Daily Dose of Inspiration

4/15/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Now sound is my passion, it’s my life. I wrote a whole book about it. So I live to listen. That’s too much to ask from most people. But I believe that every human being needs to listen consciously in order to live fully—connected in space and time to the physical world around us, connected in understanding to each other, not to mention spiritually connected, because every spiritual path I know of has listening and contemplation at its heart.”

~ Julian Treasure

Yoga is the art of listening, communicating, and connecting — with ourselves, with others, and everything around us. It’s being present in the moment and fully experiencing what is. It’s union.

Yoga doesn’t just happen in a specific room or at a specific time. You can practice it all day, every day, in every action you take. All you have to do, my friend, is listen consciously, without expectations or preconceived notions. Be an open channel.

Listen. Every moment holds a wonder.

4/14/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“When you listen from the heart, you experience the listening as a doorway to other people’s experience; you hear what is being said from their perspective.”

~ David Pond, The Pursuit of Happiness

If you truly want to understand another, there is no substitute for listening from the heart. The same goes for when you truly want someone to understand you, you must speak from your heart.

Why? Negative judgments won’t interfere when your energy is centered in your heart. And this heartfelt communication creates connection that allows the words and feelings you express to resonate with others — this is when everyone “gets it.”

There’s nothing more validating than heartfelt connection, my friend. Make it your modus operandi.

4/13/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.”

~ Mother Teresa

Before you speak, before you act, before everything you do, connect with Spirit. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, ask for guidance, open your eyes, and then act.

With clear intention, one breath is all it takes, my friend, and your words and actions will be guided. All you have to do is let go of control and trust in your heart — the most powerful energy in the world.

4/12/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The idea of forgiving is a daily possibility, and, if it is sincerely done, it will lift man to higher and higher levels of being. He will experience a daily Easter, and Easter is the idea of rising transformed.”

~ Neville Goddard, Awakened Imagination & The Search

All it takes is forgiveness, my friend. With honest, genuine, sincere forgiveness you, too, can rise transformed.

4/11/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The art of living is the art of forgiving. Forgiveness is, in fact, experiencing in imagination the revised version of the day, experiencing in imagination what you wish you had experienced in the flesh. Every time one really forgives — that is, every time one relives the event as it should have been lived — one is born again.”

~ Neville Goddard, Awakened Imagination & the Search

Today is the day between Good Friday and Easter. It is the time between the crucifixion and the resurrection, a time for deep reflection, forgiveness and healing.

We are in the darkness of the tomb, my friend. Now is the time to evaluate what in your life needs to die off so you can be born again in your greatest light. What must you give up for the new to replace. What must you forgive?

Deep down inside you know what you want. You know who you want to BE and what you would love your life to be like.

When you consider the vision of you living a life that you’d love living, you’ll notice that there are aspects of your life today that you will have to let go of completely in order for your new life to happen. What might those be? Look for any:

– Resentments,
– Sense of betrayal,
– Grudges,
– Hurts,
– Negative judgments about yourself or others,
– Sense that you are unworthy, unimportant or not innocent.

Remember, my friend, everyone, including yourself, is simply doing the best they can from where they are with what they have in any given moment. Find compassion and forgive it all. Set yourself free to be your best self.

4/10/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Spring is the time of year when the millions of seeds which all Winter lay buried in the ground, suddenly spring into visibility that man might live; and, because the mystical drama of the crucifixion and resurrection is in the nature of this yearly change, it is celebrated at this Spring season of the year; but actually, it is taking place every moment of time.

“The being who is crucified is your awareness of being. The cross is your conception of yourself. The resurrection is the lifting into visibility of this conception of yourself.

“Far from being a day of mourning, Good Friday should be a day of rejoicing, for there can be no resurrection or expression unless there is first a crucifixion or impression.

“The thing to be resurrected in your case is that which you desire to be.”

~ Neville Goddard, Your Faith is Your Fortune

Have you noticed how the Coronavirus has put us into a long, slow crucifixion of sorts? Life as we’ve known it is ending. And while it may seem wrong or bad, we have to remember that God has his hand in everything. It can’t be any other way. So there must be more to His long range plan than what we can see.

Change is happening, my friend, whether you like it or not. You can resist and struggle through the process or you can surrender and trust in the process.

As we’re being forced to go within, to endure the impression, you would do well to be looking towards the upcoming expression. Who and how do you want to be when you’re allowed to resume life? And ask yourself what of your current consciousness must be crucified to make way for the new you that is soon to resurrect?

Relax, my friend, you can trust that it’ll all be worth it in the end.

4/9/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”

~ Nelson Mandela

This is true, my friend, for all of us all the time, regardless of the circumstances. We are imprisoned by our own thoughts and beliefs — by the story we tell ourselves about what happened.

How do you do leave bitterness and hatred behind? You recognize that what’s done is done. In some way it’s served a purpose that’s helped you and others to evolve. So, you harvest the learning and leave the rest behind.

This process is called forgiveness. By giving up the imprisoning notions and adopting empowering ones in their stead you allow yourself to rise to new heights.

Why not make it a daily practice, my friend, starting today? Who and/or what could you forgive today and thereby create more freedom for yourself?

4/8/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”

~ Mark Twain

There is nothing more damaging than a negative self judgement, my friend. It is a sure sign of being out of alignment with your higher self and all that is good in life. We have to approve of ourselves — to like who we are — in order to feel good.

We are all human beings and of course we’ll make mistakes. But mistakes are not corrected through punishment, including the negative self judgement type of punishment. If you’ve made a mistake or don’t feel good about something, then do something to turn it around. Apologize, make amends if necessary, and above all forgive yourself.

No atonement (a.k.a. at-one-ment or alignment with your Higher Self) is complete without forgiveness. If you’d known better, or were truly aligned with your higher self, you wouldn’t have done it. Right? All of us are simply doing the best we can with what we have from where we are in every given moment.

Forgive, my friend, yourself and others. Comfort awaits.

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