The Power of Love

I have been reviewing the edited manuscript of my soon to be published book Three Simple Questions, and I feel amazed that I actually wrote it.  The amount of power and truth contained in the book is totally astonishing to me.  A great deal of the information it contains came to me through my mystical connection and I just tried to be an open channel.  I attempted to stay open, not be biased and write accurately.  I have also integrated the concepts I write about into my daily life.  It’s about the guiding force and power of love.

Healing Touch 2

I have increased the frequency of the healing touch I described yesterday from once or twice a day to several times.  The reason for the increase is the hope that since once or twice yields positive results, an increase in frequency could increase the results.  I have used an increased frequency in the past for healing specific conditions like skin lesions, cysts, heart valve problems or prostate problems, with positive results.  It seems to be time to apply the same thing to my disability.

Healing Touch

I use my intent in meditation to first focus on God, love and healing and then to direct that energy into my hands.  I then use my hands and intent to send that healing to specific areas of my own body or areas of other people, causing physical change.  I can describe the process, as I just did, but beyond that, I don’t understand it.  There is now an ample body of evidence, primarily anecdotal, which demonstrates the efficacy of healing touch, as I just described.  I, myself, have been using it for years.

The God Seed

This was a very busy day, which included a couple of hours of conducting group therapy for newly recovering addicts/alcoholics, very enjoyable.  During our sessions I brought up the concept that we each had contrasting parts inside us: the God or love “seed” and the selfish/self-centered “dragon”.  I pointed out that we could each make a choice, in our actions, as to which part we wanted to nourish or “feed”.  They were all quite familiar with the choice and we had a lively conversation about the different ways the choices felt and the difficulty and discipline involved in making the “right” choice.

Importance of Love

There were a variety of activities that I took part in today, much like any other day, that meant little or nothing to me.  It was very much like Williamson says; “Meaning doesn’t lie in things. Meaning lies in us.  When we attach value to things that aren’t love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can’t love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing.  It’s not that they’re bad. It’s that they’re nothing.”  On the other hand, I had a good connection with a client and a strong, loving connection with my wife.  There, I found meaning and fulfillment.

Fear 2

As a result of meditating, exercise, service work, day-to-day activities and going to a recovery meeting, I feel good today, the fear has passed, like the vapor it was.  Knowing that the fear was meaningless and imaginary also helped.  I was able to connect with an addict in early recovery, very enjoyable.  I feel a great deal of gratitude, love and knowing that everything is just as it should be.

Fear

I received the edited manuscript of my book today, together with instructions on how to go through and check the manuscript.  Receiving it really shook me up and I began being fearful about completing the process; very humbling since I usually don’t react fearfully to anything.  I tried meditating on a feeling of peace and knowing that everything would be fine, which lasted a few minutes and then I found myself back in my fears.  It did not help that the instructions I received did not work.  Time to put the manuscript down and do something else for a while.

Choices

Earlier today I made a comment to someone about the fact that as humans, we make some very silly & sometimes extremely destructive choices, due to hurt and fear.  I have certainly made many such choices during my life.  Now I recognize those choices as part of the current human condition, along with the free will to express them.  Fortunately, in my case, when those choices were so destructive that they would have resulted in my death, I was prevented from carrying them out, sometimes in miraculous ways.  My choices today are an attempt to add to the amount of love in the world.

Discernment

Today, I was very aware that there is a big difference between someone who has a firm but theoretical concept of the loving presence of God versus someone who has a “knowing” of that presence.  I find that I have little patience for someone who has a theoretical knowledge, no matter how well presented.  I also find that I have a great deal of respect for the knowing, no matter how it is expressed, even when the words “God” or “love” are not used.  I believe that I can sense the difference, whether they agree with me or not.

Living a Life of Love

Several years ago, during my morning meditation, I would immerse myself in the feeling of the extreme/absolute unconditional love of God.  Then, when I came out of the meditation, the memory of that feeling would persist and affect all of my interactions during the day.  One day, when I came out of meditation, that feeling of extreme/absolute unconditional love persisted as my reality, not just as a memory.  When I asked how I could function in the world and continue to have that feeling, I was told “you’ll get used to it”.  That feeling has continued to be my reality and, as I commented to a friend this morning “I pretty much live there”.  I do slip from that feeling on occasion, getting absorbed by some obsessive, negative thought, and now miss the feeling when it is not there.  I think of myself as living in a “bubble of love” or being in partnership with God.  That way of being has changed my life dramatically.