Yes

Have you ever noticed how often you perhaps say 'no' out of habit?  It's worth bringing more awareness to this and then noticing the subtle different alignment within when we change from that instant 'no' to an altogether sweeter 'yes.'  On Sunday afternoon John spoke of this when he said:

"Whilst saying no is a habit,

   saying yes inside is contagious."

Although the 'yes' may feel less powerful, it's usually a more true response; putting you more in your heart and less in your conditioned self...    I loved it when John went on to say:

"Let openness and softness

replace the loyalty in your self

- you won't miss the loyalty."

*

"You, opening and softening

unconditionally in your life,

returns you to innocence.

It sets you free from your self and your past.

Where there is innocence,

instead of being loyal to your self,

you are free."

Free to love, free to fly, free to say yes!

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti

From the Chaos to the Calm

In this complex life, the Truth we know within is so subtle, so simple and so good, yet when life delivers challenging situations our experience can feel chaotic and stressful, reducing our love of the truth within to something barely discernible.  Yesterday John spoke of the experience of being what you Know within chaos, saying:

"It's like flying through your subconsciousness

with a spider line,

without breaking it."

As life triggers patterns of stress and disharmony, the 'little bit we Know is true' is always there - and it can increasingly become your 'go-to' no matter what.  Later in that same meeting, John spoke about apprehending Truth, saying:

"In apprehending, begin with warmth and then

add fire."

*

"The warmth and the fire is

.. love."

Yes it's all about Love - opening and softening, adding warmth, coming from what we know the truth of in our heart, leads us out of the chaos and back to the calm.  Amidst all the complexity that's the simple part - and for the rest, it's about simply doing what we know is good, even if that makes us feel a bit vulnerable.  Such as reaching out to a friend when you need someone you can open up to - and that's about love too isn't it?

Before I sign off today, a word about the new website - it's taken way longer than I thought, but yes - it's still coming, soon! 

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti

The Speck, the Energy Centers & Living Rightside Up

I loved Sunday afternoon's meeting when John spoke of the energy centers that we have and how they (like everything else that's ours) belong to our Being and not to the conditioned self:

"Your energy centers

are what you have as a Being

to come into seen  form.

The way that this world moves

the energy centers need to be configured

to the conditioned self.

The energy centers then energize illusion,

instead of your Being,

all the way through into your person.

Your energy centers,

configured to your deeper levels,

because you use them to respond

in your life to your deeper levels,

is the beginning of you being turned rightside up -

a little speck in this world living rightside up

- a change in this world."

In living from an open and soft heart and responding to our deeper levels within, we naturally bring our energy centers into alignment with our own Being:

"It introduces a different context for movement,

which turns into the movement of your Being

through your energy centers

instead of the movement of your self.

When you live from your heart

that naturally includes your other centers."

To move in the delectable streams of our own Being, we'll be happily swimming against the streams of this world, moving from the seen into the deeper unseen where, paradoxically, everything becomes, though unseen, so real ...

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti

Making it Easy

Contrary to popular belief amongst most Earth plane dwellers, we are in fact powerful Beings!  As such, being aligned with what we know the truth of in our hearts is not so difficult, even when we're experiencing something which feels difficult on the level of the accustomed self (our own or another's).  Opening and softening is the way, and is the only way, Home.  And it is easy and the more we acquaint ourselves with the loveliness that we always have within (yes always, because it's True you) the easier it gets to say yes to openness and softness of heart being our walk, through all of life.  What I'm realizing is how wonderful it actually is; how this all works, how it plays out and how you don't get to enter your heart's knowing without paying the cost, making it all so real.  The cost is all that we've taken to heart as being something that defines who we are, a held onto egoic system of belief; and it's worth pretty much nothing.  Certainly not compared to the simple beauty of a rested, open and soft heart - and then the deeper levels, discoverable through that doorway of knowing in the heart, are ever more lovely for sure.  Here's some snippets for you now, from just over a week ago, (on Sunday 21st Feb) when John, in speaking of the difference between the accustomed self and the Being, spoke of that 'tragic split':

"It doesn't hold on its own

- so then really there is no split.

It's only where you sustain it,

where you need it."

He went on to speak of letting core-splitting honesty germinate in your person, marking the end of the split and you being all different in your life:

"It becomes most real

when you, as a person, bow into it

without a ripple of loss.

That's the end of the split

and of your personal life as you've known it.

If it isn't only easy,

you're making it difficult."

*

"There is only one kind of surrender

that is full of love and ease

and that is when 

surrender is absolute."

If we are not coming from an open and soft heart, we are living in illusion.  Openness and softness of heart has to be there if we are going to live in what is actually real and true, it is an absolute must; it's science in a sense.  In coming from what is deeper within than the accustomed self, we open up to what we truly are and we see so much more.  That lovely space, all deeper than our accustomed self, that of our own Being within, is so much better able to handle all of life and all our difficulties; our poor little selves just aren't able to handle it when the heat is on  - and it is on, isn't it?  Come into your true nature and your true power, not with hardness and willful hanging on to what is old, but by a quiet inner unconditional surrender to that beautiful open and soft heart ... it takes you Home, easy.

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti

Having no negativity

In realizing how to live and come from what is deeper than the accustomed self, having a living Master is so helpful.  I learn so much from John - from his transmission, his teaching and at times from his more direct and personal guidance, where he points out where I am not moving in agreement with what I Know.  Loving the little bit that we know the truth of within can become the living nectar that sustains us all day long in the midst of life's ups and downs - that subtle tiny little bit is everything.  Unseen yes, but Known and able to grow and blossom with our quieted agreement and surrender to it - in which giving nothing to negativity is so key.  During Friday's meeting John said:

"Deeply surrender

to using no negative phrasing

inside your life and out."

The above statement was in response to the questioner asking for some help to come from the heart.  John then went on to say how the self has feelings of like and dislike and, in no longer validating the feelings of dislike, giving such feelings no voice or movement.  Whilst saying what you do like  often and easily puts you into your heart, giving voice or movement to negativity is you taking your self to heart and not what you know that is deeper within.  When the questioner spoke to John of having no negativity, he said:

"Not even on the inside.

If you say it on the inside

you'll say it on the outside -

so you give it no voice and no movement."

John spoke that any time that you have a negative feeling, it's your cue to drop deeply within into surrender:

"The deep surrender

to being quieted within

when any negative feeling comes up

puts you into what you really are."

*

"Be quieted within instead of being right."

Being quieted within when negativity arises steers us, as awareness, into what is deeper and cleaner within, allowing us to love the little; to be True ...

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti

The Little that Matters the Most

Dear ones, firstly - thanks for the comments to last week's post  :)  We're all in this together; we're not as alone as we think we are - and in the pressure cooker of life on planet Earth at this time, it ain't always easy, but the opportunities abound!  The more difficult, the more it's clear: there's only one place to be - in the tiny little bit that actually matters the most.

In last night's meeting, John spoke of what is quietly realized when you go to your "last hour death bed" - when everything else is almost gone and your perspective changes, making it easy to realize what really matters:

"What you quietly realize there

tells you how to live

and what to live for."

He went on to say how, in your last hour death bed, it won't matter much to you what you've done with your life and your self, that:'

"What will matter to you

is what you've done with your heart."

In contrast to what the patterns in the self and this world tells us, what actually matters the most is that openness and softness of heart, in the midst of anything and everything in life.

"When you realize

that you're about to die

and that it is absolutely not within your control,

the only real response 

is that of openness and softness of heart.

That means that there is - so deeply - no problem

- there's no issue."

That kind of honesty shows us that in truth, deeper within than our accustomed self and any pattern, there is no issue worth hardening and closing in our hearts over - and that we have the ability to remain open, to soften and to let go of that which we are making so important.  The simple truth is that it never is more important than having a beautiful heart.

"Openness and softness doesn't hold

- it is in clear, clean response

to what it Knows."

It's not how we've been programmed and it's not what surrounds us in our living - but it's the truth we know when we allow ourselves to become gentled and quieted within.  That most lovely little bit, that seems like nothing in the face of horrible thoughts and strong negative feelings is, at the end of the day (and your life), simply all that really matters.  

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti

Postcards from the Edge

First up, sorry that this week's post comes to you a day late - I was otherwise indisposed - and the title for this post has something to do with that; as to why I was indisposed.  In a manner of speaking, I was taken in by the Matrix at it's most ghastly, pretty much - I tipped over the edge, so to speak.  It was unexpected, particularly being as I'd been so happy to have John back in our midst and after I'd been in the Chair on Sunday afternoon -  for that was a sublime time to be sure.  It was one of the deepest connections I've ever had with John whereby I was so One with him, I was  him.  Now that sounds completely nutty from the worldly, conditioned self perspective - but it's the truth.  What I went into a day or so later, that  was true nuttiness - being completely sucked back into the Matrix of horrible thoughts and feelings, leaving me so drained I was like a dried out starfish, lying motionless on my bed for hours staring blankly at the ceiling .. lost in the darkest corners of the Matrix.  And now that I'm back in the saddle, a bit shell shocked at the severity with which I was suckered back into - hell, basically - it seems to me that to say there is no middle ground anymore is understatement of the century.  That's where I fell into the abyss of negativity, floundering about until I was that dried up starfish ...  It's a funny analogy, given that at the start of my time in the Chair on Sunday (and at the end too), I was deeply acquainted with such a deep, profound and beautiful calmness, that I likened it to being on the bottom of the ocean; John's ocean ... And then, a short while later, in believing thoughts and feelings which were not true, it was like a huge and unexpected wave cast me high and dry smack bang onto the beach - where I flapped around until I was almost like a dead thing ...
No middle ground means you can no longer get away with believing even a little bit of what isn't true.  In fact, it seems to me, that the more you Know the quicker and the harder you is gonna fall if you even look  in the general direction of that Matrix!
My time in the Chair with John on Sunday was all about receiving help to stay on point;  to stay only in what I know is real and true and good.  Yep, you guessed it, that's the help I unknowingly walked away with - middle ground, what middle ground?  What I have learned (again) from my recent decent into hell (pretty much, it was) is this:  Give nothing  to negativity - simply do not believe even the strongest thought/feeling/appearance of things if it's negative.  Give it nothing and instead, stay in the tiniest bit of what you Know, even if it seems so tiny that it's not in your experience at all, stand firm - and keep your mouth shut.  At the very least you can be OK in that sandstorm/tsunami, just keep quiet until it passes and stay calm (that tiny little bit is always so calm).  And never give up, never ever give up!  And it's good not to feel sorry for yourself (that's negative).  Sometimes these tests and challenges can feel overwhelming and so dark and difficult - but keep the faith people, don't take it to heart (and don't lose your sense of humour).  Just keep to the little tiny most quiet bit, that you Know is true.  Everyone has to go through dark and difficult times - it's what you believe and what you do (or don't do) whilst you're in them that's important, not the experience and certainly not the story that seems so believable ... You have everything you need, it's just so quiet and so tiny ...

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti