Stepping Into Your Purpose — Beyond the Doing

Today enjoy an article from the July Chopra Newsletter

Spiritual seekers are often intrigued about why their souls choose to incarnate on Earth at this time. You may search for your unique skills and talents that you are here to share. All of us can live into our purpose by how we choose to simply be. Your purpose is much more than what you do and create. Here are seven ways in which we can step into your purpose beyond what you “do.”

Listen

You can serve humanity, not just in the messages that you share through writing and speaking, but also in compassionately listening. A basic human right is your need to be seen, heard, and supported. When you hold space for others to express themselves without judgment, criticism, or your own agenda, you support them as they blossom at their own divine pace. You witness their evolution and awakening, without imposing your need to change, fix, or heal them.

How You Energetically Hold Space for Others

Depending on human design and purpose, some of us naturally and even unconsciously absorb, process, and share energy. Empaths tend to feel, hear, or know information and energy. They may step into a room and sense the feelings of those that were there before them. They may tear up as soon as they see someone else cry.

Recognize that you may already be living into your purpose as your body and aura are transforming the energy of everyone and every space that you encounter. If you are intrigued by this idea, you may wish to begin a practice of consciously sending healing energy. All it takes is presence, willingness, and intention.

For some, their purpose lies in their career, but for others it’s in how they show up in relationships, for Earth, and for themselves.”

How You Treat Others

A simple look of trust or friendly conversation can shape someone else’s day. You can create a ripple effect of kindness in your community when you choose to be the light. Treating people who don’t mean a lot to you with respect is your purpose. While you may not be able to donate money to a homeless person, you have the ability to look at them as a soul who’s not beneath anyone else. Genuinely smiling from the heart, saying a silent blessing, or sharing a compliment are all ways in which you may fulfill your soul’s dharma.

Pursue Joy

You may have been taught to suppress your desires and be humble. This may lead you to forget pleasure and lightness. The Japanese explain that your ikigai is a mix of what you love, what the world needs, what you can be paid for, and what you’re good at. While seeking for your purpose, you may forget to turn inward and look at your passions, and that which brings you delight. When seeking your purpose, you may wish to consider, “Do I believe that I am worthy of being happy? What has my family, religion, and society taught me about happiness as a part of my purpose?”

Relationship with All Life Forms

Your exchange with all forms of consciousness is also an aspect of our dharma. Planting trees, fostering pets, and cleaning up your local pond may be wonderful ways to heal the planet. However, your soul’s purpose may also include acknowledging, being present with, and honoring all forms of consciousness. Many of the life lessons can simply be learned by observing nature and allowing a relationship with its consciousness. By communicating with Earth and all of its inhabitants, you can access universal wisdom that exceeds your own understanding.

Becoming a Channel

You may also tap into the purpose of your existence, by allowing higher consciousness to move through you. Each and every one of us has the ability to clear our energy channels and be receptive to energetic and informational downloads. These can guide your own path or help others in their journey. You may begin to let the Universe know that you’re ready to channel higher consciousness in your meditation and prayer practice.

Additionally, it may help to eat high-vibrational (e.g., raw and organic) foods and drink plenty of water. Develop a practice of writing down the messages you receive and the energetic shifts that you experience. This will help you to acknowledge and trust your ability to channel energy and information.

Seeing the Light in You

Part of your soul’s purpose is to also acknowledge that you are whole, healthy, and enough. While your physical body may be experiencing pain or discomfort, your soul is a vivacious bright light that is free from the suffering on Earth. Along with working toward health, joy, and love, see if you can also acknowledge your own perfection. There is nothing more to do or achieve. You are as worthy, lovable, and pure as the rest of consciousness.

Living into your purpose doesn’t require you to go back to school or make a radical shift in careers. It can be as simple as how you gaze at someone or the feelings you apply to yourself. While your world does need people who take action, express themselves, and create, you also need to live into your purpose by just being. Your dharma is multi-faceted and may be fulfilled in numerous ways including patiently listening to others, holding an intention, observing nature, and trusting your intuition.

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Thank you to guest author Parita Shah of the Chopra Newsletter, July, 2023

Hope you enjoyed this guest article. Have a beautiful day,

Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW

Peaceful Way Meditation Blog

Author, In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

Author Name: Jane Rosalea Booth

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Create a new shelter for yourself

OLD AGE: A NEW SHELTER FOR YOURSELF

“The amazing thing about the human soul and the human spirit is it is never in a state of non-experience.  There is something going on all the time.  Even when you are sleeping. There are rivers of dream-thought flowing through the earth of your body, bringing up all types of mythic, archetypal stuff, some of which belongs to you, a lot of which belongs to the clay and a lot of which belongs to the race… So in old age, time slows a bit, the outer draw to activity recedes, and you have time for the more contemplative side of things…. You have a chance then to decipher what has happened to you, to see the hidden depths of experiences that have occurred in your life.  You really have a chance to weave a new shelter for yourself.”

-John O’Donohue, Walking in Wonder

Aging continues to fascinate me! It really can be a time to ‘weave a new shelter for yourself”. ..a place of comfort and peace…a place that always contains something new and magical with unknown wonders.

In my aging shelter, I am not as busy as I used to be, but days seem to go quickly…maybe too quickly. I try to accomplish a few ‘tasks’ each day. But I spend a lot of time reading, writing, meditating, preparing for my fall women’s gathering and being outside for walks. Now warmer days are here, I am in my garden that is like a shelter me or a secret garden. It is a place I can go to be alone, listen to the birds, watch the robins and sometimes a Flicker visits…a nice place to meditate!

John O’Donohue reminds us to create a shelter to create a new way of living as we age. I love his use of the word ‘weave’ because as we age we can ‘weave’ in new ways of living and still bring with us the thoughts full of our memories or hobbies that bring us joy…a weaving of old and new. We can bring our heart love into our shelter and gratitude for having these elder years. Yes,the physical challenges are present, but we can keep in good health by exercising and having a good diet. We can accept what we can and cannot do. We can always do the most important thing in life…we can live with an open and accessible heart…we can share our love…

For those of you who are younger, you can create a shelter where you can consciously create the life you want and share your talents and gifts. It is up to you what and whom you want in your shelter so you can have more love and joy. I think we have many shelters, big and small, as we age. It may be a physical shelter like a garden or room, or a mindful creative shelter or a heart shelter filled within filled with what you value and love. We need them to nourish ourselves so we stay healthy and well.

Enjoy weaving your shelter with things you love!

Peacefully,

Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW

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Discovering Self through Meditation

Long ago in my meditations, I received an insight that all I needed to solve my life problems was available to me each day…in my outer world and in my inner meditative world…but I had to be awake and aware!

The advantage of seeking within is that I do not have the distractions of my outer life. When I meditate, I have the opportunity to reflect, listen, visualize and connect to spirit…to the unknown wonders of the universe…to love and peace. Meditating is a wonderful gift to me, one that gives me strength and courage to make changes and to create new ways for myself.

However, most of my life is in my outer world, my daily life. So I look for deeper meaning in what is happening in it. What do I really value? When I answer this question, it often shifts my perspective and I have to make changes in myself to align with what I value. Sometimes this is not an easy task. I often seek help from friends, teachers, books, programs and courses…but all this outer learning and exploration always takes me back to meditation…to look within to discover my truth.

I often turn to my book, In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation, as a source of comfort and a reminder of the power of meditation. Many of my insights that I have received over the years are in this book. They are simple insights and may be overlooked by their simplicity, but I know how powerful they are and how they changed my life and brought me more peace. They helped me to meld my outer world into my inner world and allow both to flow from my heart with greater ease.

All of us are seeking some sense of what is happening around the world. These are challenging times. Your inner light and love can bring you comfort and peace to cope with life transitions and change. By meditating and focusing on your heart, it brings relief from your stress and provides a space where you can relax, reflect and release your anxieties. Discovering this space within has helped me move through difficult and sad times. It helps to keep me balanced and calm so I may live in a peaceful way.

May your day be full of comfort and peace,

Peacefully, Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW

Peaceful Way Meditation Blog

Author, In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

Author Name: Jane Rosalea Booth

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Walking home, a Christmas reflection

I love my morning walks as my boots crunch through the snowy path in the woods. It gives me time to reflect and to speak to the giant trees and squirrels that scurry by and to my friendly crow, Buddy who swoops by for a morning treat. He always makes me smile. Some mornings he really caws to me but on others he is quiet. This morning was a quiet fly by. Perhaps he knew I was deep in thought about Christmas.

Christmas always tugs at my heart strings. I miss all those who have passed on, my beloveds who feel near and sometimes far. I am taken back to my childhood with the many Christmas dinners at Grandma Brown’s house with all my cousins or Christmas when our kids were little with high hopes of Santa coming! And this year we had hopes of being with our children and grandkids…but that has all changed due to the huge snow storm headed our way this weekend. I am missing my family as I am sure so many others are. Hopefully, some will find a safe way home.

So this morning as I walked along with my dog, I took some deep breaths and embraced the silence of the woods and the view of the water, Georgian Bay, where streaks of blue sky were stretching out between the clouds in the horizon. I felt a presence with me. Poet Mary Oliver said…”there is something”…yes, I could feel something that permeates through the woods and water…and through me. This presence is a gift, a precious often over looked gift, of the beauty surrounding me. So I stood still for a few minutes in silence and soaked all this ‘presence’ in.

As I wandered on home, I felt very grateful for my Christmas loves…my husband, family and dear friends. The thought of our new little tree filled with ornaments of yesterdays and its new sparkly star on top made me smile. I hoped my steamed Christmas carrot pudding, that I made for the first time, will be delicious. I felt very blessed and grateful.

Then, I thought of those who are living a very different story this Christmas. The people of Ukraine with a raging war and in Canada, people with homelessness, drugs, scams, theft, crimes…all happening as I thought of my Christmas pudding.

These disturbing thoughts took me back to the woods and water…to make some sense of what is going on in our world. No big answers came to me except the remembrance of the feeling of that ‘presence’, that ‘something’, I felt by the water and woods and that gave me hope and a reason to believe that all of us have that presence…that loving energy…we are all connected.

Albert Einstein said,

“To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties — this knowledge, this feeling . . . that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.“

That thought of all life being connected gave me hope that each day more people will feel this connection through their hearts. Love is a magical thing. It ripples out and touches hearts…there is hope for the ‘highest wisdom and most radiant beauty’ to be felt by all and we have the opportunity to evolve in a new way.

Then I remembered the Winter Solstice ushers in the beginning of a new cycle of light and Christmas with its new birth, brings hope and love for a peaceful way. Life is ever evolving…positive change is possible.

And as our family Christmas plans have changed, we will adapt and make new Christmas memories…only later on. And that’s okay…everything in its own time.

Walking home from Oak-Head

There is something.
about the snow-laden sky
in winter
in the late afternoon
that brings to the heart elation
and the lovely meaninglessness
of time.

Whenever I get home — whenever —
somebody loves me there.
Meanwhile
I stand in the same dark peace
as any pine tree,
or wander on slowly
like the still unhurried wind,
waiting,
as for a gift,
for the snow to begin
which it does
at first casually,
then, irrepressibly.

Wherever else I live —
in music, in words,
in the fires of the heart,
I abide just as deeply
in this nameless, indivisible place,
this world,
which is falling apart now,
which is white and wild,
which is faithful beyond all our expressions of faith,
our deepest prayers.

Don’t worry, sooner or later I’ll be home.
Red-cheeked from the roused wind,
I’ll stand in the doorway
stamping my boots and slapping my hands,
my shoulders
covered with stars.

Mary Oliver

May the Spirit of Christmas fill your hearts,

May the Love and Hope of Christmas embrace you,

May Peace prevail on earth,

Merry Christmas to you and yours,

Peacefully Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW

Peaceful Way Meditation Blog

Peaceful Way MeditationAuthor, In Silence, Discovering Self through MeditationAuthor Name: Jane Rosalea Booth

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Anam Cara – A Valentine’s Day Love

There is a mystic sweetness in the meaning of the Celtic “Anam Cara” love.

John O’Donohue who wrote “Anam Cara, a book of Celtic Wisdom”, said, “An Anam Cara

is a soul friend who offer us…a space of light and peace,

who accepts you as you truly are, cradling you in beauty, knowing you as light,

assisting you in awakening your awareness of your best and truest self,

in whose love you are understood, existing without mask or pretension…ever at home.”

How awesome is that kind of love!

An Anam Cara can be anyone whom you feel this special, mystical connection. Anam Caras communicate through their heart’s intuitiveness…a knowing about the other without being told…experience synchronicity even when you live far from one another…and after death. I blessed by having Anam Caras in my life who have passed and I still feel their presence.

So to experience the love of an Anam Cara is indeed a most special gift! I am blessed with a deep, Anam Cara relationship with my husband, Ian.

To my Anam Cara, Ian

The gift of your presence

lifts my heart to see what I am

light within light, creation upon creation

Waiting to unfold…

a step into timelessness

a dance in the moonlight

with no beginning, with no end

revolutions in the stillness of space

united as one, the dance goes on

By Jane Rosalea Brown, 2017

Happy Valentine’s Day, 2022, May love fill your day!

Peacefully, Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW

A Peaceful Way Blog

Author, In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

Author Name: Jane Rosalea Booth

Meaford, ON

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Spiritual Surrender, a powerful process

When I first learned the meaning of ‘surrender’ it meant to ‘give up’ as in war. But when I began to meditate, I learned a much different meaning of surrender where I am a willing participate.

What is the meaning of Surrender?

Surrender calls us to let go of our fears and allow the universe to show us a better way. In surrender, we let go of the need to control and manipulate reality in order to realize our full potential.  We can create a state of mind and heart that is open to limitless possibilities and trust in the universe. Surrender calls us to know that we are loved and supported in each moment. The act of spiritual surrender is a powerful one that assists us to transform and evolve in greater awareness.

How meditation helps us to surrender.

Meditation assists this process of surrender. By learning to quiet our mind and relax our body, we move within to our heart’s consciousness. As we surrender and listen, we awaken to our heart’s wisdom, to revelations and to remembrance of who we are and our life purpose. It is where we connect with our sacredness.

So how do we surrender while we are meditating?

As you begin to meditate say…

 Surrender, I awaken to your calling in this moment~

I surrender…

I release my old limitations and fears,

I feel them all, see them all, touch them all

I allow them all to be released through my heart

I awaken to the calling of my heart

I surrender,

I surrender to love within my sacred heart

And in the very core of my being

I am ready to act with love and compassion

I trust in the unfolding Universe

I am revealed in surrender.

I am filled with gratitude,

I listen for guidance within my heart.

Take time ‘in silence’ and listen within…

Sweet blessings of surrender, trust, and love,

Peacefully, Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW

A Peaceful Way Blog

Author, In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

Author Name: Jane Rosalea Booth

Meaford, ON

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A Healthy Mind is a Blissful Mind by Deepak Chopra

The past two years have brought so much stress for everyone. Many are reaching out for help with their mental health and well-being. Here is a guest article by Dr. Deepak Chopra who shares thoughts about the meaning of ‘bliss’ and a healthy mind. But how often do we feel ‘bliss’, a beautiful, serene peacefulness? It is time for us to have many blissful moments!

A Healthy Mind is a Blissful Mind by Deepak Chopra

“Now is a good time to change your definition of a healthy mind, because the current definitions fall so short of what your mind can be. Your mind was designed to give you the experience of bliss, not just in special moments of joy but any time you wish. I realize that this new standard comes as a surprise or even a shock.

This is because society has conditioned us to view our minds with doubt, suspicion, and fear. After all, isn’t the mind where anxiety and depression come from? If you feel negatively about the human mind, you have taken a wrong path, because the mind is the source of all the highest values in life: love, beauty, truth, inspiration, compassion, creativity, intelligence, empathy, and personal growth.

Bliss-consciousness

This is where the Vedic view of the mind changes everything because the Vedic view holds that all these values are different faces of one thing: bliss-consciousness. Immediately you can see that you have been following your bliss every time you get a glimpse of love, beauty, truth, inspiration, and everything else I just listed. This insight is enough to alter your entire view of your mind. All your life it has directed you toward bliss. When you experience negative mental states, something has happened to distort or block the flow of bliss.

Here again the Vedic view changes everything, because instead of struggling against these obstacles that keep bliss out of sight, you do two things that are easy and natural. First, you choose at least one activity or experience in your day that feels blissful. Take time to do this, because when you spend time consciously encouraging qualities of love, empathy, and inspiration, you are signaling the direction you want the brain to increasingly favor.

The second thing to do is to experience simple awareness. Simple awareness is meditative, but you don’t need a program of meditation to experience it. You simply sit alone in a quiet place, take a few deep breaths, and center your attention in your heart. This is the experience of centering, and it brings the mind back to its baseline, which is quiet and peaceful. It is a mistake to believe that the nature of your mind is noisy with constant thoughts and mental activity. That activity is like a machine chugging ahead, and of course it is useful. We all need thoughts and feelings.

But these thoughts and feelings need a foundation in simple awareness because simple awareness is the reality of the mind. It opens the way for bliss to bubble up in the mind from its source. I know this can sound a little idealistic, but this is the ultimate reality. Your source is bliss. It is a wonderful thing to “follow your bliss” in the sense of doing things that bring you joy. But far more profound is the experience of knowing that you are the bliss. It doesn’t come from doing something you love. That’s just the trigger. All experiences of bliss are experiences of the self.

In a nutshell I’ve described the Vedic view of mind, body, and spirit. All these things that we separate into neat categories have only one source, which is bliss consciousness, and when bliss flows from the source you achieve not simply a healthy mind but holistic health in the truest sense, a state of well-being at all levels.

A Vision of Life

But we give the mind priority in order to create a vision of life. The ideas in this article outline the highest vision that has motivated humankind for centuries. Only you, in your own mind, can adopt this vision, which says that you are the bliss. Visions shouldn’t be idealistic. They should fill reality with inspiration, changing how you see yourself and the world. Then you have purpose and meaning, a direction, and a path to follow every day.

A vision does another thing, too. It clears away illusions, mistakes, false beliefs, and old conditioning. A healthy mind is therefore a healing mind. It looks at itself and examines old habits, beliefs, and conditioning. All of these tend to be unconscious and automatic. You find yourself in a familiar situation, and what happens? You say and do today what you said and did yesterday. To break the chain of unconscious responses, simply pause, see what is happening, and stop doing the automatic thing.

Wait for a few seconds to let a new impulse comes up, an impulse that is closer to the real you, which is bliss. I don’t mean that if you feel angry with another person that you should pretend it’s all a joy. Not at all. Just pause, let the angry impulse fade, and wait to see if you feel something a bit deeper. If not, don’t return to your anger but walk away. Your true self is always sending you an impulse that is conscious, an alternative, no matter what it might be, that is better than the same old habits, conditioning, repetition, and automatic reflex.

I’ve covered a lot in a short space, but there is more impact when you can see the whole territory ahead, which is the return to your true nature, bliss consciousness. When your mind grasps this critical concept, your whole life can unfold in a better way. You will find more opportunities for health and healing at the level of the mind. This is the path that eventually unites mind, body, and spirit into the true self instead of the social self, which isn’t the right vehicle to find bliss.”

http://www.deepakchopra.com for more of Deepak Chopra’s programs.

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Jane’s Blissful Moments

My most blissful moments are when I am meditating and move into a wondrous space of love and peace within my consciousness. Dr. Chopra calls this ‘bliss consciousness’. It is when I feel most peaceful and feel a deep spiritual connection that is loving. Life is indeed a great mystery that keeps calling us to experience more love, more joyful bliss in each moment. Each of us has a life purpose of loving one another and all life. That is all we have to do! Then everything else unfolds in a successful and abundant way!

This may be a challenge, but once you experience an inner feeling of love…for yourself, for others, for our spiritual source…the mystery of life, the unknown, shows us the way, a peaceful way…our lives transform and we truly can have moments of bliss. In peace, you are love.

Wishing you many moments of deep love, bliss and wisdom,

Peacefully, Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW

A Peaceful Way Blog

Author, In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

Author Name: Jane Rosalea Booth

Meaford, ON

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Tune in – Discover your intuitive guidance!

Discovering our intuition and learning how to trust it is an innate gift. Years ago, I read the “Celestine Prophecy” by James Redfield where he shared ‘insights’ that occur through synchronicity and how awareness grows when we open our hearts, listen within and trust our inner knowing, our intuition. Today, Redfield is still sharing the importance of connecting within….

“As we live life, discovering, preparing for, and carrying out our missions, it’s key that we make time for intuitive guidance to come to us, where we practice our connection and reconnection with the divine intelligence within. Why? Because it feels like peace, like you’re returning to peace, returning to love, where you’re downloading the greater part of your intelligence—your sense of knowing that brings intuitions into your life.

Open your heart during meditation, and you find this greater mind and knowingness that you have access to. It’s in that process of heart-opening, where we tune-in to our soul urges that cultivate the expansion of personal growth spiritually.

When you tune in spiritually you get Peace, Love, and Centeredness first of all, and it’s an emotional experience where you feel, “I’m finally home”. The centeredness especially allows you to become mindful when going forward with your mission and allows you to be guided. Then, there’s Intuition, which is the knowingness that also comes from connection. So, we have this knowingness, a centered sense of being, and of course, the urges, thoughts, and guidance that we can feel as part of this new intelligence within us. And this all happens whilst the Synchronistic Flow spirals around us, opening doors of opportunity via inspiring coincidences, and giving us solutions and experiences that we would have never imagined possible.” James Redfield Facebook post Feb. 5/22 Author Celestine Prophecy

If you are having difficulty trusting your intuition, my book “In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation” will help you. I call intuition my ‘soul sense’ and share how intuition can be experienced in many ways. Meditation is the key to expanding your intuition. Here is a ‘message’ I received about trusting my own knowing…

“Stay in the moment. Trust the universe wants you to have great success and will aid you every step of the way. Trust yourself. From trust, the universe opens your spiritual connections and life evolves with joy”

In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation” p112

Be still…listen…in peace…open to the wisdom of your heart.

Peacefully, Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW

A Peaceful Way Blog

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Meaford, ON

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How to keep the Christmas Spirit flowing

And so it is Christmas once more. It is a time when families and friends gather, but this year many of us will stay home during this Omicron Virus time. So how do we keep the Christmas spirit flowing when we may be feeling lonely or wondering about the future and how it will unfold?

This time of the year has been a sacred time since ancient times. We can embrace the ancient practice of meditation to feel the spirit of Christmas within our heart. Meditation enhances our sense of peace, connection and spirituality. It is the place where body and mind meet the sacred.

There are many practices for meditation. I follow a simple practice by relaxing with gentle breathing in and out…allowing my body to relax with each breath in and out…taking my thoughts to my heart…feeling a beautiful golden light surrounding me and flowing through my body.

In meditation, I enter a quiet, sacred place..a place of letting go of my stress and anxiety…a place to forgive…a place to feel love and compassion and a place to feel a spiritual presence…a place of peace.

Meditation is an art as there are really no words to describe the experience or the sounds and images that form that bring comfort and guidance. Each of us has an unique experience with each meditation.

To keep the spirit of Christmas flowing, take a few minutes each day to quiet your mind and move within to meditate. It is amazing how much better we feel when we fill our hearts with light and love. This spirit of light and love is always flowing for us each day. But Christmas day is special for many and we can embrace its spirit fully and share it with others. Even if we can’t gather…we can send our love in our thoughts and prayers.

Stay safe and well everyone,

Merry Christmas and Seasons Greetings,

Peacefully, Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW

A Peaceful Way Blog

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Author Name: Jane Rosalea Booth

Meaford, ON

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The Spirit of Love and Inner Peace

How do we find peace during these strange and challenging times? Each day seems to bring heartbreak for those losing loved ones due to tornadoes or by Covid 19. We try to get back to ‘normal’ but the normal we knew doesn’t seem to be present. Life is about change…transforming ourselves…but there is one constant that helps us to cope with these difficult changes…and that is ‘love’. Now that may sound corny and frivolous, but it is not. Love is the most powerful energy, most powerful motivator, most powerful transformer…that brings hope to us and return us to a place of ‘inner peace’…especially in the most difficult times.

“Let love be your reason.

Let love be your drive.

Let love fill you with power and the authentic purpose of being who you really are.

Let love heal your hurts and inspire your actions.

Have the courage, acceptance and humility to feel love fully.

Have the strength and confidence to give your love freely.

Let love fill your thoughts with goodness  and your intentions with kindness.

Let love brighten every corner of your world. Let love flow abundantly from you  before you can even think about it.  

Let love illuminate the unique and miraculous  richness in every unfolding moment.

Let love live within you, and spread beauty through all you do.

Let love be, with all you have and all you are.”  

By Ralph Marston

Our lives are ever changing but we are all creative creators who can fill these times with

new innovations, new paintings, new songs and poems, new relationships and

compassion for all…

Deepest gratitude to you for creating more peace and love,

May the Spirit of Love fill your hearts,

Seasons Greetings!

Peacefully, Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW

A Peaceful Way Blog

Author, In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

Author Name: Jane Rosalea Booth

Meaford, ON

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