Living Through the Meantime

1. Embrace the Meantime: Your Journey to Self-Discovery and Love

You are exactly where you need to be, doing exactly what you need to be doing in order to move into a higher consciousness.

The meantime is a transformative period. It's a time when you feel like your life is falling apart, but in reality, everything is about to come together. This phase is crucial for personal growth and self-discovery. During the meantime, you're given the opportunity to examine your past experiences, current feelings, and future desires.

Understanding the meantime stages is key:

• Basement: You've got a problem but don't know it
• First Floor: You've got a problem but don't know what it is
• Second Floor: You know the problem but don't know what to do about it
• Between Second and Third Floors: You know what to do but are afraid to do it
• Third Floor: You're ready to take responsibility and face challenges
• Attic: You're grateful, hopeful, ready, and open

By recognizing where you are in this process, you can better navigate your journey towards love and self-realization.

2. Identify Your Love Patterns: Understanding Your Emotional Triggers

Your earliest experiences with feminine energy create the essence of what you feel.

Our childhood experiences shape our love patterns. By examining our relationships with our parents or primary caregivers, we can understand the root of our emotional responses in current relationships. This awareness is crucial for breaking negative cycles and cultivating healthier connections.

Key steps to identify love patterns:

1. Reflect on what your mother taught you about love
2. Consider what your father taught you about love
3. Analyze your first real love experience
4. Examine the love you observed growing up
5. Compare these patterns to your current or recent relationships

Understanding these patterns allows you to recognize emotional triggers and make conscious choices in your relationships, rather than reacting based on past experiences.

3. Confront and Clear Emotional Baggage: Shame, Guilt, Anger, and Fear

Spiritual healing requires a willingness to forgive, the courage to release fear, and readiness to relinquish anger, hatred, guilt, and shame.

Emotional baggage hinders personal growth and loving relationships. To move forward, it's essential to confront and clear these negative emotions. This process involves acknowledging past experiences, understanding their impact, and consciously choosing to release them.

Steps to clear emotional baggage:

1. Identify specific experiences tied to shame, guilt, anger, and fear
2. Acknowledge how these experiences have affected your beliefs and behaviors
3. Recognize unloving actions or inactions resulting from these emotions
4. Choose alternative, loving responses for similar situations in the future
5. Declare your willingness to release thoughts, feelings, and behaviors tied to these negative emotions

By clearing this emotional baggage, you create space for more loving and fulfilling experiences in your life.

4. Recognize and Transform Unconscious Behaviors

People do what they do based on who they are and the information they have at the time. If they knew better, they would do better.

Unconscious behaviors often sabotage our relationships and personal growth. These behaviors are typically rooted in fear and manifest as fight, flight, freeze, or submit responses. By becoming aware of these patterns, we can make conscious choices to respond more lovingly.

Common unconscious behaviors and their alternatives:

• Fight: Instead of challenging or attacking, choose to communicate openly
• Flight: Rather than avoiding, address issues directly and honestly
• Freeze: Instead of becoming paralyzed, take small, manageable steps forward
• Submit: Rather than giving in to avoid conflict, express your needs and boundaries

Recognizing these patterns allows you to pause, reflect, and choose more constructive responses that align with your true desires and values.

5. Define Your Divine Self: Embrace Your True Identity

I am the Beloved. No thing and no one can change the truth of my being.

Embracing your divine self is crucial for authentic living and loving. This involves recognizing your inherent worth and the qualities that make you uniquely you. By defining and accepting your divine self, you create a solid foundation for all your relationships, especially romantic ones.

Steps to define your divine self:

1. Identify qualities that describe your true essence
2. Recognize what you deserve in life and relationships
3. Understand how you create your experiences
4. Acknowledge your power to shape your reality

By fully embracing your divine self, you attract relationships and experiences that align with your true nature and highest good.

6. Create Your Ideal Relationship: Clarify Your Desires and Expectations

One of the greatest, most loving gifts you can give to your partner is your wholeness.

Clarity about your ideal relationship is essential for manifesting it. This involves not only identifying the qualities you desire in a partner but also understanding the experience you want to create together. By being specific about your wants and needs, you increase the likelihood of attracting and maintaining a fulfilling relationship.

Key aspects to consider when defining your ideal relationship:

• Desired attributes in a partner
• How you want to feel in the relationship
• Decision-making processes
• Resource allocation
• Conflict resolution methods
• Your role in creating and maintaining the relationship

Remember that the most important relationship is the one you have with yourself. By cultivating self-love and wholeness, you become better equipped to create and nurture loving partnerships.

7. Practice Daily Acts of Faith: Strengthen Your Spiritual Connection

Through the conscious recognition of God in every situation, we never miss an opportunity to behold the Beloved, the precious Spirit inherent in each moment we encounter with another of God's creations.

Daily spiritual practice deepens your connection to the divine and enhances all aspects of life. The ACTS (Acknowledgment, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) prayer process is a powerful tool for developing this connection. By consistently engaging in this practice, you align yourself with divine love and guidance.

Components of the ACTS prayer process:

1. Acknowledgment: Recognize the divine presence in your life
2. Confession: Admit unloving actions and forgive yourself
3. Thanksgiving: Express gratitude for blessings received
4. Supplication: Request support and guidance for specific needs

Incorporating this practice into your daily routine helps maintain a loving perspective and strengthens your ability to navigate life's challenges with grace and wisdom.

8. Live as the Beloved: Apply Love to Everything You Do

Behold! You are prepared to do a new thing! Be blessed!

Living as the Beloved means embodying love in all aspects of life. This is the ultimate goal of the meantime journey – to recognize your true nature as a divine expression of love and to manifest that love in every thought, word, and action.

Ways to live as the Beloved:

• Practice seeing the divine in every person and situation
• Respond to challenges with compassion and understanding
• Cultivate gratitude for all experiences, even difficult ones
• Offer love freely, without expectation of return
• Continuously seek ways to grow spiritually and emotionally

By consistently choosing love, you not only transform your own life but also become a beacon of light for others, inspiring them to embrace their own divine nature.

Last updated: October 31, 2024