It’s the first day of a new week! As you settle into the rhythm of fresh beginnings, have you ever considered this – your entire life is a path to awakening? Every experience, every challenge, every moment of joy or sorrow, everything you go through holds the possibility of waking you up into the potential … Continue reading Say yes to life’s fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
It's Monday! A fresh week stretches before you, a canvas waiting for the masterpiece of your creation. We’re ditching the “blue Monday” vibes and embracing the potential that this new chapter holds, so let's start with a little bit of fun first. I LOVE Sweatpants and Coffee's Monday Motivations, maybe I'll include them more often … Continue reading The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Have you ever read Winnie the Pooh and realized that Pooh Bear is quite Zen compared to most of the characters around him? “While Eeyore frets.....and Piglet hesitates..and Rabbit calculates..and Owl pontificates Pooh just is…” - The Tao of Pooh Our teacher this week is very simply, a yellow bear in a … Continue reading One of the world’s great Taoist masters, is a yellow bear.
It's Monday, a fresh start to the week! We all dive in, energized and eager to make the best of our time. Today’s meditation challenges the notion that success hinges on relentless effort - a constant state of pushing and brute-force striving - and asks us to stop for a moment and reflect on the … Continue reading It’s dark because you’re trying too hard.
Standing at the start of a new week, possibility stretches before us like an unfurled canvas. What will we create this week? Our Teacher for the week is the whirling dervish of poetry, Rumi, urging us to embrace the boundless potential that lies within each of us. Daring us to dream big. “Stop acting so … Continue reading I hope you dream big this week!
Hello! Welcome to a brand new week! This week we don’t have just one teacher but a collection of wisdom from a diverse group of teachers. Today’s message is from Albert Einstein who I think along with scientist and philosopher, could perhaps be described as spiritual teacher too: "There are only two ways to live … Continue reading May you infect everyone around you with the magic of your soul!
Our teacher this week is Jack Kornfield who spent the years 1967 to 1972 becoming a monk in Thailand and Burma. Since 1974 he has been teaching meditation worldwide and was instrumental in introducing Buddhist mindfulness practices to the West. Standing at the start of a new week looking ahead, here are some thoughts from … Continue reading The heart is like a garden. What seeds will you plant there?
Sadhguru is our teacher this week. And as we look ahead into the next seven days, he reminds us that everything from the past or future, exists only within our minds. The past is a collection of memories, and the future is a series of projections. Neither truly exists in the tangible now. This realization … Continue reading The past is alive only in our memory. The future is alive in only our imagination.
The week stretches before you, a canvas waiting for your brushstrokes. Goals to set, dreams to chase – it's the natural human instinct to plan, to propel ourselves towards a perceived better future. But in this mad dash towards "what could be," we often forget the most fertile ground for growth: the present moment. Our … Continue reading Forget about enlightenment!
Do you ever dismiss miracles as fantastical occurrences reserved for saints or superheroes? You're not alone, there are many and varied opinions on the theme of miracles. Miracles are most often understood as violations of the natural world, but our teacher for this week - Charles Eisenstein - brings a twist to this understanding that … Continue reading What miracles are you losing out on?
The message for this week is in water, and it comes from the pen of Jaiya John: Be deliberate about where you pour your water this week... "Water will show you what freedom is. Try to destroy it and it changes form but retains its essence. Swallow it and you become it. Bottle it and … Continue reading Ask yourself this week, “What am I watering?”
For this week ahead my biggest wish for you is: That you simply do your best! "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." - Oprah Winfrey "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "Just do the best you … Continue reading This is how you consistently do your best!
Every Monday morning's meditation guides us to look at the week ahead and establish some clarity around what it is we want to create in the coming week. Today we ask the question,"what is it that motivates your creating - FEAR or FREEDOM?" When you create from FEAR, you're creating to avoid consequences. Creating because, … Continue reading What are you running towards?
Do you ever feel like the world keeps throwing you curveballs while you're giving it everything you’ve got? Friend, I hear you. But what if the true key to unlocking the life you desire lies not in external outcomes, but in how you see and treat yourself? Our teacher for this week is Debbie Ford, … Continue reading I know you’re doing your best, and I’m here to tell you that it’s enough.
Our teacher for this week is Juddu Krishnamurthi, and here are a few thoughts from him to ponder as you look at your week ahead - "In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth … Continue reading When the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, it is in a state of discovery.
Looking at the week ahead, Monday morning starts as a reflection of what I want to create this week, and also how I want to create, how I want to show up. How I want to feel while I'm creating. I find that being serious about creating often brings our anxieties to the surface as … Continue reading If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it!
Monday mornings. The groan-inducing alarm, the looming to-do list, the feeling of starting all over again. But what if we reframed it? What if Mondays weren't the enemy, but 52 chances a year for a fresh start, fueled by the magic of mindful breaths? 52 new waves of potential to ride. Your Monday morning thoughts … Continue reading 52 Mondays, 52 Miracles – breathe your way to a brighter week.
What are you creating this week? Elizabeth Gilbert kickstarts today’s journey with a reminder that we are all Fearless Creators, sculpting our world with every breath - “Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.” - Elizabeth Gilbert “The … Continue reading Will you have the courage to bring forth these treasures that are hidden within you?
A message from today's meditation: Happy Monday, and a merry new week! Hello! I'm popping up out of my hidey-hole and starting work again this week, so today was the first LIVE meditation for the year 🙂 Before I get carried away with what my goals are this year and everything I'm looking to create … Continue reading Before I get carried away with my goals for this year, I have a reminder for myself…
A message from today's meditation: We're not just entering a new week, we're cracking open a fresh year - a blank canvas, a cosmic reset button. But before we charge headfirst into resolutions and to-do lists, let's take a deep breath. Because a mind riddled with anxiety is like trying to paint a masterpiece with … Continue reading Whatever is soft and yielding will overcome what is rigid and hard.
A message from today's meditation: What is coming your way this week? I love having a clear intention for my day and my week, but I also accept that there will be many things happening in my environment that I just don't have any control over and I'll have to choose whether these experiences help … Continue reading Use whatever has come, to awaken.
I LOVE Mondays! Monday truly sets the emotional tone for the week ahead, how we choose to approach Monday is the energy that we carry with us into this week. Be intentional as you look ahead into this week. Intention doesn't guarantee that things work out as you've planned, but clear intent is what steers … Continue reading You can’t control the wind, but YOU choose how to set your sails.
A message from today's meditation: Let's talk about doing your best, do you feel like you're always doing your best? Or do you often feel disappointed in yourself and blame yourself for not doing your best?We tend to have this warped overachiever idea that our "best" is only good enough if it is always getting … Continue reading Are you always doing your best?
It's Monday and I want to remind you that you ARE a born creator! You were created to create. Creating is your birth-right. "Creativity is one of your greatest gifts. It resides deep inside you impacting every thought. It is attached to a never ending source and is one of the main aspects of who … Continue reading Are you LIVING your worth, or are you trying to prove your worth?
We're jumping into our new week with Oprah! Have the courage to create a grand vision for the beautiful life that you deserve. Believe in your greatness because after all, you were created by a power greater than yourself! This greatness lives in you and you will find that there is guidance if you slow down … Continue reading Create the grand vision but most of all… just do your best!
We are stepping into this new week with The Dalai Lama as our teacher. "Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my … Continue reading Creating in fear means we are in constant resistance to life. Turn it around!
With the week ahead of you, how do you want to show up to the challenges that this week brings? While some of the challenges we face come towards us from the outside, we all experience internal obstacles from time to time too. Looking at the week ahead, you might have an idea of the … Continue reading Meet every moment with full awareness.
It's Monday! We're at the start of a new week, let's see what this week has in store for us... "Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is." - Alan Watts "The future is a concept, it doesn't … Continue reading You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
It's Monday! Welcome to the new week! Our teacher this week is Carl Jung who made a lasting impact on the science of the mind as the father of “analytical psychology” during the first half of the 20th century. He understood though that in the pursuit of creating a clear science of human consciousness, it … Continue reading What moves you?
Welcome to Monday! It's a new week in which to create at your very highest potential! Our teacher for this week is Iyanla Vanzant, an American inspirational speaker, lawyer, spiritual teacher, author, life coach, and television personality. Her life is filled with a wealth of experience from which she draws along with the teachings that … Continue reading Every day is your day if you claim it.
