You Love Life - A Memo To Self

You don't have to be a super-hero.

You don't have to save the planet or be Jesus.

You don't have to have a perfect body and face,

Or be super smart and know all the answers.

You don't have to worry about what people think anymore.

You just have to be you.

And who are you?

Who are you right now?

Accept it fully, deeply.

Remember.

You don't have to be a super-hero.

And what are you capable of?

What do you truly care about?

What is your capacity?

Do not be afraid of going to the core.

Do not be afriad of being who you are, totally expressed in the world.

In your essence you are beautiful, honest, kind.

You are creative, full of life.

You want nothing more than you need.

And find joy in giving.

You are calm, relaxed, flowing.

You love life.

The Power of Life

I have found that a way to keep in balance is to question everything, especially when it comes to my perceptions, my opinions, my preconceptions.

By questioning everything I keep breaking up the accretion of the past - the accumulation of memory that warps the perception of the present moment. I don't allow "ways of being" to get stuck to me and become a prison. I am always questioning my emotions and what I "know" to be true. The "inner" authority is just as dangerous as the "outer" authority.

There is no harm in questioning firmly held beliefs, sacred cows. The truth is always the truth, it can never be destroyed or altered by a cunning mind, and by coming to it again and again in the moment I continually can be in touch with it - rediscover it. The truth is living, alive and moving just like a wave. 

That's why I love the metaphor of surfing on a wave. It is a constant relatedness with the wave, moving with the wave and finding balance on the wave that is the experience of being in alignment with the ocean's power. I can't "know" the wave, I can only be in touch with it, be in a relatedness with it and feel it in the moment. To hold on to a memory of the wave and expect the present wave to be like the memory is to be out of balance with the wave I am surfing now. Now is a totally different wave.

So it is with life. To live in balance with the present moment is to experience and utilize the power of life.

Conscious Living

I have noticed that the vicious circles that my mind can get stuck in are all around what I don't want and projecting that into my future.

This generates a kind of mental/emotional magnetic field - by that I mean my mind thinks about these thoughts repetetively and it doesn't take much to trigger the cascade. One thought leads into the other which generates emotion which generates more thought. Vicious circle.

The trouble is that the thoughts appear to make sense. They are complaining about the "problem" chewing on it over and over, tightening the vise and going deeper into the pain of it. The magnetic field grows stronger and it becomes harder for the mind to break free of the gravitational pull of the pain.

The key is to realize that the mind is a reality generating machine. And you are in control. It is not the external situation and certainly not the past. It is all how my mind is interpreting it.

If the mind is set to focusing on what it doesn't want, then it is set on a path that will lead to seeing a future filled with what it doesn't want. A future that has to be avoided at all costs, a future that is a "life sentence", a future that is problematic, uninspiring. This creates an urgency and sometimes, panic. 

If I start to consciously take control of my mind and begin to focus it on what I do want, then things shift. I start to focus and project into the future what inspires me, what I want to express. There can be some inertia at first, maybe even the old pattern will begin to argue about how it is not possible, and how miserable things are. This is good. The little monster of the mind is becoming exposed. Take note of the negativity within and what it is saying. What is it committed to? The danger of listening to this negativity will become apparent and make it easier to recognize and drop. When you know something is literally dangerous, you don't get into confusion around it. You avoid it at all costs. 

Start saying waht you want. I want to be joyful, I want to be powerful, I want love in my life, I want to love, I want to experience an abiding peace, I want to make a difference in the lives of others, I want to be free, I want to make a great living doing what I love, I want to travel, I want to create, etc.. Sky is the limit. 

Feel the difference from one mode of the mind to the other. One is heavy, one is light. One is limited and binding, one is infinite and freeing. One creates a bleak future that I want to avoid, the other creates a future that I look forward to living into.

Create your own reality. Create an amazing future to live into by using the power of your mind consciously.