The Importance of Freewill

There are so many things to be aware of in our day to day lives and on the path to Mastery one of the most important things is our freewill. It can be difficult at times to use our freewill because we have been convinced to distrust our inner self and blindly follow the "shoulds" of society. We often hesitate to use our freewill because we don't know exactly what will happen when we follow our heart, our calling, our deepest nature.

Success is not guaranteed, fame is not guaranteed, money is not guaranteed, yet we can guarantee that the choices we make and the path we follow is ours and ours alone. Paradoxically, we are in this together and it is our personal responsibility to make sure that we listen to our inner wisdom and not get derailed by what others may think of us.

Take heart, your journey is deeply meaningful and one that only you can truly understand. Take each step with the confidence of not knowing, the security of falling, and excitement of the discovery of the unfolding moment. It is these things that help guide you and keep you safe on your journey. Breathe deep and live in the moment.

The Importance of the Phsyical

When it comes to taking care of yourself, nothing is more basic than taking care of your physical needs. It is often so basic that it is easy to overlook, especially when you are contemplating higher things.

I know that for me personally, I find that things like eating right, healthy exercise and taking care of financial obligations somewhat irritating and bothersome. Until recently, that is.

The physical is the foundation of everything that you do while incarnated on planet earth. Being proactive and not procrastinating when it comes to taking care of your physical needs is important.

After all, if you think getting into shape is hard today, do you think it will be any easier ten years from now? Healthy diet has a cumulative effect, so starting sooner than later is important. Taking care of your finances is one of the most important, simply because having more than enough money gives you the freedom to pursue your dreams.

When it comes to relationships, my strong suggestion is: Improve your relationship with yourself. When you are happy and healthy you will naturally attract people that are healthy too (or improve the one you are in currently).

Healthy Eating

The more natural and seasonal your diet is the better. Processed foods have the most unnatural products in them, artificial sweeteners are worse than raw sugar, and cooking for yourself is better than eating out (unless that restaurant is awesome).

More important than what you eat is your attitude about what you eat. Bless your food. Send positive intent that you will get the best nutrition and sustenance available from the food you are eating. 

If you cannot feel healthy about the food you are eating and sending positive intent is impossible, then don't eat it! However, if you have been conditioned to fear eating natural foods, you may have to work on yourself a bit to relax your food standards and to do the best you can.

Healthy Exercise

Taking care of your physical body is very important. Having a fun, natural way to exercise allows you to have a sustainable fitness program.

Part of the difficulty when it comes to exercise is that people feel that unless they are working out at a gym for hours every day, then they are not getting sufficient exercise. That couldn't be farther from the truth!

All you really need is approximately 30 minutes of exercise 3-5 times a week to get into better shape. The amazing part is that you don't even have to do 30 minutes straight! You can literally do several 5-10 minute workouts throughout the day.

If you are looking for something that I personally use and highly recommend, look no further than: "You Are Your Own Gym" by Mark Lauren. The exercises in this book are body weight exercises that can be done no matter what your fitness level.

The work outs are anywhere from 16 minutes to 36 minutes in length, challenging and yet they leave you feeling great with plenty of energy to do what ever else you want to that day, even another workout!

I do this workout with the help of the app that you can find by searching for "you are your own gym" in the Apple or Android store. Get the app it helps a lot! It has videos and demos of the exercises and a workout tracker to make things easy. Seriously, get it.

Healthy Finances

This one is very important, part of what keeps us too busy to look deeper into the mysteries of the universe is constantly chasing after money and material things. I'm not saying money is bad, or that you should give up your material needs and go live in a cave wearing a diaper on your head.

I'm saying, get your finances in order. You will feel a lot better and you will have more freedom and more time to devote to your inner work if you do.

First of all: Stop spending money on things that do not improve your life. Money is meant to be spent, but if you waste it on junk that you don't need, then you might as well just throw that money in the trash for all the good it is doing for you.

Second of all: Stop being so damn cheap! Seriously, pay the extra money for the real cheese. Buy nice furniture instead of the couch that is $50 cheaper, even though the more "expensive" couch is exactly what you want and the "cheaper" one secretly makes you want to throw up!

Part of the reason we end up spending so much money is that we feel unfulfilled in life. Part of what makes life worth living is living in an environment that supports us mentally, emotional and spiritually as well as taking care of our physical needs.

Save a little longer if you have to and buy what you really want. You will end up saving thousands of dollars in the long run and you will uplift your spirit in ways you have to experience to believe!

Lastly: Do the work that inspires you and pays the bills! If you can't find your dream job, keep looking while you make your current job inspirational for yourself and others and when you find that dream job, go for it!

Having a well paying job allows you to finance a healthy lifestyle, gives you more freedom to pursue your dreams, and allows you to pay people like me for our wonderful help along the way. (We all got to eat, you know ;P )

Healthy Lifestyle

People. It all comes down in the end to people. Who you are with is often more important that where you are. The right people in you life can create heaven on earth. The wrong kind can make hell.

Create the kind of environment that will attract the people you want in your life and if nothing else, help you to be the kind of person that you want in your life. After all, you have to spend your whole life with yourself, so you might as well be someone that you would like to be around all the time!

Unhealthy people tend to put unhealthy demands on our time and energy. Weed them out, seriously. Today. Part of the reason you don't want to weed them out is because they will get upset. 

Like they aren't upset at you already. When you get rid of them, you won't be there to listen to their crap anymore, so you don't have to deal with it. Move on already. They'll find someone else to victimize soon enough.

Find healthy people. They are out there. Trust me.

Well, that wraps it up for today. If you have any questions or comments please post them here or email me and I will answer when appropriate!

Trust Yourself

Life can be difficult and confusing at times. Often we have done everything right, did what we were told to do, did exactly what we were supposed to have done and in the end things didn't work out the way they were supposed to have turned out.

How can this happen? I followed the plan perfectly and yet things didn't work out. What gives?

More than likely, at some point, there was a small quiet voice that knew exactly what to do, fighting to be heard over the shouting, demanding voice of the people of the past telling you what to do, and you listened.

Not to that inner knowing, but instead to the clamoring masses of other people's opinions demanding your attention. that is where things went wrong. The moment you stop trusting yourself, denying your true nature, your true beliefs, your true heart, that is when things go wrong.

There are many times when you have heard that voice and listened. If you pay attention, you know that voice, it's the one that is quiet, calm, and peaceful. The one that cares about you and doesn't threaten, try to guilt or shame you, doesn't demand anything at all.

That inner knowing isn't always in words, doesn't sounds like anyone you know, and probably doesn't even sounds like you, but it is you. It is in you. Trust in its strength and wisdom and soon you will see the results in you life that make life worth living.

Trust Yourself.

The Power of Personal Responsibility

There are many time in life when it easy to get overwhelmed by the constant demands that life makes of us. This is often because we have somehow given away our authority to others.

Whenever you feel that there are things that you "have to" do, or there is a long list of "shoulds" in our lives, we have given up our personal responsibility.

Everything that we do is our choice! We have freewill. We choose to create our lives in whatever way we see fit.

It is not uncommon to get hemmed in by other people and outside forces that threaten us with negative consequences if we do not conform to their wishes, but we always have the right, (if not the responsibility) to say no to the excessive and harmful demands that are not in alignment with ourselves.

 Personal Responsibility is Power! When you know that there is no higher authority than yourself, and that you are the only one responsible for your life, you become empowered to take action! Actions that help to make the world a better place, actions that bring joy and peace into your life and into the lives of others, actions of your own choosing!

You have the right to make decisions based on what you believe is best. How many times have you listened to others when you knew you shouldn't have? That stops today.


Make the choice to honor your inner wisdom and create the life that you want to live.

Life is wonderful when you put yourself in charge of it. Try it for a week, see how it fits, I'm sure you won't be disappointed!

New Beginnings

Hello everyone. I know it has been a while since I have written anything. I have been rather internal during my most recent shift and I didn't feel like interrupting the process by writing.

There are times on a personal path when it is important to go within and withdraw from the outside world for a time. It gives you a chance to break up old patterns and dissolve unnecessary aspects of your personality.

When making these changes, it is much easier to change when you are not busy maintaining the way you used to be.

Personal evolution and growth come from within (although it can be encouraged from outside). I definitely want to continue this blog, even if its style will change.

I will have more posts shortly, I wanted to keep you all updated.

Learning to Listen

It is well know that it is important to be a good listener, but what does it take to be a great one?

Listening as an Art

Silence is Golden

There is more to listening than simply hearing things. Real listening begins when you begin to understand what you are hearing.

Start by understanding that even though people are using the same words you do, it doesn't mean that they saying the same thing!

Or, as I like to say, "Just because we are both speaking English, doesn't mean we are speaking the same language."

Different people have different beliefs and experiences that and flavor and meaning to the words they use. The tonal quality of they way they say a word can change its meaning. Different emphasis on different parts of a spoken phrase can change its meaning.

In the same way, when listening to someone, be aware that what they are saying may not be what they are really trying to communicate.

Hidden Communication

• "Fine!" said with a genuine smile on their face: "Wonderful, life couldn't be better!"
• "Fine!" same shortly with a frown and crossed arms: "Leave me alone! I don't want to be bothered!" (although I suspect they really want to talk to somebody about it.)
• "Fine..." with slumped shoulders and a sad expression: "I feel very alone and nobody cares... *sigh*"

As you can see, even a simple word like "fine" is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to communication.

Listening to Body Language

Body Language

A person's facial expressions and body language communicate far more of what a person is saying than the words themselves. 

If you want to know what a person is silently sharing, pay attention to their body language

Body language reading is a fairly simple skill to pick up. You already do it, even if you are not aware of it. 

By paying attention to body language you will begin to get a fuller picture of what is actually going on with someone else.

A recommendation when reading body language is: Don't jump to conclusions! (This is the same for listening, by the way.) 

You should have at least 3 points of congruent data before making even a tentative theory about what they are saying.

Understanding Motivations

What's your motive?

When listening to people, I generally want to understand what they really want. Some people are just trying to sell you something. Some people just want you to validate their sob story. Some people want your attention. Some people are just lonely and want to make a connection. Some people want to share something that makes them feel great!

When you can tune in to a persons motivations, you can gain great insight into a person. This insight will allow you communicate more effectively with people by helping them to feel heard. This is what they are really communicating. (Effectively or not.)

If you have ever felt that someone was listening to you, but you still didn't feel heard, this is what was missing. they just didn't get it and the "it" was what you were really trying to share underneath the words.

Caring and Other Tips

The most important thing for great listening is great caring. If you don't care about someone, it's impossible to listen. The more you actually care about someone the more you actually listen.

Love is not the same as caring. Compassion is not the same a caring. Being truly interested in the other person is caring.

You can love them and yet not really care to be bothered with how they actually feel. You can have compassion for another person, yet not care about the details. When you desire to be fully present for the other person as if they are the most important person in the world and you want what is truly best for them, then and only then do you completely have it. That is how you listen.

Listening Tips

• Care (I mean really care!)
• Be respectful.
• Don't interrupt.
• Share relevant (and beneficial) information.
• Seek to understand where they are coming from and what they really mean.
• Don't take it personal. It's not about you. (usually)
• Don't worry, be happy!

In Conclusion,

Conversation!

You have everything you need to become a good listener already. With these tips, you are well on your way to becoming a better listener. After all, you cared enough to read this!

Good luck and have fun!

Organization as Creativity

Creative Organization

Today, I was doing a bit of organization around the house and at first it felt tedious. Like it was the most boring, non-creative thing a person could be doing with their time.

I kept feeling that I was missing something, and my intuition was ringing. I felt drawn to read from a book I've recently purchased on Kundalini Yoga. 

While reading a section on the second chakra and creativity, it hit me that organization is creativity! I felt an immediate release of tension around the concept of sorting and organization.

Any act of creation has organization in it, and any act of organization has creativity in it. In order to decide how to sort things, you must first create rules to follow, and following these rules allow you to manifest your desires.

Life is and endless cycle of creation and destruction. An endless cycle of organization and reorganization!

So the next time you have a tedious task of organization ahead of you, remember that you can use it as an opportunity to be creative and have fun!