joy – The Silence Within

Quiet Your Mind and all is Well

I find that I can so easily get all wrapped up in my thoughts and how I want things to play out. As each part of the day unfolds I am busily working away at something, heading in some direction. Pretty soon I have this feeling that there is so much to do and I just have to get going or I won’t get everything done. Then a restlessness sets in and I am hurried and bothered, especially if unexpected events or people show up, or my tasks don’t go quickly and smoothly so I can reach that plateau of – finished!

But this is all a mind game. I have been caught here before. I have learned that if I just stop, slide into the empty mind that meditation has shown me exists, I will be free of these feelings. When my mind is free of gathering important things to be done, I instantly relax and feel my peace return. Once I am settled back into my happy contented place I instantly see that half the things I felt I had to do were of no consequence, and just busy work created by an overachieving mind. I can sense the few things that I would like to do and let all the others go. I can gently do these activities with joy and a lightness of heart. There is no push, no need to reach that place called – finished! The doing of the choice activities bring their own joy. I am happy.

“When you become quiet, you let yourself relax into the moment, into your true nature.” Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing

Meditation has taught me so much. I have learned the beautiful expansive experience of an open and free mind. I can now see when the mind is dogging me, pushing me into useless activities. I catch myself reflecting back, judging the day, and I know the mind thrives on criticism and creating self doubt. But I can stop it now, I can change directions and slide gently into a space of peace and love. No longer am I a victim to a hungry mind starving for drama and intrigue. I know how to feed it gentleness, acceptance and love. I watch as it drinks in the powerful emotions that it has been longing for, and I feel it override the chaotic need for drama once it is filled with the soul soothing serenity that it truly desired. Then all seems right in the world.

If you are plagued with an unsatisfied, demanding, chaos creating mind, I would suggest learning to meditate, to free your mind of its shadowed condition, and allow it the experience of sunshine and joy, that it may return to it’s naturally creative and abundant state where it works to serve your highest good.

Meditation, to quiet your mind, is the purest form of transforming a life that I have ever encountered.

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Just Stay Home

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My goodness we have become crazy busy, highly efficient and very productive. But are we happy being this busy? Does it make us better people? Just because we have gifts and abilities is there some rule of life that we have to use them all at every opportunity? Aren’t you getting tired of the statement, “But you are so good at it, won’t you please do this role for us.?” Almost seems that to develop new skills and abilities will create more obligations and therefore more activities for us to get wrapped up in.

But I say screw it. Develop skills and abilities just because you can. Learn everything you want to. Be amazing at anything you do. Why? Just for fun. And when people notice how talented you are and desperately feel the need to have you use your new found abilities to better their organizations and lives…just say no thanks, go home and enjoy yourself.

It seems people may be laying low, hiding their talent so they don’t get asked to help. Perhaps they are just too busy and don’t want to add more work into their already overwhelming lives. They should not need to hide. I say shine your light, be bold and magnificent. AND be courageous enough to just say no to more activities. We need to cherish our lives, and live the way that brings us the most joy. Stop feeling obligated to help just because you have the abilities. Other people could learn and develop the abilities as well. They just don’t.

So go have fun, or go hangout and do nothing. There is something so freeing about the art of doing absolutely nothing. Have you tried it lately? Have you spend whole evenings and weekends with no commitments and just bummed around and did what ever you felt like? I’m telling you, the art of emptiness is something we have long lost as a society. I say we reclaim it and just stay home.

The Light Within

The infinite potential you seek is within you. It resides there as it always has. It is like a light that will show you the path to your happiness, joy and prosperity. It is necessary to find some quiet time to listen for the wisdom contained within this light. But it is very difficult to find when we … Continue reading “The Light Within”

The infinite potential you seek is within you. It resides there as it always has. It is like a light that will show you the path to your happiness, joy and prosperity.

It is necessary to find some quiet time to listen for the wisdom contained within this light. But it is very difficult to find when we are so distracted by the many interesting and chaotic events and circumstances that seem to be everywhere. We must make a choice. We can either be caught in the world of games and emotional dramas all day long, or we can choose to find some time for the light within. Finding the light within and listening carefully will change our experience of life.

The choice to reach for, and connect with the light means that we value love and light more than the games of this world. Find some time to sit quietly and still the mind. When you can sit without thinking, your light within will begin to emerge all on its own. Simply steal a few moments here and there to practice not thinking. This will start the process.

Learning to meditate will really help you develop this skill. But every opportunity you take to still the mind will encourage the light within you come forward. Just trust the process and experiment with it. you will undoubtedly begin to feel peace and serenity as the light begins to shine.

Everyday is a choice. Will you take some time to focus on love and light or continue to play the games of the ego and get lost in the world?

“You may experience a sense of perfect peace, a sense of truly being home. You may experience a great, brilliant, all-consuming light that fills, illumines and magnifies your very being in such a fantastic way that no one ever actually has been able to put it into words… But the one thing you most definitely will experience when you reach your inner Consciousness is the serenity of knowing without confusion, and an abiding peace and joy that will carry over into your active life even when you are not in these quiet meditational periods”

Ann Wigmore, “The Healing Power Within”

The Benefits of Meditation

In a world filled with turmoil and stretched lives, wouldn’t a deep sense of peace and tranquility, that bubbles into a steady stream of inner joy be a refreshing change? Meditation is a wonderful tool to create this state of inner joy and tranquility. It does not have to be a discipline of strange … Continue reading “The Benefits of Meditation”

In a world filled with turmoil and stretched lives, wouldn’t a deep sense of peace and tranquility, that bubbles into a steady stream of inner joy be a refreshing change?

Meditation is a wonderful tool to create this state of inner joy and tranquility. It does not have to be a discipline of strange leg positions and forced quiet. It can be a gift of pure joy and contentment. It is like receding from the world into a space of quiet solitude; a place where nothing nags at you for answers and you feel reassured that everything will work out for the best.

If you have tried meditation and found it difficult, then you did not do it right, or you misunderstood what was expected of you. Meditation should be effortless and relaxing. It is a creative process and there are as many different ways to meditate, as there are people who would like to try. Once you understand some of the basics of meditation then you can be creative and design your own routine, one that feels wonderful to you.

The point of meditation is to still the busy mind, which releases stress immediately. Once you stop thinking so much you will find that within you is a place of calm and peace, it will feel like coming home to yourself. Anyone can do it, if you find the right approach.

Meditation is being used in business to calm the body, release stress and allow revitalized energy to flow through the system. It’s not just a strange religious practice anymore. The therapeutic and physical benefits of meditation have been studied and proven.

Studies of meditation in the workplace show:

Increased productivity
Increased job performance
Increased job satisfaction
Decrease in desire to change jobs

“Meditators report that they are healthier, happier, more functional and more enthusiastic about life when they include meditation practice in their daily schedule.”

Roy Eugene Davis

“Many, today, are turning to meditation to reduce the effects of stress and anxiety, to grow in awareness, to improve their health or emotional stability. They achieve the results they are looking for. “

J.P. Vaswani

Meditation can be simple and easy to do. It will balance out the busy and stressful lives we are living.

Meditation is effective for personal reflection, life guidance and healing. It is an amazing tool with business applications that will create clarity of mind and enhanced creativity. With benefits in so many areas of our lives, is there any reason you don’t just jump in and start today?