I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. —Charles Dickens Dear Spiritual Warrior, Merry Christmas and sweet present moments! I’m in silence till the end of the year – so feel free to tap into any one of the 200 free meditations on davidji.com and in the Meditation … Continue reading Merry Christmas!!!
You are your deepest driving desire. As is your desire, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny. –Brihadaranyaka Upanishad; Book IV; Chapter 4; Verse 5. Hello Spiritual Warriors and welcome to this edition of The Source, where we dive deep into ancient … Continue reading Setting Your Course for 2018 Starts Now
Happy weekend, spiritual warrior!!! Tis the season… let’s take time to slow down, connect to stillness & silence and move through the rest of the year with grace & ease. Peace. -davidji Mantra: Yogastha kuru karmani Enter the New Year with Renewed Perspective, Greater Clarity & Inner Peace As we continue to approach the upcoming … Continue reading Connecting to the Present Moment Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source!!! A new year is upon us, and what we choose to do with another year can sometimes weigh heavy on us. Maybe we’re in a relationship that is no longer serving us but we just don’t know how to let go. Maybe we’ve peaked in our current … Continue reading Now Is the Time to Take a Chance on You
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we reflect on embracing the wholeness of life, beginning with reflection on a line from Leonard Cohen’s “Anthem“: There is a crack in everything… That’s how the light gets in. Our lives are full of ups and downs, happiness and sadness, fear and courage. This process … Continue reading There is a crack in everything… That’s how the light gets in.
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! Peaches the Buddha Princess teaches us, “Resist nothing and receive unconditional love.” In each moment, we have an opportunity to open our heart and give to this world all of our beauty. To step into a bold, new version of you — allow the light to come into your heart; let … Continue reading Letting the Light In Weekend Meditation
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! The things in your life that limit you are actually self-imposed, and we have a choice to hold onto them or let them go. Whether it be a job, mindset, or a relationship the many aspects of our life can begin to constrict us if we let them. Not seeing all … Continue reading Breathing in Abundance Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source. If you follow me on social media you’ve heard about my new, upcoming book, Sacred Powers: The Five Secrets to Awakening Transformation, releases December 12. Each of us has the Sacred Powers of Transformation resting deep within. Not simply the power to change but to truly transform … Continue reading Personal Transformation is Only 40 Days Away!
Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find; knock and the door shall be opened. –Luke 11:9 Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we discover that our desires can become reality!!! You have your dreams and visions and have been setting your intentions. Now it’s times for reflection and … Continue reading Our Desires Can Become Our Reality
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior! This weekend let’s focus on self-kindness and self-compassion though this meditation on soothing your tender heart. Remember, all compassion starts with self-compassion. If you are not rooting for yourself in every moment, how can you root for others? If you can’t empathize with your own plight, then you are not connected … Continue reading Soothing Your Tender Heart Weekend Meditation
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. ―Maya Angelou Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source. Adversity can also be … Continue reading Healing Begins Now
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior! Our skin is the largest organ in our body. In fact, the average human is covered in 18 square feet of flesh!! And because of that, the nourishing power of touch can have a profound healing impact on every cell that rests only millimeters beneath the surface. Whether you receive a … Continue reading Healing Power of Touch Weekend Meditation
Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking it. -Naomi Wolf Hello sweet Meditators!!!! And welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we empower ourselves to find our voice. I’ve been teaching all weekend with my very special friend and soul brother, James Van Praagh, … Continue reading 7 Steps to Finding Your Voice
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior! Sometimes we all need a little help, a little companionship, to take our life from where we are to where we want to be. It can get lonely with all the distractions and challenges of life. But you’re not alone! Summon one passenger to ride with you — summon your spirit … Continue reading Awakening Your Spirit Guide Weekend Meditation
Photo Credit: Todd Huffman via Compfight cc Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior! I’m in the middle of an epic adventure jet setting from San Diego to Texas to Amsterdam to Dublin to Cork to Utrecht. Follow me on Instagram to see the world from my eyes! Follow me on Instagram @davidjimeditation #wanderwithdavidji I’ll be speaking in … Continue reading Maintaining Focus & Clarity Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source!!! This week we touch on one of the fundamental steps toward living a stress-free life. The first step to destressifying is the mastery of our needs – identifying, prioritizing, and meeting our vast needs with greater regularity. Virtually all of the stress we experience each day is … Continue reading destressifying by Mastering Your Needs
May the wisdom and compassion of all beings increase, now and in the future. May we clearly see all the barriers we erect between ourselves and others to be as insubstantial as our dreams. May we appreciate the great perfection of all phenomena. May we continue to open our hearts and minds, in order to … Continue reading Flowing Divine Love Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source – coming to you from 1440 Multiversity in Northern California where I’m teaching the inaugural Step into Your Power workshop!!! I shot this week’s video in the woods surrounded by gorgeous, giant redwood trees. Awareness is the fully present attention on a particular aspect of existence. Our … Continue reading What Connects You to Source?
Happy Weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! What does it mean to plant the seeds in fertile soil? It means creating a sweet, still garden and then inviting your intentions into the nourishing womb of creation that rests within. It means selecting one intention at a time and giving your self the room to marinate on it in … Continue reading The Power of Intention Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source… let’s explore the difference between attention & intention. So what is an intention exactly? One definition is to have in mind a purpose or plan – to direct the mind – to aim. And I say WHY NOT AIM HIGH?! So here’s what we’re going to do. … Continue reading The Power of Setting Intentions
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 … Continue reading How Well Do You Handle Change?
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior! I’ve just returned from a week with the distinguished officers of the Blue Courage program celebrating law enforcement – the men & women who have pledged their lives to serving & protecting. Blue Courage is a transformational leadership development program designed for all levels of law enforcement – from police & sheriffs, to … Continue reading Awaken Your Courage and Step into Your Power Weekend Meditation
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! Let’s take our dimmer to shimmer!!! Today is not the day to play small; it’s not the day dim your light; it’s not the day to let your dreams drift away. Today is the day to step up!!! Give yourself permission to thrive, to soar, to flow, and to express the … Continue reading From Dimmer to Shimmer Weekend Meditation
Hello Spiritual Warriors!!!! and welcome to another edition of The Source – the newsletter that translates ancient teachings into modern world practical application. This week we’re exploring Slowing Down the World around you. You have the ability to control the speed and frequency at which life comes at you! Science is now proving that we … Continue reading How we can make life happen in slow motion
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior! This week has been a painful, trying time for a dear friend of mine. The past has suddenly thrust itself upon her sending her world into what feels like a tailspin. Her greatest fears… all the thoughts of what-ifs… keep swirling through her mind threatening to confine her to a space … Continue reading Healing the Past Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we explore various moral codes people live by, including the 10 “commandments” of Osho. What set of codes do you live by? Maybe it’s the Ten Commandments or the Four Agreements or the Seven Spiritual Laws. Or perhaps you live by the Golden Rule or … Continue reading The 10 Commandments of Osho – What codes do you live by?
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! This weekend let’s return to our most divine, infinite state — stoke the fire of emotional freedom. Allow yourself to surrender to the fire of transformation — let go of what no longer serves you — and invite your true self to shine through. Forgive and love yourself with this meditation. … Continue reading Fire of Emotional Freedom Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s The Source in which we dive into the painful process of, well, healing pain. Living with, coping with, dealing with & transcending pain is a powerful process of healing. When we get to the other side, we are stronger, braver, clearer, and transformed. As the African spiritual teacher & author Sobonfu … Continue reading Embracing Wholeness… Including Our Pain
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! Welcome to this week’s guided meditation. Each day, we SELF-domesticated ourselves as we created agreements in our mind of who we should and shouldn’t be, and what we should and shouldn’t do. And at a certain point that became engrained into every muscle in our body – every fiber of our … Continue reading Awaken Your Best Version Weekend Meditation
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! Welcome to this weekend’s meditation in which we place attention on the adage, “this too shall pass.” Life is filled with peaks and valleys, rabbit holes, long climbs, highs and lows, crossroads and dead ends; we can use this powerful tool when we find ourselves stuck, unwilling to on, when we … Continue reading This Too Shall Pass Weekend Meditation
Hello, Spiritual Warrior, welcome to this edition of The Source in which we explore tips for distinguishing thoughts from signs from the Universe. Coincidences are the universe tapping you on the shoulder whispering to pay attention! As we live our lives in the material realm, coincidences are “signs from the universe” that we are actually united with realms … Continue reading How Do You Know if It’s a Sign or Merely a Thought?
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! Over this next week, let’s progressively quiet the fluctuations of the mind, slow the swirl around us, relieve our stress and open our heart to trust by awakening the Shakti energy that flows through us. Mantra: Raam shakti om Want to add this to your personal meditation library? Download it here.
Welcome, Spiritual Warrior, to another edition of The Source in which we explore what happens when we find ourselves at a crossroads. It never fails. Life tosses you a curveball; throws off your mojo; lays difficult decisions at your feet. And, we find ourselves at a crossroads feeling confused and overwhelmed about what we really want. We … Continue reading Finding Ourselves at a Crossroads
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ―Truman Capote Welcome to another edition of The Source!!! The concept of success gets all the limelight, but exploring our lives through the concept of failure can be just as inspirational… if you look at it through a new lens. These are a few of my … Continue reading Failure is NEVER the End!!!
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior! We’re doing some serious heart searching this week, elevating our life, stepping into our power, and owning our impact more than ever!!! I just launched the new 30-Minute Commitment, and I invite you to join me and hundreds of like-minded individuals (and growing!) who are ready to take their lives to the next … Continue reading Elevating My Life Weekend Meditation
Instant Karma’s gonna get you Gonna knock you right on the head You better get yourself together Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead What in the world you thinking of Laughing in the face of love What on earth you tryin’ to do It’s up to you, yeah you… –John Lennon from his song “Instant … Continue reading Karma: How Do Our Actions Control the Direction of Our Ripple?
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Source in which we explore treating every precious moment as a teacher. Some of the most profound messengers of peace, awakening and truth have graced the planet for thousands of years; and as we have evolved and grown, we have resonated with differing voices and different messages depending … Continue reading When the Student is Ready the Teacher Appears
Mantra: Om Moksha Ritam Happy weekend Spiritual Warrior!!! Let’s allow clarity to unfold this weekend by settling uncertainty about something in your life that is creating anxiety, pain, or emotional turbulence. We can start this process by identifying a starting point and an end point of the issue, which allows us to begin to grasp … Continue reading Mastering Uncertainty Weekend Meditation
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! This week you’ve noticed, if you follow me on facebook or on Instagram, that I’m at the Meditation Nest in the Sweetspot of the Universe with 30 of my Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Teachers-in-Training. Today is the fifth day of the in-residence portion of my 4-month long certification course. We’ve been … Continue reading Stepping into Clarity Weekend Meditation
You have become so overflowing with love, with compassion, and you want to share. It happens at the fourth center, the heart. That’s why even in the ordinary world people think love comes out of the heart. For them it is just hearsay, they have heard it; they don’t know it because they have never … Continue reading Awakening Compassion & Empathy for Yourself & Others
Welcome to another edition of this week’s Life Tools as we explore awakening your inner teacher! The best teachers help you awaken to the essence already resting inside you. They help you translate universal knowledge into personal wisdom. They help you see things in a new light. They channel the universe and then step out … Continue reading Awakening the Teacher Within
Photo: Taken at my Awakening Your Inner Healer Weekend Immersion in 2015. The next Inner Healer is coming up in October 2017. You can learn about it here >> Mantra: Ananda Maya Moksha Surrender to the power of our own healing: the power of the word, the power of our thoughts, of the meaning we’ve … Continue reading Awakening Your Healing Power Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we explore awakening our power to heal from within. Throughout our lives we have distanced ourselves from the whole by resisting, protecting, pushing back, guarding, defending, preventing, and stopping. But we could – just as easily – allow, receive, and accept that this moment and … Continue reading You Have the Power to Heal from Within
Hello spiritual warrior! Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we explore the concept of resisting nothing. Peaches the Buddha Princess teaches that if you resist nothing you will receive unconditional love. What that really means in our real lives today is that if we just show up, put our very best … Continue reading Resist Nothing and You’ll Receive Unconditional Love
Welcome Spiritual Warrior!!! Five chapters, and 150 pages later… I’m excited to announce that the second edition of my award-winning book Secrets of Meditation is launching in March. But the best part? You can pre-order your copy on Amazon today and get it before everyone else!!! In 2012, I wrote Secrets of Meditation as an invitation for … Continue reading All NEW Secrets of Meditation is now available!!!
Artwork by Kari Anapol www.bloominglotusstudio.com Mantra: Sankalpa samma vaca We live in a crucial time of identifying needs & consciously sharing them. Not so easy when we reflect on all the ama – the toxic residue – we leave out there throughout the day… in emails, texts, phone calls, and innocent conversations. The Buddha taught 2600 … Continue reading Cultivating Right Speech Weekend Meditation
Hello, Spiritual Warrior! Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we explore present moment awareness & mindful performance. Around the 5th century, the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita was written. Chapter 2; verse 48 says, “yogastha kuru karmani,” which means establish yourself in the present moment, and then perform action. Right … Continue reading How Present Moment Awareness Can Increase Your Mindful Performance
Photo by Nancy MacLeod Mantra: Om Yum Ritam To find your heart, or anahata, chakra simply place your hand on your heart. That’s where your loving energy radiates from. This is your center of compassion. This is where your ability to be peace, love unconditionally, trust in the divine, and, most important, to forgive reside. … Continue reading Healing Your Heart (Anahata) Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we explore the idea that there really is something called good stress… and it’s called eustress. In my video, you probably heard me mention something called eustress. As I briefly described, good stress is the thrill that we experience when we feel excited but not … Continue reading There Really is Good Stress… and It’s Called Eustress
Happy weekend, spiritual warrior! Join me this weekend in getting lighter. This week we’ve been exploring several scientific studies that I outline in my book “destressifying.” You can watch my most recent video on the subject here. Researchers have shown that a regular meditation practice actually changes the physical structure of our brains by shrinking that … Continue reading Getting Lighter Weekend Meditation
