I used to think of commitment as limitation, that if I chose one thing then I would miss out on other options. Especially in relationship. If I would choose one man then I will miss out on other men.
We hear it all the time: commitment and freedom are polarities, they are opposites.
In my experience that is not so. At all.
In my experience commitment has opened up to a greater freedom than I could ever ever have imagined while I was sitting on the fence.
Commitment has opened up to deeper and deeper levels of communion with that creative force, always available to us. As long as we say yes. Say yes and jump, willingly moving into those unknown places. We don’t know where it will lead us in advance, but commitment will guide the way.
I remember at one point in my life, this was right after the tragedy of 9/11, I was painfully faced with all the ways that I was not living love in my life.
I have been so blessed in my life. I was born in Norway, the very peak of luxury on this planet when it comes to safety and affluence. I have been studying with the best spiritual teachers, learning so many methods of awakening, techniques to really live and experience a more peaceful and compassionate dimension of myself.
But here I was, in this time of global urgency, taking a honest look at my relationships at the time, and what I saw was power struggles. I saw WARFARE! If I was honest to myself, I saw that I was part of he problem, not the solution. It was not nice, it was painful.
I remember shortly after, I went to a mentor of mine, ShantiMayi, and I sat right in front of her and I said to her, I am committed to no longer separate my spiritual life and my day to day living. I spoke this commitment out loud, with her as a witness, and I can tell you that nothing ever again has been the same.
Nothing.
Commitment is the most powerful teacher I have ever met.
My deepest commitment is to find ways to embody the love that I am and to support other women to do the same.
Everything I do arises out of this commitment.
An alive relationship to your commitments makes decision making simple.
When you allow life to unfold out of this place of commitment in you, you can ask yourself when there is a decision to be made: is this aligned with my commitment or not. Is this serving my heart’s deepest calling or not? Now things become clear.
Would you like to do a little practice right now?
Speak out loud whatever you are aware of that you are committed to.
Write it down in the comment section here, knowing that a global circle of awakening women will receive it.
Feel the strength of this web of women sharing the intention of awakening.
Offer your commitment to this circle as your witness. And if you don’t have any words to put to your commitment you can simply say, I’m ready, or whatever words that feel right to you.
So I’m going to sign off now, and leave the page to you.
In Awakening ,
Chameli
How funny, I wrote about almost the same exact thing today. Must be this beautiful bright PinkMoon outside our windows tonight.
Thank you Chameli for this possibility!
it is my practise today from attracting genuine love, it is so suitable
I caroline julia this date of 29/4/10 make a make a conscious new commitment to enjoying a conscious, loving relationship with a conscious, loving man.
and second:
I caroline julia this date of 29/4/10 make a make a conscious new commitment that i love my self with all facet who i am
I am committed to follow my inner wisdom and let the Univers help me manifest my inner wisdom one step at a time.
Thank you! Love, Cintra
I am ready to live as a channel of love, creativity & passion. I am ready to trust my body as a means of intuition, and knowing how I truly feel about my life.
I am so appreciative of this post, and this site.
Namaste,
seriousWhimsy
I am committed to following my heart, listening to my inner guidance and relaxing into the moment to moment opportunities.
Namaste
I am commited to following my chosen professional path with the deepest love and devotion.
I am committed to taking this precious time I have and studying different practices with the sole intent of getting closer to God.
I’m committed to being true to myself.
I am committed to finishing my book, Living AWAKE…forty days toward renewal.
Chameli-your blog, etc. is so beautiful. I LOVE reading your posts…thank you for spreading the joy! m
I am commited to loving myself just the way I am. I am commited to finding my passion and following it. I am commited to following through with all I encounter.
I am committed to stepping into my own light!
I am committed to pursue + live my dreams! now!
I am committed to loving as much as I can.
I am committed to finding my teacher.
I am committed to the path of wisdom and compassion.
I am committed to become my true Self!
Love to all, Lily
I am committed to BEING the light that I am, and reflecting it to others through realizing my own Yoga & meditation centre in the near future. Namaste
I am committed to being my own best friend.
I am committed to making peace with myself. I am committed to stilling my anxious mind. I committed to being comfortable in my own skin, and finding myself as beautiful and attractive as my boyfriend sees me
I am commited to the peace deep inside of my body universe and to the joy awaken within love while following my passions.
Thank you for this circle of awakening.
How true it is to realize that you are not committed… not really committed. We lessen our eternal gift and rend it powerless to not be committed to our unique-ness and inner beauty.
I commit with the partners of the Spirit and Heart so they might continue to fill me with Light and open my Eye ever wider on the incredible journey that has begun.
” I am in. With both feet.” With Heart and Soul, I am Ready.
“I am committed to myself–now, always and forever.” shanti om
wow, it is so powerful to read and to feel your commitment sisters!
Thank you Chameli <3
I am committed to by her on Mother Earth as all I am and give me to the World <3
This is absolutely what I need to be reminded of every now and then! Thank You so much Chameli! Right now my commitment is to take care of my self and give me everything that I need. Love to me and everybody!
I am committed to see the wonder in each person, specially in each women and very specially in me.
I am comitted te heal myself and to support healing of children…<3
I comitte myself to dance every day at least five minutes as powerful and enjoying as possible. love diana
Dear Chameli, I was just waiting for your words to have the brave to go my way, to give me the allowing to do what my heart tells me:
I committe myself not to hide my dark sides anymore. Only with this inner truth my true light can shine.
Let all people feel the committement now to open up to LOVE and to heal ourselves and the earth. AMEN
I am comitted to be of service, to empower and inspire others through living up to my full potential and love.
And I’m comitted to leave my fears behind and open up to trust and divine guidance.
I am comitted to unfold my true self, to let my light shine.
I am comitted to follow my inner guidance and live my dreams.
I am comitted to trust my body as a means of intuition.
Thank you so much Chameli for opening this space, in love to all my sisters,
Martina
ThankYou Chameli!!!
I am comitted to follow my deepest longing to live the love I already is and to give me the support I need.
I am comitted to share my gift of Singing to the world!
I am ready!
I’m now committed to creating artworks that inspire, bring joy, hope and love. I am now committed to trusting this creative process and the journey that unfolds, thanks ♥
Wow, thank you for all of your comittments. So inspireing!Feels great. Thank you again. I love when we inspire each other by comitting to what we love. Wow! In deepest respect I bow to all of us.
I am committed to joy, aliveness, being guided by the divine, honoring my heart and soul’s highest purpose and to allow that to unfold with grace, ease and patience. I am committed to fully loving and accepting myself – all of me.
I am committed to learning how to truely listen to my heart and honor what I hear. I am committed to my own delevlopment, health and the health of others. I am committed to allowing my body to teach me. I am committed to embodying love, and acting out of love. I am committed to being open to what my soul deeply requires. I am committed to trusting the devine to keep the river of life flowing through me.
Thank you so much for this opportunity. I have been asking forsome guidance on committment and this is a geat start and introduction to this blog.
Many many thanks
Many blessings
Camilla
I am committed to being with the man my heart and soul deeply requires and to believing that this is a possibility I am worthy of
I am committed to trust my deepest inner voice and to be true with it to myself.
I am committed to remember daily being Goddess and to be gentle, patient and loving when failing, with myself and others.
I am committed to connect every day with the truth of what is here and saying YES.
I am committed to honour the richness that is given to me and to let life’s blessings shine and flow through me.
Halleluja
I am ready!
I am committed to respekt my life with all the paradoxes in it!
My weakness and my strenght.
My hope and my resignation.
I am committet to my big big love to life!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
with my respekt
Almuth
I am committed to healing myself! I am ready!
Thank you for your amazing thoughts.
You have a follower in Ecuador.
Big kiss
I would like to make a commitment to enjoy MY life.
Love/ Johanna
May all beings be well, happy, peaceful and free…
I am commited to re-train for the future, to live lightly on Mother Earth and to live in the present with my heart open… OM LOVE
I am committed to finding where I truly belong, my happy place on this earth and in myself.
Thank-you Chameli, I have been inspired to blog in the name of truth and commitment- http://innerbeam.blogspot.com/2010/05/in-name-of-truth.html
I am committed to being awake, engaged and loving.
I am commited to embody the love I am and to recognise my being beyond fear!
In deepest Love
Erna
I am committed to living from my heart and belly. I am committed to finding ways to love the unloved pats. I am committed to loving my partner Curt, and opening even if it is baby steps. Please show me the way. Dee
I am committed to offering myself & others compassion. I am committed to love.
I am ready.
I am committed to make a new, fresh, cool, nice, loving, great committment for me, my body, my soul, my heart every day! yeaaahhhhhh! ready to do it!:)
I thank y all y wonderful women who create a new time, a new world all together!
I thank myself for beeing open for that all!
I thank y chameli for inpire me! bless y:)
bless y all!
katharina;)
I am in. With both feets.
My highest commitment is to embody Love and to help others do the same. I’m IN, with All of Me.
i usually dont like to feel comitted to anything. i feel pressured,like i have no choice. but im willing to give it a try. lets go
I am committed to being in presence.
I am commited to find trust in other women, thats my largest challenge right now (and I guess that reflects back on trusting the feminine in me)
I am commited to wake up fully in my body and my senses, being fully alive in the life and the body I am living in
I am commited to use my body and myself to bring to life, here on earth, in and through my life, the reality I know in my soul to be true
I am commited to live my life to the fullest of my potential
And so it is.
I am committed to feeling, listening and following my heart. I am committed to LOVE.
I am commited to living my life in service to the purest love that can be embodied.
I am committed in assisting the awakening of feminine consciousness globally to restore balance.
I am committed to finding the ability to express love towards myself and others…even in adverse situations and in pain.
I am committed to fully love myself whatever happens
I am committed to self-care and self-responsibility. I will remember that ALL of my life is my Spirituality. Thanks for the reminder.
I am deeply commited to being my healthiest self and opening my heart and soul to all the love and joy that I truly deserve.
I am committed to love – be love – be loving – be loved - ”… find ways to embody the love that i am.”
I am committed to love myself all the way through. I am committed to love my dignity. I am committed to find new ways to love my soul, my heart, my life, my hands.I am committed to find ways to work with my loving heart, my loving soul, my loving hands and radiate and create …. and also I commit to creating new ways to love men, in dignity and respect and freedom.
Beautiful, Francisca…thank you so much for sharing…
Dear Suzan, thank you for your supporting reply. I am just back from dancing, it was the first time there and I gave everything, gave myself … so free, so powerful, so beautiful, extatic, and in my heart – the sentences above were doing their job.
I was surprised to find when I asked myself the question, that I am committed to so much (and many of these comments have inspired me as well – thank you) Here goes -
I am committed to…
Telling myself no matter how unappealing
Living with honesty and integrity and being authentic
Growing towards my soul
Finding ways to heal conflict and wounds
Sow seeds for peace and love to grow
Learning and practising how to love well
Forgiveness (knowing there is no other who can harm me and that I am really not a victim)
Honouring the Feminine
Women and children – to work for their safety, respectful treatment and freedom from bondage and fear
Not causing harm
All my beloved’s
Lifelong learning
Embracing my embodiment and healing my shame
Beautiful, Kathy…you are in…with both feet!
I am committed to living my truth to the best of my ability. I am committed to the process of continually choosing the option of greatest love and light that is available to me in any given moment. I am committed to continually increasing the integrity, love and compassion with which I move through this process.
And so it is!
i am commited to raise my daughter in a healthy way.
i am commited to live tottaly the woman i am.
aha*
mariana
i am commited to fully assist myself and other women in awakening and nourishing the essence of the feminine, the silence and the deep and profound presence of being here and now. lovingly.
I am Soooo Ready for the sisterhood of women to unite and come together for the benefit of all us in cooperative participation!
I am committed to getting deeply in touch with who I truly am.
I am committed to healing the little girl within me who sometimes crys and feels lost
I am committed to healing the wings of the woman I am so she can soar
I am committed to healing other women heal so we can soar together
I am committed to loving myself and letting that love overflow.
I AM READY.
I’m ready to commit myself to awakening my own power within & to live to my calling of what the universe & the Goddess have for me. ~Blessed be
I´m committed to love myself. I´m committed to trust and accept other women. I´m committed to just follow my heart.
I am commited to being truly authentic.
I am commited to embodying my fullest potential.
I am commited to stay open and not shut down through fear or ignorance, to give love and recieve love in the most blessed ways.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to commit to myself. Commitment is something I have previously struggled with. NO MORE.
I am committed to finding my truth. In whatever form it may take.
I am committed to learning how to give and receive love freely and fully.
I am committed to healing myself and others through self-empowerment, love, and acceptance.
I am committed to growing as a spiritual being and sharing my lessons along the way.
I am committed to learning how to release the non-existent reigns that I grip so tightly.
I am committed to living in balance and possibility.
I am committed to supporting others on their path in a way that truly serves them.
I am committed to my health.
I am committed to nurturing authentic, loving relationships.
I am committed to allowing and loving all of my feelings.
I am committed to trusting the universe, myself, food, love, money.
I am ready! Non stop.
thank you for sharing this
I am committed to being less lazy and finding excuses for not doing what I want to do.
I am committed to be being kind to others and lending a helping hand wherever I can.
I am committed to be more of myself … and not hiding behind convention and politeness
I am committed to allowing my heart its say ..
I am committed to being more present and conscious
i am committed to honestly feel my longing – behind fears and ideas
i am commtted to connect with wellbeing and love
i am committed letting myself be imperfect.
i am committed to loving myself first and foremost.
i am committed to being a work in progress.
i am committed to finding ways to reinvent myself.
i am committed to dance, love, friends and everything in between.
I am committed to growing, I am committed to opening, I am committed to doing the Mother’s work, I am committed to being.
I am commited to fully live my inner truth
I am commited to enjoy every single day
I am commited to feel love
I am committed to holding a space where women can come together in the spirit of sisterhood, to be who they truly are, to be intimate with themselves, with the earth and each other. I will dance my dance, and share of my self to facilitate this embodied living. in joy sarah miller, embodiments dance x
I am committed to letting go, to surrendering, to remembering and fully expressing who I am and to being and extending love in this world. I am ready!
I am committed to letting go, to surrendering, to fully remembering and expressing who I am and to being and extending love in this world. I am ready!
I’m ready to fully live and love!
I am committed to going within my heart and finding the BELOVED that lives always…in truth, love, and depth.
Beautiful….
I am committed to aligning with love. I am a stand for the divine feminine to become fully expressed and realized on this planet. I let go of the resistance and fear of the unknown. I allow myself to change, to embody a new way even though i am not sure what the way is. I commit to trusting myself and to surrendering to God, knowing that who I think I am is small and irrelevant compared to what is truly possible on my destiny path. I let go and let God.
I am committed to trust myself and trust the process of life. I am committed to live in joyful, happy relationships. I am not scared to stay alone for a while until my new power and energy will attract ‘right’ man. I am committed to go my way enjoying life and fully expressing myself. I am committed to explore my own unique opportunities, which are coming with flowing. My heart and soul knows what is right and good for me and I am following this light with all my trust.
Sofia from Prague. 19.04.2013