Insights from the Elders

Do you ever feel stuck? Do you believe certain things have to occur before you consider taking other steps? Do you perceive how this situation or another person needs to change first, so you can enlist a different response accordingly? Why is that?

Do you see in the need to orchestrate certain things within your life, you’ve neglected to address the elephant in the room? That elephant is ego. Ego and the egoic mind are running amuck and operating this way, oftentimes in plain view. Do you understand how so much mental controversy exists when you enlist life in a reactionary way?

It’s like letting the patients run the asylum. The controversy, perceived to be in play, is routinely not supported by facts. Many times these things are merely suppositional. Can you look at the angst which arose and see how these things are triggers for you? Oftentimes, the trigger is unique to you alone.

What does this new year hold and how do you envision your life progressing? Yes, the year has barely begun, yet the complexities of the mind do enter into the mix. What can be accomplished that will bring a smile to your face? Do you see with all the wondering and wanting, a neediness has set in. There is so much in flux and flow. We find there is also a mental wondering of what might be accomplished today … and in each day that follows.

So what is it that you want from your life anyway? Would you like to:

• Expand your perceptions
  • See new choices almost magically appear
• Access and create anything you desire
• Love more fully, while releasing judgment

So how do you enact some of this? Take the steps outlined in earlier blog posts to enlist the insights given. Two soon-to-be-released books will also help you determine your best course of action.

Haven't you longed for life to be easier and less stressful? Would you like life to be a little less problematic? Know you can shift from negative thoughts to positive ones which will move you to experience a better present moment while enhancing all of your tomorrows.

Do you see that often you fixate upon "this or that" to draw something into your immediate focus? You feel this is the right thing. You align with it and it with you. What happens, however, when your focus shifts and you move that “most valued thing” into your rearview mirror to accomplish yet another day?

Do you see that this objective grows smaller and fainter as you progress in time? It's as if you were driving away in your vehicle. When it is minimized and seen more distantly, is this objective also seemingly lessened in its scope and purpose?

So often there is a tendency to become trapped in the activities of the mind. This is a maya of its making. To be in a space that moves you to do this or that, go here or there, but the thing it seeks is of no real measure or value. Do you want to move beyond the mind's illusionary banter?

When you work to accomplish certain things, do you also find a feeling of reward or achievement which correlates with them? What of this feeling? And is this thing an achievement of great regard or is it merely another item to complete on your checklist? Does it allow and enlist service to others, or is it something that is, in the scheme of things, of little or no intrinsic value?