Spreading Love/Light...HOW CAN WE DO IT?

[KassandraLoves]

hi friends!!! so i have been contemplating this for quite a bit now. others may have already started this and some may not but i wanted to bounce this off of everyone to see where we are collectively at and maybe make a group project out of it... last night i was writing and i asked myself to create a list of all the things i do that are methods of spreading light/love, to sort of "gauge" where i am at with it.

i wrote down meditations i do, i wrote down my usual interactions at work and with my family. i had a few other things like helping elderly folks carry their groceries to their cars/unloading/taking their cart back, and giving donations to the homeless, etc etc. anyway....my list was suprisingly shorter than i thought it would be! i mean, i truly enjoy helping people and i had some pretty good stuff on my list....but, i just started to realize as i was writing this that (at least for me) the world isnt just going to always hand me opportunities to use to help people. being a creator, i figured that the most valuable and useful opportunities for service-to-others, would be the ones that i create myself. this way, i could make my own path to service/light bringing and make that path fit my lifestyle/capabilities best.

why rely on the world to give you these opportunities to do amazing things? why not just make the opportuinites yourself? i know it is enough to "just be" and just vibrate love, but it makes me feel like i am not doing my best and giving my all.

so heres what i did. i made a gigantic list of all the little (or big) good deeds i'd like to do that have popped into my head over the years, and even made some really awesome new ones, to actually do. like a "to do" list! i gave myself a year deadline to do at least half of them (which can vary depending on who you are). you know, if the harvest is coming and all the other crazy stuff that could happen before it, then i figured that i dont have much time to get the light/love out there. the natural process is just too slow to accomodate these "fast" times right now. so i need to be more active about it!

i am posting this on the off-chance that maybe some others might be on the same boat with me for this, or maybe to inspire some to look into themselves and make the same evaluation. we dont need to "shame" ourselves or judge ourselves, but it is good to just ask yourself if you are doing as much as you can, you know? also, we can get ideas from eachother for good things we can all put on our own lists if we feel compelled to do so...

so. here are a few things i decided to do and have already acted upon some of them as of last night:


1. volunteer at the local senior center. (i e-mailed the volunteer coordinator last night to set up to start volunteering)
2. volunteer to be a big sister of america (where you get matched with a child, usually under-priveledged or in need of extra guidance, and basically just hang out with them 2-4 times a month. i have already set up an appointment to start this process)
3. volunteer at a local soup kitchen or shelter for the homeless.
4. plant a tree!!!
5. volunteer on a roadside clean-up crew and help keep our earth litter free!
6. give to a needy family for christmas (food, gifts, etc)
7. save up at least a hundred dollars to donate to my favorite charity.

...theres more, but my list is waaay too big to post all of it and this post is already huge, too! (sorry mods! i hope its ok!)

in any case, lets get a list going of all the positively-oriented things we can think of to do in our community, for our families, for our planet, anything that we can refer to at any time. this will aid all of us in bringing our immense light/love and just plain making people smile! if we are all active collectively, imagine how much we can do!!!!

ready? set? post! :d

[mellisamouse]

be happy, and it emenates from you, and effects everyone around you, and like a snowball effect, they will eminate it too, until eventaully we can lighten up the whole world. :)

[KassandraLoves]

be happy, and it emenates from you, and effects everyone around you, and like a snowball effect, they will eminate it too, until eventaully we can lighten up the whole world. :)

im already doing that. it feels great to do so! it has a good effect on my life and those around me...im just looking to give more than that.

im asking if anyone else feels this way?

im asking for us to create a thread that has other good ways to spread the light/love around us. if we can compile a list of the things that we all do or can do in our lives that are beneficial and give our otherselves those smiles that they are looking for.

im not saying that just being and loving isnt enough to bring light, im saying that lets create a place where we can foster inspiration to give more. :d

[PriestOfLight]

i have been:

1) donating food to food banks
2) playing with kids
3) meditating
4) spreading a loving view of upcoming events
5) complimenting people when they deserve it
6) treating and taking care of myself better
7) switching churches (was catholic and exploring other options)
8) taking reiki classes
9) writing and performing music

in light and love

priest of light

[KassandraLoves]

thanks priest of light!

i should see if there are some reiki classes near me!
oh and i love the idea of performing music! i dont know why i didnt think of that one because im a singer, but its going on my list now!

thanks!! ;)

[harmonyart]

well, i make healing meditation videos..made one today.

blessings,

gwen

[Rhonda]

kassandra and others, great thoughts are being released.

may i add a current and immediate need for love and light. while the tensions are high for our fellow brothers and sisters for many many reasons all over the world, let each of us stay "center" and pay special attention to our heart center during these weeks ahead.

let's keep our thoughts real and loving as we co-create daily with this powerful energy we all have.

simple, true love and light is needed for so many, now. when you are given an opportunity, center yourself and put love into action through the deeds you deem correct in that moment.

let your love guide your will !

re-member, we are all equal and connected, even in the times when we feel disconnected and separate in our views of life.

peace and harmony to all ......

[mellisamouse]

well, i make healing meditation videos..made one today.

blessings,

gwen

i also just started making videos, trying to deal with some hard issues in a loving way. i wrote a song the other day as well, and can't wait to record it!

i think i will start making paintings and giving them to people for free who would enjoy them.

good ideas everybody! keep em comming! :)

[checkmate]

the key i've found over these many challenging years of life is to concentrate of loving and accepting yourself. once you accomplish this your light is bright and attracts others to you. it's that human interaction that starts a chain reaction. intent is the key to do things for others without expecting anything in return. conquering our preconceived programming is very difficult.

just be yourself, and no matter how differnt you may be from everyone around you, take actions that are right for you.

[KassandraLoves]

i think my post is being a bit mis-understood. not in a bad way or anything, because everyone has great things to say, and it is much appreciated.

at the same time, though, i am currently already doing these things. i have long since forgiven myself for all the stuff i had pent up, i have cried tears of joy for the release of it all, and in turn have forgiven and accepted everyone else for everything. i am consistenly doing this everyday, always.

i do spread love and light with my attitude, my intent, my love for the world and for my otherselves, etc. i really see and understand that that is "enough." i rejoice in the fact that just being and loving is enough. that path has already been chosen by me, as it has for most of us here. i walk it right now. but i just get the message from my higher self that theres more i can do. much more!

my goal with this post was to find ways, after the above actions, to actively continue to put myself in new situations in society to be able to spread my light/love not only to those i know and come in contact with on a daily basis, but to those i never would have met otherwise. i wanted to look for things to do that ive never done before! after all, isnt spontanaety something ra tells us is great? to put ourselves in situations we otherwsie wouldnt???

im not saying everyone needs to go out and do charity work, i just thought this kind of stuff would be a great way to get out there and actively pursue service to others. im already there within myself, i just want to find more ways to do this and to help my community as a whole. what better way to serve others than to actively seek out ways to serve others physically and mentally? the usual l/l spreading is something most of us do on a daily basis, at the very least thats what im doing. but i dont want to confide that to only me, my family/friends, and my coworkers, you know? i wanted to get out there and give it to those i normally wouldnt, and just plain bring a smile to a strangers face for helping.

i apologize for making my post difficult to understand. i was looking for a commonality in my thinking with others on the forum who might be in this same boat, but i know that everyone's path is different, so this way might work wonders for me, but do nothing for someone else.

i love the idea of meditation videos btw!!!

[mellisamouse]

well, one thing the world desperatly needs right now, is a reason to laugh. i used to be somewhat comedic, mabey that would be good, to think of loving yet hilarious jokes to spread around to release some of the tension that is built up far to much on the planet right .

it is like we have been through a never ending attack of tragedies and grieving, so it is almost as if we feel guilty these days for having anything to laugh at. but i think we need to find a way to do it again, some how!

i know that would help me sooooo much if someone could help me laugh again, so i am reaching out to you all to tickle my funny bone somehow. that would certainly help me personally. ;)

[KassandraLoves]

love it!

great ideas here! maybe even just finding one really funny or so cheesy its funny joke online everyday to laugh at or to tell your co-workers/family/friends is a great idea!

laughter is the shortest distance between two people after all, right?

[Teotihuacan]

volunteering for a cause you believe in does feel good. i had never done any volunteer work until this year in may when i became involved with an animal welfare group. i was really surprised at the positive energy that all the volunteers generate when we're working. since everyone wants to be there & help, everyone has a great attitude about getting things done. for so many years that i worked for someone else, i was always coming into contact w my co-workers who mostly had negative attitudes about their jobs, which was a drag to be around, and difficult to not to be infected by those negative vibes that resulted. nobody wanted to be there & all they did was complain throughout the shift. so to come into contact with exactly the opposite is absolutely inspiring & energizing! the positive energy also lingers for a good while after we've finished up for the day, and i would like to hope that it also transmits to those around us too. if you can volunteer your time, whether it's just an hour or two, give it a try. it's really fun, you get out of the house, and you get to meet people with like interests. who knows, you might even just find a new path to a new occupation you'd like to try.

[Teotihuacan]

here's something i try...see if this works for you too. although, it is kind of difficult sometimes. a lot of times, my husband & i are watching the news or some documentary and i'll hear of some really tragic, awful stories about people somewhere in the world who are suffering in some sort of way. a lot of times, i get angry inside that these things are occurring & that people are suffering like they are and i'll try to transform that anger into positive energy by meditating after i've seen these things on tv, and sending that energy out to the world in separate visualizations of white light, & a combination of pink & green light surrounding an image of the planet.

i try to picture huge walls of light, miles high, washing over land, mountains, oceans, cities, people, and animals as they engulf the whole world, and trying to send extra light & energy to concentrate on certain areas of the world where it seems to be especially crazy right now (middle east, eastern europe, all of africa, all of mexico, central & south america, india, china, north korea). i try to meditate on a strong feeling or intention surrounding the idea that all violence and suffering must stop all over in the world right then, even if just for a moment and that peace & hope creep in for an instant to remind people of what that used to feel like and to have something to still strive towards. i picture in my mind people in hospitals and prisons and try to imagine what being there must feel like. i take the resulting despair and lonely feelings and try to turn those around in my mind into a forceful intention of hope & light being sent to these individuals, concentrating on a sense of relief that i would want them to feel, even if just for a few moments.

this is an energizing meditation when one can breathe correctly. it can also be a difficult one though at times, because i don't always have the energy, it seems, to feel & identify with the feelings of sadness, loneliness & suffering that people are definitely feeling out there. and it can also be difficult to focus sometimes on the process of transforming the angry feelings into positive light visualizations, but i would like to hope that the positive intention i'm sending out is somehow rippling into some sort of effect somewhere in the world. it would be really cool to have a huge group of people all meditating at the same time, with the same intention of bringing peace & healing to the earth and all the people & animals. i would really like to hope that it would help raise everyone's vibration just a little, and more so for those who really need it....

[Angie]

a divine inspiration ~ my husband and i have been upset by the state of things on our planet these days. the wars, violence, hate, poverty, greed, deception and destruction need to stop now! we feel very strongly that there is no more time to waste! there is no more time for denial and apathy. something has to be done. people are doing harm to each other and to the environment all in the name of money, power and control. the wealthiest are taking advantage of the power their money offords and that causes many of us to feel defensive, angry, defiant or possibly intimidated, helpless and hopeless. however, we are not helpless! we are not hopeless! and, we do not need to feel intimidated. anger will do us no good in this situation. anger and violence will only make matters worse. there is another way..... the only way, if you ask me. we have at our disposal the greatest power in the universe. kevin and i asked spirit to give us a solution to our planet's ills and we got our answer! on the morning of dec. 27th 2011. kevin was standing out back on our deck thinking about all of this and trying to think of a way to be of help in this situation, when the voice of spirit directed him to "tell the satellites "i love you!"." he came in the house to tell me this and we started brainstorming about what this might mean and how we should do it. it made immediate sense to me! true and unconditional love absolutely does have the power to melt the hardest of hearts and i know exactly which hardened hearts need love the most. we need to love our enemies! we know that we are being watched through a web of surveillance cameras that feed pictures to satellites. so we started throwing out ideas like "we should write i love you on the roof of our house or in the yard, in the snow or spell it out in flowers in our gardens." then it dawned on me that many of the cameras are watching our roadways and city sidewalks and that a bumper sticker would be a really great place to start. and so it begins....

we bought 1000, high quality 2 x 6 bumper stickers and are giving them away.

david's book "the source field investigations" makes an ironclad scientific case for the power of love and massaru emoto's "secret life of water" makes a case for the power of the written word upon our watery world. once you fully understand how just wearing, displaying and showing people the words i love you can change and heal things i hope you will start displaying i love you everywhere you can think of. and, let us know how it's going for you. i've set up a facebook page for any who want to contribute their stories. i think that once you start displaying it you'll also find yourself feeling it more! the more love you feel the more love there is in the world for all of us.
bright blessings and i love you! ~ angie