DAY 6: Oprah & Deepak’s 21-day meditation challenge! "“If you want to recreate the world, look at it with fresh eyes.”

Mindful moment homework: “Today have the intention to see one thing as if for the first time. Look without the camouflage of your memories.”

— I’ve been having secret thoughts of “who am I to do X or Y?” and it’s been holding me back and stopping me from making the difference to myself and others that I know I am here to make.  Last night, I saw it in a new way. Things I saw as a ‘problem’ before (oh no – how will I do this or that?) have become a ‘challenge’ (yay – I’m going to get to see how I can achieve that – it’s exciting).  The world looks different today because I’m seeing it differently and myself differently within it!  WOW.  I just recreated the world by looking at it with fresh eyes.

Today’s main message was cherishing the beauty in yourself and others:

For me, this has meant a shedding of my ‘outside skin’, my wanting to please, my being mortified if I get it wrong in someone else’s eyes or my own.  I am unique – and if I get it ‘wrong’ or ‘right’, I’m getting it wrong or right in my own unique way!  There’s a magic in being myself because I’m really the only one who can do it!

Celebrate yourself today!

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Give this challenge a try! https://chopracentermeditation.com

It’s easy, it’s free and you don’t need to “know anything about meditation” to do it!

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Today’s message and meditation celebrate the magnificence of your radiant, joyful spirit. If you could see your body as a physicist can see it, you would observe atoms or particles moving at lightning speed around vast, empty spaces. These particles aren’t material objects at all. They are fluctuations of energy and information in a huge empty space. And what is this space? It is the womb of creation, the field of all possibilities. It is the same place that nature goes to fashion a galaxy and to fashion a thought.

This field of pure potentiality is within you. It is your inner space that gives rise with amazing fertility to all of the divine qualities of the universe, including love, grace, abundance, joy, creativity, and freedom. You are a unique expression of everything in existence, and you shine with the beauty of a million stars.

There is a beautiful saying in India’s ancient Vedic tradition: “If you want to recreate the world, look at it with fresh eyes.” Today have the intention to see one thing as if for the first time. Look without the camouflage of your memories. Sometimes the hardest thing is to truly see someone we have known for a long time, such as our partner, child, or friend. We assume we know who they are, and so we stop seeing. It is also important to look at yourself as though doing so for the first time. We may assume that we know ourselves, but as we are discovering, who we are is much more than our limited ego-mind can envision. Through the eyes of your true self, take a few moments to consider how truly magnificent you really are.

I’m here rooting for you!