Hi Everyone
Today the angels speak of enjoying the subtle diversity of life to expand the experience of divine love. I’ll share thoughts, a funny family story, and as usual, tips for embracing diversity as your soul desires.
Have a blessed and nice week 🙂
♥ Ann
A message from the angels
Dear friends, we love you very much,
Your life, no matter how long it is, is a tiny sliver of time in the grand scheme of eternity. And yet, it is precious time. Fueled by the source of life itself, you are given the opportunity to center yourself in this time and space, entering the collective consciousness called humanity on a beautiful planet called Earth. Stepping out of your consciousness as part of the One, you become individual beings, each with a unique and beautiful personality, perspective, and point of view.
Discovering contrast and diversity will inspire you to create. Let’s say you went to a restaurant with your friends and tasted a pie you’ve never had before. You may be inspired to bring more of this pie experience into your life, such as by buying and supporting the bakery, or learning how to make it so you can enjoy it fresh from your own oven. Or maybe you don’t like pie and it inspires you to make other desserts. A taste of something different and you immediately know you want more or less of it. It becomes clearer what you want to experience and create.
Likewise, when you meet people with different points of view, you sense which ones resonate and which don’t. Who do you want to spend your time with? Who do you want to emulate? Who are you inspired to help? Some people will be the complete opposite of who you want to be, but even if you meet them or witness them, you will know more clearly who you want to be, what you want to create, and how you want to spend your time.
Your differences inspire new ideas and new possibilities. Your differences make a race stronger. Your differences help you create more together than you could achieve alone. And yet, many of you are afraid of your differences. Many of you seek identity at all costs. While you naturally want to be around people who are like-minded and like-minded when it comes to your core values, you’d be bored to tears if you shared everything in common.
In a world where so many fear and share differences, you can be the intrepid explorer you’ve always wanted to be. You can have many different experiences. You can be willing to listen to others’ opinions without judgment or even agreement. You can seek understanding and then realize your own truth. You can be true to yourself and allow others to be true to themselves.
You can recognize and appreciate the spark of light that lives in every being, whether you like it or not. You can come and go in love as your life and desires change. And most of all, dear ones, you can give thanks for the countless beautiful ways you can experience and express love on Earth.
From choosing comfortable shoes to letting someone into the traffic lane… to feeding the less fortunate, creating new technology or art… from walking the dog to rescuing dogs… or just going to work every day to live a life you enjoy. you can find so many ways to embody this love from within.
As you contemplate the possibilities of love on your planet Earth, we hope it inspires you to spend less time with what doesn’t love you. Refocus your attention on the kind, gentle, and beautiful experiences that life has to offer instead of preoccupation with painful or upsetting obsessions. Look for those who create solutions and help each other instead of focusing on those who spread discontent.
Beloved ones, your focus is a force of nature. Aim at whatever you want to strengthen, and remove it from what you cannot support. Choose from the diversity of life and choose what is love for you.
The Earth is such a unique and beautiful reality. Even if you live past 100, every day is precious—full of new opportunities to explore, experience, and love like you’ve never loved before.
God bless you! We love you so much.
— The angels
Ann’s message…
Hi Everyone
I’ve heard the best stories from talking to thousands of people over the years. The little girl was very sure of her taste in this. He wanted a plain hamburger—beef, bun, mustard, ketchup, and god forbid, any pickles or other weird vegetables that, in his young estimation, didn’t belong in his food! This was ordered, but unfortunately it did not arrive.
He bit into his burger and immediately made a face of pure disgust. “Ouch!! Pickle!” Still, he continued to chew. His expression changed from disgust to discovery. He took another bite of the burger, looked up in surprise, and declared, “I like pickles!” And just like that, your world expands!
We are all like this to some extent. We have clear ideas about what we like and don’t like, and that’s perfectly fine. Some of these preferences are based on actual experience. We’ve tasted something and clearly know whether we like it or not. We have mapped out a certain type of job, home or relationship and determined our preferences. Other preferences are based on our ideas, concepts, programs, or unique life experiences extrapolated to all similar experiences.
These preferences are fine, to be expected and part of our unique personality. They help us choose how we live, love and create. Where they become limiting is when they make us rigid and self-righteous.
There is nothing wrong with having your own taste, style, beliefs and desires. But we narrow ourselves down when we cling to sameness, close ourselves off from new experiences, or refuse to listen to different points of view. Life becomes safe, predictable and boring.
My friends, my family and I share the same values, despite our many differences. We care about being respectful, kind and loving. Moreover, I no longer spend private time with people who cannot be kind. Yet this is where the need for identity ends. I like people of many beliefs, convictions and ideologies. I find the differences fascinating.
I talked to random people at random times about random topics, and more importantly listened, met salty old cowboys who now make jewelry ladders out of cactus ribs, Native American shamans, Hindu saints, death dummies, a young woman studying bats, an older gentleman who taught me about lighting, a parish priest. Republicans, die-hard Democrats, and everyone in between.
I have met Buddhists, Catholics, Hindus, mystics, Methodists and more. I’ve heard from people who grew up in so many cultures that I can’t count. And nice, wonderful, interesting people. My life is so much richer without hearing so many different stories, and so much more compassionate after hearing their perspective.
Diversity improves life in many ways. Food tastes better when you share recipes. My garden grows better after watching various YouTube gardeners. Discovering different remedies has a beneficial effect on my health. And whether I like a book or not, I learn from it. Life is wonderful and powerful. Some of them I’ll resonate with, others I won’t, but it’s really fun to see what’s out there.
In one of the classes I teach, I ask a few simple questions:
Is coffee good for you?
Does chocolate support your well-being?
And so on…
And while many of you know the answers to these questions, something powerful happens when you listen to other points of view. You realize you know what is good for you
As we move through our earthly journey, it serves to keep us open.
Explore diversity. You don’t have to agree with everything. You don’t have to incorporate everything into your life. However, you can reap rich benefits from sampling life’s buffet and learning from new experiences.
Here are some ways to enjoy this diversity:
1. Just one bite
I know many parents who encourage their toddlers to try a bite of every new food. If they like it, they can get more. If not, they can spit it out. The point is to try it without prejudgment getting in the way of discovery. This is a great philosophy to adopt in life. Try things.
• Are you curious about a new hobby? Try it out. Don’t overthink it. If you like it.
•Are you curious about a faith? Ask someone or read about it.
• Try a new restaurant. Put on an outfit you wouldn’t normally wear and see how you feel.
• Take a different route to work or take a walk and see how you like it. Read an article that offers a different perspective than your own, with only a desire to understand.
Take a bite out of life. Taste more of what you discover you like and leave the rest behind.
2. Be present with your preferences
Do you know you don’t like something because you didn’t when you were 12 or a year ago? Or have you been told it’s wrong to love or try when you want to? In some ideologies, dancing is wrong. For others, it’s a celebration. We form many of our preferences when we are younger because we want to be like our peers. We now (hopefully!) own our own minds.
When I watched my first Wim Hof ​​video, I fiercely resolved to NEVER take a cold shower. That was crazy. I hated the cold. I had very strong prejudices about it. But then I got curious. Would I really die if I did?
I chose to honor current curiosity over past preference. I drove up north and stuck my whole arm in a frozen stream. I didn’t get frostbite. I warmed it up. Something moved. I wanted to try this new experience. Now I sit in a 37F tub for three minutes twice a week, meditate, and love it. If I had stuck to my story and denied my own curiosity, I would have deprived myself of an exercise I now love.
We need to be present with ourselves to fully enjoy life. We are evolving beings.
Forget what you knew you did or didn’t like yesterday. What is calling you today? What sounds interesting or attractive? You may surprise yourself.
3. Live and let live
Angels are quite strong in this area. Bringing others down is a waste of our time and life energy, unless it can be an educational experience. We can spend this time finding and enjoying what is right for us. We can live our values, embrace what’s good for us, show what works in our own lives, and share our love in a way that comes naturally to us.
It feels good to stay in your own lane. Worrying about what everyone else is doing is a disturbing feeling. You can be aware without being involved, and that feels good.
Diversity is one of the most beautiful aspects of our life on earth. We don’t come for the same thingexcept for our common origins in love. We come to discover, sift, sort, choose and create.
As one of the astronauts of the last Artemis II flight, Victor Glover, said in an interview, the miracle of their space flight did not come about despite the differences, but because of them. People and companies from all over the world came together to create a technological marvel that uplifted much of humanity at a time when it was desperately needed.
So discover something new this week and see how you like it. Would you like to include this in your list of earthly pleasures, or does it point in a different direction? And how it helps you clarify how you want to experience and share love.
Have a blessed week,
Love,
Ann
