When Life Gets Intense

Just like the trees need to have their roots deep and strong enough to keep them tree standing, so do we need a practice solid enough to sustain our sense of inner peace and Freedom. And as things are swirling in the world, with everything that is happening on an individual and a collective level, as life gets more and more intense, we need to intensify our practice. If we are to keep on expanding, then we need to allow for the practice that sustains us to also expand. I invite you to join me as we explore what this means for us and our lives.

Transcript

Blessings and welcome to the path to freedom,

This quite amazing,

Wonderful path where we continuously get to set ourselves free to shine,

To soar,

To be in ever-expanding peace and love and joy and harmony,

To forever allow for greater and grander expressions of who and what we are,

Where we continuously get to set ourselves free from fear and from worry and from doubt,

From a sense of not being enough,

A sense of not having enough,

When we get to reclaim our sanity and this obviously is very potent right now with all the things that are happening in the world.

There are wars,

There are rumors of wars,

There's a lot of things coming to the surface and if we want to serve the world and if we want to remain sane or reclaim our sanity obviously we need a firm foundation upon which to stand,

Oh and I forgot,

My name is Daniel Roqueo and I'm very grateful that you are choosing to tune in,

That you're choosing to join me in a moment of setting ourselves free,

In a moment of going deeper and wider and higher into these beautiful practices,

These beautiful tools that we have in our toolbox or that we can put in our toolbox so that we can pick them up and use them whenever need be and for a whole lot of individuals now is the time when there's a great need to have these beautiful tools.

So the topic for today I believe is something along the lines of when life gets intense we need to intensify our practice,

When life gets intense we need to intensify our practice and this beautifully speaks to how we may have a beautiful meditation practice,

We may have a beautiful prayer practice,

Gratitude practice,

Journaling practice,

We may have a beautiful hanging out in high-minded fellowship practice and it may be solid and it may have served us very very well and now as things are swirling and things are as things are moving in the world as things are moving within us if we are no longer able to sustain the peace,

If we are no longer able to remain sane in all the turmoil,

In all the swirling,

In all the moving,

In all the challenges that are emerging into our experience on an individual level and a collective level,

I mean the whole human race is going through a beautiful space of transformation right now but for that transformation to happen individually,

Collectively we need to remain in high vibration,

We need to sustain our high vibration so if we are experiencing being more and more pulled into negativity or being more and more pulled into the lower vibrations,

Being more and more hijacked by fear,

By worry,

By doubt or held hostage by thoughts and opinions and judgments as to what should and should not be,

Now is the time for us to step up our practice when life gets intense that is by no means the time for us to release our practice but that is by all means the time for us to step up our practice so regardless of what our practice looked like or used to look like if it is no longer sustaining our vibration it means that we need to allow it to expand and I've had a very personal experience with this lately as I am moving through yet another space of expansion and life has intensified on various levels and I found myself being more receptive to the lower vibrations,

Being more caught up in stories and beliefs and judgments and opinions and it took me a while to understand what was happening,

I mean I realized that I was in a space of expansion,

I realized that there were structures in my life that were crumbling and dissolving but it still kind of puzzled me why I was not as grounded and anchored and centered in the nowness in this moment as I used to be,

As I become used to be and then it dawned upon me that as I am expanding it means that the foundation upon which I'm standing which is the practice that it needs to expand as a tree grows the roots need to grow the more magnificent the oak tree becomes the deeper its roots need to run and the wider they need to spread to sustain that expansion to sustain the structure the expanding structure that the tree is and this is exactly the same for us if we are building our lives if we are having and I'm reminded in this moment of this story I don't know why but it just came to me of the story about these three little kids or not kids pigs and how I don't remember the whole story and I don't remember all the details but one of the pigs built its house was it from grass maybe and the wolf comes and it huffs and it puffs and just blows the house away and the next little piggy builds his house by twigs or branches and the wolf comes and it huffs and it puffs and he blows the house away and the last little piggy he builds his house from concrete I mean it builds a real house a sturdy house that is able to sustain the huffing and puffing of the of the wolf and we need to have that practice we need to have a solid practice that fortifies us from the bombardment incessant relentless bombardment of the lower vibrations financial crisis prices going through the roof this disease that disease to be aware of or to be wary of or to be afraid of that condition this condition to stay away from there is so much and if our practice is not sustaining our vibration then we need to up level our practice and practicing is not only moving into meditation it is not only being mindful of the words that we speak it is not only moving into prayer blessing ourselves in the world it is not only moving into gratitude it is not only staying in high-minded fellowship it is not only studying it is not only moving into generosity and giving and sharing but our practice is just as just as much involves and incorporates what we're doing in our moments in between are we logging on to social media to be drained to be exhausted to be depleted are we turning on the news to find ourselves with our stomachs in a nut contracted wishing that we were living in a completely different world so our practice is just as much becoming aware of what it is that we're saying yes to are we making choices that are in alignment with what we wish to experience are we making choices that are in alignment with what we wish for our lives to be about how we wish to show up in the world are we making choices that serve us that serve us staying in peace and joy and harmony and wholeness that serve us being beneficial presences that serve us shining and glowing because no matter what is going on in the world and i'm not saying that there are not things going on in the world there are plenty of things going on in the world there's so much that needs to change so many systemic systems and structures that need to dissolve that that we as individuals and as a collective need to release and let go of there's so much so much so much but it does not serve the emerging of the new world it does not serve the midwifing of the new world a world that works for everyone a world that works for where where everybody gets to have their needs met it does not serve us to lean into habitual ways of being that just drains us that just contracts us that closes our hearts that makes us don't want to be here anymore none of that serves us so being mindful of our practice and allowing it to intensify is being mindful of the choices that we are making on a moment to moment basis and a beautiful question and i know that this is not the first time that this question finds its way into one of these talks but a beautiful question is this choice that i'm making or this choice that i just made is this in alignment with what i wish to experience and if turning on the news is not in alignment with what we wish to experience then perhaps that's an indication then perhaps that's an invitation for us to release the news to stop watching the news if it does not uplift us if it does not empower us if it does not inspire us why even bother it's it's not like we're gonna miss something and i'm not saying to for for any of us to watch to stop watching the news i'm not giving advice in any way shape or form this is just an invitation to become mindful i have this saying and i always say this to my kids that if it's not inspiring if it's not uplifting if it's not kind we might as well shut up we might as well be quiet we might as well say nothing if we have nothing to say that contributes to or if we have nothing to do that contributes to midwifing the transformation that is happening facilitating the transform transformation that is happening in the human consciousness then we might as well not say anything then we might as well not do that thing because ultimately even though we're doing this for ourselves i mean moving into meditation it is beautiful as it allows for a beautiful stillness not necessarily in every meditation but it allows in the long run over time over a period of time it allows for expanding stillness it allows for expanding peace of mind i was going somewhere i don't know where i was going so the invitation is for us to be mindful of our practice is it sustaining us and if it is not what new choices can we make how can we allow our practice to expand what do we perhaps need to say no to that we previously have said yes to if it's not sustaining our vibration if it's not making us feel good and please do not hear that life is all about feeling good or being happy all of the time because it is not we're in this human realm where we're having our human reactions to that which happens but if our practice is not sustaining a sense of well-being if it is not sustaining our our sense of knowing and trusting feeling that all is well that something wonderful is happening that everything is working for the highest good even when it doesn't feel like it even when it doesn't look like it even when we can't see it or know it if our practice does not sustain that if it does not support that then it is the time for us to up level to expand our practice to intensify our practice oh i got sidetracked so as i became aware as i became aware that the practice that i used to lean into the foundation that i had built for myself that it was no longer sustaining who i am now that was a beautiful invitation for me to expand the practice it did not necessarily mean that i sat longer in meditation but it did mean that i turned my attention more to coming back to the nowness of this moment to using the moments in between in a more intensified in a more expanded way than i had previously done so coming more back to the breath leaning more into my affirmations all is well something wonderful is happening everything is working for the highest good so that i could continue to to move through this space intensified space because life progresses i am evolving i am expanding so this new intensified field i have a strong sense and this sense is partly based on experience that i know that when i grow and expand life becomes more intense more things are being put on my plate not because i'm trying to stuff my life but because i'm all i'm able to hold more i'm able to facilitate more i am as the conduit that i am that we all are is expanding more gets to flow through that conduit that channel so this intensification in my life it is here to stay it is not only temporary but it is here to stay and so i need to adapt to that we need to adapt to the expansion that we are going through that we're moving through just like the caterpillar needs to adapt actually the caterpillar dies but the but and that is that is actually what we are doing too we're dying to our littleness every time we expand we're dying to our littleness we're dying to who we used to be we're dying to the small and the limited version of who and what we used to be so there is a continuous dying not a physical transition from this realm to another realm but a dying in consciousness a dying in in our beingness so that the next great and grand version may emerge once again as the tree grows their foundation needs to grow with them if the roots remained the same year in year out while the tree expanded while the tree grew there would come a point where the roots would not be able to keep the tree standing anymore but it would fall you'd crumble and we do not want to crumble we want to remain standing we want to remain upright we want to remain shining and glowing even in the midst of this even in the midst of all the turmoil even in the midst of everything that is happening in the world we want to remain standing we want and shining expanding into ever ever expanding peace and love and joy and harmony and wholeness regardless of the conditions regardless of the circumstances so that's our invitation for us to be mindful of our practice to take a good and honest look at the practice that we're currently having asking ourselves is this serving me is this the foundation i need to keep moving forward or do i need to strengthen this foundation so that's one question we can ask another question obviously is this choice that i'm about to make this choice that i've just made is this in alignment with what i wish to experience who i am becoming who i am thank you so so much for tuning in if listening to this resonates with you if hearing this resonates with you i invite you to invite if hearing this resonates with you i invite you to invite your friends anyone who you feel might benefit from hearing this so that this field continues to expand thank you so so much until we meet again i absolutely bless bless bless all our days and i bless bless bless all of our ways knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that all is well that something wonderful is happening that everything is working for our highest good much love many blessings namaste

Reviews

Another keeper and a gift to share. Thank you Daniel 🙏🏾