The Joy of Sharing: Embracing Our Strengths and Weaknesses

108 Sun Salutations to Sharing |Vandana Soni | Village|https://www.youtube.com/c/villagevandana

Sharing is a special gift, an opportunity to give what we have and receive what we lack. Each of us is blessed with unique strengths and has some weaknesses. Imagine if all of us were perfect with all strengths—there would be no one to share with. Mysterious are the ways of God, and unparalleled is the love He shares with us. The universe, as it exists, conveys this message of sharing to us.

We can complement each other with our gifts of sharing. The weakness within us is an opportunity to open ourselves to this beautiful act. There is always someone looking to share their strengths with you and fill the gap just where you need it. Your strengths might serve to bridge their weaknesses. Sharing with one another opens our hearts and fills us with joy. This joy of sharing envelops us in love, and the fuller we are with this love, the more we can share it with others.

So, let’s all accept ourselves entirely, with all our weaknesses, and move forward by sharing our strengths. Acceptance of ourselves as we are lifts the veil of fear and helps us become aware of this special gift of sharing.

“Beautiful as life is, surprises unfold each moment. Sharing these joys is the gift we are.”

With Love,
Vandana

Embracing the Duality of Spiritual and Material Existence

Spiritual and material existence go hand in hand, much like the two sides of a coin. Both are eternal, and thus we need to embrace this duality as it exists. As we journey through life, we might find ourselves favoring one side over the other. However, it is essential to acknowledge our dual nature and, at some point, turn to the significant other half. This balance helps us carve our way back home. The more we cling to just one aspect of our dual nature, the greater the distance we create from our ultimate destination. Every moment, we are given the free will to choose the path we want to travel.

The material world provides us with opportunities to experience life, while the spiritual world helps us understand who we truly are. Through our body, senses, and heart, we can feel each moment. And through breath, we connect to the consciousness that lies beyond all physical forms. This beautiful interlock implies that although our senses cannot perceive the spiritual realm, our consciousness innately knows it.

The mind can make the illusion of material existence appear as the only reality, entrapping many of us. We live in a state of deep sleep, unwilling to awaken to our true selves. Our hearts still beat, but we no longer listen to their rhythm. Our consciousness still breathes, but we ignore its whisper. Awareness constantly knocks on our door, yet we refuse its call. We limit our perception to the material side of the coin. While consciousness urges us to flip the coin, the illusion compels us to flee from this unknown reality. As we run from consciousness, we descend into the dark well of illusion. These moments of unawareness lead to immense pain and suffering. Overwhelmed by overflowing emotions, we overlook the awareness present in each moment, awaiting our embrace. The tighter we hold on to everything, the harder it becomes to let go. The more conditioned we are to our ways, the longer it takes to accept the inevitable change. This change is nothing but our constant reality.

Change is the only constant reality in our dual existence as spiritual and material beings. So, let’s treasure these changes as they unfold in each moment, embracing our true realities.

With Love,
Vandana

Gratitude in Every Being: A Spiritual Reflection.

Gratitude is all that is. We are so full of gratitude to God for being a tiny drop ‘we are’ in His mighty ocean ‘that is’. We are so full of gratitude to God for being a part of His eternal being ‘we are’ in His beautiful creation ‘that is’.

In doing so, we are so full of gratitude to each of the love beings ‘we co-exist with’ in the infinite forms as ‘we appear’. We are so full of gratitude for the limitless ways ‘we serve’ one another, which evolves within us the learnings of who ‘we are’, immaterial to the illusion of time and space that ‘we create’.

We are so full of gratitude for all the positivity ‘we carry’ within us that shows us the strength ‘we are’ and presents us with the choices to define our unique journey. We are so full of gratitude for all the negativity ‘we carry’ within us that reminds us of the physical and spiritual co-existence of our beings as ‘we are’ when we lose our path and guides our way back home. The home that is beyond boundaries, the home that lies within us in acceptance of ‘who we are’. The home that is so full of love, love, and love as it is.

Once again, we are so full of gratitude for being able to experience the spiritual love ‘we are’ in physical bodies it chooses to reside in.

Gratitude is all we are, for the sparks ‘we carry’ inside, which light a flame within our hearts and set ablaze the love ‘we are’.

With Love,
Vandana

“Gratitude as all that is”

Prayers…The Blossoming of Prayers and Manifestation

“Prayers”…Prayers are like the seeds, the’ knowing’ of when the seeds will sprout and bear fruits comes with the’ knowing’ of when the wishes will manifest. This knowing is the awareness, this knowing is the consciousness ,this knowing is the presence, this knowing is the opening of the hearts to limitless…..

We lay the ‘seeds in the soil’ as we carry the ‘prayers in our hearts’,
loosen up the soil, so it shall breathe,
open up the hearts, so it shall receive…..

With Love, Vandana

Explication

Prayers are like seeds. Just as a gardener knows when the seeds will sprout and bear fruit, there is a knowing—an awareness, a consciousness—of when our wishes will manifest. This knowing is the presence, the opening of our hearts to the limitless possibilities of the universe.

Planting the Seeds of Prayers

As we lay the seeds in the soil, we carry the prayers in our hearts. The act of planting is a metaphor for hope and intention. Each prayer is a seed, each intention a precursor to the beauty that is yet to unfold.

Loosen up the soil, so it shall breathe.

In gardening, we know that soil needs to be aerated for the plants to grow healthily. Similarly, our hearts must be open, ready to receive and nurture our prayers. By loosening the soil, we prepare it to embrace the seeds fully.

Opening the Heart to Receive

Open up the heart, so it shall receive.

When we pray with love and positivity, we open our hearts. This opening is crucial. Just as soil needs sunlight and water, our hearts need openness and acceptance to allow the manifestation process to unfold naturally.

The Journey from Seed to Fruit

The journey from planting a seed to harvesting its fruits is both external and internal. It requires patience, faith, and an unwavering belief in the process. Similarly, the journey from a prayer to its manifestation requires trust and an openness to the divine timing of the universe.

As we nurture our prayers and keep our hearts open, we align ourselves with the infinite possibilities that life offers. Each prayer, each intention, is a step towards the realization of our deepest desires.

“Loosen up the soil, so it shall breathe….Open up the hearts so it shall receive”

The Power of Miracles and Love: Unlocking the Heart with Faith

“Miracles”… It takes a moment for a miraculous healing to happen. Healing is simple; “Intent” is all it takes to heal, and “Faith” is all it needs to call it a Miracle. The faith is within us, existing and eternal, but we are so busy gratifying our senses that we close the doors of the heart, and faith can just not step inside.

Our eyes want to see, and we hear the calling of the eyes to witness miracles, yet we forget to open the doors of the heart to let faith in. Our tongue wants to talk, and we hear the calling of the tongue to speak that miracles happen, but we forget to open the doors of the heart to let faith in. Our ears want to hear, and we hear the calling of the ears to listen to stories of miracles, yet we forget to open the doors of the heart to let faith in. Our nose wants to smell, and we hear the calling of the nose to sense miracles, but again we forget to open the doors of the heart to let faith in. Our mind wants to believe, and we hear the calling of the mind to believe in miracles, and still, we forget to open the doors of the heart to let faith in.

So let’s all, in this present moment, open the doors of our hearts and “feel” the existing and eternal faith enter inside our beautiful hearts and experience the love within. The love we have been yearning for all this while… the love that our mind wanted to believe was external in some form, the love that is nothing but just love.

At this moment, in the now, not only does miraculous healing happen, but the senses feel this eternal love. Isn’t that what we are here for? To see with love, to hear with love, to talk with love, to believe with love, to be love.

“Love is the journey we are all here to experience.” Let’s begin by opening the doors within and experience miracles happening eternally.

With Love,
Vandana

Unveiling the Soul: The Power of Eye Gazing

“Eyes are the mirrors of our soul”… Experience it now… A simple practice to unravel great mysteries that lies beyond our physical forms and experience the union of the souls. Once in Union, there is just Oneness and the forms melt… Then the physical fact that we are with our partner, spouse, friend, neighbor or a total stranger is immaterial. The forms melt into the union and All is One. There is this realization of “Who am I” and the path to our real Journey in this physical world begins…..

Start the practice with the Commitment to your self. Time is immaterial, it could take from few minutes.. to hours.. to days.. to months or years…We all have decided it for our self a long before we came here but we don’t remember that anymore as much as we don’t remember our “Real Self”. So let’s embark ourselves on this beautiful journey and begin the practice…

Find a mirror in the comfort of your house. Look into your eyes as you settle in a comfortable posture. Begin the gaze as you focus deeply into your eyes. One can focus on both eyes, or one eye whatever feels comfortable… follow your instinct. You can do this sitting with a friend and looking into each others eyes too if that is the way you like. Haven’t we all played the blinking eye game when we were kids. This is where all the treasure is hidden.

Keep holding on to the gaze and as we do that, the eyes might blink and that is fine. With continued gazing, eyes start watering and tears might start to flow out of your eyes… let go. This is just an act of surfacing all the physical sensations of our body and release of emotions locked in our subconscious minds. Surrender to all the feelings, emotions and sensations of your physical body as you go deeper into the Gaze. Your own face or your friends face whoever you are doing the gazing with may appear unfamiliar and distorted to you but just keep going with the flow and let not any fear overtake you.

Take a deep breath if at anytime you feel overwhelmed by anything you see and want to be aware of yourself. The more you keep accepting everything you see and surrender to the flow as it comes by…. the deeper you get to seeing your “Real Self”. Keep doing this practice for as long as you can each day and be committed. It’s amazing how our physical eyes reveal and unfold the mysteries of our soul. We realize that all we need to do is just “look with our Heart” into what we are seeing .

“There is nothing hidden anywhere. Everything we have been searching for everywhere is no where but within the vision of our own eyes.” With Love, Vandana

Embracing Existence: The Journey of a Woman

mother with child
Embracing Existence

I sit here and look outside the window, its snowing. I feel so much love that surrounds me in this moment. I sense the immense power of infinite as it draws a beautiful thought in my mind.

It’s the eternal power of thoughts as it surprises me with its depth. I feel so special as I wake up in my existence as a being in the body of a women. I feel so blessed and would like to share this thought with all the other women beings as they exist.

I feel blessed to exist as a woman, and I want to share these thoughts with all the other amazing women out there. Giving birth to a child is often described as bringing new life into this world—a journey into motherhood. This process, though physically painful, gifts us with the most blissful moments of joy and happiness when we first hold our child.

In spiritual terms, it is bringing a soul into existence in a physical form. This existence, by its very definition, is eternal. Every mother contributes to this cycle of eternity, hope, and love. We, as women, are the physical source that makes this entire existence possible, and this realization is profoundly overwhelming.

Let’s take a moment to thank God, the supreme power, for making us feel so blessed. I invite you to explore deeper into your true self with our ‘Demystify Your Identity – Personal Assessment Guide.’ Embrace this journey with me and discover the essence of who you really are.

Women’s contribution to Eternity, to Hope and to Love…