Redesigning your life meditation.
Becoming conscious of your breathing.
Conscious of your body.
Consciousness of your environment.
Let this consciousness,
This awareness,
Bring you more and more into the present moment.
Into this present moment where you are indeed one with a creative spirit.
With your own creative mind.
With your own creative body.
With your own creative soul.
Shunru Suzuki said,
How can you get your life in order if you yourself are not in order?
Before you can redesign your life,
You must clarify your mind.
You must be willing to see.
You must be willing to listen to your inner voice.
You must allow yourself to be just that,
Yourself.
It is when we feel,
Well,
About as much together as we can,
That we can now look at our life and perhaps make some powerful choices to change,
Mix things up,
Or open our lives to new energies.
I personally know I need to do this when I fall into any of what I like to call the defective experiences.
These are boredom,
Mediocrity,
And blame.
B boredom is defective because it is a result,
Not of nothing to do,
But of a mere way of seeing life with nothing to do.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Mediocrity is defective because it is a result of believing things happen the same way over and over again with the same result,
Missing out on that essential quality and fact of life.
It is always at some level,
Brand new.
Blame is defective at the level of consciousness,
Even when valid,
Because it gives away my ability to choose from my own spirit.
When I choose from my experience of you,
Instead of from my own will or willingness,
I've lost my way.
I've lost my spirit.
What is effective experience?
It's authentic.
It's creative.
It's willing to grow with a renewed trust in the nature of life itself.
It's the willingness to put a blank canvas over all that has been to recreate it once again to make all things new.
For example,
Imagine you are in your home right now,
But it's completely empty.
Walk through your home and view the empty spaces.
Now choosing one room,
One item by one item,
You get to put things back.
Not as they used to be a long time ago,
Not as you'd like them to be,
But to the best of your recollection,
How they are now.
What comes in first?
Do you appreciate it?
Why or why not?
What comes in next?
Do you appreciate it?
Why or why not?
Keep filling this space with the mementos that have been there.
The books perhaps,
The movies,
Appliances,
Furniture,
Perhaps even people you love who live with you.
Fill up this room until everything is back to your recollection of just how it is right now.
If there is anything you don't appreciate,
A leaky faucet,
A stain on the rug,
Ask yourself,
Am I willing to bring intentionality fully to my home?
Can I start with a room?
Can I start with a corner?
Start somewhere.
This intentionality we can bring to each room of our living situation,
But also the rooms of our mind and of our soul,
The house of our relationships,
To the house of our artistic activities,
To the house of our work and career.
The ability to intentionally create is not just the ability to start anew,
But to reconstruct what is with clarity into what it can be.
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