Suzanne Giesemann's Blog

Sanaya Says will no longer be posted here on Blogger, but on my website.  You can reach it two ways:  www.SanayaSays.com or www.SuzanneGiesemann.com/sanaya.  Those of you who receive Sanaya's daily messages by email should continue to receive the emails as usual. This change is thanks to the gift of an angel named Katie Benedetto, a brilliant website developer, who suggested that it would be better to integrate the daily posts from Sanaya into my website than to use the separate Blogger site I have been using .  Katie’s timing was divine, as I have been getting daily error messages and have sensed that the Blogger site was close to crashing.  Now all posts will be backed up regularly.  Please bear with us as we tweak the new page.  The archive system has a little bug, but all 1908 past posts are there.  (Can you believe it:  1908 posts … Thank you, Sanaya!)  We are working on the “category” function so that you will be able to find just the right subject at any time. In the meantime, the messages and the energy should remain consistent … it’s all about love.

Suicide … the taking of one’s earthly life by intention or will.  It does not cause the death of the soul, for that is eternal.  The life lessons must continue, for that is the nature of the soul … ever learning, ever expanding.  And now you learn a new term this week:  "egocide"—the death of the ego through willful intent.  This you must do over and over if you wish to place your focus on the soul, for ego is an integral part of the human.  Yes, the spiritual path is a journey from ego to soul, but not the complete obliteration of the ego.  Ego is necessary for certain human functions. This term, “egocide,” is quite useful, however, for bringing awareness that it is through your choices that you can move your focus from ego to spirit and thus advance your growth.

Egocide.  It is a willful act that says, “I choose to focus on unity and love through the willful suppression of the illusion of separation.  I value the ego for the lessons it brings.  I embrace its role, but for now, I choose love.”

Expectations are often fulfilled.  This is why it is so very important to monitor your thoughts.  And then, when you have a thought in mind, follow it carefully from the conscious mind to the subconscious mind.  There you will find expectations born of a belief system which may be long outdated.  You are growing and changing.  The soul is pulling you onward, but deep inside you may have expectations based on past perceived failures or outdated perceptions of how life works.  Uproot and discard these.  Set new expectations based upon your current truth and expect the highest possible results.

You take many things for granted … that the sun will always rise … that you will have a roof over your head.  We do not wish to frighten you—only to remind you that all things change but the one constant:  that you exist.  You, as Love, are here to be the expression of Love.  The more you do that—the more you identify with the side of you that is Love—the less you take things for granted.  You appreciate more the transitory nature of the temporal world and focus on what matters most.  Take things and beings for granted if you will, but may you be granted the grace of focusing on love until all that surrounds you is seen as the gift that it is.

Belief is paramount.  If you do not believe you can do a thing, then you are correct.  If you do not believe a thing is possible, and then you see it being demonstrated, then it becomes possible in your mind.  If you then believe it is possible for others, but not for you, then you have stepped back into limitation, which is of the ego.  The soul knows no limitation, for it knows not of fear and doubt.  Clear them out, and then ask to see another way of looking at whatever it is you wish to do or accomplish.  There is more than one way to go around an obstacle, but first you must learn that the obstacle begins in your mind.

One of your respected philosophers stated, “I think, therefore I am.”  We would like to give you another twist on that phrase, one that will carry you much farther in your awakening and realization of why you are here.  Are you ready? 

“I AM, therefore I love.”

It can be no other way, for your Source—The Great I AM—is Love, and you are an aspect of That.  If you feel that you “are”—that you exist—but you do not love, then your focus remains tightly on the human aspects of you.  How to shift it to the soul, which is love?  Go to the heart.  Focus there and ask your version of God to show you what love is.  Ask with all sincerity to get to know true, divine love, and then relax.  You have taken the first step.

You are, therefore you love.  Now be that which you are … that which all men seek.  It is your birthright, and you are worthy.

There are two sides to every coin, just as there are two sides to you.  We are not speaking of the opposites such as good and bad, happy or sad.  Whilst in human form you have the aspect of you that is spirit and the side that is human.  Call them the soul and the ego, if you will.  The point of human existence is to master focusing on the soul, exhibiting the soul’s chief characteristic of love.  The challenge in this game of heads or tails is that the spirit side, which initially is prevalent when born, will become hidden to you as a child.  Then it becomes your task as you age to remember it … to identify with the soul aspects by choice. 

Ah, there’s the rub.  In this game of heads or tails, ego or spirit, which side is up is completely up to you.  Mastery of your emotions is one of the ways you learn to exhibit the soul side more often.  It is not a game of win or lose.  It is all about the soul’s growth, but most humans continue to identify with the human aspects, and so we will put it into human terms:  When one identifies more with the soul and Love is face up, then everybody wins. 

Do you see how it works?  You are still human.  The ego aspect of you is always there and is to be embraced if you are to experience wholeness, but choose to be “love side up”—beating the odds of chance in this game called “being human”—and see what happens.

Gratitude.  Can you apply it to everything in your life … the so-called bad things as well as the clearly good?  All of life is about the experience and the learning that occurs from rolling about in those experiences, fully covering yourselves in the variety of them.  Can you be grateful for the challenge?  Not until you see and apply the lessons.  Are you feeling bitter about a past lesson?  Then you have not looked for the lesson or it has not yet revealed itself.  Perhaps the lesson in your challenge was not yours to learn, but someone else’s.  Souls do that, you know … volunteer to undergo a challenge so that others will benefit.  Humans are often not so generous, but souls understand the oneness.  Be grateful.  Gratitude opens the heart, and perhaps with the heart unleashed you will see the blessings that your life allows.

You can prepare your lines all you wish … rehearse your actions until you know every movement in every moment, and what will that gain you?  A false sense of security.  Why?  Because you never act alone.  Life is about the interaction of all the parts of the Whole, and all the other parts are not so well rehearsed.  They are each acting out their own parts, some with great unpredictability.  For some, this may bring fear, which is why they prepare so.  Control is an elusive thing, as is peace, until you realize that a Force far greater than you is pulling the strings.  Yes, you have a great say in all matters, for you have free will, but until you realize that you do not run the show, you will experience frustration at times and occasional disappointment.  That is natural for the human side of you.  What is natural for the spirit side is flow.  When you can flow with the dance of life instead of marching out in rigid, well-rehearsed steps, then you will find you can enjoy life with far more ease. 

Do not forget to speak to those who have passed.  Yes, we know that even here in human form you often forget to call those closest to you, so wrapped up in your own lives do you become.  What if you were to set aside a few moments for a mental phone call to heaven?  It would be quite well received.  Is this silliness?  Not at all.  Just as you often know who is on the telephone before you answer, your loved ones on the other side pick up on your thoughts. 

Sit with the intention of making this connection, and place your call.  That is all it takes.  It may feel one sided as you rattle on.  No matter.  Trust that you are heard.  Connect at the heart.  If you need a sign that you were heard, ask for one.  It may take a few days, but so grateful will be your loved ones that they will do their best to merge heaven and earth to acknowledge your efforts.  Make the call.  The love connection is one which never dies.