Living and loving with one heart gives you a unity of purpose in your life. Do you know what we are meaning here? Think about your heart and how many different ways that you have for loving – your life partner, your parents, your children, your friends, your work, your pets, your home, your car, your favorite sweater. You use the term ‘love’ to describe a feeling about all of these people and objects.
We are talking about ‘love’ in the sense of the verb that is sourced in your heart of heart, the place within your body where the energy of your higher energy centers and your lower energy centers come together. Your Heart Center is the place where the energy from Mother Earth comes up through your body and meets the higher vibration energy that comes through the top of your head from Source energy, the Universal Source of Love & Light. These energies meet in your Heart Center and you can make a decision to send this energy out to others in a specific way that is not about how you feel about them.
Think of the people that you thought you loved in your life but for whom your feelings dimmed when they failed to live up to your expectations of them. How many objects have you said you ‘loved’ yet discarded when they were no longer useful? This is not the kind of love that we are addressing here.
We want you to think of Love as an energy that connects you to another because you choose to make that connection. Think of your partner or child or grandchild or dear friend and think of holding them in a Love energy that does not have expectations, has no rules for them to follow, does not require reciprocation for you to hold them in that Love energy. This Love comes from Consciousness, not from feelings. This Love has no requirements on the other party. And this Love has a great benefit to you because it allows you to maintain your own energy at a higher level than that of feelings.
We understand that all humans experience feelings and we are not telling you that there is anything wrong with having feelings. But as a person who is committing to live a Conscious Life on Planet Earth then you are one who must learn about the higher vibrations of energies that take you above your feelings while allowing you to honor how you feel. For some of you this might seem confusing but there are ways that you can achieve this.
For example, when you are in a close relationship with another person, you are, by definition, going to experience reactions and emotions in that relationship. Whether that person is a relative or loved one or colleague or boss, because you are both human, you will have feelings. But the awake and aware individual knows that the relationship does not hinge only on the feelings of a moment. The relationship is being forged in a whole collection of moments and requires that each participant be allowed the space and energy for personal growth within that relationship. When one person refuses to grow the whole relationship suffers from that decision. But when one person decides to operate in the relationship from their Heart Center, always holding the other person in the energy of Universal Love, then both parties benefit.
Do you see that the decision to hold another person, or a relationship, in the energy of Universal Love allows you to expand in your growth into Consciousness and allows the other person the opportunity to learn lessons and to also grow in Consciousness? The difficult part of this is that you have no control over what the other person chooses to do in this situation. They might choose to cut themselves off from the flow of Universal Love. They might choose to ignore the opportunity for personal growth that has been afforded them. They might even choose to turn around and attack you in the situation because you are not engaging with them at a lower vibration of energy. But this does not mean that you can or should change your connection to the Source of Universal Love nor does it mean that you are right or they are wrong. It simply means that you are operating in that moment from different vibrations of energy. And this has nothing to do with how either of you is feeling in that moment.
Making a choice to find the space within you that holds the energy of Universal Love and then to participate in all relationships from that place will change the world around you. You will find that the person who benefits the most from this is not the person on the other side of a relationship but is, indeed, yourself. And holding yourself in the energy of Universal Love is Self Love, the place from which any love for others must flow.
And so it is.
Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: What is Reality?
January 14, 2010 — RosemaryThere are so many ways to experience reality and yet so often we are moving through our lives with blinders on. A popular saying is, ‘Believing is seeing.’ How true! If we don’t believe something we have trouble observing it.
Are you one of the people who has had an experience of orbs, the spheres of light that are appearing on many people’s digital pictures? They are a worldwide phenomenon that is enchanting those who chose not to dismiss or be afraid of them. Most believe orbs to be consciousness appearing from a dimension beyond our usual three dimensions. Who can say that this is not so? Our friend was seeing orbs on a hike with someone who was not seeing them and laughed at the concept. Laughed, that is, until he looked at the pictures he had taken on the hike and discovered that the orbs appeared in the last photo he had shot.
Do you have or know children who have imaginary friends? Many are comfortable as long as they focus on the ‘imaginary’ part of this, but can you truly say the child is not experiencing a presence that perhaps you cannot see?
And what of angels or fairies? Some can see these beings and others cannot. Does the fact that someone can’t see an angel mean that there are no angels? Of course not.
Yet how often do we discount even our own experience of something that we cannot explain? Too often, I think. Each of us has had the experience of knowing who is calling when the phone rings, even before looking at caller id. Since I don’t believe in coincidence, I accept the notion that we are somehow connected to that person and know the contact before we pick up the phone. Twins don’t even need the phone to communicate. You’ve probably had the experience of thinking of someone and then having that person contact you, even if you hadn’t been in contact for awhile. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
The next time you have an experience that tests your understanding of reality give yourself permission to let the experience be the definition of a new reality for you. Ask yourself what limiting beliefs are holding you back from accepting this new reality. You might find someone else’s reality is trying to overlay yours. Let it go! Accept that your reality is your reality and no one else gets to tell you that it is not.
This doesn’t just apply to orbs or angels or fairies. Think in terms of what you believe about yourself, what you think you deserve, what you believe you are capable of in life. You have the power to change your beliefs. You deserve to live your own life, free of the constraints of other people’s definitions of reality. You can do things beyond your former understanding if you stretch your beliefs about yourself.
Allow yourself to expand your understanding of reality for yourself and there are no limits to the life you can lead. If you are sensing reaction to this idea, then maybe it is time to work with someone to clear those limiting beliefs and experience a new expanded reality for yourself.