Hi Folks!
How have you been ?
I am so sorry, I have been inordinately late again!
Work, lots of work and more work!
Had no time to breathe for a couple of weeks, but it was work that I love to do, so I enjoyed it all.
And the rains!
I am so sorry, I have been inordinately late again!
Work, lots of work and more work!
Had no time to breathe for a couple of weeks, but it was work that I love to do, so I enjoyed it all.
And the rains!
I am enjoying the incessant rains !
They are creating havoc in many places but here in my city, I don't dwell on the pot - holes and muddy water at my feet.
They are creating havoc in many places but here in my city, I don't dwell on the pot - holes and muddy water at my feet.
I look up at the grey, black skies through the thick, now green foliage of the Mayflower tree.
Every summer when it sheds all its leaves and the brilliant red flowers bloom, I feel that after they are gone, this year, the tree might remain barren.
But every year, even when the last of the flowers are still around, new leaves appear from nowhere and grow rapidly, creating a wonderful canopy.
One early morning, sitting in my swing at about 5 am, through two branches, I saw the half - moon leisurely make its way home.
The birds were still asleep, even the leaves were yawning.
It was a magical moment of calm and peace.
Every summer when it sheds all its leaves and the brilliant red flowers bloom, I feel that after they are gone, this year, the tree might remain barren.
But every year, even when the last of the flowers are still around, new leaves appear from nowhere and grow rapidly, creating a wonderful canopy.
One early morning, sitting in my swing at about 5 am, through two branches, I saw the half - moon leisurely make its way home.
The birds were still asleep, even the leaves were yawning.
It was a magical moment of calm and peace.
The dark clouds are heavy with promise, and if I don't know what to do with the abundance they are blessing me with, if I am not prepared to receive, respect and put it to good use, it is only me to be blamed.
They don't care and they don't wait.
They will happily, eagerly empty themselves, finish their karmic debt to us and move onto their next incarnation!
They will happily, eagerly empty themselves, finish their karmic debt to us and move onto their next incarnation!
Anyone like to be a lazy, sluggish, meandering cloud floating away?!
In the worst of downpours, I can see so many birds out in the open, huddling on poles and overhead wires.
Why don't they find shelter in trees, I wonder.
They sit without moving, as if in deep meditation, oblivious to what's outside them.
Once it stops raining, they come to life one by one, flutter their wings and take off gracefully into the sky.
They must be connecting to something within, which gives them this ability to live in the moment.
I want to share some interesting information on four levels of Consciousness that I have come across.
Go to those posts and refresh yourselves, in case you have forgotten.
1. The Unconscious Consciousness :
' At this stage you are not even aware that you are unconscious. You attract negative things into your life at a rapid pace, as if you have developed a negative ball of energy rolling down hill. Nothing is ever your fault and you are always looking for someone to blame.'
2. The Conscious Unconsciousness :
Here you are aware of your negative thinking and the consequences that it might bring. You might see your negative pattern and have become aware of what it is that you are attracting. You may not like what you are attracting, but you have taken responsibility for it.
These two stages correspond to the dominance of the lower three Chakras or energy centers, which also contain our Basic or Animal Instincts.
This is when we start our human journey.
While living in the first chakra energy, we are constantly in fear of death, then other kinds of fears - of losing possessions, people, money, name, fame and so on.
While living in the first chakra energy, we are constantly in fear of death, then other kinds of fears - of losing possessions, people, money, name, fame and so on.
Money and Sex dominate in the second chakra energy.
Then comes the third, when we want power, a sway over others, respect from peers and family.
However spiritual we may call ourselves, we do spend a lot, lot of time in these two states of consciousness, living our lives ruled by basic or animal instincts.
The one of conscious ignorance is the more interesting one.
We know we should not hurt or cheat, that we should be ethical and moral, but we exercise no control over our behaviour.
We are ready to take the consequences and hope for our luck to last as long as it can, hopefully, for the whole life.
There is no thought of an after life or that there could be judgement of our doings.
When one has explored as many facets of one's personality as one is strong enough to and finally got bored of the constant stormy upheavals, one learns that it is possible to step back and be an observer.
That is when the third level of consciousness slowly starts to come into prominence.
3. The Conscious Consciousness :
You deliberately decide to focus pure and positive thought on something and remove all resistance to its arrival. And, sure enough, it arrives. Your creation might be something as simple as visualizing a parking space opening up for you at the mall. You deliberately intended it, allowed it to come to you and acknowledged it when it arrives.
4. The Unconscious Consciousness
When you get to this point, you do not have to work so hard to create things in your life. You are a believer in how the mind game is played and you spend conscious time each day making your mind important. New creations come to you easily and quickly. You have built a positive ball of energy that continues to roll forward in your favor. People call you the "lucky one".
This is when we start to operate from our Heart, also called the first of our spiritual chakras.
We start to become conscious and aware of the consequences of our thoughts and behaviour, start to at least mentally, become accountable to ourselves.
We start to grow in love, forgiveness and compassion.
We start to become conscious and aware of the consequences of our thoughts and behaviour, start to at least mentally, become accountable to ourselves.
We start to grow in love, forgiveness and compassion.
As the baggage of our accumulated negative energies starts to dissolve, the vibrations we send out are of purer level and attract people and opportunities of equal levels.
It is all a question of connecting, and we start to make the connections more effortlessly.
We might call it coincidence, but it is not.
It is what we have ushered in ourselves with our had work put in earlier.
It is what we have ushered in ourselves with our had work put in earlier.
This awareness grows, lifting us into a sublime level of understanding even as we live our self - chosen, at times mundane life.
Another neat little piece explained in easier terms.
In the Unconscious state, you are not aware that you lack a skill.
In the Conscious state, you become aware of this fact.
You follow it up with actively working at getting the skill though it requires a lot of hard work.
In the next stage, you become so competent that you don't even think about it any more.
In the Unconscious state, you are not aware that you lack a skill.
In the Conscious state, you become aware of this fact.
You follow it up with actively working at getting the skill though it requires a lot of hard work.
In the next stage, you become so competent that you don't even think about it any more.
Nothing comes by luck. There is no such thing as a coincidence.
Everything is earned.
The seeds have been sown by us and nurtured unconsciously or consciously. So just be careful of seeds your mind is sowing and what it is that you are nurturing, consciously and unconsciously!
I promise to write before 13th August, because then I am off again to an(other!) exciting adventure!
Take care, and love you -
I promise to write before 13th August, because then I am off again to an(other!) exciting adventure!
Take care, and love you -
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