Cultivate Peace

On this Christmas Day, I feel a deep sense of peace within and send the peace to all beings wherever you are. If I'm to conclude what I have learned this year in a single word, it is PEACE. May this Peace bring you a deeper understanding and compassion towards yourself and the people around you.

2014 is my 2nd year living a fully surrendered life. What do I mean by that? I listen to my heart, act upon what my heart desires and allow the Universe to bring me all that I need. I begin 2014 with the calling of my heart to build a Community of Love, a space where all who seek healing and spiritual harmony can come together to learn and grow. It has been a wonderful blessing to partake in this adventure! I see Love blossoms in the hearts of many who I met.

As I journey on with others, I get to face my own inner struggles. The Peace that I thought was there was disrupted. Those were the times when I would allow myself the time and space to feel my feelings. As the feelings surfaced, more thoughts surfaced. I noticed that during such times, my thoughts got uglier and less loving. And I allowed myself to feel those thoughts instead of pushing them aside. The deeper I went, the more pain I felt and the more doubts surfaced. In the past, I would just cry it off, make the whole world wrong, picked myself up and moved on. But, this year, part of my consciousness told me that it was not over yet. And I surrendered myself for further Divine's guidance.

The Universe sent me Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh this December! He said, "If there's mud in your life, there you will find the lotus." If there's suffering or struggle or pain in your life, go, look at it, face it. It is there that you will find the lotus, the Buddha. But, people rather not having the mud. No mud, no lotus. So, I dived into my mud. There, he shared about Duality, if there is Left, there is always Right, if there is Darkness, there is always Light. And yes, I remembered the lotus that I saw in one of my meditation. For me, I knew my lesson is more than that. Something within me needs to be looked at squarely. Thanks to the Joyful Garden Sangha, I realized where I was blocked during a Day of Mindfulness! My attachment to human civilization. Human civilization will also come to an end. Then, why am I here? Why do I choose to be in this human world when I already know that this world will end?

The answer came in my mindful eating! It is LOVE energy that creates. It is LOVE energy that transforms. It is LOVE energy that exists forever and ever. Human is just a form. Then why am I so attached to it? Ahhh..... I choose to let it go. I am Love... and Love flows...

The Seed of Divine's Love has been planted within me. I have been blessed with Divine's Peace. And I allow Divine's Joy to manifest and extend beyond my being.

May you and your family be blessed abundantly with Peace, Love & Joy!

Love Always,
Gladys Lee

Listening To The Inner Wisdom!

Journeying on the path less traveled, on one hand assures total freedom, on the other entails courage beyond reason. As a new explorer, many a times I find myself faced great dilemmas at the cross junction, which way should I go, which way is the most direct and harbor the least danger. As it is the path less traveled, usually there is no one around to seek advice or exchange notes with. At such time, the text book answer is always, "Listen to The Inner Wisdom"! But how would I know it's from the inner wisdom and not my head? Any of my fellow explorers resonate with this?

Over the years, I have found a few techniques that have helped me to discern between the Voice from The Inner Wisdom and the voice from my head (ie. the ego).

1. Meditation
2. Rebirthing Breathwork
3. Angel/Oracle Card Reading
4. Experiencing
5. Sharing

In order to be able to hear the Voice from The Inner Wisdom (usually it is way much softer and gentler than the voice from the ego), we have to allow the mind to settle into quietness. And this can never be forced. It is my daily practice to sit and observe my breath and allow my mind to settle in, to move into effortless existence. As the noise of this world settles into the backdrop, when the time is right, I would either have a vision, hear a voice or feel a presence and a knowingness of what I need to know.

As a Breathworker for 7 years, Rebirthing Breathwork has become a 2nd nature to me. My breath naturally takes over whenever there is anything that needs healing and releasing. As I'm typing these words, my breath deepens and quickens as to remind me of Its blessings! Breathing out any forms of restrictions or limitations my ego attempts to erect, it clears the barrier to muffle the Voice of The Inner Wisdom.

The Voice of The Inner Wisdom doesn't always communicate in an audible voice. For years, I knew that my angels or spiritual guides have been speaking to me 24/7. But I couldn't make up what are they saying. There were times when I felt so frustrated, especially when I needed an immediate answer to my question. Recently I was inspired to take up a Certified Angel Card Reader Course by Doreen Virtue and Radleigh Valentine. Learning to read the angel/oracle cards opens up so much of my senses for me to listen at a greater depth!

No amount of meditation, breathing, listening means anything if no action is taken. Life is all about experiencing. Take necessary actions and do course adjustment along the way. Life passes you by if you wait for the right moment, the right person, the right whatever! As I learn to listen to The Inner Wisdom, I urged myself to take actions and do not doubt. If I was mistaken and did what the ego told me instead of The Inner Wisdom, I forgive myself and learn to discern the 2 voices. If I heard The Inner Wisdom correctly, my intuitive skill grows and my trust developed. Have fun and fully experience life!

When I learn by myself, only I learn. When I share my learning with others, more than one learn. And I learn even at a deeper level when I share. Life is meant to be shared! If I'm meant to live life by myself, I would have been born in a far away land, away from this busy city. My life is meant to be shared with the many people around me. The more I share, the more I learn, the more I love my life.

I wish that my sharing here have inspired you to Listen more to The Inner Wisdom. You can do it too! I would also like to offer a gift here. Email me at gladyslee1967@gmail.com with your question, and I will do a complimentary Angel Card Reading for you. This helps me to practice for my course too. And I thank you in advance for supporting me in this exciting journey of life!

Love Always,
Gladys Lee
Success Coach/Breathworker

Did You LOVE Enough?

"When you die, God is not going to ask you a lot of questions. He's only going to ask you one question, Did you LOVE enough?" - Paulo Coelho on Super Soul Sunday with Oprah Winfrey

I believe I did!

During my youth days, I was questioned, "Do you really believe that you can love someone without becoming intimate?" (meaning becoming an item, BGR - boy girl relationship.) I replied sincerely from the bottom of my heart, though I do not know how, "Yes, I believe!" Now, looking back, I recalled the many incidents when I felt LOVE for a male friend and how I expressed my LOVE without any expectations. Interestingly, many withdrew themselves and stayed away. I used to think that I must be very unattractive and not smart enough to befriend them.

Now, I wonder, could it be that they were uncomfortable to receive LOVE?

I'm a very simple Lover. When I LOVE Maths, I spent hours and days working on 10 years series. When I LOVE Volleyball Games, I spent hours and days practicing despite the blue-black on my arms. When I LOVE people, I pour my heart out without any reservations. And time and again, I was told and taught that my LOVE is wrong. I don't understand. I was lost for a long while. And I lost myself in the process of learning how to LOVE like how others did.

Motherhood is the most beautiful gift to reawaken our memories on LOVE! I said reawaken because all of us are born knowing what LOVE is. Yet, over time, we are told and taught a very different kind of love - one that's conditional upon how we behave. And a Mother will do whatever it takes to protect her child! Even when the world deems that the Mother has "misbehaved". It was this energy of LOVE that brought me back to Who I Really Am! I'm a very simple Lover!

When I LOVE, I pour my heart out without any reservations.

Yes, I did love enough.

I love...

Gladys

Alchemist of Love!

I am an Alchemist of Love! Yes... I am ready to declare this after 7 years of my journey of learning, unlearning, and embodying Love. When I first began this journey 7 years ago, I didn't know what to expect nor do I know what to do. I just know that I have to stop what I have been doing in the past and start taking baby steps towards life. That decision, that commitment, brought forth many Masters, Teachers, Gurus who lovingly impart their knowledge and skills of what it is like living and loving life! I thank each and every one of you who have left a mark in my life and help me become a better, loving being! I too, would like to thank this "me", this "body and mind", who have so painstakingly took on the task to master LOVE!

In a nutshell, I was given the tools - Rebirthing Breathwork and Meditation, to unravel the many false selves that I created before I could glimpsed into the true Self that I didn't understand existed. After many years of tearing down those fortified walls finally I was allowed to be transported to and fro many lifetimes in order to heal my karmic past. There were so much to feel, so much to let go and so much to allow. Until what was left is LOVE. The central holding force to all there is... is LOVE. Without it, I couldn't imagine how my life will turn out to be. And now I could comprehend what Bucky means when he said...

"I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the universe." - Buckminster Fuller

I am not a thing, I am a verb, I am LOVE. And LOVE is a verb! How foolish was I, thinking that LOVE is a thing, is a thing that I have to possess, to keep by my side and never let it go! Ahhhh.... Thank You Thank You Thank You... for teaching me to free myself from all these illusions.

LOVE... I am an Alchemist of LOVE!

A chapter of my life has closed and another chapter has just began! And it starts on a completely empty page. My mind feels a little troubled, but my heart holds the faith in love. I ask of the angels and Great Divine to fill every single cell of my being with pure love. Thank you for giving me another day to live love, another adventure to live...

I am on a journey to become an Alchemist of Abundance! It's a fun and exciting journey! I can feel it now! :-)

Deep Listening To Connect!

"When we meet things, looking for the life they hold, we tend to listen and receive. We tend to engage and join. When we meet things as lifeless and inert, we tend to observe and manipulate. How we move through the world depends on whether we view everything we meet as self-contained or as containing all of life. If I see a stone as merely an object in the way or as some weight I can use, I am drawn into a limited plane of living that is governed by problem solving: this piece fits here, this one does not, this piece will help me get over there, this one is in the way. Being so strategic may shorten my to-do list, but it doesn't open me up. With no sense of how things are connected, I may move things along without ever being touched by life." - Mark Nepo, Seven Thousand Ways To Listen

OMG... as I read and reread this writing by Mark Nepo, I felt a tug at my heart! How many times in my life have I treated people like the stone in his passage? This one fits here, this one does not, this one will help me get over there, this one is in the way. Many many times till I lost count! Forgive me for I was asleep in the past! It all makes so much sense now why I used to have trouble building meaningful relationships with others. And the feeling I used to have that there is something amiss in my life.

Connectedness... To connect with someone or something that we perceive to have a life of its own. That allows us to listen and receive, engage and join this life-form, be it a person or a stone, at a level where life breathes and lives. When we hold that perception, something within us reignite. Because it has a life of its own, LOVE pours out within us. We intuitively behold this person or thing with love which in turn brings with it compassion and peace. At this level, it is impossible to hate or kill or mistreat the other.

However, if we hold the perception that the other is lifeless or inert, or it doesn't have a life of its own (yet), the tendency to manipulate kicks in. For example, a parent may perceive that her child is too young to have a life of its own, may attempt to force her beliefs onto her child with the pretense that she is protecting her child for the child's sake. A team leader may perceive that those she leads are too inexperience to make a wise decision, may attempt to manipulate the discussion and decision making process.

Are you connecting in life? I wasn't in the past and now I'm making every conscious effort to listen deeply to connect. This helps me to be more alive and brings me more joy, love and peace. May you find your connectedness within.

Love Always,
Gladys

Befriend Your Feelings!

Before I begin sharing what I feel today, allow me to Thank the Universe for watching over those who are grieving for their loved ones who have just moved over to the spiritual realm. May they find peace and comfort knowing that their loved ones are currently in the great care of the Creator.

What is the first thing that come to you when you heard or read about the tragic news of MH17? PAUSE right there! Be very truthful to yourself. Was it a question that popped up in your mind? Or was it a feeling that swelled your heart? I don't know about you, but for me, it was an immediate tsunami that took over my entire body. My heart sank to the rock bottom before it burst out with an upheaval of deep sorrow. Feelings... oh... so much feelings... that it took me a long while before I could continue my day.

What about you? Were you knocked down by a question bolt? For example, "Why MH again?" Do not get me wrong, as there is no right or wrong here. I would like to bring you a different perception through this unfortunate event. Many of us were trained or conditioned from young to be analytical, to function from the mind. Hence, I won't be surprised if you were one of those who had a question that popped up in the mind first. With this questioning from the mind, many were unable to feel fully as they were disconnected from their heart. Though they did feel later, however, the feeling would not be as deep if there was not a question in the first place. This, I would call "The Safety Net" that one places around one's heart in order to safe guard one's vulnerability. The effect is suppressed feelings. Over time, these suppressed feelings if not fully released, blocked one's ability to fully live and appreciate life. And long term suppressed feelings could develop into all kinds of dis-eases.

Befriend your feelings! Feeling your feelings is the only way to release them. There is no right or wrong feelings. They are just e-motions (Energy in Motions) and they come and go. The faster we allow ourselves to feel our feelings, the easier it is for us to let go. The longer we hold the feelings within us, the weirder our behaviors will get. Learn to express your feelings in a safe way without invalidating yourself or others.

The more you feel, the more authentic you are! Stop hiding behind your Safety Net. Live your life fully and bravely!

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Love Always,
Gladys

Intelligence is Dangerous!

Good food for thought! There's a very fine line between Intelligence and Knowingness. Intelligence is man made. Knowingness is through the Divine. When Knowingness arises within us, it is only human for us to digest it, integrate it and reflect it in a form understandable by man, hence the birth of Intelligence. Yet it takes a genius to ingest incoming Intelligence, be it in the form of writing, painting or any art forms, to transcend the "formed intelligence" into a Knowingness. This act demands our openess of our heart and mind!

Next food for thought... You are a Genius! We are all born geniuses! Don't believe me? Take a look at babies or young children. Watch how they play and learn. How amazing it is for a young child to master a language just by watching his/her environment?

Since we are all born geniuses, if you do not feel that you are a genius now, something must have happened to "de-genius-tize" you! Could it be something that you were told when you were young? Something like you are not as smart as your siblings or cousins or friends. My favorite question for people is, "How many number 1 are there in a class of 40 students?" Ya... ONLY ONE!!! It doesn't take a genius to answer that question, does it? (Haha.. pun intended!)

Are you willing to reclaim your Genius quality? If you are, start opening up your mind. Let go of all your past understanding of how things are or should be. When you slowly open up your mind, your heart will begin to open too. And miracle happens once your heart and mind are open.


Love Always

Gladys Lee
Breathworker/Success Coach

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