by Gizelle | May 5, 2020 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
I woke up this morning in a bit of a slump, nothing serious, just ‘ho hum’. On the heels of ‘ho hum’ I realized that I’ve carried a fantasy (for more years then I’d like to admit) that I hoped one day to become a great writer. Hot on the heels of this thought was...
by Gizelle | Nov 11, 2019 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
I recently came out of a flat period in my life, not depression exactly (but easily mistaken for such), more of a sense of 2-D detachment to my days. At first I wondered if I was resisting the ordinary flow of my life: wake-up, tasks, work, sleep, sprinkled with a...
by Gizelle | Oct 21, 2019 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
Upon awakening in the mornings we become aware once again of THIS reality, our waking reality, a different experience from our sleeping state of being. It is as natural as breathing for us, in one moment we are ‘dead to the world’ and in the next instance we are...
by Gizelle | Jun 17, 2018 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
Every particle of our being is saturated with Life Force Energy. Much like fish that draw water through their gills, deriving the oxygen they need from the water, flushing out what they don’t need through bubbles, we are surrounded and embodied with Conscious...
by Gizelle | Mar 25, 2018 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
White Noise Machines aren’t called Black Noise Machines. Based on some sort of physics that enable sound waves to be muted or displaced, they provide a way for us to cover over unwanted sounds. Underlying conversations, thoughts, outside distractions and...
by Gizelle | Feb 18, 2018 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
It is a mistake to think that the purpose of being on a Spiritual Path is to “disappear the ego’. As long as one is in a human form, there is a purpose for having an ego, having a personality, a physical expression of our deeper Soul Light. So setting one’s heart...
by Gizelle | Jan 21, 2018 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Life in Balance
I suspect that I’m coming to grips with the reality of being ordinary — my teacher told me years ago to practice ‘bowing lower’ (from the Buddhist perspective), not struggling for or against, saying ‘yes’ to what is. I have been...
by Gizelle | Aug 27, 2016 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Leaps of Faith, Life in Balance
and the Universe will support you. Reminds me of the book entitled “Do What You Love, and the Money Will Follow” – although I’ve never read the book, the teaching has stuck. There have been many, many times when I ‘believed’ that lack of money blocked me from taking...
