Dear Guides,

What does it mean to open one’s heart? How can we open our hearts – to others, to life/God, to loving ourselves? What value or impact does this have?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 2.16.2010:

Dear ones,

Here you are speaking of the path of the heart, opening that vessel to the flow, to the influx of love from the force of all love in the Universe, allowing this love to permeate your sometimes-well-protected carapace, something you may have erected to protect your fragile inner spark, to protect it from winds that could make it flutter or sputter out.

First, allow yourself to receive this love within, swirling around, healing and nourishing you. And then the other side of the flow is to pass it back out into the world surrounding you, “sharing the wealth” you have allowed yourself to receive. This currency of love is free to all to receive and recycle and glorify and share and enhance.

In its simplest sense, this is the basis of your abundance, your prosperity in your world. In fact, it is the same in many worlds, all through the Universe, because it is one expression of the life force. You can choose to see everything through this lens. And it can only enhance your vision and your life to consider love as the basis of all, the element from which all is constructed.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein
Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Opening the Heart 2.16.2010

Dear Guides,

How do we break out of the endless cycle of always feeling behind?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 2.9.2010:

Dear ones,

You are in a cycle of time, you live in that paradigm. It is part of the system you have chosen on Earth. So this is not something you can ignore altogether. The rules of the game. But it is a game. And when you are open to the mysteries of the greater beings that you are, even while you are committed to living in your human bodies, you can play by a wider variety of rules to your game.

We are reminding you that there are ways to tap into the “beyond time and space” which you can cultivate, including asking for our help. These ways will create short-cuts to accomplishing things you want to complete with such grace and ease that they will begin disappearing before your very eyes. This is the approach which creates phrases like, “Miracles happen!” So know that you have access to these approaches.

But in the meantime, assuming that you are not accessing this kind of outside help and these greater resources in order to live your life, what kinds of strategies would you be able to integrate into your daily life? And how to adjust the feelings from anxiety about responsibilities and accomplishments and your schedule to a feeling of freedom?

Yes, the feeling of freedom, being a free agent in your life, being the one who chooses and is empowered to define the parameters and the focus of one’s life is a most prized possession. The more you can cultivate and recognize any single moment when you genuinely feel that at that moment you are the master of your universe, the captain of your ship, the better.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein
Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Feeling Behind in Our Work 2.9.2010

Dear Guides,

What to do when we feel ourselves moving into the victim role, along with its supporting cast, complaining, blaming and nagging?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 2.2.2010:

Dear ones,

We are so grateful that you deliver such delicious questions to us that express the questioning of your generation, your peers on the journey. This can open such a moment of revelation for the many that are making such valiant efforts to move into the bright stream of light which you all can then carry on your Earth, cutting through the clouds of negativity like a knife, just carving up the darkness and filling it with light. We see how many of you are so enthusiastically making these changes, embracing the light, and as a result living such improved moments of joy, clarity and connectedness with the divine energy which is your birthright.

And so we remind you, that is the very reason why you would want to move towards that unknown at the very moment you are pulled by a known feeling, even if it is a dark one, of feeling powerless, at the mercy of the events in your lives, at the mercy of others’ wills, their whims, of the rules and regulations of your complex society. In other words, these are the moments when you feel like true victims and you desire to lay low and just wallow in the mud. And then you need to remember why that choice may not be the best one for you.

Granted, even mud can be appealing, warm, comforting, squishy, just oh so down-to-Earth when you abandon yourself to it, isn’t that so? And this familiarity beckons you. It is part of your comfort zone. Because quite frankly, if you are pulled towards a role like the victim role, it is because you have already lived it over and over and over again. You have engrained the habit of this mindset into your minds, brains, neurons, pathways of behavior, thoughts and actions. And as you already know, when you think like this, you bring more and more of it onto yourselves, as well.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein
Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Victimhood 2.2.2010

Dear Guides,

How can we release the desire for approval?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 1.26.2010:

Dear ones,

Ah, but some of you are plagued by this longing for approval. And you do not need to be. There is no inherent benefit to you to receive approval from your world-mates, from your society, from your family, from your neighbors, from your friends, from your work-mates, from any who surround you. Each of you is on a journey which is so totally independent, in terms of what you are seeking, what you are trying to learn, and what you are trying to achieve. It is an illusion to think that you need input and guidance from those around you.

What you need, rather, is a clear connection from within, a strong feeling of being in the present moment, in touch with how you are feeling, how you are situated in the greater context of your environment, your place in the Universe, your personal goals, and your desires to co-create in beauty and harmony with those around you. A major part of the focus is on the inner qualities of how you are feeling inside yourself and within the world or context. And the other part is how you fit with the others around you and how you feel co-creating the things that you engage in with them. So both the inner world and the outer world come together in the moment. But approval from the outside is not the same as co-creating to manifest the projects you envision with others.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein

Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Seeking Approval 1.26.2010