Idiom Illumination

You may already know that the words you attach to your everyday experiences have a direct and profound effect on how your body reacts to it and how it is perceived overall.  "I hate this!!" versus "maybe I can learn something out of this" and "they are sons of bitches" versus "I know they will get it sooner than later" and "I can do this" versus "there is no freakin' way", all can very much attribute to the outcome of each situation.  The kicker is the fact that you may not even really believe it.  Obviously the more you do believe the better the result but the simple task of making the choice to choose your words wisely can choose a better experience.

Filtering the words that come out of your mouth can help turn what seems to be a horrible or hopeless situation into a bearable or great one.  Now instead of saying "that's easier said then done", try saying, "yeah, I can do that and it will get easier as I go along."  Then watch more faith, love and happiness come into your life.  Let your words illuminate your experiences today.

Defending Our Unhappiness

Have you ever run into someone whom you've shared the thought "don't worry", or "have faith", or "it'll be alright"?  And in return you receive a blistering look of anger for your inconceivable idea that the world is not crumbling.  How dare you think that everything will work out or that being happy is a possibility in the perception of their discontent.  My question to you now is why do you think this is so?  Why do we defend our unhappiness so vigorously?  Why do we sometimes choose, with all of our heart, to cling so dearly to what is making us so unhappy? Why do we identify with it and how do we seem to find some sort of comfort from it?

If all of us that say we believe in God but then cling so dearly to the opposite of faith and joy, and love, is it obvious then that something very opposite is drawing our attention and inspiration?  I choose Love, Joy and Faith in my life instead of the opposite every chance I get.  Can it really be that simple? Yep.

Thought of the Day - Oct 21, 2012 - Attack!

Recently I made one of the dumbest mistakes on the road that you can believe!  I had stopped at a traffic light, while it was green.  For whatever reason I needed to find my phone that fell and had perceived the light as red (i guess) so that I would have the opportunity to find my phone.  In retrospect I recall that the light was green but I was not paying attention, I was only paying attention that it was a light and a place to stop.  This immediately stopped traffic that morning while everyone was hurried into work, making the 30 seconds or so seem like a lifetime to those behind me.  I was waiting for the inevitable dirty look and speed passes as soon as I had gotten my head from under the passenger seat and back on the road.  Oddly, those that I had slowed down that morning had any gestures or looks to give.  They all went about their business. "Wow," I thought.  Is this world becoming tolerant of dork drivers during morning rush hour? =]

For the past 4-5 years I've made it a point not to get angry at anyone for their driving mistakes because I know that even as good a track record that I may have, someday I may make a mistake.  The mistake I see in others' driving is simply "that day" for them.  I choose not to attack every time.   

If you could understand that by making an attack on someone, you forget love, and by forgetting love you make him a stranger.  By making someone a stranger you separate yourself from him and then do not truly know what love is, nor know yourself.  To know thyself is to know that we are all intimately related and bound inseparable.  Thus, to make an attack on someone is to make an attack on yourself.

Anyway, there seems to be some sort of karma working here as well.  I felt pretty good that morning after I was not attacked for my mistake.

Thought of the Day October 19 - On the Verge!

I woke up this morning as positive as ever.  Each day seems to get better and better... yet I keep feeling like I'm on the verge of something big.  This would be ideal, except for the fact that I've been feeling like this for about 7 months now.  I know the secret is to be happy in now and not expend all of your energy waiting and  hoping for the future, but now recently things seem to even be pushing back at me for some reason.  There are things around me that compound my urgency to "take off" already. 

So I'm sitting here checking my emails in my workout clothes a little after 5am before I have to pick up my friend for our morning workout...  and I run across this old email I sent to myself with a quote from Henry Ford;  It reads:  "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind and not with it."  Perfect!  I can see how the new "things" around me can be perceived as the final lifts that are pushing me to "take off!"  Thanks for the words of advice Henry.

See you in the clouds! =]

Thought of the Day - Oct 18 - Do Unto Yourself

If everyone truly has equal rights in God, you can only claim yours by being just to your brother and your neighbor and your co-workers and your spouse and your children.  Hate and you will be hated. Disrespect and you will be disrespected.  Look upon as ignorant and you will be looked upon as such.  Seek to deny, and you will feel denied. Seek to deprive, and you have been deprived.  …goes back to love thy neighbor as thyself, otherwise the opposite is turned back upon oneself.

Fifth Essene Mirror

One really interesting idea that has captured my attention lately is the Fifth Mirror out of the Seven Mirrors in the ancient Essene culture.  It says that your consciousness reflects back to you Father/Mother.  It often reflects the same relationship we have with our Godly Mother and Father.  Mother being the earth and Father in Heaven.

Take that idea and think- would it be possible that I chose or I gravitated towards my Mother based on the resemblance to that of a preferred mother figure in my consciousness before I was born?

Did I play any role in choosing whom I was born to?  Does my earthly father resemble that of my heavenly father?  If so, this is a tool that can be used to learn, release and heal to grow further. 

Will we continue to be reborn in the same situations in life until we learn, let go, forgive, love and heal?

So now to come back to less abstract ideas and directly to a specific question that was asked of me- I think we might have chosen our childhood as best as we could in a shared consciousness environment.  And then we continue to build that environment into our adulthood until we learn from it and grow into something more positive.  The alternate to growth is to die knowing nothing else but the current level of consciousness in your life and try again relive it again in the next life. …so one may continue to build similar environments because they know somewhere deep inside that overcoming that consciousness is the next level of growth before moving on to the next.

For those that believe faith is somehow related to guiltful sin and suffering, instead maybe faith is knowing there is happiness out there and no matter how much your ego wants death and separation from God to protect itself, faith and love can unfold your inner self that is full of God.

Thought of the Day - Change Best from Within

Out of a plethora of mangled dreams last night I somehow ended up on a serene, single thought hours before sunrise.  I thought "change is better from within."  This seems a simple enough truth.

You've heard people say "...this person changed me" or "...they made me a better person," but was it not a change within themselves first that brought them to that person and brought them to the fork in the road that opened them to change based on an external force?  I do not believe a woman can change a man for better without him first changing in himself.  He would need to be ready for and willing to change before the woman even enters the picture.  Then he is open to the inspiration he finds in her.

There have been times for me when I really want to make an impact on someone.  If change is truly better from within then is there anything I can really do for someone?  Yes and no is what I came up with.  No, because that person cannot change by your flinging words of reform or inspiration at them; and Yes because it is the change within you that can create true inspiration and plant new ideas within something else.  Change may be best from within a single person first, then see it expand outward to those around him or her.  Before 1952, could you take a runner and say "You can break the 4 minute mile! Now Go!"  Chances are, it would never materialize unless the person you tell believes it.  Now Bannister believed it in himself and did it.  After that, a handful of others made the same accomplishment because they actually believed it could be done. You can have a lot of people believe in you but if you don't believe in yourself, chances are it won't happen.  Alternatively, if you believe in yourself and tons of people don't, chances are it will happen anyway.

The whole idea goes back to being the change you want to see in the world.  Don't worry about "helping" someone if they don't ask or care for it, even if they seem or say they are miserable.  The story about a little girl helping a butterfly out of its Chrysalis too soon, resulting in a lameness and soon death because it cannot fly, comes to mind her...  Instead be that change you'd like to see and the world will change starting from within yourself. dac.