Neale builds on the work in the ‘Conversations with God’ books and on later work particularly the recent ‘The Only Thing That Matters’.

Neale teaches that each of us is a three-part being, body, mind, and soul, and that it is possible to have an encounter with the soul, and through it, with God. We can have our own conversation with God. There was an exercise to facilitate the beginnings of such a conversation including how to feel the physical presence of God’s energy, the energy of love – this part very much the same as feeling the ‘life force energy’ in Quantum-Touch!

The soul, an individual expression of Divinity, entered into physicality to use body and mind to create an experience of Divinity, Divinity expressing and experiencing itself.

In the realm of the absolute, there is nothing else but God, all there is is love. Love can be known, but how can it be experienced in the absence of what is not love?

We have placed ourselves in physicality, where everything exists in relative terms: light and dark, love and not love. We can experience these contrasts, then select which of these aspects bring the most joy. As we are one with the Divine, through this process God expresses and experiences Itself.

In the session on ‘Eliminating Life’s Complexity’ Neale offers 15 Tips. Here is a taste of them, and most require some thought to appreciate.

• Nobody does anything inappropriate given their model of the world. (And God sees us that way!)
• Nobody does anything they don’t want to do.
• Nobody needs your help and you don’t need help from anybody at all. (The reason to offer anything to anyone is as an expression of who you are.
• There is nothing you have to do.
• There is enough.
• Life was meant to be happy and death was meant to be joyous.

If you feel the lack of any quality you desire then give the gift you want to receive.

How to make contact with the soul? The mind holds experience while the soul holds wisdom and knowledge. Tell your mind that you want to reunite with your soul, and instruct your mind on the information you want from the soul, while releasing any need for it to show up in any specific way.

The entrance to the soul is through the doorway of beingness. We might instruct the mind to ‘be peace’, ‘be love’, ‘be wisdom’.

Meditation is one of the best ways to make contact with the soul and Neale offers various methods of meditation in his book ‘The Only Thing That Matters’, adapted from a similar section in ‘When Everything Changes, Change Everything‘.

Neale suggests: ‘Life is so simple. Why does everyone keep making it so complicated?’

And one ‘simple’ tool for overcoming life’s challenges is Gratitude. We can choose gratitude as an act of will. It is a decision which defines our experience and so our reality.

Suffering is the idea that something is happening which should not be happening: gratitude opens the mind to see the good in situations which we might initially judge ‘not good’. Neale talks about ‘reliable repetition’ of similar experiences which give us the opportunity to react in more constructive ways than we did last time.

The master, therefore, says yes and only yes to every experience. And the master says it joyfully, gratefully, for the master knows that a glorious moment has arrived that is perfect for the glorious expression and experience of glory itself called Divinity.

Another tool which Neale offers for making sense of life is Recontextualization. The importance is not in what we are doing but in who we are being. What aspect of divinity are we expressing in this situation. This point of view can turn to joy a task which previously was experienced as unpleasant or boring.

A third tool is Compassion, compassion for yourself and compassion for others. Divinity expects nothing of you. Free Will means precisely that. There is no judgment or punishment. It is impossible for you to make a mistake: you can only take steps towards your destination.

Seeing your compassion, others will come to you with their anger and hurt. Your offering to them of love, understanding, and acceptance which they have not been able to offer to themselves, will also help you to offer these gifts to yourself.

The final tool offered here is perhaps the most profound in its impact: Forgiveness? – not quite. Neale as usual goes deeper than we expect to suggest ‘Forgiveness forgone‘.

All four tools are designed to give you freedom from suffering, but this one especially.

On the day that you understand that you don’t have anyone to forgive for anything – and that you never did have anyone to forgive for anything at all, because all human expressions are ultimately an expression of love, if only in a distorted form – on that day you will be free no matter what has occurred in your life.

We may seek to experience the fullness of who we are by taking the path of the Soul yet hesitate to step onto that path. We must give ourselves the gift of Willingness. We must use ‘Free Will’ and free our will.

Your Will and God’s Will are one – God wants for you what you want for you. Free Will is the key to freedom.

Any negative thought is coming from the mind alone – the soul will never produce negative energy. Stand where the mind and soul come together and the soul’s position will prevail.

To move into a state of Willingness, all it takes is awareness, desire and determination: an awareness that you have the ability to create your own reality, the desire to do so, and the determination to settle for nothing less.

‘You create your own reality’ means that you are personally responsible for how you experience everything. Contrary to popular belief there is no connection between any event in your life and your reality. It is your experience of the event that is creating the reality.

What creates your experience? The emotion which you attach to the event.

What creates the emotion? Your thought about the event.

You can use this understanding to train your mind to produce realities you prefer rather than those to which you find yourself seemingly subjected.

The Soul has its own perspective. The Soul has data from all the past, indeed all of eternity. The mind and the soul were meant to function together. The data of the mind is expanded by the perspective of the Soul and the experience generated by the Soul meets the experience generated by the mind to create a new place in between, which the Buddhists would call ‘the middle way’.

Love is all there is. There is only one energy in the Universe, the energy we call love; love of self, love of others, love of life. Your Soul and the Soul of the universe desire, seek, and produce all the same thing: whatever love invites next, in order for even more love to be experienced.

Every event can be a blessing when encountered with Gratitude, with Compassion for yourself, and with deep understanding.

Ask, How does what I’m doing now serve the agenda of my Soul? How do I choose for Divinity to be expressed through me in the next grandest way in the next moment?

As the messages of Conversations with God make clear over and over again, there is a reason and a purpose to life, and it has nothing to do with what you are doing. It has everything to do with what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing. And one day, when everything you are being emerges from the agenda of your Soul, rather than the thoughts of your mind, all the things you are doing will be an expression of Divinity in physical form. This is the ultimate change, this change is called transformation, and this transformation is called enlightenment.

God is the infinite ocean of energy, Love.

Everything is just energy.
Mistakes don’t matter. There is no reason to feel guilty, no reason for shame.

There are no prerequisites. The Divine is pure Love and Acceptance. Allow this energy to flow through you.

Nothing is a mistake. All that we have been told is wrong about us is actually a blessing: we have bought into this reality of judgment. We go about trying to eradicate the symptom instead of realizing what the greater message is in all of it.

Health is often thought of as the absence of disease – but there has to be something greater. Clearing, fixing, assumes something shouldn’t happen and is born of judgment.

You cannot fit the Divine in a box.

When we experience something, even something labelled as a disease, that is a messenger to bring us back into harmony, a state of internal ease in which we can receive the wellness that we already are.

It’s not a case of doing something to effect a transformation, it’s actually more a case of allowing the transformation which already exists within you to occur because our body is designed to regenerate itself.

Health already exists – we need to expand our capacity to experience what is always there, always available.

Acceptance, peace, embracing what is. When we embrace our experience we feel peace, and the body can do what it is designed to do.

It’s not about the eradication of the label or the disease, it’s about coming into such a place of profound peace in the midst of it all that regardless of what’s happening it doesn’t matter. This is so much more than a conversation about healing; this is actually a signpost pointing you to living in your magnificence every moment of your life, the side effect of which is what people would call healing.

It’s important for you to tap into that part of you now which is so much greater and to live your life from that place.

There is a direct correlation between an individual’s ability to receive and the quality of experience in their life. What keeps us away from such receptivity is judgment, shame, and guilt.

It is through the acceptance of our humanity that we step into the divine.

Every part of you serves a function. It’s up to us to stop fighting against all these different parts of us and rejecting all these different parts of us and fragmenting ourselves from all these different parts of us and it’s time to start gathering them up courageously and to dare to be vulnerable and human, because then we become transparent and authentic and it’s in that, that hidden dimension of receptivity, that hidden dimension of life, that the real secret is accessed and revealed.

Everything that has happened, everything, everything happened for you; everything that happens, everything, everything happens for you.

[I guess that includes the virus that has been interrupting my typing of this post every couple of minutes and delayed the publication by a couple of days. ]

Every one of you will now be more your true self than you have ever allowed yourselves to be.

Accepting, receiving all that you are – there is no need to try to change anyone else.

If God is infinite then nobody is wrong.

Let everyone believe what they believe – no one is wrong.

Your birthright is infinite abundance, health and vitality, and unconditional love, and connection to Source. That’s naturally what you are.

Act from abundance, not from lack.

Not one of you is a mistake.

Healing is a side-effect of oneness.

Other applications include enhancing the performance of speakers, artists, and athletes; healing across time as well as space; doing multiple things simultaneously or working on many people at once; changing beliefs without affirmations or positive thinking.

Richard’s co-authors Chris Duffield (scientist and inventor), who was initially sceptical, and Vickie Wickhorst (science historian and Quantum-Touch instructor) add their own insights and knowledge to the book. One of Chris’s insights is to suggest that it is as if Richard has found a new human operating system and over time we are finding more and more apps.

In Quantum-Touch Level 2 we use ‘heart energy’, body awareness and love felt in the area of the heart. Intensifying it and connecting it with our breathing, we guide it with our intention for healing.

Recently I attended a Quantum-Touch Level 2 workshop with Karina Grant. The teaching and exercises were a great help in understanding and increasing awareness of heart energy as the basis of healing.

One app which I have not mentioned above and which we used in an exercise was ‘Sharing Gifts’. Each person offered a gift which they felt they had and would like to share, kindness, listening, peacefulness, etc. I offered ‘mathematics’. Then we went through a process to accept and integrate a gift.

I was looking out for the gift of social skills, so well expressed by most of those present, but probably so much so that no one thought to mention that one, but I accepted the gift anyway. Afterwards in the break I was telling a group about this and realized that I had indeed received the gift – for the first time in the workshop I was comfortably having a conversation in a group of more than two people! For me that is a huge shift.

All of you is accepted here.
You’re not broken.
You don’t need fixing.

The Divine says, ‘I love you just the way you are.’
May all human beings come to know that they are loved just as they are.

It is through the acceptance of our humanity that we begin to access our greater potential.

[When you encounter that 'annoying' person just remember that ...]

Life is continually bringing you experiences of what you need to feel so that you can be free.

[so there is no need to judge them - they are bringing you a gift.]

When the Divine made you It marveled for a moment and said, ‘That’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever made. That’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.’

You are loved beyond description, just for being you.
Recognize that that is enough.
You are enough.

I recently had my first real documented Quantum-Touch® session with a ‘client’ (by telephone). This both gave me the reassurance that I could run the energy and illustrated strongly the point that Richard Gordon always makes that the client (rather than the practitioner) is the healer. The client was able to report throughout the session on what she was feeling and sensing and by the end was much more happy and peaceful.

I am in the process of becoming a Quantum-Touch practitioner and as part of the training am offering sessions at no cost. (Please email me if you are interested: amck@liv.ac.uk)

At first she would only occasionally open her eyes and didn’t really give any sign of seeing anything. Then one day I noticed that as people were going by she would follow them with her eyes. I was thinking afterwards that if I wasn’t wearing my glasses I could still register movement but wouldn’t see very well at all. On my next visit I. was wearing her glasses and more definitely looking and seeing although not giving any reaction.

When I first visited, any movement in her limbs appeared involuntary, then on one occasion I realized she was clearly moving her left hand up towards her face. Next time that hand had been fitted with a fluffy mitt to prevent any disturbance to various tubes in her neck. I. does seem to be aware of touch on her left arm and foot.

The other day for the first time I saw I. give a smile of sorts to the lady who had come to adjust the valve on her breathing tube to make it possible for her to vocalize. She does occasionally seem to be trying to speak.

I am grateful for the good care I. is receiving from doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and other staff in the hospital, to all those who are praying for her, and for the fact that I am able to give her Quantum-Touch® treatment as part of my learning process.

Ordinarily one would ask for permission but Richard Gordon writes:

If for one reason or another you cannot get permission, simply ask that the energy be used for the highest good, and send it to the person. Sending the energy for the highest good is a great thing to do anyway. ( Quantum-Touch: The Power to Heal, page 189.)

Each sign of improvement in I.’s condition is a reason for gratitude and joy.

It had not seemed appropriate to say anything much to her but I had been sending love and peace and joy in her direction. And later I noticed that she appeared much more cheerful.

Some sentences from ‘A Course In Miracles’ come to mind:

How many times has it been emphasized that you give but to yourself? And where could this be better shown than in the kinds of help [one] gives to those who need his aid? Here is his gift most clearly given him. For he will give only what he has chosen for himself.

[G]iving and receiving are the same.

To give and to receive are one in truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.

Any time we feel lacking in any quality, we can become more aware of how much we have by giving it to someone else.

In one session we used distance healing and I found this session particularly moving and inspiring.

Richard Gordon states that “the ability to heal is an inherent part of people’s essential nature.” Through breathing exercises, love and intention the practitioner learns to increase the awareness of life-force energy and physical sensations in his or her hands. Using a very light touch on the client it is possible to accelerate the body’s own healing response. Richard emphasizes that the real ‘healer’ in a Quantum-Touch session is the client rather than the practitioner.

Quantum-Touch seems to me just what I have always felt should exist – healing which is natural and accessible to all.

1. Write down your goal in as precise detail as possible.
2. Feel how you expect to feel when the goal is realized.
3. Make a plan to start to get there, but be comfortable if you don’t really know how the goal will be accomplished as that indicates that the goal is big enough to stretch you.
4. Take the first steps as you have outlined.
5. Trust The Universe/Source/God to reveal the way to the solution.

Acknowledgement here to my most recent sources Linda Ryan and Linda with Tommy Hilcken on BlogTalkRadio.

There is a delicate balance between concentrating on the What, When, Why and leaving the How to Source on the one hand and being sure to take steps in the desired direction on the other. In Tommy’s story his amazing manifestation came while he was busy taking steps in changing his work life, but steps which had no obvious connection with the particular goal which manifested.

In another post I have written of my goal for a certain sum of money manifesting unexpectedly while I was busy taking steps in a different direction, steps which after a further few weeks led to a similar additional sum.

Another example of duplication on a smaller scale happened recently. I had been frustrated by the very slow running of a program I use a lot. Listening to one of Bob Proctor’s talks ‘Six Minutes to Success’ on looking at problems as opportunities, on cue I thought of a possibly rather dangerous workaround, but not long after another solution popped into my mind, one which was much safer and acceptable.

I wonder if you have noticed the generosity of Source in providing several solutions to your problems, ‘good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over’.

The idea for a post often comes soon after I awake. This time I had a Eureka moment, but home alone rather than running through the streets.

Rather than judge and resist circumstances we perceive as ‘bad’ and try to change them, especially if it involves an attempt to change other people, we can change what we always have the power to change, our thinking. According to Abraham-Hicks, you will realize that it has always been your struggle and concern—and attempt at impossible control—that has been holding unwanted things to you. With less resistance and more allowing, unwanted things cannot remain.

Ryan Harris, host of Prosperity Radio, in Linda Ryan’s BlogTalkRadio broadcast, told how his change from resistance to allowing was followed in a very short time by the transformation for the better of a dire situation he had been struggling with for a long time.

Ryan points out how important it is to catch yourself quickly when negative stuff arises, so that a quick resolution becomes possible.

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I’m not sure whether others find my posts helpful, but I think I must have been paying attention to what I wrote above. …

I broke off to visit a friend in hospital who is currently in a coma. It was quite peaceful sitting with her for a while and the staff were helpful. On the way home on the train I noticed that we had been sitting at one station for a while and it was suspiciously quiet. Eventually we found out that due to a fault in a train elsewhere on the system the power had been turned off. After about an hour the power came back on and trains began to move – but to be taken out of service. Eventually one came along with the correct destination indicated but it went only to the next station. We were told there was a replacement bus, which turned out to be taking us less than a mile to get another bus, which had already left and wouldn’t return for about 25 minutes. At which point I gave up on the railway-provided transport and got an ordinary bus home, arriving about two hours later than I would originally have expected. Ordinarily I might have been at least a little upset by all the delays and been thinking of all I had been intending to do, but without having to do any work on it I seemed to be totally calm and happy, indeed I was observing my calmness with some surprise. And I finished reading the magazine I had with me just minutes before arriving home.

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Elisabeth Fayt, whom I discovered only recently on a call with Debra Poneman and New Transformation Strategies, writes extensively about the Law of Allowing. If we perceive an individual perhaps behaving inappropriately, we envision them how we would want them to be and how we know they would want to be perceived, and then we allow – we choose to be happy. Regardless of what is and regardless of what we have envisioned, we choose to be happy.