DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS: 29 Days of Love – Day 12 “Yoga To Love”

Meditative Thought: We must know our connection within the Universe.  We are connected to our higher self, which is Love.  In yoga, our primary focus is to deepening our awareness to the Universal presence of God.  Because God is love, the yogi’s journey is the journey to Love.  We must take the time to contemplate and cultivate our “oneness consciousness.”  Once we know that we are connected in God, we become aware of our connection to each other.  Our connection runs deep within every cell of our existence.  There is an eternal connection that is always active and waiting to be recognized in each other.  When we take the time to be aware of our spiritual connection to one another, we participate in the sacred practice of fellowship.

Your Spiritual Assignment: Today, journal about the God connection you find in other people.  Make a list of the divine attributes you recognize in the people you meet.  List the divine characteristics you want others to see in you.  Remember there is but one God that lives in all of us.

Affirmations:  Just for this moment…just for this breath, I express the God in me, and I can celebrate the God in others.  There is only but one life, the life of God, and I am connected.  My life is magnificently immersed in God.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach
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DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS: 29 Days of Love – Day 11 “Love, The Mood Changer”

Meditative Thought: When you want to change the mood of a situation, try love.  When you want to shift the way that you feel, try love.  Love is the highest appreciation and emotion for what we know is working.  When a situation is becoming annoying, or when you start to feel agitated, look for the good; look for the love.  Ask the Universe to show it self.  Trust that Love will show up when you are willing to see it.

Your Spiritual Assignment: A simple song can shift your spirit from desperation to inspiration.  Today, journal about what changes your mood from gloom and doom, to Joy.  It could be music, poetry, or meditation.  Be aware of the tools that help you to change your moods.

Affirmations:  Just for this moment…just for this breath, I walk in the fullness of my mind, body, and spirit.  I am the best me I can be. I am successful in all I do, and I live in the richness of God.  I live a restored life, and I sing and rejoice.  I live a life of pure joy and harmony.  I sing my Restoration Song and my spirit is unleashed.  And so it is. Amen.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach
For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS: 29 Days of Love – Day 9 “Love Meditation”

Meditative Thought: Have you ever taken the time to meditate on Love?  What comes up for you when you think about Love? Meditation is the practice of mindful listening.  When we take the time to be still and contemplate love there is an awakening of the knowing that Love is what we are.  We connect instantly to this powerful energy of the divine that lets us know that all is well.  The ‘Love Meditation’ is the practice that elevates our consciousness to a new way of being.  Our meditation on Love is vital to our oneness with God.  God is love; therefore we get to embrace God through our awareness of Love.

Your Spiritual Assignment: For the next 30 days take time to be still and meditate on Love.  Ask Spirit to show you what you don’t know.  Then write down what is revealed to you.  Keep a journal of your break-through.  Remember, you can’t hear if you are speaking.  Take time to be still and listen.

Affirmations Just for this moment…just for this breath, my meditation and I are one with the spirit of God.  Meditation is where I hear the voice of God.  Stillness is like the air I breathe, and I inhale Spirit.  My secret garden is a magnificent haven for transformation.   And so it is. Amen.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach
For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS: 29 Days of Love – Day 8 “Love Will Lead the Way”

Meditative Thought: When in doubt where to go or when to move, allow love to guide your way.  You will know exactly what you need to do, and when.  Every decision is motivated by one or two thoughts, love or fear.  When fear is the initiator, there is a sense of worry and doubt.  When Love is the motivator there is a feeling of peace and contentment.  When we are looking for a sign or an answer to a question, God can answer through many ways, but we must also discern if it is God talking or our ego.  Once we think we have received an answer, take it in to meditation and prayer.  Contemplate and cultivate and be still until the peace of God is more powerful than your question.  When you have that moment of clarity, and you know that you know, then move with confidence.

Your Spiritual Assignment: Do you hear with Spirit ears?  Today, write a question for God and then meditate on it, and wait for the answer.  Listen with the intent that an answer will come. The answer will come to you through intuitive knowledge, a word from a friend, or a message from an unexpected source. Journal the experience!  Do this once a day for 30 days.  At the end of 30 days count how many times spirit talked to you and gave you the answer.

Affirmations: Just for today, just for this moment, just for this breath, my thoughts are connected to the same Divine Intelligence that flows through everyone. God will tell me what I need to do in all situations and I can hear his sweet, still voice. I go within, to hear my direction, and Mother-Father-God speaks clearly to me.  And so it is.  And so I let it be.  Amen.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach
For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS: 29 Days of Love – Day 7 “One With the Lover”

Meditative Thought: The Lover and the beloved are one.  God created a divine gift that is you, and God does not make junk.  We must know this truth to experience true love.  God is the power of Love and because we are one in God, we are always in love.  There is no separation from this power of Love. There is no separation from you, and the universal power that created all things, but our ‘egoic thinking’ will tell us there is a division.  This is not true.   When we can begin to appreciate who and what we are, our life will expand. Our talents, gifts, and lives are given from the Great Lover, The Universe.  God loves us so much that it chose to incarnate as us individually. Only I can share God the way I share God.  Only you can do you; so bring the love in your unique way that is only you.

Your Spiritual Assignment: Have you ever heard the statement, “I wish I could be like…” You must learn how “to do you.”  Today, learn to be the best you can be.  List all the talents that you do better than anyone else.  Take your list and create a poem, which empowers you to live the greatest life you can…Then share it with a friend.

Affirmations: Just for this moment…just for this breath, I will live my life to the fullest, and will honor my Father-Mother-God by expressing the greatest me I can be.  I live the life that Spirit intends me to live, and I empower others to do the same.  I live a life that honors my potential.  I choose to live in the light.  And so it is.  Amen.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach

For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS: 29 Days of Love – Day 6 “Love to Forgive”

Meditative Thought: Whenever we choose to forgive others, or ourselves, the shift comes from Love and from God.  There is a power greater than the resentment that helps us to release and let go.  This power to forgive overtakes everything and we sometimes forget what the grudge was about in the first place. Love only knows itself.  Love only knows its pure absolute presence; it does not know our fears, resentments, or lack.  Love is the only power that can change an unwilling heart too an open space, creating room for growth and transformation.

When we are stuck in un-forgiveness it is like we drank poison and hope that the other person dies.  Holding on to resentment consumes our life day in and day out.  It takes much more energy to hold on to grudges.  We have to remember what the other person did, how they did it, why we are justified, and what we need to say to them when we get the opportunity.  Love is our natural state of being.  It is our place of feeling at peace.

Spiritual Assignment:  Today, write a letter of forgiveness to yourself.  Forgive yourself for unfulfilled dreams and promises.  Ask for forgiveness of loves’ lost, and disappointments.  Write a 2^nd letter, accepting the apology.  Release the old thought patterns of un-forgiveness and create “the you”, you were intended to be.

Affirmations:  Just for this moment…just for this breath, I forgive myself and release the old paradigm that I am not good enough.  There is no condemnation in the Christ Spirit, so I am free to forgive others and myself.  I release old resentments that do not serve me anymore, and I am free to love.  And so it is.  Amen.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach
For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS: 29 Days of Love – Day 4 “Falling In Love With The Desires of Your Heart”

 Meditative Thought: What are the desires of your heart?  What do you want for your life?  We live in a universe that wants to give you all your needs and desires.  Our blessing will flow as much as we believe, so we need to believe with all our heart.  Fall in love with your goals and desires.  Believe with all your heart that you deserve to participate in the abundance and prosperity of life.  Your consciousness is key.  We can only receive as much as we believe.

Your Spiritual Assignment:  Today, make a list of all the things you want for your life.  The sky is the limit.  No ceiling. Create a visioning board. Post this list on the board where you can see it every day. Look at this list until each and every desire comes true.  Learn to focus on the things you want, instead of the things you don’t have.  While you are visioning, be grateful for all the achievements you have accomplished.  Create a list of all the gifts you are grateful for and place it next to the desired list.  Every time you vision for those desired goals, give equal time to your gratitude list.  We must change our mind, to change our life.

Affirmations:  Just for this moment…just for this breath, I control my entire mind and I choose thoughts that will strengthen my spirit.  My Mind, Body, and Spirit are one with God and I expand larger with each and every breath.  My mind is the mind of God, and only good comes from it.  And so I let it be.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach
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DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS: 29 Days of Love – Day 3 “Love, The Greatest Transformer”

Meditative Thought: True transformation comes from a place of love.  There is an open space within us all that is an evolutionary impulse to shift and transform into more of our selves.  We must be willing to touch that ‘love space’ every time we set the intention to be more of who we are.  When the call to transform our life is activated, we must move from  love.  Our motivation must be to know more love; to create a more open space.  God is in that space and only says yes to our expansion.  It is love that can transform any and every situation.  As Whitney Houston would say, “When your world’s falling apart. All you have to do is say a prayer… love will save the day.  There’s an answer in your heart, so let your light shine on my dear, and love will save the day.”

Your Spiritual Assignment: Today, create a poem about transformation.  How have you truly transformed throughout the years?  Is there anything about you that is more God-like than a year ago?  What has shifted within your spirit?  Understand we are always evolving if we choose to.

Affirmations:  Just for this moment…just for this breath, transformation is what I do, and I am evolving to a higher consciousness of God.  With every moment, I become new. With every second that passes by, I know that I am more Spirit than human.  I am created with the essence of God so there is no lack or limitation for anything. There is only God.  And so it is.  And so I let it be.  Amen.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach
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