.THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Every moment your senses are closed, you are missing the beauty and blessings in life.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Be open to where you are being led to

YOU JUST DID A NEW THING

Dear God 

So this is my last time this month to write to you about openness. So today I just want to thank you for all you have shown me and taught me about being open. You have shined a light on all the closed signs I had in my heart, mind, and soul and helped me to replace them with open signs.

I thought the possibility of my Pampered Chef team being green this month was closed, but you said watch me, I am about to do a new thing and you opened up possibilities that I could not see before. 

I thought I had lost a team member who seemed like she was shutting down and you said watch and you reopened the relationship. When you did, you opened up a level of honesty in the relationship which did not exist before. You moved her from a position of living in fear and watering someone else’s yard to realizing she needed to water her own.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

When you make yourself invisible, the blessings cannot find you. Be visible

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The universe cannot flow through you if you are closed down, so open yourself up to the possibilities life has to offer

BECOME A DREAM MASTER

I was reading the thought for the day from Don Miguel Ruiz this morning. He wrote, “Your life is the manifestation of your personal dream. If you can transform the program of your personal dream, you can become a dream master.” We cannot transform something, however, if we are not willing to open our hearts, minds, and souls, to the transformation process. Opening ourselves up to move beyond the limitations we place on ourselves is not always easy, however, it allows us to push our limits as Enigma sings about, and master our dreams rather than being enslaved to the dreams and limitations of others.

Thinking about this made me wonder how often we even realize that we are even enslaved to the dreams of others. This not realizing, is as I once heard a philosopher argue, the perfect form of slavery. When we are in a state of not knowing that we are even enslaved, then we have a closed sign on our dreams and blessings and do not even realize it.

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SONG OF THE WEEK

Basic instincts, social life

Paradoxes side by side

Don't submit to stupid rules

Be yourself and not a fool

Don't accept average habits

Open your heart and push the limits

Open your heart [echoes]

And push the limits [echoes]

These are the lyrics to this weeks song of the week by Enigma

May we all remember to open our hearts and push the limits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S29GrVANbHM

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Open yourself up to laugh and laugh to open yourself up.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

We must take responsibility for our openness and be responsible with our openness

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

ARE YOU OPEN TO RECEIVING THE TEACHER

GLOBAL CULTURES

What is your favorite song or story from another culture?

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Are you choosing to keep your heart open or closed?

.THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

WHICH ONE ARE YOU GOING TO PRACTICE TODAY?

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Are you open to experiencing things which surpass your understanding?

song of the week

Journey to the Amazon, featuring Sharon Isbin on guitar, Paul Winter on saxophone, and Thiago de Mello on percussion, celebrates the sounds and rhythms of the rain forest and its inhabitants.  https://youtu.be/Z1XkcITodqs

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Be open to blessings and answers coming in unexpected ways

.THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

As a country we must be open to values different then ours and our leaders must be open with us and trust our ability to discern between truth and falsehood.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Open yourself up by letting go and opening yourself up for the ideas to come in from unexpected sources

Open Your Mind

What cues you to open your mind to new ideas and experiences?

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Do your goals get in the way of the answers finding their way to you?

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Are you ready to embrace uncertainty?

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Open yourself up to the signs and symbols in nature

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Have you made openness and inclusiveness essential in your life?

Song of the Week

The members of Yothu Yindi are among the traditional owners of a region of Australia's Northern Territory. Tribal Voice mixes Aboriginal concerns with some more contemporary rock Australian music. They challenge us to open ourselves to a new understanding of our relationship with the earth https://youtu.be/XZ-hbpWlXNQ

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

As you release the ego and the material, you open yourselves up to the eternal and the spiritual

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Is this the year you are ready and open for everything?

.THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Have you found the courage to share your dreams with someone yet?

XENOPHOBIA?

Do you have a fear of strangers or foreigners? Why or why no?

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

What are you filling your vase with?

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Are you ready to open up and allow the world to tickle your heart?

.THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

When I recognize my connections to the Universe and all things in it, I open myself up to greater and deeper relations with othes and the Divine.

RE-OPENING

Seriously, I always think I am far more evolved then I am and then you find a way to humble me and open me up to possibilities beyond my imagination. The most recent was this weekend, when you sent Diana over to talk to me about this Thrive for Women program. Honestly, I was not sure. I accepted her three-day sample for a few reasons. First, it was free and I had choice about what I did or did not do with it. Second, she was not pushy and never made a comment about my weight. Third, because my friend Kelly raves about this program and she doesn’t rave about many products.

I have always been very accepting of what comes my way. I had learned to find ways of staying focused, balanced and positive when my paratransit service were virtually eliminated. I have adjusted and thanked you for the decline in my health. I have always been open to seeing the blessings in all situations. In part because my Bubby had always told me if I could see the blessings in any situation, then I knew I would be okay.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

How does one become open? Practice. Practice. Practice.

Practicing openness challenges us to expand our horizons musically and listen to the expressions from around the globe. So this morning I want to share with you a performance by the The Girls of Angeli, a village in Northern Finland https://youtu.be/Fn6I0Byg83M

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Are you open to receiving the gifts of the univese?

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Are you open to receiving the gifts of the light?

OPEN OR CLOSED

This month, is all about opening ourselves up to the spiritual practice of openness. I would like to say that I am an open person, but the more I have been reflecting on openness, the more I have come to realize that every moment of my life I am either opening or closing something. Every moment that I am waiting on something to happen, I am closing myself off to what is happening in that moment. When I am giving what I most desire to give, when I am living from the depth of my being, then I am opening myself up the entire moment. I cannot be open to receiving what I am desiring when I am closed to it’s arrival. Nothing in life can be open and closed at the same time.

There was a song I used to listen to in the 70’s by Meg Christian. She would talk about how we so often spend time waiting for X to happen thinking that was going to make us ok. When we are waiting for X to happen for us to be happy, we have actually closed ourselves up to the happiness we could be experiencing in this very moment. How often do we forget that every moment is the most important moment in our lives? Are we spending that moment open and loving or closed and hanging a sign that says not accepting deliveries? Love and joy cannot be brought into our lives when we are not open to experiencing them.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Are you open to everyone and everything?

The Wildest New Experience

It's Sharing Time! The Wildest New Experience  http://inspiritual.biz/spiritual-discussion/2016/10/3/the-wildest-new-experience

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

What are you missing because you are not open?

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Are you opening yourself through journaling?

October 2016 issue of One Spirit Many Voices

The October 2016 issue of One Spirit Many Voices is now downloadable/readable https://sharon-jacobson-hw8i.squarespace.com/s/October-2016-One-Spirit-Many-Voices-Newsletter-1.pdf

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Are you open to releasing your ideas about your way and be open to God's way for you?