This week's messages
Forgive Yourself First
Learning to forgive others is an important step on the
path to shifting our consciousness. If we are unable to
release others from our shared karma, if we cannot
absolve ourselves of the emotional wounds, anger and
fear that we share with them as a result of past painful
experiences, then we will remain stuck in these
emotional exchanges until we can. But as we forgive
others for what they have done to us, we must also
forgive ourselves for both participating in and creating
those situations. This means that we must
acknowledge, on every level, our own responsibility in
creating a reality that caused us pain.
When I discuss self-forgiveness with clients, I receive
responses that range from dismissal (why should I
forgive myself when she is the one who hurt me) to
denial (why would deliberately I create any situation
that would hurt me). In order to learn our spiritual
lessons, we attract people to us who will participate in
their experiences. We set the stage and write the
script, others come in to play their parts. But it is our
life experience, no matter who else participates in it.
When we forgive ourselves, we acknowledge our
responsibility in creating these situations, which then
removes the blame from others and absolves us from
having to repeat the experiences again. The lessons in
forgiveness are inclusive in that they start with us and
extend to others.
How do we forgive ourselves? We can start with the
person we need to forgive and ask ourselves why we
have to forgive them. What were the dynamics of the
situation and what lessons were involved? What did we
have to learn in that situation-controlling our anger,
managing our expectations, releasing past hurts? Was it
an opportunity to learn how to forgive? Once we have
identified the situation and its lessons, we can then
forgive ourselves for creating that experience so that
we do not have to continuously create forgiveness
opportunities as part of learning our lessons.
As we learn to work with spiritual energy it will become
easier to acknowledge our role in creating our reality
and then we will work towards creating more pleasant
experiences for ourselves. Until we are ready to do
that, we will continue to create difficult experiences
with others so that we can learn our lessons and heal
our karma. Forgiving ourselves helps us to release our
attachment to creating difficult situations to help us
learn our lessons. It is possible for us to learn our
lessons through joy instead of through pain and
discomfort and forgiving ourselves is a first step in that
process.
Read the October 2005 message...
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Blessings to you all!
The October article is posted on the Uriel Heals
website and this month's message is about Forgiveness.
Forgiveness is the key to raising our consciousness and
experiencing the Shift energy. Forgiveness is an
inclusive process that starts with us and extends to
others. Forgiving ourselves is the first step in learning
to forgive others. Read more in this week's article. The
topic of this week's Today's Children article looks at
emotional immaturity in Indigos. Uriel's message this
week is about blaming others.
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Living in Luxury
'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' was a popular 1980s
TV show that gave us a glimpse into the 'over the top'
lifestyles of the very rich. The show detailed the
homes, yachts, travels, shopping and parties that a
lifestyle where money was no object provided. For
many of us this was a fantasyland of things that we
could never hope to have or aspire to. Besides widening
the gap between those who have everything and
everyone else, it made many feel that the best that
they could do was not good enough and created the
perception that living in luxury meant having lots of
money and material items and created a new definition
for 'living in luxury.'
But living in luxury has nothing to do with money and
everything to do with perception and appreciation. I
live in luxury and I don't have a big house, yacht, fancy
car or unlimited shopping budget. On a material level, I
have a warm bed to sleep in at night, food on my table
every day, a car to drive, good health and enough
money to meet my needs. Spiritually, I know that I am
moving forward on my spiritual path and doing the work
that I came here to do. I appreciate everything that I
have and I am happy every day. I do fantasize about
what I'd do if I won the lottery or inherited millions but
it doesn't change my perception about the life that I
currently live.
One of the Shift's important lessons is that of
appreciation, and it teaches that we must be able to
appreciate everything that we have in our lives. That
doesn't mean that we can't have more than we
currently have, just that we must be grateful for
everything that is part of our current reality. When we
take responsible for our reality, we quickly realize that
at any moment in time, we have exactly what we
believe and deserve that we can and should have, and
no more. We created it; we have to appreciate it. If we
want more, then we have to increase our appreciation
for what we have while creating the opportunities for
bigger, better and different things.
It is not by hating what we have today that we will
attract a better job, new home or car, a loving
relationship or more money in the future. It is only
when we can walk in a spirit of gratitude that we
create the energy that magnetizes other things to us.
It's a lesson that many of us learn the hard way,
struggling with what we don't want before we give up
the struggle and learn to be happy with what we have
in that moment. Then the blocks to what we want are
removed and we find that other things magically appear
on our path. Learning appreciation is challenging,
especially if we are living in a reality that does not
meet our needs or make us happy. Try creating an
appreciation journal-each day, write down 5 things
that you appreciate in your life, even if it is that you
had dinner last night and have a job to go to in the
morning, or that you have eyes to see with and can
walk on your own two legs. This creates the energy of
appreciation that will magnetize other things to you.
And remind yourself, every day, that you live in the
luxury that meets your own beliefs and perceptions, not
those of someone else.
The Difference Between a Victor and a Victim is I AM »
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Uriel's Message--Who is to Blame?
When something goes wrong someone has to take the
blame. This occurs on individual, cultural and national
levels. No one wants to be at fault but someone has to
be blamed to give the anger and emotional energy a
focal point. On a national level, you may blame your
leaders; on an individual level, those to blame can be
your parents, employer, partner or friends. It is always
someone else's fault when things go wrong. This has
created a global abdication of responsibility for the
creation of the world you live in and is a central reason
for the world's situation. You live in a state of blame
instead of a state of peace, joy and potential.
Finding someone to blame is equivalent to abdicating
responsibility for that reality. That is incongruent with
spiritual law. If you are involved in the situation, then
you have a part in the creation of that reality. Blaming
others for problems only serves to acknowledge that
you are powerless and not in control. That is a primary
lesson of the Shift, that you are responsible for
creating your own reality. Why expend energy blaming
others for the state of your reality when that will
change nothing? The only way to change your reality is
to accept responsibility for it, blame no one, not even
yourself, and applying your energy towards creating
change.
It is easy to blame others for your problems and then
you descend into self-pity, feeling sorry for yourself
and the situation you find yourself in. But you cannot
believe that you are creators of your reality and co-
creators with the Source, and also blame others for
things that go wrong. There is no 'wrong' in the world,
only cause and effect. There are no mistakes, only
actions and consequences. Errors in judgment are
merely moments when you forgot or ignored your own
power. There is no blame, only acceptance and
acknowledgement of power-less thinking.
The energies that you are currently working with can
manifest instantaneous change in your life, but not
when you blame others for your problems. There is no
right or wrong, good or bad, there is only intention that
creates results. When accompanied by acceptance and
acknowledgement of responsibility, any situation can
immediately be altered because you are standing within
your power. It is a powerful statement to accept
responsibility because it allows you to take control of
any situation and turn it into what you want, what
serves your Highest Good. This week, if you find
yourself saying 'it's not my fault,' or 'I blame them for
it,' remember that blame is an abdication of your power.
Accept responsibility and take charge of the situation,
then set your intention for what you want and prepare
to receive it.
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Indigos and Emotional Immaturity
There is a new generation of children in the world and
they are known by many names, including Indigo and
Crystal Children, Star Children, Light Children. Whatever
name they are known by, they are a generation that
we have never seen before and they have special
needs, gifts and talents. The Crystal and Indigo
children represent the new, higher energetic patterns
that are arriving to change the Earth's vibrational
frequency.This new series provides information on
these children and the wonderful gifts they bring to the
world.
Despite their quick minds, articulate speech, personal
power and insatiable curiosity, Indigo children tend to
be emotionally immature. They do not deal well with
emotions, are generally unable to manage relationships
and avoid emotional confrontation. They wilt in the
face of emotional challenges and tend to become angry
in these situations. Put an Indigo child in an emotionally
charged situation and you have a disaster waiting to
happen. Indigos are not without emotion, far from it. It
is, in fact, their huge capacity to experience emotion
that creates problems for them. They are capable of
experiencing every emotion to far greater depths than
others and are highly empathic. They just do not know
what to do with these emotions or how to process
them. So they become angry and resentful when they
are emotionally challenged.
We misunderstand Indigos' response to emotions when
we judge them by their reactions and do not look past
what appears to be an unwillingness to deal with
emotions on any level. What we do not see is their
internal struggle to understand, process and respond to
a combination of the present situation as well as all of
the emotional energy that is attached to it. While they
do not tell us that they are emotionally overwhelmed,
that is exactly what they experience. And since they
do not have the tools to process their feelings, they
respond with anger and even hostility. It takes a great
deal of discernment to see past an Indigo's angry
outbursts and realize that they are incapable of voicing
their true feelings.
The Indigos may be known as the angry generation,
one that responds to challenges with anger. Yet these
loving souls hide their emotional immaturity with anger
simply out of a desire to protect themselves. By
understanding their empathic abilities we can help them
to learn to manage the emotions that they are feeling,
and they feel many, and guide them through those
processes. It is too easy to write them off as troubled,
difficult or challenging children, as our school systems
tend to do, and try to medicate them out of their
issues. Instead, they need a different approach, one
that considers their abilities and understands their
connection to emotional energy. We must build loving
and trusting relationships with them to help them
control their anger and learn to gain emotional maturity
through understanding their feelings. There are no
shortcuts when dealing with Indigos; they require time,
attention and commitment. But the rewards are great
as once an Indigo learns to deal with their emotional
energy, they will become the loving, compassionate
souls that they are and astonish us with their ability to
love and to express emotion.
Today's Children »
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