Beyond the Mind

Beyond the Mind

What is it like to be a pure, open vessel for Consciousness to flow through us, as us? What is it like to go beyond the attraction power of our thoughts to the field of awareness where all creation issues forth? To willingly surrender to something greater than the mind. Life is bigger than what our minds can conceive with its limited software. Life is love. Life is sweet. There is no place for suffering except in the world of the mind. Let's transcend the mind. Surrender our addiction to thought to the greater Consciousness. The invitation is to make an offering of our thoughts to Consciousness, Creator, Source, or God, as much as we can each day. Refuse to live only in the world of our thoughts and form, to live in heaven as well. Feel your thoughts dissolve into the energy they are. Allow them to release and be recycled back into the will of Consciousness. After you release a thought, it is helpful to inhale from the crown of your head deep into your now empty mind, and exhale out the crown of your head feeling your mind cleansed and opened. We are consciously transferring the power we have given to our minds back to God.

The Power of Belief

The Power of Belief

Our beliefs made from a network of thoughts we hold true create our reality. Many of our thoughts and beliefs we hold as true are out dated and no longer serve the consciousness that wants to evolve in our lives. This is an opportunity to visit your heart, and discover a desire that wants to manifest. I invite you to practice for five minutes everyday creating the thoughts that bring you to the place where your desire has already manifested. Feel for the place within where you are in perfect harmony with your desire. Be true to that place from here forward. Do not let sabotaging thoughts interfere with your heart's creation. Do you believe this desire will come true? If not, create the thoughts that will help you believe it's possible and ask the universal consciousness for assistance. If your heart can dream it, it is possible, it can happen if you believe with your whole being. If you believe in your desire, marry those thoughts that bring you to the desired outcome. Whenever you think of your desire the positive thoughts and outcome will naturally follow together. Refuse to follow the thoughts that connect to old patterns of limited thinking, doubt, and resistances. Be true to your inner world. The outer world is only a reflection of what's within us, do not be fooled into giving power away to that mirror. Keep changing and working with your inner beliefs until the desired outcome is reflected in the outer world. Acknowledge with gratitude when you begin to see your desire manifesting and encourage it to keep growing with your positive thoughts. Our hearts will never lead us astray, follow your heart, cultivate a space where your heart's treasures can unfold in the most beautiful, magical, and loving of ways. Be true to your heart, and choose to create beliefs that are life nourishing and love filled.

I Love You

I Love You
Think about something that brings love and joy to your heart center. Feel that love and joy grow and blossom in your chest, radiating out from your heart to all of life. This is an opportunity to say "I love you" to all the people in our lives from the pure source of our hearts. Imagine the spirit of a person in front of you, look them in their spirit eyes, and say "I love you". Experience the power of the love connection that is made when you say those words from your heart. I invite you to begin this "I Love You" meditation with the great teachers in your life and then the rest of the people in your life. The great teachers are the ones who challenge us to grow the most, the ones who we owe the most gratitude to, but who usually end up receiving the brunt of our anger, fear, and other resistances. Forgive, and release all grievances, and say "I love you" to each person that comes to your mind for the next ten minutes. Greet them with your liberated heart, and love freely and unabashedly. May the spirit of your heart live in every interaction, and "I Love You" flow easily from your lips.

All The World Is A Stage

All The World Is A Stage

We are consciousness masquerading as the many and varied roles that we play. This is a meditation to drop temporarily all the roles we play, to let them die, in order to experience the consciousness, the life, that we are beyond the roles, and to realize we have a choice to play a role or not. What is it like to consciously pick up the mask of friend, play that role for the moments it's required, and when the role has finished, retire the mask of friend? Instead many of us become completely identified with the roles we play, and we forget we are playing roles.
When our "show" or the moment ends where that role is necessary, we continue fully costumed playing a role forgetting who we really are, the consciousness animating that role. The invitation is to take stock of all the roles you play and to let each one die. Die in the sense that you detach yourself even if it's just for a few moments from each of the roles. While you're detached examine each of your roles as a non-judgemental observer and then put them aside. Know that you can pick up the mask and play a role whenever you need to, but that you can also take that mask off and just Be. Feel the presence of who you are when you have dropped all roles. Feel the lightness of your being, the alert consciousness you are. The roles we play become more effective when we are truly a conscious presence behind the masks, the scenes, and on the stage.

The Big Kahuna

The Big Kahuna

Yep, you are The Big Kahuna in a body. This is an opportunity to experience and embody that you and The Big Kahuna are really one. Write down five supreme attributes of The Big Kahuna that you aspire to and admire. Know that you in essence are those divine qualities and that you can allow them to be expressed. Begin by acknowledging that you are each of those five supreme attributes. For example, if one of your supreme Kahuna attributes is joy, then say "I am joy. " Explore saying those words, "I am joy", until you discover the joy within you, that you really are joy. Embody that joy, be that joy. Feel the joy. Proceed in this way with the rest of the supreme attributes you have chosen. Then apply the attributes of The Big Kahuna, a.k.a. You, to all the areas of your life, especially the challenging zones. The invitation is to remember to be the attributes of the Big Kahuna as you journey through consciousness, and may all the forces of the Big Kahuna be with you.

Joyful Acceptance

Joyful Acceptance

Imagine your life projected out of you on to a screen. See all the inner aspects and situations of your life that fill the screen. See how some aspects are just colors, feelings, or black and white, thoughts, and are still emerging. Notice that the picture of you is in a constant state of flux and transformation, and then of course there is the big you observing this picture of your life. Many of us fight with the screen that displays the picture of our lives. You can see what a tiring and fruitless endeavor that can be (might even destroy the screen or the earth over that one). When we argue with a screen, we also distort the picture flowing from our projector. Then we rebel against the distortions of the picture. This is an invitation to notice areas in your life where you argue with aspects of your life, and see if you can accept your picture no matter what it looks like currently. Remember life is always changing, enjoy the unknown and the perfection of your movie as it is right now. We are either allowing the change or resisting it. The more we resist the more distorted our picture becomes. Allow your true picture free of resistance to express itself in all it's glory. Observe, accept, enjoy your picture, and it will soon show itself to be a masterpiece of life bigger than anything you could have conceived as the small you arguing with a screen or the picture on the screen. Joyful acceptance a tool that keeps the projector running smoothly.

Fresh Perspectives

Fresh Perspectives

Many of us are plagued by chronic inner thought patterns that cause us suffering. This is an opportunity to become aware of when our pernicious thought patterns are activated, to observe them, and track those thoughts all the way home to inner solace and peace. One way to do this is when you notice your mind beginning to suffer, spread your wings, take inner flight around the thoughts as a detached observer. Find fresh perspectives or other ways of perceiving that allow you to be the peaceful and loving being that you really are beyond that troubling thought or situation. You are peace. You are love. You are whole. You are complete. See if you can experience challenging thoughts as a passing cloud on this larger spaciousness of you. The invitation is to find three alternative ways of looking at the situation that do not cause suffering, and to choose one of those fresh perspectives instead of attention on the troubling thoughts.

Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine

This is an opportunity to meditate under the clouds of a beautiful day. Next time your outdoors, and there's individual fluffy white clouds in the sky, find a spot to lie down so you can comfortably gaze upwards. We are going to track clouds and find ones that have messages for us. Find a cloud you are drawn to, and watch the cloud move, form images, and transform across the sky. Give the cloud a 100% of your attention. Watch to see if an image emerges, a message for you from the cloud. The invitation is to receive three images from the clouds above, and meditate upon the messages they are delivering to you.

Walking Tree

Walking Tree

This is a walking meditation best done outside in the presence of Nature. We will grow into giant walking trees. Imagine your body lengthening up into the sky and expanding energetically in all directions. Your head and mind fill with the spaciousness of the sky & clouds. Your thoughts are still. The trunk of your body is open and being thoroughly cleansed by the colors and elements of nature with each step you take. Your feet have invisible love roots that travel down to the core of the Earth. Each gentle step is a powerful touch of love and beauty on the Earth as you walk. The invitation is to feel the love and connection of the Earth beneath you, to feel the healing powers of Nature all around you, and to feel the new perspectives, spaciousness, and peace the sky can share with us.

Segments of Breath

Segments of Breathing

Placing our attention on our breathing is an easy way to quiet a very active mind. When our attention is focused on our breath, our thoughts stop, and our consciousness, who we really are beyond the workings of our mind, can flood our beings. The invitation is to consciously breathe three times each day. This an opportunity first thing as you awaken in the morning, then in the afternoon, and then in the evening perhaps before you go to bed, to have segments of conscious breathing. Begin by exhaling and gently filling the lower, middle, and upper areas of your lungs and your body with breath. When those areas are full with breath, hold for a moment, and then slowly release your breath. Then follow your breathing, keeping all of your attention on inhaling through the nose, holding a few moments, and then exhaling slowly through the mouth. Practice ten conscious breaths in this way. If your attention wavers from your breath, start again by returning to the breath, until ten fully conscious breaths have been experienced. After the tenth conscious breath, take another full breath filling all of the areas of your lungs, hold, and release. You have completed one segment of conscious breathing. Find a space and time during your day to practice the other two segments of this breathing invitation.

Shine A Light

Shine A Light

Our outer world is a reflection of our inner world. This is an opportunity to shine a light on areas of our inner psyches where there are cycles of self loathing, violence, stress, suffering, and pain. Our homework is to clean up our minds and thus our world by bringing the light of awareness to these inner challenge areas of our lives. We are not our thoughts or our beautiful and monstrous minds, they are only an aspect of us. We are the light, the consciousness beyond words that surrounds, envelops, and powers our thoughts, our minds. We can see our minds from new vantage points and illumine our thoughts so they no longer control us. We are the ones, the heros, the light that can bring peace, stillness, and love to all areas of our minds and the world. The invitation is to shine your light on your thoughts and your mind, release thoughts that no longer serve you, they are not you, and experience the peace of who you really are this instant.