Being In Spirit

I talk about the gift of being inspired by spirit. The greatest gifts can come from taking the time to meditate and connecting with the spirit within to be inspired. Even just a few minutes of going within can change your life for the better.

Transcript

Aloha,

My name is Reverend Cindy Palos and I wanted to talk to you about a phrase that I've kind of made one of my mottos in life.

It comes from the I Ching and it's perseverance furthers.

You might have heard of that one.

Have you?

Perseverance furthers.

It's something that is really well worth exploring and looking into because when you go through hard times and I have a lot lately,

You just have to keep going.

I had a stroke June last year and I'm not sure when you'll be listening to this but it was something that was life-changing and I no longer can read so I can't read words which makes it very hard.

I can talk.

It's really strange.

I can talk but to read anything I have to copy what I've written and I have to put it in something that speaks the words to me and I write every day and when I speak it into something,

A lot of times when I'm speaking it,

It changes the word so then I have to play it back and try to get it right.

So it takes doing things over and over and over and over and over and sometimes quite a few times but I've had some help from friends and with their help I did an album with Stephen Malillo and I didn't know if I'd be able to because when I do an album of my spoken word,

I read things that I've written so all of a sudden I had to just speak it without reading it.

Now the reason I'm going into all this is because I've discovered a couple of things.

Number one,

You read differently than you speak and we tend not to necessarily speak what is from that same place which is the inspirational place where our inside soul and energy comes from.

We dummy down,

We play dumb,

We bring down to communicate to people what we really are coming from in our inner self and our soul and you almost have to cover up the words or use symbolic words or trigger people in different ways than regular words would be used.

It's a fascinating thing that I've been exploring and discovering.

So I wonder how we got to that place where we really communicate in a language which isn't really coming and able to express what we're really feeling inside too well.

Now I think women are much better at expressing their feelings than men are and I have to also say I've seen men evolve in amazing ways since women have become more businesslike and involved in work.

So we are going into an interesting area where we are now finding an evolution of sorts going on and I think it's so important to be aware of this evolution because number one,

It can give us great hope.

There's been a lot in the world going on especially with politics that it can be separating and dividing and it sometimes can be very hard to even listen to the news when we see some of the tragedies going on as we're seeing more earthquakes and more fires and issues with the world.

And it's so interesting as we see some of that evolution how we have to,

Inside ourselves,

Develop the ability to find hope and to give hope and to be supportive and the people who are tuned into their higher self and the energy within have this ability to help so much in many ways that I think more than ever is going to help balance out the world.

I mean it's just an important thing I'm talking about.

I'm talking about you helping out the world to stay inspired,

To stay positive.

I've explored this in many ways.

I write every day and I post on my,

Well I'm old school,

I use Facebook,

I post a poem I write and I've been exploring the effects of what people want to hear and they want to hear something that's uplifting.

I mean if you spend any time in any of the media sites there's a lot of people who are very upset and express their anger but I think there are people that really need to do their part to help uplift people and this is an interesting role that you play when you try to help people and there's a lot of people that think maybe you're just not facing reality.

I watch a lot of the news and I see a lot of what's going on and I have to say that reality needs some help.

The real stuff that's kind of heavy going on needs more light,

It needs more love,

It needs more people who are willing to really give of themselves in the highest sense and I'm seeing a lot of younger people going out there and doing things like showing up to help in so many ways that it really I find it extremely encouraging because that's gonna be so important in the coming decades.

There's been a change you know and we have to be aware of this change that's going on and so there's so many ways to do this.

One is to monitor your thoughts and to really see and watch the effects of what you're thinking and saying and doing.

I really think it's possible to make a point of trying to be encouraging to other people,

To be positive,

To do what you can do in many ways to uplift people not to bring them down and it's pretty easy you know for people to get on that like well you've been there you see people start complaining about the world situation it can be pretty depressing pretty quickly.

So I just wanted to put that out there and I also know one really important thing and that is that when you meditate in the morning if you start your day off even if it's a short meditation if you start your day off by meditating you can supercharge yourself,

You can bring yourself up to a higher level and this is so so important.

So I start every day with just being aware and going into a state of meditation and taking some deep breaths in and as you do the deep breaths in you become aware of the way you're sitting and you start to slow down you start to follow your breath breathing in deeply and holding it and breathing out and breathing in deeply and holding your breath and then releasing that breath and just letting go and now after you've done about three or four breaths you'll start to be aware of your body more you'll be aware of your way you're sitting and the way you're what's going on with the flow of your body and the energy that you are have inside and you can just start becoming more aware and getting yourself comfortable and putting that wonderful light of protection all around you above you and below you in front of you and behind you and surrounding yourself in that wonderful radiant light all the way around you and once you're there then you're in that wonderful space of light that beautiful space of light and love and once you're in that space of light and love just go to that energy that is supercharged from your soul level and that may take a few breaths more to go deeper and deeper within yourself and you get used to this as you do it more as you continue to be comfortable and breathe and just be here now and allow yourself to be here now and as you allow yourself to be here now you will find that you just are okay you're okay you're just finding yourself to be more and more okay and being okay is good it's being okay is very very good and you know just allow that self to be at that place when you connect with the highest level of your inner self that beautiful beautiful inner self that's so so valuable and has been with you your birth before your birth lifetimes and just go there within that place where you can see the good that is present which is the god presence within you that beautiful presence that can inspire you and bring you up and supercharge you with that radiant light that is connected to the source of all light and just deeply go into that light of light and breathe in that light of light and let that light of light completely bring you to that source of all love and that source of all love is there inside you connect with that light and that love that you are and just let yourself be inspired by that light and that love that is present that wishes to supercharge you with that wonderful energy the energy that's the source of all creation and they're right within you and let it speak to you let it give you any messages you might need let it talk to you let it let it come to you in beautiful beautiful rays of light and and if you slowly will slowly slowly slowly come back and be centered and let yourself be present in that light and love and remember to bring back any messages any thoughts that are from the higher level of thinking your highest self and let that give you the inspiration that part of the spirit you were in the inspiration ah and just think okay this is what is it what is it that i got what word what few words did i get that might be valuable for me to connect with that i might remember and by doing this by allowing yourself to do this simple exercise you are connecting your highest self with your mind self and your part of yourself that is the self that's usually not as aware when you're doing your everyday work but that can build a beautiful bridge that you can call upon and develop in time and to bring forth either in words or other ways that you create some people create in many ways but those are valuable valuable energy gifts that you can get from meditation i want to thank you for being present for understanding for being you much love and light to you always

Reviews

Thank you Rev Cindy I really needed this reminder to be positive with my messaging and words. You always seem to speak to what is needed. I am thankful for you.
Love and blessings to you Rev. Cindy

I'm so sorry to hear your story of having a stroke but the fact that you are able to giggle a bit about how odd it is that you've adapted to how you adjust to reading and writing is definitely Inspiring! Your words are a blessing to those that listening. Thank you 🙏 😊