Today Is A New Day

This post is part of my on-going series on Awareness & Being In The Now.

Life requires choices.

Some choices you have made in the past have been both wise and wonderful. And if you are at all like me, as you have moved through your life experiences some choices have been awful and awesome mistakes. That’s life!

What matters in this great adventure we call life is not that you have chosen well in the plethora of choices and paths that have laid before you, but what you have learned.

Some decisions you have considered mistakes. Yet, when you look at them as your life lessons, you will possibly see that they may have taken you in a way you may not have gone without that mistake.

A life without mistakes is a life without purpose. It is the times you have dared, dreamed and stretched beyond what you believed was possible that give your life definition. The way we learn, as a human being is by trial and error. That makes a mistake as necessary as the trial.

Sometimes, after a particularly painful error, you might get angry with yourself. You might even get caught up in blame and shame and doubt. I suggest that you not waste your time and energy blaming yourself.

I suggest that each mistake is explored as the opportunity to learn and grow that it is. When you discover the lesson from that mistake, you remember that you are now wiser and more capable than you were before. As you step into the new opportunities that are available for you today, you are forearmed by the mistakes and errors of your past.

Considering all the mistakes you have made in your life, you have been uniquely prepared for what life is offering you right NOW, TODAY.

Never Forget Today Is A New Day

To take advantage of the new possibilities that are emerging several life lessons can help you seize the present. Since ancient times the advice of “Carpe Diem” has been a call to action. It is the advice to seize the day and make the most of the opportunities that are emerging today.

Things You Can Do To Empower & Support Yourself

In my many years as a counselor and life coach, and more importantly as a human being who has made many mistakes and learned many life lessons, I have found that there are things you can do to empower and support yourself. I would like to share a few of those simple life lessons with you right now, today.

Be gentle with yourself. Once you have learned the life lesson of the error you have made incorporate that understanding into your life and then let it go.
Forgive yourself. You are not perfect. You are not designed to be perfect. You were created to learn by experience, trial, and error. Once you gave something the trial and made the error, let that error be in the past. It no longer defines you. It is over and finished.
Next, open yourself to the unlimited opportunities that present themselves to you right now, today.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
– Khalil Gibran

Dare to dream about today, for dreams are the creative power of your mind and work with the creative energy of the universe. You can create the life you desire when you dare to dream.
Listen to the promptings of your Higher Self (Soul) for Grace comes in the silent promptings of your Soul to help you align with your life purpose.

Today is a new day. The possibilities and opportunities that present themselves today have never been available before. They are unique to right now, today. However, to take advantage of those possibilities, you must put your past behind you.

Free yourself from the tyranny of your own self-judgment and criticism. Let yourself see and then release all the reasons you were vulnerable and misguided by your failure to understand what you now can see clearly.

What you see right now, today is what matters.

To learn from a past mistake does not mean to continue to berate yourself for having made a mistake. Learn the lesson and then trust yourself to know better now, do better now.
– Genevieve Gerard

There is no day more bursting with new possibilities than today. Life has given you the opportunity for a reset. It is called today. What you do with it can only be done now, today. If you could have done it before now, you would have.

All that is past has no power over you!

As the old saying goes, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Make it the best of your life.” It is what you do with your day that matters.

So, shake off your past mistakes like the dust from a town you have left behind. The future is beckoning you, but you must walk through right now, today to get there.

Daily Affirmations To Empower & Support You

Right Now, Today Affirmations

These Right Now, Today affirmations may help you if you repeat them often:

Right now, today, I will forgive myself, knowing that what I have learned from past errors has prepared me for what today brings and what tomorrow may bring like a stern teacher.

Right now, today, I will appreciate all of the life experiences and life lessons I have learned for they brought me to today.

Right now, today, I will open myself and my life to the guidance of my Soul that I may fulfill my unique purpose in this span of years that I have been granted.

Right now, today I will be bold with my dreams and courageous in my actions to seize and see the opportunities large and small that life offers me.

Ultimately, you really only have this moment in time.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

Now, life awaits your exploration of this adventure. I celebrate you, right here, right now.

Namaste,

Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on all that you do!

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Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”

At Each Moment You Decide

Genevieve Gerard

At Each Moment You Decide

I love mornings.

There is magic in each morning. No other time of the day is so rich with promise.

Just think, this day has never been before; it is unique.

What is possible today has never been possible before. Whatever has happened in your past is NOW over. You are free. You can lay your burden down and release it into the past where it belongs.

The only power it has over you is what you choose to give it. You can, in the magic of this morning and the magic of this moment, start anew. This is the power of the dawn.

To claim this power, you may have some things you need to do. You may need to forgive yourself. You may need to forgive someone else. Whatever forgiveness is required is possible.

Claim the magic of this morning to open your heart and your mind to the unlimited potential of this day. This day has never been here before. It is just NOW emerging and being created.

The ideas and solutions to life’s mysteries that are revealed to you today belong only to this moment and are filled with your co-creative power. What you think of in the magic of the morning takes form and substance through the laws of life that “energy follows thought.”

You are a child of God imbued with the spark of Divine Light that gives you the power in your thoughts to control and create your reality. You are, of all of the creation, the only one given the power of co-creation. That is the miracle of what it means to be a human being.

The choice is yours. Make of this day what you will. Create with this day what you wish. In each moment you get to decide.

Joy is yours for the taking.

What is most surprising about this miraculous morning is you can create whatever you need. If you need to suffer, you can suffer. If you need fear, you can paralyze yourself with fear.

Today is an adventure in your experience of life.

All of the drama that life contains can come into your day,
for good or ill, by your will.
– Genevieve Gerard

You might ask “why would I create pain and sorrow.” And, that is certainly a good question to ask yourself. “Why would I choose to suffer paralyzing fear?” “Why wouldn’t I choose anything but joy, success, or happiness?” The pain, sorrow and the failures you experience can provide valuable lessons that have a profound impact on your life.

These things may seem to be just happenstance, the accumulation of circumstances beyond your control. And you can cloak yourself in the illusions of life that make situations and circumstances seem beyond your power to control or influence. You choose whether these moments give you comfort or excuses that relieve you of the responsibility for your life.

In the magic of morning, I invite you to let the darkness fall from your eyes as the Light comes into being. You are a miracle of creation infused with a spark of the Divine. You are the Son of Man who is a co-creator with the creator.

This can be both a great blessing and a great responsibility. What you do with this day matters. What you create with your thoughts have consequences. They may be unintentional consequences or very intentional consequences; the choice is yours.

There is in every day and every circumstance two possibilities. There’s a positive side and a negative side and at each moment you decide.
– Bernie Gunther (High Cards)

What will you do with the magic of this moment?

What will you choose for this as yet unformed day brimming with potential and unclaimed possibilities? What will you create with this formless day that lies before you with no footprints yet upon it?

This moment, this opportunity has never been before. Life can change in the twinkling of an eye. All that has ever come before this time can be safely tucked into the past. Its time is now over.

It can only affect you if you let it if you cling to it. Come into NOW.

Your life and your future are being molded into being what you choose NOW. What you think and how you use your co-creative power is the creative force that shapes your emerging experience.

Seize from this magical moment the power to take control of the day and do great things with it. Free yourself as you forgive and forget every limitation that has ever held you captive.

Calm your mind, open your heart and invite the Light of the new day into the new being you are becoming with the magic of this morning. This day has never been before and will never come again. Make the best of it, take the best of it.

It is NOW and in the NOW there is a great power.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
– Eckhart Tolle

Unleash the power in your mind to claim the unlimited potential of the present. That is the magic of each morning. That is the promise of every new day.

Align yourself with your Life’s purpose. New possibilities are revealing themselves to you today. New thoughts, ideas you have never thought before, emerge from the creative power of your mind.

Open the space for new opportunities to come to you today. Let the Law of Attraction attract to you all that you need for success.

Shed from your thoughts any limiting beliefs. Clear from your being all that has ever held you back. This is a new day; let yourself find a new way.

This is the magic contained in the morning. This magic is available for you to claim today, right here, right now.

As the old saying reminds us, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Make it the best of your life.” – anonymous.

Namaste,

Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!

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Discover How To Choose Happiness

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Discover How To Choose Happiness

It is true, but often not realized or understood, that you and none other hold the power over your own happiness.

It is a power that you can hold and develop, or a power you can give away.

When you embrace the power to choose happiness in your life, you are making a conscious step to fulfilling the creative potential of your life.

Wikipedia defines happiness as, “a mental or emotional state of well-being defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.”

Also according to St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, “man’s last end is happiness.”

Many years ago when I was first learning how to meditate, I received instruction at a Zendo. In Zen Buddhism, the zen-dō is a spiritual dōjō where zazen (sitting meditation) is practiced.

Zen instruction tends to come from little stories or statements, which the student explores, ponders or considers.

In the very best results, this leads to a moment of awareness that shifts your entire understanding. A moment of enlightenment where sometimes these seemingly offhand comments by the Zen master resonate so deeply and profoundly that they bring a significant shift in understanding or perspective that is life-changing or transforming.

One such statement in my early experience was on the subject of happiness.

The Zen master and I were sitting quietly over a cup of tea after the actual meditation time was over. We were talking about beliefs and culture and the far-reaching implications of those things. The subject of happiness came up, particularly the concept so deeply embedded in the American consciousness, that of the pursuit of happiness, a concept the Zen master unequivocally declared as absurd.

In one of those enlightening moments, one has when their consciousness and perspective changes, I saw and understood happiness in an entirely different way. I realized that by pursuing happiness I could never be happy. I realized that happiness was not something I got, but rather something I brought to life.
Happiness was something I could choose to be.

At that same time, I realized that I could choose to feel victimized by others, blame them for either what they had done or not done. That would functionally put my happiness outside of my control.

This paradigm shift in my awareness had a deep and very life empowering influence on my life. It changed my expectations and needs for others in a way that was very freeing and empowering for me. The power for my own life and my own happiness come under my control. I didn’t have to wait for others or life circumstances to bring situations and circumstances to my life for me to be happy. I could choose happiness.

As with any moment of enlightening (and I have learned over a lifetime of expanding and exploring consciousness) moments of enlightenment shift my awareness and the cascading effect of this realization was profound. It put me in touch with the power of choice in my life experiences. Of course in that morning over tea, long ago there was a great deal I did not yet know or understand that would influence my ability to take this insight and incorporate it into my daily life.

As with all flashes of enlightened consciousness, you need to learn to integrate and demonstrate what you now understand.

Much of what I have since discovered, and come to understand, has been built upon the foundation of recognizing that I have a choice. I am not a victim of my life and circumstances; I am the actor and director.

I am, by the power of my thoughts empowered to join my conscious creative power with the Divine as a co-creator of my life.

Effective Tools To Be Happy

Choosing to be happy can have an amazing impact on your life. Once you make that choice there are some tools and techniques, many of which I have suggested time and time again. These tools and techniques can be used and adjusted to different situations and circumstances to energize and support your choice.

Affirmations

Among these effective tools are using affirmations. The power of saying an affirmation sets up energetic ripples in ways that help bring what you are affirming and what you think as you affirm it, into manifestation.

Using the powerful assertion of an “I Am” statement in your affirmation activates the dynamic principle that energy follows thought.

Right now, you can experience that control if you say with conviction and intention one of the following affirmations I wrote.

I am happy, peaceful and calm, right now.

I choose to be happy in this moment of time.

In this event, I am learning to be happier and more fulfilled in my life.

You might notice that whatever you had been thinking or feeling before you affirmed this has started to fade away and that assertion and affirmation have been elevated in your mind and your consciousness. This is not a trick of the mind to affect your feelings, but rather a dynamic tool to give you the ability to transform and influence your life, right now.

Experience my Soaring to Success Affirmations for Abundance CD or MP3’s to allow yourself to envision your life beyond limitation and allow them to train the imaging faculty of your mind to create perfect pictures of the life you will create with these >> affirmations.

Mindful Breath Meditation

You can expand and enhance the use of affirmations by adding a simple Mindful Breath Meditation (that I created) while you breath.

I am breathing in peace and calm, right now.

I am aware that I am choosing to be peaceful and calm right now.

Observe how affirming the state of being you are wanting shifts your experience, how it influences your consciousness.

Reframe & Reinterpret Your Experiences

In addition to the capacity to affirm the state of being that you desire, you also have within the vast capacity of your mind the ability to reframe and reinterpret your life experiences.

My mother-in-law used to say. “It’s not what happens to you, it’s how you react to it.”

So much of what interferes with your personal happiness lies within the content of your negative mind chatter, which is mostly based upon fear.

Remember, in life, there are many things that you have no control over. These life experiences can be viewed as negative things just happening to you or opportunities for life lessons learned. It all depends on the meaning you attach to them.

Therefore, ponder on these life experiences and take the space to re-frame and re-interpret them in a positive light.

Live In The Moment

When you examine the content of your negative mind chatter, particularly when you bring your awareness to the perspective of the detached observer, you may well realize that much of what is limiting your happiness is created by your expectations and your fear of what might happen in the future, instead of being in the NOW.

These are underlying factors that can influence your choice to be happy in any given situation and circumstance in your life. Inherent in every event in your life is a choice. The choice to be the primary force in your life or to surrender your personal power to the people and happenings you bring into your life is of great importance.

In every moment, you consciously or unconsciously decide.

Needless to say, I encourage you to use the power of your mind and the mastery of your emotions to choose happiness.

Master Your Emotions

It is important to note that mastery of your emotions does not mean the suppression of your emotions. Emotion, any and every emotion experienced has a natural ebb and flow to it.

When allowed to wash through you without fear, and kept in the present time emotions should not disrupt your happiness. It is when you overlay the emotion with fears, with the thought that what you are feeling has always been that way (which is not true), or (it will always be that way), which also cannot be true, does an emotion take hold and create misery.
This is important to understand. This is something that is entirely within your control and is inherent in your choice of being happy. The tools that you can incorporate into your life, including affirmations, observing and reframing your thoughts, and releasing fears and expectations, all impact whether or not you are happy. And, they are all tools that are available to you today.

I encourage you to choose to be happy. You can use an affirmation of your own creation or from the vast array of positive affirmations that are available in the world.

You can pay attention to the input of your negative mind chatter by observing and noting the thoughts that interfere with your happiness. If they are fears, you can release them by entering into the present time, which is much more real than the fear and incredibly freeing.

You can take a moment to re-frame what you are observing in light of greater understanding and awareness as you focus on what is going on. This process is amazingly freeing and empowering, especially when applied to your own personal happiness.

So today, I invite you to discover to choose happiness and experience how to BE HAPPY. It is your birthright and your empowerment as the co-creator of your life.

Namaste,

Genevieve,

The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!

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Why Let Worry Waste Your Time?

Genevieve Gerard

Why Let Worry Waste Your Time?

Whether or not you choose to spend a precious moment of your life worrying is a choice. That same moment you spent worrying could be spent differently. It could be spent praying or meditating. It could be spent hoping or affirming. It could be spent appreciating what is happening in the actual moment you are experiencing.

Ultimately worrying is a waste of your time. It does not solve the problem(s) you are worried about. It destroys the experience of “right now” by too much rumination on “what if?”

I have heard it said that worrying is like praying for what you don’t want. If you consider the principle that “energy follows thought” and the workings of the Law of Attraction, this is certainly true.

If you review and consider the events and circumstances of your life honestly, through the eyes of a detached observer, you cannot help but come to the conclusion that much of what you have spent your time worrying about never happened. And, in those rare instances where it did, the worrying that preceded the event did not help you prepare for it or cope with it at all.

The worrying did not make you stronger in the face of the challenge or sorrow. It merely uses the resources and strength you could have used to handle the actual situation. In fact, if you are brutally honest with yourself, the time you spend worrying is a waste of time.

Worrying is not a pleasant experience… so I ask again, “Why waste your time worrying?” Sufficient to the day are the problems of that day. Rather, spend your precious moments, your precious energy and time dealing with the challenges that your real-life experience gives you today.

Release your worries. Take a deep breath and choose to deal with your life challenges as they arrive.

By living your life in the moment, as it unfolds in the now you find that there is really nothing you cannot handle, nothing you cannot bear. It is only with the fear that it will always be this way that something becomes unbearable. In the moment, when you hold an experience in the NOW your perspective is different.

By choosing to be in the moment, to be in the NOW, you will have amazing strength and resilience. In the moment is where your power resides, claim it, embrace it and express it. Choose not to waste your precious gift of life with worry.

This I have learned. This I believe.

The Blessing of Love on all that you do.

Namaste,

Genevieve Gerard

Last update 3-26-2020

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One Day At A Time

Genevieve Gerard

Reflections on Life

One Day at a Time

In spite of our attempts to plan and control our lives, all that we can ever do is live our lives one day at a time. In fact, even that is a misnomer, for truly all that we can do is live in the moment, in the now. No matter how much we plan or try to bring our wishes or will into the future, we have only this moment of time, this now. Refusing to accept this essential fact or trying to change it is a significant factor in denying us the peace and joy that is our birthright.

Ironically, it is in understanding this fact that we are freed from our fears and the tyranny of our worries. In the moment, we know that we will never be tried beyond our ability to cope with the challenges that life puts in our path. Fear becomes both meaningless and useless as we acknowledge the deep truth that what we most fear may never happen.

Forgiveness too becomes more powerfully possible as what we need to forgive is in the past, and thus looses much of its pain in the transition to the moment.

You can remember the pain, but the pain has passed. You can worry about the future, but the future has not yet happened.

In the moment, in the now we are granted a grace that gives us the strength to bear what we had feared would be unbearable and forgive what we thought would be unforgivable.” – Genevieve Gerard

To help us bring our awareness to this moment and let go of the fears and illusions our mind and emotions create we can meditate, and through meditation be blessed with a life free of fear. Our sorrows and losses are diminished by the realization that they are in the past and you have survived and thrived; your have transcended and conquered all.

You are here, right now and whatever life brings you can handle it and cope with it in the blessed awareness and wisdom of the now.

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