This month we begin a new Home Study series based on words shared with me by the Angels and Guides who assist us all on our spiritual Journeys. Whether you do spiritual practice in a church, Nature or the silence of your own heart the Higher Realms are constantly guiding each of us. Some practitioners like myself hear the words of the Angels within our minds through an experience called clairaudience. Others sense guidance like a quiet urging in the heart, commonly referred to as intuition. In my case, I was asked by the Guides to record Their words into book form so that others could benefit; this month’s Home Study text is the result.
Today’s text: Lessons for Living, vol. 1 transcribed by L. Taylor
Available at: www.hopeofthenewage.com
Study pages: pp. 60-62
Many years ago I came across one of my favorite definitions. It was for the word integrity and the translation was, “When the inside matches the outside.” Now, Webster’s may not consider this to be a proper definition, but for my purposes it suited just fine.
When discussing spiritual integrity, one of the first things that comes to my mind is whether or not I am living in balance. Is my mind ruling my life? Are my emotions taking over my ability to be productive and at peace? The result of living with a sense of harmony among body, mind and spirit is that we are able to express that harmony with integrity: Our true inner balance shows outwardly in all we do and say.
On page 62, the Guides talk about the Energy of Harmony. I believe we could also substitute the word integrity in each of Their statements:
“What others need more than they ever needed power is Harmony, the Harmony of one’s Heart’s Desire with the rest of one’s life, the Harmony of thought with Spirit, the Harmony of action with Spirit, the Harmony of Truth with living, the Harmony of stillness with movement, the Harmony of power with Peace.”
It is clear that what the Angels are truly talking about is integration–marrying one aspect of self with another. As we do so, we are called to live that integration with truth and transparency, allowing the inside to match the outside. So we re-read these words of guidance as an encouragement to live a life wherein our “thought matches our Spirit, our action matches our Spirit, our Truth matches our living, our stillness matches our movement, our power matches our Peace.”
What exactly does this mean, “Our stillness matches our movement?” It refers to the difficult but not impossible challenge of being while attending to all the tasks we have to do. One of the first questions I asked the Guides in this book was how to balance the busyness of a life filled with doing with the Divine Command to Be. The answer given on page 6 reminds us that being does not mean we just sit around all day.
Roughly stated, Being is the ability to perform any action while remaining immersed in a state of consciousness, also called mindfulness or awareness. So our former statement, “Harmony of stillness with movement” does not mean we are supposed to learn how to sit and walk at the same time. It means that we learn to act while maintaining a total sense of awareness. The Guides’ call for “Harmony of stillness with movement” could now read, “Integration of awareness with each act in our lives.”
I chose to include pages 60-61 with this topic because it provides some important background into the nature of the physical reality around us. On those pages we hear about how other beings in Nature–including animals and plants–live in this perfect integration or Harmony. They cannot do anything outside the Divine Plan of what they were meant to be.
But as humans we have been given the golden key of Free Will and that gift allows us to choose. We can live in Harmony and balance and allow those to be reflected in our lives (integrity) or not. We can choose to let our minds rule our choices–or not. The beauty is we get to decide.
Taking a pen and a piece of paper or journal, contemplate the following this week:
1. How do I rate my own integrity–does my outside match my inside? When am I living in integrity and when am I not?
2. With whom can I be more fully transparent and allow my Inner Truth to show through?
3. What circumstances make me feel like I have to hide my Inner Truth?
4. What small steps can I take to live in greater integrity in those circumstances, allowing who I really am to shine through?
In session two of our Home Study, we will be diving deeper into Lessons for Living and what the Angels have to say about living a spiritual life in this very physical world…don’t miss it! Be sure to click and follow our blog so you can be alerted when our next discussion commences!
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Grace and Clarity 