Monthly Archives: January 2012

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A Depth of Wealth in What Is

Welcome to a new year filled with you, your energy, desires, goals, intentions and presence. In a world of infinite possibilities and endless choices, how do you decide where to place your attention first?  I’d like to share a tip with you on finding that direction.

My theme this year is to say “yes” to love’s deepest asking.  As I do so I find myself on a new learning curve.  Maybe you can think of me as a personality type always on the move with creating the “next event.’  What I’m discovering now is experiencing the wealth available by placing my attention on what is, right now.

For me, love’s deepest asking is an inquiry in to this moment to learn what there is to say yes to.  Questions like these are very helpful:

What am I feeling right now?
Where are my thoughts right now?
How do I perceive my life right now?
Do I believe my feelings, thoughts and perceptions right now?
What do I feel in my body right now?

These questions bring me in to the current moment.  I explore these questions with my senses, not just my mind. As I explore there opens in me a breathing space, a spacious embrace, a noticing to the responses I find. This is not an analysis based in judgment, it is an inquiry, an inventory, it has a neutral flavor to it.

The inner focused attention brings an air of acceptance or presence to the simple moment of what is.  There is more freedom and release, and a more settled feeling.   With this, I can feel even more energy and open relaxation.

What often happens next is I feel the gentle inspiration of a consciousness more expanded than my own.  Universal Intelligence if you will, offers an even deeper place of wellbeing as well as creative aliveness and fresh ideas.  In this, my inner attention is greeted with a wealth of goodness to carry me from this moment to the next, and the next and so on.

I’d like to encourage you to try this out.  See if you’d like to take 20 minutes or so and get quiet.  You can sit with the questions above and have your own experience of you.  I recommend exploring this with an attitude of open curiosity instead of expectation.

May you enjoy yourself ~

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Growing Your “Yes” to Love’s Deepest Asking

When the phrase “Love’s Deepest Asking” came to me in meditation there was a feeling of utter love and invitation with it. I’ve been learning from following that invitation, responding with a “yes” and watching my life change before my very eyes. It’s been an amazing experience.

Love’s deepest asking for me, has been an invitation to open fully to all I hold dear, to go for what I really want in my life and to feel past my fears in to the strength of this calling. Love’s deepest asking is not only an invitation; it also provides what is needed to fulfill it.

After 25 years of workinginternationally as a spiritual guide and a professional musician I thought I would have fearlessness in place across the board. It’s not true of course. Each time I choose the greatness of the Universe acting through me, I bump in to self-judgments of my perceived shortcomings, along with the question of my “enough-ness.” These judgments are quieting as compassion, courage and my “yes” grows. For me, this is Love’s Deepest Asking.

What this looks like in my life at the moment is an internal shift with external results. On the internal scene, each morning as I sit in meditation I feel into what loves deepest asking is for me. I listen and feel for what it is for the moment, for the day ahead, for my life’s expression and my soul’s calling. I also feel in to the relationships in my life from this place. Am I openly loving those I claim to love, am I truly showing up?

On the external scene, I am seeing results such as a brand new look to TheBreathingLife site, an article published in January’s issue of Bella Spark Magazine, my teaching a Telesumit in February and a couple of new shows I’m producing with my original music between now and end of April. My life looks like how I feel it to be inside when I listen to love’s deepest asking of me. The invitation is to step in to my dreams fully, no more excuses or reasons as to why not. The truth is, even though I didn’t have all these pieces “planned” I kept saying “yes” inside to whatever love’s deepest asking would bring, and these things unfolded right in to place. This is what love can do.

I am motivated and inspired to reach beyond my own life and offer this invitation to you. I’m curious as to what would happen in your life if you entertained the question: “What is Love’s Deepest Asking for my life?”

It is my hope to begin a network on my site entitled: Love’s Deepest Asking Network – A Conversation Café. I imagine people sitting with the invitation of love’s deepest asking as it is relative to them, discovering what this is for them and then sending their stories in. Imagine a global community of people, like you, who are taking up this invitation and sharing with everyone else about its unfolding. I like this idea and I hope you’ll consider it.

I wish you the greatest of blessings for 2012. If you wish to write to me about love’s deepest asking in your life, I’d love to hear from you~

Gratefully
Danae Shanti
Danae@TheBreathingLife.com