Daily Dose of Inspiration

3/30/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice. And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see, your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgment and shining in its endless beauty.”

~ Paul Ferrini

Try it, my friend. Suspend the meaning you’ve attached to the situation, suspend your interpretation, and trust that there’s a higher purpose behind your experience.

Things don’t always make sense until you can look back in retrospect and link all the pieces together. Meanwhile, keep in mind that sometimes the very things we resist the most are what we need the most.

Release your judgments, my friend, and let the beauty of life reveal itself to you.

3/29/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Stubborn problems always require a shift in paradigm.”

~ Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

So exactly what is a paradigm? Well, my friend, it’s your pattern of thoughts, beliefs and habits that control your behavior, actions, and life.

Do you like the results you’re experiencing — life as you know it? If not, you have a paradigm to shift. That may seem a little easier than it is. You see, the problem is that your paradigm essentially has a life of its own. It’s played a role in your life, oftentimes for a very long time. And the longer it’s been operating as such the more entrenched it becomes. And the more entrenched it becomes the more stubborn it becomes.

So how do you shift it? You start asking yourself new questions. You start pondering the results you do want, seeing yourself living that life, and asking yourself why it was so easy to create the shift. You have to trick the paradigm, my friend, into doing what you want it to do.

Oh, it’s capable of it, trust me. It’s a superpower capable of anything. But you have to get past the gatekeeper to re-program your paradigm’s behavior. Once you’ve done that, my friend, the world is your oyster!

3/28/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.”

~ Donald A. Norman

So what if you had to start over again? What would that start look like? If you had your life to live all over again, what would you be and do?

What if this crazy time that we’re going through right now were your opportunity to do that? What would you do? Who would you set out to become?

Chances are that life as we’ve known it is done. Think of this shift as a fresh clean start and set out to follow only your heart. What is your heart calling you to do?

Be still and listen, my friend. What is that still small voice saying to you?

3/27/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler did not solve an old problem, they asked a new question, and in doing so they changed the whole basis on which the old questions had been framed.”

~ Ken Robinson

Maybe this is the key to busting the paradigm, my friend. What pattern in your life can’t you seem to overcome?

If there’s a stuck pattern, there’s a paradigm that’s been holding you back. But maybe instead of fighting to overcome it, you could shift to the perspective that what you wanted was already your reality. What would that feel like? If that were the case, what would your life be like?

How does it feel as you ask yourself these questions? Does it feel good? Do you feel empowered?

Why not be like Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler and start asking new questions? If you make them empowering ones that assume the end result you want has already happened you’ll start “forming” your future the way you want it. This process is called Afformation®. Instead of affirming what isn’t, you begin forming what you want and let the Universe complete the process.

So, find a question that feels good as you ask it, my friend, and stick with it. What’s not to like about this process? If you soon find yourself living your dream, then whoohoo! If it takes longer than you’d like, at least you feel better than before!

3/26/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Just because something has always been done in a certain way is never a sufficient reason for continuing to do it that way.”

~ Clarence Birdseye

How would we ever evolve if we just kept doing everything the same way? We wouldn’t!

Though we know that things have to change, it doesn’t necessarily make it any easier. Habits and patterns can take on a life of their own. Witness any addict and you’ll see that they’re not the ones in control, the addiction is.

You know why the Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years? Because it took a whole new generation — a whole new way of thinking — to fully embrace the new life. Lasting transformation, my friend, requires releasing the old ways completely.

Remember, the sooner you let go of the old, the more smoothly and quickly you’ll move into the new.

3/25/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The process of change requires unlearning. It requires breaking the habit of the old self and reinventing a new self.”

~ Joe Dispenza

This unlearning, my friend, this process of breaking the old habits takes work. Even when you’ve consciously made a decision to change, the pull of the familiar old habits is strong. It’ll ebb and flow like the tide. One day you’ll be on task and driven with purpose and the next you slip back into the old ways without even realizing it.

Of course, discipline and determination are powerful tools of transformation, but if you create new, more empowering habits aligned with the new you you’re inventing, the old ones will simply drop away. And the best part, my friend, is that when your desire for the new is strong enough, the energy behind your actions shifts from work to joy.

Make sure you love the new self your inventing.

3/24/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.”

~ Deepak Chopra

While Easter may still be a few weeks away, we’re all experiencing a long, drawn out crucifixion of sorts. The paradigm of life as we’ve known it is being destroyed. We’re being told to stay inside and watch as our work, businesses, travel, and entire economy disintegrates.

So what are we to do? Energetically we go within, as a caterpillar goes into the cocoon, and prepare to reemerge with wings that will take us to new heights and sights we couldn’t have even imagined before.

It’s all just a part of the process, my friend. The old must be destroyed in order to make room for the new. So honor this demand for down time and go within. Prepare for a new beginning.

3/23/2020: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision.”

~ Bob Proctor

Like or not, my friend, life as you’ve known it is no longer. Are you ready to change with it?

You can do it consciously, with your determined and aligned thoughts, beliefs and actions, or you can have it forced upon you.

Why not take this opportunity to decide for the life you’d love to be living and go for it? You might just find that the shift happening now may be an enormous gift in disguise.

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