The Dying Days

February 2015 Channelling

A recent book suggests that the current frenetic pursuit of wellbeing and happiness is becoming counter-productive. The anxiety generated in trying to find these elusive elements and the stress caused when they do not seem to materialise, may be doing more harm than good.

Guidelines

“The pursuit of happiness has become too directive, too greedy. It has been added to the ‘must have’ and ‘want now’ experiences. But wellbeing is connected in reality to a deep sense of peace and quiet in the body.

There’s a kind of helplessness that seems to be grabbing people at the moment. They simply don’t know what to do next – about themselves or the confusion in the world around them. And because of this helplessness – in the face of too much weight – they have sunk down into their boots. For many people it is difficult to know how to raise their game.

But, what we would ask everyone to allow at this taxing time is the sense of really reaching the bottom, and to fully experience the sinking down – rather than agonise about how to get up again.

It is important to recognise that the world has reached the pits, and that we need to experience for ourselves the full weight of this recognition; to be drawn down; to drop into oblivion, to the place where nothing can be done. We need to hit the buffers properly, not struggle to stay on top of things.

Because by doing so we can release everything that went before. Dying to our old self allows us to begin to look up again, to emerge again. But in a different way – in a way that is true to a new self.

We have to let go; release everything that has gone before in order to rise again – like the Phoenix rising from the ashes.

Give yourself some regular quiet time. Leave the Smartphone, the iPad, the Laptop outside the door. Leave everything that distracts you, because our addiction to technology and instant communication, is symptomatic of our fear of letting go – to encounter ‘no thing’, and the spiritual void that is being asked of each of us, whether we know it or not. No matter what your work is or your aspirations are, take time out, to meditate, to be mindful.

And in your meditation, as you descend right down into bowels of your being, allow yourself to begin to feel the ‘peace that passes all understanding’. When the letting go is complete it is possible to arrive at the place where greed and want and desire have dissipated. In the bowels of the being, in the bowels of earth itself, at the depth of all creation, there is only peace.

It is as though at the beginning of time, before creation, peace reigned. But when the creatures arrived, they wanted, desired and devoured. Yet now humanity has reached a point. Not the point no return, but the point of complete return – to the bowels of the earth before creation, where the peace that passeth all understanding reigns supreme.

Experience yourself in a very deep place of peace, where there are no words, where you don’t want or need anything, where you are absolutely safe and deeply content. And in that moment where peace reigns, there is joy – the joy of expectation, of all creation in the making.

Now, like a single grain of wheat, you are opening up. Experience the excitement over this simple act of creation. You have no need to have ten grains or a hundred. The opening of this one small grain feels enough, and that makes you happy.

Just one moment of joy, experienced for one second through the whole body, triggers a dynamic change within you. It is a change that is almost indiscernible, but at the same time tangible and everlasting.

It is peace that leads to joy that leads to happiness”.