My Universe is rooting for me

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Today I'm thinking about the wonderful Living the Lovers' Way course John and I are running this weekend. The energy and excitement are rising fast for both us and the attendees (one of whom said that her guides were also highly excited about the course and that they wanted to 'come along' too!). I've recorded a short sharing, plus a love song and some tones for you to enjoy and immerse yourself in!

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My Lovers' Way message to you

Hello dear Friends,

Today I have had a go at doing an audio version of my daily diary notes, and ended up with a personal message to you and song at the end too. You can listen to it all below and, as usual, I would really appreciate your comments.

Whereas my previous blog was sharing a conversation with my own Lover, my own Universe, this is more of a personal evocation to you and how both you and I can relate to our own respective Universes as our Lovers.

As before I have used capital letters when I am referring to the whole of me as my Universe and lower case when talking about you and me!



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Below there is also transcript of my message to you.

This diary entry Sunday 15th of January 2006.

Last night I had a fantastic dream. I was sharing the love, radiating the joy, showering euphoria around me. I was in ecstatic union with everyone and everything in my Universe. I played melody with the furniture. I spoke to the wind. I played with the air.

The energy of enthusiasm, the energy of the rush as we [you the reader and me!] allow ourselves to be impregnated by everything that we project outside ourselves, in order to enjoy the divine dance of our creation.

What magnificent choreographers we are, magnificent artists, directors and painters that we could create such a masterpiece, born of our delight, our splendour. And when we really let all our boundaries down, that we use to keep things, others, separate from us, oh, what a rush, what a blessed joy.

But this is not to say that we cannot enjoy the agony and the ecstasy of polarity, the tension and the glorious release, the hard and soft. Oh, what a glorious drama we have played with ourselves.

And the hit when you know that you really are your own Universe, that your world really does revolve round you and out of you and in you.

Such synchronistic joy!

Oh spinning, spinning, spinning, radiating out, swirling out, in and out. Delight squeals ecstasy from our centre point in the wonder of our own creation.

What if you were to take this gallant step now, with me, and claim your natural divine delight to enjoy and revel in celebration of our love, our Universes. For love is our motivator, our strength and our breath, our pulse.

You love this world so much you gave birth to it. You and your Universe are in love.

To give yourself permission to have an ecstatic love affair with your life and everyone and everything in it - oh, what a wondrous loving, ecstatic lifestyle, such a wave of love.

To surrender to the love, the support and advances of your own personal genius - the loving Universe, your Universe.

To no longer play the coy lover or even shun the advances of your ardent Lover, or to complain.

But to know and revel and celebrate that you are your life. Your world, your universe is your Lover in disguise: caressing you, helping you, loving you, guiding you into what you really want.

And through the storms of our challenges of life, we are smiled upon. We are lifted and carried and cajoled into even more light, to build up the tempo. For the challenges are the portals to our love, to our ecstasy. So that we may embrace everything for even more intimacy and joy and connection with all of our creation.

Treat your Universe as your lover and you will have the greatest love affair in your life.

Oh, and how does this relate to others? You know, others are you too, creating in bliss, fear or terror their own personal Universes.

But you can connect.

You meet at the bone of things because you [we] are all One. And so when we surrender and start to play with our own Universe as our own Lover, we are in love, we are in love.

Miracles happen as natural occurrences, as natural accessories to our love. They zip up our frequency, we build up the tempo, we learn to fly. It feels like flying.

Give yourself totally to your life, your Lover. Hold nothing back. What amazing creation would you create out of Our sacred union when you play with your vulnerability to be open to more and more love, feeling and intimacy?

Let's make a covenant to be 100% in love, to be in love with all of our creation as our Lover, even when it comes in disguise as the ultimate challenge.

For embracing the ultimate challenges leads to even greater intimacy, connection and creativity with our life.

Out of our song, in fact, our song and joy, is the heartbeat of the Universe. We move with our pulses. I feel, I believe, I know that my own Universe is the body of my soul and the flesh of my utterance. And, as my soul, my spirit dances with my life. It's like the motion of a million stars spinning in rapturous radials around a giant Sun.

And out of our ecstasy, our joy, we scatter more and more star seeds - the fruits of our creation.

Oh wondrous Universe and all other ecstatic souls in my beingness - connected at the hip, you and I - come and stand on the edge of infinity with me. I see our destiny stretched before me, our paths linked to become one sacred momentum.

Let us go where there is no path and be trailblazers, you and I. Everything has led us to this divine moment: the Way of the Lovers - the blend of the heart, the body of the mind and soul, carried on an angel's breath.

And when you read these words remember how you, as part of me, the loving, loving Universe, inspired me, helped me reach for the sun. Let's create an honour and glory of our Universal Selves… and leave a legacy in our wake.

I send you the song of creation.
It carries on the wind of my soul.
Can't you hear my heart reaching out to you?
I send you the wave of my love.
I call to you to awaken from your slumber.
You're not alone,
We are all One.
We're not alone,
We're all One carried on a wave of our souls.
Let it all in,
Let yourself feel the dance of creation.
In and out and out and in and in and out.
Oh Glory, Glory, Glory I love you.

The Lovers' Way – A Preview and Invitation to live a Wondrous and Ecstatic life

Hello dear Friend

I'm so excited and bursting with enthusiasm here: I can hardly contain myself.

My partner John and I are on the cusp of something exciting and new – something BIG, and I've got this unstoppable force within me to share it with you. It's a huge wave rising up to a tremendous crescendo of infinite possibilities, momentum and magnitude for ALL of us to surf on for the ultimate living experience: a stabilised bliss that is both grounded in our everyday relationship with ourselves, each other and the world we live in, as well as allowing ourselves the ecstasy of union with the whole of creation!

We feel we are pioneers forging into new and unknown territory here, with no established guidelines or way markers; I have to totally let go of all old ways of thinking. I'm going into a whole new paradigm of my own being, like an adventure into the wilderness, but in this wilderness everything and everyone is actually with me. I invite you to join in exploring this new wave of living: what I am calling, for now, The Lovers' Way.

This is no way invalidates all my previous approaches, but it takes it all to a whole new level of completion that I feel, we feel, we have been leading to up to all our lives.

Rather than holding back sharing for the one huge 'launch' of all this, I want to start with a hearty invitation to you personally now to be a part of the momentum of this building wave.

So I would really love you to join me in this. I'm already sharing The Lovers' Way in my conversations, sessions and meditations, and people are totally blown away by it and more excited by the possibilities for it in their life than I've ever seen before.

So what is The Lovers' Way? It's so profound that I'm still putting my own words around it, but by way of a preview below, I share with you a glimpse of what it feels like for me to experience The Lovers' Way.

Just to give you an idea though, as an introduction: The Lovers' Way is about how to enjoy a love affair with your Life, your Universe and Everyone in it:

• Whilst living the Bliss of Ecstatic Union with it all
• And at the same time Delighting in the Richness of the Relationship with it all - both as a whole and with all its discrete parts: nature and the world, the challenges, circumstances and events of my life, and everyone in it.

In effect, it is about recognising the whole of your Universe as your very own intimate Lover!

To help you appreciate the subtlety and power of this piece, I must begin by clarifying a few things. The Invitation is to my own Self manifesting as my Universe, which I refer to as 'my Lover'. So when I say 'my Lover', I am addressing my own infinite universe and all its unique and discreet parts, including me in my human form and all other people appearing in it - including you (especially you!)

I see my entire reality as pouring out of me: my very own Self creating the idea of this Universe I play in. It's not 'out there' at all, it is all within me, as me. Yet I have also given it the power to look after me, support me and always love me, as a 'lover' would. My Universe is my very own Self in manifestation, and as my own self it is also conscious and aware of me and all my needs. It always responds and reflects back to me the manner in which I view it. And I choose to view it as the ultimate expression of my own Self, and to be in the most harmonious, supportive and loving relationship with it - as lovers do.

And just as lovers at the peak of their love feel totally lost and at one with each other, yet at the same time can acknowledge, respect and appreciate and encourage their own unique individuality, so too I am One with my Universe and at the same time playing out the idea of being separate and enjoying the relationship with my reality as the Ultimate Lover.

Note: whenever I talk to my Universe I will use a capital letter to distinguish between talking to you as the reader, say, and to the 'You' who is my Lover, my Heart, my Reality - who is the whole of Me! I will use 'me' to talk of me as Maggie, and 'Me' to refer to the whole of Me: soul, Maggie and my Universe.

All this will be explained further in time, but right now in this blog entry you can experience this preview taster of it. It will take you right into the heart of this new wave of being: of living The Lovers' Way. So please do enjoy!

My own experience of The Lovers' Way:
A Personal Invitation to my Universe to be my Lover.

Oh loving, loving Heart! I hold out my hand to You and ask: Will You be my loving Partner in this beautiful place of Our Soul's calling?

We are in such a beautiful place, You and me. We are the place, we are the event, as well as being two souls standing on the edge of infinity – about to leap into the paradise of Our dreams!


I just want to stay in this wondrous moment and feel the quietude of two Souls merging, swirling and beating as one. You are my love, You are the unfoldment of more and more love. Let the wave of Our infinite love beat upon the shore of eternity!

I feel the rise of Your passion. I feel the hunger of Your love for me.

And I willingly surrender to the next wave of Your love and let it overwhelm me.

As you and I go white water rafting down the churning waters of our passion, the only moment we have is now! All ideas about hanging onto something tangible are blown asunder! The only thought is: All is here now.

And there is stillness too… between breaths… when all creation stops.

We are indeed One in wonderment!

I rise to meet Your desire for me and Your liquid love pours into me.

And from the depths of Our love making, from the seeds of Our joy and ecstasy We experience that one sublime moment when all else fades away… but for the beating of Our hearts in sacred unison!

I am left washed pure and clean of all traces of past sorrows and sadness - now gone.

And out of the seeds of Our love making new worlds are born, new life is spawning, ever vibrant, ever spiralling, ever onwards and upwards.

Heaven is here on my Earth and as I look into it, it is clear I am looking into Your eyes. And I see We are God and We love each other fiercely, yet… oh so tenderly.

Listen: can You hear the wind? It is singing in Our honour. The waves of the whispering grass sweetly murmuring Our secret. The sun shines ever more brightly. We are Sun Dancers, You and me!

We are Heaven itself; spiralling ever closer to a sweetness We have ached for all Our life.

And so the air rings with Our joy, the sun shines in Our wake and Our truth is written in the sky for all to see. New possibilities are being born every moment in Your arms!

You are indeed my whole life. As I respond with a great Yes to all that You are offering me, the 'good' and the 'bad' fade. I am penetrated by a greater intimacy, an intimacy with You as me, the mystery of You as me, seeping into my bones, my blood and my soul: for You are Me and I am You - we are both One and Two.

We breathe the same breath, You and I. And out of our shared utterances and the golden fusion of Our body and soul I remember that my infinite Universe is You and that You are merely Me from a different point of view.

I am propelled by Your love beyond my body and soul into a transcendent moment filled with mystery, poignancy and grace. Such luminous moments offer vistas into the dimension of the sacred and paths to more ecstatic awakenings.

As I surrender to Your pulses, I find myself opening like the petals of a flower, hungry to receive the light of the sun.

My body is dancing and coming into aliveness, its amazing, heat, joy, love and sweat all mingled together creating spangles of light in the dark, pulsating vibrations madly coursing through my body like electric blue light!

The more I open to receive Your Universal love, the more the streaming, piercing sensations of light and love jolt my whole being into higher octaves of ecstasy. The energy is coursing through me, I am immersed in a quantum infusion of dancing light extending beyond the boundaries of my skin. There are no boundaries, I cannot find where I end and You begin.

Ahhhhh… the energy of Our love has now exploded. I feel as if I have wings and am being uplifted into the great furnace of the shining sun!


And in being with You there is a great 'Yes' to me, 'Yes' to my being and 'Yes' to You as my own Life, World and Universe and everyone in it, all as My own divine extensions.

This makes me feel so grateful for being alive! I feel the dance of life pulsating through my every cell - we are Spanda. You and I. (Spanda is Sanskrit for the creative throb of the Universe)

Grace, sacred. We are flying, You and I – light, liberated and ecstatic, propelled into a new paradigm of sacred aliveness and union with all aspects of Our life as love!

And Our sense of separation diminishes, for it causes us pain to forget that We are One, and I am left holding You in my heart.

We are both the Lover and the beloved meeting in Our hearts' junction.

Such joy! Like an anthem to the soul. I love You, Uni-verse. I love You beyond time and place. My cells sing in remembrance of You, and I make the choices that are consistent with my deepest soul's longing: the unfoldment of more and more love and bliss in Our journey together!

So much do I love this beautiful world We have created together, You and I, just for You and me
And so much do I also enjoy the ecstatic dance of Our sense of separation: how We love Our ability to enjoy the tension, the contrast, even the pain as We play with together in the guise of another!

What richness, what a textural and vivid delight when We titillate Our senses as We tear Ourselves apart and then come back to orgasmic unity!

And I love how You present yourself to me in such diverse and wondrous ways. As nature, You invite me to sing. As the birds, You love to join me in a heavenly chorus.

And Oh! the joy and delight of communing with You as a field of cows or horses. How You, as those cows and horses, also love to reciprocate my aliveness by kicking up Your heels in glee, doing summersaults and dancing with me! (Yes, cows and horses really do dance and play with me in the fields! One day a cow was so thrilled being with me that she actually jumped over a four foot hedge, looked around, looked at me and promptly jumped right back again – I have never witnessed anything even remotely like that before, even though I was brought on a dairy farm. And it was a bull that did what seemed like a summersault as he played with me, gambolling like a little lamb!)

And the total melt down of body, mind and soul in the wondrous encounters with You as you present yourself as fellow human beings, even when I am in the supermarket or just walking down the street! Looking into the eyes of other human souls is the most direct and complete way of being at One with You and Our fellow soul-mates.

The strain, pain and tension of Our mock separation becomes the coil that springs back to ecstatic alignment when I recognise that all this is simply Me enjoying My own amazing gift of Self-creation, play and polarity. I am exalted to exclaim: We really are all One - the inside and the outside, You and me and Our fellow souls!

Everything and everyone really is all Me in alluring, scintillating and sometimes frustrating disguises. Some say that it wrong to think this, but Everything really does revolve around Me, and yet it does so for you too; it does so for everyone!

And so… I am ready to make a pact: I will choose not to recoil from your advances when it comes in the form of things I feel I need to resist or fear. But instead, I choose to embrace them and love them all as aspects of You - my own shining Self.

And in so doing I know and I can see that I am lovingly nurtured, strengthened and integrated with new exquisite gifts by You. They were hiding behind what I had labelled as 'painful', but they were only painful because I had held that part of You, which is after all only Me, at arm's length!

No longer will I view any part of my world without love for You; for I know, dear One, that you are giving me the greatest gift of life: to Source the love and connection in all – even in my greatest challenges.

So I am making this pact with You today: to commit to acting on and following my bliss - no matter what.

I choose now to apply my glorious template of loving to those matters that appear to terrorise me most, like my financial debt! Instead, what I now choose is to have a love affair with money, to recognise and play with even 'debt' itself as my Lover, playing with me, cajoling me into being the whole of my Self!

So, I meditate on my fear and anxiety about lack of money to support myself. I imagine embracing the fear, and I see money floating in front of me as free-falling pound notes. Then something amazing starts to happen, for as I allow myself to merge with the visual image of money and all my anxieties around it, I am no longer seeing money as money.

Instead, as I love and embrace the idea of money, or lack of it, it renders itself down to pure particles of consciousness, my consciousness.

Interestingly, at the same time I am no longer experiencing the panic and anxiety that had been furiously gripping me.

And I get the clear sense that in my 'lack' of money You are forcing me to be more creative with my life. I am divinely inspired by You to use my imagination and joy as my guide to create effortless abundance.

So you see, money has become my ally. It is showing me where I restrict my flow. I have not, until now, allowed my energy to flow effortlessly and abundantly. And my Universe loves me so much that it has used the symbol of money to show me where I 'short-change' myself!

You love me so much that You could not allow me to gain a false sense of security through having money, but rather to encourage me to recognise and own the fact that I already have that power, abundance, freedom and flow inside me, for they are all aspects of Me!

So, I now see how I have used the symbol money to reflect back my ability to be in my creative flow and to be open to receive support in my life. I have been losing power to money – giving my power away to an 'outside' force. Yet it was never anything other than Me in a projected, externalised form!

In reclaiming that power I have become secure in knowing that You, my Lover, are actually supporting and nurturing me by using money as a barometer of how I am relating to You, my Universe, and so to my whole Self.

For example: am I being open to receive the infinite abundance that You as my Universe has to offer? Am I abounding in my own bliss and therefore truly abundant in allowing the flow of that bliss into my life? Am I giving my power away, my 'currency', to the symbol of money and if so, could I therefore choose to reclaim that power as my own?

To recap: my financial 'debt' has been showing me how I lose energy and power to something I feel has power over me. But, now I see that when I merge with it and see it as You and for what You truly are, i.e. pure consciousness - it's only Me, it's only My own reflection in the mirror of My own consciousness!

It's all a gift of love from You, my own wonderful Lover; in order to apportion my power back to where it always was - squarely with me! And so finally I am rolling around in a playful ecstatic tumble with what was previously creating panic in me.

And so, my dear Lover, I choose to be in bliss, bliss and more bliss with You: an ecstatic union! At the same time I choose to enjoy the rich and unending diversity of Our dance together and how We are playing out Our separate roles in this relationship of Lovers, even with those aspects of my life where You provoke me with extreme challenges!

I also choose to be in ecstatic union and dance with all aspects of Your advances to me. I say to You:

• Oh Wondrous Universe! I willingly surrender to Your loving advances with love and joy. I choose to enter into rapturous engagement with You, not to shun Your advances but passionately and willingly open the lens of my perception of You. And I invite You to do the same with me so We may have the most exalted 'love affair'!
  
  And in this We receive more intimacy, love, connection and abundance, and We engage even deeper in the richness of Our life together; in all its myriad weird and wonderful surprises and adventures.
  
  For I know deep down in my Soul that everything You give to me is a present to experience more love and connection, creativity and joy.
  
  And I declare I am revelling in the joy and in celebration of all the gifts You send and I unequivocally pay homage to Your amazing beauty and diversity that You, as my life, have to offer.
  
  For it's all taking me into the ultimate ecstatic relationship - with the whole of My Reality acting as my divine Lover!
  
  And as such, I create an ecstatic love affair with my Universe for a wacky and wonderful life!
  
  For this is Our dream and Our destiny: We are bound together; sharing and radiating the Bliss!
  

So, dear Friend, that's a taster of MY experience of The Lovers' Way and I extend this invitation to you: If you would like to share this with me, or learn to have this relationship with YOUR Lover – your Universe, so you too can have this wondrous ecstatic life and the support, the connection, the love, the joy, the creativity, the freedom and empowerment all this brings, then I would love to share in the dance with you.

I really do mean it – I just love sharing the bliss!

I sincerely invite you to join me right now on this new exploration. We can make it an adventure together. As a first step please do call me for a chat (or email me with a phone number and your thoughts - I can call you, wherever you are in the world).

What will come out of this new wave of consciousness, dear friend? The possibilities are truly endless. We are invincible, you and me, when we are in Love!

R.S.V.P!
All my Love
Maggie
Your Spiritual Lover!

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A Eureka Moment

I am so excited to share with you an amazing moment. It started yesterday when I made a decision to give myself until Christmas to perform a sacred task: to stay in my joy no matter what I am doing!

I have learnt this great secret; and that is to enjoy and embrace my own natural joy and act on whatever that may be - in each moment, and without judgement: to act on that which is truly effortless and feels good.

And so I had taken the leap into a joyful province and ended up playing all day; pirouetting between writing my thoughts, having an adventure walk, talking lovingly with my friend, making a stunning dress, knitting a crazy hat and then the 'ultimate act' - hovering, scrubbing the kitchen floor and cleaning the bathroom: all whist in my ecstasy. Now that's truly going up the scale of my delight!

And all accompanied by the ecstatic beat of my heart drumming this sweet melody: I am happy, I'm in harmony and I am hip.

It feels so good to be flowing, free and joyous; the happiness never diminishing.
Ecstasy and bliss are bubbling over into every task, so that they cease being simply a chore and I am in love with whatever I am doing!

I went to bed at midnight and then tried to sleep; but I couldn't: I was so excited!
Then I heard the voice of my own inner tormentor speaking: But, you haven't done any real work!

I thought about this for just a second and then I said: Sod it! I feel so good, why would I ever want to choose to be in any less joy than this?

I chortled to myself: It's a pity I can't earn a living from my bliss! I have so much of it; it's so easy for me to source the love in each and every moment.

Then it hit me like a thunderbolt of heavenly inspiration: Of course! I am a naturally ecstatic being! I am a natural ecstatic being! And I always have been, except, that is, when I have felt the need to earn a living.

I have always believed that I have had to do or produce something truly amazing: phenomenal, in fact, as way to sell myself and what I have to offer. And to a certain extent I have enjoyed some success courting this belief. But now it was becoming apparent and clear that this has all been creating too much strain in me.

I hadn't realised this until today, when John gave me a 'gift' - he took away the computer and recording device I use, since he needed it. And so, as the opportunity to do my 'work' had been taken away from me, I had no option other than to play!

And I thank God that he did, for I have just shown and reminded myself how much I enjoy being in my bliss. I would have never have discovered this for myself if I hadn't given myself the opportunity to revel in this magical play all day.

And that is, for sure, the only way I want to live! It became so apparent that what I am naturally born to do is share the joy.

So here I am in the middle of the night, excited as a child with a new discovery.
And, even though I like my sleep and have never been motivated to get up at this time before, I can't hold back 'the force' and just naturally want to get up and write about this bliss!

It's now 3 am; a magical time when creativity just flows, it seems, and I am having an secret nocturnal illicit encounter with my own love - to divine a wondrous new creation: a 'product' which is purely and simply based upon bliss, bliss and more Bliss!

I find myself writing the format, notes, details and structure of this new course. It's truly amazing. I have never had such attention to detail and been so expansive at the same time during the day, let alone in the middle of the night!

I think I'll call it: Bliss, bliss and more Bliss – A' how to' guide for living an ecstatic life and revelling in unending Joy.

It will be a monumental audio/visual series to take you into a new dimension of aliveness, joy, ecstasy, love and creative expression!

Whoa!

And so I have come to this wonderful realisation: it really is true that one can never know what you are until you follow your true self, your natural joy and your innate instinct.

Our greatest gift to ourselves and our world is in recognising and honouring what we are naturally brilliant at; which is often so much a part of ourselves that we do not even notice or recognise it.

Sometimes we are blind to our own magnificence and sometimes by being denied the opportunity to do what we think we 'ought' to do – we've nothing left to do but to follow these pulses and let them carry us to a triumphant fanfare of celebrating our supreme gift.

The call to Requiem - to celebrate my love.

Today, there is this huge gaping ache in my heart; it feels like the pain of unrequited love…

So much love and beauty inside me wanting vivid expression.

This sadness is driving me deeper to find a way to express the beauty, the vivid realm of my interior world.

How can I console this interminable agony?

As I venture into the realm of my imagination, I encounter the wizard of my higher consciousness.

And these quiet, wise words offer a balm to my tormented mind; Go into your ache, dive into it, ask yourself what does it make you want to do?

The sadness is like unrequited love; it seeks to be loved and supported. To give birth to something new and breath taking.

It is the call of my soul for me to seek a way to requite my love.

I am feeling that my love is just going down a one way street out right now. How can I be loved by my universe, my world, as I love them?

And with a slow easy breath, a flash of my longing becomes apparent, this what I desire:

I want to surrender totally to the realm of my imagination.

I want to live out the mystical fairy realm, rich with fire breathing dragons, unicorns and beings of light. To me this realm is my true home and I feel the urge to express my own private world and make it real in the 'outside' world!

I want to dive into my own magical universe and create magic .My imagination is verdant and fertile and longs to express itself through painting, storytelling and songs of enchantment.

And to follow, follow, follow the call of my soul; the sad lament that hankers for someone to hear my song…

So, I fall into my sadness, and with a bump I meet with my own sacred promise I made to myself - the secret, the gift of me:

I am falling off the edge of the Earth of my self-enforced reality and staring face-to-face with my dream world. I love this dream world; everything is so much more malleable and fluid.

Then the wizard of my consciousness says:

But this is you! You are the magic realm, you are a living, breathing fire dragon and an angelic fairy being.

I scoffed over this. No wonder I am having such a hard time fitting into this world. I am not being who I really am - the being of my imagination and most exciting dreams.

So I allow myself to slip even further into my divine self.

It feels so good. Oh yes, Yes!

So my pain is my guide. It urges me to love even more deeply and true. As my lover, my universe can only respond to my love. But if I am stamping my feet wanting something to change, I only will see that the reality I create will mirror my exasperation.

To be loved, I need to respond to my own love, give it an expression. I remind myself:

Be Love, carve your name with pride in the Stars. Celebrate what you are - all that you love.

Revel in it. Create a sonnet out of it - an art form. Your pain, these longings are rich material for Art.

I cast aside any doubts, for doubts only help to intensify my pain of lost love.

I hold the shining blade of conviction as my trusty warrior self and I hasten to meet my destiny as I venture into the room of infinite possibilities.

I breath in my new world, I luxuriate in the fire of my passion, I revel in it, wrap my arms around it.

I realise in this one fine moment that my creativity is sensual and so am I. As I respond to the call of my soul to celebrate, rather than repress my sadness, I have encountered the secret of love.

The love that I seek is intimately bound to my creativity which is nestling in the folds of my sadness.

I will be forever true to my love: my loving responsive universe.

It feels like a call to Mass, to respond to a call to Requiem, in celebration of the death of my old conventional self and the birth of my own magnificence, my wonderful dream.

I hear music. The heavens are rejoicing! I am rejoicing.

Joy to my world!

Walking in the Light

Today is like no other day. Each day marks a new beginning: new wonders, magic and adventure to unfold!

And today I have the burning recognition of just how much I love to walk and dance in the light!

My soul's calling to get on my walking boots and head for my daily adventure; this is like absinthe to my soul.

I have this wondrous love affair with nature. When I go walking I just surrender eagerly to becoming infused in the light of the sun, to be chased by the wind and wooed by the rich, vibrant cathedral of nature's delights. To be overwhelmed by it all, to let it excite my being to a glorious crescendo of my wild spirit!

And so I start at a modest lope and as I pick up speed I feel like I am dancing: radiating trails of bliss, utter joy and full blown joie de vivre in my wake.

I wriggle out of the strait jacket of the struggles that have dampened my spirit and I follow the pied piper of my delight!


Walking always does this for me. It invigorates me; it gives me an opportunity to pay homage to this beautiful world. As I walk in gratitude and in celebration of the awesome beauty around me, I feel in perfect union. I walk like I am dancing - swirling in writhes of merriment and laughter; for I am enjoying courtship with nature as my lover, who whispers tenderly in my ear wise words of enchantment.

And so I surrender into the heavenly bliss of the intense blue sky and sink my legs deep into the earth; my footsteps mirroring the pounding of my heart.

I hear the whisper of the wind and the sound of my universe vibrating through me as the leaves tumble around in a resplendent echo: this is how I feel, this is truly me, wild and free, wild and free – is how we're meant to be!

And so I rush back home full of inspiration, and keen to share my lover's secrets in a song or a story. I feel I have been blessed, invigorated and had a splendid adventure to boot!

So yes, I do feel wild and free: that’s me - a harbinger of joy and dancing spirit for all to see!

This is what makes me happy, infuses me, enthuses me with my reason for living – to live an ecstatic life! And not to shackle myself to the idea of making a living but to be pure living in the making!

I am being an ecstatic living - glory, Glory, GLORY!!!

Living Artfully: How I stopped Striving and started Dancing

Do you ever feel so daunted by all the things you want to do that you end up doing nothing at all; because you feel so totally overwhelmed? Sometimes we get so caught up in the mundane trivial things, that our creative expression ends up being put on hold - yet again!

Now, even though I have been passionately choosing to live my life as one flowing, happy, synchronistic event, I find it particularly fascinating that I can still produce days of utter creative blockade!

For me, as I explore this concept with curiosity and honesty, I am amazed to discover how creative I have been in avoiding expressing my highest joy. I have found to my chagrin that I have some severely limiting beliefs - fulfilling my creative joy seems to be something I want to avoid at all costs!

It is most perverse how I have manifested creating drama in my life instead of channeling it into a form of art, which is my true desire.

As a result of all this repressed expression, I have been suffering from excess creative energy which periodically spills out into crazy, almost neurotic, behaviour.

Just yesterday, for example, I got up, totally full of the joys of spring, totally fired up and ready to go for finishing a song I'm composing in a whole new rock 'n roll style. I was quite simply bursting with enthusiasm and then before I even knew what was happening I somehow found myself creating an argument with my poor, unsuspecting beloved partner John over some completely incidental misunderstanding. This catalysed an issue in me of such utter betrayal that, surprise, surprise, I couldn't even begin to immerse myself in my music. So, I went shopping instead!

As I was driving, the mists began to part in my distress and I took ownership for having created this drama. Rather than feeling sorry for myself, I began to wonder why I would go to such extreme measures to avoid expressing my creative joy.

Well, it occurred to me that actually, I had come to associate being creative with tremendous strain. Somehow I had been experiencing a deep pull to 'achieve', a need to 'make it', always trying, trying, trying to 'get there', to 'get it right': in fact, to get it perfect. This had been culminating in an exhaustion that had left me thoroughly depleted and burnt out. I felt like I had been racing forever on a treadmill trying to get somewhere, but never actually getting there!

So, this morning, as examined my own thinking process through my daily dialogue with my deep self, I could then see the truth: namely that no matter how hard I try I will never make it! Not, that is, according to my old definition of success.

Because, you see, all my life I have felt that I have been separate from all my projects, my passions and my work. In fact, I had taken it to the extent of often valuing myself solely on what I could achieve. I was seeking fulfilment through the idea of achievement of doing things well and if only I could just 'get there', then I would be happy!

And the more I tried to make up the distance between where I was and where I thought I ought to travel to, the more I amplified that gap.

As I pondered on this dilemma of having to have somewhere to 'reach' or something to grasp on to I could feel the tremendous strain it was putting on my being. Once I became aware of this, however, I had a natural response to do just the opposite and that was to relax and collapse back into myself.

And when I did this, to my surprise, I could feel that where I wanted to get to was all already here, rather than something outside and separate from me. Now I could see that the only real alternative was to accept that I was already all that I ever needed to be. I recognised that I am already a complete kit, as it were. I could see that I am my own expression, I am my creativity, I am my own 'product' and that anything I physically produce is merely an extension of me, not the definition of me.

Now, as I write these wonderful words and embrace with delight the idea that I am my own product, project and creativity, something magical starts to unfold. I can feel that I will create all the time I need as a natural consequence of what I give my priority to.

For example, in this very instance now, I am choosing to act on my greatest love and my passion in this writing!

As I ponder on this thought I hear that great song by Louis Armstrong; "We have all the time in the world. Time enough for life to unfold all the precious things love has in store."

Indeed we do!

So, right now, I choose to create all the time I need for whatever my creative expression is, without the idea that I need to get somewhere or to value myself through what I produce!

This simple but profound realisation is really big for me! I have already been enjoying the idea of my entire Universe as not being separate from me (see the first Principle of my Way of the Supreme Gift on my website for more info). And as I now allow myself triumphantly to view my creations as also not something separate from me I can experience them as a flow from one part of my creative expression (the 'inner part') to another part of me (the 'outer' part).

From this place of unity, I am now getting the sensation that I am dancing instead of striving!

This feels wonderful!

I begin to see my life flowing from one moment to the next: each so intimately connected through my joyful expression that it all becomes one ecstatic, eternal moment in the 'Now'.

This feels so much more me, so much more natural.

And so, to live the version of my life that I truly aspire to, is now to allow my Art, my creative expression, to be about 'making' something from my joy in the moment; rather than trying to 'make it' in the 'future'.

I realise now that when I am trying too hard to 'get there', it takes the heart and soul out of what I do and I lose connection with my creative expression. It all becomes too much like hard work and not my joy.

Rather, I imagine that I already am what I wish to create and melt into - and that I am 'losing myself' in this very moment of its creation. Now I am in harmony with my creation and I will not lose step or get out of tune with myself.

And most importantly, all the fatigue and strain has evaporated!

As I play with this idea I allow the magic to begin. I start to create the art I truly wanted to create as way of expressing the huge love I feel for this beautiful world. And this joy inside me that seems so vast, so wanting to spill out of me - I just want to spread it around!

As I allow myself to act on this feeling and allow my heart and instincts to guide me in my creative expression in this moment, rather than the censorship of my limited thinking, something amazing is happening. I am finding my natural creative 'dancing shoes', and feel I can now move so much more freely, further and effortlessly than ever before!

When I make this art from my heart, for the pure joy in the moment and for its own sake, I find that I am then instinctively connectd to my divine Self. I find that I can now create art that previously would have felt unreachable to me! Like the music for the song I am composing that is pouring out of me right now, even as I write. (Previously, I never believed I would have had the ability to produce such a song, especially because I cannot read music, have never been formally trained to sing, or even learned to play an instrument!)

In acting on my love in this way, I feel I have been given a 'divine gift from God'. It's all so exciting to me – these words I'm sharing with you and the unfolding of a song that is completely new territory to me.


And so I joyfully and eagerly free myself from the driver of trying to 'make it' and choose instead to act on my highest creative joy in each and every moment.

And in doing so, even now I am embracing new openings within me to new energies, possibilities, connections and love. For example, I am seeing a new video project unfolding on the horizon.

This is living in the Now.

I have become my own moment and it has its own momentum, blending in perfect harmony, synchronicity and creative joy.

Thus I have become the artist and the dancer and my 'art' has become the dance of my life.

And I wish you happy dancing and artful living too!

Relationships - The Highest Spiritual Path!

Here are some thoughts I shared with someone today by email on Relationships:

Thank you so much for sharing what has been happening in your life.

It’s amazing, but I truly believe that relationships are the most powerful path to enlightment, because they reveal to us everything we need to know about ourselves to be truly ourselves!


For example, I have found my own relationship with John, my beloved partner, has catalysed extremely intense and diverse emotions in me. However, each one has connected me to the beliefs that I need to address that are limiting me from living a truly ecstatic, creative and abundant life!

I am so grateful for our relationship for it is purifying me into the true gold of myself!

So, I would like to take this opportunity to applaud you for taking this brave path of using your relationship with your partner to discover more of yourself, for it is so easy to step away from the world and relationships thinking we will find that elusive peace.

But you and I know that we don’t want to run away from life, rather to dive even deeper into it!

Relationships are a gift to us from another aspect of ourselves. All the wonderful parts of ourselves that we keep subdued are revealed in the steam that releases when we feel angry or powerless. We can also see in our partner so much that we admire in them that maybe we could learn to integrate within ourselves!

So relationships can be like a huge exciting stomping ground as we venture into them with curiosity and love to discover many more facets of ourselves than we had previously thought we had.

And so, I conclude that the purpose of relationship is to help and support each other becoming more of ourselves as individuals from our own unique standpoints. And through the connection of love, brutal self honesty and the desire to be all that you are (and support to your other self to be all that they are) you will create a relationship that is not only fantastic, but ultimately leads you into the greatest relationship of all - with the whole of yourself and your life!
And so this emotional clearing through relationship is perfect for you right now.
If you have any thoughts about Relationships yourself, we'd love to hear them - please do post them in the comment section.
Lots of Love
Maggie

Loving and Activation Meditations

Today, I would love to share my heart and my joy with you through two meditations.

First, here is a gentle introductory meditation that was recorded on my last Way of the Supreme Gift Course course, just a few days ago. Allow yourself to enjoy and be uplifted by the melodious tones, energy and love that I experienced as I shared this.

I created this in honour of the amazing being you are, that we all are. Give yourself 10 minutes of undisturbed time to absorb it (headphones work well) and to let it melt into your heart.

Introductory Meditation 10 mins 4.8 Mb
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Or Left Click to Play normally/ Right Click "Save Target As" to download and play later

If you enjoyed that gentle meditation and you feel ready for a taster of the awesome power, energy and activation of being catapulted into your true expanded self, then you may like to sample the Activation meditation from the same Way of the Supreme gift Course.

It is the first 8 minutes of the full 40 minute Activation. But don't let its length fool you – it will not only put you in touch with the true you, which will feel very familiar and ecstatic, but will also bring to the surface any blocks, issues or constraints that you have been using to stop yourself being that whole and natural 'you' all the time.

So, be prepared for a bit of a ride on this one.

This mini-activation, even though only a partial effect compared to the whole course, will nevertheless shift your energies and may well have a prolonged effect. So do stay aware over the next few days of how you are feeling and responding to it. If you find yourself overly challenged by your own issues that may arise, or even by the intensity of the expansive shift in you, please do call or share some comments below, or email me: maggie(at)loveandinsight.com (change the (at) for @!).

So this time, you really DO need to set some quiet, uninterrupted time. Give yourself not only the 8 mins but I would suggest leaving a further 10 mins to allow for integration, introspection and winding down! Again, headphones work well.

Activation Meditation (Taster) 8 mins 3.9 Mb
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I shall be checking in with your responses to these before I unleash the full impact on my web, so I really will welcome your feedback and comments!

Let's stay connected in the heart!
Lots of love
Maggie

PS Here's what Elaine to had to say about her experience of the Way of the Supreme Gift course:

"I am finding this difficult to express because words don't really convey the experience - you just have to be there!

"I feel that the weekend was life-changing and that you showed me who I really am.

"If someone's soul is calling them to make a quantum leap, then I would urge them to sign up for this weekend.

"You gave me so much help and guidance; you expanded my understanding of myself, the Universe and my purpose in this lifetime. You taught me how to see and deal with my issues as they arise. This understanding is continuing to grow since the weekend and is bringing more joy, positivity and delight into my life.

"Every day, miracles happen!

"What I really want to write is "everyone should go on this course because it is amazing!!"

A Prayer for Living and Loving

Hello and the warmest of welcomes to my new weblog experiment!

I thought that I would start with a little prayer that I was asked to do for one of my clients recently.

It turned out to be a prayer for myself and I'd love to share it with you.

You may also like to use it yourself, to help remind you of the great being you are!

If you have any thoughts about it or experiences using it, please do share them in the comment section below!

A Prayer for Living and Loving

What if the only thing I ever need to do is to be myself!

What if the most loving, compassionate, life enhancing gift to the universe, including to others was just to be myself?

What if the pain I am experiencing right now is caused by the inner desolation of knowing I am more than I allow; but also, that I bear the fear that I am less than I hope?

What if I am tearing myself apart at the seams of my life because I am trying so hard to fit?

What if I knew a secret about myself, a magic spell that would unlock me from my own self-created prison?

And what if that secret was that I am enough as I am right now, that everything I need to fulfil my greatest dream is here right now in this sublime moment in my imagination, mind and beingness?

What if the most important thing of all is to be that 'me', to live as that 'me' by acting in alignment with that 'me' in every situation and event of my life?

And so, if I took up that quest I would be living my own code of honour, by being a living breathing embodiment of my own truth and so allow others to find that within themselves too.

What if the 'shoulds', 'oughts' and 'musts' are the taints, the constrictions of my 'dream reality' and that my ultimate reality is to be the Free me: resplendent and revelling in my own uniqueness?

At last, I would come to truly fit in my world because I'm being all of myself!
Then I would be a living, breathing embodiment of true love.

And that love would have a magical effect on everything I touched, for as I celebrate and revel in that me, my joy is magnetic and would amplify the magnitude of my creations.

I would be ringing my world with the vibrations of happiness and overtones of love. I would indeed be a living anthem.

Why do I say this?

I say it because I am not just the living embodiment of my dream but also the events, the people and the circumstances as well.

So, I hereby let go of all the restrictions,
beliefs and limitations that cause me pain.

I let go of all the devious devices that
I use to numb out the wonder of life.

I allow myself to fall, fall, fall into my heart,
where there is nothing else left but my essence,
the secret of me and all I have to be is that me!

And I am in love,
I am the living heart beat of my own divine happiness
and I experience my world as love for I am being love.

And from that place of wonderment
I find myself attracted to my ideal expression of me,
the art of me and its manifestation.

I no longer need to chain myself
to the idea that there is or could be
an interruption or hindrance to my joy,
because I know that I create my own life
and my life is now full of infinite possibilities.

As such, the events that happen are there for me to use,
no matter how challenging or contradicting they may appear to be.
The secret is to know that they have arrived in my life
to be used as a stepping stone,
as a tool to take me to where I want to go.

They arise from and are part of my joy
in order to enable me to live the life that I ache for.

To take me to my heaven here on Earth,
to the 'me' of my highest, greatest dreams,
with my 'life promise' wrapped up like a present,
bound with golden threads,
which when opened reveals the
divine treasure that I am.

So I choose to live and be,
as if in heaven here on earth.

I choose to see each event, relationship and circumstance
as supporting me in becoming what I really want.

As I now open myself hungrily to my universe
I notice how 'it' responds with love and support,
as if it cares for me,
as if caressing me -
almost as if it is my own dear 'lover'.

The mirror of my reality, my life, doesn't lie;
it reflects back what I am being.

And so, as I respond to the advances of my 'lover'
by being more of my heavenly self
something magical happens.
I begin to enjoy all the gifts
of support and love that I deserve!

The answer, the solution, the "Godness" is in me,
it is me!

And so it takes shape in my wonderful world
as my own ecstatic outpouring.

I am an accolade of myself.
Finally, I am in peace with myself,
and my world, as my own reflection, rejoices.

And as I walk in this world
in this way of the love, beauty and truth of myself,
I am an angel on earth,
and leave footprints of love in the sand of my shore!

With Love

Maggie