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Trusting Your Gut or Buying Into the BS – Where is Your Future?

May 21, 2020 By Zen

Onward Through the Fog

I remember that saying from Mr. Natural… an Oat Willie production. That is SO exciting! Penetrating the fog with faith and trust – trusting your gut. The moment we let go, we get lighter. The mind wants to hold us back with its fears of uncertainty. A leap of faith, into a state of love and trust begins all journeys.

I see folks making statements that are self-deprecating and I cringe, knowing the opposite is true. You can have everything – IF you give up your life to create it. We want, we want, we want… We don’t consider what we need to BE in order to get it. Trusting your gut is a first step in the prudent path to your soul’s design and genetic predisposition, the perfected body, mind and heart.

Most think they have to become hardened or manipulative when the opposite is actually true. We have so many who’ve gone before us and held out a hand of help, expressing the need to ‘just let go.’ There is no division or religious separation or separation from you and creation in that place. It doesn’t take away your individuality, it empowers it to work at peak functionality.

I had the experience of being gifted the awareness of ascending back into cosmic consciousness (the light) when I prayed to know what truth was and was willing to die for it if necessary. I did and was told a story about us, then given an experience of that same cosmic consciousness condensing back into form. I trusted my gut when it happened, actually feeling the gentle tug lifting me upward.

What I learned is that we are far more capable of manifesting what we once thought were miracles, simply by realigning ourselves. You have three brains – your HEAD brain, your HEART brain, and your GUT brain. The three brains are like an orchestra, with billions of neurons cooperating to produce a harmonic symphony – harnessing together an ever-changing network of neurons that work in synchrony. Isn’t it time we played a better tune?

The First brain is you Gut, according to the aboriginal traditions from long ago. Trusting your gut is where we connect with the vibratory fields of all creation. We now know scientifically that all matter and substance is made up of vibrating strings of energy. We all have a connection to those fields, NATURALLY. We ignore our intuition more often than not. It’s time we changed that and reverse the order of what we’ve been doing – Thinking first, then trying to convince ourselves we are thinking the right things.

We’ve heard of the One Mind, right? What do you really think that is? It is the Great Light. We are each individual points of light from it, with our own built in inner truth looking place where we can learn about our perfected form, fit and function in the world, yet still not be ‘of’ it. It’s a amazing and awe-filled journey for those who take it. I did.

Trusting Your Gut

We’re in the times of our lives today, facing things we never dreamed possible in a world with so much possibility. We need a soular revolution, a movement inside that fuels a change toward a better future, not the dystopian one we’re headed toward now.

I trusted my gut in defiance of early ‘authorities’ and the exposure of government science along with shenanigans of the CDC and WHO seem to validate that Scientists at the top of their field from around the world are calling shenanigans and they certainly can’t all be wrong. Just ponder that for a moment. How do you feel?

That defiance I felt in my gut also led to discovering why I had the gut feeling. Expert virologists and immunologists around the world are agreeing that 1) masks do more harm than good and 2) social distancing is not an effective measure in controlling the spread. The dumb and numb, those who still believe in ‘trusted authorities’ of our leadership, are stifling their voice with masks; a true metaphor if there ever was one.

I believe everyone has their own truth meter in their First Brain… gut feelings. We often second guess our gut with our third brain, how and what we are told to think. Step back and distance yourself from the situation, not the people. Do your own investigations of the censored and non-censored information from those who are stepping up and offering their life-long experience and expertise now – countering the BS we are being fed by the so-called ‘authorities.’

The second brain is the heart. That’s the one that is being damaged because the third brain, your head, refuses to think for itself and do the opposite of what a natural process would promote. Developing and maintaining healthy immune systems doesn’t happen from wearing masks and social distancing. We were never meant to operate in a socially-distance dystopian environment. It’s time we had a soular revolution, allowing the First Brain to lead us through this transformation into a true new world order.

As a transformational life coach I deal with the First Brain and help others to engage it more, with phenomenal results. Just read my Google reviews if you don’t believe me. Let those who’ve engaged me and experienced the difference in their lives guide you. Perhaps you’ll want to experience it for yourself.

Concerned with the nature of deception, I wrote this article in the not too distant past. Discernment is crucial.

Social Isolation – Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect

April 30, 2020 By Zen

Beyond Religious Confinement and Social Isolation

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” has been misunderstood for too long. Shall we close the gap a bit, especially during times of social isolation? HOW is our challenge today. Looking for a piece of text that encapsulates the understanding life-long inner work has inspired and permitted in my own growth, one source stood out in answer to questions of relating the information to others and is featured below and comes from the Urantia Book. It is replete with conveyed awareness and resonance in our built-in truth meter. [God] is a term and only a term to express an incomprehensible concept to humans. There is a ‘supreme’ consciousness that all advanced or enlightened humans, other races even, embrace as a guiding force and lifestyle to aspire toward. Their actions demonstrate it across the gamut of ancient and present spiritual texts as well.

In the quest for enlightenment, embracing social isolation, self-empowerment and a fulfilling life there are certain ‘protocols’ one learns over time and often with great trials and tribulations. Today, the human race is faced with the notion of travesty and triumph; recognizing a present truth and preparing the way for a transcendent event that offers a brighter future. Individual clarity, integrity and understanding is imperative. Transformational Life Coaching helps to align and/or restore one’s direction toward fulfillment. However we can express the unification of body/mind/spirit integration, there are deeply embedded truths of our soul’s journey toward enlightenment.

The enlightened worlds all recognize and worship the Universal Father, the eternal maker and infinite upholder o f all creation. The will creatures of universe upon universe have embarked upon the long, long Paradise journey, the fascinating struggle of the eternal adventure of attaining God the Father. The transcendent good of the children of time is to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father , God-knowing creatures as they are in their spheres, like him as his is in his Paradise perfection of personality and in his universal sphere of righteous supremacy. From the Universal Father who inhabits eternity there has gone forth the supreme mandate, “Be You perfect, eve as I am perfect.” In love and mercy the messengers of Paradise have carried this divine exhortations down through the ages and out through the universes, even to such lowly animal-origin creatures as the human races of Earth.
This magnificent and universal injunction to strive for the attainment of the perfection of divinity in the first duty, and should be the highest ambition, of all the struggling creature creation of the God of perfection. This possibility of attainment of divine perfection is the final and certain destiny of all man’s eternal spiritual progress.
Earth mortals can hardly hope to be perfect in the infinite sense, but it is entirely possible for human beings, starting out as they do on this planet, to attain the supernal and divine goal which the infinite God has set for mortal man; and when they do achieve the destiny, they will, in all that pertains to self-realization and mind attainment, be just as replete in their sphere of divine perfection as God himself is in the sphere of infinity and eternity. Such perfection may not be universal in the material sense, unlimited in intellectual grasp, or final in spiritual experience, but it is final and complete in all finite aspects of divinity of will, perfection of personality motivation, and God-consciousness.
This is the true meaning of the divine command, “Be ye perfect, even as I am perfect, ” which ever urges mortal man onward and beckons him inward in that long and fascinating struggle for the attainment of higher and higher levels of spiritual values and true universe meanings. This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the world of time and space.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect doesn’t separate individuals, nations or races at all. Now this may be hard to comprehend; that advanced humans and races all have this understanding that is, to date, incomprehensible to man in any ubiquitous sense. FEAR pushes the individual into confinement and isolation, real or imagined. Fearlessness creates freedom of choice and direction, revealing a deeper sense of being in humanity even during social isolation.

In fact, it is one of the prerequisites to advance toward a Type I civilization; a comprehension of at least some universal laws and principles built in to the natural order of things and specifically to our evolution. It’s in our genes, literally. If we step back and look at the essence of the great philosophers of all time as well as messages received through various channels and/or ‘sources’ we find [this] to be true. Many sources, including the Urantia Book, offer truths to discover yet may not be completely true. I think it is an invitation for us to test the information and find the inner resonance of truth.

Adjusting Our Thinking Toward Harmony

Another opportunity during social isolation is the potential direction or movement toward better living is adjusting how we think, becoming quieter, asking better quesitons and listening deeper. Frequency-response, the ability of the mind to reflect the individuated source code, is the central component of communication with infinite intelligence as it resides within the individual. As in the above, the individuated sphere reflects the supreme sphere; that indwelling aspect of God that is replete within the individual learns how to reflect the divine perfection in the outer world. In a most real sense, we find our perfected form, fit and function in the world as a natural evolution of self.

There are experiential examples strewn across the Net from those who’ve ‘raised’ their consciousness or vibration and chose to share their story. Creation is interactive to the extreme, we just haven’t accepted that it also reflects our unconscious activity as well, as in the transcendent event we are facing now. As a Transformational Life Coach I live these principles daily and, because of fastidious attention paid to the process, it can be shared through experiential learning curves. Simply put, individual action plans become more refined and laser-targeted movement toward goals is more effective, even sublime in some cases. Momentum toward mayhem is diminishing now. We must begin again with a new passion for living and purpose for being.

From another perspective, to make it a bit more understandable, an NDE story often includes a view of the Light and sometimes even entering it… absorbed completely yet still individuated in the ability to think and respond. Extrapolate that to the notion of the Light condensing into form and residing as a point within individual beings, each body on Earth. Each of us, without exception, is connected to [God] or Source. It is a PRESENCE in our lives, not a personage. We have the choice whether to activate that connection or not. How we connect, our ability to completely and totally ‘let go’ of human beliefs and acquire higher-ordered knowledge, is up to us.

We have that choice in all activity, including social isolation, to build better health care systems to technology development to planetary administration and distribution systems to meet the needs for individual care and survival. Attention, intention and action toward life-enhancing goals puts us on the path to perfection. Perfection isn’t a destination or place, it is an experience. The experience moves us even more toward the awareness of each thread in the tapestry of Earth-human relations. Everyone has a spot on the team, there are no cuts from the roster. In other words, the activity of universal consciousness with humans is replete in the non-human [divine] intelligence that is attempting to guide us through our transition.

What Transition Are We Really In?

We’re on a cosmic time-table and it’s perfect for self-reflection in social isolation; to answer at least one of the big questions. How would “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your. Father which is in heaven is perfect” reflect our current situation? The Earth itself is changing; for example, poles are shifting. The world is on lock down for now. Ask yourself, “Why?” That is a very basic awareness and question we all have now. What else is happening simultaneously? We’re moving from one epoch to another, from Piscean (divided) to Aquarian (united) ages. Wouldn’t this also be accompanied by major shifts in consciousness and human activity? The old patterns and programs of ego-centric and fear-laden belief systems are being uprooted. Chaos in world affairs is evidence now. Many have been anticipating this process, not knowing exactly how it would happen, only that, indeed, it would happen.

How we proceed is a matter of acknowledging this internal communication and connection that exists with a higher-nature of humanity; a move toward oneness or at least a greater level of care and concern for life-friendly activities. This move does not take away personal choices or individual rights, it simply invites the individual to be more focused and purposeful, perhaps even fulfilling a ‘destiny’ yet uncovered. The activity of non-human intelligence is in support of this behavioral change within the consciousness of humanity, individually and collectively, toward our next step in universe affairs; the acts of aligning attention, intention and action with universal understanding that enables us to work collaboratively toward harmony among people and planet.

Everyone, even those we believe to be evil power-hungry controllers, has a role in this next act of humanity’s play. It is essential, imperative, that aberrant emotional responses [violent acts and/or unending rants lacking common sense] are minimized or mitigated. This allows the awareness of observation and conscious-choice action to evolve. Consider the indwelling advisory is like a third-party neutral, always focused on the goal, not the distractions. The result empowers the engagement of individual activity and support of supra-human intelligence toward the gradual shift in planetary systems toward a higher order of service to humanity.

Cultural Creatives, label given by Drs. Anderson and Ray, are perhaps one of the best examples – Just under half of the CC population comprises the more educated, leading-edge thinkers. They have a clearer, perhaps, understanding of ‘Be ye therefore perfect.’ This includes many writers, artists, musicians, psychotherapists, alternative health care providers and other professionals. They combine a serious focus on their spirituality with a strong passion for social activism. We are faced with the challenges of righting a listing ship. Historically, empires rise and fall. We’re on the precipice of a fall. Sound familiar?

Be Ye Perfect – Making Sense Common

We often think common sense ought to win out, right? Are there common sense answers to our questions beyond the social isolation? Too often common sense is obfuscated or skewed by confusion and disinformation, let alone the chaos in our heads already. What do we do? We make sense common based on practical and pragmatic assertions, such as the above – Such perfection may not be universal in the material sense, unlimited in intellectual grasp, or final in spiritual experience, but it is final and complete in all finite aspects of divinity of will, perfection of personality motivation, and God-consciousness. Be ye therefore perfect.

Attention, intention and action are the ultimate theme in advancing consciousness in humanity, in ourselves, and across the cosmos. If we are going to thrive, let alone survive, the internal nature of our existence must emerge. We need to move past the petty differences, even the ones in our minds that are self-deprecating, and recognize that we all have a goal – to learn to get along in harmony with creation. That may sound impossible, yet it is the most probably answer to: “Why are we here?” It would seem that is the greatest sense made common for today. The greatest battle we face is aligning with purposeful action now, directed toward effective solutions as team players.

If any of this resonated, please take a moment and share this post somewhere. Thanks in advance. More details of our innate ‘systems’ covered in ZERO to ONE.

How You Think IS More Important Than What You Think

March 21, 2020 By Zen

How You Think Determines Your Attitude – Have the Best Possible

How to think vs. what to think… imperative to distinguish!

In times of tension and tumult, here’s how you think better… examine everything without bias, just consider the options and choose the prudent path. When you are diligent and vulnerable, the truth reveals itself. You might learn something new about yourself or the world that will change your perspective. In order to learn to get along, humans have had to engage paradigm shifts, seeing the exact same things with different eyes. If you’d like a lot of eyes to look through, there’s a great exercise here. Isolation can have benefits beyond your imagination.

We have attributed this quote to Goethe – “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” When, in fact, it was inspired by Goethe though written by an Irish poet named John Anster, though he wrote, ‘What you can do’ instead.

Other Anster renditions include:
“What you can do, or dream you can, begin it,
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated, —
Begin it, and the work will be completed!”

I’m not sure how it happened, but FB seemed to think Fred’s face looked like me and Markus went with it at the time. What a randomly generated honor. Time to transform to that ‘quantum coagulator’ it seems. Attention, intention and action. How you think about the former leads to better management of your mind and response to your environment.

Let’s bring that home for a moment. Right now the conversations you have at home are extremely important for the successful navigation of trying times. Converting the fearful and panicky internal feelings and thoughts to those of the salient points for transforming chaos to order is imperative. I found a great blog called Personal Tao that addresses these issues and I’ll highlight the salient points. When many are seeking solace, a few step up to provide guidance with balance and centeredness.

A simple (initial) list of guidelines for living in times of Chaos.
Reinforce local community. Being healthy and active in your local community helps you weather unexpected changes, shortages and those who would try to take advantage of you in a weakened state.
Don’t overextend yourself. If you overextend yourself, chaotic changes will catch you off guard
Be patient and be aware. Chaotic times are neither good nor bad: good and bad are human morality statements. Chaotic times are times of great change. With great change come opportunities that are equally beneficial as they are earth-shaking. Patience allows you to pace your endeavors to use your resources gracefully and with awareness timed to your intuition you then decide which opportunities are indeed positive options rather than negative situations.
Buy and work towards quality over cheap/fast. Times of chaos stress out people, materials, and social systems. In times of chaos things break down, people make things more cheaply, and unexpected shortages will occur. Make sure your work is of quality so it lasts through the time of chaos, make sure you invest in tools and materials which are of quality so that your material tools won’t fail at critical times.
Invest in personal time, keeping in shape and helping those around you to stay in shape. The stress in times of chaos will push us to our limits. Take care of yourself, family and friends so you remain strong and can flow with the unexpected changes that will occur.
Predict nothing! By definition times of chaos are when everything shifts to being unpredictable. Be open to change rather than trying to jigger change or outguessing it. By being aware and flowing with the change, you will more gracefully move with what happens over than trying to outguess all the random shifts that will occur.
Orderly times are more logical; chaotic times are more intuitive

How you think makes the difference between stressful and sublime moments

Sublime – of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.

So always remember the steps of Personal Transformation are:
Acceptance
Awareness
Practices to explore one’s nature. Play is a critical part of any transformation. Seriously, play is about testing and exploring possibility. When you are transforming, you are changing, becoming something new. If you don’t play while in the middle of transformation.. then chances are you will revert to what you already were, since you didn’t take the time to play and work out new options of being. The problem is when a person gets older and yet gets caught in a crisis or transformation…. their adult shape and society: forces them to forget the most important aspects of life. The exploration of play to become more.
repeat 1-3 in several iterations (which equals patience)
Relaxation into self
You are now in a place where you worked and released most of the issues holding you back.
Pause and perform an evaluation of your progress, if you are not done, then repeat steps 1 – 5 again. Please note: Never try to solve all your problems at once. Otherwise, new problems will creep in to fill the void. Step 4 is critical since it allows a person to process their evolution in smaller increments of change. Move ahead with yourself in wonder and enjoyment. If done well it takes roughly two years to do steps 1-5 with several iterations and ten years to become a master of your own life.
However, this path I teach is deeply patient and very Taoist: most people will choose just to grab what they see someone else doing and run with that. Not many people risk taking the time, two to ten years, to explore their life deeply since the unknown scares them.
So don’t assume that chaotic times are bad times. It’s up to us on how to use everything to grow. Chaotic times offer the opportunity of new options. Such times open the doorway to transformation. How you use the energy of chaotic times is also a choice about your own personal growth.

As a parent, you are a leader in your home. How you think determines what you think. As a community member, you are a leader in your community. As a planetary citizen, your are a leader in the world. Whether Goethe or Anster, the quote is sublime… “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

2020 Vision – More Than a Metaphor and Year for All

January 9, 2020 By Zen

Working on Being Clear-sighted for 2020…

What is your 2020 Vision? This year brings a barrage of thoughtful metaphors to mind, right? We generally have some kind of resolution for change in the new year, yet this year may be even more impactful if we apply its wisdom. In looking clearly, we look at our lives in the full spectrum. Who are we and what is important to us? How are we living to example our core values?

Conversations in the small business peer advisory group monthly meetings usually have some mention of core values, both in the company culture and vision of the owner. One salient point always emerges: continuing personal growth. Our behaviors are driven by our core values, whether at play or work and certainly in relationships in life. Sometimes we need help to reflect and remember who we are.

Early in life we are presented with opportunities to learn how to live from watching those around us and trying things on our own. We grow through mistakes, most often, or at least from less desirable results than we’d like to experience. Sometimes we ask for help when things seem to get out of control and we realize that our mirror needs cleaning.

Moving Forward – Intentional 2020 Vision

Intending to begin this year with renewed attention and focus on being productive, I was reminded of the signs, in English, we encountered in the heart of the Yucatan peninsula on a highway carved through the tropical forest. “Observe Your Intentions” and “Observe Your Distractions” were the clear messages for our relationship and life in general. The wisdom for life offers guidance for all of us.

What is surprising is that we already know this as compassionate and loving beings, what we pay attention to grows and we tend to attract more of the same. How and what do you want to attract this year? What is your 2020 Vision? Can you get really clear on what that is? How are you going to accomplish the vision you have for this year and the future? The possibilities can be overwhelming.

How do you, me, we find clarity in what direction to go? Often we confuse the nature of who we are with what we think we should be doing in life. Who we are is tantamount to what we become and the life that we lead; it’s challenges, perceived failures and triumphs are purposeful to our growth. What keeps us from being and then doing the right things?

We hurt inside when our actions or words are misunderstood or we fall short of our intended goals and objectives. We lock up and separate from the world we so much want to enjoy. Whether personal or professional situations, without reflecting for a moment, taking a breath and stepping back to get a little clearer sight, we may react to the pain in a variety of ways that certainly lack compassion and consideration. We’re human. So? Is that an excuse?

Perhaps we feel like life is a kind of managed chaos, where the notion of crisis management seems to permeate our lives in ways we try to avoid. The wisdom from my father still rings true: do the most challenging thing first; the thing you want to avoid and ignore, the one that you fear or stresses you out the most. The choice to do so is one that happy and successful people make time and again, most often with the best choices made after seeking advice from a coach, mentor or trusted confidant.

Rites of Passage and Purposeful Path

One of the Core Values of Coaching is to tell the truth, be honest and transparent. That’s a great 2020 Vision. It may be tough in some situations, regardless of the reason truth has no deception and we never have to confront ourselves in the mirror. Being honest with ourselves is the first step, a clear look in the mirror is often accompanied by the need for change, transforming who we are or were that was less than who we could be. I was, and probably still am, a bit obsessive of truth. I’ve gotten more compassionate with age.

As a teenager, a few months after turning 18, I had prayed to know the ‘truth’ about life, including me and my purpose for being here. It was no doubt part of some rite of passage built into my consciousness and life-stream, I was asked a question that took me to the depths of my being. “Are you willing to die for what you believe in?” The question came as a voice without form, during a meditation, seemingly from deep within me though not my voice.

I would imagine some have been asked that question as well. How do you answer it? First, one has to decide what they believe in on a very basic level, life or death. As one who was brought up in the United Methodist Church, though not fully aligned with the organized church, my first thought was Christ Consciousness. In the nano-seconds of my ‘check-in’ it felt incomplete. Hold on, it wasn’t a denial of it at all. It just felt incomplete, like there was something more.

Perhaps my hesitancy had to do with form, the embodiment that was a vessel of something greater. It was the greater I wanted to know. My next choice was Cosmic Consciousness, which felt complete and fulfilling in comparison. What is that exactly? The formless side of Christ Consciousness, before incarnation and with infinite intelligence. The answer: “Yes,” and my life changed in an instant. I left this world.

Personal Transformation – Trials and Tribulations

It felt like moving upward, even though eyes were closed. Turning to view my physical body laying across my dorm room bed first, then to look in the direction of the movement with an instant arrival in the Light. Over the next 2 minutes and 42 seconds I was taken on a journey few have made, let alone been able to remain somewhat sane afterward.

Two things I became aware of as a result. First, we a flow of consciousness that has no death, no end; second, we each have a purpose in establishing a new order of Unity on Earth that is required for our sustainability.

That may seem totally insane to many, based on our current situation and who manages the media, politics and resources of our world. Can we learn to work together? What is the best 2020 Vision for moving toward sustainability? It starts with you, me and us and includes more than planetary sustainability, it has more to do with personal sustainability.

We need to ask ourselves a question: What do we believe in? Beyond the illusion of separation, which all paths to transcendence reveal, how do we demonstrate the belief in Love, the longing for the result of the joy and happiness we all seek? How might that show up in our business, career, family and our relationships?

Do we argue about the distractions or ascend with better intentions? Choices….

Transforming the Holiday Season

December 20, 2019 By Zen

Are you in process of transforming the holiday season? Moving into the holiday season we bring a storehouse of precious moments from the past year. We tend to cycle through the year’s review and assess our accomplishments and highlights of the year.

What were yours?

For just a moment and a few breaths, remember the most exciting events and how you felt about them. Most likely you’ll have a sense of gratitude that accompanies the sense of accomplishment.

We tend to spend most of our time concentrating on taking care of daily matters, hopefully with a sense of where we are headed and defining at least some of those daily moments as critical in our progress of achieving goals.

Do you notice that when you have a sense of gratitude, the details for your journey toward accomplishment becomes clearer?

If one were to contemplate the process and create a simple understanding of how it works, the notions of attention, intention and action might emerge as key factors. Attention on the goal, intention to perform at peak service and following through on the tasks that become apparent is a pretty simple process.

So how does that help transform the holiday season? Businesses outside of retail tend to slow to a crawl during the holiday season. Nearly everyone has their minds on family gatherings, presents (for and from) and vacations to various places. More than likely there is a lot of downtime and opportunity to ponder what’s next as the year comes to a close.

Some might think about New Year’s resolutions. Consider starting here. Business owners are looking at last year’s results and preparing goals and objectives for the new year. Single folks are probably thinking about how to find that perfect mate or make more money. Families might be starting to plan next year’s travel or upgrades to the home.

Transforming the Holiday Season

There is an inner perspective that, in all respects, emerges with insight, inspiration, investigation and personal identity as a conscious entity in a greater reality. This greater reality is a connected web of life, often driven by the awareness of abundant synchronicity, that is a result of the attention we put on intention and the actions we take in the spirit of ‘acting as if.’

This is where the inner and outer connect, quantum theory proven.

The truth is we are becoming aware of multiple components of a larger reality our belief systems and experience limited for millennia. The industrial age information age and increase in the availability of information catapulted web-connected humans into an accelerated learning curve with a parallel curve in the rise of awareness of inner and outer realities.

Attitude of Gratitude for Everything in Life

October 9, 2019 By Zen

Attitude of Gratitude

During this season we are particularly attuned to the attitude of gratitude toward the people, places and things in our lives. We set aside our thoughts and feelings of what is wrong with our lives and the world for just a moment in time. It allows us to invite a spirit of family and togetherness beyond our normal daily routines.

In my coaching practice I encounter a consistent mindset that focuses on what is not wanted. Folks are dismayed by the events and people in their lives that seem to reflect these undesirable situations on a continual basis.

We often shift this focus, through mindful practice, to that of an attitude of gratitude for those desirable situations that are always present, too.

What does that do for the beneficial evolution of one’s life and/or perspective?

Consider the notions presented by much of the material over the last decade or so regarding the nature of how we attract what we think and feel strongly. Some refer to this as the Law of Attraction, but the concept and philosophy has been around for centuries under different labels.

Just take a moment and reflect, if you would, on how your life has been very different when you experience situations that edify your humanity, your good will and those who example that toward and with you and others.

What did you discover?

Your world of personal and professional relationships is full of desirable and undesirable situations, right? If you could determine a ratio of desirable to undesirable situations, what might it be? Are you satisfied with that? Is it possible to change that ration for the better? Do you want to? When?

Imagine the results of changing your perception just slightly. It’s hard to shift your emotions, how you feel, when the situations have emotional triggers that take you out of the sense of continuity or flow, right? Sometimes we have moments of just observing the situation for what it is, completely removed from our personal emotional state and/or view of the reasons for it happening. That is a very powerful position and full of possibility.

“Possibility of what?”

We can grow in compassion and understanding when we are able to disengage our own emotions and our attachment to the outcome of the situation. It is what it is and it will resolve according to the emotions and perceptions of those in it. Does that make sense? We’ve heard about the notion that when you change your view, your perception, the world changes automatically.

Imagine what an attitude of gratitude for the challenges we face can do for changing perspectives. It frees us from the emotional turmoil often associated with undesirable results. It also allows us to refocus on desirable outcomes and work toward them instead. A lack of communication is often the culprit as well.

Too often we engage situations with unspoken and unfulfilled expectations that affect our internal engine, so to speak. Instead of running efficiently we choke and sputter because our supply of fuel is diminished. So it is with communication. We are often hindered by our fear of rejection or resistance, so we remain quiet and then walk away feeling emotionally damaged. How does that help?

Attitude – Keep It Simple

One simple thing can make all the difference in the world. It may feel scary at worst, but at least uncomfortable, yet we simply must open our mouths and say what is on our mind and/or heart. It might stir others and cause a disruption in the perceived flow of the situation, but the result will take the outcome to a new height in relation-ship building. In effect, you’ve just created another level of transparency.

What happens when people know more about each other and the situation at hand? Can they deal with it more effectively? Does it offer opportunity for achievement beyond the previous constraints?

I would venture to say that, in nearly all situations, there is a sense of gratitude that things were spoken that everyone was feeling but no one was willing to offer for discussion. Sometimes you might need help in shifting your attitude, or finding reasons to reach out to a professional to help.

So, in conclusion I would like to offer and even suggest that when you feel tension in a situation rather than allow it to continue, you might engage an attitude of gratitude for the opportunity to help make things better for everyone. Beyond the resistance or turmoil it may create, temporarily, you’ll garner a deeper respect for yourself and from others. Remember.. Your attitude determines your altitude.