Shadows
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Banana consciousness
We think that we need something to put us into a state of unconsciousness, something that will take all the pain away. Yet it is our “clever” thinking that binds this unconscious life to the pain.
What we need is to wake up, remember who we are – what consciousness is. We find hints: flavored tastes; yet, fears of letting go drown us in vanilla puddles, not fully aware of the boundless flavored dimensions beyond our self-imposed ingredient constraints. Continue reading
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Acting With Free Will
With the New Year we all make some type of resolution: whether it’s to give up a habit, or create a new one. We start with good intentions, but often fight with ourselves to stick with our objective. “I will,” we say trying to convince ourselves to stay with our resolution and change the particular pattern.
Changing a pattern is exercising our free will. Typically we are subjected to the conscious and unconscious impulses of the mind, body, and emotions. Our mind tells us that we can’t, and our emotions react to our fear by getting angry, scared, sad, depressed, etcetera. Then we revert to our old ways.
We can change this common cycle. First, we have to understand this internal fight. Since there are an almost unlimited number of psychological reasons that we are unable to exhibit free will I will not get into the specifics or the manifestation of behaviors associated with them. Instead I will talk about the process of employing free will to changing patterns of behavior. Continue reading
Living Your Potential
How often do we feel frustrated because we know we could be doing more? Yet, it seems things are always getting in our way holding us back from what we know we are capable of – our potential.
We become discouraged with our efforts, and self-doubt arises. Am I capable of more? Am I on the correct path? We feel a lack of direction and meaning in our lives. This sensation is the main cause of depression and dissatisfaction. If it is persistent and strong enough it has a detrimental effect on our mental and physical well-being.
If the overwhelming feeling that we are not progressing toward our potential fills our lives with misery, then the opposite must be true, fulfilling our life’s purpose and moving toward our potential will fill our lives with happiness. Continue reading
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