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What does Awaken mean to you?

Posted by lima5ive 
· February 5, 2018 
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Sat Nam. I’m serious about this.

What does “Awaken” or “Awakened” mean to you?

What does Awaken mean for you?

This is the year, if ever there was one, to do just that.

Awaken to you…

to your longings

to your unfilled dreams and desires

to the reason you came here in the first place.

Yes, there are lots of questions here, and there is a reason. If you don’t ask these questions (oh, and answer them) in this month of new beginnings, this January 2018, when will you do so?

New beginnings have a reason. To give us new hope that we can shift, that we can embrace a more alive, connected, juicy, hopeful life… your life. If you don’t care about that, then just stop reading this. Share it with a friend who does care.

When I was in my super-challenging marriage with, a, yes narcissist, I kept reminding myself that everything I was learning was for me and for those I would serve. If just for me, I could have just run the friggin’ cave and hid away. Yes, it was that unfun. I literally remember the good times we had in hours, not days, over 15 years. I used it as a chance to gather data and see what worked for me and what I could learn to help others. I could go into all sorts of data and stories and make you realize that I truly was in a deeply dysfunctional abusive marriage. Let’s just say, when I moved to LA, I weighed 112 lbs and I’m 5’9”. Need I say more? This is what sustained me. Meditation, Kirtan, Yoga, Sewa, and outreach programs in the city for women, saved me. And, yes, my children, when I got to spend time with them. But that is another story for another time.

All challenges can crush us or give us a spark to ignite the world and beyond with our light. What is your choice?

Wahe Guru love to you.

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Categories : Energy, spirituality, Thoughts
Tags : awaken, connection, life, living, love, self

What If You Truly Had the Support You Need?

Posted by Gurutej 
· December 2, 2014 
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What if you had supportWhat if you truly had the support you needed to make the shifts you truly long to make in your life? I’m not just randomly asking you this. I truly want to know. In this wonderful holiday season, much can be lost and much gained. Would you give me a big gift in understanding you better? This information is only coming to me and will not be shared.

1. What is the area of your life you crave more support or clarity?

2. What is not making this shift, costing you mentally, emotionally, financially, spiritually? Choose one or all of these and share please.

3. If you made that shift in your life, how would you feel and look?

These may seem like easy questions to answer but if you really use them, they will reveal so much to you. They will also allow me to help you in the way you crave support.

If you want more support, you get to sign up for a free 20 min strategy session with me http://gurutejsessions.com/

Deep gratitude for trusting me with this information. I will use it to serve you better.

Deep Love and Blessings,

Gurutej Khalsa

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Tags : Gurutej, life, shift, Strategy Session, support, Yoga

Transformation: Slammed, Surrendered?

Posted by Gurutej 
· April 29, 2014 
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Get Unstuck and Be InspiredTransformation: Slammed, Surrendered?

I have heard such amazing things this last week. I will share some of them with you, but first, I want to say that if you have felt flung around, ground down, expanded, massively exhausted, elated, and emotional beyond words, then welcome to this amazing time on the planet. The transformation process just keeps expanding the scope of its depth and dimension, taking you right along on the river of change. It is truly the personal, planetary, interpersonal, environmental, global, universal transformational shock and awe. We are being destroyed to be rebuilt in a more courageous, truly empowered, aware, and awakened forms of life, should we choose. What are the tools you need to go through this time.

  1. Courage
  2. Patience
  3. Courage
  4. Trust
  5. Love

You can’t buy these at your local store anywhere, but you can purchase them by spending time being quiet and being meditative; by walking around saying, “I like myself, I love myself, and I see my soul.” Walk around when stressed and tuned into your breath. Remember to do the 4-Part Breath. Inhale in 4 short shots (much better than any other shots you will take—from wheat grass to your favorite alcohol) then exhale the same way. You can do it through your nose or your mouth (both work). Doing it is what works, not reading about it.

This is the time to be outrageous. The time to deliver outrageous when needed to awaken the other—not trash talk just to talk trash. If you always talk trash, there is nowhere to go when you need to up the ante. If you threaten too much, you are like the wolf without teeth that declared itself vegetarian. You have to be able to back up your outrageous. One friend told her “asleep” partner (meaning he has been asleep in the relationship for years— as he had a version of their 30+ year relationship that is 25 years old), “I’m ready for an open relationship.” Nothing had worked to wake him up but that simple statement did. And yes, she was prepared to back it up. It was not just an idle threat. You can’t say outrageous things just to say them or you lose your credibility. Sometimes, “outrageous” as an accent to life is very effective as a main course. It’s like eating a gallon of ice-cream in one sitting.

Another gem I heard was a couple realizing that she was the negative, protective mind of their business and he was the expansive, try-anything-positive-mind. But the best part they realized was that together, they created the chalice for the neutral mind to prevail if they could live to their roles and accept the other’s insights and input. She is very creative in other aspects of her life and very cautious in business. He is very intuitive and expansive in business and more cautious in other aspects of life. We each are not one thing in all areas. Check in and see where you are. the Positive mind or the Protective mind? Where do you go to Neutral easily? How quickly can you get to neutral? What chalice have you created for your neutral mind to grow? Make a list of where you are in each aspect in your life. It will give you clarity in a time when clarity is priceless. I have something that will help you more.

May 1st is the day to honor the labor in your life and claim the dance of life. I will be doing a FREE teleseminar on how you can get unstuck. We will use my FLOW method. If you feel stuck or overwhelmed in any area of life, please join me on Stuck to Inspired.

www.stucktoinspired.com

Sign up and you will get a gift. We will also be doing a giveaway on the live call. You must be present to win that. But even if you can’t be present, there will be a replay, so join us and thrive. I look forward to this precious time with you.

All love in the Divine,

Gurutej Khalsa

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Categories : Thoughts
Tags : life, slammed, stuck to inspired, surrenderd, transformation, Yoga

The Keys to Becoming Authentic

Posted by Gurutej 
· March 4, 2014 
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Key to Authenticity in LifeThe Keys to Becoming Authentic – Are there really simple keys to living, being, feeling Authentic? Yes, and being authentic has different levels of awareness. You can’t expect the person struggling for money, willing to do anything to get enough money, to have the same level or authenticity as the person who truly is on a conscious path to liberation. I want to share a story I was given by Keith’s Nana yesterday. I felt she bequeathed me this story knowing I was going to be writing about authenticity.

She said she had a friend, who needed her help. Trust me she has lots of friends, for she gave people free psychic readings or what she would call seeings. She had a friend who was going through a messy divorce and had to leave her house for a few days and ask Nana to watch the house for her as she was concerned that her almost “was been” would come to the house and take things. He was, in Nana’s words, a wealthy rogue. So Nana agreed. She was in the house and the husband did indeed show up and started roaring. “What are you doing in my house?” Nana put her finger up to her lips to quiet him and said, “I am praying to St. Germain and El Moritz for justice in your case.”

This majically calmed the man and he said, “Oh good, then I will win.” Saying that, he turned and left the house very calmly. “He came in like a lion and left like a kitten.” Nana joked. Why? Because she was being authentic. She was indeed doing what she said she was doing. She had no need to lie or deceive or conceal. This truth and authenticity is the most disarming component of our being.

I am not saying being transparent with everyone and everything all the time is the way. I am saying that living in your deepest authenticity at all times is the only way to truly live. I have a very dear friend who has lived with her partner for 30 years (maybe more) and yet their level of transparency with each other is amazingly low. We set up patterns that work now, and then as we develop, we forget to update our authenticity in our relationships. You can’t live, truly live and be alive at 50 with the patterns you set up in your 20s. You can’t expect that (if circumstances and situations change in your life) you can go along acting as if they hadn’t changed. These very behaviors have brought many to bankruptcy financially, physically, and mentally. Because they, and sometimes, you, don’t want to update your circumstantial, earth, and ether data.

Being Authentic means we are willing to do monthly (if not more often) updates. I remember when I was about 7, I went on a trip with a cousin who I had never met and was a few years older than me. We went to visit our mutual aunt and uncle. The uncle was part of my clan and the aunt, hers. One day she said, “Time to even up.” I said, “What is that.” Her response was, “Come see.” We sat on the curb and she kindly said, “Take out your money.” I did. Then she took hers out and discovered that she had more than I did, so she “evened up.” She gave me the amount that made us each have the same amount. I am not recommending this in all things but I often think if we did this on a regular basis on so many levels we would be so much more authentic and so much happier. Evening up can mean many things but the thing it meant the most to me at that moment was not the money, but the caring about me and what I had and the acknowledging of what she had.

Check in and see how YOU can be most authentic first with yourself, then with the person you are most intimate with, then third, someone in your family. Look at what makes you inauthentic or authentic. There are always certain triggers that when engaged trigger fear that make you want to cover up, to make it less than or more than it is to get what you want or to hide your pain or weakness.

I invite you to spend this week willing to look at where you are most authentic in your life and where you cheat. For cheating is really about cheating you. Time to look at that one eye to eye and see if you still want to be always booby trapping yourself.

I offer you a free 20-minute strategy session at www.gurutejsessions.com. It’s your chance to see what is not authentic in your life and get support to shift you into a more authentic love.

Wahe Guru love to you,

Gurutej

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Tags : authentic, authenticity, awareness, Gurutej Khalsa, Gurutej Sessions, keys, life, transparency, Yoga

The Ahhh of Intimacy

Posted by Gurutej 
· February 11, 2014 
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Gurutej Khalsa and KeithThe Ahhh of Intimacy – What do sustained intimacy, deep yummy abiding patience, and the flow of relationships have to do with each other?

  1. Do you find that you look at intimacy and think sensual and sexual partner, before making love and other such descriptions?
  2. Do you find when you think of intimacy you have no idea what it really is?
  3. Are you curious about intimacy but don’t know how it applies to you?
  4. Do you find that you feel you know and want intimacy but you don’t seem to attract it into your life?

What if… just what if intimacy was an innate part of everything?

What if it is the longing to connect that is encoded in your every cell?

What if every living thing has this craving for connection on this deep intimate level?

What if intimacy is simple?

If intimacy was simple, would you run to embrace it? It is. You know why? Because truth is very simple and intimacy is truth made finite. Intimacy means you trust and can therefore reveal. Reveal your splendor; reveal your caring; reveal your gifts without the fear that they would or could be rejected or smashed. Would you want to embrace this sweet gift?

I am offering an intimacy support gift right now. http://darkhibernation.com

Take advantage of my delicious Valentine love offer.

 

Intimacy is the ground swelling up underneath you

pulling you down into its cozy nest

whispering sweet somethings to you

filling your ears, your eyes, your heart with this

elusive thing called

hope

Hop on hope

for its sweet warm fur is

ready for you to curl up in

The longing for certainty is what scares the

fluffy, love clouds away

The calling to be loved without

carrying that heavy bag of worry

that you will not be loved back,

the peaking ears of the unknown

listening to your longings,

the soft, luscious, rowdy lips that part to

blow your fears away

are all invitations to embrace the intimacy

This big ole hunk of now is offering in all

its overgrown, lightning speed, jumbled emotions

chaotic, unregulated, gaudy, lovely, and freakish

invitations to run towards and run towards

Run towards

that which is in front of you

beckoning with a crooked finger

Awaken to the intimacy

that is here

calling your name

pulling at the coattails of your fears

to uncover them

to unleash them

to offer you

what lies under them

the most juicy connection of intimacy with this hard

and soft moment.

I love your willingness to say, maybe or “yes, yes, yes.” Have an orgasm with your life for the Divine is calling you. This breath is that chance to say yes. This breath can change your mind, your life. This breath can call your attention to something so simple, so little, something so deep you can fall forever in love.

Say yes to you and book a strategy session with me while I am still offering them. http://gurutejsessions.com

20 minutes could change your life, your intimacy, and your Divine nature.

Wahe Guru love to you,

Gurutej Khalsa

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Tags : Gurutej Session, intimacy, life, love, The Day, Valentine's

On Community: No one but you…

Posted by Gurutej 
· November 7, 2013 
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Join my yoga communityOn Community: No one but you…

Do you sometimes feel that you are alone in what you are doing; that you may have part of your community but not all of it; that you have people you love but you need a guiding force? Do you spend too much time online hoping to feel connected or to make up for lack of connections that really feed your essence?

Let me tell you something. I have been part of a community all my life. First it was my raucous family of 8 in a 2, then 4, bedroom house; then boarding schools where you could feel totally connected, or totally alone, or both. Then, college, where we had freedom to choose our communities. Wooo hooo, that was great! I chose not to be part of a sorority because I didn’t want anyone telling me who I could be with and who I couldn’t be with. I, the private school Catholic girl, got to jump in and date Jewish men.

My father asked me why I didn’t pick up my dates at the Newman Center (Catholic center) instead of the Synagogue. Ha, I wasn’t picking them up at either of those places. I was meeting them in life and parties in my new community of 4,000, not 200. Then I got swept into a community of hippies protesting. Yes, doing lots of drugs and, yes, craving a much deeper connection to The Divine to break all the barriers and have true freedom. This path led me to yoga, meditation, and a life of spiritual community, then into creating spiritual communities all over Canada. And I could go on about that since there is no happy ending to anything (there are just continuums) but we rarely see that except in hindsight.

Communities start, hopefully grow and evolve. You come into them at whatever station you board that train. It may be in its barely-begun evolution, in a growth spurt, it’s congealing stage, or it’s already coming apart and reforming into something you may or may not feel connected to. I have experienced all these.

A community is not a stagnant thing, but a living organism that grows and shifts and dies and maybe is reborn in a different form. I want to invite you in; to be part of my community. It will be taking a huge leap this year and I want you to be in it as that leap is happening.

If you sign in, you will get a gift from me that will serve you. This is just the beginning of the gifts you will receive. I also want you to know that I look forward to hearing from you, for that is what community means—that we are connected and are part of each other. I also count on you taking my offers to uplift yourself as they come, for truthfully, a community is not just a resting place, but also hopefully one that pushes you to grow. I can promise that I will do that to, and with you, for you are part of my large and amazing community.

If you want to find a new place in life, a new place in yourself, a new place to get the light and understanding that your essence craves, then please stay tuned, for that is the platform of this community. I want to help you bring forth your light and know how to fan those flames; to pick yourself up when you fall down; to have more discipline to do the things that you know you should, could, and would because they will serve you and those around you. Work is truly worship. Love you.

Wahe Guru love to you,

Gurutej Khalsa

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Categories : Energy
Tags : communities, community, life, Yoga

Thank the Little Things

Posted by Gurutej 
· October 24, 2013 
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Thank the Little Things

Thank the Little Things

Do you thank the little things? When you don’t truly honor what you have, including your gifts, what you have will leave you. This became clear once again as Yogi Bhajan was speaking about a student of his who kept complaining of being lonely, saying that she didn’t have anyone in her life (an intimate partner). One day, he had had enough so he said to her, “Here is $20 to go get a haircut (we don’t cut our hair). The woman asked why. He gave her another $20 and said, “So you can go to a club and meet a man.” Again she asked why. He gave her another $20 and said, “This is to take him to dinner. He will do the rest to you.” She was totally affronted. “That’s disgusting,” she said, and handed the money back to him.

What he was trying to show her was how much she had in her life—the love of friends, her closeness to him, the vastness of the teachings, the power to chant, the beauty of the Naam, and so much more. We sometimes only see what we don’t have and we miss the vastness of what surrounds us.

Last week, I had the great fortune to meet this amazing woman. First, I must put it in perspective. We had just come from a few days with Keith’s father who had a stroke about 20 months ago. He was a very independent  87-year-old before then—fox-hunted on horseback, drove himself and his horse trailer to all events, and chased 30-something women. Now he is very dependent. He still wants to be in charge but this is propagated by following you around and making sure that you are not taking all the food from the fridge or turning the burners off behind you if you try to cook so you don’t burn the house down. He is not mean, nor does he try to be on top of you, he just needs to be in charge of something—his life if possible.

So when we went to Ashville to visit some friends and she wanted to introduce me to her 89-year-old mother, I can’t say I was super excited. Well, I got the surprise of my life. She was simply beautiful on every level and a joyous being of great physical beauty as well. I asked about her great joyous nature and her reply was so simple and so true. She said, “I just walk around all day being grateful for everything, even the things I don’t think I want.” Then she said with a twinkle in her eyes, “You never know what will come from those things do you?” I wanted to be around her. She was the most joyous person I have ever met. What I learned was to be thankful and to thank the little things.

Do you thank your toothbrush for being there to serve your teeth and mouth; your bed, for hosting you each night; your pillows, for cradling your head; the water, for coming out of the tap when you turn it on; your fridge, for keeping your food fresh; the floor, for holding you up? Think of 10 things you take for granted and write them down.

Now see if you can remember to be “greatful” for each of these things more than once each day. Start by being “greatful” for the mundane things that serve you every day, then move to the more profound. Thank your meditative mind for pulling you back from reactions. Thank your practice for sustaining you. Thank the chants for uplifting your spirit; the Naad, the sound current, for changing your state of mind (and always being on call for you). It can be such a simple, fun and profoundly transformative exercise. Let me know how you are enjoying this. The great thing about this is you can’t stay angry or grumpy when you do this. You might get sarcastic about it all, but the more you practice the more you will enjoy how things come running towards you. You will find you lose less time, money, and have less regrets about everything.

What I want for you is to have your power, joy, creativity, and your passion awakened and available to you always! When you begin to appreciate everything in your life, you are on the way to Getting Your Essence Back. If you’re ready to receive a step-by-step proven life plan and step into your true self, then I invite you to experience my special program, Get Your Essence Back.

In this special online program, I share with you my time-tested method on how to get back in touch with your “essence” or the genuine YOU. This is all just a small part of what is in the Get Your Essence Back program.

You will learn how to change each of the most important aspects of your being. I want you to be totally supported in becoming a gratitude queen/king and claiming the joy that comes with each station. Get Your Essence Back is here for you to begin that journey! Click the link and get the free sample audio and chapters right away!

I am so “greatful” to each and every one of you and for each of you. I am most “greatful” to serve you in as many ways as you allow me to.

Wahe Guru love and joy to you,

Gurutej Khalsa

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Tags : creativity, grateful, greatful, Joy, life, little things, passion, power, thanking, Yoga

Chakras: Lifetimes and Lifelines

Posted by Gurutej 
· October 15, 2013 
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Lifetimes and ChakrasChakras: Lifetimes and Lifelines.

If you think this is the only life you have, then this might not be for you. Everything in this planet works within cycles. One planet may be slow-moving and another, much faster, but they all have a cycle. They move within that cycle. When the cycle shifts, it is a big deal. When the sun shifts its poles or when it has larger-than-usual flares, we pay attention, for it means big shifts for us all. You too have cycles within this lifetime and cycles beyond this life.

I had a download the other day that was about our cycles. I was having a conversation with this very interesting soul. He was saying that his cousin held this belief that we all had 7 lifetimes just as we have 7 chakras. Each lifetime is connected to a chakra. Trying to connect with someone in their first chakra or lifetime when you are in your 4th chakra (lifetime) is very challenging. I found this interesting but not totally accurate. We have 7 times 7 lifetimes and more. We have an infinite number of times to have different experiences till our longing to merge again takes hold and won’t let go. Lifetimes do align with different energies. At any one time, some people are here just to enjoy life; some to learn from suffering; some to be enlightened.

This is why the feeling we have to save a person or group of people is so humorous at some level. We all get to experience the finite and the infinite at the level we are asking to understand this time. The infinite is doing a dance through you. No one needs to be saved. Allow people to ask for what they want. If they don’t ask, they can’t receive it.

I saw this woman about my age emerge from this very, very expensive car. Really, I couldn’t even tell you what it was not—Maserati, Ferrari, Lotus, Bentley, Porsche—but she got out and she appeared very adjusted to the skilled hands of her plastic surgeon. What I noticed most was that she was not radiant and happy. I wanted to say to her she had a lovely, fun car. I wanted to ask, “When was the last time you thanked it for being your carriage and taking you where you wanted to go?” It’s a lesson to us all. She didn’t want what I had for sure, or didn’t know she did. If I had talked to her about consciousness or chanting, I couldn’t have kept her attention for a moment.

So, use the intuition of your chakras to discern what chakra a person is vibrating in. Then, you can meet them there. Only when you meet them there can you take them anywhere else. Meeting someone you are attracted to and yet not vibrating at the same chakra most of the times will not lead to a fun lifetime together. Pay attention, for example, if someone is really into guns and military and you are into yoga and meditation, this could be a sign that you are not sharing the same level of lifetime. This is not about one being better or worse, it is about what you came here for, or what you need to experience in this lifetime. If you want consciousness yet crave the security of a relationship, make sure you don’t sell your consciousness for the security. All levels of experience are amazing revelations of The Divine. Some just mix like water and oil—not very well. If you look at life from this place, then you will see that it is not about right or wrong; it is about what is effective for you in this incarnation.

Assess what lifetime in (terms of chakras) you feel that you are in. Then see if it is the first one you have been working with (that chakra) or the 7th or 1,000,000th. We master energies at some point. Let yourself see from a neutral place, assessing and knowing how you feel in this chakra. Are you a beginner? Intermediate? Advanced? Enjoy where you are and the gifts of this lifetime. This will help you to see what lifelines you need and what is immediately available to you. You can then open yourself to more by including chants that activate that chakra—chants and meditations that focus on opening you to the gifts you have and the ones you need. Check out my meditations on my Gurutej Kaur YouTube channel.  They just might be of help. Lifelines.

Enjoy knowing why you are here this time around. Enjoy seeing how vast you can make this journey. Enjoy plumbing the depths of this chakra or coiled energy of the Divine that you are exploring. Wahe Guru to you.

All Love and Blessings,

Gurutej Khalsa

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Tags : chakra, chakras, chants, cycles, enlightenment, intuition, life, lifelines, lifetimes, meditation, Yoga

Life: What Rocks Your Boat?

Posted by Gurutej 
· October 10, 2013 
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What Rocks Your BoatLife: What Rocks Your Boat?

I was walking down my stairs and that sentence came to me. I thought music, kirtan, dancing, teaching, connecting with friends, my grandchildren, son and daughter, being in love, being with my beloved doing anything, painting, writing, rollerblading, doing yoga, the ocean, swimming or snorkeling in the ocean, learning new things, seeing what I consider good art, travel, talking with little children (they tell you the most amazing things), teaching in other countries, connecting with people I don’t know or seem that I don’t know… and so much more—things that draw me in and make me feel part of the community aspect of life—the joyous community where we are encouraged to sing and dance, and see, and be.

What rocks your boat?

What gives you the juice?

How often do you do the things that rock your boat?

If we love something and yet withhold it from ourselves, then we are living a punishing life. I understand that some of the things you may love may not be good for you on many levels. I also know that when you keep asking the question more and more deeply, you will find that what you love and what feeds you (rocks your boat) really are good for you. Sometimes, we have to get past the punishing things we think we love but really they are to express our hatred of some aspect of our self. They are there to punish us much eeper than that lies what you really crave.

What you crave at 20 is not the same thing that you crave at 30, 40, 50, 60 or beyond. Look at what you love now, then look around and see what others older than you seem to be craving. Look with excitement. Look with eyes of peace. Look with adventure. Look with depth of heart. Look fearlessly to reveal truthfully what rocks your boat. Then please share it with me. I too want to know what rocks your boat.

Deep Love and Blessings,

Gurutej Khalsa

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Tags : crave, life, love, Yoga

How to Claim More Appreciation and Gratitude

Posted by Gurutej 
· October 3, 2013 
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Gratitude for AppreciationHow to Claim More Appreciation and Gratitude

Yesterday, I was having a conversation with a friend about gratitude and appreciation. I was speaking about appreciation as being for everything—what you have received and what has gone from you or never comes to you. He stated that gratitude was for what we had, but more. It was the foundation that appreciation could spring from. What I realized in that moment is that gratitude gives your dimension and appreciation gives you depth. Together, they are partners in vastness—your vastness.

Gratitude gives you the width and breath of your life and appreciation gives you the depth. One is vertical and the other horizontal. Together they create a more alive, juicy, in-depth life.

The easiest way I know to practice these great jewels of life is to slow your rhythms down. When racing, you bypass so much. You just fly by missing the delicacies and delights of life. Funny that you crave sweets and treats and yet you bypass so many of those treats that come to visit you. Last night, I was speaking with several of my students after class and one student was lamenting that she just wanted to have a man to take care of her so she can relax. We spoke more and she revealed that even on dates, she was always trying to control every situation. She was longing to have the feminine brought out in her but she was fighting anyone who attempted to do so. After speaking and listening more, I said, “I want you to do something. Will you just practice this one thing? Sunia. This is the capacity to listen with your entire being. Just start with listening to everyone. Try having no opinion from the start. just listen and let what they are saying or doing be interesting. Will you do that?” Another student wrote it down. The first student said, “Yes, I will try.”

Look into Japji. Google it. You can hear it chanted on YouTube or get the written translation in several languages. Out of the 40 verses that Guru Nanak wrote after he was liberated, four (which is 10%) are dedicated to Sunia. 10% of what he got in this liberated state was LISTEN, for it is in listening that you can learn. It is in listening that you can merge understanding and compassion. You don’t have to fix anyone. You are spared from saving the world. You can find deep calm and acceptance in listening from your heart, your essence, your intuition. Simply listen. Don’t judge. Don’t analyze. Just allow it to be interesting. You will elicit much more depth in what is revealed to you. If the person is just complaining, when there is no resistance or reaction, there is nothing to keep pushing against. It will diffuse them. Give yourself 40 days of just listening. Sunia. See what happens to you and your life. Then please, let me know.

Wahe Guru love to you,

Gurutej Khalsa

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