ONE HAND AT A TIME...THE ONE TO ONE MIRACLE!

Hi everyone,
Everybody's talking about being and acting "socially conscious", even creating "socially consicous" enterprise. Wow, it SOUNDS good... but what is it?
What does it mean to be socially consicous?
And if you are socially 'conscious' ?
And if you are " socially" conscious?

Oh whatdoesitmean, whatdoesitmean, what-does-it-mean, exactly?
What are you aware of, how do you feel, what thoughts do you think, how do you behave?

It would seem to me that if you were socially conscious you would know that the way society is set up in a very distorted, distressed and dysfunctional way and so you would want to shift that, right?

So, here's my socially conscious propositon. Without any expectation of something in return, go out into your world today and help someone carry their groceries, give someone your chair, smile at someone who seems irritated or unhappy, share something you care about with someone you don't know....simple, daily things.

ONE HAND TOUCHING ANOTHER, ONE PERSON AT A TIME, WITHOUT ANY PAYOFF, NO BONUS, NO COMMISSION, NO GIFTS... just for the PURE PLEASURE of CONNECTING, human being to human being.

Now, you may think it's easy to do but it's not, it's SCARY the first time, you have no 'motive' other than JOY to engage another human being and connect.

Now you may think you do it all the time and you'll know if you do because you will CONNECT with the person when you give them your seat, or hold the door, or whatever... IT WON'T BE A NONCHELANT ACT...

If you do this on any day you will feel a new kind of vitality, a new sense of engagement, a new consciousness of social being as well as becoming 'socially conscious'!

Try it and you will discover one more IMPORTANT thing...but I can't tell you what that is, you have to discover it by doing whatever it is you have chosen to do.

LIGHTENING 'BOLT"

I woke up this morning listening to the rain. Pitter patter, pitter patter, an occasional ping against the window, and my body was lullaby-ed by that easy pace of gentle, constant rain, kind of warm, kind of not, me inside, the rain outside. Pitter patter, pitter patter.

My body felt the cool air when I got out of bed and I grabbed my bathrobe and wrapped it around me. It didn't change the cool air, only the way I 'felt' it.

I washed last night's dishes and felt the warm water on my hands, much different than the cold temperature of the plates that had waited in the cool room. They didn't complain about the cool or the warm, they simply allowed themselves to be washed and set to dry in the cool room.

My cat jumped onto my lap and wrapped herself in a circle. I pet her and she purred. I could feel her purring in my thighs and belly. She and I go back eleven years. We've traveled the globe together and our way of being together evolved as we got to know each other. She wasn't just a cat, she was Obie Wan, and since she had fought four german shepherds for the right to be my cat I must have had some particular quality she wanted. Certainly, she has taught me many things, not only how smart cats are but the very fact that they, too, can control their predatory instincts when necessary!

Perhaps in the wee hours of the night I'd heard thunder and that is why I woke this morning with the visual representation of clear thought and explicit action as a lightening bolt!

Stunning. Straightforward. Precise. Unequivocal. Every particle of our being energized, aligned, streamlined. Like Bolt running in the Olympics.

It wasn't the 'win' that capitvated us, excited our imagination, made our hearts pound and our voices cheer. Rather it was his completely uninhibited body moving in complete harmony at full speed. His body was fully cognizant, fully energized, fully free to maximize its intelligence, power and personality.

Pure body in unequivocal, pure motion. Mind, body and spirit, one unified energetic field of clear thought and explicit action!

A CHILD MAKES A DIFFERENCE

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WHEN BODY AND MIND GET SEPARATED

This is dedicated to all of you who run to the gym to get a great workout and multitask while you're exercising, to all of you who truly believe you're making, and getting, the most out of that 90mins in the gym.
This is dedicated to all of you who slap on headsets, watch the TV screen, have long conversations about the stock market crashing, politics, lovers, movies, interview prospective workers, hunt for the next Mr. or Ms. Goodbar, etc.

Why am I talking to you?
First, because you actually get to the gym, you actually consider exercise important to health and wellbeing, you want to get in shape, be in shape and stay in shape.
I applaud your intent!
Second, because you need to understand that you're kind of taking your body and dropping it off at the gym they way people drop their dirty clothes at the cleaner, and that isn't smart!
Third, because you're not getting maximum benefit multitasking at the gym.
Fourth, because there's not much joy in the gym, sometimes there's not even satisfaction when the session is over and that's just plain crazy!
Fifth, because there is another way that is so much exciting, more effective and more health inducing, yes, there is!

You may not care now, but stay with me and you will.

The human body is very smart. It is intelligent. Every cell in your body has a specific role to play and for its entire lifetime it plays that role 100% of the time...as long as you don't get in the way!
Now, the body will always behave as a body BUT it has the capacity to be at the peak of its game, or not, depending on how attuned YOU are to it.

You see, in the west, our minds have become the dominant players in the triune body, mind and spirit. We tend to train the body by telling it what we want it to do, by applying external rules to it in order to make it shape itself the way we want it to. We make it become the image we have in mind, or close, and to do this we impose on its natural intelligence the rules and regulations of the moment. This actually can be confusing for the body when what we want is not equal to the maximum that the body can give us naturally, IF WE TUNE IN.

Every body has an innate NATURAL BEAUTY and PHYSICAL PERFECTION. Unfortunately, we were educated away from developing an intelligent relationship with our body and so we've ended up taking it to a gym for a serious 'work-it-out' and 'make it better'.

Honestly, you can't make the body better than INNATE INTELLIGENCE can. Impossible. However you can HARNESS that innate intelligence, you can BEFRIEND it, learn its language and use it to get AMAZING RESULTS! Guaranteed.

Does a dolphin or a dog or a bird need extra-curricular training to maximize their physical competency? No, they actually improve their abilities by being 100% in sync with their INNATE INTELLIGENCE.

Now, you could say, "Wait, they don't know any better, they don't have a mind like us" and you would be HALF RIGHT. It isn't that they don't know any better, it's that they KNOW how to HARNESS their INNATE INTELLIGENCE, the CULTIVATE it, STRENGTHEN it, ENJOY it and REAP THE REWARDS!
Yes, they don't have a mind like we do because they are not humans but we have seen that they have spectacular intelligence and behavioral craft that we strive to understand and apply to our world. Birds to airplanes, Dolphins and sonar...Dogs and scent, yes, I'd love to say dogs and loyalty but that hasn't crossed our minds yet!

What if you could streamline your swim like a dolphin?
What if the longer you ran the easier it was and the more energy you had at the end?
What if you could realign and reshape your body effortlessly while your exercised it?

Words are important here.
If you 'work out' your body what are you doing?
If you 'exercise' your body, what are you doing?
What is the difference?
What is 'effort'?
What is 'effortless'?

There is a way for all of the above to be experienced.

THE INVITATION by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

I had to incredible pleasure of hearing her read this poem as an introduction to an event in honor of Christopher Reeves. All of us were from the world of healing arts and consciousness, mindfulness, self awareness and Christopher Reeves was excited because it was the longest he'd ever spent on stage without being attached to his oxygen machine. He said he was certain it was because all of us held the space with a whole other awareness than the average individual would, or could.
Enjoy this powerful poem, let it wash over you and through you, let it speak to you throughout the day, and all it to affect you...answer back!

The Invitation

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes.'

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

FALLEN PREY TO GREAT MARKETING?

I’m reading the book “29% Solution” about networking. The author, Ivan Meisner, explains how the urban legend of six degrees of separation came to be and why it is totally untrue. However, it sounds so cool, so magical; maybe that’s why we continue to use it, I mean, only six people max between me and Destiny’s doorbell, WOW!

Okay, but it’s UNTRUE! Well, do we really care?

How about The Secret? The Laws of attraction? Change your mindset, get in the groove of Flow and watch your dreams come true, wasn’t that the hook? A deeply emotionally attractive package and a phenomenal marketing plan, The Secret catapulted its authors to ‘Luminary’ status. Wow! Enlightened? Really?

Today, the market is full of second and third tier follow-ups to The Secret and The Laws of Attraction. Since not everybody made millions and found joy following The Secret out came The Secret Behind The Secret- the Untold Story, just one of the many new e-booklets that shares everything The Secret left out… and yet, it leaves things out too!

Why? Maybe they believe you can’t handle it all at once. Maybe it’s a business venture and there have to be sequels, updates, new and better tools if it’s going to last. Certainly, The Secret made millions for its authors, the New Age Luminaries, thanks to a superb marketing strategy and not because it was making people millions!

The name, The Secret, is a brilliant emotional hook. Who doesn’t want to know the secret that will unlock prosperity? A brilliant catch phrase and magnet for LEADS, those who will follow each successive step, buy every new book, participate in seminars, buy into coaching series.

Well, what about the casualties of The Secret? How many didn’t succeed compared to the number that did? I’m guessing the statistics bend heavily towards those who failed to fulfill their dreams, investing heavily and losing their shirts in the end, or at least ending up empty handed.

That is one reason Bill Harris of Centerpointe is so candid about the real work that’s needed to change our mindset. It requires reframing ingrained and often unconscious patterns, focused internal reflection and specific restructuring of the linguistic patterns we use to define our experience. And, it’s sometimes pretty frustrating, embarrassing and challenging until you get the hang of it. Then it becomes pragmatic, effective, and fun!

It’s important to know that an emotional high, a new insight is exactly that, an emotional high and new insight, and nothing more. When trauma is healed a deep energetic pattern is broken and an internal system is redesigned. A part of us becomes objectively conscious and we see, think and behave differently.

Think of it this way. When you put your hand over a flame and leave it there it will burn you. When you feel the heat and pull away you don’t burn yourself. When your mind learns that pattern recognition your brain will not put you in harms way but until you learn that pattern recognition you will be at risk.

When you know what motivates you to act you have clarity of purpose and clarity of choice. When you don’t know what motivates you to act you respond to randomly associated, unqualified, unconscious stimuli that stem from mental, emotional, and even environmental triggers and you are like a puppet; you respond to the fingers of someone else moving you.

Ah, how much of our lives are we puppet? How often are we manipulated by the fingers of others?

Twenty years ago, I was on a train and overheard two orthopedic surgeons talk about knee operations they’d done that day. Hatchet jobs! One was totally unnecessary but the ‘stupid’ patient didn’t know and it was ‘free money’. These men were joking about it, and I wondered what mindset was needed to cut and sew bodies without conscience. The Nazi’s did it. Psychopaths and sociopaths often do it These men were licensed medics that ordinary people like you and me had entrusted their wellbeing to.

I’ve seen people on prescription drugs where the doses are way too high and the drugs are contraindicated between them, all of which were prescribed by a doctor. Despite the seriously compromised condition of their loved one as long as the doctor said it was necessary they kept it up.

Why do doctors take their Socratic oaths so glibly?
Why do people give mere mortals, with medical degrees so much power?
How do you expect anyone to get well if they are overdosing on prescribed pharmaceuticals?

Why do we give our power away so willingly, so easily?

A POEM FOR THIS SATURDAY

Two shall be born the whole wide world apart,
And speak in different tongues and have no thought
Each of the other's being, and no heed.
And these, o'er unknown seas to unknown lands
Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying death;
And all unconsciously shape every act
And bend each wandering step to this one end-
That one day out of darkness, they shall meet
And read life's meaning in each other's eyes.

Susan Marr Spalding
Written in the 1870's