Happy Christmas from Caryl in Norfolk

What is the true meaning of Christmas and how shall I celebrate the holidays mindfully?  This is a question I put to myself in the rush of bright Christmas lights, consumer spending and preparations for the holiday weekend.

This message – written in 1935 by the Indian saint and mystic Paramahansa Yogananda – speaks to my heart and is my message with love to all who have touched my life as clients, friends, acquaintances in the past years. Among the things he wrote so poetically:

Earth-bound possessions and glory all fade away, but God-bound possessions hold through eternity, serving with supreme usefulness. Why worship material comfort on the altar of change? Learn to adore spiritual comfort in the temple of indestructibility. The best way to convert earthly accumulations into imperishable heavenly treasure is to use them for spiritual service. Christ must be lived to be known. In all good actions, in every material and spiritual service, and in the manger of meditation, the immortal Cosmic Christ is born anew.

None can know about that Christ by reading books on theology; one must feel his presence in the bower of deep meditation. In the cradle of meditation-tuned thoughts, woven with tender twigs of devotion, behold the newborn Christ, lulled by the cooing dove of inner peace.

Build your inner Christmas tree through meditation, love and inner contemplation, says Yogananda. And then...

At the foot of this inner Christmas tree lay all your material desires, to be presented once and forever to the Christ Joy within you.

You can read Yogananda’s entire beautiful Christmas message here: http://www.yogananda-srf.org/Self-Realization-Magazine/A_Christmas_Message.aspx

Great blessings, light and love to you all.  Caryl

Willing to fight, and if necessary die, for democratic freedom for black and white people alike, Mandela later wrote after his release from 27 years of imprisonment: “It was during those long and lonely years that I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed…for both alike are robbed of their humanity.”

Nelson Mandela may have been confined by his captors to a tiny cell on Robben Island, near Capetown. But in his mind and heart he was free. And lived to claim his freedom. He became the first President of a free, non-racial South Africa, 1994-1998.
ARE YOU TRULY FREE?
Or do you live in the self-imposed prison of your mind and heart? My website and blog offer you some of the most powerful and effective tools I know to help you break free fast from destructive thoughts, feelings and beliefs.

Negativity tends to create a downward spiral…”the worse you get, the worse life gets.”

Positivity magnetizes more of itself in a magical way.

Many spiritual masters talk about finding the “middle way” often described as unity consciousness, Nivarna, or “enlightenment.”

POLARITY TOOL
Leslie Temple-Thurston is a South African-born teacher-healer-author who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Growing up in South Africa during the oppressive days of Apartheid motivated her spiritual quest to heal the extreme polarizations in human consciousness that divide people and drive them to the most inhumane policies and conduct.

Her work releases us from our small Ego to access the LUMINOUS CORE or DIVINE SELF within.
# Step 1. Pick a “bad” or troubling experience. Either recent or way back from childhood.

# Step 2. Write it out – feelings, thoughts, state of mind, like a child spilling out the story to a friend or parent.
Be descriptive and include all you felt about the person/people involved.

# Step 3. Pick out the most charged THEME words and phrases with a coloured marker
or highlighter. For example, words like ANGER, SHOCK, GUILT, HELPLESS,CONFUSED, PAIN, INSENSITIVE JERK

# Step 4. Make a list of THEME WORDS & PHRASES.

# STEP 5. Find the OPPOSITES.

So having listed the Theme words on the left hand side of a page – draw a line.Then list the OPPOSITE of each word on the right hand side of the page.

You are delving into your unconscious and will often get an AHA as the hidden side of the dark/light; good/bad polarity awakens within you.

# STEP 6. GIVE IT UP TO SPIRIT WITH A PRAYER
Ask higher consciousness to take these polarized states of mind, and bring them into balance… so that clarity and a new level of seeing come to you.

NB offer up both Positive and Negative sides of the Polarity.Then GIVE THANKS, knowing all will be well.

# Step 7. WAIT FOR GRACE.
Wait a few minutes. Wash dishes or make a cup of tea. You may feel an inner shift or later have vivid dreams. Next day you may even experience a meaningful insight.

Leslie Temple-Thurston offers other polarity-balancing exercises called TRIANGLES and SQUARES in her book THE MARRIAGE OF SPIRIT .

Collapsing the story the Ego seeks to polarize you with, helps you to detach from extreme points of view. Notice the shifts that occur in your life as a result of the Polarity Work.

Expect to become centred, balanced, relaxed and joyful. Leslie calls it SKYWALKING…
Vist Leslie’s site at http://www.corelight.org

BE BRAVE
“There is an old saying that the brave die once,but the coward dies a thousand times.”

Kick start the Law of Attraction and magnetize money. All you need do is get free of  childhood programming that set you up for fear or failure around money! You can…break free - fast.