5 Tips to create your paradise

It is common to assume paradise is a place other than where you are.  What if you have the power to create your own sense paradise from this very moment? Reflect on these five tips;

1. Clarify what paradise means for you

Is paradise represented by a particular place, climate, vegetation, food, objects, state of mind, interacting with certain people, engaging in certain activities, a feeling of being 'home'? Whatever it entails, write it all down, draw images or collage it, to make the vision more real. 

2. Identify your passions

What you are doing when you feel joyful, loving, lose all sense of time, or feel connected to something beyond yourself?  Pinpoint what sorts of things you do already to evoke such feelings. This may include things like; vocations, sexual encounters, giving of yourself or surrendering to inspiration and giving that creative form in ways that enrich the world. 

3. See the external world as a mirror   

How you feel inside is reflected in your external experience. That is, if you are not experiencing your version of paradise in the external world, this is an invitation to do some inner work.  Clarify a new vision.  Every situation offers lessons in love and points to a flip-side.

4. Recognize the power of emotions

Emotions arise to guide us to our own unique feeling of paradise.  They let us know if we feel balanced or unbalanced, close or far away from our unique frequency of inner harmony. You might feel this as respect, light-heartedness (humor), appreciation, acceptance, self-love, self-confidence, calmness, gentleness, humility, or some combination of similar feelings.

5. Feel the way

As well as the metaphors and examples of heaven depicted in books and movies, paradise is a feeling that we create inside ourselves wherever we are.  As we ease into higher levels of self-love and acceptance, the external world mirrors this in different forms. People seem to appreciate us more.  We feel heard and validated. We act in ways that are increasingly intuitive, fearless.  We grow unafraid to be more fully transparent, candid and vulnerable. For example, you can say you are moving into an environment that feels more like paradise in relation to your vision, but this only happens as you love yourself more as you are, where you are .  Come what may, take responsibility for your creative energy.  Recognize you have unlimited power to live in joy.  Now, what do you do when you find paradise? What if its the moment to create ways to share it?

Comments

[Bern]

Paradise is a placeless place of not thinking of being anywhere else other than where you are at in any given moment. There is nothing left to seek or attain or move towards and yet, one is flowing step by step in a zone of pure satisfaction. I have been side tracked from my obvious passion of just hiking long distance trails for about a year now. I thought maybe i was to widen my range of experience and be a part of the spiritual movement in other avenues and ways of being. However, every time i stepped onto such paths, they essentially self obstructed. I sense that the engagements were versed in what was lacking in my life and so that lack would manifest within the relationship. How do i fit in and what am i waiting for often just popped into my mind making me feel empty and somewhat deflated and depressed. However, when i am out in nature, living and breathing each and every moment from here to here to here even though it may be perceived as there, then there is a knowing of wholeness and completion in ongoing moments of a step by step expansion process. There is a wondrous feeling of not having to come full circle on a daily outing, but instead, to know that i can just continue forward from dawn to dusk, sleeping under the stars and being blanketed by a haven of heaven.

[Liara Covert]

Bern, rest assured, you are always right where you are choosing (and meant) to be. Taking full responsibility for all our choices and how we feel can seem like a tall order. Yet, everything is doable. Common perception in the western world evokes states of anxiety. One key reason is in the frequent use of the word 'survival' and the assumed need to act to feel more secure. Restlessness and depression are frequent pointers to a craving for security, at both an unconscious personal and global level. Insecurity breeds and sustains itself on fear. Both fear and anxiety are natural defense mechanisms experienced by all people. The body responds by fighting or running (as if to escape) something. As you grow more conscious of what you are running to and/or from, life experience shifts with self understanding. Fear is the opposing force to Love. Love and the responses it generates, brings positive, uplifting outcomes, while fear breeds more reasons to fear. The key is to shift inward and feel more often as you do while immersed in Nature, regardless of where you think you are.

[Char]

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