In a reading I had with him on May 21, 2015, Archangel Michael said to me words to the effect that “bliss is your very nature.”

He was explaining why it isn’t regarded as importuning Heaven to ask for expanding bliss.

I don’t know what it was about the circumstances, but this time, when he said it, I got it. I got it at a realized level. I think it may be the same to say that I got it at a heart-conscious level.

It got in and sunk in and I spent much of the rest of the day comfortably wrapped in bliss.

If bliss is my nature, it follows that the reason I’m not feeling it when I’m not is because of something I’m carrying: Either an issue, a belief or some other confining thought or feeling.

It’s as if the weather is warm, I’m hot and I’m still dressed in my winter coat. I take off the coat and my comfort returns.

In this case, I let go of my core issues and false beliefs and I’m returned to Self. The bliss that I am is revealed again.

For me, bliss differs from love. Love attracts me to people. I want to serve. I want to join and be loving.

Bliss carries my attention metaphorically upwards. It’s as if I’ve turned my eyes and hands up to God and cannot take my attention off God.

Love does not turn me to God (necessarily) and bliss does not leave me wanting to serve.

If anything, with bliss I forget about others and am lost in the wonder and pure plesasure of the sensation. It’s enough. I want nothing else more in life than it.

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I could die where I sit and not be perturbed. Buddhist monks have died in meditative postures, presumably lost to their surroundings and in bliss.

There’s nothing missing from the space of bliss and the only thing I want is more of it.

I look back over the gradual climb in consciousness I’ve made over the years – reporting on the cabal for the first years of the blog in my rage at finding that 9/11 was an inside job, clearing vasanas seemingly forever, getting down to root triggers and core issues, and now, after the heart opening of March 13, 2015, the gradual expansion of the reach of the heart and of the experience of bliss.

I get to see how wayshowing works. If I go through the experience and describe it, it makes it more likely that more will go through it as well because the territory is now identified, the process discussed at least once, and perhaps the discussion has entered into the collective consciousness. I don’t know. It may come into the domain of reality for us whereas it may never have existed in (our local, everyday) consciousness before.

So simply writing about it can be wayshowing, mapmaking, pathfinding.

I’d love to have more people join me in this swimming pool of bliss. The water’s warm. The living is easy.

The only thing that will drown you here is the Tsunami of Love. And who wouldn’t want to be swallowed up by that? Let go of the mind. Let go of the ego. And forget you’re even here.

Archangel Michael said that the experience of bliss would only grow and grow. What kind of market prognosis is that? Your life will only get better and better in ways you never dreamed possible. Do you say “yes” or “no”? No contest!

I don’t ever want to see another person hurt in love… in fact, I don’t ever want to see another person or animal or piece of the earth hurt at all, in any way. The energy of injustice and betrayal, conflict and injury, entrapment, deception, terror and fear of death, is food for the emotion suckers… and they are well fed nowadays. It is through the emotions that an individual can be drained of inner power, so the emotional system is a really vital one to look at.

We don’t want to be ‘emotion-less’, we don’t want to be ‘emotion-controlled’, and we don’t want to be food for the energy vampires, so what do we do?

It seems we have been trying a lot of options: avoidance, affirmations, positive thinking, distractions, justification, creative imagining, forgiveness, understanding… and there it still is. We’re in a hurtin’ world, and sometimes in a hurtin’ place in our relationships too.

I’ve been thinking about how we can deal with the emotional from an ‘overstand’ position. I like the feel of the word ‘overstand’ more than the word detach, because ‘detach’ seems so uninvolved and even cold – kind of a ‘what happens is God’s will’ feeling. We’re all complete little bits of God… what is our will?

From the personal to the global, we find our hearts confronted. We might say well, that’s life in 3-D. It is, but actually, life in 3-D is pretty full-on intense right now. If the scope of this is a divine war, which I believe it is, then we have a role to play in easing suffering. In a very real sense, we Are the will of God. Everyone is. So whatever the battlefront, we are called upon to be soldiers.

As consciousness expands, the heart opens, and we begin to feel. I know many of us feel the suffering of family and friends, and of the collective… the earth, the animals, the people. It comes into our hearts not as emotion, but more as an awareness that contains pain. I imagine we all have a process through which we deal with it. My personal process is to acknowledge that it is there, and then give thanks… yes, I can feel. I’m so grateful to be connected to the heart of the ‘other’. That’s a first step.

Since we’re connected to the people and animals and life, our awareness, warm heart, and gratitude for consciousness may possibly mitigate the suffering of others just a little. That is a hope that we can harbor. Overstanding offers protection for our own emotional system as well, as gratitude and love can form a barrier, or if not a barrier, at least have a transformative effect on the incoming emotional assault.

Concurrently with the process, it helps to keep in mind, in a Knowing sense, that the higher beings, and perhaps our own transdimensional higher self, overstand us as well. This is not fantasy. Evolved energies do exist, as do devolved ones.

There are as many battlefronts as there are soldiers, but the point of all of our battles is that the light comes in. Whether we are being kind to someone, or uncovering a deception, or bringing the earth back to life, or helping someone to heal, or doing the all-important work of self-knowing and self-healing… we are bringing the light in.

People talk about gratitude a lot, and the word can be diminished, but yes, it’s the word for the feeling. We are grateful for the light in our heart/mind; reverent in fact, as it is our divinity. We protect it, adhere to it, and shine it into spaces that are a little denser or darker than we are. This is not the bleeding heart, or the angry heart at work, it is simply the chalice… the container of that incredible, fecundate mix of sorrow and joy that is able to hold its position in battle andgive birth to new possibilities.

Are we overestimating the power of the heartless? I’ve often thought that we are, even as we watch them face exposure and the crumbling of their ‘best laid plans’. People say that the only thing that is real in this illusory world, is love. But soldiers don’t fight with love… they Are love… and they fight with truth. Love and truth are one and the same, and truth wins over the illusion every single time.

“We’re All Complete Little Bits of God” by Ida Lawrence, March 22, 2014 at http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/03/22/complete-little-bits-of-god/

As a species, we have really perfected the art of worrying. We worry about everything in tiny detail, as if worrying about it will lessen the blow, or make whatever we are trying to avoid not happen.

We worry about whether or not we are going to get old, sick, die, or any variation on this theme. We worry about poverty, the job market, our social standing and any variation on this theme. We worry about the country, the planet, our towns and villages. We worry about not being good enough, being too good, being rejected, ignored, noticed and any variations on those themes.

What is worry?

Worry is the least effective way of changing the very thing that is causing you to worry in the first place. If you have heard about the Law of Attraction, you will have read about how whatever you focus on will be attracted into your life. Even if you don’t believe this, have you read any of the studies that prove that people praying for someone who is sick have vastly improved their recovery rate? If you have, you will begin to understand a little of how important it is to really start to look at where you are focusing your attention if you want to improve your life.

If I worry non-stop about crashing my car, will that prevent me from crashing my car? If you follow the philosophy of the Law Of Attraction, worrying about crashing my car will send a message to the universe to crash my car because that is what I am focusing my attention on. A different way of looking at that is to think about how worrying steals a lot of our energy. If I spend 70% of my time worrying about (insert the relevant item/ event here) then I am effectively worrying about something that hasn’t happened yet and actually may never happen at all.

Worry is always about something that is in the future or the past. Take a moment to look at your life right here, right now. Is this a reality for you here and now? Do you have the power to prevent it by worrying? (Obviously the answer to that question is no.)

Since the Power of Now by Eckharte Tolle and many others are saying that now is the only moment that we have and that living in the now is the way to happiness, worry seems to be a thing we can learn to live without. Everything in the past is gone and everything in the future doesn’t exist yet in the now.

Worrying about something does not change the event or item that you are trying to avoid. In fact, you are sending negative attention to a situation over and over again, and thus potentially attracting it into your life. A different approach may be to send loving healing thoughts to the situation or person, as we know these can be powerful. An added benefit of this is that it feels good as we are doing something positive for someone else.

An example of this is someone worrying about their health. I am assuming they are not blaming their heritage, or someone else for their disease, but are just worrying about the treatment or the diagnosis that they have received. Instead of worrying, take control. Find out what you can do to best understand your disease, and then make an informed decision about how you want to go forwards with this situation. Look into thought patterns, lifestyle, food, or anything that may help to relieve your symptoms. Give yourself the very best opportunity to do something positive towards your state of health. Will it always turn out how you want it to? Maybe not, but you will have invested your energy in doing your best to give yourself a good chance of recovery.

Another question is what are you depriving yourself of because you are worrying so much? If I am worried about what other people might think, do you think that will make me spontaneous and free? If I am paralysed by worry, life will be very small and probably quite uncomfortable. Imagine if you were able to train your brain to think differently, and to worry less.

Imagine how much more time you would have to lead a full life, experiencing new things and people and really having the chance to enjoy life, and find out who you really are. Each and every one of us has gifts that we are supposed to share with the world. Does worry prevent you from sharing yours?

“What Are You Worried About?” by Caroline Nettle, not dated, at http://www.spiritualgrowthtools.co.uk/articles/what_are_you_worried_about