A FUTURE FILLED WITH HOPE
Have you ever wondered why we need to go to the mountains, or to the sea? It’s for so many reasons. We do it for our connection to the earth, to nature, but also to that special experience that it gives us. It’s called appreciation, its called wonderment. It’s typical for most people to experience that in nature. When you are walking on the beach and looking at all the grains of sand, or counting the leaves on the forest floor, there is an immense sense of awe and wonder for the intelligence behind this life of ours. Maybe when you are basking in the natural wonder of scenery that takes your breath away, you experience the appreciation of something much bigger and beyond you comprehension.
That is the natural state of the human. We are natural creatures of praise and gratitude. Nature is a place that brings it out in us. The four walls in a store in a parking lot doesn’t seem to evoke that appreciation so much. So we look for it. We look for that natural connection that all of us have with in us, but we look on the outside and search for something more.
It is a very real thing to turn the awareness back inward and to experience the gratitude within, even in the midst of evening traffic. The thing that we are looking for is within us.
Amazingly, by allowing that natural movement and recognition of who you are you experience of life starts to flow with the praise and gratitude in everything you do.
A natural side affect is that the mind dictates to the body. When the mind is focused on appreciation and gratitude, the messages that are being sent to the body are of calm and coherence. The body then has the ability to distress, detoxify and to heal and a deeper, greater functioning level. We have treated the body as the main need for improvement, but it is simply the receiver of the messages that the mind is sending to it. If we are living in a world that appears fearful, unstable and insecure then those are the messages that the body responds too. It creates chaos within our body. The mind has to be recognised as the master that it is. All our mental and physical suffering comes from the mind.
We are in a time when we are starting to hear about this a lot from big scientific studies, a lot of renowned authors and doctors. But what do we do to change the way things have been, into a brighter future. It comes back it us. It is up to us to change our unconscious thinking and reaction patterns within us. We then become the connection we have been searching for. We become able to experience the awe we have in nature in our daily lives, no matter what we are doing.
Beyond the chatter in our head, beyond the scattered ness and lack of direct, beyond the boredom and feeling of incompleteness, beyond the need to do and achieve something is a place. It’s a place within every one of us that isn’t in lack or need of something. It’s instead full and complete. It is the completion that we look for in the forest or in nature. It is the connection to something greater that has the intelligence to hold all of this creation in balance. It is the feeling of peace, contentment and joy. It’s also the feeling of being safe and that everything is ok.
It’s the joy that you see in the eyes of the spontaneous child, the love of the newlyweds and the wonder in the father watching his child being born. It’s the immensity of life itself, and we don’t have to go anywhere to look for it. It already resides within you, all the time. We simply don’t see it.
Most of us are conditioned over time and from our life to do, to achieve, to look further, try harder. We are actually trained to not be content with what already is. We, as humans need to experience that contentment. It’s a natural makeup of who we are, so we look for it in sport, in relationships, in careers and in holidays. We look so hard for… peace.
I want the world to experience what I experience. I want to joy to return to everyone’s experience and for people to know that there is a greater reason to why we are here. The world is an amazingly wonderful, exciting place to live in. It is not something to lock ourselves from. It is an adventure of discovery, and the greatest adventure is to discover that joy and peace within ourselves.
I think it would be incredible to bring into schools the teaching of this truth. To allow the children to experience the joy, peace and freedom of who they are and the wonderful world in which they are growing up in. Most young children already know they are not their thoughts, and that they are greater than their bodies, but they start to forget by the age of ten. I teach techniques that help you to stay connected to that experience within you. There is no need for the children to forget and to go through their lives into a downward spiral of uncertainty and concern.
I would love to offer this to the youth, and to see them begin to reclaim the focus, the direction and the calm within. There is no need for violence, trying to prove who you are and trying to fit into some one else’s ideals. The freedom to be you comes from the power within not in the expression on the outside.
By allowing our own experience to change into one of appreciation we start to see that we have the power of choice. The power comes back to us. It’s our perception of the world that causes the concern or the joy. It is up to us.
By following the perception of appreciation, that naturally leads into gratitude. The gratitude for life, for this world and for each other. Also, more importantly, the gratitude for our individual self. That then leads into natural love. A love without conditions is your true nature. We are supposed to experience, express and live that love, but that’s not the case. It’s a very easy thing to rediscover. The future for all people is to discover that beauty within our own self. We are that connection, we are that love. It’s a very real, grounded expansive way to live. There is no one who should be an exception to experiencing this. Most children already know this, but need something to keep this way of living real for them. The youth need to rediscover it, and as adults, most of us believe it’s not possible. “This is our life in this uncertain world and this is as good as it gets.” That is not true, there is more, so much more. And it’s readily available. Most people just need a technique to help rediscover that inner stability for themselves.
The future then is exciting. Life is an adventure and people are these beautiful expressions of that greatness that nature has always shown us.
The practical and easy to use techniques that are taught by the Ishayas’ Ascension has the ability to transform your life. www.ishaya.org
Taught over Mexico and in other countries in English and Spanish. Contact the Guadalajara centre for details.
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