INSPIRATIONAL BLESSINGS - 2010 IS A YEAR OF FEARLESS WISDOM - Walking the Path of Practical Enlightenment is Grisht Ashram
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 of these 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 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.
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 first assumed and then taken for granted.
Then take this real-time relationship into the field of your life . . . take it out into the risk of your commitments. Reproduce it with tremendous enthusiasm for the greatest possibilities of your life.
These Inspirational Blessings are like mantras . . . reminders that cause us to think at a new angle . . . to shake up old patterns . . . to renew and rebuild our vision and purpose. We then gain insight to ignite and inspire an opening to manifest our conscious focus through conscious action. Find Guru Singh's music HERE and his new book HERE.
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