Archives for September 2013

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“Who, being loved, is poor?” -Oscar Wilde

Dear Spiritual Warriors: As September moves into its final week, it’s important that we acknowledge that we have done some powerful work this month. We spent a week moving through change – that was pretty interesting! Then we allowed ourselves to awaken to the large and small miracles in our life. Last week we found our voice – stepping into our power and finally being heard. And this week, we let love in.

This has been an amazing month for me as well. I connected with thousands of meditators throughout Europe as Secrets of Meditation was released in Danish, Russian, and Dutch; I spoke to throngs of spiritual seekers at the Happinez Festival in the Netherlands; spent transformational time with active Dutch Special Forces & retired marines helping them release stress in their lives; partnered with Yog Sundari in London as we guided an amazing group of souls to one-ness; and this week, I’m in the midst of my Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Teacher Training with 15 dedicated yogis looking to take their lives to the next level. We are nestled in at the Meditation Nest, meditating at sunrise, practicing yoga on the beach as we breath sweet ocean air, and studying the wisdom of the masters, whileTibetan bowl master Damien Rose transports us on magnificent shamanic healing journeys, I feel deeply blessed.

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Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Teacher Training

And in the midst of so much travel and activity, it can be challenging to let love in – to keep an open heart while one is on deadline, meeting obligations, coordinating the present moment and the week ahead. We’ve all been there – so let me share my mindset so you can more easily Let Love In – especially amidst the swirl.

1) Step one is being in the present moment – cultivating a meditation practice. One can’t really be in touch with love or lead with love if you are not present.

2) We make more nourishing choices when we are living from our heart. Check out this week’s video (LINK) for details on how to make better choices through heart-based consciousness.

3) If we can choose YES a bit more than we have been – essentially accept a few more words, people, and experiences into our life, we things we have been resisting and rejecting, we will experience a profound business shift et, if we can share some of the magnificent benefits of this powerful practice

4) Is there a better way to live life other than in gratitude? I have not yet found it. When we live life with an open heart, we receive more of what we are seeking.

Weaving these four steps into our awareness will allow you to live a more heart-centered existence and experience deeper fulfillment. Are you ready to let love in? This week, let’s make a commitment to let love & miracles flow with greater grace and ease. Say YES to life & love!!!

Here’s to a week of letting love in!!! peace. –davidji

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“Words are the voice of the heart.”
― Confucius

Attention Spiritual Warriors!!!
FIND YOUR VOICE, trust, and express yourself!
Enjoy the liberation & meditation with Sacred Fire.
Happy weekend. Peace. -davidji

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“Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking it.”
~Naomi Wolf

Hello sweet Meditators!!!! And welcome to our third week of September…where we’ve already moved through change, awakened to miracles…and this week we empower ourselves to Find Our Voice.

Not so easy sometimes amid all the other voices (inside & outside) that are speaking to us and for us. Right? A question I am frequently asked is, “How can I tell if the voice I’m hearing is the divine whisper of the universe or simply my ego?”

So often we drive ourselves crazy over where the voice is coming from, or with such maddening questions as, “Whose voice is it anyway?” “Is it my authentic voice?” and “How can I let my voice be heard through the choir of voices that surround me each day?” To me, these feel like distractions in the true quest to unveil our voice.

As you know, I believe there are many paths to one-ness and certainly many paths to finding your voice in a given moment. So many of us live lives of quiet desperation – deferring our dreams or using the excuses of time, money, or others as why we aren’t expressing our unique gifts or our special talents. To cut through the swirl, so you can most effectively find your voice, here are Seven Steps to Finding your Voice. Use one, all, or any combination of the seven to spark your voice:

1 – Accept that you have a unique & special voice that is pregnant with possibilities…as the divine universe sweeps into you with each breath, give permission to the four unique parts of your being – your mind, body, heart, & spirit. Open these magnificent gifts and see how they can be applied to your life right now.

2 – Regularly spend time in stillness and silence – at least 15 minutes each day so you can quiet the fluctuations of your mind and ease the emotional turbulence in your life. From that stillness, the answers will come.

3- Cultivate your ability to listen to the world around you. Daily meditation leads to heightened awareness. What angers you? What makes you cry? What gives you hope? What gets you passionate? What gets your motor running? Listen to your emotions throughout the day and feel what moves you.

4- Tap into your passion overlap! Bubbling below our surface, are our own personal desires to love with passion, to live with passion, to learn with passion, and to add value to the moment – to contribute passionately. So where’s your voice? Identify the overlap between those four desires and you’ll find the seed of your voice!!!!!

5- Get really objective. See yourself from another perspective. Take out your journal & write about yourself in the third person. Look at yourself as you would a character in a book and write about what inspires that person and how they will make a mark on the world. When you’ve been writing for a bit – flip it around, make the character yourself, and see how your voice unfolds.

6- After you’ve meditated or been in stillness and silence for a few minutes, place your hand on your heart and ask: “Where am I holding back?” “In what instances am I biting my tongue?” “Where could I speak up a bit more?” “Where could I step into the unknown with a little more power?” IF I KNEW I COULD NOT FAIL…what would be my baby step?”

7- If someone really believed in you…saw your strengths…validated your gift…and could support your dream – then what? Listen to your heart. And go do that!!! Find a teacher, a mentor, a confirmer, and a coach.

Often we believe that time or money are the impediments for fulfilling our dreams or finding our voice, but in reality we fear we will not live up to our vision or worse – THAT WE WILL. So take baby steps…start where you are…and give yourself permission to speak from your heart. Remember, all the answers rest within. Be gentle. And come from a place of stillness and silence. And let your voice be heard!!!!!!!!! Peace. -davidji

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“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”–Confucius

Happy Weekend Spiritual Warriors!!

Let the MIRACULOUS unfold!

See you all in the GAP…peace. -davidji

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“Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.” – George Bernard Shaw

Hello fellow travelers! Experienced any miracles lately? No need to search…quiet your mind…surrender to the flow of your breath…drink in this precious sacred moment…awaken to your most divine self…and let the miracles flow! This is not about doing the impossible. It’s opening your Self to expand the possible!!!! Here’s an official definition:

mir·a·cle
/ˈmirikəl/

Noun
1. A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is considered to be divine.
2. A highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment.
But most often we put that in the category of shooting stars or rising from the dead or turning back time. But what about the magnificent miracles unfolding in every moment?

MY MIRACLE TODAY!

Drink these in:
Dog barking, baby crying, thunder booming, lightning cracking, heart beating, traffic stewing, body sweating, clouds rolling, surf pounding, train screeching, alarm wailing, eyes gazing, stomach growling, sun setting, forgiveness percolating, teeth chewing, pigeons flying, rain drenching, churchbell clanging, milk steaming, fish swimming, horns honking, wallah chanting, chocolate melting, nostrils flaring, mud splashing, compassion flowing, shutters flapping, eyes softening, lips whispering, incense wafting, feet smelling, laptop thinking, rainbow streaming, smile curling, bubbles floating, page turning, phone ringing, CD skipping, screendoor slamming, saints bowing, bulbs blowing, doorbells ringing, heart lightening, mind calming, breath flowing…soul soaring…right now…where’s your miracle?

Rock on!! Love. -davidji

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“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

Mantra: Sat Chit Ananda

Change is the only constant in our life, yet it is viewed as a scary, uncomfortable thing. In this meditation, you will look at change through the lens of the five realms in order to see the beauty in it. So today, plant the seed of change from one of the five realms in your heart.


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“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s September and welcome to CHANGE!

Ahh. CHANGE. The only constant in this kooky swirl of life and we all respond so differently to it. Some of us are naturally more flexible than others and handle change pretty smoothly – we easily adjust our mindset when situations or circumstances shift. Others get upset, angry, disappointed, or defeated when life unfolds differently than we anticipated. And how we respond to change becomes the fabric of our life – it can lead to lethargy, depression, emotional turbulence, regret, resentment, tenderness, reactivity and spurts of aggressive behavior, and in extreme cases, even shutting down, paralysis, and withdrawing.

Change is a natural part of life, and everyone faces it at one time or another. Most of us are continually tweaking our behaviors, expectations, and personal desires…making small adjustments that reflect our changing needs or interests – some have even become time honored “change” rituals such as back to school activities, getting ready for holidays, morphing with the seasons, etc.

How you respond to change often depends on the results you think it will bring such as excitement if you think it will bring a positive flow into your life – or sadness if you perceive that something you were used to is gone or will be gone. You may feel excited about change that involves a gain, such as a new baby or a promotion to a new rank. But you may worry about a change that involves a loss, such as divorce or a move to a new duty station. Or you may find it much easier to make gradual adjustments than to face a sudden upheaval in your everyday life.

Accepting a sudden, unexpected change — like divorce, a diagnosis, a death, being fired, someone you love being hurt, something you are attached to being taken away or shifted, being transferred or simply turning the clocks forward or back for daylight savings time – can be the most jarring. You wake up and your world is different – or when tragedy strikes, our lives can shift in the blink of an eye.

That’s because we paint our world with a brush of consistency – even though we know that life is filled with inconsistencies.

This is why I regularly recite the serenity prayer. And whether you belive in god or not understanding the serenity prayer can make a huge difference in how we reeive existence.

The prayer goes like this:
Dear Lord, God, Universe, Higher power, divine creator (or whatever feels right):
Grant me the serenity to ACCEPT THE THINGS I CAN NOT CHANGE.
The courage to CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN.
And the wisdom TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

We are all subtle control freaks! (some of us not so subtle). And when we think we have lost control, then fear, anger, anxiety, stress, and disappointment set in. But if we can accept an uncontrollable change for what it is… accept the reality that we do not have full control over what happens in life, then it becomes easier to be graceful when change visits.

If you don’t change…you don’t grow!!

The key is to go back to what we can “control” – our thoughts (through meditation; our words (through impeccable & conscious speech); and our actions (through, as the Buddha said, right action…coming from a place of stillness).

Change — even if we don’t want it — can be beneficial. Change brings us new opportunities to evolve, adapt, and move beyond limiting beliefs. In every change is a lesson. In every change is an opening for something new, letting go of the old; something fresh, letting go of the stale; something unexpected, stepping beyond limits. In every change we are reminded that we are an integrated thread in the universal fabric of existence – ever changing…ever merging. As one door closes – a new one opens. As one chapter ends…a new one begins. And this wild freight train of existence keeps on moving. We’ve all heard Ghandi’s quote – and maybe even posted it on Facebook or sent it out in emails – be the change you want to see in the world. This week, let’s use the mantra I AM THE CHANGE! with all that it brings and with all its scariness, uncertainty, loss of control, and transformational power. I AM THE CHANGE. Now let’s get busy.
Peace. -davidji

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