Intention for Today: Dare

Dare is the intention for today.

Today, dare to be yourself. Dare to speak your honest truth. Dare to overcome any negativity. Dare to forgive, to let go. Dare to enjoy each moment, to breathe. Dare to give yourself the gift of love. Dare to love. Dare to be authentic, to be yourself.

May we dare to be who we truly are.

Thank you Dare for showing us your endless gifts.

Intention for Today: Allow

Today Allow is the intention.

Allowing our spirit to move through us can happen when we are open to allowing! Allow your inner truth to unfold through you. Let it be your expression in this world. Allow the beauty and the vibrancy of mother earth speak to you. Allow that which you desire to emerge and happen and occur and manifest.

May we allow ourselves the depth and the wisdom of our inner self.

Thank you Allow for enabling us to touch the beauty within and letting it flow in all directions.

Intention for Today: Embrace

Embrace is the intention today.

Embracing what we love seems second nature. We can easily embrace and appreciate those characteristics that we love in ourselves. What about everything else? Well, the rest of our aspects, it seems, we adjust, tolerate, manage, ignore, abandon or remove. In some cases, we may accept those parts of us. But do we embrace them?

I wonder: What would it be like to embrace that aspect in us which we are annoyed, frustrated, angry or impatient with? Think about one thing about your ways of being or doing that you are impatient or upset with. See if you can embrace it a little. Think of it like a child who wants your attention. Give it that. Hug it. Comfort it. Love it. Embrace it. 

Perhaps, in embracing that which we reject, we transform.

Thank you Embrace for demonstrating the beauty of love.

Intention for Today: Gratitude

Today the intention is Gratitude.

Become thankful for all that is. Become thankful for the teachers in our life: the people we meet and experiences we have. Become filled with gratitude for the thoughts and emotions we experience, for being the lighthouses they are. Give thanks and appreciation to our breath, our body, our spirit...for the harmony and order that prevails around us. May we be grateful for our blessings.

Thank you Gratitude for showing us gratefulness.

Intention for Today: Release

Release is the intention for today.

Release the superfluous. Release the extra. Release that which is no longer of use to your highest potential. Make room for new and fresh and rejuvenating, by release the old, the outdated, the draining. Let go and be.

May we release our grips on all that is harmful. May we release, forgive and be filled with gratitude.

Thank you Release for loosening the rigid.

Intention for Today: Attention

Today Attention is the intention.

Attention is a beautiful tool of our mind. We can take its help to direct careful focus on something/someone and in this way bring our complete "self" to that object of our attention. "Self" is in quotes because, in giving complete attention, there is a oneness with that which we are giving our attention to. And we seem to dissolve ourselves in that.

Realise that you can choose and select what you put your attention on. Choose wisely! Then, bring attention and focus with full commitment. And enjoy!

Thank you Attention for your gift of choice and focus.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. -Confucius

Have you had moments during your day when you began doing something and the next thing you noticed hours and hours had passed? It seems like minutes but in fact hours had gone by. All this time, you were a state of being called flow, also known as being in the zone or at your peak. At some point in our lives, we have all probably, had moments when we were so engrossed in what we were doing that we completely lost track of time. Often times, this is when we are creating or simply enjoying something intensely.

This has happened to me as well and during such moments, I have experienced a certain ease about things. Ideas flow easily. Creativity is buzzing. I feel energized and often feel like I have dissolved myself in what I am doing. It is absolutely beautiful.

When we are in the flow, there is no resistance. We float along like a canoe that is moving along, in the direction of the river. There seems to be no effort involved. Like the clouds floating wherever the wind takes them.

How can we recreate such moments on desire? How can we repeat them over and over again? And can we live in a perpetual state of flow, every minute of our waking hours?

I can guess that there is research being done out there on this. As I come across it, I will update it to this blog.

For now, I will become aware whenever I have just come out of such states. What we focus on, we become. So be it.

Share with me your moments of being in the Flow. How do you feel when you are in one? Do you know how to recreate such moments on desire?

-Sophia Ojha

Intention for Today: Centered

Today's intention is Centered.

Breathe. Meditate. Pray.

Do whatever you need to do, in order to just be. Feel centered and grounded. Imagine embodying the nature of a tree, with roots growing into the soil. Imagine absorbing the nourishment from the ground. Go for a walk today on grass or sand or rocks. Feel the solidity and the stability of mother Earth. 

Thank you for feeling Centered today.

Intention for Today: Flexibility

Today's intention is Flexibility.

Flexibility is a wonderful asset when done from integrity. Let us ask ourselves how can we extend and flex ourselves and still be true to ourself. The grass bends in the wind, the water separates around a rock, the clouds merge and disintegrate....What inspiration is there for you in these phenomena?

Flexibility can refer to your body, your mind, "your" time, your opinions or your approach towards something.

Try it. Try becoming flexible in at least one way today. Ask: How can I take on the characeteristics of the wind and the water?

Thank you Flexibility for expanding and deepening our core.

Intention for Today: Action

Action is the intention for today.

Be inspired to take action towards your goals. That action may be reflection on your goals or getting in touch with your vision and passion. An action need not be grand. It can be a baby step. Writing your thoughts down is action. Choosing to be is also an action, in my world. It is all about consciously choosing your way of being and doing and feeling. And at the same time accepting your thoughts and feelings the way they are.

Choose action inspired by your highest truth.

Thank you Action for showing us the way.

Intention for Today: Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the intention for today.

Make a list of your hurts, your resentments, your pain that you feel. Accept the way you feel. That is how it is in this moment. Then, let go. Let go of this suffering. Let go of the loneliness. Let go of anger. Let go of it all. Get in touch with the spirit of forgiveness, the great gift you give to yourself.

Begin with yourself. Forgive yourself for all the "faults", the guilt, the pain you have caused yourself and others. Take baby steps if it seems too much. Do it one step at a time.

Then, forgive others. Remind yourself that you did the best you could in that given moment and so did the others. They acted from their pain and suffering and unconscious living. There is nothing you can do to change the past events, yet you can change your relation to the past from this current moment.

Liberate your burdens. Let them dissolve. Use your mind, your breath, your awareness as your support. Step into the zone of appreciation and gratitude. Free yourself, lighten your heart.

A lot of love to you as you embark on this seemingly difficult yet noble work.

Thank you Forgiveness for opening up our hearts.

Intention for Today: Choice

Today's intention is Choice.

Treat the entire day as a meditation.
Become aware of where your attention goes.
Then, in that moment of awareness,
make a choice that helps you fulfill your highest potential;
that keeps you in alignment with your inner truth.

Thank you Choice for showing us it is up to us.

Intention for Today: Commitment

Today Commitment is the intention.

We make promises. Promises to others and promises to ourselves. Today, let us watch our day, our thoughts and our actions. And let us fulfill our promises to the best of our capabilities. Let us keep our commitments, especially to ourselves. Do what you said you would do. Just do it. Show yourself how you respect the divine in you. Make the intention. Declare to yourself how strongly you commit.

It may turn out, at the end of the day, that you overcommitted. This is a great revelation. Learn from it. Recognize how you unfolded. Forgive yourself. Tomorrow, recommit. Make it a habit. Take these steps daily and help your integrity to blossom.

It may turn out that you fulfilled your commitments. This too is a great revelation. Learn from it. Recognize what enabled you to unfold in this way. Be grateful. See how you can contribute even more, in quality or in quantity. Tomorrow, recommit. Make it a habit. Expand your contribution bit by bit each day.

It may also turn out that you offered to this world something between fulfilled and unfulfilled commitments. Become aware of it. Read the treasure-filled lesson in that. Make a note of it in your mind, even better: in your journal. And see yourself blossom from the realizations.

Thank you Commitment, for showing us how to commit.

Intention for Today: Play

Play is the intention for today.

Be playful. Have fun. Laugh. Watch a comedy. Smile. Listen to a joke. Play a game. Play with a pet. Laugh around crazily with children. Do something you love. Just have some fun.

Thank you Play for being so playful and fun.

Love is the only glimpse we get of eternity. -Unknown

Day after day, week after week, we traverse this journey of our life entangling ourselves with time. Time can be imagined like a river running down its course with various curves and numerous shores. Some notions of time give structure and demand our behavior and action from the community we reside in. This is the world of calendars and appointments and time tables. Some other notions of time are more natural and inherent and "happen" organically. This is the world of spontaneity, "internal clock", "natural timing". At any given time, we are engaged in a dialogue and in a relationship with time. 

So let us take a moment and pour our thoughts on "eternity". How do you perceive eternity? 

Eternity to me is...the glimpse of a butterfly in Fall. A view at the wide open sky. The touch of gentle breeze on my face. The sound of quiet footsteps of a cat. The glance of a new born. The sweet melting of chocolate on my tongue. The pitter patter of the rain drops on the window sill. The smell of freshly baked bread. The voice of my beloved near me. 

In all these experiences there are at least two things common. There is the moment of the "self" dissolving in the experiences delivered by the senses. And there is the connection with the "eternal" quality of love. 

I come to experience the moment as eternity and eternity as love. This moment of eternal love happens when there is a sense of awe, a deep awareness of my becoming aware, and a kind of openness to allowing my senses to fill me up with what they do best: perceive and sense.

-Sophia Ojha

Intention for Today: Timelessness

Today Timelessness is the intention for the day.

Today, get in touch with time and timelessness. Taste that which is without taste. Feel the divine in the mundane. Notice the passing of the moment that is standing still. Touch that which has no form. See the horizon gliding its boundaries. Go beyond the familiar, the known. Sip the water of eternity. Love the glow emanating within you. Become conjoined with timelessness.

Thank you Timelessness for showing us what time it is!

Intention for Today: Awareness

Awareness is our intention for today.

Become aware of your senses. Breathe with awareness. See with awareness. Smell and taste and feel with awareness. Become one with the moment. Walk and talk with awareness. Create with awareness. Serve and commit with awareness. Express with awareness. Love with awareness.

Thank you Awareness for showing us your treasures.

Intention for Today: Sunshine

Today's intention is Sunshine.

May the sun shine in our hearts. Let the sun smile through our smiles. Let us embrace the light and share it all around us. Let us remember the brilliance of the golden ball in the sky no matter where we are and what we are experiencing. Love and Light to us all.

Thank you Sunshine for your healing energy.

Intention for Today: Bold

Today's intention is Bold.

Let us be bold today. Let us boldly follow our hearts. Let us be bold enough to speak our minds with honesty and respect. Let us be bold to allow our own abundance to unfold. Let us be bold to offer our gifts to this world.

Thank you Boldness for showing us the courage of being bold.

Intention for Today: Mountain

Today's intention is Mountain.

Let today be a day when we embody the majesty, the grace and the beauty of the mountain. Let the stability, the rock-solid firmness and unwavering strength of the mountain flow through us. Let us step into the expansiveness and the horizon-kissing silhouette of the mountains. Let the image and the story of the mountains inspire and uplift us.

Thank you Mountain for giving us your mountainous nature.