Are You Creating Problems?

When you create a problem, you create pain.  All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself.  I will create no more problems.  Although it is a simple choice, it is also very hard.  You won’t make that choice unless you are truly fed up with suffering, unless you have truly had enough.  And you won’t be able to go through with it unless you choose to live in the present moment of NOW.  If you create no more pain for yourself, then you create no more pain for others.  You also no longer contaminate the beautiful Earth, your inner space, and the collective human psyche with the negativity of problem making.  ( This is adapted from Eckhart Tolle, The Power of  NOW)

I have to stop at times to remind myself of this.  At any given moment there is no suffering in that present space.  All suffering is created from a past or a future thought.  So the next time you find yourself wrapped up in a problem, STOP!  It is not present.  Come back to the moment  now and be open to the gifts that are right here, right now. That is what is real, that is what is present and in that space everything is perfect. 

Happy Monday to all of you! I’m wishing you a day of living fully in the moment and enjoying each one.  Yesterday is over and tomorrow will take care of itself.

Are you running?

We are either running to or from something. 

If you have ever watched a group of children playing at a playground they are always running from one play equipment to another.  You never see them just casually walking from place to place.  They might miss something or not get there first.  They are  running to, they have a plan in mind.

It often seems that the older we get the less that we run to something but instead we run away,  run away from our feeling, our fears, and ourselves. We just keep running there is no desire to stop and experience life,  to feel life.  For many of us it has just been too painful.

We don’t want to feel the pain, to sit with the discomfort that life can be at times. 

What are you running from?  What are you not allowing yourself to feel?  What  do you think would happen if you stopped?  And is all that running  actually getting you any further away from what it is that you are trying so hard to get away from?

Our next seminar in July 24-26,  it’s time to stop doing the same thing over and over.  It is time to take a fresh look.  To experience a new way to BE and put the running shoes away.  Please think about the weekend for yourself or pass it on to anyone that you know would  benefit from gained vision and insight.  The weekend is open to anyone 18 years or older,  male, female, singles and partnerships. 

 How about running to something for a change and see what happens!  I promise you a safe, loving, supportive and life changing experience.

Pain and Suffering

 What a great way to start a perfectly beautiful Friday morning!

There is a huge difference pain and suffering.  Pain is something that we all experience as a part of life,  we smash our finger and feel physical pain , we lose loved ones and feel emotional pain, we can even experience physical pain for someone else’s pain.  But suffering is that which we bring on to ourselves!  Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

We cause suffering for ourselves when we choose to sustain the loss or pain. For example; we lose a beloved pet,  that loss in very painful.  The suffering come from replaying the loss over and over, wishing or wondering if we should have done something different, been a better owner, took him or her on more walks.  The suffering created by that thought pattern can be overwhelming and devastating far beyond the actual loss of our beloved pet.  The suffering can stop when we choose to accept the loss, acknowledge that we are imperfect human being in an imperfect world and know that every minute of everyday we all do the best that we can.  And it was good!     The pain will eventually ease with time just as a smashed finger heals.   The suffering stop when you choose for it to stop.

Have a blessed weekend, lacking in suffering!  Talked to you again on Monday.

Much Love & Peace,  Derinda