You don’t NEED to go after your DREAM alone. Do you?

You may have seen this several times as I have, too. However, it doesn’t feel complete to me.
What if your dream and your employer’s dream is one and the same?
Then isn’t that the best?

The Winding Roads of Thoughts

They come into our minds and leave at their will

They form a complex and winding story

A story of unpaved and sometimes twisted roads, of hills and valleys and of steady paths

It is not always clear where they will lead, these visitors of the mind

Let them in and then let them out with ease, they are only visitors passing through

Some are unwelcome guests that stagnate, send these quickly on their way

Others will come in to inspire progress, sit with these a moment and then let them go

Some bring memories of yesterday, while others are looking to drive tomorrow

Treat these with care and make sure their visit is brief

Don’t allow them to rob you of this moment

Remember that this moment is all that we really have and all that we are guaranteed

Thank those passing visitors for stopping in, then gracefully and swiftly walk them out

Remember, the thoughts you give life to will create your reality

Pace yourself, choose them carefully and keep them positive

Blue Pill or Red Pill, Fear or Faith? 

Blue pill or red pill, fear or faith? Inherently, we know fear is counterproductive, yet sometimes it makes it’s way through the cracks. Why do we fear and worry?  Because we do not trust the flow, because we focus too keenly on people, events and circumstances, because we are imprisoned by our thoughts. Why do some people seem to flow through life with ease while others struggle so much? Could it be due to their upbringing and conditioning as children? What if you grew up with the conditioning that “too much joy and laughter is sure to be followed by sadness?” What if you subconsciously started to correlate events and eventually developed a fear of being too happy? Can this be unlearned? Can the mind be reprogrammed? Can the mind be set free? Yes it can, with practice. Walk through the door of freedom and don’t look back. 

What if You Aren’t Who You Think You Are?

What if you aren’t who you think you are? Do we really know who we are or are we impostors?

“When you realize that you have you, then you realize that because of that everything starts and everything happens.”

Choi, Johwa. From Well-Being to Well-Dying: Harmony Meditation: A new way to completion

Do we realize that we have ourselves?  What does that even mean?  I have heard these things before but I like the way Johwa puts it in his book Harmony Meditation because it can lead the reader to an experience of this for themselves instead of just understanding it as a concept.

Examples of this are further alluded to in the book.  We experience this everyday but it’s so normal to us we don’t even realize that we are expressing the fact that we are someone other than we believe ourselves to be.  How often do we say, “I’m thinking about it.”  Or we might say, “I have a headache”.  We make clear distinctions between our thoughts and our “Selves”.  We say “I” am thinking.  That “I” that is thinking, is not the thoughts and we clearly distinguish the two.

We also distinguish between our Self and our body.  We say “I” have a headache.  We see ourselves as our body and thoughts but at the same time we distinguish ourselves between them when we speak.  Who is the “I” that has the headache?  Yet we are still totally identified with ourselves as our thoughts, body, and emotions.

“You can be mad at yourself, too. What kind of emotion is that? In order to be mad at yourself you are treating yourself like there exists one, but there is another you, as well.”

From Well-Being to Well-Dying: Harmony Meditation: A new way to completion

Hmm that’s interesting.  What is this other you?  Is it for real?  Can I imagine another me besides the me I have been my entire life?  What are the implications of this?  What good is it to me?  Why should I bother investigating this at all?

I think those are really important questions.  What’s in it for me?  Why should I bother with this?  Personally, I like big payoffs.  I don’t gamble these days but if I do I want to win Big!  To me it seems all people like to benefit themselves but we also enjoy helping others.  We are social beings.  In general we like the idea of “win/win” situations.

I am still discovering who I am, and often times feel like I am starting over from scratch, but I can’t resist myself because I love the payoffs I have received so far and I enjoy the social benefits as well.  I also see huge potential in this endeavor for myself and everyone else.  More than that, I believe that this is a subject of some urgency for resolving our personal as well as our social dilemmas.  I hope to explore this more in upcoming posts.  Please subscribe and comment below until then, Savor Who Am I? and it’s Power!

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The Power of Breathing

I have always breathed.  I’ve been breathing since I was born. It seems so simple, insignificant, and is usually completely out of mind.

I’ve breathed with other people doing all different kinds of “Mind / Body” trainings. It was still just breathing to me.

During  ZEN TaeGeukDo training it was introduced to me in a completely new way, with a completely new purpose, and utilizing a completely new method.

Now that I tasted what this can be and what this can do for me in my life I can never look at breath the same way.  It’s still simple but way more valuable to me.

Sometimes I’m tempted to tell people about it because I want them to have a way to open new doors for themselves too.  I have to stop myself because maybe how it’s delivered and who it’s delivered by matters a lot, as well as how they can receive it.  Would you give a billion dollars to someone who thought money was toilet paper?

But imagine you had an endless supply of toilet paper, then one day realized each individual sheet was a hundred dollar bill!  That’s how I feel about my experience with breathing through Harmony Meditation.

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