How many times a day do you spend reminding yourself of what you are not okay with?
Maybe you're not okay with your job, the way the world is going, the types of people that you have in your life. Maybe you're not okay with what happened in the past or some worries you have about the future. This list will go on and on.
As a game, try spending time being okay with the "is-ness" of your life right now. Rather than worrying about if you are good enough or going to make it out ahead, be okay with not being more. In fact, contemplate being okay with right now being the last thought you ever have or the last smell you'll ever come across. Maybe right now, you can be okay with hearing the sound of the birds outside for the last time, or seeing a new day unfold for the last time.
In doing so, take particular notice of the spaces between these thoughts and what may initiate new thoughts to occur.
You just might find that it is fear of change, fear of death or fear of this being all there is to know.
Could life and all of it's complexity really be this moment and no..."more" moments? Can you be okay with having fear within and there being no "more" to distract you or alleviate your fears?
Can you be okay with this life containing all the love that you will ever get to experience? Was the quality of the love you gave and that you received enough? Do you need...*more* ?
And suppose your answer to these questions is "yes!" "I really do need more. I am not okay with things how they are. They should be different and then I could be at peace. "
Can you observe that desire for more and be okay with it?
You may just find, you are okay with a great deal. That everything that you can see, smell, touch, taste, hear, or think is at some level possible because at a previous point, you chose to be in the situation you are in now. All the details both good and bad about what might be the outcome of past decisions, you are experiencing now. You might even argue that wanting more, will only lead to knowing there's more your want.
You may even come to the realization that there is the part of you that wants more and the part that wants nothing at all. It is completely full, satisfied, at ease, and at peace with everything it has learned and experienced and there is no "more" to want.
It does want or need more but if more were to occur it would be okay by it. It would not mind more, but it does not seek it.
Curious.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Consciousness and Illness
There may be a connection between periods of sickness and the conscious state of the organism.
This is strictly conjecture, but from one perspective, the notion of illness or physical suffering is brought on by an interaction with forms called virus or bacteria...in effect coming into contact with a foreign entity that seeks its survival at your expense.
This is the illusion. The suffering or symptoms of the illness is the signpost that is pointing towards inner resistance to changing into a new form. Rather than trying to "fight" the cold or make war with the virus, accept it. It may be there trying to tell you " you spend so much time working, that you are out of balance." Or it could be saying things like, " you thought that were indestructible, but all things are impermanent and subject to decay and eventually death."
In this light, the illness helps realign the form known as you with a constant truth about change, life and death and is thus potentially, the most helpful experience imaginable in the pursuit of answering questions like, "who am I?"
Such is the case with suffering.
In the material sense, yes, you are being invaded by virus and experiencing symptoms of suffering. In the non-material sense, you are trying desperately to avoid the death of your current form and the abyss of possibility associated with such an event. Shaman in the past may have recognized this truth, and rather than spending energy as we do in the West trying to change the form, they spent energy trying to change the consciousness of the individual.
Their power lay in their ability to interact with others at a deep level, to create calm, peacefullness and acceptance of things like change and death in another. Upon doing so, no longer was the ill body trying to avoid the fear of dying and thus was able to spend that conscious energy on healing.
This information finds relevance at this very moment due to moving into " cold and flu " season or " fear of death " syndrome. Instinctually, the change in temperature signaled to our ancestors that death lay in the wings in a few months and not all would make it. Physiologically speaking, we may carry the genetic heritage of that fear within. This also adds relevance to the ritual of Halloween, or in effect, the celebration of death and the belief that life goes on into the underworld so that consciousness may begin to accept what lies ahead with a light heart, versus one of dread.
This is strictly conjecture, but from one perspective, the notion of illness or physical suffering is brought on by an interaction with forms called virus or bacteria...in effect coming into contact with a foreign entity that seeks its survival at your expense.
This is the illusion. The suffering or symptoms of the illness is the signpost that is pointing towards inner resistance to changing into a new form. Rather than trying to "fight" the cold or make war with the virus, accept it. It may be there trying to tell you " you spend so much time working, that you are out of balance." Or it could be saying things like, " you thought that were indestructible, but all things are impermanent and subject to decay and eventually death."
In this light, the illness helps realign the form known as you with a constant truth about change, life and death and is thus potentially, the most helpful experience imaginable in the pursuit of answering questions like, "who am I?"
Such is the case with suffering.
In the material sense, yes, you are being invaded by virus and experiencing symptoms of suffering. In the non-material sense, you are trying desperately to avoid the death of your current form and the abyss of possibility associated with such an event. Shaman in the past may have recognized this truth, and rather than spending energy as we do in the West trying to change the form, they spent energy trying to change the consciousness of the individual.
Their power lay in their ability to interact with others at a deep level, to create calm, peacefullness and acceptance of things like change and death in another. Upon doing so, no longer was the ill body trying to avoid the fear of dying and thus was able to spend that conscious energy on healing.
This information finds relevance at this very moment due to moving into " cold and flu " season or " fear of death " syndrome. Instinctually, the change in temperature signaled to our ancestors that death lay in the wings in a few months and not all would make it. Physiologically speaking, we may carry the genetic heritage of that fear within. This also adds relevance to the ritual of Halloween, or in effect, the celebration of death and the belief that life goes on into the underworld so that consciousness may begin to accept what lies ahead with a light heart, versus one of dread.
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