Sedona is a place people gravitate to for inner peace, and spiritual awakening. Most don’t even realize it but they are drawn to this place because it makes them feel good. With all the concentrated vortex energy here, Sedona is naturally a meditative place.
The energy of Sedona is really a reflection of our own inner world. What we experience here can be very transformative.
I was talking with a friend today about Dr. Masaru Emoto, and his book, Hidden Messages In Water. His study demonstrated that thoughts and
emotional energy directed at a container of water would change its crystalline formation once frozen. Loving thoughts would create beautiful crystals, hateful thoughts created misformed, chaotic crystals.
Since the human body is around 70% water, the analogy seemed clear: what we think about ourselves and others, affects everyone’s emotional and physical well-being.
The conversation then turned to the current horrible situation in the Middle East. No matter what ‘side’ you feel more strongly for, there is really only one side, the side of humanity. Both ‘sides’ consider the ‘other side’ the aggressor, and both sides can make a convincing argument why they are right.
The ego loves to be right – being right is its most prized possession, and it will die for the right to be right. We see it all the time with wars, and conflicts around the world. On a personal note we see people sabotaging and destroying themselves, their relationships, their careers, just so their ego can feel it’s “right”.
Really, though, it’s a misguided call for love. Looking for peace by annihilating someone else doesn’t make sense to our rational mind, but the ego isn’t rational.
On the level of the 3-D world, the level of form, where we think we live, this is how the story goes. But to see the world from a much broader viewpoint is, as A Course In Miracles states, having a perspective which is above the battleground.
How would you view the world and its stories from above the battlefield? From your Higher Self/God’s point of view?
You know, I said to my friend, given Masaru’s message about how thoughts can change even the shape of water, maybe we could direct some compassion and loving support to the situation in the Middle East. Their response was, well, yeah, sure, to the people, but not the governments. I get it. People don’t want war, governments do. But why exclude them? They’re even more in need of positive energy directed their way.
Love doesn’t mean condoning or even allowing violence. It means having compassion. And here’s the real kicker: it would behoove us to practice compassion all the time, even and especially for people we don’t like or agree with, and also for ourselves.
Are we holding a judgment of condemnation or an understanding that if they (or we) could do better they (or we) would?
Anyone who would use violence as a means of communication is in their ego-mind. So the decision to have compassion for both sides, as difficult as that can be, takes you right into your Higher Mind. You are now above the battlefield, seeing more clearly and with more compassion.
Another teaching from A Course In Miracles is we are all either demonstrating (giving) love or calling out for love.
Dr. Martin Luther King’s words, written in 1963, have been quoted countless times, and their power is undiminished. They’re about our Higher Selves and about living from that elevated point of view. Dr. King said, “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Maybe directing love towards the Middle East – or just to a neighbor we might not like very much, is bringing more peace for all than you know.
It’s normal for the conditioned mind to exclude people and to blame, and hate.
But it is natural for us to come from our Higher Self from Love. ©
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I’m looking forward to working with you and guiding you to your own transformations – transforming your relationships with the people in your life and with your own self, by tapping a deeper inner peace and a much quieter mind. ©
Vishali Shahin B.S., R.N.
Spiritual Mentor
Certified Meditation Teacher
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Quantum Touch Energy Healer