Category Archives: Stillness

How To Handle Debilitating Fear…

…the big things and the real things of this world and the universe are on your side. The sun rises every morning to salute you just as it does the most powerful and prosperous man on earth.The Urantia Papers

debilitating fear

Sometimes we experience debilitating fear. Fear of the unknown and of the future. During such times we tend to lose all power of reasoning and don’t quite know what to do. Our breathing becomes more rapid, life has no meaning, others don’t appear to be concerned and everything seems to be going wrong. There’s no light visible yet because we’re not even sure if we’re nearing the end of the tunnel. How should we handle such a situation?

child of god

Sooner or later we’ll notice that we’re letting ourselves sink deeper into this funk. Once that realization hits, we know that we can do something about it. Let’s start by breathing deeper, way deeper than normal, flush the body with some more life giving and mood-lifting oxygen! Then let’s remind ourselves that we are children of the creator of this Universe! Gosh that’s almost impossible to fathom, which is why it takes so many reminders before this Truth starts to hit home. We are a child of God. Therefore, ultimately, eventually, all is well. The ‘real things’ of this Universe are allied with us, we truly have nothing to fear, heck we don’t even need to fear fear anymore!

Daily Affirmation: Today I breathe in my son-hood!

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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How To Guarantee Growth…

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.  – Viktor Frankl

awareness

The key to long term personal growth is increasing awareness of self. As we become more aware we position ourselves as masters. We realize that self-knowledge will allow us to choose our state of mind. We can then choose happiness, selflessness, growth, love, forgiveness and acceptance.

choice & freedom

How is this choice made? It’s made by the response we provide to any situation in life. When we stop being driven by our animal instincts (amygdala) and learn to step back and allow our higher mind to take control, then we can make wiser decisions in the moment. We then choose the better response in any situation! Consequently we are more free.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM proactive!

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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What Do We Most Want To Feel?

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.Charles Wagner

seeking wealth?

We all seek wealth, success, recognition, a feeling of accomplishment and much more! What are we truly seeking? What is it that we want to feel? What has been most important to us in our lives?

the feeling

What we’re really seeking is the feeling we get from accomplishing or having the things that we seek. For example we seek wealth to feel important, to feel loved and/or to feel secure. It’s important to understand what is it that we seek to feel. Once we clarify that we’ll know what kinds of goals to set, how to use our core values to set such goals and therefore how to be happy and content as we move through life!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM content!

Recommendation: The Storm Before the Calm by Neale Donald Walsch

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How To Move To Now!

Move away from the mental how to the spiritual now.Guy Finley

mental how

We live constantly in our minds. We manufacture about 70,000 thoughts a day! When we’re thinking, we are not in the present moment.

spiritual now

By becoming aware of our thoughts, our breath, our body, our emotions and of what’s going on we can move into the spiritual now. It really is that simple. Takes practice of course. We must build the new muscle. We must breathe with full consciousness. We must understand the movement of thoughts. We ought to know how our emotions get triggered. And we must value being in the present!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM present!

Recommendation: The Secret of Letting Go by Guy Finley

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How To Make Contact With Reality

Only when the mind is wholly silent, completely inactive, not projecting, when it is not seeking and is utterly still – only then that which is eternal and timeless comes into being. Krishnamurti

the thought machine

The mind wants to think, often repeatedly, about the same things. Even when we think we’ve had an original idea, when we trace it back, we realize it was a conditioned response based on what we already know or what we’ve already experienced. Here’s an example: Someone says ‘Look at that beautiful flower’. What do we think? We start thinking about the flower. We compare it to other flowers we’ve seen in the past or we judge its beauty. We don’t actually look at the flower and experience its profound beauty. We manufacture thoughts about the flower and about related topics, never really allowing self to just be and witness the miracle that is that flower…

finding stillness

Who manufactures thought? We do! Why is that often a problem? Because by incessantly creating thoughts we pre-occupy our minds and rarely allow clarity to emerge. It’s like constant ripples on a beautiful lake that don’t allow the lake-bed ever to be seen, or the perfect blue sky ever to be reflected! The trick (with practice) is to just be, see things, emotions, people and events for what they are. When we create thoughts about the experience we miss the real thing. It’s like reading about the aroma of a freshly-baked cake and not actually experiencing it first-hand!

Daily Affirmation: Today I simply am!

Recommendation: The Awakening of Intelligence by Krishnamurti

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Where am I?

Where am I?Neale Donald Walsch

questions unlimited

Neale calls them the 3 persistent questions and the 4 fundamental questions of life! We started with persistent question #1 here: What Is It That? Fundamental question #2 is presented above. The first fundamental question was ‘Who am I?

where am i?

Where am I along the following dimensions?

  • Life aspirations
  • Relationships
  • Religion, spirituality, God, etc…

We must really mull this question. Where do I exist? What’s my relationship with others, with the groups I interact with, with society, my country, my planet, with my religion, with God and with Eternity?

Daily Affirmation: Today I mull over where I AM…

Recommendation: The Storm Before the Calm by Neale Donald Walsch

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¿Quién Soy Yo or Qui Suis-je?

Who am I?Neale Donald Walsch

fundamental questions!

Neale calls them the 3 persistent questions and the 4 fundamental questions of life! Here’s the first fundamental question that we ought to ask self…

who am i?

This question can generate numerous multi-faceted enquiries and possible answers. We may ask from the perspective of biology, sociology, religion, philosophy, country, race, family and the universe! But ask we must. It’s essential that we gain some understanding of how we view self because that will guide how we view others and therefore our relationships with them and the world.

There’s also the question of the little ‘i’ and the big ‘I’. The question can be asked iteratively and through-out our lives! It’s not a question that can ever fully be answered either!

Daily Affirmation: Today I ponder ‘Who AM I’?

Recommendation: The Storm Before the Calm by Neale Donald Walsch

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