by Gizelle | Jun 24, 2018 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
It is common to create artificial ‘aids’ to help cultivate an attitude of mindfulness. Some people post sticky-notes aound the house, other’s create an affirmation jar (pulling one out every morning to set the tone for the day), still others may...
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 | 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 | Mar 18, 2018 | Open Hearts & Open Minds, Relationships
I find it funny to think about how ‘white noise’ machines got their name, how unlike ‘white’ they are. White contains the full spectrum of light (all the colors of the rainbow and more), by contrast ‘white noise’ seeks to obliterate the...
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 | Feb 11, 2018 | Gratitude & Joy, Spirit/Oneness
Recently I had an experience with my newest kitty, Aurora, who has been in a very lovey mode – she can’t get enough of the cashmere sweater that I’ve been wearing on these cold days. She hops into my lap and buries her nose deep in the pit of my elbow or into my side...
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...
by Gizelle | Dec 10, 2017 | Connection, Relationships
A friend of mine once told me she believes that whenever we think of someone, they are thinking of us at the same time — like a prayer between Souls. I wonder if it is similar to the principle of superposition — where the quantum wavefunction of a single...
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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 29, 2017 | Life Force, Spirit/Oneness
If we lived life like a spider, we would see infinite possibilities — we wouldn’t see empty space, but infinite options to anchor our Life. Every day we can start a new design. We can retrace our steps or explore open space, drop a strand where once...
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 | Sep 10, 2017 | Gratitude & Joy, Spirit/Oneness
On the days my glass is ‘half-full” I go away and I doubt God. And when I can’t doubt God, I doubt myself. And depending on my mood, I can stay in this zone for an hour, a day, a week and lose myself completely in this spiral. Examining: “How did I let...
by Gizelle | Oct 16, 2016 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
In the past I was plagued by a need to engage in mild combat with others about nothing and anything, which was often reflective of my inner state. I would get caught in the web of seeking power through defensiveness, rather than being empowered through slowing down,...
by Gizelle | Oct 2, 2016 | Healing Separation, Life in Balance
Took a beautiful walk today out to a point that granted an almost 360 degree view of beaches and ocean, with a forest behind me. Up a gentle slope up-hill through a glade, then into the forest of trees, past an abandoned house. Then on through a canopy of trees,...
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 | Aug 7, 2016 | Leaps of Faith, Spirit/Oneness
The sky cleared a bit this evening — a pale line of light outlining hills that haven’t been visible for almost two weeks (hell at times I haven’t even been able to see the houses across the street!). Maybe it is a sign that the fire is dampening down...
