Spiritual Realization evident in Soft,
Softly Be Opens a Way of Being and Lived Life:
Live a Soft Life of Grace
Free in Life
In Response as Soft Presence
Know Omnipresence Love
The One Power, divine Love
See power as sovereign Love
Experience relationships
as Soft Spirited Love
Live in Compassion’s Great Light
Release judgment & rigid thought
Live as divine Presence
rather than as mind’s repetitive chatter
Rest in inner stillness
Soft silence,
the Quieting peace within
Free of Past and Future Focus
Happiness, Presence Moment
,
Free of Wanting or Grasping
Live as Love Awareness,
The clear vision
of the haven of harmony
That reveals heaven as earth
That reveals changing circumstance
as changless Grace
How Can We Softly Be Amidst Suffering?
Joanne seeks inner peace and feels deflated with continuing pain in relationships, how can she Softly Be?
Michael had spiritual experiences of deep peace in God and and then life seemed to unravel, and the peace evaporated, how can he Softly Be?
Bill’s wife, Susan sharply conveys her disappointment with him, and he feels inferior and criticized, how can he Softly Be?
Irene caretakes her husband and loves to care for him, and yet feels burned out and tired, her joy and creativity plummeting as she prays for healing, how can she Softly Be?
David experiences a divorce and financial reversal that feels crushing and those he thought were his true friends are nowhere to be found, how can he Softly Be?
Anna’s recent spiritual growth creates an unexpected backlash of jealousy, betrayal and withdrawal of support from her fiancée, how can she Softly Be?
Sarina has meditative and prayer experiences of celestial love, global oneness, and then those around her judge her when strong emotions surface, how can she Softly Be?
When our lives re-structure, collapse, hit walls, and change, change, and change, how can we Softly Be?
When we long to know Self as the totality of God Love and Presence, and it seems elusive in its final realization, how can we Softly Be?
How do we know Self as God Presence, free of a separate sense of identity, to live a Soft Life?
When we fall silent in meditation and cocooned peace, and then later meet with crushing news, our nervous system creating adrenaline, how can we Softly Be?
When our individual, community and global issues escalate, and we feel mounting insecurity and stress, how can we Softly Be?
Wisdom Keys to Softly Be: Experiential
To Softly Be, first realize that the true nature of you, of us, lies within our spiritual nature.
In our divine nature, one with our Creator, or with the eternal Divine Presence, we already are the infinity of love, life, happiness, and limitless beauty.
In and as our one consciousness, spirit awareness, we know the soft Grace, the ineffable peace, beyond even the slightest trace of fear, stress, or “hard” experience.
Relax into this experiential practice to Softly Be. With any practice, as the essence or awareness dawns, then the practice itself merges in being. Spiritual awareness, already Is.
Open for this to flower within you spontaneously, rather than turning it into a set-in-stone or rote technique.
Thus, Softly Be with the practice and experience it as ever fresh and new each time you contemplate.
Read a few lines below, and close eyes to contemplate the message before opening eyes to continue. Rest into the contemplation with ease:
- Settle into a comfortable position
- Breathe in a slow, deep, rhythm, in and out of the nose
- Open to feel the place in you where there is perfect peace
- Place awareness on your physical heart and feel gratitude
- After a moment of feeling gratitude, once more rest in peace within
- Notice if feeling gratitude deepens the feeling of peace
- The peace within, beneath or beyond the thoughts of the mind, knows/remembers oneness or harmony with God or divine Presence, as here, now
- Contemplate that the spiritual essence of you, does not change and is still peace, still eternal love, still infinite awareness
- Rest in love within — just beyond or beneath any thought or emotion
- Notice any sense of stress, tension, emotion – fully welcome the stress into love, to wash away in the inner love
- Welcome tensions or emotions without resistance, yet not immersing in them —- feel and release
- Feel whatever arises, and rest back within the inner love and peace, that is unified with and one with God love and peace
- Pause, gently notice what triggers a reaction or a resistance— what ties you to the belief that you are a limited body, mind, personality, separate from divine Presence, or other than celestial soft peace
- Let the emotions all gather in one underlying sensation: a non-soft feeling of separation
- Welcome this sensation home to love, to dissolve in eternal Love
- Notice even the most subtle non-soft resistance to life or reactions to events
- Refrain from decisions or actions based on reaction or resistance
- Notice the tendency to resist, to “harden to” an experience that feels stressful, reactionary, or painful
- Soften instead
- Let go of resistance to the totality of the situation, rest in the peace within
- Embrace what arises within and rest deeply as spirit Presence, as changeless Love, as the soft peace of compassion
- Notice the tendency to escape or avoid the inner discomfort or difficult situation
- Face it instead… Be with it instead…soften….soften…free of fear…soften
- Simply welcome the thoughts, feelings and sensations and Softly Be with them
- Allow everything to become slower in this moment– the breath, the thoughts, the experience
- If an event triggers stress or emotions, or hard experience, release focus on the triggering person or event and softly stay with the trigger feeling
- Just stay with the inner experience, soften to the inner experience
- Beyond the trigger experience, softly rest in oneness with divine Presenceneness with here now, revealing the non-power and the evaporation of the belief, reaction, contraction, limitation….
- Change focus from being the content of the experience to the One who in soft compassion sees the content
- Softly Be the soft changeless love and peace within
- Experience compassion for those that deliver the trigger and offer the forum to move from hard to soft, to Being Soft Presence – they offer a camouflaged gift. (It is actually you giving you the gift). When you “Softly Be” with that gift, great vistas of expansion and freedom open ….
- Awareness dawns of existence as Soft Deific Love, Eternal Light, knowing Itself as You
A Contemplative Treasure Key to Softly Be
You may think of Softly Be as a flower going from flowering to bud form, and then back to open flowering once more.
In other words, if you imagine your whole body (or whole being) as a flower, such as a rose– allow it (self) to rest inwardly in bud form to the situation. Rest back from the situation and let all reaction or hard resistance or action fall away. Rest inwardly as peace and love. Then flower again as deific Love, peace Presence unaffected by the situation. (This presents as a distinct and profound experience, tangibly and actually for students and friends in Ahavah classes and retreats.)
The bud form of this practice is a total surrender of the concept of a struggling and surviving “me” who needs approval or control. It reflects an emptying of fears, limitations and freedom from the belief in a separate sense of self that harbors them.
Spirit Presence, alive as the Heart Essence, flowers, or Is, in simple, profound and stable constancy of harmony, beauty and joy.
Realization dawns of being soft, deific Love, the light of celestial consciousness, as Itself, ever knowing Itself.
Wishing You Soft Realization,
Dr. Ann Marie Nielsen, Ahavah
copyright 2015 – present, Ann Marie Nielsen, PhD
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