Wishing You A Heart Filled With Gratitude!
Wishing you a Happy Holiday Season, and a Happy Christmas Eve for those who are celebrating!
I am having a quiet time over the winter break. It has been a very full year. I am very grateful for all that has unfolded. I am also reminded, however, of how I can overdo it. I am much better than I used to be in this regard, but when my back went out last week I got a not so gentle reminder to rest.
It is my intention to rest over the break. To have a quiet stay-cation and get cozy with Angus. Our girls are so busy with friends even when they are both home we can feel like empty nesters.
With my back pain, I find myself judging myself that I should have known better so I could have avoided the pain, but I do catch myself sooner and remember that me judging what is, is simply fighting with reality. Clearly, that doesn’t help. It is interesting how the pain in my back has me feeling like I am limping literally and metaphorically into the New Year.
I get these ideas that life should always look the way I think it should. I should always be in perfect health. I should have the perfect skin. The perfect weight. The perfect mood. The perfect behavior. The perfect cuticles. (I pick and chew them when I get tired — much to Angus’ chagrin) The perfect wardrobe. The perfect amount in my bank account. I have so many ideas about how things should be. I feel disappointed when I don’t meet those expectations, and I harbor hope that someday I will.
This still goes on inside of me even when I know that all of it is made up. None of it is true. I see things as imperfect. I see things that can be improved. I see lack and limitation. Sometimes the stars align and the perfect moment exists, but it is not permanent.
And then I remember the perfection of what is. I know it is beyond my comprehension. But with just a small glimpse of it, the freedom comes in. Flooding me with feelings of peace and well-being. I remember that I am okay exactly as I am. That I am enough. No more is needed of me, and it is okay to experience the full range of my emotional experience including the impact of judgment toward myself, circumstances and others. I don’t need to add changing that to my list of things to improve.
The truth is nothing can separate me from the I Am of my true nature. And this is true for you too! What happens when you look in that direction?
In the remembering of this, there is freedom. I experience gratitude. It is natural. I am not forcing myself to notice what I am grateful for or doing it as a practice. It is simply the experience I have.
I am grateful for you. I am grateful for the blessing of sharing what I see with you in service to you seeing yourself more in the fullness of who you are.
All of the lack and limitation I notice melts away when I drop into the present moment and experience the feelings of who I am. There are no words. Just the feelings of peace, love, and gratitude. My most profound experience of this was after the birth of my second daughter when I nearly died from a hemorrhage. I am sure I was high on some drug after the surgery, but I was so grateful to be alive. So grateful for all of the blessings in my life. I was filled up from the inside and overflowing with feelings of wellbeing. My heart was open and full.
I wish you the experience of being filled up from within this holiday season. May your cup runneth over with the experience of your true nature.
Sending you much love!
If you would like to look in the direction of your Authentic Self with a delightful group of people and explore an understanding that leads to greater inner freedom and effortless access to your potential join Barb Patterson and me for this two-day workshop New Year. Fresh Start. in January. Click here to learn more. And if you are a Solopreneur and would like to be part of a dynamic group as you take your business to the next level here is the link for our upcoming Mastermind. If you sign up for the Mastermind by December 15th, the New Year. Fresh Start workshop is included for FREE.
Rohini Ross is excited to present The Soul-Centered Series: Psychology, Spirituality, and the Teachings of Sydney Banks with the original students of Sydney Banks in Santa Monica, CA. She is passionate about helping people wake up to their true nature. She is a transformative coach and trainer, and author of Marriage (The Soul-Centered Series Book 1). She has an international coaching practice helping individuals, couples, and professionals embrace all of who they are so they can experience greater levels of well-being, resiliency, and success. You can follow Rohini on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, watch her Vlogs with her husband, Angus Ross, and subscribe to her weekly blog on her website, rohiniross.com.
Christine Heath & Judy Sedgeman – Spirituality and Resilience
When you no longer give authority to the fear-based thoughts in your consciousness, all you are left with is happiness. Through the teachings of Sydney Banks, you can see how your psychological functioning works, which makes you less compelled to follow those thoughts that do not serve you. Becoming more aware of the wholeness and integration of both your human and spiritual natures helps to ground you in the unchanging essence of who you are, and ride out the ups and downs of your emotional experience more gracefully. Accepting the normalcy of your humanness will naturally reduce your anxiety and fear and enhance your joy and happiness in each moment. By placing less pressure on yourself to feel a certain way or be hung up on self-improvement, you may find that low moods do not derail or debilitate you; instead, you will become much more attuned to your innate wellbeing and peace of mind and experience more happiness as a result.
Greater psychological freedom is the gift that keeps on giving. How grateful would you feel if you no longer had to listen to your negative, self-punishing and painful inner narrative, day in and day out? Understanding the role of thought and recognizing how it creates your feelings of insecurity and self-doubt is truly liberating! You will be better able to hear and heed your inner wisdom and become less driven by the noisy thoughts of fear and constriction. As an ongoing practice, this allows you to more fully experience your resilience and reach a greater sense of clarity about how you want to move forward in your life. As a result, you can live in a way that feels authentic and true in every area, including your career, family, home, creative expression, play, relationships and overall well-being.
Your ability to enjoy life comes from being present in the moment rather than caught up in habitual, negative thoughts that take you out of the Now. Sydney Banks’ wisdom supports you in becoming aware of how you get seduced by your limited personal thinking and thus, create a painful reality of misunderstanding, fear and restriction. When you recognize how and why this happens, you can step free of the pattern. This understanding assists you to dismiss unhelpful thoughts and not take them seriously. Unlike traditional self-help or therapy, experiencing more psychological freedom and enjoyment does not rely on techniques. There are no magic bullets on the path of well-being. All you need to do is follow an internal compass that points to the truth of who you really are—beyond transient thoughts to your unchanging, formless essence.
In our culture, success is often associated with hard work and narrowly defined as material gain. However, authentic success, as shared by Sydney Banks, includes such intangibles as happiness, well-being, love, joy, compassion, and peace of mind that are innate in each one of us, along with outward goals and achievements. It honors the whole person in all walks of life, whether you are a professional, leader, executive, solopreneur, employee, mother, teacher or student. From this knowing and experience, you can access the infinite wellspring of love that is your essence, then share your gifts with the world from a place of fulfillment and meaning, through a profound understanding of the interaction between your psychological and spiritual natures. While conventional success can deplete you, authentic success only fills you up.
Are you self-critical, hard on yourself, and constantly trying to “fix” whatever you think is wrong with you? Perhaps you have tried all kinds of different personal growth techniques and spiritual practices in the hope of solving all your problems. This cycle can be exhausting and never-ending, because there will always be something to improve about yourself, from that mindset. Sydney Banks’ teachings can help you to see how your humanness is normal and not something that needs fixing: as a spiritual person, you don’t need to change or eradicate your humanness! Seeing yourself as normal allows you to love and accept yourself exactly as you are—warts and all. Adopting this perspective naturally brings out the best in you and helps to find peace with your personality. Self-love and self-acceptance is your natural state, and any disconnection from your true nature is only temporary. What a relief!
One of the first areas people often experience profound transformation from the teachings of Sydney Banks is in their relationships, both personal and professional. While it often seems like another person’s irritation, anger, indifference, insensitivity, rudeness, etc., directly affects your experience, in reality your disturbance is a product of your own individual thinking. By making someone else responsible for how you feel, that person automatically becomes the cause of your suffering. Once you understand that you always have a place of well-being inside, independent of another’s behavior, it is easier to maintain equanimity through their changing moods and behaviors. Romantically, you may experience deeper love and intimacy with your partner, but the teachings benefit all relationships. This awareness supports more authentic connection and expression, while facilitating greater understanding, improved communication, reduced reactivity, more acceptance of self and others, and improved ability to work out differences and find common ground. Best of all, just one person shifting in a relationship is enough to transform it.
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Catherine Nation
24.12.2018 at 09:46Exactly what I needed to read today . Thank you Rohini for your insight and wisdom.xox Catherine Nation
Rohini
27.12.2018 at 07:50Thank you Catherine!
Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year!
Love,
Rohini
Mona Bergmark
24.12.2018 at 10:55Thanks for your heartbeeing
With love and happinessfrom Mona
Rohini
27.12.2018 at 07:48Thank you Mona!
Sending you love!
Rohini
Peter Leighton
27.12.2018 at 05:35Wishing you two really sweet, loving beings a great year in 2019.
Rohini
27.12.2018 at 07:47Dear Peter,
Thank you!
Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year!
With loving,
Rohini