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Weekend Meditation

“The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then, you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn’t belong to the soul.”

- Paramhansa Yogananda

Trust Message

Listen to today’s show on Awakening Your Heart to Love & Trust

Even if it’s for one day…today…release the fear, doubt, anxiety, and allow the universe to handle the details. Everything is exactly as it should be and will be delivered unconditionally if you open your heart and TRUST. We’ll take it deeper today on Hay House Radio.

peace.-davidji

Listen to this quick MP3 message on TRUST!

Awakening Your Heart to Love

SWEETSPOT ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear Meditator,

Back on 11-11, two years ago, we launched the very first Secrets of Meditation Healing Immersion. The only workshop of its kind dedicated to cultivating your spiritual practice, healing your heart, and communing with the ocean, the sand, and the sweet prana that flows within us.

Since that first collective merging, each of my retreats, workshops & teacher trainings has quickly over-subscribed. It has been a blessing but many of you who have been traveling on this journey with me have found yourself on the waiting list. We just announced the next Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Teacher Training & the May Secrets of Meditation Healing Immersion to the world, and I wanted to share it with you – so that you could register or share this info with your friends and family who might be interested.

Wherever you are in your daily practice and whether your desired outcome is finding clarity in your life, coping with stress & anxiety, emotional healing, slowing the overwhelm, taking your life to the next level, or sharing this timeless wisdom, I’ve designed these experiences to help you awaken your inner healer and begin a powerful transformation. The Healing Immersion begins Thursday May 8; and the Teacher Training begins June 15 on line & culminates with a week together in the SweetSpot September 22-28.

In the meantime, I will be traveling around the world sharing these timeless teachings in person, on line, & thru the airwaves. Remember, you can always access multiple years of my blog, which contains over 100 FREE guided meditations! and you can on-demand the past three years of my HayHouseRadio show once you have joined the wisdom community.

Here are a few upcoming events:

April:

Discover Your Dharma Life-change Immersion – the Meditation Nest

Seduction of Spirit w Deepak Chopra – La Costa, CA

Meditation 101 w Ashley Turner –online

May:

MY birthday – May 5 – wherever you are, celebrate & eat chocolate!

Secrets of Meditation Healing Immersion – the Meditation Nest

For more details, or to connect with me directly, email me at info@davidji.com.

See you in the gap! Peace. –davidji

 

Awakening Your Heart to Love

 

Welcome Spiritual Warriors to April Fools Day:

“A fool is one who goes on trusting; a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience.

You deceive him, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you.

Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it.

Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense. Don’t try to create a wall of knowledge around you. Whatsoever experience comes to you, let it happen, and then go on dropping it. Go on cleaning your mind continuously; go on dying to the past so you remain in the present, herenow, as if just born, just a babe.

In the beginning it is going to be very difficult.

The world will start taking advantage of you…let them. They are poor fellows.

Even if you are cheated and deceived and robbed, let it happen, because that which is really yours cannot be robbed from you, that which is really yours nobody can steal from you.

And each time you don’t allow situations to corrupt you, that opportunity will become an integration inside. Your soul will become more crystallized.” Osho

So no matter how your heart is feeling right now, give yourself permission to keep dying to the past – to let go of what no longer serves you. Make believe that you are going on a long journey and you can only take your heart. You can only take your tenderness. You can only take your vulnerability. You can only take your self-forgiveness and your self-compassion. Don’t worry about anything else. The universe has your back…always.

Start today…right now…trusting that this moment is perfect. It was designed by the divine creator to give you everything you need to grow, to love, to thrive, and to shine.

Be a fool today!! I’ll see you in the gap! peace. -davidji

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Weekend Meditation

“The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.”

-Sogyal Rinpoche

Happy Weekend Spiritual Warriors!

Here’s a meditation on the 5 Secrets to the Sweetspot.

Enjoy & I’ll see you in the GAP!

peace.-davidji

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May 8 – 11, 2014

Owning Your Practice

“Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.’ -Amit Ray

Welcome to a brand new week spiritual warriors!!! I’ve just finished the final week of my spring Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Teacher Training. It was a beautiful week of grounding my meditation practice with 14 fellow explorers from around the world. We rose an hour before the sun came up; we walked down to the beach in the darkness of the morning and nestled into our blankets; we began meditating as the rhythmic sound of the waves flowed sweet-cool-ocean prana into our lungs; and as the sun rose, it gently lifted the darkness into light – all of this with our eyes closed.

Join me in the SweetSpot!
May 8 – 11th

By 7:30am, we had meditated, connected to nature, opened our hearts, practiced kundalini yoga and manifested a powerful trajectory for the rest of our day. We had achieved more by mid-morning than most people do in a day. The sense of accomplishment is profound. The ripples of fulfillment lasted all day long into the evening when we meditated again on the sand as the setting sun sent the colors of the rainbow in all directions as it dipped beneath the ocean.

Now maybe you don’t have sweet ocean air flowing into your day. Maybe you don’t get to wiggle your toes in the sand as you drift into stillness and silence. But you have the same opportunity to rise, pee, and meditate (RPM). You have the same opening to set a calming, non-reactive trajectory to your day – to leave your stress behind. You have the same darkness when you close your eyes…and the same light as the sun wakes up to start your day. And you’ve got the same desire to live your life with greater grace and greater ease.

This week, if you can make the commitment to RPM a few minutes before the sun rises, you will experience the same gift that I receive each dawn. Your mind will be a bit quieter as you begin your morning routine. You’ll experience greater calm as the day unfolds. Your heart will be a bit more open, so you’ll walk through the day with a bit more compassion, forgiveness, and acceptance. This means you’ll struggle less throughout the day. You’ll be a bit less conditioned – so you’ll be less reactive…less knee-jerk.

But most profoundly, you will live each day with a bit more gratitude for the gifts the universe is offering you with each breath…a sense of wholeness, of infinite possibilities, of deeper satisfaction, and of greater love. We can do this every day as a virtual collective. The feeling we have is tangible when our fellow meditators are connecting to stillness & silence. It’s an AHAM BRAHMASMI BABY! moment.

davidji & peaches
hayhouseradio.com
THURSDAYS
11a PST/2p EST

I encourage you to experiment this week and explore what it’s like to accomplish more by mid-morning than most people do in a day. You’ll feel nourished, restored, and empowered. And before you know it, this will become your morning ritual. If you’d like to learn from me in person, there are still a few spaces remaining in my upcoming Secrets of Meditation Healing Immersion. I invite you to join me LIVE! this Thursday on Hay House Radio and we’ll take it deeper.

In the meantime, I’ll see you in the gap! Peace. -davidji

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Colorado Convention Center
March 28 – 30, 2014

Weekend Meditation

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

-Buddha

Happy Weekend Spiritual Warriors!

Let’s take some time this weekend to step away from The Five Kleshas and step into ONENESS! This guided meditation is a great start. Remember the power of your ripple.

Enjoy! Peace. -davidji

davidji & peaches
hayhouseradio.com
THURSDAYS
11a PST/2p EST

Hay House Radio Update

LIVE! FROM THE SWEETSPOT

has moved to THURSDAYS!!!

11a PST/2p EST

on hayhouseradio.com…radio for your soul.

Be sure to tune in today as we continue our

exploration of THE FIVE KLESHAS.

New Weekly Flow Reminder!

Tuesdays – VLOG with the Exploration of the Week

Thursdays – LIVE on hayhouseradio.com

Saturdays – weekend meditation

Until then, I’ll see you in the GAP!

peace.-davidji

The Five Kleshas

“Transform the world by transforming yourself.” -davidji

Hello Spiritual Warriors!! The only constant is change!!! So here’s the new weekly lineup to help you with your personal transformation.

Every Tuesday, you’ll receive my weekly blog – The Source – which will contain teachings, a video, special offers, and instruction on merging the timeless wisdom into your daily life.

Every Thursday, it’s LIVE! from the SweetSpot on Hay House Radio 11am PT; 2pm ET. This is an opportunity for us to connect mid-week and re-engage Tuesday’s lesson.

Every Saturday, you’ll receive a meditation from me to ease you through the weekend and into the new week.

Tuesday – a fresh new blog; Thursday – Hay House Radio; Saturday – Meditation

hayhouseradio.com

So settle in and let’s dive into Secrets of Meditation – Exploring the Five Kleshas. When you look at all your accomplishments, successes, or celebrations in life — there are common threads that run through each. When we thrive and experience abundance, it’s because our intentions, our heart, and our actions are fully aligned with the flow of the universe.

When we stumble, feel pain, or find ourselves in suffering, there are commonalities that co-create those events as well. Those common threads that run through our non-nourishing choices, our emotional pain, & our reactive thinking have been woven through you for many years. They are part of our conditioning and self-domestication. But they are also universal – and run through all of us.

Join me in the SweetSpot!
May 8 – 11th

These common threads were first identified thousands of years ago in the most ancient teachings of the Vedas. In Sanskrit they are referred to as the pancha kleshas – or the five obstacles – translated literally – they are the five poisons. In fact, Vedanta says that it is our un-enlightened or illusionary thinking that brings us to decisions that we regret, interpretations that limit us, and ongoing emotional pain & suffering.

The Five Kleshas are:

1. Ignorance (in the form of a misunderstanding reality) known in Sanskrit as ávidyā,

2. Egoism (in the form of an mistaken identification of the Self with the intellect) known in Sanskrit as asmitā,

3. Attachment known in Sanskrit as rāga,

4. Aversion known in Sanskrit as dveṣa, and

5. Fear of death known in Sanskrit as abhiniveśāḥ.

These are mental states that cloud the mind and manifest in unwholesome actions. Kleshas include states of mind such as anxiety, fear, anger, jealousy, desire, regret, and depression, essentially non-nourishing emotions. You may want to look at each klesha and see how they are blocking you from happiness, success, fulfillment, or love.

In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali teaches that: “The goal of Yoga is not to obtain something that is lacking: it is the realization of an already present reality. Yoga practice removes the obstacles that obstruct the experience of Samadhi, or the state of complete absorption.”

As humans, we all struggle with these five mind poisons. But a daily meditation practice can help you navigate through the sometimes, treacherous waters of the kleshas. So this week commit to meditating at least once in the morning and once in the afternoon – you determine what style of meditation and the length of your practice. But by simply committing to connecting to the stillness & silence within, you WILL SUFFER LESS this week.

Join me Thursday, at our new day & time on Hay House Radio & we will go deep into lifting the veil of pain & suffering. In the meantime, I’ll see you in the gap! Peace. -d

Live in or near Denver, CO? Join me and my fellow Hay House Authors at the I Can Do It! conference and get a little higher in mind, body, & spirit!

Colorado Convention Center
March 28 – 30, 2014

Weekend Meditation – Svadhisthana Chakra

sacral-chakra

“Humans are radically relational—the sacred is to be found in the spaces between us.” ~ author unknown

Join me in the SweetSpot!
May 8 – 11th

Let’s set intentions for a weekend filled with creativity & connection.

Enjoy the meditation & I’ll see you in the GAP!

Peace.-davidji

Maintaining the Meditation Flow

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

When Should I Meditate?

In the era when these ancient teachings were first made popular, almost 5,000 years ago, most people were farmers. They rose before sunrise, they washed, they prayed and meditated, and then they went into the fields at the first hint of sunrise. They worked in the fields with their animals and then they retired for the day before sunset. They meditated before dinner, and they slept as the sun slept. For more than 5,000 years, Ayurveda has taught that the ideal times to meditate are between the hours of 5 and 7 A.M. and between 5 and 7 P.M. According to Ayurveda, these times of the day are at the lightest part of the morning and evening (the end of vata time: 2–6). This, of course, corresponds to the rising and setting of the sun, which is how these ancient civilizations guided their lives. Ayurveda was developed long before Las Vegas and eBay . . . long before night shifts, nightclubs, swing shifts, and round-the-clock emergency rooms, and long before planes, trains, and buses moved through the night . . . long before nocturnal behaviors began to buck the natural circadian rhythms of nature. So this ancient guidance had little knowledge that we would be living in an age where people went out to dinner when it was already dark, and many of us rose long after the sun had come up.

Join me in the SweetSpot!
May 8 – 11th

The Power of Ritual

So when is the right time? I used to say to myself, I’ll meditate at ten o clock every morning. But ten never comes. You know what it’s like. The phone rings. The dog needs attention. You suddenly are greeted with information that requires your care. You spend more time than you thought you would on sending an e-mail, going to a store, or dealing with a challenge. And then it’s noon, and you have a lunch meeting. You plan for three o’clock but then you get pulled away, so you promise yourself you will meditate as soon as you get home. But a friend calls and asks you out to dinner. And then you go to a movie and then to a club for dancing, and before you know it, it’s midnight and you haven’t meditated.

If you lock your meditation in like a seamless ritual, it will just flow without thought. We create and maintain behaviors by ritualizing them. The easiest way to lock in your daily meditation practice—and most important, your morning meditation—is to ritualize it. Make it part of a series of activities that you do based on each activity flowing from one into the other, rather than what time it is while you’re performing them. For example, when you wake up each morning you look at the clock—then you pee. You don’t say to yourself, “It’s 6:30; time to pee.” That happens as a natural flow of your morning ritual. Then you do the next thing on your invisible list of morning activities and then the next. For most people, they pretty much do the same things in the same order every day.

We create behaviors and maintain behaviors by ritualizing them. You don’t know what time you brush your teeth every morning, because you don’t do it based on time; you do it based on following some order of rituals you’ve created over the years. It’s only one of your morning ablution rituals. We have between 8 and 15 that we deploy in a certain sequence on waking. Sometimes we have a different ritual for the weekends and one for the workweek. They evolve over time, but each of us has this autopilot string of rituals we perform each day like clockwork.

It starts when you wake up; The next thing you do is look at the clock to orient yourself. Then you do 1 of these 15 activities in the same ritualistic order you always do, and you do them all like a prearranged dance. You wake; you pee; you wash your face; you move your bowels; you shower; you groom yourself by shaving or putting on makeup; you do your hair; you dress; you tend to your cat, dog, bird, or snake; you tend to any children or babies in the house, you interact with your significant or insignificant other; you watch morning TV; you read a newspaper; you go online; you have sex; you make coffee or tea; and you eat or serve some form of breakfast. And each day, you perform these activities in the same ritualistic order, on autopilot, every day for months, years, even decades.

The Effortless Ritual: RPM

I developed a ritual that has helped thousands effortlessly lock down their practice. It’s known as RPM, which stands for Rise, Pee, Meditate. It’s based on the fact that you wake up each day. So what time do you wake up?

It’s not too big a leap to think that within a few minutes of waking, you’re going to pee. Well, you’re two-thirds of the way there! If the very next thing you do is sit down to meditate, then within 35 minutes of opening your eyes in the morning, you’ll have a half-hour of stillness and silence inside you to greet every moment as you move throughout the rest of your day. Join me this week on Hay House Radio – Wednesday 3p PST/6p EST – and we will explore more practical tips to keep you in the meditative flow. In the meantime, I’ll see you in the gap!. Peace. -d

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April 3 – 6, 2014
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