Live without regret. Understand that not every decision may be right, but once made and acted upon it becomes right. No step in life is any more or less important than another. All experiences count. Your own experiences are personally significant, your challenges pertinent to you and your journey through life, your lessons necessary, showing you what you must still learn. Learn with awareness, with eyes open, mind awake, body alert, so that everything you encounter is fully lived. If you live with awareness you will not miss anything and you will learn what it means to have no regrets, for you will discover that everything is meaningful.
All human beings must live out their assignments. Whether it is to be happy and contented or disturbed and restless, all aspects of life must be lived again and again until they are done. Themes repeat, issues arise repeatedly, and this is so they may be squarely faced and addressed, and so that one can overcome them and move on. Pay attention to that which appears to show you what must be dealt with if you are to achieve your highest goals, desires, and potential. Let yourself in on the secret that you planned this life with purpose in mind, with the intention of challenging yourself to grow and evolve. Live your life knowing this to be true. Remain aware of life as a profound journey to inner insight, wisdom of all that you are, and amazement at all that surrounds, supports, and protects you as you travel through life. And remember, you are loved. Journey on!
Is it chaos or a work in progress? – Photo by Jan Ketchel
What we think is what we get. Make the central focus of life calmness. From the place of calm we find the freedom to be at ease, with the mind as a tool to find clarity and channel the truth. Without calm the mind is blown about in free association with all its resultant emotional storms. These are the storms that breed negativity, as we feel ourselves overwhelmed by the anxieties of thoughts seeking to birth in the center of our minds.
We get to calm by weeding the mind of invasive thoughts that grow bigger as they seek to root in the energy of our attention. We cultivate the mind by being in charge of where we place our attention. As all gardeners know, invasive species are a fact of life. However, like the gardener, we can be in charge of which thoughts receive our greatest care and which we discard as mere weeds.
There are infinite seeds of thought that seek to take root in the soil of the mind. The mind is daily flooded with a highly charged marketplace of thought-offerings that vie for the currency of our attention. The outer expression of this is eloquently mirrored in the insatiable attention-seeking behavior of political leaders, whose viewpoints thrive on the food of our attention, rendering us powerless and energetically bankrupt.
But we are not victims. The Shamans of Ancient Mexico confirmed that although extreme trickery is allowed in all realities, in the final analysis we must sign up or agree for our energy to be taken. Even in the most extreme of captive circumstances, pointed out Victor Frankl, referring to his stay in a death camp, are we still free to choose the attitude we will take toward our circumstances.
From the place of calm we arrive at detachment. Detachment does not mean dissociation. There is a distinction between objective emotion and subjective emotion. To be mindfully present does not free one from the power of emotion. In fact, it insists that we be fully present to all that is: thought, feeling, sensation, and intuition. Objective emotion is genuine reaction to the truth.
The story is told of the teacher monk who cried at the death of his son. His students were flustered at his display of deep emotion, this apparent failure of detachment. He replied that his son had died. What more appropriate time to shed tears?
Subjective emotion arises from thoughts that stray from actual reality, thoughts that catastrophize as they hook into the present and enhance it to archetypal proportion, leading to dissociation from reality.
From the place of calm detachment we see the truth and know right action. This is positive action, because whatever action that might be, it is the necessary response to the truth. If we know right action and act in accordance with it, we are in deep alignment with inner truth and feel positive, regardless of the phase of the moon. Ending a relationship, leaving a career, even leaving this world if it’s truly time to leave, brings with it an inner certainty of rightness of being that launches one’s full energy into new life.
The world is now undergoing deep transformation. Nature is daily acting out these fundamental changes. Of course, we are all free to ride the thoughts of illusion that deny the truth, or play it for profit. An alternative is to accept what is objectively there but not fall prey to catastrophic interpretation and attachment.
If we realize that our collective thought energy is what feeds the machine that controls us—or, put another way, generates the reality we live in—we are free to employ our thought energy, our intent, on positive outcome. State, for instance: “I intend a world aligned with the truth.”
Let love guide you through thick and thin, through your experiences now and as you relive and remember your past. Let love guide you so that your decisions and your remembrances may carry you forward always to new visions, new perspectives, and new life. With love comes the ability to perceive anew and evolve beyond the areas that have captivated you. With love comes greater awareness. With love comes the ability to evolve beyond that which is normal and enticing to that which is greater and all-encompassing. With love comes the natural ability to perceive and be all-that-is. And all-that-is is what you seek, wholeness and beingness with the love that surrounds you.
Be an energy miser so that you have the energy to do what needs to be done and so that you have enough to sustain you for the long haul. Work hard, play well, rest enough, and support your system, body and soul, with what it needs to thrive. At the same time, monitor how your body and soul feel in different situations, how they react energetically. Learn how much energy you need to accomplish certain tasks, and maintain more than enough so that you are always ready and prepared with all you need. If your energy is kept honed and in tiptop shape you will have what you need for a balanced and productive life. The point is, take good care of yourself in all ways, within and without, and your energy will be in good supply to last many lifetimes, as needed.
