Ponderings

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What everyone needs, regardless of his or her job or the kind of work they do, is a vision of what his or her place is and may be. They need an objective and a purpose. They need a feeling and a belief in something that is worthwhile to do. What this is no one can tell them. It must be their own creation. Joseph M. Dodge

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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. Jim Rohn

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There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. Katherine Anne Porter

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Love Radiance Intention Experience

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Dear Love Radiance Intention Member,

Our Collaborative Group Intention Monthly Theme for March is:

Rekindling the Magic of Life

Introduction

Whether we recognize it or not, we all have a magic inside all of us. This magic can make our lives fulfilling in every way. However, the irony of our living is that we have forgotten about the magic and blame the world for making the living so complicated and in many cases miserable. The purpose of this special message is to help all of us in changing our current living in a way that we can realize our full potential of being joyful and fulfilled. Otherwise it is a waste of the most valuable gift. This gift of fulfillment is lying hidden within us and its genuinely waiting for us to get in touch with it. And restore the lost heritage of freedom, peace, love and joy. As well as gain simple understanding of how to go about it. Once the understanding is there, the rest will begin to happen on its own in an ordinary natural way. Hard to believe, but its there for everyone's rekindling, and there isn't any big complicated stuff required for this change to happen.

The Forgotten Reality

Each one of us is a wholesome bundle of physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual inheritance. However most of us remember and focus mostly on the first three parts, and the last one (i.e. spiritual) is left in abeyance maybe to explore it later on. In this procrastination much is lost, as the most of the unexplored splendors within us and around us remain untapped and unexperienced.

Realization

A simple spontaneous realization needed for the magic to come into play is to regain an understanding of a wholesome person. Then begin to operate in the working life from that mode. The world and spiritual arena of life are not separate and opposed to each other. Rather they compliment each other. The Spiritual part is to get in touch with the infinite resources, infinite knowledge, infinite energy, infinite love and infinite intrinsic joy. The other part of body-mind-intellectual set is to do things according to one's inner approval and bypassing the need for external defense. Believing, knowing and feeling this reality are an essential part of the play of life. True intention, persistence and determination are absolutely essential to move positively in this absolutely fulfilling way of living our lives. Once it is there, the process of self-inquiry automatically tickles the way to develop this skill and how to use this skill to make the inherent magic active in life.

Simple Process

This simple process is available to everyone irrespective of one's education, religion, culture, age, color and gender. It is based on recognizing that the life is full of two pairs. Examples: two opposite and extreme views, incoming and outgoing breath, two different thoughts, good and bad situations, good and evil, this and that, etc. We can always see them right in front of us all the time in the living of our lives, as that's where most of the melodrama of life happens. Second recognition is to understand that there is an unseen gap between all these opposite pairs. The third ingredient of the technique is to recognize that in our spiritual essence we are neither of them. Here we are free from all the melodramatic effects, and further to it; that we can access our spiritual essence anytime anywhere as it is right within us. How to remain connected with both these essential aspects of us to make our genuine goals and actions effectively realized, there is a simple technique that works. It embraces the whole picture rather the limited self (i.e. body-mind-intellect set). This is what it is:

1. Spiritual Self

This requires your attention to enter the unseen gap between a pair of opposites or opposite poles that you are currently resolving in the moment. Take an example of extremely opposing views, I am so right and the other interacting side/party is so wrong causing a rift between the two. Allow yourself to enter in the middle of them (as if you are neither of them) and keep your attention going up and up into the empty space until you can hold on to your silence; at least for a silent count of 21 (the more the better). Visualize and feel that with every count you are making an upward movement of your consciousness/attention at least by one inch for the next count of +1 (i.e. from 7 to 8, 8 to 9 and so on). Once stopped counting and moving upward, stay there in the space and keenly observe what comes to you. You will experience that all there is, is Consciousness and You (as Consciousness) right in the middle of this infinity. This process will immediately put you in touch with your essential Self (i.e. Spirit). In the inner silence, as experienced, you will feel some flow of inner energy and in that energy some information/prompt will guide you on what to do and how to do it in a relevant situation either now or later. Be careful not to impose any beliefs or deadlines on you for such a flow and don't set any expectations of any kind. Just stay away from all of them. Be your natural-self! You are with your own Self, the real one; completely free, aware and joyful, where all comparisons, opposites, variables, discriminations, differences and opinions are non-existent. It is free from the five known derailing blocks such as ego, attachment, anger, greed and overly worldly enchantments. You will also experience that the Spiritual self is impartial, neutral and non-judgmental in its basic nature. For more intensive preparation for your entry and establishment in the center, the meditation given at the end, is considered a very useful tool.

2. Body-Mind-Intellect Set

As you went up steadily and gradually, the same way come down to enter your physical consciousness. Feel the presence of the special revitalizing energy in your physical being. Whatever you felt guided in your silence, use your body-mind-intellect set to manifest this/these prompt(s) the best way you can. After completing the task, leave it alone to Nature to handle its orchestration as It wants. Don't tie yourself to any set outcomes or any time frames. Just keep yourself free from any obsession with any result or with anything or with anyone else. Let your free zone help guide you to manifest your aspirations and goals in a struggle-free manner.

3. Simple Awareness

Consistently keep this awareness under your belt and whatever roles you are performing and whatever names and forms you are seeing in the world, you are none of them. Your real Self is the Spirit --- the Awareness that you carry all the time within you. In this mode, you are not just by yourself all alone. Rather you will experience that you are connected with the Universal Spirit/Energy that sustains the whole universe. And you as " Awareness" are right in the middle of your spiritual being and the body-mind-intellect set, you are an agent of doing certain things as shown to you. Always seek this guidance from within you to hold on to the magic/spark of a wondrous life and remain connected with the Self. Utilize your wholesomeness as described above in all you do. Remember always that you are in between the creator and the creation (i.e. the whole world). When you are not being peaceful, loving, kind, considerate and you are on the contrary feeling greedy, miserable and depressed, that simply means you are too engrossed with the worldly affairs. It is then the time/need for you to rise up in your consciousness as explained above and get yourself recharged again to stay fresh and re-energized. This way you can rekindle yourself and keep your wondrous magic of life alive.

4. Cultivating the Practice and Experiencing Its Ongoing Benefits

As with everything else, we need ongoing practice and in the course of time, it will become natural to us. The best way to start this practice of rekindling the magic/spark in us is to identify one important assignment/project/goal/aspiration or subject and apply that particular priority to this process. As soon as we experience joy and fulfillment with this experience as well as feel established 'Free' in the Truth as is (not as it should be) we should gradually expand this process to other areas of life. With ongoing practice, we can maintain what we already have, and also develop ourselves to have what we currently don't have. At the same time, get rid of that which is standing in our way towards keeping our flame alive. Thus putting us on a pathway to effectively utilize what is presented in us and enables us to share it with the rest of our fellow beings on earth. We can consistently keep alive the flame of peace, love, abundance and joy.

Meditation

1. Close your eyes and breathe comfortably from your diaphragm in and out, nostrils to naval and naval back to nostrils for a few minutes until you start to feel inner calmness and a natural rhythm in your breath.

2. Breathe into your toes and visualize subtle energy from your toes into your legs and towards the base of your spine. Stay there for a few minutes.

3. Breathe into the Root Chakra (energy center) at the base of your spine and stay there for a few minutes and imagine a reservoir of energy there and you are taking a bath in your own spiritual energy. Feel a deeper connection with your self.

4. Visualize golden energy awakening from the base of your spine to the next Chakra, Sacral Chakra, just above the genital area and be there for a few minutes and feel inner openness taking place where you are seeing every situation as is by accepting things without judgments and resistance.

5. Visualize golden energy moving to the Solar Plexus Chakra around your naval and feel your own will power energy energizing within you.

6. Visualize golden energy rising upwards to the Heart Chakra. Feel your own inner love invoking and loving everyone with compassion.

7. Visualize golden energy rising in the middle of your throat at the Throat Chakra. Feel the energy of clarity, creativity and having authentic communications with everyone you interact with.

8. Visualize golden energy moving in the middle of your eyebrows at the Third Eye Chakra. Feel your own inner peace, harmony and deeper awareness, awakening to your own intuitive, pure Self.

9. Visualize golden energy rising towards your last chakra, the Crown Chakra merging with the Supreme energy above and around you in silence. Affirm I am a peaceful and free person. Listen in the silence of your heart the guidance it is flowing freely and naturally for you. Be there as long as you would like to. When you are ready to come out of the meditation, let the divine energy flow freely down towards the base of your spine and towards your toes. Feel the presence of this energy from toes to top and top to toes. Observe your breath and gently open your eyes.