To be mindful is to be fully conscious of what you do in every moment. To be mindful is to be aware of all thoughts, decisions, and actions. To be mindful is to grasp the energy of life and use it to your advantage. Thoughts may intrude. Feelings may well up and hurt be experienced, ambivalence set in. Counter such intrusions with simple breathing.

Empty the mind and let calmness take over. Acquiesce to what is in the moment and let it carry you to the next moment. If you let the self know there is nothing to worry about the self will accept this premise. If you allow the self to be patient rather than impulsive, things will be revealed that you were missing. If you restrain from action and wait for the perfect moment your life will progress in alignment with nature.

The perfect moment will only arrive when you are ready, in a mindfully aware state of emptiness, readiness, and calmness. Prepare for this moment. Breathe and breathe and breathe. Empty the mind. Fill the heart. Wait.

[We are experiencing a computer malfunction so until that is repaired our postings will be limited to the daily Soulbytes. Hopefully by the middle of next week we will be back with our regular blogging schedule and Messages from Jeanne. In the meantime, here is today’s message of inspiration from infinity!]

Rote living offers little room for play and inspiration. Like a hamster running on a wheel, life becomes meaningless and boring. To run along a path of heart, however, changes everything.

Stepping off the wheel of discontent, confinement, and rigidity, one is offered the opportunity to experience something new. Some people decide to step off the wheel, others fall off, but eventually all must leave the wheel behind and accept a new adventure. Will you make the choice or have it made for you? In a simple decision to step off the wheel of routine and run along a path of heart instead, everything changes.

As you continue your everyday journey pay attention to how you take care of yourself. Are you attentive to your body? Is your mind clear? Do you make concessions and excuses rather than concerted efforts to set limits? Do you exercise, sleep, and eat right?

Life in your world requires attention to the body as well as the spirit. Things easily go out of balance. Establish some rules for yourself that are healthy, restrictive only in good ways. Without denying the needs of the body take care of it even as you take care of your spirit. Protect it, love it, take it forward into new life with you, fully caring and attentive to it. Without your body in good condition your spirit will suffer.

Make beneficial adjustments each day that are nurturing and supportive of the magical journey you are on. Ask your spirit for help. It will not fail you, but how it answers will have to be understood as it may not speak in words.

Good fortune does not come to those who sit and wait but only to those who actively seek it. To be a seeker is to meet life head on, to take up the warrior’s sword and live the warrior’s life. With intent set, a warrior knows that it is not the goal but the journey that counts and that good fortune lies in every step taken and every day lived.

Good fortune meets warrior spirit so that life becomes a wheel of fortune, a fully explored adventure. Without holding back the warrior knows that to have a good life requires the fortune of intent. Taking the warrior’s path means proceeding with intent of fortune in every step, encounter, and experience. Lead a life of goodness, happiness, and untold fortune by setting the intent to do so. It’s all a matter of mind, or better said, mindset; i.e., change your thoughts. Create and cultivate the mindset of good fortune and then go out and meet it coming to meet you. This is how to change your life and your fortune too!

Stay committed to your magical path of heart. Notice when things are not going as you expect, when you feel limited, stuck, or simply stopped in your tracks. Why do these things happen and what do they mean? Are you trying too hard, trying to manipulate something that is just not right for you? Are you on the wrong track?

Sometimes the more magical path leads in a completely new direction. Sometimes the more magical path is to admit that you have been forcing something that your spirit is not in alliance with, to call a truce and adjust.

To take the magical path of heart is to acquiesce to that which is just not working right and turn instead in a new direction. This might mean abandoning the fight, unscathed for the most part, and moving in a new naturally aligned direction of pure heart.