What the Mystics Know

"You must build up by faithful daily exercise, the true Love consciousness, and all the rest of spiritual development will follow upon that. Love will heal you. Love will illumine you." "This extraordinary Power, mystic though I have rightly called it, is nevertheless very real, no mere imaginary abstraction, but actually the most practical thing there is. The existence of this Power is already well known to thousands of people in the world today, and has been known to certain enlightened souls for tens of thousands of years. This Power is really no less than the primal Power of Being, and to discover that Power is the Divine birthright of all people. It is your right and your privilege to make your contact with this Power, and to allow it to work through your body, mind, and estate, so that you need no longer grovel upon the ground amid limitations and difficulties, but can soar up on wings like an eagle to the realm of dominion and joy." ~Emmet Fox This is the truth that the great mystics of the past Jesus, Buddha Gita, knew and embodied. It is also true of the mystics in the new thought movement. People like Emmet Fox, Emma Curtis Hopkins, Emerson and Holmes to name a few and it is still true of the mystics today which are many ordinary people like you and me that just quietly go along with their day embodying love being unconditionally loving to themselves and others. Knowing the truth is that love/God/Spirit is everywhere present in everyone and every situation despite what we might perceive. A mystic knows this presence and experiences love in all things. A mystic experiences this in their heart and soul not just knowing about it in their intellect. It's the principle of our existence. We need love in order to thrive and it is our inherent nature to be loving. Love is an intention, our true power, what inspires us and what evolves us to a higher consciousness. Having the desire, the intention to put love first in our life vs. focusing on what is problem is when miracles happen. Where does the emotion of love live? In our heart. I had the good fortune to attend a conference a few years ago and one of the speakers was a man named Dr. Budri Rickhi who is head of psychiatry at the University of Calgary. This man, though a bit of an anomaly in the medical world and with his colleagues even though he is highly esteemed they see him as a bit out there. He himself is a mystic, he meditates an hour each morning and evening and he is one of the most tuned in loving human beings I have ever met. Being in his presence you know you are in the presence of the Divine. The title of his talk was; Is the cranial brain the only brain in the body? Here is what was fascinating about his research: Did you know that the heart generates the largest electromagnetic field in the body? rnIn an ECG the electromagnetic field of the heart emanates 60 times greater than the brain. rnThe magnetic component of the heart is 5000 times greater than the brain.rnThe heart's frequency is not impeded by connective tissue and can permeate every cell of the body and talk to every cell of the body. rnIt's circuitry enables the heart to learn, remember and make functional decisions independent of the brain. rnOur hearts send more information to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. rnThe heart is qualified to act as a brain. rnThink of the power we have when we are connected to our heart! rnRobert Holden has the Happiness Project in the UK. His latest book is Authentic Success. He has been a consultant and coach for companies such as Virgin, Dove, Shell, the Body Shop and what he talks about first to these big corporations is love and when you dedicate yourself to love it is the ultimate secret to success because love is intelligent. Love expands our intelligence. Love inspires our creativity, our relationships, our well-being, it can inspire our work and it is love that can hold and cradle us during the painful times in our life. In us lies a toolbox filled with emotions that give us emotional intelligence. Our emotions give us a whole other range of information that orients and grounds us in our world from anger - Love. There is a higher learning about ourselves and how we are in relationship to our world. We have learned to narrow down our range of emotions. When we pay attention to what we are feeling and allow these feelings, the emotions (energy in motion) to move through us vs. becoming our identity or deny or push them away, then we then we can shine Light and love and illuminate what we perceive as darkness and be in alignment with the truth. The truth being that the Universe, the divine creative intelligence operating right here right now is infinite in love and that I am a part of the whole, and therefore I too am infinite love. This is how YOU be the change you wish to see in the world. I invite you to give love to yourself first so that you are filled up with love, that means being self full not selfish, and when you are filled up with self love then you can show up and be love in your job, with your finances, your health, your relationships. YOU can be the mystic in your life! YOU can be the change YOU wish to see in the world!