Read your vibes

From the moment you consciously consider a choice, ask yourself honestly what you think may happen regarding different options.  What kinds of messages does your body send? What sort of energy reverberrates through your soul? Does your heart race? Do you feel tense or calm? 

Success is something that can be foreseen and measured, in part physiologically.  As you evolve to detect even subtle nuances, you sense feelings in goosebumps, shivers and shakes.  Your whole body is manifesting signs in your tone, word choices, and inclinations about the courses of action you should choose. What do you recognize? What do you choose not to recognize? Your mind takes selective issues into account, perhaps ruling out those choices other people wouldn't take.

Your physical reactions don't have a vindictive streak or a sense of win-lose perspectives.  The function on their own frequency, in a realm of rationality.  Did you ever wonder whether even the heart itself has a level of understanding of what is 'good for you' separate from a conditioned mind?  Are you more apt to listen to your heart or mind?  Perhaps you find a middle road or seek one now to reconcile diverging ideas of success.

Your notion of success is shaped by every choice you make, every thought you generate, every feeling you experience or, decide to repress.  The more you permit your preferences, hopes and dreams to rise into conscious awareness, the more likely you will be to follow intuitive choices that you sense in many ways are the best ones for you, because of directions you think they take you. 

Re-orient in the storm

In business, you may hesitate to choose a single road because your creative mind gets wrapped up in too many possibilities.  You may be motivated by excitment and desire to shape change yet, be unsure what should happen next.  Reading widely and seeking avenues through mentors, seminars and courses, will all assist you to narrow your forcus and pin down apppropriate roles and courses of action during turmoil.  Consider these tips for re-orienting in the storms of life. 

1) Advocate strategies for your future.  Somewhere along the line, you need to make choices.  You may be used to following standard operating procedures in automatic mode when its time to learn how to function for youself in manuel.  Learn to relish the challenge, strain and tragedies. 

2) Focus on applying your beliefs to societal structures.  Group experiences may become important to intellectual stimulation and your desire to discuss and debate.  Take part in local Chambers of Commerce, attend Rotary meetings and other associations to test the waters for some of your ideas. Sharing lessons learned may provide you with useful and timely ideas.

3) Let your intuition guide you.  If you happen to have many 'irons in the fire,' you would benefit from solitude to figure out which pursuits are really valuable and which ones aren't priorities.  Discern what's important to you and what would positively affect your community.  Where your pursuits aren't helping, they're hindering and may require quick attention.  Separate business issues form other issues.

4) Don't be concerned with others.  Its easy to become concerned with what other people may be thinking, judging or whether they deem you as incompetent.  It can be tough to face challenges of intellect if you see your professional role as an extension of who you are.  Realize vulnerability is good if it forces you to face your fears and weaknesses.  Deal with them.  The people respect you is far less crucial than whether you have valid reasons to respect yourself and abilities to apply lessons learned wherever you find yourself.

5) Recognize when ego is a problem.  You'd be surprised how ego can be a reason for business disintegration.  How you perceive, react to and attack problems may reveal you don't have a clear grasp of reality.  If you're dealing with emotion-laden, personal issues on the side or related to your business, it would be in your interest to learn to separate them from courses of action.  

6) Pay attention to the facts.  The consequences of the situation beyond your control are less relevant.  Conduct a logical analysis of what needs to be done by when and for whom.  Create a hierarchy of needs and desires and determine which changes are really warranted.

Savor whatever happens

Your mind always fluctuates among states.  You react to what happens to you, to your aspirations and to how people behave.  The conditions of balance and harmony are highly-desirable yet, only happen as you learn to clear your mind.  You may not always attain the mental state you hope for, when you desire to achieve it, but you can learn to be content with the state you have now.  Do you know how to relax and accept whatever happens? Have you learned to savor each moment?

You may be conditioned to think goals have to be what you don't yet experience.  Your mind can trick you into states of dissatisfaction.  How can that bring a calm mind?  Learn to convert your mind to grasp accepting states, rather than focus on one always hanging in limbo, craving things.

Consider the impulse voice in you that provokes you to desire to be entertained.  You may even feel desperate for diversions.  Your goal may be to find things to do because sheer boredom or idleness scare you.  Is your mind restless? scattered? endlessly running from things you don't wish to face? What do your conscious goals really tell you? You can imagine another state that would be better for you.

Although you can't force goal-setting itself and you may not be prepared or able to change certain things about your life right now, you're free to discern the way things are. If you struggle to shift a negative thought or emotion, you can always be with it, study it and experience it fully. To savor what happens is an opportunity to learn how you think where you are as of this moment.  Every experience has benefits.  You have the power to find them, experience them, learn more and grow.   

Powerful mirrors

If you're open to learning, relationships will reveal a lot of insight into yourself. People with whom you interact mirror your values, feelings and principles, providing you choose to see it. Your decisions about who you spend time with reflect priorities and resonate back how you feel about yourself. Do you sense it? You can evolve to discover what you have been fighting against, and take steps to finally embrace it.

Consider how comfortable you are with yourself, money, people, and your current situation in life. If you harbour negative feelings, learn to recognize links and associations. Wherever you sense discomfort pinpoints those things that are part of something you haven't fully grasped or accepted about you. This is a realm anyone can enter and evolve to better understand. Its as accessible as you decide it can be.

Imagine sensations you feel as you experience fear.  Recognize you invite those feelings as well as people into your life who intimidate or otherwise trigger the repeated discomfort. What kind of a reminder is your mind offering you? What haven't you dealt with from your past? The patterns of your existence reveal themselves by how you express compassion and affection.  Ask yourself why feelings of frustration, fear, agitation and anger may be destructive to your health and well-being.  Seeing these traits in people reminds you to face reasons for your feelings.

What if you realized that positive thinking was the beginning of how you could show yourself the energy you send out? What if you could develop stronger feelings, vision and intensity that would not only promote balance in yourself, but also attract similar-minded people toward you? Admit that driving yourself too far in one area of your life at the expense of others doesn't bring you the knowledge you need to grow inward or the people who would deepen your soul.  Understand that nurturing extreme emotions without a sense of direction could also invite directionless people into your life. Is that what you want?

The point is not to encourage you to simply drop relationships which don't seem to help you. Rather, learn to recognize how each interaction is a clue to how you're thinking and acting and whether or not your behavior is working for you or drawing your attention to things in need of change. You have the power to improve your current relationships by working to better understand yourself.

If you feel uncomfortable about someone, ask yourself what about yourself makes you feel that way. Deal with the root cause of the discomfort and your relationships will change, not only how you feel around and react to people, but also people you invite into your life based on your invisible energy of attraction.

The essence of being

I recall someone encouraging me to take the stairs if elevators to success seemed out of order.  Now, why is humans are conditioned to desire quick access to those things that seem beyond our reach? What is it that makes us feel we need what we do not seem to have?

As we let go of conditioning and shift to a place of non-judgment, priorities mysteriously change. The same things no longer hold appeal.  What does it feel like to let go of what you think you want? Refreshing? A relief? Open the mind and catch a glimpse of true essence.

One view of success is what the ego views as achievement. It appears out of reach so we think we must do something to get fulfilled. If your goal is a half hour of meditation twice per day, and you complete this, the related good feelings evoke a sense of satisfaction. If you aim to develop greater physical flexibility in yoga positions or, mental aptitude in negotiation, success is still 'results-oriented.' Notice what happens as you discover immeasurable kinds of success also exist.

Consider a talkative person who is known for having ideas spinning in his head all the time.  He may typically know restless sleep because his mind is busy working out solutions to his problems.  Then, as he learns to settle the ripples down, he may experience stillness. To allow silence into your life is to discover you attract different versions of success into your life.

As you quiet the mind, you let go of judgment and mental noise. Explore what silence feels like. A sense of success arises as an innate feeling of acceptance.  Its like doing nothing and everything at once, and loving unconditionally, come what may.  This is the essence of being.

Brace yourself: Be what is innate.  Love is your true nature.  Its not the conditional feeling that you get through relationships that mind would have you believe it is.