Spiritual Awakening: The Ground of Love

10 Spiritual Teachings and Themes that Guide our Spiritual Path. (EP1)

• OLIVIA FRAZAO • Season 1 • Episode 1

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For our spiritual path, we can look to these 10 core themes to keep us aligned and inspired, and to help support our spiritual awakening, healing, and personal growth. This is for you if you're interested in mysticism, non-duality, spiritual practice, and ultimately, enlightenment.

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2:25 - 1) One story, one goal.

6:48 - 2) What do we most trust.

9:28 - 3) Everything is a teaching.

12:28 - 4) Keep the kernel, release the husk.

14:36 - 5) We must clean up our own house.

18:52 - 6) There is always something that you can do.

20:21 - 7) Be the emanation.

23:16 - 8) Be of service.

26:23 - 9) Use your imagination well.

27:59 - 10) Make the commitment.

Note: This not an exhaustive list. Future episodes will include more topics such as meditation, psychology, spiritual practice, spiritual healing work, energy healing work, ancient wisdom traditions, and interviews with spiritual teachers, healers, and indigenous wisdom keepers.

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consciousness, esoteric wisdom, nonduality, spiritual awakening, spiritual practice, mindfulness, psychology, ego-death, meditation, new age, bhakti, buddhism, christianity, hinduism, indigenous, sangha

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You are someone who is committed to healing, awakening the truth of love and being of service. What do you most care about? What do you most trust? What are you here for? Welcome to the Ground of Love, i'm your host, Olivia Fra, What you'll receive by listening to this podcast is inspiration and a reminder and invitation, a reflection of your center. I'll be taking you through in this episode what this podcast show is, what it's not. who it's for, and I'm gonna give you today 10 core tenets, or themes that will be. The cosmology or the worldview or paradigm that our spiritual conversations here in this show are based on. This is a hopefully helpful roadmap of who we are, why we're here and what we're doing. So let's begin. Who are you? You could be from any lineage, any religion, any culture, any geography, but it's the same. We are in sincerity, giving ourselves to the spiritual path, which is we are here to get to know. The truth of love to experience reality directly in the heart and to offer ourselves to be the emanation of love through our own being, all religions and lineages are included and welcome, because at the esoteric core of all religions and lineages, not the cultural stuff, not the ignorance and the distortions, none of that. At the core, the core, core, core of every lineage, we hit the same substrata, we arrive in the same arrival location, which is Oneness, beingness, unity, union. This is love. This is life. This is what we give ourselves to. This is what we welcome within ourselves. This is what we allow ourselves to emanate, and this is what we follow in order to be of service, which is love the highest and best for all beings. so let's talk about what this podcast show is first by saying what it's not. This is not a podcast of religious dogma. What does that mean? This is not a place where I tell you what you should think or feel or believe, or any of that. and We're not regurgitating from the mind or from a belief system that we haven't truly lived. So what is it then? This is a place that invites us into direct experience This is each of us in our interior of self deep within. Finding the one that is the same within all of us. Our entire life our entire self is that which we are discovering as the identity of the one. Okay. What is also what this podcast is not or what this paradigm that is in this podcast is not, it is not spiritual bypass. So let's talk about this we'll have other episodes on spiritual bypass, but really quickly Spiritual bypass is another mistaken misinterpretation of spirituality that we are also not playing with here. So what are we saying no to? We are saying no to using spiritual concepts or spiritual identities as an excuse to run away from what we are uncomfortable about, afraid of, and don't wanna deal with. This is not a place to pretend that you're perfect and hide yourself from your scars and pains and shadows. This is not a place where you're gonna act holier than thou and you're going to look down on the full spectrum of human emotion and human experience and become emotionally numb. This is not a place where you're gonna say that you're too busy being on the mountaintop of your own spiritual practice, and you run away from your responsibilities and for showing up and caring for other people. This is none of that, and I'm naming this because I see this a lot in spiritual community. So. Apologies that I'm coming on strong right in the beginning of the first episode, but I need to be very clear of what this is not so that we can go into what this truly is. We need to get the mistakes out of the way so that we're not caught in them for longer than needed. It's like, as we go into this episode and as we go into this podcast series, we're going down this path, and as we go, we are leaving behind that, which actually doesn't serve and didn't serve, but that which we are aware of now, and that we're consciously letting go of. Now we're going through a series of doors, opening, opening, opening, releasing, releasing, letting go as we move forward. Okay, number three, the third point about what this is not. This podcast is not an imposition of ideas or beliefs onto you. It is not an attempt to convert anyone or to convince anyone of anything that is a major wound of our humanity, where people try to impose their spirituality onto each other we are sovereign here. Everyone is whole. Everyone has their own inner connection to the one as the one, everything that I say here is an offering. If it resonates for you, you can receive it. If there are things here that don't feel right for you, don't take them. You're free. Okay, And if you're freaking out by the fact that I'm using the word God, when I say God, I mean love. I mean source. I mean life. I mean all beingness. So you can use whatever word you wish. Okay. so I am going to name, 10 themes, which are, the groundwork or the backbone of the spiritual paradigm that I carry and that I will be sharing in future episodes. So I'm gonna name all of these as fact because to me they are fact. And if they're not to you, that's okay. We don't need to agree. This is my offering. So here we go. Number one, one story, one goal, i'm gonna do an entire episode on this later. one story. What's the story? Every single aspect of this experience, of incarnation, of living a human life, of every experience we have within it. Within ourselves, with each other in community and in the greater world is one story that repeats over and over again through every interaction we have, through every lifetime we have, through every life experience we have. What is it? It is the story of forgetting and remembering. Everything we do, we are either forgetting or we are remembering. Every act we do is either an act through the lens of forgetting or an act of remembrance, acting from that place, behaving from that place of remembrance. So what are we forgetting and what are we remembering? We're forgetting the truth. We're forgetting who we are. We're forgetting God. Love. Source, beingness. Oneness. I don't care. The name that you call it, it's the ultimate. It's the source of everything. The aliveness of everything and what everything returns to and who we are as. And within this, everything, that's what we forget, and that's what we remember acts of forgetting. Let's look at some quick examples. Some are really obvious hitting. Someone comes from a place of forgetting. Hugging someone comes from a place of war. Forgetting forgiveness, remembering, feeling unworthy, forgetting, showing up, remembering, feeling unloved, forgetting, knowing. Interconnected whole remembering. Turning our back on someone else. Forgetting, turning towards remembering, victimizing ourselves, forgetting, knowing. Self as creator, remembering, excluding ourselves, forgetting, standing in the center of our own life, remembering, excluding others, forgetting, embracing, remembering, judging, forgetting, compassion, remembering all of those actions and more, all of those thoughts, all of those perspectives and behaviors. They either come from a place of forgetting and manifest as all of those things, or they come from a place of remembering. And manifest as all of those things that I named. When we are in a place of forgetting, our heart is closed, our mind is overactive, our body is often disconnected, and we are operating from a very limited, very condensed, very myopic sense of self and understanding of the world. This is what happens when we are stuck in conditioning. This is what happens when we perpetuate trauma, when we heal, when we awaken, when we embrace ourselves, allow ourselves to be embraced and embrace others, then we are remembering, we are receiving that care and we are giving that care. And in that remembrance, we know ourselves as who we really are. And we know ourselves as one with each other. And when we operate from that place, there is only centeredness, not escape. Beingness, not performative. Doing presence, not this everlasting. Attempt at arrival while still feeling lost and shut out. Embrace not judgment and separation and turning away aliveness. Presence, willingness, courage, sacrifice of personal desire for the greater good for all. Love. Not love as attachment or need, but love as generous outflowing of the heart. Love as true seeing of self and other as one. Love as compassion, understanding, we could go on and on. That is the story. That is the one great story, the one story of forgetting and remembering, and the one goal which is remembering, finding all the places where we are living from a place of forgetting and catching them and healing them and rerouting them and finding, looking for finding, feeling, receiving, and being the remembering. Number two, who or what is God? Who or what is your God? Meaning what is the greatest, most important, most true thing for you? And a lot of people freak out at the word God. So lemme just be clear. This isn't like, oh, my religion's God is better than your religion's God, that's BS across the board. This has nothing to do with that. Those are cultural creations that are coming from a place of forgetting and fighting to see who's on top and who gets to overtake who and who's right, and who's judging the other. We're letting all of that go. We're going to the truth here. So what is the truth? You don't have to call it God. You can call it the truth. You can call it life. What is life? Not life versus death, but life and death, both as a part of life. What is that greater life? What is what some people call the great mystery or great spirit source? And you can get really esoteric none of this truly has verbal answers. We can sit in the inquiry. That's a good meditation in and of itself. I wanna bring us one step closer in to something that might feel a little more relevant to our daily life what do we most trust when things get hard? Where do we turn? What do we turn to? Who do we turn to? What carries us through that hard time? What helps us get up again when we have fallen? What helps us hold our bearings and find our center when there's chaos going on around us and within us? What is that? What is that for you? I am not here to tell you what it is. I'm here to ask you so that you can remind yourself, so you can ask yourself and find out what do you most trust? Think about this now. Doesn't matter if you're doing dishes or driving, this isn't something you need to say, oh, later I'll meditate on this. No, just right now. Feel your heart just for a moment, just for 10 seconds, and I'll say it again. While you're feeling your heart, what is most true? What do you most trust? Not true? From any book, from any leader, from any religion, from any thought, beyond all of that, what holds it all? What can you lean into and give yourself to? What can you truly feel held by and guided by? What are you most loyal to? Just for a moment feel into this now. Not later. Now really quick, what are you most loyal to? What most matters? What most matters? If you wish to, you can pause here and meditate on this longer. I'm gonna continue now. Everything is a teaching for our growth, for our remembering. Remember the goal one goal remembering. So what is life experience? What is all of this? Every single life experience is an opportunity that we can either. Relate to from a place of forgetting or relate to from a place of choosing to use that life experience to help us remember the truth of who we are and of what all of this is about. So this means the moments of pleasure in our life, as well as the moments of pain in our life. Seeing every moment as a teacher to us. And I wanna thank my teacher, Ron Young, for bringing this perspective to me, no matter this situation, we are not victims ever. How can we take whatever is most difficult for us? And we don't have to be happy about it, but we can look at it or receive it, or hold it or let it be with us within a place in our hearts that can trust. Without needing to understand, without needing to like it. It's okay. If we wish it had never happened, it's okay if we feel a lot of pain around it. None of that needs to be brushed off. This is not spiritual bypass. Everything is included. All reactions are welcome, but there is a greater centeredness around it all. There is a paradigm through which we see the whole dance, which is a trust. A trust that even if we don't understand why, or even if we don't understand where it's taking us, that our life experiences, all of them without exception, are opportunities for us to open the window of our heart back into remembrance. And so we receive every experience. And if you wish to, you can think about a particular experience now or be with whatever experience may have come up with you as you've been listening to this, just one. And if you wish to, just feel it just for a moment in your heart. And even if it's tough, if it is, you can say, I don't know how. I don't know why I don't understand, and that's okay. But I receive you somehow, some way as my teacher so that I can remember who I am and become stronger for it, become more compassionate for it, become more myself for it, which is a loving being. A being who knows that they are loved and who can love others. So this is how we have our stance with life itself. And we receive life, all of life as our teacher bringing us to our one great goal through the one great story. Number four, keep the kernel, release the husk. Within every life experience that we carry from our past, we keep the teachings, we keep the ways that it has changed us for the better, and we release the baggage of the trauma. We release that which is no longer ours to hold. We release that which no longer serves. We release that, which we created projections around that which made us small. All our limiting beliefs that wrapped around our life experience in grasping or reversion. We release all of that stuff and it doesn't mean that we just clicked delete on whatever happened because we're keeping the kernel, we're keeping the center point of the teaching of the love within the darkness that it may have been. We're keeping every teaching from every moment pleasureful and painful, and for those that were painful, we release. What is no longer ours to carry so that we can move forward. We release stories that we created about ourselves in response to those experiences that don't serve us or anyone else. We release stories that we created about others. We let go of all of the external stuff surrounding the true kernel of truth of the situation, and we let that go. We let ourselves be washed and we keep what made us stronger. We keep what made us more loving. We keep the truth no matter how hard it might be to look at or to receive, or to acknowledge so that we can be more clear in our hearts and in our sin, so that we can be more compassionate towards ourselves and others, so we can serve better, so we can be stronger. Number five, how can we release our pans and our blocks? How can we do this letting go that I just mentioned? If you wish to, you can feel what is your relationship with the divine Now, the divine has the formless aspect. Absolute beingness, totally formless. And the divine also has a lot of forms and names that we may call deities, angels, masters, guides, helpers, gurus, spirits, ancestors. You might have other names that I even forgot to mention. So aspects of God being beingness that have some type of. Of form or energy or image or emanation. Maybe it's relating with God itself in some type of a relationship. So whatever your way is, this is just one offering. This is just one way you can have a different way. One way is to offer yourself to be cleansed by this emanation of the divine. To offer yourself, I'm here, please cleanse me of that which no longer serves. I give it to you. I release it. I allow why It is an offering. It's an offering because when we release that which has been blocking us, we make ourselves more available to be the emanation of love. Truth that we are. We are of higher service to everyone. So it's an act of spiritual offering. When we ask for and receive healing because we're making ourselves available to be brighter vessels of love, truth, to be more available to help and serve others. And this is a reminder that our personal healing is automatically axiomatic the source of our capacity to help and heal and serve others. We must clean up our own house first so that we can come from a clean place to everyone else. Now, disclaimer, this does not mean that we're gonna use this as a spiritual bypass type. Excuse to say, I can't show up for you. I'm too busy for my own healing, or I can't be with those energies. They get me out of my vibe. That's called avoidance. And when we need to show up for others, we must be in our center and in our heart and strengthen ourselves in order to be able to truly be of service.'cause if we fall down with everybody else, then who's gonna help other people up. We will fall down, but we get back up and we ask for help maybe from other people around us. Maybe there aren't any who are either there or able to help us. So we ask for help from the divine, as I just said, to help us through this story from forgetting to remembering over and over and over again. So one way of doing it is asking, please help me. Please cleanse me. Please take these pains. Another way is I offer all of this to you. I offer you my blocks, I offer you my blind spots. I offer you my pains, I offer you my everything that's getting in the way. I offer all of that to you. So that I may be more available for the truth So that I may be more available to be the emanation of who and what I am, who and what we all are. So I can be of greatest service to myself and everyone else. In this moment, we'll be going into all kinds of healing related things and other episodes. We'll be going into all this stuff, each of these in other episodes in some way or another. So to conclude on that one, it's the reminder that you do not do anything alone. You never have to do anything alone. That is part of the great story of forgetting. It's part of the myth. No one is capable of doing anything alone. It's not possible. We're not separate isolated units. We are all together in this, all of us. And there is always someone or something to turn to always. When it doesn't look like that in the physical world, we look within, we look in the invisible, we look through the heart, through the surrender of the self, and we feel, find, reach, for, and allow in the divine emanation of togetherness, of being held of truth beyond our mental understanding of peace and wellbeing beyond whatever pain and limitations we're currently experiencing. We always remember that there is something more. That was a lot of points in one. Okay, next point. Now we're at number six. There is always something that you can do always. It is never true. To say there's nothing I can do here. There are times when we feel very powerless by life's events. Very where in the physical world, if you look around, you are completely trapped with no out, with no choice, with no power, and there is always something you can do. You always have power, and that is the power of prayer. What is prayer is reaching to God, life source, all beingness, love, truth, great spirit, great mystery. That which is beyond human illusion and reaching for that and coming home through the one story to the one goal. And bringing yourself home in this way or bringing others, whoever needs your help. Maybe it's another person. Maybe it's a whole country. Maybe it's the whole world. Maybe it's a really specific situation. You bring that situation, you bring that person. You bring the whole world into this light, into this embrace. You always have that power. You always have the power of prayer. There is always something that you can do. Seven, Be the emanation. This is the response to the question. I want to live my purpose. What's my life purpose? Your life purpose is moving through the one great story to the one goal that's your purpose. That can show up in a lot of different ways. Maybe it's being a mother and caring for your children. Maybe it's being a taxi driver and getting people places safely. Maybe it's being a chef and putting love into the food that you make. For others, maybe it's starting an NGO and sending beautiful donations to people who need it. Maybe it's being a healer and giving people healing sessions. It doesn't matter how it shows up. What matters is if it's authentically from the heart. So let's start there because we just talked about two things, and I'm gonna clarify that. We talked about behavior, we talked about where that behavior is coming from, which is the heart. So let's go in order. Be the emanation. Our purpose is to come back to our heart. That's it, number one, Come back to the heart. and number two, and number three, and number four, up to infinity. Come back to the heart. Come back to the heart. Come back to the heart. The second piece here is that the outcome of being in the heart is gonna be the right action, is gonna be exactly where you need to go, who you need to be with, what you need to say in that moment. What action to take, what decision to make, whether to go left or right, whether to take the job, leave the job, marry the person, divorce the person, whatever it is. All of those life decisions. All those big life decisions. Who do I help? Where do I go? How do I offer myself number one? Be the emanation. It doesn't matter how much the mental mind is trying to figure things out. It's obviously better to do great actions from the mind rather than unhelpful actions from the mind. But it's even better to do great actions from the heart because the energy simply. The waves of emanation that you send out are gonna ripple out beyond the action that you do, even if you don't do anything at all. Simply being an emanation of peace, of centeredness, of groundedness, of psychological health, coherence, the feeling, and knowing and being of presence, and oneness and interconnection, simply that alone in your room. Not even talking to anyone, not even with anyone knowing you're sending out an emanation. It's like an echolocation that other people can feel and receive and then harmonize themselves too naturally. It's this quiet language happening across all of us. That's the number one purpose, because simply your emanation is already a gift, and the physical manifestations, the physical actions that you take from that place are gonna be moment to moment intuitive. Now I need to do this now. This is where I'm called to now. This is what I need to say now. This is who I need to help. Now this is how I need to show up now. This is what I need to let go of. So what we are doing comes out of who we are being. Now, remember, disclaimer against spiritual bypass. This also does not mean, oh, I don't have to do anything. I can sit here forever. And not answer my phone calls and not show up when people ask me for help, because I'm just sitting here being an emanation of love. Okay? So that can be a manifestation of avoidance. Being the emanation and acting out of love can mean doing things that you don't really like doing. It can mean sacrificing your personal comfort to go into a messy and complicated situation, because you can be of service in that way. It means showing up for difficulty. So being of service is being the emanation and as the emanation being willing to go anywhere and help anyone, of course, protecting your own safety, but it's not being afraid. Of showing up. Now I need to make another disclaimer since I'm saying that what I do not mean also is staying in an abusive relationship because you think that's the kind thing to do and you feel like you're not supposed to turn away from someone. No. That's called having bad boundaries. Saying no is also part of our life purpose. Saying no to certain things, relationships, people, or places in order to go where we are actually supposed to be is part of what is correct. So disclaimers for both extremes. One extreme is, oh, I'm just helpful just by being and breathing, so I don't actually need to show up for anyone. That's spiritual bypass, you're always kind of hiding from. Maybe a conflict or personal sacrifice or emotional intensity, or places that are inconvenient or situations where you don't really wanna put the work in. Okay. All of that, and using your spirituality as an excuse for not showing up. That's spiritual bypass. We don't wanna do that. That's avoidance. We also, I'm repeating myself, but just in a different way so that I really want everyone to get this. We're not going to, because of a sense of obligation or unworthiness or fear, stay in places or relationships that are unhealthy or unsafe. We're not doing that. There's nothing wholly about staying in an abusive relationship because you wanna be really empathetic and generous. That's called not respecting yourself. So in that case, we need to learn and remember boundary. So to summarize, be the emanation and allow all your behavior to come from this place of centeredness, groundedness, compassion, and integrity. Number eight, be of service. Now, this might sound like the last one, but now I'm talking about something else. So this is for all of you who know that you are called, you've already had the call, internal call. You've already felt it a million times your whole life, that you gotta go out there, shine your light. Be who you are, speak the truth of love, show up as the healer that you are. Show up as an emanation of love for the world. But you don't. You hide yourself. You keep yourself small, you make excuses, you worry. Everyone's gonna judge you, and you exclude yourself. So that's what this is all about. a sense of unworthiness, incapacity, or unpreparedness. This is for you right now. If that's you. So what is the hack here that gets you out of that mess? When we don't show up, it's because we are more focused on ourselves. Then on who we are here to help. Our focus is on our own worthiness, on how we are seen by others, on whether we have achieved a certain level of perfection or not. It's all about us. It's all about, am I gonna get an A plus on this test In school, that's where it comes from. It's our conditioning of people pleasing, of needing to look a certain way so that others approve of us. It's all about how am I seen by others and is that worthy enough to be accepted? We're not doing any of that. We're letting that go. How we are rerouting our attention to what truly matters, which is that people are suffering. Animals, beings, plants, mother Earth ourselves. Okay? I'm saying people, but I mean everyone. All beings are suffering, and when we are really aware, keep putting our focus back to that truth that we know is happening. And, we don't keep sliding back into our own self focus, but we keep our focus out there on who it is that we have compassion for and we have something to give to when we do whatever it is that we are here to do, to be of service, we're doing it for them. We're not doing it for how they think of us or how we think of ourselves as we're doing it. Our focus is not on ourselves. Our focus is on who or what we are here to help. And so that focus being of service, how can I be of service? How can I relieve this suffering? It helps you come out of the self focus and into being able to respond to the pain that we are aware of. And so there's this feeling of getting out of our own little circuitry with ourselves, orbiting ourselves and our own self-concept, and is understanding that there is a lot going on out there. There's a bigger story here. So we offer ourselves, put me in coach. We say to God in whatever form, put me in, I wanna make myself available. Now, to be clear, I just wanna give a little disclaimer here because I keep talking about focusing outward rather than inward, and spirituality is all about focusing inward rather than outward. So what's that about? To be clear, it depends on what level we're talking about. When I'm talking about focusing on ourselves right now, I'm actually talking about. A wounded mentality, a mentality of forgetting, which is self-judgment and self-doubt focusing on ourselves, which is actually not the true self, but the concept of ourselves, which is our egoic identity. It's all an ego trip. When I say focus out there, what I mean is be aware of the suffering that you are here to relieve and then go do it. Now that's different from, if we talk about in general the spiritual path being about going in, not out, lemme explain what that one's about, just so that we're clear, so that we're not mixing them up. The spiritual path is in not out because out is what everyone else tells you, God is or truth is, and then you're just gonna receive it from a place of blind obedience or from an intellectual place, and that's not what this is. Right? I went through that in the way beginning when I talked about how this is not about dogma, that's how dogma works, is you are not in your center. You're not in your own inner inquiry. That's what I mean by we're not doing that here. We're not just receiving whatever other people tell us is true. That's the outward focus. Instead, we're doing the inner focus, which is the heart. We feel the deep inside of ourselves where God nature rests and speaks and provides us with intuition and guidance where we have direct experience, where from our deepest insides, we arrive at all beingness, everywhere. Okay. Number nine, use your imagination. Well, I'm saying this because we have been taught, one of the gajillions of forgetting that we have been indoctrinated into is a misunderstanding of how to use our imagination. And we are told as children or growing, you know, slightly older children, that that's a childish thing to not really do anymore, not really value anymore. And rather than playing pretend games, we're doing our math homework and we go into the intellectual brain, the analytical brain, and we leave the creative mind to the realm of a few artists who are then painting or making music or something like that. And so when I say imagination, most people think of something that is either only for artists, only for children, something to look down on or something that they don't feel capable of. We're changing that here. We are understanding here that what we visualize, what we imagine when we focus on it, we are creating reality. So we start becoming responsible for our thoughts, for what we are envisioning, and we put heart focus and love and energy into the most generative and healing thoughts and visions. So this is simply one tool of creatorship and healing. I can mention many others and probably in the future I will. Number 10, make the commitment. Make the commitment. Set the intention. Set the intention. Give yourself to the one great goal. Remember we talked about that in the beginning. The one story and the one goal. The one story of forgetting to remembering. And the one goal of going from forgetting to remembering of arriving at remembrance, and then being the emanation of this remembrance of love, unity, interconnection, peace, beingness, groundedness, the truth of love. Set the intention. Okay, everything starts with the intention. If you're in the car and it's parked and you're gonna drive somewhere, where are you gonna drive? Are you gonna go straight, left, right, reverse, et cetera? Where are you gonna go? The first step is not where you turn the wheel. The first step is your intention. Then you turn the wheel. So we are giving our intention as an emanation, as an echolocation, as a message, as an invocation, over and over and over again, to ourselves, to God beingness, to all our helpers, angels, guides, deities who guide us, protect us, heal us, and help us. Remember we are giving this intention again and again, and again. The intention of I am here. I am here for presence. I'm here for remembrance. I'm here to let go of what does not serve. I'm here to be a servant of all that is, for all that is in love. I'm here to be a vessel of divine emanation so that every moment of my beingness can be of service simply by being and in everything I do. I'm here for full healing. I'm here for full awakening. I am here in unity, in love, in remembers, in truth, as clarity, as coherence. Receiving all the blessings and sharing all the blessings. So those are some words for what an intention or a commitment might look or feel like, but you have your own. So what is your own? What are your own words? What is your own experience of divinity and what is your own experience of. How you walk through this one great story. What is your one highest goal? And just to be clear, another disclaimer for the spiritual bypass types. When I say our one highest goal, for example, is God realization. This is my highest goal. God realization. This is my intention over and over and over again. Does that mean that I am abandoning my life's responsibilities in order to achieve God realization? No. God realization within life, God realization as life. So this is not throwing other things under the bus, throwing your relationships, your responsibilities, your work, your family, all of that is included within the greatest goal. So this is an inclusive all embracing intention because whatever your intention is, being a God realized being or being fully awake or being an emanation of love, whatever your language is, plug in your language right now. Being that is of highest service to yourself and to everyone around you, to all beings everywhere without exception. That is what we are intentioning and what we are committing to. I commit to the path of love. I commit to being a beacon of love. I commit to coming back to my center again and again. I commit to being embodied and grounded. I commit to being an integrity. I commit to being in the truth. I commit to letting go of what does not serve. What is not fully true, what is not fully love. I commit to getting up. When I fall down. I commit to finding my center. When I veer off, I commit to forgiving myself in moments where I haven't. I commit to facing things that are difficult. I commit to going past fear towards what most matters. I commit to showing up even when it's difficult or I don't know how I commit to being of service. Even when it's uncomfortable. I commit to giving myself to trust, to trusting that which is greater. Every day a little bit more. Even when I have doubt, even when I have confusion, even when I feel lost, even when I feel unworthy, I commit to the courage that allows me to get past all of those things. I commit to getting to know what it is that most matters to me, what it is that's most true. I commit to opening and receiving. I commit to questioning and contemplating and inquiring so that I can have direct experience. I commit to offering myself as a vehicle, as a vessel of divine love, emanation of the power of love, of the alignment of truth, clarity, coherence, wisdom of the soft and strong heart of compassion that allows for full presence, full beingness, and full service for the highest and best of all beings. You find what's right for you, what your words are, what is your commitment, what is your highest intention, and you come back to that again and again and again. So that concludes those 10 points I can do a quick drive by so that you can remember. Are you ready? Number one. One story. One goal from forgetting to remembering. Number two, what are you most trusting of? What are you most loyal to? who or what is God beingness to you? What is the divine to you? Number three, everything in life is the opportunity for us to learn and grow. Everything in life is our teacher, everyone and everything. Every experience is our teacher, her, for us to come back into self remembrance. Number four, keep the kernel, release the husk. We take the teaching. We take the growth, the compassion, the wisdom from all of our life experiences, and we release that which we are carrying. That is a weight or a burden on us that doesn't serve ourselves or other people. We let it go. We let ourselves be washed of the trauma of the pain so that we can be stronger and move forward. And remembering that we don't do anything alone and we always reach for that support and that support is always here for us. Number six, there is always something that you can do, which is pray. You always have that power. You are never powerless. You always have the power of prayer. No matter how powerless you feel in the events that are happening. You always have that power. Number seven, be the emanation it is who we are being what we are doing arises from who we are being. Be the emanation, come back to the heart, come back to centeredness, and from this place, from this emanation of beingness, of unity, of truth, of wisdom, compassion. Then our actions come from there. Number eight, how are we holding ourselves? When it's time for us to step forth into the arena and be of service? We release unworthiness and a sense of incapacity and instead we focus on being of service, not on ourselves and our self-concept, but on others and what they need, and allowing ourselves to show up for that. Number nine, imagination. Becoming intimate once again with our own capacity of creatorship and taking responsibility for it and learning how to use it. Number 10, set your intention. Make your commitment. What are you most committed to? What is most important to you? Set the intention again and again, and again. Thank you for being with me in episode one of The Ground of Love. 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