The Art of Easy Joy

At this point in time, many changes are taking place on our planet and in the human race itself. Many people are experiencing effects of the powerful spiritual energy that is pouring into the Earth right now.

Here is a list of some things that many of us are going through. You will probably identify with some or all things listed below, such as…

• Changing sleep patterns: restlessness, hot feet and waking up two or three times a night. Feeling tired after you wake up and sleepy off and on during the day. There is something called the Triad Sleep Pattern that is becoming the norm for many: you sleep for about 2-3 hours, wake up, go back to sleep for another couple of hours, wake again, and go back to sleep again.
• Advice: Get used to it. Make peace with it and don’t worry about getting enough sleep (which often causes more insomnia). You can also request your Higher Power to give you a break now and then. If you can’t go back to sleep right away, use the waking moments to meditate, read poetry, write in your journal or look at the moon. Your body will adjust to the new pattern.

• Activity at the crown of the head: Tingling, itching, prickly, crawling sensations along the scalp and/or down the spine. A sense of energy vibrating at or on top of the head, as if it (the energy) is erupting from the head in a brilliant shower of lights. Also the sensation of energy pouring in through the crown, described as “sprinkles”. This may also be experienced as pressure on the crown, as if someone is pushing his/her finger into the centre of your head. I have been feeling more generalized pressure, as if my head is in a gentle vice. One man related that his hair stood on end and his body was covered with goose bumps.
• Advice: This temporary. Do not be alarmed.

• Sudden waves of emotion: Crying at the drop of a hat, or suddenly feeling angry, sad or unexplainable depressed with little provocation. Emotional roller coaster.
• Advice: Accept your feelings as they come up and let them go. Don’t direct them at anyone. You are cleaning out your past. If you want some help with this, say out loud that you intend to release all these old issues and ask your Higher Power to help you. Be grateful that your body is releasing these feelings and not holding onto them inside where they can do harm.

• Old “stuff” seems to be coming up, as described above, and the people with whom you need to work it out (or their clones) appear in your life. Completion issues or perhaps you need to work through issues of self-worth, abundance, creativity, addictions, etc. Whatever you need to help you walk through these issues starts to appear.
• Advice: Same as #3. Additionally, don’t get too involved in analyzing these issues. Examining them too much will simply cycle you back through them over and over again at deeper and deeper levels. Get professional help if you need to and walk through it. Thank your Higher Power for giving you the opportunity to release these issues.

• Changes in weight: The weight gain in the US population is phenomenal. Others may lose weight.
• Advice: Don’t freak out, but just accept it as a symptom of where you are right now. Release your anxiety about it. Then you might find it easier to lose/gain the weight eventually. Exercise: Before eating, try this: Place your dominant hand over your heart and bless the food. Tell your body that you are going to use the food to richly nourish it, but that you are not going to use the food to fulfil your emotional hungers. Then pass your hand from left to right over the food and bless it. You may notice that the food feels warm to your hand even if the food is cold– I like to think that the food is good for me when it feels warm and nourishing to my hand. I have also noticed that when I practice blessing the food, I don’t eat as much. It is important not to let yourself off the hook when you forget to bless the food before you eat. If I’ve forgotten and I’ve nearly finished eating, I bless the food anyway. That way I don’t slip out of the habit.

• Changes in eating habits: Strange cravings and odd food choices. Some find they are not as hungry as they used to be, or hungrier.
• Advice: Don’t deny what your body tells you it needs. If you are not sure, you might try muscle-testing before you chose a food to see if it’s what your body wants. Also try blessing the food as described above.

• Food intolerance’s, allergies you never had before: As you grow more spiritual, you are more sensitive to everything around you. Your body will tell you what it can no longer tolerate, as if it, too, is sloughing off what doesn’t serve it anymore. You might be cleansing yourself of toxins. Some people find they often have a white residue in their mouth, much like that of runners at the end of a race.
• Advice: An acupuncturist told me that this film can be removed by sloshing 2 tablespoons of cold-pressed olive oil in your mouth for 10-15 minutes (don’t swallow, whatever you do), then spitting it out into the toilet - not the sink, for you just removed toxins from your body and don’t want them in the sink. Brush your teeth and do the same. Then clean your brush.

• Amplification of the senses: Increased sensitivity. A: Sight: Blurry vision, shimmering objects, seeing glittery particles, auras around people, plants, animals, and objects. Some report seeing formerly opaque objects as transparent. When you close your eyes, you no longer see darkness, but redness. You may also see geometric shapes when eyes are closed. Colours appear more vivid.
• Advice: This is temporary. Hazy vision is relieved by yawning. B: Hearing: increased or decreased hearing. I once thought I would have to pull off the road because of the painfully amplified sound of my tires on the freeway. Other symptoms are hearing white noise in the head, beeps, tones, music or electronic patterns. Some hear water rushing, bees buzzing, whooshing, roaring or ringing. Others have what is called audio dyslexia– you can’t always make out what people are saying, as if you can no longer translate your own language. Advice: Surrender to it. Let it come through. Listen. C: Enhanced senses of smell, touch, and/or taste. I notice I can now smell and taste chemical additives in some foods in a rather unpleasant manner. For some these enhancements are both delightful and distracting.

• Skin eruptions: Rashes, bumps, acne, hives, and shingles. Anger produces outbreaks around the mouth and chin.
• Advice: You may be sloughing off toxins and bringing emotions to the surface. Accept it, for it is probably temporary.

• Episodes of intense energy which make you want to leap out of bed and into action, followed by periods of lethargy and fatigue.
• Advice: Roll with the nature of the energy. Don’t fight it. Be gentle with yourself.

• Changes in prayer or meditation: Not feeling the same sensations as before. Not having the same experience of being in contact with Spirit; Difficulty in focusing.
• Advice: You may be in more instant and constant communion with Spirit now and the sensation may therefore be altered. You will adapt to this new feeling. You are actually thinking acting in partnership with Spirit most of the time now.

• Power surges: All of a sudden you are heated from head to toe. It is a momentary sensation, but uncomfortable. In contrast, some people have felt inexplicably cold. I have experienced both.
• Advice: Ask your Higher Power to turn down/up the temperature a bit.

• A range of physical manifestations: Headaches, backaches, neck pains, flu-like symptoms, digestive problems, muscular spasms or cramps, racing heartbeat, chest pains, and changes in sexual desire, numbness or pain in the limbs, and involuntary vocalizations or bodily movements.
• Advice: Remember what I said about seeking medical help if you need it!

• Looking younger.

• Vivid dreams: Sometimes the dreams are so real that you wake up confused. You may even have lucid dreams in which you are in control. Many dreams may be mystical or carry messages for you.

• Events that completely alter your life: death, divorce, changes in job status, loss of home, illness, and/or other catastrophes — sometimes several at once! Forces that cause you to slow down, simplify, change, re-examine who you are and what your life means to you. Forces that you cannot ignore; forces that cause you release your attachments, or forces that awaken your sense of love and compassion for all.

• A real desire to break free of and from restrictive patterns; life-draining jobs; consumptive lifestyles; toxic people and/or situations while feeling a compelling need to “find yourself” and your life purpose — now! You want to be creative and free to be exactly who you really are. You might find yourself drawn to the arts and nature. Disentangle yourself and un-clutter your life from things and people that no longer serve you.

• Emotional and mental confusion: A feeling that you need to get your life straightened out. It feels like a mess. But at the same time you feel chaotic and unable to focus. Advice: Put your ear to your heart and your own discernment will follow.

• Introspection, solitude and loss of interest in more extroverted activities: This stage has come as a surprise to many extroverts who formerly saw themselves as outgoing and involved. They say, “I don’t know why, but I don’t like to go out as much as before.”

• Creativity bursts: Receiving images, ideas, music, and other creative inspirations at an often overwhelming rate. Advice: At least record these inspirations, for Spirit is speaking to you about how you might fulfill your purpose and contribute to the healing of the planet

• A perception that time is accelerating. It seems that way because you have had so many changes introduced into your life at an unprecedented rate. The number of changes seems to be growing. Advice: Breaking your day up into appointments and time segments increases the sense of acceleration .You can slow time down by relaxing into the present moment and paying attention to what’s at hand, not anticipating what’s ahead. Slow down and tell yourself that you have plenty of time. Ask your Higher Power to help you. Keep your focus on the present. Try to flow from one activity to the next. Stay tuned to your inner guidance.

• A sense of impending…??? There is a feeling that something is about to happen. This can create anxiety. Advice: There is nothing to worry about.

• Impatience: You know better, but sometimes you can’t help it. You want to get on with what seems to be coming your way. Uncertainty is not comfortable. Advice: Learn to live with the uncertainty, knowing that nothing comes to you until you are ready.

• A yearning for deeper meaning, purpose, spiritual connection and revelation; perhaps expressed as an interest in the spiritual for the first time in your life. “Constant craving”, as K.D. Lang says. The material world cannot fulfil this longing.

• A feeling that you are somehow different; a (sometimes disquieting) sense that everything in your life feels new and altered and that you have left your old self behind. You have!

• “Teachers” appear everywhere with perfect timing to help you on your spiritual journey: people, books, movies, events, Mother Nature…

• You find a spiritual track that makes sense to you and “speaks to you” at the most profound levels. Suddenly you are gaining a perspective that you would never have considered before. You hunger to know more. You read, share with others, ask questions, and go inside to discover more about who you are and why you are here.

• You are moving through learning and personal issues at a rapid pace. You sense that you are “getting it” quite readily.

• Invisible presence’s. Here is the La-la land stuff. Some people report feeling surrounded by beings at night or having the sensation of being touched. Often they will wake with a start. Some also feel their bed vibrate. Advice: This is a sensitive topic, but you may feel better blessing your bed and space around it before you sleep. I rest assured that I am surrounded only by the most magnificent spiritual entities and am always safe in God’s care.

• Portents, visions, “illusions”, numbers, and symbols: Seeing things that have spiritual importance for you. Noticing how numbers appear in your awareness with synchronicity

• Increased integrity: You realize that it is time for you to seek and speak your truth. It suddenly seems important for you to become more authentic, more yourself.

• Harmony with seasons and cycles: You are becoming more tuned to the seasons, the phases of the moon and natural cycles; more awareness of your place in the natural world and a stronger connection to the earth.

• Electrical and mechanical malfunctions: When you are around, light bulbs flicker, the computer locks up, or the radio goes haywire.
• Advice: Call on your angels or guides to fix it or put up a field of protection of light around the machine. Laugh.

• Increased synchronicity and many small miracles. Look for more of this. Advice: Synchronistic events tell you if you are heading in the right direction or making the correct choices. Honour these clues and you cannot go astray. Spirit uses synchronicity to communicate to you. That’s when you begin to experience daily miracle.

• Increased intuitive abilities and altered states of consciousness: Clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, and other psychic phenomena. Intensified sensitivity and knowing; Awareness of one’s essence and that of others. Trans-logic understanding of apparent paradoxes

• Communication with Spirit: Contact with angels, spirit guides, and other divine entities; medium=ship and Channelling. More and more people seem to be given this opportunity.

• A sense of Oneness with all: Transcendent awareness and a direct experience of this Wholeness; being flooded with compassion and love for all life.

• Moments of joy and bliss: A deep abiding sense of peace and knowing that you are never alone.

• Integration: You become emotionally, psychologically, physically, and spiritually stronger and clearer. You feel as if you are in alignment with your Higher Self. Life is effortless.

• Living your purpose: You know you are finally doing what you came to earth for. New skills and gifts are emerging, especially healing ones. Your life/work experiences are now converging and starting to make sense. You are finally going to use them all.
• Advice: Listen to your heart. Your passion leads you to where you must go. Go within and ask your Higher Power, “What is it you would have me do?” Watch for synchronicities. Listen.

These are all phenomena of altered states of consciousness and are by no means new. So I don’t know about energy currently pouring into the planet. It may be that many more people are now experiencing these things.. I don’t know, are you? I’d like to know. Are people around you reporting these things? I’m familiar with nearly all of them, but then I have been for nigh on 45 years now. Few people I know or who are around me are reporting these phenomena (at least not to me), not that that necessary means they aren’t but I’d like to get some sort of feel or handle on this stuff rather than just accept data because it was emailed to me.

A good example of this is some stuff about a Sufi in Turkey who has developed or discovered “sacred” clustered water that is reported as a miracle “solution for pollution” which got my interest but then a few days later I got another email that plunged the whole issue into doubt. I’ve put both articles in the archive page (or will in time) if you are interested in these things but while I appreciate the contributions from you all, I’d really appreciate it if you’d please try and discover how ‘real’ the items being reported are before sending them along.