Allow for some quiet today. Experience the self in alignment with all else, with nature, with animals, with other people. Speak less, do less; just sit. And don’t forget to breathe, for the breath is your aligning mechanism. It brings you into synch not only with all that you are but with all else too. It is what you all share. It makes you no more or less than anyone else, but it is also your most powerful asset. Use it wisely.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
What do you really need in order to get where you are going? All beings are going, ultimately, in the same direction, though some refuse to acknowledge this. The real truth is that life is meant for you to evolve. Choose to do that. Choose evolution in everything you do. Choose to take your journey through this lifetime with awareness and openness, tuned in rather than tuned out. You will be glad you did!
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
It matters what we think, for we draw to us what we think. Even thoughts left unspoken yet still swirling in the mind attract. Ideas we have about ourselves manifest as we continue to repeat them and believe them.
Anything we focus on with intention, both good and bad, whether we are conscious of doing so or not, affects us. Sometimes our negative thoughts rule us to the point where we have no other sense of self except these negative ideas. And such negativity has very negative vibes attached to it.
Thoughts matter. You can prove this very simply. Think of something bad that happened or something that makes you sad. Notice how you feel. Now think of a good thing, something pleasant, a happy place to be. Notice how you feel.
We can consciously monitor our thoughts, by constantly bringing our attention back to our thoughts and asking: What am I thinking about right now? Is it a good thought or a bad thought? How does it make me feel? Does it bring me positive energy vibrations or negative energy vibrations?
If we decide we want to change something about ourselves, the first place to start might be in changing what’s going on in our heads. We can be sure that what we think finds a way in and affects us in some way, often in ways we are not even aware of. And a lot of thoughts just aren’t good ones!
A Meditation
A simple 2 to 5 minutes of quiet and focused breathing, with intention to change your thoughts and your energy too, might just begin the biggest change of your life. It’s very simple.
Focus on the heart center and breathe into your heart the following words, saying them softly or silently to yourself: “Goodness, kindness, compassion and love in.” Exhale through your heart center the words: “Goodness, kindness, compassion, and love out.”
Take another breath into your heart center and say the words: “I am breathing into myself goodness, kindness, compassion, and love.” Let the power of good words and good thoughts fill you. Ask them to remain present in you, even as you exhale.
As you breathe out through the heart center, say the words: “I am breathing out into the world goodness, kindness, compassion, and love.”
Then breathe in again, saying to yourself: “I am filling myself with goodness, kindness, compassion, and love.” Breathe out into the world with the words: “I am filling you with goodness, kindness, compassion, and love.”
The Mantra:
Goodness, kindness, compassion and love in.
Goodness, kindness, compassion, and love out.
I am breathing into myself goodness, kindness, compassion, and love.
I am breathing out into the world goodness, kindness, compassion, and love.
I am filling myself with goodness, kindness, compassion, and love.
I am filling you with goodness, kindness, compassion, and love.
A simple breath and a simple mantra, for a few minutes at a time, is a powerful way to change our thoughts and to also reap the rewards of positive thinking as well as the generosity of sharing our goodness, kindness, compassion, and love with the rest of the world.
We are all capable of doing this. No one is more or less equipped. Let your heart show you that this is true. You might even notice, as you breathe in and out through your heart center, that your head is pretty calm and quiet. And that’s really the message I wish to pass along today: Focus more on the heart, leave the head alone.
Breathing and sending good vibrations to everyone,
Jan
Note: I am shifting, pulling away, after today’s blog, from writing every week. In the meantime, a new collaboration between me and Jeanne, the Soul Sisters as I have been calling us, is in the works, to be revealed in the coming weeks!
The placement of attention on what truly matters is a fine practice to institute but also to bring the self into alignment with a life of meaning and purpose. Not everything matters. Find out what does, especially to you personally, and then find your way to making it not just matter-of-fact, but truly important. If it really is something that matters, the universe will find its own way to support you. That is alignment.
– From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
A good life is measured not by what you have accumulated but by what you have done. Concentrating less on what you want for yourself and more on what you can do for others may be a first move out of the hole you have dug yourself into.
Shifting eyes away from the self and out onto the world may just be the thing to start you on a new and healthy journey of purpose and meaning. Because sometimes self-reflection leads to new inner discoveries of value and sometimes it leads only to self-pity.
Sometimes a shift away from the self is a catalyst to truly knowing the self in a new way. By learning how to truly relate to others on a deeper level you discover your own hidden virtues. And so do others. And that’s valuable!
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne