Vita Lezioni

 

You're running a race.  It's something you want to do. 

For yourself.  

It feels
exhilarating to be moving in this fast-forward, energetic way.  But then...you become aware that there are people watching you. 

Suddenly, your attention shifts from the sheer joy of using energy doing something that feels so good  to wandering what everyone is thinking about you...how well are you doing compared to the others? Are you looking exhausted?  Will you make it to the finish?I  Do you have what it takes to hang on?


Pressure.  The allure of  attention.  The opportunity to be recognized for your skill, your motivation, your tenacity or the possibility of bring viewed as a failure.

By outside sources,

Sources that have nothing to do with you and your life.

Sources that place their own values on you.  

Sources that come from other people's journeys.  Other people's value systems.  Not yours.

Somehow you've managed to change the words on their T-shirts to "My reaction  is YOUR story, " And this misstep of yours in perception is taking all of the fun out of your run...your race... Your journey.

What if there were no one there to watch you run? What if you ran a race only for yourself and no one else even knew about it?  What if  it was only for your joy...your experience... your learning?  With this kind of setting the race would only be about your bliss...your adventure.

Even if the people are already there lining the metaphorical curbs watching you...you could CHOOSE to make it only about you! And if you choose to do this, who cares what your performance looks like, sounds like, feels like to anyone else?  Wherever these spectators are, whatever they are thinking or feeling about you is about their journey. Bless them...wish them well and release them from the role you have created for them as your cheering (or jeering) section. They have their own journeys to live.  They are starring in their own lives and you are starring in yours.

Now that you've taken the extras out of your scenario there is no cause for you to experience anything but the pure pleasure of what you are doing and what it means to you.

No one is left in your head to pose for or explain yourself to.  No pressure.  Only the joy of you making up your own mind about what you want to do and wishing everyone else well as they undertake their own adventures.

Now...go fly away to your own happiness and excitement and learning.

This is the way it is supposed to be: 

 Siete l'architetto della propria vita lezioni!

You are the architect of your own life lessons,

image from janhasak.com

Your Surprise Party

By now you may have heard of the concept that EVERYTHING HAPPENS IN PERFECT TIME.  

This philosophy is built on the belief that all things are divinely orchestrated to achieve our highest good. 

It requires a faith and trust that everyone is being Divinely cared for and the powerful magic here is that we are all being cared for at the same time,,,in the same wonderful, loving way. 

Somehow all things work together to manifest  this immense global  / individual intention.  And we all play a part in this mesmerizing spiritual happening.  We are the instruments who help the celestial clock find the beautiful cadence perfectly attuned to everyone's unique circumstances.

And this is not the only way the heavenly magic works.  

Not just in PERFECT TIME but also in THE PERFECT WAY.  

But this "perfect" way may not be what we expect...not what we are hoping for...and not what we think we want.

This acclimation is not an easy thing to release.  Somewhere along the way we learn to draw conclusions about what certain actions mean.  We make very strong connections with their perceived significance and it takes a very strong influence for us to let go of our directory of personal interpretation.

But  The Divine Universe is infinitely patient about helping us see past our rigid and preconceived notions. 
 
The Divine Universe watches over us, observes us and assists with every dance of life that is going on.  From its vantage point  IT can see the beauty of every rhythm and every motion....the whirling, the skirting, the waltz, the march, the awesome parade, the rappers and rockers.  IT sees what we cannot.  IT holds the magnificence and beauty of ALL of the dances in ITS heart and IT presents thém to us individually in perfect time as surprises.  

We are continually being invited to an enchanting SURPRISE  PARTY which has gifts for us that are unexpected but that fit perfectly into The Divine Matrix which holds the astounding support needed by every one of us.  This Matrix helps us as we find our place on the dance floor and not only glide to our own music but become the fascinating sounds and rhythm and light of everyone else's performance.
 

How wonderful to finally see the incredible ball we are a part of!  

What beautiful wisdom eventually leads us to leave behind our fixed notion of what we want and how we want to receive it and welcome instead the delightful "surprises" just waiting for us to recognize them and embrace them into our hearts, opening the door for our next passage of enlightenment and growth.

image from thinkingofstuff.com

Dreaming You

 

Whatever is happening in your life is coming from an image you hold about yourself. 

The images you send out attract situations to you.  These pictures are absolutely available to your conscious awareness.  You can change any situation by looking at and changing your vision of yourself.

Sanaya Roman
Personal Power through Awareness




I'm always so clumsy.
I can't cook.
I am never comfortable telling people what I really feel.

The descriptions we give ourselves are the source of our behavior.  Whatever we believe to be true determines the course of our actions. 

It's the biology of belief. 

And it belongs to us.  

Granted, we were influenced by our families, society and the world around us.  They all helped by providing us with some predispositions to these images but guess who made the final purchase?  Oh yes, we bought in.  And when we did that, we set a course for ourselves that would play out in a hundred different ways.

Here's the good news. 

We are NOT stuck on those checkpoints.  Even though we may think we are and give up on ourselves ever becoming anything different.

The fact is we have INDISPUTABLE CONTROL over these images and just need to choose their replacements. 

OK, maybe not JUST choose...because there is some work involved.  It includes conscious awareness, creativity, focus and follow through.  But we can handle that...we earth dwellers are constantly reinventing ourselves...we just need to reinvent in the right direction.

Instead of whining about how we are losing our touch...what if we were to SEE ourselves as bright, alert, tuned in.  

Instead of feeling we lack the motivation to realize our dream, we can begin to see ourselves full of joy and satisfaction, creating something beautiful for the world in physical form or in the beautiful love and compassion we send out.  

We already have the resource we need for this exercise...it's  our IMAGINATION.

What if...just for tomorrow...we hold this amazing image of ourselves living each moment with attention and awareness and appreciation and gratitude? And what if our new fabulous image is totally feeling JOY and having FUN exploring the glorious moments we can create for ourselves?

Sounds like a winner to me.  High vibration.  Open, aware, connecting with life...someone we would so love to be around.

Ooops....that's already WHO we are and we got there by dreaming ourselves.  Now watch  how THIS  delightful person attracts the most fabulous scenarios into her life.

website for the image

1891455-2-dreaming « The New Writers

originally published 8/7/11 

The Awesome Power of Our Inner Child

The really important things in life are very simple...but somehow we often manage to complicate them, losing track of the natural instincts we possessed as a child. 

In that space...in that time...as a child...before we became influenced by limiting beliefs...we instinctively knew what to do.  

When we felt hungry, we ate. 

When we felt joyful, we played. 

When we were tired, we rested.  

If someone's game didn't feel OK with us, we walked away.

We had a clear perception of what was good for us and we honored it.

And then...we were exposed to the expectations of others and to please them (and often to win their love and gain their approval) we lost sight of how beautifully and wonderfully we were already governing ourselves and adopted the values belonging to others (one of the most troublesome behaviors we are inclined to practice as earth dwellers).  

We OVERRODE our own perceptions and instincts and THAT is where the trouble began.

Soon we developed EXPECTATIONS for ourselves from outside influences that led us to push past our own natural messages from a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual perspective.   

We began to work harder and longer than was good for our bodies, sometimes even pushing past the point of exhaustion.  We paid attention to the needs of everyone around us and forgot our own.  We lost the ability to say no when we were asked to do more than we were comfortable doing. 

We constantly tried to do more, be better, be smarter and, in the end, we were LESS and we suffered...depleting our resources and reserves and falling vulnerable to illness and exhaustion.

The good news  is that our original wisdom is still with us...carried in the heart of our inner child.  

Powerful stuff. 

Important stuff.  

Great natural medicine just waiting to be recognized.

How much more simple..and beautiful...and peaceful life is when we march to our own drummer.  What beautiful music we make when we listen to the harmony of our own hearts!

The comment has been made by many spiritually-centered people that  everyone in the world is now moving into a dimension centered around love.  

Why don't we all join in this wondrous evolution by listening more closely and with fervent devotion to this beautiful instrument driving the universal heart!

image from iexpresstoday.com

Earth Journey: Clubhouse Rules

Everyone is a charter member. 

No fees collected.  Individual dues are delineated as you recognize the lessons you have chosen to learn.

Courage is a given.  (Otherwise, you would not belong to The Club.)

Challenges available on a daily basis for your consideration and, especially, for your enlightenment.

Unlimited Spiritual Assistance for all activity.

Informal support groups may be accessed at any time.

Personal guidance in the form of intuition is innately infused at time of birth. 

Though not always outwardly expressed (or even consciously acknowledged), each club member holds a heart connection with every other associate.

All choices are free decisions with accompanying consequences.

Bliss always available when pursuing your joy.

Love (in the best form possible at any given time) is the Source of every action.

Your Highest Good is always considered.

Daily practice of these rules always brings you to the Next, Grandest Version of Yourself.

Your Higher Self is always on duty to assist you.

image from lovechildren.wordpress.com

A New Year's "Light" Show

After the magical days of Christmas holidays…when pine-scented boughs and cranberry candles perfumed the air and glittering lights whispered their grace-filled secrets into our happy hearts…decorating our spaces with joy and celebration…

after these magnificent days have passed and things have grown so very quiet and restful the steady, sure-footed march of the New Year alights on our doorstep, enters our homes and slides into our hearts.

It’s time…to renew and redirect our energy to the wonderful life we have imagined and make the changes that were placed on hold as we made merry and felt merry and loved the "merry" of the holidays.

Now, there is a NEW JOY that awaits us and it is born of reflection and inspiration and discipline…our New Year’s Resolutions.

Much has been said and advised about NYR’s…suggestions that we examine our lives, compiling a list of every change we can imagine…suggestions that we make NO resolutions and not place ourselves under that kind of stress... even a suggestion that we only try to improve ourselves by one percent in the category we identify as “most needed” or, even better, “most desired” and, thereby, let our accumulated steady, slow progress become its own source of motivation.

This morning in the quiet moments when I found myself awakening a different thought occurred to me.

I had been searching for a simple resolution…one that would be easy to hold onto and yet would change my perspective and this is what arrived in response to my request:

As you go through the day and encounter many moments…some relaxing and some difficult and challenging…as you go through the day, just take a moment and imagine how your Higher Self would respond to what is happening. Do not put any pressure on yourself to do what Higher Self would do. Only imagine it and take note.

This sounded wonderful to me…and it feels instinctively that just choosing to put myself in the place of imagining a Higher Response would do some subtle, behind-the-scene work for me even while I went busily about my day, impressing my consciousness with a more beautiful, more loving, more joyful way to navigate it…and, most importantly, a way to be my own SOURCE of happiness and satisfaction.

And it actually sounds and feels quite practical, too, to become, on a continuing basis, the ANCHOR for my joy.

So I am going to give it a pop! This means I may pause a few seconds before I react and respond to what is going on…allowing myself the time and perspective I need to call up a Higher inspiration than what would automatically appear on my default button.

It will be very interesting to take this journey and, no doubt, it will have its own BRILLIANT LIGHT SHOW as I enter into this universe!

originally published 1/3/11

Enjoy !

It is incredibly simple how beautifully the universe works...when we understand what is available to us and waiting for our attention. 

This simplicity masks a profound truth that must be recognized and acknowledged:

Everything...EVERY  thing  we can possibly imagine or dream of ALREADY exists and all that we have to do is have a deep knowingness and acceptance of this truth.

 

An inspirational message from The Daily Om tells us...

"When we ask the universe for something, the unspoken message is that what we want does not exist, and the universe accepts this as truth."*

                                   but

"When we affirm that we are fulfilled instead of articulating deficiencies, we are asserting that contentment is a natural and necessary element of human existence. "*



Now that's a pretty wonderful state of affairs.

But we have to really get this.  

We need to know that we live in a friendly universe. 

We need to know that we are loved beyond measure. 

And we need to know that everything we want is already ours.

Enjoy!

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*Reprinted  from DailyOM- Inspirational thoughts for a happy, healthy and fulfilling day. 

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