We All Live in the World of Our Own Making

How else could we live alongside others with profoundly different beliefs about so many subjects?

Let’s take one subject: healthy eating. I just read an article by a dietician stating that, for an experiment, she ate a diet of 80% ultra-processed foods for a month. By the end of her research, she said she felt great, slept better, and was happier than before.

This is so interesting because it flies in the face of current research. So why would this be her experience?

One explanation might be found in health traditions like Ayurveda. Eating in a pleasant atmosphere, without rushing, with enjoyable company and tasty food, will enhance any benefits found in the meal. Your body will be primed to maximize the assimilation of nutrients, water, and phytochemicals. Your feelings of satisfaction, happiness, and love for your companions will cause your body to flood with hormones beneficial to your immune system and, frankly, all systems, improving your health.

So, taking this example, we don’t know if this was the case with her; it may just illustrate how we need not be so militant about our eating and not fear when we err from our intentions to eat more healthily.

This can easily be extrapolated to other topics, from cultural beliefs to medical and political ones. The experience of life on this planet is plastic; our attention, interests, and beliefs converge to create our reality. That is the reality we pay attention to.

One person finds research pointing to the dangers of vaccines, whereas another person finds research proving their safety. Researchers also have built-in biases that affect the variables used in conducting the studies and the results.

Our biases will cause one opinion to make us balk and feel unsafe, whereas another causes us to agree comfortably. So certainly, we will move in the direction of those whose opinions we agree with, and our beliefs will be naturally reinforced.

Our beliefs and biases are structures manufactured by our ego. Think of the ego as the software of your mind; we’re born with a blank slate and built upon it throughout our lives. Most of it is completely underneath our awareness. Our likes and dislikes, judgments, and preferences create what we perceive.

As we evolve, we slowly become aware of this. Through our higher self, that which is beyond the temperamental ego, we actually begin to notice there are multiple ways of looking at things. And that there are many valid sides to an issue. We develop the ability to transcend those differing opinions and see their causes. This gives us choice and the ability to create our reality consciously.

It is funny how, in our systems, take health, and politics, for instance, leaders think that one size fits all. If this food, law, or assistance fits one, it will universally be best for all. But that does not work. We are more complex than that. One food may be suitable for one person and not for another. One treatment, drug, or new law may be helpful for one person but not another, and so on.

Essentially, it is more subjective.  Where one sees a world falling apart, another sees the light heralding a new emerging age. What is interesting is the behavior that results from these different views. While some gnash their teeth and complain, others may joyfully create new services and enterprises, finding new ways to help, enlighten, and heal people. Who do you think is more fulfilled and happier?

Let’s Do This!

Dear Friends,

This is more and more feeling like hurricane prepping and aftermath for me. Not only are we physically limited as to where we can go and the closures of most businesses, but now my home electricity is out! The Universe, Divine guidance, God, is throwing some big blocks in my normal path!

Fortunately, I have a second place to go, our closed to the public office. Here I am sitting with a/c, internet, and a refrigerator. Therefore, don’t feel sorry for me.

I now have time to sit down and write to all of you. And there is a lot on my mind! I’d like to share all the great information coming in to my inbox, the informative articles I’ve gathered, but frankly, we are all overwhelmed with more to read than we ever could. So, let’s not do that.

What a beautiful time to re-evaluate where we are in our life. We have this time for inner reflection. We can engineer a sort of reset; we have an opportunity to make changes-some of us will have to by necessity-in more than one area of our lives. Career, personal growth, relationships, healthy practices, financial health, and spiritual growth.

I am going to pull out and dust off some tried and true exercises to help me envision where I want to be 6 months from now, or a year from now. What will that look like? How will that feel? What will I be experiencing? More health? More peace? More joy?

When I began a serious meditation practice 18 years ago, I routinely filled out the Goals Worksheet. I had to rewrite them every few months because old goals were attained and I set new ones!! Let’s do this together!

It is best to read your goals daily, especially before meditation, then put them aside and don’t think about them. Your higher-self, inner-being, soul, consciousness, (your term) will take it from there.

Here is the worksheet you can print out. It is on the  Resources page on my website as well. There is also a recommended reading list on this page.

My Goals Worksheet

Let’s all meet in the spiritual realm, where our consciousness merges with mass consciousness, where life energy itself comes from. And we don’t need to set a time when all are meditating, because in the unmanifest, the spiritual realm, there is no time. When we touch upon this dimension, it is always the present. When you make the intention to connect, we’ll be there. See you then!

Oh, and I just found out the electric is back on. Bless the utility people.

Peace, Love and Wellbeing,

Kasey Claytor

 

 

Imagine a World Without Mirrors

What would that be like? Some things would surely change. Like:

  • Getting ready to go out for the day, your judgement on how you look would vastly change
  • If you like a garment and it feels good on you, you would just wear it. No worry what it looks like in a full-length mirror.
  • You may evaluate your readiness to go out into the world more by how you feel.
  • You may judge how you’re doing physically by your feelings of vitality, energy, nimbleness, comfort and wellbeing.

We may want to challenge ourselves to go a weekend without looking in a mirror. Would be interesting for many. Cover those mirrors with material.

But your REAL mirror is your LIFE—in truth your life is revealed not by a mirror reflection, but by what you see reflected back as you move through your days, weeks and months. How you react to what you see and hear; what you notice among a myriad of stimuli, what you are attracted to or repelled by, is all mirroring your inner state. We all experience the same events differently. Our memories change over time, and we feel different emotions from the same stimuli. That is because our perception is forming our experience and our perception is a manifestation of our consciousness.

By observing your life, stepping back and witnessing from your inner-self or inner-guidance, you can learn how to change what is reflecting back to you. For instance:

  • Are you getting caught up in other’s dramas?
  • Are your thoughts about another causing you to suffer?
  • Are you judging yourself without compassion?
  • Are you mentally fusing over things you have no control over?

By questioning our thoughts, we become aware of what we notice, what we out-picture, and how it is affecting us and thus change our lives.

A happy person lives in a pleasant world. An unhappy person lives in a world of struggle.

The world becomes the mirror of our internal conversation.

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