Secret Chalice

This week of April 21-27, 2008 the psychic energies that are affecting each and everyone of us around the world, given the change in time zones, suggest that we individually learn to guide ourselves in understanding how to:

• Give my emotions with time to God or a higher power.
• Learn to be truly myself in some way.
• Become conscious of my dignity and of how much love I feel toward my parents and to open myself to love and be loved.
• Practice “insight” by looking for God or a higher power in everyone I see, knowing that the more I see God or a higher power in others, the more I see God or a higher power in myself.
• Affirm it is rewarding to hear and follow God’s or a higher power’s guidance.
• Joyfully contribute my talents and love to others without being attached to how my gifts are received.
• Express how deeply I love the people in my life.

Practical Application:

1. How do you experience your relation with time? Are you behind it? Ahead of it? In the present moment of it? Does your relation to time create stress in your life? Set priorities and learn how time can be your friend. Take the time necessary to breathe in the moment and just be aware how the notion of “time” influences you.
2. Be genuine. Learn by writing down aspects of yourself that you would like to be able to express more freely. Perhaps each day during this week write down and act upon one characteristic that supports your integrity in being.
3. Become conscious of the dignity of your life and, no matter the nature of the emotions you feel toward your parents, imagine the gifts of love you have received from them as opportunities of strength and vulnerabilities. Write a list of those gifts and the gifts you give in return.
4. See the best in people and see the best in yourself. Take notice on a daily basis of one particular quality from each person you interact with and a quality within yourself.
5. Listen and affirm it is rewarding to hear and follow God’s or a higher power’s guidance. Make a list of what you are listening to and how you respond to it. What do you discover about yourself from looking at this list? Are these positive or negative affirmations? Or a little of both? What would you like to change?
6. Joyfully contribute your talents and love to others without being attached to how your gifts are received. Give when you feel the joy to give.
7. Express how deeply you love the people in your life.