How to See the Light that You Are and
How to Grow and Share the Light that You Are
How to Grow and Share the Light that You Are
You are Light. This is the essence of your divine spark or core star that exists at the center of your being (depicted above) and what I consider the Christ Consciousness or Buddha Nature that can be awakened within us. The spiritual Truth of the Christ Light born in us this season is this: The Divine incarnation is already within each of us waiting to be acknowledged, honored, and allowed to shine brightly. This Light is in everyone and is always there. It doesn’t matter what religion you are or are not. It doesn’t matter whether you consider yourself spiritual or not. It doesn’t matter how much smudge you’ve accumulated over years or lives. It doesn’t matter what dark circumstances may be in your life or in the world. The Light that you are is always shining brightly into all of your dimensions: your hara, your aura, and your body. It is shining in everyone and in and through everything.
The question for you is how much of that eternal light is shining through you? At the core, we are all infinitely and eternally bright. How much of that light comes through at a certain moment in time depends on a multitude of factors, such as how much inner work you’ve done, how in alignment with your soul purpose you are, how physically well you are, etc. Some of this you can choose. Some of this is pre-selected by your soul and you don’t have a lot of control—it really is a case-by-case. For example, it may be a soul’s design to experience a lifetime without a conscious connection to the Light. This may teach the soul all sorts of things, especially compassion for others who are not aware of their own connection to the Light. Each path is different. It is important to respect and honor all paths. Even if it is a soul’s journey in a particular lifetime to experience disconnection, the Truth is still there. They are light. Everyone is.
Sometimes, I wish everyone’s eyes would be open for just a few moments so they could see that Light that everyone and everything is. Of course, some people would dismiss what they saw, explaining it away, or shrugging it off. But a few, a lot maybe, would start to see things in themselves and in their life differently. I know. It happened to me. Once I started seeing energy and auras, well, it was down the rabbit hole and a whole lotta wonderful woo-woo from there on out. If you’ve never seen an aura, here is a recent picture of someone I know singing at her grandmother’s memorial service.
The question for you is how much of that eternal light is shining through you? At the core, we are all infinitely and eternally bright. How much of that light comes through at a certain moment in time depends on a multitude of factors, such as how much inner work you’ve done, how in alignment with your soul purpose you are, how physically well you are, etc. Some of this you can choose. Some of this is pre-selected by your soul and you don’t have a lot of control—it really is a case-by-case. For example, it may be a soul’s design to experience a lifetime without a conscious connection to the Light. This may teach the soul all sorts of things, especially compassion for others who are not aware of their own connection to the Light. Each path is different. It is important to respect and honor all paths. Even if it is a soul’s journey in a particular lifetime to experience disconnection, the Truth is still there. They are light. Everyone is.
Sometimes, I wish everyone’s eyes would be open for just a few moments so they could see that Light that everyone and everything is. Of course, some people would dismiss what they saw, explaining it away, or shrugging it off. But a few, a lot maybe, would start to see things in themselves and in their life differently. I know. It happened to me. Once I started seeing energy and auras, well, it was down the rabbit hole and a whole lotta wonderful woo-woo from there on out. If you’ve never seen an aura, here is a recent picture of someone I know singing at her grandmother’s memorial service.
Look at all that light around her! I know her grandmother’s soul was present and helping her auric field shine with all the love she was feeling while singing.
Here is another recent picture of a yogi I have done some virtual meditations with. This was taken during a meditation at a retreat this fall at Mt. Shasta that captured his form turning back into light essence.
Here is another recent picture of a yogi I have done some virtual meditations with. This was taken during a meditation at a retreat this fall at Mt. Shasta that captured his form turning back into light essence.
There are a few people’s lights that are memorable to me. I once met a chaplain. He was quite young as far as chaplains and ministers go, yet, he shined like an angel. I couldn’t take my eyes off of him for very long and it had nothing to do with how he looked physically. His light was so magnetic, you just wanted to gaze at him and soak up some of that radiance.
Another person I met shined light right out of his pores. You didn’t need your third eye opened to see it. He had had a near death experience (NDE) and after coming back, he began to realize he had amazing healing abilities. There was so much light coming off his body he looked like a human light bulb!
Yet another woman, a bookstore clerk, of all things, had a huge light around her head. She was steeped in holiness. You just never know how much light some people are shining until you see it for yourself! If you’d like to practice seeing light in and around yourself, here are some steps you can take.
1. Rub your hands together fast to get the energy in them revved up.
2. Then hold up one of your hands against a white piece of paper in a mostly dark room. In the daylight but with no artificial lights works really well as does at night with candle light in the room.
3. As you stare at your hand, gently unfocus your eyes and look past your fingers/hand, not at them, kind of like when you look at a hologram.
4. As you look past them, with your eyesight gently unfocused, look at the area around your fingers/hand. You might see white light. You might see colored light. The areas around your fingers/hand might look fuzzy or blurry. Some possibilities of what it might look like are depicted below.
Another person I met shined light right out of his pores. You didn’t need your third eye opened to see it. He had had a near death experience (NDE) and after coming back, he began to realize he had amazing healing abilities. There was so much light coming off his body he looked like a human light bulb!
Yet another woman, a bookstore clerk, of all things, had a huge light around her head. She was steeped in holiness. You just never know how much light some people are shining until you see it for yourself! If you’d like to practice seeing light in and around yourself, here are some steps you can take.
1. Rub your hands together fast to get the energy in them revved up.
2. Then hold up one of your hands against a white piece of paper in a mostly dark room. In the daylight but with no artificial lights works really well as does at night with candle light in the room.
3. As you stare at your hand, gently unfocus your eyes and look past your fingers/hand, not at them, kind of like when you look at a hologram.
4. As you look past them, with your eyesight gently unfocused, look at the area around your fingers/hand. You might see white light. You might see colored light. The areas around your fingers/hand might look fuzzy or blurry. Some possibilities of what it might look like are depicted below.
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This is some of your aura, your light, your energy. There is far more to the aura and your light, but this at least gives you a jump start to seeing light! When your third eye starts to open and you start to see the dazzling light of everyone’s true essence, you’ll need these!
Here are some things you can do to shine your own light more brightly.
1. Do inner work: energy healing, spiritual direction, contemplative prayer, therapy, etc., help you get to the core of your nitty-gritty stuff that needs to be transformed. It also clears your karma and opens your intuitive channels. The more you can do at the energetic level, the faster the transformation.
2. Meditate: This helps to open up your intuition and your awareness. It isn’t the the same as inner work, though. You need both. Meditation helps you wake up. Inner work helps you grow up.
3. Eat well and exercise. As much as this doesn’t seem spiritual, it is, when you recognize that all life is sacred, and food is life and movement is life.
4. Visualize light in and around your body AND embrace your shadow/darkness and own it. Then you can do #1 to transmute it back into Light.
5. Offer your sacred gifts to the world.
6. Play and laugh a lot!
Happy Holidays! May you see your own bright light and the bright light of everyone you meet, no matter how hard they try to fool you otherwise!
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Monica McDowell is a dynamic speaker, author, and practitioner in alternative wellness and spirituality. She is the author of Confessions of a Mystic Soccer Mom, You are Light (internationally published by 6th Books in over 14 countries) and My Karma Ran Over My Dogma, and has the distinction of being the first ordained minister in America granted civil rights by a federal ruling. She lives in Seattle, Washington, USA, and can be reached at monica@monicamcdowell.com.
1. Do inner work: energy healing, spiritual direction, contemplative prayer, therapy, etc., help you get to the core of your nitty-gritty stuff that needs to be transformed. It also clears your karma and opens your intuitive channels. The more you can do at the energetic level, the faster the transformation.
2. Meditate: This helps to open up your intuition and your awareness. It isn’t the the same as inner work, though. You need both. Meditation helps you wake up. Inner work helps you grow up.
3. Eat well and exercise. As much as this doesn’t seem spiritual, it is, when you recognize that all life is sacred, and food is life and movement is life.
4. Visualize light in and around your body AND embrace your shadow/darkness and own it. Then you can do #1 to transmute it back into Light.
5. Offer your sacred gifts to the world.
6. Play and laugh a lot!
Happy Holidays! May you see your own bright light and the bright light of everyone you meet, no matter how hard they try to fool you otherwise!
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Monica McDowell is a dynamic speaker, author, and practitioner in alternative wellness and spirituality. She is the author of Confessions of a Mystic Soccer Mom, You are Light (internationally published by 6th Books in over 14 countries) and My Karma Ran Over My Dogma, and has the distinction of being the first ordained minister in America granted civil rights by a federal ruling. She lives in Seattle, Washington, USA, and can be reached at monica@monicamcdowell.com.
