Connection is everything

That’s the answer. That’s all you need to heal your broken heart, your drug addiction, alcoholism, excessive pornography use, fear of commitment… everything.

What? You want context?

Okay, here goes.

We spend our lives looking for connection: as babies we crave it from our caregivers and twist ourselves into whatever we think is most acceptable to them to get some kind of connection with these people who are supposed to love, care and protect us. And even if you receive the perfect enlightened love and care from your family, its not the connection you are looking for.

Already feeling isolated and alone but hiding it to fit in, we grow up into teenagers and young adults who seek connection through friendship, peer groups and again twist ourselves into something that we think resembles everyone else and what they want in order to be accepted. And we do this with our newly awakened sexual interests too.And we do everything to fit in and end up feeling ever more isolated and alone.

And these peer groups and romantic/sexual interests lead us to hide even more of who we truly are and to maybe join in activities and practices that don’t sit well with us but by this time, we’ve so lost touch with being able to feel our own truth that we don’t notice any dissonance.

And we grow up and get more and more distant from that part of us craving connection and to hide from the pain we feel but are unable to acknowledge we bury ourselves under the minutiae of life, keeping a job we don’t like, living with people we don’t fully know or trust, and never, ever stopping the distractions long enough to feel and hear the dissonance.

Because its not outside connection we seek. Its not the love of another person, or a tribe or a family. It’s not fame and fortune. Its not anything outside.

Connection is everything when we connect inside to ourselves. To our truth. To Higher Consciousness.

Now, I am probably the last person to talk to anyone about spiritual awakening because that just wasn’t who I thought I was.

Until belatedly, during the past year, I discovered it was exactly who I am, this was what I needed for myself and what I needed to guide every single person on this beautiful planet we are slowly poisoning ourselves out of co-habitation with towards. Connection.

So yeah, I’m kinda embarrassed talking about tapping into Higher Consciousness because this was never how I saw myself. It was one of the things I was running away from because I conflated spirituality with religion and I wholeheartedly rejected man-made organised religion decades ago.

And I still do.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t need God in my life, or Source or the Universe or Higher Consciousness. I’m still not comfortable with the term God because of all the stereotypes it holds but God it is. A shining universal energy that is where we come from, is what we are, what the whole world and Universe is.

That is the connection we seek, to reconnect with our heart and soul, with our truth, the truth of being, the truth of everything. We are all one energy and connection to that energy is everything.

How do you connect?

Breath is Life. Follow the breath.

I know, I sound like something from that Eddie Murphy film in the 80’s where the little buddha child was kidnapped, what was it called?

I’m not trying to be mystical or mysterious. Breath is life and if we slow down and follow the breath inside, follow the exchange of breath, the inhale and exhale, if we sit in contemplation of this we see God, we see a miracle. Life is breath.

The Golden Child! I knew it would come to me!

Also, be aware that in every single moment the mind creates a Big Distraction. This could be cravings for your soothing poison of choice. It could be your news addiction (that’s definitely one of mine), social media, whatever, its anything your mind fixates on that takes you away from the present moment.

Our one job is to become aware of when our mind is playing with the ‘Big Distraction’ and bring our attention back to the present moment.

But there’s a reason why the distraction usually works. Familiarity. Love and connection is a constant choice over the comfort of fear. Fear is familiar to us and boy do we fight to stay in hard circumstances just because its what we know. Familiarity is comforting, even more comforting to our mind than the possibility of true comfort through connection, because that means we have to change and give up our soothing distractions.

Love = Presence. Love = Connection. Be in the NOW, that is connection.

A great way to stay in the NOW and avoid the ‘Big Distraction’ is to get out of your mind and into your body. Your body is a tool to exit the mind. And what is a great tool for getting into your body? Becoming aware of your breath.

God has really made it easy for us to stay connected and yet so few of us are.

Another great tool for awareness, presence, and connection is your voice. Singing, chanting, raising your voice in exultation! I know that raises somewhat uncomfortable images of church going but it all honestly, signing the hymns was my favourite part.

Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a noted research scientist showed in his book ‘Science and Spiritual Practices’ how we can deepen our own connection with the more-than-human realms of consciousness through 7 practices, one of which is singing and chanting, especially when we join in communal singing such as in a choir. It is uplifting and transformative.

Our voices are a re-calibration system for our energetic field. We raise our vibration by raising our voices in song, chanting in meditation with mantras, even in the spoken word when we tune in and expect Higher Consciousness to speak through us.

Let me summarise:

1. CONNECTION is Everything
2. Breath is Life.
3. In every single moment our mind creates a ‘Big Distraction’ to pull you away from the present moment.
4. We have a constant ongoing choice of Love over the comfort of familiar fear.
5. Love = Presence
6. The body is a tool to exit the mind and be present
7. Voice is a recallibration system for our energetic field.

Since I’ve been directed down this path, I have been witness to many amazing things. I channeled Higher Consciousness and had words come through me that I was not saying from my own intelligence. I’ve coached other people into accessing similar experiences.

Some clients have visualised whole realms of different Higher Energetic Beings and their amazement at what came through for them and the joy felt in experiencing such visitations is truly humbling to witness.

I am an ordinary hypnotherapist who stumbled into a extraordinary way to connect with Higher Consciousness and I am now following that path as far as it will take me and bringing as many people as I can along for the ride.

Because this is what we are all looking for. This is the Connection that heals all our wounds. This is the guidance we are seeking for guidance in life. This is everything.

I may have blown your mind, or maybe you’re a skeptic like I was, or maybe you already know all of this to be true and love this work. Whatever you are, I invite you to join my weekly Be Your Own Lighthouse sessions because this is where we come together to play with the energy of Higher Consciousness and lift ourselves up into being lighter, freer and more true to ourselves than we ever thought we could be.

Join us, its fun and as inexpensive as I could make it.

Love,

Cynthia xx