Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:

"Suffering Teaches How to Become Masters of Love, Podcast, Part III"



(length 4:42 minutes)

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This is Part III of a six part blog. In order to understand and make best use of what follows, please see my previous entries of 11/30/09 for Part I and of 12/07/09 for Part II.

Our purpose here on this planet is not to acquire information and "things," but to learn how to really love. And so when we are at our lowest and yet are still able to reach up to love, reach within to love and reach out for love, we then truly will have mastered what Love is all about. For by reaching out for love, we shed light into the darkness. We turn chaos into order. We transform lead into gold. We truly tap into the essence of love and become the Master Alchemist! We turn all our "suffering" or our illusions into Gold!

If in the depths of despair you seek Love's guidance and surrender fully to its loving embrace, then truly you have learned what it means to have "Love" and that "knowing" will remain with you and continue to grow within you throughout eternity.

Love gives eternity and meaning to life--nothing else can or does. But if, on the other hand, you just make love an intellectual exercise, you learn nothing about love and are left empty and unfulfilled.

So, when your body is not functioning well, but you can still love it, you then have learned what it means to love unconditionally.

When your best friend or lover has left you and yet you can still love yourself, you have learned how to truly love yourself.

When you finances have bottomed out, but you can still appreciate the wonder and beauty of life and of yourself and still know that you are good and can thrive, you have learned what it means to love.

And when another has harmed you and you can still love them and yourself, truly you have learned what love is.

This is part III of a six Part blog.

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Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:

"Suffering Teaches How to Become Masters of Love, Podcast, Part II"



(length 4:11 minutes)

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This is Part II of a six part blog. In order to understand and make best use of what follows, please see my previous entry of 11/30/09 for Part I.

We create our reality. Everything that "happens to us" is part of a master plan or blueprint that is helping us to "become," grow and heal in ways that will truly allow us to develop and manifest all the potential within us. Truly, all is in Divine Order and Divine Timing and as we learn to look at our experiences through the eyes and heart of our Soul and not through the myopic vision of our ego, we get to see the bigger picture and put it all into proper context and perspective.

It is our Soul that is leading us into the experiences that It knows will help us to truly come to know who we really are in the quickest and, believe it or not, the least painful way possible. Whether we presently get it or not, what looks, to our ego, like a long and torturous path, is really the shortest route to a true understanding and picture of who we really are.

Seeing our experiences through our Soul's perspective will lead us away from where our limited awareness is presently focused to an unlimited, eternal and infinite vision of who we really are and will put into perspective why we are experiencing what we are experiencing.

So, it is those who have experienced the greatest sense of loss and suffering in their lives who have risen to the greatest heights and depths of wisdom and love.

This is Part II of a six part blog entry.

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Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:

"Suffering Teaches How to Become Masters of Love, Podcast, Part I"



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This is Part I of a six part blog,

The gift that suffering provides us is that it teaches us how to become Masters of Love! But how you might ask?

That which we call "suffering" is an experience we create for ourselves so that we can refine or increase our ability to love ourselves, love another and love the whole of the creation. When we "suffer" we ultimately feel abandoned and alone. As well, we feel that we are unworthy and unlovable. But all of this is just the ultimate illusion, an illusion that has us believing that we are somehow separate from God/Goddess and somehow undeserving of His/Her love.

We are meant to have dominion over or be the stewards or nurturers of all of creation. But that dominion or stewardship is not one of "possession," but it is a stewardship of love. It is the dominion of one who is the caretaker and caregiver. It is not a "hording of things," but it is a stewardship of nurturing and caring for all. And the way that we earn that dominion is to be more and more able to love, appreciate, nurture and embrace it all, no matter what.

But how does one learn to "love/appreciate" it all, no matter what.

Most of us believe that suffering is something that is inflicted upon us by an outside force. Whether it is illness, financial ruin, relationship issues, natural disasters, etc., we see ourselves as a "victim" of circumstances.

The problem with this way of looking at the experiences you are having is that by seeing yourself as a "victim," you are giving away your ownership of the situation and are therefore, giving away your "power" to change it.

This is Part I of a six part blog.

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Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:

"How to Reprogram Your Self-Image, Podcast Part VIII"

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This is Part VIII of an eight part blog. In order to understand and make best use of what follows, please go back and read Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI & VII on 10/5/ /12/ /19/ /26/ and 11/2/ /09/ and /16/ 2009 respectively.

Some More Phrases to Read, Feel and Visualize, con't:

XIX
I am free.
I am whole.
I am one.
I am free to receive and give.
I am good.
I am worthy.
I release my limiting memories, fears, and feelings; I bless them for what they have taught me.
I am truly blessed.

So, work or "play" with these phrases. Certainly make up more of your own. As you do this you will be tilling the soil of your soul and planting and nurturing the "seeds of greatness" that are within you.

We are so much more than we "think" we are. In other words we are so much more than what our limited programming allows us to believe we are. We are "gods and goddesses in training" as Deepak Chopra has written.

Or as I am wont to say: "We are chips off the old holographic block called God/Goddess who have come forth to embody the Divine in finite three dimensional form." We are truly made in His/Her Image.

This is Part VIII of an eight part blog.

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Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:

"How to Reprogram Your Self-Image, Podcast Part VII"

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This is Part VII of an eight part blog. In order to understand and make best use of what follows, please go back and read Parts I, II, III, IV, V & VI on 10/5/ /12/ /19/ /26/ and 11/2/ and /09/ 2009 respectively.

Some More Phrases to Read, Feel and Visualize, con't:

XV
I am amidst a beautiful spiritual family.
Doors will open easily and quickly for me.
I am who I AM in this current of time.
God/Goddess is pleased with me.
I am truly worthy of a fulfilling, loving, lasting relationship that is perfect for me.

XVI
I ignore the Here
I ignore the Present.
I pretend There.
I fantasize my Dreams.
I pretend what I intend.
I Relax, Enjoy, Pretend, Trust, and Believe.
I always, without ceasing, intentionally and consciously INTEND any and every moment of my life. I never forget and always remember--ever being mindful of what my priorities and passions are.

XVII
I want it!
I will figure it out!
It's easy!
The universe is on my side.
The universe is a friendly place.

XVIII
This ______ is who I am, what I do, what I was born to be and do. [Fill in the blank.]
I struggle because I still haven't come to terms with it.
As I do, a calming will come.
I am a channel for understanding and wisdom. When I get this, my fears will cease.

This is Part VII of an eight part Blog.

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