In 2011, I resolve to repair, re-use, and keeping recycling.
Using the words, “I make up” instead of “I think” can totally lighten your load and cut-back on the number of communication breakdowns in your life. “I think” takes ownership and is assumptive. “I make-up” is much more playful and is a reminder how this NOW version of the life experience is all made-up anyway.
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So often we say, I HAVE to go to work. I HAVE to pick up some groceries. I HAVE to call so & so. Making a conscious shift and using the words “GET-TO” can change everything. We GET TO go to work. We GET TO pick up some groceries. We GET TO call so & so.
via Jason Mraz
Chanting is taking an idea, mantra, poem, prayer, affirmation or person’s name and simply repeating it. It’s a meditation using singing as the path to perfection. The trick is not judging yourself or paying too close attention to the mind’s comments about whether or not your doing it right, of it you sound good, are late to something else, or comfortable in your seat, etc… You just sing and listen to the music….Chanting anything for 20 minutes or more will hypnotize you. And if you think this is strange, notice how we might chant negative mantras to ourselves all the time in the form of I’m Late. I’m Tired. I’m No Good. Etc. And since what we love is what we become, our made-up faults keep coming back around. Our chanting anything is a form of worship.
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-Jason Mraz I’m really not into hippy-dippy earthiness, but I quite like this quote. The only time I’ve ever successfully meditated was in Savasana at the end of a Bikram Yoga session (whoops, hippy-dippy earthiness?), but I never thought of self-doubt and the hurtful things we say/think to ourselves as a meditation. Awareness is good. I might try it out. :) |
I love Jason Mraz. I think he is a brilliant man, songwriter, and performer. I believe that he is a truly enlightened person and I appreciate his outlook on life-we all can relate to the emotions he is sharing with all of us through his blog Freshness Factor Five Thousand. Please read and enjoy his most recent post about creating our own happiness!
Beginners Only - From Jason Mraz
A beginner’s mind is a brilliant place to come from. After all, beginners are granted permission to fail. In that sense, it’s not uncommon for beginners to have more fun.
I have the word beginner tattooed in cursive on my right arm. I almost wish it were tattooed across my face so I could remember to breathe when I feel like I don’t have it all together. Oh yea, I’m a beginner at writing 4th albums. I’m a beginner at intimate relationships!
I didn’t start surfing until I was 28. It was with a beginner’s mind that I excelled, not taking flopping around in the water as a sign of weakness. Instead, all that flopping made me more buoyant and a much better surfer.
I didn’t start playing guitar until I was 18. During those awkward college years I could’ve quit as other boys my age already had bands and tight jams. I knew as a beginner I had permission to suck and that eventually I’d rock. And now I do.
So remember this. We are all beginners. We haven’t done this before. You haven’t been you on this day before. I haven’t been someone’s solid rock before. I haven’t been me at 33 before. Each day is new and we’re all allowed to fall down as often as we need to. It is through these mistakes and fumbles that we’ll likely get it right next time.
Anything you write after I am is simply a concept. So choose what comes after it carefully.
I am successful. I am fulfilled. I am an astronaut. I am amazing. I am late. I am in trouble. I am enlightened. I am yours. Etc.
Anything after I am will only give you power if you worship it. For example, fulfillment doesn’t exist outside the body. You are who decides if you are fulfilled or not. Saying I am fulfilled is a start, but it is the practice and devotion to that affirmation that amplifies it.
For weeks this spring I was devoted to I am sad. I am wrong. I am incomplete. I am not fully expressed. And while none of those things are true unless I believe them to be, my resistance to being love only brought more pain and lethargy.
Finally, with a little help from my friends, classical music, cleansing, exercise, acceptance, and lots of prayer, that which shifts all thoughts back to love, I can finally say I’m on a much clearer path to health and happiness.
I am healthy.
I am happiness.
I am alive.
I am.
It was a close call too. I don’t think I’d ever been as deep in the storm before. I am grateful for treading in such dark waters and I’m committed to never going back.
No healer has ever healed without having healed himself first. No believer has ever believed as strongly without first testing his beliefs. And no lover has truly loved without having loved another and let go.
I’m not afraid to let go anymore. If it looks to others like I did something wrong, made bad choices, acted selfishly, or fearful, then so what. I can say, to you I am wrong. I am selfish. etc. Big deal. Stick and stones may break my bones but I choose not to give those thoughts a home. When I am sad I will simply be grateful for the sadness as it is a gift, a miracle in fact, to experience this powerful emotion, trusting the pendulum swings both ways; embracing all of life in it’s awkward perfection. I would never tattoo ‘I am sad’ on my body so why would I dwell on it in the mind? I am awesome, however, will make a great tattoo.
I am honored.
I am humbled.
I am happy.
I am.
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