Embracing the NOW is the only cure for a broken heart. Yet when one's heart is broken is the hardest time to embrace it. And that is because we are so fiercely embracing and holding onto that from which we have separated. It is hard to let go and release and letting go and releasing is exactly what we need to do in order to embrace the NOW. So it is crucial to be gentle with yourself. Hearts need time to heal. When they do finally heal it will be realized that it was putting our focus more on the NOW that accelerated that healing.

We are all healing! When I look around me and see others grief-stricken or abused or lonely or forsaken I see that everyone is healing. Everyone may be at their own unique stage in their healing, but they are all healing. Some may be healing from multiple hurts or huge hurts or small hurts. Everyone has something they are healing. I cannot interfere in their healing. I can only provide an example through my own healing--which is ongoing like most people. I can only help others by healing myself.

Healing is a matter of release; of surrender. It is hard to release because separation hurts, in fact it's one of the biggest hurts we are all trying to heal. We feel separated from our creator, from our true selves behind all those masks, from those characters we created to fill our reality, and from that reality itself. It's like we're floating in the air frantically trying to hold onto something. So we hold on to the thought patterns that brought comfort in the past. We hold onto old perceptions. We repeat our actions and movements.

We fear releasing all that because we become naked and vulnerable. We fear the unknown so we hold on to the known--which is in the past. We fear the NOW because it is unknown. It may not fit the parameters of our old reality. The NOW calls for spontaneity and that is difficult for those who habitually react in default patterns. We don't know how to be free and spontaneous and joyous.

But if we surrender all our struggle and fears and clear our heads of thought we can connect to the NOW moment of where ever we happen to be. We could connect with a flower or look at a mountain or cloud and we could feel the beauty and love and joy within that NOW moment. Through this connection we can feel the connectedness of all things and we can touch the feeling of one-ness. This is when we can begin to see that all separation is an illusion. This makes for more rapid healing. The heart becomes much stronger. When the heart is in the NOW it beats vibrantly. There is so much love and joy and beauty in a moment of NOW that the heart is rejuvenated.

Put your heart in the NOW and, with time, it will heal. Others will come to their realization at just the right point in their journey. The more people who embrace the NOW, the easier it will become for others. How do you immerse in the NOW with a broken heart? Slowly, gently, and with complete surrender.

Surrender may seem like the most difficult thing in the world yet it is also one of the easiest things. Such is the paradox of surrender. If we surrender to the NOW we will heal.

I've suggested this exercise before but it's worth repeating. During times of the day when you can be alone for a few minutes stop everything you're doing and look around you. Stop ALL the thoughts in your head. Empty your mind completely and find something in your field of vision to stare at. Remember, no thoughts! With an empty mind, put your attention on your feelings and try to feel the space you are in and the moment you are in. Look directly at the object you chose and repeat three times, either in your head or aloud, "This is the only me that exists." Remember; three times.

You are a different person than you were six hours ago, six weeks ago, six years ago, and six decades ago. Your body is never exactly the same. It is in a state of continuous regeneration and recreation and so, too, is our personality and our perceptions. We are a different person than we were just six minutes ago. We live in a state of constant change (another paradox).

There are many yous. There is the you who just graduated from kindergarten, the you who went on your first date, the you at your job ten years ago, the you who read yesterday's paper, and the you who you strive to become. But there is only one you that actually exists and that is the you in this present moment. The you from six minutes ago no longer exists! The only actual you that is in existence is the one we are in in the NOW moment.

Usually, we see ourselves as a composite of all the many yous we have been. As long as we attach ourselves to any of the yous that are not in the current moment of NOW then we pull ourselves out of the NOW and we miss out on experiencing being the only you that actually exists. By thrice affirming that "this is the only me that exists," we are pointing our attention at that all-important you; the only one that exists. When done throughout the day for several weeks we start connecting to the NOW more easily and with more joy. We start connecting to the all-important you; the one with all the power to create.

Remember to release all thoughts when you do this exercise. It is a feeling exercise and not a thinking exercise. Feel the NOW as often as you can, even if just for a moment each time. It will grow on you. And it will help you heal.

 

"Sometimes it feels as if life is accelerating too fast. Offering things I'm not ready for. Feeling too vulnerable as yet to be so exposed. And other times it feels as if nothing is happening fast enough, and I'm trapped in this limbo, prevented at every turn again and again by another obstacle."

 

That is a very good description of what humankind, as a whole, has been going through. Collectively, humankind went into a sort of limbo in 1995 which has lasted up until now. 2006 is the year we finally come out of that limbo. We are stepping out of ten years of limbo.

What caused this limbo? It was a choice that humankind had collectively made. We chose to change our path. This involved re-scripting what some spooks like to call our intent packages. Essentially, our intent packages are like life themes. They are written before we come into our lives. They are like a blueprint of possibilities designed to present the optimum life encounters to facilitate learning and evolvement in specific areas of life. While we are always free to make choices as we live the blueprint we are somewhat limited by the possibilities of the blueprint we made for ourselves. To make really big changes we've got to go in and rewrite the blueprints to allow for the additional possibilities we have chosen to explore.

It's like a webpage. You may look at the screen and see a webpage but behind that webpage is a whole bunch of code. We also have a whole bunch of code we had written for ourselves. We wanted to go in and change that code to allow the possibilities to prevail that would accommodate our new choices. But changing code is a lengthy and tedious chore. And you have to go into a different 'mode' to do it.

So we went into a state of limbo so we could get into the code and work on it. With a webpage, the code changing is all done behind the scenes and a default image of the webpage still shows up to viewers until all the new code has been implemented. That's how it is for us, too. We seem to be floating in a state of limbo filled with all our default images. But we can feel the change going on underneath. We seem to get nowhere and we get impatient for that re-scripting to get done. The state of limbo has grown increasingly frustrating. But we are starting to get glimpses of the new webpage and we can see how much better it is going to be but it just isn't quite ready yet. We want to get rid of all those default images and we get frustrated when we can't. We can't seem to make any progress as long as we're in limbo and the harder we try, the less progress we make.

The good news is that when the new scripting goes on-line, then all those default images will fall away. The only struggle will come from trying to hold onto them. Once the new choices are encoded in our intent packages then our field of possibilities will radically and quickly change and it will no longer seem like we're treading water in a state of limbo. We will be able to make real movement and this will allow for serious changes to take place.

2006 is the year we come out of limbo and begin running on our newly re-scripted intent packages. We've been living without our intent packages for ten years; everyone on the planet has. 2006 is when our new intent packages activate. It won't be at the exact same time for everyone. It will happen over the course of this next year for everyone at different times. But by this time next year our lives will be very different. And it will feel right. We will be invigorated with new passion and intent. We will make great movement; movement that is unencumbered and free. It will be truly wonderful.

Let it happen. Know that it is about to happen and then just allow it to. Cease all struggle and wait and watch for it to happen.

 

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I think it's important to remember that the soul and the body are both going through an evolution. In fact, their evolutions are intricately interwoven. They are evolving in tandem, in sync; like braided hair. Looking at the middle of the braid it's hard to tell whether a loop of hair came from the left bundle of hair or the right without counting down from the top.

So it's no wonder there is confusion. But I prefer to see it not as confusion but rather as perspective. Both strands of hair being braided are reflections of each other so if we confuse one for the other we are merely seeing the reflection. We are just seeing it from a different perspective. In the evolutionary process we must experience all the perspectives of something in order to gain the wholeness of the experience. Some of those perspectives may seem confusing but as we continue moving and therefore seeing even newer perspectives all the reflections will begin to make sense in the overall scheme of things.

Problems arise when we try to make one perspective absolute. That's not possible. That merely gets us stuck in one perspective, halting our movement...and evolutionary progress. Luckily, the evolutionary imperative, already set in motion, is stronger than our attempts to cling to certain perspectives. Movement will happen whether we resist it or not, so it is always easier to remain open to all new perspectives and to see and feel the truth in them, for they all contain truth simply because they exist.

If we only concentrate on one loop of hair in the braid we're not seeing the whole braid with its multitudinous perspectives. This is ironic, though, because if we were to go through and beyond all our perspectives of that one loop of hair and connect with it on a feeling-tone level we would be able to connect with the one-ness of all the hair. So that one loop of hair can both lead us to and shield us from the one-ness of all the hair.

Every loop of hair in the braid is unique and individual yet they are all part of the same hair. There are no bad loops or wrong loops. All loops are valid and all loops lead back to one-ness. As for the evolution of the body and soul, my feeling is that they are so inextricably intertwined there's not much point in trying to differentiate, or separate, them. The body and soul are evolving together and whatever you say about one will, at some level, apply to and be reflected by the other.

Now, I'm not sure where suffering comes into your question, Craig73. I see suffering and struggle as resistance to movement. In our long evolutionary path this has been good because it has slowed us down enough to experience that long evolutionary process in all its glory. Suffering and struggle were vital ingredients in both the evolution of the soul and the body. It facilitated our movement through a particularly dense vibratory frequency on our evolutionary path. As we become less dense and less resistant to movement we move into a new frequency band and suffering and struggle will begin to dissipate. We will instead pick up new evolutionary tools. Instead of suffering and struggle we will start using appreciation and gratefulness. It will seem like a whole different world.