Cranking up the Happiness!

What I’m doing has nothing to do with happiness. These are mutually exclusive concepts. – Heron Free

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We are afraid to be happy. To fully embrace the joy of the present moment that is waiting for us.

To open the door.

To let all the joy BLAST forth and destroy your egos, your dreams and your plans for the future.

ARRIVE HERE!

This is the place. This is the destiny. This is the journey.

You must fully embrace it like facing a blood-enraged ram, grabbing its horns and holding on tight.

It’s all right now… The door you have locked.

The mind you have locked. Doling out small bits and pieces of happiness to yourself, like a dog on a train.

A biscuit here, a biscuit there.

We are afraid to be happy. To tear it open and let it bleed all over the present moment, changing everything with love and joy.

To create a shift in consciousness that is so powerful that it changes everything in its wake.

This is the POWER you fear. The power of happiness.

CHANGE everyone, change everything with your happiness.

Listen a little now… You’re mind has nothing to do with it. It is designed to split your life into little pieces of mediocre happiness along your lifeline.

Giving you a piece here, a piece there like a salivating Pavlovian dog.

10 percent here. 20 percent there. Guarding the rest like ladles of soup to be dished out sparingly on special occasions (e.g. a new relationship, true love, marriage, a good job, having children, becoming a millionnaire).

100 percent now! 100 percent ALWAYS! And screw the rest. Screw the people that will be shocked and offended by your unbridled joy. You are a role model, though perhaps a strange one.

They look to you to follow, not the other way around. They too want to be happy, don’t they?

ALL HAPPINESS NOW! Release it, work it, embrace it!

And see how that changes things.

Work that muscle. It is what we want to develop.

It is the entryway into why we are here, and the real changes we can make.

Maximum happiness, MAXIMUM HAPPINESS NOW! Because there is no more. This is the experience. This is the love.

Grab that bull and steer him down.

and kiss him along the way.

- Be happy.

Aligned with the truth

Please note: This post is advanced level.

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A truth seeker can’t lie.

What a truth seeker can do is hide the entire truth. Tell the appropriate socially acceptable part but leave out the messy trouble causing part.

This will always cause suffering. Any truth or reality that is denied will cause pain. It is an energy that must be released. It is not meant to be held indefinitely.

It is the responsibility of the other person to deal with the fall out of their behaviors and actions, not yours.

Often you must thrust this responsibility back onto the individual as the ego is very quick to disown all inappropriate behaviours as being due to external factors.

Who are you to hide the truth? Who are you to try and control the situation, to ‘handle’ what your mind has judged as being right or wrong?

How is this helping?… Let the universe sort it out.

Actions have consequences and we must be aligned with this law to be happy. How is the other person supposed to learn anything if proper feedback is not provided by you? They will very likely continue with the behaviours and unconscious patterns until someone shares the information with them.

A more conscious individual can provide this information. A truth seeker is highly conscious so more opportunities will arise. In fact some individuals might naturally be drawn directly into your life ONLY so that they can reveal the truth to them.

Because you can sustain the deeper truth and offer them clarity.

If they are asking you for help, provide it to them but be kind to yourself at the same time.

You will find it freeing to not have to decide what part of the truth you ‘think’ is appropriate, what part you ‘think’ they can handle and what part you ‘think’ they can’t.

It is YOU who can’t handle it. It is YOU who is worried, that something will be lost if you reveal the entire situation. YOU fear the consequences.

In reality, it is the ego afraid of releasing into the storm. BUT the ego is the storm.

Ahhhh, now you see the game.

Release into the unknown, understanding why.

This will drop the ego and bring increased strength and happiness into your life.

Don’t you want to be happy?

So please ‘step in’. Step into the whole truth and see how it changes things. Allow yourself to be changed by a yet uncertain future. And give more credit to these individuals crossing your path to be able to hear the truth and move forward on their journey towards happiness and well being.

We are ALL looking to be free.

The truth will always protect you because it’s balanced. It is when you limit the truth, revealing only socially acceptable bits and pieces, when internal suffering occurs.

You must trust the truth and understand that both side of the blade are equally important. One cuts you and one cuts them.

The skill at which you use the blade is what you cultivate through consciousness. With respect to the truth, lean towards applying it with surgical precision as opposed to simply hacking something off with it.

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In path with truth… In love with you…

Heron Free

Hope

Never lose hope.

Never lose hope that things won’t improve because they will. Perhaps not as expected but they will improve.

Perhaps they won’t improve as quickly as you would like but they will eventually.

You’re always growing, always changing, always learning.

Hope is not ego-driven which is often what brings about pain and suffering. It is not trying to deny reality but to help us see the deeper reality.

Real hope is what keeps us moving, keeps us slogging, keeps us building.
And sometimes hope is all that’s left, the idea that something will improve, that something will change.

When you lose hope depression and suicide can set in. Hope is required for happiness.

Hope is you thinking you are worthy, that you are deserving, that things will happen.

It’s a call in the night.

It’s not optimism or a positive attitude. That is different. Optimism is more of a mental mind set. Hope is more of a deep understanding that things are improving.

More of a realization experienced.

Though not everyone can be optimistic, everyone can be hopeful.

I don’t know what hope is exactly but it’s very important.

At a time when many of us have felt stripped down by finances, relationships and job prospects hope is needed

Have hope.

A Friend..

Sometimes I think of a friend.
Who I always care for in the end.

It doesn’t matter if it’s months or years
I know that friend will dry my tears.

Days go by.. they often do.
Then I smile when I think of you.

So call, text or email that friend right now.
And tell them that you love them somehow.

-Feel free to fwd

Path of the Truth Seeker

It is a misnomer to think that the path of the truth seeker is to seek. It is not. The path of the truth seeker is to develop all the faculties of himself/herself necessary to support the realization of greater truths.

It is a training system of sorts much like training for a pentathlon in which their are  five separate events:  1) Mental Training,  2) Emotional Comfort / Expression, 3) Physical Grounding / Resiliency, 4) Spiritual Understanding.

The fifth event is that of INTEGRATION, a sort of alchemy in which we consciously bring everything together to become a complete and whole, spiritual person; a human being who is here to experience and enjoy the fullness of life, and to create love and abundance in the world.

This love and abundance begins with ourselves.

Obama: Spiritually Speaking

The question was recently posted whether Obama from a spiritual perspective would make a good leader.

Here was my response:

Obama is a result of the law of attraction on a global scale. Billions of souls whether consciously aware or not support him. What Obama does is galvanize in a very real way what we all deeply feel is possible for the world.

Can we really change the world?

Obama’s response: ‘Yes we can’.

This is why Obama has such an unprecedented level of support. He was chosen and created by us for us to support the dream we all carry. He is perfect in this regard. He is the banner carrier.

Obama will be a good president as long we don’t expect him to do all the work himself. This is not the idea. We are all here to contribute in a very valuable way. And it does require sacrifice, as he said.

Obama is the focal point but he can only do so much on his own. There will be a lot or a little change depending on us…..my predication though is it will be a lot!

Feel free to share…

Empty to Full

To understand the truth seeker stage is very simple. You are here to empty your cup. To remove every belief, every thought, every past judgment that prevents you from fully experiencing life.

The universe is not against you, it is not trying to bring you suffering or pain. It is simply the process your soul has chosen to lose all that is holding you back from fully experiencing who you are.

Only once your cup is empty can you then truly fill it up until it brims with delight.

Only once it’s empty can you see the gift that you are.

You yourself can feel how much is available to you.

Your soul knows what is there…

So it’s simple. You are emptying your cup so that you can then fill it up completely with life.

The Cup of Truth

There are many truth seekers in the world, people searching and seeking truth. For some people the question arises: “When can I stop seeking… When am I done?” though usually the question is phrased as “WHEN AM I DONE?!!!!”

The truth seeker path is extremely difficult for it is firstly an individual path. Regardless if you are in a relationship or not, you will experience extreme feelings of isolation and loneliness.

I have spoken with many truth seekers who have been single for quite some time despite their best efforts, these are people who are going through the process of purifying their cup of water.

I have also spoken with many truth seekers in relationships. They have a mind that is very independent and they think very uniquely. Both paths are similar though individual truth seekers will thrive (meaning grow) better in one environment compared to the other.

When we are born we are undefended. We are overly trusting to survive on Earth. We are given a cup of pure water. Over time other people and experiences put things in our cup, mud, toxins, low self-esteem.

Yes we are overly trusting when we first start but why wouldn’t we be? In spirit we are all one and our cups are all full.

But as we live the human life we have different experiences, one happens when people become jealous of the purity of our cup of water. They want to drink from it, they want to possess it. They want to taste its innocence to feel pure once again. (This in my professional experience is one of the reasons we still see a lot of childhood sexual abuse in our culture. An adult’s cup has become so dirty, not necessary a fault of his or her own but from their childhood circumstances etc. that they’ll abuse a child to feel his or her innocence for themselves so that they can feel pure again. This obviously does not work.)

We also just have normal human experiences and so our cup gets dirty. If you’re walking through the country on a dirt road, chances are some dirt and dust is going to get into your cup. This happens..

At some level the truth seeker knows and more importantly feels (is aware) that their cup of truth has become tainted. The cup becoming tainted is part of the process. You’ve tasted pure truth and pure being but until you’ve tasted the tainted water you could never truly appreciated its purity. This is why we are here, to learn, live and appreciate what we have always had. This is why the human experience is so highly valued.

After your cup has become tainted with mud, beliefs and defense mechanisms the next step is to begin to remove these things. Through walking a path of integrity, following your heart, meditating, going into nature, doing yoga, playing music, all these methods and many more are all about getting back to your essential purity.

As you arrive there you then begin to walk around the Earth with a golden chalice of water.

Not only does it taste great but what you will also find is that other people are naturally drawn to you. Your cup has become a template to show others what truth and purity are because everyone here is also searching to purify their cup of water.

The truth seeker stage is the most difficult because you feel the most alone and the most uncertain. You’re creating truth from uncertainly. This is never comfortable. The shift to the next phase is to move from truth to trust. Practice trusting yourself, trusting what you’re thinking and feeling. This is truly ‘trusting the universe’. Not as a mind concept but of you being an extension of what you can personally feel.

In the trust stage you begin to share your cup with others and yourself. It tastes so good so appreciate what you have done.

Another wonderful part of this stage is the ability to taste the cups of others. For all the truth seekers looking for a solid long-lasting relationship it is in this stage where you will finally meet someone. Not only will you strongly desire to share your cup of truth with your lover and also find it comes very easy but you will also get to taste his/her cup of truth as well. What a sweet gift this is! To share and taste the cup of truth gained from your partner’s unique life experience. What a joyful experience this is.

The truth seeker moves from: innocent purity –> distrust and uncertainty as a result of experiencing pain –> isolation –> search for individual truth –> process of purification of their cup –> personal clarity and truth–> trust of the self and experiential knowledge of being part of the universe –> true love and happiness –> pure joy

So for people who ask me “When am I done seeking?”. The answer is soon or eventually. If it is solely your mind becoming frustrated by things not working out the way you ‘think’ they should you might still be purifying. If on the other hand you just feel that you are done and have learned what you needed to learn than you are probably ready to move on. In both cases begin to trust yourself more. And play with both, the path is never linear.

Begin trusting what you feel and following it. Begin accepting and trusting what you think and not judging it or judging yourself. For the crazy racing mind, just accept that it is a necessary part of your brain needing to fire. It might not mean much. Very quickly you’ll find that your mind slows down. Very quickly you’ll find you feel much more connected with yourself and all things.

You’re beginning to trust and love yourself.

How to Market Yourself

One of the highest forms of change and transformation is fully accepting yourself. It can be difficult, mostly because it is contrary to the many things that we are taught since childhood. It is also antithetical to the philosophy of marketing and advertising. In other words, if we become too accepting of ourselves then we’re not going to buy all of the things that promise to remove the insecurities that we all have within ourselves.

Given my ongoing interest in marketing and advertising however I have decided to write my own marketing spiel, an advertisement for acceptance…

Accept everything about you. Every thought you have, every part of your body you don’t like, every emotion, anxiety, weakness and strength. Radically accept who you are right now. Radically accept who you were. Radically accept who you are to become.

If you have a bad thought, accept it. If you feel judgmental of yourself or someone else accept it. Accept all things. Accept it all. Accept everything that runs through you head.

If you plan on doing something or just did something that you are worrying about, accept that your contribution is always a unique gift. No matter how it might turn out.

Accept who you. Accept your past. Accept your frailties, accept your deepest vulnerabilities and insecurities, things about your body that you think are too big or too small. They are all your most beautiful gifts. In fact send additional love and acceptance there. Make it completely radical acceptance.

Everything you don’t accept is a lost gift. Every part that you or society has judged as being bad or not good enough is a part of you that the world is denied. Accept your laugh, your smile, your teeth, your insecurities and your pain. Accept your beautiful tears.

Love and accept everything. Then love and accept everyone else.

Then watch how your mind calms, see how your power grows. And feel how your happiness blooms.

The Most Loving Choice

One of the most radical ways to instantaneously create a deeper sense of peace and love within ourselves is to simply stop, sit, and ask the question: ‘What is the most loving choice I can make for myself right now?’

When we do this we automatically shift into the body and gain direct access to the love and kindness we all have within our ourselves.

Paradoxically, the response to the question: ‘What is the most loving choice?’ is often the exact opposite of the task our mind currently has us performing.

We may be rushing around, working, cleaning, paying the bills and raising the children but in the process are not resting, nor being kind or loving to ourselves.

A powerful and life altering meditation technique that is available to all of us at any given moment is to simply sit and ask the question: “What is the most loving choice I can make for myself right now?” Then wait…and listen to the response, without judging it.

And then see where it takes you.