5 posts tagged “reflection”
Nevermind whether the word, "karma", which may sound religiously inclined and fixated towards religious systems to furnish us with some sort of an escape clause. One that will, supposedly, alleviate our sufferings for past misdeeds or for us to escape responsibility totally .
Or it influences a threatening prank to instill fear in us and to make us a goodie goon to follow everything by the book. Nor does the word take kindly any good intention and only gravitated towards unfortunate state and unfavourable outcomes. Or it is used like a sword to spill curse on someone else. The truth is, "we are what we eat; we become what we think about".
All good deeds go unpunished and it is supposed to be so. When we smile at people, generally we get them smiling back at us. The act calls for sincerity. From the conviction within the soul. When the intention is good, the action is good. And, the effect fetches moral edifice of a higher purpose in life.
What we give out is what we get back. This is the principle of karma. As we sow, so shall we reap. What goes around comes around. Whatever we send out returns in folds. The same thing when negative or positive actions, or thoughts, remain that way until they expend the energy by action upon the originator. Our actions and thought processess are like an echo. What we act and think produce effects. In fact, they create a much wider spectrum of consequences, like it or not upon us. They, voluntarily or otherwise, generate phenomenal power transforming conventional notion into chains of events.
Our lives are much ruled by cause and effect. It seems that we are living in a newtonian universe, one pretty much keeps every energy in motion. Every actions produce an equal and opposite reactions. Every end entails a beginning. And, every beginning has to begin.
We should live in this awareness in our conscious state. To carry and empower qualitative substance in our thought energy. In our words. In our actions and intention. The only evidence of substance against us is us. We cannot dismiss the fact that all the chains of reactions, experienced in our lives, are directly the results transferred into motion. In the law of attractions and vibrations, all energy form a nuclear chain reaction into series of coincidences and outbreaks.
It is just a matter of observation, perhaps with deeper awareness and indepth reflections, to accept this non physical behaviour with the basic fundamental of physics. When love is radiated, feel the attractions that come back to us. Rewards may not come directly from the object that we give to but in the many forms of blissful wider network of social cohesion and interactions elsewhere.
Have we not wondered in all the events in our lives are often synonymous, at one point or another, with our past acts and intentions? The reward of deeds depends upon them - and they must be pure, where every person will get the rewards according to what he has acted and intended.
Love begets love. The alchemy that transcends into healthy mind, soul and body. That surpassed beyond the limits of expectations. An intense emotional attachment that far exceeds bonds and integrity.
Love will not come into fruition to someone who, in his everyday life, empowers even a scattering negative vibration. When we internalised the feeling of hate, anger, jealousy - the resonance of all negative acts and intentions, the karmic folds compounded the difficulties. We will warp in despair.
What we do to others, there will be many others that will do the same thing back to us. This is why negative workings - acts and intentions, are so dangerous. Our misfortunes are not a bad case of luck but the very mechanical fashion by cause and effect. We had passed the energy into motion in the past only to materialise its imparting motion in the same direction to realise sooner or later.
Reflection: in Solitude, in Abundance .. Magnificent Life
"I Want"
Question is, do we know where we are going to? Do we know, everytime we wake up in the morning, what we want to do first? And then the next thing, and the next thing? And how we want to spend the rest of the day? Do we know, everytime when we are troubled, what we want out from it? Why we want to do such and such a thing? Do we know, everytime we like someone, what we want it to be? How we want the next thing to happen? What we want it to happen next?
Our life is a sacred journey. It is always about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation. It continuously expanding our vision of what is possible. Stretching our soul to learn to see events, and coincidences, clearly and deeply. We need to listen to our intuition and taking courageous challenges at every step along the way.
Life is just like the labyrinth, full of circles and spirals, it represents our journey, and path, and relates to wholeness. It creates the consciousness for a choice to be made. A labyrinth, similar to a maze, is a complex series of winding paths although slightly different. Unlike a maze that combines twists, turns and blind alleys, a labyrinth is unicursal. Such is life - the way in is the way out. There are no blind alleys. The path we take leads us on a circuitous path to the center and out again.
I have always liked the question, 'So what do you really want?' It's a basic simple question from the way in to the way out. It invokes a sacred space and place in us to take. More than often, it sets us on the path to be exactly where we are meant to be right now. At a point of our life where we can only go forward and shaping our life story into a magnificent tale of triumph. Of healing. Of courage. Of beauty. Of wisdom. Of power. Of dignity. And of love.
When we ask this question, interestingly, it opens many hidden emotions and, at a very subtle consciousness, it takes us out of our ego to that which is within. We get to understand ourselves so much better - our personality style and coping skills, our religious and spiritual experiences, how we get along with people and even what we believe about social and political issues. The more we understand who we are and what makes us tick, with all our strengths and weaknesses, the more we come to understand ourselves.
Most of us just don't know what we want. But in order to move beyond complacency, we need to know what we want in and out of life. Try asking yourself the question and see how fast you can figure out what you want. Try answering these questions:
* What do you want to achieve by end of the week?
* How do you want your relationship to grow?
* Where do you want to bring your parents for the next holidays?
* Which insurance plan do you want to get next?
* Why do you want to be in love? Or single?
Don't be surprised that you may not even have the answers. That you get stuck not knowing where to begin figuring out where to go and what you want for your live.
The problem lies with how we think. Our mind is 'smart' - for all that we want in life, our mind often triggers the little voice that would probably tell us not to pursue, or do, since it requires us to work for it. Work, has somehow, given us a mental notation of incumbent pain and it is best to avoid it. Our failure, or for whatever that we are not obtaining what we want in life, lies here. Who we are today, whether we are poor or rich, negative or positive, happy or sad - it's because of who we used to be in the past.
Every results start with the basic question of knowing what 'I want'. When we know what we want, we have taken a step to be proactive. We have triggered the vibrations within us to act. To think. We bring consciousness of attention and intention. In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra wrote "Attention energizes, and intention transforms. Whatever you put your attention on will grow stronger in your life". The biggest favour we can do to ourselves in life is to figure out what we want. Figuring out what we want from life is a personal quest. This not only applies to our carrer but our family, health, personal development and relationship.
We have to communicate clearly the language of what we want. Internalizing the language is not about saying it with a confused mind. The end result will not work when we are in doubt. When we cannot be truthful in how we want, there shall be no result.
Getting crystal clear of our direction in life, of what we want, sets the quantum physics of letting actions and decisions to manifest. But first, there must be a conviction. There must be a need. It is not about creation of luxurious life but of taking charge and claiming your place. At the same time, it will make clearer realization, and awareness, of what we don't want.
Living a life in a confusion of desires, in a mixed bag of dos and don'ts, in a conflicting puzzle will not lead us to our deepest self and back out into the world, of wanting, with a broadened understanding of who we are. It does not set us free but empower us to become a prisoner entwined in confusing series of connecting passages. To know what we want, even for a simple thing everyday, encourages thoughtfulness. It shapes our thought, and action, to hold immense power for joy, happiness and peace of mind.
There is no right achievable way to how 'I want' in life. However, it is what we choose in our attitude that will set the difference. In choosing the desires - the wants, make it serious. Make it prayerful. Make it playful yet realistic. We ask the question when we play music or sing. When we pray out loud. When we walk alone and with a crowd. When we notice the sky. When we listen to the sounds. Most of all, we need to pay attention to our experience.
When we release the answers, and affirming the 'I want ... ', there is an act of letting go and an emptying of worries and concerns. It is here that we are in a receptive stage in the receiving state of insight, clarity and focus. Next, it is all about empowerment and taking owernership. It is about being energized and making what was said to manifest in our world.
In metaphysics and the ethereal world, with the vastness of the Universe and the boundless of abundance that belong to us, there is just no limit to all that 'I want'. What we need to do is just ask. It is our attitude towards the 'I want' that keeps apart the results.
As I walk my life on earth ...
Reflection: in Solitude, in Abundance .. Magnificent Life
Part Two:
When I Am Home
In Going Home, we need to have a shift in paradigm of mind. We need to recognize the BIG questions. Who am I? What is it that makes me act myself? Who or what controls my actions and make me do things that perpetuate my existence? What is the material nature of I? Is I in me or outside me? The cause of our vulnerability - our hurt and rejection, lie not in our stars or in the twist of fate but in ourselves. The paradigm of mind is about recognizing reality. What we see around us is a reflection of our own vision, and happening, because we are trying to visualize us from outside.
Part of Going Home is about living today as though it is our last day. We make good of what we have now. We do away the feeling that there is always something can wait .. something to be gotten through first .. some unfinished business .. time still to be served .. or a debt to be paid. We should not let our soul regret the things that we have wanted to do. To accomplish. To give and provide. Not for others. Not for the chains of seeking man's approval. Why chase after something that we can never get enough of and that will never satisfy? Do it because we want it. Because we appreciate it. Because we don't want to leave behind a life with regrets.
Live today as though it is our last day. We cannot keep telling ourselves that our life will be completed until we get a nicer car .. until we lose 5 kilos .. until we gain 5 kilos .. until we get a partner .. until we get separated .. until Friday night .. until Sunday morning .. until we get a home .. until our mortgage is paid .. until spring .. until summer .. until the month of January .. until the month of December .. until the first or fifteenth .. until our songs are played .. until we get a drink .. until we die.
The truth is, there is always no better time than right now. Why hold another minute, another day, another chance? Treasure every moment that we have. And treasure it more because we want to share it with someone special. And special enough to spend our time. Time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey and not a destination.
Do we not always hold back our words and actions until it is too late? Often, we miss telling our loved ones that we love them until they are gone. We let an opportunity to slip away that could change circumstances in life. Instead, we are warped with an analytical mind to reduce the acts of affections in return for self worth.
Words are energy and so are our actions. Repetition is said to be a mother of learning. To repeat positive emotions and to say the words I-Love-You, over and over again, are life empowerment. It culminates a higher vibration. It invokes us to live life lovingly. Why are we acting selfishly, or cowardly, to say these words when we seek love in life? When we know that love heals, that love connects us together. Why do we not empower this word and let it be part of us? Let it magnify our energy. Our light. We can't feel love nor are we a loved being if we shun the word. When we use it sparingly, expect love to come sparingly back to us too.
We should live our life as though we don't need money to work. We should love like we have never been hurt and we should live like it is our last day on earth.
Honour what is now for us. If not now .. when?
An Invitation:
A Journey Home can be lonely though it is a powerful inward reflection. At times, it opens up the deep wounds of the past. It may lead to confusion. I am inviting a dialogue to those who are willing to engage this path. Click on my email to start the process.
However, before a healing process can start, you have to heal yourself first. Here is one exercise that you must do before our dialogue. You are to write down the things that you would want to be known after you are gone. Imagine that this is your last dialogue with yourself and the people around you.
Start your dialogue with:
Today is my last day. I want to be known ...
As I walk my life on earth ...
Reflection: in Solitude, in Abundance .. Magnificent Life
Part One:
The Journey Home
It happens. It will always happen. So long there is human interaction, it is unavoidable. No man is an island. We are not isolated from one another. Mankind is interconnected. We are always in a constant companion of life and so determined to make hope and togetherness that last forever. We make our plans. We dream our dreams and set out to find a place for identity and worth. We are constantly seeking the approval of others. We want to be accepted. We yearn for our identity to be recognized - small or big. We want our worth to be felt. To be appreciated. It is all about wanting to lead in harmony. To resonate a balanced rhythm to relate to our deepest truth, our inner soul companion.
Until we find our identity and worth, which is an endless unconscious search, we will continue to seek for it everyday, everywhere and anywhere. Like the futility of chasing a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, trying to find our worth based upon human rank, performance or others' acceptance is never going to satisfy or fulfill the void in our hearts.
It is no mystery that many of us have suffered hurt or rejection in some way or another, during our lives. The hurt comes from those who we think should have loved us. From those who we think we care. From those who we want to think are walking together along our path. From those that laugh at our jokes, that share our meal, that accompany us to the cinema, that chatted with us. Every relationship that is a part of the main. Every friendship that is a piece of our soul.
Our hurt and rejection cut deep and leaving wounds that need to be healed by an unconditional acceptance. On the face of it, every human relationship is a perfect relationship when it begins. It's the people who spoil it by bringing their expectations to burden it. It will not be easy unless we realize that we are often trying to find our worth and identity based in what others think of us. We constantly live under the illusion of if only I did this .. had this .. made this .. knew so-and-so .. became like so-and-so .. and got this .. then I would get so-and-so's approval and then I would be happy.
Just think about it for a moment, if either party had no expectations of the other, and merely enjoyed what unfolded in front of them, accepting our partners and friends as they are, there would be far fewer hurt and rejection. We kill relationships with our expectations because, as they are unfulfilled, we then get resentful, frustrated and bitter. We blame them for things not working as expected.
Going Home back to our soul is a natural thing when hurt and rejection are felt. When sorrow starts to creep. When happiness is no longer felt. When joy is thought to belong to those who can't understand us. When peace of mind is about running away from others. When healing of the self has become so intensed to be in solitude and embrace in solitary. When we feel that we are at the end of the rainbow and our worth and identity are not valued.
Truth is, Going Home is a natural thing. A must thing. A compulsory realization. An eruption for long forgotten self love. It is about an inward journey to understand our true self. About who we are and to understand to learn and grow. In Going Home, we are supposed to draw a true source of satisfaction, wholeness, healing and a fulfillment with the meaning of life on earth.
Hopefully, in Going Home, we have come to the point where we realize - or get sick and tired, of trying to people-please and worrying about peer pressure. Hopefully we can see that it is a treadmill that keeps us from ever gaining any ground no matter how hard we work and try.
There is no shame, nor it is a self punishment, in Going Home. We will not 'lose out' on things in this world in self reflection. In fact, we stand to gain for truth and even be rewarded for it. Regardless of the outcome, it is about refreshing and renewing our Self and transporting ourselves to a world of attitudes and postures of our hearts. It is about personal exploration. It will only take us to a new level of consciousness.
Reflection: in Solitude, in Abundance .. Magnificent Life
(one of the many series to come)
We are asked to search. For in finding, we learn. Or we think, we will learn. We will never know the worth of water until the well is dry. If we keep chasing two rabbits all at one time, we will not catch either one. When, then, will we learn?
Often, we are just too busy chasing - up to a point where we actually just do not know anymore what we are truly looking. We lock the conscious shift of perception. At times, conveniently. At other time, we find excuses to forget them. Thinking is said to be such a heavy burden. In complacency, we tend to follow where the wind takes us. It is easier that way for the gentleness of the wind never hurt. More often, gentleness is far more intrusive than the brutal force of confusion. The mind yearns for a sense of well-being and happiness. It is just a psychological need. It is a basic necessity for the soul. For what we don't know, we feel safe.
We are told that we can be, do or have anything we want. It's true. However, while we can be or have anything that we want, the same is not true for everything that we want. We need to realize that our resources are limited. We have only so much time, life, money and energy to work with.
The consciousness of our appetite is insatiable. No matter what we become, gain or achieve, we just want more. Our appetite is like sea water - the more we drink, the thirstier we become.
Our mind keeps insisting that we know but do we really know? When we say that Reiki Sanctuary is a place where little abundance comes alive, do we internalize and soak in the life force? Do we actually know the depth and the impact it will bring? Do we act on an action because there's an opportunity? Do we say things because words are easily spoken and quickly forgotten? Do we take our time to fear less and hope more; to whine less and breathe more; to talk less and say more and to hate less and love more?
In the push and pull of life, we seldom realize that we receive a great deal more than we give. That is the subtle reality of life. This is the truth of human interactions. We are just unaware of it. Perhaps, conveniently denied. It is the human relationship struggle as it is often so hard for real friends to tell us when our face is dirty. We always tend to look at the glass as half empty albeit is half full. We always have a tendency to live life with a sense of lack. And then, we just whine and complain more. Faith is sitting on a thin line; hopes slips into a state of despair.
And so, it was said earlier in the blog that Reiki Sanctuary comes with a sense of deep purpose. In somewhat way, it is true. We hear new stories; we witness new events and we cross new territories. With each day, we are opening a new language - the lesson on self reflection and the awakening for a deeper aspect of our identity. The search for the true nature of our souls. The lesson to find something to be thankful for. To unlock the fullness of life and turns what we have into enough, and more. To turn denial into acceptance. Chaos to order. Confusion to clarity.
Reiki Sanctuary is a 'spiritual being' that is giving life to our physical bodies. That in her presence, our soul is nourished. That makes us to think deeper to create in the ointment of human existence. To be hopeful and to have direction. To have a map to move by and to have energy for an infinity of faith. Reiki Sanctuary has started to make us thinking a lot more. Not to burden the thinking mind but to appease with tranquility. To quench joy and sprinkle peace. She makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Reiki Sanctuary comes at a perfect time for us to be reflective. For us to value peace of mind and for the health of our souls live in the best of all possible lives. There have been series of life lessons. For today, we learn that if we are to raise our voices, may it be only in praise. If we are to clench our fists, may it be only in prayer. If we are to make a demand, may it be only of ourselves.
We want to walk to see the commonality of all. We want the gentleness to understand that we can walk hand-in-hand without seeing eye-to-eye and despite all differences, we are all the same. Whether we are good or bad, whether we are right or wrong, our actions affect others. We shape our beliefs and behaviours.
Reiki Sanctuary must instill in us the want to live. To be grateful with each breath. To be thankful even at the darkest hour. She has to be a gentle mantra to remind us that when the tide recedes, she leaves behind bright seashells on the sand. That when the sun goes down, the gentle warmth still lingers. That when the music stops, it echoes on in sweet refrains. For every gentleness that passes, something beautiful remains.
