Living Your Truth
Living Your Truth
By, Donna Daacke
Have ever considered how your life would have turned out if….. you had only? If you had only married so and so, or if I had only made that big move, or accepted that other job offer. Inevitably we are going to wonder and even think one of these other choices would have been the better choice right? What if our human experience offers many opportunities to live out what western cultures call dharma. ( Closest English Translation Meaning “The Right Way Of Living”) We are born into a particular cultural group, family, geographic location etc but, even within those various settings we will have many many choices for pursuing our dharma. Whatever path we follow, which ever direction we choose on the crossroads of life, if we are following our “dharma” we are pursing our truest calling and serving all other beings by playing out our true role. Ultimately when your life is aligned with your dharma, and you are living “the right way” or have knowledge of one’s true self it brings peace and joy.
10 Tips to Discover Your Personal Dharma
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/discover-your-dharma_b_2517835?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFmQMuvainrE3y9bAY2gsXMA5A8ulQ-7unPoOy5qJuK3EAGQzC2KqPh-SHKWCWEV4mcujhr37xWvYsKftLMdb0TyhtIsLcaLrKR7IedQo8PgRgpU0_aC8tnM-6vqmlPkLCSeV9k2zGoPpi0Lus_wt6p6a3gmXkEz4MkBJiIvhgaX
1. Pay attention to synchronicity. Life is very good at guiding you, if you just pay attention. Notice what or who keeps showing up in your life. If someone or something shows up over and over, it's likely that the person or thing is tied to your dharma.
2. Follow callings. Callings are those things that you feel deep inside guiding you that don't necessarily make sense to anyone else but you. You feel a direction to do something, but it's not through your mind. These callings are preparation for your personal dharma.
3. Know when it's time to go. If you are feeling like it's time to move on, then it's probably time to move on. Your mind might be fighting you, but your soul knows best.
4. Be aware that it's not linear. The path to your personal dharma may in fact feel like a spiral. Just when you think you've gotten there, you find yourself spinning deeper into some aspect. It helps to surrender to the notion that the journey isn't always forward.
5. Make friends with the illogical. It's important to know that your dharma is not necessarily coming from a rational place. If you are trying to over-mastermind it, you will probably drive yourself crazy, and your dharma will feel even further away.
6. Have a practice that connects you to a greater source. Whether it's yoga, meditation, painting or walking in the woods, it's important to connect with a source greater than you because that's where the information about your dharma lies and that's where you'll find the support to step into it.
7. Look at the people you admire. The people you admire tend to represent the greater aspects of you. Put on your detective hat. This can give you clues to your personal dharma.
8. Take it seriously, but be light-hearted about it. If you take discovering your dharma too seriously, you may not actually be able to see it. It helps to have a light touch.
9. Have courage to walk into the mystery. If you are committed to discovering your dharma, you'll need to call in a higher level of trust.
10. Allow breathing space. Your dharma is not something you can "catch." You need to take steps, then leaps, and then let yourself breathe. Patience is an absolute necessity.
How do we live our Dharma? Desiring to live our Dharma gives us a good reason explore Karma another western concept. I don’t think of karma in terms of punishment but, rather one can think of karma as the spiritual equivalent of Newton’s Law of Motion “For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.” When we are negative in thoughts and actions we draw back more negative energetic thoughts and actions. “What we think about comes about” this is also the bases for the power of thoughts and actions in manifesting our dharma. Okay, so I know some of this may getting in deep let's bring you the to following. No matter the belief system I think we would all agree that these ideas are helpful in guiding us toward our happy, whole, and connected place during this life time.
The 12 Laws of Karma Everyone Should Know!
https://www.beinghappybuddha.com/blogs/insights/the-12-laws-of-karma-everyone-should-know.
1. The Great Law or The Law of Cause & Effect
As you sow, so shall you reap.
To receive happiness, peace, love, and friendship, one must BE happy, peaceful, loving, and a true friend.
Whatever one puts out into the Universe will come back to them.
2. The Law of Creation
Life requires our participation to happen. It does not happen by itself.
We are one with the Universe, both inside and out.
Whatever surrounds us gives us clues to our inner state.
Surround yourself with what you want to have in your life and be yourself.
3. The Law of Humility
One must accept something in order to change it. If all one sees is an enemy or a negative character trait, then they are not and cannot be focused on a higher level of existence.
4. The Law of Growth
Wherever you go, there you are. It is we who must change and not the people, places or things around us if we want to grow spiritually.
All we are given is ourselves. That is the only thing we have control over.
When we change who and what we are within our hearts, our lives follow suit and change too.
5. The Law of Responsibility
If there is something wrong in one’s life, there is something wrong in them.
We mirror what surrounds us, and what surrounds us mirrors us; this is a Universal Truth. One must take responsibility for what is in one’s life.
6. The Law of Connection
The smallest or seemingly least important of things must be done because everything in the Universe is connected. Each step leads to the next step, and so forth and so on. Someone must do the initial work to get a job done. Neither the first step nor the last are of greater significance. They are both needed to accomplish the task. Past, Present, and Future are all connected.
7. The Law of Focus
One cannot think of two things at the same time. If our focus is on Spiritual Values, it is not possible for us to have lower thoughts like greed or anger.
8. The Law of Giving & Hospitality
If one believes something to be true, then sometime in their life they will be called upon to demonstrate that truth. Here is where one puts what they CLAIM to have learned into PRACTICE.
9. The Law of Here & Now
One cannot be in the here and now if they are looking backward to examine what was or forward to worry about the future. Old thoughts, old patterns of behavior, and old dreams prevent us from having new ones.
10. The Law of Change
History repeats itself until we learn the lessons that we need to change our path.
11. The Law of Patience & Reward
All Rewards require initial toil. Rewards of lasting value require patient and persistent toil. True joy comes from doing what one is supposed to be doing, and knowing that the reward will come in its own time.
12. The Law of Significance & Inspiration
One gets back from something whatever they put into it. The true value of something is a direct result of the energy and intent that is put into it. Every personal contribution is also a contribution to the Whole. Lesser contributions have no impact on the Whole, nor do they work to diminish it. Loving contributions bring life to and inspire the Whole.
Every opportunity as well as every missed chance in life is a chance to get it right, we are just lucky enough to have many different ways of getting it right. Maybe it’s not about the doing and the who, and the when and the where but about the practice of just being and living out our truest self in every moment.
Sending out so much love, and feeling it come right back at me,
XO Donna
