Be Proud of Who You Are

Expanding Heart by Alicia Crystalus

 

Be proud of who you are!

No one sparkles or shines

like you do in the entire world!

Being proud of who you are is not about bragging or boasting. It is about knowing and accepting who you are with unconditional love.  Use your strengths to help yourself and others. 

Take time to meditate on the Expanding Heart above, let it gently remind you to expand your love outside of yourself.  Let your heart expand with unconditional love, mercy and compassion for yourself and all others.

Songs in the Waking Hour ~03.01.10

The past few days I have been waking up with songs of praise singing in my head. Often once I am fully awake and out of bed I don’t remember the songs for long. It is really nice to wake up to such encouraging words and with the feelings of love, hope and joy in my heart. Today’s song was repeating in my soul: Love the Lord, Your God, with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength.

The song is Love the Lord by Lincoln Brewster. It is based off of several scriptures that reflect on putting your all into loving God, everything you have in praise, worship and connecting in a deep relationship with your creator. So often my mind can be elsewhere while thinking about God or singing praise, it is important to have everything you have united and be fully present in that moment with God. When all of you is united, miraculous events can happen, healing, transformation and amazing love come from being fully one with God in all that you are.

Mark 12:30
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”

This same verse is repeated in Deuteronomy 6:5. “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”

Waiting for Your Love

Someone is waiting for only the special love that you can share.  Perhaps it is your partner, your family, your friends or someone new who is waiting on you.  Break down the walls that keep you from sharing the special gift of your love.  The gift of your love costs nothing but has infinite and amazing returns on investment.  Share your heart, share your love.

Never before in human history have so many been so connected all over the world, yet so few feel loved.  How is it that we can chat, write and connect in so many ways yet lose the intimate connection with family, friends and new friendships? People are starving for love, starving for human contact and connection.  The busyness that surrounds modern life places a wall around people’s hearts, places a wall that blocks out true spiritual heartfelt connections.   Granted many are able to move beyond the superficial, but so many get lost in a blur of constact connectivity without the true reward of being known intimately.  Being known intimately for who you are and loved for who you are, boosts a person’s self esteem, boost’s a person’s ability to cope with stress and change. 

If you find that you are not able to cope with the world around you and feel worn out from stress – reach out to someone you can touch, who can look you in the eyes and affirm that you are someone worthwhile, someone who in worthy of love, someone who is worth the time it takes to sit by your side and listen to you.  If babies thrive on human touch, don’t you think adults also thrive on human contact?  Why is it as adults we lose the ability to give and receive friendly affection?  A pat on the shoulder, a gentle hug or a smile with direct compassionate eye contact can help others and yourself thrive and stay alive. 

Perhaps you know of others who are lonely or suffering, perhaps you are the one who can help bring them some comfort, joy, and love.  Don’t let the fear of reaching out and being rejected for your efforts keep you from allowing your heart the freedom to give love generously.  Don’t let the whirlwind of life keep you from slowing down long enough to hug someone, give your ear to listen from your heart and your shoulder to cry on if needed. 

Some easy ways that you can move from being closed off yet overly connected is to smile and say hello to each person you pass while you go about your day.  Smile truly from your heart and through your eyes.  The special light and love that is yours to give will come through in that brief moment where your soul acknowledges another with compassion and respect for the journey we all are on together.  Ask someone new out for lunch, perhaps you feel intimidated wondering what you will talk about or why they would go out to lunch with you.  Don’t pass negative judgement on yourself.  Quit rejecting yourself and removing the option of acceptance from someone else before they even have had a chance to know you.  Believe you have something amazing to offer, something so valuable that the world would be lost without it! 

Everyone has something vital to give this world.  Everyone has a unique love and light that is all their own.  Take time to find out why others are so special and let them find out why you are so lovely, too.  Remember, someone is waiting for your love.

Choices

 

 

One way to live a better life is to make better choices for your life.  These choices are not only about choosing to eat better or exercise more.  These choices are about treating yourself better, accepting that you may want something different out of life than other people want for you, or choosing to express how you feel no matter how other people will respond. 

 

Are you making choices that make your heart sing?

Are you making choices in your life that make you dread waking up each day?

 

Everyday is filled with a million choices to be made, ranging from:  Do I get out of bed this morning?  What am I going to have for breakfast? What kind of activities do I really want to do today?

 

Each question can have a million different responses, based on your internal workings, morals and desires.  Sometimes choices are not made from our heart but from what our mind deems is the best choice.  The mind’s choice isn’t always a horrible choice, but it also isn’t always the best choice. Sometimes it is the mind choosing to get up and go to work even when you do not really feel like it. This is a decent choice because usually the reason behind going to work is so you can pay bills, take care of your responsibilities and fulfill obligations.  Other times it is choosing to go to an event or activity that you really don’t want to go to, but still attend out of a feeling of responsibility or desire to please your family, spouse, friends, etc. 

 

Each choice can lead us further and further away from where our heart’s desires truly lie.  Our heart will never really lead us astray, but our mind sometimes will.  Choices you make from your heart will help your spirit to feel fed and fulfilled.  If your spirit feels fulfilled you will not need to feed it so much with food.  However, when you continuously make choices from your mind, you create situation where you do not feel fulfilled but instead feel overwhelmed, stressed out, angry and discontent.  These choices lead to the cycle of feeding yourself with food to suppress these emotions, so you can continue to live exactly as you are without changing anything.

 

This week look at the choices you are making.  Are they truly serving your spirit or are they stifling your spirit?

Love Without Fear

Whenever I hear “When I get Where I’m Going” by Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton it makes me wonder and think about why we always wait to live fully without fear.  Why won’t we love without fear every moment of the day?

 

What is it that makes us so afraid to live with our hearts wide open?

 

It costs nothing to love one another, it costs us nothing to love someone even if we do not know them.  It seems as though as the years go by we become more and more disconnected from the world around us, from those around us. 

 

What keeps us from reaching out to one another in love and friendship, even just to say hello and smile as we go by on the street?

 

This last week, Donald and I were out shopping at Publix in a rough neighborhood in Jacksonville and we smiled and said hello to a gentleman in the parking lot.  I think it was the first time I was ever thanked for simply saying hello and smiling at someone.  The gentleman said that was the nicest greeting he had gotten that day and that he could feel the joy spread from our smiles to his heart. 

 

I often try to smile and say hello to everyone I meet, especially at work even though there are hundreds of people in my office.  Somedays, it is a challenge just to hold my head up and say hello and smile, looking each person in the eye when it would be a lot easier to look down and keep walking.   Yet the little effort it takes can mean the world to the other person, as they in turn may smile at you or someone else. 

 

Why have we become so stingy with our love?

 

Especially with ourselves. 

 

Take the time to love without fear, allow yourself the freedom to be a being of LOVE.  It is the ultimate freedom to be filled with love and let it spill out to everyone around you without the fear of expecting anything in return.  Once you start loving freely there is no end to the amount of love that comes to you, it is never ending.  LOVE IS WHO WE ARE.  LOVE is who I AM.  LOVE is who You ARE. 

 

Be filled with love, be filled with an open heart, be free of the fear that keeps you from reaching out to others you do not know and especially those who you DO know.  Many times we stop reaching out to those we know due to some ego issue or another, holding onto some society rule that we have to act this way or that way.  Act how your heart wants you to act, not how others want you to act. 

 

Don’t wait for death or near death to let you be free to be who you are.

Don’t wait for where you are going to love without fear.

We always stand within the Light. 

Never forget that you are filled with grace, hope and love. Always.

Nothing you have ever done can take that away from you – for that is who you are.

Be at peace!

Cleansing Process ~ Heart Clearing ~ 10.29.07

 

Cleansing Process – Filling Your Heart with Golden White Crystal Light.

  

Sometimes clearing the heart can seem like a difficult process if there is a lot of pain built up over past challenges, however, it is extremely helpful and useful to clear out all the old stuff that has been held onto. 

 

The steps to go through for this cleansing are to set some time aside, whether in meditation, prayer or even in a relaxing bath with candles lit.  It is a journey within yourself to see what is truly going on within your heart from a spiritual viewpoint and not just a physical one. 

 

It helps if you have a good imagination to be able to work through this process as the mind can block you from being able to truly experience or ‘see’ what is going on. 

 

The reason I suggest being in the bath is because of the healing way water can take away and cleanse you from the inside out and the outside in.  This is especially true if you put essential oils (like lavender, frankincense, myrrh, sandalwood or rose – rose is especially good for working with the heart) and sea salt in your bath water. 

 

 

So either in a bath or in bed set the tone for a special quiet time alone. Turn off the phone if you can or wait till you have a moment to be by yourself without distraction from others, tv, work, etc.  Light some candles, put on some soft music that speaks to your heart and calls to your soul, light some incense if you wish.  Anything that helps to calm and relax you, and invokes a feeling of sacred space.

 

 

Once you are laying down, call upon God to come and help you through this process, also call upon your angels, spirit guides, power animals, guardians and anyone who you feel has helped you on your spiritual journey. Ask them for help in guiding you through this process, providing healing energy and light and most of all reassurance, comfort and love to gently move you through clearing your heart.

 

Ask for God’s help in drawing down the Golden White Crystal Light to fill you, pouring down over your head and over your entire body. Let your body begin to feel lighter, warmer and enveloped in the light. See it surround you, helping you to glow and shine brighter. State the intention that you will be traveling within yourself to cleanse and clear your heart, that you truly wish to see within yourself and let go of all that is blocking you from opening your heart and trusting all that is.

 

As you lift yourself up from your body in spirit, feel yourself travel deeper inward, traveling down through your body and into the center of your heart. Journey until you see a large door standing before you, this is the door to your heart and is waiting for you to open it and walk inside. Be brave and know that nothing can harm you and you are safe to enter your own heart, for God and all of your angels are with you, helping you on this journey. Maybe you feel that you have to knock before entering or you feel the door is locked. Knock on the door and state that you are entering your heart and wish to view it truly as it is, ready to open your heart and trusting that you will be safe to see and experience what has been locked away.

 

Journey within your heart, beyond the door and look in each room you come to. Some rooms may have doors that are open and others may be locked, not yet ready for you to enter. Enter the rooms one by one, seeing the color of the walls, the state that the rooms are in. Are they dirty, filled with darkness, filled with dust? Are they clear and bright, feeling open and free? In each room, work to clear away all that is not clean and bright, clean all that is not light.

 

Some rooms you may have to work with a bucket and sponge to wash away the darkness. Do not be alarmed, but let the golden white crystal light to flow into the room with you, helping you to wash the darkness away. Let God’s love to flow in and fill the room, washing away any pain, anger, sorrow, guilt or shame that is held there. Ask that all that is not of your highest good be released back to God. God will take away all that is not of love and light.

 

Continue to work through each room, diligently and deliberately. Going over every inch until your entire heart is bathed in Golden White Crystal Light and filled with love. If you feel sorrow or pain, let the emotions wash over you and release from you. Let the tears fall or cry out. If you feel a need to stop and write your feelings and memories out, please take that time. This is not a race to finish up as quickly as possible.

 

This is a gift for you, to take time and cherish each moment, no matter how hard that moment is. For the moments you are washing away and cleansing have made you who you are. They are part of you and you would not be the awesome amazing person you are today without them. Those moments that have been trapped and held in darkness, also no longer serve you and they no longer protect you by being locked in your heart.

 

In fact, those trapped moments and locked doors in your heart are hurting you in ways you cannot imagine. They block away true feelings of love and self worth. The locked doors block you from God and all that you are, keeping you from trusting yourself and trusting God to lead you.

 

This process may only take on time to go through or it may take you several sessions to get through all of the rooms. Sometimes it is helpful to go back after several days or weeks to walk through your heart with light and love to keep it clear and free of blocks, free of stored pain and memories.

 

Do as much as you feel you can, there is no rush. Ask God to help, ask your angels and guides to help and ask others that you trust to help. You are not alone in this process and always loved. Just taking the first step is a big step! Know that you can do it!

 

 

If you have any questions please let me know and I will help you as best you can.  I will be creating this process into a CD so that people will be able to meditate to it.