Infinite Personal Potential – The Silence Within

Mastering the Mind, Understanding Emotions

Many of us set goals to improve various aspects of our lives. One powerful goal, that could make a major difference in your life, is to master our minds through the development of emotional intelligence (EI). Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and manage our emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Emotions create the energetic experiences in our lives. They give us movement and energy; they can take us to the highest heights or lowest lows. They make all the difference in how we experience reality.

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The Infinite Potential of Love

Too often we view love as weak, and with serious potential to hurt us. But we forget how often our love for someone pushes us beyond our boundaries and we stand up and do things we had not thought possible.

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World Peace Starts with Me

World Peace Starts with Me Many people are concerned with all the devastation they see around the world. Between mass shootings, floods, fires, famine and poverty, people are getting bogged down with simple survival or the fear it creates.

World Peace Starts with Me

Many people are concerned with all the devastation they see around the world. Between mass shootings, floods, fires, famine and poverty, people are getting bogged down with simple survival or the fear it creates.

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Do We Cage Our Hearts?

Do We Cage Our Hearts? The world seems so vast and complicated. People, places, systems, doctrines, philosophies and the endless structures we built around what is right and what is wrong. But I ask myself, what if all this is just a mind trap, designed to keep me so busy trying to figure everything out, … Continue reading “Do We Cage Our Hearts?”

Do We Cage Our Hearts?

The world seems so vast and complicated. People, places, systems, doctrines, philosophies and the endless structures we built around what is right and what is wrong. But I ask myself, what if all this is just a mind trap, designed to keep me so busy trying to figure everything out, that I just simply get lost? Lost where? Lost in the mind and away from my heart.

I have come to understand that real life force energy vibrates and thrives in my heart center. The more time I spend in my mind, the less love, power and creativity I experience. When I think too much I also lose my ability to connect. My thoughts and endless thinking keep me separated from others and in a state of analysis. Love energy is acceptance, and seeks to unite us. When I feel love, I feel safe, secure and that I have a place in the universe along with everyone else.

Perhaps it is all an elaborate trick. Have I caged my heart to follow my head? After all, my mind is very smart and has so many great ideas. I must look carefully to see what the mind has created for me to chase around and pursue. What causes and important issues has the mind sent me to participate in? I am beginning to think the mind may not be the superior being it proclaims to be. I have begun to question everything as I seek to understand why I am doing all this running around. Does it make me feel important? Does it somehow add perceived meaning to my life? Who taught me that these causes were important and necessary? You see, the more time I spend chasing problems around, the less time I will have to sit in my heart energy and the less time I will have to experience love.

Do you remember what it feels like to bask in the love, acceptance and joy that radiates from your heart center when you can sit quietly and open the cage? I think I do, and thus I ask myself, what is it I do each day that keeps me from experiencing love, I think I should stop that.

What does it mean to build cities, roads, shopping malls, systems of political control and rules for society, if the participants walk through dull and uninspired, unable to love freely and vibrate with joy?

What have we really created but pretty cages to jail our hearts and souls? A life lived without joy is a life trapped in the dungeons of the mind. Oh we can be very busy building and sorting our dungeons but they are still dungeons – underground and away from the light. Only by centering in the heart can we know true love. Only by opening the heart energy and extending to enfold others in our love can we really know joy. Only by radiating love and joy can we open the cage the mind has created for our hearts and expand our awareness to a full understanding of what we are doing here. I think I will give up my self-righteous effort to change the world, design better systems, and my zealous attempt to right all the wrongs in the world. I think I will simply try to find my heart center, vibrate it open, share it and awaken my expanded view of all that is…then I will know how to really live.

“Silence is the essence of the heart. Become aware of the times when you are breathing in a shallow way and bring your awareness to your thoughts. You will see that your mind is chattering. None of these thoughts has depth or significance. If you relax and breathe deeply, these thoughts will fly away like startled birds. And then you will abide in the heart.”

Paul Ferrini – Silence of the Heart

The Power of Self-Discovery

The True Power of Self-Discovery Most of the time when we are feeling weak and vulnerable, it is because we just don’t know who we are and how we fit into life. We feel stressed and anxious because we are trying so hard to meet the expectations of others and fit in. We look to … Continue reading “The Power of Self-Discovery”

The True Power of Self-Discovery

Most of the time when we are feeling weak and vulnerable, it is because we just don’t know who we are and how we fit into life. We feel stressed and anxious because we are trying so hard to meet the expectations of others and fit in. We look to the world around us, we watch how others behave and try to emulate their actions and beliefs.

But this is crap! We feel weak because we are living a fake life. Our full energy is not in the game. We just try to use our mind to match what we see and think is expected of us.

Real power comes from living each day, body, mind and spirit, all in, fully engaged, and experiencing ourselves as we explore life. We don’t give a crap about fitting in, we are souls on fire, experiencing, living, learning, even getting bounced around unpleasantly as we learn though mistakes. But we don’t care, we play we laugh and we share with others.

What a fun ride it could all be. The unfortunate part is that most people will never experience this kind of life. They are too busy restricting their energy waiting to see how they think others want them to live. We have been tricked by society, into believing that security, safety and acceptance resides in learning to play by the rules and please others. But ha ha, that’s the joke, this only leads to trapped lives.

But how do we find this inner truth that will set us free? How do we know how to play all in, body mind and spirit?

It all starts with self-discovery. Ask yourself, Who am I? What did I come here to learn? What do I already know to be true for me? Who are my true playmates, the ones that can engage me, challenge me, motivate me and share my joy? Who can play at the same level as me and will love the journey with me?

The family and friends that you came into the game with may not be the playmates that help open you to your true power, they may be the tricksters that are trying to keep you trapped.

Either way, the journey to self-discovery is the way to open to power, passion and playmates. Don’t wait for permission, start reinventing your life today. Start the journey inward to find the keys to unlock the doors to your soul and show you the roadmap to blissful living and your true power.

If you get lost and need help consider some guided self-discovery coaching.

Unconditional Love

Do we really understand unconditional love? It is a beautiful concept, unconditional love. Some people may even believe they understand it. But we are not really a society that promotes this intention. Those that truly love unconditionally would be considered naive and cautioned to step back and protect themselves. We seem to believe that love … Continue reading “Unconditional Love”

Do we really understand unconditional love?

It is a beautiful concept, unconditional love. Some people may even believe they understand it. But we are not really a society that promotes this intention. Those that truly love unconditionally would be considered naive and cautioned to step back and protect themselves. We seem to believe that love hurts, and we must protect ourselves. We are on guard to love selectively, once we believe someone won’t hurt us.

But are we truly loving if we only express this love with people we believe will love us back? Do we really only love people we believe are safe and that have our best interests at heart? Seems to me that this sounds like a love wrapped in pretty ribbons of fear.

Love wrapped in such constraints may not be love. It may just be insecurity dressed up as love. We want something from this person we say we love. Perhaps we are seeking their emotional support, or comfort or protection. We sense they will calm our insecurity and thus we deem them safe to love and expose our vulnerability. Now we can say we love them and open ourselves to them. Opening ourselves seems like love, feels like love, because it allows us to relax and feel safe.

Don’t you suspect that true unconditional love is an act of sharing, not getting? There is no thought of what we need from the exchange. If we are judging and evaluating how we will feel if we share love, then perhaps it isn’t love. Unconditional love is a beautiful thing because it allows us to experience love every day. I suspect it is an outpouring of genuine emotion for others. It is not the least bit judgemental or analytical. Unconditional love is rather like the sun shining. It just shines on everyone because it can. What if we could love and share love, just because we can? We would not bother to evaluate your worthiness to receive our love, we would just give it.

And here’s a thought, what if we gave it everywhere, shared love as the sun shines, indiscriminately? What a world we would have if enough people just spread love all around for no reason.

Now I know you may be getting resistant to this flakey feel good idea, and if you are perhaps it is because you misunderstand the implications of loving someone. I believe love is an emotional energy generated from within us. A beautiful feeling that can be extended out to others. A healing energy that uplifts people and makes them feel accepted and included. And that is the magic of love. A non-judgemental acceptance and joy that you exist. How would you feel if the people around you looked at you this way? They weren’t trying to help you, correct you, evaluate you, they just seemed to smile and appreciate you.

Unfortunately society has wrapped love, not only with ribbons of fear, but ropes of obligation and duty. Thus if we love someone we will have expectations of what they will do for us and how they should make us feel.

Have a look at your relationships and you will see the hidden expectations. I hate to say it, but I suspect it isn’t really love you are experiencing if you are trying to shape, change or control someone. It is simply a ribbon of fear or a rope of obligation.

Real, unconditional love sets people free to be who they are, who they want to be. Real love is open to discovering and sharing with them. It does not try to get, but only to give.

So the question is, if you could love unconditionally, without expectations, and it did not matter if someone returned your love, wouldn’t you try it out more? If you loved more people, without restriction and obligation, you require nothing of them, they require nothing of you, don’t you think you would experience more love in your life?