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The small woman
Builds cages for everyone
She
Knows.
While the sage,
Who has to duck her head
When the moon is low,
Keeps dropping keys all night long
For the
Beautiful
Rowdy
Prisoners

―Hafiz

Welcome to this week’s edition of Life Tools where we discuss becoming more mindful about our tendencies to want to control everything around us. We are all subtle control freaks! (some of us not so subtle). And when we think we have lost control, then fear, anger, anxiety, stress, and disappointment set in. But [tweet_dis]if we can accept an uncontrollable change for what it is… accept the reality that we do not have full control over what happens in life, then it becomes easier to be graceful[/tweet_dis] when change visits.

There are only a few things we can actually “control,” and turning our attention to those is the key:

  • Our thoughts through meditation;
  • Our words through impeccable & conscious speech; and
  • Our actions through, as the Buddha said, right action… coming from a place of stillness.

This week, let’s loosen our grip just a little, slide into the passenger’s seat and allow the universe to do the driving.

Peace. -davidji

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Mantra: Om Yam Ritam

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good. ―Maya Angelou

Happy weekend, Spiritual Warriors! I’ve landed in my other SweetSpot of the Universe — Tulum, Mexico — for my 7-day Get Busy Living! retreat at the Maya Tulum Resort & Spa in Quintana Roo. It’s such a magical place, and I’m grateful to be able to share this spiritual journey with all 40 attendees and dive deep into our meditation practice.

Meditation is the pattern interrupt – the space BETWEEN our thoughts – that allows us to BE present and flow stillness & silence into the world. If we can embed a thought flow into us either before or right after we meditate, we will start to move in the true direction of our dreams – or as Martha Beck calls it, “our north star.”

I have crafted my own set of personal heart-opening sutras – the secrets of the sweetspot – from the myriad translations of the Buddha, Osho, the New Testament, Thich Nhất Hạnh, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Pema Chodron, & St. Francis of Assisi and merged them with my interpretations of various books of the Upanishads. I use these sutras, each morning, in a process that is akin to planting intentions like seeds in the fertile soil that rests within.

After your regular morning meditation, drift your awareness to these five personal expressions of the universe:

• Patience,
• Acceptance,
• Defenselessness,
• Compassion, and
• Abundance.

As the last moment of your meditation drifts away, repeat each word like a sutra over and over and over for about a minute and then drift to the next. Repeating these sutras after coming out of stillness and silence is a gentle process that eases your transition from a state of restful awareness into more active awareness. One powerful, tangible result is that these affirmations ripple through our awareness all day long and the practice will help you to be a more conscious choice maker.

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Hello Spiritual Warriors!! And welcome to another issue of The Source – your weekly connection to the abundance of the universe. This week we explore the concept of soul healing and some core steps to begin the process right now.

Soul healing is when you allow the universe’s innocent, natural process to gracefully unfold within you. We can define in it in every context as connecting to your innate wholeness – your most genuine self, which is the part of you that rests beneath your clothes, beneath your flesh, beneath your body, and even beneath your mind. That part of you is divine… pure… perfect… It is unblemished… knows no fear, or sadness, or grief… is beyond your regrets, grievances, and second-guessing. It transcends guilt, shame, sorrow, and anxiety.

This is who you truly are. It is all the characteristics of the best version of yourself. And here are a few steps to connect to it:

  • Quiet down: Slow down – connect to your stillness and silence through a daily meditation practice and throughout the day through such techniques as 16seconds.
  • Forgive: Forgive yourself, forgive God, forgive the world, forgive those around you – especially your petty tyrants. When we forgive, we free ourselves from the ties that bind us to the one that hurt us. That forgiveness starts with you forgiving yourself.
  • Realize where you are: Drink in this sacred, precious present moment. Remember this verse from the Bhagavad Gita – Yogastha kuru karmani – establish yourself in the present moment and then perform action… don’t keep looking for the divine reason or meaning behind your situation – breathe and surrender. Once you own where you are right now… you can better move forward with grace and ease.
  • Establish a daily gratitude practice: Make a list each day of the 10 things you are most grateful for. When you find yourself feeling less-than… take out your list and bring yourself back to reality. Look around at ALL the silver linings that surround each moment and see the single special gift that sits before you RIGHT NOW.
  • Give yourself permission: To become whole – to slowly heal – to awaken your most divine self. Redefine yourself… beyond your circumstance… beyond your diagnosis… beyond your blame. And step into your power!!

If you can follow these 5 steps to Soul Healing, very quickly you will begin to feel the results. Doors will open. New loving light will expand in your heart. And gently your darkness will dissipate as your life unfolds with greater grace and greater ease.

Forward this blog to any one you know who could benefit from their own soul healing. Join me this week on Hay House Radio and if you want to spend some time in the SweetSpot with me, explore some of my upcoming events.

In the meantime, I’ll see you in the gap! Peace. -davidji

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Mantra: San kalpa ritam

The Sacred Power of Intention and Attention is a powerful tool for manifesting our dreams and making solution-oriented, conscious choices. Wherever you shine your light of attention, that thing will be become more prominent in your life. And that’s why intention is the partner of attention. If our intention are to raise our vibration while our attention is on a particular issue then we will be solution oriented!

Remember that we have a choice in every moment to bring our attention and then we have another choice: what is the intention I want to bring to that moment? This week, let’s use the mantra san kalpa ritam: san kalpa is the subtle intention and ritam is aligning it with the rhythm of the universe.

You can add this meditation to your personal library, and browse many others, by visiting the davidji online store.

Want to Dive Even Deeper into the Sacred Powers?

Join me, and an intimate group of like-minded spiritual explorers for my Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Teaching Training beginning in June 2017.

This 4-month long meditation teacher training starts on June 25 davidji masters of meditation and wisdom teacher trainingand culminates with a week in-residence with me in early October 2017. All classes are LIVE! online interactive webinars.

During your time leading up to the final week, you will experience a one-on-one Skype call with me, a live video webinar per month (four total) in which you will interact with your fellow teachers in training, have continuous interaction with me, as well as video and audio teachings each week (16 weekly lessons).

The final week of meditation teacher training concludes your training with an intensive seven-days “in-residence” at The Meditation Nest in Carlsbad, Calif. I will guide you to elevating your meditation practice to a higher and deeper level. You will achieve greater knowledge and understanding of the most esteemed masters and their timeless teachings.

Click here to learn more about the curriculum and some of the key topics. >>

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Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we, in the spirit of the recent super moon, explore the concept of one-ness.

What part of the world are you in? Can you see the moon (weather permitting)? Can your family 2,000 miles away in another part of the world see the same moon?

In Vedanta, the ancient Indian philosophy of self-realization, there is a school of thought known as Advaita (pronounced add-veye-ta), a Sanskrit term for “non-duality.”

According to Advaita, one-ness is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion, known in Sanskrit as maya.

An important part of this philosophy is that our ignorance of our one-ness — which is also an illusion — is the cause for all suffering in the world. Only through the direct knowledge of this one-ness, which means actually experiencing it, can we be truly liberated. In Sanskrit, this liberation is called moksha (moke-sha). Understanding that all of existence is non-dual; not two things, but one pure whole.

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Most of us grew up in homes where we were introduced to an all-knowing, all-seeing, infinite being known as God. How else can finite flesh beings such as us, with limited tools and a limited understanding, ingest such a beyond-this-realm concept as one-ness? There needs to be an almighty being that embodies all the characteristics of one-ness so we can better understand them—a sort of middleman between us and one-ness.

Most of us have a similar understanding regarding our God’s nature. Essentially this being created everything; controls or influences everything; is everywhere. It is infinite, immortal, omnipresent, spans the existence of time and, therefore, is timeless. It is capable of resurrection and rebirth; can be worshipped and appealed to; and has the ability to craft what we would consider miracles.

Even if you weren’t brought up in a formal religious or spiritual tradition (if you are an atheist you can still meditate and receive all the benefits you are seeking) it is still likely that you believe there is some form of intelligence beyond ours. So whether your orientation is toward the divine, a god, multiple gods, or a higher power, we define our personal understanding of this universal nature as spirituality. Essentially, [tweet_dis]spirituality is the journey we take in each moment from our most individual Self to our most universal Self and then back again.[/tweet_dis] From constriction to expansion!

Deep, right?

When our mind analyzes this being or power, we see this omniscient, omnipotent, infinite God or spirit at once in everything and yet separate from us and the world. Vedanta would say this separation exists only on the surface, only in our mind. Deeper below the surface, our mind, body, and spirit are all the same things—pure, unbounded consciousness — one-ness wearing different disguises.

According to Vedanta, liberation lies in knowing the reality of this one-ness and experiencing spirit through varying aspects of study (gyan), devotion (bhakti), action (karma), and practice (raja or the royal path).

Don’t get overwhelmed, I talk more about this in “Secrets of Meditation,” and we study it extensively in my Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Teacher Training.

Two of the practices of the royal path that most directly connect us to spirit are meditation (restful awareness) and yoga (body-centered restful awareness). The path to this understanding of spirit is a deeper understanding of who we are, what we really want in life, and why we are here. This is called the expansion of consciousness — moving from a constricted, conditioned space where we identify and define ourselves as the roles we play in life and the things we own (essentially, our positions and our possessions) to the more expansive perspective of who we are, how we are connected to everything, and what we came here to do.

This week, as you reflect on the brilliance and magnificence of the super moon “miracle,” — or any other occurrences that you consider a miracle — dive a bit deeper. Use that experience as a focus for your meditation practice this week and come just a bit closer to one-ness.

Peace. -davidji

Want to Dive Even Deeper into These Ancient Teachings?

Join me, and an intimate group of like-minded spiritual explorers for my Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Teaching Training beginning in June 2017.

This 4-month long meditation teacher training starts on June 25 davidji masters of meditation and wisdom teacher trainingand culminates with a week in-residence with me in early October 2017. All classes are LIVE! online interactive webinars.

During your time leading up to the final week, you will experience a one-on-one Skype call with me, a live video webinar per month (four total) in which you will interact with your fellow teachers in training, have continuous interaction with me, as well as video and audio teachings each week (16 weekly lessons).

The final week of meditation teacher training concludes your training with an intensive seven-days “in-residence” at The Meditation Nest in Carlsbad, Calif. I will guide you to elevating your meditation practice to a higher and deeper level. You will achieve greater knowledge and understanding of the most esteemed masters and their timeless teachings.

Click here to learn more about the curriculum and some of the key topics. >>

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Mantra: Om jyoti ritam

Merging ourselves with the divine – the divine light – is our perfection. Opening our heart just a little bit more, is our perfection. If there aren’t cracks, slivers, weaknesses, sadnesses, and moments of disappointment how can the light get in? Your perfection is in your growth, in your evolution and allowing the light to come in.

You can download this meditation to your personal library here.

“Anthem” by Leonard Cohen 

The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don’t dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

We asked for signs
the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed
the marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
of every government —
signs for all to see.

I can’t run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up
a thundercloud
and they’re going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring …

You can add up the parts
but you won’t have the sum
You can strike up the march,
there is no drum
Every heart, every heart
to love will come
but like a refugee.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
That’s how the light gets in.
That’s how the light gets in.

Written by Leonard Cohen • Copyright © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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Hello Spiritual Warriors!! and welcome to this week’s edition of the Source in which we talk about rebirth, reinvention and rejuvenation.

Lao Tzu is known to have said, “When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be.” But what does that truly mean?

There is a part of you right now that needs the deepest healing; the most profound return to wholeness; the biggest shift. Perhaps there are wounds, trauma, painful memories attached to that part of you. And, at the cellular level, every atom in your body is aware of the disturbance and suffering you have gone through. Right now, see your whole body, mind and soul as fully aware of everything that has gone on.

[tweet_dis]There are no secrets between your heart and your soul[/tweet_dis] – no mysteries, riddles, confidences, or surprises that every fiber of your being does not know. You may have worked so hard to suppress it, wall it off, or compartmentalize it. Yet, it flows through every cell and the pain associated with it is being felt throughout your body even when your attention isn’t on it. It just needs the right hot-button or tender spot being pushed to flare up at some invisible level.

Warren Bennis, the American scholar and leadership teacher, is known to have said, “People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.” So, remind yourself that through this process of rebirth and reinvention, that part of you will step out of the shadows and into the light.

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Are you ready to do that right now? If that sounds scary, then simply dip your toe in. Let’s start by simply giving yourself permission to awaken your power of rebirth. Answer this question right now:

Am I ready and willing to awaken the sacred power of rebirth in my life right now?

If the answer is “no” do not despair. It just means that you are still too tender to go there. No worries. Simply trust and give yourself permission to accept that the best is yet to come. As you slowly heal from believing your magnificence is there but dormant, you will slowly regain the confidence to begin your rebirth. You can always come back to this question.

If you answered “yes,” then let’s continue with a sweet process I refer to as two-hand healing.

First, find a comfortable space to sit or lay down. Place your left hand on your heart and rest your right hand against your throat. The ancient teachings of energetic flow say that your heart is your forgiveness center and your throat is your permission center. And to awaken your power of rebirth, we need to awaken forgiveness and permission. We need to forgive ourselves for everything that’s ever happened in our lives, and, grant ourselves permission to heal, move forward and thrive.

And now simply breathe and watch your breath move in and out. As you breathe in, feel your left hand on your heart rise up with your expanded chest and silently repeat, “I forgive myself.” As you exhale, feel the breath under your right hand move through your throat, and silently repeat, “I give myself permission to begin again.”

Get into a rhythmic flow as you practice this four or five times and then close your eyes and continue for a few minutes. I’ll wait right here. So let’s begin.

How does that feel?

Throughout the day find a minute – just a minute – in the morning, the afternoon, and the evening, to awaken your two-hand healing practice. After only a few days, you will find yourself getting stronger, awakening to your rebirth… feeling a bit more confident that the best is yet to come – and you and the universe will begin to merge.

Practice this a few times today and let me know how you feel in the comment section or by sending me an email (info@davidji.com) Together, we will heal, forgive ourselves, and grant ourselves permission to begin again!!!

Keep it fresh! Keep meditating! And keep trusting! In the meantime, I’ll see you in the gap! Peace. –davidji

dji & peaches

 

 

 

 

 

P.S. Remember to adopt your next pet!!!

drop-the-leash-bookWhat I’m Reading Right Now

“Drop the Leash” is written by my new friend Kathryn Eriksen. It’s a profound story of unconditional love and forgiveness written through the perspective of a dog, and I know you’ll enjoy it! You can learn about Kathryn at www.KathrynEriksen.com. Her book is available on Amazon.

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Largest Mass Meditation – Led By davidji – to Take Place Dec. 18

MIAMI, Nov. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — First we get QUIET, then we get LOUD! For the first time in the history of a professional sporting event, the largest group of people engaged in simultaneous meditation will take place when Miami’s HEAT Nation is invited to participate in a historic “Mindful Moment” prior to tip-off of the HEAT vs. Celtics game, preceded by a Mindfulness Festival at the arena.

Organized by America Meditates and led by Davidji, the first Dean of the (Deepak) Chopra Center University and internationally recognized stress-management expert and Shelly Tygielski, a mindfulness expert that is locally-based, attendees at the AmericanAirlines Arena will be led through a mindful breathing practice to get present, raise the vibe and get energized for the big game!

This HEAT Nation Meditation event stems from wildly popular weekly oceanfront meditation sessions that have been taking place on Hollywood Beach, organized by Shelly Tygielski, founder of America Meditates.

“Our ‘See You On the Sand’ classes started with 12 friends less than a year ago and has now grown to attract hundreds of people per week!” said Tygielski. “In less than a year we have attracted close to 15,000 South Floridians to come learning about mindfulness, and we knew it was time to take it to the next level by bringing in the entire HEAT Nation to participate!”

Everyone including sports fans, families and health and wellness enthusiasts are invited to attend the daylong mindfulness festival for only $30, which includes admission to the HEAT vs. Celtics game. Tickets are available through TicketMaster at www.heatnationmeditation.com. Season ticket holders can purchase tickets to the pre-game Festival.

“Mindfulness meditation” is nothing new in the professional sports world where athletes take their pregame rituals seriously. Many pro teams in the NFL, NBA and NHL practice mindfulness individually and collectively as a team; never before have the fans been invited to participate.

As reported by Sports Illustrated in their cover story, following the 2015 Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl win, the team credited much of their success to the incorporation of meditation into their training regimen.

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has reported that mindfulness meditation can help ease psychological stresses like anxiety, depression, and improve mental well-being, focus and performance. It helps athletes get into “the zone.”

In addition to the pre-game “mindful moment,” HEAT Nation Meditation ticket holders will have access to Mindfulness Festival & Meditation Workshop taking place on the Xfinity East Plaza of the AmericanAirlines Arena starting at 1:00 pm on game day, Sunday, December 18th. Local practitioners, meditation experts, wellness brands and other vendors will be on hand to inform and engage guests of all ages.

The festival will feature a 60-minute instructional workshop, including a mindfulness class, meditation in motion and learning practical breathing techniques.

To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/largest-mass-meditation-at-a-professional-sporting-event-to-take-place-at-americanairlines-arena-prior-to-the-december-18th-miami-heat-vs-boston-celtics-game-300357147.html

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Safety is simply an interpretation that there is no threat. It’s the absence of fear – the perception that there is no danger. That, instead there is a challenge… that we can lean into & soar beyond. ~davidji

Hello Spiritual Warriors! & welcome to another issue of The Source – where we work on transcending the illusion of Fear.

F.E.A.R. False. Evidence. Appearing. Real. – a projection of what the future may hold. A guess. A fantasy. A moment where we believe we are clairvoyant of only the worst possible outcome.

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And yet we hold our fears to be as real as the reality of this moment. They freeze us. They frighten us. They hold us back from moving forward. They hold us in this fantasy world where we believe that what we’ve made up will indeed come to pass. They are as real to us as anything that’s actually happened.

But our fears are the darkest pieces of our imagination. They are the inventions of the part of us that does not trust, so we repeat them like affirmations over and over in our mind until they harden like concrete. And even though our fears may never come to pass, we hold onto them with deep faith, so that if they do happen, we prove ourselves right and if they don’t come true, we have become so fixed on them that we are blind to the beauty that does unfold.

Fear obscures the opportunity that sits right before us. Fear colors every thought that has the potential to sprout into magnificence. As the Buddha said, “All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we create our world.”

And when we convince ourselves that what we want to happen won’t and what we don’t want to happen will, then we become a victim of our fantasies.

But we are better than that. We are stronger than that. We are more capable and blessed than we give ourselves credit for – and when we surrender to fear it is because we don’t trust. We don’t trust in the divine… we don’t trust our choices… and we don’t trust ourselves to make right decisions.

There is a struggle within each of us where the worst possible scenario battles the best possible scenario for attention in a given moment. But we must remind ourselves that we have a choice in each moment… that we can choose the best outcome or the most painful outcome. And whatever we end up choosing, will become the seed for the next moment, hour, or rest of our day – and ultimately the rest of our life!!!

Through the daily practice where we use the tools of destressifying,  we can align with our own innate pure, perfect, wholeness [tweet_dis][/tweet_dis] where we can make choices without the conditioned negativity of our past. We can make choices from an abundance mentality rather than a poverty consciousness. We can direct our thoughts to the land of pure potentiality instead of the place of limiting beliefs.

And so when we find ourselves questioning our judgment. When we hear the voice in our head telling us we are less than or not worthy, we need to know that the word TRUST can be re-configured into STRUT! And that’s how we step into our power… by giving yourself permission to strut, to believe again, to open our heart to the possibility that whatever negativity you can dream up is False. Evidence. Appearing. Real. and can easily be erased by a positive internal conversation.

Simply use the mantra, “When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be” and you will find yourself trusting more, dying to the past, and STEPPING into your power. How about we try it just for the week. Send me an email with a fear you are working on right now and how you can replace it with your new vision, your new dream. A new you that is ready to STRUT and create your new world.

Please share this email with as many people as you’d like to help by clicking the share buttons at the bottom of the page.

In the mean time, keep destressifying and let’s merge in the gap together!!!

Peace. -davidji

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