by Gizelle | May 12, 2020 | Centering Practice, This Moment -- Now
One can’t be mad at the mind for being unable to fulfill the desires of the heart or the Soul. It has nothing to offer because it spends all of its existence in a territory that doesn’t intersect, in a land that speaks a completely different language – thus no solace...
by Gizelle | Oct 28, 2019 | Centering Practice, Inner Life
The key to releasing the fear of the unknown lies in releasing the enormity of our projected belief systems. Identifying the panorama of beliefs, some so subtle we simply call them opinions, others so massive we are sure they are TRUTH! Dismantling or at least...
by Gizelle | Aug 26, 2019 | Centering Practice, Inner Life
We turn a tremendous amount of power over to our mind, seldom questioning the force behind our logic, our doubts, our proof from an endless supply of evidence based on past, present, unpredictable future. We rarely see these mental constructs for what they are,...
by Gizelle | Jul 1, 2018 | Centering Practice, Inner Life
As a child I would often escape to Nature, find a field to lie in, and stare up at the Clouds — watching the Cloud-People dance across the blue field, morphing, changing, bumping into one another, I would propel myself upward hoping to be enveloped into the...
by Gizelle | Jun 3, 2018 | Being Present, Centering Practice
Retraining ourselves and the way we perceive is not easy. Seeking what isn’t there is illogical, but can be fruitful. Applying the practice of looking, really LOOKING at negative space we can open ourselves up to a unique way of approaching life that is not...
by Gizelle | May 13, 2018 | Centering Practice, Prayer & Meditation
I remember years ago attending an art class where my teacher instructed us to draw ‘negative space.’ Instead of focusing on the object or the scene, we were asked to focus on the space around and in between the objects, then draw those shapes. We were encouraged to...
by Gizelle | Apr 22, 2018 | Centering Practice, This Moment -- Now
Practicing the Presence is most commonly achieved is through the deliberate act of sitting in meditation, seeking to drop away from being identified with our individual selves, and to merge with THAT presence that is larger, beyond, …. enveloping all of Life itself. I...
by Gizelle | Jan 28, 2018 | Explore Life, Life in Balance, This Moment -- Now
At times I freak out and wonder what I’ll do without a 401K that will fully support me, especially as I grow older and grayer. But then I remind myself, people lived for thousands of years without a 401K. Fate and my Soul have conspired to put me on the road less...
by Gizelle | Dec 10, 2017 | Being Present, Centering Practice
For years I lived in the certainty that the proverbial “shoe would always drop”. I never doubted that this was so; it was simply a matter of time. I lived in a perpetual state of tension, sometimes extreme fear, at other times a low-grade anxiety, but absolutely...
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by Gizelle | Nov 12, 2017 | Centering Practice, This Moment -- Now
My Life is HERE, in this ‘moment’. It’s not in the plans I make, nor in the things yet to come, and it certainly isn’t in the things that have happened to me. These have are already passed or may yet never be. Judging the moment, telling myself: “I don’t...
by Gizelle | Oct 22, 2017 | Change & Growth, Growth/Self-Love, This Moment -- Now
Each moment presents a choice, and results in a choice. Choices. Free will or pre-ordained? Right or Wrong? Good or Bad? Anxiety arises. Living becomes mental, and we become lost. Not understanding that the web weaves itself. That ‘Yes’ can become...
by Gizelle | Sep 24, 2017 | Centering Practice, Prayer & Meditation
Cultivating Surrender is not just about the desire to give up the fight, it’s not even the desire to give up our will; nor is it a mental process of praying, praying, praying and saying ‘Thy Will Be Done” and then having a new state of awareness come forth. The...
by Gizelle | Jun 18, 2017 | Centering Practice, Prayer & Meditation
But living life from the “Outside In” may also create a dilemma. Spiritually we may look at those same events and question: “why is God doing this to me”, “what am I meant to learn from this”, “what do I have the power to change”? We get lost in the whirlwind or...
by Gizelle | Aug 20, 2016 | Being Present, Centering Practice
If we practice being in the moment, slowing down to check in with ourselves, to feel into the center of our being, then we create more opportunities where we are in touch with our true selves. For as many moments as possible, be present and ask our Selves:...
by Gizelle | Jul 30, 2016 | Centering Practice, Prayer & Meditation
Thoughts are like clothing. They often wrap around the essence of ‘who’ we are, confusing us with all the different ways in which they move. Pulling our attention from the center of our being out to all the other things we think we should be concerned with. The more...
by Gizelle | Jul 23, 2016 | Centering Practice, Inner Life
Staying in the Center may at times feel we are disconnected from our sense of self, from the world, from our purpose in Life. We may even judge ourselves as being uncaring or unsupportive of others in our Life. Yet, we become part of something unknown and unplanned,...
