The Blue Light Within

If you are someone who has been meditating for a while then you may have seen the blue light.

Sometimes when you are meditating a blue light appears. Sometimes it comes in immediately, other times it fades in. It comes in the space right between your eyebrows.

It is the size of a pea.

It can get larger when you focus on it, BUT you can’t focus on it too hard (it’s a paradox of sorts).  If you focus too hard it will slowly close (like an eye shutting, or a door closing). Then, you can not make it come back right away.  Not even if you try really hard.  It usually doesn’t appear by sheer will.  It’s like the wind.  It’s there, then it’s gone.

It has occurred to me that the blue light is some sort of portal (opening)  to the light that is within. It’s a light that is within everyone and it is so beautiful.

When the blue light comes you know that it is always shining.  Most times it seems to be covered by some sort of film.  You know it’s shining really brightly although it is behind a covering.

Sunrise over Charlotte Douglas International Airport

The sun coming up and then going behind the clouds.

That’s what that blue light is like. It’s there. It’s always there, but you can’t always see it. Our body, our thoughts, and our emotions, are like the clouds. If we can clear away all of that (the focus on the body, the thoughts, and the emotions), then we will see the light. 

You can live knowing there is light within. You can let your “little light shine”. It’s there. You can call the blue light anything you want. Valentine’s Day is coming soon…so let’s just call it LOVE.

This week just live your life knowing (even if you’ve never seen it) that there is a beautiful and vibrant yet calming energy of light that lives deep inside of you.

Let go of worrying about the future.

Let go of regretting the past.

Let go of getting lost in your thoughts and emotions.

 Let Peace In.

Let The “Wonders” Of Everyday Life In.

Let Love In.

Just Quit & Be Still

 

“Spirituality begins where religion ends.”

~ Shri Ram Chandra~

Don’t most religions tell you to look within?

• Do you understand your internal world?
• Can you meditate?
• Can you just be still?

Can you be still and quiet for 15 minutes at one time? 

Try it now. 

Try it tomorrow. 

Just try it.

The first time you try it, it might be downright painful. Your mind will be jumping from one thing to another.  That ‘s the monkey mind.  Don’t worry, it can be stilled.  You can train your mind to be still.  And here’s what you will find…You will  find that quiet place inside of yourself where there is nothing but peace, love and oneness with everything, everyone and a higher being or universal consciousness.

BE STILL

Can you be still?

Can you find a quiet place to go?

Can you stand the thoughts that run across your mind?

Can you let those thoughts go?

Can you just watch those thoughts float by?

Can you resist the urge to move or to get up?

Can you hear that still small voice within?

Can you just be still?

Can you Just Quit acting religious and go on your spiritual journey?

Look within, and you will find the God that you seek.

Can You Just Be Still?

~ By Ridea Richardson

Just Quit Thinking You Have All The Answers - Keep Asking Questions

  “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”
~Raymond Lindquist~

Is whatever you are doing, thinking, wondering, or questioning about spiritual matters getting you closer to knowing about a  Higher Being or Universal Consciousness ? 

Do you know this Being or Consciousness?  Do you have a close connection with this Being or Consciousness?

Are you sure?

Is it a personal connection or is it something else?  Can you describe it or is it undescribable?

Isn’t it okay to wonder, ponder, question these things?  Who say’s that it’s not okay?

Isn’t it mostly those who’s livelihood depend on you NOT questioning these things? 

Remember this is your life, and no matter what any one says, or how many degrees they have, or how great they sound in the pulpit, or how quilty they make you feel for questioning things —  you are going to die alone. 

Why can’t or shouldn’t you ask questions, so you can seek and find the answers.

The answer is in the questioning. If you don’t ask a question you won’t get an answer – — so ask good guestions.

Gratitude and Letting Go

There is a correlation between being grateful and letting go.
When you are grateful you see what is good. 
When you are grateful you see what is great.
When you are grateful you see the best in others.
When you are grateful you re-focus your energy.
When you are grateful you are okay with the present.
When you are grateful you honor the past and the things of the past.
When you are grateful your future looks brighter.

By being grateful you can see the “good” in the “bad”.

(Honestly there doesn’t seem to be good or bad, just gratefulness for what is.)

By being grateful you can see loss, as not loss, but as growth and change.
By being grateful change is a way of life and not something to dread.
By being grateful  you look forward to the next day.
By being grateful you forget about your problems, because problems aren’t the focus.
By being grateful things that you need to “let go” of start to fall away or go away.
Gratitude allows you to let go of things, people, circumstances, thoughts, feelings, ect. that don’t serve your greater good.
Gratitude is one of the tools for learning to let go.

What Are You Grateful For Today?

The Source is in the Circle

There is no need to go through life alone.

There is no need to feel dependency on another to make you happy.

There is no need to have to “feel” happiness to be happy.

There is a Source that you can tap into at any time

This Source is ever-present  and you are never really alone.

You are not abandoned by another because you ARE already complete within yourself.

Because of this awareness and understanding, relationships with others just brings you further understanding of this Source.  That’s the only purpose. It’s a wonderful interplay with you and the Source.

So you ask how do you tap into the Source while in a physical body and “worrying” about problems in that body?

The Source is found in the circle: the spiral, the orbital, infinity

Start by moving a part of your physical body in a circular or figure eight fashion…

your head

your neck

your shoulders

your back

your arms

your hands

your hips

your feet

whatever body part feels natural and good to you

Try it

There is something about moving your physical body in a circular motion.

You’re  now moving like the planets – they tap into this source.

BUT…don’t try to tap in it…don’t force it…don’t wonder if you’re doing something right or wrong. (Trust me…that will just make you dizzy because you’ll probably move too fast and mechanical or not according to your own flow.)

Just remember that the source is already there, you just have to know that, sense it and feel it…and…don’t worry about what The Source is…don’t get hung on that.  Call it whatever you want, whatever makes sense to you.  Don’t let “naming it” stump you from tapping into this finer energy. Who cares what you call it?  Call it God, Call it Universal Mind, Call it the Source, Call it whatever resonates with you. (As I was typing this I asked “it” what “it” wanted me to call “it” and what came to me was “The Source”…never thought to call it that before but that resonated with me)

The Source is too big to really truly comprehend intellectually

It’s the Source of Everything  – Knowledge, Information, Answers, Questions, People. Relationships..EVERYTHING…

The Source wants to do big things if you allow it to work through you…it wants to touch you and wants to shine through you and help others through you…

Even if you don’t believe —  it doesn’t mean it’s not there — right there for you, for me, for us — it’s like the glue that holds everything together.

How will you know when you’ve tapped into The Source?

You will have an understanding you won’t even understand

You’ll want to leap

You’ll want to shout

You’ll want to sing

You’ll want to cry

You know it is real — finally — you know it is real and you’ve tapped into some mystery you can not really explain

You now see people and loved ones (many who have gone on) as ministers of The  Source to help teach you…

• Maybe they were so powerful in their own spiritual evolution and understanding of the mystery of life that their minds had to be clouded and shrouded by a disease of the mind.  Otherwise the light from the Source would have shone too brightly for others to understand. Even through the disease of the mind a wisdom and “knowingness” came shining forth to touch others who crossed their paths.
• Maybe they needed to suffer in this life for others to be touched by their kindness and compassion.   It was a plan to teach others how be there for the lest of those, those who suffer, to teach how to see suffering, to teach how to grow, to teach how to survive even when suffering.
• Maybe they needed to help others that could not give them anything in return.  Maybe to show others what true love does.  That love is not about what you can get, not about you being “happy”, but about giving to others and making others happy.
• Maybe they were creative and industrious.  Maybe they had their own business.  Maybe they had 1000 ideas but because of time and circumstance not every plan came together.  Maybe it was to show others that creative energy is alive and well and to pursue dreams and passions.

The Source Lives

Those who have gone on (somewhere beyond this earthly journey) they too live.  How could they not? I mean contemplate that for a second…how could they not?  Even if they don’t live in the flesh here they live in your heart, mind and memory. So just as you can not see them physically anymore –  this Source, Spirit, God, Universal Mind, also lives….all you have to do is tap into it…when you do none of those petty “worries” that you have will matter anymore…you have everything within you that you need…you always have and you always will…

The Source Is In The Circle

 

 

Mistakes - No, Maybe They're Just Lessons

Are There Really Any Mistakes?

Can you do something that seems right, but it turns out “wrong”? How do you really know if WHAT you’re doing is WHAT you SHOULD be doing? How do you really know if what you SAID is what you SHOULD have SAID? How do you really know?

Seems Like We Are on the Hunt for Some Missing Piece

Seems like we’re always searching for something

Something  – even – when – we – feel – we – have – everything

Looking for it in other people, in places, and in things.  

It’s like something we once had, but lost somewhere along the way.

It’s like we’ll know it when we find it.

So we keep searching..even when we have people,

go places, have money and things…

Seems like something is STILL missing

Still Searching…Still Seeking…Still Looking…Still Empty

Look at Other People Today

Look into their eyes

You’ll realize that you are not alone

~They are ~

Searching Too.

Seeking Too.

Feeling Empty Too.

(even if most are “acting” like they’ve found it…look closely in their eyes and you’ll see the truth…)

It’s in the frantic searching,

seeking and emptiness that we feel we made “mistakes”

We find and stay too long in relationships with the “wrong” people

We seek and get the “wrong” stuff

&

We S-T-I-L-L Feel Empty Inside

Are These Mistakes or Lessons?

If we look at everything as Lessons on the Journey of the Seeking and Looking for What’s Missing,

Then, are there really any mistakes?

If you take everything as a lesson, as growth, as getting closer to fulfilling that empty space…

how is anything that happens in your life a mistake?

~Ridea Richardson

Just Be - Just Be Here - NOW

 

Be aware of the beauty that surrounds you.

Be grateful for the opportunity to experience it all.

There is nothing to do.

There is nowhere to go.

Just be…here…NOW…

ENJOY the below music and images and let go of all your “busyness”…and JUST BE…for eight minutes.

Can you do that?

Go ahead, give it a try.