Without struggle, without judgement, without division I challenge all of us to relax as we take the action steps needed in the unfoldment of our precious human lives.
Feeling Into the Energies
What are you aware of when you feel into the energy of flexible resiliency? Radiant love? Engaged compassion? Courageous kindness?
Mindful Practice
Give yourself permission to let go of moral judging. Witness everyone including yourself as though for the first time.
Consider what needs are going unmet in their world. Consider what needs are going unmet in yours. What one need can you meet for that person you have judged? And what one need can you meet for that part of yourself you have judged?
Flood your awareness with the energies of flexible resiliency, radiant love, engaged compasson and courageous kindness, How now are you viewing sentient beings including yourself?
Consider: How is your body responding when you do these mental exercises?
A New Day with Beginners Mind
It’s your life ~ Your perceptions, your belief systems, your interpretations. Periodically they must be updated when they no longer serve you and this ever-changing world.
How to update them? Choose Beginners Mind to guide you with fresh eyes.
This mental training aka mental flossing is imperative to live a life of ~
•Courageous kindness
•Deep and engaged compassion
•Flexible resiliency
•Radiant love.
May these states embody you…now.
Banquet of Life Mandala
MIndfulness Practice for Today
What banquet are you not witnessing and participating in right now?
Imagine it is called the Banquet of Life Mandala.
•Step into it.
•Look around. What are you witnessing?
•Notice how your body, heart and mind are responding.
And now, something to contemplate:
If you gave 100% participation to your Banquet of Life Mandala , what would this day be like for you and all sentient beings?
This moment…
Gift yourself this moment…
Welcoming all that arises, both the seen and unseen.
Steep yourself in the Mysteries of the Unknown…
Sans frameworks, boundaries, expectations…
With open hand to all that is…
No clinging nor grasping
Neither this nor that…
Just This.
Notice what you don’t like…
….and then give thanks to the teachings you have received.
Notice how opening and giving thanks to every—single—thing shifts the energies…somatically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
Leapin’ over…to getter done!
If you’re procrastinating ~yet it needs to get done…
•Close your eyes tight and then open ’em wide
•Breathe in deeper than deep and exhale more than ever
•Click your heels three times
•Hold on to your hat (’cause you’re goin’ places!)
•Leap over the over-thinking of procrastination
•Now…Do it-whatever it is! Quickly, solidly and with gusto!
•What are you aware of?
To all that is seen and unseen…
Thank you
Thank you for the insights and the awarenesses
Thank you for these teachings
Thank you for this opportunity to be alive
When the moment is all about laughter!
Take 30 seconds and laugh. Laugh strong. Laugh loud. Laugh for no other reason except to laugh.
After 30 seconds go into silence and notice what arises. (Do this now before you read on!)
Laughing meditation alters the dopamine and serotonin levels in our bodies resulting in a decrease in depression, stress and anxiety.
In other words: Aliveness vibrates. Attitudes shift. Joy seeps in. Beginners Mind reigns. Life becomes vibrant.
WARNING! Watch out for the Inner Critic! When we are not feeling up to snuff we will put off Laughing Meditation. This is only an excuse from IC telling us we need to suffer through whatever we are experiencing first.
Not so! Many meditation practitioners choose to do Laughing Meditation in the midst of suffering. For instance, joining together in Laughing Meditation when our Beloved is dying is one of the highest moments for all…especially the Beloved who is passing.
And this is called working?
Choosing different environments for your “office” to create within often gives us surprises. Plus, it’s fun traveling in the unknown!
How are you choosing to work today?
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