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Know Thyself

Here you’ll find the wisdom of Socrates, of Shakespeare and Charlie Brown on a journey of self-discovery.  This door opens onto your three selves, each one no doubt familiar to you, yet new as we explore them together. Get to know your relationship with yourself and how that plays out in the many different aspects of your life. Here is where you can come to gradually understand and love all of you.

Ask and It Is Given

11/22/2019

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"And the love that's everlasting. Blessed be. The light has come."  
-Shawna Carol, Goddess Chant
 
It is the season of Thanksgiving. A month when many of us spend more time in our kitchens. And if we are not actually the one’s doing the cooking, still our minds and our stomachs anticipate the feast to come.
 
Speaking of kitchens, I’d like to tell you a story of another kind of kitchen, one which can fill you up more surely than a Thanksgiving feast.  
 
Many years ago, I worked for a spiritual magazine which also coordinated spiritual events. We organized an event for Lee Carroll, who channels Kryon. During the guided visualization at that event I experienced what I later heard termed a ‘love wash.’ I felt a surge of expansive, loving feeling deep within my body, exploding my heart wide open. I kept breathing it in, deeper and deeper. I wanted more and more of it. I felt chills and tingles thrilling up and down my whole body. Tears poured down my cheeks. It was a stunning experience though it only lasted a few moments.
 
Since then I’ve had the experience again. Only once was it as intense as that first time and I never knew when it was going to happen again.
 
Don Miguel Ruiz, in his book Mastery of Love, teaches that we have all the love we need, right here inside of us, in our hearts. He says that it is like a “magical kitchen,” providing us with all the love we could ever need.
 
He explains that our hearts are our connection with God’s love, Universal Spiritual love. Our hearts, our love, is where we feel our soul, our piece of God. Our hearts are the connection.
 
When we breathe in deeply and focus our attention, we link ourselves with the Universal energy of love, God. The breath is the connection opening our hearts which are the portal. Then God’s love flows through us. Our focused attention, intent and faith are all that is required.
 
I decided to see if I could invoke that feeling of God’s love intentionally. In meditation I asked God, and my Spiritual Support Team to be with me as I meditated. Then I asked to feel God’s love. I focused on breathing in the visualization of feeling bathed in love, opening to the “magic kitchen” in my heart.

I kept breathing in that idea of God’s love washing over me, until slowly, a sensation grew. It was a sensation of love, joy, expansion and gentle bliss.  It grew until I felt God’s love strongly, to the point of tears. It was beautiful, and all the more so because I called upon it.

​You can do this. Focus on breathing in a visualization and a feeling of a time in your life when you felt deeply loved, or expansively blissful, or gently joyful. See where you experience that sensation of love, bliss or joy in your body and focus your attention there, breathing into that feeling. Keep breathing and visualizing and feeling, allowing yourself to expand with it. Keep trusting that God's love is there for you.

We can all do this.  God's love is available that simply. But we have to ask and have faith that it is ours to ask for, always there for us, waiting for our intent and our attention. We have to intend it, ask for it, open to it and allow ourselves to believe we are worthy to receive.
 
It’s a bit like winning your own personal lottery of love.
 
It is possible to call upon God’s love and open the door to that limitless treasure trove, your very own, “magical kitchen,” because you have the key that opens the door in your heart to God’s love.
 
The table is set. The feast prepared. You have only to sit down and allow yourself to receive.
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Sometimes I find myself wondering; will this feeling of love stay this time?
 
The answer comes. Does a house stay clean by itself?
 
A house needs daily maintenance to stay clean. It needs periodic deep cleaning. It needs regular, focused attention.
 
To continue to feel God’s love, what is needed is regular, focused attention, intent and faith. This keeps the door open, the channel flowing.
 
As we call upon him, so he answers. As we keep our attention upon him, so his attention is upon us.
 
It is up to us to clean spiritual house as it were, to make God welcome in our home.
 
We can do this through prayer, through meditation, and through doing our personal development work which allows us to clear negativity from our thoughts.
 
You can use the spiritual tools that you will find throughout Soul Doors. But the most important tool is simply to ask. Ask to feel God’s love. Ask to be given what you need to open to feel God’s love more and more in your life. And then know that you will receive.
 
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”
-Matthew 7:7
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