Intention for Today: Commitment

Today Commitment is the intention.

We make promises. Promises to others and promises to ourselves. Today, let us watch our day, our thoughts and our actions. And let us fulfill our promises to the best of our capabilities. Let us keep our commitments, especially to ourselves. Do what you said you would do. Just do it. Show yourself how you respect the divine in you. Make the intention. Declare to yourself how strongly you commit.

It may turn out, at the end of the day, that you overcommitted. This is a great revelation. Learn from it. Recognize how you unfolded. Forgive yourself. Tomorrow, recommit. Make it a habit. Take these steps daily and help your integrity to blossom.

It may turn out that you fulfilled your commitments. This too is a great revelation. Learn from it. Recognize what enabled you to unfold in this way. Be grateful. See how you can contribute even more, in quality or in quantity. Tomorrow, recommit. Make it a habit. Expand your contribution bit by bit each day.

It may also turn out that you offered to this world something between fulfilled and unfulfilled commitments. Become aware of it. Read the treasure-filled lesson in that. Make a note of it in your mind, even better: in your journal. And see yourself blossom from the realizations.

Thank you Commitment, for showing us how to commit.

Intention for Today: Play

Play is the intention for today.

Be playful. Have fun. Laugh. Watch a comedy. Smile. Listen to a joke. Play a game. Play with a pet. Laugh around crazily with children. Do something you love. Just have some fun.

Thank you Play for being so playful and fun.

Love is the only glimpse we get of eternity. -Unknown

Day after day, week after week, we traverse this journey of our life entangling ourselves with time. Time can be imagined like a river running down its course with various curves and numerous shores. Some notions of time give structure and demand our behavior and action from the community we reside in. This is the world of calendars and appointments and time tables. Some other notions of time are more natural and inherent and "happen" organically. This is the world of spontaneity, "internal clock", "natural timing". At any given time, we are engaged in a dialogue and in a relationship with time. 

So let us take a moment and pour our thoughts on "eternity". How do you perceive eternity? 

Eternity to me is...the glimpse of a butterfly in Fall. A view at the wide open sky. The touch of gentle breeze on my face. The sound of quiet footsteps of a cat. The glance of a new born. The sweet melting of chocolate on my tongue. The pitter patter of the rain drops on the window sill. The smell of freshly baked bread. The voice of my beloved near me. 

In all these experiences there are at least two things common. There is the moment of the "self" dissolving in the experiences delivered by the senses. And there is the connection with the "eternal" quality of love. 

I come to experience the moment as eternity and eternity as love. This moment of eternal love happens when there is a sense of awe, a deep awareness of my becoming aware, and a kind of openness to allowing my senses to fill me up with what they do best: perceive and sense.

-Sophia Ojha

Intention for Today: Timelessness

Today Timelessness is the intention for the day.

Today, get in touch with time and timelessness. Taste that which is without taste. Feel the divine in the mundane. Notice the passing of the moment that is standing still. Touch that which has no form. See the horizon gliding its boundaries. Go beyond the familiar, the known. Sip the water of eternity. Love the glow emanating within you. Become conjoined with timelessness.

Thank you Timelessness for showing us what time it is!

Intention for Today: Awareness

Awareness is our intention for today.

Become aware of your senses. Breathe with awareness. See with awareness. Smell and taste and feel with awareness. Become one with the moment. Walk and talk with awareness. Create with awareness. Serve and commit with awareness. Express with awareness. Love with awareness.

Thank you Awareness for showing us your treasures.

Intention for Today: Sunshine

Today's intention is Sunshine.

May the sun shine in our hearts. Let the sun smile through our smiles. Let us embrace the light and share it all around us. Let us remember the brilliance of the golden ball in the sky no matter where we are and what we are experiencing. Love and Light to us all.

Thank you Sunshine for your healing energy.

Intention for Today: Bold

Today's intention is Bold.

Let us be bold today. Let us boldly follow our hearts. Let us be bold enough to speak our minds with honesty and respect. Let us be bold to allow our own abundance to unfold. Let us be bold to offer our gifts to this world.

Thank you Boldness for showing us the courage of being bold.

Intention for Today: Mountain

Today's intention is Mountain.

Let today be a day when we embody the majesty, the grace and the beauty of the mountain. Let the stability, the rock-solid firmness and unwavering strength of the mountain flow through us. Let us step into the expansiveness and the horizon-kissing silhouette of the mountains. Let the image and the story of the mountains inspire and uplift us.

Thank you Mountain for giving us your mountainous nature. 

Intention for Today: Inspiration

Inspiration is the intention for today.

Let inspiration lead the way today. Let us inspire and be inspired. May inspiration bring us the fire and the zest we desire in our life. Let us find inspiration from all sources: from words spoken, from ideas manifested, from art created, from meals prepared, from walks taken, from skies unfolded, from glances locked, from movements danced, from breath breathed...

Let inspiration run within and through us.

Intention for Today: Joyful

Joyful is our intention for today.

Let us express ourselves joyfully. Let joy blossom in every moment of our day. Let appreciation accompany joy as we traverse through the string of experiences. May we bring joy in all that we do. Let joy permeate every cell of our being. Let us share joyous pearls of love.

Thank you Joy for reminding us to be joyful.

Intention for Today: Trust

Today's intention is Trust.

Let today be the day we instill a greater sense of trust within us. Let us trust that we are taking the right steps in our life. Let us trust that we have within us all that we need to blossom. Let us trust that we know how to discern what is good for us. Let us trust our intuition. Let us trust.

Thank you Trust for expanding us.

Intention for Today: Breeze

Today's intention is to feel the Breeze.

Let us feel the breeze on our skin today. Let us move in and out of zones in a breeze. Let us breeze into our next level of who we want to be. Let us exfoliate the unwanted in a breeze. Let us feel the refreshing moisture that nourishes and heals in the breeze. Let us embody the gentle magnificence of the breeze.

Thank you Breeze for breezing into our life.

Intention for Today: Love

Love is the intention for today.

May we express and experience love today. May we love ourself for all that we are. May we celebrate ourselves today in the full bloom of all our dimensions. May we let our love overflow from within us and onto our world. Let love flourish today. Let us love and be loved.

Thank you Love for loving us.

Finding the hidden dimension in yourself is the only way to fulfill your deepest hunger. -Deepak Chopra

Last week, we talked about designing our life from our inner core. Let us stay with that this week and look at some of the ways to get in touch with our deeper self.

We can take several routes to touch our hidden dimensions. One of my favorite routes is that of regular reflection. It is amazing how much we can learn simply by taking some time each month, each week and each day to reflect on our life. This is precious time spent alone that brings great clarity to our life. Journal writing is a powerful way both for releasing your fears and negative thoughts as well as touching that part of yourself that is pure and immensely vast at our core. Acknowledging yourself for gifts you have brought into this world makes you aware of what a contribution you are to this world. Expressing gratitude for the abundance you already enjoy brings you in a state of joy and appreciation for what is opening you up to greater expressions of abundance. Spending time with animals or being in the midst of nature whether it is near the beach or in the woods or in a park or the neighborhood flower shop brings us very quickly in touch with our own true nature. Laughter is indeed the best medicine helping us to release and let go. And finally, meditation, even 15 minutes daily can change your life.

Engaging in a single activity that you enjoy with one-pointed attention is a form of developing your mind such as cooking or playing music or dancing, gardening or painting or doing sports. This only helps your overall mindfulness training. Consciously breathing a few times during the day and going for a short walk opens you up. Exposing yourself continuously to mind and heart opening people and books or audio-visual material is another way to keep the stream of healthy influences coming your way.

These are some of the myriad ways of coming closer to your essence. These practices show amazing fruits when done consistently, so doing them regularly is vital. They help you feel grounded and more at ease about who you are. You are then able to take an active role in designing your life so that you can live to your highest potential.

The above quote from Deepak Chopra is simply beautiful. It brings us to the essence of living a life of joy and fulfillment by showing us which door to open. This door is none other than that which brings us to our inner core. That is what our entire life is about, it seems: unlocking our hidden dimension. Bit by bit, we peel away layer after layer to get to the juicy core of who we are. We take this journey to find out that the dimension of ourselves that is hiding is the deep, vast dimension of love. Next month, we will dive into this dimension with four reflections all revolving around Love! 

Intention for Today: Responsibility

Responsibility is the intention for today.

Let us take on responsibility today. Let us become aware of all the gifts we have and that it is our responsibility to share it. Let us allow ourselves to know that we can do it. Let us become responsible for our thoughts, our beliefs and our future. Let us take one responsible action towards our goals and our vision. 

Thank you Responsibility for reminding us of our gifts.

Intention for Today: Allow

Intention for today is to Allow.

Let us allow our spirit to direct us. Let us allow ourselves to listen to the hunch, the inkling, the nudge, the hint from our spirit. Let us allow ourselves to be open to what follows. May we enjoy the freshness this allowance brings to our lives. Let our inner voice speak through us today. Let us allow.

Thank you Allowance for all the allowing.

Intention for Today: Meditate

Today's intention is to Meditate.

May we meditate today. For a minute, or 10 or an hour. Let us get in touch with quietude. Let us become calm like the deep ocean. Let us taste and hear the joy of being connected with our inner self. May we contemplate in silence.

Thank you Meditation for joining us to our core.

Intention for Today: Harmony

Today's intention is for Harmony.

May we experience harmony in our day today. May harmony show itself in new ways. May we see the opportunities to create harmony in our relationships and in our environment. May we welcome harmony and appreciate it in a way that lifts us all.

Thank you Harmony for bringing your gifts to us.

Black Labrador mix needs help!

This is a urgent request to anyone who reads this blog. There is a black labrador mix called Brico who lives at animal shelter in Cologne, Germany. Cristof and I have met him twice and he has just captured our hearts.

We learnt that to increase his chances to be adopted and also to relieve him from pain, a hip replacement operation is needed urgently. This costs 2000 Euros or about $2750. Reflection Pond members have raised $980. Can you help pitch in a few dollars? Every bit counts, so whatever you can afford. Brico will be very grateful I am sure

To thank you for participating, Reflection Pond is giving each donor a set of any 4 postcards of your choice from our current postcard collection. 

Get in touch with us to help. Thank you so very much.

Much love,

Sophia

Intention for Today: Humor

Intention for today is Humor.

May we enjoy our day with humor. May we laugh out loud. May we bring a smile on the faces of those around us. May we see things with a sense of humor. May we watch something funny. Let humor reemerge today.

Thank you Humor for laughing with us.