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Loving When It’s Hard
When we practice the Spectrum of Love exercise, it cracks open a door within us that allows us to feel a flow of the essence of love into places where love is not easy for us. Included in the process is often some version of discovering a love that forgives ourselves for not being able to love someone. This week, let’s focus on that love – the love that forgives ourselves for our perceived shortcomings.
A Touch of Love
Love is both an instinct and a choice. There are people, places and things that we love and that bring us joy. And there are also people, places and things that we may be repulsed by. Love doesn't always flow for us toward things we find repellant, though we may feel bad that it doesn't. Is it hard to love the slug eating your lettuces? Or the scary looking homeless person sitting on the corner? How about the politician you don't trust? Love is a choice at such times. I can choose to withhold love and go about my business, or I can take such times as a reminder that to love is divine, as they say. Can I bring more love into the world by choosing to love the difficult?
Standing in Your Light: Cradling Your Body As It Weaves Into the Land
This is a version of a practice that David Spangler calls Creating Grail Space. In this exercise, you are weaving energetic threads or lines of attunement with your immediate environment using various objects in the environment to do so. It helps to ground and anchor you in the specific place where your body is, and it creates a collaborative field of energy that supports the subtle work. You are creating wholeness through Grail Space.
Standing in Your Light: A Wholeness Practice
Like any challenge, this time calls forth to the sacredness within you. It calls forth to that part of you that has courage, that can rise to the occasion. It calls out to your compassion and your love, in the ways that you can look out for each other. When habits are thwarted, growth and new vision can emerge.This is a powerful time, one that many of you have trained for as first responders of the spirit and generators of Light. When the fabric of your civilization seems to come apart, this is when you can weave new threads into the fabric. Wholeness is there to be created. Let fear, if it comes, be an ally to open you to new possibilities. See yourselves in new ways. This is a time of opportunity. You are more than equal to the task!
– Marcus (David Spangler’s Subtle Colleague)
Standing in Your Light: Being Generative
When you stand in your sovereignty and self-light, you can stand in the moment – free from the past, free from habit. In that moment, you can choose what you will generate and give to the world, and what you receive from the world in return. You are a generative source and therein lies your capacity to bless our world and to make a difference within it.
Generativity
The idea of generativity is at the heart of Incarnational Spirituality. Our generative nature puts things into the subtle environment that everybody who is sharing that subtle environment has to deal with in one way or another. The path of spiritual development is one of learning how to be aware of that and how to modulate it so that what we're generating becomes a blessing to our environment. It gives positive energies and qualities to that environment, which then can be helpful to others who share that environment with us.
Standing in Your Light: Holding
Holding is a universal principle active at all levels of existence. The Sacred holds the universe in its love, creating the conditions—the space of beingness and potential—that allow the cosmos to exist, flourish, and develop. Gaia, the World Soul, forms the boundaries and holds the space that allows planetary life to evolve. The Soul creates and holds a space that allows a physical incarnation to exist and hopefully develop and flourish as well. The important realization for us is that Holding is something we can do. It’s not just for Gods or Souls or Planetary Beings. We can hold ourselves and the world around us in our love, deliberately creating a space for blessing and unfoldment.
Standing in Your Light: The Touch of Love
The Touch of Love exercise evolved out of something that I used to do when I would find myself in an energetic situation that was troubling. If I was out in public or I was in a meeting or a group or in a situation where the subtle energies felt turbulent or for one reason or another I felt a bit under siege, I discovered that if I reached out and touched something and put my attention on a flow of subtle energy moving out from me that that helped to ground me and it helped to dissipate whatever impact I might be feeling at that time.
Standing in Your Light: Sovereignty
When we stand in our sovereignty, we tap into our strength and our ability to meet the challenges of life. How may we stand, not only in our own sovereignty but in a way that draws forth and empowers the sacred sovereignty of the world around us and all within it?
Standing in Your Light: Joy Refining
In this exercise, you’re taking the bits of joy you’ve been mining and refining them into a shining presence within you that you can offer back to the world.
Central to this idea is the realization that you, like every other being and object on earth, are immersed and embedded in the living energy field of the Soul of the World. What becomes part of your personal energy field by induction flows out to become part of the field of the World. In this way we all radiate energy into a common pool which we all share.