So, how do we deal with this kind of change? Well, we can either wait until the tides turn, or we can do whatever we are able to do and then trust that life takes care of the rest.

What does this mean, in practical terms? It means that we have to learn to live with insecurity. Insecurity has its own wisdom – although very uncomfortable for the mind! The mind is fixed, the mind needs to know, the mind likes to plan – this is all left brain stuff. But, life is not in touch with your left brain. Life connects with you through your right brain, and the left brain is just a tool for expressing the inspiration and creativity that comes in through your right brain.

This is a very scary thought – that we have to do what we can, and then trust life, but it is actually the only way, because we are co-creators with life. We ARE life, we ARE creativity, the energy of source, or GOD, runs through us and what we believe about life is reflected back to us from everywhere. So, we must become more aware, what we create, and how we use the power of life. And, we must surrender to the waves, coming and going. Trying to stop the wave from waving is like trying to push the river uphill. Forget it. Just hold a clear vision of where you are going, and then trust that sooner or later, you’ll get there…

The mind is like your personal inner nag and negative critic. It stops you dead in your tracks at the first hint of inspiration, before you even finish your sentence in your head. The mind is there with a big club, and your fragile sprout of an idea is dead before you even had time to give birth to it!

I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie “Under the Tuscan Sun.” This lady is on a trip to Tuscany and sees a poster of a lovely little house. Another woman sees her interest and asks, “Are you going to buy it?” And she answers: “Oh, no, I couldn’t possibly, it is a terrible idea!” The other one answers: “Yes, a terrible idea… don’t you love those?”

Those are actually your best ideas! The terrible ones! Those are the ones that makes your mind shiver with fears, buts and great arguments why it will NEVER work!!!

Why does this happen? Why do we have this inner sludge of negativity that stops us from living life with passion and zest? What is this “mind” anyway?

Mind lives in the logical side of your brain, the left side, and it is actually only meant to be a tool for your divine expression. Unfortunately, it has forgotten this, and now it tries to take over your life completely! It rules through logic, reason, criticizm and arrogance, and unfortunately, it has the power to stop us dead in our tracks.

Why does logic have this kind of effect on us? Very simple. When you allow your intuition to speak, it comes from a dimension beyond the known, and it speaks about ideas, things and places that are new to you. Things that you have never done before, or places that you have never seen. It comes from the unknown, and it tempts and ushers you into the unknown as well.

The unknown is not compatible with your mind. To the mind, this kind of behavior looks like sheer madness, so it will convince you that you are either mad, or you must come to your senses! And, then, it starts moving like a yoyo, from past to future and back again.

It convinces you that you have no past experience with what you are about to embark on, which means that you don’t know where you are going either. If you learn from your past, you won’t make mistakes in the future. If you have no past experience, your future will be nothing but a total disaster, with one mistake leading to another! And what is the point of that??? Be reasonable! Think before you leap! And, besides, you are too old, and it is too late, and you won’t be any good at it anyway…

Oh, so convincing. How can you argue with such logic and reason? You make a deep sigh and resign to the fact that no matter how attractive your new ideas are, and no matter how much you want to jump into something new with zest and passion, you can see your courage floating out the window and disappearing back to where it came from in the first place, the source of infinite possibilities and unlimited potential!

However, there is one major fault with the mind, which it hides beautifully, and that is the fact that the mind is never actually here…
It gets its arguments from the past, which is already gone, and it projects its gloomy predictions into the future, which hasn’t happened yet, and it never stops right in between past and future, which is where we are. The past is gone, and the future hasn’t happened. In fact, the future NEVER happens because it is ALWAYS NOW! Now is all there is. And, when we forget that, we give mind all the power to destroy our lives.

The fact is, the mind has no power in the now. It doesn’t actually exist in the now. Only life exists here, and now. So, if you feel that your life is boring, meaningless, and has lost its attraction, and you are no longer excited about anything anymore, it only means one thing – you have allowed your mind to destroy your life!

Once you see this, there is hope. Once you see this, you can start over. New slate, new ideas, here and now… Mind, go away with all your negative ifs and buts… I’m no longer interested. This is my life, and while I’m here, I’m going to make sure I live it! That’s right, life is here to be lived to the fullest! Don’t miss the opportunity… Seize the day….

The thing is, this girl has a very special talent – she is absolutely awesome at painting and making jewelry. Her whole house is full of incredible necklaces and paintings. Making things out of beads makes her both happy and inspired. So what is wrong with this picture?

As I see it, she wasn’t born to work in some dead end job that she hates. What is the point of giving her incredible artistic talents, if she is only supposed to work for someone she hates? There is no point, and that is the core reason for her depression.

We are here to allow God, the universe, or whatever you choose to call it, to express itself through form. Because we are all born with our own unique sets of talents, the expression is going to be different from person to person. But if we choose to not let God express itself through our natural talents, we are actually comitting a crime by going against life itself.

We are here to be hollow bamboos. All we have to do is allow the energy of God to move through us, and the hollow bamboo will sing its own song!

How can you possibly be depressed if you are allowing yourself to be a hollow bamboo, singing your own song of uniqueness? Depression is actually a sign that you are NOT allowing yourself to be a hollow bamboo. Depression is actually a sign that you are wasting your life. Your being knows this, and you, or should I say your mind, is not listening to your inner voice. What would you do in your life, if you didn’t have any worries or responsibilities? What did you love to do as a child? Children are often much more plugged in to their nature than grown ups are, because we have forgotten who we are and why we are here. Very sad…
Life is too short to waste any time. Live now, because now is all there is! And, stop postponing your dreams…

I knew something wasn’t quite right when she all of a sudden turned up in the kitchen without grandma. When I asked where grandma was, she just shrugged her shoulders and said she didn’t know. So, I went to her room to see what had happened to grandma.

My daughter had a tiny little playtent in her room, and somehow, she had gotten grandma to crawl into the tent head first. And as soon as grandma was in the tent, she took off and left her there! Oh, boy!

Grandma eventually managed to wriggle herself out of the tent, and I had to have a talk with my daughter about how we can use words to communicate how we feel about things. No need to lure grandma into her tent and leave her there just to stop the game. But, I must admit, it was a very creative solution…

But, children don’t see things the way we do. A beautiful paperdoll, that may not even last through the day, may be worth $5.00 to a child, simply because they get to play with it as long as it lasts…

Anyway, I got the point. I started giving my kids $4.00 a week a few weeks ago. One of them saves up the money and buys things that he has wanted for a while, and the other one can’t wait to spend it every week, and then she wonders why she never has enough to buy what she really wants. It will be interesting to see if she’ll learn to save up for what she wants, too, eventually. I think these are important lessons to learn as early as possible, since many grownups still haven’t learned this, and they get in credit card trouble as a result.

However, we are working way too hard these days. My husband and I are in the beginning phases of building a new house. And by building a house, I don’t mean that we hire someone to do it for us. We are doing everything ourselves! Yesterday, I did the whole electrical layout for the project, because I do the electrics and the phone lines, and my husband does the plumbing, heating and everything else. How many people do you know that can actually build a house from beginning to end without hiring many different kinds of contractors? Very few, I’d say. But inspite of this, we are both basically unemployable because we have always worked for ourselves and have no resumes or work references from anyone, so nobody will hire us for anything. Something is definitely wrong with this system…

But, that wasn’t what I was going to talk about. The point is, we are working too hard at the moment, and have very little time to spend with our kids. So, on the weekends we take time off, and every Sunday we go to the local outdoor hotsprings swimmingpool to hang out and forget about work. The last time we were there, soaking in the warm water, our kids decided to buy a whole bag of big marshmallows with their allowance money, and they came and surprised us with the tasty treats. And, while I was soaking and eating marshmallows, which of course is something I wouldn’t have even considered buying, I enjoyed myself so much that I thought “This is it! This is life!” It is the little things that matter, especially if they are surprises! Who would have ever thought that eating marshmallows in a hotsprings swimmingpool could be so enjoyable? I’m very grateful to my kids for the experience…
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