March 10, 2012

As promised, what follows are two of the other three elements that run through the Universal Laws and what are needed to help you ascend into a higher state of being.  Read last week’s post if you haven’t already, as it is the door opener to these elements, or keys, to understanding what is needed to raise your life to a higher vibration.

The second necessary element is forgiveness, the key to freedom.  I am not talking about an off-hand apology that isn’t meant from the heart, but true forgiveness.  That also means forgiveness of self as well.  Whatever we go through, we are responsible for bringing it to ourselves in some way, whether through karma, contracts between lives, learning a lesson, or teaching a lesson to another soul.  True forgiveness is the elixir that will free the heart, mind and body and heal all of them within.  Nothing creates dis-ease more than holding a grudge, and the person it is being held against generally does not feel it as much as you do, yourself.  Forgiveness is letting go of judgment, resentment and a claim against another.  It does not mean you were wrong, it means detaching the ego from it.  It means unconditional love in allowing another person their perspective.

            The third element is self-love.  This is difficult for many, for we live in a very image conscious world with constant comparisons being made.  Too much emphasis on how one appears has brought us to a point of hating our image if it doesn’t measure up to what the media shows us we need to look like.  We have forgotten that beauty is within – begins within.  We have also forgotten that we are not our body, but a soul having an experience of form.  The saying “you become what you think” brings us right back to the first thoughts mentioned last week about positive thinking.

The best beauty and health treatment you can give yourself is to begin by loving the essence of yourself, the soul that you are, the courage it took for your soul to incarnate.  If you can love your soul, it can transform not only how you think about yourself, but also what you see as your image.  Cells are constantly changing, and if you love yourself, your cells will reflect that inside and out, making you feel healthier and looking younger!  Honest.  Louise Hay is living proof of that.  With her affirmations on loving herself, she is a very beautiful, vital, and healthy woman at 85 years old.  Part of our problem with self-love is that many have grown up under the false premise that they aren’t good enough, not worthy enough, are sinners – whatever.  All lies!!  Even when we know differently, our reactions are so easily based on the conditioning or patterning that goes with all that.  Give yourself permission to love yourself.  See the beauty of the soul that you are.  Do you find beauty in God, the All That Is, the Infinite Source, in all things you see?  All are one.  All are that Source.  You are that Source.  If you can love God, then you must love yourself, for your essence is of God.  Love your Divinity and see how much your self-esteem will rise.

Next week the fourth of the elements that run through all Universal Laws, strength of will, the discipline of the mental and emotional aspects, will be discussed.  It has been said that Yeshua had total control of the mental and emotional aspects of his being, which allowed him to overcome the ego and be the master he was.  We all hold the Divine within and are capable of great things, as even Yeshua, himself, has said.  But it takes strength of will.  Come back next week and gain some insight into this mindset.

            Raguel, which means “Friend of God,” is the Archangel of harmony and Divine Order.  He wishes to share with us here some thoughts about forgiveness. 

“You have heard many times, I am sure, that ‘to err is human, to forgive is Divine.’ All humans have choice and all humans seem to sometimes choose what appears, to be wrongly.  None of you enjoy having what appears as wrong choices held against you, nor does any other person wish to have you hold the appearance of their wrong choices against them.  And that is what it is all about, the appearance of right or wrong, for it truth, it just is for reasons you may not realize, even within yourself and your own choices.  And many choices involve the ego needing to feel safe, or through conditioning from believing a certain thing that is not based in truth, like low self esteem.  It often makes choices of behavior based on wounds that are not visible on the surface.

“All people have different perspectives, and all perspectives create the diversification that is necessary for expansion of the Universe.  You may not agree with another, but you do not need to own their perspective either.  That is your choice.  Allow, listen, and let it go if it is not something you wish to hold in your mind or heart.  They have their purpose and you have yours.  Perhaps their perspective is part of their path to their own purpose, or for learning a soul lesson.  Hold them in compassion, allowance, and forgive, for their words or actions are more than likely coming from their own wounds that you cannot see.  And do not forget, whatever “wrong” you feel they might have done to you, you also helped to bring to yourself through your own vibration, or through a contract made before you came into form, or through karma.  And whatever you deem as a “wrong” done to you, your own soul might have needed to learn from in order to grow into the fullness of its own true purpose.

“Also realize that if you throw away the judgment of another, forgiveness is not even necessary.  For forgiveness speaks of initially holding judgment against another, does it not?  If you are angry with someone, have you not judged their idea, action, or feelings?  Again, ego related issues, for the heart holds no judgment, only the ego.  And how can you be the judge of another whose wounds you cannot always see, whose purpose is their own, or if you are not aware of what contract you might have had with them, or what vibration you might have put out to create involvement with it all?  And realize it is one thing to observe another’s behavior and stay detached from it, remaining in a neutral place whether you agree with it or not, than to buy into it to a point that you do hold judgment.  So let go of any judgment and forgive – yourself and all others – and you will find freedom through that.  It will make you feel much lighter, as though released from a heavy burden.  I promise.”

Love and blessings to you all,

Magdrael