Daily Inspiration

May 10. Daily Inspiration:

The Gift Within the Present Moment.

How many times have you experienced challenging days, and emerged stronger and wiser because of them? How many times have you surrendered to judgment and anger, and still eventually found forgiveness and compassion where you once thought there was none to give? Wouldn’t you be grateful for someone or something that made you a stronger and wiser person? Wouldn’t you want to thank those who helped you find forgiveness and compassion in areas of your life where you once believed that there was none to offer? If you can be grateful for all of the above after the fact, why not start trusting that gratitude can be the appropriate response to the now — to each and every moment and interaction? When appreciation becomes your response to the now, you are experiencing the moment as God created it for you to enjoy.

Today, let us practice seeing the present moment as God’s eternal gift to us. When the ego is masking this understanding, we cannot see the now as the gift that it is. It is then that we experience such things as judgment, frustration, stress, anger, resentment, hate and revenge. Today, let us drop the ego’s masks, and by doing so, learn to appreciate what is. When we see the present moment as the gift that it is, our response to it becomes gratitude. Gratitude, peace of mind, joy, forgiveness, compassion and understanding are all signs that we are seeing the now as it was created for us to experience and enjoy. Today, let us practice viewing the now through God’s eyes. Let us do so until gratitude becomes our response to every moment, person, place and thing.

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James Blanchard Cisneros
Author of the Book: You Have Chosen to Remember

May 10 video: The Gift Within the Present Moment.
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May 9. Daily Inspiration:

Offer “Others” the Love That You Desire to Experience.

To the ego, “giving away” means losing. This illusionary concept rules the scarcity mindset of the ego’s world. You are the love that created you, and Love is All. Thus in truth, all that you give away and share with others, you reinforce and strengthen within yourself. Love has many expressions, such as kindness, compassion, forgiveness, joy, gratitude and peace. Imagine sharing a story with your friends. That story touches them and yet still remains within you. In fact, because you shared it, it is reinforced within you. Love, being All, behaves in this same manner. Share love with others, and not only will everyone get to experience it, but its bond with you is now reinforced and thus strengthened.

Today, let us practice being and representing the love that we were created to be and share. Let us notice that when we offer love and its expressions, this love expands within us as it is shared. Let us also take note that when we keep this love to ourselves, it seems to diminish and play a smaller part in our lives. In essence, today we will get to see and experience how our loving nature expands or contracts, depending on the choices we make. Let us notice that the more we share love, the more fulfilled we feel. Equally so, the more we withhold love, the less we get to feel and experience it and thus the emptier we feel. Today, let us be grateful to everyone we think of and meet for giving us the opportunities to love them and thus fulfill our mission of being God’s loving lights in this world.

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May 9 video: Offer “Others” the Love That You Desire to Experience.
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May 8. Daily Inspiration:

No Longer Judge Yourself for Being Human.

The ego's world tries to get us to judge ourselves and others in so many ways throughout the day. Most of us end up picking up and buying into its way of thinking, and thus make the ego's mindset our own. If we continue to buy into its mindset, our judgmental thoughts and conflicts will increase, while our peace of mind and joy will decrease. Yet do not despair. For this way of thinking does not reflect the truth in us. The ego’s ways, being unnatural to us, cannot last. The ego is self-destructive. The more time we spend entertaining the ego and its false concepts, the more we will see how unaligned they are to our loving essence and nature. Our capacity to suffer may be high, but it is not without limit. The more we see how damaging the ego is, the more we will choose to depart from its way of thinking.

Today, practice not judging yourself for being human. All of your life experiences have made you the stronger and wiser person you are today. When you are experiencing a challenge, you might not realize you’re developing into this stronger and wiser person. That’s when the ego’s judgment often enters and tries to pollute your mind. If you do not yet see your strength and courage, know that God does. The Divine would never offer you challenges that you could not handle and overcome. Once you overcome them, others will be led to you to help them overcome their challenges. To judge yourself as weak is to judge God as an inadequate Creator. God is perfection and only creates perfectly. If God does not doubt you, then don’t doubt yourself. Instead, fully trust that the Creator of the universe knows what He is doing. Today, trust that God created you with the exact skillset that this world needs from you right now. Remember you co-designed your journey with God, end the pattern of judging yourself, and be at peace.

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May 8 video: No Longer Judge Yourself for Being Human.
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May 6. Daily Inspiration:

Bringing Light into the Darkness.

Imagine being in a heavenly place of perfect love, joy and peace. Then from within this paradise, hearing a faint call for help and healing from your brothers and sisters in this world. Being that you are love, and help and healing are expressions of love, a desire within you arose to answer this call. You answered this call by choosing the most aligned physical body, family and environment that could best help you experience and understand the problems that you came here to help heal. You did so, not because you were being punished or were punishing yourself, but because this is what your soul chose to come down here to learn about, heal and teach others how to heal. Your soul simply volunteered to bring peace, light and understanding to an area of this world where there is now pain, darkness and confusion.

Today, where there is darkness, let us bring our light, our eternal, loving essence and nature. Where there is chaos, let us bring peace. Where there is judgment and anger, let us offer forgiveness and understanding. Where there is resentment and hate, let us reflect mercy and grace. Even when we find ourselves sinking into the darkness, let us learn to use our life experiences as our teaching tools. Now when we talk, thanks to our life experiences, those who are in the darkness will hear and recognize their stories in our own. Because we have been where they are, they will be more inclined to listen to what we have to say. That ray of light that we are and offer them, now becomes a light they use to help guide themselves out of the darkness and heal. As we use our experiences to help others heal, we will recognize and appreciate the sacred reasons why we went through what we went through.

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May 6 video: Bringing Light into the Darkness.
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May 5. Daily Inspiration:

Taking the First Step Toward Forgiveness.

We have been programmed to believe that being the first to forgive is hard and challenging. But isn’t the weight of judgment that the ego has us carry — the constant thoughts that darken our days and the nights of tossing, turning and losing sleep — a much harder and heavier burden to bear? Sometimes we unconsciously choose the heavier burden of not forgiving because we have bought into the ego’s delusion of guilt. This guilt reinforces in us the idea that we are not worthy of or able to make the choices that will lead us to the state of peace. In essence, not forgiving another becomes an unconscious way of punishing ourselves — by withholding peace from ourselves. Today, let us recall that forgiveness and peace, as reflections of the Love that God is, are our inheritance and thus we are all forever worthy of them.

Today, let us become the hero of our own journey. No longer will we wait for another to take the first step toward forgiveness so that we can have peace. Today, we will take the first, second, and if need be, third step toward forgiveness, freedom and peace. Today, let us decide that our past will no longer haunt us. Tonight, having chosen forgiveness over judgment, being happy over being “right,” and thus peace over pain, we will find true rest. No matter how much the ego has programmed us to stay chained to the mindset of judgment, we will now choose the freedom that forgiveness offers. When we forgive another, we free ourselves from carrying the burden of judgment, and in doing so, we return Home to the state of peace.

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James Blanchard Cisneros
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May 5 video: Taking the First Step Toward Forgiveness.
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May 4. Daily Inspiration:

A Daily Self-Forgiveness Practice.

When we are focusing on the seeming separateness of our bodies, instead of the sameness of our souls, we are buying into the ego’s programming and mindset as true. We are all One. Yet the ego has programmed us to believe the false concept that we are separate. The ego tries to convince us that we can judge someone without this hurting us. It does this because judgment is the ego’s main fuel source. If it can make you believe that you can judge another without hurting yourself, then it wins — because as you judge, you fuel the ego while you deplete your self. You fuel the ego’s delusions while you deplete the truth in you. The ego grows stronger while your eternal, loving nature is suppressed. The ego knows that if you believe judging another won’t hurt you, then you’ll be more inclined to judge. What the ego tries to hide is that, because we are all One, in essence, other people reflect parts of you, the unconscious beliefs that you hold about yourself. Thus when you are judging, you are punishing and hurting yourself.

Affirmation: Today, let me recall that, being all One, each person “out there” is, in essence, a part of me. When I judge them, I am projecting onto them a part of me that does not believe is worthy of being forgiven. I’ve withheld forgiveness from myself long enough. Today, I offer it to all others so that I can fully experience it myself. Now, instead of judging others, I thank them for showing me a way out of the ego’s delusional mindset. Today, I recognize that the more parts of myself “out there” that I forgive, the more I understand that it is ok and right to forgive my whole self. Now, when the ego demands that I judge other people, I stop and recognize that they are simply offering me the opportunity to forgive them, and by doing so, forgive, heal and free myself from the heavy burden of judgment.

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May 4 video: A Daily Self-Forgiveness Practice.
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May 3. Daily Inspiration:

Ending the Ego’s Game of Self-Judgment.

How much time and energy have we already sacrificed at the altar of self-judgment? What prayers has self-judgment ever answered? What wounds has it ever healed? Today, let us recall the irrationality of self-judgment by noting three things. First, the ego thinks that it has the knowledge to judge you and your journey, and yet it does not even know what you are having for lunch tomorrow. If it does not know what you are having for lunch, can it really tell you what is in your own best interests, let alone that of the universe? Because you co-created your journey with God, trust that every step along your path is perfect for your growth, healing and awakening. Every time you choose to trust your Divine plan over the ego’s need for self-judgment, you will increase your level of peace and decrease your level of pain.

Second, know that you are always making the best decision possible with the tools, coping mechanisms and self-awareness that you have available to you at the time. Why waste time judging yourself when you are doing the best you can in every moment? Third, the ego would insist that you made mistakes because you were not wise, spiritual or good enough. But ask yourself, “How many times have these so-called ‘mistakes’ become great lessons?” If by learning from them, you turned these so-called errors in judgment into wisdom, then were they ever truly mistakes in the first place? Everything that helps you grow, develop, mature and become more self-aware is useful, and thus are gifts that you offered yourself. Being all One, every gift you offer yourself, through your growth, will one day help teach others how to let go of their own self-judgment, and by doing so, help heal and awaken this world.

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James Blanchard Cisneros
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May 3 video: Ending the Ego’s Game of Self-Judgment.
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May 2. Daily Inspiration:

Self-Awareness Turns Judgment into Peace and Gratitude.

Each of our journeys is a unique and sacred co-creation with God. Being all One, if you judge other people’s journeys, in essence, you are teaching yourself that you too will be under constant judgment. If you feel like you are constantly being judged, then you will feel unsafe and attacked by others. If you often feel unsafe and attacked, consciously or not, you will live in an unconscious state of defensiveness. You cannot find true, lasting peace of mind when you are living in a constant state of defensiveness. In reality, you do not need to defend yourself against other people’s judgments — not because you aren’t worth defending, but because there is truly nothing real to defend against. How could someone who has co-designed their journey with the Creator of the universe ever need to live in fear of judgment?

Today, let us become aware that when we are judging self, others or the journeys we have co-designed with the Divine, we are unconsciously judging God as wrong. When we do, a lack of peace results. To correct this misperception, we have been offered the tool of forgiveness. When you forgive others, and thus your misperceptions of them, in essence, you are saying to God that you now trust the journeys that He has co-created with them. Placing the weight of judgment aside will bring you a sense of relief and inner peace. This sense of relief and inner peace will bring joy to your heart. Experiencing joy and peace will make you grateful to God. This sense of joy, peace and gratitude will help your light shine brightly. By being a bright light, you will help those still stuck in the darkness of their own judgments depart from a place that they never belonged in.

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James Blanchard Cisneros
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May 2 video: Self-Awareness Turns Judgment into Peace and Gratitude.
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May 1. Daily Inspiration:

Being Grateful for the Signposts on Our Journey.

God is Love and All. Thus even our lapses in judgment are used by the Divine for a higher purpose. Understanding this, there is no need to punish ourselves or others for errors in judgment. Instead, let us follow God’s lead by seeing and using our judgment, anger and resentment as simply signposts on our journey Home. Let us see these energetic expressions as signs that show us when we are heading in the “wrong” direction. When we support any energy that does not help create a peaceful, joyful and loving life, then we are heading away from our true destination. Once we can recognize which energies and behaviors are leading us away from our peaceful, joyful and loving nature, we can spend less time supporting them, and thus less time suffering and in emotional pain.

Today, let us practice recognizing that everything can be of use, and thus is helpful. When we do, gratitude — not judgment — starts to become our response to everyone and all. Love is our true destination and Home. But today, let’s not judge ourselves or others for seemingly going in the opposite direction of love. God, being perfect love, can even use our unloving expressions to help us find our way Home. Thus God even uses our frustration, anger and resentment to help us recognize when we are not on our true path. Let us thank God and all those who, through their participation in our life, are helping us better see the dead-end roads we are taking. The sooner we are able to see these signposts, the less time we will spend going in their direction. The less time we travel in their direction, the more peace, joy and love we will get to see, feel and experience along the way.

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May 1 video: Being Grateful for the Signposts on Our Journey.
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April 30. Daily Inspiration:

What We Are Searching for, We Already Are.

We have been programmed to believe in, look for, and try to find worldly material treasures. Even in our schools, we have not been taught that our true treasure resides within. We have been programmed by the ego's mindset to search for our worth where it does not exist. Yet still, we wonder why so many of us grow up confused, lost and feeling unworthy. The world’s material treasures offer us nothing of true value, and thus cannot add to or subtract from our true worth. Your worth is not established by what you do or do not do. Your worth was established by God. You are God’s creation and true treasure. As such, you are forever worthy of His inheritance. God is Love. Thus His inheritance is love. As God’s child, you are forever worthy of love and all of its expressions. You do not need to add to or subtract from your eternal, loving essence and nature to experience your true worth.

Everything you think you need to be who you came here to be resides within you now. When in doubt, recall that God, being perfect, only creates perfectly. Do you not send your children to school with everything they need? Do you not think that God is, at the very least, as loving and wise as you? Doubt is not something to put yourself down for. It is simply a sign that you are buying into the ego's false narrative. Doubt shows you are placing your faith in the ego’s plan for your life instead of in God’s plan. God is All. Thus the ego is nothing. If you place your faith in nothing, then of course doubt will surface. When you fully place your faith in the plan that you have co-designed with the Divine, doubt begins to dissolve away and disappear. Today, simply extend, express and share the love that you were created by the Creator of the universe to be. When you do, you will find what you are searching for — who you have always been in truth.

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April 30 video: What We Are Searching for, We Already Are.
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April 29. Daily Inspiration:

Making the Choice for Joy.

In every moment, thanks to free will, the choice between joy and judgment is ours to make. We have the ultimate power and responsibility to make our day, and thus our life, brighter, more joyful and peaceful — or darker, more judgmental and chaotic. Our day starts as a blank canvas, with many brushes in front of us to choose from. Two such brushes are joy and judgment. In each moment, we choose which brush to use. When we choose the brush of joy, our canvas becomes an expression of the love that is our true essence and nature. When we choose the brush of judgment, we reap the darkness that our choice sows. This is not done as a form of punishment, but to help us better understand how our choices color our experiences.

Today, let us recall that, in every moment, God’s gift of free will gives us the right and ability to begin anew. In any moment, we can choose joy over judgment and thus peace over pain. Today, if you find yourself aligned with the ego’s judgment-centered mindset, do not put yourself or others down. Instead, use it as a call to action — an opportunity to practice using free will to choose to align your mind with your loving essence and nature. The life you desire to create is always just a simple choice away. The brushes of forgiveness, peace and joy, as expressions of love, are available for you to choose from in every moment. You make the final choice of which brushes to pick up and use, and thus what kind of day you will create and experience. Breathe deeply, choose wisely and create the kind of painting and world that you would love for your children to inherit one day.

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April 29 video: Making the Choice for Joy.
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