THE FOUR GOLDEN KEYS WE ARE USING TO CREATE A STRESS FREE LIFE OF SIMPLE LIVING, JOY and 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, #961 Friday, May 24th, 2024
SPIRITUAL SOUP KITCHEN Section # 166 Stories by Chinmayan of the challenges and rewards of living your spiritual path in daily life.
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Top: “Sunrise over the Earth and the swirling Milky Way”
THE FOUR GOLDEN KEYS WE ARE USING TO CREATE A STREE FREE LIFE OF SIMPLE LIVING, JOY and FREEDOM
Now Is Always The Best Time To Make Positive Changes…
We waited for too long before we started making the changes and taking the steps that are creating a much better, happier and more centered life. We have learned to not put off making changes once we see something we can do to improve our lives…and the beautiful thing is that the more we initiate positive changes the more we see what else we need to do to improve even more.
FIRST GOLDEN KEY: We are consciously giving up hurry, stress and strain
Our lives are so much happier and fulfilling when we live wisely, without hurry, stress and strain.
We now are consciously taking time to start each day by giving ourselves magical mornings of ease and serenity.
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.
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SECOND GOLDEN KEY: We are 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.
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THIRD GOLDEN KEY: We Are 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.
Now we are very discriminating and careful about how we use our precious time and are much more able and willing to say “NO THANKS!”
This one golden key alone has protected us from doing things we don’t want or need to do…which has added tremendously to our time freedom, by not going on tangents.
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FOURTH GOLDEN KEY: We are Learning How To Live More Wisely, Staying Balanced While Focusing On Our 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.
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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 MATA” by Satya and Pari
Calligraphy by Chinmayan
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