Breath

Every breath we take is a rebirth and a reminder that the past is gone. 

Breath is life and something we take for granted. When we focus our attention with gratitude on this free gift, we nudge out the past and the future. In just one breath we can imbibe stillness. And stillness is the language God speaks.

All life is a continuum of life and death. As we breathe out we die to the past. As we breathe in we are afforded a fresh new start.

It is as though we have been gifted with another chance, and another, and yet another.

Isn’t life incredible? 

Breath is the bridge or pathway from our outer world to the invisible world within. By simply paying attention to the breath, we forget our worldly distractions. The mind is squeezed out and our awareness is in the present moment. 

It is in the stillness of the present that we connect with the piece of God within us. It is in this moment that we recharge our souls directly from our Spirit Source.

When we quieten our minds by honouring our life giving breath, we imbibe wisdom from Creator. In the stillness we are able to listen to our intuition and align our thoughts with Creator’s.

Today, let’s acknowledge this great gift that has been bestowed upon us. Let’s breathe for our planet and for those who are in need.

Let’s ingest life, forgiveness and second chances with every conscious breath we take.

Have a most beautiful week!

With love and gratitude

Nicolette

We all need a Heaven

I have just returned to Earth after escaping into an unexplainable storm of literary genius. I picked up a book last night from my personal library of ‘still-to-be-read’s and couldn’t put it down until the last word was imbibed.

I am feeling like one who has returned from exile into the daunting freneticism of fast-paced living, like I have stepped straight out of the character of the hero in the book.

The book is ‘Almost Heaven’ by Marianne Wiggins and is a love story of such passion and absolute opposites. It is almost like reading a parable of yin and yang, if that makes any sense at all. I’m feeling like an absolute kindergarten kid with my rough use of language by comparison to Wiggins’ mastery of words. She seems to juggle and do things with words that leave me palpitating and speechless. 

The heroine asks the hero “-why do you feel ashamed?”

“- for my selfishness. For trying to protect myself. For trying to numb the truth of what was in front of me by thinking of something so beautiful.”

“You shouldn’t feel ashamed of that,” she says slowly. “Searching for something beautiful is what makes us divine. Some of us. What made you search for a beautiful thought in the face of such horror is the same reason we invent Heaven. The idea of beauty is the same as the idea of an ideal love – it promises healing. It stops the sorrow. Everyone needs a Heaven in them somewhere where they can go in their minds when everything - all of it - is lost.”

We all need a piece of Heaven in us. We need to believe in the greater good, in a world devoid of hatred and unlove, a world of kindness and compassion, a world that compliments the harshness of living.

In the wake of all the unpleasantness, all the suffering and sadness, we need to embrace that within ourselves which is the spark that ignites the fires of passion, and gives us the faith to persevere in our pursuit of happiness and unconditional love.

The suffering we experience is real, as is the love we hold in our hearts. The one cannot exist without the other. 

Wishing you a week of finding your piece of Heaven. You will need it in these turbulent times.

All my love

Nicolette

FLUX, CHANGE AND FORGIVENESS

Sweet soul

Nothing stays the same. Everything is evolving, molecule by molecule. Our world is in constant flux.

“Students today are being prepared for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t yet been invented, to solve problems that aren’t yet problems. The amount of technical information in the word is doubling every six months. This means that for students studying a technical four-year degree, half of what they learn will be outdated by their third year. At least half of the top job opportunities for 2020 do not yet exist.”

This is a peek at our expanding world through the eyes of authors Nikki Bush and Graeme Coddrington from their book ‘Future Proof your Child’.

The world is changing so fast and for us to not get left behind like ‘whining when-we’s’, we have to embrace the change and go with it. If we resist the inevitable we will cause ourselves huge suffering. To fight what you have no power to change, is to create internal resistance and resentment. This unacceptance is unforgiveness. To not accept what is, is to hang onto the way things once were. This resistance to change, whatever it may be - from aging to having lost part of your faculties due to an accident to wanting things like the ‘good old days’, is all the stuff of unforgiveness.

We are individually responsible for making the choice whether we resist, deny or accept life. All life is temporary, just a wafting scent in the breeze. If you don’t ingest it and experience it in the full, in the NOW, life will just pass you by and you will suffer regret.

We cause ourselves to suffer because we refuse to accept that we can never have things back like they once were and we stubbornly try and control everything in our midst because of our fear of the unknown in the future. We fear aging, death, losing our loved ones, change of career, relationships, you name it.  

We need to make friends with uncertainty. 

Forgiveness lies in surrendering to the realization that everything in our midst is constantly changing. The sooner you let go of the need to control, to keep things the way they once were, the sooner you will embrace the ability to let go and forgive. 

Forgiveness has no judgement. Forgiveness is unconditional and it starts with you. If you love yourself unconditionally, you are without judgement and you forgive yourself and everyone else too. 

When you don’t love yourself, you judge yourself and as you do to yourself, so you judge the world. When you are in judgement of everyone and everything you are powerless to forgive. You can’t because forgiveness is unconditional love.

Forgiveness is directly proportional to your ability to accept change. To embrace acceptance is to find freedom from self-made suffering. It is the end of war. It is the manifestation of peace.

So keep on learning, growing and evolving. Keep going with the flow. Don’t get left behind in the recesses of your pasts. Now is your moment to embrace your freedom by embracing change. Become a champion forgiver.

Forgift yourself! It is the most important thing you will ever do. Give yourself the most sacred gift of love from yourself to yourself.

I love you!

Nicolette