The Practice of Your Life

The Exercise and Pursuit of a Consciously Created Life

Insect Messenger

Jan 08
2009

As I sat in my practice of gratitude and positive intentions, alignment with the Universe … blah, blah, blah … I was feeling very good and perhaps a little proud of myself.  I’m learning, practicing and inventing technology that works and I have traveled far on the road to Mastery.

Then I felt something crawl on the back of my neck, and as I reached my hand to dust whatever it was off, I felt the sharp, intense, electrifying and mind-focusing pain of an insect sting. And this guy was skilled in the arts of Applied Pain.

I jumped out of my chair and tore my shirt off to make sure it hadn’t got down my back to cause more damage, but there was no need.  My Ninja… Continue reading

Your Physical Space and You

Jul 02
2008

Here’s something that I’ve noticed recently. I don’t say my prayers the way I used to. Yes I say my prayers. My mother will be very happy to know that.

You see I recently moved and this ritual fell out at exactly the time I changed location. It occurs to me that in my old apartment I had a physical space all set out that was right there “in my face” so to speak and it just made doing this ritual (of praying) very easy. The environment I had created “called this action forth”, as my old coach would say. My new environment does not have room for such a space and I now have to remind myself to do this practice.

This topic also came up in a course I’m doing… Continue reading