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Destiny Dynamics: The Art of Living Life to the Nth Degree

Life

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April 10, 2019

Destiny Dynamics: The Art of Living Life to the Nth Degree

“Not everyone has a destiny; only the hero who has plunged to touch it, and has come up again ~ with a ring.” ~ Joseph Campbell

Destiny is a tricky thing. It’s both searching for you (organically and energetically) and sought by you (subconsciously or consciously).

But for most people there is a thick cloudy wall erected between them and their destiny. There’s a threshold or a crossroads of some sort that must be passed or overcome. But most people never gain the wherewithal to even reach that point, let alone to have a deep experience of destiny.

Why is this? Analyzing Campbell’s quote can help us figure it out…

Only a hero, someone with courage—whether that courage is going on a great adventure, questioning belief structures, challenging authority, or facing your fear—will be able to experience destiny.

But there must be risk involved. There must be some sort of adventure. There must be a stretching of one’s comfort zone. There must be an upsetting of one’s settled mind. That’s the “plunge.”

Having plunged into the depths, having taken the leap of courage into the unknown and heeded the call to adventure, one is then prepared to discover. “The ring” is the symbol for this discovery. It represents sacred knowledge, deep philosophy, magic elixir.

It can just as easily be symbolized as a secret cloak, a mysterious sword, an enchanted book, a keystone strategy, or a philosopher’s stone. Each destiny will be different, unique according to the individual’s imagination, personality, and overall disposition.

However, the secret to living life to the nth degree and discovering your destiny from the magic elixir, is not to cling to any symbol, ideology or knowledge gained along the way. This is the critical point where an examined life becomes a destiny (or where it fails to become a destiny).

Clinging leads to closemindedness. It prevents openminded examination. It cuts off the hero’s seeking energy. It ends the journey. And if you’re attempting to live to the nth degree, the journey must be the thing. The trick—to remaining fluid, flexible and adaptable—is not to get caught up in the delusions of the journey, but to strategically question them instead.

If, as Scott Adams said, “The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to truth,” it stands to reason that some people are more delusional than others. Those who are more delusional are the ones caught up in their delusions. But some are less delusional than others; they are the ones questioning their delusions.

As far as allowing the journey to be the thing, living to the nth degree, and keeping one’s destiny fluid, adaptable and dynamic, the difference between questioning rather than clinging to delusions is vital. Let’s break it down…

Avoid getting caught up in your delusions

“When emptiness is possible, everything is possible. Were emptiness impossible, nothing would be possible.” ~ Nagarjuna

There’s an old African proverb: “When Death finds you, may it find you alive.” This means alive without permission. Free and full, not tied down and empty. Living your own life rather than one scripted by society, religion or politics.

Yet, and here’s the rub, even “the ring” can become a script that becomes an ideology. Even symbols can become limiting and dogmatic. Especially if they were discovered on somebody else’s plunge.

Our cultures are chock full of symbols and “rings” that heroes of the past discovered on their own plunge into the unknown. It’s critical that you do not allow these discoveries to prevent you from taking your own plunge. That was their destiny not yours.

Scour them for information. Soak in the depths of their wisdom. Stand on the shoulders of giants. But don’t cling. Don’t get caught up in the hype. Don’t allow their destiny to prevent your own. Rather, use their destiny to invigorate your own hero’s journey.

The art of living life to the nth degree hinges upon not getting caught up in delusions—whether yours or someone else’s. Every thought, every belief, every symbol, “ring,” or ideology discovered (dreamed up) by mankind is a delusion. The only thing that makes some delusions less delusional than others is questioning them rather than relying on them as answers.

Question your delusions instead

“Never relinquish your ability to doubt, reflect, and consider other options –your rationality as an individual is your only protection against the madness that can overcome a group.” ~ Robert Greene

When you question your delusions, you keep your destiny organic and fluid. You keep it flexible and adaptable. The journey is maintained and remains the thing. An examined life, lived to the nth degree, endures.

When you don’t question your delusions, however, your destiny becomes stagnant or it becomes someone else’s journey. The “answers” you’ve found become prison bars to your destiny.

You become stuck, entrenched in believing you’ve “made it” or that you’ve “become enlightened” or that your “way” is the way. In short: you have become dogmatic. You have neglected to “kill the Buddha on the path.”

Questioning your delusions is paramount. Not only because it directly keeps your destiny in perspective, but because it also indirectly keeps “the tribe” in check. Without someone (a hero) who can question their own delusions first, and their tribe’s delusions second, there can only be close mindedness and dogmatism.

It is vital for your destiny (and for the progressive evolution of our species) that you not only gain the courage of the hero, take the plunge, and discover a “ring,” but that you also question your discoveries along the way. Question the “answers.”

Question the “ring.” Self-overcome. Question everything, but especially the symbols and ideologies discovered along the way. And especially-especially the symbols and ideologies discovered by others—past or present.

Don’t get me wrong. Relish in your discoveries. Get drunk on the magic elixir. Have fun seeing how the “answers” fit into reality (or how they don’t fit). Stand on the shoulders of giants.

Enjoy the journey and all its delicious sojourns. Just continually question it. Don’t cling to it. Don’t get stuck. Don’t lose sight of the big picture. Don’t let the Buddha, or anyone for that matter (especially yourself), convince you that you’ve “made it.”

Don’t forget: in order to live life to the nth degree you must question to the nth degree and allow the journey to be the thing.

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4 Simple Ways to Put Yourself in the Power Position of Your Life

Daily Inspiration

Nikki Sapp

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March 26, 2019

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4 Simple Ways to Put Yourself in the Power Position of Your Life

“The secret of the universe really is minding your own business. What we mean by that is-don’t get so involved in the desires or beliefs of others that you cause confusion or chatter in your own vibration and compromise your own alignment.” ~ Abraham-Hicks

We are living in the age of information. If you have access to the internet, pretty much any question, concern, worry or ailment one has, can be typed into a search engine resulting in hundreds or even thousands of answers… within a matter of seconds.

While this is truly amazing and has evolved us in many ways, there are actually some drawbacks to being able to access so much information in an instant. It has caused many of us to stop getting the answer for certain questions from the only person who actually CAN give us the right answer ~ our own selves!

Undoubtedly, there are many topics that we may have zero knowledge about and would require to ask others for their help or advice, but it’s surprising how many people will also ask the world wide web questions about things that no stranger should have the ability to answer for our own selves!

For example, one may ask how they should feel about something, how they can “get” what they want out of life or a person, how they can make so and so like them, hire them, etc.

While it’s comforting to read stories of people who are in similar situation to ours and to see how they dealt with it, or to draw conclusions about how things will go for us based on the similar situation others have encountered.

Eventually one must realize that no one can definitively tell us how to feel about something, no stranger can tell us the motives of the people in our lives, there is no rule book that says, “just because this person felt this way about this situation, and dealt with it in this manner, then you should too.”

It’s in the times of confusion and adversity, where we are given an opportunity to cultivate a relationship with the wisdom within us that aligns us with our “power position.” Our higher self and intuition (at the moment we are meant to know it) is our link to “God” or the universe; it is us at our truest level.

This realization got me thinking about how so many of us were raised to pray and ask to be blessed with something and how this perspective is one among others that leaves us feeling small and unworthy. It basically reaffirms that we are a powerless beggar with our hands out hoping this God above us decides to shine his wand over our head and bless our lives with that which we plead for.

However, times have changed. The way in which those awakening to the truth of who they are view God or the Universe is most assuredly much different than it was 10, 20, or 30 years ago.

So is it possible that if we shift our relationship to this higher power, to a perspective in which we stop playing small in comparison to it, but instead see that we have much more creative control than we previously knew, that we could actually change the paradigm of our life’s experience?

Below are 4 perspectives of a person who is still playing small, and the way to turn the tables on it so that you may put yourself in the power position of your life!

Do any of these “playing small” perspectives feel true for you?

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking that they don’t have any.” ~ Alice Walker

You think the universe is blessing or punishing you

It’s completely understandable, especially for anyone who grew up in an environment where organized religion was preached to them, that many people feel as though the universe is this huge superpower that is deciding to give them things or not give them things.

The fact that sometimes something we really want doesn’t happen and sometimes it does, has many people thinking they have no control of how things go, but rather are hoping the big powerful universe decides to bless them. However, this is not the case, and operating from this mindset will affirm our lack and scarcity.

The truth is, everything that happens is there to help us. No matter how it feels in the moment, and no matter if that is what we expected or wanted to happen or not.

The moment we approach everything, especially painful situations from a place of allowance and an open ear, ready to receive the pearl of wisdom or healing that lies within the painful situation, is the moment we affirm, “I got this.

Nothing can happen that isn’t here to help me heal or transform something that is ready to be healed or transformed. Ok, universe, I am ready to face and feel these emotions and expect to receive the wisdom I will need moving forward.”

You still believe you will need to “settle.”

It’s amazing how many have no idea that they are still subconsciously holding on to a shred of doubt that says, “I can’t really ask the universe to give me all of this and expect for it to happen, maybe I’ll just ask for some of it. Besides, I feel greedy & guilty to ask for and expect to be given so much.”

While it may be true that an exact replica of what we envisioned in our minds we wanted will not be the exact thing we experience (truly what we are wanting is the feeling that whatever we “want” the universe can give us now, if we allow ourselves to feel the fact that it is already within us), what isn’t true is that we don’t have the “right” to want what we want.

We are the universe, which means our most inspired desires are just the universe telling us what it wants to experience as the character it is playing as us!

By understanding this, we realize any feeling of guilt or the need to manage down our expectations & negotiate with the universe, is not necessary. From our highest and most powerful perspective, the soul perspective, we feel completely comfortable and worthy to expect miraculous outcomes and the feelings that go along with them.

You believe in ideas of “fair” and “unfair,” and feel the universe is obligated to operate under these parameters

From the ego’s perspective life can become extremely frustrating when we see someone who we feel does not deserve something get it, or if we see that someone who has “wronged” us is receiving something we wanted.

Because the ego often has very strong opinions on what is fair and what isn’t – and how a fair or unfair situation might look, it can experience nothing short of devastation and even anger towards the universe until it feels the score has been settled.

What the ego doesn’t realize is that it keeps itself in the role of the victim when it buys into these definitions, and if it allowed itself to receive the most empowering wisdom from the universe, it would actually find that the universe is too perfect to be fair.

The things that are happening to us are for a very specific purpose, even if from the ego’s understanding they feel “unfair.” This purpose is to help us heal something, transform limiting beliefs and fears into courage and gratitude.

When one begins to realize the most painful, difficult and humbling experiences (from the ego’s perspective) are actually the most transformative and helpful opportunities for growth, they align with a more empowered stance on life.

You do not understand the power of being “surrendered”

Ironically, the more surrendered we are to a higher intelligence working itself in and through our life’s experiences, the more powerful we will feel.

The idea of surrender is one that is often scoffed at by the ego, and one that society in general misrepresents as “apathy,” or “laziness.”

We are hounded everywhere by ideas that hard work and more effort will get us what we want. In surrender, we find that working against the natural flow of life often works against us, emotionally, physically and mentally.

We all know someone who has used the idea of hard work to the point where they are so stressed and overwhelmed by life that physically they begin to experience negative side effects on their body and mental state. It’s no surprise that from this place, no one can feel powerful or confident.

However, if we learn to recognize that a higher intelligence will give us clues into what is right for us at what time by communicating with is through inspiration, and sometimes the most inspired thing we can do for ourselves is rest and relax, we learn the powerful art of balance.

We tune into the natural ebb and flow of life, and harmonize with the idea that we don’t have to always be working or always be relaxing, but rather life will move us through each stage effortlessly if we just surrender to it.

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Five Common Illusions to Let Go Of

Self-Development

Amy

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March 19, 2019

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“I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost… I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out.
I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don’t see it. I fall in again. I can’t believe I am in the same place. But, it isn’t my fault. It still takes me a long time to get out.
I walk down the same street. here is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in. It’s a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately.

walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it.
I walk down another street.” ~ Portia Nelson

This passage from the book, There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery, poetically illustrates the process of recognizing illusions. Thankfully, with awareness and grace you can resonate most with the last stanza, avoiding the deep hole, and walking down another street.

Sometimes, self-discovery is romantic. What’s more peaceful and tender than remembering who you really are? The space…the openness…the deep inner acceptance. It makes me swoon just thinking about it.

In the journey to embody who we actually are and not the personality, conditions, and stories we thought we were, there is a lot of brutal breakups (worse than your first heartbreak), you must breakup with illusions.

It is like the game whack-a-mole… just when you thought you bonked the final illusion, another mole pops up. So choose your weapon of choice: a hammer, broadsword, icepick, knife, bow & arrow, perhaps a revolver. My personal weapon is awareness. So today, I’m giving this weapon to you.

Here are 5 common illusions to let go of.

Using Spiritual Practices to Upgrade your Identity

This is one the most subtle illusions there are, in my experience. Imagine you are walking down a mostly smooth side-walk, so you stop looking down. Just as you let your guard down, you’re catching yourself mid-fall as the bump in the sidewalk fully registers. This is the subtlety of this illusion.

Along your spiritual path you pick up beautiful practices such as: forgiveness, compassion, self-less service, yoga, patience, presence, and deep self-awareness. As you integrate these practices into your life, you begin to witness the fruits of your practice. These fruits are crisp and revitalizing. The results will make you feel like a new person.

Here is where the trap comes in: you drop your old personality, let’s say rude, selfish and careless, for an “enhanced” identity of being compassionate, aware, and giving. But, you’re missing the point. You’re half way up the mountain. The truth you’re looking for is beyond identity or any concepts of identity.

Don’t settle for anything less than truth and the truth can’t change; it’s timeless. What changes is your self-identity (who you think yourself to be). Therefore, it can’t be the truth.

Unquestioned Assumptions about Enlightenment

Why are you on a spiritual path? What is truth? What do you think it means to be enlightened? I didn’t contemplate these questions until years after the initial spark to know myself.

I assumed that heightened sensational experiences, deep awareness, intense focus, and synchronicities were part of it or would get me ‘there’.

All are good, yet not the ultimate truth of being, beyond ALL forms. Again, anything that comes and goes is not truth. Thus, even heightened sensations, spiritual experiences etc. are part of the divine play.

Unquestioned assumptions lead to illusions. If you are ‘seeking’ enlightenment, periodically ask yourself what wisdom do I have? Are the teachings I follow becoming mental knowledge? Or am I experiencing the truth and embodying it? I hear a lot of people say “We are cosmic consciousness, beyond form. We are formless.” These words for them are often theoretically true but not experientially true.

Thus, I recommend spiritual checkups to ensure you are the walking, breathing expression of wisdom. Not a storehouse factory for spiritual lingo and practices. I highly recommend Mooji Baba. He has talks on YouTube. The pointers are simple and leave little room to collect clutter as spiritual badges of honor.

All Conditions will Become Ideal

I remember 2017, when I found Eckhart Tolle. The Power of Now turned my world upside down. I began to exist in the state of presence and only take trips to the past/future when needed.

Those first few months were bliss, than it came time to do the laundry. I felt like a wet, muddy dog covered in shit (illusions) and mediating/ conscious attention to the moment caused me to shake the mud all over. This process was messy but necessary.

At first, I was bummed. I felt like I drew the short straw. How dare I be forced out of the kingdom of Heaven back into anxiety, tension, and frustration! My ego was like “Amy, your so above this. You meditate. You know you’re cosmic consciousness.” Psh, I know nothing. I thought all conditions couldn’t affect me. But, like a dog, I had to shed. Shed the layers of illusions from outdated beliefs to people/situations that were not in alignment with my true worthiness.

Shedding is an unfolding process. It became easier the more I operated from presence instead of ego. Presence accepts conditions as they are. Ego tries to change conditions from a place of fear and asserts that if nothing changes, there can be no peace.

Every week, I find pockets of ego. I can tell because I’ll become tense, worried, and close down when certain conditions arise. I forget to have faith and instead inwardly proclaim “Conditions, you suck. I promise I won’t be happy until you change!” Ironically, they do change…once I surrender and take action from presence.

It Won’t Test your Faith

Life tests your faith. Challenges happen to deepen your knowing and seeing of truth. This seems to be especially true on the spiritual path. I’m listing this as an illusion because if you’re like me and most people I talk to, when you jumped into the rabbit hole, you didn’t realize just how much faith you would need…

You think you know how to forgive? Good says the universe, I’ll test you with a situation where before you withheld forgiveness. You think you know how to stay present in any situation? Good, I’ll shatter your old life into pieces and help you begin anew.

When I moved to LA, I had a well-paid job, and living rent free. Fast forward, eight months, I lost my job, had practically no savings, and was coming to the realization my living arrangements were emotionally toxic. I had a few weeks to find a new job, place, and the money needed.

All I had was faith. At that time, I had no prospects. I felt like marshmallow roasting on the fire, somewhere between crispy brown and about to burst into flames. The point is earth school will give you lessons to alchemize your mental knowledge into living wisdom.

Faith is needed while being cooked. This cooking process will strengthen you. You will learn to live as an embodiment of truth.

One Guidepost is Better than the Other

I used to collect guideposts. To an extent, I seemingly do but I’m not attached to one or the other. There are many helpful guides that point you back to our true nature.

Some that were most helpful for me include the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, Abraham Hicks, Sarah Blondin, Mooji Baba and many others. Each one was vital for that part of the journey. At times, I dropped one guidepost because I thought I knew it, only to pick it up again years later.

The universe packs your bags for you, so to speak. The right teachings come at the right time. Many people fall into the illusion that one guidepost to truth is better than the other, which simply can’t be true.

The right guidepost for you might not register deeply with another, thus ‘better’ is subjective. Second, truth is beyond concepts. As the saying goes, the finger pointing to the moon is not the moon. Don’t mistake a finger (pointer), as the truth.

Now, you are armed with awareness. You have the power to notice yourself falling into a hole. When it happens, don’t beat yourself up. Brush yourself off, and walk down a different street. Keep constant vigilance. The more aware you become, the more subtle holes there are to fall into.

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What Does it Mean to Be “Really” Awake?

Teirra Zyanya

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March 18, 2019

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They say this is the age of awakening. People everywhere are awakening to the hunger for knowledge. Now more than ever, we feel it.

There is more to life than what we have been living. There is more to life than a 9-5 job. Beyond our perception there are worlds and realities that exist, and we hunger for this knowledge. Yet, not all knowledge is true knowledge. In this age of the Internet, there is a lot of disinformation out there.

This might not be such a bad thing as it pushes us to strengthen our discernment muscle. In a time of grand deception, it is of utmost importance to be discerning. If our discernment is not sharp and present, we might think we are awake but actually we are just asleep, dreaming to be awake. So what does it mean to be really awake?

“Contrary to popular beliefs, this awakened state is not a constant feeling of “bliss” or ecstasy (even though there can be peak experiences like that), nor is it a “feeling” of love or happiness. It really transcends anything we usually experience in ordinary consciousness states that are related to emotions and feelings. Ultimately, it transcends the duality of pain and pleasure, happiness and suffering. There is a deeper, silent contentment, a grounded calmness and sense of peace, not depending on any external circumstances… a sense of slowing down and simplifying.

It’s a place of true freedom. Thoughts may still come and try to attach themselves, but it becomes easier to detach from them – to release from believing in them or identifying with them. This sense of detachmment is, however, not an intellectual form of dissociating, but an embodied recognition of one’s true nature in contrast to the illusion of thought (and who we “think” we are).

One recognizes that the mind is just a tool, a servant, but not be looked upon as the master/guide. It’s not about demonizing the intellect either, for it needs to go through its own transmutation to become an instrument for the Divine, accessing higher knowledge (Gnosis). We can also still “use” it in practical ways to live out our daily routines, since we didn’t just “check out” of our existence here on Earth; on the contrary, we are more involved with reality – more fully-embracing of life – and whatever this dance may bring in full conscious participation with the rhythms of life, we will participate in…without attachment and will-full doing. ” ~ Bernhard Guenther

Awakening to Inner Worlds

The world is created from the inside out. The primal movement starts within and moves outward to create this magnanimous thing called life. The inner world of man are infinite; the world of thought, the world of emotions, the world of dreams, and the world that we are sure exists, but do not know what that is. Then there is the breath, where everything connects, where all worlds begin and all worlds end.

Our inner world determines what we co-create in our outer world. This is the reason we as a species need to become familiar with and masters of our inner world. On one level war, poverty, abuse that we see on the global scale is a projection of what is going on in our inner world.

Inner World – Outer Reality

As each person awakens to their inner world, begins the inner work and healing and takes responsibility for what they co-create, we will see a shift in the outer world. It starts within and it starts with each person.

Doing the inner work involves many things and is unique to each person as we all have different lessons to learn and our own unique soul purpose and path. To look at it in an objective way, awakening to our inner world means, self-observation and a sincere self-inquiry based on self-observation.

Why am I thinking this? What is beneath this thought? Where is the thought originating from? What emotions do these thoughts bring up? What wounds are beneath these emotions? It is work, some say it is ‘the great work’ as it is not easy. It requires deep vigilance and at the same time a deep surrender.

And as we enquire and get to the root of things, we begin healing. We begin to feel the root cause of our suffering and as we begin to feel, we begin to heal. A wise man once said, feeling is healing. As we begin healing, we begin to take responsibility for all that we co-create with our higher selves, with each other and the larger forces of life.

“In right knowledge the study of man must proceed on parallel lines with the study of the world, and the study of the world must run parallel with the study of man.” ~ Gurdjieff

Awakening to the Outer World

We know the movement of our inner landscape determines what we co-create on the outside. Though, that is not it.

“Everything is within” can be a spiritual bypass. Inner and outer world are deeply and intricately connected, like the lover and the beloved. Just being aware of the inner world is not enough, even though it is an extremely vital part of awakening, it is incomplete without us awakening to what’s going on in the outer world.

This is because awakening also means an impeccable ability of an individual to respond to the world around. How do you respond to the world? To the events that take place in the world?

How do you respond on a day to day basis, to your loved ones, to animals and to yourself? How do you respond to the suffering of the world? Do you judge it or run away from it? Do you intellectually analyse it? Or are you actually able to give your undivided presence to the aching world?

Once we realise, how deeply our inner and outer worlds are connected, we can begin to take radical self-responsibility without playing the blame and shame game. We start to get grounded and show up authentically for ourselves and the world.

“True spirituality is not a high, not a rush, not an altered state. It has been fine to romance it for a while, but our times call for something far more real, grounded, and responsible; something radically alive and naturally integral; something that shakes us to our very core until we stop treating spiritual deepening as something to dabble in here and there.

Authentic spirituality is not some little flicker or buzz of knowingness, not a psychedelic blast-through or a mellow hanging-out on some exalted plane of consciousness, not a bubble of immunity, but a vast fire of liberation, an exquisitely fitting crucible and sanctuary, providing both heat and light for the healing and awakening we need.” ~ Robert Augustus Masters
Spiritual Bypassing

The Main Ingredient: A Relentless Commitment to Truth

“For only in the search for truth could my soul be stilled and the flame within be quenched.” ~ Thoth

This is the secret. A secret once known will flip the world upside down. A secret once known will ground our soul into our bodies. Many are waking up, and it is truly a beautiful thing to witness and experience. Everyone’s path is unique and different depending on each person’s wounds, lessons, abilities and gifts.

These are unique to each person as we all have different potentials and purposes. There is one thing that unites us, and that is the objective Truth. In times of grand and utter chaos, the only thing that has grounded me is a question I have asked myself ‘what is the truth’, ‘I want to know the truth’ for we suffer when we are far from the truth and when we give into illusions. The moment the truth is known, all suffering ceases, and we feel we have come home to ourselves, to the truth.

Even on the spiritual journey and in the spiritual community, it is easy to get lost in the games of ego. Awakening is not just about yoga, going to festivals and meditating, these are beautiful aspects of it but on a deeper level, awakening is about waking up to the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we have been living, individually and collectively.

And as the wise once said, the lies we tell ourselves are the hardest to detect and this is where things can get tricky and if we are sincere enough in our quest and yearning to awaken, this is exactly where things start to get real. And isn’t that what our soul truly yearns for – to be real, to be authentic and to be true?

Once a relentless commitment to the objective truth is born and strengthened within us, the fire within us ignites. It requires great courage because our first commitment is to the truth. The journey then moves beyond.

It’s not about me or you, it’s about the Truth and this is when we begin to truly come into service to something larger than our ego. This is when we truly start to come home and humble, for the truth will destroy all lies within and all that will be left is the eternal truth and our tendency to shine.

Once we commit to nothing but the truth, our world starts to break down and break open. And in this breaking down and breaking open, the true light enters our heart and for the first time we experience true love which is based on knowledge and truth.

“Love is not a behaviour, an attitude, a mannerism. It is not etiquette. It is not convention. Love may express itself in many different ways—softly or forcibly. Love can appear meek. Love can appear strong. Love can challenge you. Love can criticise you. Love can expose your illusions, your fantasies and your self-deception. Love is not what people really mean when they talk about love, in nearly all circumstances. Real love emanates from Knowledge. It, in essence, is the expression of Knowledge. Only Knowledge can take you there. Knowledge can bring two people from opposite ends of the world together for a greater purpose. That is the power of the Great Love. And the Great Love is what the world needs now. ~ Marshall V. Summers

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Time, Space and Tennis

Life
Wisdom

Leslie Jo Thornton Cheshire

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March 13, 2019

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Our perception of time is a very slippery thing. I refer to it as a “sticky fluid”. We breeze through some moments and wonder where the time went. At other times, moments drag and each one feels like an eternity. Could this perception of time be influenced by our mental state in those moments?

And if we understand our true nature and how this affects our perception of time, could we use these tools of perception to slow down or speed up time from our perspective consciously? Could we use this ability to support and enhance our experiences in a 3D way, in our everyday lives?

Yes, all of the above is possible! Understanding how our thoughts are influencing us and our perception of the passage of time can teach us a lot about how we have been conditioned to respond to our circumstances and when we are stepping out of our moment.

Let’s look at a simplified explanation of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. As an object increases in velocity, time dilates, or slows down. If we are approaching the speed of light and look back at our point of departure, the hands on a clock will appear as if they have stopped.

Time flows differently for one falling from a skyscraper, then for an observer watching this transpire. An object in motion has two components, speed and direction. This is referred to as velocity. An object’s velocity determines time dilation.

Time and events are individually perceived by one’s relationship to this velocity or vector; different point of observation, different perception of time and the events. We are continually perceiving time based on how open and aware we are of our moments.

Tennis

I am sure there are many ways to illustrate this point. I am passionate about tennis. I decided to see if I could use my thoughts and focus to observe time dilation from a different, conscious, 3D perspective.

Tennis is a passion for me. When I play. Time flies. But when striving to chase a little yellow ball around a rectangle of white lines, perceiving time as flying by does not enhance my ability to return a lightning fast serve.

In this instance I wish to slow my perception of time and afford myself plenty of time to return the serve in an effective way…. More to come on this.

“As above; so below. As within; so without. As with the universe; so with the soul.” ~ Hermes Trismegistus.

All things in our reality, at all levels follow the same principles. If Einstein’s Theory of Relativity applies to a 3D reality, how do we express and apply this in a 4D context? And how can this help us in our 3D lives?

“A Watched Pot Never Boils”

The old proverb. I start with a pot of water on the stove. I am waiting for the water to boil. What am I thinking in these moments? Often, I am thinking of what we would rather be doing.

I feel I am on hold until the universe, the laws of physics, catch up. We are stepping out of our moment with thoughts and feelings about the past or the future. “I could be doing this or that.”

We are, in essence missing the joy of our moment. How does the Universe, Source or Spirit gently guide us back to “being” whole and full in the moment? By slowing time, our moment, down and allowing us the opportunity to re-engage it!

We have a choice, in every moment, to be present and accept the moment for what it is. When we reflect on the past or project into the future with our thoughts we have left our moment. It seems silly to choose to boil water for whatever reason, and then wish we were doing something else because this isn’t exciting or we are bored.

This is personal time dilation. This is most noticeable when we are engaged in circumstances or actions that we find unpleasant or perceive as mundane or repetitive.

“Time Flies”

We live in a matrix designed for duality. Everything is a coin with two sides. If we address time dilation, we must also address those moments when time flies. Those moments when we are so immersed in our moment and so engaged in our passion that time doesn’t seem to exist.

We look at the clock and three hours have passed. In these moments, we are embracing our experience. The same factors are in motion. Our thoughts are FOCUSED on our passion.

Why doesn’t time dilate in these experiences? Simply put, we are enjoying what we are doing. We are not outside our moment reflecting on past or projecting into the future. We are fully immersed. In these moments, I believe we can transcend time, maybe even stepping out of it.

Lets see how this works with Einstein’s Theory of Time Dilation. We know that three things must be present to experience time dilation. One is speed. Two is direction. Speed combined with a direction is velocity. And, three, a source for that speed and direction, (the observer, i.e. a space ship driver or other high-speed vehicle).

How does this apply to our perception of time? Einstein’s Theory uses physical matter to illustrate the nature of time. So, how do we see this same dynamic, but from a 4D perspective?

All of the properties of the ocean are contained in one drop. So we inhabit a universe within a multiverse; our universe a drop of the multiverse. We are One with all that is. We are the drop in the ocean from the spiritual perspective.

We are a drop of Source. We refer to our macro world as the multiverse. I refer to the inner essence of all that is as the Mini-verse, (The macro versus the micro). If the laws of physics govern our external world, they also guide our internal world and structure.

Thought Propels

We are the observer of our thoughts. These thoughts travel at the speed of light, if not faster. The physical brain must slow everything down in order to form thoughts into language. We slow this process by focusing on one aspect of our thoughts.

We can, in 4D, move with thought at the speed of light and be anywhere in the multiverse. We can deja vu, and instantly synchronize our thoughts with a parallel timeline and experience the same moment in two realities!

Thought is the speed in our 4D model of Einstein’s Theory. It is our propulsion. And our thoughts even when slowed to accommodate the physical brain, still propel us forward at incredible speeds on the energetic and soul levels.

Focus is Direction

Thought is a constant stream without direction. Thoughts come and go, many unacknowledged, until we choose to focus on one. And this focus is what determines the direction of our thoughts. Focus would then be the direction in Einstein’s Theory.

We now have the two components that match the 3D properties of velocity, but at a different level. We have a velocity to measure as the observer.

The Observer

Science is starting to understand and acknowledge the complexity of perception. The observer effects the outcome of an experiment simply by observing it. We are the observers and catalysts, (velocity and observer) for our experience.

How we choose to observe and define our experiences will dictate how we perceive time. If one is not holding the moment, by disowning it, time will dilate. If we are embracing the moment, we are in the moment and time flies.

The same variables and same aspects are present. The only difference is the individual’s approach to the moment as the observer and what thoughts the individual is using to direct that moment.

Conscious Time Dilation

Back to tennis and how I am learning to use these insights to improve my tennis game. I am almost 60. I started playing the game at 49. My reflexes aren’t what they used to be. So how do I slow the moment to give myself additional to react to a one hundred MPH serve?

I slow the moment with focus. I make a conscious effort to watch the ball from the server’s toss forward. I don’t wait to perceive the ball as it crosses the net. I focus on the ball leaving the opponents racket. By the time the ball crosses the net I have already adjusted my racket and stance to meet the backhand or forehand.

I have a sense of depth of the serve and velocity. I know by the time the ball crosses the net whether it is in or not. And I have time to plan an effective return. I have, in essence, slowed or dilated time.

A note here: One might argue, “Are you slowing time or speeding up your perceptions of it?” And I would respond with, “Does it really matter?” Either fits Einstein’s Theory. And, “What came first the chicken or the egg?”

And my service return and tennis have improved exponentially. I have illustrated one way to explore our thoughts and our relationship to time and our moments in it.

I am sure many of you can run with this and there are 8 billion beautiful and unique mindsets and soul expressions out there. If you choose to explore this aspect of perspectives, I’d love to hear how you have used these insights to promote your goals in the 3D matrix.

Fractal Enlightenment