How Does Stillness Speak To You?

Words; maybe, insights; occasionally, feelings; definitely, a knowing; absolutely. Sometimes immediately and sometimes not. The question isn’t how does stillness speak but how does it speak to you? A song; maybe, out of the mouth of babes; occasionally, a gut feeling; definitely but does it speak? absolutely. I can’t tell you how it will speak to you. I can only guarantee that it does.

“True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.” – Eckhart Tolle

What does stillness do? Make you present. Remove your thoughts about the past and the future. Your answers lie in the present not in the past or the future. The past keeps us looking back at all times while the future keeps us looking forward and always in wanting. GET ALONE so you can know how stillness speaks to you.

“When you step into the Now, you step out of the content of your mind. The incessant stream of thinking slows down. Thoughts don’t absorb all your attention anymore, don’t draw you in totally. Gaps arise in between thoughts – spaciousness, stillness. You begin to realize how much vaster and deeper you are than your thoughts.” – Eckhart Tolle

Stillness

This month I want to continue to talk about the importance of going within. Being in silence. Being still. The importance of feeding your soul for the answers to your unique and individual lives. We cannot accomplish this through all the busyness and loud noises around us. We must recognize the limitless distractions and deliberately put a stop to it. You are important and you are deserving of a spectacular life. While reading this book below, the author expressed so beautifully what I have been talking so passionately about. Here is another way of reiterating why we should GET ALONE!

“It is the journey into silence that leads to a stillness that can inform our actions and lives with peace and with abundance. Just as there are many roads to the Divine, there are many routes inward: prayer, meditation, nature, solitude, contemplation, workshops, sacred writings, dance, ceremony, poetry, music, chanting, gardening, the practice of religion. A wealth of information about the use of any of these tools for spiritual development is readily available. The method is not nearly as important as the commitment and the practice. It is the repeated journey into silence that brings the rewards of stillness.

Returning often, we learn that each journey is different; each reveals something new. Each time there comes forth some discovery that informs the body and informs the mind about the platform upon which we have built our lives. Therein is grace. There is our identity that surpasses all identities. There we are reinforced and reinspired with knowledge of why we have taken form at this time upon our planet. There, in the grace, in the stillness, all other considerations, identities, fears and hopes are erased – they are no more. There, in the place of stillness, our soul is completed in its aim reincorporating into this body the exquisite expression of stillness. In that place comes the knowledge that more communication occurs in the spaces between words than in the words themselves. There we connect with the infinite intelligence in which all answers are found and there we come to know the fullness of our birthright.”

- The Architecture of All Abundance by Lenedra J. Carroll

GET ALONE!

You have friends and loved ones and feel lonely. There is a myriad of information at your fingertips and you are lost. Your career is a chore and a bore.  Your health is declining yearly and your energy system is being drained. Why do you seem so lonely and directional challenged despite all the friends and loved ones that are around you, going to a job every day, participating in all the social networks that are available to you and over 500 cable channels? Why does life feel so mundane? Why don’t you want to be by yourself? What are you afraid of? Are you that boring to be with? If you knew how interesting and magnificent you are in the depth of your being, you will no longer seek other outlets to fill the void. You won’t seek other sources for answers to questions about your life. So what do you do? GET ALONE! Even for just a few minutes a day, shut out the outside world, shut down your mind and be present.  Because when you get alone, you will realize that you are not alone. And when you get alone, you will realize you were never alone. So, when you feel lonely and lost, simply get alone!

The answers for your life are there within you.  Don’t you want to find out what they are?  Make this year be about you for once.  It is time to get to you because if you don’t, who will?  Connect with your feelings, acknowledge and honor them.  When you ignore them, you are pushing yourself aside.  It is time to get to you because if you don’t, who will?  Connect with your soul to find the answers you’ve been looking for in your life.  The answers that will bring you happiness and joy on a daily basis and peace and freedom consistently.  When you ignore your soul, you won’t find out who you really are and why you are here.  It is time to get to you because if you don’t, who will?  Get alone so you can get to know you.  Get alone so your soul can be free.  Get alone so you can live a fulfilling and meaningful life. GET ALONE!

Let’s Get Back to Work…Soul Work, that is.

During the holidays we usually spend little time alone.  We don’t spend as much time meditating, going within, reading and listening to the things that normally raise our vibration; simply put we haven’t fed our souls properly during this busy season. And that’s okay. It is fine to partake in things of the world but we must not dwell there.  Now that the holidays are over and we’ve drank enough alcohol, ate enough sweets, laxed on our meditations, hung out with people that drive us crazy, put our soul care aside, it is time to get back to work. Soul work, that is, so 2011 can be greater than 2010.

Do you want guidance for 2011? Feed your soul. Do you want significant changes in your life this year? Then, choose your soul. Do you want to embark on the greatest journey you’ve ever been on? Then, Free your soul. Let’s make this year about you; not the worldly you but the universal you. The You within wants to be recognized and your Higher Self wants to be in the driver’s seat this year. Let 2011 be the year you achieve great fulfillment, tons of happiness, unspeakable joy, unbelievable peace and incredible freedom. You deserve it and you deserve it all now.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

LET’S GET BACK TO OUR SOUL CARE AND SOUL WORK NOW!

Is Your Soul Free?

I asked that question of myself because a song I was listening to some time ago indicated that if I abided by certain rules and regulations and took on a certain point of view then my soul will be free. The strangest thing was, I was doing all of that and I never felt more caged. My soul felt as if I was chained to a cannon ball and dropped to the bottom of the ocean and I could only be set free if I was Houdini. I looked fine on the surface to everyone but the depth of my being was suffering. My soul was urging me to move on and the more I ignored it, my life was feeling more and more depleted. So I listened to my caged soul and departed from that establishment. I was told by many that without certain human guidance I will lose my way and go down a path of uncertainty and unhappiness. The same feelings I started out with before I joined that establishment and still had after a few years of joining. I decided to take my chances.

Feeling like a lonely soldier on a lonely road, I started to ask questions of life and answers started to come from all angles. Answers that made me feel great within and about me. I started to taste freedom and liked it. What have I learned? I’ve learned to listen to my own inner guidance and when I did, my soul started to feel free. What was my inner guidance telling me? It was telling me to feed my soul, choose my soul , I will then uncover the importance of my soul and my soul will be free. When I did that I was led to a passionate career, severed toxic relationships, my physical health improved and a lot of negatives emotions started to wither away. I broke out of those chains and swam to shore. Even Houdini would’ve been proud. My soul has never felt freer.

Some have never tasted freedom so they don’t crave for it but they have felt emptiness in their soul and ignore it. They are evading freedom. Some have tasted freedom and fear controls them and has decided to live with their emptiness. They have incarcerated their soul. While some will go from career to career, relationship to relationship, city to city until that emptiness is filled. They may appear lost but on the contrary they are the ones who will find total freedom. When restrictions placed on you by society, family or friends no longer determines your choices, you can then truly say that your soul is free.

Are you passionate about your career? Are you healthy? Do you wake up everyday full of happiness, full of joy? What about your relationships? Are you satisfied in them? How do you feel about yourself? Are you full of guilt, anger, bitterness or other negative emotions? Do you feel stuck? These questions can help you to gauge your soul’s freedom. Take a look at every area of your life and if you are not jumping for joy or moving towards joy, I urge you to ask yourself this question “Is my soul truly free?”

The Importance of Uncovering Your Soul

“What’s the importance of living the life your soul intended? The answer is that by understanding your soul’s purpose, you’ll no longer sail aimlessly through life. Instead of being that ship without a compass, you’ll set course knowing your current location, your destination, and what you’re going to do when you get there.”

-The Instruction: Living the Life Your Soul Intended by Ainslie MacLeod.

When I saw the title of this book one day, it made me stop and think. It is one of the few moments in my life where the universe has dropped something in my lap. I thought to myself, someone has instructions on how I could connect with my soul and figure out what my soul purpose is. I immediately ran out and got the book. It did not disappoint.

A short time ago, there was very little joy and happiness in my life. No matter what I had achieved career-wise or education-wise. What I had material-wise or what kind of family or friends I had, life felt empty and meaningless. I felt lost and therefore I started to seek. I didn’t know what I was searching for or what I’ll find but what I had was not it. Seeking put me on a path to finding joy and happiness in my life. After years of reading self-help books, spiritual books, crying out to life, crying out to the universe to hear me, asking for guidance, feeling depressed, trying this, doing that, running here, joining that, I read Ainslie’s book. It changed my focus forever. A guide that helped the human part of me connect to my soul.

So, when there is emptiness in your heart, loneliness in your soul, and yearning for something different in your life; this is a sign. It’s a sign you are not experiencing your soul’s intentions. Start seeking. Seek until the emptiness is gone and your heart is filled. Seek until the loneliness is cured and your soul is connected. Seek until the yearning has vanished and you’re contented. Seek until you find what you are looking for. These are signs. Don’t ignore them. The importance of uncovering your soul is for you to experience joy, happiness, fulfillment, freedom and purpose. Feed your soul; choose your soul so you can uncover the importance of your soul.

“In a world full of chaos, noise, and constant stimulus, it can be virtually impossible to get the tranquility your soul needs. And accessing the power of the universe requires a still mind.”

-The Instruction: Living the Life Your Soul Intended by Ainslie MacLeod.

Sex does not warm the soul….

neither does alcohol, drugs, caffeine, food or anything we turn to when we want to turn away and not address the issues in our lives or address ourselves. They don’t fill the void we sometimes feel at times in our lives. They don’t help when we feel blind and lost or when we feel beaten and defeated. Those things only warm the physical body momentarily that’s why you have to constantly return to them to maintain this “high” and then it leaves your physical body through one of the exit doors. You want to return to them because we want to entertain forgetfulness. You want to return to them so you can forget you. You want to return to them so you can just get through the next second, the next minute, the next hour, the next day, the next 20 years. You just want to get through life and nothing else. I am hoping you want to feel fulfilled. I am hoping you want to live a life of purpose. I am hoping you want to live your life consciously. I am hoping you want to remember you!

When we warm our soul, we will then feel the warmth from our soul. This high is from within therefore it stays within our energy field and energizes us. It is never excreted hence helping us to grow exponentially and connect us not with just our soul but with the divine. This feeling comes from deep down inside of you and only you can recreate it. Once you’ve experienced it you will not try to look for an outside substitute. There is none. This is from within. This will make you want to live a conscious life but you have to go deep.

Do you know why it is important to connect to your soul? So you can get to know who you really are. I am not talking about the person your parents raised, or who you’ve become with your significant other or when you had children. I am talking about an understanding of self. What makes you tick? What are your likes and dislikes? Uncovering your passion. Discovering your dreams. When you feel the warmth of your soul, you appreciate, accept and love yourself. When you have this kind of understanding of who you are, you cannot and will not compromise. You will not lose yourself. You are okay with who you are, where you are, and where you are headed. You feel comfortable with your choices and changes that are occurring within you and around you. You won’t want to forget the most important person in your life: YOU! You feel divinely loved and know that you are being taken care of. You don’t feel alone but know that a higher source is providing all you need for this moment. We seek to find this level of intimacy from others. We seek to find it from outside sources. Find it from within first. Be still. Meditate and go within. Spend some time alone and get to know yourself. This helps tremendously with connecting to the core of who you are. No books, sermon, blog, workshop or anything or anyone can make this connection for you. You have to do it yourself. Feed your soul; choose your soul, you will then warm your soul and in return you will feel the warmth from your soul. There is no other replacement and when you’ve felt it, you will not seek to find another substitute.

What do You Want To Experience Today?

Some people like to say that they woke up on the wrong side of the bed and then they stay there all day. Change your thoughts, change your words, and your day will be different…Guaranteed.

“Negativity has within it
the seeds of its own destruction.

You experience as you believe.
The very world in which you exist,
the positive and negative alike,
is a product of what you hold to be true.”

– Emmanuel’s Book Compiled by Pat Rodegast and Judith Stanton

Listen to an uplifting song, remember a happy moment, or simply smile to yourself. You are making way for positive energy to permeate your being.

You just can’t live
in that negative way…
Make way
for the positive day.

- Bob Marley

What Do You Think You Deserve?

So, you met someone and he was everything you prayed for. You sent a request out to the universe and behold this person shows up in your life. Everything is going well and you are feeling happy. Your friend sees this in you and is wondering what’s going on, so you start to describe this relationship. He open doors for you, he send you flowers, you get a wake up text in the mornings from him, and things are going great. Then your friend says, “he is too good to be true, that’s not going to last. It’s because this relationship is new, wait until the real him shows up.” You start to believe your friend and you say, “You’re right” and the relationship takes a turn. Then your friend says, “I told you so, I knew it was too good to be true.”

So, let’s examine what just happened. You asked for this great relationship. Your prayers were answered. Everything is going well until someone put negative thoughts in your head but that’s not the problem. The problem is you start to believe those negative thoughts. When you allowed that negativity to ripple through your being, it pushed that relationship you asked the universe for; away from you. You were given a gift and you returned it to sender. Everything is energy, that means so are your words and your thoughts. People like to say that our words are powerful. Our thoughts are just as powerful. We have to watch our thoughts just as much as our own words. So, you thought about it but you did not stop there, then you agreed with her and said out loud “you’re right”.

The reason you readily agreed with your friend is because you don’t think you DESERVE anything great. Why can’t we have a great relationship, great health, a great career, or a great life? In order for that to happen, you have to believe that you are worthy of those things. When other people’s life is less than great, they want everyone around them to have what they have and feel what they are feeling. Ever notice that? Misery sure does love company. It takes a rare soul to say, “I am happy for you, you deserve that and more” and mean it. How many people do you know would do that while they are in a stressful relationship? Probably, not many. So you have to guard yourself. When your friend start to speak negatively about anything in your life that’s bringing you true happiness and joy, put a halt to it immediately and let her know that you are deserving of it. You deserve it all.

You want a better life and you are creating a better you. Some people are on a path of self-destruction, you want to be on a path of self-creation. Some people want to stew in negativity; you want to cook in positivity. Negative anything pushes things away from you while positive everything brings things to you. Think and say everything positive today and you can change your life.

The Ultimate Experience

“You don’t let people in!” said someone. She was absolutely right. I don’t why I should, I thought. All people ever do is let you down. They break your heart, your trust and rob you of love. You’re afraid to show the love you possess inside because you have been let down so many times that you EXPECT it to happen with everyone you come in contact with, so you don’t let anyone get to know you deeply or let anyone get too close.

People can be selfish. People are unreliable. People only call you when they need something or want something from you. People don’t listen to you. People judge you. People criticize you. People are jealous. People say hurtful things. People walk away from you for frivolous reasons. Guess what? You are included in those people. No one is perfect included you and even if you were, people will still do these things to you. Why? Because of fear. Fear of intimacy, letting anyone get too close.

This fear will cause you to shut down the life-sustaining part of you; your heart. It will allow you to manifest the same relationships you are trying to guard yourself against. Even with your guard up, don’t you still experience selfishness, unreliability, being used, being judged and being criticized? Don’t you still feel like no one listens to you genuinely, people still say hurtful things and walking out of your life? Guarding your heart does not guarantee you won’t experience negative emotions or actions from people. It also does not guarantee that you won’t get hurt by anyone. When you are experiencing this negativity with people, show them compassion, be empathetic, be understanding, and most important show them love. Open up your heart so you can have a chance to experience the highest emotion there is; LOVE.

If you expect people to say and do negative things, that’s what you will get. You get what you expect. So, let’s try something different today so we can have a different experience. First, open up your heart without expectations. Expectations of people will disappoint every single time. Get rid of the expectations of everyone. Secondly, when people demonstrate any negative emotions or actions, they are teaching you the kind of person you should not be. They’re our teachers. If someone is unreliable, you make sure people can rely on you. If someone does not have integrity, you make sure you live your life with integrity. If someone is untruthful, you make sure you always speak the truth and speak it with respect and love. Lastly, when you are having negative experiences with people, they’re once again our teachers. They’re showing you what kind of friend or relationship you should not keep. Minimize your interaction with that person or end the relationship. This is showing the universe that you are making room for a different and better relationship to come in. Trust that the universe will honor this change you have made in your life. A new relationship or relationships filled with love. So, remember, people show us what kind of friend not to be and what kind of friend not to keep.

Don’t let this fear keep your heart half way closed. You will never experience true intimacy until you have given your whole heart. In return, you are giving someone an opportunity to open their whole heart to you as well. It is also a chance for another to experience a different reaction, a chance for another to experience true intimacy therefore experiencing true love. Don’t let this fear rob you of a chance for a true love experience in this lifetime because this is what we came here to ultimately experience: LOVE.