Sometimes on days such as today
there is a spiritual glow to the day,
feeling of overbrimming joy,
of pure being, of completeness.
May many such days flow into our lives.
There is much we can do to influence our experience of suffering. Old age, sickness, and death are inevitable, but, with the torments of negative thoughts and emotions, we certainly have a choice in how we respond to the occurrence of suffering. If we wish, we can adopt a more dispassionate and rational approach, and on that basis we can temper our response to it.
- THE DALAI LAMA
Life is a flower
Let it bloom gently
don't rush it
don't push it
don't smother it
Let it unfold its variegated hues
into a delightful enticing offering
of shape and colours and perfume
A floressence of divine perfection.
My true religion, my simple faith is in love and compassion. There is no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are - these are ultimately all we need. THE DALAI LAMA
Chaotic moments are times to remember that you will not
gain your peace from anyone else and that you choose to
bring peace to every life situation you encounter.
- Dr. Wayne Dyer
When Everything Changes Change Everything
Never offer the kind of help that disempowers.
Never insist on offering the help you think is needed.
Let the person or people in need know all that you
have to give - then listen to what they want;
see what they are ready to receive.
- Neale Donald Walsh
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan
Twelve Steps to Strengthening the Immune System
1) Practice positive self-talk. Pay attention to what you say to yourself. Do you lift yourself higher by being kind and loving with yourself or do you pull yourself down by being critical and negative about your prospects for the future? Practicing positive self-talk raises your vibration and strengthens your immune system.
2) Pay close attention to what you put into your body. What you eat and drink makes a strong statement as to how you feel about yourself and your life. If you find yourself eating junk or other low-vibe foods, pay attention to the thoughts and feelings that precede these choices. Develop a plan for healthy foods and make sure you have plenty around. Taking care of yourself and providing a healthy and conscious diet is an act of self-love that strengthens you on all levels.
3) Visualize yourself downloading vibrant life force into your energy field. See the flow of life force moving through every part of your physical system. Focus on any areas where you have experienced challenges. See them filling with healing, radiant light.
4) Build in plenty of time each day for creative play. As you make the effort to find windows for creative activities, you will find it easier to find time in the future. When you regularly engage in creative play, you integrate creative thinking into everything you do. This keeps inspiration flowing and opens your energy field to downloads of life force and intuitive guidance.
5) Make time to work out and exercise each day. This enlivens your physical system, oxygenates the body and amps up the flow of life force into your energy field. The flow through your physical system is equal to all other forms of flow in your life.
6) Regularly still and quiet your mind while focusing your intentions on love and inner peace. During meditation, send love to your higher self and you will quickly feel this love amplified back to you. This builds and strengthens the bridge to accelerated guidance and life force flow.
7) As you move through your day, express gratitude for everything in your life, even those things you consider to be challenges. Challenges and obstacles are our best teachers for they help us grow in our understandings and develop resiliency. If there are objects in your life you no longer feel connected to, pass them on to others who can benefit from them. If you have relationships that seem to be ending, enter a place of gratitude for all that has been and move on from this place of complete love and gratitude. Nothing pulls down and weakens the immune system like anger, resentment and blame.
8) Make a list of charities and groups aligned with your desire to assist people, animals and the environment. Regularly donate and/or help raise funds to benefit these causes. An excellent idea is holding a garage sale to pass on items you no longer use and donating the proceeds to groups working to bring about positive change. This will give you a feeling of well-being that greatly enhances your immune system.
9) Make a list of large and small things that bring you joy and each day do as many of these as you can. Constantly add new areas of joy by exploring new and positive practices and trying out new ideas and possibilities you feel drawn to. Allowing more joy into your life uplifts and strengthens you at all levels.
10) Listen within. Listen to the voice of your intuition and act on the guidance you receive. When you lose sight of this connection to your highest vision, you become a slave of the world which amps down your life force flow.
11) Create environments and spaces in your surroundings that uplift and inspire you. Spending time in spaces with positive energy flow raises your vibration. If you need help in creating positive flow in your environment, study the art of feng shui.
12) Alkalinize your physical body with enzyme-rich, live, alkaline foods. When your cells are being properly nourished, you grow calm and serene, which raises your vibration and draws to you uplifting people and experiences.
By a spanish poet, Juan Ramon Jimenez expresses the soul thus...
We reveal ourselves by what we do as well as what we do not do...
We choose by chosing to act as well as choosing not to act...
choosing not to is also a choice we are making...
So no matter how we choose to look at it each of us are:
a symbol, symbolic of a particular psychological make-up...
a riddle, waiting solving...
a paradox, waiting unraveling...
a story, unfolding...
an expression of the Great Unknown.
an adventure, of Life seeking Itself...
a pilgrim seeking return to Wholeness.
How to transform pain into compassion - by osho
When you breathe in,
imagine that you are breathing in
all the darkness and negativity in your life.
Welcome it into your heart.
Stop trying to resist it, avoid it or destroy it.
That has been taking up all of your energy.
As you are breathing in this heaviness,
let it be absorbed into your heart before you exhale.
And then the moment you breathe out, breathe out golden light.
Breathe out your greatest lightness,
your highest joy,
love and blessing from your heart
INTO the source of the negativity.
You'll soon transform all the darkness in your life with your breath.
Breathe out all the love that you have,
all the blissfulness that you have,
all the benediction that you have.
When breathing out,
pour your love into existence.
This is the method of compassion:
drink in all the suffering
and pour out all the blessings.
And you will be surprised what happens
when you really do it.
The moment you stop resisting all the darkness and heaviness in your inner world,
they are no longer sufferings.
The heart has the power to transform any energy to light.
The heart is a transforming force, the essential alchemist.
It can drink in any misery, pain or sadness
and transform it into a lightness.
Trust the power of your heart.
Once you have learned
that your heart can do this magic,
this miracle,
then keep practicing it again and again.
Experiment with this exercise
and let yourself explore every dark area of your life.
If you feel overwhelmed, don't give up.
It it often the coldest and darkest just before dawn.
Just let yourself fully FEEL
that which you cannot feel,
what you've been resisting.
Only then will you have mastered yourself.
Continue doing this beautiful method
of transforming pain into compassion for 30 days.
You'll get better at it
and be able
to welcome in all the heaviness of the world
and pour out such a great love and light
that our entire planet is transformed.
You have the power within you
to do miracles, use it!
A Story About Life
A young man asked his grandfather why life had to be so difficult sometimes. His grandfather was Old Hawk a Lacota indian. This was his reply.In life there is sadness as well as joy, losing as well as winning, falling as well as standing, hunger as well as plenty, badness as well as goodness. I do not say this to make you despair, but to teach you reality. Life is a journey sometimes walked in light, sometimes in shadow.You have weakness as well as strengths. You have both because in life there is two of everything. Within you is the will to win, as well as the willingness to lose. Within you is the heart to feel compassion as well as the smallness to be arrogant. Within you is the way to face life as well as the fear to turn away from it.Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from falling into the depths of grief. You must stand up in the storm. You must face the wind and the cold and the darkness. When the storm blows hard you must stand firm, for it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.Being strong means taking one more step toward the top of the hill, no matter how weary you may be. It means letting the tears flow through the grief. It means to keep looking for the answer, though the darkness and despair is all around you. Being strong means to cling to hope for one more heartbeat, one more sunrise. Each step no matter how difficult, is one more step closer to the top of the hill. To keep hope alive for one more heartbeat at a time leads to the light of the next sunrise, and the promise of a new day.The weakest step toward the top of the hill, toward sunrise, toward hope, is stronger than the fiercest storm.
April is Autism Awareness Month
I salute parents of autistic children
Who have walked that extra mile with their child.
Who have not given up, not given in to despair,
But trudge onwards,
Advocates...teachers...guides...guardian angels
To their children
In their hour of need
As they journey together
The unresearched terrain
Of Autism.
We learn lessons in Compassion
We learn lessons in Inner Strength
We learn lessons in Courage
We learn lessons in Empathy
We learn lessons in Love
We learn lessons in Understanding
We learn lessons in truly Caring
To be a parent of a Special Needs Person
Calls us to take that extra mile
Down the Road of Life.
