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Intention for Today: Pushing the Envelope
Today let us push the envelope.
Pushing the envelope of our own limits is what we are intending. We create mental limitation to what is possible, to what we can do with our capabilities, intelligence, enthusiasm and desire. When our intent is to be a solution and a contribution to this world, huge strides are possible in our own lives and in those of others. So push the envelope of your "limits". Break a little more free from what holds you back. Know that the answer is within you and you are ready and perfect.
Thank you for the idea to Push the Envelope and go beyond our comfort-zone, yet again.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. -Albert Einstein
What does it mean to fall in love? How have you experienced it?
Falling in love is an amazing sensation. Something that jars us from our "routine" way of being and feeling. It inspires you to break your patterns, and explore new, unfamiliar territory. For me, being in love has dramatically changed my life. And it is absolutely the best, most beautiful thing in my life.
What does it mean to fall in love? How have you experienced it?
Falling in love is an amazing sensation. Something that jars us from our "routine" way of being and feeling. It inspires you to break your patterns, and explore new, unfamiliar territory. For me, being in love has dramatically changed my life. And it is absolutely the best, most beautiful thing in my life.
It seems not very long ago, when I fell in love and was driven by some unknown force to take bold actions, which included resigning from my wonderful job in New York City, saying goodbye to my beloved friends and family, taking an early release from my graduate studies at the university where I was studying, leaving the amazing city of New York and the familiarity of home AND then moving across the Atlantic to Germany.
I moved to Germany in 2005, to be closer to my beloved! A language I did not speak, a culture I did not
know, a place that was new and unfamiliar, a university system that was so different from what I knew in New York, and a whole host of personal challenges is what awaited me in Germany. Yes, the five years in Deutschland were not the easiest, and yet, it was the best decision I made in my life. This was all as a result of me "falling in love".
Because I took what I call a "bold" step for me, I learnt a whole deal about who I am. I explored the beautiful forests throughout Germany, where I went on my first hiking trips. I made new friends who inspired and moved me. I have delighted in eating the most delicious and creative cakes and pastries one could ever find, especially ones made by mother-in-law, and not to mention, the insanely mouth-watering fresh breads! I have made strides in the German language and experienced the beauty and melody of the language. I went beyond my comfort-zone, over and over again, breaking new ground each time. In 2008, I decided to start my own company and take the path of an entrepreneur. And I have taken up writing and creating, a long lost passion rekindled.
So falling in love with someone special has indeed been special beyond words, uncovering so much beauty and treasures that lay within me and in my life. And each time we fall in love, we unearth something yet unknown, yet unfamiliar. And we do fall in love over and over again, all the time, don't we? Think about all the times you fell in love.
Recently, I have fallen in love with the grand expanse of the sky I see every day.
I have fallen in love with the two beautiful cats in our neighborhood called Miami and Orlando!
I have fallen in love with the chocolate cake that was made for my birthday by the one I love.
I have fallen in love with taking new avenues as there is so much adventure in paths not taken yet.
And most of all, in doing all of this, I have fallen in love with myself, again.
Sending you my love,
Sophia
Intention for Today: Laughter
Laughter is the intention for today.
Let us laugh together and be jolly. Let's bring in lightness and joy into our interactions. Be active in diffusing tensions, be active in relieving stress. Let yourself revel in the fun and the laughter with friends and family.
Laughter. Thank you for bringing us your gifts.
Intention for Today: Celebration
Today the intention is Celebration.
Let us celebrate this day for bringing its treasure-filled realizations. Celebrate each moment for its beauty and its potentiality. Celebrate the hours with music, sweetness and friends. With gratitude and reverence move through the day in celebration.
Thank you Celebration for the festive mood!
Intention for Today: Light
Intention for today is Light.
Light within you is radiant. Spread your light today. Allow your brilliance to pour through every cell of your being. Your light is the glow of love that sparkles and enlightens all around us. Spread your light today in your own unique way. Smile. Give a compliment. Be joyous in yourself. Be kind to yourself.
Thank you Light for shining through us.
Intention for Today: Rest
Today's intention is Rest.
Rest today within yourself. Give yourself the time you need today. Take a little longer in doing something. Relax and repose in the comfort of your heart. Become at peace. Tranquil. At ease. In these moments of rest, rejuvenate yourself
Thank you Rest for the breath of calm and refreshment.
Intention for Today: Creativity
Creativity is the intention for today.
Today, let us create. Create something new. Create something refreshing, something beautiful. Create something that speaks to your heart. Create a mood of love and joy. Create art and music. Create a space that is warm and inviting. Create beauty, tenderness, color and rhythm. Create laughter. Create stories. Create. Create. Create.
Thank you Creativity for flowing through us.
Intention for Today: Reflection
Reflection is the intention for today.
Reflect on your day or on your life. Come to see things as they are. Look at what you can learn, what you can change. Take your experiences as signposts for a more fulfilled and light-filled life. By reflection on your life, you will come in contact with what you need at the moment. Be open. Be forgiving. And remember to take what you learn and bring them into your day.
Take at least 15 minutes today to reflect on a part of your life. Take a matter that is foremost in your mind and in your awareness right now. Ask yourself: what gift of wisdom comes with this experience? What do I need in this moment? Write down whatever comes. Use this information. It is a golden gift from your higher self.
Thank you Reflection for showing us new reality.
Intention for Today: Leaf
Today's intention is Leaf.
Like the leaf, let us become nourishing and light. Just as the leaf glides in the wind, may we too, glide and float in the breeze of our journeys. Let us do the photosynthesis, let us store the moisture that feeds our spirits. Let us become nourishing to our flame. Like the leaf, gentle and giving, may we offer to each moment our very best.
May the Leaf inspire our day today.
Thank you Leaf for embodying such symbolism.
Intention for Today: Vision
Today the intention is Vision.
What is my vision for this world? To find that out, ponder on this question: if the world were ideal and perfect in my view, what would it be like? With answers to that question, ask the next one: How does that vision inform what I do in my life?
Allow your vision to unfold and with it your purpose on this planet. May we act in accordance with our higher self.
Thank you Vision for showing us the view.
Explore the universe looking for someone more deserving of your love than yourself. You will not find that person anywhere. -Buddhist Saying
This is Sophia and I am bringing to you this week's weekly reflections. This week's quote is the Buddhist saying: Explore the universe looking for someone more deserving of your love than yourself. You will not find that person anywhere.
Loving ourselves does not come naturally to many of us. May be it did at one point but we learned to unlearn it. Our environment,
Loving ourselves does not come naturally to many of us. May be it did at one point but we learned to unlearn it. Our environment, our own mind, the influences that we took in, showed us that it was useful to not always love ourselves. How is that? Well, being ourselves- being our curious, quirky, fun-loving self- may have ruffled some feathers. People around us did not like that, did not approve of us for that. So we learned: Ok, it is better not to behave in that way or act a certain way or express yourself in a certain way because if you do that, it causes upset. It causes some sort of rumbling around in our environment. So we learnt to put away that part of ourselves on the back burner, hide it in the closet, put it away under the bed, however you want to visualize that. But we covered it up. And that is totally understandable. We want to be loved, we want to fit in, we want feel appreciated and approved. And for that we do all kinds of things.
But this turns gradually into all kinds of negative patterns. Self-doubt is one example of that” doubting ourselves. (yeah) Also, it comes out in criticizing ourselves, being disappointed in ourselves, having unrealistic expectations of what we can do with our time, our capacities, capabilities. And, it turns into deceit. We cheat ourselves. We deprive ourselves of what we really really need from our own self. We don’t give ourselves the love, the appreciation, admiration, that we all deserve. So, our whole life becomes covered in this layer of dust. The dust of disapproval. The dust of frustration. The dust of misery. Our life becomes painful, it becomes a struggle. It becomes difficult.
Well, today, I want to invite you to take a look at that part of you that has been causing trouble. In other words, some aspect of you that you are disappointed with, frustrated with. I will do this with you. There is something that I find in myself that is causing me impatience and something that doesn’t make me feel very good. It is this inertia. I have this tendency to not take action, specially when there is an action that I can take, that’s going to expand me, that’s going to push me out of my comfort zone and bring me new experiences- something I have not done before. I am very excited about this. But I a m dead scared. I do not dare to do that. It is just so scary an idea. And in retrospect, I am tired of that. I don’t like when I am afraid. I don’t like when I don’t do the things that I really want to do, but I am afraid to do them. And this leads into postponing things, not taking action right away. So today, I decide to forgive myself for that pattern, for that behaviour. So, I accept that I am afraid, and I release that fear, I let go of it. And I love myself for that. I love this characteristic of me, of who I am at this time. And I also know that it is not necessarily who I am, but it is an experience that I am, at this moment, going through. So I let the fear of new experiences, of going out of my comfort zone, I let that fear go, I release it,
So, invite you to do the same. Take a look at something in your life that is upsetting you. Start with one aspect that recurrently has been causing problems. Is it that you are impatient?
Is it that you are frustrated about something? Whatever it is, just one thing about you. Not the whole box of things that you dont’t like about yourself, just one aspect that you are impatient with, that causes problems. And see if you can write that down. Or say it out, that is even better or do both. And allow yourself to forgive that part. And to love that part of you that has been yearning for attention, yearning for your love. And see how that feels. See if that makes you feel freer, if it makes you feel more clear, more clarity and focus comes into your life. See how it affects you in becoming more at peace. You are at ease with yourself.
So try it out. You are welcome to share that with me with a video blog or your messages. And if you want to keep it all private that is, ofcourse, totally fine.
So, good luck, have fun. I am sending you mountain love from the Blue Ridge Mountains. Big hugs. See you next time!
Intention for Today: Flame
The intention for today is Flame.
The flame. Imagine the flame of a candle. It is still at times. Whispering at another. The flame brings light and warmth. It does that by simply being the flame.
Embody the spirit of the flame today. Be bright, radiant, uplifting. Become a focal point of light, wisdom, warmth. Let your flame shine through. Your brilliance is a gift to us all.
Thank you Flame for your glow that shines brightly within and through us.
Intention for Today: Dare
Dare is the intention for today.
Today, dare to be yourself. Dare to speak your honest truth. Dare to overcome any negativity. Dare to forgive, to let go. Dare to enjoy each moment, to breathe. Dare to give yourself the gift of love. Dare to love. Dare to be authentic, to be yourself.
May we dare to be who we truly are.
Thank you Dare for showing us your endless gifts.
Intention for Today: Allow
Today Allow is the intention.
Allowing our spirit to move through us can happen when we are open to allowing! Allow your inner truth to unfold through you. Let it be your expression in this world. Allow the beauty and the vibrancy of mother earth speak to you. Allow that which you desire to emerge and happen and occur and manifest.
May we allow ourselves the depth and the wisdom of our inner self.
Thank you Allow for enabling us to touch the beauty within and letting it flow in all directions.
Intention for Today: Embrace
Embrace is the intention today.
Embracing what we love seems second nature. We can easily embrace and appreciate those characteristics that we love in ourselves. What about everything else? Well, the rest of our aspects, it seems, we adjust, tolerate, manage, ignore, abandon or remove. In some cases, we may accept those parts of us. But do we embrace them?
I wonder: What would it be like to embrace that aspect in us which we are annoyed, frustrated, angry or impatient with? Think about one thing about your ways of being or doing that you are impatient or upset with. See if you can embrace it a little. Think of it like a child who wants your attention. Give it that. Hug it. Comfort it. Love it. Embrace it.
Perhaps, in embracing that which we reject, we transform.
Thank you Embrace for demonstrating the beauty of love.
Intention for Today: Gratitude
Today the intention is Gratitude.
Become thankful for all that is. Become thankful for the teachers in our life: the people we meet and experiences we have. Become filled with gratitude for the thoughts and emotions we experience, for being the lighthouses they are. Give thanks and appreciation to our breath, our body, our spirit...for the harmony and order that prevails around us. May we be grateful for our blessings.
Thank you Gratitude for showing us gratefulness.
Intention for Today: Release
Release is the intention for today.
Release the superfluous. Release the extra. Release that which is no longer of use to your highest potential. Make room for new and fresh and rejuvenating, by release the old, the outdated, the draining. Let go and be.
May we release our grips on all that is harmful. May we release, forgive and be filled with gratitude.
Thank you Release for loosening the rigid.
Intention for Today: Attention
Today Attention is the intention.
Attention is a beautiful tool of our mind. We can take its help to direct careful focus on something/someone and in this way bring our complete "self" to that object of our attention. "Self" is in quotes because, in giving complete attention, there is a oneness with that which we are giving our attention to. And we seem to dissolve ourselves in that.
Realise that you can choose and select what you put your attention on. Choose wisely! Then, bring attention and focus with full commitment. And enjoy!
Thank you Attention for your gift of choice and focus.
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. -Confucius
Have you had moments during your day when you began doing something and the next thing you noticed hours and hours had passed? It seems like minutes but in fact hours had gone by. All this time, you were a state of being called flow, also known as being in the zone or at your peak. At some point in our lives, we have all probably, had moments when we were so engrossed in what we were doing that we completely lost track of time. Often times, this is when we are creating or simply enjoying something intensely.
Have you had moments during your day when you began doing something and the next thing you noticed hours and hours had passed? It seems like minutes but in fact hours had gone by. All this time, you were a state of being called flow, also known as being in the zone or at your peak. At some point in our lives, we have all probably, had moments when we were so engrossed in what we were doing that we completely lost track of time. Often times, this is when we are creating or simply enjoying something intensely.
This has happened to me as well and during such moments, I have experienced a certain ease about things. Ideas flow easily. Creativity is buzzing. I feel energized and often feel like I have dissolved myself in what I am doing. It is absolutely beautiful.
When we are in the flow, there is no resistance. We float along like a canoe that is moving along, in the direction of the river. There seems to be no effort involved. Like the clouds floating wherever the wind takes them.
How can we recreate such moments on desire? How can we repeat them over and over again? And can we live in a perpetual state of flow, every minute of our waking hours?
I can guess that there is research being done out there on this. As I come across it, I will update it to this blog.
For now, I will become aware whenever I have just come out of such states. What we focus on, we become. So be it.
Share with me your moments of being in the Flow. How do you feel when you are in one? Do you know how to recreate such moments on desire?
-Sophia Ojha
Intention for Today: Centered
Today's intention is Centered.
Breathe. Meditate. Pray.
Do whatever you need to do, in order to just be. Feel centered and grounded. Imagine embodying the nature of a tree, with roots growing into the soil. Imagine absorbing the nourishment from the ground. Go for a walk today on grass or sand or rocks. Feel the solidity and the stability of mother Earth.
Thank you for feeling Centered today.