How To… Why To… Meditate Workshop

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How To… Why To… Meditate

Workshop March 20th
in Boca Raton, FL

9:00am—1:00pm (gather at 8:30am)

So you thought meditation sounded cool, but a bit esoteric and possibly hard to get into? You feared it was done by wandering mystics and yogis who chant mantras at dawn? You are right. It is also true that meditation is a 5,000 year old practice anyone can learn, and it is absolutely relevant to modern life.

New research confirming the value of meditation is continually being presented in the media and much of the new research is documenting the many physiological changes that are created by the practice of meditation.

Meditation has been proven by modern medical research to:

Improve Health,
Reduce Stress Levels,
Improve Sleep Patterns,
and Increase Well Being

To view this short video on YouTube directly click How To Meditate.

Meditation can help you connect with your Higher Self, and enable you to gain greater peace, perspective and insight in your daily life. This course was created to share with you the secrets to balancing the mind, relaxing the body, calming the emotions and nourishing the spirit. It is guaranteed to demystify meditation and make it a life enhancing, richly rewarding part of your life.

In this accessible experiential workshop you will sample and explore 12 different styles and techniques of meditation. All of the meditation sessions will guide you effortlessly into the experience and Genevieve will provide you with the tools, techniques and information you need to understand and explore meditation directly for yourself.

Group participation and interaction will be an integral part of the experience and there will be ample time for discussion and questions.

— SATURDAY, March 20, 2014 —

9:00am—1:00pm (gather at 8:30am)

Limited Seating is available
(this will be a small group experience)

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Mothers Day 2013

Genevieve Gerard

Mothers Day 2013

Today (Mother’s Day 2013) I offer this Meditation on the Gift of Unconditional Love, free to you.

I hope it blesses and empowers your life with Love.

The blessing of Love on all that you do.

Namaste,
Genevieve Gerard

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Light of the Dawn

Genevieve Gerard

Light of the Dawn

As the last breath of darkness surrenders to the Light of the dawn, I am reminded that the Light has the power over the dark.

As a single candle can dispel the darkness, positive thoughts in our mind can dispel the fears that try to hold us captive.

Each time we assert our dominion over the tyranny of fear we strengthen the Divine Light within us. And as surely as the Sun chases the night from the sky, so our affirming and embracing positive thoughts activates the law of the universe that energy follows thought, which places the power for our life firmly in our hands.

Namaste

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Today

Genevieve Gerard

Today

Today, new possibilities reveal themselves.

Today, I open my awareness to the potential of transformation and healing.

Today, I am free of the mistakes and misunderstandings of the past, as I enter into this day renewed.

Today, the past is behind me. Now is my moment. The future is as yet unwritten.

Goodness and mercy are mine to claim in a celebration of the joy of being.

Namaste

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Ponderings on Resurrection

Genevieve Gerard

Ponderings on Resurrection

As Easter Morning approaches I find myself pondering the deeper meaning of resurrection. There is in the life of Jesus, no more miraculous or promising story told than that of his resurrection. The very possibility of resurrection stirs hope in the human heart.

As I ponder upon and consider the deeper meaning and message of resurrection, I see it as an affirmation of life and consciousness beyond the limitations of our physical being. It seems that Jesus’s appearing after his death, to the women at the tomb, and later in Galilee, were important demonstrations of the eternity of the life of the Soul and the continuity of consciousness.

This message is affirmed with joy on Easter morning with the ritual words, “He is risen, He is risen indeed!” These words speak to the promise of the eternal nature of our Soul and the importance of consciousness. Hidden in the miraculous story of the resurrection of Jesus are mysteries of how the Soul impacts matter to create life. The mechanics of life are miraculous and often veiled from our real understanding, as the mechanics of resurrection are veiled from our understanding. The significance of the resurrection story is in what it reveals to us about the life of the Soul and the nature of consciousness.

The resurrection story assures us that there is more possibility and potentiality in our Soul, in our consciousness, in the miracle of life itself, than we might have imagined. The resurrection demonstrates that although there is much we do not understand at this point in our awareness, the limitations we perceive and place upon ourselves can be just an illusion, and the nature of truth and reality are more vast and amazing than we can comprehend at this point in our evolution. Therefore I rejoice to the depth of my being in the possibility and promise that the story of the resurrection brings, in full understanding and faith that there is more to the miracle of life than I can understand, and that in the fullness of time and through the journey of exploring our timeless consciousness all will be revealed.

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Perchance to Dream

Genevieve Gerard

Perchance to Dream

Sleep is an essential part of our human life, our human experience. We know we spend approximately one-third of our lives in sleep, and that to do so is essential to our physical, emotional and mental health. And we know that when we get a good night’s sleep we feel better; again, physically, emotionally and mentally.

Since the advent of tools that measure the subtle activity of the brain, we have learned that sleep is an active and fertile time for our consciousness. Dreams are an essential part of the sleep experience. Measurements of time in dreams through the tracking of REM (rapid eye movement) cycles helps scientists and doctors track and examine when in the sleep cycle we dream. And, psychologists will attest to the importance of dreams in the process of communicating to the conscious mind, often in a symbolic language in subtle ways that we sometimes can understand and sometimes find confusing. Indeed there are psychologists who devote the main focus of their practice to interpreting dreams.

Even among those therapists who do not focus their practice on dreams, most psychotherapists would agree that the process of dreaming is important and through the experience of dreams people are put in touch with a part of their consciousness that Carl Jung called supra-personal consciousness. Realizing this, understanding this fact of the dreaming experience, leads us to examine both sleep and dreams from the perspective of consciousness.

Here, in the realm of consciousness, no machines, no matter how scientific or advanced can answer our inquiries. How we dream, and why we dream what we dream, are mysteries. At times our dreams may be a jumbled reflection of a book we were reading before sleep, or a movie or television program we saw, or a conversation we had in the course of our day. I even recall dreams of solitaire- layouts on a night when obviously too much of my day had been spent playing computer games. At other times our dreams present deep insights, revealing greater understanding and wisdom about our life.

Dreams and their symbols remain in the realm of our consciousness, and therefore to my way of thinking, are spiritual, by which I mean pertaining to the spirit or soul contact. – Genevieve Gerard

Old biblical stories resound with prophets or characters being directed in dreams. Recall the story of Jacob who dreamed of an angel telling him to return from where he was staying, to his family’s land. (Genesis 31: 13) “ Likewise Pilate’s’ wife was reported to have been warned in a dream that he should have nothing to do with Jesus, “that just man.” (Matthew 27: 19) Recall that the Wise Men who traveled to the manger, following a star, were told in a dream to return home by a different route when leaving Jerusalem, after they had found the baby Jesus. (Matthew 2: 12)

So throughout over 4,000 years of spiritual stories, the importance of dreams have been considered and recorded. Dreams have been a part of the human experience and our human expression both spiritually and psychologically, as reflected in the words of Shakespeare as Hamlet records in his famous soliloquy of “To be or not to be,” in which he extols the blessings of sleep but fears dreams when he notes “to dream, ah there’s the rub.” So the importance of our dreams has long been known to humanity.

Unfortunately our science, our pursuit of medicine and instant solutions for life problems, have resulted in a in a disruption of our dreams. Those who use sleeping medication on a regular basis are said to dream less. Sleeping medication represses the REM cycle. Those who become habitual users of these medications are removed from both the blessing and the curse of this natural and essential human experience. This is the most unfortunate result of using medication to sleep.

In the years since I first released my “Sleep in Heavenly Peace” visualization, the only people who have told me they tried to use the visualization but it didn’t help them sleep, were those who were the habitual users of sleep medications, and unfortunately that is a large part of our population. So as I examine the experience of sleeping and dreaming from the perspective of consciousness I wish to encourage the use of meditative and relaxing techniques as solutions to sleep problems. These natural solutions leave the portal to dreams open for the insights and awareness that dreams may bring. To disrupt this natural part of our consciousness’s ability to communicate through the sleep experience seems unwise.

And I wish you sweet dreams.

Namaste

About the author: Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of the soul.” Browse her body of work at www.GenevieveGerard.com. Copyright © 2013 by Genevieve Gerard. All rights reserved.

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Center Your Energies Before Writing

Genevieve Gerard

How to Center Your Energies Before You Begin to Write

This post is in response to a question I revived in one of the comments on my Blog.

Here are some tips and ideas to help you center your energies and clear your mind before you write. Breath as always is a key element to calming your mind and opening yourself to the insight and wisdom of your Higher Self. It is the wisdom and insight of your Higher Self that you want to access in order to do your best writing.

By connecting to the flow of energy from you Higher Self, you are able to write from the perspective of your whole being. Your thoughts can then take on the wholeness of your Self by bringing the alignments of your emotions with your mind and the wisdom and insight that your Soul brings to the expression of your self in the process of writing.

So, begin by sitting quietly and focus upon your breath. As you observe and become aware of your breath, allow your mind to quiet. The awareness of your breath automatically begins multiple events in motion. The simple act of observing your breath with no attempt to control your breathing helps you relax and bring your energy to a calm quiet and receptive place.

You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.”
– Genevieve Gerard

As you sit there observing your breath letting your body calm and your mind let the chatter fade away you can further prepare to write by opening your heart and mind to the impressions and insight of your Higher Self. You can then further enhance the process of preparation by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing. Express that intention as an expression of your will.

You can further strengthen this connection by imagining golden light connecting your heart, your mind and your Soul in a triangle of energy. As you continue to breathe, see the light flow easily along this pathway to connect your body (at the heart center), mind (at the point of energy midway between your eyebrows) and Soul Imagine (imagined as a radiant point of Light about 3 feet above your head) the blending and fusing of those energies.

This can all be accomplished in just a few minutes. You can then engage in a meditation, or just begin to write. It is important to suspend self-criticism and self-judgment as you begin to write. You can always change and edit your writing once you have created a draft in the natural flow of your writing. Allow your writing to flow naturally.

If you find that your flow of thoughts and words slows, return to letting the breath move your energy in the magic triangle of heart, mind and Soul. You can return to blending, fusing and circulating that energy as many times as you need to throughout the process of writing whenever you feel your energy flow becomes stagnant.

Approaching your writing from a centered place of awareness, connected to your Higher Self is particularly important when you write in a journal or are engaged in creative or spiritual writing. Check out my blog post on “Keeping A Journal Can Be A Doorway To Spiritual Insight.” Even technical and business writers will benefit from taking the time to center and connect your energies before you write.

Over time, these simple steps of coordinating your breath and your intention with the connection of your heart, mind and Soul will become second nature to you and free you from the stress and tyranny of self-criticism that limits the creative process.

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Dispelling Fear with the Light of the Soul

Genevieve Gerard

Dispelling Fear with the Light of the Soul

Fear is perhaps the most limiting and damaging factor in preventing the fulfillment of our Soul’s purpose in life and preventing us from enjoying and experiencing the joy that is our birthright of human experience.

Because fear is a destroyer, damaging the full expression of life and joy wherever it raises its ugliness, it is important that we learn to transcend the limitations that fear imposes on our life experiences.

Fear interferes with us manifesting our true purpose in life, our call to service in life, and the creative expression that our life would be and could be if we conquer and dispel fear.

Our mind chatter, what the ancients called the Chitta of the mind, is a constant dispenser of negativity and limitation that goes on in the back of the mind, droning negativity and disempowerment through the imaginings of our fears.

To overcome the mind chatter and the feelings of fear may seem simple for some, but it’s not easy.

Learning To Dispel Fear

Learning to dispel and release fear through the application of Soul Light is one of the most powerful and life-transforming benefits of meditation.
– Genevieve Gerard

Learning to transcend the limitations of fear and to respond to the possibilities and potentialities of life– to bring forth into the Light, the Love that underlies the happenings of the times–can be a major accomplishment of a lifetime.

Learning the lessons of love and learning to demonstrate those lessons can occupy our consciousness through many lifetimes as we explore our multifaceted roles in life as co-creators with the Divine.

Imagine if you will for just a moment, the amazing reservoir of energy that would be freed for your creative use in life if you could free yourself of the debilitation, exhaustion, and conflict that is currently using your energy. Consider the limitations on your energy, the possible negative consequences of every thought, and every action, that fear engenders in you.

Imagine, the dreams you would dare to dream and the potential you would dare to manifest if you could quiet the harassing voice of your fears in your mind. The amazing thing is that you can, through the practice of meditation, learn to quiet the destructive chatter of fear and free yourself to manifest your potential and your purpose in life.

Much like the training of the physical body by an athlete, you can, through the practice and art of meditation, learn to train your mind and emotions to focus upon what is possible, what you can manifest, what you can bring into being.

There are in the annals of the practice of meditation a myriad of techniques you can employ to learn to harness what the ancients often referred to as the monkey mind and learn to quiet your fears.

Using Affirmations To Dispel Limitations & Fears

One of the simplest meditative techniques is the use of affirmations.

By affirming a statement, you employ simultaneously several important spiritual truths and universal principles. The first of these is the power of intention and the power of invocation.

Affirmations can be a first line of defense in learning to dispel the limitations and damage of your fears. By harnessing the positive creative power of your mind, you take the reins to direct your life.

Affirmations, when said with the coordinated determination of incorporating your Soul purpose and fulfilling your life purpose have a dynamic force. By use of a positive affirmation in your mental discipline you engage a mysterious powerful force in the principle that energy follows thought. This simple technique works energetically to bring into physical manifestation and experiential reality, that which you affirm.

A powerful way to use affirmations is to let them play in the background, then focus on them when one that makes you feel joy or resonates to you, strengthening the affirmation by adding your will and intention.

Another powerful way to use affirmations is to say them to yourself while looking in a mirror. This helps you align with the words and envision them as real for you and part of your life.

Affirmations activate the powerful universal principle that “energy follows thought.” When you use an affirmation realize that you are empowering your Soul to manifest what you envision in your life.

This is a new day I begin anew and claim and create all that is good.
– Louise Hay

When you use an affirmation, you are joining your Soul energy with your will and intention as a way of dispelling your fears and empowering your life.

Choose an affirmation that resonates with your Soul purpose and life purpose and use it as often as feels right, to replace fear with possibility and potential.

For this purpose I have created two collections of positive affirmations, Soaring to Success and Awaken to Success. They include a BONUS TRACK “How to Use Affirmations Effectively – How affirmations work and how to manifest what you want using any affirmation.”

Others on the path of Light have created others. You can create your own. The action of choosing the affirmation and considering the power of what you affirm is a part of the process.

Although using affirmations is a simple technique, it is powerful and life-changing.

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.”

New Opportunities

Genevieve Gerard

New Opportunities

In our life we are given many opportunities to begin anew. Today signifies a New Moon, the chance to start a new cycle. Astrological and esoteric traditions tell us that at the New Moon, seeds of thought and energy are created, which develop and mature as the moon grows to its fullness. The demarcation of a New Year has just passed for the Western calendar, and Chinese New Year lies immediately ahead, on February 10^th. Thus celebrations of a new start and new beginnings have been enjoyed by mankind for thousands of years.

The chance to put the past behind us and enter into present time with all of its promise and potential is an exciting and hopeful aspect of our great adventure in life.

It is this hopeful promise that is part of the joy that each day, each new dawn, brings to me. The wonderful thing about these plentiful markers of new beginnings, from a new day to the New Moon or a New Year, is they can be used as a time of reflection or meditation, empowering us to truly put the past behind us and enter into now.

There are also opportunities to forgive yourself of any past failures, and to forgive others of any past wrongs or betrayals. Each new day, each new moon and each New Year reminds us that our most powerful time is now. It is in the present that our full promise and full potential are available to us.

Whether we are young or old there is truth in the saying “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” Celebrate it by letting go of the past and entering to the power of Now with all of the freedom and joy that offers you, right here and right now.

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Ponderings on a Christmas Morning

Genevieve Gerard

Ponderings on a Christmas Morning

Today we celebrate the birth of the Christ. We celebrate by giving gifts and joining together with friends and loved ones. We celebrate in the remembrance of the gift from God of the birth of him who was to become the World Savior. He through an act of complete obedience and surrender sacrificed his all. In so doing he eliminated of the separation of mankind from God and anchored Divine Love on earth.

The life of Christ was both a miraculous and a mythical event that fulfilled prophecies and enacted rituals unknown to our understanding. Just the foretelling of his life was sufficient to make a Cosmic Star rise in the east and, the Angelic hosts sing.

Since the life and willing sacrifice of the Christ, much has changed in the world. There is still great work to be done in the world for the Love that was grounded by the Christ 2000 years ago to become manifest on earth and reign in the hearts of humanity.

We can join in this great work by living in Love, expressing love, demonstrating love and letting love guide our thoughts, our feeling and our actions. The more we can express love in our life, the more we can give love in our life, and then we are filled with the joy of love and the ability to live our life more abundantly.

Namaste

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World Meditation Day 2024 – Winter Solstice Vision

Genevieve Gerard

U.N. World Meditation Day 2024 – Winter Solstice Vision

The seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly has officially declared December 21st as “World Meditation Day” (document A/79/L.27), and invited all Member States, the United Nations system and civil society to observe it.

In short, to enhance awareness of meditation and its benefits, emphasizing the universal right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.

This achievement brings immense pride to all meditators worldwide.

Specifically, The General Assembly,

Recalling the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health,

Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, especially target 3.4 on promoting mental health and well-being,

Recalling its resolutions 68/98 of 11 December 2013 on global health and foreign policy and 77/300 of 26 June 2023 on mental health and psychosocial support,

Recalling also its resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of 20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years and Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and anniversaries,

Recalling further its resolution 69/131 of 11 December 2014 on the International Day of Yoga, and acknowledging the link between yoga and meditation as complementary approaches to health and well-being,

Reaffirming rule 62 of its rules of procedure on the invitation to silent prayer or

meditation,

Affirming the importance, as a place for prayer and meditation, of the meditation room at United Nations Headquarters in New York,

Acknowledging the universality of meditation, practiced in all regions of the world,

Recognizing that meditation can contribute to health and well-being

Recognizing also that the wider dissemination of information about the benefits of meditation would be beneficial for the health and well-being of people around the world,

Decides to proclaim 21 December as World Meditation Day;
Invites all Member and observer States, the organizations of the United

Nations system and other international and regional organizations, as well as civil society, including non-governmental organizations and individuals, to observe World Meditation Day, in an appropriate manner, in order to raise awareness of the benefits of meditation;

Stresses that the cost of all activities that may arise from the implementation of the present resolution should be met from voluntary contributions;
Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the attention of all Member and observer States, the organizations of the United Nations system and other relevant stakeholders for appropriate observance.

Meditation: A Pathway to Global Harmony and Unity

Meditation holds a prominent role at the United Nations, showcased by the Meditation Room at UN Headquarters in New York.

Established in 1952 under the leadership of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, this “room of quiet” signifies the importance of silence and introspection in fostering global harmony.

Hammarskjöld articulated the necessity of a space dedicated to both outer silence and inner stillness within a place focused on peace and debate.

In the face of global challenges like armed conflicts, climate change, and the rapid pace of technological change, meditation emerges as a potent tool for cultivating peace, unity, and compassion.

World Meditation Day highlights the critical need for nurturing human consciousness to address these challenges and create harmony within ourselves and our communities. By fostering inner peace through meditation, individuals play a crucial role in building a more resilient and sustainable world for current and future generations.

Promoting Health and Well-Being

Meditation is gaining recognition for its positive impact on mental health, an essential human right, and its support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development places health and well-being at the heart of sustainable progress. Goal 3, “Good Health and Well-Being,” focuses on ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being across all age groups, tackling challenges such as maternal and child health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, and access to essential medicines and vaccines.

This goal underscores the significance of mental health, universal health coverage, and the reduction of health disparities to foster resilient and inclusive societies.

A Meditative Vision to Usher in the New Age

The telling of a meditative dream by Genevieve Gerard, preparatory to the Winter Solstice.

Here, Now, at this moment of time this exists within, cloaked and encased in the poignant power of this moment of time, in the space of the Eternal Now, the opportunity to be free, be released, to be healed and restored.

Gather As Souls in the Hall of Records

Visualize yourself entering into the Hall of Records.

Into this sacred place you are invited today.

Here we gather as Souls, as our consciousness only, we are free from the trappings of our bodies.

We are aware, without the burdens of our physical desires in the radiant pure blue Light of the Soul, of our eternal and essential Self.

This holy place is only accessible in the Eternal NOW. It is open to you through your meditation for your healing, for your empowerment to provide the perspective of enlightenment, to grant you greater clarity and freedom.

Here, in this radiant room of white alabaster, as far as the eye can see are sections of shelves overflowing with golden scrolls, here is the recorded history of your progression through lives and your progression through the annals of time.

Here reside the lessons your Soul has learned in the adventure we call life. Here all of your glories are recorded, all your failures are accessed, all your challenges recalled.

As you prepare to enter here you are met at the door by three angels, the first of which presents you with a gossamer robe of resounding light.

Your Angel of the Presence, blazing forth in resplendent Light and Glory, places a golden crown upon your head.

The Angel on the Threshold places a (rod) (staff) in your prepared and waiting hands.

Your Guardian Angel places a golden chain around your neck that has a diamond resplendent with rainbow light as unlimited prisms of color sparkle forth lighting the hall before you.

That Diamond Light connects your heart to the heart of the Christ and radiates in the Light Supernal the essence of pure love. This love lights the room in ever-changing prisms of loving light.

You have come here today to do great work, great service. From this task, you shall not waver. From this task, you shall not shirk.

Behind you are all of your brethren. Their strength supports you as your strength supports them.

Great work stands before you in the hall of records. A service that will free your fellow man. A work that will serve the transforming power of love. A service that will heal and release bindings that have subverted and sabotaged the best efforts of man, lifetime after lifetime.

Now is the hour of release. Now is the time of transformation. The key to freedom has been given to you and to all who enter herein with a clarity of purpose and intention.

The tasks before you are not small. The task before you may not be easy. The task before you is absolutely and completely essential to ushering in the new age in a way that can bring real and lasting change.

So important is this work that all of the hierarchy, masters, and initiates are here to join this work and do their part, encompassing all of their lives throughout the span of time.

So important is this work that the Souls of all those dedicated servants of mankind called the New Group of World Servers are gathered to both aid the work and receive the blessing and transformation it will bring.

This is a moment in time for which mankind has waited for over 26,000 years. This is a release that will heal our hearts, our minds, and our Souls from sorrows and pains that we did not even know we carried.

Here, in the Hall of Records, with the aggregate of all of our lives since the earth was formed we are charged to completely, now and forever, wield the power of forgiveness.

As we look upon the recorded history of our journey through time we are charged to forgive, now and forever, any and all slights and wrongs, no matter how large, no matter how small. We forgive every betrayal, every selfish or self-serving act that ever caused us to hurt or harm.

We release now and forever any vows of vengeance or retribution, releasing us and the other from the karmic bonds that have limited us.

No sin is too great or too small. It is all offered up. It is all forgiven. It is all released through an act of grace by the Lords of Karma.

Freedom from the limitations of the past is opened, here and now, through this unprecedented flow of forgiveness. You must give the forgiveness to receive forgiveness.

This is the opportunity to wipe your slate clean and to wipe clean the slate of all your brethren through their parade of roles and relationships in your lives.

Now and forever you may be free of all that has come before by this awe-inspiring act of forgiveness, this profound, powerful, and poignant moment in the annals of life and the annals of time.

Embrace this power of forgiveness; free yourself from the karmic ravages of the past in time. Release yourself and release all who have ever walked through any of your lives, completely, now and forever, throughout time, beyond time, freed from time.

Forgiveness is the portal to your complete freedom to be and become all you were created to be. This gift is yours and available to all of your brethren who gather in this hall today.

Now is the moment, the moment is eternal, the release is complete, the healing is complete. The miracle of forgiveness opens to freedom. Love is fully served and love prevails beyond our imagining.

Something magical and miraculous is happening here on planet earth. It happens at the winter solstice as we move out of the challenging recent years, we move beyond the sacrifice and sorrows of a worldwide killings that has cost the world so many as we enter a new time of hope and healing. As we transition from the darkness into the Light comes an opportunity to practice the pillars of virtue, harmlessness, kindness, compassion, and right speech.

As we celebrate the Solstice it is time to celebrate and embrace the transforming power of Love that is flooding to Earth from the Heavens. As we enter the New Year of 2025 the Angels are aligning with the ashram of Christ to help humanity make the next step forward in learning to Love.

Love is the answer to a myriad of life’s problems. The power of Love is transformation. It is available without limitation freely to all simply by opening your heart and inviting it in.

Within you is your Soul, whose nature is Love. As you open your heart, calls to like and Love flows freely to you from the unlimited Source of Love to infuse you and transform you. The stars and planets are aligning across the Universe to ignite and empower the consciousness of humanity with enlightened awareness as the veils of illusion shred.

Truth and clarity reveal the strength of unity and brotherhood/sisterhood among the human family of the world. Resources of revelation guide restoration and redemption. The gifts of this Solstice of 2024 are available to heal the world after the death and devastation of a worldwide pandemic and offer hope and the promise of new solutions and new opportunities.

As always in the human adventure there is free will and free choice. I call upon you to choose Love, to choose kindness, to choose compassion, and to choose harmlessness. After a year of disagreement and division, it is time to practice forgiveness. It is time to find what strengthens and unites us. It is time to practice the commandment of Christ to “Love One Another“.

A Winter Solstice Ritual for Forgiveness

This is to help you take full advantage of this event of forgiveness.

From the sacred place within the hall of records, take your stand.

Declare from the point of focus of your Soul to forgive all others who have ever, in any time, in any life, caused you harm, created sorrow or suffering in your life, wronged you in any way.

Let yourself release the pains of attachment. Let the Light of Love enlighten you and free you as being in the eternal NOW loosens and releases you as you stand forth in the eternal glory of your eternal essence, your Soul.

As you clearly state your intention and desire to forgive, focus your heart energy in Love. Let that love fill your heart and pervade your being. No matter what the sorrow, no matter what the sin, love can heal it and you and all who have ever sinned against you can be released into the freedom and the joy of forgiveness.

From the center of your heart see lines of love come forth from your Soul, scanning and reviewing the aggregate golden scrolls stored in the hall of records. Let the bond of Love connect your Soul to the Soul of the one whose life is recorded herein. At that touch, forgiveness springs forth and Love heals and restores you and all with whom you have ever shared the bonds of love.

All sorrow melts away and the joy of unity is restored. Karma is both transcended and released at this touch through the miraculous transformation. This is an act of Grace over-lighted by the Lords of Karma who have gathered at this juncture of time, the transition of the ages to give the gift of release and forgiveness to all who are willing to forgive.

Freedom rings forth throughout the universe with the release that forgiveness brings. The healing is complete and on all levels.

Your will and intention are all it takes.

With each strand of Light that flows forth from your heart and your Soul, carried on the wings of love, forgiveness heals and transforms the past, throughout the annals of time, along the scrolls of the recorded events of all your lives and the recorded lives of all who you have touched throughout time.

With the full force of your will, with the full power of your love, send forth from your Soul to the awaiting Soul of the other with the statement, “I forgive you, now and forever, from the past and in the present, in this dynamic moment of the eternal now.“

Within the laws of love and imbued with the grace of compassion and mercy I release you from any karmic debts owed to me. I join this spirit of utter and complete forgiveness by asking forgiveness from you for any harm or wrongs I may have committed, knowing, or unknowing throughout our lives, no matter how large or how small.

Lastly, but as important I invoke and invite this gift of forgiveness by forgiving myself. I have made mistakes. I have been selfish and self-serving. I have failed to live by the laws of love and harmlessness. I sincerely repent of these ways and invite into my life the release of redemption and the joy of love and unity for the rest of my life.

In the downpouring love of the heart of the Christ with the outpouring cleansing and healing waters of this new Age of Aquarius I am made anew. I assert my intention to live my life from this day forth by the laws of love, aware of harmlessness and right speech as my guiding principles.

Most of all know that I Am Love.

And thus, I stand. Here as revealed and recorded in the sacred space of the hall of records, freed to go forth and live fully and serve fully unencumbered by the past, free to the joy and grace of the ongoing celebration of the eternal Now.

Before you leave this sacred place take a moment and pause. Give your thanks and appreciation to the Angels who keep the Hall of Records as their work and service throughout eternity in the eternal now for the granting of Grace and igniting the release of forgiveness empowered by Divine Love.

Then take some time to bask in this release today as the 2024 Winter Solstice celebrates the return of the Light after the darkest hour. Let all of your sorrows be released into the darkness as with the rising of the Light comes the reassurance that good will prevail.

Record your meditations and contemplations to help empower you and enlighten you as you prepare for a new year in the turn of life and a new decade in the wheel of time for humanity in the evolution of consciousness.

Namaste,

Genevieve Gerard

Last updated 12-21-2024

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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.”

The Blessing of Beauty

Genevieve Gerard

The Blessing of Beauty

It is all too easy to take for granted the blessings we have in our lives. This morning, as I watch the light chase away the shadows and bring into focus the world before me, I realize how we can fail to notice the beauty that surrounds us, the blessings that surround us. Nature in her glorious abundance makes a gift to us that we may easily ignore.

The simple joy, the subtle beauty of the light of the morning, is part of an ever-changing, constantly renewing demonstration that we only need open our eyes to see.” -Genevieve Gerard

No dawn is a repeat performance. Each dawn is a unique blessing, its own gift. We receive this gift whether we are rich or poor. It is available to us by simply opening our eyes and observing. It is an ever-changing drama, readily available for our enjoyment, our pleasure, our blessing.

This awareness leads me to ponder the question, how many other experiences in our life do we take for granted and thereby ignore? How many blessings are we being given that we fail to see and fail to appreciate as we hurry and scurry from event to event, caught up in the glamour of busyness?

Today, now, in this moment of time, let us focus our awareness on the beauty that surrounds us, the blessings we may not have observed or have taken for granted. Let us open our minds and hearts to appreciate all that is being given to us, right here, right now.

Let us focus our attention on what we have, instead of what we think we need or believe we want. And in this spirit of receiving, let us allow our gratitude and our joy to spring forth.

Let us enjoy this experience of observing and appreciating the beauty that surrounds us and the blessings that are available to us each moment, each day.

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Veterans Day 2021

Genevieve Gerard

Veteran’s Day 2021

Imagine 1 Minute

Each year we set aside Veterans Day to thank and to honor our veterans. And as important as that is, I cannot help but take a moment to wonder and imagine what our lives could be like and would be like, if instead of each passing day adding to our population of veterans, we the people, all over the world, sued for peace and vowed to–in the words of an old American spiritual –“study war no more.”

I know this sounds both incredibly naïve, and idealistic. Surely war has been with us since the recorded history of mankind’s walk upon planet earth. Old Testament stories record wars fought generations before the events recorded in the New Testament even happened.

The Bhavagad Gita records the enlightenment of Arjuna on the battlefield when he realizes he can no longer war against himself. Ironically, this realization comes in the midst of an epic battle, an epic war.

But I ask you to take a moment on this Veteran’s Day of 2021 to stop and imagine what the world could be like, what life could be like if we as the Brotherhood of man embraced peace and rejected war? What potentials could be achieved if we in the image of lasting peace hammered our swords into plows?

Many of us may find that we cannot even imagine such a thing, but it is within the seeds of our imagination, in the heart of our deepest truths and desires that change can begin its gestation to birth.

The power of our thoughts, the power of our minds, can be unleashed through an ancient esoteric principle about which I have written repeatedly, “Energy Follows Thought”. Each time we engage in the deep and powerful exercise of imagining a better world, a world where peaceful solutions replace the rush to resolve our differences by conflict, we are contributing energy to bringing that into manifestation.

A single thought about world peace seems like no more than an atom of energy in the vast universe of space; but recent discoveries in quantum physics and the noetic sciences support the idea that our consciousness is energy, and atoms are energy. These energies ripple out and affect the world around us.

Imagine 1 Minute

In 2012 I launched a Twitter campaign called “Imagine 1 Minute”, where those who wish to contribute their power of thought to transform the world can tune in and link up, to imagine –for 1 minute of the day– how the world can be transformed to be a better place for all of mankind.

At the time I could not think of a better day to launch such a campaign than Veteran’s Day 11-11-12, in a year when many thought the predictions of the Mayan Calendar foretold major changes to life on earth or consciousness. That day I posted my first daily seed thought on my new “Imagine 1 Minute” twitter account @Imagine1Minute.

The first seed thought was:

Imagine a world without war, a world of peace.” -Genevieve Gerard

If we can continue to do that today in honor of every veteran who has fought and died for their country and every family who has lost a son or daughter, or any other relative, to the ravages of war, then we will have expressed our heartfelt thanks and appreciation in an intention to send forth into the world the power to heal the wounds of war, and to promote the glimmer of the potential for peace, the potential for change.

I ask you to continue to consider what peace could mean throughout the world. It doesn’t cost a thing. It doesn’t harm anything. But it is a way to say thank you to our veterans. We thank you, and we envision a world in the future where the sacrifice you had to make will not be required of another generation.

John Lennon Imagine Lyrics

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace

You, you may say
I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world

You, you may say
I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

John Lennon Imagine Lyrics Video

To view this short video on YouTube directly click Imagine 1 Minute John.

P.S. To express my heartfelt gratitude I am offering a gift of 3 guided meditations put together especially to help with some of the challenges faced by veterans.

Continue reading the full blog post on my For-Veterans website and get access to my special “I’m Free” veterans CD bundle.

The Joy of Earth’s Beauty

Genevieve Gerard

The Joy of Earth’s Beauty

Life on Planet Earth is challenging. Mired in matter and all too often ruled by greed it is often known as a veil of tears. Love, the universal principle of our spiritual being is obscured by our desire nature, our glamour’s and illusions. Suffering and a sense of separateness keep us from experiencing the joy that is available to us if we could just break free to access the fullness of our being.

Meditation can reveal the potential of joy that resides within us, but sorrow and suffering are triggered by so many events and so much of the negative offerings of our mind chatter that is easy to slip away from the consciousness of our Soul’s nature as we return to life even from the most exalted of meditative experiences. It seems unfair that we, the citizens of planet earth should be so rationed.

Yet, as I ponder this I realize as I look around that we have been blessed with the portal to thousands of joys by the beauty that surrounds us. From the first glows of the light of dawn to the last streaks of the sunset across the sky, beauty is available to us. To the verdant green of the rainforest to the windswept sands of the Sahara, and in way the light is captured by the ripples in the water all around this planet, the gift of beauty is here for us as a portal to joy if we only choose to take advantage.

Within the myriad of manifestations of life on this planet, plants, flowers, birds and insects, water and clouds and the whole of nature combine to offer up to us the potential to portal to joy by observing and appreciating the vast and awesome beauty that surrounds us every minute of every day.

If we take a pause to look around us we can see this reminder of the joy that is available to us. If we draw in our breath, or feel the gentle movement of the air that surrounds us we can open our eyes to beauty. This beauty can open us to joy.

Take a minute to just breathe in and appreciate all the beauty that is here for us in life. It is there for us in each moment no matter what sorrows batter our lives. It is free for the taking as a gift from life to every man, woman or child who walks on this earth. And no matter how caught up we get in our busyness, our stresses and our struggles, beauty is there to remind of us the joy, the peace and the potential life offers us in the moment.

In gratitude let us appreciate this gift and enjoy these gifts of beauty of life on planet earth.

Namaste,
Genevieve Gerard

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New Group of World Servers

Genevieve Gerard

New Group of World Servers

– Those who work for a better world

Throughout the world are men and women of Goodwill, men and women who work tirelessly to help their fellow man. These people live in every nation but transcend all borders. They are citizens of Planet Earth. Their work is not heralded. It may never be noticed by the media. Yet this world is impacted daily by their efforts.

They may not be known to one another but they are drawn together in a vision of the potential for a better world.

They belong to many different religions, many different groups and many different clubs.

The principles they aspire to are self-forgetfulness and harmlessness and right speech.

You can help support their work by joining people all around the world in all languages at 5pm daily.

They are known as The New Group of World Servers.

This invocation incorporates the principle that energy follows thought. It is a simple act that helps align you positively with a better world. It requires no belief. It takes only a moment of joining in your intention. Your voicing this invocation helps support their work for a better world.

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.

Self-forgetfulness – We are demonstrating self-forgetfulness any time we respond to the needs of another without considering our desires or our needs or our personal ambition. This is an act of service and most often engaged in as a demonstration of love.
Harmlessness – This is being aware of the consequences of our actions (often unintended) and making a conscious choice to do no harm to another.
Right Speech – Words have power. It is important to use that power wisely to use the power of your intention and your will to bring about good.

You are invited to join in this effort of world service each day in a brief meditation at 5 p.m., your local time wherever you are, by just voicing the Blessing of the New Group of World Servers above.

Namaste and thank you for joining in this great service. Please share this with other like-minded friends.

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