As we're still in the beginning of the year, it's not too late to put our focus on how we want to re-imagine ourselves over the next 11 months.  In January, I talked about dealing with fear - in February, it's time for LOVE, baby!  It's a big topic and as you'll see, it turns out to be the only topic worth discussing right now...

You may feel that love has been elusive lately.  Perhaps you've been striving to find and hold onto it but like an unruly dingy in a raging storm, it keeps bobbing away, just out of grasp.  This can feel exhausting and ultimately, fruitless.  How easily we once connected to the stabilizing energy of love and how elusive it can feel now!

We're all experiencing the buffeting from the unfolding news, which can send us reeling in an instant, and as if that wasn't enough, daily life is being further exacerbated by inner planetary distress as well as pressure from our solar system.  (We're riding on a quivering Earth right now so if you've been irritable or on-edge, that might be part of the reason.)  The benefit of all this activity is that issues held beneath the surface will emerge (or erupt) which, though sometimes uncomfortable, is usually for the best in terms of spiritual evolution.  That said, it can feel like there's just too much coming at us to contend with.  I'd like to offer a re-framing of the idea that what's going on is happening to us; instead, think of it as happening of and with us.  In a sense, our evolution is asking us to dance lovingly with and within the paradigm shift.  Let me explain...

I'm sure you'll agree that we humans rarely grow much when we're coasting - it's often only in the discomfort that the real change happens.  The military figured this out long ago and created boot camp to literally push people through their limitations, only to emerge as more confidant and capable human beings.  (I am not advocating pro or con military here - just using the model as an example.)

It could be that we're going through our own version of spiritual boot camp, in which things get overwhelmingly difficult only to force us to adapt and emerge stronger...  It could be that world events are precisely what the collective human family needs in order to squeeze through the knothole of our spiritual trajectory...  It could be that everything is an invitation to pay close attention to our reaction process with as much loving care as possible...

If this is the case, we then realize that how we respond is primarily about each person's unique loving relationship with themselves.  To help in explaining this idea, I'd like to offer a recent channeling that I had with Yeshua.  Though I don't usually publish these conversations, there's a beautiful insight here that begs to be shared:

Hope:  How should we best respond to current events?

Yeshua:  There will be some who will be called to protest and they must do so.  There will be some who support from the sidelines – both are acceptable.  The beings who profit from your anger are having a feast so the idea of pulling away from that emotion is a good one.  It is natural to feel it but necessary to move through it as soon as possible.  If action is the step that soothes, then take that.  If meditation is the antidote, then do that.  Do both!  The main thing is to avoid harnessing anger except for taking the next steps.  Then let it go.  Each person will have their own style – it is a great lesson in self-care. 

Hope:  I can see now that we are all being asked to further develop our understanding of ourselves and self-love.

Yeshua:  Yes, and this is happening on a grand scale.  Can you now understand that your Infinity Wave is the perfect tool to learn how to love oneself?

What is being suggested is an attentiveness that we so often give to others but rarely to ourselves.  Just as a parent will carefully listen to understand every word their crying child is saying, we can listen to every nuance of our inner voices to hear what we require to move forward, and even be willing to sit ourselves on our own figurative laps for a gentle hug, if that's what's called for.  (Running an Infinity Wave is always a quick and easy way to deliver a sweet dose of love and compassion to yourself.)

In a sense, our evolution is asking us to dance lovingly with and within the paradigm shift.  It's not so important where we navigate to as how we navigate - do we show ourselves compassion as we reel from headline to headline?  Do we put ourselves on a media diet to let our nervous systems quiet back down?  What do we need in any given moment/day to stay in love, equilibrium and joy?  Meditation, exercise, good food, company of friends, volunteering, marching, helping a neighbor, walking in nature, etc.? 

In addition, the quality of our love is being asked to become more robust, as you'll see here from another recent channeling from my master guide, "M":

"On the subject of love, it is necessary to maintain a high vibration of love as you go through these transitions.  Love is the only anchor during times of turbulence.  It is the mainstay on the ship, it is the ballast as well.  You must love as if your lives depended on it.  Your metamorphosis as humans is about this: can you navigate purely on love’s direction?  Can you learn to tap into the well of knowledge that lies beyond the mind?  Detach yourselves from the literal and mundane and enter a world of wonder!  This, my dear humans, is what awaits you: far beyond the confines of your minds lies a freedom you have only dreamed about.   In the end, there is only love, as you know, but how to use this love is the question.  It is a far more rigorous energy than most believe.  It is ferocious.  It is unyielding.  It is as tender as a lamb.  Enter, my loves, enter."

We are being guided to pursue even more deeply the path of the loving heart, trusting that it holds untapped reservoirs of wisdom and strength, to be discovered only through the eye-of-the-needle of our times.  We are further being told to begin with relentlessly loving ourselves in order to discover who we will be on the other side of this chrysalis - what kind of unique butterfly will you emerge as?

In the end, our self-love, which guides us to self-knowledge and action, can only positively enhance the larger world (and Universe).  Can you think of a better love legacy than that?

Have a blessed Valentine's Day , my friends!
Infinite blessings,
Hope

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