‘The secret of life is to ‘die before you die’ – and find that there is no death.’

Eckhart Tolle

I recently spoke to someone who is suffering from a terminal illness. She had asked why should she bother to study or save money or work towards building a better future for herself, in fact why should she do anything when she was not going to be here much longer?

I asked her ‘Why would anybody bother?’

Life is not about death. We will all pass – it is inevitable. Not knowing how long we have to experience this life is what keeps us going. There is a quiet sense of immortality that resides in us, although our focus on it is in different places.

Life is found in living, not in the expectation of inevitable death. If we all focussed on the fact that we would die at a certain age, how would it change our perspective on life and the way we live it?

When Tolle is speaking about death in the above quote he is initially speaking about the death of the ego. The ego distracts us from our true self and the present moment. When we are able to disidentify with the ego we are left with our true self – our eternal nature – and we come to realise that in truth there is no death of what is real – there cannot be, and anything that is not of our true self is not real.

This idea brings with it questions about perception, illusions and most significantly the illusion of separation. Past and future will maintain the illusion of separation from our true self which is why it is beneficial to consider the power that can be found in the present moment.

Whatever is eternal cannot die. So with the death of the illusion of death, and in this instance time, all that remains is the realisation that there is no death. Our true and real self is eternal in nature. Our essence is eternal in nature. Our source is eternal in nature. We are not real in the past, we are not yet in the future the only time we are our true self is in the powerful present moment which is eternal in nature also. It is always the present moment.

So when you think about Tolle’s quote above, the easiest way to understand his idea is to live for today – truly live for today, squeeze as much out of it as possible… and even more powerfully, remember to live for the Now!

Happy Manifesting!

Julieanne

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‘The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.’

Eckhart Tolle

When we try to manipulate what is into something that suits us we can truly begin to see our creative abilities and our freedom to create.

We always work to change our perception of a situation so that it aligns with our current sense of being. When we are able to understand this we can see that it is just as easy to perceive a situation in a way that is more aligned with our true selves.

At that moment we have a choice. Will we choose separateness and denial or will we choose wholeness and truth?

The person that decides the perception is you and can only ever be you.

When we choose to force our perceptions onto another person this becomes judgement. When we are judging another person we are in essence trying to control another’s perception which is a clear indicator of insecurity and denial of truth. As I have written before ‘The truth does not need to be defended’, therefore, you can relax.

The focus then shifts to the choice about your perceptions. The fear of judgement becomes a sign of insecurity and denial of truth. Be bold!

Show the world your true self. Don’t be afraid of the future or be caught in the emotion of the past. Let it go and you will see the emotional pain you hold so close is a choice to hold onto an illusory perception.

Sometimes we may feel that this is inappropriate or that we should give a situation its ‘dues’ as those around us expect us to behave in a certain manner. Become aware that our emotions are our choice in every situation.

With one simple choice we can move our energy. We can stand in truth and the only truth is in the Now. It is the only place to be in our natural state, which is a state of love.

How will you choose to experience your perceptions?

Happy Manifesting!

Julieanne

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Please enjoy the latest synopsis I have written for my friends at Soul Solutions Healing Group. If you haven’t had a chance to tune in yet check out the widget on the left side bar or follow the links below. It is a great way to nurture your spirit!

Hello everyone!

We would like to share that Episode #15 of the SSG Talk Show is now available for listening/download. You may access the show for free on the SSG Team Blog, via iTunes, as well as at our show’s Blogtalkradio address.

Todd and Ronnie discussed Lesson #41 after introducing the new Community Responder program and the latest post on ‘Be Inspired Today’ by Julieanne Paige.

The new Community Responder Program allows the Spiritual Q&A’s sent to SSG to be responded to by the community as well as the SSG team. Guidelines can be found at www.soulsolutionshealing.com, where you can find out how to be a community responder. It is a great way to express your spiritual practice and service. Responding not only helps the person with the question but it also helps the responder as it allows us to consider why and how we think about situations. It is an opportunity to get in touch with our core being and energies and to tap into who we are at a deeper level.

Todd shared and discussed the post ‘Presence’ which can be read here, from Be Inspired Today.

Presence:

The real truth is in the Now, not in the future or the past. When we discuss spirituality it is an experience to be understood rather than something that can be intellectually discussed. If you are in the mind when you are having a spiritual experience you will be busy trying to label or justify the experience rather than feeling the experience.

Tolle speaks about emotion being the body’s reaction to the mind. Abraham-Hicks describes emotions as key point indicators for what you want to experience. When we are in a joyful state, we are in alignment. If we are not in a joyful state we can always become aware and choose to return to that joyful state.

Following joy is very important but there are also times that we must past limitations. We have to find a way to step outside of that limitation or comfort zone to disperse fears either by addressing them or going straight through them.

ACIM says that even if you renounce something in the face of fear you have changed it. It doesn’t matter if you don’t feel it at the time but you have automatically changed it. You don’t have to reach an ultimate state of peace to have made a difference to the fear.

It’s not always about ‘feel goods’. You can focus on the joy, experience the joy, and walk away from the fear but if you have specific things you want to do, fears to face or healing, then these things have to be resolved, which is different to adding another ‘feel good’.

God is fully in the here and the Now and cannot be anywhere else. Fears are always based on the past, the future, what was, what will be, or what you think will be. Fears come from things that we have experienced in the past or think will happen in the future.

Presence will cause you act in peace and love. Fear cannot exist in the present moment. Ego can only exist in the past or future. Spirituality and fragmentation cannot coexist. God is not fragmented in any way so the present moment cannot be fragmented. God is whole, complete and eternal. Fear cannot exist in the present because the present is whole and fear is fragmented.

Become aware of the ego.

Lesson #42 ‘God goes with me wherever I go.’

This statement gives a sense of activity. A different way of putting this quote could be ‘No matter where I go, God is with me’. It doesn’t matter where we are, or what we are doing. It is telling us where all the power is.

If God is in everything how can God be against anything. The spirit of holiness is within and around us all the time and we think so often that we are separate from God. The power of God is within us if we are willing to look inward for it. It is accessible to everybody. Just practicing that can change the experience of your self.

Sometimes our belief systems can prevent us from considering or just being in a new way. A belief is what you have temporarily until you have the knowing of truth. We do always have God with us and we express this when we express love and joy.

Simplifying spirituality is important and even vital. What matters most is people creating spirituality that is comfortable and allows the space for empowerment. God is not hard and we don’t have to make it hard.

We can express Godliness in anything we do. We just have to ask ‘What type of experience do we want to have with ourselves?’ Open up to a broader experience of ourselves.

You cannot think your way to spirituality. Keeping it simple goes beyond thinking. Sometimes rituals can keep us caught up in the mental part of spirituality.

God is everywhere. When you fully experience any other thing or person, it will feel like it is an amplified experience of you.

The experience of what it feels like to have a spiritual experience is to find a place of comfort and protection and a feeling of returning home. We can call on these experiences when we are in a place of fear. Move right back into experiencing more of God and less of the illusion.

Marianne Williamson said ‘If you’re not thinking of God you are not thinking at all. It is an illusion.’ To some it is not a priority and it depends on where our priorities are but it can become a natural thing.

Any discomfort we may feel is because we are basing the ‘right now feeling’ on the experience of the past or what may be in the future. When we see someone we know, we see what they have been in the past or what they could be in the future. Fear, a lot of the time is bouncing back from what was and what could be and is not centered in the present.

We are never alone and are always surrounded by love. God goes with us wherever we go. When we experience God there is never a feeling of separation or loss.

Currently in the world, spiritually speaking, the old structures are breaking down and the new ones are emerging. When we choose to take responsibility for our experience we eliminate the external factors that hold us back from experiencing our power.

Tolle speaks about recession as being a period of negative growth. The new will rebuild with less illusion. The recession is giving us an opportunity to come face to face with the false reality we have created.

Be your highest spiritual self. There is no such thing as an idle or aimless thought. When you experience other people you can really connect and make an intimate connection and guide people through experiences. A lot of times this can happen instinctively because God is built into us. We can feel when people are open to things and what works and what doesn’t. If we are tuned into God within, it doesn’t matter where we are or who we are with. Spiritual connectivity is based on resonance not distance. Tapping into God changes everything instantly. Anything that consciousness touches, benefits.

We know that the past no longer exists and the future is not in existence yet, but why do we insist on holding on and creating our story? What would happen if we changed the story? What would happen if we released control? Ironically it is sometimes scary for us to surrender ourselves to love.

Eckhart Tolle speaks simply about these ideas but you cannot be told. You can only be guided. It is for you to find.

Abraham-Hicks stated that “You are so close to the reality that you are creating, that you sometimes can’t see the bigger picture.” Or put another way ‘You can’t see the forest for the trees.’

It comes back to you. Do you have the courage to surrender? Do you have the courage to surrender your identities that you have worked so hard for? Can you forgive? And most importantly can you forgive yourself? Can you begin to see the past rather than continually reliving it?

Consider where you were last year at this time. Are you in the same position? Have you lived your life in the past year to arrive back at the same point? If this is the case then you have missed the call to be a better and more aligned You.

What happens when we place flowers in a vase? They eventually wilt and die and we go in search of new flowers to place in the vase. However if flowers are planted in the right circumstances they will continue to bloom year after year. You are the soil. You can choose to supply yourself with the necessary focus for growth.

So often when we reach a place that we think is satisfactory for us, we become stagnant and just like the flowers in the vase we are beautiful for a while but not for long.

Choosing to take time to be in the present moment is how we get the nutrients needed for the flower to continually bloom. We have to love ourselves enough to take the time to be with ourselves.

It is a denying of the illusion of reality. The illusion being that the past and future should be a part of our present experience.

When you choose to take time for yourself there is an inevitable peace to be found. A beautiful joy… a calming serenity. You are free…

Do you have the courage to be in a state of love?

Happy Manifesting!

Julieanne

‘An emotion usually represents an amplified and energized thought pattern, and because of its often overpowering energetic charge, it is not easy initially to stay present enough to be able to watch it. It wants to take you over, and it usually succeeds – unless there is enough presence in you.’

Eckhart Tolle

We choose.

We choose to allow our emotions to control us or we observe and use them as a guidance system.

Anger, one of our most volatile emotions is simply showing us that we are in the grasp of the ego and are justifying our inability to forgive. There has to be some outcome or recognition first before our anger begins to subside. When we are in the result of the emotion of anger we usually do not care what the outcome is so long as there is some acknowledgement in some way that we are right and someone else has done something wrong.

If we choose to return to the present moment we can recognise the emotion rather than be controlled by it. Sometimes even good emotions can be addictive and we can throw ourselves off balance, for instance in the case of someone that constantly looks for the next adrenaline rush.

There can be a healthy balance and when you step back and observe the emotion you can begin to ask why you feel a certain way or why you are attracting this emotion.

When we are overwhelmed with emotion we can often begin to react in an unconscious manner, for instance, losing our temper or acting on impulse demonstrating compulsive behaviour.

Our emotions are our guidance system. Are we moving in a direction that brings us closer and in alignment with our higher joy? Or are we reacting in a way that is somehow preserving a thought or aspect of the ego.

When we are able to step back into the present moment we can choose to realign or to continue in alignment with joy.

This does not always mean just doing whatever makes you happy because if this is your choice, without consideration for surrounding people, you can also induce feelings of guilt or greed for instance.

The trick is to deny the ego that temporary moment of satisfaction. Stand back and disidentify. Choose the direction that is healing, forgiving and balanced. Step into the present where you are nothing more than that moment and the answer will come to you.

Surrender.

When we are feeling negative emotions we can often find that more and more negative thoughts and ideas start to flood into our minds, constantly feeding the ego. I want to share with you what can happen when you choose to flood your mind with love and appreciation in the same speed that we can so easily find ourselves bringing negative thoughts and ideas into our experience.

The following video shares the wisdom of Abraham in a ‘Rampage of Appreciation’.

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Happy Manifesting!

Julieanne

Hello everyone!

We would like to share that Episode #12 of the SSG Talk Show is now available for listening/download. You may access the show for free on the SSG Team Blog, via iTunes, as well as at our show’s Blogtalkradio address.

This week, Todd and Ronnie discussed Lesson #36 following a discussion about commitment and surrender. The show aired for 1.5 hours.

Todd and Ronnie began the show by celebrating 3 months airing of SSG Talk Show. This led to discussing the power of commitment and surrender.

It is important that we act in a way that serves God, ourselves and others in a way that is joyful. If we act in a way that brings us joy it will also bring joy to others. When we are committed spiritually, we notice that we maintain more of a centred feeling instead of being pulled out of alignment and seeing that our commitment soon becomes an obligation. Surrender to joy and tap into the inner self.It is a spiritual renewing through truthful self expression.

Commitment is surrender in a spiritual sense. Commitment is measured by our willingness to surrender. We should embrace, accept and welcome commitment and surrender wholeheartedly. This is why it feels refreshing and brings a sense of strengthening pathways, ties and connections.

If we surrender to God, we will always move in the right direction which will remove any guilt we feel as we return to our spiritual center and are no longer separated from God. Through acceptance of a situation we remove any resistance and allow action that is in alignment with our true self. This surrendered action allows an entirely new expression to come through and brings new joyful experience. Surrender your agenda, become flexible and embrace the challenges life presents us with.

Take daily routine and activities and consciously choose to use them as an exercise in surrender. Immerse ourselves emotionally and consciously to these activities. If we surrender we will find our joy. When we are focussed on higher joy being out of reach, we will never find what is within our grasp. If we are reacting negatively, choose a different reaction and let it go. By doing this we create access to our higher joy right now, in the present moment. The only higher joy we can have is what we have right now. This moment is the only moment we can experience our higher joy.

Continued practice of surrender and allowing ourselves to be led somewhere inside allows our experience to become something different. Our agendas are not always the most efficient use of our time. Often surrender can be the most effective way to use time. With surrender a new priority list will arise and one that is more effective for spiritual growth. Allow the Holy Spirit to guide our agendas as to when things have to be done. Surrender our agendas and welcome the present moment. We offer better service and receive deeper insight by fully investing ourselves into what is happening right in front of us. Choosing to focus on one thing at a time relieves any feeling of being overwhelmed. If anything is worth addressing, it is worth giving your attention to it for that moment.

The only pressure we have is the pressure we place on ourselves. When we feel negative we can remind ourselves that this is not our joy and consciously place ourselves back into alignment of our higher joy.

Spiritual mentors, friends or anybody that we go to for balance, roundness or support benefits us most when they are centered. How is it that they make us feel better? It is the presence they hold for us. We respond to calm and centeredness if we are off balance. Through someone just listening to us their presence can transmute to us and this helps to bring us back to the present moment.

Focus opens doors to express God’s love. When someone opens to us we feel the love of God, creation and all energy. Focus is an expression of love.

Future and past are false realities and the present is the only real reality. When we focus on the future or the past this is the faculty of ego. We have very little influence over the past or the future because our power is in the Now. Completion of our agendas is not important. What is important is the focus and the movement into the present moment as we are doing whatever we are focussed on. One of the highest forms of service is to remain in the present moment in front of someone.

We are spiritual and become more present because of our spirituality. Our presence is an effect of our spirituality.

Lesson #36 ‘My holiness envelops everything I see.’

When working with focus and presence we are coming more from spirit than ego. Ego wants us to be scattered. Holiness starts with presence. Everything within is the cause and what is outside is the effect. If something does not exist within us we would not be able to perceive it outside of us.

Perception is the bridge between the spiritual and the physical. Our holiness created what is around us and there is no part of us that is not within our surroundings as our surroundings are an effect of what is within us.

There is no time in spirit and because there is no time there is no distance. As we are one, our perception is more than our perception of how near or far something is – it is us, right now. Our holiness envelops close things as well as distant things. It envelops what is in you and what is in others. Your holiness envelops all that is in the universe. You hold all that is within you in the same instance that another person can hold all that is within them. This is the unity of all things, simply because I Am.

Being sinless is not so much a matter of forgetting, it is simply a matter of loving ourselves. It does not matter what we did in the past or what we may do in the future because past and future are false realities. What is important is finding a place where we love ourselves right now, in the present moment. Being sinless means seeing and feeling yourself with love.

Forgiveness happens right now. Loving ourselves for what has occurred happens right now. Many people react from experience instead of the present moment. When you see the Now, there are no triggers of the past or concerns for the future. Being focussed in the present is allowing the flow of love which is joy and expression of God’s love.

Sinless or not? You can not be a little sinful. If we have not forgiven ourselves or we see ourselves as sinful to any degree right now, we perceive ourselves as having sin.

Perception:

Anything that we see outside of ourselves we see through ourselves first. So anything we think we see we are seeing the light shining through us. If we think of ourselves as being a prism we are seeing the light through ourselves first and transmuting it out. In order to see anything at all we need to see it within first. Images and perceptions have to come through us first. If we are the prism and if light must shine through us then we are the creator of all color, and if everything must come through us then we are the creator of all we see and all we experience because we are creating the color. Perception is what happens in us that allows us to be able to see the color.

By changing within we can change the filter we place over our projections. What we are going through on the inside characterizes those images and projections. Sometimes we focus more on the projection rather than the projector itself.

Happy Manifesting!

Julieanne

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