Awareness Now

Do we really understand our own despair? Let's take some time to discover this fake news we give ourselves. Is it even real? How do we use things to not feel it?

Fear and anxiety can get the best of us, no? This is a meditation to expand awareness linking conscious breathing with our visual imagination.

Mostly we avoid pain. Perhaps that is why there is so much depression. If we keep putting energy into not looking into the darkness the darkness will continue. Let's look at what cicadas might have to say about it from their long life dwelling in the dirt for more than a decade before they come into the light.

Who Am I Absent of Conditioning? Imagine all of the influences that have shaped who you are today...even down to how you brush your teeth the right or wrong way. How can you possibly be good enough when everything in your life has culminated to make you this way? Begin to imagine what life could be life if you came to know your own unique nature...and fell in love with it.

To paraphrase Khalil Gibran, our children are not ours, but they come through us. What is the purpose of fatherhood? What is the impact each of who choose parenthood have on the future of our children? No, not all of us are suited to perform this task if we are to elevate the consciousness of our species. Yes, it is on us to nurture our children to carry forth their own abilities beyond us. No, it has nothing to do with us and they will be who they are.

Mostly we think of ourselves as having infinite choices to make as any given moment, unaware of the influence our past has on us now. Here we consider the specific limitations, specifically those of the inherited perception of our parents there are, and question what our experience of life might be like if we add other options.

Without knowing who we are and what we are here for, or more accurately creating those aspects, we may very well be doomed to suffering and unfulfilled in our being used by those who do know these things. I powerfully request you, my listeners DECLARE these to me directly right now, what are the VALUES at the core of who you are and FOR WHAT are you here. Email me, send me voicemail, whatever it is that works for you. And, if you don't not know, tell me this and that you will explore and create them before 2010. I am counting on you.

Aren't we special? Our mind is ours yet we behave like we are our mind. This ignorance has kept us in trouble since formation. Mostly we cannot even think anymore with this blob of matter between our ears. Sure we have thoughts, but they are used to perpetuate a prison mentality of all of humanity. Shall we identify with our minds and remain in hell and at war with each forever? There is a way out.

Above all, I want you to find this small space, this tiny little space between breathing in and out and in again. We go looking all over the place for big things outside of ourself, however, when it comes to the inner landscape, we often avoid the most profound and smallest of spaces within. Join me on this directed meditation in identifying and expanding the pause...see you there!

Many of us still relate to our mind as if it is us, as if we are our minds. This is silly. We have minds. Minds do not have us. Or do they? All of us would like to be at peace, however as soon as we are seeking it it is no longer with us. We simply can't have what we seek. Seeking is a phenomenon saved for another day. Use this meditation to find yourself in the moments you no longer are seeking and expand the experience of yourself.

Perhaps the things we can't see are far, far more important than those things that we CAN see. On the Anniversary with my wife, we celebrate 4 years of being on a wonderful honeymoon and wish every couple the same magnificent joy we have created with each other. In this episode, we explore what it is that has us have what we do. Enjoy this wonderful meditation and create bold promises that move you to a 'world that doesn't matter.'

In Judaism, Christianity, Islam and many other traditions there is a Judgement Day and Day of Atonement, Ashura, a day in which we request to be forgiven for our sins. It isn't necessarily that we have been sinning and carrying them around all year, though we may have, no, it can also be asking to be forgiven for those things we may not even know that have somehow impacted people in ways we are unaware. Take a moment and look. If there is any question or doubt or wondering if it could be, get in touch with that person and find out. Ask to be forgiven. Hit the reset button, and then mess it up all over again the next year, however, I ask you to have zero tolerance for waiting a whole year to find out where you may need to clean things up. Tolerate this incompletion no more than five minutes....what could that be like?

We have to consider that we have only a small idea of what is really going on, that our limited sense are only giving us a glimpse of reality. With that in mind it is quite possible that sound can travel between dimensions into realms that bring us back that gifts we ask for out loud. Give this singing bowl meditation a sit, and spin your wishes for self and other and world.

The cicada bug, also known as locust has something we human beings don't always practice. Let's take a lesson from them.

When it occurs that something is wrong it is not...it is only that something could be there, where you are, and it is missing. For me since becoming a father I noticed today what it is I have been suffering over. Take a look for yourself and see what may be missing to end your own today.

Here we explore an empowering position on the source of all sound and our relationship to it. When the bird sings and sky thunders it is easy, but how about when baby is crying and mother is complaining!?

Today we will look through the lens of quantum physics and a principle called 'entanglement' to help provide us with a powerful insight into who we are. How can we use Betrayal, Forgiveness and the Grudge to learn and become closer to one another...so close we ARE the other.

Marshmallow Consciousness is a fun way to look at the vastness of who we are for each other...a way to play with our self from a sticky and sweet viewpoint of each other that ultimately brings people up, and together.

This is a conversation on the formation of word, How it is assembled, What word is, What we bring to word and the possibilities for us using them well. Enjoy! I think we need much more time with this one.

This is a useful and refreshing meditation on who we are as separate from our bodies. There is You and Your body. There is the object and the observer. Enjoy the separation and the weightlessness that comes about. Let go of the association with your body and the pounds will drop away!