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Come out of Separation and Pain

Published 02/04/2016 by inspiringyourspirit

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My Dear friends

A channeled message from Lord Kuthumi . Ineasa Mabu Ishtar.

When you go into re-action dear hearts you close your heart and sit in separation consciousness. Emotions and thoughts arise that create separation in your being and you are re-active, acting out on these emotions and thoughts.

When this occurs dear hearts then all that you create is filled with the energy of separation and you begin to build a story that is not necessary. You build a story dear ones around your painful emotions and feelings and tell yourself this is your truth. You then may project this truth and these emotions and thoughts at another person, group or event that you believe triggered you into reaction in the first place.

As you sit more in separation you then call for others to come and support you in this story and feelings, and seek confirmation and support for the distorted truth you have created and thereby dear ones create yet more separation. And indeed so it continues.

When this unfolds in your experience dear hearts it creates so much limitation for you and the truth becomes greatly distorted because you are focusing on the story that was created from the feelings, emotions and thoughts that are sitting in separation. If you choose not to look at this but simply become this story then indeed you will become trapped in the story and live it as your truth. Then you will continue to live in separation in your life with a closed heart. The portal of your light consciousness will be closed. You will create an illusion around this story that will serve your ego self to hold onto it and to remain caught in this consciousness. Yet it will not serve you to reach the potential that you truly seek.

We say unto you dear hearts open your hearts – open your consciousness to the bigger picture, the wider vision and let go the ego self. Choose not to be guided by the small you, the ego you, yet choose instead to be guided by the higher you. Open your heart to your higher wisdom and allow yourself to connect with your higher light so you may become the greater you and no longer the little you that sits in pain and separation.

Open your consciousness beloved hearts. Choose to be brave and be consciousness. Be mindful of what you are choosing to create in each moment. Look not outside yourself to cast blame and aspersions onto others, but look deeply inside of yourself and ask yourself why you are feeling this pain and separation. What do you hold within you that feels such consciousness of separation.

Let go the emotions and the thought forms of the ego for they will not serve you, dear ones. Open your heart to the divine truth. Choose to acknowledge what it is that is causing this pain in you that has created you to be in re-action and to behave in a re-active manner. You will know this part of you well dear one, yet perhaps there are parts of you that do not wish to accept this in yourself so you continue to give it away to others.

Be compassionate with yourself and seek not another to do this for you, for they cannot. Open your consciousness and choose to look at the source of your pain and separation that sits inside of you. Acknowledge this consciousness inside of you and honor it, dear ones. It may be the first time that it has felt honoured by you instead of judged or ignored by you.

Honor this consciousness that is causing you pain and separation and hold it in your heart of love. Open you heart to it and accept that is exists in you and let go your judgement and separation with this part of yourself. Know that it is yours, dear heart, and cannot be given away to someone else. Nor can it be cut and sent away even though you may try in your separation consciousness. You may even choose to bury it again and hide it away so it cannot be seen by you or by others, yet we say to you it will arise again and again to cause you pain and separation because it exists.

Give thanks to the mirror that triggered you and caused you to look at this consciousness and accept the gift they have shared with you. Perhaps they are a mirror for you in your life regularly and perhaps they have only come into your life for a fleeting moment, yet give thanks to this mirror for what they have come to show you of yourself.

This part of you that is in pain and separation has something very important to teach you, dear one, and it calls to you to assist it to step back into the light of your being once more ; instead of sitting in the shadows. It asks you to illuminate it, to shine the light upon it and to honor it as part of you.

As you do this dear hearts choose to accept that it is yours and that it has come to share its wisdom with you so that you may step from separation and emotional re-action in your life to a place of peace and stillness within your being. It will teach you to remain in your pillar of light and not to step out of your pillar into the energy of others or the energy of your shadow selves and believe this is your truth.

Open your consciousness (heart portal) to all the parts of you dear one that exists within you and honor each and every part. Accept that this energy exists in you for a reason and that it has much to teach you. Are you wiling to learn?

Then dear hearts embrace this part of you that holds separation. Embrace them with your light and hold them in your heart of love so they know they are held by you and that you are ready to learn the wisdom they have come to share with you from their experiences in the physical form.

Each and every part of you, dear one, is an integral part of the whole of you and each one is important. The parts of you that lift you up into the light and expand your heart into Oneness and the parts of you that cause emotions and pain and close down your heart to yourself and others. All have something to gift to you dear one. Honor each one and know that the gift lies inside of you. All that you need to come into self-mastery in your life sits inside of you. Blessed are you.

Lord Kuthumi

 

What If ?

Published 03/09/2015 by inspiringyourspirit

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I pray for that day, the day that everyone wakes up and has at least 1 full day of just being grateful for everything, I certainly think if we could have a ‘ I’m Grateful for Everything In My Life Day’ then we may just start to open our eyes to what we have in our lives instead of worrying about what we don’t have and what we think we need!

Food for thought my friends, food for thought!

Namaste with Love

Always

Mark

Help Others Because You Can!

Published 28/08/2015 by inspiringyourspirit

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My Dear Friends,

A very powerful message…..

Most of us go by each day without a single thought for the welfare of others, our busy, hectic lives full of drive , the need to succed, earn more, buy more and live in happiness… ‘Self’

If we see someone on the street we don’t ‘stop’ and think, “why is that person on the street”, “I wonder what brought them here”, we certainly never go up to them and ask…Oh, No!…

But as this image says “If I get wet, I can change my clothes…I’m collecting for someone who can’t!

The next time you see someone on the streets, stop and think a while, don’t judge, observe and give 🙂

Or if you have the time, then do as this man has done and actually do more to help!

Have a great weekend my friends, live, love and be happy 🙂

Namaste with Love

Always

Mark

Meditation, Gratitude, Giving Thanks and Joy

Published 12/01/2015 by inspiringyourspirit

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“If we cannot be happy in spite of our difficulties, what good is our spiritual practice?”

~Maha Ghosananda

Buddhist monks begin each day with a chant of gratitude for the blessings of their life. Native American elders begin each ceremony with grateful prayers to mother earth and father sky, to the four directions, to the animal, plant, and mineral brothers and sisters who share our earth and support our life. In Tibet, the monks and nuns even offer prayers of gratitude for the suffering they have been given: “Grant that I might have enough suffering to awaken in the deepest possible compassion and wisdom.”

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

Gratitude is a gracious acknowledgment of all that sustains us, a bow to our blessings, great and small, an appreciation of the moments of good fortune that sustain our life every day. We have so much to be grateful for.

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. It is not sentimental, not jealous, nor judgmental. Gratitude does not envy or compare. Gratitude receives in wonder the myriad offerings of the rain and the earth, the care that supports every single life.

As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others.

Joy is natural to an open heart. In it, we are not afraid of pleasure. We do not mistakenly believe it is disloyal to the suffering of the world to honor the happiness we have been given.

Like gratitude, joy gladdens the heart. We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the breath within our breast. And as our joy grows we finally discover a happiness without cause. Like an innocent child who does not have to do anything to be happy, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

Let yourself sit quietly and at ease. Allow your body to be relaxed and open, your breath natural, your heart easy. Begin the practice of gratitude by feeling how year after year you have cared for your own life. Now let yourself begin to acknowledge all that has supported you in this care:

With gratitude I remember the people, animals, plants, insects, creatures of the sky and sea, air and water, fire and earth, all whose joyful exertion blesses my life every day.

With gratitude I remember the care and labor of a thousand generations of elders and ancestors who came before me.

I offer my gratitude for the safety and well-being I have been given.

I offer my gratitude for the blessing of this earth I have been given.

I offer my gratitude for the measure of health I have been given.

I offer my gratitude for the family and friends I have been given.

I offer my gratitude for the community I have been given.

I offer my gratitude for the teachings and lessons I have been given.

I offer my gratitude for the life I have been given.

Just as we are grateful for our blessings, so we can be grateful for the blessings of others.

Continue to breathe gently. Bring to mind someone you care about, someone it is easy to rejoice for. Picture them and feel the natural joy you have for their well-being, for their happiness and success. With each breath, offer them your grateful, heartfelt wishes:

May you be joyful.

May your happiness increase.

May you not be separated from great happiness.

May your good fortune and the causes for your joy and happiness increase.

Sense the sympathetic joy and caring in each phrase. When you feel some degree of natural gratitude for the happiness of this loved one, extend this practice to another person you care about. Recite the same simple phrases that express your heart’s intention.

Then gradually open the meditation to include neutral people, difficult people, and even enemies- until you extend sympathetic joy to all beings everywhere, young and old, near and far.

This excerpt is taken from the book, “The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace“ by Jack Kornfield

My Dear friends, we certainly have so much to be thankful for, need I mention even a few? However, we do forget to give thanks and speak out our gratitude on a daily basis. It has been shown that being grateful raises our levels of happiness and joy and these raised levels of happiness attract others that are also happy; thus enabling our lives to be filled with more joy each and every day. So today, ‘Go on, give it a go’, meditate, bring people and things into your minds eye and into your heart, give thanks for everything in your life, good and bad and feel the peace and the love that this meditation brings to your heart and soul.

I did this; this morning….’A big smile on my face right now’ when I think of this process of gratitude 🙂 A simple meditation and mindful eating of my toast and honey. I gave thanks for the honey, the sweetness on my tongue, gave thanks to the Bee for collecting the honey, to the flower that attracted the bee, for the sun the rain and the soil that raised the flower in order to attract the bee, for the seedling that brought life to the flower, for the person or animal that brought that seed to that piece of soil, for the soil that gave its nutrients to the seed, for the sun that shone its warmth and helped the seeding grow, for the rain that gave the flower life, for the cloud that made the rain, for the rivers and oceans that brought about the cloud, for God for his creation of the earth and then I came on to the toast and the butter on my toast, and my mouth, my tongue for experiencing the sweet sensation of the honey, for the goodness and nutrition the honey, the toast and the butter were giving to my body, and this process of thankfulness went on, and on…Interestingly, this process of giving thanks brought about a real enlightenment to me, honestly I have never experienced mindful eating so much as I did this morning, I have experienced it many, many times before but this morning it was different, set at a really different level, I awakened to something very new, something great, something that brought peace to my heart and my soul, a total experience of joy…

Toast and Honey will never be the same again 🙂

Namaste with Love my dear friends
Always
Mark

One Lovely Blog Award

Published 15/11/2014 by inspiringyourspirit

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Once again I am humbled by the kindness and nomination for the ‘one Lovely Blog Award’, this time I was nominated by Khalkinised from the Buddhasutra, please stop by and follow his blog over at http://buddhasutra.com . Thank you my friend for your kind nomination 🙂 As you know I happily accept your nominations in the spirit that they were sent, however I decline to go through with the process of acceptance due to the amount of time it takes to comply.

Namaste with Love
Always
Mark

One Lovely Blog Award

Published 09/11/2014 by inspiringyourspirit

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My Dear Friends,

Once again I am humbled by your kindness and this time I have been nominated for the One Lovely Blog Award by CW over at http://http://sunflowerrosecw.wordpress.com .

As always I accept the nomination in the spirit of kindness and appreciation that it was sent, however as always I decline to take part in the award process due to the time it takes to complete, I am however always so thankful and grateful for your nominations and your continued support of endlesslightandlove.com

Please take time to visit CW’s blog, you will love her work.

Namaste with Love
Always
Mark

Wow! Positive Energy Flow and Affirmations are working Overtime for me :) Thank You!

Published 21/01/2014 by inspiringyourspirit

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Wow, this week has started off on a really positive note 🙂 work has been great to me, my home life and friends have been fantastic, I spent two incredible evenings in the presence of and learning from a Tantric Yoga Guru, i feel wonderful and full of the joys of spring and I have also been bestowed with two nominations for blogging awards. The Field of Flowers award as nominated by Morgan over at http://booknvolume.com and the Peace and Justice Award as nominated by Coach Muller over at http://goodtimestories.wordpress.com , please drop by their blogs and stay awhile.

I bow to their kindness, the love and friendship they have bestowed upon me and feel humbled by their lovely words of praise towards me, my blog and what I stand for 🙂

I will however decline to go through the award acceptance process due to the time they take to complete but humbly  give thanks to them both  from the bottom of my heart 🙂

Namaste with Love

Always

Mark

Sunshine Award

Published 14/01/2014 by inspiringyourspirit

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Wow, my second award nomination this week….I am so humbled by your support and kind wishes for endlesslightandlove.com

This award nomination comes in from Wind of itsamiraculousuniverse.com please stop by and take a look at Wind, a warrior of lights story, you will love it 🙂

As you all know, I humbly accept nominations in the spirit they are bestowed upon me, however I do not participate in the acceptance criteria due to the time it takes to complete, I am however always thankful and very grateful for the nominations 🙂

Namaste Wind, may you be blessed for your kindness.

Namaste

Mark

Sunshine Blogger Award

Published 13/01/2014 by inspiringyourspirit

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🙂 🙂 🙂

The honour of the Sunshine Blogger Award has been bestowed upon me by Ula over at http://www.ulawyss.com Ula’s blog The Journeys of Life is filled with Joy, Happiness and Positivity, please drop by her blog and gain some of her positive energy 🙂

As you may know, I do not follow through with the acceptance criteria that comes with blogging awards due to the time they take to complete, however, I do thank the individuals whom deem my humble blog worthy of such awards, in Ula’s words, “Because your blog makes me smile, you have been nominated for the sunshine blogger award: :)

Ula, thank you 谢谢

Namaste my friends

With Love

Mark

Another Award hits Endlesslightandlove

Published 09/12/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Another huge Thank You needs to go out to Sue over at http://suedreamwalker.wordpress.com for her kind nomination of Endlesslightandlove for the Sunshine Award, my sincere thanks go out to Sue for her love, her following and her wonderful blog, of which I am a great fan.

I will as you all know not follow through with the acceptance criteria but I will accept the award in the spirit it was sent.

Namaste Sue, with Love

Always

Mark

Wow, two blog awards in one day. Thank You!

Published 13/11/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Wow, two awards in one day 🙂 _/\_

Thank you to Kathryn at http://serenholisticlifestyles.com for her kind nomination of endlesslightandlove for The Versatile Blogger Award.

Please drop by Kathryn’s site and take a look at her great posts

 

Namaste

 

Mark

Everyday not just Someday

Published 07/10/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Somedays you just feel down,

Somedays you just feel lost,

Somedays your just lost for words,

Somedays you don’t feel loved,

Somedays you don’t know which way to turn,

Somedays you feel so alone,

Somedays you have no confidence,

Somedays you just want to be on your own,

Somedays you feel empty in side,

Somedays life feels so hard,

Somedays you just want to cry,

………

 

But Somedays life is GREAT,

Somedays Life is SWEET

Somedays you feel beautiful,

Somedays you just want to smile,

Somedays everyone loves you,

Somedays you want to be out with friends,

Somedays are perfect for a party,

Somedays everything is within your reach,

Somedays everything is possible,

Somedays you want to sing out loud,

Somedays you want to dance in the rain,

But everyday…..IS A GIFT….Life is a GIFT….You are a GIFT…..You are BEAUTIFUL…..You are LOVE….You are LIGHT……

Respect YOURSELF…Everyday…Not just Someday..

Namaste

Mark

Awards

Published 28/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Hello my friends,

Just a short note to give a BIG THANK YOU to SIMPLY ME at http://simplymejustbe.wordpress.com for kindly nominating me for the Super Sweet Blogging Award 🙂

I am truthfully Thankful and Grateful to her and also to all my blogging friends for the inspiration and happiness you bring to me each and every day, for your continued support of my blog, for your openness, Love, friendship and spiritual guidance.

As you all know I do not accept award nominations in the traditional way or enter into the process of acceptance, however I’m always grateful for your nominations and happy beyond belief.

Thank You once again Simply Me.
Namaste

Mark

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