Are We Doing What Needs To Be Done To Stay Sane?

Moving along the Path to Freedom is really about one thing: finding a way to stay in ever-expanding peace, love, joy, harmony, abundance, and wholeness independently of our external conditions and circumstances.

And the way to do it is through our practice; be it study, contemplation, meditation, affirming, or whatever our practice may be.

I want to share with you one of the most powerful practices I know of to help me find my way back to sanity, even when the mind is racing and the consciousness is contracted.

The background music is "Backyard Magnolia" by Franz Gordon

Transcript

Blessings and welcome to the path to freedom,

To us co-creating the most beautiful life that we can ever live.

This beautiful path,

This beautiful journey,

This beautiful process of us becoming eternally more of ourselves,

Of us becoming ever freer,

Ever more free to be in ever-expanding love and joy and harmony and wholeness and abundance and to allow the heart to lead.

To allow inspiration to lead.

So that we gradually,

Incrementally,

And sometimes with quantum leaps,

Move deeper into allowing our soul to shine,

To glow,

To soar.

So that every man and woman and being hears our song,

Feels our nature,

And are inspired by a being.

That was a strange introduction,

I don't know where that came from.

But this is pretty much what we're here to do.

To set ourselves free from external conditions and circumstances running us,

From egoic structures of fears and worries and doubts,

To have sovereignty over our minds and over our lives,

To dictate what we're doing,

What we're not doing,

Where we're going,

In which direction we're moving.

So that we set ourselves free to be the most beautiful expression of spirit that we could ever be.

It is not a one and done thing,

It happens over and over and over again,

But the key point is that we need to consciously participate.

It doesn't just happen,

As that saying goes,

It doesn't just happen,

It happens just.

So we need to become ever more conscious and aware of the choices that we're making,

Of the practices that we are perfecting.

So that we allow the next and the next and the next great and grand version of ourselves to emerge.

Not dictated by the world,

But inspired by our soul,

Inspired by our heart.

And so,

My name is Daniel Roquillo and I'm eternally grateful to be here on this path and I'm so so grateful that we get to join on this path.

For you who are tuning in to hear these words,

Thank you so much for choosing to be that conscious participant.

Thank you so much for choosing to be on this path.

It is such a blessing and it is such a beautiful life that we get to live as we're walking along this path.

So the topic for today,

Let me see if I can remember it.

The topic for today is,

Are we doing what needs to be done to remain sane or to stay sane or something like that,

Something to that effect.

And as so often this is inspired by events and experiences in my own life,

And it comes down to what I just said,

That it is about the practices that we are perfecting.

There's a beautiful saying that goes,

Well,

It is a beautiful saying,

But it is sometimes misunderstood.

There's a saying that goes,

Practice makes perfect,

Right?

And you know,

All of us,

Every single one of us is perfecting something.

We're engaging in some kind of practice,

We're having habits,

We're having rituals,

We're having ways of being and moving in the world that are repetitive.

And some of these practices,

Some of these things that we do,

They serve us very well in sustaining and expanding our consciousness and raising our vibration and so on and so forth.

And some of these practices do not serve us all that well.

So they lead us down a path of worry and fear and doubt and anxiety and illness and lack and scarcity and all kinds of things,

All kinds of challenging experiences.

So we get to choose which one as we're walking this path,

As this is about us being mindful and aware of where we are and what we are engaging in,

What we're investing our attention in.

We get to choose which practices to expand,

Which ones serve us and which ones do not serve us so that we more and more lean into the practices that do serve us.

And I have over the years,

I've cultivated a beautiful practice,

A beautiful way of life that has allowed me to stay sane,

That has allowed me to stay in a very expanded and beautiful consciousness,

That has allowed me to stay in a high vibration.

Not all of the time,

There are days when my vibration is being lowered,

When my consciousness is being contracted.

And that's,

I mean,

This is a rollercoaster life.

There are days when we are absolutely on top of the world and our game is absolutely stunning and the peace that we experience is absolutely magnificent.

And there are days when the world gets to us,

Right?

There are days when things that happen in the world or within ourselves pull us down and there's no need to judge ourselves for it.

There's no need to blame ourselves or berate ourselves or beat ourselves up for it.

It's just,

We're all having those days.

There are days when the soul is running us and there are days when the ego is running us and that's the way it is.

But with the practice that we're having,

The days when the ego is running the show,

They become less and less and less and they become farther and farther and farther apart and we become less and less and less affected.

We become more and more and more inoculated.

And I'm saying this,

Being in the midst of an experience,

It's been a couple,

It's been actually three weeks that I've been working a little bit too much and I have been training other people all day long,

Which has not allowed me to practice the way I'm used to practice.

I'm used to having regular breathing spaces,

Spaces when I can come back to the breath and just be still and silent for a few moments.

But having had people around me all day long,

Those spaces haven't been as regular and they haven't been as long and even more so being around people all that much.

I'm not a people person in the sense that I so enjoy my solitude.

I so enjoy my alone time,

My me time.

And I need that.

I absolutely need many moments of just hanging out with me and my mind.

And that's the way I've built my life.

That's the way I've co-created my life.

But these last three weeks,

They have been something different.

And then once I got off work,

There was always,

I mean,

I have my family,

My wife and two kids and our little puppy and so many things.

The way life has played out these last few weeks has not allowed me to practice the way I normally practice.

And I was fine for the first week and a half.

And as I got more and more tired,

I began to realize,

And this is at the end of last week,

Perhaps,

I began to become aware that the mind was less and less anchored in the nowness of this moment,

That the mind was less and less tuned in to peace and love and joy and harmony,

And that I was more and more being hijacked by the ego,

That I was more and more being pulled into future moments,

That I more and more bought into egoic future projections about lack and scarcity and doom and gloom and all these things that the ego conjures up,

That the ego would have us believe,

So that it can keep us held hostage in a place of reactivity,

In a space and place where we are more like mindless reactionary drones than respondent human beings.

And it took a few days before I really,

I mean,

I recognized it,

I acknowledged it,

But it took a few days until I realized that I needed to actually up my practice or change my practice,

Adapt my practice to the kind of life that I was living,

And this will go on for another week,

This training program.

And so it was only a few days ago that I realized that I needed to,

As I said,

Up my practice,

To adapt my practice.

But before we go into that,

I want to share the beautiful practice,

And I know that it is not the first time I share this practice,

But as it is so profoundly assisting me in changing my consciousness and raising my vibration and expanding my consciousness,

Even in the midst of this,

I want to share it again.

But before we go there,

Let us have a moment of reclaiming sanity,

Of resetting,

Of coming back to the nowness of this moment,

And it is so,

So,

So simple.

It is not easy,

It is very easy to forget,

It is very easy to skip,

But the practice in and of itself is so simple that any one of us can do it.

And if you've tuned in before,

You probably know what is coming,

That we're going to have a moment of just being with the breath,

Of taking three conscious breaths,

Deep breaths,

So to reset the mind,

To come back to the nowness of this moment,

And then lean into one or more affirmations that help us expand our consciousness and raise our vibration and anchor us in the sanity.

And so in this now moment,

We're invited to close our eyes,

We're invited to put a smile on our face,

To just inform the body and all of the cells and organs and actions and functions,

Our whole being,

That right here,

Right now,

All is well.

So we're invited to smile,

To put a smile on our face,

And it doesn't matter if we don't feel like smiling,

It doesn't matter if we feel that we have nothing at all to smile about,

We can still smile.

It doesn't have to be authentic,

It can be fake.

The body doesn't know the difference.

So let us just smile,

And let us take a deep breath in,

Breathing in,

And releasing,

And releasing,

And I can certainly feel the peace.

I can certainly feel the body relaxing.

So I invite you to join me as we lean into my go-to affirmations.

So say with me,

Or repeat after me,

All is well.

All is well.

Something wonderful is happening.

Everything is working for our highest good.

Perfect preparation and unfolding is always happening.

I mean,

How simple is this?

To take three deep breaths,

And then speak affirmations for about 20 seconds.

And if we do this,

And this is a part of the practice,

I mean,

Practice is something that we do on a regular basis,

Right?

So if we make this brief exercise a part of our practice,

Like every time we go to the bathroom,

Every time at the top of the hour,

Every time the phone rings,

Or whatever,

If we do this like 10,

15 times a day,

Can you imagine the peace that will reign more or less supreme in our lives?

This is a part of midwifing that most beautiful life that we can ever live.

This is a part of us becoming more and more free,

Of reclaiming sanity in the midst of this insane world,

Because the world is crazy.

There's so many things going on,

And there's so many people that are living their lives in fear,

And worry,

And doubt,

And anxiety,

And lack,

And separation,

And scarcity.

But just because everybody else is doing it doesn't mean that we have to.

In fact,

Isn't that the definition of.

.

.

It's not the definition of craziness or sanity,

Or insanity rather.

But a beautiful saying is that we do not want to seem sane in a crazy world.

But in a crazy world,

We want to seem insane,

Or unsane.

That's validation of the work that we're doing,

That we're not reacting to everything that everyone else is reacting to.

We're not fear mongers,

Or worry mongers,

Or.

.

.

And this is no judgment.

I mean,

It's just.

.

.

You know,

If we just listen to what most people talk about,

It is about problems,

Or difficulties,

Or obstacles,

Or how bad things are,

And how worse they can get.

Most people are not talking about visions.

Most people are not talking about the beautiful life that they want to live.

Most people are not talking about making choices that are in alignment with the good that they wish to experience.

But we can.

And as we can,

We must.

As we can,

We must.

We need to do it for all those that are not able to,

For all those that are not in a space of awareness where they actually get to choose.

Many people believe that they're choosing,

When in fact they are merely reacting to external conditions and circumstances,

To their own thoughts,

Their own emotions.

But we get to set ourselves free.

And in light of this,

Let me share the beautiful practice.

I believe I've called it in the past a prayer journal.

I don't know how much I've been talking about it,

Or sharing it in these talks,

But I know that I've been sharing it in some of my courses.

But it is such a beautiful practice.

Because as I became aware that the mind was running the show,

That the mind was the master and I was the slave,

As someone once said that the mind as a master is a dangerous master,

But the mind as a slave is a beautiful slave.

Someone said it at one point,

I don't remember who.

But I became aware that the mind was running my life,

That the mind was the master.

And as I became aware,

It gave me the opportunity to begin to reclaim mastery over the mind.

However,

The mind had such momentum and I was too tired and too exhausted to really have all that much power to reclaim the mind.

So I would start breathing and affirming and just a few moments in,

The mind had taken over again.

I was not helpless,

But I was at the mercy,

Really at the mercy of the mind.

And this went on for a few days before I remembered this beautiful practice.

And it's been a while since I used it.

But as I said,

I call it a prayer journal.

And what it really is,

Is just a piece of paper,

A notebook,

A journal and a pen.

And I set the timer for about 20 minutes.

And in this journal,

On this notepad,

I just begin to write my affirmations and I begin to describe and articulate the good that I wish to experience.

And writing allows me to stay on course.

As the pen and the muscles are doing the work,

And the mind is not really active in that sense,

The mind has to stay with whatever I'm writing,

Right?

So as I keep writing and repeating,

Like,

All is well,

Something wonderful is happening,

Everything is working for my highest good,

Perfect preparation,

Unfolding is always happening.

As I keep writing that I'm grateful that I get to live the most beautiful life that I could ever live,

I'm grateful for this simple,

Peaceful and quiet life,

Unbound by time and place that I get to live,

That I'm happy,

Healthy,

Rich and wealthy beyond my wildest dreams.

As I keep writing,

Repeating these,

Eventually what happens is that they begin to integrate themselves.

It's like the immune system.

So the mind is invaded by foreign thoughts,

By thoughts that do not serve me.

And then I activate the immune system and the immune system begins to move in.

You know,

I don't know how the immune system works.

I'm just making this up.

But the way I see it in my mind is that the immune system,

The healthy cells or whatever,

Bacteria,

They move in kind of like soldiers,

Kind of like an army.

And they begin to kick out the cells or the bacteria or whatever that are posing a threat to the body's health,

Right?

And with repetition,

These new thoughts,

They are new,

But I haven't been exercising them all that much.

These new thoughts,

These affirmations,

These descriptions and articulations of the good that I wish to experience,

They begin to take over the mind.

And I've been doing it for a few days now,

And I can already feel the effects of it.

Even when I'm not aware of it,

I can hear the mind repeating these.

Not all of the time,

Because I'm only at the beginning of it,

But already a few days in and these thoughts are beginning to integrate themselves.

These affirmations,

These statements are beginning to integrate themselves and making themselves habitual in my mind because I force them upon the mind through writing.

And writing is such a beautiful exercise.

It's such a beautiful tool because it allows us to stay on focus.

It allows us to stay on point,

Even when the mind is racing.

I'm preferring writing as opposed to typing because there are more senses involved in and there is deeper integration involved in writing than typing.

So I use a pen and a notepad.

We don't have to be creative in our writing.

And what I mean by that is that we don't have to,

Like if I'm writing for 20 minutes,

I don't have to invent new sentences to fill those 20 minutes or new statements or new affirmations,

But actually it is the repetition.

So I'm guessing that I have maybe 10 or 12 or 15 at the most,

15 at the most,

Affirmations or statements that I repeat over and over and over and over and over and over again during these 20 minutes.

Because I want the mind to get these,

I want these affirmations and statements to launch themselves in my subconscious mind,

Right?

So it's not about writing a novel where something new needs to happen all of the time.

It is about the repetition,

The repetition of the same old things,

The same old mantras,

The same old affirmations,

The same old statements,

So that they become alive and active within our minds,

Within our subconscious minds,

Right?

And as we do this over a period of time,

They will begin to take hold.

They will begin to place themselves on top of the fear and the worry and the doubt and the sense of separation and lack and scarcity and whatever is running us,

Whatever the mind is habitually moving into or leaning into.

So it's called a prayer journal and it is really about writing affirmations,

Statements about the good that we wish to experience over and over and over again.

And I set a timer for 20 minutes,

But these last couple of days,

I've been doing this like two or three times every day.

Whenever I become aware of the mind doing its thing and become aware that I'm not able to break the momentum of the mind,

Then I lean into these prayer journals.

Obviously,

I cannot do it while I'm with my students or the trainees,

But when I'm at home,

I get my journal out and I start writing.

It's a beautiful,

Beautiful practice.

It has served me very,

Very well for many,

Many,

Many years.

I actually got it from Mr.

Bob Proctor.

It's like 20 years ago or so,

And I've been using it on and off since then.

And now it's time to bring it on again for the time being.

Let us have another moment of stillness,

Of coming back to the nowness of this moment before we close this particular space.

As I invite us to close our eyes,

I invite us to once again bring that smile back to our face.

Take the first out of three deep breaths,

Breathing in and releasing.

Breathing in.

Once again,

Let's say together,

All is well,

Now,

Always,

And forever.

Something wonderful is happening here and now.

Everything is working together for my and our highest good.

Perfect preparation and unfolding is happening.

Now and in every single moment.

So the invitation for us,

Obviously,

Is to turn our attention toward the mind and become aware of where the mind or the attention habitually is leaning.

Are we leaning toward that which raises our vibration and expands our consciousness?

Or are we leaning habitually toward that which pulls us down into fear and worry and doubt,

Lack,

Scarcity,

Separation,

Hopelessness,

Indifference?

And the question to augment this is,

Where am I placing my attention now?

Or where am I now?

What am I inviting into my experience?

What am I co-creating into my experience?

Because the sacred laws,

That's how they work.

They reflect back to us in one form or another,

The essence and substance of whatever we are habitually and predominantly thinking and talking and feeling about.

So as we're hanging out in the lower vibrations,

We are actually calling that forth.

We're inviting that experience into our experience.

And as we're hanging out in the higher vibrations,

We're co-creating a beautiful life,

Which is a divine mandate that we all have to live the most beautiful life that we can live.

Where we get to be in ever-expanding love and joy and harmony and wholeness,

Where we get to allow for the heart to lead and inspiration to lead and bliss regardless and independently of external conditions and circumstances.

So thank you so,

So much.

That was the invitation and the questions for now.

As always,

I bless,

Bless,

Bless our day.

And I bless,

Bless,

Bless our way in the absolute knowing that all is well.

That something wonderful is happening.

That everything is working for our highest good.

And that perfect preparation and unfolding is happening now,

Always,

And forever.

With much love,

Many blessings.

Namaste.

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