Go with the flow....

The phrase ‘go with the flow’ has different meanings for different people and can have different meanings depending on how it is used.  But when it speaks of life in general I think it is good advice.   When we resist we are ‘fighting an uphill battle’.   And yet when things get tough if we can do as water does when it finds it way down a stream and just go with the flow, as the water does we can find our way.   And remember that while it may take centuries, water moves, breaks and even makes smooth...rocks.   There is a lot of power in flowing water.    Another rather cliched saying is ‘what you resist, persists’.  and if you find that to be true, just relax into the flow and you will find your way.   

Consider the possibility....

Metaphysics, New Thought, so called New Age thinking has suggested that we are powerful spiritual beings having a physical experience on planet earth.    One of the things that happens to us is that when we take on these physical bodies and are born into these lives we forget who we really are.  Well what good would that do, you might ask? and its a very valid question but consider this:  What if the only way we can come to understand who and what we are is by learning and experiencing what we are not.   If we are love perhaps we can only experience what that is like and the full extent of it by experiencing its polar opposite, fear.   Consider for a moment the possibility that you really are an angel in disguise, on purpose.  Consider that you really are a magnificent part of God experiencing the here and now of life on earth.  Consider the possibility....

Go With Your Gut.....

Go with your gut.  Go with your feelings.  You have heard of these proverbs and they are good advice about making decisions.  But I want to take it a step further.  Recently these posts have been about selfhood and knowing yourself and making decisions is a good place to put your self knowledge to use.   If you go with your feelings about something but those feelings are based on information you learned as a child from sources outside yourself they may not reflect the true you.   The decision you just made based on those feelings may not be a reflection of who you really are.  So when you need to make a decision about something, go with your gut, pay attention to your feelings, but know where your gut feelings come from and if they truly reflect who you are.  

Tell me my Child......

Poet, speaker, sage
Wizard, magician, mage
Shaman and healer,
Teacher and guru
Tell me my child
Which are you?

Is there someone you admire?  A great and wonderful hero, perhaps.  A person who has gone down in history as a champion for justice.  Or someone who embodies the best of humanity.  Perhaps, it is a friend, teacher, parent or grandparent.    What is the magic they make for which they are admired?  What is it about them that you admire?  Do you really know much about them?  It is a good practice to get to know your heroes.  And then, without telling anyone, start to emulate them.  Pick some of those characteristics that you admire and make them your own.  See what happens in your life.   There is a little wizard, healer, teacher, sage in all of us.   

God is Life...

Now and then I come across something written by someone else that is so informative and so well done that I really want to share it.  In an old copy of ODE Magazine I came across an article by Neale Donald Walsh of CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD fame.  In this article Walsh was responding to the book THE GOD DELUSION by Richard Dawkins.   This is in part what Walsh had to say:..." What is true about life is that nothing stands outside of life. Nothing exists without life. We are the expression of life itself. So is everything around us... Indeed, everything in the observable universe is life, in some form. The existence of life is confirmed by life itself. Life is self-referencing, self-confirming, self-sustaining, and self-evident. Life is the evidence of the existence of life."  but then he suggests in the foregoing statement to substitute the word God for the word life..... amazing what it sounds like.
" Nothing stands outside of God. Nothing exists without God. You are the expression of God itself. So is everything around you... Indeed, everything in the observable universe is God, in some form. The existence of God is confirmed by God itself. God is self-referencing, self-confirming, self-sustaining, and self-evident. God is the evidence of the existence of God."
The entire article, "Is God a Delusion", can be read at  http://odewire.com/54246/is-god-a-delusion.html

You Are A Child of the Universe...

In the process of trying to make changes and improve ones life the first step is simply making the choice to do so.   Often people want to make changes but aren't sure what the problem is and where to start. 
Simply enough, once you make the decision to make changes the next step is to begin the realization of who you are as a child of the universe and that there is nothing to fear.   Then begins the process of ridding oneself of fear.  

Happy Valentines Day.......

Today is Valentines Day, the origin of which is rather obscure.    I would suggest googling it and be surprised like I was on the several possible origin stories.   However it started, Valentines Day has turned into another of those Un-holidays that have come to mean so much to so many.   Including, if you have no one special to share it with, the feelings of loss, loneliness, even depression.  I want to suggest that all of us begin using this time to work some universal healing on this great beautiful planet of ours.  Use the power of your thought to send love, healing, harmony, or just plain good vibrations to whomever and whatever you wish.  If you know someone, lost, lonely, dying.... If politics concern you, send those wishes and vibrations to politicians, opposing politicians, tyrants, beleaguered nations.  Blanket the planet or your own special part of it with a soft blanket of harmony.   Shower areas of unrest with your powerful feelings of love and harmony.   and place a sweet blanket of love and harmony over yourself and our good planet mother earth.   It is said, heal yourself and heal the world, but it works the other way also.  Heal the planet and you heal yourself.  Happy Valentines day everyone....