I’m glad to be in 2017, meditating, dancing, creating, establishing, loving, laughing, eating, exercising, giving, and growing into 2018.
I feel blessed to have an opportunity to resolve yet again that I’m going to do something to make my life and the lives of others better. I choose to use the energy of this season to recognize the infinite power in me to demonstrate the awesome presence, wisdom and grace of love.
This is my dance: one of absolute good, expressing itself as the most loving person I can be. In this infinite light of love, I resolve to be worry-free, debt-free, guilt-free, shame-free, blame-free, doubt-free – living a life of moments rather than mere days, but moments that are mindful about breathing in nothing but the pure power of possibility. Like Joseph in the ancient, sacred text (Genesis 50:20), I like that even what somebody else intends for evil, God simply blesses me with, without ceasing. I, like Jesus Christ, can call it all good (John 7:24): the appearances bless me, bless us, restore us.
Here and now, I am liberated to love the power of Spirit like nothing else: to love it morning, noon and night and in that well-spring of love to be the best that I am called to be. I am liberated from any requirement as to what form or shape my “best” will take. The blessing is in the divine idea of simply being.
How liberating it is to walk into the New Year unencumbered by mistakes or regret. How great it is to know that the truth that sets us free is being one with now. The truth is that we are one with absolute good right now – good that is always expressing in, as and through us. The truth is that the pure consciousness of God radiates through every cell of our body, awareness of our mind and expansion of our soul. The truth is that God really does do the work that we are appointed to do. The truth is that Spirit opens new doors, creates new circumstances, and gives us what we need before we even ask. In this consciousness of grace, we can release needing, wanting or desiring and instead accept the infinite blessings that the universe is breathing through each one of us.
I resolve to forgive myself for everything I started to do but didn’t, wanted to do but forgot, or did do but failed to appreciate. If I can’t do it, I won’t. If I must do it, I’ll try. If I don’t do it – well, there’s always next time. The good thing about forgiveness is that we can do it right now, and it’s done. I release all obligations, all debts and all concerns of myself and others. Yes, I forgive seventy times seven, and in the energy of the seven of completion, I let go and move forward to do the greater things that I must do, can do, and will do.
I leap into the awareness that I am free in the fluid stream of absolute good and marvelous in the manifestation that my goals are accomplished the moment that I claim them: the rest of the time is merely the process that I must grow through to accept their completion. Here is to perfect health, wholeness and mindful acceptance of beauty, movement, lifting, energy and grace.
I resolve to love, and this resolution to be the pure power of love everywhere present expresses itself right now. This is a no-brainer: a simple truth that can be used to harmonize any situation. I am love right now, and I love unconditionally. The bible can be summed up in this one resolution: love. As John said, God is love. I allow the loving energy of God to express in, as and through me right now.
I resolve to laugh. We can’t take ourselves too seriously. Otherwise, we will stop the endless flow of God’s good due to our own rigidity. When we take ourselves too seriously, we do not keep our consciousness open to receive the blessings that are always calling us. We place boundaries before blessings. But with laughter, we are blessed to not hold grudges, to wear the world as a lose garment, to refuse to worry about what others think of us.
I resolve to dream. Dreaming of endless possibilities and inexhaustible supply is the gift of being alive. This is another resolution that is not confined by 365 days; we can dream right now and be done with it. Or we can continue to be anointed by the grace of God’s favor dreaming through us. It’s our choice: to be given the gift of dreaming Spirit’s divine call whenever we desire. I resolve to dream as often as I desire, stepping well beyond the conventionality of the box in which I thought I was limited. Spirit gives shape to divine intention through our dreams.
I resolve to give. This is the answer to the question that is always asked: what is my purpose in life? The truth is that I am here to give. When we are consciously aware that we are here to bless, we stop holding back our good and instead give. Give smiles. Give hellos. Give thank yous and you’re welcomes. Give encouragement, handwritten notes, high fives, subway fare, spare change. Give secretly, for nothing in return – not even the right to say, “I gave.” We don’t even have to keep track of when we have to give. Giving feels so good that the universe will provide so many opportunities that we don’t even have to be aware of them.
I resolve to listen. We are all one with the pure consciousness of God speaking everywhere present. We just haven’t taken the time to listen. Listening hears the whole being of God emanating as us. We listen every day to www.mindfulnessgroup.blog. We listen to the eternal breath of Spirit move through us as the completion of all good. This resolution can be accomplished right now, in a single breath. Breathing in, I listen. Breathing out, I hear. Listening has no agenda: we just are.
I resolve to create. The truth is the “I” that creates is the “I AM” of God energizing, igniting and enjoying life in endless shapes, forms and dimensions. No need to worry about the old ideas; the universe is filled with new ones. By resolving to create, we open our consciousness to allow Spirit to co-create through us. No need to judge our creations. Creativity is bigger than us. Whether we witness it or not, God’s good is always using us to bless others. In the power of this resolution, we allow ourselves – here and now – to be the conduit of change and transformation.
I resolve to heal. This resolution only requires the acceptance of grace. In grace, we are whole. In grace, we are lifted from our mats of affliction and realize that there is no sickness, illness, frailty or infirmity in the kingdom of God. Right here and now, we accomplish the wholeness of Spirit and know that we are well. We can look in the mirror of Christ consciousness and see ourselves as we really are.
I resolve to grow. The humility of not knowing is a constant blessing. I study the truth that sets me free. The teachers that I need reveal themselves to me. The books that I must read fall from wisdom’s shelves and open without prodding. My eyes fall on the perfect words. The students who bless me with guidance appear. The journeys that I must take provide new paths. The questions that I must raise ask themselves. The epiphany of realization always blesses us.
I resolve to harvest. We take advantage of so much that we have not worked for. This is the season – right where we are – to reap what we have not sown. We are enjoying so much for little that we take it for granted. This season, I will open my eyes and experience each blessing: the beautiful apples, the smell of butternut squash soup, the rising of the sun, the solitude of the darkness, the tapestry of autumn leaves, the sound of waves at the shore. Every day of the year, we can celebrate the harvest of the kingdom in whatever form or shape it takes.
I resolve to praise. In fact, I praise and give thanks right now. I give praise and thanks for health of mind, body and soul. I give praise and thanks for my family – my marital, biological, spiritual, and work family and friends. I give praise and thanks for the daily manna that God gives me to take care of every need. I give praise and thanks for this country and this world and for the ability to keep everyone in the universe raised in perfect success.
I resolve to enjoy. This is not going to be a month where I look back with regret or criticism because I enjoyed life a little too much. I saved a little less, spent a bit more or just chilled out. I resolve here and now that I will enjoy life – every tree, every manger, every carol, every taste of pleasure created for our benefit. This, too, will I resolve to do each month and at every opportunity. I will visit, celebrate, cook, dance, sing, swim, hike, run, drive, write, draw, paint, participate, preach, lift, work, walk, shop, and play by enjoying life.
In 2015, I declared that no-fault resolutions can’t go wrong because we are relieved from the responsibility of doing any more than what we will. This re-mix recognizes that nothing is required except to lift up the awareness of Spirit moving through our lives each and every moment except to be still, and know. In this awareness: I resolve to be one with each moment, and I let go of everyone and everything.
In letting go, I welcome each moment as a new me.
Happy New You!!!
This audio tape is the studied chapter from the book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, by Joe Dispenza, which you can purchase on Amazon. We are also excerpting the music of Peter Kater and R. Carlos Nakai , “Becoming Human” and Wade Imre Morissette “Still,” which can be purchased on i-Tunes.
“You have all the neurological machinery to transcend time, to make this a skill. What some might call miracles, I describe as cases of individuals working toward changing their state of being, so that their bodies and minds are no longer merely a record of their past but become active partners, taking steps to a new and better future.”
“Transcending the Big Three: Peak Experiences and Ordinary Altered States of Consciousness At this point, you understand that the main obstacle to breaking the habit of being yourself is thinking and feeling equal to your environment, your body, and time. . . .”
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The call to spiritual transformation is the call to freedom.
Malidoma Patrice Some teaches us that “ancestors have an intimate and absolutely vital connection with the world of the living. They are always available to guide, to teach, and to nurture. They represent one of the pathways between the knowledge of this world and the next. . . . [T]hey embody the guidelines for . . .all that is most valuable about life.” (Of Water and Spirit (Putnam: New York, 1994) at p. 9)
If I am still, I can hear them distinctly – not downtrodden as they were in the physical world, but holy and divine. Their call is one of deliverance. It is a call heard in the midnight hour, in the rustling of the leaves, in the sip of the living water: a call to Spirit and to Truth.
God is big indeed–a power too awesome and all- encompassing to even conceptualize. God fills our hearts; embraces our bodies, blesses our souls, lights the sky above our heads, strengthens the earth under our feet. God is the sun and the stars and the moon.
God moved Sojourner Truth to sojourn for Truth in a manner that would liberate not only herself but other captured Africans. She remains a master teacher of the principle that God is much larger than any beliefs or concepts we might have – larger even than existence as we know it. Her life and the lives of other Africans in this country are a critical example, rarely acknowledged, of how the recognition of God pushes us far beyond even our greatest expectations.
This audio tape is the studied chapter from the book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, by Joe Dispenza, which you can purchase on Amazon. We are also excerpting the music of Peter Kater and R. Carlos Nakai , “Call to Enchantment” and “Honoring,” which can be purchased on i-Tunes.
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This audio tape is an excerpt from the studied chapter “OVERCOMING YOUR ENVIRONMENT
Last night, I was watching Will Smith’s movie Collateral Beauty, about a man who loses his only child, a daughter who was only six years old, and the pain that he grows through in order to return to himself. The movie raises the question what is “collateral beauty”? We always talk about collateral damage, the negative secondary or by-product of an accident, catastrophe or tragedy that brings additional pain, hurt, injury, and suffering. But we never talk about collateral “beauty,” which is, to me, the ability to see the glass half-full instead of half-empty, the ability to see the presence of God, even in the midst of messiness, turmoil and strife.
The movie Collateral Beauty focuses on three attributes, which in many respects reflect mind, body and soul: death, time and love.
The collateral beauty of our challenges is that they allow us to re-start, to re-invent, to re-create, to re-establish who we are – to get rid of the old so that the new can emerge. In John 8:51, Jesus says “Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.” Nothing and no one can destroy the pure presence of Spirit expressing as us. So we get up from our mats and walk. We rise like a phoenix from the ashes. In three days, we find our temples restored.
It doesn’t matter what or who we are confronted with in the world, nothing or no one is too great for God. Even what others mean for evil, God means for good. As the scripture teaches us, the battle is not ours, it is God’s. No weapon formed against us shall prosper.
The collateral beauty of disaster or difficulty is that we can experience the fullness of the perfect divine order of life, realizing that despite appearances, we are in our right space at our right time.
Collateral beauty is more difficult to see because we are distracted from seeing the good everywhere present, the birth of Spirit all around us, the widow’s oil that keeps pouring, the baskets of fish and bread left over. The Psalmist says (27:4) “One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.”
So even when we are blinded by the events and transgressions of the world, through their impact, we are given a new vision: one that allows us to see God in every word, every breath, every event, and every circumstance.
Or I can step out into the sunlight of a new day, a day that I have never seen before. I can release the baggage of yesterday. I can climb a new mountain and cross the waters of new faith, realizing that this, too, shall pass, but more importantly, that this – whatever this is, is the blessing of collateral beauty: a small crack in the universe, where I can see God.
Where do I start, some might ask.
The Chief of Fire Operations would say throw away your script and your PowerPoint and just let them see the spirit of who you are and listen to why change is important: how even the most conservative of us, the most hopeful of us, the most amazing of us, the most loving of us are all agents of change.
The courage of change stands at the edge of redemption, the fear of falling, the blackness of fire, the lost of hope, the roof of abandon and catches you just before you go over the edge of the abyss and holds you there beyond politics, beyond bigotry, beyond religion, and sees you as neither mind nor body but soul and r
The wall of blame, the wall of distance, the wall of hatred, the wall of envy, the wall of false pride, the wall of lies, the wall of resistance, the wall of fear has got to come down, so we can really see that we are one, despite our differences.
God is a Brown Girl Too 