Love, Pain, Soothers, and Overcoming the Addiction to Drama

Addictions are so dangerous because often times we give over a lot of our life-force energy to our addictions.  In the systems and programs of the Matrix, there are many addictions available, but the addiction to drama is often the most over looked because sometimes our addiction to drama can look and feel like love. 

So, has love changed in modern times?  The answer is certainly not.  Modern love is the same as all love through out history.  In this day in age, we want the same things from love relationships that we wanted years ago even if it wasn’t articulated. 

In loving relationships we want to be accepted for our true and authentic self, we want someone who understands us, and we want someone we can share our lives with.  This is true about love rather it is friendship love, family love, community love, or romantic love.  However, in this day and age, there is one thing we must get passed and that’s the addiction to drama.

I really hate to use the word drama, because true drama is an art form and artistic expression (Dramatic Arts); but, in this case we use drama to identify the addiction many people have to heightened states of emotional trauma. So please do not confuse “drama” with the Dramatic Arts.

For a long period of time in the field of personal development, many philosophers taught that if we associate enough pain with a habit, practice, or addiction, then eventually we will break the habit or addiction.  Unfortunately, modernism has met with this modality and has created what I call “soothers” to help us get pass the pain, thus staying in the pain much longer.  Moreover, in many cases the soothers themselves can make the pain of the addiction feel good.

Let’s take the subject of drama.  A woman who attended some of my group sessions a while back in New Orleans told me about the relationship she had with her fiancé of five years.  She told me he was emotionally and verbally abusive.  She stayed in the relationship because he was a “good man.”  In her eyes, he helped to pay the bills, he went with her to her doctors appointments, and he helped her with their children from time to time. 

She said he was only verbally abusive when he had a hard day at work or when the finances seemed to be “strained.”  After being engaged for five years, she gained quite a bit of weight and much of the weight came about because she used comfort food, fast food, and junk food as a “soother.”   Within five years she had gain 80 pounds and also had high blood pressure.

His soother, however, was his Xbox, ESPN on a 52 inch television, a six pack of beer a day, and having his friends over every Sunday.  Both of them had the wonderful distraction of jobs they hated which took up a 60-hour week and a bunch of unnecessary bills (the $129 per month 52 inch flat screen was just one of them) they collected which required extra hours of work.

She had been able to prolong the relationships because their soothers kept them distracted and kept them from dealing with each other and  dealing with their problems.  Once she became involved in her own self-worth, spiritual evolution, personal development, and health, she began to eat more raw and living foods.  She practiced yoga.  She spent time in meditation.  She cut back some hours at work and her soothers were gone.  After her soothers were gone, she ended the relationship.

When she ended the relationship, it was the first time she had ever been without a man for more than a few months.  She took two years to commit to herself and her daughters.  After two years of what she called her “sobriety,”  she met a wonderful man about 4 years her senior.  They dated for a year and were married after a six-month engagement.  They are still married now even after they lost their home during Hurricane Katrina.  They have recently bought a new home in Houston, Texas (yes, even in this economy).

Until we get rid of or lessen our dependency on the soothers in our lives, we will continue to play out the dramas of our dysfunctional relationships.  With soothers distracting us from the truth and from the pain, we find ourselves taking much longer to hit rock bottom and sometimes even when we hit rock bottom we have used our soothers to cushion the fall. 

Today, with modern conveniences we have found it difficult to know if we are in love or in drama and dysfunction.  With our soothers distracting us, no, we often don’t know the difference. And if we can not acknowledge the existence of pain and suffering and dysfunction in a situation, it takes much longer to hit rock bottom.  And the longer it takes to hit rock bottom, the longer it takes to heal.

To this end, it is apparent that either we lessen or get rid of our soothers in order to face what we have attracted in our lives, or we not only do we prolong suffering but we become addicted to the drama we have manifested in our lives.  And this addiction will always hinder our spiritual and personal growth on the path of enlightenment.  It hinders our growth because it robs us of the life-force energy and mind power required to co-create our lives as we truly desire our life to be.

In fact, the addiction to drama can be downright deceptive we don’t get rid of or release our dependency on the soothers in our lives.  For example, sometimes we find that what we are think we are addicted to (toxic food, drugs, alcohol, sex) isn’t really the addiction.  Once we probe our lives and get rid of the soothers (toxic food, drugs, alcohol, sex), then we realize that it is the drama behind the addiction we are really addicted to.

A friend of mine told me about a cousin of his who was a prominent business man in New Orleans.  This prominent business man was what we call a womanizer.  He told many of his friends that he was addicted to good scotch, women, and sex.  Well, eventually these women ran interference in his life and he ended up in a big sex scandal surrounding the Canal Street Brothel in New Orleans.  It was in all the papers and many national news channels.  There was his name and his face and his business attached to the biggest sex scandal New Orleans had seen in while (and for New Orleans, that’s saying a lot!).  The man was devastated and so was his business. 

After a few years of lying low, he left the line of business he was once in because he had lost the trust of his clientele.  In 2007, he started a new company doing what he loved and now he’s a suburban dad coaching his son’s little league baseball team.

My friend said his cousin seemed so content now.  He said his cousin told him, he had to “hit rock bottom” before he realized what the real problem was.  The real problem was that he was unhappy.  He was in that particular line of business because he made a lot of money, but it didn’t leave him much time for anything else.  So, instead of the wife and family he really wanted, he convinced himself he wanted the women, fast cars, sex, and alcohol. 

It took a scandal to destroy his business before he overcame his addiction to drama.  My friend said his cousin hit rock bottom when all of the women who were once beating his door down stopped calling and wouldn’t even acknowledge him in public.  He really discovered who cared about him and who his real friends were.

Why put ourselves through the trauma of drama over and over again when all we are doing is destroying our hope, faith, and confidence in our true and authentic self.  Not only that, but we are also destroying our perception of our true self worth. 

 And just how do we overcome he addiction to drama?

(1)    We have to acknowledge the dysfunction in our lives and not treat it as if it is “normal” or okay. 

(2)    Get rid of our soothers through detoxification and treatment if necessary.

(3)    Get in some “self” time through meditation and prayer.

(4)    Face the pain of the situation we have attracted in our lives and build our spiritual strength through self-empowerment.

(5)    Practice present moment awareness and proclaim what you really want in your life.

(6)    Stop settling for an artificial version of your true desires. Acknowledge how you want to live your life and do not settle for a fake version of it.  The fake version is only an illusion of the ego. 

(7)    Use your “creativity” for something other than creating avenues of pain and suffering.

Despite what we have been told, we can overcome drama.  We don’t have to live our lives in a tornado of drama, trauma, and dysfunction.  If we want to live in abundance and increase our self worth, we have to pledge…NO MORE DRAMA.

Until next time, remember to give up the drama, live well, live wise, live wealthy, and let the Creative Spirit move you.

Creative Freedom and the Flow of Abundance from Pure Consciousness

An old 70’s funk song’s belts out the lyrics, “I want to be free.”  Do you know what I am talking about?  I am talking about creative freedom and the flow of abundance from pure consciousness.  Pure consciousness allows us to create what we truly desire in this holographic time-space-reality network.

It is the goal and greatest desire of the Soul to live fearlessly—to live with the expectancy of ever-increasing good, freedom, love, abundance, expansion, and growth.   Pure consciousness, which is granted by enlightenment, is the elixir that frees us from the bondages, fetters, and illusions of the ego.  The illusion we live  and struggle through if we allow our Soul to be trapped in the programs and systems of the Matrix.

Pure consciousness is what allows us to live in a continued expansion of happiness, creative freedom, and the flow of abundance.  Creative freedom, the flow of abundance, and happiness is not a program.  Happiness is a state of being.  Creative freedom is an expression of who we really are, infinite creative potential.  The flow of abundance is the movement and rhythm of our true nature which is that of abundance. 

The Visionary’s Insights grows in a state of happiness, creative freedom and expression, and in the flow of abundance.  Pure consciousness makes it all possible.  

To expound on this truth, we must understand that there is no separation between who we really are—the true and authentic self, the Soul—and The Source of ALL-That-Is.  When we receive the Oneness Blessing or the Holy Spirit, we live in pure consciousness and we open our lives to the infinite possibilities of creative freedom and the flow of abundance. 

As we live in pure consciousness, our need for acceptance becomes true self-realization and our light shines.  We develop and expand this light and the light becomes so luminous that we ourselves become lightworkers with a Visionary’s Insight, intuition, foresight, awareness, and power. 

All lightworkers know the power of pure consciousness, the Oneness Blessing, and how it frees you creatively.  The power of pure consciousness frees you from resistance and you find it unnecessary to be attached to anything or anyone.  Now, living without attachments doesn’t mean we are living without love, but instead we are living in unconditional love which is the prime source of pure consciousness.

As unconditional love flows through us, we become this wonderful state of being (pure consciousness) by letting go of the ego and listening to the voice of the Soul.  We become this wonderful state when we realize that the programs and systems of the Matrix are but an illusion and we are not trapped. 

As we become this wonderful state we live in creative freedom and the flow of abundance because we have allowed the Creative Spirit to move us.  With each move, we make a Quantum Leap into true self-awareness, ever-increase good, and continuous spiritual evolution and the light within us to shine brighter and brighter. 

Motivation and Inspiration to Live on Purpose

We all have to find the motivation and inspiration to live life on purpose.  The power to will and co-create our reality is living with purpose on purpose. 

The decision to co-create your reality rather than be a victim of circumstance or a child of chance can be difficult when the world around you tells you that its systems and customs are the only way to achieve success in life.  When one decides to co-create their reality, he or she has to re-evaluate goals, intentions, and desires while focusing on what really matters in life.

Often times, when one says the word “purpose” some people get frantic and wonder, “how do I know what my purpose is.”  At Blue Lotus Living, we answer this very simply, “You give your life purpose.” 

And just what do we mean by “you give your life purpose?”  Life purpose is the child or offspring to the Soul Purpose.  Our Soul Purpose is to expand, create, cultivate, and enrich life by becoming more of who we really are and what we really are in our truest nature is abundance and infinite creative power.  That’s who we are.  Therefore, as we go through our life, we discover purpose for our life force energy—yes we purpose our creative power.  We accomplish this by probing our lives and determining what brings us joy and elation, how we want to serve humanity, and how do we want to expand life on this plane of existence. 

Although teachings and information can inspire us and inform us about our power, no one else can give us the answers to these questions.  We must desire to know and through our desire we will determine these answers for ourselves.

 Accordingly, at Blue Lotus Living, it has never been the desire or intention of our community to determine these answers for anyone but rather to inform people and inspire people to desire to know these answers for themselves without the influence of others (that includes us).  We want you to know your power as a co-creator.

 It is for this reason we call our community Blue Lotus Living.  We call it Blue Lotus Living because we hope that what we share will help everyone to rise up and live life in full bloom and his requires that one knows that he or she is infinite creative power and abundance. 

If we all live this way and let this be our reality and continue to allow inspiration to flow through us from the Creative Spirit, then we will find that The Most High Source of ALL Creation cannot be separate from us and through this realization (the only reality there is—the Absolute Reality) we discover our true power and just how infinite this power is.

 It’s easy enough to dream and plan according to the systems, customs, and cultures our society has already put in place, but it takes great courage, desire, and determination to live as a co-creator and maintain the motivation to live life on purpose.  I do not in any way seek to minimize the importance of dreams and aspirations because it is when we do not limit our dreams and aspirations that we are living as co-creators. 

However, we must be brave enough to expand our dreams, plans, and aspirations beyond the limitations of our systems, cultures, and customs.  Your dreams and visions cannot be limited to the house you own, the car you drive, and where you vacation twice a year.  These are but simple perks of manifestation resulting from living on purpose.  If we look deeper within ourselves and listen to the voice of the soul, we will realize that these simple manifestations of focused intentions are not the dream itself.  Often times when we limit our dreams and life aspirations to these simple manifestations, we suffer from discontent, and despair.    

At Blue Lotus Living, we are always hoping that through our writings and teachings, we are inspiring people to dream big and then dream bigger and just when it seems like you realized the biggest dream ever, you dream even bigger than that and actualize it.  This ever-increasing power to actualize one’s dreams is expansion and expansion is living a limitless life with unlimited possibilities.   

As we share workshops, performances, writings, and teachings, Roslyn and I hope that every person can see their own unlimited and infinite possibilities.  For it is in the realm of infinite possibilities that we create life as co-creators with and as the Source of ALL Creation works through us as Willing Vessels. 

So let’s live beyond the limitations of our societal systems and really invoke and evoke our power as co-creators all while allowing the Creative Spirit to move us on purpose.

The Holistic Creative Entrepreneur Practices Productivity and Creativity for Good Business Sake

Being an Entrepreneur is one of those gifts we all have access to if we develop our skills in areas of productivity and creativity.  As a Holistic Creative Entrepreneur, I have discovered that productivity and creativity are the basic essentials for success in any field of business.

Since we’ve re-established Blue Lotus Living, productivity and creativity have been the focus of everything involved with our business model.  Our business model is that of internet publishing (blogging, social networking, link-exchange, digital products…) and with internet publishing you have to be creative and productive on a daily basis. 

Yes, here in the blogosphere and cyberworld, you have to utilize productivity and creativity daily because things are constantly changing.  Do you know how many times I go to the administration area of our site to find out I need to upgrade a plugin?  But this is what entrepreneurs do; we have to stay on top of things.  We have to know the latest innovation. 

With this in mind, I wanted to share with you today some skills necessary to promote productivity and creativity in your business or career.  And let me make it very clear, productivity and creativity is necessary even if you are “hired” by someone else.   

Some skills necessary to enhance your productivity and creativity for good business sake are:

1.  Innovation

Innovation is not unique to the entrepreneur, but it is most definitely required.  Innovation is spawn from the creativity and the execution of one’s witty ideas.  It is always good to be an innovator instead of an imitator.  Innovation is the ability to use creative energy and channel original ideas which become something unique. 

For instance, as I have become more and more involved in the internet publishing or e-publishing industry, I have learned the necessity of innovation.  We live in an age of the Global Economy and The Age of Information (an overlapping gumbo of an age you can say).  Because information can be transmitted with the touch of a button, we are consuming more information than ever and we are consuming it quickly.  Those who are succeeding online are staying on top of ways to meet the demand for information.  They are staying on top of ways to get information out quickly, efficiently, and accurately.

And if you don’t think you have great ideas, that doesn’t mean you are not meant to be an entrepreneur.  Innovators also know how to capitalize on a great idea.  A few moments ago, I told you about how I always have to update my plugins for this site.  Well, this site is powered by www.wordpress.com, but many different people have developed the plugins I use for this site.  That’s still innovation.  I may not have “invented the internet,” but I sure am finding wonderful and innovative ways to use it to promote and establish a luminous and beautiful community and company called Blue Lotus Living.

2.  Passion

Few people believe it, but we got to keep saying it.  “Do what you love and the money will follow.”  I tell you the truth, you will be amazed at the amount of energy you can muster when you are doing what you love.  And that energy which will take you so much farther than ambition and drive is called Passion. 

It is very difficult to be passionate and enthusiastic about anything you don’t love.  Moreover, it is difficult to be productive and creative if you are not passionate about what you are doing.  Again, ambition can only take you so far. 

Passion puts the intensity in your intentions.  Those among us who understand how the Law of Attraction works also know that your intentions are critical to the manifestation process.  The intensity behind your intentions are fueled by love and passion.  Productivity and creativity follow this passions.

And how can passion be a skill, you might ask?  Passion becomes as skill when we use it as vehemence.  Vehemence has force as in influence.  And in this context of influence we mean the ability to effect something.  For this reason, passion is very important in helping you enhance your skills for creativity and productivity. 

If you are not passionate about what you are doing, you will not have a passionate staff or passionate subordinates and you most certainly will not have passionate consumers or clients. 

For instance, before I left New Orleans, I was told that an associate of mine was stepping down as Executive Director of her Community Based Organization.  She had been providing Substance Abuse Counseling services to HIV/AIDS clients for over 14 years.   After leaving, she opened a small but elegant Night Club in a more up and coming neighborhood in New Orleans.

She was met with a lot of criticism because people felt she had turned her back on the community.  After running into her daughter,  a few months after she opened the club, I asked about her.  Her daughter said that her mom stepped down because she was tired.  She wanted the services to continue but she no longer had the passion for it.

 “Mama wants to be around music and laughter at this point in her life.  She’s 47 and she has been doing community work and activism since she was 19,” her daughter told me. “She has a new passion now.  I wish people would stop dogging her about it.  She’s happy.”

I fully understood and I told her daughter to tell my former associate that I wished her well.  There is nothing productive nor can anyone be creative if they continue to do a thing they are no longer passionate about.  You know longer have influence when you are doing something for which you no longer have the passion to do.

Are there ways to stir up your passion again?  Of course there are.  Some great ways to stir up your passion are:

• Return to your purpose and intentions.  Why did you begin to do the thing you are doing in the first place?  Think about how you would feel if you could no longer do it.  Ask yourself, if you are resisting some sort of necessary change or transformation which has caused you to lose your passion.  Again, this will take you back to purpose.
• Find ways you can make things new and fresh again.  Is there something you haven’t tried?  Is there something you haven’t tried a different way? 
• Associated with others who are interested and passionate about the thing you are doing.  Passion can be contagious. 
• Walk away for a while and see how you feel before making a drastic decision.  We all need a break.

3.  Attention and Focus

Some of us have developed a short attention span for everything but what “entertains” us.  Developing our ability to focus and pay close attention to what is truly important in our lives has now become an arduous task for many.  It has become a task because of the vast number of distractions or “dis-attractions that we have in our lives.  The average home in Western cultures has at least 3 televisions.  Then  you have iPods, cellular phones, 200 Apps on the cell phone, video games, tons of DVDs and CD, computers, and  computer games.  

When was he last time you sat in a room other than the bathroom quietly for 15 minutes with no television, no phone, no computer, or any other gadgets?  Hmm…Can’t remember?

Sometimes in order to get our focus back and to start paying attention to what really matters in life, we need to detoxify from our distractions.  Yes, all these things serve their purpose and have become important in the day to day tasks in our lives, but we still have to put all the stuff away at times in order to keep our footing in life.  Most importantly, we must pay attention to and remain focused on our vision of purpose in life. 

For example, as entrepreneurs we always have to remain focus if we want our business to grow and expand.  You have to pay just as much attention to customer and client relations as you do to the bottom line.  What good is a top-notch marketing plan if your customer relations suck?  What good is customer relations if you have no marketing plan and your business is barely breaking even?

You happen to notice these things when you are focused and paying attention.  When you get focused, you get productive.  When you pay attention, you are in the present moment.  And we all now know that when you are in the present moment, you are in the presence of God or you are in the presence of omniscience and omnipotence.  Your most powerful moment is now.  As you increase your awareness in the present moment, you tap into the field of infinite possibilities.  Here, in this field, there are endless opportunities available to you.  By holding the vibration of acute awareness and ever-increasing good, you will draw to you by way of the Law of Attraction, the best opportunity to get the best result no matter what the current situation may be. 

 Need a marketing plan?  It’s available so get focused.  Need a better way to relate to your customers or clients?  It’s available so get focused.  Need a new business concept?  It’s available so get focused on it.  It’s all available when you become available to it by tapping into the field of infinite intelligence and drawing to you all the resource, opportunities, things, and people you need to conceptualize your desires.

What you don’t pay attention to, you get distracted from or dis-attracted from! What does that mean?  Whatever you don’t pay attention to in life is left in a state of default.  In other words, you have no influence over or no power to flow energy towards a thing you don’t pay attention to.  This means it is left to chance.

For instance, if you don’t pay attention to your children, then you have little influence in advising them on things that could help them succeed in life.  When you don’t have influence in your children’s life, then who knows who they are taking advice from.  Perhaps, your child is listening to someone who may not have your child’s best interest at heart.

The same is true in the subjective/spiritual realm.  Remember, as it states in the Kybalion, “ALL is mind, the universe is mental.”  When you do not pay attention or focus in on something, then it is left to be influenced by other mental powers.  Yes, this includes your business so pay attention.  If you are not focused or paying attention, you may hire the wrong people for a job.  You may execute an advertising campaign that isn’t very fruitful.  You may launch a product that isn’t ready for market. 

When we pay attention, we get full wisdom and knowledge on how to handle things most productively.  We also get creative ideas on how we can do things.  So, again, pay attention.

4.  Imagination and Visualization

Increasing your imagination and visualization skills is crucial for the enhancement of productivity and creativity.  Imagination and visualization can be used as tools in business. 

When you use your imagination and visualize, creativity flows naturally and without resistance.  The flow of creativity then sparks excitement and enthusiasm.  When this fire is lit, you become more productive almost spontaneously.

Some of the most effective ways to increase the flow of your imagination and improve the vividness of your visualizations are:

•  Journaling about what you would like to see happen in your business in the next year, 5 years, 10 years.  Make this a daily activity.  As you journal, you are thinking and seeing at the same time.  What you are writing down, you are imagining.  Be sure to journal in present tense as if the vision you have for your business has already actualized.
• Go on long nature walks.  Just going on a 30 minute nature walk sparks the imagination.  You will find that nature gives you incredible inspiration that will stir your imagination. 
• Meditation as a daily activity.  Meditation has a way of clearing the mind of debris and gives you the energy and mental space to imagine and visualize what you truly desire to happen in your business and in your life.

Now, with these skills you will enhance your productivity and creativity as you thrive in life and business as a Holistic Creative Entrepreneur.  Furthermore, as you grow in other skills, talents, and abilities as an Entrepreneur, you will find that your productivity and creativity will naturally enhance to meet your growth if you continue to develop these skills. 

Yes, Entrepreneurship is a wonderful gift, but as with all gifts, once it is in your hands, it is your job as a co-creator with our loving and abundant universe to make the most of it.  Be momentous.  During your journey on the path of enlightenment you will gain many gifts and talents along the way, but you must be willing to maintain a progressive state of being.  Everything in this universe must grow, multiply, and expand.  Anything that stagnates will either disintegrate or die.  Digression is death.  Expansion and growth is life.

So put the life back into your living and your business or career today.

Creativity and the Realm of Infinite Possibilities

 

The key to our own evolving and increasing inspiration as artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs is our conscious ability all the Creative Spirit to move through us.  Over this years, we have explored the many ways in which we are “inspired” to express creativity, but little imploration has been made to understand just where creativity comes from.  To comprehend the very nature of creativity we must become familiar with the energy mechanics of this spiritual process.  Yes, we have said it loud and clear here at Blue Lotus Living, creativity is a spiritual know-how, proficiency, and technology for using all of our infinite potential.    But from where does creativity flow?  And how is it possible that it can flow to us and through us.  There is realm called the realm of infinite possibilities.  This realm which lies within us all is where and how creativity flows through us.    In order to truly “wrap ourselves around” this reality, we must know and embrace yet another reality—it is the key to be able to see into the Absolute Reality—the fact that we are spiritual beings clothed in matter.  With this wisdom, we can really understand what life is supposed to be.  Life is not about struggle or suffering or pain or loss or poverty.  Life is supposed to be a soulful creative experience through which we expand and grow.  Life is supposed to be an adventure in unconditional love, spiritual growth, and use of our infinite potential.    The realm through which all this happens is inside each and every one of us.  The realm of infinite possibilities makes spiritual growth and use of our infinite potential possible.    Many of us on this path of enlightenment just beginning to realize just how infinite our potential is and just how infinite are the possibilities for creating through us with as we are a manifestation of Source Energy, which is God-Almighty and Its limitless glory.     

Your Soul Reveals Your Life Purpose in Moments of Silence and Meditation

“I can’t meditate.” I used to say this and I have heard many others say it as well. However, what we fail to realize is that we meditate all the time, but often in the wrong state.

Meditate in the Right State
We meditate every time we watch television and suddenly slip into a trance and can’t remember what we were watching or what we were thinking about at the time. The unfortunate part of slipping in the gap while watching television is that we are being programmed by advertisers who want to convince you to buy their latest product.

The same method can be achieved when we use systems like the Silva Method which helps you slip into the gap (a state of pure consciousness) and hear more clearly from the voice of your Soul. In this state, the state of pure consciousness, you will find yourself able to tap in to the omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence which dwells within you—the place some of us call the Presence or the Presences of God.

Now many among us may say that they don’t know how to meditate and this is not true. We do know how to meditate, but we have difficulty because the ego is unwilling to let go and let God. To let go and let God, the ego cannot be in the driver’s seat. As long as we are in an ego dominated state, we are unable to slip into that gap of silence between thoughts.

It is in these moments of silence that our souls speak to us and reveal inspired actions or right actions we can take in order to realize and manifest our Life’s Purpose. In these moments, we are able to see the vision of who we really are and feel the power of our true and authentic self.

Meditation and Slience On Purpose

We can be on purpose when we allow ourselves to meditate. Silencing and cleansing the mind of daily debris leaves room for us to use our mental energies for co-creating with our loving and abundant universe.

So many people feel the strong desire to live in purpose, but to get to the power of revealing and living our life purpose, we must embrace meditation and silence on purpose. We must be deliberate about meditation. In other words, we must be sure to take time throughout the day to meditate and communicate with our soul in silence.

I remember one Esoteric Teacher of mine saying very clearly to a group of us, “Be quiet, and listen to what your Soul is saying right now. Students, the spirit is always willing.” Of course, it took some growth and development on the path of enlightenment to understand what she meant. I truly understood what she meant some years later when I came across and Ancient Egyptian Proverb which stated:

“Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration”

This maxim from the Temple of Luxor teaches us that our exuberance which builds with the development of our mind powers is good, but if we want to experience growth on the path of enlightenment, this growth happens as we practice silence and meditation. Furthermore, we know that as we grow on the path of enlightenment we are able to fulfill our Life Purpose. My teacher was showing us this and emphasizing this when she said “Be quiet.”  She understood that the spirit is always willing in other words, something is always manifesting through us–shouldn’t it be something we truly desire?

No matter how we may feel some days, it is true we really do have a purpose for being here. Yes, our Soul Purpose is growth and expansion, but for this life that we are living now, there is also a purpose. There is a purpose for every bit of energy you have in your body right now. There is a purpose for every bit of creative energy ready to flow through you from your spirit. There is a purpose for all the mental energy you have right now in your mind which is ready to manifest in your reality as some “thing.”

However, it is in silence and meditation that we slip into the gap of pure consciousness and tap into this energy which lies in the field of infinite possibility. The greatest gift we can offer ourselves throughout the day is moments of silence and meditation on purpose. For it is during these moments that the well-being and loving-kindness of the universe flows to us and through us.

Until next time, be silent, meditate, remember to live well, live wise, live wealthy, and let the Creative Spirit move you.

Happiness and Real Self Esteem is a Daily Celebration of Your Joyous and Powerful Nature

Did you get up this morning with a true passion and love for the life you are living?  Did you get up this morning with little butterflies in your stomach as you recognized this is the greatest day of your life?  I hope you are answering yes to all the above questions.  If not, I hope I could change your mind and perhaps remind you exactly why you should “be happiness” today. 

Today, I cannot call this an entry or an article for the Blue Lotus Living Community.  In fact, I would think it was something quite different.  Today, I will call this post a love letter for the Blue Lotus Living Community. 

Your joyful journey on the path of enlightenment begins with how you feel about who you really are.  We can talk about personal development, self-improvement or self-help all day long, but true personal development, authentic self-improvement, and real self-help begins with self-love.  Self-love will empower you as a divine being.  Love is the fuel and energy within and about all things in our universe.  Why?  Because it is only through love that we can experience oneness, harmony, peace, well-being…and yes happiness. 

Self-Esteem has been explained 101 ways to Sunday by many self-help and personal development gurus.  However, real self-esteem is when you feel your own “divine-ness” and when you feel good about this “divine-ness.”

Divine-ness, what do we mean when we say divine-ness?  You as a divine being have this omniscience and omnipotence which is flowing through you by way of the Holy Spirit or Oneness Blessing.  The moment you embraced that light that is within you and decided you will be a willing vessel for good, you open a passage way in your life for the Holy Spirit or Oneness Blessing to flow. 

The flow of the Oneness Bless or Holy Spirit is the Creative Spirit and when it flows it brings with it the happiness, peace, well-being, and harmony of the Universe. When it flows continuously, it is abundance. This abundant flow of harmony and well-being reminds us each day that we can do, have, or be whatever we truly desire—and this is real self-esteem. 

Family, real self-esteem is feeling your real nature which is joyous, powerful, and abundant.  We think self-esteem has to do with whether or not we think we are physically attractive, smart, funny, or gorgeous.  That is only a generic form of self-esteem.  Real self-esteem allows you to feel your powerful nature and know that you are beauty, you are luminous, you are love and you are being loved right now. 

Your journey on this path of Enlightenment can be so joyous, spontaneous, adventurous, and beautiful if you celebrate your true self in such as beauty, joy, and luminosity..  Celebrate your self as if you were the most delightful, beautiful, luminous, attractive, happiest, peaceful, and intelligent person who ever lived.  With that celebration will spring up an unconditional love for self and this love will bring with it real self-esteem. 

We think we can base our real self-esteem on accomplishments or achievements.  These things will bring fleeting moments of joy.  However, if we want to truly experience real self-esteem and discover the joy and wonder of “being happiness”, then we have to celebrate who we really are each day as if we have already made high achievements and great accomplishments in life. 

When you and I make this decision—the decision that we will celebrate who we really are each and everyday as if we have achieved all the success in the world, then we will attract to our reality the happiness, peace, joy, harmony, and prosperity which flows in our loving and abundant universe. 

This is your journey.  This is your life.  You can make it a celebration or a B-rated 1970’s horror flick.  Let go the trauma which is perpetuated by the ego and allow well-being to flow in your life.  Celebrate the real you and you will increase in real self-esteem. 

Is Phonemic Awareness a Right Brain or Left Brain Hemisphere Skill?

 

 

First, I know many of you in the Blue Lotus Living Community would like to know…what is phonemic awareness?  Those of you who do know what phonemic awareness is may wonder what it has to do with metaphysics, spiritual development, or personal development. 

 

Well, let’s define what Phonemic Awareness is and then we can get into how it relates to metaphysics, spiritual development, and personal development.  Phonemic Awareness is a branch of phonological awareness which is used to increase reading skills.  It requires segmenting, blending, manipulating, and isolating specific sounds such as in the word “WET” which would be W/E/T in order to:

 

(1)   build skills for reading comprehension

(2)   help build understanding of the English Language

(3)   increase oral reading fluency

(4)   increase understanding of text

 

Now, with a concrete understanding of what phonemic awareness is, we can understand something new about the power of reading and whether or not reading enhances the skills of the right brain or left brain.

 

While reading requires the use of left brain and right brain skills, as we look closer at the attributes associated with the left brain hemisphere and the right brain hemisphere, reading is proving to be right brain skill more than a left brain skill chiefly because of the phonemic awareness.  Phonemic awareness requires reasoning skills (manipulating and blending) which are right brain hemisphere attributes.  Phonemic awareness requires fluidity which are right brain attributes. 

 

The Right Brain Hemisphere is associated with creativity.  This proves that by increasing your reading skills you can also enhance your creativity.  With this in mind, it is important that we read daily for pleasure and creativity enhancement. 

 

Reading daily is important for children as well as adults.  It is the phonemic awareness process which requires that we remain present moment aware.  You can not think about lunch and how terrible the traffic will be tomorrow while reading.  Reading is fluid—it has flow which means you must remain conscious and aware in the moment in order to read effectively otherwise, you are just perusing. 

 

The creativity enhancement of reading for pleasure and skill development can seep into our spiritual and personal development.  Fluidity and creativity is a huge part of our empowerment as co-creators.  Reading requires visualization which is a very powerful spiritual and personal development technology.  With this realization, it is no wonder they say, “Readers are leaders.”

 

Until next time, read more and remember to live well, live wise, live wealthy, and let the Creative Spirit move you.

 

Fitness Guru Jack Lalanne Celebrates 95 Years of Life

Jack Lalanne the Fitness Guru turns 95 years of age today.  About a month ago, my grandfather, Allen Brown Sr. of Delhi, Louisiana turned 89.  I sit and pondered today what he and my grandfather had in common which blessed them with long life. 

 

Let’s explore.  Jack Lalanne eats organic.  My grandfather had his own garden he tended for years and ate organic until recent years.  Jack Lalanne exercises and swims.  My grandfather exercises daily with walks.  Before he retired, he worked outdoors most of his life as a farmer and sharecropper.

 

Jack Lalanne has maintained and continues to maintain a good marriage to the same woman for many years.  My grandfather had a wonderful marriage to my grandmother for 53 years until she passed some years ago. 

 

Jack Lalanne loves to sing and so does my Grandfather.  In fact, my grandfather had a singing group with his sons for many years called “The Soul Guiders.”  The group has all new members now, but my grandfather was one of the founding members of the group.

 

Jack Lalanne seems to have a good attitude about life.  My grandfather has a good attitude about life.  My grandfather believes that you should “aim for the best and you’ll get the best in life.” 

 

So, what have I learned from Jack Lalanne and my grandfather Allen Brown. 

 

(1)   Eat health organic foods (for me that would be raw organic fruits and vegetables by following a raw food diet).

(2)   Exercise daily and make it a part of my lifestyle.

(3)   Maintain a positive and productive mental attitude.

(4)   Have a song in your heart.

(5)   Show Devotion to my loved ones.

(6)   Love unconditionally.

 

We always think it’s the right supplement or the right procedure or the right vitamin but it is the productive, positive, and loving life you choose to lead which promotes long life.  So, here at Blue Lotus Living, we would like to say Happy Birthday to Jack Lalanne.

Co-creating in the Presence with Spiritual Enlightenment and Divine Productivity Catapults You into Your Life Purpose

 

In every moment there is a gift.  Each gift expands our opportunity to utilize our infinite potential for ever-increasing good, creating more life, and manifesting our heart’s desires.  For this reason we say the present is a gift because we know that to be in the present moment is to be in the Presence of God, the ALL in All.

When we become more aware in the present moment, we increase and raise our consciousness about our infinite potential.  This powerful awareness causes our minds and hearts to open to spiritual enlightenment and spiritual liberation.

 

As a result, we experience divine productivity.  Divine productivity is the ability to create more and manifest more in what seems to be a shorter amount of time.  It is a mystical experience when you can see yourself do more and accomplish more in what seems to be a shorter span of time.  Most importantly you can feel your soul being catapulted into your life purpose. 

 

And those of us on the path of enlightenment know that to be catapulted into your life’s purpose draws the enjoyable energies joy, excitement, and inspiration to life.  These enjoyable energies are the result of well-being, happiness, and peace which attracts wealth, success, and prosperity in our lives.  This attraction become inevitable because it is governed by all principle associated with the law of attraction. 

 

How is this possible?  How is it possible that being present moment aware with spiritual enlightenment can lead to divine productivity?  Well, the explore this wonder and gift, lets take a deeper look at what we experience when we are just going through the motions in life. 

 

Have you ever been so involved in the day to day grind and completely lost touch with daily meditation, prayer, visualization, journaling, and doing what we call at Blue Lotus Living Your Spiritual Work?  Did it seem as if the days were flying by and you never had time to complete anything?  This is what happens when you are going through the motions in life.  The hours slip away, the days pass by so swiftly, and it seems as if you are only living for that long nap you take on the weekends or your next day off from work. 

 

Co-creating in the presence or in the present moment with the sharpened awareness developed through spiritual enlightenment is much different.  Co-creating in the presence allows you to experience divine productivity.  When you experience divine productivity, you are experiencing “all things working together for your good.”  You are experiencing those wonderful synchronicities because you are purpose-centered.  As you co-create in the presence, you are in tune with your inner-being the very essence of your soul and operating in your life purpose. 

 

This is a completely different realm of being.  In this state of being, you are living your infinite potential and you are tapping into infinite possibilities where you draw to you by way of the law of attraction the best results ever.  Manifestation happens much faster with divine productivity.  Dreams actualize much more accurately with divine productivity. Your life purpose becomes clearer and your vision becomes certain with divine productivity.  And most importantly, you take the struggle out of living, manifesting, and actualizing who you really are in your reality with divine productivity. 

 

So, now, with this knowledge and wisdom, you can see that the present is a gift.  You can see that remaining present moment aware is the key to co-creating the life you really want to live with our abundant and loving universe.  God, the Source of All Creation, the ALL in All, has not restrained one good thing from you.  Your true desires can manifest in your reality if you remain in the Presence. Your gift is here and now.

The Spiritual Shift and Interconnectivity to Live Life as Your True and Authentic Self

 

What happens when you have achieved all the things which you believed would make you happy and give your life the meaning you’ve longed for?  What happens when you have tried everything to achieve the things you believe you desire, but so few things have manifested?  There is no difference as to what happens in either life situation.  The person who has achieved everything he or she thought would make them happy feels the same way as the person who has not manifested or actualized the things they believe they desire.  Both feel there is something missing. 

 

In both life situations, these individuals can feel as if they are going through the motions of life.  Each could feel inadequate, ill-equipped, unlovable, powerless, and alone.  In order to cope and numb the pain of emptiness and disconnect with the beauty and luminosity of life, such individuals turn to what we call “soothers.” 

 

 

Many soothers include, toxic relationships, drugs, alcohol, sex, food, and yes, television.  These soothers are agents used to soothe the pain for a while and eventually become addictions.  The soothers are what uses to mask the pain and agony one feels when the interconnectivity to life as your true and authentic self has not been recharged.  We say “recharged” because there is no disconnection with the true and authentic self but rather a recharged of purposed energy needs to be channeled from Source Energy/God and directed through our intentions.

 

This recharge requires that we make a spiritual shift.  And just how can anyone make that spiritual shift from pain and agony to joy, peace, and purpose?

 

We can make that change by re-establishing and replenishing our energy through intrapersonal communication with the true and authentic self.  Intrapersonal communication with the true and authentic self is about inner healing methods which strengthens the Higher Self or the True and Authentic self.  The strength is based upon the Ancient Egyptian commandment: “Man, know thyself.”

 

It seems like such an “a-matter-of-factly” statement—“man, know thyself, but it is crucial to our spiritual and personal development in this 3^rd dimension known as the plane of appearances and changes.  Without the interconnectivity to our true and authentic self and a true knowledge of who we are and why we are here, we can literally lose our soul on this plan of existence. We can trap ourselves in patterns of self-destruction or trap our lives in cycles of reincarnation to this very plane. 

 

However, the freedom we crave happens when we interconnect with our true and authentic self.  This freedom happens because we are no longer weighed down by the fetters of the ego.  When we are free from the entanglements and illusion of the ego, our consciousness is elevated.  Those of us who choose the path of enlightenment, when we are free, we are free indeed. 

 

It is the longing for freedom that we feel when we feel “something is missing” and freedom comes with our acceptance to live life as your true and authentic self.  The intrapersonal communication we experience helps us to grow in our knowing of our true and authentic self. 

 

Intrapersonal communication is communication with our true self or higher self and it is a process of building the following characteristics of our relationship with our higher self:

 

1. Trust
2. Reliance
3. Disclosure
4. Quality-Time (breath and depth)
5. Devotion

 

It is so important to take the time to build an inner-bonding relationship with your Higher Self as you would any relationship in your life.  It is then you become free and experience the peace, joy, and happiness you may have been searching for outside of yourself. 

With the Law of Attraction We Can Manifest, Think, and Actualize the Beautiful Picture of Happiness and Prosperity

Attraction is a powerful gift and just as all Universal laws, the Law of Attraction bestows various rights and power with it.  Specifically, we can manifest what we truly desire in our life because we hold the divine right to think whatsoever we want to think.  No one and nothing can stop you from thinking what you choose to think, but you. 

 

This whole Universe is made up of the thinking stuff.  The Kybalion states quite clearly…

 

“All is Mind. The Universe is Mental.” 

 

We must hold fast to the truth that we have the right and power to think what we want to think.  We can control the good we attract into our lives and our reality.  The Universal Law of Attraction, The Universal Law of Vibration, and the Universal Law of Mentalism with all its principles work together so that we may be able to transform our state and create the conditions we truly desire in our lives and our reality.

 

If we want to experience happiness, health, and prosperity, then we must be happiness, health, and prosperity and we will draw happiness thoughts, healthy thought forms, and prosperity thinking.  The thoughts we think become things in our life.  These thoughts become what happiness is, what prosperity is, what health is. 

 

Therefore, it is very important that you have a picture in our minds what happiness, health, and prosperity looks like and represents to you so that you may channel these thoughts through you and these thoughts will manifest according to what you believe happiness is.  . 

 

This is why some people have trouble actualizing their dreams, visions, and true desires.  They have trouble because they are not picturing happiness or prosperity.  There is contradiction in the thoughts they draw from the mental plan and their heart’s desire because the pictures that flash before the mind are not pictures of happiness and prosperity. 

 

Accordingly, the thought forms they are drawing from the mental plane do not match (in vibration and likeness) to that which they truly desire.  Simply put, their beliefs (system of thoughts and collection of thought forms) do not align with what they truly want and what they are picturing in their mind’s eye is evidence of the contradictions. 

 

For example, if you truly desire to have a prosperous business, but you are picturing how difficult it is going to be to draw customers and clients to your business, then your picture does not align with your desire, nor does it align with happiness and prosperity. Does not having a low customer-base bring you happiness or feel prosperous?   If this is your picture, then your picture does not align with a true desire of a prosperous business.

 

So what do you do?  How do you change the pictures that have turned into a horror film playing in your mind?  You change them by consciously changing your state.  You become conscious about what you read, the images you see, what you listen to, even what you eat, in order to change those pictures you are conjuring and imagining.  Take care to consciously and purposely read, look at images, listen to, and eat that which is of a higher vibration with deliberate intent.  If you truly desire to be happiness (yes be happiness) and live in prosperity, then read happiness, look at images of happiness and prosperity, listen to happiness and prosperity and you will manifest the beautiful picture of happiness and prosperity in your life.

 

Ultimately, as you do these things with deliberate intent, you become more conscious about your own consciousness, then you will transform your state which will vibrationally match with your true desires.  This vibratory match will cause the energy of the things you desire to flow in your time-space reality and manifest in your life. 

 

Become like a sculptor, picture the beauty you want to manifest and mold into your reality.  Become like a painter, picture the beauty and luminosity you want to actualize in your life, and manifest it with each beautiful hue and stroke of your brush.

 

You have the power.  You can create it.  Until next time, manifest beauty in your life and remember to live well, live wise, live wealthy and let the Creative Spirit move you.