Tian Dayton

Today I will open myself to receive. Much of what I experience as lack in my life is really my inability to see life as constantly giving to me. When I put myself into a receptive state, what blocks do I place in my own path? Do I feel worthy of a healthy, happy life? Do I trust that it is possible for life to work out? Am I able to visualize a good life?
Am I willing to forego my attachment to negativity and control so that my life can be fully positive? Really this universe is already abundant.
Nature is constantly striving to produce-to meet my needs. My ability to open myself to receive this generosity and abundance is how I clear the channels for it to come to me. My ability to recognize it and to be grateful for it is how I hold it in my life.

I open myself to receive all good that is coming to me.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill

I will look beyond time and space into the infinite nature of the universe, into soul. What I see around me is not all there is to this world. Call me crazy, but I see more. I trust my eyes and I trust my heart. What I see with my mind and my heart are just as real for me as what I see with my eyes. Reality is multi-layered. When I am still and quiet it unfolds itself to me. Its wisdom and meaning seep effortlessly into my pores. I come to understand truth and soul because I sense its presence within me. I am a part of this divine mystery of life. I am indivisible with the whole, a cog in an ever-turning wheel of time, beyond which lies eternity, more life, more me, more it.

I see beyond time and space.

The influence of the senses has in most men overpowered the mind to that degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in this world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today I do not need to have everything I love in my life at every moment. Because I care about something, a relationship, a house, a situation, does not mean that I am going to lose it. I trust now that people, places and things in life come and go. That is the nature of it all. Nothing I can do will change that. When I learn to roll with the natural vicissitudes of life, they somehow feel less threatening. I am more willing to allow people, places and things be removed from me because I have come to understand that they will return in the same or different forms. Today I know that that is true; it is the nature of life. But it is a loss that is constantly filled with gain.

I let go so that I can be filled again.

Nothing in the world lasts save eternal change.
Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan

I will not resist my animal nature today. If I am truly a part of a divine plan, then all of me is meant to be here, both my animal and spirit sides have soul potential encoded into them. I will not sever myself from my own humanity in order to become something beyond myself-my becoming is in my being, my soul and my person are of the same stuff.

I balance my physical and soul nature.

I don’t think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular – shall I suck warm blood, hold my tail high, walk with my footprints precisely over the prints of my hands?-but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive. The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons. I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should. And I suspect that for me the way is like the weasel’s: open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.
Annie Dillard

Today I am aware that it is more difficult to let go of a painful, dysfunctional situation or relationship than a happy, healthy one. When a relationship or situation is going wrong, I become entangled in the mess, always feeling that if I did just a little bit more, if I tried a little harder, if I changed something . . . then it would work. When I come from this insecure place, it really never does work out . . . all of my frantic efforts only serve to complicate an already complicated situation and my best intentions fall on deaf ears. Letting go does not mean losing; it simply means that I am willing for change to occur. Sometimes the change is so subtle I only know it took place because I feel better; sometimes it is more pronounced.

I can let go and allow movement to occur.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
Hans Reichenbach