Daily positive projection will help us cultivate feelings of openness and love with the people and situations we have had difficulty remaining open to until now. We can bring five positive qualities of that person to our mind as we create a positive image of that person, then send him or her love and light, and imagine ourselves approaching him or her with love.
The following positive projection, the love focus, is an excellent way to increase our love. It can be employed once or twice a day for a few months at least. It can be used by itself or as a preparation for meditation, relaxation or prayer
This is one of the most important positive projections that can be performed. It develops our ability to love more widely and more deeply without conditions. It focuses on others, ourselves and God. It is best done on a daily basis.
a. Let the spine be straight and the body comfortable. b. Relax the body and mind with your eyes closed, breathing slowly and deeply as you allow the muscles and nerves to relax.
c. Count backwards from 10 to 1, relaxing more deeply with each count.
d. Now bring into your mental focus a being who is for you a frame of reference for the most intense opening of love you have experienced until now in your life. As you bring this being into your mind, remember the moment you had felt that greatest opening of love. Remember the love, affection, caring, joy, gratitude, and total acceptance you felt in this being's presence.
e. Now allow this being's image to disappear from your mind, while maintaining that opening and those feelings. Then bring to mind a person who is presently participating in your life and allow yourself to feel the same feelings of love toward this person. Allow yourself to love him or her with the same intensity and wholeness.
f. Allow this image to fade and bring in another. In this way, bring various persons to mind and feel for them the same love opening.
g. Bring your own body and personality into your mental focus and feel the same love and acceptance for yourself. Feel gratitude toward your body for all the services it performs for you, and acceptance toward your personality for all its efforts in life.
h. Bring to mind a person who has harmed you in some way or toward whom you have difficulty being open and loving. Allow yourself to feel the same opening toward him or her. (If you have difficulty here, bring five positive qualities of that person to mind.)
i. Bring God into your mind as you imagine God to be, as a form, light, a universal being, energy or consciousness. Allow yourself to feel an opening of love toward this universal being (with or without form.) You might also feel gratitude or other feelings.
j. Open your heart and mind to receive an inflow of grace, love and light from the Divine being. Allow this energy to fill all of your being.
k. Remain in this light connection as long as you enjoy it.
And even though I was surrounded by people, I felt alone, abandoned and afraid.
And yet, through all of it, I also felt higher, as though someone or something were carrying me, lifting me, loving me.
And so this time instead of running from the pain, despair and confusion, I embraced it and what happened surprised me. The pain, despair and confusion became my doorway to freedom. All sorts of insights and inspirations flooded into my consciousness. It was as though I had access to a different time and place and was able to see with new eyes.
I have been searching for the truth all of my life in so many places. I thought there was only one truth and that I came here to find that truth and that if I went to enough seminars and took enough courses and read enough books and did enough affirmations that somehow I would find it.
Enough, enough, enough already! It was never enough. I was never enough. And now I have found myself in this place and I realized that ...
No one can tell you what your truth is or how to get there. They can only soften the path a little. But if you are awake and alive, there will come a time when you will have to examine your own heart.
During this time, I thought often of Mother Teresa and what a powerful woman she was, yet without the arrogance that one often finds in powerful people. She was able to command large amounts of money from everywhere and yet she was so humble. She didn't need to be the best at anything, she just needed to BE. Simple and profound. She touched countless lives and changed the world one person at a time.
I have an act of kindness section on my website and for the last 7 years have been putting acts of kindness suggestions on one of my daily pages. This morning as I was thinking of Mother Teresa again, I sat down to my computer and these words flowed from my fingertips and onto the screen.
Whatever you do today, remember ONE thing. That in the end, all that really matters is the LOVE! Did you seek it? Did you find it? But most importantly - DID YOU GIVE IT? Remember the LOVE!
And then I knew that was the truth I was looking for. Remember the LOVE. Often in our quest for bigger and better things, we forget why we came here in the first place. When my father died and I was sitting on his doorstep outside waiting for the limo to arrive to take me to his funeral, this was never more apparent. There stood his beautiful house and car in silence. He would never walk up those stairs and open that door again or sit behind that wheel. But I could feel his presence. He was much bigger than all of those things. His love was there forever. It didn't die with him. The only thing we take with us when we leave this place is the love and it doesn't matter if we die with a slim body and a fat bank account. All that matters is the love.
In remembering this, I came to know my truth. Perhaps we don't come here to learn, perhaps we come here to teach. And the secret to success is in the love. Then I recalled a story I heard about a woman who hated her job and was living a joyless life of struggle. Her heart was closed in pain, anger and resentment. She was working as a cleaning lady. One day the old woman she worked for put on some music on the stereo. It was music that she and her late husband used to dance to. She was missing her mate terribly and longing for the gentle touch of another soul. The old woman asked the cleaning lady if she would dance with her. The cleaning lady was a bit taken aback at first but agreed to do so. And then something miraculous happened.
In opening her arms to the old woman, she also opened her heart and the tears and the love began to flow. She let the love in and in that precious moment that love lifted her spirit and transformed her life. Right after this incident the cleaning lady's business started to take off, she got so many calls she had to hire a huge staff to accommodate everyone and her company grew by leaps and bounds. The struggle disappeared and everything that she had been trying to make happen came to her effortlessly, once her heart had been opened.
In remembering this story, I knew that I had found my truth. The secret to success and the secret to life is in the love. Once I knew that, I knew everything.
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