As we head into the Holiday Season, I am inspired to write about joy and good tidings, in a way that is more expansive and enduring than just passing Holiday cheer. I want to share a spark of truth which has the capacity to ignite the glow of a Love Eternal – something possessing a power that can reveal an indestructible Truth beyond merely a time of year or outer circumstances – the Truth of an ever-present wise, tender and omnipotent Love.
This message is infused with Energy, so even though it might sound like something you have already heard before, I recommend giving it a fresh try. The reach and power of this practice is far and deep, especially if done consistently for a few days or weeks. Or do it for a whole year and it will transform your life in seemingly miraculous ways.
Embracing Your WHOLE Life
First of all, to loosen up the fixation on the small self, let us open our perspective to include all of Life. Realize the immensity of this grand flow called Life – vast oceans full of dazzling creatures, mandalas of stars called galaxies, microorganisms doing their intricate life-affirming dance and so much more – all of which we are only an infinitesimal part – but an integral, inseparable, essentially exuberant part! We are being completely Loved and cared for by the totality of this creative, intelligent Universe. In other words, this Love and care includes everything we have ever experienced – moments of hardship and loss, joy and exultation – and everything in between. With this broader and more accurate perspective, say within, “I Love everything about my life!”
Don’t just say it like a dry mantra. Rather, see and feel how the Universe is supportive and Loving no matter what form it takes. Test this out: pick a painful or challenging event, perhaps something happening right now. Embrace it fully. See it as part of the Universal Whole. Open to the truth that everything is inherently part of Life. Align with that TOTAL flow of energy called Life. “I Love everything about my life!” embraces each and every event as part of the whole. We are as enduring, resilient, and vital as Life Itself.
When somebody does something we don’t like, or when an unfortunate event happens and we feel angry, anxious, sad or disturbed in any way, or when we have an odious or challenging task to perform, “I Love everything about my Life!” allows us to see it not as a separate distasteful occurrence or responsibility, but something that is integral to the much larger, Loving and purposeful entirety of Life. This does not deny or repress anything. This is not some kind of Jedi mind trick. It is deeper and more immutable than that. It is simply the Truth! We are not made up of a few separate, isolated events. It only feels that way when we have a narrow focus. We are vast beings – Infinite Being Itself.
And this doesn’t only apply to painful and challenging events. When we have attachments – those persons and things we feel we cannot live without, we are fooled into believing that Love and Joy is contained in an isolated individual, place or substance. “I Love everything about my Life!” frees us from the torment of craving and the fear and pain of loss which is the hallmark of all attachments. This occurs not through renunciation but, as above, through INCLUDING it as just one aspect of the undivided fullness of Life.
Riding the Magic Carpet
ALL of our life experiences make up the most sumptuous awe-inspiring tapestry. There are no two alike. Interwoven into our Life-tapestry are threads of diverse experiences and events. This Life-tapestry is a magic carpet taking us to the ultimate destination of Love and Liberation. The magic carpet is the WHOLE tapestry. It is the intricately woven pattern of EVERYTHING in our life. The challenges that keep showing up are the tough bristled cords that give our magic carpet the strength needed to endure the long and bumpy ride to Freedom. “I Love EVERYTHING about my Life!” allows us to see the Divine artistry of our tapestry. We begin to see the absolutely adorable character, beauty and uniqueness of our magic carpet.
Take your magic carpet out for a Joy-ride by saying “I Love everything about my Life!” to whatever happens, especially the things you would normally judge. View your Life as the Wholeness it really is rather than fixating attention on only a tiny aspect of it. Joy is the wide open embrace of it all.
ALL of Life is the real you. Your body has changed countless times. Your baby body, your childhood body, your body of just a few years ago have all come and gone, but the Flow of Life is, and will always be, here now, as the Real You! You are Life, You are Energy, You are Universal Intelligence, You are Spirit, You are not just the body – You are the Life in the body. You are Life Everywhere all at once, not an isolated event, not even an isolated individual. We don’t need to learn how to dance – we are being Danced. We don’t need to weave our tapestry – we are being Woven. We don’t need to steer our magic carpet – it is relentlessly and Lovingly bringing us Home.
“I Love everything about my Life!” because Life is an unstoppable movement called evolution . . . and this evolutionary force is taking ALL of us, whether kicking and screaming or through our choosing to align with it – or a combination of both, to a Loving and Liberating Realization of who and what we really are. That is why we can each say without reservation that “I Love everything about my Life!” And when we can say that with the wholeness of our being, the “my” disappears and it becomes just the flow of life. We can’t help but Love Everything. The saying then becomes “I AM Life!” Beyond that, there is just the silence and stillness of Life Infinite.
Mark Okita
Mark Okita offers multi-dimensional healing sessions for any physical, emotional or energetic condition. He is also a clear facilitator of spiritual awakening. As a conduit for the Divine, everything he offers comes from that Higher Love. This healing will uplift and fine tune even the healthiest individual and open the way to the next inspired step on your Life Path. www.MarkOkita.com”
