Turn your life upside down

Some people engage in relationships because they sense that connecting with others as strangers, friends and lovers will provide a sense of completeness that they're missing. Some people sense a need to feel dependent on another person to feel fulfilled, to be able to say, "I am whole." But, wait a second.  What if your idea of needing others to satisfy a need is a self-created illusion?

When you decide you must discover something outside yourself, you're also assuming that you don't already have what you seek inside. Ask yourself if this assumption is not perhaps misplaced.  When you don't have something, what is it that causes you to decide you need it or must have it?

In terms of how you build relationships, consider whether you choose particular people to fill a perceived gap in yourself or, whether you choose people as a way to bring out the perceived talents and traits that you may already recognize within yourself.  Complimentary relationships are those which evolve with people as they evolve and recognize new things about themselves. 

Reflect on the reasons you develop or stay in relationships. Examine your emotions and how the people you surround yourself with influence your feelings and views of yourself.  If you desire for someone to make you happy or to fill some void in yourself, you don't yet realize the role of other people you meet is to empower and assist you to fill any voids you sense in yourself.   This revelation may turn your life upside down so you'll see more clearly. 

In a nutshell, all you receive in a relationship experience in the form of love, appreciation or other treatment, mirrors what you supply yourself.  As you realize you invite and receive a reflection of what you give, you will come to realize your sense of completion begins within you.  Someone else can help you recognize this, yet balance and perception start with yourself.

Unravel spiritual DNA

For scientists, DNA is the acronymn used for DeoxyriboNucleic Acid. Its the genetic material of a cell. Chromosomes that define your individual traits, talents and potential ly inside a cell centre made of DNA. Its very fine and tightly coiled material, and a whole metre may be squashed into a single cell. This is so small that you would be unable to observe it with the naked, human eye.

Optical mapping is a relatively new mathematical model that enables researchers to trace and recreate genomes. This is a modern undertaking to understand not only what we're made of and how we're put together, but also whether we can successfully rebuild and even clone ourselves. Some scientists believe optical mapping will provide cancer biology a faster, more cost-effective tool than normal DNA sequencing. As researchers seek causes of genetic diseases, their views and perception determine what scientific process appears to work, satisfy their curiosity or not.

To unravel spiritual DNA, you wouldn't add new genetic information into existing DNA or recreate what you assume is the map of biochemical DNA. Rather, you would seek to tap into your DNA with your mind and retrieve what you've always known but are not yet consciously aware. You can learn to unravel the knowledge inside yourself and also draw another person's attention to knowledge hidden in them. Unraveling spiritual DNA is supposed to bring you back to yourself.

According to Neale Donald Walsch, "all human beings are born with the wisdom of the universe imprinted on their souls." He explains we have 'Divine Natural Awareness (DNA)' which allows us to tap into things we have always known about ourselves, our purpose and the world around us. Deja-vu may then have evolved because of dormant knowledge and experience at your disposal. As you learn to access what you already know, you redefine memory and selective forgetfulness.

Nothing & everything to learn

"Once you answer most of the questions you've ever had about death, you'll have answered most of the questions you've ever had about life." -Neale Donald Walsch

Many people fear mystery in life as much as the unknowns they imagine about death and beyond.  If you seek to memorize supposed 'facts', then you're unconscious quest is to re-create the past.  Turn instead to the idea of your unlimited creative potential.  Consider that suffering and learning may be the required process to jog your memory about what you already know about your skills and talents.  Start to see new kinds of connections between what you've done and what you'll do.

What if increasing your sensitivity and self-awareness were the key to reminding you that you are always teachable?  As you reflect, you can learn to understand past experiences in the context of who you are today.  You can restore faith and confidence in yourself by deciding how you can benefit from lessons learned and apply this in the future.  Step back from what you thought you knew about yourself and the world and embrace what you have yet to become.

Rewind the express train

Today is a new day.  You are in a position to review your pre-conceived notions and their affect on your life choices.  How you have been conditioned to think in certain ways results partly from the education express train which has bombarded you with info through people, books and other media.  Stop this influx and mental digestion.  Switch control from full speed ahead into reverse.

When did you begin to feel you needed anything? Who told you this? You make decisions on a regular basis about people, places things and ideas that you convince yourself are needs.  What if you didn't require these things? What if your sense of dependence and judgment is unjustified?

At which point in your life did you first experience failure? What did this feel like? What circumstances and individuals reinforced your sense of discouragement? How did you react? Every moment your life is changing, moving in varied directions. You exert power and influence over how your life evolves and whether or not you perceive that it evolves at all.

Why might you feel a sense of inadequacy? Who has influenced your approval or rejection of yourself?  In what ways has your life experience affected your sense of purpose or lack of one?  Consider that your life experiences and role models shape whether you accept who you are.  Each of us latches onto images or visualizes ideals which motivate us to act or hold back.  What if your reasons for disappointment in yourself were themselves self-delusions?

Ask yourself what reasons you have to judge others and yourself? When you're treated by others, what causes you to react with anger, hatred, venom, condemnation or other negative feelings? Who have you known in your life who has set an example for you to behave in a critical manner? Consider that you teach yourself to treat people exactly how you think you deserve to be treated.  Reflect on why you feel you deserve to be treated with a lack of self-respect.

What reasons might you have to believe you are better or more of something than someone else?  How did you come to create or adopt a particular kind of hierarchy?  Who may have influenced your self view? Why do you sense you are necessarily wiser than other people? At designated points in your past, you have chosen to accept situations must be black or white.  Reflect on the possibility that situations and relationships are less definitive or 'clear-cut.'

Whispering divine answers

Throughout life, we silently request answers to questions emerging from within.  Do guardian angels respond so we may hear? Which events unfold in your life that you desire to see or choose to selectively tune out? Do you attribute significance to experiences where none exists?  You may be apt to make a fuss over things without having good reason.  Would your choices differ if you sensed certain answers enabled you to influence the greater good? Who in your life is like an angel?

My sister and one of her female friends visited me for a week.  They reminded me how people we love, as if by chance, have the potential to renew our compassion and faith in ourselves.  As I took time to show them scenic places, I learned we may instinctively expand on our knowledge, stretch our abilities and resources, and realize we know how to do that. We may take our minds off discouraging situations and simultaneously remind ourselves we actually create these illusions.  No person is forced to follow impulse.  No person is forced to believe strangers or people they know interact as they do with a higher purpose.  Yet, it can be our choice to believe this is so.

An accountant I met during Moombah Festival fireworks was quite a philosopher. He reminded me we all use numbers and discuss ideas that are really on loan and have already been used by other people before us.  His experience further drew my attention to how people who think they experience financial difficulties always have access to faith and avenues to increase their ability to help themselves. Whether or not his clients or anyone else takes advantage of options is a choice. Our discussions reinforced the idea that no challenge is unresolvable.

A rural winemaker and inventor I visited reminded me of the many ways people can help each other by example. His approaches to redefining retirement living demonstrate how lifestyle and purpose are directly affected by our choices. His family has become virtually self-sufficient with its own water sources and he encourages a great sense of self-reliance. I'm reminded of the value of taking responsibility for all aspects of my life, my food and energy choices, my relationships, my intermittent, self-imposed isolation, my sense of motivation and vision of inter-connectedness. I have learned there are no correct or incorrect choices, only what I aim to do.

A country school teacher I met for work reminded me real-life issues relate little to traditional subjects taught in school. How a community would benefit from coming together to form committees and rebuild structures after a devestating bushfire has little to do with math, reading, spelling and health classes. Truly meaningful interactions are grounded instead on issues of patience, tolerance, understanding, equality and listening skills. To discover the fires stem from selfish violence and arson reveals a need to raise new kinds of awareness. Community members of all ages could benefit from different approaches to inter-cultural education.