Extending love to my thoughts | A Twelvemonth of Self Love

Five Ways to Use Facebook as Spiritual Practice

Eva Lisle — Thu, 12 May 2016 22:01:36 +0000

If spiritual practice is our intentional awareness and focus on connecting to God, our hearts and our brothers then let’s link it to something we already do every day: Facebook! Recently I have heard several stories of folks who stepped away from Facebook because of some of the things that were said or posted. I would like to offer an alternative solution. Firstly, if your gut says “No more…

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12. Day 11: Oh! I Forgot To Mention…

Eva Lisle — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:12:15 +0000

I forgot to mention yesterday in my post about stepping way out of my comfort zone that the feeling of discomfort is co-mingled with a deep undercurrent of willingness, delight, wonder and empowerment. My daughter mentioned this to me on her way out the door. It is a good thing to have an accountability partner when you have taken on the practice of extending love to your thoughts (and feelings).

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12. Day 4: A Sensitive Issue

Eva Lisle — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:07:08 +0000

Extending love to feeling and feelings is a departure for me. Sure, I can extend love to thoughts all day long. Even though thoughts in this case are everything I am aware of. See, that’s the thing. I am not really aware of my feelings. I am aware of sadness, happiness, despair and crossness but feeling those things is different. I have trained myself (not very well actually) to ignore my…

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11. Day 17: Why Is Working HARD Always A Success Principle?

Eva Lisle — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:55:28 +0000

I will let you in on a little secret. You simply can’t hang out with the idea of success, even if fear is present, without kind of wanting to experience some version of success. This may explain why I uncharacteristically set a timer for one hour and told myself “you can clean the drawers under the washer and drier for one hour; just go for it!” Because I am really noticing exactly what spurs…

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11. Day 16: Extending Love To Worry

Eva Lisle — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:04:33 +0000

The other day I just woke up ready to cry. My saddened, sodden pile of thoughts left me feeling damp, cold, heavy and unforgiving. It took me a while to realize this feeling/thought cluster was worry. Our prolonged trip and time of rest had nearly all but wiped worry from my radar; enough so as I didn’t recognize the feeling at first. Now recognized, I saw the thoughts wanted to drag years of…

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10. Day 29: First I Judge

Eva Lisle — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:22:11 +0000

My desire to judge a situation as hurtful-therefore-I-must-fix-this was revealed yesterday. I am seeing today, that the first thing that happens is that I judge a thing as hurtful to someone. I could just stop at “first I judge”, the “what I judge” is much like the “of” as in what am I afraid “of”. It is the fear itself all over again. Judgement is fear. Full stop. I could make a case for…

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10. Day 21: A-Z of Fear

Eva Lisle — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 13:23:39 +0000

Fear in all it’s glorious forms and colors is all that stands in our way from being aware of Love’s Divine Presence all the time. There is no need to fear fear itself. Fear is nothing more than a contraction, a sharp intake of breath, a collapsing of thought. The more I shine the light on my fears the more they just seem like different coloring crayons used for shading, drama and spark. Still.

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10. Day 10: Fear Is A Stoplight

Eva Lisle — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 14:23:36 +0000

I woke up today with a feeling of shadow passing over me. I didn’t feel grey exactly but there was definitely a presence of gray with a soupçon of lurking. Since I actually feel rested, happy and satisfied I could notice this “feeling presence” without alarm. I got up and decided to have a cup of tea with this gray feeling presence and see what happened. First I lit a candle, put the kettle on…

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7. Day 14: When Extending Love Is Impossible

Eva Lisle — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 12:09:35 +0000

I am beginning to wish I had not listened to the Holy Spirit and chosen extending love to my fear of honesty. And I certainly wish I hadn’t told anybody. I am in a funk today for no apparent reason. I could call up a few reasons and try to make those stories the “why” of my funk but that feels less than honest (again I say damned honesty). I just woke up with a great sense of heaviness on my…

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6. Day 30: Tiredness Is But A Reminder To Go Within

Eva Lisle — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:04:11 +0000

In this month I have spent with tiredness (extending love, honesty, understanding, awareness and trust etc) I can honestly say “What was I afraid of again??” I now know, down to my [still occasionally weary] toes that tiredness is but my reminder to pause, breathe and go within. Immediately if not sooner. I can see that tiredness covers a multitude of sins of love’s omission. When I think about…

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