.

You, as always have the opportunity to choose.

There is in my sharing of this invocation no requirement requested or implied.

It is something I was directed to share with you by the promptings of my heart and my Soul.  Use it as you will.

If you wish to include this invocation in a regular ritual, I am told in the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom that other spiritual beings and master’s engage in sounding this invocation at the following events and times of the day:

– Sunrise

– Noon

– 5 pm in your own time zone. If you are aware of my writings, you may note that that is also the time you are encouraged to say The Blessing of The New Group of World Servers.

– Sunset

– And I find saying this invocation at night before I go to sleep to be helpful.

I have a friend who used this invocation to treat his P.T.S.D. whenever he awoke.

The Ageless Wisdom also suggests that using this invocation in the 2 and a half days preceding any Full Moon can help you through the sense of agitation many feel in the moon cycle.

Legend tells us that those exalted beings, who are known as the Hierarchy, released this invocation for power and light from the Archives of the Master’s (which was normally distributed stanza-by-stanza to disciples on the path throughout time) to the public at the time of the full moon of June 1945 (due to World War II) through the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul.

It has come to, since that time, be lovingly known as THE GREAT INVOCATION.

 

The invocation (below) does not belong to any person or group but to all humanity. By using it and encouraging others to use it, no particular group or organization is being sponsored.

 

 

The Great Invocation

 

From the point of Light within the mind of God,

Let Light stream forth into the minds of men.

Let light descend on earth.

 

From the point of Love within the heart of God,

Let Love stream forth into the hearts of men.

May Christ return to Earth.

 

From the center where the Will of God is known,

Let purpose guide the little wills of men,

The purpose which the masters know and serve.

 

From the center which we call the Race of Men,

Let the plan of Love and Light work out,

And may it seal the door where evil dwells.

 

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on earth.

 

 

Each of the four stanzas refers to one or other of the three aspects of divine energy, plus a reference to humanity itself in which the three meet, are potentiality in latency, and finally develop into the full flower of divinity, with all three lines perfectly expressed.”
      – Discipleship In The New Age, Volume II, Alice A. Bailey

 

Namaste,
   Genevieve Gerard
The Blessing of Love on all that you do!

 

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About the author:
Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”

Read more details…

Genevieve has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Theology and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling and for over thirty years has worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from devastating disabilities and chronic pain. Teaching the mastery of the mind-body relationship she was one of the early professionals trained in biofeedback, visualization, imagery, and meditation as essential techniques to help people heal their bodies, heal their emotions, heal their minds, and heal their lives.

Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.”  Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.

Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.

In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last ten years that are available on iTunes, Amazon, and her website.

It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.

Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.

 

Copyright © 2023 Genevieve Gerard and Touch of the Soul LLC. All rights reserved.

 

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Changes in Consciousness

Changes In Consciousness

women in etheral space in deep thought with the words Transformational Consciousness
In consciousness there are important times when energy opens up and shifts to empower you to be and become all you are meant to be.

We are in one of those important times now.

Taking the Next Step in Consciousness

During these important times humankind, as a whole, can choose to refresh and realign with Divine Purpose and the Divine Plan.

I believe this happens when humanity as a whole, and humankind as a group, has made enough progress on a planetary level to take the next positive step in consciousness.

Many believe this usually happens in concert with, and alignment with, cosmic beings who are beyond the scope and awareness of those of us who walk the world.

Since this takes place as a shift in energies, it is subtle, but that does not mean it is not significant.

The evolution of human consciousness as a consciousness happens at all levels of what makes up human life, a physical and material body, an astral emotional body, an enlightened mental body, and a Soul infused by Light.
      -Genevieve Gerard

This progress, this shift is the result of the work and the will of exalted beings such as the Christ and the Buddha who have since the 1930’s and the end of WW II been working with humanity through what is known in esoteric circles as The New Group of World Servers.

New Group of World Servers

This is a group that works to invoke and empower goodwill into the world.
Their connection is spiritual and cosmic, but not religious in any organized sense of the known religions of the world.

The men and women of goodwill who make up this planetary group may be and often are completely aware, or unaware and unconscious, of their work or mission in the world.

Men and women of goodwill are the significant force behind what Dr. Martin Luther King described when he observed “the long arc of history works toward justice.”

The forces for good and goodwill in the world move human consciousness and thus society through the march of history and there can be change and transformation.

The New Group of World Servers have over the past 70-80 years both consciously and unconsciously joined in this world mission to invoke and infuse the consciousness of humanity with goodwill.

Many of those who are consciously committed to this work have joined around the world whenever and wherever it has reached 5 p.m. local time by saying The Blessing of The New Group of World Servers Invocation:

The Blessing of the New Group of World Servers

 

May the power of the One Life,
pour through the group of all true servers.

May the Love of the One Soul,
characterize the lives of all who seek to aid the Great Ones.

May we fulfill our part in the One work,
through self-forgetfulness, harmlessness, and right speech.

 

A Treatise on White Magic, p. 261 by Alice A. Bailey

 

I believe this conscious work by disciples around the world who work for good and goodwill has resulted in all of humanity being granted a shift in consciousness.

You can choose to join this purpose by simply saying this blessing at 5 p.m. wherever you are in the world.

It isn’t hard to do. It requires no dogma, doctrine or belief. It is simply supporting and empowering goodwill in the world.

How to Support Changes in Consciousness

You can further support this work in the world by reflecting upon and in your life embodying the principles of self-forgetfulness, harmlessness, and right speech.

Amazingly, the energetic shift in human consciousness that accompanied this last Taurus Full Moon Wesak Festival this year makes it a little easier to practice those positive universal principles.

You might want to spend some time considering how those principles, when practiced and incorporated into your daily life, will help to make the world a better place.

I take comfort and assurance in realizing that we are not alone in the work of the evolution of consciousness. I am comforted and supported by my awareness of exalted beings who are aligned with the Divine Plan and Purpose for this planet and this people in the world.

We are told in the Ancient Wisdom that the cosmic shift in the consciousness of the whole universe is Love. That makes our role as human beings to learn how to “Give Love, Live Love and Be Love” of paramount importance.

It has also been foretold in the most ancient annals of esoteric mysteries that we on planet earth will come to a time when “The lion lies down with the lamb.”

That requires the infusion of Love and the installation of Peace into the material and physical world that is our world.

That is the work of cosmic beings who are aligned with the Divine Plan. We, as humanity are but one small part of this plan, but we are an important part.

Steps forward in the evolution of the consciousness of humanity are profoundly important because you, as part of humanity, serve as a bridge between the world of spirit and the world of matter.

You, as a human being, have been since the first moment of creation granted not only your physical nature and being, but also a spiritual nature and being with a spark of Divine Light that I believe is our Soul.

Take a moment and allow the following mantrum to connect with you as a disciple on the path. As Alice A. Bailey states, “take your place with those who perceive the needs of the coming cycle–a cycle wherein the new ideas and ideals must be stressed and for which a fight must be made, wherein the wider plans for the good of the whole must be understood, endorsed and preached, the new and clearer vision for human living must be grasped and finally brought into being, and a cycle wherein the effort of all members of the New Group of World Servers must be given to the lifting of humanity’s load.”

The Affirmation of the Disciple

 
I am a point of light within a greater light
I am a strand of loving energy within the stream of love divine
I am a point of sacrificial fire focused within the fiery will of God
 
And thus I stand.

 

I am a way by which others may achieve,
I am a source of strength enabling them to stand,
I am a beam of light shining upon their way,
 
And thus I stand.

 

And standing thus, revolve,
And tread this way the ways of men,
And know the ways of God,
 
And thus I stand.

 

– Telepathy p. 197 by Alice A. Bailey

 

That makes humanity and most particularly human consciousness important.
Infusing, inviting, and ultimately embodying Love is the task for which you were created.

God didn’t make a mistake. Since the dawn of creation, He has sent teachers, guides, and avatars to enlighten all of us. Many of those He sent were misunderstood and misinterpreted by their human followers for such is the consciousness of matter.

You, as part of humanity, are also supported by the angelic kingdom in this venture. You are supported by the consciousness and continuity of each and every avatar, world teacher, and guide who has ever walked the earth. They have not left us or deserted us, and they remain engaged in the insights and evolution of your consciousness through the mechanism of the spark of Divine Light that embodies your Soul.

You can engage, invite, and invoke Their ongoing presence and guidance through prayer, meditation, and contemplation.

Love and Right Relations Are the Keys
to Transformations in Consciousness

You can join with like-minded individuals, but it is significant to remember that “loving one another” is to be a guiding Light.

Fortunately, when you connect with your Soul, you will find its nature is Love.

When you connect with the angels, you will find their nature and essence is Love, and when you connect with any and all of the world teachers, guides and avatars that have ever come to Earth you find the essence of Love for the very nature and being of God is Love.

You are invited and encouraged to join with the New Group of World Servers by participating in the Blessing of the New Group of World Servers world service at 5 p.m. each day.

It takes less than a minute of the day but grants a brief shift in consciousness and awareness that leaves behind a sense of hope and promise and reminds you that you are not alone but are supported by divine and cosmic forces that are working with you to bring Love and Light and what is good into the world.

You can join in this work in the world, in bringing into manifestation the divine plan for humanity by considering and living by the principles of harmlessness. You can be a part of this divine and cosmic transformation by activating in your communications and words the principle of “Right Speech.

Your focus and action in living in “Right Relationship” with others helps to forward not only you but all of humankind in activation and fulfillment of the divine plan.

Harmlessness and Right Speech are just rules of the road to help you live a happy and successful life. Therefore, I suggest that you consider your actions and your speech in light of these principles and then observe how much happier and more successful you become.

Plato is said to have recommended this test to consider before you speak.
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it beneficial?

What you do matters… How you act matters… If you demonstrate the Laws of Love by unconditionally loving another you are empowering and invoking goodwill in the world.

Please don’t forget that Goodwill is contagious, and once set in motion it will permeate the world consciousness so that right human relations can be more rapidly established.

NOW is the time to step up and transform the world through “Right Action”.

Let Love be your guide. You, me, and all of humanity stand on the precipice of making the world a better place.

Namaste,
      Genevieve Gerard
The Blessing of Love on all that you do!

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Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”

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Genevieve has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Theology and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling and for over thirty years has worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from devastating disabilities and chronic pain. Teaching the mastery of the mind-body relationship she was one of the early professionals trained in biofeedback, visualization, imagery, and meditation as essential techniques to help people heal their bodies, heal their emotions, heal their minds, and heal their lives.

Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.”  Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.

Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.

In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last ten years that are available on iTunes, Amazon, and her website.

It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.

Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.

 

Copyright © 2023 Genevieve Gerard and Touch of the Soul LLC. All Rights Reserved.

 

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You Are Born To Be Free

You Are Born To Be Free  

Sunrise with gull flying free in the sky

The urge for and the need for true freedom is integral to the human heart.

Since the dawn of creation freedom has been a defining force of life that has guided the evolution of consciousness.

Philosophy and religion sometimes associate freedom with free will. I too believe freedom is a Divine Right and necessary to the Divine element of life that is Free Will.

From the first breath of creation the very first man and the very first woman had freedom and more importantly, free will.

The omniscient wisdom of the Creator knew that without freedom and free will all that life means could not be achieved.

That makes freedom a cornerstone of human evolution.  That makes freedom something worth fighting for, something worth dying for, and more importantly something worth demanding from governments.

Freedom has within it the element of choice.  The freedom of free will includes the right to choose good and the right to choose evil. If you look at a long ark of human evolution you will see the forces of freedom inextricably woven into the Cosmic battle of good vs. evil, right action and right relationships vs. tyranny.

The urge for freedom is part of the heart, the mind and the Soul of every creature ever created by the Creator because it is woven into the choices you must make in life.
       -Genevieve Gerard

Not only does life require you to choose between good and evil, but also to choose between love and hate.  It may be said that those choices not only define you, but they define the life you will live.

Freedom and its companion free will are essential to the fulfillment of the purpose and destiny of your life.  I believe that your destiny is to choose Love.  I believe that Love is the only thing you can create in life that is eternal.

I believe that God is Love and the nature of your Soul is Love, so by choosing Love you are transported from what is impermanent to what is real and eternal.  This is ultimately the choice that life supports.  That is ultimately the choice for which freedom and free will exist.

You Have the Choice To Do What Is Right For Humankind

Civilizations, governments, societies, are all engaged in choice and the challenge to do what is right for humankind.  Freedom is an essential part of empowering you to make that choice freely.  Choosing love over hate, good over evil, are all elements supported by freedom.

Of course, people do not always make the right choices, the choices that reflect love, the choices of goodwill.     We need only look at the harm of selfishness and greed to observe that.  But I honor the importance of the freedom to make that choice.  I honor the civilizations, societies and governments that support freedom.

Men and women across this planet are committed to supporting freedom.  They are choosing love over hate, good over evil, kindness and compassion over cruelty and selfishness.

It is only where humanity has freedom can the evolution of all of humanity make progress in the Divine Plan of evolution to fulfill our Divine purpose.

Freedom is the Cornerstone

Freedom is the cornerstone of the political system known as democracy.  Democracy took a giant step forward when the Founding Fathers of the United States of America formed a representative republic that became a beacon of Light of the principles of right governance.

Influenced by philosophers of the ancient Greeks, and the more recent voices of the philosophers of what was known as the Age of Enlightenment, those dedicated to forming a “more perfect union” examined and explored what made governance work.

The philosophic principles imbedded in the immortal words of Thomas Jefferson “We the People” spoke to the power of people when granted freedom.  The United States of America Declaration of Independence also spoke of freedom as an inalienable right granted to humankind by their Creator.  In that Declaration of Independence lies the declaration for people everywhere to reject tyranny.

Indeed, quickly on the heels of the American Revolution came the French Revolution and the changes in the British Parliamentary system which advanced and impowered freedom in the lives of the citizens of those lands.

Indeed, the cry of the French Revolutionaries of “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity” became synonymous with the urge for freedom.  And although the revolutions of the United States of America and the French are in the long past, unfortunately, the battle between freedom and tyranny continue in the world today.

William Faulkner We must be free, Freedom Quote

William Faulkner once said, “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”

Not all governments grant their citizens freedom.  Tyranny remains a temptation of political leaders around the world.  Human freedom must be won and defended as the will of the people and a right of the people whenever and wherever subjugation and tyranny raise their ugly heads.  Freedom is a Divine right and a birthright of the human spirit, but it must be defended.

It is only with freedom can humankind demonstrate the free will of decision and choice that is essential to the Cosmic battle of good and evil.  It is only with freedom can humanity choose love over hate.

In the adventure of life each individual is faced with decisions and choices.  That is the purpose of freewill.  But freewill can only be fully demonstrated and expressed in an environment of individual freedom.

Principles of right action, right human relationship, harmlessness, and right speech are endemic to the human experience.  Choices between love vs. hate is perhaps one of the most profound and life structuring.  Ironically that choice influences the life experiences of fear vs. peace, kindness vs. compassion, and ultimately forgiveness vs. resentment.

All of these diverse life experiences are a matter of choice which you must have the freedom to make.

Of course, as a spiritual teacher I encourage you to choose love.  That choice influences so much and many aspects of life.  Choosing love, living love, being loving are woven into so many life experiences that are fundamentally important and positive that choosing love becomes the portal to a life of happiness and contentment. Ponder On This.

Explore this further by experiencing the following gifts:

Free Exercise For Freedom

Take a deep breath.  With that breath let yourself relax, releasing all that has ever come before as you come into the power of right here and right Now.

In the power of NOW is complete freedom.  The freedom to create the life you desire.  The freedom to change.  The freedom to forgive both yourself and others.

You are neither bound nor limited by the past.  Right here, right Now your life is before you as a clean slate.

Nothing that has ever happened before limits you or restricts you.  You have the freedom to be and become all you are meant to be.  You have the freedom to claim your destiny.  You have the freedom to change.

Within freedom is the Divine spark of Light that is your Soul.  Connecting to your Soul invites you and empowers you to your co-creator relationship with the Divine.  That is a power you are granted as a Child of God who is also the Child of Man.

Take another deep breath.  With that breath let yourself relax even further and let it sink in that you are the director of your life and your freedom.

 

Affirmations That Celebrate Your Life,
Your Freedom, Your Possibilities

Calm your mind, open your heart, and invite the Light

Then say and affirm:

 

I am free.

I am free to create the life of my dreams.

I am free to forgive myself.

I am free to do things differently than I have ever done before.nto the essence of my self, the power of the peace that passes understanding.

Nothing that has ever come before limits me or defines me.

This is the power of the Now.

This is the freedom of this moment in time.

Today is the beginning of the rest of my life.  I claim it. I embrace it. I celebrate it.

In freedom, is my power.  In freedom, is my strength.

I am a human being who has been designed and blessed with a Soul.

As a Soul I am empowered as a co-creator with God.  As a human being I am empowered and blessed with choices.

I choose Love.

I choose community and companionship.

I choose kindness and compassion.

I choose fellowship and friendship.

My life lies before me like a pristine field of snow, clean and clear.

I release from my mind any limiting thoughts, any limiting beliefs.

I release my fears and any illusions that may have entrapped me by what I once believed.  Today I invite the real truth to be revealed.

Today I choose to clearly see the possibilities that are before me.

This is my moment. Now is my time to create my life anew.

I am grateful for the blessing of my freedom and the freewill that gives me the power to choose.

 

Namaste,

     Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!

 

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About the author:
Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”

Read more details…

Genevieve has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Theology and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling and for over thirty years has worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from devastating disabilities and chronic pain. Teaching the mastery of the mind-body relationship she was one of the early professionals trained in biofeedback, visualization, imagery, and meditation as essential techniques to help people heal their bodies, heal their emotions, heal their minds, and heal their lives.

Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.”  Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.

Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.

In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last ten years that are available on iTunes, Amazon, and her website.

It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.

Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.

 

Copyright © 2023 Genevieve Gerard and Touch of the Soul LLC. All rights reserved.

 

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Holding Love in Your Heart

Holding Love in Your Heart

Heartbeat in the form of a heart with words Love In Your Heart
This article is part of my ongoing Series on Love.

What does it mean to hold Love in your heart?

How would that effect how you live?  How would that effect How you Love?

How would that effect What you do?

Life, it seems, is a huge lesson for all of us.  That life lesson seems to center around learning to Love. But how do you do that?

Over two thousand years ago Jesus walked the earth and prior to His departure gave His followers a commandment “Love One Another as I have Loved You.”

We need only look around us in the world to realize how far most of us have strayed from demonstrating that commandment.   Greed and selfishness seem to dictate so much of human behavior that Love is hard to find.

What would life be like if we, you, and me, and indeed everyone everywhere were to love one another?  That would surely be a new world.  It would bring heaven to earth in dramatic and life changing ways.

Kindness and compassion would govern your interactions.  Government would transform if we truly loved one another.  If the power of Love transcended the Love of Power, life would change.

This is not a secret.

Jimi Hendriks said long ago “When the Love of power transcends the Love of power the world will know peace.”

But it is not only peace that is promised when you hold Love in your heart.  Love has the power to transform everything we think we know about life.  That simple commandment that Jesus gave to His followers before He left may have been simple, but I must admit, it is by no means easy.

Loving one another, especially as Christ Loved us, is the opposite of selfish. It is Divine.  It incorporates the powerful principles of kindness and compassion.  It is steeped in giving rather than gathering and accumulating with greed.

So much of the suffering that is inherent in life on this planet would be resolved by Love.    So, I invite you to consider holding Love in your heart.  Consider how Love would be demonstrated in life.

What would you do
and what could you do to demonstrate Love?

Ask yourself: How might you hold Love in your heart?  Can you give graciously to the hungry, the poor, the prisoner and the disenfranchised?  Can you Love your neighbor as yourself?  And if you did would that not change the world? Ponder on these questions.

How might the concept of the brotherhood of mankind impact and influence your actions? Ponder on this question.

What can you do to transform the world with the power of Love? Ponder on this question.

How can you bring more Love into the world to manifest the victory of Love as the guiding influence of life? Ponder on this question.

Does that attempt bring you to the realization of the importance of harmlessness?  Does that enable you to realize the ancient truth that you cannot harm another without harming yourself? Ponder on these questions.

The Oneness, the Brotherhood of Humanity and the Power of Love are not separate energies and concepts.  When you hold Love in your heart, when you practice loving your neighbor as yourself, these concepts come to you more naturally.

This is the awareness that Loving grants.  This is how Love works, energetically and then begins to manifest into the world of matter and humankind through kindness and compassion, forgiveness and sharing. Love is the cure to greed and selfishness.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
               -Mother Teresa

Practice it and strengthen it in your heart, in your mind and in your Soul.  Demonstrate it whenever life brings you the opportunity.  In small actions great things are accomplished when you do them with Love.

Within the world there is an energy that is so strong, and so powerful, that unites us to bring it into life and the consciousness of humanity.  That energy is Love.
               -Genevieve Gerard

Full Golden Moon on a pitch black night reflecting on the water

A Meditation to Help You Hold Love in Your Heart for the Full Moon of Aquarius

Calm Your mind, Open Your Heart, Invite the Light. The Light you are inviting is the Light of your Soul.

Then take a deep and relaxing breath as you put all that has ever come before this moment firmly and completely behind you.  Enter into the NOW, this moment of time.

With the exhale of your breath release and let go of any troubling thoughts.

This is a new time of great promise and wonderful possibilities. Remember that you are at the beginning of the dawn of a new age of Aquarius.

Turn your attention to the way that Love can fill your heart to overflowing just by you opening your awareness to it. Draw into your being the essence of Love.

From the point of Light within the mind of God see Light streaming forth into the minds of humankind as Light descends to earth.

From the point of Love within the heart of God see Love stream forth into the hearts of men and women.

Now imagine the Light of the Full Moon of Aquarius filling you with a Divine Light that is empowered by Divine Love.

Consider how this Light from the Full Moon is already shared by all the world.

Imagine it igniting the energies of the unity of wo/men throughout the world.

Now imagine it empowering and infusing every one of your friends with Divine Love and Divine Light. See it coming to you and flowing through you as it infuses the world with the Divine Will of the Creator.

Imagine you are infusing Love and Light into the world.

From the Source of Love see your heart as a conduit of Love.

The Aquarian Full Moon invites you to use the Cosmic worldwide energy of the Full Moon to ignite change and transformation.

What better change can there be than to infuse Love by people everywhere to engage in holding Love in their heart and becoming a Source for the power of Love to transform the world.

By doing this you learn how to give Love, live Love and be a beacon of Love for all of humankind.

By Holding Love in your heart, you become a living example of what it means to Love, unconditionally, universally, and unselfishly.

You can surrender to the power of Love, and the Light that Love brings to your consciousness, by choosing Love.

Today, during the Full Moon of Aquarius cycle the whole world is invited to join a new way to demonstrate Loving One Another. Ponder on this.

Breathe in and take a moment to be Love, sending Love forth.

 

               – GG

 

This is your Divine destiny as you remember the truth that God is Love and when we Love one another we are demonstrating our union with God.

Never forget that this moment, this Full Moon of Aquarius is available to invoke and invite Love into the world today. You can be a part of a worldwide mission to radiate and transform the world with Love.

 

Namaste,

   Genevieve Gerard

The Blessing of Love on all that you do!

 

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Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.”  Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.

Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.

In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last ten years that are available on iTunes, Amazon, and her website.

It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.

Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.

 

Copyright © 2023 Genevieve Gerard and Touch of the Soul LLC. All rights reserved.

 

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Powerful Promise of Today

The Powerful Promise of Today

sunrise of a new dayThis post is part of my on-going series on Awareness & Being In The Now.

There is something magical about the morning.  It is the powerful promise of today.

Today is not constrained by any other day you have ever had.

As today lies before you it can be a fresh start, a new beginning.  It holds new opportunities out to you for you to create the life you have only dared to dream.

Take Action Today to Transform Your Life

Morning is the perfect time to imagine and envision what you wish to create for your life.  Take the time to consider what you can do.

Is there something you can do differently that may transform your life today?  It may be a little thing.  It may be a grand idea.  It is important that you take action to bring what you desire into manifestation.

What You Can Imagine is What You Can Create

Norman Peale Quote: Change your thoughts and you change your worldIdeas belong to the universe.  What you can imagine is what you can create.  Nothing stands in your way; the key to manifesting is doing.

Energy follows thought.  That is a universal law that you can use for your empowerment.  But the magic of manifesting requires that the thought be followed by action.

There is no time better than right now to take action than right now.  Like from a small acorn a great oak tree can grow, so from a single thought, a single act can you change your life.

Take a moment in the power of the promise of today to consider your purpose, your desire and your destiny.  Within the deepest desire of your heart and aligning with your Soul purpose there is the power to ignite your co-creatorship with God.

You have this power because as a human being you were designed to create and bring into being your ideas into manifestation.

The universal law that energy follows thought makes what you are thinking and creating important.  But, thought alone is not enough.  It also takes action.  It takes thinking and believing, but it also takes doing.

Bringing An Idea Into Manifestation

Planning Has A Purpose

Thinking about what you need to do to bring an idea into manifestation is called planning.  Planning has a purpose.

In the world of business there is an old axiom which is “plan your work, then work your plan.”  This will empower your idea and help you manifest.

Aligning with your purpose, especially when it is your life purpose, or your Soul purpose is empowering to success and helps you manifest your future.

Affirmations Are Helpful

A powerful affirmation I have found helpful in the process of bring an idea into manifestation is:

“Purpose itself Am I”

In the annals of the Ageless Wisdom, we are often advised to ponder on something.  Part of the process of pondering includes the technique of meditation.  Another very powerful tool is saying or even just thinking a positive affirmation or thought form.

These thoughts can ignite your energy as you send out into the universe instructions for what you desire and want to manifest.

I offer at this time an empowering process to enhance the success of manifesting your positive thoughts.

A Transformational Empowering Process to Manifest

To empower my ability to manifest I calm my mind, open my heart, and invite the Light.

As I ponder and consider an idea I have had, I open myself to Divine inspiration.

From that inspiration I develop a plan.

Calling upon my Higher Self, I align my lower self with my life purpose, my Soul purpose.

Then I ask myself and ponder:

Is this idea worthy of manifesting in material form?

What do I need to do to make this happen?

            If so, then start to develop your plan.

Consider what it would look like if my idea became my reality.

Take a pause and dream.

I envision as much detail as I am able.

What would it look like?

What would it feel like?

What do I need to change in my life to enable it to happen?

What resources do I need?

Do I have them?

How can I get them?

I take a 10-minute pause to dream and envision what manifesting my idea would mean every day.

I consider as a part of my creative expression my reality and my world, achieving what I am dreaming, I am desiring, I am doing.

I write down as many details as I can imagine.

What do I need to learn that I don’t know?

What help or support do I need that I don’t currently have?

Where would this idea work best?

Do I need anybody else to do this?

How can I get them engaged and onboard?

Are there legal steps I need to take when I bring this idea into manifestation?

            What are they?

            Who or how will they get done?

Is this an idea I want to do?

If not let it go.

If it is, I invoke and invite my Will.

Invoking my will and taking action are important parts of me unlocking the creative aspects of my life.

What I think, dream, and imagine sends out the energy to instruct the universe to create in my life and in my reality the manifestation I desire in the world.  Aligning with my Soul purpose and my life purpose ignites the energy of creation.

 
Transforming your thoughts, your dreams, and your desires into the remaking of your world and your life takes letting your Soul, your heart, and your hands work together.  You then can transform that energy into the world of matter, into manifestation.  You have released the power that is the creative potential of your true nature of being as a child of God, and the son of man.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale

Manifesting miracles is your superpower.  Using your thoughts to create and imagine along with your will and your hands to manifest is being and becoming what you are truly meant to be.

You, as a human being, are uniquely empowered to be a co-creator with God.  Your dreams, your desires, serve as a blueprint for manifestation.  Bringing spirit into matter, bringing ideas into manifestation, requires Will and intention along with work.

You were given the thought along with the hands to manipulate matter into being by doing.  This is your powerful combination.

William James, often called the Father of Psychology in the late 1800s, said:

the greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of mind…  As you think, so shall you be.

SO – flush out all of your old, tired, worn-out thoughts. Fill your mind with fresh, new creative thoughts of faith, love, and goodness.

By this process, you can actually remake your life. You can think your way to failure, or you can think your way to success.

Don’t forget the powerful promise of today is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances, but by thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

 

Namaste,

      Genevieve Gerard

The Blessing of Love on all that you do!

 

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Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.”  Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.

Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.

In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last ten years that are available on iTunes, Amazon, and her website.

It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.

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Discover How To Meditate

Discover How To Meditate

woman meditating with cross legs and lighted chakras with energetic lotus petals emanating from above her head

A lot of friends and Facebook fans have questions about meditation.

Most do not know where it came from, what it is, the benefits, and the different ways how to experience meditation. So, I thought I would try and shed some light on it below.

According to WebMD, meditation is a simple technique that, if practiced for as few as 10 minutes each day, can help you control stress, decrease anxiety, improve cardiovascular health, and achieve a greater capacity for relaxation.

Scholars have found meditation difficult to define, as practices vary both between traditions and within them.

Where Did Meditation Come From?

According to Wikipedia the English word meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning “to think, contemplate, devise, ponder. The use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to the 12th-century monk Guigo II.

Apart from its historical usage, the term meditation was introduced as a translation for Eastern spiritual practices, referred to as dhyāna in Hinduism and Buddhism and which comes from the Sanskrit (an old Indo-Aryan language) root dhyai, meaning to contemplate or meditate. The term “meditation” in English also refers to practices from Islamic Sufism, and other traditions such as Jewish Kabbalah and Christian Mysticism.

What Is Meditation?

Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.

It is significant that meditation refers to astate of consciousness.”  That state of consciousness is associated with aligning with your Higher or Supreme Self.  As such meditation brings you to awareness of your spiritual nature and the aspects of your being that are often called your higher self or Soul.

It is significant to note that meditation has roots, as a practice, in every religion spanning every major world religion over thousands of years. Although meditation can be a spiritual practice that is as old as time and spans every religion, it belongs to no particular religion and can be practiced by anyone.  That meditation is a practice is an important distinction.  Ultimately, I believe that meditation is about listening to the wisdom of your Higher Self.

Several other definitions of meditation have been used by researchers on meditation:

    US National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2016): “Meditation is a mind and body practice that has a long history of use for increasing calmness and physical relaxation, improving psychological balance, coping with illness, and enhancing overall health and well-being.”

    Walsh & Shapiro (2006): “Meditation refers to a family of self-regulation practices that focus on training attention and awareness in order to bring mental processes under greater voluntary control and thereby foster general mental well-being and development and/or specific capacities such as calm, clarity, and concentration

    Cahn & Polich (2006): “Meditation is used to describe practices that self-regulate the body and mind, thereby affecting mental events by engaging a specific attentional set…. regulation of attention is the central commonality across the many divergent methods

    Jevning et al. (1992): “We define meditation… as a stylized mental technique… repetitively practiced for the purpose of attaining a subjective experience that is frequently described as very restful, silent, and of heightened alertness, often characterized as blissful

    Goleman (1988): “the need for the meditator to retrain his attention, whether through concentration or mindfulness, is the single invariant ingredient in… every meditation system

The Benefits of Meditation

Some studies have found that regular meditation can reduce chronic pain, anxiety, high blood pressure, cholesterol, and the use of health care services.
                           – WebMD

Although meditation has been practiced for thousands of years, the meditative technique called the “relaxation response” was pioneered in the U.S. by Harvard doctor Herbert Benson in the 1970s. The technique has gained acceptance by physicians and therapists worldwide as a means of relieving symptoms of conditions ranging from cancer to AIDS.

When our bodies are exposed to a sudden stress or threat, we respond with a characteristic “fight or flight” response. The ”adrenaline rush” we experience is a result of the release of the hormones epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine. They cause an increase in blood pressure and pulse rate, faster breathing, and increased blood flow to the muscles.

Using meditation for deep relaxation allows for the opposite bodily reaction from the “fight or flight” response — a state of relaxation in which your breathing, pulse rate, blood pressure, and metabolism are decreased. Training our bodies on a daily basis to achieve this state of deep relaxation can lead to enhanced mood, lower blood pressure, improved digestion, and a reduction of everyday stress.

Even more important, in my mind, is meditation helps you learn to quiet your mind so you can obtain higher states of awareness.

Learning to meditate provides techniques of learning to find the quiet mind so you can ultimately open to the promptings of your Higher Self (or as some call it, your Soul).

Legend tells us a story of the Buddha that speaks to why to meditate that I would like to share with you.  Someone once asked the Buddha skeptically,

What have you gained through meditation.

The Buddha replied, “Nothing at all.

Then, Blessed One, what good is it.

Let me tell you what I lost through meditation: sickness, anger, depression, insecurity, the burden of old age, the fear of death.

Now, the Buddha lived a long time ago, and, like many famous leaders, Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, and many others, the quotes used may or may not have ever been said by the one to whom the quote is attributed.  However, I like this quote because it gives an expression of the benefit of meditation.

The relaxation response that is accomplished by meditation works with your physiology, your psychological triggers and helps restore the balance between the dynamic relationship between your mind and your body. The relaxation response integrates your body with your mind, emotions, and also your more spiritual self.

Breath is an integral and essential part of meditation. There are many meditation tools that focus on breath control as a portal to the meditative experience. Likewise, the content of your mind, the nature of your thoughts and the power of your creative mind and imagination can be harnessed to enhance your meditative experience.

Relax and Release guided meditation to release stress by Genevieve GerardA guided visualization meditation to release stress by Genevieve GerardTwo of my relaxation meditations, Relax and Release, and The Gift of Relaxation, demonstrate the benefits and efficiency of all these elements of meditation to restore balance and harmony, physically, emotionally, and mentally and of course spiritually.

 

What is the Best Meditation Technique or Practice?

Since meditation is a tool that has been taught over a vast array of disciplines and paths, there are many ways to meditate.  In the long run, because your Soul is not directed by belief or dogma, the direction of meditation can be somewhat vague.

Because ultimately, meditation is a way of connecting with and becoming aware of the wisdom and guidance of your Soul, there are not only many ways to meditate, but there is no wrong way to meditate.

Everyone is unique and responds differently to different techniques and therefore can take many roads to gain the guidance of your Soul through meditation. This is why I offer a course “How to Why to Meditate” intermittently that is 4 hours of instruction followed by a short experience in 12 different styles and ways to meditate so you can choose what resonates and works best for you.

Even though I believe there is no one right way to meditate, I have found that the following are some meditative techniques that are the most popular and most effective.

Transcendental MeditationTM

On a February morning in 1967, George Harrison’s wife, Pattie Boyd, sat at her kitchen table and lamented to a girlfriend how she longed for something spiritual in her life. With that, the legendary party girl ripped a tiny newspaper advertisement for Transcendental Meditation classes out of the paper and, in that instant, began a ripple that would affect generations of young people across the world.

 

A year later, the Beatles would go to India. Out of that trip came not just the band’s epic White Album and Donovan’s ‘Hurdy-Gurdy Man,’ but a seismic shift in the popular understanding of Eastern spirituality, meditation, and music. It also was the beginning of a strange relationship between the Beatles and the meditation movement that they inadvertently popularized.
                                – Rolling Stones

Over 50 years ago, I was first trained in the practice of meditation by a Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh, the founder of an organization that is known as Transcendental MeditationTM.

The TM technique involves the use of a silently-used sound called a mantra and is normally practiced repeatedly for 15–20 minutes twice per day. The Maharishi learned the technique from his master Brahmananda Saraswati that he called Transcendental Deep Meditation and later renamed it Transcendental Meditation.

Since that time, I have practiced varying techniques of meditation daily all over the world.  Now, 50+ years of one’s life to do anything is a long time.  In that very first training and exposure to meditation, I had, in addition to the experience of meditation an understanding and epiphany, that led me to a deep understanding of not only the how, but the why of meditation.

Although the Maharishi’s technique and training in the meditation of Transcendental Meditation were both exotic and very foreign, the experience was familiar.  As I left the initiation meeting, I realized that by meditating, I had gone to a place in my consciousness that I had identified as “prayer beyond words.”

Because meditation is more about a state of being or a state of consciousness, the experience of meditation offered me a portal into awareness.  I resolved that I would commit to the practice of meditation and see what would be revealed from the mystery of meditation and contemplation.

Quieting the Chattering Mind

Although much younger and less experienced on that day over 50+ years ago, I had sought the wisdom and presence of my Soul even as a young child.

What I learned in that very first training in the techniques and tools of meditation is that your Soul is always available when you calm your mind, open your heart, and invite it into your consciousness.  I have also learned that the connection to your Soul only becomes possible when you can transcend the chattering mind of your ego or personality and enter into the silence.  The practice of learning to quiet your mind of the chatter is, among every practice of meditation, paramount.

Another quote often attributed to the Buddha that I think describes well the mind is “like a bunch of drunken monkeys.”  Quieting the mind is not easy and it seems that almost all of the tools and techniques that are taught at most meditation centers on helping one meditate try to accomplish this most important task.

There are many techniques that are taught as meditation.  Done regularly as a practice to listen to and access the wisdom of your own Higher Self (your Soul), all are effective.

Quieting the distraction of what is sometimes among those who meditate called “the monkey mind” is a crucial and for almost everyone who begins to meditate a challenge.  It is a challenge that every technique or school of meditation has developed techniques or tools to overcome.  To open your consciousness to your Soul (Your Higher Self) you begin a journey of mastery over the unbridled chatter of fears.

Within the content of your mind chatter is much of what creates the problems and sorrows that the above quote from the Buddha says meditation freed him from. The peace and power of gaining mastery over your chattering mind through the practice of meditation can have a profound impact on your life.

It affects you on every level of your being, physically by impacting how you respond to stress, emotionally, and mentally.  However, I believe it is how it opens you to the wholeness of your being that is the most empowering and profound.

TM uses a mantra or mantras repeated over and over in the mind, even repetitive chanting often in ancient languages such as Sanskrit (the oldest language known to man), to create seed thoughts as entrees in your meditation.

Wise perspectives of consciousness or guided meditation all serve as a way of shifting your awareness from your random earthly mind chatter to a state of being that is a calmness of mind and openness of heart that brings an awareness of your Higher Self (the Light of your Soul).

For this reason, I use for every guided meditation I offer to the world, both written or recorded the opening phrase: “Calm your mind, open your heart, and invite the Light.  This phrase declares your intention and, in my experience, helps you leave behind your mind chatter and enter into an openness to start to experience your Soul.

I have had those who have told me they use that simple phrase above as a mantra to enter the silent and receptive state of meditation.

Meditating In A Group

After several years of a daily practice of Transcendental Meditation, I began to explore what else I could learn from meditating.  I discovered the writings of Alan Watts who has written more than 25 books and articles on religion and philosophy, introducing the emerging hippie counterculture to The Way of Zen (in 1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism.

The consciousness described in my studies of Zen appealed to me so I found a Zendo and was accepted to meditate with those who practiced Zen meditation, a practice I engaged in early every morning for the next span of my meditative life.

Part of what I learned from that experience is that there is something very empowering about meditating in a group.  Even though there was in the Zendo no social engagement or interaction the unity of purpose to open our consciousness was empowering.  It supported us both individually and collectively.

That special experience explained to me why in the history of meditation people would often live in communities and gather together to meditate.  In the Western world, meditation is most often deprived of the energetic empowerment of meditating as a group.  There is something special that happens energetically when you join in a group to expand your awareness.  The group experience supports you in a way that is both mystical and magical and enhances all who join and engage.

As we have found recently in times of crisis, group meditations can be conducted in today’s world effectively over telephone connections, internet connections, or in-person groups.

If you wish to join with a group meditation experience I would encourage you to pay attention to the identified purpose of the meditation and make sure you are comfortable and willing to be aligned with the stated purpose of the meditation.

New Group World Servers Meditations by Genevieve Gerard

 

To experience the feeling of a group meditation check out any of my New Group of World Servers guided group meditations that I created.

 

Zen Meditation

Zazen is considered the heart of Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist practice. The aim of zazen is just sitting, that is, suspending all judgmental thinking and letting words, ideas, images, and thoughts pass by without getting involved in them.

The discipline required of Zen meditation works very effectively to master the distractions of “the chattering mind” by encouraging the student to focus on the “No Thing”, the place in your consciousness that is not, in any way material.

The techniques and discipline required for sitting ZaZen are very different from what Western society seeks.

I am reminded of my very first meeting with the Zen Master of the Zendo where I meditated.  As he explained the tools and techniques of Zen meditation, he told me that in his experience there was only one thing that Westerners needed to transcend to practice Zen meditation and that was the concept of the pursuit of happiness.  Then he left me to ponder upon and meditate upon that.

The Parable of the Cup of Tea - Genevieve Gerard

It is significant to note that throughout the annals of time Zen Masters have used Koans or brief stories upon which a student is encouraged to ponder to reveal a deep truth about consciousness.  In the history of Zen Koans, there are a large variety of Koans that provide “teaching moments.  I have one example published on my website of such a Koan, “The Parable of a Cup of Tea.

The training and experience of my time at the Zendo was, I believe enlightening as it led me, in my consciousness to what was not material and helped open me to experiencing the eternal aspects of my being that are Spiritual.  I am and have been since my time studying at the Zendo extremely grateful to the Zen Master and the group of monks who were my group brethren for how my experience of meditating with them enhanced and empowered my meditative and spiritual life.

Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness Meditations are some of my favorite meditations!

According to Wikipedia, “Mindfulness is the psychological process of purposely bringing one’s attention to experiences occurring in the present moment without judgment, which one develops through the practice of meditation and through other training.

Mindfulness derives from sati, a significant element of Buddhist traditions, and is based on Zen, Vipassanā, and Tibetan meditation techniques.

Mindfulness in meditation refers to becoming aware of what is.  Mindfulness in meditation enables you to expand your consciousness.  Expanding your perception is essential as perception influences perspective.  Expanding your perception opens you to awareness of what is beyond the limitations of time or space opening you to what is eternal, the energy of Love, the awareness of Light, and Creative power.

A part of the experience of mindfulness in meditation is a comprehension of Self, and an understanding of yourself in relationship with the world around you, not only others but nature, not only your sentience but the sentience of all of life.
                   – Genevieve Gerard

Mindfulness in meditation is empowering.  It enables you to gain mastery over the challenges of your life by addressing your relationship with the world.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.
                  – Thich Nhat Hanh (Zen Master)

I have found that meditation can influence and improve everything.  I am often teased by those who know me that my answer to a myriad of life problems is to say, “I have a meditation for that.

Indeed, I have found meditation is what connects me with Source, grounds me in life, and fills me with Love.  It is for me an always open portal to joy and my Soul.

I have several Mindfulness Meditations that are guided to be incorporated into the activities of daily life that are part of what I call Meditations for Daily Joy.

I have included links to some of these meditations below in my recommended meditations section.

I encourage you to experience meditation fully and open your heart and your mind to the awareness of your Soul.

Mindfulness has been proven to have a myriad of health benefits.  Indeed, there is a great deal of scientific research on the benefits of Mindfulness meditation.

The amazing thing about Mindfulness is that it only requires “being aware of what is” to be effective.  The enhanced awareness of being mindful has a profound impact on empowering you to utilize the world that surrounds you to achieve peace and serenity.  Mindfulness is a portal to joy, which is beyond simple happiness and in that way is both enlightening and empowering.

Keep reading below to find links to some of my mindfulness guided meditations for you to experience.

Rāja Yoga

As in this post, I have shared much about my personal quest to learn how meditation can transform and enhance your life, I would be remiss if I did not mention one other school or technique of meditation that I have found to be of great value.  That is Rāja Yoga, also called the yoga of the mind.

Whereas Mindfulness is an exploration of what is in the material world, and Zen Meditation is an exploration of what is available and open beyond the material world, Rāja Yoga teaches how to transmute, transform, and ultimately transcend issues that limit your possibilities and potential.

Rāja Yoga comes from the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom and finds its roots in the practice of Tibetan Buddhism.

Rāja means “chief, best of its kind” or “king“. Rāja yoga thus refers to “chief, best of yoga“.

Based on historical Sanskrit texts, Rāja yoga was both the goal of yoga and a method of attaining it. The term also became a modern name for the practice of yoga, when in the 19th-century Swami Vivekananda equated raja yoga with the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (where the Hindu scholar Dattatreya explains in 334 shlokas, principles of four yoga: Mantra yoga, Hatha yoga, Laya yoga, and Raja yoga.)

According to 12th Century Shaiva Yoga text, “Amanaska”, it states that Raja Yoga is so named because it enables the yogin to reach the illustrious king within oneself, the supreme self. Raja yoga is declared as the goal where one experiences nothing but the bliss of the undisturbed, the natural state of calm, serenity, peace, communion within, and contentment.

Just as with salt dissolved in water becomes one with it, so the union of Atman and Manas (mind) is denominated samadhi. When the breath becomes exhausted, and the mind becomes Praliyate (still, reabsorbed), they fuse into a union called samadhi. This equality, this oneness of the two, the living self and the absolute self, when all Sankalpa (desire, cravings) end is called samadhi.

I believe it is interesting to note that meditation is not a religion, but a practice.  And because it is not a religion it does not require belief.  It is just a practice.  It is a practice that focuses upon connecting you with your own Soul nature, the spark of Divine Light that is within each and every human being.

Making this discrimination between meditation and religion is significant.  When you meditate you are invited to explore and experience all aspects of the Divine, directed only by the wisdom of your Soul and what is available and enlightening to your spiritual journey.  As such you can gain insight and mastery over your whole being, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

Your Soul is aligned with every part of the spiritual aspect of life that is included and incorporated into every world religion.  Your Soul is the seat of your consciousness and as such, has access to all that is Divine, The Creator, The Father, The Son (the Christ), The Divine Mother, and the Angels.

You can, in your consciousness boldly explore all that is spiritual and gain both insight and mastery over the aspects of yourself that are physical and therefore enhance healing.  You can also impact and influence the parts of you that are focused emotionally and learn to master the strong influence of your emotions.  Likewise, meditation can empower your mind to influence and transform energy.

This is a key element in the wisdom that “energy follows thought.”  Within that truth is the awareness that whereas you can not destroy energy, you can change its form.  That is a defining principle of the tools and techniques of Raja Yoga.

Changing the form of energy is a central tenant of the evolution of consciousness that is central to all of life and all of the religions practiced by and known to humanity.    The practice of meditation involves the wholeness of your being, a wholeness that is vast and encompassing more than we are aware of.  It is through the practice of meditation in its diversity of tools and techniques that you can increase your awareness on many energetic levels.

I Am Feeling Free Meditation MP3 by Genevieve Gerard

 

Within the school of Raja Yoga are tools and techniques that enable you to manage energy to gain mastery over your emotions.  Among these are ancient techniques for transmuting negative emotions. Check out my simple but powerful guided meditation called I Am Feeling Free where I have passed on one of these techniques so you can learn how to calm strong emotions and transmute fears and doubts in just moments every day of your life.

 

Likewise are ways of enhancing and empowering your connection and cooperation with others through the technique of triangles (heart-mind-soul).  My meditations for daily joy guided meditations called Mindful Meeting, Heart of the Family, Flowing Freeway, and On the Wings of a Silver Bird are examples of how to use and experience the powerful technique of energetic triangles. 

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You can also use the ageless wisdom that has been passed down over the years to protect and cleanse yourself from negative outside influences by experiencing my Cleansing Vortex Meditation and, soon to be released Wheel of Fire guided meditation.

 

 

Guided Meditations

Despite the benefits of meditation, many people feel overwhelmed at the thought of learning how to meditate. This is why all of the meditations I have created, whether they be for Life Skills, Life Awareness, or Life Mastery are “guided meditations“. Guided meditation makes it easier to get started because it takes a lot of the mental legwork away from you.

As the name implies, guided meditation simply allows you to be guided by someone else in one of the techniques of meditation. You just listen to my voice as I take you on a guided journey that I have been on with thousands of people, just like you, many, many times before.

I may help you visualize some specific mental imagery, or I may walk you through a series of breathing exercises or mantras to help you practice meditating in a simple, flowing, step-by-step process. Then, you can concentrate on relaxing, meditating, and getting insight, rather than worry about your technique or your form.

Gift of Love guided meditation by Genevieve Gerard

 

 

If you would like to calm and comfort yourself I would suggest my guided meditation called The Gift of Love that helps turn and tune your awareness to Love, especially the Love of your Soul that is offered to you freely without limitation.

 

 

What Can I Get Out Of It

All-in-all meditation can help you overcome the life challenges of anger, depression, insecurity, and the fear of death.  Or it can expand your awareness from the temporal to the eternal.  It is a technique that you can use at will as you practice it and disregard unless or until you chose to use it again.

Within the vast array of ways that you can meditate there are a wide breadth of ways to meditate.  You can choose and experiment and explore from the vast collection of techniques without fear when you affirm that your purpose is to open to the insights of your Higher Self (your Soul).

The result you desire can inform your choice of which meditation is best for you at any given specific time or situation in your life. I suggest you explore and experiment at different times and circumstance in your life with different meditations.

You have available a wide variety of tools and techniques that you can apply prescriptively to your life situations and challenges. Do not be afraid to experiment and explore the vast array of tools and techniques that are available. You may want to use different meditations for different purposes in your life. Be brave and bold. Meditation is available to enhance and empower you.

The more you meditate the easier it becomes. With meditation, you are building a bridge in your consciousness between the different parts of yourself that help you gain mastery and wisdom. As you calm your mind, open your heart, and invite the Light you are opening yourself and your world to the opportunity to explore joy, peace, and empowerment beyond your imagination.

The rewards for meditation are ongoing. You can meditate at any time in your life from very young to very old and at each stage of life receive benefits and blessings. You can use meditation to enhance and explore your wisdom and understanding as well as to gain mastery. You can use it to overcome problems and provide both enlightenment and joy. Whatever time you give meditation to whenever you choose to meditate there are positive benefits available for you.

The amazing part of the practice of meditation, no matter which tool or technique you choose is that when you “Calm your mind, and Open Your Heart and Invite the Light” you have invited your Soul to begin enlightening your awareness of more.  How you choose to practice meditation and what you choose to believe are all only steps upon an ongoing journey that is amazing.

I hope I can be a guide on your journey to enlightenment.

You, as a human being are a miraculous merger of matter and spirit.  You are both a physically temporary form and eternal in nature.  That you can have these two very different and diverse aspects of what you identify in your consciousness as yourself is both magical and miraculous.  How much of that truth you choose to explore, and experience is totally within your control for as long as you walk the world in your life.

Bridging Spirit and matter is the experience of human life.  Where that takes you and where that guides you is totally and completely your choice.  Within you as a merging of your personality and your Soul are a myriad of possibilities.  None of them are wrong.

The nature of life and expression of consciousness is that you learn.  You can let that thought comfort you.  You can let that thought reassure you.  You are on a journey that offers you an unlimited number of opportunities to learn and grow and ultimately evolve your consciousness.

Meditation, in whatever form you choose can be a portal to reduce stress or experience your Soul and connect you with your inner wisdom.

 

Namaste,

   Genevieve Gerard

 

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About the author:
Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”

Read more details…

Genevieve has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Theology and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling and for over thirty years has worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from devastating disabilities and chronic pain. Teaching the mastery of the mind-body relationship she was one of the early professionals trained in biofeedback, visualization, imagery, and meditation as essential techniques to help people heal their bodies, heal their emotions, heal their minds, and heal their lives.

Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.”  Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.

Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.

In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last eight years that are available on iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby, and her website.

It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.

Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.

 

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Life is About Learning to Love

Life is About Learning to Love

Check out Life Is All About Learning To Love by Genevieve Gerard

This article is part of my ongoing Series on Love.

To those who ponder the meaning of life, the purpose of life is a looming question.

So much of life is wonderful and glorious.  And, so much of life is painful and a struggle that even the most casual observer will conclude that it must have a purpose, a purpose that is deeper and more meaningful than simply, we live, we die.

I believe there are, in the pondering of life’s purposesome fundamental truths, and principles that I have come to understand that I would like to share with you.

It Seems That Life Is About Learning

That raises the question of who is it that is learning?  Since I am a spiritual teacher, I examine the world from that perspective.  I consider the human experience a multi-level adventure of life that involves incorporating and integrating our whole self, not only our physical self, but also our emotional self, our intellectual self, and, from my perspective, our Spiritual Self.

I believe that within each of us is a spark of Divine Light that is the Soul.  The Soul is the eternal essence of what lives beyond our temporal and physical body.  It is the seat of our consciousness and is integral in offering us the situations and circumstances that provide us the opportunity to learn and grow to expand our awareness.

To me, life seems to be a vast and diverse university where we, as students, are given the opportunity to learn.

Some lessons we learn quickly and easily, others we learn through suffering and sorrow, yet each event, each circumstance, every situation grants us an opportunity to understand something we may not have realized before.

Expand Your Consciousness and Purpose

To make sense of the experience of life and understand what it is all about it seems that you must expand your consciousness and awareness into the realm of purpose.

To me, to look around the immense diversity of circumstances and situations, the vast variety of the forms that life takes here on this little planet floating in a Universe of infinite and ever-expanding space, there is a purpose to creationWhat do you think your purpose is?

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose
and give your whole heart and soul to it.
     ― Buddha

Somehow the mind of the Creator, who could create the world we see and the Universe we are just beginning to sense and more fully understand, maybe inconceivable to the majority of us but you can still ponder your purpose.

After many years of studying the mysteries of life, especially the ponderings of thousands of years of recorded experience about the meaning of life, I have made some observations and conclusions about life that speak to the question of purpose.

As I have observed and considered this observation, particularly in light of the concept of the purpose of life and the meaning of life, I have drawn some conclusions.

I do not ask you to believe my findings but rather to turn to your own Soul, your own inner voice that resonates with TRUTH.  It is from that Source of inner wisdom that I ask you to read and consider what I am suggesting.

You Are More Than A Physical Body

We all know that we have a physical body, a physical nature. And we know that that body lives a span of time and then dies.  That is an observation that any casual observer can make.  The question that this fact raises about the purpose of life is what happened in the university of life between that moment of life and that moment of the death of the physical body?

Most who have ever lost a loved one have observed that when they look at the newly lifeless carcass of someone they loved, that the body is not the person they loved. Something is missing.

It seems that realization gives us an extraordinary hint.  Although we all have a body, we are more than our body.  What makes up a human being is far more diverse and complex than merely a physical body.

That leads to the question of who we are and what we are since we can easily observe we are not only a body.  We are more.  Certainly, an active and integral part of who and what we are as a human being includes our emotions.

From the first breath of life, we begin to feel, and throughout our life, we are learning to understand and incorporate our feelings and emotions.

Indeed, in this great university of life that we all experience understanding and hopefully ultimately mastering our emotions is the course work for many, if not most, of life’s lessons.

That process of understanding is a function of your brain, and the understanding of how the power of your higher mind works is one of the most empowering lessons you can learn in your time in the university of life.

It is a lesson you learn from the perspective of your eternal spark (your Soul) and incorporates into a sense of truth and knowledge that informs and influences the actions you take and the decisions you make as they are presented to you in this life, your life.

Your Soul is available to you from the first cry of your birth and through life until the last breath that you take.  Your Soul as the eternal aspect of you, as the seat of your consciousness, is integral to not only this life adventure but to all the experiences and trials and errors from which you have learned across the span of time into the edge of eternity.

The lessons you learn in this life are a part of a vast evolutionary expansion of wisdom and understanding.

The tasks of life can be difficult, for they require merging together a material and physical body with an eternal and spiritual nature.

Fortunately, the Soul has all of eternity to help us learn how to do this.

Fortunately, from the Soul’s perspective, none of us are limited to one lifetime, to only one lifetime of attendance in the university of life.

Your Soul is eternal, and therefore life is also eternal.  Everything you have ever learned, every herculean hurdle you have conquered is in your consciousness, available to be called upon by your Soul to help and support you in this life experience, this life adventure, any particular life lesson.

Will you make mistakes in your life?  Of course, that is how you learn.  You don’t need to suffer from shame and doubt and remorse, you only need to learn.

Within the eternal life of your Soul, you have the opportunity to experiment, try differently, do better.  Forgive yourself, forgive those who hurt you, and consider what have you learned.

What might you learn and how might you do better today? Ponder on this every day.

The idea that you as an eternal being (a Soul) are learning the lessons of life and will be brought back into the experience of life to demonstrate what you have learned in your current adventure may be new and different for you.  It is undoubtedly a way of looking at the world that is different.  It is not even a traditional understanding of reincarnation.  It is undoubtedly different from the conventional dogma of heaven and hell waiting for you at the end of your life.

My just exploring these concepts, considering these concepts, may raise within you all kinds of rejection and resistance or it may be a relief.  But I ask you only to put those thoughts aside and in quiet contemplation consider what could be so crucial that all of life would be arranged around learning.  Ponder on this.

Learn To Love

I believe the answer to what could be so crucial to learn, is Love.  It is not easy for a human being to learn to Love.  Our selfishness, our pettiness, and our fears create a myriad of obstacles.  Transcending those factors to place the wellbeing of another or others may be something we struggle with every day.

Learning to Love can be a big lesson.  It is perhaps the biggest lesson we as human beings may ever learn.

Love one another
     ― Jesus Christ (John 15:12)

Over the span of human history, humanity has been told to love one another.  Jesus not only instructed his followers to “Love One Another,” but offered his life as an example for how to love as he went on to say “as I have loved you.”  It seems that even the most prideful among us would admit that this instruction is beyond where most of us are in our consciousness.

Fortunately, the Divine principles of Grace and Mercy give us various life Soul experiences to master this challenging lesson.

It is to learn how to Love and what it means to Love
that I believe is one of our main purposes of living.
     ― Genevieve Gerard

Love is the one thing you can create in your human life adventure that does not die when you die.  Love, when it is created, creates a bond that is between Souls, and as it is built between your eternal aspect of yourselves, it is eternal, beyond time, unlimited by space.

It is to learn how to Love and what it means to Love that I believe is one of our main purposes of living.

It is what can bring the eternal Soul of humans into communion and companionship with the Divine Creator.  It is what I believe the Creator created humanity to do.

Love has so many ways it can be expressed, so many vast possible relationship permutations that can be created in life that it seems we humans need the opportunity to learn and explore love throughout eternity.

I know that I have failed to fully love so many times as I look over my life that I am grateful that I have more than one lifetime to learn.  I am thankful that within me there is an eternal spark of Divine Light that will give me the lesson until I can demonstrate that I have learned the lesson.

Learning to love is a valuable lesson.  When we, as humans learn to love one another the world will be heaven on earth.

We need only to look around the world in which we live to see that human consciousness still has a significant way to go to live that prediction.  But the promise of a new heaven and new earth is in the desire of all of humanity.

We know that learning to love and achieving the instruction to “Love one another as I have Loved you” (John 15:12), would create a different world, a better world; a world worthy of being in the heart and mind of a Creator who could envision and create the wonder of this world we as humans are blessed to inhabit.

Remember that life is about learning to love and your eternal Soul can teach you this lesson if you listen deep within your heart.

 

Namaste,

   Genevieve

The blessing of Love on all that you do!

 

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About the author:
Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”

Read more details…

Genevieve has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Theology and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling and for over thirty years has worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from devastating disabilities and chronic pain. Teaching the mastery of the mind-body relationship she was one of the early professionals trained in biofeedback, visualization, imagery, and meditation as essential techniques to help people heal their bodies, heal their emotions, heal their minds, and heal their lives.

Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.”  Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.

Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.

In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last eight years that are available on Apple Music (iTunes), Amazon, CDBaby, and her website.

It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.

Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.

 

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The Three Gifts of the Spirit – Intuition, Empathy, and Telepathy

The Three Gifts of the Spirit: Intuition, Empathy, and Telepathy

The Gifts of the Spirit article by Genevieve

In your spiritual life, there are three gifts of the Spirit that help you experience the world of your Soul.

These three gifts are parts of your unified self that help you transition your consciousness from the binding limitations of your physical and material nature into the broader and more aware Spiritual nature.  Those are the gifts of intuition, empathy, and telepathy that I will briefly discuss today.

Understanding Your Gifts

To fully appreciate and understand these gifts it helps to understand that as a human being you are a miraculous merging of the Divine force of creation, and bringing life and ultimately Love to material form.  In order to understand this seeming contradiction, it is valuable to consider that there is more to life than we as living, breathing, and evolving beings know and comprehend.

Being a human is a unique creation, for we are granted many layers and aspects of life that must be merged and integrated to learn and grow.  The different aspects of ourselves and our awareness require merging and blending that which is physical and material with that which is energetic and consciousness beyond our physical sensing and perceiving.

That we, as human beings have a physical and material presence is an indisputable fact of life.  Yet, much of what we experience in life, especially what makes life worth living is not physical but energetic.

That our physical nature and the physical body is animalwhile our consciousness is exploring what is, in essence, spiritual, makes the human adventure challenging.  As a physical being, in a physical body, you can feel and experience many different things of a physical nature. Among these are sensations of both pleasure and pain.  But, neither the experience of pleasure or pain give life a sense of meaning or purpose.  Since the dawn of time, the sense of meaning and purpose is craved by humankind.

Meaning In Life

A sense of meaning and purpose come from the parts of our life and our consciousness that are not physical in nature, but rather energetic and Spiritual.  This inherent understanding about life and our dual nature as both physical and Spiritual beings is captured in the realization that “the best things in life are free.”  Finding meaning and significance in life quickly take you beyond what is simply physical and material about life.  A life over-focused on the pleasures of life, like life over-focused on the pain in life is not fulfilling.

Balance In Life

As a dual being who is both physical and spiritual, balance is essential.  Learning to understand and respect the material and animal aspect of your nature is vital.  Healthy eating, physical exercise, as well as emotional and mental health are all important aspects of a successful life.  So too is Spiritual exercise, meditation, mindfulness, prayer, and contemplation.

Balancing your physical needs with your Spiritual needs is integral to happiness, to be healthy and to being and becoming all you are meant to be.  It is a mistake to focus all of your attention in only what is physical.  And it is also a mistake to not honor and respect the part of your being that is Spiritual.

For some, or possibly many, the part of your being that is spiritual is more of a mystery.  After all, your body can be seen, touched, smelled, heard and even tasted.  Your Spirit, your Soul, is not as real to you.  That is why you must learn to recognize and appreciate the ways that your Spirit speaks to you.

 

The Three Gifts of the Spirit

Intuition, Empathy, and Telepathy are gifts of the Spirit and can be as real and recognizable to you as the physical senses, but since they are not physical, they require a different focus and attention.  It helps to understand and acknowledge that you are both a physical and a Spiritual being.

You are not just your body, you are not just your emotions or just what you feel.  Neither are you just your thoughts or what you are thinking.  You are a Soul who uses a body for a span of time, who experiences emotions, who has lofty and inspiring thoughts who is an eternal and timeless being who grows and evolves your consciousness through living and learning and ultimately loving.
- Genevieve Gerard

Part of the way you grow and learn as a Spiritual being comes through what I call the gifts of the Spirit: Intuition, Empathy, and Telepathy.  Developing and using these gifts helps you learn to function as the dual being that you are.

INTUITION

Listening to your intuition requires bringing your logical mind into your higher consciousness or intuitive mind.

Intuition transcends your awareness into a sense that is wider and less linear than logic and reason.  At the time it even defies logic and reason, and that is why it is often hard to listen to your intuition.

Having already thought through a situation, and reaching a decision logically, intuition comes, usually at the very last moment when you are about to act, as a warning voice deep inside you.

To choose to act on your intuition instead of relying on your logic is not easy and may be criticized or judged by those around you.  It takes both courage and a kind of faith in yourself to listen to your intuition, but in my life, whenever I have ignored it, I realize that I should have listened and paid attention or even acted upon the still small voice of my intuition.

It helps to realize that intuition is a way your Soul communicates with your personality to grant you a larger perspective.

EMPATHY

Empathy is a different Spiritual gift for it involves transcending the sense of separation and separateness that focusing on our individual nature and being engenders.

Empathy attunes you to the pain, problems, and joys of others.  Some describe it as so intense that it might cause you pain.

Undeveloped as a Spiritual gift it can cause confusion and dismay if you are unaware that the source of the tension and unease in yourself is what you are actually picking up from another person.

While the purpose of empathy is to tune us into our ultimate Oneness, empathy must be cultivated with awareness and compassion to not be overwhelming.

TELEPATHY

Telepathy, like empathy, grants awareness into the thoughts of another.

Much like empathy tunes you into the emotions of another, telepathy gives a broader glance into the mind and considerations of another.

Telepathy results from a bond of Love that is not bound by attachment, but exists on the Soul Plane.  Like intuition, both empathy and telepathy require your consciousness expanding beyond your logical mind.

These three gifts are often revealed and need to be developed in harmony with one another.  Most significant is that both empathy and telepathy are often activated by you Loving someone, not in a sticky and attached way, but in a compassionate and aligned way that honors and respects the beloved while striving to support and empower the other.

Loves Role

I have found that while these gifts may tune you into the thoughts, emotions or needs of another person, it is wise to confirm your impressions.  You can use these signals to stimulate sending the energies of Light or Love, but you should do it without your own needs, desires or attachments.  That is honoring the teaching aspect of these gifts to help you learn how to Love another.

True Love is beyond emotion and beyond your personal needs and desires.  Love creates a bond between Souls that is both beyond time and the world of matter.  Love is a Spiritual essence that abides in the Spiritual realm.

Learning to Love is where your physical and your Spiritual natures combine to create something that is both real and eternal.  Learning to Love is a gift beyond measure, and it is developed and enhanced as you learn to wield the Spiritual gifts of intuition, empathy, and telepathy.  I believe these gifts of the Spirit help us learn to Love in that profound eternal way.

Ponder on this: The higher purpose is for you to learn to exercise these gifts of the spirit in order to demonstrate and enhance your Soul-to-Soul connection that Love provides.

Namaste,

   Genevieve

The gift of Love on all that you do!

 

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Let the Healing Touch of A Comforting Angel Embrace You

Let the Healing Touch of A Comforting Angel Embrace You

Comforting Angel by Genevieve Gerard

This article is part of my ongoing series on Angels.

In times of great sorrow and despair, a special Angel is called upon from the Heavenly Hosts.  She is the comforter.  

She responds as an emissary of the Divine to dispense hope and provide comfort.

People most often experience her healing Presence in response to the loss of a loved one through death.  Your very human pain of loss brings forth her expression of Divine Love to lend strength to a human being who may be in danger of being trapped in despair.

The stories you hear of those who have experienced her healing embrace are often those who have suffered the death of a child or a parent or may have been confronted by the unexpected death of a loved one.  In these life situations, mourning and pain may seem more than can be born.

Special Angels whose dedication to helping humanity through these difficult times are especially aware of the human emotions that lead away from being aware of Divine Love.

Knowingly being reminded of Divine Love can provide comfort and grace.  Angels understand the anger, the rage, and pain that must be worked through in the human experience.

Comforting Angels offer, through their essential nature as Divine Love, a glimpse into awareness of the eternal quality of life and the eternal nature of a perspective that can help you transcend the suffering of the loss by awareness of the deep truths as they move into your consciousness even in the midst of your pain.

Those who have been ministered to by a comforting Angel have often described it as being wrapped in a cocoon of Love that feels tangible.  Somehow, mysteriously in the midst of their deepest pain, they feel loved, supported and connected to life in a way that strengths them.

The experience is fleeting.  It often is wondered about because it can be hard from the limitations of our human perspective to understand how such a deep and profound love can enfold them in the midst of their sorrow and loss.  The blessing of this Angelic touch is so different from the other moments of mourning the loss of a loved one that it remains burned in the heart as a mystery.

The ridged instance of defining reality to the confines of what can be experienced with the 5 senses may leave you unable to even believe what occurred.  Although the touch of a comforting Angel is so profound that it may be pondered in the heart throughout the rest of your life, it is not of the material world but instead of the crossing of the spiritual world.  It may well be dismissed as imagination.

As humanity evolves into the next stage and next age of understanding, more and more stories are shared of those whose lives were touched by an Angel.  Between the perceptions of humanity and the realm of the Angels there is a thinning of a veil that separates these different realities.

As more and more of these otherworldly experiences are revealed, people find the courage to share their truth. Hearing the experiences of others serves to bring awareness into what is known as conscious reality.

More and more, the Presence and even the intervention of Angels is a part of mainstream understanding.  Each time that someone shares the mystical and mysterious story from their own life, others find the courage to believe in their own experiences.

There is more than what is material in this world that is real.  Opening your heart and mind to an awareness beyond the confinement of only the physical senses expands your knowledge in profound ways.

Something I find fascinating is that it is only since humanity has crowned science as King that the presence of Angels was questioned.  Throughout the history of the Bible, Angels were the frequent messengers of God.

Artists revealed their inner vision in their art which was often populated by Angels, from Archangels to cherubim.  Mankind before the age of science did not question the Presence of Angels as a part of life.  It was understood that Angels were a part of the world in which we lived.

This separation of the world of Spirit from the world of matter is a somewhat recent societal perspective.  Sadly the insistence on only perceiving what is material as real deprives humanity of enjoying the vast array of beings that live in a non-material form.

Scientific research proves that you can only perceive what your mind believes.  That is part of why the sharing of the subtle experiences of the healing touch of a comforting Angel is essential.

Denying the existence of Angels serves no purpose in life.
Truth does not disappear by our denial of it.
      – Genevieve Gerard

More people than you can imagine have told themselves they must be imagining things when they received the healing touch of an Angel.  I find that very sad.  Angels are a part of life.  They are a crucial part of the heavenly hosts, and they are an integral part of how Spirit interacts with and influences humanity.

The Touch of A Comforting Angel

It seems that at the time of deep despair and sorrow it is easier for the touch of a comforting Angel to make it through to your perception because the pain of the loss has lowered your defenses.

hope to heal the heart of the genuine pain of loss, seems to make it easier to expand your consciousness to the Presence of Angels.

Comforting Angels have dedicated their lives to serve humanity as an expression of Divine Love and grace.  Their mission is to provide hope to their human counterpart across the veil.

You may have felt their healing touch when your heart was broken and you thought that all was lost.  You may have been blessed by the protective enfoldment in peace, love and even joy in the time of your greatest sorrow.

If so, at the end of this article is a way you can share your story and experience.  It may be a blessing to others who struggle to understand.  It may fortify others to reveal their truth.

Bringing an understanding of the Angelic presence and spiritual purpose is why I write about Angels.  The Heavens are not deaf to the cries of humanity.  God knows all sorrows and hears all pleas.  He dispenses His Angels to distribute His Love and comfort to humanity that often turns away his messengers and denies his blessing because of the instance that only what is experienced through the 5 senses is real and that the material world is the only world there is. That is quite simply not true.

The life force of Spirit, the world of the Soul, the realm of Angels is all real.  The world of the Soul and the kingdom of Angels are a part of the living force of Spirit, are all real.  To expand your awareness to their presence and purpose in your life opens you to truths and understandings that will enrich your life.

Meditation and prayer are often the portals to this enlightened awareness.  I invite you to leave behind the limitations of what is unreal to open your heart, mind, and Soul to the rich reality of spiritual life.

I invite you to call upon Angels to join with you when you pray and meditate.  Aligning with your Soul is helpful.  The kingdom of Angels is in the realm of Spirit where your Soul resides.

If you want to be comforted by Angels I encourage you to consciously build the energetic bridge to your Soul through meditation and then expand your awareness to the presence of Angels.

Namaste,

   Genevieve

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Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”

Read more details…

Genevieve has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Theology and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling and for over thirty years has worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from devastating disabilities and chronic pain. Teaching the mastery of the mind-body relationship she was one of the early professionals trained in biofeedback, visualization, imagery, and meditation as essential techniques to help people heal their bodies, heal their emotions, heal their minds, and heal their lives.

Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.”  Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.

Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.

In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last eight years that are available on iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby, and her website.

It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.

Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.

 

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Starting To Be Aware of Your Soul

Starting To Be Aware of Your Soul

Let Your Soul Light Shine while you read my article

This article is part of my ongoing series on Soul Consciousness.

Throughout the long journey of human evolution and life experience, you have had a Soul.

Through the various highways and byways of life adventures, your Soul has been available to you.  Most often, most times, it is not given even a glimmer of thought.

For most, your physical body and your material needs occupy your primary attention and focus.  Second, to those needs, your emotional needs and desires gain your attention.  Often those attentions are focused on what you want from others, what makes you feel good or a relationship with others that may be unfulfilled, and unattained.

Lost in the maze of these competing needs and desiresyou reach out to your mind to understand what life is all about.  Despite the incredible strength of your physical desires and demands you probably know there is more to life than what you can see, touch, taste, touch or smell.

Your emotions provide the distracting roller coaster ride from anger to depressionfrom a need or fearall wrapped in the illusion that what you sense physically, or experience emotionally are what is real.

Your ego, the great deceiver, feeds your fears and weaves a web of illusion that relies on feelings of separateness justifying selfishness and self-serving behaviors.

In the midst of these competing attention-grabbing perspectives, you may feel like a juggler at a fair, so busy keeping the different colored balls in the air that you dare not pause for even a moment or it will all come tumbling down.

Be Aware of Your Soul

If you are spiritually inclined or spiritually searching you may sense there is something beyond just “dancing as fast as you can.” Even though to stop may feel dangerous.

You may have even tried meditation but found the relentless chatter of the voice of your competing sense of unmet needs and desires too distracting to understand the benefit that is promised by meditation.

This is important to understand.  Your Soul needs all of the parts of yourself working together for your life to be successful.  These different parts of yourself, when each valued and appreciated for what they offer to your life, integrated and aligned, grant you the empowerment to fulfill and express your life purpose.

Surprisingly, your ego, which many spiritual people demean and revile is a valuable and essential part of your human life expression.  It is a necessary element in fulfilling and expressing your Soul’s work and your Soul’s purpose.

Your mind is not superior to your body and emotions; it is different from your body and emotions.  Each has a part to play in the incredible miracle of life that makes up you.

Your physical body, your appetites, your desires, are equal players in the miracle that makes up who and what you are that makes you a human being.  I believe it is a mistake to demean your physical nature or dismiss the value and importance of your emotions.

Peace of mind may seem as impossible to reach as Peace on Earth but hold onto your Hope. 

The Dual Nature of Your Life

One of the keys to starting to be aware of your Soul is that the miracle of life with which you have been blessed is not limited by the sensations of your six senses.  You need not be controlled by your physical body cravings or emotional desires.

You are a human being.  As a human being, you are God’s incredible creation.  You have the unique opportunity to be a physical, temporal creature, and to at the same time have within you a Spark of Divine Light that connects you with Divine Love.

This dual nature of the human experience has the ability to bring your Soul closer to you.  Your Soul is an integral part of who and what you are as a human being.  Your Soul is available to grant you this dual perspective on your life. 

This dual perspective honors and supports all aspects of your life when you learn to utilize the fullness of your being.  Your ego, your personality, your physical nature, your emotions, your thoughts, and your mind, are all essential elements of your Spiritual nature. 

To be able to create and manifest in the world of matter,
your Soul needs the hands of your physical body.
      – Genevieve Gerard

Remember that each part of your Self is not only valuable, but it is also essential.  To be able to create and manifest in the world of matter, your Soul needs the hands of your physical body.   Your physical body is not of less value or status than your Soul.  It has a different function and purpose than your Soul.

To consciously integrate these diverse aspects of yourself in cooperation and harmony with Divine Purpose and Divine Will is the way the Spiritual person can distinguish and define life.  It is by honoring and respecting but not being driven by each of these physical, emotional and mental aspects and talents you have available as a human being that you are empowered.

It is only the fully functioning creative aspect of a human being, integrated on all levels, body, emotions, mind, ego personality and Soul that can stand next to the Creator as a co-creator. Ponder on this.

That is the role for which you, as a human being, you as the recipient of the Spark of Divine Light that became the human Soul and thus differentiated human life from all other life are meant to experience.  That is the miracle of awareness of your Soul and ultimate integration with your body and mind (personality) that allows you to fulfill the purpose that is in the mind of God.

All of life is called to this divine purpose.  All of Love is expressed in this divine purpose.  Your life is designed to manifest this ultimate divine purpose.

All of the parts of your being and all of the availability of integration of your Soul with your Personality are drawn to this purpose.

How Do I Know If I Am Making Soul Contact?

Simple Signs of Soul Contact.

  1. Awareness of new possibilities emerge in your mind with Hope and Promise.
  2. You feel the profound presence of Love. This enables you to open your heart and love others, and also enfolds you in the sensation of Grace as you realize you are loved unconditionally.
  3. You are embraced within a sense of deep Peace and Oneness.

By consciously joining your Heart, Mind, and Soul with this divine purpose you become an active participant in this miracle of co-creation.

To empower this, I offer you, from the Archives of the Masters, the words of what is known as The Great Invocation, The Invocation For Power and Light Prayer.

Voicing this invocation, especially when said from an awareness of integration of your Soul and Personality, when offered from a sincere heart for the purpose of aligning with the divine plan and purpose of life can have healing and transformative power for all of life.

I encourage you to add this invocation to your spiritual practice and spiritual expression daily and ponder on its greater meaning.

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Namaste,

Genevieve

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Commune with Angels

To Commune with Angels

To Commune with Angels by Genevieve Gerard

This article is part of my on-going series on Angels.

There are many kinds of Angels that inhabit our world.

Some Angels work with your Soul to provide what you need as a way of providing Divine support and guidance along your life’s adventure.  These Angels I often refer to as “Guiding Angels.”  Among these, and perhaps the best known angelic presence in your life is your Guardian Angel.

Certainly, your Guardian Angel is the Angel that is most aware of and attuned to your earth adventure.  Your Guardian Angel is aligned with your Soul in the process of creation of your specific life experience. 

From the miracle of creation that started with the spark of Divine Light of your Soul and gave you the breath of life and activated your birth, Angels are available to you

Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
              – St. Francis De Sales

With their understanding of Divine Will, Divine Purpose and the overall plan for humanity, their support and guidance are activated in your life at birth. 

When To Commune With Angels

Because your Angels are an unfettered source of experiencing and receiving Divine Love there are special times in your life when it is encouraged that you consciously commune with your Angles for help.

When Looking For Help, Comfort, and Divine Insight

Angels serve as messengers of Divine insight.  In fact, the very name Angel means messenger of God.

They are available to put you in touch with energies that are beyond the material, for they reside as spirit.  They can help you expand your conscious awareness of the world of spirit by their Presence.

Among the ways that the Angels’ commune with you are sensations.  As Angels are beings of Spirit they are aligned with Divine Love, so the sensation of being completely enfolded in endless and totally unconditional love is why when communing with your Angels you may feel comforted, supported, and sustained.

Remember there is a partnership with your Soul and your Angels.  This partnership never deviates from working for what is congruent with Divine Will, Divine Purpose, and your Soul purpose for your life.

No matter how much you may cry out to manifest the desires of your personality or to feed and preen your ego, that is not what your Angels are aboutWithin you, as is true within every human being, is a dual awareness, a merger of matter and spirit, physical and spiritual, temporal and eternal.

The Angels understand those dual forces are in your nature, but as beings of spirit and light, they do not experience the pain of human desire.  They are constantly aligned with the eternal perspective and can use that alignment to provide more of that conscious awareness to you.

To call upon your Angels for help, comfort, strength, and support is always possible and encouraged as long as you remember that your personal will, your free will, is your responsibility.  Angels cannot and will not interfere in personality issues.

Loss of A Loved One

Dear Angels quote

 

When you have lost someone you loved is a particularly effective time for Angels to make their Presence felt in your conscious awareness because they are naturally aligned with the Soul Plane.

Their Presence can serve as a comforting bridge through which the bond of love can exist between your Soul and the Soul of your departed loved one.  The Angels can help intensify the energy of love as an act of their love, the love of your departed and Divine Love.  This is a powerful time and way to experience Angels in your life.

Of course, being human and thus having free will you can choose how much of that “Love Connection” you wish to experience at any timeThe comfort that comes from the Angels at the time of the death of a loved one is so powerful and profound that I call them “Comforting Angels.”  Their ability to hone the sensation of Divine Love so that it can be felt and experienced in the human experience is amazing.

When praying for someone who is suffering from the grief of the death of a loved one, I often request and invoke their Presence for the one who is grieving.  By invoking the attention of the Angels for the one who is dealing with this life challenge I feel that I am able to provide some small support and comfort not matter if I am physically close or far.  The calling upon Angels is a way of extending my love across the miles.

When You Want To Experience the Meaning of Love

One of the most significant purposes for which Angels are available in human life is as a source of helping a human being experience Love, and by this, I mean Divine Love, unconditional and untinged by need or desire.

The ability for humanity to learn to love is a key element in God’s Divine Plan.

Love is the unifying force between the worlds of spirit and matter. Love lets us use matter for expression but remains free of matter in its manifestation.  This is a mystery worth pondering.
              – Genevieve Gerard

That Divine Love is received through angelic Presence makes sense, since Angels have been perceived as the messengers of God since time immemorial. 

Angels are also believed to be the primary residents of heaven.  Yet it is their role and works with humanity that is for me the most exciting part of the relationship between the angelic and human experience.

It gives me great comfort to know that the forces of Love have a host of angel assistants to help humanity in learning what love is because it seems to me that learning to love is job one for humanity.  And that is not an easy task for a material being to learn.  Physical desires and the fabled desires of the flesh can be a challenge for every human being, through every single life.

Love can be expressed through those physical desires through sexuality and passion, but love, real love is spiritual and eternal.  The sexuality and attachment to the physical form of another may open you to Love, but the real bond of Love is formed in the spiritual and eternal aspect of life, Soul to Soul.

When You Want To Get In Touch With Your Soul

When in the course of life’s experience, the temporal nature of life results in the loss and death of the one you love, the Angels can serve as a bridge to awareness of your Soul, and the Soul of your beloved which at death has become fully spirit as it shed the material body it inhabited for a time.

We’ve never had to look far to find our angels. Angels have never really been out of reach. We can always discover angels from the inside-out because it is the angel inside us who can point the way to all our other angels.
              – Author Unknown

This is also true of the place where the Soul resides.  Spirit is unfettered by the rules or needs of matter.  As you commune with the Angels, and as you become increasingly aware of your Soul as a part of your human anatomy, this different spiritual perspective becomes more real to you.

Remember going forward that Angels can help you learn about your Soul and understand and touch your Soul every day.

It may have been to provide physical protection.  It may have been to intuitive inspiration.  It may have been to provide strength and courage in times of sorrow or adversity.  Know that your Angels are always around and you can commune with them if you quiet the chatter and open yourself to their subtle presence. Read my other posts in the series below for ways to connect with Angels.

 

Namaste,

    Genevieve

 

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Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”

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Genevieve has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Theology and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling and for over thirty years has worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from devastating disabilities and chronic pain. Teaching the mastery of the mind-body relationship she was one of the early professionals trained in biofeedback, visualization, imagery, and meditation as essential techniques to help people heal their bodies, heal their emotions, heal their minds, and heal their lives.

Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.”  Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.

Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.

In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last eight years that are available on iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby, and her website.

It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.

Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.

 

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What Lessons Will Love Teach Me?

What Lessons Will Love Teach Me?

Be Open to the Lessons of Love by Genevieve Gerard

This post is a part of my ongoing series on Love.

As I ponder the meaning of life I find myself considering the lessons of love.

When I look back over my life the lessons of love stand out as the most important things I have ever learned.

This leads me to ponder and consider why learning to love is more life-enhancing and transforming than the many lessons that must be mastered every day?

Somehow, the lessons of love stand out as more significant and more meaningful than all other life lessons.

I have long seen life as a university of consciousness.  Throughout life, you can do right, or do what is wrong. And from that adventure learn what works and what fails.

Each of life’s lessons is important but I believe the ones involving love are the most profound.  Cumulatively, these decisions on a trial and error basis form wisdom.  Over the ages, as you live and learn, your Soul, as the Divine Spark of your consciousness, learns its lessons that it can make available to you when you call upon your Higher Self for insight and wisdom.

Your Soul, as the eternal part of your being and essence, becomes a storehouse of wisdomMiraculously, you can call upon that accumulated consciousness to guide you and advise you in this life experience.

Accessing the wisdom that is stored in your eternal spark is part of how your Higher Self supports and teaches youIt’s still quiet voice can guide you and inspire you in many of life’s challenges.  Your Soul’s voice is vast and when called upon provides discernment that spans knowledge.

There seems to be an indwelling guidance system of calling upon your Higher Self that works amazingly well in life.   The more you use it to solve and resolve your life lessons the better it works.

Yet, it is in learning life’s lessons about love that there is a shift.  There is something about love that stands out as different.  Learning to love which is arguably the most important lesson life will ever teach you stands out as unique.

That is because love is not a decision or action of your personality, your mind or even your emotions.

Love is a state of being that is created Soul-to-Soul.  The essence of your Soul is already love and when that essence is turned to another it forms a miracle of eternal connection.  This is a part of both the mystery and the magic of love.
                   – Genevieve Gerard

Once love enters the equation life’s experience moves from the material and temporal into the realm of the spiritual and eternal.  It is effortless for your Soul to make this transition.  Your Soul already lives in the spiritual and the eternal.  Love is the very essence of your Soul.  To love is the expression of your Soul’s highest nature,

Love is different from anything else you learn in life.  Love is where your Soul and your personality must meet by the very nature of what it truly means to love.  When you love, what seems to be situational and circumstantial shifts into what is beyond time and eternal.

It is with love that the blending of action and being come together in that is unique in the human experience.  It is when you love that you can really function as a dual being of both Soul and personality.

The nature of love is Divine Love, so when you love you have opened yourself to the eternal and you have opened yourself to your Soul.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.
                    – Ram Dass

It is this blending of action and being, this merging of your Soul with your personality that makes the lessons of love different from any other life lesson.  It is in the coming together of the temporal and the eternal that love can provide such joy in your life.  It is when we love that we touch the very nature of the Divine.

God is Love
                   – Jesus Christ

It is when you love that you have an understanding of what life is all about.  Meaning is granted to the most mundane experiences.  To love changes everything.  It opens you to joy and fills you with contentment.

True love is free from attachment because it dwells in the eternal.  We learn to love because we are loved.  Our hearts expand with love as we touch our Soul, whose very nature is love.  The more we open our life to love the more we know joy.  The more we open our hearts to love the more we understand the seemingly incomprehensible concepts of Grace, compassion, and mercy.

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It is because your Soul dwells in the eternal that aligning with and calling forth the Love that is the nature of your Soul allows you to begin to learn the lessons of love through choosing to connect with your Soul.  It is because when you love another you must access your Soul to form the eternal bond that is the nature of love that your life is transformed by learning to love.

I can think of no situation or circumstance in life that has more power than love.  I can think of nothing that is more profound than letting yourself love.  Love immediately creates a magnetic attraction that can be sensed by all of life.  This occurs intuitively and preconsciously beyond logic or understanding.

Like draws to like so the more you love, the more loving people come into your life.  The more kindness and support you receive from unexpected places.  As you choose to give more love and be more love in the world you find your connection with Divine Love is a source that you can draw upon without limit for the blessing of others. Ponder on these lessons.

Love becomes its own reward.  This reward is not measured in material things but is measured in joy.  It brings with it a deep sense of peace, yes even the peace that passes understanding when this lesson is learned and demonstrated.

Below is a meditation to help you experience the Love that is available to you.  I suggest that before you meditate that you have a journal beside you so you can record and remember any insights you receive in meditation.

A Love Meditation
to Bring You to the Touch of Your Soul

 

Sit quietly as you calm your mind, open your heart, and invite the Light.

Let your breathing rise and fall naturally with the awareness that you are the one who is breathing in and you are the one who is breathing out.

Let yourself open your heart and your mind a little more with each breath.

As your mind calms from the focus on your breath allow your heart to expand with the energy of love.

As you are aware that you are the one who is breathing in and breathing out realize that the love that is filling you is a part of who you are.  That part is your Soul, whose very nature is love, whose very essence is love.

As you fill your heart with the love energy that is streaming into you invite the Light of your Soul.

Identify with that energy that is filling you to overflowing by affirming

“I Am the Soul”

Let that affirmation resonate with you.

Then affirm:

“I Am Love”

As you say those words let the power of Love fill your heart to overflowing.

Then using your creative imagination visualize a source of Divine energy that you may experience as a golden or ultra-bright white light, a braiding path of love moving into your heart and imagine that light expanding your heart with the Divine Love that is the nature of your Soul.

Let the love stream of energy coming from your heart touch the love stream of energy coming from your Soul.

Imagine those two energies moving back and forth, up and down from your Soul to your heart, and from your heart back to your Soul.

As these two streams of loving light circulate realize that they are blending and fusing.

As they merge and fuse they are expanding the love in your heart and fusing your love with the blessing of Divine Love.

The chalice of your heart overflows as you touch this Source of Love that comes to you.

In this love, with this love, you are being love.  Let that essence flow through you and then with intention let that essence flow through you as a blessing to all others and a blessing to all of life.

This love that flows through you and from you is completely free of desire or need.  It just is.  It blesses every being that it touches without need or attachment.  It is full and complete as you are full and complete as you serve as a conduit for Divine Love.

Let this love and this light flow outward to the weary waiting world for as long as it feels right for you to do.

You have merged your heart with your Soul.  Let the strands of the braid from your heart to your Soul relax and loosen. 

As you become aware of your body again focus on breathing in and breathing out.

Be aware that you are the one who is breathing in, and you are the one who is breathing out.

You are also a Source of endless Love centered in the Will of Love Divine.

Standing thus let yourself be aware of your body and your breath.  

Be aware that in meditation with the touch of your Soul you can be a dual being of Soul and personality, of love and Light.

Take a really deep, satisfying and relaxing breath to enjoy and appreciate the amazing being that you are.

Let your breath return to a normal relaxed breathing.  It may take a moment for the beating of your heart to quiet and calm.

As you return to your normal awareness take a moment to stretch your body and relax.

Then take a few moments to record the sensations of this experience along with any sensations you can recall of holding love in your heart.

 

This Love, this connection with your Soul and with the Source of Love is something you can draw upon for your healing and your happiness.  It is also a Source of Love you can use to share with all of those you Love.

This Love is given freely, requiring nothing from the other.  It can flow freely from your heart to their heart with your only desire being the highest good of all.

You can use the above meditation technique any time you need it to connect your life with Love and demonstrate the lessons of love that you have learned.

 

Namaste,

   Genevieve

The blessing of love on all that you do!

 

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Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”

Read more details…

Genevieve has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Theology and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling and for over thirty years has worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from devastating disabilities and chronic pain. Teaching the mastery of the mind-body relationship she was one of the early professionals trained in biofeedback, visualization, imagery, and meditation as essential techniques to help people heal their bodies, heal their emotions, heal their minds, and heal their lives.

Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.”  Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.

Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.

In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last eight years that are available on Apple Music (iTunes), Amazon, CDBaby, and her website.

It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.

Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.

 

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Surrender, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

Thoughts on Surrender, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

He Is Risen by Genevieve Gerard

As Easter comes around, I find that my meditations turn to thoughts on the resurrection. 

To consider the life of Jesus separate from the resurrection seems to miss the importance of what the final three acts of His story can teach.

That final step, resurrection, may seem so far above and beyond what you can ever accomplish in your own Spiritual life that you dismiss it as a life lesson.

When I look at the life of Jesus, I don’t think anything is accidental.  Every act, every miracle, every parable was His way of teaching.  He taught by doing and demonstrating through His own life what it meant to be both the Son of God and the Son of Man.

What Jesus Taught by Example

This teaching by example, through the activities and events of His own life, are never more significant than in understanding the last three acts of His life.  The fact that these acts were so amazing and so far beyond what the average human being feels they could do I believe has resulted in His followers sometimes dismissing the deeper message that is embedded within them.

Jesus came into human existence to demonstrate what a human being can be and can do.  Not only does He demonstrate His human nature, but He also demonstrated His Divine nature.  That was the message, not an accident.

Jesus, as the Son of God and the Son of Man, was demonstrating the full potential of what it means to be a dual being, a blending of being both fully human and fully Divine.  It is this mystery that I believe empowers the deepest meaning of these last three steps in His life adventure, Surrender, Crucifixion, and Resurrection.

It is easy to dismiss the life of Jesus as a story of a God and miss that is also a story of a Man.  It is easy to see the sacrifice of the crucifixion and forget the pain of the surrender in the Garden of Gethsemane.

It may also be easy to focus on the life of Jesus and think that because he was also Divine His example and demonstration does not relate to your life and isn’t an example you are being called to follow.

That would be a mistake, for Jesus told His followers, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.” John 14:12-14 (New Revised Standard Bible Version.)

Jesus was not holding Himself out as an example of a miracle worker who was beyond human ability.  He was telling His followers, His disciples, what they can do and can be.  He was telling you what your ultimate purpose is as a material human being who is also endowed by the Father (Creator) with the spark of Divine Light that is the gift to every human being to become the dual being of a Man-God.

If you ignore the significance and the suffering of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane you may have missed the crux of the story.  It is reported that “Jesus wept.” John 11:35. Jesus was more than a Divine being playing out a drama on the stage of life.  He was a living, breathing, real human being who decided to sacrifice himself out of Love for Humanity.

Everything that happened in the next three days, the crucifixion and the resurrection were the result of that human choice, made in prayer and distress as He said, “Not my Will but Thine be done.”

The man Jesus, chose to surrender His will to Divine Will.  Jesus chose to sacrifice His human life as an act of Love.
                     – Genevieve Gerard

That choice and that sacrifice allowed a miracle to happen.  That miracle was mystical and the fulfillment of Divine purpose, as in that moment of total obedience and willing sacrifice the energy of Divine Love was able to be anchored on Earth.  That was such a powerful and profound shift in energy that the veil in the temple was rent.  Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.  And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, ‘Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.’  Having said this, He breathed His last. (Luke 23:45–46)

The mystery is that is what marked the moment that humanity began to have true Divine Love available.

It is significant to note that Jesus committed His Spirit to the Father as his material body breathed His last.  It is noteworthy that the resurrection happened three days later, on Easter morning. Jesus, in the final act of His surrender, was totally aligned with the Father (Creator) and totally aligned with bringing the force of Divine Love to earth.  This was His act of Love and His act of service for all of humanity.

In that final act, not only was Love anchored on earth, but the human part of man that was Jesus completed His union with the Christ which had been over-lighting and guiding His message and His activities throughout His teaching and preaching.  It was this connection of the man Jesus, with the Divine aspect of the Christ, that explains the dual life of Jesus, how He could be both God and man.

The fusing of the personality of Jesus, (the man) with the energy of the Christ (the Divine) is the most profound part of the story of the life of Jesus.  It provides the best example of what you are directed to do as a human being, to bring through your Soul into your personal life, thoughts, words, and deeds through the Divine energy of the Christ.

It is this fulfillment of the example of the life of Jesus that creates the fulfillment of His words of “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.” John 14:12-14 (New Revised Standard Bible Version)

Jesus going to the Father was more than hyperbole.  It was a mystical act of joining His human nature with His Divine nature.  And the Christ is the One who serves humanity as the conduit from human existence to the Father (Divine Creator essence).

When Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 (Contemporary English Bible Version) He was speaking not a truth of separative requirement that limits people to Christian belief, but rather an energetic truth that the path to the Father is so vast and charged that the Christ serves as an energetic portal for reaching that exalted transcendent energy.

By Jesus embodying the Christ, He demonstrated how you as a human being and a Soul could go to the Father.  Going to the Father is what empowered the life of Jesus.  It is what gave Him the ability to perform miracles, especially those miracles that seem to defy the laws of matter and the laws of nature as we understand them to be.

This aspect of going to the Father is also what makes resurrection, not simply the last act in the drama of Jesus’s life but the confirmation that resurrection is the final example that Jesus demonstrated as what you and I are instructed to do eventually.

Each Easter, as we celebrate the joy of resurrection with the words shouted across the world “He is Risen, He is Risen Indeed” are offered as the comfort and reassurance of our eternal life through the miracle of resurrection.

Resurrection is a miracle and a mystery, but it is also a promise for the Son of Man who like Jesus is the Son of God.

Ponder on this and celebrate this Easter season in remembrance of the one who sacrificed His life to show us the way.

 

Namaste,

Genevieve

The Blessing of Divine Love on all that you do!

 

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Letting Angels Teach Us the Meaning of Love

Letting Angels Teach Us the Meaning of Love

Teach Us Love by Genevieve Gerard

This article is part of our on-going series on Angels.

We are told in the stories of Creation that God created the Heavens and the Earth.

That may be a statement that has sometimes given you pause, or, it may be something that never crosses your mind; or something you have never considered.

The mystery of Angels is that they are beings of Spirit and Light while we, as humans, are beings of Spirit and Matter.

Tradition tells us that Angels are the messengers of God.  With the evolution of science in human consciousness, the role of Angels diminished.  Humanity has in the recent past become more limited by its collective insistence that only what is experienced through the five senses is real.

An amazing aspect of consciousness is that it is always totally subjective.  Without a concept in your mind, you cannot perceive.  This is a part of life’s mystery.  This is why determining what is real, and differentiating what is unreal is such a significant part of the spiritual journey.

There is a common folk saying that “seeing is believing.”  Yet, we cannot see the energy of radio waves but we now know they are there. Ultimately, I believe it is also true that “believing is seeing.” Ponder on this.

Understanding the laws of matter and relying on your five senses is one way you may see the world, but, it is not the only way.  Sensation and perception can open you to what is known as the sixth sense.  Just acknowledging the possibility that there is more to reality than what you might experience with your limited five senses can shift your awareness. The truth is “we don’t know what we don’t know.”

Here is a secret; opening your awareness is necessary if you want to communicate and learn from Angels.

Greater Awareness Is Coming

Communicating with Angels is something that has changed in these emerging times.  It is important to understand that consciousness is a part of livingness in every form in which life is expressed.  Consciousness is an ongoing process of both evolution and involution as an expression of life itself.

At this time in human evolution, consciousness is transforming to a greater awareness of reality.  A new consciousness is emerging that empowers the human experience to encompass more than just dense matterThe world of the Soul and the awareness of Spirit is in greater awareness.  The substance of your Soul is Spirit and LightConnecting with your Soul Light opens you to the presence and communion with the Angelic Kingdom.

The separation that has long existed between these two realms, Spirit and Matter, Human and Angelic have been thinning.  This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as “the thinning of the veil.” The tasks of the evolution of consciousness are becoming more permeable and interactive than in previous times.

This change seems to be a part of the creation of a “new heaven and a new earth” that is part of the prophecy of the emerging consciousness.  This foretold creation impacts the relationship between Angels and humanity that is compatible with the evolution in consciousness of both realms.

Messenger of God

In ancient stories of Angels appearing to humanity, the Angels were portrayed as messengers.  Angels, being more recognizable and compatible to human life arrived and were visible to communicate important messages.  The stories related often speak to the fear that humans had of Angelic Presence since the very first thing the Angels would say is “be not afraid.”

Fear is a common response of the human experience when presented with what is unfamiliar and unknown.

Special Angels, often Archangels, were chosen for these missions.  And, although these stories are rare and noteworthy, they are sufficiently common for humanity to understand that Angels are real and a part of the relationship between humanity and the Divine.

The role of a Guardian Angel is an example of how the angelic kingdom is aware of the challenges of the human experience.  A special relationship exists between an individual and their Guardian Angel.  That relationship is forged between your Soul and the Angel that takes on the charge of being your Guardian Angel in your life.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
                        – Matthew Simpson

What is significant to understand and honor in these times of the thinning of the veil between heaven and earth is that both humanity and the Angels are constantly expanding their consciousness and awareness.  Angels and humanity, although on different pathways of evolving consciousness have a relationship.  This relationship is about different ways of experiencing the divine.

What We Can Learn From Angels

What is amazing is that these two very different manifestations of life and consciousness are learning similar lessons.  Learning these lessons in a body composed of matter is very different from learning these lessons as a being of Spirit and Light.

Humanity, as it evolves and ascends its consciousness to the ever greater awareness of Light, Love, and Spirit, have much they can learn from Angels.  Now, with the thinning of the veil between Heaven and Earth greater communication is possible.  The Angels remain messengers, as they have always been, but their ability to communicate, teach us and guide us is expanding.

Teaching Us The Meaning of Love

At this time, I believe mostly what they are teaching humanity is about Love.  Learning to Love, and ultimately infusing and transforming matter with Love in an epic transformation.  This lesson is integral to humanity evolving (beyond its animal nature) and is essential for planet earth to become a sacred planet.

Humanity is learning to Love, and Love infusing matter is the mystery of redemption that expands into Cosmic levels of purpose.
                           – Genevieve Gerard

Angels are engaged in this Divine purpose to help and support humanity in accomplishing this transition.  The result of the separation of the world of matter from the Angelic realm thinning is an increased opportunity for communion and communication.  The presence of Angels is moving more and more into human awareness.  Perception is expanding beyond the five senses.

Meditation, prayer, and humanities reach for the Angels and the longing for the true meaning of love are revealing more and more.  The Angelic communication to human consciousness is mostly telepathic and is most often perceived as a whisper of the still quiet voice that is also the tool of your Soul (Higher Self) guiding you.

The Angels are committed to the fulfillment of what is aligned with Divine Will for you in your life.  Indeed, since Angels do not have free will like humans have, they can do no other.

What We Can Teach The Angels

As the Angels are emerging more and more to help humanity learn about Love, they are being exposed to what free will means.  I can only imagine that they are learning from humanity as they help humanity as part of their own angelic involutionary path back to mankind.

Certainly, the increased exposure to human emotion, particularly the pain of unfulfilled desire is a learning experience.  Human life, confined in matter and emotionally subject to the astral plane requires a major shift in consciousness.  In order for the Angels to support humanity in this great lesson of Love, they must become more aware of the trials and tribulations of the human life experience.

This is a great sacrifice the Angels are making.  When they reveal themselves to you in these emerging times I encourage you to be thankful for the sacrifice of service that they are offering to you.  Even to embody matter sufficiently for you to see them, hear them and sense them is different from their essence of Spirit and Light. Have compassion and gratitude and do not abuse their service to humanity.

As this process of revelation increases, the only way humanity can repay their sacrifice is by opening to the highest levels of Love and merging your Love with theirs. When they see life on earth being transformed by Love, and how their gift brings new awareness and consciousness to humanity their joy will expand.  Angels will demonstrate a new integrated way of being that is infused with Love and aligned with Divine Will. I encourage you to honor them with love as the blessing that they are to humanity and to your life and growth.

Namaste,

   Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on all that you do!

 

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What Would Jesus Do Today?

Ask yourself,
what would Jesus do today?

Ask yourself by Genevieve Gerard

This is a question to ask yourself if you consider yourself a Christian.

When I started this article, I was directed to address it to the American Evangelical Church, because of the moral and political crisis that is facing that group in this moment of history.

The more I meditated and prayed on this time in the world; I realized that the problems being faced by the world today are being experienced around the world, in every geopolitical environment because they are the spiritual challenge facing humanity right now.

It Is A Time Of Crisis

Spiritual Cross Words by Genevieve Gerard

Across the planet, throughout the Country, throughout the church, people are being called to make decisions about what is wrong, and what is right, what is not moral and what is moral.

It is a time of crisis, indeed in the United States of America, yet, when I take a more realistic and global look at this moment in the evolution of human life and consciousness, the decisions and choices are being played out on a world stage and apply to all nations.

When I was first directed in my meditation to write this message, I must admit I resisted it.  I suggested the spiritual insights and guidance would reach the evangelical community better through ministers who focus on serving this group.  They are well known and would undoubtedly be listened to better than I, and although a Christian I am not of the evangelical tribe.

As I argued and resisted with myself internally, I was then reminded that I often pray “here I am Lord, use me.”  I was being asked to honor my word.  The Lord was asking to use me.  Would I turn my back in disobedience, or was I a woman of my word?

So, prayerfully and meditatively I opened my mind, my heart, and my Soul to listen to the message I was being called to share.  My argument that I was not worthy was countered by the reminder that those called to deliver a message from God often felt unworthy.  My Biblical knowledge flashed through a myriad of stories of the dire and disastrous consequences of those called to deliver a message from God, and the results when they tried to flee or disobey God’s call.

Chastised and committed to obedience in my meditation, I picked up my proverbial pen (although, it is a computer) re-entered a prayerful and receptive meditative state and began to record the thoughts and impressions being sent through me to this community.

What Would Jesus Do?

I was reminded that among Evangelical Christians many strive to live their faith by asking themselves the question, “What would Jesus do?”  This was the question I was guided to ask in this letter.

It is abundantly clear that asking that question is an excellent way to consider the many life choices we are called upon to make.

As I continued to ponder and consider the direction, I realized that the value and import of this question were broader than just one country or only one church.

However, the need for this article to be sent to and directed to Evangelical Christians is clear.

If you are an Evangelical Christian, or if you know Evangelical Christians I ask your help in sending this article to that group, for that was my initial instruction and purpose for writing this article.

As I continued to pray and meditate on this question “What would Jesus Do?” my thoughts expanded.  In the history of humanity, the choices Jesus made were so powerful and profound that over two thousand years later we are in awe of what he taught and demonstrated in His life and more amazingly in His death and sacrifice.

To make your life and moral choices by the guidance of the question “What would Jesus Do” can be a tough moral standard to follow.  His path was not an easy path, and choosing what is right over what is wrong may never be the easy way.

Human nature and being human is vulnerable to pride.  Self-righteousness and assurance of moral superiority are sins we must all consider when we make a moral choice.

To take a stand for right action in life, especially if you consider “what Jesus would do” requires that you answer how Love is served, how harmlessness and compassion are demonstrated.

With that in mind, I am reminded of the parable Jesus told as guidance for following Him.

The parable in Matthew 25:40 Jesus said:

The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ (New International Bible Version)

Now I believe that of all the lessons that Jesus taught and all of the ways he guided those who say they follow Him, there is no better guide for our moral decision to determine what you should do, than those words.  So, I ask you to consider the moral and political choices of today’s world and challenges by examining the question of “what would Jesus do?”

What would Jesus do about . . . immigration?  Would he close the borders to refugees?  Would he deport the DACA young people and deprive them the opportunity to live their lives and fulfill their Soul purpose because they are of a different culture?

Would Jesus deprive children of Health Care because their parents are poor?  Would he deprive the disabled of Medicare?  Would He defund Health insurance supplements for working families in need?

What would Jesus do about the Homeless, especially Homeless and Disabled Veterans?

Would Jesus eliminate funding for breakfast for school-age children or meals for seniors?

Would he punish addiction by profitable prisons, or might he support treatment and rehabilitation?

“What would Jesus do?” is a question I invite all of you to consider in light of the many issues and challenges coming before the American people and Evangelical Christians in these troubling times.

There is in our world and in our society a battle for the Soul of America.  If America is to be a Christian nation as I believe the Evangelical Christian Church desires, then we must behave in a way that is congruent with the teachings of Matthew 25:40, or risk being rejected by the King as the parable teaches.

Asking the question “What would Jesus do today?” is a call of conscience to not only the Evangelical Church but to the Catholic Church and every denomination that identifies as Christian.

Many countries have made these decisions, yet I write especially to the United States of America today because she is in a battle for the Soul of American over the forces of greed.

Make A Choice & Take A Stand

If you want America to be a Christian Nation, then you must in your political life take a stand.

The forces of greed and selfishness are strong.  Asking yourself “what would Jesus do?” will help you consider what you can do to solve many of these social and societal issues.  What are you funding to support and help in the world?  Does it reflect what Jesus would do, or does it support the forces of selfishness and greed?

These are the questions every citizen who identifies themselves as a Christian are being called to consider.  It is not easy to follow Christ.  Jesus was an example that we all fall short of achieving.  As I pen these words, I remember that in every Christian variation is the creed and affirmation that Christ will come again.

Jesus Knocking

The promise, the hope and the belief of the reappearance of the Christ cross all the divisions in the Christian faith.  We are told of His coming, “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Matthew 24:36.

We, as Christians are charged to live every day prepared for His coming.  Certainly, looking at the choices and changes in the world today, the world may well be preparing for that moment.  Are you?

Are the causes you are supporting today compatible with you being more than a Sunday morning Christian? Are you living your life and making your political decisions based on the guidance of the question, “What would Jesus Do?”

Are you making the choices as if your Lord himself were one of the disenfranchised, needy and poor?  Do you see Jesus in the face of every person?  Are you following His commandment, indeed His only commandment to Love, but to your neighbor as yourself?

These are the questions I was guided to place before you as a member of the Christian movement.  This is the message I was directed to offer to you from my morning prayers and meditations.

There are significant decisions before you in our modern world, in our country, America and indeed in every country across the planet.

We need to decide who and what defines us as a culture, as a society.  I invite you and encourage you to take direction and guidance of your faith as you ask yourself and then answer, “What would Jesus Do Today?”

The Christ in me greets the Christ in you with the ancient greeting “The Peace of the Lord be with you.” 
                           – Genevieve Gerard

Before I close this article and my own prayerful meditations I am guided to offer you a prayer to support you in your desire to follow the teachings of Jesus.  This is a prayer to support you as you strive to walk your talk, to demonstrate to the world what Jesus would do.

 

Lord, I Want To Be Like Jesus Prayer

 

Let Us Pray

Beloved Lord,

I humbly ask that you come to me and guide me in the choices I make today.  Lord, I want to be like Jesus in my heart and in my life.

I open my heart to the power of the Holy Spirit that I may find the strength to Love my neighbor as myself.

As I invite the Love of the Christ into my heart compassion fills me.  In the face of every stranger let me see the face of Jesus.  Let every act of kindness be of service to you my beloved Lord.  So, you instructed us, and so I strive to be more like you today.

I know I may fall short of being able to accomplish this, so I surrender to the Love of the Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit to fill me and infuse me so that I may be an active demonstration of what Jesus would do.

As I offer myself to this work and service, I ask that not my will but thine be done, through me.

Help me to consider harmlessness as I consider the plight of others.  Please guide my thoughts and words.  Grant me the strength to stand up for what my heart and Love tell me are right action in this world of sorrow and need.

Lord empower me to see your face in everyone I see that I may express my gratitude to you for your sacrifice by my own service to those you called “the least of these my brethren.”

Help me remember that my service to the hungry and sick, the refugees and prisoners, the addicts and alcoholics is my service to You.

Let me be a living example of Your life, Your Love and Your Grace.  Let me be a source of good in the world.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray.

Amen

 

The Blessing of Love on all that you do! 

   Genevieve

 

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