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Key #5: Staying centered in the zone . . .aligning with the divine
Remember the diet called the zone? Well, this is what I’m going to call the phenomena of aligning yourself with the energy flow of the universe.
The zone is not a narrow little place from which we tumble off, like Humptey Dumptey falling off the wall.
The zone is an energetic clearing, an opening. A quieting of the crazy monkey mind that leaves you feeling that everything is okay and that everything will be okay in the future.
The zone is the reprieve from the ongoing monitoring. The judging mind. That inner self-doubt and negative rap.
How do we find the zone? Take a break from the insanity?
Meditation or sitting quietly watching a sunset can give us a break. Sometimes.
Then other times we wonder who all those people are that just wandered into our head.
Ever sat down to meditate and started itemizing stuff? Scheduling. Reviewing. Making up all kinds of crazy stories? Nodding out even.
Where did of that stuff come from? All those words, thoughts and ideas.
Thoughts, electrical charges, are floating all around the place. We become aware of the thoughts as these streams of electrical charges pass in and out of our awareness.
If we are infinite beings, . . .then our true self really is not all these thoughts, the daily trauma and drama.
Okay, so we really are not all these thoughts, feelings, and emotions that we think we are.
We really aren’t our stories? What about the art of story telling? Books? Our oral and written history?
We need that to define us.
Well. You can change who you are in an instant. One moment your purpose is to be a loving parent.
The next moment you have to answer the phone and be a quick thinking strategic executive or how about a janitor sweeping the floor at the local school?
Then, who are we?
A spiritual essence living in a physical denser reality called a body.
Creating stories to make sense of things. To create meaning. To have a purpose. To belong. To cope. To entertain ourselves.
Otherwise why are we here? Oh, that one again. So why are we here?
I don’t know about you, but I came here to enjoy playing in this denser realm.
This denser realm has some advantages we didn’t have when in an etherial body.
Like being able to create beautiful physical things.
Like having an orgasm. Sex. Eating. Creating a wondrous piece of music or art. Watching the storm move through leaving a gorgeous sunset.
So how come so much of our life is wrestling with pesty thoughts?
Can we stop them? If they aren’t ours, why do they persist?
It’s kinda like fly paper. They stick to us because somewhere, sometime in our existence on this planet, we bought into the reality of them.
We decided our perceptions and words are real. Like, it’s reality baby.
We concluded our perceptions and words must be real, because we observed an event or heard some convincing words from another.
We all do this…all the time.
We Judge. Conclude. Decide. About what is real, right, and serious!
Guess what? They all are lies!
What?
Yes. They all are lies.
We’ve made up our minds here.
We have made up our thoughts, our emotional responses, our never ending stories.
It’s all quite entertaining, until it is not, huh?
Yes!
Now they are a bore. Invasive. Distracting. Contrite. Stupid. Insane. eeeek!
Are you finally fed up with these persistant limiting thoughts and stories?
If your answer is yes….you now are ready to let go and let God, as they say in the 12-step programs.
Yeah. Be you. Your true divine essence in flesh.
Wanta live in the zone as much as you can?
So when you meditate, reflect at sunset, quiet your mind while watching a river, a lake or ocean. . . . watch those thoughts. See them for what they are.
Distractions. Lies. Even the soothing ones.
All thought is transitory…fleeting…passing electrical charge like the wind blowing through the trees.
Yeah. And Yea! Yea, because we do NOT have to be at the effect of them.
Enough for now. Tune in on Saturday when I’ll start writing about some various ways you can clear these distracting thoughts from your being permanently. And be in the zone more often.
Or, at least successfully brush them away like mosquitoes, so you can be in the zone for a while.
Key #4: Do whatever it takes to stay open to the energy of your life and create what you envision . . .
Do whatever it takes to stay open to the energy of your moment to moment life . . . the movement of energy within and around yourself and the outside world. Align yourself with the universal energy flow.
Okay. What will it take for you to achieve a vision or goal you have for your future?
In this blog post we will explore aligning with and living in the universal energy flow by asking questions. We will explore other ways in future postings.
Ask questions. Align yourself with the universal energy flow, as the divine infinite being that you are, by asking open-ended meaningful questions.
This will allow you to be freer to sense, follow and respond to the dynamic ever-changing energy of the universe.
So. . . Are you willing to open to and align with the universal energy flow and receive countless insights and guidance and opportunities?
Are you willing to see that there are infinite possibilities and choices available to you?
Ask yourself. . . “What will it take to reach my vision, my goal, to live my purpose?”
How about asking yourself and the universe a poignant open ended question when you wake up each morning? And through out the day?
Questions that are personal, meaningful and effective for you. Here’s some examples. . . .
“What will it take of me today to get closer to my vision, my target, my goal, my purpose in life?”
“What steps are important for me to know and take at this time?”
“What is important to see, hear, experience today for me to move forward?”
“What will it take for me to stay open to and align with the infinite universal energy flow?
“What will it take for me to receive the ongoing ever-expanding possibilities of the universe?”
As the day progresses, you can continue this kind of inquiry to open yourself to more possibilities and insights.
And this also can help you break the mental-emotional beliefs and blocks you have created that are holding you back.
When things are stagnating or aren’t going so well you can always just ask this simple yet dynamic question, . . . “How does it get any better than this?”
When things are really going well for you, ask . . . “How does it get even better than this?”
Keep upping the ante.
Breathe. Relax.
Allow time for the universe to reorganize itself to assist you with this request.
As well as to allow your doubting mind to relax and open and receive the insights and guidance.
Here are some more open ended questions to ask to help open you and align you with the universal energy flow.
“What will it take for me to work more efficiently?”
“What will it take for me to enjoy my job . . .my husband . . . my life?’
When things aren’t going so well or something is greatly off balance, you also can ask questions like . . .“What about this situation do I need to know?”
. . . or “What I’m I missing here that would allow me to move on?”
You may not get any thoughts. You may not get an answer in words.
You may instead get an insight about yourself that releases the bad luck or unwanted pattern or outcome.
You may get a realization and awareness of what to do next.
You may get . . . a lightening of spirit. More insights. More energy. More creative movement.
Calmness. Inner Peace.
Feel better about yourself and others and the situation.
The bottom line is things will begin to clear up. You will stop being completely stuck.
You will begin to realize or finally really believe that there are infinite possibilities available for you from which to choose.
You will most likely feel more at ease with life and more able to relax into yourself. And be more jazzed at the same time.
You also will probaly breath more easily and release the tension and the sticky, stagnating hold a particular life situation or person has on you.
Things can and will move. You will move forward with ease.
If you are really stuck, stumped about something, or pissed off about something or someone . . .try this question.
“What am I pretending not to know, that I do know… and am not willing to know? That if I did know, would change the way I view my life and allow me to feel okay, at ease with myself and things, and free?”
Phew! That’ll take you somewhere else!
Align yourself with the universal energy flow. Ask and become a living question instead of looking for “The” Answer.
Ask, ask, ask . . .
Listen, listen, listen . . .
Receive, receive, receive . . .
And do whatever it takes to stay open to and aligned with the unceasing movement of the moment.
Align yourself with the universal energy flow.
Be and enjoy yourself. . . with that kind of being-fully-present-in-the-moment lightness and expanded conscious awareness.
