Moriam S. Balogun's Blog

Sometimes we’re afraid of being the best version of ourselves. We fear that if we shine to brightly, if we do our best, we’ll face criticism or perhaps even ridicule. But by allowing our light to shine, we give others the opportunity to do the same.

What is life all about? Is it about learning? Is it about loving? Or is it about something else? I think life is about experience and gaining as much experience as we can on and through different aspects of life. There are no limitations as to what we can learn, as long as we enable ourselves to keep having new experiences.

Some experiences will be great, wonderful even, whilst others may be not so pleasant. By changing our perspectives towards the less pleasant experiences we shall always have something to gain. There’s pretty much a lesson in everything and by looking at challenges in this way, our experience of those lessons will always be to our advantage.

The light we carry, is a light which exudes our purpose. Everyone has a light, but everyone’s light is different. For some, their light could be to go into the world in the form of business and create opportunities for many. For others it could be to teach or to create – a designer, artist, writer. When we allow our light to shine, there are always people who will benefit. It could be one person but it could also be more. Quality isn’t found in numbers and making a difference only needs to start with one person however, the influence or effect could eventually effect many.

The wonderful writer, Marianne Williamson, gave a beautiful speech at President Mandela’s inauguration in 1992. She spoke beautifully about letting our light shine and why its so important to do. A portion of her speech has been included below. Take a read, absorb its message and ensure you do whatever you can to let you light shine bright.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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Worrying is something we all do from time to time. We worry about the things that concern us. We worry about our love ones and sometimes we just worry for the sake of worrying.

In the last few years I’ve started to consciously stop worrying. I haven’t found worrying to be at all useful, you see. It has never helped me, nor contributed to the solution to any challenges I have been through. Its just made me feel worse and so I decided I needed to stop it. Merriam Webster defines worrying as:

: to think about problems or fears : to feel or show fear and concern because you think that something bad has happened or could happen

: to make (someone) anxious or upset : to cause (someone) to worry

How do we stop worrying?

Its actually easier than most would think. To stop worrying, we simply just stop thinking about an event or situation that causes us to worry. We literally just turn off those thoughts. We don’t deny them, we just don’t think about them. Here lies the difference. When we think about worrying thoughts, we use destructive ways of thinking to look at our worrying situation. Its not productive because worrying doesn’t enable us to find solutions. In fact, worrying makes things worse. Worrying places  emphasis on what could go wrong and sends us into a tailspin of more worrying thoughts.

Download the Stop Worry & Stress Guided meditation here.

When we make a conscious effort to look objectively at our situations, without judgement, we’re  able to see the situation at hand, openly. For example, when we worry about our finances, we often bring in other thoughts that help us confirm our worries. We think of the bills which we won’t be able to pay and the consequences of that. We think about possible conflicts which may occur and this continues in a vicious circle. This makes our worrying worse but it provides us with zero solutions. If we are able to take a step back from our worries by examining our challenge without judgement, we enable ourselves to find the solutions to them.

When we ask ourselves “What can I do about this situation?’ we set ourselves and our minds in a state that is ready to look for a solution. Questioning our situation is helpful. Questions are helpful because we allow ourselves to look for answers. Sometimes the answer is to do nothing, because nothing can be done. Answers like these come up when we already know that we have done all that we can for the time being. Its like asking yourself what you can do to change a situation it the middle of the night. In the middle of the night, there is very little we can do. At these moments the best we can do is to rest and get sleep so that we can try something new, with the energy we need, in the morning.  We can ask ourselves specific questions too. For example, What can I do to earn extra money? When we do this, we again use our minds to look for solutions. By asking ourselves constructive questions, we give ourselves the feeling that we are at least trying to improve our situation and this gives us the feeling of empowerment. We are not victims to our situations but we must enable our thoughts to be open to possibilities and potential.

All answers lie within

Through the active choice I made to not worry, I discovered that all of the answer that I need in life are always accessible. We can access answers to life’s most pertinent questions by looking within. We can look within by meditating. During a deep state of meditation, we can ask ourselves questions and listen to the voice of our intuition return to use the answer we were looking for. Surprisingly enough, the answer that comes doesn’t often surprise us. That makes sense too, because the answers were always within us. Its just that we never thought of looking within to find them.

Helping ourselves find more happiness in our lives is a question of balance. Its being able to roll with the storms as they come and enjoy the warm winds in times of peace, but its life work. It requires regular attention from time to time because life is always about change and growth. When we accept this, we teach ourselves to dance during the rains and realize that there is nothing to fear and answers to our worries are always within reach.

To help others with their worries, I created a guided meditation audio for this. Its called the Stop Worry & Stress Meditation and you can download it here for free.

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The power of our thoughts. The image to the left is an excerpt from book ‘ The Unseen – How Positive Thoughts & Feelings define Potential and impacts your Reality’. I’ll be previewing some chapters but for now I wanted to share this small section with you.

“We have an amazing ability to create just about any thought imaginable”

That, in itself, is fantastic. It shows just how incredible we are as human beings, but there’s a downside to it too.

“Unfortunately, we’re often better at destroying those thoughts through our innate ability to doubt and critique ourselves…”

Why do we do this? Its almost as if we do this at every possible moment. Once we receive good news, we enjoy that moment for a very short period of time and then quickly progress to thinking of reasons why the good news we just received, will suddenly end.

“Yes, we are very skilled in thinking of all the worst possible things that could happen and we’ll easily justify them by thinking of reasons and scenarios that ‘could’ pop up and take our dreams away.”

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine said something interesting. She said “The negative thoughts stick like Velcro and positive thoughts and experiences slip like Teflon”. How recognizable this is.  It was in response to a morning thought I had posted on Facebook, whereby I posed the question of why our experiences of sadness last longer than our experiences of happiness. I wanted to gauge others’  ideas about this, and so I wrote this on my timeline. It received very detailed comments and opinions. It was wonderful to engage in such a way. It was something many people could relate to.

We are scared beings. Scared of living and experiencing. We are scared of losing things that are valuable to us. And so, in an act of self-protection, we begin to prepare ourselves for the worst of things to come. Through our thoughts of fears we generate even more of what we are afraid of. It can be no other way. What we think about, we manifest, whether wanted or not.

If we could focus some what more on the things we love in life, then the chances are we would experience more of that too.

Good to think about!

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Self-love is the act of loving oneself to the degree that they put themselves first. This is not selfishness, but more a sense of selflessness. We need to look after ourselves first. After all, what good are we to others if we are not good for ourselves?

Many philosophers and scientists, such as Albert Einstein, have spoken about love as the universal source of everything. Through love, wars can be prevented, understanding and compassion gained and roads to peace, built. This doesn’t just apply to the love we offer our friends or strangers, but also of the love we offer ourselves.

The world in which we live is a living, breathing, thinking, feeling universe.

The universe is full of love in its true essence. You could even say, that the universe loves itself and through this love so much can be created of greatest benefit. If our universe is so loving and we are, much like an ocean, an individual drop of it, then how does this love refer to us? Does this not mean that as individual expressions of the universe, we must have enough love for ourselves? I think it does mean that, and more importantly, I think it means that we are deserving of our own love too. If this is the way that the universe works and it is through this way that the universe creates, then this is the way to get life to go the way we want it –  in line with the universe.

We can start this by doing simple things that have impact and make a difference.

1 – Positive thinking

Positive thinking gives us the ability to see challenges within new perspectives. The challenge itself may not change, but when we look at the situation from a perception of positivism, we see the solutions that are also present. By allowing ourselves to see the solutions, we free ourselves from the freedom of burden.

2 – Give yourself more credit

How many things have you done in your life that you are proud of? Probably many things. But how many things have you done to be proud of, and given yourself a pat on the back for? By acknowledging self-credit, we confirm to ourselves that we are worthy and good people. We won’t always be able to do things we are proud of, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore what we have done either.

3 – Forgiveness

No one is perfect. In fact, we are perfectly imperfect. When we make mistakes, as we all do, we must take time for a small period of grief. In this grief we acknowledge, without judgement, what we would like to do better the next time and we forgive ourselves for what we have done. Its pointless to keep punishing ourselves for our mistakes. This doesn’t change or erase the mistake. It doesn’t make anything better. All punishment does is keep us trapped on lower levels of thought, which in turn keep us in the same place. Forgiveness of ourselves is making a major breakthrough to self-love.

4 – Stop thinking in limitations

The limitation we have are all concepts of the minds set up by the ego to protect us. In truth, limitations don’t protect us at all. They keep us in stasis. We are unlimited beings with the capacity to unlimited thoughts. What we could not do yesterday, we can try again today and so, by accepting this, we open more roads to opportunities that are available to us.

5 – Every day is a new day

How we feel one day is really no reflection of other days. Each morning as we wake up, we are in fact reborn. Every morning when we wake, we can allow ourselves to have new experiences. In order to have these new experiences, we must release ourselves from our pasts and embrace the new that is to come. We can only do this if we love ourselves enough to move on and further, upwards and higher, whilst understanding that we are free to do this without judgment but love for ourselves.

Self-love brings us close to The Unseen where all potential exists. Our self-love is the key to abundance and it makes perfect sense. How can we have all that we deserve if we can’t even love ourselves?

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More and more people from all over the world have discovered the power of meditation. Although it has been tradition for many thousands of years throughout Asia, it is now recognized both spiritually and scientifically in many other parts of the world. Meditation has proved itself to be effective for stress reduction  but also for self-healing and life creation.

I’ve been meditating for several years now. During some periods, I will meditate more than other times but overall, I can confirm the many benefits brought by meditation. Meditation offers us a chance to really accept ourselves. It offers us the rare opportunity to be alone in a positive moment of solitude and it helps us connect to our infinite potential- free of distractions, free of negativity and free of judgment.

Did you know that meditation isn’t just for reducing stress but can also be used for manifesting and creation? When we meditate and focus on our desires, we significantly increase the potential of our desires becoming a reality. Meditation is our direct link to The Unseen, the field where all potential and possibility exists. When we are connected to the universe in this way, we are really in the position to design our lives through the power of our thoughts. I have experienced this many times and am glad to say that these possibilities are available for anyone to experience.

As a part of my book launch, I will be releasing a number of guided meditation audios (mp3). The advantages of meditation are plenty. It is something I feel must be shared with as many people as possible. It is easy to learn and much easier to do than many people think. To get you started, I have provided a link to my first guided meditation audio. This meditation is specifically for manifesting and creating the life you desire. If you’d like to try it, I encourage you to give it a go. You won’t be disappointed!

Download my free manifesting and creation meditation here.

Enjoy!

 

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The life we create is defined by the thoughts we capture in our minds. From the moment we decide to get up until the time we decide to show up for our work, everything originates as an idea.

My decision to write a book came after several years of writing articles for my Facebook community page. The inspiration for each article came almost from a voice within me. I didn’t question it. It always seemed right and the response from the community confirmed that the messages in the articles we helping others.

At one point, I was writing up to 3 articles per day. Some longer than others, but all with important messages that I felt needed to be said. I wanted to offer others comfort, and in that process, I offered myself the comfort too. The saying is true – when teaching we again become the student. We never stop learning and we learn even more through teaching.

So,  we all have ideas in our heads. Just like I had about writing a book. It starts off with a thought and the longer we think about it, the more it crystallizes into a image, a vision. It’s random at first. Almost like a reel of video-strip frames and thoughts flickering without sequence. Suddenly the ego begins to interfere. With the frames. Nervousness creeps in and a desire for order takes focus. We start to want to control it all, to make it all make sense and give it direction. But that need for control comes paired with ideas of it going wrong. Heightend panic commences. Our ego voice rears. It’s voice gets louder and a lingering thought is triggered suggesting that perhaps, our idea but not be such a good idea after all.

Control

When we try to force things, we meet with our own opposition. The ego voice that appears disguise itsself as a form of protection but in truth, the ego greatly dislikes new ideas. New ideas mean change and changes involved risk. The ego voice remains us of past situations where things may have gone wrong. The ego voice will even point out examples which have no real relevante to our new ideas. The ego voice knows that fear is our master and manipulates us with it. The ego uses fear in an attempt to get its way but doesn’t realize that as with all inspiration and intuïtie ideas, that force is never a requirement.

Inspired ideas

Ideas can just pop into our heads our of nowhere, or so it seems. When an idea comes up, we can see it as inspired thought. The point is not to force it further. There is no need after all. Good ideas are just that – good ideas. Its when we allow the ego voice to mess up our inspiration that we get ourselves into trouble. If only we could really trust in the concept, that what is good stays good. What will be, will be, the universe always finds a way.

When we release resistance – the resistance of letting things happening in their own time, as designed, and allow oour ideas to gain their natural momentum – inspiration is able to seep in again and the ego voice is silenced. The release of resistance enables us to recognize what is happening  and  see how we unintentionally blocked the flow of creation and it’s potential. It can take some time to get the engine running again, but that’s perfectly okay. There is never any rush and there is always more than enough time. We need only to start where we are, use what we have and do what we can. To get there, we must realize that all the things we create originate in our heads. It all starts with an idea.

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“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics” – Albert Einstein

On liveyourbestlifeguide.com you’ll find several articles which I wrote in the past about the subject of the law of attraction and the universe in general. I love this particular quote from Einstein himself. He brings science and spirituality together. It makes perfect sense!

Best,

Moriam

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The Unseen is a guide to living our best lives with help from the universe. It gives very practical tips and information about how the universe works and what we can do to get the universe to work in our favor.

It combines hard science with soft spirituality and and takes you on a 12 step journey that can help change your way of thinking (if you allow it) and change you life.

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