Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Never neglect doing things that are fun. When I was between 11 and 14, I went to overnight camps in upstate New York. Sometimes we would take hiking treks offsite. On two or three occasions, we went hiking at a place called Kaaterskill Falls. I absolutely loved this hike. The falls are in two levels, the middle level having a clear pool one can swim in, and a natural amphitheater behind the falls. This was one of the hiking adventures
Living in joy is the ultimate goal. I don’t want to spend my time at a desk, working for someone I might not entirely respect, doing something that bores me. Life is just too short for that. Rather, I want to do something that makes me happy. Have you ever been told that “You have to work for a living” or “you gotta do what you gotta do” or “you have to make ends meet” or similar? Likely, I suspect
Self-doubt and indecision will complicate Pathwalking. I strive to be less doubtful about who I am, and to do better with making decisions about my life. Pathwalking is about choosing for myself, rather than letting random chance just happen. Yet I still question if I am deserving of this. I doubt myself, my abilities to do the things I want to do. This in turn can make me indecisive, and I get stuck in uncertainty. Self-doubt comes from many places.
Your people are a huge contributor to positivity. There is a difference between people, and YOUR people. People in the general sense of the world, like the population of the planet, can be utterly infuriating. But YOUR people are those whom you hold close. Your confidants, family, friends and loved ones. We all have individuals that improve our lives. Members of the human race that help us find calm, find happiness and peace and joy. There is someone out there
Change is a good thing. Yet this terrifies us. Change leads to the unknown, and in our fear-based society, the unknown frightens us. I know that to some degree, this is a survival instinct. When we lived in caves, and had a limited knowledge of anything but the immediate geography, the unknown beyond was almost unimaginable. What kind of creatures are over that mountain? Are there monsters in the sea? Does that village we see smoke from contain cannibals? Some
Do you love yourself? This is not a trick question. How do you feel about yourself? Modern society tends to look askance at self-love. Why? Because our society frequently deals in extremes, and on this scale the extremes are selfishness and selflessness. A great deal of our fear-based society focuses on greedy, intolerant, ignorant, selfish people. Government, religious and business leaders frequently show us exactly that. Selfishness in the extreme, to the detriment of everyone else. Because that’s such a
Ignorance may be bliss, but education is empowerment. The more we learn, the more we become capable of. The more abilities we develop, the more skills we hone, the abler we are to change the world for the better. One of the failings of many of our leaders is their desire to keep us ignorant. It’s a matter of their retention of control to keep us reliant on them for our understanding of certain matters. Rather than empower, they prefer
I am the only one who can break the pattern. But I don’t have all the answers. More often than not what I have is more questions. I believe that this is one of the things, though, that makes life worth living. New questions, new things to learn, answers to be found for questions asked. I have been asking myself a lot of questions lately. That’s what I do when I find myself on unfamiliar ground. Here I am, between
Do I have enough intention and desire to go where I truly want to go? That’s the question I am trying to answer currently. As I am walking my chosen path, I have to examine if I have sufficient conviction. Why is that important? Because if I do not put enough thought, feeling and intentional action into this, I will remain stationary. I have to give this more than just lip-service in order to achieve my goals. It is my
You are awesome. Yes, I am talking to YOU. We are not told frequently enough how incredible we are. You are awesome. For real, you are an amazing, incredible person, and you have a lot to offer to this world. Self-doubt has the unfortunate power of stopping us from becoming what we want to be. Some of the doubt is due to outside influences, but the majority is on each and every one of us. We are our own worst