Archive for March, 2011
Make Life a 5 Legged Stool
Posted by: | CommentsWe know how unsteady a three legged stool would be if one leg breaks.
If we have a viewpoint that our life depends on one or two things, we live precariously.
We need our job and one of the reasons is we have probably adjusted our life styles up to spend everything we make. The loss of a job would not allow us to keep what we have.
Rich Man Poor Man makes the great point that we should spend on luxury what we earn from investments.
We can build stability one leg at a time and have a life that won’t crumble short of us meeting death.
We can invest daily in our health. Our health makes us very vulnerable to sickness and disease. We build walls around this fortress with healthy eating, exercise, relaxation, laughter, reading, and hobbies. We take care of it and it will take care of us.
We can invest daily in our family. Even a broken family still needs support and can return nourishment. The people closest to us are our opportunity to give love and receive love. You can express it and receive it every day without complications. In times of sorrow or set back they have heartfelt sympathy and know what to say.
We can invest in our passion and skills daily. Our passions are who we are. They are the things that vibrate with our soul. Our skills are the manner in which we can express that passion in a significant contribution. Our greatest accomplishments will come from our most passionate pursuits. Even temporary setbacks do not eliminate passions.
We can invest in our communities. Our friends are valuable extensions of our families and perhaps people we knew in past lives. Our neighborhoods thrive on cooperative mutual support. Our cities and nation need the intelligence of our voice. Our communities support us and give back what we invest.
Allow Spirituality to breathe. Nature creates in Chaos. There was Chaos before order as scientists explain how the energy of the Big Bang resulted in planets and life. We are all part of the big scheme and none less significant than another. Know you were meant to be happy and fulfilled in abundance. Your belief will help you survive life’s natural chaos.
When one leg breaks the other legs will hold you up until you can have the leg repaired.
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It’s Hard to Make Sense of What We See
Posted by: | CommentsIf we pick up a newspaper or go online in the morning to view the news, we see a myriad of reports.
Things are going up, things are getting better, things are getting worse, someone died, Villanova won their tenth game in a row, Vitamin D is good for you and so on.
One of the reasons we cannot get to the truths that matter is that there is too much stimulus. Our lives are spent chopping wood and carrying water, but the meaning in our lives is at a different level.
If I got in a rocket ship and sped to a 100,000 miles from earth my view would be much different than if I stood on a corner in downtown Manhattan. In downtown Manhattan I would be worried about being run over by a Cab and in space I would wonder at the silence and unlimited expansiveness.
In Manhattan, I could be aware of my vulnerabilities and almost insignificance in a city teeming with chaos. In space I could contemplate where I came from and why was I unique and what was my highest purpose. With no distractions, we can contemplate bigger truths.
We spend very little time bifurcating our thoughts into both meaning and daily pursuits for survival. We tend to use our daily pursuits as the ticket to take us to outer space.
Our trips to outer space should dictate how we see our daily lives.
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Is Fear Our Last Defense?
Posted by: | CommentsWhat would the world be like if we had no fear?
What would our daily lives be without fear?
What is fear? It is our feeling that something negative for our well being has power over us. It is the feeling that we might not be able to meet a challenge.
What is flow? Flow is the engagement in an activity that we have practiced and enjoy. We look for the challenge in the activity knowing that we can meet it. When engaged in flow we suspend judgment about our performance and find total reward in just the activity. Time seems to melt away.
If we could engage in flow each day, it is apparent we could have Happiness. If we could get our lives to flow, we could sustain the Happiness.
As an aside, I read a book “Emissary of Light” by James F Twyman in which he said see your fear and know where you feel it. It is usually in the stomach area. Move it to the chest area. Concentrate on it until it dissipates. Or see it as a sponge ball and put your hands on it while concentrating on it. Massage and turn it while concentrating on the fear. It will dissipate.
I find I can rid myself of a sudden anxiety or fearful thought in less than a minute. I like the sponge ball method. Even if I don’t put my hands up because I get the thought while I am in bed, I can visually massage the ball of fear until it dissipates.
Yesterday morning, I began working on Part 2 of my new E Book and that part is titled “Creating Unity and Not Separation” . As the world seems to be splitting at every seam, there is a great unity that is part of nature. The modern sciences of Quantum Physics, Chaos Theory, and the thoughts on Consciousness say the true reality is outside our realm of senses.
They say everything is one and there is great interchange. Quantum Physics and thoughts on Consciousness say that all space is filled with information. The fact that a single cell of DNA can grow to trillions of cells in a human body could be equated to how one speck of energy blew up into a Universe.
The body of cells replaces billions each day. Nature creates by circulating and balancing energy. We call it weather, storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and yet we have our calm days. Out of chaos comes a new order.
We can’t resist what is coming our way. We have to embrace that change and challenge are part of nature. We have to know that we can make decisions when challenges arrive.
We have to know that we have been given all the tools to deal with challenge and even the capability of creating our own challenges.
“The Emissary of Light” in its story said we have fear because we have separation. It is strange to me how I often write a post or start a paper and then later in the day when I am doing my reading and research, a book restates what I have written.
I have recently come to a new understanding that everything is one and God is in all things. I chose to use the basic elements of hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon. They are my psychological tools, but they are in every single necessary element of life including our DNA.
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity says energy equals mass squared. In very high heat like the energy that existed before the Big Bang or at the center of our Sun, we have hydrogen and helium. When the Big Bang occurred and the heat cooled, the energy turned to matter.
As stars formed as balls of heat (the sun is 27 million degrees F, so some real heat) they attracted matter through electromagnetic energy we call gravity. The earth was formed in the same manner. Hydrogen is in all things.
When we see our unity with the Universe and not our separation, we can know we are part of a larger scheme. We can accept challenges as nature does. We accept, reflect, adapt, and renew.
Fear is resistance and none of us are powerful enough to resist the nature of things. Let it flow through you and dissipate it. Set your own visions and develop your core competencies. Become part of the whole and contribute to the greater good.
Maybe we will get to the point where we see love as the main component of the Universe instead of hydrogen.
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Your Curve Can Always Be Upward
Posted by: | CommentsThe only thing that cannot survive loss is the Spirit.
The most powerful tool in our arsenal is the “I can do” wrench.
It is important to either have a vision or to improve ourselves on a daily basis so that we are always blossoming out. Either one is a powerful driver.
The “I can do” comes from confidence in ourselves. There are many ways to feel that we are entitled to happiness, fulfillment, and purpose.
Originally, I backed into my self entitlement by working on healthy eating and fitness. My self realization replaced my always working from motivation. In the past, I would take a job or assignment based on the upside potential of remuneration. I traded my skills and time for helping someone with money to reach their goals.
Getting paid allowed me to buy the things that should make me happy. It’s a good system and works right up to the point that you realize you are continuously feeding the consumption machine without getting the sustained happiness payoff.
Getting better connected to my persona helped me realize that I was a complete entity and happy already. I could continue to feel better and better by ingesting healthy food and making my body work up to and past its capacity.
The confidence that I could control my appetites and mind’s relentless requests gave me discipline and direction. I could now decide what I wanted to do to sustain my happiness by self expressing myself. My self expression has had daily payoffs that money can’t buy.
A second great avenue to an upward trending curve is increasing spirituality. When you get a feeling that you are connected and God is in you, you are never alone. You can be lonely at times, but never alone in the Universe.
I got my final spark from the “God Code” by Gregg Braden which gave me the handle for which I was searching. Up until now, I have been very spiritual and thankful that the external God seemed to be watching out for me, even if bad things happened.
The God Code conveys the message that the creator is really in everything because of the basic few elements that are the foundation for everything. Hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon are responsible air, water, heat, earth, our bodies, and DNA.
It’s a more lengthy process how the author’s 12 years of work connected God to the elements. I got the connection that God is in me. So now I don’t say thanks for watching out for me, I say we dodged another bullet.
I am a co-creator of my destiny. I am therefore perfect in origin, entitled to be happy and purposeful, so I just need to make it happen. All the bad things that are continuously happening around us are part of the Chaos Theory out of which the Universe was created and the creative process at work for creating new order.
I feel bad when I see misfortune, but it isn’t an uncaring absent Creator, it is the creative process at work. I need to initiate and drive my own creative process so that I can influence the order. Chaos works for the better or worse through continuous negative or positive feedback loops.
A negative feed back loop might be considered a 100 foot wave that appears out of 40 foot seas or a hurricane or tornado. A positive feedback loop might be “pay it forward” or a kind act that leads to another.
Each of us is a butterfly flapping its wings and the theory asks if that could cause a tornado in a distant land. It is our destiny to add to the positive feedback loops.
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Why People and Organizations Need to be One
Posted by: | CommentsThis morning a read the online newspaper and I could only find one positive story and only one in sports. Newspapers live on reporting negative news, but there reporting feeds into our consciousness.
There is a lot of negative news with economy, Japan, and Middle East uprisings. My recent posts on Chaos have covered how the Universe loves chaos. It was formed in chaos, rejuvenates on chaos and creates out of chaos.
After I read a book, a allow all the thoughts I have had during the reading to coalesce and don’t try to reach any summaries until the following morning when I may want to write on one of the topics. The chaos usually comes to order and I get a point to discuss.
Last night I had a dream that I was at McDonald’s with a large group and the waitress was serving our table out of a big coffee pot. She forgot to serve me and ran out. Then she said it was past their hour for making more. I was moaning my misfortune of no coffee.
I think one message for all of us is that in this time of chaos, we need more unity. It is a time to bring our families, friends, jobs, and community into closer relationship. We can see that the world is acting as a centrifuge to try and spin all of us off the platter.
I read a survey the other day that 54% of employees in especially small businesses were going to seek other jobs after the recovery. Employers are worried about surviving and cutting back. Employees are worried about survival and saving. What may be coming apart in the work place is loyalty and the effort to make everyone stronger.
In that the world is full of chaos and wants to rip you apart, it is important to build strong defenses and offenses. You build defenses where you can. First you want to build your health and fitness. You must protect yourself against sickness and disease while making your body, mind and spirit and strong fortress for defense and attack.
Secondly you need to get your house in financial order if possible. Your personal situation is the last line of defense against global, national, and local economic troubles.
You also need to go on offense. We operate best when working out of passion. Our peak performance occurs when tackling a challenge in which we have competence and know that we can surmount the challenge.
Our fulfillment, happiness, and contribution evolve out of developing our personal skills or core competencies to the point we can make a contribution. Business and its people should evaluate how each can find their purpose and make a contribution together.
It should be the long run strategy of a business to help its people find purpose and happiness and it makes people happier if they can be involved in helping their company make a contribution.
If chaos can’t destroy you, you will be stronger when it is calm.
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Are We Living with Half Our Capabilities?
Posted by: | CommentsAnd are we experiencing half the possible joy?
Man has been given one of the most incredible gifts since the beginning of life on earth; the mind/brain.
Strangely we know a lot more about Google, Face Book, I Phones, I Pads, MP3 players, than we know about our minds and brains.
Our devices access known facts and they get us connected to people we love. This is pretty good. But at the end of the day, have we really fulfilled our selves or made a contribution?
Our mind/brain has capacities that are unlimited. It is the best toy ever given. The brain has plasticity which means it can adapt to new learning and expand its capabilities. It is never too old to learn more information and increase its capacity.
The mind gives us access to the subconscious which is access to intuition, revelation, time travel, and creativity. The knowledge exists on how to further our capabilities. One of the paths is blocking out the distractions of everyday life and devices.
We clearly understand how the body’s fitness can be increased by adding more endurance. Very few of us like to play the puzzles and crosswords to build our capacity. They are a little tedious and not very exciting.
This week I ventured into a phase of studying the origins of life and the beginning of the Universe with the Big Bang. The most exciting authorities are highly educated extremely intelligent authors who have two lives. One might be in computer science or physics and the other is theology or spirituality.
I definitely felt my mind stretching as I tried to grasp hold of their mathematics and scientific explanations. I was totally ecstatic with the revelations and impressed with the passion in which they pursued their pre conceived notions.
I felt awed and even intimidated by their intellect. Yet I was able to share the same space and benefit by the time and effort they invested in trying to get a message to me.
The Chinese parents tell their children they will enjoy what they are good at. It certainly seems they pursue ends with a passion. Putting children in gymnastics classes at three is over the top perhaps, but a recognition by them of what it takes to be a world champion.
We have become enamored with consumerism and under whelmed with self expression and pursuit of our passions.
The fact that we are out sourcing all our jobs is a reflection on the fact that we as workers want too much money for what we can contribute.
Our culture can contribute $100 million to a Rolling Stones tour, $500 for a cell phone, $50,000 for the ultimate driving machine for a teen ager, and $200 for a meal, so it isn’t as though we won’t pay for what we perceive as value.
But are we spending too much time, money and effort satisfying our senses and not enough on developing who we are?
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Read “The God Code” by Gregg Braden. The ultimate spiritual venture; he translates the letter values of ancient alphabets and correlates with the atomic mass values of the Periodic Table to reach the astounding conclusion that the creator may be in us in the basic elements that create and sustain all life; hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon.
Read Genesis and the Big Bang , the Discovery of Harmony Between Modern Science and the Bible by Gerald L. Schroeder, Ph.D. A difficult read in that the complexities of life revealed by this MIT physicist create a mathematical, biological, and theological reconciling for how life began.
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The Road from Healthy Eating to Spirituality
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5 years ago I started a regimen to lose the weight exercise was not peeling.
I started introducing better foods to my normal American diet of too many calories through foods my body didn’t recognize. I was surprised how changing my diet could eliminate ten pounds that my eight hours of exercise a week couldn’t impact.
It soon became a game of how much good food could I add and how much bad food could I eliminate without being hungry. As I moved to eating more salads, less sugar, more fruit, less flour, more vegetables, less red meat, less processed and restaurant foods, the pounds started melting away.
When I moved to the beach in May of 2010, I reinvigorated a depreciated exercise program and moved to eating raw. The pounds and inches started melting like I had unlocked a secret code. I then had to wonder when I wanted it to stop. 40 pounds later from the start, I figured it was enough.
At the same time in May, I started posting to my websites every day. I started with the natural topics of health and fitness because I knew and experienced them. Because I was writing, I also came to understand the creative process and how it could be sustained seven days a week.
The research for my writing started in the topics closest to my experiences and then began to spread to new ground. I let it flow rather freely without goals of where I wanted it to head. I only knew that I wanted it to be continuously interesting to me and hoped I educated and entertained my readers.
I read several books a month and was blessed with the ability to read fast. I would read in the afternoons and then see what assembled in my mind in the morning before I wrote. In January of 2011 I accelerated the process reading a book or two almost every day.
Over the months I have covered the brain, thinking, creativity, innovation, design, economic recovery, global warning, inspiration, personality, happiness, flow, love, spirituality, consciousness, quantum physics, chaos theory, and have finally arrived at God.
I have to marvel that this process flowed on its own without concern or direction on my part. In my last book read “The God Code” by Greg Braden, I realized I have arrived at the summit.
He was a senior computer systems analyst and retired to spend 12 years researching and seeking answers to one of the oldest questions of who are we and where did we come from.
As a quick unjust summary of his findings, he analyzed the teachings and science of the ancients found mostly in the Kabbala and Torah. The early sciences of man were alchemy and astrology. The Torah is written in the Hebrew language in which all letters of the alphabet have a numerical value. The science of equating letters to values is gematria.
In a complex conversion of alphabet to numeric values and finding combinations with modern science in the periodic tables of elements, he and his team could make determinations that the secret teachings underlying the stories of the Torah theorized on the origination of man and the Universe.
Modern String Theory holds that the science of the Kabbala explaining the ten elements of life and the Big Bang are accurate. Translating the early Biblical comments about existence of Air, Fire, and Water to science he found that certain universal elements are responsible for each.
The first element out of the Big Bang was hydrogen. The next most common elements are oxygen and nitrogen. In the earths crust, mans body, air, water, and the Sun’s heat, these are the common elements.
The main elements of DNA, the source of all life are hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. The translation of the name of God, Yahweh YHVH, as given to Moses on Sinai into numerical values can be compared to atomic mass of the elements on the Periodic Tables.
Cutting it too short to do it justice, the letters of the name YHVH, God, are equal in value to hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. These are odorless invisible gases but the one element found in man that gives them form is carbon.
So when we say God is in us and in all things, we see that these elements are the reasons we could justify that statement. In our spiritual feelings that there is something greater than the reality we sense and that the answers we seek are in us, this gives it new meaning.
If our lives are co-creations with the creator, that is because we are one.
Please excuse the short cuts and any inaccuracies that I may have interpreted, but I think you get the idea. I welcome you to read his book and decide for yourself.
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Is Chaos Causing Productive People to Turn Over?
Posted by: | CommentsAs I have posted in several articles recently, Chaos Theory queries whether the butterfly flapping its wings in Argentina can cause a tornado in Texas?
Nature loves chaos. At the root of the atom’s energy is chaos. Chaos is creative. Our body replaces itself continuously and yet we never notice. Maybe it’s why we like to have a drink or listen to music while doing something tedious so it will be more of a challenge.
Notice lately how many natural destructive forces are making the news? At the same time these forces have man hopping. We are dealing with food shortages, climate change, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and drought.
Nothing boring about living on this planet.
Man is throwing in his own two cents with economic melt downs, freedom riots, wars, and concern over who has the nuke. Now all of a sudden we can get radiation as a result of earthquakes added on to rogue nations surprising their neighbors with a nuke or terrorists slipping someone a dirty bomb.
This is more than a butterfly flapping its wings. People are really assessing their values. The more chaos that is created the more life, love, and relationships start becoming priorities.
Not only does this affect us personally, but it follows people are questioning what they do at work all day. Does their life have meaning? Is their job fulfilling? Are they making a contribution? Do the people they are working for take a personal interest in them?
An article from the L.A.Times shows an interesting statistic:
“As employment picks up, small companies often see high turnover. Surveys show 54% of U.S. employees want to look for new jobs when the economy improves, said Kevin Sheridan, chief engagement officer of HR Solutions International Inc. in Chicago.
His research shows that recognition, career development and relationships with managers are key factors. Let employees know their efforts are appreciated. Provide training so they can move up the ladder and make sure they feel good about the person they report to, he said.” L.A. Times Karen E Klein
It’s not just about the money. Business is very business centric. The key people who make businesses run are people centric and self centric. The public has become sensitive Brands that treat people well, contribute to the community, and sustain the planet.
Our consciousness is changing. Technology is trying to bring everyone together. It is our subconscious desire to be connected. We know subconsciously that we are connected and we need to establish that connection by electronics and digitally at the moment.
But that consciousness is bleeding over to the work place. Employers should start seeing their organizations as more organic. Everyone wants to feel as part of the whole. The whole has to nurture its parts.
Employers could make their organizations more people centric identifying what makes people passionate about their work. If we want people to activate their dopamine over their work and reach peak performance we need to know their desires for growth, and contribution.
Small and large businesses need to be counseling with key employees to see what turns them on. If their desires for personal actualization can be partially met at their work place, they will be more inclined to grow with the business. If not, they will be seeking work that at the end of the day makes them feel good.
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Religion, Spirituality, Chaos and Creativity
Posted by: | CommentsThere is no war in creativity between religion and spirituality.
In some cases they come at it from different angles.
In Religion depicted by Minister Paula White in “You’re All That”, there is a relationship between you and the external God. In Spirituality as depicted by Eric Butterworth in “The Creative Life”, God is internal and you and everything in your life is a partnership in co-creativity.
Butterworth says that one does not have to seek God or spirituality. They are in each and every one of us ready to be turned on like a light bulb. We are creative when we open up and allow ourselves to experience the energy that created the Universe.
In Paula White’s religious teachings, God can deliver what we ask for and watches over us. In Butterworth’s spirituality, God is the center without a circumference and the circumference without a center. In other words, he is everywhere and therefore in us.
Butterworth can then draw the conclusion that mediocrity is self inflicted and genius is self actualized. We can become and create without limits because we are and were created with the same energy that exists in the Universe. It isn’t that everything was, everything still is. The Big Bang is still banging.
Chaos is nature’s way to create. As vast as the Universe, the customization and uniqueness are just as fascinating. Considering at the speed of light, it would take billions of years to cross the Universe and yet every snowflake is a hexagonal geometrical unique marvel.
There are creatures so unique with incredible capabilities that they exceed the complexity man could ever even think of let alone create. And then there are millions of species each differentiated
Man cannot create a seed. Man could not duplicate the flight of a hummingbird. Man cannot build something as small as a DNA molecule that contains enough information to build a human with trillions of different cells.
Why man? Was someone needed who could appreciate the creativity or was it a test to see if a creature could be creative?
Chaos is one of Nature’s favorite tools for creativity. At the core of our cells, billions of times smaller than an atom is chaos. Our cells replace them selves until we are a new person each year and yet we seem to be the same.
The Sun’s energy affects the climate on earth and the earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornados, rain, erosion, floods, gulf streams, and waves reshape the earth on a continual basis that affects the creatures living on it. Is someone at a distance laughing? It is like we are continuously ducking fast balls. And yet that is life.
The human creative process can follow the same diametric. Out of confusion, we can create an idea that brings order. From something accepted, we can create something new. Out of the energy we can create art, music, poetry, mathematics, architecture, medicine, and cuisine.
We have the same access to information as the Creator because we can reach into the Consciousness of space. We just have to open up and passion is one of our best tools. Using our subconscious to reach this energy is also a tool. When we relax, sleep, meditate, vacation, shower, and other activities we let down our guard.
We are always connected unless we turn it off. We turn off our creativeness to think about different things. We concentrate on moving a BMW from the showroom to our garage and lose touch with our access. We think negatively of our existence or hatefully of someone else and lose touch with our access.
We are given the energy to create, but we have to pro actively bring ideas to form. The more elevated our gratitude and appreciation, the more positive and optimistic our consciousness. This gets us closer to the waves of energy that carry our solutions.
Maybe contemplating some of this power would inspire us to realize that we too are powerful and have unlimited ability to create form from our focus. Why should we be stifled and reserved when creativity is exploding around us?
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Read “The Creative Life”, 7 Keys to Your Inner Genius by Eric Butterworth. The Prologue says it is about you, your transcendent self, your infinite potential, your inner genius.
Read “You’re All That”, Understand God’s Design for Your Life by Paula White. This is a religious book about our relationship to God. She is Pastor of a 22,000 member church and international traveler and humanitarian.
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Intelligent Design, Darwin, and God
Posted by: | CommentsThere is a war going on not declared by Congress.
Scientists who believe in Darwinism say the teachings lead them to atheism. They claim there is no evidence of God. Intelligent Design or Creationism says life was created by a super force, Creator, or God.
The question starts with how did the first cell appear? Darwinists don’t know and don’t need to explain it. They feel that all the millions of species on earth evolved from that cell. If pressed, many feel that intelligent life might have come from another planet.
Universities like George Mason, Iowa State, Baylor, and even the Smithsonian fire people for mentioning, writing about or teaching Intelligent Design according to the documentary “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”.
At the root seems to be the billions scientists and universities get from research grants. If you want to compete, get awards, and stay tenured you will hold to Darwinism. Even the media might stray from publishing articles on Intelligent Design.
We have to ask what is the agenda of Research Investors to frighten the community to this extent?
Darwin held that not only did the strong survive, but only the strong should survive. Hitler was a strong advocate of Darwinism. He felt he was providing services for the good of mankind.
Maybe because it is a closed discussion is why there are Documentaries on Intelligent Design. Maybe that is the only avenue open for those who believe that life was not created by accident.
There are at least three volumes of the Documentaries “Creatures Who Defy Evolution” They point out that thousands of animals including insects are created so precisely that if any one of their features were not perfect, they would not live. They could not have evolved because their survival didn’t have time to wait.
The Documentary “God of Wonders” is by scientists who believe in Intelligent Design. The universe is too vast, too precise, and too coordinated to occur by chance, they claim.
To me the question is not who is right. The question is whether the public shouldn’t be involved in the discussion? The government and we fund the universities, support the institutions that invest in scientific research and in the end buy their products.
Doesn’t the Constitution allow free speech, the right to bear arms, and religious freedom? Wouldn’t you wonder how scientists who teach in our schools could be so closed off to nature, consciousness, soul, spirituality, and man’s feelings about a greater force?
We should be asking our Universities if they allow the discussion, the mention, the writing about, and the teaching of Intelligent Design. What about High Schools and Grammar schools?
My children are finished with schooling, but I wouldn’t want education, as it is in other cultures, barred from discussing a topic so basic to human existence. Isn’t the price of freedom continuous vigilance?
What is your University’s stance on Intelligent Design?
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Creating Greater Contribution
Posted by: | CommentsOur highest purpose is self actualization
Our greatest happiness can come from contributing to the greater good.
Without close observation we might wonder why at the end of successful careers or having achieved financial success many people go into lives of public service. Why don’t they say, “I have arrived and now it’s going to be all about me.”
Ex President Bill Clinton ended a controversial but successful political career with popularity, wealth, and influence. What could one do that was of higher esteem than being President of the United States?
Global Public Service.
Being the President serves the public but it is also a process of self actualization. In the process of building a political career and creating power and influence, one is still very egocentric.
There are many ways to serve the greater good. It can be 100% altruistic wherein no monetary reward is received for devoting time and effort to a cause. We can devote our core competencies to serving the public for remuneration when our efforts are aimed at making lives better.
What is self actualization?
It is becoming who we are and exercising our given and developed talents to express our passions.
Self actualization is an unfolding. It might be like the flower that opens to the morning sun. It might be a peeling of the orange to reach the essence. It might be the growth of the acorn into a mighty oak tree. It is becoming and uncovering to reach the zenith of who we are as an individual but increasing our feeling of being totally connected.
Chaos Theory asks and answers the question of whether a butterfly flapping its wings in Argentina can create a tornado in Texas. Through negative or positive feed back loops, the smallest action can have non linear results. An example is a freak 120 foot wave in 45 foot seas.
An example is how an earthquake in Japan can shut down a Volvo plant in Sweden. An example is how a revolutionary thought in Tunisia can cause several nearby governments to collapse.
We can never under estimate the potential of our own self actualization.
It seems that once we have self actualized we want to contribute. We can do both.
We can pursue our passions and enhance our self actualization through healthy eating, fitness, spiritual growth, and positive thinking. As we develop our passions we will see the path to contributing to community.
We don’t have to be the President of the United States. Everyone of us has something worthwhile to contribute and can create a great influence on the global community. At a certain point, if everyone is self actualizing, the consciousness of the whole community becomes elevated.
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6 Components of a Successful Life
Posted by: | CommentsIt is one thing to survive and another to triumph.
We all seem to make it through life, but how many believe it is a wondrous experience every day. How many can wake up in the morning and say thank God I am alive and today I am going to take advantage of my opportunities.
It is a mind set. It is a belief set. It then becomes a thinking and behavior pattern. It creates the results we consciously or subconsciously intended.
Consciousness.
If you do not believe in God, a creator, some divine being, a universal energy, a prime mover, you cannot explain what exists. It is unsophisticated and burying your head in the sand. Science has taken us far enough to see there are things that cannot be explained if we don’t accept certain concepts of Quantum Physics and even Chaos Theory.
Believing that there is a Universal Consciousness and energy that occupies every space in the Universe and that there is abundance for every living thing, puts you alignment with achieving your human potential.
Health.
It is mental and physical. It begins by respecting and treasuring your body’s capability for optimal performance when properly maintained. Your mind/brain needs nutrients and energy is maximized when the organs work with food it recognizes.
To achieve your life’s goals and live actively to enjoy your grandchildren requires avoiding sickness, disease, and pain. Knowing what to eat and how to relax are instrumental.
Fitness.
Maintaining your weight is a small component. Diet will do that perfectly. The body needs exercise to ensure proper functioning of the brain and nervous system. Your brain’s alpha and beta waves (thinking and creativity) are optimized with at least a half hour of aerobics every other day.
Creative thinking is supported by meditation and monotonous exercise like running, biking, swimming, and hiking. There are other solutions but experiencing the wonders of feeling good and exploring nature can be enhanced with a little physical effort. You don’t want to risk a heart attack every time you set out to see nature and push your body.
Passion
Work and boredom are two elements of suffering. The anecdote is passion. There is no time or effort limit for exertion when we are passionate about an interest. Engaging in the passion results in our happiness chemicals dopamine and serotonin.
The process for enjoying what we do is often called “flow” This is engagement in an activity for which we enjoy or have passion. Neurologists have said that happiness is a process and even the highest spiritual authorities have said that we have peak moments followed by “doing laundry”.
Happiness
It doesn’t require a rite of passage for us to be entitled to happiness. We are born to be happy. Ever watch animals play. Dogs and birds and squirrels and antelope all enjoy happiness. They are not more entitled than we are.
You are alive, you are perfect, nature provides abundance and beauty, you have companionship all around you and a certain amount of time to take it all in. If you have to have a material goal first, you are creating the long way around for yourself.
Love
We often think of it in too limited of terms. It isn’t just the white knight and princess. I like to first think that the ever present consciousness and energy existing in every space is love. Matter is 99.9% empty space so space is dominant. Space is knowledge, energy, and love because when we have the right mind set, we see mostly wonder.
Love begins with loving the fact you are alive. It continues with loving who you are and gratitude for being here. That certainly makes you more lovable and open to being loved by others. Having over whelming thoughts of love crowd out hate, prejudice, condescension, and negativity. We all battle the negative emotions, but love is the anecdote.
Notice I didn’t say anything about getting a good education so that you could get a good job and buy a nice house. These are all part of “doing the laundry” but never sustain the feelings for which we are here to enjoy.
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How Our Lives Mirror the Events in Japan
Posted by: | CommentsWe are living in the aftermath of a natural event.
Chaos is a natural order that exists everyday in a free association open system of nature. Pressure builds on the earth’s crust and the release point is a fissure in the tectonic plates. When we hit our shoulder hard enough the release point is a snapped collarbone. I have experienced that.
The first experience is pain and then some settling and finally healing. Without having my collar bone reset, it healed with a little bump, but life continued. Our trillions of cells replace themselves with regularity as billions die a day. It is orderly unless something causes them to replicate irregularly and then chaos occurs.
Our lives are full of events that seem to us to be tsunamis because every event fills up its space. Little children have events that make us laugh, but to them they are disasters. Who gets more irrational than hormone filled teen agers.
As adults the economic melt down, the loss of assets, income, jobs, and houses turned order to chaos. We have suffered and we are rebuilding.
Whereas our lives can be interrupted by chaos, our creativity thrives on it. We make order of defining a problem and developing lots of alternatives. Out of the result we create a new plan. We mix lots of paints together to make a painting that not only shows order but conveys an emotion.
Love maybe the most important emotion in our lives and it is chaos. It transforms normal people into beings who are sky high at one moment and kill out of jealous rage the next. Very few things like love and anger can create greater tsunamis out of otherwise normal people.
When we fall on a stick or stab our selves accidently we create chaos. We reel in pain and our body rushes to the rescue. We fight invading germs, we coagulate to stop bleeding, we create new cells to patch the hole.
We all feel the pain of Japan. People died, people are suffering, people are without food, water, shelter, and electricity. The G-7 is working to stabilize Japan’s currency. Nations are rushing aid. Japan is an important part of our community and our global organism and we will recover when Japan recovers.
We can’t resist chaos. It is part of us. We have to accept, adapt, look to create a changed future. The chaos of this event is not over. We will be healing for a long time.
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Butterflies, Chaos Theory, and Our Personal Power
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The Chaos story begins with the question of whether a butterfly flapping its wings in Argentina could cause a tornado in Texas.
The idea behind chaos theory is that everything that appears simple is probably more complex than we imagine and yet that which seems complex could be simple. Complexity and simplicity could exist in the same space.
It also affects human nature. In the big picture our body seems to function seamlessly as we move from day to day, but there are trillions of cells busy replacing themselves on an annual basis. The power of any small group of cells that start to divide in an abnormal nature (cancer) can bring down the whole system.
In society, we operate as independent butterflies within certain rules and regulations. As long as we feed into the system but stay within the boundaries of law and order the system continues to function. Lawyers, the police and courts take care of a myriad of potential disruptions that would allow the flapping of little wings to cause tornados.
Add too much stress to a society however and the water starts to boil. If food prices get too high or if there is a shortage, the hinges can start coming off the doors. Tramp on freedoms one too many times and the Face Book connection can unite a loosely linked mass into a unified uprising.
Trampling on freedoms in Tunisia now has the U.N. launching military attacks on Libya. The fomenting tension between Sunni’s and Shiites has Saudia Arabia and Iran facing off over Bahrain. The small flapping against repressive regimes in a few countries can ignite and draw global interest into the rapidly rising temperatures of this political cauldron.
As if there was not enough tension over economic recovery, a natural disaster in Japan is a dropping a major boulder into the flow of water down an otherwise peaceful mountain stream. The interruption of life in Japan causes a G.M. truck plant to close in Georgia.
And chaos does not involve just major issues. We still have individual issues that we face on a daily basis. I was at my favorite bar in Oceanside, the Baja Grill, when the young female co owner behind the bar said to a patron “So he Jewed you?” and then she elaborated “he didn’t give you your money back?” I was having an Irish Coffee on St Patty’s Day and when she returned my change I said “that Jewed you is a bad stereo type”.
In the 1930’s maybe a few more dissidents to stereo typing would have saved a few more lives. That which is allowed is as bad as that which is created. I would be as guilty to allow her comments to go unheeded as she was to make them.
When my daughter was six years old I said something and she responded that I had hurt her feelings. I was 40 and she was 6 but she was not powerless.
What we think, do, and say affect the Universe. I have become more pro active in influencing my environment. I have found my voice matters. I have the right and power to speak up against things that should be corrected and I am just as quick with a complement for things I like.
I try to empower those around me so that they will feel the encouragement to keep pressing. It only takes one person to believe in you to get the best from a human spirit or help someone through difficult times. Just think, one person can save another.
In a movie “Beyond Borders”, Angelina Jolie was on the way to a refugee camp with supplies. She spotted a wafer thin child about to be preyed upon by a vulture. She stopped the caravan to go out and rescued the child. She then nursed it back to health amongst thousands that were dying. You could see it in her eyes. If I could only save one child, it would have been worth it.
We are not powerless. We are powerful. But we have to exercise our voices constantly to keep those wings flapping and stop or start those tornados. .
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Why Performance Anxiety is Unnecessary
Posted by: | CommentsWe practice and then we have to play
We study and then we take the test
We prepare and then we make the presentation
I research, and then I write.
The point of contact is what I live for. In the morning when its me and the computer screen is when the “who I am” has to show up. I usually get a little cheat in that the ideas for my morning topic occur to me as I am going through the waking stage.
But that’s how I hope it will happen as I prepare. I have more anxiety about getting the proper preparation than about the writing event. When I write I want to drop into “flow”. I want the challenge to not over whelm my capabilities and to have all distractions disappear. I want to have an experience in which time melts away.
I also set up the conditions. I get up early before the world gets rolling. At 5 a.m. I sit at my window and rarely hear a sound. Because of my extremely healthy eating I am fully alert and prepared most every morning to write and then do my running. I write 360 days a year, so the process is familiar to me.
My day is oriented to my favorite events in the morning and then what I accomplish the rest of the day is either more mundane or bonus.
My daughter just got her dream job. As a college senior she was asked by a sports website to interview football players on camera (video) for the website. This is the career and job she has been dreaming about. She prepared by setting up a Twitter site that is fully into sports writers, events, and athletes. The person who hired her saw her twitter site.
Now she is anxious about her capabilities to perform and is having all the negative thoughts that go through our minds when a grade, a promotion, a contract, or a job is on the line.
Peak performance occurs in “flow” or while we are “in the zone”. Preparation and practice are the precursors to performing in flow. If we are over prepared, we will be confident that our performance can be successful. Flow occurs when there is a challenge but it is not seen as being greater than our capabilities
If our passion is the performance of this particular activity then preparation and daily practice are more pleasurable. If it is our passion, then we don’t have to be forced to practice. If it is a job or not exciting to us, then practice and preparation are work.
The life lesson is to find or pursue the activities for which we have passion and then our life is in flow. The point of contact becomes the pay off and not the penalty.
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