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The door opens onto NOW. What you experience is always right now. Here you stay fully focused on what you are doing in this moment. You choose to feel good by thinking thoughts that support you. Being is at the top of your to-do list. You are fully present and there is always enough time. Your Universe reflects all this right back to you. Isn’t this a place you’d like to BE?

3 Steps to Inspiration

5/1/2020

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“Inspiration and manifestation on all levels are birthed in the present moment from your ‘I Am’, your ‘God Self.’” 
-Red Feather
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The present moment is your source of inspiration.

Suppose you have a job to do. It must be done. You’ve committed to getting it done. Now it’s time to do it and you feel uninspired. You’d rather be doing something else. You can feel the energy of inspiration around other projects, just not this one. How do you get inspired about doing this one?

You could just push your way through and get it done so that you can get on to what you’d really like to be doing. You could say to yourself, “As soon as I get this done, I can do this other thing that really inspires me.” It would be like eating your vegetables before you can have dessert. That’s one way to get the job done, and plenty of us work that way.

But where does inspiration live?

Red Feather says that inspiration comes from within, from our God self. Our God selves live in the present moment, right here, right now. Our God selves are not anticipating the future or worrying over the past. Our God selves are right here. This is where the magic happens. This is where inspiration lives, right in the heart of our God self.

Now, suppose you have a job to do, something you feel you have to get done. You have chosen to get it done now despite the fact that there are other things you’d rather be doing. It feels like work to you. Remember the saying, “It’s only work if you’d rather be doing something else,”? Well, right now you’d rather be doing something else, so it’s work. But you’ve chosen to get this done now.

So, do you push through and just get it done, focused on the product and on the doing of the job, wishing you were somewhere else? You can do that. If you do, you’ll be motivating yourself through fear or anger or some other emotion linked to your ego. Maybe you’re afraid that you won’t get paid. Maybe you’re afraid that if you don’t meet your commitments others will be disappointed, or you’ll be disappointed in yourself. Maybe you’re angry that you have to do this job, and that fuels your energy. However you motivate yourself from ego, it’s not likely to be enjoyable, but you’ll get the job done, even though it will feel like work.

Or, you can motivate yourself from your God self, with love. You can find your inspiration within your heart, opening yourself fully into this present moment.

Let’s take an example – Pretend we’re not in the middle of a stay-at-home social isolation order and you’re giving a dinner party tonight. You’re feeling stressed because the house needs to be cleaned, the table set and dinner cooked. You have an image in your mind of a clean, attractive, welcoming home, a delicious meal to offer your guests, and you as the relaxed and gracious host.

It’s a lot to live up to and not much time to make it happen. You’re feeling stressed about it. Your mind is bringing up images of the past when you felt disappointed in yourself for offering less than your best to your guests. Your fears are conjuring an image of future disappointment. Fear motivates you to rush through the cleaning, forget the decorations and barrel into cooking dinner as fear constricts your stomach. Not surprisingly, you don’t enjoy your dinner party much.

There is a more enjoyable way to approach this. You can get focused into the present moment where inspiration lives.

What would that look like? In this same example of the dinner party, the house still needs to be cleaned, table set, dinner cooked. Instead of launching yourself into a cleaning frenzy, you sit down, close your eyes, and take several, deep, calming breaths. Now, thank your Higher Self for opening the blossom of inspiration in your heart. Invite your Spiritual Support Team to guide and support you, that you may offer your guests a loving welcome, a clean, supportive environment, and a nurturing and delicious meal. Thank your Spiritual Support Team for giving you exactly what you need to accomplish this.

Next, you put on some upbeat music that sparks your energy. You gather together your cleaning materials, and while grooving to the music, you vacuum, wipe and wash. You feel energized as you enjoy the process, keeping your mind fully focused on what you are doing.

You’re not planning out the dinner as you clean, or worrying about getting it all done. If stressful thoughts come up, you mentally hand them over to your Spiritual Support Team and trust that you have exactly what you need.

You flow through the cleaning and on into the kitchen to start preparing the meal. You’re listening to music you love. Maybe you pour yourself a glass of wine or make a cup of tea to enjoy as you chop the vegetables. You feel relaxed. This is fun!

With dinner started, you turn your attention to setting the table, arranging the flowers and creating a beautiful, welcoming environment. Your guests arrive and you’re delighted by how much you enjoy the evening.

When you call on your Higher Self and your Spiritual Support Team and focus into the present moment, you are releasing the egoic fuel of fear and anger, and energizing your actions through love. That’s when what might feel like work turns into enjoyment because you feel inspired.
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Three Steps to Inspiration
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Inspiration lives in this present moment. That’s where to look for it and find it. Here are three, simple steps to make that happen.
1. Intend it – Set your intention by saying out loud, “Higher Self, I intend to feel inspired about this name your activity, thank you.”
2. Ask for it – Take a moment to sit still and close your eyes. Take several deep, calming breaths. When you feel calm invite your Spiritual Support Team to participate. You could say something like, “Thank you, Spiritual Support Team for guiding me to inspiration about name your activity. Thank you for giving me exactly what I need.”

3. Trust – You've got this. Relax with gratitude, knowing that your team is on board and you have exactly what you need to accomplish this activity, whatever it is, with love.

Inspiration is spoken through the language of your heart.

All you have to do is intend it, ask for it and trust that it is yours. Your Higher Self and your Spiritual Support Team will guide you through to the finish line.  
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Accept NOW

3/29/2019

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​Iceland felt like home to me despite all that looked so very different, the drama of her volcanos and lava fields, mountains and icy glaciers, deep blue ice caves, black sand beaches and crashing waves, erupting geysers, sulphur-scented steam vents like the breath of Mother Earth, bubbling mud pits, spectacular waterfalls, crystal ice berg littered beaches, sturdy Icelandic horses everywhere, their long manes and tails blown in the ever-present island winds, wild reindeer grazing at the roadside, all of it felt like home.
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This trip created a new beginning for me.  Twenty-two adventurers with our heart-centered guide and driver on a large bus, traveling winding roads from one riveting landscape to the next. Our guide and driver became integral parts of our group, each of the now twenty-four finding healing, release and a new beginning.
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My new beginning blossomed almost immediately with an internal acceptance of each present moment. Our group traveled the ring road all around the coastline of Iceland. Each day brought new experiences and challenges to be surmounted, both physical and emotional. I settled into a rhythm of acceptance of each NOW, trusting that where I was, who I was with and how I was responding, all were exactly right. I focused in and relaxed into that present.

That is not to say that each moment was bliss. Traveling with twenty-four people offers very little, if any, time to oneself. Yet ours was a remarkable group of caring and compassionate people, led by three spiritually self-aware and loving souls.

I feel blessed by the gift of this journey.


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Your Spiritual Toolbox


​Acceptance of Now is more than appreciation of what is. It is trusting that in this present moment you are exactly where and with whom you are meant to be. It means trusting that you are inspired to feel and respond how you need to right now. For this moment, there is nothing else for you to be thinking about or focusing upon. As you are able to accept and trust this more and more, you are more clearly able to perceive inspiration for each moment in which you find yourself.

In this moment, right NOW, breathe deeply. Feel yourself in your body. Feel and acknowledge what is around you, who you are with, how you are feeling, even if who you are with is yourself. Be fully here, for this is exactly where you are meant to be right now.

Drink in this present moment with your breath. Breathe deeply and feel this moment move through your body.

Allow yourself to fully focus your attention here. Resist the temptation to move your thoughts to the next thing to do, the meeting this afternoon, plans for dinner tonight. Accept that right here is the most important place you can be, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

If you are having a conversation with someone, focus all your attention on this conversation. Really hear what the other person is saying. Release the need to listen just so that you can say something back. Take the time to deeply listen to what the other person is communicating. Feel the feelings that this brings up for you. When you respond, if you do, speak with authenticity and caring, for yourself and for the other. 

​Listen and feel for the inspiration that is always available to you here in the magic of your present moment.  

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Live Your Dream Today

3/5/2019

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“You are so lucky to have every day.”
-Shoshona Ortalia Aurora Rogers
 
I’ve been reading a romance novel (my not so secret pleasure) set in rural Ireland about a woman whose heart’s desire was to be a writer. She gave up her city life and moved to a small village in Ireland to pursue her dream.  The description of her walks over emerald green hills in the mornings, then the delight she felt as she sat at her table, steaming cup of tea at hand, and wrote in the afternoons, all touched a chord deep within me. The more I brought up that feeling within me, the more I realized that she described my dream, and despite the difference in location I was stunned to realize I am living my dream.

The author of the trilogy writes so poignantly of her character’s life because she writes with love of what she loves. Why is it that we forget to see with the eyes of love in our every day lives? My dream is all around me and yet all I saw was the mundane and the repetition of every day. I guess even the bright shine of a dream dims from daily familiarity. Or perhaps I changed into it so gradually I took it all for granted, writing, woods walks with my dog, a loving marriage, my family who are my friends and my friends who are my family, my spiritual community. I am living my dream, how did I lose track of that?

Living your dream isn’t really about the physical aspects despite what we may think, it is about the feeling, paying attention to and expressing love in your every day life. The physical aspects of whatever it is you dream of may provide a vehicle for moving into that love, but it is the love and the expressing of love that creates happiness.

“A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t get the happy moments because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life.”
-Abraham-Hicks
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Appreciating each thing about every day that you can is an expression of love in your life. It creates happiness and it creates the energy for you to attract more of what you want, more of what you love into your daily experience.

You don’t have to wait until you’ve achieved your dream, whatever that may look like on the outside. For dreams change and shift even as we do. You can focus your attention upon appreciating the elements of today that are your dream, those bits and pieces of your day that you love. As you do so you open up to allow more and more of your dream into your every day.

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Your Spiritual Toolbox

​Appreciation of your every day life is the fast track to living your dream.

When you wake in the morning align yourself with the attitude of appreciation by saying a short prayer of gratitude for the new day ahead. Use whichever prayer feels right to you or make up one of your own. Here is one possibility -

“My God, Goddess, my Angels and Guides, thank you for today. May I be constantly grateful for the love which fills this day and every day.  Amen.”

During the day take the time to appreciate and give thanks for those bits of today which please, support and nurture you. Just noticing what you love and saying a quiet, “Thank you,” is enough.

​Do this as often as you think of it throughout the day, for you are living today’s dream. And as you do so with love, you build your dream of tomorrow.  

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Unconventional Meditation

10/15/2018

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“Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Meditation is about getting to know that quiet place inside you, and allowing it to expand more and more in your life. It is about fully focusing in this present moment of here and now and resting in that stillness within.

Is meditation difficult to do? It can be, at least for me. I’ve done the twenty minute meditations, the hour-long meditations, the three hour meditations. I admire those who are able to do this on a regular basis, and know there is great benefit to be gained. Yet I find it easier to attain and maintain that quiet, present moment place inside myself in active ways.

Almost anything you do can become a form of meditation if your focus is one-pointed. That means your attention is fully focused upon what you are doing. For example, you are washing the dishes. You focus your attention upon the feel of the warm water and the slipperiness of soap on slick surfaces, but your mind drifts and thoughts of yesterday’s events intrude. You take a deep breath, let those thoughts go on the out-breath and refocus your attention upon the feel of the dish in your hand, the warmth of the water and swishy, soap bubbles. You keep yourself focused in this way throughout the clean-up, always bringing your thoughts back into the here and now when they wander.

My experience has been that it is easier to keep my active mind focused when I am physically engaged in an activity. When my hands, body, eyes, ears, and nose are busy interacting with the present moment it gives me a one-pointed focus for my attention, here and now. It gives me a specific place to return my attention to.

Can washing dishes be spiritual practice? You bet. What we are talking about here is a form of the Buddhist concept of Mindfulness.

​There are numerous resources available on-line if you are interested in pursuing this topic. You can easily find them by searching on Buddhism and Mindfulness. A great place to start is with the website, Lion’s Roar, Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time.


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Your Spiritual Toolbox

Today, choose one activity to do in which you will focus your mind and be fully present with what you are doing.

Choose an activity that you are doing by yourself and in which you won’t have to be interacting with others for a time.

Some of my favorite active (and not so active) meditations are walking in the woods, weeding, cleaning, washing dishes, knitting, crafting, watching the birds at the feeder, and sitting quietly just looking out the window watching the light on the leaves of the trees. You probably already have your own favorites.

​If you find it too difficult to quiet your mind you can add in the repetition of a positive affirmation, short prayer or mantra, spoken out loud or internally. This is calming to a busy mind and soothing to an anxious one. Focus your attention on the words you are repeating to yourself as you continue to engage in whatever meditative activity you have chosen to do. ​
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