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- 17. April 2009: Birthing the New Paradigm …through Surrender
- 17. April 2009: Where Do Thoughts Go
- 3. April 2009: Realizing Your Creative Potential
- 3. April 2009: The ‘Beacon of Discontent’
- 17. February 2009: Unconditional Love as a Means to Oneness
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- 3. June 2008: Junk Food of the Gods
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Unconditional Love as a Means to Oneness
Unconditional Love as a Means to Oneness by Erina Cowan
Seeking Unconditional Love
We are all seeking Unconditional Love. This is the life journey that we are participating in. The parent-child relationship is foundational in this quest. It offers us our greatest opportunities to experience Love at this level. This said, it also presents us with our most profound challenges. In the end it is through the challenges that we finally open ourselves completely to the gift of Love. We see time after time where our hidden discomforts and old limiting patterns lie. This is the journey from small ‘ego’ based self to the grandiosity of Self or the State of living in peace, harmony, joy and ‘Oneness’. In truth, our very essence is Unconditional Love and Unity Consciousness. Our experience of this is only obscured by illusory veils created by our conditioned personalities, unconscious beliefs and self-limitations. The Parent-child relationship offers us a great tool in the ‘un-veiling’ process. All of our primary relationships serve this purpose. As you read this article refer see where these ideas fit in your life.
Conditional Love
How do we discern conditional love from unconditional love? First, we need to understand that almost all of our thoughts are based on conditioned patterns that we hold in our unconscious mind. These patterns are derived from our past experiences, ancestral lineages, karma, parallel or past lives, and the collective unconscious. Our relationships all mirror back to us our internal belief system. Each moment we are experiencing either peace or lack of it. Our external environment including people, places and events is just reflecting what our inner state is at that time. It would seem as though we are playing victims to a ceaseless barrage of conditioned thought patterns. When we are living in an ‘unconscious’ state we are playing that role. However, our spiritual evolution dictates that we sooner or later become ‘awakened’ and step out of the victim role. As we become more observant of our thoughts we are able to use our free will to choose peace in every situation, thus breaking the cycle of painful experience-conditioned reaction-future similar events.
Loving to the Best of Our Abilities at Any Moment
The very act of becoming more observant begins to create a deeper sense of peace and stability within us. We begin to release old conditioned patterns which were always peppered with guilt, fear, anxiety, judgment and projection. You see, when we are operating on our past programming, we can only relate to others with ‘conditional’ responses. For the most part, our relationships even with our children are at best, based on ‘conditional love’. We may think that we love our kids or life partners unconditionally. However, this is impossible until we begin to see our hidden patterns clearly and love and accept every aspect of ourselves. It is only then that we can truly experience love for another. Healing our closest relationships is an imperative step in opening fully to Grace and Oneness in our lives. LOVE IS FREEDOM. Repeat these words over and over again daily until you begin to feel the liberation offered with this realization.
We are all universally supported beyond what you can imagine right now more than ever before …to attain infinite joy, peace and abundance. You must first realize that who you believe yourself to be is nothing more than a bundle of thought patterns based on past experiences. Awaken to experiencing the Present through applying true forgiveness to yourself and all others each time you feel any level of anger, anxiety, fear or even slight discomfort arise.
“Forgiveness is not a thing you offer when another has done something to you,
Or even for something you have done to yourself. Forgiveness is just the awareness, beyond your thoughts, of the meaninglessness of all that seems to cause you pain.”
Jeshua
‘Journey Beyond Words’ Brent Haskell, Ph.D.,D.O.
How to Experience Unconditional Love
How can you experience more Unconditional Love in your life with your children and other loved Ones? You can practice these basic ideas:
• Learn to become more observant with your thoughts and actions.
• Pay more attention to how you ‘feel’ in given situations. Ie: how do I feel when my (child , parent, partner) says or does that same old ‘thing’ to me. Remember, our relationships are mirroring back to us unhealed conflicts we harbor within us.
• Start each day with conscious intent to see everyone with fresh eyes as often as possible. Consciously let go of any limiting judgments and opinions you have formed about him/her. We use others to secure separation for us through our judgements.
• Pay more attention to ‘content’ instead of ‘form’. For instance, what is it that we most want to teach our children? Isn’t it most important that they learn love, acceptance and forgiveness? These qualities will take them fluidly through any challenge that life may bring them. What is form and content? ‘Form’ is constantly changing experiences…or what we are doing, whereas Content is ‘how we are experiencing something…or our state of Being. Take a moment to evaluate your feelings honestly before reacting to any given situation.
• Be open to all that you can learn from your relationships. It is often the challenges that offer us the greatest potential for Spiritual growth.
• Help your children and all others to grow in their spirituality. Choose to see Light in them rather than relating to their conditioned personalities. Through your eyes they will come to know their own Divinity. In this, you will discover your Light.
• Open yourself to the idea of infinite potentiality. Allow yourself the opportunity to be ‘re-born’ each moment. Let go of that which no longer suits your highest good.
• Forgive yourself completely for any misperceptions you may hold about what you did or didn’t do.
Transforming any Situation through Love, Forgiveness, Gratitude and Union
In Truth we are all connected with the Divine Source of Creation. This is the only thing we can ‘hang our hats on’. Everything else in our life experience changes. We start out as infants grow into children, then we become adults, have kids of our own and see them grow, and so on… As noted in the article above we experience life mainly through the filters of our conditioning. This is the cause of all pain and illness. Once we begin to choose peace and conscious participation instead our health, our environment, our relationships, our entire reality changes. You must experience this to really understand it. We can help this along by taking at least 10 minutes each morning and evening to honor ourselves with silence.
When we connect with the Divine in our prayer and meditation it provides us with a moment free of conditioned chatter in our minds. It places us in a state of pure potentiality and creativity. At this point we are able to transform any experience in our perceived reality. Intentionally aligned with the Divine we can effectively heal problems at this level. The following is a very effective prayer that involves focusing your attention on another person, yourself or a situation and transforming any problem through applying love, forgiveness and gratitude. It is derived from an ancient Hawaiian tradition called ‘Ho’Oponopono:
(Name or Situation), I love you.
Please forgive me as I forgive myself
For all misperceptions I have held in consciousness
Which have kept us separate and in pain.
In the name of the Divine I set us free.
Thank you. I love you.
Erina Carey Cowan