Day 21 - The Highest Vision: Creative Evolution

Day 21 - The Highest Vision: Creative Evolution

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi

Today’s meditation shows us a vision of life beyond the freedom of getting unstuck. This is the vision of a life of creative evolution where our spiritual growth is not directed from outside forces, or even our internal beliefs and ideas. When the evolution of our awareness is directed from our higher self, we experience a limitless life, a life filled with joy, love, beauty, and peace. This is the life you were always meant to live.

Day 20 - Becoming the Ideal Co-Creator

Day 20 - Becoming the Ideal Co-Creator

“The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.” – Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Every day, whether we consciously realize it or not, we are growing into a more complete and fulfilled self. To develop our self-awareness most effectively requires our deepest creativity. With our creative self, we participate in the shaping of our experiential reality. We are not mere spectators in an objective world; we are co-creators involved in forming not only what we experience, but also how we experience it.

Today’s meditation shows us that the skill of this creative contribution comes through the expanded and heightened awareness of meditation.

Day 19 - Getting To Yes The Creative Way

Day 19 - Getting to “Yes” the Creative Way

“Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.” – Sue Patton Thoele

Along the road to finding creative solutions, it is inevitable that there will be some challenges that cross your path. To address these obstacles that arise from other people, it is important to always maintain an attentive and respectful awareness.

Today’s meditation shows us that creative solutions overcome difficulties through listening, respecting, and opening up to a broader perspective that incorporates and supports both points of view. This is what it means to get to “yes” in a creative way.

Day 18 - Expanding Other People's Awareness

Day 18 - Expanding Other People’s Awareness

“The best teachers show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor

As we experience greater joy and ease in our lives, it is natural to want to share this experience of expanded awareness with others. But even well-intentioned sharing can feel intrusive and unwelcome if it doesn’t build on the other person’s own curiosity and interest. Today’s meditation shows us that the best way to share the gift of expanded awareness is to simply let your awareness speak for itself, and then respond to other people’s curiosity and interest accordingly.

Day 17 - Reaching The Creative Solution

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Day 17 - Reaching the Creative Solution

“When wisdom overrides, our heart produces immense ideas with solutions.” – Adedayo Olabamiji

Today’s meditation is about learning to access the creative solution to any challenge you may face. This begins with the recognition that the solution can never be found at the level of the problem. We must expand awareness beyond the conditioned perspectives, opposition, and confusion of our limited minds. By opening awareness through meditation, we come to know our essential self to be the source of all creative solutions.

Day 16 - How To Make Your Environment Creative

Day 16 - How to Make Your Environment Creative

"Accept what is in front of you, without wanting the situation to be other than it is. Nature provides everything, without requiring thanks and provides for all.” – Lao Tzu

To make a creative space we need to encourage appreciation, openness, and acceptance. If we are too rigid, closeminded, and judgmental, then the flow of creativity is restricted and blocked. Today’s meditation teaches us to listen to and respect everyone’s contributions. When we can show gratitude and appreciation for all the gifts that are offered in the present moment, we will have an environment where creative solutions always flow.

Day 15 - Bringing Your Creativity Into The World

Day 15 - Bringing Your Creativity into the World

“Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.” – Pearl S. Buck

Creating a limitless life means we participate in the world with an open, joyful, and collaborative awareness. It is not a solo journey; it is a journey that intimately involves us with the people and the environment we are in. Today’s meditation shows us that when we experience life from our limitless creative source, we naturally foster creative solutions for everyone around us.

Day 14 - Finding Your Creative Path

Day 14 - Finding Your Creative Path

“All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.” – Brenna Yovanoff

Our creative path isn’t something we need to figure out intellectually; it is the spontaneous expression of our innermost desires and intention. That is the wise and creative energy already operating at the heart of our awareness. In today’s meditation, we learn that this power of intention already directs our life’s journey behind the scenes. When we expand awareness in meditation, we fully align our intentions for our individual mind with the unlimited power and creativity of the universal mind. This is how we find our creative path.

Day 13 - The Joy of Finding Self Worth

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Day 13 - The Joy of Finding Self-Worth

“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.” – Malcolm X

Our true self is at one with the entire cosmos. Therefore our worth is always infinite – it is only a matter of recognizing it as our essential nature. This self-knowledge has nothing to do with our ego or personality; it is about our true being and the unique and vital role that only we can contribute to the cosmos.

Today’s meditation shows us that spiritual self-worth is natural, joyful, and self-affirming.

Day 12 - Welcoming Change is Natural

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Day 12 - Welcoming Change Is Natural

“Being fully present is being awake to the movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.” – Pema Chodron

Even if we feel our lives are stuck in a rut, the truth is that life is still constantly changing. This element of change is what makes life interesting, creative, and new. We resist change because we mistakenly look for security in the past. Today’s meditation is about letting go of this resistance to the flow of life and finding wisdom and security in living in the ever-present now, which is our essential nature.

Day 11 - Awareness Is A Skill You Can Master

Day 11 - Awareness Is a Skill You Can Master

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” – Charlotte Brontë

Self-awareness is not just something you either have or you don’t – it’s a skill you can improve upon. In today’s meditation, we learn that we improve our awareness skills with three basic practices. First, we learn to pay attention to what is happening in our environment. Second, the skill of focusing attention allows us to explore our experiences with clarity and without judgment. And finally, by learning the skill of stillness, or wholeness, we allow awareness to encompass the entirety of our experience as our own self. All these skills together as one mode of knowingness gives us the creative awareness that prevents life from getting stuck.

Day 10 - Learn to "Be Here Now"

Day 10 - Learn to “Be Here Now”

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh

Feeling stuck is often a product of the limits we put on ourselves through fear and doubt we have accumulated from the past. Instead of opening up to the possibilities available in the present moment, we shrink and contract. Today we learn that the expansion of awareness that is cultivated in meditation overcomes these limitations and opens us up to the creative possibilities in the present without fear or doubt.

Day 9 - Your Creative Self Is Already Here

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Day 9 - Your Creative Self Is Already Here

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.” – Carl Jung

You don’t have to do anything new to become your creative self – that is already your essential nature – you only need to give it the outlet it always seeks in the present moment. Letting go of our resistance to being creative and spontaneous often comes down to releasing our self-limiting beliefs and attitudes of low expectations. Such beliefs could be that you are not a creative person, or that you don’t deserve love, joy, and fulfillment.

Today we discover that as we gain contact with our creative self in meditation, these self-limiting beliefs begin to dissolve, allowing the natural expression of our joy, love and creativity to blossom in our lives.

Day 8 - Let Your Awareness Do The Work

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Day 8 - Let Your Awareness Do the Work

“Because everything happens in the moment of Now we also happen in the moment of Now: continually, effortlessly, truly.” – Joseph Rain 

Society teaches us that we need to struggle and strive to overcome obstacles, that to get unstuck we need to push and fight our way through. But struggling never solves the root problem of limited awareness.

In today’s meditation, we learn that our higher self is not only unlimited, it is also creative, powerful, and intelligent. If we learn to abide in our essential being, its organizing power will effortlessly find choices and solutions for us.

Day 7 - Opening The Doors Of Perception

Day 7 - Opening the Doors of Perception

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” – William Blake

If we want our life to flow instead of being stuck, we need to first change the way we perceive the world around us. Because the experience of stuckness is the perception of limited choices, if we change our perception, we change our experience of life in the moment. In today’s meditation, we explore how our self-awareness transforms our perception, clearing away old conditioning, beliefs, and patterns so that we experience our self and our world in its true light.

Day 6 - You Deserve More Than Second Hand Experiences

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Day 6 - You Deserve More Than Second-Hand Experiences

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” – Henry David Thoreau

Today’s meditation is about learning to live authentically from your real self. That means your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors arise from within the silence of your own awareness. This is in contrast to experience and behavior that is driven by others’ beliefs, expectations, and demands. That is second-hand experience: the mode of living that is responsible for pressure, frustration, and feeling stuck in life. First-hand experience is living from our true self, where you direct your life from within, and find love, beauty, and joy in every experience you have.

Day 5 - Rising Above Your Old Conditioning

Day 5 - Rising Above Your Old Conditioning

“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” – John Dryden

In today’s meditation, we learn that our old conditioning isn’t just mental, it’s also physical and shows itself as unconscious brain responses. If we let our conditioned brains be in charge, we remain stuck in old, predictable patterns. We become biological robots. To break free of this habitual behavior we need to cultivate self-awareness. In meditation we recognize our true self to be ever-present awareness, and in this self-knowing, we become free from the conditioned responses of our minds and bodies.

Day 4 - How To Be Renewed Everyday

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Day 4 - How to Be Renewed Every Day

“I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.” – Stanley Kunitz

Today’s meditation teaches us that when we rely upon familiar repetition to guide us through life – instead of stepping into the ever-new possibilities of the present moment – we remain in a stale, stuck pattern of living. When we learn to fully embrace the limitless potential in the now, we are continuously renewed and liberated from the stuckness of powerlessness and blame. Living in a state of renewal then becomes easy and natural.

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Day 3 - Finding The Key To Your Creativity

Day 3 - Finding the Key to Your Creativity

“Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.” – Julia Cameron

Creativity is a natural quality of life itself. It is not limited to artistic expression. Living from your creative core means you respond to every moment from a place of possibility and openness. This is how every cell of our body knows to respond to every changing circumstance with adaptability and creativity to maintain its health and balance.

In today’s meditation, we learn that our awareness is designed to meet each moment with freshness, receptivity, and creativity. 

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Day 2 - Why do we get Stuck?

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Day 2 - Why Do We Get Stuck?

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, let the mind remain in the present moment.” – Buddha

Today’s meditation shows us that the root of getting stuck is awareness leaving the present moment and attaching to the past or the future. But present awareness is never stuck or limited – it flows effortlessly in “the now.” In order to release the blockages and frustration that occur when our attention attaches to the past or future, we must learn to recognize the presence of our true self in each present moment.

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Day 1 - Getting Unstuck Leads to Fulfillment

Time for another 21 day meditation series with Deepak Chopra. Our theme is Getting Unstuck: Creating a Limitless Life.  You can be a part of this by signing up at www.choprameditation.com. 

"Day 1 - Getting Unstuck Leads to Fulfillment

“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” – George Lois

Welcome to our 21-Day Meditation Experience, Getting Unstuck: Creating a Limitless Life. We are excited to have you joining us on this illuminating journey to learn how to get our lives “unstuck.” Together we will learn that getting unstuck means removing the limitations we experience in the areas of life that frustrate us. Whether it is work, relationships, or finances, our old patterns of behavior condition our perceptions and so we believe our choices are limited for experiencing the life we want.

In today’s meditation, we discover that to get unstuck, all we need to do is expand our awareness. In that awareness the limitations on our perceptions dissolve, our options or choices increase, and we find the inner fulfillment that is our true self. Over the next few weeks, we will learn ways to get unstuck and discover our inherent fulfillment in mind, body, and spirit."

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Too many of us appear to not be healing because we are letting the anger and damage received to control our lives. We have to release the negative before we can move forward. Taking out our anger on others only creates more damage that will still need healing. Hug your friends and help then to heal. 

Namaste

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Healing

One of the reasons that I am studying Reiki is exactly what this quotes says. My wish is to not only help my healing but to do so for others. Don't get me wrong I am often selfish and ungrateful but meditation and Reiki help me get away from myself more often and look for those that I can help. I seek to be much more than I am today. For you I send thoughts of healing and peace. Take a moment for yourself by helping someone else. 

Namaste

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Peace

Meditating today for peace in the hearts of everyone. Until we have that there will be no outer peace. Join me! The more who focus on this the better we are.

Namaste

Soul

Meditation is an effort to do just that - quiet the mind. It relaxes you to the point where you can hear You! Some people think they can not do meditation because they can not quiet their minds. I had the same problem but because of the pain I was dealing with I knew that I had to try. Once you take the time daily and find the right sounds to be in your background it becomes much easier. I recommend not starting off silently or it will be harder. Use an app, DVD or online program that will talk you through your meditations. This is not something you have to go alone even though you are alone. Let me know if you need more help or suggestions. Meditating today on being open!

Namaste

Inner Peace

I think we all struggle with just letting things go. We give up our peace to prove to others that we are strong. Embrace peace within and the heart will follow. Meditating on keeping my inner peace. 

Namaste

Worn Out

Worn out today for no appt reason. Will be trying to laugh and smile through it. I will meditate for both of us to find some strength. 

Namaste

Independence

Today spend a little time considering independence and its meaning. Independence has built into it a responsibility to be your own person. However independence is never true because we all need each other. Be yourself but never forget those who helped create your ability to be free. 

Try

Seek things out of your comfort zone. Try instead of just saying that it will not work out. It may be that you have just the touch to make it happen. Meditating today on finding new zones. 

Namaste

Seeking

What are you seeking? Have you already found it and have not been aware. Wake up! Look around! Maybe what you truly want is already there for you. Just say hello and let's go. Meditating today on being more aware. 

Namaste

Dealing with Setbacks

Started the day with some disappointment so I needed some help remembering that you have to keep trying. Setbacks are discouraging but it just means that I need to continue to update the plan and make it better. Meditating today on moving forward.

Namaste