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[hoddesdon]

Observe

Today is perfect in all its unfolding. Today it will unfold as it will unfold, a combination of your energies and the energies which are coming toward you, a combination of things already set in place and things that will occur just in the moment. All of this will be unfolding and your job is to create wonderful, positive energy, which encourages those things that are beneficial to you and to be very alert and observant, responding to things as they are in the moment.

Listen closely. Watch closely. Be open and receptive and willing to make great shifts to your previous ideas of how things should be.

Opportunities are most often missed when you are trying to fit the circumstances into a preconceived shape. Let things flow and be as they are. Let life take shape as it will. Just step back and watch and listen before you act.

 

[hoddesdon]

Unfold to Each Other

Today is as it is. You are as you are. All people simply are as they are. Release your plans, fantasies and expectations with the dawn and allow each relationship to blossom and develop in its own authentic way, a slowly unfolding discovery as two people explore themselves and each other.

Let it be like this. Be as two flowers that open to each other, gradually revealing more and deeper truths. Let the rising sun of truth reveal the beauty which is you, deep within. Lift the fog of fantasy and expectation and just be. Be yourself shining forth in all that you are, exactly as you are, saying, doing, feeling and being with a deep integrity which reaches down to your core. And allow others to be who they are. Do not try to change them. Do not judge and criticize. Reveal and understand, unfolding to each other.

Each relationship should be like this, a way to learn from each other, a deepening of your relationship to each other and to yourself. Each relationship fully explored will introduce you to more and deeper parts of yourself. And each bit of love that you give freely and unconditionally, makes your heart more open and receptive for the great love of the universe to flow in, an unending stream of light and goodness.

Allow your life to be a simple unfolding of the self, like a rose opening on a summer day and sending perfume across the garden. And allow the other roses to open in their own way, with their own beauty, some still in the bud, some in their last days, some red, some pink and orange, but all beautiful

 

[hoddesdon]

Be an Angel Today

Today, be an angel in someone else’s life. This can be the simplest thing, the smallest gesture, to a friend but also to a stranger.

Today, as you go through your life, look around and see if there is some small thing you might do for someone else, some gift you can give them. Look for the opportunity to say something nice, to listen attentively, to make a loving gesture. Look for ways to brighten a life. Look for ways to ease a heavy burden.

Spend the day continuously making the world a better place and you will find your own burdens will lift immeasurably. The smiles of gratitude, the look of surprise from a grateful stranger, these things will lift you up and out of your own concerns.

Realize your power to bring joy and gladness to others. Realize the power of a simple act of love and compassion. Be an angel.

 

[hoddesdon]

Cease Desperation Today

Today, do not feel desperate about your life. Do not look up in the sky and see the hands of the clock ticking away and feel that desperate need to accomplish something right now. Do not spend your time and emotional energy in cataloging all of your faults and asking yourself over and over why you cannot seem to accomplish something, why you continue repeating old patterns which do not serve you, why, why.

Cease this desperation and move toward peace.

This very desperation and pressure which you put upon yourself is intensifying each old pattern. It is keeping you prisoner to your old ways. You do not escape old patterns through desperation and asking why. You do not escape the deep rut you have been walking in by beating yourself up with criticism.

The answer is in releasing the desperation. The answer is in going beneath the emotional response. The answer is in releasing the past and focusing in the present. The answer is in ceasing to ask ‘why’ and beginning instead to just ask ‘how’, how can I live well in this moment?

You escape the narrow rut of your habitual life by lifting the heavy burdens of the past and the future, releasing the emotions, and becoming so peaceful and so light that you begin to float up out of those problems and cares, lifting up with lightness and a buoyancy born of love, joy and peace, high enough that you are free of the prison you have kept yourself in and can then look around and see where you would like to fly to, now that you are light enough to move freely.

 

[hoddesdon]

Quiet Your Mind and Observe

Today, notice what surrounds you.

Listen to the sound of birds, the sound of voices, music in the background. Quiet your mind and observe.

Today, see how things actually are, right now. Watch other people and see if you can understand what lies behind their actions. Let life unfold as a mystery around you, a mystery full of clues.

The power to create a new life for yourself begins with a full understanding of where you are and who you are right now. Today, focus on where you fit into the world, what your world is like, what other people are truly like.

Be deeply observant. See how the world works. See how other people feel, think and act. Be objective and observant.

And from this deep understanding of the world which surrounds you, you will be able to find a center of power which makes sense not only for you and your internal world and wishes, but for the world of which you are a part.

 

[1BlackSheep]

Love the posts and all the pretty flower pics! Thanks!

 

[hoddesdon]

Follow Inner Truth

When you are feeling tense and anxious, it is important for you to see if your anxiety is caused by a fear to follow your inner truth through courageous action.

Sit quietly with pen and paper nearby. Breathe down to a quiet place and reach your center. Clear away the worries over the future and regrets over the past. Things are as they are right now, and your goal right now is to alleviate your tension through right action.

Find the calm pool of peace within you and ask, how shall I approach this situation? Then write down the very first answer that comes; capture it before your mind has a chance to second-guess or edit.

If the answer is that you are to be patient and wait, good, then do so calmly, peacefully and without fear. If the answer is that you must deal directly with the situation, then take a deep breath, fill yourself with courage and prepare yourself to speak your truth, calmly, clearly and directly. And if the answer is to meet with others, one on one, listen and learn as you quietly work out your differences, then do that.

Fear and doubt prefer that you deal with situations in anger or that you do nothing except worry and complain. To fear and doubt, a wonderful solution is to revert to your old patterns of overeating and drinking, while taking no constructive steps toward resolution. Fear loves gossip, anger and manipulation.

But you are more than this. You are strong and capable and full of truth and rightness, which direct you each step of the way. Reach down to them and find what you should do, what right action you should take to alleviate the tension and anxiety you feel. Then take a deep breath and act, and fear will give way before you.

 

[hoddesdon]

Express Your Inner Truth

Today, see yourself clearly and find ways to express what you see, feel and know as yourself.

You have been trained by parents, friends, teachers and coworkers, all of the people with whom you have associated, to think and act in a certain way, and to express yourself in ways that are deemed acceptable. As a result, you may now be canceling yourself out, compromising and editing before you have even uttered a word. You may have lost touch with much of your inner truth.

The self-expression we seek here is not expression of pent-up anger and frustration. What we seek is the truth deep inside, the place in your solar plexus which feels calm and comfortable when you are within your rightness, the place in your heart which opens wide when you have given expression to your truth. This is what we are seeking: an open expression of the deepest truth within you.

It may take some seeking to find, but if you quiet your mind and allow your body to feel its way along, you will find wondrous things inside you, just waiting to be expressed.

 

[OceanMist]

Wow, God just walked in. Those are some inspiring words.

 

[hoddesdon]

Be Like the Tiger

Today, relax into each moment. All things are better when you relax.

Your goal is to reach the perfect state, which is to be alert and aware within relaxation. Today, be like the tiger, full of presence, full of awareness, ready to respond in an instant, and yet deeply relaxed.

When you go deeply into the moment, you can trust your intuition to signal you when to respond, even before your physical senses have detected anything coming your way. Deep within the flow, you can know that you are tuned into everything as it is happening, on a level much more receptive than your physical senses alone.

Too often, opportunities are missed because you are distracted by the mental noise in your mind and constrained by the tension in your body.

Breathe deeply and let your body relax. Breathe in and out until your shoulders drop and your neck can move. Then slowly clear your mind, wiping it clean as if it were a white board. Erase all thoughts. Clear away all the clutter. And for just a moment, listen to the quiet of your cleared mind. Then open yourself to what this moment contains with quiet and deep observation.

Your body is relaxed and your mind is focused, clear and alert. You are ready.

 

[Diend]

Maybe it's not our fault that we fail to see this, but society's. Now, there's the mantra "Don't blame others, blame yourself", but seriously...I can imagine myself a freer person without society's rules.

 

[hoddesdon]

Feel the Joy!

Today, let joy bubble up from inside you and overflow. Express joy at every possible opportunity.

If this seems impossible, then come down into this moment, into now, right now. Release the past and its regrets. Release the future and your worries. Come deeply into the moment and find the joy.

And if you still do not feel the joy, then it is time to allow your higher self to enter and teach you joy.

Relax and breathe deeply several times. Center yourself completely into now, this moment. Picture a bright ball of energy above you and know it as your own higher self, your own soul self, glowing above you, full of love, joy and wisdom.

Then consciously open up the crown of your head and picture the golden band of energy that flows into you. Feel it. See how it widens. Feel the flow of love. Feel the flow of wisdom and knowingness. Feel the joy.

Continue to focus on this flow until the joy fills you so completely that you begin to smile.

This joy does not need a reason to be. This joy does not need anything outside of you. This joy is. And it is there for you ever and always.

 

[hoddesdon]

Go Beneath

Today, when something upsets you, respond in a new way. Immediately go beneath your emotion and reinforce your calm and peaceful center. You can learn to do this even while you are having an emotional reaction. You can learn to go beneath the emotion and access your light.

And while you are there, reinforce the love and honor you have for yourself. Reinforce that you wish to live harmoniously with yourself.

You own your response completely. And even if you cannot yet prevent your initial response, you can begin to build a deeper response of peace beneath it. And if you do this often, it will become its own habit. And if you continue long enough, the emotional response will die away and you will be left with the response of peace and rightness in your core, the place from which you will learn to make all of your decisions.

Today, when something upsets you, respond in a new way. Immediately go beneath your emotion and reinforce your calm and peaceful center. You can learn to do this even while you are having an emotional reaction. You can learn to go beneath the emotion and access your light.

And while you are there, reinforce the love and honor you have for yourself. Reinforce that you wish to live harmoniously with yourself.

You own your response completely. And even if you cannot yet prevent your initial response, you can begin to build a deeper response of peace beneath it. And if you do this often, it will become its own habit. And if you continue long enough, the emotional response will die away and you will be left with the response of peace and rightness in your core, the place from which you will learn to make all of your decisions.

 

[hoddesdon]

Connect to Nature

Today, spend a few moments with nature and let peace build inside you. Spend a few moments just standing under a tree and breathing in the fresh oxygen that this tree is giving you as a gift of life. Look closely at a leaf and marvel at the infinite detail that is there presented, even in the most lowly and common of objects that nature has wrought. Marvel at the little veins and how each leaf is unique; there is only one in the entire world like the one in your hand. Infinite detail and infinite variety, this is life.

And you are a part of all this. You and the tree exchange air, you share the same earth, you are part of a living breathing organism that is closely tied together.

There is a deep well of peace within you and it extends down into the earth and up into the heavens. Nature is a wonderful way to connect to that well of peace and the infinity which is contained within each moment that you allow to be only as it is. Each moment that you spend just being in the moment, not in the future with its worries, not in the past with its regrets, but right now and only now, reaches into infinity and oneness and contains all that is.

Let nature be a gateway to that connection, for the tree lives only now, the grass grows only now, the clouds are as they are in this moment for this moment only. Allow yourself time to reach all of this, to be one with all of this. Allow yourself the grace to be one with the wonder that surrounds you.

 

[hoddesdon]

Send a Silent Blessing of Love

Today would be a wonderful day for you to open your heart to compassion, tolerance and acceptance. Feel your heart opening wide and allowing each person to smply be as he or she is, without asking that she change, without asking that he be something other.

See each person as being just like you, a shining light, underneath the fear and the doubt. See that each person wants approval, wants to find a way to make life meaningful. See that each person is searching for a sign that she is important, that his life has meaning, that she is worthwhile.

Help each person to achieve this through simple acceptance and tolerance. Help each person feel your love, caring and compassion, through your words, through your actions and yes, even through your thoughts.

Today, send a silent blessing of love, so that each person may shine a little brighter, simply because you helped them remove one layer of fear and doubt. Shine brightly from your own heart of love and see how it lets everyone else do the same.

 

[hoddesdon]

Surrender to the Flow of Life

Today would be an excellent day to gracefully surrender to the flow of life, accepting things as they are in this moment and moving into the next moment from that place of peace.

To surrender does not mean that you no longer care about your life. It is not apathy. It is acceptance that fighting the current will only exhaust you. It is acceptance that the best way to move in a certain direction is to use the power of the river, sensing how things are and just gently dipping down an arm as a tiller, so that you might catch the fork of the river that appeals to you.

Surrendering to the flow can also be recognition that if you allow life to propel you, you can do so easily and gracefully, with very little effort indeed.

Look forward, feel the power and use it. If you spend your time looking back at what has been, you will not see the wonderful things flowing toward you, nor will you notice the approaching rapids until it is too late to avoid them.

Relax into the flow. Steer yourself gently, taking advantage of the movement and current which surround you. Watch and feel how things are and gently join the flow of life.

 

[hoddesdon]

Focus on Your Health

Today, focus on being healthy in body, mind and spirit.

Physical health is about balance and being in touch with what your body wants and needs. Attune yourself to what your body is saying, to signals of real hunger, of real desire for rest or for exercise. Pay attention. Experiment with setting aside old patterns and listening and feeling, sensing what it is your body truly desires right now.

Mental health is quite simple: peace. Your mental and emotional state should be one of deeply centered peace, a state in which you are centered within yourself, not buffeted by outside events.

Peace is found in accepting the seasons of life, the cycles of relationships, of all enterprises you undertake, letting go of this and moving toward that, always accepting that nothing stays the same and life is change. And the mentally healthy person also knows that spring always comes again.

Spiritual health is the simplest of all: it is knowing yourself as pure love.

 

[Nanita]

Beautiful....

 

[Illusions]

I received this literally half an hour ago. It was sent by an email list I subscribe to.

Opportunity Surrounds You

You are, right now, standing in opportunity. It is all around you. At this age, at this weight, with these resources, you are surrounded by opportunity. There are doors and windows flying open all around you.

The larger arc of your life is one of constant renewal and opportunity. But this moment, right now, is utterly unique, and the talents you have right now and the types of opportunities which surround you in this moment are here for this moment only. And so, you must take a deep breath and step through a door, take some action, allow yourself to act on those dreams.

If you do not fully believe in yourself, that is all right. Act as if you do. Act as if you are completely confident. Pretend to be the person you aspire to be and the universe will respond. And as the response comes, you will begin to actually be this person you aspire to be. And the response will contain within it both the seeds for your growth and the seeds for your success. You will be praised for some things and given advice on others. All of this is the fruit of action.

Do not let this moment turn into a moment of regret. Do not let this moment be one that you look back on with longing, wondering how you could have missed the signs, how you could have doubted yourself and been so afraid. Let this be a moment you look back on with pride, proud of the courage you had to step out and act, even though you were uncertain in many ways, even though you had to take a deep, deep breath to overcome your fear.

Like they say, fake it till you make it. Thanks for sharing.

 

[hoddesdon]

Meet Life Face to Face

There are times when life presents obstacles in your path that seem enormous; you cannot see your way past them, over them, or how to move them even one inch.

These are the times for you to dig deep and find yourself. These are the times for you to find your courage and your strength, to pull out all that you are and show it to the world.

Nothing is gained by feeling sorry for yourself or by asking, “Why me?”

Everything is gained by digging deep and finding out who you are in the face of adversity. Everything is gained by testing your courage, strength and patience against whatever the world tosses your way. Everything is gained by believing in your strength and the help that is there for you.

How can you know who you are, if you do not know who you are when tested? These are the times which matter and you are equal to them, every one. Dig deep into your well and you will emerge stronger, truer and more full of love for yourself and for life itself. For when you meet life face to face, when you rise to meet each occasion, no matter how frightening it may first seem, you and life will develop a deep respect for each other, a respect which will turn to love over time.