WHAT TIME IS IT ANYWAY?! January 23, 2009
Posted by cosmicsandbox in Cosmic Consciousness, Politics, Quantum Shifts, Unity and Oneness Consciousness.Tags: 2012, Apocalypse, either/or thinking, End Times, Mayan Prophesy, Nostradamus, tribal warfare
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Is this the end times? Are all the prophesies of the Bible, Nostradamus, the Mayan, Aztec, and Hopi tribes unfolding now? If so, when will this happen? What is ending and what may be beginning? Some claim the end is 2012, some say it’s any day now, some say 2030 give or take a few years. There are many interpretations from which we can choose. We can also choose to focus on what is dying or what is being born. The majority chose to look to the birth of the new in our last election. However, the minority chose to hold onto the past.
Our polarized tribal social systems have kept us running in place, clinging to a narrow “us vs. them” ideology that allows us to believe we are always right and they are always wrong… or we’re good and they’re evil. Americans haven’t had much incentive to break free of this limiting box, because we still believe that we’re in control to a certain extent. But that illusion of control is deteriorating now too, and fears of calamity are mounting.
Catastrophes always seem to wake us up and open us up. We have a Dr. Phil “ How’s that workin’ for ya?” moment. Here again we can choose to see the lesson in the problem or let the problem overwhelm us. Fear and confusion just block our ability to make better choices. Between the collapse of world financial markets, threat of a Middle East Armageddon scenario, a repeat of the 1930’s Great Depression, the return of the Ten Plagues of Egypt and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, many are close to a panic state.
Who will save us? Is it time for the return of a savior to vanquish all the evil and restore the kingdom to the faithful? Is it time for the arrival of the mother ship from outer space to beam the faithful up? Some may have already left or “ascended” to Planet 2, a theoretical cloaked planet near here without as many bad guys (and gals) as our Earth . Others are doggedly slugging it out in the battle fields as God’s warriors, but each side believes God is only on their side.
Since these deliverance scenarios have been in place for millennia in every tribe and religion, and the world hasn’t yet ended; we can pretty well deduce from history that they were not meant to be taken literally. They were meant to be taken as a symbolic or metaphorical description of a spiritually awakened understanding of the future rather than a literal interpretation. Most all the doomsday predictions point to our current period, which indicates that the time is now to shift gears and rise into that higher consciousness in order to see the big picture on a global scale. All prophesies include clear guidance as to how humanity can avoid total destruction by rising above tribal ignorance and cultural differences to discover our common yearning for peace and freedom. For example, the Hopi prophesies state “We are the ones we have been waiting for”.
Many still choose to remain in tribal “us vs. them” boxes of prejudiced beliefs, fighting endless wars at home and abroad. But this is the very world system that is self destructing. We have played all the cards in the deck. This game is over- the game of “let’s see how long we can continue to destroy each other and the planet”.
We can create a more positive end time scenario but we must choose to let go of our right to play God trying to control everything and live from the inside out with our hearts instead. We don’t have to wait until more catastrophes happen in our lives to turn the tide. Each one of us has the light of understanding in our core that we can access at anytime we choose. We call it our gut feeling, our sixth sense or intuition. It is a plumb line of justice and truth we can always use to measure and discern the bad, better and best individually and collectively. Our collective thoughts can create a new reality.
What time is it? It is time to choose the world we want to create. The time is NOW.
WE ARE ALL ADDICTS January 9, 2009
Posted by cosmicsandbox in Stress Relief.Tags: Addiction, New Years Resolutions, Power, Twelve Step Programs
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In a New Year we resolve to overcome our addictions because we judge them as bad; and we don’t believe we are really addicts. But that is not true. The truth is that we are all addicts, and all addictions aren’t bad. We shun the word “addiction” like the plague because we relate it to drugs and alcohol addictions that are so ugly and destructive. However, anything we give ourselves over to that becomes habitual is an addiction.
The way I see this whole addiction thing is that we are born addicted. We are addicted to 1. survival and 2. pleasure. Neither is harmful or bad. In fact they are a prerequisite for being human. We cannot be addiction free. Our minds are pre-wired to habitually think and do the same things over and over. It isn’t built in to evaluate whether those thoughts or actions are good or bad, life threatening or life affirming. Remember, our mind is like our computer.
Addiction is one of the most powerful forces on Earth. Addiction to power and control has built empires and destroyed them. We are currently witnessing the destruction of our financial empire because of addiction to power and control by a select few. Sex addiction has ruined many relationships. Addiction to drama has cut many a life short because the human body isn’t made to live in a soap opera atmosphere every day. We all suffer from addiction to our mostly negative thinking that goes on incessantly. It is said that we think an average of 60,000 thoughts a day; but that 90% of them are the same thoughts we’ve had every day for years! How’s that for an addiction?
Twelve Step programs that help people overcome addictions start with step one, which is to admit that you are addicted to a harmful substance or pattern of behavior such as gambling or shopping. Only then can a person begin a process of transformation and healing. The primary focus remains on the admission that the person is an addict and will always have to “work” the program of recovery to remain free. In other words, they become addicted to healthy beliefs and behaviors.
If we are unaware that we can choose and change our thoughts we can end up being led into destructive habits, because we naturally seek pleasure, even if it’s bad for us. Then we further sabotage ourselves by thinking we can stop being addicts. We can no more stop that than we can stop thinking! We will always be addicts, but we can choose that to which we want to be addicted, and then consciously work to enforce and celebrate that.
For example, we can become obsessively addicted to thinking positive loving thoughts about ourselves and others. We can be addicted to gratitude and abundance. We can habituate ourselves to nutritious eating and healthy exercise. It takes at least 21 days to create a new habit pattern. But if after 21 days we get lazy and allow our old thinking pattern to run things, we have again deceived ourselves. We fall back into the old familiar addictions that have had years to embed themselves into every cell of our bodies. Our way out of this vicious cycle is in knowing the truth about our addictive human nature and using the power of addiction for our benefit instead of our harm.
We all hate having to admit we are addicts. We resist the whole idea, bury it in our subconscious and it grows like mold. Anything we resist persists. All the self help programs in the world work, but only if we work them each and every day. Armed with this knowledge we can take this built in power and use it to create a peaceful, joyful, abundant life. Before, you may not have realized you had the ability to use addiction power for good. You assumed any addiction was bad, no matter what form it took. You didn’t see the positive part of addiction which has been hiding in plain sight!
Begin this exciting New Year by resolving to use the power of addiction to create the life you want.
