This transcript has been lightly edited from the original recording to ensure that the intended meaning is conveyed as clearly as possible. Note that Hmm, Mmm, Ahh, and … signify places to pause, and to feel into yourself and what is being said. Comments in [square brackets] are editorial explanations rather than part of the message.
The New Love · Session 1
The Key to Everything
With Master Anna, channeled by John McCurdy, and Romana Aniya Ercegović and Her Soul
Master Anna/John:
I am that I am!
Master Anna of Magical Service, here to do some magic with you today.
Oh, welcome! Welcome to our class on love!
On understanding love, the new love, the self-love.
For indeed, self-love is the key to opening up the magic in your life. And it is the key to opening up everything else, too!
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So, we need to warn you now that this class is not going to be ‘all peaches and cream,’ as they say, because we are going to have to take a deep dive into the things that keep you from loving yourself and from allowing the magic in your life.
And the number one thing that blocks you, perhaps the only thing, is shame. So we are going to be taking a look at the shame, at where it came from and what to do with it.
Oh, people sometimes say that the opposite of love is hate.
No, hate is just a symptom of shame. If love has an opposite, it would be shame.
But let's go beyond that duality, because that is a big part of what we are doing here: going beyond duality. For you see, the source, the real source of that shame that you feel so deeply, in a sense you could say it is duality. And it is time to go beyond it.
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But we'll get to that.
For now, let's take a look inside.
How do you feel in this moment?
How do you feel inside of you?
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Are you excited?
Are you nervous?
A little scared maybe?
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Or are you distracted by something else that you are feeling?
Take a moment and feel into yourself.
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Write down a few words that would describe just the essence of what you are feeling right now. Don't go into stories or why you are feeling that way, just write down the names of the emotions and the feelings.
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John is feeling nervous.
He's feeling excited.
He's feeling inadequate.
He doesn't know if he can bring this class through clearly enough.
He's feeling afraid, because he doesn't know how things in his life are going to work out.
Which makes me laugh a little bit, because he has had so much experience with them working out!
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So, continue to feel.
Write down the things you are feeling. Just the essence, just a few words.
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Now, be honest here. This is not about positive thinking. That is one of the ways you shame yourself.
What do you really feel?
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Write down the difficult feelings as well. You are not going to make them bigger. You will actually begin the process of releasing them.
Don't go into the stories, just write down the essence. Name them.
What do you really feel, down inside yourself?
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There is no right or wrong.
This is not to share with anyone else, unless you wish to.
It is just for you.
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If this is uncomfortable for you, know that you are not alone.
You see, the shame doesn't like when you feel it.
It doesn't like when you look at it.
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Keep writing.
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There are a lot of different things that you are feeling right now.
Just name them.
No stories, just name them.
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Yes, there are some happy things too. Name those also.
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Now, take a look at your paper. Take a look at all of those different things you just wrote down.
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How many of those are feelings that you like to feel?
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How many of them are things you wish you didn't feel?
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If you are like almost every person on this planet, then there are a lot more in the negative column. The ones you don't like to feel. And that is okay, but it's time to become aware of all the different things you are feeling.
And, we will say right now that everything in the negative column, every one of those feelings you don't want to feel, is rooted in shame.
Oh, and even a few of the ones that you think you like to feel!
Many of them are full of fear. They are parts of you that are terrified of your life and the things in your life.
Oh, there is anger toward others, and feelings of betrayal and rejection and hurt.
So many things, and it is time to take a good look at that. To really feel into that, and bring it to consciousness.
What does that mean?
That means bringing your awareness to it, to these things.
You see, the human tendency—oh, it's not just human! It is the angelic tendency, for that is what you are. You are angels who are walking around in bodies.
The angelic tendency is to push all of those shameful feelings and all of those disturbing feelings into the darkness. To hide them away. To run away from them. To do everything you can to not feel them.
That is what angels do, dear friend. And because you are an angel in a human body, that is also what humans do.
Where do you think that tendency came from? It is not just human.
It is because the shame goes way, way back, to long, long before Earth was even thought of, let alone created. It goes back to the very beginning of all things, and it is time to bring it to consciousness.
You see, let's talk about the darkness a little bit.
Humans are so afraid of the darkness, and so are the angels. Because that is where they have hidden away every part of themselves that they didn't like, that they couldn't cope with, that they didn't know how to deal with. They pushed it away into the darkness.
Oh, it was a beautiful thing!
You see, the darkness... Oh, it was said for the first time back around 2004, when a group said to itself, “The darkness is our divinity.”
And oh, such beautiful, true words!
Because you are going to discover that when you stop running from your darkness, when you allow yourself to go into the darkness and to bring the light of your consciousness into your darkness, oh, in there you will find the solution to every problem in your life. You will find the manifestation of your deepest dreams. You will find, for the first time ever, true freedom, true happiness and joy.
No, not the fluffy kind that humans get all excited about, but the real kind that is so deep, that is the ground of your existence, and that nobody ever, ever again can take away.
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You see, the darkness is not some evil force. It is just the part of you, the part of your soul, of your divinity, that said...
As it watched you dive into this experience of discovering Self it said, “I will take those things that overwhelm you, and I will hold them. I will keep them here, safely hidden away, until you are ready to face them. To own them. To bring them home. And when that time comes, oh, the magic that we together will feel! And the magic that will come into your life. And the love. Oh!”
Back then, Soul had no concept of love. It is something that was discovered along the way.
And now it becomes the key to opening up the darkness.
To bringing all of you home.
To becoming true divine humans.
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And so it is.
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Romana Aniya:
Dear friend, my name is Romana Aniya, and I would invite you to open yourself even deeper in this sacred space, in your sacred beingness.
Indeed, it is time. An opportunity to really stop running, and to just be.
Can you imagine this magnificent love that your soul has for you? That she—or he or it, or however you feel it—that she was holding all these pains for you? And that over and over she takes all these pains as you go through everyday life, and they come the new ones. They pile more and more.
As you look at them, as you integrate them, as you hold space for them, then you can feel even more, even deeper.
And sometimes, this comes as a judgment for yourself: Oh, I have devoted so much of my time to integrating my darkness, to holding space for my anger, for my shame, for my guilt. But is this ever going to end?
It is so many years, so many lifetimes, so much harshness of humanity, that we are now receiving. That we are now facing. That we are now taking in our embrace.
So dear friend, please be patient with you. Be loving with yourself, with all these pains, with all this shame.
And I would invite you that, in this class, you really give yourself an opportunity to stop, and to open up, and to feel.
To really give yourself this sacred space, in which you can bring to awareness more and more of what has been held in your body. Of what you have put somewhere deep along the way, suppressed, pushed down.
Allow yourself, that this can be a sacred and safe space for you.
That you can really feel this huge and deep love of your soul.
That you are safe to feel.
That you are safe to stop and allow this, including the physical pain, to be felt, because all this shame is hard on the body. It just feels like it presses, that it gives tensions to the body. As we press it down our belly is tight, and our arms and our shoulders and our neck and our chest.
Let's create this beautiful opportunity here, to relax.
To relax deep within you.
To open to this gentle, subtle, loving space of your soul, and to know: This time, I am ready. I am mature enough to hold space for all these parts of me that feel ashamed, that feel scared.
Can you feel this maturity of yours?
Can you feel this grandness of you?
This heartfulness, this beauty, of you?
This stability that you have, that is capable now to stand in love, for receiving and opening to new levels, new layers of your beingness. To these parts of you that are still stuck somewhere, that are still tight in your body.
Because you are a magnificent being!
You are your soul, and you are always safe in this knowingness.
You are not separated anymore from your soul, from your divinity.
Your human doesn't need to pretend anymore.
It doesn't need to hide anymore.
It doesn’t need to create this false image of self-confidence, because you can just be as you are.
And that is okay.
That is good.
Whatever you are, you are beautiful!
And in this consciousness, in this consciousness of your inner purity, of your inner maturity, you might be ready to open up.
To feel even deeper.
So, I would invite you now, in feeling this sacred and safe space of yours.
This is your space.
I would invite you to feel safe here.
To feel safe in your body.
To feel safe in your belly, in your chest.
And to just feel whatever you are feeling.
Without judgment.
Allow Mind to step aside a little bit from the constant need to discern what is good, what is bad.
Just allow Mind to step aside a bit, and allow yourself to be in the presence of your soul.
In the presence of unconditional love.
And in this unconditional love of you, you can allow yourself to be.
You can allow yourself to feel whatever you feel.
Whatever you wrote before on your paper, and even more.
Even deeper.
Don't judge what you feel, because already with feeling it, you are giving freedom to your body to breathe deeper.
Already with feeling it, you are bringing part of you back home.
You don't need to do anything with it right now.
You don't need to worry, “How will I integrate it?”
You don't need to worry, “What do I do with this huge anger? With this deep sadness? With this bitterness? With these feelings of betrayal, of jealousy, of hatred?”
Whatever is there, you don't need to worry about what to do with it right now.
In this moment, it is just important that you allow yourself to feel.
And that you know it is safe to feel.
And that you know that you are loved, whatever you are feeling.
So just let it be.
Just take a deep breath.
And another.
And as you breathe, you allow the energies of your body to soften and to move.
You are so loved!
You are so beautiful, in whatever you are! In whatever you have done.
Whatever was done to you, just allow yourself to feel.
Just allow also yourself to feel this love, how beautiful your heart is. How your heart is capable of loving, if you allow it.
If you allow yourself to just be here for you.
To take this magnificent opportunity of luxury, of just being for you, without worrying for anybody else. Without worrying about how your life will be in five days, or tomorrow.
You are just here now, for you.
And allowing yourself to be more than you were before.
To feel this deep, beautiful love in your heart, and in this sacredness that you are allowing with creating this safe space.
You can naturally allow home all these feelings that are ready, at this moment, to come to the consciousness. to come to you. To be felt. To be embraced.
Just that.
You don't need to worry about what to do with them.
You don't need to worry if they will overwhelm you.
Right now, just allow yourself to open this space and know you are safe.
And breathe.
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Just listen to this gentle music.
And this music is the sound of your soul, that loves you so deeply and is grateful that you are so courageous to become more of you, and to feel what you've been afraid to feel before.
To feel what most people are afraid to feel.
But in this lifetime you came with a commitment of bringing yourself home, fully. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here in this class.
In this lifetime you came to really allow love.
And love can freely flow in your body when you don't hold the fears and shames and judgments about yourself, but when you allow this love to flow like a river, sparkling and free and wild sometimes, and sometimes gentle.
So, listen to this music, and just be in your own embrace. And allow love to heal you, to love you, to bring you back to life.
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I would invite you now to take some time to listen to this music. And after this session, just take some time for yourself. Maybe go for a short walk, or just be with you.
But please, don't engage yourself in everyday routines immediately.
Just take time for you, and be in your own silence for a little bit. At least half an hour.
Be embracing—be a parent to your inner child.
For the next half an hour, before you go on to the next session, just be in your sacred safe space with you.
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