Beingness Must Have Priority Over Doingness

As we are moving through life, taking action and steps toward the good we wish to experience, while we absolutely do need to engage ourselves in the realm of doing, we need to build and maintain a solid foundation of Beingness.

It is our state of being that fuels and drives the doing.

And without this sense of being, the efforts we make can often feel laborious and challenging.

Join me as we explore the ramifications of not allowing Beingness to have priority over doingness.

Transcript

Blessings and welcome to the path to freedom,

This beautiful path that we get to walk,

Where we get to set ourselves free to be in ever-expanding love and joy and peace and harmony and wholeness,

Where we get to set ourselves free to forever allow for the next great and grand version and iteration,

Expression of who and what we are to emerge,

To well up from within us,

To come forth,

To be midwifed,

Where we get to co-create and co-participate in the unfolding of the most beautiful life that we can ever live.

My name is Daniel Roquillo,

Which is our mandate,

By the way.

We have a mandate to live the absolute most beautiful life that we can ever live,

A beautiful life that is even beyond anything that we have ever imagined or experienced,

As we are unique expressions of the one,

The infinite,

The eternal.

So it is a beautiful journey that we are on,

It is a beautiful ride that we are on,

Because sometimes it is a ride,

And I know that I've used the phrase roller coaster ride,

Because it goes up and down,

And it jolts and it has sharp turns,

And sometimes there's a smooth ride,

And sometimes the ride is downhill,

And sometimes the ride is uphill,

But it is a ride nonetheless,

And we are,

Even when we're going uphill,

It is a blessing to be on this ride,

Partly because the yields and the dividends and the benefits and the gifts and the blessings that come with us,

Not only doing the ride,

But the ride comes as we do the inner work.

So the inner work comes first,

And then we get to enjoy the ride,

And the ride truly is enjoyable,

And it truly is worthwhile doing this inner work,

So that we can live in that space of ever-expanding,

Not only peace,

But ever-expanding peace and love and joy and harmony and wholeness,

And abundance,

And all these beautiful divine qualities.

So,

My name is Daniel Roqueo,

And thank you for joining me,

For tuning into this space.

I know I'm very happy to be here.

I'm very grateful to be here,

And I'm grateful that you are here with me,

Whoever you are and whenever you are,

Thank you.

So,

The topic for today,

And I need to recheck it,

Because the introduction was longer than I had expected,

So I forgot the topic,

And the topic is,

Beingness must have priority over doingness.

Beingness must have priority over doingness,

And as so often,

Maybe not even so often,

Maybe it's more and more always.

This topic and this theme is inspired by experiences that I'm having in my own life,

And obviously this is not about me,

But this is a way to illustrate how this path goes,

And to offer tools and practices that help us navigate this sometimes turbulent space,

The transformation that is happening.

If we look at nature,

If we look at a caterpillar that is unfolding into the butterfly,

It is messy.

That transformation,

That space,

That state of transformation is so messy that the caterpillar literally dissolves.

It ceases to exist.

It doesn't cease to exist because there's no clear beginning or ending where the caterpillar begins and where the butterfly ends,

But the caterpillar emerges,

It dissolves,

The form that it used to have dissolves,

And in that dissolution,

The butterfly is born.

So they have different forms and different iterations,

But they are not separated.

That's what I was going for.

They are not separated,

But the butterfly emerges from the caterpillar,

Just like any plant emerges from within the seed.

So the next iteration of who we are emerges,

It doesn't come into being,

It doesn't just spring into being out of nowhere,

Out of thin air,

But it emerges from who we used to be.

So there's a continuous rebirth along this path.

And I'm in this beautiful space of tremendous expansion,

Tremendous transformation,

As most,

I was going to say most of the dimensions and aspects of my life are being transformed.

That's not necessarily true,

But there's a beautiful shift in consciousness where I'm moving from one iteration to another,

From one expression to another,

And where I'm being called to up-level my way of being of service in a beautiful way,

Which means that I get to do things in a completely new way for me.

The way I have been doing things no longer works,

So I need to find new ways of doing things.

And as you can hear,

There's a lot of doing taking place.

There's a lot of taking action taking place in my life right now.

So much so that over these last couple of weeks,

I actually forgot the beingness.

I actually forgot that sanity,

In order to be sustained,

It needs to be maintained.

So I've been so focused on the doing aspect of my business and my life that these spiritual practices,

They fell away almost completely and fully.

And I was fine for a few days,

Not meditating,

Not praying,

Not doing the journaling and the breathing spaces and those things that I normally do.

But there came a point about a week ago,

A week and a half maybe,

Where sanity,

Where my consciousness stopped expanding and began contracting,

Where sanity left,

Began to leave.

And I found myself,

And I wasn't aware of this until just a few days ago.

And I'm almost a little bit embarrassed by how I did not catch that I was falling so deep into this black hole.

But anyway,

To the point where beingness and taking action completely took over.

And so I began to more and more become reactive.

Instead of being responsive to external conditions and circumstances,

I started to be pulled into reactions,

Egoic reactions,

Frustration,

Irritation,

Impatience,

A sense of urgency took over.

And so I was in my car yesterday,

And I've been driving quite a lot these last few weeks.

And I have been studying.

I mean,

Being in the car is such a beautiful space to expand consciousness.

And I have been studying mostly financial books about personal finances and investments and those kinds of things that I've never really thought about before in my life.

But moving into this new iteration,

For me to move into this new iteration,

There needs to be financial transformation.

So I've been studying quite a lot,

And being in my car and driving is a beautiful opportunity for me to study.

So I've been listening to some great books.

But it was only yesterday that I realized that,

Or I remembered how I used to spend my time in my car,

How I used to spend my time chatting with God,

Praying,

Breathing,

Being very conscious,

Having moments of consciously coming back to the nowness of these moments,

Practicing the presence as we've been talking so much about,

Anchoring and grounding and centering myself in that which is now.

And in that moment of realization or remembering,

I also realized that my attention has been so much on some future moments,

On future results and outcomes.

I've been so hijacked by time that much of the peace,

Much of the joy,

Much of the harmony,

Much of the wholeness has slipped away.

They have slipped away and they've been replaced by stress and the sense of being pressured and all these not so pleasant experiences.

And it was such a beautiful reminder as I came to remember how I used to spend my time in my car.

I immediately turned the book off,

The audiobook off,

And I leaned into prayer,

Simply having a moment of conscious connection.

And in that instantaneously,

And I wasn't even aware of it,

Instantaneously,

The stress that I wasn't aware of dissolved.

I could feel literally the second I started praying.

And obviously the way I pray is this six-step spiritual mind treatment that so beautifully moves us through different stages to really treat our consciousness,

To be open and receptive,

To taking on the feeling tone that all is well.

In that moment that I began,

That I opened my mouth,

And I usually do this out loud because words have energy and sound has frequency,

So there's a double impact when speaking out loud as opposed to thinking silently.

In that moment,

Calmness took over,

Balance took over,

Peace took over,

Joy out of nowhere,

Immense joy just bubbled up.

And I found myself just laughing through the whole prayer.

I was just laughing because I felt so relieved.

So all this to say,

Yes,

We do need to take action.

Yes,

We do need to move forward,

To consciously participate in the unfolding,

But we always need to be grounded and centered and anchored in the nowness of this moment,

In beingness,

In consciousness.

Because form always follows consciousness.

And this is something that I want to address in a short while.

But before that,

Let's have one of those moments of just reconnecting with the nowness of this moment,

Coming back to that which is here and now.

So let us have,

Let us take three deep breaths.

I invite us to close our eyes.

I invite us to put a smile on our face.

And if we feel laughter bubbling up,

That's perfectly all right.

Let us take that one deep and conscious breath.

Breathing in and releasing.

Another deep breath in and releasing.

One last breath in.

Let's pay attention.

Let's be aware of the difference in the body,

How the muscles relax,

The difference in consciousness,

How we suddenly are not as caught up by external conditions and circumstances.

And from this beautiful space of already feeling that all is well,

But let us affirm,

Let us decree that all is well.

So I invite you to say with me,

All is well.

Something wonderful is always happening.

Everything is working for my highest good.

Perfect preparation and unfolding is always happening.

And this is the work that we need to do,

Not just once,

But over and over and over again.

And that's where I lost my footing.

I stopped doing it over and over and over again.

It doesn't take more than like 30 seconds.

And if we do it like 10 times a day,

That's going to make a tremendous difference in our lives.

And what I was going to say before we moved into this beautiful space of stillness and conscious connection with the divine,

Is that gradually over these last few weeks,

As I have been engaging myself more and more and more in taking action in doing,

In the realm of doing,

With the dissolution of,

Not dissolution,

With the contraction of consciousness,

As I lost touch with beingness,

Gradually,

Efforting began to take over.

And I remember thinking,

And once again,

I'm slightly embarrassed that I didn't catch it,

But I do remember thinking that,

Oh my God,

This is so hard.

This is so difficult.

My life used to be so easy and it used to flow so effortlessly.

And now I'm spending all these long hours and it's hard.

I'm working hard.

There's no flow.

I remember thinking that,

Having that conscious realization,

Not connecting the dots though,

Until I was in my car yesterday.

But as I,

This morning,

I got up,

I meditated,

I pulled out my laptop and I got to work.

And what yesterday seemed like a drudgery,

Like rolling a snowball uphill,

Today,

As I picked up,

There was such beautiful flow,

Such beautiful ease,

Such beautiful grace.

So once again,

Consciousness needs to proceed form.

And the title of this talk could just as well been,

Consciousness needs to have priority over,

Or actually beingness needs to have priority over doingness.

Because it is from our state of being,

It is from our consciousness,

That we are fueled and propelled into the doing realm.

And as we are grounded and centered and anchored in the nowness of this moment,

Not attaching ourselves to particular outcomes,

Not overly paying too much attention to external conditions and circumstances,

But just being here,

Enjoying this moment,

Allowing the same intelligence that allows the acorn to unfold into the oak tree,

That allows the lilac seed to unfold into the beautiful lilac bush,

The same intelligence that allows the seasons to come and go,

That allows the distance between the moon and the sun and the earth to be just exactly right for life to spring into being on this planet,

The same intelligence,

It is in us,

It is who and what we are,

But we need to allow it,

We need to make it welcome,

We need to be open and available for it,

Right?

If we close ourselves off,

There's not much room for spirit to take over.

So beingness needs to have precedence over doingness.

That's when the ease and grace happen.

That's when the harmony flows.

That's when the joy and the inspiration.

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And that's another thing.

I've been writing a lot in my journal these.

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Once again,

How did I not see this?

I've been writing a lot in my journal these last few weeks that I'm void of inspiration.

There's no inspiration at all.

There's nothing pulling me.

I'm just struggling in everything.

I'm not all that embarrassed.

It just.

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.

It amazes me.

That's perhaps a better word.

It amazes me that I didn't see it.

But hey,

This is all.

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.

This is school,

Right?

This is school.

We know what we know.

We're able to do what we're able to do.

And we're only able to do what we have the consciousness to do.

We can only choose from our level of consciousness.

And I have not.

.

.

This is a complete sidetrack.

But I have not been taking very good care of myself these last months,

Maybe.

And I'm actually making a promise to myself right now that I need to be kinder to myself.

I need to be more loving to myself.

I need to place myself higher on the ladder of priorities.

But me choosing doing over taking care of myself,

It is an effect.

It is the result of the consciousness contracting more and more and more.

The feeling tone that I need to do it.

I think I've shared that many years ago.

It wasn't a spiritual mantra.

But it was a very.

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.

I was going to say curated.

It wasn't curated at all.

The egoic mantra that I lived by was that if I don't do it,

It's not going to get done.

And that's what I've slipped back into.

If I don't do it,

It's not going to get done.

So what I'm moving toward,

I have to really push and force myself.

I have to really effort to get there.

When in reality,

When in truth,

There is here.

As we are it in consciousness,

As we take on the feeling tone,

As we lean into it or lean onto the spiritual realization that it is already done in the infinite mind,

Whatever we're moving toward as God is infinite.

It means that every single possibility already exists,

Which means that the iteration that I'm.

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Or the vision and intention that I'm moving toward,

The possibility where I'm already living that,

Where that intention and vision,

Where they are my life,

That possibility already exists.

So we need to move from that realization.

That's when we are infused with power.

I mean,

True power,

Not just force,

But power.

But it all starts in our consciousness.

It all starts in our minds.

And it begins with the practice that we are engaging in to sustain the expansion,

The ever expansion of consciousness,

To sustain the ever.

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How do I say ever erasing of vibration?

Is there such a word as ever erasing?

I don't know.

It is now.

But we need to tend to ourselves.

We need to,

Just like any garden,

We need to pick out the weeds for the flowers,

For the garden to look beautiful from a certain aesthetic perspective.

And for the flowers that we want to highlight and that we want to see in our garden,

For them to flourish and thrive,

We need to pick out the weeds,

Right?

So we need to tend to ourselves first and foremost,

Before we get into the doingness,

So that we are moving from a state of inspiration,

So that we are moving from a space of harmony,

So that we are moving from a space of joy,

So that we are moving from a space of knowing that all is well.

From a space of knowing that it is already done.

Whatever I'm moving toward,

Whatever I'm midwifing,

It is not up to me to make it happen.

It is not up to us to make it happen.

We're merely the instruments,

The channels through which this comes into fruition here on this planet,

In this dimension.

This is what I love about this space.

I get to remind myself of all these beautiful practices that keep me sane.

And if I,

As I've been doing for a few weeks,

Stay away from this space,

I forget.

Consciousness needs to be maintained in order to be sustained.

That is a beautiful topic.

That is a beautiful principle.

So let us have yet another moment of anchoring ourselves.

Grounding ourselves.

Coming back to the nowness of this moment.

Reclaiming sanity in this busy,

Doing world that we're living in.

So once again,

Let us close our eyes.

Let us put that smile back on our face,

If it left.

My smile didn't leave,

So I just get to be with what already is.

Let us take that first breath.

Deeply and consciously breathing in.

And release.

Once again,

Breathing in.

Now let us once again affirm,

Decree,

And declare that all is well.

That something wonderful is happening.

That everything is working for our highest good.

That perfect preparation and unfolding is always happening.

It's happening now,

Always,

And forever.

So the invitation for this talk for now is to set the intention to tend to our spiritual garden.

To tend to our consciousness.

To allow beingness to have priority over doingness.

To the best of our ability,

As much as possible.

And a beautiful question to ask,

To point us back to the nowness of this moment,

Is where am I now?

Where am I now?

Am I dwelling in the past?

Am I preoccupied with what is happening right now?

Or is my attention hijacked by some future moments?

Doom and gloom,

Success,

Whatnot.

But we want to be here and now.

We want to be here and now.

So that is the invitation.

That is the question.

Let's start with beingness.

Let's start with consciousness.

Thank you so,

So much,

As always.

Until we meet again,

I,

As always,

Bless,

Bless,

Bless our days.

I bless,

Bless,

Bless our ways.

Much love and many,

Many blessings.

Namaste.

Reviews

Love this reminder to enjoy the ride - the ups and the downs on this rollercoaster of life. Your guidance and voice center and ground me so much. Thank you! 🙏 PS… Do you have a recording of your 6 step miracle mind treatment?? ✨

Thank you for the gentle reminder 🙏❤️

Thank you Daniel! Be here now. Here is not there and Now is not then!

Always love your talks Daniel, and this was so relatable! 😁 Thank you so much and many blessings right back to you ☺️🙏✨