Keeping Life Simple – Make a choice and let it go
January 6, 2010 by Lorraine
Filed under Growth, Spirit, • Headline
Think of all the choices you make and I’m sure you’ll be surprised at how many decisions you actually make in a day. Some of them are simple choices and some of them have more of an impact on life, but if we look closely at the difficulty we have in making some choices it may be that there is an underlying theme or an element of fear connected to them.
Fear of making the wrong choice can freeze us into doing nothing; simply out of fear of thinking we may make the wrong decision. Some of us really struggle with making choices in our lives but each decision we do make is a choice which leads us to the next step in our journey of life, and another experience to discover more deeply who we really are. Every choice we have made to date has been a constant unfolding that has led each of us, to who we are today. The decisions we make open the door for new experiences filled with joy, fear, stress, peace, vulnerability and love and at the end of the day, they are all choices towards a movement of expressing our way through life.
When we surrender to the fears that come along with making choices there’s a sense of freedom that arises in the knowing that you can’t make a wrong decision, it’s just a choice which will provide an experience. It’s all in the way we choose to view our life circumstances through our mind that makes it appear as if there is a problem with a specific choice we make or not.
If you listen to your heart when making choices and not let fear be the ruler of your decision making, you will discover there is no problem with making a choice. Decisions which are not driven by ego and fear have a particular feel to them. Take a moment to reflect back over the times when you have made choices in your life that resonated with your heart, the decisions that were not made out of fear – how did your body feel? I know mine feels free and joyful with an undeniable energy that runs through it that simply says ‘yes’.
Keep your life simple by knowing that the choices you make in your in life in this moment are perfect and there is no problem with choice when we live life in the moment – that too, is also a choice.
Honour your spirit and walk towards the journey your heart desires.
In love,
Lorraine
VividLife.me Contributor
About Lorraine
Lorraine Wilson has been on a journey of self discovery for many years. She openly shares her experience with others and offers hope, inspiration and an invitation to “Keep Life Simple” through self inquiry. She lives on the West Coast with her children.
Lorraine has been influenced and is incredibly grateful for the teachings of Gangaji, Adyashanti, Eckart Tolle, Pamela Wilson, Muni and His Holiness, The Dalai Lama. She has worked in the field of communications and broadcasting for over 30 years and utilizes her communication skills as a program facilitator and provides one on one support to others who desire to investigate their life journey.
Stayed tuned for ‘Keeping Life Simple’ on VividLife Radio. The program will be an opportunity for everyone in the community to come together to discuss and be supported in the never ending discovery of who we truly are.
I Believe In YOU!
I Believe In YOU!
Now before you click to the next blog, please indulge me for a moment. I have said it hundreds and hundreds of times, the advice that the airline gives you before every flight is priceless. “Put the oxygen on yourself before you help those you are traveling with.” This is such simple wisdom that so easily gets over looked and placed on the bottom of our list…that is… if it even makes our personal list of importance to begin with. So if you are not sure what I mean, I will spell it out. If you don’t take care of your own needs, your own wellbeing and health… YOU will not be around to take care of the other people in your life that you care about.
Sometimes when truths come to us in its purest form, the human side of has to complicate it, in order to feel important. So, we try to intellectualize and pad the simplistic wisdom before we even try and attempt to apply it. If it seems to easy, it can’t be right; is the mind chatter that we have rolling around our head.
So, what would YOU do if you didn’t know YOU couldn’t? Or, what would YOU start doing again that YOU have given up either consciously or unconsciously? Take some time to reflect on the things that you once loved doing because they gave you so much pure joy. Even if you were not that polished at it. If at one time…YOU loved it or even if there is something that YOU would like to try, but have placed F.E.A.R. (False Evidence Appearing Real) in the way …I encourage YOU to DO it!
I know beyond knowing that YOU Can! YOU can step out of your own way and start growing the joy inside YOU once again. In my heart of hearts I know that you Can step into YOUr full potential. I believe in you like I believe in me. Set yourself free from the ties that bind you and step into the Greatness that YOU are! Believe in YOU …as YOU are worth it!
Wishing YOU a day filled with Green Lights & Learning!
Humbly Yours,
Marcia
Blog http://www.eaupening.blogspot.com/
Keeping Life Simple – “I AM NOT MY THOUGHTS!”
November 4, 2009 by Lorraine
Filed under Editor's Pick, Growth, • Headline
My experience in life has been that when we live in the moment and remain conscious of our thoughts, feelings and actions, there is a natural flow to our life.
We have been conditioned to believe in everything our thoughts tell us – our mind is a very useful tool for helping us to live the practical parts of our life each day. The thoughts that fill our mind throughout any given day about who we are, or who we will become or cannot become, are just not true. Did you know the human brain produces approximately 70,000 thoughts on average per day? (ref: www.wiki.answers.com) Imagine if we attached ourselves and believed in every thought we had, we’d be exhausted.
More about our thoughts!
Thoughts are just thoughts, they come and go and there is no need for us to get on the thought train and actually become the thought, but it does take a certain vigilance to be conscious of not becoming the thought.
Wake up each day and make a commitment not to jump on the ‘train of thought’. Instead, make a choice to begin watching the stories your mind tells you and become the observer of your thoughts. When you begin to let these stories be present without action, they will come and go just like the moment they arrived.
As you become the observer of your life you’ll begin to discover and honour what rings true for you. Start making a conscious effort to let go of the judgements and the expectations not only of yourself, but also of others. It takes so much energy when we resist what is present in our lives. Have you ever heard of the saying ‘ what we resist persists, and what we embrace we erase’ ? When we welcome everything into our heart and let it be, there is no struggle. John Lennon said it beautifully, ‘when I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be’. Everyone can have their own interpretation of what these words mean, but it’s the ‘let it be’ that brings about the peace. Try this next time your faced with a challenging situation in your life, and see what happens. It may be uncomfortable to begin with because we are used to taking control towards an outcome, but it is very interesting to watch what happens when you just let go, and let be, before reacting.
Discovering freedom
We can also discover more freedom in our lives when we start taking responsibility for who we are and stop holding others accountable for our behaviour, including our words and our actions. If anyone makes a comment or judgement about our lives and it triggers a reaction in us, it is our responsibility to go within and investigate what is wanting our attention. We all have the ability to choose how we will engage in any given situation and we have the ability to choose compassion over conflict.
Words of Wisdom
The Dalai Lama says “we all share an identical need for love, and that it is possible to feel that anybody we meet in whatever circumstances is a brother or sister. It is foolish to dwell on external differences, because our basic natures are the same. The key to a happy and more successful world is the growth of compassion”.
How do I begin to keep my life simple?
Our hearts are filled with enormous potential, there is no end to the love that is available to all. Where there is love, there is freedom. Make a conscious decision today to Keep Life Simple ~
Always in love,
Lorraine
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