Author: ratnadyer

May we find gratitude for all that we have, enjoy ourselves and appreciate each other this Christmas.

May grace fill your Christmas.

Before you start to meditate, life is already meditating.
The silence is already there underneath. You’re already breathing. It’s simply a matter of where we place our attention. Placing our attention on that which is always and already resting in being.

The big ute, the flash yacht, the nice house, the immaculate lawn…. why do we tend to attach to these things as an extension of our sense of self?

Sure it’s nice to enjoy expressing ourself and to appreciate nice things, however nothing changes on the inside. No matter how flash our stuff is, if you need it to feel worthy and important it will never be enough.

No thing is going to give you peace, contentment and self love other than coming into knowing your truth, warts and all, fears and all, flaws and limitations and all. Human after all.

In the end isn’t that part of what makes us loveable?

Feelings change all the time. We cannot gage our personal growth progress based on something that is like the weather.

But what we can look at is our relationship to our emotions; how honest we are about them with ourselves, how much we judge or suppress them or how allowing and compassionate we are with them.

Coming into a loving, responsible and accepting way of relating with our feelings is an indication of our true growth. Not some idea based on a happy ending.

We think of trying to figure out the truth and understand what it consists of.

However truth is not something we can grasp through the intellect.
It is more that we can recognise it in the experience of simple beingness, life energy, presence.

There is no need to think in order to know you exist. Truth is there before ideas and concepts.

We think we are the ones breathing, but it is stillness breathing, breathing in us.

How do we know the difference between our true heart’s desire and our ego’s never ending wants and needs?

Often our true heart’s desire is more aligned with developing a deeper and longer term inner growth than a short term feel good.

Our heart holds a calling for coming home to ourselves. A calling that outweighs all difficulties we will have to move through along the way.

Life often doesn’t give us what we expect and what we want. We need to learn to see that our attempt to gain happiness and satisfaction from getting life going right (and our relationships being how we want them and having all our problems sorted etc) is unreliable.

Our heart wants to rest in its own knowing. Not chase after some ever moving carrot.

If you’re not getting what you want, perhaps your heart has the opportunity here to open more and to hold you as nothing else ever can.

Our body is constantly holding and experiencing our emotions. Whether we are aware of it or not.

Learning to listen to our body sensations and come more into an embodied way of being enables more inner peace, relaxation and a deepening of connectedness.

Inner body awareness develops self awareness.

It brings a better knowing around how we are really feeling, what we need and how to care for ourselves.

When we are anchored in our body we sense we are stable enough to feel fully and deeply and yet not be overcome.

Learning to listen, you can notice your breathing. How your body moves with your breath. You can feel the clothing on your skin, your feet touching the ground.
Become aware of any tension. You might notice a tightness across the chest or a gripping in the stomach.
Do you clench your jaw?
Are your shoulders lifted?
Is your breath shallow?
Do you frown across your forehead or squint your eyes?

Even in the noticing the letting go and healing can start to occur.

Nothing is outside of infinity.

And as the Divine/source energy/God/consciousness/pure awareness/Spirit/life/reality/the universe (or whatever name you want to give) is infinite, then by definition nothing can be excluded.

You are no less of a spiritual being when you feel angry or sad or anxious. It is more that suffering comes when something in our thinking simply loses sight of the truth of connectedness within what we really are.

Divinity in form.

There is silence at the centre of your being. Untouched, present, serene.