TAZATI

Step 3- Practice every day!

It takes some practice to allow yourself to turn that dial, but when you do its well worth the experience, because when you do, you discover that you are not all those thoughts, nor those situations.

There is a freedom in this awareness that is so liberating that even trauma, drama and stress just fall away. I meditate every day, usually starting my day with meditation, breathing into my body, I do a practice called the “Daily Morning Clearing” centering myself, I begin to integrate my body, heart , mind and soul. Integrating all the parts of me is the key to existing in life as a “whole person”.

Step 4- We are not our thoughts!

Our thoughts can very powerfully shape the way we see ourselves in the world. Within the context of our thoughts the first directive is, just let them go. We are not our thoughts. The being that lives inside your body is not a collection of thoughts, we create thoughts to help shape and direct our world, you are their creator, you’re not at their mercy; and so in meditation just let them go. This is the place to start fresh, and be the creative being that lives inside your body.

Starting fresh every morning releases you from the mental anguish that you may find yourself in from day to day such as; fear, worry, doubt, “Am I good enough”. So you’re listening starts with your inner self talk, you want to think about yourself as well, what do you want to think about yourself today; peaceful, capable, confident… as you think of yourself as these things walk, talk and take action from this awareness knowing that they are where yourself expression is today. Breathe, look and feel confident, peaceful and capable because you are “being confident, peaceful, and capable” in your core, believe it, feel it, know it, think it and be it.

And what is the rest of the world doing today, well it seems to be changing, shifting and being anything but stable. If you hop on board that idea, then you align yourself with moving, changing, shifting and being anything but stable; for me that’s crazy making. Meditation allows you to be confident inside yourself while the rest of the world is expressing their selves any way they want.

Step 5- Daily Application!

Try applying this core attitude to everything that shows up in your life, any given day. For myself, I go to work, from my place of peace, from co-creation and success; I share that peace with the people I work with everyday. By being “Peaceful” they feel and experience peace while they are with me and perhaps carry it with them throughout their day; sharing peace, confidence and capable with whomever they meet.

So I don’t go to work from a place of “the World is Broken and we have to fix it”; my attitude of co-creation allows for the fact that the world is right here, right now, exactly as we make it, no one is right, no one is wrong. Life exists where we put our attention, by shifting my attitude from right/wrong to one of co-creation, now I view the world from that place.

Where would you like to go from here? What is happening for you right now? Is community ever present within you? Stay with that, focus on what’s important to you now; feel the words that express what you’d like to share of yourself in every given situation. Be the expression of those words, feel it, convey it in your actions and thoughts until you’ve got it, be the creator of your own reality, navigate life from your own personal expression, the people in your community will get it as the person you choose to be emerges.

When you go within to meditate you de-stress your stress load, you open to your own creativity and connect to a deeper part of yourself. Listening is perhaps the most profound thing you can do; for yourself! And as you go within to listen, do it every day; the practice of listening to your higher self every day will change your present reality forever!