"I Am, God Is, and all I Am Is God"

What do you think about life? How do you view the world? Is the world a good place or bad? These are some of the topics we look at Wednesdays at 7 pm in our How to Speak Unity class, by Rev Temple Hays.

The intention of this class is to invite you to notice how your thinking gives rise to your worldview and that there is a paradoxical way to view the world, and that is from a perspective of Oneness based on Unity Principles.

Oneness/Non-duality/Interconnectedness/ interdependence of everything that exists is the way the scientific community is beginning to understand material reality. Most of us are still grappling with this Revolutionary revelation.

In Bonita Springs, a friend of mine shared a mystical experience he had while laying on the beach. He said as he relaxed, the boundaries of his mind opened and for a few seconds he glimpsed that he was part of everything, the sand, the gulls, the waves, the sun. He said he felt free, supported, surrounded and in-filled with a sense of love.

Intuitively we know we are interconnected. As I stay with this heartfelt awareness I not only hear but I can feel the hoot of an owl, for the heart lifts the veil of separation, even though it makes no logical sense.

Enter into the silence; notice and feel the biological, the psycho-spiritual processes that underlies your material form. Notice you are not all those processes and rise up into the "I AM" (the light of your soul) taking these words from the Gospel of John:
"In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God... All things came into being through him...

Realize in an awareness of Oneness, discrimination, exploitation, and abuse dissolves for we would never consciously deliberately hurt ourselves.

I Am
Rev Janice

"Discover the Power within you"

In our Burning Bowl ceremony we released the past year and any lingering limitations, and in our White Stone Ceremony we set our intention to call forth the qualities that we want to cultivate and express in 2012.

In the Bible, when a person receives a new name it is saying they received a new consciousness. The names (qualities) each of you chose to cultivate this year showed the depth of our spiritual community.

Our theme for 2012 is: "Discover the Power within you."

One of the ways we can unleash this power is to cultivate the art of being kind to ourselves, even when we don't feel kind.
Thoughts, moods, emotions arise in our consciousness, we cannot control this.
How then can we bring kindness to ourselves when we feel like we are burning up inside with hurt, restlessness, or anger?
Pema Chodren sees these emotions as opportunities to practice self-kindness. She says that criticizing yourself for how you are feeling is like criticizing the sky for having clouds. Minds think and emotions arise. The practice is to ask What now?

Attending Unity or engaging in Life coaching is about being more conscious with the energy of your life. Create a relationship with your life energy and as you do, you notice that thoughts, feelings, moods, emotions are all energy and they have their own tone;

Instead of trying to get rid of these feelings, acknowledge them and yourself for having the courage to look at them, and to see them as opportunities to become free from excessive suffering by shifting your attention onto something more interesting, like your life's intentions.

This year, I invite you to release old structures by cultivating a relationship with your life energy. Everything is impermanent; energy arises, the energy of provocation, irritation, feelings of inadequacy, yet energy doesn't stay frozen. What keeps it frozen is the story line that spirals into self criticism.

Unity is a Spiritual Center that heals with unconditional love. The best way to start this process is to enter into an unconditional friendship with yourself.

Discover the power within you, in 2012.
Rev Janice