There is an excitement in imagining opportunity manifest. When opportunity arises and we truly believe ourselves to deserve it, we start to see and feel ourselves experiencing what it is that we want. We imagine it so completely we begin to engage our senses. We may even start to communicate to our friends that it is “happening!” Then we get the notice that we were not chosen.
It is disappointing.
Whatever comes to pass is all right.
Presence can be constantly felt. All the shocks and blows cleanse and purify us. We keep emptying self to fill with love. No sticky possessiveness, just miraculous expansion.
This is the time when we can allow our light to increase and in turn illuminate a new paradigm. What is to give light must endure burning.
It requires presence. We must presence ourselves in our lives. We must presence ourselves in every single moment!
If we loose presence we become vulnerable. We become vulnerable even to the things we think we want, just about everything.
People like the freedom of choice as it helps them to perceive that they have control. Blind obedience due to conditioning can lead to a weak sense approach to thinking and behavior.
People assume that prepared food, water, environment are safe. Yet it’s proving to be toxic and addictive. We can no longer be bystanders or expect to be saved by scientific, technological, and medical miracles.
There is a challenge between individual freedom and policy change. Most people still believe that environmental protection is up to the government and don’t pay attention to how their actions can contribute to environmental pollution, or protection.
Education, research credibility, self-reflection, emotional healing, and policy change are necessary actions that are in need of implementation.
The paradox is that we have become addicted to the very behaviors we need for survival in our current system: eating, sex, and money.
We don’t owe anyone our happiness. Pursue your goals. Suffering is the belief that what is happening is not supposed to be happening.
To heal uncertainty we allow ourselves to stop fighting what is happening and bring ourselves into presence with our feelings.
I spent a year working in a Psychiatric Hospital post graduate school, and I had seen and learned all that I will as a Mental Health Counselor. I remember my yoga teacher Sharon Gannon stating that we all do the best we can in each moment according to each moment. I am proud of myself to state that I did my best. I did good! I was in a full time position with the Adolescent Unit, working with children the ages of 12-17. I also worked (what I would consider) too often on the Adult Intensive Unit, with adults who were diagnosed psychotic. My job was to keep people calm, keep people alive, prevent violence, and promote stabilization. I was also a leader of daily psychotherapy and educational groups. Most patients came from the ER post suicide attempt, or transported from the police station.
Perhaps the biggest choices with the most profound effects aren't the choices we as a culture consider to be the "Big" choices. For example, we may all think the "Big" choices are concerned with job, marriage/divorce, home, family, etc. Perhaps these are more...
Patanjali, author of The Yoga Sutras, shares that there are five states of mental activity; understanding, misunderstanding, memory, sleeping, and imagination. Imagination seems to be a challenging mental activity for those of us raised and living in our current cultural, social, educational, and economic system. Or so we remember. How often do we as adults imagine, like we did as a child? I remember my childhood imagination explorations including faeries, castles, mythical creatures, dances, romances, flying, time traveling, body swapping, etc.
Juicing is an easy way to get tons of raw organic veggies and fruits into our bodies. When we juice we assist our bodies in digestion to allow full assimilation of enzymes, vitamins, antioxidants, and minerals. When our bodies receive this gift of Nature our immune systems boost, and our body’s vitality increases. Once our bodies begin to realize that they are getting the nutrition they deserve they start to detox fat and toxic storages. With the help of colon hydrotherapy to assist the intestines in releasing the sludge from processed foods that build up on the intestinal walls, our bodies begin to directly assimilate RawFood nutrients, and heal from leaky gut, and other life threatening dis-eases. Juicing is an easy power packed way to get incredible health outcomes and hydration from fruits and veggies. Juicing allows for variety and exploration of recipes and food combinations. It is easy, colorful, and fun!
A healthy alternative to soy and cow milk products! Processed almond and coconut milks in the grocery stores still have some strange and scary ingredients! Making your own nut milks can offer you full awareness of all the ingredients you are ingesting. Making your own...
No matter how conscious and active we are in our health regime and lifestyles, environmental toxins inevitably find there way into our bodies via multiple pathways such as; the food we eat, air we breath, water we drink, etc. It is unavoidable. Cleansing offers us the opportunity to actively participate in our wellness, clearing ourselves of dangerous toxins, assisting our skin, kidneys, liver, bowels, etc. in transforming and excreting toxins. Unfortunately, without cleansing maintenance, our bodies become saturated and unable to keep up with our current environmental pollution crises. Thus, toxins become stored in our body’s tissue, fat, and organs. Resulting in not only physical disturbances but mental disturbances as well, such as increased vulnerability to stress.