Why this? Why now?

I have given a great deal of thought to whether or not a blog is right for me. I have been on an amazing journey - some of it very sad, some of it profoundly joyful. Transformation is possible - I know because it is happening with me.

I can't say for sure when it all started, other than it started happening with tremendous regularity upon my 40th birthday. This may be a rather normal occurence - you reach a certain age and start wondering if this is all there is in life. Am I doing what I'm meant to be doing? Are my beliefs real - what are my beliefs exactly?

Here's a smattering of the journey -

I got a divorce and began to discover and explore life from a much different perspective.

I began thinking about my health and researching and reaching out to learn things like: what I should be doing to avoid heart disease. The book, The China Study, changed my life. I am now a vegetarian. This also led me to quit smoking....and finally to stop drinking, too (I don't care what the studies say - just eat the grapes instead).

I have embarked upon an incredible spiritual journey - from a comparative religions class, to studying Ayurvedic living (of which I'm now studying to become an instructor), to learning more about Buddhism, and, as documented here in my blog, an active study of A Course In Miracles.

I am in a place in my life where I finally recognize very consciously that what I put in my mind and in my body is what comes out. As I am reminded most days when listening to Deepak Chopra's soul affirmations, "My body is the garden of my soul."

May I be of vessel of spirit, of loving-compassion.

Yes, I do think a blog is right for me. Thank you for joining me.
Namaste,

mac

Friday, December 2, 2011

Day 336 - Lesson 335

I choose to see my brother's sinlessness.

As I was recording my radio spots this evening, I used a passage from Dr. Wayne Dyer's book The Power of Intention - Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way, that made me think and reflect upon this lesson.  I was reading the section on how our energies impact others and this particular passage was especially powerful for me:

Your presence aligns others with beauty. When you're connected to intention, you see beauty everywhere and in everything because you're radiating the quality of beauty.  Your perceptual world changes dramatically.  At the higher energy of intent, you see beauty in everyone, young or old, rich or poor, dark or light, with no distinctions.  Everything is perceived from a perspective of appreciation rather than judgment.  As you bring this feeling of beauty appreciation to the presence of others, people are inclined to see themselves as you see them.  They feel attractive and better about themselves as they circulate that high energy of beauty.  When people feel beautiful, they act in beautiful ways.  Your awareness of beauty impacts others to see the world around them in the same way.  The benefit, once again, is twofold.  First, you'll be helping others become appreciators of life and be happier by virtue of their immersion into a world of beauty.  Second, your own intentions receive the assistance of those people who have acquired newly enhanced self-esteem.  Beauty proliferates in others just by virtue of your presence when you're connected to intention. 

Once I let go of taking things personally (striving for that) and allow people to be who they are, this lesson and Dr. Dyer's advice work - and they work miracles.  This lesson says this: What could restore Your memory to me, except to see my brother's sinlessness?  His holiness reminds me that he was created one with me, and like myself.

That is truly aligned with beauty and a beauty I pray to always remember....

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