The qualitites of love are like all the different colours which make up the whole spectrum.

For example, sometimes it may feel too difficult to be loving but we can be 'Kind'. It is also helpful when we are going through a difficult life experience to choose a qualitity of love and draw on it's particular vibration as a way to assist ourselves. For example 'Loving Detachment, 'Trust', 'Willingness', 'Patience.

On this page we will be posting a selection of the different qualitites of love that you can use in a really practical way as you walk the path of love.

* THE QUALITIY OF ATTUNEMENT ~ Our Friend in Spirit

Nature has the gift to be able to tune your spirit; it takes you out of yourself and it takes you deeply into yourself. So in a way the rain has paved the way: the steady rhythms, the rhythms within the music of the rain, the rolling rhythms of the thunder.

This dramatic storm and thunder happening right now, is a fantastic backdrop for today, because it is holding a certain level of attentiveness. It is not so easy to drift off into the warmth of the sun. Today the earth and the heavens are speaking in a way you are listening.

Really, to attune yourself you need something to attune yourself against, or with. For example if you are tuning an instrument, you ask for the middle C to be played on the piano. When you are given that central core note you find your vibration, which is in tune with that pre-existing one, with that pre-existing note.

To attune yourself, the first place to begin is in finding your central soul vibration, and then playing the various notes of the self until gradually they are in tune with that pre-existing central note of your being. When I say 'play the various notes of yourself', that means being aware of the vibration of your being at all the different levels.

* ATTUNE TO YOUR SOUL

Begin with exploring the vibration of your physical being. Where are the areas of tightness, of pain? What is the need that you have at a physical level to be bringing yourself into balance and well being? There is a huge spectrum of what is available to you at the physical level for your healing, for your sense of aliveness, and to enrich your capacity to feel fully human.

When you are seeking balance, for example, when you are wanting a balanced flavour in a soup you add a little bit of this, a little bit of that. You do not just put one ingredient in it. Your physical attunement is made up of so many different ingredients: activity and rest, contact and solitude.

You play your soul note and then you notice what is happening for your physical being. What needs attention? What needs to be added or withdrawn as a way of restoring harmony and balance within?

Then you apply that same process to the emotional level. What needs to be recognised, honoured, released, forgiven? Forgiveness is the great transformer. Any obstruction to attunement can be profoundly assisted by bringing in the quality of forgiveness, because it helps dissolve anything which is shadowing, which is disrupting, which is causing your heart to be shielded or closed or critical.

When you do not know how to attune yourself emotionally, ask yourself: 'Is there an area within me that could be blessed by the vibration of forgiveness?' That will open a door for you which will lead to a deeper attunement with your middle C, your core spirit. Ask yourself what you need to draw into your mind, to draw into your emotional self. 'What am I needing to think?' What are the qualities that you need to draw on and expand within you in this moment? Are you needing the quality of faith or patience? Attunement is a matter of constantly bringing your gentle and acute awareness to the state of your being at all the levels. It is a very focused and yet quite relaxed awareness. You do not want to get your concentration so focused that all the energy gathers in your mind.

To maintain a state of attunement with your soul you need to keep releasing the build-up of energy in your mind, in your emotions; or any tension or pain and so on in the physical level that you can release. You keep bringing the light of your inner being into your consciousness. Because light is so expansive you keep drawing that energy into your mind and that creates an expansive peace of mind. You keep bringing the vibration of your soul, of God, of love into your emotional self, into your physical being. You keep inviting light into every level of your being. That is how you attune each level to that middle C of Light and of Love – it is a beautiful note.

Keep delicately conscious of the state of your whole being. Keep referring back to that core reverberation of your inner self, that vibration of Love and Light. That is the note you are constantly using as a way to ascertain your level of attunement. When you are moving and flowing, at one with that central note, you will feel a profound sense of attunement. When you feel that it is a long way off, then you know you have some work to do to assist you to clear anything which is standing between you and love in that moment. When you turn your face back to the light then there is not a shadow between you and the light. You turn away from the light, and the shadow is between you and the light. When you turn to face the light you face your shadow in a split second and then it comes around behind you, but it does need to be faced.

* THE ATTUNEMENT OF THE HEART

The sense of perfection in attunement is the attunement of the heart. It is when you experience your heart and that central core note of self, of soul, working as one, being one. It is where your heart is free to express the nature of your soul through love, through kindness, through compassion, through gratitude, through service.

The heart regularly and constantly needs tuning. It is just like any instrument, it needs to be played and it needs to be tuned, and the more it is played the more tuning it needs. Nothing in life is fixed. You cannot just have the piano tuner come once and then the piano is in tune forevermore. The piano tuner comes, the weather changes, the piano tuner needs to return and retune the instrument. Very hot weather, very dry weather, very cold or damp weather has an impact.

The equivalent things in your life have an impact – the various storms in your life, the damp times, the tearful times, the times when you feel you are in the desert, feeling unsupported, unseen, unrecognised. In those very dry times it is easy for the instrument of the heart to go out of tune. Times when it is very cold, when you feel unloved, or you do not feel the infinite and unconditional love of the Divine – those cold-hearted times are very painful, and when you notice that, you know you need to be retuned. The tuner of the heart is the Divine Presence, is the Divine Radiance. That All-Knowing vibration which, through you merely opening yourself to its presence, tunes your heart again. It tunes your heart through life experiences.

Tuning a human heart is not as easy as tuning a piano where you simply lift the lid of the piano, play a note and make a little adjustment and you have the note in tune with the middle C. When you tune a human heart, the tinkering with those notes happens through an extraordinary range of life experience – loss, love, joy, success, failure. These are some of the life experiences which tune the heart.

When you have a piano you need to be aware of when you need to call the piano tuner. When you have a heart you need to be aware of when you need to call the heart tuner because your heart is being affected in every moment by life experiences and by vibrations, by attitudes within and without, by actions within and without, and by the atmosphere within and without. Your heart can be put out of tune or brought in tune by those influences. When you have the awareness that your heart is out of tune then meditation is one of the ways that you can reach the Divine Tuner.

Life events will put your heart out of tune depending on how you respond to them. When you experience the gift within whatever the experience may be, tragic or happy, then you transform the event from one which has taken you out of tune to being one which can bring you back in tune with your true self. That is when life is doing its own work within you.

* ATTUNEMENT THROUGH MEDITATION

If you are wanting assistance with that tuning in meditation, in contemplation, in the blessing and power and beauty of Nature, you invite the Divine Tuner to bless you. You pray for the tuning of your heart, you pray for the healing of your whole being. You pray to be shown what you need, so you can bring your heart back into tune with your deepest heart, with the middle C of your soul, so that they may really work as one.

One of the ways to receive that healing energy from the Divine Tuner is through focusing on the breath, through creating an expansive peacefulness of mind and drawing in the Divine Breath, breathing that into the cells of your being, breathing it into your mind which inhabits your whole being and your brain, breathing it into your emotional being which also inhabits your whole being within and without. You use the healing Divine Breath to attune you to the pure essence of love within.

In those moments of bliss, of ecstasy, that is when your soul is spontaneously playing the middle C note, when your soul is naturally expressing its true vibration. It is where you are the player and the played, where you are love and the lover and the Beloved – all expressing and receiving and being at one. There is a profound sense of joy when you notice that you are in tune, that you are attuned to the vibration of Spirit, and that you are simply being one with that, expressing your note in harmony with your essential self.

* WHAT WILL ASSIST YOU IN YOUR ATTUNEMENT?

There are so many things which assist with the attunement of your being, most of which you are already familiar with because they give you a sense of well-being – feeling a loving connection with another human being, being in Nature, moments of peace, in meditation, times of freedom of expression, times when you are conscious of being at a point within your own destiny where you are fulfilling your life's purpose. Those moments arise out of attunement with your deeper self because you are actually being guided from your core self; you are in harmony with the Divine Will, which is the core of the core, the Divine.

Another road you can take to deepen your sense of attunement is to practice finding the Divine Will for you, and surrendering your will into that. There are lots of ways you can practice. One way is to simply say the mantra of 'I surrender my will into Thy Will', and notice what arises. Another way is to live your life guided by your inner knowing. The only way you can be confident you are doing that is to be very aware of the forces within you or outside of you that can influence you to lose touch with that connection with your true self.

To be in touch with the Divine Will means you need to constantly keep an ear open to that subtle reverberation from within. Of course it is always easier to hear a subtle, quiet voice when you are in a still, centred place. This is the importance of regular meditation, because it means that regularly, every day, you are noticing. You are noticing that deep vibration within you and you are attuning yourself back to that vibration. So each day you are touching what they say is 'home base' within, and you let that vibration reverberate through your whole day. Then it is a day blessed with the Divine Will, the Divine Presence.

If you are not in touch with who you really are at that deep spiritual level then you will only be living in one dimension of your life, which is sometimes called the personal will. To live in a state of attunement means living a multidimensional life because you have the core vibration vibrating in a very dynamic way within you, pulsating through every moment of your life, through what you are thinking, through what you are feeling, through what you are doing in how you express spirit as you move through your day. That is the blessing of doing this attunement work, because then it is so much easier to let the inner light shine through into your world.

* THE KEY IS REMEMBERING

The key to attunement is remembering. Remembering to notice if you are in tune or if you are not. As soon as you notice then you have the choice – you can start to honour your heart, you can start to honour your inner being and the sacred within. That simple change of focus starts to activate and re-enliven that inner vibration, and then it becomes cumulative. The more you notice the aliveness of your core vibration, the more it responds to that attention. The more alive it is, the easier it is to respond to it. This of course is the power of being in a situation like a group retreat because you have so many people noticing, and so you are building the vibration together and assisting each other with your attunement as well.

So remembering to notice is critically important. Then having the willingness to put into place the various strategies you are familiar with, through your life experience or through what you have learned from others, assists you in retuning your heart. Choosing how you live your life, choosing how you relate to other people, choosing the loving way – this assists you in the tuning and clearing and upliftment of your heart.

Studying spiritual literature and being in the vibration of the illuminated ones helps you attune your being to their being. They are reverberating at the note of the middle C, and in their presence as you study their teachings or honour their gift to this world, their being which holds light can assist your light to brighten.

Clearly, taking time to be in the stillness, in the inner sanctuary, helps you attune your being to the vibration of unconditional love. Remembering that you are always in the presence of the Radiant One assists you in opening yourself to that Light. The more you open yourself to the light the more you attune to that light because light is magnetic, it is attractive. The more you attune to the vibration of light, the more in tune you will be with that vibration.

The Universe is always speaking, and the more you attune your inner ear to the guidance that is there for you from the whole of life, the more attuned your whole life will be to your inner being.

I pray that your process of attunement
will be blessed with the Spirit of Love.


I pray you will remember that the core of your being is love
and that there is nothing more satisfying to your whole self
than to be in tune with the core of love within.
When you are in tune with that it is such a beautiful flowing process –
the expression of love overflows
when your heart is attuned to the Divine Heart.


May your way be blessed with love,
and may this day continue to bless you
with its expression of beauty and power.
It is a reflection of you,
as you are a reflection of the Divine Itself.
The more open your heart,
the more clear that reflection can be
and the more clearly you can receive
the blessing of Divine Love to you.


May your heart be blessed with love
and healed with love
and filled with love.

* INTRODUCING OUR FRIEND IN SPIRIT
In 1988 Susan became aware of a radiant presence illuminating her meditation. Gradually she started to experience this light as coming from beyond herself. Over many months the presence of this golden light became more and more distinct and was inviting communication - something Susan had not anticipated. This contact developed into a clear communication with an invitation for us to ask questions. This beautiful and sacred connection with our unseen teacher has nurtured and inspired our hearts and lives for fifteen years and continues to be a profound source of guidance, learning and wisdom.