Miraculous Honor: The World Changes When We Change

This was a meditation from Deepak Chopra. Real honour is seeking the peaceful path. What people say is a reflection of them not the other. No-one can insult another’s honour, honour is dignity that is in peace no matter the outer circumstance. Often people are critical or angry because they have issues within that have not been faced. To thyself be true.

“The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.” — Marianne Williamson

When we meditate on a regular basis, we develop what is known as “witnessing awareness” — the ability to calmly and objectively observe a situation, acknowledge when we are being triggered, and consciously choose how we want to respond. Instead of feeling stuck in knee-jerk reactions and conditioned patterns of behavior, we free ourselves to make choices that will help us fulfill our deepest desires for love, fulfillment, and happiness.

In today’s meditation we will deepen our experience of witnessing awareness as we practice staying present with our emotions. So often there is a tendency to judge certain feelings as “negative” or “wrong.” We may resist feeling these emotions but this only increases our pain. Every emotion has a valuable message for us, and as we allow ourselves to feel and hold each emotion in loving awareness, our relationship with our self and with everyone in our lives will become more authentic and whole.

Here is some wise advice from Deepak:

• Are you a prisoner of the past or a pioneer to the future?
• Become an Observer
• When facing criticism mindfully select our best step
• Pause take a deep breath and explore
• Notice the feeling and thoughts below the reactive response
• Reframe reactions as important trail markers indicating there is more to see at this point
• Below surface there is hurt, shame, self doubt, sadness or trauma. This is a part of us calling out for loving attention
• Release the need to assign blame, open to what is with presence, honesty and compassion
• Love is the most powerful healing force
• Equip with awareness to surrender feelings to the healing power of love
• Learn to let go
• Intention to live in peace
• Love opens and bubbles over
• Here we experience the miracle of joy, harmony in all of our relationships
• Meditation (I release and my heart is at peace)

Mindful Moment

Today set the intention to consult your heart before you act on any emotion. Your heart is a reliable guide that helps you experience empathy, compassion, and love. The heart is the seat of emotional intelligence, and it allows you to get in touch with your true self. It nurtures all of your relationships by reminding you to see yourself in the other. See through the eye of your heart and you open the doorway to manifesting the life and relationships you most desire.

Mohandas Gandhi

“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”

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