So you think you have to die to go to hell?  You have been misinformed. Hell is a state of mind.  You drift there every time you allow one or more of your four bodies (spiritual, mental, emotional, physical) to move out of alignment with one another. That misalignment disconnects you from heaven.

So learning how to stay aligned with love could be useful to you if you wish to participate in creating heaven on earth.  It requires that your thoughts, feelings and actions be congruent with love. The spirit of who you are aligns with a high vibrational thought from your mental body and a high vibrational feeling from your emotional body. Then it is expressed as a loving action through your physical body.

I am going to share with you the six heavenly virtues that I embrace and call on every day: valor, understanding, humility, forgiveness, compassion and appreciation.  When these high vibrational virtues from the spiritual realm are expressed through the mental, emotional, physical aspects, they manifest into the world of form and create heaven on earth.

Here is how you would use them in a common scenario on an ordinary day. You are in the kitchen fixing yourself a snack. You are holding a utensil with food on it. It flies out of your hand and lands on the floor, making a bit of a mess. An act of valor is to restrain from allowing some profane expletive to fly out of your mouth, which would lower your vibration. You understand that life happens. You relax into humility not allowing arrogance to devour you. You forgive yourself for dropping the utensil or you may choose to forgive the utensil for dropping on the floor. You have compassion for yourself and the situation. You appreciate that you are affluent enough to have a kitchen, a utensil and something to snack on.  Without leaving heaven, you pick up the utensil, clean up the mess and get back to enjoying your snack.

Love is the most powerful coherent energy on the planet.  With practice you can build an energy grid of love around yourself using these six virtues and experience heaven on earth consistently.  Place APPRECIATION just above your head, COMPASSION just below your feet. Place FORGIVENESS just off your right shoulder and UNDERSTANDING just off your right hip. Place HUMILITY just off your left shoulder and VALOR just off your left hip.  DIVINE LOVE is in the center of the circle where you are. For more info how to use these six heart virtues, link to this article called Living From the Heart http://www.eventtemples.com/downloads/pdf/Living_from_the_Heart_(p).pdf   The placement of the six virtues around you is shown on page 19 of the article.

The more you engage these six virtues, the more often you remember they are surrounding you and keeping you connected to love. Since heaven and hell are states of mind, you have free will to choose your state.  It then becomes a matter of making the choice consciously moment to moment.

Until you return, fill your days with GIGGLES, JOY, APPRECIATION!

Sylvia Silk, D.D. Director of the Institute For Balanced Living, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Doctor of Divinity, Spiritual Coach, Reconnective Healing Practitioner, Writer