“Do not be led by others,
awaken your own mind,
amass your own experience,
and decide for yourself your own path.”
-The Atharva Veda

Welcome spiritual warriors!!! What is consciousness? In a word, it’s awareness. And the more aware we are – of ourselves, of our words, of our actions, of their impact, of other’s emotions, of our surroundings – the more conscious we are. When we are more conscious, we are more aligned with the universe…allowing us to flow love more easily, experience deeper meaning in the moment, and live lives of greater balance and happiness.

In the ancient Vedic traditions, everything in our physical world is made up of a balance of three forces known in Sanskrit as gunas. The gunas are tendencies…potential in a given moment. The three gunas are sattva, rajas, & tamas. Just like the doshas in Ayurveda, each of the three gunas is ever present simultaneously in every particle of creation, but variations in their amounts and the balance they manifest in a given moment influence our surroundings, our mind, our body, and our soul.

So what are the gunas?

• Sattva can be translated to mean clarity, purity, balance, harmony, order, and lucidity. It’s light and luminous – awakening and developing our soul.
• Rajas can be translated to mean change, movement, passion, turbulence, and dynamism. It’s the tendency toward attraction, repulsion, fear, and desire. It’s the principle of energy.
• Tamas can be translated to mean darkness, heaviness, constriction, negativity, and dullness. It’s the force that leads us to attachment, stagnation, and inertia – even destruction or de-volution.

Everything within us and outside of us can be defined as either sattvic – filled with lightness; rajasic – filled with energy; or tamasic – containing heaviness. In each moment, our surroundings, our emotions, the foods we ingest, our feelings, and every internal & external interaction is expressing a guna.

Use the three gunas as a tool of awareness & balance to help you awaken your most genuine self; a tool of balance to ease your physiology and your emotional state back to center; and a tool of growth to help you die to the past and evolve to your best expression.

Join me today on Hay House Radio, and we’ll explore how to balance your gunas to awaken more peace, love & humanity in your life. And join me in April at my dharma – life changing immersion and we will explore and discover how to live a more purpose-driven life. Keep meditating. I’ll see you in the gap!

Peace. -davidji

Looking forward to sharing space with my fellow Hay House authors this weekend at the I Can Do It event in San Jose, California!

Discovering Your Dharma

April 3-6, 2014
Space is now limited!!!

“When all of your desires are distilled you will have but two choices: to love more & be happy.” – Hafiz

Hello Spiritual Warriors!!

More than 5000 years ago, the ancient healing practice of Ayurveda defined the primary human goals or intentions that lead to fulfillment in life – these are called the purushartas translated as that which is sought by man. In Sanskrit these four goals are kama (love), artha (prosperity), dharma (purpose), and moksha (freedom).

The broadest definition of Kama is love – love of beauty, love of life, love of those dear to us, and love of pleasure. Kama is the most basic goal in life – as we are all flesh-encapsulated egos desiring happiness and seeking to avoid pain & suffering. According to Vedanta, we should all experience joy.

Artha (pronounced ar-ta) is the abundance we experience in the material world. On the most basic level, its making sure we meet our basic safety needs of food, shelter, clothing – or as Abraham Maslow defined them in his hierarchy of needs: our personal security, financial security, our health and well-being.

Dharma is our purpose in life – how we express the universe through our own individuality. According to these ancient wisdom traditions, each of us has a unique gift and a special talent; and we are each a reflection of the divine creator (whatever we each believe that to be) in human form.

Moksha is liberation – freedom from samsara: the cycle of birth, life & death. Trapped in these flesh casings for the span of a lifetime, we can get pretty constricted. Human moksha can also include emotional freedom, freedom to finally be happy, creative freedom, freedom from our confusion, freedom from pain, even freedom from boredom.

Kama, artha, and dharma are considered secondary goals because they are all about outward expression. Moksha is considered a primary goal because it is our true nature and flows through every facet of our existence. We are continually desiring to be free.

Living our lives with these four purushartas as guideposts can bring us back to center; move us from Object referral to Self referral; and to powerful moments of self reflection. When you find yourself lost, confused, uncertain about which path to proceed upon – look at life through the lens of LOVE – PROSPERITY – PURPOSE – FREEDOM and you will quickly come back to center…clarity will emerge…and shortly after…happiness will unfold.

Join me at my Dharma – Life Change workshop and let’s explore the purushartas together – and listen to Hay House Radio today and we’ll take it deeper. Thanks for journeying with me. It fills me with joy!!
See you in the gap! Peace. -davidji

Discovering Your Dharma
April 3-6, 2014
Space is now limited!!!

“We’re all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass

Happy Weekend Spiritual Warriors!

Peace.-davidji

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Discovering Your Dharma
April 3-6, 2014
ONLY A FEW SPACES LEFT!!!

“To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”
– Eckhart Tolle

Welcome Spiritual Warriors to week 2 in our continuing exploration of Setting Your Course for 2014!

First Impressions. They set the tone for how we think, feel, and move forward with situations, circumstances, and relationships. The earliest seeds of these initial impressions are called fractals and they are the foundation for how the next moment will unfold while setting the stage for how the longer-term aspects of a relationship or scenario will evolve.

Yet, so often we find ourselves being stunned when a friend, lover, boss, colleague, teacher, mentor, or loved one acts in a way “we didn’t see coming.” Or, perhaps a situation starts to unfold in a way that shocks or surprises us.

If we could turn back the clock to the fractal of that interaction or that decision — we’d see there were signs…there were clues…there was evidence we ignored because we were acting out of infatuation, emotion, reactivity, or a conditioned behavior.

The fractal holds the key.

These are the moments that are critical to us living life with less melodrama, less pain, less confusion, greater clarity, and greater fulfillment.

So how do we glean more from our fractals?

We meditate. We spend more time in stillness and silence, which helps us activate our attention in the moment and awakens our innate ability to flow with greater patience, greater awareness, and greater understanding.

We have a few moments of potential clarity right before we make a decision to ask ourselves a few questions.

• First ask, “What need is being fulfilled by me taking this step?”

• Then ask, “What need WILL NOT be fulfilled by me taking this step?”

• Then ask, “Even though I am going to move ahead, what compromise am I making right now?”

• Then ask, “What am I not seeing in this moment?”

If we choose to be even more patient with our choice-making process, we can take it one step further. In the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, when discussing the Law of Karma or Cause & Effect, Deepak Chopra insightfully guides us to ask the question, “Will this choice that I am about to make bring fulfillment and happiness to me and also to those who are affected by this choice?”

Even this blog post has its fractal in Chapter 2, Verse 48 of the Bhagavad Gita, when Krishna says to Arjuna, “Yogastha kuru karmani – which can be translated as, “Establish yourself in one-ness (in the present moment), and then perform action.” Coming from a place of stillness, we will see the fractals in our life, choose more wisely, more nourishingly, and see the bigger picture. We will be happier with our choices, make more conscious decisions, and have fewer surprises of our own making. This will allow our lives to flow with greater grace and greater ease.

Join me today on Hay House Radio and we will dive deeper into our fractals!!

Join Dr. Wayne Dyer and me, Thursday on the Hay House Start the New You Now Ultimate Webinar by clicking here. We share powerful guidance on manifesting the best 2014 and registration is FREE.

Keep meditating!!! I’ll see you in the gap! Peace. -davidji

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.”
-T.S. Eliot

Setting Your Course for 2014

OMG Spiritual Warriors… it’s 2014! It’s really here! Now what?

So much has unfolded over the past 365 days – highs & lows, challenges & breakthroughs, movement & stagnation, sadness & celebration, beginnings & endings, and through it all – we’ve grown and blossomed and bloomed… and here we are…with a brand new clean slate – an open plan…with 364 new 24-hour periods for us to manifest our dreams and desires.

It’s visioning time again! Did you make a new years resolution, a journal entry, a pact with a family member or friend? Did you make a personal commitment to change or shift or stop or start something in your life?

You’re not alone. This is the time of year when every dream is fresh…so achievable.

But the days go by and suddenly its spring and those personal agreement we made with ourselves have drifted into the ether. And with a woosh, we are just trying to hold on to the tail of the year racing ahead of us.

Why do we float away from the intentions that are so important to us during this time? Drifting away from our personal needs right into the deep waters of what doesn’t necessarily serve us; back into our conditioned patterns; back into the habits that don’t serve us or anyone around us – our loved ones, our bosses, our partners. It’s just natural and human to revert to our conditioned stories and behaviors. But we can break out and change that now.

The key is putting our dreams out there and slowly, consistently growing into them – step by step…bean by bean – growing into our dreams. And when we find ourselves reverting to our old “norm”, don’t beat yourself up, just take a baby step back to your dream.

So in 2014…let’s dream magnificent dreams – let’s play big!! Let’s set heroic trajectories and remind ourselves each day that the journey of 1000 miles is accomplished by placing one foot in front of the other…step-by-step…one day at a time.

Let’s start by setting our course – making a commitment to show up each day and be present. Meditate every morning so that the seed of each day starts with stillness and silence and unfolds with infinite possibilities. Let’s lead with love, compassion, and forgiveness. And know that every decision is a choice between a grievance and a miracle. And then let’s place one foot in front of the other and celebrate the baby steps knowing they are miraculous and will deliver us to where we want to be with grace and ease.

I’m dedicating this month on Hay House Radio to Setting our Course. I’ll be spending every morning meditating so my trajectory of the day will have a bit more stillness, heart, and focus, and I invite you to join me in transforming the world by transforming ourselves.

And as January unfolds, I’ll be leading an all day workshop in Northern California at the Spiritual Center for Positive Living and then later in the month spending 4 days with thirty five visionaries at my Set Your Course Workshop.

I’ll also be joining my fellow Hay House authors Wayne Dyer, Doreen Virtue, Marianne Williamson, Kris Carr, Christiane Northrup, Louise Hay, Cheryl Richardson, and so many other powerful teachers for The Start The New You Now Ultimate Webinar from Jan 11- Jan 17. Click the link and sign up – it’s FREE.

Join me in making the commitment to make 2014 the most amazing year of our lives. Ready? I’ll see you in the gap!! Peace. -davidji

Join me for one of my upcoming events!

Discovering Your Dharma
April 3-6, 2014

Secret’s of Meditation Healing Immersion
May 8-11, 2014