Life is what we make of it.

Of course, there are some components to play with, but the outcome is fully our responsibility.
And this responsibility is a heavy burden to carry… until we manage to transform it into a crown. Patience, compassion, unconditional love (towards ourselves) are the base ingredients for this alchemical painting, that is our life.

Is not pretty to be willing to see the inconsistences that traverse our being on all levels and most of the times we tend to walk the beaten path, the one that we are familiar with. (In some astrological systems, these are represented by the South & North Lunar Nodes; the South represents our past, what we already know, we are good at, we have mastered along other timelines, and the North – the uncharted waters, the unknown area which is our canvas in this lifetime – what will this life painting look like? It’s up to us to decide.)

It is easier to stay in the comfort zone of the South node; the North requires movement. And, as most of us know, movement brings pain: going to the gym, doing physical work in the garden, rock climbing, biking, mountain hiking, walking the Santiago de Compostella road – with all the challenges it comes with -, integrating new mental / emotional experiences, having a challenging debate, shifting life views, etc.

Any movement, of any type, at a certain point, brings pain. Are we willing to accept it?

en(Light)ment

Light is all around us. We barely notice it as is part of our lives. Is “something” that allows us to see, to distinguish shapes, colors, textures, darkness. We see it as part of the scenery, the natural flow of life.

If we look closely though, we notice that is made up of a lot of components, some of which we most probably don’t even know about: the ROYGBIV specter (the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), the UVA & UVB, infrared, etc. All of these components, combined, allow us to see clearly.

Let’s imagine we “deactivate” the color red from this composition. We will see everything in a mixture of blue & green. Objects that appear red in “normal” light will look black or dark because they rely on red light to be visible.

The same happens with our view of the world: the “broader” we allow our perception to be, the more subtleties we are able to see. Instead of seeing a few colors and a lot of black, we start seeing more and more color. And this brings serenity and ease of being.

Have you tried wearing glasses that remove a certain color from what you see? Like antifog glasses (which are yellow) or anti-blue light glasses (orange) or the funny ones with pink, blue, green lenses? I wear anti-light glasses quite often, and I noticed that, besides the fact that colors appear different, there is a heaviness that appears. By the fact that something is prevented from being seen, a certain pressure is applied to my being. Like what I see gets rearranged according to the missing tone and this builds pressure.

The same principle applies to our feelings, emotions, thoughts. The more perspectives we are willing to allow, the more color we see, and the inner pressure becomes less and less.

The first thought

What is the first thought that comes to your mind when you wake up?

I have noticed that the more aware you become of that first thought that comes to your mind the moment you wake up, the more chances you have of living your whole day in awareness.

About 20 years ago, somebody asked me how I would define meditation. I said that, in my experience, meditation is done at every moment of your life. Everything that you emit is a form of meditation. The more aware you are of every moment, the more refined the meditation is.

I remember this moment because the answer surprised me (and the person who asked). It just went out of my mouth. I come back very often to it and discover new and new layers of depth.

This morning, for example, I realized the importance of the first morning thought. It has the power of directing your whole day. And your awareness of it makes it more or less “in charge”.

“The end justifies the means.” Does it not?

I have a goal: to go on Mars and show that it can be done.

Scenario 1:
All my life I prepare for it, I attend all the conferences there are about the topic, I become an astronaut, I know space shuttles inside-out, I am part of a team that goes to Mars, and I am finally super happy! I have met my goal.
From a distance, it looks great! And this part of the situation is great. But it’s incomplete. While I was in pursuit of my goal, I rejected my family (they were disturbing), I’ve made no friends because I was super competitive, I rejected my house, I thought I was superior to most people.

Scenario 2:
All my life I dream about it, I am super confident that I would have been a great astronaut and that my team would have greatly benefited from my presence, but I never took the step towards it. Therefore, in time, I start to develop resentment, to hate everybody who has “made it”, to be angry with the world, to hate my life, to blame, to shame, to judge.

Scenario 3:
Is up to you 🙂
Play with it, add as many as you want. But always ask yourself:

When I draw the line… what exactly am I left with in terms of inner feelings? How do I leave this life: as my beautiful self, as my self-absorbed self, as my resentful self or … (fill in the dots)?

Your life matters. You matter. Life matters.

If you feel the need for a goal… choose life. It might surprise you. 🙂

Business is personal

“It’s just business” – a famous (incomplete) phrase which led to many misconceptions related to business. Sometimes, we also like to use it, because it makes us feel detached from our own creation.

But business… is you. You are the creator of what you do and this also changes the surrounding environment. You cannot do something (material or immaterial), without being involved in it.

Trace back the jobs you’ve done or businesses you’ve created and observe them with the eyes of “now”. Do you notice how your essence, the way you are / behave / think / relate has put a mark on the direction of that job or business? On the people you work(ed) with, on the customers you had?

The more refined our awareness becomes, the more beautiful and meaningful our business becomes. It is a reflection of ourselves.

Business is highly personal.

What do your eyes see when you look at something?

The body is a complex and beautiful decoding machine. When your eyes gaze at something, a feeling emerges inside your body. And what I have noticed is that feeling has nothing to do with what you gaze at, but has everything to do with who you are at that exact moment: you see what you are.

Yesterday, I had a heavy feeling inside of me of guilt and other mixed emotions and, when I went into the garden and saw all the trees in bloom and bees buzzing around them, I felt rage and that the place was too small for me, I needed to get out of there. 5 minutes later, after calming down the spirits from the previous dispute, I passed through the exact same place and everything felt peaceful, quiet, I could actually feel the smell of the flowers and hear inside of me the buzzing of bees. Same place, same eyes, a completely different view.

And this happens with everything: people we see, places we are in, birds flying, a cafeteria, an airport… whatever. The eyes are a constant reminder of who we really are in that precise moment, every moment. They are a great barometer and also an indicator of the fact that we can always choose to be our beautiful selves.

Look out of the window or in the far distance; what do you see?

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Yourself. 🙂

The beauty of being

One of the astrologers I have consulted was telling me that she loves providing astrological services for the whole family because that is where she sees all the connections fitting perfectly: if she sees in the mom’s chart that she is authoritarian with her child, she sees in the child’s chart that he needs a firm hand to direct him / her in the first part of his life.

I often surprise myself saying to myself, while observing a situation: “I would have done it differently.” But “different” doesn’t mean “better” for that situation or for the beings involved in it. It might be that for me, it comes easier to deal with that situation, as I do not have resistances inside of me related to that topic. Situations present to us so we can become smoother, less pointy on the edges. Involvement in our own lives is far more precious than living somebody else’s life. And, by judging the situations others are in, imagining what we would do in their shoes, we are living somebody else’s life while ignoring ours.

Once we start living our own, we also start observing patterns, the same situations occurring (with different nuances), the same type of people meeting us on our way, the same emotional field lingering around… until something shifts inside of us, and we have the possibility to let go of “the same old thing” that gets recreated within us and, therefore, outside of us, and start anew. This possibility presents to us every second of our life.

Respect for (all) life and sharp inner edges cannot coexist. One needs to dissolve in order for the other one to flourish.

What are we really searching for?

I was reading for the 5th time (I think) one of the books dear to my heart – “The secret book of Jeshua, as revealed by the memory of time”, written by Daniel Meurois. As with any living book, each time it’s being read, new meanings emerge and a wider view develops. This time, what caught my attention was a phrase related to our … spiritual search.

We talk a lot about enlightenment, “being on the way”, advancing, moving forward, surpassing certain vibrational layers. But what if, what we are really searching for is to be filled by that “light”, instead of “reaching” it?

When you try to reach something, it immediately distances you from it; it is outside of you. But being filled by it… is a completely different story. It is part of you, is in you, in your responsibility to cultivate it.

As everything is in me, what exactly do I cultivate? That which I give attention to. As I am too busy reaching for … enlightenment, higher vibrational state, peace, love, gratitude… I might cultivate the exact opposite inside.

I search for peace, but I start a war with my neighbor for having music too loud during the weekend.

I search for compassion, but I hate myself for making a wrong decision 20 years ago.

I search for a higher vibrational state, but I resent my parents for the way they raised me.

What if, instead of searching for all of this, we acknowledge that they are already inside of us and we make more space for them to manifest?

I don’t search for peace. I acknowledge its presence inside of me and I recall for it when feelings of war emerge.

I don’t search for a higher vibrational state. I acknowledge its presence inside of me and I recall for it when resentment takes over.

If the echo is too dim, I pause and make space for it to echo louder.

Spotting beauty

I was looking at a flowering plum tree today and the multitude of bees humming next to it, when a thought presented itself to me. I realized that we’ve spent soooooo much time practicing seeing the ugly, the lies, the mischief and all the things that don’t “flow” around us and in others. We’ve practiced so much that we have become masters of it.

I was listening last night to an interview with a guitar player that was saying there are 4 layers of competence: unconscious incompetence (you don’t know you don’t know), conscious incompetence (you know you know very little), conscious competence (you actively develop the competence) and unconscious competence (it becomes second nature).

We have become unconsciously competent at spotting the ugliness in the world. So, my question is, if we are so good at it that it has become second nature, isn’t it time to move on? To move to developing the skill of spotting beauty?

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