Oftentimes when I’m presented with challenges that seem especially insurmountable and foreboding, my inner superhero gene gets triggered (usually after the initial feelings of overwhelm and doubt).
For some reason, I seem to have a bit of code in me that insists: nothing is impossible, so let’s figure this one out. I take whatever the conundrum is and treat it like a video game, or one of those incredibly popular Zynga games. I want to get to the next level of the game – in this case the “game of life”.
Please understand – I’m not saying life’s challenges can be equated to “Words with Friends” or “Call of Duty: Black Ops II”. But when they do arise, I want to approach them with a strategy for winning and overcoming hardships in spades.
My strategies include: learning everything about the situation, the players, their game style, knowing where I am within myself, meditating, and of course, thinking outside the box (my favourite ploy).
My superhero gene gets triggered a great deal. I sometimes wonder why that may be so.
I think the answer lies partly in my optimism, and partly in my instinctive need for control. I don’t like the feeling of defeat or resignation. At the core of my being, I know this life is beautiful and that’s why I bought a ticket for this ride. I want to fully experience all of the beauty, joy and peace there is, though these experiences may seem elusive at times I do accept surrender, but only after I have asked every question, tried every option, and left a window open for crazy synchronicities.
So that brings us to Fukushima and radioactivity. Regardless of your position on nuclear weapons or nuclear energy, we are slowly beginning to awaken to a radiation-flavored future as an impending reality. The kind of radiation that does not recognize boundaries, pick sides, or leave the green vegetables alone.
It is, in fact, an invisible, odorless, weightless, almost ageless (and I would go as far as saying humorless) “opponent”. It flies, it swims, it seeps, it sneaks – it is omnipresent once released, whether accidentally or purposefully. What is a superhero to do against such a formidable opponent?
It is in such big, impossible situations that we must rally the neocortex and think outside the box. I am pretty convinced that burning, burying or shipping radioactive materials into space is not the final answer. So instead, I urge you to join me in visualising the radiation dissolving into a beautiful, non-toxic, safe and useful energy. If we hold that as an intention in our consciousness, then that seed has the possibility of sprouting.
And in terms of our bodies, I invite you to turn within and speak to the atoms within your cells. Find a place to sit or lie down, and take a few deep breaths to rid your body of the stress of the day. Close your eyes, and turn your focus inward.
Bring your awareness to the atoms that could be affected by the radiation (from the sun or Fukushima) and ask them what they need to be stable, strong and faster than the frequency of radiation. You may sense an energy or color. Imagine drawing that color or energy in from the universe and filling your whole body with it until you begin to hum with light. And then when you are ready open your eyes.
If we allow ourselves a moment to experience the magnitude of our consciousness we recognize that we can “speak” to these atoms (think of the atoms as the mind of the cells) lovingly and tell them to steer a steady course through these turbulent times with awareness and confidence.
That is my superhero approach to Fukushima, the sun rays and radiation.
Aloha.
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Memo:
Enemy No.1 needs your love and attention for the good of the whole
Imagine you received a memo like this. Would you be up for the challenge? Would your superhero curiousity be piqued? Mine certainly would be. I’d be looking for my cape and getting ready for some fearless maneuvers!
Granted, we don’t usually receive such memos calling for grand gestures to save the world. But there are many opportunities to transform the lives of those around us through acts of kindness, compassion and love. Real life heroism at its finest!
This assignment today requires a strong heart. Are you up to the task?
For today’s mediation, we are going to send love to those we have deemed unworthy of our love for any reason. For example, someone who has caused us deep harm, abandoned us, or someone we just “don’t like”. (Keep in mind – animosity never appears out of thin air. There’s always a reason for such strong feelings.)
You may be asking yourself, “Why should I do that? Those people owe me. They have hurt me.”
The purpose of this exercise is to expand your capacity for love. You must transcend your own story of you and your “enemy”. By stretching our compassion muscles in these particularly challenging areas, we can begin to contemplate the possibility of inner and world peace.
Will you answer the call?
Here we go, and thank you.
Find an amazing spot to sit for this mediation. Begin to become aware of your breath, and consciously begin to quieten the mind and body from external distractions. Take another deep breath and close your eyes.
Now think of someone that you do not like or feel angry with, or someone you deem unworthy of your love. Take the first person that comes into your awareness and allow them to stand to the right of you in your consciousness.
Turn your attention back to yourself. Breathe, and quieten your body and mind. When you are ready, ask your body where it holds the ability or quality of love that can transcend fear, judgement, or your own story of being hurt.
Take your awareness to the place that holds this expansive, transcendent capacity to love. What does this kind of love feel like? Is it warm or light? Allow your senses to touch and vibrate with this energy. Once you can feel it vibrating in your body, begin to radiate it out as waves of energy towards your “enemy”.
Observe what happens. Does the person move away or change? Stay focused on being in this experience of transcendent love, and allowing it to flow from you. Take your time here to really connect to this energy, and the healing transformation that is taking place. Let your mind be silent.
Continue in this exercise until the person leaves, or fades into the light.
Now take another deep breath, and begin to radiate this loving energy into yourself – to all the places you hold judgement against yourself, places where you feel unworthy. Allow the same wonderful, transcendent energy to pour into your inner fibres, nourishing and healing you. Take as long as you would like, or until you feel you have completed this transformation.
As we clear the energy fields within our own bodies and auras we have our first taste of peace, acceptance, love for ourselves and those we deem our enemies.
Yippee! Let’s get it on!
Recently, I sat down with the brilliant Saskia Röell of Your Soul Guidance to discuss how to be in heart and mind when faced with worst-case scenarios.
In 2010, I was involved in a freak accident that would turn my life, and the life of my then two-year-old son, completely upside down. In this interview I share the wisdom, strength and clarity I drew from that experience with all of you.
We can connect to the truth in ourselves. We don’t have to be afraid. We can be loving beings even when we’re in worst-case scenarios.
Read below for a look into our interview.
Saskia Röell: Navjit, the first question I always ask my guests is this: What happens when you have a Soul path that’s been calling you forever, and at some point in your life you open that door and say goodbye to your small and fearful Self
and say hello to a much bigger part of us? Can you relate to that? Has there been a moment in your life that was a turning-point moment?
Navjit Kandola: I think so. I think all of us feel a calling, whether we recognize it or not. It could be felt as a discomfort or lack of connection to what we’re doing. It could be that everything seems fine, but there’s something else that is calling
you. I remember when I was about 21 and I had just finished my law degree. A future was laid out ahead of me, which included pursuing law and becoming a lawyer, a barrister, at some time, and then continuing that path and becoming a
judge at some point.
It also included an arranged marriage. Various other foundations for my life were laid out, and I remember one day looking down that road and thinking to myself, “That’s not me.” However, I also didn’t know what was me. Sometimes we think
when we have a calling we’re going to know exactly what it is we’re pursuing, or that we’re going to have a sense of how to pursue it.
Oftentimes it just starts as ‘not that’. It’s not this, but I don’t know what it is yet. I don’t know the first thing about how to get in the right direction toward home, which is ourselves.
Saskia Röell: Navjit, was it like a gradual path for you, where you discovered who you are and what your calling is, so to speak?
Navjit Kandola: Yes, certainly. It took me working on myself. I think for me it was very much about trying to find out who I was and what my relationship was to life. What did I really feel about life? What did I really feel about work? What did I
really feel about relationships? I didn’t have that sense of myself deep enough to really know how to respond to life from a much deeper self.
Thus, my journey was a journey of self-discovery, which is a very pointed journey of self-discovery. This means I wanted to actually study. I wanted to know on a very deep level that I could make decisions and choices. I would know they really
came from me and not out of fear, because I was trying to please someone, or because they were going to make me look successful in the world.
Have a listen to the rest of the interview by clicking here, or download the full transcript by clicking here.
