Meditation To Focus & Strength

Vol. 30

At work, you may be asked to adapt to sudden changes and more demanding bosses and clients. There could be job insecurity and a constant pressure to do more with less pay. At home, being cooped up with other family members with nowhere to go has become more and more stressful. Chances of having fights and arguments increase. There are few opportunities to be in your own quiet zone.

Your “fuse” has become very short and you get triggered easily. But what if you found out that the person who is triggering your emotion is also facing his own financial issues and insecurities just like you? Would you feel any different? Would you find yourself feeling some compassion and forgiving that person?

The key to a conscious shift is to avoid reacting in haste but to seek understanding of the situation first; then learning something useful from it. The shift may even start with consciously changing oneself from the inside.

There is a saying, “If you can’t change the outside, then change from the inside”.

With understanding and compassion, the way you see the situation will be different from how you saw it before. And when perspective changes, your action will change at the same time.

Doesn’t it feel good to contribute to a more harmonious environment whether at work or at home? Yes, definitely!

Meditation Steps

Let’s do the following simple meditation to bring you to a deep state of relaxation, release your worries and sadness, increase your focus and regain your strength to manage your daily life better.

Practice this meditation after waking up in the morning or an hour before going to bed at night. Drink a glass of water before the meditation.

It is best not to do this meditation when you feel exhausted because this meditation requires your focus.

Let’s begin.

Whenever you face any situation that drains you, move your focus to the point at the center of your brow and chest for a few seconds. Remember that you are understanding the situation and learning from it to bring wisdom and abundance into your life.

NAVIGATE YOUR LIFE WITH GODDESS GUIDANCE

The Wise & Wealthy Goddesses

Our Journey So Far

We have traveled a long way together since the first goddess series article published when we started our journey into the realm of the ancient goddesses. If you path has been anything like mine, then you probably wouldn’t recognize yourself as you stand at the last quarter of the year and ponder the lessons the year has taught and brought you. And as you stand at that very same place that you have stood at so many times before, what lessons will you take with you into next year, to use not only as your teacher but as your guide to live a wise and abundant life?

How do we live in a world that places value on external possessions and resources and not get caught up in wanting more, being more, having more? Can we see that it is an illusory trap set to lure us in, when we know very well that having 1,000 more followers, or those extra pair of shoes, won’t ever bring us lasting peace and happiness?

Wealth?

Some say that you are wealthiest when you can be grateful for what you have. Which means that wealth, normally defined as an accumulation of worldly goods, needs redefinition.

Because have you noticed how the financially wealthy are often desperately unhappy and insecure? While sometimes those with very little have the most gracious and generous attitudes and live a life of contentment?

Or Wisdom?

You can begin to see that material wealth without wisdom will not go a long way in sustaining a balanced, fulfilled life. For how often is it that big lottery winners land up a year or two later in the same financial woes they had before, possibly with even less to their names?

While not everyone has the same opportunity to access knowledge, everyone does have the opportunity and ability to access wisdom. It is the wisdom of the Higher Self that knows better. The Higher Self lives within each of us, but sometimes we need others to tell us that we can trust this voice of wisdom to guide our lives, so that we live our days feeling and doing enough.

Goddesses Of Wisdom & Wealth

Here are the wonderful goddesses who can help us when we need to tap into good fortune and be courageous enough to use it wisely!

Abundantia – Roman Goddess Of Fortune, Success & Prosperity

This Roman goddess is the ultimate representation of wealth and abundance. She is often depicted carrying a cornucopia filled with grains and coins; back in the day grain was a high value commodity to trade with. This also makes us consider how food and wealth have always been tied together as a status symbol.

This goddess is the perfect ally to call upon when you need help with saving or investing your money, or needing assistance with an increase in all kinds of prosperity. She can also be of help when in need of more time, opportunities or ideas. Keep your eyes open to find coins in unusual places, as it’s a sign she is with you and is ready to help grow your prosperity. She is also fondly known as “Lady Luck”, when with little effort good fortune smiles down on one.

Lakshmi – Hindu Goddess Of Generosity & Prosperity

This multi-faceted Hindu goddess is also known for her beauty and as a bringer of positivity.

Lakshmi can assist to improve your financial situation, and allows you to feel enough and not lacking in anything. When you feel like you are not good enough, or can’t find gratitude for the small things that bring fulfillment, or when you need to be more generous with your resources, call on this powerful deity. This is one of the reasons she is known as the goddess of generosity, as she always has enough time, patience, love and fortune to bless us all.

Inari – Japanese Goddess Of Prosperity, Tea & Rice

Inari, sometimes called Inari Okami is a complex Japanese deity worshipped in Shinto religion and appears in many different forms. As a goddess she is depicted as a young beautiful woman with flowing hair. She is also known as the Goddess of Nourishment, bestowing fortune and bounty on those who call upon her with pure intention.

While she is the patroness of farmers and merchants, she can help with any lack of growth in your life. If you feel abandoned, alone or unsupported, or you need more nurturing and nourishment, she can help you fill that space with positive life-enhancing ideas and experiences. In business endeavors she brings success and growth. Associated with the fox (some adherents carry a fox tail for good luck), you can visualize or call on this totem energy to connect with her.

Minerva – Roman Goddess Of Wisdom & Commerce

This Roman goddess is equated with the Greek goddess Athena, and is depicted with an owl – the sacred symbol of wisdom and knowledge. Again, she is multi-faceted in that she is also a warrior goddess and a goddess of trade and commerce.

When you need good counsel and practical advice, Minerva is the perfect goddess to call upon. She is connected with many mythological stories – Medusa, Hercules and Odysseus – bringing success and victory through her wise counsel and advice. She is also the deity to invoke when dealing with educational matters of learning or information. In weighing life decisions, she will assist with finding the wisest solution, when forethought and calculation are needed.

Seshat – Egyptian Goddess Of Wisdom, Intelligence & Writing

This ancient Egyptian goddess is also known as the Mistress of the House of Books and is both scribe and record keeper. She is credited with the invention of writing. Her intelligence covers the fields of mathematics, astronomy, surveying and accounting – so her knowledge base is expansive.

Seshat can help you formulate your plans and ideas and literally put pen to paper when you need help with your to-do-lists or when you are looking at the pros and cons of something. Her wisdom is not only relevant to this world, but she carries wisdom from other times and dimensions as she is thought to have access to the library of the gods – hence any spiritual or supernatural wisdom or advice can be sought from her.

If you have any writing projects, journaling ideas or budget sheets to put together she can help them come to life.

Sophia – Goddess of Sacred Spiritual Wisdom

While Sophia is not a conventional goddess, she is connected to several incarnations relating to the sacred feminine. She is central figure in Gnosticism – which emphasizes individual knowledge as the path to the Divine. She is often compared to the female aspect of the Christ consciousness.

This wise woman can help those searching for their path and purpose in life, and those who need to learn to listen and trust their inner voice and callings. She is particularly helpful when asking the big, deep questions about life and our place in it. Use her energy when going on any “spiritual” quest, or “dark night of the soul” experience. When you are going through any life changing experience such changing jobs, giving birth or the loss of a loved one, Sophia is the wise companion to guide you through.

Enriched With Wisdom

After examining each of these gifted deities and their qualities, I hope you feel encouraged to dig deeper into your own definitions and attitudes toward what wealth and wisdom truly mean for you.

Can you see that the year has provided for your needs, even if not always in the form that you would have liked?

For some people wealth is their children, for others it is their careers. But it remains true that a bulging bank account will do nothing to stop the terminal illness of a loved one, the ruin of reputation or the dark night of the soul.

Knowing how to act in certain situations by using your wisdom mind, can avert much hurt and conflict, rather than barging in and lashing out with the first thoughts you have.

What good is knowledge without a sound mind to live it every day? Reading about meditating and doing the meditating are two very different things!

The Abundant Life

So, wealth is not just about money and stuff, and wisdom is not just about doing another course or getting a degree. Yes, we need material things and money to live in this messy magical world, but we need so much more than that.

The ultimate meaning in life will not come from reading about it in a book or having some great public speaker inspire you for a few minutes. The meaning and mystery of your life will be revealed by living your experiences and then truly using them, in the wisest way to enrich not only your own life, but those of others too. There could be no greater wealth in the world than being able to sleep at night with a full belly, a full heart and a mind full of peace.

Gratitude

Thank you for joining me on this magnificent journey. Remember, you are never alone and are always guided, protected and directed by a loving, wise Divine Universe.

Navigate Your Life with Goddess Guidance

Vanish The Goddess?

We may have more in common with the ancient gods and goddesses than you may think. Did you know that the Greek Goddess Hestia, of hearth and home, was not allowed to leave her house on Mount Olympus… ever. Across the globe, our lives have been challenged with worldwide lockdown restrictions, can you imagine being told you are to remain in lockdown forever!

The Goddess was birthed with the first stories of the world. Viewed as the original creator of all life, She was revered, worshipped and honored across all cultures of the earth. Going back millennia there is evidence that the female figure – in her various forms and roles as mother, virgin and warrior – existed and thrived in matriarchal societies.

What happened to make the Goddess and the sacred feminine slowly vanish from the history of the world, banished to the caverns and basements not only of our cultures but of our psyches? When did the patriarchal power-hungry, ego-obsessed society emerge?

Archetypal Energies

Looking at the goddess as an archetypal energy, we receive a much broader view of how the characteristics of each goddess can influence our well-being and daily lives. According to Jungian psychology archetypes are “a collectively-inherited unconscious idea that is universally present in individual psyches.”

Our fictional superheroes are a perfect example of the manifestation of this archetypal energy. We have Superman, Batman, Iron Man, X-Men and plenty more… men – why so few Wonder Women?

This is one of the reasons why and how the goddess energy existed and still does so today – she has a specific purpose. She personifies attributes relevant and necessary in our lives.

When we need courage, we can look to the Hindu Goddess Kali, when wisdom is called for the Greek Goddess Athena becomes our advisor. In this way we are allowing the divine wisdom of the sacred feminine to come to life again – and as a result we become our own superheroes!

Reclaiming The Goddess

One could spend a lifetime trying to uncover just how many goddesses existed at any given time, I do know it reaches into the thousands.

It is clear that the Goddess’s qualities and her role in society need reclaiming, recognition and re-integration into the psyche of humanity at large. It is critical we embody the divine feminine if we are to live healthy, balanced and productive lives.

Who doesn’t need prosperity, peace, health, wisdom and guidance? Who doesn’t need wise words of advice from a beloved grandmother or a mother’s loving touch; a superwoman of an aunt who is always there for us?

The goddess energy can help you harness any quality you need on any given day; they don’t just work 9 to 5 and every other weekend. Instead of resolutions, which usually only benefit ourselves and are just memories by mid-January, let us rather commit to the renewal, rebirth and optimistic resurgence of well-being in our lives on a daily basis.

Will you use the Goddess and Her gifts to worship and invoke or inspire and guide your life? Will you become bound like Hestia or soar with the Goddess of the Dawn through 2021? It is up to you.

I can’t wait to share with you, in the next edition, the electrifying warrior goddesses and how they can empower you with courage, confidence and clarity.

8 GODDESSES

With a brand-new year upon us, let us be inspired by these 8 goddesses of new beginnings, change, growth, life and creation.

Eos – Goddess of Dawn

Image by Evelyn de Morgan 1895

She is the ultimate Greek goddess of the dawn, new beginnings and hope. Eos is the bringer of light to the heavens and earth, the promise of hope for a new day filled with opportunities and possibilities.

She carries an energy of regeneration and will help restore energy levels and enthusiasm.

Call on her energy when you are going through big life changes, or when you are feeling stuck in the mud and need a little upliftment and hope.

Aurora – the Roman counterpart of Eos

Image by Jose de Madrazo y Agudo (1781-1859) – PD-art-100

She has become so well-known she even bears the honor of having a Disney princess named after her – Sleeping Beauty – who awakens after a deep long slumber.

Ostara/ Eostere – Goddess of Spring and Dawn

Image by Franz Xaver Winterholter

The word Easter derives its name from Ostara’s roots in Teutonic/Indo-European mythology.

She is a goddess of spring, beginnings and transformation. She will help you when you embark on new adventures and projects.

Mbaba Mwana Waresa – Goddess of Light and Fertility

Image by Liz Chesterman courtesy of Pernastudios/deviantart.com

Mbaba is revered by the Zulu people in Africa as a fertility goddess who also governs the rain, harvest, agriculture, beer and rainbows.

She can be called upon when needing to make important decisions and when wanting to increase good relations with friends, family and the community.

Awehai – Goddess of Growth and Fertility

Image by Marcine Quenzer

Awehai is the Native American Iroquois goddess who teaches about personal growth and reparation.

She is known as the “giver of life” and she assists to rebuild that which needs rebuilding – whether relationships, health or repairing toxic thought patterns.

Isis – Blessed Goddess of All

Image by Marcine Quenzer

One of Egypt’s most beloved and greatest goddesses is an expression of the sacred feminine in all its aspects.

Isis assists you in doing things with powerful intention and focus, she assists with healing at all levels, and is a protector of women and children.

Her gifts are many, and she helps us with letting go of the past and forging forward to create anew.

Pachamama – World Mother also known as Gaia and Mother Earth

Image by Josephine Wall

Revered by the people of the Andes in South/ Central America for her life support to our planet, she embodies the ultimate mother goddess in carrying and caring for humans and all creatures living on earth.

Her lessons can be seen as harsh when we upset the balance of nature. She cleanses the toxins from earth through earthquakes, natural disasters and pandemics.

When in harmony she offers sustainability, support, nurture, birth, creativity and enhanced life force.

Shakti – Goddess of Creation

Image by Damodar Salve courtesy of Exemplore

She is a Mahadevi – which is an embodiment of the sum of all the goddesses.

Shakti represents pure cosmic energy that is the essence and driving force of creation.

She has different forms which can manifest as the fierce warrior who can help you fight your inner demons, or the patient mother if you are looking to birth anything new into the world as well as childbirth.

Interview With International Metaphysical Master Umesh H. Nandwani

Vol. 1

Master Umesh Nandwani, who is from Singapore, is the founder of The Golden Space and principal of “Awaken ~ The Divine You”® Program. He is a Certified Master Trainer in Mind Power and Motivational Dynamics; Certified Master in Reiki Energy Healing; Certified Meditator and Counselor; Certified Stress Management Consultant, a Holistic Practitioner and Energy Therapist, operating a practice under his own company “ShivShakti Healing & Consultancy”.

He is an inspiring and motivational trainer. Participants of his programmes graduate to higher spiritual levels with increased self-realisation, enlightenment, becoming healthier, happier and more successful in life. He has been hard at work, inspiring thousands of people all over the world since 2003 through his open, friendly and powerful communicative style.

We met up with Master Umesh recently while he was in Kuala Lumpur to hold the “Awaken ~ The Divine You”® Program. Here he shares his thoughts on Metaphysics, Masterhood, his mission and his plans.

1. Can you tell us what Metaphysics is and how Metaphysics can transform lives?
‘Meta’ means beyond and ‘physics’ refers to the physical so Metaphysics is anything that is beyond the physical.

Everything starts with spirituality first, which is non-physical. Even our soul, has to enter the baby’s body first before we come into our mother’s womb.

The soul is spiritual, it manifests and then only the baby is born. In the same way everything in life is first energy before it transforms into the physical form that we have.

With that understanding we can use energy to transform, reform, or create anything that we want. And so now we can transform our lives too using energy.

2. Dr Deepak Chopra talks about ‘contemporary synthesis of science and soul’, but many people see science and spirituality as opposites of each other. What is your opinion on this?
Science and spirituality work hand in hand. Take ourselves, we have a physical body but we also have a spiritual body. Science deals with our physical body and spirituality deals with our spiritual body.

Your emotions are not controlled by science but your physical body is. Yet science is now discovering metaphysics. As I said, we have both and we need both. We are physical expressions of Spirit.

Mind, body and spirit have to come together. If not, we cannot express ourselves as human. But everything starts with the Spirit.

3. General perception equates spirituality with religion but your programs espouse a non-religious and universal perspective. Why is that?
It is totally different. The Spirit does not belong to any religion. The Spirit is a Light Being. The light does not say that it’s an Indian Light, a Muslim Light, a Chinese Light, a Christian Light, or whatever. The Light, like the one in a bulb, just shines. It has no religion. It is free to evolve and free to express. Can you control light? It will shine any way it wants. And Spirit is Light.

Religion is a teaching, correct? Light is an expression. So spirituality is an ‘expression of the Spirit’. There’s nothing to teach. It’s not about following a teaching, it’s about Spirit and just being.

4. Your “Awaken ~ The Divine You” program is about Ascension and about attaining Masterhood. What does being a Master entail?
For me there are different categories of Masterhood. It is not only one thing. Masterhood first starts with self-mastery. This means realising yourself as a Master. Understanding everything about yourself; the mental, emotional, biological, spiritual, physical aspects of yourself. Then there is another category of Masters who are actually teachers; of spiritual and physical realities. So these teachers have attained self-mastery themselves and are now teaching people on the road to realise self-mastery. I am working on these two categories. Anyone can be a Master.

5. Can one lead a normal family life as a Master? Is there sacrifice involved?
There is work to do to be a teacher to teach like me. I am hardly with my family. I am here to spread the love and light around the world through my teachings, so of course I have to sacrifice. But that does not mean that I don’t go home, or enjoy my physical reality. I still enjoy myself as a human being, and I also enjoy myself as a Spiritual Master, provided I know how to keep things balanced.

6. How do we know that we are pursuing the right path towards Self-Mastery?
Again it depends on the individual. How can you achieve self-mastery if you can’t be courageous? Things are sometimes hard. How can you teach other people if you haven’t even done it yourself? Then you would be a fake master, just reading books and talking. You have to walk the path, experience the pain, then you can explain to another person how to do it or give the other person a better way to do it. That’s how it is. Smile, just do it, that’s how you become a Master.

7. How do we tell the difference between genuine guidance and ego-guidance? Which one comes from the heart or the ego?
Your mind is sometimes over-protective. Your mind sometimes, stops you from achieving your goals. Sometimes your mind will tell you to do, sometimes it will tell you not to do.

But your heart will tell you what to do, if you follow your heart you will never go wrong because your heart is coming from your soul, your mind is coming from your ego. Follow your heart, not your ego. If you really want to do it, just do it. In the end, when you achieve that goal, you will get the best; wisdom. A Master is one who walks the path without any fear. You don’t have to listen to people. You listen to what YOU want to be and achieve in this life. That is a Master.

8. To put in a nutshell, what would you say is your mission?
My mission is simple; to help as many people as I can on this planet, raise the consciousness, raise the energy, raise the vibrations, bring people together so that we can have a beautiful life. For the future, for our kids and we will come back with a beautiful smile because you know what; if you are a Master you will smile!

I now have a student family from my programs around the world. I cannot achieve my mission until I help them achieve their mission. If I were to have my Master plan up and to achieve that plan, I would need Masters, right? I can only do so much as one person. So my aim is to get them to be Masters, to realise who they are. I don’t want them to be my followers or to pray to me. I want them to be together with me as one team. We make it together. At least don’t walk around blindly anymore! Be the special YOU whom you really are.

9. We heard that you have had a near-death experience, can you tell us something about that?
It was a beautiful experience. Three times at the seaside and once at the swimming pool. On all the occasions I nearly drowned but somehow one way or another, someone would save me and bring me back to life. The last time at the seaside, I remember, was at the Caribbean, Barbados. I know I swam very far. There was no way someone could save me. I gave up and went underwater.

One moment I was floundering and there was no one there, but somehow or other, someone was there. I know it was a God sent angel helping me, and I realised that my life purpose was to live again. It was not time for me to go. No doubt I wanted to go.

Another time I was hospitalised for six days. I went through depression, had diarrhoea, and was vomiting blood. I had an ulcer in my stomach. I couldn’t eat, couldn’t do anything. On the fourth day, suddenly I was out of my body. I saw the hall and my body lying there. I got a very big shock and started shouting and screaming.

The next thing I knew, boom! I went up somewhere. I saw an arch and a Divine Master was there. Some of whom I pray to, some of them, I don’t even know. They guided me and they showed me what they called ‘Home’.

I asked them questions and they showed me my life purpose. Who I am and what I am, why I had to go back to the planet and why my contract on this planet was not finished. I refused. I didn’t want to go back as I did not like the situation there. But for the contract and life purpose, I needed to go back. It was very hard for me to make it back down but I did.

Because I had to start everything from scratch again which was very tough. I knew that I was not ready for this but with hope and faith, they would guide me which they have done until today and I know they have been with me all this time and we have reached up to this level.

10. What are the things that inspire and empower you to keep moving forward in achieving and pursuing your life purpose and mission?

To see people transform, to see them getting clearer and better in their lives. I know every person I shift. I am helping them get better, I am also getting better in my life, because that person is a part of me.

11. What is your life motto?

No 1 – Always be authentic, there are a lot of fakes around calling themselves Masters

No 2 – Be positive

No 3 – Spread Love and Light

Most importantly, be your true divine self. That’s why ‘Awaken The Divine You’ has come, for me to awaken humanity to become who they are. The time has come for all of us to wake up.

12. One more question, a lot of people are suffering from unhappiness and unrest in their lives. What can they do to achieve love, peace and happiness in their lives?

It’s to discover who they really are. It’s the only way. There’s no other way to give you the once-and-for-all happiness. They are missing the biggest link, that is, they don’t even know who they are. They are walking with ego and just acting, but they are not being their authentic self. Once you get that, you will never say that you are not happy! Are you happy? I am.

13. What is your parting message for our readers?

Awaken the divine you. The time has come. Be positive, that’s it!

What if one afternoon could change how you see your life forever? Sit down with Master Umesh in Coffee with Master this 24 May 2025 and find out. Join the conversation.