You’re allowed to say no, even if it doesn’t feel comfortable or others don’t like it.
If you feel no, but don’t express it something inside will likely struggle to be wholeheartedly engaging.
If you respect and allow your no, then your whole heart can then have the ability to choose yes.
A yes based in freedom, is what grows loving connection with others and deepens our inner connection with ourself.
Everything we do in the end will help us find our centre.
Sometimes this takes a long road, sometimes a lot of suffering, sometimes simply a moment of seeing.
The more we learn how it feels to be in our centre, the more quickly we can sense when we’re losing balance, and make the adjustments needed.
With practice, we can ride and simply enjoy the feeling and the scenery.
Don’t think about who you are, feel and sense your own beingness.
All thoughts and past/future stories are additional and layered on top of your already brilliantly existing self.
You were born empty of concepts, and your true, essential Self always remains untouched by passing ideas of identity.
Learn to be present.
Learn to feel your I Am presence.
This is the core of truth.
This is the doorway to freedom.
Be inspired by role models and teachers in your life.
We all need guidance along the way. As we don’t know what we don’t know.
Learn from your teachers and know it’s possible to walk the way they do, but don’t think that means your path will be the same, or that you should have the same experiences or do the same things they do.
You have to walk your path. Only you. And your path is found by walking.
And when I start to sing,
my heart lifts with everything.
Nothing is wasted if we listen.
Every part of our journey is valuable.
All our ‘mistakes’ help us refine our choices.
You are sacred, special, worthy of love and peace.
You are the temple of your being. Treat yourself as sacred space.
Learn to become aware of signs that indicate you’ve become defensive.
Perhaps your voice changes.
Perhaps your body tenses.
Maybe you get angry or emotional.
Maybe you start pointing at the other person.
Or your heart rate increases.
When you get defensive, understand that there is usually something that the other person has touched on, that was already there in you and that you’re judging yourself for.
If we’re not judging ourselves for something, then someone else’s words will not trigger any need to defend anything.
Our being and the knowing of our beingness is present whether we attach any thoughts to it or not.
Stillness is being, alive with an alert, engaged presence. It is the most powerful practice you can do.
When did you last allow yourself to absolutely nothing?
Just to sit.
In stillness.
Connecting with yourself and life itself.
RATNA DYER 