GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki: The Rosary

Today's Quotes:

"What if you said thank you to your body instead." - Anonymous via IG

“To love yourself fully, you must focus on a new dimension of You. You must focus on the presence inside of You. Take a moment and sit still. Focus on feeling the life presence inside you. As you focus on the presence within, it will begin to reveal itself to You. It is a feeling of pure love and bliss, and it is perfection. That presence is the perfection of You. That presence is the real You. As you focus on that presence, as you feel, love, and praise that presence, you will love yourself fully, quite possibly for the first time in your life. Any time you look at yourself with critical eyes, switch your focus immediately to the presence within, and its perfection will reveal itself to You. As you do this, all imperfections that have manifested in your life will dissolve, because imperfections cannot exist in the light of this presence."
— The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

“The absolute truth is that the ‘I’ is perfect and complete; the real ‘I’ is spiritual and can therefore never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease.” 
-Charles Haanel”

"Behold, I make everything new." - The Bible- Revelation 21:5 

My translation -- 'I', the awareness of the 'I' within you, makes everything new. You see with fresh eyes. You see with the eyes of Love. 

Today's Practice: 
Notice today which 'I' you are identified with.  Are you being the body, or the Love that courses through the body? The personal ego, or the impersonal presence, "I AM"? 

The "I Am", this true "I", is beyond concepts of sickness and health, beyond age, beyond sex, beyond all categories.  When you know by FEELING yourself to be this "I", the body you thought you were appears whole, beautiful, and radiant.  You can finally look at that body and love it, because you ARE Love. 

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Today's Quotes: 

"Trade your anxiety for My Peace." -  IG @Abideisprayer

"If it's out of your hands, then it deserves freedom from your mind, too." - Ivan Nuru

"Do not give in to your inclination to think about ghosts and apparitions. Rather keep your mind solely on God's name and meditate on Him. In the presence of His name, no other power can function. This is the Truth. Be firmly convinced of It.  The moment you have recourse to God's name, you should feel that no lesser power can touch you. If at that time you are aware of any physical anxiety, be quite certain that it is merely a bodily reaction." - Ananadamayi Ma

Today's 24 Hour Challenge:

1. Pick a prevalent worry/concern/desire in your life. 
2. Drop it for the next 24 hours. 

You drop it the moment you pick up your mantra. 
Every time a thought about your worry comes up, let it go by turning toward your mantra. Hear your mantra.
Feel your mantra. 
Feel Love for your mantra. 
Know that Love is appearing as your mantra. 

I'm with you, 
Nik 

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Rumi Quote: "Be drunk in Love, since Love is everything that exists."

Get a cup of water.
Set it in front of you and look lovingly at it.
Hold it in the Love that you are.
Look out at the water while simultaneously FEELING Love, inside. 
You have blessed this water with your holiness. 
With every sip, know that you are filling yourself with Love, drinking your way to a new life, to a new earth. 
History has ended. Karma is dead. Everything is changing. 
Only Love is here. 

Poem from recording- 

Intoxicated by Love
by Rumi

Because of your love
I have lost my sobriety
I am intoxicated
by the madness of love

In this fog
I have become a stranger to myself
I'm so drunk
I've lost the way to my house

In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance

Drunk with the ecstasy of love
I can no longer tell the difference
between drunkard and drink
Between Lover and Beloved

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Today's Passage and Meditation: 
Eva Bell Werber's "My Robe"

Today's Practice:
Put on Love's Robe. Feel Its warmth, Its security, Its regality.  You are protected.  You are safe. You are loved. You are Love.  Whenever you feel worried or challenged today, pull Love's Robe around you tighter.  Stay aware that you're wearing It. Stay conscious that you're covered.  Love's got you. It's got us. In reality, there's only Love, and all is well. 

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Today's Quotes:

"This world is like a shadow.  If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so.  If you turn your back towards it, it has not choice but to follow you!" 
-Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

"As long as you want power, you can't have it.  The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dream possible."
-Ram Dass

"People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future."
-Eckhart Tolle

The story of Joel Goldsmith's missing luggage (material vs spiritual universe) comes from 'The Thunder of Silence', Chapter 9. 

Today's Practice:

Take a moment and explore something you're expecting (or hoping) to happen this week.  Notice that with this expectation comes fear and worry about NOT getting it.  Feel into that desire and drop it by feeling into Love.  What's your 'missing luggage'? What's your 'tattoo'? Let it go.  Love is now. Real happiness and contentment are NOW.  Stay with this fullness, and   anytime you notice an expectation or a desire arise, relax your shoulders, smile, and melt back into this Love.  And then watch what happens :) #Miracles 

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God Morning to you!  Click HERE to listen to yesterday's episode.  In Part II, I share a significant part of my routine that is so natural to me now, that I forgot to mention it! 

Today's Quote:
"Get in the habit of coming out of sleep into mantra." - Ram Dass

Today's Practice:
Every night before you fall asleep, set an intention to wake up the next morning to Truth... to wake up as Love... to wake up reciting your mantra... to wake up FEELING your mantra... feeling Love, smiling, breathing consciously.  Then, like we always do, make it a game to stay aware of your mantra (of Love), all the way to the bathroom, all the way to the kitchen, all the way to your office, etc.  Keep remembering Love until you realize that you are Love.  Everything else is imagination. 

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Today's Quotes:

-"The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep."- Rumi

-"We must begin our days with the inner reminder of our true identity.  We must identify ourselves as Spirit, as Principle, as the law of Life unto our affairs.  It is a very necessary thing to remember that we have no needs: We are infinite, individual spiritual consciousness embodying within ourselves the infinity of good: and therefore we are that center, that point of God- consciousness which can feed five thousand any day and every day- not by using our bank account, but by using the infinity of good pouring through us the same as it poured through Jesus.  We do not meet people with the idea of what we can get or what they can do for us, but wee ego out into life as the presence of God."  - The Infinite Way by Joel Goldsmith

-The Sadhguru video I watched on Brahma Muhurtam(the 3:40 AM phenomenon)  

Today's Practice:

Commit to rising a little earlier than usual tomorrow (and everyday), to sit in the presence of Love. To sit with your Self. You can engage in any spiritual practice that suits you (or none).  You can journal, you can meditate, you can practice Love,  you can listen for silence, you can Namaskar, sway, take Love steps, consciously smile, do Japa (that's what I do along with Love Steps)... anything you like or a combination of several! The earlier you get up, the more you time you have for yourself, for your Self, for God, for Love.  Take that time. Take your power back.  We can sleep when we're dead :)  But wait... we don't die, because we were never born. Our bodies can and will sleep... our minds can and will sleep... but this consciousness that we are, is eternally Woke... watching, from Love, the seeming waking, sleeping, and dreaming.  Let's stay woke.  

I love you and I'm with you!
Nik 
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In this Love Speaks bonus series--

Me = Love = I Am = your true Self = God

These are Love notes, spoken to Love, from Love, to remind you that Only Love Is Here.

I love you, 
Nik
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When you try to focus on two things at once, your mind falls quiet. 

Today's Quote: 

"God works as bridge builders, coal miners, teachers, salesmen, lawyers, artists, ministers; and it is God, the infinite Intelligence, at the center of our being, which determine our special form of expression.  To know what Its destiny is for us, we must touch this center within us in meditation." - Joel Goldsmith, The Art of Meditation 

Today's Practice: (comes from Frank Kinslow via the Diamond Sutras)

Take your right forefinger and place it on your right thigh. Become aware of the sensations-- is it hot, cold, smooth, or rough? Can you feel your pulse in your finger? Now, take your left forefinger and place it on your left thigh.  Become aware of the sensations-- is it hot, cold, smooth, or rough? Can you feel your pulse in your finger?  Now try to pay attention to BOTH points of contact, your left finger touching your left thigh and your right finger touching your right thigh.  And then drop down into your body. Notice the Silence that is now seemingly louder.  Stay (t)here.  Hear the Silence and feel the Love in the Silence. Feel the Silence AS Love.  With practice, you won't need to try to pay attention to two different sensations simultaneously, you'll be able to immediately shift your attention to the Silent Love.  This is meditation. This is your center.  Your purpose unfolds from here.  

I love you, 
Nik
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Feel Love like your life depends on It, because your best life does!

Today's Quotes:

"Why not understand that your vortex is pregnant with everything that you want.  Your vortex is pregnant right now with everything that you want." - Abraham Hicks 

Note: the vortex = the I Am = Loving Awareness

"As you know, God has a way of meeting our need at every level; soon thereafter I came across a poem by Robert Browning in which he states that we should not try to open an entry for good to come into us from the without, but rather we must open out a way for the imprisoned splendor within us to escape." - Joel Goldsmith

“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”- Robert Browning

Today's Practices:

Exhale (through pursed lips) strong, heavy energy out of your system.  Exhale your way back to Center, back into alignment.

Remember that everything you think you want is here, present, as the feeling, 'I Am'.  Stay in this knowing, keep retuning to this gentle perception... through your mantra, via the silence,, by smiling, Namaskaring, or by using your breath. Pick the door that gets you in the room and stay (t)here.  Abide. Rest as Love. I’m here with you. 

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