The best thing you can do for yourself at anytime is to close your eyes, drop your attention from the head to the heart, and take a few breaths. As you do this for a few minutes every day, your inner being starts to expand, and the smaller part of your being (thoughts, emotions and body) can benefit from this state of connectedness. Well being and natural abundance are already there, it is only your resistance to it that keeps it at bay.
GRATITUDE EXERCISE
It doesn’t cost a thing and it makes everybody feel good! Whether you live alone, with kids or a partner, make sure you tell them one or two things that you love about them. The best time for this is anytime of course, or morning and evening, before or after bedtime, EVERY DAY. If you are alone, find a mirror: say it but make sure you mean it! We are always too busy criticising ourselves and others, which sets the tone for heavy and negative energy. Think about all the things you disapprove of yourself and other just for a second… see what I mean?!
If you practice this even for a few weeks, you will start to see that you feel a lot better. Your children and/or partner too! Encourage them to do the same with you. This is simple, free and it really does make a difference. See you next month! With best wishes & gratitude
Mahayana
This is the season more than ever for the delicious fruits & vegetables. As we all tend to eat acid forming in excess (meat, dairies, bread, beans and pulses, alcohol, etc) drinking a large glass of fruit & veg juice daily is a wonderful way to bring up your alkaline balance. Such juices are available in stores just about anywhere but if you would like to make your own for added freshness and vitamin content, here is a great recipe: it contains all the ingredients to keep your internal organs clean and regenerated, your skin blemish free & rejuvenated, your immune system in great shape and give you a great natural boost:
A large carrot, an apple, 3 sticks of celery, a third of a cucumber, half a lemon, an inch of fresh ginger and a clove of garlic all put through a juicer. Drink immediately (through a straw for those of you with receding gums) as the juice oxides rapidly. This should fill in a pint. Enjoy!
Is there something you want that you don’t have right now?
Is there somewhere you’d rather be?
Is there an emotion you would rather feel?
Here is the solution: it is time to reconnect with that stranger you forgot about… do you know who I mean?
NO?!
I am talking about your best friend of course, the one and only that is always with you. YOU. Your inner being is awaiting your acknowledgement, your respect, your love and care. So don’t wait another second, go within and greet that magnificent being that is in fact the larger part of who you really are.
Upon merging, you will feel tears of joys, waves of laughter and the powerful peace that comes from knowing that you are always loved, for love is consciousness, consciousness is breath and breath is yours, every day, all day, minute by minute.
You are the love, the lover and the beloved.
Ageing gracefully, at any age, is to be able to accept who you really are, and have the wisdom to say yes to change.
We live amidst impermanence, and our ability to feel true gratitude cultivates the beauty-within,
which is the source of the beauty-without = True Beauty.
There is absolutely NOTHING not to be loved about YOU.
Take a breath NOW and let this sink in.
This month we will see 2 full moons, this is called ‘the blue moon’. It is a great time to put out your wishes and align your energy with your true purpose. You can do this anytime of course, but this month it will be magnified. A special time indeed!
An old Irish custom is to not drink any alcohol for the whole month of November, not only does it help save your health by giving your liver a break, it also allows you to put money away for December and whatever you wish to buy… Make sure you drink your water every day, tap water is fine, let it sit in a jug with a quartz crytal for over an hour before drinking, this way the chlorine has time to evaporate and the water is re-charged with its natural and innate life giving properties. Cheers!
You are ‘God-made’ so trying to sort anything at all (mental, physical & emotional problems) without the help of your Creator is rather like bringing your broken down car to the florist… not much can be expected!
Take time and and space every day to listen-in so you can get inspired.
Remember those wise words, spoken eaons ago:
‘I can of my own self do nothing’
As you take your daily walk, use this beautiful life-enhancing prayer known as The Gayatri. You are addressing the Sun with the following words…
You, how are the source of all power,
Who’s rays illuminate the World,
Illuminate also my heart
So that it too can do your work.