This article was the beginning of a series of columns that were published in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s when I was living in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York and then in San Diego. The series was called “Awareness”. The process of transformation was pretty new to me at the time so you will notice my enthusiasm and zealousness in my sharing process.
The purpose of this series is for me to share the things I’ve learned and use in my everyday life which affords me the opportunity to experience joy, happiness, love, sex, money, health, full self expression and aliveness.
I’ve discovered that it is possible to live this way ALL the time. And this is truly a miracle because for many years I questioned my ability to experience any of these outrageous feelings. My judgments got in the way.
I look around me and see so many remarkably beautiful people who I allow to be exactly the way they are. I don’t judge them, they aren’t right or wrong, they just are. Using this as a Universal law, I am willing to be the natural loving person I am, while I observe my mind going quietly berserk. This is really an incredible space for me to be in because at one time I believed that this nagging inner voice I now recognize to be my mind, was me. And since my mind is made up of everything I ever experienced in my past, I believed I was my past. So, every time something happened in my life, instead of handling it like a new experience, I would act out a pattern my mind set up from the past.
Now I’m able to seperate my spontenaity of the moment from my automatic reactions from the past. This enables me to be with people and instantly accept them in the way I had previously been trained to react to family and very close friends. I know this is contrary to many beliefs, but I urge you to try it before you judge it. I can’t tell you how satisfying it is to meet someone for the very first time and allow myself to love them without caring what they look like, how old they are, what they’re wearing, what they do for a living, if they’re married or not, or if they are pink elephants floating on the ceiling for that matter. Imagine if everyone reading this decided to try it as a process for living during the next week, that many more people would be contributing to the experience of the world working. How about it? Would you be willing to be big enough to communicate that? If so, I’d like to share this process with you.
Look in the mirror and smile until you like the person you see in there. Notice how happy you feel. Walk away from the mirror and continue to feel that way. Decide you will feel that way about everyone you meet today. Notice how happy other people feel. Do the same process every day for one week and if you notice you are experiencing more joy in your life, DON’T STOP DOING IT!
If you have any questions about life or anything you’d like to share, please e-mail me. I’m here to serve you. And I love you.
