Soul Light

(Messages through Les Dyer)

SOUL LIGHT - Thirty Three
Change and Real Prayer
  
Just 43 years ago coloured Americans for the first time gained the right to vote across the United States.
 
Today, one of those who at his birth was automatically subject to both segregation and vilification has been asked to lead their country and accept the office of President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of their armed forces.
Everything is changing.
 
Just 32 years ago, Mao Zedong, the communist leader of China died, marking the end of the revolution that brought the country to its knees, destroying much of its history and culture, smashing its economic infrastructure, obliterating its educated class and killing an estimated twenty million people.
  
Today, China proudly leads the world in technology and manufacture of everything from tractors to air conditioners and satellites to women's clothing.
 
Nothing that once was will ever be again.
 
Religion is changing almost as fast.
 
On July 28, 1999, Pope John Paul II rejected a physical, literal hell as a place of eternal fire and torment. Rather, the pope said hell is separation, even in this life, from the joyful communion with God.
 
According to an official Vatican transcript of the pope's speech, Pope John Paul II noted that the Scriptural references to hell are only symbolic and figurative of "the complete frustration and emptiness of life without God. "
 
He added, "Rather than a physical place, hell is the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy." He said hell is "a condition resulting from attitudes and actions which people adopt in this life."
 
A black American president; Chinese control of the world's economy; and the end of 2,000 years fearing eternal damnation in hell - what can we expect next?
 
More change.
Faster change.
More radical change.
 
In such an environment, we must each learn how to handle dramatic and rapid change.
 
And the answer I believe is through prayer.
 
Not the prayer that happens on bended knees by the beside and starts with "Help!".
 
Nor the prayer that starts with an apology "I know it's been a while, Lord, but I've been genuinely busy...."
I mean Real Prayer.

Real Prayer is the very act of Life itself.
It's the way we wash up the dishes.
It's the way we speak to our children.
It's the way we treat our neighbours, work associates and even relatives.
 
It's the way we play sports.
It's the way we spend our money.
It's the way we deal with the past and the way we approach the future.
 
It's the way we use love.
It's the way we respond to the world.

Real Prayer isn't a three minute under-the-breath exercise at the end of the day - but rather the very way we move and interact throughout the day.
 
This fortnight, choose to Pray your Way through it.
This means being aware each moment of what you are doing, thinking and saying - and coming from your Higher Self in each of these areas as often as you can remember.
 
Intentioned Practice will make this exercise easier - until one day the remembrance of the divine being you are will flow naturally.
 
Such remembrance will help you to effortlessly embrace change.
 
And you'll find the change you embrace arises from deep within yourself.
 
You become the change.
 
You become the future.
 
Love and Blessings,
    
Les

SOUL LIGHT - Thirty Two
Change and Faith.
  
For the past two years I have been privately sharing my beliefs that western civilization, as the dominant power in the world, is coming to an end.
 
Such an epochal change is accompanied unfortunately by waves of economic turmoil as the old political system is overturned; religious fundamentalism increases as people retreat into the assumed ‘safety’ of their existing beliefs; and every day life that once seemed orderly is thrown into confusion as systems change to accommodate new social landscapes.
 
The next few years will see the balance of political power swing between the US and China. The Middle East will continue to exert significant tension. At home, employment will change both in style and availability.
  
Industrial laws will shift. Environmental concerns will be relegated downward to accommodate seemingly more important commercial demands. Commodity prices (from houses to cars to fuel) will swing erratically. Social safety nets will flex. Money and asset values will undergo significant adjustment. Many personal relationships will come under greater strain.
 
I choose not to be more specific as my purpose isn’t to scare you – but to encourage you.
 
For in such a global environment it is important that we each focus on the positive attributes of these substantial movements. After all, our personal health and wellbeing depends on our attitudes toward change.
 
We need to be able to embrace it with equanimity, care and composure.
 
As we make change our benefactor, we see the benefits flow into our lives.
 
Naturally, this requires faith – but faith in who or what?
For many people faith has been exclusively placed in our governments, our administrations, our banking systems, our corporations.
 
Faith for these people expresses itself as believing that our money and jobs will always be there; and will always be worth what they are today. For many, faith is expressed in a God that will hopefully maintain the status quo.
 
And yet, life is change. Constant change. Continual change. Change without end.
 
Recognising this we can also recognize that the Divine Presence creates change. Yes, even permits the change we fear.
 
The answer therefore is to embrace the Divine Flow. To accept change. To make change our friend. To welcome change into our lives – and to make of it the very best we can.
We do so by recognizing that we are always safe, no matter what happens.
 
By recognizing that there is no safety in yesterday or last year. Only now matters.
 
And to embrace ‘now’ is to embrace not our needy ego but our real Self, our Soul!
  
Luckily, we need not be mastered by the changing world; nor fearful of it – or its changes.
  
We can be our own divine Being. We can simply express our divinity. Be in the world without being owned by it.
We do this when we realize there is no part of us that is not empowered.
  
No part that is not God.
No part that is not Love.
No part that is not Infinite.
  
Change is coming. Let us go forward and greet it as a friend.
Let us work with it, move with it, understand it and find out how to use it as a tool for us to each express our greatness.
Let us never forget that we are consciously choosing not to exacerbate this world’s problems – but rather be part of its solutions.
 
We are Love!
  
Let us ensure these changes bring that Love to the fore.
Let us have that faith which surpasses ordinary understanding – let us have the faith to know that everything is happening safely.
  
Let us have the faith to welcome change.
 
This week simply visualize and affirm (as often as you can)
I am the constancy of love in an ocean of loving change.
I embrace change; and I embrace the Love I am.
 
Love and Blessings,
   
Les

SOUL LIGHT - Thirty One
BREATHE

A few months ago I offered readers two mantras:

I AM LOVE
AND LOVE IS ALL I NEED TO GIVE
TO ALL I MEET
AND ALL I DO

And also……

I AM SPIRIT
AND ONLY MY SPIRIT IS REAL

I AM SPIRIT
AND MY SPIRIT IS JOYOUS LOVE

I AM SPIRIT
NOTHING ELSE…. NOTHING LESS.

Many people have written and told me they have gained much benefit from using them. Some made them into posters. Others taped them and listened to them with musical backgrounds…..

This fortnight I’d like to offer you another mantra I call BREATHE!

Simply make yourself comfortable…..close your eyes…….and then slowly breath IN and OUT.

On the out-breath repeat out loud ….E GOES OUT (in other words, ego goes out…….)

On the in-breath repeat out loud……GOD COMES IN

After a few minutes change the mantra from your external voice to an internal voice. Be silent, yet continue the chant within….keeping focused on your slow breath and the meaning (for you) of the words you intone……

Visualise all egoic thoughts and feelings leaving you; and the Divine Presence completely embracing and filling you.

Keep this up for just 10 minutes, preferably early mornings (but evenings are OK, too). Try to do it every day.

After a couple of weeks you will notice your frustrations and angers have been modified; your irritations and annoyances have declined; your intolerances and rigidity have weakened. You will also realize that your co-operative nature has grown, your care and concern for others has widened, your love and compassion has deepened and your sense of wellness and oneness has expanded significantly. Keep up this mantra, with focused attention and intention, and you will soon enjoy significant behavioural and social benefits!

Please write and let me know how it affects you personally.

E-GOES OUT……….
GOD COMES IN…………
E-GOES OUT………
GOD COMES IN…………
E-GOES OUT……….
GOD COMES IN………….

Be at peace in Spirit,

Love and Blessings,

Les