Last Monday was my mother’s 80th birthday, and I spent the day celebrating by looking at old picture albums and thinking of her. She died at age 54, and I have missed her ever since. My daughter was with me that special day last week, and commented on the change that came over me as I went from being ‘fully present’ to the state of longing for loving times with my family in my past.

She brought up a very good point, which I share a lot more about in my book, Trusting Spirit Now. But for today, I will explain the energy around such concepts and a great tool for affecting a shift of one’s energy into living in joy in the now!

Whenever I talk with a client who is suffering, there is always a connection to something going on outside of their actual energy. I think of it as a parasite, a leech–something that is outside of the person but sucking the life out of them by their attachment to it. It can be past experiences and people that were not loving, external pressures in the moment, or fears of uncomfortable things which may have to be endured in the future.

In every case, the person is not fully present in the now. And yet, being present is the only place where our whole soul exists—body and spirit. The past is memories, and while going there has many gifts and lessons for affecting our choices and experience of the present, only our spirit can go there, so only half of our being—half of the soul. That causes a split right there.

The future is full of hopes and dreams, and sometimes many fears as well. But again, the body is not there—only the spirit.

What we need to know is that to feel alive, to feel the fullness of joy, we have to be connected as one: body and spirit. That is one of the most unrealized truths about this earth life experience, which we often deny ourselves, missing the goodness that life was always meant to offer us.

Living in the past is caused by regrets and feelings of loss. Living in the future is caused by some kind of thinking that by considering it now, we have any kind of control over what might happen there.

The truth is that the only control we have over life is to be fully present. In the now, we can identify exactly what it is that spirit is speaking, and know what it is we are to do for the highest good of all.

Being connected to spirit—the great spirit of God and all His creations, which we are a part of—we can truly feel alive. As our spirit is connected to God’s spirit—we experience oneness—perfection—magnificent joy. As that joy is received and interpreted by a body, we have perfect alignment, divine connection, true ecstasy.

Do you know any people who make you feel really good in their presence? Do they look you right in the eye and give you their whole attention? Do you feel the love pumping right into your heart from theirs? These are people who are living in the present, whose ties are to the light right now, and who have an attachment to the light which allows them to share some of that with you!

But the greater problem for your spirit having cords to the past and future is that your present life experience is being controlled by it! Not only can you not have joy in the present moments when your spirit is visiting past and future, but also you are wrecking havoc on any possibility for old patterns to heal and change, which could allow the future to be better!

Your past experiences, when not properly healed, cause you to fear more of the same in the future. When you are living in fear of what might happen, you actually cause it to happen! Whatever you focus on is where your energy goes—the obedient servant of your thoughts!

So, bottom line, you have to pay attention, starting right now, to where you are! What were you just thinking about? What are your concerns? What are your fears?

How do you let go of these attachments to parts of your life that no longer serve your highest good? You do it with forgiveness, giving all to Christ for His care and keeping. You do it with bringing the light of God into your present reality—you bring light to your soul right in this very moment.

On my meditations page, I have many audio recordings available to guide you to the light for releasing all old patterns and beliefs and pains—all your garbage. I then guide you to filling your whole soul with light, which is love, truth—what I call spirit!

On my videos page, I have some great explanations about forgiveness, which guide you to a greater understanding of why and how to do it!

Additionally, I want you to consider doing an exercise right now: Think of all the places where your energy is being invested in this very moment—all the other people, memories, regrets, guilts, fears, beliefs, needs, hopes, and dreams. Write them all down.

Then imagine that all of these outside interests have a cord connected to you—kind of like life-support machines to a dying patient, only you are the machine that is keeping all these things alive! No wonder you don’t feel good: there is no energy left to take care of your own soul in the present!

Imagine how much energy you will have when you use all your own resources to fuel your present life! Imagine how much joy you will feel when all of your energy/being returns home—home to where you were meant to live—to that place where you belong–your own soul!

Now is the time to unplug from everything that you have no real control over, and return all your energy back home where it belongs—to serve you. Don’t worry, you can’t cut the love-connections you have to others: those are eternal bonds. (I am just talking about detaching from energy drains that don’t belong to you.)

So pull the plugs, cut the cords, and allow all the energy to feed you again—all that energy that you have been using to manage life in the past and future—and all those places outside of the reality of you in the now. Bring the vibrations back to yourself. Plug back into YOU, which is your soul connected to God’s–the oneness that was always meant to fuel your life in the now! And brace yourself for the energy surge you will feel when you are all here again!

Part two of this concept is coming in the next few days, including a great audio meditation to guide you in this process!

All the best, Judy