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March 29, 2013 by Somyr Perry Leave a Comment

“A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis

So, here we are…inches from the end of the first quarter of the year…25% through 2013. Oh yeah…we’re moving right along!

It’s not too late to double down. It’s certainly not too late to change course. And it’s definitely not too late to CELEBRATE your accomplishments.

The key to reflection is to review the past without emotional charge – to play each moment in fast forward.

This process, known as recapitulation, allows us to absorb every moment of the past at the cellular level. In latin, capit means head; ulation is a process; and re-means do it again.

By recapitulating at the cellular level, we consciously begin living experiences and behaviors that nourish us and unconsciously drift away from the experiences and behaviors that don’t.

If you can recapitulate the past 90 days during this weeks meditation, and then recapitulate your day right before you go to sleep, you will unconsciously – – ever so subtly – – begin the process of staying “in-check” and present with our actions, goals, and desires.

It’s so easy for some of us to gravitate towards the negative – the woulda, shoulda, coulda’s – so when you find yourself going there, be sure to gently nudge yourself back towards the positive…the highlights. They all count…no matter how small or large. Maybe you offered a hand to a stranger in need, donated some time to charity, rescued a pup, started journaling, have meditated every day since January 1st, began a project that you’ve been thinking about for years, had that conscious conversation that you’ve been wanting to have for awhile, or even something as simple as smiling at a stranger.

If you can combine this practice with daily meditation (meditation is key), the shifts will happen and you’ll begin leaning in the direction of your DREAMS.

Write to me at info@davidji.com and let me know how these last 90 days have been for you. Remember that the good and the bad bring balance – making it all A-MAZ-ING! As long as we keep evolving, anything is possible!

Peace, davidji

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March 27, 2013 by Somyr Perry Leave a Comment

“It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.”
– Ralph Ellison

As March comes to a close, it seems the perfect time to reflect upon the intentions, desires, resolutions, and commitments we made only 90 days earlier as we began 2013. How much has your life shifted in these last 3 months? How many of the seeds that you’ve planted have sprouted and how many have withered? Are you on the same trajectory that you so hopefully embarked on those first few weeks in January or have you strayed…gotten distracted…found yourself stuck in the karmic hamster wheel of life?

In Vedanta, there’s a magnificent tool to help you shift from where you are to where you would like to be. It’s called the software of the soul and it works like this:

Every action creates a memory
Every memory creates a desire
Every desire creates an action

So our actions lead to our memories, which in turn lead to our desires, which in turn leads to our actions. The cycle goes on forever; and the software of the soul can either keep us stuck in a rut reinforcing non-nourishing behaviors over and over again or it can be the catalyst that breaks us out of stagnation and into our new life.

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What’s the key? The key is to get clear on our desires, plant them inside, release them into the universe, and let go of the outcomes. THEN, go into the stillness and silence – the perfect incubator for your new seeds of intentions to take root.

Remember the FIVE REALMS – physical, emotional, material, our relationships, and spiritual? By asking ourselves what we truly want in these five areas of our life before gliding into meditation, we can establish greater clarity and set solid intentions.

It’s so easy for us to get sidetracked, so we must return back to these core practices…to these timeless rituals…the aspects of our life that keep us moving in the direction of happiness and fulfillment. It’s the minority of people that follow through on their dreams, hopes, intentions, and desires. The majority of the people in the world are either paralyzed and procrastinating or second-guessing their choices.

This week join me in making the commitment to take our power back; to rededicate ourselves in taking our lives to the next level. There are several areas of my life where I have gotten stuck, distracted, or second-guessed. This is the week that I bust out of those constrictions. So, you’re not alone. Many from around the world will join you this week as we all make the shift to a better version of who we are.

Join me on Hay House Radio today and let’s transform the world by transforming ourselves.

Peace, davidji

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March 22, 2013 by Somyr Perry Leave a Comment

“We loiter in winter while it is already spring.” – Henry David Thoreau

So often we tell ourselves that we simply don’t have the time, even to do the things that we love or the things that are important to us. By taking just 5 minutes a day to connect with the stillness that rests within, we can create the fertile garden and plant the seeds for the things in life that are fulfilling. Bean by bean the bag gets filled, so just take a few minutes right now to get clear on what you love, invite it into your heart, and drift into stillness and silence with me.

When this short guided and silent meditation is over, you will have all of the time in the world and your life will begin to blossom and bloom. Spend the weekend getting clear on what you really love and spend the week inviting those things into your daily living.

See you in the gap!

Peace – davidji

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March 20, 2013 by Somyr Perry Leave a Comment

Where has the time gone?

So many people say they don’t have time to meditate . But each of us begins each day with 24 hours to fill with what we choose.

We wake up in the morning with sleep in our eyes and that is as close as we get to our awareness of the stillness and silence that rests within. As the seconds unfold, each subsequent moment is a little faster than the moment before. As our physical body begins to move, the fluctuations of our mind accelerate…and before you know it, the daily jumble of routines, rituals, regular activities, conditioned behaviors, commitments, intentions, and desires takes over. Couple that with all the unknown, un-planned, and unexpected uncertainties that unfold with every text, email, phone call, conversation and action and … before you know it… you have no time!!

But that’s a myth. It’s simply not true.

Everyone gets a 24-hour countdown from the moment we open our eyes until we do it again the next morning. So if we can ritualize our morning meditation practice, we will lock it in and every thought, word, and deed will carry just a bit more stillness and silence as it enters the world.

The technique that I have taught people for years is RPM. Rise. Pee. Meditate.

It sounds simple. Yet that simple ritual has allowed me and hundreds of thousands of meditators to never miss our morning meditation. EVER!

Here’s how it works. Each of us begins our day looking at the clock. Then we flow into 8 to 15 morning ablution rituals – and we do them all in the same order…the same way…every day. We pee, poop, shower, brush our teeth, cook food, make a liquid, watch TV, read a newspaper, check emails, visit our favorite online site, walk the dog, prepare our children for the day, have sex, do our hair, put on makeup, and get dressed. Our Monday through Friday ritual usually differs from our weekend ritual. But simply having the awareness of the flow of our morning ablution ritual will jumpstart this process.

So close your eyes right now and walk yourself through your typical morning ritual and become aware of how your day flows. Pretty cool right?

Now if you can push RPM to the very front of your morning ritual train, within 35 minutes of you opening your eyes, you will have a solid half hour of stillness and silence that will greet every moment throughout your day.

If you want to start with five minutes of silent meditation, start there, and build on that – adding one more minute each week. Within a few weeks, you will have integrated this sweet practice into your morning flow. After 40 days, it will be a part of you. Your sleep will be more restful. You’ll find you have so much more time in the morning. And your days will unfold with greater grace and greater ease. As the Sufi poet Rumi said, “What nine nourishing months in the womb does for a fetus, 40 early mornings does for your spiritual practice.”

I invite you to join me every morning and the millions throughout the world who start their day with meditation. We get to choose what fills each moment. Isn’t it magnificent that we get to spend it together each morning in the gap?

Try RPM for a week and email me with your feedback. Peace. -davidji

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March 15, 2013 by Somyr Perry Leave a Comment

The Seven Love Steps

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”

~ Henry Miller

This week, we explored opening our hearts a bit more so we can truly feel the magnificence of life and become the best version of ourselves. The theme of Letting Love Into Your Heart seems to have hit a powerful chord with so many members of the SweetSpot Community – as I received so many calls on LIVE! from the SweetSpot this past Wednesday on Hay house Radio. And the emails continue to pour in!

Many members of our tribe have expressed that they want to take these teachings deeper, and I’m in the process of developing my Secrets of Meditation Teacher Training in September as well as a new weeklong retreat to explore and immerse in the teachings of the great Masters who have influenced me – from the Bhagavad Gita to Pantajali to Deepak to Pema Chodron. So stay tuned for details! And feel free to email me at info@davidji.com if you would like to find out more.

Opening our heart is never easy – especially when there’s been a heartbreak that has shut us down and allowed us to build walls to protect the tenderness of our heart. But RIGHT NOW, we can take some easy nourishing steps to feel again…to love again…and to let love BACK in!!!!

I mentioned these seven steps on HayHouseRadio during our guided meditation, but I’d like to share them again for those who were too deep in the gap to implement them.

1) We need to give ourselves permission to begin the process. You don’t have to give in or forgive someone (or even yourself) – but simply granting yourself permission to go to your heart is a HUGE STEP.
2) Accepting that you are entitled to receive unconditional love is critical. You are so worthy…so deserving to receive the love of the divine creator…the love of the universe…the love of others.
3) Acknowledging that HERE YOU ARE in this precious sacred moment and whatever broke your heart or continues to ache it…have brought you to this moment where you can love again…and feel love again.
4) Appreciating your environment – having gratitude for the world around you allows you take your attention off of the “poor me” mindset and allows you to ask, “How can I serve others?”
5) Having compassion is empathy plus rooting for someone’s pain and suffering to end. Having self-compassion (yes, rooting for yourself) and willing to forgive yourself for any big or little sins you’ve been beating yourself up over will allow you to step through your current pain which is holding you back.
6) Sharing love with others…flowing love into the world in every moment…living life with a Namaste mindset offers you an opportunity to BE THE CHANGE with very little risk to your tenderness.
7) And lastly…celebrate! Celebrate your little wins…your small successes. Party! And congratulate yourself for leaning in the direction of LOVE.

Use these steps to re-awaken love in your life and listen to today’s meditation to help you get a bit lighter. Have a sweet weekend. See you in the gap! -davidji
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March 13, 2013 by Somyr Perry Leave a Comment

Throughout the history of music, there have basically been two kinds of songs: those about when love is filling your heart and those about heartbreak and the heartache that follows. That’s because falling in love and having our hearts broken are the inevitable consequences of being human. Our hearts rise and fall as we attach to and detach from the things we love. And with the ebb and flow of those tides of attachment comes the oscillation of our emotional sensibilities as our heart empties and then fills.

We were born with tender hearts – warm, sensitive, open, innocent, and vulnerable. Hearts that were sweet, curious, infinite, abundant, that had no rules and knew no bounds – filled with dreams, desires, hopes, and aspirations.

At some point in our life, our sweet tender heart experienced a sadness – an expectation unmet, a loss of something or someone, an understanding turned on its head, a belief contradicted, or a violence perpetrated. The natural response would have been to shut down and protect the heart in any way we could. The steps you took to heal that wound or prevent it from ever happening again may have blurred the boundaries of where your vulnerability ends and your love begins.

To maintain that protection, we continued to cover the wound with thicker layers of defense so we would never again experience the hurt, the pain, the sadness. But in that process, we stop ourselves from feeling, we shield ourselves from letting love in, and we deaden the possibility of falling in love yet again.

So here we are in this precious, sacred moment. And what shall we do with it? Live our lives in this constriction or open our hearts once more and risk the pain of heartbreak once more?

The American author Anais Nin wrote,

And the day came
when the risk it took
to remain tight inside the bud
was more painful
than the risk it took
to blossom.

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If right here, right now, we are willing to give our heart permission to open and let just a sliver of love come inside, we can begin a transformational shift towards happiness.

We look around and see all the baggage of the past, the pain of what is no longer, and the tear-drenched pillowcase and we think that’s all there is…that we can never love again, feel love again, give love again. But that’s just a thought…just a silly thought that is based only in the fear that we will once again be hurt.

Life is magnificent out there. What has happened is carved in stone – but you are never stuck. You always have the ability to take a step towards love, towards wholeness, towards the thing you are most entitled to – happiness.

Ruminate on these lines by Rumi from The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks & John Moyne.

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

Today – just today…see how wide you can open your heart…see how far you can blossom. Join me on Hay House today and we’ll lock in the LOVE!! And stay tuned for this weekend’s meditation on love. Peace. -davidji

March 8, 2013 by Somyr Perry Leave a Comment

Owning our impact is an empowering, liberating, and inspiring way to add self-awareness into our daily equations. Facing your life head-on and acknowledging all of the amazing things that your ripple sends out, creates a keen sense of validation to our choices and contributions to the world. Making excuses and pointing fingers may feel satisfying in the moment, but doesn’t provide a platform for longer term evolution or deeper fulfillment.

The BEST confirmations come from the times when we can look in the mirror, smile to ourselves and know that our impact is balanced and positive – making room for the next great thing that’s coming our way!

Enjoy your weekend and see you in the GAP!
Peace,
davidji

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March 6, 2013 by Somyr Perry Leave a Comment

“If it’s to be, it’s up to me.” – davidji

Welcome to March!

This month we explore practical, easy ways to empower, inspire, and elevate our lives.

To begin this magnificent journey, we start by owning our impact. And what does that mean? It means – first, accepting where we are in this sacred, precious moment and celebrating that this moment is pure, whole, and perfect…and that every moment leading to this moment has been perfect (even if we haven’t necessarily liked everything that has occurred).

Second, once we have accepted that this moment is perfect, we need to accept responsibility…which means the ability to respond creatively to the current moment and all situations that are unfolding around us.

Next, we need to lean in the direction of our dream. We must take this step because without action, all we have are good intentions.

And lastly, we must trust.
Trust in ourselves…
Trust in the universe…
And trust that if we follow our heart, we will be delivered to exactly where we need to be.

Listen to me on Hay House Radio today and on FREE replays for the next few days and stay tuned for Friday’s Weekend Meditation.

These are challenging times for many people. If you know someone who is struggling, then please pass this along – and OWN YOUR IMPACT…the POWER of YOUR ripple!

See you in the GAP!
Peace, davidji

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March 1, 2013 by Somyr Perry Leave a Comment

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

BEing your Best in Each Moment
When we are present, we show up with greater willingness to listen…to actually hear the whispers of the universe, the subtleties of each moment, the nuances of the world around us. When we are present, we are open. When we are present, we are neither in the past nor the future. When we are present, we are engaged. When we are present, we are powerful forces of nature because we are aligned with nature – aligned with each breath of the wind.

When we can come from a place of stillness and silence and step into the moment – we are at our best. And whatever happens from that point forward is a gift.

See you in the gap! Peace. -davidji

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March 1, 2013 by Somyr Perry Leave a Comment

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we can come from a place of stillness and silence and step into the moment – we are at our best. And whatever happens from that point forward is a gift.

Join me in this weekend’s meditation and let’s surrender to BEing our best! See you in the gap! Peace. -davidji

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