The Antidote To Bad News

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Your entrepreneurial abilities give you a unique advantage in being able to respond creatively to these times. Keeping your confidence high is the best thing you can do right now for yourself and those who rely on you. The “gratitude habits” below will help immunize you against the effects of negativity so you can stay focused on opportunity and value creation.

These audios (you may listen to them at the link provided) were originally published in the Always Increase Your Confidence series, which is now out of print. Feel free to share them with others you feel will benefit.

After a tiring day with our packers, I would like to be a restful green! Sigh!!!

I remember feeling enthusiastic and full of vitality and vigor when I went to school. I remember loving the energy of fun learning and being with my teachers, friends, classmates, other students, the administration and canteen staff, food vendors, the activities in the playground, the commotion during recess and when moving from classroom to classroom, the naughty times, the interesting field trips, the rehearsals for programs and the actual performances, and the going home part.  Oh, so many more!

My body merely wants to show gratitude, how much it cares for the world, and how it relishes the experience of joint evolution with the world, not by words alone but more by actions, not tomorrow but now, not alone but together with one and all!

...wherever love is, 'coz if I hide I want to be found! Ahhh, why hide?

Fear either disempowers or empowers and the choice is ours. Sometimes it arises to warn us of impending danger or harm, so if we are mindful of fear's positive intent at a given moment, it would lead us to the right action. Fear becomes terrible only when we give it power over us.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it an action thought that empowers you. ~ Al Smith

...perhaps, everything of Armila at gaia or even the entire gaia community itself so after a hundred years the finder of my time capsule would have something to ponder on, laugh about, be touched, learn or unlearn something, and wonder.

Ask me again when I'm there.

I don't worry about the destination, am just focusing on the journey, evolving into my highest self as the world is doing and I trust and know that everything is as it should be and that love will prevail.

Have been swimming in this ocean of life ever since I was born, and before that inside my Mom's womb. 

As for swimming as a sport, I learned it when I was 10 and I thought I  taught myself.  I was in grade 4 and swimming was a required physical education subject.  While everyone else in my class could already swim after our teacher's guided instructions, I was among two of the slowest learners.  When the semester was about to end, I felt pressured that I just have to learn to do it.  And that moment as I stood in the pool, I forgot about my fear of sinking,  threw my arms and surrendered my body to the water, and before I noticed it I was afloat and moving forward. It was most exhilarating and certainly one of my most memorable childhood moments. Furthermore, I've used this technique in guiding my son and a few friends to learn to swim and it worked for them as well.

Uniquely me - adventurer, social & business entrepreneur, dreamer & doer, mother, wife, advocate for women's empowerment, a zaadzster/gaian, an optimist, a fun-loving spirit, and more all rolled up into one. Yet not much different from you - consciously (and even unconsciously at times) traversing a spiritual path and being the change I want to see in this world.

Spring in my life either just happens or sometimes, I choose it to happen whenever and wherever.

I am love. You are love. We are love. I realize then that my (your/our) heart has to be open to let love flow through.

Learned a lot really and continue to do so moment by moment.

At the moment this



and today's Big Idea mojo from PhilosophersNotes:

"Sri Ramakrishna said, 'Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.' " ~ Joseph Campbell from A Joseph Campbell Companion

That's hot. (No pun intended.)

We're way too timid in life. And that includes our spiritual development. (Wouldn't you agree?!?)

So...

Is your hair on fire?

Or are you afraid of looking "too intense" and freaking out your friends and family? We need to get over that. Our lives are a little too short to worry about what other people think, eh?!?

And, remember: the only people who are going to give you a hard time for being "too intense" are the ones who aren't living very fully. Guarantee you that.

* hands match box over *

Time to light our hair on fire, my friend.

Let's have some fun with this one precious life of ours.

To our hero's journey!

 

Grateful for being here, connecting with you all!

Relieved as the last few pieces of the puzzle are slowly fitting in - our temporary home in West Vancouver confirmed, my brother and Mom to pick us up at the airport, our luggages filling up (hopefully all remaining stuff will still find their perfect spaces) - ahhhh!

Below, the sitting room in our new home (for a few months) waiting for us to live in:

If you look elsewhere you'll fall, fail and ail!

Inside is our true self, the divine, true wisdom, beauty, happiness, peace, love - all we really are!

...unaware of my next moments and delighted to be surprised.

We're almost there, keeping the anxieties at bay and relishing the mixed feelings of excitement, optimism, bidding adieu to family and friends (prefer the line "Until we meet again " than "Good-bye!")

Doing our best to go with the flow, doing something with what we have some control of and letting go of most things beyond our control. Will surely miss this magical place and our family and friends, but opening up to the next magical destination and to be with other family and friends in Vancouver BC, and most important to keep growing and loving and living!

Am continuing efforts to finalize a volume order from my New York buyer - making samples take ages it seems, but we're getting closer to clinching the deal! Have selected and bought a few product samples to take with me for my marketing efforts in Canada and elsewhere. Had also prepared my swatches and updated all my photo albums and slideshows online. Hopefully some minor changes on my website would be up before end April. Megh just completed his Tibetan singing bowls healing therapy training. This would complement his non-violent communication consultancy. We're both polishing up our CVs just in case we need to get employed in the meantime. Keeping ourselves open to possibilities. Milind is continuing with his drumming lessons and progressing, doing some artattack.co.uk projects (I love the ship in a bottle that he just completed!), doing some math and English writing exercises, and playing a lot (watching TV, too!). Our friend Janet, whose place we are renting for our first three months, has contacted the school in their area and we've got an appointment fixed as soon as we arrive. We thought it would be best for Milind to be at school for the remaining two months of the term while his parents get busy with settling in.

In between, more loving and living, breathing in, pausing, and breathing out! Rains came just a few days ago, a welcome respite after a long drought over here! Everything outside feels fresher, springy, breezy, joyful, cheerful, alive and such positive feelings seep into our hearts! Am so grateful for this!