I'm Going Through Changes

The temperature is dropping daily, we had our first snow fall during the week and it was a healthy dumping. Ozzy Osborne "I'm going through changes" echoes through my mind and I reflect. Everyday is a change, a subtle or not-so subtle shift. That which seemed small yesterday, today appears larger or vice versa.

Seasonal shifts remind me of my level of awareness to my personal consciousness. A little reminder to be detached but ever expectant. That the things I work toward are collectively being attracted to my present, through my own understandings and through powers that are beyond my human intelligence.

I'm reminded to be ever-grateful, not for things, but for experiences, states of being, changes I incur and revel in. Grateful that I usually have the mental fortitude to realize that my path is ever forward, even when I'm taken aback 3 steps.

Peace and joy forever occupy a space in my state of being, sometimes smaller, sometimes larger and at times even forgotten, but impossible to avoid for long. For that I'm grateful.

Perhaps it's time for a checkpoint, a inner touch base. The seasons are changing. Where are you headed? Are you happy with what you see within you? Can you step back from the soap opera of your daily life and see your inner divine being at work?

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The Personality Of When

I cant say exactly when or how I came to this realisation but there are some things I know for sure. One of the cornerstones as it were and there are more than 4 corners to knowing who you are, where you are and when you are; not forgetting how you are!

No matter where you find yourself, up or down, left or right, its sometimes natural to wonder how long the moment might last or 'when' it might end. It's up to you of course, but that's not always plain to see. Sometimes it's like looking in the fridge for the butter for half an hour, ultimately seeing it right in front of you.

'When' is an interesting question prefix. It almost denotes an instant attachment to the outcome of the answer, whether positive or negative. "When will this be over?", "When will this fantastic moment end?".

They key pointer in a 'when-moment', in your inner talk, is that it should reflect back at you assuming you are open to it. Asking 'when' puts things outside of your control and creates an illusion. Maybe you need that comfort in that moment or some sense of security?

Those 'when' questions, when :) they come up; should give you pause and allow you too look back within. Ask yourself "What is it that I am scared of taking control of?" "What is it that I allow to hold me back?" "Why am I giving my-self over to something else?"

So "when" when comes into the picture, relax and imagine that you are the creator of your paradigm and that you do indeed choose the actors and the script. Simply write that lack of control or perception of it out of the play altogether.

If anything, you will feel more empowered "when" you do. :)

On The Path, Or?

How was your experience of today?

Were you on the path, at least some of the time?

When did you fall off?

And when you did, did you dust yourself off, recognize the experience without beating yourself up and continue ... onward and upward?

Did you remember to pause and enjoy the wildflowers floating in the breeze while you waited patiently for that stoplight to turn?

Or, say I love you and feel it?

Did you remember to be grateful for simply being able to get out of bed, brush your teeth and wolf down that bowl of instant cereal?

Or, wonder about long lost acquaintance and actually dig out their phone number?

Did you stop to feel the appreciation of those around you for all that you are in their lives, or allow your ego to drive that conversation into the ground?

What is it in you that you are thankful for?

What will you allow tomorrow to bring?

I wonder, did you even read this far?

Love Yourself And All Your Flaws

Love yourself and all your flaws, each one
See them only as small things to overcome
In your journey each day
Grow yourself in some small way

Look inside
To decide
Where to focus your attention
With time and practice you will come to the same conclusion


Loving yourself and all your flaws
Is the beginning of opening all those inner doors
Leading and lighting your way
Is in your control each moment of the day

Practice makes perfect
Given time to reflect
Where you focus your attention
Is where you will grow your intentional comprehension


So love yourself and all your flaws
From within yourself open all those stuffy drawers
Throw out illusion
Reality in confusion

See and feel the spark of the real
That through the veils and shadows you begin to unpeel
What is inside
That warmth and love you have continued to hide


But love yourself and all your flaws
It is the start of your higher cause
To overcome your allegiance to fear
Part of the illusion that has always seemed so near

Is only something you can lose
If you take the time to believe you can choose
Break free from the flawed chains
That keep you a slave to your disdain


When all you require
To again begin to inspire
Is to love yourself and all your flaws
And again allow yourself to be at cause


With love and gratitude,
Mikel

Come Back, Come Back, All Is Forgiven

You are like the first unaware ripple, caused from the anonymous hand dropping a pebble in the pool of human consciousness.

Screaming forth from the beginning, dancing into a seemingly new world, unaware of interference or other plans.

You experience your first collisions with other ripples. You perceive some of these outcomes as positive and some not. Do you even know who you are yet?

Onward you continue somehow, in someway; charging forth. Conscious sometimes and unconscious others.

Sometime, someday you wonder at your 'progress' and conceive another way. Perhaps dim at first but causing that thirst... the one that just doesn't go away.

You search and you seek, no where do you find that drink of knowledge or taste of experience that satisfies in all ways and scratches that itch.

Yet as you roll in this pond and clash, collide and hug other ripples you cannot help but come to realize what you are.

Successfully seeing yourself as that, opens that door a little more; to let in the sense that all those accidents and things that derailed your plans, were perhaps pieces of a plan with a larger design.

As all these things gel and wash over your knowingness, you consider some routes that were not contemplated before.

If you are a ripple and running always forward in the pond, what if you go backwards to where you begun?

What if there is something to learn from a time being young, when rules were for adults and mud pies were fun?

Perhaps wisdom has a sense of humour when it chooses to hide, in the child inside? And yet here you run, run, run with that seemingly ever changing tide.

Rise above the waves, see where you've been, give your-self credit and play with your child within.

For Things To Change, You Have To Change

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
~ Wayne Dyer

Welcome back. It's been some time since I've visited but now I am here. My introspection and self-growth of the last while has been like an in-breath, feeding my spiritual self. Now its time for an out-breath, starting slowly and keeping it that way for a time, feeding life into outpourings here and energy into my other spiritual projects.

There have been many many changes for me, within me and through me in the last while and now is the time to pursue balance for the longer term; not just to benefit myself but also you and those that follow.

Recently I was re-minded of this quote I love - "For things to change, you have to change". There are few that I know of that incorporate or carry this philosophy within themselves constantly, without effort. My teacher/guru is one such.

Personally I am able to hold this intention for long periods of time and sometimes short periods of time or not at all, until of course I am re-minded or choose to be.

We are all at very intimately different personal spaces within our individual journeys toward the same destination, which are incomparable with others. In fact, to compare your personal opinion of your spiritual growth, enlightenment and awareness with any other persons, can be quite defeatist depending on your state. Your only comparison can be with yourself. That is of course, if you feel such is necessary, which it is not.

You may have an opinion on this quote or on your ability to follow it, but this is one of those Morpheus phenomena, meaning whether you believe it or not does not change the practical truth within it.

The essence of me raising it up for you to consider, is to simply re-mind you also that wherever you are, whoever you are, and whatever you are being that "For things to change, you have to change".

Re-membrance and celebration of who you are and who you are being will bring you back to the light, one way or another. We are all in it together.

Thank you for coming back.


Go in peace,
Mikel

In The Moment Vs. Goals

Being in the moment can seem like a contradictory action when contrasted against setting and attaining a goal. How do you be here, now; but think and project there and then?

This is something I've dwelt upon in the past and I'm at peace with now. Many are not. The path to knowing yourself isnt exactly textbook for us all, or we would all be at the library checking out the same title. Although dichotomy and paradox can seem to be constant bedfellows in your journey to insight, these two seeming contradictory notions can live happily side by side in your life as it is.

There is no real formula or solution that can make this work for everyone other than acceptance. Simply accepting that you can be in the moment, live and revel in-the-now, and happily have goals is the only real remedy.

I could write a lot more, be more prosaic and take a longer path in helping see this, but it is a very simple matter of accepting yourself as you are. You are human, you try to be present in the present and you should and can have goals, all at the same time.

There is no one size fits all and perhaps the biggest challenge in life is not accepting the little dichotomies of the universe, but rather coming to see that we in the Western world, live in a society that attempts to program us to accept that one size does fit all!

If you are able to overcome that notion and will yourself away from a society based on conformity, accept that your own ideas are valid and that your path is the right path regardless of how it may differ from others; then you have done yourself a truly great service in walking your own righteous path to becoming who you are.

Blessings
Mikel