Listening As A Foundation

There is a time now when you will find that your capacities to experience things that are other than of your own world have increased. I have been speaking of these matters for some time in this blog and I feel that I'm going to enter into a greater amount of sharing and teaching for you because this time for you and times to come will find you all with these capacities.
One of the things that I would recommend for you now is to listen. That sounds a bit strange does it not but there are sounds you can hear now when it is quiet. So for those of you who have quiet available to you - and I do not mean quiet in your home with noise all abounding all around outside but actual quiet to the best of your ability to produce it - is something I'd like you to practice. If you can use earplugs that would be good. If you have to use your fingers to plug your ears then well, it may or may not work but you can try it. There is a reason and that is to sharpen your senses to notice.
There will be times when you may hear sounds that are distressing - people getting upset or it may even be a very small sound but there will be a feeling inside of you that is upset. These would be times to say the basic Living Prayer of which I have mentioned before, "I am asking that all those beings who need help receive all the help they need benevolently from all those beings who can help them." Now the advantage of that Living Prayer is that it not only serves to bring help or to give permission for help spiritually and physically to those people but it also will tend to calm your own concerns if the noises are far away. Needless to say if the noises are nearby or in your own home then you have to investigate.
Nevertheless I bring this to your attention because the opportunity to use your senses in ways that have not been readily available to you that will serve you and possibly others and that will allow you to feel more empowered and to feel a greater sense of your own wisdom and capacity is here right now. So try the hearing. It is not necessarily something that you will hear things but just try it.
You might notice that your thoughts will get to be more - how can we say - insistent. The purpose of this homework is to encourage you when your thoughts are present - even if you have to plug your ears, you know, to make quiet. When your thoughts are present just stop thinking. I know it's not easy because it might happen again. Don't get mad at yourself, just stop thinking every time you begin to think. Some of this will be easier, you see, to stop thinking because you are trying to listen and listening and thinking don't always go well together - sometimes they do but not always. So it's a good way to sharpen your awareness and it's also a good way to allow yourself to be without thought.
Alright, that's a beginning - it's a foundation. I will focus on other senses at other times. If you hear something - a sound, alright, then take note of it after you stop doing this. Don't do this thing of listening for more then five minutes, alright, that's good enough for now.
I'm not going to suggest that you're going to hear something spiritual but you might. Pay special attention to that which you hear - and I'm not saying just thought,alright but that which you hear that comes in the general direction of your left ear, alright. It's not always the case that that's clearer for most people but it is generally the case. It is not always going to be a hundred percent clear though but it will be clearer about things that would cause you to think and things that may be inspiring.
So to reiterate and sum up - the idea is to have as much quiet and true silence as possible and then within that quiet, listen as much as you can concentrate on listening. Now remember if you hear something, don't push it away. Don't assume that you're supposed to hear only quiet. If you hear something, take note of it, keep it in mind if you can and focus again on listening.
This is an exercise as I said to sharpen your point of concentration and your ability to be aware. It is a foundation, yes but it's also a preparation to that which will come later on this blog in order to guide and instruct you to improve the quality of your life,yes but also to add to you abilities and capabilities which are prepared to flower in ways that even you have not imagined and I know many of you are very capable with your imagining and imaging.
Remember - listen - and if you feel after trying this once or twice that you may not remember and still be able to listen to what you heard you can keep a little recorder handy if you have one and say on the recorder after you hear something, "I just heard......." yes, "I just heard" and then you fill in the blanks and if you need to stop and make a note because you feel it's important what you heard - you can do that.
I'm not trying to teach you how to channel. I am attempting to expose you to the beginnings and the foundations of a form of inspiration that will result in your capacity to actually make contact with a version of soul and spirit of benevolence that is available to you whether you choose to call it Angel's, Creator's or Guide's or whether you just embrace it as simple inspiration. I know many of you have desired such a thing and it is my intent to expose you to this foundational element.
Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Sharpening Your Perceptions

Your world is moving gradually towards becoming more benevolent. Some of you have asked, "How can I see that and not just see strife?"
While I support you being a informed citizen I would recommend that in order to heighten your senses that it is important to remove as much as possible that dulls your senses.
I realize that there are some things that are simple pleasures. I'm not talking about simple pleasures from human being to human being you understand but I am talking about things that are technological in nature. Television while it can be a comfort and nurturing yes also prompts your body when you are watching it, very often whether it is the news or some program of excitement with the performed act of violence almost always causes your body to enclose itself - to shield itself.
Your body does not differentiate that much from real violence and artificial violence and even though the news is important to understand your world and to keep informed, televised news will often have images of violence and prompt your body to become constantly afraid of the environment described in the televised news because the news is not artificial for the most part. It is pictures and sounds and reports very often of actual violence.
Oh I don't want to seem like I'm indicting the news for being a causative factor in dulling your senses but I feel it is important that if you wish to be informed as a citizen that you watch less news and if you see something on the news in television or read something in the paper or even hear something spoken about that is a news event, as soon as you can - if it is upsetting you understand or it represents violence even violence prompted by nature such as storms or Earth motion - as soon as you can, say the Living Prayer, "I am asking that all those beings... (you see 'beings' covers human beings, animals, plants, everything) ...I am asking that all those beings in... (then you mention the name of the place if you can or if you know it where this event took place then you say) ...who need help, assistance, love, support have all their needs fulfilled now by all those beings who can help them."
Now I recognize reminding you of something I've said before in the blog however this is something done to help support your perceptions and to sharpen your senses so you can see and feel the benevolence that is happening in the world. It also allows you to contribute to the solution rather than to simply become anxious and afraid, yes and worry and be upset for your fellow beings. It gives you something you can do.
Living Prayer functions to provide through a request - and many of you will feel some benevolent energy when you say this, some times circumstances will not support your feeling it but you will often feel it - Living Prayer requests the co-operation of all souls and it works.
You may not see the results yourself. You may not hear of the results but often you will hear that something that was expected to happen that would have been much worse, say - post catastrophe disease for instance while expected happens only in a very minimized way because you and perhaps others like you said a Living Prayer requesting not only that the beings who were exposed to that catastrophe receive all the help they needed yes but some of you might also have thought to say that you ask that the organisms, viruses, bacteria and so on mutate there into some benign form that will be safe for all beings you see, and you'd be surprised at the level of co-operation amongst all life including that which is around you.
Living Prayers include everyone and exclude no one. Their results and their process is all about the united aspects and co-operation of all souls and all souls of all beings. I have found the Living Prayer is very profound and can often be very helpful. This is one of the good ways to sharpen your senses because instead of simply reacting to news events - worrying or getting anxious - you have something you can say now - you are empowered - you have something you can do.
Try to follow the words of Living Prayers as I've given here as best you can and if you feel a lot of energy, it feels good when you're saying the Living Prayers, it's alright to pause and let that energy be there and then finish the Living Prayer. If you're in a rush then continue on through it but let the energy linger if you can.
If you are with others - perhaps you're in a car pool, the driver must stay alert but perhaps there will be two or three others eh in the back seat or something and you all know about Living Prayers then the three of you in the back seat say, could say a Living Prayer for something you heard about or someone or some circumstance. You'll be surprised, you might feel more energy when you do this together in a small group but there is a factor to be alert to when saying a Living Prayer with someone else - you have to say it out loud and it can be distracting. It's alright to say a Living Prayer by plugging your ears so you can't hear the other people say it or to whisper it, that's alright.
If one person is leading because they're inspired to say a Living Prayer some way or the others want to be guided by that person's method of saying it alright - then the person who's saying it and the others if you like can all plug your ears so you can say it or the persons who are listening can keep their ears open so they can say it. I'm not trying to create complications - just that Living Prayers are best said when the words are spoken one after the other clearly without error if possible. To remind you, if you do trip over the words just stop for a few minutes and relax and then start again - say it through to the end as best you can.
Some of you have trouble speaking and you have asked me what to do about that. Even though you have trouble speaking and I know that's a factor for some of you then in your case this is what to do - there is something to do. You think the Living Prayer and if you can mouth it without having the words come out of your mouth - just form your lips without saying anything out loud but thinking it then that will help too. If you can't form your lips or perhaps you are unable to move your mouth for some reason - this is possible - some of you have asked about that - then you think it and some time you may be able to say it.
Remember that Living Prayers can be said for yourself as well as others and Benevolent Magic is always and only said for yourself, that is because Benevolent Magic can be stronger in some ways - not necessarily more intense but it requires a great deal of co-operation. You - if you really want something see, that's fine but others - you must say something like Living Prayer because you are asking their souls to co-operate in something you are asking for so Living Prayer in some ways is more gentle.
Benevolent Magic is gentle, it is loving but asking it for yourself - you will be profoundly receptive to receive the benevolent results however long they take or however quickly they arrive.
Thank you all for being interested in sharpening your perceptions and the way as I recommended is to - when you see something on the news that upsets you or hear about something - to say what you can and do what you can with Living Prayer to support resolution because you will notice very often that it will actually cause you to feel less upset. Fear and anxiety will many times drop away because you will realize you have something you can do about it, not just be frightened and that will allow your perceptions to sharpen and for you to be more alert and your body to feel safe to be sensitive.
Goodlife to you all and goodnight.