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How Are You Stronger Than Depression?

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You are stronger than depression.

Depression is a liar.  Depression will tell you all kinds of things about who you are, and they are all lies.  It tells you that you are unworthy, undeserving, and that all bad things are what you can have.

But you are worthy, and deserving, and all good things are what you can have.  Depression is lying to you, and though I know it is hard to believe, you ARE stronger than depression.

I have dealt with this a long time, and still struggle with it.  But I know from my own experience that the black dog lies.  The loneliness, the belief in your inferiority, the lack of desire and energy…it is not the truth.

Positivity comes from the certain knowledge that depression is a liar, and when all is said and done, you are stronger than depression.  The stories it tells are not true.  No matter how often you have been told these stories, and no matter how many times you may not have succeeded, come out on top, or felt worthy and deserving, it doesn’t change the truth.  You are amazing, you are worthy and deserving, and you are stronger than depression.

I know how it feels.  Combatting depression is not easy by any stretch of the imagination.  There is literally no one magic pill, and countless methods to treat depression.  What works for me may not work for you.  However, there are still attitude shifters we can employ to help fight depression.

Positivity is stronger than depression.

The thing I strive to remember is that depression is not a creature of the now, but of past and future.  As Lao Tzu said, “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

I am no therapist, but I have spent most of my life combatting depression.  Through trial and error, I have found a few things that tend to subdue depression.

Consciousness creates reality.  Being present is stronger than depression.

When depression is looming over you like a shadow, in addition to seeking help and traditional treatment methods, try some of the following to show it who is boss:

Listen to upbeat music. A lot of us, when depressed, tend to want melancholy or angry music.  But that only feeds depression.  Change to something upbeat, fun, peppy to generate some positivity.
Seek out a change of scenery. Get out of the dark by going for a drive, or a walk, rearrange your living room, or anything else to change the scenery.  You are stronger than depression, so why be somewhere that lets it linger?
Meditate. I know that for some people, this invites an opportunity to let your thoughts overwhelm you.  But it can also serve as a means to calm and still the mind, and release negativity.
Get physical. Go for a jog.  Lift weights.  Find a punching bag or beat an old mattress with a stick.  Movement, and getting physical can channel away the negativity that depression generates.
Write it out. Journal away.  Write out everything in your head.  It helps to show that you are stronger than depression when you put it out like that, because then you can burn it or otherwise confront it.  I tend to see that the fear at the root of most of my bouts of depression is something I can overcome when it’s right there in front of me.


You are stronger than depression.

I know it does not feel like the truth, but it is.  Perhaps most importantly, recognize that you are not alone.  I know if feels like you are, and that nobody can truly understand what you are going through…but that’s not the case.  You are not alone, and you have means to combat this, find positivity, and send depression into remission.

I believe in you.  Keep at it.

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action.

Knowing that you are stronger than depression, you can work to overcome it, and apply positivity to show it that you are in control.  When we take action to combat depression, and work to overcome its effect on our psyche, we empower ourselves.  When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings.  We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings.  When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for.  Gratitude leads to happiness.  Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude.  Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the two-hundred and fifty-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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Can You Know Too Much?

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It is good to gain knowledge.  But is there a line between knowing, and when you know too much?

Previously I wrote about the topic of knowing.  As I opined there, the key to knowing is to recognize that for the most part, we know far less than we think.

So if that is the case, is it even possible to know too much?  And if so, what does that mean?

The short answer is, knowing too much is when you determine that you desire to know more, but then find knowing too much creates naught but negativity.

The long answer is, this is topic dependent, and further, is a matter of how the knowing will make you feel.  Will you feel good from gaining these insights, or feel bad?  Will you be destroying or creating in the knowing?

Take, for example, current American politics.  Maybe you encounter a headline, and find you desire to know more…so you read the whole article.  Now you have come to know more, and chances are what you know is not making you feel all that good.  Do you read the comments now?

Right here is where it is unbelievably easy to know too much.  Whether it’s the topic itself, or you fellow human beings and the terrible things people say in the comments, you are not feeling good, and you realize you were better off not knowing.

Where is the line between to know, and to know too much?

That’s one of the larger parts of the challenge.  However, it generally boils down to how the knowing makes you feel.

Does this knowledge build you up in any way, or knock you down?  Make you feel happy, or angry?  Do you feel as if you have gained, or lost?

Yes, this is going to lead you to asking a lot of questions.  But isn’t it questions that allow us to learn more about the world around us?

Part of the problem with our modern society is that the internet opens up to a lot more opinions than were readily available before.  Sure, you could read an OpEd or have a discussion about political topics in school.  But before the internet, the armchair experts of the digital age had a much narrower audience to share with.

Worse, the distinction between journalism and opinion has gotten blurrier and blurrier.  From the legit to the outright bullshit, news is delivered in too many forms to be counted.  It doesn’t help that the generally more legit (albeit imperfect) news media is called fake by the President these days.  The lines between fact and fiction are easily difficult to distinguish.

Too many people take the idea of being entitled to their opinion at face value.  Because they’re convinced their opinion is fact, they refuse to have real discussions about important matters.  Legitimate science like climate change, for example, is denied in favor of unscientific opinion, because it lines pockets.

Digging into these matters in depth gets you to the point where you feel you know too much; not in the sense that you have expertise or can make good of your knowledge – but where you would have preferred to not found ways to get angry and depressed about the state of the world.

If you know too much, can you still employ conscious reality creation?

Yes.  However, you are probably going to need to put in extra work to align your thoughts, feelings and actions towards that which you desire to make manifest.

Please don’t think I am asking for more ignorance.  We really, really do not need more.  What I am asking for, however, is reason.  It is unbelievably easy to get angry about what is going on in the world today.

Now I am not saying that we should ignore these atrocities and let this continue…but what we do need to choose is to exercise judgement between information and inundation.  When do you know too much to be able to effect any change?

That’s the key.  We can use our anger and negativity to seek out changes in different forms…or do we allow it to so overwhelm us that we lose hope?  And let’s face it, those who are making us angry would prefer that we lose hope.  Hopeless people are a lot easier to control, exploit, and direct.  To a large degree, that’s how we got here in the first place.

We are not going to know if we have come to know too much until we’re past that point.  However, once we have gotten there, what we do next will determine where we go from here.

Know too much about this, but learn more about that.

When we know too much about something, the negativity we feel tends to pull us further down.  But when we recognize that this is where we are at, we can choose to use this as an opportunity to find something new.

I know that “situation x” is making me angry.  Is there something I can do to remedy it?  Can I donate time, money, or something else to something in opposition to it?  What can I do to work with it to change it?

In other words, find an alternative to focus your thoughts, feelings, and actions on.  In this way, we can consciously create a better reality, and just maybe change things, so that we have less to get readily negative about.

Knowledge is not just power, it is empowerment.  Find your personal line between knowing and knowing too much, and empower yourself.  The more you are empowered, the more you can help empower others.

What do you find you know too much about, and what can you do about it?

This is the three-hundred sixty-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, and 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.

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Five Actions for Spreading Positivity

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Spreading positivity is not that hard.

For some people, this is the best time of the year…while for others, it is the worst.  Gatherings with families, friends and loved ones can be fantastic or fatalistic, warm and pleasant or icy and disturbing, and can pick us up or knock us down.

Whether positive or negative, emotions tend to run high this time of year.  It is for this reason that, when we can find positivity for ourselves, spreading positivity is so important.  There are a lot of people for whom this emotional season is just something they want to be done with.

This time of year can also get particularly frustrating due to larger-than-normal crows and lines, inconsiderate and rude people, and general stress for the holidays.

Still, each and every one of us can be beacons of good energy and raising the vibration of those around us by spreading positivity.  How?  Here are five ideas that take little to no effort to employ.

Five actions for spreading positivity

Smile at a stranger . As you walk past people you do not know, smile at them.  Nod towards them.  Say hello.  General pleasantness can go a long way towards making someone feel good, and it will make you feel good in return.
Talk to cashiers . Don’t be on your phone when you check out at the grocery store, or any other retail establishment.  Be kind to the people ringing you out.  They endure a LOT of abuse this time of year, and it is enormously positive to be that person who they remember pleasantly.
Tip well . Restaurants tend to be super-busy this time of year.  Be kind to your waiter/waitress, be pleasant, and treat them with respect.  Then, leave a good tip.  Like cashiers, they tend to take a lot of abuse.  Treat them as you would desire to be treated, and leave an excellent gratuity.  This is a huge positivity generator.
Be interactive with others. Say please, thank you, and such .  For real, this is a huge generator of positivity.  We get so caught up in things we do, that we tend to forget pleasantries.  Please, thank you, pardon me – human interaction builds positivity between us.  We get so lost on our phones and in our own heads that we ignore other people around us.  Being more interactive can put more good out there.
Stay calm . Remember that everyone else wants to get out of that line, off that highway, away from the crowd.  Keeping calm may seem like something of a no-brainer, but this simple action can help with spreading positivity by being a point of calm energy in a storm of stressors.

I know that this can be a real challenge for people.  But it is not a one-way street.

Spreading positivity comes back to you

When we work to be more positive, and to spread that to people around us, it comes back to us in return.  Try any of the above suggestions, and see how it makes YOU feel.  Giving positivity to others also gives it to yourself.

All five actions are easy, they require simple actions, and cost you nothing.  But what you get back from what you give can improve not only your day, but the days of everyone you come into contact with.  Given the state of the world today, isn’t that a really good idea?

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action.

Knowing that spreading positivity to others comes back to make us feel good as well, this is a tool we can employ every day that will improve not only our lives, but the lives of those around us.  When we take action to make other people feel good and empowered, of course we empower ourselves.  When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings.  We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings.  When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for.  Gratitude leads to happiness.  Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude.  Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the two-hundred and fifty-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.

After more than 6 years of weekly blogging, I have launched a Patreon to garner support for these works, and more.

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PS – Working on your holiday shopping?  For CyberMonday, I have books for the Kindle on sale at Amazon.  Seeker, Finder, and Clouds of Authority will be discounted tomorrow through Wednesday.  Fantasy and Steampunk make great gifts – or you can treat yourself!

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How Does it Feel to Be Thankful?

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What does it feel like to be thankful?

I discuss gratitude here a great deal, because of its necessity in conscious reality creation.  Moreover, I frequently explain that thought, and words of the thought, are not enough.  Feeling is an essential element in this manifestation process.

It is really easy to say thank you.  Two words, pretty straightforward.  But the in-depth expression of gratitude, to be thankful in feeling, is another matter.

Words matter.  These two words in particular are pretty important.  But even more important than the words, the emotion behind the words drives creation.  How it feels to be thankful is crucial, because it is feeling that turns gratitude into something far more powerful, and empowering.

One of the things to bear in mind with this is that each of us feels things differently.  No two people experience emotions the same.  Period, end of story.  Sure, I have little doubt that the general notion of most emotions bear similarities.  But the way in which I describe how a thing feels to me is most probably going to differ from how you describe it.

Because, however, there are general notions of these feelings that are similar, we can explore how it feels to be thankful.

Feelings fall into one of three main categories.  Negative, neutral, and positive.

As such, there are emotions we group into the negative.  These include sadness, anxiety, hopelessness, anger, hate, jealousy, discontent and many many more.

On the other side of this coin, we have emotions we group into the positive.  These include happiness, confidence, hopefulness, joy, love, acceptance, contentment and tons more.

What are neutral emotions?  Emotions that are neither positive nor negative, at first…but can shift.  Curiosity, questioning, wondering, even disinterest…until they become energized positive or negative.

Why be thankful?

As far as I can tell, the primary goal in everybody’s life is to be happy.  They want to do things and have experiences that will make them feel good.  We want to be content, and experience good feelings overall.

The form that this takes is going to vary from person to person.  Again, because how each of us feels differs.

Even taking that into account, what does it feel like, in a general explanation, to be thankful?

Deep down in our metaphoric hearts (as in the emotional center, not that beating mass of muscle in our chests) there is a sense of calm, peace, accomplishment.  It may actually feel physically warm and fuzzy.  There is a lightness, a sense of wellbeing.  For me, feeling grateful is comforting, like this microcosm I and I alone exist within is perfectly fine.  It feels good.

To be thankful is to be grateful.  Gratitude is one of the necessary tools for manifesting the lives we most desire to have.  Each and every one of us possesses this ability.  You can be thankful just as much as I can.

What’s more, the things we should be thankful for are not all that big.  As I wrote earlier this week, no matter what your circumstances, there are always things we can be grateful for.  We are alive.  You and I are breathing.  If you are reading this you have access to technology that enhances your life and connects you with people around the globe.  You have the ability with which to read this.

It is not necessary to have ginormous, tangible things to show off to the rest of the world.  Sure, they can be really cool and worthy of gratitude.  However, we can be thankful for these little things which are almost infinite.

Be thankful in this moment.

You are alive.  Right here, right now.  In this one tiny moment in time you are.  Maybe the world is insane and there are people who are making you feel absolutely crazed.  Perhaps you are anxiously waiting to hear back about that job your interviewed for…or worrying about how your words or actions of the other day will come back to haunt you.  They are out of your control.

However, in the here-and-now, you are.  You possess the ability to be thankful for your life, and to really feel the gratitude of that, and the positivity it creates.  And when you feel gratitude as a positive emotion, it will raise your vibrational frequency.  Higher frequencies tend to draw more high frequency experiences to you.

That is the Law of Attraction.  Like attracts like.  Consciousness creates reality.  The only truly real moment in time for us human beings is THIS moment.  Past has passed and the future is unwritten.  To be thankful invites in more of the things we desire, rather than those we do not.

Thanksgiving is tomorrow.  From here, we dive headlong into the holiday season.  For a lot of people, this is a really joyous time of year.  However, for almost an equal number of people, it’s an extremely depressing time of year.  Loneliness, loss and upsets get just as magnified as togetherness, good fortune and happiness.

Be thankful in practice.

To combat this, I have an idea.  I am going to do this myself.  For the rest of the year, every day, in the morning, before I go to work, I will write down five things I am grateful for.  I will look these over, read them, and FEEL the gratitude for them several times a day.  Then, before bed, I will write down five more things for which I have been grateful today.  I will feel these as I go to sleep.

To be thankful generates a lot of good in our lives.  It is super-empowering.

Let me share five things I am thankful for this morning:

My home
Sunshine
My wife
My cat
You

How many things can you be thankful for in this moment?

This is the three-hundred sixtieth 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.

The first year of Pathwalking, including some expanded ideas, is available here.

After more than 6 years of Pathwalking, I have launched a Patreon to garner support for these works, and more.

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Does Gratitude Expand Positivity?

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Gratitude is an everyday practice that can generate unbelievable amounts of positivity in our lives.

It is so easy to take gratitude for granted.  But there are so many things we all have which we can be thankful for, and this is an incredible creator of amazing things.

The spirit of Thanksgiving is expressing gratitude for our family, friends, and loved ones.  I would suggest it holds a far greater depth, however.  This is a chance to not just give thanks, but to really feel it, to take it into our hearts and into our souls.

I know that a lot of upsetting things are happening out there.  The President and his accomplices continue to be appalling, unsympathetic monsters; and there are numerous other awful happenings in the world.  Still, we have a great deal of things for which we can and should express our gratitude.

Like attracts like.  Consciousness creates reality.  When we are grateful for that which we have, we draw even more to us.  And no matter what your circumstances, there are always things we can be grateful for.

We are alive.  You and I are breathing.  If you are reading this you have access to technology that enhances your life and connects you with many people around the globe.  You have the ability with which to read this.  These are not just minor things, they are things for which to be grateful.

This is not the first time I have written about gratitude.  But it is so deeply important to conscious reality creation – and more than that, our individual wellbeing – it bears repeating.

Being grateful for things in our lives, big or small, feels good, and draws more good things towards us to feel good about.

Real, honest, genuine thanks is pure positivity.

Practice gratitude constantly

This is not something for occasional practice.  Gratitude is not meant for a special time or occasion.  It is also not just something to practice daily.  No matter how awful your day is going, or the circumstances of your present moment, there is something you can be grateful for.

We all have trials and tribulations where this seems like a total lie.  Stuff is going badly, everything is going wrong, you are experiencing pain, be it physical or emotional.  Life keeps seemingly handing you one no-good rotten experience after another, again and again.

Despite this, there are still things for which to be grateful.  Water to splash your face to clear your head.  Air to breathe deeply to calm your racing heart.  The friend you have been texting with all day because that jerk dumped you.  You can feel grateful that you have your health, your heart, your head and the ability to be.

Even a little gratitude goes a long ways.  It is a variable tool that can be sized, shaped and adjusted to build almost everything else in our lives.  The positivity that comes from employing gratitude can make a huge difference in our ability to face each day, and manifest the best lives possible.

Finally, I want to express my gratitude for you.  Thank you for being.

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action.

Knowing that gratitude can be employed to make us feel better and improve our beings in numerous ways, at nearly any time, we can make use of this incredible tool to live fuller lives.  When we express how we are grateful for things, no matter their size, it only ever makes us feel good…and when we feel good, we empower ourselves.  When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings.  We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings.  When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for.  Gratitude leads to happiness.  Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude.  Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the two-hundred and fiftieth 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.

After more than 6 years of weekly blogging, I have launched a Patreon to garner support for these works, and more.

Please take a moment to subscribe to my blog.  Fill in the info and click the submit button below and receive a free eBook.

Thank you!

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Awareness for Everyone Podcast

Just sharing that the 4th episode of my podcast is available now!  In case you missed it elsewhere, every-other week I am podcasting about Awareness for Everyone.  Like this blog, it’s a look at all the things that go into conscious reality creation, albeit a bit more free-form.

Cover Art by Fe Mahoney

This week, I am doing an in-depth exploration of Fear.  This is something of an expansion on Wednesday’s Pathwalk, fear being a topic I have written about on numerous occasions.

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Do You Feel Afraid?

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What makes you feel afraid?

Everybody has things they fear.  Some are tangible, material things like spiders, snakes, and heights.  But the vast majority of what makes us feel afraid are the intangible, immaterial things.

These include intimacy, success, failure, abandonment, wealth, and a vast number of feelings and emotions.  Intangibles, maybe, but still impactful on our lives.

The fear reflex in each of us is hardwired.  Once upon a time, when humans were hunter/gatherers roaming the countryside, fear told us to run away from larger animals trying to eat us. You would feel afraid when you considered jumping across a seemingly bottomless gorge.  Fear is instinctive.

Over time, once we developed certain technologies that largely placed us at the top of the food chain, we stopped fearing such things.  We had bows and arrows, and then guns to shoot the animals trying to eat us.  We learned how to build bridges over the gorges.  Vestiges of these instinctual fears remain, but overall they became unnecessary.

Somehow, we developed more intangible fears.  Though based in the original, hardwired fears we still retain, they are mostly emotional fears that have no real base in reality.  If you succeed or fail, for example, what actually happens to you as a result is usually far less painful than what we feared would come to pass.

What does that mean?  The Alchemist in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist sums it up pretty well: “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”  In each of our hearts, and I’m referring here to the metaphoric center of our emotional being, we feel that sense of dread, doom and gloom that we will suffer if we realize a given fear.  But the fear of that suffering is worse than the actual suffering.

Why do we feel afraid?

Fear is a reflex, an instinct that is meant to protect us from harm.  When we feel afraid, however, our minds are not very good at distinguishing if a fear is real or imagined.  As such, that sense of dread and dis-ease is similar, whether we are faced with something tangible or intangible.

As our society has developed its stratifications over time, those who come to power are generally faced with a choice.  Share the power, or hoard the power.  Empower the people, or disempower the people.  If their mentality is one of abundance, they will probably seek to share and empower others.  If their mentality is one of lack and scarcity, however, they will probably seek to take as much as they can for themselves and disempower others.

One of the greatest tools leaders have come to recognize is fear.  When they can make us feel afraid, they learn that they can keep us under their control.  The Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (or Ep IV – A New Hope, if you must) said, “Fear will keep the local systems in line.”  This may be fictional, but how many of our leaders do we watch use this for real?

Look at modern American politics.  One of the favorite means of many of our political leaders for getting elected and re-elected is to play on the fears of their constituents.  Vote for him and the immigrants will take your job.  A vote for her will help the gays influence your children.  Support them and you will lose all of your money.

This visceral reaction is something instilled in us all.  However, because we have the ability to control how we think and feel, we can overcome fear.

We can choose not to feel afraid.

How do we not feel afraid?

Even though things outside of ourselves will evoke our emotions, we retain the ability to control them.  Yes, initially the actions or inactions of another may make you feel angry, sad, frustrated, or what-have-you.  But after that initial reaction, you and I have the power to change how we feel.

I know that sometimes this feels like a lie.  We’re fed a pretty steady diet of the notion that it is outside influences, be they people, places or things, that make us feel how we feel.  But the truth is, each and every one of us, on our own, have feelings.  If you feel empowered or disempowered, if you feel afraid or feel courageous, only you can feel it as you do.

As such, you alone can choose how to feel what you feel.  So if you feel afraid, how long you hold onto that fear, or how long you allow it to linger, is your call.

We have ways by which we can face down our fear.  Some are passive, like meditating on our emotions and working to resolve fear in that way.  Some are more active, like directly confronting fear head-on.

No matter what it is that makes us feel afraid, we are capable of overcoming it.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”  To me, this means that the notion of fear, and the potential suffering and distress it threatens to cause is more terrifying than the thing that will actually happen.

Finally, as you are reading this, you are safe.  Whatever you may feel afraid of is in the abstract, and can cause you no harm.  In the here-and-now you can do anything you set your mind to.  Consciousness creates reality.  Free yourself from fear.

Can you see that you never need to be afraid of anything?

This is the three-hundred fifty-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.

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.

After more than 6 years of Pathwalking, I have launched a Patreon to garner support for these works, and more.

Please take a moment to subscribe to my blog.  Fill in the info and click the submit button below and receive your free eBook.  Thank you!

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What Is Impossible?

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Nothing is impossible.  Unless, of course, you believe that it is.

Look at the world we live in today.  The technologies available to us, the things we have built and continue to build.  Things considered impossible just a hundred years ago are commonplace today.

This does not just apply to the material.  Much of the immaterial we believe to be impossible, is not.  It is just a matter of focus, a matter of time.  And frequently, conscious reality creation.

Consciousness creates reality.  When we work with this, and we put our thoughts, feelings and intentional actions into the reality we desire to take action on, we can create it.  Very little is truly impossible.  With enough focus and energy, nearly anything is possible.

Yes, I acknowledge that there are certain things that are nearly impossible.  If the thing you desire involves another person’s thoughts, feelings and actions, you haven’t control over that, no matter what you may desire.

And of course, there are some things that are utterly impractical, or require a level of science and engineering we’ve not reached yet.  But even then, it may not be completely impossible.  Just remember nothing is manifested from a complete vacuum.

You may not know how to make a thing, whether tangible or intangible, manifest.  But if you can imagine it, there may be a way to make it manifest.  Just be careful not to fall into the trap of losing sight of the here-and-now for an uncertain outcome.  In the now, you might just find something even better.

This is an abundant universe in which we live.  All of the lack and scarcity are artifices of the fear-based society many of our so-called leaders sell us.  We are able to empower ourselves to do so many things.  It boggles the mind.

Focus on the possible, rather than the impossible

When our attention is on that which we believe to be impossible, we give energy to the lack and scarcity of that thing.  As such, it behooves us to turn our attention to the possible, and give our energy to abundance and more than enough of that thing.

Again, tangible or intangible, this doesn’t change.

So many new ideas become tangibles.  The positivity that can be derived from this is immeasurable.  When we stop letting lack and scarcity dominate our beliefs, we can see the abundance that makes up the Universe.  It is not just abundance for those few who have the money and influence…it is abundance for EVERYBODY.

Impossible?  No, not unless you accept that it is.  I don’t.  The world we live in is constantly changing.  The terrible things we see today can and will change.  It may take some time, and there will almost certainly be some pain before the change takes place.  But I believe that it is not impossible, because the possibilities of this world are boundless.

Don’t give in to hysteria and the fear.  Hold on to hope.  Nothing is impossible.

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action.

Knowing that nothing is impossible, we can strive to create amazing things both material and immaterial.  When we see the world we live in for all its possibilities and abundance, and we see how much we are capable of doing, we empower ourselves.  When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings.  We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings.  When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for.  Gratitude leads to happiness.  Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude.  Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the two-hundred and forty-ninth 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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Did You Take Action?

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When you had the opportunity, did you take action?

What do I mean by that?  It’s actually very simple.  Did you do that thing you planned to do?  The question is a matter of taking a plan – the thought; figuring out how to do it – the feeling; doing it – the action.

A lot of us are really good at coming up with ideas and giving them some thought.  Do we take action and make them happen?  Not as frequently as we should.

Some of these are small, and may or may-not have larger repercussions – such as – did you vote?  Did you remember to take your pills?  Some are larger, and almost certainly come with repercussions – such as – do you want to buy that house?  Are you quitting your “stable” job?

Consciousness creates reality.  However, in order to do this we need to have a thought/idea, give it feeling, and then take action.  Specifically, intentional actions to drive home the thought and empower it to be made manifest.

When we take action, when it is done with intent and focus, we are putting out to the Universe that we desire to create something.  It is through intentional action that we can consciously create reality, and build our lives to make what we desire for them to be.

Seems too easy, right?  Well it is.  So why doesn’t everyone do it?  Why do we not all build the lives we most desire?  Because we live in a fear-based society, where the exceptional and the independent are frequently looked upon askance, and anyone doing something out-of-the-ordinary from societal expectations is suspect.

The standard paths appear simpler and easier.  We are told that good enough is good enough.  When we accept that, we disempower ourselves.

Take action for change

Yoda stated it best, “Do or do not, there is no try.”  We are told by our parents, teachers, and other leaders that we can try over and over again.  But try is weak.  To try is to imply that we expect failure.  And fail, you might.  Failing, however, is ok, too.  Again, Yoda tells us, “The greatest teacher, failure is.”

Isn’t this a paradox?  No.  The reason is intention.  To try is weak, in that it implies that you will give it a chance, but have little to no expectation.  To do, on the other hand, is to be decisive.  You are acting on the impulse, going all in.  You aren’t raising the stakes by tossing in a poker chip or two, it’s all the chips before you.

Doing is a pure act of empowerment, telling the Universe that you will do the thing you desire to do, or have the thing you desire to have, and so on.

Trying can be half-assed, low-expectation, middle of the road.  Eh, it might work…it might not.

I know I have hammered on this point many times, but it’s so vitally important to not just be existing on this planet, and going about day to day half-heartedly. Finding and creating joy, and truly living these amazing lives on this incredible world we have available to us can be so much more.

Perhaps it helps to change the phrasing some.  “Intend or intend not, defy inertia” or “act or act not, there is no apathy.”  Like want can have passive and negative connotations as opposed to desire, try is passive where action and doing is active.

To truly create change there needs to be action.  Take action with intent to DO rather than TRY, and see what you might be able to create.

Take action for yourself

In addition to us living in a fear-based society, we also have a pretty major problem with selfishness and entitlement.  There is a distressing lack of empathy and sympathy among our current government leaders, and under this administration a normalization of hate many of us thought was dying.

In this environment a lot of us feel we need to act for the greater good.  As such, we are particularly on guard against selfishness.  However, we have become so hyper-vigilant on this topic that we all-too-readily sacrifice for the perceived greater good.  Trouble is, sacrifice feeds into lack and scarcity and the fear-base of our society.

Voting is how we take action to change the government.  Protesting and marching takes action to draw attention to the injustices.  These matter…but it is equally important to take action for ourselves.  If we are not fulfilled, or discontent, we are going to lack the fuel we need to help others.  We can half-heartedly try because we lack sufficient energy to DO.

When we take action, we create movement.  An object at rest tends to stay at rest – an object in motion tends to stay in motion.  Newton’s first law of physics.  Science tells us that movement is necessary.  When we act, we set things in motion to make change.

Finally – if you did not take action in the past, it’s best not to dwell on it.  Everybody makes mistakes, misses opportunities, and decides not to decide from time to time.  Move on.  Learn from it.  But next time you are faced with a choice, make a decisive decision.  Take action to manifest a better life.

When you have the opportunity before you, will you take action?

This is the three-hundred fifty-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.

The first year of Pathwalking, including some expanded ideas, is available here.

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Why Does Your Vote Count?

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Tomorrow is an election day here in the United States.  Do not neglect your vote!

If you want to see change in the direction the nation is heading, this is the best way you can DO something about it.  Get out there and vote.

One of the greatest rights we have in this nation is our ability to vote.  Despite all the messages of disempowerment we receive, telling us that our vote does not count, voting is still a privilege we NEED to exercise at every opportunity.

You and I are empowered to vote and choose new representation.  Yes, I know that we are frequently faced with imperfect, and even somewhat undesirable options…but we still need to get out there and make a choice.  When we do not choose, we disenfranchise, disempower, and disable ourselves further, paving the way for some really awful, unbelievable evils to be perpetrated against us.

We can protest all we want; you can post memes across social media; I can write numerous blogs about the evils, excesses, and lack of caring on the part of those “in power”; but short of another revolution, the best tool we have for change is voting.

They want you to believe that your vote does not count.  If you are part of any minority group or capable of real free thought, they desire for you not to participate.  Most of our so-called leaders prefer to keep away any who threaten their power, going so far as to cheat with multiple forms of disenfranchisement, voter suppression, and other dirty tricks.  Power corrupts.

Further, they know consciousness creates reality.  If you focus on them and their awfulness, surprise, you tend to draw even more of it into our world.  Voting in an election is a chance to create change.

Vote for all you hold dear

This is the best legal means available to each of us to effect change.  There is also an incredible amount of positivity that can come from exercising our right to vote.  It is in this way we can do something about that which we wish to see improved upon.

We need to stand less against, and more for the things we desire in the world we live in.  We need to do all that we can to be empowered, because when we are empowered we are in control.  It is important for us to be as proactive as we can.  We need to take a stand.  When we go to vote, even if it is imperfect, we have made a choice, and done something to make a difference.

Finally, if you are somewhere that the local powers are actively taking actions to disenfranchise and keep away voters, this is your chance to do something about that, and help get some new, hopefully less corrupt and self-serving blood into government.

Get out and VOTE!

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action.

Knowing that going out and voting is an action beyond protest that we can take for change, we have not only the right, but the duty to make it happen.  When we vote, we cast our intention into our ballot to create change, and with this action we empower ourselves.  When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings.  We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings.  When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for.  Gratitude leads to happiness.  Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude.  Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the two-hundred and forty-eighth 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.

After more than 6 years of weekly blogging, I have launched a Patreon to garner support for these works, and more.

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