Posts Tagged ‘Awareness’
Posted on March 28, 2010 - by Denis
The ACE Principles
Just a few days ago while I was running along the river, inspiration hit me: There are a few fundamental principles underlying the most important ideas I have learned and developed throughout the last years and especially months of focused personal growth.
Awareness
To be living consciously means to be aware. If you are not aware of something, like a thought pattern, negative belief or habit, you are at the mercy of that thing. Your habits can control your life without you understanding why, leaving you feeling powerless, victimized. What you are aware of, on the other hand, you can observe, understand and change.
So becoming more aware of basically everything that is in any way relevant to you and your life is of great importance if you want to live a conscious, fulfilling life on purpose.
Choice
The Universe will never contradict you.
There is no higher authority in your life and reality than you yourself. What you choose to experience will come to you, and what you choose to not experience you can never allow into your life. Sounds simple enough, the challenge though is to first fully internalize this understanding on a fundamental level, to know it from the core of your being, and then to go on and become more aware of how you already make the choices you make and gain control of them in order to create the life experience you truly desire.
Excitement
You have unique and personal guidance available to you at all times. In every single moment there is a path leading to everything you choose to experience and you have the ability to tune in to the voice that lets you know how to get onto this particular path.
This guidance comes in many forms, and the simplest and most readily and easily available one is called Excitement – but also Creativity and Passion and Love and Joy serve the same purpose. All you ever have to do is to look around at all the options of what to do available to you at any given moment and choose to act upon the one that contains the highest amount of one of the above emotions, such as Excitement, and start acting on it until you can no longer take more action upon it. Repeat this process and be passionate about being passionate so your Passion (Excitement, Creativity, …) will be sustained and you will stay on your path of passion and purpose.
How the ACE Principles work together
Now if you put those principles together really awesome things can happen in your life. By utilizing Awareness you can become aware of all the ways that you create your life experience and take control of them. The principle of Choice then lets you make new and more pleasing choices that are more in alignment with who you really are and what you really want. Your Excitement then will solve the “How to get there?” part for you.
By simply becoming aware of where your Excitement, your Love, your Passion is, making the Choice to follow it, intending to gain more and more Awareness of all the things that make up your life experience and then repeating that process over and over is a total recipe for creating the unique, fulfilling and joyful life experience that you desire.
If what you want is to grow, become the best person you can be and share that with as many people as possibly, that is where the ACE Principles will lead you.
If what you want is to lead a clutter-less, relaxed, abundant and free life, that is where you will end up.
And even if you only want to conquer the world in whatever way you imagine that to make sense for you, then there is no single reason why you wouldn’t get exactly to that place… remember, the Universe won’t contradict you 
Please take a moment now to silence your mind, let go of everything, just be aware of the present moment. Present to yourself the principles of Awareness, Choice and Excitement. Wonder for just a moment about whether or not they make sense to you, if they really speak to you at a core level, if you feel that they make sense intuitively, on a gut level. If you find that they do, simply state the intention to yourself that you want to
a) become more aware of anything that is relevant to your unique life and purpose,
b) become more aware of the choices you make and to allow yourself more and more to make the choices that are in alignment with who you really are and what you really want, no matter how unreasonable or idealistic they may seem,
c) become aware of where your excitement is and to trust and follow it more and more, always to the degree that you feel comfortable and capable of doing this.
Also, if anything about those intentions or concepts seems unclear to you, simply state a question about it and try to not answer it immediately, but just stay in this feeling of being curious to receive an answer, like you knew there was a very wise person sitting just a few feet behind you, just about to give you the answer. That will also bring forth more of your own wisdom and guidance from within you and make the intentions you’ve just stated even more powerful.
In the near future we are going to explore all of the three ACE principles in more depth and with a strong focus on the practical value they can bring to your experience in every single moment.
Until then just start playing around with those ideas as much as you feel intrigued or inspired to do so and be sure to let me know how it goes!
Posted on March 15, 2010 - by Denis
What you are and what you are not
You are…
… not your body
Your body is your vehicle for exploration in this physical realm. The energy of it is dense enough, physical, tangible enough that it has become your consciously controllable helpmate in moving things around.
You are very aware of many parts of your body, of its needs and emotions, and you know how to control it and feel very comfortable and centered in it most of the time. That is awesome, it really is. Just don’t get lost thinking that’s the only place your consciousness can go.
In understanding this you empower yourself to use the tool in the way that serves you best and you free yourself from the fear and tension that tends to arise from believing you ARE the tool, and the tool only.
… not your Ego
Your Ego is what keeps you focused in this physical realm, it is your focusing mechanism. It is your tool to hold, create, drop and transform beliefs and definitions. It holds your personality, it is a nice and simple way to write stories – but don’t get lost in them.
Stories help you and other people learn, but that’s just about it. There’s little value in past and future history all by itself, so you may choose to see those for what they really are and stop pondering them and worrying about them so much.
Beliefs and definitions help you make sense of your perceptions, of your reality. They help you create by your ability to experience, assign meaning, make choices, set preferences and focus.
Use these tools, but don’t get too caught up in them. You can choose to do that anyway if you want to, because every choice is a valid choice and every experience is a valid one. And so it is of great value to experience getting lost in past and future and beliefs and definitions and be afraid of losing them, of changing, of forgetting… but if you feel that you’ve spent enough time in this particular part of the process, just know that you can move on. Now. Give yourself permission to do it, because that is all it takes.
You are…
… an eternal being, spirit.
Existence is your fundamental quality, you cannot experience non-existence, you cannot cease to be. You cannot help but create, even as you observe. You express yourself creatively, you are ever expanding, learning more about yourself in every moment, enjoying the process tremendously.
… now.
You. Are. Now.
Now is all there is. There is no past, there is no future. Literally. Everything exists now, even the experience of the illusion of the past and the future. Noone has ever seen them, and all we have is “proof” of them… guess what… yes, Now.
Time is only a tool for experiencing something in a linear, sequential manner. It transforms a possibly huge, complex, (human-)mind-boggling experience into something we can perceive, experience and thereby co-create. And still, we participate in the current moment and never somewhere else. That is where our creative power is, that is where the real experience is, that is where we intended to be.
And even our physical Now becomes a timeless, eternal moment of awareness, presence and consciousness as soon as we loosen up and (almost) forget about the concept of Time…
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So if you wish you may lighten up a little on your identification with the tools you have created for your own exploration of this physical realm. Use them as you intended, to create, to observe, to explore, to express. Change them as you see fit, don’t be afraid of losing them, because you never can. Use them in the Now, being aware and becoming more and more aware of who you truly are, the eternal, infinite, limitless part of your self.
And play, just play… light on your feet… ever-changing, ever-evolving… limitless… loving… a true creator, at peace.
Posted on March 15, 2010 - by Denis
Ex
Ex-istence
You are. You exist and that is the most fundamental truth there is. That is also the most fundamental quality, the most unchangeable one, of your being. It can never be otherwise, that is one thing that will never change about you. About me. About the people you love, the ones you think you don’t love and about the rest of them as well.
Ex-perience
You cannot prove that anything is real. And maybe some things are real while others aren’t, and maybe they’re not. But what is real is the experience you have of them. Situations, people, feelings, thoughts, emotions, … Don’t deny the reality of their experience, because no matter how illogical, odd or “wrong” an experience seems, to you it is real. And that is great because the only one who can truly and fully control your experience is you yourself. You have the fundamental quality of being able to assign whatever meaning you want to every experience and thereby transform it into a different, possibly more aligned experience and to me this is one of the greatest “inventions” ever.
[Side note]
Prove what I just said to yourself: Take up any small, insignificant, meaningless object that’s somewhere close to you. You will not have much of a feeling towards it and it won’t give you much of a significant other experience or shift in your current moment experience. Great. Now appreciate this object. Think of a way that it (or another object of the same kind) has helped you accomplish something in the past and appreciate. Imagine ways how this object will do that for you in the future and appreciate. Come back to the present moment and appreciate the craftsmanship that went into making this object, the love and creativity that someone must have felt at the time he or she got the initial inspired idea to create things of this kind in order to improve some tiny aspect of daily life. Can you feel it? You just have given a new meaning to your experience of that object and thereby changed it, changed everything.
And of course, as you can play with meaning in this situation you can do it in any other. Sometimes it’ll be harder to do, but you have this fundamental capability to create your experience. You can choose to exercise it more often if you wish.
[End of side note]
Ex-ploration
You are an explorer. An explorer of consciousness, of yourself, because yourself is all that is. You have chosen to be here to explore yourself in new depths, from new perspectives, in new and creative ways that you have never experienced before.
You chose a theme, a theme of exploration, a set of related experiences, with a thread of excitement and passion and love and creativity leading you along, through this process that is so full of awe.
You knew you would enjoy this time of diving from the uppermost levels of consciousness, where there is only spirit and infinity and eternity, without limitations, aaaaaall the way down into the deepest, densest, darkest, murkiest waters of human experience, where there is mostly matter, where change takes time, where you experience disconnection and strong limitations and sometimes just get lost in the process… But you are, at your core, an ever expanding being, always looking to explore the dark as well as the light, so you just couldn’t resist this expedition… and you knew that you would be able to handle it and that it would serve your purpose.
Ex-pression
Creation is observation and observation is creation. While you observe your journey you also cannot help but create it, because you are a creator at your core. And you express yourself in your creation, because yourself is all that is, there is nothing else for you to express, nothing else for you to observe. Only infinite ways to express yourself, to observe yourself, to exist, to experience, to explore.
Enjoy the process.
Posted on March 15, 2010 - by Denis
Stillness
As you read these words, thoughts cross your mind. Your mind is busy deciphering the words, making out all the lines of the letters which then form the words and sentences and paragraphs. Content, content, content. Everywhere. Or is it? What about the blanks in between words? What about the empty space around paragraphs? Is it empty? Or is there something about it, something worth noticing?
There is space around and between things. There is space around and between thoughts. There is space around and between any and every form that life itself may take on in every moment – situations, relationships, feelings, sounds, …
What happens to you if you just for a moment stop and observe – not the form itself, but the space, the spaciousness, the stillness around and between the forms?
Stillness…
Forms move and change and make you think, but what is around them doesn’t. It just exists. Watch it, listen to it, feel it. Notice what happens inside of you as you observe this peaceful, still, unchanging part of… yeah, part of what? The world? Or… just part of yourself?
Play with it, be open to noticing new insights and states of being and just your own presence and existence. Play with it, and see what happens.
Enjoy the stillness.
