The Energy You Project

by Carrie Hart -

Today, be aware of the energy you are projecting. Be aware of its effect on others and its effect on you. You are, at all times, projecting an aura of energy that affects your health, your attitude and the way others perceive you and react to you.

If you are overly critical of others, you will be surrounded by critics. If you are judgmental, you will be surrounded by judges. If you are overreacting emotionally, you will live in a world of drama.

If, on the other hand, you are peaceful and centered, caring and compassionate, you will find that the others around you calm down and move into a more peaceful state along with you.

Be consciously aware of your thoughts and emotions and how they are translated into energy. 

Then take your energy out of your mind and center it in your heart and your solar plexus. Find there the light that is burning, the storehouse of energy that you are generating. Then open and allow yourself to glow.

From your center, glow with peace and a deep understanding of your personal truth.

This is who you are and you can learn to project it out energetically. And from your heart, glow with love. Take your truth and move it through love, compassion and tolerance before presenting your truth to the world.

Consciously cease reflecting energy from others and instead move to your own storehouse of self-generated energy. 

You will find that the supply is endless. And the more energy you project from these centers, the more powerful and energetic you will feel.

Glowing From Within

The more you glow from within, the less exhausted you will be from trying to fend off other energies you do not care for. Make your glow so strong, that you are never concerned with what others project. You are glowing with self and truth, love and peace and it is enough.

Here is a little prayer for today:

Today, I quiet my mind and move my conscious presence down to my solar plexus and my heart.  

I open my heart wide and allow all of the love of the universe to flow in and to flow out.  

I am love and I feel it completely.  

I move my focus to my solar plexus and find my light there.  

I am glowing with an inner light, with a truth and purpose which stem from the very highest and best that I am.  

I am lit from within and I stoke these fires with every thought and every action.  

I am at peace.  

I am centered in peace and Love.  

Every choice and every action stems from this center of peace, this heart of Love.  

I am calm and centered.  

I am deeply peaceful and at one with myself and all that is. 

I AM.

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Release Your Wonder

by Carrie Hart -

Your day lies before you like a pond of water. Create a beautiful thought and drop it into the pond. See how your thought causes ripples that reach out across the pond.

Take an action, full of love and wonder,and watch the ripples go across the pond of life. Call in loving, benevolent assistance and see how the golden ripples reach further and run deeper than ever before.

Every time you drop in your action or thought, the pond is different, full of the ripples sent out by others as well as the changing energies of the pond itself. It is never the same twice, so what you do today may have an entirely different effect than the same action did yesterday.

Create your beautiful ripples and then release them; let them go.

 Continue to broadcast your beauty and wonder, over and over, no matter the result. One day, that beautiful and wondrous ripple of yours may release at just the right moment to change the entire world.

Here is a little prayer for today:

Today begins like a still pond into which I may drop my beautiful thoughts and actions. I am clean and clear, light and unburdened. Life is easy and effortless. I am full of love, full of gratitude, embracing the day which begins. 

I fill my heart with love, think my beautiful thoughts, take the actions I choose, and then release it all into the world and let it be.I am relaxed and at peace. I am full of loving acceptance. I am.

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Let It Be

by Carrie Hart -

The perfection of all things lies not in your judgment of what should be; it lies in your acceptance of what is. And by acceptance, we do not mean apathy and resignation; we mean an active involvement in what is, a joining in but yet within the guidelines of what truly is.

Your goal is not hope, not a denial of things as they are and a wishing for things to be other.

Acceptance is an objective state, a deep and complete understanding that this is the way this moment is, this is how things are, but without judgment that they should have been otherwise.

Now is. You are. All is as it is. And that is the beginning and end to truth.

Life is not about what might be in the next moment; it is about what is right now. And now is the only truth, the only place of action, the only place you ever truly are. And it has a contour, it has its ways. It is as it is and no other.

And if you accept it as it is, without blame or judgment, without criticism and condemnation, without hope that it may change, then it will open to you. It will open in beauty and peace. It will open in wonder.

When this moment opens to you and you fully step in, you will understand its perfection. For at the heart of each moment is a deep beingness, a oneness with all that was, is and will be, for at the deepest heart of this moment, there is no time.

At the very heart of this heartbeat, there is only all. And all encompasses. And all simply is.

Give yourself permission to let things go and let things be. You do not need to fix everything you think needs fixing.

You can let things be, in their disarray, in their uncontrolled states, in their confusion and apparent lack of direction.

You can do things without having a purpose to your action, simply because it crosses your mind to do it. 

You can let other people be as they are, even with all of their so-called faults.

You can allow yourself to be a person who tries new things and inevitably makes mistakes, sometimes big mistakes, in the process of learning.

Life is much easier when you are not a critic and a judge, when you are not on a program of self-improvement with specific goals and deadlines. For what is the end goal, the ultimate purpose of all of your activities? Peace of mind and happiness.

That is what you think love, money and security will give you. And yet they lie before you, ignored and pushed aside, hidden deeply within the folds of this moment. And they ask only that you dip down and become one with the tick of life, to tock of being, the slow and subtle movement of one little moment pushing up against the next.

Yes, yes, let it be. Let it all be as it is. How easy this truly is.

Here is a little prayer for today

I stand quietly and breathe deeply, pulling myself down into this moment just as it is. 

I feel the peace enfolding me. 

I feel the love pouring into me as the moment opens to me, like the heart of a flower unfolding to the sun. 

I drink the sweet nectar of this moment just as it is. 

I feel myself becoming deeply one with all that is, just as I am. 

I am this moment. 

I am each moment that passes, deeply one and connected. 

I am love that transcends time. I am time itself. I am all that is. I am.

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The Angels’ Song

by Carrie Hart -

Deep inside you, a light shines, the light that was born within you as you entered this life. This light is the beacon in the darkness, the warmth in the cold, the harbor and the refuge. 

This light is yours, always there, underneath the emotions, underneath the fear and doubt, always there, shining brightly.

Take a deep breath, now. And then another and then another. 

Close your eyes and see within you the light in your center. Watch it expand. Watch it expand and expand until it fills your body completely. And as it expands, feel how it contains love and only love.

You are filled with Light.

Feel how that love is stronger than the fear and doubt.  Let it expand and fill you completely and then, let it expand even further out so that you are like a lantern that casts its light far out into the night, glowing and bright, filled with love, filled with light, a bright energetic presence.

See that there is a ring of angels around you.  See them shining out in a bright, white light. They sing of love. They sing of light. They sing of the wonder of this life and send you the courage to live it and live it well.

Listen to their song. 

Listen as they sing of your soul's intention for you, how you yearned for this gift of life and received it, how you were given a spark of life, the same spark that shines in your center now. 

How you were born and how you have been loved and treasured ever since, how helping hands have been right out before you to encourage you to take those steps toward freedom, how the angels have guarded you and protected you, even as they allowed you to live your own life your own way.

They are there for you now, singing this song, your song, the song of your life, of all the wondrous love that is there for you, now and always, if you will allow it to shine for you and all the guidance and wisdom that is flowing your way each and every moment of every day.

Listen to this song and choose. 

Choose certainty and belief over doubt. Choose courageous action over fear. Choose to go deeply into your connection with your soul, with these angels and with God, to find yourself and lift yourself into wisdom and joy.

Choose to shine out with all that you are, in all of your wonder, walking in deep faith like a lantern shining out for yourself and others. 

Choose to love and embrace this precious life and every blessing that it brings you, every moment. Give thanks and be glad. You are alive and it is good.

"Be an angel to someone else whenever you can as a way of thanking God for the help your angels have given you."  

--Eileen Elias Freeman

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Being 'An Original'

by Carrie Hart -

You are a deeply creative person. You are an original with things to be said and done in a way which no one else could say and do them. 

 You are unique in all the world and yet you are deeply connected to all that is and have something important to share with the rest of the world. Yourself. 

Do not ask whether you are creative. You are. Ask only for the courage to shine out with all that you are.

Push away the shadows of fear and doubt from your life and open up to yourself. Shine out with all that you are. 

 Dig deep and find the courage to say what you believe, to live your life in full integrity, to be a walking, talking representation of your truest self.

There is a price paid for each time that you suppress your truth because you are afraid someone else will not approve of it. 

 Imagine if you were to live your life in full expression of your deepest truths and talents, letting your original self shine through. 

 What a joy that would be! What freedom!

Here is a little prayer for today:

Today, I ask that my higher self flow into me and cleanse away all fear and doubt. I invite my higher self to be present consciously within me, filling me with my own truth and being 

Today, I ask that I may find the courage to be myself. I ask that I may reach into myself, discover my unique talents and abilities there and then bring them out for full expression. 

Today, I ask that I may find the way to shine. 

I am creative. I am unique in all the world. I am powerful and bright and I can shine out with the wonder and glory that I truly am.

I am full of creativity and power. I am.

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Endlessly Flowing Love

by Carrie Hart -

Love flows like a great unending river and even if you cannot feel it at all times, so is it there, endlessly flowing, endlessly supporting you, holding you aloft.

For you and your life are like a lotus blossom floating on this river of love.

Sometimes the river runs quickly indeed; sometimes there are rocks that crush one of your petals. But still it is love, love, that is the foundation of it all, the force that keeps you floating and moving, the force that drives your very life.

When the darkness of fear descends, know that the river still runs and keeps you afloat.

For the darkness will pass, the sun will shine again and then you will see once more the full glory of the beauty around you, within you, a part of you.

For you and the river are one, endlessly flowing and when your life as a lotus blossom is over, you will simply become a part of the river of love, to flow and flow, until the next seed of life is born!

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The Air of Freedom

by Carrie Hart -

There is freedom all around you. 

It blows through like a fresh breeze, cleansing the house in which your mind dwells, rippling the curtains as it moves. And a part of you yearns to follow it, to fly out the window, to catch that breeze of freedom and leave the worries and burdens of your life behind.

This you can do. You can climb out of that dusty attic, full of the relics of your childhood, newspapers piled up to the rafters, old toys discarded on the floor, corners piled high with the stones you carry on your adult back.

Leave this and step outside on this lovely balcony where the air of freedom blows fresh across the land, down from the hills and out to the sea.

Breathe in the beauty of life in this moment, right now. 

Breathe in the wonder of fresh and new possibility. Smell the air coming from the fertile soil, rich with promise. Smell the salty air blowing off the sea, fresh with adventure. Breathe in the perfumed air coming from the garden, full of the wonder of each perfect rose.

All of this is there for you. All of this opens to you. All of this is yours to embrace, simply by stepping out of that attic and out here, outside, into the fresh air of being.

Let us then stand here together, enjoying the view and breathing in the freedom of being. Let us embrace this day from the pink-streaked sunrise through to the deep orange and golden sunset, each moment unique and full of beauty.

This day is yours to own, to embrace, to inhabit fully.

Love it. Love yourself. Love your life. Take a deep breath and open your arms wide, inviting the full force of life to enter you and be one with you now. Give thanks for the blood that flows through your veins and the breath that fills your lungs. What a privilege to be alive!

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Interconnected and Intertwined

by Carrie Hart -

You are like a quiet grove of trees, each part of you a distinct tree, yet all trees interconnected and intertwined at the root. Some parts of you are strong and sturdy, able to handle whatever comes your way. Some are little saplings that need to be protected.

You also have many, many seeds, seeds that come off of the experiences you have already had, like pinecones falling to the forest ground, containing the many things you may yet be and do, all there as possibilities, waiting for their moment in the sun.

As one part of your grove completes its cycle of growth, another begins; little seeds quicken and saplings stretch up and out, ready for fuller expression. And so you live, vibrant and changing, every day a new experience in a changing world.

The seasons come and go and every storm and every sunny day is experienced differently because you are different, in your ever-changing drama of life.

All Connected

As you enter more deeply into your own center of peace, you grow increasingly aware that your roots are intertwined with the other groves nearby.

The deeper you go, the stronger is that flow that underlies and connects all being, until finally time, space and separation all melt away into interconnectivity, a oneness of being, as all of the parts that are you and all of the parts that are other are blended in the vastness of one consciousness, one reaching toward spirit, one being that breathes and beats together, one root system that feeds all.

This forest of interconnectedness stretches out forever. 

Each tree that is you and each that is other, is one with all within each moment, each breathing deeply and saying: I am. I am this. I am all of this. And the heart of the universe beats: I am, I am, I am. And this is all and this is one and this is the eternal, ever-changing, ever-present oneness of being that is you.

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Where Peace Reigns

by Carrie Hart -

The Sacred Chamber of Love:

Let us go now to a sacred place, a place deep and quiet. Go now within the depths of your heart, to that place where peace reigns, where you are completely alone and completely yourself, that place deep and quiet, so quiet that it almost echoes with its own silence.

Go there now and feel the sweet wonder of your heart of love, the place within you where love flows, where there is nothing but love, that chamber of your heart that is untouched by anything other than love, the place that survives no matter what happens, that stays ever within love. Let us go there now, to this sacred chamber of the heart.

Relax and feel how peaceful and safe it is. 

You are held here within your own love, a space that you created for yourself and that is always here. All it requires is that you take a deep breath, close your eyes and let silence lead you.

Now, deeply within this space and place of love, become aware that you are not alone at all. Become aware that this sacred chamber of love is full of spirit. Yes they are here at all times, these angels, filling your heart with love and light.

They live in this sacred space and glow for you always here, no matter what is happening outside, no matter what your mind is saying, no matter if you are peaceful or troubled. They are still here, shining for you, and sharing their love with you.

Now, from this place, expand outward. 

Take this quiet place of love, this deep connection with the angels and expand it outward from this tiny chamber of your heart until it fills your entire heart, your chest, your torso, your entire body and now expands out for several feet around you, so that you are a zone of love, an expanded state of love and grace, glowing for all to see and feel.

Let your own glow of love and connection touch all those whose lives touch yours. Let your heart of love overflow into everything you say and do. Let the peace of your wondrous being of love fully enter into your mind so that you embrace being this person of sweet flowing love of glowing light, of wonder and beauty.

This is who you are. 

Even if you forget it for a time, this presence of your true being is here deep within your heart, in the sacred chamber of Love.

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Harmonizing Your Vibration

by Carrie Hart -

You are much, much stronger than you think you are. You are strong enough, not only to survive what life has brought you but to thrive within it.

What you seek is harmony, harmony between what actually is, the new day as she is unfolding and your actions and desires.

Today, this moment, holds the power. You hold within you the strength, the presence of mind, the talent and creativity, the heart. You bring all of this to the unfolding moment that is.

Create a moment so harmonious that it hums with joy. 

Create a moment in which you are catching the flow that is, riding it as it tumbles down the mountain and reaches the sea, then riding the waves to a distant shore.

Yearning and regret, fear and anxiety, holding on to what no longer serves, all of these create disharmony.

Set them down on the rocks as you climb into the swiftly moving waters of what truly is. Allow yourself to be carried and know that you will be strong enough, know that you will be guided and helped.

Just harmonize your vibration to the hum of the universe that you can hear as it moves, as it spins, as it creates, as if flows.

Even this old, old river, ancient as it is, runs with new waters every second of every day. Dip in a hand and feel the vibration that runs through.

Be sensitive to the current, the temperature, to how it is right now. Then fill yourself with faith, a deep belief in your own strength and let go into the flow. Ah, what a glorious ride life is!

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Your Inner Compass

by Carrie Hart -

Making Your Way Through the Forest:

The more you look within, the more you will see clearly and truly. The more you invite the golden light of your soul self to flow down within you, clearing your inner eye, the more brightly will glow all that you can do and be. For it is all within you. You are right now, everything that you need to be. You, just as you are, are exactly as you should be.

There is nothing missing. There have been no mistakes. 

By definition, you own the capabilities to be, express and show who you truly are. And this is what you are meant to do, to expand and glow, showing and sharing the truth that burns within you.

If you cannot see clearly where the path lies for you, do not be concerned. Sometimes it is revealed only step by step, moment by moment, like making your way through the forest in a fog. At other times, the sun shines brightly and a clearing opens for you to run across in clarity and joy.

It does not matter if you find yourself in a dense forest in the fog or in that open clearing. Either way, your shining inner self has a compass, a compass that lives in your center, deep in your heart of truth and peace. And as you feel your way along through the mossy trees, it will tell you if you are heading in the right direction.

This journey will continue until your days on the earth are over. There is no time that you will say, this is it, this is finally what I am meant to do or be. For you are already there. You are already who you are meant to be. It does not take any struggle to become yourself, for this is already achieved. And this is why your circumstances do not matter, because you have already arrived.

For in the forest of life, you only find yourself. In the depths and in the clearings, in the dappled sunshine and in the darkest undergrowth, all you find is yourself. And in truth, you are already what you seek.

Relax and Be. 

Reach in and find yourself and then expand. Begin by expanding from your center, letting the golden light from your soul self fill you and set you aglow. Expand out and out. And eventually, what you do with your time here will be a reflection of this glow and you will be offered opportunities to use the glow that is you more and more. 

A day will come when your truth will shine out so brightly that every word from your mouth and every movement you make will be a complete expression of your truth, pure and unsullied and all confusion will go away. You will shine out with a light so bright that the forest will be seen as what it is, a dream, a shadow, insubstantial, something you can see right through.

This glow may last a moment only or it may last an hour, a day. But it will show you what is possible. And the more time you spend in that brightest glow, the more the forest will be there but not there, the more you will not even need a sun-filled clearing to run across, for the sunshine will be within you, generated by your own glow and you will find that you can run through the trees just for the sheer joy of being.

For that moment, that hour, that day, you can also lift yourself up and out of the forest altogether, to become one with the great glow that is the glow of all, of the highest and widest, of the very mind and heart of God, the glow of being and flowing and oneness, the ground state of being, the I Am presence, the heart and soul of all that is.

Touch this bright glow with your soul. Be one with it. 

Then carry it back down within you, to make your own truth brighter and clearer. For in the end, it is all one truth and that truth is love.

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