Newsletter May 2019 – Inviting Grace into All We Do

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Grace quiets our ego mind. This allows for our neediness, negative thought-patterns, and slew of constant desires to subside, creating space for personal and spiritual growth.

The purpose of prayer, meditation, and spiritual practices is to quiet our mind so that we can tap into the love, joy, and sense of peacefulness within. They connect us to our essence. And allow for grace to flow to and through us. However, we can find the love, joy, peace, connection, and allow for grace to fill us up in many other ways.

When we are joyfully focused, are able to awaken a sense of wonder, or bring an attitude of heartfelt service into whatever we are doing, what we are doing becomes like a meditation. We become open to receiving grace.

Eckhart Tolle tells us in A New Earth that “Expansion and positive change on the outer level is much more likely to come into your life if you can enjoy what you are doing already.”

Whatever we are doing at any moment in time can fill us with grace –
 if we bring the right attitude to it.

Newsletter May 2019 - Inviting Grace into All We Do

In the East, it is the attitude people bring to what they are doing, not what they are doing, that is considered most valuable. They believe any task done with a loving attitude and proper focus is transformative, and if done with reverence acts as a kind of worship.

When we bring a sense of reverence to every day tasks we are embodying gratitude and humility. Gratitude and humility act together to quiet the mind so we can connect to our heart-space – our essence.

And it is from our heart-space that we can access joy and peaceful feelings, and arouse a sense of awe. It is where our passions arise from.

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Seva, or selfless service, is a requirement for those who participate in Ashrams, and the helping with the menial jobs of looking after the building and property is done in relative quiet. Most who follow this practice say they feel in a state of grace when doing their assigned task.

This is not only because they are working in a holy place already imbued with grace, but also because the mindful focus on the simple task quiets the ego mind allowing for connection to and opening of their heart-space.

An open heart allows for grace to fill it up. And when done with a loving and selfless attitude any act of service uplifts us spiritually, as it is a manifestation of our connection to the Universe and the Oneness we all share.

With the right attitude, any act of service can fill us with a sense of grace.

Newsletter May 2019 - Inviting Grace into All We Do

Working directly with the earth offers us great benefits. Field workers in the East often use their work on the land as a meditation bringing a sense of reverence/worship to the tasks. For them, it is not only a service as it is part of the chain of bringing sustenance to others, because as they lovingly connect directly to the earth, they are respecting the reciprocal exchange we have with Mother Earth that many saints, holy people, and the Indigenous peoples believe we share.

Still, we can derive satisfaction from, and find peace and cultivate joy in any type of work we do, because no matter what our everyday job or passion we bring forth, we are serving others in either practical or uplifting ways.

Doing tasks with an attitude of joy and service,
we are working from a heart-centered place,
which opens us up to the flow of grace.
 
Doing tasks rushed or with a begrudging attitude,
we are working from a mind-centered place,
which blocks the flow to grace coming into our life.

So, as this time of year brings with its many outdoor tasks, let’s ensure we bring a positive attitude to it all so that we can enjoy the many benefits working outside offers us.

~ Rosemary McCarthy© May 2019.

Blessings to you, and I wish you a wonderful rest of the Spring!
Rosemary❤️

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Our Emotional Worlds – Part 2

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Understanding Our Emotional Wounds

We have mostly been unaware that Unconscious Influences run our lives – without our consent.

(Link to Part 1 below)

Our past experiences and emotional wounds – those we remember and those we do not – are embedded in our cellular memories, and along with our innate personalities affect how we feel, how we react, and what we do, or don’t do.

How we approach life is also based on what we inherited from our ancestry and Humanity’s history – from our familial, generational, cultural, and religious / spiritual backgrounds.

Whether positive or negative, these Unconscious Influences and the heart-beliefs these create are deeply embedded in our psyches. We often don’t understand why we, or others, act the way we do.

This article/blog post is based in concepts from my books:

“Your Journey to Peace … “  see  here  for About Book

and “Why We Are the Way We Are” see  here  for About Book

(Book cover images below)

This is because negative underlying influences lead us to believe that to be happy and feel emotionally and physically safe, we must navigate the world in protective and defensive ways.

Our Unconscious Influences float about in our psyches

like sparks of love or daggers of fear.

They will influence how we feel, act, react, live, and love.

Humanity’s history has been to allow – and even promote a thought-based system based on fear and lack to run our lives. Main stream society was repressed, and so we became fearful and a paradigm of lack set in.  Fear caused us to not question the status quo.

We were always overruled, as we were at the beck and call of the powerful and wealthy for our survival. So, we buried our ideas. We buried our real feelings and emotions. Burying became the norm.

And so today, much of what we feel, say, and do is based on Unconscious Influences that were never addressed, or questioned, but that run our lives.

We think that our feelings and our responses are based in truths, but often they are not. What we feel and how we respond often comes from learned patterns of behavior that became habitual.

Buried feelings and fear-based thinking

cause a disconnect from our True Self.

From its love and sense of empowerment.

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The connection to our True Self

is as necessary for our spiritual well-being

as breathing is to our physical well-being.

 Disconnected from our True Self, we are disconnected from our heart-space, and unable to experience the Oneness we are a part of. Being disconnected from our heart-space, we are unable to meet others at theirs, and can only meet them at a head-to-head level. At this head-to-head level we are unable feel the Oneness we share with others. We feel adrift in the world.

Our Emotional Worlds - Part 2

Disconnected from our heart-space, we often feel hurt because we are not connected to the love within. What other people say and do affects us because we are needy for love. Not knowing what to do with the hurt, we project it outwards and get angry at the other, blame them, and/or are judgmental of them. Or, we may become overly passive, creating more emotional turmoil within us.

All these ways of responding create push-and-pull scenarios with others. Conflicts ensue, keeping us feeling further alienated from the love within, and from others.

The ways we navigate the world and deal with others are just symptoms of the deeper, unaddressed issues we have not been taught how to acknowledge and override.

  • Feeling hurt is a symptom of neediness.
  • Getting angry is a symptom of frustration.
  • Being judgmental is a symptom of lack of confidence, or of coming from a place of
  • separateness rather than Oneness.
  • Blaming others is projecting our fears and frustrations outwards.
  • Being overly passive is a manifestation of a lack of confidence – of self-worth.

As well as being unduly influenced by how we have been taught to approach life,

we have not been shown how to love unconditionally.

What we experienced, witnessed, and/or attitudes we inherited from our past has lured our psyches into believing that conditional love is the norm.

The protective, and divisive attitudes and reactionary states that rule our lives leave no room for unconditional love. Unconscious Influences and the habitual patterns of behavior they create and our inability to feel and give unconditional love is what keeps us from being our Best Self.

Our Emotional Worlds - Part 2

To Become Our Best Self, We Must Consider Two Elements

  1. A) Connect To, and Anchor in Our True Self
  2. B) Dismantle What Is in the Way of Accessing Our True Self.

Next week I will further discuss these two important factors to becoming our Best Self. To keep updated follow my Facebook page, or sign up for my monthly newsletter – both links below.

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~Rosemary McCarthy© May 17, 2019

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Untangling Our Emotional Worlds – Part 1

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Unacknowledged emotions – either from our childhood or more recent ones – are retained in our cellular memories and without us realizing it cause us to react negatively, rather than respond calmly.

(Link to part 2 below)

Addressing our unhealed emotional wounds brings us emotional freedom. Otherwise, we bring the hurts and fears they caused forward to the NOW as behavior patterns that cause conflict with and emotional distance from others, as well as project the fears onto the future.

Overt reactions, such as aggressiveness, blaming others, being judgmental or bullish, as well as covert ways of dealing with situations, like being passive aggressive, may feel honest – as if they are coming from a true place, but they are not. They are created habitual patterns aimed to protect our emotional worlds, but are really devices based in fear.

This article/blog post is based in concepts from my books:

“Your Journey to Peace … “  see  here  for About Book

and “Why We Are the Way We Are” see  here  for About Book

(Book cover images below)

When we first hear that being reactive and getting angry at someone who stresses or attacks us, or inadvertently gets in our way is counter-intuitive, not only are we taken aback, we don’t believe it. We think: ‘Of course we should respond to others’ onslaughts aimed at us! Even if they aren’t personal, any infringement on my peace needs to be addressed. They are the problem. Not me!’ They are rude. Insensitive.

And when we are told not to worry about the future, say we have just lost our job and have no savings, most of us would want to say: ‘Are you crazy?! How in the world can I feel peaceful? I’ve got a real reason to worry!

In actuality, all of our responses are reflections of our state of mind.  Non-reactive ones show we are emotionally balanced. When we do not over worry about a dire situation, we show we have faith in ourselves. Feel empowered.  That we have faith in the Universe to protect us and provide for us.

Negative responses have nothing to do with the other who is, or seems to be affronting us, or those giving their opinion on us, our beliefs, or our situation. They come from a place faithlessness and disempowerment.

When we are aligned with Source – our True Self – our power base is strong, and what others do and say does not impact us emotionally. Negative reactions are caused from misalignment from our True Self. And it is buried and unaddressed emotions that create the barriers between us and our True Self that cause the misalignment.

Whether we react aggressively or respond in a passive-aggressive way, it is buried emotions from past hurts or events keep us from responding consciously to the reality of current situations.

Unaddressed emotions from the past like hurt feelings, a deep loss, or even guilt over what we have or have not done may keep our emotions on high alert and make us quick to react outwardly, or cause us to contract inwardly.

Unaddressed emotions may also keep us in worry mode: anxious about the various aspects of life and about the future. This anxiety in turn causes stress, and stress often causes us to react inappropriately to situations. It becomes a vicious cycle.

Untangling Our Emotional Worlds - Part 1

Humanity is in the throes of a Shift that is nudging us to become more conscious. Aware. Of who are, and, who we are being. We are awakening to:

  • To the truth of who we are – that we all come from love, and that our essence is still love.
  • To the fact that we are unconditionally loved.
  • That we are forgiven – for what we have, or have not done.
  • Being able to discern whether we are coming from a place of love, or one of fear: that we have to acknowledge what is running our lives.
  • And  if we are not coming from a place of love and feeling empowered, we must recognize that removing what is keeping us shackled to fear, our past, and/or feeling disempowered will bring us great benefits.

Acknowledging, untangling, healing, and overriding our emotional wounds is what will  allow us to fully enjoy the NOW and allow us to take full advantage of the peace, love, and sense of empowerment this brings with it. And as we stop reacting from our wounded self, our relationships improve and we create harmony in our lives. This is how we are meant to live.

See here for Part 2.

~ Rosemary McCarthy©  May 6th, 2019.

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