28 January 2002 approx. 10.00 pm

There are many ways of caring for and helping those around you. It will not cost a price in gold or silver, but all it will take is your time. You are freely given time, which you can spend helping others; and similarly others may give you time also - or even time in return. If you spend a few minutes listening to another's worries and anxieties you will save them from days or maybe weeks of anxiety. It will help them to see more clearly the way through - the path they must take through the forest of their emotions. By speaking their thoughts aloud they will be able to put their thoughts in a coherent order. The tangles that occur in the mind may only be straightened out by relaxing the tension; by allowing the words to flow freely so that all knots caused by any inner turmoil may be undone. Listen with compassion - offer advice only if requested - and do not allow your lips to overwhelm others' thoughts by speaking out of turn. The ears should be open at all times, ready to hear troubled words and in that respect the ears can give some of the greatest healing. If you have truly open ears - and therefore an open heart - those in need; those who truly need your help will know to come to you. Listen deeply and carefully and then allow the words to flow through you - for if they do not they will stagnate like still waters on a hot, balmy day. If this is allowed to happen, the burden of their emotion will weigh you down and this in turn will cause your ears to close ever more as you are overwhelmed with the troubles of others. Speak not to the person themselves but to the emotions inside them - to the worries themselves - but be sure always to keep your words gentle and pure and without bias. Help the person find their own way through the forest by providing the light to do so - but do not join them in the forest to tell them the way they should go. Their way may not be your way, and by leading them you might find that they become further entangled. Their own true, intended path may be found on their own terms by unburdening their minds; their hearts and their souls - for the journey through the forest is taken more easily unburdened. Nobody has been lost forever in the forest of deep emotion and anxiety but those who have not spoken aloud their feelings whether through pride or 'restraint'. Those eventually may be found, but the help that comes with listening will not work as quickly as with those who are open with their feelings. Therefore it is important to acknowledge every emotion and allow its expression - if only to yourself. Every emotion is there for a good reason; happiness, sadness, joy, fear and pain each have their place and those that you would refer to as 'negative emotions' have as much a place as 'positive'. Do not run from the 'negative emotion' - for in doing so, it will grow, trying to make itself known in a bid for freedom of it's expression. Release the emotion as it becomes known to you - the emotion that you would call 'negative' is not 'negative' because it transforms you in its own way into something beautiful, as you develop and grow with each new experience - good or bad. It only becomes 'negative' if it is not allowed the proper freedom of expression. So the way to freedom is speech - thoughts or aloud - but in the main it is best to untangle the web with speech. And in listening to others, and enabling them to untangle their webs, you may find that a few of your own 'tangles' are unknotted in the process. Communication is paramount to healing and nurturing - but it will only work if we share our time properly; each and every one of us - on the Earth plane, in Spirit. There is always someone to hear you when you speak - are you always prepared to listen?

'Til we meet again…

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