Questions, Questions...Where Are The Answers?

How do we navigate the waters of life effectively?

Have you ever thought of that? I mean, we all exist for a certain time in this physical form, on this planet...but do we just drift along, seeing where we end up? Or can we navigate these seas?

Many changes in my life recently have made me ponder these questions, and many others.

Who or what am I? What is this place? Is there a point to it all, or is this just an experience? A game? Does anyone ever win? Is there such a thing as winning or losing? If everything truly is already perfect just as it is, what are we here to do?

I know these can be very heavy, or deep, questions to ask...and to find the answers we must be willing to also go deep inside of ourselves.

Then again, when you do get an answer, how do you know if it is the truth?

How can you guide yourself to better relationships, better health, wealth, happiness?

Well, recently I had the pleasure of reading "Living In The Light" by Shakti Gawain, the updated edition. I had never read any of her books before, but felt called to pick this one up. It was exactly what I needed at that time.

Essentially, Living In The Light is all about learning to listen to our true inner voice, our intuition...our gut. It's about learning to truly trust our Selves to guide us to true happiness and freedom, if we listen, and act on it...no matter how strange or scary it might seem.

Being a very intellectual person for many years, I have resisted this idea for a long time, preferring to use my mind to try to figure out the best solutions. Using our minds is definitely not a bad thing, especially compare to not using it. The problem becomes when we have to make a decision where not all the facts are availlable, or unknowable...which is most decisions in life.

Have you realized that even very simple decisions can have factors that we have no idea about? Like the decision to listen to that inner voice that says "go ahead, meet them for coffee" about a stranger you just talked to on the phone or via email...who might end up impacting the rest of your life in amazing ways?

I've been having a few of these lately...

Here's the thing: there is always WAY more going on than our limited mind, with it's limited perspective, can see or understand. The fact that our gut/intuition can give us a much better answer than our minds could ever come up with if we let it, is EXTRAORDINARY.

The lesson that is SOOOO hard for many of us to get is that in truth, our minds are just tools, just servants. The true master of our lives is our HEART.

To live an enchanted life, let the Heart lead, and the mind serve it on it's path.

We also have tools like applied kinesiology which, when applied correctly by the right people, can allow us to have instant confirmation as to the truth or falsehood of anything in the past or present we can imagine. ANYTHING.

How's that for mind-blowing!

So here's what I am now experimenting with: I intuit the answer to anything I am wondering about or have challenges with (taking a guess based on a heart/gut feeling). Then, I research it as best as I can and/or test it kinesiologically to confirm the intuition.

Again, I highly recommend "Living in the Light" by Shakti Gawain to learn how to listen to and trust your inner wisdom. Also, check out "Power Vs Force" by Dr. David R. Hawkins, or "Your Body Doesn't Lie" by Dr. John Diamond to learn more about applied kinesiology.

Once I started listening, trusting, and acting from my intuitive inspiration, miracles became more and more common in my life. Miracles of meeting exactly the right people at the right time, of getting money in the perfect amounts, exactly when needed, of finding solutions to long-standing health challenges and personal fulfillment questions.

It's amazing.

Eventually, my goal is to learn to completely surrender myself to be guided by the Universe...to be the greatest I can be, and do the greatest good during my time here.

Because, as I have noticed on many occasions, of my own little self and little mind, I can only see and know a very small fraction of everything that goes on behind the scenes...and how everything ultimately comes together in this grand symphony called Life.

So where does it all connect to the great questions of who and what we all are?

Only by connecting to your deepest Self will you be able to find the answers...to these, and to all the others you ask yourself on a day to day basis.

Do not be afraid of the darkness inside...go deep...dive for the treasures within.

Go ahead, ask yourself these questions, and dive deep in the eternal stillness for the answers:
What am I?
What is this place?...

What comes up might surprise you.
Trust it.
And open your heart.

That's how you effectively navigate the waters of life.

CHB

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What I Think Of Rich People

Have you ever thought someone was a certain way and all of a sudden, after getting to know them a little more, realized that they are completely different?

I actually had a few of thoses experiences lately, and was pleasantly surprised.

And both had to do with my perceptions about "rich people".

Let me explain.
Growing up, I would say that I never really knew anyone who was what I would call "rich". I grew up on an isolated farm 20 minutes away from the nearest town, which had a population of 300 people. Everyone pretty much knew each other, and people were either doing "ok" in a middle to upper middle class way, or they were struggling financially. People went to church, heard all about how blessed were the poor, and how a rich man couldn't get into heaven (I was raised Catholic). Stories about very wealthy people made many grumble about how "they don't need that much! They should give it to those who need it, instead of spending it on themselves!" and about how "if a few get all the money, there won't be any left for the rest of us!"...

Needless to say, it wasn't very positive.

Most ideas I seemed to remember from childhood revolved around the concept that money was somehow a bad thing to have, and if you could manage to live with less, and help people by doing more for them (even to the point of being poor yourself) that made you a good person and you would go to Heaven.

AND, at the same time, movies, the news, and the "media" in general seemed to promote this idea that rich people are bad people, or that those who are really wealthy have done and are doing bad things with it, and that they all conspire to keep most of the world poor so they can keep getting richer...

Does any of this sound familiar?
Can anyone relate to this?

Do any of you see how potentially dangerous these ideas could be?

So lets be logical here. As a boy I hear that money is bad. I don't want to be a bad person. So, I don't want money. But, I need money to live in society...Oh, the messes we put ourselves into by misinterpreting the words of others!

Anyway, to make a long story short, over the last few years I have been healing my beliefs about money, and helping others with that as well. It has been refreshing to understand the truth about how money is neutral and can be used for good as well as bad, depending on who is using it and why. I've since seen "bad" people become rich and continue to be "bad". I've also seen "good" people become rich and do extraordinary things for the world.

Wealth is like Health, there is an unlimited amount for everyone. We just have to cultivate it.

More to come...

CHB

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