I sit in silence, breathing in the fresh cool air. My eyes gently closed for a moment, I enjoy this quiet stillness. I gaze up and notice the fluffy white clouds that fill the blue sky. How lovely they look, as they very slowly and gracefully move across the sky. I look in all directions above from where I now sit to notice the variety of shapes they form. How peaceful it is to merge with the clouds as I watch them float by.

I am filled with serenity and calm in this present moment. All other thoughts and cares have melted away. I am in bliss with nature in this now moment. What beauty nature offers, if we just look, listen, sense, and feel. Here in my garden, the rustling sound of the leaves bring additional soothing comfort to my mind and whole being. I now hear the song of a bird in the distance, its melody bringing cheer and upliftment to all who will hear. More birds now add to the chorus. How sweet they sound!

I close my eyes again for a moment, drinking in the fresh spring air. I am grateful for this now moment and for the harmony it ushers in. I hear the rhythm of my wind chime quicken as it sends out its tune in all directions. Ah, such bliss this is. I am content in the now, nothing else comes to mind. I sit here in nature immersed in its delights.

The warm sun shines on me now, as the tender breeze brings additional comfort. Being here in this now moment, there is no other place I would rather be. Everything is right here, right now. I am filled with more gratitude for the stillness, tranquility, peace, and joy that the now moment brings. I hear the call of what sounds like gulls overhead in the distance, as if in agreement to the thoughts that have now just passed.

As I look further into the distance, I see all that is growing and beginning to bloom. Spring is here. How wise nature is. The plants and flowers need not be coaxed or told how to grow. Each year they just do their thing. They begin to emerge, bloom, and grow all on their own, as they always know when the time is right. They don’t force nor resist, they just be what they are. I notice the color green emerging everywhere and the little flower buds beginning to make their appearance after the long winter. How joyful I feel for their arrival. They are friends from nature that return this time of the year.
 
As I write from this place of stillness, I am grateful for so many things like this quiet time and for all nature offers. Another gift has now appeared for us all. I hear a call directly above. Three majestic birds are soaring freely and happily in the sky. Let us soar together right here and now.

In Oneness,
Maya Bringas

~Published in the June issue of Sibyl Magazine: For the Spirit and Soul of Woman.

In Oneness and Light,
​Maya Bringas

~Freedom comes when you remember the magnificence of who you really are~

Be sure to try the exercise at the end of the article to align with your sacred heart and true divine essence which is LOVE! I enjoy doing it daily and it is a simple and wonderful way to stay aligned to the divine love that we are throughout the day. Feel free to share your experience using the exercise in the comments section below.

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Here are Ten Ways...
1. Stop all criticism of yourself. Accept and approve of yourself as the MAGNIFICENT being of love and light that you truly are. Make the decision to no longer judge yourself, but instead appreciate yourself.
2. Forgive yourself. You are doing the best you can. Let the past go and FREE yourself. When you forgive yourself, you release the suffering and choose peace for yourself.
3. Be nurturing, compassionate and gentle with yourself. Don’t scold yourself, but treat your beautiful self with kindness and care. People are often harsh on themselves and find it much easier to be loving and kind to others. Treat yourself the way you would your dearest friend or a loved one.
4. Place your hand on your heart and feel your heartbeat. Connect with your physical heart and feel its LOVE. Then tell your heart I Love You. Do this everyday. Beginning each morning doing this is a wonderful practice to send love to your beautiful sacred heart and whole being.
5. Do activities that bring you JOY! Make time daily to do things that make your heart sing. Even with a busy schedule, you can always make a little time to have fun. If you feel you just don’t have time in your daily schedule, then you really need to make time to do this! And as you do, you nurture, support, and bring joy to your inner child.
​6. Nourish your mind with supportive thoughts about yourself. Praise yourself often throughout the day. Give yourself the encouragement you need.
7. Don’t scare yourself. Sometimes people imagine the worst-case scenario of a situation arising instead of the best-case scenario. It’s safe to release your fears and trust that everything always happens for your highest good. All is well. You are a success always!
8. Nourish your body with healthy foods and beverages. Support your body with the fuel needed for it’s optimal health and well-being.
9. During meditation, visualize the divine, unconditional love that resides within your sacred heart, radiating out and filling all the cells of your body. All the cells, organs, muscles, tissues, and your whole body and mind is infused with love.
10. Give yourself a hug! Wrap your arms around yourself right now and tell yourself “I LOVE YOU!” Feel the love within your radiant heart, filling and encircling you in a beautiful cocoon of love.​​

You may download and/or print a copy of this list via this printer-friendly PDF version by clicking the button below. You can keep it handy, put it on your fridge or somewhere you will see it often as a reminder of the importance to nurture and cultivate self-love each day. 

Several years ago, in 2000, I was visiting an aunt in France with my parents and we travelled to the sacred town called Lourdes in the south of France. It is such a beautiful, small town, nestled in the Pyrenees Mountains. Lourdes is very sacred place where Mother Mary appeared to a young girl named Bernadette eighteen times over several months in 1858. Mother Mary asked Bernadette to dig in a specific area in the ground and soon after water began flowing there. This water is holy water and many miracles of healing have been reported. Millions of people travel there each year. When I was there, it was still a few years before I knew or learned about energy healing etc. However, one does not need to know details about energy, in order to feel and experience the powerful sacred energy. I remember as I touched the grotto walls and felt the flowing water in my hands, the powerful energy that filled my being. It was an amazing experience.

Mother Mary is an Ascended Master that we may call upon for assistance, guidance, and healing.  “There are those who have reached God directly, retaining no trace of worldly limits and remembering their own Identity perfectly. These might be called the Teachers of teachers because although they are no longer visible, their image can yet be called upon. And they will appear when and where it is helpful for them to do so. To those to whom such appearances would be frightening, they give their ideas. No one can call on them in vain. Nor is there anyone of whom they are unaware. All needs are known to them, and all mistakes are recognized and overlooked by them.”
~ A Course in Miracles (Manual for Teachers, 26.2).

I call upon Mother Mary daily to guide and assist me. In the past few years, when I had experienced physical distress (with gratitude I am now fine as the issue has resolved) I called upon the Blessed Mother immediately to intervene. And each time, I received assistance. I knew that her energy was present, enveloping me in her sacred healing light of love. There were times when I experienced pain and after laying down and calling upon her, she assisted with returning calm to the mind and the discomfort subsided. I was able to drift off to sleep. Upon waking the pain was gone. These were healing miracles. I normally do not discuss that journey of healing that experience with others, as it is not who I AM, is over, and is no longer part of my vibration. Each experience we go through in life is there to teach us something about ourselves and to help realign us to who we really are, our true divine essence. I have only chosen to share a little of that experience now, to perhaps offer a little upliftment and hope to anyone who may be feeling disheartened, afraid, or going through a challenging time, to know that you are never alone. Release your fears to the divine. You always have the loving support of the divine ready and joyfully awaiting to offer help at anytime. The divine resides no further than within your own sacred heart.​​

Mother Mary is also wonderful to call upon to assist with issues of self-love, forgiveness, grief, sadness, and self-empowerment. You can ask her to help with healing and/or further expansion of your heart center (chakra) and inner light so that you may live aligned to your heart. Or simply call upon her or ask her to come to you during meditation/quiet contemplation to receive her loving energies and be open to receive her light! Don't be surprised if you experience waves of loving energy being infused into your heart center and whole being when you do. Ask and you shall receive in the perfect way that is best for you.
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As mentioned, Mother Mary is available to assist anyone and everyone. One does not need to have specific spiritual or religious beliefs. Unconditional love, which is what she is and represents is open to all! I wanted to share some of my experiences at this time because she has been and continues to be a very important part on my path. For me, she has been one, if not the most, powerful healing light in my life. I am forever grateful for her loving support, healing miracles, guidance, and blessings. And I hope that by having shared my experiences, you know that the loving and healing power of Mother Mary is always available to you too.  You just need call upon her and ask for her guidance and support. And she will be with you. She already is because she is a part of all of us. The loving, nurturing mother, the divine feminine energy, resides within us all.​

​In Oneness and Light,
​Maya

PS. Have you had an experience or felt a deep connection to Mother Mary? Feel free to share your experience below. I always love to read your feedback.

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Your thoughts and beliefs also have a vibrational frequency and those that are of LOVE and reflect the Truth of who you really are, as a divine being of love and light that is One with Source/Creator, raise your vibration.  And those that are of a lower vibration are those that are for example, self-sabotaging and judgemental.  These are all fear-based and are not aligned to the Truth of who you really are.  Foods and beverages also have a vibrational frequency. 

By focusing on what is working well in your life and those things in the world that you appreciate and bring you a feeling of joy and love, you bring more of those things that hold the vibration of joy and love to you.  Therefore, focus on that which you want and not on those things in your life or in the world that you don't want.  This will then allow and accelerate the creation of the reality you wish to experience.  It is through your personal vibration that you create what you experience. ​

What does it mean when we say that it is necessary to let go and surrender all that is not for our highest good so that we can become that which we truly are?  What does this involve and what is required on our part to do this?  We often tend to complicate things when this is not needed.  We simply need to trust in the higher order; the perfect, divine consciousness of the higher power that gives life to all that exists and animates all that resides within the vast Universe. 

Perfect harmony, balance, and order already exists within this so divinely created Universe.  We need not tamper or try to control that which is already perfect and complete.  It’s just that for most, this has been forgotten.  It has been forgotten that divine order in all things is already present.  So how can one move towards being in the flow of this order if order does not always seem to be expressed in the outer world?  You dear One, have the power within to change the reality that you see, feel, hear, and perceive.  You are part of the One creative force in the Universe.  You are One with this Source Energy.  No separation exists.  The belief in separation is an illusion.  One that was created by the ego mind, that led us to believe that we are separate from our Source, our Divine Light, our Divine Truth.  However, this is simply not true. 

So when we state the importance of shedding away that which does not serve you any longer, it is the false beliefs and ideas, and behaviors that you have, that are not aligned to the truth of who you really are that must be released.  The Truth being that you are the magnificent Divine Light just as is your Creator/Source.  It is not arrogant or wrong to state that we are One with Creator/Source/All That Is.  However, to say that we could ever be separate from our Creator is.  We can never be apart from Source.  How could our Divine Source that is forever unconditionally loving ever be separate from us?  It is not possible.

When you let go and release that which is not in alignment to the divine Truth of who you really are, you FREE yourself from much of the unnecessary pain, hardships, suffering, and problems that you may experience.  You open the door to the illusory prison that you have created in your mind to free yourself to become that which you already truly are.  You don’t need to fix yourself, because you are already perfect, whole, and complete.  You just need shed any layers that may have been masking your ever-radiant Spirit.  Think of it as removing a cloak that has been weighing on your mind and soul.  This cloak may be heavy or it may be thin.  It may be covered with some dust and debris, but you have the choice and freedom to brush away the debris and remove this cloak.  Each of the layers on this cloak have provided you with lessons to help you on your path of awakening to who you really are, but now you can begin to shed these layers.  This can be done as slowly or as quickly as you desire and in a way that is comfortable for you.  The choice is always with you.  You are so powerful just as is your Divine Source. 

Release the struggle, release the suffering.  Free yourself to be you.  You are forever supported by Source.  You are never alone, never separate, and you never need feel despair.  Ask and you shall receive.  Be open to receive that which is already yours in Truth.  Envision the true reality and order that exists in the world and in the Universe and everywhere.  In Truth, there is only love, there is only peace.  All else is not real.  It may very well feel or seem real, but it is not. 
Be the Divine Love that you already are.  Sense, feel, and BE the peace that is within the stillness of your Being.  When you go to that quiet, calm, and still place within, you experience only love, peace, and harmony.  That is your Truth.  That is who you are.  That is your essence.  LOVE.  As you connect with the Love that you are, which is always there, radiate this out to the world.  To the whole planet and through the cosmos.  You are so powerful and your love can transform all.  When you do this, you will feel, see, hear, and experience the true reality that exists in the outside world.  The illusions will begin to fade and you see through the eyes of Source.  Your reality shifts.  You lift the veils (the cloak) that has been placed on the outside world, and experience it as it truly is:  love, harmony, and peace.  You merge with all that exists and realize that the deep peace within, exists everywhere outside.    All else is not real. 

As one person awakens from the dream of separation and shifts, transforms, and becomes that which they truly are, it creates a ripple effect across the cosmos.  More people begin to awaken and shine the light that they are.  The world transforms.  In reality it is not really transforming or changing because once again, the divine order and perfection already exists.  However, in our experience, living in this perceived reality/world, great transformation and healing can occur.  We surrender ourselves with trust that our Divine Source knows exactly what we need.  Our Source remembers.  We trust that our Source will assist us on our path of letting go/awakening to our true essence.  And then we let go.  We ask for what we need help with, and then our part is to trust that our request has been received (and it always is whether we believe it or not).  Trusting is often a process in itself for many.  However, when you allow the trust, you allow the divine flow of the answers, solutions, creations, and manifestations to come to you. 

Trust in your inner power.  Trust in Source.  It is the same thing.  Trust is key.  No worrying, no fear.  When you begin to trust, you remove a huge layer of debris off that cloak as it begins to come off.  And the more you do so, the easier the flow, the resistance removed, the heavy chains lifted away.  Trust that you will always be taken care of, for that will always be the case.  You need not feel the need to control things or force things to happen.  When you are in that still and silent place within, you ask for what you need.  If any action is required, or not, Source will guide you.  The guidance may come at that moment or it may come later.  All is in divine order and timing.  Trust in this.

You are so divine.  You are so LOVED.  You are the LOVE that you seek.  You are LOVE.  Be that LOVE.  Radiate that LOVE.  And shine that LOVE!

~Freedom comes when you remember the magnificence of who you really are~

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