Going Deep

December 9, 2009 Leave a Comment

Going Deep
Self-Examination At Depth

There are times when life urges us to seek more. Small changes to our comfort zone may fail to alleviate any sense of stagnancy or frustration, and we may need to examine our lives and ourselves more deeply to find the right place to start. Everything we need for success and joy lies within. But so often, life’s debris accumulates, building layers around our core that makes it difficult to access the truth that resides within. To reach the depth we wish to access, we must dive below these layers to the deepest parts of ourselves.

The first layer can be found in our minds. Our to-do lists and busy work are usually less important than we think, so we must look past them to examine the thoughts that matter most to us. The next layer can be found in our hearts, where past hurts and disappointments can sometimes cover up our vulnerabilities, as well as the truth of who and what really stirs the love within us. We can choose to go even deeper – to our center. If we can go beyond anything has affected us to the point that it blocks us at the gut level, we can reconnect with our power, our raw instincts, our organic yeses. Here, at the core, lies our truth. Our core is our foundation that supports us and what we’d like to build our authentic life upon.

When we examine ourselves to these depths, we are able to find what we wish to bring to the surface and what we wish to let go. When we remember what lies beneath our layers, we can look at what was floating on the surface, causing blocks and pains, and understand the purpose that they served. Oftentimes, it is the built up debris that causes us to go deeper, so we can search for the truth. Go deep, live life from your truth within, and watch your innate beauty manifest outward.

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Personal Harmony

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Personal Harmony
Balance

Like pieces of a puzzle, the many different aspects of your being come together to form the person that you are. You work and play, rest and expend energy, commune with your body and soul, exalt in joy, and feel sorrow. Balance is the state that you achieve when all of the aspects of your life and self are in harmony. Your life force flows in a state of equilibrium because nothing feels out of sync. While balance is necessary to have a satisfying, energetic, and joyful life, only you can determine what balance means to you.

Achieving balance requires that you assess what is important to you. The many demands of modern life can push us to make choices that can put us off balance and have a detrimental effect on our habits, relationships, health, and career. In creating a balanced lifestyle, you must ascertain how much time and energy you are willing to devote to the different areas of your life. To do so, imagine that your life is a house made up of many rooms. Draw this house, give each part of your life its own room, and size each room according to the amount of importance you assign to that aspect of your life. You can include family, solitude, activities that benefit others, healthy eating, indulgences, exercise and working on self. You may discover that certain elements of your life take up an inordinate amount of time, energy, or effort and leave you with few resources to nurture the other aspects of your life. You may want to spend less time on these activities and more on the ones that fulfill you.

A balanced lifestyle is simply a state of being in which one has time and energy for obligations and pleasures, as well as time to live well and in a gratifying way. With its many nuances, balance can be a difficult concept to integrate into your life. Living a balanced existence, however, can help you attain a greater sense of happiness, health, and fulfillment.

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Sweetening A Sour Fruit – When A Bad Apple Spoils The Bunch

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Sweetening A Sour Fruit – When A Bad Apple Spoils The Bunch

Because life requires that we interact with different personalities, it is not uncommon for us to encounter a situation where there is one person whose behavior may negatively impact the experiences of others. Someone who is loud and crass can interrupt the serenity of those who come together to practice peace. A disruptive worker can cause rules to be imposed that affect their colleagues’ professional lives. A team member who is pessimistic or highly critical may destroy the morale of their fellow members. And one “bad apple” in your personal life can be a potent distraction that makes it difficult to focus on the blessings you’ve been given and the people who love you.

There may always be people in your life who take it upon themselves to create disruption, foster chaos, stamp out hope, and act as if they are above reproach – even when, in doing so, they put a blight on their own experiences. But you don’t need to allow their negativity and callousness to sour your good mood. Often, our first impulse upon coming head-to-head with a bad apple is to express our anger and frustration in no uncertain terms. However, bad apples only have the power to turn our lives sour if we let them.

If you can exercise patience and choose not to respond to their words or actions, you will significantly limit the effect they are able to have on you and your environment. You can also attempt to encourage a bad apple to change their behavior by letting your good behavior stand as an example. If your bad apple is simply hoping to attract notice, they may come to realize that receiving positive attention is much more satisfying than making a negative impression. While you may be tempted to simply disassociate yourself entirely from a bad apple, consider why they might be inclined to cause disturbances. Understanding their motivation can help you see that bad apples are not necessarily bad people. Though bad apples are a fact of life, minimizing the impact you allow them to have upon you is empowering because you are not letting anyone else affect the quality of your experiences. You may discover that buried at the very heart of a bad apple is a seed of goodness.

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Wisdom Of The Planets

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Wisdom Of The Planets
Planetology

Much like the changeable luminescence of an individual prism, each person is born into the world possessing a unique spectrum of potentials. Eight hundred years ago, envoys from the Chinese T’ang Dynasty traveled to Japan and brought with them the ancient art of planetology, which had the ability to reveal those potentials using a complex system of planetary characteristics. Powerful and mysterious, the knowledge of planetology was used mainly by the Imperial Court to determine which couplings, campaigns, and movements would prove most favorable. During the Meiji Era, which spanned the latter part of the nineteenth century into the early twentieth century, the popularity of planetology grew among the people of Japan. Today, those seeking foreknowledge of the patterns of their lives can call upon the wisdom of the planets by consulting a planetologist.

Based on the lunar calendar, planetology doctrine states that we are strongly influenced by nine areas of energy that divide the heavens. Each area is ruled by a planet: Mercury, Venus, the Earth’s moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, Uranus, or Neptune, and each planet is associated with characteristics, an element, various colors, and a number. Those guided by Mars might look forward to adventure whereas Neptune can indicate confusion. On the other hand, Mercury, associated with water, foretells of curiosity, observation, and true understanding. The year, month, day, and hour of a person’s birth are taken into account to determine the birth, lunar, and horary animals based on the Chinese zodiac. These aspects, when compiled together using a system of complex charts, reveal deep personal traits, and act as keys to past, present, and future events. The planetary and zodiacal characteristics uncovered create a framework of patterns that may indicate success, failure, need for change, or an important course of action. When studied in conjunction with the chart of another, the relative strengths and weaknesses of relationships emerge.

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Spacetime Tsunami

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Spacetime Tsunami
Terence McKenna Interview by Carla Sinclair
bOING bOING #10

bb: I just read Archaic Revival which was interesting. What do you mean when you say we are going to be unrecognizable to ourselves by 2012?

TM: Since I don’t work for any academic institution or feed at any government or corporate trough, I’m free to think anything I want about reality. And I think the phenomenon which most people can agree is happening is that time appears to be speeding up in human history, for example, or in the twentieth century, or in the last 25 months. So rather than see this as just something trivial or an artifact of the act of perceiving it, I would like to think that it’s real, that time is in fact speeding up. When you look back at the history of the universe, you see that this has been going on for a long long time. Things have been happening faster and faster and faster.

bb: Do you mean speeding up physically?

TM: Yeah. So that for instance, immediately after the birth of the universe, there was a long period of time where the only thing that was happening was that it was cooling. The amount of energy was so high that you couldn’t get molecules, you couldn’t get stable structures, you couldn’t even get atomic systems. The universe was very simple and very hot. As it cooled, it became more complex. Each drop in temperature allowed new things to happen which built on previous new things which had happened. So, for example, first you get electrons settling into orbits around nuclei, then you get atomic chemistry for the first time. The universe cools, and time passes, and you get molecular chemistry – bonds of lower strength that can form only at the lower temperatures coming into existence. That allows complex polymers to form.

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