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The New Light
Part 3: Keys to Opening the New Light
In this series of articles Sananda writes about the qualities of light coming to Earth now and how we may use them for our enlightenment and for the planet. These articles are being published in Paradigm Shift magazine beginning in the May 2009 issue. For a free meditation with Sananda Qualities of the New Light - An Introduction go here.
Introduction
As you read these words I am connecting with you through them. My purpose in doing so is to help you to more joy. That joy really exists within you already, just as an oak tree can be said to exist within the acorn. So I bring you light through these words, like the light that helps the oak to grow. The words are designed to help you focus on your inner light and foster it, just as the spirit within the acorn fosters its potential for joyful aliveness as an oak tree.
Now pause a moment to consider all of the people who shared in the process of bringing these words to you. If you include everyone who has made it possible for you to read these words, people like those who taught you to read, even those who, long ago, invented writing, you quickly see what a wonderful collaborative venture these few published words are.
So here you are, as humanity, brilliantly collaborating with one another to create an opportunity to gather more light to yourselves and with it to grow in joy. These words are one tiny contribution to this process. You are extraordinarily ingenious in finding ways to grow. Have you ever noticed how a plant will find a way out from under a rock? It doesn’t mind which way it goes, but go it will towards the light. You are the same. You have had to take so many twists and turns on your journey, but never have you deviated, (no matter how much you may doubt this) from your drive upwards to the light.
And the light feels you coming; it responds to your reaching out towards it. It is responding now with new qualities, because it recognises you are ready to receive and to use these gifts well and wisely. In previous articles I have written of how you may collaborate together in this new light, forming what I have called the community of love; and I have written of how you may assist yourself to absorb and assimilate this light. Now I am writing of some of the principal qualities or gifts that the light contains, and to suggest ways in which you may access these qualities.
The qualities I am telling you about are all made of the same light behaving in different ways, just as from the same piece of clay you might make a vase, a bowl or the model of a horse. As with the clay, your intention makes all the difference. When you focus on one or other of these qualities, it is that quality that the light brings to the fore.
1. Enabling
You might imagine this first quality of enabling as existing like floating orbs of light that come into being at moments of choice. You have, of course, many thousands of such moments every day; and each choice you make generates more choices further down the line. This means that it has often been difficult for you to gauge the consequences of your choices with any degree of accuracy beyond the immediate future. The enabling quality of the new light begins to offer the possibility, firstly, of sensing a wider range of available choices and, secondly, of sensing with more accuracy or detail the consequences of those choices.
Imagine yourself at a moment of choice, not necessarily a big choice, just any one of the normal, ordinary choices you make each day. Now imagine yourself calling in this enabling light. You could picture it as a glowing orb into which you step, or which bathes your being, or which illuminates the point of choice. It begins by slowing time down, or expanding it in such a way that you feel free and relaxed in this moment and able to explore with your intuition or inner knowing more of the possible avenues that might exist for you to travel onward. The light moves before you on each of these possible paths and illuminates your way far ahead, throwing into momentary brilliance glimpses of possible consequences and outcomes to that choice.
As you look momentarily at the richness of choice and possibility, you may find a growing sense that somehow you are experiencing all the possible choices, as if, rather than reading a menu, you go into the kitchen and taste all of the dishes, before plumping for the one that gives you the greatest sense of aliveness or satisfaction or nourishment or whatever you gauge to be the quality you wish to experience more of.
2. Releasing
Within your energy field you carry many patterns. By patterns I simply mean energy forms that continue with comparatively little change through time. Some of these patterns are very helpful to you. They enable you to remember how to drive a car, for instance, rather than relearning the skill every time you get behind the wheel. Others are less useful to you. These less helpful patterns may have formed in response to situations long ago that are now not relevant to your life. So you find yourself drawn into responding to a current situation in a way that made much more sense when you were perhaps five years old.
Such unhelpful patterns can be changed, of course. You are doing it all the time. But you may also have noticed that some patterns can feel quite stubborn or ingrained. It is a characteristic of this new light that it dissolves old, stuck patterns in a way that has not been so fully present before. Through all your life light has been available to assist you in dissolving old patterns and, consciously or unconsciously, you have used it in this way. What makes this quality of the new light different from what you have known before is the greater degree of ease with which release from the old or stuck can happen.
Imagine yourself existing within this light, as if you had stepped into a beautiful room in which everything is suffused with light that generates an iridescence about everything you see. Now think of an old pattern of your own that you would love to release. Invite this light to join in dissolving this pattern.
What you may find as you explore this light in your imagination, is that the process of dissolving is characterised by an absence, that where the old pattern was before, there is now simply a newness. It is as if the beauty of the new light has a greater power of attraction for you than the gravitational field generated by the density of the old pattern. You may also find that what feels like a game you are playing in your imagination turns out to be more transformative than you would expect a simple game could be.
3. The Divine Plan
I have already written of how the Divine Plan is more fully present within this new light than before. You might think of it as being like pieces of a jigsaw that were once separate and scattered, but are now beginning to clump together in coherent groups, so that it is easier for you to get a sense of the overall picture. The Divine Plan exists within you as it does within everything that is. So that another way of understanding what this new light does is to think of it illuminating more clearly for you that portion of the Divine Plan that is yours.
However these analogies fail in that they suggest that Divine Plan is fixed, something like an architect’s blueprint, which you, like a builder, set about manifesting. Instead think of the Divine Plan as being more about your relationship with the Divine. The light then is illuminating that relationship; it is helping you to witness with greater clarity the beauty of your relationship with the Source of All. The more of that beauty you experience, the more you find yourself inspired to explore and express in each moment the beauty of being alive.
It is helpful to realise that fulfilling the Divine Plan is not necessarily anything to do with grandness or importance on the Earth plane. It is about a fuller and fuller expression of your own joy. Let us suppose you love to garden. In tending your garden you experience joy and inner peace and many other qualities that give meaning to your life. Coming to understand more of the Divine Plan may have nothing nothing to do with acquiring a bigger garden (though it could), but rather it might guide you to know each plant more deeply, or to work more consciously with the nature spirits, or to discover new harmonies of colour and shape.
Ask to know more of the Divine Plan and make a commitment to yourself that you will do your best to play your part in fulfilling the Divine Plan here on Earth. The word ‘play’ is chosen deliberately, by the way. Let the light come to you, in meditation, in quiet times of inwardness, in dreams, in play and relaxation, to reveal just how much joy there can be for you in the Divine Plan.
4. Expanding
The new light helps you to expand your sense of self in another way. You are used to experiencing yourself as an individual. Your own life is real and vivid too you. The lives of others become real through what they share with you, but usually their experience is not actually yours. Now you may find the light helps you to release yourself from the need to identify quite so closely with your own personality, your own body, your own experiences, as you begin to find that the joys of another can be truly your own joy too. This light is helping you expand your consciousness from these familiar and traditional confines, to the realisation of yourself as consciousness without any real limit; from being a drop in the ocean to being the ocean.
You might imagine this quality of the light as being a little like the lines of electronic and wireless communication that allow many of you to share words and images with great immediacy. Joy that your ancestors might share once a year at a family gathering can be shared all around the world in moments. This inner light is even more immediate; it’s instantaneous. With it you can learn to reach out to share in the joy of others and to offer your joy as a broadcast to the world.
This quality of the new light is like a medium through which your consciousness can expand, like a pigment tinting water, giving it colour and body and presence. The light welcomes your contribution and it carries your consciousness outwards. You might imagine your own Divine Self as the artist who takes this watercolour - your consciousness blended with the light - and creates a beautiful work of art with it.
Then think again of the enormous range of skills you share as a human race and imagine a coming time when all these skills are a natural part of the consciousness you are, all available, all shared with love. But first, for the time being, it may be that this quality of the new light helps you get in touch more easily with all who may help you fulfill your own part in the Divine Plan.
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