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May 11, 2023
What is Mantra?
This week we are diving into the topic of mantra – our mind vehicle (or instrument), and how powerful reciting mantra can be for us.
Mantra has been used in countless traditions – hinduism, buddhism, sikhism, jainism, tantrism, they are meant to be repeated over and over and over again until we reach that place where we are connected to the stillness and silence that rests within.
When we repeat something over and over again, it begins to intersect with the 60-80,000 thoughts that we have every single day – and at some point, they cross each other out and we enter into that space where everything is quiet, and still. I like to call that space the gap, or also known as atma darshan – “glimpsing the soul”.
We use mantras as sacred tools to reach to the depths of our sacred stillness.
One of my favorite mantras is Aham Brahmasmi – I am the Universe! Find a mantra that resonates with you today and use it in your meditation practice.
Aham Brahmasmi, Baby!
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Namaste. -davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
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March 27, 2023
18-Minute Guided Meditation Reflecting on our Karma
Please enjoy this 18-minute meditation dedicated to karma.
Karma means Action. Every action creates a memory – a samskara – and every memory leads to a desires, called vasanas. Every desire then leads us to another action – another karma.
Picture a giant row of dominoes that ultimately lead back to you. You tap the first one, hundreds of dominoes fall, and the last one comes back to tap you.
Every thought we have, every word we speak, and every action we take has impact, has consequences, and creates a ripple. This ripple has led to every other choice in your life.
Let’s close our eyes and reflect on the choices we have made in our lives – where we live, our physical body and the choices we have made around it, our careers, passions, and where we spend our time. Our relationships – family, partners, friends, companion animals, and more. How we communicate with others, our value systems, our emotional responses to life happening around us.
When we realize that we are responsible for every single domino that has been placed in our path, we realize that we are able to lay down our dominoes in any ways that we wish – we have the power to choose.
The mantra we will use is sankalpa, which means subtle intention. Repeat it silently as we move through our meditation, planting it like a seed in the fertile soil of your heart and soul. The universe will sort out all of the details.
Thank you for taking this time to meditate with me today. I’ll see you in the gap.
Namaste. – davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
Thank you for taking this time to meditate with me today. I’ll see you in the gap. Namaste. –
davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
Let’s meditate ♡
In every single moment, there are infinite possibilities available to you, and through meditation, you can make nourishing life-affirming choices. In those choices, you can also choose what you want to manifest in your life. Don’t forget to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to my channels to keep your ripple flowing in our community & support this content!!! Check out my Mind Shift membership too [image error] Sending you expansive love, personal growth, and infinite possibilities. Be well.
Namaste. -davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
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Am I Worthy?
Am I entitled to happiness? Freedom? Joy?
Sometimes we can convince ourselves that we are undeserving, that we aren’t living up to the standards society creates for us, that we are not smart enough, strong enough, good looking enough. The list can go on forever.
It’s exhausting and unnecessary to live like this, and we need to remember that suffering is optional!
We will always make mistakes, we will do things we wish we could change – and while we can’t go back and change the past, we can make changes with our choices moving forward and how we will speak to and love ourselves.
Make the choice today to forgive where you need to forgive, knowing that often that forgiveness begins with ourselves!
If you’ve been dimming your light for whatever reason, now is the time to flip the script and change the narrative.
As Tavis Smiley says – we can “fail up” from our life lessons. Take what has happened and turn it into something better. And trust that deep within, you are whole and perfect and pure, and every moment is perfect because it leads us to the next moment.
Let’s ask ourselves – what is the highest vibration I can bring to this moment?
Looking at our lives in this way helps us to reclaim the strength and power that is always located deep within, that we often push down or disregard.
Let’s root for our own suffering to end and look at ourselves through eyes of compassion and grace. And let’s remember that we are human, and that this is part of what life is – to learn how to “fail up” with each life experience that we live through.
You are beautiful and doing a great job! Don’t forget to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to my channels to keep your ripple flowing in our community & support this content!!! Check out my Mind Shift membership too [image error] Sending you expansive love, personal growth, and forgiveness. Be well.
Namaste. -davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
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March 7, 2023
18-Minute Guided Meditation Discovering Your Dharma
Please enjoy this 18-minute meditation dedicated to activating our Dharma.
Dharma is the principle that sustains the order of the universe. It allows us to express our unique gifts and talents in service of others – if we can help, heal and service others, then we are living in alignment with our destined path.
In this meditation, we are going to go deep into our Ajna chakra – the third eye.
The third eye is the doorway to divine answers – so let’s ask ourselves:
What is my unique gift?
What is my special talent?
If you feel some sort of movement or energy in the Third Eye, this means you are awakening it.
The mantra we will use is Om Dharma Namaha.
My unique gifts are channeled to help heal and serve others. I am in alignment with the universe.
Silently repeat it over and over and over. 
Whenever you notice that you drift away, ever so gently return to the mantra. Plant this mantra like a seed in the fertile soil of our Third Eye. And then let go and let the universe do the work.
Thank you for taking this time to meditate with me today. I’ll see you in the gap.
Namaste. – davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
Thank you for taking this time to meditate with me today. I’ll see you in the gap. Namaste. –
davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
Let’s meditate ♡
In every single moment, there are infinite possibilities available to you, and through meditation, you can make nourishing life-affirming choices. In those choices, you can also choose what you want to manifest in your life. Don’t forget to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to my channels to keep your ripple flowing in our community & support this content!!! Check out my Mind Shift membership too [image error] Sending you expansive love, personal growth, and infinite possibilities. Be well.
Namaste. -davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
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18 Guided Meditation Discovering your Dharma
Please enjoy this 18-minute meditation dedicated to activating our Dharma.
Dharma is the principle that sustains the order of the universe. It allows us to express our unique gifts and talents in service of others – if we can help, heal and service others, then we are living in alignment with our destined path.
In this meditation, we are going to go deep into our Ajna chakra – the third eye.
The third eye is the doorway to divine answers – so let’s ask ourselves:
What is my unique gift?
What is my special talent?
If you feel some sort of movement or energy in the Third Eye, this means you are awakening it.
The mantra we will use is Om Dharma Namaha.
My unique gifts are channeled to help heal and serve others. I am in alignment with the universe.
Silently repeat it over and over and over. Whenever you notice that you drift away, ever so gently return to the mantra. Plant this mantra like a seed in the fertile soil of our Third Eye. And then let go and let the universe do the work.
Thank you for taking this time to meditate with me today. I’ll see you in the gap.
Namaste. – davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
Thank you for taking this time to meditate with me today. I’ll see you in the gap. Namaste. –
davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
Let’s meditate ♡
In every single moment, there are infinite possibilities available to you, and through meditation, you can make nourishing life-affirming choices. In those choices, you can also choose what you want to manifest in your life. Don’t forget to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to my channels to keep your ripple flowing in our community & support this content!!! Check out my Mind Shift membership too [image error] Sending you expansive love, personal growth, and infinite possibilities. Be well.
Namaste. -davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
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Living our Dharma
This week we are looking at Living our Dharma – our noble purpose, our dream life. What would you be doing with your life if you didn’t have to think about money or all of the day-to-day things that can sometimes get in the way of us living our deepest desires?
In this video, I’ve listed ten questions that you can ask yourself, in order to start living in more alignment towards your truest purpose, the reason you are here – on this planet, right here and now:
What sparks my passion?Who’s in my front row – who are my cheerleaders? Let me put my attention on them and not on the people who aren’t rooting for me.What is my unique gift, my talent, to serve or heal others?What can I offer the world – the things that light me up and offer solutions to other people’s problems?What’s my dream? My deepest desire?What can I leverage right now – what can I do and how can I raise my vibration in the world right now?What step can I take right now – a baby step – to get closer to the dream?What’s involved with that step – what do I need to do? What’s the action I need to take?Will I give myself permission right now to reach out to whoever I need to?What commitment can I make right now?Give yourself some time to ponder these questions, and then take the actions needed in order to live more in alignment with your destined path. You are here for a reason! Let the world see the unique light that only you can shine.
You are beautiful and doing a great job! Don’t forget to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to my channels to keep your ripple flowing in our community & support this content!!! Check out my Mind Shift membership too [image error] Sending you expansive love, personal growth, and forgiveness. Be well.
Namaste. -davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
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February 18, 2023
Present Moment Awareness
One of my favorite teachings comes from the ancient text The Bhagavad Gita:
YOGASTHA KURU KARMANI, which means establish yourself in the present moment, and then perform action. It speaks to being mindful with every action that we take.
Let’s break down the meaning of this:
Yogastha = establish yourself in yoga/union/oneness/the present moment
Kuru = then perform
Karmani (karma) – action
In the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna has a situation in which he finds himself confused and challenged. Krishna offers him this advice when he doesn’t know what to do: Yogastha Kuru Karmani. Establish yourself in the present moment, and then perform action.
Often our heart and our commitments have the ability to create conflict in our lives – our heart tells us one thing, but our mind and our circumstances tell us another.
When you need to make a decision, become present, and then perform action.
And then whatever decisions you make, be there fully. You have to show up with all of your heart – both for yourself as well as for others. Follow your heart and bring it with you everywhere you go.
You are beautiful and doing a great job! Don’t forget to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to my channels to keep your ripple flowing in our community & support this content!!! Check out my Mind Shift membership too [image error] Sending you expansive love, personal growth, and forgiveness. Be well.
Namaste. -davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
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22-Minute Guided Meditation Connecting to the Present Moment
Please enjoy this 22-minute meditation dedicated to connecting to the present moment.
In the sacred precious present moment, there is a softness, an ease, and a quieting of the fluctuations of the mind.
The mantra we will use is So Hum. Silently repeat it over and over and over. You may notice it changing – it may become faster, slower, louder, softer, or jumbled. Just continue repeating it – and when you notice that you drift away, ever so gently return to the mantra.
Thank you for taking this time to meditate with me today. I’ll see you in the gap. Namaste. –
davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
Let’s meditate ♡
In every single moment, there are infinite possibilities available to you, and through meditation, you can make nourishing life-affirming choices. In those choices, you can also choose what you want to manifest in your life. Don’t forget to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to my channels to keep your ripple flowing in our community & support this content!!! Check out my Mind Shift membership too [image error] Sending you expansive love, personal growth, and infinite possibilities. Be well.
Namaste. -davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
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January 23, 2023
Upekka 15-Minute Guided Meditation dedicated to Equanimity
Please enjoy this 15-minute meditation dedicated to cultivating our being fully present and allowing ourselves to remember our divinity. The mantra we will use is Aham Brahmasmi.
Upekka means Equanimity. And Equanimity means to be in a state of balance, unwavering despite whatever circumstances are around us.
Whatever has transpired in the past, and whatever will transpire in the future has nothing to do with the here and now. When we take the time to become more centered and at peace within, the winds of change that are circling around us don’t affect us.
Allow yourself to receive the following statements:
I am at peace with this moment.
I accept this moment.
My perfection rests in the sacred present moment.
In this moment there is no fear.
In this moment there is no grievance.
In this moment there is no regret, because all is perfect right now.
Receive the message from the universe that ALL IS WELL.
In this moment, you are fully aligned with the universe.
In this moment the universe comforts you.
In this moment you are supported, and loved, and protected.
Aham Brahmasmi means I am the Universe. When we know that we are the universe, we can remain undisturbed in the midst of disturbance. We can stay rooted while the winds of change swirl around us. We can remain unmoving in the midst of great change.
Repeat this powerful mantra to yourself every time you find your feathers getting ruffled. You are so much bigger than that which is the disturbance!
Thank you for taking this time to meditate with me today. I’ll see you in the gap.
In every single moment, there are infinite possibilities available to you, and through meditation, you can make nourishing life-affirming choices. In those choices, you can also choose what you want to manifest in your life. Don’t forget to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to my channels to keep your ripple flowing in our community & support this content!!! Check out my Mind Shift membership too [image error] Sending you expansive love, personal growth, and infinite possibilities. Be well.
Namaste. -davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
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Source Life Tools Brahmavihara Upekka
This week we are continuing our journey into a 4-part series on The Brahmaviharas, aka the Four Virtues. They are Upekka (equanimity), Metta (unconditional loving kindness), Karuna (compassion), and Mudita (empathetic joy). When we awaken these four virtues, or “boundless abodes” in our life, we will live with greater grace and ease. We will be living in more alignment, and with a deeper connection to source.
Upekka means equanimity, which also means equality, balance and even-mindedness.
It can be easy to practice equanimity with the things that we don’t have reactions to – but the true power of its impact comes when something is happening that we don’t want.
How can we be undisturbed in the midst of disturbance?
This video is the perfect example of how Upekka can show up for us. When the chainsaw started as I was recording this video, I had two options:
Resist what was happening, and maybe even get up and move my location.
Accept what was happening, and as it turned out, the disturbance was in perfect alignment for me to teach about and practice Upekka!
When we live with equanimity, we treat people and situations impartially. Even if we don’t like them. We live with a greater sense of serenity, and we become unwavering in the face of loss or gain.
We raise our vibration by not allowing annoyances to consume us. What this gives us is peace of mind, and an unshakeable foundation from which to live.
One of the great lessons from The Bhagavad Gita is Yogastha Kuru Karmani: Establish yourself in the present moment, and then perform action.
When we internalize this concept, we can walk through the world in a much more balanced space. Fully present, and allowing the world to come to us as it is. We can be a silent witness, absorb it all in, and remain undisturbed.
You are beautiful and doing a great job! Don’t forget to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to my channels to keep your ripple flowing in our community & support this content!!! Check out my Mind Shift membership too [image error] Sending you expansive love, personal growth, and forgiveness. Be well.
Namaste. -davidji & Peaches the Buddha Princess
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