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What Does “Oneness” Really Mean?

12/27/2016

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I’d been on my healing journey for several years before I realized something was missing from my life.  Something big.  It took me a while to figure it out, but when I did I discovered it was a sense of “oneness.”  

Even so, it was hard for me to understand such a foreign concept.  It’s not like I could actually see this oneness connection with my eyes.  Plus, I had no experience with connection or how it felt.  As an abused child, I‘d never felt accepted, seen, heard, loved, cherished, or adored by others.  I wasn’t even connected to my own heart, mind, and body.  Yikes!

But I kept working at it.  There was something about the concept of oneness that just felt right, you know?  

Eventually, I began to understand.  Oneness means we are all one, because we’re all spiritual beings connected to God and his love.  

When you look at it that way, it’s easy to open your heart and love everyone you meet.  You can even love toxic people.  Oneness doesn’t mean you agree with or accept their negative behavior.  It just means you love the spiritual essence beneath their toxic words and actions.  You can do this because you understand they’re spiritual beings, too.  They’re connected to God and his love just like you.

See how that works?

Oneness makes it possible for you to listen to others without being crushed by the weight of their horrific life stories.  Instead, you can see the love of God inside them struggling to establish a connection.  In the same way, you can be in the presence of abusive, manipulative, toxic people.  They’re just lost souls, who haven’t realized they’re spiritual beings connected to God and his love.

Consider adding oneness to your list of 2017 New Year’s resolutions.  See yourself connected to everyone on a spiritual level, and all of us connected to God and his love.  Focus on the spiritual essence of a person, rather than the offensive behavior.  

When you do, God will begin showing up in your life in a powerful way.  This is what’s happening to me.  It’ll happen to you, too!

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How to Love a Stranger

7/16/2016

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Last week Oprah interviewed a comedian, Tracy Morgan, on her “Super Soul Sunday” show.  Tracy is a NDE (near death experience) survivor.  In 2014, Tracy and several other comedians were in a limo van on a New Jersey turnpike when their vehicle was hit by a truck.  They weren’t wearing seatbelts.    

Tracy suffered a broken leg, broken ribs, and almost every bone in his face was broken.  Five months later, his attorney announced the traumatic brain injury Tracy had sustained was so serious he might never fully recover.  

And yet he did.  Two years after the accident, Tracy is back to work, planning his next comedy tour, making movies, and doing interviews like this one.  Tracy Morgan is truly a miracle.

However, like all NDE survivors, Tracy will never be the same.  Getting a glimpse of the other side completely changed his life.  He’s now on a mission to make the world a better place through love and laughter.  Many NDE survivors come back devoted to divine Love.  Tracy is no exception.

I was deeply touched by the entire interview, but especially by Tracy’s commitment to love everyone.  “I don’t have to know you to love you,” he said.

I think we all would agree the world could use an extra dose of love.  There’s too much violence, fear, sadness, and frustration out there right now.  We need to choose love.  We need to love everyone.  

But if you haven’t had a near death experience how can you possibly love everyone, even strangers?

You can’t.  You can’t do this on your own.  Trust and feeling safe isn’t easy you, as a abuse and trauma survivor.  The minute someone activates one of your triggers, love goes out the window, right?  The truth is it’s impossible to love everyone, especially strangers.

And that’s the key.  We aren’t supposed to do this on our own.  We are the vessels divine Love flows through.  Don’t try to love everyone by your own effort.  You can’t.  Instead, relax and allow the Love of God to flow through you to everyone you meet.  That’s how it works.

Today, take a few minutes to send divine Love energy out to the person standing next to you, to your neighborhood, your state, and your country.  The world needs more lovers and peacemakers.  The world needs you!  

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Trusting Yourself, Trusting God

3/13/2016

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Lately, I’ve realized trusting God isn’t one big goal you finally achieve, and then you’re done.  Instead, just when you think you trust God 100%, he reveals a bunch of small areas in which you should trust him, but you don’t.  Yikes!  

It's shocking, really, because you thought you trusted completely.  However, trusting God is a lifelong process.  Human nature is very complex in areas of trust, especially if you were an abused child.  We think we already know this, but we don't.

The same is true of your healing journey.  Trusting yourself doesn’t happen all at once.  It goes through stages.  This is because our childhood was shaped by distrust, trauma, and betrayal.  So we have to teach ourselves how to trust.  It takes a while.

Trust is about relationships: a relationship with yourself, a relationship with the world, a relationship with other people, and a relationship with God.  Trusting yourself leads to trusting God.  Eventually, you begin to feel like everything is going to work out, even the aspects of your life you can’t control.  You get to the point where you trust yourself enough to let go of those things, so you can trust in God’s plan for your life.

I was reminded of that last week when I drove across Oregon to provide facilitator training for Darkness to Light.  I had originally turned this invitation down because my schedule is just too full right now.  However, when I did, I felt a prompting in my spirit.  A few weeks later the invitation was offered again.  This time I accepted.  

The minute I arrived, I knew in my spirit I was supposed to be there.  That’s all I needed to know.  God has been teaching me to listen to those promptings in my spirit and to follow his guidance.  

Slowly, I’m learning that trusting God is much like trusting yourself.  The big difference is trusting God is a lifelong process.  It’s like reading a book with 10,000 pages in it, and every page is a small area of trust.  What a fun adventure, right?  I think so!

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