Life-Transforming Events in the Ups and Downs of Life

Without a doubt, it isn’t pleasant to go through hard times—like struggles with finances, illnesses, breakups, death, various losses and more. But it can absolutely shift your ground of being, and you will never be the same. Many human beings in some cultures and circumstances all over the globe are subject to lifetimes of protracted suffering. That’s not what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about people on a path of inner growth and transformation who undergo the deep ups and downs of life. These events and experiences, both physical and emotional, can create absolute and profound breakthroughs.

I fully believe that it’s crucial to allow yourself to experience what you really feel and what’s going on inside of you before you transform it. It’s the art of paying attention to places inside of you in which you’re hiding your power under old limitations, emotions, patterns, and ways of understanding your life. When you pay full attention, you’re then able to release and transform everything and become free.

Seven Life-Altering Breakthroughs

You are being asked by the universe to reinvent yourself, and you’re given that opportunity. Years ago I needed to live in a tent for a while. It started out as an adventure, but that didn’t last. I was used to a house with a bed and a rug—so when it started to rain and became very uncomfortable, it became an experience of deep stress. At a fair, a wandering minstrel came up to me and whispered two lines to me: “Since my house burned down/ Now I have a better view of the rising moon.” This clicked deeply in me, and from this point on, I opened up to a greater understanding, and I began to morph into a different person—more open, courageous, and unattached to things being exactly as I wanted them to be.

You are being asked by the universe to find a sanctuary inside yourself—the abode of your Higher Self. There is a place you can go to when you want to or need to that is untouched by anything in the world. You can get there through meditation or other routes. It’s a state of pure awareness, something you’re born with, that is a place of unconditional peace within your soul. Here’s something I wrote about that many years ago:

In the middle of the right and the wrong,
There is a stillness in my being.
There is a place where my ego is not bruised,
Where my heart is not hurt, where I am neither victim nor victimizer. This is the still point where all voices stop,
Where I am just peace.
When the world is loud or unfeeling, if I am disappointed,
The still place within me stands as a pillar of quiet light,
Of divine silence and protection and peace.

You’re given the chance to burn off your karma, to undergo something that is difficult so that you can dissolve all obstacles and impediments to a higher way of being. In an odd way, it’s like burning off calories—but much deeper. It’s like allowing old impediments you’ve been carrying for eons to dissolve like melting ice cubes on a hot sidewalk in the sun.

You can develop qualities in yourself that are greater and stronger than you’ve ever known. At the end of relationships and old attachments, for example, you can become more independent, free from clinging, and more discerning. For me, when relationships ended, something powerful came forth from within me. I developed new qualities, like a certain empowerment, that took me to a new level of life.

You can shift your thought forms and cognitions. You can go from “poor me,” for example, to “I am transforming my life now, and I am the power of healing.” Instead of feeling totally oppressed by what you consider a fate of doom, you can cognize that the universe is operating with a hidden kind of compassion that is taking you to a more enlightened life.

You can expand your understanding about the way the universe operates. You can see that there’s a kind of constant rebirth taking place. Things get taken away, and yet the new is coming in. You adopt a larger vision to see not just the microcosm, but a larger picture, and you understand that you are being sculpted into your greatest self.

You’re learning the art of releasing and letting go. You’re learning to shed your old skin, to renounce something that is outworn and no longer needed for this new phase of your life. As you release attachment, you enter an expanded level of your being.

There’s an art to seeing and understanding through the vehicle of your innate wisdom, to constantly know how to release, let go, reframe, transform, and come into an expanded reality. You will then be propelled into states of enlightenment and love. Everything is made of higher consciousness, and when you understand that and go beyond the ordinary difficulties of things, you lead an uplifted life.

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There’s violence everywhere—on our screens, in families, in the world of nature, in our neighborhoods and battlefields and on the global scene.
The leaders say, “We will change our legislation.”
“We will prosecute the violent ones.”
“We will give them the death penalty,” others say.

One magic word

But if you really want to do something to reduce your own contribution to the violence of the world, there is a beautiful way. There’s one word that tells us what we really need to do, and that word is “Ahimsa.” It’s an unspoken vow that means “nonviolence” in Sanskrit, and it tells you how best to act if you want to lead an enlightened and nonviolent life.

Many people know this song: “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.” Let me be a person of nonviolence in my thoughts, my words, and my deeds.

So, if you do want this, how can you do it?

Ask yourself questions like these:
When I eat, do I stab my food with my fork?
Do I shove the food into my mouth?
Do I grab things?
Do I pound on the computer keys or on a person?
What do I say when things are taking longer than I like?
What do I say to you when you’re doing something I don’t like?
Do I generalize about a group when one of its humans does something I don’t like?
Do I think negative thoughts about myself when I feel I’m not measuring up in some way?
Do I speak negatively about someone to others?
Do I wish anyone didn’t exist?
Do I enjoy it when people are beaten to a pulp in games or videos?
Do I hate a lot?
Do I disparage people?
And more….

Why Ahimsa?

Why be non-violent? Isn’t violence just a passionate way to express yourself?
The trouble with any violence is that it builds up. It creates pollution in the air, and in building up to a fever pitch, it creates the violence in the world that we don’t want.

Do you have to be perfect?

No—unless you are. And everyone is in essence. Just be aware by observing your own being— its thoughts, words, and activities. This needs to happen with absolute non-judgment—just seeing and knowing that violence is an option, and you have freedom to shift it if you want. You can create inner and outer peace in the world by watching what you’re doing from the space of the witness.

Why Ahimsa for you?

If you get that you’re a powerful being and you take responsibility for the violence within you that also emanates from you, you realize that it materializes into the violence of the world. By embracing ahimsa, you’ve done something monumental to decrease the violence of the world.

By clearing out violence from yourself and your microcosm of a world, you’ll also have very good vibrations, and you’ll be someone who magnetizes people to you. You can be passionate and “ferocious”—but it doesn’t need to come from a space of violence. It doesn’t mean that you take whatever is dished out to you either. It doesn’t mean that you have to be perfect. But you now have evidence that there’s a space inside you that is releasing violence and opening to a more enlightened ground of being.

It might mean that you choose a more peaceful diet, called “sattvic,” and that you choose to have more peaceful relationships. It means that you don’t have to accept the craziness of the world, and instead create a life that is sane.

The Swami and the Finger

Bhagawan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam, the great incarnation from Bidadi, India was riding in a limo with one of his disciples. In India, they were used to honking, but they were not used to what followed next in the United States. One man rolled down his window and thrust this middle finger in the air. The swami asked what that might be about. “That’s a bad word, Swamiji,” said his Disciple, and Swamiji asked more about it. Then he began to laugh. Instead of seeing this as a potentially violent gesture, Swamiji turned it around and said: Let’s call it a mudra, (a finger healing gesture). Let’s use it when we have old incomplete patterns and issues we don’t want any more in this life. So he said, “Whenever you have any incompletions, just show finger to them! He laughed and called it the “mathya maituna mudra.” The Show Finger healing pose! And that’s how you can reframe and transform violence in the world to make something useful for your life.” Show finger! It did not come from violence. Instead it sent a message.

If you want peace, let it begin with you…

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Years ago I was going through almost inhuman stress. I was teaching high school in 1969, and the kids were creating revolution by ringing the fire bells incessantly, setting fire to the American flag, and throwing cups and flying saucers around in the lunchroom. I did my best to break up fights and create order, as that was part of my job (in addition to being an educator!), and on the surface I seemed centered and in charge. But underneath, I was a wreck. I’d go home at night and stare at the walls trying to get centered. I did everything I knew how to do to heal my headaches. This was in Chicago, and soon I made a decision to move back to California, where I had previously lived before I took a detour in Chicago. Someone I knew suggested that I try yoga. I didn’t know a lot about it at the time, but I decided to go to a class in San Francisco.

I was in for a huge surprise. The class was in a center created from a converted Victorian building. I climbed some winding stairs slowly because I wanted to take this experience in. The smells and the scents were intoxicating—fresh baking and incense—and there was a relaxing feeling as if people had been meditating there for centuries. The class was on the top floor, which had sprawling green plants situated around the edges, and a large skylight to let in the sun and grow the green plants. The yoga was so relaxing! It began to melt away my accumulated stress and carry me into another dimension.

And the greatest part of this was at the end of the deep relaxation process, quietly relaxing every muscle, every nerve, every bone, I was transported into a realm that I could only dream about before this. And I said to myself: “This is what I’ve been looking for. This is the answer for me. No more headache pills. Do this instead. This is the real thing!”

And from that moment, I decided that pursuing this state of being had to be the aim of my life. Subsequently, I took up yoga and learned deeper meditation, became a yoga teacher, read profound books on healing and spiritual life.

To find this relaxing transcendent place inside my being was the most important part of my life. But why?

• It took me closer to my soul, here I found another way of looking at things that at one point were uncomfortable or troubling or even innocent. But I always found a new way to view them.
• It healed my body and quieted my mind.
• It provided a sanctuary where I could go to find my real self and take time off from the world as it is.
• It centered me, reminded me that I’m more that just this body and mind, this identity that the world sees. There’s much more here.
• It proved to be the core of excellence and higher understanding.
• It was the way to evolve to higher and higher levels of understanding and perception.
• It was and is a perfect way to raise the quality of my existence.

I don’t proselytize and tell people they have to do what I did—but I stand as a possibility for people who are looking for more meaning and for a way to deepen and expand the quality of their lives.

To go deep inside and find out what’s there, to take a minute to see and feel the profound vibration that always exists –this is a high pinnacle of human life.

Come join me in my program “Ageless Transformation,” a program for people in their 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond to raise the quality of existence for ourselves and for the world.

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Do you tend to catastrophize, to create the Worst Possible Scenarios or imaginary catastrophes for the events of your life? Is everything a potential disaster for you? Do you tend to think depressive thoughts, to feel that you won’t be able to be happy? Do you think anxiety thoughts, creating all kinds of dangers for yourself, most of them in your lively imagination? Do you tend to obsess, to keep going over and over certain thoughts? Watch also how your inner personalities are taking control in certain situations as “Poor Me” or “Not Okay” or “Have to Be Perfect to Be Loved.

Stand back and become the witness of your thoughts and inner personalities. Become aware of the kinds of thoughts you habitually think.

When you stand back and observe, you begin to get some degree of objectivity. It works to affirm who you really are, to tell the truth to all other inner influences, to remind them over and over again:

“I AM the power of healing, and I AM healing myself now”
“All the cells of my body, all the powers of my mind are healing me now.”

Using the words “I AM” to begin your affirmation helps bring your essence in to help with any situation. If you are going through a particularly difficult time, such as a time of anxiety or depression, you can watch the thoughts that come up, and every time they do, you can say, “No, that’s not so. I am healing myself now.”

Being able to watch yourself more objectively can help to free you from the bondage of repetitive thoughts or from stubborn inner personalities. When you get in touch with your essence by relaxing and centering yourself, you have greater ability to be objective and to bring your strength, wisdom, and love in to heal your situation.

Finding Your Essence to Heal your Mind

If you look beyond your personality, your everyday difficulties, your public faces, you will find your own essence. It has qualities of love and strength and peace, although it really none of these qualities, but an all-pervading energy. To truly know it, it is most often necessary to go within through meditation, hypnosis, contemplation, or prayer; but you can experience it at any moment as you go about the course of your life.

And no matter what you have been through in your lifetime—no matter how unworthy you feel, or how much guilt you may be dragging along, or how many times you feel you have failed —there is an inner core beyond all of this drama of life. Your personality is only one level of your identity. The essential level is your core, and it is who you are in the most fundamental way.

You get cut off from your natural self at an early age, and you forget what’s there at your nucleus. You believe your own story. You think you’re the one who has failed at relationships, the one who has made so many mistakes, the one who is so badly abused or who abuses. This is your surface self, and it is important because it is your opportunity for learning. It is your vehicle for operating in the world. But you need to define yourself more broadly and to remember your love, power, energy, and creativity—and to extend these naturally healing elements to those parts of yourself that are in need of healing. The times you felt especially strong, creative, loving or peaceful, are reflections of essence. And it is always powerful to remember it.

• You might like to read more about this, along with many healing stories in my book Healing is Remembering Who You Are.

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When you stand back and look with all your three eyes, you can see a larger picture of the Coronavirus than the powers that be are presenting to you. There is a cosmic perspective to understand. I don’t confess to know everything about it—especially where it came from (though I suspect that it has been planted here). I don’t profess to know everything about how it works. But I can see that there is a much bigger picture to view.

My view tells me that the Coronavirus is given to us to wake us up to the evolutionary potentials that are deeply significant for our lives. A change of consciousness on planet earth is at hand. Daily life is being disrupted so that a new perception can take place. New behaviors can take place. If you just sleepily move through the daily schedules of your life, you will be in your normal trance, and you won’t likely be able to see what’s happening behind the scenes.

You are evolving in your consciousness, and there are many factors at stake.

1. You are here to understand Oneness, which means that you and everyone else are made of the same substance, the same fabric. You have been sculpted out of the same material as everyone else, and when you tear away all the facades of daily life, you are given an opportunity to see Oneness. This is important to your evolution.
2. You are here to understand that things are not what they seem. You have been programmed to see the forms that your culture wants you to see. In this way of understanding, Coronavirus is a mortal enemy and something to be feared. But in the Cosmic view, it is much more. It is an Agent of Change, and it is here to take you to a higher level of consciousness.
3. It is here to knock the fear out of your system by bringing it forth in all its terrible trembling power. You fear death. You fear change. You fear other people. You fear being out of control. And it is understandable. But the great Universe is asking you to open up to something much greater than all your preconceived notions about what is real. The challenge is to open up the rigid mold and see what’s inside. The challenge is to see that death is not your enemy, and change is necessary. Yes, this can be very scary, but there is more here to be understood.
4. Evolution is inevitable now. Evolving your perception, your body, your emotions is necessary now in order for all of us to handle the social, political, personal shifts that are taking place in the environment, our politics, in our personal relationships. We must evolve.

It is for others to conjecture whether or not dark forces or extraterrestrials have set off this virus—either to harm or save humanity. I do ask all of us to examine our fears and programmed reactions and do everything we can to awaken. The time is now for lifestyle transformation—looking at the consciousness in our food choices, our addictive habits, our judgments of those who are working toward this awakening. The time is now to willingly move and be moved to a higher level of life. Yes, it’s a crisis. And as the ancient Chinese wisdom tells us: “Crisis is danger and opportunity.” It’s a time to awaken in multidimensional ways.

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