Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
How do you and a partner walk your paths together? This question came to mind as I considered that my wife and I have different goals and aspirations for our professional lives. I want to share why for us this is not problematic, and how I think we strengthen and reinforce one another in walking our separate paths together. There are some important points to keep in mind here. No matter who you are, you cannot walk anyone’s path but
Sources to inspire Positivity can be found anywhere. Some sources of inspiration are easier to come by than others. Yet knowing we have an endless pool of resources, we can be inspired and find Positivity in all sorts of unexpected places. It’s important to keep in mind that inspiration doesn’t need to be a grandiose, earth-shattering something. We can be inspired by surprisingly mundane and uncomplicated things. Inspiration can be that simple spark that gets you to eat healthy, to
Conscious reality creation takes place in the now. We cannot undo the past, and as Yoda says, “Always in motion is the future.” The only part of reality we truly control is the present. This week has marked several changes on my part. All of them involved decisions. One was in regards to changing this blog for its growth, one will close a long-standing issue I’ve spent more than half-a-decade trying to resolve. In both instances I had to make
Walking along the path of your choosing can sometimes be scary. This is frequently because in choosing your own path in life, you will incur both internal and external criticism. The internal is the result from when you step out of your comfort zone; the external is the reaction you get from those around you as you break from the accepted norm. Pathwalking is about choice. It is about consciously creating our own reality, and seeking out our own destiny.
Today will be whatever you make it be. It’s far too easy to approach Monday and the traditional start of the work week with distress, trepidation, displeasure, and unhappiness. There is an entire culture of Monday woe in this society, which has been and continues to be capitalized on, and as such gets reinforced. Does anyone want Monday to suck? I am pretty sure the answer is NO. I don’t really know anyone who wants to be miserable, who wants
There are actions I can take, right now, to change my life. The challenge with this is in mindfulness. While the action I am looking to take is relatively simple, it requires a great deal of mindfulness. I have written before about the power of the words I AM. These two little words will ultimately define me, in the here and now, in absolute and specific ways. I AM is far more powerful than the retrospective I WAS or the
How do I know if I am on the right path? This is probably the most basic, yet most challenging question to ask. The answer is both amazingly simple, and yet fairly complicated. Pathwalking is making choices about living life, in order to work to consciously create our personal reality as we want it to be. Rather than simply going along with life and letting whatever happens, happen; as we walk our chosen paths we strive to be present and
Everyone prefers to feel good over feeling bad. Finding positivity is about finding ways to feel good. We live in a society that feeds on a steady diet of negativity. Fear is a tool employed by many differently “leaders” to keep people in line, and sensationalism sells and gets more clicks on social media. This can make it far easier to live in fear and negativity than to find positivity. Also, it’s Monday…so most of us are going to work
I am afraid to do the thing I should do. Afraid is not actually the correct feeling, however. At least, not in the face of logic. Maybe, the more correct thing here is I am concerned about the consequences that would come of my doing the thing I know I should do. What is the elephant in the room? My job. I have a decent, reasonable paying, low-pressure job. The hours are okay. The commute is generally not problematic. This
Pathwalking can be fraught with many challenges. I long ago came to believe that nothing worth having is ever easy. But there is a difference between challenge and struggle. Challenge involves growth and proactive change, while struggle is stagnation and reactive change. Challenge is deciding to change, while struggle is forced. Many of the challenges in Pathwalking are due to outside influences, some which we can control and some which we cannot. Recognizing this is the first step towards working