The relinquishing of a burden, while it may mean great relief, may also mean that the idea of self, the one who has held the burden for so long, must be relinquished because you’ve so self-identified through the burden and its presence and its challenge that you’ve come to believe it’s who you are.
Human beings, particularly those of us with a deep attachment to the ego, the voice of separation, have a tendency to be very dramatic. When our backs are up against the wall; when we are being stretched or pruned or corrected by the circumstances of life rather than knowing and believing that things are working together for our good, we more often than not immediately assume that we are in grave danger of extinction.
Wading, or “being in the flow”, means allowing the good to come to you rather than demanding it show up as you believe it should. Wading, however, has a very specific requirement. You must be perfectly aligned with the energy of that which you desire. Wading requires a sense of knowing and trust that at the right time, in the right way, your deepest intent and desire will be realized. If there is any doubt or hesitation in your wading, trusting or knowing, your wading will become waiting.
The process of placing our energy within a body, and in so doing forgetting that we are vast, majestic, Divine Beings made literally from the energy of Unconditional Love, is akin to being struck on the head by a heavy tree branch and rendered unconscious, only to awaken with no memory whatsoever. What would happen …
For many people a lot of emotions are stirred up during this unprecedented time we are living in. Anxiety and fear can pull us out of our body as we absorb the collective energy of the world at large. We may not be able to discern our own energy from that of the collective consciousness, …
Have you ever wondered why you feel so connected to the people in your life, even those you don’t like all that much? It all comes down to energy. In any relationship, romantic or otherwise, there’s an underlying energy that connects us all. This can be an amazing, often euphoric experience between two people when …
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10 Reasons to Take A Yoga Retreat What is a yoga retreat and how is it different from the usual yoga classes? Why should I travel just to practice yoga? How do you tell a good retreat from a great one? Can a yoga retreat really heal illnesses and chronic pains? If these questions are …
Names are a way of looking at things so that we do not mix things up. From a quantum physics angle, we look a chair and say, “this is wood”, but when we look at it from a practical standpoint, a chair cannot be a table or a ceiling, and the ceiling cannot …
The first step to Truth Speaking is opening our hearts. Sometimes we resist this because we think it means that anything and anyone can come in and do us harm. There’s a difference between an open heart, which can feel, process, and stay steady, versus a stuck-open-window heart, which lets all sorts of crap in. …
You ask me what is consciousness, but I ask you, what is not consciousness? Everything is made of consciousness. When you go deep into that empty space that you are feeling in meditation, three things happen. At the beginning of the meditation, you don’t see anything, you just see emptiness, but when you put attention …
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