Meditation Mon 7th June - Reflections: love and truth, we need both to thrive

Shamanic & Awareness Meditation Mon 7th June 2021

7 pm – 8.30pm Sydney time (AEST)
Monday 7th June
Fee $10
Attend via zoom or in person (Wareemba, near Five Dock, NSW).

You’re very welcome to attend for one evening or regularly. It’s suitable for both beginner and experienced meditators. We start with a short meditation to ground, focus and centre ourselves, followed by a shamanic meditation journey, where we increase our awareness, peacefulness and clarity.

If you would like to attend, let me know so I can send you a zoom link, or the address if attending in person (email: maret@maretstaron.com )
For further information about the meditation: http://www.maretstaron.com/meditation

Love and Truth: we need both in order to expand and thrive

Many say that all there is, is love. That there is either love or fear. If we are in fear we can’t be in love - and if we are in love, we can’t be in fear. And love is all that matters. In some ways that’s true, however I believe it’s only part of the story.

So, what is love? One way of looking at love is to look at our actions and the outcome of our actions – it’s love if it helps us and others thrive or grow or blossom or flourish. Think about that for a while. Think of instances of love that you have experienced in the context of this definition.

Another way to look at love is to look at the energy of love. The energy of love is everywhere. It’s our life force. We can’t earn it. It’s available to everyone on the planet, no matter who we are or what we’ve done. It’s simply that we block it. If we open to the energy of love, it’s what connects us all. It is the oneness of all things.

Love is associated with the heart. Whereas truth is associated with the mind. In some ways, truth is the other side of the coin to love.

What is truth? Truth is what’s real. It’s beyond the drama of our human lives, the illusion of this planet and beyond our conditioning and patterns. I like to look at truth as the divine, eternal and brilliant truth or reality of all things. Again, many of us have at one time or another, blocked ourselves to the truth of all things. Instead, we preferred to see, hear or know things through our conditioning and human ego.

Think about truth and think about instances of when you have known truth – that something was true, that it was an eternal truth above and beyond the human drama or event that you may have been experiencing.

Most of us find that we can connect more easily to either love or to truth. And sometimes that can change. It has for me. Some years ago I found it much easier to connect to love and had a hidden fear of the truth. I’ve worked on that fear for a long while and now have found that I have a stronger connection to the energy of truth than to the energy of love. That’s not a negative thing, as I haven’t lost my connection to love. I simply know it will again change and re-balance over time as I grow and expand.

Why is it important to have a strong connection to both love and truth? Well, balance is always important. If you only focus on love, it’s hard to sustain it. I love the analogy that only focusing on love, is like a bird with one wing. You fly around in circles and eventually burn out. Many people in the ‘caring’ industries are very focused on the energy of love and on giving, and eventually they burn out.

Whereas also maintaining a strong connection to the energy of truth balances that. It’s the yin and yang balance. Yin being love (or presence), yang being truth (or action). If we come from a place of love and compassion, and we express our truth with wisdom, then we help ourselves and others to grow and thrive. That’s a very positive thing for our planet. As it means that our actions and words if wise, will always have positive and constructive consequences, rather than negative and destructive consequences. That’s what wisdom is about. And I think we all need lots more of that on our planet.

Wishing you all joy and wisdom in your pursuit of love and truth.

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