Competition versus Inclusion

So..... I was born with a lack of that competitive drive that helps motivate us to find our greatness.  In the past, this caused me much pain due to the lack of successes I could show the world.  I had nothing to validate the greatness I felt on the inside.  I had no self esteem connected with my personality.  When I did find love for myself it was love for the light inside me, the part of me where God/Goddess shined through to others.  My best part... when I was in my best place.  So, of course, I strove to be in that place of love as much as I could.  I was always in life for the joy, silliness and pure experience while secretly feeling like a loser when around the people playing by the rules of life so seriously. Quite frankly, I didn't even understand half of what went on socially in high school until my own children were in kindergarten;  that is when I realized how many of the 'adults' were playing bizarre little games. It was understanding these interactions that shed light on my teenage years.  It was much easier to be authentic when I was clueless.  Becoming aware of the judgements, social boxes and expectations was a challenge that occupied my mind for a couple of years when around groups of people.  Pile being an empath and feeling others lack of sincerity, buried emotions or unkind thoughts of me and I just wanted to run away.  I wasn't sure how to be authentic and safe at the same time so I stayed quiet or took the honest and bold route which was never really understood or appreciated.   As I have grown and evolved, I have realized that many of the super competitive people who fooled me into thinking they were the ideal, really aren't.  My first reaction was to reject them back, but I soon came full circle and found compassion for their limited ways.  So bound up in their appearances on all levels that many of them miss much valuable time in their core. Throwing caution to the wind and living in a way that truly embraces all who cross your path is a blessing full of gifts for your soul.  It comes down to inclusion versus competition. Loving versus fearing.  It is a GOoD and lofty goal for most... including myself.  I must admit that I bought into the competition crap for a few years while sorting all this out.  I silently lashed out with my own judgements until the negative jumble in my head was taking up to much precious space... edging out joy.  Having love for those in your life who may hurt you, makes you vulnerable, but if you love yourself enough to let go of their story (their projections) you will find yourself growing stronger... strong enough to love them unconditionally.  You are the author of your own life, don't be held back by some imaginary list of must do achievements!  Live for yourself!  A genius is born and a genius dies everyday - unknown to the world. You are a gift. Don't let your dreams go. Empower yourself.  It is more difficult to be successful in this world if you don't play by societies rules but I would like to encourage you to try.... because the rewards are far richer!
   Be yourself!  Love yourself!  Love everybody!
                 
                                                ...... Feel the magic

LESS LEFT BRAIN - MORE RIGHT BRAIN

   Devoted brain scientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor woke up having a stroke one morning.  A neuroanatomist being able to study her own brain from the inside out during her stroke was a great  gift to humanity. When fully recovered, she wrote A Stroke of Insight and  enlightened many a lucky Ted Talk attendee with her experiential discovery.  It took her eight years of hard work to recover her previous faculties and that is inspiration enough for those of us who take our blessings of health for granted.  We all know the brain has two separate hemispheres but did you know that they process in completely different ways?  Dr. Taylor explained that, for the computer literate person, it is as if the right brain is our parallel processor and our left is the serial processor. I’m not a computer genius so I was more enthralled with how anatomically separate the right and left hemispheres are from each other. If you ever see an actual human brain you will notice that the two halves are barely woven together at the bottom.  They really look like two brains.
   Yes, it’s true, I had never heard the word neuroanatomist before.  I’m totally right brained and unqualified to write this article. Heck, I barely made it through algebra in high school but concepts are my thing!  I love to ponder possibilities. 
  The left brain, quite literally,  provides our physical boundaries, separateness and analytical abilities.  According to Dr. Taylor it is as if our left brain analyzes what it is analyzing.  I’m sure we have all had one of those nights plagued with a wrenching case of insomnia!  The left brain directs everything from our pincher grasp to our hold on memories and emotional baggage.  It gives us the ability to walk, talk and think organized thoughts.  Gee, seems like everything is covered with just one side of the brain, huh? Not the GOoD stuff!
    The right brain is in charge of the ever expanding now.  While the left brain creates separateness, the right brain is aware of only oneness; a connection to everything.  When Dr. Taylor experienced her right brain only, for moments during her stroke, she felt expansive to the point of being unaware of the boundaries of her body.  She looked upon her own form with a kind of detached awe at it's primitive shape.  She stated, for example, that her perception of her own hands made them appear claw like.  She was a part of everything. She was euphoric.  She was overcome by this awareness and forever changed.
   Quoting her is the most respectful and inspiring way to share her thoughts on her right brained moments.
    “I pictured a world filled with beautiful, loving, peaceful, compassionate people and they choose to step to the right of their left hemispheres. We are the life force power of the universe with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds.  We have the power to choose moment by moment who and how we want to be in the world. Right here, right now I can step in the consciousness of my right hemisphere where we are, I am, the life force power of the universe. I am the life force power of the 50 trillion molecular geniuses that make up my form at one with all that is... or.... I can choose to step into the consciousness of my left hemisphere where I am a single individual, a solid separate from the flow.  Separate from you, I am Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, intellectual, neuro-analasyst. These are the we inside of me. Which would you choose?  Which do you choose? And when? I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres... the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful are planet will be..”
   So basically if we, as a society, grow to value our right brained ‘geniuses’ the way we value our left brained geniuses... we might have a chance at world peace.  What would  happen in our lives if we spent a little more time in our right hemisphere and a little less time in our left hemisphere? I double dog dare you to find out!
                         
                                                         Feel the magic...



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HOW TO FEEL MORE JOY!

Okay, so you understand that happiness really does help create wealth. In the middle of a rotten day, or an extremely challenging year, how do you create that leverage in your life out of thin air? We all have those down in the dumps days and may want a quick way to lift our mood. It is simpler than you might think. Gandhi asserted that "Love begets love and hate begets hate," the same philosophy holds true with happiness. Joy creates joy! Are you convinced? Okay, time for some action steps! Do something you LOVE to do! Make time to be selfish for 2 minutes a day or a whole weekend if you can swing it! Start somewhere. Start anywhere! When you begin doing anything that makes you happy it energizes you! Sometimes you have to be stubborn about it. Dig your heels into the earth explaining to whoever dares to get in your way that the next five minutes are all yours! Be luxurious with your happy time! Do anything! Anything but TV. You need to fill yourself up not be filled by someone else's creative happiness. You want to check IN to your joy, not check OUT of your life. That is the most important point I can make here. Check in. Have fun! Be present. Get happy!

                                                        ... Feel the magic

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How Happiness Creates Abundance

   Some days fill our hearts with a great loving madness and other days seem to deflate our souls in such a way that we want to spend the day in bed! Nobody ever said life is easy but there are ways to feel good more and bad less!  We have an ever expanding capacity for deepening levels of HAPPINESS but it is a step by step process.  Learning to utilize the energy of our feelings can be the magic behind our manifestations.  When we are contented, blissful or depressed we attract more situations in our lives that support those feelings.  What do you want more of in your life?  How can you attract the abundance you dream of? How can you start feeling more joy? Start with being grateful for what you have.  If you decide to take notice of the moments that bring you those happy bursting inner bubbles and really "cash in" on them with pure presence and awareness you will have planted a seed for another joyous moment.  Can you imagine how that can snowball in your life causing destiny to line your life with a silver lining?  Of course the bumps in the road will still come; you wouldn't want to lose those chances to grow anyway.  But! Your state of mind will be so much stronger, and your daily life so much more in the flow, that you will be able to stand up to your challenges with an untouchable depth of delight.  Almost like a tiny secret candle warming your heart with light even in the hour of your darkest grief. 
     Let me share an example with you to clarify.  I'll insert a made up moment and play it two different ways.  Let's say Buttercup (Why yes I am a fan of Princess Bride!) is walking down the street running an errand.  She has an armful of packages and a man bumps into her knocking everything down.  Buttercup can CHOOSE to react to this with love or fear.
    If her reality is spiraling downward and draining her energy she might get upset with this man and shoot him a dirty look.  If he is having a rotten day, this accident combined with her negative energy might compel him to distance himself from the experience and just walk away without even apologizing.  When Buttercup is left alone to pick up her packages she may be deeply saddened by this mans apparently callous nature.  In fact, she may choose to blow the feelings up relating them to how disconnected people seem to be in general.  She may even begin to feel like one of the last nice people left in the city!  Can you imagine how this attitude can out picture through out the rest of her day, year and life?  It is not an energy that can bring opportunity and forward motion.
    If Buttercup has already "cashed in" on several positive moments in her day her energy will be spiraling upward which would give her what she needs to laugh it off and beam a smile at the man.  Now this mans self made rotten day was worsened by running into this woman he now feels obligated to assist.  Helping her pick up her things is making him later than he already was but somehow her lightens begins lifting him ever so slightly.  He wonders what it is that she has, that makes her so annoyingly jovial.  When the corners of his grumpy lips turn in to signs of joy, buttercup utilizes her skills of being present in the moment and plants yet another seed for some positive future happening.

How can this translate into abundance for Buttercup?  Maybe this man was in such a hurry because he was late on his way to speak about how Empower Network has quadrupled his monthly income in the last 5 months.  Maybe he is so touched by her kindness and sparkling smile that he invites her to come along and even pays for her first month as a member.  Maybe they really hit it off so he decides that she will be the person he picks to mentor for free this year until her income triples!  The possibilities are unlimited!

Yes, happiness does help create abundance!
So... get happy.  Just do it! 
Maybe even flush the Prozac and...
                                                                          feel the magic!

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