Just Quit Living on "E"

Living on Empty

Running on Empty

When you are accustomed to living on empty in your relationships, in your personal life, in your work life, financially, and in your head —  it’s hard to really come to terms when abundance starts to happen.

What abundance may look like  (it’s different for each of us) – you meet someone who is perfect for you, you get the job offer you’ve always wanted, and money starts to come from unexpected places.

 Then what happens?

You start to question it.

Is this person the right person?  Is this the right job?  Will I blow investing this money?   Will I screw this up?  Will this all turn to dust?  When is the rug going to be pulled from under me?  This can’t be happening to me? On and on goes your mind…the mind that’s use to Running on Empty.

You’ve  HOPED things were going to change.

You’ve  WANTED things to change.

Then things start changing and you wonder if you can trust it.

You’ve been Living on Empty for so long  (some people for all of their lives) this is what you think is normal.

Get Ready for a “New” Normal

When you stop being afraid of letting go of what is, who and what may NOT be for you – things that keep you off-balance –  then the UNIVERSE starts to work FOR YOU.  Things that ARE for you start coming to you — EFFORTLESSLY!

It is hard to accept this, if you’re not use to it.

It’s NEW.

It doesn’t seem Normal.

All this time you’ve been struggling trying to make this happen, or that happen, then you decide to just stop struggling.  Once you realize that life is not a struggle, the struggle is over , then everything starts to fall into place.

First – You Have To Let Go In Order For Abundance To Come

All of this alignment with abundance only happens when you are okay with letting go of control, letting go of people, letting go of things, of hoping, wishing and praying for what YOU think you want and who YOU think you want.

If it’s a struggle… if it ain’t working out…then it ain’t for you.  Let it go.  Just let it go.  Stop trying to make it work out.  Even though, technically,  things that CAN’T be sustained WILL end, you don’t have to wait for it to die a natural death…that could take YEARS! If it is a “real” struggle (that’s a clue for things to let go of), if it feels like putting a square block in a hole meant for a circle, then you need to start the process of letting it go once you realize that.

Second- Expect Your Mind to Freak You Out

When you let go, expect your mind to go into free fall and freak you out with FEAR about letting go of what or who you have in your life.  You’ll start thinking a bunch of negative thoughts about change, lost, holding on, keeping, at least you have this or that, don’t rock the boat, ect.

You have to let go first in order for things to start to change and for things to get in alignment in YOUR life.

You’ll find that somehow you’ve made it through something that seems like a tunnel.  It’s dark, It’s dank, It’s scary, It’s the unknown, It’s the abyss, and It seems like it will never end.  Then all of a sudden you wake up and you’re on the other side.  You’re through the tunnel.  Things have changed.  Things have worked out.  It’s AMAZING.  But in order to get through that tunnel you have to allow your mind to freak you out.  It will try to scare you into NOT letting go, but just allow it and go through that tunnel.

Third- Accept and Allow Abundance in Your Life

Expect things to improve and when they start to improve, ALLOW them to improve.

Don’t question it.  Don’t wonder if you deserve it.  You do. Why not you? Why can’t you be in a fantastic relationship?  (Someone who compliments you in every way – spiritually, emotionally, socially, financially and sexually). Why can’t your career  and job be one that you enjoy doing? (Something that uses your key talents and skills and that pays well.) Why can’t your business idea work out, be profitable and help the world out? (Even if  all the last 100 ideas you have had didn’t work out over the years — why not this one?). Why can’t you have money in the bank, savings, investments, nice rental property and be able to go and do what you want and need to do that requires money?

All of these abundance-minded things are there for you. (Abundance will mean different things to different people –  maybe abundance to you means living in cave reading books all day…whatever abundance means for you and to you then it’s there for you, but you have to expect it, accept it and allow it into your life)

NOW – Be Grateful

When your tank starts going from Empty to 1/3 of a tank to 1/2 of a  tank, to 3/4 of a tank to a FULL TANK — Just Be Grateful.  Know that you deserve it and that you are FINALLY in the flow of “your life”.

You are FINALLY living without Fear.

You are FINALLY living a FULL and FREE Life.

Just Quit Procrastinating & Talking About It

 

Perhaps you have a lot of great ideas.

Perhaps the idea that you have is the thing that is given for you to do.

If you don’t do it, it will not be brought into the world.

It certainly won’t be brought in to the world the way you would do it.

Someone else could already be doing it, but not like you would.

This is all about a mentality.  The mentality is that you can do this, but you must start.

Will you succeed?  Not if you don’t start.

Will you succeed after you start?

You will not succeed if you don’t see it to fruition and give it your all.

You will only know if you will succeed if you give it a go.

Just start.

 It is not impossible to start…

First you have to Just Quit (not starting!)

Just do something today —

even if it is just writing down your idea (again).

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