Author: ratnadyer

When you can let go of the need to understand intellectually, being and listening from the heart becomes more available.

Here there is serenity naturally.

The most powerful tool to manage and reduce anxiety, and all emotions, is your breath.

The quality of your breathing reflects your stress level.

Take a moment (or five/ten/twenty moments) a day to simply pay attention to your breathing.

At first just notice it how your breath is without trying to change it. Keep your attention with it until you notice it shift a little. Then invite it to go deeper down.

I also like to imagine I am breathing in through a hole in my lower belly and out through my nose.

Belly breathing anchors you in the now and into your body. From here emotions can settle and our mind’s pace can be seen and slowed.

Be in the beauty; inside and out.

We can never have enough if we aren’t appreciating what we have.

When we are always looking to the next thing, we miss the enjoyment we seek.

Remember the point in the first place.

Find a healthy balance between being and becoming, resting and expansion.

There are many words that try to capture a way of saying who we in essence are:
consciousness, awareness, love, loving awareness, being, light, spirit, soul, buddha nature, source energy, heart, wairua, inner self, eternal subject, knowingness, and many many more of many different languages.

Even when our physical bodies pass away, the truth and light of our being, our wairua remains.

Nothing can remove consciousness.

On the 10th of March I will be hosting a conversation titled: ‘A Conversation on Spirituality’ for the La Fiesta Festival here in Whanganui @lafiestanz

In an open minded way we will be exploring the question: What is Spirituality?

On pondering the question myself this week, this is the answer that came to me: ‘Spirituality is consciousness playing with consciousness, being drawn to come home to the knowing of itself.’

What might your words for what spirituality is be?

It will be an exciting time to share and discover ourselves together within the context of this evening of conversation.

All welcome.
You can also visit http://www.lafiestanz.com for further information.

And thank goodness they break, as in their breaking we have the opportunity to find the freedom of who we really are.

You are more than any of your circumstances.

When someone doesn’t do something that is also a course of action. Consciously or unconsciously.

We often focus on the things we can see and point to, as easy targets on which to place blame. Where as the absence of something isn’t always so easy to hold up to scrutiny.

Neglect/isolation is also a form of abuse.

Conscious non-action can sometimes be the wisest path.

The things we don’t do and don’t say are as much saying something about us as the things we do.

Thoughts are things. They have no power in and of themselves unless we give them power by believing them.

We cannot control all the thoughts that come into our mind, but we can choose not to engage with them. And we can actively replace them with more supportive and helpful thoughts.

Don’t believe what you think without checking it out first!!.. Is it really true?

Sometimes in a moment of not thinking we can realise we are so utterly at home within the sweetness of our inner being.

Silence is not just about the absence of external noise, more importantly it is the lessening of the noise of our mind and emotions.

Within inner silence we open to the vastness of awareness and connectedness.

There is only one silence. Inner or outer they are one. And yet with the recognition of it, it is as if they then merge and blend, and the seperate silence of ‘me’ dissolves like honey in lemon. And who I am swirls in the ether all around. Infused in and as life itself.

Each of us needs to take responsibility to be and become the best of ourselves.

This is the way we can best serve humanity.

When we are truely our best self, our natural good qualities blossom and contribute to all.

May we learn to release whatever is getting in our way.