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Free Telesummit – Monday April 1st – “Align With Your Purpose” series!

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

 Discover How Successful People Have Got to the Point Where They Live Their Dream Life!

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Come join Aline Boundy and me
for a FREE Telesummit on Monday, April 1st.

 In her own words, here’s a special invitation from my friend Aline:

The focus of this series of interviews is “Real Lives.” I’ll be asking our special guests about their life path and their career path. We’ll hear where they started in their careers, and follow the path they took to become clear about their life purpose.

But how does this relate to you? And how do you go about

Aligning With Your Purpose?

Since I began looking into what is for me the BIG QUESTION OF LIFE, I’ve come across many different perceptions and definitions of Life Purpose. There are those who believe we each have a unique purpose to fulfill in our lifetime, and that it is our duty to find it and follow it.

Others are happy to stick to a simpler concept and follow the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
However you understand Life Purpose is just fine, but what if you’re not sure? How do you tell what your purpose is, how do you know? This is probably the most common question I hear about the subject!

 Here are Some Clues That You ARE Aligned With Your Purpose:

    • You jump out of bed in the mornings!
    • You love your job or your business, you feel valued and appreciated!
    • You are “in the flow”, full of joy that you are making a significant contribution to life!
    • You face life’s challenges with calm and equanimity.
    • You feel grateful for everything you have in your life.
    • You have a sense of personal fulfillment.
    • You feel a deep sense of spiritual connection with the universe.

If this does NOT describe how you feel about your life, then I invite you to join us as we journey along the path to:

 Align With Your Purpose.

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12-21-12: Time to Go Deep

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

Can you believe it! The long prophesized day is here! 12-21-12. Can you feel the energy expanding and contracting at greater rates than ever before? The Silent Pulse of the Universe is speeding up. There is definitely an energetic shift taking place on the planet.

With the energy picking up speed so intensely, what we need to do now, more than ever before, is drive our roots deep into the field. Getting yourself firmly connected to your deepest energies will allow you to hold the expanding energies and consciousness that is coming through to you now. As one of my teachers George Leonard is famous for saying “A balanced and centered posture leads to a balanced and centered life.” We must get more balanced and centered, and grounded, than ever before!

And, for a truly spectacular Global Event and a profound opportunity to get tuned in and turned on this auspicious day of 12/21/12, I highly recommend connecting into the free livestream Birth 2012: Empowering the Movement to Birth a New Era. Check out the calendar of events here – http://birth2012.com/birth-2012-broadcast-schedule/ I’ll be there in the field with you!

In this blog we’ll explore how important it is to get connected to the deeper aspects of ourselves during these dramatic and highly energized times.

Read on and enjoy!

“There has been a great and ordered classification and mechanisation, a great discovery and practical result of increasing knowledge, but only on the physical surface of things. Vast abysses of Truth lie below in which are concealed the real springs, the mysterious powers and secretly decisive influences of existence.”

                                                                 – Sri Aurobindo

Just as everything in nature has a built-in, inherent blueprint deep within itself guiding its unfolding, so does each and every human being. If we are going to get divine wisdom into the bottom line results of our life and onto this planet, we must get connected to our own unique energetic blueprint and divine wisdom. This is where we can access, express, and live the best we have to offer. From this deep energetic source flow the highest levels of integrity, inspiration, courage, love, peace, compassion, and wisdom of which we are capable.

From this divine connection flows a divine cascade: divine feelings lead to divine thoughts, which lead to divine actions, which lead to divine results, results that produce the highest and best outcomes for all concerned. Our challenges lie in two areas: First, the sad truth is that our default state is disconnection and second, that state of connection must be cultivated, and takes effort.

 There are many ways to establish this connection. One of my chosen paths for connection is called Integral Transformative Practice. Check out www.ITP-International.org for more information on this incredible practice for getting tuned in and turned on. This practice was co-created by George Leonard and Michael Murphy – both long time leaders in the human potential movement.

“Though all the information in the universe is ultimately available ‘in’ each of us, the amount of it we can encode and express – a tiny amount, indeed – is limited by our particular history, culture, language, and nervous system. For now, it is enough to say that we are completely, firmly, absolutely connected with all of existence, and that the next evolutionary step will involve, at the least, our realizing that connection.”

George Leonard, The Silent Pulse

In my new video on the MajorGoodMojo Channel on YouTube I talk about this connection and how it is missing – at least in any conscious, intentional way – in so much of life. I created this video for the Wisdom 2.0 Conference coming up in San Francisco in February. I am proposing to lead a workshop to explore how we can get connected to Divine Source energy and intelligence, and that coming from that place is the key to creating the changes we all want to see on this planet.

We cannot “think” our way into solutions, we must deeply feel the solutions into existence. We are evolving beyond thinking alone, such that our thinking will be guided by a far deeper wisdom – a wisdom that cannot be taught, but must be accessed.

To establish your connection to your deepest source, and to create your own authentic practice for maintaining that connection, I invite you to engage The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Sit comfortably with your feet flat on the floor and your hands resting on your thighs. Take a few deep belly breaths and feel your abdomen expanding. Release your breath fully on each exhale and allow your body to relax more and more each time. Close your eyes gently (after reading this :-) and as you do so, imagine a beam of energy coming up toward you from the center of the earth. Imagine this beam of energy entering your body through the bottom of your spine and anchoring in your heart area.

Next, imagine a beam of energy coming down through the top of your head from the center of the galaxy. Anchor this beam of energy also in your heart. Now, while maintaining your energetic connection to the earth’s core and to the center of the galaxy, imagine gently radiating loving, light-filled energy out horizontally from your heart center in a full 360 degrees.

Breathe deeply and settle into this energetic state of awareness where you are grounded to earth, connected to heaven, and radiating your light here on the earth plane in service to others.

Congratulations – you’re one step closer to Major Good Mojo!

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How Deep Are Your Roots?

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

The picture above is a Samadhi brand Floatation Tank, also known as a sensory deprivation tank. While I have been meditating for many years, I have just begun exploring this world of “floating” as it’s called. My first two floats have been amazing!

In the tank there is 10 inches of water with 800 lbs. (yes, that’s right 800 pounds!) of Epsom salt dissolved in it. When you lie back you float like a cork. The sensation, or lack of it I should say, is surprising and very unique; you lose track of where your body ends and the water begins. You float in total darkness, and noise from the outside does not reach you. The outside world is gone, and amazing things happen.

The idea behind floating is to remove the stresses our mind and body must deal with each and every moment: sights, sounds, pressures on the body, and even the effect of gravity. The mind is kept very busy constantly processing and managing all of this input and stress. When you remove all of this, the mind and body are more free to do other things, for example, thinking clearly and deeply, without distraction, about high priority, important things. Or not thinking at all, and moving into a blissfully quiet, other-worldly state. During the experience, the brain pumps out dopamine and endorphins, and your body gets to rest, de-stress, and heal. It literally is the most relaxing thing I’ve ever experienced.

In this week’s blog, we explore the importance of “Having Deep Roots.” Deep roots into the source of your being, into the source of life, into the core of your nature. In each and every moment you are sustained by a life force energy that is beating your heart and breathing your body. With conscious intention and practice, we can create a powerful partnership with this loving, generous, life force. We can move and create with this life force in our lives in ways unimaginable without that connection.

Read on and enjoy!

All spiritual practices have at their core one purpose: to connect you with the Divine. In fact, the original definition, or root of the word religion, is to re-ligament, or re-connect. This is what a “religious experience” is, an experience of reconnecting to the one and all, the source of life. However, because these profound and life-changing religious experiences are relatively infrequent, we have “practices” we can engage which help connect us, or re-ligament us, to our Divine Nature. Floating in a Samadhi tank is one such practice.

Everything you experience while floating comes from within yourself; it’s the perfect time to reflect on your life. Reports of creative and personal insights abound. In fact, while floating, I crafted the majority of this blog! It was quite easy to get clear about what was going to be in, and what was definitely out. Up until that point, I was not sure. This kind of clarity and clear insight comes from having deep roots. Deep roots into the Infinite Intelligence which KNOWS your next Divine Right Action. It’s just a matter of quieting down all the distractions, opening up, and deeply listening.

One could say this is an aspect of intuition, and I would agree. One definition of intuition is: the appearance in the mind of accurate information about the external world, which can be shown to have come not through the five senses, nor through a rearrangement of stored memory contents. When in a SENSORY deprivation tank, the clarity, knowing, and insights are not coming from “the external world.”

Another aspect of having deep roots is synchronicity. The deeper your roots, the more synchronicity you will experience. Synchronicity is the occurrence of two or more independent events having no apparent causal connection, but which seem to form a meaningful pattern. For example, I have recently been reading more and more writings of Buckminster Fuller. When I went to the floatation tank center, sitting there in the waiting room on the coffee table with only three other books – the same three that were there the week before when I was there – was a new book, Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, as if to say, “Here, you need to read this book too!” I got the message, and smiled knowingly.

In his book, Critical Path, written only a few years before his death and therefore representing his lifetime of knowledge and experience, Buckminster Fuller said, “…human continuance now depends entirely upon the intuitive wisdom of each and every individual.” It was this book, out of hundreds and hundreds, which came off the shelf and into my awareness last June while on my Spirit Quest. Another synchronicity. I nod and say, “Thank you.”

Life is far too complex to think it all out on your own. Everything, literally everything, is interconnected. You cannot isolate anything.  As soon as you draw a boundary around something so you can focus on it and learn something, you have disconnected it from everything else. You are therefore no longer studying and learning about that thing, whatever it may be, as it actually exists in the world – connected to everything else! The key is to get connected yourself, to establish your own deep roots into the ONENESS and interconnection of ALL things. Only from that place can you truly operate freely and with that sense of knowing that does not come through the five senses nor through a rearrangement of stored memory contents.

Just as everything in nature has a built-in, inherent blueprint deep within itself guiding its unfolding, so do you! So does each and every human being, and humanity as a whole. It is from this energetic Source, or Divine Blueprint, deep within you, that you can access, express, and live the best that you have to offer. It is from this deep energetic Source that your highest levels of Integrity, Inspiration, Courage, Love, Peace, Compassion, and Wisdom flow – effortlessly! When you are truly tapped into your unique aspect of this Divine Energy, into your own Divine Blueprint, there is a Divine Right Knowing that emerges for you. It inspires and guides your own Divine Right Action that results in Divine Right Outcomes (the highest and best outcomes for all concerned).

It is to this Divine Connection, Divine Blueprint, and Divine Knowing, Actions, and Outcomes that I am committed to realizing for myself, for you, and for all of humanity. I invite your commitment to this also. Our future just may depend upon it.

If you want support and a clear path to become Divinely Connected and a channel for Source Energy, I invite you to engage The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Ask yourself “How deeply connected am I? How deep are my roots? How free and independently am I operating?” Then look to see what some next steps might be for you to become more deeply connected. Maybe you’ll want to find a floatation tank center near you, or meditate more, or increase your time for reflective writing, or engage the Major Good Mojo System to really take your connection to whole new levels! Whatever it may be, do it now, you and the world will be better for it.

Congratulations you’re one step closer to Major Good Mojo!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What are you addicted to?

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment


As you  may know, I went on a Vision Quest in the Arizona Desert back in June. In the picture above I am standing on my sacred piece of land upon which the quest took place. I’ve engaged several such events in my life, as perhaps you have. Although they are not easy, I have found each one very rewarding and worth the challenge.

One of the biggest challenges of a typical Vision Quest is giving up what you think you need. On a Vision Quest you give up food: fasting for at least a day and as many as four. You give up comfort; you are sleeping outside on the ground with just the very basics. You give up entertainment: no cell phones, newspapers, TV, internet, or books. There is just the sound of the wind and the stars in the sky to entertain you. You give up companionship; a Vision Quest is done solo. You are alone and isolated (at least from people). And you give up safety; it is just you alone out there with the wild beasts, creatures, and creepy crawlies of the night.

One of the major breakthroughs on a Vision Quest is this discovery: you don’t need these things as much as you THINK you do! The key word here is THINK. If that THINKING is not challenged, it tends to go on running our lives… for better or worse. What you can learn on a Vision Quest, by challenging your BELIEFs, is that you are whole and complete, safe and empowered, inspired and cared for, with far less stuff than you think you need. With this new knowing comes peace, true freedom, and your authentic power of choice. These are things worth “Questing” for.

In many ways what we are talking about here is addictions, things we think we need, or have to do, or can’t live without. What are you addicted to? What is running your life? In this week’s Major Good Mojo blog we explore the nature of addiction, what’s underlying the drive, and offer some keys to restoring your authentic power and true freedom of choice.

What Are You Addicted To?

Ad-dict: from the Latin addicere, to give assent. 1) to give oneself up to a strong habit, 2) to make become addicted; addiction.

When we think of “addiction,” we typically think of the people who are abusing drugs, i.e. the drug addict. However, in reality, addiction is a far more prevalent and widespread challenge. Look carefully at the definition of addict above. To be addicted, you only have to give yourself up to, or over to, a strong habit. Drugs are just ONE of the habits we humans can give ourselves up to.

The problem with addiction lies in this notion of “giving oneSELF up” to something. You are literally giving up to and giving your POWER over to, something that is apparently “more powerful” than you. In this manner, the addict makes himself or herself powerless. Ouch! Every time you engage your habit in this manner as an addict, you reinforce your powerlessness and weaken your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies. This is the pain, and this is the loss, experienced by an addict.

So what are you addicted to? How about Starbucks? Are you one of those millions of people who “can’t start your day” without your morning cup of Joe. Really? You CAN’T start your day? Notice the powerlessness in this statement and the giving over of one’s power. You feel you “have no choice, you have to do this.” These are the words of an addict. Whether addicts consciously realize it or not, they are suffering because of it. A small (and sometimes large) part of themselves dies every time they engage their addiction.

How about TV? Gaming? Alcohol? Shopping? The Internet? Or email? Oh, there’s one for the masses: email (or put in texting for the younger crowd). I recently heard on the radio an announcer say “Studies show that decreasing time on email can significantly improve productivity, but changing that habit is very challenging because it is an ADDICTION.” People feel powerless. Can you relate?

Even so called “good habits” can become detrimental addictions if we become powerless in our choice to engage them or not. Take, for example, work. You’re called a work-a-holic if you’re addicted to work. What starts out as a good thing – being productive, serving others, and doing a good job – becomes detrimental when you lose your freedom of choice. People in this boat will say things like “I have to work late, I have no choice.” They are affirming they are powerless. We can put exercise, sleep, sex, eating, and all kinds of things into this category that are good and healthy when freely and appropriately engaged and chosen, but then become detrimental and even damaging when they move over into the category of addiction.

So why do we do this? What is underlying our addictions? Good question. My answer: FEAR. Fundamentally what is driving the addictive behavior is a fear of something. For the email or text addict it might be something like “I’m afraid I’ll miss something important.” For the work-a-holic it might be something like “I’m afraid my boss and colleagues will not approve of me.” For the caffeine addict it might be “I’m afraid I will not have the energy and drive to think fast and succeed.” For the social drinker it might be “I’m afraid of people; I may be awkward and rejected.” Afraid, afraid, afraid. Fear, fear, fear.

Addictions are challenging to overcome because to achieve it you must FACE YOUR FEAR. To restore your peace, freedom, wholeness, and authentic power of choice you must embrace and face your fear, whatever it may be.

I am very intimate with this process. For me, addictions cloud my channel with the Divine. My tolerance for my addictions has been greatly decreasing over the years. When I give my power over to something outside of me, I am saying to myself, “The Divine in me is not powerful enough to overcome this addiction,” and “This thing outside of me is more powerful than me.” When I engage my addictions I am saying no to the Divine power within. I am saying “I need this to feel good, to be OK, to be safe.” And on the flip side I am saying “I do not feel good, I am not OK, and I am not safe” (therefore I must engage this addiction to fix that). These are affirmations I am not interested in affirming!

As a social drinker of alcohol for most of my life, I have given up alcohol for all of 2012. I’m nine months into my challenge – and doing just fine. It is a spiritual practice for me, a sacrifice to the Divine in the greatest of ways. Each time I wish I could have a drink – usually weekend social events – I embrace the Divine within affirming “I feel good, I am OK, I am safe, etc.” without alcohol. And you know what, I am! Plus, I’ve discovered a whole new world of fabulous non-alcoholic drinks.

Restoring your power can become addictive! I’ve now moved on to caffeine. Having been a black tea drinker for a number of years, I am moving to herbal choices and other no or very low caffeine options. In this process I must face my fear of “I need caffeine to be sharp, energized, and productive.” Instead I affirm “I am sharp, energized, and productive” without caffeine. And you know what? I am.

Releasing your addictions is about restoring your power. It’s about restoring your connection to Source and knowing yourself as whole and complete (without whatever you feel you must have). And that’s the real truth for each and every one of us. Your wholeness, completeness, freedom, love, and inspiration are always inside waiting for you to choose and embrace in each and every moment.

If you want support and a clear path to become Divinely Connected and a channel for Source Energy, I invite you to engage The Major Good Mojo System.

 

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Become aware of things you might be addicted to. Jot down on a piece of paper a short (or long) list of these things to which you are giving over your power. As you look at that list, for each one, ask yourself “What fear would I have to embrace if I were to stop this addiction?” Write down whatever fear comes up for you.

Next, take one addiction, and for a minute or two, just embrace the fear you identified for it. Take a deep breath and just let it settle in – do not resist it. More often than not, the fear is not as scary, or real, as our minds make them out to be. If you “stand up” to that fear, very often you’ll find it melting away, sometimes slowly over time, sometimes quickly.

Then ask yourself, “What would be available to me if I were to stop this addiction? What are the potential benefits of not engaging this anymore?” And make your list of benefits if you were to release your addiction.

Finally, perhaps ask yourself “Which one of these addictions am I ready to release and evolve beyond?” If none, that’s fine, perhaps a time will come later. If it is time, then start moving in that direction. Take the first step, whatever that may be for you to gently, awake and aware, day by day, restore your authentic power of choice.

Congratulations you’re one step closer to Major Good Mojo!

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Time to Get Into the Kingdom

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

This past Monday I played Golf in the Kingdom. The picture above is PGA Champions Tour players Bobbie Clampett (in purple) and Steve Pate (in orange) leading an Impact Zone golf clinic prior to our hitting the links. This was the second annual fund raiser for Integral Transformative Practice International (ITPI). ITPI is the organization stewarding and bringing alive the work that Michael Murphy and George Leonard put forth in their book The Life We Are Given.

ITP is cross training for the body, mind, heart, and soul. It is a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual practice. ITP is unique in the world since many practices usually only develop one, or maybe two of those. ITP is truly integral.

I have been practicing ITP for more than 8 years now, am a Senior Teacher of the practice, and it is a cornerstone of my daily life. One of the biggest benefits I receive from my ITP practice is a strengthened connection with my deepest self, the Source of my life, of Life itself. If you’re not deeply connected to this aspect of yourself, you’re like a ship without a rudder getting tossed about on the sea of life.

This is what Golf in the Kingdom is all about: playing golf as much in the metaphysical world as in the physical world. One could say it’s the “inner game” of golf – but it’s much, much more than that.

When I wrote my book NexGen Human there was one MAJOR message I wanted to get out to the world. I knew as a human race we needed to develop a new skill to successfully navigate the nature of our time. We need to do a lot more than golf in the Kingdom, we need to live in the Kingdom. In this blog we’ll explore further just what that means.

Read on and enjoy!

Time to get into the Kingdom

As a global society we are well into a major transition as the industrial age gives way to the information age. This transition involves a major change in both our strengths and our values as the emphasis shifts from the tangible to the intangible. Our sense of value in the information age is based more on what we know than on what we have. We are moving out of an industrial-physical-tangible focus and into an information-nonphysical-intangible focus. As we make this transition, the need for a new skill is emerging.

Historically, certain advanced and trailblazing human beings have accessed and developed this crucial skill. So, in one sense, this is not a new development. However, for the grand majority of us, it is absolutely new. The early pioneers came from all parts of the world and from many different disciplines; they were some of the most influential and satisfied human beings to ever live. We are able to study them, celebrate their successes, and stand on their shoulders.

We are part of the evolution; what was once impossible or undreamed of becomes possible, real, and ever more available to those of us who follow the path blazed by these pioneers. Climbing Mt. Everest was once out of the question, just as visiting the moon was humanly impossible. Even ice cream, automobiles, and electricity were once luxuries available to only a privileged few, and yet they are now widely available to all. In the same manner, this critical new skill is becoming available to more and more people, including you, if you choose it. Evolutionary energy and intelligence itself is on the move—in, around, and through you and me.

So what is this critical skill? It is the ability to consciously and consistently partner with the power of the Universe. It’s time for us, both collectively and individually, to develop the skill of joining forces with the Ultimate, most valuable, intangible element in our Universe – the intelligent energy of the Universe itself.

This is a skill you can learn, and develop, to bring the power
of this amazing Universal Intelligence alive in your life.

Fundamentally what this means is to shift our idea and experience of God, Universal Intelligence, Great Spirit, Source, from an external concept, to an internal reality. No longer is God something outside of us whose existence we must take on the word of others and just have faith and believe in. It’s a little like someone describing to you their experience of falling in love – you don’t feel it. You must experience it for yourself to truly get it. In the same way, the old way of relating to God was one step removed. When you don’t have the direct experience of God the relationship must be based on faith and belief. You need direct experience of Greater Power.  

Universal Life Force is already in you and is always available, but it’s up to you to heed the call and maximize your partnership with this force, this intelligence, this energy.

Using new words to describe this energy,
this experience, this “entity,” is part of our evolution.

Note that I am deliberately using multiple words to point to this thing we have historically called “God.” God, as a word, is a good word, however it has picked up a lot of baggage over the years. It has many meanings and forms, and you never know how someone will interpret it. Using new words to describe this energy, this experience, this “entity,” is part of our evolution. NexGen Humans evolve beyond these limitations by connecting personally and directly with Source. In this manner they become free of preconceived notions and open up to the actual experience, beyond all words, thoughts, and concepts.

Now while grace is forever and always available to everyone (the Kingdom of Heaven is within), it tends to favor those looking for it. As one spiritual teacher of mine put it “Roger, if you want your spiritual cup filled, you have to turn it upright and hold it out.” This is the nature and power of practice; it’s a conscious and intentional turning of our cups upright and holding them out. You can’t force or make grace happen, but you can prepare and make yourself more “grace prone.”

If you are interested in learning how to make yourself more “grace prone” I invite you to engage The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Reflect on the following questions:

  • What’s your current relationship with God, Universal Intelligence, Great Spirit, Source? How strong is it, how clear is it, how free and empowered are you in that relationship?
  • Is there an opportunity for you to strengthen this relationship?
  • To what extent do you allow peer pressure and/or fear of change keep you from growing and exploring more of who and what you are?

Just asking yourself these questions and listening to your answers is a courageous act of evolution that will move you closer to Major Good Mojo!

 

 

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Do God, your Higher Self, or Vortexes in Sedona Exist or Not?

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| 4 Comments

The picture is of me in Sedona, Arizona on the Airport Mesa Vortex.  Being in Sedona is like living in a postcard.  The scenery is so beautiful it feels surreal.  As you probably know, Sedona has various spots spread out around the valley among the rock formations that are designated as Vortexes.  A Vortex is a place exhibiting unique geological energies that can increase and enhance intuition, insight, intention, vitality, and even wisdom. 

Whether you believe these Vortexes actually exist or not depends on you.  Many people come to Sedona to meditate, pray, and perform rituals on the Vortexes.  These people have deep and profound experiences at these sacred spots and absolutely validate their existence. Others come to Sedona with an open mind and visit the spots out of curiosity just to see if they experience anything; some do, some don’t.  And others have no interest in the Vortexes, believe they have no power or existence in the real world, and that they are the made up fantasies of people slightly “off their rocker.”

So, how is it for you? Typically, how you approach the phenomenon of Vortexes determines your experience of them.  Why is that?  This is not true of all things in our world.  I mean, you don’t have to have an open mind and believe in the Sun to validate its existence; anyone can look up in the sky and see the brightly burning ball of light.  Hello!  There it is!  There is obviously something there.  So what is it about a phenomenon like the Sedona Vortexes that results in a wide variation of human experience – from those who discover a profound reality, to those who believe it is all a ridiculous made up fantasy?

In this blog we’ll go a little deeper into the nature of subtle phenomenon and explore why there is such a wide range of human experience with these things. In many ways “God” or your Higher Self is a subtle phenomenon – just like a Sedona Vortex.  Being able to know and experience your Higher Self or your God as a profound reality for you is a major outcome of the Major Good Mojo System.

Read on and enjoy!

Do God, your Higher Self, or Vortexes in Sedona Exist or Not?

The first reason there is a wide variety of experiences when it comes to some elements of life has to do with how easy, or difficult, it is to experience something.  Some elements of life are easy to experience and validate as “real,” and some elements of life are more subtle and therefore more difficult to experience and validate as real.  Note: this does not mean they are less powerful, it just means they are more subtle, and because of that, they are more difficult to access and experience.

Many things in life are very easy to experience.  Examples of commonly experienced phenomenon in the world, things that are easy to experience, include: the sun, a cloud, the temperature of the air, the hardness of cement, the taste of food, the smell of a rose, the sound of a symphony.  To experience these things as real, we use our normal and established senses of seeing, touching, tasting, smelling, and hearing.  If we can see, touch, taste, smell, or hear something, we say that it is “real,” we say that it “exists in the real world.”  On the other hand, if we cannot see, touch, taste, smell, or hear something, most people would have no experience of that thing and therefore would say it does not exist.  But is that really true?

To know if something exists or not, we need to have SOME experience of it, beyond the thought in our head.  Otherwise it really is just a made up fantasy that has no existence in reality for us.  So HOW do we experience the more subtle phenomenon in our world?   How can we validate their existence?  Answer:  we need to either enhance the power of the senses we do have, or develop new ones.

Examples of the first method are very common in today’s scientific world.  Take for example the electron microscope.  This is a man-made enhancement to our sense of sight.  With the electron microscope we can see things that we normally cannot see with the naked eye.  Both the microscope and the telescope, enhancements to our sense of sight, have opened up whole new worlds of experience (and reality) to us.  And there are many other examples of man-made sense enhancements.

At this point I want to point out something very important:  just because you initially cannot experience something with your normal senses, does not mean it does not exist.  For example, just because you cannot see an atom or have any real experience of it with any of your normal senses, does not mean that atoms do not exist.  Obviously, we know they do.  Also, with your normal senses while on earth you cannot see that the world is round, yet I bet you believe it is round.  So obviously, things can exist in reality that we cannot experience with our “normal” senses.  All you can truly say is “I have not experienced it” or “It does not exist FOR ME.”  From there, determining whether something is real or not for you, becomes more about seeking the experience of it.

So, again, back to our question of HOW do we experience the more subtle phenomenon in our world.  The first is by man-made enhancements to our senses, which we just talked about.  The second is by naturally enhancing our own normal senses and developing new ones (e.g. the sixth sense).  So how do we do this?  Mostly it’s done by paying attention to them.  Where attention goes, energy flows.  You can expand your sense of seeing, touching, tasting, smelling, and hearing just by paying more attention to them.  We’ve all experienced this before.  For example, you can enhance your hearing by really listening to someone.  What is really listening?  It’s paying attention – bringing your awareness to a focused point.  You can do this with all your senses. You could say this is a “presencing” practice – the practice of being fully in the present moment.  When you are fully in the present moment, all of your senses are enhanced and you come alive.  You see things you didn’t see before, hear things you didn’t hear before, and feel things you didn’t feel before – LIKE A VORTEX!  

You see, the main barrier to experiencing the more subtle aspects of living is being up in the head thinking, analyzing, and judging (this is Human Doing vs. Human Being).  If you are up in your head thinking, analyzing, and judging, you are not in your body and you are not open and fully present; you are doing-thinking and not being-here.  Therefore, you cannot access the more subtle aspects of the present moment. Heck, most people are not seeing, hearing, and feeling most of the NON subtle aspects, never mind the very subtle aspects!  If you wolf down your food at lunch, barely tasting a thing, then race out to this vortex-thing in the desert, chances are high your experience will be no more than one of simply standing on a rock and naturally you will conclude “There is nothing going on here.”

In addition to this natural tendency on doing-thinking, we have been trained by “normal life” to need explosive experiences to experience anything at all.  Look at the Hollywood movies today – the experience is like being hit over the head with a two-by-four with 10 million watts of surround sound blasting out and 3D images practically punching you in the face.  Many people have become so accustomed to this “in your face” level of experience, that unless life is coming at them at this level they have no experience at all and “nothing is happening.” 

I’ve been practicing presencing for more than 10 years now.  It’s a practice of dropping down into my body, out of my head, and fully opening up to the present moment.  I bring my awareness to my breath and relax and open every cell in my body.  It is a meditative state of full presence.  When I first got to the Airport Mesa Vortex I was awed by the view, but I was not having any “profound” experience of energy.  However, as I found a place to sit – away from others – and slowly moved into my state of full presence, I experienced an amazing energy moving through my body, illuminating and opening all my chakras, and became so resonant with joy that it brought tears to my eyes.  I experienced an extraordinary integration with nature and everything around me. I was one with all and very happy to be there.  I felt dizzy after the experience and somewhat floaty, it was like walking on air.  For me, there was an unusual and very powerful energy available at this Vortex spot, but only experienced when I became fully present, open, and available to it.  For me, the Vortex was and is a profound reality, something that actually exists in the real world.

So do God, or your Higher Self, or Vortexes in Sedona exist or not?  Are they part of the real world, or are they a made up fantasy?  The answer is up to YOU.  You get to say what’s true and real for you. 

If you are interested in developing your access to these more subtle energies in the world and tap into the extraordinary power they have to offer, I invite you to engage The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Take a moment and reflect upon HOW you determine what’s real for you and what’s not.  How much do you rely upon what others say?  Think about the more subtle and “hard to believe” aspects of your life and living.  Do you automatically dismiss the possibility that something exists if you have not experienced it yourself?  Or are you more open to the possibility and willing to say “I have not experienced it so it does not yet exist FOR ME.” 

For those areas of your life that you find hard to believe, see if you can adopt the more open-minded perspective of “Just because I have not experienced it, does not mean it does not exist,” and exercise your willingness to explore these subtle and harder to experience aspects of your life.  This is the first step to actually experiencing them and making them a reality in your life!  What an adventure!

Developing your access to the more subtle energies in the world and tapping into the extraordinary power they have to offer is a major key to Major Good Mojo!

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We are All Connected! Literally!

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

Last weekend I spent a blissful 2.5 days at The Esalen Institute in Big Sur on the beautiful California coast with my ITP (Integral Transformative Practice) Mastery community.  As you can see from the picture above, we were literally glowing from the experience. If you’ve been to Esalen, you know what I’m talking about. If you have not, I highly recommend you go.

One of our objectives for the weekend was to activate and explore the “unified field of practice.” This is a basic concept of Gestalt theory, best described as a “web of interconnection between person and situation, self and others, organism and environment, the individual and the communal.[i]

There is more and more evidence being produced which indicates everything is connected – literally! And some of the experimental evidence indicates that these connections can be strengthened or weakened in various ways. We intuitively know and experience this; the more time you spend with someone the more connected you become. However, this is happening in a far more profound way than we might at first imagine.

There are far-reaching implications involved in really grasping the knowledge that we are literally connected to all things. All things are truly affecting one another. With a deep knowing and experience of this invisible truth, your life can be transformed in the most beautiful ways.

In this blog Major Good Mojo we’ll explore this unfolding reality and knowledge of our deep connection to all things. Coming to know and experience this connection for yourself is a major outcome of the Major Good Mojo System.

Read on and enjoy!

We are all connected! Literally!

“The most definitive experimental support so far for the idea of nonlocality in human brain-minds was performed by neurophysiologist Jacobo Grinbert-Zylberbaum and his collaborators. In this experiment two subjects are instructed to interact for a period of thirty or forty minutes until they start feeling a “direct communication.” They then enter separate Faraday cages (metallic enclosures that block all electromagnetic signals). Unbeknownst to his or her partner, one of the subjects is now shown a flickering light signal that produces an evoked potential (an electrophysiological response produced by a sensory stimulus and measured by an EEG) in the light-stimulated brain. But amazingly, as long as the partners in the experiment maintain their direct communication, the unstimulated brain also shows an electrophysiological activity, called a transfer potential, quite similar in shape and strength to the evoked potential of the stimulated brain. (In contrast, control subjects do not show any transfer potential). The straightforward explanation is quantum nonlocality: The two brain-minds act as a nonlocally correlated system – the correlation established and maintained through nonlocal consciousness – by virtue of the quantum nature of the brains.”
The Self Aware Universe ~ Amit Goswami

The Self Aware Universe was published in 1993. At that time this experimental evidence was ridiculed and dismissed by some as random chance and trivial. However, in the time since then, the study has been replicated by other research centers lending far more credibility to the results. This data indicates we truly are connected in a metaphysical reality beyond our normal senses and everyday awareness.

 As a Licensed HeartMath Provider I am well aware of the scientific data indicating our connections to one another via an electromagnetic field. This field has been measured up to 10 feet away from the body. And, when two people are together their heart and brain waves (measured by EKG and EEG) become synchronized; they become entrained. This alone is an amazing fact and it’s powerful to realize the power of your heart and its effect on your environment.

However, the data presented by Amit Goswami points to an even more stunning revelation of connection, a field of connection we have not measured, a field of connection where we see only effects indicating its existence. This is a field beyond our sense capacities, yet impacting our normal day-to-day lives. As a species, we are only just now beginning to comprehend this reality and grapple with its far-reaching implications.

In ITP, when community members are not together, we say they are in the “long body.” The long body is a concept indicating we are all connected through a larger entity of which we are all a part, a body if you will, a long body that covers any distance that may be between us. And, as connected practitioners, how we are (or are not) practicing, affects everyone in our community, through this long body. Others benefit from my strong practice, and I benefit from theirs. And this applies vice versa, with respect to not practicing.

To make this more vivid, consider the analogy of white-water rafting. Think of a raft with eight people in it, navigating frothy, fast-moving, white water. Everyone in the boat benefits from each person’s active paddling. Each person contributes. AND everyone suffers when even just one person stops paddling and “goes along for the ride.”

As George Leonard so eloquently wrote in his book, The Silent Pulse:  “A world of connectedness, potential, and evolution turns us toward a vivid sense of community along with the acceptance of personal responsibility; toward a de-emphasis on competing and winning along with reemphasis on participating and experiencing; from aggression toward gentleness and enjoyment; from dominance of nature to blending with nature; from exponential growth in production and consumption to a more moderate, more ecological standard of living along with a powerful intentionality toward social justice throughout the world.

Perhaps more than anything else, the new world offers us the thrill of novelty and surprise. Can we call it Transformation?”

To develop your knowing and felt sense of connectedness to all things, I invite you to engage The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and sense into your connectedness with all things. If it’s true that you are connected, literally connected, to all things (and experimental evidence is demonstrating this is so), what does this mean for your life? How might you live differently? Jot down a few notes and continue to contemplate and live into this new reality for the next few days (or the rest of your life if you so choose J)

Congratulations, you are one step closer to Major Good Mojo!

 

 

 

 



[i] http://www.gisc.org/gestaltreview/documents/TheUnifiedFieldinPractice.pdf

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Where is Wisdom? Why is it So Hard to Come By?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”  Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)

Wisdom is deep inside each and every one of us. If wisdom is right here, right where we are, why are so few truly tapped in?

Today I am attending the Wisdom 2.0 Business Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. This is a conference dedicated to exploring and developing the role of wisdom in the world of work. This is a topic I am keenly interested in, for I know there are untapped depths to be plumbed in each and every employee in the working world today.

In the working world of the past we have been asked to “check our souls at the door,” or said another way “to sell our souls to the corporation,” and blindly follow their lead, performing like automatons for the glory of a bigger bottom line. There was no place in this old working world for passion, heart, love, and dynamic solutions that address and fulfill the whole of human existence.

But today is a new day. And what used to work is increasingly failing us. The successful companies of tomorrow will have figured out how to employ ALL of their employees’ being – not just their minds, but also their bodies, hearts, and souls – and to employ those powerful and unique resources to truly meet the needs of the communities they serve. This will be divine work that includes the bottom line, but goes far beyond it.

In this blog we explore why wisdom is so hard to come by. Being able to access your own wisdom is a major outcome of the Major Good Mojo System.

Read on and enjoy!

Where is Wisdom? Why is it So Hard to Come By?

Wisdom comes from a deep place inside us, where most people rarely visit. Wisdom can be defined as thoughts, feelings, concepts, and ideas that are bigger than you and facilitate the greater good of the whole. The only way to have and experience these types of thoughts, feelings, concepts and ideas for yourself is to connect with something bigger than you. We can call this God, Universal Intelligence, Great Spirit, or Source.

This is no longer about religion, or faith, or philosophy. Today’s world demands we go beyond these limiting mental constructs deep into the felt experience of true wisdom. This depth, this experience, this wisdom, is available to each and every person willing to let go and surrender their “smaller self” into this larger “bigger than you” reality.

Both my book NexGen Human and my ´”10 Step Major Good Mojo System” are all about establishing a strong partnership with God, Universal Intelligence, Great Spirit, or Source. I see this as THE most critical skill to survive and thrive in the 21st century. With the amount of change, information, and choices exponentially increasing in our lives, it’s ESSENTIAL we connect with the changeless, infinite, wise guidance inside.

While Spirit communicates with us in many ways, one of the most powerful and effective ways I have found to partner with the power of the Universe is to tune into my own body. If it’s true that we and Great Spirit are one, then we need look no further than right here, right where we are, to tap into divine intelligence and guidance.

So why aren’t more people doing this? If wisdom is available to each of us, inside us, why are we not tapped into it? Well, in our western paradigm of living we are accustomed to thinking of intelligence arising, or coming from, the head. Familiar terms like “Use your head” and “Get your head in the game,” exemplify this way of thinking.

However, what science has discovered in recent years is that intelligence actually exists all over the body; in fact there are neurons, similar to those in our brain, that exist in the heart and as well in the stomach. The new field of neuro-cardiology has called this bundle of neurons in the heart the heart-brain, and those in the stomach have been named the belly-brain.

In addition, studies have shown there is more communication going from the heart to the brain, than from the brain to the heart. The brain does not run the heart – in fact, in a fetus, the heart is formed and starts pumping before the brain is formed. And if you know anything about heart-transplants, you’ll know that a heart removed from the body can continue to beat with no connection to the brain. And those neurons in the gut, they produce the familiar “gut instinct.” We haven’t really understood these things until now.

Someone once said “There is more wisdom from the neck down, than from the neck up.” This is an amazing thing to truly realize, and starts to turn our brain-centered, head-centered western way of thinking and being “on its head.” The bottom line here is that there is wisdom, insight, and intelligence coming from other parts of ourselves!

So why don’t we hear the wisdom from our body? First of all the head is so dominant with its screaming and yelling and nonstop fear-based messages that the subtle aspects of ourselves get drowned out; you just can’t hear them. The voice of wisdom coming from our body is the often-talked-about but seldom heard “still small voice.” It really is still and small. You have to want to hear it, get still, and really listen. If you don’t do this the head continues to dominate you with fear-based, survival-oriented commands. This is unfortunate, because with your head running your life, your life becomes a death march that’s all about avoiding pain, seeking pleasure, and controlling as much as possible. This is called survival and it’s completely void of God-like experiences including joy, unconditional love, compassion, inspiration, deep peace and serenity.

Here’s an interesting insight. Spiritual practices are pretty much ALL about one thing: connecting to Source. That’s it. In one way, shape, or form they are ALL doorways to connecting with Source. Chanting, meditating, prayer, postures, mudras, mantras, etc. etc. etc. Anything you can think of. Every single one of these things is A MEANS TO THE END. Mostly they are about calming and quieting our mental, physical, or emotional distractions. Why? So we can finally connect, hear, and EXPERIENCE that still small voice that is the God Inside each and every one of us.

Think of the mind, or your head, as the manager, and think of your body, and especially your heart, as the leader, as the visionary. Without a divinely inspired vision, the manager, or your head, is just spinning its wheels doing busy work. Your mind is there to serve your heart; however most people are so in their mind, and disconnected from their body-based wisdom, that the mind is dysfunctionally running the show. With these insights your practice becomes about getting connected to your body and accessing ALL your wisdom.

To develop your felt experience of true wisdom, your strong connection with God, Universal Intelligence, Great Spirit, Source I invite you to engage The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Sit in a comfortable position with your feet flat on the ground and your hands resting on your thighs. Take several deep belly breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth. Close your eyes and feel your awareness draining down from your head, down into your body. You can literally sense this energetic shift of awareness-energy coming down from your head, down into your body. Imagine your awareness just melting down from your head down into your body as you breathe deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth. Do this for a minute or two and longer if you want.

Once you have moved your awareness down into your body, just sit calmly in that state for a few moments and notice the quality of your thoughts and feelings. If you have truly succeeded at moving your awareness-energy down into your body, your will likely notice your thoughts are more peaceful, calm, confident, courageous, loving, inspired, and actually wise.  More, one might say, “God-like” in their quality.

Congratulations – you are one step closer to Major Good Mojo!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Two Most Abused Modern Miracles: Diet and Exercise

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

This picture was taken on a recent hike of mine on the mountain in my backyard, Mt. Diablo. I love exercise that takes me into the inspiring energy of the great outdoors. I gave up boring gym workouts long ago in favor of free, fun, and truly energizing outdoor exercises that require no special equipment.

Have you noticed the conversation about health and diet really ramping up these days? It’s been prevalent since the exercise revolution of the 70’s, but recently seems more and more people are getting sick. The side effects of living in our modern world are catching up with us. It seems people are either too busy (I don’t have enough time) or too depressed (I don’t care) to take care of themselves. Both of these conditions – too busy or too depressed – lead to sedentary lifestyles coupled with consumption of highly processed, convenience foods. You can get away with this for a while, but eventually it catches up with you.

The data and research are clearer today than ever before: proper diet and regular exercise are the keys to healthy living. Almost every disease in our modern world can be linked back to poor diet and lack of exercise (plus mental/emotional stress). These are factors in which YOU are in control, NOT your genes, destiny, or bad luck. I see it on PBS all the time: people reversing chronic health ailments like coronary artery disease, migraines, even cancer, through changes in diet and exercise. Not to mention just plain old feeling better with more optimism and energy!

In this issue of Major Good Mojo we look at one of the most important ingredients for creating your life’s dreams and desires: taking conscious, loving care of your physical body. This is Step 9 of the Major Good Mojo System: “Feel Good In Your Body – Look After It!”

Read on and enjoy!

The Two Most Abused Modern Miracles: Diet and Exercise

Step 9 of the 10 Step Major Good Mojo System is “Feel Good In Your Body – Look After It!” This step has multiple aspects to it, all of them about taking care of your physical self. Over the years I’ve learned just how important this is to a life of fulfillment. We have bodies for a reason, and that reason is to live and fulfill our destinies and to create and fully experience our lives. If our bodies are out of shape, worn down, or not given the proper fuel, sleep, or fresh air, just like any mechanical system, they will break down. They will not be able to serve their purpose.

Lots of people struggle with this in their lives. I think one of the reasons is because the body is for living, and if you don’t know what you are living for, then you’re not truly, or naturally, motivated to live. That makes taking care of your body, your key tool for living, an uphill battle and struggle. When you are connected to Spirit and your passions (accomplished through the first 8 steps of the Major Good Mojo System), taking care of your body becomes so much easier and more natural. You are excited about life, you are inspired by life, you have divine energy flowing through you and you want to live. It makes a lot more sense that you want to exercise and move your body, eat a healthy diet, drink plenty of refreshing water, breath lots of fresh air, let in the beautiful sunlight, connect with plants and animals, and get plenty of rest and sleep.

One of my original teachers and inspirations was Dan Millman, author of the best selling book “Way of the Peaceful Warrior.” He is often asked, “How can I become a Peaceful Warrior? What is the most important thing I should be doing?” His reply is, “Get plenty of sleep, eat a healthy diet, and exercise your body.” We’re so busy looking for the magical aspects of living a fulfilling life that we forget these basic things and the huge difference they make.

One of the most powerful practices I have discovered is called Integral Transformative Practice, or ITP for short. This is a long-term practice for transformation developed by human potential pioneers Michael Murphy and George Leonard. Michael Murphy is one of the founders of the Esalen Institute (the west coast center for the human potential movement, founded 50 years ago, located in beautiful Big Sur, California) and George Leonard was President of The Esalen Institute for a time. Over the years these two saw pretty much everything when it came to programs and processes for realizing our human potential.

On January 4, 1992 they embarked on a research study they called “Integral Transformative Practice” with 36 people that met every Saturday morning for 11 months. In 1993 a second group met for 10 consecutive months. They decided they would forgo the spectacular “gee-whiz” experiences they knew they could facilitate, feeling they only gave the illusion of significant change and could even interfere with lasting, long-term transformation. Rather, they held a strong belief in the “transformative power and sacredness of life’s quiet virtues, including intellectual curiosity and integrity, a sense of the spiritual, unconditional love, healthy exercise, and a devotion to practice.” They “were in it for the long run.” “The practice would be integral in that it would involve and seek to integrate body, mind, heart, and soul. It would be transformative in that it would aim toward positive, long-term personal change.”

While the practice certainly has its physical/body-based components, including proper diet and regular exercise, it goes beyond this and recognizes the INTEGRAL nature of ALL OUR COMPONENTS. This means focus and development in one area affect all the others. So, for TRUE physical health and vitality, we must also develop our other parts: mind, heart, and soul. And vice-versa for all the other areas of our being.

The standard affirmation that every ITP Practitioner makes is “My entire being is balanced, vital and healthy.” It’s important to affirm your preferred state of balance, vitality, and health, and ingrain this into yourself through repetition as a conscious and unconscious truth.

So, Step 9, taking care of our physical body, is in the Major Good Mojo System as a very important part of our daily practice for fulfillment and experiencing Major Good Mojo in our lives. To experience the power this can provide in your life, I invite you to engage the The Major Good Mojo Coaching System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Take a look in your kitchen cupboards and pantry and see what you see. Are they filled with processed foods, crackers, cookies, pasta, chips, cereal, white rice, tortillas, bread, candy, etc.? Modern dietary research is indicating the average American diet is too high in these starchy, sugary, processed carbs. Just decreasing your intake of these things will make a big difference in your health. Replace them with things like fresh vegetables, fruits, and nuts.

Take a look at your exercise habits. Is your habit NOT to exercise? Just notice. Modern research is showing that even a small amount of non-strenuous exercise (a short walk for example) can make a huge difference in health and well-being. It’s the consistency that matters most, not the intensity. See if there is an opportunity for you to increase the exercise you are getting in your life and notice the big difference it will make.

Congratulations – you are one step closer to Major Good Mojo!

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How to Stay Connected to Spirit and Passion

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

This picture was taken at the Esalen Institute on California’s Big Sur Coast, as I gazed out over their “Great Lawn” to the Pacific Ocean. I selected the picture for this eZine because the two art pieces nicely demonstrate the typical path one follows living in Spirit and creating a passion-filled life. It’s never a straight line! However, over time, with a consciously engaged practice, there is progress, and often significant, beautiful progress.

One of my favorite quotes from human potential pioneer Michael Murphy, co-founder of the Esalen Institute, is “The question isn’t whether to engage a practice or not, because you’re already practicing something. The question is what are you practicing?” Michael is referring to our ability to consciously choose what we practice in our lives. Are you choosing to practice fear, worry, and concern? This choice, if you can call it that, is typically made unconsciously and by default. Or, are you choosing to practice joy, love, and generosity? This choice is usually made in a more conscious and intentional way.

In this blog we look at one of the most important ingredients for creating your life’s dreams and desires: having and establishing a consciously created daily personal practice. This is Step 8 of the Major Good Mojo System: “Stay connected to Spirit and Passion.”

Read on and enjoy!

How to Stay Connected to Spirit and Passion

Step 8 of the 10 Step Major Good Mojo System is “Stay connected to Spirit and Passion.” Spirit and your passions go hand in hand. As Chris and Janet Attwood, authors of “The Passion Test,” often say, “What you love and God’s will for you are one and the same.” As you deepen your connection to your Higher Self and become more and more adept at listening to and following its guidance, you’ll find you’re led to your passions. You’re led to move and take action on what it is you love. Step by step you’ll be fulfilling your passions, your dharma, and your purpose. This step, Step 8, is about putting in place a practice that keeps you connected to Spirit and your passions day in and day out.

I cannot overemphasize the importance of a long-term, daily practice. It’s inside of this long-term context that your true transformation and evolution will be most powerfully facilitated. In a long-term practice you have the time to experience what does and does not work for you, what is and is not efficient. Then you are able to tune and optimize.

Living and fulfilling your passions is the result of the path of practice, and it occurs and is engaged OVER TIME. Therefore you need to be on a path of regular practice that marks your way, guides you, supports you, and keeps your evolution on track. It’s like creating a groove in a piece of wood with a rock, or perhaps on a piece of glass with a diamond; the first time you practice you just scratch the surface of the wood or glass. But then each time you practice, over and over again, you deepen that groove, and subsequently those things you are working on. Your connection to Source and Heart Wisdom, seeing the good in everything, going with the flow, transcending limiting beliefs, embracing the contraction and low energy times in your life, and expressing and creating your authentic life purpose, all eventually become the natural path for divine energy flow in your life.

It’s also important to note that for your practice to have deep transformational value it must continue independent of what is going on in your life. If you allow life to rule you, you will soon stop your practice. However, if you engage your practice independent of the conditions in your life, you can persist. This means you choose to do your practice for no reason and you do it no matter what.

You can look at your life as your ultimate long-term practice. Over your years on this earth you discover what works and doesn’t work for you, making adjustments, learning and deepening your connection to Source, until you ultimately and literally do dissolve into the oneness. Your long-term practice can be a microcosm of this ultimate and real long-term practice of your life – becoming more free, present, powerful, and joy-filled – while still alive and animating your physical form.

And don’t be afraid to try out different practices. Do what works for you. I’ve engaged many different forms and my transformational practice has continually evolved. Know that something may work for you and be very powerful at one stage of your life, then you grow beyond it and are ready for something else. Don’t feel like you have to select something and stay with it forever. Be free to evolve and engage and create what works for you.

Establishing your own, customized, daily practice that keeps you connected to Spirit and your passions is a major benefit of the Major Good Mojo System. To experience the power this can provide in your life, I invite you to engage the The Major Good Mojo Coaching System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Take a look in your life to identify any daily practices you have that keep you connected to Spirit and your passions. If you have some, great, keep doing those. If you don’t, spend a few minutes right now to think of one or two things you might do each day to get more connected. Perhaps you’ll choose to read some uplifting and inspiring words, or start a gratitude journal, or walk in nature, or even meditate. These are all simple things that, if engaged consciously each day, can become a powerful practice in and for your life.

Consciously choosing, creating, and engaging a long-term daily practice is one of the most powerful things you can do.

Congratulations – you are one step closer to Major Good Mojo!

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