Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Don’t ever give up hope. I could spout all sorts of platitudes and ideas and clichés on this topic, but that gets old and worn fast. Hope, for its own sake, is a belief, an emotion that is sustenance for the soul. Hope is this strange, obscure tenet that is tremendously misunderstood. It is often held to simply be that intangible something to be clung to, something worth living for, something not to be let go of. But it is
Life is meant to be lived in the here and now. Over the past several weeks this has been the central theme of this blog. But one thing I have not gotten into in depth is – How? How do you live in the here and now? I have been working on this for the past two years, as I have been working to walk my own path. Along the way I have encountered new discoveries and lessons which I
Life is meant to be lived in the here and now. If, as I have postulated previously, I cannot live IN the past, or live FOR the future – then I am left with the present. For a lot of people, this very simple notion is hard to believe. The here and now is immediate, it is in-your-face, it is not then, not later, but right now. It is the moment. It is the ultimate reality around you. We have
The future is unwritten. The future cannot be known. It can be surmised, it can be analyzed, it can be guessed at. But it cannot be known. Living for the future can be nearly as dangerous as living in the past. Once again I am talking about the extremes. Like black and white, love and hate, up and down, past and future are the extremes of time. Last week I explained why the past is past, and living in the
The past is, simply put, past. People all too often look to this event in the past or that event of yesterday, and define almost everything in the now based upon the past. The trouble is – you cannot change the past. Pure and simple – you can’t undo past events or actions. They have happened. You can’t change them, you cannot undo them, you cannot redo them. Knowing this and accepting the truth of this matter, here is the
You are stronger than you realize. I am not talking about your physical strength here. I mean that you are mentally, emotionally, and spiritually stronger than you realize. Every day we deal with tests of our strength. Some are rather minor and simply inconvenient – traffic on the way to work, the line at the grocery store, unruly clients on the phone, family members trying our patience. Some, though, are fairly large and complicated – accidents causing serious injury, bankruptcy,
Do you care for and love your self as you ought to? In today’s society, we have become so focused on our jobs, our families, our friends, our coworkers, our education, our finances, our possessions, our weekends, and so on and so forth – that we have become utterly negligent of the self. I came across this notion of Pathwalking – and choosing my own life’s path – because I took a look at who I was, and determined I
A lot of time here has been spent on the topic of gratitude. But of almost equal importance, we need to also take a look at intention. Intent is about the outcome. Intent is about the perception of a choice. Intent is the answer to how you want whatever it is you are working on to be. Knowing our intent is of great importance, because if we do not know our intent, we will not necessarily get the outcome we
Writers are often classed into one of two categories: Planners and Pantsers. Planners are the ones who create an outline, sometimes with immense details, and plan out their work to a greater or lesser degree. They know their characters, locations, plot, beginning middle and end. They have most if not all of their work pre-planned, and they know where they are going throughout the writing process. Pantsers are the ones who are more apt to go with stream-of-consciousness. They have
We all want to be appreciated. Whether it is something little or something big, we all want to be acknowledged. We all want to feel that our efforts and works are appreciated. The power of gratitude is important to our own ability to do and to have things, but we cannot deny the power of appreciation. We need to be grateful for things, but we also need to be acknowledged and appreciated for the things we do. I know no