A beautiful guided meditation with music by Neil Steven Cohen. A gentle suggestion and navigation for bringing your awareness back to the “Posture of Enlightenment”…breath, mind and body at ease.
Neil Steven Cohen, through his personal life experience, and working professionally with individuals and groups, has been developing the work of Psychospiritual Integrative Awakening for almost 30 years. The facilitation he offers to support people on the Path of Awakening is a revolutionary and creative synthesis of Buddhist Dharma, Hindu Advaita (nondual) teachings, body-centered and somatic psychology, Jungian psychology, the Esoteric Psychology of Soul Integration, mutual heart presence, and the power of direct personal experience.
Thank you so very much for offering your guidance so generously, I am most deeply appreciative.
You mentioned that you are, in addition to being an enlightenment guidelight, a professional fitness trainer and nutritional consultant…….
What can you recommend for someone who wants to lose weight?????
I have been “Battling the bulge” for the last 8 years now, and have had little to no success.
I have tried various programs, diets, and nothing has worked.
I really want to lose the weight………can you help?
With much Love and Gratitude,
“Battling the Bulge”
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enLIGHTenment Guidance
Dear Angel, “Battling the Bulge”
First and Foremost, let me THANK YOU humbly, for sharing YOUr opportunity for growth with ALL of WE!
This is an opportunity MANY face and I AM honoured to BE able to assist, uplift and enLIGHTen in any way, I AM so able ☺
Allow me to BEgin by saying outright, DIETing DOes NOT WORK!!!
Period.
The mind set invoked when one partakes upon a journey of dieting is TEMPORARY.
Thus the related terminology that has developed as a result of the “dieting industry”: “yo-yo dieters” and “yo-yo dieting”. The words exist for a reason!
Sure, dieting can work, but only long enough to glimpse our desired results, BEfore they fluctuate right back to where we started, if NOT far BEyond the realms thereto.
yo-yo Dieting
How many times do we hear of one whom has lost 10-20-50 pounds only to gain back, not only their weight loss, but an additional 10-20-50 pounds on top of it!
Too many to count ☹
Dieting does NOT work, period.
Achieving our “ideal body weight” – a different number for EVERYONE – regardless of what the “health index” stipulates by the way, BEgins within one’s………….are ya ready, it may NOT BE what YOU were expecting………..MIND.
Yup…… Ya heard right, achieving one’s ideal body image DOes NOT BEgin with proper eating and exercise, though these are the mainstays to any HEALTHy lifestyle, they come AFTER one’s CHOSEn MIND set.
Negative SELF image
Allow me to introduce YOU to “NOT”……..
One can eat well, exercise and still, NOT lose weight or get into shape, IF they keep telling themSELVes they are “NOT”…..not slim enough, not healthy enough, not BEautiFull enough, not worthy, not capable, just “NOT”.
More over, if ONE DOes achieve their “ideal” with a mind set of “NOT”- they will assuredly gain back ALL the weight they did lose, and then some.
Achieving a healthy body image, weight, and figure BEgins with HOW one CHOOSEs to see one’s SELF, REGARDLESS of what the scale says or the mirrors shows.
Here’s what I mean.
Take a BEing whom is severely overweight.
When they look in the mirror, they are NOT going to see a slim, fit body, period. Ya can’t see what is NOT there, when it’s staring ya right back in the face.
Life is a GIFT of our making
HOWEVER……..YOU CAN CHOOSE to SEE that this body looking back at YOU is a GIFT, YOUr Gift of LIFE, YOUr Gift of Infinite Opportunity and…..LOVE YOUr Gift, Opportunity, Life, Body, SELF, regardless of the image YOU see projected back.
This is one aspect of a “healthy mind set”, in fact, it is the FIRST and FOREMOST of importance.
Ya see, if we do not LOVE the SELF we allready are, then in essence, what we are saying is, “I AM NOT worthy of looking, feeling or BEing Great.” What we are saying is, “I AM NOT”, when in TRUTH, YOU ARE!
Thus, to TRUEly achieve a lasting desired body image, we MUST FIRST BEgin with LOVing the SELF we are, as we are ALLready.
We must BEgin with Positive “Mind Conversations”, statements of “I AM” that end with adjectives such as, “worthy”, “BEautiFull”, “a Miracle”, “a Gift”, “Energy”, “LOVE”, “a Healthy Thinker”……and then……then we get really creative and go BEyond that which we see, and add on to our “I AM” statements, adjectives of that which we are seeking to BEcome, such as “I AM…….Slim, my ideal weight, XXX pounds, an exerciser, a healthy eater, fit” etc….
We DO this BEcause, the way our BEingness works, biologically, chemically, energetically, is that WE TELL our SELVes that which we are/want and THEN…….then our Mind, our Brain, sends signals to our physical bodies to assist us in achieving these statements.
Here’s the thing….ya KNOW how sometimes, you aren’t sure if an experience YOU have had really happened or if it was “just” a dream?
Well, it turns out our Minds can’t tell the difference between reality and dreams or between that which we actually see in the mirror and that which we TELL our SELVes we see.
Then……the mind, BElieving what YOU tell it, will conspire to bring about that which YOU have set into motion.
I LOVE Healthy Eating
For example, if YOU repeatedly tell YOUr SELF, for example, “I AM a HEALTHY Eater”, eventually, when YOU go for the cupcake, YOUr “Mind’s Conversation” will play out something like this:
“Ummmmmm, what are YOU DOing??? We don’t eat foods like that, we are a Healthy Eater!!”
Thus, there is no need to “watch YOUr SELF”, or stave off the cravings, for YOUr Mind will take care of ALL automatically for YOU.
Of course, retraining our Mind DOes take commitment and dedication, afterall, how long has it taken YOU to BElieve in ALL the “not’s” about SELF that YOU currently DO.
Repetition is KEY!
Some other great affirmations to use:
I THINK like someone who is slim.
I THINK like a Healthy Individual.
I ACT like a Fit, Athletic, Nutritionally Healthy Individual.
I MAKE Healthy Choices for my SELF, my Body, and my Mind.
A few great affOrmations you can try:
Why AM I so Healthy?
What DO I DO to BE sooo Healthy?
Why AM I in shape?
Why AM I dedicated, devoted, motivated and successFull at achieving my Fitness and Nutrition goals?
Retrain YOUr Brain
There are MANY Positive Tools that one can use to assist in reaffirming YOUr repeated positive “I AM” statements, such as meditation, visualization, vision boards, journaling, talking about that which YOU are intending, researching, and much much more.
The point is, that at every turn, whatever YOU can DO, to assist, uplift, enLIGHTen and alter YOUr current negative “Mind Conversations” pertaining to SELF, DO!
When negative thoughts come into YOUr Mind, do NOT berate YOUr SELF, see them for what they are, OPPORTUNITIES to retrain the brain ☺
As we so DO, we create NEW Neural Pathways that will release chemicals, signaling NEW thoughts and feelings and thus motivating new ACTions, such as NOT eating the cupcake ☺
Whilst training one’s Mind to see SELF in LOVE’s Light, the physical ACTions to be taken are, as the sayings goes, “variety as the spice of life” and “moderation is key”.
To BE Healthy, to live a healthy lifestyle, is to change how one approaches life completely…….it is NOT a temporary diet, “until I reach my goal weight”.
BEing Healthy is a LIFESTYLE, which YOUr Mind training WILL assist YOU in integrating within YOUr day to day living.
Once YOU Change HOW YOU view SELF, YOU WILL Naturally Change HOW YOU approach and live YOUr life.
And, YES!, YOU DO have to CHANGE YOUr lifestyle habits regarding eating and exercise, PERMANENTLY, if YOU want to achieve and maintain YOUr healthy body weight and image, PERIOD.
With respect to our clichés “variety & moderation”, YOU want to ensure that YOU are eating a variety of HEALTHY foods, from ALL food groups –these BEing: proteins, carbohydrates, fats and fruits and veggies. YOU also want to ensure that YOU are eating appropriate portions.
Healthy Eating Pyramid
At each meal, YOU want to have one “portion” from each of the food groups AND this portion should BE no bigger than the size of YOUr fist or the palm of YOUr hand.
I KNOW, it may NOT sound like a lot, BUT……..it’s more than enough for YOUr body…..another Positive Mind Conversation to repeat to SELF, “these healthy portions ARE enough to satiate and satisfy my body.”
Also, keep in mind, small as they may be in portion size, if yar eating something from EVERY food group, ya got quite the FULL plate!!!
For times when YOU are feeling hungry, in between meals, and YOU likely will, especially when you are first changing YOUr eating habits, go for a DRINK FIRST!!We often times confuse our thirst for hunger, so ALLways, DRINK, DRINK, DRINK, FIRST and foremost in between meals, when hunger may strike and then……..IF YOU are still hungry, CHOOSE healthy snacks, such as vegetables, which YOU can cut up and have ready for YOU {stored in little snack size containers}, a nice size pear, apple, or other fruit, 10 crackers and low fat cheese, or 10 –20 nuts {almonds and walnuts are BEST}.
Whatever YOU CAN, that is physically ACTive, DO, DO, DO.
DOing something is better than nothing, even if that means taking the stairs at work instead of the elevator, or parking further away from the store’s entrance when going shopping.
Moving on from here, within an exercise workout, YOU want to ensure YOU are working both YOUr anaerobic and aerobic systems, or YOUr cardiovascular {heart and lungs} and muscular aspects of physicality.
This means ensuring YOU are DOing both aerobic type exercises such as running, dancing, yoga, pilates, rollerblading, gardening, house cleaning, walking, swimming AND weight conditioning exercises, or weight lifting, including free weights, machines, even lifting and carrying groceries from the store, around YOUr house, etc….
Don’t BE boxed in by “conventional” means of exercising. Opportunities to exercise, or BE PHYSICALLY ACTive are all around us, and DO NOT require special gym equipment to achieve. Go to YOUr local playground and climb the monkey bars, swing on the swings, run up and down the stairs of the jungle gym, shovel sand, or in the winter, snow…..the opportunities to BE physically ACTive are EVERYWHERE!
REMEMBER it ALL starts within our Mind and then BABY STEPS from there.
There is NO NEED to go “FULL FORCE” on day one of YOUr commitment to LOVE SELF.
YOU have had an entire lifetime of training in one direction, BE PATIENT with SELF, BE LOVing, Caring and Supportive.
Use this affOrmation to get ya inspired: How AM I sooooo physically ACTive every day?
Each day is a new opportunity.
Each day YOU DO something towards achieving YOUr goal is one more something that YOU were NOT DOing BEfore.
Appreciate YOUr SELF, Show Gratitude for what YOU are DOing, focus on the Positives. If YOU DO something that is not “aligned” with YOUr “new” lifestyle, see it as an opportunity, NOT a set back!
and Above ALL else, LOVE SELF!
For more insights into Healthy Living and LIfesyles, check out the following links BElow.
Positive Energies this has BEen of assistance to YOU Sweet Angel and again, Thank YOU Thank YOU for sharing YOUr personal quest with ALL of WE, as I KNOW, we will, have and ARE BEnefitting from YOUr SHARING within the experience of YOUr BEingness ☺
I look forward to hearing from more of YOU this weekend, for our next “Weekly EnLIGHTenment Journey”.
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Ya see, as devastating as it was for me to learn that we are [for the most part} an expression of the sum of our habits, {yes! yes! my inflated egoic vision of WE, what can I say, I tend to focus upon our divinity ☺ }, in so learning, I was ALSO gifted the realization that……….
Habits are EASY TO CREATE!!!!
That means, that ALL the things about our SELVes we don’t necessarily “like”, anytime we feel we are NOT BEing LOVing of SELF TRUEly and DOing what is Best for us, we can EASILY CHANGE, by CHOOSing to!
WOW!
That was like…….. “MAJOR SIGH”!!!
I mean MAJOR!!!
Did I hear someone say “MAJOR”????
YES!!! MAJOR it was!
We can change the things about ourselves that we don’t like……we can BE the person we want our selves to BE and all we gotta DO is change our habits!!!
SHUT UP!!!!!
I can LOVE ME
I can BE “ALL THAT” by changing my habits??!!! That’s it????
CHOOSing to THINK and FEEL differently about things?
CHOOSing to approach things, LIFE from a different mind perspective?? Perhaps go even further, and BE OPEN to ALTERNATE Perspectives and CHOOSE the ONEs that really resonate with ME, that really FEEL GOOD, FEEL RIGHT for ME!
Just look at ALL we have CHOSEn ALLready…..
Someone wants to build their home on MY land. “Excuse ME??!! Hello! I don’t think so…..” I pick up a gun and shoot them in the knees………
OR
Instead of building another nuclear weapon of FEAR, I CHOOSE to SHARE, I CHOOSE to SEE this BEing is just another ME.
Ahhhhhhhh Ya see where I’m going here NOW, don’t ya…..
YOU remember…… “WE ARE ALL ONE”………”within ONE IS reflected ALL”……….
This individual, this BEing, is HERE with ME, as a GIFT from ME, to ME, for They are ME, I am them and WE are ONE with ALL, and thus if they are within my physical experience it IS BEcause they have a GIFT to share with ME and I, with them.
WOW!!!
What a way to CHOOSE to Perceive………..and Imagine………ALL it is, is a CHOICE of Perception……a CHOICE in how we CHOOSE to think about, feel about and thus BEhaviour towards………………..ANYTHING!
Our thoughts and feelings shape our actions, and our repeated ACTions BEcome our habits, they impact upon/within the world, the cosmos, the ALL.
They CHANGE EVERYTHING!
I KNOW, there are things we “still have to do”…..I’m NOT taking away from any of that….and I’m NOT saying it ALL happens at once, in an instantaneous moment of realization.
New Habits in 21 Days
We did NOT form the habits we did over night, they each took up to 21 DAYS on average, to secure their spot within the scope of our attention, and we’ve formed MANY MANY Habits upon many many different levels/frequencies/vibrations of our perceptual BEingness, and they have had a helluva lot longer than 21 days to ferment themSELVes into our “Habitual BEingness”.
We have habitual ways of thinking, seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, touching, BEing….and for each of these, a habitual expression within/upon our many many layers/dimensions of consciousness, through which we experience life, and not, I might add, ALLways ‘awaringly’ so. {YES! another new word, Mom! ☺}.
OF course, that’s not to say we don’t have the ability to IMMEDIATELY transcend perceptual dimensions, {‘cuz hahney, we CAN DO ANYthing!!!} however, in THIS NOW, let us, within our current dimensional level of consciousness focus on how we may move our SELVes closer thereto.
We start by starting.
We BEgin with the FIRST STEP, and we take baby steps along our way, until we are able to let go completely of habits that no longer serve us, and simply walk naturally, within our newly formed CHOSEn habits of LOVE’s Light.
It is in taking baby steps that we BEing moving with the natural ebb and flow of our CHOSEn BEingness. It is through Baby Steps, walking each day, through out our day, in awareness, that we expand consciously, grow WHOLE-istically into our enLIGHTened experience of BEing.
Start with Baby Steps
We start with SELF, outside of our labels, associations, obligations, response-abilities, and go straight to the core of our BEing, as a BEing, a physical manifestation of energy, as a reflection of ALL.
We start by asking questions, ASKing SELF, “Who am I?”
Why am I sooooooooo Special? How DOes my Specialness shine through? How DO I BEST enJOY shining my Specialness?
Who am I, when I AM LOVing ME?
How DO I act, when I AM LOVing ME?
What DO I think and feel when I AM LOVing ME? Where is my focus, attention, energy directed when I AM LOVing ME?
We BEgin step ONE, asking SELF, “Where/How/When/Why AM I LOVE?”
And then………….
We BEgin, step by step, day by day, minute by minute, expanding more and more of SELF into BEing “Where/How/When/Why I AM LOVE”.
Every moment, we ask of our SELVes, only that we are an insy, tinsy bit BETTER than we were the moment earlier.
little by little, day by day, an insy tinsy bit BETTER
“Better” in so much as LOVing SELF more FULLy, WHOLLY, and Completely.
“Better” in letting go of our fears, negative habits, stresses, worries, anxieties, and illusions.
“Better” at moving more within the flow of our natural BEingness, allowing our SELVes to express and experience that which we are naturally.
“Better” at giving SELF permission to BE the expression of our natural tendencies, to flow towards, within, through that which we are naturally attracted to.
“Better” at Paying Attention and BEing Aware, so much so, that “Paying Attention and BEing Aware” BEcome as HABITUAL, as driving a car, riding our bicycle or YES, even BREATHing ☺
WE HAVE the ABILITY to TRAIN OUR SELVes to DO & BE, ANYthing we WANT, WITHIN US!!!!!
Listening to our thoughts.
Pay Attention, BE Aware, LOVE SELF.
Asking our SELF, “Why DO I FEEL this way, Think that way, about this xyzabc?”
Don’t just assume YOUr first thoughts or feelings are right………..they may just BE a conditioned {as in brainwashed/entrained by another} response of habit and NOT necessarily one that YOU have CHOSEn. Make sure what YOU are thinking and feeling is actually what YOU have CHOSEn to think and feel….. this is the POWER of YOUr Free Will…………
CREATure of Habit
AWEsomeness!!!
We DO this by ASKing our SELVes MORE questions instead of just mindlessly allowing our SELVes to react……..we think first, pay attention to how we are FEELing both mentally and sensationally, and then Respond~ if we respond at all.
As we step into our “flow”, we listen to SELF, we honour SELF, thus for example, when you are feeling like drawing, don’t just feel it, go with it, DO it…..when feeling like dreaming…….DREAM!! When feeling like reading, dancing, bathing, whatever, DO what YOU are able to so DO. Obviously, ya may FEEL like flying off a cliff…….not a good idea unless yar jumping into safe waters BElow or have some sort of air gliding device, n’est ce pas?
I’m NOT saying for example, that YOU should follow your flow right out of an executive meeting with the entire department, to go sit in the park and have a picnic…………..YET!
What I am saying though, is to BEgin to take the baby steps, in the areas where it is easiest first…….our personal lifestyle habits for example; eating healthier, exercising, laughing, playing, enJOYing the NOW YOU find YOUr SELF within, sharing the GIFT that is YOU, trusting in that which YOU KNOW to BE TRUE: I AM another YOU……..we ARE ALL ENERGY…..we ARE ALL Earthlings…we ARE ALL Humans……we ARE ALL, We ARE a lot of things – much bigger, grander, more important things than those we are not, n’est ce pas?
As we BEgin to DO that which we can in this NOW, we build our next NOW upon this energy, upon this flow of LOVE, this ACTion oriented focus of Happiness, enJOYment, & fulfillment within/for/through SELF. We thus ATTRACT to us energy that supports these vibrations, much more readily than energy that DOes not.
We wind up taking care of our “grander desires” BY taking care of our MOST BASIC COLLECTIVELY SHARED Desire~ LOVing SELF, BEing LOVE, Radiating SELF LOVE.
Amazing, but TRUE!
LOVE SELF~HEAL the WORLD
All we gotta DO is LOVE SELF and we HEAL the WORLD!
WOW!!!!
Habits are formed through repetition.
When we are paying more attention to those things within our SELVes that we LOVE about our SELVes, we are focusing our thoughts there upon.
When our minds are focused upon thoughts of LOVE about SELF, we are stimulating FEELings that are SELF LOVing.
When we are thinking and feeling loving towards SELF, we are motivated to ACT in LOVing ways that support and BEnefit SELF.
Our ACTions then reinforce our thoughts and feelings, which reinforce our ACTions and BEfore long, {approx. 21 days in fact} a Habit is formed!
A Habit within which we see how WORTHY and DESERVing we are of going that little extra step, trying just one more time, facing that AWEsome fear that keeps getting in our way, and providing every possible opportunity to achieve and manifest ALL of our Desired Intentions.
And the good times keep getting better and better……… A Habit of SELF LOVE not only stimulates, motivates and inspires SELF into ACTion, it DOes so for others outside of SELF as well. It’s like YOU BEcome YOUr very own personal magnet of magnificence to & for ALL.
Here’s how it works.
Recap First:
YOU start by seeing SELF through eyes of LOVE, seeking the LOVingness within SELF, stimulating thoughts and feeling about SELF that are LOVing.
This eventually BEcomes a Habitual State of BEingness.
Okay NOW:
In this habitual state of BEing LOVE, YOU start to seek out the LOVE within others, and fantabulously enough, FIND IT!
More over, YOU start to attract like energy from others. YOUr habitual BEingness stimulates within others the LOVE YOU are seeking, feeling and thinking about within SELF.
Kind of like when one person laughs and everyone starts to laugh with them, or one person yawns and everyone starts yawning……
We BEgin to see things within our lives that are LOVE, which we LOVE, and we express automatic gratitude, without thought required!
Attitude of Gratitude babay, it’s the BEST Way to reinforce our Positive habitual living.
WonderFully, it is inherent within us!
When we pay attention and are aware of something we feel LOVE for, we ADMIRE the BEauty within it/them/her/him/they/that. In this simple ACT of noticing the BEauty, we are automatically in a state of BEing GreatFull and Appreciative!!!
Gratitude is Inherent
The ACT of noticing something/one we LOVE, we find BEautiFull is in and of itSELF an ACT/expression of Gratitude.
How COOL are we????
Seriously!!!
AWEsomeness, I must say!
The more BEauty and LOVE we SEEK within/through SELF, in the world, in our experience of the world, and all that exists within our experience of our world, the more shall shine through, revealing the LOVE that is and has ALLways BEen, ALL.
Blessedly BE
the
TRUTH
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WE
Earth Angels Divine,
ONE Universal Family,
within the Embracing Light of
PeaceFull LOVing Serenity &
One Fantabulous, Amazing, Adventurous, Party’n Journey 🙂
Radiate Soul Light
Radiate SELF LOVE
Rhonda Sheryl Lipstein/roni
Life is a mélange of habits…….WE ARE a mélange of Habits………
NOT Completely, please don’t take my TRUTHFull statement as one of WHOLE-istic Isolation and Separation. We ARE MANY things, and NO thing, ALL at the same time. Pretty Cool, actually.
Habitual BEhaviour is practiced by 99.99999% of ALL of WE, including animals, vegetation, ALL…..
We wake up, we go to sleep, we eat, we drink, and ALL for the most part in the same way, every day.
I know, I know, “we have to” eat, drink, sleep to survive~ as far as we have allowed ourSELVes to KNOW~ still, we keep DOing these, every day, habitually, DO we not?
Okay let’s move away from that which is a current collective perception of our “Basic Necessities” and look more towards those things we can ALL agree are habits, healthy or otherwise…..
Most of us wake up each day and have our own little “wake –up ritual” –HABIT.
Most of us have a ‘hygiene routine’: cleaning our bodies, either in showers or baths, brushing our teeth and hair, etc….and we DO this in a routinely similar manner each time we DO…….HABIT
Most of us partake within habitual physical activities, activities that speak to our “Lifestyle”. Activities like:
exercising regularly, writing, painting, playing an instrument, video game, eating certain foods, having a glass of cognac nightly, smoking a cigar/cigarettes, driving to and from work, eating dinner with family, twirling our hair, biting our nails, picking our nose, playing with our animals, saying hi to everyone we meet, dancing in the street ☺
ummmmmmmmm, we get the idea, yes????
"The Enigma of Balance", by Vivi-Mari
YES…..in our current means of living here upon our Earth School, there are certain things we “need to DO” to survive. We need for instance, money…..no denying that. Yes, you HAVE TO “work”, or more aptly put, CONTRIBUTE to and for the BEnefit of ALL. hmmmmmmmm DOes not exactly conjure the same definition now, do they?
Work : Contribute
Contribute : Work…….. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
HOW YOU define “work” is UP TO YOU…….YOU do not have to keep thinking about “work” the way YOU have BEen, even if “have BEen” is ALLways…..there is ALLways another way from which to perceive!!!
What if…………..our reason for BEing is for ALL of We to contribute and SHARE our Unique Gift{s} with and for the BEnefit of ALL?
Hmmmmmmmmm, an alternate perspective on the PURPOSE of Life, the very MEANING of Life…….at least in accord to that which we are taught in our current global societal systems, n’est ce pas?
What is the Meaning of Life?
How ‘bout we TRY, just TRY this one on for size……..
Just take a moment to let YOUr SELF surrender completely to the words to follow herein and whilst YOU DO, Pay Attention and BE Aware to how they resonate with YOU~ what thoughts DO they conjure, what FEELings are YOU experiencing?
Pay Attention and BE Aware~ allow the words to wash over YOUr entire BEingness, until YOU have BEen consumed by them as TRUTH~ if only………for a moment.
WE ARE HERE, upon this BEautiFull, Majestic Earth School of ours………….
~to share the GIFTS of our BEingness, the Miraculous, physically expressed, Unique, BEautiFull reflection of that which IS the WHOLE of WE.
EACH of WE is a Unique Miracle of LIFE.
Remember ALL that YOU ARE, started off as NO MORE than TWO CELLS and grew within the body of another.
TWO BEings in ONE~ We aRe ONE
At one POINT in OUR BEingness, we were TWO Bodies, TWO Individuals contained within ONE BEing!
WOW!!!!!
Ponder upon this!
Deeply.
And NOW…………………………..,
think about our Earth School, ALL of WE, the Universe, the Macro Cosmos and the Micro Cosmos……
Think about how we are all infinitely connected, think about our similarities, those things that tie us to one another.
For example, we are ALL here, we are ALL breathing the same air, we are ALL within the same galaxy, we are ALL energy, we ARE. As humans we ALL have the same biological/skeletal/chemical/organic make up – inside and out….we’ve ALL got what each other has, and NOW, YOU continue…….
Amazing isn’t it, how many things we can think of that we have in common, that we share, that connect us as oppose to separate us, from one another, and at the most intrinsic, quintessential levels of BEingness, at that?
NOW……………………………………,allow YOUr SELF to embrace the following statements…………
”WE ARE ALL ONE”………”within ONE IS reflected ALL”……….
Allow these statements to resonate through out YOUr BEing, take YOUr time with them……..it’s okay if it feels rigid, edgy, even difficult, at first, just relax, and allow the statements to flow through YOU. Step back within YOUr mind, from the chatter, denials, contradictions, objections, and just allow these statements to BE. Inhale slowly, silently saying, “We are ALL One” and exhale slowly, silently saying, “within ONE is reflected ALL”. PRETEND they are TRUE, if YOU KNOW not of their TRUTH, and notice how this experience is making you feel and what thoughts are stimulated as YOU DO.
”WE ARE ALL ONE”………”within ONE IS reflected ALL”……….
And NOW, Remember HOW YOU came to BE…….
~ponder upon the two little cells that once YOU were, the body within which YOU grew and shared with another BEing of LOVE’s Light……….BE Aware….
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EACH of WE has something SPECIAL to share with ALL……. in “just” BEing.
One reflection of what it is to BE
As ONE reflection of the WHOLE, we each offer a different view, a new reflection, an alternate perspective from which to SEE our SELVes, from which to LOVE our SELVes, KNOWing each individual SELF is a Unique reflection of ALL.
There is NO ONE ELSE upon this entire Earth School, who will DO anything EXACTLY the way YOU DO, whom will think about, experience, feel, perceive, receive and respond to anything EXACTLY as YOU DO. That is YOUr Gift, to and for the BEnefit of ALL of WE, BEing YOU.
Ponder this.
Embrace this.
Embrace YOU.
What feeling do WE ALL prefer to BE Consumed by, to Completely Surrender SELF to?
What feeling makes us FEEL as HIGH, Light, and Fantabulous, as a feather flying upon the winds of a blue sky, or moonbeams dancing upon the stars, awestruck to our eye.
What feeling are we experiencing when we are DOing that which is of our TRUEst expression, giving SELF permission to express our NATURAL tendencies?
LOVE…….n’est ce pas?
Yes, ‘tis TRUE, “LOVE” is but a word……however, I think we can ALL agree, that the feeling
LOVE
conjured when expressing our Natural tendencies, as when we feel BEST about “BEing ME”, the feeling we feel when of the highest elation is one we can ALL relate with and for ease herein, agree to call “LOVE”.
It is that which we ALL Collectively agree that we enJOY WHOLE HEARTedly, that we garner the greatest pleasure, happiness, ecstasy & inspiration from. Whether it’s the LOVE expressed for people, intimate or casual, LOVE of things & places, momentarily or sustaining, LOVE of our thoughts, BEhaviours, feelings, or just LOVE ~in and of itSELF……..of OUR SELF!
We are here to CELEBRATE WHOM WE ALL ARE!
We are here to LOVE SELF.
We are ALL ONE.
We are ALL here to show another aspect of OUR BEauty to one another!!
~~~~~~~Let us Ponder this for a moment, shall we~~~~~~~~
AUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Inhale: Big Deep Breath of LOVE, Cleansing, Energizing, Healing Exhale: Big Deep Breath of LOVE, Unity, Trust, Openness, Infinite Abundance
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When we look at “work” from THIS PERSPECTIVE, EVERYTHING CHANGES.
Allow me to repeat that…..
When we CHOOSE to Perceive our lives from an alternate perspective, EVERYTHING CHANGES……….everything takes on new meaning, has new meaning to and for us, and WE CHANGE in how we respond, as a result.
We CREATE Positive HABITS………
and this, “WORK”, is BUT ONE example, albeit one HUGE example of our WHOLE-istic BEingness.
Ya see, as devasting as it was for me to learn that we are {for the most part} an expression of the sum of our habits, {yes! yes! my inflated egoic vision of WE, what can I say, I tend to focus upon our divinity ☺ }, in so learning, I was ALSO gifted the realization that……….
Habits are EASY TO CREATE!!!!
~stay tuned for “Creatures of Habit: Part 2″~
Blessedly BE Sweet Earth Angels, Each & Every ONE of WE
❝ ..Hi Roni ..♥..have a beautiful and amazing sunday.. ☼
..I wish I can know why am alone for long time.. u say we can ask questions..right..??
..and why if I love teach Yoga ..the door are so slow to open for me to work.. in this healing technics.. sorry my english ..I express better spanish.. so I try my best here.. thanks so much..!! for listen or reading me..!! ..♥ ❞
..from PUERTO RICO ..with L♥ve..!!
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Guidance:
Dear Puerto Rico,
LOVE to YOU Sweet Angel Thank YOU, Thank YOU for reaching out and sharing YOUr questions with ALL of WE ☺
YOU must KNOW, YOU are ALLready ¾ ahead of MOST individuals upon our Earth School, in that YOU KNOW that which YOU WANT!
Many of us, live our lives, DOing what we think we SHOULD DO, instead of going after what we WANT to DO.
KNOWing what we WANT is a GREAT Gift we must give ourSELVes Permission to embrace.
FOCUSing then, upon what we want, is a Gift of even Greater Permission we give unto our SELVes, and thus a fantabulous position from which to BE within.
This is FIRST and for this, BE GreatFull! BE GreatFull to YOU!
KNOWing what YOU want, and focusing upon that which YOU want as opposed to what YOU DO NOT want can sometimes BE difficult when what we want is NOT seemingly manifesting for us, in our current NOW, in our experienced reality.
HOWEVER…….as with the flowers we ALL enJOY so thoroughly every spring, when they blossom into their full bloom, we see not the growth that took place prior to their penetrating the earth from whence they came.
Blossoming from seed to sprout to TREE
There is MUCH growth that happens from seed to blossomed flower, much of which is UNSEEN.
This energy that CREATEs the final manifestation of the flower which we gaze upon in such awe of its BEauty, is ALLways at work, is ALLways vibrating, growing, expanding into BEingness, even when, we do NOT see with our naked eye, that which is actually occurring.
YOU say that YOU have BEen alone for quite some time.
Ask YOUr SELF, what YOU have learned in this time that YOU have BEen alone, what growth have YOU experienced, what GIFTS of preparedness have YOU undergone to BE Open to Receive the Blessing of YOUr intimate partner.
Be GreatFull for the “time” YOU have BEen Gifted to venture WITHIN SELF, to learn more about SELF and what it is that YOU WANT, for it is within YOUr venture that YOU have BEen able to clarify that which YOU want, as well as that within YOU that has BEen FEARFull of receiving.
Where ever it is YOU are, is where YOU need to BE for whatever purpose YOU require to fulfill, it is a matter of asking the questions of SELF to KNOW and then giving SELF permission to HEAL, to LOVE SELF and thus BE OPEN to and for the LOVE that is awaiting YOUr embrace.
Perhaps it is, that YOU have had “issues” with respect to commitment, worthiness, deservedness, for that which YOU seek.
Perhaps it is, that YOU have BEen given this time to HEAL aspects of SELF that have BEen longing for LOVE from SELF.
To BE able to experience LOVE with another, we MUST FIRST LOVE SELF.
There is NO other whom can make us FEEL LOVEd if we are NOT first LOVing SELF.
We shan’t BE able to even recognize the LOVE of another, even if that other is “the one” we have BEen waiting for, perfect in every way for us, for we shan’t see our SELVes as worthy of so receiving. As such, we shan’t recognize the LOVE, for we don’t KNOW it for ourSELVes.
Once YOU have found, feel, are within a state of BEingness that is LOVing SELF, get clear and very concise on that which YOU seek, that which YOU want within YOUr partner.
Embracing LOVE
Write it down, get pictures of those whom resemble or represent that which YOU desire and hang them where YOU can see them on a daily basis and KNOW, YOU are WORTHY and DESERVing of BEing with them, meeting them and that YOU WILL!
KNOW that YOU are ONE with ALL that is and that ALL that is, wants ONLY for YOUr Happiness, Well BEing and Fulfillment.
This is the same for the Yoga instruction YOU seek to provide.
Instead of focusing your thoughts, feelings and “mind conversations”
upon that which is NOT happening, focus upon that which IS happening and that which YOU WANT to happen.
Get a clear and concise picture within SELF of that which BEing a successFULL Yoga instructor looks and feels like to YOU, and Pay Attention and BE Aware. It is possible that many opportunities have come YOUr way to increase YOUr clientele, YOUr business, YOUr impact upon ALL and YOU have not seen them, BEcause YOU have BEen too focused on what is NOT, instead of what IS.
For example, YOU may want to open YOUr own Yoga studio, but are having difficulty getting clientele, and perhaps noticed a studio in YOUr neighbourhood seeking instructors…….Go to that studio and apply for the position. Look for opportunities where YOU may showcase YOUr skills as a Yoga instructor. Offer classes in the community centers in your neighbourhood, place ads in free listings in newspapers and online communities. Spread the word to ALL YOU KNOW, ALL YOU meet, that YOU are an EXCELLENT Yoga instructor and YOUr services are available.
SELF Introspection
Ask YOUr SELF WHY YOU have BEen GIFTed this time. Perhaps it is that YOU are NOT feeling confident in YOUr own Yoga skills, and therefore this time that YOU have BEen Gifted, in which things are a little slower, is for YOU to increase the breadth of YOUr KNOWledge.
Perhaps it is that YOU are NOT feeling worthy of success, or FEARFull of it.
This time is a GIFT to HEAL these illusory feelings and recognize that YOU are an Earth Angel, and that which YOU offer is unlike any other for NO other can teach as YOU DO, bring forth the energy that YOU DO, for no other is exactly like YOU!
YOU are Unique, YOU are Special and YOU have a Gift to Give that NO other can, BEcause it is YOU whom is giving it!
I AM an Ontological Philosopher/Literary Artist – I write of Life, seeking TRUTH for the BEnefit of ALL, which I AM GIFTed to so BE, that I may offer SELF as an enLIGHTenment Guidelight- I offer a gentle guiding hand upon another’s journey towards SELF LOVE. There are countless individuals upon this fantabulous Earth School of ours whom DO the exact same as I DO, BUT NONE, NOT ONE, DO it as I DO, for NOT ONE, is ME.
Remember this!
Remember too, that which is working UNSEEN, does not mean it is not working!
TRUST, if that which YOU want, that which YOU are attracted to, having a lover or intimate life partner, a successFull Yoga Studio or practise is that which makes YOU feel GREAT, is that which YOU are passionate about, and thus which YOU follow within LOVE’s Light, that the Energy YOU send forth into the Sea of ALL is rippling back to YOU with ALL that YOU want and MORE!!!
KNOW, that the Laws of the Universe, the Laws of Energy, which is what WE ALL ARE~ENERGY~ work in a very specific way, just as planting a seed in fertile earth or turning on a light bulb, the plug must BE plugged in and the switch turned on for the bulb to light up.
Finally, LOOK for that which IS manifesting within YOUr life ALLready, see where the Positives are, BE GreatFull for that which IS ALLready, for in focusing our minds on the plentiFull we have, we attract MORE of like kind to us!
The Eye of ALL of WE
It is the Law of Energy, and it IS, ALLways.
I have included two inspirational videos, I think YOU will find most uplifting, assisting and enLIGHTening, as have YOU BEen Sweet Angel in coming forth and asking YOUr most fantabulous question.
Thank YOU for sharing for the BEnefit of ALL of WE ☺
I AM most Blessed YOUr BEingness.
LOVing SELF, LOVing Life and passing the Positive Energy of LOVE to ALL.
Dr. Wayne Dyer…following our intentions…tapping into the flow of that which is.
Blessedly BE
ARE
ALL of WE
Earth Angels Divine,
ONE Universal Family
Energy.
Radiate Soul Light
Radiate SELF LOVE
Rhonda Sheryl Lipstein/roni
➠ To schedule YOUr own Personal Guidance Journey, please send me an email. Looking forward to hearing from YOU and journeying our adventure of LOVE’s Light. YOU are a Unique Miraculous Gift unto ALL and worthy and deserving to KNOW this for YOUr SELF! Get in touch Today! I AM humbled the honour to shine the LIGHT of LOVE upon YOUr pathway to TRUTH.
We have TWO Fantabulous Journeys upon which to adventure this week and I AM sooo looking forward to sharing within EACH with and for the BEnefit of ALL 🙂
PLEASE DO, share YOUr words of Wisdom and LOVE’s Light with our Earth Angels, whom have BEen so courageous and LOVing to share with ALL of WE, a little of their BEingness 🙂
Here is our 3rd Week’s First Journey, please stay tuned later in the week for our 2nd journey of Week 3 🙂
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Hi Roni,
Vibrating on Different Frequencies
This week I have been trying to figure out the difference between Life and Drama. I consider everything that happens is Life, my now ex-boyfriend left because he said I have too much Drama in my life. The way I look at it is he obviously can’t handle life if he calls it drama, making me the stronger one for dealing with it and accepting it as part of my life, and he being the weak one for calling it drama and not being able to deal with it. Am I looking at this correctly or am I wrong??
Thanks for Being there, Hugs!!
“Drama”
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Dearest Drama,
Hello Sweet Angel, and THANK YOU for sharing in YOUr experience of BEingness with ALL of WE!
Relationships are ONE of the MAJOR aspects of our lives, and I KNOW this question resonates with MANY of our Earth Angels. We are ALL Blessed YOUr courage in asking!
Life….Drama……Drama…..Life….
There are many whom say, “Life is a StagePlay”…..and many similar quotes speaking to the same, such as “Life is but a Game”, “Life is a Book and YOU are the Author”, etc…
I think to BEgin it important to distinguish the LANGUAGE BEing used, as,
LIFE IS Drama!
ahhhhhhhhhh Shakespeare
What is “Drama”?
The Encarta World English Dictionary defines “Drama” as :
1. a serious play written for performance on stage, television, or radio
2. works written for performance on the stage, radio, or television considered as a literary genre
3. the performance, production, or writing of plays considered as a job, activity, or subject to be studied
4. a real-life event or situation that is particularly exciting or emotionally involving
5. exciting, tense, and gripping events and actions, or an exciting, tense, and gripping quality, either in a work of art or in a real-life situation.
Without “Drama”, what would LIFE BE?
We are here to EXPERIENCE, grow, learn, ask questions, seek answers, enLIGHTen, transcend and awaken.
According to the Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, “Drama” is:
1. a composition in verse or prose intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue and typically designed for theatrical performance.
2. dramatic art, literature or affairs
3. a state, situation, or series of event involving interesting or intense conflict of forces
In other words, Drama is Life and Life is Drama or to put more aptly, Drama is the theatrical representation of REAL LIFE situations.
Of course, having said ALL that, we are each unique individuals and thus, each have our own “Dramatic” preferences, styles, attractions and repulsions. Some of us prefer romantic dramas, whilst others, comedic dramas, violent dramas, or peaceFull dramas. What is “RIGHT” for ONE DOes NOT connote that which is right for another, nor DOes it take away from that which is “right” or “wrong” for each, it is just different. The fact that the dramatic musical, “Cats” was such an AMAZING hit, takes nothing away from the smash hit run of the comedic musical, “The Producers”, or they, from the Operatic hit “Les Miserables”…….n’est ce pas ☺
There exists no need to compare, contrast or otherwise heighten or lower the attractions or repulsions of others to our own. YOUr ex-boyfriend has ‘different attractions and repulsions” for the life experiences, the “drama”, he PREFERS to engage within. This DOes NOT make him weaker or stronger than YOU, or vica-verca, simply, different.
The way YOU are CHOOSing to perceive the situation right NOW, is COMPLETLEY understandable!! YOU are FEELing “less than”, someone else has- in YOUr mind, through YOUr CHOSEn interpretation- ‘put YOU down’, compared, contrasted themSELF to YOU and in a hurtFull and belittling way.
It is VERY VERY VERY Important to remember, NO MATTER WHAT another says to us, it is WE whom CHOOSEs HOW we shall Perceive, Receive and Respond, or think about, feel about and thus respond to the contributions of others. This is YOUr CHOICE. YOU can CHOOSE from an INFINITE number of interpretations, thoughts and feelings regarding what YOUr ex-boyfriend said to YOU and what ACTions HE CHOSE to make.
WonderFully, YOU can CHOOSE to DO ALL, IN LOVE!
Conditioned FEAR
We have BEen taught in our very competitive society, for CENTURIES NOW, that to raise ONE’s SELF up, YOU must put another down. Do NOT judge YOUr SELF or belittle YOUr SELF in any way for DOing so, or judge YOUr “ex” for DOing the same. It is a conditioned defense mechanism when we are feeling hurt, pain, anger, sadness, or depressed levels of happiness in some way, shape or form. It is however, a DEFENSIVE MECHANISM and thus coming from a place of FEAR and not LOVE. It is coming from a place of CONDITIONING and thus ILLUSION-NOT TRUTH, and thus NOT Unconditional LOVE, which is our TRUE NATURE of BEingness.
YOUr ex-boyfriend, CHOOSing to engage in experiences of “less drama”, says NOTHING negative about YOU or him for that matter, it merely speaks to the Unique, BEautiFull reflections of ALL of WE, within Each of YOU ♥
When YOU are ready, when YOU CHOOSE to, YOU WILL BE able to see, the BEauty that exists within Each of YOU and BE GreatFull for having had the opportunity to share in the experience of each of YOUr individual reflections of BEauty. When YOU DO, YOU will be able to see all the growth, sharing, transcendence, lessons learned and awakening that was GIFTed as a result thereto.
Unconditional LOVE
This is to LOVE Unconditionally.
YOU are BOTH BEautiFull Earth Angels, and EACH of YOU, is a Gift for ALL.
Do NOT BE insulted, or take personally that which is YOUr ex-boyfriend’s preferred stimulus of engagement. It speaks NOTHING of YOUr Blessed BEingness, ONLY of HIS PREFERRED stimulus of engagement or ‘the type of plays he is MOST attracted to.
YOU would NOT take it personally for example, if I told YOU that I preferred the colour Amethyst, EVEN IF, YOU HATED IT!
YOU would NOT look down upon me, see me as any less than I AM, BEcause of this preference. Nor, and more importantly, would YOU look down upon YOUr SELF as BEing any less than, BEcause YOU did not like something that I liked. YOU would simply accept that we are both BEautiFull individuals, each having our own preferences, things that we are each individually attracted and repelled to. It is the SAME thing with YOUr ex-boyfriend and the ‘type of dramas’ preferred in one’s experience of life, only, of course, on a much larger or more general sphere of our BEingness than one’s colour preference ☺
YOU are in a process of HEALing Dear Angel. Allow for the negative feelings, acKNOWledge them, hear them and then……
..then, realign them in TRUTH, in LOVE, for SELF and thus for ALL.
Go'n with the Flow of LOVE
This is DOne through our internal Mind’s Conversations, by CHOOSing to remind SELF of TRUTH, focusing on the Positive, CHOOSing to see through different eyes or alternative perspectives.
This is DOne by CHOOSing to think and feel differently about the situation, opening SELF up to the infinite possibilities of lessons available within the experience YOU shared within.
This is DOne by BEing greatFull for having had those experiences, the lessons learned which YOU shall bring with YOU into YOUr next relationship and through out YOUr life, the journey adventured, the love shared and the positive memories to BE cherished as a result.
This is DOne by CHOICE ☺
KNOW that in so DOing YOU are NOT giving more to one or less to another, YOU are simply honouring that which IS.
Blessings to YOU Sweet Angel,
Here’s to enJOYing the Drama, elegance, excitement, calmness, serenity, LOVE, Peace, Happiness, Adventure and JOY within Each of our lives, ALLways!
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