Jesus taught us that until we learn to see the world as little children, we cannot enter the kingdom of God. I gained some new insight on this quote that helped me learn how to apply this in my life differently than how I had understood it before.

This was one of those "Aha!" moments that I get in the shower occasionally and then wonder if I will ever remember once I find my way to my computer. Fortunately, I feel this coming back to me now.

So what I was shown was how often I look skeptically out at the world, how often I judge a new experience based on past experiences, how I shy away from new opportunities in relationships because of past hurts. I realized that for me "the kingdom of God" represents a life of peace, love and joy. I had learned many times before that our heaven is here and now...and so is our hell. 

I understood in the flash of inspiration I received how I have limited my opportunities here in this life because I do not look at the world as a child does.

For a child, everything is new and fresh. Each experience has the opportunity for joy, fun and laughter. In watching parents "care" for their children, quite often I see a parent give a child a negative view of a situation instead of allowing the child to see it on his/her own and come to their own conclusion. The parent believes that by teaching their children, they are protecting them, but what they are doing most of the time is projecting their own negative beliefs out onto their children.

When we become as little children, we start seeing the world as they do. We forgive those who have hurt us. We look for the best in every experience. We dream. We know that innately at our core, we are creative. We laugh easily and we allow ourselves to cry when needed. Our emotions are out there for everyone to see. We hide nothing. We look people in the eye. We want to help. We do our best to make each moment, each experience fun no matter how the people around us are viewing the experience. We treat others as equals and we really don't care what color they are or what religion their parents are. We just want to play with them. We want to teach them our games and we want to learn theirs.

When we learn to let go of our limitations and see the world as a child does, we start to see a world we simply could not see before. We understand that this world has been here all along and our perception of our world blinded us from being able to see it. We remember what we came to this world to do and we allow opportunities to come to us to do it. We see the world as a miracle, our lives as miracles and everyone in it as a miracle in disguise.

We understand that we are Love and that Love flows easily and effortlessly through us if we will just relax and allow that to happen. We start to feel how tightly we have been holding on and start to wonder why. We seek out help when we don't know which way to go instead of beating ourselves up for not knowing...or being afraid to ask.

We realize our own gifts, appreciate them and then start to appreciate others gifts more openly. We want for others what we want for ourselves, sometimes even more.

We start to live from a place of peace and joy...little by little and the more happiness we find in the lives we are already living, the more we want to share it with the world.

Learn to see the world as a child does...and find the magic in the world again.

Namaste

Jeff

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Jeffrey L. Scholl

http://www.learningtoflow.com/

I read a news headline today that said Alzheimer's rates are going up. Every time I have seen any story on Alzheimer's I have always wondered what if one of the reasons for this dis-ease had to do with more pain that these people wanted to remember.

In having seen miracles of healing and really even dis-ease appearing out of nowhere in my own body, I know how powerful emotional energies are.

I know that our bodies are a macro energy system. We take in energy in the form of food. All food has a vibrational frequency to it and our body operates within a range of frequencies. If we take in types of food that have a lower frequency...lower life force than the our body's range, we feel bad either after we eat or even days after we eat.
I visited a chiropractor for about 10 years about once a month. I had just accepted that my back was "bad" and perhaps genetic since my mother had so many problems with her back and neck. Then I visited a naturopathic doctor who taught me that what I was putting into my body was causing my back to go out. What he taught me was that if my back was already out of place, it pinched nerves that connected all the way down to my organs and upset them. But he taught me that it worked the other way too. If I ate food that was incomnpatible with my body, then it would stimulate those nerves and those signals would eventually make its way up to the big muscles in my back...and pull my spine out of place. He proved this to me by having me change my diet to follow a diet according to my blood type for six months. Essentially, I found that my back problems were caused by beef, processed wheat and sugar. If I avoided all of these substances, I had no back problems. I tested it a couple of times by eating beef and sure enough, a couple of days after I ate...my back would start to hurt. But because it didn't happen until a couple of days after I ate, I could never trace it to that before.

Now flash forward to my current understanding about the body as an energy system. The higher my vibrational range goes, the less meat I have been able to eat. Where I once could not eat beef without feeling it, now that has extended to chicken and turkey.

When I first met my wife, she had just come off a completely vegetarian diet. I told her that I could never consider being a vegetarian and proved it when I promptly took her to my family's 4th of July picnic to introduce her to them. She even ate meat that day.

But the more I heal my emotions and the more I meditate, the more my body simply cannot tolerate meat. I was reading a book on meditation yesterday and it said that this happens to many people who meditate.

When I think about my body in the old way of chemicals, hormones, blood, lymph, etc. it makes no sense at all why meditation would have any effect on what my diet is.

But when I think of my body as an energy system operating moving to higher and higher frequencies, it makes perfect sense that my body cannot tolerate lower frequency foods. Conversely, when I eat food that has higher vibrations than my normal vibrational range, my body feels wonderful. It feels like my cells are doing backflips.

Having a diet that makes me feel good helps me to heal my emotions because if my body is struggling to digest food that is not compatible with it, then that takes energy to do that. I feel more tired and lethargic.

There are many, many benefits to emotional healing, but it is not an end all to be all. There is no one way to heal.

I see a Theta Healer from time to time when I get stuck. I have had some training by a Shamanic Healer and am learning more about some hands on methods from him.

The point though is that healing exists. It doesn't come in a magic pill. It requires us to change some things that we may not want to change because somewhere inside of us, we feel like we are losing something. If we will realize that what we gain is far greater when we are willing to give up something we can't keep anyway...then change and growth is easier...and healing happens with little effort.

Namaste

Jeff 

http://www.learningtoflow.com/

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I have been doing some meditations lately that are "downloading" higher vibrations and it has added new wrinkles in my understanding not only of what I am doing, but where we are going. 

So first of all, so much of what I have been applying in my own life and teaching to others has to do with the "letting go" part of the process. It is easy to get tied up in only this aspect because the more we let go of, the better we feel. It is only when we do this work that we become conscious of all that we have been unconsiously holding onto. We start to become aware of the ways in which we have avoided the pain and incorrectly thought that we actually COULD hold onto it, but this is incorrect. We have to let it go in order to grow. Our "bodies" can only hold so much energy and we can either spend our life force allowance on either positive or negative energies. We can certainly have a mix of the two and all of us do. Our lives are happy, joyful and peaceful to the degree we have allowed more positive energy than negative into our being...or in other words, to the degree we feel happy and peaceful more than we feel angry, frustrated, worried or scared. 

With the state of our economy right now, it is easy to get caught up in the illusion that our world is "devolving;" that it is getting worse. This is not what is happening. What is happening is that we are in a spiritual renaissance.

In order to experience more of who and what we are, we must let go of what we are NOT.  We have to start making decisions that benefit the whole instead of just the individual.

In our businesses, we have to start thinking of what will benefit our customers and employees instead of what will benefit the stockholders. We must stop trading "short term gains for long term pain" as my teacher would say.  

But as Albert Einstein said, "We cannot solve a problem with the same consciousness that created it." So that means that until we change our consciousness, we cannot solve the problems we have before us.  

All of us...ALL of us have a part to play in this. We chose to incarnate on this planet at this point in history to play our part. We each have inherent talents and abilities, that perhaps we have yet to even explore. We are capable of genius, brilliance and creativity that we have yet to even imagine.

The question we must now ask ourselves is, "What stops us from living our lives at that level?" 

Part of it is our attachment to who we think we are. Many of us still think we are physical bodies that have a mind and occasionally have a spiritual experience on Sunday...or while finishing a marathon...or while standing on top of a mountain...or while in the midst of a great accomplishment. Yet what we are feeling in these moments is the emotion of Joy...and yes, this is a spiritual experience, because it is in these moments that we experience our true essence. It is when we relax our minds enough to allow ourselves to experience our being-ness.  

Some of us are becoming aware that we are on a spiritual journey, but we are still so caught up in what has happened to us in this lifetime. We hold on to anger, pain, embarrassment and shame...either because we want to punish someone else...or because we feel that we deserve punishment. What we must understand is that when we hold onto these feelings, we ARE punishing ourselves...and we ARE punishing the world also. But none of it is needed. We have to learn to let go of our pain, because we cannot create the world we want if we still have a wounded perspective. We cannot create peace through war or a fearful perspective.  We cannot embrace the unlimited power we wield collectively until enough of us heal individually.

Many of us want "the other person" to change so that we will feel better. But healing happens when "we" change, when we learn to forgive, when we...decide to grow. Growth is a process of bringing in new energy and of letting to. We must learn to allow ourselves to receive love, understanding, help, compassion and acceptance. We must also learn to let go of our hurt, fears, frustration, envies and judgments.

This is the ebb and flow of our lives. We bring in Love...we let go of pain...we bring in Peace...we let go of fear.  We must do both. We must bring in higher vibrations to raise our consciousness and we must let go of the lower vibrations...to make room for more Love.  

As we do this, our perceptions of ourselves and our world changes. Our bodies change. Our bodies are the closest representation of what our inner world is like. If we resist growth and change, our bodies reflect it. Our bodies stop being the magical, mystical healing machines that they are. Our bodies stop letting go of all the waste that we take in either through our food, our air, the negative vibrations that come into our existence and it creates dis-ease within us.  As we start to eat foods higher in life force, our vibration rises and we are able to distinguish our emotions more easily.

When we live in low vibration all of the time, we cannot feel our pain. From a frequency perspective, we live in the "noise."  Conversely, the more we meditate and take in higher vibrational energies, the more we can feel the effects of the foods we eat in our body. Either way, we have to raise our vibration to feel the effect.  

We have to let go of that which weighs us down. We must learn to forgive.  

We are going towards Self-Realization. The integration of our soul...all of our soul's energy into our physical incarnation. We cannot hold onto our old pain and fear. We either release it at our physical death or we release it while living here and just change our perception of our life and our world.  

Our soul cannot integrate until we let go of that which we are not and fully embrace that which we are.  

Namaste

Jeff 

www.learningtoflow.com

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With everything going on in our world right now, it is normal to fear the direction we are going. We long for the past. We want things to be different than they are. We want someone else to change what they are being, how they show up in our reality so that we can feel safe.

We fear what we do not understand.

We do not understand because we are looking at things from a low level perspective. It is like being in a forest thick with trees and thinking we will never find our way out. Yet, if we got into a hot air balloon and went up about a couple of hundred feet, we could easily see how to get out of the forest.

Our economy, our environment and our very consciousness is making a shift right now. For those who have not shifted their awareness to a higher level, this can be a very unsettling time.

Many are being laid off from their jobs. I was laid off two years ago and I still know it to be a great blessing. For it is only when I let go of who I "thought" I was that I was able to embrace who I really am.

What that means is that I was working at a job that was unfulfilling to me...just to make money. But I was not able to use any of my gifts...my talents and abilities in this role. So God gave me a little nudge...okay, it felt like a swift kick in the butt...to change. I had been working towards a new career for the three years prior, but could not get myself to leave because I was afraid that I would not be able to make the kind of money in what I loved to do. I had always been taught that:

"I had to work hard for a living."
"I had to do things I didn't like in order to make money."

These are beliefs that I had to let go of in order to really start applying myself to what I wanted to do. I had to learn to have faith that things would work out. I had to learn to have more faith in God than I have in Amazon.com when I order something from them. When I order something online, I know it's going to show up. But when I ask for something from God, I allowed my fears to overwhelm me. I allowed myself to believe that I wasn't safe. I allowed myself to believe that I wouldn't be taken care of.

And so because I continually vibrated fear out into the world, that is exactly what I attracted.

Because the Law of Attraction is like any other law of physics. It is not a subjective law. It works all of the time. As my teacher taught me, "If a non-believer and a holy man both walk off a cliff, they both fall due to the Law of Gravity."

Many people are afraid of what is happening in their lives and I hear them say, "I don't believe in the Law of Attraction."

My response is, "That's okay. But it is working in your life anyway. You can either learn how to use it to heal your life and your world or you can continue to react to your world because you fear what you do not understand."

This law doesn't discriminate between Christians, Muslims, Hindu's, Buddhists or Atheists. It works for everyone.

When you are ready to face your fear, let me know. Eash of us have a part to play. Each of us are part of the solution. There is no one person who is coming to save us all. We must learn to tap into our own spiritual energy to save our world and to heal our lives.

You cannot play your part if you are still lost in the forest though. You cannot see the way out until you rise above it.

When you are ready to become part of the solution for your life, your family, your community, your country and your world, let me know.

You see, my part is to help everyone else learn how to heal and rise above it. But I need each of you to play your part as well. It will be all of you that heal our world. You have genius that you have yet to tap into. We need your genius to heal our world.

We fear what we do not understand.

I can help you understand it.

Namaste
Jeff