Integrating Presence

When you awaken Monday morning from a weekend of joy and fun to an unfulfilling job, silence the inner voices of complaints. When the thought of returning to work begins to affect your mood and stress begins to pour over you remind yourself that you are not your job, it is merely an action that you perform to earn money. You are not your mood; it is a conditioned response to the thought of your work. Shift your focus to your breathing for a moment, sit in silence and remember that your essence is peace, love, joy & bliss and no matter how challenging your outer circumstance, these states of being are always a shift away.
When we base our identity on our job we lose ourselves with our job. When we place high value on our money, home, car, etc. and lose these things we lose a part of ourself. This is why people stress or rejoice over the loss or gain of these things.
There is no benefit in being unhappy. There is no benefit in being sad, depressed, anxious, hostile, jealous or angry. Many people believe they can perform better when angry or “fed up” or when they have reached boiling point. Although people tend to take action once they have reached this place, the emotions behind these moods are harmful to the body. The moods of anger & frustration cause a surge of stress hormones that are counterproductive to your health.
When you awaken the next day from a night of regret you are bombarded with thoughts of what you should not have done and what you will and will not do in the future. Remain present, quiet your mind and know God can only be found in the silence. You already know what you will and will not do next time without spending 20 minutes thinking about it. If you place your hand on a hot dish you will not have to regret and plan not to do it again. Shift your focus onto your breathing, remain silent for a short time and move forward in the direction you are drawn to.
We do what is most important to us. We think thoughts that are most important to us for the moment. How do you know this is true? Because it is happening.
Our intellectual mind says otherwise however. It will say the action you are taking right now is not the most important thing to you. Which is true? There are no accidents. The moment is what it is because that is what is meant to happen right now.
If you are brushing your teeth and thinking about your upcoming meeting what is the present moment? What are you most focused on?
We tend to detach ourselves from repetitive task such as washing dishes, brushing our teeth, taking a shower and driving a car. Learning how to train ourselves to remain present is essential to our evolution. The cause of our human suffering results from becoming lost in our thoughts. All disempowering emotions cease to exist when fully present because in this state you detach from ego, out of the human realm & into spirit.
Sit outside and focus on a leaf for 1 minute without entertaining any other thoughts. When something comes up, let it go and start all over. Do the same when someone is speaking to you.
There is very little difference between a person that reacts with a physical action after hearing or seeing something and a person that attempts to focus on the present moment and looses their mind to random thoughts.
When you are trying to lose weight and you are unable to control your thought impulses to eat fat, salt or sugary foods you have lost your mind to your thoughts again.
Often our actions seem to occur without thought because our conditioned response is heavily anchored into our nervous system. You will recognize there is a thought that precedes the action if you stop and observe.
No matter how strong the impulse to remain lost in your mind or to continue to do, think and live in ways you know are not best for you, it always comes down to how willing we are at the moment to do something different.
No matter how difficult it seems to remain present and not have our minds get over thrown by random thoughts, it is always your best option. Every time you step out of thought and into silence you become the observer of your thoughts and circumstances and have full control over them.

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Past & Future Lives

We remain entangled with those that become our wife & children in each life through our emotional connection with them. The processes of this life give insight into past and future lives. Karma is nothing more than cause & effect. Every intention, thought & action is made of energy.
We think that avoiding someone we hate will keep up apart from them. Although this may be true in the immediate, all emotional connections with a person keeps up bound to them whether extreme hate or love this is why forgiveness and acceptance are so essential to our evolvement.
There are those that are your best friend in this life and those that are acquaintances, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. Sit back and look at your relationships & recognize the connection you have with them. When two energies (people) connect through a relationship there are various levels of connection that are available. Some people drop into our life for a moment with a word, look or action either for a second or for years. Every interaction with one another affects each person. In many instances the effect is unconscious. There are millions of people on the earth at this moment and you and I interface with only a fraction during this life time. It’s important to recognize this. The neighbor who you are so annoyed with is present at this point in time for a reason. The reason is for both of you to interface with one another without resistance. Resistance results from being out of alignment.
Your incarnation into a family with negative parents is the result of your previous incarnation. Recognize that in order for you to evolve you must identify with higher consciousness no matter how challenging your current circumstance. Sometimes energies do not match. In this case you may not remain in contact with a specific person. You can do this without hating them and harboring negative energy against them. This is necessary because as long as you do, your connection with them will remain this way. You must let go of your negative energy towards them whether they change or not. We can only be responsible for us. No matter how poorly a person treats you, forgiveness & acceptance are the essential first steps towards your evolvement. There is a strong disengagement that occurs. It is like two magnets disconnecting. This connection occurs from both a negative connection with someone or positive. The goal of life is to tap into the infinite levels of positive connection with everyone you come into contact with. Although this seems impossible at times, realize we reincarnate time and again because change takes time. Once you understand what is necessary you can begin to take steps toward it. This will benefit you in your next life because you have begun awakening now. The layers of unconsciousness will be thinner in your next incarnation.
Recognize that bliss & Nirvana are states of being that follow, joy & inner peace. They’re only experienced when we disconnect with negativity. Negativity permeates our life when we are living from ego, working in a dead in job that only earns you money to pay bills and does not allow you to feel & be your best through utilizing your unique gifts and abilities. It is possible and essential for us to live in bliss all of the time. Each incarnation brings us closer because we slowly shed our layers of unconsciousness throughout each new life.
If there were no people on the earth other than yourself your relationship with self & nature would become primary. What is primary is your relationship with self. This will determine your relationship with all things outside of you.

We establish relationships with energy not people. We label them people during our human experience. Stress, worry, anger, hostility, anxiety, depression, jealousy, violence, selfishness, judgment, insults, hatred, annoyance are manifestations of an energy form that is responsible for our continuous reincarnations. Many people will say it is impossible to live a life void of experiencing these feelings. This thought will keep you experiencing these feelings. If you knew how many times you have lived before, this will put into perspective how difficult it is for us to change.
Suicide has never been an escape from life because your current state determines your next. We all realize that we will always have a second chance to do things different. If you habitually treat your family poorly you will have a new opportunity to correct yourself in the very next moment, minute, hour, day, month, year or life. We continue until we reach our potential at this stage then we transform into a new state of being. A caterpillar remains as one until it fulfills its potential at that state, as does a seed or a storm.
Admire the diversity of everything in existence. We are one form of energy with infinite creative potential. We are all clear of our creative potential. You only need to look back 100 years to see what is possible. Future pace & envision yourself 50 years from now after applying your infinite creative potential to your inner self. You may remember a relationship you were in where you got along terribly with another person. You & the other person made a major energy shift and now you cannot even recognize the old you. Many people experience very low points in their life and live a life that reflects this state. Once they transition into a higher state it seems as though they were reborn. Moving into higher consciousness is being reborn. We are being reborn regularly.
Realize emotion is highly charged energy. It binds us together through lifetimes and propels us forward to higher ground. It can also act like a magnet and keep us apart from one another and cause us to do the unthinkable to one another. As long as we are servants to our negative energy we are living unconsciously. We may recognize ourselves as creatures of habit, realize how to change our conditioning intellectually, and know that believing we are ugly, stupid & unlovable is harmful to our psyche, no amount of knowing is enough. Unless we change now we are living unconsciously. Living negatively is living unconsciously because our essential state is living consciously – fully awake.
If you perform a job that causes you to think of yourself first, comprises your integrity, makes you do things your conscience does not agree with and drives you to drink to suppress your stress, devote time each day towards identifying your passions. Find work that will allow you to live in integrity with higher consciousness, where your primary focus is not on earning money and pleasing self. It is on the other person first. Whenever our priority is to earn money we are out of alignment. If you experience stress & unhappiness know that it is essential to your spiritual evolvement during this incarnation to change what you are doing. Every aspect of our life should yield us the experience of joy. We fix our reality when we use words like “is”. When you say to yourself “this is impossible, this is wrong, this is right, I am correct, you are wrong, I am better”, you see & experience only this reality for as long as this thought remains.
We are powerful deliberate creators. How can an infant child be responsible for being born into a family that mistreats and neglects them? Every single one of us must pass through lower consciousness experiences. You are endowed with the power to create. All that we see and will see started from an impulse of intention.
We know the characteristics of consciousness; Infinite creativity, potential, reciprocity & abundance, effortlessness, calm, silence, nonresistance, omniscience.
Consider the fact that your consciousness remains unchanged no matter your life stage or experience. Whether you are a new born, elderly or in between incarnation, your consciousness remains the same. How can you affect your next life & the period between lives? You affect the in-between life period the same as you affect your dreams. Dreams do not happen to us. No matter what your stage of life, this moment is the result of your deepest intention. Even though you may not be aware of your deepest intention at this moment it is affecting every aspect of your life. Life continues consciously or unconsciously. The universe continues to expand, implode & explode as does our consciousness. We move closer to true reality as our many layers of unconsciousness shed away. We can accelerate this process by living in the foreground. Your deepest intention & desires will be recognized & embraced amidst silence. Bits and pieces of correct living pierce our unconsciousness through random visions, dreams, insights, and a spoken word by a stranger, a movie or comment by our children. These messages have been present throughout our entire life, even when we were too young to comprehend. Yes this is true. Your family will have moments of joy & fun even when your life ends this time around. Feel good they are joyful. We see what we can see in front of us while remaining fully aware of everything around us. We can sense & know the presence of the unseen; we can read the minds of those next to us. We were all created together and are permanently entangled with one another, intimately with members of our family during this incarnation.
Peace & nonresistance, acceptance, forgiveness, selflessness. These are characteristics of love. We are all one moment away from any state of being we choose. Allow the layers of skeptism, impatience & judgment to pass through. Remain silent and still and this will all make sense to you. Truth is recognized like a soul mate. It resonates with you and remains. You never have to try to remember it. It always resurfaces at the correct time. We know everything. We remember more & more the further we travel away from unconsciousness into consciousness.

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