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A Modern Warrior’s Eightfold Path

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With each new day we have a choice to live as authentically as we can, ignoring the beliefs of old. Stepping into the new, creating the life we were meant to enjoy and accepting beliefs of a new era.

 
The first step towards happiness is often the most difficult, for we cannot let go of our old beliefs. Let go now…witness the shift towards happiness. Once the first step is taken, the taste of freedom shall be yours and will not go back to the way you were. The next step towards happiness is easier, the next even easier…and so on.

 
With a new outlook on life, everything will taste sweeter, smell better and you will feel freer than ever before. Listen to the voice within you…it is saying, “Now is the Time.” Take the step towards happiness and one day you will declare “Ani Po.”
(*Ani Po is Hebrew for “I Am Here”)

 
Stepping into the Canvas is about taking the first steps into the Canvas of Life. It is said that God is the Creator and nature is His Canvas. In a world of technologies, distractions and light-speed evolution, we are left to remain in darkness. Truth is laid before us, falsely, by our collective whole.

 
You are invited to step out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary. Free to Love unconditionally, creating the life we were meant to enjoy and coming together as one. With every step towards our ending goal of happiness, we find ourselves having more sensational moments that can only be explained through synchronicity…or Syncrosensational.

 
The willingness to change will be the first step and shall be the driving force behind the journey. Our intent is what sets things in motion, referring back to our intent along the way shall keep us on course. Depending on our actions, it will either steer us on the path towards our intent or it will steer us on a detour to our ending goal. Give yourself a little wiggle room to make mistakes along the way. Nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes…learn from them. Aligning our actions as closely to our intended goal, will assure our success in attaining this goal.

 
When our dreams and reality collide, it is said that we have found The Way to happiness. We may trip or stumble and, as stated before, that is ok. We must accept ourselves for being imperfectly perfect in all our encounters. In doing so, we inadvertently find acceptance for the imperfections within other people. Without acceptance we would continually judge ourselves and others around us. If we are too busy judging others, we have no time for creating our own destiny. Fill your day with what you want in life…capture this moment!

 
If and when we do stumble, we must remain in gratitude. With gratitude in our hearts, we view challenging moments within our lives as stepping-stones towards our syncrosensational moments we so clearly desire. Everyday is a good time for sharing gratitude with a loved one, a friend or the creator of all existence. Whether the day is picture perfect or it is everything but, learn to see the silver-lining in every cloud…guaranteed it exists!

 
With gratitude in our hearts, we master our emotions…checking them at the door before entering the canvas of life. This awareness is the single most important guidance system that we will continue to call upon along our journey. Thich Nhat Hahn often refers to this as being in the present moment. We are here, in a given moment, experiencing this emotion or that emotion. These emotions arise, but do not have to control us. Instead use them to your advantage only, if this is not possible…kindly ask your emotions to take a back seat. With awareness comes a desire of remaining in balance. For those enlightened already, they know what this means.

 
There comes a time in our journey that we just don’t feel right, almost as if we were off balance. Finding balance becomes our number one priority. Through various techniques, which can be found throughout our traditions or even modern-day self-help texts, we can find techniques for cleansing mind, body and spirit…returning back to balance. Returning to balance, we find it easier to check our emotions at the door of the Canvas. Note: if we are not in harmony within ourselves, how can we support harmony within our families? get in balance so that you can better serve the loved ones around you.

 
If you have found yourself practicing these steps for some time now, chances are they have created positive habits within your life. With these positive shift, we find ourselves at a place of unconditional Love. While the majority of society will declare unconditional Love is not possible, challenge them and say yes it is. Following this path, and other paths for that matter, with our whole heart and soul, and with the intent of finding peace within, we shall find unconditional Love. While the majority follows the path of majority, dare to cut a new path into your life…see what happens!

 
We have just followed a modern-day Eightfold path. Twenty-five hundred years ago, Siddhārtha Gautama dared to challenge authorities, showing others how to attain enlightenment. Nothing has changed from then to now, it is open for exploration at any time…are you willing to take the necessary steps towards enlightenment? Why not?
Traveling the eightfold path we will find ourselves at our ending goal…pure happiness. Our every encounters will be more enjoyable and our days will just seem to be syncrosensational all the time. We shall be in awe by the mighty Canvas that calls our names. Go now…live a life that was intended…live a syncrosensational life.

Following these steps to happiness:

1. Willingness and Intent

2. Actions

3. Acceptance

4. Gratitude

5. Awareness

6. cleansing

7. Checking Emotions at the door

8. Love

9. Syncrosensational

Stepping into the Canvas with Love. In Love we intertwine these steps, potentially skipping all eight. In Love all other things become details, details that have lessened meaning. In Love all things are important and carry an equal value or lesson. Make the steps…but do so wholeheartedly.

Meditations of a Warrior

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How does one find happiness? Is it a place? or is it a state of being? In any event it is attainable by all. Whether we go searching for it or just accept it as it is…we merely choose to be or find happiness. We return now to our Warrior as she ponders these thoughts during her daily meditation…

Happiness is found in eight steps:

  1. Willingness
  2. Actions
  3. Acceptance
  4. Gratitude
  5. Awareness
  6. Cleansing
  7. Removal of emotions
  8. Unconditional Love

Channeled through the meditations of our Warrior, we take the first step towards happiness.

Note: the eight steps are not to be considered actual steps towards happiness, but more of a natural progression as one enters the path. It also worth noting that an person does not need to follow this path at all, but merely accept Love as their guide.

Willingness to change, is the driving force behind actions and the basis for developing a basic need for something deeply rooted internally, leading towards an active side of infinity. It is the willingness that allows us to throw away our conditioned beliefs, accepting a new belief system…based on Love.

It is during this willingness stage that we begin accepting guidance from a voice that resides in all of us…it is the one that we all fight with throughout our lives, ignoring its call. In this stage we listen to its call and seeking out whatever it wishes. Our instincts may call us to do an act of kindness, that we may otherwise miss. This inner guidance system may also align us with an appropriate book or other source of learning material.

With willingness, we take action. Action towards how we want our life to be. No longer subscribing to beliefs of old, subscribing to new beliefs that only serving our highest needs. Taking action towards this active side of infinity, we instinctively let go of thoughts and behaviors harboring negativity. Our thoughts become embedded in positivity and our thoughts become that of acceptance. This is also the stage where we begin analyzing our friends and immediate members of our inner circles…are they positive? are they whom I want to emanate? Do they serve my highest needs of feeling good? If not…time to clean house in that department as well.

Through acceptance we find peace and happiness wherever we go, with no judgment and no resentment. We accept a mindful approach to life, fixating on being present at every given moment. When we are completely present, we see the world through eyes of gratitude.

In gratitude, we find good in all things. Even the most heinous of people, we find to be loving in some form or another. It is finding the silver lining in every cloud. Begin each new day in gratitude and end it the same. Start the day submersed in gratitude for: the many life lessons, providing service to others, the feet that support us throughout the day, the sympathetic heart, and the ability to enjoy all there is about the Canvas of Life. Beginning the day on a positive note, only leads to a positive day. Think for a moment…where would I be is  “{blank}” didn’t happen to me? Whatever the scenario, fill in the blank, good or bad, everything has led to this very moment in our lives. This moment of self-realization and that everything has happened on purpose up until now, this is our moment of true awareness.

Awareness allows us to witness our words and actions without full understanding and allowing them to be. This is the moment that Thich Nhat Hanh would refer to as being mindful. Being mindful means being present in every given moment. When we are fully in the moment, we are mindful of our thoughts and actions with complete consideration for our seven generations. With awareness, each step is carefully plotted, each word carefully chosen and each moment is like the first time. When we are truly mindful, our days fill with awe-inspiring moments. Having awareness we begin purging more negativity from our lives. It is a lifelong journey and we could spend a lifetime purging our negative attachments. This is the cleansing stage.

To cleanse one must submerge themselves in Love. Whether it be through ritual or intimate setting of a quiet room, the person begins asking for more Love to poured into them, “Lord make me an instrument of your Peace. May Your Love be poured onto me until my cup over flows, allowing me to give it away and may it be replenished, keeping it forever over-flowing all the days of my life. ” When we reach this place of our journey, we shall be filled to the rim with His Love and we will be left to give it all away. In this stage we no longer get emotional over things that people say or do against us. We become invincible to their behavior and detach from negativity.

Checking our emotions at the door is the hardest thing to do, but once we master this task, our lives become so much easier. Don Miguel Ruiz discusses this concept in his Four Agreements. Removing the emotional response mechanism that humans commonly have, we allow are selves to interact in a non-judgmental, collaborative and mindful approach, allowing us to focus on end results with no expected outcomes. If we focus on merely allowing others to shine, we detach from expected outcomes and come to a place of Love. This unconditional Love is for all and is to be given away.

When we meditate on these eight steps we cannot forget the teachings of Christ, as he discussed the “Old Laws” being intertwined by a common thread. That thread is Love. As in the beginning, so shall it be intertwined throughout our lives. Love intertwines throughout these eight steps and if an individual were to only have Love from the beginning, these steps would unfold instantaneously.

Stepping into the Canvas with a mindful attitude. Stepping, leaving varying colors as we kiss Mother Earth with Love. Our trail of Love travels throughout the land, spreading more rainbows of colors and ending in a glorious pot of Love. It is our heartfelt intentions that will lead us to paradise. We do not have to wait until death to get a glimpse, but merely open our hearts.