Category — Other's GoodThinkingStuff

This inspirational poem on peace came across my Facebook News Feed and I had no choice but to contact the author and ask if I could post it. I am greatful Satish offered to share it.

Love is Light

What is His dress code?
I do not know
What is His language?
I do not know
What is His colour?
I do not know
How does He look?
I do not know

My search ended
when I met Him
WITHIN

He was no-body,
He was all Light
He enveloped me with his light
and said
‘LOVE YOU’ in that silence

Now
I keep on watching him in that silence
without missing him every moment
He flows in me in His form
Radiating out as LOVE

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Rick Beneteau invites you to become a Messenger of Change

I think that we’re all probably familiar with the fairground rant ‘take a chance, win a prize’. Whenever I hear this call to action, I immediately break out into a cold sweat. Whether the test is to knock down 6 cans in pyramid formation or to throw a dart at a balloon, I’m there, almost hypnotically, pulling coins out of my pocket. And it doesn’t really matter what prizes are on offer either. It could be stuffed panda bears, bubble makers or even Velcro wallets. What’s important to me is rising to the challenge and having a go.

Now I know that many of you may have suffered from this fairground fever at one time or another. But do you actually take this fearless enthusiasm out into the real world when the carnival is over?

Taking chances.
Taking a chance is effectively doing something that has an uncertain payoff. To use our fairground adventure as an example playing a game where there is a chance you might win a prize and a chance that you might not. Now as nice as it is to win prizes, it is important not to become side tracked into believing that this is the only reason you should play the game, because it isn’t. To become players of life, we need to be continually growing and expanding our capabilities regardless of the outcome. When we step outside of what is comfortable, not only do we become more adept at assessing risk in the future but our innate ability to handle risk is also greatly enhanced. It is from this space that you will find the prizes of life flowing naturally to you.

Fearless living.
Can you remember your last encounter with someone that was truly fearless? Someone brimming with self confidence, unquestionable enthusiasm and the bravado to take seemingly impossible risks? Chances are that person probably couldn’t walk, let alone string a sentence together. That’s right, the most fearless people on the planet are the little humans we call children.

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Time wasted, tempers flaring, tempus fugit. Traffic jam. Gridlock.

We all know what that means… traffic has comes to a complete standstill. Frustrated drivers and passengers sit on the road in their vehicles, unable to move forward or backward. Sometimes they can see reason for the gridlock, often they cannot. Standstill. Imposed inertia. What does gridlock have to do with joy? Nothing and everything. Read on and find out.

Joy is deceptively simply to achieve, and at the same time incredibly difficult to sustain because it requires us to transform the way we think, to get rid of beliefs that no longer serve us, to move past gridlock. Joy is all about self imposed energy and positive movement. Emotional gridlock is all about self imposed inertia. Finding the joy in life is all about appreciating every moment with gusto and glee, it is about moving forward and making each moment better than the last. Gridlock is about being forced to stand still, to remain motionless, frustrated and held back.

While physical gridlock will pass, emotional gridlock is a silent killer. It is an invisible demon that slowly creeps crawls into our life and feeds off our joy. It starts when we lose touch with who we are and what we want, it grows when we spend our days and nights dancing to another man’s drummer. At its best, emotional gridlock will sap our creativity and innovation. At its worst, it will suck up every ounce of joy we have, insidiously, invisibly, consistently until inertia touches every aspect of our lives.

Moving past gridlock means having the tenacity and clarity to see past the blocks in the road, the personal traffic jams that we all face. It means making a life decision to let go of all the negative emotions and limiting beliefs that block our creativity, our energy, and our joie de vivre. It means replacing road rage with faith, frustration with certainty, doubt with confidence and inertia with a passion to reclaim our dreams and our life.

Moving past our personal gridlock is a war, a battle that we each face every moment, every day, in every way. We can choose to be valiant warriors of joy and recognize that the greatest gridlock we face is not from other people, not from other cars, not from oncoming traffic, not from our work, our neighbors, our children, our colleagues, but from ourselves, from the fears that hold us back from being and doing all that we can.

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When I first embarked upon my spiritual journey in a quest for truth and light, I had no idea the mountains that loomed ahead of me were going to be so treacherous. My relentless passion and enthusiasm found me in the ether’s of meditation and flying high on the 7th plane. My request and desire was to take the shortest route from where I was currently, to my highest co-creation with God. In short, I was setting my intention to plow straight through the mountain, instead of going over or around it. My inner guidance system was working on overdrive and something told me that I didn’t have time for the scenic tour. As I always like to say, if you ask, you will indeed receive. This seemingly simple meditation revved the engine of a red hot Ferrari which took me at break neck speed across the paved highways of the Autobahn.

Believe me when I tell you that cutting a path through the Alp mountain range does not come close to describing the passion I have in my heart to fulfill my mission. However, the trip became more like a roller coaster ride through Mount Mindbender. I soon discovered that one wrong turn and the seat belt was no more going to keep me alive than a band aid would on a shotgun wound. I survived the snow storms so that I may spread this bit of wisdom.

What you have within is what you mirror on the outside. There is no difference. If your body, mind and soul are in or out of balance your everyday life reflects this. To discover where you are at, you need to take a look at your life. Is every part of your life peaceful, happy, healthy, joyful and filled with love? If not, there is something that needs to be tweaked. Working out the kinks takes a new perspective and a different approach and this is how my self-discovery began.

Raising my consciousness, cleansing and healing my body and filling my heart with love was the journey I embarked upon. This is the path straight through the mountain and not one for the faint of heart, but for the person that desires to live in the light, realize their highest potential and make their dreams come true. I have discovered five easy to decipher road signs on this journey that have been successful in keeping me aligned to the golden road ahead.

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As I write this, the sun is rising over the hills to the south-east, hidden behind a pillar on the corner of my home. When I sit at this table during the summer, the sun rises off my left shoulder, but now it has moved dramatically to the south. It shifts slowly, and from one day to the next I see no apparent difference, but over time, the earth changes from summer to winter.

Without noticing it, and with no effort on my part, in six months my relationship with the entire solar system has changed! The light in my office has changed, and so I shift positions, re-arrange my computer screen, move the furniture, and even work at a different time of the day, all because of changes over which I have no control, and take no notice.

Success and failure are often like that. We cannot control many of the things and events in our lives, including the sun and the tilt of the earth. What I DO control is whether or not I put curtains on the windows, arrange my furniture to take advantage of the light, and use the seasons to add variety and perspective to my office. Actually, I depend on the changing angle of the sun to “make” me move the furniture and dust behind my desk every few months. I use these predictable changes to enrich my office and make me look at the world differently.

In life, there are many things over which we have no control. Fortunately however, there are many things we can influence, and a few wonderful things we can arrange as we see fit. Highly successful people understand this and spend their time and energy where they can make a difference.

There is a wonderful quote that is attributed to Marianne Williamson that points out that our fear is not that we are powerless, but that in fact we are powerful beyond measure. We can influence more than we think. Given enough time, courage and determination, we can modify, impact, transform and re-invent almost everything in our lives. We are not in complete control; that is no excuse to deny the power we have!

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When we’re having problems with money most of us will experience high levels of anxiety and feel threatened. This means that your brain’s natural response mechanism to danger is constantly being triggered. This response automatically diverts energy away from non-essential brain functions such as rational or creative thinking: basically away from anything that could interfere with our physical ability to run or fight.

Now this response makes a lot of sense if a truck is heading straight for you on the wrong side of the road. After all, you don’t want to waste valuable seconds contemplating all of the different things you could possibly do; you just need to act.

However, it’s not so good when your credit card statement is having the same effect as a ten-ton truck coming your way. Unfortunately in our society the fear response is being triggered by things which pose no physical threat.

And as we increasingly associate more of these non-threatening things with imminent danger we are struggling to function with insufficient access to our greater faculties. This is also why so many ’solutions’ to money problems simply don’t work: as a result of the fear response, we’re actually unable to bring the degree of logic required of us to be most effective.

When we are caught in this pattern of fear we perceive our options to be very limited. Unable to clearly see our situation from different perspectives, we remain trapped in a world of limited and fixed reactions. And of course it becomes a vicious circle: the more afraid we become, the less able we are to respond. We fall back into old, habitual patterns that only serve to make matters worse.

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