Anyone can travel the path towards enlightenment. It can be as easy as a decision. Enlightenment is not something that is reserved to a special few or to the extraordinarily intelligent and wise. We are all powerful beings, gifted with countless opportunities and the ability to make countless choices. Why not choose to practice stillness and transcend our spirits to higher levels of consciousness? Life in modern day society can be pretty chaotic and hectic yet within all of that hustle and bustle rests the still and present YOU, quietly observing it’s Ego Self that may be caught in lower levels of consciousness than your actual Real Self. You may not achieve enlightenment in an instant (although I’ve heard it’s possible) but you can lift your spirit up a few levels when you choose to be still and notice.

The levels of consciousness are sometimes referred to as (and in the order as follows); shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, pride, courage, neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reason, love, joy, peace, and enlightenment.

Where is your consciousness resting in this very moment? And, where would you like it to be? Where are you choosing to go from here?

Are you the most vibrant, creative and fulfilled YOU imaginable?

If so, more POWER to YOU! You got it, and you’ve apparently got the whole point of not even trying to GET IT! Whatever IT may be! If you’re not quite there yet… by all means, read on…

Vibrancy, creativity and fulfillment cannot be ‘found’ outside of you. There is nothing in this world that can make you feel any of those feelings, no praise, no glory, no money and no power can give you complete fulfillment. But, creativity can…

Creativity is the expression of your soul. It is through creative being and doing that we feel connected to Greatness and we connect with a higher sense of Being. So, how do we know if we’re being creative? Creativity is not something we can exactly plan, seek or capture. Creativity is something that simply happens yet only when we allow it to happen. It is the state you’re in when you feel like you’re in “the flow” or “in the zone” and whatever you’re being and doing is somehow being created from your soul’s core. Everyday “rules” seize to exist, there is no absolute right or wrong when it comes to creativity, there simply IS. You’re at the essence of your being, creating what you came here to create, giving your gift to the world, even if it’s only to yourself or to one other being. When we’re being creative, we feel vibrant and alive and we are nourished by a source greater than anything found in the physical world, giving us a tremendous sense of fulfillment. When we’re in ‘the zone’ of creativity time tends to become abstract, and we forget about our worries and may even ‘forget’ thirst and hunger altogether. We are simply BE-ing.

We’re all created in the image of the Creator, meaning we’re created to create! Whatever your creative outlet may be; dancing, reading, researching, learning, teaching, nurturing, painting, singing, acting, writing, composing, designing, assembling, building and so on, this is the essence of you, and what you’re here to do, but most importantly here to BE.

When we connect with our inborn creativity everything makes sense, even when it doesn’t. We’re connected to something greater than ourselves. We’re on purpose; we’re expressing and sharing our true selves. The greatest gift we can give to ourselves is time devoted to being creative, and let whatever wants to come out – come out!

So are you connected with your most vibrant, creative and fulfilled self? Is it time to make room for more CREATIVITY in YOUR life?

When you have an open, loving and thankful heart life is nothing short of perfect! Nothing really ticks you off that much and whatever occurs in your life you can handle because you know how to reconnect with love and recreate harmony and balance.

How open, loving and thankful are you in your heart?

Here are some questions for you to answer for yourself:

How open am I towards other people’s uniqueness and their differences from me and what I know?
• I am very open
• I am somewhat open
• I am a little open
• I am somewhat closed
• I am very closed.

How judgmental am I of other people?
• Very judgmental
• Somewhat judgmental
• A little judgmental
• Somewhat non-judgmental
• Very non-judgmental

How genuinely loving and affectionate am I towards other people?
• Very loving
• Quite loving
• A little loving
• Quite un-loving
• Very un-loving

How thankful am I for the people in my life and how expressive am I of gratitude towards them?
• I am very thankful / grateful
• I am quite thankful / grateful
• I am sometimes thankful / grateful
• I am quite unthankful / ungrateful
• I am very unthankful / ungrateful

The truth is that whenever you feel you are out of balance in your relationships with other people it is time for you to do something about YOU!

Our issues with other people have less to do with them than they have to do with ourselves. Are you lovingly asking for what you want and coming from a place of love in doing so? Do you feel that receiving other people’s love is based on fulfilling their conditions? Are you yourself being conditional in your expressions of love towards others?

How do you suppose you are really, truly coming across? How are you conveying your message and your point of view? What do your actions say? What are your words saying? Do your words come out clearly in your actions? What are your facial expressions conveying? How are you really communicating with other people?

What we give is usually very close to what we get! Which means that we have to start “owning the message” we give out to the world.

If we give a little love, we may get a little love, if we show a little acceptance, we may get a little acceptance, if we demonstrate a little gratitude, we may get a little gratitude, and so on an so forth. The same goes for not giving any of these things, if we do not give any, we can’t be upset about not getting any. Yet, our whole motive cannot be about giving it “only” so we can “get” it! That’s not being unconditionally loving and it won’t trick anyone for long.

Have you noticed how everybody loves being around people who know how to be unconditionally loving, and how those same loving people also seem to know how to respect and love themselves. Being an unconditionally loving person means we love without conditions, we are not expecting anything just because we are giving our love, but even so it still does NOT mean that we give our power away and take whatever we get and accept it!

Being unconditionally loving means we are willing to take the journey inwards and get real with where we are coming from and we are not focusing on receiving immediate results from the outside. We choose to stand by ourselves in knowing that our hearts will guide us and we rest assured in knowing we deserve to live life to the fullest and we deserve to truly love and be loved.

So if what we give is what we get, it makes sense for us to genuinely ask ourselves the following questions:

“What am I giving?”, “What am I REALLY giving?”, “What am I creating?”, “What am I putting out there?”, “How am I making a difference in other people’s lives?”, “Do I have a positive effect on the people I love?” “Am I open, loving and thankful as a human being?”

Whoever comes from an open, loving and thankful heart has a positive effect on other people even when they are not intentionally trying to do so. An open, loving and thankful person receives back what they put out, both from other people and from the Universe. Loving people are loved.

Our Creator designed us to be open, loving and thankful. It is our true nature and how we are intended to be. Jesus preached love and forgiveness. We all know this yet we sometimes find ourselves moving far, far away from exactly what it is we want most in our lives and are craving so desperately in our hearts and in our spirits.

You are here to love and be loved! You would not want to deny yourself of that experience, and you can quite easily have just this, yet only the first part is within your control. So how can YOU be an even more loving person?

You can start by getting real with what it is that you are REALLY putting out there.

You can ask yourself; “How can I express more acceptance, understanding, love, affection, gratitude and forgiveness to other people?”, “How can I be more godly in my thoughts, actions and in my being?”

If you are not feeling as loved as you would want to feel and not being as expressive of love as you would like to be, then you can change the little glitch in the system… you can elevate your spirit and reprogram the mind-computer:) and create balance and harmony in your life.

As a reprogramming exercise you can repeat to yourself, over and over again, until it becomes “ingrained” in your mind as a natural way of being, day after day until you truly feel it in your heart and in your soul;

I am open, loving and thankful
I am open, loving and thankful
I am open, loving and thankful
I am open, loving and thankful
I am open, loving and thankful…

If you want it – you have to give it!
If you give it – you will get it!

Procrastination… the non-action of needlessly postponing or delaying the action of DOING something important.

We all procrastinate at some point in our lives and procrastinating does not mean that were aren’t doing ’something’! In fact, we may choose to do everything BUT the things that are most important for us to do. We check our emails, messages, the game score, the news, Facebook, Twitter, latest blog postings and so on and delay things that come disguised as “WORK”.

Modern day society is filled with splendid opportunities for distractions and tools for not doing what we are actually aiming towards in our lives. How many creative creations are resting in your ’someday’ box?

Here are some great quotes on Procrastination, may they inspire you to fully enjoy your brief moment of relaxation or ignite you to get ON IT! Whatever your IT may be…

1. “Procrastination isn’t the problem. It’s the solution. It’s the universe’s way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast. ”
- Ellen DeGeneres

2. “Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.” – Christopher Parker

3. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today.” – Wayne Dyer

4. “Procrastination is the thief of time.” – Edward Young

5. “Who says nothing is impossible. I’ve been doing nothing for years.” -Unknown

6. “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” -Jerome K. Jerome

7. “Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.” – Mignon McLaughlin

8. “There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.” – Joe Ryan

9. “If it weren’t for the last minute, I wouldn’t get anything done.” – Unknown

10. “Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!” – Donald Gardner

11. “Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.” – Mignon McLaughlin

12. “Even if you’re on the right track – you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Arthur Godfrey

13. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” – Olin Miller

14. “How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.” – Fred Brooks

15. “I’m going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!” – Sam Levenson

16. “It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

17. “One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.” – Vincent T. Foss

18. “Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.” – Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby

19. “Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will – tomorrow!” – Gloria Pitzer

20. “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Unknown

21. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Sally Berger

22. “Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” – Spanish Proverb

23. “You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.” – Unknown

24. “The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.” – Unknown

25. “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today” – Chesterfield, Lord

26. “How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.” – Martin Luther

If you have any favorite quotes on Procrastination feel free to add them here below…

“Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy” -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Every thought vibrates, every thought radiates a signal, and every thought attracts a matching signal back. We call that process the Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction says: That which is like unto itself is drawn. And so, you might see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it that all thoughts that match one another line up.”

From Ask and It is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” – Buddha

“Law of attraction says that all your thoughts, all images in your mind, and all the feelings connected to your thoughts will later manifest as your reality. In other words; everything you have in your life – now – has been attracted to you thru your mind.”

From Global Oneness http://www.experiencefestival.com/law_of_attraction

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” -Albert Einstein

“We are not onlookers peering into the unified field of separate, objective reality – we are the unified field. We can reach beyond the physical body and extend the influence of intelligence. Every thought you are thinking creates a wave in the unified field. It ripples through all the layers of intellect, mind, senses, and matter, spreading out in wider and wider circles. You are like a light radiating not photons but consciousness. As they radiate, your thoughts have an effect on everything. Your relationship to life is the same as that of one cell to your whole body. One cell can talk to your whole body. One cell can influence your whole body. You can talk to the whole of life – influence the whole of life. The whole of life is as alive as we are. The distinction between ‘in here’ and ‘out there’ is a false one – as if the heart disregarded the skin because it was not on the inside.” -Deepak Chopra

“You are a creator; you create with your every thought.You often create by default, for you are getting what you are giving your attention to wanted or unwanted but you know by how it feels if what you are getting (creating) is what you are wanting or if it is not what you are wanting. (Where is your attention focused?)” -Abraham Hicks

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ]]> http://mylifedesignstudio.com/2010/spirit/quotes/an-old-favorite/feed/ 0 http://mylifedesignstudio.com/2010/designing-me/positive-thinking/think-happy-thoughts/ http://mylifedesignstudio.com/2010/designing-me/positive-thinking/think-happy-thoughts/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:56:06 +0000 Maja http://mylifedesignstudio.com/?p=137

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

Buddha

This is a very relaxing video…