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A Three-strand Cord is Not Easily Broken

I want to bare witness and open dialogue for the experience of living, for the experience of practicing, for the experience of practicing together in the classes at One Body, and specifically for the experience of cycling class. I started this blog after a particularly hair raising (in a good way) ride in April and I have been chewing on it since then. By now several classes have come and gone and I have wandered off to Roma for the 2nd annual Gyrotonic Conference. All is well. I am a feeling it all, physically and emotionally, learning to trust in the process. It blesses me to receive myself through you and I invite you to share your own story of riding this thing we call life however you can.

I was thinking, and feeling, and thinking about what I feel and what I notice, as I examine the life I am living. As I learn to trust what I am given, I meet support or resistance according to my opinions. When I allow Grace to find me, my judgments are suspended, and in that space, All that is left is trust. It is All that is left and it is enough. Trust allows me to see through my opinions to the plain truth. It enables me to see, and know that what ever is occurring in this moment, is certainly arriving in response to my genuine need. And the way it is arriving is perfectly designed to help me learn how to trust It. My part is simply to meet the moment and everything It has brought along with It. When I practice welcome, my wellness finds the means to come to me.

Humbly submitting myself to a practice of learning to trust, locates my real strength. This strength is my truth and It is the only thing I need to face the fears that hinge on my doubts about who I Am in Truth, and my purpose relative to that identity. So my learning in this world is not about acquiring knowledge but is more a process of elimination or surrendering what is not true. When I let go of what I think I need or what I think I know, when I suspend effort, when I surrender my opinion, I find my home. Like Dorothy I can click my heals and forgive any time I choose, and in that instant I uncover the Truth that there is no place but home.

Surrendering to Truth is a simple process when I let it be simple…and I can generate a lot of drama when I don’t. We all know what it feels like to extend ourselves without feeling solid ground to extend from. It’s kind of like jumping on ice. We know it’s not a good idea but with every reasonable alternative buried in our fears, the only thing we can see to do is to get really busy building reasons to do it anyway. This is usually uncomfortable, sometimes it is terrifying, and it is always exhausting.

When I am able to look at the truth of It, my suffering never comes from outside of me. It always comes from my own decision to hold myself separate from the Love that I want, the Love that I need, the Love that I Am. So how do we find the way out of the bed we have made? From within a thought system that believes we need to do something to arrive at ourselves, the answer to that question quickly becomes immersed in grand plans to escape, strategies to win the war. When we are under the influence of doubt, we grab for the grand accomplishment that will reconcile our shame. Mother Theresa said there are no great acts, only small acts done with great Love. So we hear again It is not if we win or loose, It is only how we choose to play that creates our experience.

We cannot buy an experience. We cannot hand someone else our experience. We can only hold intention by intending, and wait for the truth to rise out of the ash. I can tell myself it is impossible to fall out of God’s Grace … and I must tell myself that every time I feel shame and guilt rise. People ask me how may times a week they should exercise, and the answer is you should exercise your demons every time and place they show up. Practice small acts with great love whenever you feel afraid. The perfect amount of times to tell myself that I am loved is relative to how many times I feel the influence of believing I am not. Some days are smoother than others and that is another opinion. So what I am interested in is remembering, every time I forget. What I am interested in is building a practice, in establishing a system that helps me remember. I am interested in spending less time swinging out over the ocean of shame and guilt that can open up when I leave my doubts unchecked. And to do that, I need a practice to help me stay awake.

Finding liberation from the patterns that seem to hold us prisoner is what we all say we are after. Experiencing real change requires a real change of mind and to do that we have to subject our plans to the fire of scrutiny and the simple and consistent commitment to surrender. Again, easier said than done but we must employ some form or practicing right action, of trusting our mind and our limbs to the movement of Love through Faith. And it is the experiences from this practice that will change our minds and transform our lives.

It is good to have a plan but whatever the plan; it is only the means to an end. When we arrive we do not continue to invest in the vehicle. It would be like flying to paradise and never getting off the plane. Even so, in this world where we believe we need to do something to be free, we cannot arrive at the end without the means.

It is impossible to think your way out of an insane thought system from within it. Given that, I depend on miracles, and they usually come in the form of my friends. So pick a plan, give it the intention of freedom (Peace of mind) and be honest about choosing your friends or honest about accepting the ones who are honestly contributing to the cultivation of real freedom.

It is essential to have friends to help you stay honest and while no body can do It for you, there have been countless songs and poems about the importance of friends. Nothing feels impossible in the company of friends. A trusted friend is the often the means to deliver an idea that would be dismissed out of hand. The miracle of forgiveness is just more possible to see and accept in the company of others who are sharing the intention to trust the wisdom inside of us, to trust the reality that We Are, together One Body.

A three-strand cord is not easily broken and two or more gathered is a powerful dynamic. The only real place we can join is around the Truth. This common unity is the source of strength and encouragement we need to ride straight into our established patterns of thinking. The music in class, the arrangement of the bikes, the design of the building and everything in it has been employed to encourage the movement of the breath in order to find a view inward to Our collective Wisdom.

The cycling classes at One Body can absolutely kick up the dust and It is really good to have friends to look to for encouragement when the dust of our objections is blurring our vision. When we find ourselves at the cross roads of faith and fear, the cross roads of staying calm and pulling up our feet, it is the miracle of trust that enables the miracle of Truth to choose for Us. It is the miracle of trust that allows us to stand and face the moment, no matter how hair raising, no matter how long it seems to drag on, no matter how extreme our objections become. Trust enables us to stay long enough to let the moment teach us what we cannot quite see yet in the face of our opinions and the established habits born of those opinions.

When I practice trusting that the Truth is absolutely living in me, I find the faith to surrender opinions rooted in fear. I find the faith to withdraw my investment in my best efforts and I find the trust needed to let the life I have built fall to dust, revealing the life that Love is intending for me to know. This all sounds pretty tidy and we have to go beyond theory to realize the gifts of practicing surrender. Sitting at the computer reading this, it all sounds like a great idea. What could be more simple- stay calm, trust, surrender and be happy.

What I know about challenging my conditioned mind, the surrender part, is that giving up my opinions is not without sensation. The lies do not go quietly and the experiences of testing my capacity to surrender them, is not typically an easy one. I can be quite attached to what I think I know, quite adamant about what I think will serve me. Sometimes it takes a real storm to loosen my grip on what I have decided. So I pray to be delivered and often find myself cursing the means that arrive to deliver me. So I pray for release, and before that I pray to know how to pray, and I pray for the acceptance to trust that I can hear the Truth if I listen, no matter how loudly my ego is objecting, and I pray to receive myself as a friend to my hearts intention.

In the land of relativity, big deception takes a big storm to bust it up. And you never know when the big storms will hit. Monday night’s ride felt like a fire storm for me (in a good way) and while I am writing now to bare witness, I am writing at the same time, to ask for your witness. It is something like looking around and asking if anyone saw That! The experience of our evolution can feel really big and it can be difficult not to try and defend against it without the help of our friends.

My practice is not about learning to work harder. I have been teaching movement classes for almost 30 years now and based on my experience with thousands of people, it has never occurred to me to coach anyone to try harder. On the contrary my teaching is aimed at finding the faith to trust something more than our efforts and the patterns associated with our decisions about what we think we need to be O.K. My practice is not about how hard can I work. Prizes for enduring pain and living to tell about it is not what I am seeking. Witness for how much I can endure will only serve my belief that my best hope is to learn how to endure. My practice is about examining my mind and challenging every unforgiving thought that is binding my body. My practice is about surrendering the burdens that tie me up so I can dance to the music of my heart. When I bare witness to this intention I find witness for this intention. The only way I know to feel the presence of what I am, is to look for it in everyone I see and keep looking until It is All I see. This is my hope, this is my vision.

As I was riding Monday night and felt the Spirit moving, so to speak, I marveled (once again) at the witness I find in each of you. Every time I felt my old patterns bracing to meet the challenges being presented, I found, through your company, a way to see past them. I was able to see another way represented in each of you and, through your company, I was able to locate the gentle strength to respond to the moment, as it arrived, with all the different rhythms -flying down hills and climbing mountains. It is a miracle to me to feel the presence of another way emerge, even in the middle of the swirling sensations that kick up when we test our bodies and minds. I am learning more about responding with ease by remembering I am not alone, that I cannot, in truth, be alone. I am always encouraged to see my friends witnessing the trust that carries us all past our ideas of separation into a fuller view of our One true Self.

I have had several of you drop me a line about what was happening for you during class. It is always helpful for me to hear from you. We build this practice together. Companionship makes the experience of personal transformation feel more possible. When I am inclining toward panic I find calm with the help of my friends. When I am feeling uninterested and starting to fall asleep, I find a reason to care with the help of my friends. It is good to have friends and it is priceless to be in community. We certainly do no thing alone and are never alone in experiencing the effects of our thinking. The honest intention that arrives each week for cycling class, for Gyrokinesis class and Gyrotonic sessions, are a gift of immeasurable value and I thank you for your presence and for your courage.

Miracles always feel like a surprise as they are outside of my conditioned thinking. Thankfully, my life is full of surprises. Class Monday night was (another) reminder of what is possible outside of accepted conditions.

I am aware of the challenge I am presenting in class, to you, as well as myself. I am aware of the intolerance I am demonstrating for mindlessness, in you, as well as myself. I am aware of the ways I am trimming the sails so to speak, and calling to you, in no uncertain terms, to be, and to be present, to be, and to be on time, to set clear intention for your self and take personal responsibility for that intention in the name of the human race, to let your tongue be still and your mind be clear. I am aware that without clear and unwavering intention, We cannot travel into the mind field of our conditioned thinking without becoming lost in it again. Priorities are essential, and while I am clear that I am not personally responsible for your experience, I am dedicated to offering all that I am in the name of sorting the wheat from the chaff. I am willing to be the voice that invites deeper consideration; I am intending to be an example for another possibility. I am teaching what I want to learn and I only know that every resentment I allow to live in my mind will choke out my joy. I am aware that less than complete intolerance for unforgiving opinions yields nothing in the name of my Happiness. And so I offer my intention in the form of my teaching and in the name of collective happiness.

Every time we gather, I am humbled by the collective response, including my own. Every time we gather in the name of health and happiness I am encouraged and delighted to witness the group take a pass on half measures and keep traveling inside to the real source of strength. The capacity to stay together by remembering we are absolutely together is so clearly demonstrated for me in the class dynamic. Witnessing this is an absolute miracle to me. It is a gift to me, a blessing to me, and to the world.

When we try to articulate the experience of opening our prejudice and letting the breath in, when we attempt to describe the events of transformation, we challenge the capacity of one of our primary modes of communicating- our language. And while the truth is living in us, our opinions are living there as well. Everything in us is woven into our words and we perpetuate what we think is true, every time we speak. Searching our minds with the intention to weed out the negative thoughts is the practice. And conscious living requires a dedicated practice. Seeking an understanding of the Truth in us, and seeking the capacity to describe that Truth perfectly and consistently through our words and actions, is the work.

And so we sign up for classes, and use the time in class to examine the thinking living in our minds. Together we invite the fire that cleans the dead wood off our words and clears the confusion hitching up our bodies. Through our practice together we allow the capacity to speak and act with Love to emerge and inspire us. Sometimes the practice feels like a forest fire, heating up our opinions and exposing the Truth by throwing a torch into our survival strategies. Practicing together is a bigger torch than I can muster on my own, and the fire we generate together is powerful and important. Much was burned off in class Monday and It is still smoldering for me physically and emotionally.

I am speaking the new words that are rising from the ash, repeating them to myself like a baby learning to speak. They have been washed clean with fire and sweat and the gathering of beautiful hearts seeking the plain truth about what it is to be alive. Together we learn that together, we find the rhythm to Live by, the Light to Love by, the Truth to hold us.

We all need loving witness as we move in this adventure of life... Monday’s class was a big experience for me. I am still feeling it, and I am thankful, for your presence, for your faith, and for your willingness to show up and trust what comes by trusting your capacity to meet It with patience, with certainty, with community, and ultimately and simply...with the Breath.

Your choice to respond instead of react, to reach in when you feel a need instead of grabbing outside yourselves, teaches me that all I need is a reminder of what is possible. I have found this phrase on my mind since Monday, peppered with images of each of your sweet and faithful faces...All for One and One For All! We go, and we go, together!

Practice until you know Peace and no thing else. I am riding along side you, grateful to look over and see you there. Bless this practice and may it bring Peace to Us All.

Pause For Peace

Our release will never come the way we think it will… Our release, will never come the way we think it will. At every turn, down and in, we find the choice to either surrender, or continue investing in our strategies to survive. Our search for salvation in a world that does not recognize reality yields us nothing real. In Truth, there is no real place to look outside ourselves or anything real to find, because in Truth, all that is, is contained within us. We are complete, and so have no real need to seek any thing except a recollection of what is true. This recollection will simply rise in our minds every time we allow it to. Practicing forgiveness and forgetting our worries we remember who we are and welcome ourselves to happiness.

A good practice helps correct errors in thinking and brings new perspective by unlocking prejudices. If we are willing to look, there is always an alternative to suffering. A good practice keeps us conscious and reminds us we can pause, and consider our real choices, when fear appears to be taking hold.

A dedicated practice keeps our aim accurate. It may not be glamorous, and it must be consistent. And even with dedicated practice, direct experiences with Truth, or revelation, usually come only after we simply cannot run any more. Most of us need to directly experience the failure of our own best efforts to finally accept their incapacity to guide us. When we have finally lost hope in our way and are genuinely and humbly ready to hear, we will listen. To hear, we must stop… and listen.

The idea that we must work to arrive at ourselves, keeps us busy searching, like fish searching for the water they are swimming in. In Truth, the Happiness we seek, waits without opinion for us to come Home. And our arrival Home will never come through the efforts of our intellect. It will come through our capacity to trust, and our willingness to surrender our ideas of what we think we need, so we can begin to listen for what Is instead.

It is surrender that will slip us past our plans to search. And practicing surrender will eventually carry us all the way into the Mind of Peace. Along the imagined road Home, we will only ever meet our own resistance in the form of our fear. These forms will stand like sentinels at every turn, intending to do the only thing they can do to keep us from our Home. They will stand with one intention-to inhibit the act of Trust which is surrender, by frightening us into holding ourselves away from the Breath.

Since there is no thing to fear in Truth, no fear can create a real reason to be afraid. Fear can only create a lapse in consciousness, where we forget there is nothing to fear and react to this momentary insanity by holding the breath. Fear perpetuates the fear that we could be other than We Are but no thing can impose on our freedom to change our minds, even when we feel afraid. To turn our minds toward Home again, we only need an awareness that what we have been choosing instead is causing our dis-ease. When we slow down we can can see what our real choices are, and choose Happiness. When we are calm, the breath can easily move us according to that choice. Holding the breath is an act of denying who we are in Truth, and creates the fearful world we become so occupied with escaping.

The good news is that we can practice and learn, that when we are afraid, we can slow ourselves down and recognize there is another choice. We can begin to see by practicing trust in something other than our plans to escape. We can trust and choose to breathe, even when our fears appear to be holding a knife to our throat. If we slow down and allow the breath to move in us despite our fearful inclination to hold it… we can begin to break the cycle of thinking that does not serve our happiness.

Slowing our thinking enough to pause, locates the courage we need to stand in the face of fear. Seemingly small and infinitely powerful, the pause is the David to our imagined Goliaths. Even the tiniest of pauses will give us a view outside of our fearful opinions. Finding the means to see the Truth is a miracle and the pause is a vehicle to deliver miracles. Used consistently, the pause will deliver us to the Trust we need to surrender the life we have made, for the Life that We Are. Practiced consistently, the pause will offer correction by returning us into the wisdom of the Breath.

As we practice trust, our capacity to Trust will grow and become stronger. Through consistent practice, we will become more confident in peacefully resisting our fearful opinions. I don’t know if it ever gets easier, and I do know that as I build and maintain a daily practice intended to keep my focus on trusting the Wisdom living in me, I become less inclined to turn away from Myself. And this is my Hope.

We build a practice to support our trust in a new way, until we realize completely that Love, in every instance, is the only way, Forgiveness, in every instance, is all that is needed to see things differently. We may never feel like we are hitting homeruns in our daily practice. Our experience of meditating may feel pretty ordinary and uneventful. But when it is accurately and honestly aimed, and humbly and consistently engaged in, we will begin to see its effect on our words and actions. We will begin to see our lives changing. Determining if a practice is genuinely serving to steer our minds toward Peace, we can look to see if our words and actions are serving Peace.

It is said that talk is cheap. We can say anything…and, our actions will always confirm what we believe is true. So the words are the most of it, and the words are the least of It, at the same time. We will not find ourselves because of what we say, but what we say will certainly name who we think we are. And who we think we are defines our practice, our experience, our life. A conscious practice will help us become more honest. Through honesty we find the way out of conflict and confusion. Honesty will bring our words and actions in perfect alignment with our heart. This balance is our home in Peace.

Practice Peace today and remember who you are. Use the pause and breathe. Keep your pockets full of loving words for yourself and everyone who needs them. Keep an eye out for less than loving thoughts and simply, and consistently, refuse to lend your tongue to them. Liberate your body from the shameful acts of a frightened mind.

You don’t need anything except to remember. When you forget and become uneasy, pause, and be determined to listen for the song of Truth. It is always playing. Choose to listen to It instead and let It replace the old tape that fear is playing in your head.

Practice Peace and find Peace arrive before you and behind you. Pause and see Peace standing at your left and standing at your right. Trust and welcome Peace as it fills the sky above you and saturates the ground below you. Trust, surrender, and feel Peace living in you, and in your surroundings. Offer Peace in response to everyone and everything you meet each moment and fill the Universe with the Peace that You are so you may know It and no thing else.

Bless

The experience of Truth

The experience of Truth comes through dedication, patience, and persistance. The way to Truth does not come without conscious intention as well as dedicated and consistent practice. My teaching and learning at One Body is my practice. I am using It to realize Peace of mind. I welcome All who are called to come and teach and learn with me. All that is required is your willingness to evolve.

My teaching and learning at One Body are all a part of my practice. I give everything in my life the purpose it has for me. And the purpose I give my practice, is to realize Peace of mind. I use my practice to learn and keep my mind tuned to that intention. It is not a matter of if my mind strays. The real consideration is, what do I have in place to balance myself when it does. I have to ask myself consistently-what purpose am I giving my practice?

I have studied many modalities in my life all with the aim of staying directed at Peace of mind, each one leading to an understanding of the connection between movement and breath, each one ultimately leading to a complete understanding that they are, in Truth, the same Thing. Realizing and allowing this communion to express itself in us and through us, is the means to a happy life. You can and will use anything and everythign to serve your intention. If you want to be happy, you have to practice keeping your mind aimed at happiness.

The world is full of everything and there are many forms available to design a personal awareness practice. Juliu Horvath’s Gyrotonic Expansion system is one such form. The tools in this system are abundant and offer seemingly endless opportunities to explore and evolve. I am have been using the tools of this system for years and it has continued to support my practice in an important way.

The new Gyrokinesis formats are the latest version in the evolution of Juliu’s mapping his understanding of effective alignment and movement, and his translation of that understanding into a form to find and maitain balance. The new shorter format was developed in direct response to the need for a hour class. In the 60 minute format, Juliu has lent his experience to the realities of the field where the work was living. Most trainers were giving feed back that they did not have more than 60 minutes to offer class. This shorter format answers this need. It is an accurate modification of the old formats for use when only an hour is available. All the same pieces are there as all the pieces are valid. For me, Gyrokinesis is the engine of the Gyrotonic System. Juliu has rebuilt the engine for more effeciency and effectiveness.

The new formats feel fresh and alive, a return to the basics but with an alertless, a clarity of intention that can only come from a body of experience. It is a blessing to have the creator of this work still so active and committed to keeping the work responsive to the needs of the people he sees using it without watering down the intention.

The experience of Truth comes through dedication, patience, and persistance. The way to Truth does not come without conscious intention and dedicated and consistent practice. My teaching and learning at One Body is my practice. I am using It to realize Peace of mind. I welcome All who are called to come to teach and learn with me.

I look forward to continued explorations in Conscious movement.

Surrender-A Perspective

This practice, our lives, is how (and where) we seek to release our demands on the moment. Our practice is how we seek to be released from our ideas of achievement. It is how we seek to be released from the limited perspective we are using to interpret the dream we think we are seeing and find The Last Dream at the end of all dreams moving at last… and forever… into complete Peace of Mind.

Our judgments must be surrendered again and again and again and after that...again, into the hands of Wisdom. When we give everything we do or say the purpose of locating genuine happiness, time will be able to show us what we are not seeing now. When we offer everything we do or say to the Wisdom that directs us to our Peace of Mind, time will finally be able to show us that if we are not experiencing Joy, it is only because we are not able to see what is Now. And the only thing that can block the experience of our Happiness, is our demand on the moment.

An honest practice humbly aimed at Truth, is simple and patient. We may not make spiritual home runs, we may not have Oprah coming to ask us how we did it, but if we remember the whole world is watching and the whole world is learning from everything we say and do, we can choose to release our demands on the moment, and listen. When we listen, we can learn about Happiness, instead of how to try harder.

Our practice delivers us to what ever we have our hearts aimed at.

A heart aimed at Happiness requires us to surrender our agenda and trust what comes. All the words and actions aimed at our ideas of success will sabotage real Happiness. We may think we are getting somewhere and invest our energy in capitalizing on some sense of gain, when we are actually shooting the means to our happiness, right in the foot.

Our fears operate on the belief that we need to take care of ourselves and to do so we need to get something. This willfulness is satisfied through our imagined ideas of achieving success according to our fears. The achievements that satisfy our fears come in a million colors and shapes and they are all a carrot on the end of a stick. This willfulness generates constant demands on the moment and continually feeds the fearful need to control what is happening.

We can get excited when we think we are coming very close to actually getting our hands on a carrot. When we feel we are finally on to something, we can let enthusiasm for the idea of gain run rough shot over our Peace. We can let our fear driven ambition block the Son of our Trust in something larger than our small idea of ourselves. Under the influence of fear we must strive and then try to imagine happiness coming through our striving. And when we stumble upon some form of what we think is going to take care of us, we can be blinded and walk right past the hand that will truly feed us. When we find ourselves engaged in trying to get ahead, we must pause and surrender our efforts into the hands of our faith in what we are not able to see because we are so busy striving.

It is our fear that we are lost from God that destroys our Peace of Mind. It is our sense of being lost that makes us strive to find Peace when in Truth, it has already been given to us. And it is our idea of needing to get somewhere that generates our demands on the moment. While we are still in doubt about what we truly need, we will keep pouring our energy into our plans for survival. It is the act of striving that denies the fact that we are, in fact, in essence, the very Peace we seek.

In survival mode, everyone is seen as either for us or against us. Surrounded by enemies, we cannot find the company that blesses us and reminds us we are blessed. We cannot find the enlightenment that will release us from our struggling.

Money and position unto themselves will not answer our whole heart, yet all the money that comes to us, and moves through us can be given the purpose of serving true happiness, but not without trust. We must trust the moment. We must let It come, and let It go with our blessing. We must learn and trust that money will come, and it will go. Relationships will keep changing, and the Love will stay the same.

When we receive and trust everything that arrives in the moment and bless It as it goes it’s way, we locate the way to live in Peace. We only need to watch for our inclination to strive, and let our practice calm the fear that spurs that inclination. Our practice can help keep us aware that we can always take comfort because comfort is always being offered through forgiveness. We can let Love carry Us along the Way instead of fearfully working our agendas.

Surrender your demands on the moment. Surrender your ideas of what you think you need, of what you think should come next, of what you think others, enlightened teachers, or bumbling dunces (as you name them-so you name yourself) are doing to you, or for you. Stay awake, notice when you are not happy, when you are not relaxed… pause…trust…and listen. Return to the moment in front of you with as much humility as possible and let yourself dance with the moment and all it has carried to you, without expectation, without judgment.

Every time you look back at the dream you call your life and see, in hindsight, you had the choice to trust in every instant were you choose to worry and manipulate. You can look back and see it was not exactly fun trying to control everything, and it is tiring seeing everything as an attack because of your doubts.

Everything teaches. You will come to the lessons you need, and you will listen, or you will not, until you do. Keep in mind that the most powerful addiction in this world, in my opinion, is the addiction to spiritual experiences. These are sometimes the hardest to surrender into the hands of Widsom. And so you must, in the name of the Peace that you seek, faithfully and patiently, surrender it all… and keep surrendering.

Through practice, you will eventually see, and feel real ground to stand on, real ground to live on. Trust that every other is doing what they know to do, and bless them, nothing more is needed. In doing so, you find all the blessing you need.

Are your actions humble and simple?

Are you working to get somewhere?

Are you seeing even those you call beloved, those you call your teachers in this world, as a way to get a leg up, or a way to let your legs be still and find more faith instead?

There is no place to get to in this world. Striving is a vicious cycle and you will burn down your road to freedom with your own ambitions.

Who would like to be completely Happy?

Who would like to be permanently on vacation from worry?

Who would like to awaken each morning with their hands faithfully open to the day and all it brings, trusting that everything needed is present, trusting that everything happening is in the perfect order of Love?

Releasing our demands on the moment according to our fearful striving will deliver us from the war of fighting for what can never be true. Dropping our judgments and the perspective that tells us we need something other than what is, will uncover the path out of Hell.

In the name of Happiness, seek to be free and you will find the means arrive. Trust and let these means be built into your life, into your practice. Let your practice support you as you release your demands. Let it support you as you release your doubts, and deposit your life into the hands of Love.

Until we surrender our ideas of time-It will appear to take a long time. Surrender this idea as well and breathe… Ask for patience in the name of Happiness and listen. Open to receive the answer to every question you feel you are holding through your listening and let them all melt into a single request for the Peace that has already been given to you. Let your listening be a call number to pick up your Peace of Mind at last and forever! Your practice amplifies my own. I am so thankful for your company.

Blessings

meg

Our Single Name - Part I

Our hearts do not understand a logic that would negotiate the unity of Love, a logic that would attempt to reconcile what is already and absolutely whole.

What is essentially true for one cannot be other that true for another. We are One and no amount of naming can change this fact.

Only a lie would consent to cut the baby in half so two may share it. We may feel we need time, but this need will dissolve when we remember we are timeless.

Our Single Name - Part II

We assign particular attributes to ourselves and each other, and fill our days with calculations of the differences between us.

We must not consent to the division of Truth by accepting the names that divide over the unified identity established by our common need…to forgive who we are not

and remember who We are.

We must not be mistaken.

We must not accept a place apart from ourselves,

a place apart from each other.

There is no such place.

We must look again at our urge to try to create what has already been created.

We must look again at our inclination to cut our hearts into pieces and name ourselves the victim of this vengeful segregation, the hostages of this painful separation.

Our Single Name - Part III

We can never find a real home in a world created with the walls and fences of our judgmental naming. These names are shadows thrown across our face to hide its wholeness from our confused and frightened minds.

We build a world cluttered with events and resentments, bodies and burdens, categorized and delineated with imagined threats. Every name held tightly is a knife into our wholeness with our fears guarding the divisions. Our delusions are single minded in their intention to steer us away from remembering our wholeness. Our delusions have made our truth, our wholeness, public enemy #1.They keep us endlessly engaged in searching for release outside of ourselves, precisely where we will never find it. This logic stops short of meaning, and keeps us entrenched in the insanity of looking for an answer where it can never be found.

We have allowed ourselves to doubt the Truth while desperately searching (every where but where we will find it) in vain, and…the good news is that we can change our minds!

Our Single Name - Part IV

We can change our minds.

This sounds so simple… and simplicity is an attribute of the Truth. It is the face of delusion that is described by complexity.

We can turn our doubts on the logic of dividing instead.

We can turn the eyes of vision living within us, on the names we have assigned to segregate.

We can listen, and wait for the voice of a new and ancient perspective to dawn in our minds.

We can look past the names and what they are hiding from our view, and realize our own face in everyone we see. We can look past bodies and find our hearts.

Our Single Name - Part V

To truly listen we must suspend the noise of our imagined needs by withdrawing our attention from them, and our reactions to them. Our genuine need is our single and collected need to find ourselves in every imagined other.

We cannot meet each other through names and bodies, and we can forgive what does not serve us and look again to the real means of reconciling our differences. We can refuse to join each other in denying our wholeness. We can slip under the piles of words and names and find a way to truly communicate our hearts. We can step from our fortresses of words, come out from the prisons of our naming and enter into the space of the breath that we all share perfectly and peacefully.
In the space of the breath we find the Son upon our face. In the warmth of the Light, all our words, all our names, meld into a single One, the single name We all
share… the name of Love.

Our Single Name - Part VI

There is power in our decision and it is our decision to leave the world we have made and return home that fuels the journey on. As we make our choice, set our sight for heaven, and set upon the way, we turn back to look one more time at the house our fears built, but only to let ourselves see its inadequacy.

When we honestly look, we see that this shabby house could never hold us in Truth. Our absolute and eternal joy could never be held in this small space. We slow and look again, and as we turn to walk on from this crumbling slum, our steps leave a trail of light for others to find and follow.

Our Single Name - Part VII

As we walk on we use the words we had made in reaction to the fear that we could be lost, that we could be alone, that we could be without hope, for another purpose. We give all the sounds and shapes of our old and worn out existence to our renewed and single intention to move toward home. No longer of use to us, we donate every word and name we have guarded and fought over, to the single and collected charity of hearing at last and finally, our God given name… the name of Love.

Our Single Name - Part VIII

We surrender every word, every name into the hands of Silence and listen. We listen, and we hear now One name singing perfectly and gently in the complete absence of words. We accept this single name by simply forgetting the insanity of judging and dividing our heart.

We see now those small-minded names we tried to wear never gave us anything real and only ever distorted the Truth we thought was gone from us. In the quiet we see again that our Truth has remained present and intact. In the stillness, the Love that We are appears to us with clarity, and as we turn toward It, we see our face reflected in Truth. Trusting in something more than our limited sense of self, we feel Love lift us up and carry us home.

Our Single Name - Part IX

Releasing our fearful gripping, we let forgiveness deliver us from the limiting inclination to use judgment to save ourselves. With the judgment lifted from our eyes, our vision is restored.

Now the way is clear and we travel home with certainty, with clarity, with calm, and with ease. We give ourselves over to this vision and as we receive It, we give this vision to the world.

We remember and understand that holding to the steady ground of unity requires only our acceptance.

Our Single Name - Part X

We learn and remember we do not have to work to hold to the ground of unity. Our fatigue, frustration and despair are the effects of futile efforts to try and make solid ground out of the sands of a million and more names. These sands can never hold the whole of who we are. The wind of our wild and fearful minds will kick these sands up into our face over and over again, blurring our vision and fueling our fear.

Meanwhile, unconcerned with our denial, the water of Love moves constantly to carry these sands back into the void from which they came. Love will restore us if we choose to allow It to.

In time we will learn to trust this cleansing. We will trust and learn there is no reason to curse the loss of our judgments. We will learn to trust that nothing real is ever lost and refuse to dress in the lies tailored by our fearful deceptions. If we let our misplaced faith be exposed as unstable and unreliable, the ground of Our single name will be revealed under our feet, solid, steady, and real.

Our Single Name - Part XI

There are so many words in this world, so many names, requiring constant effort to hold them apart from one another. This sorting and managing will consume our lives if we let it.

The ground of the world made from our fear sighted judgments is riddled with the appearance of weakness and instability. It is diseased with the threats of loss and destruction. It is a land where survival is the only hope.

And the Truth in us will never accept survival as home, not in place of the eternal life that has actually been given to us.

The Truth needs nothing to be True. The lies, unless maintained by constant effort, will crumble and return to the earth. When we cease our manic reacting to the bad dream we are creating out of fear, and relax into the flow that truly holds us, we will be returned to the ground of Truth.

As we acknowledge our real need, we are comforted to know that the quaking we feel under the feet of our judgments is the merciful hand of God moving to clear away the debris that is covering our real home.

Our Single Name - Part XII

Our Truth is not damaged or missing, it is only buried under our denial. We have denied our home and in a panic we have grabbed for pieces of what we have imagined, to build a place to lay our heads.

Outside of innocence the only thing we could see to build with was guilt and the judgments growing from it. Determined and hungry, we have exhausted ourselves by futilely trying to use these judgments to create some kind of real refuge. Using lies to build with, all that could ever be created was a mistaken identity. Forgetting our home we became refugees.

Our Single Name - Part XIII

The sea of Love moves to answer our denial with forgiveness. By its nature it wears away at the shores of the imagined ground built by our fearful judgments. And while we believe that guilt is real and judgment justified, Love will appear to threaten us. Perceiving Love as a threat we will fear ourselves as Love is what we are. This misperception causes a bind that is painful and our pain is important and necessary information needed to realize that there is no validity in its basis.

Our Single Name - Part XIV

Thankfully our complete understanding is not required for the Spirit to work toward our restoration. All that is required for our salvation from an imagined hell is the acceptance that what we have made is not adequate, that what we have imagined to be true, is not accurate.

We only need to acknowledge that what we have perceived in God’s imagined absence can never hold us. It can never house us. Away from the Truth we are not happy and away from our happiness there is no peace.

Acknowledging what can never serve us and abandoning it because it is useless, will steer us toward what we do need. Acknowledging and accepting our home in God is eternal joy and perfect peace. Liberating our faith from the fears that once commanded our choices, we feel it land now on the soil of our hearts and watch It take root in the field of our days.

Our Single Name - XV

We are not so small as we think. There is no thing to fear. What we are cannot be lost in Love’s reconciling. We only need trust and patience to keep forgiving our mistaken thinking. When all our illusions have evaporated, we will find We are the ground we seek to stand upon.

We can trust, suspend our judgments, be still, and move certainly toward remembering again what has always been so.

We are, and We are One.

Practice is the means

It’s not what you use, it’s what you use it for. I spend my time consciously moving so I can understand how to be still. Setting intention and moving with awareness teaches and reminds me again that I am stillness.

Exploring movement is my honest inquiry into the ways I honor my heart, and the ways I deny my heart. My joy locates One, my suffering the other. Learning the difference between the two and understanding the laws of cause and effect, make my choices clearer and therefore more accurate. Faithfully following the breath and letting everything dance delivers me to wholeness over time. Surrendering to Order I find peace of mind.

My movement is a practice. It is one way to travel toward the Truth. It is a vehicle to return to my Father, to join again with my family, to find acceptance of who I am in Truth.

And movement is a means. Unto itself it is nothing. It is the purpose I give it that makes it holy and wholly valuable.

I must ask myself am I using my practice to consciously understand, staying fluid and forgiving with the aim to see more truly, or am I using it to defend and survive the lie that I am separate from God and so need defense? This is an essentially important question as the first one sets me free, and the other imprisons me in a sad, sick world.

The world we have created is bursting at the seams. Everything we think we know is infused with the radiant expanding heart of God which is pushing through every hole and crack. It is only the thin clothing of our mistaken judgments that blocks real vision and manifests as the world we see. But these thin clothes are not real. They are spun from a void. They hang as impressions, as illusions, by a thread of forgetfulness. These clothes are not holding the radiance back or forth, in or out. These thin clothes will burn and fall in the face of Love¹s light, dissolving into the vast sea of Silence that We are.

We can change our minds. We can allow them to be restored by surrendering our own ideas until there is no appearance of anything to let go of. Whatever you use to practice, remember this and keep falling. When you get stuck (anxious), slow yourself, and relax your grip, releasing the idea of anything ³other² to cling to, breathe, and become. Pausing even for a moment from reacting to fear and sending out energetic requests for an old way is enough for correction to work. Keep letting go and letting a new way, then let that go. This process will assist you, like rungs of a ladder delivering you to the ground of true intention. With your feet on the mother land of the Truth you can once again and for always remember who you are by seeing the Truth and nothing else.

And the only real purpose is to seek to know the Truth using joy as a compass, not the satisfaction of getting a fix, but the real joy of living from your knees, you will know real joy by the way it comes. Real joy comes without conditions. It is impervious to circumstance. Real joy is complete acceptance. It is the field that holds every element without exclusion. Real joy is your true identity. It is who you are, it is what you are. Believe it, seek it, breathe it, know it and finally, at the end of the road, relax and simply Be It.