Dear Friends,
As we begin a week of anticipation, change, and plenty of anxiety, I invite you to connect to your true essence, the light of peace and well-being ‘state’ that brought you here, even before you were born… your immortal diamond.
It is from this place that our nation will heal. The immortal diamond in each of our hearts that desires peace, security, safety, caring and a feeling of worthiness. YOU ARE THE CHANGE. Each one of us IS the change. It MUST start in the heart space of each one of us.
Come to class this week. Let’s dance from that heart space… expanding, contracting, flexing, strengthening, mobilizing… and setting the energy in motion.
I’m in the 8th day of a free online 21-day meditation with Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra. It is about connection, relationship, and change. I’m experiencing a thought-provoking 20 minutes of daily listening, breathing, and quiet time. So easy, yet profoundly transformational. You can jump in on the 4th day, if you do it tonight. The website keeps up 5 days at a time, dropping off as they add. Every DAY is worth it. I hope you jump in tonight… BE THE CHANGE.
After I listen and meditate, I transcribe the words to read later, as I am a very visual person. Words dance off the page and into my heart as images, memories and colors.
Below is ‘Day 3’ to share with you. It is extremely poignant and applicable to our present times. I hope you will read it and be inspired. The website to sign up (FREE) is www.chopracentermeditation.com
See you in class! Love, Adelle
Day 3… Centering thought: my true self is the source of peace and love.
Shanti Hum. I am peace.
Today’s meditation centers on how to bring the true self home.
Oprah: One of my most memorable experiences was a conversation with Franciscan Friar Richard Rohr. He talked about how each one of us creates a false self, based on our career, our race, our social status, and our physical appearance. This is the public you. Father Richard says, “The false self partly exists to help people survive in the real world, but what each person has is the face that we had before we were born. That’s our true self, or what many believe is our soul. I call it our immortal diamond.”
Our goal should be a continual connection to that immortal diamond, but anger, pride, and jealousy are all fuel for our false self, which creates a thick layer of painful suffering that blocks us from knowing the piece of our true selves.
Father Rohr believes that human beings suffer when they feel out of control. We see that manifested every day on the news, within our government, our companies, and our own families. In our closest relationships, we understand that where there is chaos, there is a loss of control. The result is disconnection. Frustration over not taking out the garbage, or getting home late, or letting the bills stack up, are the first signs that we are not connecting with our true selves. One of the best ways to prevent disconnection is to look inward to your immortal diamond.
Deepak: We can choose to connect with another person or not, but we cannot choose to disconnect from ourselves. Many people are uncomfortable with this truth. They spend a vast amount of time escaping themselves, with all kinds of activities, work, and distractions. Bringing relationships back to oneself, or home, can sound scary and difficult, which is it is not meant to be.
It is a beautiful ideal to envision a relationship with yourself that solves all other relationships. Is it realistic? The answer for conscious people is no, because from the beginning their sense of self is ego-based. Individual egos have self-centered aims, tastes, desires, opinions, likes and dislikes. The very construct of the ego brings with it a built in conflict with other egos. If you think about it, it’s surprising that separate egos, each with their own set of rules and agendas, ever get together in the first place. When they do, the connection always risks unraveling because each ego is primarily tied to what it wants.
The path to an ideal relationship, therefore, must get past the ego with its insecurities, demands, and endless focus on I, Me, and my. The true self ignores the rigid boundaries and constraints of the ego personality. Being unbounded, the true self has no desperate personal stake in the world, but only in its ability to BE, love, create, and evolve. Our primary goal, therefore, is to experience the true self through our meditation practice, whatever form that takes. These moments in life are when you feel at peace, secure, safe, cared for and most worthy… When love and caring float easily. This is your true self coming through.
Unlike the worried voice in our heads, the voice of the true self is silent. Its words consist of silent experiences that bring a moment of recognition. At such moments, we know who we are. We know how life is meant to feel. Doubt and confusion stand far away from us. In other words, our true self is a state of being.
Adelle: “Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu ~May all beings be peaceful and happy.” I invite you to hold that intention this week — and beyond. Enjoy… <3