a basic premise

One of the biggest shifts I have made with and for myself has been bringing myself the awareness that choosing to be anti- anything, is creating more of what it is I would be choosing to be “against.”

(yeah, my sentence structures make english teachers grimace, right? go back & read it slowly, *feel* what I’m saying….).

I finally realized the pivotal importance of getting clear with myself and that seeing and feeling myself experiencing what I am choosing for myself, now, has had a significant impact on my focus and my experiences.

One thing that muddied my perceptions for quite a while, was focusing on “not struggling”. I had made the leap of awareness to decide to accept that life did not need to be a struggle, need not feel difficult, nor filled with suffering. Yet I was still seeing my choices through the lens of struggle.  Notice that even in choosing “not struggling,” I was basing my choices on the premise of struggling. Do you see what I mean?

I finally had the sustaining thought: What might happen with my thoughts and perceptions, if I decided to choose from a premise of “ease and grace”? Release all thought of struggle, of being against, or anti, or fighting anything, and choose what I would like to experience, in reference only to itself.

I PROMISE YOU THAT THE POINT I AM MAKING HERE, IS NOT JUST ME “GETTING CAUGHT UP IN SEMANTICS” ABOUT WORDS THAT MEAN THE SAME THING!!!! (Because I am not, and they do not!)

If you feel inclined, try this exercise: Sit for a minute and be still with your beautiful loving self. Take a deep breath and relax. Be aware of your centered-ness with, in, of your Self. Now say quietly to yourself: “I don’t want to struggle anymore!” As you say that, notice how you feel, what else you are thinking, any images you give to yourself. Take a minute or so to jot down what you experienced. When you’re done making your notes, set that experience aside, take a deep breath and relax. Be aware of your centered-ness with, in, of your Self. Now say quietly to yourself: “I choose experiencing my life with joy, ease and grace.” Again – upon saying this to yourself, notice how you interact with it: how you feel, what you are thinking, the images you give yourself. Write down your experiences. What more are you aware of, now, about your focus, your premises, and your power?

What can we change, how much can we change, if we decided to change our premise to Only Love. Joyfully, easily, gracefully.

Why not just give it a try??

 

Leadership in Consciousness

It is well past time to stop treating “work life” and “organizational behavior” as something separate from other aspects of our lives; as if they were different from Life, itself.

It’s those divisions that people tend to create in their lives and thinking, that are the source of the stress and disease that are so rampant in “modern” societies.

The work place is one more aspect of our life experiences.

Let us stop propagating harmful theories and rules and teachings that encourage the continuing, disjointed, unbalanced approach to business, organizations, even government.

Let us develop and evolve a holistic, healthy environment that is effective and beneficial for ALL involved.

In doing business, what would happen if we looked to benefits for all stakeholders, instead of just profits for stockholders, as the bottom line?

How does that change our experiences?

Operating a business with this approach, is leadership in consciousness, in action.

 

Starting Anew.

It would help to differentiate “starting anew” from fixing what has not been working – and arguably never did. (But why argue?)

Starting A-New indicates: a different approach, fresh thinking, creating new experiences for new and different outcomes (among other things). Fixing is NOT one of them. Creating anew IS.

It is important to be willing to make conscious determinations as to how we are choosing to have and express a thought. Then, having had/expressed the thought, how are we NOW proceeding, and why. When we become more adept and accustomed to the process of functioning anew, then we settle into functioning Naturally ~ as is our true Nature.

In this process of inviting an A-New process, it is really an invitation to functioning Naturally in TRUTH ~ as is our true nature.

To many, it seems like those we call Angels have no choice. That is not so. In the universe, Choice is at cause. Choice is a given for ALL and simply must be ~ or Life/Love could not be what is truly is.

Angels, other highly evolved  Beings, and those of us who choose to own  and embrace that we are enlightened when  we say we are, recognize who we  All truly are. Once one determines that  ONE-ness/We Are ONE is the A-New Process of choice, then functioning Naturally is likened to a fish who can fly, be on land without  gasping for air, but prefers spending most of its time in the water.  That flying Fish has a choice. The water is where it chooses to frolic and create outcomes that even at times could call for going on land and or flying. All the while though, the Fish is having fun, acting in and with deliberate conscious consciousness/ONE-ness.

So how do we function if we are not fixing anything, not righting wrongs, and not in pursuit of “doing” what’s right, or opposing what we have been complaining about?

We open our hearts and minds to bring forth of ourselves to ourselves, the wisdom of functioning A-New in the comforts of ONE-ness. This is where we also demonstrate taking responsibility for how we live.  No one can tell you what it feels like or how it is to be. This is an experience of your own making as you come to your own remembrances of YOU/the ONE of us. Others can share their experiences, share pointers, make references and offer invitations to you about We Are ONE, but you get to experience first hand how it is for you, being our natural SELF, naturally.

We can also call the process of acting A-New as remembering and being that which you remember about you from within you. Next, it is the process of EASY/Ease and Grace. To really appreciate Easy/Ease and Grace, is to give up on “fixing” and move into the process of Life supporting life of which you are and a part of and not apart from. Life in Truth is about the grace of ease/the grace in “ease.”  In hardship, we try to fix things. That is the separation consciousness way of living, and we often mistakenly say this is how life is. In functioning A-New, ease is the new attraction, the new energy, the new excitement. Ease and Grace is how you now act without having to think about it, because it is about BEING the flow of life and being in the flow of your conscious awareness,  naturally.

By default (of which there is no fault involved),  we are, (without fault!) Beings of what we now refer to as Light.  As Beings of Light, we are invited to be light, so that we can Do/Act in Light, and Have ever-lasting experiences of pure light of which words cannot explain and care not to try, but the words lend themselves to point to the Ease and Grace for our ever- expanding experiences of light/flow/ease and grace/who  we truly are.

When we are not busy or otherwise fixing or trying to fix, we can easily get out of the fix/fixes we have brought about for the experiences we next chose. This is now. Let us, by our own free willingness, be here and now in the moment of NOW, liberate our selves from trying to fix ourselves and everything in sight and embrace a new approach. One of, acting in a way that is beneficial to one’s self and every  person, place, and thing seen and yet to be seen. WE ARE ONE. Because we are one, there is no one or no-thing to fix, including one’s self, but only to remember the natural SELF and BE that way,  all ways and always.

Love to us All.

 

“Separation Consciousness”

Separation consciousness is the way we function when we believe that we are separate and apart from the source of creation and all aspects of the creator, i.e. creation. Separation consciousness is the mindsets and beliefs that cause us to see the world as existing only in opposites and extremes, a state of constant battle: good/ bad; right/ wrong; positive/ negative. Choosing to view the world and life this way promotes internal and external wars.
We form judgments about things we label as those opposites, and decide that people who do not agree with our judgments are wrong, and label them opponents, whom we must fight against. (yeah, yeah, I know, Never end a sentence a preposition with. whatever!)
But, hey: if everything arises from the same One Magnificent Source of Light/ Love – then how is any aspect of that creation less than any other aspect of creation? Why would we treat life that way?

Humans (that’s us, you and me, claim your responsibility!) have made choices (& keep making choices) which have created what we are now experiencing on this planet. If we don’t like how it’s going, if it’s not bringing us joy, we have the power to make choice to create something that works more effectively, more joyfully, more peacefully, for the benefit of all of Life.

Would you be willing to make that choice?

What would happen if the judgments we have been holding, we just decided to release; and we opened to what works, most effectively for the benefit of all of Life, and let go of what does not work; let go of right v. wrong; let go of warring as a way of human interactions?

Could we come to the table, devoid of preconceived judgments and biases, in our peaceful discernment and share our ideas to create anew, what works most effectively for the benefit of Life.

 

Healing/Wholeness/Oneness Consciousness

What people tend to choose as their usual level of awareness relegates much of their awareness to what they call “unconscious.” By inviting one’s self to, and sustaining one’s self in, a fuller awareness, one is “conscious” of one’s consciousness, consciously.

In this moment, whether it is a split second or the sustained moment of one’s multidimensional life experiences – the joy of One, Love, Being, is real-ized.

This Oneness Consciousness – our recognition of wholeness – is the transcendent experience called healing. Healing is not a journey; not someplace we have to get to. Healing is a recognition, a knowing, an embracing, of where and of who we already are, and always, all ways have been.

 

The Long Rant – slightly edited…

Most of the books & articles I have read about changing social structures – you know, for “change” – actually describe more of what we’ve been doing for centuries, that we know does not work, proclaim to know is not working, and that it must change. But what many, if not most (trying to think of an example of why not All – “I’ll have to get back to ya on that!”) people are using the same thought process, just using a different language to describe it as if it were something new.

What’s the supposed Einstein quote people like to use: you can’t solve a problem from the same perspective that created the problem. OK, wildly paraphrased, perhaps. (I should go look it up & get it right – remind me later, ok?)

But it serves as my segue to this: NOTHING will elicit genuine change until we release our attachment to our old ideas about how things are/ must be.

A new process arises when we decide what we are choosing to experience, and then envision anew each individual choice we make to have that experience.

BUT EVEN THAT doesn’t work, won’t work, can’t work – until we CHANGE HOW WE ARE BE-ing.

The authentic self flow is: BE -> DO -> HAVE.

Who we truly are is the basis of all we experience. Next is the layer of HOW we are be-ing – which is dependent upon who we think we Are.

What we think, what we believe, determines what our experience will be.

Too often, people holding themselves out to be thought-leaders (or, help us all, evangelists)are simply presenting yet another model, based on re-vamps of previous models, of how we have come to determine that things/ life/ business/ social structures occur / should/ must occur.

Ideas based on prior models and previous understandings, but presented differently enough to stand out, to cause people to notice, to create a stir, and some conversation around it.

And having these conversations is not a bad thing ~ it can invite further insights and even action. But when the framework is still just flirting with thinking about having these glorious thoughts – it doesn’t get us where it is most beneficial and useful for us to be, in order to accomplish what we say we are choosing.

As long we are basing our thinking and assumptions in separation consciousness, NOTHING in our experience will change.

I’m so over being enamored of the conversation and gathering data and using scientific methods to try to prove or disprove blah-blah-blah. Scientific methods have been created to prove the (insane) separation-based way we have decided to view the world/ the universe/ existence.

I now choose be-ing in Oneness Consiousness. I AM.

And one of these days we really  need to examine what it is we think we’re doing with all those  “in-tensions” people keep setting….

Nothing changes as long as we are mired in and determined to hang onto separation consciousness as our reference point.

It is only in coming from the Point of Oneness/ Oneness Consciousness that we can shift out of this crazy mess (our declaration!) we have created. Individually and collectively.

I’m exhausted by theorists and their “paradigm-shifting” perspectives that are no more than more noise in the cacophony of chaos.

And I am way over the idea that we *must* have chaos in order to shift. Have you noticed? Chaos has been soooo done. We don’t need to keep doing it, or do it again, or perfect it (unless, of course, that’s what you’re here for… then go to it, I guess…)

Yeah, well this has been a rant. After I get some sleep, no doubt I’ll come and edit the heck out of this post – but I’m posting it as is, for now -

And in the Now, I choose the transfiguration, the transcendency illumination. Now let’s accept our Oneness and create our experience Anew. In the Peace and Joy and Love and Delight we say we choose.

 

A World of Our Own Creation

What would happen if we motivated ourselves from a joy of/for life, rather than from fear/ resistance/ anger?

The energy we put into our efforts, our thoughts and emotions as we go about what we are doing, is the very same energy that emanates/ expands/ spreads from what we have created.

If we put the energy of frenzy and fear and anger into what we are creating – be it an event, a business, a work of art, dinner – anything – then those are the energies that emanate from that creation. Those are the energies people will respond to when they interact with that creation.

We can decide & choose to create from Love, Joy, Peace (since that’s what most people say they want to experience).

What would happen, if each of us, as an individual, made that choice, and followed up and followed through with that choice, living our lives?

Am I out of my mind? You betchya!

 

Contemplating Time

We are taught to base our lives on the passage of time; ritualistically marking and mapping the cycle of life; chopping them into years, months, days, minutes, seconds – even nanoseconds!

Then we take the system of measurement that we have devised, and act as if it is the immutable force that drives life itself.

We have created a framework for our experiences. Have we built a trellis, to support our on-going growth? or a box, limiting ourselves, blocking ourselves in?

In every moment of the timeless now, we can choose how to interact with each aspect of creation.

What, then, of time?