21 Day - No Complaining Challenge

March 23rd I started a 21 day - No Complaining Challenge and invited a few folks to join in. Well over 50 people have said yes to this challenge and there were lots of questions of what this challenge is all about, what constitutes complaining and what doesn't and how will we hold ourselves accountable. At its most basic level this is a practice for you. And the invitation is the catalyst for accountability. I will post things daily, thoughts on complaining and offers some practices to be in relationship with complaining. I have also set up an accountability call in series, 3 calls over the 21 days. I am making this a part of my evolving ministry so I am asking you to pay $21 for for these 3 calls of support, learning and growth. You can register here.
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If you choose not to do the calls that is fine too, return to this event everyday for some words of support.
Love to you!
The calls will be:
Sunday March 29th 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. 
Saturday April 4th 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. 
Sunday, April 12th 7:30 - 8:00 pm, all CST times

Sunday Afternoon Study...I turn my attention consistently towards my heart's desires!

Thought I would share some great quotes from this afternoons study.

From The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes (p. 186)
"Never look at that which you do not wish to experience.  No matter what the false condition may be, it must be refuted.  The proper kind of denial is based upon the recognition that, in reality, there is no limitation, for Mind can easily make a planet as an acorn.  The Infinite knows no difference between a million dollars and a penny.  It only knows that IT IS."

and from page 159...the importance of keeping our faith in the direction of our good even if not especially when doubt reveals itself.  "Not only must we have complete faith in Spirit, and Its ability to know and to do, but we must have complete confidence in our approach to It.  We must not be lukewarm in our conviction.  WE must know that we know.  WE are to demonstrate that spiritual thought force has power over all apparent material resistance, and this cannot be done unless we have abounding confidence in the Principle which we approach."

Humbled by the thought that we have been "trained unknowingly" to reason our life around the basic idea that our Good is something ever absent from us that we have to get or somehow make ourselves worth of...geesh.  From Emma Curtis Hopkins in a book titled Scientific Christian Mental Practice "Having been trained for years to reason your life out on the basis of Good being absent from you, you now begin to reason from an entirely different basis.  You judge not by appearances, but by righteousness.  Many conditions slip away almost instantaneously."

"...evil is a way of believing and not omnipotent." E.C. Hopkins

"It is not to the seeming failures of your life you must look for your reputation among the angels of light, but to the purpose you have held." ~E.C. Hopkins

Wednesday Night Connection Call - What Possibility Can You Hold Up for Yourself?

Tonight's #meditation call was focused on possibility and potential.  Keeping our mind and heart fixed on the potential seeking to express through our lives.

Down the call here and join me for a powerful meditation practice!

Love, Light & Laughter ~Darrell

2014 Postings - Download Different #Meditations from 2014

Wednesday Evening Connections, December 3, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, November 26, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, November 19, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, November 12, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, November 5, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, October 29, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, October 22, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, October 15, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, October 8, 2014
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Sunday Morning Service Talk, Bodhi Spiritual Center, October 5, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, October 1, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, September 24, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, September 17, 2014
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Sunday Morning Service Talk, Unity in Naperville, September 14, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, September 10, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, September 3, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, August 27, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, August 20, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, August 13, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, August 6, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, July 30, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, July 23, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, July 16, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, July 9, 2014
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Wednesday Evening Connections, July 2, 2014
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Community Prayer Call June 26, 2014
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Saturday Morning Wake Up Call, June 21, 2014
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Community Prayer Call June 19, 2014
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Saturday Morning Wake Up Call
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Talk given May 18, 2014 @ Abundant Life Spiritual Center
Awakening the Wisdom of God in You! Activating your spiritual tools.

Sunday Evening Meditation & Sharing April 27, 2014
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Meditate your weekend off right!  April 19, 2014
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Here is a recent talk from March 2014 @ Abundant Life Spiritual  in Deerfield, IL
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Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing

Day 31 - December Meditations - Vision

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. ~Proverbs 29:18, Hebrew Scriptures

Affirmation: Today I keep my highest vision, my highest possibility fresh before me.  I welcome its guidance into possibilities beyond my knowing.

What is your highest vision for 2015?  What must you embrace and release to support it?  Are there any specific actions to take right now?

Explore the answer to these questions in todays meditation.  Download it here!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

Despite the dullness and barrenness of the days that pass, if I search with due diligence, I can always find a deposit left by some former radiance. But I had forgotten. At the time it was full-orbed, glorious, and resplendent. I was sure that I would never forget. In the moment of its fullness, I was sure that it would illumine my path for all the rest of my journey. I had forgotten how easy it is to forget.

There was no intent to betray what seemed so sure at the time. My response was whole, clean, authentic. But little by little, there crept into my life the dust and grit of the journey. Details, lower-level demands, all kinds of cross currents -- nothing momentous, nothing overwhelming, nothing flagrant -- just wear and tear. If there had been some direct challenge --a clear-cut issue -- I would have fought it to the end, and beyond.

In the quietness of this place, surrounded by the all-pervading Presence of God, my heart whispers: Keep fresh before me the moments of my High Resolve, that in fair weather or in foul, in good times or in tempests, in the days when the darkness and the foe are nameless or familiar, I may not forget that to which my life is committed.

Keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.
 

For The Inward Journey
by Howard Thurman 

Day 30 - December Meditations - Becoming

"Through Life Visioning, we become the living condition through which divine ideas express themselves...These ideas can be anything from solutions to problems to a new business model to direction in your spiritual development." ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith

Affirmation:  My vision pulls me into my becoming.  

I live to expand and become everyday!

Contrary to what most of society tells us, we are not here to perform and produce.  Of course it is necessary for us to perform...perform tasks, duties and skills...and often times to be a contributing member to our friends, family and work systems, we must be productive and produce and contribute to the whole.  Performing and producing can pull us away from our underlying purpose and becoming though if that is all that we focus on.  In consciousness work and spiritual practice, the question is less about "what" and more about "who".  Who are we becoming today, tomorrow and the next?  The what actually can be quite easy, the whats of our lives reveal everyday as things are needed and required, but who are we becoming in the midst of the details of our lives.  

This is what we focus on today in our meditation.  Join me in listening for the answer to the question "Who are we here to become in 2015?"

December 29 - December Meditations - Vision

"In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision." ~ Dalai Lama

This morning contemplating the end of the year and what hopes, dreams & vision I have for myself next year, I realized I need to sift through some other things to get to the heart of the matter.  There are a lot of things I think I "SHOULD" do next year, and those things aren't bad, however, "shoulds" often carry with them some baggage and condemning energy.  I am interested in what is deeper than the shoulds.  

An example, "In 2015 I should lose 30 pounds."  Losing 30 pounds would be great for me, however in stead of of bringing "shoulding" energy (which often has lots of shame attached to it), what if the phrase or vision deeper than I should lose 30 pounds was..."2015 is a year of freedom and health in my body.  I celebrate exercise, dancing and flexibility in my body."  That actually gets me excited and ignites something within me to move towards that intention.

A visioning statement or phrase, ideally excites us.  We may not know how to bring everything to pass, however, stating the statement can activate possibility.

Lets start tapping into the vision for our lives in 2015.  Join me for a few minutes of visioning.  

Download today's visioning #meditation here.

Affirmation:  The vision for my life, opens my heart, mind and choosing to new possibilities...today!