Dear Bliss generator,

This week two people have asked if I was still doing NorthStar readings and I realized I haven’t offered them in ages. So I thought I’d go back to my January tradition of offering those the first couple months of the year at a discount price. They are in either written form or face-to-face on ZOOM together. The written is usually $130 but is $100 during this special. The Zoom one is usually $100 but is $75 during this special. If you would like a NorthStar Reading, just email me at mayetleilani@icloud.com and I’ll tell you how to proceed.

Do you remember I suggested you might join me in holding and sitting in vigil over the holidays? Well, I’ve been working with this since then and I’ve had a couple of amazing AHAs about that.

1) I realized that sitting in vigil is not really the point. That makes it a practice which is part of what created the ego sense of vigilance we’ve suffered under in the first place. Holding holy vigil isn’t a meditation for a singular period of time.

It’s a daily walk. And that walk is a return. The return home to Self. And that return home that we do again and again, vigilantly, is actually a celebration, an elation, a bliss, like coming home to the one you love most deeply.

2) Discovering the bliss of vigilance, that’s the second AHA and it’s a big one! This is especially noticeable when something has disturbed my equilibrium to any degree. I immediately say aloud, “Before I react, before I deal with or think about this, I first surrender with quiet and determined vigilance to the core of who I am, the light of my being.” Or other words such as this.

I feel the shift begin right away. AND it is such a relief every single time – it’s bliss! The problem then continues with its jangle – while I’m dealing with it – but now it is buffered. And most importantly, I am now steadying the problem instead of the problem unsteadying me. Because the problem’s enfolded now in the holy vigil of home. This is huge, don’t you agree? I can work from there then. Working from home.

I’ve been coming to understand a whole new idea of vigilance and I’m liking it a LOT! I didn’t think I’d take to the word vigilance in this way, but I’m loving it.

I can’t wait for my next moment of return and the bliss and relief in it. The fact that “vigilance” has shifted in my understanding and that this is integrating within me feels like a wondrous miracle!

I think it is making an act of devotion of my life. You know that Buddhist idea of being mindful while chopping wood and carrying water? This up levels that. Helping each choice I make in the day become an act of devotion, as I return, vigilant to my true self, and thus igniting my day with that potential. The spark of bliss I feel each time I return feeds my day in amazing ways. A miracle, like I said.

Sharing the awesomeness of this,
With love,
Mayet Leilani

Dear Lover of all that’s there,

A quote came to my mind recently, from A Course in Miracles.  I’ve never been one to remember quotes… my mind leans more to abstraction and patterning than memorizing and quoting.  None-the-less, this quote popped into my mind from something I read years ago.  So I looked it up and, yes, there it was, as remembered:

’’In the presence of love, that which has not been loved into wholeness will rise to be healed.’’
~ from A Course in Miracles

That’s a profound single sentence, beautiful. I then mused that what this means is the unpleasant old ’’stuff’’ – memories, patterns, etc. – that keeps rising to mind, is just coming up to be loved into wholeness.  So that’s all we need to do when it surfaces yet again, just love it and ourselves and let it go.  Furthering our move into wholeness.  It really is that simple.

Musing further I thought, ’’Stuff ’’ is coming up all the time now because it’s the Time of the Light  – it’s streaming into our system with more fullness, bringing us to wholeness.’’  

That Light is pure love, of course, so we are all being Loved into Wholeness just now.  I can really feel that, can’t you?  Knowing that, feeling it, makes it so easy to let go of what comes up, I think.  

We are being loved into Wholeness.  I love that… it feels like a hug.

Hugging you,
X💜Mayet Leilani

Article Highlights:

• Exactly what IS hopeful?
• Getting our facts straight
• The reason for optimism

Dear Hopeful One,

Last week we had a Heart of Love Message in which we were asked to become emissaries for Hope in the world, to hear the hope, see the hope, speak the hope and to lend hope a hand.

As I listen to the casual conversations going on around me everywhere – even at New Age events and on the phone with my friends – I’m sometimes disheartened by what we are creating with the power and energy of our words.  Again and again I hear people affirming that these are the worst of times, that things are bad, very bad.

I believe this to be uninformed harmful gossip at best and outright lies that we are perpetuating at worst. That may seem a shocking statement but I’ll just stick my neck out there and say it.  These things are not true. They simply are not.

There are many problems.  That has always been true. At many times, throughout history things have been bad in our world.  There have been many wars and plagues and natural disasters.  We live in a time that is challenging in that way.  But is it the worst of such times?  Not even close.

Our recent plague (there have been many in the history of humanity) was very scary, many died.  The numbers seem to be settling at about 2% as an average.  That was many people and we were all sad and worried.  

However, it was not as bad as the last flu pandemic, in about 1916 through1918 when 40-60% of the population died in many, many places around the world.  The same numbers have been true of the black plague which ravaged the known world numerous times.  Ours was bad enough, but it was not the worst.

The current wars are unacceptable.  Completely unacceptable.  But they are not the worst.  And increasingly when a country wars now, growing numbers of people lend their voices together in outrage because it’s possible now to be heard in that way.  We can be heard in great numbers now, and we are speaking against war and in support of the innocent civilian victims of war.  This matters.  

It is an important change.  Something is building there. We are beginning to realize that maybe we don’t need to be silent victims of war.  This is real progress… this is how change occurs over the course of human evolution.

The population is no longer primarily indentured surfs and oppressed peoples ruled by church and state, or at the helpless behest of landowners and kings.  More of the population has freedom, better quality of life, better health, education and more opportunities.  Not for all, but for many more.  

It is important to say as well that where there are inequities, people are working hard in every area of life to change this.  I challenge you to name a century when more people have cared about making the world a better place and are actually working to create that world.

So much is better for so many. Reflect on who humanity was en mass during earlier times such as the dark ages.  Think on this.  Many things have changed and improved.

It must be said. If we are to effectively speak of and address the problems that exist, we must have a balanced view of how much has changed for the better over time. If not, we will lose hope and begin to spiral into the creation of its opposite.  

Some of you will remember I shared the following short paragraphs a few years ago. Chipotle restaurants printed them on their December takeout bags in 2015.  It is no less true now.  

A Two-Minute Case for Optimism
by STEVEN PINKER

It’s easy to get discouraged by the ceaseless news of violence, poverty, and disease. But the news presents a distorted view of the world. News is about things that happen, not things that don’t happen. You never see a TV crew reporting that a country isn’t at war, or that a city hasn’t had a mass shooting that day, or that millions of 80-year-olds are alive and well.

The only way to appreciate that state of the world is to count. How many incidents of violence, or starvation, or disease are there as a proportion of the number of people in the world? And the only way to know whether things are getting better or worse is to compare those numbers at different times: over the centuries and decades, do the trend lines go up or down?

As it happens, the numbers tell a surprisingly happy story. Violent crime has fallen by half since 1992, and fifty fold since the Middle Ages. Over the past 60 years the number of wars and number of people killed in wars have plummeted. Worldwide, fewer babies die, more children go to school, more people live in democracies, more can afford simple luxuries, fewer get sick, and more live to old age. (more…)