It is all you

Brace yourself.  How you view life is like a gauge for your expectations.  It all comes back to conditioning, that is, what you assume you can do (or not).  If you believe all is imposed by your entourage and role models, you temporarily forget that ever-present inner companion called the ego.  Imagine what happens as limitations dissolve and doubt falls away.

Watch what happens as you realize that your perceptions shape your expectations.  Watch how you feel about and experience abundance as you alter how you view the world.  Notice how shifting from mental images of scarcity to prosperity is merely a thought away.  Feel directly how changing your thoughts raises esteem, self-worth and all you allow self to see.

"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." -Lao Tzu

Why are you here?

If someone asks you 'why are you here?,' what do you say? Common responses include; "to make a difference," "to serve," "to better myself," "to leave a legacy," "to work through karma," "just to enjoy where I am," "to learn lessons," and "that is a very good question! Never thought about it!"  Some or none of these may make sense.   Different answers arise within at different stages of your life depending on you focus.

You may live your life based on conditioned routines, based on what you have been doing for what seems to be a long time. Today, at this moment, you are invited to step back and ask why.  Probe deeper.  Notice if more than one answer presents itself.

"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."  - Kahlil Gibran

5 Tips to notice nothing and everything

Many people know what its like to think a lot, to feel restless and even torn between perceived options. You can be sitting somewhere and feeling tension about doing or not doing.  You may ask how to make this stop, even wonder how to liberate the mind.  Consider these five tips to notice nothing and everything that matters;

1. Pay closer attention- rather than give in to ignoring the situation or listening to your desire to escape, notice this invitation to recognize something the body is telling you about yourself.  What is the underlying reason for your self-doubt, fear or contemplative behaviour? Consider imbalance or negativity invite shift of attention.

2. Notice what you say to yourself- your word choices reveal a lot about self-worth and self-acceptance.  Consider the mind does not know you as well as it leads you to believe. It distracts you from core instincts and inner knowing by creating beliefs that make you think you are less than you are.  See the ego agenda for what it is.

3. Feel the nature of the situation- the experience perceived by the mind with its attitudes and sense of history has nothing to do with feeling reality. You experience what you think about.  So, if you wish to change a situation, begin by shifting what you see in it.  Listen to your intuition. What does this feel like? How can it help you?

4. Let go of struggle- the more you struggle, the more limited your awarenes and heavier you feel.  As tenstion mounts, emotional reactions also tend to get out of control. Frustration and self-criticism distort what other parts of you discern with clarity.  As you let go of struggle, you discover nothing to struggle about.

5. Assume nothing is missing- the reference for what is real is in the mind and emotions until your sense of what's real arises from the ground of being. From this point, the reference for how you function shifts. Only the fear-based mind notices anything is missing. The soul only knows perfection, love and acceptance now. Consider what is conditioned and innate and how it feels to let go of what you outgrow.

"Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing."
-Torquato Tasso

Do what comes naturally

What do "nature" and "natural" mean in your mind? Where does this understanding come from? How easy is it for you to do what comes naturally? Is this something you readily identify or put a finger on? is it a mystery? Notice how the words feel.

The conditioned reflex is not natural. Whatever is ingrained as the right thing to do is not natural either. Are you noticing you know what nature is based on what it is not? Feel your vibes. Notice views of nature and nuture you adopt. Notice whether the message echoing in the mind is the same as that which whispers playfully in the soul. Who are you? Who is asking?

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry Van Dyke

Liberate consciousness

You only know how to ask for love as you were given or not given love as a child.  Whatever your experience, you only ask for love through how mind interprets that, through a conditioned lens, until you see through your own patterns and recognize love is what you are.  You need love to survive and without it, you do not exist.  It is validating on different levels.  To liberate consciousness is to move through all the layers that block you from reconnecting with the heart and its timeless, universal wisdom. Love unconditionally and you hear, see, speak and feel no evil.  One is love and only sees through that lens. Be aware of all you do and are now.