the kind that happens every 65 million years or so. We (Humans) are the cause of it and we are not even aware of it. Don't believe me? Do some research. Since modern man and the industrial revolution made its entrance into Earth's history, the number of species that go extinct every year is in the thousands and increases every year. Don't believe me? Do some research!!!
The good news is our world is pretty frickin' resilient. Look at how the Gulf has rebounded after the BP oil catastrophe. It's not totally back but is recovering much nicer than most people would have ever expected. In spite of all our misguided efforts to completely destroy Mother Earth, she is still providing us everything we need to survive. Thank You Mother Earth!!!
I was reading one of my favorite books this morning while pondering my next chapter. I am accepting the call to adventure for something new and leaving what has been a great experience for me the past 23 years. The chapter I was reading was on the underlying intelligence of life and specifically, how every cell in our body contains the DNA for the larger organism known as us. Yet, as the cell matures it has the wisdom or intelligence to develop as a cell to be part of our heart or eye or finger. The cell knows it is part of the whole we call our body, it knows it is connected to every other cell and likely every other thing in the Universe and it fulfills a role that completes the whole.
This cell regenerates pretty frequently and does so over and over in the body's physical existence. It regenerates perfectly by understanding its role as a part of the whole and it releases the exact RNA (the blueprint from the DNA that tells it what to regenerate as) it needs to fulfill that role as part of the whole. A problem arises when the cell loses its social identity and what its role is within the whole. It reverts to blind undifferentiated cell division and begins taking over the area of the body it resides in. Science has proven (Look it up, do some research, don't just believe me) that the cell does this due to its perception of the environment it lives in. It loses touch with the guiding principle that it is interconnected with every other cell and is as important as any other cell. It is no longer cooperating with the whole when the environment is not status quo or normal. When a cell does this we call it Cancer.
I only bring this up, because it is a great analogy for what is happening to the Earth and Humanity. Think of Earth as a cell in the body of the Universe. Whats happening in Syria, or The Ukraine, or our government for that matter? We are killing ourselves, little pockets of humanity killing each other for no reason congruent with us all being connected. Look at all the atrocities that have taken place in just the last century. It's almost blind luck we have not destroyed ourselves already, we certainly have enough nuclear missiles.
Take Religion for instance. In human history, the sideways thinking people have about religion has resulted in more people being killed as a result of differences in beliefs about which religion is true than any other reason combined. How does that happen? The perceptions of the environment of those involved in "Religion", and no one religion has a monopoly on this unhealthy approach to religiosity. Anyone that says "my belief is the only true way" is cancerous to the whole because that is contentious and creates fear and angst or rebellion, none of which are healthy progressive states for a cell or Human to reside in.
Now Calm Down!!! It's just a metaphor, don't get all sideways on me. If that last paragraph pissed you off, I made my case and you can now see how hundreds of thousands if not millions of people have been killed in the name of God, or religion. I personally believe there is truth in most religions when you look at the teachings as metaphors rather than absolutes. We are as a society metaphorically challenged unfortunately.
So how can we as a world or humanity become Cancer free? Simply changing our thoughts. Having a different thought about our circumstances and understanding that circumstances in our life happen for a reason the meaning of which is up to us to determine. I don't have to agree with you in order for me to like or respect you. But if you try to steal from me, I'm removing you from my life and I may have you arrested. Disagreements do not need to end in injury or death, but you also do not need a sledge hammer up side the head before you know its time to move on. Choose your thoughts wisely, more on that next time.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
Surviving or Thriving? Which are you doing?
You are actively engaged in one, so which is it? Thriving is growing and progressing and is our nature. Surviving is to remain alive or in existence and is a state that is not natural to us. Growth and expansion are natural to us, and concepts we must engage in. In reality, if we are not growing and expanding, we are dying. Don't do that!!
Look around you! You know people that are dying. People that are in relationships that they don't want to be in, or in Jobs that they hate, or listening to a sermon that they do not agree with. People complaining about this or that. And they stay in those situations because they believe they have no alternative. They actually believe that!! I actually had a woman tell me she was staying in her marriage because if she got a divorce that would be her second divorce and she didn't want that label. That's insane.
Why do you think so many people are medicated today? Do you know that more people die everyday from overdoses or mixture of prescribed medicine than illegal drugs? That's messed up. The human body is a pretty ridiculous organism when you think about it. It regenerates itself over and over, yet when we have an ailment, our mind set is to take pills or drugs. We look outside of us for a remedy when we have everything we need within us.
Take the woman that does not want to have the "Label" of being divorced twice. That simple thought confines her to a life she is not fulfilled in, a life that she is just surviving or spending time in. A life that while she bides her time in, eliminates the potential for a life she could be thriving in and a relationship that could be part of that thriving. She could have a different thought. She could not care what others might say or think about her two failed marriages, and a whole new myriad of potentials could present themselves.
Staying in a job you hate because you make a good income? That just eliminates all of the potential things you could be doing if you were not spending time in a job you hate. And by the way, when you do a job you don't like, you are not doing your best work. Who knows what you would accomplish if you were thriving by growing and enjoying your days rather than biding your time for a paycheck. Great things do not come from survival. Great things come from thriving. Ideas that have never been thought come from a thriving mindset.
So, how do you move out of a survival mindset to a thriving mindset. Question everything you are doing, and I mean everything. Why do you sit in front of the TV as much as you do? Why when you feel less than comfortable do you begin cleaning, or go shopping, or jump on the Internet or alter how you feel with any other substance or activity? Because your not growing, you have become stagnant which is not a natural state for us, so you numb those feelings. The problem is you can't just numb bad feelings, you numb all feelings and we are feeling beings, no pun intended.
Ask yourself the question; What do I want? Do you want to survive or do you want to Thrive? Thriving stretches you, it will scare you, it will provide you the opportunity to feel every aspect of the human experience. Embrace that, Immerse yourself in the never ending cycle of separation, initiation and return. If you don't know what that is, find out.....that's growing!
Maybe your life is not where you want it, maybe your in a crappy relationship, maybe your job doesn't stimulate you, maybe you are tired of the sermon you're being taught. What are you going to do about it? Crap happens, but make no mistake, you participated in it happening. After all, there you are!! What are you going to do about it? What thoughts are you going to change about it to create a life of thriving? Change your thinking about life and you change your Life, and that is miraculous!!!
Maybe you are more fulfilled than you ever imagined. Awesome, keep it going but know that at some point in time that could change. And when it does, just keep in mind (literally) you are the only one to determine what that means. The only meaning life has is the one you give it. Give it an empowering one!! Please, we need more of those. Its the difference between Thriving and Dying!!!
Look around you! You know people that are dying. People that are in relationships that they don't want to be in, or in Jobs that they hate, or listening to a sermon that they do not agree with. People complaining about this or that. And they stay in those situations because they believe they have no alternative. They actually believe that!! I actually had a woman tell me she was staying in her marriage because if she got a divorce that would be her second divorce and she didn't want that label. That's insane.
Why do you think so many people are medicated today? Do you know that more people die everyday from overdoses or mixture of prescribed medicine than illegal drugs? That's messed up. The human body is a pretty ridiculous organism when you think about it. It regenerates itself over and over, yet when we have an ailment, our mind set is to take pills or drugs. We look outside of us for a remedy when we have everything we need within us.
Take the woman that does not want to have the "Label" of being divorced twice. That simple thought confines her to a life she is not fulfilled in, a life that she is just surviving or spending time in. A life that while she bides her time in, eliminates the potential for a life she could be thriving in and a relationship that could be part of that thriving. She could have a different thought. She could not care what others might say or think about her two failed marriages, and a whole new myriad of potentials could present themselves.
Staying in a job you hate because you make a good income? That just eliminates all of the potential things you could be doing if you were not spending time in a job you hate. And by the way, when you do a job you don't like, you are not doing your best work. Who knows what you would accomplish if you were thriving by growing and enjoying your days rather than biding your time for a paycheck. Great things do not come from survival. Great things come from thriving. Ideas that have never been thought come from a thriving mindset.
So, how do you move out of a survival mindset to a thriving mindset. Question everything you are doing, and I mean everything. Why do you sit in front of the TV as much as you do? Why when you feel less than comfortable do you begin cleaning, or go shopping, or jump on the Internet or alter how you feel with any other substance or activity? Because your not growing, you have become stagnant which is not a natural state for us, so you numb those feelings. The problem is you can't just numb bad feelings, you numb all feelings and we are feeling beings, no pun intended.
Ask yourself the question; What do I want? Do you want to survive or do you want to Thrive? Thriving stretches you, it will scare you, it will provide you the opportunity to feel every aspect of the human experience. Embrace that, Immerse yourself in the never ending cycle of separation, initiation and return. If you don't know what that is, find out.....that's growing!
Maybe your life is not where you want it, maybe your in a crappy relationship, maybe your job doesn't stimulate you, maybe you are tired of the sermon you're being taught. What are you going to do about it? Crap happens, but make no mistake, you participated in it happening. After all, there you are!! What are you going to do about it? What thoughts are you going to change about it to create a life of thriving? Change your thinking about life and you change your Life, and that is miraculous!!!
Maybe you are more fulfilled than you ever imagined. Awesome, keep it going but know that at some point in time that could change. And when it does, just keep in mind (literally) you are the only one to determine what that means. The only meaning life has is the one you give it. Give it an empowering one!! Please, we need more of those. Its the difference between Thriving and Dying!!!
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Fake it til you make it.....
Are you kidding me? You may have heard this mantra, many use it as part of affirmations.....and if you have in the past, stop it right now!!! "Fake it til you Make it" is a product of limited thinking and beliefs, not unlike a number of other well intended affirmations.
Do you believe you are connected to the source of all that is, was or will ever be? If you do, and I hope you do, what would you ever have to fake? Fake it til you make it is like telling yourself a lie at worst and at best it's not being genuine. We get programmed to believe we are substantially less than the divine spiritual beings connected to God, Source, or the Universe (or whatever you are most comfortable with) by daily experiences and messages we take for granted to be real. So faking it til we make it almost feels empowering for many people.
Think about it. The definition of "Fake" is: A thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham. Why in the world would anyone in their right mind think being a sham was beneficial. Only someone that is disconnected from their True Self, their Divine Infinite Potential Self. Far too many people do not give weight to the power of their thoughts. Thoughts create form on many different levels and most people have no discernment to the thoughts they allow themselves to have.
Much like pinballs, a lot of people bounce off of bumpers (experiences) that might make them feel good or might make them feel bad or even depressed rather than being deliberate about the thinking they give to the experiences. Most people think life happens to them and events are random and some are "good" and some are "not so good". Well Life does happen, but the events of your life are neither good nor bad, they just are. Your thoughts about the events are the only meaning these events have. Do you understand that?
Christ got this, Victor Frankl got this, Nelson Mandela got this. Life happened around them, but they chose the meaning to assign to the events of their lives. That is powerful stuff. Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years for speaking his mind about the inequities between human beings in South Africa just because of the color of their skin. 27 years!!! Just think of all the limiting belief thinking he could have engaged in during that time as opposed to the unlimited potential based thinking he did engage in. He became friends with his captors, he actually taught them empowering concepts of thought. And then look at the good that he brought into the world after being released. Was he bitter? No, he was humble and he brought a nation together. What he did was miraculous, because a miracle is just a different thought.
What limited thinking do you hap hazzardly engage in? Just look at what keeps showing up in your life. And then, look at how you react to what keeps showing up in your life. Is it serving you in a positive way? If not, what thoughts could you have that the experience would serve you in a positive way? Every experience is an opportunity for you the teacher to help you the student to learn more about your potential. And both the teacher and student are engaged at all times, it just comes down to what you are learning. You are either learning more about who your True Self is or you are learning more that takes you further away from who your True Self is.
Every moment you choose the degree that you are deliberate about what you teach and what you learn, and its important because when you choose to learn more about you, the divine being with infinite potential, your actions then teach others. As Howard Thurman said "don't ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive, because what the world needs is more people to come alive". What he meant by coming alive is being aligned with our True Nature and Self.
Don't fake anything, be authentic, be deliberate and come alive. We need that for everyone's sake!!!
Do you believe you are connected to the source of all that is, was or will ever be? If you do, and I hope you do, what would you ever have to fake? Fake it til you make it is like telling yourself a lie at worst and at best it's not being genuine. We get programmed to believe we are substantially less than the divine spiritual beings connected to God, Source, or the Universe (or whatever you are most comfortable with) by daily experiences and messages we take for granted to be real. So faking it til we make it almost feels empowering for many people.
Think about it. The definition of "Fake" is: A thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham. Why in the world would anyone in their right mind think being a sham was beneficial. Only someone that is disconnected from their True Self, their Divine Infinite Potential Self. Far too many people do not give weight to the power of their thoughts. Thoughts create form on many different levels and most people have no discernment to the thoughts they allow themselves to have.
Much like pinballs, a lot of people bounce off of bumpers (experiences) that might make them feel good or might make them feel bad or even depressed rather than being deliberate about the thinking they give to the experiences. Most people think life happens to them and events are random and some are "good" and some are "not so good". Well Life does happen, but the events of your life are neither good nor bad, they just are. Your thoughts about the events are the only meaning these events have. Do you understand that?
Christ got this, Victor Frankl got this, Nelson Mandela got this. Life happened around them, but they chose the meaning to assign to the events of their lives. That is powerful stuff. Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years for speaking his mind about the inequities between human beings in South Africa just because of the color of their skin. 27 years!!! Just think of all the limiting belief thinking he could have engaged in during that time as opposed to the unlimited potential based thinking he did engage in. He became friends with his captors, he actually taught them empowering concepts of thought. And then look at the good that he brought into the world after being released. Was he bitter? No, he was humble and he brought a nation together. What he did was miraculous, because a miracle is just a different thought.
What limited thinking do you hap hazzardly engage in? Just look at what keeps showing up in your life. And then, look at how you react to what keeps showing up in your life. Is it serving you in a positive way? If not, what thoughts could you have that the experience would serve you in a positive way? Every experience is an opportunity for you the teacher to help you the student to learn more about your potential. And both the teacher and student are engaged at all times, it just comes down to what you are learning. You are either learning more about who your True Self is or you are learning more that takes you further away from who your True Self is.
Every moment you choose the degree that you are deliberate about what you teach and what you learn, and its important because when you choose to learn more about you, the divine being with infinite potential, your actions then teach others. As Howard Thurman said "don't ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive, because what the world needs is more people to come alive". What he meant by coming alive is being aligned with our True Nature and Self.
Don't fake anything, be authentic, be deliberate and come alive. We need that for everyone's sake!!!
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