by martyfogs on May 28, 2010
I vascillate between to polar opposite belief systems: that the universe is supporting me or that I’m running the show.
The higher reality is that I’m completely supported by a power outside myself, and its up to me to use my free will to align with the best values and energies available – and then to execute – act – do – in alignment with these values, without compromise.
Its a game of continually surrendering my ego’s will for the will of greater possibility.
I cannot move forward without giving up something. The better I can get at giving up and being open and willing to learn and grow, the easier my life has become, and the greater happiness I experience.
I will forget this several times within the next three minutes – and instead operate from the position (like a giant two year old) of I’m in charge, and “this is wrong” – filling my system with a puzzling and exhausting emotional storm – making my life a lot harder than it needs to be.
by martyfogs on May 25, 2010
Think of a bell curve. Everything under the middle hump of it is classified as “Normal”.
It used to be the Smoking cigarrettes was normal. A few wacko’s on the fringe claimed that smoking caused cancer. Then their ideas made it to the the next big thing, and soon these once heretical thoughts replaced “smoking” as the norm.
Now smoking is on the fringe.
Everything that is normal today was once on the Fringe – then it moved into the realm of the cool – then to the next big thing – then to social convention: normal.
Normal changes all the time – and it gets replaced with something that started at the fringe.
Not everything from the fringe makes it to be “Normal” – but all things normal start at the fringe.
Pick an area of your life. What’s normal? What’s on the fringe? What’s on the fringe now that will be the new normal?
Get used to this way of seeing the world, and you’ll be less surprised, you’ll predict better, and you’ll anticipate future change better, too.
