Life is Simple

Life is simple, but your mind makes it complicated. 

The simple part is to always remember that there is no need to send your energy outwards towards anyone.  We only send our energy outwards because we are afraid.  Afraid that others will not see us, hear us, understand us, love us, or that they will somehow hurt us. Even if we are doing healing work with others we must be conscious of not trying to manipulate another's energy field.  Instead we send that energy to them for their highest good -- we do not know what there highest good is.

You are an indestructible, immortal being.  That is the truth.  No one can really hurt you.  No one needs to see you for you to be okay.  It is only your mind's fear that creates the idea of hurt, isolation, wrongness, badness, and unlovability.

Remember that you do not need to receive any energy from anyone else.  You are strong in your own energy field and in your own heart.  Your mind is only trying to validate your existence by reaching out to others' energy, for approval or love.

So your job, your practice, is to gain mastery over your mind.  To do this, yes, you must do your practice daily.  No matter what else is going on in your world you must do your practice every day.. even if you believe you have to choose to do a shorter practice, still do your practice.

Don't believe more than 5% of what your mind tells you.  Most of your thoughts will be lies, half truths, fears, judgments, repetitions of other peoples' ideas/beliefs, or random nonsense from the millions of stimuli we all receive each day.  Most of the time you are being thought, rather than actually consciously thinking.

Know that you can choose anything at anytime.  There will be no right or wrong choice.  Only choices that support your highest good and those that do not.  We don't always know whether it is serving our highest good until after we choose, but that is okay because there will always be another bunch of choices waiting to be made.

No one is making you feel anything.  You are choosing how you feel by how you think about what you have experienced... whether you react unconsciously or respond consciously is entirely up to you in every moment.  How can it be about anyone else, since 95% of what others think or say about you is untrue --running through their own filters of ideas, beliefs and fears.  This is like looking through extremely dirty, scratched, and unfocused prescription glasses... there is little clarity that can emerge from this type of unconscious viewing of another person.

Create the space everyday to be still, quiet, whether in the midst of a practice (e.g. yoga, meditation, chanting, prayer...) or in nature.  Wake up to the fact that you are choosing to stand on a theater stage with all these people around you; each of you reading your lines, playing your roles.  Ask yourself, "Did I choose this script, this role?"  If you did, then choose to live it consciously, with total awareness.  If you did not choose this script, this role, then become aware of that fact and vow to stay awake and choose how you want to live this life.  Start now.

Go gently in each moment.  Love your self, moment by moment.

Love,

Edward

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Jal ad-Din Rumi