Posted to Facebook March 28th.
If you ever watch Oprah's Super Soul Sunday, you know that she ends her interviews by asking her guests to finish some sentences. Perhaps you might like to try finishing them too.
The thing that matters most to me is?
What is freedom?
I believe in?
I am grateful for?
The world needs?
What is the soul?
What is your definition of God?
If you could ask God one question what would it be?
What is your secret strength?
What's the best piece of advice that you have gotten?
What do you know for sure?
LOP is not about knowing what the right answer is, it is about knowing what MY answer is.
Living On Purpose (LOP) is remembering, believing in, and expressing who we really are. This blog is the sharing of the moment by moment experience of practicing Living On Purpose . . . because we all want to feel good.
Saturday 16 March 2013
Advice from a Lake
Posted to Facebook March 20th
This past Christmas I received a bookmark from my sister with a quote on it from Ilan Shamir.
This past Christmas I received a bookmark from my sister with a quote on it from Ilan Shamir.
Advice from a Lake
Be Clear
Make Positive Ripples
Look Beneath the Surface
Stay Calm
Shore Up Friendships
Take Time to Reflect
Be full of Life!
Apparently lakes know how to LOP : )
Thanks to Shan, Ilan Shamir, and yourtruenature.com/learn
Thursday 14 March 2013
An Untethered Soul Discussion -- Chapter Four
Posted to Facebook March 14th
In chapter four Michael talks about the lucid self. I believe what he is referring to is what I refer to in LOP as 'who I really am' (WIRA). It's that part of me that is calm, confident, aware, filled with faith in regards to what I do want, not taking life and what is going on around me too seriously, a very present, in-the-moment experience of life.
Michael refers to the this lucid self, this consciousness, as the subject, and what the subject focuses on as the object, and the subject is aware of objects passing by it all day long (mental objects, emotional objects and physical objects), which is a nice balanced, centered way of moving through my day.
However, sometimes I may loose that centeredness a bit (forget who I really am), and he refers to that as getting lost in the object. We may get lost in worrying about something, we may get caught up in how wrong that guy was for cutting us off in traffic, we may become completely absorbed in a football game or a movie we are watching, we may get so focused on something at work we can't seem to pull ourselves away from it, and in those instances we forget we are the lucid self.
What are some objects you tend to get lost in?
My example: T.V., work contracts, what is going on with my parents and the changes they are experiencing, repairs and changes in our real estate projects, planning trips/events.
When, in what situations, do you remember that you are the subject, the lucid self, where you remain centered?
My example: my morning meditation/connection time, reading books like "The Untethered Soul", having 'conscious' coffee times with others, writing this blog, watching an Abraham-Hicks workshop.
LOP is about using each moment of my day as an opportunity to practice being my lucid self, and expressing that genius out into the world.
In chapter four Michael talks about the lucid self. I believe what he is referring to is what I refer to in LOP as 'who I really am' (WIRA). It's that part of me that is calm, confident, aware, filled with faith in regards to what I do want, not taking life and what is going on around me too seriously, a very present, in-the-moment experience of life.
Michael refers to the this lucid self, this consciousness, as the subject, and what the subject focuses on as the object, and the subject is aware of objects passing by it all day long (mental objects, emotional objects and physical objects), which is a nice balanced, centered way of moving through my day.
However, sometimes I may loose that centeredness a bit (forget who I really am), and he refers to that as getting lost in the object. We may get lost in worrying about something, we may get caught up in how wrong that guy was for cutting us off in traffic, we may become completely absorbed in a football game or a movie we are watching, we may get so focused on something at work we can't seem to pull ourselves away from it, and in those instances we forget we are the lucid self.
What are some objects you tend to get lost in?
My example: T.V., work contracts, what is going on with my parents and the changes they are experiencing, repairs and changes in our real estate projects, planning trips/events.
When, in what situations, do you remember that you are the subject, the lucid self, where you remain centered?
My example: my morning meditation/connection time, reading books like "The Untethered Soul", having 'conscious' coffee times with others, writing this blog, watching an Abraham-Hicks workshop.
LOP is about using each moment of my day as an opportunity to practice being my lucid self, and expressing that genius out into the world.
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