2023-01-28

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 103 quote comes from Chapter Three and the section on contemplation:

Contemplation

“In meditation allow the silence to do its work. But in contemplation simply allow the self to move into those states of emotion that arise in this pattern. Feel that state. Enter into every nook and cranny of this emotion or of this nexus of emotions. Allow association to move your feelings and see if there is a constellation of events or memories that seem to trigger this same type of emotional response. In this way you are working on your consciousness without departing from the situation at hand, for there is a self that is beneath all of these experiences that come within the incarnation. As one goes through the illusion day by day one can more and more find composure where formerly there was conflict simply because the attitude of faith has begun to take root and the need is not felt so quickly to move into patterns that take one away [from] faith and into the doubtful waters of opinions and words and points of view.” Q’uo, March 23, 1997

Both meditation and contemplation are used in silence, but whereas meditation lets thoughts naturally drop away in order to bask in the silence of communion with the Creator, contemplation remembers personal events that have been troubling in some degree in order to resolve them through self-examination. In this technique the Player will allow any associations that might be related to such events to come into the inner view in order to explore the nature of their functioning that has resulted in any kind of disharmony, fear, or doubt. In this process we are relying on our memories and our emotions to help us rectify any inner turmoil.

Q’uo spoke of a “self that is beneath all of these experiences that come within the incarnation”, and I believe that this self is what some would call the witness. This witness portion of our deeper self is very spiritually oriented and provides us with the faith that we can find resolutions to disharmony and a clear path of action through any doubts that may have arisen in our life experience. I think that part of the effectiveness of contemplation is that it allows our conscious mind to make a connection with some portion of our subconscious mind through the activation of our intuition. Then we may be able to mine the resources of our subconscious mind for answers to our questions that may come from our guides, our higher self, or that part of our subconscious mind that might be called the witness which is a portion of ourselves and much more as Q’uo described here:


We say to you that in actuality all that you have experienced as rock, as tree, as human, as what you call angel, as sun, as Creator, all of these things are the witness that flings the hand to beckon the stars. All that moves, moves and has being in an instant and within this instant the millions and millions of years of a whole creation beginning, continuing, and ending has taken place. You now experience the instant before the Creator coalesces once again. Time is an illusion, space is an illusion. The witness knows at some level the depth of this illusion, and through all change it keeps its feet steadily upon the desert floor. There is that within you which has such power that you could not image or believe this selfhood to be yours.

You ask how to meet change? We say to you the second thing that is you do not have to meet change. You have only to remember who you are. You are the witness; pay attention. Remember the desert floor and the out-flung hand, remember the stars spinning into your consciousness and meet change with love, for you have nothing to fear. You commanded this change. Q’uo, January 16, 1994.

Today in our healing circle we talked about the areas within our own being that we felt might be in need of healing, and we set our intentions to find that healing by asking what is the damage playing out in my life by this area needing healing? The we asked what is the strongest emotion that I feel right now? That was followed by the question of who is involved in this area of myself that needs healing? The final question was when was the first time I felt this emotion? Then we invited our higher selves to join us as well as our guides and the other people involved in the area needing healing. Eventually, we were able to forgive everyone involved, thank them for their service to us and send them on their way with love. It was a very inspiring experience and was done in the meditative state with inspiring music playing lowly in the background.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

January 28

The Winter Of Your Soul

I am the spirit of God in Jesus the Christ and I greet you in the full consciousness of love.

How easy it is in the winter time to abandon the natural world as a source of inspiration, understanding and joy. For your feet touch not the holy ground but, rather, the manmade floors of inner rooms. Your faces feel not the keen sting of cold winds except as you hurry from enclosure to enclosure. And you can hear not, through the thick windows that guard your heat, the many sounds of living creatures rejoicing in their lives.

So it is in the winter time that man does not emulate the tree which puts its roots down into the cold and frozen ground, trusting in the deeper waters of food, nourishment and nurture. For it does not seem that the Creator could possibly intend this season to be blessed.

Yet you, yourselves, are like a tree, and we urge you this day to plant your winter feet upon the frozen ground, trusting as you do so that the living energy of holy ground may, through contact, become yours, that you may have the sense of the dark and secret roots of winter trees gathering, in quietness, all those nutrients in preparation for the time when the soil shall be soft and the wind and sun gentle.

In winter you are a winter flower. Do not cut yourself off from the creation but rejoice with all that you are in the blessedness and sanctity of every portion of your environment, for you shall find strength from the knowledge that you cannot walk except in goodness and light.

May you have faith in the winter of your soul that all is well, that roots are moving down, collecting nourishment and preparing in timeless, steady fashion for the blooming of joy and beauty that shall come through you in the next springtime of your life cycle.

We wish you merriment and the thawing of the frozen heart, both this day and forever. Peace to you. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.