“When you start to feel like things could have been better this year
Remember the mountains and valleys that got you here
They are not accidents
and those moments weren’t in vain.
You are not the same
You have grown and you are growing.
You are breathing , you are living.
You are wrapped in
Endless
Boundless
Grace
And things will get better.
There is more to you than yesterday …”
~ Morgan Harper Nichols ~
Artist Credit : Anna Speshilova
Serendipity Corner
Acknowledging Ourselves
We exist. We ARE. We live and die, and somewhere in-between the two, we learn.
WHAT we learn depends on so many factors such as our living environments, our support teams on earth and beyond who protect us and nurture our growth, and that soul spark within us that drives us forward toward some unseen goal or aspiration that only our hearts may recognize.
When very young if we were well supported and encouraged to make the most of our talents and proclivities, we developed self-confidence and open-mindedness. We were often then eager to face the wonders of this amazing world stretched out so beautifully before us.
If we were left to fend for ourselves from childhood onwards, we learned to survive by any means necessary. What we learned from those circumstances were more along the lines of primal self-preservation rather than consideration of others. We learned to compete, to win to live, and to take no prisoners in the process because they only consumed precious resources we may need in the future for ourselves.
I was fortunate to be among the first description—the well supported and protected. That has likely made all the difference in my life.
But as a baby had I not been offered up for adoption to a family that could provide those very things, I might have been among the second description—left to fend for myself in a more dysfunctional family situation.
Was my particular destiny the ‘luck of the draw’ or preordained? Depends on your beliefs, I guess. Either way, advantageous or unfavorable upbringings are part of the reason that we become who we are as adult people in a sometimes loving/sometimes harsh world.
While I’m not a fence-straddler on rightness and wrongness aspects by any means, I do try to see others’ perspectives and viewpoints when I consider judging them for their actions or deeds because we eventually become who we are allowed to slowly blossom into, or we become who and what we most need to be at our earliest opportunity—even become our own defenders when necessary, at any age.
Children learn quickly to utilize whatever works best for them in each situation with adults—what attitudes, what demeanors, what masks, what words, what tactics, what emotions to display. We learn early on how to gain attention, and sometimes how to avoid it.
We learn to stand out in a crowd or to hide away in a closet under a pile of clothes, depending on the audience we must play to. We learn so many life-sustaining tricks to evolve from one day to the next, from one week to the next, and from one year to the next—if we are able to live that long. Children are resourceful—we learn what must be done to survive or thrive.
So how do we look around ourselves at such diverse human life experiences and try to come together on supporting common social causes and gathering group consensus for creating a better society and world culture? How do we know what is BEST for ALL of us?
My only suggestion is to ‘listen more and talk less.’
Maybe then we can really hear what our neighbors are saying to us, and begin to better understand how they actually feel.
And wouldn’t it be super nice if they did the same for us?
The Mysteries
Sounds like an exploration of the ancient Greek mystery cults which were of great interest to me earlier in life, but instead what I’m referring to now are fiction crime novels written by skilled wordsmiths. There are many authors in that CRIME MYSTERY genre and darn few that are truly gifted at writing.
And I appreciate a darn good writer—knowledgeable, well-researched, with lyrical prose—using all five senses-based images, metaphors and similes—and the ability to effortlessly tell a complex, intertwined-characters story with ease and grace so it slides into your conscious awareness like sipping cool spring water on a hot summer’s day. John Connolly and Karin Slaughter are two such gifted authors, for example.
But unfortunately what goes along with that amazingly well-written plot ‘mystery’ aspect is the setting/scene gruesomeness part; and that is a little harder to digest. Much of their subject matter is based on actual documented cases of human depravity and cruelty—like a psychopaths’ rampant defiling of innocents and the unaware. So this more acrid story content isn’t necessarily a figment of a writer’s twisted brain—it is the actual documentation of what a true twisted brain can do and HAS DONE—it is often a limited study of human depravity and perversion on 450 pages of recycled wood pulp.
To me THAT is the real mystery—why people can be wired that way—to kill and maim and randomly terrorize whoever is convenient and within their reach. But then you can’t watch the national news without seeing more of the same, just on a far larger scale depending on the location: Ukraine, Israel/Palestine, old Bosnia and Serbia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Syria—it’s all there in real time with real people doing insane acts on other people, and we close our eyes and shake our heads and think ‘Thank God it’s not happening to me.’
WHY people feel the need to be so cruel and heartless at all, is the real mystery to me.
Now as a pretty experienced energy worker who is also well aware of what ‘else’ besides us shares our overall energy operating-zone, I’m not naive about the influence other ‘forces’ can have on susceptible human minds. But I also know that people have to want to awaken to a higher state of being before they can change their personal lives for the better, along with the rest of humanity in the process.
It has to be a choice to change their life to a higher behavioral standard. It has to be a choice to accept or not accept what is happening around them or remotely near them or even thousands of miles away from them.
As that same ‘experienced energy worker,’ I read this gruesome ‘fiction’ stuff to toughen my sensibilities and better enable me to recognize and face down whatever ‘evil incarnates’ that I may encounter now, because I’ve already had some pretty hairy experiences in my past with foreign entities on people that I worked with—felt them tingling like electrical currents under my hands—reaching out into my solar plexus at my own energy center to zap me with their nastiness. These things are real—they DO exist—and they CAN affect other people who may not be aware of their actual existence.
BUT,….there still has to be a greater awakening to the overall population that cruelty, inhumanity, and depravity are NOT acceptable human norms; and the heroes and heroines in these crime novels who hunt down and eliminate the psychopaths perpetrating the horrendous crimes are equated to real life people who also must deal with such horrific situations to protect the rest of our communities and society in general from them.
Tell me now, who saves us from our lesser selves in the real world—who stops the hatred—the cruel words—the threats and intimidations to those who dare disagree with others or to those who try to hold law breakers to account? You? Me? WHO?
WHO actually holds the offenders accountable for their anti-social actions? WHO is it?
Those protectors of humanity—the ‘Do-ers’ of right actions—the ones who make all wrongs right again. Write about those people, please. They are the ones I want to learn more about and personally know.
Beliefs and Concepts
“Our beliefs and concepts are the greatest obstacles to awakening.” (AwakenTheWorld)
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This won’t be another rant against organized religions, although it’s clear how detrimental I feel that many of them are by discouraging an individual’s self-inquiry and personal consciousness development.
We can actually be biased and closed-minded about most anything that we encounter in life, but when personal beliefs are concerned, nothing says “My way, or the highway,” better and faster than a religion—especially a specific doctrine that spells out what you ‘can and can’t do’ with your own precious life.
It used to be what you ‘should and shouldn’t do’ rather than ‘can and can’t’ but the US Supreme Court changed that 50+ year ruling when they gave in to the Religious Right and banned the ability of a woman to decide the fate of her own body and life.
Beliefs and concepts can be made substantive like suddenly encountering a cloud of mist and freezing it in place in our minds with our opinion of what that mist cloud should actually look like and how it should act or react, rather than allowing the mist to simply increase or dissipate on its own by flowing up, down, right or left and us simply observing it during the ongoing process.
When we limit the possibilities of whatever we encounter rather than simply observing them without judgment, we stop our self-growth in its evolutional track and say in effect, “No thanks. I know all I will ever need to know right now, so whatever that is in front of me that might educate me further is of no consequence to my current knowledgebase or my future learning potential.”
And religion isn’t the only fall-guy in this consideration; it’s just the easiest one to describe. We can make judgments about anything and everything that we encounter throughout the day—and especially make those judgments about the people we meet and with whom we associate our time because TIME is so valuable to us that we dole it out sparingly, and only to those most deserving of us.
Unfortunately we make these instant daily judgments on autopilot—because we are such creatures of habit and are always looking for ways to quickly classify whatever we encounter so we don’t waste time getting to better understand its significance aside from how it directly affects us. We really are that self-centered and self-focused. There wouldn’t be so many mass species extinctions occurring now if we were concerned for earth life beyond ourselves at this moment in time.
THAT is an actual belief: That human life is more precious than any other earth-based species existence.
Another actual belief: That personal greed and power are more important than sharing our abundance with those less able to produce their own. Genocides are efficient ways to reduce the demand for limited resources. It is happening all over the world right now. Do we condemn it or condone it? And how far are we willing to go to change the situation for the better for those under siege? Are we willing to make their battles for existence, OUR battles?
Sometimes I wonder why this experiential mode of learning was used to awaken a soul. I’m not so sure it is effective.
Winter Magic
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it ..”
~ Roald Dahl ~Artist Credit : Elaine Bayley
What can I say; it’s that time of year.
Everyone in the snow-belt is infatuated with the new white stuff—especially the first snows. By mid-January it’s quite the opposite. However right now in mid-December sparkling, glittering, puffy flakes seem simply magical and mesmerizing.
Looking out the window this morning before daylight I witnessed the grass below the yard light was covered in shimmering diamonds. At 14 degrees Fahrenheit, I do know those ‘diamonds’ are actually ice crystals formed when high humidity is trapped by fast dropping overnight temperatures. If you venture out now, your breath will form visible ‘clouds’ as it leaves your lips at these temps.
So to do anything outside at a crisp 14 degrees, you pack on twenty pounds of extra outerwear plus snow boots if the white stuff is more than an inch or so. That part is not quite so magical.
But you do so to put out birdseed and catfood to feed the yard’s residents who aren’t as enthralled by the winter ‘magic’ itself. (Or to have also provided hay and grain for the hogs, cattle, and horses of our past.)
None the less, the season’s natural gifts are still beautiful to behold—especially from inside a warm house.
P.S. … That is one HUGE rabbit! Must be the magical part.
Wishing You Peace
This is the time of year when we gather with family and friends for good food, fellowship, and joy.
At least that’s the intention of the year-end holiday season, but not everyone is so blessed right now. And while I do wish everyone an abundance of food, love, peace and joviality, I also know that world-wide many are experiencing terrible hardships and horrendous living conditions.
For those of you who are struggling, I wish you courage and stamina to find a way to survive the current horrors of your life. There will be much death and destruction before the fighting ceases in many locations. Unfortunately that is as much a part of the human experience now as is showing kindness and compassion to those around us.
Seeing this bunny image took me back 30+ years to our 100 acres in the Ozark Hills of Missouri where my dad, my husband and I lived for almost a decade after my mom died. There were cedar trees coming up wherever they were allowed to grow as most ranchers in the area considered them scrub brush and taking up valuable cow grazing land; so they were often cut down to keep a pasture clear. But we usually let some of ours grow and then cut one at Christmas time to put in the house. Very fragrant those cedar trees—very prickly also; but when it snowed during the winter there, the scenery in southwest Missouri looked a lot like that image above, and the smaller animals would scamper about looking for food and shelter beneath those cedars.
It was always such a peaceful time after the first snow with the land covered in a soft, cold blanket of white fluff. It’s easy to forget the more difficult times of your life when you are immersed in the beauty of such pristine whiteness.
Here in the NOW where I currently live back in Iowa, our first measurable snow was last week, and for a time, when those first huge flakes began to gently drift to the ground, it was just beautiful, and the moment felt almost sacred—so I stood in awe for some time watching the picture-perfect scene outside my window and thought about times long past, noting how each era of our lives brings great joys to mind as well as great sorrows.
Yesterday I put flowers on the graves of my grandmother and my parents. My ex-husband has also passed but is not buried in my vicinity or I would honor him as well. Those we have loved moved on from this plane of existence to the next, or in one sense it can be said they have returned HOME from where we all originated. While I may feel great loss for their passing, I know their journey continues elsewhere and mine is still here until my earthly work is done whenever that might be, so I’m not sad in that respect.
It is simply LIFE. This is what we do until we in turn pass on to other endeavors beyond this plane.
Whatever your situation, just enjoy the holiday season as best you can with camaraderie, joviality, and good intentions toward all. Share your abundance with others when possible, and please wish the best for ALL of us everywhere—lord knows, we ALL need your best wishes about now.
Be grateful for what you DO still have and for those who are currently in your company. And let’s try to be a little nicer to everyone we meet from here on out because you never know who might be standing right in front of you, disguised as a stranger.
Peace and love!
“To Make You Feel My Love”
“When the rain is blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love…”Bob Dylan
When I meditated on this lovely image for awhile, in my mind I heard Billie Joel singing this Dylan song’s title words, “To Make You Feel My Love.”
And that is what I felt: LOVE.
So instead of me dissecting and analyzing the components of what LOVE actually is, I hope you simply enjoy both the beautiful image above and hear Billy Joel singing the title song for yourself.
Clarifying Our Intentions
It’s easy to spend most of our waking hours following a mindless pattern of habitual behaviors. Everyday we have to do this or that, or get up at a certain time for jobs or kids, or exercise classes, etc. These are the habits that define our lives. They are like guard-rails on a highway overpass because these are things that we MUST do—they keep us in line, on task, at full-forward momentum to prevent us from overshooting our daily path on the way to fulfilling our life goals.
But because of that daily pattern frequency they become more automatic behaviors—learned habits—mechanical repetitions we slip into without much thought or consideration.
As our boredom and fatigue increase with task repetition we sometimes ask ourselves, “Are all of these habitual ‘doings’ necessary?” And the answer is usually ‘Of course they are or I wouldn’t be DOING them.’
And that’s the problem: Perhaps we haven’t defined our life’s purpose yet so that our daily efforts more accurately reflect our ‘clarified intentions’ rather than relying on mindless rote behaviors that get us through each day.
The biggest problem with automatic behaviors is that as Mark Twain suggests, ‘familiarity breeds contempt’. While contempt is a strong descriptor here it might simply suggest a loss of respect for the situation or relationship because of becoming overly familiar with it, but it can also mean that we lose interest in what we are doing and why we are doing it. We may fail to pay attention to what is actually happening during the process of what has become a repetitive behavior.
This subject that seems so simple and blasé is actually quite complex. To clarify your life’s intentions you need to first be aware of what your intentions actually are.
So what are your life’s intentions?
- Are you on a journey toward greater self-awareness and soul-fulfillment or are you on a trajectory toward accumulating exterior rewards like wealth and accolades?
- Are your relationships loving and nourishing or are they more purposeful and advantageous?
- Are you so focused on an event at the end of the day that you lose interest in all the hours prior to it?
- Are you excited and passionate about your life, and if not, WHY not?
- Were you ONCE passionate about your life, and if you aren’t now, what changed?
- What would make you excited to wake each morning, ready to dive into the day ahead?
- Maybe that ‘BE HERE NOW’ philosophy is peeking at you from the sidelines of your life, but is it important enough to you to heed the call? (Coined by Ram Dass’ book title and teachings.)
- I think it was Thich Nhat Hanh who got through to me on how important each moment is to increasing our awareness of LIFE itself, so I credit him with that awareness in me. Here are a few of his words on ‘mindfulness’:
“With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.”
“Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.”
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole earth revolves — slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.”
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When we clarify our intentions on how and why we live our lives, it enables us to refocus our efforts on what is most important to us. It also enables us to recognize the true miracle of each breath we take and the importance of each beautiful, sparkling sunrise that we witness.
Life is simply for living and appreciating its endless wonders. If you’re not feeling that yet, you will.
“Summarize Yourself”
While reading a fiction book from the library, one of the book’s secondary characters, a gifted but older, acerbic author asked the main female protagonist some penetrating personal questions. She was the local academic community’s phenomenon—a young, doctoral-physic’s ‘coding’ genius who was attempting to computationally define the prime equation string for high-temperature super-conductivity. In the book the writer was depicted as aloof in general but seemed more peripherally interested in her as character study to scavenge her emotional reactions (or lack thereof) and her more prominent personality traits as creative fodder for his newest novel currently underway.
For her part having been somewhat socially repressed to date, she had found him intellectually and philosophically stimulating to discuss more pithy subjects, until he cavalierly stated something a bit condescending to her along the lines of “I don’t know you well, so summarize yourself for me.”
While she had previously courted his erudite attention for validation, she now recognized the shallowness of his interest in her as intrusive and parasitically-motivated, so she walked out of the scene without responding to him; but what he said to her stuck in my head: “… summarize yourself for me.”
I thought, ‘How would I summarize myself;…or even describe who AM I in summary just to myself, NOT to someone else?’
Think about it a bit. Out of the blue someone says to you: “Summarize yourself.” What would you say? (Besides telling them where to put it and walking off also, which I would totally do.)
In truth ‘summarizing ourselves’ is a complex task for anyone because we are seldom who we think we are, and less sure how others actually see us if we did describe ourselves a certain way. Do you really KNOW yourself well enough to even attempt a summary? This task made me contemplate my actual self-awareness.
How about if you simply desired to ‘summarize yourself’ to you alone? Can you do that?
- Are you WHAT you do?
- Are you WHAT you wish to be?
- Are you the sum total of all you have experienced and felt to date—a running chronology of all your successes, failures, attempts, passes, from childhood onwards and how each of them affected you for better or for worse?
- Can you trace your ‘awareness’ evolvement?
- Are you now living your highest aspirations for purpose and significance to the world around you, or are you primarily passing time waiting for the Great Unknown to acknowledge you?
- Are you a ‘good’ person by your own standards, or a ‘not so good’ one? What makes the difference? What’s the defining criteria for each? Can you be both some of one and some of the other?
- Is this consideration part of that Doing/Being conundrum? Are you what you ‘DO’ in life, or are you simply as you ‘BE’—a soul incarnated?
After pondering this ‘self-summary’ challenge for awhile, I finally just let my mind quiet until it began to drift away—slowly riding the oceanic waves of consciousness. What I then heard clearly between my ears was, “I am a seeker.”
It’s from the Hermann Hesse quote,
“I have been and still am a ‘seeker,’ but I have ceased to question the stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.”
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I agree with Hesse. That’s a pretty close summary of WHO I am also: “I am a seeker” of truth and knowledge. I am a ‘collector’ of other’s wisdom and experiences. I am an incarnate ‘sensor’ for Higher Consciousness in the NOW as I know it.
I am, as Alan Watts claimed, but ‘a wave in the universal ocean’:
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.” – Alan Watts.
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So what’s your self-summary?
Transcendence
“…In religious experience transcendence is a state of being that has overcome the limitations of physical existence and by some definitions has also become independent of it. This is typically manifested in prayer, séance, meditation, psychedelics and paranormal ‘visions’….” (Wiki)
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When we are born into this world many say that we are born as ‘blank slates’ with no agenda and no knowledge/training to do even the simplest of tasks short of screaming for food/attention and soiling our diapers.
Others say we are born with a fully-formed agenda programmed into our being (or our energy fields) that plays out day by day until we achieve our pre-ordained objectives.
And still others claim we are only holographic avatars of some higher intention acting out roles to achieve undecipherable higher goals defined by an unseen/un-see-able game controller’s agenda.
Now how do I encompass all of those agenda possibilities in explaining transcendence from this questionably-purposed physical experience within a couple pages of text?
In one sense transcendence is what I have been striving for all of my adult life, so this concept is extremely important to me in a visceral way; and in another sense I find it hard to accurately describe what it means to achieve transcendence and even more importantly, describe HOW to do so.
The left-brain’s rational/logical mind has limitations in that ‘describing’ regard, because these are aspirations primarily of the right brain—the intuition—the inner knowing w/o words—the empathic connection of simply BEING HERE NOW and feeling your way into every situation by how resonant and harmonious it feels to do so—the higher-connection directions from our high-frequency Higher Self that put us into this physicality for training and consciousness advancement. (Like the parental “Go play in the yard children—but not in the street,” sort of directive.)
Transcendence is the reconnection into true God-Source to the point of nearly losing our individuality we fight so hard to maintain. It represents accessing the All-ness, the One-ness, the Zero-point expression of Being where personal distinctions dissolve into a single harmonious and homogenous whole expressed as the Highest possible light-frequency we are capable of sustaining within our limited human capacities.
To hold such high frequencies of pure Divine Light we must be acclimated into doing so or we may blow our neurological circuits; so if transcendence, or ‘direct God-Source connection’ is desired, it is preferable to first practice modes or mediums of meditation, prayer, or other more esoteric energy enhancement practices. (I learned energy-body work through Usui REIKI, Karuna REIKI, plus I meditated.) And since I’m NOT a drug fan of any kind, I don’t recommend psychedelics or mind-altering herbs, etc, like Ayahuasca for mind-expansion.
And even though I’ve been through Shamanic training where some teachers might suggest Ayahuasca or peyote to visit the ‘alternate realities’ or other dimensions of non-physical existence available to ‘space travelers’, I don’t recommend them, because if you open your consciousness too wide too fast you may lose all ability to return to this ‘version’ of reality—whatever that might be for you. I’ve been ‘out too far’ without drugs and it was extremely hard to return fully to my body—took a long time.
But because of my own experiences I was able to help one of my more adventurous REIKI students who allowed a complete stranger at a psychic fair to send her far out into the ethers without a guideline back. Initially the rocket-blast high might have been desirable and extraordinary to her, but when the realization of how untethered she was to THIS world eventually sank in, she was soon calling for help to come back down from it.
Another problem with randomly shooting your consciousness into the unknown is that if you spread your energy-self too thin out in the ethers you might not be able to protect your personal energy field from at-large parasitic entities who are hunting for easy prey, suddenly run across you out there ‘blissing about’ by yourself, and decide that you look pretty darn good for their ‘energy dinner’ on-the-fly. Seriously, it happens.
That kind of risk is just not worth it. Trust me on this one.
So if you do desire to transcend your physical limitations in this reality, and frankly, who doesn’t, then do it with reputable guidance and extra spirit protection during your exploration. If you want to test the waters of space exploration and bliss consciousness, then I recommend you do it through a reliable teacher. Check out Alicia Power of SoulMentoring.com. She offers many free videos to sample her energy vibe. (Just to note: I’m not affiliated with her in any way—I just like to share available resources. She’s a good one.)
You can check her out and listen to the numerous videos currently available on Youtube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO6QtUarRPB-r78YKVgQBsQ or go to “Deeper Insight”@ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEB4E151BFDF9A043 for samples.
Depth Plunge in Minutiae
As a jig-saw puzzle fanatic I can obsess for hours over a thousand random puzzle pieces spread across a card-table waiting for sense to be made from it all, because to me it’s a challenge and perhaps a metaphor for LIFE.
What makes ‘the sense’ part you might ask in a puzzle or in LIFE?
For the card-table puzzle, the ‘sense’ is matching knobs and holes into slots that fit them until you complete the entire picture printed atop those individual puzzle pieces giving it a ‘united wholeness composed of 1000 individual parts.’
With LIFE, ‘sense-making’ is less simple or easily defined.
But the funny thing about this particular multi-piece puzzle I was so engrossed in, is that yesterday I was down to the last two pieces from puzzle completion (that’s 998 pieces done) and I had two open slots ready for them to fit into, but to my amazement and annoyance, they didn’t fit. Not even close—different knobs and shapes completely from the two slots available.
How can this be?
I mean this isn’t a life-altering situation here, but how can these be the last two pieces and not fit the two available slots for them? I’ve put this puzzle together half a dozen times before—they ALL fit together perfectly. This just CAN’T happen.
But unfortunately it DID happen. So did I slip unaware into an alternate universe and my puzzle stayed in the previous one? What’s going on here?
After closer inspection, it turns out that one small ‘look-alike’ piece in the frame was 3 places to the left of where it should have resided, so that all the other pieces shifted to the right and misaligned the hole slots above them. One single piece out of place in the 4-piece string caused the slot shape differences atop them. So when I changed the twin-like frame pieces to their correct locations, the two remaining puzzle pieces fit perfectly into the new slots now available. Just like magic. Mental melt-down averted.
Now in one sense this is really NO big deal and hardly worth even mentioning here, except I also consider these puzzles as a metaphor for LIFE; so how does this likewise apply to LIFE?
The presumed metaphor: One stinking piece out of place in the framework of your life can throw everything else out of alignment and cause turmoil and confusion in your daily affairs until you resolve the offending problem and realign your dissonant parts.
One piece of your life that looks almost exactly like the correct piece you need for your life to function competently and completely may be slightly out of sync with the rest, and because of that, all your other life parts in turn fail to engage as they should, and it disrupts your entire life’s flow and rhythm.
Questions that may arise along these ‘life misalignment’ lines might be:
- Are you at peace with yourself? Are you doing what you want to be doing with your life?
- Are you content with your job or your friends or even with yourself?
- Do you feel like you are missing some key component in your life that would smooth out all the other problems, but you don’t know what that missing piece might be?
- Are you satisfied with your efforts to be the person you wish to be?
- Are you happy to face down each day’s challenges knowing that you are truly giving it your best effort every step of the way?
In truth I must admit that some part of me upon seeing the two remaining pieces not matching the slots available for puzzle completion wanted to say, “Heck with it. There is something out of place here somewhere but it’s just not worth the effort to try to find the problem. I can just toss it all back in the box knowing that the correct amount of pieces are here for the next time I try to put it together, even if they don’t currently match up.”
But that stubborn, obsessive, competitive part of me said ‘NO. Find the problem. Fix it. Do it RIGHT or don’t do it at all.’
That’s what LIFE is about as well. Find the problems in your life (first admit them to yourself) and fix them. Live your life with integrity and purpose by knowing who you are as a person.
Don’t ever give up on yourself, and don’t ever let yourself off too easily when you know better. Don’t get lazy. Be determined to do the right thing in your life—to BE the right person—the BEST person you can be.
You can go the distance. You can get the job done right. You got this!
Don’t toss your life’s puzzle because you are two slots off completion. See it through. Reassess, realign, and try it again until you get it all to fit together in harmony.
It’s all a test to see what you are made of when your life goes astray. Every day is an opportunity to FIND YOUR TRUTH in every situation that you encounter because LIFE is set up that way—offering many opportunities, both large and small, to test your worth.
To some folks LIFE always comes easily, and all their pieces fit neatly into place with the first try. For the rest of us, we may have to work at it a bit more; but if we don’t give up, we will find the right slot to fit into and then our entire LIFE picture can be complete.
Because in the end that’s what we ALL hope to achieve for our lives—a beautiful, complete picture full of a thousand unified pieces that eventually make us whole.
A Walking Bundle of Frequencies
“We are slowed-down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.”
~ Albert Einstein Earthschool Harmony
FINDING YOUR TRUTH 