Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Empathy can better the world around us. For what it’s worth, I am an empath. What that means is that I can feel the emotions of people around me, sometimes better than I can feel my own. The difference between simply feeling empathy and being an empath is that, as an empath I ALWAYS feel things. With empathy, it is an emotion that can be switched on and off far more easily. Because I am an empath, I frequently find
Love is far simpler than we tend to make it. Storytellers across the ages have been informing us that love is this grand, complex, amazing thing. And while it certainly can be, in truth it is much less grandiose. I have frequently written here about the ability we all possess to manifest the things we want in life. We are, at our ultimate core, energy. Energy vibrates at various frequencies. Low frequency vibration draws low, negative things to us. High
Inspiration comes in many forms. Different things inspire different people, of course. People can find inspiration in any of the five senses. The taste of chocolate. A piece of music. The smell of fresh brewed coffee. Sunlight in your eyes. The feel of silk beneath your hands. That sense of comfort and love from those closest to you. Any of these alone or in combination can spark the imagination and inspire great things. Inspiration has been personified throughout history. The
I have worked any number of jobs that didn’t leave me feeling satisfied. We all have to earn a living, right? You can’t just laze about your home, on a beach, or wander aimlessly all the time, because clothing, food and shelter cost money. Also, frankly, doing nothing at all gets pretty boring pretty fast. When I started college, I remember preparing to register for my first classes. It was orientation, and I had not yet chosen my major. I
One of the goals of Pathwalking is to enhance the things in life that make us feel joyful. I want to work on choosing the life I most desire to lead. Consciousness creates reality, and I want to choose the reality that brings me joy and happiness. This can be particularly challenging, especially in today’s society. We are bombarded every day with horrid, awful, ugly, unpleasant things. Terrible people, selfishness, greed, and a deluge of messages about lack and scarcity.
Pure, unadulterated joy. Don’t you love that feeling? The freedom, the release, the positivity? That feeling of comfort and warmth and bliss that makes you smile and remember what it is to be alive? We are so inundated with dread, fear, anger, hatred, division and harsh reality. Everyone is constantly being subjected to grim news and intolerance and denial of joy. We are slaves to community, to jobs and finances and responsibilities that rob us of pure joyfulness. I believe
In response to a great deal of awful things from the start of this year, I want to share with you ten things in my personal life that are making me happy. While Valentine’s Day is my least favorite holiday, the message of love it conveys is worth spreading. Rather than keep it to one day designed to generate revenue for florists, chocolatiers and card companies, I think spreading love every day is a fine thing. Love begins with the
We are stronger when we work together than when we work apart. Pathwalking may be an individual act, but that does not mean it happens in a vacuum. Humans are social creatures. We have people whom we interact with every day on every imaginable level. Working with each other instead of against one another can take us even further than we might hope. Modern society has an unfortunate tendency to work from a divide-and-conquer approach. We are inundated with messages
Words matter. What that means is that what you write or say can have an impact, positive or negative. Do you build or destroy with your words? Inspire or terrorize? Spew love or hate? Give or take? People often forget just how important the words we use are. Sometimes we fear the power of certain words and phrases, but neglect that there are always options. There are more than 200,000 words in the English dictionary, when you include the obsolete
Be kind to yourself. Give kindness to others. I am sitting here this morning, trying to come up with words for this post, and I have been doing my usual routine. I go to Facebook, I play a couple games, and I read through a bunch of posts. There are a lot of discouraging things going on out there. So much anger, so much fear, such unbelievable negativity. Is this really the world we want to live in? I don’t