Most would agree that we are all beautiful as babies. Have you ever seen a baby that was not beautiful in some way?
What happens then? As we grow older some of us lose our 'beauty', that is, our external beauty. There are even some who keep their external beauty but are not thought of as beautiful.
Why not? Perhaps Helen Keller's quote will answer: “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart”. As you know, Helen Keller was both blind and deaf yet she was aware of the beauty around her because she could feel with her heart.
We know from the Law of Attraction that we can create our own reality by what we intensely and continually think, feel and act upon. Therefore, if we want to create a reality of beauty within us and around us, we must pay all attention to things of the heart.
Each person already has a personal list of what resonates with his or her own heart. How to use this private list? Concentrate on one thing that makes your heart 'sing'. Embellish it; make it sparkle; nurture it; offer it to another; color it beautiful!
Think of beauty as a flower. If unattended, it withers, loses its color, languishes and is no more. There is so much beauty all around us - identify with it, become one with it, make it your own and indeed, you will have placed another beauty-flower in your heart-garden!
All are beautiful, if we look closely enough.
Your Beauty-Gardener friend, Rijuta Tooker Manifest your Soul-Power
JOY is a much stronger feeling/emotion than happiness. Happiness is, according to the dictionary, 'great pleasure; contentment.' We all need and want to be happy; however, let us take our happiness to the next level - that of JOY.
JOY is 'great elation; to rejoice'; to feel the whole inner being dancing with JOY. Look at a child enthusiastically expressing JOY! Pure delight!
Keep your Heart-Door open. Comfort and pleasure may be found in the mind, but never joy. JOY is felt and experienced in the heart and soul. Access your JOY today and experience one of the most delightful powers of your soul!
All JOY to you today and every day. Rijuta Tooker Manifest your Soul-Power!
How do we know the answers to our questions? Is the answer 'Yes' or is the answer 'No'? We can let our heart tell us so.
Every day we have choices to make. One of the choices we have is whether to answer our questions with our mind, or with our heart. The heart always wins.
With all of the changes happening in our world, we really must begin to develop more capacity to answer our questions with our heart.
Where does your trust lie? Ask your heart. What are your values? Ask your heart. Can you believe what you are being told? Ask your heart.
It is your heart (and your soul) that will give you the best answer, the answer that is 'right' for you.
Try to consciously go to your heart for your answers - no ego, no prejudice, no ulterior motives. Develop your capacity to listen to your heart. It will reward you by helping you to go with the flow, to go with more ease.
At every moment you have a choice: do you choose to live in a beautiful world?
When in doubt, go to your heart and then to your soul, and you will know.
When you come to a place where you are stuck, allow the path of LOVE to lead you to higher and safer ground. Our beautiful world wants to inspire you. Look around and know that beauty and light will always prevail. Let your heart tell you so!
Today, all day, I am choosing to live in a beautiful world!
And you ? ? ?
Are you able to 'aspire today and allow the future to take care of itself? Some will say, "Let the future take care of itself? That is too scary" When you aspire, you are sowing seeds of your immediate and distant 'future'. You want your aspiration-seeds to bear fruit but when you worry about the future, what kinds of seeds are you planting? Only those of doubt, fear,worry, anxiety, and in some cases, panic.
The past we can think of as dust; we do not belong to the past. The past is the result of seeds we have previously planted and has not given us what we want today.
To aspire, means to go beyond your current mental, emotional and physical circumstances, beyond your present consciousness. We want to take our lives to the next level. Today, as we aspire, we are planting only the newness-seeds of what we want to create as our new reality.
Spend time with your aspirations. Within you is an inner treasure, an inner abundance. This is your heart and soul from where your lofty and progressive aspirations originate. Go there. Aspire! Allow the future to take care of itself!
At every moment in our lives we have choices to make. We can answer questions we ask ourselves with either a 'Yes" or a "No". Virtually every choice we feel we must make can be reduced to a question that requires a "Yes" or a "No" answer.
"Should I take this path?" "Do I like what I am reading?" "Can I actually accomplish this 'out-of-my-comfort-zone goal'?" "Is this the best thing I could be eating for my lunch?"
Change all of your decision-making questions to a form that requires a "Yes" or a "No" answer. In this way you will simplify your decision-making process and empower yourself to make better and wiser choices.
The challenge comes when you must find or hear or feel the answer of "Yes" or "No". What is the best way to do this? There are many ways to access the "Yes" or "No" answer from your intuition, your 'gut', your heart, your soul or the Universe. Whatever works for you is fine.
Experiment with the following ways. Always begin by asking yourself a question that requires a "Yes" or "No" answer:
1) Imagine that you are 'hearing' the answer "Yes" or "No". 2) Place your hand on your heart and 'feel' the answer. 3) Allow your head to move in an up-and-down fashion for "Yes" and a side-to-side fashion for "No". 4) Use kinesiology (thumb and little finger) to test for "Yes" and "No". Click here to see how to do it. 5) Close your eyes for a second or two and imagine yourself 'seeing' the word "Yes" or "No". 6) Write the words "Yes" and "No" on a piece of paper. Place a check mark beside the 'correct' answer. 7) Begin with a blank sheet of paper and simply write the 'correct' word: "Yes" or "No". 8) Do a 'thumbs up' for "Yes" or a 'thumbs down' for "No". Find the best way for you to get a "Yes" or "No" answer. Then rely on it. Use it often every day. When you build your confidence, you will increase your capacity to use this tool. You will begin to make wiser and/or clearer choices. Is it "Yes" or is it "No"? At every moment you have a choice. Which one works best for you?
There was once a time when all human beings were Gods; however, they so abused their divinity that Brahma decided to take away their divinity from them and hide it where it could never be found. "The Seeker" Where to hide their divinity was the question. So Brahma called a council of the Gods to help him decide. "Let's bury it deep in the earth," offered the Gods. But Brahma answered, "No, that will not do, because humans will dig into the earth and find it."
Then the Gods said, "Let's sink it in the deepest ocean." But Brahma responded, "No, not there, for they will learn to dive into the ocean and will find it."
Then the Gods said, "Let's take it to the top of the highest mountain and hide it there." But once again Brahma replied, "No, that will not do either, because they will eventually climb every mountain and once again take up their divinity." Then the Gods gave up and lamented, "We do not know where to hide it, because it seems that there is no place on earth or in the sea that human beings will not eventually reach."
Brahma thought for a long time. Suddenly he had an idea, "Here is what we will do. We will hide their divinity deep in the center of their own being, for humans will never think to look for it there." All the Gods agreed that this was the perfect hiding place, and the deed was done. Since that time, humans have been going up and down and all around the earth, digging, diving, climbing and seeking -- searching for something that is already deep within themselves. * * * * * * *
Now, we humans are far wiser than our ancestors. We know that when we look with love, deep within ourselves - all the way to the inmost recesses of our heart - we will find our own divinity-treasure: our soul. We now take back our divinity through our Soul-Power!
Where is Heaven? Does Heaven exist in another reality? According to this song writer, Heaven is closer and much more accessible than we think. 'Heaven is in your heart; Heaven is in your soul - everywhere you go.'
Loving your heart and soul!
Rijuta Tooker
Soul-Power Community
Knowing yourself as you do, what do you think/feel is more powerful - your mind or your emotions?
Your mind can have both positive and negative thoughts. Your emotions can also be either positive or negative. Ideally, we want to successfully integrate the functions of both our mind and our emotions. We can do this by increasing the coherence or the harmony of function of both the mind and the emotions as they work together.
Research conducted by the Institute of HeartMath has found that "while two-way communication between the cognitive and emotional systems is hard-wired into the brain, the actual number of neural connections going from the emotional centers to the cognitive centers is greater than the number going the other way."
What does this mean? It explains the enormous power of our emotions as compared to the power of our thought by itself. In other words, our thoughts do not affect our emotions as much as our emotions affect our thoughts.
We can have pre-conceived thoughts about someone or some thing, but when we experience deep emotion about that person or thing, the thoughts we previously had can be knocked totally out of our consciousness.
What is the importance of knowing this? If you want to deliberately create your own reality, your ideal future, then pay all attention to your emotions, because what you are feeling is 'King' or in our BraveHeart case, 'Queen'. What is 'King'/'Queen' in your case - your mind or your emotions? ps (or your soul-power?)
When we listen with our heart rather than with our mind, there is far less chance for misunderstanding and far greater chance for real communication.
Why listen with the heart? The heart has the capacity to listen with more light, more love and more oneness than the mind. The mind knows light, love and oneness only through its intellect.
Sometimes when we are listening with the mind, we are hearing what another is saying but we may not be truly listening. What we hear may last for a few seconds at best. When we truly listen with our heart to another, then we are taking into our heart-space the meaning and the essence of what is being said.
When we listen with the mind, the outer words may be saying one thing but the actual meaning may be something entirely different. We will know the real meaning only when we listen with our heart.
Listening with the heart helps one to truly understand what is being said because the heart and the soul are in close proximity. Being closely aligned with the soul, the heart has deeper understanding than the mind. I invite you - just for one day - to listen with your heart, rather than with your mind.
"In my dream, children sing a song of love for every boy and girl. The sky is blue, the fields are green, and laughter is the language of the world. Then I wake and all I see is a world full of people in need. Tell me why, does it have to be like this? Tell me why, is there something I have missed? Tell me why because I don't understand, when somebody needs somebody we don't give a helping hand. Tell me why."
Rijuta Tooker
Soul-Power Community
With simplicity, sweetness and sincerity, children write 13 letters to God - from their heart (a unique perspective.) Enjoy!
1. Dear God, my turtle died. We buried her in our yard. Is she there with you now? She really likes lettuce.
2. Dear God, I'm sorry I forgot the words to your songs yesterday in Sunday School. I don't sing that good anyway so sometimes I just hum along. Is that o.k. with you?
3. Dear God, do you throw the lightening down at us? It scares me a lot when it goes BOOM. Please stop it.
4. Dear God, my grandma is dying. She says you want her back with you, but I want her to stay here with me. You can have anyone you want. She's all I have, so please let her get better and stay.
5. Dear God, I have a lizard named Ernie. He only has three feet 'cuz one of them got caught in the door. I didn't mean to do it though. Would you fix it back again?
6. Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.
7. Dear God, it must be hard for you to love everybody in the world. I only have one brother and I can’t do it.
8. Dear God, I could help you sometimes if you will tell me some things to do.
9. Dear GOD, who draws the lines around the countries?
10. Dear GOD, I think about You sometimes even when I'm not praying.
11. Dear GOD, if You watch me in church Sunday, I'll show You my new shoes.
12. Dear GOD, I didn't think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday. That was cool!
13. Dear GOD, did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?
Reject fear, worry and anxiety; say no to anything that disempowers. Welcome trust, harmony and truth; listen to the inner guidance you receive from your own highest self. Fear, worry and anxiety - and even panic - is so wide-spread now that you must be careful to protect your consciousness from being overly exposed to this kind of thinking and feeling. Watch and listen to less newscasts; limit your discussions of 'how bad our economy is' to a minimum, or better, non-existent.
Be more mindful of what you are thinking and feeling. Remember that what you concentrate on tends to expand. Of course, when we concentrate on fear, worry and anxiety, this expands and gives us increasingly more fear, worry and anxiety.
When we concentrate on the things that we do want, trust, harmony, truth, then these things expand and give us increasingly more trust, harmony and truth.
Make the choices that bring you love, joy and empowerment. Focus only on what serves the highest good of all: peace, light, oneness, community.
I invite you to do the following BREATHING EXERCISE. This will enable you to reject fear, worry and anxiety and to welcome trust, harmony and truth.
Breath in through your heart center while welcoming in the energy of 'trust' - slow, deep inhalation. (Feel free to use any word that highly resonates with you today.) Breathe out fear and all that disempowers you - slow, relaxed exhalation.
Repeat this breathing pattern three times and feel the soothing calm that comes. Do this whenever you become aware of fear, worry, anxiety or any kind of disempowerment.
The time has come for you to say 'NO' to all that is not progressive and fulfilling and to say 'YES' to all that empowers and lifts you to a higher level of life experience.
Saying 'YES' to trust, harmony and truth today. Rijuta Tooker Soul Power Community
How many times have you looked at something with your outer vision, yet what you saw with your inner sight was totally different? Your outer eyes told you one thing; your inner sight, your inner knowing, told you something else.
Some people believe only what they see outwardly. You see a cute little dog, well behaved, carried around in a basket with a pretty pink bow clipped to its hair. Your outer eyes see a cute little, well behaved animal, yet your inner eyes, the eyes of your heart, know that the dog feels anything but pretty and cute.
When you look at people, events and circumstances with your outer vision, you can empower yourself by remembering to also look with your inner sight. A great percentage of the time what you are seeing outwardly is not actually as it appears. What you are looking at with your physical eyes may not be the whole truth; it may even be the farthest from the truth. How to access your inner sight? Go to your heart. What are you FEELING? This feeling, this inner knowing, comes from your alignment with your heart.
Where is your consciousness? Is it with what you are looking at or is it with what you are feeling in your heart? Use both your outer vision and your inner sight to determine the truth of what you are 'seeing'.
Have you had the experience of your inner sight changing what your outer vision shows you?
I invite you to remember that you can create a golden life by using your magic.
You may have forgotten that magic can happen with simply a kind thought, a loving word, an inspired action and a grateful heart.
In your hands and heart lie the beauty, peace and harmony of your world. Only you can create that. No one else.
Do not wait until you are forced by circumstances to use your magic. You are creating 24 x 7 anyway. Use your magic now - TODAY!
Why hesitate? Enjoy the Dance of Life from the minute your foot comes to the floor in the morning until you close your eyes to sleep at night. Many are waiting for this, or that, or the other thing. WHY? Learn to use your magic or lose your magic.
Use your magic in every circumstance, every situation, to create more abundance, to shine your light on beauty, to release more dynamic energy, to share your inmost joy.
Do this not only in your life, but also in the lives of others. Break away from your limitations. See the magic around you. See the magic within you. Feel and know that the real magic is you!
Enjoy a magical day! Rijuta Tooker Soul Power Community
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