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Spread Your Wings And Fly!

Are you now at a point where you have broken free of the prison of the personality? If so, you are swimming in this ocean of potential and possibilities and from this place the highest manifestation of your life. 

I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard spiritual prophecy in my life and I believe we are actually alive at that pinnacle point of prophecy, that time on the planet where individuals like you and I, will once again return to our natural state of being. And in doing so, we shift the course of our collective history as a planet. 

In every tradition, on every path, every great being has elucidated in their own way the metamorphosis out of identification with personality and the material manifest world, into the world of spirit and light which is our essential nature. 

Vibrationally, this is the most exciting dynamic time a human being could ever hope or pray for. It’s not life the way we have known it, or the way it used to be. It’s not struggle, or challenge or hardship. We are at a point vibrationally where we are able to live in this state of flow and harmony and bring our heart’s deepest desires into being. You are about to live a version of your life you can’t even comprehend. 

It’s time for the celebration of the relationship, it’s time for the celebration of the abundance, it’s time for the celebration of the greater calling or career. It’s time for celebration. It’s time to spread your wings and fly!

Rest in the awareness of your breath for a living meditation.

The Need For Significance Leads To Suffering

Being around people with the need for significance is exhausting. Your need for significance isn’t bringing you anything other than suffering. You seek significance in different ways. Some of you may need me to notice you or you need others to pay attention and notice you. WHY? At some point you need to realize that the need for significance leads to suffering. 

Are you engaging in spiritual practices that fuel your need for significance? Are you trying to become more successful and trying to accumulate or attain more so that you feel significant?

That’s a game you can never win. It’s an egoic game. You are living in your own distortions and creating context that leads to your own suffering. When you realize there is nothing of value in significance you realize you are enough and you don’t need anyone to validate you, see you, or to stroke your ego. 

Until we question why we are doing things, there is no clarity. You have to question your own motivation. You have to question what you’re doing. You have to question yourself at some point. 

Significance leads to suffering. Everyone that has pursued the path of significance is suffering and it is very hard for them to acknowledge they are suffering because they have achieved all of the significance they would ever want. On an egoic level, they are great! But on a connection level . . . miserable. 

It is important that we get clear about why we are doing what we’re doing, and when is it ever enough?

Rest in the awareness of your breath for a living meditation.

Your Never Ending Truth

Even though presence is becoming an experience and reality for so many people, there are still many points of resistance or rejection.

Another entry point into the truth is that the absolute nature of reality, meaning the total truth about life, is that you are an infinite presence. You are infinite energy.  Even though this is the truth, the never ending truth or foundation of who you are, many of you are resisting it. 

Here is the main point of resistance you may be experiencing:

First is God. Some of you were raised in a framework where God was angry, punitive, rathful, and is going to strike you down. And in this framework, you believed that actions could affect who you are at the level of our soul. This ideology or framework, or belief system is totally incorrect. If God is anything, then God is an infinite ocean of energy.  And, who YOU are is an infinite presence, infinite energy. 

This belief system you have about God, keeps you disconnected  from yourself, because God remains a form rather than an internal experience. This is why when the eastern mystics and yogis made their way to the west and began to share their way of connection it was so revolutionary. People went from being sinners, unworthy and condemned, to feeling the presence of God in their own bodies. 

The conditioning, the narrative, and the belief systems have been thick in the way that it’s been delivered because it’s delivered with so much enthusiasm. What bolsters it in place is guilt and shame. 

It’s time to realize that this Infinite Presence that is God, this infinite ocean of energy, is who you are. God is an inner experience. 

Rest in the awareness of your breath for a living meditation.

Once You Let Go

This month my wife, Jan and I celebrated our thirteenth wedding anniversary. I have to say I am more in love with Jan today, than the day I decided to marry her! It’s amazing how when you are patient, and you allow relationships to come to you, and you allow life to unfold, that you will eventually meet someone who will love you for being you. 

It is an amazing blessing. For those of you who are looking for love, hoping for love, praying for love, love has not given up on you. Once you give up the need for something, it comes into your life. 

Life cures us of what we think we want so that it can give us what we need. You can only receive what it is you want, once you let go, and then love shows up in such an incredible form. A form you may never have imagined. And that counterpart to your soul, the stern to your bow, the sun to your moon, is out there. You deserve love. Love will happen. 

Like all things in life, you get to a place of fulfillment and contentment of where you are, that nothing is missing. Don’t give up on love, and love won’t give up on you. Create a foundation of love within yourself and move into surrender. Give yourself the space to go through the adjustments you need to go through internally in order to be able to receive it. 

Rest in the awareness of your breath for a living meditation.

Creating Form for an Experience

Playdough. You know, that putty-like stuff you turn into things? . . . well, that’s YOU! The playdough is light and what you’ve created is . . .oh, just everything in reality!  

Everything is light made into form to deliver you an experience. For example, you may have an ex-boyfriend and ex-girlfriend that in their essential selves are light that you turned into a form to deliver you the experience of what love isn’t. Some of you took light and turned it into the form of a present partner who is delivering the experience of what love is. Ultimately, you are at the source of the experience. 

What keeps you on this hamster wheel of needing to experience form and phenomenon is the false notion, perpetuated, that you need to ‘wake up’ through experiences, that you have to have experiences in order to awaken and that awakening is a process, a journey, an unfolding.  Maybe it isn’t. Maybe your enlightenment, your divinity, your connection, isn’t a destination. Maybe you can’t arrive somewhere you aren’t already at. 

It has to be present in you in order to have even momentarily fleeting experiences of it. You are the source of it. 

When you recognize that everything is light and transformed into form, and you created that to deliver you an experience, you are awake. Now that you don’t have this relational form of ascension and evolution, there’s no more suffering. 

Rest in the awareness of your breath for a living meditation.

Owning Your Power

Do you know that you let people treat you in such a disrespective way because you are afraid of the energy inside of you, afraid of using your voice and stepping into your truth? Some of you have allowed people in your life to treat you horribly. 

It’s time to recognize that you deserve to be treated respectively. It doesn’t matter what the relationship dynamic is, if it’s not respectful, it’s not in alignment with you.  There is no excuse for bullying or intimidation. 

It’s important to understand that you need to start advocating on your behalf. Some of you are so removed from what self-respect and self-love feels like that you don’t know where to start. 

The reason you are afraid is because you are afraid of the anger that’s inside of you. Stepping into your truth is you being like everyone else around you that you can’t stand, like the raging mom or the raging dad. 

On some level we are kind-of two stepping this duality. The first side of the duality is “I am a divine being”.  Most of you understand this side of duality. How about we start being treated that way, allowing our lives to be congruent with that truth. This can be very foreign to some of you because many of you have never done it. You’ve never said, ‘hey, that’s not right” or “no, you’re taking advantage of me”, you’ve never said “ I don’t like that, it doesn’t resonate with me, and if you insist on treating me this way, you will no longer be a part of my life.”  It’s because you are afraid of owning your power. 

The first question to ask is when was the last time that somebody actually gave to you? Regardless of how anyone’s relationship dynamic is to you, what needs to come back in your direction is love and respect.

It’s time to use your voice and speak your truth. 

Rest in the awareness of your breath for a living meditation.

Defining What Wealth Is

In today’s world, it’s important to have an understanding of what wealth is. So picture this: You lose everything you have. Some of you might be on the verge of it and some of you are a long way away from it. Wherever you are right now, just imagine that you lose everything that you have. 

In the event you lose everything you have, would you still be OK? If the answer is NO, then you are not wealthy. If the answer is yes, then you are wealthy. 

As you evolve, you realize that wealth has nothing to do with money. Wealth has to do with your contribution, the love that you’ve shared, and the lives that you’ve touched. A person who has dedicated their entire lives to helping other people and loving other people will always have a place to sleep and somebody will always feed them at least one meal a day. This is wealth. 

Once you understand you have wealth, you don’t have to worry about all of the other usual material concerns that everybody else has to worry about. You get to have all the experiences that everyone else is having without needing to own any of the ‘stuff’ that costs a lot of money. 

To be wealthy is to know your abundance and to walk with God. We have forgotten as a species that it is important that we offer our service and our love. It’s about infusing our life with our love.  

One of the fundamental things that is crucial to us as human beings to flourish is connection. Do you have connection? Do you have a place to be seen, heard and where you are able to be yourself? For some of you, Call to Calm daily meditations is that connection. I know it is for me. You make me feel normal. 

The sharing of the love that we have is the most important thing. Some of you share that love through writing books, some of you share that love through work, what you do and what you create, or by taking care of others. It is the sharing of love that is the accumulation of wealth. 

Rest in the awareness of your breath for a living meditation.

Being a Conscious Conductor of Your life

Just imagine that you are a conductor of an orchestra and every instrument is playing the exact composition that you’ve asked to be played based on where you are in your energy, and in your consciousness. 

For example, when you are a beginner, or novice conductor, you’re not going to have the complete grasp of the tonality, over the rhythms, over the melodies, the composition, as you would once you are an expert conductor. 

Life is about getting the highest, most vibrant energy filled composition out of everyone in your reality. We do this by realizing that every single person in our lives is showing us what we have to feel inside of us in order to go to the next place in our own being. For example, work is showing you where you are still anxious. Relationships, as well as ex-husbands and ex-wives, are showing you where you are living in victim consciousness. Children are showing you where you feel guilty or ashamed. Your life is showing you who you are internally. 

It’s important to recognize that once you address what’s inside of you, the composition, the makeup of the orchestra around you may change, may transform.  Why?, because you are no longer holding on to the energies you were holding onto in order to keep all of these people in your life. Your reality responds to your energy, your vibration of where you are inside of you. 

When someone in your reality is playing an ‘off’ note, that is completely outside of the composition, as the conductor, you have to let that off note impact you. You have to become aware of the source of the off note. So when life is off key, it’s not that you are a bad conductor, or that the composition is fundamentally flawed. That dissonance is necessary for you in order for you to evolve. 

Resting in the awareness of your breath becomes a living meditation. 

Think, Move and Act from Peace.

Tapping into the truth has the power to not only transform you, but it will also transform the world. So many of you have a hard time with what’s going on in the world, and yet you participate in it. Your participation is at the level of your pain – emotional pain specifically. 

The illusion, or suffering, requires the recycling of emotional pain through the human experience. The very second you become aware of the fact that you are contributing unconsciously to the emotional pain in the world that is the root cause of suffering, you stop. Life then begins to show you where you still have this emotional pain in your vibrational system, specifically in your chakras. 

As you begin to give this emotional pain your attention in your awareness, when life happens, it begins to transform. However, the commitment you have to make in order for it to transform, is to think, move and act from peace.  

For example, let’s say somebody says something to you and it activates sadness, fear or anger within you. Instead of reacting and contributing to the recycling of pain in the world, breathe, relax and get in touch with what you are feeling in your body. The very second you get in touch with what you are feeling in your body, the intensity of the emotion is going to begin to be transmuted and transformed. 

When you look at what’s happening in your life right now, specifically with forms of suffering, the suffering is what you chose from emotional pain or the avoidance of emotional pain. When you begin to apply the blessing of awareness, and get in touch with the awareness of what’s going on inside of you, and you begin to soothe your words, your actions and your decision making with peace, it eliminates the experience of suffering in your life. 

Thinking, moving and acting from peace is where you can contribute consciously through your own personal experience to the eradication of suffering in the world. 

Rest in the awareness of your breath for a living meditation.

What’s Keeping You From Being Happy?

Life is Fantastic! Nature is teaching us in every way. Just this morning I saw the most beautiful rainbow, between the clouds of rain. Life is fantastic and I am so happy. I don’t need to justify it, or apologize for it. I am just happy. And, I think what’s keeping you from being happy too, is the fact you feel it’s not okay to be happy. As much as you want to be happy and want to feel a sense of joy everyday and feel a sense of vibrancy and aliveness, you won’t let yourselves have it because it’s raining in everyone else’s reality while you’re living in the world of rainbows. 

You need to realize that people are exactly where they are, just as you are where you are. It’s time you write yourself a happy permission slip. Where you would ordinarily pretend to be miserable, or pretend to not be happy by dimming down your happiness in the presence of other people, I want you to not be afraid of being happy. 

It takes courage to be happy when everyone else is miserable. In a world of people that are unhappy, disenfranchised, discontent, it takes courage! Why? Because they will judge you for being happy and will make you wrong and will further reject you and abandon you. But this is where we have to begin to no longer pay attention to what’s happening outside of us, and begin to determine our internal state from within our own beings. 

We need to get to a place where we are happy. It has nothing to do with the person’s circumstance, what you have or what you don’t have. Life can be challenging and life can be difficult and you can still be happy. It depends on how you want to spend your time. In the end we are all going to die. You can be miserable and be unhappy and unresolved or you can go through life with a smile on your face and then leave the planet. It’s up to you. 

Resting in the awareness of your breath, transforms your life into a living meditation.