While the terrible destruction of the fires has been an awful thing, I hope on the bright side, it brings attention to the immense value of clean air, and healthy forests and communities which work together to overcome such disasters.
When people never have to face such disasters, they seldom realize the value of the wonderful environments and lives they live without gratitude and appreciation.
I hope whatever troubles we each face in our lives, we overcome them, and gain an appreciation for those things we previously took for granted.
Blessings to us all.
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Make Heaven, not Hell
We will never create Heaven on Earth by creating wars to get it. War is the opposite of what Heaven is.
In order to create Heaven on Earth, we create and express as loving, kind, caring, considerate, compassionate beings. We treat others the way we want to be treated, allow the freedoms we wish to have for ourselves, which means we allow others to live their lives the way they choose to.
The path of war and division, of control and manipulation, of anger, hatred, revenge, and despair, can never and will never bring Heaven on Earth.
When do we create Heaven on Earth? Right here, right now, by placing our attention and activities upon the characteristics which are expressive of a Heavenly expression in existence.
The fork in the road is right here, the choices we make right now, determine whether we have a blissful life or a sorrowful life.
In order to create Heaven on Earth, we create and express as loving, kind, caring, considerate, compassionate beings. We treat others the way we want to be treated, allow the freedoms we wish to have for ourselves, which means we allow others to live their lives the way they choose to.
The path of war and division, of control and manipulation, of anger, hatred, revenge, and despair, can never and will never bring Heaven on Earth.
When do we create Heaven on Earth? Right here, right now, by placing our attention and activities upon the characteristics which are expressive of a Heavenly expression in existence.
The fork in the road is right here, the choices we make right now, determine whether we have a blissful life or a sorrowful life.
Monday, August 10, 2020
The Missing Ingredient makes all the difference
Consider all the people who are leading the charge towards global domination, power and control. They all are exceedingly wealthy from a financial perspective. You'd think having all the money in the world would make you the happiest people in the world, but look at what they do, all of this power playing and manipulation, aren't actions of a happy person.
The problem they've made for themselves is this, they put all their energy and effort into gaining worldly things, and they still feel empty. You may ask why?
Because they've denied, or not even considered the most important aspect of their being, where true fulfillment resides. Their intimate connection with Source, God, or whatever you want to call it. That which makes the poor man rich, not in worldly things, but in spiritual abundance, where all good originates from.
I'd say, they are without love in their heart, or if they do have love, it is for things and themselves, and that is the source of their dis-ease.
Of all the people on Earth, these people need the most radiant loving energy to surround them and lift them out of their power hungry despair.
I suggest a world meditation where all of these sick people (I call them sick people because they are imbalanced spiritually,) need the grace of God to lift them back into the light, back into the realization of our oneness in God. Back into the experience of true loving bliss which is the birthright of all beings.
Pray for them most of all. Forgive them for they know not what they do.
We have what they long for but will never get through their worldly focus and efforts. Love, Compassion, Caring, Sharing, Peace and Harmony.
Let us all send them so much love energy they can't deny it, so they may choose to awaken with us into the next stage of our evolution as a race of being here on planet Earth.
Blessings to us all.
The problem they've made for themselves is this, they put all their energy and effort into gaining worldly things, and they still feel empty. You may ask why?
Because they've denied, or not even considered the most important aspect of their being, where true fulfillment resides. Their intimate connection with Source, God, or whatever you want to call it. That which makes the poor man rich, not in worldly things, but in spiritual abundance, where all good originates from.
I'd say, they are without love in their heart, or if they do have love, it is for things and themselves, and that is the source of their dis-ease.
Of all the people on Earth, these people need the most radiant loving energy to surround them and lift them out of their power hungry despair.
I suggest a world meditation where all of these sick people (I call them sick people because they are imbalanced spiritually,) need the grace of God to lift them back into the light, back into the realization of our oneness in God. Back into the experience of true loving bliss which is the birthright of all beings.
Pray for them most of all. Forgive them for they know not what they do.
We have what they long for but will never get through their worldly focus and efforts. Love, Compassion, Caring, Sharing, Peace and Harmony.
Let us all send them so much love energy they can't deny it, so they may choose to awaken with us into the next stage of our evolution as a race of being here on planet Earth.
Blessings to us all.
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Spiritual Awakening: Finding and experiencing the best version of our Self.
In this moment, right now, I am experiencing being here now. This experiencing of this moment right now is uniquely my own experiencing. That is to say, how I feel emotionally and physically, what I see and how I see it, what I smell as I inhale, and how it feels as I exhale, are uniquely my own experiences in this moment. In this “normal” state of awareness in being, there are a lot of adjectives which describe the sensory inputs which color our expression and experience in being here now. (The Merriam-Webster online dictionary has this to say about adjectives: “. . .Adjectives describe or modify—that is, they limit or restrict the meaning of—nouns and pronouns. They may name qualities of all kinds: huge, red, angry, tremendous, unique, rare, etc.”)
Most likely, the word qualities we use to describe our “normal” state in being, do not necessarily and always reflect the ideal or optimal state in being in this moment by moment unfolding. Whatever these qualifiers are, it is our intention to align them, to attune them to the best version of our self expression that we can in this here now moment by moment unfolding.
The meditation process is a process where we sit quietly, with eyes closed, in a comfortable posture, relaxing and breathing comfortably. In doing so, we shift the qualities in our here now moment by moment unfolding, limiting the sensory qualifiers so that we avail ourselves to this purer experience of our being. And in experiencing this state in being, we more fully identify and embody IT. We must experience our own perfection in order to know this perfection exists. Without first hand experience, the ideal state of our being and expressing, are just concepts to intellectualize about.
So, in meditation, the objective is not to become something, or someone who we are not, but rather to uncover, expose and experience who and what we truly are. This ideal expression in being may be described as our “God Self,” which we are able to experience only in this here now moment by moment unfolding. Identifying with our God Self first, then seeing our expression in physical form as (insert your name here,) secondly, aligns our attention and expression in being with our perfect, ideal state in being, which then has an effect upon our secondary identity and experience in and as this secondary identity of (insert your name here.)
Through continued experiencing of our God Self, the out picturing of our physical, secondary identity expression exhibits the divine traits and attributes of our ideal expression in being. And this continues until the secondary identity fades away so we fully embody our Divinity as our God Self in form and expression.
So, the awakening process isn’t to become something else, but rather to identify with and express our Divinity in each moment by moment unfolding, and in so doing not only uncover and experience our own perfection, but see and experience this perfection reflected in our world environment as well.
Most likely, the word qualities we use to describe our “normal” state in being, do not necessarily and always reflect the ideal or optimal state in being in this moment by moment unfolding. Whatever these qualifiers are, it is our intention to align them, to attune them to the best version of our self expression that we can in this here now moment by moment unfolding.
The meditation process is a process where we sit quietly, with eyes closed, in a comfortable posture, relaxing and breathing comfortably. In doing so, we shift the qualities in our here now moment by moment unfolding, limiting the sensory qualifiers so that we avail ourselves to this purer experience of our being. And in experiencing this state in being, we more fully identify and embody IT. We must experience our own perfection in order to know this perfection exists. Without first hand experience, the ideal state of our being and expressing, are just concepts to intellectualize about.
So, in meditation, the objective is not to become something, or someone who we are not, but rather to uncover, expose and experience who and what we truly are. This ideal expression in being may be described as our “God Self,” which we are able to experience only in this here now moment by moment unfolding. Identifying with our God Self first, then seeing our expression in physical form as (insert your name here,) secondly, aligns our attention and expression in being with our perfect, ideal state in being, which then has an effect upon our secondary identity and experience in and as this secondary identity of (insert your name here.)
Through continued experiencing of our God Self, the out picturing of our physical, secondary identity expression exhibits the divine traits and attributes of our ideal expression in being. And this continues until the secondary identity fades away so we fully embody our Divinity as our God Self in form and expression.
So, the awakening process isn’t to become something else, but rather to identify with and express our Divinity in each moment by moment unfolding, and in so doing not only uncover and experience our own perfection, but see and experience this perfection reflected in our world environment as well.
Monday, August 3, 2020
Regarding the Virus. . .
Consider this:
It took only one person being exposed to the virus to begin the chain of events that has unfolded since then. So, even with extreme and strict quarantine measures, it only takes one person to start the chain reaction all over again.
Pandora's box has been opened, and its contents can never be put back in.
It isn't practical to continue the measures currently being enforced, there has got to be a better way to heal the population of Earth. Medical measures and restrictions may work in the short term but aren't practical for the long term.
A different approach to the problem must be engaged. Awakening to our true and eternal spiritual being, may be a step in the right direction. Learning how each of us creates our own reality experiencing, is another step. And, experiencing our oneness in being as expressions of life, will go a long way towards bringing back the Peace, Love, Harmony, Compassion, Caring, Fun, Laughter and abundance to the front and center of our life expressing in this here, now moment by moment unfolding.
Blessings to us all.
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Half empty? Half full?
02/11/08
The perspective or attitude we adopt when viewing our world, our experiences, and our life can make all the difference in what that world, life and experience is.
Half empty:
This is the pessimistic view of our world, life and experiences. We tend to look on the "dark" side of things. When we hold this attitude and way of looking at our life and the world, how does that feel? What are the results of holding this attitude?
When we look at things from this perspective, we are more likely to be critical because we are seeing things as being incomplete, not enough, not good enough and those sorts of attitudes. What this does is it reflects back to us (or draws to us,) things and experiences of being incomplete, not enough, not good enough, etc.. When we adopt the critical approach to our life experience, we get more to be critical about because that's just the way it (the law of attraction,) works. And, when we are critical in that moment, we know what it is we want, but in that moment, instead of paying attention to having what we want, we spend the moment crying for the lack of what we want.
Generally, in my experience, this attitude is not very fulfilling, and doesn't feel good.
Half full:
This is the optimistic view of our world, life and experiences. We tend to look on the "bright" side of things. How does it feel to be optimistic? What are the results of holding this attitude?
A person who is optimistic generally is hopeful, there are more possibilities, and he/she is generally more open to finding them and experiencing them than a pessimist is.
Actually, being optimistic is more in line with our flow of energy, and being more in line with our flow, feels generally better than being a pessimist which is either going against the flow, or resisting the flow.
We all have predominated tendencies that have sprung up within our attitudes and experiences usually harbored and nurtured by those around us as we grew up. We generally adopt the attitudes of those around us when we are young, because they present a strong vibration of that, and being undefined vibrationally, we tend to identify with that which is predominate in our field of experience, especially when we are very young in these physical bodies.
Even if we have one attitude or the other ingrained into our mind, once we realize we now have control, we can begin to break free from the patterns which don't serve us any longer.
To break free, we must catch ourselves over and over again, when we express the pessimistic view, and when we do, turn it around to the optimistic view. (Every experience holds equal potential for either experience. As the experiencer, we decide which side we are going to pay attention to.)
This process is a "never get it done" type process. What I mean is, we always will be faced with the decisions of which side of the equation we are going to pay most attention to. The good news is, that as we practice mindfulness, and as we choose to be more optimistic, we weight our experiences in favor of being optimistic, and the more we are optimistic, the more we experience things to be optimistic about. This results in a snowball effect. (By the way, the same is true if we choose the pessimistic perspective.)
Now that being said, both of these attitudes are valuable in that the Half empty attitude point out to us something we want or desire, and the Half full attitude then applies focus of attention towards what we want. So you may see, that it is sort of a "flip flop" experience, first we see what we don't want, which make it more clear what we do want, and being more clear about what we do want, we pay attention to that, which brings that into our experience.
So, when we have a pessimistic moment, we can rejoice because in the moment that follows, we can see optimistically what we want, and seeing that we can move towards that.
If I could express a timeline of what this might be like in life experience, it might go something like this: Half empty, half full, half full, half full, half empty, half full, half full, half empty, half full. This is actually the creative process which could be stated in another way as in this example:
Not enough love in my life, I pay more attention to the love that is already in my life, and by paying attention to that, I experience more love in my life. I create more opportunities to experience more love in my life.
(By experiencing the "not enough" side of the experience, I built the desire for more. If I hadn't experienced the "not enough" I wouldn't have desired or moved towards creating more loving experiences in my life. So, while the "not enough" didn't feel good, it gave me the opportunity to turn towards what it was that I wanted, which feels much better. It works in my favor when I experience it, then look for the seed of what it is I want to create out of it.)
Every moment then, is the fruit in my experience that stirs up within me the desire to plant the seed for future experiences. As I am more and more aware of this process occurring moment by moment by moment, I become more and more the deliberate creator, planter of seeds, which express in the outer world experience as the fruit I've created.
If you begin to deliberately plant seeds of joy, from moment to moment, eventually, those seeds will manifest as joyous life experiences, will express as the fruit in the moment by moment experience of life. So, while I'm planting seeds of joy, I continue to reap the harvest of joy from the seeds I've previously planted. This is the value of being deliberate in your focus, attitudes, and emotional experiences.
How long does it take to make this transition, to be mindful enough to be a deliberate creator? We are constantly creating, planting seeds in this here now moment by moment experience.
If you've never paid much attention to your here now experience, you've never observed your mental tendencies, your attitudes, you will have to develop these by beginning to be more mindful of your moment by moment experiences, and in this mindfulness, observe how you feel, and what it is you are thinking about when you feel that way, and what your attitude is in this moment as you are experiencing this feeling.
Through continued exposure and practice of mindfulness, we develop a clarity about how we use our moment by moment experiences to create our life experiences.
Through this clarity, we then choose deliberately thoughts and feelings and attitudes which serve us, which plant seeds to our liking. As the progress unfolds, the seeds express as fruit in our moment by moment experience, and thus we reap the harvest we've intentionally and deliberately planted.
Practice being deliberate.
Meditation is a practice in being deliberate. Being deliberate for a pre-determined amount of time, in a place where we are free from interruptions and distractions. A time and place set aside to deliberately pursue this experience in awareness. When we sit for meditation, at first we may just sit and observe the experiences we have, we may feel the bodily sensations, we may feel the welling up and subsiding of emotions, we may observe thoughts that come and go, and in all this, we can become more clear. At first observation and stillness may be the goal of meditation, so that as we meditate, we just sit and adopt the observer attitude.
Eventually, we may choose to do something deliberately, such as repeating a Mantra, or focusing upon a simple thought such as "One" or "Love." We may deliberately repeat this mantra or word over and over again. Whenever another thought or feeling comes up, we might have a tendency to drift off with that, but being mindful, we catch our self and then return to the Mantra or word we've chosen to deliberately focus upon.
As we continue to practice, we become more and more proficient at this until it eventually is so easy and effortless that it is a natural expression of our being.
Once more thing about being deliberate, this isn't a forceful process, where we adopt an attitude like, "I'm going to do this come hell or high water!" where we grit our teeth, and tense up, and become rigid. Rather it is a gentle but determined approach where we observe our distractions, then gently return our attention to our desired point of focus.
This is an example of the mental process during a meditation period:
Love, love, love, I wonder what I'm going to do this afternoon? I think I'll go get some milk I need to remember to get milk. Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, that itches, I got to scratch that itch, dam, why is it itching, I wish it wouldn't itch, I got to get back to my meditation, but this dam itch is distracting me, (scratch the itch,) love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, I wonder how long I've been doing this, this is boring, man, why am I doing this, this is really stupid, I don't see why I'm wasting my time doing this, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, humm, this does feel better, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love....
Half empty? Half full?
The perspective or attitude we adopt when viewing our world, our experiences, and our life can make all the difference in what that world, life and experience is.
Half empty:
This is the pessimistic view of our world, life and experiences. We tend to look on the "dark" side of things. When we hold this attitude and way of looking at our life and the world, how does that feel? What are the results of holding this attitude?
When we look at things from this perspective, we are more likely to be critical because we are seeing things as being incomplete, not enough, not good enough and those sorts of attitudes. What this does is it reflects back to us (or draws to us,) things and experiences of being incomplete, not enough, not good enough, etc.. When we adopt the critical approach to our life experience, we get more to be critical about because that's just the way it (the law of attraction,) works. And, when we are critical in that moment, we know what it is we want, but in that moment, instead of paying attention to having what we want, we spend the moment crying for the lack of what we want.
Generally, in my experience, this attitude is not very fulfilling, and doesn't feel good.
Half full:
This is the optimistic view of our world, life and experiences. We tend to look on the "bright" side of things. How does it feel to be optimistic? What are the results of holding this attitude?
A person who is optimistic generally is hopeful, there are more possibilities, and he/she is generally more open to finding them and experiencing them than a pessimist is.
Actually, being optimistic is more in line with our flow of energy, and being more in line with our flow, feels generally better than being a pessimist which is either going against the flow, or resisting the flow.
We all have predominated tendencies that have sprung up within our attitudes and experiences usually harbored and nurtured by those around us as we grew up. We generally adopt the attitudes of those around us when we are young, because they present a strong vibration of that, and being undefined vibrationally, we tend to identify with that which is predominate in our field of experience, especially when we are very young in these physical bodies.
Even if we have one attitude or the other ingrained into our mind, once we realize we now have control, we can begin to break free from the patterns which don't serve us any longer.
To break free, we must catch ourselves over and over again, when we express the pessimistic view, and when we do, turn it around to the optimistic view. (Every experience holds equal potential for either experience. As the experiencer, we decide which side we are going to pay attention to.)
This process is a "never get it done" type process. What I mean is, we always will be faced with the decisions of which side of the equation we are going to pay most attention to. The good news is, that as we practice mindfulness, and as we choose to be more optimistic, we weight our experiences in favor of being optimistic, and the more we are optimistic, the more we experience things to be optimistic about. This results in a snowball effect. (By the way, the same is true if we choose the pessimistic perspective.)
Now that being said, both of these attitudes are valuable in that the Half empty attitude point out to us something we want or desire, and the Half full attitude then applies focus of attention towards what we want. So you may see, that it is sort of a "flip flop" experience, first we see what we don't want, which make it more clear what we do want, and being more clear about what we do want, we pay attention to that, which brings that into our experience.
So, when we have a pessimistic moment, we can rejoice because in the moment that follows, we can see optimistically what we want, and seeing that we can move towards that.
If I could express a timeline of what this might be like in life experience, it might go something like this: Half empty, half full, half full, half full, half empty, half full, half full, half empty, half full. This is actually the creative process which could be stated in another way as in this example:
Not enough love in my life, I pay more attention to the love that is already in my life, and by paying attention to that, I experience more love in my life. I create more opportunities to experience more love in my life.
(By experiencing the "not enough" side of the experience, I built the desire for more. If I hadn't experienced the "not enough" I wouldn't have desired or moved towards creating more loving experiences in my life. So, while the "not enough" didn't feel good, it gave me the opportunity to turn towards what it was that I wanted, which feels much better. It works in my favor when I experience it, then look for the seed of what it is I want to create out of it.)
Every moment then, is the fruit in my experience that stirs up within me the desire to plant the seed for future experiences. As I am more and more aware of this process occurring moment by moment by moment, I become more and more the deliberate creator, planter of seeds, which express in the outer world experience as the fruit I've created.
If you begin to deliberately plant seeds of joy, from moment to moment, eventually, those seeds will manifest as joyous life experiences, will express as the fruit in the moment by moment experience of life. So, while I'm planting seeds of joy, I continue to reap the harvest of joy from the seeds I've previously planted. This is the value of being deliberate in your focus, attitudes, and emotional experiences.
How long does it take to make this transition, to be mindful enough to be a deliberate creator? We are constantly creating, planting seeds in this here now moment by moment experience.
If you've never paid much attention to your here now experience, you've never observed your mental tendencies, your attitudes, you will have to develop these by beginning to be more mindful of your moment by moment experiences, and in this mindfulness, observe how you feel, and what it is you are thinking about when you feel that way, and what your attitude is in this moment as you are experiencing this feeling.
Through continued exposure and practice of mindfulness, we develop a clarity about how we use our moment by moment experiences to create our life experiences.
Through this clarity, we then choose deliberately thoughts and feelings and attitudes which serve us, which plant seeds to our liking. As the progress unfolds, the seeds express as fruit in our moment by moment experience, and thus we reap the harvest we've intentionally and deliberately planted.
Practice being deliberate.
Meditation is a practice in being deliberate. Being deliberate for a pre-determined amount of time, in a place where we are free from interruptions and distractions. A time and place set aside to deliberately pursue this experience in awareness. When we sit for meditation, at first we may just sit and observe the experiences we have, we may feel the bodily sensations, we may feel the welling up and subsiding of emotions, we may observe thoughts that come and go, and in all this, we can become more clear. At first observation and stillness may be the goal of meditation, so that as we meditate, we just sit and adopt the observer attitude.
Eventually, we may choose to do something deliberately, such as repeating a Mantra, or focusing upon a simple thought such as "One" or "Love." We may deliberately repeat this mantra or word over and over again. Whenever another thought or feeling comes up, we might have a tendency to drift off with that, but being mindful, we catch our self and then return to the Mantra or word we've chosen to deliberately focus upon.
As we continue to practice, we become more and more proficient at this until it eventually is so easy and effortless that it is a natural expression of our being.
Once more thing about being deliberate, this isn't a forceful process, where we adopt an attitude like, "I'm going to do this come hell or high water!" where we grit our teeth, and tense up, and become rigid. Rather it is a gentle but determined approach where we observe our distractions, then gently return our attention to our desired point of focus.
This is an example of the mental process during a meditation period:
Love, love, love, I wonder what I'm going to do this afternoon? I think I'll go get some milk I need to remember to get milk. Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, that itches, I got to scratch that itch, dam, why is it itching, I wish it wouldn't itch, I got to get back to my meditation, but this dam itch is distracting me, (scratch the itch,) love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, I wonder how long I've been doing this, this is boring, man, why am I doing this, this is really stupid, I don't see why I'm wasting my time doing this, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, humm, this does feel better, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love....
Half empty? Half full?
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Revised Guided Meditation: I am a Divine Being
Guided Meditation: I Am A Divine Being
I revised the vocal part of this track, as well as composed the background music. This version is 20 minutes long. I hope you like it. Please share it if you do.
Blessings to us all.
I revised the vocal part of this track, as well as composed the background music. This version is 20 minutes long. I hope you like it. Please share it if you do.
Blessings to us all.
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