How does the saying go? The only thing constant is change? I think we are all seeing that truth dramatically playing out in the world and most likely, feeling it in our own lives. How are you doing with it? Some days I just want to pull the covers over my head. Other times, I am in awe of the level of transformation we are all going through. I think the key to enduring and dare I say enjoying all the change is to stay connected to what is changeless.  All the thoughts, the feelings, the outer forms – they change.  But the beingness of who you really are is unchangeable.

Most often we have pictures in our minds about what is ‘right’. I watch people (myself included) get stuck on the story in the mind instead of just living the moment.  It’s in the moment where you can just be, where everything is alive and revealing itself. When you are in the moment you can respond and be creative. You can participate in what is being revealed and be open to what the healing opportunity is in the situation. When we get stuck on being right we block the flow of energy within us and in life.

I was watching an interview recently with a possible republican candidate for the next election. I was shocked that in this day and age we would consider electing a candidate as, may I say, crazy as this woman. I decided I was right and she was wrong.  I was doing the same thing that she was!  I realized she is simply a mirror of a certain level of consciousness that is obviously alive and well and I am a part of that consciousness.  If I can see it in another, then I have it to heal in me.

Everyone reveals ourselves to us if we have eyes to see and ears to hear.  There isn’t a ‘right’ to attach to – just the shedding of layers that keeps us from the truth that we embody divinity. No one is less important in the scheme of things. We are all necessary threads in this tapestry always guiding us to discover the God within.  When we get caught up in the outer details of life we often lose track of our inner purpose.  And that is the reason we are all here. You know when you put your car in neutral? Sometimes it behooves us to park ourselves in neutral so the mind doesn’t shoot out in a direction that doesn’t serve a higher truth.

I was at a spa recently celebrating a friends’ birthday. While there I decided to go to the yoga class that was being offered.  The instructor was teaching a familiar form in a way that I had never encountered. My mind initially judged what she was doing as wrong or ineffective.  Once I let go of my mental construct that there was a right way of doing it, I thoroughly enjoyed myself and learned something new.  I let myself be in the moment and it was pretty darn good. Ever notice there is never a problem in the moment? Or if you think there is one it is because your mind is preventing you from simply appreciating the richness of each adventure.

I have been getting all kinds of great life feedback of when I get caught in thinking there is a right way.  The thing is it all comes down to love, right? I want to appreciate each person as a beloved child of God. Within the outer form lies the one spirit and it is on this level that we can realize that none of us are so different.

Be okay with where you are.  Know that as you ask you will receive but maybe not in the way you thought it would come.  Life is a spiritual grinding stone –honing you to your brightest brilliance. I trust there is a higher order running this show. What returns to me via my experience is always perfect. It is up to me to see how each challenge is coaxing me to grow. Life is moving rapidly these days. It helps to stop and remember what is real. Allow yourself to breathe deeply and feel the “peace of God which passes all understanding” – and that is in inside of you and very real. Enjoy the ride!

written by Juli Somers

I recently returned from a trip to Brazil and the Casa de Dom Ignacio where spiritual healer John of God offers his work. It was my seventh visit to the Casa. Each trip has been a meaningful experience on my spiritual path and always provides me with a next step on my healing journey.

While at the Casa, I had a spiritual surgery. When receiving a surgery like this you sit in a room with many other people. Spirits come in from another dimension and assist those in a physical body with what they want to heal. The first thing I felt during this healing was a spiritual entity enveloping me in love to a degree I have never experienced before. As I became infused with that powerful energy, different body feelings and memories of how alone and unsupported I had felt in my life came into my awareness. I felt this Being transmitting to me just how loved I was. I also had the knowing of how supported I have always been on my journey; that any feelings of not having support had been just an illusion. Yet that picture had affected me much of my life.

I grew up in a family where I felt unsupported. Most memories of childhood were of profound loneliness and a lack of feeling loved. And because of that, a picture was formed within me (thoughts and feelings attached to a mental image) that I didn’t have any support. Throughout much of my life, I would create and encounter scenarios where I experienced feeling unsupported.  Each situation that occurred would confirm my belief.

What we perceive, we receive. I often say that I see life as a great ‘yes’ machine. Whatever vibration or energy I am putting out, I will receive back to me in experience. If my picture of reality is that I am unsupported, life can’t come back to me any other way. That is the lens I am looking through and that is what I will see of life. Just like when you take a picture on your camera. The image that gets captured is the one you focus the camera on. It has nothing to do with reality. As I become more aware of the internal lens I am looking at life through, I give myself a choice to change my perceptions.

When these pictures and unconscious beliefs have been with us a long time, they gather a lot of weight and can feel very familiar. Over the years, I have witnessed myself identifying less with that picture I described and as a result, I am able to feel support in my life. In the work at the Center we call it ‘peeling the onion’. You heal it layer by layer until it is de-energized. When you clear the charge on the picture it no longer controls your reality. It becomes a neutral memory.

I invite you to become aware of a picture you have had since childhood. Probably it will be easy to come up with but if it isn’t, what is a reoccurring thought or theme that causes you unhappiness in your life? It might happen often or just once in a while. Look at the message this affirms about reality. Reflect on all the times that life has seemed to confirm this belief. What if it was actually the picture inside of you that attracted to you those outer circumstances? Because again, the outer image that appears is as a result of what your inner camera focuses on.

Now simply create a picture in your mind of what you want to affirm about your reality; love, support, abundance, etc. When you find yourself drifting back to the old picture, consciously turn the lens in this new direction. Believe it to be true even if it hasn’t shown up in your life yet. The reality is we are blessed beyond measure and have more support and love than we can possibly imagine. Healing comes when you shine a light on these inner pictures that take you away from love. Change the picture and you will change your life.