In our modern technocracy, we’ve removed ourselves as much as possible from living out among the changing seasons that the Creation holds for us.  We wall ourselves away in boxes that are temperature regulated, light controlled, terrain un-changing.  We’ve grown to dislike and detest any change in our “comfort” level. It’s very easy for us to be un-aware of the seasons in our own lives.

The world we live on adheres to cycles of birth, growth, death, and decay.  Nature has its seasons of Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.  Our lives replicate this same pattern on the large scale (of our bodies) and the small scale (of our day to day lives).

All too often I’ve spent my time, fighting to stay in one season for too long.  I’ve forced creation/work, when I should have been resting, or I’ve slept the day away when I should have been creating/working.  Learning to live in balance and harmony is a challenging thing in the world we live in.

There is no concrete solution to creating balance in your life.  It’s something that is unique to you alone.  What creates balance in my life, will not necessarily be the solution in your life.  Just as the length of seasons varies in different parts of the world, so your own needs will vary from mine.  What is interesting to me is that all of creation is guided in the right moment to undergo the change needed at any given time.  Imagine if the winter didn’t know when to end it’s bitter cold, or the summer when to cease it’s fire and burning.  There are parts of the world where we can see the effects of this.  The ice caps, the deserts, both extremes are examples of what happens in our own lives when we don’t allow the natural flow of seasons to occur.  We become stressed.  Life is still present, but the existence is harsh and mostly unpleasant.

For everything under the sun, there is a season…  What are the seasons of your life?

Lately my life has been undergoing the transition from sleep to awakening, or from rest to plowing… working the soil to be ready for planting.  After sowing, a period of rest will occur in which the seeds will begin to grow.  The seeds will only grow if the work I have done has created the needed conditions for birth.  Those conditions will only be created if I have rested properly to have the energy to create them.

Perhaps you are in Winter (the season where no work takes place, and you begin to dream), some will be in Spring (the season where you sow the seeds of your dream), some will be in Summer (the season where you tend your creation and help it grow), and finally some will be in Autumn (the season where you reap the benefits or consequences of your work).

The benefit you have over nature, is you are the only force in control of your seasons.  You can begin again any time you wish.  For some their lesson will be to nurse their garden/life/dream back to health/success.  Others will need to wipe the slate clean and begin back at the Winter/Resting/Dreaming stage.  Some will need to learn that there is a time to cease working and enter into rest, some will need to get off their ass and begin taking action.

How do you know when you are in the correct season in your life?  When you feel at peace, when you feel like you’re living your life’s purpose, when things seem to click and just fall into place, all these are good indications that you are in the proper season.

Most people will spend most of their time in the dreaming/working stage until they learn to create the right conditions for their dream to grow into reality, but once a seed/dream starts growing, it grows all on its own.

Whatever season you may be in, love your way into the next one!

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An abundant source of energy is a must-have to live an enjoyable life and to contribute to the joy of others.  When you’re tired, you become more easily irritated and stressed out, which leads to poor relationships and poor health.  Left unchecked, it’s all too easy to end up asking what went wrong, with the pieces of what used to be your life scattered all around you.  Beside all that, let’s just face it — being run down Sucks!

So what are some ways that you can protect your energy levels?

1.  No more coffee.  The same goes for energy drinks.  99% of so called energy drinks aren’t actually giving your body energy, they are just stimulating your nervous system.  The end result is usually that your body becomes more stressed out and unbalanced and tired.  You can’t drug your way out of a problem that is caused by drugs.

2.  Eat raw fruits and vegetables.  An overwhelming amount of our energy is spent just digesting the cooked foods that we eat.  There is a reason you get sleepy and sluggish after you eat a meal.  It’s because your body is summoning all available energy to digest the substances you’ve just put into it.  Raw food has enzymes in it that help your stomach digest it, thus giving you more energy, not taking energy away.  As a plus, you’ll get much more nutrients from raw food, so you won’t have to eat as many calories, and eating less will give you more available energy and extend your life as well.

3.  Get more sleep.  This is kind of obvious, but all too often we just medicate our way through this with our coffee and red bulls.  When you are tired, sleep.  If for some reason, you can’t, see above and below.

4.  Avoid negativity.  This includes negative people.  There are some people, you might even call them your friends, that all they do is suck the life energy out of you.  They constantly complain and whine about every little thing.  You might even be one of those people.  All of this negativity zaps your energy faster than running a marathon.  Don’t believe me?  Try avoiding these people for a week and see how you feel.  You don’t have to be snotty about it, but whenever they open their mouths and what they’re saying isn’t positive, just be somewhere else instead.  If you’re the negative person, then try avoiding you!  Every time you say or think something negative, be somewhere else instead

5.  Exercise.  This seems counter-intuitive, but I promise you it works like magic.  The more active you are, the more energy you have available and the better you will sleep at night (thus giving you more energy again).  I always hear on this one:  “I just don’t have time to go to the gym or workout.”  Blah, blah, blah.  First of all, I wouldn’t recommend you ever go to the gym to workout, especially when you could do it for free and get some fresh air while you’re at it.  Secondly, you have just as much time as everyone else in the world.  Stop making excuses, you poor little victim, you. ;(  (Please read number 4 again, if this victim is you).

The fastest most effective exercises you can do are at home with no equipment.  That’s right!  You don’t need any equipment at all.  You remember what a push-up is right?  There are even a hundred different ways to do them, so you never have to get bored either.  Throw in some sit-ups, and some squats and you’ve just done a whole body workout in two and a half minutes (if you don’t break in between exercises).  That’s a commercial break.  Maybe you need a gentler work out?  You can do yoga, tai chi,  the five tibetan rites, ride a bike, or just go for a walk.  Don’t think about exercising, just do it.

Remember, if you’re ever going to take over the world, or the equivalent — raise your kids, then you need to have the instantly available energy to do it.  There is no quick fix for constant, steady energy, the only way to have it in your life is to live a lifestyle that cultivates it.  Dream that lifestyle, and then make it real.  You deserve it.Similar Posts:

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Do what you love -> get good at it -> share your talent to create value for others -> receive value in return -> do more of what you love.

Since many people are worried about the economy, there’s greater demand and more opportunities for people who aren’t worried.

If you have trouble discovering what you love, start by dropping from your life that which you don’t love. Purge the wrong answers first.

If you love doing X, then do X. Don’t do things you dislike because you think it will give you the chance to do X. Just do X. No excuses.

If you love helping people heal, you can start doing that today… long before you graduate from med school. Again, dump the excuses.

If you want to be a rocket scientist, take the time to learn the skills you need. Meanwhile, go build & launch some model rockets this week.

Pretend you died yesterday and lost all. Then live this day as the first day of your afterlife. Harder to make excuses when you’re dead.

If you turn toward what you love, you’ll be staring directly into your greatest fear. Don’t look away. Take a bold, brave step forward.

Doing what you love is challenging. Doing what you don’t love is pointless.

Think about it…

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My dreams are for a literal Garden of Eden on the Earth.  A planet where it’s people have no want for food.  A people who don’t eat food that kills them, and can live in their bodies for as long as they choose to.  I want to see a future where we build only the things we need, and that only out of sustainable resources.  I dream of a place where we are free from money and the banks that control that money and thus our lives.  I long to see the children of this future, for they will be far from what we consider human beings to be today.  They may resemble us in appearance, but that will be it.  I want to see people follow their hearts and not their minds.  I want Love to be the rule, and not the exception.  So yes, Martin, I too, have a dream…

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It begs the question, what’s really going on here?…

They’re giving away millions of tax payers dollars… enough to where they could give every person in the US a million dollars each, and why isn’t that money going to the people?

Well my brother has argued that if everyone were suddenly millionaires, no one would work, and inflation would be insane… and that may be true, but let’s think for a moment about what we would all do if money wasn’t king… if we all didn’t need money.

My counter argument to this is why not pay out the million dollars to each US citizen as monthly payments, in such an amount as to keep everybody working (which is really all this is about, keeping us enslaved to money)…

Or why don’t we pay off everyone’s personal debt with the bailout money?  The system would come crashing down that’s why…  All the little worker bees (that’s you and me) would suddenly be free…  Oh no! what’s going to happen to the honey production?  How will our hives get built?  What about the Queen?  Who’s going to protect, and provide, and feed her?

We are not a Hive species… we can be if we want, but I think we are all happiest when we are who we were created by God to be… and that is the Children of God.. literally, sons and daughters of the Creator and independently Sovereign Beings.  Sovereign, do you remember what that word means?  Are you beginning to remember what it feels like?

It’s been a long time since we were domesticated into what we are today…  Let’s face the sad truth that most of us couldn’t even feed ourselves if we wanted to.  We think food comes from a store, or a plastic bag.  We think of Nature as being dirty, and a harsh environment… something to be scrubbed off of us as soon as we get back out of it.

Let’s consider where we are right now in Human existence, which is at a cross roads…  will we continue down our path which has us heading for worse environmental conditions… to the point where we could end up with an environment like the moon, or Mars, and we would all be living in giant malls (which some marketer would probably call a space station or some such thing)… or will we clean up our environment and work with it to create a Garden of Eden on the earth?  We possess the technology (i.e. knowledge + tools) to do both, and we’re at a beautiful place to choose which path we all want to head down.

We have to help wake people up so that they can choose for themselves instead of having the advertisements choose for them.  A pattern interrupt, if you will.  Talk with people, friends, family… don’t be scared to discuss the path that Humanity is on.  And together, we can create for ourselves The Golden Path, without the need for a Tyrant like Leto to do it for us Similar Posts:

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To recognize the truth of the saying we need only look to nature.  Water will outlast rock, the blade of grass will bend in the strong wind whereas the stiff tree will fall down.

What is it that stuntmen and bikers say to do when crashing?  Go limp and completely relax.  In other words, be soft.

It is the things with the most rigid, un-giving structures that break easiest, such as glass.

Where are you hard in your life?

Have you ever noticed that laid back person who it seems that everything in life just comes to him?  Do you find yourself being a little too rigid sometimes, even for your own liking?

Instead of trying to be the rock in your life, try to be the water.  Flow.  It’s a valuable skill to possess and one which will help you in all areas of your life.

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Today’s thought comes from the bible and a book written in 1902.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he… (Proverbs 23:7a)

The book is called As A Man Thinketh by James Allen.  I believe you can actually find free copies of it floating around the internets (gotta love Bushisms).

It’s true though, you are the sum of your thoughts.  Just like Nature, good seeds produce life, bad seeds produce death.  So if we are spending our precious little thinking time that we do get these days, on things like the news, which let’s face it, is never good news, or movies, which usually deal with the darker side of humanity, or TV which bombards us with advertising, effectively turning us into consumers, then is it any wonder why so few of us are happy?

In contrast to the popular Secret…

In 1902, James Allen came to the conclusion that “We do not attract what we want, but what we are.”  “Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement; you don’t ‘get’ success, but become it.  There is no gap between mind and matter.”

What are you thinking about?

Emerson has commented that, “A person is what he thinks about all day long.”  What do you spend your time thinking about?

Sadly, I think most of us will find that according to Emerson’s definition, we are just consumers.  We spend most of our time thinking about how to buy something we want, or how to get the money to buy what we want, as if Happiness had a price tag or physical embodiment.

Some more great quotes from Allen that I’ll let you do your own thinking on:

“Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him.”

and

“Most of us are anxious to improve our circumstances, but are unwilling to improve ourselves–and we therefore remain bound.”

Some other interesting notes… The word thinketh from Proverbs above, comes from the Hebrew root word meaning to split or open, and the word heart comes from the Hebrew root word for the word to breathe, in this case, denoting a breathing creature.

So another way of looking at it would be to say, ‘As a man splits open in his breathing, so is he’.

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It’s bad enough that every moment from when we wake until we sleep, there are a billion different things in our technocratic world that are vying for our attentions, all in an effort to keep our minds from actually having a moment to think. And so what do we do? We use the precious few minutes a day that we have to ourselves, when it’s quiet and nothing is screaming for our attention, and we feel like something’s wrong. We’re so used to being bombarded and told what to think that we immediately try to switch our brains back off. TV, internet, radio, music, movies… not bad things necessarily, but when they keep you from your true potential and from discovering your true self (which must be done before you can reach your true potential) then these distractions are just harming you.

Why are we so scared to be alone with our thoughts?

I’m genuinely curious on this one too. Granted, we’ve all been brought up to be dependent little slaves, never thinking for ourselves or depending on ourselves. We’d all much rather have the answer be given to us, than to actually think for a damn second and work it out for ourselves. And if you take a look at the state of the world, and even more locally, the state of your life — that’s why we’re in the mess that we are today. We’ve given away our God-given gifts, and to whom?

Who is the man behind the curtain holding the strings?

We have all felt like this at some point in our lives — Like there’s something fishy going on, and you can almost put your finger on it, but then it’s gone, and you get sucked back in to the distraction that life has become.

Do you remember that incredible feeling you got, the first time you saw The Matrix ? Why do you think you identified so much with that movie? Why is it that so many of us only feel alive when we’re dreaming, and real life seems like some bad dream that we can’t wake up from?

Maybe a better question to ask ourselves is not ‘What’s so wrong with this world?’, but ‘What’s so right with it?’ Why does life feel so fake and cheap? Even our interactions and relationships with other people seem so fickle. Human beings are like sheep, and we have been, for thousands of years. Christ Jesus was aware of this, and warned about it in his teachings, but then the Truth got buried in a pile of religion.

Take a second and think about the people you interact with on a daily basis. Do your interactions feel pre-programmed? Like all the people you talk to are just bio-robots?

Not answers, but questions.

I think we are all after the same thing as humans… happiness. Or a better way of phrasing that might be eternal enjoyment of our lives. And to get there, we are going to have to answer our questions for ourselves, because we’ve been searching now for thousands of years, and we still have no idea what the answer is. Sure everybody else, has an answer for us, but we don’t have one for ourselves.

So, the next time you start to freak out, because it’s too quiet, or it gets too painful to think about the past, don’t unplug your mind, begin to think your way to a better life, one where painful relationships don’t exist, where only Love lives. How do we create this brave new world?

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How can we call ourselves free, when we clearly aren’t?  Sure you can own land, as long as you pay for it…  So you spend years of your life working for someone who is working for someone else, doing a job that you hate, all so you can “own” a piece of land in a country that supposedly belongs to you in the first place.  And then what happens when you finally ‘own’ this piece of land?  You are required to pay taxes on it every year, like some serf or peasant in service to some far off dictator king.

Who have we let take our land from us and then ransom it back to all Americans at a price that they must pay for the rest of their lives?  Is this freedom?

And we wonder why the planet and environment is going to hell, it’s because nobody cares about what isn’t theirs.  We don’t view the Earth as belonging to us, so we don’t take care of it.  And pretty soon, it’s not going to be able to take care of us any longer either.

Why can’t every family own their own piece of the Motherland?  Why can’t every family have a garden where they can do whatever they see fit to do without fear of making money to pay taxes or buy food?  Do we as Man not deserve this?

Where along the way of human “development”, did we decide that all land belonged to the state?  And if it doesn’t belong to the state, then why are you taxed on it?  In fact, what would happen if you didn’t pay taxes on it?  The government would take your land away.

Land should be available for every family who desires it to create for themselves a family domain where they can live free and happy.  This would solve every problem plaguing society today.  Think about it…   No more crime, no more poverty, no more hunger, pollution would begin cleaning itself up, diseases would be nearly wiped out, medicinal plants would be free to all those who needed them…  Free healthcare wouldn’t even be needed because no one would be sick…  Obesity, gone.  Diabetes, cured.  Cancer, a sick thought of the past.  If everyone had the best of what they needed to be healthy and happy, then what kind of world would America be then?

Let Laws be passed that provide for private land ownership without taxation, and let’s begin cleaning up the mess we’ve made of God’s creation.

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What about you though?  Are you happy?  Be honest.  If you aren’t, then why aren’t you?  Why do we do things (like our jobs) that we don’t want to do?  Some people might call this lying.  This was just one quick example, but is it any wonder why we find it so hard to be happy in our technocratic world?  We lie to ourselves first and foremost, and then somehow expect ourselves to be happy with ourselves?  What have the Sons and Daughters of God done to themselves?  Why is it that Man feels helpless, powerless, and miserable?

Is it time for a change?  Time to take back what is rightfully ours?  Time to be free.  Free from the worries of money, food, clothing, shelter… Free from jobs that you hate, and a purposeless life.  Free from selling your children into the same slave producing lifestyle that has us weighed down beneath a pile of debt, all because we’ve let ourselves believe that we need this car, or that house.  Man was meant to be more than a Consumer of products from a lifeless society.

God gave Man all of creation, and all we’ve managed to do with it is rip it apart and create inferior mechanical versions of it that constantly break down and rob us of our time and joy.

It’s time for Man to realize that what we’ve been given (Everything) is already perfect.  We don’t need to “fix” or “invent” anything to help us be happy.  Our only requirement is Co-creation and the enjoyment of its contemplation.

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