We are meaning making machines

For you – An article by me in Mystic Living Today.

Everyone has a meaningful gift to give, and it is you.

Many people today are afraid of the unknown, of moving ahead. Our society has become crisis-driven and fear-based. One of the significant problems in peoples’ lives is the overwhelming amount of stress they experience. Due to the emotional and physical turmoil, our world is under and the fact that spiritual awakening is becoming more present than ever on our planet, it is now that we must begin to educate about New Thought, Ancient Wisdom, and Inner Knowing.

People must feel that they have meaning in their lives and that their presence here is beneficial. When we realize our existence is valuable, our self-worth begins to blossom, our self-esteem begins to unfold, and it is there that our willingness to share is born freely.

My goal is to support the unfoldment of meaning in people’s lives with the intent that the discovery of their true essence and Gifts will not only create abundance for themselves, also for those around them. When our society is working from this place of Win for me, Win for you, and Win for others, it is then that the transformation of our planet can begin to take hold on a significant grassroots level. What are your Gifts, and how do you see your role?

Universal Laws as I understand them and How to manifest

The steps/principles

1 Receptivity & Flexibility

You take your first step through opening yourself up to all possibilities and allowing you to grow in the direction of those possibilities. The truth is that new possibilities are unfolding around us all the time, but we don’t always notice them because we are (still) not always open to them. You learn how to listen to your soul, your inner source, and allow these new insights to enter your heart and mind. When you are receptive, you allow miracles to happen.

2 Intention & Attention

Intention is the act of setting a new purpose for your life, a new goal inspired by your receptivity. Intention is an act of declaration, an act of decision, an act of will. You learn how you can set yourself free of limiting patterns, habits, and beliefs so that you can create a life-affirming system of thinking and feeling and living in alignment with your new purpose. Intention works by first setting a destination and then feel that you have already arrived. Attention needs to be given to this destination.

3 Activation

Activation is the step at which you build on your receptivity and intention by actively engaging in personal growth and development towards your goals and heart desires. You may find that you are passionate about your new intention, but your thoughts and emotions are primarily from your past, the old you, and may now be holding you back. You learn how to recondition them, working focused toward your true potential actively.

4 Infinite Feedback

Infinite feedback is the principle that the universe is continually showing you how you’re doing. The world is a mirror reflecting who you’re being. There is a constant loop of energy connecting you and the world around you. It is profoundly important that you become fully aware of what and why you are giving, as it directly affects what the universe is giving back to you. You learn how to align your mind and heart into this state due to your practice of being present in your presence.

5 Vibration

You must get in tune with your vibration and understand that the energy you sent into the universe directly affects your entire existence. Your vibration is co-creating the particular version of the world that you perceive in front of you. You learn how to tune into the frequencies of joy, happiness, and fulfillment and how to shift your thinking and actions effectively and efficiently. In this step, you will also learn to improve your communication skills and express yourself with intention and clarity.

6 Adversity and Transformation

This step is about understanding that there are gifts in all circumstances. During our lifetime, each of us encounters a certain level of adversity, a series of problems and challenges, if you will. This truth is a pathway to the discovery of unseen gifts. You learn how to access power and freedom during these difficult times. Your response is a measure of your adaptability and willingness to be open to transformation.

7 Creating a conscious, compassionate world

To create a conscious and compassionate world, we must become aware of ourselves and be present to our presence on the earth. When we can be compassionate, we are also able to forgive. It is vital to understand that forgiveness transforms the soul and unlocks your journey to your gifts. You learn how to emerge and express yourself, and you begin to be the ideal role model for yourself and the people around you. You will also explore new ways of honoring the earth and its inhabitants and how you can co-create with them.

8 Love (The Ultimate Gift)
Love more.

Shajen
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Shajen Joy Aziz, M.Ed., M.A.

Award-Winning International Bestselling Author, Educator, Speaker

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How to begin meditation

First ~ Congratulations on taking a step in favor of your well-being. With a candle and lighter or a relaxing image to focus on, a crystal or your favorite small object, along with your journal, and a nourishing drink like water/tea/lemonade…


Find a comfortable place, set up your space, light your candle or set up your image, and Relax your body with a 4×4.
While looking at the candle or relaxing image, Take a deep breath counting to 4, in through the nose (i,f u can) and then counting to 4 again out through the mouth. Still focusing on the candle/image…hold your breath for 4 seconds and repeat
Do this 4 times…

Voila…you just mediated.
Next is to do the above one more time, then breathing naturally stay with the candle/image, and practice focusing on filling your body with loving-kindness.

When I do this meditation I imagine the Love and Light spiraling within me and then allow it to leave my body and fill the room, then my home, my community, my state, my country, my continent, our globe. You can imagine it your way or use what I just described…

then focus on your friends and family, and Continue this practice daily.

Add ~ your state, your country, your continent, and ultimately the globe.

We All Have Different Levels of Self-Doubt

We all have different levels of self-doubt, fear, and internal workings which prevent us from moving forward in life. One of the most important actions I learned while creating Discover The Gift was how to step through my fear and move through the illusion of my obstacles and past conditioning. The hardest and easiest thing to do is begin. The key to writing is writing, so write. The key to dancing is dance. Please honor yourself and your passions and gifts. It’s why we’re here.

Personal Practice – What is The Gift: Everyone has a Gift to Give

Personal Practice – hat is The Gift: Everyone has a gift to give.

I believe we are on this life journey to learn and acquire new knowledge and ways to support us and the next phase of our evolution. Barbara De Angelis states, “We’re here to learn. There is a curriculum. We each have certain courses. You can figure out your courses if you look at the experiences in your life.” 

“Everything in life is a vehicle for your transformation – use it.” ~Ram Dass

Insight, intention, integrity, and involvement are some of the critical pieces to Discovering Your Gifts. Please pay special attention to those pieces of yourself which are emerging and awakening. What are the messages coming through you?

There are many ways to Discover Your Gift, and the following Personal Practice will bring you along that journey.

Personal Practice: 

This practice will support the reconditioning of your mind to tune in to your Gifts. 

With this exercise and all that follow, I encourage you to have the bravery to ask the questions you have always wanted to ask yourself and others and then ask the ones you never knew you had until now.

1. Write down the names of the eight most essential people in your life and describe what you think is most extraordinary about them.

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2. Now, ask the eight most important people in your life to tell you what your Gifts are, and write them down.

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3. Take time to reflect on what these folks tell you your Gifts are. Notice whether there is a common theme; write down your thoughts, feelings, downloads, and ah-ha moments.

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4. Now sit back, take a deep breath, and close your eyes; ASK YOURSELF without judgment: “What Gift inside of me wants to come out?” Allow all thoughts to be valid notice the ideas “downloading” and the feelings you have about those ideas let the most potent visions come to the top. Then open your eyes and write any thoughts, actions, and desires that come to mind. 

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5. For the next few days, be aware of this practice. Notice in your daily life where recurring themes continue to emerge and where there are opportunities for your Gifts to be activated. When you see them write them down and visualize them, focus on what makes you happy, joyous, and inspired about implementing that Gift. 

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Focus on Your Gifts

Our society spends too much time focusing on negativity and training it into the minds of our children. It is time to shift our educational practices and perspectives. We must begin to educate our youth about what’s right and wonderful about themselves, their interests, and their gifts, and how to generate a healthy life from there. They are the future and they exist now.

Discover the Gift | Gaia

https://www.gaia.com/video/discover-gift

With Dignity and Equity for All – Now is the Time to Change Our Educational Experiences for Future Generations

Teachers hold tremendous power in our society, and through them, we can truly empower the lives of all children. The current state of education must address the varying needs of our children, and if every teacher were to address every student with empowerment and compassion, all children would have the experience of being heard, which will give them hope and possibility. Our very growth as a society is based on our ability to relate to others, no matter the setting or device, we are about relationships, so let’s make sure we create positive ones in our schools and with “Our Children” the future of “Our Society.”

All teachers are influential one way or another. Our schools are the places that have immediate long-term access and effects on how students, the children, see themselves and their place in the community and the world. Teachers spend most of their time with our leaders of tomorrow, and it is the teachers who have a direct and lasting impact on their sense of self, belonging, and self-esteem, along with their hopefulness or hopelessness about the future.   

Great teachers have an innate sense of self and reflect on themselves and their teaching practices and their effect on the children continuously. These educators are compassionate, motivated, and educated in psychology and learning. In my opinion, what is missing in many of our schools is support for the teachers. I have encountered well-intentioned administrators well-versed in best practices, challenging academics, and supporting the overall creation of holistic education – body, mind, heart, and spirit. I have also encountered power-hungry administrators, angry and filled with resentment toward the system and those within it. This type of behavior from leaders is where the problem lies. 

Taking care of how we feel about ourselves and how we perceive that world and whether or not that world accepts us is the pulse of who we are and how teachers help children become themselves.

I have witnessed excellent teachers create unique classrooms filled with excited and energized learners. I have also seen caring teachers who lack support and resources and cannot reflect on themselves and their practices; they create uncomfortable, angry environments where children are afraid to ask for help and, even worse, afraid to get noticed.

Schools must be places where all feel and know that success is possible. Schools need to be places where every member of the community feels valued as a contributing member.

We can change how our schools operate on every level. Now is the time. A new paradigm is upon us, and we have the power to create positive and transformative educational environments with dignity and equity for all.

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    Trust the Goodness of Your Inner Landscape. 

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    Trust in the goodness of your inner landscape.  Your natural ways will bring you to the discovery of your gifts.  Honor your passions as you grow and enjoy the fruits of your focused intention by actively engaging in what you love.

    You will notice the things you loved as a child are aspects of who you are today.  Get in touch with your inner child and express your creativity and joy for life. Don’t worry what others think. As long as you do no harm, you will be taken on a journey of a lifetime through your continued involvement in doing what you love.

    Many blessings,

    Shajen (Cheyenne)

    Believe in Your Highest Self – Take a Leap

    Art by Richard Lichtenstein www.rlichtenstein.com
    Leaping Horse by Richard Lichtenstein

    Take a leap of faith and trust in your highest self to guide you safely on the journey.

    When you make choices from a space of honest contemplation, and compassionate communication, you allow your pathway to flow with more grace and ease.

    Many people today are fraught with negative feelings of themselves and others.  It is in the journey of connecting with your highest self that you are able to transform those thoughts and feelings into opportunities and possibilities for self and others.

    Take time today to share your gratitude with those around you. Find ways to pay it forward, buy the next person in line a cup of coffee, smile at a stranger, offer assistance where you can.  All of these are acts of kindness and produce more goodness in the world than one can possibly imagine. The more kindness you offer the easier it is to stay connected to your positive presence – your higher self.

    Create peace within by connecting with your thoughts, actions, and feelings which produce positive possibilities and feelings for yourself and those around you.  Transform your adversities into opportunities.

    May grace and love be yours today and every day.

    Warmly,

    Shajen