We are living in a time of global transformation, in a world that feels Topsy-turvey, with military conflicts, severe weather events, acts of extreme violence in the world, financial challenges, illnesses and more.  Many are going through personal challenges and it takes more effort to be centered and not slide into the despair of gloom and doom.  And yet, our very heartbeat is our ever present reminder that love, as Source, is always present. Even in the midst of struggle, love has not abandoned us.   Love is at our core and teaches us about ourselves through our experiences.

We are awakening to our Highest Truth: that we are worth the Love that is within us, the Love that defines us and the Love that expresses through us.  The Light has been turned   This Light is illuminating the shadows for processing and healing within us individually and within the global community.   As we stand in our Light and allow it to shine brightly, we strengthen our collective illumination and the darkness fades.

Your piece of the puzzle is becoming more evident to you each day as your self worth and self respect is growing in intensity leaving behind the old paradigm of fear.   The heart center is expanding to express greater amounts of compassion, kindness and unconditional love.  The intuitive/psychic center is expanding to perceive greater insights.  The physical body is increasing its need for higher quality nourishment to feed and fuel our ever changing cells. It is truly a time of personal and global transformation.

With all these changes comes sensitivity.  The psychic/intuitive body is closely aligned with our emotional body and that increases our emotional sensitivity.   This is why we often feel moody, off balance, spacey, sleepy, overwhelmed, irritated or impatient.  The vessel that you are is expanding to become a larger vessel for the flow of information.  Each stage of expansion requires us to adjust ourselves so that we remain open to further expansion.

Place your attention on your feet and imagine roots extending deep into the belly of Mother Earth. Breathe the earth energy up through your feet through each chakra to above the crown. Then reverse it by bringing in the Universal Life force down through each chakra to the feet and into the Earth.

This process of awakening our awareness invites us all to fully express the gift that we each are. It is timely now to celebrate who we are as significant contributors to Life on this planet. We are all here on purpose to shine our Light and express the Love that is the Truth of our being.

This message was written in 2012 and is still pertinent today.  I share it here trusting it will remind you that you are valuable, meaningful and purposeful in this lifetime , here on this planet Earth, right now.

TO BE A LISTENER.  Through listening to my inner voice, to loved ones and Spirit, I find myself reflecting on the themes that are processing through everyone. We can all  look at challenges with inquiry in order to learn and grow and to know how to offer the best support.  Some challenges are intense and deep and difficult to witness.  Spirit engages us in this journey to  encourage listening, feeling, seeking, observing, contemplating, learning, growing, and gaining much through experience.  When we all deepen our commitment to listening, we open the door to greater understanding and expansion.

TO BE A PEACEMAKER. I believe in peace and that place within each of us that is completely calm and in full trust no matter what the circumstances are. That does not mean we don't experience fear, pain and suffering.  Life is experienced through all of the emotions. When fear knocks at my heart, I acknowledge and feel it while knowing that the "realness" of it is fleeting, temporary and not something to get lost in.   We can learn from it even though it is uncomfortable and not our preference.  Peace comes from that deep inner place of trusting the process and knowing love is still present and available.  It is up to us to turn our attention to that truth.

TO UNDERSTAND SUFFERING. Learning through life's experiences can include suffering for ourselves and for others. We often suffer for and with the ones we care about and even ones we don't know.  When we attach ourselves to the suffering of another, we do not alleviate their pain, we join it.  In the center of suffering, love is still present and available.  When we can lovingly hold ourselves or another in love and compassion without blaming, we are aligning with the highest good operating in that moment.

TO UNDERSTAND RESPONSIBILITY. At a very young age, we are taught to project responsibility for our suffering onto other people, events and even society. Part of our awakening is to take personal responsibility for the people and events in our lives.   We all have said or heard comments like: "it's not my fault", "this never should have happened" or "so and so did it". There are many ways to blame, and yet, there is nothing to blame. We attract into our lives who and what we need to grow and moving beyond blame is to heal the victim attitude. Our empowerment lies in accepting self responsibility for our behavior without blame or guilt.   This returns our focus to what is real, self love and the ability to share it.

TO BE LOVE.  To me, Love IS God/Goddess, Spirit, Source, whatever name you give to the Divine.   That is our heart's fuel and the common denominator in all of us.   How it is expressed differs for everyone.   With love in the core of our being, we can know our safety and our value.  From this place, self love is true and known with faith.   As our self love expresses more freely, we can strip away the layers of fear, pain and suffering like peeling an onion.  The layers are not to be judged as they have been stepping stones to the discovery of self love.

TO BE COMPASSION. A compassionate heart is an understanding and giving heart.  It is the ability to see oneself in others without judgment.   Imagine walking in the shoes of someone else with empathy and understanding.  Compassion allows us to love freely, care deeply and desire the uplifting of another.   It is also knowing that the same spark of love and divinity lives within each of us.