Living Your Wisdom With Ian Haycroft

The Freedom To BelongThere are really two gifts here. The gift of belonging, and the gift of freedom. Both are indescribably precious.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

GraceOur Ever Present NatureGrace is the ground of our nature and existence. Beneath all the tragedy and suffering Grace moves us closer to knowing who we are.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

KindnessA Quiet Heart Is KindWhen we can abide in the quiet centre of our Heart, we naturally want to be kind.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Seeing Through Dark CloudsWe Are The Clear Skies We Are Looking ForThere are many dark clouds in our world. Suffering and pain are everywhere to be seen.It is important for us to learn to see through the darkness to something much more fundamental.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

ListenThe Ears Of The Heart And SoulThe most effective prayer is mostly made up of listening. Opening our hearts to the still small voice of God is transformational. It is a connection to who we really are.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

The Jewel Of CommunityThe Gift Of Our InterdependenceWe are by our very nature, interdependent. We all arise from the One Consciousness, and cannot be separate from that Consciousness or each other.Through the blindness and ignorance of we see around us, it is even more important that we build the jewel of community.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

EnoughWe Are Enough Before We Are DoersOur sacred origins make us enough. We need not achieve or do to become enough. We need only love and serve, knowing we are enough.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Park The EgoExperience The Seat Of Our Divine ValueThe seat of value does not lie in the accumulated stories of our life. It lies in the Consciousness from which we arise and express in the world.This is a short time of stillness to allow that divine value to show itself and for each of us to park the ego.I wish you peace. Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

CertaintyA world of constant change and uncertainty, there are very few places to anchor our lives in certainty. There is an epidemic of anxiety in our world as the sense of uncertainty and doom grow. More than ever we need to anchor our lives in the sacred home of our Divinity.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

AffinityWe don’t create an affinity. It naturally arises. When it does happen we don’t know exactly where it comes from, we don’t really control it. Why? Because we arise from Love. We arise from a ground of interdependence and no separation. We don’t create it, because it is the essence of who we are.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Dancing With My GhostsWe fear the shadows of our life, the struggles and the traumas of the past. We need not fear them, but choose to face them from the field of Love and Awareness that we are.When we experience that the essence of who we are cannot be destroyed we are then standing on the ground that we can face our struggles, past and present, without fear.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Our AttentionWhen we turn our attention towards the essence of who we are, we discover the field of awareness that is not separate from the Field Of Awareness from which all things arise.Stillness, Peace and Love reside there.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Tuning The Listening HeartOur heart is the doorway to Awakening.We can tune our heart and align it with the music of the infinite.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Just Be StillWe can be still sometimes, because we are at our very core...still.It is in that stillness where our awareness is revealed.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Let Freedom RingFreedom Always Begins InsideFreedom is our essential nature. Experience the vast infinite and eternal nature of who we are, and freedom arises. Freedom is our gift of love.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

A Safe ContainerWe are born into this world from the Safe Container that is the Awareness from which we, and all things arise. When we sit and allow ourselves to be aware of the infinite Field of peace, love, stillness and awareness, we prepare the foundation for us to be that safe container for others.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Our Field Of LoveLife Is On Our SideThere is an energy field of which we are part, that is made up of love. It surrounds us and envelopes us, and courses through our awareness at all times. We need only have the “eyes to see” and heart to seek it, for it to be revealed. There is no need to find it, because it is always part of who we are, we need only turn inwardly in silence to experience it.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Tears For LifeWe are the Field Of Awareness. We are a field of peace. From this place we need not turn away from life, with all of its suffering and joys. Facing life brings tears.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

We Walk TogetherWhen we sit quietly in knowing that we are in essence the very Awareness we seek, we can then walk in our lives knowing we are walking this life together.Some of course may not know or even accept this. We can only determine how we walk. If we walk with peace and the love of our essential interdependence, it will make a difference.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

We Belong TogetherBelonging together as human beings is not just a nice idea. It is the nature of our existence. To ‘know’ this we need only sit quietly in the Awareness that we are. To act in this world of separation, pain and suffering we need to abide in the wholeness of who we really are. From that place we experience that we belong together.I hope you find this meditation valuable.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Love As A VerbWe so often get caught up in wanting to feel love, and therefore hunt for love. This can be exhausting and sometimes frustrating. We are by our divine nature, Love. If we can be quiet long enough, and allow the nature of peace and love to ‘speak’ to us, we will be moved to be that love in the world. Rather than looking for love, we can look for the ways to show it. Love always returns to usI hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Natural BeingThat which is most important about us, already exists within us, and is natural. Our nature is to be aware. We are natural being. Sit still and allow yourself to sink beneath the activity of life to where our natural being will greet you.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

The Path Of SurrenderWe are beings arising from the Field Of Awareness, some call God. A field beyond time and space. We can surrender our lives to the One from whom we arise…we are safe.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

We Are All Just Walking Each Other HomeOne of the most beautiful experiences we have as humans is feeling deeply connected to those we love. Each person is created in Love, and even if they may not realise it, we are on the journey of life with them. We are all headed Home.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

The Field Of No JudgementTo experience unconditional love is to experience no judgement. We must journey to the field of no judgement within, to understand we are free to be accountable to God.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

TrustWe can learn to be trustworthy and to take on the challenges of life, when we experience, and therefore can trust, that our life is a gift that cannot be destroyed.We arise from the Field Of Awareness, of Peace, of Love, and cannot be separate from it. This is the source of trust.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

The Embrace Of FreedomFreedom is the essence of who we are. It resides in the heart of our awareness. From this place we can look open eyed at the imprisonments, traps and pains of our lives, and the path of human history.When we realise that the most important part of who we are, our Awareness, cannot be destroyed, we are free to embrace that freedom, and to work for freedom in this world.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Where Love ReachesThere is no corner where Love does not reach. Even the darkest place is only so because of its distance from the light of Love. We need only bring the light closer.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

We Belong To Each Other. Belonging is central to our human nature, and central to our wellbeing. We can achieve a sense of belonging in psychological and cultural settings, but the essence of our belonging is our oneness with the Divine.We are not and cannot be separate from Awareness, and therefore from each other.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Listening To The Wisdom Within. What is most essential about who we are is our awareness. The knowing that “I am”. We not essentially a this or a that…we are the one who knows, and is aware we know. It is in that limitless awareness that wisdom resides. From there we can discover the insight to guide our mind and our body to how that body-mind can conduct its life on the planet.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Look Through The Mirror. To fully understand and experience who we really are, we need to look beyond what life is reflecting back at us.Our mind is designed to find a way through what life brings to it. It helps us navigate life. But it is not the tool to experience or understand the Awareness, our Knowingness, that is the root of who we are.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Gratitude - Trust That Life Is On Your SideGratitude is not a response to the things that happen in life, but is a way of living, a way of seeing.Life is a gift we had nothing to do with creating. Though pain and suffering are inevitable, we can look through that veil to Love that made the gift and made you the gift for others.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

The Power Of Three - We All Belong TogetherWe all arise from the infinite field of Awareness that some call God. We are not separate from that Awareness, but are part of it. As unique expressions of that Awareness in this world, we are designed to be together. We are designed to need help, and to want to help.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

We Are A Consciousness EventWe are made of Awareness/Consciousness. Beyond time and space we are the Consciousness. In our realm of time and space we are an ever evolving event…Consciousness experiencing the world. We are the movement from the stillness of Consciousness.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Great Love Is Our Home AddressOur most essential home is not a place, but an ever refreshing inner experience of who we really are. It is the knowing that we are always Home.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Interbeing - The Sacred Interdependence Of All ThingsPerhaps the most simple and important understanding of our essential nature is that we are connected to, reliant on, interdependent with, all things, and all humans.Thich Nhat Hanh spoke beautifully and often about this interdependence that he called interbeing.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

In Honour Of The Breaking HeartSometimes our heart breaks and we wonder if we will ever find a way to love again, or to have hope again. But we can, and we do.To lead with our heart is our essential nature. The resource that our capacity to love comes from is field of infinite seeds of love that reseeds in every moment.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Soul In The GameWe are by nature souls in the game. Our challenge, and our destiny is to be conscious of that, and to live each day from the ground or our soul. I use soul and awareness synonymously in this context.I wish you the joy of living each day knowing you are a soul in the game.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

The Threads Of TrustTrust is natural for us. From the first moments of life we lived in trust.In a world where trust seems so broken we must anchor our trust in the ground of essential nature and awareness. With that grounding we can find a way to live wisely in the world.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

On Being A Pattern Of ConsciousnessWe are not material beings. We are patterns of consciousness.Like the patterns of Nature, we are complex networks of interactions on every level. Consciousness is expressed through us in patterns. Some we recognise. Most we remain unaware of, but dependent on them for life.Conceiving of ourselves like this helps us navigate life and to recognise our interdependence with everything and everyone else.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

An Open DoorThere is always a door open to us to discover the depths of our inner wisdom and life. There is a silent patience required to see the opening, and a courage and surrender required to walk through.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Give Your Ego Time OffOur ego is an activity of the mind that works overtime to ensure that we constantly define who we are in the world, how we should deal with the world, the dangers we should avoid, the situations we should take advantage of.It acts like the director of the movie of our lives. We need it to be at best an occasional advisor. Most of the time we need to give it time off. I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

We are the field of awareness within which our mind, body, emotions and perceptions take place. We can use those beautiful gifts to engage with this world. We can listen with our hearts to engage with the infinite, eternal Field Of Awareness from which all things arise. Our field meets that Field, and we realise there is no difference.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

We human beings are dependent on each other and on nature. Interdependence is the starting point of the patterns of trust. When we truly understand that we are not separate from each other we can focus on the building of trust.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Home is the place of our essential awareness. The place that is really not an actual “place” but the experience of where our awareness meets the Awareness from which we, and all things arise.We are all walking each other to that home. I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

A Warm Cup Of TeaSo often we are looking for a grand experience to confirm that we have indeed “reached” enlightenment. I know I spent decades in that endeavour, always aware of my shortfalls.But perhaps our most essential nature is so close that we miss it, in its simplicity. Perhaps it is so simple and uneventful, that it is like a warm cup of tea.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

Work As A PracticeOur Awareness And Our Work Cannot Be Separate. We Just Need To Recognise That.Most of the time we would not put work and meditation together as a practice. But for most of us we spend hours each week at work. It is the place we interact with people in all kinds of ways. Bringing peace, compassion, trust, respect into all of our interactions at work…takes practice.This meditation is about the journey to the place within, the field of our awareness, from which we can always operate, including at work.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

The Listening HeartThe Centre Of Who We Really AreWe are temporarily dwelling in this mind and body we each have. We are best guided by and supported by our listening heart, the essence of who we are beyond time and space.It is a place so close and so real we so often don’t notice it. Yet it is the very foundation of how best we can operate in this world or ours.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

The Field Of Love & TrustThere is no distance between your essential self and the field of love and trust.This field is not just a beautiful place to visit, but a place that is always within you, and an essential place to allow you to deal with the sometime chaos and madness of the world we live in externally.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe

The Arms Of TrustOur longing to find those we can trust arises from our essential nature. We are part of the arms of trust that embrace all of life.Love is the experience that we are not separate. We can trust that we are part of the Love from which we are created. We cannot be separate. We can trust that.I hope you find this meditation valuable.I wish you peace.Ian Get full access to Living Your Wisdom at theclearmindway.substack.com/subscribe