“Your beliefs become your thoughtsYour thoughts become your wordsYour words become your actionsYour actions become your habitsYour habits become your valuesYour values become your destiny”– Mahatma Gandhi The quote above has always been a mantra for me. The power of this statement is that it truly speaks to the need for awareness and consistency between our values and our actions in our world. Everything in our LIFE flows from our beliefs… What concepts do you hold that are running your life? Are you aware of your thoughts, your words? I mean really aware. Are you able to listen to yourself as you speak? Are your words in alignment with your actions? Will your destiny truly represent your values? ...
Patience and wisdom are two physical manifestations of the energy of love that resides within us all. We need however to consciously activate these qualities in order for their value to be experienced in our life. Luckily for us, the Universe through our daily life, provides us with plenty of opportunity to practice these states! Patience requires waiting, not giving in to our immediate needs. When we wait we have the opportunity to ask: Why is this event in my life? What face of love am I being asked to respond with? What is the higher purpose this situation can serve and what is my role here? When we are patient we also leave room for the Divine to step in and support our efforts in whatever ways benefit our higher good and the higher good for all. If we plow ahead without reflection, demanding answers immediately, without interest in ...
Do you just talk the talk? Or are you truly willing to walk the walk. I notice that so many people are coming to the world of spirituality. Many are interested in knowing what their future will look like. Others love to hold crystals and practice putting their energy into these beautiful, beautiful stones. Many people are interested in connecting to their angels, their saints. Others are reading books, going to workshops, becoming a better person. Practicing how to expand their intuitive mind. This is all good. Any connection we have with the interior whether it be meditation, yoga, time spent learning about the difference between the egoic mind and our loving nature, all of it is good. There comes a point in the journey of a spiritual student where they know that it is we who emprana the stones. It is our willingness to open to spirit and live ...
[sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=\”http://practicalspiritualitywithselina.com/audio/radical-honesty.mp3\”] When you\’re on a path with practical spirituality at your side, the concepts, the idea of radical honesty is hugely important. Check it out. How honest are you with you? There is nobody listening here, just you. I’m asking the questions. You\’re the only person that will know and hear your answers. Where are you? Where are you on your path? ...
Out of alignment, would that be you? I know there are times it’s me. For all the work I’ve done, for all the information that I know, in my humanity there are still small pockets where I notice I’m out of alignment. You know, these places of being out of alignment, these are great opportunities to practice so many faces of love. There is the time I practice compassion for myself because I notice I haven’t been kind. I practice patience because I so want to teach and I want my day to day life to be all about teaching so I need to practice patience as my teaching practice grows. I notice I’m out of alignment when I’m tired and I’m on a train in New York. I just want to close myself off from everybody else. I’m feeling not open-hearted. That’s when I practice kindness to myself. I ...
What will you choose? We live in a time when many people are hungry for connection to the divine. We don’t need to seek externally for that connection. Why? We are the divine. As we travel through our day, how we be, our choice of response to each situation, not just our words, but our attitude, the that we apply to each event, each relationship, that’s what brings our divinity into the physical world or blocks it from being experienced. What will you choose? Will you choose to respond from love? Will you choose to respond from one of the many faces of love? From kindness? From tolerance? From compassion?From Wisdom? From Grace? This takes a great deal of work. It sounds so simple when you read this. It sounds so easy. It seems to “make sense” to people. What they\’re missing is that it takes a great deal of ...
We live in a time when many are hungry for connection to the divine. We don’t need to seek externally for connection, although many of us do. We read books, we take workshops, we study with teachers, we meet in groups. All of this activity is helpful. But we truly don’t need to seek externally for the connection that we seek. We are the divine. We have inside of us the spark of the divine, the spark of the design, the spark of the divine that created us all. Remember in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy is speaking to the good witch of the East. The good witch tells her, “My dear, you have all along had everything you’ve needed to return home. All you need to do is click your heels and say, ‘There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.’” ...
Flow like water. Life presents many opportunities for us, some of which create experiences that are joyous, that are happy, that are peaceful. Other times in life we experience situations that are painful, times that are tough, experiences that are rough and hurt and often cut to the quick. Life is full of all of that. Physical reality is full of a variety of experiences including chaos. If we seek peace, our job in this lifestream, as spirit in form, is to flow like water, to move through each experience taking what we need in order to grow and to leave as small a wake as possible. Experiences, we are told, shape us. It has been said that they form who we are. I beg to differ. It’s not what others do, it’s our response to situations that creates the energetic resonance that remains. Thus it’s critically important to put ...
Sitting with discomfort is indeed what many people on a spiritual path experience. While our ultimate quest and the work that we do is to be able to lead a life and live a life from peace, it’s an awful lot of work to get there. Part of what happens on the way to experiencing peace in a consistent way is we have times where our life feels anything other than peaceful. It’s not surprising. We are energy in form. The more we focus on our energetic being, bringing it to the forefront, asking our brain and our emotional state to support the intuitive leading the way, we’re bound to hit a few bumpy patches in the road. For me, there have been times when I felt unsure of myself where it just didn’t seem like I was getting along with anybody in my life. Misunderstandings, conversations gone awry, relationships ...