Hello, Spiritual Warrior!

We are living in a hurting and noisy world. And while sometimes it feels like there is nothing we can do about that, there is actually a practice we can always turn to that will calm our hearts and bring peace to the world.

It’s called the Metta Prayer.

This is the prayer of unconditional loving kindness – allowing peace and protection and healing to embed into your heart, as well as to send it out to the universe.

We begin by sending loving kindness to ourselves – knowing that all peace begins with us.

We must be peace in order to share peace.

And from there we begin to spread this loving kindness outwards. To all beings in our near environment … beginning with those closest to us and expanding outwards until we are enveloping the entire universe with this loving kindness.

We send Metta to those that have hurt us, and those that we have hurt.

We send it out – near and far:

May we be happy … may we be well … may we be peaceful … may we be free.

This is such a powerful and yet peaceful practice. It builds our capacity to feel compassion, empathy, gratitude and forgiveness.

Practicing Metta changes the way that we see ourselves, and how we see the world.

Want to make a real shift in your life? If so, I invite you to return to this meditation every day for the next 55 days (8 weeks), and notice the transformation that occurs in your life!

7 minutes a day for 55 days will carry you into the holiday season. You’ll transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you.

Want to dedicate to this practice for the next few months? Email me at teamdavidji@davidji.com and give me a ! I read all my emails and would love to hear from you.

In the meantime, I’ll see you in the gap.

With love,
davidji

Hello, Spiritual Warrior!

Last weekend I held an online Meditation Mastery Masterclass, where we dove deep into Best Meditation Practices before meditating together and chatting about my Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Certification.

Today I thought I’d share with you the Best Practices that I spoke to during the Masterclass. These are NINE specific ways to solidify your meditation practice, and begin to take your life to the next level.

I go more in depth about each one in the video above, but here they are in short:

• Consistency is key
• Ritualize your Practice
• Find your meditation path
• Meditate on the Bookends (AM + PM)
• Show up and Do.The.Thing.
• Practice Guided Meditation
• Keep Beginner’s Mind
• Meditate to Celebrate
• Find Your Tribe

At the end of the day, the most important thing for you to do is to find what works FOR YOU. The best meditation practice is the one that you want to come home to every single day.

I’d love to hear what works for you! Email teamdavidji@davidji.com and tell me about your personal practice. And if you are interested in watching the full recording from our Masterclass on Saturday, click here.

In the meantime, I’ll see you in the gap.
davidji

Hello, Spiritual Warrior!

Today’s meditation might hit close to your heart. It’s about how we have been dimming our own light for years, decades, perhaps even a lifetime.

We’ve all had dreams: ones we built, nurtured, and believed in when we were young. These dreams may be deep longings whose source we never knew, or they may have grown from things we saw or experienced.

At some point, you may have learned that it wasn’t safe to have dreams. A parent, a teacher, a moment of public embarrassment, or a single careless comment may have planted the idea that wanting more was dangerous. That dimming was safer than shining.

Maybe it was one moment. Maybe it was a hundred moments stacked over years. Either way, something in you started to dim your light in response.

You adapted, and of course you did. That’s what humans do. We find a way to survive the room we’re in. But that survival response was meant to get you through a season; it wasn’t meant to define your whole life.

Today you can take your power back. Remember that you are a co-creation with the universe, a human expression of the divine.

Since you were created by the magnificence of the universe, you have a responsibility to it as well. It’s time to stop dimming and start living. You are here to thrive, to expand, and to express your truth.

This 18-minute guided meditation is a place to start.

Are you ready to spark the embers of your inner fire and move from dimmer to shimmer?

I’ll see you in the gap.

davidji

Hello, Spiritual Warrior!

Today I wanted to share with you three sacred questions that you should ask yourself every single day.

These questions can be your anchor; your way of staying focused and steady on connecting to your purpose and truth as you walk through each day of your life.

I like to bring these sacred questions into my morning meditation practice, to remind myself of the answers before I begin my day.

The three sacred questions are:

Who am I when I’m at my best?
What am I grateful for?
What does my heart truly long for?

If you consistently return to these questions day after day, you may notice the answers deepening, or becoming more clear to you. These answers have the ability to walk you through life with greater abundance, peace of mind, and deeper fulfillment.

Thank you for being here in this Sweetspot Community.

I’ll see you in the gap.

davidji

Hello, Spiritual Warrior!

The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu asked two questions that still land, thousands of years later: 

Do you have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water is clear? 

Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself?

Sit with that for a second. 

If you’re honest, the answer is probably no – not most days. 

And the reason isn’t impatience. It’s trust. 

(Or rather, the absence of it.)

Here’s what I want you to consider: every single moment that has brought you to right now – every twist, every setback, every unexpected turn – has been a co-creation between you and the universe. 

It’s not something happening to you. It’s something happening with you, and for you.

But we don’t always live from this wisdom. We hold onto old sadness, and carry it into moments that deserve a clean slate.

We let yesterday’s frustrations color today’s opportunity. 

And then, almost on autopilot, we reach for control – as if the answer to uncertainty is simply to squeeze tighter.

What actually creates ease is trust. 

So in this meditation that I’m sharing with you today, we will lean into that feeling of trust.

We will learn to practice patience until the mud settles and the water becomes clear. We will practice remaining unmoving until the next right action unfolds. 

When we practice this on the meditation cushion, it makes it easier to practice in our daily lives.

I’ll see you in the gap.

davidji

Hello, Spiritual Warrior!

Today I wanted to share something sacred with you. Ready to go deep?

This exercise that I’m sharing is from my Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Teacher Training program.

We’ve got a live webinar every Sunday, and each week we dive into the ancient wisdom teachings, which still hold so much relevance today.

This week in particular, I was having the students really begin to answer the question: 

“Who Am I?”

(Perhaps the largest and most important of any question you could ever ask!)

This was such a powerful exercise in our class, and I wanted to continue sharing it in the hopes that it might awaken something within you as well.

As you settle in for this 23-minute video, I encourage you to get comfortable. You may either listen to these sacred questions as a meditation and simply feel the answers in your heart, or perhaps you’d like to journal on each question. Or, perhaps both.

This is an exercise of illumination and awakening, and it’s not to be taken lightly.

You may receive some answers that have been buried underneath decades of programming and influence from the outside world. You may learn something about yourself that you have never known before.

And you may even begin to peel back the layers that are keeping you from living in your fullest expression. 

I hope that it is as powerful for you as it was for me and the students.

And this is also a reminder that these are the types of exercises that we cover in this training. It is a wonderful way to expand your horizons and reclaim your presence and peace – and you don’t even need to have the desire to teach! There’s usually about ⅓ of the class that doesn’t plan to teach at all – they just take it for their own self-development.

We begin again soon and there’s time to start exploring it – begin by watching the video today and if this is calling to your heart to go deeper, click here to begin to learn more and schedule a free call if you wish.

I’ll see you in the gap.

davidji

Hello, Spiritual Warrior!

As we move into this new month – as well as enter into a new season – it’s the perfect opportunity to look at what we have, instead of focusing on what we don’t have. 

This perspective allows us to live with more gratitude and joy for all of the abundance that we have in our lives.

Abundance consciousness is all about flow.

It’s the lens through which we choose to see life as an infinite, circulating, intertwined, interdependent and interwoven tapestry of threads that connect the fabric of every aspect of existence.

So this meditation that I am sharing with you today is how we return to that space of infinite awareness, to dwell in possibility and limitless abundance. 

In this meditation, we will use the mantra “I Am Abundant,” however you can also use this mantra outside of meditation as you walk through the world.

In line at the grocery store: I Am Abundant.

While driving in traffic: I Am Abundant.

When eating a meal: I Am Abundant.

When looking at your bank account, no matter how much is in it: I Am Abundant.

Each morning when you open your eyes: I Am Abundant.

Abundance consciousness is the ripple that continues growing throughout your life. When you make this perspective shift, everything changes. 

Thank you for meditating with me today.

Is this a practice you are familiar with, or is it something you are continually working on?

With infinite love,

davidji

Hello, Spiritual Warrior,

Let’s talk about Karma – what it is, and what it isn’t. 

It’s not a punishment and reward system designed by the universe – there isn’t “good karma” and “bad karma” that you are destined to have, even though you may hear people speaking superficially about this.

The word Karma actually means ACTION. The word comes from the Sanskrit root kri: to act, to make, to do. 

At its core, Karma is simply energy in motion: the vibration behind your actions, the echo of your thoughts and words as they ripple out into the universe.

I love thinking of Karma as if it were a garden.

The seeds you plant today will determine what you’ll be harvesting tomorrow.

But what actually grows depends entirely on how you tend that garden: whether you water it with love, or neglect it with fear.

So when we feel like we’ve lost our way, here’s a question worth sitting with: 

What have I been planting?

Asking that question – and answering it honestly to yourself – can help you see how and why you may be finding yourself out of alignment.

And here’s the truly liberating part – you are never stuck!

Karma is fluid, and it can shift when you decide to make a shift. One breath, one new thought, one different choice, and you begin again.

So today I invite you to get quiet and ask yourself honestly: what vibration am I radiating into the field around me?

Aham Brahmasmi, Baby!

davidji

Hello Spiritual Warrior,

I’ve been hearing a lot about the importance of REST lately, and I’m sure you may be hearing it too.

There are moments when life feels uncertain, overwhelming, or simply too full. 

In those moments, the most powerful thing we can do isn’t to try to fix, manage or control what is happening. The best thing we can do is to pause, breathe, and return to what is happening right now.

Take 15 minutes to journey into the sacred, precious present moment with me in this guided meditation. We spend so much time ruminating on the past or worrying about the future, so this is your invitation to just allow yourself the gift of being in the here and now. 

This is a meditation about acceptance, surrender, trust, and remembering that you are supported, loved, and connected to something greater than yourself.

Even before you settle in to listen to the full meditation, allow yourself – right now, as you are reading this – to sit with this question:

Here I am, in this sacred, precious present moment. What shall I choose to do with it?

Namaste,

davidji

Hello, Spiritual Warrior,

When I moved from the East Coast to California, I brought everything with me. 

Every letter I’d ever written or received. Old poetry. For nearly ten years, I didn’t delete a single email – just in case I needed it someday. By the time I was settled from the move, I had over 300 boxes sitting in a storage unit. 

I’d been a meditation teacher for years at that point, with very little to do with that old life. But I hadn’t actually let go of it. I was just storing it.

So I made a commitment: throw out at least a couple hundred of those boxes. Feel lighter. And somewhere around box number 200, I had to be honest with myself about what I was really doing with all these boxes – I wasn’t preserving my past; I was congesting my present.

Here’s why this matters, beyond just tidiness: 

If your hands are full, you can’t receive anything.

This isn’t only about boxes in a storage unit. It’s about the scenario you’re still replaying in your head. The argument from last week. The version of yourself from ten years ago that you keep dragging into rooms that no longer need it. Everybody is carrying some baggage that isn’t adding value to this moment.

So here’s what I want to invite you to do this week. Take three things – not people, just things – that you’ve been holding onto that no longer serve you. Write each one down. Just a sentence or two. Don’t write a book. Then release them, however that looks for you. 

Burn them. 

Trash them. 

Say them out loud and let them go. 

Make it a small ceremony – it doesn’t need all the bells and whistles, it just needs to be devotional and have some intention behind it.

Here’s the part that always amazes me: nature doesn’t like empty space for long. 

The moment you actually create space, the universe tends to fill it with something nourishing. 

That’s the whole secret behind setting an intention and then releasing your grip on it. Release isn’t giving up; it’s making room for what’s trying to arrive.

If you trust that life will keep delivering you to where you need to be, you don’t have to cling to the raft quite so hard.

So I’ll leave you with this question: what are you still holding onto? What would it feel like to loosen your grip, just slightly, today?

Namaste,

davidji