Friday, July 31, 2009

riding the waves

I just finished jury duty- hooray- and I realized how important it is in life to ride the waves that life throws you instead of being bowled over by them. It can be easy and tempting just to let the waves plow you over. While on jury duty, my best buddy and roommate moved out of my house and I was working with clients. I felt a bit overwhelmed at times and it was hard to find my center. I kept praying for clarity and groundedness and, amazingly, it really helped. I sometimes forget how truly powerful prayer is.

So, if you are in the midst of multiple large waves of life that are crashing in on you, here is a good prayer to help you to ride the wave instead of getting tossed by them. "Dear God, Help me to feel and experience and know the presense of the divine in everything that I do. Help me to feel centered in the midst of everything that is going on in my life. I ask for a deep state of groundedness to enter into my life and fill me with a sense of peace and security. I am grateful for all the lessons that I'm learning and I open to fluidly learn these lessons and to deepen my understanding of life. Thank you God, Amen."

Good luck with your waves!
Peace, Liz

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Inspirations


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From my upcoming CD- Bliss: Bliss Prayer
Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, I ask that we surrender to a state of pure divine bliss. As we surrender to divine bliss, we open to a state of love beyond measure, abundance beyond measure, peace beyond measure. We enter into an open space that feels and experiences and knows divinity. Anything that stands in our way of fully experiencing bliss easily and gently heals and transforms into light. Our minds empty of everything except love, our hearts are filled with joy, our bodies are filled with balance and health. The energy of the divine is activated in every cell of our beings and we feel filled with the divine and embraced by the divine at the same time. This is bliss, we are bliss. Bliss is always present and we are always able to access it if we affirm it and surrender to it. We open our hearts in gratitude, and so it is, amen.


Divine Place
I am sitting here at jury duty writing this blog… Embracing this process has been a little bit challenging for me. As I was driving here this morning I recognized that I was feeling a deep sense of peace. When I tuned into that feeling of peace, I recognized that there is a divine purpose and a divine plan for me to be here. What a relief to have this realization, and of course this is true of all aspects of our lives. When we are challenged in life and we drop our minds out of the equation and let ourselves just “be” for a moment, we can find a sense of peace. Peace of purpose. A prayer to help find this feeling would be, “Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, I open to feel, experience, and know peace in this situation in my life. I open to recognize divine purpose, even if my mind doesn’t know what that purpose is. I open my heart in gratitude for the lessons and the teaching in this and all situations in my life, and so it is, Amen.”


Ocean Oneness
I am headed to Hawaii to celebrate my mom’s 70th birthday and I am looking forward to being surrounded by the ocean and being in the midst of the pure, raw energy of creation that volcanic islands have. There is something humbling when you are able to witness the earth in action. It makes me feel small, and yet so much a part of all that is. So, in honor of the ocean, I wanted to do a guided meditation around finding oneness with all that is and with the peace that comes from the experience of oneness.

“Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, I am deeply grateful for this earth and for all the living beings on this planet. I open and surrender to the experience of oneness with all that is divine on this planet and in this vast universe and I recognize myself as perfectly in tune with the water, the land, the plants, the animals, and all the other beings on this planet. I am in complete harmony with the oneness of all that is. As I experience that oneness, I feel completely at peace and as I experience deep peace, that peace fills this planet. A vast ocean of love fills my heart and fills the planet. For the moment, there is stillness and I experience everything within me and around me as divine. Thank you God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, and so it is, Amen.”
Have a great couple of weeks, and I will send Hawaii energy to you all, Blessings, Liz


Guided Meditation~ Opening to Joy
Here is a guided meditation from my CD “Finding your Joy” that will help you to fully embrace, at a cellular level, pure joy.

Take a deep breath into your heart and into every cell of your being, breathing into the energy of pure, divine joy. As we breathe into the energy of joy, we affirm “I am pure, divine joy. Every cell of my being recognizes joy, and every cell of my being opens to a state of joy. Even when my mind cannot fully understand or comprehend how to achieve joy in my life, I can still activate that joy in every cell of my being. I am pure divine joy.

“I ask for divine assistance to help me to open at a cellular level to joy, assisting me in releasing anything and everything that stands in my way of living a life of joy. In this moment, I activate joy and live it in my life so that I may BE joy, so that I may share joy, so that I may receive joy in my life. I ask for the healing around joy in my life to be as easy and gentle as it possibly can be.
“I also recognize that whatever I need to heal that stands in my way of joy may be challenging, but I am ready for the journey. I ask for divine support in being ready and willing to heal anything that stands in my way of fully saying yes to joy. I ask for divine assistance so that I can in this moment say yes to joy. Yes, I live a life of joy. Yes, I allow healing to happen so that I can live a life of joy. Yes, I will bring joy into my life. Yes, I will share that joy with the world around me. Yes, I will open to receive joy from the world around me. I truly am joy, and I open my heart to know that joy and to live from it.

“I honor this space, I honor this presence of light that is always within me to experience and know. I honor the presence of light that always surrounds me, the energy of divinity itself, which is a part of every step that I take. I can always surrender to that divine light so that I can receive assistance from the divinity around me and the divinity within me. I am joy. I am pure, divine joy.”

Take a deep breath into your heart, into every cell of your being, breathing into the energy of joy itself letting it wash over you and bathe you in beautiful light. I honor this space and I thank you all for truly opening your hearts to joy in your lives. Do this meditation often and you will find your life opening up to a state of bliss. Many blessings, thank you.


Finding the Silver Lining
Sometimes we look at different aspects of who we are as “bad”. “I’m sensitive and that’s bad”, I’m shy and that’s bad”, and so on… We look at our attributes as weaknesses and we beat ourselve up for those weaknesses over and over. What if we could look at the silver lining and turn our weaknesses into our strengths? Sensitivity is usually within people so that they can have empathy and compassion for the people around them. Shyness can be a willingness to let others around you shine. There is always a silver lining within personality traits that might at first glance be a weakness. The more we embrace who we are, the more our weaknesses can turn into strengths in our minds. Bring a personality trait that you have that is challenging for you to embrace into your mind and do this simple prayer. “Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, I ask for assistance in seeing the positive in this personality trait. I open to release self judgement and to embrace and love all aspects of who I am. And so it is, Amen.”

Getting Along
I got to be an extra this week on a Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant movie and it pointed out such interesting human dynamics that I wanted to write about it. I met some awesome people and I also met some people who felt challenging to me. It is amazing to me with all of the different people in the world that we can find a way to come to a place of inner peace and balance and unconditional love. When we interact with all kinds of clashing personalities, how do we do it?! There’s a form of chaos that we encounter internally when we come into contact with people who approach life so differently and it can feel like we have entered into a tornado, so how do we find the eye of the storm?

We have to remember our inner strength and also remember that we are all different. Our differences don’t have to feel opposing as long as we embrace them. Sometimes they are hard to embrace when they are thrown in our face over and over again, though. Breathing helps. :) If we can talk ourselves through the fact that people aren’t thrown in front of us to torture us, they are thrown there to help us learn compassion and patience. If we can remember that people are not there to personally affront us, they just might see life differently and if we open up our minds we might learn something from someone who might initially drive us nuts. We might not agree with them in the long run, but we might learn something. Some people won’t let up and then we just need to learn to love them from a distance and take our space from them. Why stay in a place of constant resistance?

A prayer would be, “I open to find a state of peace wherever I am, knowing that it is all divine. I open to embrace the differences in the world around me instead of fighting those differences so that I can find the eye of the storm and enjoy each moment of life more fully. I ask for divine help and assistance every step of the way so that I can know balance and compassion and peace. And so it is, Amen.”

(By the way, Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker are both even more awesome in person as they are on screen. Very generous and kind from what I saw-and Hugh Grant is very cute… Sarah Jessica Parker is too, I’m just partial to the boys. :) It was fun to be a part of the movie. For those of you in New Mexico who are jealous and would like to be an extra sometime, I highly recommend http://www.filmsavage.com, a great company to work for.)

Peace in the midst of Change
There is a great energy in the air of change. We all might be feeling like we are moving at the speed of light or that the world around us is moving at the speed of light. This is an important time to ground ourselves in the divine so that we can find peace in the midst of change. Daily, sit for a couple of minutes, take a deep breath and ask for the Divine to be with you. “Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, flow through me and cleanse and clear me with light. Help me feel grounded and centered in my divine light and my divine purpose.” Take a few more deep breaths and then move on with your day. You will feel lighter and more centered for the shifts and changes that are going on around you. Love and Light, Liz


Hello world!Today, I would like to just offer some inspiration. Wherever you are in your life is perfect and divine. Whatever you might be doing to fight the moment, stop, take a deep breath and affirm, “it is all divine.” This will help life to continue to unfold. It will help you to learn the lessons you are meant to learn in the moment and it will help you to open to an even better life than you have now. If you are fighting the lesson that is happening in your life right now because you don’t like what it looks like, you are prolonging whatever you are trying to move through. An affirmation would be: “I surrender to this moment in my life so that I may see the lessons that I’m meant to learn. I ask for divine assistance and healing with all of my lessons so that I may open to an even greater life than I am living in this moment. I let go of resistance and I am willing to heal and grow and expand in my life. Amen”

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