“I Began”

The more we plan the more we delay the “I Began” .. But procrastination is not always a distraction, sometimes by delaying action we start with more traction.

Proper preparation prevents poor performance, and presence brings relevance to the right sequence of events. Appreciating the moments.

The evidence of a romance is in the dance. Care to take a chance?

Love and passion sometimes take the form of what appears to be delayed action. But that does not mean a subtraction. Its patience and trusting timing of events that makes the most sense, although sometimes a good offense does make the best defense.

Feel it out, whats good for you and right for me? In the end we see there must be a right timing for everything.

Mastering Relaxation

If you are going to be perfect in anything try relaxation first. There should be a masters in relaxation – it’s far more useful than most degrees out there.

Mastering relaxation will serve as a foundation to balance out anything else you do.

 A simple practice: lay on your back with eyes closed and try not to move. Breathe deeply.. let your mind calm down. Focus light beginning with feet and moving up through every cell up to your head.. relaxing as you go. Keep letting tension out.. keep going deeper. Cycle through your body dozens of times and you may get buzzing or tingling sensations.. keep trying to deepen the relaxation each time you do this.

Yes it might be difficult to relax at first but it’s even more difficult to go through life stressed out. Once you reach a deeper peace and centeredness there is great strength, great renewal and energy to be drawn upon for any task at hand.

GOOD MORNING

Good morning! Its a great day to remember that all things are temporary including your own face. Not to feel sad about this truth but to appreciate everything you come into contact with, with the understanding you will never see it in this form again.

LifeFulfillment Vs Life Achievement

Fulfillment can only be experienced in the moment. Engaged in something you enjoy doing. Not caring about the result. Achievement is secondary to the experience of fulfillment.

The moment something has been achieved it’s already in the past! Relishing victory is reliving a peak moment, even if it were only moments ago. This can feel good for only so long before present moments become dull, boring, and otherwise transient until the next victory is achieved.  This is the process of addiction.

Achievement brings about a temporary state of fulfillment, like working towards an orgasm you are driven by the expectancy of achievement. Achievement itself is a climatic expression of what you expected. However if the former work bears no fruit, and the work itself was attached to an outcome, disappointment results in proportion to the expectancy.

Disappointment is a much stronger emotion than the elation of achievement. It’s also a breeding ground for negativity. A negative focus leads to undesirable emotions & destructive acts. There is little room for fulfillment in an environment like this.

But alas fulfillment is possible in any moment; possible, but unlikely until a decision is made to first untangle the confusion between fulfillment and achievement and then give fulfillment higher priority.

Where Does Your Focus Go Upon Waking?

Knowing where your focus goes in the first few moments upon waking sets the tone for being either stressed or fulfilled early in the day.

Recalling what you have to do causes a sudden rush of the physical world. If you’re acutely aware of how your body feels just before you focus on the pending tasks – you’ll notice the drastic difference between a peaceful waking and a stressful start to the day.

If you have a habit of immediately waking (or waking to an alarm clock) and unconsciously filling your brain with tasks, it has little time to process the delicate energy of your spiritual journey during the night.  There is much insight and fulfillment to be had if you can allow yourself to remember your dreams and focus in this area for a few minutes before you fully wake up. I suggest you also write down any key insights during this time.

In the early stages of this practice you’ll have to train the mind – catch it just before it zooms off into the day and concentrate on your dreams and traces of intuition.  Soon you’ll discover so much more than you ever thought possible within the realm of your own mind.Â

The Power of OpenCommunication

A relationship without open communication will inevitably give way to deception.  There is no grey area. It is better to hurt another with open communication than to betray with deception. You will find that even the act of open communication prevents deeds that would normally be performed under the veil of dishonesty.

A relationship is a gentle lowering of individuality or Ego. A free flow of ideas, perceptions even insecurities should come to the surface and be discussed. In the ideal environment, no taboo or perceived craziness is outside the limit of open discussion. All taboos are society’s programming anyway- which is far from open at the present time. Even governments and companies have not recognized the power of open communication with their people.Â

To suddenly start being open after a long period of hiding is far more difficult than being open on a regular basis. But inevitably this line has to be crossed, and accepted. An environmentsuitable for revealing all is the first stage of open communication. Both parties must be willing to hear anything and refrain from allowing their Ego to jump into the fray; to judge, feel hurt or angry.

Everyone may not like the idea at first, preferring to hang on to the perceived power that comes through lying. It is they who will prefer to go to war when the truth has been set free. Granted, there is a fine line between loose lips that sink ships and open communication in the spirit of greater love between two enlightenedindividuals. Open communication does not mean running the mouth like a loose cannon. It means selectively choosing your words in a way that will bring about greater harmony between yourself and another party. And avoiding the acts that would disrupt that harmony whenever possible. And in the rare cases where a controversial decision must be made in haste and a decision was made in error, it can quickly be discussed, accepted and learned from.

Life is a State of Consciousness

All other things matter not. Life IS. And in the “IS”, consciousness exists. Consciousness is ever changing, ever flowing, consciousness is never the same in any two moments. Consciousness also referred to as Soul – accepts the illusion of identity- for the sake of structure. However consciousness within the structure is ever changing. Even the outward appearance of structure is only that- an appearance or delusion. It too changes from moment to moment, but less erratically.

Consciousness journeys in many vehicles. Everything from a tree to human. It’s experience inside each vehicle is very different, even from human to human. The experience of consciousness changes dramatically depending on the state of mind or the state of matter.

What you experience is the illusion of individuality. Consciousness observes and reflects all experiences. The experiencer has a inevitable relationship with the experienced. They are intertwined as one. Yet the experiencer with a higher degree of conscious ability, experiences individuality. For example, the human experiences its experience separate from the chair, however both require eachother for existence.

Human isa rare species of animal that has evolved a brain powerful enough to not only recognize consciousness in its purer form, but also control it through focus. But before focus can be properly used, it must first be awakened. The state of most humans is that of a wild animal, forging ahead focused outward putting one foot in front of the other. Programmed by environment, reacting to circumstance. Rare indeed is the human that “knows thyself” having turned its focused inwardly to discover a will.

Be CuriousRight Now

There is adventure in the moment. Don’t try to look beyond where you are right now. Position your focus in the window of now and get curious like a child of all that is around you right now. What sounds do you hear? What do you see? Why are you here? Do you feel that energy inside you? Just think about connecting with god, or the source of your creation- how does that make you feel?

Intention is a powerful but subtle force. You really have to locate yourself in the moment to feel the shift in your internal states any time your intention changes. Intention is like the sailor of a large ship. Some people only see the large ship when it moves, they don’t see the little man inside controlling the direction of the ship.

Intention directs focus. Your intention to be in the moment right now will eventually guide your entire being here- and your intention to connect with the energy inside you will create small almost imperceptible shifts that can eventually consume your awareness in total bliss.

The key is your intention. Don’t work so hard trying to control the ship, or the winds and the waves of external circumstance. Get clear on your intent and let yourself flow to where you need to be.

Get curious in the moment. There is adventure and excitement to be found here. There is a million wonders in the stillness of now, and it is only here you feel the presence of infinity.

Your Passion, Your Juice – The Fuel ofLife

There is a path that’s right for you. It lives in the shadow of your dreams. When you begin to go down this path you find the energy you’ve sorely been seeking. You awaken to new life. It is while on this path you discover the spring of raw emotion. Sip and be renewed.

It is while on this path you find a burning ember of desire, hidden beneath the wet logs of common sense, rational thinking and safe decision making. Become aware and let the light of your awareness burn away the moisture. Watch instantly as your obstacles become your fuel.

Every person has a dream. Not every person follows it. For whatever reason- most sparks never land on fuel. The tragedy; not by chance or circumstance, but by decision.

Enjoy – To Experience with Joy

I was walking down the road the other night looking for a cab. I was hot, sweaty and tired. I thought of getting to my condo which seemed like a world away. The more I thought about how good it would be to get home, the more I became agitated about my present condition. Then suddenly the thought struck me (a thought that has now been conditioned to strike me whenever circumstances are less than favorable) what good could I find in this moment right now? It wasn’t long before the answer became clear.

I firstasked myself how I knew my present situation was less than favorable to begin with. The only way I knew, is when I compared it to other situations that were more favorable. Then I made an amazing discovery. The level of enjoyment had nothing to do with my present condition, but it had everything to do with the degree of my desire to be somewhere other than I was.

The Experience of God

How can you experience God when you cannot experience it with your senses? You try to grasp God in the same way you’ve grasped everything else. Logically, Emotionally and through the senses. These are the only inlets you’ve used to decode the energy data of the universe. And so, you employ the same methods when trying to discover spirit. You pray for signs, for messages, you seek to understand in a way that you’ve always understood- through experience. But if the experience never comes, can you say it never exists?

Can something exist even if it is never experienced? Is it possible for something to be real if you cannot experience it in reality? Can something be more real than the experience of the senses? So real that it makes the experience with the senses an illusion and the realness of the thing beyond the senses the only real thing? Can logic grasp something that formed logic? Can words describe the thing that created words?

How can we not use the mind? In sleep and deep meditation. You calm the mind until you no longer use it.