Life in the Moment

Lifted Moment 5: A New Encounter

Hey everybody, Its Reggie. There are times when negativity and negative thoughts cross my mind. Most of my of my negativity centers around work. Were it breeds like mice in a grain silo. It starts with one thought from one person and that creates another It becomes very easy to be sucked into the frenzy state of being and its only goes downhill from there. Anxiety, stress and physical pain start to manifest themselves. Physical complaints start flowing. As an example of this, Saturday after working very long Friday night prior. I began to experience a pain. The pain began at the sole of my foot and moved up numbing my calf. After an hour or so of complaining to myself and others, building and generating more discomfort as the evening progressed. My mind filled with anxiety and stress of what to do? Worry? And feelings of disguise. My mind started to list everything I was feeling (thinking). Snowballing the very painful leg cramps, into everything I hated about my job, everything I hated about people, every fucked up excuse why is my life is the way it is. This discomfort lasted all night and into Sunday morning. Upon waking I felt exusted, phyicaly drained. I felt I had ran two marathons back to back. My limbs were like jello barley able to lift my head from the pillow, let alone put any weight on the leg. I felt helpless and alone. And in that moment, as I lie their in bed, I began to wonder what was happening? I Asking myself, Is this pain real? Where does this pain come from? How can I rid myself of this discomfort? I started to meditate and used this mantra for the moment. "I am perfect the way God created me". Shortly after in about 20 minutes, the pain began to subside. I was able to bring myself to attention and I started the morning with a walk for a cup of coffee. (this always brings me joy) Than a visit to the tanning salon where I gain the peace and serinety I wish to see in everyone. In that warm and tranquil mediative sun bliss, and for the next 15 minutes I began the same mantra for the day "I am perfect the way God created me". I returned home to take a quick shower and off to work. Late, I was. But with no physical pain. How was that possible? I believe by letting go and letting God was a big transition for the mysterious disappearance of pain. By letting God decide the rest of the day, I surrendered all attempts to control the external world ridding myself of my physical pain. On arriving to work my newly found spirit greeted everyone with wonderment and blessings. I hope this story has been insightful.

Namaste
Reggie

Reduce, Reuse & Recycling

Lifted Moment 4: Attention Mean Care

Hey everybody. Its Reggie. Have you every thought why you might not be getting what you deserve. In this supersonic world that we live in were everything was needed yesterday. We tend to disassociate ourselves from the world and the people in it. Many books have been written on time management in order for us to make better use of time and prioritize the importance of tasks at hand. Our lives have been reduced to a blind mechanical processes. We already have lost the human interaction of talking to people with the advent of smart phones, text messaging and high speed Internet email. I'm not saying these forms of communication are not necessary additions to our communication arsenal but there is a generation growing up not understanding the true value of communicating with emotion, void of feeling. How many people do you know write hand written letters it has become an lost art. I would like to introduce the AMC program "Attention Means Care". If you are attentive, things cannot get overlooked. You can stop things by virtue of your own attention and vs versa you can create an abundance of what you desire.

Namaste,
Reggie

What's wrong with what we eat?

Just a thought VIIII: Control of your Drama

Hey everybody, Its Reggie. Do you know you are the creator of all your dramas. You can create good drama or bad drama, but you have to take responsibility for whatever you create. There is never a period in your life that you are a victim. You can just walk out and say "Goodbye, I cant take this misery any more." This action is sometimes easier said than done. Why? Because we procrastinate. We talk about the stress and misery that's in life. And all the talk leads to nothing but more stress and unhappiness. Making one excuse after another for not being happy. When you become one with your inner knowing the decisions become real, fear no longer plays a role in your decision making process. Finding your inner self is more than a secret plan to action but a life long comment to yourself. Your life depends on the change this will happen if you are in control of it or not.

Namaste,
Reggie

GHOST BEES

Hey everybody, Its Reggie. LA based freelance journalist and researcher Maryam Henein Has more than 15 years experience producing documentaries for the BBC, and Host to the Discovery Channels The Ark of the Coventant Revealed (2004) is Co Director / Producer of a insightful film.

Lifted Moment 3: Community Grounds

Hey everybody, Its Reggie. And I very excited about my community composting project working with my local park and neighbors, to collect compostable materials from their homes and deposit that waste into a large compost receptacle in the park or local gardens this plastic compost pail is perfect for collecting food and vegetable scraps in the kitchen to take out to your composter. It holds up to 9.6 quarts of scraps and has a carbon filter to remove any odors. It has an attractive design that will look great next to or under your kitchen sink. Aren't you sold. Click the link in the sidebar. Soon to be posted a DIY version of this compost collector that I use. Be on the look out for the Reggie DIY posts.

Namaste,
Reggie

Just a thought VIII

There are no random events, nor are there events or things that exist by and for themselves, in isolation. Zen saying: "The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place".

gnothi seauton

Reggie

Randy Pausch

Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Know ThySelf

by Alexander Pope

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest,
In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast,
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reasoning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such
Whether he thinks too little or too much:
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused, or disabused;
Created half to rise and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled:
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Gnothi Seauton
Reggie

Just a Thought VII: A lessons to be learned

Hey everybody, Its Reggie. I bumped into an old acquaintance today. She gave me a hug and after the how are you doing? How is everyone questions? She began to apologize for being mean to me, when my ex and I were together. She than explained how she was jealous of our relationship. And who was this guy stealing her best friend type of thing. She wanted me to understand that she was not the person she has grown into almost 8 years later. Than I thought to myself, "Maturity brings wisdom?" It just pop in my head. Thinking on this, I came to a few conclusions I will expand on later. One is that Life teaches everyone, however long that may take. I feel we all want the same things out of life. We don't always choose correctly. Even when the choice is clear. The choices we make are arrived by a combination of: Placement = How we are raised. Rich, poor etc. And Self development = The what we do to defend ourselves from the outside world. What the mind does with the order and or lack of it. What walls are put up and aligned in our path. We than all hope that things will change for us expecting a miracle to happen. The dream job to appear, The love of a lifetime to show up, etc. So if what your doing or feeling doesn't ring true than it probably isn't. You owe it to yourself to be true to yourself and than you will get what you desire.

gnothi seauton
Reggie

Lifted Moment 2: A Consciousness Within

Hey everybody, Its Reggie. Possibly the best definition of consciousness, I have discovered, is awareness without judgment. Practicing this has help me make a conscious shift in all my relationships with others and myself. That includes judgment of good and bad Important and unimportant Useful and useless. True and false. The beautiful and the ugly. The smart and the ignorant. When we stop judging ourselves. We stop judging others and all of the fear and craving that feeds suffering stops as well. If we try to stop getting caught in the judgment of others without first dropping self-judgment, it will not work. It all starts with consciousness of the self. Make this part of your everyday practice not to judge others and remember also as we dont judge other it equally important to remember "Its non of my business what others think of me". I hope you have found this helpful.

Namaste,
Reggie

Are we in danger of loving one another

Jill Bolte Taylor

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another. Read about her story, that's sure inspire and enlighten. Dr Taylor's book. My Stroke of Insight: A brain scientist personal journey.

Just a thought VI

Hey everybody, Its Reggie. Just a thought. A basic truism is that most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

Peace,
Reggie

Lifted Moment 1: My Vacation

Hey everybody! Its Reggie. As I sit and write this my vacation is coming to a close. It has been the best two weeks, I truly enjoyed every minute. I ate without guilt, I read and expanded my awareness of truth and rested my over active mind as I sat in contemplative silence and meditated in the mornings and daydreamed of life's journey in the afternoons. I learned to shed the ego like a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. At every chance I could, diving deeper into my sense of awareness. Always being present in the NOW. I came to many understandings in this short time. The great debate whether to quit my job or stay has been a tremendous weight on my mind. I play out scenes in my head with the actions and reactions of my employer and I. The environment is such a familiar one that it wants me to participate in this tragic pain body experience of the past. I have come to understand breaking free of this isn't about walking away that would be a reaction. Its about just being present. not reacting from an egoic perceptive. And then taking necessary action to change the situation if that's what I wish. I learned to live with myself. To love myself. I learned to be one with nature taking walks in the park and desiring to have nature walk with me. I brought nature into my home purchased two beautiful pIants. love my plants. I learned to appreciate my animals being in quite observance of them. I learned to love them with my beingness. I love my cats. I created works of art. Paintings, sculptures, and sewing doll came natural to me when I let go of any expected outcome of what the art should look like. I enjoyed giving these creations away only better serves me than to keep them for myself. Sharing my work with others, to brighten and enlighten like they due in me. Some shared inspiration for all.

Peace,
Reggie

A New Heaven & A New Earth

Hey everybody, Its Reggie. I have been reading this book "A New Earth" by Echart Tolle. And also keeping with the series of 10 week online tele-classes that Mr Tolle is having hosted by Oprah. Read to be inspired...

Namaste,
Reggie

Uncultured Project

Just a Thought V: Making Miracles

Hey everybody, Its Reggie. I have read that the hunger for a lost dimension of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away because we ignore it. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than he; should we not take him at his word? And should not someday be today? It time for us to start working miracles.

Peace,
Reggie