Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first thing in the morning. *There is no wrong way to do Morning Pages*– they are not high art. They are not even “writing.” They are about anything and everything that crosses your mind– and they are for your eyes only. Morning Pages provoke, clarify, comfort, cajole, prioritize and synchronize the day at hand. Do not over-think Morning Pages: just put three pages of anything on the page…and then do three more pages tomorrowvia
Showing posts with label exercises. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercises. Show all posts
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Morning Pages Exercise
Julia Cameron's tool to develop Spirituality & Creativity.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Sensing the Shakti
Close your eyes and allow your body to move into a relaxed upright posture. Turn your attention inward and scan your body.Where do you fee your currents of energy in your body now? How do you experience your inner energy? Do you notice it throbbing in particular areas of the body? Are there feelings associated with the sensation of energy -- feelings like tenderness or heartache or longing? Inner sensations like pressure or heat or hardness or softness? Sounds or lights? Notice then and see whether they are familiar to you.
From Meditation for the Love of It: Enjoying Your Own Deepest Experience By Sally Kempton
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Clean Chakras Visualisation
Cleansing one’s charka's. therefore is very beneficial for body, mind, and spirit. It helps the aura’s energy to stay as pure as possible and can increase intuitive ability. I do this at least once a week to help raise my vibrations and eliminate any "plaque" that accumulates from negative thoughts and energies.
Here is a powerful meditation we can do right now for cleaning chakra's from Doreen Virtue’s "The Lightworker’s Way":
Take a deep breath through your nose and hold it for about four seconds, exhale slowly through your mouth, now do this again…..slowly
Completely relax….slowly .release all the tension in your body, see it flowing down through your feet into mother earth to be transformed……
Visualize or feel a round and transparent ball, coloured in a beautiful shade of ruby red, floating inside your body near the base of your spine. This is your "root chakra" the centre of your strength and individuality.
Mentally look at or sense the ball. Notice if it has any areas of darkness. These are energy imbalances, and you can immediately wash them away by simply intending the ball to be perfectly clean.
Hold the image of your beautifully transparent ruby red ball in your mind and see it illuminated from the inside with powerful, pure white light. This is the universal light of God, of all power, love and knowing.
Inhale deeply through your nose, and watch or feel how your breath increases the intensity of white light inside the red sphere.
Continue breathing in and out deeply to fan the intensity of the white light inside the red ball, until it is perfectly clean and transparent.
Next, move your attention upward about three inches until you see or feel a beautiful orange glass ball floating within you.
This is your "sacral chakra, " the regulator of your physical desires. Scan the ball for any areas of darkness. Breathe in deeply to fan the white light within the chakra’s core to wash away all darkness instantly until the ball is perfectly transparent, like orange glass.
Now, concentrate on the area immediately behind your navel. See or sense a beautiful clear yellow ball within you, shining like a little sun. This is your "solar plexus chakra," the area affected by your beliefs concerning power and control.
Check to see if there are any opaque or dark areas on your solar plexus. If there are, breathe in deeply until the chakra becomes a brilliant light yellow colour and is perfectly transparent, like a sparkling ball of yellow glass.
Then, move your attention to your heart region. Visualize or feel a gorgeous green glass ball in your chest. This is your "heart chakra," the centre of your loving energy.
Scan the heart chakra for any shades of darkness, and then deeply breathe them away with white light. Fully illuminate the heart chakra from within and feel it expand in your chest with warmth and good energy.
Keep breathing until the green ball is perfectly transparent and spotless.
Next, concentrate on your throat in the Adam’s apple area. See or feel a ball in a beautiful shade of light blue. This is your "throat chakra, " the centre regulating the clarity of all your communications.
Mentally scan the throat chakra, looking for or feeling for dark areas. Take a deep breath and watch it Illuminate the chakra from the inside, making the light grow brighter and brighter until it ignites into a white ball of light in the chakra’s centre The white rays completely cleanse the blue ball. See and feel the ball as perfectly transparent, with no spots or dark areas.
Then, move your attention to the area between your two eyes, without forcing yourself in any way, gently notice a round or oval ball between your two eyes.
This is your "third eye chakra." Allow the image of the chakra to become clearer and clearer. Notice its colouring as shades of dark blue mixed with some purple and white.
As the image becomes clearer, you may notice that you are looking at an eyelid. If you don’t see an oval or an eye-shaped object, then breathe deeply and keep cleaning the chakra with white light until the image becomes clear. Once you get a glimpse of the third eye, notice whether it is open or shut. If it is shut, ask it to open and make eye contact with you. Allow the third eye to communicate any loving messages it may have for you.
When you are ready, place your attention on the inside of the top of your head. This is your "crown chakra," the area that gives you access to universal wisdom. Feel or see this chakra as a deep violet or purple glass ball. Using your deepest breathing, clean the crown chakra with white light until it is pristine.
The goal is a strong, clear, balanced energy system. The more open, clear and balanced the chakra, the more energy can flow through your system. This energy is essential for vitality, health, and continued spiritual growth.
Once I began doing this regularly I soon learned that it makes a big difference to how I feel. You will notice that you will feel more relaxed, clearer of focus and alive.
From Source
The Emotional Tonal Scale
Developed by Esther Hicks and Abraham, this scale can be used to improve our emotions throughout the day. To use effectively, do an inner-check, focusing attention in your solar plexus region. Ask yourself,
1. "Am I letting creative Life force in. God force? Well being? Am I letting it in?"
2. "Am I holding myself in vibrational alignment with my desires and goals?
3. “Where am I on the Emotional Tonal Scale?
The Tonal Scale is as follows:
- Joy-Love- Exhilarated - Fully Alive - Ease
- Excited - Eager - Enthusiastic - Delighted
- Happy
- Content
- Indifference
- Boredom- Dissatisfaction
- Anxiety - Heebie-Jeebies - Physical Tension and Stress, On-edge
- Expressed Resentment (criticism, blame, complaining)
- Reactive Negative Emotions (anger, grief, lonely, abandonment, guilt,
worried-bothered, sad, frustrated, bitter, Self-pity)
- Depression - Apathy - Numbness- struggling
- Deepest Apathy - hopeless
1. "Am I letting creative Life force in. God force? Well being? Am I letting it in?"
2. "Am I holding myself in vibrational alignment with my desires and goals?
3. “Where am I on the Emotional Tonal Scale?
The Tonal Scale is as follows:
- Joy-Love- Exhilarated - Fully Alive - Ease
- Excited - Eager - Enthusiastic - Delighted
- Happy
- Content
- Indifference
- Boredom- Dissatisfaction
- Anxiety - Heebie-Jeebies - Physical Tension and Stress, On-edge
- Expressed Resentment (criticism, blame, complaining)
- Reactive Negative Emotions (anger, grief, lonely, abandonment, guilt,
worried-bothered, sad, frustrated, bitter, Self-pity)
- Depression - Apathy - Numbness- struggling
- Deepest Apathy - hopeless
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
A Tree Meditation
A tree meditation:
Place oneself at the foot of an ancient tree, whether physically or mentally.
Begin with slow, deep breaths.
Do not focus on the world outside, but, instead, close one’s eyes and follow the path of the breath as it rushes into the mouth, flows down the throat and fills the lungs. Follow its swirl there and its easy and cleansing path back out from within.
Do this several times until you feel yourself calmed and focused.
Lean back against the literal or metaphorical tree which you have chosen.
Tune in and feel its energy mingle with yours, acceptingly and peacefully, without expectation.
Imagine yourself to have roots, growing from your bottom and reaching into the rich, fertile ground of Mother Earth.
Feel, at the same time, ethereal roots of sparkling energy extended from the top of your head and connectimg you with the bright, spiritual ground of the cosmos above you.
Breath deep and let the energy from each flow through you to meet one another at your core.
Use this conduit to pull energy from above and pass it through to the roots below.
Do the same again, pulling energy from the roots below and passing it through to the etehreal roots above.
Say aloud: As above, so below.
Feel yourself to be one with the tree, you within it and it within you.
Say words of welcome and words of greeting to the tree.
Give it honor for its beauty and strength.
Now, having reached a balance with this living tree creature, you are free to ask it questions.
Trees are more apt to answer questions about the self, the wise path, about energy work and about the human past, specifically the human connection to the divine.
When you have finished your tree work, thank your sibling tree for its wisdoms and energy.
Ask it if you may come to it again another time. Give it honor and say your farewells.
Breath deep and balance in your center.
As you are breathing in, see your roots being drawn back down from above and carrying their energy back into your self.
Do the same for the roots below.
When you are whole and contained again, balance your inner self and then stand.
Leave a gift at the base of the tree. (You may do this by pouring a glass of water or leaving a strand of your own hair as a token of kinship and of thanks.)
From http://awakenlight.org/reading-the-trees-a-meditation
Place oneself at the foot of an ancient tree, whether physically or mentally.
Begin with slow, deep breaths.
Do not focus on the world outside, but, instead, close one’s eyes and follow the path of the breath as it rushes into the mouth, flows down the throat and fills the lungs. Follow its swirl there and its easy and cleansing path back out from within.
Do this several times until you feel yourself calmed and focused.
Lean back against the literal or metaphorical tree which you have chosen.
Tune in and feel its energy mingle with yours, acceptingly and peacefully, without expectation.
Imagine yourself to have roots, growing from your bottom and reaching into the rich, fertile ground of Mother Earth.
Feel, at the same time, ethereal roots of sparkling energy extended from the top of your head and connectimg you with the bright, spiritual ground of the cosmos above you.
Breath deep and let the energy from each flow through you to meet one another at your core.
Use this conduit to pull energy from above and pass it through to the roots below.
Do the same again, pulling energy from the roots below and passing it through to the etehreal roots above.
Say aloud: As above, so below.
Feel yourself to be one with the tree, you within it and it within you.
Say words of welcome and words of greeting to the tree.
Give it honor for its beauty and strength.
Now, having reached a balance with this living tree creature, you are free to ask it questions.
Trees are more apt to answer questions about the self, the wise path, about energy work and about the human past, specifically the human connection to the divine.
When you have finished your tree work, thank your sibling tree for its wisdoms and energy.
Ask it if you may come to it again another time. Give it honor and say your farewells.
Breath deep and balance in your center.
As you are breathing in, see your roots being drawn back down from above and carrying their energy back into your self.
Do the same for the roots below.
When you are whole and contained again, balance your inner self and then stand.
Leave a gift at the base of the tree. (You may do this by pouring a glass of water or leaving a strand of your own hair as a token of kinship and of thanks.)
From http://awakenlight.org/reading-the-trees-a-meditation
Friday, October 21, 2011
Rid Yourself of ANTS (Negative Thoughts)
I recently discovered a profoundly effective way to stop my ANTs in their tracks. It’s a simple mind, body, balancing technique called brain wave vibration. It combines ancient healing practices and energy training methods from Korea with modern scientific understanding of the brain.Excerpt from: Source
At its core, the technique uses basic vibration exercises to stop the thinking mind, calm higher-frequency brain wave activity and circulate the body’s energy. It incorporates three distinct elements: deliberately making vibrations in your body, allowing your body to ride the rhythm, and following the flow of energy. By tapping into the body’s inherent rhythm, we’re able to release tension and reach states of deep relaxation similar to that achieved through traditional forms of sitting mediation.
The head nod method is the simplest form of brain wave vibration. It can be done standing, sitting or lying down and is designed to deliver vibrations directly to our brain stem for deep relaxation and tension release. Even just three minutes will clear the head, enhance our focus, and leave us feeling more energized. Try it for yourself:
Sit-up straight with arms at your sides. Close eyes and breathe comfortably, relaxing your body completely. Begin to gently shake your head from side to side. Breathe naturally and fully, emphasizing the exhalation, as you envision all tension draining from your body. Focus on your brain stem at the base of your neck. You may hear slight noises or popping sounds at the base of your skull. This is normal. Allow your head to move up and down, side to side, or even in the shape of an infinity symbol as you go deeper into the motion. After a few minutes, slow to a stop, take a deep breath and return to your external awareness.
It’s nearly impossible to engage the ANTS when your head is shaking to and fro. I imagine them scattering in all directions, just as if I had kicked their mound. As my brain clears, and my body and mind regain their natural equilibrium, I can examine the ANTS more closely. I can unveil the false beliefs behind them, see that they make no sense, and witness how they eat away at my life. It’s in these moments that they can be totally eradicated and replaced with more self-affirming, positive thoughts.
Here are more great and simple exercises to quickly remove thouse pesky negative thoughts and quickly raise your vibration.
The following baby-easy techniques click on our Parasympathetic Nervous System, and take us awayfrom stress, angst, and panic. There is some scientific evidence that Brainwave VibrationModifications produce improved health, healing, and a positive mental attitude.
1.Abdominal breathing: most folks living in cities are shallow-breathers, which causesheadaches and lack of adequate oxygen for our brain. Did you know your 3-pound coconut(brain) uses 25% of the oxygen supply for your entire body?Deeply breathe by sucking in your gut, hold the breath for 5-seconds, and slowly exhalethrough your mouth. Do 6-8 inhalations to trigger a flood of new oxygen to your brain.
2.Close your eyes (you automatically go into Alpha) and focus your imagination (mentalvisualization) on slowly exhaling through your mouth. It lowers your heart-rate after 120seconds. You feel better and create a healing energy.
3.Tapping on the top of your head (brain). Use the three-finger method, joining your thumb,index and middle-fingers of both hands. Start tapping at the front of your forehead, thenmiddle of your skull, and finally toward the rear of your head. How long? Six-taps with thefingers of both hands, for each area of the brain is a good trigger. An exact count does notcount.Why? According to some researchers, tapping on your Frontal Neural-Vascular Points (brain)causes new blood to flow to your brain. So? It unites your left and right hemispheres, andchanges the flow of your Sodium-Potassium chemistry. It is the key to your heart rate, bloodpressure, and energy. It is deeply involved with your Adrenal glands and Electrolytes
4.Shaking (rolling) your head to a rhythm. This is the stupidest technique of the four, except that it really works like crazy. Either listen to quick music or play a tune in your head. You want toget your entire mind-body-connection, particularly your head, neck, and shoulders intomoving in a circular rhythm.Imagine seeing kids at a concert and mentally notice how their entire bodies move to therhythmic music they hear. Sway your lower body with a connected movement to your uppertorso.
Your head is the key to this stress relief. Swinging and swaying your head, neck, and shoulders is the secret. Your lower body will naturally follow in tune with your upper half. And These four exercises of Brainwave Vibration Modification are to be experienced, not just text you read (learned knowledge). It is doing the movements and changing your vibrationalfrequencies, and not just reading these brilliant ideas, and nodding your head in agreement.
What Does it Do For Me, AgainIt makes you use more of your right-hemisphere, instead of utilizing 95% of our left-hemisphere, which is normal for us. The healthiest people use both their left and righthemispheres, instead of depending exclusively on your left-hemisphere of linear logicWhat Does it Do For Me, AgainIt makes you use more of your right-hemisphere, instead of utilizing 95% of our left-hemisphere, which is normal for us. The healthiest people use both their left and righthemispheres, instead of depending exclusively on your left-hemisphere of linear logicWhat Does it Do For Me, AgainIt makes you use more of your right-hemisphere, instead of utilizing 95% of our left-hemisphere, which is normal for us. The healthiest people use both their left and righthemispheres, instead of depending exclusively on your left-hemisphere of linear logicWhat Does it Do For Me, AgainIt makes you use more of your right-hemisphere, instead of utilizing 95% of our left-hemisphere, which is normal for us. The healthiest people use both their left and righthemispheres, instead of depending exclusively on your left-hemisphere of linear logicWhat Does it Do For Me, AgainIt makes you use more of your right-hemisphere, instead of utilizing 95% of our left-hemisphere, which is normal for us. The healthiest people use both their left and righthemispheres, instead of depending exclusively on your left-hemisphere of linear logic
Excerpt from: Source
Friday, September 23, 2011
Chakra Balancing Meditation
PURPOSE OF THE CHAKRA BALANCING SELF-MEDITATION
The purpose of the chakra balancing meditation is to open and clear the chakras the Reiki way. It will align higher frequency energies and also purify/release any stored negative energy from your body/aura.
Here is the chakra balancing meditation:
• Sit comfortably on a chair with your hands on your legs (I have found with the palms facing upwards more beneficial)
• Whilst sitting close your eyes and concentrate on your breath, nice deep slow breathing
• Put you attention on the base Root chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright RED ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the base chakra - breathe in red - breathe out red. Repeat for 2 - 3 minutes.
NOTE: Ensure you see the red ball's energy is spinning at the Root chakra and also flowing down through your legs into Mother earth like a tree spouting its roots and connecting with the center of the earth (This is grounding you.)
• Put you attention on the next Sacral chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright ORANGE ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the Sacral chakra - breathe in yellow - breathe out orange. Repeat for 2-3 minutes.
• Put you attention on the next Solar Plexus chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright YELLOW ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the Sacral chakra - breathe in yellow - breathe out yellow. Repeat for 2- 3 minutes
• Put you attention on the next Heart chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright GREEN ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the Sacrial chakra - breathe in green - breathe out green. Repeat for 2-3 minutes
• Put you attention on the next Throat chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright BLUE ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the Sacral chakra - breathe in blue - breathe out blue. Repeat for 2-3 minutes.
NOTE: Ensure you see the blue ball's energy is spinning at the Throat charka and also flowing down through your each of your arms and out though your hands meeting five feet in front connecting both blue energies together; flowing. Remember "what you ask for you will get" well this is turning what you say more easily into physical manifestation.
• Put you attention on the next Solar Plexus chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright INDIGO ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the Brow chakra - breathe in indigo - breathe out indigo. Repeat for 2- 3 minutes.
NOTE: Ensure you see the Indigo ball's energy is spinning at the Brow chakra and also envisage you sitting in a chair in a Indigo room in your minds eye, looking out of a Window to the stars (i.e. Looking out of your Third eye)
• Put you attention on the next Crown chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright VIOLET ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the Sacral chakra - breathe in violet - breathe out violet. Repeat for 2-3 minutes.
NOTE: Ensure you see the violet ball's energy is spinning at the Crown chakra and also envisage the opening of a Violet lotus flower on the top of your Crown — make this as large and as magnificent as you can.
• Finally See White light flowing down from the Heavens through your Crown chakra all the way through all the other chakras and finally into Mother earth. You should envisage your self as a glowing white being with all the Chakras within that spinning brightly (for their chosen colour). Hold this for about for 2-3 minutes.
The purpose of the chakra balancing meditation is to open and clear the chakras the Reiki way. It will align higher frequency energies and also purify/release any stored negative energy from your body/aura.
Here is the chakra balancing meditation:
• Sit comfortably on a chair with your hands on your legs (I have found with the palms facing upwards more beneficial)
• Whilst sitting close your eyes and concentrate on your breath, nice deep slow breathing
• Put you attention on the base Root chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright RED ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the base chakra - breathe in red - breathe out red. Repeat for 2 - 3 minutes.
NOTE: Ensure you see the red ball's energy is spinning at the Root chakra and also flowing down through your legs into Mother earth like a tree spouting its roots and connecting with the center of the earth (This is grounding you.)
• Put you attention on the next Sacral chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright ORANGE ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the Sacral chakra - breathe in yellow - breathe out orange. Repeat for 2-3 minutes.
• Put you attention on the next Solar Plexus chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright YELLOW ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the Sacral chakra - breathe in yellow - breathe out yellow. Repeat for 2- 3 minutes
• Put you attention on the next Heart chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright GREEN ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the Sacrial chakra - breathe in green - breathe out green. Repeat for 2-3 minutes
• Put you attention on the next Throat chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright BLUE ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the Sacral chakra - breathe in blue - breathe out blue. Repeat for 2-3 minutes.
NOTE: Ensure you see the blue ball's energy is spinning at the Throat charka and also flowing down through your each of your arms and out though your hands meeting five feet in front connecting both blue energies together; flowing. Remember "what you ask for you will get" well this is turning what you say more easily into physical manifestation.
• Put you attention on the next Solar Plexus chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright INDIGO ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the Brow chakra - breathe in indigo - breathe out indigo. Repeat for 2- 3 minutes.
NOTE: Ensure you see the Indigo ball's energy is spinning at the Brow chakra and also envisage you sitting in a chair in a Indigo room in your minds eye, looking out of a Window to the stars (i.e. Looking out of your Third eye)
• Put you attention on the next Crown chakra - visualize the chakra as a bright VIOLET ball spinning clockwise - as you focus on the Sacral chakra - breathe in violet - breathe out violet. Repeat for 2-3 minutes.
NOTE: Ensure you see the violet ball's energy is spinning at the Crown chakra and also envisage the opening of a Violet lotus flower on the top of your Crown — make this as large and as magnificent as you can.
• Finally See White light flowing down from the Heavens through your Crown chakra all the way through all the other chakras and finally into Mother earth. You should envisage your self as a glowing white being with all the Chakras within that spinning brightly (for their chosen colour). Hold this for about for 2-3 minutes.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
68 Seconds
"Focus on nothing is more important than you feel good. Period. it is not necessary to focus on feeling good about oneself, focus on feeling good; period. It is not necessary to feel good about your body, or about your financial situation; find thoughts that make you feel good. Period.
We would recommend that you spend the first week writing 68 seconds about things that you don't care much about, such as blue glass, butterflies, feathers. Because you will attract those things. This exercise will teach you two things: one that you can focus for 68 seconds; two, that the universe does respond to a pure vibration. When you have a level of confidence in the universe, then you can tackle your main issues.
We would every day, twice a day, write your 68 seconds about all areas in your life, relationship, abundance, house, job, etc. You will find it very easy to do. For instance, on your house, appreciate how convenient it is. Appreciate the thermostat that keeps the house at the perfect temperature. Appreciate the sewage system and the plumbing in your bathroom. Appreciate the comfort of it. Know that this house will be temporary, that you will have may others closer to the dream house you want, but meanwhile appreciate it. You see, there was 68 seconds.
So, all of you have major work to do in the next 30 days. Write as many 68 seconds as you can. And do it deliberately."
Ease of Achieving 68 Seconds
Abraham: "Realize that 68 seconds isn't hard to find. Throughout your day, you have thousands of opportunities to do your 68 seconds. Even if your work schedule doubled, you could still find plenty of 68 seconds? Now, Esther didn't believe us at first that 68 seconds were the equivalent of 2 million man-hours.
She couldn't conceive it. But since there isn't anything that we have said over the years that wasn't true, Esther now believes it and uses it. So, we want to ask you, do YOU REALLY BELIEVE when we say that 68 seconds is the equivalent of 2 million man-hours? Because if you did, YOU WOULD FIND THE TIME TO DO THEM!!! Who would want to bang things into place, when they know that they can spend 68 seconds and have the universe do it for them? Nobody, yet it is what the majority of you do. You would rather jump into action than do your 68 seconds. You would rather jump into action than align up your energy."
The Recipe for deliberate creation has 10 parts:
5 parts of appreciating what is
2 parts of imagining a little better than what is
2 parts of looking for things that would make you feel better
1 part of quieting your mind, relaxing and not trying so hard, being at ease at it
We would recommend that you spend the first week writing 68 seconds about things that you don't care much about, such as blue glass, butterflies, feathers. Because you will attract those things. This exercise will teach you two things: one that you can focus for 68 seconds; two, that the universe does respond to a pure vibration. When you have a level of confidence in the universe, then you can tackle your main issues.
We would every day, twice a day, write your 68 seconds about all areas in your life, relationship, abundance, house, job, etc. You will find it very easy to do. For instance, on your house, appreciate how convenient it is. Appreciate the thermostat that keeps the house at the perfect temperature. Appreciate the sewage system and the plumbing in your bathroom. Appreciate the comfort of it. Know that this house will be temporary, that you will have may others closer to the dream house you want, but meanwhile appreciate it. You see, there was 68 seconds.
So, all of you have major work to do in the next 30 days. Write as many 68 seconds as you can. And do it deliberately."
Ease of Achieving 68 Seconds
Abraham: "Realize that 68 seconds isn't hard to find. Throughout your day, you have thousands of opportunities to do your 68 seconds. Even if your work schedule doubled, you could still find plenty of 68 seconds? Now, Esther didn't believe us at first that 68 seconds were the equivalent of 2 million man-hours.
She couldn't conceive it. But since there isn't anything that we have said over the years that wasn't true, Esther now believes it and uses it. So, we want to ask you, do YOU REALLY BELIEVE when we say that 68 seconds is the equivalent of 2 million man-hours? Because if you did, YOU WOULD FIND THE TIME TO DO THEM!!! Who would want to bang things into place, when they know that they can spend 68 seconds and have the universe do it for them? Nobody, yet it is what the majority of you do. You would rather jump into action than do your 68 seconds. You would rather jump into action than align up your energy."
The Recipe for deliberate creation has 10 parts:
5 parts of appreciating what is
2 parts of imagining a little better than what is
2 parts of looking for things that would make you feel better
1 part of quieting your mind, relaxing and not trying so hard, being at ease at it
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Physical Beauty
As you find yourselves as adults feeling beholden to looking a certain way according to societal standards, you have gotten so lost in that externalized perspective that it is difficult for you to come to that place of inner love. There are too many leaps to take in order to come back home to yourself that you cannot really find your way. Be gentle with yourself here. This externalized perspective, this self-consciousness, is very carefully choreographed by different societies in order to make citizens behave in certain ways. You are not dealing with a simple thing here, you are dealing with a mechanism that has been in place in societies throughout the world for hundreds, if not thousands, of generations to make you feel bad and behave accordingly.
It is no small feat to come up against this inside your mind and heart, and yet the answer remains relatively simple. You must begin to see the world from your own eyes and stop imagining how the world sees you. One step toward doing that is to begin to train your mind to think differently about every situation you walk into. You might need to start with doing this once a day and eventually you will do it all the time. The way to start is to plan one event you will be attending – a class, a meeting, lunch with a friend –anything. Plan one event where you will practice this. Decide in advance so you can be prepared for it. When you arrive at that event, before you walk in, decide that every time you wonder how people see you or every time it occurs to you that everyone is looking at you, you are going to take a breath, try to ignore that thought and immediately focus on what you are seeing. You are going to ask yourself the question, "What do I see now? What am I noticing now?” Look around and see everything from your own perspective. Do not let your mind be occupied by what you imagine others see. Keep asking yourself, "What do I see? What is my friend wearing? What are the colors in the room? Is it hot or is it cold? Do people look happy or sad?" Just keep asking yourself every question you can think of in order to keep looking at the events around you from your own perspective.
This is the way you begin to train your mind, slowly but surely, to not get so lost in the imagined perspective -- the things you imagine other people are seeing or thinking about you. Once you have mastered this to some degree, then you can start to do it more often throughout the course of your day. Eventually, as this becomes an easier thing to do, it becomes easier to stay on track with your own perspective. At that point, it is time to cultivate a genuine joy and celebration for your perspective. To take the time to take the light in what you see and what you are sensing. You will begin to get lost in the pleasure of noticing the colors, noticing the smiles on people's faces, noticing the insights you have as you pay more attention to how you see things. You will have insights into what people are really feeling. You will start to care more about them because you will be paying more attention to them. This becomes a celebration of yourself and your unique perspective.
As you relish all the things you see and all the things you notice that the feeling of joy and celebration resonates with the feeling of love. Eventually you begin to love how you see the world. You will find that you love going out in the world and exploring it. That feeling of love eventually occupies you. This is the experience of self-love. It is feeling love so consistently that you love yourself and you love everyone around you.
This is a slow process. You have much to heal and many habit to change. It takes practice, so take each of these steps and give them several weeks or months. You must retrain your minds from a very early age to cease the self-consciousness and the inner critic that has reign there. Instead, become occupied by the joy of noticing everything, of participating in everything and enjoying your own perspective of the world.
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It is no small feat to come up against this inside your mind and heart, and yet the answer remains relatively simple. You must begin to see the world from your own eyes and stop imagining how the world sees you. One step toward doing that is to begin to train your mind to think differently about every situation you walk into. You might need to start with doing this once a day and eventually you will do it all the time. The way to start is to plan one event you will be attending – a class, a meeting, lunch with a friend –anything. Plan one event where you will practice this. Decide in advance so you can be prepared for it. When you arrive at that event, before you walk in, decide that every time you wonder how people see you or every time it occurs to you that everyone is looking at you, you are going to take a breath, try to ignore that thought and immediately focus on what you are seeing. You are going to ask yourself the question, "What do I see now? What am I noticing now?” Look around and see everything from your own perspective. Do not let your mind be occupied by what you imagine others see. Keep asking yourself, "What do I see? What is my friend wearing? What are the colors in the room? Is it hot or is it cold? Do people look happy or sad?" Just keep asking yourself every question you can think of in order to keep looking at the events around you from your own perspective.
This is the way you begin to train your mind, slowly but surely, to not get so lost in the imagined perspective -- the things you imagine other people are seeing or thinking about you. Once you have mastered this to some degree, then you can start to do it more often throughout the course of your day. Eventually, as this becomes an easier thing to do, it becomes easier to stay on track with your own perspective. At that point, it is time to cultivate a genuine joy and celebration for your perspective. To take the time to take the light in what you see and what you are sensing. You will begin to get lost in the pleasure of noticing the colors, noticing the smiles on people's faces, noticing the insights you have as you pay more attention to how you see things. You will have insights into what people are really feeling. You will start to care more about them because you will be paying more attention to them. This becomes a celebration of yourself and your unique perspective.
As you relish all the things you see and all the things you notice that the feeling of joy and celebration resonates with the feeling of love. Eventually you begin to love how you see the world. You will find that you love going out in the world and exploring it. That feeling of love eventually occupies you. This is the experience of self-love. It is feeling love so consistently that you love yourself and you love everyone around you.
This is a slow process. You have much to heal and many habit to change. It takes practice, so take each of these steps and give them several weeks or months. You must retrain your minds from a very early age to cease the self-consciousness and the inner critic that has reign there. Instead, become occupied by the joy of noticing everything, of participating in everything and enjoying your own perspective of the world.
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