Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
How do you get back to the path if you have begun to backtrack, and why is that important? As mentioned previously, if you have chosen to walk your path, you have chosen to accept control over change. You are choosing how you will live your life, and as such how you make changes. Pathwalking is active, and proactive. Backtracking is reacting, and thus opposite. The difficulties you have encountered along the path have made you backtrack. You have leaped
What is backtracking, and why is it the opposite of Pathwalking? I have said before that the path is not always straight, will turn, twist, double back on itself. Doubling back might imply backtracking, but that is not the case. This notion of backtracking is making a leap from where you are on the path now to a previous point. I’m not talking about switching from one path to another, I am talking about taking a pronounced leap backwards, to
Everyone wants to see results for their effort. We all want to know that we are succeeding in our goals. We are inundated with phrases like “results driven” and “results oriented” in job descriptions. No matter what we do, the results are important to us. Just to add a little fuel to that fire, we are a quick-fix, instant gratification, get it NOW society. We want to see it happen AS SOON as possible. Tomorrow is not good enough, we
Negativity begets negativity. It inundates us at every turn. We are constantly being bombarded with negative messages, negative reinforcement, woe and lack and scarcity and no no no. Read the news about all the bad things happening in the world. Pay attention to politics and be overwhelmed by negative campaigns. Listen to how readily we talk about what we do not have, what we cannot have, and how terrible this, that or the other thing is. Negativity comes easily. Well
I want to be a better person. Yes, I want to be a better son, better boyfriend, better friend, better worker, better person in the eyes of society. But in order to achieve that, I need to do right by myself. Why do I want to be a better person? Because while the person I am is pretty awesome, there is still room for improvement. And in becoming a better person, I will learn to love myself better. And not
Ever notice how easy it is to place blame? Often, I don’t think we even realize we’re doing it. How many of these sound familiar? I should never have listened to you. You’re responsible for leading me there. If I hadn’t taken your advice, this would be alright. If my boss wasn’t so stupid, work would be great! If you weren’t holding me back, I’d be successful! Shall we pay a visit to dictionary.com? blame – noun; verb (used with object) 1. to hold responsible; find fault with; censure: I don’t blame
I am. Two of the most powerful words anyone can utter. What follows them will help in building up the self. I am happy. I am strong. I am attractive. I am wise. I am worthy. Unfortunately, following “I am” with negatives is equally, if not sometimes more powerful. I am broke. I am angry. I am weak. I am fat. I am unworthy. All you have to do is read the news. All you have to do is read
Science has taken a lot of abuse over the past decade or so. A lot of ‘faith based’ organizations have been working overtime to discredit the scientific community. And this is something we should all be far more disturbed by than we are. What is science? Let’s visit Dictionary.com for that: sci·ence noun 1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
Independence is one of the primary reasons to walk one’s own path. The best definition from Dictionary.com for independence is freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others. This is one of the main reasons to choose to walk our own path. We want to be free, we want to be independent, we want to ultimately be in control of our own fate, our own destiny. Sometimes winning that independence is easy. But sometimes it is
We are all different in so many ways. Race, creed, color, gender, sexual orientation, nationality…but instead of focusing on our differences, and creating gaps and divides over them – we need to start focusing on all the ways we are the same. The business and political and religious leaders in this world love to explore, exploit, and emphasize all of our differences. They use them to create fear of one group or another, to control whom they can, and to