GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki: The Rosary

Keep smiling at 'them', knowing that ‘they’ are not 'them', that ‘they’ are Him, and because you and the Father are one, that ‘they’ ARE you. 

"If the Divine is in your favor, the whole world will be, too ."
-Om Swami via The Power of the Gayatri Mantra 

"Take it from me, repetition of His name makes everything possible."
-Anandamayi Ma

"God became man that man might become God."
-Athanasius 

In today's episode I  share a gorgeous story that touches on  the power of faith and a dedicated mantra practice, and the Peace and Freedom found in remembering the difference between channels of supply and the Source of supply.  Remember: focus on your relationship, your union with God, and all your seeming human relationships will be Go(o)d, too.  

I Love you and I'm with you!  Happy Now- Here! 
Nik
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"Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now."
-Eckhart Tolle

The Only Step: FEEL LOVE. 

In feeling Love you automatically forgive, you naturally let go, you heal... you HAVE.   Love holds onto nothing but Love. Love carries nothing but Love.  Where Love is consciously, only Love manifests.  Remember this Love.  Feel this Love. Be this Love. Everything  that you think you want and need in 2022 is here, now.  It's now, here... just like your breath is, just like you are, just like God is.  Happy Now Here's Eve. 

I Love you and I'm with you, 
Nik
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Bonus Quote:
"The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing."
-Alan Watts  

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Today's Quotes:

"I live and move in and by the Holy Spirit.
I have Christ mind and vision.
I see God in everyone and everything, because I feel It in myself.
I am the child of a rich Father and I have come Home.
I let God live my life. "  
-from my iPhone notes in January 2018 

"You have to want God the way a drowning man wants air." 
-Bhagavan Das 

"The Saint who is in this State, sees both the reality and the unreality, but he only accepts the reality."  
- Ramayana 

"Rather than seeing all the different forms of jewelry, see only gold." 
The Yoga Vasistha 

"Read a little,
meditate more,
think of God all the time."
-Yogananada 

Today's Goals and Practice:
1. Start with Love
2. Stay with Love 
3. End with Love

Read about Love, sing to Love, sit with Love, walk through Love, breathe in Love, meet only Love, be Love.  

When anxiety or any inner disturbance comes that seemingly distracts you from the truth of this Love, you (1) acknowledge it, (2) feel it, and (3) find Love in it.  You feel the disturbance at the same time as you feel the Love (see the Ramayana quote above).  You keep returning to Love like it's the only thing that matters, and It's the only thing that will.  

I Love you,
Nik  

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(Some language ❤️)

Listener question via IG DMs-

"I listened to your podcast this morning (as I always do) and I can't find it... the love that is supposed to be there and wash over me.  All I feel is sadness, to the point where my heart aches all day and I want to curl up on my bed and just disappear.  I could just give up but there is a strand of something that keeps me here.  I keep writing, I keep listening.  How do you do it? Be sad and still feel love?" 

My written response- 

"I asked a similar question to Krishna Das while on retreat.  I was like, Love is here, BUT, so is my shit lol.  
He said, "it's not your shit." 

It's not your sadness. 
It's just sadness, 
rolling through awareness.
Rolling through Love.
Hold fast to Love.
This is the work. 
It's healing everything. 
Thank you for journeying with me."

They replied-

"Oh man!!! That really resonates with me Nikki."

In this episode I shared a few of my favorite permission slips (that I've shared in previous shows), like my 'greatest hits', lol... the practices I return to again and again when sadness comes to visit.  

Today's Quotes:

In English we say, "I  am sad", but in Spanish it translates as, "I have sadness", and in the Tibetan language it translates as, "sadness is here".  Can you feel the difference?" 
-Ram Dev (Dale Borglum) 

I Love you and I'm with you, 
Nik 
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 As Rumi said, "close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there", and get into this meditation on the presence of God.   When you remember Him, He comes. When you remember Love, only Love is (t)here.   

“I am within My world, yet am I not known. I am My world, yet must I stand silently by, while man, who was created to manifest Me, thinks that he himself is that which works and plays, loves, hates and carries on life.  Man takes unto himself that which I created for My pleasure, that which was to radiate beauty and joy, and makes of it an instrument to destroy; makes of it war, hate and ugliness. Where there is only one who sees Me behind the veil of mortal thinking and circumstance, that one who sees becomes as a chemical, purifying the very air he breathes.

You are blessed when you thus see and recognize Me. Every cell of your body shall be filled with light. All your contacts in the world about you shall be brought into peace and harmony. This is the only way that peace shall ever rule the world. This is the only way I shall ever bring forth My beauty and love to bless My creation. All that you do in any sense to reveal Me is bringing forth the inner light to lighten darkened places, is bringing the kingdom of heaven nearer at hand. Feel not that you do not work for Me. Only know Me, see Me, feel Me, and you shall give forth a power to all whom you contact and they shall be blessed because you passed their way.”
-Eva Bell Werber's Essay, "The Way of Peace" in Voice of the Master

"When you remember Me, I come." - Maharajji (speaking as Love)

With you in and AS Love,
Nik
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"I realize that stress is only fear.
I release all fear.
I am at peace.
I am safe and secure.
Freedom from stress is my divine right.
I let go of all tension.
I use my breath to relax.
I breathe deeply and peacefully.
I feel my muscles relax.
I flow with life easily and effortlessly.
All is well in my world."
-Joan Borysenko 

"When we have awareness of the silent side, abundance is increased in the active side." 
-Joel Goldsmith 

"If we take into our meditation the question, "what is God?" ultimately we shall be led to the secret of prayer, and when we have achieved correct prayer, meditation, or communion, we shall be led to a God-experience, which is a 'peace, be still' to any form of error that may ever touch us.  As a matter of fact, continuing in the God-experience will prevent about ninety-odd percent of the world's troubles ever touching us, and the little that may touch us will be quickly resolved."
-Joel Goldsmith 

Bonus Quotes:
"Your only focus is to be aware of Eufeeling.  Let me repeat that: Your only focus is to be aware of Eufeeling (Love/ the 'I Am'). 
-Frank Kinslow

Today's Practice: 
Every time you notice stressful thoughts about next week, or returning back to the office, use it as an alarm, a trigger to remember Love.  See these thoughts as Grace, natural built-in alerts to remind you to turn back toward Truth... back toward the Silence the thoughts came out of and will promptly return to.  You can either--

1. Go straight to the Silent-Love by feeling It in your feet, in your heart, or throughout and AS your Being.
or 
2. Go to a mantra like, Borysenko's, "I realize that stress is only fear. I release it and choose Peace".  You'll be so full of those words that there won't be any room for stress-inducing thoughts.  You'll be so full of Love, that there won't be any room for fear. 

Do what works. Be what works.  This Love works. It heals. It relieves you of the fear we call stress. It relieves you of the stress you call 'you'.  

I Love you, 
Nik 
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"Transform me Lord, so that when people see me, they see you." 
-@HerTrueWorth via IG

St. Francis' Peace Prayer-
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offense, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is error, let me bring truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Master, let me not seek as much
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives,
it is in self-forgetting that one finds,
it is in pardoning that one is pardoned,
it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.

"Francis, I know there is only one reason to be truly excited and this is when our Lord visits us in our hearts. But regarding Earthly news, I must tell you while many worry about wars and lack of food in the coming winter, my sisters are singing and bathing daily in the light within their hearts. I too had a dream. Someday Kings and Queens, the rich and powerful, people from all over the world, will be coming to Assisi not to judge you but to ask how they can join you on your path. What will you tell them? Will you ask them to throw their riches into the river? Will you tell them to give all their power away? Francis, are you ready for the world to be at your feet like the little birds in your garden? Imagine everyone with one prayer, one heart, asking “Lord make me an instrument!” 

Peace, Francis, peace—this is what you should teach! Let them keep their possessions. Let them keep their worldly power. Share with them the simple peace. This is enough. Tell them about the beauty of peace in every moment. Give them the simple steps that you and I know so well. Step by step, peace and more peace with everyone and everything. This will be a good beginning. Once they feel the peace, what do riches and power have to offer? Why would they chase after earthly comforts when they have life’s true treasure? Once they feel the peace inside what else is of value but wanting to serve one another? 

Everyone wants peace, Francis, but they do not know the source of this peace. You must teach them. Real peace comes only from a peaceful heart! And a peaceful heart comes from finding so much God inside that there is no room for anything else but peace."

-Davis, Bruce. The Love Letters of St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi: The Journey of Two Great Saints, Soaked in Love, Who Changed The World (p. 6). Kindle Edition. 

Loving it here in Assisi!!! Be back soon with lots more to share!

I Love you and I’m with you!
Nik
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"Everyday I say to myself, today I will begin." - St. Anthony of the Desert 

Today, we begin.  This very moment, we begin... remembering that we ARE what's appearing as this moment, we are the substratum of the Now, we are the  Christ.  We celebrate the birth of Jesus today, the birth of the awareness of the Christ among us, and now, the birth of our awareness of the Christ within us.  

Repeat this mantra by Herb Fitch, "I am not man or woman, I live the day as I, Spirit", and notice how you're already, effortlessly detached from the body.   There's some space (t)here, naturally.  You, as Awareness, don't have to try to detangle your Self from the body, you already are the witness.  You already are Love.  Be That, by feeling It and remembering to feel It all day.  "Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being." (Gospel of Thomas) 

Merry Christmas! I Love you, 
Nik
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Whatever you're feeling... it's okay.  It's just inner weather.  You couldn't be feeling any other way. Breathe. Sway. Let's chat about how to take Shelter and ride it out, together.  

God is here, even now.  Feel It and know. 

I Love you, 
Nik
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You’re feeling absolutely fantastic this morning! But not for the reason you think. You don’t feel good because it’s Christmas Eve. You don’t feel good because you know what’s under the tree, or even because you’re off work or have no professional Zoom meetings tomorrow (likely for a whole week!), or that your favorite food is being prepared, or that your playlist is FIRE and the Temptations are going in on ‘Silent Night’.

All of these things may very well seem to be happening, but they’re not causing that quiet-Joy you’re aware of. You’re just presently in alignment... allowing yourself to feel good, to experience God. You’re currently BEing your true Self! This is your natural state— one of uncaused joy, ease, love, relaxation and peace. What people call ‘The Christmas Spirit’ is your original nature, and you can feel this way even on your first day back to work, if you give yourself permission.

God didn’t come closer this morning, and It won’t get further away next week. We just changed the way we are living in this moment. And now we must keep living this way... remembering to recognize that the Light is ALWAYS on inside. That we are this Light.

If you can stop waiting for special occasions to remember this background Joy, to feel Go(o)d, to be yourSelf, your life will change drastically from the inside out and very rapidly. I promise you. #MerryChristmas

With you in and AS Christhood,
@curlynikki

Today's Quotes:

"We all think of the Lord when troubled,

never when at peace.

But if we held our faith during peace,

there would be no trouble."

-Kabir Ke Dohe via IG

“This is the supreme meditation, this is the supreme worship: the continuous and unbroken awareness of the indwelling presence, inner light or consciousness. While doing whatever one is doing— seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing or talking— one should realize one’s essential nature as pure consciousness. Thus does one attain liberation.” 
- The Yoga Vasistha

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