Putting Faith Into Action

Pa Wale Pu'uwai

I open my heart wider.

When we open our heart, we begin to feel a sense of faith arising within us.

Faith is the belief and trust in what you cannot yet see.

Hawaiian Elder Anakala Pilipo Solatorio

To bring your body and mind into harmony with your spirit, you must open your heart.

Connecting your body to your mind, you see and feel the world you are in through your physical senses, and then acknowledge and assess your current situation using our mind. This is very useful, yet limiting.

If you want to have real influence, freedom and power in your life, you must also connect to your spirit. To connect to spirit, you bring yourself into a place of connection with the unknown, and the un-manifest. It involves coming into a place of stillness in the mind ~ slowing down the thoughts, using a different part of your mind ~ your imagination and your creativity. Imagine the ideal outcome of the situation you are finding yourself in. Imagine that there is a higher power available to help you with this. First you must open your heart and give your gratitude to that higher power. Then you open your heart to receive. Open up to the idea that maybe you don't have all the answers, but by connecting to Spirit, you can find answers from within.

Connect to that Higher power from within you through love. And use the creative energy of the love of the higher power to bless your life, and the lives of others. Envision a peaceful, loving reality. This process of co-creation fosters a feeling and a sense of faith within.

Faith involves accepting your current situation with an open heart, by bringing your love to your situation. Acknowledge what is happening and how you truly feel about what is happening. Offer your love to all of it, and let go of the need to change the situation. By letting go of the need to control others, you can allow the Higher power of the universe to move through you, to bring the situation into its own natural harmony. 

Faith is recognizing that there is a Divine order to things, and all you need to do is bring yourself into harmony with that Divine order, by finding your own Divine order within you. Faith is not passive, it is a very deliberate act.  It is not simply enough to have faith. You must then bring your faith into action to create positive change in the world around you.

Bring your thinking mind ~ your will into alignment with the love of your heart, and then send prayers and intentions from your heart into the unknown. Through prayer and meditation you can slow down your thinking, analytical mind, and open to Divine inspiration to come to you. This involves following your intuition, a feeling and a knowing that comes from within.

When the body is relaxed and free of the stressful energy of fear and judgment, your inner guidance comes forward through your body. With your mind and heart united, ask to be guided by Spirit to speak the right words, to act in the best way possible, to create the best result for all. And you must act. Through your actions, you live your life as an extension of the Divine. This is Faith in Action!