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Freedom To Experience Love Through Free Will

Freedom To Experience Love
Through Free Will

Experience the Path to Love by Genevieve Gerard

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

There is in a Spiritual Life the question of Free Will.

Free will is a tricky issue that has created questions since the creation of human life.

Free will is a fact of life.  It is a fact that you and I must deal with in a myriad of ways, throughout all of our days.

Free Will To Choose Love

When the Creator first breathed the spark of Divine Light into his creation, free will came into the mix.

With the creative power that was granted to humanity came the possibility of mistakes; the possibility of defying God’s will and working either for or against the plan for His creation.

Free will affects the choices you make about what you use the creative power of your mind to manifest in your life.  It affects how you respond to emotions you experience in the happening of your life.  And, spiritually it ultimately brings you to the choice of whether you are guided by Divine Will or selfish desires.

The questions and choices that free will bring into your life are somewhat relentless.  This is especially true when you realize the ongoing challenge of harnessing the creative power of your mind to create what manifests in your life.

Free will is a factor, especially when you must decide how to respond to the actions of others, who are also imbued with free will and may not act in ways you approve or desire.

You might find yourself wondering about the purpose of free will.  After all, it takes only a quick look at life to see that people are often greedy.

At times, it’s hard to understand the purpose of free will.  The purpose of free will is a question that speaks to the ultimate purpose of life.

Sometimes people make the wrong choices or act in ways that are clearly in conflict with the Law of Love, or even kindness or compassion.

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This freedom you have as a human being, the freedom to choose between right and wrong; good and evil; love and selfishness is an ongoing challenge.

 

I have in my life experiences and through my meditations begun to believe that the ultimate purpose of life is to learn how to love.

Recently, I have realized that the only thing you can create in your life that is eternal is love.  The only thing that ultimately lasts are the bonds of love that you create throughout your life adventure.
      – Genevieve Gerard

With each and every experience in your life, you are choosing to either serve love or serve physical matter.  In the ancient biblical language, you choose to serve God (whose essence and nature are Love) or manna (the material and temporal world.)

In ancient writings of the Ageless Wisdom, it is taught that matter, which has no love and cannot love, must ultimately be redeemed by love.  A human being is the perfect blend of Spirit and matter.  That task of redemption falls to humanity by learning to love and then demonstrating love by loving.

To learn to Love as you move through your life is meaningless without free will.  To be compelled to Love would have no purpose, no power and most importantly, no joy.

Love is only valid if there is the freedom not to love.  In fact, all of the choices that free will grants subscribe meaning and purpose to life.

It is the very opposites, the possibility to choose that makes all your choices have power.

Freedom To Choose Love

What you decide to do; what you choose to think and feel, are all a part of a Cosmic quest that is played out on humanities stage here on planet earth.

Freedom is an essential element in that drama.  Freedom and free will are woven into the tapestry of life, your life and the life of every player on the stage with you.

It is this freedom to choose that gives purpose and meaning to the mundane events in life.  It is the freedom to choose that determines how your story is written in the Akashic record of karma and consequence.  The choice you make today in what you think, what you feel, and what you do are all a part of your creative process as a Child of God who was born in freedom with free will.

That freedom is important for it determines what you create in your life.

This brings us to a crucial question about the times in your life that when you are faced with a choice whether you choose to surrender and align with Divine Will, or whether you will choose only in consideration of your personal ego’s needs.

Invoking Free Will To Choose Love

The other day I was discussing this very issue with a spiritual friend.  We were considering the matter of enlisting the help of Angels in life.

Free will enables a human life to choose to align with Divine Will, or not.  I believe Angels may only intervene in human life in alignment with Divine Will.  So, when you pray to Angels for help, you are automatically surrendering your “little will” to the forces of Love and Light.

For the ego, for your will, this may make it easier to align your will to Divine Will.  You can freely invoke the aid and assistance of the Angels in your life as a tool for guiding your consciousness into an alignment of the wisdom of your Soul, and the insight and awareness of what is good and right.

Directing your attention to how to choose love, and teaching you about love is integral to your Soul’s relationship in your life.  It is also part and parcel of the way the Angels work with humanity to help manifest God’s overall Plan for the evolution of humankind.

The issue of surrender, either to the Soul, to the Angels or Divine Will is usually not easy for the personal ego.  Within the act of surrender is the key to empowerment that can vault your life into success and satisfaction that is beyond happiness. Ponder on this!

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Demonstrating Goodwill as A Way to Learn to Love

One of the greatest mysteries in life is the awareness that it is by giving we receive.  It is as if God set up a teaching behavioral reward system that can be summarized as “when I do good, I feel good.”  We can add to that “when I serve others, I serve myself.”

Goodwill is equated with doing good in the world.  For some, it may be easier to think of “goodwill to others” as easier than “love one another.”

So, like enlisting and petitioning the Angels for help may be an easier way for the ego and personal will to align with Divine Will, so may practicing goodwill be an easier way of learning to love.  It is certainly simpler to do good than to demonstrate love.

When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
      – Abraham Lincoln

No matter how lost in the illusions of separateness and selfishness you may be, your heart and your Soul long to love and be loved.  Your Soul knows the truth about life and your heart wants to express love.  Free will can disrupt that expression, but the will to love is an active force.

Free will is still subject to the underlying principle in life that “in all things, God works for good.”  The very fact that “God is Love” (Jesus Christ 1 John 4:8) reveals the promise that “Love Wins.”

You can take comfort in that hope, for it is not possible to create anything that is not created out of the essence of the Creator.  All the way down to the most material and base nature of your being, you are created with love because you were created by Love.

Love is ultimately built into your heart, your mind, and your Soul.  No matter what mistakes you make with your choices in life, learning to love is the ultimate outcome.  That is the safety mechanism within which free will resides.

Of course, you have more happiness and joy when you choose to love.  To not choose love is its own punishment for it deprives you of the joys and blessing life is constantly offering you.

Knowing this, I suggest with kindness and compassion that for your life, you choose Love.

 

Namaste,

   Genevieve

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The Joy of Morning Promises New Possibilities

The Joy of Morning Promises New Possibilities

The Morning Brings New Possibilities by Genevieve Gerard

This post is part of my on-going series on Awareness & Being In The Now.

As long as I live, no matter how old I get, morning brings me joy.

As the darkness surrenders to the Light, I am assured that all that happened in the past, is past.

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I am promised that this new day that is just beginning to unfold before me has never been before.  Anything is possible.  Everything can change.

Hope and possibilities charge my imagination.  Miracles are available to me.  Destiny is available to me.

I am unlimited and now free to do things differently.  I can right old wrongs.  I can forgive others.  I can be forgiven.  Nothing limits me as the Light conquers the darkness, hope is in my heart.

Nothing is impossible today. 

What will happen is a mystery pregnant with potential.  My creativity is charged from a fountain of new solutions.  Thoughts that I have never thought before are now available to me.  Dreams I have never dreamed before can emerge onto the blank canvas of this new day that is opening to me, for me.

There is comfort in knowing this day has never been before.  There are release and freedom in knowing that nothing I think or choose to do is captured or confined by what I have considered or done before this day.

The mystery of this new day is magical.  It is empowering and inspiring.  As the Sun moves to chase the moon away, my heart opens to the Light.

Today is a precious gift that I treasure.  It has never been before, and it shall not come again.  I must seize it and wrestle from it all the gifts today brings into manifestation.

It is only one day, but it is my day because it is today.  I have been blessed with the breath that sustains life.  I have been blessed with the eyes to see the Sun be victorious.

My life adventure opens new doors.  I can meet people I have never met before.  I can find Love I have never known before.  I can find an inspiration that can change the world.  I am unlimited and unfettered as this new creation of life is revealed in the Light of this day.

What thought will I think that I have never thought of before?  What idea will I have that I have never had before?  What solution will I find to problems that have plagued me?

All is new and available to me with the emerging of a new day.  The promise of new possibilities is the inescapable reality of right now, today.

As I meditate on this miracle, I pause to consider my many blessings.  Gratitude fills my heart. 

I let myself appreciate the little things.  The air that is abundantly available for me, on-demand, and at my need is a gift I use, often without thought.   Yet, if I pause and consider it reminds me that what I need to sustain my life is freely given and available for me.  I need to only use what is freely given to claim it.

In my breath is also a reminder that life is a constant flow of taking in and using what I need, and letting go of and releasing what is no longer needed.  I cannot only take in, but I must also release and let go.  This ebb and flow is so simple, yet I realize that I sometimes let my fears of shortage and lack cause me to be greedy and hoard.

With gratitude, I look around and consider what other life lessons have my busyness made me oblivious to.  As I sit within the calm empowerment of the morning, I become aware of gravity.  Gravity is something that I seldom consider and yet it is a blessing and a gift that the world provides to me for free.  It is something I can surrender into to relax.  As long as I obey some simple rules about it, gravity supports and sustains me freely, easily, naturally.  Gravity, like breath, gives in perfect measure exactly what I need, exactly when I need it.

I consider the life lessons that breath and gravity grant me as the Sun assumes accession.  I am grateful that the dawn reminds me that everything is possible.  Nothing is impossible. 

I take a pause for a moment to appreciate and consider those blessings I may have taken for granted.

I take a pause for a moment to appreciate and consider those blessings I may have taken for granted.  I invite you to look around your life and notice the blessings and bounty you have that may have escaped your notice.  They may normally be too small or insignificant to notice.  Take a few moments to pay attention and consider what little blessings you may find.

You might notice as you do this hope comes into your heart.  Your mind is ignited by the possibility.  This whole day is available to you for celebration and appreciation. 

In gratitude, you are able to put your burdens down.  With gratitude, you can focus on what you have.  You may be surprised by what you notice you already have of what you need.  You may realize that what is easily available to you right now, in the hope and promise of the morning is enough for today.

If that is true for you let go your constant striving and let yourself relax.  Let yourself just be. Be calm and at peace.  Trust that the lesson of your breath (that what you need is exactly available in the amount that you need it) is true for all of your life.

As you take the time to appreciate what you have, you may realize that you have much more than you need.  You may realize it is time to release what you no longer need or what no longer serves you.  Let the joy of appreciating your abundance fill you.  Let your gratitude fill you and flow from you as you start this new day.

This is the day the Lord has made;
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
     – Psalm 118:24 New King James Version (NKJV)

Arise and go forth into this new day with an open heart and an open mind.  Leave your worries behind and leave your troubles in the past.  Seize this new day with confidence.

Take your hope out into this new day and let what you need come to you freely.  Then claim it when it does.  Let yourself receive and remember that you are a beloved child of God.  And in all things and in all ways, God is always working for what is good.

Like with your breath, life is working to give you what you need in the exact measure that you need it. 

Namaste,

   Genevieve

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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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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

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 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 desires, you 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 depression, from a need or fear, all 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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The Great Invocation

The Invocation For Power and Light

This invocation from the Archives of the Masters was distributed to disciples on the path throughout time and in its entirety to the public at the time of the full moon of June 1945 by the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul. It has become known over time as The Great Invocation.

 

The (below) invocation or prayer 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.

 

This Invocation appears frequently in newspapers and magazines in many countries and is being broadcast by radio stations all over the world. Many thousands of people are using it every day, thus creating a world-wide spiritual public opinion which can become irresistible.”
        – Discipleship In The New Age, Volume II, Djwhal Khul

The beauty and the strength of this Invocation lies in its simplicity, and in its expression of certain central truths which all men, innately and normally, accept —
the truth of the existence of a basic Intelligence to Whom we vaguely give the name God;

the truth that behind all outer seeming, the motivating power of the universe is Love;

the truth that a great Individuality came to Earth, called by Christians the Christ, and embodied that love so that we could understand;

the truth that both love and intelligence are effects of what is called the Will of God;

and finally the self-evident truth that only through humanity itself can the divine Plan Work out.”
        – Discipleship In The New Age, Volume II, Alice A. Bailey

 

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

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Always Have Hope in Your Heart

Always Have Hope in Your Heart

Have Hope by Genevieve Gerard

Hope is one of the most essential sensations you can have in life.

Hope opens you to inspiration about what you can do to bring about change and transform your life.

Hope springs into your heart as you call upon your Soul for help.

When times are troubled, remember that life and everything in it can change in just a moment.  Hope reminds us of that.

Miracles are always possible, and change is inevitable.  Let hope guide your thoughts to the creative vision of your dreams and then as you dare to dream, dare to do something differently. 

Believe that all things are working toward what is good and right for you in your life.

It may not be possible to see or to know the consequences of any action or event.  Indeed, the law of physics that declares that every action causes a reaction is undeniably true; however, those consequences are beyond your ability to view.  While you are in the midst of action all you can do is what feels right.  You can do the best you can base on the information available at the time and then hope for the best.

Hope is a kind of impersonal prayer to which the Universe responds based upon the fact that “energy follows thought.”  Hope is the antidote to worrying (which I often call praying for what you don’t want.)

When you hope you are opening to new possibilities that are emerging before you today, possibilities you may have never considered before now.  It is through the power of hope that you let yourself dream, and through the power of faith that you dare to do things differently.

What is impressive is that no matter how dire things may appear, change is inevitable.  Hope helps you empower that change.  Dreaming and daring is a partnership. To ignite hope to bring about the change you are dreaming requires doing and taking action.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
      – Bernard Williams

Tomorrow is always a new day.  Empowering your day with hope activates your creative imagination and opens you to inspiration.  Inspiration is a signature of your Higher Self.   Then it is time for your whole self to take your creative power to do something.

Do Something Differently

Doing something, especially doing something different than you have done it before sets off a chain reaction of circumstances and events that are different.  Doing something differently may be frightening but being frightening does not make it wrong.  The key to doing things differently is to do it with hope in your heart which activates your mind to dare, to dream, and to do.

Change is not only possible it is inevitable.  When you activate your life with hope in your heart, you empower your mind and your Soul to allow new opportunities to emerge.
      – Genevieve Gerard

Activate Hope With Inspiring Affirmations

    Click play icon below to listen to me reading these affirmations to you (under 2 minutes).

To inspire and activate the power of hope in your life you might try a few affirmations.  You might want to put them up where you can see them throughout the day, on your mirror or at your desk where you can see them and remind yourself to hope.

  1. With hope in my heart,
        I open my life to positive changes today.

  2. With hope in my heart,
        I open my mind to see new
        opportunities that are opening today.

  3. With hope in my heart,
        I let myself be creative and inspired to
        find new solutions to old problems.

Give yourself 5 minutes to record any thoughts or impressions you may have had after making these three affirmations.

Last, let yourself sit quietly, as you calm your mind, open your heart and invite the light, and daydream for just another 5 minutes.  While you are doing this remember not to limit your dreams by your reality.  Just let yourself dare to dream.

Then return to your life and your day empowered and enlightened by hope.

 

Remember to Always Have Hope in Your Heart!

 

Namaste,

   Genevieve

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 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.

 

Copyright © 2018-2020 Genevieve Gerard and Touch of the Soul LLC, All Rights Reserved

 

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Today Is A New Day

Today Is A New Day

What You See Right Now by Genevieve Gerard

This post is part of my on-going series on Awareness & Being In The Now.

Life requires choices.

Some choices you have made in the past have been both wise and wonderful.  And if you are at all like me, as you have moved through your life experiences some choices have been awful and awesome mistakes.  That’s life!

What matters in this great adventure we call life is not that you have chosen well in the plethora of choices and paths that have laid before you, but what you have learned.

Some decisions you have considered mistakes.  Yet, when you look at them as your life lessons, you will possibly see that they may have taken you in a way you may not have gone without that mistake.

A life without mistakes is a life without purpose.  It is the times you have dared, dreamed and stretched beyond what you believed was possible that give your life definition.  The way we learn, as a human being is by trial and error.  That makes a mistake as necessary as the trial.

Sometimes, after a particularly painful error, you might get angry with yourself.  You might even get caught up in blame and shame and doubt.  I suggest that you not waste your time and energy blaming yourself.

I suggest that each mistake is explored as the opportunity to learn and grow that it is.  When you discover the lesson from that mistake, you remember that you are now wiser and more capable than you were before.  As you step into the new opportunities that are available for you today, you are forearmed by the mistakes and errors of your past.

Considering all the mistakes you have made in your life, you have been uniquely prepared for what life is offering you right NOW, TODAY.

Never Forget Today Is A New Day

To take advantage of the new possibilities that are emerging several life lessons can help you seize the present.  Since ancient times the advice of “Carpe Diem” has been a call to action.  It is the advice to seize the day and make the most of the opportunities that are emerging today.

Things You Can Do To Empower & Support Yourself

In my many years as a counselor and life coach, and more importantly as a human being who has made many mistakes and learned many life lessons, I have found that there are things you can do to empower and support yourself.  I would like to share a few of those simple life lessons with you right now, today.

  1. Be gentle with yourself. Once you have learned the life lesson of the error you have made incorporate that understanding into your life and then let it go.
  2. Forgive yourself. You are not perfect.  You are not designed to be perfect.  You were created to learn by experience, trial, and error.  Once you gave something the trial and made the error, let that error be in the past.  It no longer defines you.  It is over and finished.
  3. Next, open yourself to the unlimited opportunities that present themselves to you right now, today.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
         – Khalil Gibran

  1. Dare to dream about today, for dreams are the creative power of your mind and work with the creative energy of the universe. You can create the life you desire when you dare to dream.
  2. Listen to the promptings of your Higher Self (Soul) for Grace comes in the silent promptings of your Soul to help you align with your life purpose.

Today is a new day.  The possibilities and opportunities that present themselves today have never been available before.  They are unique to right now, today.  However, to take advantage of those possibilities, you must put your past behind you.

Free yourself from the tyranny of your own self-judgment and criticism.  Let yourself see and then release all the reasons you were vulnerable and misguided by your failure to understand what you now can see clearly.

What you see right now, today is what matters. 

To learn from a past mistake does not mean to continue to berate yourself for having made a mistake.  Learn the lesson and then trust yourself to know better now, do better now.
         – Genevieve Gerard

There is no day more bursting with new possibilities than today.  Life has given you the opportunity for a reset.  It is called today.  What you do with it can only be done now, today.  If you could have done it before now, you would have.

All that is past has no power over you!

As the old saying goes, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.  Make it the best of your life.”  It is what you do with your day that matters.

So, shake off your past mistakes like the dust from a town you have left behind.  The future is beckoning you, but you must walk through right now, today to get there.

Daily Affirmations To Empower & Support You

Right Now, Today Affirmations

These Right Now, Today affirmations may help you if you repeat them often:

Right now, today, I will forgive myself, knowing that what I have learned from past errors has prepared me for what today brings and what tomorrow may bring like a stern teacher.

Right now, today, I will appreciate all of the life experiences and life lessons I have learned for they brought me to today.

Right now, today, I will open myself and my life to the guidance of my Soul that I may fulfill my unique purpose in this span of years that I have been granted.

Right now, today I will be bold with my dreams and courageous in my actions to seize and see the opportunities large and small that life offers me.

Ultimately, you really only have this moment in time.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
         – Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

Now, life awaits your exploration of this adventure.  I celebrate you, right here, right now.

 

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.”

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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.

 

Copyright © 2018-2019 Genevieve Gerard and Touch of the Soul LLC, All Rights Reserved.

 

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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 about.  Within 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 time.  The 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’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 wisdom.  Miraculously, 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 you.  It’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.”

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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 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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Experience the Speed of Thought

Experience the Speed of Thought

Speed of Thought by Genevieve Gerard

Energy Follows Thought is a Universal Law.  Like all Universal Laws, it is neither good or bad, it merely is.

Universal laws can be used to help and empower you in a time of need, or they can be completely unknown and ignored.  Whether you use them to your advantage or ignore them altogether does not change how they work.

This Universal Law is also a key to understanding the thoughtful premise behind Napoleon Hill’s famous book, “Think and Grow Rich”, and Norman Vicente Peals “The Power of Positive Thinking.”  More recently, it is the core of the very popular book and movie “The Secret.”

Thought

A thought is an integral part of the creative aspect of life.  Your thoughts spring forth to create.  They move faster than the speed of light to create what you are thinking.  This principle is not personal, but it is powerful.

Unfortunately, your thoughts do not wait for your conscious consideration before they begin their creative process.  That makes your thoughts, your mind, more powerful than you realize.  That means that your thoughts are critical to how you live your life, far more critical than you are aware.

As a human being, you are made in the image of your Creator.  I believe your Creator created everything and most importantly created you to be a co-creator of life on this planet.  This belief about creation unveils an awesome power and at the same time a tremendous responsibility.

This co-creation enables you to use the power of your mind to influence the events and circumstance that are available through this dynamic and powerful principle that “Energy Follows Thought.”  Because your thoughts have the power to bring energy into manifestation, it becomes important to harness this principle for your benefit. Ponder on this!

In my experience, a thought begins the activation of its creative power at the moment of its inception.  That is equally true of thoughts of what you want, what you worry about, and even thoughts of what you don’t want.

Think about the subtle difference of the thought “I don’t know” versus “I don’t recall at this time.” How many times a week do you say this and other limiting beliefs to yourself?

The principle that Energy Follows Thought is a dynamic of the subtle and yet pervasive way in which you create your life and your reality.  It requires both conscious awareness and discipline to transcend, transform and transmute your fears and more negative emotions such as anger and limiting beliefs of pessimism.

The mind is a powerful muscle that has been proven in Science to be able to influence the outcome of an experiment just by the observer’s thought form of how they think the experiment should come out.

It is by learning to observe, yet not judge your thoughts, which can be filled with the self-criticisms of “should” and “ought’s” and perfectionistic expectations, that you can transform your life.

Fear

Thought does not discriminate between what you need vs what you are fearful of.  That is uniquely your responsibility as the thinker, the creator of a specific thought.  Therefore, you need to learn to utilize the power of your thoughts and the dynamic creative power of your mind to work for you; rather than against you.

Worry

Worrying is perhaps the easiest place you can see how the principle that Energy Follows Thought can work against you.  I think without too much consideration if you examine the contents expressed in your worries you would conclude that is not what you want.  Because the principle that Energy Follows Thought is impersonal and immediate, I have long referred to worrying as “praying for what you don’t want.”

Sadly, worrying can become enmeshed with your fears.  Then you are wasting your creative power as a human being, a spark of Divine co-creator potential to bring into manifestation your nightmares instead of your dreams.  That makes what you do with your thoughts important.

More importantly, you are using your creative power to manifest your dreams in the world to demonstrate what you fear and doubt most.  Clearly, that is not what you would consciously choose.  Unfortunately, for most people and perhaps for you, the content of your thought is unconscious, a “higgledy-piggledy” random flow from a wish to fear.

I Am Feeling Free Meditation by Genevieve Gerard

 

I have a 10-minute guided meditation that can help you learn to calm strong emotions and transmute fears and doubts that is called “I Am Feeling Free”.

 

Use Meditation

The mind can be such a powerful force in life that for thousands of years spiritual teachers and thought leaders have strived to instruct humanity to harness the dynamic power of their mind and its creative power to help you create the life of your dreams.

Mindfulness emphasizes the physical senses for experiencing the here and now, but there is an acknowledgment of the mind as a sixth sense.
                   – Douglas Russell, M.S.W.

Society has found that meditation, particularly mindfulness meditation techniques, strive to help you control your undisciplined and random mind-chatter from letting you create what you don’t want with your thought power.  Check out this guest article by Doug Russell, M.S.W. on my website which talks about how mindfulness can make a difference in your life.

It does not matter how you meditate, meditation works to empower you to utilize the creative power of your mind and to calm the turmoil of your emotions and attune and align you with your Higher Self (your Soul.)
                   – Genevieve Gerard

As one who has meditated for over 50 years now in my life, I can say that every form and discipline of meditation I have tried has helped me gain greater control of my mind-chatter and therefore helped me focus clearer on what I want to accomplish in life.

Focus

By learning to use the creative power that thought contains in a way that will empower your life and help you create the life of your dreams, the life you deserve and desire, you must learn how to stop confusing the Universe with rambling conflicting thoughts that jumble your fears and your dreams.  To experience the speed of thought requires the focus of your thoughts.

I have learned that even brief times of clearly focused thought has a dramatic life-changing impact.  Your thoughts go out with the speed-of-thought, and when consciously directed and empowered with a positive will and attention can create an immediate change in your life.

Change your thoughts, and you change your world.
                   – Norman Vincent Peale

The power of thought can be used to create what you imagine.  Science has proven that the mind does not know the difference between something that is vividly imagined versus something that is actually experienced. Use your mind to focus in and manifest what you want in life.

Affirmations

According to Wikipedia, affirmations in New Thought and New Age terminology refer primarily to the practice of positive thinking and self-empowerment—fostering a belief that “a positive mental attitude supported by affirmations will achieve success in anything.” More specifically, an affirmation is a carefully formatted statement that should be repeated to one’s self and written down frequently. For an affirmation to be effective, it needs to be present tense, positive, personal and specific.

When you identify with something, especially when you make an evocative thoughtful declaration, by an “I am” statement, you are guiding and directing things to what you desire. This becomes an important factor in your self-talk, and the thought forms you are creating. You then begin to think in a way that is congruent with that affirmation and feel in a way that is congruent with what you are affirming.

Using positive affirmations can help you achieve a specific state of mind or state of consciousness.

Empowerment Exercise

I have included a brief meditative and empowering exercise that I believe will help you use your thoughts in a way that will help in all situations.

Three Minutes to Empowerment Exercise

A brief technique you can use to empower and transform your life is to take 3 minutes each day to observe the content of your thoughts as the detached observer.

Sitting quietly and breathing naturally, review the content of your thoughts, realizing that through the creative principle “Energy Follows Thought” your thoughts are instructions you are sending out to the Universe.

During this 3 minutes of empowerment exercise, observe your thoughts, without self-criticism. When you find a thought that contains fear, any negative emotion, or limiting beliefs take that opportunity of observation to revise, re-frame, and correct that thought to bring your thinking into alignment with what you desire.

For those 3 moments of the day consciously request that your Soul is in control so that your creative efforts are aligned and empowered by your life purpose (even if you do not know what your life purpose is at that moment.)

Take a moment to consider your choice of words consciously and with care. Then restate the thought or desire as a positive thought. You can add a little will energy with that thought by making it an “I am” statement or an affirmation when appropriate.

The most important part of reframing a thought is to keep it positive and make sure you are not fueling your fears, your worries or limited beliefs during times of crisis.

Let this brief exercise of observation quiet your mind-chatter, calm your emotions, and open your awareness to new possibilities and new opportunities.

In this 3 minutes let your awareness come into the present, releasing your creativity from any contamination of the past.

Know that doing any meditative discipline 21 days in a row helps it become a habit. This is a habit that can empower your life, for the rest of your life. It works with the creative force of your creative energies to empower you.

 

I hope this post helps you focus and direct your thoughts into specific areas where you have determined you could use a little help and support in your process of growing and becoming. The concept discussed and the ideas and exercise given are simple to use and easy to do and they put immense power at your disposal to be all that you are meant to be if you just take a moment to experience the speed of thought.

I look forward to your enlightened awareness,

   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 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.

 

Last updated 4-02-2020

 

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A Message to Fathers

A Message to Fathers

daughter hugging father and saying thank you

For all that you taught me, Thank You!

For all the times you went to work to support me and the family, Thank You!

For watching me make mistakes then guiding me, Thank You!

For all your patience, Thank You!

For the times you did what I wanted instead of what you wanted, Thank You!

For encouraging me to strive to do my best and be my best, Thank You!

For not giving up on me when I was selfish and difficult, Thank You!

For doing your best in a difficult job, Thank You!

Today, take some time for yourself.  If you have regrets, give yourself the gift of forgiveness and compassion.  You took on a tough job.  You were not perfect but you were there.

Enjoy and appreciate your family as they honor and appreciate you.

This one day celebrate Love.  Celebrate family and togetherness.  What you created with Love is the legacy of your life.

That is eternal and the Love you provided is an eternal bond.

Thank you for all you have done and all you continue to do as a Father.  You are a blessing in this world and the world honors you today.

 

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 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.

 

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Only You Can Control Your Mind

Only You Can Control Your Mind

Control Your Mind by GG

A part of the human experience is the mind, your mind.

Your mind can be the most creative and influential tool that you possess, or it can be the source of mind wrenching and painful anxiety. 

And, although especially when you are trapped in the throes of fear, worry, and stress it may seem to be a force that is greater than you, you and only you have the power to use your thoughts to empower you, or let anxiety, fear, and worry destroy you.

Recently, I read that anxiety is the most significant problem from which people suffer.  Yet, anxiety is a problem of the mind and emotions.  Anxiety is a problem that is entirely self-generated.  Anxiety is a trap of your mind blended with a strong dose of fear.

If you suffer from anxiety, you may think it is something that just happens, but anxiety is a result of what you are thinking and feeling.

You may also believe that your thoughts and your feelings just happen, and are beyond your control, but that is simply not true. What you think is within your power to control.

Anxiety is produced by the content of your thoughts and then enhanced by your fears.
                    – Genevieve Gerard

For over five thousand years and throughout the ageless teachings on meditation, learning to calm, and control the content of your mind has been the goal of meditation.

In the teachings of the Buddha, as he engaged in his search for enlightenment, he is reported to have described the human mind as being like a bunch of drunken monkeys.

Ancient schools of meditation refer to the “chattering of the mind” as “Chitta.”  Therefore, I believe, quieting and gaining mastery over your mind “Chitta” is the way to win mastery over any anxiety or fear you may have.

Consider if you will how the content of your thoughts impacts your anxiety.  Thoughts of worry become laced with fear especially when you let your mind engage in “what if thoughts.”  You can spin out thousands of “what if scenarios” that will fuel your anxiety.  What if it doesn’t work out, what if they don’t like me, what if I never get over my fear of __________, what if I never do anything with my life? These “what if” thoughts can run in the background of your mind creating anxiety and negative thought-forms.

Take five minutes observation and let me guide you through the first steps to reduce your “what if” fears and anxiety with this simple exercise.

 

An Anti-Anxiety Exercise

 

Set a timer for five minutes.

Get a piece of paper out and for the next five minutes count and record how many times your mind starts a thought with the “what if” words.

Don’t worry about what the content of the what if thought is.  Just count the number of times you lead into thought with “what if.”  If you notice a particular “what if” thought is repetitive, and for most of us there will be several “what if” thoughts that repeat themselves during your five minutes, record the content of that thought.

At the end of the exercise stop and look at the number of times your “mind chatter” engaged in imagining what you fear could happen or might happen.

Once you have made that count, take the second step by noticing the content of your fears.  Realizing that the “what ifs” are not something that is real or that has ever happened.  They are only creations of your fears and imagination.

Noticing this makes it possible to begin to gain mastery over your mind, and by extension gain mastery over your life.

As the second step of this exercise, I suggest you continue to pay attention to the content of your thoughts for a few more minutes from a perspective of what I call the detached observer.  When you notice a “what if” thought that contains circumstance of what you fear rather than what you want, pause, consider the thought and edit it, change it, revise it, and reframe it to what you do want.

 

Because your thoughts have power, it is crucial for your personal happiness that you free your mind from worries and fears.  You are the creator of your reality because the Universe takes its creative power from your thoughts.

That makes your thoughts very important.

Gaining mastery over the content of your mind is the way to empower you to free yourself from anxiety and fear and more importantly, live your dreams and be happy.  Paying attention to the content of your thoughts and imaginings is the way you can change and heal your life.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
                  – Norman Vincent Peal

Your thoughts contain your creative power, and they are available only to you.  Nobody can do it for you, and nobody can do it to you.  By understanding this, you claim your power to live your dreams and your deepest desires.  Ponder on this. You are the director of your life.

Learning to quiet the negative input of your fears begins the empowering process of mind-mastery.  You must begin by noticing the content of your mind chatter and then choose to take control of it.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
                     – Marcus Aurelius

You alone have the power to unlock your mind.  Your mind is more powerful than you imagine.  Your mind activates your creative power.  What you choose to create with that power is a part of your free-will.

It is essential to understand this important fact because it is by using the power of your mind to create the life of your dreams and desires that you open yourself to the full potential of what it means to be a human being.

You are created to live your life in active co-creation with the Creator.  Your happiness, your sorrow, your joys, and your challenges are all within your creative power through the power of your mind.

What you create through that power is your choice.  This creative power is a part of the mystery of the miracle of creation when a spark of Divine Light (your Soul) joined with the creative process of fertilization that resulted in your birth.  Yes, you are a physical being, but I also know you are a Spiritual being, a creator of life in harmony and cooperation with the creator of all of life.

Your thoughts have the power to bring energy into manifestation.
                  – Genevieve Gerard

That creative process occurs with thought.  A thought, every thought, is a part of that creative process.  Your life force and every thought-form is energy and energy is subject to the Universal Principle of Life.  One of the Laws of the Universe is that “energy follows thought.”

The challenge with this law is that energy follows thought without judgment about the content of the thought.  There is no safety mechanism to make the energy follow only positive thoughts that bring about what you want or desire.  You and only you are that safety mechanism as you learn to control your mind and direct the content of your thoughts.

That is a great freedom and a great power.  However, if you are spending that power on worrying, being fearful, anxiously projecting through “what if” this (bad thing) or “what if” that (bad thing) can happen, you are using that power against yourself.

If you don’t want to create your worst fears, then you need to learn to harness this fantastic creative power by learning to control your mind.

The simple exercise listed above is a tool you can use to start to help you gain control over the power of your mind.  Don’t forget, to live the life you desire, the life of your dreams, living in the now and controlling the thoughts of your mind is essential.

Letting your Chitta and mind chatter float willy-nilly out into the Universe as an instruction manual for your life is wasting the power you were granted when the spark of Divine Light (your Soul) merged with the creation of your life.

Because there is always free will, and you always have the choice to create your fears or create your dreams I ask you to understand that only you can control your mind.  From that understanding, I encourage you to harness that power and use it for you to transform your life.

Below I list some other articles and a guided meditation I have written to help cleanse and empower you.  Remember, it is your life.  This life is your adventure.  You can claim this power.

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.

 

Copyright © 2018-2019 Genevieve Gerard and Touch of the Soul LLC, All Rights Reserved.

 

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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 matter.  The world of the Soul and the awareness of Spirit is in greater awareness.  The substance of your Soul is Spirit and Light.  Connecting 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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