Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. When you had the opportunity, did you take action? What do I mean by that? It’s actually very simple. Did you do that thing you planned to do? The question is a matter of taking a plan – the thought; figuring out how to do it – the feeling; doing it – the action. A lot of us are really good at coming up with ideas and
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Tomorrow is an election day here in the United States. Do not neglect your vote! If you want to see change in the direction the nation is heading, this is the best way you can DO something about it. Get out there and vote. One of the greatest rights we have in this nation is our ability to vote. Despite all the messages of disempowerment we receive,
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The key to knowing is to recognize that for the most part, we know far less than we think. Knowing how little we know is extremely important. Why? Because there will always be something new to learn. There are new experiences to be had. New people to be met. How many languages do you speak? Do you know how to fence with a sword in each hand?
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. I’m doing all that I can, but I am just not feeling it. For more than four-and-a-half years, I have written about Positivity here, every week, without fail. Over the past week a number of happenings have left me feeling mostly angry, sad, and not positive. A madman shot up a synagogue, and the unsympathetic President blamed the victims. Another madman sent out bombs to prominent opponents
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. You have permission to suck. A lot of people feel that they need to always succeed, always win, always get it right. However, that is, in truth, impossible. Things will not work out as planned, outside influences will change how a process works, or some other unexpected thing will interfere. Hopefully it all goes as you want…but there are times where, no matter what you are doing,
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Creativity is an amazing power we each possess. Our unique ability to make our world; to build; invent; evolve; to start from a raw idea and conjure an amazing construct is incredible. While we have observed other creatures on this world capable of building and using tools, none has shown the skills and creativity we have to imagine and create wonders. We take so many aspects of
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Each of us has the ability to change our emotions. Yes, I know that this seems like a lie, but that doesn’t make it any less true. We are each able to control how we are feeling. You and I have the ability to change our emotions. It’s important that we recognize several facts about how emotions work, and how we are able to make changes to
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. There is a surprisingly substantial difference between want and desire. Want is based in lack. One of its definitions, from dictionary.com is to be without, or deficient in. Want comes from a place of lack and scarcity. It is a statement that implies that there is not enough, that you have gone without because that which you want there is not enough of. Further, that implies that
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Consciousness creates reality because all of our perceptions of reality are unique. Whether you buy into this notion or not, that doesn’t make it any less true. Yes, I recognize that this may come across as hooky-spooky craziness, but let me present you a different perspective. Do you like our present reality? I know that it’s entirely possible that you do, and if that is so, rock
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Don’t lose hope. I know that the world looks bleak right now, but we can still change it. Yes, there is some pretty awful stuff happening in the world around us. Terrible people are doing terrible things; threatening to take away rights; disempowering and disenfranchising all for their own interests; shredding the very fabric of our society. It feels terrible, it is scary and unpleasant and infuriating,