So you want to change the world? What do you want to do? Feed the hungry? Adopt a needy child? Donate money and time to a charitable cause? Work on legislature which properly represents the rights of the underprivileged?

            These are all worthy and admirable desires. You are no ordinary person to have these thoughts running around in your head and surfacing into your consciousness. You are beautiful and you are capable. You need only to take the first step and the entire Universe will conspire to assist you, and things will miraculously fall into place, because your desires come from the very Source of love.

            I want to share with you a very personal revelation though – your highest charity and grandest cause is You!

            Does this offend you? Do you find that it sounds selfish? Don’t you know that you can only “love your neighbor as you love yourself”?  It’s true, and this is a quote from one of the greatest teachers that ever lived – the man Jesus Christ himself.

            A lot of people who may read this, may think that they are comfortable with loving themselves. Yet, are we truly comfortable with loving our dark selves?

The Dark Self

Have you ever battled with depression and become so self-absorbed in your thoughts that you ignored the people right around you? Have you ever flown into a fit of rage so terrible that you intimidated someone? These may be rare occurrences. In fact, they may be so rare that you have forgotten all about them. You may even delude yourself into thinking “Oh that was not really me! I’m not really like that! I was having an off day!”

            And what about those parts of you that you hide from everyone else and pretend do not exist? Like the secret addictions, unhealthy fantasies, all those skeletons in your closet, some of which may date back to a very long time ago…can you face and address these?

I want to tell you something which I have learnt from personal experience.

Things ignored do not disappear - they only come out of your view.

            They are still there – waiting for you to address them, to claim them. And they sometimes come out and demand your attention at times that may not be so appropriate for you. No darkness was ever dispelled by closing one’s eyes and ignoring it. In fact, that only magnifies it.

The Best Way To Handle Darkness - Turn On ALight!

You don’t have to sit in the dark and feel depressed. Once you have acknowledged that this unsavoury quality is a part of your character, and that those unpleasant attitudes do belong to you, and that there are days when you are simply not a nice person; you then do the next best thing - Love yourself!

            Look at yourself from a higher perspective. Don’t criticize and condemn, but simply observe. That person who lashes out in rage, that person who stole from their best friend years ago, that person who said those mean things to someone they loved, was a fearful, worried, and confused version of you.

            Bring the unfortunate incident to mind and watch yourself in your mind’s eye and simply love yourself and forgive yourself.

Love is the Light you turn on!

Understanding Spiritual Consciousness

For some people, spiritual unconsciousness is a constant part of their lives. It is always with them. These people are not in the majority. These people are your cold blooded killers and psychopaths. They are in the minority.

            For the large majority of us, we move in and out of unconsciousness. For us, it feels as though life is a cycle. We constantly revisit the same scenarios time and time again. We swing constantly between joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain and we are getting tired of the cycling. It is very draining.

            True consciousness is the substance of light, love, joy and peace. You know you exist within it when these good fruits show up in your life. True consciousness is our true nature. However many of us do not permanently vibrate in this space. In fact, we often times vibrate just above the level of unconsciousness and yes – there are degrees of consciousness and unconsciousness. What we need to understand is that those moments, which we are not proud of, are moments in time when we were spiritually unconscious.

            And now it seems like I have come around full circle, for now I am saying that spiritually unconscious is not who you really are, and yet when we started, I told you to claim your flaws. Yes and no – let me explain using an analogy.

            You are both a house and the occupant of that house. This parallel is quite apt because in the truest sense, you are multi-dimensional. Most of your rooms are lit – some are brighter than others and then there are a few rooms that are in darkness.

            For a long time you closed the door to these rooms and pretended the darkness within them was not real, but that did not make the darkness go away. I am now urging you to go within these dark rooms, for they are a part of you - a part of your house. Once you have opened the door and acknowledged the darkness, I urge you to flip on the light. I never wanted you to sit in the darkness. I just wanted you to acknowledge it (by opening the door) so that now you can address it (by turning on the light).

            You fumble around in the dark for a while, searching for the light switch – you had refused to visit this room for so long that you forgot where the switch was!

Then – magically, mystically, you find the light switch within yourself and when you turn it on, you make another startling revelation – You are the light!

You were always the light.

“Ye are the light of the world….let your light so shine before men so that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:14, 16

Another Door Called Empathy Opens

Miraculously as you turn on your light, you notice that another door within this room opens up. This door is called empathy because it opens up to a long corridor which connects you to others. Loving all of you – including the unfortunate parts, has allowed you to understand the shadows and darkness in others. You don’t have to fear getting swallowed up in their darkness though, because your light is on! You carry your light!

            And you know how to show them to turn on their light by continuing to shine your light! That is to say – as you continue to truly love yourself and display authentic compassion to others who are still battling with their unconsciousness, you pave the way for them to love themselves too.

Each person that turns on his or her light adds to the authority of another to do the same!

Heaven on Earth

What we yearn for is heaven on earth, but what we often miss, is where heaven is located and who we truly are.

“The kingdom of heaven is within you.” Luke 17:21

“I have said, Yearegods; and all of youarechildren of the most High”Psalm 82:6

So Matthew 5:14, 16 restated another way would read:

            You – [gods and goddesses: the ones who accept the truth of themselves] – are the light of the world. Let your light so shine – [by living your life fully and authentically from the embodiment of the truth of who you are] – so that men [your unconscious brothers] may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven [that is to say, when they see you embody the truth, they too will be encouraged to connect with the Divine Source of Love within themselves and will in like manner birth glorious works as well!].

Love, light & blessings

Elizabeth Energy

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