Living a Soulful Life

 

A complete, hearty life needs to include balance, variety and a healthy amount of soul care. A little chicken soup for the soul (metaphorically speaking) is an antidote for life's ailments. It seems a lot of people these days are talking about the benefits of soulful activities and how it relates to health and wellness. The health of the soul is now coming into play in the overall spectrum of wholeness, which is definitely a good thing.

Taking time to go to your soul for enrichment, for a refill, or to gain perspective and composure is not only helpful, but relaxing and inspiring. Sipping from the universal well regularly is never a bad idea. Here's the thing, if you wander too far from your soul, you will experience an emptiness and longing to come home spiritually. Not going to your soul regularly is like walking through life in the dark on an unlit path.

Part of this process though is coming into a realization that your soul has needs of its own. Being aware of its presence and needs, a person naturally desires to care for the soul. Just as a good doctor directs patients toward health and healing, we must direct our souls toward spirit. We are each the caretakers of our own souls. It is up to us to lead ourselves to wholeness, to drink of the sacred, life giving nectar. Caring for the soul is an art that you can become skilled at with a little practice. And it's an art form that will majorly revolutionize your life once you get good at it.

All of us have an inner, living presence, a soul, which though invisible to the outside world, is utterly real and of utmost importance. Your soul is a living, energetic thing which needs nurture, care and attention. Living a Soulful Life is about listening to and following what your soul is calling you to do.  The by products of living in this manner are unending joy and serene bliss. A soulful existence results from a life that is uniquely aligned with who you are and one which allows you to fully express the talents and passions that stir your soul to greatness.  Living soulfully is exercising and feeding your soul until it ripens and brings forth scrumptious, delectable fruit.

It's easy to obsess over the non-essentials in life, but it is far better to give attention to things which matter most. Making time to honor and validate your inner being is a wise choice which brings an array of blessings with it. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE." Living in harmony with this entity will prove to be a sublime taste of ecstasy to anyone who tries it. It is like feasting on fillet Mignon for the soul.

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Flowing Artistically With LIfe

 

The joy of creativity is uninhibited, delightful pleasure and leads you majestically into a life of untamed, alluring beauty. Starlit skies, cascading mountains, towering pines, majestic lakes and deep, carved canyons all tell a story of boundless creativity. The world is an artistic creation of heavenly creation and glory. The vast universe is a spectacle to behold. It unfolds its articulate attractiveness in a myriad of ways. Haven't you noticed that the times when you are being the most creative are some of the most enlivening and enjoyable moments of your life?

The entire universe dances with a sense of splendor and its own uniqueness. It creates and designs at will. When you express yourself, you become part of this dance and allow your creativity to sparkle and flourish. The manner in which you choose to express this vital part of yourself is your declaration of joy and love. When it comes to creativity, being authentic, standing firm in who you are and exhibiting the talents you bring to the table of life, makes all the difference. You can own your creative powers, thus utilizing your entrusted ability and magic to create. This is taking a sacred, inner journey on an illustrious, gold, paved street to the realm of your heart and soul.

Value your creativity and hold it sacredly. This essential and divine part of you can bring you to life, make you enlivened, as well as help you overflow with rich, colorful passion. All of life is creative and mysterious, so embrace the mystery and choose to participate in a life of exploration, a life of fashion and design, in creative ebb and flow. To give wheels to your own creativity, ask yourself what has been a true expression of your own uniqueness that you could now implement in your life in the days and weeks up ahead?

Opening up to your creativity is like entering a swift, powerful, gushing river that carries you towards greater and grander things. Jump in, get your feet wet and go with the current. Feel the rush and awesomeness of creatively Flowing Artistically With Life.

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Finding Inspiration

 

If only there was a place we could go to find inspiration, or there was some secret remedy to living an inspired life, the art of inspiration would be simple. Finding Inspiration isn't always easy for any of us though. It can be downright difficult, especially at certain periods in all of our lives. Yet, when we truly open ourselves up to it, it can be found anywhere, anytime, in any situation, if we are but aware of its presence. Some people may find it through art, by observing a beautiful landscape, through hearing a beautiful piece of music, reading or listening to a book or poem. The thing is, inspiration is truly all around us when we but stop to look and listen. And being inspired and living an inspired life is where life's magic is at. We all need inspiration as desperately as we need sunlight and oxygen.

For me inspiration comes comes in many different ways.  It can arise within me when I'm reading or writing poetry as well as listening to music, or writing music.  But it can also come from hiking in the mountains, watching a play or incredible movie.  I also find that when I'm feeling the closest and most connected to source, I'm the most influenced by or awakened to inspiration.  For this reason I practice daily yoga and meditation.  It keeps me close to inspiration, since inspiration literally means (in spirit).  Sometimes inspiration is brought on by exercising creativity.  Regardless of the numerous forms for finding it, it is blooming all around...

I believe we are all meant to life inspired lives.  Inspiration is one of spirit's greatest gifts. We can however cut ourselves off from its amazing power by dulling or numbing ourselves.  The end result of this though is that we choke off the very part of us which gives us the most animation.  We should all embrace inspiration and do things which inspire us often.  When we cut ourselves off from inspiration, we are literally cutting ourselves off from our life giving essence or spirit.  Living with inspiration is magical, breathtaking and a colorful existence.

Copyright Justin Topik, Peace Passion Positivity 2013

The Power of Words and Thoughts

 

Words and thoughts are the backbone of any person's life. They have an incredible, magnanimous power in forming life experiences and in shaping a persons reality, happiness and destiny. For this reason, everyone would be far better off if they chose carefully the words and thoughts they habitually carried around with them. For these things are your tools and weapons for hunting down your dreams and aspirations in the physical world. And though invisible, they carry massive amounts of energy and potential. 
 

 

Since everything is energy and everything is in motion, words as well as thoughts carry both an attracting energy and a vibration. Broken down a bit further, a thought carries with it a small amount of power, while a spoken word is like double the power, as it is a combination of thoughts and words. Together they form powerful intentions. The more something is thought or spoken of, the stronger the vibrations become, until the intentions bring forth the desired results. People who achieve a great deal of success have used this principle whether they are aware of it or not. They understand that it takes an absurd amount of focus to achieve the goals they set out for.

And just as the everyday foods we eat are always becoming a part of our bodies at a cellular level, it is the same with the thoughts and words which we use on a daily basis as well. These things become part of our emotional bodies and energy fields at a sub molecular, or subatomic level.

Thoughts and words are internal sketches which become outward expressions on the canvas of your life. And with the vibrations you transmit, it's not just your life you affect, but the whole of life itself, all around you. In all of our lives, there is a deeper picture being created at a core, or ethereal level by the energy we are emitting or sending out. This deeper picture is energy in motion which eventually crystallizes into a 3-D life experience. If you don't like what your present life is showing you, you can change the deeper picture by changing your spoken words and focus. By doing this, the outer conditions of your life automatically change as well.

Your mind is like a computer. In it you can program whatever you want. You don't have to merely accept others thoughts and ideas about you, or about life itself. Instead, the most exciting news is that you can download and install your own files at will anytime, on demand. The power of Words and Thoughts are limitless, inconceivable, life altering and expansive. Use them wisely and they will do surprising and sometimes astronomical things for you.    Your thoughts are your magic wand.  Use them consciously.  Why in the world would you sish for something you don't want.  Guard your thoughts and words.  They are your master servants...

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Live Bravely

What would happen if you chose to live bravely?  Let's just say that you went for everything you wanted to achieve or accomplish in your life.  How might your life be different if you held nothing back and lived this way?  Well I'm here to tell you, your life would take off immensely if you dared to be brave.  See here's the thing, there is power in braveness and boldness.  If you're not doing something every single day that makes you feel brave or bold, then you're not really living.  And if that's the case, I challenge you to truly get in the game of life and be courageous.  Dare to live your greatest life yet by living bravely.  You have so much more to gain than you stand to lose.  

Great people who live remarkable lives understand this concept.  That's the reason they achieve greatness in the first place, because they put themselves out on the line often and risk living their dreams.  What's the worst that can happen anyway if you don't get what you might be striving for?  It's just a little pride that you lose that's all.  But life is worth the risk.  It's better to die trying for what you want to achieve than not to try at all.  We all regret the things we didn't do, the one we let get away, not going for the dream we wanted to achieve. 

So stop living with regrets now.  Even if life doesn't take shape the way you want it to, you will always feel like a success if you at least try for what you want.  As soon as you stop trying then you might as well be dead anyway, because to be living means to keep on moving, keep on trying, keep on risking and never giving up.  When you give up and never risk anything then your life will stop period.  And you cannot afford to let that happen, nobody can.  I dare you to do one thing today that makes you step outside your comfort zone just a little bit.  And then practice doing this more often until it becomes habitual.  Live Bravely or die trying.

Copyright Justin Topik
Peace Passion Positivity Oct. 2013

It's Now or it's Never

Sometimes the cosmos shower down millions of particles of life's magic upon us instantaneously.  In a single moment, fate or destiny lines up remarkably with the stars.  And in these unforgettable moments, amazing, synchronistic and sometimes even implausible things just fall into place almost effortlessly, with utter precision and flawlessness. 

And although these types of occurrences really do happen to all of us from time to time, I believe it's safe to say that more times than not, our lives most radically change when something rather changes in us.  We all have pivotal junctures where something comes over us and we realize in a fully aware moment, that It's Now or It's Never.  We suddenly get the cosmic nudge that if we want to have, do or be something, we have to start it right away, right this very second or the moment may forever pass.  Destiny calls, pushes us up close to the edge and makes us face up to our fears, insecurities and vulnerabilities.  Then we are faced with a choice to stagnate and freeze, or to jump and attempt to fly.  And like a cliff diver, we decide to jump into the unknown, into our fears.  And oftentimes it is that very leap of faith into the unknown that is the very catalyst of great personal revival in our lives. 

I'm sure you can think of moments that changed everything for you in an instant, in the blink of an eye.  Maybe right now is one of those moments for you, where you have to get all the way in, or back all the way out.  Perhaps you are standing on a precipice of something extraordinary in your life, which is beckoning you to make that leap into the unknown, to walk into the dark scary regions of uncertainty that we all know too well.  If so, I challenge you to not back down due to fear, but to stare the giant of the unknown square in the eyes and leap even though you might be afraid.  You know you can't let fear own you.  You have to triumph over it, or your moments of greatness might be blown away forever like sand in a windstorm. 

Helen Keller once said a brilliant quote, "Life is a daring adventure or nothing."  Oftentimes we wait for the perfect moment to begin to go after our dreams, or to create lives of our personal liking.  What if instead we lived like we had no time to waste?  Moments of our lives come and go like changing seasons.  If we don't harvest in fall time, we will most likely go hungry in winter.  At harvest time we have to seize the moments.  If you live your life like you have endless time to go after what you want, you will one day wake to find your life has passed you by.  When opportunity extends its arms out to you, you have to grab onto it.  It's Now or it's Never...

Copyright Justin Topik 2013 

Your New Life Begins Now

 

Today is a marvelous new day. It’s a day for you to awaken to possibilities, a day to live in awareness, to raise the energy level of your life. It is also a day to re-claim your life, to re-define yourself, to climb out of your shell, to shed your old, outworn skin and false beliefs that no longer serve you. The time is now to let go of the labels you have allowed others to falsely impose on you, or that you may have placed on yourself. It’s a day of rebirth into a new way of being, a time to open yourself up to a new realm of life experiences and discoveries.

Today is the day for you to take control of your emotional, physical and spiritual self. It’s a day for you to grab life by the horns, figuratively and literally, to take responsibility for whatever you desire to manifest in your life. Truly when you do this, ALL things you desire to achieve will be within your reach.

Today is the day for you to find the passion you once had as a small child.  It's a moment to look out upon the magnificence of life and see all sorts of wonders and treasures that this day might hold in store for you. It’s a day for you to release positive intentions out the window of your soul and watch them fly away like colorful butterflies, knowing they will return with universal power to unleash and unlock secret chambers where your dreams are stored.
 

So come on my friend it's time to get going. All of your dreams, hopes and visions are but a hop, skip and jump away. Once you get moving and start utilizing your personal power and the strength of spirit housed inside of you, your life will get moving too. And you will find yourself by far more powerful than you ever believed or dreamt yourself to be. Take off the blinders of fear and feelings of insecurity or inadequacy. Embrace your new sense of sight and see the world in new colors and new ways. Let more color into your life palette and watch your life beautifully and artistically unfold. Welcome more peace, passion, positivity and it will come and be part of your daily life experience.

Today ALL things are possible. You want a better life? Just reach out and grab it. You want a richer taste of life? Know that the universe wants you to have this as well. All of this can begin today, right now if you so choose!  New beginnings, new hope and newness of life awaits you.  Your New Life Begins Now…
 

Copyright Justin Topik 2013