Love or Fear

Remember we are all souls having a temporary human experience. We are energy. We all came from Source Energy. We are extensions of Source - God, the Universe, our Creator. (You can call it what you want, but it's all interchangeable. I am a Christian, I believe in God and so that's where my heart lies.) We are all perfect created by and from God - the epitome of pure love and light. As a result, our natural state is love and light. Only love is real. 

We already know that we are all energy and that we have thoughts that create an emotional response. Well, every emotion that we have comes from only one of two places.  Either Love or Fear. It can't come from both. Only one. Love OR Fear.

Love means we are in alignment. It is our natural state. 
Fear is misalignment or contrast.

What is contrast? It's not conflict. Conflict is a clash or disagreement; often of a violent nature. Contrast is when something is strikingly different from what we want or are used to. Although we were made in God's perfect love, as an extension of his energy, we are not supposed to feel perfect 100% of the time. We NEED contrast. Why? How else are we going to know what we DO want if we don't experience what we DON'T want? By showing us what we don't want, it makes it even clearer to us what we do want. Contrast isn't here for our suffering; it's here to help us learn and to lead us to our purpose of oneness - back to love; our natural state. We have come here to experience things and yes, it will be hard at times but by staying in alignment with love it will make things so much easier.

If you're like me, you were taught early on to be strong, suck it up, never let 'em see you cry. That's where it all went wrong. Be vulnerable. If you aren't, you'll end up like me (and a lot of you already are but don't realize it) and your health will suffer later on as a result. By sucking it up, you are stifling your emotions and slowly manifesting disease.

Have I lost you yet?  If I have, go back to the top and read it again. Stop and ask me questions. I want you to get this. Sometimes it takes a while. It did for me.

Maybe a visual will help. I am a visual person so it helps me.  Below is the emotional vibrational ladder. How you feel on this ladder will determine what you attract; what the Universe sends back to you. We are energy. We have thoughts that create an emotional response which then creates a vibration. Within 30 seconds, the Universe sends that exact vibration back to us because it FEELS the vibration we are putting out.

Draw a line out from the word Neutrality. Everything above Neutrality is vibrating in love - our natural state. Everything below Neutrality is vibrating in fear. When I say, "raise the vibration," this is what I mean. Vibrate higher. Move up the chart. When you vibrate in alignment with love, you get love in return. If you vibrate with fear, you get those emotions in return. If you had the choice, wouldn't you always choose to vibrate with love? Of course you would. So why don't you? It really is all in your control. Totally your choice. 

Our inner being is who we really are which is pure love and light.  When we are in alignment with love, we are in alignment with our inner being.  Our inner being will never join in on the lower vibrational emotions. It will always stay in alignment with the truth which is love - we are perfect exactly as we are.  If our emotions are aligned with fear, then there is a wound that we need to heal. We will never be triggered by an emotion unless there's a wound that needs to be healed. The triggering is to bring the need for healing to our attention. Don't push it away because it WILL come back. Deal with it - and I can help you.

So, in each instance of your life - in every experience that you encounter- you will FEEL a certain way.  When that happens, I want you to get in the habit of going through these steps. After a while, after consciously practicing this, it will get easier and become second nature to you.

1.  Recognize the emotion that you are having.
2.  Identify where it is on the chart. 
3. Allow yourself to fully feel it. If you suppress it, it will not do you any good and it will get stuck in your energy field. 
4. Identify the purpose. Why are you feeling this way? What caused this emotion? What is the trigger?
5. VERY IMPORTANT STEP - once you have identified WHY you are having that emotion, ask yourself: "What is it here to teach me?" Because that is why this is coming up in the first place. 
6. Give gratitude for the experience because it has helped you learn something about yourself and you are now aware of it happening and why.
7.  Release the emotion - cry, exercise, write, sing, dance, offer forgiveness

The best way to raise your vibration? Be conscious of your thoughts.  Everything that you think, say or feel becomes your reality, right? Law of Attraction. Every single thought that comes into your head, every single one, has an impact.  When you change those thoughts for the positive, your reality is going to become positive also.

Perfect simple example. I have always said that if I don't have at least 8 hours of sleep every night I am going to be useless the next day, a zombie. Well, of course I am and I always have been because I created what we call a limiting belief.  I have always thought that way so I feel that way and that's what happens. Well, it's ridiculous. So I don't tell myself that anymore and it doesn't affect me. Sound like magic? Too good to be true? Right, I thought so too. Give yourself some credit. Change the way you think about things and the things you think about change.

Here's an easy way to start:  Every time you have a negative thought, acknowledge it, thank it for showing up and then tell it you don't need it, dismiss it and turn it into a positive.  Start this practice and things will start changing for you. I only started doing this about two months ago and it's already made a huge difference in my daily life.

Eighty percent of changing anything is being aware. Guess what? By reading this blog, you are now aware and the more you practice, the awareness will get even greater.

It's all about finding our way back to our natural state of love.
Love is peace.
Love is inner happiness.
Love is contentment.
Love is a state of mind.
Love is why we are here.