Archives for February 2018

Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source! Let’s explore the Sacred Power of Presence.

At first, “finding the time” to practice presence may feel like a chore, but this is the natural progression we all go through on our journey to stillness.

The easiest way to connect with the flow more effortlessly is to practice throughout the day while you’re stuck in traffic, standing in a line, sitting in the bathroom, attending a meeting, or even taking a shower.

You can start out with an easy technique that requires no equipment called “16 seconds.” I’ve taught it to more than 200,000 people around the world, and it’s based on the ancient technique of mindful breathing popularized by the Buddha 2,600 years ago.

Start with a long, slow, deep inhale through your nose, and watch your breath slowly move into you and follow it down deep into your belly; then hold the breath in and witness it as it sits in your belly.

Release your breath, and observe it as it moves back up, through you, and out of your nostrils. As you continue to exhale, watch your breath as you continue releasing it out, and observing it the whole time as it dissipates into the air.

In.
Hold.
Out.
Hold.

Witnessing the whole time as you move through this simple four-part breathing technique. Each component takes about 4 seconds, with the whole experience lasting 16 seconds. You can approximate your time by counting along the way, or simply surrender to the process and see where it leads you.

Sixteen seconds is all it takes to practice presence. And you can gently increase your presence practice to a minute by doing it 4 times, or to five minutes by doing it 20 times.

This time-tested process will instantly infuse all the conversations in your head with a tiny bit of stillness. The resulting newfound clarity in your mind will then start to subliminally pervade your choice making as your laser focus guides you in ways you never thought were possible. This concentrated light of single-mindedness cuts through the fog of indecision, pierces the veils of confusion, and brings an instant settling down of emotions that would otherwise succumb to melodrama.

Your tranquil inner dialogue evolves into a calmer and more composed outer dialogue. The swirl around you slows, creating an inviting aura of tranquility that others appreciate participating in.

And as all of your interactions start to proceed at a slower speed, you receive information more clearly, process it more objectively, and speak with greater poise and purpose.

Peace. -davidji

Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!

Many times we focus on emotional healing during our meditations, but we can also use our practice to help focus healing energy on our physical body, too. Enjoy this special body scan meditation, and share with me your experience in the comments below. Remember, there are no judgements in the Sweetspot Community — we are all here as one giant love & support machine!

Peace. -davidji

Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!

If we’re vibrating at a high frequency, we can sense all things around us. If we’re vibrating at a low frequency, we’re trapped in our mind. Immune to all sounds, emotional interpretations. Every thing is about attention and intention. The only way to raise our vibration is to start with the seed of silence and stillness. Then, all sensations start to expand and come alive.

Mantra: Yogastha kuru karmani


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If I am not for myself who is for me? And being for my own self, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when? –Hillel the Elder

Welcome to another week of Life Tools! The Sacred Power of Your Ripple flows through infinity; but it starts with you. Why would you expect someone else to be accepting of you, if you don’t fully accept yourself?

We need to make a daily commitment to accept ourselves in every moment; to be kind to ourselves; to appreciate ourselves. That’s truly the only validation we need. And this begins with you truly understanding your voice.

When we think of our voice, we often view it as the words that come out of our mouth. But this is just the vibration of our vocal cords. Your voice is much more expansive than simply words—it’s the energy you flow in every moment and the ripple of that energy. We “speak” in verbal and nonverbal ways—from the choices we’ve made to the messages we send— to the divine purpose that holds our stars apart and our Universe together.

Some of us have dimmed our light over fear of being diminished by another – biting our tongues or walking on eggshells because we don’t have the confidence to risk being judged. Some of us feel listened to – but don’t feel heard. That’s usually because we believe the other person isn’t being present while we are expressing ourselves.

So sometimes we just quit . . . we just shut down. No more!

The Sacred Power of Your Ripple invites you to shout your magnificence from every rooftop; to stop dimming your light and turn it up brighter; to say what’s on your mind; to do what feels true in the moment; to risk failure; to express yourself from your heart; and to let your passion flow.

You can express your voice through your physical appearance; through your job or your career; through your hobbies, interests, and causes; through your writings, posts, creations, and performances; and through the daily energy you flow into the world.

Expressing yourself physically, emotionally, and verbally is a very important aspect of the Sacred Power of Your Ripple. Each of us desperately needs to be heard in some way. Many of us feel the need to compel, convince, persuade, or convert others. Some of us just want what’s inside of us to be witnessed by another. We are beings of expression and knowing someone is “listening” helps validate that we have meaning in this life.

Some of us express our ripple simply by putting ourselves out there. We want someone to know how we feel or what something means to us. We want people to see the “real” us at our best. We want someone to connect with us on our own terms. And, sometimes we simply need to share, release, vent, or commune.

Whatever vehicle we choose, we can share and express ourselves in the form of encouragement, intimate encounters, and works of creativity. All are forms of the Sacred Power of Your Ripple—various expressions of letting your “voice” be heard. Choosing the right way to physically, emotionally, or tangibly purr or roar in the right moment makes all the difference.

So stop playing small. Pick your moment. And, let your voice be heard!

Peace. –davidji

Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!!

We often view the present moment as a potential interruption between what we were doing and what we could be doing. We use phrases like “carve out time,” “make time,” and “squeeze it in,” as if time was this separate entity that was always imposing itself on us.

We postpone the occasion to be fully present with those near and dear to us. We multitask our love, fragmenting our affection over several people and things simultaneously. We often hold back an innocent expression of kindness for fear of it being misinterpreted. We keep our distance because we don’t know what to do with that empty space where connection flows.

And yet we are all just stumbling in the darkness of loneliness begging for someone to light a match. We’ve grown so accustomed to seeing ourselves as individual beings that we often rationalize our isolation as being normal.

The Divine Principle of One encourages us to weave the present moment into every aspect of our being and because we are creatures of connection, we can begin to effortlessly transform the world around us with our own presence.

Mantra: Yogastha kuru karmani

Welcome, Spiritual Warrior, to this week’s edition of The Source in which we tackle a recurring question from members of the Sweetspot Community: why do so many of us have feelings of unworthiness?

I’m here to tell you, suffering is optional, as is self-compassion. Compassion literally means “to suffer together with,” and is considered among the greatest of virtues. In the Buddhist tradition, suffering is an aspect of the human condition that should be recognized and can then be overcome.

Compassion is illuminated in the The Four Noble Truths:

1. All existence is dukkha. “Dukkha” is suffering, anguish or pain, and The Buddha said that our lives are a struggle, and we do not find ultimate happiness or satisfaction in anything we experience. This is the problem of existence.

2. The truth of the origin of dukkha. It is humans’ natural tendency is to blame difficulties on things outside ourselves, but their actual root is found in the mind itself. Particularly, our tendency to grasp at things — or to push them away — places us fundamentally at odds with the way life really is.

3. The cessation of dukkha comes with the cessation of craving. Because we are the ultimate cause of our difficulties, we are also the solution. We cannot change the things that happen to us, but we can change our responses.

4. The path that leads to the cessation of dukkha. The Buddha teaches that we are ultimately responsible for ending our suffering, and he also taught methods through which we can change ourselves.

If we are just a bit more loving to our self this week, those around us will feel our acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, and compassion…and the world will be a better place.

Keep meditating, and I’ll see you in the gap. Namaste. -davidji

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