Avoiding Your True Power
Afraid to Meditate
When it comes to meditation, our minds can come up with millions of reasons why we shouldn’t; which is why we should.
There are times when we feel the pull to meditate but are swayed from it by the excuses that spring to mind. We may think that we are too busy, have no time to ourselves, or that we do not have the right place to meditate. Our minds can think of dozens of reasons to put off meditation. But those are even stronger reasons to look past the illusion of the hustle and bustle of daily life and to connect to the place within that intersects with the timeless power and limitless potential of the universe. From that place we can experience that potent stillness that exists at all times, and it is only as far as away as our breath.
It might be useful to ask yourself why you would put off something so beneficial to your peace of mind and general well-being. There may be fear that if you were to stop your frantic pace, your world might fall apart, and then you would have to face the undeniable reality of who you really are and the results of the choices you have made. You might be afraid that you will be forced to make huge changes in order to align yourself with the universe and harness your true potential. Sometimes the frustrations of the known world seem less scary than the possibilities of the unknown. But the truth is that when we cooperate with the universe by creating our lives from the truth of our being, life becomes less of a struggle and more of a process of living blissfully on purpose.
Finding yourself alone for a few moments can give you the opportunity to turn within to infuse a sense of calm wisdom to your work. Whenever you can take the time to recenter and refocus, it will remind you how beneficial it is to connect to your source. Then you will make the time for longer sojourns of spirit, because once you are rejuvenated and enlivened by knowing that you are made of energy and light, you can channel the power to create your life in alignment with the highest potential of your soul.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon.
Strong Woman
Empowering Feminine Energy
A woman’s sense of compassion and inner voice demonstrates the depth of her strength.
So often in our world we tend to think of strength as a quality that arises from a place of firm determination and a will to succeed no matter the cost. Even though we might want to think of a strong woman as being defined in this way, what really makes a woman confident is her capacity for listening to her true self and being able to call upon her feminine wisdom to any situation that may arise. A woman does not need to step into an assertive role or act like a man in order to be effective at what she does—she simply needs to get in touch with her insight and sense of compassion to truly demonstrate the depth of her strength.
Listening to the feminine side of ourselves may not seem easy at first for this type of energy is something that is often overlooked in many aspects of our everyday lives. If we can connect with this part of who we are, however, we will find that there is an unlimited wellspring of strength available to us. Our capacity to tap into our intuition and listen to our inner guides, to take into account the needs of those around us, and to view a situation with compassion and love are ways that we can show the world the true power that is part of our feminine nature. When we learn to integrate this source of strength into our daily tasks and decision-making, we will find that we can be more flexible and open to the things that happen around us and more receptive to new ideas. Not only will we see the world in a different light, but we will truly start to realize the potential for this form of energy to both empower ourselves and those around us.
As we cultivate our feminine energy we can redefine the meaning of strength. By embracing our feminine power as something that is strong in its own right, we are able to use it with true assurance and determination and draw upon what truly belongs to us.
Empowering Feminine Energy
A woman’s sense of compassion and inner voice demonstrates the depth of her strength.
So often in our world we tend to think of strength as a quality that arises from a place of firm determination and a will to succeed no matter the cost. Even though we might want to think of a strong woman as being defined in this way, what really makes a woman confident is her capacity for listening to her true self and being able to call upon her feminine wisdom to any situation that may arise. A woman does not need to step into an assertive role or act like a man in order to be effective at what she does—she simply needs to get in touch with her insight and sense of compassion to truly demonstrate the depth of her strength.
Listening to the feminine side of ourselves may not seem easy at first for this type of energy is something that is often overlooked in many aspects of our everyday lives. If we can connect with this part of who we are, however, we will find that there is an unlimited wellspring of strength available to us. Our capacity to tap into our intuition and listen to our inner guides, to take into account the needs of those around us, and to view a situation with compassion and love are ways that we can show the world the true power that is part of our feminine nature. When we learn to integrate this source of strength into our daily tasks and decision-making, we will find that we can be more flexible and open to the things that happen around us and more receptive to new ideas. Not only will we see the world in a different light, but we will truly start to realize the potential for this form of energy to both empower ourselves and those around us.
As we cultivate our feminine energy we can redefine the meaning of strength. By embracing our feminine power as something that is strong in its own right, we are able to use it with true assurance and determination and draw upon what truly belongs to us.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
A Matter of Priorities
A Matter of Priorities
Letting Go of the Little Stuff
When we stop worrying about unimportant matters we can devote more to what is truly important.
We experience numerous disappointments each and every day. Our expectations go unmet, our plans are blocked by circumstance, our wishes go unfulfilled, and we discover that our lives are subject to a myriad of forces beyond our conscious control. In some cases, our response is powerful because we must invest ourselves and our resources to overcome genuine hardship. In others, our reactions are far more passionate than our circumstances likely warrant. The tension that permeates our bodies and minds when we are late for an event, interrupted at work, or sitting in traffic is not inappropriate, but it can interfere with our well-being in profound ways. When we stop worrying about relatively unimportant matters, we can be at peace and devote so much more of ourselves to what is truly important.
The small frustrations and irritations wield such power over us because they rob us of the illusion of control. But every problem is a potential teacher—a confusing situation is an opportunity to practice mindfulness, and difficult people provide us with opportunities to display compassion. There is a natural human tendency to invest copious amounts of emotional energy in minor dilemmas and frustrations in order to avoid confronting those more complex issues that are largely outside the realm of our control. The intensity of our response provides us with a temporary sense of personal power that helps us cope with challenges that might otherwise overwhelm us. But it is only when we let the little stuff go that we discover that the big stuff is not really so devastating after all.
In the stress of a singularly tense incident, differentiating between an inconsequential annoyance and a legitimate challenge can seem a monumental task. Ask yourself whether the emotions you are feeling will be as vivid in a year, a day, or even an hour. As focused as you are on this moment in time, your reward for letting go of your emotional investment may be the very happiness and harmony of being whose loss you are lamenting. Needless aggravation is seldom worth the cost it exacts. You cannot distance yourself from life's inconsistencies, irritations, and upheavals, but you can relinquish your desire for perfect order and gain peace of mind in the process.
Letting Go of the Little Stuff
When we stop worrying about unimportant matters we can devote more to what is truly important.
We experience numerous disappointments each and every day. Our expectations go unmet, our plans are blocked by circumstance, our wishes go unfulfilled, and we discover that our lives are subject to a myriad of forces beyond our conscious control. In some cases, our response is powerful because we must invest ourselves and our resources to overcome genuine hardship. In others, our reactions are far more passionate than our circumstances likely warrant. The tension that permeates our bodies and minds when we are late for an event, interrupted at work, or sitting in traffic is not inappropriate, but it can interfere with our well-being in profound ways. When we stop worrying about relatively unimportant matters, we can be at peace and devote so much more of ourselves to what is truly important.
The small frustrations and irritations wield such power over us because they rob us of the illusion of control. But every problem is a potential teacher—a confusing situation is an opportunity to practice mindfulness, and difficult people provide us with opportunities to display compassion. There is a natural human tendency to invest copious amounts of emotional energy in minor dilemmas and frustrations in order to avoid confronting those more complex issues that are largely outside the realm of our control. The intensity of our response provides us with a temporary sense of personal power that helps us cope with challenges that might otherwise overwhelm us. But it is only when we let the little stuff go that we discover that the big stuff is not really so devastating after all.
In the stress of a singularly tense incident, differentiating between an inconsequential annoyance and a legitimate challenge can seem a monumental task. Ask yourself whether the emotions you are feeling will be as vivid in a year, a day, or even an hour. As focused as you are on this moment in time, your reward for letting go of your emotional investment may be the very happiness and harmony of being whose loss you are lamenting. Needless aggravation is seldom worth the cost it exacts. You cannot distance yourself from life's inconsistencies, irritations, and upheavals, but you can relinquish your desire for perfect order and gain peace of mind in the process.
I Me Mine.
This song has truly hit a chord within, and it resonates. George Harrison, the quiet Beatle, had a certain introspective insight that was too loud to be ignored: The Music of Power, the Power of Music, "Everyones saying it, flowing more freely than wine...I, Me, Mine"
The Beatles never failed to get it right, and even if they went left, the rest left with them. ♥ Just my two cents on music thats worth a million.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Simply Thankful.
Alas,
The moment of true challenges have come my way. Sheer Will Power Sustains the days and I Love my Life. Simply Thankful.
The moment of true challenges have come my way. Sheer Will Power Sustains the days and I Love my Life. Simply Thankful.
Tea for Me.
Acknowledging Our Pain
Rescuing the Rescuer
Sometimes the strong desire to help and rescue others is actually a call to help our own deep seated pain.
Some people seem called to help others, often from very early on in their childhoods, responding to the needs of family members, strangers, or animals with a selflessness that is impressive. Often, these people appear to have very few needs of their own, and the focus of their lives is on rescuing, helping, and healing others. While there are a few people who are truly able to sustain this completely giving lifestyle, the vast majority has needs that lie beneath the surface, unmet and often unseen. In these cases, their motivation to help others may be an extension of a deep desire to heal a wounded part of themselves that is starving for the kind of love and attention they dole out to those around them on a daily basis. For any number of reasons, they are unable to give themselves the love they need and so they give it to others. This does not mean that they are not meant to be helping others, but it does mean that they would do well to turn some of that helping energy within.
One problem with the rescuer model is that the individual can get stuck in the role, always living in crisis mode at the expense of inner peace and personal growth. Until the person resolves their own inner dramas, they play them out in their relationships with others, drawn to those who need them and often unable to acknowledge their own needs or get them met. In the worst-case scenario, they enable the other person’s dilemma by not knowing when to stop playing the rescuer and allow the person to figure it out on their own. However, if the rescuer finds the strength to turn within and face the needy aspects of their own psyche, he or she can become a model of empowerment and a true source of healing in the world.
Some signs that you or someone you love may need to rescue the rescuer within are inner burnout from overgiving; underlying resentment; an inability to admit to having needs of one’s own; and an unwillingness to be vulnerable. Help comes when we allow ourselves to admit we need it, acknowledging our humanity and our wholeness by acknowledging our pain. The understanding we gain in the process will naturally inform and inspire our ability to help those in need to do the same.
Rescuing the Rescuer
Sometimes the strong desire to help and rescue others is actually a call to help our own deep seated pain.
Some people seem called to help others, often from very early on in their childhoods, responding to the needs of family members, strangers, or animals with a selflessness that is impressive. Often, these people appear to have very few needs of their own, and the focus of their lives is on rescuing, helping, and healing others. While there are a few people who are truly able to sustain this completely giving lifestyle, the vast majority has needs that lie beneath the surface, unmet and often unseen. In these cases, their motivation to help others may be an extension of a deep desire to heal a wounded part of themselves that is starving for the kind of love and attention they dole out to those around them on a daily basis. For any number of reasons, they are unable to give themselves the love they need and so they give it to others. This does not mean that they are not meant to be helping others, but it does mean that they would do well to turn some of that helping energy within.
One problem with the rescuer model is that the individual can get stuck in the role, always living in crisis mode at the expense of inner peace and personal growth. Until the person resolves their own inner dramas, they play them out in their relationships with others, drawn to those who need them and often unable to acknowledge their own needs or get them met. In the worst-case scenario, they enable the other person’s dilemma by not knowing when to stop playing the rescuer and allow the person to figure it out on their own. However, if the rescuer finds the strength to turn within and face the needy aspects of their own psyche, he or she can become a model of empowerment and a true source of healing in the world.
Some signs that you or someone you love may need to rescue the rescuer within are inner burnout from overgiving; underlying resentment; an inability to admit to having needs of one’s own; and an unwillingness to be vulnerable. Help comes when we allow ourselves to admit we need it, acknowledging our humanity and our wholeness by acknowledging our pain. The understanding we gain in the process will naturally inform and inspire our ability to help those in need to do the same.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Altruistic Reality By June Child.
"Deep thoughts have been heavily imprisoned with notions and endless dreams. Notions have been gently untangled by an altruistic reality, and acceptance has become a trusted ally. This ally stands on the sidelines and watches friends or fanatic foes discreetly: a watch tower. Catalyst, Red Doors, decorated with purpose, open, and I enter. Manifestation beckons me.
Because of this reason, I must Reason with the heart.
Deep feeling is an inheritence that has endowed me with experiences wrapped in passion, and a yearning that yearns to be yearned, but although this inheritence has been potently driving the reins of my spirit, I have concluded that in this present day my status stands as an Empath seeking disambiguation of emotions and thoughts within the realms of myself and within the realms of rationalization. In this process, I will reveal the lessons and hope for the ponder of an audience. My success is not measured by the common day standard, but rather through the clarity of one or beyond. An unconscious movement is my focus. A cause beckons me and a noble strength rises.
Because of this reason, I must Reason with the heart.
Deep feeling is an inheritence that has endowed me with experiences wrapped in passion, and a yearning that yearns to be yearned, but although this inheritence has been potently driving the reins of my spirit, I have concluded that in this present day my status stands as an Empath seeking disambiguation of emotions and thoughts within the realms of myself and within the realms of rationalization. In this process, I will reveal the lessons and hope for the ponder of an audience. My success is not measured by the common day standard, but rather through the clarity of one or beyond. An unconscious movement is my focus. A cause beckons me and a noble strength rises.
A Cause that says :
"We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful with our lives. If you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life. "
Although, in all honesty, an underlying fear lurks, I quickly disarm it with an acceptance and a will that is good. Mother Earth embraces me for she is the Hierophant.
Behind me, I leave the engagement of Absolute Love, but I must clarify, I do not confuse the disengagement with a Jaded affair with Love. The Universe is simply pushing me to a mind-field of opportunities that I have yet to discover. I am thankful.
There are different ways to love. To love under the grand infinite star lit skies. To Love through subtleties that stream through intricate moments in time. I savor this notion of Love for it allows the truth of days to resonate freely with purpose. An underlying faith grounds me and nourishes me throughout the bullshit."
Friday, August 6, 2010
When the Mind Feels Reason to Reason with the Heart.
Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any breach of morality. Give the benefit of the doubt to those who seek to know; but treat as potential killers those specimens of insolent depravity who make demands upon you, announcing that they have and seek no reasons, proclaiming, as a license, that they “just feel it”—or those who reject an irrefutable argument by saying: “It’s only logic,” which means: “It’s only reality.” The only realm opposed to reality is the realm and premise of death.
“When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”
“When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”
"Behind Every Damsel is a Fire Breathing Dragon."
"Im a palm reader. *Gasp!* You'll die, but don't worry. You'll live through it."
"You have ONE advantage over me. You can kiss my ass, and I can't."
"There is a light at the end of every tunnel. Just pray it's not a train."
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung
"To love someone is to see him as God intended him" - Fydor Dostoyevsky
"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." — Mark Twain.
"A closed mouth gathers no feet."
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” - Fydor Dostoevsky
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
"Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject."
"Betrayels in war are childlike when compared with our betrayals during peace. New lovers are nervous and tender but smash everything, for the heart is an organ of fire...for the heart is an organ of fire..."
"You have ONE advantage over me. You can kiss my ass, and I can't."
"There is a light at the end of every tunnel. Just pray it's not a train."
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung
"To love someone is to see him as God intended him" - Fydor Dostoyevsky
"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." — Mark Twain.
"A closed mouth gathers no feet."
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” - Fydor Dostoevsky
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
"Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject."
"Betrayels in war are childlike when compared with our betrayals during peace. New lovers are nervous and tender but smash everything, for the heart is an organ of fire...for the heart is an organ of fire..."
Thursday, August 5, 2010
An Important Message by June Child.
"Felllllllow minions from Veeeeenus... I call upon thee, and I persuade you to join me in my pre menstual syndromic rant! Raise your voices, be heard, and allow your estrogen drenching souls to be heard! I preferebly call this time my "moon time",and if allowed, I will ecstatically explain why! There are a few reasons why I believe that our menstrual cycle is tightly associated with the moon. Like the Moon, we go through a 28 day cycle. It takes 28 days for that 1/12th of a pea size egg to pass through our ovarian tubes and like this process, the moon goes through a 28 day cycle. Also, through out, history we associate the moon with emotions. And with this, our woman hood rises to the surface and during this time, WHAT do we experience ladies!? Not only do we encounter a Physical shift, where our lower abdomen expands to welcome this invasive, instrusive process that enflates our ovarian tubes and tenderizes our euphoria,filled, love sacks, but we are also forced to cater or combat our psychological stabillity, and our emotional upheavals. But these emotional upheavals arent meant to do damage! They are meant to gently shake things up. Truth is, people arent very comfortable with that!, but it surely doesnt make it wrong!! The power of emotion and our hormones is sadly misinterpreted, but our task is to control it and use it for the greater good! "
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