RECEIVING HIGHER INNER GUIDANCE
Meditative focusing is the means for shifting to a greater Self. At this level we’re not only connected to our full creative potentials (the source of all of our greater possibilities), we’re also supremely guided.
Many years ago, being meditatively focused, I felt a sudden urge to take an aimless stroll. I wandered to a bench at 79th Street and Broadway. Unexpectedly a thought came to me: "Time to buy a co-op ... 92nd Street." Immediately I was inspired to go to a real-estate office and see what was available. What was offered didn’t seem right. A week later at my country house, I got an intuitive flash to cut the weekend short, return home and check with doormen along Broadway. My wife and I did just that. When we got to a building on 92nd Street, we learned of two apartments. One was not right, the other was spoken for, but something inside urged me to ask to see it anyway. And the moment the door swung open, a ‘voice’ within me joyfully shouted "YES! THIS IS IT". I asked the agent to check with the owner (even though it was thought to have been taken). We found that the agent who had been handling the apartment had dropped out of sight, leaving the sale unconfirmed. The owner immediately offered the apartment to us and at just the limit we could afford. She could have easily asked for (and gotten) more and priced me out, but she didn’t. We bought, moved in, and have never been happier.
Was this just random good fortune or a ‘hidden hand’ at work here? I can’t say. But I do know from experience that when I meditatively focus, a special guidance often occurs. By ‘listening’ to the subtle ‘voice’ of my ‘Greater-Self’, I’m guided to my best future. This process has helped me in many important ways throughout the years, including starting a Personal Growth Center, investing, and finding my dear wife.
However we choose to explain it, there’s a deeper level of Self we can tune in to that more wisely can guide us. And it happens when we become perfectly still and meditatively focus within.
Goodness and Joy to all, Joseph.
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
YOUR GREATER SELF LIES AHEAD
Have you discovered your greater self yet?
If you haven’t, you may find it hard to imagine and believe that a greater self exists within you. But it does.
You’ll begin to know this greater self when you suddenly experience beauty, not just in the obvious places (such as in a field of flowers or a rolling hillside), but all around you in the common sights of daily life. You’ll see it in the plodding bent-over frame of an old man crossing the street, as well as in the bright bubbling cherubic smile of an infant grabbing at his wiggling toes.
When you arrive at this greater self, you’ll not only see beauty more often and in the most unexpected places, you’ll also be more open to the creative possibilities of life -- what once may have seemed as a setback will suddenly seem like an opportunity to move ahead. You’ll also find greatness and fulfillment in the simple experience of just being alive -- a walk in the sun will be a grand event; a chance meeting with a neighbor ... an unexpected pleasure; the sights and sounds of your environment ... a sensory texture to savor.
And what may be most impressive of all is the new way in which you’ll suddenly carry yourself and meet the challenges of life. Disappointments and discomforts will be taken gracefully, discontent will be seen as an unnecessary response. And perhaps most wonderful of all, you’ll continually bathe in the warm glow of success because it will no longer be something you’ll need to strive for, but always present -- something that automatically comes with each thing that you lovingly do.
Yes, believe it or not, your life can be greater than you may now imagine. And this wonder can happen at any moment. All you have to do is recognize all the goodness that actually lies right within you and begin allowing it to emerge.
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
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Have you discovered your greater self yet?
If you haven’t, you may find it hard to imagine and believe that a greater self exists within you. But it does.
You’ll begin to know this greater self when you suddenly experience beauty, not just in the obvious places (such as in a field of flowers or a rolling hillside), but all around you in the common sights of daily life. You’ll see it in the plodding bent-over frame of an old man crossing the street, as well as in the bright bubbling cherubic smile of an infant grabbing at his wiggling toes.
When you arrive at this greater self, you’ll not only see beauty more often and in the most unexpected places, you’ll also be more open to the creative possibilities of life -- what once may have seemed as a setback will suddenly seem like an opportunity to move ahead. You’ll also find greatness and fulfillment in the simple experience of just being alive -- a walk in the sun will be a grand event; a chance meeting with a neighbor ... an unexpected pleasure; the sights and sounds of your environment ... a sensory texture to savor.
And what may be most impressive of all is the new way in which you’ll suddenly carry yourself and meet the challenges of life. Disappointments and discomforts will be taken gracefully, discontent will be seen as an unnecessary response. And perhaps most wonderful of all, you’ll continually bathe in the warm glow of success because it will no longer be something you’ll need to strive for, but always present -- something that automatically comes with each thing that you lovingly do.
Yes, believe it or not, your life can be greater than you may now imagine. And this wonder can happen at any moment. All you have to do is recognize all the goodness that actually lies right within you and begin allowing it to emerge.
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
SPREAD AWARENESS ... FORWARD THESE THOUGHTS TO FRIENDS.
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