Creating with Low Energy

So the energy that we want to regain is low, but we still want to create something. We can allow that something to be created anyway, by allowing the energy to fill the area and make something wonderful. What does it mean to be energized? It means to be full of energy. There are two ways to all things. With and without. Be completely at peace with the existence of both things, and their place in your life.

With energy is not better than without energy. Without energy is not worse than with energy. It is what it is, all things are equal.

So the low energy we had may not be replaced with high or normal energy. Create anyway. Create something, anything, and let your light shine. Let the light of your being shine through the limited resources you have at your disposal. Money will not bring you more creative powers. Creativity will carve a place in your being for you to be more and more creative every time.

Do without doing. Create without creating. Let the energy flow. It comes and it goes, but we are steady on the course, on the Way, in the Tao. Like water, energy flows around obstructions, ebbs and flows like the sea. We are energy, energy is us.

Take what we have to say and amplify it by writing the course of human events in a style all our own.

Your voice is louder than a thousand trumpets, when you speak from your being.

Get in there and play. Start the end and be the beginning.

There is much to create. There is much to do. There is much to be. We all have the same experiences in different ways. Share. Create. Make. Do.

Live your energy from day to day, in its low points and its highs. There will always be more, for the universe connects us all and gives to us all we need and more.

Thank you. Thank you for this day. Thank you for the current level of my energy. Thank you for everything.

Connected

I wish for my family to be calm, close and connected. What does connected actually mean? What does it mean for my life and what does it mean for others?

What connected means is an ability to be part of the whole, to be part of everything that matters, part of the whole experience of the earth and the world. What matters is connection, connectivity.

To be connected we have to be open first. We have to be open to change, open to revolution from within. Open to others reaching out for us, to connect with us. That is the meaning of remaining open to what we want to be and do.

To be open is to remain feeling that we are all connected and that everything is one and that all is going to

be alright. We are all connected, we are all feeling a connection in our being, but our minds don’t let us know that connection is there at all. We feel it, but don’t know what it is, and so usually dismiss it. It is a power of connection that brings people together from all walks of life.

The power of connectivity can bring someone from across oceans to become connected with someone far over the mountains. We are all connected, and we move in and out of these interconnected webs as we move throughout our days and lives. There is much to learn from the connections that we make. There is much to be a part of and much to encourage ourselves to be when we think about how connected we can be.

Become open to the possibility that we are all connected. When you meet a stranger, know that you are connected. When you see a stranger on the street, know that you are already connected in more ways than can be described. We are all connected, we are all a part of the greater picture of  the universe. There is joy in creation and evolution, and there is joy and happiness in connection. We are all part of the same web. We are all working on the same project, but many of us may not know it yet.

There are differences among all the different aspects of how we see that we are actually connected. A connection happens every time we interact with space or time. What we leave behind can also create a connection with whoever comes after us. What we do makes a huge difference in all the world, all the time, every time we do anything.

The impact of our lives on everyone else is magnified by ridiculous amounts when you think about it. There is magic in the connection,

So how do you connect?

Presence

I am at peace with the present moment.

I am at one with life.

In the present stands the only task. To be fully in the moment, every single moment.

When asked what peace felt like, the teacher replied, “Now.”

In the stream of our daily conscious lives we are all working and moving and trying to do so much all the time, but what really can make it all great is if we just slow everything down. Slow everything down to the exact time that we have. This second. This nanosecod. Now is our only source of force and power. The now that we have is magical. It cannot be traded for anything else. We cannot escape it. We cannot get around it. It is always happening, always here.

When we look at the rest of our worries and cares, none of them come from the now. They all come from the place where our thoughts go, to the past or the future. Depression is caused by obsessing about the past. Anxiety is caused by obsessing about the future. In the now stands the only opportunity to really get out of our own heads. Now is the way.

Here in the present moment. We are all here in this present moment. We are all reacting and working and making things be all the time. But in the present moment there is freedom. There is freedom to act, live and be exactly ourselves. Exactly what we want to do and be. There is much freedom in thinking that we are what we are. We can be in this moment just as we are in any other moment. But we don’t have to worry about any other moments. Only this one.

Only this moment is the important one. The rest can wait.

My daughter said “That works, dad, but what if something bad happens in this moment?”

Kids say the best things.

What if? It is so easy to be afraid. I want to eliminate fear. Be in the moment, come what may. Stay in the moment through trials and tribulations and it will become clear that all things pass and fade away. The highs the lows, the standard moments of all of this thing called life. Everything is temporary.

Thoughts

Take only what is given.

Live in the now.

Stay present.

Know your role.

Live your role.

Be where you are.

Understand that being is your highest talent.

Live true to yourself.

Live for the world.

Share often.

Make your dreams reality.

Step into the current and let go.

Make every day your best.

Learn from your mistakes.

Allow time for wonder.

You are special.

We all come from the same place.

We all live here now.

Let's make our experience amazing.

Get down to it.

Get down to bedrock.

There is fuel for your fire. Burn it bright.

We are magic in the making.

I can't do it for you.

Know you are special.

Be grateful.

Shine like the sun.

Every moment is temporary.

Live every moment.

Feel how special you are.

We don't work alone, even when we are alone.

Time is on our side.

Don't let yourself get away from you.

Take time to make time.

Discipline yourself to become the person you are.

There is time for everything.

We are all alive for a reason.

Be special. You are already, so show it.

Make magic happen on a daily basis.

Be generous.

Share frequently.

Know no bounds.

Be free.

Love often.

Make the most of every opportunity.

Make your opportunities.

Make the world your world.

Love your neighbor.

Amaze everyone.

You are amazing.

I am growing every minute.

There is joy in every part of life.

Work to make your dreams come true.

You are who you say you are.

Allow your light to shine.

Everyone is special.

We all can make everything better.

Make the world clear and fabulous.

The mind likes to play tricks.

Be careful.

Tread loudly.

Understand that understanding is not always necessary.

The sum is greater than the parts.

You are a miracle.

What we do moment to moment defines our lives.

What do you choose to do in this moment?

When in doubt, align yourself.

This is the moment.

Getting Healthy

To get healthy there are a ton of things to do.

There are lists and lists of exercise fads and fables, things that are supposed to work and things that will make you thinner skinnier etc. The goal is not to lose fat. The goal is to have a fit and active lifestyle.

To have energy for every part of my day and night, to have more than enough energy to do whatever it is that I want to do with my time. I am on board the idea that I can be a part of that life and that lifestyle. Parts of it I want no part of, but the benefits I see are really there, can really be true, can really be me. I want the energy back. I want to feel energized all the time. I want to wake up in the morning before my alarm goes off. I want to fall asleep at night as soon as my head hits the pillow, but not even feel a bit tired before then.

Or maybe I could take small naps. I have done that before, a small power nap on different days. They really did help. They got the juices realigned in a way that was beneficial for me.

What am I learning now? That being healthy is more than just working out. That being healthy comes back to the idea of what I am eating. I can put unhealthy food in my body. I can put unhealthy drinks in my system. I can breathe in harmful smoke and vapors. But I can also just decide to be a part of life and the life cycle and eat the good things that are there, the good things that are available to me. That is what is important. Being healthy is not a comparison chart.

What I want to learn is how to be my most healthy self. And to do that I need to get out of my own way, and start exercising. I know that my body is athletic under all this flab, and I just need to get in touch with it. I just need to experience it and become one with it, to understand it and work with it and be around it as much as I possibly can. That is the first portion of my healthy lifestyle. To become one with the movement and energy flow of my body. Allow it to rediscover itself. That is important. I once had amazing jumping abilities and could jump over picket fences in two steps. I lost that when I started eating Cheeze-Its by the box and watching Batman the Animated series instead of running track in high school. That was a tipping point for me to become more acquainted with my mind than my body. I was part of my mind more often than not.

By becoming identified with my mind I became self conscious. I became interested in myself as a human, what I could offer myself, family and the world, and I thought it was all cerebral. And so I lost touch with my body. I thought that the body didn’t matter, that it only mattered what was going on between my ears.

That is not the case. What goes on between my ears still matters, but what goes on in my body is important as well.

Spirit Mind Body - a full balance makes a wonderful human.

To align all three successfully takes trial and error and experimentation, but the stage can be set by others. I don’t have to learn alone. I can pick up where others left off and work to find my own balance. I can work to find a balance in my life like no other balance I have had before. Finally there are three pillars, and I can balance the stool of my life on the top equally and have a firm seat.

I will work to get back to that state with my physical body as well. Allow my physical body to be pummelled back into working order, then we can start looking into the idea that there is something beneficial in balancing the mind body and spirit. I thought last night that my spirit alone needed to be strong, but I finally realize that balance is the key to living a full human life. To balance my mind - the thoughts that I have, the problems it is able to solve, the work it is capable of - my spirit - the being that I am, my life force and energy - my body - my physical structure from which I operate my mind and spirit.

Getting all of those aligned will help me greatly on the journey of life. It is not something that happens overnight. I continually need to remind myself that. It is something that will happen by incremental improvement. Something that will not happen necessarily, but become. I will become more balanced among the three pillars of my life and through that balancing will find new ways to relate to all the people around me which will bring amazing experiences into my life.

Become balanced. My spirit needs a chance to stretch it’s muscles. Now that I see what it is capable of, I am happy. I was happy all along, but I had covered up my happiness with other things, so that I was searching for something that wasn’t really missing. It was happiness, and now I am all about it.

The experience of my life will be the reawakening of my body. The toning of my muscles. The elimination of fat from my body. My diet becoming better and more healthy. There being a desire to work my body and make it stronger and more flexible. A desire to push the limits of my physical body so that I can better know myself and the world.

A balance will be struck, but first I must really whip the body into shape. Maybe that is not the best idea. Perhaps if I whipped the body into shape, or at least started out trying to do that I really wouldn’t succeed but would only find myself giving up. Better not to set myself up for failure. I have set the stage, now I just need to baby step my way to success. To do that, it is important to just understand that I need to take baby steps all the time. It is okay if I only do two reps at the gym. It is okay if I only do one lap in the pool. Whatever. Do something. Do more than nothing.

But don’t let yourself fall back. Don’t fall off the starting block before the race has even begun. Get in there and start swimming as hard as you can for the other side, but don’t go so fast that you run out of steam. How will you know when you will run out of steam if you don’t push yourself as much as possible? How will you know what your limits are if you don’t test them? Push yourself to the limits of the finite and the possible and see what is there.

Hone your eating skills to a razor sharp edge. There is magic in there. Make it happen. There is magic in those eating skills make them be perfect and great.