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The ISNESS of the NOW moment.

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The leafless trees during fall and winter helped me come into an inter realization about not judging a situation base on physical appearance.

Accepting what is

I have come to realize and accept the Buddhism’s definition and answer to the notion of Universal Human suffering, to be practical and true. This is not now my primary state of initial response to the ISNESS of the NOW moment of life as most human Beings have been socialized to BE. This as the teachings of Buddhism explains it, is the reason why we suffer. This would need to be put in context and have the following questions explored, addressed and possibly answered so that anyone can grasp it’s Universal Principle and TRUTH:

  • Why do we suffer?
  • What really is suffering?
  • How can we view and embrace suffering differently?
  • If we accept our so-called suffering aren’t we saying it is good?

I explored the above questions are explored in detail in the following vBlog:

However I am humbled in the awareness not to judge my current LIFE situations but observe and acknowledge every MOMENT to be more empowered not to JUDGE by appearance.

I now embrace and have come to realize and recognize that there is no final destination to arrive at but a CONSTANT state of BEING filled with alertness and awareness.

Please don’t try to intellectually understand or realize the fundamental and spiritual truth of this very power FACT, for as it is put forward in one of the World’s major religious belief system’s writings; that “things of the spirit can only be discerned spiritually“.

Which is usually when the truth of a message connects invisibly with the TRUTH of your inner BEING, where all truths lie waiting for the second coming of your realization of your Christ-like divinity. At which point the words ALWAYS becomes flesh and you have what some call an Aha! moment.

I call it “I die minutely for the inner resurrection of the Christ-like mind in me”, some call it the second coming of Jesus Christ.

This STATE of BEING more readily embraced and developed by anyone will allow for a more authentic and empowering experiencing of the this EXPERIENCE we call LIFE. For it allows for every Human BEING to readily available to take FULL responsibility for EVERYTHING appearing in our individual lives.

…. Not as a victim of any situation or event but as an Empowered BEING of the Energy, who has the FREE WILL to CHOOSE how to embrace every NOW moment and the VERY NEXT moment in the ETERNAL NOW moment in time. Namaste

We are ENERGY in constant MOTION.

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After years of conscious self exploration and self evaluation, I would have to agree with the notion that everything in the physical Universe is really ENERGY in Constant MOTION; including us – HUMAN BEING.

Therefore you and me along with every other human being are really BEING of ENERGY clothed in FLESH.
Infact even our flesh, bones and all other physical stuff that make us appears at the visible level of expression IS invisible ENERGY or non-material stuff that is vibrating at a relatively slow speed that causes it to appear solid as against its TRUE nature of invisible energy vibration or energy in motion.
  • It is AT our energy vibration level of being that everything in our physical Universe that every is created or caused to become manifested as our daily reality.
  • Unfortunately most of our physical creation or manifestations has it origin in FEAR based energy vibration.

It is this FEAR that causes most of us to behave in ways that unconsciously negotiate and attract the very thing we wish not to have in our lives.

  • Hence we can say it is FEAR that negotiate for us at our subconscious level of BEING and shows up in our physical world (life situations) as challenging issue – human conflicts, natural events or as what we may call – “I am having a BAD day or Life.“
  • All of this is controlled or can be manipulated by our power of thinking. This has be proved and handed down to every generation in many different ways that – “You are what you are Thinking“.

The interesting part of all of this is – since most of us live in FEAR most of the time and our LIVES, it is NO surprise that we have a world that is not reallywhat we would like to EXPERIENCE.

This is because it can be proven that we are unconsciously CONTINUOUSLY creating OUR physical Universe based on our COLLECTIVE unconscious FEAR. This being the case because at the ENERGY level of our BEING there is NO discrimination of the vibration of ENERGY:

Simply Frequencies of ENERGY vibration attaching to ITSELF in a CONSTANT collective ONENESS. While creating MORE of IT invisible and outward physical nature WITHOUT a LABEL of GOOD or BAD; RIGHT or WRONG; YOU or ME; the BIRDS or TREES.

… therefore it is safe to say that our physical Universe is created by the conscious and/or unconscious manipulation of this ENERGY by our individual and collective thoughts (ways of thinking). Referred to by most as the Spirit. I NOW say – the LAW …”

All of my previous podcasts explore this topic on some level and are available @ iTunes – search for “shirvington hannays or smahoo” or click the following link listen or download http://itunes.apple.com/md/podcast/self-motivation-healing-ourselves/id290781640.

Before you pray, BECOME.

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I have discovered and come to realize that effective prayer requires a State of Mind and Being filled with the PEACE that passes Human understanding.

My quest for a better understanding of what life was all about started when as I child, I felt that my entire family and I, were all going to hell because God didn’t like us. This conclusion at that time was arrived at because it was clear he didn’t answer any of our many prayers we offered to him daily on our knees, eyes closed and face upward to Heaven.

Praying and the need to pray was drilled into my head daily to be done before I went to sleep at night, when I woke in the morning, before I ate anything, before leaving the house and yes even at school before classes started for the day.

More than thirty years later, I can safely say after more than fifteen years of conscious and consistent exploration of religions and various belief systems:

  • I have extended my concept of prayers and praying or acts of worship.
  • I now no longer pray for anything with words but continuously try to maintain a state of Mind and Being of gratitude for every experience or event I experience.

This isn’t always easy or the ready FIRST response in every situation as I go about my daily practical living or when my ego and intellect demands an excess dose of attention.

  • I am now totally at peace with the notion that there is never ANYTHING to pray for.
  • I, no longer offer up any prayer to something or someone outside my Being.

I may say THANKS or THANK YOU from time to time when my innermost feeling of gratitude is so intense, that I may automatically verbalise my gratitude as (THANKS or THANK YOU); an outward declaration and reminder to my self to consciously look around and observe more of the present moment.

  • This continues to strengthen me to be more consistent in my willingness to be open and receptive to give up any previously held concept in place of a new response in any given moment.
  • Which then usually fosters harmony with whatever IS in the NOW moment.

… this is what I now understand and know to be “be still and know….” and it is truly “the Peace that passes Human understanding…”

The podcast that explores this topic in further details is available @ iTunes – search for “shirvington hannays or smahoo” or click the following link listen or download http://itunes.apple.com/md/podcast/self-motivation-healing-ourselves/id290781640.

This too shall soon pass. It’s simply the LAW in motion.

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“Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much” — George Savile

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When in the mist of a judged or labeled “bad, difficult, painful or challenging situation or experience“, the phase “this too shall soon pass” can be one of the most comforting re-assurances you can receive, reflect on or embrace.  Especially if you allow yourself to acknowledge that, the statement has proven true countless times before.

For it represents the natural ebb and flow of the circle of life that takes place naturally at the invisible and physical level of our life experience.   Which is expressed in our LIFE SITUATIONS as events, situations, illnesses etc and ultimately leading to DEATH of the animate so-called alive physical manifestation – you, me, the bird, the bees, plant or trees deem by most to be the ultimate Life CHANGE or TRANSFORMATION. 

This, I know is easier said than done – to accept and embraced as a normal part of life’s process.

The key to it’s mastery lies in embracing the one undisputed FACT about our invisible and physical Universe.

Which is – “nothing last FOREVER” and “everything TRANSFORMS and CHANGES form“.  Which is necessary for the free flowing RE-GENERATION of the ONE ENERGY vibration we call LIFE.

Looked at this way – we are force to acknowledge and embrace “the only thing that is sure about our life experience – there will always be CHANGE and TRANSFORMATION.

… This undeniable FACT about LIFE sums up Life to be that – “everything MUST transform, evolve, grow, contract then fade away to vibrate at the frequency of the  NOTHINGNESS from which EVERYTHING in the physical Universe sprang forth from. Namaste.

The podcast that explores this topic in further details is available @ iTunes – search for “shirvington hannays or smahoo” or click the following link listen or download http://itunes.apple.com/md/podcast/self-motivation-healing-ourselves/id290781640.

You are the sum total of what you are thinking about most of the time.

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“Those who don’t want to take the risk of growing are swallowed by life” — Patty Hansen

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Thankful

It is generally accepted or believed by most that on the invisible level of our Being there is an invisible Core or  Self to our physical being. Therefore it is safe to say that our “Invisible Self“, “Soul“, “Spirit” or “the Energy of Life” cause all things to become manifested or visible.  With this as the belief system that governs one’s existence and experiencing life, one will then need to embrace the concept that as a “Spiritual Being” having a human experience we have within us – the Realm of Infinite Ideas (your Mind) from which to pull (to think and process thoughts: concepts, perceptions and experiences).  Which shape our individual (and collective) actions and behavoirs in our EXTERNAL and PHYSICAL world based on INNER desires or intentions.

To do this, we need to master like Moses, Jesus, the Buddha etc; the following:

1. Power of Thinking

It is through thinking that man forms that which he has in his life experience.  Using this law we can bring forth whatever we have in Mind. Be it Productive (for our so-called good) or Negative (destructive or working against our so-called good and well being).

2. The Law of Demonstration

This is supported by “The Law of Mind Action” which is ‘Whatever you think about you bring about.’  It is said that the man named Jesus said “Let your will be done on earth (in your physical world) as it is in Heaven (your mind – what you are thinking).”

… Therefore it is necessary to consciously constantly think on those things that will foster productive inner and external demonstrations only.  Namaste.

All of my previous podcasts explore this topic on some level and are available @ iTunes – search for “shirvington hannays or smahoo” or click the following link listen or download http://itunes.apple.com/md/podcast/self-motivation-healing-ourselves/id290781640.

A new look, a new feel for a new direction.

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Shirvington Hannays

Welcome and thanks for joining me in my conscious exploration of my TRUE spiritual identity daily which doing of my best to give of myself unconditionally and empower others who may seek the same for themselves.

Nothing explored and showcased here will ever be to promote any specific Belief System as better than; the Only or the Right one.

As a child, teenager and young adult in Guyana, Barbados and then Jamaica; the word “spirit” or its most popular used form “spirits” meant mainly an invisible (negative)force or presence that was always waiting to overcome any form of good that might exist. A presence and force that I lived in fear of until my mid twenties.

I feel that the truth be told – “No one has a definitive answer to that source that sustains life, every one of us are speculating about something we wish we fully understood.”

Called by various names to be God, Allah etc. I choose to refer to as THAT WHICH CAUSED US TO BE.  This I know can be considered to be the road less traveled as it is easier to embrace the collective thinking of your family’s culture or belief system or religion.

… these are my humble views about ‘that which caused‘ us all and every visible and intangible thing in the Universe to become and/or made visible and manifested.  Namaste.

My podcast is available @ iTunes – search for “shirvington hannays or smahoo” or click the following link listen or download http://itunes.apple.com/md/podcast/self-motivation-healing-ourselves/id290781640.