Choosing Love

2/13/14

This week I rekindled a friendship with someone who is dear to me after a falling out we had some months ago over a trust situation. In doing so I told him that I was done with the story (which had been the cause for our fall out ) and was deciding to trust him once again.
"I'm not sure one chooses to trust or not," he said. 
"Well, then I choose love," I replied.
"I knew that," he answered. "Me too."

This brought me to thinking about the "art" of choosing love. Choosing love is actually a simple thing. You choose it or you don't. The challenge can be in putting aside our attachments to being right, or defensive, or separate from others. These attachments do not serve love, and lead to further separation and suffering.


So, later that day I began to scan my life for areas where I was still withholding love based on stories of judgment, or being right and realized that I certainly had some and I was blocking my peace and joy by doing so.  If I only choose to love here or there depending on the circumstances, then am I really choosing love? Or am I withholding love because I am not comfortable with my perception of a person or a situation? In which case I am merely being selective with my love and well, that is not really love.

If you are to really choose love then choose it as a way of being, not as an occasional gift you bestow on those few you deem worthy. Step fully into love as who you are and be love in all aspects of your life. There is not a limited supply of love, and you will not run out. Loving is the way you show up in the world, it is who you inherently are. Don't limit yourself by limiting love.

Choose Love - choose completely.

-Trinity

1/24/14

Where Peace Dwells, Fear Cannot

I recently have been asking the question “What are the thoughts and beliefs you hold that are blocking your total access to Love, Peace and Freedom?” 

When we are feeling agitated, stressed, anxious or fearful it is a sure sign that a belief is jumping up and preventing access to our peace. Have you noticed how you can be going about your day in a happy way and one little thing can occur which causes you to go into a state of upset? Or the other way around: You wake up in a grouchy mood and feel a dark cloud hanging over you, then something “good” happens and you suddenly shift into happiness? 

Most of the thoughts and beliefs we have that block our access to peace are simply fear.

Circumstances change constantly. One moment things are one way so we choose to have thoughts that affect us like this, and then things change so we choose to have thoughts like that. What if you became more conscious of all this fear based choosing and began to choose thoughts which open the door to your inner peace?

You have the opportunity to do this all the time. You have the ability to do it too….even when it seems really hard or even impossible.

Start with something simple. The next time something occurs today where you feel any type of upset, pause and ask to see it differently. Ask yourself what would feel more peaceful right now? It could be in traffic, or the grocery store, talking with your partner, watching the news….as a matter of fact watching the news will give you TONS of opportunity to practice. Notice how you feel when you watch a story on the news that is upsetting. Ask yourself how you can see this story differently? What can you shift within yourself to feel peace? Perhaps you find yourself sending love to those involved in the story? Be aware of the judgments you may have about the characters in the story. These limit your access to love. Drop them. Notice that the circumstances do not need to change in order for you to have a new thought, a new response. Go in the direction of peace and you will experience peace.

Remember this: Where peace dwells, fear cannot.

Love, Peace and Freedom,

Katie (Trinity)

Beyond Manifesting 12-28-13

Beyond Manifesting

12-28-13

I used to write a blog entitled "Manifesting Monday." It was a weekly blog dedicated to the practices of manifesting the experiences of life that you wanted to have. I wrote it for about two years, and then felt it was time to step back, learn more, and reevaluate the game of life. I call it a game because if you step back far enough you can begin to see that life is a creative game with many pieces, and many players. You can play the game with intense seriousness or you can play with levity and light. It really is a choice, and for the most part I choose the latter.
After an incredible year of deepening my own awareness of self, the human experience and the path of spiritual seeking I feel I have come to a new level in the game. One that has moved me beyond the many processes of manifesting things and experiences into a deeper study of allowing and unveiling the truth of life and existence.
This is certainly NOT to claim that I have all the answers.
As a matter of fact I have none of the answers.
What I do have however is a drive and commitment to remove layers of the illusion we humans see as limitation, struggle, and suffering.
And this is what I want to share with you.

So I thank you for joining me on this renewed adventure and invite you to share your own thoughts and responses to what you read here as I present this blog as a forum for conscious conversations.
I ask that if you do choose to participate you do so through moving the conversation forward and respecting others' insights and views. This is a place for supporting each other to transform and expand our ways of being in the world. To discover inner peace, and to carry that "out" into the world.

I look forward to connecting with you.

Love, Peace and Freedom,
Katie