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Surrender

2008-03-15T00:58:00.000-07:00

Surrender is one of the most beautiful and divine experiences life offers. The word is often greatly misunderstood, for it is not about "giving up", failing at life or losing anything. It is much more enlightening than you can imagine. Surrender frees you from suffering instantly. Surrender is the gentle release of your ego's constant effort to get someone "better" than here now. It is bowing down to the Divine essence with yourself in this now moment. It is what liberates you from your ego and allows you to instantly manifest the radically joyful life that you deserve and desire. The person who can fully surrender to this moment creates such a profound clarity inside that they can instantly see and feel that they are living in paradise on Earth.

“Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.” ~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba

When you consciously surrender to the Divine within you, you are in essence allowing the Universe to guide you and support every decision you make. If you persist in thinking that you are alone and must strive harder to manifest what you want, you are fighting the Universe and swimming upstream. To be in control of your reality you must first surrender to it. Through surrender you will release all energetic ego roadblocks which were hindering your manifesting abilities. If you cannot surrender it is because the ego is afraid to evolve. It's as if you are pretending to be a spiritual warrior by covering yourself in armor. If you remain covered in armor you will block everything (good and bad) that is coming your way. When you surrender to the Universe you consciously take off your armor (in all your relationships) and drop your shield of defense , giving yourself permission to trust in the Universe. Only in this space are you able to experience the profound state of peace that brings enlightenment. You will find that through relinquishing any controlling energy, protectiveness or defensiveness, the Universe will take your hand and guide you effortlessly towards the life you have desperately been seeking.

“The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.” ~ William Booth

Surrendering to that which is bigger than you is simply about letting go of your ego's belief that it needs to and can control the world around it. How can we possibly believe that we can control something as large as the Universe? We are a part of this massive ocean of conscious energy and would never ever would want to be in control of the entire thing. That would be too much work! It's much easier to find success through surrendering to and through our environment. This causes more courage and confidence down the long run because it is literally impossible to control anybody in this world, let alone try controlling your own mind! =) The most enlightened thing to do is hold sacred the intention to surrender completely to that Divine Love which is which is always beyond the mind/ego. Why fight to remain in illusionary control when you can truly experience more abundance by surrendering to the infinite power within. You can make a commitment today to stop thinking you have to be in control of anything, and consciously allow the Universe to provide what you want on a silver platter.

“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.” ~Julia Cameron

The best news of all is that practicing surrendering to that which is bigger than you (God, Infinite Source, Universe,Spirit...) is VERY easy to do. It merely happens when you relax and let it all go. You can even affirm it to make it more real by saying, "I now let go of controlling this situation and trust that the Universe will show me the way." This can feel ohhhh sooooo good! The pure joy of letting go of needing to be in control of your life is a huge relief. It's like submerging yourself in a hot bubble bath after a long day on your feet. An enormous release of tension occurs the instant you stop pretending to be the general manager of the Universe, and this opens your mind to see and feel the bigger manifestation plan which you previously could not see. This sweet surrender creates the energy/space for the Universe to fill you up with what you were seeking.
Every situation is a spiritual lesson and just what you need to learn from right now and every person in it is a mirror that reflects you and is what you need to learn from and learn about you now. Through surrender, you accespt and those feelings of emptiness caused by constant striving, pushing and trying to attain something better than "here now" become pleasantly filled with divine goodness.The universe knows exactly what is right for you now. The deeper the let go, the more abundance, inner peace and joy will come rushing into your life.

- written by Jafri & Margot
copyright 2008 All rights reserved.

"May all beings be happy
May all beings be peaceful
May all beings be free"- Pamela Mathews

Thank you for allowing me to share............love and blessings ~ Devi

For Enlightened Partners

2008-03-09T07:56:00.000-07:00

1. Write down the purpose and desired results for your partnership.
A partnership without a stated purpose and intended results is like a ship setting sail without a chart or plotted course. The purpose should be stated in a way that lifts the spirit of all partners.

2. Make choices grounded in love rather than fear.
Become aware of your automatic reactions that are based in fear and look for the love choice instead. Ask yourself, what would love do or say in this situation?

3. Mutually agree upon strategies for dealing with predictable breakdowns, such as miscommunications, upsets or disagreements and use them when needed.Have these strategies in place *before* the inevitable breakdowns occur. It is difficult, if not impossible, to create and implement them in the middle of a breakdown.

4. Commit to win/win outcomes; don't settle for anyone being the loser.
For the partnership to win, all partners need to win. If anyone in the partnership loses, the entire partnership loses. Keep asking questions that lead you to the win/win outcome.

5. Communicate honestly from the heart and practice high performance listening.
People respond positively to the expression of heart-felt truth because it builds trust. High performance listening is listening without judgment for the concerns of the other person that may be hidden behind their words.

6. Assume personal responsibility for your emotional reality and refrain from blame.
Blame and projection will pollute the emotional climate of a partnership faster than anything.

7. Take the initiative for the satisfaction of your own needs and wants and make clear requests of others that inspire their cooperation.
Don't wait for people to guess what will make you happy. Nobody likes to endure demands or covert manipulation.

8. Share power rather than struggle for it.
Let go of the need to be right all the time. Value others ideas and perceptions as being as valid as your own. Heal your unresolved power issues from the past.

9. See problems as opportunities.
Every problem contains the gift of spiritual development within it. Learn to unwrap the package.

10. Nurture a conscious relationship with your Soul.The more spiritually attuned you are, the more enlightened you and your partnerships will be.

- by Paul & Lynne

LIFE - acronym for “Love Is For Ever.”
Wishing you joy and bliss in your 2getherness, always!
ENJOY !

Love

Devi

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Kumbaya movie

2008-02-20T07:52:00.000-08:00

Enjoy !

To Your Beauty and Power !

2008-02-18T03:12:00.000-08:00

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Hello ,
It's a wonderfully delicious day in the emirates here. I feel great and just had to share this fab link for all you concsious, hip eco friendly folks . Keep in touch with trends too.

Manifest your beauty and power
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Keep Discovering !

Be still, my beating heart...

2008-02-16T11:11:00.000-08:00

Now that the pink fever of 14th Feb has dissipated a bit i feel inspired to post one on Love and mates through the ages. Much has been said about soulmates - yes the very word sends these delicious, warm chills down . Many of you may shrug shoulders, unmoved,closed to any possibilites of even allowing yourself to entertain any such thoughts.Well, not a problem.We believe in,"Live and Let Live !
:-)

For those of you who have'nt found your love, don't give up on love just yet. Just because Cupid's arrow may have missed its mark, doesn't mean your chance for love has passed you by.
Remember to be love and keep an open heart and then enjoy the miracles.
May you find yourself soon!

With Love.

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Love, Soul Mates, and Opening the Heart - by Carolyn Gregory

be still, my beating heart...

Love is the most mysterious emotion in life, yet it is the most readily recognized. Love seems inaccessible, yet it is the most common of human experiences. People write songs about love, people write poems about love, people analyze it endlessly. Everyone is looking for love, whatever it is, and everyone is looking for their perfect partner, their soul mate. But what does the concept "soul mate" really mean? Does it mean that there is one and only one person for each of us. Let us examine three types of soul mates: the Karmic Soul Mate, the Task Companion, and the Twin Flame.

Most love relationships occur between Karmic Soul Mates, people who have karmic ties, either positive or negative. In one way or another the partners have known each other before, probably many times before. Basically, they have "unfinished business." One or both owes a "karmic debt." Sexual attraction is one of the best ways to induce us to get involved in repayment of karmic debts. Sex is the lure, the bait, that induces us to feel and not to think. As a result, Karmic Soul Mates can have intense, but not always positive relationships. Usually, these relationships tend to be turbulent, even obsessive. We move through them, and sometimes we grow.

A second type of soul mate is the Task Companion, a project-oriented partner. The partners get together in order to accomplish something. The task may be outside the intimacy of the love relationship or it may be that each seeks to help the other. Task Companions have positive karmic ties. When united in a love relationship, they tend to be companions and best friends. Their relationship will be more mellow than that of Karmic Soul Mates. This type of love relationship usually provides a stable, healthy environment for raising children and, indeed, that is often one of the shared tasks. When the task is complete, this couple may feel an emptiness in their relationship.

The third and most sought-after type of soul mate is the Twin Flame (also called the twin or counterpart). Your Twin Flame is the person with whom you most perfectly belong in this lifetime. Your Twin Flame is someone with whom you have strong, extremely positive karmic links. If you are lucky enough to meet your Twin Flame, the pull to unite in an intimate love relationship will be extremely powerful. It may be so powerful that it will transcend social barriers of age, race, or religion. This is the most beautiful, most compelling love of all, but it also can be the most dangerous. Twin Flames can build a relationship so strong, so all-encompassing that it becomes its own entity like a third person and each partner is sacrificed to it.

With all the risks and dangers involved in love, everyone still wants it. Everyone is looking for the perfect love. Why? Love integrates us. All our attention focuses on the love. The result is a deep experience of unity, of wholeness that we long for. Love is a blissful, magical feeling. It is a feeling of being totally absorbed, of being totally focused, of being totally present. The feeling of being totally focused in love is liberating. It frees you from inner conflicts and fears, it frees you from tensions, it frees you from hesitation, it frees you from doubt... at least temporarily.

Therein lies the problem. That overpowering magical feeling, that euphoria, does not last. What most people feel when they believe they are "in love" is attraction. True, that intense attraction gives you a sense of integration, but the integration is illusory. You will feel integrated only as long as the object of the attraction is available to you and under your control. Basically, love that is caused by something or someone outside of you will always be complicated by issues of availability and control. That makes it illusory and temporary, even when the object of the attraction is your Twin Flame. Lasting love, true love is an outward expression of your existing integration within. So, in a love relationship, each must love the other with the intention to develop and reinforce his or her own inner integration. If both partners love this way, then the love between them becomes an ongoing, luminous, spiritual experience.

But if love is so beautiful, why is it also so painful? In a love relationship, two individuals are merging at a very deep level. By the very intense nature of this union, we will experience extremes. We definitely experience extremes of closeness, but we also may experience feelings of distance and pain. In a love relationship, two separate beings are attempting to merge in terms of personality, personal habits, backgrounds, likes and dislikes everything. The challenges of merging are further complicated by the romantic notions with which we are bombarded.

Our culture tells us that we should long for the perfect other, but never defines the perfect other. And we are left to wonder is the perfect other a mirror or a complement? Well, it is not easy to find a clone of yourself. You may find someone similar, but there is only one unique, special you who feels, thinks, needs, and acts exactly as you do. So, is it realistic to expect the significant other in your life, the beloved, to know exactly what you want, exactly when you want it, and exactly how much you want of whatever it is that you want? It is not only unrealistic, it is impossible even for a Twin Flame. Many people, sensing this, seek their opposites to complete them and then find that the differences keep them from merging. This too is an impossible predicament, an unrealistic burden for the concept of love.

Love, real love, begins within you. The love you seek already exists in you, in your spirit. You must find within yourself the sense of integration and wholeness that you are seeking. You must find it at your own center, rather than depend on someone else to provide it for you. No one can bring love to you from the outside.

Now, what if you do not find that love at your own center? What if you insist on finding someone else to make you feel love? What happens when you do find that Twin Flame someone who makes you feel so loved, so loving, that it is beyond anything you have ever experienced? It feels wonderful. Indeed, it is so wonderful that you may come to depend on that love. You may come to need and rely on the love of the other to make you feel whole, to make you feel complete, to make you feel integrated. It is a perfect situation. . .as long as it lasts. And therein lies the problem! When you come to depend on that love to give you those wonderful feelings, you will not want to lose it. You will begin to fear losing that love so much that you may become manipulative and controlling in order to hold onto it. Then the love stops being love and turns into fear; whatever mask it may wear, it is fear.

Does that mean that we should never seek a loving relationship? Not at all! The Masters teach that the only real love is divine love. Consider the Hindu chant: "Om mani padme hum." Hail to the jewel of bliss in the lotus of consciousness. The lotus of consciousness is the body, the temple of our lives. The jewel of bliss is that spark of divine love within each of us. So, a beautiful, intimate love relationship is really only a reflection of that inborn divine love. On the other hand, there is a lot to be said in favor of building a loving relationship. Love can be the means, the key to unlock the jewel of bliss. A loving relationship is how we can learn to open our hearts to divine love, and to find that integration, that wholeness within.

But, and this is the big BUT... How do we do that? How do we function in an intimate, loving relationship without becoming dependent on it? The best way, the only way, is to accept yourself and to accept the person you love. When conflict arises, do not blame the other person, your beloved, and do not blame yourself. Understand that the intimate relationship is invariably designed to teach you everything about yourself. Through the intimacy of a deep love relationship, you will learn things about yourself that nobody else could show you. This is true whether your beloved is a Karmic Soul Mate, a Task Companion, or a Twin Flame.

Your beloved cannot cause you problems or give you solutions. It is all within you, already there, and the presence of another just stimulates it. Each of us must begin to take responsibility for who and what we are. We must accept ourselves exactly as we are in a compassionate, detached manner. No guilt, no self-rejection. See the divinity within yourself and let all the other "stuff" come to the surface without judging yourself for it, without labeling yourself with it. Physical beauty, intelligence, positive and negative personality traits are merely overlays, traps of the ego. They are not the real you.

Similarly, the circumstances and challenges in your life are not the real you. To deal effectively with these external circumstances, we must be detached from them. Observe what is in your life without judging, without being for it or against it. Just let it be. Detach yourself from it and just be with it. The moment you are for it, the effort to hold onto it begins; the moment you are against it, the effort to run away from it begins. And both struggles take you out of the present moment and into the future, into worrying about the future. This divides you within yourself; this divides you against yourself. When you are detached from the "stuff" in your life, you can take responsibility for it. You can act upon it, or you can just let it go. You can even truly enjoy it. You can live undivided—in the present moment.

In a loving relationship, each partner must live undivided in the present moment, not judging, not possessing, not controlling. Each partner must permit and experience joyous, boundless, unconditional love to flow from the heart and embrace the beloved. Then your intimate love relationship reinforces and develops your own inner integration. Then your intimate love relationship becomes a true expression of your own inner integration. And as your partner is doing the same thing, you grow side by side, together. The love between the two of you becomes an ongoing experience, a beautiful experience, a spiritual experience.

Copyright © 1996, by Carolyn Gregory

Joyful gifts await you..... Look Ahead !

2008-01-31T10:23:00.001-08:00

If you are in love with a person's potential, and are not in love with the state of your relationship,then it is time to look at how things are NOW. Forget about what could be "if only".
It is what it is.A relationsip requires equal effort and love both ways.If your partner is causing you misery,and you have given it your bestest. Take a bold step out of the relationship, so that you don't string yourself along anymore. Have no fears, this too will pass until lessons have been learnt.

- B.ROSE

YOU are COMPLETE and DESERVE THE BEST. Change your thoughts about YOU and you will attract the diamond. First, some inner work, realise that YOU ARE THE DIAMOND,only then you will attract likewise. And when you do ....stay awake.

Embrace the sparkles in YOU !
Affirm...... I Love Me

Gateway to the stars

2008-01-21T05:47:00.000-08:00

Sexuality aligns the body into a state of healing and opens a gateway to the stars.Sexual exploration offers exploration of both the the physical and spiritual realm. This is the balance that is needed. We have been kept ignorant about sex on earth, it has been a local event at its best - just feels good . When in fact this is an extraordinary cosmic event.

Whenever you have sex with another person an energy pattern immediately connects you and attracts invisible energies. Sex attracts the very core of your cells and the light encoded filaments become entwined with one another. In a magnet the energies all line up and face in the same way. When you become sexual and do the dance that starts your hormornes, your whole body lines up in one direction.When you and another individual are lined up , you become like the North and South poles . Your bodies become a magnet and this is a heightened state of electromagnetic force as your energies dance to create a sacred balance between you.
As you really get good at this, you dont even have to touch each other. With a glance you can create this web of love between you. It is through this field that your inner bodies rise and go to other worlds.
The healing that wil come as you begin to understand yourr own priorities of life will occur through understanding this vital force. That is called sexuality.

Most humans use their sexuality in a way that degenerates than in a way that regenerates them. It is important to remember that all beings are interlocked, nothing is seperate and that everything is connected to everything else.
You inherit the very blueprint of every person with whom you have sex, so not only do you have your stuff to deal with .......but theirs as well. Make sure you heart bond with your love partner, in this day of accelerated time , energy and karma , you can take everything on from somebody else !
( Just imagine all the dark energies that you could be makng yours if you are selecting not consciously, do you ever wonder why your lifechanges for the better or worse after you have been intimately involved with a person? that is a clue as to what energies you have adopted )
See your bodies as cleansed and blessed and release all sexual energy from previous attachments that still have a hold on your life (Forive and release with love, but release you must to be free and at peace)
You may still be a magnet for their energies even if you have not had contact for 20 years. Now are you wondering why you attract similar energies all the time?

When you are disengaging from a process you need to invest energy in this process, in the same way that you invested energy to come together. When two bodies have sexual contact - even if for a one night stand, you take on a merging of each others auric field. These are strictly times to be very selective. (choose for your best )

Sex is wonder- full.
Your genitals are a sacred portal in your body. when you learn how to use this doorway, it serves as an opening into the records of time..Evaluate your present sexual beliefs and explore your boundaries.
Sexuality is our birthright and heritage as humans, its absolutely the most glorious gift from the Goddesses and Gods ........
Your mysteries are a gift from the Gods & Goddesses to be explored with dignity , reverence, grace, and respect through a committed and bonded relationship.
There is many a forked path ahead, the choice is always yours, so are the consequences.

"Ecstasy is a feeling which only comes when
the heart is tuned in to that pitch
that melts it
that makes it tender
which gives it gentleness
and makes it humble"
~~ Sufi saying

How to get over your ex - Get your power back - FOR MEN ONLY

2008-01-18T03:08:00.001-08:00

How to get over your ex - Get your power back - FOR MEN ONLY
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