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Self-help life truths. The free mind of a human god!

Light as the wind…

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ~ Omar Khayyam; Persian mathematician and astronomer-astrologer.

Have you noticed that when you lose your keys or anything like that, the more you look for them and the more stressed you get, quite often the more your mind cannot seem to find it…?? Once you relax, your mind clears and all stress vanishes, then you think clearer and the attractive energy you release is not heavy by heated or intense emotions.

Life is like that; if you live stressed and allowing intensity and excitement to overtake you, then your mind gets overwhelmed, it designs feelings of sadness and depression, and so you start changing your moods and seeing life as sad and miserable, full of suffering and evil.
Happiness eludes you when you are looking for it all the time. To feel happy, you need to be patient and accept everything as it is, do not stress over it but control your ego which always likes to feel like a victim.

Humanity tries to control life instead of letting itself be guided by it, they stress over making things happen, and for them this becomes an obsession; and so the obsession must inevitably become counterproductive to good results, for this is resistance and wanting to rule life, forcing everything which they desire to happen.
This ego-centered process brings more stress, thus suffering attracts more, even worse suffering, until people’s minds start embracing darkness and everything looks deceiving to them. Society and life itself is out to get them now.

Follow a more open and wise philosophy and wake up:

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” ~ Lao Tzu.
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.’ ~ Lao Tzu.

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Self-help life truths. The free mind of a human god!

Hidden paradise.

“Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.” – Richard Branson; English business magnate, investor and philanthropist.

Life as human beings have distorted it is not reality, it is a fake reality that societies nourish with the ignorant sense of pride which comes with billions of comatose people; thus, such people who hold materialistic values, which are not real values because they pass away like the wind blows on a cloudy day. This is the sickness of society, the cancerous tumor that they cannot see or feel but that it is there spreading and poisoning slowly from the inside out; and they feel moody and go through changes, and complain about their lives and blame the world for every misery that their eyes see, ergo they are extremely unhappy and extremely attached to the concept of human happiness they create for themselves.

Then comes TV, movies, the media telling people what to believe and what happiness really is, when they themselves form part of the most egotistical section of our society. People’s ego is powerful and it is an entity constructed out of your physical senses and what you allow your mind to experience on a daily basis; these experiences formed in your mind from the outside environment tend to influence your whole being, thus you create your own reality of what happiness really is for you based on what the populous displays.

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But, even though society’s nonsense and lack of wisdom, happiness is really an inside job and you won’t find it in people or things, events or relationships. Of course, these things I’ve mentioned are important sources of pleasure and joy in our human lives, and this is something we should aim at getting if we feel inclined to it; however, whatever you encounter outside of yourself cannot bring eternal, constant bliss or happiness because it lacks self-love, as the word says, “Self”–it lives in you, you just have to embrace it and look beyond society’s influence.

Here are some signs you are happy already, even if you do not pay attention to these in your own daily living–for happiness is experienced in yourself based on where your attention goes:

You are alive and healthy: Now, first you need to understand that by healthy I don’t mean perfect health, because we are all different physically and perfection is not something our bodies can ever attain. For example, I suffer from really strong allergies at times which make me really miserable; some other people might suffer differently, worse even. The point is that we can always find a moment in our lives to enjoy ourselves and experience life, because we are alive, and so if we focus on putting our attention on each moment we live we can choose to experience happiness.
Someone loves you: Whether is your dog or another human being, this is a clear sign that you are valuable for someone, it is a clear sign that you matter and that you are a shining personality for someone. This is success because you succeed on sharing some part of you enough to attract another soul. “If you have people around whom you love and who love you back, you are successful.” ~ Liz Ryan; author.
You have learned forgiveness: Forgiving is getting over anger and all fear, and anger and fear is what distances you from experiencing happiness in the first place; therefore, if you embraced the strength in you and allowed yourself to forgive, then you are successful and happy.
You can be truly yourself: In this world is extremely rare and unique to be yourself, because of all the TV commercials and media telling people how to behave and think. If you have found a way to express your unique self and embrace who you are without fear of what others might think, then you are truly yourself and allowing your human spirit to soar. Being yourself has nothing to do with money or a career, but being yourself is expressing your talents and skills through arts, important conversations, meaningful connection with yourself and with others, time with yourself, etc.
You have dreams and you follow them: Even if you think you are going nowhere, if you keep those dreams and goals alive in you and you still fight for them, then it means your human spirit is expressing itself and shining a light inside you, and this light is pure bliss if you pay full attention to it. Happiness is not measured by what you achieve in the outside environment, but it is measured by how you embrace and attend to your inner one.

Success and happiness are about how you’ve grown as a person, discovering yourself beyond the world’s influence. Some people live their whole lives never making that journey of discovery. So, if you are discovering yourself in any way, you are successful and happy already; but you need to pay full attention to that, not allow your attention to follow the world.

If you do this, then you will find the clear skies of eternal bliss.

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Self-help life truths. The free mind of a human god!

Fully conscious.

“Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” ~ Daphne Rose Kingma; psychotherapist and author.

In order to let go we must realize that we can’t live and experience the past if we are to focus absolutely on the present, such present which is the key to all happiness.

People distance themselves, perhaps unknowingly, from the strength to move on because of guilt and self-punishment; the ego loves to feel like a victim and blame you for whatever has happened in the past. There is a related or familiar disposition, a sickness really, in this process of the ego which brings misery, because pleasure and pain are two sides of the same coin, just like love and fear, we just choose to experience them differently.

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This relationship between pleasure and pain is so intense and familiar to us that it is almost hazy to try and see the difference when our minds are experiencing past pains, and it is so intense that it takes much courage to summon the inner strength to get out from the dark abyss. But it helps to remember that this is just another great illusion by that master entity called ego; because, as we all know, the only reality is the essence that watches those thoughts of the past, that very essence which is the real you.

So, whenever you become aware that you are holding on to some regret, big or small, from the past, remind yourself that you are not stuck in that past, that you are the eternal present, and that you only need to forgive yourself and others by seeing beyond your own ego and its self-inflicted suffering.

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The free mind of a human god!

The purest light.

“You have to find out what meditation is. It is a most extraordinary thing to know what meditation is–not how to meditate, not the system, not the practice, but the content of meditation. To be in the meditative mood and to go into that meditation requires a very generous mind, a mind that has no border, a mind that is not caught in the process of time. A mind that has not committed itself to anything, to any activity, to any thought, to any dogma, to any family, to any name–it is only such a mind that can be generous; and it is only such a mind that can begin to understand the depth, the beauty and the extraordinary loveliness of meditation.” ~ Jiddu Khrisnamurti.

“You cannot meditate if you are ambitious–you may play with the idea of meditation. You your mind is authority-ridden, bound by tradition, accepting, following, you will never know what it is to meditate on this extraordinary beauty if you’re ambitious.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti; Indian philosopher, public speaker, educator, and writer.

Meditation

Meditation is the flowering of the human spirit through inner attention on what is, it is nature at its purest, it is the place where man, or the form of man, does not exist because consciousness is free from thoughts and all ignorance. Meditation gives the serious meditator strong self-discipline which works in all aspects of his life. Meditation boosts emotional and intellectual intelligence to understand the depth of life. Meditation gives one the confidence and strength to be unique and a light unto oneself and unto others.

Humankind lives on the edge, on the edge of stressful and violent thoughts all day–anger, confusion opinion, gossip, embarrassment, shame, and all fears–which control people’s whole existence and interaction with the world around them. There is no wisdom in the things they do, thus there is not any deep understanding and not any insight.

The only condition in man which brings light to the chaos may be found inwardly and not outwardly, because outwardly there is nothing but the illusion of your beliefs, of your rebellions, of your violence, of your anger, of your stress, and so on and so forth.

The spirit of the human being then is trapped in this thought-form which controls man, and in order to be freed there must be communion with it–i.e., man must get in direct touch or communication with his own spirit through the sacred silence of his mind, through inner contemplation of what is.

And what is, that substance of pure consciousness which is all wisdom and love, transforms human thought once meditation is adopted, it transforms the whole being–via confidence, strength, wisdom, self-discipline, and via the elevation of the mind in all aspects.

Ambition then is the one opposite of all meditation, all desire for material gain which becomes an obsession when man’s life is seeing through the eyes of ambition; because ambition robs the mind of freedom to express its godly nature, and it fills the mind with desire for outward things, events, and people.

Practice inner contemplation without any ambition whatsoever and you shall see your light emerging and taking over your whole being, thus you shall attract opportunities for growth in all aspects of your life, as spiritual, mental and financial, people will see you shine and will be attracted to your light.

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Business mind.

Creator of worlds.

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” ~ Pablo Picasso; Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, printmaker, stage designer, poet and playwright.

Daily stress, as we all know and science proves, is a sure sign of the mind and body decaying, even though we might not notice it at first, and it shall become our very path to an early grave if we let it. The bloodstream gets slushy or thick, exhaustion sets in, energy becomes drained easily and rapidly, sleep at night gets difficult, our immune system has problems, the mind gets foggy and overwhelmed and we cannot see a solution to our problems, etc. etc.; hence, we now feel depressed, moody, and our perception of ourselves, of others, and of life itself changes for the worse.

We fall on all sorts of vices because there is no clarity of mind and spirited emotion to sustain the energy which runs through us daily, so we are now polluted and living in darkness, perhaps without even noticing it, until is too late because we find ourselves at the nearest hospital under a serious condition.

That is why embracing your energies of creativity, which is who you really are (because you are not your limited intellect but unlimited imagination to create), is so important, and really the most important activity one should embody; consequently, shaping and directing those energies will get rid of all stress and give you that fresh mind to think clearly and see solutions and even find great ideas for your business and personal life.

I personally base my life on my creativity and the power of these energies living and flowing through me, and dwelling within my very cellular make-up, within my very consciousness; and, furthermore, I do this not only because I feel the desire to express these energies of imagination, but also because this activity of pure expression clears my mind and emotional body from all clutter. I wanted to share a few forms of expression which help me see and understand myself and the world around me with clarity:

I love cooking. Creating in the kitchen for a healthy body and mind.

Titled: “Kate.” I love painting. It is a powerful way to be stress free and sharpen my mind for better ideas in general life.

Titled: “Raw Rage.”

Besides that, I enjoy exercising and writing whatever can wake my emotions into a deeper understanding of myself and of life.

Any form of artistic expression which involves your emotional content in a personal way will bring you great peace of mind and strength that you never knew you had before; and I attest to this because it is my direct communication with my subconscious, which is where the great energies of creativity come from. Imagination and creativity is the process of creating value within yourself, distanced from your intellect and ego, and then bringing that value out into the world to create connections, as in ideas, partnerships, entrepreneurial and private undertakings, and, of course, the constant experience of freedom and real bliss within yourself.

And the great thing about expressing yourself through artistic forms is that you are not limited, but with knowledge from school or books only you are indeed limited; therefore, by creating any form of art on a daily basis, it does not matter if you are good at it or not, you are soaring beyond all limitations imposed by society and its rules.

By creating something, anything, you are not just another person following the trends set for you and the masses, but you are unique, truly unique, and highly expressive; and this will transform your life in many ways, for the art is not just a drawing, or a writing, or a painting, or a food dish, but it is the very process of recharging your whole body to grow in E.Q. (Emotional Quotient or Intelligence), which is the power you need to reach success in all aspects of your life.

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Business mind.

Winning quality.

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” ~ Gail Devers; American track and field athlete, Olympic champion, World champion.

Living a whole and constantly fruitful life is running the business of life, just like running your job at the office or at the production line or along the road delivering pizzas; however, the business of life requires much more focus and attention, because the business of life should be based (and most of the time people forget this) on our inner worth and not on the worth of what we do or in the worth of the company we work for. Quite often, we set ourselves adrift and follow the popular trends, follow the constant pace of the hubbub, and there is a loss of focus upon what is really important, we get thus sidetracked by the popular news or by the new gossip or by the pressures of this or that. Our minds get overwhelmed and altered constantly, distancing themselves greatly from all focus and determination, just like a ship with no engine and no particular destination.

We then become blinded by mental stress and the narrow reality we create for ourselves; so, we tend to disrupt our peace and forget about our inner worth, going through life not seeing the good but the bad–i.e. not being aware of opportunities for real growth, such which can relate and connect us to natural life itself as it is really intended and not as we may be led by stress to see it.

And life itself has a rhythm, unlike the office which is ran by rules and man-made concepts of what success is, and this life is then harmonious and perfect, not random or ruled by “luck,” it always has an enlightening purpose and bright horizon to offer to the awakened ones who are able to recognize the hidden lessons in it (even the tragedies we live have something hidden which we can use to elevate our minds into better futures). But the challenges can be daunting nonetheless and so we must remain cool-headed amidst tragedy and confusion, while we value ourselves and work hard to overcome all those obstacles that serve the purpose to mold and shape us into better and more developed individuals to seize greater opportunities; hence, this is useful to have in mind in all facets of life, from the stresses of work to the dues we pay in our life.

If you expect to see great opportunities appearing in your path, that great promotion, the bright side of that challenge, the value within your relationship, or that growth within yourself to achieve more in life, there is something you must always rely on, hard work and dedication to your cause; therefore, opportunities for growth and all that you want will appear in your life if you maintain focus on your goals and not get distracted or deviated from your path by stress or challenges, and hard work and dedication towards a set goal will alter your mind in such a way that you will see opportunities that you had not been able to see before.

A strong purpose upon a set goal will sharpen your senses and redirect your view with a mighty vision of the future, and noble intention included in that purpose will emotionally strengthen you and add that love you need to stay on your path without getting overwhelmed and deviated by stresses and challenges. This is vital and extremely powerful energy to build patience and understanding, perseverance and character, which will give you the confidence and deeper insight to see beyond those challenges.

Keep going, even though you may see only tragedy and hurt in your path at the moment, because fear and courage are two sides of the same coin; which is why the fearful can become the fearless literally in the wink of an eye, for it only takes the wisdom to mentally turn around that coin and jump from fearful to fearless, and thus change your conscious awareness of life, of your reality, and of what you should do to reach your goals. And this is my own experience.

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Poetry and prose from the heart.

Hope and belief

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.; American Baptist minister, and Civil Rights Movement activist.

“Hope and Belief”

It is a sign in the sky,
When all is blue and begins to cry;
And when the drops start to fall,
It is like falling out of love;
And when love away does fly,
It feels like a void deep inside;
And when our life feels hollow and dry,
It feels like withering to little by little die;
And when we have no goals at the end,
It is just like direction from above hasn’t been send;

And when we are lost and set adrift,
There is only the memories we have lived;
And when we stop making new memories to remember,
It is like no personal growth or bliss to enter;
And when we change direction to thoughts of depression,
It is like we lost all sense and determination;
And when we give no sensitive ear to the whisper of the heart,
It is like drowning ourselves in the depths of the seas’ most dark;
And when our hearts stop the rhythm of life,
We have lost the beauty around us which lies in plain sight …

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Poetry and prose from the heart.

Secret Valley (30-sec. read)

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Post date June 15, 2017
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My poem and painting from the heart…

Secret Valley

The secrets the whisper hides,

The beauty which is never ugly,

The love essence which survives,

The honest heart which is lovely.

Of other worlds and dimensions I know not,

Of traveling beyond the stars only in imagination;

But the spirit remains like a flame within me hot,

There is greater purpose in inner contemplation.

My character and temper are often ill and quick to explosion,

And my violent anger and rushing fear then become who I am;

But there exists within me far beyond thought and emotion

A bright and powerful substance which is no heated sham.

True nature is the greatest love and the most profound peace,

And is discovered deep within me and apart from my rebellious thought;

Secret valley of greens and blues, waterfalls and birds which do not cease,

Unpolluted paradise, life itself and the loving experiences it has brought.

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Anatomy and physiology of life

Biology of the pen.

“Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things–thoughts, ideas, opinions.” ~ Paulo Coelho; Brazilian lyricist and novelist.

Throughout history, without exceptions, man has always felt the necessity to express himself, as part of his biology and as a way to know himself and his innermost thoughts and feelings; because keeping them inside only makes the human experience not worth it, for human beings are a collection of billions around the world with different beliefs and experiences, but in essence, beyond all thought and form, we are all really one and that is why we struggle to express our current human individuality through various forms of expression. So the urge is spiritual or coming from the energy which makes this human form and thought we carry around, and we transform this urge into writing, painting, sculpting, filmmaking, photography, dancing, performing, the act of sex, violence, arguments, relationships, sports, etc. etc.

Writing and the development of writing is specially freeing to me because it allows me to know myself in detail, I get to look deep within me and find everything and anything which makes me who I am as a human expression, everything and anything which creates my thinking and feeling, and so I get to experience how my thoughts arise and fall and how my emotions flow constantly up and down like a roller coaster. Pouring your thoughts and emotions give you absolute freedom and power over yourself, because writing is a detailed form of expression; and besides that, it is creative, no matter what you write if it comes from your heart, and creativity is the only outlet to manifest the past, present, and future of our perspectives in this life, and creativity is what flows all around us and within us.

Writing is a most influential way to communicate and wake people to other views and realities, as people tend to create their own views and realities so it is essential to understand and absorb the experiences of others in order to better ourselves and widen our mental horizons. Quite often, more than we would like to admit, one feels overwhelmed and confused by superficial thoughts and stresses of ever day, so in this way it is very important to observe our inner condition and let it all out through the sharing process. At the physiological and also psychological levels, we need to take care of our mental frustrations and stressful data overflowing our nerves, which has a giant effect on our immune system.

In order to avoid illnesses of the mind and of the body, being creative and self-expressive in our writing are two things that must go hand in hand; opposite to this, if we repress one or the other within us and negate of either its existence, then, we will clutter inside and become filled by all this–i.e. no real creativity is expressed from us, and so this will cloud our rationality and influence our thoughts and behaviors towards our own selves and towards others, this will then bring much suffering into our relationships and into all endeavors in our life.

We need to be open with ourselves and honest with ourselves, because in this self-absorbed society, where everyone is rushing everywhere, there is no knowledge of self to taste real freedom; and, through creative and self-expressive writing you can achieve to motivate others to taste that same freedom and/or learn from your own experiences, connecting thus all humanity and bringing a higher conscious awareness.

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The free mind of a human god!

Without the mirage.

“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” ~ Dale Carnegie; American writer and lecturer, self-help developer.

In conquering my own fears I have learned a thing or two along the way, and always still learning. When I came from Argentina to The States it was all new and different for me–different culture, different mannerisms, different places, different language, different lifestyles, etc.–and I really fell in love with all this change in time, because the key to grow and expand yourself in this life is by adapting to change and by no other way; however, after losing a few family members and stumbling through economic problems in a place which did not resemble my place of birth at all, I felt like a massive wave of fear and anxiety had collided with me and had become me, and the worst is that it was constant. Throughout several years afterwards I became a working young man, jumping from job to job, to help in my household, and so there were good times because, even though fear and stress had a continuous hold within me, my family was with me. But at that time I didn’t understood anything about fear and anxiety, what they are, how they rise, and how to get rid of them. Years later, I became more mature and wise in the ways of life, and I had gotten the gist of it.

(Funny and interesting how life develops; you mostly never understand in the heat of the moment, but later on, if you truly meditate on what happened, then the master sage of life hits you with incredible understanding and clarity.)

When we have a fear we tend to believe it is real and that it is a real threat, whether a fear of spiders, a fear of public speaking, a fear of public places, a fear of being our unique selves in front of others, a fear of this or that; furthermore, we navigate the waters of fear in our minds and become immersed in them, when great anxiety sets in which can lead to physical and mental pain and, in some extreme cases, a serious stay at the hospital of our choosing. But the reality is that we create fear, like time, or like beliefs, or like our personal views in life, we choose fear even if we do not think so–i.e. fear is a dual concept and the opposite vibrational side of courage, man-made and purely a fabrication of the ego, it is thinking constantly about something negative which may happen in a future that is not here yet and never will be. Fear is in the future which will never exist in real life, because real life is always the present; however, it is our mind, the ego specifically, the one which takes us to the future and makes us quiver every time we feel incapable of doing something or every time we doubt ourselves and our strengths to overcome something.

And fear may also live in another illusion, namely the past. But the past is gone and was never there in the first place; but, of course, our memories, our minds create these powerful images of the past and take us there–i.e. past abuse, neglect, issues with family and friends, bankrupt, the loss of someone you loved, etc. etc. So we live in the past and, because our minds are extremely powerful, start having strong emotions which give us negative feelings which we will carry into our present.

But think deeply about it: The past and the future do not exist, the past and the future are illusions of the mind which bring fear and anxiety when these create negative emotions within you. The only reality there is, and most certainly it is, is the present, and in the present moment there is all you need to be happy and confident and brave. But you have to be rid of that silly process, which we all do in our ignorance, which is living in the past and the future when it brings you stress and all anxiety, fear.

Be cautious of real dangers to your life, like lions or dinosaurs attacking the city, but, be intelligent, do not feed mental fears that you yourself (your mind) create.

Get hold of your mind. Your thoughts create your emotions, and your emotions become feelings which can bring you much suffering, so learn to master yourself and live in the present moment, enjoy each moment.

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