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You Get to Practice Kindness Daily

You Get to Practice Kindness Daily

Like many things in life, this is a choice.

All too often, I encounter stories about the terrible things certain people are doing to other people. They are mean, selfish, unkind, inhumane, and often rather astounding. It makes me wonder when it became acceptable to be rude, discourteous, and otherwise inconsiderate?

The when doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that I know that I am capable of acting in a way to turn this unfortunate reality around. All it takes is for me to practice kindness.

Kindness doesn’t take much effort

When all is said and done, kindness takes very little effort. The smallest things are acts of kindness that may seem insignificant, but can still have a huge impact.

What counts as small acts of kindness? Here are a few examples:

Holding a door open for someone
Saying please
Letting another driver get in front of you
Saying thank you
Tipping generously
Saying hello or simply acknowledging a person as they walk past you
Helping someone pick-up wind-blown paperwork and the like

These are but a few examples. None of these cost you anything, and all of them are pure, unadulterated nuggets of positivity.

How do they feel when you are the recipient of them? I can’t speak for you or anyone else, but they always make me feel good.

That’s pretty much the main point of positivity. Feeling good. I don’t know about you, but I am a fan of feeling good. I think it beats feeling bad or otherwise negative.

Being kind is infectious

When you practice random acts of kindness they tend to spread. For example, I tend to engage cashiers in conversation. It may be a compliment about a tattoo, asking how their day is going, joking about the unpleasant person that may have gone before me. The goal? Make them smile.

Why? Because why not? Sure, lots of people seek to not be engaged in this world. That’s a choice. But if you work a job where you are constantly engaging with people, and it’s a total crapshoot as to whether you will get treated well or poorly, I think treating someone well is good.

I’ve done that job. I have been a retail employee, a customer service call-center employee, and a tech-support call-center employee. The levels of dismay, anger, and negativity people toss at such people, who frequently are nothing more than the messengers of their higher-ups, can be verging on the surreal.

This is why kindness is a choice. Every single day you are put in situations where you get to choose how you will interact with other people. Even the most introverted tend to have experiences where they will interact with others.

Choosing to be kind can be a two-way street. How? Because when you are feeling negative, rather than taking it out on that cashier, waitstaff, or customer service employee, venting at that unwitting person may make you feel worse. If, however, you pause, take a deep breath, and treat them kindly it can also be calming for you.

Like attracts like. Consciousness creates reality. Give kindness to get kindness. Like many things in life, you have a choice here. When you practice kindness every day it builds up positivity. I don’t know about you, but I’d far prefer a surplus of positivity over negativity.

Finding positivity is not hard, but practicing kindness is a fairly easy action

Knowing that you can share kindness easily and frequently every single day, you have the opportunity to use it to build positivity and goodwill. When you give kindness, you tend to receive kindness, which feels good both in the giving and receiving – and that ultimately empowers you. When you feel empowered, your mindfulness increases, you become more aware overall, and that tends to spread to other people around you.

As such, you can build more positive feelings and discover more things to feel positivity and gratitude for.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. An attitude of gratitude is an attitude of positivity that begets even more good energies – and that, like you, is always worthwhile.

 

This is the two-hundred and ninety-second entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

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Anyone Can Show You a Path – But Only You Can Walk It

Anyone Can Show You a Path, But Only You Can Walk It

It doesn’t matter what the choices are, the decision is yours and yours alone.

I made a decision that I would choose my own path in this life. Though my choice has been imperfect, and I have stumbled and struggled along the way, I am still glad I made that decision.

Why? Because I believe that I have taken control of my life. I am not just going through the motions and allowing life to live me. Nope. I am making choices and decisions in order to set my life in motion the way I desire it to be.

There are infinite paths to be found or created. Between the number of people in the world and how many paths each may seek in a given lifetime, there are probably trillions of options out there.

But no matter what path you may be shown, you are the only one who can choose to take a walk along it.

I share my path not because I expect you are on the same path. More than likely, you are not. I share my path to both help me in walking it, and to show you that it can be done. Sharing my path is intended to serve as inspiration for you.

So you may see a path, but you will only be on it if you choose to be.

You cannot choose for anyone else

A lot of people get caught up in the idea that they can help people. You want to show someone something, help them along in their life, assist wherever and however you can.

I may know a thing or two about this. Though a part of why I share my philosophy is for me, so as to collect my thoughts and explore how it is going, part of it is for you. Yes, it is my intent to help you make your life into the best life that you can turn it into.

Ultimately I desire to do something to help make the world a better place. I believe that if more people recognized and acknowledged their own empowerment, we could really push back against those who use disempowerment to keep the “control” they perceive themselves as having.

I believe that it’s a noble idea. However, no matter how many ways I show you the path or the various aspects of finding or creating a path for yourself, I can’t walk it for you. I cannot, and would not, force you to choose a path. It is entirely up to you.

Why? Because nobody but you can choose for you. No matter what I may intend, or you intend, unless someone wants to change, and chooses to take action, they can’t and won’t. This can be a bitter pill to swallow, in especial when you deeply desire to help people. Especially those you care about.

Further, along the same line, you also have the option of making no decision at all about your choices. You can do what I did for a long time – stand at a crossroads and be indecisive because you are afraid of choosing the wrong path.

Making no choice is still a choice

When you decide not to choose that is still a choice. It’s a very soft and flabby choice, relatively speaking, but a choice none-the-less.

Not choosing, some people believe, opens you up to the Universe giving you an answer. That’s the part of ideas like the Law of Attraction, The Secret, and the power of positive thinking that people tend to misunderstand. Surrendering to the Universe is good, but there has to be a combination of thought, feeling, and most importantly, action, to gain any ground.

Action, for many people, is the toughest part. In particular when it comes to intentional action. Intent behind the action is how you consciously create reality. It is the action of making a decision in regards to your choices and choosing.

Simple on paper, much harder in reality.

What if you choose wrong? What if you choose poorly? There will be consequences. But in general, the fears you have about those consequences tend to be worse than what will actually happen.

This is why I have neglected to make a choice on more than one occasion. I didn’t commit to a relationship, or I didn’t take the chance and move somewhere unfamiliar for the career-minded job, or I stood at a crossroads between multiple options unable to choose one for fear of getting it wrong. My choice was to make no choice at all.

No path being intentionally walked meant my life mostly stagnated. The consequence was that life got to live me for a while. I know some people are perfectly content with that…I am not one of those people, however.

A path you choose is not set in stone

One of the reasons people get paralyzed when it comes time to make choices and take intentional actions is fear. Fear stays many a hand when it comes to direction and going where you desire to take your life. The fear you feel can appear as a means to protect yourself, or to protect other persons in your life.

Whatever the case may be, an important thing to remember is that no path is set in stone. No choice is absolutely permanent. You can leave the relationship, quit the job, move from the place, leave the location you are visiting, end the friendship, and so on. Just because you have chosen a path to travel doesn’t mean you are stuck on that path.

This is why it’s important to recognize and acknowledge that there are always multiple options. Undoubtedly there will be times when your options will be limited. It may be an either/or situation you encounter. However, a choice made today can be changed tomorrow.

Granted, there are times when changing a path is really not easy. Sometimes it even looks virtually impossible. But it never is. You are empowered to make choices and decide what paths, if any, you will walk in life.

Further, you have the power to leave one path for another, before a given path is concluded, too.

You are a trailblazer

Human beings are amazingly powerful creators. One of the most fascinating aspects of our species, though, is how fear has evolved.

Like the rest of the animal kingdom, fear used to exist to protect us from tangible things that could harm us. Now, as the apparently dominant species on this planet, fear has turned towards mostly intangible matters.

One of the greatest fears people seem to face, and I know this from dealing with it myself, is that we are too powerful. To quote Marianne Williamson:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness

That most frightens us.”

Because your choices are nearly limitless, you can create unbelievable things material or immaterial.

The fear of the consequences of what you may create, I believe, is one of the things that keeps people from choosing a path. When all is said and done, this is a direct reflection of our fear-based society. Rather than being afraid of creating, we should be encouraging, excited, and looking forward to the potential.

Even imperfect and bad creations can serve a purpose. Whatever the case may be, you can choose a path that makes you feel good, and advances the purpose you feel you have in this life.

Anyone can show you a path, but only you can choose to walk it. It doesn’t matter what the choices are, the decision is yours and yours alone. You are thus empowered to explore all of your potential, possibility, and innate awesomeness.

What path will you choose to take today?

 

This is the four-hundred and first entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for, and my personal experiences with, walking along the path of life to consciously create reality.  I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way. I also desire to empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

Thank you for joining me.  Feel free to re-blog and share this.

The first year of Pathwalking, including some expanded ideas, is available (FOR FREE THIS WEEK AS OF TOMORROW!) here. My additional writing works, both fiction and non-fiction, are available here.

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Age, Like Time, is Relative

Age is only a number and as such has whatever meaning you assign to it

Today is my birthday.

I love birthdays. They are personal holidays, and I have always been a fan of celebrating them. This is your unique, singular Happy New Year. Birthdays can be an incredible source of positivity.

Some people see them this way. I know I do. But some people see birthdays as an increasing reminder of their pending mortality. Every year marks another year of getting potentially frailer, having your joints become stiffer and less flexible, and gaining grey hairs and other aspects of aging.

Age, like time, is relative. What does that even mean? Simple – you are only as old as you feel.

Middle-age, middle-ages, mindfulness and madness

I have been fencing with the same medieval reenactment group for approximately 28 years now. To that end, I have been teaching rapier combat for about 24 of those years. Since we do not break down into age or gender categories, everyone fights everyone else (with the exception of the under-18 crowd).

Thus I find myself teaching and fighting people who have been alive for less time than I have been participating in this activity. On the other side of that same coin, I also fight and teach people at least twenty years my senior. Some of the younger crowd can seriously kick my ass, as can some of the older crowd.

But what I revel in is how I can give those people younger than the number of years I have been teaching this game a major run for their money. Skill, endurance, dexterity, and all, I make them work as hard, or harder, than their contemporaries.

I won’t deny that there are times after a three-hour practice that I am sore as hell, but it’s totally worth it. Want to feel young? Take two swords and go run a twenty-something kid around the floor for fifteen minutes.

The point is, the number that is my age does not have any impact on my performance in this game. Frankly, the older I get the more skilled I have become. The years fall away, and the joy I get from this game cannot be quantified.

When I fence I am in the ultimate mindful state. In that state, my age does not matter in the slightest. Forty-something? Big effing deal.

Nobody gets out of life alive

The most inevitable thing you and I face is that we are going to die. No, I am not making this statement to be morbid, but it helps to point out that you and I have but a finite time on this planet. As such, you and I only get this one time to experience all the joys, possibilities, and potential that life has to offer.

Life is choice. You get to decide if you are going to live life, let life live you, or curl up in a ball and await your inevitable demise. Thus, you get to choose if you perceive yourself as getting older, weaker, and less capable…or if you see yourself as forever young, powerful, and gaining knowledge and abilities with each passing day.

I refuse to accept that each passing year marks another year closer to the end. Not because I don’t acknowledge the inevitable, but because I still believe that I am young, that I am strong, and that I am capable. My physical, mental, and spiritual existence is entirely for me to choose.

So today, being my birthday, can either be something to lament, or something to celebrate. I am celebrating because damn do I love being alive.

This is not swimming the backstroke in a certain Egyptian river

I am not in denial of my age. That’s not the point of this. The point is that I am not being defined by my age. Several of my close friends, whom I have known for over twenty years, have hardly visibly aged in that time. Sure, all of us have some complaints about joint pain and uncooperative metabolisms, but that doesn’t stop us. We are still the same strong, fun-loving people we were back when we all first met.

How you feel is a choice. If you decide that you are getting older, frailer, and less capable, that’s the reality you are consciously creating. But if instead, you decide that you are getting older, stronger, and more capable, that’s going to be your reality. Feel good or feel bad, you get to choose.

Being mindful of your thoughts and feelings in the now is where the decision lies. I love my birthdays, and I love the positivity I get from well-wishers, friends, and family every year. For this, I have the deepest gratitude – and gratitude is one of the most versatile tools in the positivity toolbox.

Age, like time, is relative. It is only a number that has whatever meaning I assign to it. Thus, I see this new year for growth, change, and incredible positivity.

Let’s go get some ice cream cake and celebrate together, shall we?

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action

Knowing that age is relative, and how old you feel is up to you, you get to choose if a birthday makes you feel weak or powerful. When you see this as a chance to tackle a new year and direct the potential for change, growth, and new and exciting experiences it ultimately empowers you. When you feel empowered, your mindfulness increases, you become more aware overall, and that tends to spread to other people around you.

As such, you can build more positive feelings and discover more things to feel positivity and gratitude for.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. An attitude of gratitude is an attitude of positivity that begets even more good energies – and that, like you, is always worthwhile.

 

This is the two-hundred and ninety-first entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

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Four Hundred Weeks of Pathwalking

Four hundred weeks of Pathwalking – the passage of time can be surreal.

Just before the start of 2012, I determined that I needed to write more. One way to do so would be to blog weekly. My blog website, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, had been up since April of 2010. From time to time I was posting there, but not regularly.

Determined to make a New Years’ Action, rather than a flabby, easily disregarded resolution, I chose to blog weekly. On January 2, 2012, I wrote and published the first of a series I would call Pathwalking. I did so once a week all month, and as of the end of January made it every Wednesday.

This post marks the 400th Pathwalking article. Every single week for 7.7 years I have created a post about choosing my own path, deciding what it is I desire from life, and steps I would take along the way to make it happen.

During this time I have learned a great deal about myself. I know more about how I think, what and how I tend to feel, and the intentions of my actions. Pathwalking has really explored for me the process of conscious reality creation.

This has been more than just blogging weekly all this time. It has become a philosophy and lifestyle I employ to live the most full, satisfying, and fulfilling life that I can. That’s not to say it doesn’t have its ups and downs, and that it’s not often challenging – but so far, my life since I began writing Pathwalking all those years ago has changed considerably for the better.

Developing a philosophy

Not long into Pathwalking on a regular basis, it occurred to me that I had developed a philosophy. It isn’t Buddhism, Absurdism, Daoism, or Naturalism, but it is my study of the fundamental questions of life, the universe, and everything.

What that means to me is that I see that by making a conscious choice about what you want to do with your life and deciding on the paths to walk therein, you find answers. Sure, you will also find more questions – but isn’t that a big part of what life is all about?

That’s the thing. As I have practiced walking my own path in this life, I have found new questions. I have also found answers, but one of the greatest discoveries I have found is this: Life is constantly in motion. You get to decide if you will stand against the stream or swim.

That is where Pathwalking comes in. Recognizing that, as Yoda aptly puts it, “Always in motion is the future,” it occurred to me that this means life could be construed as a series of pathways. Every choice made, and not made, takes you down a path. Some are long, some are short, some reach a dead end, and some could go on and on and on. Further, most paths include curves, obstacles, switch-backs, intersections, crossroads, and any other metaphor you can apply along that line.

The point is that even when you don’t choose you tend to be on a path or paths. So why not choose what you desire to do? Why settle for surviving when you are capable of thriving?

The benefits of Pathwalking

To be fair, this has not been the smoothest, easiest way to live. Hell, there have been plenty of times it kind of sucked. But for the most part, over the last 7.7 years, I have lived with more passion, conviction, and mindfulness than I recall experiencing in a long time.

Not every choice I have made has been great. Some of my paths have proven more challenging than others. I have been walking my own path with interruptions and other fits and starts, but living life rather than letting life live me has been worthwhile.

I long ago stated that nothing worth having is easy. This takes effort, and focus. Being in the here-and-now takes practice. When I get it right, it’s amazing what I find. It feels like I can move mountains.

Since I began Pathwalking I have pursued my dream of writing full-time; gotten into the best relationships of my life; created new and strong friendships with amazing people; have been feeling more genuine about being the best me that I can be.

The most important thing I am working on, still, is that it is the journey that matters. Sure, the goal at the end is important because it provides you with direction. But the journey is rich and full in-and-of-itself and produces many unexpected results. As you walk any given path matters come upon you that can change everything, and you can learn lots and lots.

The journey happens in the now. Being in the now, being present and mindful of the now, is how consciousness creates reality, and you live the fullest, most interesting, and amazing life you can.

Why the now is so important?

To put this plainly, you cannot live in the past or the future. You can learn from the past and set goals for the future, but you can only live in the now.

I have, for 400 weeks, examined this, as well as so many other issues. Conscious reality creation requires you to be present and mindful of your thoughts and feelings. This only occurs in the now.

Your subconscious mind is vast and complex. Imagine that your mind is a house. Your subconscious is the foundation of the house. Then your consciousness, your thoughts, and feelings, are the basement and possibly the ground floor of that house. Your actions, and how you present yourself to the world is the type of house people will see, and whether it is run-down or well-kept.

A better analogy, frankly, might be a tree. Your subconscious is the root system, and it can stretch far, far deeper and wider than the tree is high above the ground. The subconscious contains both passive and active matters and does the vast majority of the walking along any given path.

That is, of course, unless you become conscious of the path. This is where Pathwalking comes in. But to be conscious of the path, you need to be aware of your thoughts and feelings, here and now.

Only in this moment, in the now, can you BE mindful. This is where the difference between selecting your path and simply plodding down the trail thoughtlessly comes into play. This is why the now is so very important to the path you may choose.

Continuing on the path

At the conclusion of the first year of Pathwalking, I decided to take it into a second year. When I reached the 104th post, I chose to continue for another year. After the third year, it was easy to keep going.

Four-hundred weeks later I am still writing about this journey, still sharing my philosophy, sharing ideas and processes, and continuing along the way. I am pretty sure that I have repeated myself a couple of times, reused a keyphrase more than once, and shared the same idea I had been working with all along.

By the same token, odds are I have changed my process along the way, changed from one notion to a different one, and maybe even changed my mind about how things happen. That’s to be expected, because as I grow and change and learn new things, old ideas that may have seemed brilliant and right I now know don’t work. Or simply are not right for me.

This is something I really wish more people took to heart. Life does not remain in one place. Opinions based on old data can and should be changed when new data disproves them.

But don’t take my word for it. My journey is unique to me. Your journey will be unique to you. I share the idea of Pathwalking and my experiences with it because you can walk a path of YOUR choosing, too. But why reinvent the wheel when I can provide you with insights, tools, techniques, and ideas you can use to make your journey.

Four hundred weeks of Pathwalking. This continues to be an incredible experience. I wonder what the next 400 weeks might bring?

Do you practice Pathwalking or some other philosophy?

 

This is the four-hundredth entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for, and my personal experiences with, walking along the path of life to consciously create reality.  I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way. I also desire to empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

Thank you for joining me.  Feel free to re-blog and share this.

The first year of Pathwalking, including some expanded ideas, is available here. My additional writing works, both fiction and non-fiction, are available here.

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Using Attitude Shifters for Positivity

Creating and Using Attitude Shifters for Positivity

When you use mindfulness to consciously create your reality, positivity can be a real game-changer.

Positive thinking is not everything. You cannot just think positive and change your life. There needs to also be feeling and action to create change.

However, having a positive attitude will help. This is because like attracts like – consciousness creates reality. Therefore, if you think this is stupid, impossible, and cannot be done – that’s probably your reality.

It is not easy in the world today to think positive. Spend any time surfing online and chances are you’ll be inundated with reasons to feel negative and outright bad. Yet positivity is a key to conscious reality creation and being the best you that you can be.

Mindfulness of what you are thinking and what and how you are feeling will show you if you’re mindset is dominated by positivity or negativity. Recognizing this is a factor for change. Positivity opens you up to creating a life worthy and deserving of you.

That bears repeating and emphasis. A life worthy and deserving of you. The ideal life for you already exists, you just need to use your mindfulness to consciously create it. Finding, creating, and having a positive attitude goes hand-in-hand with that.

When I was recovering from my injuries – after getting hit by a car crossing a street as a pedestrian – my attitude was dominated by positivity. I didn’t allow negativity or doubt to take root in my psyche. Sure, I had incredible medical care…but even they found the speed and totality of my recovery both unexpected and impressive.

If I can do it, so can you.

Attitude shifters for finding more positivity

To help you shift your mindset towards positivity, it is extremely helpful to have attitude shifters.

What is an attitude shifter? An attitude shifter is something you can think about or focus on that will make you feel good.

Attitude shifters can come in many forms. A picture of a person, place, or thing that makes you feel happy. A song, movie dialogue, or comedy routine that puts you in a good mood. The smell of something that brings your mind to positive thoughts.

Pretty much anything that stimulates one of your senses in a manner that makes you feel good can serve as an attitude shifter.

Because attitude shifters can take on so many forms and come from a vast landscape of lifetime experiences, it is a good idea to have several to choose from.

Attitude shifters are frequently not just memory. They are the recollection of something and the sense it stimulates that is most useful in changing your mood.

Because you are typically working with an intangible, you do not need to have any physical objects in order to make use of the attitude shifter. This can be very effective when you are somewhere you cannot physically change, but mentally need to take a new approach, such as meetings, waiting in line, horrid traffic, and the like.

Finding, recognizing, and using attitude shifters

How do you know if something is an attitude shifter for you? When you think about that image, scent, touch, taste, sound, emotion, or experience, does it put a smile on your face? Does it make your heart happy? Does it make you feel good?

If the answer is YES – you have found an attitude shifter.

Using attitude shifters takes effort. It is not hard work, it is conscious work. This is a matter of mindfulness, and being aware of your thoughts and feelings.

It is fairly simple to make use of an attitude shifter. For the most part, it can be done in two steps:

Ask yourself – How do I feel? You might be amazed how seldom you actually pause to ask that of yourself. If you are feeling good or positive, you don’t need an attitude shifter. If, however, you find that you are feeling nothing or you are feeling negative, go to:
Choose an attitude shifter. Sometimes this takes considerable effort, depending on whether the situation you are in is passive and has already caused the negativity or active and ongoing.

For example: Remember that child’s laugh; think about that song that makes you want to dance; remember holding your lover’s hand. Find an attitude shifter like these that you can use to change your mindset. This is why having more than one is a good idea – If one is not working you can choose another.

The great thing about attitude shifters is that they are many and varied and constantly being created, discovered, and renewed. It is not so difficult to take a moment in your mind to bring forth that memory and sensation in order to change how you are feeling.

A practical exercise

Here is how I would suggest getting started with this (I am sharing this idea is as much for me as it is for you).

Consciously choose five things that make you feel good and/or make you happy. Take some time to firmly place them in your memory. Even when you are feeling good, focus on them, so that they are clearer and easier to reach.

When you need to shift your attitude, you will have five readily available options. In time, you can add more, and use these attitude shifters to find further positivity to better make your life the best that it can be.

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action

Knowing the importance of positivity in your mindset for conscious reality creation, you can use attitude shifters to create, find, and have more. When you influence and take control over your thoughts and feelings and be more positive it ultimately empowers you. When you feel empowered, your mindfulness increases, you become more aware overall, and that tends to spread to other people around you.

As such, you can build more positive feelings and discover more things to feel positivity and gratitude for.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. An attitude of gratitude is an attitude of positivity that begets even more good energies – and that, like you, is always worthwhile.

 

This is the two-hundred and ninetieth entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

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Go Confidently in Choosing Your Paths

Go Confidently and Choose Your Path

Confidence, real or an act, can have a massive impact on how you walk a given path.

When you are walking a path that you have chosen in the process of Pathwalking, it is good to go confidently along the way.

Whenever you are tentative and uncertain, it will have an impact on the work that you are doing. It will send a message to the Universe that you are not sure of the way you are going. You allow room for doubt to come into play and open yourself up to complicating your process.

One of the important aspects of conscious reality creation is confidence. When you are working on directing your thoughts and feelings to take intentional actions to achieve a goal there is no room for doubt. This is because doubt and uncertainty tend to dig below your conscious mind to your subconscious.

If these negative thoughts and feelings burrow into your subconscious, they plant seeds of more doubt, uncertainty, and even fear. This, in turn, can sabotage your efforts.

This can be extremely insidious. Before you know it has happened, you find yourself asking questions about your purpose, your path, the validity of your goal, your self-worth, and more. You may find that you second-guess yourself and do not believe you deserve to achieve what you are aiming for.

Confidence, real or an act, matters

Real confidence is something I know that I have trouble maintaining. What’s more, there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance that I am careful to avoid. The last thing I want to do is be so confident that I come across as cocky.

Further, real confidence is a matter of certainty. When you are venturing into the uncertain, no matter your personal philosophy and beliefs, being truly confident can be a challenge. It’s called the unknown because many aspects of it are not and cannot be known. Thus, being truly, really confident is going straddle the line of cockiness and chutzpah.

When you are moving through an unknown and uncertain situation, you may need to put on an act of confidence. Acting confident, even when you are not going confidently into a situation, can create real confidence.

How does that work? Confidence can be both tangible and intangible. The tangible includes sitting and standing-up, straight-back, walking purposefully, dressing sharply, speaking clearly. Not strutting and speaking like a bullshit artist – exuding physical confidence and speaking with authority and purpose.

Even if you are not feeling totally confident, changing your physical postures can create confidence.

When I was the President of a Chamber of Commerce, I ran a monthly breakfast meeting. I felt, more often than not, that I had no idea what I was doing there. But I dressed in my best sport coat, stood up straight, spoke eloquently, and exuded confidence in my leadership.

Yes, this made me feel more confident. Other business leaders respected me in the role, so I believe I did it well.

I could go confidently or go home – so I went confidently, and felt more confident in the process.

Go confidently to empower your path

When you practice Pathwalking with confidence you make it harder for doubt, uncertainty, and other negatives to take root.

When you are choosing your own way to find and create the best you that you can be, numerous forces will align against you. Some are “well-meaning” while others are straightforward, unhelpful, and even unkind.

The “well-meaning” forces tend to be friends, family, acquaintances, and coworkers. Much of this comes from them seeing you change, and being uncertain about how it will impact both you AND your interactions with them.

The “well-meaning” negativity tends to look like this:

I understand what you are doing, but did you know…
This is something I think you need to know for your own good…
Do you realize what could happen if you fail?
How will you support yourself and your loved ones?

And other similar statements. These tend to be stated by people “looking out for you” and your best interests and such.

Much of this is born of our fear-based society and how the collective conscious tends to react to breaking from the norm.

The straightforward, unhelpful, and unkind resistance you may meet could come from people who are jealous of your decisions. Maybe they would choose their own path, but do not feel it can be done for whatever reason or reasons.

This can also come from your own subconscious thoughts and old, outdated beliefs. Because breaking away from the norm is scary, fear is where most of this resistance comes from.

This negativity tends to look like this:

You are unworthy of accomplishing that goal
Who are you to think you deserve that?
Everyone and everything you love will bail on you
You’re not good enough to do that

Confidence, real or an act, can counter all of this.

Confidence and mindfulness

When you are practicing conscious reality creation, you need to be mindful. That means in the here-and-now you have to be aware of what you are thinking and what and how you are feeling. From there you take your actions with intent to traverse the path or paths.

When you are mindful, being confident, real or an act, can prevent the doubt, doubters, and other negativity from boring into your psyche. It can make a huge difference between simply navigating twists, turns, and obstacles – and creating them for yourself.

When I am not being confident in my choices and decisions, I tend to self-sabotage. Because of a lot of old, outdated beliefs I haven’t worked out, lacking confidence as I work on creating the reality best suited to me allows me to get in my own way. That unhelpful, unkind negativity sneaks into my subconscious and uses doubt to power itself.

In being mindful of this tendency on my own part I can be better prepared to combat it.

I need to be more aware of this happening, and employ going confidently down my paths, even if it’s just an act. Hold my head up, keep my back straight, and speak succinctly. Acting confident can build real confidence.

You are equally as capable of doing this as I am. You are worthy and deserving of living the best, fullest life that you can. Go confidently along whatever paths you choose, and kick some ass.

Confidence, real or an act, can have a massive impact on how you walk a given path. Do you walk your paths confidently?

 

This is the three-hundred ninety-ninth entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for, and my personal experiences with, walking along the path of life to consciously create reality.  I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way and empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

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Getting into Your Element

Getting into your element involves finding and entering a positive place to recharge your mind, body, and spirit.

Everyone has a place or places that they like to go to in order to reset. I am not talking about taking a trip or vacation, or even a huge amount of time. No, this is all about discovering your element and spending time there.

What is an element?

For me, my element tends to be the outdoors. I love hiking, the feeling of the sun on my skin, a breeze touching my face, and the sound of running water. If I can find a trail beside a fast-moving stream or river, I am home.

This is the place where I feel most able to unwind. Release tension and stress and find my calm and center. Even if I cannot find all of the above-mentioned aspects of an element, just getting outside is a step in the right direction.

This is not the only element I like to go to. Getting into the water – river, lake, pool, or what-have-you, calms me. I don’t need to swim laps, just floating in the water feels reinvigorating.

That’s the key about finding and getting into your elements, whatever they may be. These are places where you connect your mind, body, and spirit, and are able to recharge them. Reset them. Give them a space to find calm and peace.

It tends to be easy to find places that are good for the mind, or body, or spirit. But an element manages all three at once. Even though we can disconnect these from time to time, it’s important to acknowledge their overall connection. Thus, finding your element(s) to recharge them.

Your mind, body, and spirit connection matters

I know a lot of people who will tell you they are tired. No matter how much sleep they get, still tired. This is because sleep is about the body, not the mind or spirit.

Human beings are made up of all three of these aspects. The body is the meat-popsicle you run around the planet within. The mind is your headspace, where you hold all your thoughts and feelings. The spirit, however, is the indefatigable, ineffable aspect that is your energetic core, running far deeper than mind and body.

The spirit tends to be the hardest aspect of ourselves to nourish because it is the hardest to comprehend. But without this aspect of ourselves, we would be incomplete. All those things you can’t put your finger on or describe about what makes you, you, tends to be a part of the spirit.

When you get into your element, it tends to be a place that feels right, but not emotionally, per se. It goes deeper. There is a sense of connection, of perspective that tends to be almost impossible to explain, but just seems perfectly right. That is how you know what an element of yours may be.

Finding your element and going into it opens your mind, body, and spirit to their strongest connection. When they are all together, they can be healed together. Cleansed. Most able to recharge and reset alongside one another.

Three elements equal one you

Water is made of three parts. One part is hydrogen, one part is oxygen, one part is hydrogen. Water is not water without all three elements. Water is only water IN its element, because of its relative simplicity.

Like water, you are made of three elements. Though you can exist with an imbalance of the three, you cannot do so comfortably forever. That is why finding your element and strengthening the connection matters as much as it does.

Humans can and do exist outside of their element because of their incredible adaptability. But that doesn’t mean you should not return to it when you can.

Getting into your element involves finding and entering a positive place to recharge your mind, body, and spirit. It may only be for a few minutes, or a few hours, but any time in your element(s) is time well spent. When next you feel disconnected or out-of-sorts, find and get into your element for at last a short time, and regenerate yourself.

Finding positivity in your element not hard, but it does require action

Knowing that you have had a chance to rest, recuperate, and revitalize your mind, body, and spirit by spending time in your element/elements, you can seek them out to strengthen the connection. When you relax and rejuvenate your mind, body, and spirit, it improves your total wellbeing, which ultimately empowers you. When you feel empowered, your mindfulness increases, you become more aware overall, and that tends to spread to other people around you.

As such, you can build more positive feelings and discover more things to feel positivity and gratitude for.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. An attitude of gratitude is an attitude of positivity that begets even more good energies – and that, like you, is always worthwhile.

 

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You Will Walk More Than One Path

You Will Walk More Than One Path

Though it may seem daunting, this is a really good thing.

When you are working with conscious reality creation and choosing a path for your life, it is important to recognize that there is not just more than one path, but that you will choose different paths at different times. But this is a very good thing.

Why? Because what you desire for your life in your twenties is not going to be what you desire in your thirties. Or forties. Or fifties. And so on.

Hell, it’s even possible that what you desire today is not what you wanted yesterday. Human beings are ever-changeable, which can be incredibly frustrating…but also pretty damned awesome.

How does that even work? First, remember that life is absurd. But you get to choose what your life is going to look like. As I wrote before, creating a pocket of logic and reason and sensibility around your own existence is your birthright.  What this means is that you have the ability to find paths for your own life, and they will make sense to you. They may ONLY make sense to you, but that’s not a bad thing.

Paths, plural. Sometimes there is more than one path at a time at the moment. Other times it’s a matter of current desire versus past desire.

Examples from my own paths

When I was in college, though I was only semi-consciously working on walking my own path in life, there were two primary goals I had in mind.

My college degree is in professional theatre. I wanted to be a director. While running the non-theatre-department drama club, I produced and directed a half-dozen plays. I had big ideas for how I would become a director, and even envisioned notions for my own theatre company.

A few years out of college I had one foray into semi-professional theatre. That one month gig managed to kill almost all my desire to work in theatre any more.

I was a DJ with radio stations at my college. I thoroughly loved this role. During the summer between my junior and senior year, I was one of the eight students selected to run the station over the break for pay. This was super cool, and I loved working in radio.

I got a part-time, fill-in gig at one of the local stations for an overnight here-or-there, paying minimum wage. When another local station was hiring I applied – but got strung along because the station manager REALLY wanted a female DJ.

I knew that to do this professionally I may have to relocate to the middle-of-nowhere, USA, and work in a music genre I was less-than-happy with. Unwilling to make that choice, my radio career ended not long after college.

Now, more than 20 years later, neither of those paths hold any appeal at all. That’s a good thing, though…because who I was then is not at all who I am now.

I know me, you know you

The only person inside my head is me. Thus, only I can think and feel as I do. Further, that means that the only person who knows what path or paths is best for me is me.

This is true for you as well.

Our fear-based society tends to look upon any choices that deviate from the norm as suspect. So if you are working on something outside of the usual, chances are you have faced any or all of the following remarks:

Do you realize how hard making money that way is?
What if you fail?
How does your significant other feel about you doing that?
Shouldn’t you have a back-up plan?
I believe in you, but I am telling you this because I think you should know…
You do know how many new businesses fail in the first year, right?
Making money as a writer/artists/singer/dancer/actor only works for a select few…

And so on and so forth. The thing is, while much of this is meant to be “well-meaning” it can still hurt. You may be made to feel as if choosing whatever path or paths you are choosing is going to do harm. But you know what it is you are about, and as such you know that only you can choose what is right for you.

Yes, it is probable this will change. A part of that is a matter of growth. Human beings are constantly learning and growing and changing. Evolving. As such, different things will move you at different times. You may learn something that alters your path or outright changes it along the way.

Paths can change direction

When I first decided I wanted to write full-time, I used to be hell-bent on my success coming from my fiction. That was my goal and focus. Now, though, I want any and all of my writing to be of equal importance.

While traversing a given path in life, you will encounter obstacles, twists and turns, detours, and other unexpected things. This is why the journey itself, and living in the now, are so important. You never know what you will learn, discover, or experience along the way.

You may also find that the path you are on now is not the path for you. It may have started out that way, but it can (and possibly will) change.

Change is only scary if you allow it to be. But in truth, change is utterly and completely inevitable, and you cannot avoid it. The Universe is in a constant state of change…but this is not a bad thing.

Why? Because it means that nothing is truly permanent, save death (this is permanent in that you are no longer occupying that meat popsicle you call your body for roaming around the planet – the transmutation of your energy after death is a whole other matter). This means that if things are not as you would desire for them to be, you can change them.

You see this trope in movies, TV, and literature all the time. Somebody creates a whole new identity for themselves and becomes someone different to effect a change. In both the book and the musical Les Misérables, for example, Jean Valjean changed his identity multiple times to lead his life and remain free. This is not so far-fetched as it may seem.

Be the best you that you can be

Choosing the path that is most right for you is all about working to be the best you that you can be. What that means is that you get to work on living life as it best suits you. So long as your actions do not intentionally cause harm or hurt to anyone else, your path is right for you.

Unless your intent is to deny someone else their rights or hurt them mentally, physically, or emotionally, choosing your own paths is not a selfish act. Selfishness is all about taking for yourself and in the process denying for others, whatever form that holds.

Further, you are worthy and deserving of making choices to better your life. Whatever paths you choose you deserve. You need not be anyone special or wealthy or somehow entitled. As a human being on this planet, you are worthwhile, and you deserve to choose what makes you feel most alive.

In the course of your lifetime, you will walk more than one path. Though it may seem daunting, this is a really good thing, because as you change, so do your paths and the choices that light you up. Don’t let the naysayers or your own doubts overwhelm and keep you from living the best life you can. Know that your paths are meant for you, and you have every right to choose them, change them, walk them, or even leave them.

Go for it. Be the best you that you can be, whatever paths you choose.

What path or paths are you on today?

 

This is the three-hundred ninety-eighth entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for, and my personal experiences with, walking along the path of life to consciously create reality.  I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way and empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

Thank you for joining me.  Feel free to re-blog and share this.

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Positivity in Getting Back to Work Post-Vacation

Getting back to work after a vacation presents some unique challenges.

After taking more than a week offline, I am finding returning to my regularly scheduled program a bit more difficult than I had anticipated.

Why? I had a perfectly excellent time. I got to hang out with friends, disconnected and got in a ton of exercise, time outdoors, and sunlight.

Though I certainly love my work, it’s not that I don’t have ideas for things to write about. But I want them to be more than just filler or fluff, I want them to be insightful and interesting.

Are you snoring yet? Hopefully not. So let me share some insight about getting out of vacation mode, back to work, and the positivity in doing so.

Life in bite-sized chunks

I know that I have a tendency to get caught up in big-picture issues. After taking time off from the usual schedule and activities, when it is time to go back there is this enormous screen you face. Look at all the things you need to get back to, all the responsibilities…it can really be overwhelming.

SO – it’s important to chunk it down. Don’t let the calming and relaxing effect of your vacation get blanketed by all the things that make up your usual life experience. Don’t examine it all, just take it one bite at a time. Determine what needs to be attended to now, what can wait, and what can be totally shunted off or delegated.

Further, having had time off, you should see that you have more clarity. I know I do. Getting away for a vacation of any sort should de-stress and unwind tension, which means on reentry you should be coming back feeling you have more room to breathe.

Of course, the theory is no good against reality. You may look at all that you have to do upon returning to your normal schedule – and the benefits of your vacation evaporate. This is why it’s important to use the relaxation for greater mindfulness and to take hold of all that stuff on the giant screen and chunk-it-down into bite-sized morsels.

This takes effort. I know when I have to get back to work that feeling of overwhelm can be strong. If I focus on chunks of it and take it one-step-at-a-time, I can hold onto the vacation relaxation a little longer.

Use the good vacation energy

My vacation was a lot of fun, but I was happy to come home. Sure, the escape is all well-and-good, but it was just a much-needed momentary break from the norm. Everyone needs to take time for themselves, and if you can take a vacation of some kind, you should.

When you work with mindfulness, you are deciding and choosing to be aware of your thoughts and feelings. From there you can choose to be influencing and controlling them. Ergo, you can see a situation as either positive or negative. At the end of the vacation, you can choose to dread getting back to work and everything else or to look forward to it.

Really? Look forward to it? Yes. Dreading life, anticipating awfulness, and any other negativity serves nobody. Like attracts like, so if you anticipate that getting back to work and returning to your normal schedule is going to suck, you’re likely right.

When you have had the relaxation and reset from vacation, you can take that energy and apply it to your return and reentry. Fresh energy, different options, and new ideas can be borne from this. But the choice is yours.

Getting back to work after a vacation presents some unique challenges. You get to choose whether to see them as challenges or obstacles, positives or negatives. Mindfulness of this can help you choose to take the benefits of your time off and apply them to your time on.

Finding positivity when getting back to work after vacation is not hard, but it does require action

Knowing that you have had a chance to rest, recuperate, and revitalize yourself on vacation, you have created a lot of positive energy. When you hold onto that energy and use it to see getting back to work from that positivity, it ultimately empowers you. When you feel empowered, your mindfulness increases, you become more aware overall, and that tends to spread to other people around you.

As such, you can build more positive feelings and discover more things to feel positivity and gratitude for.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. An attitude of gratitude is an attitude of positivity that begets even more good energies – and that, like you, is always worthwhile.

 

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Life is Absurd

Life is absurd.

Recognizing the overall absurdity of life helps with understanding this.

Do you ever pause and look at the world way outside of yourself and think, isn’t this bizarre –or-wtaf? People get all in a tizzy about variations in skin color, choices in lovers, which god/gods/goddesses to worship or not, invisible borders, civility, and basic human decency. It is just so crazy, so illogical, so…absurd.

Then perhaps you look a little less far afield. The sun and clouds, grass and water, wildlife, trees and other flora in your neighborhood simply are. In your room, you have things that matter, books, trinkets, speakers, pictures and paintings to make your space feel like home.

It seems utterly stable…except of course, it’s not. A major storm can change the landscape, fire or flood could alter your space. It is just as crazy, illogical, and absurd.

Now you zoom in on yourself. You are the only person inside your head. There is nobody else in there thinking or feeling your thoughts and feelings, nobody else choosing the actions that you take, intentional or otherwise. You may or may not be happy with your body, your hair, muscle tone, thinking or feeling.

You are changeable. That means that you can gain and lose weight, build or lose muscle tone, change the cut and color of your hair, and influence, alter, and control what you are thinking and what and how you are feeling. You can control the actions you take.

This can be as overwhelming as looking at the bigger picture. What’s more, it’s equally crazy, illogical, and absurd.

Life is ludicrous

“Light speed is too slow.”

“Light speed too slow?”

“Yes, we’re going to have to go right to…ludicrous speed!” – Dark Helmet and Colonel Sanders, Spaceballs

In the world we live in today, it’s far too easy to completely bypass light speed (or ridiculous speed for that matter) and go right to ludicrous speed. The thing of it is, though, that no matter what speed you desire to travel, ludicrous is frequently an apt descriptor.

To put it as simply as I can, life is ludicrous. Ridiculous. Crazy. Absurd. Almost completely unpredictable and bizarre, whether you are looking at the “big picture” of the overall world, around yourself and whatever spaces you inhabit, or in your own mind.

A lot of people take issue with this. Why? Because the idea that everything is absurd is scary because it means there is no control. Everything happens with no reason whatsoever, it just happens.

Yes, this can be scary. But the absurdity of life is also a big part of what can make life truly incredible. Why? Because it means that everything and nothing matters at the same time.

Confused? Ok, let me try to explain this better. The only place where you have any real control is your mind. Nobody but you is in there, so you have all the power to influence, alter, and control your thought process.

This means that you get to choose for yourself what to think and how and what to feel. Yes, this can be totally absurd because it can feel overwhelming. Realistically, though, it’s only overwhelming because of the outside influences causing you to think that.

Ergo, you can choose to let it make you crazy or enjoy the ride.

You are meant to swim through the absurdity

For some people, they just exist. Every day is what it is, and they just go with it. They do what is expected, get through the day, and move on to the next. There are probably bits and pieces of more than mere survival along the way, but they most likely ascribe to the Denis Leary theorem from his comedy.

“Happiness comes in small doses folks. It’s a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to f*#king work the next morning, THAT’S IT! End of f*#king list.”

While this is not entirely untrue, it is not the only truth. Life is not just a slog where short bursts of happiness are greater than contentment and overall satisfaction – unless you see it as such.

For some people, they struggle. Everything is a challenge. Every day is awful, and tomorrow will likely be worse. They see the downside of everything, and they expect it all will suck. Since consciousness creates reality they are mostly right.

Ok, it is really important to not discount how many people DO have truly awful circumstances. The people being kept in the concentration camps in the southwestern United States, for example. Women who need abortions in certain states but will be treated as criminals if they make that choice. Black people pulled over just for driving a nice car in a nice neighborhood because of being racially profiled.

However, all of that is part of the absurdity of life. This is why those of us who are more easily able to make choices and decisions about our lives can take actions to make sense of the absurdity of life.

Making sense of an absurd life

Am I contradicting myself with this? No, because while life may be absurd, it IS.

Dictionary.com tells me that absurd means this:

adjective

utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false

noun

the quality or condition of existing in a meaningless and irrational world.

How does this definition help? Because if the world is meaningless and irrational overall, you are empowered to create meaning and rationality within your understand and existence.

How in the hell does that work? This is convoluted, so stay with me. You are here. You exist. In being here in this time and place, and existing, you make an impact on the world. You live in an absurd world, that may be true…but you can make sense of your small corner of it. This can be done through being aware of your thoughts, feelings, and actions, and using that to build a life that satisfies you.

Creating a pocket of logic and reason and sensibility around your own existence is your birthright.  What this means is that you have the ability to find paths for your own life, and they will make sense to you. They may ONLY make sense to you, but that’s not a bad thing.

In an absurd world, this is the ultimate empowerment, and it belongs to you. Thus you can work through all absurdity and create amazingness.

This entire post is ludicrous and absurd

Yes, it is. But that doesn’t make it wrong.

You are the only one who knows what is right for you and your life. Yes, the world is absurd and crazy and illogical and irrational. So instead of trying to make sense of the things outside of yourself over which you have just about ZERO control, why not logic and reason the things you can?

That is, specifically, your own head. You can make sense of your mindset. One way of doing so is to choose paths that make you happy and content and allow you to consciously create reality.

It should be noted, by the way, that when you ARE content and know yourself, your creation of an aura of logic and rationality around yourself can be spread to others. That, in turn, can spread from there. Collective consciousness, like individual consciousness, can be altered.

Ergo, the absurdity of the world can be changed.

Be the best you that you can be, and choose the paths that make you feel the most whole and complete. Recognize that life is ludicrous, and that is only a bad thing if you believe it to be.

What paths are you on, and what paths might you want to be on going forward?

 

This is the three-hundred ninety-seventh entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for, and my personal experiences with, walking along the path of life to consciously create reality.  I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way and empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

Thank you for joining me.  Feel free to re-blog and share this.

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