September 27, 2016 A Well-Rounded Life Cancer Daily Horoscope
You likely have a strong sense today of what you want out of life and may have a plan for how to reach your goals. The intensity of your personal desires may make it difficult to notice whether the people in your life are feeling ignored. You may find that it takes little more than a moment to stop what you're doing and make time for them. If it is difficult for you to balance your personal life and your goals today, you may need to schedule time in the near future that is purely dedicated to your relationships. Remember that a successful life is a well-rounded one, and you have every right to achieve your goals and have a fulfilling personal life.
Keeping the needs of others in mind as you endeavor to satisfy your own needs allows you to satisfy yourself and maintain fulfilling relationships. It's easy to overlook the cues for attention that people may send us when we are focused on attaining a goal or result. Consider, however, that as much as you need to chase your dreams, your loved ones need you to be emotionally present in your relationships. You are entitled to experience success in your personal and work life—one doesn't have to take away from the other. Make time for relationships and work today, and you will create a successful, well-balanced, and fulfilling life.
Ayurveda teaches us to live life in balance. And it helps us to find exactly what that balance is for each one of us. We learn individual strategies for diet, exercise, and lifestyle. Since health is more than the physical, it is also mental, emotional, and spiritual, Ayurveda can be used to help us create and maintain healthy relationships. It can help us to better understand ourselves, and the people in our lives. We can work with our natural strengths to help balance each other out. We can stop trying to "change" others to fit our needs, and instead accept a person's characteristics as a part of their wholeness, and honor who they are. In Lissa's 8 week course, you will learn everything you need to know to get started living an Ayurvedic lifestyle and be on your way to a life of balance and bliss.
Be the friend to others that you wish them to be to you.
There comes a time in all our lives when we may need to evaluate our relationships, making sure that they are having a positive effect on us, rather than dragging us down. Without realizing it, we may be spending precious time and energy engaging in friendships that let us down, rather than cultivating ones that support and nourish us along our path. Life, with its many twists, turns, and challenges, is difficult enough without us entertaining people in our inner circle who drain our energy. We can do so much more in this world when we are surrounded by people who understand what we're trying to do and who positively support our efforts to walk our path.
We can begin this evaluation process by simply noticing how we feel in the context of each one of our close relationships. We may begin to see that an old friend is still carrying negative attitudes or ideas that we ourselves need to let go of in order to move forward. Or we may find that we have a long-term relationship with someone who has a habit of letting us down, or not showing up for us when we need support. There are many ways to go about changing the status quo in situations like this, having a heart to heart with our friend showing through example. This process isn't so much about abandoning old friends as it is about shifting our relationships so that they support us on our journey rather than holding us back.
An important part of this process is looking at ourselves and noticing what kind of friend we are to the people in our lives. We might find that as we adjust our own approach to a relationship, challenging ourselves to be more supportive and positive, our friends make adjustments as well and the whole world benefits.
Do you find it difficult to speak your truth to the one you love? Do you often censor your true feelings and real Self so you do not hurt someone else? Or, do you find yourself fearful, resentful and wanting to control and manipulate a situation so someone (or everyone) will feel better? Are you ready for your own space? Would you prefer to love deeply, be real, speak your truth, understand why you predictably attract certain people and reactions in loving relationships? Are you ready to experience deep intimacy and love without all that responsibility? This 49 Day course contains daily teachings, mind intervention practice videos, and assignments to help you become the master of enlightened relationship! By following, learning and mind imprinting the 49 Principles in this course, you will move past your fear of being real and experience the conscious evolution of love, which includes deep integration of the universal spiritual principles of relationship attraction and being! !
September 26, 2016 Personal Discipline Cancer Daily Horoscope
Feelings of ambition could lead you to adopt a goal-oriented mind-set today. You may feel more compelled than usual to focus your attention on professional obligations or personal obligations. Your discipline and determination could help you have a truly productive and satisfying day. If you find yourself distracted, ask yourself how you can regain your resolve and focus. Visualizing your goal—whether it is simply to accomplish each task on your agenda or make a large-scale lifestyle change—can help you remember what you are working so diligently for and why. Even if you are feeling highly accomplished today, you may still need to gauge your internal discipline and keep your attention on your goals. Remember that staying disciplined so that you take care of each task laid out before you will help you achieve what you want.
Personal discipline can give you the focus you need to accomplish your goals. Without a sense of discipline, ambitions and objectives are merely something to be dreamed about. When you're willing to take control of your life and exercise self-control, you become able to block out distractions and keep your mind on your goal. Discipline helps you create and keep schedules so that you can realize your main aspirations. With discipline, accomplishing any task becomes possible, while without it, even minor tasks seem like pipe dreams. Stay focused and disciplined today, and many things will become possible.
Do you find it difficult to speak your truth to the one you love? Do you often censor your true feelings and real Self so you do not hurt someone else? Or, do you find yourself fearful, resentful and wanting to control and manipulate a situation so someone (or everyone) will feel better? Are you ready for your own space? Would you prefer to love deeply, be real, speak your truth, understand why you predictably attract certain people and reactions in loving relationships? Are you ready to experience deep intimacy and love without all that responsibility? This 49 Day course contains daily teachings, mind intervention practice videos, and assignments to help you become the master of enlightened relationship! By following, learning and mind imprinting the 49 Principles in this course, you will move past your fear of being real and experience the conscious evolution of love, which includes deep integration of the universal spiritual principles of relationship attraction and being! !
Getting worn out and run down robs you of receiving what you need from the universe.
Our natural state of being is vibrant, happy to be alive. Yet, there can be times when we feel run down and worn out. This does not mean that we are lazy or unfit for the tasks in our lives; it means that we need to recharge our batteries and find a way of keeping them charged. Vitamins and extra rest can be very helpful in restoring our physical bodies. And if we are willing to delve deeper, we may discover that there is an underlying cause for our exhaustion.
Whenever you are feeling run down, take an honest look at how you have been thinking, feeling and acting. You will likely find a belief, behavior pattern or even a relationship that is out of alignment with who you really are. Perhaps you believe you have to be perfect at everything or you have been bending over backwards to get people to like you. Maybe you are dealing with mild depression or simply have too much on your plate right now. There may also be people or situations in your life which are draining your energy. Once you get clear on the root cause, you can weed it out and better direct your flow of energy in the future.
In time, you might notice that the reasons you feel run down have less to do with how much you are doing and more to do with the fact that in your heart, you would rather be doing something else entirely. From now on, try and listen to what your heart really wants. It may take meditation, or just a moment of silent tuning in to gain the clarity you need, but it is well worth the effort. When you know what you truly want to do, and honor that in all situations, you will find that getting run down is a thing of the past.
A Year of Guided Meditations is a series of 52 guided meditations featuring profoundly positive principles and ways of becoming your highest self. Every week for a year, you will receive a new guided meditation spoken in a soothing voice along with a beautiful musical background and stunning video images of a nature. These high-powered "Be-Attitudes" are ideals and values to strive for. Each meditation is about a minute long and is spoken in the "I AM" tense with the understanding that as you repeat it or internally absorb it along with the spoken word, you are coming that much closer to actualizing the idea within you, in the present tense, at this moment. By speaking as if you are already embodying the principle, you are not waiting for it to manifest at a future time and it can truly manifest within you - in the Now.
September 25, 2016 Personal Discipline Cancer Daily Horoscope
Feelings of ambition could lead you to adopt a goal-oriented mind-set today. You may feel more compelled than usual to focus your attention on professional obligations or personal obligations. Your discipline and determination could help you have a truly productive and satisfying day. If you find yourself distracted, ask yourself how you can regain your resolve and focus. Visualizing your goal—whether it is simply to accomplish each task on your agenda or make a large-scale lifestyle change—can help you remember what you are working so diligently for and why. Even if you are feeling highly accomplished today, you may still need to gauge your internal discipline and keep your attention on your goals. Remember that staying disciplined so that you take care of each task laid out before you will help you achieve what you want.
Personal discipline can give you the focus you need to accomplish your goals. Without a sense of discipline, ambitions and objectives are merely something to be dreamed about. When you're willing to take control of your life and exercise self-control, you become able to block out distractions and keep your mind on your goal. Discipline helps you create and keep schedules so that you can realize your main aspirations. With discipline, accomplishing any task becomes possible, while without it, even minor tasks seem like pipe dreams. Stay focused and disciplined today, and many things will become possible.
A Year of Guided Meditations is a series of 52 guided meditations featuring profoundly positive principles and ways of becoming your highest self. Every week for a year, you will receive a new guided meditation spoken in a soothing voice along with a beautiful musical background and stunning video images of a nature. These high-powered "Be-Attitudes" are ideals and values to strive for. Each meditation is about a minute long and is spoken in the "I AM" tense with the understanding that as you repeat it or internally absorb it along with the spoken word, you are coming that much closer to actualizing the idea within you, in the present tense, at this moment. By speaking as if you are already embodying the principle, you are not waiting for it to manifest at a future time and it can truly manifest within you - in the Now.
The following is an excerpt from the "Shifting from Fear to Love" on-line course. If you would like to enroll in the course, click here.
"All shallow roots must be uprooted, because they are not deep enough to sustain you" - A Course in Miracles
Love is where we all begin. When we are born all we know is love. Our ~ing is on! (If you haven't read my book, Add More ~ing to Your Life, allow me to translate: ~ing is your inner guide, which is the voice of intuition, inspiration and love. Throughout this course I'll refer to love, spirit and ~ing interchangeably.) At one time our thoughts are aligned with love and our minds are peaceful. Our loving mind believes that all people are equal and that we are part of something larger than ourselves. We believe that we are supported and connected to everything everywhere. We believe that only love is real. We believe in miracles.
A Tiny Mad Idea
So we are born into love, and then pretty soon thereafter fear is introduced. We begin to pick up the fear around us and are led to deny love. One tiny mad idea can hijack our loving mindset, and as the A Course in Miracles says, "we forgot to laugh." This tiny mad idea could have arrived as early as infancy. Maybe Mom was anxious or Dad yelled a lot. As innocent babies we pick up fear from the outside world. All it takes is one tiny mad idea to make us detour into fear. A thought like, "I'm not smart enough," or "Daddy doesn't like me because he left," or "I'm not pretty enough" can separate us from love. The moment we take this tiny mad idea seriously, we get caught in a nightmare and forget to wake up.
A Course in Miracles says, "You cannot be faithful to two masters who ask conflicting things of you." Therefore we have to choose between the tiny mad idea and the love we came from. Most of the time we choose fear. This choice splits off our mind into another way of thinking, which the Course calls the "ego." In an instant we are separated from love and allow the ego to take over. The ego becomes like a bully in our minds. The ego's goal is to shut down the love parade and keep us in the dark by making us believe we're separate from the loving mindset we were born with. The ego cannot survive in the light of our loving mind, so it will do whatever it takes to keep the light off. When referencing the ego, the Course states, "Listen to what the ego says, and see what it directs you to see, and it is sure that you will see yourself as tiny, vulnerable and afraid. You will experience depression, a sense of worthlessness, and feelings of impermanence and unreality."
The ego's sole purpose is to convince us that love isn't real so that we believe in the fearful thinking of the world. The ego is always revving up its game to take us down in a major way. (This is not to be confused with the ego of psychology.)
The Course says, "...the ego is totally confused and totally confusing." To keep us in the dark the ego separates us from love. We're convinced to deny love by believing in issues around body image, relationships, career, low self-esteem, and so on. The ego convinces us that we are better or worse than everyone around us. The ego's illusion convinces us to believe thoughts like, "I'm not good enough to get into that school," or "I'm incomplete without a man," or "I'm way more popular than that girl." Deep down we know these thoughts are false but we believe in them nonetheless. To further keep us in the dark, the ego's illusion leads us to attack others and ourselves.
Projection Makes Perception
The ego's main job is to make sure we don't change our mind about fear. The fearful projection that the ego inflicts on us becomes what we perceive to be our reality. As it says in the Course, "The world you see is an outside picture of an inward condition." When we choose the ego's projection of sin, guilt, anger, attack and fear that's all we'll perceive. It's a nightmare. The Coursestates, "Perception is a choice and not a fact."
We all have our own individual projections and perceptions. For instance, two different people get upset after watching a TV show together. Even though they watched the same show they're upset for uniquely different reasons. One person may have been upset over the romantic struggles of the characters, whereas the other person was worked up over the violence. Each person was projecting their own ego onto the television show, and therefore perceived what they chose to project. Choice is the operative word. That's right: we choose to believe in this crazy shit. We choose to project ideas like "I'm too fat," "I'm unworthy," and "I'm just not smart." We made a decision to forget about love and we fell for the mad idea instead. As a result, we live in a world that is based on these limiting projections. We project these thoughts and therefore perceive them to be real. Worst of all, we believe deeply in our perceptions because we're the ones who put them there.
We project a belief system based on grades, cliques, bullies and societal crap about body image. We have no choice but to ignore our ~ing because the voice of love cannot coexist with fear. Fear spreads like a virus, contaminating our minds. All it takes is one tiny mad idea to separate our mind from love and create a pattern of thinking in which fear always wins. The ego also recreates your past fears in the present.
The ego is crafty. There are a number of tricks the ego turns to in order to keep us in the dark, such as causing us to believe that others are more special than we are, causing us to attack others, or getting us into the nasty habits of denying our greatness and believing we are inadequate. These tricks are cunning and baffling. Each trick convinces us to believe in fear and forget about love. Eventually we get so hooked into the ego's illusion that we cannot remember the loving mind we came from. It's as if we've been roofied by the ego.
This sounds totally effed up, right? Of course it does, but let's face it: in one or more ways we've all fallen for the ego's mad idea. One fearful thought takes over our minds and creates our very own illusions. We were all innocent children who once believed in love. But there comes a point at which we forget love ever existed. We choose fear instead. We fear just about everything. We fear our careers, our family, our friends—we even fear the possibility that love could be real. Most of all we fear our own greatness.
The truthful voice of our ~ing can only comprehend love. But because our minds detoured into fear, love became an afterthought. Our ~ing became a mere murmur in the midst of the ego's inner riot. It's safe to say that most people have more faith in fear than love. Whenever you think something like, "I know there is a better way, but I just can't find it," it means that deep down you remember that all the love you need is inside you, but the darkness of the ego has smothered that truth.
You need to take a look at the wreckage from your past to fully understand how to transform the ego's patterns. Accepting the fact that you chose fear and turned your back on love is the first step. Don't beat yourself up about this. You couldn't have known any better and you've been doing the best you can to cope with the ego's projections for your entire life. But now it's time to fully understand what went down in order to create change.
Please know that even if you've forgotten about love, it never actually left you. Your mind just separated from it. This separation ignited the spark that became the fire that burns through your loving mind. Yet the separation was merely a choice. Unfortunately, you chose to detour into Fear Land when you took sides with the ego and turned your back on love.
The Ego Isn't Real
Over time fear becomes our companion. The ego literally goes buck wild taking over the loving part of our minds and convincing us of what the Course calls "the real world." The ego's real world is the illusory nightmare that we've bought into.
The world that the ego creates for all of us is based on belief in sin, attack, fear, competition, lack, sickness, and so on. The ego convinces us that we're all a bunch of separate bodies out to make more money, find a better spouse, or look better than the next person. None of this is real. It's all an illusion that our ego creates in our minds and repeats enough so that we believe in it. The repetition of the ego's illusion becomes a bad dream that we reinforce with every fear-based idea. We've saved our faith for fear. But deep inside each of us lives a soft voice reminding us that love is real.
Quick Review:
• We are all born into a state of love, in which we see everyone as equal and we feel at ease all the time. • One tiny mad idea can hijack our loving mindset. We chose fear instead of love. • This choice splits off our mind into another way of thinking called the "ego." The ego's goal is to shut down the love parade and keep us in the dark by making us believe we're separate from the loving mindset we were born with. • The repetition of the ego's illusion becomes a bad dream that we reinforce with every fear-based idea. But deep inside each of us lives a soft voice reminding us that love is real. • Recognizing that the ego's projections are false illusions is the first step to restoring our mind back to love.
Homework
The First Step Out of the Ego's World of Illusion
The only problems we have are the thoughts we project. What's happened is that we think these funky thoughts enough times that we believe them to be true. Then the thoughts create anxiety, fear, anger, attack, guilt. By recognizing that the thought isn't real we can release the perception. We must understand that the thought is something we created a long time ago and that we've just projected it onto our present and future.
Recognizing that the ego's projections are false illusions is the first step to restoring your mind back to love. This was major for me, and it will be for you, too. By looking closely at your fears, you'll be able to stop perceiving them as real. When you can witness a fearful thought without judgment, you'll weaken its power and be able to do awesome things.
I want these messages to sink in and I hope to guide you to see how the ego has played a role in your own nightmare. At this point in the process let's shine light on your own tiny mad ideas.
Exercise One:
Close your eyes. Think of the negative thought patterns that cross your mind. Name each one as it occurs to you and then call it out.
Deny its reality by following the fearful thought with the loving response, "Love did not create it, and so it is not real."
Examples:
Ego thought: I am unworthy of happiness. Loving response: Love did not create the belief that I'm unworthy, and so it is not real. Ego thought: I am poor. Loving response: Love did not create that poverty, and so it is not real.
This exercise might not make sense to you at first. Throughout the text, the Course acknowledges that you may not fully understand the concepts it introduces at first, but to continue forward nonetheless.
The Course states,"The exercises are very simple. They do not require a great deal of time, and it does not matter where you do them. They need no preparation." Therefore, all you need is an open mind and the willingness to be guided.
Hang tight and know that each simple shift in perception creates miraculous change.
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September 24, 2016 Positive Self-Assurance Cancer Daily Horoscope
You may feel vulnerable to the reactions that you receive from others today. Perhaps you feel a bit insecure and worried about what they think, or you are trying to impress a special someone. A great way to ease this anxiety is to focus on your personality strengths and allow your inner beauty to shine. Instead of worrying about what others think, affirm for yourself that you are a beautiful person who has a lot to offer. As you embrace this mind-set and become more self-assured, others will also begin to see you that way. At the very least, you will feel more confident and optimistic about your interactions with others today, and that is a gift in itself.
By developing self-assurance and keeping a positive attitude, we can be more relaxed in our interactions with others and attract beneficial partnerships. We are projecting our inner beliefs about ourselves onto every exchange we have with others. If we believe that we are strong, attractive, and self-assured, we will express this belief to others, and they will see us that way. Instead of trying to impress others, we can simply let our true personality strengths shine through, and this will attract the type of people we would like to spend time with. By releasing your worries and focusing on building your inner strength and positive attitude today, you will attract people into your life who will value you.
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