Blessings and welcome to the Path to Freedom.
My name is Daniel Roccio and I'm deeply grateful and I'm deeply honored that you're choosing to join me,
That you're choosing to participate in your own growth,
Your own unfoldment,
Your own expansion,
In your own awakening,
That you're saying yes to forever love for greater and greater expressions of who and what you are to emerge.
Thank you for being you and thank you for being here.
The theme for today is let's observe our minds.
Let's observe our minds.
And this is something to do with the fact that we have all been gifted with the divine gift of independent thinking,
With a reflective consciousness,
Which means that we get to choose where to place our attention,
Which means that we get to think independently of any and all circumstances,
That we get to turn our attention any which way we choose to,
Regardless of any and all circumstances and conditions.
And as a practice in allowing for the peace and the love and the joy and the harmony and the wholeness and the abundance and the beauty that is inherent within each and every single one of us,
As a practice to break free from the egoic reactions to whatever happens around us,
We are wise to,
On a continuous and a regular basis,
Stop and simply observe our minds,
Simply witness and pay attention to what's going on in there.
What thoughts are we entertaining?
What thoughts are flowing through our minds?
Are these thoughts that support us,
That empower us,
That serve us?
Or are these thoughts that diminish our power,
That repress or suppress the love and the joy and the harmony that is within us?
What are we habitually thinking about?
It is a beautiful practice to stop,
Just as we from time to time stop and observe,
Look at the clouds that are flying by in the sky,
We're wise to stop on a consistent and regular basis to make it a habit to stop and observe our minds.
It's like that expression,
We can't stop the birds from flowing around our head,
But we can stop them from making nests on top of our heads.
So what this means is that we don't necessarily have the power all of the time to determine and dictate what thoughts flow into our consciousness.
Because most thoughts are not even ours,
But they are suggested to us and they are inspired by external events.
Something we hear on the news or something we read or picked up on our social medias,
Something that someone perhaps have said to us,
There can be a number of sources from where our thoughts emerge.
So we don't necessarily have the power to determine which thoughts to have in every single moment,
But through us becoming aware of what thoughts habitually flow into our minds,
Where does our tension go?
Are we habitually turning our attention toward lack,
Scarcity,
Calamity,
Chaos?
Are we habitually entertaining fear and worry and doubt?
Or are we habitually praising and blessing and giving thanks?
It's just such a beautiful practice to just become aware what we are habitually thinking,
What is going on within our minds.
And that awareness,
Becoming aware,
That is the very first step toward transformation.
When we become aware,
What we habitually think about or what we habitually talk about or what we habitually feel,
That awareness gives us the ability to begin to move into another direction,
To begin to take control over our minds.
And perhaps on a regular basis stop.
Like we talked about practicing the presence,
That from time to time we choose it.
Practicing the presence is another beautiful practice to come back to the nounness of this moment.
And what this means,
I know I invite you to tune into that particular message,
But in brief,
Just a brief recap,
Practicing the presence,
What that means is that we choose a trigger,
Perhaps whenever we see a tree or whenever we hear a phone ring or as in my case whenever I see a bird or a flock of birds.
That is our cue to come back to the nounness in this moment and we can use that cue to begin to observe our minds.
And if we find that we are perhaps entertaining thoughts about lack,
Scarcity,
Illness,
Disease,
We can then from that being aware and from that space of being present,
We get to choose.
We get to choose to turn our attention towards something else.
If we for instance habitually entertain thoughts of lack and scarcity,
Whenever we become aware of having these thoughts or experiencing these thoughts,
We can turn it all around and begin to celebrate and turn our attention toward the abundance that is everywhere.
On every lawn there are countless of blades of grass,
In any forest there are innumerable trees or leaves or you know pine needles.
In any ocean,
I mean how many drops of water is there in any ocean or any puddle for that matter?
Or how many grains of sand are there on any beach or any dirt road?
How many people are in a square?
How many strands of hair do we have on our heads or on our bodies?
How much blood do we have within our bodies?
How many cells are there in the bodies?
How many branches on the tree?
How many bugs on the field?
You know what I'm getting at.
I think you get the message.
Or if we habitually are turning our attention toward disease or illness,
Then when we become aware of that through observing our minds,
Whenever we become aware of our tendency to lean into disease or illness,
We get to choose to make another choice.
We get to choose to turn our attention toward health and well-being.
So we go looking for that.
We go looking for perhaps once again a tree and we just notice how harmonious it is.
The well-being,
The divine and perfect health in that tree or in an animal or in the people passing us by or all of the parts of our own bodies that are perfectly healthy.
Because no matter what kind of disease or illness we have,
They are not affecting every single cell in the body.
But even though perhaps many of our cells and large areas of our bodies are affected,
There are still areas within and of our bodies that are beautiful expressions of divine and perfect health.
So this is a practice.
Observing our minds and then choosing.
Choosing to release and let go of that which no longer serves us and choosing to embrace that which does serve us.
All right,
So thank you so much for tuning in.
Until the next time,
I bless,
Bless,
Bless your day and I bless,
Bless,
Bless your way.
Namaste.
You
