Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“K”

K is for Kind

“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle” -Plato-

A piece of word art in my home says, “In a world where you can be anything, be kind.”

Do you go out of your way to be kind? Do you say or do nice things for others (and yourself) for reasons other than to make them (you) feel good?

Are you a kind person?

If things are not going how you want them to be, and you often find yourself sad or angry, then you have nothing to lose by projecting kindness.

In a media and global landscape that seems to be trying to force almost the entire world to live in fear of disease, natural disasters, war, and scarcity, being kind will always win.

On a planet where we so visibly see global inequality for simple things like water, education and human rights, it is easy to be selfish and think there is not enough. However, the one thing you can always do is be kind, no matter how much or how little you have.

It is also a quick and easy way to shift your inner world.

We will receive in return if we choose to be kind to others. It’s’ one of the laws of the universe (projection = perception). So whatever you send out will come back to you.

If your project is kind, then it will return as kindness.

You will look at fellow brothers and sisters and share an energy that transcends the spiritual into human comprehension. All just because you were being kind.

‘Do unto others. It helps others when you are kind, but it also helps you. So start today and pay it forward. Say or do something kind to someone else or yourself, and you will begin to transform your life.

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “K”

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“J”

J is for Journey

“It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey.” -Wendell Berry-

It is not until we get further down the path and become more self-aware that we can see that the trials and tribulations were put before us to make us stronger.

Those most fortunate can take the worst thing that has happened and make it the best.

Once the original victim confronts their trauma, they can help others in a cyclical altruistic fashion that harmonizes healing.

Things happen to us that we can perceive at the moment, as tragic. It can feel like things will never improve, but if we believe they will, they will.

Our perception of the world around us determines how we react to the circumstances that unfold in our lives.

How would we know there is light unless we have first experienced the dark?

Our journey almost always becomes clearer after we bend but don’t break. The Lead Alchemises at the place where we push through when it would have been easier to give up. A place where we see the lesson being taught in our journey.

The past mistakes and suffering have a lesson to teach us on our unique journey through life. But, look closely, and you will find that the light came soon after in all those dark times.

If you can not see the light right now, it is coming, so keep your eyes and heart open and let love and light shine through you; there is someone who needs you to help them through your story.

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “J”

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2- “I”

Impermanence

“Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don’t struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.” -Pema Chodron-

We love watching a fire crackle or a river flow because it changes forever. Likewise, sunset or starry night provides the same illusion.

The only constant in this world is impermanence. We must look at the season that changes every 90 days with precision to see that nothing lasts forever.

 It doesn’t matter who you are; we are all changing until our time on this earth is complete, and we head on to more extensive, brighter pastures. 

Even death is not death but a change of form. Albert Einstein, the greatest physicist that ever lived, said, “Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another.”

If humans are just matter filled with energy (and we are, beyond any doubt), then when we cease to breathe, we are not dead; we have just changed form and how our energy is transmitted.

As of today, we only have three dimensions in our experience. Up/Down – Forward/Backward and Side to Side. String theory says there are possibly ten dimensions, M-theory has 11, and bosonic string theory posits 26 dimensions, yet we can only see 3.

If there are 10, 11, or 26 dimensions, then we have barely scratched the surface and “I” is also for illusion because what we see is not a complete representation of reality.

It would be akin to looking at the ocean while standing on a beach and thinking you are seeing the entire sea.

When the day turns to night, then night turns to day; this is also a reminder of impermanence, for, in a single sunrise, we see how quickly the sky changes. Every second that goes by, the sky reorganizes itself in different hues of orange and pink until suddenly, minutes have gone by, and the sun is no longer on the horizon. Still, it has risen steadily above until it eventually crosses the sky and starts to set in the west.

That is another impermanent illusion if you consider that the sun is steady in the middle of the universe, and we here on Earth are spinning around it every 24 hours.

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “I”

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“H”

H is for Healing

“As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else” -Maya Angelou-

Is love the stepping stone to healing? Or is healing the stepping stone to love?

When we love, we begin to heal; when we heal, we can start loving ourselves and others more fully.

Imagine you were in despair and had a chance to speak with God. What would you say?

Despair and depression are the best friends of pain, and life can sometimes seem hopeless for those who suffer chronically.

Under those circumstances, every day is cyclicly the same, knowing exactly how the day will unfold before it even starts.

Knowing that all day will be a struggle. A struggle that cannot be understood, and because of that, the person in pain isolates themselves from the world. Not because they don’t want to be around others but because they can not concentrate on anything other than the pain.

You are feeling as if you are waiting around to die. This belief is reinforced by shoving handfuls of pills into your mouth like Halloween candy. Do this 3 or 4 times throughout the day to remind your brain of your status ( in case you forget).

That was the life I lived during a dark night of the soul that lasted for a decade until I did have a conversation with God. I pleaded with her, ‘If you heal me, I will spend the rest of my life helping to heal others”. Today, I can still feel the pain, but I am no longer suffering.

I stopped taking pills (33 a day) and started to love myself and others. When we choose to love and serve others, genuine healing takes place.

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “H”

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“G”

G is for God

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” Genesis 1:1

The birds, bees, leaves, trees, rolling rivers, and salty seas.

Antelope through to Zebra, from As, it’s a self-nod to things that remind me of God.

Embrace the moments so there will be no regrets. Capture the beauty of the stars, sunrises and sunsets.

Not only did God make such sights for us to experience joy and elevation. The visual display is God displaying divine presence through creation.

Is that too far of a reach for you? Is it a concept that is too hard to grasp?

Maybe it is easier to pretend that God is some guy sitting above the clouds like ancient pictures of Zeus?

It’s no accident that the first five words of the bible are “At the beginning God created.”

What if everything we see is God? The good and the bad. Something similar is written in Revelations 22:13, “The Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. The first and the last (and everything in between).”

Different points of attention combine to create the quantum field, the universe we live in. The thing we call Source, Chi or Lifeforce. All of these things are God, and God is everywhere.

She has is inside every one of us. That means that right now, inside of you is God’s divine nature, and what is God? Creation manifested!

The best way to experience the divine is to create. When we are creating, we are fully present, and the reason is that we are creators made in the image of God. Because of this extraordinary gift, God will manifest through us to create heaven on Earth.

GOD IS COMING THROUGH ME TO CREATE when I write these words or give a powerful speech. You see, It is not a who but a feeling. A feeling I know to be accurate, a feeling called God.

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “G’

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“F”

F is for Freedom

“Freedom, in any case, is only possible by struggling for it” – Albert Einstein-

Visualize a horizontal line with zero in the middle, and as you move to the left, it says -1, -2 and so on. As you move to the right, it says +1 and +2 etc.

If we want freedom, we must make the decisions and choices that move us to the right side of that scale. The formula for liberation is simply to aim for more pluses than minuses.

Every time we make bad choices for our body, mind and spirit, we move to the minus side of neutral.

We make constant choices daily and can end up at plus 100 or minus 100 daily.

We will begin to notice over time that the more plus we have, the more plus’ we want.

When we accumulate little wins, they stack on each other and become significant gains.

Doing this makes us aware of when our choices are minus. That awareness leads us to make better choices and add more ‘plus’ to our existence.

There will always be a couple of negatives in your life, which is okay. That will happen naturally, but if we notice them, we can correct them.

Eventually, we get to a point where we begin to tip the scales to the plus side. If we can do this 80 % of the time, we will have mastered Pareto’s principle and live a happy, healthy life.

We notice things we did not see before when we measure and review our progress.

We start to see ourselves stepping into the person we want to become, and we know a new truth empirically. Success is found in the journey we take, not in the destination we reach.

So, Are you struggling to succeed? Maybe today will add more pluses to your personal success scale.

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “F”

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“E”

E is for Ego

“In the war of Ego, the loser always wins” -Buddha-

The ego is the mind interrupting the present moment with chatter and trickery of thought patterns.

In the Western world, the Ego is usually viewed as a person who seems vain or braggadocio and always ‘shows off, as in that guy has a big ego. This description of Ego is hungry for power, money, fame, and lust. These are all lower vibrational frequencies.

This is not the whole story, though. Simply put, Ego arises when we live in fear. So the braggadocios person is bragging because they fear that no one will love them unless they have all sorts of accomplishments to show, like money, cars or whatever they are bragging about.

The ego can also manifest oppositely. When people say, “No one loves me” or “Poor me, ” that is the Ego coming out to play.

Anytime the victim mentality is hard at work, you can be sure the Ego is involved.

In truth, the Ego often feels sorry for itself (or it gets you to feel sorry for it). The ego remains when we are not living in love and light.

Wayne Dyer uses EGO as an Acronym for Edge God Out.

The ego is the voice in your head telling you that you need to do something to feel a certain way. It tells us that we need something outside ourselves to make us feel good or achieve happiness or success.

I am here to say that you did enough by waking up today.

The Ego is and always will be fighting our soul for attention. It’s as if the Ego is the little devil on your shoulder and the soul is that angel on the opposite shoulder, and they are both trying to get you to go with them.

The ego will tell us anything to get us to do what it wants.

When we decide to let God in instead of Edge God Out, we quiet the Ego and return to the soul of Love and Light, our natural state. 

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “E”

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“D”

D is for Design

“Your future hasn’t been written yet. No one has! Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one!” -Doc Brown-

To live an intentional life, you must first design it.

We all get to create our future. So, whatever has happened in the past, whatever tragedy or despair has been put in your path, is a part of your unique journey. It’s your superpower. You can transmute it for the good of yourself and others.

The secret is to turn your pain into your power. Make it your superpower.

Ask yourself, “How can the worst thing that happened to me become the best thing ever? “

From this moment forth, commit yourself to start each new day intentionally to grow into the person you want to be. Please write down the things you want from life and go after them. It doesn’t matter if you get them; what matters is that you try.

Make a plan and decide if the goal is achievable.

If it is, then follow the plan no matter what. Your mind will try and trick you by talking you out of doing the things you wrote down; the things you know will lead you toward your goals. But you don’t have to listen; you can tell your mind to shut up.

It will say things like “Start tomorrow,” “You can do it later,” or “Just stay under the covers; it’s warm in here.”

This is the mind’s way of keeping you safe (and small) because it knows the brain wants to conserve energy and do as little as possible.

However, if you have a plan that you stick to, then it doesn’t matter what your mind says. You follow the program, and at the end of the month, quarter, or year, you will quickly look back at your progress.

Intentional progress acts as evidence of a life designed on purpose.

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “D”

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“C”

C is for Challenge

“Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” -Joshua J. Marine-

To evolve, we have to challenge ourselves. To grow, we have to push a little further than last time.

To see expansion in our lives, we have to do one more push-up, one more rep, one more mile, one more minute, one more page, one more sentence, and one more brushstroke. Whatever it is, one more will get us where we want to go.

As humans, we are made to adapt. Look no further than nature and the seasons to see how we can adapt from brutally hot temperatures to frigid cold.

Humans have been optimized to do this since the beginning of time. Just like a muscle that we rip and tear for it to heal and grow more extensively, we can do the same to succeed in any area of our lives.

Sticking with the example of one more push-up, we can quickly see progress in this challenge.

If we add one more push-up every day (while taking Sundays off), we will do over three hundred push-ups daily within one year.

If we tried to go from zero yesterday to three hundred today, we probably wouldn’t do it again tomorrow. But, if we stack one day upon the next the way a bricklayer stacks bricks to build a house, we can build muscles and adapt to the challenge.

The human body will only go where we take it and can go much further than we think.

It can adapt to anything we throw at it. There is more inside all of us than we are putting out. So even when we are at the limits of our physical expansion, we can always push it to one more.

So, what is your challenge? Start right now, and whatever it is, go low, go slow and do one every day to grow!

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Check out alphabet soup for the Soul vol.1. “C” is for Creation.

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“B”

B is for Belief

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

 –Henry Ford-

It all starts with Belief. If the Wright brothers did not believe in themselves and had listened to the people who said it was impossible to fly through the air, then on Dec 17th, 1903, near Kitty Hawk North Carolina, the “Wright Flyer” would not have flown 120 ft over a 12 second period giving birth to air travel and people would not be able to have breakfast in N.Y. and lunch in L.A.

Edith Eger was in Nazi concentration camps where she was starved and beaten. She witnessed a young boy being used as target practice and many other horrors in a place where the hope of survival was minimal at best, yet that little girl believed that she would see life into her 90s, and today, she is a 94-year-old psychologist.

Roger Bannister ran a mile in under 4 minutes. Everyone thought it was impossible, saying that his heart would explode, but Roger Bannister believed it could be done, and he did. Since that day on May 6th, 1954, there have been over 1,500 people at Oxford University to achieve that ‘impossible’ task. All because they believed they could.

Thomas Edison is said to have failed 10,000 times before perfecting the incandescent light bulb. Most would have stopped after 50 or 100, but Edison had something many don’t believe.

Henry Ford built the Ford Model T, and when he revolutionized the industry by putting eight cylinders into one engine block, they said it was ‘impossible.’ Not to Henry Ford, who gave his engineers and architects lots of latitude and time to make the impossible a reality. After six months, they returned and said it could not be done. Ford said, okay, but do it anyway. He told them to keep working on it until they succeeded, and they did.

Everything you see that has been built must first start as a thought in someone’s mind. A thought attached to a Belief and combined with desire (and action) is the ‘secret’ formula for success.

Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos believed they could one day send a civilian aircraft into space; guess what everyone told them? So, in the summer of 2021, all three men turned the impossible into a tangible reality for the entire world to witness and benefit from.

For all these amazing people spread out over the past century or more, one thing they have in common is that they all started with Belief.

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “B”