The Daily Way

“I’ll scratch your back, you scratch mine.”  There is a give-and-take in relationships that helps to maintain balance.  A back-scratch is most pleasant.  It is easy to give.  It is equally pleasant to receive.  Not all of life is so easy, but it is painfully apparent when there is an [...]

You crave love, yet you push it away.  What is going on here?  The soul says, “Here we are.  Let us feel the connection we know as love.  It is so delicious.”  The human says, “I could get hurt.  I have been burned before.  I am not worthy.”  Can you [...]

What do you do when you have a certain understanding of what you know as Truth and others do not?  What do you do when others are operating under a belief system gained from what others have told them instead of the personal experience of touching the very hem of [...]

When you live with someone or spend a lot of time in another’s presence, you are likely to pick up their energy as likely as you are to pick up a cold.  Yes, thoughts and emotions are contagious.  When one around you is grumpy, it is easy for you to [...]

Why are you not aware of your unseen helpers most of the time?  For you are having the human experience, and this is where your focus is.  Imagine Life as a buffet.  You normally do not pile your plate with appetizers, main course, and dessert all at once.  You focus [...]

What is the meaning of this word, “still”?  In a world of time and space, it refers to that which is ongoing.  A thing existed in the past and continues to do so in what you know as the present.  There is a hope, an expectation that it will continue [...]

“When will I be with my dearly departed again?” you wish to know.  You are still here, for you have more love to experience while in this body.  You may feel you serve no more purpose, that your purpose was wrapped up with the one who has passed.  May your [...]

“Does a bear have hair?” you ask as a way of saying, “Is that not quite obvious?  The obvious is not always that which is most visible to you.  Those aspects of the self which are known as the higher self are as obvious to you as the hair on [...]

A house is built one brick and stick at a time.  It is taken down much less carefully.  You have built up habits, patterns, ways of being one thought and experience at a time.  Some of your way of being in the house that is your story, serves you well.  [...]

Fresh and stale.  You know these words well.  What causes something that is new and soft to become hard, brittle, and no longer tasteful?   You may think in terms of food, but think also in terms of thoughts.   And therein lies the challenge:  thinking.  This process can cause thoughts to [...]

You use the term “to burn out”.  This happens when a match has served its purpose, flared up, burned brightly, and then goes out.  Perhaps you know this feeling?  Perhaps you have been working at a task so long that you no longer feel that spark.  Individual tasks may burn [...]

A rabbit’s fur.  Such a silky touch.  So soft you can barely keep your hands from rubbing against it.  Why is this?  Vibration is vibration.  You know harmony when you hear it.  Softness has the same vibration.  You resonate with softness.  Hardness does not flow.  “I’m going through a rough [...]

You have not made your mind up yet.  The jury is still out.  Your decision could go either way.  If you are truly in touch with your inner world, there is no decision to make.  It is already made at the deepest level.  You are wavering, wondering.  No!  You already [...]

Death.  You fear it and do everything in your power not to think about it until one you love crosses the veil before you.  Suddenly, you no longer fear death.  You long for it.  But not really.  What you want is release from suffering.  What you want is your old [...]

You shiver in the cold.  It is the body’s way of creating heat.  You laugh when you experience something humorous.  It is the body’s way of expressing on the outside what is going on inside.  The body is your instrument, you, the soul.  It sings your song, it voices your [...]

Isolating.  Distancing.  Do you realize these are human conditions?  And you are not only human.  You are the expression, the extension, the manifestation of one Source that refracts and reflects all possibilities, which is why there are so many humans experiencing so many possible situations, temperaments, characteristics.  Beneath and beyond all [...]

You are a miracle in the making.  Think of the odds of you being the conjunction of the perfect combination to produce you with your specific genes, characteristics, likes and dislikes.  Think of the odds of you landing on a planet where the slightest fluctuations in the atmosphere affect your [...]

Do not focus upon the symptoms when the body is out of balance.  Yes, of course, notice and take appropriate action, and then let these fade into the background as you focus on balance and harmony.  The body has its own wisdom.  The cells know how to do their work [...]

Death is a loaded word.  It depends upon how you view it.  To most humans, it brings about fear.  It is loaded with pain.  To those in the higher realms, it is not different than “birth”.  It is a marker, marking the transition point between different experiences of the soul.  [...]

More, more, more.  There is an addictive nature to buying.  You think a thing will bring you pleasure and fulfillment, and in many cases, it does, and so you want bigger, better, more.  What do you already have that brings you the same pleasure?  Focus there when you want to [...]

When you bristle at an honor or a gift that others are trying to bestow upon you, receive it.  Why do you feel unworthy?  What in you tells you that you do not deserve it?  Nothing within your deepest part would reject love.  Only learned behavior and conditioned human thinking [...]

You cannot be all things for all people.  Honor the Self.  You came here to shine the light of the soul in your unique ways.  If you bend and shape yourself according to others’ desires, you are not being true to the Self.  The soul has its unique signature … [...]

You are always rushing about?  What is your hurry?  Not enough minutes in the day?  What if you had more minutes?  How would you fill them?  With more rushing?  There is a reason the body requires sleep.  As the sun sets and rises, the body goes through cycles of activity [...]

How often do you avert the eyes when meeting another?  Oh, the opportunities you are missing!  The eyes truly are the door to the soul, that eternal part of each of you that joins you.  You have learned to look away.  Why?  For at one level, you all know that [...]

Happiness is a choice.  Yes, there are times when it is nigh unto impossible to be cheerful. Perhaps you did not sleep well.  Perhaps you have a physical challenge that causes you pain, either physical or emotional.  Awareness is still present.  You are Awareness temporarily housed in a body.  What [...]

Houses come with windows and doors.  They serve to let the light and air in.  Bodies come with energetic windows and doors.  They serve to let fresh energy and thoughts in. Just as opening the doors and windows of your house does not happen automatically, so, too, must you open [...]

And so, it’s your birthday, a day to celebrate.  One more year in human form.  It is a day like the new year:  a day to observe what you have accomplished, what you would like to do in the coming year.  Do you know the most important question you can [...]

You do not have what you desire?  You see it in others.  “I want what they have,” you think, and with this intention, you begin to change.  Is it material possession you desire?  This may take some time.  Is it change from within to become more peaceful and filled with [...]

Precautions.  You take them all the time.  Put on your seatbelt.  Lock your doors.  This is learned behavior, and for good reason.  In the physical reality, it behooves you to guard against those hazards with a higher-than-normal probability of coming to pass.  But where do you draw the line?  When [...]

Give and take.  As you reap the benefits of your sowing, be sure to share the harvest.  You are part of a collective.  There is no dishonor in keeping the bounty of your efforts, but keep in mind that you gained what you have harvested thanks to the cooperative efforts [...]