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Well, I gotta say this Michael Phelps is from another planet. ALL of the Olympic swimmers look like fish, or frogs. But he delivers just the way we love. He is superhuman in his swimming ability, and he is open and fresh when he is interviewed. Somehow he seem transparent enough that we just might crawl inside his skin and have his experience for ourselves.
But the real reason we feel that connection is because minds are joined. And because he seems like such a nice guy (always looking to his mother in the stands) we want to accept him….as ours.
He’s a great athlete, a great guy.

If you missed the opening ceremonies, you can still see the video here @ NBCOlympics.com

You’ll have to look around a bit - they are changing it every day, all day londscroll down to NBC Encores and look for “Opening Ceremony…”
And look at all the videos of the events you always missed before!

Movie director Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers, Hero) spent 3 years preparing for the Opening Ceremony, imagining ways to show the world 5,00 years of Chinese history.
I just can’t say enough about how spectacular it was. (more…)

HobbesYouAreSoCool

1. Do make the most of the early moments of the day. During the night you have been out traveling in the cosmos and beyond, so when you come back in, don’t miss the chance to program your day while you are still reconnecting. Once you are back in and all the synapses that make up “you” are reconnected the moment has passed. So program in something like, “I will experience just how extraordinary everyone is today.” or, “Today I will feel enhanced healing capabilities in ways I can easily recognize.” Say it out loud and say it three times.

2. Do not be late for your first appointment. Make it something you would like to do or someone you would like to see. Do what you must to start the day. The more you feel rushed, the more mass density you will impale yourself upon. When you stay loose, you can stay in control and never work yourself up into a vicious velocity.

3. Remember - it’s an open head we are going for here, so train yourself to take frequent flower-smelling breaks. It can be in the middle of a conversation with a client. Just go within, say, “Remember” and let it shift a little. Remember what? Oh, how about Remember-this guy needs love more than most, or Remember-there’s a whole other world of light just behind the fearful one we can see so easily.

4.Do push yourself to become more productive, more focused during your work time. We are calling it work for a reason, yes? Not only does it make work time shorter or juicier, but it keeps your brain alive and young to keep the challenge up.

5.Do learn to notice when your energy turns inward. You are dense, worried, planning, chewing, chewing, ChewingMind in this state. Bad dog! The instant you notice, however, you are back in the present, your energy is turning outward again. Having trouble with getting it re-directed? Try doing something for someone. And do it right away. Call that elderly relative, brush your cat, rub your friend’s shoulders - just get outside of your head.

6. When you notice you are irritated, disgusted, repulsed, angry for ANY reason….stop and love yourself for being irritated, etc. The absolute quickest way to go from thick head to open head is raise your vibe with love. Love yourself first, then it radiates out….And You have a nice, loose Space head! WHOOOHOOOOO!!

7. Definitely do, at least once an hour, stop to refresh. Put down your cellphone, let go of your mouse, your whatever and just stop. Let in God, the Universe, the Whoosh of life as you know it, and just hook in. Don’t let go until you feel, experience, a shift - away from density toward space awareness.

I hope this helps you.

When I watched this Alexander Artemev on pommel Horse I was absolutely thrilled! When he dismounted both my fists were in the air and I was making some war cry like I was one of the 300 of Sparta!
YAAAAAAAARRRRGGHHHHHHH!!!!!
Yeah! I love the Olympics!

Spectacular!
This year I had mixed feelings about the setting of the Summer Olympics. I may not understand cultural differences, and I still feel the pain of the Tibetans in their oppression by the Chinese.
But I do love the Olympics.
The opening ceremonies were visually so very dramatic and sweeping that I was absolutely taken in.
Yes, They Got Me!

The next day my mixed feelings were expressed by a group of friends around the lunch table. At first we rankled about the American newscasters and how, during the processional of all the countries’ athletes, they brought up every negative political event.
But - after all - they are newscasters, and they did have to fill the time. I have found that much of human behavior can be brought down to simple things such as filling the broadcast time with something other than silence. The emphasis seems to be on quantity, and not so much on quality. And so we wished the primary Olympic ideals had been the only focus - the presentation of the highest ideals known to man here on earth - the desire for excellence, fueled by passion, tempered by self discipline and measured by competition with others of the same mind, the same devotion.

Soon, however, I noticed my friends and I started drifting toward the same issues, somehow unable to deny the pain we know and somehow feel. When the Sudanese athletic team, we had all been reminded of Darfur and the situation there. If the Wikipedia explanation as to the source of this conflict is correct : “The combination of decades of drought, desertification, and overpopulation are among the causes of the Darfur conflict.”, then we have a lot to look forward to in the global warming effects.

But back to the ideals.

I say the Olympics will do a lot to pull China into the World Culture in a big way. In a fast way. They are, to me, a big and fat, ancient baby with a new and expensive toy (money) that is potentially dangerous.

The best ways to develop a human rights consciousness is to become more visible to the world. I know for myself that when I am more visible, I am more involved, I feel called upon to be more conscientious.
And, I feel more deep satisfaction in that connection.

So let’s party! The Olympics are Fabulous!

How do you tell when one moment has ended and another begun?
Have I finished eating the Valencia orange I was eating a few minutes ago? How can I really tell? If I try, I can experience it as though it is now. And if I do the same with other “older” thoughts, I can be there, too. Neurological test have shown that when a distance runner “thinks” the run with clarity, the nerves fire Just As Though Running The Actual Track! So your body can’t differentiate.

Mind is a powerful thing. It has the ability to stretch time out into a linear thing, but when you look closely…..it is reasonable that all time is going on at the same time. The thing that changes is you…your chosen point of observation.

Now, think about the times when you had a psychic experience. When the phone rang, you knew who it was calling, and there was no reason for it. Someone at the office has been away for a time and you didn’t even notice until one day….and that’s the day they returned. Or maybe you just pulled some factoid “out of the ethers” that you didn’t know you knew.

Everyone has these experienced. Some folks don’t pay attention, or call it coincidence.
But that evidence points to the fact that we are all sharing one mind. There is no distinct edge between you and the next guy. Not really.

The point here is this: You are the determiner of your experience. You choose what perspective, what time you want to be in. And you are the one who decides how aware you want to be of your intrinsic connection to …..well…..everything.

So the obvious next question is: What will you choose? Where do you want to be? Who do you want to see?
Do you insist upon seeing your brother as a limited, flawed human, that unconnected to you and opposing you? Or how about the reality that this same brother is Perfect. Another Whole Part of God, just as you, and in this moment in time is only a reflection of your idea of Whatever You Choose!
Can you see how taking complete responsibility is the only reasonable choice? It’s the only way out of the typically held and very human idea that you are a victim to all that surrounds you?

Hey! What are you thinking? This is a question I ask myself, oh, say, 100 times a day.

I am always fucking it up - going off course and then correcting. Then going off course again and asking for help to get back in the flow. That’s OK. It’s part of the deal. (Listen, if you are going to get all tangled up in doing it perfectly, you will never begin to live. That’s called writer’s block.)

It took years of applied effort to begin to be able to even tell when I was out of the flow, but that’s another talk! Ha!

So, today, ask yourself these two things, and do it a lot:
What am I thinking?
What is it for?

If it is for love, inclusion, forgiveness, release, then Cool!

If it is for separation, being right, holding a position (fear) and opposition, then Let It Go.

Learn to move easily out of that crap! You owe it to yourself and the entire racemind!

I still vote for Love.

I still vote for You!

Lately I have been thinking a lot and surfing a lot on the subject of Personal Development.

Check out this link: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/

I love any guy who is a great left brain thinker, AND who has a wife who is very right brain, very different, and he puts her link right there on his front page.
Inclusive is good! As Mario says, “Good, Good, Good!”
I love any guy who can see that the effect of coffee is … (I’m paraphrasing here) Yeah, I have a real forward thrust from the caffeine, but no greater productivity because I’m all over the place in my mind.”
It’s TRUE!!! I never saw that before!

Then check out this one:
http://www.quantcast.com/stevepavlina.com
and look at the “Audience also likes” column on the right. Keep in mind this is a good sized audience!

In his blog today, Habit Change Is Like Chess, I can see that he is really teaching Don’t let your Right Hand Know What Your Left Hand Is Doing. In other words, keep your left brain occupied with analytics and such so that your right brain can just be about having the experience.

But then I realize that God never did address the issue of having a better life on earth. The Hebrews, of course, thought God did. When they prayed to God to destroy their enemy, and then they went out and destroyed them, of course God did it for them! (Anything to keep personal responsibility for all that carnage at bay.) And in our modern days, I’m sure that most of the people of the world actually believe that it was God who helped us defeat the Germans in two wars, and the Japanese. And the young Muslim boys that think God will reward them with a harem of virgins for being a suicide bomber is ridiculous.
(On second thought, maybe 72 virgins would be all the hell you would need to ask for a true solution!) (more…)

Today was the day!

I took off my toenail polish. It was time.

I always paint my toenails in the summertime, even though I love the look of natural.

But I also love to walk in the grass barefoot which means my nails get a little dirt under them…
“Clean dirt” my Dad would have called it.

Since I like everything clean and lickable, (yes, that’s my criteria) that bit bugs me. If I dig at my nails they start to shatter, so WTF!

As I was breathing in the lovely toxic polish remover (GAK*) I started thinking how it was like everything else in my life, this rubbing away of layers of different color until I get right down to the simple, unprotected me.

Oh! I see one pinky toenail is purple from that time I stubbed it in the kitchen. It was pizza day and I couldn’t stop to look, but I remember how it hurt and how irritated I was that I could hurt myself through my classic Italian sandals at that!
On Pizza day I am preoccupied. It takes me from 7:ooAM, when I begin by mixing the dough, and I don’t stop until I serve it to about 100 folks at 6:ooPM. I need about 10 others to help, not to mention the prep I would have done on days before, such as roast the red peppers, or broil the eggplant.
The point is…….

………I think my life is so interesting, and I am doing such good works by “serving others”…(now THERE’S a trickster), that I forget to take care of my business. It gets covered up. I can’t stand a little clean dirt, which is a little metaphor for my fear of my own corruption.

Did you get that one? Read it again.

I am afraid of my own corruption….I hide from it.

Jesus washed the feet of his disciples so their corruption was purified. Where their incorruptible bodies touched the symbol of their evil, the world, they were cleansed and sanctified.

When we fail to keep the sacred meaning in our relationships and honor each other “as ourselves” (2nd Great Commandment), then we are just using each other to play out our stories (victim, Conqueror, unwanted one, abandoned one, whatever..) and then we blame and hate “that guy out there” for the scenario we totally set up for ourselves!

It’s amazing.

And I always know there’s work to be done if I feel the least bit anxious, angry, irritable.
Anything at all other than perfectly peaceful.
It’s never “out there”. It’s always in me. I can access the heaven, the nirvana that I’m entitled to at any time. But I must clean up my thoughts first.

That’s my life. Noticing when my thoughts are headed for the toilet (oh, about every 6 seconds) and correcting the course to love, to total inclusion, to total responsibility. Yeah baby! I like being in love! And the mind training is the best method I have found for experiencing love, love, love.

It’s my job. It is the best job. It affects me, then you, the world, the universe. It’s the only way to save the planet.
Clean up my mind! The planet is the effect of my mind and not the other way around.

Now That’s the Second Coming ; when you know where the secret to salvation lies.
….and it’s all in YOU!

The toenails are fine….just clean up your mind!