YOU light up your life!

What are your self limiting beliefs of the day? Investigate into your psyche and ask your self honestly:

..which dreams have you given up silently?
..what have you presumed about what it is that Life has not given you/cannot give you/should not give you??
..Are you aware of the myriad forms your dreams and aspirations can take? Or are you through the lens of self-limiting beliefs only focussing on the The Only One Possible Way Your Dream Must Manifest??
..Who said this?
..When you were growing up, did you concentrate on all the probable ways your Life will not pan out as you wish or did you light up like a christmas tree upon just thinking of What You Would Like To Be when you grew up??
..Why is NOW any different?
..Are you really asking for a fulfilling vocation/career/hobby or are you stuck in what you believe is POSSIBLE REALISTICALLY SPEAKING????
..Who decides your limiting reality?
..Identify your notions about LIFE and your Self and stay with the feelings that come up when you feel like IT IS ALL OVER..or I AM TOO OLD..etc etc. This is when you acknowledge what requires your attention. Stay with these emotions with love and reassure your self that it is a doorway..magically opening up the next moment to the infinite possibilities and miracles!

Above all, support yourself with loving thoughts..be kind and generous to your self and then step back and marvel at what unfolds before your very own eyes!!! Life always wants to give you the very best to you..just accept and embrace it with gratitude and trust.

Ring out the Old, Ring in the New

As the year 2010 draws to the end, we can all mentally acknowledge all the things, big and small that we appreciate and are grateful for..for we are very blessed and privileged indeed!

What will be on your list?

Make this your annual tradition and throw out the New Years Resolutions..they only serve to make you feel incomplete or that you are somehow not perfect as you are NOW.

Guilt has never created long lasting changes for anyone and there is no fun in it!

I wish you a safe and magical holiday season and lots of beautiful thoughts all through..

xoxo

Walking through Illusion

In this very insightful book, the message of Jesus and his teachings are presented in the form of the dialogues and questions the writer wanted answered.

As with all spiritually evolved teachers Jesus' teaching focussed on the central theme of love and acceptance..On free will..on the choice between fear and love that is available to everybody in each moment..On the true nature of our essence...On the inner state of joy and peace which accompanies every love-centred action and thought.

The book is divided into various chapters with one theme as its focus, for example Morality etc. This is then followed by questions to ponder, a short journaling exercise and a personal insight by the author. This was my favourite part as it allowed me to open up my mind to questions I might not have asked myself before. Asking the questions inevitably brings the answers that are most fulfilling to self. This practice of self-inquiry which leads to self awareness is the doorway into learning Jesus' message experientially.

Also this is not the Jesus who judges, condemns and makes you feel sinful or scared. To me, a Hindu by religion it was the Jesus I always suspected. Kind, Wise, Loving and Inspirational.

A great book to gift or read for the Holiday season!

On Money and Abundance

I had a client come in the other day very distressed and seething with anger because her fiancé had just blown their entire savings on furniture. She was going to move in with him in about 6 months and so they were looking to start anew together. A brand new phase called for brand new things.

What upset her most was the fact that he did not care that they now had virtually no savings and that the stuff her fiancé had bought was on an impulse. She felt it could wait and be bought slowly over a period of time. His rationale was that he did not allow money to control him. She on the other hand was fearful that this might not be the first or the last time. She did not feel comfortable not having any savings in the bank and was nervous about how life together was going to pan out. Was she going to have to always be worried about the future? What about her hard earned savings?? She also admitted that she was feeling mildly depressed and had been brooding all week long.

How often have we all struggled with issues around money? Or have watched others around us grapple with prosperity and abundance like it was a puzzle that they just found too hard to solve!

The belief systems that both my client and her fiancé had about money were equally limited in their nature. My client believed it was a finite entity that was to be held on to tightly lest it all slip away and there is nothing left. The fiancé on the other hand believed that there was no guarantee what the future will be like, it is now or never. Buy it now and regret later. As the law of the universe states that what we focus upon grows. Both beliefs were limited because of the nature in which they manifested as feelings in them. One was feeling angry, depressed and moody. The other impulsive, impatient and self-righteous.

I suggested to my client to view this as an unusual opportunity to address her limited beliefs about money and also as an opening to a new way of communicating with her fiancé. The talk about how they would spend, draw up some rules around spending limits and also share their insecurities about money. Be grateful that this has come up for their mutual acknowledgement and use it to strengthen both their relationship and also their sense of security around money issues.

There was also the issue about my client being uncomfortable about her fiancé being too generous and lenient about giving money to his family.  Now while this is certainly compensatory behavior on the part of the fiancé, the fact remains that his outlook on money cannot impinge on the health of my client until and unless she allows it. The only way to allow others to be who they are and allow them to learn the lessons they will ultimately learn can only happen when we allow ourselves first. My client had to learn to allow her to be generous to her self and not be scared by limiting beliefs about money. Her fiancé too needed to not attach his sense of self-worth to his ability to shell out cash to needy family members. Instead he had to form a new thought pattern that he valued money and used it to empower others, not just to make him self feel good temporarily.

The fact remains that money is a human concept invented for convenience and out of a sense of maintaining order and justice. So therefore if you ask yourself what are your beliefs about Money you will realize that it is the meaning you give to the piece of currency that either gives you a sense of power or to make you feel like a helpless victim.

If you believe that money is equal to your sense of self worth and value then of course you will defend it vehemently at the cost of your own sense of peace and wellbeing. There will be a need to save and store; a sense of guilt when you spend more than you had promised yourself; anger and rage at the thought of losing it; inability to share and give generously.

On the other hand if your beliefs about money are limitless, abundant and constantly increasing then there is no real threat to your sense of wellbeing and peace. There will be no shopping sprees and crazy designer brand obsession because you know that there is always enough and that your skills, abilities and intuitive guidance will always ensure that you have enough for yourself and enough to give others.

This is a season of giving and therefore lets share what we have and give what we can rest assured in the knowledge that all the money we ever want is here and now in the planet seeking a way to access you if only you would allow it to enter your life through your belief system.

“My income is constantly increasing and I attract prosperity and abundance wherever I go”

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Intuition

What is the difference between intuition and a negative thought? That was my source of confusion at the time I believed I was the sum total of all my thoughts. Amongst many other similarly crazy beliefs!

Now I can say with total confidence that there is absolutely no similarity between the two whatsoever! Like Chalk and Cheese.

Intuition comes as a feeling in the gut. A strange sensation in your belly. A constriction in your throat. A flashing image. A wave of red-hot heat running down your back. Butterflies in your stomach.

A negative thought on the other hand is fear masquerading as the voice of reason and logic. It is repetitive, reactive and mostly based in the past. It is fear appointed by the mind to execute terror in the form of very sophisticated combination of words and sentences.

Next time you are undecided about something, ask the question with your mind and not to it. Then get the answer by inquiring your Self. The part of you that feels and senses. Become curious and remain open to what needs to reveal itself to you. Usually the answer might even come days and moments later. Odd places and circumstances. Like a bathtub as Archimedes was to find out!

Most importantly trust what is revealed to you. That is your intuition.

Eureka Eureka you have got it!! J

PERCEPTION

"Everything I choose to believe about myself and life ultimately becomes true for me" Louise Hay.

From somebody who perpetually perceives the glass as half full, I have often wondered out of curiosity about those who observe with equal conviction that the glass is in fact half empty! After all why not choose the wonderful feelings of abundance, safety and gratitude which accompany the positive observation of our physical environment?

Our outer world is often referred to as a mirror of our inner world to the extent that you will always find evidence of your beliefs manifest in your world so you can ironically claim," I THOUGHT as much"! Ironical because we now continue to believe that which we have created for ourselves even if it makes us suffer through negative emotions and self limiting beliefs.

The only thing which comes between you and an event/person/experience/circumstance/life is the meaning you attach to it. In other words how you choose to perceive it.Perception lies between joy and discontentment. Love and Loathing. Feelings of wholeness and emptiness. Achievement and failure. Forgiveness and illness...etc

The wonderful law of the universe however gives us limitless opportunities to correct all our perceptual errors. How? When we feel the true depth of our infinite self through love and gratitude, we change our very self-perception that hitherto was keeping us in the dark. We feel our own magnificence when have perceived correctly. Correct perception comes floating on the coattails of authentic thoughts.How do you know an authentic thought? Ask yourself how your body feels? Joyous, safe and content? Or Angry, sad or resentful? 

Manage your perception so it allows you to feel good, powerful and joyous! Your true state.