Authentic Living Works

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it."  ~William James

If, as James suggests, authenicity of being requires 'that particular mental attitude' that is in alignment with the feeling of being deeply and vitally alive' how do you recognize the attitude and how do you develop it in yourself?

By adopting a focus upon living with authenticity; being true to the nature of you.

"The chief cause of human error is to be found in prejudices picked up in childhood."
~ Descartes

You and me; all of us were born into this life without prejudice. We learn it along our pathway through life as: social institutions, governmental institutions, family members, religious institutions and special interest groups all seek to provide us with a mental-emotional framework designed to enhance our individual and collective compliance with their goals and objectives.

"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."  ~William Hazlitt

When you are constantly being fed messages of intolerance you become conditioned to view your world through eyes clouded by ignorance. The special interest groups that peddle hate and prejudice are seeking to manipulate and control you by withholding the truth and substituting, in its place: lies, half-truths and distortions

It is the dawning of your awakening; time to take command of your mental-emotional environment. It is time to assert your influence over your life and affairs.

"In becoming fully human, we are called to be individuals. We are called to be unique and different."

~ M. Scott Peck

It's your time to tune in to living your life authentically.

What is authentic living and how do you achieve it, you might ask?

Boiling it all down to its core; authentic living involves accessing awareness of your true nature and living in accord with those insights.

Being able to access and trust your inner wisdom allows you know who you truly are and what it will take to make you happy.

Giving yourself happiness is a gift that continues to give a wealth of physical, emotional and spiritual benefits, These gifts are doubly powerful in that they are heart-centered created and received,

• They require and provide enhanced and aligned vibrational frequency; which opens you to still greater mastery.
• Each gift awakens you to enhanced self-perception; love in expression.
•  These 'happiness gifts' forge a trusting bond between your heart-center and your inner wisdom; when these 2 are in alignment, the programming -imposed limits drift away as you are freed to engage life more fully.

Are you ready for Authentic living?  If so here are some powerful keys; remember you are the driver:

• Focus your awareness upon what comes naturally to you.
• Expect the very best from life; you deserve it.
• Be vigilant in seeking insights into who you are.
• Write down your insights into an insight journal; that will provide you with greater depth of understanding and growth.
• Take note of those things you naturally do well.
• Honor the feedback your emotions provide you; they are revealing your deeply held thoughts and attitudes.
• Create a judgement-free zone in your relationship with yourself.
• Live each moment as a joy-filled experience by intentionally seeking out experiences and relationships that make you smile.
• Learn  to trust and rely upon your inner-wisdom as your guide.

These keys will assist you to turn up your energy frequency and to enhance your relationship with the universe. You are the master/mistress of your experience.

Let me close today's post with some powerful thoughts that I excepted from the 2013 Commencement address at Harvard by transformational figure, Oprah Winfrey who encouraged the assembled graduates to consider...

"...if you're willing to listen; to be guided by that still-small-voice, that is the GPS within yourself, to find out what makes you come alive; you will be more than ok. You will be happy; you will be successful and you will make a difference in the world."
~Oprah Winfrey

As always, please feel free to share this blog with those you are guided to and also enter into the dialog here by leaving comments; and, yes, authentic living works! Let it work for you.

Namaste,

Dave Kenyon

Copyright © 2013 David N. Kenyon. All rights reserved.

Occupy Your Self: Your Personal Spiritual Development .

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”~ Oscar Wilde

However, the central-core aim of Occupy Yourself is  embracing the model of leading from within!!!

Welcome back, fellow travelers; to our continued search for enlightened awareness of what it takes to truly set yourself free. Yes free from the entrapment of fear-based beliefs that are holding you hostage to a outdated and inaccurate worldview that stiffels your natural inclination toward living with personal authenticity.


That sure was a mouthful. Let's break it down to look at how fear-based beliefs act like placing 2 magnets (with negative or positive polarities in close proximity between the 2 magnets); they repel one another.

In a vibrational universe, such as we live within, harmonious vibrations align and in-harmonious vibrations repel. The thoughts and emotions that are embedded within your personal matrix either magnetize you with your dreams and aspirations or frustrate you with how they appear to move closer and yet seem to remain elusive. You must be in vibrational alignment with the vibration of that which you seek to incorporate into your personal matrix.

"Someone who takes the time to understand their relationship with source, who actively seeks alignment with their broader perspective, who deliberately seeks and finds alignment with who-they-really-are, is more charismatic, more attractive, more effective, and more powerful than a group of millions who have not achieved this alignment."

~Abraham-Hicks

How have you gotten so out of alignment with that which you covet most is a oft-held frustration-point? Here are some of the sources of this disharmony of thought/feeling and what is behind them:

• You and I and all humans have been awash in social conditioning; from birth through our current time.
• This social-conditioning by many special interest groups using their money and political leverage to have their ideas and focuses become part of our social compact.
• Science has demonstrated that fear is the most powerful motivator.
• First we are exposed to mass consciousness bombarding of fear-based beliefs; things you and I are informed we should be afraid of.
• Second these beliefs are reinforced through a media whose corporate interest is drawing attention to their brand through reporting focused upon the sensational.
• Political manipulation is further involved through laws focused upon social manipulation/control. It's for your own good; you are told.
• Additionally, we are taught to act in a very tribal manner as we are being conditioned to mistrust one another.

“The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.”   ~Stephen R, Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons of Personal Change 

In our "conditioned" society we are molded away from the natural to artifically induced insights; we move away from self-trust to self-doubt. We move from true fear(those things that may truly hurt us) to artificially-induced fear. 

The fight or flight response is a natural reaction we have when a fear-based dynamic is present. When we are taught to fear someone or something; that same fight or flight response occurs.

Emotionally, we are constantly reacting when one of these artifically induced fears is present. Over time, the body develops stress-based illness; physical and/or emotional.

Aligning with the inner-divine is about learning to listen to and trust your 'inner voice'. Your voice within; your link to divine source energy/God.


We are further encouraged to focus upon duality (our differences)at the expense of the more natural idea of 'oneness' the interconnectedness of all things (What we have in common); by special interest and media groups.

"It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you."

 ~Russell Brand 

The mass media, at the behest of special interest groups, is constantly attempting to frame your thoughts and discourse with others. To seperate and divide us into tribal camps with no affinity between them; leading us to arguements and fights which keep our collective focus from the realization of our commonality and mutual interests.

“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.”
~William Bernbach

In the video below, by David Wilcock, lecturer, researcher and filmmaker, he discusses his viewpoint on 'occupy yourself' as a process of spiritual development. Further, he elaborates upon the use of divination tools and meditation to enhance your ability to occupy yourself.

Please relax and take a few minutes to view

David Wilcock Occupy Your Self:

 Personal Spiritual Development

 

I hope you gained awareness of yet another insight relating to the occupy yourself evolutionary impulse; a rising tide of those coming to awareness of our true state of oneness and it's societal implications.

It is my intention here to share with you further information

on two tools David speaks about in his video; divination and meditation.

 

The Divination Tool

"Authentic divination systems passed down by our ancestors are our sacred heritage. From a practical point of view, their ability to provide fresh guidance through the changes of our lives and world is our collective good fortune. They help us satisfy our primordial need to better understand life and our place in the Universe."

~Paul O'Brian

For one significant resource for greater insight into the nature and knowledge of divination please visit  Divination Foundation ! Expand your awareness as to this valuable tool for spiritual growth and enhanced alignment with the divine within.

 

The Meditation Tool

As with the tool of divination, now it's time to offer some insight into the tool of meditation.  I can think of no one more able to offer you insight into the practice of meditation than Deepak Chopra.

Even if you are a lifelong meditator; I believe you will find value in checking out the resource of The Chopra Center!

"Meditation is a tool for the re-discovery of the body's own inner intelligence. Practiced for thousands of years, it's not about forcing the mind to be quiet, it's finding the silence that's already there and making it a part of your life. From this field of pure potentiality we get our bursts of inspiration, our most intuitive thoughts, and our deepest sense of connection to the universe."

The Chopra Center

You have greatness within you; once your dedicated focus is upon occupy yourself, you are encouraging and supporting it's coming out party!

Yet, you and I have choices and each choice has consequences and reveals an aspect of you and me as we move forward from that choice-point.

We can express our inner greatness...

Or we can express the fear were are conditioned with.

 "Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness." ~Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Don't elect to play small by making fear-based choices.

The choice is up to you.   Please choose, using the lens of unconditional love; your gateway to unleashing your inner greatness!

Namaste,

Dave Kenyon