GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki: The Rosary

Today’s Quotes:

“Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.”
– Braynt Mcgill

“Dada, if you do not make it empty, how are you going to fill it up again?”
– Maharajji

“… become nothing, and He’ll turn you into everything.”
– Rumi

“If you think you are big, you become small.  If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited.”
– Sadhguru

“The longer you can linger in that field of infinite possibilities as an awareness—aware that you are aware in this endless black space—without putting your attention on your body, on things, or on people, places, and time, the longer you invest your energy into the unknown, the more you are going to create a new experience or new possibilities in your life.  It’s the law.”
– "Becoming Supernatural" by Dr. Joe Dispenza

“Come to Nothing, find everything.”
– J.C. Amberchele

Bonus Quotes:

“By allowing ourselves to relax, we begin to naturally fall into a state of subtle gratitude and humility.  Similarly, relaxation fills us with strong feelings of peaceful resignation, of momentarily not seeking or wanting anything.  In such a comfortable state of not trying, ironically, we become the human definition of natural wealth, and are much more capable of receiving what we desire.”
– Relax More, Try Less: The Easy Path to Abundance by Tim Grimes

Definition of Awareness from Michael Langford:  "When you wake up from sleep, awareness is that consciousness that woke up from sleep.  Thoughts come and go.  The background of awareness does not come and go.  The background of awareness is continuous during all of your waking hours until you go back to sleep again.  Awareness is you, your consciousness, just your awareness that is looking through your eyes right now.  The words awareness, consciousness, attention, observing, watching, looking, seeing all have the same meaning here.  Awareness is that which is conscious of thought or conscious of the absence of thought. Both when there are thoughts and when there are no thoughts the background of awareness is aware. "

Today’s Practice:

Try the meditation I share from Michael Langford’s, “The Direct Means to Eternal Bliss” called the “Abandon Release Method”(pg. 72) of letting go of everything except for your awareness.  Stay as that formless, bodiless, timeless awareness, today.  Be in the world as That, today, watching the appearance of the body in the world.   And from that Awareness, you'll watch the appearance of the Christ, of Love, of infinite  abundance. 

I Love you, 
Nik  
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This short but powerful meditation is inspired by Ram Dass' book, Paths to God, in which he shares the way that Muktananda would meditate on his spiritual guru, Nityananda. 

Today's Quotes:

“Whether you worship Christ, Krishna, Kali, or Allah, you actually worship the one Light that is also in you, since It pervades all things.” – Anandamayi Ma 

"God is in all men, but not all men are in God. This is why we suffer." - Ramakrishna 

Today's Practice:

Imagine God or your favorite spiritual messenger is seated in front of you.  Breathe them into your heart.  Breathe in their Light. Breathe in the Love that they are.  Become aware of this Love filling your entire being.  And then move, speak, and act from this Love.  Keep returning to this felt-Love.  Let It be your new baseline.  Be this Light, today and always.  

I Love you, 
Nik
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p.s. This Light makes the body relax and at the same time, sit or stand up straighter.  It makes it sway with a smile on its face.  It makes it want to do Go(o)d deeds for 'others'.  It makes that body love everyone.  

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In today's bonus episode I share a listener's email about her stolen car and how she used the situation as an invitation to practice Love.  I also share a similar personal experience from 2018 and a recent, anger provoking one from this past weekend.  

Today's Quote:

"You have to ask yourself the question, "who am I?"   This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems." - Ramana Maharshi 

If you treat every seeming problem as an opportunity to 'let go', as an opportunity to practice abiding in Truth, then that Truth will be expressed as a solution. Some way, some how, every time, you remember that it's all Go(o)d, and then, It Is. 

I Love you and I'm with you, 
Nik

p.s. Got Go(o)d News? Got an example of how this Love is moving in your life? Email me and I'll share, here! Let's keep each other inspired!  [email protected]  

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Today's Quote:

"To be conscious of the breath means that no thoughts can be allowed, because thoughts will distract your attention. Buddha never says, "Stop thinking." He says, "Breathe consciously." Automatically, thinking will stop; you cannot both think and breathe consciously. When a thought comes into your mind, your attention is withdrawn from the breathing. A single thought and you have become unconscious of the breathing process.

Buddha used this technique. It is a simple one, but a very vital one. He would say to his bhikkhus, his monks, "Do whatsoever you are doing, but do not forget a simple thing: remember the incoming and the outgoing breath. Move with it, flow with it."

The more you try to do it, the more you endeavor to do it, the more conscious you will become. It is arduous, it is difficult, but once you can do it, you will have become a different person, a different being in a different world." - Osho 

Today's Practice:

Allow everything that happens today to happen in the flow of your breath.  Stay conscious of your breathing today.  Don't forget to feel for it.  Make it primary, and everything else secondary.  It's your anchor.  It's always here.  Always now.  Just as God Is.  Just as Love is.  Just as you are.  You are breathing life into your new life. Trust this. 
Smile. 
Give thanks. 

I Love you, 
Nik
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Cue "Everything We Need" by Kanye West ... for real, play this song before or after catching up with me, to catch up with and Be Love. 

"We begin after the storm inside..." - Anthony Clemons (from "Everything We Need")

Reflect on the feeling of Freedom.  
Then drop the word and stay with that wordless Go(o)d feeling... the presence of Freedom. The "I Am" that I Am, the "I Am" that you are.
Feel It, and know It to be all things.  
The more you practice being aware of It, the more you love It, the more you trust It, thank It, sing to It, smile to It... the more you'll see It showing up as everything you need and more. 
Smile. 
Breathe. 
Don't leave this knowing, today.
Don't forget God, today.    
Be Love, now to be free, now.  

I Love you, 
Nik
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Today's Quotes:

"You didn't come this far to only come this far." - Unknown 

"How to get rid of the lower self: The blossom vanishes of itself as the fruit grows, so will your lower self vanish as the divine grows in you.”—Ramakrishna

"What is happening to you is nothing less than death and rebirth. What is dying is the entire way in which you understood “who you are” and “how it all is.” What is being reborn is the child of the Spirit for whom things all are new. This process of attending an ego that is dying at the same time as you are going through a birth process is awesome. Be gentle and honor him (self) who is dying as well as him (Self) who is being born."- Ram Dass, 'Be Here Now'

Bonus Quote:

"When you have started on the path to God, proceed, do not stop. He will take care of you."  
- Neem Karoli Baba

Today's Practice:

The one that didn't want to get out of bed this morning? The one that's uninspired and not excited about a new week... don't try to fix that one. Don't try to change that one.  See through that one.  Feel through that one, to the real One, to the Truth, to Love.  

When you stay aware of the real One, a new concept of 'you' is born.  A doper version of 'you' is born.  That's the discomfort you're feeling.  Expect it.  Give thanks for it. Breathe through it. Smile through it. You remembered what you are and your new life is here. 

I Love you, 
Nik
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Today's Quotes:

"These are the words the Holy Spirit speaks in all your tribulations, all your pain, all suffering regardless of its form.  These are the words with which temptation ends, and guilt, abandoned, is revered no more. These are the words which end the dream of sin, and rid the mind of fear.   These are the words by which salvation comes to all the world.

Shall we not learn to say these words when we are tempted to believe that pain is real, and death becomes our choice instead of life?  Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power to release all minds from bondage?  These are words which give you power over all events that seem to have been given power over you. ⁴You see them rightly when you hold these words in full awareness, and do not forget these words apply to everything you see or any brother looks upon amiss." - A Course in Miracles Lesson 193

"All the negatives of your life are like riding down the road spiked with nails.  Every day is another road, and the way you ride down that road is to realize one divine life without opposite.  I am looking at a road that is not there." - Herb Fitch

"You see the world
And you try to dissolve it.
But the master has no need to
He is without desire. 
For though he sees,
He sees nothing."
-The Ashtavakra Gita, Heart of Awareness

"Every appearance that comes to us from morning to night, or from night to morning, regarding the human scene needs treatment... Do not be satisfied to accept even a good human appearance, but translate that, too, into the spiritually real of which the good is but the form." - Joel Goldsmith

Today's Practice:

Keep remembering, 

"I will forgive, and this will disappear."  

I will feel Love, and this will disappear. 

I will know 'only Love is here', and this will disappear. 

I will know 'only God is here', and this will disappear. 

I will forgive my misperception of God's presence, and this will disappear. 

Keep forgiving yourself for judging by appearances.  Keep forgiving yourself for believing in this world.  You forgive the instant you remember God... the moment you pause and feel for the Silent-Love. Forgiveness is allowing the Love you are to flow into the scene... into the world appearance.  Feeling Love while moving through the world disappears problems. Love is the solution you've been looking for.  It is the miracle.  And It is you.  Which means It's here, now.  Smile :)  

I Love you, 
Nik 
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Repeat: “This box is now too small for the person I’ve become.  I’m giving myself permission to live a bigger life that includes sudden miracles, and unexpected blessings.  I deserve this newfound state of freedom where my soul is unobstructed.  I am open, willing, and ready to let my spirit explore the endless ways in which I can be happy and at peace.  I am putting this box aside. I’ve outgrown my past.” 
- via IG @lawofattractionlive 

“Destroy your house, and with the treasure hidden in it,
You will be able to build thousands of houses. 
The treasure lies under it; there’s no help for it;
Hesitate not to pull it down; do not tarry!” 
- Rumi

"In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.” 
- John 14: 2-6

**This "I" = the impersonal, invisible Christ = Love  = Awareness = your true Self**

When you're feeling Love, that's "putting the box aside", that's, "destroying your house", that's knowing that where you are, He is, and that He is you. This Love is risen and conscious as Itself where you appear to be, and the forecast is sunny with a GO(O)D chance of sudden miracles! Let's go! 
 
I love you and I'm with you in This Place where the past is not and never was, 
Nik
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Today's Quotes:

"He who has realized one's own Self, he does not get afraid of anybody."- Swamii Lakshmanjoo

“Q: How to get rid of fear?
A: What is fear?  It is only a thought.  If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear.  Who sees the second (anything external)? First the ego arises and sees objects as external.  If the ego dose not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second (nothing external).  For anything external to oneself implies the seer within.  Seeking it there will arise no doubt, no fear—not only fear, all other thoughts centered around thee ego will disappear along with it.”
 – Ramana Maharshi 

"This is the supreme meditation, this is the supreme worship: the continuous and unbroken awareness of the indwelling presence, inner light or consciousness." - Yoga Vasistha  

“Fear thou not, for I Am with thee; be not dismayed; for I Am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness…” 
– Isaiah 41: 10-14 

“But he said onto them, “It is I, be not afraid.” 
– John 6:20

Today's Practice:

When you notice fear, stop. Pause. And try the Abhaya Mudra, and become aware of the Love, the Peace, that announces Itself within you.  Stay in this Peace. It's the 'I Am' that knows no fear, It is the same 'I Am' that is going before you to smooth the crooked places and prepare mansions.  Don't forget to feel This.  Make your felt remembrance of This primary, like there is no secondary.  (spoiler: 'cause there isn't)

I love you, 
Nikki
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"1. Shut your eyes. 

2. Notice your consciousness (*that which wakes up in the morning and remains aware until you go to sleep.  Consciousness is not any of the things or experiences perceived, It is that which is aware of the things or experiences.  It is also aware of the absence of things or experiences.) 

3. Love your consciousness (*with the same Love, the same feeling we felt for a loved one*).

4. Turn your attention away from the world, body and thoughts and towards loving your consciousness.

Every time you notice you are thinking, turn your attention away from thought, and back towards loving your consciousness.  Love your consciousness, not your thoughts."

and/or 

"1. Shut your eyes. 

2. Notice that you are aware. (Awareness = Consciousness = Attention = Love)

3. Love that awareness. 

4. Cherish that awareness. 

Every time you notice a thought, turn your attention away from the thought, and continue loving your awareness.  Do not love your thoughts.  Love your awareness.”

– How to Live a Life That Knows Only Love (quotes compiled by Michael Langford)

I love you and I'm with you, 
Nik 
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