Sit down for a minute and take a deep breath in. Good. Now tell me.  What's the first thought that comes into your head?

 

Is it that I really don't have time to be doing this?  Or have you immediately thought about the dishes, the ironing or I must take the dog for a walk?  How many times do we take all our attention to something else or something out there rather than taking a moment to connect to the wonderful being within?  Please don't berate yourself if you thought of things along those lines.  I know - we all do it.  Every time we try and take some time out, we feel guilt or feel lazy or just annoyed that our house is still a mess and there's a pile of paperwork to get through or there's a stash of laundry to be sorted.  We rarely give ourselves permission to enjoy being lost in the moment doing something fun, daydreaming or just taking a moment to simply 'be' - all of which ultimately brings us joy.  If we do, the nagging thoughts of idle hands creep in.  It happens every time, doesn't it?  

 

We have been programmed over many, many eons of time to constantly be looking outside of ourselves for the meaning of life or to find meaning to our existence; to be loved, liked, accepted and validated.  We've also been taught that idle hands lead to mischief.  God forbid we should sit and 'just be' for a moment.  What would people think?  We've all got a million things to do, places to be and people to catch up with and money to earn!  

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We have been moulded to think, act and feel in a certain way through our environment, our social norms, education system, our parental limitations and religious organisations and dogma.  In fact, so many conformities are inflicted ( and yes I use the word inflicted) because they are and we have learned to allow these afflictions to be inflicted because we have accepted the world the way we perceive it to be by others.   Consider a child at play.  Observe them and watch them.  If you look at children as a guide to behaviours, you will see they can be lost in their fantasy world for hours on end without a care in the world.  They have no sense of time, they have no guilt as to what they should be doing instead of being 'lost' in play.  Or they will say it exactly as they see it and behave in a way that shows you exactly how they feel.  They simply 'be' in the moment.  Oh to be that free again you might say.  Or you might say "yes" but children don't understand the complexities of adulthood or earning a crust etc.  In our idea of the world, they don't but do the birds in the sky or the fish in the sea has the same 'misunderstanding?'  Or do they just trust in the cycle of life?  Children have that trust also.

 

You might say that children need boundaries. Yes, they do when they are hitting another child over the head with a toy truck or not understanding why it is nice to share the last piece of birthday cake.  But if we were to view life through the lens of a child's, we may very well service ourselves so much better in the process.  I do not mean service ourselves in a service to the self way (i.e we ride roughshod over other people to get what we want kind of selfishness) but rather, we need to find the path of least resistance, the middle way as the Buddhists teach, the way to our joy in all we do and encounter.   And if we are meeting resistance, it is imperative to our journey to ask ourselves why? The why is usually a lesson to be learned which hasn't been learned so far in our lives. Or it could be a trauma left unhealed and buried deep within the soul or it could be a deep conditioning/programme that keeps on running and running causing us to keep on running and running away from confronting the very issue we need to face - ourselves and what lies beneath.   

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What say you to a moment or two of being 'lost' in the moment yourself?  To take some time to daydream, to doodle, to just sit and listen to the cars go by (there's a lot to be said for the continental cafe by the roadside to sit and people watch) or the wind rustles the leaves in the trees. Taking time out for yourself to smell the roses is not simply a luxury but is a necessity for health and wellbeing on such a fundamental level that it should be taught in our homes, schools and workplaces.   The wheels of industry have ploughed on ahead but have ridden roughshod over the very essence of what it is to be human; our raison d'etre - to find our joy in all things.  To feel that joy within our very being.  

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The powers that be in our society have done a very good job keeping our focus on how we should look, what we should buy, what job we must do to be recognised as worthy, what music we should listen to, what clothes we should wear to fit in, why we should pay extortionate amounts of money on products for an endless variety of things in our lives to make our lives 'simply fantastic'.  The marketing industry have played a blinder on us from their very inception.  They have preyed on our misery and dissatisfaction in life (planted in our psyches by them)  and our disconnection to Source by providing the next big 'solution' to end our misery.  The prized jewel always seems to lose its sparkle as the attainment loses its lustre.   Just like the thrill of the chase is always more fun than devouring the prey.  Once that adrenaline hit dies, we are left with the lull and that feeling of 'oh - is that it?'  All too often the addictive craving for the next hoop to jump through appears as always like an encroaching tornado in the distance picking up speed to whip us up again in that frenzy of want once more. 

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Let's examine this a little further.  The powers that be or the 1% elite have systematically enslaved us in a culture of work on an ever-increasing escalator of time management that serves only them.  We are unable to function without a diet of Netflix, the latest update from the Kardashians or the brand new innovation for wrinkles washed down with a caseload of wine, soda and junk food - a wee treat after a hard day's work.  No blame assigned here - again - another wasted emotional blackmail message to our already dented life in a perpetuating cycle of mind control.   

 

So what to do about it now that we can recognise their game plan to control and enslave us?  First, we have to sit and recognise the may myriad of ways in which they entrap us in the embroidery of this fabric of life as we know it in our third-dimensional world of material things.  

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It starts in the womb, so as tiny foetuses, we are at the mercy of our physical mother as to what she eats to nurture us, how she manages stress, what circumstances she finds herself in.  Is she living in fear or anger?  Are we a wanted baby or not? Is there worry from our mothers for all the conditions we know a mother worries about to protect her child?  Or not?  All these hormonal shifts and nutritional variances play a big part in our early development.    Then once born, how we are nurtured and cared for and loved plays such a big part as to whom we become and how our social behaviours play out in the world around us.   As small children, we are still at the mercy of the adults that surround us whether in the home, our school environment or the media machine in all its forms that encroaches into our lives for the better or for the worst.   We are taught that we must look outside ourselves for truth, answers to life's questions and what we need on every level to both survive and thrive in the world.   We are taught how to think, how to feel and how to be in this world in which we live.  

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In truth, we have forgotten that we are beings of light.  As we come into this earthly world,  it seems we need to forget we are multi-dimensional beings having a human experience.  We don't necessarily have to work out the why to this mystery but simply to recognise it to be so and where we go from here to use this knowledge to our advantage and know that we can re-write our script to the life we want to lead and the experiences within it.  We are creator beings and to know this profound truth is the first step on the ladder of life as we know it. 

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How about imagining yourself at a crossroads.  Take the left fork and it takes you down the same road you have travelled so far.   For those familiar with the movie The Matrix, you would select the blue pill and keep on going with the life you have, completely oblivious to another.  Or you take the right fork or red pill and see life through a different lens and decide to find out a little bit more about the power you hold inside;  how to break free of the matrix of life as you know it, Jim (to quote another well-known television programme).  Finding out you are living in The Truman Show or finding the man behind the curtain isn't a great wizard in The Wizard of Oz after all is a bitter pill to swallow indeed.   But I promise you, the road less travelled is indeed a path of enrichment and enlightenment like the one you have never seen!  Its delights are more alluring than any treasure you could find on the Silk Road to Paradise.   The journey may be arduous at times, dangerous even and painful but the Garden of Eden awaits those brave enough to take on the Quest of the Soul to find the way back home.    

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