Author: michellsgrace

Inner Self

There comes a time to remember Who You Really Are. Now is such a time.

Within the depth of your being lies your true self. This is the part of you that is beneath all the programming and layers of painful experiences you have had. This genuine, authentic, and loving ‘self’ is there always wanting to be felt and heard. It is full of beauty and grace, and has no judgments or inclinations to harm. There are many times when you have connected with this part of yourself and allowed it to flow upwards and out. These are times when you felt pure love and acceptance of self. It may also have been an experience that didn’t last long! These writings are meant to help you heal, and create balance within your being so that you may connect with your inner self without fear.

If you stay steadfast in your journey towards aligning with this ‘authentic’ self, you will become a light being assisting others in their processes. This does not mean that you will change or be someone different than who you are now. It means that you will stop feeling the need to control and judge others, change to align with your environment, feel the need to defend yourself, be resistant, and other uncomfortable states of being.

At the center of this alignment with your true self lies proper discernment and wisdom. Love is an emotion, and it is also a way of being in the world that does not threaten your presence nor anyone else’s. It is working towards the good of all concerned, and allowing without expectation, things to be what and who they are. The true self has nothing to fear, dread, or expect. This is the best you can be and feel, as you encounter life each day. It is possible and achievable. It comes with knowing what truly matters and what doesn’t. It is a conscious state of being and not ‘automatic’. It is not a sense of getting there, it is a process of staying there. Your journey in this life is not a destination. You have heard this before, and the meaning of this concept escapes you when things feel strained. When that happens, it is your ‘program’ accessing inner files for how to react and what to believe under the circumstances. If you were to take a few moments and allow yourself to consciously look at your reaction to the situation, you might find yourself to be resistant, defensive, judgmental, or controlling which takes you out of alignment with your true self. Is it a repeat of your ‘belief system’ that is kicking in and keeping you in a stymied pattern? Is it truly serving you and all concerned? Are you allowing growth and accepting the situation for what it is, or are you wanting to change it or perceive it in the same light as before? Is that for the best, and does it include evolution for yourself and others? If you were to connect with your inner self at these times, you might find a different attitude or reaction to the situation. For as you hold yourself and others in a ‘pattern of sameness’ with your reaction there is no healing, growth, or expansion. Your perceptions should they stay the same, will not allow change to happen for yourself and others. You cannot expect to expand or evolve which means that nothing will change and your life will stagnate. How can you want this for yourself or others? It is not easy to change your ‘program’. Your inner self does not operate within a ‘program’. Connecting with your true self will allow, align, heal, expand, and accept as it is all encompassing and will show you what is best for yourself and others. It is true love, and alignment with your true self that connects you to your Creator and the truth of any situation.

In a perfect world you would want this for yourself. It is not easy, nor is it a fast fix. It is something you can strive for if you so desire, and in finding this place within, more often than not, you will create a better world for yourself. Things will start to change around you and your life will have more flow! Opening to the possibility of this is a good first step. Be in touch with your heart, think with your heart, and find this balance of thriving. It IS possible!

Be Well, Be Love ♥

Distraction

Much is happening now and change is no longer a choice!

The path to Spiritual Expansion and heart centered alignment requires change and when the ego detects this it creates all kinds of distractions to keep you from going within, where all truth lies. There is plenty of things to keep you occupied in your world to keep you from the most important part of why you are here. You are not here to have the ‘most’, you are here to expand, grow, and connect with your spiritual nature.

It is not easy, but nothing that is worth the effort, is! You have been given extra challenges that when handled, will give you enhanced abilities to overcome distraction and ‘roadblocks’. The tools that have been supplied are everywhere within your reach. Writings such as this, books, and people with whom you might have a brief encounter (to name a few) are all there to assist you with your spiritual awakening. This is not a choice! It is, however the number one priority. The answers lie within your being, but you have to get used to listening to that still small voice within.

There will always be distraction and your ego will always embellish upon them. It is much easier to allow yourself to be distracted. Once you understand that the distractions in your life are meant to keep you from aligning with your connection to your Spiritual Self, Grace will settle upon you and things will start to change! The Highest part of your being is waiting to assist you with overcoming your resistance and connecting with your Heart. When this happens, clarity and understanding help you ‘see’ what has been happening to keep you distracted. This is not without effort on your part, as you must connect your mind with your heart which means you will be aware of the thoughts that are coming from your inner being vs. the ‘chatter’ that keeps you distracted. This allows you to be aware of what you are thinking and ‘process’ each thought! It becomes easier with practice and soon your connection will grow stronger and the alignment will be completed. As you do this, your being will undergo changes and things will start happening all around you to emulate your alignment; as within, so without. This will encourage you to understand your addiction to distraction and where it comes from.

Miracles are an everyday occurrence when you are connected to your heart and your Spiritual connection has been activated. You are the lightening rod of change, healing, upliftment, and expansion for all those around you and this Light that you are emitting creates miraculous events in the world. Do not deny the power of a spiritually activated being. It is your birth right and reason for being here. Be Well, Be Love ♥

Peace within

Finding peace within can be a challenging prospect, however this is what matters most.

Peace starts within the mind, as that is where perspective originates. When the ego mind is active, it generates fearful perspective creating resistance generating defensive mechanisms to kick into gear. But what is there to defend? Defending yourself happens instantaneously and almost without your involvement! The feelings associated with these thoughts are painful, and your inner peace is nowhere to be found. How can you maintain your inner peace no matter what is going on around you? This is something that requires effort and focus.

Your feelings are your guide, for they radiate your place of power within. You can either question your reaction to what is going on around you, or you can surrender to the situation without giving up your power. Surrendering is not a weakness as you have been taught to believe. Surrender can be wise. It is not a matter of giving in, but a matter of choosing not to interface with something or someone to create or uphold a toxic situation. If something or someone is disturbing your inner peace, this means your perspective may be an issue, or you’re in a situation that may not be about you but the other individual(s) involved. At this point it is good to ask yourself ‘what is my path to peace in this situation’. This can give you a revised perspective or help you understand that sometimes doing nothing is best. If you choose to do nothing, this may look on the outside like surrender. When you choose to stay centered and peaceful within, you are generating the energy of love to all involved.

There can be many thoughts within your mind that want to create disturbance. If you question the thoughts you are having, you will find that these thoughts are related to past situations or events that may be unresolved within your being. If you take the time to write down the essence of these thoughts, you can work with them later. Many times these thoughts have nothing to do with the situation or person involved, they are merely the ‘trigger’. It may have to do with something within you that needs adjustment and healing, and the person represents the unresolved issues and mirrors it back to you.

Oftentimes, the answer is forgiveness. Not for the other, but for yourself. If you were to see yourself as your Creator sees you, there would be nothing but love for who you are. Now is the time of reconciliation. This brings peace within creating a heart/mind connection. The ego has nothing to do when you choose peace instead of war within! Find your path to peace and all can be well ♥

Listening

What is listening? Is it something we innately know how to do, or is it something you learn to do? There are two types of listening; one with the ego and one with the heart. Listening with the ego is not learned as it is our immediate response. This is the one that we use most often. It is this listening that can leave you distraught and in crisis, chaos, and conflict. As we have discussed before, that is the job of the ego; to create drama and distraction. This act of listening may be instantaneous but can be diverted.
Listening with a mind that is not connected to the heart will not reveal truth. The heart, with its loving tone will allow the truth to come through in any situation. This type of listening will bring answers and loving conclusions for all concerned. If there is something with which you cannot find resolution, it is likely that the listening is not being done with the heart.
When listening, from conversation to contemplation, the heart will interact with the mind so that you can feel the act of listening without fear. This places you wholly within the situation and gives you the opportunity to respond with what you feel is the best conclusion. The heart understands everything and can ‘see’ all the facets of any given concern.
When you engage with the ego mind, it wants to take the situation and create/recreate scenarios of the past to ‘loop’ the situation and keep it unrequited. The ego perceives the heart as weakness because the heart will not choose fight, flight, or fright. Those responses are the ego doing its work. If you listen with a mind connected to the heart you will always feel at peace and know that all is well. ♥

Gratitude

What is true gratitude? Is it something that comes and goes? Is it a conscious or unconscious act, or is it just in the moment?

A true state of Gratitude is an energy that comes from the heart. It is a sense of being, and is lived and radiated at all times. It is a way of being that is part of love. One cannot be the energy of love without being in gratitude as well. Gratitude is the well spring of the soul that feeds the spiritual nature of all things. There are many forms of gratitude that are expressed outwardly, but a true sense of gratitude lies within.

Gratitude is the first step towards the self-expression of love. This is the energy that feels good. It is the basis of your experience in all ways. If you are in gratitude all things flow and go well. When you step outside of gratitude you feel it as stress.

You were born as pure love. Your soul came from a place of pure love when you came here. In order to stay within a state of love you developed gratitude for your life. This was not something you were consciously aware of, and as you grew you were taught to say ‘thank you’ as a form of gratitude. No one really explained what ‘thank you’ meant, so the essence of gratitude was not nourished within you. As you grew and became aware of what ‘thank you’ meant, you started to understand gratitude mostly thinking it was an in the moment response to something or someone.

There can be no love without gratitude for your life and yourself. With this level of gratitude you will flourish and abide in connection with the Universe. If you could see gratitude as an energy it would contain all colors for it is the deep connection to higher mind. When you are with others, people feel this energy from you first. Just being around someone that radiates gratitude feels different.

When you have times of stress reconnecting consciously with gratitude will bring you back into alignment with your heart. This is important to remember and any type of resistance to gratitude comes from the ego. The ego cannot connect with gratitude. It is like a foreign language to it! You will know when you have stepped outside of your connection to your true self if you cannot feel the peaceful loving sense of gratitude and appreciate your current situation. If you have put yourself in a place of crisis, chaos, or conflict, the first step toward re-balancing is to realign with gratitude. This will bring you back to your spiritual self and the sense of clarity needed to begin the process of reconnecting with your heart and gratitude.

Start your day with this affirmation:

I AM the essence of Gratitude. With gratitude, love and appreciation comes to me, from me, and through me. I flourish in the state of gratitude and love for my life. All is well in my world.

Realizing that you are responsible for your way of being in the world will help to change your life and have an effect on everyone around you. When one person is spiritually awakened, by virtue of being around that person, they will spark others and lift them up in vibration to a higher frequency of love…..if only for the moment! This can be enough to change something within them to allow grace to flow.  This literally means that you can change the world!   Be Well Be Love ♥

Self-Love

Self-Love is an important part of your spiritual evolution. This is the basis of your essence. Without self-love nothing in your world will work. Everything you are is based from this one expression. All your thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and actions come from self-love…..or the lack thereof!

Self-love feeds your energy and enlivens your spirit. This is a love of a spiritual nature that was created by Source to inspire and create within the world that was created for you. This love encompasses all parts of yourself, internal and external. As you care for your body you are caring for your spirit, for without the body your evolution on Gaia would cease. This is a heartfelt expression of your spiritual self. It involves seeing the good within and expressing virtuous actions toward yourself.

This love of yourself does not relate to the ego as this action of loving yourself is not admiration of the ego. You cannot love others without loving yourself first! The ‘you’ someone falls in love with, is the ‘you’ that you love first. If the love you have for yourself is superficial, then that is what someone else will love too. This would be the egoistic part of you expressing love for itself. This love arises in the mind (lower) and showers itself with materialism. This love is merely illusionary at best and hurtful at worst. It does not have any satisfaction and needs to be ‘replenished’ constantly. This is not self-love.

When you follow the thoughts of your higher mind, your expression comes from the heart. This is the love that you express back to Source. These acts of love are prayers of essence that combine with others to create an energy that reacts with Source energy. This loving energy seemingly reflects back to you, when in reality it IS you. When you give the love to others that you have for yourself, it comes back to you from all those you interact with. This then activates that part of you that is connected directly with Source and fills your life with all good things. This is experienced by internal peace, good health, happiness, and love. Love is our natural state of being. It is where we came from, where we are, and where we are going back to. Love yourself first, then you can experience the love that is around you! ♥

Virtues, Higher mind, lower mind

What are virtues? What bearing do they have in your life? What if any, role do they play? Are they important?

Virtues are prevalent with the alignment of your being with your higher mind. Virtues are the identifying factors of your inner self and the outward manifestation of the same. There are seven primary virtues of the spiritually balanced person. Those are: Tolerance, Patience, Forgiveness, Understanding, Compassion, Humility, and Valor. These are whole being virtues that are lived and practiced as part of who you are. These virtues can only be lived if the mind is in concert with the heart.

We have talked a lot about the ego in past blogs. The ego is not in alignment with these virtues. The ego expresses itself from the lower mind in the way of thoughts. Not all thoughts are ego based, but they are the loudest! There are two levels of mind; higher mind and lower mind. The ego expresses itself using the lower mind. This is the part of the mind that is mundane and automatic. It is the mind that ‘chatters’ all the time. It is also the mind where repetitive thoughts are generated. This lower mind is the generator of thoughts that keep you in crisis, chaos, and conflict to control you.

The higher mind is directly connected to the heart and your higher self. The higher mind exists behind the chatter. This is where the thoughts related to the seven virtues and the expression of your highest self are generated. The higher mind generates the ‘second thoughts’. These are the thoughts that are loving, kind, and courageous. These are thoughts that lead you to your highest good and that of everyone else. Aligning yourself with your higher mind will open you to new vistas of conscious awareness and perceptions. Once you practice recognition and focus upon identifying the higher mind from the lower mind, you will tune out the lower mind and ‘hear’ only the higher mind. This will lead to your true happiness and synchronicity with the world as it is meant to be. The more individuals that ‘sync up’ with the goodness and light of the world by working with the higher mind, the more your world will thrive and prevail. You are here to have a better world. That starts with each person finding their center and tuning into higher mind and the heart.

Our perceptions create the world we live in, and only those that match our perceptions can live in our world. If your perceptions are aligned with spiritual virtues and higher mind thinking, what would your world look like? It is there for you. Be Well, Be Love ♥

Within/Without

The conscious, energetic response to all within your world will draw the experiences to you that offer the greatest challenge and opportunities to evolve. There are no accidents or mistakes, as everything is on purpose for your growth and expansion.

Your Higher Self works in alignment with your being to connect with the seat of your soul within, and pull to you what you need to learn, heal, and awaken within your life for personal and spiritual evolution. This being the case, your conscious recognition and reaction to everything and everyone in your world is imperative to your succession!
The internal response you have to things will at times not be in alignment with the thoughts you have about the situation. This may create a conflict within that could complicate the issue. Which one will you listen to? When you get to the point that this happens frequently, you are awakening your heart and allowing alignment with your Higher Self. This leads to the evolution of your being and the awakening of your soul connection, creating spiritual accession.

You are all connected to the Source of your Being, and the conscious awakening to this connection raises your frequency and vibration drawing greater forms of expression within and without. There is no greater form of love than the understanding that you hold within yourselves to the purpose and plan of your life. Your reason for being equates and connects the dots to all that has happened and is happening in your lives. There is no greater place to find answers than understanding the patterns and associations happening within and without. There you will find the connections to all the facets of your life and the effect it all has on your plan and purpose.
The expression of your heart is apparent when you take a conscious look at your life. The conscious actions and reactions to the events and people within your world creates opportunities for growth and expansion on a personal level and emits vibrations of equal import. This then in turn assists others, and draws like experiences and higher frequencial opportunity for spiritual advancement.

You are in this world but not of it. Your happiness and evolutionary gain does not lie in the 3 D expression of the illusion this world creates. When you know that everything you do and every thought you have affects all things, and you accept the responsibility for your expressions within and without, you will find the happiness and peace you yearn for and be the carrier of change. This is the time to understand your purpose and live it to the greatest expression of who you are. This then will define your world and those within it. This is the true meaning of as within, so without. Be well, Be love ♥

Love and Fear

March 1, 2015

The choice is yours. The choice has always been yours. To live in love or to live in fear.

The first thoughts you have are fearful thoughts. Further contemplation will either exaggerate the fear or reveal the contrasting thought, which is loving. Your awareness of the feelings your thoughts generate guides you to choose which thoughts you support; fear or love. We have been taught to judge, so we judge our thoughts as good or bad, right or wrong. They are neither! It is up to you as to what you want to believe.

Fearful thoughts are generated by the well trained and well supported ego. Loving thoughts are mostly foreign to us. We are not taught how to have loving thoughts, and they are not supported. What is a loving thought? Yes, it is the opposite of fear, but what is it exactly? A loving thought is that which unites, allows, and invites acceptance. A loving thought does not incite resistance, crisis, chaos, or conflict. The ego wants to fight, it wants to separate, and find something wrong. Why is fear so much easier? Because the ego has been ‘wired’ to react first, and it wants to divide and conquer. Everything in our world supports the ego. More, different, and better are everywhere! Striving, not thriving is commonplace. We are not satisfied because everything we hear and read says we aren’t. The world creates fear. How do we turn this around?

A good first step is to choose the loving thought, be it about yourself or others. This is the thought that lacks judgment. It is a more neutral thought. It is the thought that does not feel like it needs to be justified in some way. There is no rhetoric with loving thoughts. Most of all loving thoughts are peaceful. Loving thoughts feel right and good. These thoughts raise your awareness and create contemplation that leads to a higher vibration that draws love to you.

There are all kinds of reasons to live in fear. It is not easy to live in a loving way when struggling. This is when gratitude and appreciation are important to focus upon. You will always find something to be thankful for or appreciate in your life. Taking time each morning to identify those things that are truly important and incite gratitude, will set the tone for your day, your life. This will raise your vibration and draw goodness to you. Choosing this for yourself takes conscious awareness of your thoughts and is ongoing work. Falling into fear is easy as the ego lies in wait for weakness. Practicing love will eventually lead to an expansion of your being that will move you past the ego, and when fear does arise it will feel very foreign to you. With fear now easily identifiable, you will be able to convert it to love quickly and easily. This is the way of the new and peaceful life you desire. With love you can change your world! Practice, and set yourself free. Be well, Be love ♥

Spiritual Evolution

February 22, 2015

Spiritual connection within is expanding to open you to new universal vistas of knowledge, experience, and alignment.

When clarity is achieved through healing and cleansing, there is more that can be accessed to enhance your evolution.  This is not something that you think, but rather something that you feel.  The evolution of your spiritual self does not permeate your consciousness alone, it affects all levels through your chakra system (which are your energy centers) and your etheric being.  Spiritual Evolution is something that you ask for, as it does not happen automatically.  This is a process beyond all others that requires conscious connection to all aspects of your being. Spiritual Evolution is achieved through your ability to absorb and maintain light and is guided by your higher self.

The conscious part of your evolution is achieved by your ability to maintain balance and focus through intention. This is primary to your process as all the dimensions of your being need to be in alignment with your intention. Evolution, primarily spiritual evolution, is guided by your intention and desire. Nothing happens without your permission, as this is a free will universe. Seeking to understand the different dimensions of your being and how they correlate with each other, is where the next stage begins after clearing and healing have taken place.  There will be an expansion of your being when you have asked with clear intention for further enlightenment.

You’re inner, outer, and Higher Self (supra consciousness) are the three dimensions of your physical being. There cannot be congruence without intention and conscious connection.  Finding your center, and setting your intention [to evolve] by maintaining clarity, focus, and balance will further enhance your evolution and connection with all the dimensions of your being. This energy signature (your intention) will attract light to assist you with your request. Once this happens, your frequency and vibration will align with the light, and on a conscious level new information and understanding will flow to you.  In addition, you will be drawn to people, circumstances, and experiences that will emulate your evolutionary process.  At the same time you will attract opportunity, experiences, and knowledge that will enhance your process exponentially. Nothing happens by accident. You are the creator of your expansion, intentionally or not. This is a place of miracles and higher understanding.  If you truly want this for yourself, you shall have it!   Be well, Be love ♥