Regrets Sunday, April 5, 2009

There can be no more powerful path to transformation than facing one’s regrets honestly and without avoidance.  On the other side of the coin lies the power of forgiveness which is the key to releasing regret.  Do you have any regrets?  Do you still have any what ifs or if onlys hanging in your closet?  After a lifetime of activities and encounters can you reflect and without hesitation state that you have no regrets at all?  The word “regret” carries with it the feelings of distress, guilt, sorrow and disappointment.  Are you free of such feelings?

Releasing a regret is like watching the sunrise after the darkness of the night as you stand naked in the illumination and welcome the rebirth.  You can not “speak away”  regrets for they reside within the hidden recesses of your heart and it has become my experience that in order to cleanse these shadows one must ceremoniously open one’s spirit to the light.   Within every spark of reality lies a gift sent especially for you and as you reach out with your heart to grasp it the blessing will appear.

There are many techniques and rituals professed to purge our demons but in the end they are only symbolic.   The truly precious ingredient lies in understanding and this is the sword which will protect you on every battlefield.  If you are like me then you have been misunderstood, have trespassed or taken a wrong turn misguided by selfish interests and the residue of these events has created an inner toxicity that ultimately affects every dimension of our being.  The lightness which evolves from forgiveness is unlike any other but the journey must begin from home.  You cannot wait for the messenger because she stands before you now.  You cannot ask for forgiveness because you are the supreme source of it all.  Look up or look down the gift is still the same and will always remain so.

Regret is a sentence to solitary confinement and will  influence every breath, every gesture that you make so do not delay in its release.  There are those who love you dearly and I am one of the throng and your freedom is our wish for you.  Come take my hand as we move about the clouds and breathe the sweet elixir of forgiveness, then lift up your heart to everything that surrounds you and feel the joy and abundance that prevails.

You can never help another until you yourself are helped and the only surgeon available for such a delicate operation is you.

 

All regrets, by their very nature can only flourish in the past, brought forward by our thinking mind as it digs relentlessly in the garden of our memory.  Nothing can grow here except by our choice and once engaged steals away the beauty which is always before us and within us.   There is a flow to this that once yielded to will open the vista to the infinite.  This is the time where all questions have evaporated and  only the answer remains.  There can be nothing greater in potential than this and it is the beat of our heart that unlocks the door.  Take all your regrets and gently place them in a little paper boat, then light it with a match as it sails from the shore.  This is both the beginning and the ending and out of the curling smoke you will be reborn, cradled safely within the embrace of the divine.

There is nothing you can learn, there is nothing here to be experienced for in the moment of disappearance all this and the truth will be revealed.

 

Out of this dimension is born the essence which you are and I am beckoning you now to my side, to rest easily within my heart as the beloved friend that you are.  Will you receive my benevolent invitation with grace and hold me as close as I do you?   Will you unfasten the armour that has surrounded you and trust in the magic that lies within?  Will you burst upon the scene with all the resplendent glory of a summer sunrise?   

And will you be the lover the world is looking for?  

 

Loving you up, welcoming you within, blessing you with my heart of hearts,

 

Dr. John