Silence is My Gold

My ideal day would be to spend it in silence. Silently meditating, silently listening to my breathing. I would not want television, radio or any other source of entertainment. I wouldn’t want my dog around either. He would be a distraction just nuzzling up to me to pet him or stare at me until I took him out. I wouldn’t want my husband around because he would ask me if I wanted or need anything.

My prayers are said in bits and pieces. I can look at the ocean and while listening to the waves break think “It’s all Universal power”. I can see a bird carry a branch in its mouth and take off for the tree where it was building a nest and think “It’s all God”.

I often see beauty and feel special because I am a part of this wonderful earth. I think of its magnificence and enormity as I see myself as only a part of the whole.

My prayers are little phrases with huge meanings. I am connected to the Universe. I’ve felt this way for some time now and know that I am continually growing into a more spiritual self.

But, when I say prayers out loud or I should say when I try to treat out loud, I spend too much time editing what I want to say, making sure it is getting my feelings across or that it sounds intelligent. I know I don’t have to go there. It’s a separation that happens when I speak my prayers verses when I think my prayers. When I think them, I am one with the Universe. When I speak them I am separate. I spent half my life praying to a God up there in the sky. And prayers were said out loud quite a bit in childhood either in classroom recitation or out loud to my parents at mealtime, bedtime or when required to learn new ones for homework.

It may take me a little more time to get to that place where I can speak out loud and feel the same connection that I do when I think my prayers.

I want to experience the oneness I felt at Asilomar last year and be able to speak out loud. At Asilomar, I went to more meditation seminars than lectures. I found that a week of connection to the Universal Power far outweighed any vacation I’ve taken in my entire life. I look forward to another week of listening to silence where Spirit expresses as Infinite Potential and I know the Truth for me that nothing about me is in final form, that all of me is in the process of becoming. I experience a greater awareness of the Divine Truth within me and know I am renewed in my thinking. I am lifted in consciousness in meditation and live with great expectancy. I experience fullness and a soothing oneness with the Divine.

2/25/03

Treatment for Praying out loud

One God, One Spirit, One Mind, One Love, One Law. I am of this One. At various times of the day I sit quietly, if only for a moment, to experience this oneness. It is joy. It is harmony. It is God. It is me. 

My life is complete and my days are filled as Spirit guides me. I am God expressed.

Silence welcomes me home. It is my connection to the One. There are no activities in my mind or in my life that keep me from being the love that I am. I am filled with inner strength and I provide an avenue for Spirit to work through me. I know who I am and I am not afraid to be me. In silence I open the door to my infinite intelligence. I have all the information I need to be the perfect expression of God through prayer in any form.

I accept all the power of the One Mind who supports me at the moment I choose to embrace it. My life is the life of God working in, as and through me. 

Lovingly, I give thanks for this knowing and accept that it is so.

2/25/03

LIFE WITHOUT LIMITATIONS

Imagine being so inspired that your life reflects the dreams you had in the past. Discovering your passion and making your dreams a reality happens in an empowered life. Everybody has a passion. You owe it to yourself to take time to find out what is yours. It is the key to achieving whatever you want in life and is the reason you accomplish anything worthwhile.

When you know what your passion is, you have your vision of how it looks and nothing keeps you from taking action. You walk through your fears focused only on your heart's desire. Following your passion is a journey motivated by you.

You acknowledge each day is a gift and you open it like a present. You set the intention consciously and clearly how you want it to unfold. You carefully unfold your day aligned with Spirit. You embrace whatever is before you knowing it is all good. Any challenges are mere pebbles on your path and there is no such thing as an obstacle you cannot overcome. You see every event as energy and observe how it flows through you, accepting every experience as an opportunity to expand.

Living your passion means that whenever you are faced with a choice or a decision, you will always choose in favor of your passion. from Activating The Power Within (currently in production through a division of Hay House publications)

A Life Without Limitations

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Socrates

When you were a toddler, you faced challenges that required you to make choices. When you fell, you chose to get up. When you failed at something, you went on to something else. Every time you found yourself at a dead end, you always managed to get up. You could not stay down. You started this life without limitations. Some where along the way you got caught up and lost your energy and strength and gave your power to another person’s agenda. You started living inside your limitations..

Set a new agenda. Stop living a half-life by following someone else's program. If you don't bring your whole self to the table of life, you live from a place of lack. Maybe you fear being your true self. The challenge in life and relationships is about being whole not perfect. Take a life review and you may realize that you hold in your body feelings about things you experienced. Any shadows of guilt or regret that lingers affects not only your but everyone. The value of doing a life review is that you learn that much of the pain of childhood you are experiencing really has nothing to do with you. Be gentle and tender with yourself and hold yourself like the child you once were. Begin a new path that can only lead to freedom.

Empowering yourself is the journey out of limited living and into greater existence. What does this look and feel like? Unlimited living is about being authentic, living with confidence and passion. Being authentic is about the quality of being in truth. No longer do you have to be anyone other than yourself. Living authentically is your only option. Your choices are not determined by other people’s expectations. Knowing what that is, allows you to freely experience each day in peace and making all your decisions with ease and grace.

Start by assimilating the positive work that you have been doing and you rearrange your neurological patterning. Choosing to live as you wish becomes automatic . You know you deserve to be happy and successful. So embrace all your responsibility for yourself especially your feelings. Once you become thankful for all you have, you step into a greater life. You have the power to accept who you are; to love who you are. Trust your Higher self, and know that you are supported in every way. You give yourself permission and the right to decide what to reject and what to retain.

Deciding to live a life without limits is to take a major step. You have finally met up with the urge in you that knows there is more to life than what you are experiencing right now. You are drawn to exploring what that is. No longer are you interested in staying where you are. Your uniqueness is demanding to express. You can taste it, you can smell it. It is closer to you than your very breath. There is no going back. You approach this new day ready to embark on whatever path you choose and claim your rightful heritage of an empowered life. You are at the doorway crossing into a life like no other known before.

The end of all your striving will take you to the place where it all began. Live like the toddler. Every day is an adventure to explore and conquer. When you fall, get up because you are more than the obstacles that life brings. It's more than just existing. It's living rightly.

Saying Good-bye to Old Beliefs

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

- Anonymous

The window of illusion is shattered when you realize that the beliefs you’ve been holding onto are not the truth of who you are. Regardless of what you were told, know this: "nothing is real to you unless you make it real ". You shift your perception of reality when you take charge of your beliefs. Taking charge of what know as your truth, frees you from the bondage of your past beliefs . Living an empowered life you uncover hidden traps that get in the way of your expansion.

Sometime in your life you may have been told or made to feel that you are not good enough. As long as you make it your reality by continuing to believe it to be your truth, you cannot succeed in life. Nothing is true unless it works and it has to work for you, not for someone else. You and you alone are responsible for your life.

God is first cause to every idea. All God wants to do is expressed Itself as you. You are God individualized. When you change your thinking, you create a new idea (cause) that brings forth a new experience (effect).

Once you embody the truth of who you are, you become empowered to create new beliefs that serve you. As you make decisions from this new place of authority, more good unfolds in your life immediately because your experiences are mirror images of your new beliefs. Your reality has to change to reflect your new beliefs . That’s the way the Universe works.

Develop a new consciousness of yourself. Create new beliefs and start right now to give yourself the means to emerge into a world of greater possibility.

Most of us have barriers of some kind or another from the past that get in the way of our happiness. Letting go of your old beliefs empowers you because you activate Infinite Intelligence, your higher self, when you create new beliefs.

If you can't recognize what is a belief that no longer serves you ask yourself this?

What challenge shows up in your life on a regular basis? Are you staying in a career because you were told it’s risky to change jobs in this economy? Or are you doing something because your family did it and you are miserable? Or, are you going from one relationship to another looking for the perfect person you believe will complete you? Observe what in your life you do without enthusiasm or depletes your energy whenever you think about it . Then look at why you are still doing it over and over again. Your answer will be what you believe to be true about yourself or about what you do.

Changing your beliefs is necessary if you want to grow. Otherwise, you will continue to get what you've always gotten. And, what keeps you experiencing the same old stuff are old beliefs that you have accepted as truth.

Create your own good. Empower yourself and bring forth what you want, when you want it.

Rev. Waukena Cuyjet, staff minister of the Central Fl Center for Spiritual Living

Excerpt from “Activating the Power Within” by Rev. Waukena Cuyjet (expected publication 2010)

A Life Without Limitations

The Universe is unlimited. The power of love is infinite in its expression. You are unlimited in how much you love and what you do with your life in this worldof unlimited potential. Your power lies with you.

God as you expresses in many ways. Empowerment manifests as you tap into Infinite Intelligence. Start with building your self esteem. Know your Divine existence and live coming from that place of knowing your truth. Build your self esteem by recognizing who you are in the Universe as a Spiritual Being. Just know it in a very practical fundamental logical way.

TREATMENT

I Am Enlightened

There is only one God, one creative Force and Power for Good. It is omnipresent. I know this truth from the very core of my being. I am aware of being in the light and it is from here that I see. I am in tune to nature and it is from this place that I hear God's music as it speaks to me.

I am blessed with all the goodness of God: vision, hearing, intelligence, harmony and love. I am at peace in this knowledge. I am one with this Power flowing through me.

My God consciousness expands each and every day as I embody the truth that I am the light. I rejoice as I listen everyday with new ears to the voice within. I celebrate my own unique God-self expressing and knowing that this is why I am here. My consciousness grows deeper, wider, and stronger and projects out from me in beautiful rays of warmth and sounds of joy. In this light of peace and harmony I bask, as do others around me.

I am enlightened. I let it be. And so it is.

Home is a state of Mind

home mind choose

Home is what you make it. Most of us when we think of home remember

holidays family good times. Some of us think of home as the place we

could not wait to leave. Even before we remember the street where we

lived, we remember the bad times. Home is really a state of mind. Just

like you may have heard that poverty is a state of mind well so is

home. When you think of home, pay attention to your feelings. Are you

feeling good or are you feeling bad. If you are living home and want to

leave, it very important to check in with your feeling about home.

Leaving home to make a better life is not your best choice. If you

choose to leave a job it isn't always your best choice. The reason is

because wherever you go there you are. How you feel about home is a

state of mind. You choose to feel about home in memory or while living

there. It is what it is. You can only change your perception of home.

Regardless of what the relationships are like in the home, you can only change your experience and

how you see it.

Power Is In Surrendering

Surrendering isn't about giving up or feeling powerless. Surrendering is moving from a lower place in consciousness to a higher place. It is allowing inner guidance to lead you to a better place. It's a choice we make and best done when it is a conscious choice. We are always making choices but we aren't always aware of it at the time we make it. Being mindful of when you are choosing to lean into your higher self aligns you with Source. That shift in consciousness takes place at the point you become aware of your feelings even if you're feeling hopeless.

Surrendering can occur without awareness of when you are actually doing it. It is also at the point that our inner guidance steps in. The miracle is that we become aware of our good feelings that surface at the instant of surrendering. We only need to recognize that there is a power greater than we are at play in our lives and tap into it or rely on it to surface and do its work when we need it most.

Being in alignment with our higher power is a gift we give ourselves and it only takes the recognition and acceptance of that higher power that live in, as, and through each one of us.