I have been thinking a lot about holistic success lately (okay, I already I think about it all of the time). In relation to this topic I have been thinking about the relationship between passion (love) and fear (every reaction we create—consciously or unconsciously—that is intended to prevent annihilation).

There is a good reason why more people are not more successful. There is basically an inverse relationship between the manifestations of passion and fear in our lives. To the extent that we allow our lives are ruled by fear, passion is less accessible to us. To the extent that we allow ourselves to be ruled by passion, our fears have less influence.

The reason this matters when it comes to holistic success is that passion moves us into a desired future quickly and effortlessly. Fear keeps us tied to the past and anxious abou the future because the future is unknown and uncertain. People ruled by fear interpret this to mean that without sufficient protections in place, the future could mean destruction. Truly successful people live according to their passions and act boldly to create the future. They trust that it they can make the future better through their efforts. They live more by faith than fear.

Let’s imagine that every single person’s spiritual center is like an indestructible light bulb that gives off a tremendous amount of light. It’s would actually blind us if we stared at it. This light bulb has perceived many threats to its existence over the years. Some have included moths being drawn to its light and smashing into it, people throwing covers over it or trying to unscrew it from its power supply (unsuccessfully!) because it was too bright, inclement weather, stones being thrown at it, etc.

To protect itself, the light created defenses to help it survive. It forgot that it was indestructible. It forgot from whence it came. It forgot the power that it was connected to. And so it believed the lie that it could die.

Its brightness did not decrease. It could not. That was its nature. Yet its surface accumulated layer upon layer of stuff intended to create kind of shell or wall of protection around it.

This layered barrier was heavy and dark. It was like mud or layers of paint were allowed to accumulate over the surface of the bright light, causing lessen its radiance.

To the extent that the light was covered, passion was buried and fear ruled that life.

I see my purpose in life as helping people to recognize this fundamental challenge. Part of my purpose is to help people learn how to remove the layers of fear so that their passions can be revealed and better expressed. This will lead to more and more people being ruled by love instead of fear. And when that happens, people’s lives and life on earth will be changed in ways that we cannot even imagine right now.

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This post is for people who have wanted to receive love from a particular person in a particular way at a particular time.

For example, there have been times in my life when I wanted someone to support who I was being and what I was doing at a particular time. Sometimes the other person made it abundantly clear that it wasn’t okay for me to be myself or to do what I wanted to do in that moment. For some reason this person was not able to give me the love, acceptance, and support that I craved at  that time.

As I remember these moments from my past, I can recognize that a couple of things were going on.

In those moments in the past, I decided that I was going to lower my expectations for love. I was going to try to change who I really was and what I really wanted. I hoped that this would allow me to get more love the next time around from those people or other people. In essence, I allowed a layer of defense to form over my heart to protect myself from getting hurt in the future. And I did this again and again as I accepted each interpretation of my lovability to act as a reflection of my actual worth. These deposits accumulated around my heart like a wall, forming layers over a period of years. As I remembered this process that I had allowed to happen, I realized that I had chosen to believe that this was my only way to experience the feelings I wanted to feel. Oh, how wrong I was!

I also remembered that all around me in each and every one of those moments was an infinite field or sea of of Love that was always available and ready to give me the sense of love and belonging I so desired. But in the narrowness or specificity of my desire for love from particular people at particular times, this vast ocean of Love was as if it did not exist. I was a person who was rich in love but believed I was poor. I had all of the food I could want at my fingertips, and yet I was going hungry. I felt thirsty even though there was wonderful freshwater raining down upon my head all of the time.

I am so thankful that I have realized that I do live in a vast sea of Love, always ready and willing to do its thing whenever I let it in. How do I know this? For over a decade, whenever I have truly desired for this love to come into my life, it has. I have never been disappointed when I have asked. Never. It has always come, and I have felt its coming, sometimes like a wave and sometimes like a flame, but always it has come to me.

May we all become people who let Love in and allow it to have its way with us. May we let Love flow, dissolving and carrying away our dead, hard, and dry defenses. As it does this work, it also gives us and all we touch new life. When you let this Power of Love flow, the walls will come down, and there will eventually be nothing to stop you from giving and receiving love just as the skies, the rivers, and the seas abundantly share the water that makes life on earth possible.

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For quite a while now, I have been an interpreter of dreams, my own and others’. Sometime after I started interpreting dreams, I realized that my waking experiences could be interpreted in very much the same way as those I had while being asleep.

The more difficult circumstances of our lives tell us the most about what we really think, feel, and intend. In these situations we can discover places within ourselves where we have not allowed the Power of God’s Love to heal our wounds and defenses.

If you want to learn as much as possible from what you are going through, here are some questions to ask:

• What would I need to believe about myself and/or life in order to have this experience?

• What fear did that situation bring out in me? Am I willing to let God clear that fear?

• How am I rationalizing about the situation to prove myself right? If I am, how would I think and feel differently if my heart was filled with Love and Compassion for myself and for everyone involved in this circumstance?

• What do I hate about myself that would lead me into this situation? When will I let God love me? When will I allow me love myself? What are the possibilities that I actually deserve love just because I exist?

• How am I judging myself? What’s the pay off for judging myself and/or others so harshly?

• In what ways do I feel powerless to do something about this circumstance? What are my pay offs for my thoughts and feelings of powerlessness?

Whenever we judge others harshly, that judgment is a reflection of how mercilessly we judge ourselves. Whenever we feel powerless, we are taking the role of a victim so that we can deny our power to be, do, and have what we truly want.  If you feel fearful, angry, jealous, or judgmental about someone else’s circumstances, you are projecting your own fears onto that situation, rather than dealing with your own personal mess.

You probably look in the mirror everyday to make adjustments to your appearance. Let us seek opportunities for love and forgiveness that are available when we use similar care as we examine the content of our lives. In taking the time to reflect upon our circumstances and reactions, we can recognize our choices to play victims and judges instead of seeking to become who we really are as empowered children of our Heavenly Parent. By examining our beliefs, assumptions, and feelings, we can more clearly perceive where we have blocked the flow of Love in our lives and suffered from the effects of our fear-based defenses.

Just as flowing water changes the landscape, so too will the flowing River of Love transform the landscape of your entire life if you allow it to do its work. Fear makes a desert of our lives. Love has the power to make us into lush and fertile places full of color, activity, and abundant life.

When we seek God’s Power of Love, we are no longer thirsty people chasing after mirages shimmering in the heat of our parched souls. We become people who do not chase after images in desperation. We no longer run away from that which we fear. As we experience the abundance of Love available within and without, we have more than enough to give. We have more than enough to live. We are also empowered to greet every situation, no matter how terrible, with hearts full of love and hope.

Death and violence come when love is denied. Life, peace, and healing come when we let Love in. In a world of passing clouds and shadows, may we all be places where Love is welcome. May we become oases for those who are living in fear.

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On this Memorial Day, I would like to put forward a few thoughts based on my personal experiences with war veterans and other people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I do not claim to know or understand what you have endured. What I do claim to know is that there are ways to release those things that continue to bind you to the past.

I have written before about defense systems and force fields. People who have experienced the horrors of war first hand have some of the most powerful and debilitating defenses human beings can create. Likewise this is often true for those who have experienced some other form of trauma where they experienced their very existence was at stake in a very intense way. It’s understandable that these circumstances would generate very powerful defenses.

And yet, once the threat has passed, most of the defenses created in these trying circumstances continue to operate and pull some energy from the power core of each of person who has experienced them. The creation and maintenance of these defenses reduces personal energy and the ability to perceive what is really going on in various circumstances. These defenses also cause people to live way too cautiously for their own good and for the good of all.

In a blog post, I’m not going to be able to tell you how to set yourself free from these traumas that cause so much suffering. This post is to give you hope as someone who has seen people set free from their inner demons.

Here are a few things I would like to share as you consider the possibilities for releasing that which holds you back from living a life of complete and total freedom and trust.

1. It takes as long as it takes.
2. Release, when it happens, happens in an instant.
3. There are layers and aspects to our defenses. Clear one. Allow the next to surface. Clear that one. Repeat! Repeat!! Repeat!
4. You are not alone in your suffering. There are thousands of people (if not millions) currently carrying burdens very similar to yours.
5. You need not fear forgetting anything. You will remember what happened without feeling the negative feelings associated with those memories. You will also be able to see more of the good that existed in those circumstances once the defenses are gone. What a gift!
6. There is hope. Eventually everything impermanent must give way to that which is permanent. When we allow this to happen, everything changes forever.

You don’t have to believe me. You don’t have to trust me. You don’t have to do anything. I’m here to give you hope. When you are ready, the responses  to your questions will come to set you free from that which ties you to the past. You deserve freedom. For those of you who suffer because of your decision to serve the cause of freedom, isn’t it time you allowed yourself to be set free as well? For those of you who suffer because of the exercise of human free will, isn’t it time for you to experience real freedom as well?

May we all be set free from the shackles of the past. And in our freedom, may we serve other suffering souls generously from hearts overflowing with compassion. Together we can help each other heal. Together we can change everything for the better.

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To live a life without limits or constraints, we must become defenseless. Defenselessness is the state of being where a person does not have any defenses against potential threats. The defenseless person also does not need to create new defenses in the face of what most people would call dangers, threats, accidents, disasters, etc. I would like to suggest using other words and phrases when referring to these types circumstances—perhaps opportunities for learning, love, or growth; challenging circumstances or even blessings. Call me crazy. I can take it.

So, what are the benefits of becoming defenseless?

Life without defense is a life without limits. When we are defending against anything, some of our energy and attention is going to maintain the defense against some scary thing. This also means that we continue to attract scary circumstances to match the frequency or vibration that created those defenses in the first place. In other words, defenses are very distracting and draining.When we have access to all of our power without any of it being drained or diverted to defense systems, anything becomes possible. Anything!

The only way that I know to become completely and permanently defenseless requires the acquisition of Spiritual Power. The possession of this power gives a person powers, gifts and abilities that lie far outside the perceived boundaries of most people at this time.

If one is defenseless, then one is very powerfully connected to her intuition. There are two aspects to this. First, there is no power being diverted from intuitive faculties. One’s intuition is fully-connected and fully charged. Second, the effectiveness and power of one’s intuitive ability increases because there is nothing to hinder the defenseless person’s intuition. The defenseless person sees reality transparently. It is like supercharged, x-ray vision. Unlike Superman, a defenseless person can even see through lead and substances with much higher densities! In this state a person has the ability to sense threats and opportunities very clearly, allowing her to make the most of the available opportunities and minimize the impact of (or completely avoid!) potential threats.

For many of you what I am writing about may seem impossible. It’s okay to think that. I am writing this to give you hope, to inspire you to believe that you may not need to be bound by fears and the defenses they create. You don’t need to be on your guard ever or forever! Your defenses actually make you less safe and secure because they attract what you don’t want and make it more difficult to see threats before they arrive! You can be totally and completely free to be your true self, do what you are here to do, and to love yourself and others with complete and total abandon. I’m planting seeds so that they may grow in your consciousness, eventually manifesting their glorious fullness in time. If something can be perceived, it can be achieved! If only one person perceives something, then it is possible for anyone to perceive it. Defenselessness is not exempt from these laws of life! Seek that which will make defenses unnecessary!

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