Winter Solstice Is a Time for Introspection and Awakening Light

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Diana Rankin

Winter Solstice comes at me always unexpected as the days shorten and the nights lengthen. Loneliness can overtake me in the darkness, leaving me feeling empty of energy, and I must remind myself to turn the loneliness into one of deep introspection and honor the sacredness of turning inward.

As I witness the daylight move so quickly away, I want to hold onto it, and I remind myself to remember that all life is a coming and going, with a few precious moments for each experience. As the participant in life’s movement, I must stay present lest I miss the richness that presents itself in the moments of my life. I remind myself of the value in darkness as I let go of the need for more light. As the great bear in the West goes into her cave, I too am led into the cavern of my inner world.

It is within the inner world where I find both the richness and the horror that is my personal human experience that expresses itself out into the world. I come face-to-face with my beauty and my unkindness; with my success and with my faults and failures. It is where who I am and whom I want to be smack up against each other and I cannot hide the truth of my thoughts and actions from myself. It is here, in this inner world, that I am able to delve into myself and move beyond to the point of creation of that which I want to be and want to manifest within my personal world and for the greater world. It is here in my inner world that I meet my ancestors and the ancestors of all. It is here in this inner world where I soar through imagination into other worlds and gather together with beings of immense wisdom and knowledge that I then bring back to my world.

As I remember what awaits me in my inner world, I remind myself to allow the darkness to linger just a little longer in the morning and the daylight to leave at its appointed hour in the evening.  As I let go and give myself over to the shortening of the days as we draw closer to Winter Solstice, a voice from my inner world gives me the gift of knowing that on the awakening of the day following Winter Solstice the light begins to lengthen as the days begin once again to grow longer.

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Phillip’s Wisdom: On Love and Fear

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Diana Rankin

Each individual thought or action from the individual human creates an energetic vibration that meets with other similar energies. These energies fasten together, growing in complexity as more like energies bond.

To simplify what we are saying, take one thought by one human, The sky is beautiful. That thought has a vibrational frequency to it; let’s call it “SB.” Thought SB moves into the ethers and bonds with another thought SB. These two SBs continue to attract and be attracted to other SBs, thus the energetic field of the original SB has increased and strengthened.

What this means for the person who is having the thought SB, The sky is beautiful, is that the original energy of this one thought has increased and will manifest in two ways: (1) the energy of the original thought increases so in this case the enjoyment of the sky increases; and (2) as the thought bonds with similar thoughts, the energy increases for everyone receptive to receiving.

This is what is meant by like attracts like.

One thought bonds with a similar thought. This bonded thought bonds with other similar thoughts and so on. As you can see, the more humans who repeatedly and purposely have similar thoughts the more powerful the manifestation of the thought into third dimension reality.

To create a world of greater love for humanity and all life, including life of the planet, humans must be willing to release fear and live love. At this time on planet Earth, we see great opposition to those who practice love, living love. At times, it may even seem that fear is more powerful than love. It is not. In the most temporary of circumstances.

This is what is taking place in your world today. Because of so many individual dwelling on fear, fearful thoughts bonded with like fear thoughts are manifesting in the third-world dimension as wars, terrorism, political upheaval, murders, violence of all types, prejudices, hatred of others, harm to animals and winged ones, destruction of the planet, and a host of other non-life affirming realities.

The movement to counteract this is quieter and just as powerful. To those who are shouting, however, the quieter movement of love cannot always be heard over the dramatic roar of fear. Only those who are willing to give up the fear and have the courage to live love will experience what Love is.

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Happiness Depends on Your Signals

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Diana Rankin

Imagine a grid around the world, a network of crisscrossing lines that vibrate with energy. Imagine at every juncture where the crisscrossing lines intersect, signals are sent and received. Signals reverberate out into the universe and bounce back toward the planet. What are these signals? Who sends them? Who receives them? 

You are. You are the signal; you are the sender; and you are the receiver. With every emotion you experience, you send a signal. With every thought you think, you send a signal. Combine emotion with thought and the signal grows in power. You are the sender, and you are the signal. You are also the receiver. The energy you put out comes back to you. Like attracts like. 

You are part of this wondrous matrix of life; you are the soil in which possibility is embedded. 

Use signals to create happiness. Fine tune your signals and grow new possibilities of happiness. Here’s a way to do so—

Stand or lie outside on the ground. Look around the heavens until you find a cloud. Study this cloud for a few minutes, and then send out the signal that directs the cloud to disappear. Poof! Do not get deeply invested, just send the signal out with excitement and a clear signal. Notice the ending of the last sentence—with excitement and a clear signal. Play this game with the wonder of a child with a new toy. Enjoy yourself as you think the cloud away. See the sky empty where the cloud once was. See blue where once was white. Once you have mastered cloud transformation, see what games you can come up with to prove to yourself your creative connection to all.

And then—

On a clear night, at the darkest time, go outside. If possible, get away from city lights. Stand or lie on the ground and look toward the stars. Let your eyes soften and keep looking. Let your mind quiet and keep looking. Then you will see the grid, subtle, pulsating lines crisscrossing, intersecting, surrounding the planet, lines of vibrating energy, signals you send and you receive, and in this moment of time, the awesome wonder of your connection will fill you with a sense of humbleness, greatness, and responsibility, and a deep and astonishing joy that stretches beyond yourself, and you will be happy.

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Look at Your Plate

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Diana Rankin

Much unhappiness is caused by stress or idleness. Put the two together and you have a pit that digs into a depression. Stress comes from more on your plate than you can pray over. Idleness comes from nothing on you plate that you enjoy. How do you put on your plate the right amount of that which pleases you? 

First, you must accept that if you are unhappy, you are going to cause unhappiness for those around you—your family, you co-workers, the clerk at the grocery store. Okay, you say, if other people are not responsible for my unhappiness, only I am, why am I responsible for their unhappiness? You are not responsible for their unhappiness, but you are responsible for the energy field you create.

You may not be aware of the energy field you are creating, just as you may not be aware of the energy field those around you are creating. But think about it for a moment. When you are around someone who is always down, you have to work a little harder to stay up. The same works in reverse. Those around you are aware of your energy field, even though they may not be aware they are aware. Got it? 

You need to take care of your happiness so you can then take care of those for whom you are responsible, and each of us have a responsibility to ourselves, to our families, to our co-workers, and to all humanity in our world. Sometimes this is difficult.

Okay. It is what it is. Which is easier— moaning and groaning about what is wrong with life, ignoring what is going on in your life, or laughing about what is? When you moan and groan, you lose the flow, and everything on your plate turns into a big, ugly, gooey, mess that you have to digest. When you ignore what is going on, it builds and overflows but doesn’t go away. When you laugh and accept and go with the flow, everything seems to get done and you have fun doing it.

Now I know this isn’t always easy, especially when the task is something that we do not enjoy or something that is difficult for us. But try the following process and see if that doesn’t help. You just might surprise yourself. 

Take a look at your plate, at what you are digesting and at what is missing. Begin with the intention each day that you want to accomplish and to be happy doing so. As human beings, we need a sense of fulfillment that comes from ending the day with a sense of a day well lived, a day we added to our lives and the world. 

The writer Isak Dinesen said, “When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”

She is right. My mother used to tell me the same thing, so this process comes with a thanks to these two amazing women. 

Make two lists of goals for this coming week. The first list is what you have to accomplish. Title this list, “What I Have to Accomplish this Week.” Include what you need to accomplish at work as well as at home. Then take a look at that list and remove anything that is not absolutely necessary.

Then add two things that you really want to do, something that would make you feel good to get done, such as cleaning out that closet or a section of the garage you’ve been wanting to get at and will give you a sense of moving ahead, and something that is just for you, such as spending thirty minutes every evening reading a novel, something that will give you a time of relaxation.

Now make a second list. On this list you can add the things you removed from your first list if you like but be sure to stay true to the flavor of this list. Title it, “Things I Want to Do this Week if I Have the Time and Energy.” This list is pretty self-explanatory. Do make sure you add fun things to this list that you may or may not choose to do—go to a movie, have lunch with a friend, and so on.

Do include “if I Have Time and Energy” in the title for this list. Sometimes we want to do things, but time gets away from us or we don’t have the energy. You can push yourself a little, but also give yourself an out without guilt.

Return to your first list (What I Have to Accomplish This Week) and break it down into goals, and then break those goals down into daily steps that help you accomplish each goal. For example, suppose you have 10 boxes that need unpacking. They’ve been sitting in the attic for far too long.

Even one box seems like too much to get started on, so you just keep ignoring them, which causes stress. This week, choose one-half a box to unpack as a goal. One day, you bring the box into a room where it won’t be in the way but within your daily sight.

Next open the box and unpack two items. Only two items. Once you find a place for those two items, unpack two more, and so on. Do this with glee, excitement, and a sense of exploration and the job will be more fun than if you face it with dread. You might even decide to unpack the whole box this week instead of only unpacking half and leaving the other half for next week.

Facing taxes, a pile of paperwork, bills? Spend three days sitting with them and blessing them. On the fourth day, being working on them, but only after you say a blessing. Chances are you’ll be ready to get started before that fourth day. Spend short bursts of time, about 15-to 30-minutes, working on a project unless you are in the flow and want to spend more time. Don’t make it a grind. It’s better to return to it later in a state of excitement rather than force yourself to push through and make yourself miserable. However, if you can push through and are happy about it, go for it.

When you find you have too much time on your hands, it’s Spirit’s way of telling you that someone else needs your help. Find out who. Perhaps it’s a neighbor who is lonely and just needs someone to talk with. Perhaps it’s the local book club who needs your wisdom. Perhaps it’s an animal at the local shelter who needs your loving hands. Perhaps it’s someone who is hungry at the local food shelter. 

When people ask me how I manage to stay in a place of happiness most of the time, my answer is always the same, “I don’t have time to be depressed.” I deeply believe that since we have to be on this earth anyway, we might as well enjoy ourselves. The opposite just isn’t any fun.

Happiness comes from a sense of being worthy, of being needed, of filling our plate without overfilling it, of accomplishing, and of time for ourselves just to curl up with ourselves and say, “This was a good day. Thank you for this life I live.”

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For Happiness Move from Wanting to Having

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Diana Rankin

When we are unhappy, we need to look within our lives to that which helps to create our unhappiness. Unhappiness is often caused by our constantly staying in the place of wanting and never reaching the place of having.

We often blame the other, or outside forces, for causing us unhappiness, but our unhappiness is not caused by others. Our unhappiness is caused by our wanting the other person or circumstances to be who or what we want.

We are unhappy because we do not have a material object we want, or the money to do something we want, or the person in our life we want to be there, or….We get caught in feelings of lack, which leads us deeper into the blaming game, which leads us right back to the other—the spouse, the boss, the employer, the government, etc. If they saw my worth and paid me better; if they didn’t take so much away from me; if, if, if . . .  When we are iffing, it’s because we forget the other is never our source. Not for love, not for money, not for our happiness. Spirit/God/Universe/Energy is our source; we are the receiver. 

We also get caught in wanting feeling we are not where we want to be in our lives. We forget to be right where we are, in the place of we have. Epicurus, the ancient Greek philosopher, said, “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for.” 

Whenever I get down because I’m not moving forward in my life, I gently, but firmly bring myself back to the present moment and take an action toward the direction in which I want to move. We so often forget patience is needed for achievement.

We so often spoil what we are experiencing by desiring what we have not yet achieved. It’s often necessary to remind ourselves that what we have now was once among the things we only hoped for.

Whether we are caught in the wanting because of what we perceive we are missing or caught in the wanting because we are not moving on fast forward, the following process will help.

To move from wanting to having requires two things: 1.) to begin; and 2.) consistency. When we take one step toward that which we want, we take ourselves out of wanting and put ourselves into having. Sound paradoxical? How do we stay out of the want, and at the same time, step toward it? We take one step at a time.

Let’s use the example of being caught in the wanting of wanting someone to be different than they are. Our first step may be to examine what it is about the other we want to change. If we are consistent, once we get past the kvetching, we will eventually realize what is missing in our life. We then can provide that for ourselves instead of frustrating the other—and ourselves—by trying to make the other change.

When something is missing in our outer life, it shows us that something needs attention in our inner life. It is not about what is missing in the other; it is about what is missing within our self.

The same principle works if we want an object. Let’s say we want a new television set that costs $500. The first step is to put aside $5.00. It may seem to take forever, but if we consistently put aside $5.00 on a regular basis, eventually we will have the television. If we fall into the unhappiness of wanting, all we have to do is count all the five dollar bills we’ve put aside to move into the happiness of having. 

The same is true of feeling any kind of lack in our lives, including the sense of not moving forward. Now, let’s make this really tough. Let’s say we don’t know what we want. We just know we want something. How do we figure this out? What do we do? Where do we begin? How do we know where to go? What steps to take?

Start with what you do know. Go to the edge of what you know. This is the beginning. For example, let’s say you’re trying to figure out what you should be doing with your life. You know you want to help people. Write that down. You also know that you are good at helping friends work through their problems, that you are a good listener or financial advisor. Or you want to help people physically and you are strong and know how to use a chain saw. Write that down.

Be consistent. Every day take a few minutes to work with yourself. Before long, you will have a list of what you are good at mixed with what you hope to accomplish. You’ll move from the general to the specific. You’ll move from the wanting to the having. You’ll move from I want to help people to I have the ability to help people, and here’s how I can do that.

The next step is finding those ways to put your having into practice, which begins at the beginning with asking yourself, “Where could I best use this talent?” Then open to receiving interesting ways Spirit will guide you to those who need your help…or guide them to you.

And don’t forget that gratitude, gratitude to yourself for asking the questions and receiving the answers. And to Spirit for providing the answers that take you from wanting to having.

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Be Happy, Have a Temper Tantrum

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Diana Rankin

Even if you consider yourself fully mature—and few of us do if we’re past our twenties—your inner child likes treats and needs to play. The lack of feeding and considering your inner child can keep you from the happiness you desire.

It takes neither a great deal of money nor time to feed your inner child. All it takes is creativity and being in touch with yourself. . . and having a temper tantrum now and then.       A what? A temper tantrum.

I’m impatient. I want what I want when I want it, and usually that’s now. I admit to not being fully mature. When I want something, I begin with a clear intent and a prayer of gratitude for that which I want manifesting in my life. Contrary to what I just said, I can be patient—for a little while. If what I want doesn’t materialize right now, I’m willing to look at what I’m doing to block it’s admission into my life. Okay, that’s all cleared. Now it can come. Unhun. Now!

Well, you and I both know, it just may not come when I say it should just because I say so, even if I think I’ve cleared the blocks. So, I return to patience, but eventually as time goes by and what I want still does not materialize, I might reach a point where I just snap and have a temper tantrum. Fortunately, I live in a woods at the end of a nine-hundred foot lane. The only ones who see or hear me are my pets and the deer, squirrels, raccoons, chipmunks, and other assorted wildlife and winged ones. I’m sure they get a great laugh at watching me puff up my torso and arms akimbo stomp a foot or two while I clomp around in the meadow letting Spirit know that I haven’t yet received what I asked for. And I’ve asked in such a nice way. So American of me. So spoiled rotten, high-maintenance of me. Still, it works. 

This is not a big temper tantrum with letting go of a primal scream. This is just a little temper tantrum—a little foot stomping or a bit of arguing with Spirit. After a rousing argument of “Do it my way and do it now!” you will find yourself laughing when you get that the joke’s on you. The person you’re really arguing with is yourself, so skip this phase once you have that figured out and go right into the next phase—treating yourself, your inner child—the real fun of this process.

This part you have to figure out for yourself. How can you treat yourself? There are a few parameters you want to follow. Your treats should be within your budget and should not in any way harm you or anyone else. For example, treats can be food, but not heavy fatting foods if you are trying to lose weight and the ice cream cone will make you feel guilty later, or should you buy something or take a trip you can’t afford. These are self-destructive acts; they are not treats. Self-destructive acts do not feed the inner child.

Your inner child is satisfied with pretending something is real. Remember there is a child within the adult. For example, if you like to buy things, unhappiness comes from not being able to buy something because you think you can’t afford it. Instead of buying it and feeling guilty and producing more unhappiness, go on a pretend shopping spree.

Actually, spend time in very expensive stores full of all the goodies you wish you could buy. Be very clear with yourself that you could buy anything in this store that you want, but you are choosing to not buy anything, because you haven’t found anything you want. You’ve found things you like, but nothing you really want to spend your money on . . . even though you could. The trick here is the clarity with yourself that you could buy IT if you wanted, but you don’t really want to. This clarity satisfied your adult while the act of shopping satisfied the inner child. 

Be creative with yourself. Find those things that treat your inner child and watch the inner smiles begin. Pretty soon you’ll have no need for a temper tantrum.

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Unsticking the Stuck

Posted on November 14, 2024 by Diana Rankin

It takes energy to be unhappy. Unhappiness drains you. Imagine you are walking around every day carrying a fifty-pound bag on your back. This fifty-pound bag is filled with I’m-not-good-enoughs; They-are-not-goodenough-for-mes; Life-is-unfairs; I-could-do-that-buts; and a thousand other excuses of what life—or the other—has done to you to make you unhappy. How often have you said, “I will be happy if he . . . she. . .  they, it. . .?” Or “I could be happy if only . . .”

Mother Teresa said, “It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing that matters.” So, if you insist on being unhappy at least put a lot of love into it. Of course, if you put a lot of love into it, you can’t possible stay in unhappiness. Love and unhappiness just don’t mix. 

But sometimes you just can’t muster up enough love and trying to be happy just isn’t working. You are just plain stuck. When this happens, there are two things you need to know.

First you need to know how to get unstuck, which is what this process is all about. And secondly, you need to realize that every step you take toward happiness is one more step away from unhappiness. Think about this: Happiness is not a state that we reach and stay put the first time out. Instead, it’s a moving in and out, which means every time we move away from happiness, we need to return. And every time we return, it gets easier to do so.

We may feel that for every step we take toward happiness, we take two steps backward into unhappiness. When we do, we need to then take a step–or two—forward again into happiness. Sooner or later, you’ll notice that when you leave happiness, you catch yourself quicker than the last time, and you are able to move back into happiness both sooner and easier. You’ll move from spending years or months in unhappiness to weeks or days, and eventually only hours or quick minutes. Eventually those old grooves in your mind will be deeper on the happiness side than on the unhappiness side, which means eventually you’ll spend more time happy than unhappy. 

This is a good day to be happy, but you may be feeling full of frustration, tired, or just feel happiness is too much work because life just isn’t going the way you want it to. You feel stuck. You need to scream, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do. This isn’t any ordinary scream. This is a two-year-old child’s primal scream.

Put yourself in a place where you will not disturb others, or warn them of your plan so you neither scare them nor cause them to call 9-1-1 because they think you are in need of help. And then scream.

Begin with a scream that comes up from your toes, rushes through your whole body and returns back down through your toes to Mother Earth. This is a powerful, physical process. Make sure you monitor yourself while you are screaming. If you feel your blood pressure rising or your heart beating too fast, STOP! This is about releasing old tension, not about hurting yourself. 

After screaming, thank Mother Earth for accepting and cleansing your tension. And then dance, just move about. Sing or put on music and dance to its beat. Primal music. Upbeat music. Dance. Become very childlike in your dance. Silly. Giggly. Feel the relaxation in your body. Feel the lightness. Let the music pour over and into you and let the giggles come all the way up from your toes to the very top of your head. Put giggles into every fiber of your being and every cell of your body. And then relax and go about your day’s business. 

As you go through your day, become aware of every burden you recapture, and STOP YOURSELF from taking back any of the burdens you used to carry around. Smile and toss aside the She-did-this-to-mes or the What-a-jerk-he-iss or the She’s-in-the-wrongs. Replace all those burdens you used to carry around with the much lighter thoughts of Life feels-goods and the I’m-so-happy-to-be-mes, because I am happy, and I am helping

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Election 2024

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Diana Rankin

This is an article I wrote about the 2016 election. I change two words: 2016 to 2024 and President Obama to President Biden. The article still seems relevant.

Today is a day to catch our breath and reflect. For some of us it’s a day to mourn, for others it’s a day to celebrate. For all of us it’s a day to stay in the grace of Love. The U.S. is a democracy that can no longer stand the dividedness this election has brought. The vote has been counted and we must respect the chosen President-elect of the majority of the people.

This is not a time to lash out in anger. There has been enough of that. This is a time to reach out to our neighbors and offer comfort where there is fear, light where there is darkness, a hand of help where there is confusion.

This is not a time to blame nor is it a time to gloat. It is a time to speak with grace, calmness, and love when the other speaks words of anger and hate. It is not a time to arm ourselves in fear of our neighbor. It is a time to help still the fears of the gun holder, to remind the bully he too is loved but his words are unacceptable, to speak against the fear monger and remind her she too is deserving of respect but her actions are harmful and will not be tolerated.

It is the time to hold our heads high and stay in the energy of Love, for that indeed is the only thing that will heal the divide and heal our world. Now is the time to walk our talk of loving kindness and show all people compassion and understanding, even for those who cannot show it to themselves or to others.

Love is an action verb; it is not passive. Take action, but first ask yourself if this action is being taken in love or fear. Take action, speak, write, work to change the world, get involved and do so through love, not fear or anger, but LOVE.

We create the energetic pathway for others to find and follow by how we live our lives. Let’s make the path of Love bigger so all can find it more easily.

It may not seem so at the moment, and the darkness will increase before the dawn but remember this: the sun will come up.

The question has been put to me: what do we do now? We get up and feed our children and take care of our pets. We go to work and come home and make dinner and wash dishes and rake leaves. We live our lives. We hug each other, cry on each other’s shoulders, stomp our feet and shout, and then we return to the daily sanctity of our day-to-day lives.

Before any great change, all that is unlike the new that is to come will surface. The cleansing must take place and each one of us have signed up for this time in history. We must hold hands and hearts and stay in the Divine Light of Love. Let us help President Biden and President-Elect Trump make a smooth transition and hold the new President and Congress in prayer for peace and the caring and treatment of all people — all people — equally.

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Mining the Body’s Wisdom

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Diana Rankin

Happiness eludes us when we hold old fears and other negative emotions in our bodies. Releasing negative emotions provides us with greater wellbeing, health, and energy—and it allows us to be happy. 

Our bodies are wonderful monitors for telling us what is going on in our lives. Have you known anyone who died of a broken heart? I do. My best friend never got past her husband leaving her for another woman. Her heart was broken. She died of a heart attack in her sleep. I’ve seen people who are in suffocating situations develop breathing problems, and people who were so wound up in fear they were unable to move forward, which showed up in leg and knee problems. One of my beloved cats had a stroke and loss her eyesight. It was a friend who enlightened me when she said that my cat had given up her sight so that I might see.

Certainly not every illness, not every cut or scrap, not everything that happens to us is to “teach” us something about ourselves, and certainly we do not consciously draw illness or physical pain to us. And certainly the spirit-mind-body connection is much more complex than I’ve made it seem. That said, the first question we may want to ask ourselves when an illness strikes or we injury our bodies in an accident is: “What is my body telling me?” Once we figure that out, we are able to go deeper and mine tremendous gifts from our inner world, one of them being happiness.

The following process requires physical movement. If you are unable to walk, the process is somewhat effective as a visualization. The time it takes will vary, usually twenty to sixty minutes. 

Begin to walk. If possible, walk on the earth rather than concrete, and walk in a quiet, safe place. As you walk, bless and thank each part of your body. Bless your toes, toenails, and feet for your perfect health and for carrying you through the day. Bless your calves and shins, bless your knees and thighs, and thank them for supporting you. Continue to work up your body, and then move inside your body. Bless your brain, thanking it for functioning perfectly. Bless your heart and lungs for perfect breathing and the perfect beat of life. Bless your digestive system, the esophagus, the stomach, gall bladder, liver, large and small intestine.  Bless all organs, the kidneys, pancreas, female or male organs. Bless your blood and the arteries, veins, and capillaries. Continue throughout your body, blessing your bones, joints, skin, muscles, and so one. End with blessing and thanking every cell of your body for perfect health and wellness, and bless your mind for accepting your perfection.

As you bless and thank your body, feel yourself relaxing and letting go of stress. Thank Mother Earth for taking this stress and cleansing your body. Then begin to chant, “Love/God/Spirit/Universe/Creator/Energy (choose the Divine Source in which you believe) is in every cell of my body, Divine Source is in every cell of my body, Divine Source is in every cell of my body. Divine Source is in every cell of my body healing me and filling every cell with perfection and energy.” 

Continue chanting and walking. As you do, you will begin to experience emotional and physical changes. You may resist, feel like running home to safety. You may feel sick, want to cry, feel fearful. Keep walking and keep chanting. It doesn’t matter if you walk in a circle, up and down a country land, in a city park, a suburban neighborhood, or in your own back yard. Just keep walking and chanting, and soon you will have a breakthrough.

The breakthrough will come as a thought about someone or about a situation. It may be a recent memory or a childhood memory. As you think of this person/situation, bless him/her/it and ask your Divine Source to replace any resentment, anger, or other negative emotion with love. Ask to have your heart opened to this person or situation. This does not mean you need to allow the person into your life, or that you allow them to cross any healthy boundaries you have set up. It does not mean you accept the situation or want to stay in it. It does mean you are letting go of your human emotions to allow yourself to experience unconditional divine love—for yourself and for the other. 

As you release negative emotions you were holding toward this person or situation and open to Divine Love, you will be flooded with emotion. You may feel a warmth in the heart center. You will experience the beauty around you on a cellular level as though you feel in your body the beauty you see, and the beauty may feel almost overwhelming. You will experience bring-to-your-knees gratitude for your Divine Source, for the other person or for the situation that brought you to this place, for the world around you, and for yourself and your life. You will be overwhelmed with gratitude that you are able to walk and to see and to release and to experience this moment.  You will be happiness and experience joy as a deep contentment that fills your every cell.

Repeat the blessing of your body daily. Repeat the releasing of negative emotions as needed but allow at least a few days between the releasing to allow the full process to take place.

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Life’s Small Moments

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Diana Rankin

You are the only you in this whole world. You are unique. No one else is like you and no one else can be who you are or do exactly what you can do for this world. You have come into this world for a purpose that only you can accomplish. That’s how very special you are. 

Perhaps you have come to this world to be a parent of a child or to parent a million children. Perhaps you have come to this world to heal yourself and another being or a million beings. Perhaps you have come into this world to discover a new technology or to discover a new use for technology; perhaps you have come to bring delicious food to others; or to grow beautiful flowers; to paint or to photograph beauty; to write a poem; to build a structure; or to add laughter or thought to the world. Perhaps you have come to this world to write a book that helps another, to speak words that help another, or to help heal the body of another. Whatever has brought you to this world, your life in this moment in time is perfect just as it is, and so are you, even if it doesn’t feel so in this moment.

So many of us spend our lives looking for that purpose—that mission that brought us to this world—that we miss what is right in front of us—our life. Your mission becomes clear as you live your life; it becomes clear in the passion that comes as you breathe in the breath of your every moment. Your mission in this life is in the everyday movement and moments of your life. What is your greatest desire? Is it to love yourself? To help others? To express yourself? To heal others? To teach? To work with animals? To have great sums of money? To have fun? What gives you pleasure and evokes emotion within you? 

This is a new day of your journey to create your own happiness. This day practice living each moment. It is the day you open yourself to the greater awareness of your life and the truth of who you are.

As you go through the day, stop yourself at different intervals (at least once a day and reach for three times each day) and ask these questions: What am I experiencing this moment? How does this feel? What is behind this emotion? Is this how I want to feel? What would I change about this moment? What is beautiful about the moment? 

This idea is to get you in touch with yourself and to help you experience the small moments of your life. After a while, you will begin to see patterns, and as you see the patterns in your life, three things will happen: (1) You will become aware of how very precious you are and how very precious your life is; (2) You will begin to understand why you are here in this Earth plane; and (3) As you begin to see how your life is unfolding and how vital you are to the life you are living, happiness happens, and you are able to make those changes that increase happiness in your life. 

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