LETTING GO OF CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE

This is a scary title of an article, yet it comes with the good news that when you let go of trying to control what happens to you, Mother-Father God is able to come in and lead you in the direction that is best for you. Trusting God to guide you is the pivotal matter, and it is no small one indeed. There is a subconscious language in the body that takes us away from trusting God that has been in us, separating us from our Divine Source. Furthermore, that gets compounded by certain religious beliefs about the nature of God: as requiring sacrifices, or wanting to punish you for your mistakes. These antiquated beliefs about God further drive the wedge into the natural trust bond that exists between you and God. Even if you do not believe this currently, there is an old language in the body that remembers these ideas and that acts as a block in your ability to trust God. It is no wonder that it is so challenging to let go of control.

However, if you were to assert, “I no longer need to try to figure everything out on my own,” this allows more space in the mind where more spiritual energy can then flow, and the information that God wants to share with you can come into the conscious mind and feed you with what you need to learn. Letting go of control takes you out of your mind into God’s mind where all of the answers you need to live successfully are housed. This is a simple exchange process—exchanging your ideas for the ideas that God wants to share with you. It is simple to do this; however, it is not always easy, especially when there is resistance in the physical body that draws your thoughts and feelings away from trusting God.

The subconscious memories and language programmed in the body are something that needs to be re-coded with spiritual energy containing the information that restores the trust bond between Spirit Parent and human child. Allowing yourself to come to God in a state of innocent faith opens the door for Spirit to recode you with the information you need within your body that releases the old outdated information with the new ideas that promote healthy mental, emotional, and physical habits. Again, this is a simple process yet one that needs to be practiced over and over as Mother-Father God weaves more spiritual threads into the places where there is darkness within the psyche and brings more love-light energy into the physical body that promotes healthy cell functioning.

We have become accustomed to immediate gratification and we sometimes think that this pertains to the healing process. We try to insert our timeline upon the natural healing order that Spirit has designed for our benefit. Turning to Mother-Father God each day by asking for the re-coding of the new language of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness takes us out of the mind of control into the heart of trust. You do not have to figure out what Truth, Beauty, and Goodness means…you just can receive this divine download and grow organically into your divine higher self. When you are in this state of being, you are entering God’s family as a little child of faith from where you are guided into those ideas and experiences that will attract all good to you.


As a spiritual healer, it has been my joyful journey into understanding the processes God uses to heal and align the children of Spirit into the energies of love. I welcome the opportunity to share with you how to let go of your control of your life and to trust your Divine Mother-Father. The process is simple, and it can be used time and again to bring you into the fullness of your true self and help you achieve your dreams!

The Soul Body

Wrapped around the physical being is the light body, growing, undulating inside and spurring you on to greater development. Welcome to your soul! This beautiful form living within is the real you; the one that is aligned in the will of the Divine Spirit in whose image you were originally conceived. While one’s self-identity primarily is focused on the physical body, you can delve into this inner reality and see yourself as God sees you.

It is a matter of desire: do you truly want to see yourself in this way? Then simply set your heart upon it. Spend time in a stilled state of mind and body and allow what is inside to come up to the surface. There are many ideas and experiences that want to show you something very positive and beneficial. If you are willing to move through the resistance within the physical body and allow what is deep inside to well up within your mind, the growth you can achieve is extraordinary and will heighten your perspective and fill you with a deep, lasting peace. You will be giving your soul body an opportunity to show you what it is and how it functions for your highest good.

Although the soul body is hidden by negative thoughts and hurtful feelings that have been used as a shield to protect the vulnerability of your own innocence, let that not deter you from wanting to see yourself as Spirit views you. You are innocent as a child of God. Beyond the pain and resistance in your body, your soul contains a delightful surprise that wants to grow within you and overtake all of the negativity that has long been housed within. Here is where true healing occurs that can resonate outwardly into your body. Through the development of your soul body can you find the secrets to bring the physical body into alignment with the way it was originally designed to function.

The soul body grows by personal life experience. Each time you make a decision that is in alignment with the way of Spirit or each time you have an experience wherein your actions are love-filled, you grow your soul. Spirit adds golden threads inside your being and configures your thoughts and feelings to wrap around the new truths you are expressing in various ways. The beauty that you create within is the true measure of your identity. And something switches in the consciousness that helps you recognize and claim this as your very own.

If you need help in sitting in the stilled state to recognize this through either insight or feeling, ask your Divine Mother and Divine Father to prepare the way. Through their love and spiritual energy moving in you can a path of light be created for new images to emerge in your conscious mind and fill you with inspiration, hope, and an awareness of your true self. When you embrace this fully, your life path will move in a new direction and you will find yourself on the road to living your dreams seeded deep within. This is indeed possible. Your Divine Parents will help you climb over the rocks in your own way and help you overcome every limitation within so your true soul self can emerge victorious!

Claim your soul body as your very own. Ask to see your inner beauty and begin to see identify yourself with your soul. There will be many delights to enjoy as this reveals itself: a spiritual seduction to satisfy you to your core and bring you to the heights of ecstasy. Believe it! Desire it! Become it! It is your destiny.

The Center for Christ Consciousness is dedicated to facilitating your growth into your soul body. Through a variety of services and experiences, we help you access the deepest and truest part of your being and to help you bring it out into the world. Visit our website at www.ctrforchristcon.org for further information.

PHYSICAL HEALING

Everyone wants to enjoy good health – freedom from disease, pain, restriction in movement. But over time, habits are developed through improper diet, stress, and lack of exercise that destroy the body’s natural processes from working in the way they were intelligently designed by God. In asking for physical healing from your Divine Source, it is helpful to be aware of certain parameters that condition how much healing can occur.

God has the power to correct any illness, genetic defect, or any other physical or emotional impairment as He so desires and wills. It is a mystery outside the limits of human understanding reserved by Spirit why healing occurs for some people and not for others. It is not helpful to compare what you experience with what another person experiences. Healing must be approached in faith, with the individual coming to God devoid of anything but the most sincere, childlike trust.

There are those spontaneous corrections of diseases that defy human understanding for the power of Spirit has the capacity to change anything according to God’s will. There are times when the more gradual evolution of healing unfolds. As you ask for healing, do not presume which form it will take. Trust, however, that your highest good is God’s desire for you and be grateful for whatever kind of healing your Divine Parent offers.

In any case, the physical body responds to the healing power of Spirit by correcting problems according to physical laws God has established for normal physical operations. The loving power your Divine Father/Mother employs in healing you manifests itself in the physical world and fulfills certain universal laws that have been created for the maintenance and control of physical reality and human life. Matter and energy move in specific patterns; your body was designed to work in harmony with those universal plans. Conversely, if energy or matter is distorted in violation of these laws, chaos and disease ensue.

Aligning yourself in the flow of God's love during your stillness practice allows the unity, wholeness, and connection you share with Spirit to your mind to manifest. Your mind, in turn, transforms the positive energy of spirit into those impulses that stimulate your body into certain healing activities. As God heals, the body’s processes return to normal. This is the symmetry of the spirit-mind-body connection.

Spirit is information. Mind is the circuit. Body is the receptor. The mind circuit connects into the physical brain, translating the spiritual impulses into mental and emotional images that send electric/biochemical signals to the brain, culminating in cell functioning. Spirit is intelligence and energy springing forth from God. Spirit contains the information about the processes that have been created to generate and maintain life. The body is innately intelligent because it has been programmed by your Divine Source.

Each cell in your physical body has the capacity to receive and be corrected by universal love. What actually corrects cell functioning is a form of light that Spirit infuses within your being. Think of your body as a sponge soaking up every bit of God’s healing loving light, for in reality that is what is occurring. This healing love-light is an energetic stimulus for every subatomic, cellular, molecular, tissue, and organ component of the body. This energy is what actually animates the body; and if it were not present, then life would cease to function.

Each living cell within your mechanism vibrates. It resonates at a certain harmonic frequency that has been designed by your Divine Source. When you are out of tune or ill, your body no longer resonates in accordance with its original design. To heal physically, therefore, your body must regain its original and healthful harmonic resonance. This is what the hand of God corrects within you when you avail yourself of Spirit’s healing power. Divine action is the most powerful energy in the universe.

In the stillness, as you commune with God, you are actually healing; you are partaking of divine energy. During this time, it is helpful to envision the spiritual hands of your loving Father/Mother in the afflicted areas of your body. Ask for the healing energy to flow into you. Ask for the presence of Spirit to infiltrate those diseased areas. You will sense a stirring deep within. Your cells are being altered.

Our Creator has given us marvelous vehicles in which to live. When your body is supported and nourished on the gifts God has given you to sustain life, health flourishes. Harmony between the spirit, mind, and body is gradually established the more you follow the leadings of your inner spirit as it guides you to achieve the highest state of human existence – balance.

The above is an excerpt from “Teach Us To Love,” a book which discusses in depth the nature of the personal relationship we have with our Creator, the Stillness practice, and the above chapter about healing and becoming a whole person. It is available by visiting www.donnadingillo.com or the Center for Christ Consciousness at www.ctrforchristcon.org.

FAITH AND THE INNER RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

Dedication to living the eternal values of spiritual reality is living in faith; it is the basis of personal religious experience. It is living that is inspired by an inner sense of knowing that which is true, that which is real, and that which needs no validation from external sources. Faith is experienced deeply inside the core of your being and is nourished by the living waters of the love of God. The gift of faith has a divine, perfect, and infinite source. Your faith will never lead you astray, but you need to learn how to attune to the voice of your spirit commending you to trust God's love and guidance.

Within your mind is a keen, innate sensing mechanism, a way of knowing internally what is right and true. For many different reasons, this inner sense is often undeveloped. A person may not acknowledge its existence at all or it may be discounted in favor of other abilities, such as reasoning or logic. This inner sensing mechanism is one of the gifts given by the Creator to His children to use as the barometer of the changing course of human and social evolution. It is a steadfast indicator of those eternal and existential values of spiritual reality – what is true, beautiful, and good – that are ceaseless, changeless, and have the ring of authenticity regardless of how far time marches on and how much civilization changes.

How do you know that something is true? How do you assess whether something is real? How do you weigh the value of something? Most people tailor and validate their personal beliefs based on the existing standards of their society. These standards, which range from a personal code of conduct to functioning laws and institutions act as the determinants of acceptable ideas and behavior. Standards evolve from traditions or are set by those individuals whose collective thinking influences the values, mores, and belief systems of institutions or current philosophies or theologies. They condition thoughts, mold decisions, and shape the culture.

But concepts are like people – they evolve over time, down through the generations and centuries. And, just as people have a destiny to increasingly become more godlike as they move from being a material creature to a spirit being, so do concepts evolve from the limitations of human thought toward reflecting the higher ideals of divine reality. Societies move from being primitive and barbaric to civilized and altruistic. If you look at life from a purely material standpoint, then you will constantly assess and validate your experiences at that level; you will see only that which is tangible. However, when you view reality from a spiritual perspective, you begin to sense that there is more than meets the eye. In your attempts to perceive the nature of reality, you will begin to see the divine in operation. This shift is the catalyst for faith.

You have a superlative mechanism for sensing what is true and real, yet this wonderful gift lies dormant within you. In addition, this world is filled with so much that is negative, that it can be easy to lose sight of those progressively true, beautiful, and good changes that foster real cultural growth. But if you were to take the leap of faith that can lead you into the realm of spiritual living, you would begin to taste the love, joy, and peace that are your foundation and protection against the detrimental aspects of living on this world. Remember, you are a child of a loving Divine Parent!

If it is difficult for you to understand how faith works in human life, consider how a young child grows to trust his or her devoted parents. In a healthy family, the parents love the child; the child feels their love and naturally trusts that they will be there to provide support, sustenance, and comfort. As this trust grows, so does the certainty that their love and understanding is always available. This is the nature of faith – it is built upon trust. If the child does not feel the parents' love, how can trust grow? And when there is no trust, how can the environment nurture and build faith? The same dynamic of building faith through trust needs to be applied in order for you to grow spiritually and develop your loving relationship with God.

Your inner spirit guides you in this relationship with God; however, it is up to you to open yourself to it. Until then, your indwelling spirit is not able to communicate with you in the way it desires, and you may not fully feel the love and comfort your spirit wishes to bestow. Our Creator truly loves you. Your spirit is waiting to enfold you in the divine embrace.

The above is an excerpt from “Teach Us To Love,” a book which discusses in depth the nature of the personal relationship we have with our Creator, the Stillness practice, healing and the above chapter about living in faith and the difference between beliefs and faith. It is available by visiting www.donnadingillo.com or the Center for Christ Consciousness at www.ctrforchristcon.org.

THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSFORMATION--Part 2

There is an unmistakable feeling in the body when aligned in Spirit. The body feels light, pure, free, at peace, whole, stable, content and alive—all at the same time! This energy filling the physical system comes from a Divine Source that knows how to bring unity and union into you. The role at the human end is to trust this endowment from Spirit and to allow the body to open and receive this gift. Is this something that appeals to you? I would like to share some of my experiences with this to inspire you!

As I opened my body, I could feel some resistance at times—never being able to open more than a little bit at a time. Each time I opened my body to the healing light of Spirit, I saw an idea-concept that was attached into a part of my body and caused me some resistance, defensiveness, and even pain. And it was difficult to let go. When I asked to see what could align this, I began to see the truth behind the false idea held in my mind and body both. Once I saw the real idea and liked what I saw because it was so freeing and light, my body began to echo out the negative feelings I held and ground them into another substance, purging them once and for all from my being. Then I was filled with spiritual energy that opened me up to a whole new way of thinking, feeling, and responding.

Over and over I unhooked myself from all of the negative ideas, hurtful concepts, and false beliefs that also created physical discomfort. In allowing the truth behind these erroneous thought-forms to leave me, I began to attract and receive something more wonderful than I imagined! I received color, sound, light, taste, smell and the insight of glorious truth, superlative beauty, and liberating goodness that burst like sparks within lighting me up from the inside out. And boy, did it feel good!

I then found that I enjoyed sharing this information with others to help them achieve this for themselves by conducting energy transmissions sessions. These sessions helped people find the safety necessary to take that journey into an undiscovered realm of their own spirituality—one’s true nature. Sometimes it is helpful to have an experienced guide and companion on this journey to help navigate an uncharted path.

Bringing Spirit into the body is quite the adventure because it takes you into your own personal inner reality where no one can accompany you into the realm of SELF discovery: your true self, your inner beauty, your highest consciousness. All of this is waiting for you when you open yourself up to the alignment in SPIRIT. Regardless of your beliefs, religious traditions, sacred teachings, you have the information inside of you that God wants you to know and experience: it is personal and unique to you and will bring you into the love of and for God that will complete your every need and heal every wound.

The journey into this part of YOU happens over time with God watching over you as you make your choices to be aligned in SPIRIT. The more you participate with God and ask God what the will of Spirit is, the more you generate SPIRIT’s goodness, love, understanding, mercy, patience, forgiveness, compassion, forbearance, and peace to flow into you. When your choices are aligned with what God wishes to occur and achieve through you, the more you unify with God and achieve AT-ONE-MENT, ONENESS: the Divine Union.

Sometimes the ONENESS bursts into you; sometimes it is the gradual unfolding of the beautiful flower taking time to bloom in the sunlight of LOVE, revealing each precious petal when it is ready to disclose its fragrance. AT-ONE-MENT seals you into the will of God and changes your behavior as the way becomes more natural, easy, effortless, and fluid. The body is relaxed, open, yielding, non-defensive, powerful, strong, resilient, and flexible. You begin to notice positive changes both internally in the way you feel and how you look at and go through your day.

The reward comes in the way you handle life. What painful or difficult situation life throws at you tends to bounce off you as the skills and tools you have grown into provide the answers and relief to the challenges of every day. Growing into SPIRIT makes your life better, more enjoyable, more joyful, more hopeful, more grateful, and this feeling of fullness just increases your appetite for LIFE. And it comes abundantly! Are you ready for LIFE?

My services of transformation will help you open and find your own inner light. I would be delighted to assist you achieve your dreams and find your true self. I can be reached at donnadingillo@comcast.net to discuss the goals for your life, help you design a plan, and guide you to your destiny.

THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSFORMATION—Part 1

Change is all around us—the world is undergoing polarization. We see massive horrors and abuses of power in our own country. We witness destruction, war, poverty, and disease around the world. While these events are not pleasant to witness, acknowledging that these we humans are capable of such behavior is the first step in our transformation.

There is another dynamic occurring on the planet as we witness these events. There is a growing groundswell of people who want a better way of life for everyone—one where people are honored and accepted, where religious tolerance and respect for life flourishes, where people have access to life’s basic comforts: enough food, shelter, healthcare; where the Golden Rule is the standard of human thinking and acting; where equality, justice and fairness for all is a global standard.

So within these two poles, lies our challenge. We cannot change the fact that the polarization exists. This is happening beyond our control, implemented by loving Spiritual Beings who are stepping into the misery of human life and helping us out of the muck and mire we have created here into a beautiful new world that we ourselves are growing. We are receiving massive assistance from Spirit to help us transform, yet our challenge is in first understanding that this is happening, and then to make our own commitment to transform ourselves.

The transformation process unfolds over a period of time, based on your own individual goals and commitment to become a vibrant human. You are taken into a new realm where the way you have looked at life and how you fit in shifts into a better understanding of those big questions in life: Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? Is there a God? What is the meaning of life? You WILL find these answers, and it will delight, amaze, and astonish you—giving you thrills beyond your wildest imagination!

As a way shower and spiritual guiding healer, I am committed to helping people in their own transformation. I have undergone this process myself, and am thoroughly familiar with the steps we must take in our transformation. In the second part of this essay, I will share the steps with you. Furthermore, I am available to help you grow beyond your present state into your new self-identity and would be delighted to assist you to reach your dreams in fulfilling your destiny.

The transformation services I offer gives you hope, helps you find your way through this confusing time, and brings you into a new and wonderful awareness of just how beautiful a human being you are becoming!

Donna can be reached at donnadingillo@comcast.net or at 510-434-9865 to schedule a personalized transformation session.

FILLING YOURSELF WITH SPIRIT

During these times of political and economic uncertainty, we can feel unstable. There is an undercurrent of change moving through us that shakes us up and makes us feel uneasy or unsettled. I believe that these feelings are stimulated by the eroding foundation of our society’s institutions which are now being stressed by many factors, and the result of this is that we feel unsettled in ourselves. There is an antidote for this, and it is found in Spirit.

Spiritual energy is potent and nourishing to our bodies and minds. Just as we need food to give us fuel to operate our bodies, our minds need spiritual energy to bring us those endownments of Spirit that we have come to recognize as valuable in human life: peace, love, joy, forgiveness, tolerance, understanding, patience, kindness, and compassion. During this time of great unrest and change, we feel a hunger or thirst that cannot be satisfied with food or drink. Yet sometimes we turn to these familiar substances to fill the void we feel, and I believe this is one of the reasons that we are seeing such a high degree of compulsive and self-abusive addictive behaviors with not only food but other things such as drugs, alcohol, gambling, shopping, etc. We are trying to fill the void in our lives with substances that have no real capacity to nourish us; they give us empty thrills that wear off quickly and let us no better for wanting.

So where do we turn for a better alternative? In going within ourselves and finding that place of lack, it is simply a matter of asking Spirit to begin to fill you with what you need. Are you lonely and longing for human companionship? Are you tired and stressed out because you have too many responsibilities? Are you overwhelmed with debt? Are you self-critical because you don’t like the way you look? All of these are signs of spiritual impoverishment because they speak to a life out of balance. Spirit answers these needs and brings in what you require to stabilize yourself emotionally so you are led to the answers and solutions to your life’s problems.

How does this work you might ask? It is simple. By spending a few moments breathing deeply into your heart center, you will feel your body relax. Then when you are relaxed, ask God to open your heart and fill you with the feeling of love, peace, forgiveness, patience, or whatever you need to help you cope with life. Wait and continue to breathe until you feel more centered or stable. Practice this faithfully every day and you will notice that you are discovering the internal resources in yourself to finding the solutions to your problems by being filled with more faith, courage, strength, and hope to continue moving forward. It really is this simple!

Where people give up too soon is because they feel discouraged in being confronted with painful feelings or thinking nothing is happening in the timeframe you expect. Let go of these expectations and feelings and trust. Trust, trust, trust, trust and trust. This is the vital part of the process as Spirit continually moves in your filling every void in the smallest nooks and crannies of your body and mind. Spirit reveals the places in you that are deficient by helping you feel these painful or uneasy feelings, not to punish or hurt you, but to show you that here is where you need the kiss of LOVE to soothe your soul.

Allow Spirit to fill you by relaxing into your breath and asking to be filled with what you need. As you practice this over and over, time and again, you are actually being woven into a new being as the spiritual threads of love and peace are added into your present life fabric. Soon you will feel a newness or satisfaction that wasn’t there before, and this is your signal that you are getting what you really need. All feelings of being devoid and hurt are healed by Spirit. Will you allow the hand of God to enter into your mind and body and give you the balm that will soothe you to your core?