Month: September 2018

It’s Absolutely Alarming and Why I Do It

Beep beep.

That’s what my littlest grandson says each time he hears my watch alarm go off.
Every hour on the hour.
Why so often?
Well, it’s because each time I hear it beep, or when the grandfather clock in our living room dongs on its hourly mission, it brings me back to who I am.
Whenever I hear it, I stop what I am doing and I close my eyes.
And I then repeat my affirmation and denial for that day.
It centers me and brings me back to the NOW.
By the way –I don’t do it while driving or when I’m in a conversation with my wife :)

Now, an affirmation is like a declaration or pronouncement, while a denial is a negation or a release statement.

For example, today my denial is: I release fear, doubt, and anger, criticism, judgement, and blame.

My affirmation is: I proclaim peace, love, joy, truth and beauty, forgiveness, gratitude, and abundance.

So, try it on for size. Make up your own.

Rinse and repeat.

Keep manifesting 🙂
Tony

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Your Very Best Quote of the Week -Vol.3

Each Saturday I share with you a really good quote. Now, the weekly quote may be one that I enjoy the most or perhaps one that is quite controversial, or unusual, or thought-provoking.

You may agree with it. Or not.
Either way, please let me know what you think.

Dec. 8, 2018
“We must believe that that everyone is capable of behaving more humanely, more peacefully, more lovingly, but sometimes we get lost in the world around us…remember our shared humanity – we all stumble and fall, and we can all shine brightly for the world.”
Rev. Kelly Isola

Dec. 1, 2018
“As a short term fleeting emotion, the feeling of gratitude cannot be acquired through willpower alone. The benefits of gratitude come from the long-term cultivation of the disposition of gratefulness through dedicated practice.”
Robert Emmons 

Nov. 24, 2018
“All things can be used for some good purpose. Yes, all things. Nothing is ever wasted. The greater the challenge, the greater the gift. Acceptance of “what is” will always be a choice. Whenever tough moments come along, ask yourself what the situation can teach you.”
Donna Miesbach 

Nov. 17, 2018
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change”
Charles Darwin

Nov. 10, 2018
“To choose gratitude is not an act of dogged determination. To choose gratitude is to hear an inner urging towards thanks, to see the grace in life, and to respond.”
Diana Butler Bass

Nov. 3, 2018
“Our times call for radical transformation, deep planetary healing, and societal renewal to allow the new Earth that we know is possible to emerge. It feels like this growing movement is an idea whose time has come.”
Prema Gaia

Oct. 27, 2018
“Our work, alone and together, is not to minimize the pain or loss we feel, but to investigate what these sharp incidents are opening in us.”
Mark Nepo

Oct. 20, 2018
“Miracles happen every day. Change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.”
Jon Bon Jovi

Oct. 13, 2018
“We lose our soul when we reject a part of ourselves. We reclaim our soul when we embrace ourselves – as we are, now.”
Sera Beak

Oct. 6, 2018
“The litmus test for self-realization is a constant state of gratitude. This gratitude is not something you can look for or find. It comes from another direction, and it takes you over completely. It’s so vast that it can’t be dimmed or overlaid.”
Byron Katie

Sept. 29, 2018
“By being mindful of our thoughts and deliberately turning them around to be more positive and optimistic, we can, over time, create new neural pathways so that our overall disposition is happier.”
Ben Feder

Sept. 22, 2018
“Time spent in nature is time spent creatively participating in life’s generative rhythms, its beauty, its quiet power, its deep grace.
It is to know life beyond the mind, beyond even the science.”
Laura Plumb

Sept. 15, 2018
“The beginning of your freedom lies in your own mind.
When you let go of limiting and binding thoughts, you find that conditions, persons, or circumstances no longer have power over you.”
Martha Smock

Sept. 8, 2018
“Do not stand on a high pedestal and take five cents in your hand and say “Here, you poor man”
But be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
It is not the receiver who is blest, but it is the giver.”
Swami Vivekananda

Sept. 1, 2018
“I come to the end of my own logical powers and acknowledge there’s too much that’s beyond what we can sort through using these little brains that we have”
Rob Bell

Keep manifesting 🙂
Tony

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Acorn – Ology

 

This little story applies to all of us – you and me..
Regardless of the stage of our evolvement or spiritual development there is always something more.
The transformation of ACORN to OAK TREE, as a metaphor, speaks of the need to change, and it never stops.
We grow and mature, and then move to the next stage of enlightenment.
Like all good stories, you have to use your imagination and put yourself into it.

ONCE UPON A TIME,
In A Not-So-Faraway Land,

There was a kingdom of acorns – a myriad of acorns nestled at the foot of a grand old oak tree.
Since the citizens of this kingdom were modern, and fully Westernized acorns, they went about their business with purposeful energy; and since they were midlife, baby boomer acorns, they engaged in a lot of self-help courses.
There were seminars called “Getting All You Can out of Your Shell.”
There were woundedness and recovery groups for acorns who had been bruised in their original fall from the tree.
There were retreats and spas for oiling and polishing those shells and various acornopathic therapies to enhance longevity and well-being.
One day in the midst of this kingdom there suddenly appeared a knotty little stranger, who was apparently dropped “out of the blue” by a passing bird.
He was odd: capless and dirty, making an immediate negative impression on his fellow acorns.
And crouched beneath the oak tree, he stammered out a strange and wild tale.

Pointing upward at the tree, he spoke to all that would listen to him, and said, “We…are…that!”
Delusional thinking, obviously, the other acorns concluded.
But, one or two of them continued to engage him in conversation: “So tell us, how would we become that tree?”
“Well,” said he, pointing downward, “it has something to do with going into the ground…and cracking open the shell.”
“Insane,” they responded.
“Totally morbid! Why, then we wouldn’t be acorns anymore!”

So, do you want to be an acorn all of your life?
Or do you want to grow into a great oak?

This little story apparently originated with Maurice Nicoll in the 1950s.
Jacob Needleman popularised this metaphor in Lost Christianity and named it “acornology”.
It was retold by Cynthia Bourgeault in her book, The Wisdom Way of Knowing.
I read it in a little booklet called Courage to Imagine.

Keep manifesting 🙂
Tony

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