Filter

For just a moment, I want you cover your ears with the palm of your hands.  Look away from the screen at something beautiful and feel the elevation in your pulse.  When your focused, you have the ability to heighten your sense of awareness on what you take in visually and with this focus you have the choice to apply a filter.  Filter in and give your energy to what truly makes you happy.  Filter out and take energy away from what is not true.  




Intrinsic Goals actually make you happy.  Intrinsic Goals make us happy by pursuing them.  Pursuit of Intrinsic Goals fulfills the self actualization need of being authentic to your true self in pursuit of Community, Health, Family and Spirituality.  Intrinsic goals make us more generous toward the world and want to help others pursue those same goals.   




Extrinsic Goals don't make you happy.  Extrinsic goals only make you happy when you achieve them but your pursuit for material & popularity excess will never be quenched.  Pursuit of extrinsic goals takes time away from pursuit of intrinsic goals.  Materially inclined friends are too busy and invest less in friendship with you because they care more about their materialistic goals.

Breathe

For one moment, close your eyes and take in a deep breath.  Relax and listen deeply to the heightened sense of sounds around you. 


The practice of being in the moment is a heightened state of consciousness and well being.  If you learn to master your breathing it's your pathway into your heightened senses.  When you recognize tightening in your breath, think of it as a trigger to let what ever it is you are overthinking about go and take a deep breathe to come back to embrace the present.  This condition is a skill to learn & practice in order to be fully engaged in the moment with all of your heightened senses.


Be present for what ever life presents.  Obstacles are your allies that exercise your strength to overcome.  Recognize them but don't be afraid of them, just let them be and move past them.  This is a mindset to see your circumstances in a different way, replacing fear with flow.  Show up for life with all your vulnerability and passion to experience it instead of thinking about it in fear of those things you cannot control. 


When the wave comes in and crashes you down, replace struggle with ease and experience that current rather than fear it which helps your breath go a lot further.  Let go and let it move through you.  Fear is here but I'm not afraid.  Obstacles are here but I'm not struggling.  Be here now to live life, fully engaged in the present unhooked from the minds struggles that will eventually come to pass as you breath deep and let them flow right through.