But this ‘doing’ is NOT true experiencing.

Doing is based on an assumption that life needs you to ‘FIX’ it, in order for it to be acceptable

We DO, because we are in a constant state of judgment. Usually from within, about how things ‘SHOULD’ be.

As long as this exists we can never FULLY EXPERIENCE how things ARE. And hence the great beauty and lesson in what ‘IS!’

Like creating a sand castle most of us are constantly running around all day maintaining the walls of our illusion

We don’t see that these walls of ‘safety, familiarity and habit’ we are hiding behind, stop us seeing the truth about ourselves and the bigger picture for our life.

Whats worse. The frenetic ‘doing’, fools us into believing that activity equates to meaning. And distracts us from that niggling thought that maybe our life has none.

So why not take a moment to STOP today and EXPEIENCE.

Don’t fix or judge or plan or do. Just EXPERIENCE WHAT IS and the wisdom waiting in that moment for you to shut up and pay attention.

Some of you might panic at this thought. Thinking the sky will fall in or the earth will stop!

But trust me it wont.

And you might be AMAZED at the paths life reveals to you, when you stop believing that you know best

ALSO check out this speech by Anthony Robins at the TED summit. REALLY powerful stuff!

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After a time i looked up at the island that sits in the middle of the river and noticed, for about 30seconds, it very distinctly moved. As if powered.

Even the trees on it looked like they were bending back. Just like you might expect if it was really moving forward.

As much as i reminded myself this was a simple optical illusion. Each time i repeated it,  I couldn’t nullify the effect.

What a perfect example of why its so important to totally focus,stare and absorb yourself in things, people, habits that are moving in the direction you want to go

This  ’forward motion’ you surround yourself with, conditions the brain, just like staring at the river did

Then when lifes apparently immovable speed humps arise. Rather than pulling us up to a grinding halt, our brains are preconditioned with this innate sense of forward motion.

Projecting it onto the once static problems, just like the optical illusion i saw. Stopping us getting stuck and seeing us through and out the other side.

The old proveb about, ‘the woolf you feed will always beat the one you dont’ sprang to mind and I realsied this is why.

Surrounding yourself and focusing COMPLETELY on what it is you want (or feeding that woolf)  literally sets up a pattern of thoughts that continues even when the stimui stops.

What thoughts are you feeding?

PS you can try this illusion with anything that moves in one direction e.g stare at the road when its moving by then look at something stationary (not when your driving preferably)

OPTICAL ILLUSION

Check out the AWESOME Optical illusion special in American Scientist Mind Magazine this month

Of course this is why they say

Most of our lives are spent on rails

Day in and day out chugging between one thought process and the next.

One pre organised destination and the next

One predictable reaction and another

Wildly wishing we were somewhere else, or someone else. Yet finding a strange sense of comfort in the discomfort we are in.

Life can become a Little like a cold wet shirt stuck to your skin One that you don’t want to take off because you realize, despite the fact life would be better without it on, it’s actually giving you a sloppy wet warmth of sorts.

And even though we know that greater pleasure are wating for us if we just suck it up, rip it off, and accept the temporary cold discomfort, we would rather just wallow in the moldy warmth we’ve become accustomed to.

Do you really want life to become a wet shirt around your potential ?

Start DERAILING your behaviours and learning new things about yourself and the world around you.

Get comfortable being uncomfortable and you’ll never miss life’s clean dry warm shirts of opportunity when they pass by .

LIVING IN A WORLD OF BLAH!

I have been thinking a lot about how the brain ‘normalises’ things so effectively.

This is great if you are living in a slum, but not so great if you have everything, and slowly become desensitized to just how fortunate you are.

So why do we still complain about our lot, or not appreciate what we have ?

Well the truth is, its both natural and preventable
The way this actually works is, feel good chemicals that make us ‘feel lucky, happy, grateful etc ’ actually deplete after firing in certain patterns for extended periods.

So the more you initially feel about something the more exhausted they get, and eventually the less we start to feel.

This is how things we would have walked over broken glass to have and hold become normal boring everyday object or individuals over time, if we do not learn to see them in different ways.

So now we know WHY this happens. We can do something about it and start appreciating what we have again.

Living without, often reminds us of what we are missing. But so does physically taking a moment to view mundane things in a different way.

One of the Gurus we met on the road said that he imagines his heart is connecting with the ‘thing or person’.

“When you open your heart to an object. Even something as mundane as a pen or a sofa. Yes you feel pretty silly at first. But give it time. Keep looking at it and imagining you are loving it, and you’ll suddenly have a rush of rememberance for how it has quietly served you over the years. Or for the role it plays, humbly in the background of your life – Its then a strange rush of gratitude comes over you and you may even get a tear in your eye.”

Sounds nut??? Sure – But it works, and whats the option ? Living in a world of blah !

THIS IS WHY LETTING GO IS REALLY ALL THAT MATTERS

This great post was sent in by a Life Changer and I thought ‘wow how true’ For those of us on the path it’s a really good reminder not to get caught up in TRYING!!

“ For me, the path of love isn’t so much a path as it is a tightrope that I find myself on.

Hold on, but not too hard…

Use your instinct, but don’t let your ego fool you…

Embrace your emotions, but don’t wallow in self-pity and beat yourself up…

Take credit for your manifestations, but don’t praise your self too much and if you’re bragging, that’s the ego…

Connect to your emotions and find how they support you, but don’t get lost in them…

Be aware of your thoughts, but don’t be the thinking, be the witnessing…

Nothing is bad or good, so even if you’ve fallen off the path, its in perfect order, but don’t forget to pick up the lesson that came from choice…

Don’t resist your emotions and don’t suppress them, but don’t let them overwhelm you and overtake you.

Be aware of what is showing up for you and why, but also, the story doesn’t really matter, embracing the emotions is the main thing.

Oh, and if you’ve come this far, you’re thinking too much about it. Just “allow” it all to happen naturally. Just be aware.

What an absolute mind-twist.

By Kirra www.revolutionofself.com

AT LAST – The Life Change Experiment has wheels

Thanks to the wonderful guys at JAMES FRIZELLES GOLD COAST HYUNDAI, http://jamesfrizelles.com.au/Gold-Coast-Hyundai/ who have loaned us a car until we go to the USA.

These guys do incredible work in the community. From their ‘pay your bills for a week’ initiative feature on radio station Hot Tomato, to all sorts of Life Changing charity based initiatives

They even have a female centric sales and service policy. Which is nice in a mainly male industry

It is HEARTWARMING to see companies like this really getting involved in helping people in their community and not being afraid to do things differently

And of course we think it’s extra nice that they and the guys from Hyundai were willing to help us out

We are looking forward to helping them with their ‘pay your bills for a week’ giveaway over the next few months:-)

So if you know someone who desperately needs a break let us know

Congruence – One of my favorite words and probably my life’s quest! (I even have the word of the Delphic oricle tattooed in Latin on my arm to remind me. ‘Know thyself and be true’

It may not be a word people talk about very often but it sure as hell should be.

Lack of congruence means we flit from one thing to another, always looking but never quite finding.

Pop spirituality, relationships, food, gurus, exercise, our work, good times, alcohol, drugs, TV………We use all of these things as substitutes to the fact that our lives are NOT CONGRUENT!

The degree to which we experience inner turmoil, emotional pain and that feeling of emptiness is often in direct correlation to how congruently we are living our lives

So what is it really? Congruence is that place where your heart meets your soul, meets your mind, meets your motives, meets your actions. And all are completely aligned!

When your everyday actions are not based on worry, fear and ego, but on your deepest truth.

Real.congruence is sensed in every pore and fiber. From the top of your head to the tip of your toes, and through every emotive organ (ones you feel sensations in) such as the stomach, heart and lung

Although it is never about being ‘Right’  it is an absolute KNOWING!

True congruence leaves no thought for what others think. It rarely takes the route our egos would prefer, and often stands us in contradiction to the rest of the world

It offers, should we be prepared to give up out insecurities and addictions, the deepest sense of peace possible, effortless commitment, absolute acceptance, inarguable certainty and the pure guilt free joy of life!

Of course there is false congruence. That, ‘My absolute right way v your wrong way’ people love to judge others by. But true congruence need not judge since it is purely personal .

How can you possibly judge the congruence of another whos life you don’t live, without stepping out of your own to do so!

Anyway todays blog is a reminder to take a moment to LISTEN and aligne!!!!!!.

A life in line, heart mind and soul is a life of ultimate fulfillment, absolute possibility, peace and love.

An interesting fun survey by dating site Redhotpie.com.au on what we do and dont like in our partners.

HAVE YOU LOST YOUR AWE

Sitting this morning on perfectly manicured grass, looking out over crystal clear still sparkling water, as the sun rose in a majestic cloud tufted sky, I realized how sad is is that we take so much for granted.

Its easy to see our life and say ‘well that’s that’ but the reality is we only ever see a micro fracion of what ‘that’ really is.

The funny thing is most of us know this to be true but DON’T CARE. We are slaves to our senses. And when our sense tell us ‘this is your lot’ we tend to simply shrug our shoulders and agree.

Every morning I try and remind myself, giving the old neural pathways responsible for gratitude and wonder, a little work out, by looking at my mundane and acknowledging the gobsmanking majesty of it all.

The reality, despite our dim perspective is that life and our universe is

Bigger, longer, smaller faster, weirder, higher, hotter, colder, rarer, older, younger, harder, softer, richer and poorer than anything we know or can create ourselves.

Got something rare, old or valuable at home you treat with great respect ??- Trust me it pales into insignificance when you do as little as look at your finger and remember all the iron in the blood pulsing around it is trillions of years old. Was created in stars zillions of miles away, in an event so rare it is almost  impossible to compute, traveling incalculable distance in an incredible journey to end up. Plonk – At the end of your boring old finger!!!

We spend so much time yearning for things that we have ascribed false value to, and so little time acknowledging the immeasurable intrinsic value of what we already have.

But like anything else – It takes practice!

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