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My “day job” is acting as a co-worker and intermediary with individuals and beings living and operating in the non-physical or “subtle” ecology of the Earth. The results of this work has been a string of books and classes over the past fifty years. I don’t discuss this work that much here in David’s Desk, preferring to focus on more personal, inspirational topics arising from daily life. But occasionally something emerges out of my connections and communications with the subtle realms that I want to share here.
This happened while writing the current issue of my journal, Views from the Borderland. Unlike David’s Desk, this journal, published four times a year, is the primary venue through which I share the “field notes” and insights arising from interaction with subtle beings. I was contacted by one of the spiritual intelligences of the natural world, beings traditionally called Devas, a Sanskrit word meaning “Shining One.” I think of them as the angels of nature.
This being had this to say:
It would be helpful if you as human individuals would draw upon your powers of attunement and love to take at least a minute each day to honor and love the life around you. Just a minute of silent attunement and love directed to all that is in your environment, whether organic or not, whether the life within a creature or the spirit within an artifact that humans have created, can be a powerful act.
This is especially so if many of you join to hold this minute of loving at the same time. Your appreciation and love for all the life within the world becomes a field of presence and energy that we can align with, amplifying its effects. It can make a difference.
A minute of active, intentional loving, sincerely and heartfully held, can begin to heal a world.
This kind of action, taking a “loving minute,” is something I do several times a day as a matter of course. It is part of my daily practice. But I’ve never thought before of trying to synchronize such a minute with others to build a larger field of energy.
With this in mind, I’d like to invite you into an experiment. I will hold this Loving Minute at noon, 12 pm PST, every day, and I invite you to join me. There are two ways this could be done, and I believe both can be effective. The first is to synchronize our watches, so to speak, and share this Loving Minute at the same time, that time depending on where you live. Thus, noon my time here in the Pacific Northwest of the United States would be 3 pm in New York City or 8 pm in Great Britain; going the other way, it would be 10 am in Hawaii and so on. The second way is to simply take a Loving Minute at noon your time, wherever you are. Either way will contribute to the shared field of energy my Devic visitor mentioned. There’s no reason not to do both.
What shall you do within this Loving Minute? Personally, I start by becoming inwardly still and quiet. Then I look around me, taking in everything that is in my immediate environment. I go within, into my heart, into a place of love, compassion, and kindness inside me. From that place, I appreciate and honor all that is around me and I visualize a sphere of lovingness emerging from this inner place and expanding out to touch and bless those things that I can see and touch. It is, as the name suggests, just a minute of loving my world. I then ask that this same spirit of love expand to embrace the world itself, that all beings, all life, may experience the love at the heart of creation.
And that’s it. I give my attention to this silent, loving emanation for a minute, then I say “Thank you!” and go about whatever I was doing.
This may not seem like much to do, but the nature of the subtle world and the way that everything and everyone is interconnected in the realms of spirit ensures that what seems a small action in the physical realm can have large effects in the subtle dimension that makes up the other half of our world. And since there is only one world, what happens in the subtle will affect the physical and vice versa.
Love is always appreciated, but I think this coming year, we may feel a greater need for it than ever. Holding a Loving Minute is a place to start. Eventually, we discover that all our minutes can be loving ones.