This article is from The Sedona Journal of Emergence

Clarity

Greetings, dear friends! This month of May means springtime and flowers to so many of you… Our channel always feels much joy in May when the trillium and lilac both come into bloom in Northwest Michigan and the leaves finally fill in the branches of the maples, oaks and other wakening trees. As she considers spring and the summer to come, one of the uppermost thoughts she holds this year is about clarity.

Are you entering spring and summer with renewed vigor and revitalized dreams? Have you spent the winter months (and a long winter it was for so many of you this year!) preparing for the vibrant energies of the warm season? Can you now state clearly and with decisive authority what you plan and desire for your future?

What is it you are wanting, dear friends? Have you told the Universe recently? Have you told your Self… your Soul? And have you aligned your wanting with the wanting of your Soul?

Our channel has always been very gung-ho about goal setting. In her early years the goals were more generic… to write, to channel, to have a home and family. As a business woman she learned to categorize and work her goals, such as: family goals, business goals, financial and health goals, etc. She also discovered the power of the ‘to-do’ list. In one form or another, she has always kept goals and wish books and lists of things she wished specifically to remember and accomplish to create a life of fulfillment and joy.

But lately, our dear, hard-working channel has found that all these efforts do not work as they used to. Have any of you found the same? One of the reasons for this has to do with clarity…

As metaphysicians, have you learned selflessness and humility? Or have you learned Self-fullness and truth? We believe, and have taught before, that Unconditional Love of Self must come before Unconditional Love of Others, simply because you cannot give away what you do not possess. When Self is denied or placed last, clarity suffers because Self’s honest wantings are postponed, delayed or completely disallowed. In the desperate effort to ‘do the right thing’ your true passion and desire must be relinquished or disempowered (made unclear) so that you may live ‘happily’ or at least believe that you are living happily.

Almost every religion on your planet teaches some form of, ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself’. What we would like you to think about is:  If you practice this beautiful teaching without loving your Self first, what are you offering your neighbor? If you are placing your Self last, then you are placing your neighbor last. If you are depressed or feeling failure, this is what your neighbor receives. If you dislike or disrespect your Self in any way and practice this tenet, dislike and disrespect of your neighbor is the result.

The only logical (what a wonderful, left-brained word!) answer to this dilemma is to Unconditionally Love your Self first and then practice, ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’!

So, as with most metaphysical concepts, the answer to the dilemma of clarity begins (and ends!) with love… Unconditional Love! To begin by loving your Self so dearly that you allow your Self to want, to tell the Universe what you are wanting and to actually receive the object of your wanting as it comes to you.

We believe that your clarity abandoned you as you abandoned your Self. The only way to live at some level of peace while practicing selflessness was to become cloudy thinkers and to deny or at least postpone your own dreams. A few of you were lucky with this, you are the ones who came here to serve in ways which align with the present belief system and therefore found your joy. Service without financial gain or personal reward, as in the case of volunteers or your clergy, are examples of this.

But what of those of you who came to serve by owning successful businesses and supplying good jobs to many people? Or what of those of you who came to serve by working ‘menial’ jobs… without which your society would be in deep trouble? And what of those of you who came to serve by being ‘just a mom’? The examples are myriad… do you get the point?

Love your Self! Honor your Self! Receive the joy, freedom, growth, success, passion, adventure, camaraderie and Unconditional Love which is your birthright! Once you have done that, now practice ‘Love thy neighbor as thy Self’… and you will create true success in your world!

Be clear, dear friends. Be clear and know that you are loved, you deserve love and you are wonderful transmitters of love! Declare what you are wanting to the Universe, without apology or reticence!  God/Goddess/All That Is will always support you and will always say, “Yes!” to your every request!

Question: What if my wanting is negative?

            Sarrinn: Dear one, you create with your thoughts, your vibration… if you hold negativity within your thoughts, you will create negativity within your reality. There is a wonderful channeled being named Abraham who suggests we constantly ask our selves, “Do I feel good?” or “Do I feel bad?” With these simple questions you can easily identify whether or not your wanting is positive or negative. But for this to work consistently you must learn to be very honest with yourself! If you put up a tall fence between your property and your neighbor’s, be totally honest… did you erect the fence because you feel it will enhance the beauty of your home and offer you landscaping possibilities, or, did you erect the fence to protect yourself from a difficult neighbor or to make a statement? Be honest with your wanting, and be dominantly positive with your thoughts… in this way you will be a constructive creator and your wantings will bless your reality always.

            Question: I thought we were not supposed to become attached to outcomes or things or people…

            Sarrinn: We agree… becoming attached to or needing a particular outcome, person or thing will not bring you to inner peace. We do not espouse attachment or need. Attachment means that you cannot live happily without the outside influence and need means you can not live happily even before it comes into your reality. Attachment and need assume that something or someone outside your Self can and will complete you. And attachment and need hold their target with tenacious focus.

Want is different… want is the energy of a goal which is ignited by passion to create a joyful and successful life. Want allows you to be flexible and to evolve to new wants as you grow and learn and become. Want is offered by the being who is already complete and who merely states preferred pathways to continue that.

If you find your Self feeling attachment, we do not suggest ridding yourself of the person(s) or thing(s) involved… rid yourself of the attachment! If you have been attached to filling your home with possessions, don’t have a tag sale… heal the attachment and then from that healed position decide how to proceed. There is freedom in this way… there is not with attachment and need.

Question: If I postpone ‘loving my neighbor as myself’ while I learn to love my Self… isn’t that negative? Isn’t that selfishness?

Sarrinn:  We do not suggest that you make the study of self love a 10 year process while you ignore the rest of your world. Indeed, that would be a self-centered course of action! We suggest that you make this a short practice… how about the length of one meditation or pep talk? In that meditation, bring your Self to the point of Unconditional Love of Self and hold it. When you finish your meditation, add in the energy of ‘love thy neighbor’ and go on with your day. Incidentally, as you go on with your day, be aware that anything that makes your energy drop (makes you feel bad) is showing you a condition that you hold on your Unconditional Love. If you take the time to recognize that and deal with it immediately it will usually release quite easily. For example, if you are driving to work and you come to a red light and your energy drops, note that you have a need for green lights in order to feel Unconditional Love of Self. So, realize that red lights are wonderful things which allow you all to share the road safely. Add the joy of red lights (and yellows, too, while you’re at it!) to your truth and feel your energy lift. When you feel your resonance drop the next time, repeat the process. Eventually, if you continue this work, you will feel good at least 51% of the time! (But don’t stop at 51%!)

            We love you so dearly… and we are here for all of you!