I used to live high above Lake Ontario – always fun to watch the storms roll in
The sky was getting darker by the second, almost an inky black in some spots. The storm was coming and I was alone, frantically driving to the stable where ten of my horses were outside in their paddocks with no shelter and nowhere to hide.
It was going to be a bad one.
In Alberta, thunderstorms come and go all through the long summer days. They can be ferocious in their power and can’t be taken for granted. Tornadoes could touch down at any time during one of these powerful storms.
I unlocked the gate to the long driveway and checked the sky. Trying to gauge how much time I had before it hit, I realized that I didn’t have enough. The winds whipped around me and the first raindrops began to fall.
No need to fear when you keep good company – here with the friendly police officers of Costa Rica
At the root of the inability to move towards your dreams lies fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of failure, or fear of criticism – these can be paralyzing when you need to take action to accomplish your goals.
Scientists say that we are born with only two fears – the fear of loud noises and the fear of falling. All of our other fears are learned.
Depending on the circumstances that surrounded you as a child, you may have learned fears that have become so deep-rooted that they affect every decision you make in life.
This realization of what drives us from a subconscious level can be the key to opening up the vault to all of your dreams.
Just a bird, doing bird things. Life is simple if you want it to be
Do you ever wonder why it feels like nothing comes easily for you? You swear that someone put a curse on you, or that you have no luck unless it is bad luck, or you just aren’t meant to have good things happen.
When you begin to operate from this mindset, then you are fulfilling your own destiny.
You are actually making sure that things will never go well for you.
We don’t completely understand how powerful words and thoughts are. In every moment, we are creating our future through our energy.
Dropping all expectations and living in the moment leads to peace of mind and a blissful existence.
When every moment is taken for what it is and the mind is not creating stories around it, the beauty of presence and the wonderment of this incarnation shines through.
It is enough. It is perfect.
The mind is such an intricate creation, beautiful and mad at the same time. It is used to dream and to torture, to explore and to persecute. It does this to itself, and it is quite psychotic.
Releasing thoughts and remaining keenly aware and present without the endless judging and categorizing leads to a freedom unknown in common times.
This existence will end. It could end in the next breath, or the one after. It could end decades from now. Most certainly, though, it will end.
The span of life covers a small moment in time, a single breath in the field of eternity. The scope of this life is tiny, inconsequential, in a universe of multiple dimensions and existences.
All is unimportant, and yet all means everything. Thoughts take one away from living, mesmerizing us to exist in worlds that are false.
The only real thing is love. If it is not love, it is fear and it is false. The two cannot exist at the same time.
To love all in every moment is the real life. Releasing expectations and demands allows the love to shine through, enhancing the existence and everything that comes into contact with it.
The anchor is the breath. To become keenly aware in every moment of the breath brings awareness to what is. Thoughts take the awareness on a journey of what is not. It is a fantasy.
If thoughts can be accepted as being fantasy, then the endeavour is either to release all thoughts or use them to create a glorious fantasy. Negative thoughts are not necessary.
Experiences come and go, and they are neither good nor bad – they just are. The opportunity for education exists in every experience, and when the mind is taken out of the equation the experience is allowed to unfold as it must. After the unfolding, the messages become clear and the learning is complete.
After that, it is on to the next.
Trying to force a situation to unfold in a certain way is like trying to force a rose to bloom. It is impossible and destructive. Releasing the experience to be what it is promotes freedom, clarity, and peace.
This is the ultimate goal of this existence. Every moment is exactly the way it is supposed to be. Acceptance is the key, and freedom is found on the other side of the door. Freedom, and bliss and a joy not found in common waking hours in a world that has gone insane.
Love is all there is, fear is false, and thoughts are mere tools used to achieve bliss.
The mind is an interesting thing. Because it is such a good movie maker, the mind can propel us towards our goals or prevent us from even starting. Fear of change is often to blame for why we stop before we even get started.
In my experience, I can get excited about a new idea or project but within two minutes I can think of multiple ways in which it won’t work. This can sometimes stop me from even trying.
But what if the movie played differently? What if my time was spent thinking about all of the ways it could work and then go from there?
For example, I wanted to write a book. I was excited about the idea, but then I thought about how much work it was going to be, and what was I going to write about, and who was going to read it anyways!
I stopped and looked at what was holding me back, and it was the fear of failure. This tends to be at the root of most of our insecurities. We stop before we even start because we are afraid to fail.
I thought about what my life would look like if I allowed this fear to rule me. I was just going to get older and then eventually die, all without even attempting to pursue something that I really wanted to do.
When you think about it, failure doesn’t even exist. You may produce an unintended result but it doesn’t need to be labelled a failure. It is like following a map. Sometimes you veer off course, but you make adjustments and get back on the path and continue in the direction of your destination.
It doesn’t matter how many times you veer off, as long as you make corrections and continue to steadily advance. That is progress, and that is the way to accomplish anything you desire.
Sometimes as you travel along the path, you find out that the original destination isn’t where you want to go anymore. That’s called life! It’s moving through each day and living and experimenting that is the purpose.
Bring joy and love to everything you do, and continually create and follow your dreams. The doing itself isn’t important, it is the feelings you generate through the act of doing.
We are human beings, after all, not human doings. Enjoy the process, live with joy and bliss in your heart, and move gracefully through the world in every way. Regret nothing and enjoy everything, and see how things unfold!
