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Allow

by Karen Lang, posted in Uncategorized

When we place conditions on ourselves and others in life, we do not allow.  Fear and control keep us bound in this place of wanting to know everything and yet there are no certainties in life, only choices.

It seems to me that one of the greatest stumbling blocks in life is this constant struggle to reach, to achieve, to acquire and why we are busy doing that, we are not seeing.  We are not aware that we are blocking the flow of abundance and love coming towards us.

When we allow instead of expect, we will not be so stressed and disappointed when things don’t go according our controlled thought patterns.

Find a quiet spot in nature and just be.  Inhale and exhale deeply.  See yourself connected to everything around you and breathe.  Allow this moment to sink in and know it is the only moment you have.  Be still and know.  Visualise your dreams everyday and then let them go.  Don’t try to control how they come to you.  There is a perfect plan for all of us and in this place of stillness you will find your answers.

“With no expectations anything can become.”  – Steven Farmer

Breathe

by Karen Lang, posted in Uncategorized

“We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”   – Lawrence Binyon

Have you ever noticed how you are breathing?  Most of us would not be aware how much we hold our breath in times of stress, until we inhale and exhale deeply.

When stressed, our shoulders go up, our throat constricts and we breathe shallow breaths.  This overtime, starts to feel like a normal state and our bodies adjust to this shallow breathing and yet physically, we limit precious oxygen to our organs and overtime when starved of this oxygen, we eventually become sick.

How important is our breath? and yet we constantly take it for granted.  Become conscious of your breathing everyday and the intent of inhaling and exhaling, letting go of what you no longer need.  Practising this daily will give you clarity and connect you to this moment.

Below are some wonderful exercises to do in your meditation.  You will feel amazing after you have done them and will respect once again the “Breath of life.”

The Breath and Creative Thought

 The best time to program your Subconscious Mind is when you inhale.  The thought that is emanating from the brain is carried along the etheric system. Once the air enters the lungs, the blood in the lungs is oxygenated. Retaining your breath does not help to store up etheric energy, however, whilst you are holding your breath, you can use that point in time to hold strong the thought of what you wish to manifest.

 The breathing exercise below is designed to help you manifest what you want.

 Sit with your back straight, relaxed and comfortable.

Think about what it is you really want. Visualize it. Feel it. See yourself with it. Feel what it is like to have it in your life.

 LEFT NOSTRIL BREATHING

Now connect with your Spiritual Heart (this is to the right of your heart chakra and in line with your physical heart) and drop into the silence. Feel it. Stay with this.

Close your right nostril and inhale through the left. Exhale slowly.

Keep inhaling and exhaling out of the left nostril – 7 times in total.

 RIGHT NOSTRIL BREATHING

Reconnect with your desire, feel, experience, visualize, affirm.

Close your left nostril and inhale through the right. Exhale slowly.

Keep inhaling and exhaling out of the right nostril – 7 times in total.

 Continue this practise for ten minutes.

Remember to affirm and visualize only whilst breathing through the right nostril.

Anytime during the day that you feel tension or anxiety arising, go to where you feel the contraction in your body and simply breathe slowly, deeply, gently,whilst your connection with the contracted energy.  Gradually this will dissolve in the spaciousness of your breath.

 “Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next…”   – David Abram

 

 

Love me …Love you

by Karen Lang, posted in Uncategorized

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”  C G Jung

I have written about Anita Moorjani before from her book “Dying to be me.”  The following is some of the amazing wisdom from her book.

Consciously live in each moment, live in that space which is within us all.  Breathe in that moment and cherish it as if it was your last.  If there is something you desire, the idea is to not go out externally and get it, but to expand your consciousness to allow universal energy to bring into your reality.

Remind everyone close to you to be themselves, and tell them that you love them just the way they are! Most suffering stems from feeling “less than”.  You are not less than anything or anyone.  You are complete.

The only thing you need to learn is that you already are what you are seeking to attain.  Express yourself fearlessly with abandon.

When we are true to ourselves, we become instruments of truth for the planet.  Because we are all connected, we touch the lives of everyone around us, who then affects others.  Our only obligation is to be the love we are and allow our answers to come from within.

Enjoy yourself and do not take life so seriously.  Day-to-day problems never seem as big, when viewed through a veil of humour and love.  Laugh more, be serious less.

In the midst of worrying about everything that is wrong out there, do not forget to enjoy each moment and to take care of what’s inside.

When we realise we are love, and that love is the answer for the many issues that we face each day, then tomorrow make a promise to yourself, and love yourself enough to keep that promise.

“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli

The simple Life

by Karen Lang, posted in Uncategorized

The sensory overload of our world is slowly stressing us out.  We’ve got so much to do, so many balls to juggle and when we can’t find time for stillness or time to slow down our minds from its constant chatter, our health pays the price.

“Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.”
John De Paola

Life is a matter of working out what brings you the most joy and doing it as often as possible.  We don’t like our jobs, our homes, we don’t even like ourselves, so why do we complicate life so much?

“All of us should strive to learn before we die, what we are running from, and to, and why?” James Thurber

Why do we wait for a diagnosis to start looking after our health and realise how short and precious life really is.  If we are not doing what we really want in life, whose fault is that? Why do we find it so difficult to stand in our truth and believe we deserve more?

I believe why people run so fast and hard through life is because slowing down, confronts them to see who they have become and to know they are not living the truth they so desperately want to.

Speed is a source of stimulation and fleeting pleasure whereas slowing down is a route to depth, more enduring satisfaction, and to excellence.

To change anything in life, we need to understand the patterns we have adopted and how we continue to create stress in our life that we don’t need.  Our need for approval, and for constant certainty, only comes from control and fear.

Spending time in yoga, meditation and stillness will always lead you into a simpler life.  Through this regular stillness, you will find clarity and a deeper vision for the future.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love…. time is eternity.

So this week start making small changes to simplify, savour and enjoy life rather than watch it speed by.

  1. Curl up in a favorite chair at some point after you return home from work and spend at least a half-hour reading a book purely for pleasure.
  2. Take the time to really listen to someone you love — to give that person the space to speak without interruption, for as long as it takes.
  3. Choose a place that interests you — it could be in the city or the country — and spend a couple of hours just exploring it without any specific end in mind.
  4. Buy a journal, and before you go to bed, take a few minutes to reflect on what you feel grateful for that day, and what went right.

 Be who you want to be, when you want to be! Life is too short to be anyone else……..

Allowing and Being yourself

by Karen Lang, posted in Uncategorized

“Don’t search outside yourself for answers, for they are always within.”

I have just finished an amazing book that was given to me by a friend called, “Dying to be me” by Anita Moorjani.  I highly recommend it to everyone.

It is an inspiring story of her journey from cancer, to a near death experience, to a true healing.  I couldn’t put it down and it has inspired me to live life fully, by loving and accepting myself exactly as I am!

She explains how the external world mirrors what we feel about ourselves and so we attract only what we believe.  This can be challenging for us, as we often don’t want to believe that those around us or the circumstances we are in, are the result of what we believe about ourselves.

‘There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”.  ~Anaïs Nin

By letting go of any negative self-judgement, we allow our world to transform; and as it does so, we will be able to feel greater and trust more.  The more we are able to trust, the more we are able to let go of trying to control the outcomes in our life.

When we stop judging ourselves, we will also stop criticising and judging others.  Our attitude stems from how you feel about yourself and what we tell ourselves everyday.

Seeking approval from others and doing things out of fear was exactly how the author was living her life before her near death experience and healing.  When we become aware how important the approval of others is in our daily decisions, we can become conscious of changing that belief, of letting it go and ‘become happy being ourselves.’

She encourages us in the book to believe how magnificent we truly are and how we limit our potential when we cannot believe this truth.

Life is always changing and so can we, when we allow new thoughts and beliefs to come in.  Staying in the ‘comfy’ zone of life will never challenge us to grow and move forward into our true potential.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to accept and love yourself exactly as you are now.  Don’t resist the flow of life.  Trust that you will always be looked after when you ‘allow’ instead of control. 

Challenge yourself to read and do things that you find difficult, or you may never acquire deeper insights into what you believe.  I have found the things most worth reading or doing are precisely those that have challenged my convictions.

Be true to yourself and allow that truth to be seen by others! We are all searching for love and acceptance… but it must begin with YOU.