Hidden Gems

by Madisyn Taylor

All of the events in our lives lead to other events, they are all connected.

Sometimes we have an experience that we don’t understand, but if we look deeply, or wait long enough, a reason for that experience will usually reveal itself. All the events in our lives lead to other events, and all that we have manifested in this present moment is the result of past events and experiences. We cannot easily tease apart the many threads that have been woven together to create our current reality. Experiences that don’t make sense, as well as any that we regret, are just as responsible for the good things in our lives as the experiences we do understand or label as “good.”

This is especially important to remember at times when we feel directionless or unsure of what to do. It is often at times like these that we take a job or move to a place without really knowing if it’s the right thing to do. We may ultimately end up leaving the job or the place, but often during that time we will have met someone who becomes an important friend, or we may have an experience that changes us in a profound way. When all the pieces of our life don’t quite make sense, we can remember that there may be some hidden gem of a reason that we are where we are having the experiences we are having.

It’s fun to look back on past experiences with an eye to uncovering those gems—the dreadful temporary job in a bland office building that introduced you to the love of your life; the roommate you couldn’t tolerate who gave you a book that changed your life; the time spent living in a city you didn’t like that led you into a deeper relationship with yourself. Remembering these past experiences can restore our faith in the present. Life is full of buried treasures. Chances are, you’re sitting on some right now.

Source: Daily OM

Color - Influencing the Tone of Your Life

by Madisyn Taylor

Color has the ability to trigger our emotions, affect the way we think and act, and influence our attitudes.

When we enter a room or see an object for the first time, our minds register its color before any other detail. The colors our eyes can perceive are like words that form a subtle language of mood, energy, and insight. Color can exert a gentle effect on the mind and the body, influencing our dispositions and our physical health. Color has the ability to trigger our emotions, affect the way we think and act, and influence our attitudes. You unconsciously respond to the color of the walls in your home, your car, your clothing, and the food you eat based on your body’s natural reactions to certain colors and the psychological associations you have formed around them. The consequences of the decision to paint a room or wear a specific article of clothing therefore goes beyond aesthetics.

The colors you encounter throughout your day can make you feel happy or sad, invigorate you or drain your vitality, and even affect your work habits. Throughout history, cultures spread over many different parts of the globe have attributed varying meanings to different colors. In China, blue is associated with immortality, while people in the Middle East view blue as a color of protection. There is also evidence that human beings respond to color in a very visceral way. Red excites us and inflames our passions. Too much red, however, can make us feel overstimulated and irritated. Pink tends to make people feel loved and protected but also can cause feelings of lethargy. Yellow represents joy or optimism and can energize you and help you think more clearly. Bright orange reduces depression and sadness. Blue and green are known to inspire peaceful feelings, and people are often able to concentrate better and work in rooms painted in soft blues and greens. The darker tones of! both colors can make you feel serious and introspective.

There are ways to integrate color into your life that go beyond picking the hues of your décor and your wardrobe. You can meditate with color by concentrating on the colors that make you feel peaceful or using a progression of colors to symbolize a descent into a relaxed state. Color breathing involves visualizing certain colors as you in inhale and exhale. Choose to surround yourself with the colors that you are attracted to and make you feel good, and you can create an environment that makes you feel nurtured, peaceful, and uplifted.

Perception - Making Life Yours

by Madisyn Taylor

A simple shift in attitude can help us recognize the hidden potential for fulfillment in every event.

There is no secret recipe for happiness and contentment. The individuals who move through life joyously have not necessarily been blessed with lives of abundance, love, success, and prosperity. Such people have, however, been blessed with the ability to take the circumstances they’ve been handed and make them into something great. Our individual realities are colored by perception—delight and despair come from within rather than without. Situations we regard as fortuitous please us while situations we judge inauspicious cause us no end of grief. Yet if we can look at all we have accomplished without dwelling on our perceived misfortune and make each new circumstance our own, the world as a whole becomes a brighter place. A simple shift in attitude can help us recognize and unearth the hidden potential for personal and outer world fulfillment in every event, every relationship, every duty, and every setback.

The universe is often an unpredictable and chaotic place, and the human tendency is to focus on the negative and assume the positive will care for itself. But life can be no more or no less than what you make of it. If you are working in a job you dislike, you can concentrate on the positive aspects of the position and approach your work with gusto. What can you do with this job that can turn it around so you do love it. When faced with the prospect of undertaking a task you fear, you can view it as an opportunity to discover what you are truly capable of doing. Similarly, unexpected events, when viewed as surprises, can add flavor to your existence. By choosing to love life no matter what crosses your path, you can create an atmosphere of jubilance that is wonderfully infectious. A change in perspective is all it takes to change your world, but you must be willing to adopt an optimistic, hopeful mind-set.

To make a conscious decision to be happy is not enough. You must learn to observe life’s complexities through the eyes of a child seeing everything for the first time. You must furthermore divest yourself of preconceived notions of what is good and what is bad so that you can appreciate the rich insights concealed in each stage of your life’s journey. And you must strive to discover the dual joys of wanting what you have. As you gradually shift your perspective, your existence will be imbued with happiness and contentment that will remain with you forever.
 

Source: Daily OM

Pendulum Motion - Intuition Made Visible

by Madisyn Taylor

Using a pendulum is a simple way to clarify messages from intuition or inspiration.

Using a pendulum is a simple way to clarify messages from intuition or inspiration. With its minimal construction of a weight, or bob, allowed to swing freely from a piece of cord or chain, it gives us a visual understanding of the subtle energies that influence us. When we ask a question using the pendulum, we may receive answers from our own intuition or from our spirit guides or angels. The process, known as “dowsing” or “divining,” is also useful to check our energy centers or even to find lost articles. Whether it is our energy or the whispers of our guides creating the motion, the pendulum helps us better understand the secret language of spirit.

Your pendulum can be anything that feels right to you: a crystal pendant, wood or metal ornaments, a seashell, an item with sentimental value, or even an acorn on a string. The key is that it must be balanced so it can swing freely. Before and after each session, you may want to purify your pendulum, perhaps by using salt water or burning sage or incense. Focus on becoming still and choose who you would like to answer your questions, your higher self or your spirit guides or guardian angels. By asking questions whose answers you already know and watching the corresponding movements, you can learn what “yes” and “no” look like. Your pendulum may move forward and back for “yes” and side-to-side for “no,” or perhaps a variety of circular motions will be your indicators. For some people, movement comes easily as they are more in tune with working with energy, but do not give up if you do not get movement right away. Determining a neutral state, which may be stillness or another ! distinct motion, can help avoid confusion as well. Once you are familiar with your pendulum, you can use it to check the energy of a room, or use a pendulum over your chakras to see if they are blocked or open.

When we make a practice of listening to our spiritual guidance, we find it more accessible to us in general. The use of a tool like the pendulum can only help us gain mastery in this understanding, allowing us to transform our lives into playgrounds for manifesting our gifts and dreams.

Source: Daily OM

Exercise to Purify the Mental Body

By Gloria Excelsias

Our current evolutionary goal is to become Soul conscious in our brain awareness. To bring about Soul consciousness in our brain awareness, obviously there has to be initiated some communication between the Overlighting Soul and the Soul’s extension of itself anchored in the brain – the so-called „conscious thinking I“ – because, in essence, to become fully Soul conscious means that the Overlighting Soul fully incarnates in the brain.

Now, to bring this about, as part of the preparation, the Overlighting Soul starts sending Divine ideas towards the extension of itself anchored in the brain; ideas which enter our mental field, or mental body. Once these ideas become a part of our mental body, it is our job then – the job of the conscious thinking I – to correctly interpret these ideas so we can then go about applying them in our daily lives. Sounds simple, right? Big problem: our mental bodies, speaking of humanity in general, are so polluted with thoughts of fear, separation, guilt, jealousy, competition, greed, lower self, violence (from watching crime movies every night, etc.), and so, whatever lofty ideas are sent to us, we naturally distort them.

We, as Souls, inhabit various bodies – physical, emotional, mental. Living in a polluted mental body is like living in a place where the air is so dirty and thick that you can’t see your own hand before your very eyes. So whatever beautiful idea tries to blossom there suffocates right amidst all the dirt. That’s what the condition of our mental body is like.

So here is the point: If we want to become Soul conscious in our brain awareness, one thing we have to do is learning to purify our mental bodies so we can establish a clear communication with our higher prototype. The Overlighting Soul, which is our higher prototype, cannot reach us in our brain awareness if our mental body is in such a bad condition.

So here is a very simple but very powerful exercise to purify your mental field:

Close your eyes, relax your physical body, emotional nature and mind. Focus your consciousness in your third eye, and then take some 10 minutes or so and just let the mind wander around as it pleases. Don’t judge or criticize anything and don’t try to repress any thoughts. Let everything out. Let the mind wander freely, and just see how in front of you there gather all these thoughts. When the 10 minutes are over, see the light of the Soul flowing down upon all these thoughts and dissolving them in the light of the Soul. Close this meditation by thinking of your mental body as a crystal clear field of pure electrical energy. Open your eyes.

Do this exercise as often as you feel guided to. It is a necessary exercise to prepare our mental body for higher communication. Try it out. You will feel so much lighter when you do it.

As I have said before, the 21st century shall go down in history as the Age of the Soul. One thing that we will learn in this new age is to think in terms of energies. We will be able to solve all our personal and planetary problems once we start to think in terms of energies. It is exercises such as this one, that are freely available and cost no dime, which the doctors of the future will prescribe their patients. Depression, anxiety, inferiority complex and all the psychological problems of humanity are simply misqualified energies that need to be transformed. Energy cannot be destroyed but it can be transformed. This is one way of doing it. Namaste.

Source: http://iamuniversity.org/exercise-to-purify-the-mental-body