Are you stuck in what you know? It may sound like a weird question at first, but it cuts to the heart of why so many of us find ourselves recreating the same patterns, relationships, and outcomes year after year. Iyanla Vanzant shines some light on the importance of this question - "Your Daily Dose" … Continue reading Are you stuck in what you know?
We've all been there - that uncomfortable space where we know the old patterns no longer serve us, yet the path forward remains frustratingly unclear. This liminal space, the threshold between who we were and who we're becoming, often feels like the purgatory that Dr. Suess described as the waiting place - a period in … Continue reading The in-between spaces.
Either everything is of God, or nothing is of God. It can't be true that only certain things were made by God and not others, and this means that YOU... you are a part of God... and this makes you worthy. You are worthy and deserving just because you breathe, and your heart beats. We … Continue reading You ARE consciousness itself, manifested in form.
Don't run, stay. Don't turn away, BE here. Our need to run is an old inner message that's trying to find safety, But it's going to run forever until the wiser part of you makes the firm decision that, "we will run no more". "Your Daily Dose" is a quick two minute read packed with … Continue reading Don’t run, stay.
Life presents us with a constant balancing act between acceptance and action, between surrendering to what we cannot control and courageously changing what we can. The age-old wisdom of the Serenity Prayer offers profound guidance for navigating this delicate dance, and spiritual teacher Iyanla Vanzant's insights illuminate how we can apply this wisdom to break … Continue reading Today I decide that I am going to live out loud!
No-one can do for you what you can do for you. No-one can hold a space for your hurt, like you can do for you. No-one can sit with your fear, like you can do for you. No-one can make you whole, like your own acceptance does for you. Yet these tend to be the … Continue reading You are SO much stronger than you’ve ever known!
Welcome to a brand new week in which to create at your very highest potential! Every day is a blank canvas, a new opportunity to paint your life with the colours of your dreams. As we embark on this new week, let's take to heart the inspiring words of our teacher for the week, Iyanla … Continue reading Every day is your day if you claim it.
We are always creating! We were created to create and therefore we create by default, through our thoughts, choices, and actions. The real question isn't whether you're creating - it's whether you're creating from your highest potential or from a place of limitation. What is it that prevents us from creating at our highest potential? … Continue reading What is holding you back?
What is freedom? Can you find the answer in this quote? "The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly … Continue reading What is freedom?
To come to a deep understanding of anything, requires exploring both sides of the coin. While shallow knowledge accepts a concept at face value, a deeper knowing is always aided by also understanding what it's not. And to this end, the question today is: What is the opposite of love? "Love and fear are the … Continue reading What is the opposite of love?
The only impossible journey, is the one which you never start. You have to take that first step! And then you have to keep taking steps even if they're really small, in fact surrender to the idea that they will all be baby steps. All journeys are constantly changing. Some days you'll be flying down … Continue reading Worry only about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
How closely do you live to what your soul wants to express? So many of the actions we take are motivated by fear. When we live our lives with a focus on avoiding all the potential problems we see, then we remain operating on the same level as those problems, always fighting for survival. While … Continue reading What would the world look like, if we were all motivated by the expression of our souls?
It's so easy to experience the world as a hostile place. In a world saturated with negative headlines and endless streams of disappointing news, it's almost difficult not to develop a cynical worldview. We scroll through social media, watch the news, and witness humanity's capacity for harm, sometimes leaving us feeling disconnected from the very … Continue reading It doesn’t always help us to love the world. But it does prevent us from hating the world.
Hey! It's Monday! Let's jump in together! Our teacher for this week is Jack Canfield, co-author of the phenomenal Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. Canfield teaches the importance of clearly defining one's vision and then following up with consistent, disciplined action. If I had to ask you right now to show me your … Continue reading Decide what it is you want, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.
A regular practice of silence is like medicine, and the long term healing properties of meditation are becoming increasingly clear through modern science. Recently, meditation researchers have investigated how meditation impacts what is called the brain's default mode network (DMN), which includes the self-talk that constantly chatters in the background as you go about your … Continue reading A study on negative self-talk.
We are given this choice every day - Will I complain about what's not going my way? Or will I become conscious of, and find gratitude for, the many things that really are going my way? Whatever holds my attention, I will be shown more of. "Your Daily Dose" is a quick two minute read … Continue reading What will YOUR song be?
Since humans first began to write, has there ever been a topic more written about than love? Trying to understand, explain, describe with words something that we all have some knowledge of, and still seems so elusive? My favourite interpretation of love is: “... to become acquainted with the essence of what you are, and … Continue reading Love: You’re not meant to wait for it.
Our sub-conscious creates patterns from past experience in order to ensure future survival. This feature of our brain is essential for our survival and it makes us functional human beings. It's your brain’s ability to create patterns that enable you to drive a car, or even to walk and hold a conversation simultaneously. "Your Daily … Continue reading Will you always let your old programme make your decisions for you?
The world around us is in a constant state of change, and if our "being happy" is dependent upon things always being the way we like it, then it is likely that we will never actually be happy. If happiness is something that is waiting for you around some distant corner somewhere in the future … Continue reading Let your inner-being be your grounding and your guidance.
For a moment, bring to your mind the image of a flower in full bloom. Notice just how ready you are to exclaim "perfection!" Yet when you turn that same gaze inward, do you view yourself through this lens of appreciation and wonder? Do you look through this same lens when you look at YOU? … Continue reading Take repossession of your Self, and you will rise to a level of greatness that has been yours all along.
Our teacher for this week is Michael Beckwith, a minister, author, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles. As we step into this new week Michael has a reminder of who/what we are - we are all creators, whether we recognize it or not. Every thought we harbor, every word we … Continue reading I believe you are great, that there’s something magnificent about you!
Surrender is always a bit of a tricky subject to get one's head around, and most often the ideas of “surrender”, “being present” and even “meditation” elicit the image of floating around in a state of bliss, removed from life's problems. Matt Kahn does a great job describing the difference between resisting life and surrendering … Continue reading Become a willing participant in your life.
Matt Kahn’s book, “Everything is Here to Help You” is an inspirational and helpful guide through the process of shifting out of the Ego’s perspective and into the Soul’s point of view. It should come as no surprise that the daily experiences we encounter are looked upon differently by our Ego and our Soul, so … Continue reading The part of you that brings safety even in the middle of the loudest storm.
What kind of energy do you want to carry around with you? This seemingly simple question holds the key to transforming not just how you interact with the world, but how you fundamentally experience life itself. In our daily encounters with others, we face countless opportunities to choose our response. Someone cuts you off in … Continue reading What kind of energy do you want to carry around with you?
In a social media driven world, we are constantly advised on how to curate our image and carefully craft our words, while the most basic ingredient of true connection is ignored… the courage to simply be honest with everyone we encounter. Matt Kahn invites us to re-understand honesty as the superpower that helps us master … Continue reading This kind of honesty is disarming, and invites honesty in return.
In the natural world organisms don't exist in any kind of isolation, but live within a dynamically changing environment. Biology describes environment as the space that encompasses everything surrounding a living being, and survival depends on the ability to respond to ever-changing conditions. As humans, we face the same fundamental challenge: we live in an … Continue reading A gem cannot be polished without friction.
For each of us, our responsibility is to focus on doing our own inner work, tend to our own garden and keep our opinions out of the gardening of others. However, none of us live isolated on an island. Our human experience is deeply intertwined through shared connections to the humans around us. While we … Continue reading How to maintain strong boundaries and also be kind.
Hello Fearless Creator! Welcome to a new week of exploring your creative potential. Our teacher for this week is Matt Kahn who is the author of a few books that you’ll probably enjoy exploring: “All for love”, “The Universe always has a plan”, “Everything is here to help you”, and “Whatever arises, love that.” The … Continue reading Within me, as my breath, well-being and perfection always exist.
Light is everywhere. It gives us vision, keeps us warm, and facilitates life. Light is even responsible for developments in communications technology, the internet, and space travel. However, light is not just a physical concept. It is a central theme used throughout scripture to literally and metaphorically describe spiritual concepts. "Your Daily Dose" is a … Continue reading Do you know yourself as light?
Every day we encounter a variety of experiences. Some experiences which we consciously choose to have, and many more experiences that come our way regardless of whether or not we have chosen them. In those moments of unwanted experiences, what guides your actions? When life places in front of you something that you do not … Continue reading Whenever you’re trying to avoid the experience you’re having, you are aligning with fear.
