Belonging means being a part of, connected with, held by, member of, included in, and allied to. It’s feeling truly “at home”, peace and joy. Spiritually, it’s a deep realization of who we are – a part of God/Ultimate Being. At the deepest level we are most ourself, most authentic and at peace when we realize our oneness and connectedness with God, the Source of all that is.
This is what every major religion and spiritual group has taught and believes. This is perhaps the greatest truth of all – that we are a part of and connected to the wholeness of all that is.
There is One with many parts. We are a full-fledged member and part of the wholeness of the universe – a thread in the Grand Tapestry and web that connects the entire universe. We can feel small, insignificant, even completely separate from all that surrounds us, but what happens if we pull a thread? The tapestry begins to unravel.
You, your thread, matters as much as any other. All belong to and work together to form the grandest vision ever imagined. We in our human form are a human thread in the tapestry of humankind. All threads matter. All lives matter. Black lives matter. Women’s lives matter. Gay lives matter.
We are all a part of a grand master plan of discovering the truth of who we are, the core of which is aligned with God, love, and complete harmony and order. And when we open to this truth is when we open to the grace and benevolence of the Universe. This is the ultimate purpose of meditation and prayer – opening to and connecting with our spiritual awareness and reminder that we are completely safe and loved and never alone.
It’s knowing that spiritual support and guidance is closer than a breath away. The Bible (Matthew 7:7 and Luke 11:9) state in almost the exact same words, “Ask, and it will be given you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. The same message comes from many contemporary sources, such as the channeled messages in Ask and It is Given by Esther Hicks and A Course in Miracles.
My book, Why Love Heals, defines love as oneness. And my research concluded that cancer patients lived longer and fared better when they felt loved and cared for. God has a consciousness that connects to our individual consciousness. We have an immediate connection to this consciousness because we are never disconnected from this source of Divine Consciousness.
In Voices of Love from the Light channeled by Philip Burley, is a conversation with twenty great souls in the afterlife. My favorite is with Albert Einstein who said, “Love, the essence of God everywhere, holds everything together. That is what holds life together, that is what holds the atom together, and that is what energy is.”
In Dr. Kelly Turner’s doctoral dissertation, she discovered there were nine key healing factors in spontaneous remissions from cancer. In her books, Radical Remission and Radical Hope, she claimed that the common healing factor of “deepening your spiritual connection“ appeared in every case they studied.
In his book, Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease, this acclaimed cardiologist and researcher concluded that the key was to heal people’s isolation. This included 1) isolation from our feelings, our inner self, and inner peace; 2) isolation from others; and 3) isolation from a higher force. In the end he said it all comes down to, “Do you feel loved and cared for?”While teaching my wellness program to thousands of cancer patients and their families, I discovered what matters most to people are their spiritual beliefs, family, and friends. It’s all about relationships and a feeling of belonging, about wanting to love and be loved. Loneliness and feeling isolated can be devasting. Make sure you’re getting the social support you need, whether from family, friends, church or support groups, or any person or place where you feel nurtured, at ease, and most yourself. Of course, you will never feel more yourself and at peace than by connecting with the eternal core spiritual truth of who you really are.
