In my experience what is happening in our life is one reality and our relationship with it is another "story". The difference between how we perceive and relate to events, people, situations, and circumstances and what is actually happening is what makes our lives difficult.
In being honest with ourselves and examining our experiences, we realize how we place our own perspectives onto life, which reveals our belief systems, not what is truly happening. This creates dissonance that we feel as internal resistance, communicating to us that we are not in harmony with life.
Imagine for a moment that all experiences are neutral. From that view point you can begin to see more clearly what beliefs and conditioning you hold around certain events, people, emotions and situations. If you find yourself blaming life for your challenges and tribulations or feel unable to assimilate or process life circumstances, you are in resistance. When you realize this, you awaken to the power of choice. You can choose to have a relationship of ease, flow, acceptance and grace with life, instead of resisting what is.
Your real power lies in choosing your perceptions wisely, by analyzing clearly your association and your relationship to whatever is occurring. Utilizing your focus and concentration like a sword helps bring light, truth, acceptance and well-being to whatever is happening, rather than being unconscious and repeating old patterns of thought that create harm and suffering.
No doubt in your lifetime you will experience many things that seem beyond your control. In many cases you will not have the capacity to change what is occurring. In those moments, I invite you to acknowledge your habitual perceptions and be fluid with them. Open to life and what is happening rather than resisting it with your thoughts and emotions. Resistance manifests as pain and suffering, a clear signal from your internal guidance system signaling you to change your approach. Remember you have the ability to accept and choose a new relationship with what is happening.
I am not encouraging you to be in denial, nor do I expect you to be without emotions. I am encouraging you to be clear how your misguided perspectives create suffering and resistance and generate feelings where you are you no longer in sync nor present with what is happening. You are, instead, in an artificial world made of old conceptions placed onto your life circumstances. This suffering is needless, and it is well within your power to control and alleviate it by eliminating the habits of thought that make your relationship with life difficult.
I feel it is all of our greatest challenge to be at one and at ease with what is happening in our life whether we like it or not. We usually kick and scream mentally and emotionally when we do not like something, creating pain and suffering for ourselves. When you bring awareness to your relationship with life and see your beliefs, thoughts and emotions as fluid, you experience agility and the power to choose. You learn to go with the flow of life rather than resisting and "rowing your boat upstream".
One powerful example of this was when I was in India. I observed the relationship the people there had with death. It floored me. It was such a contrast to my own view of death. In that awakening moment, I realized my relationship with death was not "how it is" rather it was what I saw and how I was taught. How liberating.
I know there are many such stories in your life. Dispel the illusions you believe in and see clearly the truth about your life. Like Sleeping Beauty, wake up to your power. The fearful reality that her wicked Step Mother created actually had no real power over her. The poison apple she ate that rendered her lifeless is a symbol of the programming we think of as “real”.
The kiss that woke Sleeping Beauty is a symbol of the magic and wonder of love that exists within our own mind, heart and being. The truth is that when we are absorbed in our false perspectives we are merely asleep, not dead. Through the power of love, of truly and passionately loving whatever comes, we awaken to the beauty of life and break the spell of our habitual thinking.
We have endless ways to be in relationship and harmony with what is. Open yourself. Let the doors of your perception open wide and reveal a new reality.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Illusory Dream
We create our dreams each night. They vanish upon our awakening. We create our waking life too. This is the true nature of reality.
We take ordinary life seriously. We think of our waking life as concrete and real and our dream life as merely a dream. Our dream life is a creation of our thoughts, emotions, unconscious and subconscious energies playing out on the screen of our awareness.
Our waking life is also a manifestation of our attitudes, perspectives and energy. Both dreams and waking life are reflections of our mind. They are an expression of what we are attached to and think of as real. They simply reveal our fixed and rigid view points and the energy associated with them.
Like a dream, we project onto life what we believe rather than experiencing it as it is: illusory, dream like and temporary, like a water moon. Dreams and waking life are out picturings of our habits of thought formed from the information we receive through our five physical senses.
When you have a bad dream and become frightened, what do you usually do? Most of us try to wake ourselves up. We remind ourselves that the dream is not real.
Our waking life is similarly "not real". We need to remind ourselves and awaken to this truth. We’ve created our life from the fabric of our own mind stream. Our misconceptions of life, what it is and how it operates, is because we do not know and directly experience the true nature of reality. We identify so strongly with our thoughts, ideas and a sense of self that we have forgotten our experiences are a reflection of our mental interpretations.
So how do we "wake up"? We can wake up when we regain the awareness and remembrance that our waking life is illusory, dream like; no more real or fixed then our dream state.
When something happens to you in your waking life see if you can own and realize your mental interpretations and projections. Open to the idea and realization that life is fluid, energetic and illusory. Remember that life is all a projection of your mind and, like a dream, changes moment to moment. The old saying you can never step in the same river twice is an example of this teaching. When we deeply see and understand this truth we will wake up and experience the true nature of our reality.
Our experiences appear as solid and real because we have fallen asleep. We feel secure when we plaster our fixed perceptions onto life. True reality is constantly shifting and changing, alive, luminous and empty. This is also the true nature of who we are beyond our sense of self. Align yourself with your true nature and recapture the fluid, energetic and ever-changing relationship with life.
May we wake up from our slumber and once again be in direct experience with reality.
Love,
Lisa
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We take ordinary life seriously. We think of our waking life as concrete and real and our dream life as merely a dream. Our dream life is a creation of our thoughts, emotions, unconscious and subconscious energies playing out on the screen of our awareness.
Our waking life is also a manifestation of our attitudes, perspectives and energy. Both dreams and waking life are reflections of our mind. They are an expression of what we are attached to and think of as real. They simply reveal our fixed and rigid view points and the energy associated with them.
Like a dream, we project onto life what we believe rather than experiencing it as it is: illusory, dream like and temporary, like a water moon. Dreams and waking life are out picturings of our habits of thought formed from the information we receive through our five physical senses.
When you have a bad dream and become frightened, what do you usually do? Most of us try to wake ourselves up. We remind ourselves that the dream is not real.
Our waking life is similarly "not real". We need to remind ourselves and awaken to this truth. We’ve created our life from the fabric of our own mind stream. Our misconceptions of life, what it is and how it operates, is because we do not know and directly experience the true nature of reality. We identify so strongly with our thoughts, ideas and a sense of self that we have forgotten our experiences are a reflection of our mental interpretations.
So how do we "wake up"? We can wake up when we regain the awareness and remembrance that our waking life is illusory, dream like; no more real or fixed then our dream state.
When something happens to you in your waking life see if you can own and realize your mental interpretations and projections. Open to the idea and realization that life is fluid, energetic and illusory. Remember that life is all a projection of your mind and, like a dream, changes moment to moment. The old saying you can never step in the same river twice is an example of this teaching. When we deeply see and understand this truth we will wake up and experience the true nature of our reality.
Our experiences appear as solid and real because we have fallen asleep. We feel secure when we plaster our fixed perceptions onto life. True reality is constantly shifting and changing, alive, luminous and empty. This is also the true nature of who we are beyond our sense of self. Align yourself with your true nature and recapture the fluid, energetic and ever-changing relationship with life.
May we wake up from our slumber and once again be in direct experience with reality.
Love,
Lisa
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Joy
Joy is all about us, is us. Joy is the endless waves of the ocean, the infinity of space, as vast as the sky and as ever present as the air around us. It caresses us, soothes us, uplifts us and connects us with the good in life. When we feel joy we naturally feel happy, alive, open and at one with what we are experiencing. Imagine yourself experiencing joy, feel the smile in your being, the aliveness, the flow of energy through your physical, mental and emotional bodies. Joy is unlimited, we have everlasting access to it and are joy itself.
Most of us need to get accustomed to feeling and living joy because it is not something we live frequently. Our mental and emotional habits often keep us in some degree of numbness or lack of aliveness. We have learned to exist in certain familiar, acceptable and predictable emotional realities. We, unfortunately, find some degree of comfort or belonging living in these known and culturally acceptable emotional realms, but there is a broader spectrum of human emotions available to us.
We can retrain our mind, body and emotions to be more in tune with the flow of joy. Like any energy we want to be in harmony with, we need to become accustom to how joy feels. To reacquaint yourself with joy, start by simply contemplating this energy. Tune into the times in your life when you have experienced joy.
Another simple exercise is to train yourself to delight in another's happiness, successes and accomplishments. This is called "sympathetic joy". This might be difficult since our culture encourages other approaches, like envy, jealousy, negative comparisons, feeling lack, etc. Accept and allow these predictable emotional responses, than do
something different: simultaneously open to joy by relishing and deeply celebrating that person's triumphs and fruition. This approach is much more fun and it stimulates your oneness with all of life.
Through opening to joy in all its expressions, you'll powerfully feel your creative life force flowing through your body while simultaneously experiencing your connection to life more deeply. From that place of deep connection, you'll more easily attract your heart's deepest desires and joys into your life.
In Tibetan Buddhism Sympathetic Joy is one of the Four Immeasurables, a quality that is never ending and unbounded. It's immeasurable because its benefit and value is a pearl beyond price. Attune yourself to joy and live the flow of unending happiness and love.
Love,
Lisa
Most of us need to get accustomed to feeling and living joy because it is not something we live frequently. Our mental and emotional habits often keep us in some degree of numbness or lack of aliveness. We have learned to exist in certain familiar, acceptable and predictable emotional realities. We, unfortunately, find some degree of comfort or belonging living in these known and culturally acceptable emotional realms, but there is a broader spectrum of human emotions available to us.
We can retrain our mind, body and emotions to be more in tune with the flow of joy. Like any energy we want to be in harmony with, we need to become accustom to how joy feels. To reacquaint yourself with joy, start by simply contemplating this energy. Tune into the times in your life when you have experienced joy.
Another simple exercise is to train yourself to delight in another's happiness, successes and accomplishments. This is called "sympathetic joy". This might be difficult since our culture encourages other approaches, like envy, jealousy, negative comparisons, feeling lack, etc. Accept and allow these predictable emotional responses, than do
something different: simultaneously open to joy by relishing and deeply celebrating that person's triumphs and fruition. This approach is much more fun and it stimulates your oneness with all of life.
Through opening to joy in all its expressions, you'll powerfully feel your creative life force flowing through your body while simultaneously experiencing your connection to life more deeply. From that place of deep connection, you'll more easily attract your heart's deepest desires and joys into your life.
In Tibetan Buddhism Sympathetic Joy is one of the Four Immeasurables, a quality that is never ending and unbounded. It's immeasurable because its benefit and value is a pearl beyond price. Attune yourself to joy and live the flow of unending happiness and love.
Love,
Lisa
Monday, November 29, 2010
Manipulating Phenomena
What do you do when you don’t like something?
Most people complain, resist, become emotional and go into opposition with the experience. We do this because we internally and externally label all phenomena, meaning thoughts, emotions, sensations or external events, into two categories: experiences that we like and experiences we don’t like. We then mentally grasp, attempt to hold on to and search for those experiences we like and avoid, reject and deny those we dislike. This fundamental, often unexamined, mental habit creates suffering and fools us into believing that we can actually manipulate phenomena. This exhausting approach obscures our true nature and the true nature of reality and phenomena.
We need to accept all phenomena first, then realize both conceptually and practically that all experience, no matter what mental category we've put it into, is impermanent. Then we need to come to the direct realization and integration that we are not the thoughts, emotions, body, identities, experiences, this "I", etc that we project onto reality. We ultimately are awareness; fluid, expansive and boundless. Awareness births, breathes and is all phenomena without any mental separations.
When we move beyond the fixation of dualistic thinking and functioning, we realize and experience all phenomena as variations of the one source, love, or as defined in Tibetan Buddhism “bliss/emptiness" or "awareness/emptiness”. This seems far-fetched to someone who has never experienced it. It is a hard concept to understand if you habitually take all experience at face value and live from a solid sense of self that depends upon permanence and labels. It takes exposure to these teachings, time, dedication, contemplation and meditation to truly understand and actualize this truth.
Manipulating phenomena is futile and an unskillful use of our energy. Try to stop or change a thought or an experience and you’ll see what I mean. We habitually function from the basis of ignorance and confusion about the true nature of all phenomena because of how we’ve been taught relate to life. What if we could be in harmony with all of life and its endless variety of experiences and from that place wisely respond and act rather than clinging to what we like and denying what we don’t? How differently we would relate to our lives!
I encourage you to practice. Life gives us endless opportunities, since many of our experiences are not exactly how we would like them to be. Be the wide open sky, accept and experience your vastness and unlimited potential and you will be in the flow with life. From this place, you will be able to intelligently use your mind and physical capacities no matter what phenomena you experience
Love,
Lisa
Most people complain, resist, become emotional and go into opposition with the experience. We do this because we internally and externally label all phenomena, meaning thoughts, emotions, sensations or external events, into two categories: experiences that we like and experiences we don’t like. We then mentally grasp, attempt to hold on to and search for those experiences we like and avoid, reject and deny those we dislike. This fundamental, often unexamined, mental habit creates suffering and fools us into believing that we can actually manipulate phenomena. This exhausting approach obscures our true nature and the true nature of reality and phenomena.
We need to accept all phenomena first, then realize both conceptually and practically that all experience, no matter what mental category we've put it into, is impermanent. Then we need to come to the direct realization and integration that we are not the thoughts, emotions, body, identities, experiences, this "I", etc that we project onto reality. We ultimately are awareness; fluid, expansive and boundless. Awareness births, breathes and is all phenomena without any mental separations.
When we move beyond the fixation of dualistic thinking and functioning, we realize and experience all phenomena as variations of the one source, love, or as defined in Tibetan Buddhism “bliss/emptiness" or "awareness/emptiness”. This seems far-fetched to someone who has never experienced it. It is a hard concept to understand if you habitually take all experience at face value and live from a solid sense of self that depends upon permanence and labels. It takes exposure to these teachings, time, dedication, contemplation and meditation to truly understand and actualize this truth.
Manipulating phenomena is futile and an unskillful use of our energy. Try to stop or change a thought or an experience and you’ll see what I mean. We habitually function from the basis of ignorance and confusion about the true nature of all phenomena because of how we’ve been taught relate to life. What if we could be in harmony with all of life and its endless variety of experiences and from that place wisely respond and act rather than clinging to what we like and denying what we don’t? How differently we would relate to our lives!
I encourage you to practice. Life gives us endless opportunities, since many of our experiences are not exactly how we would like them to be. Be the wide open sky, accept and experience your vastness and unlimited potential and you will be in the flow with life. From this place, you will be able to intelligently use your mind and physical capacities no matter what phenomena you experience
Love,
Lisa
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Pain
How do you relate to mental, emotional and/or physical pain? Most of us have been taught to run from it, fix it and/or try to get rid of it. We instinctively want to remove pain from our experience as soon as possible. Understandably so; however, when we relate to ourselves or others through this “primal brain” approach we are narrowly focused, short-sighted and blindly living our life. By not being in a dialogue with our pain we excise ourselves from the full breadth of interaction and communication with our deeper selves.
Pain is a form of communication. It is a link to something within us that needs to change. Like domino's the source of our pain may be far removed from the actual site of pain and is usually more in depth then the physical symptoms. A part of us is demanding our attention. Usually it is the subtler parts of our self, like our habits of thinking that the body is expressing through the symptoms of pain. For example, in the case of an injury life may be communicating you need to slow down, change your lifestyle, behaviours and/or simply reveal to you your relationship to pain. This is the case for diseases and/or emotional pains.
Pain is a language like French or Italian. It is a world in itself. Pain acts as a signal, a clue to discover what we believe, how we habitually behave and what we are investing our precious life energy into maintaining that is not in harmony with who we are. This disharmony shows up in our physical experience. To make the necessary changes to come back into harmony, we need to train ourselves to be present with pain to be able to hear its wisdom.
As a culture we have generally forgotten how to honor and decipher the language of pain. We tend to give our power to an outside authority that helps us numb, dull, or diminish our pain. That approach is analogous to taking the battery out of a fire alarm going off inside a burning home. Pain is the alarm system that tells us that something is wrong. Within our pain lies answers, solutions and cues; truths that help us change our trajectory in order to lead our life more successfully.
We have lost touch with the art of listening, understanding and respecting the communication of pain. We have forgotten how to be our own physician and act wisely. When we experience pain we tend to numb ourselves through a variety of approaches based in fear and ignorance. We need to be willing to listen to ourselves and our pain so we can learn and grow from it. We need to reacquaint ourselves with its language, be patient and know that pain is a doorway that invites us into self-discovery, healing and greater self-understanding.
The first step to opening that door is to not run from the pain. Be present, sit with it and befriend it. Listen to it and what it has to say. At first it is screaming for attention and you will have very little discernment as to what it is communicating. As you stay with it you will begin to decipher the wisdom within its voice. As you learn to be present with the discomfort and listen, you will discover what internal pattern(s) the voice is embedded in and what you need to change. You will find the root cause of the voice of pain.
This is a crucial step. Most look for external reasons for their pain. It is instinctual and habitual to blame and want to point the finger at a person or occurrence, thinking that is the cause or if something external changes then the pain will disappear. This is a temporary truth. An enduring truth is that it is ones interpretation of oneself and life situations that create pain. This truth seems much more obscure, because as a culture we have not been taught to take responsibility for our reality, emotional reactions and views. It requires growth and contemplation to experience what I am saying.
I encourage you when the fire alarm inside is going off, listen, pay attention, be present and let your inner knowing and life communicate to you what you need to change, to let go of. Be open. Be a student. Be wise. Heed the call of pain at once so it doesn't require a more drastic form of communication to get your attention; like a serious disease, a car accident or a divorce.
Honor your pain. It comes to you as a friend. Listen and heed its words and your life will change.
Love,
Lisa
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Pain is a form of communication. It is a link to something within us that needs to change. Like domino's the source of our pain may be far removed from the actual site of pain and is usually more in depth then the physical symptoms. A part of us is demanding our attention. Usually it is the subtler parts of our self, like our habits of thinking that the body is expressing through the symptoms of pain. For example, in the case of an injury life may be communicating you need to slow down, change your lifestyle, behaviours and/or simply reveal to you your relationship to pain. This is the case for diseases and/or emotional pains.
Pain is a language like French or Italian. It is a world in itself. Pain acts as a signal, a clue to discover what we believe, how we habitually behave and what we are investing our precious life energy into maintaining that is not in harmony with who we are. This disharmony shows up in our physical experience. To make the necessary changes to come back into harmony, we need to train ourselves to be present with pain to be able to hear its wisdom.
As a culture we have generally forgotten how to honor and decipher the language of pain. We tend to give our power to an outside authority that helps us numb, dull, or diminish our pain. That approach is analogous to taking the battery out of a fire alarm going off inside a burning home. Pain is the alarm system that tells us that something is wrong. Within our pain lies answers, solutions and cues; truths that help us change our trajectory in order to lead our life more successfully.
We have lost touch with the art of listening, understanding and respecting the communication of pain. We have forgotten how to be our own physician and act wisely. When we experience pain we tend to numb ourselves through a variety of approaches based in fear and ignorance. We need to be willing to listen to ourselves and our pain so we can learn and grow from it. We need to reacquaint ourselves with its language, be patient and know that pain is a doorway that invites us into self-discovery, healing and greater self-understanding.
The first step to opening that door is to not run from the pain. Be present, sit with it and befriend it. Listen to it and what it has to say. At first it is screaming for attention and you will have very little discernment as to what it is communicating. As you stay with it you will begin to decipher the wisdom within its voice. As you learn to be present with the discomfort and listen, you will discover what internal pattern(s) the voice is embedded in and what you need to change. You will find the root cause of the voice of pain.
This is a crucial step. Most look for external reasons for their pain. It is instinctual and habitual to blame and want to point the finger at a person or occurrence, thinking that is the cause or if something external changes then the pain will disappear. This is a temporary truth. An enduring truth is that it is ones interpretation of oneself and life situations that create pain. This truth seems much more obscure, because as a culture we have not been taught to take responsibility for our reality, emotional reactions and views. It requires growth and contemplation to experience what I am saying.
I encourage you when the fire alarm inside is going off, listen, pay attention, be present and let your inner knowing and life communicate to you what you need to change, to let go of. Be open. Be a student. Be wise. Heed the call of pain at once so it doesn't require a more drastic form of communication to get your attention; like a serious disease, a car accident or a divorce.
Honor your pain. It comes to you as a friend. Listen and heed its words and your life will change.
Love,
Lisa
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Release Preferences and Trust the Flow of Life
I'll begin by sharing the inspiration for this subject. I heard the title as I was leaving the Marin Court House where I was called for juror duty. As we all know this is usually not people's preferred place to be. I was aware of my preference and agenda to not serve and simultaneously accepted the opportunity life was giving me and engaged happily and with curiosity. From this attitude and agility, I was able to be present and appreciate each moment.
They showed us a video on the process of being a juror, which unexpectedly inspired enthusiasm for me around what justice means personally, in my relationships, in healing and how I experience it. Then it came time for the selection process. I knew what my agenda was, and at the same time I heard the prompting from life to simply be open and trust the flow. In surrendering, I further heard and understood to align my energy to the highest and the best for all concerned. I knew that if the greatest benefit was for me to serve on the juror, then that would happen and if my energy was needed for my clients, then I would be there. No matter what, I was in life's hands. As I let go of my personal will, I felt life's guidance and trusted it. My anxiety vanished. Manipulation and force dissolved. I was not trying to make life happen my way, for as we all know, trying to control our lives is exhausting and even debilitating at times.
Through synchronicity and the intelligence of life, I did not serve. In not pushing my agenda, but rather trusting and following life, I experienced ease, effortlessness, true integrity and fulfillment. I left feeling immense joy and connection with life. This connection and relationship with life allowed me to flow with each moment, learn, synthesize and create my experience from an empowered place.
How often in each day do we have these opportunities to create and live from enjoying and partnering with life? Each moment, each situation and experience offers us this. More often we are attached to our preferences and stuck in our heads, for this is how we were taught to view and relate to life through dualistic thinking such as likes, dislikes, good, bad and labels, etc. We come to a place where we believe that life should conform to our desires. If it doesn't, we are miserable, unhappy and/or fighting what is happening. This futile approach creates struggle, suffering, resistance, exhaustion and at times helplessness, because, as we all know, life sometimes goes as we would like and sometimes it doesn't. We end up feeling like a victim. Life feels like an emotional rollercoaster ride of highs and lows.
For many, this is their experience of life. They often feel defeated and come to the conclusion that life is not for them. This is not true. This is only a belief, a habit.
As we empty ourselves from strong attachment to preferences, from life needing to look a certain way, we free ourselves and we lighten our emotional load. We become trusting of life and enjoy it's flow. For ultimately we are life when we are not in the habit of experiencing ourselves as a separate "I". This does not mean we have no preferences or direction, rather we hold our preferences lightly and instead have clear intentions and collaborate with the intelligence of the universe as it moves through us as us.
Preferences act as a barrier to reality, a veil. Depending upon how identified and attached we are to our preferences will determine how much of life's communication and flow we will occlude and how much we will suffer.
True happiness exists in the moment, in being awareness and presence itself. It does not lie as we've been taught in situations, circumstances or people for that is all transient. Yes, we are mean't to enjoy and delight in life's offering, but not to be attached, defined or relate only through preferences. Life is constantly changing and if we identify solely as the water that passes over the rocks true, enduring happiness will elude us for actually we are the river of life that experiences and expresses all.
Honestly, it is humbling to see how pervasive this habit is in our lives, how strongly and stubbornly we cling in certain situations and to release it, but it is possible with patience, presence and persistence. As we become mindful and train the mind to recognize who we truly are which is awareness that is unbias and inherently awake and happy we realize we can be present and happy in any situation. The unconscious habit of making ourselves into an "I" which is full of preferences that drag us from extremes to extremes, opinions to opinions loses its grip.
Life is intelligent, it may not always give us what we want, but gives us what we need. Open yourself to learn, grow and to ease. Learn to live the unexpected!
Love,
Lisa
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They showed us a video on the process of being a juror, which unexpectedly inspired enthusiasm for me around what justice means personally, in my relationships, in healing and how I experience it. Then it came time for the selection process. I knew what my agenda was, and at the same time I heard the prompting from life to simply be open and trust the flow. In surrendering, I further heard and understood to align my energy to the highest and the best for all concerned. I knew that if the greatest benefit was for me to serve on the juror, then that would happen and if my energy was needed for my clients, then I would be there. No matter what, I was in life's hands. As I let go of my personal will, I felt life's guidance and trusted it. My anxiety vanished. Manipulation and force dissolved. I was not trying to make life happen my way, for as we all know, trying to control our lives is exhausting and even debilitating at times.
Through synchronicity and the intelligence of life, I did not serve. In not pushing my agenda, but rather trusting and following life, I experienced ease, effortlessness, true integrity and fulfillment. I left feeling immense joy and connection with life. This connection and relationship with life allowed me to flow with each moment, learn, synthesize and create my experience from an empowered place.
How often in each day do we have these opportunities to create and live from enjoying and partnering with life? Each moment, each situation and experience offers us this. More often we are attached to our preferences and stuck in our heads, for this is how we were taught to view and relate to life through dualistic thinking such as likes, dislikes, good, bad and labels, etc. We come to a place where we believe that life should conform to our desires. If it doesn't, we are miserable, unhappy and/or fighting what is happening. This futile approach creates struggle, suffering, resistance, exhaustion and at times helplessness, because, as we all know, life sometimes goes as we would like and sometimes it doesn't. We end up feeling like a victim. Life feels like an emotional rollercoaster ride of highs and lows.
For many, this is their experience of life. They often feel defeated and come to the conclusion that life is not for them. This is not true. This is only a belief, a habit.
As we empty ourselves from strong attachment to preferences, from life needing to look a certain way, we free ourselves and we lighten our emotional load. We become trusting of life and enjoy it's flow. For ultimately we are life when we are not in the habit of experiencing ourselves as a separate "I". This does not mean we have no preferences or direction, rather we hold our preferences lightly and instead have clear intentions and collaborate with the intelligence of the universe as it moves through us as us.
Preferences act as a barrier to reality, a veil. Depending upon how identified and attached we are to our preferences will determine how much of life's communication and flow we will occlude and how much we will suffer.
True happiness exists in the moment, in being awareness and presence itself. It does not lie as we've been taught in situations, circumstances or people for that is all transient. Yes, we are mean't to enjoy and delight in life's offering, but not to be attached, defined or relate only through preferences. Life is constantly changing and if we identify solely as the water that passes over the rocks true, enduring happiness will elude us for actually we are the river of life that experiences and expresses all.
Honestly, it is humbling to see how pervasive this habit is in our lives, how strongly and stubbornly we cling in certain situations and to release it, but it is possible with patience, presence and persistence. As we become mindful and train the mind to recognize who we truly are which is awareness that is unbias and inherently awake and happy we realize we can be present and happy in any situation. The unconscious habit of making ourselves into an "I" which is full of preferences that drag us from extremes to extremes, opinions to opinions loses its grip.
Life is intelligent, it may not always give us what we want, but gives us what we need. Open yourself to learn, grow and to ease. Learn to live the unexpected!
Love,
Lisa
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Good News and an Update
Professional holistic healthcare at an affordable price!
Lisa is now a part of the Walk-In Low Cost Clinic at The Common Well. She will begin September 23rd, Thursdays from 2-5pm. Lisa will be offering Network Chiropractic, Intuitive Healing, Energy Healing and Spiritual Counseling. Sessions are $20 for a 20 minute session and are in a group room. The group room honors that healing is a community experience, as one heals it activates another.
The Common Well is a resource for holistic health services and education that support a deeper trust in our body’s wisdom to heal and authentic expression of our true selves. Services and education offered at the Well address physical, mental and spiritual health from a holistic viewpoint.
The community clinic model is designed to enable those in need of health care access to it. Access to affordable, regenerative treatments and quality professional are an essential component to our wellness, vitality and quality of life.
I look forward to seeing and serving you.
The Common well is located in the North Bay, just 10 minutes west of San Rafael, in downtown Fairfax California.
The Common Well
85 Bolinas Road
Suites 6 and 8
Fairfax, California
Rocket Dog Fundraiser was CANCELLED
The Animal Communication Sessions at a fundraiser for Rocket Dog Rescue originally scheduled for
Sunday, August 22, from 5pm to 10pm
Were postponed due to a fire. There will be a new date and time sometime in September.
Lisa is now a part of the Walk-In Low Cost Clinic at The Common Well. She will begin September 23rd, Thursdays from 2-5pm. Lisa will be offering Network Chiropractic, Intuitive Healing, Energy Healing and Spiritual Counseling. Sessions are $20 for a 20 minute session and are in a group room. The group room honors that healing is a community experience, as one heals it activates another.
The Common Well is a resource for holistic health services and education that support a deeper trust in our body’s wisdom to heal and authentic expression of our true selves. Services and education offered at the Well address physical, mental and spiritual health from a holistic viewpoint.
The community clinic model is designed to enable those in need of health care access to it. Access to affordable, regenerative treatments and quality professional are an essential component to our wellness, vitality and quality of life.
I look forward to seeing and serving you.
The Common well is located in the North Bay, just 10 minutes west of San Rafael, in downtown Fairfax California.
The Common Well
85 Bolinas Road
Suites 6 and 8
Fairfax, California
Rocket Dog Fundraiser was CANCELLED
The Animal Communication Sessions at a fundraiser for Rocket Dog Rescue originally scheduled for
Sunday, August 22, from 5pm to 10pm
Were postponed due to a fire. There will be a new date and time sometime in September.
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