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Changing Perspectives: Going From Can’t To Can

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If all we know is all we know, that is all we will ever know…unless of course we open the possibilities to change. Imagine living in a small town thinking that this is the only way to live, only to visit or move to another city, experiencing a whole different world.

This happens not only in how we live, but in all aspects of life. With people born into a certain religious belief and theirs is the only way to live, gaining access to paradise. Truthfully there’s more than one way.

Is it the religion or the belief that gains access to paradise? This is to be determined by the self, not by any other person. We are told how to live, how to think and how to be, until one day we say ‘no more.’ It is on this day that we take life by the horns, living authentically as the self. No longer subscribing to this or that, but subscribing to ourselves…Living a Syncrosensational  Life.

It is at this moment in time our construct cracks open, open wide. Our boundaries expand and our perspectives change. From can’t to can, we begin to create a life we were meant to live. From can’t to can, is not easy. I say this because all pilgrims before me stand in their confines of previous beliefs, having all been afraid to take the first steps.

It is the first step that is the most frightening, but most liberating. We’ve been told that to think differently than what the 99% believes, is blasphemy. To think that we can create the life that we dream of, considered absurd by many. This I say to you … This is true and we can create a life of happiness!

Until we take that first step out of the ordinary…we shall never know extraordinary. Imagine it’s not really a religion, but the belief that gains access to paradise. Whether Christian, Muslim, or Jew we all come from the same tree of life. The time has come to unite as one. Not on a global sense, but on an individual level.

As we learn oneness on an individual basis, it stretches globally as one. There are no things impossible in this world. Going from first person singular, two third person singular… I becomes we. It is not the self that can do all things, but the self in all things that can do these things. It is the ‘I’ as in ‘we’ that we can do all things. We are a part of the collective whole, and we can create the life intended for us. Why not start now?

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.~Marcus Aurelius

There are many excuses that keep us from taking these first steps: “I don’t have time, I don’t know where to begin, I just can’t.” All of these are roadblocks of self-sabotage to the self. Make some time, know that you can…through taking the first step. It is that simple.

If it is time that you need, then ask a friend or a loved one to help. Take one day out of the week, have someone watch the kids and block some sacred ‘me’ time, allowing yourself to take that first step. Whether it’s time to think, time to act, or just time to be…whatever the case, it is necessary to take that ‘me’ time. Schedule some time during the week: maybe its 20 minutes a day; maybe it’s a one hour block during the week…whatever the case schedule some time now.

If the fact remains we are stuck not knowing where to go, then it is time to paint a new vision board per se. Whether it is writing it down or painting a new Canvas, the process of visually and concretely writing into stone, allow us to re-wire our thinking, changing our road-map to life. What is it that you want? What will make you happy? These are pilgrims questions as to what our lives need most to create happiness. Find the answers, write them down…and soon you shall join other warriors Stepping assertively into the Canvas.

If the belief that one ‘cannot do it,’ then it is time to take a leap of faith. Without faith, we may never find hope. Without hope, we may never find our bliss. I once read a book on management skills and it said, “fake it until you make it.” It does not suggest that we live a false life, but encourages us to find what we want and begin the motions of living the process until it becomes a daily, unconscious, thought. Call on friends, call on source…if you are stuck…call someone. We can do ‘all things’ through Him. Him is reference to God, Allah, Source, Universal Life Force or The Way…it just IS. With our willingness to take the first step, we take a leap of faith…traveling the Warrior’s Path.

When we focus on what we want in life, we are sure to receive it. Unfortunately for some, they still focus on what they least desire…the universe knows no difference. Where the attention goes, the energy flows. Remain focused on what you don’t want and the universe will give you more of what you do not want. Changing your thoughts to that of what you do want, the universe delivers every time.

Stepping into the Canvas as a New Day. Whatever the past have painted or whatever the future may hold, make today the best day ever. On this day…may your thoughts be on that which you most desire. Remaining focused on your dreams, the universe conspires in your favor, re-aligning the collective whole so that it may be so. With intent setting your course, aligning with a universal life force…making it so…taking us from Can’t to Can.

 

Way Finding: Choosing One’s Path

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There is a lot of talk about right and wrong, this way or that way, but never really a clear direction on the proper path. The proper path being different for each and everyone of us. They say there are many paths to enlightenment…how we get there is up to us.
Even in the darkest times we can find a bright idea. While in our brightened times we embrace all there is. Either way there is always light…a path to enlightenment. Unless there is a void of darkness or the absence of light, there is always a bright idea.
To choose one’s path, is merely just that…a choice. We can choose a path of destruction or a path of creation, either way, directly or indirectly, we are creating a path of creation.
Just this morning, when having words with a friend, our discussion became deep by  normal ears. Discussing whether there is a right way or wrong way in life, we concluded it comes down to perception and choices to which Way to go. Which ever direction we choose, both have cause and effect. Witnessing our discussion an onlooker says, “This is getting really deep.” We chuckle and ask him to join in…he declines. “There’s just too much bullshit going on in this world, without it potentially affecting us and bringing us down.”
That is when it hit me. I explained to them, “yes bullshit is real, but even bullshit can lead to enlightenment. I once thanked a man for being the ass he was, thereby showing me how to be. Directly or indirectly, another human being can show us how to be. No matter the given situation of the day, we have a choice. A choice of being happy or angry.”

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.~Rumi

There are two types of people in our lives whom influence our actions. The direct influence of another and the indirect influence, either way we are influenced by the people around us. The caution being the indirect influences, as they can potentially redirect our ways in the opposing direction.

First the direct influence of another: one who emits qualities in which we admire and have a desire to emanate. These are the folks in which we look up to, wishing or altering our lives to match theirs. The caveat to this is, these people can either influence us to follow a path of darkness and destruction or a path of light and creation. Along a path of darkness, we do what want, without consideration for those around us and potentially harming others for self-gain. While the other looks at the greater picture of spreading more light and love into the world, aligning steps whilst keeping others in consideration. If an individual has made a choice of following a darkened path, then the indirect influence would be that of someone who follows a path of light. The caveat, the indirect influence could potentially bring this person into a more creative role and into a path of creation (humbly speaking…not a bad thing).

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.~Sakyong Mipham

The indirect influence is anyone who emanates behavior that does not align with our own views or perceptions of reality. Again, if we are on a path of light and love, then the indirect influences can only increase our cause or bring us down. If we are on a path of darkness and destruction, then the indirect influences may strengthen our darkened ways or tip us into a path of Light and Love. Sounds like we are back to choice.

Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.~Rumi

Stepping into the Canvas with choice. Whether we splatter the Canvas with colors of grey or paint with vibrant colors of the soul, may it be so confidently in the direction you seek. Directly or indirectly influenced by another, we have choice to follow or run the other way…either way it comes down to choice…This is The Way.