By Susan Kramer
We have more energy to enjoy life by maintaining our balance. And following the directive of our conscience keeps us steady in the saddle of life's galloping horse.
In order to hear our conscience, we need a healthy body, calm mind, and positive loving attitudes.
Living should be a balance of work and play, incorporating caringness. By maintaining our balance, we most easily hear our conscience telling us the surest, safest routes to use for the many adventures we take down the road of life.
We feel best, happiest and satisfied by keeping on course while journeying.
Relaxed
and Safe
Feeling relaxed and safe in our body allows us to confront any issue or person who disagrees with, or threatens our values. Everyone and everything influences us, but we have free will to choose our reactions.
We fear an encounter when we feel we will have to give up our position or attitudes, or be coerced into doing what feels uncomfortable to us.
Before confronting a conflict we need to remember what our body felt like when we were enjoying an activity--relive again the warmth circulating throughout us. We are in control and master of our actions and reactions. We can practice feeling this way by just bringing a happy thought to our mind, while in a safe setting.
When a potential conflict threatens, we need to remember what our body felt like during our practice session, and then relax into that state of consciousness--feeling whole, complete, and safe in our body and in control of our mind. No one can influence us without our permission. We are entitled to our own ideas and values. We do not have to take on uncomfortable or unacceptable ideas. We must use courage to preserve our ideas and integrity.
Bravely, while feeling safe and secure in our body, we should confront those issues holding us back from freely expressing ourselves in the world.
We each can and must learn to be courageous in order to expand and experience
our humanness within humanity, fully.
Courage
to Live our Convictions
Children show courage from infancy--putting forth great energy in their struggle to reach adulthood.
It takes courage to do anything new--to keep expanding. Sometimes, as adults, we reach a level of comfortableness, coping with life sufficiently well to just stop putting forth more effort into growth and expansion. But why be content to live short of the mark?
Courage requires a positive attitude--opening us, exposing us to the
vibrant energy of our inner Source. When we feel this vibrancy energizing
our body we feel we can soar. We feel the strength of will to overcome
what we have been resisting. Positive attitudes bring up the energy within
us to again be courageous, as we once were as children.
As adults we have learned the keys to survival. We now have time
to reach for the fulfillment of inner awareness--time to search out our
roots of existence and human-beingness.
Courage. Let's use its energy to search out and discover more profound
levels of consciousness by becoming an inner explorer.
Developing
Sincerity
Sincerity is having the full intention of carrying out our words as promised.
In our words and actions, sincerity allows us to relax, because we are
acting from our true Self--our Self that knows and acts on truth. And when
we are relaxed into the saddle of life, firmly mounted in the seat of our
Self, others around us relax more, too.
Masters of our Destiny