Pause for Inspiration

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How Can I Meet My Deepest, Truest Self?
Shared by Mary Lenihan

Getting to know my Deepest, Truest Self has been my longing my whole life. I am motivated to continue this quest because I am learning that when I choose my ego/cubicle mind ~ me, myself, and me again ~ I attempt of my own accord to truly understand, extend real forgiveness, and Love myself and others beyond our flaws. Me~myself~and me again can’t do this!

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My own efforts to understand, forgive, and Love don’t work. What do I mean? The best I can do on my own in my cubicle mind is a narrow approach to understanding, a wayward definition of forgiveness, and a warped version of LOVE. No shame, no blame, I am simply pointing out the cubicle mind is experiencing separation from LOVE, WISDOM, and PEACE. In that state there is a void, a vacancy, a gnawing sense that something is wrong or missing.

Thankfully, our Deepest, Truest Self, in my experience, is fully available to us always for everything and everyone.
I am free. I am Loved, I am Loving.
I don't need to try and live life on my own.

I have strived to understand LOVE, TRUTH, human beings, myself, and this world. At some point, I thought I understood but I kept seeking because I had no PEACE.

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One morning many years ago as I sat in meditation, I came upon an Immense Peace. No effort on my part. I was simply being open. As I came out of this experience, I received one thought,
“THIS PEACE IS the understanding you’ve been seeking.” Ah, and so it is. THIS PEACE I experience(d) is not in any way what I would refer to as what we think of as “understanding”. What I thought was understanding, was not True Understanding at all, for I wasn’t at PEACE. It was a fleeting ego satisfaction that faded away with time.

TRUE PEACE has nothing to do with my
self-centered understanding.

How do you meet your Deepest, Truest Self?

As I trust a pause, get out of my own way,
Listen within, and follow Peace,
Nothing is lost; Everything is gained.
In my cubicle cage I feel restrained,
My body and heart tell me so.
In my Deepest, Truest Self
I am at Peace,
No matter what.

Most days I experience True Peace in moments here and there, so I can discern between my ego/cubicle mind manufacturing a false feeling I call “Peace” and Real Peace. Then in my willingness I can receive this Real Peace, and trust Peace to provide. Yes, I will lose awareness of Peace, & Practice The Pause, again!

Mary Lenihan
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A Pause Un~Planned 💗
by Mary Lenihan

Are you a planner? Planners seem organized and focused. Good stuff. I am not much of a planner. Often, I wish I were, because perhaps I would be more efficient with my time. On the other hand, I enjoy my spontaneous nature, which leans into not planning, which opens me up to INSPIRED POSSIBILITIES! Of course, planning is essential for much of life . . . but we can still be in the present moment and play with spontaneity!

I was super enthusiastic and energized to begin work on a few Pause projects, so I planned specific days and times to do so. BUT, each moment I tried to begin, life called with an unexpected and important item needing my immediate attention, including my trip to Urgent Care for a possible brown recluse spider bite!

On the second day of what felt like the universe working against me, suddenly, everything needing urgent care. Taxes, finances, paperwork, home repairs, etc. In my frustration, I chose to give in and let go of my plans. Occasionally, aware of a few moments of downtime, I paused. In these pauses, I opened my laptop to see if I could squeeze in some time on the plans I had decided to let go of, and behold, Inspiration flowed. The pressure of time was out of my mind. Creative expression was released. I completed a few tasks and small projects, and it all came very easily.

What I might normally have spent days on, in planned time, due to having time for doing and redoing, analyzing, doubting, and overthinking, only took a few hours! My mind was focused; I experienced super clarity, all because I was open to letting go of my plans.

IN A PAUSE UNPLANNED ~

I WAS WILLING TO RECEIVE MY INNER INSPIRATION ~
JOYFUL, EFFICIENT, and PRACTICAL.

I WAS STILL ABLE TO CARE FOR THE URGENT STUFF!
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Does this mean you are not to make appointments,
set goals, prepare for meetings, and have schedules?

Yes? No? It means to choose to be aware of
Inspiration’s presence in the midst of it all.

Plan away. Just don’t plan your life away without
Pausing for Inspiration.
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Looking forward to being with Seniors to share Pause For Inspiration Practice at Friendly Village. Thanks Ruby!

You are in this world to Be Truly Helpful.

A way of BeingTruly Helpful is available to you 24/7.

Thinking unhelpful, fear-based thoughts is unhelpful to yourself and everyone.

It can be different.

Choosing to think with Inspiration is in the realm of possibility.

To Be Truly Helpful is to live forth from an Inspired Heart∞Mind.

Damage or harm coming to another is always the result of someone being trapped in a cubicle mindset—the mindset of aloneness, separation, isolation and fear.

Error occurs when you choose the "cubicle mind."

Right thinking is Inspired Thinking.

How you think about someone or some situation or relationship is Truly Helpful or not.

Behavior comes forth from thinking; cubicle or Inspired.

Being Truly Helpful is being present to Inspiration Within, listening and following its guidance.

ACTION:

Be humbly available to Inspiration.
No hurry.
Relax, listen, open to receiving Help and giving Help.
Inspiration’s Peace is always present, always being given.
As I am willing, mine is the choice to receive, mine is the choice to follow, the Wisdom of Inspiration.
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Excerpt taken from the Pause Golden Book, Page 32.

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Priceless. Precious. Natalie sharing her healing thru Pause. We heal together💕