Risks, Mistakes, Or Is It All Planned?

There are many times in our life that we trip up and do something that can give ourselves a feeling of bewilderment. "How could I have done that?" "I'm never going to be able to fix this?"

A mistake we've completed that throws our life into a tail spin. A storm of horrific things to come because we made a grand blunder. This was not supposed to happen!

We think we create or cause these moments of error and we should have done it differently. Conditions were not supposed to go this way and now thing are taking the wrong passage. 

But is any of this actually true, did anything really happen or occur in an inaccurate way. 

Should I say, can life's moments ever materialize in the wrong order. Or is life structured in a way that is promised to be. Created in the way that is meant for us.

We are a very intelligent species that is ever determined to make the best life possible. This is accomplished by being innovative and constructive in our approach to how we accomplish things. By working together to make processes and production easier and easier. 

Though in life's little messes we can know all the right facts and still have things go awry. You could of thought to have said or done the right thing but instead had a circumstance of cattywampus events.

A seemingly perfect life can come crashing down. Or on the flip side, a turn of affairs can make something extraordinary from little to nothing.

So how do we make sense of all this. Should we have done things different or, in truth, could it have gone no different. I mean, there is no turning back time (for now anyway) so life went exactly how it was supposed to go. It's all what we think of it from this point going forward.

Sometimes also, these so called 'miscalculations' can materialize in our favor and help us in a way we could not have perceived. Maybe we actually did though but just didn't realize it. And a lot of the time, after a fair amount of days have passed, we look back and say, definitely glad that accident steered me into my current direction.

To some extent life is controllable but a vast majority of it gets carried out without our authority. Making things happen and events curving left and right with no signing of our consent. But with distinct purpose that often changes our perception of sensibility and truth.

Often life can change the person we are with no prior knowledge and concreteness to let us know its all going to turn out okay. 

I think there is a piece of the decision puzzle that we all to often miss. The reason for the choice and the emotional representation we choose to assign to it. 

That are the ideas and arguments that help to perform the situation or the prolonging of misdirected logic of a situation that erupted spontaneously. Either way these emotional distinctions can have a great impact on the angle of our life's thereafter.

When something is done of gratitude, appreciation, or love we can trust that if we followed the heart things are going exactly how we need them to. Even though the roller coaster we are all on can seem too long or decides to dip to low. But patience is the virtue that keeps the emotional affair alive.

And the attachment of feelings towards an uncontrollable event can turn it into a whirlwind of speed bumps because we fail to see the perfection of the bigger plan that is in store for us. So, its not as though we got off path but we are exploding the circumstances that are bound to happen after something that causes the pieces to be scattered.

If we can look deeper at these situations we can see that each individual is different and needed things to arise in this order, with this timing, and with these aftermaths. To shake, stir, and shift us into a different direction or circumstance.

Something meant to help create our character and true self, so we can accomplish what we need to. To be put in the right place and time, with the right people so that everything can create our tornado of materialization. While simultaneously being a intrinsic part of every other individuals path we come into contact with.

Knowing that there all no failures, there are no mistakes or mishaps in our life. But that everything, and I mean everything, is there for a reason. That reason being the twist or turns to push us in the direction that we our most valued in.

This is not to say we should just let life flow and do whatever we want, although to some extent I do believe this to be true. But to make sure we come from each choice or response with love and appreciation. 

To know that each event and life action is something to be grateful for and cherish. For the change in circumstance instantly or the dramatic re-characterizations that are yet to come.

This might help us learn to accept life more and the drama that can continually come with it. 

Are we meant to have easy life's filled with the best moments and gifts? Or in some way, do we want life to be a challenge at certain moments, does life become more adored when there are highs and lows, joys and heart aches?

-RA BAR 

Is Science Just Catching Up

We always see science on the forefront of discovery. Gaining new perspectives to astound our minds or dazzling us with new technology.

Science, to a great extent, determines the future we perceive to be. New research and innovations entangle our daily lives and lead us to understand more, allowing us to automate many aspects of culture that we were once used to.

Many believe this is where information lies. We must constantly study, reflect, divulge, or dismantle to understand deeper aspects of ourselves and the world around us. And to some degree this is correct.

Scientific research offers new cures, solutions, and innovations that lead to great changes in our societies. Without science we would not understand solar energy, we wouldn't have the ability to create replacement limbs for animals and us alike.

With new insights into this discipline we can profoundly impact our current circumstances and the future for the better.

But is science really on the cutting edge of discovery in all its views and features. Does it really hold new information for us or is it just the contemporary way of explaining what has been known for centuries.

Some people believe that science is how we observe, understand, and assemble new information into an ever expanding evolutionary world. And, to some scope, this can be agreed with. Seeing as how science has dramatically changed our lives and how we communicate with one another.

In other facets though, science is just catching up with some ancient beliefs. Certain doctrines have given vivid desciptions of what modern science is just coming to grasp. Although they may have been described in speech and dialect we have never really understood or to some extent forgotten.

Quantum physics is now pointing at the interconnectedness of us and the entirety of the universe. At its deepest measures atoms are just made up of vortices of energy that are vibrating in their own unique way.

Meaning the atoms that even make up us are just a unique vibrational signature distinct to each individual. At its smallest levels, atoms just seem to be an invisible tornado-like vortex completely void of any solidity.

And if everything is made up of atoms, including us, then everything we perceive as solid matter is just a vibrating vortice of energy made up of something that is a literal void. Yet things seem so solid, so real, so material.

New scientific research has also shown that time is an illusion. At its fundamental level, light can exist in the past, present, and future. Circumstances can literally be changed just by the act of our observation. Atoms can have any probability of existing anywhere in space and time, or even two places simultaneously.

At our core, we are made up of these very same particles. The very same particles that science is still trying to interpret.

Many of these paradigms have already been identified in past wisdom. Explaining the illusion of our lives and the material world around us. How our interactions and connectedness has been know for a great while.

But I believe there is a unique thing occuring with the new, yet old, information coming to light through the pioneering of science. And that is the modern language we use to share insights and intelligence with each other.

It is not what we are learning that is new but the way we communicate it to the modern world that changes with time.

Should science and spirituality intermix? Would we as a species propel our knowledge and understanding of ourselves and the universe if science created a study of the ancient spiritual beliefs? 

-RA BAR 

Our Meanings for Life

What is the meaning to Life? What is our Purpose? Were does our Destiny lead us?

Questions upon questions we ask ourselves to investigate these types of inquiry. Something we all at one point or another determine to seek and find. Thinking ours is unique and specific for us.

Each individual explores the things that make them the happiest. Searching for what makes their individuality beat to. A deeper more inherent road to travel that gives us a sense of direction for a long lasting feeling of excitement, joy, and desire.

Somewhere on a path that makes us feel altruistic, while at the same time feeling as though all our wishes our met with little to no effort. Thought of as an impeccable passage that helps us fulfill humanity's essentials.

Even though this seems like the best way to travel. A highway containing all the right curves, bends, and up hill adventures. Are we not still seeking some sort of defiance to our particular sets of circumstance. 

When often asked about ourselves, is not our first response some objective or task we must achieve or complete?

I am a banker. I am a business owner. I am a father. I am a mother. I am in school. I am unemployed.

Each answer coming with its own personal set of responsibilities. Every response declaring an external aspiration. A mission you could say, to become good at and define some amount of your character. While also, moderately playing into the psyche of how you view your self and potentially increasing or decreasing your self-esteem.

It seems like we might be missing the mark. If we look back to what our species is named: HUMAN BEINGS. Are we not a genuine being at the core of its definition.

A physical thing with defining form to experience all the different varieties of echos the universe can create. A stream of moments to which our consciousness effortlessly sails from one to the next. 

A simple saying that the Buddha mentioned was to be happy and content with the reality of AS IT IS. Often a mechanism for suffering is the nonacceptance of the current concreteness of the matter around us. Without acceptance often comes struggle and strife.

This physicality of what is happening in these current moments is not something to disregard or refuse to take part in. But the understanding that this is not directly or indirectly part of our being. Or anything that has definition of who we are but just an experience to add to the ever flowing and every changing Maya we have chosen to take part in.

A timeless animation of the senses to create the yin and yang stream of life. We can define ourselves as a title of the reality going on around us. But must make room for the essence of how our humanness is what IS us. 

So, is the situation that defines our personality created externally by a set of circumstances, with some us having control over and others not? Could those just be parts of the experiential reality our being set forth, making way for the flow of our infinite energy learning to embody the existence of what IS and not what WILL or what HAS?

-RA BAR

Is It Luck, or How We Respond?

Sometimes life is walking a windy road with a strong head wind. Other times life is flying through the sky like an arrow aimed at the perfect target. 

You truly never know what tales you'll encounter throughout the day. Good, bad, somewhere awkwardly in between. 

Every time we think we're on the right road a mishap, blunder, or error in our route occurs and now the unexpected needs to happen. And all the time before life was sailing, no complaints or protest was to be had. All was good and we felt relaxed.

When these defaults in circumstances occur they can drudge on for hours, days, or weeks. While in other degrees we are swiftly taken back on course like a boat catching the right current. And maybe it dismounted us for a moment but all seemed to take care of itself. 

When this happens, we often call it LUCK. This outer perception of events that spontaneously occurred in our favor was just an accidental mirage that, I guess you could say, just so happened.

Often we forget to look at the actions we portrayed around us that put these so called real world pieces in our life to patch the hologram in an effort to put us back on plan.

In many different ways we are doing this ourselves. We are dictating when and how to fix the cracks in space time that in development moseyed into our perfect arrows flow. 

Maybe because of how the day was going prior or who we happened to be around, our reactions to a fender bender, coworker bickering, or a family matter can be drastically different for the same perceived experience. These reactions that we summon can continue the spin tale of events and send us into a long drawn out gaffe.

But if we are skipping to the perfect beat of life's musical harmony before this unbeknownst cataclysm happened. Then we take the bombardment in stride and keep on marching peacefully even if we are a bit off path. 

We inform ourselves that this turn of events is no big deal. Lets get up, move on, and take the blows day by day. Never straying from the intuitive knowing that we'll fix it and be back to normal in the perfect amount of time. 

In this obedience to our inner knowing we glide through the debris of aftermath and pick up what's needed and let go of whats not. Maybe earning some scraps and scratches along the way that, in time, become the reminders of our greatest accomplishments and life lessons.

I would draft to say that the aforementioned reaction is what dwindled or dramatized the external circumstances. Creating a tornado of lasting damage or just a few large waves, that may have shook the boat but died down after the sun came out. 

Life is always going to be a curtail of events. Showing us nothing but sunshine and lily blossoms in the near future. Then we turn the corner and see a crushing dark cloud amidst our trail head. With no way to turn back around we often just have to face the problem head on. 

If we can be content though in the knowledge that this situation is needed in some regard to our ever growing experiences and circumstances to byproduct who ever we need to become. Then a peacefulness can dwell in us, making this blow to life's journey more bearable in a sense.

An inner joy for life and its pendulum swing into both of the traveler's ways, the good and the bad. Diminishing the suffering that will occur but only to the extent we focus on its footage.

Can a bad circumstance be defined by one true definition? Is it a consensus of all what is truly good or bad for us, or are we our own prophet for our life and invisibly create life's balance only in recognition of the way we each wanted to foresee it? 

-RA BAR

Hearts Can Beat As One

The heart is this great little thing that can pump blood all over the body. It's pretty strong, works all day, and goes faster and slower in times of fear, stress, and love.

This was my point of view to a rough degree. I knew what the heart was and how it worked but I didn't realize the amplitude of the nature behind its astounding capabilities.

To come and understand that the heart has talking capabilities seemed indifferent to my already cultured beliefs. Knowing how to interact and connect to be able to make intelligently guided decisions for my life was taught through experiences.

Being told, "think with your head." or "use your head." now just seem to make less sense and hold less truth than previous times. The head does do its part of thinking and deciding in this world around us but to much less quality than before.

Seems as though the heart produces more than just beats for blood, but intuitive guiding and decision making skills than one could not have thought possible.

But wait, don't we hear thoughts in our head. I mean we don't really hear anything from our hearts. There are, for most of us anyway, no sounds or voices coming directly from the chest cavity.

So then maybe its a different form of conversation that we aren't necessarily used to. Maybe its a language pattern we have forgotten and in turn misplaced our focus elsewhere, to the mind for instance.

This isn't just in the sense of the spiritual side of us and the world but also the scientific side of life and its scope. Its amazing the science that is helping to explain all these different levels of intrinsic talk and electromagnetic fields emanating around our bodies and invisibly creating different levels of a vesica piscis of energy.

We are literally creating different intensities and amounts of torus shaped donuts of energy vibrating around our adjacent reality. These patterns of energy are shaped and composed by the emotional feelings we create within ourselves.

Not only do these measurable torus energy fields help to harmonize our own thoughts and physical well-being. But also the others around us that we are nearby and connect with. They talk back and forth helping to shape the realism of what is going on.

It has been scientifically show that couple's breathing patterns and heart beats can match up while they are sitting near each other. This happens without even needing to touch. Just the act of being close to someone you know, trust and care about.

Mom's brain waves tend to be able to sync up with their babies heart beats. I would have to postulate that their is a conversation in a language I can neither see nor hear going on when these types of internal things are occurring.

Maybe paying attention to these physical reactions can help us interpret the inter mixtures of all the little realities co-mingling and mixing with ours. Maybe not an outsiders perspective on the life all around you but a true insiders perspective of life on a energetic field.

Knowing ourselves is always a good thing and listening to our inner voice helps us better navigate the world. But I believe knowing a sensation or feeling can give you a different clarification on the cosmos that helps with that navigational process.

Could the heart carry intrinsic wisdom given to us through a deeper level of nature? A deeper and more introspective type of emotional language that carries its own form of foresight?

-RA BAR

The Here & Now

It seems that there is a lot of talk about being present. The absence of being in the moment could be the reason life seems to pass us by.

But what exactly does being in the moment look like? Does this mean we shouldn't think about the past or that we should stop trying to anticipate the future experiences. 

Life is a succession of still moments, each containing exactly what needed to be there. And each containing its own bit of perfection.

I have to say I am a big believer in the beauty and joy that can be found in every tick of the clock throughout the day. Trying to find peace, love, happiness, and humor as often as possible. 

It can be harder than one would believe sometimes. Its easy to get stuck in a mistake or mishap that happened and continue the past moment on repeat, either determining how it could go different or stressing over the calamity and why you did it in the first place. 

Other times thoughts of anxiety and angst drum up determining how you need to act about something in the future or the turn of events that seem to dismantle your routine and it wasn't expected.

There are all sorts of things that can take us away from what we might be doing in the present moment. Even boredom can be an excuse to let your mind wander, maybe dreaming of cliff diving while your doing the dishes. 

The interesting thing to is, we can't even think of two things at the same time. Meaning that your brain must do a completely different set of tasks when you ponder about the past or future. You are completely gone for those moments. 

While you ponder a time before or a time after, the brain must make completely different connections and is not focusing on what is currently happening. It seems as though we are doing two things at once but the reality is that we are not. This is why we can be so clumsy or unresponsive when we try to have a conversation while planning the day, or bump the car in front of us because we were trying to settle the kids. 

As humans we are meant to focus on a small certain set of things at a time. I think this is what mindfulness is all about. Doing things maybe a bit slower than usual. Maybe sometimes doing tasks in different orders than usual to attract more attention, more presence in that moment. 

What if we are inherently wired to be a present being. You often see images or comments pertaining to the happiness of an animal over humans. Comparing the presence of one vs. the other. Dogs for instance are almost literally thinking about the exact time frame their in. Where the owner might be wondering off in his head worrying about a coming meeting or if they should have taken that last job they turned down.

Don't get me wrong, learning from our mistakes is a good thing. And constantly setting goals for the future I believe is a necessity. But I truly believe there is a time for everything.

A time to think about your future goals and plans, times to reminisce and enjoy past moments. All that stress in between though seems to only shorten our span of life prospectively.

If we are not in the moment, we are literally missing out on life. Some people are heard saying, life goes so fast. Well, maybe part of the problem is that we are missing some of it. Our brains and minds are truly firing neurons that aren't even conducive to the present. Our conscious awareness is living in a different moment and time. 

Being present might help us notice a little more and be able to perceive the little joys that come along with the big as well as small things we do throughout our days. If we take the time to breath, relax, and see ourselves presently in all the space around us, we may just have the ability to become more aware and live a more fruitful life. 

Do we have the ability to see reality from multiple different angles and perspectives at once? Or, could living in the present, without wondering thought, lead us to notice more of the reality around us, making us better at deciding the next move to lead towards our goals and ambitions? 

-RA BAR

Is Self-Awareness Conscious-Awareness?

What is Self-awareness? It seems to be talked about a lot these days. 

There are benefits being listed from the act of learning the self. We find people have better control over their feelings and also reports of a higher state of well-being.

Should we all become self-aware, would this help us as individuals and collectively as humans?

An obvious answer to what is Self-awareness: conscious knowledge of one's own character, feelings, motives, and desires.

A simple reflection of the self you can say. But I would yield at saying these are the only benefits. Through the act of learning our own awareness, I believe we simultaneously learn how to comprehend the presence and awareness of others.

I see self-awareness as a time for self-reflection. A time to sit and be quiet and listening to the beating of one's own thoughts and a presence of mind. Faintly hearing the mumbling of your own inner persona.

You know, the one that is talking to you all day every day. Most of the time going unnoticed and camouflaged in the ruckus of life. 

The act of taking time, whether that be a walk in nature, meditating or just sitting at your desk focusing on your breathing patterns for a few minutes. These times of quietness and solitude and be of great importance to obtain the true reflection of who you are and how you are going about showing yourself to the world.

Taking time to notice what is working for you and in what ways you actually might be working against yourself. Lots of time we are acting out of habit or on autopilot, not realizing that are very actions are not in alignment with our purpose or who we are trying to become. 

Time like this leads to what was defined above, Self-awareness. Giving you better insight into what you truly want out of yourself and your relationships with others. 

Because a lot of the time we don't know what we truly want. We often perceive happiness in a form we saw on TV or read about in magazines. Some people seem to have extravagant lives and we idolize them to an extent. Often thinking, "if I was there or could have that, I feel better and be happier."

The problem is that many of our definitions of happiness differ. Some think money will bring more joy when really they want closer relationships. Or maybe someone thinks closer relationships will make them happy when in reality they would prefer more solitude to just be.

Learning our own level of being self-aware cdan constitute changes in our actions, behaviors, and speech. Opening up new levels of insight and intuition that help us better dictate our decisions, synchronistically guiding us towards a better path for us as individuals.

Though it seems that this act of self-reflection actually creates a better awareness and understanding of the human beings around us. I think the act of self-awareness brings on higher levels of understanding and that every person is learning the same thing, themselves.

This brings upon feelings of empathy and understanding that each character is being created on a personal basis. Each person learning and creating new states of being and knowledge that are specific to them.

It seems that as we become self-aware by self-reflecting, we grasp a greater open mind towards each set of beliefs that a person may have. We realize the struggle of what we must go through to learn ourselves and the guiding forces that are prevalent to each one of us directly. 

I believe self-awareness is not just an understanding of the individual but a better understanding for Life. A broader realization of the infinite ways we learn and through living, teach ourselves how to become....Who We Are.

Better knowledge of oneself seems to lead to better understanding of the collective knowledge we all share. A boundless awareness that we all add to and take from. 

For the reality is, everyone should have the opportunity to do what makes them happy. Each person should be excited to be who they are, while at the same time knowing that there is a never-ending way of being. 

If we can all learn to be a little more self-aware, than maybe we will also learn to be more collectively aware. Knowing ourselves while in concert learning to understand and respect each other.

Could the inner self knowledge and guidance be a stepping stone to understanding and compassion? Are we all a little confused on another's perspective because we fail to truly delve into our personal perspective and experiences? 

-RA BAR

Is the Universe made of Harmonies?

A vibratory sound emanates from all people, places, and things. Each with its own different echo in the endless space of the ever reaching Universe.

The world seems to be of such solid matter, and it is to some respect. We can build cars, wear clothes, or ride on boats. And we are on what, in our perspective, is solid objects.

But even with such solidity there is constant never ending motion. Even us as people are constantly vibrating at a specific tone. A harmony of patterns that create the physical existence of who we think we are. 

So, if we are a cosmic creation through sound who is living in a world of vibrational patterns. Could harmonies be part of how the world works, how life comes into presence? 

We have all been listening to a spectacular song at some point, that radiates through our skin. As they say, when music touches the soul. When that happens, do we not become part of the song? We're not just listening to the music at that point. It's running through us, we are at this point part of the music, its decorations of sound resonating through us. 

There are ancient ruins of vibration or sound hospitals in ancient Egypt. Sounds can have potential healing properties when used in the right conditions. It seems as though certain frequencies can have beneficial impacts to our health.

Have we not at moments seen our attitudes and moods change because of a particular song. Maybe driving along and on comes 'Barbie Girl' and we belt out, "MADE OF PLASTIC, ITS FANTASTIC!" unknowingly acquiring an audience of many on the bus we are stopped next to. 

Or maybe, we hear a song that reminds us of a great memory with a friend or loved one that has passed. Reconditioning all those prior emotions, and not just remembering but actually feeling our bodies movements change. Becoming more docile or melancholy. 

When a person tends to do things how they want in respectful disregard of the norm. Isn't a common saying, "they just beat to the sound of their own drum." Well, maybe that's true for all of us, including things like trees, our planet, even our solar system itself. 

String Theory states that the smallest pieces of reality is vibrating strings. Inside everything like atoms, neutrons, electrons, ect..., at its very core is these tiny strings resonating at certain frequencies. This frequency or vibration being what it imposes as a certain chunk of solid matter. 

These vibrational patterns could be what we use to distinguish things such as taste and smell to. They have shown that we don't just know what something smells like because of some emitted gas invisibly seeping out from an object. But a vibrational pattern that our body recognizes and that sparks neural patterns in our brain to identify what we are smelling, or tasting, and how we react to it. 

At the smallest degree of the finite, as far as we think, there is music, there is a harmony of sound. It seems that music notes is what holds are material type world together. 

What do we do with this vibrational information. These never ceasing frequency patterns that give us sizable assemblage to the pixels of life around us. Is there something at the base of all this movement that life and nature contain. 

Could we have been created out of the sounds from the beginning of the Universe. At the heart of it, are we all just musical patterns that change with the music of reality based on our thoughts and emotions. 

If the Universe and us are just sounds interfering with each other and creating interactions. Do we obtain an understanding of everything when we listen to the sounds of ourselves? Are we ever in complete silence or with the stillness of material and mind, are we listening to the subtle melody and combination of every living being?