Going out of your Mind!

A friend called me today telling me that his head is attacking him.... again. Boy can I relate to this, but not as often as I use to.

I have worked real hard... well that's not entirely true... to go out of my mind. When you think about the your mind it's main function is to protect you by analyzing data, circumstances, surroundings in order for you to survive. It has served you well. But now there's more...

But something is happening today that calls for each of us to go out of their minds. No I don't mean crazy or insane but rather to stop relying solely on rational thought. It is not serving you and me well.

Your Heart-Spirit is calling to you and me. I call this being 'vulnerable' to life. I mean everything - people, colors, smells, sights, experiences. I discovered that being vulnerable empowered me. I met and did things on the spur of the moment throughout my day. I gathered souvenirs - experiences.

I recognized this about a 15 years ago when I noticed I was fighting with my brain to step out of myself. By 'myself' I mean my mind and its judgmental, defining, expecting, limiting behavior. It was not working in my life. In reality, my mind has always kept me in its rut in order to control me. The mind hates not to be in control.

Today, by stepping out of my mind and remaining vulnerable, I connect with my true Heart-Spirit. It's always been their waiting patiently for me to provide it with what it yearns for - Experiences. Any and all experiences without any limiting influence which the mind provides.

By listening to my heart-spirit I have discovered my true calling in this life - to be a Sovereign Being. It is a wonderful journey. At first it took daily practice to go out of my mind. My mind is sneaky. It kept trying to alert me to its unhappiness by suggesting false illusions of fear, doubt, depression and low self-esteme. Again trying to control me.

Slowly I began to recognize where these false illusions were coming from and I 'chose' not to react to it. I would say 'that is a lie' and 'thank you for sharing', then become vulnerable to the experience. The result was true freedom for the first time in my life.

Vulnerability to life is empowering. Today I listen to my Heart-Spirit. It leads my to wonderful experiences.

Oh! By the way... I'm smiling a lot more.

Your Life - Your Movie!

Namaste Speedo

Not Grateful... Start your day over

What a simple statement. But how do I start my day over?

Answer: Just Do It... as Nike suggests.

I have lived with this simple answer to all my problems for years now. Yet, I still forget to do it now and then. The trick is to recognize what is am doing early in the process or day.

Being human, sometimes I get entrenched in my personal rut of ....... and can't see what's going on until I'm well into it. Sometimes hours pass or even a day until I recognize what I am trudging through and I cannot stop or start it over. How can I limit these periods?

One way is to start with a gratitude list. Another is to get a perspective on how much control I have over the situation.

A friend let me photo this card that he carries around to remind himself to remain grateful throughout the day. Again this is simple.

How grateful are you today? President Abe Lincoln said "You are as happy (or grateful) as you make you mind up to be."

Don't worry about anything you can't control... why? Because it's out of your control. If it's in your control then do something about it NOW... Be grateful...

Your Life - Your Movie!

Namaste Speedo

Attitude Adjustment

Ever have one of those days where everything you touch turns to s**t?? Luckily for it been quite of while since one those ugly day raised its head.

Years ago a friend of mine told me an easy answer - "Start your day over no matter what time it is".

What he said was stop what you're doing. Just stop. Don't wait for an opportune time. Just stop. Breathe. Breath is a wonderful stress reliever and it's simple. Maybe too simple?

Right now... Take a deep breath. Feel it fill you lungs. Take another if necessary. Feel your whole body relax.

Now go back to what you were doing....

It's an instant fix to whatever is going on. Instant focus.

Your Life - Your Movie

Namaste Speedo

Patterns and Limitation

Patterns. Our lives are permeated with all kinds of patterns. From the moment of our birth we become a pattern. It shapes our developing minds so it can become turned on for survival in this alien world. A world dominated by patterns.

Duh... so big deal you say. Well it actually is.

Take a look from the perspective of you spirit. We are, after all, Spirits before we inhabit this vessel that we call a Human Being.

Have you ever looked into the eyes of a baby and witnessed the astonishment in its eyes? I contend that its attempting to make sense out of the being that is gazing at it. It smiles when it recognizes the spirit reaching out for it and is scared when there is no spirit present. It is not that there is no spirit there, but rather that the spirit has been over run by the patterns of being human.

Where did the spirit go? The mind has taken over. The mind needs patterns to make sense of its perceived life and survival. It grows in patterns. It learns in patterns. It relies on patterns. And it becomes limited to its own patterns.

Limited? Yes limited. In order for our Spirit to reveal itself we must "go out of our minds".

Okay I need you to make a leap of faith with me.

We have chosen to become human in order for our Spirit to Experience Life. If we don't release our mind and its patterns we will experience the same patterns over and over and over again. Am I nuts????? It doesn't matter.

Let go in order to reveal your Spirit. Your mind sees Right and Wrong. Good and Bad. But is fact these are just judgements based upon patterns of analysis we have learned. Learned not experienced. What happens when you release all judgements? You experience life. Breathe and nourish your spirit. Breathe in knowing and remembering and breathe out doubt, fear, limitation. This is why were chose to come here at this time. This is New Energy.

The Old Energy is being attacked around the world. Look at the upheaval that is taking place. Old regimes are being questioned. New Energy is emerging - Awakening. This is all good.

If you are Old Energy you are questioning the patterns in your life. The limiting patterns our mind has clutched onto. Now is the time to release the old thinking - Old Energy and welcome New Energy. Expansion is freeing. In short, what ever you are going through right now really doesn't matter. It all doesn't matter. Let it all go and touch your spirit.

After all we are all Spiritual Beings having Human Experiences - this is Expansion. Our experience must not be based upon knowledge. Patterns of knowledge limit experience. Why? We prejudge based upon knowledge. Let it go. Experience for the joy of Experience. Let the patterns go. Live life for the experience of life. You will find that you are smiling so much that it may hurt do to lack of use. It doesn't matter. Smile.

Your Life - Your Movie

Namaste Speedo

Life's Enemy - Doubt

OMG This is my number one struggle in life - Releasing Doubt

I like to think of myself as a mindful man. That is my problem. I have have tried to live for so years in my mind that I ignored my spirit. I relied on rational thought in everything. Work. Business. Writing. Family. Friends. Relationships. In the end, my mind failed me in every area.

I have learned the mind thinks that it has control over everything and every area of life. Of course it would because it thinks it's in control and doesn't want to loose control over Me. my life. Its life. This is exhausting and a big lie.

When I attempt to rely on my spirit for choices in my life instead of my rational thought, my mind throughs doubt into my decision making process. I would relent to doubt and my spirit would weep. Crushed one more time.

Our spirit knows no doubt. It only knows yes. It wants experiences of life to nourish it. That is why it came here on Earth in the first place: To Experience what it is like to be Human.

And when the spirit finally arrives what do we give it? Our mind to fight every experience as a way of protecting us or rather its self. Old habits left over from countless struggles for survival. These survival struggles were real but we are living in a new energetic world of the spirit. I can feel it. My spirit is called to it and is part of it. Our collective spirit is actively changing our Earth.

Look all the upheaval going on around the world. This is a good thing in the long run. The old way of looking at ourselves is changing around the world. The new is challenging the old. People want their voice to be heard. Governments and Religions will fight us on every level but they will relent to this. In the next couple of years we will evolve.

Our spiritual voice has center stage. It will be heard. Doubt is being screamed by our minds, but no one is listening. Spirit is having its voice heard. This is all good even though my mind has its doubts attempting to control life. One more time - Doubt is Life's Enemy.

What a wonderful time to be alive. Sovereign beings each one of us. Listen to your spirit.

Your Life - Your Movie!

Namaste Speedo

Sovereign Human Beings

The arrogance of this post comes from my journey. It's a given that we all know how to be human right? I discovered that for me that was an incorrect assumption.... that I needed to correct.

My journey of self-discovery in the ultimate experience. I had to break all the rules that I grew up with to exhaust my preconceptions of what it meant to be human. I needed help. A mentor or guide that would introduce me to limitless possible potentials.

I tried the obvious. Family. School. Work. Creativity. Travel. Relationships. Community. Everything worked and provided me with nourishment that in the end was unfulfilling. I still never felt that I was human. I was missing something. And I didn't know what it was, but I was bound to discover that everything listed above had one thing in common: Experiences.

Is that all that this life is? In a word - Yes!

I had to learn to become sovereign unto myself and be okay with my life experiences realizing that these were the nourishment I had been searching for all my life. I changed my perception. Relationships are the water of life as a human. We are all on this journey together but we make the journey as sovereign human beings.

We are at a time when our self-relience is paramount. We are all being waned off of dependence of others, specially governing entities - religious or government. They will fail us all in the end. Reliance on anything outside of ourselves will eventually lead to disaster do to the nature of dependency.

That is what we are witnessing around the world. The old ways of existing in community is crumbing. This dogmatic relationship to the only way we can survive lays in the past isn't working any more. We are all being surrendered to sovereign reliance of that inner voice within each of us. The one who sits in the center of the circle and knows.

This is the true essence of all human beings on our collective journey. Breathe. Breathe and know. Feel the stress and confusion release from every pore of your body. You will be in touch with You. It's what we all have been searching for along our journeys.

This is what I have discovered. I am a sovereign human being. I am that I am. What a wonderful journey its been. And it continues.....

Your Life - Your Movie

Namaste Speedo

Pressure... Breathe!

We all live in a world of pressure. All of it is caused by ourselves either overtly or covertly. But it's pressure still the same. We are not victims of deadlines, work schedules, relationships, illness.

We place ourselves in a position to be effected everyday to someone's or something's pressure that we give to them. A lot of us do this to feel alive. It's all drama.

What's the answer? Breathe. The gift of breathe awakens the spirit and allows it to calm every fiber of our being.

How does this work? It reminds us all that it "doesn't matter". Where the body and mind want activity, the spirit wants to slow down and experience what going on around it. It came, you came into this physical form for one purpose: to experience.

Throughout our lives we have mistakenly believed physical action and drama is the only experience we need. That is the mind talking. It's what it feeds on. The false belief that the idle mind leads to trouble has been sold to us by western philosophers through the ages. The mind can only feel alive through external stimuli. And it demands this stimuli every moment of the day. Stop believing your mind.

Durning your self imposed stressful times stop and breathe. Right now breathe in calmness and breathe out worry and stress. Breathe knowing and breathe out doubt. Breathe in your true awareness and breathe out release. It's all so simple I almost missed it.

Wake up to the calm within you and live Your Movie.

Your Life - Your Movie!

Namaste Speedo