Soul Connection: Bringing Your Light into the World

Each moment of each day is an opportunity to choose consciously where you would like to orient from, and by doing so then the actions that evolve from that place of orientation. One moment lived in expansion changes the outcome of the day.

Often in life we are busy doing. We move from one task to the next with little thought. We cross things off a list and move onto the next item, taking little time to even acknowledge the accomplishment. When we do this we strengthen our capacity as personalities to do. Doing is the place of orientation of the personality, mind and ego.

From this orientation of doing we may derive satisfaction and feel good about ourselves. Or we may begin with a list that is exhaustive and could never be completed in a week, let alone a day. As we strive to cross things off this list, we never feel complete, we never feel worthy. In either example the actions, the tasks on the list and the people that are connected to those tasks are nothing more than pawns in our unconscious game as an ego/ personality to keep the veil of separation in place. As long as we stay focused on doing and not being we do not have to feel sense and know who we are as our fullness, as our Souls.

When we slow the process down for a moment and choose to take a breath we can change our orientation. We still perform the items on the list; we still take the kids to school, make the sales calls at work, and go to the grocery store, the family reunion. We do these same actions but we do them from our fullness. We bring all of who we are to each exchange. Outwardly we may look the same and yet something is different.

I remember an illustration of this from my “work life” at a time when I was learning to bridge my spiritual life into areas of my daily life. I lived in Baltimore and worked for a large health care insurance company. My job as a nurse was to go to health care sites that had been identified as deficient and do a complete business assessment. From those recommendations the insurance company would consider whether or not to close the site or to continue to provide services. Although I did not realize it at the time, it was a lot of power for one individual. I also had absolutely no business experience, did not know how to work a computer or what the executive summary that was required was supposed to even look like.

I had taken this job because I was new to the city and my healing practice was just growing. I needed to supplement my income, I needed a job. The orientation of my mind was I need to work and pay my bills. When the job was presented to me after I had done some part time chart auditing work for them, I simply took the next step and went on the interview. I did not know anything about the political climate, the history or what was to follow.

Door after door opened freely for me, and I recognized the presence of the Universe in co-creating this job with me. I engaged freely, happy to have a job. I vowed to embrace the opportunity as fully as possible and add my radiance to each exchange.

Each day I drove through some of the most dangerous areas of the city. I would leave early to travel while children were walking to school. I had learned that the unspoken rule of the streets was that gunfire was less likely during this time. Once at my destination I would sit in the guarded parking lot and take a few moments to breathe and collect myself. I would set my intention to be the clearest most open channel of light that I could be, and then I would begin my tasks.

Since I knew these sites were already identified as deficient I reasoned that my job was to find out why, and see what needed to be done to help them fix those areas. What I quickly learned was that no one had ever taken that approach. Instead each predecesor would simply come in, identify that things were not right and write up a complaint.

I interviewed each department leader, still holding my same intention to be the clearest most open channel of light that I could be. As I would sit with these hard working earnest people I would just “know” the next question to ask. My mind was surprised as the questions did not fit with anything I as a mind knew. My questions did not reflect any earthplane training that I had.  As I sat in compassion and listened to each story people began to cry. Seasoned business people in suits would look at me in disbelief as the tears rolled down their faces. I began to carry tissues in my briefcase.

Beneath the tears and shock were versions of the same beseeching story to make a difference. These clinics served the most indigent populations of the city. The clients came and sat for hours hoping to get health care, often spending the entire day only to go home empty-handed as the clinic closed for the day. Each person that worked there wanted to make a difference. They felt called to make a difference, they could have worked anywhere and they chose to work here.

Wave after wave of frustration and fear poured from each person I interviewed. They felt like failures, they expected to be told by the authority (me, no less!) that they were not good enough. Each time I sat in compassion, holding open my intention. As the healing, together we would identify what was needed to bring about change. One by one they gave me the pieces for the executive summary, not from an agenda of let me see what I can get, but from an honest place of this is what we need.

In the end I identified the shortcomings to be organizational. The clinics did not have the systems in place to provide care. Often well meaning people without adequate training moved into open positions because there was no one else, and because they wanted to make a difference. The insurance company did not provide the infrastructure for the clinic to be successful. My executive summary found equal responsibility on both sides of the equation. It was not the outcome that was expected. It was the outcome that brought about great change.

I learned a lot from these exchanges. I learned that actions taken from love are received, even if there is not shared language. I learned that everything responds to light, and that light offered in its purest form, without the coloring of the personality has the greatest impact.

Each item on our daily lists can have this same impact. When we practice being the largeness that we are in all areas of our life we actively practice being while doing. As we engage this way we allow all of who we are to enter the equation; in doing so we invite the personality to work in partnership consciously with the Soul.

One moment lived in expansion changes the outcome of the day.

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Deb Schnitta, RN, is a leading pioneer in healing and consciousness and the originator of Cellular Expansion and Healing ©, a revolutionary energy work that supports the resolution of constrictions and illness at the level of the cells, effects the consciousness stored within the cells, and provides connection to the Soul and the Divine. 

An author of many books and Meditation CD Energy Programs for living a life connected consciously to Soul and Spirit, Deb supports individuals seeking healing, spiritual development and enlightenment. She has co-founded Vanati: A Center for Energy Medicine and Consciousness with her partner, Pauline Dishler, M. ED. Information about their revolutionary approach to healing, free distance healing, and dynamic energy programs can be found at www.vanati.com.