Mist is a weather phenomenon. As is snow, thunder and lightning, hail etc. You never know from one day to the next the type of weather you will get in the UK. It varies considerably and forward planning can be made but often this is unsuccessful when one has a sudden hot sunny day in February or snow in April. So is life a string of weather days. You may not know what will happen next. You may plan but the next day can always bring a surprise into your immediate surroundings. This is always a learning curve. A test to see how quickly you catch and roll with the ball. If aware, you can catch your own response and adjust accordingly. Whenever you drop the ball the angst that is caused is not needed. This is a temporary illusion of not being quite in step with oneself which can be corrected once acknowledged.

Different days bring different weather bring different markers of time and differing juxtapositions of events. All unique to you. All gifted to you so you can enhance your growth however hard it may seem.

This is a new triangle/dilemma for you to understand. The juxtaposition between that which you have brought into your energy, which has been birthed a while ago and been growing and moving towards you, then it meets you in the Now and you no longer want it, no longer vibrate at the level to receive it. You have put aside the vibration, possibly out of choice, no longer needing, so your focus has changed. Or through laziness as the effort to stay in the vibration of wanting/having what you desired was lost to you. So the triangle between the Now of wanting all that you want versus the past energy being drawn towards you, together with the influence of world events can create a triangle of repricocity where one impacts on the other. The new you in your Now may feel complete and happy in your sunny day only to be hit by a hailstorm from the outside world/influences. And your response to the events of your day may be influenced by the Now of you dealing with how you used to think and behave in these circumstances. The energy has caught up with you and because you have become a more positive, ideally energised individual, the energy that has caught up with you is from a desire that you wanted, and existed prior to this and you feel it as a negative. But you have moved on and grown in your vibration while the energy vibration you put out previously has not, as only you can affect your energies. So when it returns to you it feels like a negative and you may not understand this and respond negatively when ultimately it has been a success because your energy has caught up with you and engendered the possibility of what you once desired but now don’t need. There is then a clash of vibrational energy in you that you have to resist/absorb/control/ balance. This is continually being done as you are continually desiring different, which is always a different vibration to what you have, to what you are currently receiving. This has been difficult to explain but, “Be careful what you wish for as it may turn up and bite you in the leg” may be succinct.

Instead keep your energies balanced at all times. If you drop the ball there will be a recovery period but keep a balance and steadiness in your movements. Be ready for the next ball while allowing the dropped ball time to roll to your feet gently and quietly. When you are able you may pick it up, as and when you choose, pass it on, keep it in one hand or keep it spinning.

A past thought form may arrive as a positive or a negative but as it arrives it will disrupt your current energy as you will have grown and deepened your understanding of your vibrational energy. The greater the growth in a short space of time the harder the knock from the old energy attempting to integrate. If you are in a balanced, smooth place there will be an easy adjustment as you notice it slightly impinge on your life. But if your energy is out of kilter all results of old energy patterns bring drama and vicissitudes, vast negatives and vast positives which you may not be ready for. So can turn a positive into what seems a negative due to your actions e.g. a lottery win and the subsequent fallout from the gain of money.

Your life needs calm and balance. Enjoy it to the hilt. Love and live and laugh. Be expansive. But be careful what you wish for as you need to be in a balanced energy state to receive. And those that are in a balanced state have all wishes and desires answered by the universe anyway so have no need to desire anything. The conundrum of human life.

Part 2

The great unknown. A state that everyone fears except for those that have glimpsed the next step in their evolution, their pathway. This is not the right step for everyone as those who have glimpsed their pathway to their true home have been in alignment with their true selves for a few moments and connected to their deepest yearning. In the moment their focus has been on one outcome, intently, briefly and moved on. With a time delay of a few seconds the wishful thought becomes a reality. A knowing of what they are seeing, either with their physical eyes or their inside eyes. This knowing is brief but clear and though only a moment, seems to last much longer. Given their heightened state of awareness it may seem to last for many minutes in an intense focused way as though the physical world recedes and becomes just a quiet murmur in their ear. Instead they are on the edge of focusing fully into spirit and feel the blessed state of grace they so wish to be in constantly. Being human their focus shifts and as the mundane intercedes so does the physical reality. Then they have had an experience to guide their life by. An experience that shines within and they wish to let everyone know. Or an experience that is hugged close, in wondrous relief that there is more than the physical reality of ” Is this it?”

Is it? Is this physical reality everything to you? It is everything to your physical body. It has the ability to nourish the mind and soul and emotions. However, being human, you contrive to upset this with demands for perfection in the physical life. Demands never work. Flowing with the moment, throwing your wishes and desires lightly and intently out to the universe will more likely bring about the fulfilment of your wants and needs. Light continuous focus is the key. Focus on the positive aspects and aspirations that surround you as the moments of your wishes gradually make their way towards you. As you find yourself in the right place at the right time, ready to receive. And if that is the moment of your death……that too is a positive. On a physical level it is seen as the ultimate tragedy but is only surpassed in spirit when one realises the game plan may not have worked out and you learnt more than you expected. Learnt unexpected rather than the true aim of your pathway in the physical. Always there is much to learn. A learning is never wasted. But one can be continually surprised as to how it comes about. How the universe comes into line for the true purpose of enlightenment. Teaching, instructing, focusing on the positive……which includes death……at the right time and place for you. As you have chosen the vibration you have been born into so you have chosen your death moments. So your death is not a surprise to you but the learnings surrounding it may be. It is the ultimate teacher in those focused intense moments as your spirit leaves your body.

This is a gradual process but the physical consciousness has to let go of its reality. There is a strong lesson/teaching/understanding in that moment. And there are the lessons of life to absorb as the physical reality is released by the mind and you come into the fullness of your being. One would want to assess whether life happened how it had been intended and whether further learnings could be obtained from it in retrospect. This has to be done quickly as once you are separated from the physical and no longer identify with the body and its emotions and shortcomings, then you will not be able to assess as succinctly as when in the physical body. Gradually one forgets and the intensity of the physical life is softened in remembrance.

This is a journey over months for everyone regardless of the suddenness of their death, the shortness of the illness or their receptivity to the death process due to a great age. The continuance of the spirit tends, on the whole, to be a surprise to its recipient. However long the time in the physical there is no time to elapse in spirit so the idea of time must also be put aside. The realisation is more a process of assimilating into the spirit world once again. As a deep sea diver has to be accomodating with regard to the pressure the body is under and has to gradually move to the surface and de-pressurise to ensure the “bends” do not occur. So you have to understand and acknowledge you have come home and the intense living of the physical can be allowed to become a distant memory. Though the education one always carries helps to shape your understanding.

There are several phases in the process of dying. The preparation for death. The moments of death. The immediate afterlife of the spirit as it leaves the body. The emergence into spirit and life ever after.

Death is but a journey between the physical and the spiritual worlds. As a baby is born with an umbilical cord, birthed with a placenta, so are you birthed into death with a silvery light of umbilical cord where you are attached to the body and surrounded by the expectations of death that a lifetime of physical reality has taught you. There is a gradual release not a sudden shock. We have no wish for you to come crying and wailing into the spirit world. It needs to be gradual to deal with the ideas and nuances you have picked up and now believe about the death process. It is important you know of the death process rather than believe a pathway that has to be fulfilled by those still living in the physical world with their own ideas and agenda about the process. We are not into the saving of souls or the perfect idealised dream. We wish you to awaken into truth. And we trust that the truth will resonate with you when you find it.

The journey is simple and one which you cannot avoid. It may be lengthy or short depending on your knowledge, acceptance and belief patterns. The body spends time moving gently into death. Even a subconscious awareness of an impending death is brought about gently. A sudden death is only sudden in the physical…….but known of in spirit. Yes there is always choice but the choice of your death at an appointed time is not decided upon in the physical. There is a great web of vibration and consciousness that you are part of, swept up in. Although you are spirit the physical world is manufactured through thought, focus and vibrational energy. So your birth and death are planned into the web of consciousness. There is a birth at a set time and a death at a set time. If you wish to leave the physical realm through an inability to work with the energy vibration due to its perceived denseness and difficulty to manage, you are given encouragement from spirit but ultimately it is your choice. And the web is altered, strands of energy manoeuvred so that you may exit as you wish.

No, there is no large room of operations, no web with a spider at its centre. There are groups of energies interconnecting. These energies support you and link in with other energies. If you wish to exit there must be a give and take of energies as you will no longer need the energy to support physical life, having chosen to re-enter the spirit world. It is both complex and simple but not needed for your understanding of the death process other than there is a movement of energies. A conglomeration at birth and a dissipation at death that must be managed.

Although the body slows and slows and slows in old age or illness the death process lasts for many weeks. For those aware of its coming there is time to put their affairs in order. A time to make their peace, look back at their memories and agree that they have done the best they could have done in the circumstances that they were gifted with. A good way to prepare for the death of the physical body.

The actual moments of death may last for a few days until you find there is more of you in spirit than there is in the physical body. The umbilicus thins and stretches as you move away from the body and become more aware of the spiritual realm and less aware of the physical realm. The thinning becomes like gossamer and thins and stretches so that once in spirit you hardly notice the separation. Initially you may hear the weeping and wailing of loved ones but that is not your concern any longer and though hearing it may draw you to them it will not last.

Find the key to the door of knowledge. “How?”, you say. By practicing your meditation regularly. By going within and understanding the processes that you live with and by. That is a satisfactory result for meditation. Enlightenment is a by product………… Your mood is enhanced. Your breathing is gentled. Your system calms. Your eyes close as you move inwards to see who you really are. What do you find? A dark landscape with thoughts scurrying hither and thither, back and forth, in ever increasing circles? Do not become these thoughts but be aware of them. Watch them and step away from them. Watch them as they move like flightless birds across the Serengeti, unable to rise, fat with their own importance. These thoughts and words are not you. They mask the real you. So leave them alone. Allow them to continue because they will never cease entirely, but turn your focus to the space between the thoughts, between the words. Observe the gaps. Gradually the gaps will become longer and allow you to enter the incredible quietude that is you, the essence of you. Do not work hard at it but observe the gaps in the words lightly, slowing down the torrent of thought. No longer being in the thoughts or of the thoughts. This is a pathway to the real you, where you can meditate on the silence, or the colour of the silence, or its depth and vastness or maybe even its sound. It will be different for everyone, never the same, as it is your silence that you enter. The endless being, that has an egoic name, that is you. The words and thoughts are meaningless chatter that you observe. The quiet depths between the words are where you dive in to experience the stillness and quietude of the soul. This is beneficial to your body in every way as your physical system calms and regulates, balances and reinvigorates its terrain.

Thirty minutes is a good amount of time for a daily meditation. If you can manage two separate sittings, that is also desirable. Sitting for hours is not. Your body will need to move and your mind will lose its way. Meditating your way to enlightenment is not for everyone. Enlightenment can happen at any time, anywhere, if the ego is banished for ever and the being in the human body becomes aware of its spiritual self. You could be climbing a mountain and pause for the view, come into contact with the grace of God as you feel your soul expand, then realise that expansion has not contracted back into human shape and you are now permanently aware of this physical ism and your place within and without it. It may happen as you cross the road and narrowly be missed by a vehicle which brings your mortality into question in a sudden strong egoic moment or you could be sitting on a bench watching a tree grow. What doesn’t matter is the where or when. What does matter is that you are ready and ripe to just lean back and fall into the now of nothingness and find everything……..all knowledge, all answers, all understanding. The complete beingness of the moment is eclipsed by your understanding that there is no moment…….only is.

These rarified results happen to a few but more and more are finding their way. However the vast majority are best accepting the benefits of a gentle daily meditation to enhance their daily life. Do not work at it. Just be…….in the moment…….in the meditation.

A guided meditation is fun but is not quite where you will find your peace, but it is good for beginners who have difficulty quieting their mind. It allows them to play in their mind and discover that, like a rock pool, it has unforseen depth. Though the clear waters are muddied as you stir up its contents when you enter the pool. It takes a while for the sediment to reach the bottom, for the waters to once again become crystal clear. And then a clear view of its inhabitants can be seen in all their egoic glory. So there is plenty for the beginner to observe and understand. Many may not realise that they do not have to feel and enter the pool to understand it. It can be observed and understood. Only if you want to catch the inhabitants, collate them, examine them, take them apart, do you need to enter the pool. There is no need for this inquisition. Your mind can remain still and calm like the pool. You can observe the actions of everything within the pool and realise the pool is not of the sea. It is one pool existing on a beach where one day the sea will come to absorb it. So feel the air around the pool, know there is so much more to be and to experience. Do not be contained by the mind, it only knows of the teeming activity of a rock pool. Step outside and enjoy the vastness of the beach. You have the choice of the rock pool of the mind or the vastness of your soul to meditate, exist, be within. Your choice as always.

There is beauty to be found in every moment. Not only is the moment beautiful, so are you. It takes a few minutes of quiet, peace and calm to know this. As you watch yourself in meditation you know you are watching the best of you in action…..in peaceable action. In meditation it becomes your time, outside time. Your moments of being with the truth of who you are. Of watching the pureness of your being arise and fall just as the physical dross of you rises and falls. Without the dross there is no physical you. Without the dark there would be no light to be seen. It would all be the same oneness and you would not see and learn from the contrast.

Meditation is important for your body, mind and soul as they realign in the moment. As they come into ease with one another rather than one acting against or adjacent to another. For a few moments you come into alignment and feel the peace and beauty of who you really are. It is fleeting but it is there. It is not the quietude of the mind……..it is the one fleeting moment beneath that. When suddenly you feel as though you have touched God. You have not……you have found your true self in all its wondrous glory. Think…. if you were to be aware of that one true self all the time, in every minute of every day, would you achieve anything in the physical world? Would you want to? No, of course not. Being in those golden moments of completeness would be your only desire. Not to eat, not to sleep, just to be. So if there is to be a physical experience…….and many choose not to have one, then these moments of true understanding of self are neccessarily brief. You are here for a physical life not so much a spiritual life. Though the experience of all life and time is a spiritual experience. Too much knowledge of your true self would indeed result in you “dropping out, turning off”. While to some extent this is beneficial as it can give you peace in your physical life and reduce your anxiety, too much will not set you free but hold you back. As you recognise you have no tether in the physical world and the mind wishes to step back and allow the soul to take over its place in the physical. But this is not the best for the body. This way lies madness as one’s grip on physical reality waivers. One must always be anchored in to the physical body to play with the plastic fabric of your world. This may seem a small nuance initially, in your meditation process, as you find that small moment of true beingness. But then, of course, you will wish to extend that to longer moments. To be still in the bliss of the moment for longer. But no……this is too much for your physical awareness. Be content with the moments of grace you receive. Be thankful for them. Acknowledge them but then return your attention to watching the blade of grass grow. Keep your attention in front of you, in the now. Not in the abstract and not in a place where you are unable to operate in the physical. Everything will come to you. You are a physical being but eternally spirit. You know and understand everything. The longing for those blissful moments you find in meditation are your longing for source and home. Recognise them and then resume the task at hand. To be the best you can be in the physical lifetime. To play with the plasticity of your universe and enjoy and have fun with it. Understand it is pleasurable and fun rather than the negative approach that may be given to its manipulation at times. Your universe is exactly how you wish it to be. To change it change your thinking, change your physical actions, as one has a bearing on the other. This change can be affected through meditation. That is the place where you watch thoughts arise and fall. Be aware of the thoughts you have, their negativity and positivity. Expunge the negative thought patterns and uphold the positive. Meditation is useful for this process as not everyone can sit and become enlightened like the Buddha, Sakyamuni. This is a tool for everyday living. Enlightenment will come in time……..meanwhile you have a life to live! A life to be enjoyed, free of anxiety and sadness. Meditation is a tool for you to find the peace in any eventuality. Use it!

Do not ignore the right tool for the job. It has been made available to the physical world as a panacea to the ills of the world and as a gift of inner peace when you doubt yourself, dislike yourself, disrespect yourself. In those quiet moments you may even hear my voice in your ear, advising you that it is good to have met you on that particular wavelength. Meditation calms the body, calms the energy field around you. It satisfies your craving for the spiritual world. Meditation is of great benefit to an individual but do not spend all your time in this place as it is the physical world where you belong for the length of your lifetime.

Cavemen are the archetype of the forerunner of the human race. This not only includes the ways and habits of a neanderthal man but also his emotions and thought patterns. To himself he was sophisticated in his choices of tools and where and how to hunt, his choice of mate and his knowledge of the seasons. His sophistication is no less now, your sophistication. As the human race continues, future man will be amazed at what you have achieved and wonder why there was less achievement in the fieldwork of the brain and emotions. As more people become lost, afraid, alone, unwanted, damaged by life’s scenarios. They will wonder why there was not more value given to the emotional and mental happiness of a human being…….each human being. Caveman did not have the mental illness you have now. He was exactly as one saw. There was no need to analyse emotions or thoughts because as soon as they were felt inside the mind, they were voiced. There was no need to act a part or be something one was not. People now have to suffer a variety of little deaths each day as their true persona is hidden from them, piece by piece, cut by hidden cut. As they shore themselves up from the damage inflicted by societies wants and needs instead of putting their own wants and needs first.

Mental illness is hidden but so many suffer from its verisimilitudes. Everyone has anxiety. Everyone has experienced a depression. Everyone has felt dissatisfaction with themselves and their situation. Yes it is good to better oneself in every way but not to the detriment of the true persona. The part of you that is linked to the light and knows the way home. Knows the path to be taken. Knows with certainty that they are more than the body. This certainty is lost as people become lost in their experiences and their emotions. More people are needed to step forward and help them regain their path. Not just in the mental health profession but all those who profess to be “leaders of the light”. More of these genuine, sincere, uplifting and healing people are needed. Not only those who heal with their hands, but those who heal with their voices, their thoughts, their ideas, their vibration. Those who can connect easily and well, soul to soul. At first this is balm to a troubled soul and eventually, over time, can lead to a healing process. However, the process is only effective with a true, honest and genuine connection. Not those who chase notoriety and greed. Yes, “lightworkers” is a good choice, for indeed that is what they do. Work hard to allow the light of the soul to shine forth and discover all those dark corners where shame and guilt and fear and sadness are kept. These emotions are not needed. They hamper growth. Understand and take the lesson but once the emotion has been experienced, let it go. You have no need to continually experience it. Learn from the experience and move forwards. It is not easy to let it go you say. I beg to differ. As the moment you eventually put the burden down happens in a second of change. Why wait years for that second of change if the opportunity to let go of the emotional burden is possible immediately? There is no benefit to harbour the negative emotion in your soul. You will become damaged by doing so, embittered, fearful. The choice, as always, is yours.

Mental illness is reversible. The day will come when the need for drugs has vanished and the whole person is treated on a vibrational level that affects cell renewal and health and brainwaves. A new evolutionary medicine. Meanwhile, neanderthal man, that you are in this age with no knowledge of how to truly effect a lasting cure, has to endure a lifetime of recidivity. A lifetime of rejection, as they reject the true path of their soul and its connection to themselves, each other and their place in the universe. Once a soul can accept himself as he is, in his true form without society’s judgment then there is hope for his mental wellbeing.

Ribbons of colour………ribbons of light exploding from the top of your head while sparkling light is in motion around you. You are a galaxy of colour as you move in the physical world. With the colours ebbing and flowing as you move, think, create, have an idea, worry, connect. Every aspect of your life flows in colour and vibration around you. These colours are more than the colours the human eye can detect. They are millions of shades and incredible hues dancing at the edge of your human sight. Just as your eye cannot see them so your ear cannot hear them. For their vibration sings the song of you out into the world. Easy to know who you clash with, easier to know who you chime with, make music with. Each part of your body sings its song from your liver to your eyes. The whole combining to make the note or song that is you. This is a true version of you that you cannot hide, that we perceive. Your hidden depths are on display to us. We do not judge. We honour you for the fact that you are at the leading edge of creation in the physical world. We are the support backup and you are the explorers. Come to find how the physical world can be moulded and manipulated to your thoughts, despite the total involvement of most of your senses being rooted in, what you perceive as, a physical body. It is all sensory perception brought about through manipulation of colour, vibration, hormones, brain waves, molecules, thought patterns, intent, desire and focus. A complex and difficult manoeuvring of thought coalescing into the human world you perceive. It is temporary…….unreal. A snapshot held in place for you to experience and then it falls away. You do not. The death is of the snapshot and the physical world, not of you. Change your perception and step to the other side of the equation. See how the physical disintegrates and you live on. How temporary your life is despite the mirage of the years you seem to have lived. Despite the question of life after death……. there is only life. The unreal falls away and you emerge into the truth of your being, having been under the spell of the physical world for a few moments.

Do not cry when a death occurs. It is only the body disintegrating, allowing the body to recognise its place within the whole. Where you can see the only life has no death. There is only experience and change and positive outcomes from learning. You are all angels in this regard for you all return to the source. You all learn so much on how to manipulate thought and focus and desire. The understanding of which can only be fully known and interpreted once you are back home in a full understanding of who you are and a better understanding of the physical world. That is why many choose to return…..to explore……to find out “Why?” One lifetime raises a question for another lifetime and in the tradition of exploration they cannot let a chance of discovery go by.

Change your perception. Look at a physical life through the eyes of how you conceive the spirit world to be. See how fear drives the emotions and actions. See how desire leads to pathways of strong need and wanting. Playing out in an uncontrollable way as emotions take the lead. From spirit we don’t have access to that……to the fear, to the basic emotions. Therefore you can see that a fear of death and loss and injury is a useful tool in finding out how one can grow and know oneself fully when subject to such a basic collection of emotions. There has to be fear to experience all the other human emotions and every human has a fear.

Enlightenment is one at peace without fear. In a place where human emotion does not frame every thought. But where compassion and non-interference radiates from them in a calm, peaceful, loving, non-judgmental acceptance of the human condition. Very few are at one with this. Know them by their words. They will resonate truly with your soul.

A lifetime holds a promise of many choices. Choices that will enhance your learning. The learning may not seem to have come from a good choice but it can still be a good learning……….a good education in the way of the world and all the emotions involved thereof.

Love is one of these learnings. A pitfall of decisions from beginning to end. Through love with a mate there will be many choices and decisions and many different outcomes and much heartache. That is why you are here in the physical. For all this knowledge to accumulate so you realise there is more than sexual love, the love between two people. So much more.

Society indeed fixates upon the sexual love and sexual union as the highest love to obtain without recognising that the universe is love. That love exists in many forms for you in the physical life. A feeling of love can be held for a tree or a spot sacred to your heart. For an animal or a piece of ground. For a friend or a kindred soul. A love of mountains that ignites into passion. A passionate embrace of doing one’s best for the world. A loving ember as you watch a life fulfilled be laid to rest. So much love and passion in this physical world of yours. You are swimming in a sea of love. You only need to open your heart to it to feel it. But herein lies the issue. People feel there is only love from one source not realising they are surrounded by waves of love. They feel that once a relationship has ended or become damaged in some way, it is best to close it off. Close down the love connection because it would only cause further emotional pain. Most people do not welcome emotional pain. Therefore they close their poor aching heart down thinking that this will protect them from further hurt. It does not. The hurt comes when they find they are unable to connect and unable to love so completely and passionately as their heart centre is closed and another centre/chakra has stepped up to take its place. Perhaps it is the “survival” chakra, the base of all things. A person can then place survival over loving. Survival is pitted against emotional hurt and it becomes important to survive instead of love. Or another chakra (solar plexus) involving acquisition and putting money and ownership of things to give security over love. There are many different devices people employ to prevent themselves loving in the fullest sense of the word. Some may love in a half measured way, ensuring they are protected from hurt…….conditional love, possessive love, familial love, a love of power, a love of words, a love of running.

So much love.

You only have to open your heart. Just allow the door to open and you can feel it. Go for a walk and it’s in the air around you, the wind caressing you or the raindrops beating on your head with joy. The flight of a bird overhead and the brightness of the greenery around you whether lit by sunlight or washed by rain. Love cannot be dismissed or disarmed. It cannot be destroyed or removed. It is continually, universally around you, within you. You breathe love and eat love. It is the essence of you. But you have lost it amongst the physical demands of this physical world. At times it is anathema to you because it makes you powerless, unable to control its trajectory. But let it loose! Love everyone and everything. If there is a negative emotion alongside it, then realise it walks alongside love. It is a separate emotion that exists in you through a fear of loving, a fear of hurtful emotion, a fear of imbalance in your life, a fear of loss of control. A fear of how completely it can take over your life. A passion that causes you to run towards it gladly. So don’t view it as running away from what you don’t want. View it as running towards your need and passion in life. The only way to see it. Because you are fulfilling the divine need in you. Running towards love. Love that will take you forward in your journey in the most delightful way. Ignore the detractors because you are in love ……..with a mountain…….or a dance step…….or the eyes of a wonderful person. Run towards love and experience life in all its wonderful form. Keep your heart intact and open by embracing love. Love is all you need. How sweet life is when you spend your time loving each moment. No regrets mount up, no whatifs, no maybe I should have done that differently. If you loved passionately in each moment how is that anything but a life well lived?

Penury, lack of money. Lack of anything that you feel in need of. Penury comes in many forms. But it is all a lesson of you feeling you have less of something in this physical world. Know that you are born with everything you need in the moment. You have already decided that, in spirit before you came to the earth plane. You decided upon the energy you would be born into and the energy that would surround you. From the moment of birth it is your physical world to mould. Initially your needs are basic and usually met……food, warmth, emotional contact. If these aren’t met then you have to exert your influence on the universe to provide them and you happily expect it to be so. This may not always happen, and so, from the very beginning, your emotional state is affected as a result of hormonal and brainwave function. And the need for providing sustenance in its many forms is brought into being. Even so you may circumvent this cycle of need if you can learn to focus at an early age on what you truly want and expect from life. Many know this before they are ten years of age, others wait until they are sixty years old. Always it is your choice from your learnings. Fate does not come into the cycle. There is no Fate as such.

Fate is but a word for a predilection for finding the “I told you so” in everything. A word that can be used to abdicate responsibility. A word that never allows you to change or move forward. Fate has a negative connotation in that it is an inevitable outcome. It is not. There is always choice and a new way of being. The Fate that you find at the leading edge is of your own making, not one that has come into being alongside of you. Nor is it carried within your aura or genes. You have multiple possibilities and multiple choices. They do not all lead to one event or word or choice that can only happen in one way. That is not living. That is pre-ordained living. A way of being put on you that means you are chained to one possibility, one outcome. This is not the case. There is always choice. Your choice was initially made when you decided to come into the physical. When a certain vibration drew you and you wanted to play and enjoy and have fun with life at that vibration. However, once born in the physical, you have to then understand the vibration you are living in….. to manipulate it. The surroundings seem quite different and difficult to deal with compared to the spiritual plane we emanate from.

Why bother with the physical world?

Because it’s fun, interesting, demanding. Because it adds to our understanding of the nature of the universe. If one hasn’t experienced physical life then one has a clean slate with regard to understanding the physical realm. It is required, a necessity, as we all grow to have a greater understanding of all creation.

There is a moment when you believe you are blessed by karma, by fate, in a positive way. This I would urge you to take on board as it is beneficial in your lifetime to have positive ideals. To hold positive beliefs, however they are engendered.

This is the first day of the rest of your life. Treat it accordingly. Fresh and sweet. New and evolving. Enjoy this new beginning when anything may happen. Enjoy your steps into new moments when life is at its sweetest. That moment of decision/indecision, deciding when you choose a path, an idea, make a choice……which biscuit to have with your tea? How blissful and sweet and wanting is that complete moment as you decide, with all the plethora of choice before you. It is a moment of decision/indecision that is magnified if you savour it. It is at the edge of creation because in that moment you may decide on the biscuit that you really really like. The one with the nuts and the chocolate and the sprinkles. The one that contains all your favourite wants and needs in a biscuit. Unfortunately it is not on the plate of biscuits in front of you. But you have formed the idea of the biscuit you want from the plate in front of you. A few years ago the biscuit you would have chosen would have been plain with maybe a few currants. Now you are thinking of an entirely different biscuit that you have thought into being, that is not yet manifested in the physical. But you have put it on your shopping list and you know you will find it and buy it. It is not a matter of, “What if there isn’t a biscuit like it?” It’s a matter of, “When will I find it?” But you also know when your shopping day is and you know a biscuit will be found that approximates your idea of the biscuit you want, complete with nuts and chocolate and sprinkles. You know you will search further afield in another shop if initially it doesn’t present itself to you on the supermarket shelves. You know you will find it. You will just have to travel a little further, perhaps wait a day or two longer, but it is there on the shelf of a small delicatessen waiting for your purchase. Your claim is already placed on the biscuit. You have to stretch and grow into the place you need to be, to be in the right shop at the right time. When the sun shines brightly and shows you the exact biscuit you have wanted and needed, right on the shelf at the back in the dark and the dust. Waiting for the shaft of sunlight, that is you, to be there at the right time and look into the dark corner and see the perfection that fits your wants and needs so perfectly. Your claim on your biscuit is the possibility you have awakened. Being in the same place as the biscuit at a time when you both resonate with each other. As the biscuit says,”I am crumbly, nutty, chocolatey biscuit…… Come find me.” And your vibration is one of looking for just such a biscuit. There is alignment of purpose as one finds the other. A temporary sating of need. Until the biscuit has been eaten. And then you say, “Too sugary, no currants! I would like a biscuit that is nutty, chocolatey with sprinkles and currants and has less sugar. A good healthy option for a biscuit” And your new choice and new alignment come into being. And so your life changes. Nothing stands still. So enjoy the quintessential moment of decision/indecision as you can taste the moment of becoming moving into a physical state of being as your choice is made. This is growth, creativity, progress.

You have your favourite pie in front of you. One slice is cut and ready to be eaten. This is the best pie ever. The one that makes a souffle of your taste buds. The one where you savour every mouthful and swallow slowly knowing that the best ingredients went into that pie. This of course is your life and how to love it. An easy analogy but so apt. Don’t eat it too fast and choke. Don’t just sit there and salivate looking at it. Eat it! Enjoying each flavoursome mouth-filling bite. The best way to eat pie! Slow and savouring each bite….and so with life, an easy analogy.

These analogies are there in each of your days. They trip you up and sidle into view when you need a reminder or a kick start to get with the programme. Unfortunately you do not always see them…….despite them being so obvious. But this requires clear thought and clear seeing which is not always happening in each and every moment, if at all, during your day. So if, “by chance “, a suggestion of an analogy has occurred within your day and you have consciously acknowledged it……be grateful. So very grateful and happy that a reminder of how to live life, how to trust in the universe and how to play with it, has managed to bisect the physical energy barriers and come into your perspective. As you come into alignment with self, more of these energy packets/analogies will become obvious to you. And gradually, like a row of stepping stones, they will confirm and lead you further into a deeper understanding. Eventually analogy recognition will not be needed as your clear-seeing becomes just that. And you no longer have to see and understand in riddles.