Secret Chalice

This week of April 28 – May 4, 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:

• Open myself to feeling alive without needing to fight or face a deadline.
• Acknowledge some talent I have been hiding from myself and to ask God or a higher power how to actualize it.
• Give myself the gift of being in community, a social setting, and ask God or a higher power where to include myself.

The type of community that we are addressing this week is entails:

• Becoming conscious of my dignity and of how much love I feel toward my parents and to open myself to love and be loved.
• Practicing “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.
• Practicing treating myself with respect and compassion.
• Developing my nurturing or caring for someone or something.
• Looking for love everywhere including within myself.

Practical Application:

1. Letting yourself relax, knowing it is not necessary to cause a fight or self-impose a deadline, will assist in the expansion of your time and space, enabling you to embrace more of your aliveness in the present moment. Take time out to relax. List how you like to relax and experience that relaxation in your day or week. Breathe in your being.
2. Make a list of some talents you have been hiding from yourself and ask God or a higher power how to actualize them.
3. Give yourself the gift of being in community, a social setting, and ask God or a higher power where to include yourself. In what kinds of communities would you like to belong? Perhaps write down a few that interest you. Are you currently interested in a specific community?

For this week, the community that is specifically being addressed would include the dynamics of 1-5 below:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Practice treating yourself with respect and compassion. Write two lists: one of some of your strengths and the other of a few of your vulnerabilities. How do you feel about these lists when you look at them? Are you respecting and valuing your own strengths? Are you aware and accepting of your vulnerabilities? Do you give yourself permission to be “human”? How are you compassionate toward yourself?
4. Make a list of people or ideas with whom or which you can develop your nurturing or caring side. Who and/or what do you care about?
5. Practice extending and receiving good will.