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In The Zone By Zoning Out

I was watching my son's workout with a personal trainer recently and couldn't help but notice how well he was performing some fairly difficult movements....

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Sustainability

Recently I have had several opportunities to be introduced to organizations and individuals who are involved with this concept of sustainability and renewable energy–the green movement. I was intrigued by the concept and how we could apply it to the environment and my interest immediately became focused closer to home and how we individually could apply the concept to the renewal of our physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional energy.

Economy of effort is a concept that has intrigued me for quite sometime. And while I don’t consider myself lazy,I have become quite suspicious about the need to take massive action over and over again to get what I want. It just seemed to me that there is not enough time in a day, week,or life time to take all the action you need to take to get what you want. Now this doesn’t mean that you take no action,however you want your action to be inspired by a definite  purpose.

I actually think that I really understood the concept of least effort when I was younger. I remember enjoying school over the years and never really feeling the pressure or the need for that matter to study and work hard. In fact I went as far as to put no effort into the courses that were of little or no interest to me. Things that were not aligned with who I truly was or what I was truly interested in were of little consequence to me. Now this doesn’t mean that the social mirror pressure wasn’t acting on me to“perform and work hard.”I was a periodic challenge for my parents throughout my primary and secondary schooling years.If it didn’t make sense or inspire me in someway,it didn’t get much of my attention or energy. Consequently I received some extra attention and energy from both my teachers and parents. And in retrospect I find most of their effort wasted in failed attempts to put a square peg into a round hole so to speak.

When you think about it “how much energy do we waste daily by worrying about things that have already happened or that might happen?”How much time and effort is expended anticipating how someone might react,over analyzing how we should proceed, concerned that it won’t workout–only to find out that we missed our opportunity–the real true waste. We need to focus our energy on what we want,those things that are truly aligned with who we truly are.

How about this belief that so me people have about the need to do most things themselves and that perhaps it is not worthwhile unless they have to struggle bit. That combination of thought and action can become potentially debilitating overtime. We need to learn whether what we are doing or thinking is sustainable or not, based on how we feel in that moment. If we are feeling good are energy is aligned with our true purpose. Consequently,our emphasis needs to be on how we are feeling moment to moment and overtime.

What are you doing on a regular (daily/weekly) basis to renew your energy?

Where is your energy wasted,where does it tend to leak?

Ralph Simone

On Purpose – Being Versus Doing

I continue to be intrigued by the whole notion of purpose and how what you do is

less important than how you do it. How you do anything in this moment is a

reflection of your inner purpose. And energetically we are vibrating at a higher level

when our inner purpose is connected with our outer purpose or goals. While

listening to Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now and more recently A New

Earth, I was taken by the idea that our true purpose on this earth is to awaken and

to raise our consciousness as well as the consciousness of all mankind. How we

respond to whatever happens to us is an indicator or our level of consciousness. In

the book A New Earth, Tolle suggest that there are only three responses for the

highly evolved conscious being:

1) Acceptance of what is – or as Byron Katie suggests “Loving What Is”.

2) Enjoyment – enjoying this moment, the only moment we have

regardless of the activity that we are performing.

3) Enthusiasm – or with God – being enthusiastic about our purpose,

vision, and goals.

How can we learn to accept, enjoy, and be enthusiastic about each and every

precious moment that we live?

Another concept that fascinates me, but can tend to be a little confusing is this idea

of expectancy combined with detached involvement. Expectancy raises our

vibration level and attracts more of what we want into our lives, however it is

critical to believe in and yet important not to be attached to the outcome.

Attachment sets us up for resistance because the timing for something showing up

in our lives is not up to us. And although it is important to have a clear image of

what we expect – being too specific may cause us to miss something that may be better than what we expect.

It really isn’t about doing anything – but more about remembering and 

reconnecting to who we really are. Little children get this and that may be why 

many of us find them a joy to be around – they’re in the moment more closely 

connected to their source energy. Remembering has been defined as being in 

touch with our natural state of perfection. We can do this by re-establishing or 

reconnecting to our center point of love. 

When we are connected to source energy we feel good and are inspired to be and 

do all that we can. This is why it is critically important to notice or become aware of 

how we feel moment to moment. If we feel good something positive is about to 

show up – if we feel bad it is an immediate indicator that something that we don’t 

want is about to appear. 

The key is to focus on what we want, so that we can create the vibration level 

needed to attract what we want and expect for our life. 

It is important that we have a practice that enables us to create spacing and 

openness to receptivity by quieting the mind through meditation or melting. 

Ralph Simone

Staying Focused During the Holiday Season

The Holiday Season seems to be a BIG excuse for not sticking to any type of physical development plan. People who do not see themselves as having enough time to exercise have real problems making time to take care of their personal plant during the Holidays. This year consider giving yourself the gift of pysical renewal by making time to eat right and exercise.