The Value of the Journey

It's easy to forget who we really are. And who are we? We are the Divine in expression; we are the perfect activity of God. We might think we are the roles we play or we might think our value comes from all the stuff we have. And when we think that, then it's easy to judge by appearance, to fear the unknown, to play it safe, to make excuses, or to settle and tolerate. 

I'm facilitating a correspondence course with aprisoner and in a recent lesson, the inmate was asked to think about the masks we wear. And when I received his self-work back in the mail this week, he wrote that when he can look beyond the appearance of someone else's mask, he's able to see their possibilities. And when he can see their possibilities, he's able to see his own possibilities as well.  How awesome and powerful is that?

What can we see the possibilities in today? What little thing can we do today to help us value this journey? Can we realize how incredible we are? Yes, Life flows up from within each and every one of us and when we discover that, we also discover the value of our journey.

The discovery is the realization that those little things - the smile, the conversation, the shared meal, the heartfelt prayer, the time spent with spiritual community, the first bloom of the daffodil, the subtle opportunity, the long-distance phone call, the ability to see, to hear, or to walk - that enrich our journey.

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes
The Spirit of God is an undivided and indivisible Wholeness.  It fills all time with Its presence and permeates space with the activity of Its thought.  Your endeavor, then, is not so much to find God as it is to realize God's Presence and to understand that this Presence is always with you.  Nothing can be nearer to you than that which is the very essence of your being.  Your outward search for God culminates in the greatest of all possible discoveries - finding God at the center of your own being.  Life flows up from within you.

      ~ Thoughts are Things

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

A 24-Hour Spiritual Journey

The gifts and talents we like about ourselves and accept about ourselves are easy to for us to see. Maybe we're artistic, or kind, or musical, or we have rhythm, or we're coordinated, or we're patient, or we're smart. But what about our other gifts? You know, those gifts we may have buried because we thought they were flaws. Maybe we think we're too introverted, or too extroverted, or too loud, or our laugh is too funny, or we don't plan, or we're too rigid, or we're too spontaneous, or we're too sensitive, or we're not loving enough, not kind enough, not patient enough, or we're not talented, or not creative.

What if some of our most precious gifts come from the part we have buried or hidden? It's time for us to love, accept, and appreciate our total self. It's time to uproot some of the misconceptions we have about ourselves. It's time for us to engage in self-love. 

So, for the next 24 hours, join me in a spiritualjourney where we cast out self-criticism and replace it with self-love. For the next 24 hours, allow yourself to be your own best friend. For the next 24 hours, live your life as an experiment and believe in yourself, and in your inner genius 100%.

Remember, God has given everything from the beginning; we have all the abundance that it's possible to have. But we must express it and make it real.  Let's expect that everything always works out for us; let's expect that our own unique talents, skills, and gifts are a vital piece of the human puzzle and this thing called life; let's expect that we can overcome any of our limited ideas; and let's expect that we are opening our hearts and minds to our infinite possibilities. 

Remember, many activities in life just take from us, but spirituality and a belief in yourself always gives to us. Booyeah! 

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Let us know that the Law of Mind - the Law of God - operates exactly like a mirror: It reflects back to us what we present to It.  Let us learn to rightly use the Power greater than we are, accept It as ever present with us, responding to us, always reacting affirmatively when we do, always casting out the past as we let It, always creating that new future we accept. Let us begin to feel that we are worthy of the best we can envision. Let us get joy out of living and have a sense of happiness about it. Let us learn to trust where we cannot trace, feeling that each day is an adventure down the pathway of love and success.

      ~ The Power of an Idea

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Preparing for the Inner Shift

Last Sunday was Easter and for me it is a time to celebrate the inner spirit - the spirit of overcoming; the ability within each of us to rise up and meeting situations; to learn the things we need to learn (like remembering the Truth of who we are); and to experience a new birth or transformation of consciousness.

We could consider this time as our hero's journey when we confront the unexpected, the unknown, or the scary and yet we still find a way to break through and rise up and overcome. And our journey begins with an entry point. Our entry point is life nudging us to make a shift. 

Sometimes our entry point is a serious diagnosis,which could look like a betrayal by our body; the loss of a relationship, which could look like a betrayal by our spouse, our partner, our child, or our friend; getting fired, which could look like a betrayal by our employer; or some other event that knocks us off our center. And sometimes our entry point is a passing comment that someone makes.

But whatever our entry point to our own hero's journey,  it's about new beginnings and making successful transitions. It's about taking time to pause and reflect on our True Nature. It's about spending some time alone to renew our soul and remember God's power. It's about finding opening up to our infinite possibilities.

Our entry point could lead us on a journey to diminishing our false beliefs. Are you up for it?

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

...in such degree as we can shift the basis of our imagery, our belief, our emotional and mental reactions to life, we can come to a place, individually, of peace and security and happiness, then gradually as these changes take place there will be a corresponding change in our environment.

      ~ Freedom from Stress

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Commitment to Transformation

I love this quote from Theodore Roosevelt: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthycause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while DARING GREATLY so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

When we make a commitment to transformation, we are daring greatly. Making a commitment to transformation isn't just about KNOWING, it is about DOING. It isn't about knowing what is standing in the way of getting connected to the Divine Presence, what are we going to do about it? It isn't about knowing what false beliefs we have that have been keeping us stuck and safe, what are we going to do about it? 

It is possible that each and every one of us is being called from deep withing to enter a new way of being; a new way of showing up in this world -to live loud and live large; to make a difference; to boldly, proudly, and daringly bringing our gifts and talents to bear for the betterment of the world. Are you heeding that call?

How are you going to commit to dare greatly and rock your world

?

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes
Jesus communed with the Divine Presence and definitely used Divine Power.  He plainly taught that we must first become acquainted with the Presence; that if we know God we will not only find an intimate Companion, but we will also discover limitless Power.  He talked of a Presence in man, surrounding him and moving through him.  Because of It man has life, and he should believe in It because It will respond according to that belief.  Here we have cause and effect, action and reaction, prayer and its answer, or affirmation and its result.

      ~ Spiritual Awareness

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Transformation Through Trouble

We know that it is the Nature of Creation to evolve. And we also know that the Universe uses chaos, disintegration, falling apart, stirring up, breaking down, explosions - all sorts of things that could look messy - as vehicles of that evolution. 

And we also know that within all of that chaos, there is already a potentiality for expansion and evolution. And we know that we are part of the Nature of the Universe; yet, within our own chaos (or falling apart, stirring up, or breaking down) we seem to forget there is a potentiality for our own expansion and evolution.

How many of us consciously look forward to ourchallenges or troubles embracing them as tools of transformation? How many of us just want to have a challenge-free life? How many of us get so involved in the chaos and drama, we forget to evolve, grow, and transform?

We always have options. We can get angry, complain, and resist what's going on. This will not help us evolve and transform. Or we can be open, neutral, count our blessings, put God first, not judge by appearance, be excited about the transformation that is bound to follow the experience, look for the possibility and blessing, continue moving forward, and not allow our troubles to identify us. Which will you choose?  

And yes, 

it is okay to get angry and feel your feelings when challenges and troubles come up. Just don't build a condo there, okay?

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Our trouble is not derived from Life Itself, but from the use we have made of It.  Life exists in Its fullness at the center of our being.  If it were never blocked, It would always flow through us as life, love, harmony, happiness and success 

        ~ This Thing Called Life

Janet Kingsley is the founder of Center for Positive Living Sedona, where she feeds the spirit, intrigues the mind, and opens the heart with her clear and relevant messages.  She has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998.

Learn more about Janet at www.janetkingsley.com

    

Tuning In to Your Call

The human spirit can be an amazing thing and this month I'm writing about recognizing our spirit and transforming our mind, our heart, and our lives with the theme: 28 Days of Transformation. I love the quote in Romans 12:2: "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." In other words, don't take the easy way and judge everything by appearance or what others believe, but be transformed by expansive thinking, feeling, being, and doing.

What are you called to do? Some of us might be uncomfortable with this question because either we don't know what we are called to do, or we think there has to be some huge, enormous, gigantic thing we are supposed to do and it may scare us or we may think we aren't up to the task.  

If we are tuning in to our inner genius and really listening to what our heart and our spirit is urging us to do, we may find we are being called to "be present with others," or "use our compassion to help give others hope." When we listen and respond to our call with love and an open spirit, it is great and meaningful.

This week, tune in and listen to Love's divine urge.

Here's what Rumi wrote: "Feel yourself being quietly drawn by the deeper pull of what you truly love." Now, that's your call.

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Man's word is creative, not because he wills or wishes it, but because this is the nature of his being. Our impulse to create comes from the original creative Spirit which is in, around and through us. The urge to live creatively comes from the urge of the Divine Imagination which pushes Itself out through us into self-expression. This is man's nature. He neither made it nor can he change it. He is compelled to live under its law. 

      ~ Words That Heal Today

Janet Kingsley is the founder and spiritual director at Center for Positive Living Sedona. She also teaches people how to stop settling and start soaring and experience the magic of their dreams again.

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It's About Transformation

Since you are on my email list, you've noticed I've been sending out a daily email: 28 Days of Transformation. The coming of Spring is a wonderful time to tune into the change that is taking place all around us in nature. I see blossoms and blooms everywhere and am reminded that nature unfolds and transforms effortlessly and without any help.

Sometimes, however, we need a little help on our

journey of transformation. Matthew Fox said, "In order to pick up anything new, we must let go of what we are holding." So, we need to do some letting go and clearing away of old ideas, old patterns, and old beliefs. What needs to dissolve in your life?

What if it was our destiny to realize "who we are" and then step forward and claim it and live it? What might we need to let go that is standing in our way to claiming our inherent divinity?  Take some time this week to let go and de-clutter; not only ideas, but your closet, your desk, or anything else that is getting in the way of living fully and fully living! 

And maybe you can start by downsizing and clearing out your closet. Let's make room for the new!

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

We do not change all of the patterns . . . in a moment.  Rather, it takes place little by little, until gradually the old . . . patterns become transformed into new ones by some inner alchemy of the mind, the operation of which we do not see but the manifestation of which we do experience       ~ 365 Science of Mind

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com