Be Open To Love

– Love is Where Two Worlds Meet

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

We live in a material world. Life is impacted by what can be seen, touched, heard, smelled or tasted. These five senses are of vital importance as they impact on your understanding of the world.

The strength of these five senses is so powerful that it is easy to believe that unless you perceive something with your five senses, it is not real. That is a mistake!

The truth is that we live in the material world as citizens of two worlds. Neither world reflects the wholeness of whom and what we are as human beings.

A human being is a miraculous blend of a physical being with a spiritual being. Any attempt to be only one part of this equation is doomed to failure. Indeed to require every part of life to be able to be perceived through your five senses, or to believe that only what you can see and touch is real, defies life’s experience.

The successful blending of your awareness as both a physical being and a spiritual being is one of the great mysteries of life. It is easy to err on one side or the other based on the situations and circumstances of your life.

Indeed, answering the questions of the dual aspects of human nature has fueled the ponderings of philosophers and theologians since the dawn of time. Likewise, it has fueled many of my questions about life.

This dual nature of human experience led me to summarize this dichotomy in this way on Goodreads.com:

You are a miracle of Divine Light, created by Divine Love and infused with Divine Wisdom to be a Soul having a human experience, right here and right now on planet earth.
― Genevieve Gerard

It is the blending of these two worlds, the material world and the spiritual world through which much of the mystery of life exists. That is because it is challenging to understand how what is eternal can co-exist so intertwined with what is temporal.

Recently, my challenge to understand this mystery has led me to understand that the bridge between these two worlds and these two realities is Love. Anyone who has every loved has crossed this bridge.

One way this merging of the two worlds happens is when two individuals are initially drawn together by the urges and expression of physical desire. Out of their romance, they begin to realize that something more is present. That more is love.

Be Open To Love

In opening your heart and your mind to love you begin to experience something that is bigger than desire and subsequent gratification of physical expression. Often, that drift across the barrier between these worlds is so subtle that you don’t even realize you have gone from the world of matter to the realm of your Soul, which is the realm of Love.

This transition is most often called “falling in love.”

Love requires a merging of Souls. That fusion takes you out of the world of the temporal and physical into the world of the eternal.

When love is created, there is a subtle energetic shift. This change is often tangible and may be a surprise to the one who has fallen in love.

The realization that love has been created out of a relationship changes everything. It changes the nature of friendship, and it changes the depth of romance. When it happens in the throes of passion and ecstasy, those who are aware of subtle energies can tell you that they felt the shift from “just sex” to love.

That transition can be frightening. Love is powerful. Not everyone wants Love. Some people fear Love. Free will enables an individual to run from Love and reject Love.

For some, just that touch across the bridge is so different that it is unknown and terrifying, and they choose to reject it. For others, it opens them to a lifetime of bliss and joy.

Of course, sex and passion are only one way to cross that bridge between the temporal and the eternal, from the world of matter to the world of Soul. It is one of the most amazing parts of life.

Poets praise that portal to Love. The real miracle is not the passion or the sex, but that you, from your selfish, physical personality have been able to cross that bridge, a bridge from the limitations of matter into the eternal realm of unconditional Love.

In pondering this miracle, I am amazed at the wisdom of the Divine in using Love to create that bridge between these two realities and the two worlds.

As I mentioned, romantic and sexual love is not the only pathway on the bridge of Love. True friendship is also a path that can take you across that bridge.

Friendship is a gentler and less threatening way to move into the experience of Love. And it is one of the three ways the Ancient Greeks described Love. Friendship is a portal to Love.

Love, no matter whether erotic or the Love shared by family and friends, is an essential part of the lessons of life.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
– George Sand

Love serves as a bridge from your personality to your Soul. The essential nature of your Soul is Love. When you love someone, a bond between Souls is created that transcends beyond time and space.

The giving of love is an education in itself.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

In the university of life, I have come to understand that learning to love is the most life transforming lesson. When you Love, you merge the world of matter, which is temporary and fleeting with the realm of the Soul.

This is a major transition in consciousness. To be consciously connected with Love opens the doors of awareness to joy. Love is the most powerful healing force we can touch with our mind and heart. Ponder on this!

Meditate on Love. Open your heart to Love. Let your awareness be infused with Love and you will find your life filled with a joy that knows no boundaries and peace that passes understanding.

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Love has the power to guide your life as it opens you to your Higher Self (your Soul).

The deepest ethical questions in life are best answered by considering “How Love is best served in this situation?”

The unconditional nature of Love allows you to forgive, even what seems unforgivable.

By loving you have crossed from the world or sorrows and the veil of tears to an awareness of the bliss of the world of the Soul and the Peace that passes understanding. These are the hallmarks of the world of Spirit (the Soul.)

To begin to experience this joy watch my YouTube, Bliss is Perfect Happiness.

Just remember, Love is the bridge where two worlds meet and your life is opened to greater happiness and joy. I recommend that you dare to learn the lessons of Love. I suggest you open your heart to the love that is the essential nature of your Soul and let yourself love freely, unconditionally and spontaneously.

Share the radiance of your Love with everyone you meet. Be a source and a force for Love in the world until you can “Give Love, Live Love and Be Love.”

Namaste,

Genevieve

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Prayer for the New Year

Genevieve Gerard

A Prayer for the New Year

The measuring of time moves forward by another year.

It is a good time to turn our thoughts to prayer.

Join with me in saying:

Divine Lord who blesses all of life with your abundance and bounty. At this time of the turning of the year we pray.

For peace around the world, we join our hearts in prayer.

For wisdom and insight, we join our hearts in prayer.

For wisdom in governance, we join our hearts in prayer.

For a greater understanding of one another, we join our hearts in prayer.

For greater compassion for one another, we join our hearts in prayer.

Heavenly Father, Divine Mother,
Guide our steps to Right Action, our words to Right Speech, our work to Right Livelihood and help us to treat one another with Harmlessness so that we can, with our life, be instruments of your Divine Love manifesting in the world.

Amen.

Blessings,

Genevieve

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The Healing Power of Sleep

Genevieve Gerard

The Healing Power of Sleep

Did you ever wonder why you need to spend a third of your life asleep?

Amazing things happen while your body rests, amazing things that have a profound impact on your waking life.

While your body is at rest healing occurs in multiple ways and on multiple levels.

Just because you are not conscious and aware during sleep does not make your sleep time irrelevant. What happens when you are asleep is healing and restorative on a physical level, integrative and calming on an emotional level and stimulates both insight and intuition on a cognitive level.

Sleep is a critical time for your being, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

The third of your life that you spend sleeping is an active and vital part of your life. It is a time to activate and synthesize thousands of decisions and directions you have generated in your waking hours. It is the time to set into motion your thoughts and desires.

It is a creative time of manifestation for your consciousness. The directions of your thoughts throughout the day become the blueprint for your sleep. During sleep, it is important to harness the power of your mind generated throughout your waking hours. I believe your life force listens to your dream thoughts and resolves to create in your life what you have directed it to do.

This directing of your life through the power of your thought happens on a very diverse field. It includes your glands and your organs and even works on an atomic level, shifting your subtle energies to bring them into harmony and alignment with your desires. For this reason, it is best to reach a state of peace as you enter into sleep.

Sleep is not a time of unconsciousness, but rather is the fertile time in which your mind, your emotions, can align with your Higher Consciousness (your Soul). Sleep creates a productive and creative time. While you sleep, as your physical body rests and restores, the autonomic parts of your body are engaged in healing and balancing your hormones which activate a whole host of factors that were created by your emotions and glandular secretions in the day that has just passed.

It is a process of healing your, mind, your emotions, and your body that is a subtle yet powerful part of healing sleep. Sleep as a healing balm is understood in our collective awareness since the time of Shakespeare. Sleep is a vital and dynamic part of your day.

For this reason; it is important to learn how to sleep.

The vital and important role of sleep in your consciousness physically, emotionally and spiritual is why I created my guided “Sleep in Heavenly Peace Meditation.”

Because sleep is such a difficult issue for so many people, and the failure to get a restful and restorative sleep has such far reaching implications in life, sleep was one of the very first challenges I addressed when I started publishing my guided meditations. My Sleep In Heavenly Peace meditation CD remains one of my most successful, widely distributed, and reviewed products I have ever created. Click learn more here to check out this MP3 download and glide effortlessly into sleep. USE COUPON CODE sleep5 and get the digital mp3 download for only $5 until Sunday May 13th 2018.

In addition to what is happening to you physically during sleep is the emotional processing of what you have experienced throughout your day. This often occurs in the creation of your dreams. Dreams are certainly the assurance that when your body sleeps your consciousness remains actively engaged.

At times your dreams may seem random or strange. On other occasions through dreaming, it is clear that you have come to a resolution of a significant life issue. In your dreams, you may gain insight into something you have been striving to understand and gain mastery over.

Dreams can leave you feeling empowered. It is often beneficial to record your dreams in a journal to bring into your conscious awareness the insights and information that may have come to you as you sleep. When you do this as a part of your spiritual and psychological development, many report that their intuition is enhanced and awareness is increased in a dynamic way. To keep a journal next to your bed and then spend a few moments recording your dreams is a simple morning meditation. Try it tonight.

It is hard to talk about the process of dreams, especially the healing power of resolution, without mentioning the less than pleasant part of dreaming, nightmares. I believe nightmares are a way of working through and resolving fears.

I have found throughout my life that the more I have consciously worked to transmute, transform and transcend my fears as an integral part of my spiritual and life lessons, the fewer nightmares have plagued me.

I have also found that there is a direct relationship between what I have focused my conscious attention on during the day and the creation of nightmares in my sleep. For this reason, I discourage people from watching violent or dark movies or television shows or even reading horrifying novels right before bed.

In sleep, your mind processes all of the input of your day that pertains to your positive thoughts and your fears. Somehow it all goes into the consciousness mixing bowl of your dreams.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
– Leonardo da Vinci

That is why before sleep is a particularly valuable and vital time to say affirmations, especially affirmations that begin with the magic words of “I Am.” Meditating before you sleep is also something that many people find beneficial and empowering. And, of course praying just before sleep is a tradition many learned from their early childhood that remains an effective and valuable ritual with which to transition into sleep.

While you sleep your consciousness is often growing and expanding your awareness. Sleep is a particularly fertile time for incorporating and synthesizing insights you have received in meditation. In fact, I have often found that after a particularly insightful and profound meditation, it is beneficial to take a nap to incorporate your experience.

The National Sleep Foundation recommends the following levels of sleep.

Age and condition	Sleep Needs
Newborns (0–3 months)	14 to 17 hours
Infants (4–11 months)	12 to 15 hours
Toddlers (1–2 years)	11 to 14 hours
Preschoolers (3–4 years)	10 to 13 hours
School-age children (5–12 years)	9 to 11 hours
Teenagers (13–17 years)	8 to 10 hours
Adults (18–64 years)	7 to 9 hours
Older Adults (65 years and over)	7 to 8 hours

Many traditions consider sleep as a spiritually enlightening time because your Soul is free from the constraints of your ego and personality. Using your dreams as a portal to wisdom is common among the teachings of many of the world’s people. It is particularly valued by indigenous and spiritual teachings across the world.

Sleep is the best meditation.
– Dalai Lama

Consciously considering what you do to prepare for sleep helps this part of your life to be valuable beyond just an opportunity to restore your ability to keep going. If you consider the times in your life that you have, by necessity, been sleep deprived and how that affects your overall efficiency and sense of well-being, you can realize the significant opportunity for healing and empowerment sleep is.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
– John Steinbeck

Each day is divided into a time for doing and a time for sleep. We all strive to use our doing time wisely and efficiently. Now empower your sleeping time to be the blessing that it can be. Sleep time is valuable to your success and your happiness. You want to make it a productive part of the fabric of your life.

When you awaken with the light of the new day, you can place the past behind you and open your life to the promise and unlimited possibilities of a new day brimming with new opportunities!

Sweet Dreams and Rest Well.

Namaste,

Genevieve

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Dare To Be Of Service

Genevieve Gerard

Dare To Be of Service To The World

To dare to be the amazing being that you are, aware of all that you were created to be takes courage.

You are a spark of Divine Light created in the image of a God of Love. This is amazing. This gives you unlimited possibilities.

The power of standing forth as a being of dynamic grace is often misunderstood.

Standing in your Spiritual Light and your Spiritual power is a blessing to the world.

The world may fail to appreciate or understand the radiance that is you. This is a burden that has long been shared by those who have strived to demonstrate God’s Love and God’s grace through their lives. The challenge to be true to yourself and true to your purpose in life is an awesome spiritual journey. It may not be the easy path but it leads to fulfillment and great joy.

To be true to yourself, true to your purpose in life may sometimes be a lonely path. As a beacon of Light, you stand out in the world. As one who loves and serves others, you may at times feel vulnerable and different. You may be misunderstood. People may take advantage of your kindness. You may be called upon to forgive much that seems unforgivable. This has been true for those who have come before you and will most likely be true for those who are guided by your life. The path of service may not be an easy path.

At times, you may feel alone. It may help you to know that you are not alone. Thankfully, there are across the world, others who have opened to their Divine Light and Divine nature. When you join the Light of your Soul with theirs and join your service with them, you can become a dynamic force for good and change in the world. Know that joining with others empowers you. Your Light and your purpose are magnified.

It only takes a moment of looking around for you to see the need for Love to redeem the world and for Soul Light to infuse the hearts and minds of humanity. As easy as it is for you to see, so it is for others, who like you walk the earth for the higher purpose of helping and serving mankind. To be a beacon of Love in the world is a high calling. One you honor by standing firm in your purpose.

The Bible and the spiritual writings since the dawn of time have recorded the stories of men and woman who have demonstrated and surrendered to God’s Will to serve as instruments of God’s Love and Grace for his creation. The work of bringing humanity into right relationship with God has gone on since the dawn of time and continues today. The need for right relations remains of vital importance today.

To join humanity in bringing right relationship with God you must dare to let the Light of your Soul shine forth. A light hidden under a bushel cannot dispel the darkness. Yet it is important to remember that a single candle can dispel the darkness. Light is by its very nature always more powerful than the darkness. As you share your Light you serve the greater good.

The calling of your Soul to be of service to your fellow man identifies you. The way of service is not the way of the world but it is the portal to spiritual wisdom. It is the way to let your Light shine out for the entire world to see.

To listen to the promptings of your Soul is fulfilling your life’s purpose by bringing your love and Light to your fellow man. This is also a portal to true joy and fulfillment.

There is comfort in knowing that you are not alone. When you join with others to deliver God’s Love and demonstrate God’s grace you can magnify the radiance and be of support to one another. Joining together in spiritual community with purpose is empowering for everyone.

Your power to influence the world and to make the world a better place is enhanced and magnified when you join with others in groups. Ponder on this!

To stand forth in prayer and meditation is a way of being the change you wish to see in the world. You can, through prayer or meditation, imagine your Soul connected in the living Light with all who are a part of what is known in the Ageless Wisdom as the New Group of World Servers. You can join with the efforts of the many who work for good in the world.

It is through service to others that you can best demonstrate your love. It is in service to others that God’s love becomes a tangible and living thing.
~ Genevieve Gerard

Your Light is a service to the world. A service you can enhance by consciously joining with the efforts of others like you.

You can join with others in service; your intention is sufficient to connect your light with their Light.

In a spiritual life, service is a portal to true joy. Helping others is a labor of love. When through your life you are able to be a blessing to others you further open the doors to receive greater blessings and greater joy in your own life.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
~ Rabindranath Tagor

Your personal happiness and success are enhanced when you respond to the calling of your Soul. To those who know their purpose to be emissaries of God’s Love and Light there is a gratification that is felt as an expansion of the Love and Light deep within your heart. Amazingly, this expansion of Love and Light is its own reward.

To focus your meditations on the purpose of serving your fellow man I will share one of my very favorite affirmations with you. This mantram can be used to help you declare your intention and join you energetically with others.

It is especially powerful when said together in a group meditation. When you say this affirmation in meditation and with intention you will be a dynamic part in the service to your fellow man.

Voicing this discipleship affirmation you are joined with others who also work for good in the world. As one of my favorite mantrams I use it regularly in my own personal meditations. I love the power of the assertion of purpose in the words “And thus we stand.” It helps me remember that I am not alone and yet focuses my intention toward service. I hope you find it a blessing in your life.

Say with your whole heart as a Soul the following ancient mantram:

             Affirmation of Service

We are the points of Light within the greater Light.

We are strands of loving energy within the stream of Love Divine.

We are sparks of sacrificial fire, focused within the fiery Will of God.

               And thus we stand.

We are ways by which all may achieve.

We are a source of strength enabling them to stand.

We are beams of Light shining upon their way.

               And thus we stand.

We are radiating centers of Joy, Serenity and Quiet Mind.

               And thus we stand.

And standing thus revolve

And tread this way, the way of men

And know the way of God

               And thus we stand

       ~ Adapted from an ancient mantram by Genevieve Gerard

As you move through your daily life your kindness, your compassion and your caring for others is the greatest gift you can give. When you let the Light and Love of your Soul shine forth you become an emissary of Divine grace and joy fills your heart and life. Be glad to be of service!

Namaste,

Genevieve

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How to Harness the Power of Your Mind

Genevieve Gerard

How to Harness the Power of Your Mind

Your mind is a powerful tool.

As with any tool, it depends on how efficiently you use it.

Learning to use the great and amazing power of your thoughts to manifest your life’s purpose and fulfill your goals is a primary reason that many people explore the subject of consciousness.

By harnessing the power of your mind, you are transforming your life to align with your dreams and goals. You are actively co-creating your life in a dynamic way.

It takes only a minute of sitting quietly and observing what you are thinking to realize that your thoughts are quicksilver. The nature of thought is so multidimensional and diverse that it is easy to be unaware and unconscious of what you are thinking.

If the principle that “energy follows thought“ is true and our thoughts create our reality as the “Law of Attraction” claims, we all have some work we need to do if we want to use our mind effectively and efficiently.

Gaining mastery over the mind, mainly controlling the free flow and often negative input of edited thoughts is a challenge. In your observation of the nature of your unfocused and uncontrolled thoughts, you may notice how much of your thoughts reflect what you fear. That is not a judgment of you, but a simple observation of the nature of what spiritual teachers have for centuries or longer referred to as the “monkey mind.”

The practice of meditation provides a variety of techniques to help you harness the power of your mind and quiet the mindless chatter of the “monkey mind.” Different ways work differently for different people and at different times. You could certainly ignore the input from the world of meditation and teachings about consciousness were it not for the understanding of the mechanics of the “Law of Attraction” and the principle that “energy follows thought.”

Your thoughts have power, indeed the power to create your reality and can help by working for you, or can, unfortunately, work against you. It is a powerful motivator to explore how these subtle principles and laws work. These revelations about the power of your thoughts are not new. Way back in ancient biblical times the book of Proverbs stated, “As a man thinketh, so shall he be.”

Since that time, there have been a variety of teachers and preachers, business leaders and thought leaders who have both validated and expanded on the great wisdom in Proverbs. In writing this Wisdom Wednesday Blog, I realize that I could fill the whole post with books and resources of those who praise the truth about the power of your mind. I have provided some links that I believe are the best at explaining or teaching about this important issue and help you explore these concepts from a variety of teachers and approaches.

I also want to provide you with a gift of one of my very favorite books about the mind, Napoleon Hill’s life changing book “Think and Grow Rich.” This is a complimentary Adobe PDF of the entire book that you can download and ponder on. I hope this gift empowers you to help achieve your dreams.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
– Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Manifesting your dreams and fulfilling your life’s purpose is an important reason to use the tools and techniques of meditation to harness the power of your mind and make it work for your benefit in your life. To align you mind with your higher purpose and your Higher Self allows you to integrate what is spiritual with what is happening and manifesting in your life.

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My primary goal in this blog today is to discuss this ancient wisdom from a perspective of a technique you can use and activate in your life to help you harness this awesome power of your mind. Your mind can then be a tool to help you achieve your life and your Soul purpose.

One technique that I have found valuable in my practice and my years of coaching and counseling people is that you can begin this by just self-observation. I recommend starting with committing 3 minutes a day to this meditative exercise. It starts with just consciously observing your thoughts. When you notice a negative or fear based thought flash through your mind, take control of that thought. Then deliberately, edit it, correct it and replace it with what you want and are striving to manifest in your life.

This editing, correcting (with intention) and replace technique is most important when what crosses your mind is fear. To do this consciously and with intention is best achieved in a meditative state by aligning with your Higher Self and focusing upon your life’s purpose. In this alignment, you have a greater vision.

This alignment is not a meditation but rather a meditative and aligned perspective.

Keeping a dual awareness of your Higher Self while observing your thoughts activates both your Soul wisdom and your lower mind intelligence.
– Genevieve Gerard

This observation technique is best done from the viewpoint of what I call “the detached observer,” free of self-judgment or criticism. Both self- judgment and self-criticism work against achieving positive thoughts. The result is that when you have the opportunity to replace the negative and fear-based chatter of the “Monkey Mind” you gain control.

It is a meditative state because you are seeking to consciously align with your Soul and your Soul purpose in life. This allows you to be in a higher state of consciousness and a keener awareness than just thinking.

This exercise of observation from the perspective of the “detached observer” is a bridge between conventional uncontrolled casual thinking and meditation.

The 3-minute observation per day is a powerful and transforming technique. That may seem very short, but if you consider and catch most of your negative thoughts to edit, and revise and replace the thought, you will have made a huge step forward in your ability to harness the power of your mind and learn to quiet the chattering mind.

This simple (although sometimes not easy) step is important in learning to meditate and empower your life. At its core, quieting the chattering of your mind is a traditional goal of meditation. Taking the additional step of observing the content of your thoughts with editing, revising and replacing that content with what is congruent with your goals, your dreams and desires make a huge difference.

In teaching this technique to my coaching clients, most have observed that a daily 3-minute practice of this method starts a major transformation in their lives. You are no longer sending out your fears in your thoughts. You are controlling your worrying. Worrying is praying for what you don’t want. You are now using the powerful universal principle that “energy follow thought” to your advantage.

The substitution process of exchanging a negative thought for a positive one can also be used with other meditation techniques such as affirmations. Learning to harness the power of your mind enables you to send out into the world the energy to manifest what you want in a clear way that empowers your life.

Below are some links to some positive affirmations that have empowered many. I have found listening to affirmations in the background, in the car while you drive, is especially useful.

The powerful principle that “energy follows thought” and the activation of “The Law of Attraction,” will be incorporated into your thoughts and life on a multidimensional basis, shifting your thoughts and your perspective on a daily basis.

The more often you practice this technique, the better the response in the material world. Your thoughts are stronger than you realize. Your mind is a co-creator in your life in cooperation with the Divine or Source (however you envision the Creator to be.) The choice is yours. The time to activate the awesome power of your mind to live the life you have always envisioned is NOW. It is your life, and your mind is yours to master.

Namaste,

Genevieve

The blessing of love on all that you do!

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Additional Resource Recommendations:

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (no cost eBook download)

Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (no cost eBook download)

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

Riches Within Your Reach! by Robert Collier

Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham by Esther & Jerry Hicks

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Your Soul is Always an Integral Part of Who You Are

Genevieve Gerard

Your Soul is Always an Integral Part of Who You Are

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

As I was reading a previous post, I came across the phrase “a life that is soul infused.”

The phrase “a life that is Soul infused” stayed with me in my morning meditations because in this dance through life’s adventures it is when you can let your personality and ego be infused by the love and wisdom of the Soul that the real power and resounding joy of a spiritual life are experienced.

It led me to ponder how life is different when you are “Soul infused.”

In the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom, your Soul is not only an integral part of your essential nature but is also a resource you can draw upon to empower and transform your life. That your Soul provides support and power in the overcoming of physical addictions has long been an essential element in the success of Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step programs. The connection and surrender to the “Higher Self and Higher Power” have been a source of strength and comfort to many who have struggled with addiction.

This transition is so deeply embedded in the spiritual journey that the Ageless Wisdom refers to it as a step in your spiritual evolution. With each spiritual initiation, there is an increasing amount of atomic energy that the Soul gains control over. The first initiation helps and supports you in achieving mastery over your physical cravings.

Likewise, what is referred to in the Ageless Wisdom as the second initiation the individual can use their Soul influence to transcend the domination of the emotional body. This use of your Soul as an integral part of learning life lessons is esoteric. It clarifies ways you can gain mastery over your life through a dynamic and active relationship with your higher self, your Soul. It takes you from being powerless in your physical cravings or vulnerable to your emotions and desires to being able to integrate and fuse the wholeness of your being in a way that allows you to manifest your full potential as a human being.

As I write these words and consider the struggle and pain that life is for so many, I cannot help but take this opportunity to assure you that within you, within the depth of your heart, within the promptings of your intuition, within the essence of your being, is your Soul. It is and has always been with you. Your Soul has always been a part of you. And, most miraculously you can call upon it to help you in your life.

If, before reading these words you have through your life come to know your Soul, even in glimmers of peace and comfort that may have come to you when you prayed or meditated, then these words will resonate with you. You might find a smile coming spontaneously to your lips. You could feel yourself relax a bit even though nothing has changed in your life at all.

What it is empowering to understand about yourself and your Soul is that although your Soul is an essential part of your spiritual anatomy, it is most often silent allowing your personality and “lower self” to control your life. Free will, which is an essential part of the “rules” of spiritual life require that you reach for the connection to your Soul before it gets involved.

To have a relationship with your Soul is a choice.
– Genevieve Gerard

In times of great sorrow, great duress, and great danger it is common in the human experience for you to reach out for that higher source connection unconsciously. Since you are on an archetypal and intuitive level aware that your Soul is an integral part of who and what you are, this is natural. Your consciousness is, on an ongoing basis most likely functioning as a duality that exists between your Soul and your personality ( and ego.) What is most often the wisdom and perspective of your “Higher Self” is often unconscious.

Flashes of intuition and awareness of what is right action bargain for control of what you do and say. Your Soul is always available to respond to your invitation and invocation. Otherwise, it stands silently by as you explore the university of learning life and spiritual lessons from your mistakes and mishaps.

The Soul does not interfere. It may give flashes of insight through intuition, but it leaves the control for what decisions you make firmly in the hands of your personality and ego so that can choose to listen to the intuitive nudge, or not.

Ultimately, in your life, there is a myriad of choices that need to be made. They fall into choices you make that relate to the key aspects of your anatomy.

There are many choices and options. There are decisions of what you eat or drink. Decisions about whether or not you choose to indulge in the vast variety of things that are known to be bad for your body, whether or not they are addictive. There are throughout your day a bevy of seemingly insignificant decisions that have an impact.

There are emotional choices you make. How you express or limit your expression of your emotions has a significant impact on your life. These are all selections you make throughout every moment and day of your life and how you make them influences your experience in a way that little else can.

Whether you are trapped in your fears or worries effects your health and your overall well-being and your personal happiness. Your emotional choices have a dynamic influence on your life and so, calling upon the guidance and wisdom of your Soul as you strive to manage and master these volatile and dramatic parts of your being make sense.

There is also a myriad of choices you continually make that activate your mental powers. As I have written many times in a variety of ways your thoughts are energy released into the world that has creative and magnetic power. “Energy Follows Thought.” Even in the most ancient of times, spiritual teachings from the Bible (Proverbs 23:7) declare “As a man thinketh so shall he be.”

As I review each of the parts of your nature and being that influence who you are, how you live and what you experience it is evident to see that your Soul can help you master every area of your life. The incredible miracle of your nature as a human being who has been endowed by your creator with the spark of Divine Light (your Soul) is that integrated into your nature is a resource to help you through all of life’s challenges. That is your Soul.

Expressing your Divine Spark; is a significant way to demonstrate your love and your service to others.
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Your Soul is uniquely yours and always available to you to help you, guide you, support you, and empower you. It offers you unconditional love and understanding. It is a limitless resource that is available to you whenever you need it.

You can open your life to this love, this source of wisdom and this Divine blessing through meditation, prayer, and contemplation.

Your Soul speaks to you in the silence, through your intuition, in your dreams, and through your consciousness.
– Genevieve Gerard

Your Soul is always an integral part of who you are. The more you can recognize the voice of your Soul within your being, the easier it is to let the Soul’s perspective of love and wisdom direct your life decisions, physical, emotional and mental.

In so doing you invoke and invite “Soul control” and Soul infusion into the miraculous blend of your life.

There are words from the Mantram of Unification I like to use in my meditations and invocations that talks to this way of living. I invite you to add them to your affirmations or meditations when and where you will.

Let the Soul control the outer form, and life and all events,
And bring to light the love that underlies the happenings of the times.
– Alice A. Bailey (Djwhal Khul – Discipleship in the New Age Vol II)

If moved to do so, you can also invoke the balance of the mantra, “Let vision come and insight. Let the future stand revealed. Let inner wisdom demonstrate, and outer cleavages be gone. Let love prevail. Let all men and women love.”

I find this mantram empowers and influences my life in dynamic and dramatic ways. I encourage you to take a few moments throughout every day to connect with your Soul so that you can lead a life that is Soul infused.

Namaste,

Genevieve

The blessing of love on all that you do!

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You Are Not Powerless

Genevieve Gerard

You Are Not Powerless

In the next hundred days there will be a time of choosing and a time of committing to where we stand.

Here, in the United States of America events and circumstances have come together that require that Americans and citizens of all nations must take the time to consider who they are as a country, who we are as a people, and most significantly where we stand.

Right now, in the next hundred days of a new administration in our government, we the people have some important decisions to make.

Decisions will determine whether this grand experiment in people living with the dynamic concept that all are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is a truth that will as it has so often in the past allowed the United States of America to be a light out to the world, or whether we will slip into the annals of history as a failed experiment in right human relations.

The founding of our great country was not a casual or happenstance thing. Our founding fathers knew that human nature was often flawed. They carefully and consciously built in structures in their emerging experiment in consciousness, here in a new land on a new continent as they carefully constructed checks and balances to protect the people from the failures of government, which most of the founding fathers were very suspicious of.

They knew well that to live in a country that has these freedoms requires a level of consciousness and responsibility of the citizens to continuously protect and defend not only the constitution but the principles upon which it was founded. Perhaps, they foresaw that this moment would someday come to the people and country they could only dare to dream of over 200 years ago as they structured this great republic into being.

They well knew that to maintain and nurture this new form of government would take vigilance and could require that the people take a stand for what they believe. For this, they incorporated the rights of peaceful assembly. However, in that right is not the right for violence. We do not have the right for anarchy or wanton destruction. But an integral part of the American experience, a right of free speech and assembly were consciously built into the American experiment of a republic.

Peaceful Resistance and Non-Violence

Those who have taken a stand against tyranny in our country and even in the world, have passed to us a legacy of what works, and a clear message of what does not work.

Peaceful resistance and non-violence are the only tools that work. The very moment you stray from those standards and use violence and civil disobedience you have handed the power over to the forces of tyranny and evil.

As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached in the 1960s in a previous time that our country had a call of conscious of what we choose to be as a culture and a people in this great American experiment in human relationships, “only love can conquer hate.” Hate and anger are the portals to, as Star Wars guru Yoda said, “the dark side.”

Ponder on this affirmation:

THE LAW OF ONE

We are all one.

When one is harmed, all are harmed. When one is helped, all are healed.

Therefore, in the name of who I AM, and I AM ONE with all; I ask that ONLY THAT WHICH IS THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL CONCERNED happen here and now and through all time and space.

I give thanks that this is done. SO BE IT!
– Unknown

So, as I consider the actions of the recent American events and find the news of the people taking to the streets to take a stand for the kind of America we choose to be, I call upon the leaders of all of these movements and I call upon each person who is moved to take a stand, to remember the life and the teachings of India’s protest leader Mahatma Gandhi. He reminded all of us that we must, “be the change we want to see in the world.”

The course of human events has converged upon “we the people” for us to once again decide what we believe, who we wish to be as a people. Much has happened in the 240+ years since the U.S. founding fathers migrated to America and made their stand against tyranny and inequality. Their intent was to form a more perfect union. To that, they pledged their lives, fortunes, and their sacred honor.

Much that is wonderful, great and good has happened and been created in the intervening years of human history. Much that is wonderful has been set up on the structure of freedom and liberty that they created. Greed, separateness, and selfishness remain as parts of human nature against which we must stand vigilant.

That vigilance has slipped in the recent past. The cry for change that this recent election spoke to is a sign that people do not wish to be governed by a swamp of selfishness and greed. The only way this great republic can work and has ever worked is by vigilance and taking a stand for right action and right human relationships.

Hold Our Leaders, Legislators,
and News Media Accountable

We the people have let our complacency slip. We have failed to use those precious freedoms and rights our forefathers built into our system to hold our elected officials accountable. We have not stood firm for the abuses of power that have raised their ugly head when the laws of abuse were passed. We have failed to hold those elected officials to those long-ago pledges of life, fortunes, and sacred honor that the American founding fathers pledged. Rather, we have stood by and permitted personal fortunes to be often enhanced shamelessly at the behest of special interests.

Now it is important to hold our leaders and legislators accountable. This is important as we re-examine the principles that are essential to truth and justice. Liberty and freedom are compromised when lies and illusion invade the body politics. Dangerous and destructive elements entered our society when news media failed to require truth. The problem became compounded by the regurgitating of what was promoted as alternative facts which were often fantasies that promoted conspiracy theories. These are tools that have long been used by tyranny to rob citizens of liberty, justice, and equality.

The American way was once defined as truth and justice. We need to find our way back to that for those are qualities upon which our American Constitution relies.

Most egregiously, we have permitted our representatives to place into law a privilege of certain benefits for them as legislators that are not shared with the people they represent. I can with confidence say that I am sure that was never even a consideration of a possibility of those men of honor that envisioned a represented republic.

We Are Not Powerless

It is that sense of powerlessness that I would like to touch on in this missive to you, my fellow human beings, my brothers and sisters in the quest for right human relationship.

You are not powerless. You are endowed by your creator with inalienable rights. No one can take that from you. However, you and you alone can claim that power.
– Genevieve Gerard

You must decide who you are as a human being, what you believe, what is right and what is wrong.

Living as a free people involves responsibility, a responsibility well understood by those who crafted the United States Constitution as a living document that requires the participation and vigilance of the governed.

I am reminded that right after the Constitutional Congress Benjamin Franklin said, “we have given you a republic if you can keep it.”

Now, in this next hundred days I call upon all of you, to take this opportunity in the course of human events to consider what you stand for, what you believe, what you feel deep in your heart and deep in the promptings of your Soul to consider what is right and then commit to taking a stand. We have certain rights. We must use them.

Thankfully many of us have been given the power of the ballot box. We must continue to use it or we will loose it.

Some nations have given us the right of free speech. We must make our voices heard.

In the United States, we have been given the power of an unfettered press. We must call upon the men and women of that pillar of our democracy to also take a stand for truth and honor.

We are not powerless. Now is the time for each of us to consider and then stand up for what has long been the vision of America, truth, honor and justice. It is the time for us to consider and then stand for what we truly believe. There is power in unity with your fellow man.

God (however you believe and conceive God to be), please bless the United States of America at this time of transition and awakening.

Namaste,

Genevieve

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Return to the Garden of Your Soul

Genevieve Gerard

Return to the Garden of Your Soul

This is an invocation to help you identify with the presence of your Soul.

Remember…

In the Garden of my Soul, love makes everything bloom.

In the Garden of my Soul, Light irradiates my path.

In the Garden of my Soul, there is unlimited abundance.

In the Garden of my Soul, truth clearly shines.

In the Garden of my Soul, peace always prevails.

In the Garden of my Soul, grace is plentiful and awaits sufficient for my need.

In the Garden of my Soul, forgiveness sets me free.

In the Garden of my Soul, I embrace brotherhood.

In the Garden of my Soul, there is a resounding joy.

In the Garden of my Soul, the Angels dance with me.

I come to this garden to know Love.

I come to this Garden to receive Enlightenment.

I come to this Garden to be blessed by Abundance.

I come to this Garden for the wisdom of Revelations.

I come to this Garden to experience Peace.

I come to this Garden to receive Grace.

I come to this Garden to know complete Unity.

I come to this Garden for the guidance of my Angels.

I come to this Garden so that I can radiate pure Joy in the world.

I come to this Garden to drink my fill from the waters of Life.

The Source of Divine Love fills me to overflowing as I hear the charge, go forth, and share these gifts with the weary waiting world.

I pour forth my blessings to the thirsty world.

My heart sings with praise and gratitude for the many blessings I receive so freely in the Garden of My Soul. My joy knows no bounds.

I rejoice knowing I can always find rest when I return to the Garden of My Soul.

Namaste,

Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!

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Childhood Angelic Message

Genevieve Gerard

Open Your Heart To Your Childhood Angelic Message

This article is part of my ongoing series on Angels.

There is, among those who identify themselves as spiritual, a common childhood experience.

This common childhood experience seems to be an early conscious awareness of the Soul as a presence and force in their life. It appears to be, most often an experience that occurs around the age of seven. It may be interpreted, especially by the adults in the child’s life, as an episode of childhood imagination and sadly dismissed and discounted.

As such, it is often forgotten.

Angels often appear in our lives and just wait for us to say hello.
– Katrina Mayer

When you begin to talk about Angels, it’s incredible how many people suddenly remember the experience. It is almost as if when you open your mind and your heart to the awareness of Angels the memory gets unlocked.

What I have found most significant about unlocking this childhood memory is the importance it holds in your adult life.

This experience is often a forecasting and clarifying of the purpose of your life. This event of foretelling and guiding is frequently described as a sensation of being so completely loved and so completely supported that the fullness of the heart can barely be contained.

Most people who describe this childhood memory have tears in their eyes. The sense of feeling loved so unconditionally becomes a cherished memory that is re-affirming. The guiding message and insights shared, for many, confirms a belief in God.

This angelic appearance and guiding message have for some long been cherished and pondered in their heart. Some seem to have forgotten this experience, but once they recall and remember it, find a sense of meaning and direction that is both life affirming and profound.

What is fascinating to observe is how such an intense experience can be forgotten and dismissed. What is sad is that the answer you may have been searching for your whole adult life is often whispered to you by an Angel in your youth and then dismissed or forgotten.

You might not think that is possible, but I have found it to be such a common experience that it seems necessary to talk about that childhood experience. Then it is important to consider its meaning and purpose in your life. I have after the memory is revealed, heard people wonder “how could I have forgotten that?”

The relief and assurance that accompanies the memory can be life transforming. With the memory comes the reassurance that you are not alone. The relief of that realization is profound. Consider that this message about the purpose of your life can often be life changing.

There are lessons and revelations available in the process of both forgetting and remembering. The discounting and discarding of your childhood experience by adults and the influence of “conscious reality” is enlightening.

IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS

There are a few thoughts and observations that are important you understand.

You are not alone in your life.

Your Angels have been with you since the beginning of your life.

Your Soul is the Divine spark of you that remains a source of unconditional love and grace throughout your life.

Your Soul and your Angels reside together in the etheric plane. Their substance is of energy and Light, a different creation or composition than the world of matter.

Many children find it easy to believe in an experience of the presence of what is invisible in the world. In childhood the veil between the material world and the spiritual world is thin. Children are born with an understanding and awareness that there is more to life than just the experience of the five senses.

Over time, that awareness of the dual nature of themselves as a being of both Soul and matter is all too often carefully and critically trained out of them. Parental fears of what it might mean or how others might interpret it limit many childhood experiences. Criticism and judgment ultimately cause a rejection of the truth and awareness with which they are born.

So much of becoming aware of the presence of Angels in our lives is a process of remembering and accepting what we knew to be real as children.
– Genevieve Gerard

There are a special time and special event that often happen in your youth (a lot of times around the age of seven.) This experience is uniquely empowering and revealing to remember as an adult. Most often this event is a contact and communication with your guardian angel. It is a starting point to a relationship that could be fostered to support and sustain you through your entire life.

What is most significant about this childhood meeting is that it is so life affirming and life changing. When you remember the content of the message that is delivered by your guardian Angel about the purpose of your life it can provide a sense of purpose and direction. In my many years of counseling and life guidance coaching, or as someone recently identified it “Soul Coaching,” finding your Soul purpose in life is inspiring.

The more clarity with which you can visualize and understand the purpose of your life the more empowering it is. The more you can transcend your fears to achieve and manifest your dreams the more successful you can be.

So, this angelic childhood encounter of life guidance is critical. It is important to remember this special blessing and, therefore, worth taking some time in meditation to consider.

For many just realizing that an experience that they have held deeply in their hearts was real is enough to unlock the memory.

For others, the habit of denying the reality of angelic presence has become deeply ingrained. Even, when as adults they begin to explore the reality of the presence of Angels in the world and their lives, that parental voice that this event was just childish imagination might be a challenge to transcend.

If you are one of those people who was criticized or even reprimanded for your imagination as a child, it may help you to understand that imagination is a portal to the realm of angelic presence. Angels can cross into the world of matter at times, but it is not where they reside. Their substance, their guidance, and their messages are gentle promptings that work through the intuition and the imagination.

Their voice is a whispered prompting that often flashes so quickly across your mind that you need to quiet your mind chatter even to hear it. The voice of your angels and the promptings of your Soul are often only heard in the silence of prayer, meditation or contemplation. There they respond to your invitation and invocation.

In fact, it is during this childhood visitation that your Angel can reveal your Soul purpose. It is one of the very few times in your life where those who remember the encounter may report a voice accompanying the revelation. If you are someone who experiences communication with the Angels you know that most often their communication is telepathic and not frequently accompanied by sounds that can be perceived by your material senses.

It also seems significant to observe that among those who remember and report this visitation event, it often is at an age when you are too young to be able to write insightful notes to yourself. This divine message is written on your heart. It is meant to be pondered in your heart.

Remembering the guidance received from your Guardian Angel depends on opening your heart and your mind as you ponder.

USING MEDITATION

Below is a meditation link to help you remember the advice you received as a child from your Guardian Angel.

Meditation is the most efficient way to open the threshold between the material world and the realm of spirit where the Angels reside wince it is where your Soul calls home.

I mention your Soul for two reasons:

First, opening to the touch of your Soul is a dynamic way to transform your life.

Second, is that there is a very special relationship that exists between your Guardian Angel and your Soul as partners to support you in your earthly life, from the heavenly realm.

So to come into greater awareness of your Guardian Angel and to have the increased awareness of the Presence of your Soul, use meditation as the bridge.

To meditate upon or to remember and clarify the childhood guidance you received, it is as always wise to prepare. Since in this meditation, you have the intention of revealing guidance about the purpose of your life I recommend some preparatory steps.

Get your journal or, at least, some paper and a pen and place it next to where you will sit to meditate. That is often important so you can record and remember the insights and impressions you receive in meditation.

It is often helpful to take some steps to make the space sacred. It can be as simple or complex as you like, but this focus declares your intention to open your mind to the realm of Angels and your Soul.

You might wish to light a candle or burn some incense or have a crystal’s energy to be infused from this meditation.

These little rituals are sometimes helpful in realizing that meditation is a time apart from you ordinary consciousness. It is a special time designated for greater awareness and understanding.

Then consider your intention to remember the guidance of your Guardian Angel and be open to gain the insight and wisdom of your Soul about the Higher purpose for your life.

Now click on this link to experience my gift to you a Meditation On Remembering.

Namaste,

Genevieve

A MEDITATION OF REMEMBERING

Genevieve Gerard

Check out my article on “Opening Your Heart To Your Childhood Angelic Message” that I wrote to go with this meditation.

A MEDITATION OF REMEMBERING

As always to begin, calm your mind, open your heart, invite the light.

Sit quietly with your spine aligned, let your energy center as you bring your awareness to a place of peace.

Although you are opening to remembering a childhood event, come into the present. Let the past fade away. Firmly relegate the past to the past. That was then, and this is now.

Release any feelings that may accompany the reactions others had if you shared your experience. Free yourself from external judgments and influences.

Take a deep breath as you are calming and centering your energies. As you do so, forgive yourself. Let go of any blame or self-judgement.

Forgive those who may not have supported you in the way that you needed in your childhood.

You are here now. You are now open and receptive. The past has no power over you. Right now you can expand your awareness to hear the message that the Angels bring to help and guide you in your life.

As you draw in your breath, draw in the Divine energies of grace and forgiveness.

As you exhale, release all of the negative “should” thoughts you may be having, imagining them moving away on the breath until they disappear.

You may wish just to sit quietly breathing while your energy calms and centers. You can do this as long as you like being gentle with yourself, letting yourself come to the point of calm and a place of peace.

Release and forgive with the exhale of each breath anyone who may have encouraged you to forget these childhood moments you are now endeavoring to recall. Let the past be in the past.

Surrender into the safety of being right here and right now.

Now, draw in a really deep and relaxing breath, drawing the air to the very bottom of your lungs as you expand your diaphragm to draw in more of the vitality of the breath.

Continue to draw in your breath until you have filled your lungs all the way to the upper lobes of the lungs.

Hold your breath briefly and consider that as you release your breath, you are also releasing anything that could interfere with you receiving the guidance and clarity that is available to you today in this meditation.

Pause and be receptive in the stillness to the quiet promptings of your heart. In the silence open your mind and heart. Listen.

With your heart and mind open, remember the time of innocence when the whole of your life lay before you were naive and unformed. Then, let any memories that are hidden emerge.

Take this time to recapture your childhood experience and bring it to your conscious recall, open your heart and mind as a child.

If no memories appear, take a moment to imagine a connection to your Guardian Angel on a thread of Light and open your mind to receive any guidance and clarity that may be available for you today.

You may wish to visualize a bridge from the top of your head to a golden radiating Light that represents your Soul. Then, with your mind calm and your heart open be receptive to whatever awareness of the spiritual realm that is available to you today to guide and empower you on your life’s journey to help align you with your life’s purpose.

Remain in this meditative focus for as long as feels right for you and record in your journal any thoughts, impressions and memories that may come to you.

Stay in the peaceful nurturing calm and grace of meditation. Let your heart be filled with the unconditional love that accompanies an Angel’s presence.

Be open and receptive without judgment or expectation. Let what comes to you flow to you spontaneously. You can consider and evaluate it later. Right now just be receptive and open.

When you feel you have completed the meditation, take the time to record your impressions. You can ponder on them either now or later.

Last express your gratitude to your Angel for the gift of guidance that you have received. If not now, then shortly.

Namaste,

Genevieve

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To The Least of These My Brethren

Genevieve Gerard

To The Least of These My Brethren

While in my heart Celebrating the Canonization and Sainthood of Mother Teresa, now Saint Teresa by Pope Francis, I was listening to a video about her life where she held up the hand of her guest and counted off the five words “You did it (un)to me.”

I was touched that as we look at her life, her strength and her service, she was motivated and driven that every act of kindness, every service she performed in the “black hole of Calcutta” where she worked to aid the poorest of the poor; those whose lives were discarded was an act of Love that she performed to the least of these “my brethren” because she saw in them the Divine Light.

I had never heard that story before.

I had written the article below recently about living a life in service to others by seeing in them, “inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me,” as instructed by Jesus (in the King James Bible version.)

Realizing that Saint Teresa of Calcutta, known for most of my life as Mother Teresa lived by those five words (You, Did, It, To, Me as a way to explain the five gospels) demonstrates how powerful those five words can be.

The story I share here, about my grandmother will hopefully demonstrate alone with Saint Teresa’s canonization that this instruction by Jesus was not an impossible task, but rather a way we can each decide to walk the world in Love, service, and fellowship with one another.

Here is a shorter video I found with Mother Teresa explaining the
5 Finger Prayer:

Let her Love and her service inspire people around the world to realize that what she did in her life each and every one of us can do.

Although we may never be declared a Saint we can follow the teachings of these five words of Jesus and the marvelous example of the life and work of Saint Teresa. We can live a meaningful life, a blessed life and be a blessing to those we encounter on our journey through life.

Some of us may feel the tasks ahead are beyond us. Indeed, we are told that Mother Teresa felt the vast poverty she was sent by her convent to minister to was beyond her, but in her daily walk with Christ as a demonstration of Love, she became a beacon of Light for the entire world.

Parables have been a method of spiritual teachers throughout the ages. Much like the tradition of a Zen Koan, a parable is a story for you to consider and ponder the deeper truth and lesson being offered. The lesson of a parable must be pondered in your heart as it is considered in your mind. Ponder on this.

The guidance of a parable is revealed through your inner wisdom through a sense of knowing and what has the resonance of a ring of truth to it. Often, it is the very pondering of what the teacher meant that gives the greatest spiritual insight.

The Bible phrase above found in Matthew 25:40 is a parable. In the simple phrase “Yeah though you have done it for the least of these my brethren” is a profound life guidance statement that is often ignored by those who say they follow Jesus. This little line in this simple parable ignites many questions that are worthy of pondering and considering.

In my life, I was blessed by a wonderful grandmother who had given this passage enough gravitas and consideration that it guided her whole life. I cannot remember and count all of the unwed mothers who migrated through my grandmother’s home over the years. The young women who were often disowned or cast out by their families found a haven in my grandmother’s home.

One by one she saw the woman through their pregnancy and birth then helped them find honorable and respectable men who would marry them and become a father to their child. As a child observing this, I do not know the details of how she managed to accomplish this task.

Mostly, I remember the often bittersweet joy of the young woman moving on to a better life that was mixed with my grandmother missing the baby who had been born into this situation.

Likewise, my grandmother had a neighbor who had transferred the deed to her home to her son so that when she passed on he would not have to pay inheritance tax. He then immediately sold the house out from under her, thus rendering the woman homeless. The result was my grandmother took her in. They were not friends, only neighbors. In fact, they never even addressed one another by their first names. I only knew this resident in my grandmother’s home as Mrs. Malloy.

My grandmother housed and cared for Mrs. Malloy for many years until caring for her became beyond my grandmother’s health abilities. She then found a home that could provide the care, Mrs. Malloy, now needed. She then visited her weekly until Mrs. Malloy passed.

When as a child I would question the reasoning behind my Grandmother’s generosity she explained it through this biblical passage. In her mind and heart, each of these people who had found themselves in unfortunate circumstances was cared for as if they were Jesus knocking on the door of her heart. She welcomed them and treated them as if they were Him.

This extraordinary example of living that biblical passage has had a profound influence in my life and is one which I have pondered throughout my life. What I have come to understand and realize is that this is a complex lesson. The answers are not simple.

A whole myriad of factors must be considered that are related to issues of personal responsibility. There are life lessons to be learned from every situation that is not yours or mine to disrupt through charity.

One of the clearest of these lessons is the concept of seeing the Divine spark within each person that led Jesus to say in this parable “I was sick, and you cared for me; I was in prison, and you visited me; I was hungry, and you fed me.” We find this Divine spark within those who are even the “least of these my brethren.”

It is in serving and caring for others with Love, while still empowering them to co-create in their own life the fulfillment of their dreams and desires, which you can best be of service.

The respect and honor you give to even the least of these the brethren of the Christ, and the least of these your brethren a demonstration of how brotherhood works. It is through the brotherhood of men and sisterhood among woman that you best acknowledge the Divine spark that is within each of us. This acknowledgment is captured in the phrase of the ancient greeting of “Namaste – The Divine spark in me honors and recognizes the Divine spark in you.”

In this way we are all brothers and sisters, we are all the children of God. We are One Humanity.

None of us is an island, our separateness and separation are an illusion. We cannot hurt one another without hurting ourselves. Likewise, when we help and serve another, we help ourselves. This connection is real no matter how much we may strive to think in selfish and separate ways.

Deep in your heart and more importantly deep in your Soul this truth is known. No matter how individual life may seem, there is a unity of connection we all have with one another.

The biblical phrase that guided so much of my Grandmother’s life and service was “Yeah though you have done it unto the least of these my brethren you have done it unto me.” For my grandmother, every unwed mother who traveled through her care and her homeless neighbor were all part of her expression of love and service to the Christ.

This living example of the active principle of love had a profound influence on my life that guides my life situations today. I am so grateful that this loving woman was in my life. Her example and love have been a constant source of strength in my life journey.

I am eternally grateful for the blessing of her presence in my life and her tireless example of what love and service mean.

Although I have known many wonderful spiritual teachers throughout my life, my grandmother living her life by that simple phrase from the book of Matthew 25:40 was more of an example of following the teachings of Jesus than the many sermons I have heard in my life.

She truly “walked her talk,” and I was so blessed by the opportunity to observe someone who “walked their talk” in my formative years. Her living expression of Love and Grace has been ongoing support (even though her body has passed on) and I am grateful for the blessing of her example and her love in my life.

In all of her expressions of Love and Service, to the various unwed mothers who cycled through her home, I recall a complete lack of judgment toward the woman she brought under her protection. She opened her heart and her home to help them get their life back on track, so a mistake was not the definition of their future.

Her demonstration of grace and her example of forgiveness and especially self-forgiveness have been an example of what forgiveness means and the unconditional nature of love.

For my Grandmother, it was Christ that she served and Christ who knocked on the door to her heart and Christ she housed and cared for when she gave comfort and shelter to those in need. I can only marvel at what a beautiful demonstration of love her life was for with gratitude in my heart for having been blessed by the love and support of such an amazing disciple of Christ.

I am blessed to share her story with you with love and invite you to open your heart and Do It Unto Me.

Namaste,

Genevieve

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When You Love You Transcend Mere Emotion

Genevieve Gerard

When You Love, You Transcend Mere Emotion

This article is part of my ongoing Series on Love.

Love can heal your life.

Love can transform your life.

And in many ways, love is the most powerful and profound thing that you do in your life adventure.

This refers to the power of Love which is both transformative, and by its very nature takes you into what is Divine. To love is a bond that is eternal and timeless. Love is unlimited by time and not confined by space.

Love is so powerful and profound that it transcends even the tyranny of death. The reason that love has all of this magical and mystical power is that it is much more than an emotion.

It is easy to fail to understand love in the midst of media and movies dramatic fantasies of what it means to love. A lot of misinformation about love is the fuel for stories that are not about love at all, but rather are demonstrations of need and desire. The cycle of attachment, need and desire are all too often described as love. This failure in society to understand the real power of love makes it more challenging to recognize love when you do experience it.

Perhaps, the best way to clarify what love is is to consider that love is much more than emotion. Although when you love someone, you may feel many emotions, these emotions only serve to open your heart and your mind to let you learn how to love.

When you love, you transcend mere emotion and move into an awareness that is more vast and significant than just feeling.
– Genevieve Gerard

Ultimately, love is where you co-exist as a miraculous creation. As a human being, you are a multifaceted and complex being. You have a body but are more than your body. You have emotions, but you are more than what you can feel. You have a mind, but your mind is greater than what you think. And most significantly you are a Soul.

Love is the great synthesizer because Love unifies you into the full mystical expression of your unified self. Love reveals the miracle of a complex being who is simultaneously both physical and Divine.

Love is a great teacher that is so marvelous and powerful that it teaches you to transcend your dual nature as a human being (a physical and material being) who is concurrently imbued with a spark of Divine Light.

Love is the place where you can bridge your eternal self with your mortal physical self. That makes love the most formidable experience in your life’s adventure.

That also makes it possible to merge into your understanding of love a great deal that is not love. This merging and projection is part of why many fear to love. They associate love only with the emotions of “falling in love.” The falling in love experience can be an opportunity to open yourself fully to love. In that experience, your Soul merges with another. That is a blending of being that enables you to celebrate a unity of heart, mind, and Soul.

Although marvelous, loving someone is often threatening and frightening to the separated individualize identity of the self. Sadly, when you are given the opportunity to love it is painful if you cling to your isolated self and project your needs and desires upon the one who is the object of your love. You may then bring away from the experience of trying and failing to love, the erroneous conclusion that “love hurts.”

If you are mature enough and wise enough, you may realize that it was your needs, desires, and attachments that hurt. I ask you to consider this statement and ponder upon what is different about love and your needs and attachments?

Even if you were only able to experience the spiritual transcendence of actually physical emotional for a few moments, consider, in retrospect, that the experience of transcending your needs and desires can be an enlightening one.

Consider, if you will, what you experienced when you let yourself move beyond yourself into the bliss of a unity of Souls. Even if that merger was not destined for your whole lifetime, in that brief transition from there is a powerful life lesson that can teach you about love.

Consider that in those moments that you were able to transcend your sense of isolation and better understand what love is. When you have loved beyond the emotions that led you to touch love, it can be helpful to learn some things about your human anatomy and your spiritual anatomy.

Within this understanding is the awareness of why learning to love is such an influential part of the human experience.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
– Petrarch

With love, when you love beyond emotion into the very essence of what it means to love you are blending and merging two very different worlds. You, as a human being are a temporal material being. You are born into a material body. Your five senses guide you. You have a physical body that has very specific needs. Among these is: food to eat, shelter from the elements, and water to drink. Along with these requirements are a lot of desires. See my Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in my “Ways to Relieve Stress” blog post.

A most significant part of your human experience is also emotions. Many of these are vast and drive your life. Your emotions are a dynamic part of your anatomy. Fear, shortage, loss are all powerful motivators. Beyond your physical senses, emotions are one of the most influential parts of your human experience.

Your mind and ability to engage in thought also join this human experience as a controlling aspect of the human experience. What you think, and the very content of your thoughts is a dynamic creative force in your life. Read my “Keys to Harnessing Your Thoughts” blog post for more insights.

These three parts of yourself are then integrated and merged into your personality. Your personality is the integrative force that enables these seemingly diverse parts of your being to function.

This integration of your body, emotions, and mind under the direction of your personality are a vital part of the wholeness of your being.

Your personality is then available to further merge and integrate with the non-material aspects of your consciousness, your Soul. It is with this dynamic and transformative step in your consciousness that the essence of love is finally revealed, not limited to your emotions and thoughts or expectations but in the miracle of the blending of Souls.

It is when, with your personality and physical emotional and mental parts of your nature you are finally able to move outside of the material world and move into the eternal, transcendent and transforming aspects of love, that everything can open and change.

When you love someone, you bridge from the world and limitations of matter into that which is Soul, Eternal, and Divine. You can then leave behind the restrictions and limitations of the material world and open yourself to that which is timeless, and endless.

Love is so much more than emotion; for when you love you transcend the temporal and enter into the eternal.

Love is a miracle that blesses our life. It remains as a living, moving, expanding and contracting life lesson that teaches you how to live in the dual existence as a physical being who lives a span of years and then must return to the dust of matter to consciously blend with the part of your Self that is eternal.

It is when you open your heart and your mind to love that you can transcend the limitations of your human experience and enjoy the world of your Soul which is limitless, endless and beyond both time and space.

Love serves both worlds as a bridge from the finite to the infinite. Love never ends. To touch the eternal with the temporal physical world which does someday end is to have the opportunity to dance into eternity. That you can experience this by learning to love is a miracle.

When you learn to love another no matter which of the many and diverse forms that love offers during your life’s adventure you can create then you form a bond that is eternal and amazing.

Celebrate this miracle of love as many times and in as many ways as you can!

Learning to love is the greatest part of the human experience.
– Genevieve Gerard

Love is the one part of your human material existence that bridges to your spiritual and eternal aspect of yourself.

It teaches you to live in the dual awareness of the physical with the profound awareness of your Soul.

Namaste,

Genevieve

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Are You Awakening to the Light?

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Are You Awakening to the Light?

The word awakening is used a great deal among the consciousness community to describe an emerging awareness that is evolving in the world today.

It is for our time in the evolution of humanity the word most often used to describe increased awareness of the spiritual part of yourself, your Higher Self, or Soul.

The word awakening has, in modern times, come to replace the word
enlightenment or illumination. Although the process of awakening, without a doubt, leads to ever increasing enlightened awareness, there is within the concept of awakening some underlying assumptions that I think it would enhance the process of awakening to consider.

The subtle and yet powerful difference in the use of the word awakening instead of the word enlightenment has within it the implication that what you are beginning to understand and what is emerging ever more into your consciousness is more a process of remembering. It implies an acknowledgment of what you already know, more than a process of learning or discovering something new.

If you consider that an integral part of who and what you are is a spiritual being having a physical human experience this all makes perfect sense.

Awakening implies that you are emerging from a dream or illusion, realizing what is real. That concept has within it a myriad of assumptions that are worthy of exploring. Most significant is: what are you awakening to and what are you awakening from?

It seems that the concept of awakening has captured the imagination of many who are reaching for spiritual enlightenment because it gives a hint to a deeper awareness that rings true in the human heart.

As I stated, the idea of awakening implies acknowledging and understanding something that was always known to you.

I like the idea of awakening because it affirms the wisdom of your eternal self (your Higher Self, your Soul) is communicating and revealing a deep truth to your personality self.

The concept that you are a temporal and material being, concurrently with your awareness of your nature as an eternal being is the beginning to the adventure of awakening .
– Genevieve Gerard

Your Dual Nature

Since the dawn of time, the dual nature of the human experience as a physical, emotional, mental being and personality has co-existed in the human consciousness with an internal awareness of the Self as an eternal Soul. This is one of the major aspects of enlightenment. The understanding that I am a material and physical being whose body will ultimately return to dust lies mysteriously beside the deep inner truth of your spiritual Self as an eternal being.

Everything we know is taught to us by God
as He casts His light over the world.
– Saint Augustine

That we are concurrently a physical and material being, while also the eternal spark of Divine Light is amazing. This awareness of the Self as both mortal and eternal has puzzled philosophers and spiritual leaders throughout the ages.

When I ponder these deep mysteries in the exciting context of the current revelations and awareness, I realize that it is love that teaches humanity about the eternal nature of the Soul. And, that seems appropriate because the nature of your Soul is love.

Ultimately, love is an eternal connection. In the deepest recesses of the human heart, beyond full comprehension is the awareness that love never ends. This is one of the most powerful and profound mysteries of the human life adventure.

It is by learning to love that we begin to comprehend this merging of our human awareness with the light of our Soul’s awareness. It is this merged being that is awakening to consciousness and expression in this dynamic time in human evolution.

The nature of God as love and the nature of the Soul as love combined with the understanding of love creates a state of being that is boundless. This leads our awareness into such mysteries as eternity and the eternal NOW.

The Divine nature of love takes the understanding of what it is to love out of the realm of limitations of matter then expands that experience into the awareness of love as an energetic force that is unlimited by either space or time, that is not confined by matter and therefore not limited by matter.

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In this dual awareness, the mysteries of a new way of being and a new way of living are revealed. A concept such as accession becomes possible as you consider it is the consciousness and perspective that ascend as you incorporate your awareness of your Soul into your mind, into your emotions, and into your body and let it merge with your personality, ultimately merging into the wholeness of your being. Ponder on this.

This integration of your Soul and eternal spark of light with your body, mind, and emotions through integrating your Soul with your personality is an integral part of the consciousness of awakening.

This integration of the world of spirit with the world of what is physical and temporary is a significant shift in awareness.

This change in perception is a shift in human consciousness that changes everything. Functioning as a physical, emotional, and mental being that is also spiritual and eternal is a consciousness shift that expands your life journey.

That you can dually live in the eternal awareness of your consciousness as a Soul, while still functioning and responding as a personality, is a crucial part of the awakening process.

Meditation Is the Portal To Awareness

Meditation is the portal that can help you awaken to this dual awareness. Through meditation, you can begin to ignite the Light of your Soul and bring it ever increasingly into your awareness.

Connecting with your Soul through meditation opens you to the wisdom of your Soul which can be used to guide difficult life decisions. It can also connect you to the Source of Divine Love in life transforming and powerful ways.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
– Eckhart Tolle

Awakening and incorporating your Soul (your Higher Self), with the life lessons that challenge your days, opens you to being a new kind of human being that is coming into being in this new age of evolution. Humanity is just now at the beginning of this new way of being.

The process of awakening is a dual process of being and becoming. Living in the Light of the Soul while also living as a Soul infused personality is a different approach to life. It is a new adventure for humanity.

After eons of human evolutions, this emerging Aquarian Age and the spiritual awakening that people are experiencing across the globe gives new hope.

I encourage and invite you to open your heart and your mind to the transformative touch of your Soul that guides you to this new spiritual awakening so you can live a more inspired, joyful and fulfilling life.

Namaste,

Genevieve

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A New Consciousness is Emerging

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A New Consciousness is Emerging

– With the Touch of Your Soul

What is a touch of your Soul and how does it impact your life?

We are told by the writings of the Ageless Wisdom that from the moment of creation of humanity on this planet there was, in the mind of God, an overall plan of evolution.

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It was part of the plan of God when in the creation story God said, “let us make man in our own image” (Genesis 1:26,) after our likeness. Biblical scholars and believers alike have often wondered who is “us”. Who is the “our” that God, as the creator, referred to?

To understand this passage in the creation story, there are many concepts that we must grasp that are beyond our everyday consciousness and awareness. Concepts about the nature of consciousness and thus the nature of reality.

Amazingly, the understandings of these truths have, throughout the eons of time, only been revealed as hints, such as in the above bible passage of Genesis.

The Universe is vast, much vaster than our human experience as a dweller on planet earth may be able fully to comprehend at this time. However, spiritual truths have been slowly revealed over time, often with the instruction to “ponder on this.”

Truths about our human experience as beings who are both material and spiritual are often difficult to fully grasp. This dual nature of our being, a material physical creature whose body dies, yet who is also an eternal being because it has an eternal Soul, is often perceived as a conundrum.

It is in understanding the incredible miracle of this dual nature of our being that the full power and potential of what it means to be a human being is revealed. Only man, and of course the version of the man with a womb (woman) are, of all of creation, created in the image of God.

With the breath of life came the creation of the eternal spark of consciousness that is the Soul. This spark of consciousness shares eternity with the creator. This is the mystery that is the deepest truth of awareness held in the human heart that is revealed only through love.

Not only are many of the most profound truths obscured by the teachings being held as secret. A quick scan of the known history of civilization shows that humanity has often not only rejected truths that contradict “consensus reality” but has put to death those who reveal truths before people are ready to hear and accept them.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
– Hamlet to Horatio in Hamlet (1.5.167-8) by William Shakespeare

A New Consciousness is Emerging Now

The timings of revelations require a certain level of consciousness to not only be accepted but more importantly to be understood. History has shown us that ideas have their own unique moment in time to be accepted by the collective consciousness of humanity.

Currently, I believe, a new consciousness is emerging at this very moment in human awareness.

This new consciousness, new awareness, and new understanding is just happening now, in this time of human evolution, revealing truths that have long been held beyond a veil waiting for humanity to be ready. Divine Love fuels that consciousness.

Awakening with A Touch of Your Soul

What reveals Divine Love is what I call “The touch of your Soul.” Your Soul is the divine spark that was breathed into your being the very moment you were conceived in the mind of God as a part of creation.

This awareness of the life of the Soul and the progressive revelation of the touch of the Soul is for the individual human personality life transforming. It creates a new consciousness and with it, new understandings.

This new consciousness goes by several names in the human adventure. The names are not important, the shift in consciousness is.

Among the modern descriptions of this new awareness are the words “awakening,” and “ascension.” These powerful words do reveal some of the truth of what humanity is now becoming able to be, what humanity is becoming able to understand about what are true essence is as human beings.

We are in a fantastic time in the revelation and evolution of human consciousness. It calls forth from the human experience new ways of understanding and, far more important, new ways of being.

I use the words “new ways of being” specifically because this step forward in the human consciousness adventure is more about “being” and “becoming” than it is about doing.

In the ongoing process of humanity learning to be and become what is emerging in this particular transition in understanding is a powerful transformation that will shift everything.

Part of this shift is “spiritual,” because it requires an expansion of awareness beyond the material expression of life. This expansion requires what I call “The touch of the Soul.” The touch of the soul, your Soul, is of paramount importance in this process because it is your Soul that takes on the mantel of being your teacher through the revelation of profound truths that you might well question if revealed from an external teacher.

The role of your Soul as your teacher ultimately results in the creation of this new kind of human being. This new revelation is a coming into fruition of what has always been true but is just now coming into expression.

Ponder the deeper meaning of the ancient Sanskrit greeting used throughout our planet, Namaste: “The Divinity in me recognizes and honors the Divinity in you.”

The Divinity in me in that phrase speaks to a deep yet often unfocused upon archetypal understanding that each and every human being is endowed by the Creator with a spark of Divine Light.

I often in my writings and teachings refer to that Divine spark as your Soul, and I encourage you to, through meditation, invite and invoke the power and the presence of your Soul to take on the duties of your teacher, the master, and guide that has been with you since the dawn of time and travels with you throughout all of eternity.

The emergence into consciousness of the Soul is what is different about what I am calling a new kind of human being. It is not really new since your spiritual anatomy has always had your Soul as a part of it. What is new is the active incorporation of the Soul into your life experience (ideally your everyday experience.)

The expanded conscious awareness that comes from the touch of your Soul is vast. If in your meditations, prayers or contemplations you have experienced this touch of your Soul certain revelations are consistent and profound.

The amazing thing is that the touch of your Soul puts you in touch with a reality that is beyond your normal awareness of body, mind, and emotions that are guided by your five physical sensory inputs. The touch of your Soul reveals a touch of Divine Love that opens and fills your heart to overflowing.

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The touch of your Soul may reveal concepts and thoughts that bring clarity and solutions to life challenges you have never considered. You may experience a sense of expansion into an awareness of unity that transcends the sense of alienation that has so often plagued the human experience.

Whatever your personal awareness of your Soul, it will initiate and herald the start of being and becoming this new kind of human being that is emerging into the world.

This new emerging stage of humanity, whether we consider it an awakening, an evolution, or an assentation, requires a new kind of consciousness; a consciousness that integrates the realm of the Soul with the material realm. It requires a conscious that brings into manifestation a human being who is both in the world, but not exclusively of the world.

A merging, integration, and blending of the spiritual perspective of the Soul, with the reality of the human kingdom which is a world of substance and matter in a new way of considering and expressing life.

Over the eons of spiritual teaching parables, stories and analogies they have alluded to this Soul, Mind, Body merged perspective. Jesus’s discussions of the kingdom of heaven are an example that quickly comes to mind.

What is unique to this moment in the cosmic calendar is that with the touch of your Soul, the personality and ego are shown the possibility of being a citizen of the world while being aware and open to the prompting and direction of your Soul.

You can simultaneously be fully a human being with all of the “oh so human failures” and be a spiritual being, aligned with Divine Will and Divine purpose. You can explore your life challenges with this dual perspective of your human nature and your nature as a child of God who is concurrently the Son of Man.

This is a new manifestation of human consciousness and a new expression of spiritual consciousness in a more integrative and thus empowering way than has ever been possible before. It is an opportunity to be truly the being that the creation story of old said was created in “our” image. This is the being that provides the way the old sage words of the catechism can be answered.

Question 1: What is the chief end of man?

Answer: Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

It is in the realm of the Soul, the kingdom of Heaven and by the blending of the dual consciousness of your human life experience with your spiritual life experience that this becomes possible.

What makes this transition from a human, being limited to the physical, emotional and mental material perspective, to the expanded awareness of the spiritual consciousness is the touch of the Soul.

The touch of the Soul connects you to Divine Love, which is unconditional in nature and transformative. The touch of the Soul grants an eternal perspective which shifts your perception from the temporal to timelessness, a shift that grants awareness of the eternal now.

I invite and encourage you to call upon your own Soul to touch your life in this transformative way. I invite and urge you to call upon your own Soul to be your teacher and your guide in your life adventure. See the related posts listed below for more on this subject.

You are a miracle of Divine Light, created by Divine Love and infused with Divine Wisdom to be a Soul having a human experience, right here and right now on planet earth.
– Genevieve Gerard

This union of consciousness that you are, and always were created to be, is available to you through the relationship that can begin with the touch of the Soul.

Namaste,

Genevieve

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Be the Change You Want to See

Genevieve Gerard

Be the Change You Want to See in the World

The new day dawns.

Once again I am reminded that the Light is victorious. This world gives us that reminder every day.

For me the transition from darkness into light every morning is one that brings joy and hope into my heart.

Yet, as I enjoy and appreciate the blessing of peace, love and joy that comes as the prequel to my morning meditations I am aware that for many the peace of mind and spirit that I enjoy is only a dream.

As I began my morning meditation with the question of what I can teach and demonstrate that will help and serve those who read my words this week, I became aware of how fear limits so many lives.

Recent geopolitical events, the Presidential impeachment hearings of Donald Trump, the threat of Countries being invaded, bombings and multiple acts of terrorism across the planet have raised the fear threshold.

As I write these words the logical part of my mind argues that the world has long been plagued by both wars and rumors of wars. Certainly in my lifetime I cannot remember a time of peace in the world.

It seems that new words are used to describe the “not peace” experience of life on the planet that deprives people of the peace that is so deeply desired.

Although in my life I spent great effort working for peace, being both an advocate and activist for peace, the only thing I could ever really achieve was inner peace, the peace I enjoyed in my morning’s meditations. Sadly, the peace in my heart and mind is not the peace in the world.

How Can Peace Be Achieved?

What can I do and what can you do to create peace?

As I pondered on this awareness a quote that Mahatma Gandhi made during his epic fight to end apartheid came to my mind. He said:

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi

As he fought against the evil of apartheid you can observe in his life and his writings something that is very important:

Evil cannot be overcome by using the tools of evil.
– Genevieve Gerard

Evil has a way of taking the forces of Light and converting them and perverting them to serve its purpose. Fear mongering, hate and anger can be dressed up by what is evil in the world to justify and encourage greater evil. Revenge and retribution long used, draped in patriotism and nationalism serve to perpetuate war and stimulate hatred.

Love Is Stronger Than Hate

Gandhi, in the midst of his life’s struggle for equality, and liberty realized, much like Martin Luther King did, that love was where the power is.

Recently, reactions to a variety of global acts have increased people’s fears once again. And fear seems to quickly be the handmaiden to hate. The well of man’s inhumanity to their fellow man seems to never run dry. If when you look at another who believes differently or dresses differently you focus upon what is different it is easy to create a belief in separateness. Yet, that separateness is an illusion. That sense of separateness is used to create fear and from that fear comes violence. That fear stimulates hatred and for some justifies acts of evil.

If when you look at someone you realize we are all more alike than different then the unity of the human experience stimulates compassion. Love is ultimately stronger than hate. The desire for peace can be a common denominator in our human experience.

Transcending fear is a part of the path to enlightened awareness. Learning to Love is what our spiritual journey is about. As Light by its very nature ends the darkness, so love ends hatred.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be The Change You Want To See

Ultimately, you can choose to be the change you want to see in the world.

To bring love into the world you must love. To bring peace into the world you must be peaceful.

At times despite your best efforts you may not be able to achieve peace of mind. At times even when you strive to love unconditionally you may realize that your needs and expectations have more influence than you desire.

Compassion for others and compassion for yourself are very important. Forgiveness of yourself and forgiveness of others is a grace you can claim as you acknowledge that you are a work in progress.

Just to strive to be the change you want to see in the world is already a significant choice.

You are not perfect and fortunately you don’t have to be perfect but each time and circumstance in your life that you demonstrate unconditional love you have brought love into the world.

Each time you have forgiven, even what seems to be unforgivable, you are an instrument of grace and compassion.

Each time you conquer anger or the ravages of hate you are joining in bringing in the Light to dispel the darkness. Each time you are able to bring peace to your heart and peace to your mind is a victory.

The more life situations where you are kind, loving and treat others the way you wish to be treated you are an instrument of good in the world.

Do To Others What You Want Them To Do To You

Since the ancient times of Babylon when the code of Hammurabi was first written, a code of right relationship was created.

In many human religions, human cultures, and animal kingdoms it is believed that one should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself. Today we know this as “The Golden Rule.”

The “Golden Rule” has been attributed to Jesus of Nazareth, who used it to summarize the Torah:

Do to others what you want them to do to you. This is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets.
– Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 7:12)

It is such a simple concept, yet as I often say, “simple is not easy.” So much of what is wrong in the world would be eliminated if everyone followed that simple Golden Rule.

If you are considering how you can be the change you want to see in the world this simple golden rule is a good place to start. The Golden Rule is found in almost every religion and affirms the unity of the human experience in a way that acknowledges the principles of brotherhood of all humankind.

Imagine for a minute what the world would be like if everyone everywhere did only to others what they wish for themselves. Harmlessness, one of the most important parts of Right Relationships is inherent in the Golden Rule (checkout my article about the Golden Rule.) Right speech is also included.

Loftier and profound concepts such as love, forgiveness, and kindness are enjoined by this way of being. World peace is the logical conclusion. It seems that to fall back to this very ancient code of conduct creates the change that the world needs today.

Loving unconditionally and forgiveness may not be that easy. However, to treat someone in any interaction in life the way that you wish to be treated is eminently understandable. By the very application of this way of relating you are affirming unity with all of humanity.

So, today I encourage you to be the change you want to see by actively treating all who cross your path the way you wish to be treated. To do so is to be an agent for Light in the world.

Namaste,

Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!

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