Phil Watt, Contributor
Waking Times

For years I have said “we’re all philosophers whether we know it or not”, yet more recently I have also come to understand that we’re all meditators.

There are a few common barriers to the ongoing conscious practice of meditation in our current era. Many people have wanted to try meditation but never have, or they have tried but gave up after a relatively short time. This is due to different reasons, such as they didn’t think that they were learning anything, it was too tedious and ineffective, they didn’t want to invest the time required and/or they felt they didn’t have the capacity to become advanced at it.

Yet meditation is just like exercise—if we want to make our bodies fit for living or our brains fit for meditation, we need to keep at it...

Many of you are still confused about the difference between self love and selfishness. Self love means you treat yourself with the same love, honour, care and respect as you treat others. You see yourself as being equally deserving and allow that time and nurturing for yourself, knowing that it will allow you to be your best you, which will, in turn, benefit others. Selfishness worries not about anyone else, at all. Self love comes from a place of unity consciousness and connection to the limitlessness of Source. Selfishness believes that there isn’t enough for everyone and acts from a place of disconnection, fear and lack. Self love is embracing the divine flow of the universe, allowing love to flow to, and through you. Selfishness is very one-sided.

Make no mistake about it, Dear Ones. Moving into self love, into seeing yourself as being as vitally important and deserving as every other being in the universe, is the firm foundation all other things will be built upon. It is accepting your worth, allowing your healing, and your divinity to shine forth, which is what will support your highest service and most satisfying life expression. ~Archangel Gabriel

Surrender and allow yourself to move beyond fear into the great unknown of new experience. The Universe will and always has been there to steady your stumble and catch your fall. ~ Creator

HJ: The fear of failure is one of the most common fears in existence and yet it is a complete illusion.  The idea of failure is dualistic. It implies that there is a wrong way to do things.  But there is not.  The idea of wrong or right is a subjective construct in an inherently objective universe.  It is created by the human mind, but does not exist as a spiritual or universal law. There is no such thing as failure, only feedback for what works or doesn’t work for getting the results you are after.  And there is always a way that works.  Always.  Sometimes it’s just a process of elimination of what doesn’t work until you figure out what does.  Or simply a matter of following your intuition and getting it right on the first try.

- Truth

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Not quite human, not quite Neanderthal, but something else. That’s what scientists who have discovered fossilized teeth in China are calling it. The teeth likely belonged to hybrids of known populations of hominids, or to a whole new species of human that we simply never knew of.

Homo neanderthalensis lived in Europe and western Asia, while Homo sapiens lived in Africa. A mysterious group of extinct human relatives called Denisovans were present in Siberia, and Homo floresiensis lived in Indonesia. These teeth were recovered from an early Late Pleistocene site in Northern China.

When you feel rough, irritated, angry, take a time out. Cause no damage, not to anyone, and that includes no damage to your own heart. Hearts are precious. Hearts need to be spared any kind of assault.

Do you confess that when you are angry, you inflame or even assault your own God-given heart? If you feel devastated, what state is your heart in? Frazzled? Please take better care of your heart. Have regard for all hearts, not the least of which is your own.

Storms pass. Wait until a storm within you passes. You do not want to wreak havoc on other hearts. Please come to terms with your own heart. Make sure it is comfortable. This is a good saying: “To your own heart be true.” Only this saying may not be fully understood.

This saying doesn’t mean to express your heart at any expense. Being true to yourself does not mean to vent yourself. We can truthfully say that when you feel anger, you are not being true to yourself. Why then would you feel justified in expressing a tone that doesn’t belong to your beautiful heart? Anger is an intruder. It is imprudent to express volatile anger to any other.

Am I saying to inhibit your heart? I am saying to wait to express the storm when you are no longer in the eye of the storm. Wait until it passes. Wait until the anger settles down. Then you will spare the world grief.

Anger is not your true nature by any means.

1. Make a commitment to yourself

I (name),

Make a commitment to myself,

To spend so much time improving myself and my life that I have no time for worry,  judgement, criticism, whining and complaining;

To forgive, release and let go of my attachment to any past struggles and allow every challenge life sends my way to make me better not bitter.

Starting now, I make a commitment to let go of what’s behind me and start appreciating what’s in front of me;

To let go of all the pointless drama, all the toxic relationships, thoughts and behaviors that are present in my life and to constantly shift my focus from the bad on to the good;

To make room in my heart for love, happiness, peace and tranquility and to create my life from a place of infinite choices and possibilities – the present moment, and no longer from a place of limitations – the past.