By Bart Sharp

Our essence is an energetic being. When our body is dead and dust the energy of us lives on as an etheric or soul self.  I once grappled with this concept of what a soul is and how it benefits me in this reality.  A soul is an energetic being of us and it creates an effect in this reality, positive or negative.

Our essence is energy and we take that energy wherever we place our intention.  For example it is a proven fact that those who think good thoughts to their plants have a more pronounced growth in the plant.  A friend of mine sends loving thoughts to her clients and they call her for appointment more regularly.  If we judge others negatively creates that energy to the other person.

A friend, who is a sensitive, feels when ever I am distressed or judging as a discomfort in her heart of stomach.  At first she thought that I was angry at her but I was reliving past resentments that I had yet to resolve.  It really opened my eyes how my unresolved past angers and abuses effect the world around me on an energetic level.  In addition I used to work as a teacher for handicapped students whom many had histories of abuse, the unresolved trauma was absorbed in my body and no wonder why everybody termed it as a stressful job.  Of course my friend wondered why my body was in such stress while I was at work until she met my students.

The point is energies of other people are abound in our lives, they can be a conscious or unconscious influence in our life.  I had recently taught a communion with nature class and for most of the class I felt a discomfort in my heart, like the feeling that I experienced in my our heart as a kid when I was in trouble.  I knew this energy was not mine but one of my students as she had a history of trauma or abuse.  When I was aware of it and allowed it to be it felt more comfortable.  The traumas that we have not resolved are still in us and vibrate an energy, we may not feel it because we have suppressed it and have acclimated to it.

Almost everyone on the planet has personal issues that are suppressed that they carry in their everyday lives.  It unconsciously influences their lives and others around them.  Carl Jung said that people resolving their conflicts was the only hope that we having in saving this world.  I agree wholeheartedly.

The spiritual path is being aware and resolving what is within us.  That is the core of empowerment.  You being free of your anger, rage, grief and fears to live in the present in a whole self.  In that level of consciousness we are an expanded energy that creates change of everything around us.

Of course changing you completely is quite a tall order.  It is an ongoing process.  But just for today I invite you to be open to change.  To stop everyday and reflect about what distresses you.  Ask yourself is the stress that I am experiencing today have an origin from my past?  While doing this feel the tension, distress, heaviness in your body.  If you feel it while you are reliving these experiences it is how your body is telling you where the energetic memory of this stress lives in you.  Explore the heavy spot, be present with it and allow it to be in you with no judgment of it.  Give it the attention that it needs as that is part of the healing process.  You may find the origins of your pains beginning in infancy, treat that heaviness like a infant would need to be treated, with nurturance.

For this week I invite you to sit everyday and process you for a short period.  Process what occurred in your life.  Do not judge it as bad or wrong but as an energy.  Give it your full nurturing attention.

These energies will begin to release its hold on you when you mentally and energetically process them.

When you release your fears a new freedom shows up for you.  A new energy and more of it as your body is not having to fuel the old fear anymore.  Wholeness is a gift for you that everyone benefits from.

By Bart Sharp

For many the image of god is related to the image of their own limitations.  The mirror that you reflect out to the world is often the same image that you have of your relationship with god.  If you feel underneath god you may see yourself less than others or a punitive god may influence you to create a core of fear in your outlook.

If we look at god is beyond us we miss a connection of god being a part of us.  Or that god is within us.  Or god is an active part within us.  We are an active expression of god.

I like this concept because it holds me to a responsibility to be the best vessel of consciousness to be in communion with the spirit of god.  To honor god requires of me to be the most evolved person I can be here on earth.  That is where the body I am made of originates.  My spirit may come from elsewhere but the body is of earth.

To honor the consciousness of god within me requires that I resolve the common challenges I have on earth before I can go on to greater things.  The issues we all face, anger, shame, fear, guilt, sadness, obsession, depression, narcissism, forgiveness, grace, love and many more.  It is the things that living with limitations has in store for us.

What this perspective creates for me is a grounded ness.  I do not seek god beyond me I listen within.  I do not try to define who god is; I work at communing with the spirit of god.  God is not so much an intellectual exercise with such things as reading but a visceral experience where I feel what it is like to have god in my life and what does god’s spirit feel like?  This perspective does not give me time to worry if others or doing their relationship with god right but hard on the path to discovering my own being in the light of god within me.

By Bart Sharp

I have seen the movie “Invictus” twice because the character of Nelson Mandela inspires me so.  Nelson is one of the most open and defenseless people that you would ever meet.  Nelson uses this as his power.

The power of openness allows Nelson to see people deeply and known them.  The injustice being jailed as a political prisoner was an opportunity for Nelson in that he learned how to let go of his anger and forgive.  That is the source of his power.

In the forgiveness that most likely began with him self, Nelson opened himself to see everyone differently beginning with his prison guards.  He strived to look at the world beyond his anger and judgments but to have the awareness of what existed in people’s minds and hearts.

Somewhere in that process Nelson saw his real power was the clarity he gained in the open defenseless position he developed through non-judgment.  It did mean he was a victim or underneath others.  It means Nelson knew power over others is not the true source of power but his awareness of others and his active expression of an allowance of them.

When people interacted with Mandela they felt the total presence of a man that had a complete acceptance and honoring of them.   It is the power that pulled long time enemies into some kind of alliance that most believed to be impossible to achieve in his home country of South Africa.

Nelson is not the first or hopefully the last to create such miracles.  Ghandi used the same kind of beingness to unite millions.

What we can learn from these great people is the process of opening ourselves to others in a non-judging way is empowering for all parties.  The attitude of looking at the world in non-judgment will open us to awareness to discover our own inner power.  Like Mandela and Ghandi’s experience it may not occur overnight.  We all have established many layers of judgments so it takes persistence and time to discover us.  But at level of self-discovery opens us to a new level of connection, power and freedom that becomes a greater gift to the world.

By Bart Sharp

A few weeks ago I was with a group of friends playing and singing in the park.  It was a spontaneous atmosphere as we sang songs, made noises, imitated animals; we were open to any type of sound experience that was possible.

I suggested an exercise that I had previously enjoyed doing alone, “Singing With Angels”.  Everyone was interested.  I told the group to close their eyes and ask their own angels to stand behind there throat and to support their singing.  It did not matter if they had not communed with their angels before or if they even knew how many angels were with them.  Angels are always willing to support us.  We have to ask them and then they can come through.

Each person silently invited their angels to be behind their throats and move their angelic energy through the throat and their voices.  In addition I asked angels from the angel realms that are ready and waiting to come down to support everyone.  Then we allowed what energy was willing to come up go through our voices.

Starting in a slow methodical way everyone began in soft tones, not knowing what would happen.  Within a minute or so everyone was singing louder in high pitched voices.  We were all singing in a way that felt more etherical than before.  It was sounding like angels.

After singing for a while we stopped and shared our experiences.  All were amazed how they could sing in higher tones and were significantly louder.  There seemed to be more of a clarity in each voice that was not there before.

Our body has remarkable abilities to receive and duplicate energies from another person or thing and use it to our advantage.  The angels were a more direct application of that concept as their energy was directly with us and in us.

However we can ask for specific energies to be received such as when I write I often ask to connect to the energies of J.K. Rowling (author of Harry Potter series).  I always seem to write better.  If I wish to be more focused I might choose someone I know that is very grounded and present.  Or I can ask for a general energy such as ask to connect to someone’s ability to generate wealth and feel that energy in my body.  I have meditated on that energy and have nurtured it to grow inside me.

One of my favorite exercises is to feel the energies of the forest and invite that into my body.  It is special because nature exists in a consciousness that is much lighter and expanded than my own.  It teaches me how to stay in a non-ego consciousness and helps me evolve to something greater.

It is quite simple to do these things.  I simply ask, “Body what does the energy of these trees like?”  I suddenly perceive something change inside of me, for trees it is always a much lighter vibration than me.  Then I ask, “Body will you receive that energy and integrate it into my being?”  I sit and concentrate on the process.  My active part in the process is focusing on the energies moving and evolving inside of me.

We can be a huge catalyst of change for our selves and the world by becoming these lighter energies.  As we change we affect everyone else.

If you wish to know more of these type of tools check out Bart’s book, The Healing Planet.  Available at Amazon.com through this website.

By Bart Sharp

I have a friend who always asks for help from her angels throughout the day.  What ever the situation requires she asks for her angel’s assistance whether it be organizing a schedule, coordinating co-workers to their duties or cleaning her home.  She assigns angels to the jobs she does.  Regardless of the task it is always more easily accomplished. She still does the physical work.  The angels seem to move obstacles that exist on another plane that inhibit us here.

Other people pray to god for assistance.  It seems to be a great help for them.  Even if god speaks in a silent voice and is a passive participant people who pray believe that asking for help makes a big difference.

It is also common for people to ask other people for assistance.  Direct help is available for those who ask for it.  In most cases people love to help others.  They feel more connected to society and other people when they help their fellow man.

However for many people there is a resistance to ask for help.  There is a variety of reasons why people do not ask from being independent, pride, isolation or feel they do not deserve it.  The unconsciousness to not ask feels like an old habit of isolation that is so deep within that it is an intrinsic response.

For many there are underlying influences directing them not to ask for assistance.  To maintain a attitude of separation is the way for the person feeling less worthy.  It comes from a belief that they deserve the suffering.  This false perception that they do not deserve comes from a fear that is generally originates from experiences in their past.  A feeling that they are wrong and lesser than.  Receiving help creates a vulnerability to another through the exchange from the fear that they are found out as inadequate (as their fears have told them time and again).

For many who hold these fears that they are lesser, one of the worst outcomes of that particular fear would be having confirmation from another that they are that inadequate.  As crazy as the concept sounds it is what holds many from connecting to others for assistance (Being judged as less than).

As I mentioned earlier the source of such sabotaging points of view is something that people learned a long time ago in childhood.  Its source is most likely from being shamed by their parents.  The messages parents give to their children that they are less, un-welcomed, unwanted or wrong for what they do affect children trough their adult lives.  Children hold those beliefs.  Then they begin the process of feeling separate and inadequate.

These shaming fears develop into something the child and adult wish to avoid.  They most likely learn from their parents that asking for help will mean criticism or punishment of some form.  Therefore as adults they create themselves separate from others so connecting to others by asking for help triggers the shamed person to old shaming fears from their parents.

The more we realize our fears and how they began we are more able to learn new patterns.  Our relationship with god, angels and people will change.  We will be more willing to receive everything that life has to offer including help.

By Bart Sharp

Fear is the core of all illness, it resides as unresolved emotional pain suppressed and hidden in our body.  If the pain festers it will eventually distort into a destructive behavior or body dysfunction.

According to the spiritual text, “A Course In Miracles” fear is the basis of all negative emotions such as anger, shame, guilt, jealousy, rage, hate, etc…

It has been a common belief that most if not all sickness has a psychological origin in its creation.  It is the body’s unconscious attempt to release emotional pain a person has suppressed that is most likely the source of illness.  Even though we may attempt to forget the experience and keep it in our past the body remains in present tense with the pain of the repressed emotional past.  It is a burden the body carries and attempts to let it go through unconscious strategies.

One way the body tries to release is by unconsciously guiding us to repeat the same behaviors that are similar to the original unresolved emotion.  It is our unconscious’ way of trying to get free of the pain.  For example, we attract intimate partners, friends or supervisors that are similar to the parent we struggled with.  Or we continue to find ourselves in conflicting crises that reflect the traumas of our childhood.  Sigmund Freud stated 90% of our actions are influenced by our unconsciousness.   We continue to be influenced by our unconsciousness because our unconsciousness continues to guide us to resolve it.

However for many do not see their everyday struggles as a message instead judge how bad or wrong it is.  The difference between being open to learn the messages that our emotional pains are trying to give us or staying fixed in the distress of it is a choice.  The first step in moving out of the cycle is to question how we created it.

Disease is often a repetition of judgments of how bad the painful experiences are in our life.  We repeat the unresolved patterns judging the wrongness of it and compound the pain for our body to hold.  For many they feel a sense of hopelessness that they will never go beyond these situations.  It is how we create sickness in our body.  Emotional pain will find a way to be expressed in a negative way if it is not released.

If we can be open to the concept that physical pains and illness have an origin in something that has not been resolved we can begin a relationship with our body and mind communication with the distress.  The inner journey within the consciousness of what our body has held can begin.  A more whole healing can be possible for us.

Healing is a mind to body process of identification, resolution and then release.  It begins by recalling the stories of our past and as we relive them while paying attention to what is occurring in our body.  For example if we tell a story of anger we held back as a child we could also feel a tension in our colon related to the experience.  The colon is holding an energetic memory of that childhood time (and maybe many more).

The therapeutic process becomes more of a visceral experience by feeling the body’s sensation as we explore the stories of our life.  It is the body’s way of showing us where the pain is held.  This distress is the source of our body pain and illness.  We perceive deeply into our body to feel where we have hidden our past away.  It is as parallel to the actual childhood or adult experience as we can get.

This is the place where a powerful form of direct healing can occur.  There are several strategies that can be successful.  To be present with the emotional memory and discussing with that part of you that still exists in the past can often release the distress.  It can be as simple as nurturing and telling the wounded persona from the past that he no longer has to fear that painful experience anymore, they are now safe and the people that inflicted the misuse are no longer with him/her. Then the energetic stress releases and then dissipates.

In addition to the above strategies I find that doing some kind of therapeutic work that directly releases the emotional memory is extremely helpful.  It seems to create a more deeper and profound change as it connects directly to the body’s memory of the incidents we have tried to forget.

It is a process, but the benefits of this type of work can be enjoyed for the remainder of our life.

By Bart Sharp

The word disease comes from the two words “dis”  “ease” meaning there is a separation of ease in the body.  The purpose of disease is the expression of the lack of joy in the body.  The disease is a destructive course to transform the body in a perverse way.

Joy is suppressed by a variety of negative emotions that prevail over the gentle power inside of us.  We have to choose to find joy and nourish it.

The mind can manage and control the reality of lack of ease and joy in the body.  However the body cannot live with those lies.  The body will find a way to express this distress, sometimes it is illness, pain in the body or through maladaptive behaviors (addictions, depression, neurosis and others).

The best strategy to prevent disease or illness is proactive to have a body that is joy.  Joy is defined all is complete in whole within us.  It is a perceptual quality that we create for us.  Joy is a moment to moment that we discover and do our best to maintain.  It is an ongoing process to live in joy, we create and we lose touch with it.

We can find joy when we complete something that is valuable to us.  That achievement creates it for us.  Joy is experienced when we connect to another in a heart-felt way as something is activated in us through the connection.  All is complete through the relationship with that person.  Meditation and prayer help us find joy by communing with a higher source.  Joy can come from a feeling when walking in a forest or sitting by a window on a rainy day feeling the mists and ions from the wetness calm your body.

What these forms of joy all have in common is joy is found from an outside source.  They are powerful experiences but do not connect to a truer form of joy.

To identify a deeper sense of joy we must understand what first creates the separation.  When we judge that something wrong has happened to us (or to another) we create a place within us that holds the distress.  Through the judging it as good, bad, right or wrong we lock it in our body.  It is a memory most likely associated with an emotion such as sadness, anger, shame, fear or others.  However it can be a judgment created through a feeling of rightness such as: my religion is the only path to god.

These memories are energies inside of us that trigger us to these limiting emotional related judgments.  I met someone who recently who has breast cancer.  We talked about the situation and then began asking question about what created the “dis” “ease” in her body.  I asked her body what emotion was held with the cancer and the response was sadness.

The woman looked at me and tears came from her eyes.  She was very sad for the death of her husband of twenty-seven years with the last two years of his life a struggle.  She had held so much of this inside of her during the last several years.

It was time for the woman to grieve, something she had difficulty doing.  Now the grieving had more areas to expand upon, her husband’s struggle, his death, her loneliness and having cancer.  It is most likely there will be more issues coming up as the grieving will open her body to express more experiences.  Through each area my friend feels complete within she will experience joy.  She will move up to a new plateau of awareness when each sadness is released.  More joy will come into her life.  If she fully explores how she created the various areas of her sadness she unleashes a greater joy that she has not experience maybe since childhood.

This does not guarnatee a cure for the cancer, although it is a stronger possibility of success.  However she will most likely have a different relationship with the disease as she will approach it with more grace and allowance.  Also if my friend chooses to have chemotherapy her body will most likely accept the process easier.

Joy is suppressed by a variety of negative emotions that prevail over the gentle power inside of us.  We have to choose to find joy and nourish it.  I find discovering a longer lasting relationship with joy is the work of discovering the illusions of my suppressed emotions and living in the peaks and plateaus of joyful living.

By Bart Sharp

How do I make the expanded consciousness of nature work for me?  How can it increase my bank account?  The latter question is what  many Americans would ask first.  People are more interested in a class on abundance than they are on releasing anger, or on communing with nature.  But its only as we become more whole and aware we will receive more of what we are asking for.  Our internal conflicts and limitations are our biggest barriers to receiving.

When I place the focus on me and ask how I created my conflicts, it all begins to come clearer of what my part is in the limitation.  The affinity that I have for nature is one of my biggest supports in finding resolution to conflicts and an opening to create something better.  The more that I am centered in myself and the earth; the more my relationship with work, business, and loved ones is easier.

In this fast-paced world it is important not to be hooked into the stress and trauma of the world.  Setting the boundary to not get involved with the things that are not my business, to not tread on the affairs of others takes a great load off of my back.

What I have learned from nature is the joyful energy that it embodies.  As I go about my day, I do my best to remember the earth’s energy in my body.  When that spontaneous energy is present in me, it goes into my daily creations.  It is an open-minded presence in me that extends out to nature and pulls it into my life.  Energy and consciousness do not have boundaries time and space.  The choice to be with nature fosters an open-ended possibility with the world.  It allows the world or universe to be open to give to me, and allows me to be open to receiving.

One of the things that I can do to shut it down is projecting on how things will turn out.  For example, thinking of how many people are going to come to a class before the class has begun.  It is a sure fire way to close down the possibilities that you have created for your venture.

The forest does not grow with an expectation of what it will look like.  It just grows. Other factors such as sun, wind, water, and other plants influence it.  In the plant world there is no competition; just the energy to thrive. They are simply happy to grow.

By Bart Sharp

Gary Douglas Of Access Energy Transformation told me that when we die we are fully expanded and conscious. So lets all die?  Response, what if we could be fully conscious here, what kind of joy could we have living, creating, have sex, enjoying the sensuality of our body. OK lets live!  Thank you Access Energy Transformation.

What is oneness, to be fully aware of everything, being totally present in the moment.  This is joy, it is not some serious shit?

What if being totally great and conscious meant that you just helped everyone in your neighborhood and was present in your life?  Not shooting stars or fame. Could you handle it?

What if oneness was being a librarian silently blessing each person while you checked out their books? Could you handle it?

What if being totally conscious was being the best school teacher you could be in a place where the students had severe limitations? Would you be willing to do it?

What if oneness meant that it would never be acknowledged by others but it was your own little secret? Would you be OK with that gift?

What if oneness was that you never judged any one including yourself ever again? Could you have that kind of allowance in you come out?

What if being totally conscious meant that you could allow everyone to have their limitations but you have the courage to speak up so that they questioned their crap? Could you be the trouble maker in complete love and trust?

What if consciousness was hearing the same old song thousands of times and enjoying it fully each time? Are you ready for any possibility?

Do what you will but harm no one in no way.  A simple statement.  Can you let go of your pain to completely live it?

What if “The Secret” was finding the multitudes of the deepest places inside of you where we hide our fears, angers and transforming them to joy?  Are you ready to do the work?