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“A moment of self compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can enrich the course of your life.”
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“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”
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Take a moment.
What is your inner dialogue currently like? Is it lifting you up or pulling you down?
An accurate conclusion cannot be reached without first experiencing trial and error several times over again. Please don’t give up.
“I lied and said I was busy; but not in a way most people understand. I was busy taking deeper breaths. I was busy silencing irrational thoughts. I was busy calming a racing heart. I was busy telling myself I am OK.”
— Unknown
“Control your thoughts, and you will be able to control the way in which the world appears. Think highly of events; if it’s good, see it’s beauty. If it’s bad, seek for growth. Everything that happens has a reason, purpose, and difference that it will make. So take a moment, and choose to see the impact that your thoughts have on your life.”
— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin
“The first step in becoming successful is believing that it’s possible. You, above everyone else, must know that you truly have the power within you to accomplish anything.”
— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin
Do not sit and wait for life to come to you. Get out there. Breathe in the sun. Touch the sky. Immerse yourself in the things that you love. Feel the warmth that today brings.
Beginner Mindfulness
What I teach is very simple, because when you suffer from stress or depression, it is hard to find motivation for complicated projects. The simple philosophy I follow is that of basic goodness and compassion. I think people are good. People want to feel good and they don’t want to hurt. They want others to feel good and don’t want others to hurt. That makes us good. That makes you good. Compassion is a skill that helps you engage with pain and suffering, seek out the causes and find solutions. Compassion is the expression of our goodness in response to pain.
Another simple idea is that thoughts are often wrong. If you think people don’t care about you, that is an example of a wrong thought. That kind of wrong thought has powerful consequences. The idea of basic goodness helps to sort out wrong thoughts. If you believe that you are basically good, you won’t entertain such negative thoughts. You may still have negative thoughts or even cruel thoughts about yourself, but if you believe in your goodness you can recognize those thoughts as wrong. Although that is a simple idea, it is difficult to practice. If somebody believes a damaging but false rumor about us, we will feel pain as though the rumor were true. If we think false things about ourselves, they seem true because we think them. When we are hurting, we are more prone to think negative thoughts. Observing our thoughts helps us decide if they are true or not. If we just think our thoughts without observing, we believe them without any critical analysis. Observing thoughts with compassion exposes and changes damaging thought habits.
A simple practice of mindfulness is to breathe consciously. We breathe our moods. If we are happy we will breathe happy and if we are sad we will breathe sad. Most of the time we don’t recognize how we are breathing. Interrupting our thoughts with conscious, deep breathing, helps us be aware of how we are feeling and to change how we are feeling by changing how we breathe. When we consciously breathe, putting all of our attention onto our breath, we can step back and see what we are thinking. We can check if our thoughts agree or disagree with our basic goodness. We can let all thoughts go by holding our attention on our breath.
Breathing consciously brings our attention and awareness to the present moment. If we feel pain in that moment, we can consciously practice compassion. If it is our pain, we practice compassion for ourselves. If it is somebody else’s pain, we practice compassion for them. We are good people. We want to feel good and we want others to feel good. When we know this and practice remembering it, good things happen.
Only when we really stop to observe may we acknowledge how much of the world we tend to consciously ignore. When days seem to flash by, a busy mind often makes a poor observer. So take a moment to see the big picture. All of it. Just breathe it all in.
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For the Love of Zen
As the ideas of Zen get distilled down to their essence, it all comes down to love. Now is important in Zen, but that is only when you find love. Non-attachment is important, but that is only how you love. Impermanence is important, but that is how you remember not to love with attachment. Ignorance is important, that is thinking that you are something other than love. Compassion is important, that is meeting suffering with love. Meditation is important, that is quieting your mind and sitting in love. Mindfulness is important, that is remembering to love in every moment. Enlightenment is important, that is not resisting love.
If you think Zen is hard to understand, forget about Zen, understand love. Practicing Zen is a specialized activity. Practicing love is universal. You have been doing it your whole life. You still need to practice though.
Source: zenmister.com
How to be a Genuine and Fun-Loving Person
1. Value and respect the fact that you are a totally unique individual, with your own destiny to fulfill. Believe in who you are, what you think and believe, your gifts and talents, and what you have to offer to those around you.
2. Refuse to give into negative feelings of anxiety, self doubt or insecurity. In fact, “fake it till you make it” is often good advice … So, ignore how you feel, and act the way you want to be. Choose to switch off the old tapes that keep on playing in your head, and try to visualize your goals and then push on and seek to reach them.
3. Don’t pay any attention to what others think about you. The most important judgment should be yours, and yours alone. If you live in constant fear of what others think about you, it will only hold you back from realizing your potential. Also, you’re not a clone of others as each of us is different. Don’t be afraid to be unique or to stand out against the crowd.
4. Accept that you have good points, and areas for growth. We’re all a mix of different qualities, and flaws, and traits. We all make mistakes – it’s what you do with them matters – so embrace the fact you’re human and won’t always get it right.
5. Also, develop a tough skin and don’t take insults personally. Look back and laugh – don’t cower – or criticise yourself. It won’t help if you’re sensitive or worried all the time. It’s better to forgive yourself, and then move on again.
6. Develop your ability to think creatively. Try out those new ideas, and choose to live outside the box.
7. Seek to enjoy this moment, and to live life in the present. Be grateful for the small things, and savour all you have.
“If you feel that something is overwhelming you, take the time to break it up into smaller steps. We have two feet for a reason; to put one foot in front of the other. One at a time. Don’t take everything on all at once, breathe, and simply take it step by step.”
— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
— Eckhart Tolle (via purplebuddhaquotes)
Today’s journal message came in straight and to the point: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I desire change and yet I am the Change. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We must stop waiting for the golden permission slip to say it’s okay to go for it.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We must stop creating the excuses keeping us stuck ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We must begin to take full ownership for our full spectrum of emotions and inevitably our life. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The more we keep blaming things outside of ourselves for keeping us stuck, the more we remain stuck. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I see way too many posts about not taking accountability for our emotions. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We blame the world or the inter-dimension world for how we’re feeling⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It’s either a cross breed of blaming the world, the government, Illuminati or the negative entities.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Or it’s an energy vampire, a certain person or soul sucking relationship keeping us stuck.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But it’s always about so and so (insert your dramatic scenario here) holding me back.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ newsflash - it’s never ourselves right? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Here’s your breakthrough moment. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Choice is your superpower. ⠀⠀ Get off the rollercoaster and reclaim your power. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you desire change, you have to be the one that owns up to it and becomes the change. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You are change. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Your Energy is Stronger than Circumstance. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you dont believe that, you’re still placing blame outside of yourself. ⠀⠀⠀⠀
We can either get stuck in assigning meaning to what is holding us hostage or we can learn to harness our fear as FUEL to transcending our patterns and beliefs.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The more we give power to what is outside of us, we forget we are our strongest asset. We’re placing our power stronger on the symbol than ourselves.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When we get stuck in this mentality of not owning up to our emotions, ⠀⠀
This means we’re still living in unconscious duality when we fall back into victim mode. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Easier said than done, it is in doing this subtle inner work that we begin to change our energy and inevitably our life.
The Morphogenic Field is a term we use to describe the field of energy around the body. It is an extension of the electrical energy of the nervous system. The brain is an electrical generator with its own field of energy that extends away from the physical body. Many cultures and disciplines recognize this field and give it other names. When people discuss auras, chakras, life force or chi, they are possibly talking about this same energy field.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. ~ Wayne Dye
Once you accept yourself as you are, you allow yourself to be happy. You don’t need to become anything or anyone else, just as a rose doesn’t need to become a lotus in order to be happy. A rose is already beautiful. You are wonderful just as you are.
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Beware of destination addiction: The idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job, or even with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.”
— (via purplebuddhaquotes)