Captured Moments

Finding our deepest Joy is accessing or remembering who we really are within.  We are 'knot' anxiety, we are 'knot' worry, we are 'knot' fear, we are 'knot' the past and we are 'knot' unhappiness.  We may experience those things throughout our human life from time to time but, in truth, we are 'knot' any of those negative thoughts and emotions that can prevent us from going higher in consciousness.  They actually distract us, bog us down and confuse us into operating as if the world is a negative place. Our life force is the same as the universal and cosmic life force.  At the core of that life force is Joy as a living and Loving Force.  That Joy is within us at all times.  We just have to remember that and consciously work to access it.  Joy in being alive matters, Joy in breathing in and out matters, Joy in knowing Love matters too.  Forgiveness and gratitude are energies to work with and allow into our lives.  Th...

If we define our emotional nature as our 'vital' layer of life related to the vitality we have for life, it is useful to see it as a pond.  If the water in our pond has become stagnant, old, dull or lifeless, we must revitalize it and re-energize it again.  Bring into it new life and luster.  Our emotional layer can become dull, stagnant and lifeless when we are too bogged down with the past old thoughts and feelings.  It can also feel this way when our emotional attachments to people have not be renewed.  In our unconsciousness and sub-consciousness, we can harbor ill will towards others who may have hurt us in the past and we may not even know it. Consciously, actively, we might not believe we feel this way but perhaps deep down, when we see them, something old might just become activated.  When we apply a daily, even hourly, ritual of loving, forgiving and releasing any and all old chords to people in our lives, with the positive intention of revita...

Almost everyone becomes angry, tense or stressed at some time, and hopefully when they do, they eventually find themselves entertaining or focusing on negative thoughts and/or negative feelings as the root cause of the misery. This is actually good news because it means with some practice, one can consciously turn that around and transform the negative into positive, relieving many of our ills.  It is quite human for us all to go through those phases.  Perhaps we simply picked them up from people around us and felt we were what was being projected.  Sometimes, old stuffed negative thoughts and feelings can truly erode away what is good, meaningful or important in our lives without our conscious awareness. Negativity is like a contagious disease, disabling our most positive outlook by pulling us down with it's incessant dark messages.  It takes vigilance to look a bit deeper when we begin to feel negative moods, stopping to search our thinking be...