Archives for June 2013

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Fear. F.E.A.R. False. Evidence. Appearing. Real.

A projection of what the future may hold. A guess. A wish. A moment where we believe we are clairvoyant.

And yet we hold our fears to be as real as the reality of this moment. They freeze us. They frighten us. They hold us back from moving forward. They hold us in this fantasy world where we believe that what we’ve made up will indeed come to pass. They are as real to us as anything that’s actually happened.

But they are the darkest pieces of our imagination. They are the inventions of the part of us that does not trust. And so we repeat them like affirmations over and over in our mind until they harden like concrete. And even though they may never come to pass, we hold onto them with deep faith, so that if they do happen, we prove ourselves right and if they don’t come true, we have become so fixed on them that we are blind to the beauty that does unfold.

Fear obscures the opportunity that sits right before us. Fear colors every thought that has the potential to sprout into magnificence. As the Buddha said, “All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we create our world.”

And when we convince ourselves that what we want to happen won’t and what we don’t want to happen will, then we become a victim of our fantasies.

Listen to davidji today as he discusses STEPPING THROUGH FEAR on hayhouseradio.com Wednesdays  3p PST/6p EST
Listen to davidji today as he discusses STEPPING THROUGH FEAR
on hayhouseradio.com
Wednesdays
3p PST/6p EST

But we are better than that. We are stronger than that. We are more capable and blessed than we give ourselves credit for – and when we surrender to fear it is because we don’t trust. We don’t trust in the divine…we don’t trust our choices…and we don’t trust ourselves to make right decisions. There is a struggle within each of us where the worst possible scenario battles the best possible scenario for attention in a given moment. But we must remind ourselves that we have a choice in each moment…that we can choose the best outcome or the most painful outcome. When we meditate, it brings us to a place of pure, perfect, wholeness where we can make choices without the conditioned negativity of our past. We can make choices from an abundance mentality rather than a poverty consciousness. We can direct our thoughts to the land of pure potentiality or to a place of limiting beliefs.

And so when we find ourselves questioning our judgment. When we hear the voice in our head telling us we are less than or not worthy, we need to know that the word TRUST can be re-configured into STRUT! And that’s how we step into our Power…by giving yourself permission to strut, to believe again, to open our heart to the possibility that whatever negativity you can dream up can easily be offset by a positive message.

 

Simply use the mantra, “When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be” and you will find yourself trusting more, dying to the past, and STEPPING into your power. How about we try it just for the week. Send me an email info@davidji.com with a fear you are working on right now and let’s see if we can replace it with your new vision, your new dream. A new you that is ready to STRUT and create your new world.

Peace. -davidji

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“I wanted a perfect ending…
Now, I’ve learned the hard way that some poems
 don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear
 beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing,
 having to change, taking the moment and 
 making the best of it,
 without knowing what’s going to happen next.
 Delicious ambiguity.”

 -Gilda Radner

It’s what comes after life’s many difficulties that matters most. What we do with what we have left determines whether we are diminished or increased by the molehills and mountains we have climbed. Everyone tastes a different flavor of pain, yet we all know its bitterness at some point in our lives.

When loss arrives at your door, it can rob your sense of hope. It tampers with your ability to believe in the best that life can offer. Looking towards optimism can be challenging, but if you stay centered and grounded in your feelings and expressions, you’ll find your way back to happiness again.

I don’t think we ever really get over a crisis or “move on”. Instead, we grow. We take all that we’ve learned and continue growing. Trusting in the goodness of life is part of that. Instead of dreading what’s around each corner, we strive to hope for impending joy. This can seem difficult, but I know it’s possible. I’ve seen it happen…in me and in the faces and stories of others.

“Tears water our growth.” -William Shakespeare

If you are experiencing the pain of loss, find a quiet place, get comfortable, and listen to this week’s guided meditation. Being present with your feelings and emotions can allow you the freedom to acknowledge where you’re at and open your heart – even if it’s just a little bit – to the inevitable growth and expansiveness that comes with moving through loss.

Wishing you a weekend filled with love, gratitude, & peace. – davidji

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“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
-Napoleon Hill

Stepping into Power- Moving through Loss

At some point in our lives we experience the loss of something or someone we loved dearly. It may take us by surprise and in that context we also must deal with the emotions of shock and dismay. Or it may take the form of a more extended period where we are conscious of the fact that we are in the midst of losing something which impacts us in additional ways.

Elisabeth Kubler Ross is credited with introducing what she referred to as the five stages of grief. Her hypothesis states that when a person is faced with the reality of impending death or other devastating loss, that he or she will encounter a series of five emotional stages:

• denial
• anger
• bargaining
• depression
• acceptance

Kubler-Ross stressed in her 1969 book On Death and Dying, that these emotions could be experienced in any order and in fact you may go back and forth between certain emotions for example experiencing acceptance very quickly in the process, then drift to a period of anger, then fall into depression, move back to acceptance, and then embrace denial continually progressing through these stages experiencing what you need in a given moment.

Her work transformed how western medicine viewed the emotional state of those with terminal diagnoses. But more importantly, it explained our emotional flow when we are dealing with any type of loss – death of a pet, death of a friend or loved one, losing a limb, losing your job, getting divorced, losing your home, your car, your youth, your hair, a core relationship, a treasured item, even coping with an addiction.

There are many other emotions we can also feel and there is no certainty that someone experiencing loss or a life-altering event will feel all five of the responses, but understanding these five emotions can help us give ourselves permission to experience them without judging them as appropriate or inappropriate while we are in the midst of our grief.

Over the past several years as I have experienced loss in my life, I have taken solace in the fact that I could better understand my grieving process. The key for me was to recognize how long I was sitting with a particular emotion and what I was learning about myself during the process. Coping with grief in a healthy way – for me – means not suppressing or denying the emotion I am feeling at a particular time. And my biggest life lesson was recognizing that the depth of my emotional pain was a direct reflection of the depth of the love that I hold in my heart for that being or thing that I have lost. In essence, the deeper the pain – the greater the love, and that is a reason to celebrate. When you find yourself spending -what you interpret as- a bit too much time in the pain, see if you can remind yourself that grief is recognizing the depth of the loss. But there is another side to the story… integrating the magnificent gifts you’ve received from what you’ve lost – the sweet memories, the joys of your past, the special moments – and that magnificence is something to celebrate.

Remember the immortal words of the Sufi poet Rumi:

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.

So love yourself unconditionally – forgive yourself – and celebrate your loss…it has been sent to you as a guide from beyond. Join me today on Hay House Radio and we’ll go deeper. Peace. -davidji

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davidji LIVE on hayhouseradio.com every Wednesday 3p PST/6p EST
davidji LIVE on hayhouseradio.com
every Wednesday
3p PST/6p EST

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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
— RALPH W. EMERSON

Here comes the weekend!!!!! And it’s time to step into our power and open our arms and hearts to ABUNDANCE. As the ancient sage Lao Tzu wrote, “When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be.” So let’s let go of one thing that no longer serves us – so we can make room for the universe to woooosh something new, rich, fresh, special and magnificent into our lives.

Open your heart…chill your mind…and together YOU & ME …let’s manifest the abundance of the universe into our lives. Whatever you are lacking right now – love, money, forgiveness, self-esteem, compassion, inspiration…listen to today’s meditation and let’s fill what is empty & empty what is full.

Namaste spiritual warriors. You ROCK! Peace. -davidji

PS – Today is the last day to own all 110 interviews on the Hay House World Summit!

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Join me in Tulum, Mexico! November 16-23 Click image for more info!
Join me in Tulum, Mexico!
November 16-23
Click image for more info!

 

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“Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
~ Lao Tzu

Hello Spiritual Warriors! And welcome to week two of our exploration into STEPPING INTO YOUR POWER. This week we step into wealth consciousness, also known as abundance consciousness. So raise the roof! And step into your abundance as we journey together. Abundance consciousness is not simply about making or receiving money. Money is one of the symbols of material wealth. But viewing our abundance solely in terms of dollars or euros or pesos or pounds is limiting. Abundance consciousness is opening our arms so wide so that EVERYTHING – money, health, love, forgiveness, happiness, spirit…flows into us without conditions.

Having lots of money doesn’t always provide happiness. It definitely provides one thing – not having to worry about money! But not necessarily anything else. And you can still have lots of money and worry that it’s not enough or that you’ll lose it. The world is filled with unhappy people who have lots of money. But without an abundance mindset regarding the other aspects of life, happiness will most likely elude you…even if you’re sitting on a big pile of ca$h.

Saraswati, Lakshmi, & Ganesh
Saraswati, Lakshmi, & Ganesh

Abundance consciousness is more about FLOW. It’s a perspective in which we see ALL OF LIFE as an infinite circulating, intertwined, inter-dependent, inter-woven fabric of threads that connect every aspect of existence and that FLOW through us in every moment. Every breath I take creates a vacuum of air that will be filled by another’s exhale. Every word you speak enters the silence, alters it, vibrates, and creates the potential for a word from someone else. Every conversation you have is not simply the beginning of something but a continuation of everything that’s led up to that moment. The ripple flows infinitely and if we open ourselves to it, we become it, and then what ripples out of us flows with effortless ease. We are the evolutionary merging of every sunrise, every sunset, every birth and every death, every laugh and every tear, every bark and every meow, every seed and every falling leaf, every conversation that’s ever existed, combined with every experience you’ve ever had, combined with all the matter and all the energy of the world that has ever existed.

WOW!! That’s a lot of rippling. When we allow the world to ripple into us with open arms and then let it flow out of us with grace and generosity, in that moment we are a conduit, a channel, a medium for whatever we desire. And it is in that sweet act of giving AND receiving that we fulfill our purpose, our needs, our desires, and the universe’s intentions.

Two of my dearest friends and greatest teachers Deepak Chopra and David Simon spoke and wrote prolifically about the principle of giving and receiving – it’s one of the Seven Spiritual Laws! They were masters at translating this timeless wisdom and they stressed that giving and receiving are both opposite sides of the same coin. If we don’t allow ourselves to receive and only give, we exhaust our supply and ultimately we collapse. And if we only receive and don’t let our gifts flow out…we become constipated.

CIRCULATION is the watchword of the week. Keep the flow. Keep it going. Stay open. Hug and kiss a lot (these are acts of BOTH giving and receiving). You can’t do one without the other!!

This week, let’s commit to flowing the love, the forgiveness, the compassion, the generosity, the money, the compliments, the support, the health, the nourishment, the peace, the abundance of life in all its forms as it weaves through the five realms – the physical, emotional, material, relationship, and spiritual aspects of our existence. Let’s open to abundance consciousness and recognize that we are indeed the universe – all connected…all one.

And if you’d like to take these teachings deeper into your life, join me in Tulum, Mexico this November for a week of abundance!! Be peace…and I’ll see you in the gap!! – davidji

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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

We are STEPPING into OUR POWER!!!!

And it’s so much more powerful when we journey on the three-fold path to:
First…Gaining clarity.
Then…Trusting that the time is now – and that the DO-er is YOU!
And, lastly…mobilizing & expressing our intentions and desires.

Energetically, we awaken our power center – our manipura chakra in the center of our chest…and flow that transformational energy out into the world through our expression center – our visshuddha chakra located in our throat.

Manipura into visshuddha. Your power chakra into your expression chakra. Your solar plexus into your throat. Mobilizing your intentions & desires and giving yourself permission to express them. Breath by breath. Bean by bean. Hour by hour. Day by day. Giving ourself permission to stand in our truth without fear.

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If you’re reading this, you are already empowered to take your first step. YES!!!!

You have obviously awakened your boldest essence. So congratulate yourself for having the courage to begin this powerful, evolutionary journey.

Now let’s nourish our courage, by letting our thoughts, words, and actions flow. We do this by awakening our throat chakra – our energetic center of expression.

HAPPY WEEKEND WARRIORS! Peace. – davidji

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davidji with MJ & Dean of SacredFire
davidji with MJ & Dean of SacredFire

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“We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
― Joseph Campbell

Welcome Spiritual Warriors!!

It’s a brand new month and an opportunity to reflect on what matters, who we are, and what we need to take us to the next level. This process is known as STEPPING INTO YOUR POWER.

Over the years, I have shared the teachings of don Miguel Ruiz – someone I consider a friend and a brilliant translator of timeless, Shamanic, transformational wisdom. His philosophies are based on the belief that we can awaken our power by practicing The Four Agreements and replacing the non-nourishing agreements we have made over the course of our life. don Miguel illuminates the path to greater happiness with insights on our early conditioning where we trained ourselves to make other people happy through a process he calls Domestication.

It is during these early years that we began to make the thousands of agreements that ended up dictating our feelings and behaviors. Our parents, our caregivers, our priests, our teachers, our coaches, our bosses, our boyfriends & girlfriends, our spouses, our brothers & sisters, our leaders, our doctors…all rewarded and punished us whenever we did or didn’t do what THEY wanted us to do.

And it was from this cause and effect, stimulus-response daily conditioning that we wove the fabric of our life. Even in our first few days out of the womb, we could sense whether our behavior generated smiles or frowns, and we began to practice and reinforce what would bring us more pleasure and comfort & less pain and discomfort.

As children, we learned behaviors and habits from our peers and the adults in our life in school, in the neighborhood, at camp, in church, and at home.

The tools of reward and punishment were often emotional and sometimes physical as others’ opinions and reactions to us became a very strong force in the habits we created.

Each day, we SELF-domesticated ourselves as we created agreements in our mind of who we should and shouldn’t be, and what we should and shouldn’t do. And at a certain point that became engrained into every muscle in our body – every fiber of our being – as we lived a life and reinforced it based on others’ opinions and expectations of us.

In this process of domestication it turns out that the choices we make and the life we live is more driven by the opinions we learned from others than if we had grown up in isolation with no one around to tell us what was “acceptable” and what was not.

But if you want to be happier…you need to step into your power and take the reins of your life so you can be the writer, the main character, and the director of your life. And right now – in this moment – you get to turn the page and write the new chapter of your life.

Join davidji & special guests Sacred Fire LIVE today on hayhouseradio.com 3p PST/6p EST
Join davidji & special guests Sacred Fire LIVE today on hayhouseradio.com
3p PST/6p EST

Rabbi Hillel was known to have said, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?”

So, when you ask yourself those questions, what answers come back?

Now is the time to take the step you’ve always feared or held off from doing because of what someone else would say. If finally…you just didn’t care what someone else (the person whose reaction you are fearing) would say, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Would you stand in the center of your truth and own how you really feel?

Would you finally trust and bless your feelings, emotions, dreams & desires?

I think you would. So let’s take one thing we truly dream of but feel shut down when we envision how someone else will respond – and let’s own it…and do it.

Now is the time when we can step into our most feminine side of our being…listen to our heart’s guidance (rather than our head), and take a small step in the direction of our dreams.

Write your dream on a piece of paper. Stare at it for five minutes. Close your eyes. Use that as your mantra and meditate for 30 minutes every day for a week.

Send me an email with your results.

Let’s step into the fire of transformation together. Agni meele purohitam. I surrender to the fire of transformation. And I’ll see you in the gap! Peace. – davidji

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