FEATURE #1: “Love: The Greatest Healer”

FEATURE #2: “The Heart Gets It”

“Our hearts are biased by nature,” begins Trish Hall in this week’s article, “The Heart Gets It” (page 64). “The heart understands it is an outlet of Spirit-the One Spirit that simultaneously uses myriad individuation of Itself as outlets.

The amygdala, the less evolved aspect of the human brain is responsible for detecting and responding to threats-is designed to always scan for danger, even though we don’t require that kind of high alert in most areas of life. Clearly, we must look and quiet our own fears based on early negative programming and race consciousness. This is what Trish Hall is asking us to do. We need to be aware how we are made and what to do about it. Her answer is to listen to and follow the Divine Voice of our heart.

(Q1) Do you find yourself troubled by fear, or by negative thought? If you are, how will you respond next time according to her statements?

“We are one with and inseparable from Spirit-our indivisible essence,” writes Hall. “We feel an irresistible and often incomprehensibly compelling desire to see experiences in the physical world that emulate the Divine Oneness known in our hearts.” Here I think she (Hall) suggests that our longing for physical connection may be confused response to the Divine compulsion toward expression, outward and through the heart.

Our heart is not limited by programmed, problematic thought, she assures us. Instead she thinks, “It understands the infinite knowingness, the wisdom of Spirit.” She thinks that our heart shouts its Divine Truth to us with the intention we come to know that all Divine possibility is right here and readily available.

(Q2) Have you ever thought according to what Hall is saying that the fullness of the Divine is seeking to be expressed through you? Has it occurred to you that the longing for human love and connection is the Divine urge within you, seeking expression? Do you sense that you are yearning for Divine connection through others? Do you believe that Divine Love answers every human need?

In the next to the last paragraph, she speaks of Ernest Holmes teachings about our nature. “You are pure potentially imbued with immeasurable wisdom and power. It is yours to use. Spirit is the source of life-affirming desires arising within you. The more vibrantly you express life, the more graciously and easily you function as spirit’s means to express in the world.”

(Q3) How fully are you willing to be open to this magnificent flow of the Divine, right through your heart center? Have you ever felt this joy of Divine Expression through your being? Have you seen glimpses of what Spirit has for you?

Hall earnestly states: “You are in an infinite, inseparable partnership with Spirit.” “Those sudden strong and unreflective urges-those grand and glorious world-transforming desires-are the impulsion of Spirit springing into expression by way of you.”

(Q4) Has it ever occurred to you that Spirit/God is your partner at all times and in all things? Have you ever had this profound impulse or a creative idea or urge to do something wonderful or exciting that comes out from nowhere? Can you see that Spirit is working through you/by means of you in order to create something wonderful? There is no way that Spirit can show up except through us…. right?

You are Spirit’s Outlet pg 66

Hall asks us to, Stop, Listen deeply to your heart. The messages of your heart are unique to you.”

From Ernest Holmes, we hear words: your place in Life is to become an outlet for Its wisdom, intelligence, love, beauty and creativity. Your relationship to Life is that you are an individuation of It. Its nature is what you are: You are in it, and It is in you…. Its nature is incarnated as you. Because of this, your word has the power to localize and manifest itself in concrete form. Life is flowing through you, It is you, by way of you, It decrees, affirms, knows, and imagines. What it decrees, transpires. You are like it. You rule you own world.”

Wow! Did you realize that? What power and potential we possess and we can use it for our good? (Good means anything that we desire). Hall reminds us that our programmed brain can be in conflict with the truth of the heart. Part of this programming continually generates fear and negative or critical self-talk.

(Q5) Now knowing what you know, how does it feel to hear that the messages of your heart are unique to you? Since we are individuations of the Divine, doesn’t that mean that your expression of Spirit is both the nature of God and your own personal creative desire? Now that you realize what is going on, would you recognize (see and hear, ect) this as God being this urge (Divine)?

Undeniable Heart Messages pg 66

Negative, self-talk is the “resistance” to which Hall refers. Even when we experience conflicting messages, Hall assures us: “We have all had…occasions when somehow, we knew things we had never learned, a sense of knowing not dependent on our experience. Sometimes these come to us in the stillness and sometimes in the midst of chaos or crisis. It doesn’t matter how we come to access these resources. The discovery that they are available transforms us.”

(Q6) Have you ever experienced “knowing” out of nowhere? Was it in perfect timing? Was it direction? Was it comfort? Was it transforming? Did you know this was the Divine guidance always available to you? Is this a principle you will remember the next time crisis or pain or just understanding that you need to at that time?

Hall writes, (pg67) “All that God is-the divine intelligence, wisdom, love, peace, power is laid before us. It is ours to put to use…It is there for the asking, but it requires taking.” She continues, “Infinite knowingness becomes our wisdom to such degree only as we embody Its intelligence. Its nature is to impart…” It is up to us to be receptive-to embrace, embody and use the gifts of Spirit.”

In Holmes writings (not in magazine), he instructs this kind of receptivity: “We must come to believe that there is such a Divine Power awaiting his use…In actual practice one’s life should become a continuous communion with Good.” Holmes explains, We are of necessity, inlets to the Divine Mind, but since we are individuals we become outlets to the degree that we permit ourselves to become. We are surrounded by Divine Wisdom, Love, and Intelligence, and still lack Divine Guidance. Not that we lack the Principle of Divine Guidance, for that is the gift of God forever made and forever delivered, but that we lack the perception of this Guidance and Its operation through us.”

(Q7) Do you have the understanding and the experience that Divine Guidance is always available or do you feel you lack this understanding? Have you ever said to yourself…”? I should have followed my gut or I wish I had listened to myself?”

Hall explains that which is ours to do: “To put all this into practical application, we must shift from being outlets to being conscious outlets of Spirit.” (pg 67)

Holmes instruction for becoming “conscious outlets of Spirit” is found throughout his talks and writings. In his book, “Living the Science of Mind.” He explains, “I say quietly to myself: There is One Life, that life is God, that Life is perfect, that Life is my life now. It is flowing through me, circulating in me. I am one with its rhythm. My heart beats with the pulsation of the Universe, in serenity, in peace, and in joy. My whole physical being is animated by the Divine Spirit, and if there is anything in it that does not belong, it is cast out because there is One Perfect Life in me now.”

Holmes continues, “And I say to myself: I am daily guided so that I shall know what tot do under every circumstance, in every situation. Divine Intelligence guides me in love, in joy, and in complete self-expression. Desiring that the Law of Good alone shall control me, I bless and prosper everything I am doing; I multiply every activity; I accept and expect happiness and complete success.”

(Q8) Holmes reference above is his way to remind himself and all of us leaning the philosophy that we are a conscious outlet of Spirit. Do you think his words would be helpful for you to read or repeat when things are not as you want them to be? Could saying this reprogram you and send a message to the Universe what the truth is? Do you need support with how to practice this thinking?

On page 68 at the top, Hall encourages us to a greater integrity: “It is not enough for us to say that God is all there is… If we wish to make the availability of this Higher Power known to humanity, we must shift our behaviors so that they become demonstrations of our ultimate beliefs.”

We as students of SOM (Science of Mind) teachings know that we must fill our consciousness with principles of truth so that true thought becomes consistent in our thinking. We are in alignment with Spirit and our teachings when we use thought, word, and actions together for our good.

(Q9) Do you think this is important? Why? Is walking your talk bringing you peace, joy, and wholeness? Could you hear the Divine Guidance with a greater ability? Does the word “commitment” ring true to experience your conscious communion with Spirit?

Holmes writes, “The Universe is a spiritual system and we are some part of it; God is right where we are and is discovered at the center of our own being. Turning from everything that denies this and quietly the Perfection of the Inner Man, who is an incarnation of God, we meet the Great Reality in the only place we shall ever discover It, within our hearts and souls and minds.”

This ends our 2nd feature review in May. Love to all! Rev Lyssa