Time and space reward excellence — or we should more accurately state that — timespace rewards excellence. They are not they, but a single event. This excellence is achieved through many trials containing many mistakes and many errors. To keep-up — to maintain integrity throughout these trials; to overcome the disappointments from the constant errors and mistakes is uniquely a human ability — a human quality. No other animal is graced with this amount of this capacity and yet humans constantly resist its application because of pride and feelings.

Such a quality (keeping up and moving forward in the midst of constant errors) is often accompanied by low self-esteem and low self-love . . . for good reason. This path — where the self view contends with the insults of many errors — would never be possible in the midst of great pride. So therefore the system protects itself and attempts to improve itself through a lowered sense of self that will not be offended by the natural folly. This low self-esteem stimulates the self to improve itself in a blinded and foolish kind of way. This stimulates self growth while shielding the painful comedy of errors from the stage of many errors.

There comes a time in every job however, when even the best tool must be released and the task of the tool declared done. If after the nail has been driven in, you still swing the hammer, you will damage the job that has been achieved. This is the case with low self-love and self-esteem. When these creativity drivers have completed their goal, you can proceed no further with them in place. They must be released. This is never easy; their process has become reliant and grown familiar — a habit pattern has formed and must now be broken.

The way to break this pattern is by honoring the work that they (the low self-esteem and low self-love) have already achieved. This is the tricky part . . . honoring their work and re-assigning them to yet another level of your development.

Perhaps you can assign them to keeping you humble. You will require humbleness as your excellence continues to grow. What a great new assignment! These old tools (the low self-esteem and low self-love) will love you for it and not get in your way with it . . . which they would if you were not showing this appreciation. It is not as if they are independent beings that you must deal with. They are living parts of your being and this is an energy dance of extremely high awareness. It is both an art and a science.

The lesson is to find all the great reasons within the essence of every challenge — then honor these reasons for being what they are. In a material universe, where every action has an equal and opposite reaction, learn to redirect the angle of the reaction so that it continues working in favor of the action.

Tension, pressure, stress and friction are the human consciousness impressed by gravity. Without gravity and these four impressions, there is no possibility of life, or any other 'matter' in this universe. 

How you interpret the message from these impressions of gravity will determine how you feel about the world around you. At any given moment, how do you view your possibilities of moving forward? These views will cause all of your decisions. Am I supported in my dreams? Is the world out to get me and destroy my dreams or is it friendly? These questions will cause responses . . . I will succeed! . . . or . . . I will have problems! 

All of these and many other questions with responses will arise on a daily basis and shape the ways you view the essential impressions of gravity. Since these impressions are a natural part of all existence, it is really up to you to make them work. 

Mold your opinions and responses to all the tension, pressure, stress and friction existing everywhere around you. Cause your responses to promote and project the greatness of your existence. Work to align all your bodies (physical as well as emotional and mental) in such a way that your relationships with their impressions of gravity are productive tools creating the world you want to live in. 

React to the essential realities of tension, pressure, stress and friction with real, supportive and promoting decisions. In this way you progress.

What if the next time you have an emotionally painful experience, you do not run away from it . . . you embrace it? What if, by not avoiding this event, you actually have the experience of the experience of the event? What if, by consciously breathing during this experience of the event, you calm yourself? 

What if, within this calm, you reduce all reference to "other" . . . another cause as the cause; the sensation as something other than you; another time without this sensation; another person as the cause of this sensation . . . what if? What would it be like if this externalizing was not the dominant pattern in your psyche? 

This would be the outskirts of the suburbs of the village of your liberation. This would be the gateway to your freedom. This would be the path to the castle of your prosperity and fulfillment and all the pain and reference to other is the moat of your pain surrounding it. 

Dive into the moat . . . swim through your pain . . . cross over it and reach your castle. This castle contains your purpose, your fulfillment and all that you have been living for. It has always been here with you . . . waiting for you to awaken.

Welcome to the new evolution. You are one of the early pioneers.

Anxiety and panic are not bad, they are actually a good thing . . . they are just too much of a good thing. Anxiety and panic are the by-product of a disorganized and non-indexed Akashic record — the human super-memory.

The Akashic records holds on to all memory of every experience that has ever happened ever. Along with the memory of the event, information, wisdom and knowledge gained from the event is also stored here. This is why it is known as a super-memory. This is a massive database completely linked to your existence containing the multi-incarnation recordings of everything that has happened in every existence up to this moment.

When the Akashic records are disorganized, chaotic . . . not indexed . . . and the urgent need arises for the information — the entire database is compassionately dumped into your body through the solar plexus. Knowledge and wisdom arrive on the coattails of an intense moment, but it is scrambled and the result is anxiety. The system knows that the information you so desperately require is in there somewhere so it gives you the entire load. It is up to you to sort it out,

Pouring through the solar plexus, the root of the Akasha, a gut wrenching sensation takes place in the body. The rush of information twists and torques from the belly up to the throat, pulling it all into a gigantic body knot. This is panic and anxiety. This is why we say it is a good thing . . . just too much of a good thing.

At the core of this there is a cure . . . it requires effort . . . spend time every day organizing and indexing the Akasha. Accomplish this through conscious breathing and conscious moving. Use yoga, Chi Gung and Tai Chi, chanting mantras and vipassana (meditation on silence). Do this on a daily basis and eventually, when the need arrives, your system will access the information required without having to sort through such a vast database to find the few necessities. You ultimately learn to solve and resolve your exact challenges, discomforts and dilemmas with grace.

This trades panic and anxiety attacks for moments of super-intuitive insight. The exact information required is delivered to you — not dumped on you. This is the way of the new evolution — the way of grace and joy.

When you have perfected the dance with your patterns and your performance of your habits has become quite seamless - change is difficult. Any change to your habits must enter through a crack of perceived imperfection . . . a seam in the pattern of your perfected dance. Herein lies the dilemma . . . there appears to be no seams and your perfection will defend this appearance. 

All the information that is required to change is always present within you; this is the nature of the Cosmos. However, this information presents itself as eccentric, as chaotic, as random and confused and when highly pressurized; it represents anxiety. None of these options are attractive to a perfected dance.

Remember: this perfected dance is marketable for your survival, but not your happiness.

When you desire change - in order to receive this new information - you must perform your old perfected dances with a flaw. Such a flaw will bring discomfort and embarrassment. Pass into the pain of this embarrassment willingly, and enthusiastically as the flaws in your performance stumble forward through new patterns. These new patterns will allow the changes to emerge through their seams and cracks.

Yoga, meditation, singing, chanting, Chi Gung, Tai Chi, Pran Krya and many more, are all methods of defining and aligning the body with the psyche. When such information is defined and aligned, it stops producing clouds and fogginess and allows for greater clarity. This is one of the human goals of consciousness known as super-intuition.

Trusting the imperfections in these moments is a surrendering of your control to the cosmic perfection. This is extremely powerful . . . every human has every right to this power, but this power is surrounded by your resistance to surrendering. To give your 'self' the authority to use this right is a fundamental step toward fulfillment of life's purpose. There is never any need to know how to perform this process. Fill your attitude with a massive declaration of 'why' - the 'how' will appear.

In other words, "When is now a good time?"

Slow your rhythms down, efficiency is not about speed, it is about connection, traction, grip and accuracy. These all tend to fulfill a time-line faster than any speed. There is a Native American proverb: a young boy asks his Grandmother how long it will take him to accomplish his task. "Well," she answers, "it should take about a week if you set your mind to it. But if you really hurry, it will take at least two weeks." 

Be un-cautious, but do not be unconscious. Small focused steps produce greater achievements because they advance and do not stumble. Small steps become the biggest steps of all, for small steps add up. Big steps can become extremely small when they fall down and stumbles require recovery. 

Real-time and perceived time have a relationship. Their relationship will determine our relationship with progress. Our relationship with progress determines our relationship with hope . . . our hope determines our mood . . . our mood determines our perception, and our perception determines our sense of time. 

Never allow yourself to remain uncomfortable because the present time reminds you of the past. Never allow yourself to be uncommitted because you are unable to know how. Turn the clock forward from the past to the inspiration of now. The inspiration of now contains all the reasons of why. Once you commit to the reasons of why, the how shows up. Once you commit to the now something is to be done, the how shows up. Inspiration arrives with a commitment and inspiration then fills to the brim with the details of the how. 

Use this in your life to have the time of your life. Use the time of your life, to create the dreams of your life. Use the dreams of your life to attract relationships into your life. Share the time of your life with the relationships of your life. 

This is the new evolution . . . this is the greatest efficiency and purpose of life.

Fear is like an ocean — time never warms its waters while you shiver and wait. Entering slowly is not a valid strategy to make it easier either. The cold is not erased by any amount of — "waiting until you are ready".

If you are not ready now, you are not ready ever . . . that is the reality of time's illusion because it is always now . . . "what is to be, already is" (Humee Hum Brahm Hum). Until you make your readiness active, your readiness is sleeping.

Being ready is an action to act upon — not a condition to wait for. Ready is the courageous act of facing fears that are always present in everyone. Ready is the courageous act of facing these fears until they no longer face you — control you — limit you. Ready is about connecting with your projection . . . not your protection.

We tend to self-talk and guide life with words learned and crafted as an infant. They make up the weakest parts of our current story . . . with very little glory. These are the genetic fears of illusion's preservation — long past their actual usefulness — transferred through the generations in this day. Commitment is the antidote to these deep genetic stories. Breaking the codes of this family language overrides the way your world is controlled from deep within history. This allows you to be courageously present in the present moment.

Courage is entering time to maximize it, not running ahead of it, or lagging behind it. When you run ahead of time, you are anxious and jittery in the present — when lagging behind, it becomes exhaustive and trepidation clouds even the simplest tasks. Pay the greatest attention to your positive, committed emotions at this moment; they will guide you forward and introduce you to 'how'. Be disciplined to experience — but do not act upon — all the negative voices that will naturally arise to produce the equal opposition.

Is this a huge challenge? Absolutely — yes it is — but dive in and deal with the cold waters. It will never get any warmer, but the swim will always turn out to be fabulous.

A tangent of a tangent leads to an outcome that has little to do with the original intention . . . interpretations morph the original intention and allow discoveries to emerge. The lack of such exploration is the byproduct of a school system through which we are not educated, but rewarded for being right at the expense of being risky, adventurous, somewhat chaotic and even happy. 

Schools of the future must teach that there has to be a degree of faith when you hit this part of your psyche . . . being inclusive of the tangent rather than demolishing it and moving on. Being able to observe the connectedness of all the impossibilities is an insight that borders on intuition. However, this is not a training of modern education and rarely explored in a society bent on results. 

The arduous yet essential task leading to a tangent of a tangent is the morphing of intention to match the outcomes and then allowing outcomes to be steps to greater outcomes. This is the adventure of allowing image to transform at the heart level — the basic key to changing character through the characteristics. 

There is a natural avoidance of this. It is thought (by the brain) to be only chaos. What the brain is not honoring is that in chaos there is always a connecting string; a string that might lead to an ultimate discovery.  This connection does not respond, react, or even make sense to the original intention, but spontaneously erupts from the midst of nonsense. This is where the impossibilities are at their greatest possibility — if you have the discipline to remain clear and awake. 

This is also a most powerful technique in which you can allow a relationship to form in the heart. Though it makes no sense to your logical mind, it is far superior to any of the logic that you have previously experienced. 

This is a relationship of a magical heart . . . allow it to flourish . . . it will reward you beyond your logical imagination. This is the next evolution of human consciousness . . . this is the greatest possibility of life.

Over the centuries we have developed our collective human opinions around primitive emotions; an emotional body stuffed with survival reactions that have not been advanced or revitalized for many millions of years. These opinions may hold no truth; they may only be opinions . . . but they are wrapped in ancient emotions that have no modern bearings of language to argue against them . . . so they live by default and influence us from their position in the subconscious. 

Opinions want to survive, like anything does, and our emotions support this desire. Look how long the flat Earth lived in the fears of the Dark Ages. 

It is now time to separate these collective opinions from their individual facts . . . even cosmic opinions need separating from their emotional support. These same cosmic opinions build and propagate our family, cultural, national, and religious stories. These are fantastic stories that fan the flames of territory, protection and intolerance, none of which were a part of the life or attitude of the family members, the national founders, or the religious Prophets. These stories are simply opinions supported by ancient collective survival emotions of humanity . . . emotions [in fact] that everyone now has to overcome. 

Our opinions of this universe being a 'uni' 'verse' are the same as our older opinions of a flat Earth. It is time to upgrade our operating systems and realize just how large Infinity is. 

Shame is another such opinion; a human pandemic from ancient emotions that has developed a real head of steam over the centuries. It is a 'go-to' feeling carried by many bloodlines to elicit control from others in an attempt to command safety. 

The fear of death is another sensation of life that is out of tune and out of time. It is a reminder that we must not only master the instrument of life — we must keep it tuned. Without tuning, even great playing will be way off key. 

When we shy from confronting to correct these erroneous opinions; we allow them to permeate and prevail. In terms of realities over opinions; we must build the collective awareness beyond these emotions if we want to spread any sense of real life. The Universe is a multi-verse; the Earth is round; life can be enlightened to see beyond the doors of death; and shame is an ancient fantasy, begging for a more conscious world to replace it. These and more are the basics to be mastered and taught. 

Tune your instrument of life daily . . . be in touch, be in tune, be in time with your space always . . . this is Sadhana . . . a key to the 'new economy' in the 'next evolution'. This is growth . . . this is living life.

Seekers — students of the Infinite, students of yoga, students of life — often complain that when they sit down to meditate, they are not always greeted by the pleasantness of openness, the attitude of readiness, or a heartfelt sense of willingness. The great master Yogi Bhajan said many times, "If when meditating — all your garbage does not come out to greet you — you are probably not meditating."

Meditation disassembles old thought patterns and reassembles them into ones that better serve the 'pre—awakened' on the path to becoming 'awakened'. This is not always a dance — much of the time it is a struggle — especially when you run into patterns that have become attachments. 

Attachments are common when patterns have been in place for many years . . . and most of every one's patterns have been. They are entrenched in the established system — the subconscious believes they are protecting your life perfectly and does not plan on giving them up that easily.

Do not be concerned; meditation is not about getting it right, it is about getting right to it and doing so daily. It is not about proving who you are . . . it is about improving who you are. It is about becoming aware of the rhythms of your life in relation to the experience of life, and getting these experiences in touch with their deeper meanings . . . in touch with your purpose. 

Meditation will definitely be running into garbage here . . . if you are doing it properly. Welcome the garbage and rejoice in the joy of the exposure to the light of day . . . it will ultimately liberate you from the burden.

Establish your passions on a day—to—day basis. Whatever you attach your conscious and undoubted passions to will manifest. This is a power and miracle of the human being actually being human . . . the light (hue) in the mind (man) has the power that no other creature does. This human worship instrument we possess as a human being allows our passion to produce — literally from out of the blue — whatever we consciously envision on Earth. No other creature has this ability — this is our advantage in a whole world of disadvantages.

There are two rather opposite directions of working consciousness into this equation of manifestation: 1) create horizons; 2) create focal points. Horizons cast and open the nets of the mind to wander, wonder and gather ideas and prospects available into the space of life. Focal points draw in this net of perception around what is present; to determine what is appropriate for any given moment of time in life. The direction of the eyes during meditation is important: when you mediate on your third eye point, you create horizons; when you meditate on the tip of your nose, you create a focal point.

Make use of meditations in this way. Establish a process of consciously envisioning; then with determined intention, remove the inappropriate doubts and develop the appropriate passions. Use the power of this human body, this human worship instrument to become the life you want to live.

To be at peace with relationships fueled by relief — not searching for the words of comfort, but sensing the conversations of mutual purpose; this is family striking chords of conscious communication . . . bonding in their connection more deeply than ever. This is the music of the spheres; it fuels destinies to cross—pollinate and relationships to discover their mutual growth without struggle. 

There are no written instructions that bring you to this place of power . . . there are instructions on the inside of consciousness that bring the discipline required to open such a place that is already with you. This discipline, known as sadhana to the ones who practice fulfillment in their life — is an action that takes place before every day takes place. 

A Sadhana contains elements that cause the senses to perceive the purpose within each moment. A Sadhana contains the ingredients that permit the eyes to see the subtle clues hidden behind the obvious. A Sadhana contains the ingredients that permit the ears to hear the subtle instructions whenever new patterns appear in old relations, or brand new relations appear out of the blue. A Sadhana is a practice that puts you in touch with everything you touch. A Sadhana revitalizes your senses to experience each experience fully and knowledgeably. 

Sadhana combines all of the technologies of body, mind, emotions, and spirit into a common sense working relationship. There are elements of Sadhana contained in many other practices, but when combined around a common morning purpose, they activate the most conscious and conscientious powers within you. 

Take the time to learn how this can apply to your life. Take the time to touch this base within you every day. It can begin with a few minutes of mindfully breathing when you first awaken. 

The starting point is a desire for happiness and fulfillment; the next step is the inspiration to follow the one before it.

Be grateful for what you have . . . be grateful for all you are. See this body as a sacred vessel carrying you from where you are to who you are. You are always connected to where you are heading, while being exactly where you are right now. This is the progression of your evolution . . . from the eternal source — to the infinite sea. 

This is what we yogis call 'The River'. Your opportunity opens up when you become conscious of the river's total journey; relishing in your distant connection to this ocean (your destination) while enthusiastically embracing your moment in the journey (your now). 

The cosmos (including Earth) has no vacancies — this is [its] absolute nature. When any movement (physical or mental) takes place at your location, equal movement simultaneously takes place at your destination. When you occupy the total space (The River) in this way, you are embracing not only your movement in this moment, but also the momentum of your complete vision. 

You are now working with the 'Oneness' nature of creation . . . GOD . . . (the omnipresent provider) responding to the conscious openness in your request (your vision). Be very disciplined to not introduce doubt into this equation; it clouds the accuracy and disrupts the efficiency of the process. 

This is the science of manifestation . . . using the power of intention — linked through the clarity of your vision — linked to persistent proper action — linked to the absolute nature of the cosmos (grace). This is what it means to become 'The River' . . . this is what it means to manifest the ocean.

The passage of time is like an hourglass where the grains of sand are moments passing through the narrows of the present space; this narrows is measured in time as "now." Sand that has fallen through this narrows is called the "past" and the sand waiting to fall is called the "future." However, remember, there is a view of the glass of time that can see it all in a single glance.

Spiritual mastery — and now scientific study — shows us that time is an illusion; it is a limited perception contained and constrained within our five senses. Past and future are pure imagination, yet extremely convenient markers. They allow us to keep track of all our concepts by making the order of 'things' more logical. Our five senses produce a logical view of the world and this view emulates the "passage of time."

There is a more advanced way to view the cosmos; one that sees all time together as one. In this view — the past, the present and the future are all just the sand in the glass with no reference to its movement. This view, known as the continuum, is the power of our intuition, premonition and the various psychic abilities. Instead of watching each moment of the sand as it moves in the moment, it focuses on all of the sand at once, and just as with all of time ... all of the sand is in fact . . . always existing.

Every human has this inherent capacity to perceive and interpret time in this way, but most have not yet activated the "equipment." The world at large discredits such attempts to engage this view by branding it as weird, crazy, or dreaming. This way of viewing life and the world is a human skill that can be activated and highly trained.

Commitment is one of the most powerful tools in your human inventory. It overrides impulse and places control of your experience back in your hands. Commitment is one of the many pathways to the power of intuition; a perfect way to embrace and comprehend the 'passage of time' to guide your life toward your goals.

An extremely practical method of discovering, strengthening and tuning up your commitment is through yoga, meditation and chanting. Kundalini yoga stretches you into your body glove to remove the emotional distractions and physical discomforts. Meditation and chanting clear the brain of its chatter (conscious and unconscious) and enable clarity to flourish. Tuning this human instrument on a regular, consistent, daily basis presents you with the joy of knowing that you actually know. This is at the very root of the power of intuition.

The healing property of medicinal plants has evolved over the millennia using micro-steps as a means of protecting the plant from its outside invaders. These little steps of incremental protection allow the plant to avoid a total invasion. However, since every action has an equal reaction — if these moves of cure were too large or too fast, the reaction to the cure would be equally severe. This would set up a rollercoaster of chaos that would be very difficult — perhaps impossible — for evolution to manage. These are the reactions, called side effects in modern medicine that work far too fast and extreme. This is not natural and will eventually have to correct. 

All the events we pass through in life are an exact, elaborately calculated cosmic sequence of our life's lessons. As humans, we are repeatedly challenged through the logic of time passing, to become our own cure. Taking a lesson from these medicinal plants in naturopathy, we must begin using such incremental steps to reduce the push back against our cures. Create and build in little steps; do not ask for bombs to hit, explosions are not constructive. Construction arrives by accepting that there are no exceptions to the cosmic balance of action and reaction. 

The additional alchemy of this human reality is — when a cure takes place in one of us, it is then available to all of us. Read — The Hundredth Monkey, by Ken Keyes Jr. 

The only question remains: can this cosmic principle hold our attention and produce enough movement through our surrender to avoid the frustration of boredom? Until we accept graduation to the next level via surrender, we will fail in many of our endeavors with resistance. By working without resistance and frustration, the little steps eventually add up to success. This is why herbal alchemy is so effective, little steps adding together where big steps would break down from big opposition. 

Resistance is the thief — surrender is the gift giver. Resistance robs vitality that is required to overcome complexities. By surrendering through these complexities in small unnoticeable increments, we discover an open pathway . . . the very route of natural and naturopathic healing.

To be consistently growing in the midst of life's changes, charges and challenges, we must constantly check with ourselves: "am I committed to being right, or am I committed to feeling good, or am I committed to growing?" Then remember, growth does not always feel good, and feeling good does not always provide growth, and neither one is going to always be considered "right" by the rest.

There must always be a balanced conscious coordination between the sensations of your emotional and physical worlds, and the sensibilities of your evolutionary progress through this world. The physical and emotional bodies speak in a temporal language of selfishness . . . a drive to comfort and pleasure . . . a primitive means of survival that desires being right — first and foremost. This is not a bad thing, if it is not the only thing, but it should never be more than one third of your life's focus. The mind's conscious expansion and your spiritual fulfillment are to balance out the other two thirds of your purpose. 

A baby is completely body centric, but as we grow, we are supposed to balance this out. Are you growing? There is an old saying in yoga about this: "Everybody grows old, but very few grow up." 

Without releasing the shackles of this body centric need — which honors feelings over growth — you will be forever dancing to the uncommitted beat that progresses only part way toward your goals. We call this the "halfway-dance" and it takes place in the "comfort lounge" on the "first floor" of your "halfway house." It is in fact, a sub-primitive human nature — it arrived with the conceptual mind around one hundred thousand years ago and has been developing and taking command ever since. 

Without engaging the primitive drive to survive, or the exalted drive to grow, commitment cannot engage and the pain from lacking fulfillment becomes life's entire focus. Everything 'halfway' becomes the theme . . . the perfected obsessions of life. Civilization supports this theme in order to maintain the illusion of 'safe concepts replacing dangerous experiences'. This is why today's youth are into extremes (sports, clothes, tattoos, piercing, video games, etc.); they are in search of the real experience in a world obsessed and driven by false images and meaningless concepts. 

The halfway dance has been mastered and marketed over the past two hundred years. It dances for all who pay it attention and anyone who pays the fee.  Life has become about earning a living, rather than living and experiencing the life already earned. Image has become more important than connection and with this — the concept out-plays the content. The halfway "market" fills with participants who are making a killer living on this halfway dance, but never really living [as alive, ecstatic and conscious beings]. Fear has become the feeling of guidance because separation always requires a sense of safety no matter how false. This "safe-zone" has become the most dangerous place to live . . . especially when you die in it as a completely unfulfilled human. 

It is time to turn over the leaf . . . live in the risk of total commitment. It is not about the mirror's reflection being right (the image); it is about the projection being you (the fulfillment). 

Make this your routine on a daily basis — look into a mirror and challenge yourself to be YOU and nothing less. Smile and be vocal in this exercise . . . this may start out very serious, but it will soon turn joyful. You will find yourself in front of your SELF, standing at the mirror on the edge of each morning, grateful for a relationship that has become extremely REAL . . . from one that was assumed and granted. 

Then take this real-time relationship into the field of your life . . . out into the risk of your commitment. Reproduce it with tremendous enthusiasm for the greatest possibilities of your life.

When you are young and bright and aiming your entire life toward hopes and dreams with all the possible power, there are few thoughts that this will ever change. There are also very few thoughts that the illusion of time passing will have diminishing affects upon your life. Then — without the consciousness acknowledging it — years pass, decades pass, the illusion of the time of your life passes. In doing so, it poses the question. Are you closer to the aims of your youth, or are you a copy of a copy, a tangent of a tangent, a limit of a limitation? Are you an imitation of your intended path?

If the answer is not . . . "I AM — WHO I AM — THAT IS THAT!" . . . then the answer resides in your sea of pain. Conscious of it or not, numb to it or not . . . it is still painful in the long run.

The key to remaining powerful and on point - the key to living in the answer of; "I AM — WHO I AM" is a combination of avid flexibility and daily consistency. Flexibility allows you to take no offense to the constant offense of time. Consistency allows you to successfully navigate through the constant defensive nature of space . . . for every one of your actions it gives you an equal reaction. You must consistently and flexibly check your course against a "master-map" in order for your life to remain connected with the direction of your core intention. Otherwise, it is increasingly easy to become that tangent of a tangent and then a copy of a copy and then the limits of the limitations of your imitations.

The evidence is in; you are either moving forward or backward, but life is never stagnant . . . change is the only real constant. There is no standing still in this material creation. Therefore, one must apply a strong daily directional intent to remain on point throughout time . . . otherwise; your direction will be chosen for you - not by you.

When you appear to stand still in doubt, confusion, or fear; you are actually moving — just not in any direction of your choosing. You are being shifted onto the tangents that streak throughout timespace . . . at someone else's pace . . . toward someone else's place. You are living someone else's dream. This is the danger-zone infiltrating your "safety" zone of indecision, doubt, fear, confusion and inaction.

All the 'shoulds' and the 'coulds' are great indicators — but time-space requires your active participation. Accomplishment only takes place when you actively participate with your intentions. Therefore, fully commit to participate in the dreams of your choice and do so against all the risks confronting you.

Further: learn the living art of the martial arts — become responsive to the defensive offensiveness of this material world without taking offense, without being offensive or defensive. Leave no track-backs in the fabric of space and time will not knock you down in its defection from, or its reaction to your projection.

Make this your daily occurrence — 'flexible consistency . . . persistently affirming your goals'. Experience the living affirmations of being YOU every day. Do not wish upon time from the sidelines of life, but commit full participation in the actual — active — construction of your goals. Retrieve all the dreams that you knew in your youth, or if you are still young, never leave them . . . become their guarantee [daily] and you will live them. This is spiritual growth in the new evolution of human consciousness.

As humans we actually believe that when we move from one place to another place to another place, we are having the experiences of each place and that the places are different. However, the realities of the majority of the experiences that we have are actually traveling with us. This is in what is known as 'Place' ('capitalized' for distinction) in the science of Humanology. You enter a space, but 'Place' travels with you — it is yours and it defines the majority of your experience.

Place is, in fact, a complex equation carried within the electro-magnetic field that surrounds you . . . known as the Aura. This is a filter of your input and output. It is constructed by four facets of your human being. These are your Feelings, Perceptions, Pace and Place . . . each one constructed interactively over tremendous amounts of time . . . even generations biologically . . . even incarnations cosmologically.

As you move from the traffic on a road to the quiet of a room you have changed the space of your experience, but you have carried within you, the definitions of the experience that you will be experiencing. The inner noise (the definitions) traveling with you into the quiet room is far more present than your environmental shift. You will continue to experience the inner sensations of the noisy traffic you left outside until they fade from your memory or are replaced. In order to change the foundation of 'Place', you must transform the inner 'codes' . . . you must work on the inner constructs of your Feelings, the inner constructs of your Perceptions, and the inner constructs of your Pacing.

Simply changing the space (the persons, the locations and the things) with which and within which you exist will change very little . . . 'Place' is only slightly modified by these external changes. Space is merely the setting in which you experience your experience; your Feelings, Perceptions and Pace define this experience. 'Place' will manifest based on your propensity to Feel, to Perceive and to Pace. Changing this 'Place' — which you carry with you — affects the entire experience of your experience . . . affects the entire sense of your existence . . . affects your entire outlook and your outcomes. 'Place' is the experience and the experiencer.

Do not try to understand this by using your thoughts . . . allow it to sink into your body and your being. Allow it to contribute to your Place.

"The observer and the observed are one . . . they are in fact the same event." Guru Nanak - India (ad.1489) "The observer defines the observed" Albert Einstein - (ad. 1909).

When you are no longer the witness; when you are no longer holding out for a peek to see if you are 'OK' . . . you are in the moment . . . you are 'OK' to the 'nth' degree. Unaware of all that you might 'not' be; you are simply employing life-force (Prana) as a means of being who you are. The perfect mantra for this condition is: I am who I am . . . that is that.

All that you are becomes merely what you are. All that you are engaged in becomes simply engaged. You are experiencing the experience without the need for a witness to witness the experience. You do not require anything to justify you, or verify you, or confirm anything other than the experience of your existence.

This is what yogis call a state of grace . . . it can come from having complete confidence; it can come from extreme simplicity or it can come from deep trust. The word confidence is from the Latin and 'con' means — with — and 'fidence' means — faith. Faith is a subject that has no object. It is never faith in something (that would be reliance) it is simple; it is just faith.

This confidence allows for many things including — the experience of life to be that of living the experience. It is when you have the experience of joy without needing an explanation of a reason; or when you experience love and require no justification for the experience. You thereby disallow any doubts from becoming the witness to your experience and there is then no disruption to the joy of your love. This is the pure existence having a pure experience. This is known in Sanskrit as 'Khalsa'.

The further you move from this purity of being and into the need for a witness, or to be witnessed; the more you must justify and the more you must employ the intellect to explain what you are experiencing. You are then not living the experience of life; you are witnessing a concept of life. This will naturally and eventually turn into pain and the purpose of life then becomes the avoidance of this pain. We have been involved with this dilemma for many thousands of years. It is life based on conclusions drawn from bias (the angles of perception). Life has become a struggle to reduce this pain, to engage in alternative witnessing. Life has become the filling of time with the explanations of the justifications of the condemnations of the pain.

Life becomes "unsafe" in this myriad of actions, distractions and reactions. Purpose becomes the need to guarantee safety . . . an unfulfilled and unfulfillable constant companion. In this endless cycle of pain to pleasure — pleasure to pain, the emphasis searches for a witness to witness the experience that is not being experienced. The riddle is unsolvable.

Your task is to cast this cycle into a black-hole. Every galaxy has one. Dive into the experience of your experience and become the Soul having a human experience while being humane. Be the experience itself and your birthright of happiness will appear as if it were there all along. Because it has been . . . it is the cosmic law of time-space . . . it is the nature of nature. Happiness is the experience of life — experiencing life.

Have you not had those moments — sensed the faint sense of these hints of deep happiness within the glimpses of your experience? They come when you have allowed yourself to experience any experience from within the innocence of your faint, but insistent courage. This is the true you being the pure experience! This is you being Khalsa.

Think of the fact that the main purpose in life is to actually experience the experience you are having; to live the life you are living and comprehend all of the sensations that are taking place — all of the signals and all of the clues — using all of the biological, experiential, visceral, emotional and psychological capacities. This is a long way off from what we are doing in this world at this moment in time.

But, we are entering into an era of re-evolution where all the limited horizons, the restricted views; the simpler explanations that have served us in the past will no longer be sufficient to move us forward. We cannot go about life remaining in a safe zone — viewing the world and experiencing it through the same old filters. These ways we have always known will continue the same predictable ups and downs and the familiarity will give us the illusion of safety. But we have reached the end of this road . . . this is becoming ever more and obvious.

Life is inviting us to take this moment in time — engage a brand new opportunity — take a risk that has never been taken — initiate the process of altering our perceptions to see more clearly how things actually are. We are to begin the elimination of all the familiar filters, the ones that only show us what we already know. We are to take this moment and learn something new from the broader horizons and expanded views of the infinite multi-verse. We are to build a new set of explanations to account for what we are already experiencing. This is the time that is upon us for the old ways are tired and worn out.

This is in fact opening up to the new stage of your evolution . . . expanding conscious awareness. Every specie in the past that refused this opportunity . . . disappeared into extinction. What a great opportunity to break that old mold. What a wonderful moment to build on life's endless experiences. What a powerful idea to renew our purpose and then live on purpose. What a great new day to have a great day . . . the world is waiting . . . the universe is changing . . . so become who you want to become.

When in any particular moment or period of your life — a moment where dynamic growth, for any reason, has just occurred — the lack of all those old familiar fittings with their patterns nestled neatly together into your familiar environment — this lack will cause considerable angst. Fitting back into the older patterns requires a refusal to accommodate your new growth. This is very common and is the reason that true growth is so difficult. This refusal and then reversal of growth will instantly take place through the 'groping' for the familiarity of old environments. You are then left wondering what has gone wrong . . . while, at the same time, definitely relieved that you are back to "normal."

If, on the other hand, you allow this angst to simply state its case of uncertainty without accommodating or reacting to it — you then relax all resistance to the unfamiliar — the new growth will find its new patterns in your new environment and ultimately become your new familiarity. This requires courage and is the only way to sustain growth. 

In other words . . . don't try to fit in . . . you fit perfectly in you. By allowing the discomfort of not fitting in to simply be what it is; the arena around you is forced to comply with and verify your new form. In addition to courage, this requires tremendous quantities of faith and trust. It is not easy . . . it is ultimately extremely rewarding . . . it is extremely abnormal. If your need is to be normal then you will not walk on this path. 

Remember: the only constant in this universe is change . . . so as Gandhi once said, "Become the change you want to see."