tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44379787094573827802024-03-13T22:41:26.034+00:00The Word of the WeekBe inspired to change the way the you think so that you can navigate the challenges that you face in your everyday experience.
This blog hopes to inspire you to open your perspective so that your walk in life is filled with peace, love and light.
When you move from your mind and take your instructions from your heart centre, your light has the ability to not only shine brighter, but to influence the light in others around you.
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-63911146982314348252016-09-16T11:03:00.000+01:002016-09-16T11:03:46.155+01:00Open your Heart<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I open my SELF to embrace the power of love and allow my heart to guide
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you have barriers surrounding your heart that were
constructed through past hurts? Are you
afraid to open your heart and truly love all that is?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This morning as I pulled the above card, I smiled at the
synchronicity that it held for me. For earlier this week, a wonderful dear
brother of mine was buried, but the legacy he left was a beautiful reconnection
of souls that were bound by a deep-seated pure love that was born of childhood
innocence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we remove the stories that we tell ourselves, of a past
that was viewed with pain, you allow the presence of something new to enter
your life, something that makes you vulnerable, yet strong, and that is the
power of love. We can carry the pain or
trauma of our past around with us to such a degree that it creates a veil over
our eyes, restricting our view of what once was, and bringing that skewed
perspective into what is now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In order to remove this veil, you have to be willing to view
your story from a higher perspective; one which encompasses love, compassion
and forgiveness. When we open our hearts
and feel the vulnerability that it brings, it can feel quite disconcerting to
relinquish the tight grip of control that has become habitual in our
lives. Yet, there is <i>so</i> much freedom in doing this because
you let go of the constant pulling of your mind and move into the realm of your
heart, and it is here where the magic happens because you create space by
silencing your thoughts that keep you in a loop of fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The image in this card emotes a feeling of surrender to me
and if you study it even further you may pick up so much more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for today, step out of your story, out of your comfort
zone and allow the light of love to course through you. Surrender to this powerful moment of now and
let love be the impetus to guide your steps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Namaste <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-80467342638674407382016-08-05T11:44:00.000+01:002016-08-05T11:45:43.550+01:00Leap of Faith<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Susan Jeffers has a wonderful book, which is now 25 years
old call “Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
Just the title alone gives me goose bumps, not of trepidation but of
excitement. What is holding you back
from fulfilling your desires? Are you
willing to do what it takes to move out of your comfort zone? Can you practice what you preach?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometimes in life, we all need a gentle nudge to get us out
of our habitual behaviours that keep us in a loop of dissatisfaction. Sometimes, we are just too scared to tell
someone that we love them for fear of rejection! Sometimes we cannot be
bothered with the mental stamina required to move us into a zone that may feel
uncomfortable but will ultimately turn out for our betterment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, it can be scary to let go of old beliefs that no longer
serve you, yes, it is irritating when you try to change a behaviour and your
old habits keep winning the day, yet it is in those minor failures that we
experience the fortitude to keep getting up and trying again. Persistence <b>ALWAYS</b> wins in matters of personal development. I am currently reading a book by the
writer/producer Shonda Rhimes called “The Year of Yes,” and I love it so
far. I have turned a lot of my default
no’s into welcomed yeses, why, because I am done living the same old programmes
and wish for a new energy to enter into my life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just for today….say YES to the Universe’s call to your
heart. Take a momentous leap of faith in
one area of your life that you desire change.
Feel the fear and do it anyway because let’s face it, the alternative is
just bringing you more of the same. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My question to you is this, do you want to LIVE or merely
EXIST; the choice is yours!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Have and adventurous weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Namaste</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-81086237997004074642016-07-29T11:11:00.000+01:002016-07-29T11:11:44.596+01:00Let Peace Be Your Intention.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I invite peace to flow into my life and into all of my interactions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Have you ever had one
of those days where you feel the world is out to get you and that plans you
have made are scuppered, causing you to become out of alignment with your
higher self? This USED to be me, when
anything went “wrong” in my life I felt it was the world, the Universe or
forces outside of my control trying to get me and I would affirm “Nothing ever
goes right for me?” First, I would like
to draw your attention to what you have read.
Not only did I make the error of thinking something outside of myself
was the cause of my disillusionment, I affirmed my disappointment by actively
speaking into existence that which brought me more of the same. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Your thoughts become words; become actions; becomes your
LIFE. What is the first thread here it
is your thoughts! Go to the root cause,
change the way you think, and then change the language that you use, then your
action will follow your words. Mahatma Gandhi was right in the above quote; I changed my thoughts to an intention of
<b>Peace </b>in all of my interactions. I then
tried to practice from this place of intention rather than go the default
setting of disempowerment. Even though
at times I was challenged and my peace was disturbed, instead of berating
myself I would not make an issue out of it.
I would pick myself up and wait for another opportunity to present
itself so that I could do better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Where are you out of alignment? Are your thoughts and words in harmony?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When you become aware and present in the very powerful
moment of the NOW you are able to discern if you are out of alignment by
noticing how you feel. If you are off
centre, you can make an inquiry as to what it is that you are thinking that is
causing the misalignment and decide to CHOOSE again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just for today, make your thoughts, your words and your
actions to become harmonious, because then, you not only become a beacon of
peace for yourself, but your energy also affects others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Have a peaceful weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Namaste</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-89967157660326283512016-07-22T10:57:00.000+01:002016-07-22T11:16:43.570+01:00A New Way of Being<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I open myself to a new way of being by releasing my old habitual way of
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you find that you wish to orchestrate change in your
life, yet you continually fall back into your old, safe and comfortable way of doing
things? Do you complain that it is too
hard to change who you are?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Are you so desirous of transformation that you are willing
to commit to consistently producing small actions in order to elicit the
desired result? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I read a wonderful book by Baron Baptiste called “Being of
Power.” It had fantastic intentional phrases that caused you to focus upon what
you do want rather than what it is you are trying to change. Generally, when you wish to modify the way
you interact with others in your life or change the way you view your life
experience, we seem to come across blocks that hinder our progress. These blocks are the old programmes that have
been created in your mind and made to seem so real that you feel powerless to
replace them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When you decide upon an intention, not just an affirmation
and you work towards becoming what you intend every single day, you WILL
succeed in that change. For example, if you wish to have greater connections in
your life, in Baron Baptiste's book the intentional phrase would be, “My new
way of being is of connection.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You could of course add any attribute that you want as
greater expansion in your life at the end of the above phrase such as “My new
way of being is of compassion or adventure or courage.” It could be anything
that you wish to cultivate more of in your life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When you first utter the phrase, you will feel the
resistance in your body, say a clenching in your stomach or tightness in the
chest, yet keep repeating it often and recognise when opportunities present
themselves for you to act from this new way of being. You will be surprised by the shift that you
have and how the practice of repeating the phrase will create a new way of
focus and ultimate change in your experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just for today, think about an attribute you wish to change
about yourself and use the phrase above, repeating it regularly to help you
succeed in making that change. You will
be so empowered by the success this brings; it will encourage you to create
even more expansion in your life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Have a powerful weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Namaste</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-2248476038921300142016-07-15T10:07:00.000+01:002016-07-15T10:07:14.731+01:00Deep Knowing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>I banish doubt and trust my intuitive guidance which only steers me
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Within each of us there is a stalwart guidance system that
lovingly directs us towards our highest feeling and our highest good. Yet when we allow the voice of doubt to lead
in our endeavours we are unable to connect to this wonderful internal guidance
system. How can you banish the voice of
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well that’s simple just LISTEN! Ask yourself the question,
how is it that you readily listen to the voice of doubt and other disempowering
voices and believe emphatically that they are true, right and correct. Yet the voice of your inner guidance system,
will tell you that <u><b>you</b> <b>are enough</b></u>, that <b><u>you are beautiful</u></b>, that you can do and be all that you desire for
your life but we dismiss it without a second thought! Are you really listening, can you really hear
what you are saying? Do you really wish
to change your internal dialogue or are you just professing lip service?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have a deep knowing within us that loves us
unconditionally and is ALWAYS there for you.
It encourages, it warns, it delights, it loves and it is serene. What is the worst that could happen if you
decided to really listen to this voice even just for a day? How do you think you would feel, just for
once, ignoring the disempowering voices and hearing this beautiful soul lifting
voice from deep within?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just for today, when your thoughts lean to doubt, fear,
anger, right fighting or victimisation …..take a breath and hold the intention
that this is not your true voice, connect with your breath one more time and
stillness emerges. It is through this
stillness the voice of the Divine speaks to you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-47554727891693844972016-07-08T11:45:00.000+01:002016-07-08T11:45:36.554+01:00Resentment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you find that if your energy is directed towards someone
with whom you hold resentment, that it limits you from fully engaging with that
person on an authentic level? Are you
resentful of anyone in your life and if so do you interact with
them from that place of resentment? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every emotion emits an energy, either gross or subtle. Even though you might not be able to see if a person is angry with
you because they have means of masking their emotions, you will still feel that
subtle energy in the atmosphere irrespective if </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">its</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">outwardly acknowledged or
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you are resentful towards another person, you create a
barrier between you and that person by orchestrating some sort of blame towards
him or her. However, if you remember
that you and only you have the ultimate choice and power to both change your
perspective of that person and thus choose a higher vibrational emotion towards
them. This means the responsibility lies
with you, not them. You have created the
story around the situation, you have then decided upon an emotional response
and you have to be responsible for the energy that you emit which affects
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taking full and total responsibility for how you feel is an
important step in creating more peace and harmony in your life. A lesson from A Course in Miracles asks
that in these situations you can affirm “I could see peace instead of this,”
and it is right, you CAN <i>choose </i>peace, most often than not we decide not too
because we prefer our projection onto others than shouldering the
responsibility for our own thoughts and feelings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the opening affirmation, it states, <b><u>“I am motivated by love.”</u></b> To be motivated by love means to
lean towards the many attributes of love, which are kindness, compassion,
peace, selflessness and harmony. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for today, release the story you have told yourself
about any resentment you hold against another and seek a higher vibration of
love and responsibility so that your journey becomes less fractious and more
peaceful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a harmonious weekend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Namaste<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-4241301712413380412016-06-24T13:16:00.000+01:002016-06-24T13:16:46.575+01:00You are what you think<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am affected only by my thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is one of the lessons from A Course in Miracles
workbook that I had been drawn to read repeatedly this week and led me to ask the
question, “How many of you really take stock of your thoughts and more
importantly how do those thoughts affect
you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you live your life on auto pilot by not noticing how
your thoughts dictate your reaction to others or by being unaware of the vocabulary
you use when you make a statement about yourself, this can lead you to believe
that things outside of yourself is the true cause of your angst or worry. Yet in truth, it is just the thoughts we have
and the story we attach to it that determines our feelings and interactions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If we go blindly through life without taking responsibility
for our thoughts, not realising that it is our own thinking that determines the
quality of our life, then the default status will always be one of continually
looking outside rather than within.
Neale Donald Walsch has a fabulous quote in his book Conversations with
God that states, “If you don’t go within, you go without,” and this is so
true. Do you take time to review if a
thought you have is actually TRUE for you.
We can have thoughts on guilt, worry, shame, victimhood, all of which
are just useful invitations for us to go within and choose again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ultimately, you have the choice to decide how you feel in
any moment of your life, irrespective of what is going on in our physical
reality and our thoughts are absolutely powerful but we fail to recognise that
we hold this power every moment that we take a breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for today, notice your thoughts, especially those that
disempower or make you feel less than yourself.
Once you notice you can then ask the question “Can I view this situation
differently?” This one enquiry opens a
dialogue that allows another perspective to enter, one that brings a gift that
is only for your highest good. The above
affirmation is a wonderful reminder to keep checking in with yourself that it
is only YOUR thoughts that affect how you feel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have an introspective weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Namaste.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-32389029554040791032016-06-17T15:42:00.000+01:002016-06-17T15:42:40.541+01:00Let it Go<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I let go of old habits and thought patterns that no longer serve me<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In order for something new to appear in your life be it a
new relationship, a new attitude or new job you need to make room for it by having to let something go. This could mean letting go of outdated
attitudes, letting go of past hurts and physically letting go of items that you
no longer need. I am a typical hoarder and
have to be very stern with myself when I want to throw things out. When I attempt to clear out clothes in my
closet I would always procrastinate over items believing that I may wear it again
knowing full well that I if I had not worn it in over a year I am pretty sure
I will never wear it! So I get really
tough and tell myself that I am making room to buy something better and off to
the charity shop it goes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The decluttering also needs to occur with our mind
stuff. We hold on to and replay negative
situations that have occurred in our lives that are so far in the past they ought
to have been deleted from your memory banks years ago. Yet we continue to recall them; feel the old
pain, and torment not only ourselves but anyone else who was a party to that
memory. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>LET IT GO!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why burden yourself with something that does not empower you but only serves to weaken you? The next time you have a memory
recall that causes you to judge someone else, ask yourself the question “Does
this memory serve my highest good?” You
might even be surprised that you no longer associate any pain towards a memory
and you can indeed release it for good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just for today take time to look at old behaviours, old
attitudes, old habits and items around your home and let go of <u>everything</u>
that no longer serves you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Have a clutter free weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Namaste</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-85448000779976804002016-06-10T13:15:00.000+01:002016-06-10T13:21:54.495+01:00Honoring your body<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I honor the communication with my body, I give myself permission
to lovingly take care of my needs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you push yourself too hard to a point that you end up
causing physical damage? Do you
effectively heed the communication signals your body transmits that advises you
are over exerting and that you need to stop?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We often ignore the subtle communication between our body
and the self to our detriment, that can result in a physical manifestation of illness
and ailments in our bodies. I hold my
hand up high to this because I often push my body beyond its limits when it
clearly is screaming for me to stop, resulting in injuring myself, like I did
yesterday when building my son’s new bed. I could feel my back protesting as I embarked
on the process, yet I felt powerless to stop by telling myself, if I don’t do
it who will?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I asked myself this morning, how can I make myself feel
better? Rather than berating myself as
would have been my default set point many years ago, my answer was to lovingly
take care of myself today by being kind to me. I refused to allow guilt or victim-hood to start a mind dialogue that would result in total inaction but instead accepted my error and decided to move on by helping myself immediately by
doing better the next time it happens!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Having a relationship with your self is the most IMPORTANT
relationship that you can have. When we
ignore the signs and signals our body gives to us by justifying reasons to keep
pushing forward we are in fact not honoring this powerful relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just for today – with love and kindness , honor the
messages your body gives to you, because in truth, your happiness depends upon
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Have a loving weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Namaste<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></o:p>©Carol Reid 2016</div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-24949233202402772932016-06-03T12:49:00.000+01:002016-06-03T12:49:08.133+01:00Devotion to the Small<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today I acknowledge my changes within and devote myself to the small.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oftentimes, we focus purely upon the larger things we want in
our lives; those that encompass our dreams or our desires that seem far
reaching, requiring from us sustained action and effort. Yet in focusing on the large strides we wish
to make, we ignore the wonderful small changes that we make every single day. Have you noticed what small changes you have made
that creates a different reaction in you than before? Do you always become defensive when someone
annoys you or do you now choose your battles wisely? Are you much kinder and more generous with
your time and your loved ones by reacting to them in a more loving and peaceful
way?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A single continuous drop of water can erode stone over time
and so too can these small changes lead to a grand change in the relationship
that we have not only with ourselves but with others. When we devote our
attention to the small, it is likened to planting a seed. Out of this tiny obscure object grows either a
beautiful flower , a small shrub or a towering tree, further, that which began
as a seed can flourish into a grand spectacular garden. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Acknowledge the little things that you do each day that cause
you to change from the you of yesterday , for in doing so it cultivates the
Divine essence in you. When you choose
to smile instead of frown, when you give a heartfelt thank you, when you send a
message of encouragement to a loved one for no other reason than to brighten
their day, are all examples of a beautiful expression in attending to the small. It is in honouring these gestures and
cultivating them with practice that sets
the solid foundation to lasting change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just for today, honour the small changes that you nurture
within yourself because even though you may not notice its immediate effects,
there is a life you have touched that does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">May you have a peaceful weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Namaste x<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-21910112371936176562016-05-27T10:50:00.000+01:002016-05-27T10:53:10.077+01:00Raising your Vibration<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In learning to embrace the new, I let go of all that no longer serves
me.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As you grow and develop from the experiences you have in
life, both from your relationships as well as releasing old habitual
behaviours, you enter a period of transition, which can feel quite challenging
as you calibrate to this new energy. You may find yourself releasing people and
situations that do not embrace your growth, but rather confine and restrict
you. When you want to expand your consciousness,
it is inevitable that people will fall away from your inner circle as you make
way to attract those who are transmitting at your higher frequency vibration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Animate and inanimate objects both emit a vibrational energy
and when you have raised yours sufficiently through a practice of the right
thinking, the right diet and limiting your exposure to people who are either
negative, judgemental or rigid in their view; you naturally gravitate to higher frequency
people and situations. You find yourself
questioning the relationships that you once had and realise that you no longer
share the same views. This is perfectly
okay, even in its discomfort because you have embraced this new energy. You love feeling this new
high and anyone or anything that tries to bring you down, you effectively
remove or shield yourself from it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is challenging to release old habits and relationships
but life is fluid, forever expanding and in order to live fully in your present
moment you must honour what it is that you feel. Regardless at how
uncomfortable or scary it becomes, because the ego likes familiar, it likes
safety and especially likes limited beliefs!
High vibrational beings prefer to let go of limitations because in their
world, there are none.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-15239792469995005492016-05-20T10:08:00.000+01:002016-05-20T11:17:11.948+01:00Loving All that is<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
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This is how we place limitations on the magnificence of who you are. You end up being closed to the endless possibilities of what life has to offer for you. This week I felt disappointed in an outcome that I really wanted and never got. I had to own my disappointment and take time to sift through the negativity to find the positive in the situation and I was only able to do that by changing my perspective as to how I viewed the circumstance. (Well a little glass of vino and a chat to a trusted friend and my son did help with the shift).</div>
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Whatever we focus our attention upon we literally give momentum too, and this will draw to you, by the influence of the law of attraction, more of what it is that you focus upon. If you view your experiences from a place of love; from a place of equanimity, your walk in your life would be less fractious and more rewarding.</div>
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Just for today, embrace loving all that is, that simply means <b>love </b>each experience you have without judgement but with an openness that in a dark moment you will always find light. I found light in my disappointment in that it opened the door to something much better than I thought was not possible. Look for and find the beauty in ALL of your experiences.</div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-48410818693279752752016-05-13T11:03:00.002+01:002016-05-13T11:03:08.828+01:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is in embracing the simplicity of life <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This morning, as I drove into work, I pondered as to what
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actually sit and do it, so I allowed guidance to come through my oracle cards and
was pleasantly surprised as to what moved me.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I usually pick three cards and use blue tack to stick them
around my computer at work, so I can periodically connect with the energy and
the messages they offer. The card that caused
me to chuckle was the one entitled “Simplicity” from the Journey of Love Deck
by Alana Fairchild because it summed up how I had shifted my perspective in the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My week had been filled with bouts of frustration, impatience
and a few tantrums; yes I acted out this week to the point that I actually shut
myself in my bedroom and only communicated with my children through the door, yet what recalibrated in me was most
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I told myself every morning before I got out of bed, that I
was no longer willing to entertain the constant mind chatter of things <b>beyond
my immediate control</b>. I anchored myself
to the present moment and focused upon the little daily actions that I do each
day. I would revel in the how the water
made my skin feel as I showered, I savoured my hot cup of coffee I lovingly
made in the morning. I enjoyed watching
the birds eating the seeds from the feeder on my Cherry Blossom tree and
literally told myself that these are the moments that require my daily
attention. It truly is the simple daily
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we move on auto pilot with our daily interactions with
people and more importantly with ourselves, we end up wishing, yearning and
wanting that which we don’t have, not realising that we have it all right
now. It is the focusing upon the big
things that we desire that take our attention away from the little things that
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for today, bring your full attention to the simple
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Let go of anything superfluous to what you are doing in that moment and
give it your full attention. For when
you let go of trying to control everything in your life, you become open to receive
the wondrous energy of peace and connection both for yourself and for others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May your weekend be filled with noticing the simplicity of what
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-15163964359125796302016-05-06T09:55:00.000+01:002016-05-06T09:55:18.925+01:00 I trust myself <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Learning to trust yourself is one of the greatest gifts that
you could ever bestow. For you are
declaring that you are the writer, the director and the star of your own movie
called life. It is a declaration that
you honor the power of who you are, a divine reflection of love and light to
grace this planet. To say the above
affirmation can be quite unnerving, because you are making a statement that you
and only you are responsible for the thoughts, feelings and actions that occur
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What does it mean to trust yourself? Well, in order to trust, you first have to
get to know who you are? To become an
observer of your actions and more importantly, your reaction to others in the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is an act of mindfulness, to constantly become aware of
your thoughts, what you say and what you do as you interact in your world. It means looking at yourself from a place of
unconditional love, where you observe with kindness and compassion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You lovingly create a habit where you choose to interact
with others from a place of peace rather than angst. It is cultivating goodness in your heart for
yourself and others by looking at the small things in your life that you can do
differently to create a greater feeling of joy.
Instead of reacting in the same old habitual way to others who may annoy
you, think of reacting differently. Put
yourself in someone else’s shoes. Are
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Feeding the compassion in yourself, allows you to cultivate
the seed of love that is innate to all, yet is normally obscured by the
emotions of guilt, doubt, angst and worry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you observe the synergy between the heart and mind and
you learn to operate from this unified space rather than the disconnection and
sometimes opposition of the two, your walk becomes an act of being mindful and
present for each step that you take.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for today, take a step towards trusting the Divine Light
of who you are. A reflection of the
essence of unconditional love that can only grow when you take time to love and
nurture yourself.</span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-78581871158819711202015-02-06T11:04:00.003+00:002015-02-06T11:04:35.020+00:00The Word of the Week - Need Nothing<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This morning as I drove into work, with my man Bob Marley
blaring through my stereo, the above quote was a line from his song that moved my
spirit to be the theme for today. Hot on the heels of this quote I remembered another
by Neale Donald Walsch that enabled you to mitigate the ego’s need, “Enjoy
everything, need nothing.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We all have desires, wishes, hopes and dreams that can
become such a distraction we end up forever projecting into the future, missing
our present moments altogether. We do
not have to keep feeding our ego with our yet to be realised wants and needs. This
is the great diversion that keeps your mind away from the most powerful and
creative force of NOW. Each morning I
try and set an intention for the day,
sometimes it could be a day of serenity, or a day of joy or a day of
introspection. However, once I firmly
set my intention and ingrain it as a thought in my mind, I am constantly reminded
of my intention throughout the day so that I become aware of my ego’s knee jerk
reaction to people and situations. In
that moment when the ego wants to arise in me, my intention for the day comes
flooding through enabling me to choose another course of action that will
reinforce my intention rather than take it away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If we are constantly feeding the ego’s need, when is there a
time to enjoy EVERYTHING! There are moments when the ego needs to have its
point of view heard, or it needs to have things done in its own way, or it
needs for someone to conform to its own way of thinking and not give another
person their own right to think for themselves.
The ego needs to have you worry constantly over a situation that is out
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-72997603050676061012015-01-30T14:38:00.001+00:002015-01-30T14:38:08.846+00:00The Word of the Week - Space<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
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During my yoga practice, the instructor always affirms that we are to create space in our joints, as well as space in our thoughts when we are forming a pose; to become present and aware in that moment of now by using our breath as an anchor. When you practice mindfulness, you begin to notice how cluttered your mind is with its continuous chain of thoughts. Recently I became aware at how jammed my mind became first thing in the morning, even before I have had a chance to open my eyes! It was as if all those concerns that I had relegated to the back of my mind, suddenly catapulted to the front of the queue, demanding to be heard. Had I not learned to cultivate the element of space by being aware of my thoughts, I would not have noticed this pattern that tried to become a habit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When you grow in terms of your awareness, you begin to practice how to consciously direct your thoughts to that which you want and release those that you do not. Basically, my ego mind is not as successful as it once was during my conscious waking hours and I have noticed that the only way that it can sneak in those simmering thoughts, is to bombard my mind with them first thing in the morning. I believe it is the only time that it can slip in without my guard being up. Now it may seem as if the ego is the ultimate enemy and needs to be vanquished in order for you to lead a happy healthful life, but that’s only because we make the ego seem much bigger than we are and that is the biggest illusion of the mind. For it can NEVER be bigger than the spirit of your Higher Self.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Being aware of your thinking allows you to observe yourself from another perspective, from a place that is without judgement or emotional attachment. When you watch your thoughts this way, the mere act of <i>watching</i> without attachment creates a vacuum; that much needed space for you to discern and choose again. It is learning to take your foot off of the gas, to slow down, to take a breath and just notice what is!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just for today, take yourself off of auto pilot with your habitual behaviours, your repetitive thinking and become the observer. Notice your breathing, where you expand and contract in your lungs. Immerse yourself in the moment of now by heightening your awareness to what you are doing. If you are typing notice the sensation on the keys, if you are sitting in a chair, feel the seat beneath your bottom. This awareness allow you to become mindful, because once you learn to <b>notice</b>, you can then learn to change.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-63391664764097389182015-01-23T14:10:00.001+00:002015-01-23T14:10:42.094+00:00The Word of the Week - Defense<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love myself enough
to create the space for others to be who they desire to be without judgement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes we assume too much about the people around
us. We make judgements, take offense to
slights and then build barriers against those very same people; closing off our
heart space in response to a habitual defence mechanism of what we perceive as
an attack by another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Course in miracles says “<b>I can
be hurt by nothing but my thoughts</b>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is it not just a thought you have about a person, a situation or an experience that determines
your reaction to it? Does it not follow
that you can then <u>choose </u>how to perceive that person, situation or
experience in a way that does not come from a place of fear, but from a place
of love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you are in a situation where a person acts defensive,
abrupt, curt or short with you. To some,
the first reaction (which is learned and
more often than not habitual) is to take offense and react from the ego
perspective. However, if before you
decide upon this course of action, you review your choice of the following, in
order to process and gain clarity in your mind before you react:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">You could see the wounds of the person in front
of you that seems to block their light in that moment and thus you could be
more understanding that it is only their ego that is reacting and not their authentic
self who IS a reflection of you! (This concept right here is the one that stops
us separating from the human family, for it is only the ego that sees the hate,
the anger and the differences, love only sees love.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">·</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; text-indent: -18pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">You could choose to not perceive their behaviour
as an attack because only LOVE is REAL and we are all created from the essence
of love, the Source of all creation.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">You
cannot possibly defend against something that is an illusion, that which is
created only by the ego and not your true Source.</span></li>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">You could know that in your defencelessness lies
your strength.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">For when a defence arises
in you, it is an opportunity to learn that your thought about this situation or
circumstance that you find yourself in needs healing.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">So you pause, you take a breath and you learn
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In life, always bring the lesson of life back to your
SELF. For it is your <i>own</i> thoughts that create the emotions in
you. With love, patience and kindness,
all thoughts of defence are healed in this way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for today, look at what your defensiveness is trying to
teach you and accept the healing light of love to replace and correct that
thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Namaste</span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-18486262070416008842015-01-16T14:26:00.002+00:002015-01-16T14:26:31.959+00:00The Word of the Week - Change<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If we
could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a man
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<b><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so does the
attitude of the world change towards him. ... <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">We need not
wait to see what others do.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mahatma Ghandi<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I meditated this morning, the quote associated with Mahatma
Ghandi (of which the above actual quote <i>is</i> from Ghandi) “Be the change you wish
to see in the world,” came to me and I asked myself the question, what changes
could I make to myself to help heal the world. Given the extensive news
reporting on the terror attacks that took place in France but even more so the lack
of news coverage on the attacks that killed 2,500 people in Boko Haram in
Nigeria. When I first discovered that
there was a blanket silence on the latter my initial response was to question why
would the media choose to report one terror attack over another? Then I realised that I felt a judgement
arising in me over the injustice that one did receive more media coverage than
the other!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ghandi’s words came flooding to me in that moment, as I
could feel the anger rising in me. I
took a breath and pondered, how could I view this situation differently, how
could I reconcile my emotional attachment to this situation? Be the change you wish to see in the world, the
voice in my head reminded me. In order for me to be the change I could not
let my anger, whose root cause is fear, be the impetus for any of my
thoughts. I could not let hate or any
such emotion fill my being because that would make me into the very same people
who cause these terrible atrocities. The
antidote to hate and fear is love, so how could I view this from a place of
love? I began to understand what Ghandi
meant, as I looked to my own environment, in my own workspace and in my own
community. Be more kind loving and
compassionate to those who are closest to me.
I understood that I needed to cultivate more of a quality of forgiveness
to those whom I had passed judgements
towards. I understood that I need not
feed into the opinions of others and reinforce the hate and fear that such
reports fuel into our psyche. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each day that we are given the chance to live and breathe
again, choose to cultivate the change you wish to see in the world. If you wish to see more love, then cultivate
more love in your heart. If you wish
more peace in the world, then act in peaceful ways towards your fellow man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for today, breathe life into the qualities that you
wish to see into the world by encouraging those same said qualities in
yourself. The healing of our planet
begins with you, let this weekend be the beginning of the change you wish to
see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-26879199895135544342015-01-09T10:26:00.003+00:002015-01-09T10:26:39.326+00:00The Word of the Week - Take a Breath<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I direct my thoughts and control my reactions to all circumstances by
taking a breath<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was a movie that I watched a while back now called “After
Earth” with Will and Jaden Smith. I don’t
think it did very well at the box office but the message that it conveyed was
deep and profound. In a nutshell an
estranged father and son crash land on an uninhabited and hostile Earth, where
the father is a soldier but is injured, his son has been training to be a
soldier and has to go on a perilous journey to get a signal for assistance from
their home. The father has to keep in
radio communication with his son and each time his son panics, begins to become
stressed out or even frightened, his father orders him to take a knee. This means he is to literally bow down upon
one knee and to take a pause. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To me this was a profound expression because it conveyed
that in every circumstance and situation in life, where we are unsettled, panicked
or fearful, we need to stop, take a breath and centre yourself to the Divine consciousness
within. Oftentimes the outside world can
move at such a speed we feel that it is almost impossible to stop and take a
breath because decisions need to made in a heartbeat. Throughout the film decisions needed to be
made in every circumstance, both in
intense life threatening situations and those that were not. However, throughout it all, the “taking of a
knee” was the anchor which enabled the character to succeed in his
mission. Our life mirrors this to some
degree, where if our initial thoughts and subsequent reactions are left
unchecked it ends up causing us more harm than good because we are unable to
filter first the words and the arising emotions that come in every given situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my earlier teachings, we were told to think five times
before we speak in any situation…..in other words to take a breath before we follow
through on our first reaction because more often than not in my own experience
my first response to someone annoying me
would be to cuss them off or say something that I really did not mean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for today, take a breath, take a pause and take a
moment to centre yourself to the Divine within before you say, do or react,
this enables you to come from a place of peace and love rather than knee jerk ego
aggression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nameste</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-45940240448516422862014-07-25T13:01:00.002+01:002014-07-25T13:01:46.435+01:00The Word of the Week 2014 Be Happy<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><u><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">AFFIRMATION</span></u></b><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I take time to notice that nature is
a beautiful reflection of ME.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sometimes
you have to stop all the juggling of the balls you have in life, all the issues
that demand your attention, all the anxieties and worries that dominate your
thoughts and just say “to hell with it all.” (I would have used a more stronger
term here which is the title of a book, those of you who know It can fill in
the gap (smile)) Today is such a day; give yourself permission to be in
this moment and just BE HAPPY. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The amount
of time wasted on worries, concerns and constantly seeing lack in various areas
of your life, you end up missing the best part of living. Those
worries will still be there tomorrow, hell they could still be there next week
or next year, so what, take a day off today from all your stresses in your
life. Make a conscious choice to choose NOT to be woeful or unhappy.
Look for your joy in the little things you observe today. Hearing a
child’s laughter….feeling the sun warm your skin, a smile from a stranger,
watching ducks swimming in a pond or just noticing the glorious nature that
surrounds you even if it is just one tree or a few blades of grass. Get
out of your head for today and just be. Nature is fabulously
therapeutic when you need to reconnect with life; unfortunately, we fail to <i>notice</i> the
beauty that surrounds us every day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">When you
observe nature, you are observing an abundant universe. Each blade
of grass that replenishes all year round, each leaf on the tree that goes
through its life cycle, to each grain of sand found on each beach around the
world, all of this is here to remind us of the plenitude of life. When
you then turn this feeling of appreciation inwards, you recognise in yourself
the same beauty and magnificence of nature and for that moment, you remove the
enormous pressure that you place upon yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Just for today,
use nature as your anchor to turn your thoughts around and be happy…it is not
as difficult as you think.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">May you
all be blessed with light, love and happiness xxx</span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-54647157201311403982014-07-18T15:07:00.000+01:002014-07-18T15:07:40.553+01:00The Word of the Week - Receiving Validation and Trust <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">AFFIRMATION</span></u></b><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I trust the Divine within me to guide
me where I need to go.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
greatest hurdle towards my journey to my Big Self was always an enquiry that
began with the question “Can I trust the guidance that comes from within
me?” As I grew more confident in learning to navigate my way through
the differing voices in my head, the next question was “I need proof in the
guidance that I am being given!” I failed to realise, until
recently, that in order to trust the guidance within, you need to learn to
trust it <i>implicitly</i>. I realised I negated that trust in
asking for validation, because I placed conditions and expectations as to how
this proof was to be received. I have since managed to kick off at
least one of my trainer wheels in this area because I understand trust builds
slowly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your inner
guidance system shows you in the most imaginative of ways confirmation that you
what you have received is correct and it does so without you having to
ask. It is in these situations that you slowly build your wall of
trust, brick by brick with the guidance within. It does not happen overnight
but it is a process of developing the art of communicating with your Big Self,
just as you would take time to develop a friendship physically, the only
difference being is that this particular relationship is done with your inner
eye and not the physical ones. However, this element too can be
challenging because you sometimes miss the validation by not paying attention
to your present moments. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guidance
is however repetitive when your Big Self wants your attention. This
could result in a myriad of ways, such as persistent feelings of discomfort in
a particular situation or speaking to friends and loved ones who suggest the
exact same thing your guidance told you.
It could be by reading parts in books that speak to your predicament precisely
or by grabbing your attention by getting you to notice the lyrics more
intently to a particular song. Guidance gets you to notice that
which you would ordinarily ignore in the hope that you will join the dots
yourself and discover the “Aha” moment. The key word in learning to
trust is to <b><u>notice</u></b> what is going on around you by being
present ALL the time. When you put conditions on validations you
will end up disappointed or deflated when it does not meet your expectation,
thus you move further away from trusting and tend to lean upon your own
understanding or rationale in regards to occurrences in your life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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today, try to remember that developing a relationship with your Higher Self
tests your awareness of your now moments consistently, this in turn teaches you
to remain present so that you can notice the signs that tell you what you heard
was indeed right!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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observational weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-17232529427544586922014-07-11T13:51:00.001+01:002014-07-11T13:51:38.103+01:00The Word of the Week - Embracing the Shadow (Pt 1)<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am open to embrace the shadows within me in order that I can reveal
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is the shadow side of ourselves? This is the energy that is fuelled by fear
and the ego that causes us to expose our frustrations, anger, negative
behaviours, unskilled outbursts and generally the darker side of our
nature. It will also cause us to have unkind
thoughts and possibly follow through with acts of wrong doing. We all have a darker side to our nature and
contrary to belief it is not for us to totally eradicate this part of ourselves
but to actually embrace it. The
spiritual journey is one of paradoxes, statements that seem to contradict each other
but are in fact the duality of all life , for example how can you know good if
you do not know bad or that the idea of beauty depends upon something being
identified as ugly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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two that generally oppose each other but could not possibly exist without each
other. When I use Louise L Hays phrase
of “You are perfect, whole and complete,” it means that the duality that we
perceive of ourselves is in reality just one.
All from the one mind and the one consciousness, living in perfect
harmony. We can exist happily within the duality of
life, once we have learned to recognise our shadow thoughts and habits. Our higher mind can view the shadow side of
ourselves impersonally, by acknowledging the dark. For example, you get frustrated by a loved one’s
behaviour which irks you and you become
angry or unkind in your thoughts. You embrace
the feeling of this anger rather than supress it and you acknowledge yourself
in that moment that the angry side of you feels hurt or annoyed. Now instead of voicing your anger and
annoyance which will result in only talking to the other person’s ego, you
direct the feeling more positively. This
is where all your practice with choosing higher thoughts come into play because
with an unskilled mind this will not work.
Whenever you are pointing the accusatory finger at someone else always
remember that three fingers are pointing back at you, this observation taught
to me many years ago, is a helpful reminder that instead of looking at someone
else’s shadow, you have three major reasons to look at your own shadow….so look
at them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flipping the negative to a positive means that the energy of
anger you feel can be redirected with your thoughts and dialogue with your
higher self that enable you to take a wider view of the situation rather than your
current narrow egoic view. You ask the
question, are you really angry for the reason that you think or are you really
frustrated at yourself and taking it out on someone else? When you answer honestly, this energy is
redirected from dark into light because your authentic self takes the reigns
and steers you towards healing, towards love and towards the ever increasing
light that resides in you. More often
than not in my own personal experience, I release any pent up emotion by either
punching a pillow and screaming out loudly or I exercise by giving my body a
good work out. The point is in the first
instance I give my emotions a safe outlet for expression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for today, have courage to acknowledge the shadow side
of yourself, for it is only when we truly look at our behaviours that we
diminish the illusionary power it has over us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-8806677394827344612014-07-04T13:37:00.002+01:002014-07-04T13:37:54.808+01:00The Word of the Week - Releasing the Past<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I now release my past and change my story to this present moment which is fresh and brand new.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We all have a past littered with what we define as “good” or “bad” experiences. Some may have suffered abuse as a child, domestic violence, trouble with the law, deep emotional trauma, victimisation or some other ordeal that we now create our life story around. We tell ourselves this traumatic story from the past until it somehow defines us and we incorrectly make it who we are. This is not to negate any trauma one has suffered in one’s life, but the key to growth is how we view these experiences and what it is that we tell ourselves about the occurrence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The story that we tell ourselves from the past detaches your spiritual energy from the present causing it to fragment. This means that you can never fully enjoy your present moment because your energy is attached to the story you tell yourself of the past. In order to heal and become whole, you need to pool your energy fully into one moment in time and that can only be and will ever be the moment of now. When you dwell on the past without letting go of any hurt or pain that it caused you, your attention remains in that area. To heal, you have to forgive and let it go, irrespective if you or someone else was the cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forgiveness does not mean that you are exonerating anyone’s behaviour, the forgiveness is for you; for your own mental anguish and pain the hurt has caused YOU. Forgiveness is a HEALING and it takes repeated effort before you can fully heal from the pain of the past. As part of my own spiritual program I offer forgiveness daily. Against any transgressions that I have made towards myself or others, any unkind words or thoughts that I say to myself or about others, I cleanse and heal every single night and affirm to do a little bit better the next day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for today, really listen to the story you tell others and more importantly to yourself and make a note if you are fragmenting your spirit. You are indeed perfect, whole and complete. So step into your big self, let go of your past with forgiveness and begin anew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a blessed weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-38132627662053890562014-06-27T13:29:00.001+01:002014-06-27T13:32:49.560+01:00The Word of the Week - You are doing GREAT! <div class="MsoNormal">
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<b>I embrace my divinity and accept myself exactly as I am<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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On this journey, I have realised that you can NEVER get
enough self-love and today is just the day to acknowledge how great you
are. Instead of falling into the old
habits of berating ourselves for the mistakes that we made this week, or the
errors in judgements or the momentary lapse of anger when we scream obscenities
at inconsiderate drivers on the road (smile), today just allow the stillness
and the beauty of your divinity to shine through you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You are DIVINE! The
quicker you embrace this fact, the greater this force of power can flow through
you and enable you to reach your desired greatness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This morning as I read a verse in the Tao Te Ching by Dr
Wayne Dyer he described how to live in the void and one of the more poignant
lines in the verse was “The usefulness of what is depends on what is not.” This means we need to be cognizant of the
unseen, the spaciousness and that void in all things that make it what it
is. If we were to look at the components
of a tree, it is made up of bark, branches, leaves and roots, however if we
tried to dismantle it to its individual parts it would no longer be a tree. The
same can be said of the human body, we are just made of water, flesh, bones and
skin, but without the unseen, that element that makes you YOU, that which
enables you to breathe, then you are not useful as the verse states because you
do not have what is not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>“It is the silence that is in between the notes that makes the music.”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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When you learn to honour the divine in you, to speak words
of loving kindness about yourself and more importantly <i>to</i> yourself, this unseen within you expands its light and energy
with enough power to change the molecular structure of your entire being. Recognise the place just behind your heart
centre that is still, that is quiet, and that always loves and yearns for you
to see the beauty in your BIG self that <i>it</i>
sees. It is this force that loves you
unconditionally, that sends you thoughts that tells you, “You are so beautiful,
I love you and you are doing GREAT!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just for today, as you take a few moments to be conscious of
your breath and you fill your lungs with this life giving energy; take a minute
to quiet your mind and listen to this voice within that wants you to know that
YOU ARE TRULY AWESOME!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nameste<o:p></o:p></div>
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136647805461344374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437978709457382780.post-31905431677495444262014-06-20T10:57:00.002+01:002014-06-20T10:57:21.722+01:00The Word of the Week - Say yes to LIFE<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">
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<b> I say yes to the synchronicities of life and KNOW that only good lies before me<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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When you learn to say yes to whatever experience you have now in life, you allow yourself to receive the blessing of the situation. All too often we live within the realms of labels; labels that define us, that dictate how we are to feel and react to a situation not realising that we have the power and more importantly the choice as to whether or not we wish to accept this definition. It is our reaction to every situation that is presented to us that determines how we <i>feel</i> about a thing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For example, you could be told that you are being made redundant and the most obvious response could be fear and panic at not being able to pay your bills, however you could view it as an opportunity for you to expand and grow into a new role or position in life. Every experience, no matter what label we choose to give it, brings us a lesson. We can decide to either grow from it, or make it define us. Further, we can either struggle and resist life or choose to remain present in every experience by trusting that all will work out for your greater good.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In my journey, the desires I have for my life continually expand and I become frustrated at times at the “lack of speed” with which my desires become form. I recognise that every day I must learn to increase my trust in that great creative power within me and be able to sit content in my present moment, with gratitude, so I can bring forth the vision that I desire for my life. This is the most challenging part of my journey because I have to envision my desires, imagine what it is I want to do, be and have; create a concrete image of this purpose in my mind on a consistent basis until it becomes <i>all</i> that I see.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In reality, if you were to look back in your life, the simple things that you asked for, that you desired for yourself, you set about the creative process in achieving that goal. You may have wanted to buy a house when you were younger and even though you may have not been in a position, with a large enough salary to buy a home….you still made it happen. How did you do that? You looked at properties, even though you did not know how you would get the money. You sought advice; you may have even changed your job to get the desired salary. The point is that with focused determination you achieved your objective at the time. We see these achievements not as achievements at all, not as you being part of the creative force, which brought it into fruition but as an insignificant part of your life that just happened. </div>
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Wherever you are in your life YOU created it, you desired it and you brought it forth, whether your situation is viewed as positive or negative.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now that we understand the creative power that we hold, it is for us to direct that power to only that which we desire and not on those things, we do not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Whatever you give your attention to you create it!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just for today, say YES to life, for you <u>will</u> accomplish what it is you desire.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Have a contented weekend.<o:p></o:p></div>
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