Being a tourist of your own life

I have just returned from a truly wonderful adventure in North America. For a time we were in the Adirondacks in upstate New York, and much to my joy and amazement, we were in knee deep and fresh falling snow in April! It was such a magic, secluded and beautiful place that I proposed to my partner, Julian, right there in the middle of all that snow. He said...YES!

Happily, we are now engaged. And returned home. 
And herein lies my challenge...

Being back has made me recognise how expansive, adventurous and attuned to the positive I am when I travel. When 'real life' sets in it can be hard to maintain the effortless joy that comes with travel. The challenge I have set myself is to be like a tourist in my own life. In other words, to walk around with fresh wonder and wide-eyed amazement. 

I am happy to report that so far this has worked a treat. As the days pass though I feel myself closing up little by little and I must keep reminding myself of the feeling of being awake to the possibility of what life might bring.

When we are away from our normal daily routine, especially when we are travelling, we are alive with anticipation of what each day might bring. When we get home, we fall into a well trodden routine, closed off, bored even and unaware of the possibility that is all around.

I have set myself the task of being awed by my life, by my home, my environment as though I was seeing it all for the very first time, of feeling like a bold adventurer in the day to day. And the best part - no ridiculous airfares and overpriced hotels!

Bon voyage fellow travellers!

You are the reason for all the chaos

Right now, most likely, there are at least five things in your life that feel chaotic and out of your control...

BUT... Imagine if all that stressing, fighting, anxiety, sadness, anger, rage, and victim-ness was to stop and you could stand still and really know peace and choose the life that you live, choose the energy that you draw forth towards you.

Imagine that in the very act of not moving, being still, the world around you responds to your energy. Your energy changes - the world around you changes. Do you think the energy you live in is just random, just something you happened to wander in to? Of course not. You have prepared it. You have sent it forth, you manifest it in this very moment. Every second you are generating your reality. Indeed, can’t you see?

You are fumbling through the world half blind, for in the movement and chaos of everyday life all you are generating is more of the same. Be still. Meditate. Plan your life energetically. In this we mean not to say like a take-away menu you sit down and order what you want to happen each day (although perhaps you will get there one day!). What we are suggesting, dear ones, is this. 

Your energy, the energetic web you spin, is what you live in,  it is the energy all around you, it is the energy that other people pick up on as you enter their space, that which the trees and plants and the birds and absolutely everything you interact with ‘reads’ when you approach. Now of course, just like you, most humans bump into one another energetically without a clue of what they are doing,  of what they are taking or giving. We challenge you now to wake up to yourself as an energetic being! 

You spin a web, you live that web! Do you understand? You are the creator of the reality you live, and we mean this in no abstract way. Become conscious of the web you weave. Start to see it in all your interactions, practice seeing it, feeling it, even if at first you see and feel nothing. It is something you will quickly become sensitive too. Develop this sense. It is more important than any other sense you have, for the others merely report on life. This sense determines your life! Be free of not understanding why your life is the way it is.

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Ham Sa - Who am I?

Hamsa mantra: The Soham mantra is also called the Hamsa mantra. Hamsa (or hansa) poses the question, Who am I? Soham provides the answer, I am that.

I am that: While the English translation may not be as important as the quality of the sound vibration, Soham translates as I am that. When remembered repeatedly, it declares I am that I am that I am that I am. Remembering the Soham mantra often during the day can be a very useful practice.

Oh mind, sing the sound So Ham
Soham Japalehe Manawa
Soham, soham, soham.
I am that I am, that I am, that I am.

For more see this informative page Soham/Hamsa