GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki

Today's Quotes:

"Love is the fragrance of Meditation.  If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous Love arising in you that you have never known before-- a new quality to your being, a new door opening.  You have become a new flame and now you want to share."
- Osho

“The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes.” - Eckhart Tolle

"Through the inner body you are ever one with God." - Eckhart Tolle

Excerpts from Gateway of the Inner Body- 

"Most are unaware of the inner aliveness in the body because their attention is trapped in the mind, in thinking."

"The field that is in the body, the very aliveness that is the body is a gateway to Awareness."

"Someone once said God is closer to you than hands and feet.  What could be closer to you than hands and feet?  They are pretty close. But inside your hands and feet is even closer.  The nearest that God is to you is in your body. Everyone has been asking where does God exists. God is the very life that you are. "

"Without looking at it or moving it, how do I know if my right hand is still there or not?"

Today's Practice:

Keep some attention within your feet as you move about today.  Notice the Love that's within your feet.  Notice the Love that IS your feet. Remember that to feel Love is to be Love.  

I love you, 
Nik 

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Today's Quotes:

"When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited."
- Ramakrishna
 
"Man is born only as a seed, not a flower. Flowering has to be achieved.  One should not take it for granted." 
- Osho

"Just as you could keep seeds in your hands forever without their bearing fruit, because they have been kept out of their native element, the ground, so you can keep yourself in sin, disease, lack, limitation, warfare, or even death, just by keeping yourself out of your native element, the invisible substance."
- Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer 

Today's Practice:

Plant yourself  in the meditative state.   Root yourself in God.  Bloom and flower in Love.  When you practice feeling Love in every moment, that's the planting, the rooting, and the flowering.  It's the being. And then the bees come :)  

I love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quote:

"Listen while the ultimate mystical teaching is imparted.  Eyes still, without winking, at once become absolutely free." -Osho, Book of Secrets

"Our eyes are the reflection of our state of consciousness." - Shunya Aakash

Practices Mentioned:
Panning Out (Looking like a camera) - Ep 43
Listen for the Feeling of Love- Ep 2
Headless.org Ep 51
New Growth Interview with Richard Lang, Headless Way Teacher, Ep 6

Today's Practice:
Stare straight ahead for a moment, eyes still, not blinking.  Drop attention down into the body, and notice the stillness, the Peace, the Love, the God that is (t)here.  Interrupt your day with this practice once an hour.  Stare straight ahead and at once, be free of thoughts.  At once, recognize that Only Love is Here. 

I love you!
Nik 

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It's also a Go(o)d one to listen to if you have them Sunday night blues.  

"Let nothing disturb you
Let nothing frighten you
All things are passing away
God never changes
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing
God alone suffices."
-St. Teresa of Avila  

"The Power of God is within me, 
the Grace of God surrounds me." 
- Ram Dass

Say St. Teresa's prayer to the Love that you are.  Feel Love inside while you recite the words. Hold the words in Love. Know you ARE this Love.  You lack nothing. You need nothing.  Once you feel Love, you have everything. It's already here.  The clearer, fuller picture is coming into view.  Trust this. There's nothing this Love cannot do. 

Repeat Ram Dass' mantra as often as you can remember. Breathe away fear.  All is well. God IS where you are.  God is who you are. 

I love you and I'm with you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quote:

"Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not on thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy path." 
-Proverbs 3: 5-6

"There is nothing My Holiness cannot do.  Your Holiness reverses all the laws of the world.   It is beyond every restriction of time, space, distance and limits of any kind.  Through your Holiness the power of God is made manifest. Through your Holiness the power of God is made available.  And there is nothing the power of God cannot do.  We will apply the power of your Holiness to all problems, difficulties or suffering in any form that you happen to think of, in yourself or in someone else." 
- A Course In Miracles, Ch 38

Today's Practice (inspired by ACIM, Ch 38):

1. Bring up a pressing or otherwise bothersome issue.  

2. Feel into the following prompt, and replace the blank with your seeming issue.  

"In the situation involving _________ , there is nothing that My Love, this Love, cannot do."

3.  Allow the words to point you back to the Love, the Truth, inside.  Feel this Love.  This is the most important step.  THE ONLY STEP.  Trust in this Love with all of your heart.  You trust It by FEELING It.  You feel Love inside, and then trust that It will move you to say and do the right things.  You trust that It will take the form of the solution.  Your ability to feel It, is the miracle you've been waiting for.  Feel It and don't stop feeling It.   

4. Know that there is nothing that this Love cannot do. 

5. Rest. Abide. Smile. Love's got you. 

I love you and I'm with you, 
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com

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First, I remember that it doesn't matter what the body is feeling or what the mind is thinking-- I Am Love and Love is unfolding where I Am.  Then, I wait to feel this Love.  And because I'm now feeling Love, I'm no longer matching the energy of the moment.  I'm not generating a false or fake joy, but turning back toward the inner Light, the subtle Joy, the Love that IS.  And I keep feeling the Light, holding this Love, through the situation, through the anxiety, through the worry... until it's seen that only the Light is real.  The eyes see the appearance but I'm no longer judging by the appearance.  I'm no longer fooled by it.  I'm seeing it... but I'm feeling Love at the same time.  And I know that Only Love is Here. 

As you move through your dark nights, it's important to remember that you aren't seeking God. You aren't seeking the Light.  You don't want Freedom or happiness or Love.   YOU ARE THAT.  You want them because of the false perception that you think you are separate from That, from God.  Freedom is the essence of who you are.  Relax, recognize, and stay feeling this Truth, inside.  And this Truth becomes your outer circumstances.

"He is a real man who does not let go his hold on the Self-state while he is attending to whatever problems come of their own accord and without desire."
- Ramana Maharshi, Padamalai pg. 250

"Self-knowledge, or knowledge of Truth is not had by resorting to teachers, scriptures, or good deeds.  It is attained only by means of enquiry inspired by those who have awareness of the inner Light.  One's inner Light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner Light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.  Whatever sorrows there may be that seem to be difficult to overcome are easily crossed over with the help of the boat of wisdom (the inner Light).  He who is devoid of this wisdom is bothered even by minor difficulties.  The effort and the energy that are directed by the people in worldly activities should first be directed in the gaining of this wisdom.  Wisdom or the inner Light is like the legendary precious stone which bestows on its owner whatever he wishes to have."
- The Yoga Vasistha

Rhonda Ross' poem mentioned in this episode. 

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Today's Quote: 

"The mind should be kept in the heart as long as it has not reached the Highest End.  This is wisdom, and this is liberation.  Everything else is only words." 
-Maitri Upanishad 6.24

Today's Practice: 

Ride your inner elevator from the mind down into the Heart.  Ride it from noise to Silence. From chaos to Peace. From fear to Love.  It's noisy in the head, but quiet in the Heart. Stay (t)here in this Loving Silence. Don't ride the elevator back up. Stay (t)here. Stay Love. 

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"If the ground hadn't disappeared beneath my feet, I would have never known that I had wings."
-Rhonda Ross

My Go(o)d Friend, singer and song-writer, Rhonda Ross, sent me the inspired poem she penned yesterday, and I had to share it with my other Go(o)d friend...YOU!

If you're uncomfortable right now, going through the fire, in your dark night... THIS IS FOR YOU.  Get comfortable and marinate in this Love, in the Force Within, so It can carry you to your Next.

Check out her series, HERE and check out today's practice, HERE!

I love you and I'm with you, 
Nik 
Nikki@curlynikki.com 

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Today's Quotes:

"What if you said thank you to your body instead." - Anonymous via IG

“To love yourself fully, you must focus on a new dimension of You. You must focus on the presence inside of You. Take a moment and sit still. Focus on feeling the life presence inside you. As you focus on the presence within, it will begin to reveal itself to You. It is a feeling of pure love and bliss, and it is perfection. That presence is the perfection of You. That presence is the real You. As you focus on that presence, as you feel, love, and praise that presence, you will love yourself fully, quite possibly for the first time in your life. Any time you look at yourself with critical eyes, switch your focus immediately to the presence within, and its perfection will reveal itself to You. As you do this, all imperfections that have manifested in your life will dissolve, because imperfections cannot exist in the light of this presence."
— The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

“The absolute truth is that the ‘I’ is perfect and complete; the real ‘I’ is spiritual and can therefore never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease.” 
-Charles Haanel”

"Behold, I make everything new." - The Bible- Revelation 21:5 

My translation -- 'I', the awareness of the 'I' within you, makes everything new. You see with fresh eyes. You see with the eyes of Love. 

Today's Practice: 
Notice today which 'I' you are identified with.  Are you being the body, or the Love that courses through the body? The personal ego, or the impersonal presence, "I AM"? 

The "I Am", this true "I", is beyond concepts of sickness and health, beyond age, beyond sex, beyond all categories.  When you know by FEELING yourself to be this "I", the body you thought you were appears whole, beautiful, and radiant.  You can finally look at that body and love it, because you ARE Love. 

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Today's Quotes: 

"Trade your anxiety for My Peace." -  IG @Abideisprayer

"If it's out of your hands, then it deserves freedom from your mind, too." - Ivan Nuru

"Do not give in to your inclination to think about ghosts and apparitions. Rather keep your mind solely on God's name and meditate on Him. In the presence of His name, no other power can function. This is the Truth. Be firmly convinced of It.  The moment you have recourse to God's name, you should feel that no lesser power can touch you. If at that time you are aware of any physical anxiety, be quite certain that it is merely a bodily reaction." - Ananadamayi Ma

Today's 24 Hour Challenge:

1. Pick a prevalent worry/concern/desire in your life. 
2. Drop it for the next 24 hours. 

You drop it the moment you pick up your mantra. 
Every time a thought about your worry comes up, let it go by turning toward your mantra. Hear your mantra.
Feel your mantra. 
Feel Love for your mantra. 
Know that Love is appearing as your mantra. 

I'm with you, 
Nik 

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Rumi Quote: "Be drunk in Love, since Love is everything that exists."

Get a cup of water.
Set it in front of you and look lovingly at it.
Hold it in the Love that you are.
Look out at the water while simultaneously FEELING Love, inside. 
You have blessed this water with your holiness. 
With every sip, know that you are filling yourself with Love, drinking your way to a new life, to a new earth. 
History has ended. Karma is dead. Everything is changing. 
Only Love is here. 

Poem from recording- 

Intoxicated by Love
by Rumi

Because of your love
I have lost my sobriety
I am intoxicated
by the madness of love

In this fog
I have become a stranger to myself
I'm so drunk
I've lost the way to my house

In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance

Drunk with the ecstasy of love
I can no longer tell the difference
between drunkard and drink
Between Lover and Beloved

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Today's Passage and Meditation: 
Eva Bell Werber's "My Robe"

Today's Practice:
Put on Love's Robe. Feel Its warmth, Its security, Its regality.  You are protected.  You are safe. You are loved. You are Love.  Whenever you feel worried or challenged today, pull Love's Robe around you tighter.  Stay aware that you're wearing It. Stay conscious that you're covered.  Love's got you. It's got us. In reality, there's only Love, and all is well. 

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Today's Quotes:

"This world is like a shadow.  If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so.  If you turn your back towards it, it has not choice but to follow you!" 
-Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

"As long as you want power, you can't have it.  The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dream possible."
-Ram Dass

"People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future."
-Eckhart Tolle

The story of Joel Goldsmith's missing luggage (material vs spiritual universe) comes from 'The Thunder of Silence', Chapter 9. 

Today's Practice:

Take a moment and explore something you're expecting (or hoping) to happen this week.  Notice that with this expectation comes fear and worry about NOT getting it.  Feel into that desire and drop it by feeling into Love.  What's your 'missing luggage'? What's your 'tattoo'? Let it go.  Love is now. Real happiness and contentment are NOW.  Stay with this fullness, and   anytime you notice an expectation or a desire arise, relax your shoulders, smile, and melt back into this Love.  And then watch what happens :) #Miracles 

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God Morning to you!  Click HERE to listen to yesterday's episode.  In Part II, I share a significant part of my routine that is so natural to me now, that I forgot to mention it! 

Today's Quote:
"Get in the habit of coming out of sleep into mantra." - Ram Dass

Today's Practice:
Every night before you fall asleep, set an intention to wake up the next morning to Truth... to wake up as Love... to wake up reciting your mantra... to wake up FEELING your mantra... feeling Love, smiling, breathing consciously.  Then, like we always do, make it a game to stay aware of your mantra (of Love), all the way to the bathroom, all the way to the kitchen, all the way to your office, etc.  Keep remembering Love until you realize that you are Love.  Everything else is imagination. 

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Today's Quotes:

-"The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep."- Rumi

-"We must begin our days with the inner reminder of our true identity.  We must identify ourselves as Spirit, as Principle, as the law of Life unto our affairs.  It is a very necessary thing to remember that we have no needs: We are infinite, individual spiritual consciousness embodying within ourselves the infinity of good: and therefore we are that center, that point of God- consciousness which can feed five thousand any day and every day- not by using our bank account, but by using the infinity of good pouring through us the same as it poured through Jesus.  We do not meet people with the idea of what we can get or what they can do for us, but wee ego out into life as the presence of God."  - The Infinite Way by Joel Goldsmith

-The Sadhguru video I watched on Brahma Muhurtam(the 3:40 AM phenomenon)  

Today's Practice:

Commit to rising a little earlier than usual tomorrow (and everyday), to sit in the presence of Love. To sit with your Self. You can engage in any spiritual practice that suits you (or none).  You can journal, you can meditate, you can practice Love,  you can listen for silence, you can Namaskar, sway, take Love steps, consciously smile, do Japa (that's what I do along with Love Steps)... anything you like or a combination of several! The earlier you get up, the more you time you have for yourself, for your Self, for God, for Love.  Take that time. Take your power back.  We can sleep when we're dead :)  But wait... we don't die, because we were never born. Our bodies can and will sleep... our minds can and will sleep... but this consciousness that we are, is eternally Woke... watching, from Love, the seeming waking, sleeping, and dreaming.  Let's stay woke.  

I love you and I'm with you!
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com

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In this Love Speaks bonus series--

Me = Love = I Am = your true Self = God

These are Love notes, spoken to Love, from Love, to remind you that Only Love Is Here.

I love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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When you try to focus on two things at once, your mind falls quiet. 

Today's Quote: 

"God works as bridge builders, coal miners, teachers, salesmen, lawyers, artists, ministers; and it is God, the infinite Intelligence, at the center of our being, which determine our special form of expression.  To know what Its destiny is for us, we must touch this center within us in meditation." - Joel Goldsmith, The Art of Meditation 

Today's Practice: (comes from Frank Kinslow via the Diamond Sutras)

Take your right forefinger and place it on your right thigh. Become aware of the sensations-- is it hot, cold, smooth, or rough? Can you feel your pulse in your finger? Now, take your left forefinger and place it on your left thigh.  Become aware of the sensations-- is it hot, cold, smooth, or rough? Can you feel your pulse in your finger?  Now try to pay attention to BOTH points of contact, your left finger touching your left thigh and your right finger touching your right thigh.  And then drop down into your body. Notice the Silence that is now seemingly louder.  Stay (t)here.  Hear the Silence and feel the Love in the Silence. Feel the Silence AS Love.  With practice, you won't need to try to pay attention to two different sensations simultaneously, you'll be able to immediately shift your attention to the Silent Love.  This is meditation. This is your center.  Your purpose unfolds from here.  

I love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com 

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Feel Love like your life depends on It, because your best life does!

Today's Quotes:

"Why not understand that your vortex is pregnant with everything that you want.  Your vortex is pregnant right now with everything that you want." - Abraham Hicks 

Note: the vortex = the I Am = Loving Awareness

"As you know, God has a way of meeting our need at every level; soon thereafter I came across a poem by Robert Browning in which he states that we should not try to open an entry for good to come into us from the without, but rather we must open out a way for the imprisoned splendor within us to escape." - Joel Goldsmith

“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”- Robert Browning

Today's Practices:

Exhale (through pursed lips) strong, heavy energy out of your system.  Exhale your way back to Center, back into alignment.

Remember that everything you think you want is here, present, as the feeling, 'I Am'.  Stay in this knowing, keep retuning to this gentle perception... through your mantra, via the silence,, by smiling, Namaskaring, or by using your breath. Pick the door that gets you in the room and stay (t)here.  Abide. Rest as Love. I’m here with you. 

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ISSA RERUN! 

Don't match the energy of the office or anywhere else you DON'T want to be.  Recognize the room and the circumstances you're presently sitting in as the past.  Which means it doesn't need YOU.  You can even mentally remind yourself throughout the day, 'this is Past'.  You witness these scenes while being (aka feeling) Love.  You realize that they are just projections of who you used to be.  And now that you're being Love, you'll begin seeing Loving projections, new episodes that match all you've come to know your Self as. 

BONUS: That body and mind you think is you, is also apart of the rerun episode.  So if it's upset, that's OKAY!  You couldn't feel any other way in this scene. That stuckness or frustration or sadness is just as much apart of the scene as the couch or lamp.  But for the first time, you are watching from and AS Love.  Witness the body, the mind, and the entirety of the rerun from your throne of awareness, knowing that all is well. All is God. 

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Today's Quotes:

"It is easy to bear the heat of fire and likewise, it is possible to tread the edge of the sword.  But to sustain an unchanging love is a most difficult business." 
-Kabir

"'Mind' is nothing but the absence of your presence." - Osho 

Today's Practice: 
Meditate on Love the way you usually meditate on the world... the way I talked about how I was meditating on my hair, or my feet, or a headache.  We have to keep some attention on Love, constantly, no matter what we seem to be up to.   

So today, and everyday, before you reach for your phone, reach for Peace, reach for your mantra , reach for the inner Silence.  Meditate on Love while you scroll your feed.  Use that super powerful impulse to check your phone, to check yourself... to feel your Self.   And if you're anything like me, you'll have a tremendous number of times to practice Love, today lol!  Let's use our screen time for Go(o)d!  Start scrolling IG and FB (do we still do that? are we still on the Book?) in the atmosphere of Love.  Keep some attention inside, on Love, or on your mantra, or on Silence, at ALL times.  Until this Love replaces your concept of time... of yourself.  Until Love is all that's left.  

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“You must remember that the Name represents God within you. So you repeat any Name you hold dear and fill yourself with Divine ecstasy. This is the easiest and best method by which you can purify yourself. Think of God and you become the image of God. Take the holy Name and you become holy.
- Ramdas

"The best service you can do is to keep your thoughts on God. Keep God in mind every minute."
-Mahrajji

"If you do Japa mantra you will always be benefited. You will never lose anything."
-Anandamayi Ma 

"Those who sing the praises of Him are no longer ordinary men trapped in the world."
-Anon

"That student onto who the Lord becomes merciful chants the Lord's name and wins the game of life."
-Guru  Ram Das Ji

"Knowingly or unknowingly, consciously or unconsciously, in whatever state we utter His name, we acquire the merit of such utterance." - RamaKrishna

"By Reciting His name, everything is achieved." -Maharajji

“By the power of the Name of God, one shall come to know what one does not know. One shall see what cannot be seen. One will be able to speak what cannot be spoken. One shall meet what cannot be ordinarily met. Incalculable will be the gain of uttering the Name.” - #Tukaram

“Gazing upon this world, you are fooled. It is not worth even half a shell. Only the name of the Lord of the Universe is permanent.”
-Gurbani 

"After no great lapse of time I had the feeling that the prayer had, so to speak, by its own action passed from my lips to my heart. Further there came into my heart and precious warmth. None of these things made me feel at all cast down. It was as though they were happening to someone else and I merely watched them. The prayer brought sweetness into my heart and made me unaware of everything else."
- The Way of A Pilgrim

-Excerpt about Mantras from the book I've mentioned before, Polishing the Mirror (the one that sold me on the practice back in 2013)

-How to use a Mala

-I use Tulsi wood beads to chant, like these or these.

-Interviews I've conducted on  japa-
Nanak Naam
Krishna Das

-Books
Chants of a Lifetime by Krishna Das
The Way of a Pilgrim 
The Essential Swami Ramdas
Polishing the Mirror by Ram Dass

-Songs featuring the Mahamantra
Brindavan Hare Ram (the one I was singing before I started chanting it)
Township Krishna

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We'll call this the Go(o)d Tools collection-- recordings you can play, real-time, when you're in those stormy moments.  Let Love help you find your way back to your throne, back to the Calm, back to the only Power.  Remember, you're never 'upset'... you're only ever out of Peace.  You're not angry or afraid, you just forgot God. But the moment you recognize that you've forgotten, you've already remembered :)  So smile! 

This is the audio version of the notes I've written in my phone over the years- my 'break glass in case of emergency', Love notes to myself.  I hope they help you as much as they've helped me.  

All you need is enough awareness to remember to remember to come here and hit play.  And I promise that you'll find the relief you're seeking.  And in that relief you'll find Love. And in that Love, solutions.  Abide. Breathe. Smile. 

It's all Go(o)d.  Always. 

I love you, 
Nik 

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This is a meditation that a teacher walked me through back in 2013ish.  It's a powerful way to begin to discern the unchanging Peace in every Holy Instant... you come to clearly detect the witness who has always been right (t)here, and you realize that you are That! 

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Today's Quotes:

"Some people feel the rain, others just get wet." - Bob Marley

"This Is, and this isn't."- Herb Fitch on discerning the Real (Love) from the not real (appearances) 

 "What is Sufism?" He said: "To feel joy in the heart when sorrow appears." - Rumi 

Today's Practice:

Choose your 'let go'... pick your permission slip to surrender and keep returning to it today.  It could be your mantra, it could be listening to Silence, it could be setting your phone alarm to go off every hour to remind you to relax the tension in your body... pick the one that works for you and EMPLOY IT.  Be still in Love, in the knowing that Only Love is Here. 

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Today's Quotes:

"Bliss is the feeling that comes to you when the observer has become the observed. Bliss is the feeling that comes to you when you are in harmony, not fragmented; one, not disintegrated, not divided, undivided, one. Feeling is not something that happens from the outside. It is the melody that arises out of your inner harmoniousness. "
- Osho , The Empty Boat

"Gain this consciousness of God's presence and you have the whole secret of success in every walk of life.
 Cultivate the awareness of the presence of God every moment. It is our conscious union with God which enables us to live without taking thought and makes possible a life of complete abundance- by Grace."
- Joel Goldsmith, The Infinite Way

Today's Practice:  We run through the  REAL SEEING MEDITATION from Headless.org in order to get clear instruction on how to 'turn within'.  The same attention we use to watch TV or look out at an object, we now turn within ourselves to notice Silent-Love.  Keeping some attention within, on the Loving Silence, is our practice and it bears fruit, abundantly. 

 

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I Am here to wake you up, so that your body can sleep. Play this one right before bed tonight, and every night until you can choose Love without a permission slip!  

This Evening's Meditation:

"Beloved, whether or not you recognize My Holy Presence, yet am I still within you.  I am flowing through you, even though unfelt and unseen.  How much I could do for you, and how clearly I could direct you if you would turn within from time to time, and by speaking to Me have a living consciousness of the Holy Presence abiding with you always. 

You make so hard a thing of life.  My children struggle and strive to accomplish and attain. Try to be still that you may hear My voice.  Know that I am in all sounds of loveliness and all things beautiful bear the image of My face. But your eyes are holden and you hear and see not.  Try My dear one so that in coming days I can be more real to you.  Then shall that which is not real fall away and sweet shall be the reality of our fellowship and great shall be your strength.  You shall abide in Peace, walking your way in joyous service all through the day." 
- Eva Bell Werber, In His Presence

You 'speak' to God by being Still and listening within. God speaks back as Silent Love.  Rest in This, tonight.  I am in It with you. 

I Love you, 
Nik

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Today's Quote:  

"Begin your spiritual life with the understanding that all conflicts must be settled within your consciousness. There is never a conflict with person or condition, but rather a false concept mentally entertained about person, thing, circumstance or condition.  Therefore, make the correction within yourself, rather than attempting to change anyone or anything in the without. 

Acknowledge God as substance, law, cause, and activity of all that is, and immediately refrain from meddling physically or mentally in the without. Get back inside yourself, and there resolve all appearances."
 - Joel Goldsmith, The Infinite Way  

Today's Practice:  In the face of a disturbance, remember that it must first be resolved in yourself.  You don't have to make your little self, your ego, feel better... your little self doesn't have to feel good, but you have to feel and be aware of and AS God.  Become aware of your mantra, or Silence, or Love and recognize that you are the Loving Space for that moment to unfold in.  You are then aware of the disturbance AND Love.  This recognition, these short, frequent awakenings, are the healer of every situation.  

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Today's Quote:

"Questioner: "Is your world full of things and people like mine?"
Nisargdatta Maharaj: No, it is full of my Self. " - Everything is an Illusion

Today's Practice: 

See everyone as your own reflection. Look out from the feeling of Love at all of your faces.  Hold everyone you see in Light... in Love.  

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Check out Headless.org   for other powerfully enlightening, yet simple 'experiments' to reveal your natural state of awareness. This one is great before bed, but equally powerful for stressful moments during the day.  It guides you right into the boundless space that the anger and frustration come and go in. Explore these teachings and your often over looked first person experience, and let me know if you have any questions!  xx

My New Growth podcast interview  with the Headless Way teacher, Richard Lang.

The Kanye West video I mentionedbefore the meditation.  

Have you ever heard of this teaching?! Let me know your experience by leaving a review!
 

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Today's Quotes:

"God's is the only presence in that room."
 - Herb Fitch

"My "me" is God, nor do I recognize any other "me" except God, Himself."
- St. Catherine of Genoa

"There is only one seeming problem. And that seeming problem is that God's Presence has been mistaken to be the presence of an individual."
- Ananta

Today's Practice: 

Love is the only presence where you are.  Not you AND Love.  Not Love AND a crowd of people... just Love.  Only Love is here.  No matter where you go today or what you see, instantly recognize it as Love.  Look out at the world from the feeling of Love. The feeling you have when you Namaskar or sway? That. Feel That while you look at stuff.  "That's not a little girl, that' Love. This is not a store aisle, it's Love.  I'm not looking at a phone, I'm looking at Love. Love has seemed to take on the form of a phone. But I know (aka feel) the Truth. Only Love is here." Practice this unceasingly today and always. If only Love is here, who is there to hate? To be afraid of? To envy? To be angry with? It's all You, boo. It's all Love. And therefore, it's all Go(o)d! Smile, breathe. :)

The incense I referred to in this episode!

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The only 'problem' we ever have is forgetfulness of God, of Truth, of felt-Love.  The moment we acknowledge Love's presence where we are, we simultaneously acknowledge the non-reality of the problem.  Only Love is Here.  And in this Love, there are no problems. 

Today's Quote:  "This pain, this problem is part of my initiation. Its purpose is to make me unsee the problem. I must accept the challenge of the initiation.  And not be tempted to deny the Presence, the Power and the Allness of the Spirit of God. My initiation will be as long as I  want it to be-- 500 years or 5 hours. My initiation must continue until I  reach that place where I put up my sword, where I seek no defense, where I am not fooled into removing what I think is ‘my problem’.  See it as a counterfeit.  Every pain is a counterfeit. Every anxiety, every fear is a counterfeit.  My initiation is over the moment I know this and can rest in the Peace of the Father’s Presence, needing no power to overcome the counterfeit of lack, limits or fear.  Then I’m in the state of acceptance of the realization that God is the only power. Now I am not asking god to come into my world and make it better.  I am saying there is no work that needs to be done, there is only your kingdom."  - Herb Fitch 

Today's Practice:  When a problem presents itself, immediately shift into:

1. your mantra, like, Only Love is Here,
and/or
2. the Silence that is before, after, and pervading your mantra
and/or
3. the Love that is in the Silence

I immediately turn to the Love, but going straight to your mantra is just as powerful. The words gently guide you to the direct contact with your true Self, with Love, with the solution to every seeming problem.  

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In today’s episode, we chat about our inherent wealth within, and Oprah's path of discovering It, by FINALLY being her authentic Self. Now it's your turn. 

Today's Quote:

"A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you.  Do not consider what strangers say.  Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.” 
- Rumi

Bonus Quotes:

"I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier."
- Oprah 

“The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.” 
- Rumi

"How can you expect to see the road when you have kept the door shut. Open the door and you will see the road."
- AnandaMayi Ma

"The Soul is the Divine workshop for the camera of your mind. Divine Love flowing from your Soul into the dark room of your mind replaces the lens of your mental camera. As you transcend your mind, you move above the belief that matter is here, that matter has power, that matter shapes your destiny.   By release of material beliefs the soul transcends the mind and therein lies divine rebirth. Fulfillment of purpose." 
- Herb Fitch

Today's Practice:

Be your Authentic Self using one of these practices:

#BeHer(or Him)Now -- Become aware of Love in the body and allow It to live you. Allow It to enrich you. Walk into every room today, aware of that Love inside, aware As your best Self. 

or

#BeLoveNow a la RamDass -- Feel Love not just in the seeming body, but everywhere. Be the Love that the body is moving through.  When you are aware AS Love, the body and mind are gorgeous and clear reflections of That.  

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Today's Quote:
 "The very essence of meditation is one-pointedness and the exclusion of all other considerations, even when these considerations happen to be enticing." 
- Meher Baba

Bonus Quotes: 
"God plus mind is man. Man minus mind is God." - Anonymous 

“Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful moments in life. Once you have tasted a single moment of no-thought, you have taken a great leap into truth; then things will become more and more easy every day.” - Osho 

Today's Practice: 
Choose a song that you love and sing along to it.  Notice each time your mind wanders, and bring it back to the hearing of the song and your voice singing along.  Start the song over and try again. See if you can stay focused in the moment, in the singing for the duration of the song. Make it a game.  Don't follow any thoughts. Sing TO Love. Stay as Love.  

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Today's Quote:

"Since the Kingdom of God is within me, all power is within me." - Joel Goldsmith (Invisible Supply)

Bonus Quote:

"Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time.  In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God. Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols; pills, money, “protective” clothing, influence, prestige, being liked, knowing the “right” people, and an endless list of forms of nothingness that you endow with magical powers.

All these things are your replacements for the Love of God. All these things are cherished to ensure a body identification. They are songs of praise to the ego. Do not put your faith in the worthless. It will not sustain you.

Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances. 
- ACIM Lesson 50

Today's Practice:

Every time you notice worry thoughts today, let go of them by immediately remembering the mantra, "all power is within me", allowing the words to guide you back to the Peace, the Love, Power, Itself. Use this mantra to help you FEEL through to the Truth of every moment.  Only Love is here.  There can't be a problem AND Love.  There are no problems in the Kingdom.  There's only God, only Love, only the One.  Relax your shoulders as you're reading these words and know that you are the Kingdom.  You are safe. All is well.  

Bonus Practice:

Take out a cute notebook and pen and write down everything in your life that is not power.    Keep adding to that list until you can see and know and FEEL that Love is the only Power and that all seeming other powers dissolve in the presence of this Love.  Love is truly all we need. Let's stay plugged in, today.  

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Today's Quote: 

“Do you have a cell phone with a camera in it? Cut the camera on, and then pan it around the room. Do you see how it just records, just registers whatever it sees? What does the camera think about what it's registering? What beliefs does the camera have about what it's recording? How many opinions does the camera hold about what it's registering? What positions is it taking up about what it's recording? What's that you say? The camera is not thinking at all? It doesn't have any beliefs, opinions, or positions about what it's seeing while panning around?  — Awakening Clarity: A Spiritual Sampler by Fred Davis

Today's Practice:

Act like a camera.  Using your head like a camera, slowly pan around the room you're in, silently registering the moment without the voice overlay of judgement, labels, and unnecessary commentary.  Just silent, loving witnessing.  

Whenever a disturbance comes today, immediately pan out. Just as the table and the lamp are included in that scene, so is the anger or fear. Let it be. Just register everything including disturbing sensations purely, without giving them a narrative or a story line.  Just look, without thinking. Just feel, without labelling it as 'bad' or needing to tell a story about where the sensation came from or who caused it or what you need to do to make it go away (go for a drink, grab your phone, etc).  The moment you're in couldn't be any other way. The couch you're sitting on couldn't be any other way. The fear that is felt couldn't be any other way. You couldn't be anywhere else.  It is as it is.  And it's all Go(o)d.  And once you're okay with it all, IT SHIFTS. Only after you give up your resistance to the moment does It shift.  Let go. Relax, breathe, smile.  PAN OUT.  Pretty soon, you'll know that nothing is the same. 

Bonus Practice:

Take the mantra, "just this"-- no past, no future, just this Love appearing as this scene.  All that is, is appearing as you holding the phone reading these words right now.  And 'later', all that is will be appearing as you walking into the bathroom, or into the kitchen.  And still 'later', all that is and ever will be, is appearing as a street, with cars, and trees rushing past, and that body, seated, gripping the steering wheel that's steering the world.  You're always arriving at the Home you never left.  

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In today’s episode, you learn a practice that will help you abide in Love as you cross the bridge from your old life into a new one. Same Love, new Life

Today's Quote:
"Be fully aware of your own being and you will be in Bliss consciously.  Because you take your mind off yourself and make it dwell on what you are not, you lose your sense of well-being."
-Nisargadatta Maharaj

Today's Practice:
Select a song from the list below (or a song choice of your own without words, that is uplifting), and find a room where you can be alone. 

1. Press play (headphones are preferable)
 
2. Stand in the middle of the room, fold your hands in front of you (Namaskar), bow ever so slightly, and close your eyes (if you can safely-- ensure you have enough room). Using that body as an antenna for the Divine, you will automatically become aware of Love. It's a humbling posture.   

3. Take slow, little steps, while repeating your inner 'thank yous', opening your eyes on occasion to check where you are in the room, so that you don't bump into anything.  I take baby steps in little circles, very slowly. 

4. Practice Love during the entire song, feeling Go(o)d in every step.  Try to stay aware of Love for the WHOLE song.  And when thoughts come, let them go and return to the 'thank you' mantra, the beautiful music, and the Love. Repeat the song at least once, if you have time! 

IMPORTANT: Let each step be taken in the feeling, the energy or vibration of Love. Do as Thich Naht Hanh says and KISS THE FLOOR with each and every step.   You'll know you're doing it right if you are smiling!  Let the music point you back to your inner smile, to the Love inside, to the Love that you are.  Imagine each step is one taken across the bridge from your old life to your new one.  New life, same Love. 

My favorite is first, but I love them all!
I Giorni (Live) by Ludovico Einaudi
River Flows in You by Yiruma
Pacheelbel Meets U2 by Jon Schmidt
With or Without You Live by The Piano Guys
A Thousand Years by The Piano Guys
On the Way to the Beloved by Karuna

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Today's Quote:

"The moment your mind starts worrying, know that at that moment, your mind has wandered away from Him. Bring it back to Him and watch your worries melt away." - @Geetima14

Today's Bonus Quotes: 

“Think of Me until all thoughts are dissolved.' This is the teaching of Sri Krishna in regard to meditation."- Swami Ramdas 

"We don't find God, WE DISSOLVE."- Krishna Das 

“As God’s beloved, I live in bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Him in all that I see.  God dissolved my mind, my separation.  I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him.”   – St. Teresa of Avila

"The best service you can do is to keep your thoughts on God. Keep God in mind every minute." - Maharajji (Neem Karoli Baba) 

Today's Practice: 

Remember that you're NOT upset or worried, you just forgot God, you forgot to FEEL Love.  

So as often as you can remember today, use these words, this remembrance to feel back into the position of the Loving Witness:

"Only Love is here" or, if it feels more accessible to you, ask yourself, "is Love here, too?" and then you listen for the Silence that follows the question.  You'll FEEL the answer in the Silence.  Love rushes in.  

*If you can't taste the Love yet, stay in the big Quiet that follows your inner question.  

*If you can't hear the Quiet that follows the inner question or statement yet, simply stay with the words.  The words will eventually deliver you to the Loving-Silence.  

I love you and I'm with you!
Nik 

If you have questions you want me to answer on future episodes, message me at nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quotes: 

"There is a secret place. A radiant sanctuary. As real as your own kitchen. More real than that. Constructed of the purest elements. Overflowing with the ten thousand beautiful things. Worlds within worlds. Forests, rivers. Velvet coverlets thrown over featherbeds, fountains bubbling beneath a canopy of stars. Bountiful forests, universal libraries. A wine cellar offering an intoxication so sweet you will never be sober again. A clarity so complete you will never again forget. This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway… Believe the incredible truth that the Beloved has chosen for his dwelling place the core of your own being because that is the single most beautiful place in all of creation.
...
This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway. Step around the poisonous vipers that slither at your feet, attempting to throw you off your course. Be bold. Be humble. Put away the incense and forget the incantations they taught you. Ask no permission from the authorities. Slip away. Close your eyes and follow your breath to the still place that leads to the invisible path that leads you home."
-Mirabai Starr, St. Theresa of Avila- The Interior Castle

"Breath and mind arise from the same place and when one of them is controlled, the other is also controlled."- Ramana Maharshi 

Today's Practices:

Breathe boldly, deeply into your abdomen. Watch the breath. Notice that when you're witnessing the breath, the mind is calm and when the mind is calm you are squarely on your Throne.  Stay on your Throne of Loving Awareness knowing that everything you need is already, always within you. 

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The practice--

"So I will give you one meditation. Every night before going to bed, just sit in your bed, put the light off. Close your eyes, relax your body and then just feel that the whole room is full of golden mist… as if gold mist is falling all around.

Just visualize it for one minute with closed eyes – golden mist falling. And within a few days you will be able to see the whole room becoming luminous in your vision. Then inhale and feel that that golden mist is being inhaled deep in your heart. Your heart is just void, empty, and that golden mist goes into it, fills the heart.

Then exhale: again feel that that golden mist is going out and that your heart is again becoming empty, void, nothing inside. This gold mist filling the heart, your inner being, and then emptying it – just like exhalation, inhalation. With inhalation you fill it; with exhalation you empty it.

This you do for five, seven minutes, and then simply go to sleep. **But when you go to sleep, always go to sleep when you are empty, not when you are full of the gold mist. Empty yourself and go to sleep. And you will have a very different quality of sleep – more of the void, more of nothingness, more of non-being. In the morning you will open your eyes feeling as if you have been in a totally different land… as if you have disappeared.

In the morning before you get out of bed, sit again: for five minutes repeat the same process. But when you get out of the bed, get out full of gold mist. Going to sleep, go when you are empty; getting out of the bed, be full of the mist.

Hold the gold mist inside and get out, and the whole day you will feel a subtle energy flowing in you, a very golden energy. In the night become empty, in the day become full: let the day be a day of fullness and the night a night of emptiness.

This is for now, and when you come next time, remind me – then the next step. I will tell you the next step so you can remember, but don’t try it now….

The next step will be that you simply remain a watcher. The gold mist comes in; you are a watcher. Fill your heart – you are a watcher; emptying out of your heart – you are a watcher. You are neither: neither day nor night, neither emptiness nor fullness, just a witness. But that is a second step.

So this you continue, mm? It is going to make you a shunyadeva – a God of emptiness!

Source: ” The Zero Experience, Chapter 3 ” – Osho

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Today's Meditation:

"Step 1: Relax.  Whenever you are sitting with nothing to do, relax your lower jaw, and let your mouth open, just slightly.  Start breathing from the mouth, but not deeply. Just let the body breathe. So it becomes more and more shallow. When you feel that the breath has become very shallow, and your mouth is open, and your jaw relaxed, your whole body will feel relaxed. 

Step 2: Allow an inner smile. Now, start feeling a smile begin to grow. Not on your face, necessarily, but all over your being. It is an existential smile, that spreads inside you from your belly. It is a smile, not a laugh. So it is very soft and delicate. Like a little rosebud opening in the belly. It's fragrant spreading all over the body. Once you have known what the smile is, you can remain happy for 24 hours. And whenever you feel that you are missing that happiness, just close your eyes and catch hold of that smile again. And it will be there. It is always there."
-Osho, The Orange Book

Today's Practice:
Just take a little moment. Eyes open, and breathe into your heart. Just little, short, shallow, open mouth breaths. Try it right now.  Feel that energy?!  Let that smile grow. Stay with the smile.  Live today as that smile. And like you already know, every time you notice that you've forgotten, you can close your eyes for a couple of seconds (like a reset button) and come right back to It. Take those breaths, smile from the inside-out, and you're back on the Throne!

Bonus Practice:
Watch yourself practicing the short, shallow, open mouth breaths. Be the Loving space for the breathing and the smiling to happen in, rather than being the breather or the smiler.  Be the formless, impersonal, boundless, undivided, invisible Love instead of the 'practicer'. ;)

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Today's Quotes:

"Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there." - Rumi

"Real vision is eyeless." -Anandamayi Ma

Today's Bonus Quote:
"The experience of Self is only Love, which is seeing only Love, hearing only Love, feeling only Love, tasting only Love, and smelling only Love, which is Bliss." -Ramana Maharshi

Today's Practice:
Once an hour or as often as you can remember, close your eyes as the person you take yourself to be, and open them AS Love. Bring the Loving silence you find inside out into the world. Feel Love where you see people.

This is the appthat I've used for years.  I don't pay for a subscription-- I just use the chimes function, and set it to go off once a minute for an hour or two! 

Let me know how it goes! And if you have any questions! Nikki@curlynikki.com

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Todays' Quote:

"'In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the word was God and the Word was made flesh.' The word was made flesh... but It still is the Word. By being made flesh it does not change its nature, character, or substance.  Cause becomes visible as effect, but the essence or substance is still the Word, Spirit, Consciousness."
- The Bible + Joel Goldsmith (The Infinite Way)

Bonus Quote:

"There is no beginning, no middle and no end: all is all at all times, beyond the comprehension of the mind and speech. There is no creation. The infinite has never abandoned its infinity. That has never become this."
-The Yoga Vasistha

Today's Practice:

In every moment, remember, FEEL, that this is a waking dream.  Live, lucidly. Feel Love and know that the Word hasn't become the world.  It appears to be the world, but It is still only the Word, only Love. 

Let's stop praying for dream solutions to dream problems, and start praying to be awakened from the dream. We pray for the dream to be broken. We pray for the constant, conscious awareness of God, of Love.  And then that Love breaks the dream. It breaks your belief in the dream. You can even say during the day, 'this is a dream', or 'Only Love is here,' or appropriately hum, 'merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily...' .  Write the word 'dream' on your hand. Do whatever it takes! And then, as the Loving Witness, you'll watch the nightmare end, and the beautiful dream begin.   

Referenced Book-
The Infinite Way
A Course in Miracles Made Easy 

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Today's Guided Meditation from the book 'Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration' by Penney Peirce :

"1.  Quiet yourself, center your attention in your body, be in the present moment 100 percent, and create calmness and receptivity. Recall your list of positive experiences. 

2. Imagine that behind your back, your diamond light body appears. This body looks just like you but is made of pure transparent light and has no wounds or blockages. Your light body radiates wisdom, love, harmony, and the knowledge of abundance. Your light body steps forward and puts its hands on your shoulders. 

3. In your imagination, feel the higher vibration of your light body; welcome it and attune to the frequency. As you do, your light body steps inside you, merging with you seamlessly and easily. 

4. Your light body matches up with your physical body perfectly, each light body part finding its physical body part: the light heart merges with the physical heart, the light cells match the physical cells, the light brain joins the physical brain. Take some time to scan through the various parts of your body as this process occurs. 

5. Allow yourself to let go into the light body as it takes over, saying, “You know how to run this brain, this heart, these lungs, how to use these hands, this voice. Please show me how. I trust you to renew me, reorganize me, and teach me.” Fall into your own light and feel supported. 

6. An odd thing happens; as you let your diamond light body take over to guide you, a saturation point is reached where you “flip” and realize you are the diamond light body. Your identity shifts. As you hear the voice of guidance from the light body, you realize it’s your voice. You might say, “I am here now, and I know what’s real.” 

7. Let the diamond light saturate not only every cell, but your emotions, feelings, and thoughts as well. Let it work on your brain and body, dissolving shadows, filling in gaps, upgrading all your systems, erasing worry and doubt, opening new pathways, and reprogramming you with updated frequencies. Remain in the silence. 

8. Now, “strike the tuning fork” of your diamond light body’s vibration and let waves of your light and your original tone ripple through every tiny space in your body and out through your skin into the space around you. Let it expand as far into the universe as it wants. As your own diamond light expands, it joins with the diamond light it encounters in the presence everywhere. In the center of the light, you can hear or feel your soul’s eternal indestructible tone or home frequency. 

Living in your home frequency clarifies your perception. As you become calmer and more centered, others around you may be hitting the earlier, more chaotic parts of the transformation process. You may be tempted to merge with those who are suffering to try to help them. You will probably be knocked out of your center and into lower frequencies a hundred times a day. You’ll have to be enormously kind with yourself, yet disciplined to “choose once again.” 

As you become accustomed to living in your home frequency, you may find others coming to you to discover something about that “special quality” you have.”


Today's Practice:

Feel your Diamond Light Body, allow it to match up to your physical body and FEEL Its vibration of Love and Light.  Stay with It. Feel and hear It tell you, 'I Am here, now'.  Stay with that Go(o)d feeling... keep returning to It until you realize you are It.  It is you. It is me. We are One in This.

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Today's Bonus Quote:

"As you progress you become less excited about collecting the melodrama of the daily news; for as you delve within yourself, you want less and less to feed your mind unnecessary images and thoughts that agitate it.  You simplify what you talk about, what you watch and what you read.  You find yourself drawn to new kinds of books, perhaps books written by those who speak from the quiet of meditation. They are invaluable in creating space in which your mind can become quiet also.   
...
One can be a responsible citizen without allowing one's mind to be captured by the media and their need to create news"  - Ram Dass, Journey of Awakening

Today's Bonus Practice: 

So what we're not gon' do today is watch stuff that makes us feel bad.  Just for today, turn off the news, turn off that one crime show... stop scrolling that IG account (and the comments!) that gives you anxiety. Sit with a Go(o)d book. Listen to Go(o)d music. Write in your journal. Take a walk. Our life stories have plenty of drama to cause that inner ruckus... we don't need to consume content that generate even more. STOP. Breathe. Smile. Love. I'm with you in this practice.  

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Today's Quote: "I depend on no one because God, (this Love), is my sufficiency in all things. You've got to be centered  in God. That's your number one priority. That's all you've got to do at all times is be centered in God. And everything must come your way. It's a law.  Spirit draws unto Itself.  Spirit will employ you because Spirit is you. But if you're not Spirit, or if you disclaim being Spirit or if you act like a human and not Spirit, how can Spirit serve?" - Herb Fitch

Today's Practice:  Return to the thought, "I depend on no one because God, this Love is my sufficiency in all things", frequently throughout the day. 

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Today's Quote:

"The sweetness of life, the relaxed presence is the perfume of our essence, our No Self.
This nectar is natural.
It is life itself.
From this nectar everything good grows in our being and in our life. 
Remembering our No Self is to remember this nectar, life's inherent sweetness."
- Bruce Davis, 'The Calling of Joy'

Bonus Quotes:

"I came to know the meaning of the words The Kingdom of God is within you. I noticed that the effects of the prayer of the heart are manifested in three ways: in the spirit, in the feelings, and through revelations.  In the spirit there is the sweetness of God's Love, inner peace, the rapture of the mind, purity of thought, and the delightful remembrance of God. In the feelings there is a pleasant warmth of the heart, fullness of delight in all one’s limbs, the joyous ‘bubbling’ in the heart, lightness and courage, the joy of living, power not to feel sickness and sorrow..."
-'The Way of the Pilgrim'

"In equanimity, every cell in your body will generate sweetness."
- Sadhguru

"Essentially, what you are seeking is an ultimate sense of sweetness within you. Either you hit it accidentally or consciously – that is the choice you have."
- Sadhguru

"Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment."
- Rumi
 
Image of Anandamayi Ma (Bliss Filled Mother) -- See her face?! That. 

Today's Practice: 

Feel the inner Sweetness and then do something sweet for someone. Let that sweetness take the form of a Go(o)d deed! 

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Today's Quote: 

Only for today need you try to keep close our contact. Only for the present moment are you held responsible.  Tomorrow, yea, even the next hour is yet unborn.  So you see, after all the task is not such a hard one. Hold fast to My hand now, this very moment feel its tender touch and verily you shall not be left alone in the next hour, day or month."
- Eva Bell Werber, In His Presence

Bonus Quote:

"Why should you worry about the future? You don’t even know the present properly. Take care of the present and the future will take care of itself."  
-Ramana Maharshi

Today's Practice: 

As many times as you can remember today, ask, 'where is Love, now?' And then feel It right where you are and know that this is all you have to do. You don't have to feel It in the future. You can only ever feel It now and know that because you feel It now, the future is taken care of. 

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Today's Quote:

“Take the famous utterance, "I am God." Some people think this is a great pretension, but "I am God" is in fact a great humility. Those who say, instead, "I am a servant of God" believe that two exist, themselves and God. But those who say, "I am God" have become nothing and have cast themselves to the winds. They say, "I am God" meaning, "I am not, God is all. There is no existence but God. I have lost all separation. I am nothing." In this the humility is greater.

This is what ordinary people don’t understand. When they render service in honor of God’s glory, their servanthood is still present. Even though it is for the sake of God, they still see themselves and their own actions as well as God—they are not drowned in the water. That person is drowned when no movement, nor any action belongs to them, all their movements spring from the movement of the water.”
-Rumi

Bonus Quote:
"God is the 'You' you don't know yet."
- Mooji

Today's Practice: 

Know that you are watching the doing. You are not the doing. You are not the doer.  The burden is not yours.  Let 'the water move you'. 

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If you're ready for a new life with this same Love, listen to this one... on repeat! Shift into a #NewEarth. 

I love you, 
Nik 

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Today's Quotes: 

"When God loves people He afflicts them.  If they endure with fortitude, He chooses them." - Rumi

"If only you can go through difficult times with inner Grace, every situation you face will be an opportunity to enhance your life." -Sadhguru 

"Don't stop believing, hold on to the feeling."- Journey, 1988

Today's Practice: The next time you're angry,  shift from being the one who is angry, to being the One that is aware that anger has come.  It's a simple (not easy, lol) shift that happens the moment you become aware of Silence, or Love, or your mantra.  You go from being angry to being the Loving Awareness of anger. Cut on some music, take a shower, change the scene (switch rooms) if you can...pause, breathe, smile.  And then let Love move that body into right action.  Let Love heal everything, because It is everything. 

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