LET LOVE LEAD...

Don’t judge someone unless you have looked through their eyes, experienced what they have, and cried as many tears as they have. Instead do something to help people who suffer with never-ending pain. EVERYONE  needs help at one point or another. NOBODY can make it out here alone.

Make a difference by doing the simple things through LOVE. Once a heart opens to the other side, it can never completely shut again. Let LOVE LEAD YOU.

Remember: YOUR LIFE IS YOUR MESSAGE.

Subconscious Mind...

"Recognizing the influence of my subconscious mind over my power of will, I shall take care to submit to it a clear and definite picture of my major purpose in life and all minor purposes leading to my major purpose, AND I SHALL KEEP THIS PICTURE CONSTANTLY BEFORE MY SUBCONSCIOUS MIND BY REPEATING IT DAILY!!!!"  -Bruce Lee


Apply this to your everyday world.

Do It Today...

"Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it- in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance."-John C. Maxwell

Do the right thing;
Do it today;
Do it with no hope of return or promise of reward;
Do it with a smile and a cheerful attitude;
Do it day after day after day;
Do it, and someday,
There will come a day
That will be a payday
For all the yesterdays
You spent focused on the current day-
That will not only give value to today,
But will make each future day
Outshine each yesterday.
And what more could you ask of a day?

Maxwell, J. Success And One Day At A Time. Pgs. 65, 71.

Make Use Of Whatever Happens...

"There is only one group of people that don't have problems and they're all dead. Problems are a sign of life. So the more problems you have the more alive you are." -Norman Vincent Peale

As the late great minister points out, problems are endemic to the human condition. No one escapes. The trick is to use whatever problem, difficulty, or hardship you are facing as a vehicle for spiritual and emotional growth. It isn't always easy, and it isn't always possible to do in the moment, but there are always hidden blessings in difficult situations, and when we discover them, we REDEEM OUR SUFFERING. We make meaning out of tragedy and grow more loving, compassionate, patient, and kind as a consequence.

The people I admire the most all say that they are grateful for the hard things they faced because of these opportunities for growth: a heart attack that reconnected them to their feelings, cancer that forced them to slow down, financial difficulties that taught them resilience.

Think about the most challenging thing you are facing right now. How is it an opportunity for you to grow your soul?

Ryan, M.J. Instant Health and Happiness. Pg. 306.

Love All Of It

I want focus for a second on our mental attributes. We can't just focus on the physical parts of a person (and that is often what we do), the mental/emotional side are extremely important when shaping and building a strong foundation of the body (completely and truly). You can not only focus on the physical and ignore the mental. Many people will often times attempt to pick one part over the other. THE MIND is a powerful tool and if not trained like the physical part, it can backfire on you, and it will prevent you from succeeding or reaching any goals you may set. For example, say a person wants to lose 10 pounds...physically they are ready for action, but mentally they doubt themselves/deep down they don't think they can do it/they have negative thoughts. The sad thing with this scenario is that more than likely this person will not be able to reach their goals because their mind has taken control of the situation.

When setting goals/dreams you never want to use the word BUT...YOU JUST DO IT! Do not allow anything to come in the way of your vision. You have all the tools necessary to succeed and be successful in your journey. I want to share a piece of information with you that I think is so important and worth talking about. We all have experienced some time or another in our life negative characteristics that can dictate or control our way of thinking about our self and experiences with people that surround our lives. These characteristic are known as NEW FOUND FRIENDS.

Fear, guilt, unworthiness, hurt feelings, anger, and discouragement are really our friends. When you are feeling any of these things in a negative way and these feelings limit you...you must pause for a moment and remember these important points:

1) Fear is the energy to do our best in a new situation.
2) Guilt is the energy for personal change.
3) Unworthiness keeps us on track.
4) Hurt Feelings reminds us how much we care.
5) Anger is the energy for change.
6) Discouragement reveals our courage.

Love it all- the fear/excitement, the guilt/the power of change, the unworthiness/the worthiness, the hurt feelings/the euphoric feelings, the anger/the movement, the discouragement/the encouragement- we must learn from both the good and the bad things in order to fully understand ourselves...it's called LIFE! And it is YOUR LIFE! DISCOVER YOURSELF...YOU WOULD BE AMAZED WHAT LIVES INSIDE OF YOU!!! :)

You Are Meant To Do Something

YOU HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO DO SO MUCH. YOU MUST FOLLOW YOUR HEART. THERE WILL BE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT WILL TRY AND STOP YOU FROM BEING THE BEST YOU CAN BE ONLY BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE DESIRE AND THE DETERMINATION TO SUCCEED THAT YOU DO.  YOU MUST NEVER STOP BELIEVING IN YOUR POTENTIAL.  IT IS IN ALL OF US, YOU MUST FIND IT WITHIN YOURSELF AND KEEP STRIVING. I BELIEVE THAT WE ALL ARE  MEANT TO DO SOMETHING AND IT IS ONLY UP TO YOU TO FIND IT!  YOU CAN NOT DEPEND ON ANYBODY BUT YOURSELF.  YOU WILL HAVE PEOPLE THAT WILL SUPPORT YOU AND HELP YOU ALONG THE WAY, BUT IN THE END IT MUST COME FROM YOU AND ONLY YOU.  SO FIND, EMBRACE IT, AND SHOW WHAT YOU ARE MEANT TO BE AND DO IT!  I BELIEVE IN ALL OF YOU!

No Matter What

I would like to share these deep and powerful thoughts to you, which were given to me...

Love, life, the pursuit of happiness. The shredding of my soul blossoms a new beginning. Utter loneliness swarms me, entraps me. The lost intimacy of a companion. Stepping back from a great friend. I search daily for strength to pull me out of the deep, damp hole. I sit and hear darkness. I see silence encamped around me. My heart drops, and each pounding beat weakens. My thoughts are moving through my head like an undying twister. Confusion is the misty rain, sprinkling down on my body. The journey begins...

Deep within lies the one person that can free my imprisoned emotions. But how will I ever redeem the truth that makes me who I am without hurting who I am? Why me? Why have I been chosen to live the mysterious way that I do? Punishment is my forsaken reward in which I thrive off of. Someone has to be me, so why not me. A gentle love waiting to spring out to the surface. Barriers and walls built daily to protect my fears. Barriers that make me who I am. Someone special took pieces of that wall down with every heart-filled word. With every gesture of love and care. The walls were still there but became transparent. But still exists because of my fear...a society that grows with blinders on to the world. A society that looks without compassion to see only what it wants to see instead of looking within. 

A bird can walk in peace, but fly with fear. The right way is not always the best way. We are all born a certain way. We are given gifts which we sometimes don't like, but learn to appreciate. I have sat and pondered time and time again in my lonely hours. I have concluded that self-respect and self-love are a dominating structure in well being. Letting the barriers down allows me to breathe. Communication is by far the most important thing. Openness and honesty relieves me of my burdens. I believe that when you find happiness and joy, you should never let it go. You should never let that one thing or that person who brings it to you go. No matter how things turn out, the HEART, the MIND nor the SOUL ever let go of that joy. That moment, experience, and understanding will NEVER be forgotten and forever it has changed me to BE WHO I AM TODAY.

Always Believe

ONE OF THE GREATEST WEAKNESSES A PERSON CAN HAVE IS....NOT BELIEVING! You must ALWAYS believe that you can do anything that you set your mind to. Each person has the capacity to follow a dream or to recognize that within each of us is a place of refuge. BELIEVE that you can succeed in school, BELIEVE that you can find a good job, BELIEVE that you can overcome a break-up, BELIEVE that you can BE THE BEST! And remember a person who cannot believe in themselves cannot believe in anything else. 

Flow Freely

The Nine attributes that help create your FLOW.

1. Commitment-take a stand for your deepest values, and do everything it takes to live by them.

2. Honesty-a solid commitment to identity and breaking through layers of misconceptions, self-deceptions, emotional scars, internal conflicts, buried dreams and fears.Be honest with yourself, no matter how uncomfortable that may sometimes be.

3. Courage-overcoming our fears by stepping outside our personal comfort zone and following our intuition.

4. Passion- for life, knowledge, for a cause, for a relationship, for truth. Caring deeply about something beyond ourselves. Engaging with it at intense levels.Letting go of self protective caution to involve ourselves wholeheartedly with what we love.

5.Immediacy- living fully in the present. Settle all your attention to each interaction. Fully engaged in in whatever we are doing. State of awareness.

6. Openness- being ready and willing and available to a wide range of possibility.Embrace whatever develops and know that everything we experience has value.

7. Receptivity- ready to take your part in the unfolding of events. Listen to your inner voice, observe all that happens around you...this will lead you to move in harmony with each moment.

8. Positivity- seek out the value in every situation, at every turn, emphasize it, and work actively with it. Through each experience, learn that in the positive side lies the potential for movement.

9. Trust- In yourself, in God, in a larger plan...the bottom line is just plain trust. Trust enables us to proceed with absolute certainty into the unknown.

Build Your Bridge

Never Stop Building Your Bridge...Transform All The Energy You Possess With All The New Energy You Discover Into A Light That Shines Around You, Within You, And Above You.

Your Life Is Waiting To Unfold

Truly get to know yourself and your life becomes a journey instead of an obstacle. You have the power to change your life. Life is nothing less than a creative force, an act of becoming rather than a static state of being. Learn to go with the flow, trust yourself, and have faith in life...so you can understand your purpose and your center.

Your Life Is Not Against You

You must be present to life. You must show up. You must be present to win. Know who you are in any given moment. At any conflict, confusion, or disorder that appears before us-You must channel light, love, and healing. To be a warrior of light and love through each and every experience in your life. To walk through life with love, harmony, and beauty.

To be able to center yourself and have peace with every situation you come across (good and bad). To embrace difficult situations without becoming defensive or reactive. It is the concept of one unit...a mind and body dynamic. Your body must be relaxed in stressful situations with your mind having the capability of shifting attention and awareness in order not to create resistance. Try seeing beyond the situation rather than what is right in front of you. Into the interior of an issue...from your center, you see, say, and do something entirely different from what you see, say, and do when relating to the situation right in front of you.

Everything that is for you and against you has its roots within you. If you resist what seems to resist you, you strengthen that resistance that keeps you constrained to your past and makes your future predictable. It is understandable that we tend to armor ourselves when life looks and feels scary. It is human nature to react to a negative situation in a defensive way in order to feel safe and to be okay. We tend to justify our defensiveness by finding ourselves victims of circumstances. We are driven to avoid what makes us feel unsafe. Ask yourself what kinds of situations put you on the defensive? How much energy do you spend protecting or defending yourself?

Now look at the concept of wholeness-purpose, principle, and nonresistance. The true essence of your nature and spiritual identity. Wholeness being the foundation of your being. It is essential for you to see the relationship between thoughts of fear or lack of thoughts, which will manifest themselves as experiences as if someone is against you and your life is not right. We must take responsibility for our fear-based actions and the hurt they have caused us. Unfortunately, you can't experience inner peace when you are worried that everything in your world isn't right. The world we live in is a place of opposites and competing tensions, BUT THESE FORCES ARE NOT A POWER OVER US, UNLESS WE ALLOW THEM TO BE. Conflicts, challenges, and interpersonal difficulties are dynamic energies within which we can react and move appropriately remembering that these forces are not against us unless we allow them to be.

Think of a storm system-displacement, movement, and friction. The forces all around the system build in intensity with temperature, wind velocity, jet stream, humidity, etc combining to form a distinct rotation of influence...Your hurricane is officially born. Now think of competing needs, wants, and values combined with misperception, defensiveness, and the need to be right...an energetic field of influence of interpersonal conflict is created. What is in the center of the hurricane- the eye of the storm. A single point in space where the forces of the storm are in perfect equilibrium. At the center/eye of the storm there is peace, calm, clarity and stillness. That center for you is wholeness and spiritual essence. It is at this center point you can experience the storm without resisting it. It is at YOUR CENTER that you experience peace, stillness, and calmness. If there is conflict in your life, look at things differently, know that your wholeness is at the center of it. By knowing and understanding this you can stop resisting it and instead shift your attention and awareness...and experience the conflict from the center. We have a choice in how we look at our life experiences and conflicts. How you choose to relate to your experiences is what your experiences become. The quality of your life arises from within you. We are all human beings who have dealt with conflict at some point in our life and with that conflict comes reaction. We allow our thoughts and feelings to create mental and emotional states that influence how we  relate and respond to what is happening in our life. Looking deeper, our emotional responses arise from what we make the situation mean. There is an invisible realm that exists and we fail to see this realm due to our way of thinking and our assumptions toward the conflict.

Life happens through us. By seeing the invisible, you are able to see the relationship between one's viewing point and the factors that create a person's life experience. Some say our viewing point is like a rear view mirror...Objects are closer then they appear, concealing how things really are. We have become use to this way of thinking-a distorted way of looking at things. It is this invisible realm of consciousness that is the energy of principles we must learn to see and recognize as influencing our life experiences. These principles intervene in our attention and awareness, which in turn will determine our viewing point. It is important to fulfill your wholeness/center by shifting your attention to new and healthier viewing points. Live from your wholeness...Learn to see-to see how you are looking at your life. Free yourself with interacting with your conditioned mind, and begin looking deeper and beyond the things that are invisible. Your wholeness is your spiritual legacy-it is not what you have but what has you that enables you to embrace life completely. "THOSE WHO CAN SEE THE INVISIBLE CAN DO THE IMPOSSIBLE."

Find Your Peace

Always remember that you are unique. The moment you discover and choose to change your way of thinking is the day your life will change completely. Everyone has choices. Choices to overcome, withdrawal, sink, SUCCEED in very difficult circumstances. We all come across issues in our everyday lives. It is what it is...but you have a choice on how you deal with these issues. Everyone needs to find their own balance in life, some of us lose it, but gain it back over time. Our peace and tranquility is determined by how we deal with challenging issues. Keep moving forward and understand that things present themselves to you in life for a reason. To help you overcome, to help you become stronger, to help you find your purpose. Never lose hope and try to see the good in a difficult situation.

UNCONQUERABLE..

Whatever adversity he faces...his soul will remain unconquered. The body and mind may be broken, but the spirit within is not. Even when faced with a place of wrath and tears...he is not afraid. He is the MASTER OF HIS FATE...THE CAPTAIN OF HIS SOUL. Never lose hope and be strong through your conflicts. I want to share this Wonderful poem by William Ernest Henley, INVICTUS-1875, with you...

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever god may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeoning of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.

I am the MASTER OF MY FATE:

I am the CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL.

The Way Of The Sword

Learn to flow in the natural way without hesitating or pausing. Learn new things all the time. Go through the motions as ONE BODY. Never hesitate. Never pause. Behind every motion is the music of the soul made visible.

The Strongest Bond

The MIND is a state. 

The HEART is the capital of the mind.

The MIND and HEART TOGETHER make up the STRONGEST bond.

The STRENGTH creates endless POSSIBILITIES.

The POSSIBILITIES fulfills your FAITH.

The FAITH allows you to TRUST...YOUR MIND AND YOUR HEART.