…the door is wide and open, don’t go back to sleep… – Rumi (the untold story)
We’re strangers in our own home. We’re so near the nectar yet we either don’t look for it or don’t know where to alight.
Let’s not be worried about the future nor sad about what could have been. Life is happening right now. If we get too lost in our thoughts we’ll pass by the door that’s ‘wide and open’…
Daily Affirmation: Today I AM entering the temple inside me!
Recommendation:
One goal, which becomes clearer as we progress, is to detect and eliminate self-contradictions. – Vernon Howard
A story from Vernon…
A teacher and his disciples were crossing a field when they passed an archer who was shooting at a target. When an arrow struck the target in the center the archer praised himself aloud. But when the next arrow missed the target completely the archer angrily blamed a gust of wind.
‘Ah,’ sighed the teacher as the group went on its way. ‘That is so typical of man. When something goes right it is due to his great skill, but a wrong result is always the fault of someone else.’
In one way or another we tend to blame others for what goes wrong in our lives. We are host to many contradictions in how we conduct our lives. Clear thinking and the integration of our mind, body and soul have to be life goals for us. If so, then we must actively remove such contradictions from our lives.
Daily Affirmation: Today I AM more objective about my self!
Recommendation: The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard
Live from moment to moment, just as if every new moment is all there is. For that, in truth, is all there is. – Vernon Howard
Is this moment. Let’s breathe easy and relax into it. Experience it fully. It’s everything, now.
Peace and creativity result from being fully present in the moment. We’re free from the past and the future. Life is good. We can deal with life as it happens. Everything real is eternally safe. We are real. We’re God’s children.
Daily Affirmation: Today I just AM.
Recommendation: The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard
Be still before God and wait patiently for him. – Psalm 37:7
Building on yesterday’s post. Stillness pays the highest dividends in presence of God. God already knows our thoughts intimately so being present in stillness is suggested.
Being still and waiting expectantly is the secret technique to connect with God! As we practice this we’ll become even more still and a peaceful joy will overcome us. Inspiring thoughts that are filled with love and service for others will also emerge. When all this happens we can be sure that we’ve connected with God!
Daily Affirmation: Today I AM still and waiting on God!
Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe. – Eckhart Tolle
When our minds are still we can meet people as they are not as we perceive them. When our minds are at rest we can see things in their full glory instead of through our ideas of them.
When we do that we’re primed to discover people and things in ways not previously possible. The world and its inhabitants will now be brand new to us. We’ll be freed from the chains of the past that bind us and be able to tackle life in its nascent freshness. We’ll experience a new level of peace and joy!
Daily Affirmation: Today I AM seeing all afresh!
Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving. – Florence Scovel Shinn
God thought this world into existence. He endowed us with a similar ability that impacts our domain. Our thoughts may be keeping us away from what we truly need. Here’s an excerpt from an actual study done on visualization, reference:
Dr. Blaslotto’s study was conducted by asking a group of students who had been randomly selected to take a series of [basketball] free-throws. The percentage of made free throws were tallied. The students were then divided into three groups and asked to perform three separate tasks over a 30 day period.
The first group was told not to touch a basketball for 30 days, no practicing or playing basketball whatsoever.
The second group was told to practice shooting free throws for a half hour a day for 30 days.
The third group was to come to the gym every day for 30 days and spend a half hour with their eyes closed, simply visualizing hitting every free-throw.
After the 30 days all three groups were asked to come back and take the same number of free-throws they had in the beginning of the study.
The first group of students who did not practice at all showed no improvement.
The second group had practiced every day and showed a 24% improvement.
The third group however, the group which had simply visualized successful free-throws, showed a 23% improvement.
Such is the power of visualization, it can help change us while helping create the future we desire! In the above study the students were able to create new neural pathways just by visualizing the basketball free-throw, that’s how powerful it is!
In our change journey visualization is a very important tool, I recommend Shakti’s books on this topic.
Daily Affirmation: Today I AM seeing what I will be…
Recommendation: Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain
When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful. – Eckhart Tolle
This moment is, it just is. Accept it. Breathe deeply and let go. Now, feel that acceptance settling in…
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When we do that, we begin to feel the calmness and peace that pervades all that is. And this despite the movement of life and time itself.
When we accept this moment and reside fully therein, we’re ready to accept all that Life brings to us. It doesn’t mean we appreciate everything that’s happening to us. It just means that we accept it, can feel the ‘nowness’ and can act from this settled frame of mind. And then we do the same thing in the next moment, and the next…
Daily Affirmation: Today I AM always here…
Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle