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The Shift from Gratitude to Honoring

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The Shift from Gratitude to Honoring 

An Inner-World Exploration

Gratitude and honoring each have a different function and they produce different results.  

What is the difference between gratitude and honoring and why do we care?

Being grateful focuses our attention

I need to understand gratitude.  If we’re all one energy, who am I thanking?  Being grateful focuses me, makes me aware of the positive that’s showing up. Gratitude focuses our attention.

What happens when we elevate our gratitude to honoring?

The things I choose to honor seem more vital than the things I’m grateful for.  I’m grateful for my mind and I honor its curiosity and wisdom.  I’m grateful for my body and I honor the myriad of unseen systems that go into making it work.  I’m grateful for my life, that I’m safe and tucked in my old age.  And I honor the path that led me here and I especially honor the unseen forces that are guiding me. 

Both honoring and gratitude include action

I want to honor my past.  I want to honor my present.  I want to honor my future. I want to honor the ancestors, the divine feminine, the elements of nature.  Honoring is deeper than gratitude. There’s a reverence to it. A respect proffered. 

To honor is to respect.  To honor is to appreciate.  To honor is to care for, perhaps to love.  To honor is what I want to be and to have and to express.  

Gratitude is more a body-suit energy

The difference between honoring and gratitude may be as simple as the action we take. I may feel gratitude for something. I may even show my appreciation.  But I honor it by the reverence and mindfulness of the action I take.  

For instance, I feel gratitude for the blessings of life. Gratitude to the blessing of my body.  Gratitude to the sun for warmth… 

Cultivate the action of honoring

Honor the formation of the present.  How it’s gathering in, drawing in, attracting the energies that evolve into the next step, the next idea, the next action. Honor the coming together of the forces into a new shape.  the shape-shifting of energy into a new form.

I’m grateful for my mind. I honor it by keeping it stimulated and productive.

I’m grateful for my body.  I honor it with the care I give it. 

Honor your gifts. Honor your choices. Honor the opportunities you did or didn’t take.

It’s a subtle but distinct difference. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I cultivate the practice of honoring in my life. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Choose something tangible that you’re grateful for. Like your body, or your job or a relationship.

  • How do you express your gratitude?

  • How do you honor it?

  • How do you experience the difference and what does this awareness add to your life?

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider

Whom or What do You Give thanks

Why You May Want To Have an Altar

How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness 

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work 

Another Part of You – The Unseen World

When I See Myself As Light

Create a Releasing Ceremony For Yourself

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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What Are the Winds of Change Whispering to You?

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What Are the Winds of Change Whispering to You?
 An Inner-world Exploration

When you are still, when you quiet your mind and your heart and your breath, the Winds of Change will whisper to you. They will offer suggestions, bring you guidance, show you new opportunities. You have only to listen.  

The whisper may be an idea

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How Cycles Sneak Up On You

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How Cycles Sneak Up On You
An Inner-world Exploration

Look at your life.  Are you happy or would you like things to be different? 

You can’t make a change unless you know change is needed  

The sneaky thing is that life moves in cycles – small increments that you barely notice.  You gradually find yourself in a different position than you thought you were going and you don’t even know exactly how you got there. That’s why it’s important to take regular well-being checks – on all levels – emotional, spiritual and physical.  Well-being – how well is your “being?“

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The Deepest Song is Silence

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The Deepest Sound is Silence
An Inner-World Exploration

Stillness has a sound of its own.  There is nothing and there is everything. There is all and there is nothing.  Silence simply is. 

When we purposefully sit and empty our mind, there’s room for us to experience, absorb and learn from the Core Essence.  When we sit in stillness, we quiet our mind and invite the soft comforting sound of silence to wash through us.  

We still our thoughts. Lay aside our worries and concerns.  

And simply be.

Be nothing.  

Be everything.

Be.

Even in silence, there is sound  

Sit mindfully with the sound of silence.  Empty your mind and enter into the All-That-Is that is youand disappear your body.  Feel and experience yourself as simple energy – resonating, shining, peaceful, serene energy.  In silence.  Simply contemplate silence.

Silence creates space

When you sit in stillness when you empty your mind and sit in silence, the vast gifts of the Unseen World become apparent.  Move above the thoughts.  Embrace the images. Feel the feelings.  Float. Absorb.  Experience. Be the vibration that you are.  Be in the silence.  And listen. 

Listen with your spirit

Sit in silence and listen with your whole self.  Simply be.  Be the purity of nature.  Be the power of vibration.  Be the expression of oneness. The All-That-Is.

We are nothing.  We are everything.

I am nothing. I am all. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I mindfully place myself in contemplative silence and become one with All-That-Is. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Purposefully decide you are going to disappear into silence.
  • Sit or lie in a quiet place and move your attention within. 
  • Notice how loud the silence is. 
  • Move your intention to focus within until you are aware of yourself as pure vibration.  No sound, just vibration. 
  • Be that. 
  • Experience yourself as being All-That-Is.  Lose your awareness of being in your body suit.  Become the Emptiness That Holds Everything.
  • Repeat

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters

The Packed Potential Before the Beginning  

The Pillar of Light Process 

How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness 

How Do You Make Your Actions Lasting and Meaningful? 

Make Use of Emptiness

Be an Instrument for Experiencing

Broaden and Deepen
Your Personal Journey 

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and learn to share our discoveries with others.   We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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Play Your Body Song 

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Play Your Body Song
An Inner-world Exploration

In Qi Gong, there is a lovely practice called cupping. You cup your hands and “cup” your body in light taps along your meridians.  Up your arms, down your legs, on your torso.  It’s a lovely way to wake your body up from its night’s rest and get your circulation going.

I also use drumming as a vibrational healing practice.  I drum whatever rhythmical patterns come from within me.

It happens to be an interesting pairing – play rhythms on your body with the palms of your hands in order to stimulate the circulation and the meridians.

If you play your Body Song right before you step into the shower you will find that your bare body has different sounds in different places, which is a fun discovery all in itself.  Using your body as the drum, play some rhythms and enjoy the sound and the sensations. Remember to also swing your arms so you can tap on the organs closer to your back. 

I call this my Body Song because it offers rhythmic patterns to my ears and gets my body all primed for the day. 

Will you play your Body Song today?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I play my Body Song every day. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Using your slightly cupped hands, begin to beat a gentle rhythm up and down one arm.  Do the same to the other arm. 
  • With this same slightly cupped palm, move over your legs and torso. 
  • Swing your arms so you reach your back and give it a tap.
  • Experiment with rhythms and length of time and notice how alert and energetic you become. 
  • Repeat as many times each day as you wish.  (Perhaps not right before bed!)

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

The Intentional OM HUM  

The Light Vibration of One 

The Pillar of Light Process

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed 

Raise Your Vibration With Serenity

Raise Your Vibration Through Visioning

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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