PAY ATTENTION April 28, 2009
Posted by cosmicsandbox in Energy Awareness.Tags: attention, Consciousness, Gratitude, healing, Law of Attraction, responsibility, stinkin thinkin
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A minister friend of mine used to say, “I pay for my life with my attention.” I had never considered paying for my life. Nor had I considered how attention could be the currency to pay for it. Isn’t attention just being awake? Apparently not.
Most of us ramble through our lives assuming we are entitled to be here fully equipped with a functioning earth suit that runs on free air. We don’t give our existence a second thought, except to complain about it when it feels uncomfortable or breaks. We assume we are paying attention just because we’re awake and moving through the world. But we are not awake. We are sleepwalking.
We not only don’t consider that we need to pay for our life, we don’t think about being grateful for the gift that it is. If we were to wake up and realize what an amazing awe inspiring thing our lives are and this planet is, we could experience Heaven on Earth. We do have moments here and there when we are mindful of how wonderful life is. But these moments are so few. We slide into unconsciousness so easily.
Unlike mankind, all of nature is 100% attentive and intentional. Only human beings squander the short time they have here. When we live on auto-pilot most of the time, we are prone to make a mess of our lives and our planet. We act like toddlers who break their toys, mess their room and expect the parents to fix everything.
However, in this analogy, who is the responsible parent keeping it all together? There is no parent, and that is the problem. There are only the natural consequences working through the law of cause and effect. Consequently the toys become worthless and the play room is uninhabitable. This is the situation in the world today.
Whatever we pay attention to expands. Think about that whenever you are tempted to focus on your problems. We can heal ourselves by observing and changing our “stinkin’ thinkin’. Most of our thoughts are in that category – worthless or destructive. On the other hand, paying attention to the positive aspects of life creates more life.
What are you paying attention to? What thoughts are running through your mind? It is a fact that we love what we pay attention to. All of us would deny that we love the stress and strife in our life, but that is what we are paying attention to 24/7. What we don’t realize is that every moment counts. There are no “free” moments when our thoughts aren’t impacting our lives. Whatever we are thinking or feeling is recorded and stored into our cell tissue to manifest in our future moments.
For example, if we are focusing on our lack of money, we will continue to experience a lack of money. If we are focusing on our bodies being weak, overweight or sick, we just keep getting more of that. We always get more of what we pay attention to and focus on.
Paying attention isn’t complicated. It’s just a matter of observing our thoughts consistently. This includes observing what may be thoughtlessly flying out of our mouths. We don’t realize how often we are testifying to pain and suffering without even realizing it.
Think of being attentive as being a good soldier. Soldiers cannot afford to go unconscious and daydream. There is no “time out” in a battle. Their very life depends on their level and quality of attention. We need to pay attention at that level, because we also die in little bits and pieces from lack of attention.
When the effects of unconscious thinking occur so slowly, we are deceived into believing there is no connection between unpleasant events and our thoughts. By the time the situation occurs we’ve forgotten the thoughts that preceded it. We think we are helpless victims of random circumstances. This is the toddler thinking level mentioned above. It is irresponsible and deadly.
We must wake up, grow up and pay attention. This means accepting 100% responsibility for what is showing up in our lives. That is the only way we can create a different reality for ourselves.
STAND BY ME April 15, 2009
Posted by cosmicsandbox in Stress Relief, Unity and Oneness Consciousness.Tags: censor thoughts, Compassion, friendship, love, overcomeing fear, Stress Relief, togetherness
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There is a very wonderful video circulating the world on the internet. Many different people sing and play Stand By Me. Here is the link to tune in and watch as soon as you can. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741 Here are the lyrics:
When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we’ll see
No I won’t be afraid
Oh I won’t be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
Or the mountain should crumble to the sea
I won’t cry, I won’t cry
No I won’t shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
Darlin’ darlin’ stand by me
Oh stand by me
Oh stand now, stand by me, stand by me
Whenever you’re in trouble just stand by me
Oh stand by me
Whoa stand now, oh stand, stand by me
Every one of us feels we can bear just about anything if we have someone standing by us that understand. As human beings we almost inherently know that we are not made to go it alone in this world. We are vitally connected to others. In this current world which seems very fractured, it is very easy to become extremely distracted by a constant bombardment of media, technology and economic stressors. Since the media’s mantra is “If it bleeds, it leads.” we usually only hear of negative and destructive events happening around the world.
Our poor minds can’t tell the difference between what we see on TV and what we see in real life, so it reacts to everything in real time. Whatever the mind hears in present time it believes it is happening now. So when you tell a sad story about a past event, your mind relives it as if it is happening in the present as you’re speaking. Then it releases all the stress hormones to help cope with that problem. This is why it is so vital to censor what we allow into our minds. If all it sees and hears is horrible negative news, it will be easy to think the whole world is like the news stories. But it isn’t! There are millions of miraculous, loving, compassionate acts of kindness happening every second around the globe that we never hear about.
There is more proof all the time that we create what we focus on. If we focus on all the good in our lives and have an attitude of gratitude for the many parts that are good and working, then we will get more of those things. Keeping a gratitude journal is very helpful. Recording all the things that are a blessing in your life will dramatically alter your world view.
There are many positive affirmative videos like the one mentioned above as well as inspirational affirmations circulating on the internet that one can plug into everyday to get a lift and get going in the right direction. In a way, the internet is providing a way for all of us to STAND BY EACH OTHER. The Stand By Me video is awesome because the music and the words resonate so deeply within and we can feel connected to everyone.
The Universe is conspiring to teach us Compassionate Connection through these testing times. The world is especially polarized now with very little neutral ground to dabble around in. We are forced to make a choice for the light or the dark, the love or the fear. Every moment is an opportunity to choose which side we want to put our energy toward. Anything that helps us grow toward compassion and/or connection with others is sacred work. When we stand by each other we are standing on holy ground.
Compassion means with passion and passion sometimes means suffering. We are with others in their suffering and that is what helps lighten the load. Jesus said this too. He said “Cast your cares on me, because I care for you”. The Christ is within you and me and that is what we do… we stand by each other. We are to be the Good Samaritan for each other.
Play that video again and again until the joy of it just overflows.
HELLO! ANSWER ME! April 8, 2009
Posted by cosmicsandbox in Stress Relief.Tags: break up, children, corruption, divorce, family, hypnotized masses, love, Money, real estate, self worth, stuff
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Hello! Are you there? I can’t hear you! Please speak up. What are you doing? Have you drunk the Kool Aid? Honestly, I’m not kidding.
There are beautiful families breaking up all over this country because they have lost their “STUFF”! This is absolutely horrible. During the past decade we have been hypnotized into believing our self worth was based on what we owned – real or personal property. We did everything to get it and maintain it. We worked at jobs we hated, we sacrificed time with our mates and children…all to get stuff and bigger and bigger houses and SUV’s. We’ve been manipulated like puppets to spend into oblivion.
Now the truth is out. The curtain exposing the charlatan wizard has been pulled back, and we are allowing ourselves to fall into despair. STOP! Yes stop! The system is corrupt. It has been for 5, 000 years. This is nothing new. I remember when we went through this kind of crap in the early 70’s. We had Vietnam (like Iraq), we had Watergate (like Wall Street) we had gas lines, toilet paper shortages even. Everything was unraveling. We’d just been through the 60’s with 3 major assinations of inspired leaders! It was hell then too. But this chaos has been going on forever. There is nothing new under the sun, as they say.
So now we have young people too young to remember all this history; and, they no longer learn it in school. Since they have no sesnse of history, they think this is a new thing. They want to bail on all their commitments and just trash their families, because they can’t have the illusive “American Dream”. What the hell is that anyway???!!! Now is the time to pull together as never before.
We have been sold a bill of goods. The “powers that be” have never intentioned that the lower classes would be able to aspire to the heights. Their plan is “Give them a little here and there to keep them quiet.” Everyone loves bright and shiny toys, so we all got hooked real quickly into charging up the cards to get all the new gadgets and big screen TVs, etc. . In the process, you are kept so busy working to pay for all this stuff you forget who you are and you forget who your partner is, and you haven’t a clue who your kids are.
At this point we need Cicero (orator of Rome who warned of its fall) to stand up and tell it like it is. If all the “stuff” went away tomorrow what would we be? Do we still have each other? Do we still love our children with all our hearts? Do we still have our health? If you can answer “Yes” to those questions then you have it all. You can overcome this mess. It is all happening to teach us that we are so much more than our stuff.
If you look back on your life what are the most precious memories you have as a child? What about as a teenager? Keep going. Through your life, your memories are almost exclusively about love shared…those warm fuzzie feelings that linger forever in your heart.
Do not let this economy, this political crisis or corruption, the endless wars, destroy your indemonitable spirit. I am adamant about this! I have been through all of it, and I’m still here… and my relatives still speak to me! So if I can do it you can do it too. Love is all there is. Money and stuff mean nothing in comparison. Look in your loved ones faces and SEE them and tell them how much they mean to you and that you will do everything to maintain that unity.
Bless you.
