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My life is not a game, I am here to become a pathway to love. This is my designated life's journey. I am in this classroom and frequently barely aware of it as my egos obstruct, meddle and impede. I may be so blinded by egos that I do not know the classroom exists nor do I know what is required of me.

I am the only one I can take down my path of life. I may choose to be subjugated by my egos or I may be accompanied by love. There is no more beautiful adventure offered than in choosing to complete this journey on the cycle of love. The alternative is to be bound by the egos. I would select the freedom of love. So why do I hesitate? Why do I pretend to be bewildered and lost? The pigeon knows the way home, so too my own instinct. I am here to learn all loving behaviour and to practice its pattern. That is my commission.

As I identify with love, love will always nourish me, It will unfurl the confusion of life and illuminate my pathway home. Should I not learn of love while journeying then how will I be aware of the way to go? As I fear I may be rooted to the spot and unable to proceed. It is easy to be lost, yet I have no excuse.

If my present junction of life is a place where it is not spiritually good for me, then do not blame others, move. Move physically, move emotionally, move spiritually. If I feel hurt, move. If I feel trapped move. If I am not finding, giving and receiving love, move. If I am doing what is not love, move.

Move, for seekers are habitually nomads, wandering from search to search: not moving about haphazardly but rather seeking to find. In this manner I seek out love and keep shifting until I find love. Avoid the diversions, rather flow with the stream of life and love. Then finding its peace, I remain within that place but at the same time moving with it. The river of love flows from its spring to eternity, I can fight the flow, be in constant turbulence, gashed on the rocks, tossed in rapids, flooded then stranded, eddied, become stagnant, clogged with weeds, see only murky water; or I can move and choose to be at one with the course of love to surge on and create the fertile plains, being clarity, and issuing out into the sea of love.

Spiritually I am free to do these things for I am not restricted except by the prison of my own making. All that flows forth from love is available to flow into my life. Love will release me. Just accept. As love is not shackled, then , as I become one with love, neither am I constrained. I am liberated to again be with my soul.

Just as I stir when my body is uncomfortable, then I must also expect to move when I am spiritually in the wrong place. I need to move to regain the assurance of love, for love is the comforter. If I am too lazy to bother, love is patient and will wait, but until I come to understand, I remain endlessly lost and confused. But as I dare to let go, I learn to soar as an eagle and fly in the company of love. I find my way. I move from being stuck to being free and flowing with life, remembering the only person who can do these things is myself by first loving myself.

From its seed comes the mighty tree, as I plant the seed of love and complete small changes I move along on my rightful journey. My soul has been left in darkness too long, the child within is crying out from the shadows for my company. Unless I reunite with love, with my soul, I am incomplete. As I use my abundant source of light and love, then I clearly see my soul, I clearly see my teacher. I am allowed to see differently.

There is a paradox about feeling comfortable, in that it is also a risky state of being. If I am comfortable in the manner that I cannot be bothered to move, then I am not changing with time, not changing with the flow of reality and my opportunities pass by. In this place of being comfortable where I tend not to pay heed to the requirements of my spirit, it is to my significant cost. It is an ego at work. Rather than be comfortable, I would choose the sharp prick of consciousness.

I look out to see the beauty of the universe; I look within to reveal the beauty of my being. Should there be pain in letting go of the old and releasing the egos, these are the pains of birth from which no one is exempt. Allow the exceptional and be free, removing my boundaries and receiving wisdom. Go beyond and allow the joining, for I am not separated. Let the quality of my life be refined by love. I have this power within to complete the task, it cannot be otherwise. For this is no dream, I am of my source, where I yearn to be, where there is no fear and all is forgiven.

It is as simple as this, if I arrive at the end of my transitory journey on planet earth and I have not learnt of, come to know, practiced and found love, truth, forgiveness and all that is love, then I will not clearly recognise these characteristics and I will not be able to choose their ongoing way. If I do not befriend all that is love, then I will not recognise the path and I will be alone and become bewildered and, being lost, miss the signs. I might be rooted to the spot with fear, staring blindly at a love indicator denying its presence, not seeing. Only when I have learnt to understand love will I distinguish the path before me, both now and at any time in my future, here on earth and beyond.

Practice.
Be still, of quiet mind and consider your present spiritual location. Where would I like to be? Am I to move?

Imagine this scene: (Fill in your own details as applicable)
My body dies on earth. I arrive elsewhere. "Who are you?" a voice asks.
"I am ……(your name)………"
"I did not ask for your earthly name the voice says. "Who are you?"
I reply: "I'm the child of ………………… and the partner of……………."
"I did not ask of your parents and partner. Please who are you?"
"I don't understand. I'm the parent of ……………."
"You obviously do not know yourself" the voice says "Go back to the universe and be another life in different place and discover yourself"

So who am I? I offer a possible answer: I am an individual spiritual soul, travelling temporarily on planet earth. I am a representative of love. Love knows me and I offer love as my witness.

But in order to claim love as my witness I need to know love, otherwise love will not recognize me. To do this it is necessary to seek, discover, accept and exercise love so that it becomes my nature. Then I will know love and love will know me.
No one is going to magically get me out of the TV chair. I have to make the effort. As I do so I will come to a better understanding of love. But I must continue to exercise to remain within love. It is the same with physical exercises, the more regularly I train, the better my condition. Why would I hide, why would I stay away from the gymnasium of love?

I offer some exercises that may assist.

Mini exercise with maxi results:

A simple exercise that may be done quickly in about 2 minutes and may be included several times a day and especially when time is limited:

Breathe in through the nose and feel the flow of air pass the back of the throat.
On breathing out feel the newly inhaled air flow to renew throughout the body (from the tip of the toes to the crown of the head and include the mind and the immediate surrounding space).
Take four complete breaths in this manner. You will probably find that these breaths are longer in duration than normal breathing patterns.

On the fifth breath, again breathe in through the nose, but this time feel the flow of love pass the back of the throat.
On breathing out feel the newly inhaled love flow peacefully throughout to similarly energise the body, mind and surrounds.
Take four complete breaths in this manner.

On the ninth breath, breathe in through the nose. This time feel the flow of love pass the back of the throat and travel throughout the body and on breathing out allow the love from within to flow out for all to share.
Take four breaths in this manner.
Remain relaxed and thank love for the free gift of love.

Practice, practice and keep practising, always remembering to thank love for the energy that love freely offers.

The exercise above is also useful as a starter for other routines and may be easily extended: (The four breath cycle may be any chosen number when more time is available. There is no need to count).

Continue in silence, be calm. Cease any internal chatter of the mind, allowing the mind to be at rest. (easily said, not so easy to do! Love will help.) Now direct the flow of love throughout the mind to dissolve and wash away the egos. Direct the flow of love to re-unite with the soul. Remain within. When finished give thanks.

A variation:
Be quiet and cease the chatter of the mind. In stillness imagine:

I meet my spiritual teacher, my teacher is one with me. My teacher is love. I invite my teacher in. I see love within my expanse, within my knowledge, within my thinking, within my sight, within my feelings, within my emotions. I am encapsulated with love.
Be thankful.

As I go about my day:

Refrain from looking outwardly trying to assess and understand the many people and things I see. Concentrate on being at peace and observe internally, coming to know. Avoid self justification and pretence; rather just observe, accept and comprehend self.

Should I have no thoughts I am at rest. Be at rest so I may hear. Be silent so I may ask, for if I ask when I am not at peace, how may I hear the answer?

Choose your own meditation to suit the moment:
The one who hesitates may well be lost. But the one who meditates finds himself.

I may also train by going out into the world and "jousting" using, for example, truth as my armour? Do not joust in an attacking or forceful way for truth requires no defence. Try it!
Similarly joust using other ingredients of love such as comforting, kindness and so on. Concentrate on only one of the ingredients of love at a time. Make regular little sorties.
As another example, venture out and only be forgiving and see only forgiveness.
I find these mini-voyages open up my feelings, causing me to perceive differently.
At the conclusion of each joust, be thankful to love for the lessons learned.

In silence ask for the company of love and be still. Ask in humility from the soul. Then ask for ability, abundance, awareness, balance, clarity, courage, guidance, increase, insight, knowledge, potential, strength and support, so that love, truth, peace, hope, wisdom and joy may be realised in relation to self, partner, family, home, environment, work, humankind and nature. Allow the transformation to come through in fullness. Thank love for being present.

As a temporary visitor to the world, move beyond and above. Move out, come back, move out further. Practice until I can come and go at will so that I may experience the world while not being part of it and in this way be free of the worldly, but remaining part of the universe.

When out and about:
I am just to observe, without judging. Observe the egos in self and in others. What I observe in others, observe also in self. Be present but not attached, aware but not caught up.

Substitute any chosen ego as in the following examples:
As I observe others and someone is angry towards me, be grateful for it shows me my past.
As I observe others and someone criticises me, be grateful for it shows me my past.
As I observe others and someone is spiteful towards me, be grateful for it shows me my past.
As I observe others and someone is avoiding me, be grateful for it shows me my past.
And so on and so on.

Ask for happiness, laughter, fun, spontaneity also to be added to my exercises, lessons and life. Enjoy exercising in peace and love

All these suggestions are for individual choice. You may like to use or develop your own loving alternatives, but keep exercising and do so in love.

Removing the egos:

Select an ego. Find one that you recognise. Perhaps commence with the twelve breaths above or similar, as you prefer. Let love flow into the mind, into the soul. Be with the ebb and flow of loving emotions; be totally love. Now take the ego and deluge love over it to completely dissolve it in every form. See the ego dissolve, vanish before your sight. Cast any remnants beyond the limits of the universe never to return. Call on love to consume all that is not love in and around your existence.

Repeat the ego dissolving exercises frequently. It is an ongoing task. Egos are a little bit like the common cold, they will return if you do not keep them at bay, especially if out of spiritual condition.

Click HERE for a listing of some egos, there are many more. Do not be depressed and feel it's all too hard, for that's just another ego at work and a good one to start dissolving.

In the following list the characteristic in all forms is not necessarily an ego. For example:
"Accepting" in the form of "not bothering" rather than doing something about it, is an ego, but not so in the form of "accepting" love.

Similarly some of the other listed words need to be considered in various forms.

"Denying". If I deny love that is an ego doing its worst, whereas if I deny an ego then I am at work with love.

List of EGOS Here!
Each word is worthy of a study. (Something I admit to not having completed myself!) Try not to let the critic in. Select an ego that you admit to and get started.

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