Today we would ask you to think on a person who has done a good thing for you.  Someone who has done you a kindness.

It can be a large thing, like someone who aided you as you were going through a difficult period in your life.  Or someone who offered you encouragement that helped to positively shape the course of your life.

Or it can be a very small thing, like the clerk at the store who let you return the item without difficulty.  Or someone you ran into during your day whose presence lifted your spirits.  Maybe someone complimented you on your hair, or what you were wearing, and made you feel good in your body.

Whomever comes to mind, we would ask you to think on this person.  Imagine this person’s kindly face.  Remember a specific moment of kindness.

As you hold this beautiful being in your thoughts, say “Thank you.”

You may say it silently, or you may say it out loud.  Say it to this person, and imagine their reaction to these words — for this “thank you” comes from the heart, and is said with true feeling.

This is all you need do.  It is a little thing, and will take only a few moments.  And we thank you for having an open heart.

Listen.  Today we ask you to drop a grievance.  What does this mean?

Most of you walk through the day plagued by grievances.  They surround you like a swarm of tiny, stinging flies.

You are frustrated with your co-worker, your parent, your spouse, your child, the politician, the person driving that car, the telemarketer, the person with different religious beliefs, the person who did or said something that you just cannot comprehend.  How could this person do that?

We would ask you to select a very minor grievance.  Like the person who cut you off in traffic.  Or the telemarketer.  Or the child who didn’t clean up the mess.  Or the friend who dropped the small commitment.  Something that is irritating you, something you can’t stop thinking about, but in the greater scheme of things you are able to perceive as minor.

Now, take a deep breath, and imagine how you would feel if this incident had not happened.  There may be a voice in your head that protests, “Well, it did!”  But we are inviting you to imagine, just for a few moments, what you would feel like if this grievance had not occurred at all.  Just imagine how you would feel if this incident were erased from your memory.  Notice what happens in your body.

We invite you to consider letting go of this minor grievance.  Simply choosing to release it and not hold on to it.  It is such a very small thing.  And yet keeping it around is like keeping around a tiny biting fly that irritates you.  Let go of this little bug.  Let go because its absence will make you feel better.

For those of you who are able to rest a little from your usual responsibilities in this time period, we would ask that you take a few moments each day to be fully present in your bodies.

One place you might do this is in the shower, or bath.  Rather than let your mind run while showering and bathing, take a few moments to be fully present in the pleasurable experience.  Feel the warmth of the water, and how pleasant it feels for your physical body to be bathed and cleansed.  

Connect with your feet, your legs, your hips and backside, your sex, your belly, your chest, your breast, your armpits, your shoulders, your arms, your hands, your neck, face, head, and the hair on your head.  

Touch and feel every part of yourself, even if only for a second.  Luxuriate in the feeling of the warm water, and being in your skin.  Be in your body.  Feel its shape.  If thoughts arise — particularly thoughts of guilt or discomfort — return to the pure sensation of the warm water against your skin.

Even if you can remain conscious for only a few moments as you bathe, this can do great good.  

If there are parts of your body that experience physical pain and discomfort while bathing, we would ask that you especially hold your attention in these areas.  Rather than rushing or hurrying through the pain, we would ask that you gently hold your awareness in that area.  All that is needed are a few extra moments of attention.  Feel the warmth of the water.  Feel the goodness of your body.

We are not talking about the shape of it, the weight, the age, the difficulties you may experience.  What we are talking about is the essential goodness of your body.  Your body is good.

If you have ever shared a special connection to a beloved animal, we would ask you to bring this to mind.  That feeling of goodness you associate with a favorite pet — that warmth you feel — we invite you to perceive your physical body in the same way.  

Your physical body is an animal.  It possesses its own consciousness.  It is devoted to you in the same way that a beloved pet is.

Your pets are good.  Even when they act out, or get in trouble, or get sick, or old — your pets are good.  Can you feel that?  Your body is good in the same way.

So in this time of rest, we invite you to bathe, and love your body fully as you as you bathe.  Your body is good. 

A Christmas message:

Today is a day to appreciate all that is good in your life.  And yet it is also a time for many of contention — for not all people find their families a refuge from the cold.

We would ask you, this day, to spend a little time contemplating a family member with whom you feel a negative charge.  It does not have to be a large matter, though it can be.  We simply ask you to think of a family member whose presence, either physically or in your mental space, causes some level of discomfort.  If no one in your family comes to mind, then it can be some other person with whom you feel this discomfort.

Now we would ask you to hold this person in mind, and imagine this person as a very small child.  Simply imagine this person as a little one, playing with blocks, asleep in a crib, squealing and gurgling.  See their innocence.

Just hold this for as long as you can, and notice how you feel.  Notice the difference between the feeling of discomfort you associate with this person, and the feeling you feel as you imagine this person as a very small child.

On this Christmas, majestic ones, we would ask you to lay down your grievances, even if only for a few moments, and perceive the beings around you as they truly are.  

The Prophets seem to be riffing on a theme here.   They seem to want to show, rather than tell.

Just so you know, I have no idea where this is heading.  The way it works is: I meditate for a while, then open up a journal, connect with my breathing, enter a light hypnotic state, and then ask them if there’s a message for the day.  At which point I just start writing down words.  Sometimes I see images as I’m doing it.

First, I check in on a personal level and ask if they have anything to tell me.  Next, I ask if there’s a message for the group. And that’s what I post here.  There’s no editing, no thought process around this.  Whatever they tell me, I post.

Here’s today’s message:

Today we would ask you to look at something that you find especially beautiful.  Perhaps it is a flower in your garden, or in a vase.  Perhaps it is a tree, or a plant.  Perhaps it is a work of art created by human hands.  A painting, a sculpture.

It could be very simple — the sinuous curve of a ceramic pot — or as complex as a fractal.  Whatever comes to mind when you think of beauty.  Beauty that takes your breath.

It might be the face of a human being, refracted through a photographer’s lens, or the hand of a painter or sculptor.  

It should be something that arrests you, stops you in your tracks, gives rise to awe and wonder at a universe that could create such exquisiteness.

Even if it is for only one minute, allow yourself to be in love with beauty.  Let your eyes feast on this form.  The color, the texture, the shape.  Drink it in.  Feel the feelings inside your body.  There is nothing more to do than this.  Just be with beauty.

Today was one of these days when I woke up in a serious funk.  And it was hard to shake.  I did all the things that usually help: went outside, meditated.  Got present with some of the crazy thoughts rolling around my brain and was able to see, okay, now, that’s crazy.  And still that darkness kept coming back.

These little exercises that the Prophets are suggesting are, I must say, different from anything I’ve gotten from them previously.  They’ve taken on a whole new tone for this forum.  Back to basics, it seems.

But then it’s clear that I’m desperately in need of the basics.  So I’m doing these exercises myself.  The one for today definitely shifted my energy.  I recommend headphones and just a few minutes of dedicated “you” time.

Here it is:

Today we would ask everyone reading this to take a few minutes to listen to a beloved song or piece of music.  Whatever first comes to mind when you read this.  

Music that stirs emotion in you, that awakens your heart in a deep, wordless way.  We would ask you to listen to this song with your full attention.  To take a few minutes, close the door, turn away from the computer and the email and the thousand busy things you feel you ought to be doing today.

Take a few minutes, sit, and listen to this beloved music.  Feel it.  That is all.  There is nothing more to do than this.  

Just listen, and love.

This is funny.  I hadn’t planned on telling anyone about this blog until I was at least a few entries in.

But then yesterday one of the three people I’ve been open with about my channeling this past year happened to email and ask if I’d given any thought to putting this stuff out there on a blog.  No sooner do I tell her, “Oh you’re so psychic, believe it or not I just started a blog TODAY,” than she’s already posted a link on her FB page and suddenly people I don’t know are reading this thing.  Which is, I suppose, the point.  But I didn’t expect it to happen this fast!

My psychic friend is named Linda Gabriel, by the way, and I’ll give a shout-out to her fantastic blog: http://www.thoughtmedicine.com.

“The Prophets” are all for sharing this material, but in typical fashion have asked me not to make any projections about it.   If it happens, it happens.  If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.  So I’ll take it day by day and see what comes up.  And I thank everyone who comes here!

Here’s the message for today:

Listen.  This will repeat some of what we said yesterday.

We would ask you, right now, as you are reading this, to focus on someone you love.  It can be a person you know, someone close to your heart.   But it must be someone you love without reservation.  

Maybe it is a small child.  Maybe it is someone you barely know, who did some kindness for you.  It might have happened long ago, when you were a child.  

It might be someone you don’t know.  It might be a film or TV actor who conjures good feeling for you.  A face you see on screen and you think, “Oh I love that person!”  

It might not be a person.  It might be an animal that you love, or that you once loved dearly.

Whether human or animal, hold this being in your mind right now.  Connect with that feeling of love.  Reach out with your senses.  The sight, the sound, the warmth of this being.  Feel how it feels inside your body as you hold this loved one in mind.

And then just be with that feeling.  Be with it until you are ready to release it.

Next, find a memory of eating or drinking something that you love.  It could be very simple.  It could be the warm cup of coffee or tea, or the buttery eggs, or the toast with jam.  Or the chocolate.  Or the ice cream.  Or that one meal you remember so clearly, something special, the melting on your tongue, oh yum!  

You close your eyes.  Mmm.  You love this.  You love this like a child, with an open heart.  “Oh, this is good, I love this!”  It could be something you ate this morning, or thirty years ago.  Whatever comes to mind, that is it.  And just connect with the pure simple joy of eating or drinking.

Here is the secret of secrets, majestic ones.  What you feel when you are in love, purely in love like this, like a child…

That is your natural state.  You were born as this.  You will return to this.  That feeling is who you are.

At the beginning of 2011, I started “channeling.”  It wasn’t something I sought to do.  It just sort of happened one day, in the midst of a dark, depressive period.  I found myself writing down a voice that was different from my own.  Its messages were always consistent.  No matter what kind of mental or emotional state I happened to be in, the voice was always calm and reassuring.  I found myself looking forward each day to finding out what message would turn up.   And slowly, these messages brought me back to myself.

I called my unseen guides “The Prophets,” not because what I was writing down was prophetic in nature, but because I’m something of a Star Trek geek, and these higher dimensional beings — or whatever they are — remind me of the “Wormhole Aliens” in “Deep Space Nine.”  Trekkers will know what I’m talking about.

For a while now I’ve been thinking about sharing this information in some sort of public forum.  I have no idea if anyone will read it, and really it doesn’t matter.  I’ll just do this for now, and if I feel it’s good to continue I will, and if not I won’t.

The messages I receive may seem familiar to those who follow the work of Abraham, or A Course in Miracles.  I have only passing personal familiarity with those works, but what little I know shows me that I haven’t hit on anything new here.  For me, there’s something reassuring about knowing all of this information is out there, and that these guides will just gently, lovingly repeat their messages over and over to anyone who will hear.

I think of channeling as going to the well for water.  No matter how parched and dry I may be, I always find water in this well.

Here’s a message, on the Solstice:

Listen.  You are all magnificent beings, and almost all of you are asleep.  It is time at last to wake up.  Wait no longer.  Your entire purpose here is to experience unconditional love for yourselves, and for everything you perceive in this reality.

Wake up, majestic ones.  Wake up from your sleep.  The nightmares you experience each day, every day, are not real.  Each morning you awake, but you do not wake.  For you arise from bed with fear, walk this world in fear, eat and drink with fear, read fearful stories, watch fearful people on the television tell you frightening things, and go to bed to dream dark and fearful dreams — if sleep comes to you at all.

Wake up.  Wake up now.  It is so simple.  Wake up and love your children.  Love them as you did in those moments when you looked at their innocence and beauty and your heart burst with love.  Love your dog, love your cat, love the animals around you, for they love you unconditionally.  Love the taste of your morning coffee, love the smell of the fresh bread, love the plants in the garden, love your friends and loved ones.  Forget your quarrels and disputes, forget the bitterness that lies between you and love.  Love as you did when you were young.  Love as you did when you first saw your favorite movie, the one from childhood, that you watched over and over again.  And even if you hold this feeling for only a few seconds, know that now you are awake.  The rest of the time, you are sleeping.  Only now, as you feel this warmth inside you, this love, this feeling — now you are awake.

Even if you can do this only once a day for a few moments — you will begin to wake up from your dark sleep.  Wake up.  Wake up.  Remember who you are, and where you come from.  Deep down you know, and have always known.  Now is the time.  You have wandered lost in the desert for too long.  Here, at last, is the oasis.  All you must do to reach it is remember how you loved something or someone, loved an experience, loved it with a full and happy heart.  Wake up!