FOUR GOLDEN KEYS WE USED TO CREATE OUR NEW LIFE OF SIMPLE LIVING FREEDOM
It takes time, effort and wisdom to make the positive changes necessary to create the great new life we want, need and deserve.
THE DAWNING LIGHT, Volume 8, #696 Sunday, January 7, 2024
SPIRITUAL SOUP KITCHEN Section # 107 Stories by Chinmayan of the challenges and rewards of living your spiritual path in daily life.
All images in this story courtesy of Pixabay Top: “Sunrise over the Earth and the swirling Milky Way”
Now Is Always The Best Time To Make Positive Changes
Today we are consciously taking time to give ourselves a morning of ease and serenity.
Our lives are so much happier and fulfilling when we live wisely, without hurry, stress and strain.
We are learning how to simply flow in the moment in alignment with what is truly for our highest good.
It is like learning how to ride a bike as a young child…On the way to mastering keeping the bike upright and staying on its seat as we pedal down the road, we keep losing our balance and taking some falls on the way to getting it right every time.
It takes time and conscious effort to make positive changes after so many years of pushing and hurrying and stress and straining. But its both necessary and rewarding because we understand deeply why we must make the changes that are improving life at every level in the ways that we truly need.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
Embracing Time Freedom And Focusing On The Important Things First
We are embracing the time freedom we have already achieved through following the inner guidance and consciously choosing to simplify.
We are very focused on work when we have projects, but working on jobs for others is no longer the principal focus.
Finding our way, tuning into the Divine, living completely in the present, doing our sadhanas (spiritual practices), delighting in a higher and higher quality of life is now our priority, rather than being busy all the time.
Living at ease while seeking clear, calm, peaceful loving mind is now the “polestar” of our days.
By placing this first, then all choices are made in its light and the life we really want naturally falls into place.
In all the years before we woke up to knowing we had to make drastic changes to create a simpler life focused on the important things, it was like living in a black and white movie that was always out of focus…Finally, we are living a new life of full color that is in clear and three dimensional focus.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
Letting Go Of Obligations and Anything and Everything Disempowering
We have let go of obligations—those feelings that we must do this or that with our time, energy and attention…When all along we have a higher responsibility to pursue the highest good of and for ourselves.
Only through letting go of anything and everything which disempowers us and uses up our precious energies at our expense, can we heal and rise up to being able to truly be of service to ourselves and others in the right time and right way.
If we violate our own selves through dissipating activities and relationships, as we did for many years in the mistaken belief that it was necessary, then our life energies are drained and our consciousness lowered for no real benefit to anyone.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
Learning To Live More Wisely, Staying Balanced While Healing and Enjoying Ourselves
Now we are learning to live much more wisely and consciously, so that we stay in balance, have our real needs be met, heal from the hurts and strains of the past, and actually enjoy ourselves in this sweet flow of days. We are gradually rising up through the stages of realizing and expressing our true selves.
It is an ongoing process, which gets better and better as we refine it.
Life can be so good, so nurturing, so loving when we choose to make the changes we need to make to be living wisely in alignment with the Divine’s higher will for us.
We embrace new protocols and create new habits which support continuing to rise and become ever more wise through living at ease.
It is wonderful to finally have a life of living in harmony with the Divine that is delightful, serene and easy.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
A SPECIAL SONG AND MUSIC VIDEO FOR YOU
From Chinmayan’s Inspirational Playlists
“Jai Durge Jagadambe” (Victory to Divine Mother, Supreme Creative Power of the Universe) by Satyaa and Pari
An absolutely lovely music video of stunningly beautiful photos of our beautiful universe of stars, planets, galaxies and nebulas, using images taken with Hubble and other telescopes…
This sweet heart opening song is easy to sing and chant to. It is one of my favorites by this couple, Satyaa and Pari, who have dedicated their lives to sharing the blissful power of kirtan around the world.
“Jai Durge Jagadambe” by Satyaa and Pari
Photo Credit: Pixabay
Calligraphy by Chinmayan
Image Credit: Still Mountain Meditation Center
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