Expand your scope

Adventure travel isn't everyone's dream.  All travel can actually be seen as meaningful adventures, if you chose to perceive a change of scenery that way.  Experience extreme altitudes, and deep sea diving expeditions into underwater caverns.  You can find the most challenging and unsual climates and cultures to stretch your sense of reality.  You can travel within or step far outside yourself. 

Some people travel based on their instincts, based on a recommended destination or, a sense of having visited a particular place before.  Some people travel based on a sense of necessity, to study,  find work, meet up with relatives, to live a dream, to pursue love or, to follow clues that bring one closer to a kind of destiny.  You may consider travel for any, all or no specific reasons.

As for me, I'm repeatedly asked about lasting impressions among the many continents and countries I have visited.  What compels me to migrate, to explore or seek new ways of learning?  I suppose that its in my blood like my Viking ancestors.  Yet, this instinct has been nurtured by my life choices.  I'm drawn to people.  I naturally go out of my way to forge human relationships. 

Developing friendships led me to write letters and share stories.  It wasn't enough to simply communicate at a distance.  I desired to experience places I had read and heard about.  I was motivated to create opportunities to discover them.  You don't dwell on why you think you can't. Rather, you just figure out how you will. 

Warped sense of values

Do you dream of a good night's sleep, but just don't seem to get it? You have your reasons.  We each have our own idiosyncrasies. Some people's choices of mattress wouldn't be your choices. You may even go so far as to think other people have a warped sense of priorities or values because they don't behave like you would behave or, they don't share your particular sense of humor.

Consider a couple I know who decided to buy a brand new car while at the same time, were adamant about saving money so they bought a second hand mattress. This may not seem logical to you. They exerted considerable effort sorting through the want ads, and fiddling with a map to find the home of the mattress owner. On the way, they decided they wouldn't buy the mattress if it was found to be owned by an obese person, because this would imply there would be damaged springs. After haggling the price down from $140 to $110, they triumphantly tied the Sealy mattress to the roof of their temporary rental car for a shaky trip across a new city.

The plot thickens. Once back in their new apartment, the couple discovered that in their haste, they hadn't noticed the underside of the mattress emitted a rather pungent odor. Apparently, they forgot to ask whether the previous owner had pets? Figuring the odor and discoloration would dissipate after a good airing, they put the mattress out on the balcony for a few days and hoped for a good breeze.

Amidst all the delirium of their move, would you imagine they overlooked the superintendant's flyer in their mailbox about a planned rooftop cleaning? Three days later, they returned from work to a surprise. The mattress on their balcony was coverd in brown sludge that had been dripping from far above. Even so, rather than throw it out, they decided to take a wet sponge and clean it off. They had had enough of their air mattress, but decided to stick it out just a bit longer. ..

"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable." ~Maya Angelou

"A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter." ~Mary Landrieu

Release negative energy

If you think negatively about other people, or hesitate to forgive them for any pain they may have caused, you're actually carrying that negative energy inside yourself.  To learn to release that negative energy is the way to unburden yourself.  It would be as if you were able to see and understand everything that's going on around you, even when you don't choose to understand the language they speak or their courses of action.  This is a script you will draft for yourself to intend and spread happiness.

1) Send the person a 'good word' instead.

2) Let go of negative projections you have attached to yourself.

3) Read positive affirmations and express them with sincerity.

4) Consider the possibility of telling the person everything you sense is happening.

5) Write a letter about uplifting visiond. Seal it in a bottle. Toss it into the sea.

Lessons to grasp in your physical form

Goals are like visions we create as we the narrow the focus of our energies. In general, people evolve from general to more specific plans.  Often, people model themselves on goals realized by others before them.  Consider what it would be like to unleash the power of your unlimited visions.  Take steps to clarify what each of these points would mean for you in your own world:

1) Relish the intensity of experiences that delight your soul.

2) Accept everyone and everything to be your teachers.

3) Be willing to step outside of your comfort zone.

4) Let go of attachments to people and things.

5) Recognize choices you make or exclude due to fear.

6) Explore and seek to understand all emotions.

7) Live life to the fullest without regret.

8) Heed your intuition.

9) Express love and self-love with sincerity.

10) Learn to distinguish between your conditioned mind and other realities.

Dissolve it away

If thoughts are pre-matter with substance and mass, then why is it so hard to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we form everything at will?  Since everything and everyone has substance and mass and a kind of reality, why doesn't everyone sense they take shape according to pleasure and perception?  Why don't more people believe they dissolve or think away circumstances when it feels right for them to disappear?  Why would you choose to re-create what had already dissolved?

"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar." -Pablo Picasso

"It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all."-Emmet Fox