Celestial Innovations: December 2011

Monday 26 December 2011

Wisdom

Be in gratitude for the wisdom that you do have as you are in gratitude for the wisdom each experience brings. ~ ACN

Wisdom! Something we all wish to have. And yes! Each of us is filled with the wisdom that our lives bring us. We often think that we are not wise especially when we flounder and have difficulty in achieving our goals. Yet let us ponder on this for a few minutes.

If we were to experience a life of no problems, having only positive experiences, a life of plain sailing and easy going experiences, what would we learn? Through adversity come lessons that teach us all sorts of things. Some of them are small little things and others are monumental. Yet through each collective experience we create our own wisdom.

But what exactly is wisdom? The dictionary defines wisdoms as being the ability to make sensible decisions and judgments based on personal knowledge and experience.

It stands to reason therefore that with each experience we have we create our own wisdom and can draw from it using it in future experiences as the need arises. Certainly, we can learn and utilize the wisdom of others, assessing their experiences or world experiences to live our lives. People such as Rumi, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and the like are great inspirations to many of us so as too are Christ, Buddha or the Dali Lama. We constantly draw from their wisdom, taking what they say into our daily lives. Yet we still remain in judgment of our own inner wisdom, often overlooking it as figments of our own imagination, having little or no confidence in our own ability. We either believe that we do not possess it or we question its authenticity.

Whether the experience that you live is a good or difficult one, take a moment to assess what you have learned from it. Sit in silence and really think about what you have experienced, what your life was before the experience and what it is now that you have successfully completed it. What have you learned from it, how you have grown from it, how it affected those in your circle and how you reacted to it? Write this down in a wisdom journal. This will allow you to acknowledge that the experience has brought you wisdom. It is often only when we see it written down that we are able to acknowledge and accept that we have acquired wisdom. The next time you have a similar experience you are able then to refer back to your wisdom journal or retrieve it from your inner being and will surely be in a position to draw it to the fore allowing you to either circumvent the experience or gain even more knowledge and wisdom from it. Either way, using your collective wisdom in a new experience will certainly support you in making better, smarter and wiser decisions to bring you to a fruitful outcome.

Collation of our wisdom starts from a very tender age. Take a child for example, who is inquisitive and who may be learning to walk. As he or she talks each step forward, perhaps toddling forward at a rapid pace, not looking where he or she is going, and may trip up a small step and as a result may endure some form of pain, will certainly remember this the next time they cross the same place. Their collective wisdom will allow them the memory of the pain and they will ensure to carefully mount the stair as they move across the same space. The brain is a wonderful organ and will store the experience, the outcome, the associated feelings etc. It is in reality the wisdom journal. Only as adults do we allow our baggage to cloud what we have learned and block the retrieval of it when we need it again.

Honor yourself today and acknowledge that you are a being of great wisdom. Know that your wisdom lies deep within you, not just from this lifetime but from those of other incarnations. Remember always, that through the act of meditation you are able to tap into it and can therefore use it to best enhance your life and live it to the fullest.

Always be in gratitude for that which you have and are. Always be in gratitude for the experience that led you to gain wisdom for without it you would not have achieved the wisdom that has grown from and through it.

I am in thanks and gratitude for the wisdom that I have gained throughout my life time/s.

In love and light,

Amanda

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Saturday 10 December 2011

BE Peace Within

To see the beauty within, to see the compassion within, to see love within, is to be at one with oneself and to be peace. ACN

Wow! How awesome a place is that to be in? To be in beauty, compassion, love and peace within your being!

When we are children, we find no difficulty in being in this state. We may not know this on a conscious level, but we do actually, before we learn about resistance and experience all the knocks that life brings us, live in this state. In that little body, the bodies we are born into, we are fully able to experience beauty, compassion, love and peace within our beings. We unconsciously remember from the time before our current incarnation exactly what this is and so we incarnate with this intact. In fact, we know exactly how to BE in the moment.

As life happens to us, bringing us to a place where we are positioned to learn what we incarnated to learn, we very soon lose the ability to see beauty, compassion, love and peace within our beings. Most of us choose to hold on to the pain of each experience, blocking our ability to see this within ourselves, and as a result, we lose the ability to see it in others. With the blocking of each of these, we become embittered and often filled with negative emotions that may soon become a habit. How incredibly sad that is.

Yet, despite this, we find that we hunt out love from others, seeking what we are unable to seek within ourselves. Now, some of us find this love from others and are brought to a point by them, where we eventually see it within ourselves. It is prudent to remember that this often does not happen to all of us. Sadly most of us have to journey the road of introspection and self discovery in order to achieve this state of being. This may well be the ultimate on the road to self -discovery. There is little that can compare in the wholeness of finding self compassion and love, the discovery and acceptance that you are indeed a beautiful soul within the body that you have chosen.

As an exercise to develop the recognition it is suggested that you do the following:

· Ask your friends and family to describe how they see you as a person. This should not include the physical but rather you, the being, the inner, your personality, your soul. Listen intently as they describe you even though you may not believe it. Make notes of what they say. In a quiet time, read through what they have told you, what you have discovered whilst doing your survey. You will, I am very sure, be surprised by how you are seen through the eyes of others.

· Each day, stand naked in front of a full length mirror and really look at yourself. Start with your physical self and “find” something to like about yourself. After you have done this, move to your “inner”, your being, your soul. This exercise make takes days, months or years to reach a state of love of self. Please do not discontinue this exercise until you have reached that beautiful state of “being” where you see the beauty within yourself. Be in gratitude always for the beautiful soul that you are.

Doing these exercises is not about exercising your ego. This is about building your self-worth, your self-esteem and finding that awesome state of self-love. Please don’t listen to the naysayers who may judge and criticize you for doing these exercises. There are those amongst you that may well do this, yet most will tell you how delighted they are to see you work on growing your being.

The result of finding inner beauty, compassion, love and peace is ultimate. Once we have achieved this state of being, we find that we are able to see this within others. The absolute acceptance of this state of being in others, without judgment, without any form of criticism, is the ability to be Divine Love for others.

May you be greatly blessed as you journey your road to discovery of self compassion, love and beauty.