La Parroquia in San Miguel de Allende

In part 1 of the Living in the Flow of the Now Moment Series, I gave a simple, yet powerful technique for living in the now called savoring. Most all techniques on a personal growth path or spiritual path are meant to be simple. This doesn’t mean they are always easy, but when you find yourself confused or if things seem complicated, there is a good chance that your mind has run away with you and it is time to come back to self. Here is another simple, yet powerful tool you can use to stay in the precious now moment.

I am writing this in the beautiful colonial town of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico where I have been living for two months. The first day I was here I was awestruck by all the bright colored doors and quaint cobble stone streets. Everywhere I looked I saw a picture I wanted to take with my camera. However, my camera wasn’t working. I was a little disappointed because I knew that the shear exquisiteness of the town would not impact me the way it did this first day. I knew that once I had become accustomed to what I was seeing, I would not notice it like I was now. This is because once the mind knows something, it has a tendency to not notice it like it did the first time. There is less awareness of it.

The problem with this is that when doing the same routine people tend to become mind-less instead of mind-full. How many of us have arrived at work after commuting the same streets a hundred times realizing that we don’t even remember that morning’s drive to the office? The mind is so familiar with the route it has taken many times over that it simply checks out. This checking out is another way you put yourself out of the now moment. You are simply not present. You must be present in the now moment to experience it.

After a time I decided to buy a new camera. I found one I liked and went out to the streets of San Miguel to take photos. With the help of the new camera, I consciously chose to see San Miguel anew. I again saw the many beautiful wooden doors, each with their own style and color. I saw the reflections of the light as it danced off the coble stone streets of the City after a rain. I felt a sense of excitement and appreciation for the splendor of this place so full of history and hundreds of years of creative expression from its inhabitants. I was in the Flow of the now moment.

A wonderful technique that puts you in the now moment is to find what is new in each moment. This is similar to what Buddhists call the beginner mind. In any given moment you can always find something that is new and fresh. Even if it is the same commute you have taken every day, you can find a way the light plays on the side of a building you hadn’t noticed before.

Looking at things anew, puts you in the now moment. As you focus your awareness you become alert. You become present in the moment. The more you are present in the now, the more you enter the State of Flow.

In part 1 of the Living in the Flow of the Now Moment Series, I gave a simple, yet powerful technique for living in the now called savoring. Most all techniques on a personal growth path or spiritual path are meant to be simple. This doesn’t mean they are always easy, but when you find yourself confused or if things seem complicated, there is a good chance that your mind has run away with you and it is time to come back to self. Here is another simple, yet powerful tool you can use to stay in the precious now moment.

I am writing this in the beautiful colonial town of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico where I have been living for two months. The first day I was here I was awestruck by all the bright colored doors and quaint cobble stone streets. Everywhere I looked I saw a picture I wanted to take with my camera. However, my camera wasn’t working. I was a little disappointed because I knew that the shear exquisiteness of the town would not impact me the way it did this first day. I knew that once I had become accustomed to what I was seeing, I would not notice it like I was now. This is because once the mind knows something, it has a tendency to not notice it like it did the first time. There is less awareness of it.

The problem with this is that when doing the same routine people tend to become mind-less instead of mind-full. How many of us have arrived at work after commuting the same streets a hundred times realizing that we don’t even remember that morning’s drive to the office? The mind is so familiar with the route it has taken many times over that it simply checks out. This checking out is another way you put yourself out of the now moment. You are simply not present. You must be present in the now moment to experience it.

After a time I decided to buy a new camera. I found one I liked and went out to the streets of San Miguel to take photos. With the help of the new camera, I consciously chose to see San Miguel anew. I again saw the many beautiful wooden doors, each with their own style and color. I saw the reflections of the light as it danced off the coble stone streets of the City after a rain. I felt a sense of excitement and appreciation for the splendor of this place so full of history and hundreds of years of creative expression from its inhabitants. I was in the Flow of the now moment.

A wonderful technique that puts you in the now moment is to find what is new in each moment. This is similar to what Buddhists call the beginner mind. In any given moment you can always find something that is new and fresh. Even if it is the same commute you have taken every day, you can find a way the light plays on the side of a building you hadn’t noticed before.

Looking at things anew, puts you in the now moment. As you focus your awareness you become alert. You become present in the moment. The more you are present in the now, the more you enter the State of Flow.

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Who will you feed?

The above is a great line from the Movie Ghost Rider. One of the beautiful things about living in the Flow, is that you become aware that, at any given now moment you have a choice. You can choose who you wish to be. The now moment contains all there is. If you wish abundance, you can always find it somewhere in the now moment. If you wish to feel enthusiasm and excitement about life, you can always find it in the now moment. Living life on purpose, with intention, means consistantly choose who and what you are in any moment or in any given situation. The more you choose who you wish to be, the more you are empowered to be just that. As the line from the Ghost riders says, you have the power to choose Who and What you wish to be. Yes, it can take practise because so many of us have been conditioned not to choose. When we don’t choose, life happens to us.

Now choosing to be Who you wish to be doesn’t mean that you grasp at it. Nor does it mean that you repel what you don’t want to be. Grasping and repelling are one of the biggest stoppers in life. They keep you out of the flow, blocking off the natural support that life give’s you. One of our students, for example, has always felt like she is a victim. She doesn’t like feeling that way, so she repels it and tries to push the feeling away from her. If instead, she simply chooses to be an empowered woman in any given moment, empowerment will flow into her life. There is no need to repel the victim energy. The victim energy will have no place to be as she is already filled with the energy of empowerment.

If you wish more abundance in your life, be abundant. Don’t grasp at it. What happens if you grab a person by their arm and begin to pull at them? They naturally pull back. The same is true with the Universe. If you are pulling on the Universe’s arm for money, the Universe will naturally pull back. It matches your pulling with pulling. This is another aspect of The Law of Attraction. If you pull at something, it pulls back. If you push something away, it pushes back. If instead you choose to welcome abundanc e into your life, abundance welcomes you.

We all have parts of self we like, and parts of self we don’t like. Instead of focusing on those parts of self you don’t like, and trying to push them away, focus on those parts of self you do like and feed them. Vickie Smith gives a wonderful story illustrating just this.

Grandfather said to the boy, “Let me tell you a story. It is as if there are two wolves inside me, one is white and one is black. The White Wolf is good and does no harm. He lives in harmony with all around him and does not take offense when no offense was intended. But will only fight when it is right to do so, and in the right way.

“But, the Black Wolf, is full of anger. The littlest thing will set him into a fit of temper. He fights everyone, all the time, for no reason. He cannot think because his anger and hate are so great. It is helpless anger, for his anger will change nothing.

“Sometimes it is hard to live with these two wolves inside me, for both of them try to dominate my spirit.”

The boy, looked intently into his Grandfather’s eyes, and asked, “Which one wins Grandfather?”

The Grandfather, smiled and said, “The one I feed.”

Who will you choose to feed? Consistently choose Who you wish to be and before you know it your life will be an extension of what you choose.

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The other evening I decided to stay up and watch some television. There was a stand up comedian on stage turning his backside towards a woman in the front row telling her he would let her touch his stuff. His whole act was talking about how he was so beautiful and hot, and how he was the shit. I didn’t think he was that funny but as often happens, Source had a message for me.

The message was in the comic’s line, ‘I am so hot that I get up an hour early every morning so I can spend more time with ME.’ Okay, it isn’t that I am so hot that I can’t resist spending time with myself. But, I realized then that I wasn’t spending enough quality time with self. What does it mean to spend time with self, and why is it important?

This morning I chose to make of point to spend more time with self, and got up a little earlier to take a run in the colorful New Mexican high desert. For me running is quality time for self. As I was running, I could hear crickets on my right. It was a beautiful morning. Soon my inner guidance began to open up to me and began to speak about the importance of ‘self time’. I love when my guidance opens to me this way, and I realized then that the more often I take time for self, the more my guidance and inspiration come to me.

I remember Scott Peck, M.D., author of The Road Less Travelled, speaking about how he would take time each day alone in his guest house to write. He needed this alone time for his inspiration. I then remembered earlier this year, when I was sitting on the beautiful veranda of The Hotel Posada Carmina in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, over looking the inner courtyard full of birds chirping and bright colorful flowers blooming. I felt very inspired as I wrote down my thoughts for that day. I thought, ‘no wonder writers often travel abroad to write’. What I didn’t realize at the time was I was truly spending time with self.

The Crazy Rabbit

When you spend time with self, you nurture the Soul. Spending time with self revitalizes and reconnects you with Who you are. If you are a writer, spending time with self fills you with inspiration. If you have challenges in life, spending time with self puts you back into the flow and solutions appear. If you need ideas for your business, spend a little time with self and watch what happens. When people have relationship problems arise, sometimes they need a little ‘alone time’ to sort things out.

Before we talk about what spending time with self is, let’s talk a little about what it is not.

Spending time with self is not:
•    Being lonely
•    Being a hermit or a recluse
•    Being alone, but busy doing ‘things’
•    Habitually watching TV
•    Commuting to work while worrying about what you have to do that day

Some examples of spending time with self are:
•    Taking a walk or a hike in nature while pondering your life
•    Going to a movie that moves you deeply
•    Reading a good book that inspires you
•    Travelling at a leisurely pace – enjoying life
•    Meditating
•    Going to a Hot Tub or Spa
•    Getting a massage

To spend time with self, means you consciously create the time to be with self. It means you spend time in your inner world. Deep thinking, meditation, pondering, slow deliberate thoughts, mindfulness are all ways to spend time with self. This is very different than being alone, bored; or spacing out being a couch potato in front of the tube.

Spending time with self puts you into the flow of life and increases your state of well being. As you give yourself the gift of time and attention, you connect with the bigger Source that you are and live life from your depth. Living life from your depth gives life meaning. Living life with meaning leads to true fulfillment.

So, create the time to spend with the most important person in the world, you. You will be thankful you did.

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Entrance to The Vortex at the sacred pyramids of Chichen Itsa

The life you desire resides just on the other side of your comfort zone. If you resist your uncomfortableness, guess what happens. What you resist persists and the discomfort only grows bigger. By resisting your uncomfortableness, that which you desire stays perpetually out of your reach.

I talk a lot about living life in The Flow, that wonderful state of being where you feel fully supported by life, stress free, cherishing every now moment. It is a magnificant way to live. It takes no effort to move into The Flow. You only need to allow it to be.

If it is such a wonderful way to be and live, why are so many people not living in The Flow? One reason is that they have a fundamental misperception about it. They believe that if you are in The Flow you won’t have problems, or life challenges. So, they avoid their challenges thinking that by avoiding them they will be in The Flow. Another thing people do, which is related to this avoidance, is they avoid the feeling of being uncomfortable. They believe that if they are feeling uncomfortable they won’t be in The Flow.

The problem with this avoidance is that it negates allowance. The only way to be in The Flow is to allow. More than this, the solution to the problem or life challenge often lies just beyond the resistance. If you avoid feeling uncomfortable, and don’t allow the problem, the solution will have difficulty coming to you. You have heard the saying, ‘What you resist, persists.’ This is true, and often what happens is that when you avoid problems, not only do they persist, they get bigger.

Feeling uncomfortable is a natural part of growing and expanding. If you want to become stronger physically, for example, you may need to exercise to the point of discomfort. If you want to become a public speaker, moving through the uncomfortableness of getting up in front of a group of people will help youbecome a skilled speaker. If you have had an accident and need physical therapy, it may be very painful. But, by moving through the pain you heal.

When you are living in The Flow, it doesn’t mean that you are problem free. It doesn’t mean that there are life circumstances that come that may make you feel uncomfortable. However, when you allow the uncomfortableness to be, you remain in The Flow and it moves through you much more quickly than when you resist it. If you simply allow the problem to be, more times than not you will find the solution magically presents itself. The solution is in The Flow.

As you allow and welcome life challenges, discomfort and move through your resistance, sooner than not you will find yourself stress free in a state of free flowing Joy, the problem will be resolved; and you will have grown, and become more of Who you truly are.

Are You in The Flow?

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The now moment is infinitely small, yet infinitely big. In its smallness, it contains nothing. Yet, the moment of the now contains everything. Because the now moment contains nothing, to be in the now, you must let everything go and empty.

For a moment, empty yourself of everything. Let everything go. Let your problems go. Let your to do lists go. Let your preoccupations go. Let your thoughts and feelings go. As you empty you enter the Golden Flow. The Flow moves from the Source that you are, into your persona, through your body and into your life. This Flow contains a beautiful dream where all your deepest hopes and desires are manifest. The only thing missing from this dream is you. When you are in the Golden Flow of the now moment you are able to step into the dream and it becomes manifest in your life. This is one of the ’secrets’ of The Law of Attraction.  To the degree you align to the bigger dream of your life, it becomes real.

When you are having mental machinations, worries, or charged emotions, your energy is pulled away from the Source that you are. You are off center. Your center exists in the now. It is from the place of being on center that spiritual growth and evolution occurs.  The center of a river is where the current flows strongest. It is the center of self where Source energy flows most powerfully.

Take the time to find your now moments. Tell your mind to let it all go, even if only for a few minutes. Tell your mind it can come back to its concerns later, but for now, empty. Do this often. As you do the tremendous power of Source’s flow begins to move through you. Then, hang onto your hat as your life moves in wonderful ways.

Kristopher

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It is good to ponder the word allow. Where do you allow in your life? Where do you not allow? Do you have beliefs that are not tolerant of new ideas? Do you allow the people you encounter in your life to be who they are? Perhaps most importantly, do you allow the greatness and glory that you are to flow through you and into your life? This is a time in humanity where people are empowered to plant the seeds of their greatness. The biggest factor that stops or limits your greatness is not allowing. You must allow your greatness to be.

One of the biggest misperceptions the human persona has is that it must make and create its life on its own. It doesn’t. You are a co-creator. The bigger You that you are, has great power in helping you manifest what you desire. In its natural flow, your Source Energy is always creating. However, the personality has the free will to block the creation. If the persona were to simply allow your greatness to be, all of your deepest hopes, dreams and desires would be manifest now, and you would be ready for the next leap in the expansion of Self.

To be in the flow of the bigger You, you must be in a state of complete allowance. It is the holding onto the illusion of control that stops the flow. The truth is you can’t control your life. Life is much larger than the persona. But, you can allow the bigger, more powerful part of you to work with you and through you to support you and create a wondrous life. So many people try to control their lives. They have long lost the trust in their Source. They have lost the trust that their Source works through life to support them. If they were only to allow the power of their Source Energy to flow through them, they would realize that there is no need to try to control. Source is always ready to work with you to manifest your deepest desires. Nevertheless, it will not override the persona’s free will. When you choose to allow your Source Energy to flow through your life, your life can’t help but to reflect back to you good things.

Be aware of the degree you allow in all areas of your life. As you are able to relax and allow, more well-being will flow into your life and will be reflected in your outer world. Health, abundance and love, which are things you don’t need to create, you simply need to allow them to be, will flow in and through you. The bigger You that you are is already in a natural state of love, health and abundance. All you, the persona needs to do is to allow Source Energy to flow through you and you will realize your greatness and glory in every aspect of your life. We call this flow the Golden Flow.

Kristopher

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Your Soul is always trying to communicate with you. How does It communicate? In more advanced stages of a Spiritual Growth Path, there are several ways to communicate directly with your Soul. However, in the beginning your Soul communicates with you through something everyone has. It communicates with you through your deep desires. I call these deep desires Soul Urges. They are urgings that rise from deep within self. Through your deep desires, your Soul motivates you and directs you.

Do you have a desire to grow and evolve spiritually? As you have read this far, most likely you do. Where does this desire come from? Why would someone embark on a path that is the most difficult thing they could ever do? Why would they choose to pursue a path that can be so personal that it is difficult to share with their friends and family – a path that may be met with disapproval from them? The answer is, of course, that it comes from a deep desire or urging that comes from a larger aspect of the Self that you are – sometimes called your Soul.

Through your desires, your Soul may urge you to make choices and take actions in areas of your life sometimes least expected. It could be a desire to make a career change, to move, to end a relationship, and so forth. Changes are always difficult for humans as change can evoke fear. However, as you connect to your Soul urges and align to them, you will find that behind such urges are incredible help. Your Soul never gives you something you cannot handle, although it can feel overwhelming at the time.

The more you take the time, attention and energy to connect to your deep desires, the clearer and stronger they become. You will also be able to discern between ego desires and Soul desires. Ego desires bring temporary fulfillment at best, whereas Soul desires bring lasting fulfillment. As you connect to your Soul desires, your Soul will respond and open more lines of communication with you. This is not only exciting but also very empowering. It is a major step in co-creating your life with aspects of Self that are more powerful, more intelligent and more knowing than the human personality alone.

Communicating with your Soul is rewarding beyond measure. The good news is that it is not that difficult to do. Each morning before rising, spend some time connecting with your deep desires. Let them grow and bloom in your consciousness. Let them guide you as you plan your day. Then, as you go about your day, see if you can find the feeling sense of those desires – then follow them. As you follow your desires, you open the doors to full communication with your Soul and Its Divine guidance.

Kristopher

Kristopher is the co-creator of The Golden Flow System® of Accelerated Enlightenment, Abundance and Well-Being The Golden Flow® contains tools derived from the best of traditional  methods of healing and spiritual growth, along with new methods that streamline and propel you forward virtually effortlessly.

Kristopher Raphael is the co-founder of the Toltec Mystery School, and author of The Mastery of Awareness, Seeing Through the Eyes of the Jaguar.

The Toltec Mystery School offers both practical and esoteric teachings to empower you, live your Divine Purpose, and Manifest your Deepest Desires.

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Shamanic Egg Cleansing

“A certain man believed that the ordinary waking life, as people know it, could not possibly be complete.

He sought the real Teacher of the Age. He read many books and joined many circles, and he heard the words and witnessed the deeds of one master after another. He carried out the commands and spiritual exercises which seemed to him to be most attractive.

He became elated with some of his experiences. At other times he was confused; and he had no idea at all of what his stage was, or where and when his search might end.

This man was reviewing his behavior one day when he suddenly found himself near the house of a certain sage of high repute. In the garden of that house he en­countered Khidr, the secret guide who shows the way to Truth. (In Sufi lore, Khidr is also known as ‘the green one’. Green is the color of compassion).(...)
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