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The Mysterious Power of Doing Nothing

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

I’m a busy person. I’m sure you are too. It’s the bane of our existence in this modern world: so much to do and so little time to do it.

As I continue to settle into my new home, I’ve been noticing the powerful draw that “doing something” has on me. My “to-do” list seems never ending and the feeling of overwhelm is easily available. Projects needing doing are constantly making themselves known and niggling away at my awareness.

What is it about doing something that is so seductive and alluring? In this week’s blog let’s take a closer look at doing something and the mysterious power of doing nothing, to see if we can create a bit more freedom, peace and ease around this aspect of our lives.

Read on and enjoy!

The Mysterious Power of Doing Nothing

“On the path of spiritual evolution you do less and less achieving more and more until ultimately you do nothing and achieve everything.”

Deepak Chopra

Getting things done in life is a good thing. We are creative creatures and there is so much to experience in our relatively short lives. However, the drive for doing and accomplishing can be excessive. In the interest of finding a healthy, productive balance, I’d like to point out some of the less healthy (and likely unconscious) drivers of our never ending to-do lists: addiction, fear, and ignorance. Let’s take a look at these one by one.

ADDICTION:   Getting things done is so satisfying, isn’t it? You see something needing done and you do it. Ah, the sweet victory of accomplishment. You get to check it off your list. From the very large to the very small, it all feels good, so good it seems we have become addicted.

It’s really no different than any other high; it’s a fleeting moment that must be repeated in order to regenerate the good feeling. The drug wears off and you need another fix. Hence, we’ve become a society of doers getting things done. Socially the behavior is highly encouraged, supported, and even applauded; a full schedule means you are important, you are worthy, you are somebody. While we may secretly yearn for luxuriously lazy days and an open, flexible schedule, we dare not go there. Why? Because we believe anyone with spare time on their hands must be a loser “with nothing to do.” So we are driven, we are addicted.

FEAR:   Now let’s look at fear. Parker J. Palmer wrote a fabulous little book called Let Your Life Speak. He outlines a behavior he calls “Functional Atheism.” Palmer described this as a belief that ultimate responsibility for everything rests with us. As he says, “This is the unconscious, unexamined conviction that if anything decent is going to happen, we are the ones who must make it happen. This belief leads us to impose our will on others, stressing our relationships, sometimes to the point of breaking. It often eventuates in burnout, depression, and despair, as we learn that the world will not bend to our will and we become embittered about that fact. It drives collective frenzy as well and explains why the average group can tolerate no more than fifteen seconds of silence: if we are not making noise, we believe, nothing good is happening and something must be dying.”

This is the fear of bad things happening, and it goes something like this: “If we don’t get busy making things happen, then bad things will happen!” The unexamined, fear-based belief underlying and unconsciously driving this behavior is “doing nothing = bad things happening.”

Where did we learn this? That’s right, probably in childhood where if you didn’t clean your room, bad things happened. If you didn’t do your homework, bad things happened. If you didn’t eat all your vegetables, bad things happened. We learned we have to do something to keep bad things from happening. And we continue on with that belief and behavior today.

But is this true? Do we have to beat our hearts? Digest our food? Grow the grass? Make the sun rise each day? Make gravity so we don’t fly off the planet into space? Make the rain fall so we don’t die of thirst? All of these good things happen without our having to do anything. In other words, ladies and gentleman, it is possible that doing nothing = good things happening.

IGNORANCE:   And this now leads us to our third driver of the human-doing: ignorance. This is a huge one! Because we are ignorant of the amazing life-force energy that is on our side wanting the best for us, we are all stressed out doing-doing-doing since we believe we are alone in our actions. We are ignorant of the “mysterious powers and secretly decisive influences of existence.” Consider this quote by Sri Aurobindo:

  “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

Sri Aurobindo is basically saying that, yes, we have come a long way and lots of helpful knowledge has been developed and helpful things have been created. But all of this discovery and creation is NOTHING compared to the VAST ABYSSES OF TRUTH lying beneath in the metaphysical world. AND – very importantly – that in this vast abyss are the real causes and powers that are determining and creating our existence. It is these mysterious powers about which we know very little. We are ignorant.

Michael Bernard Beckwith puts it this way “Consciousness always precedes form.” Consciousness arises from the vast abyss, and then puts on clothing in the physical world for the duration of its existence, whatever that form may be. If we can really understand this creative process and come to KNOW it to be true, we would spend a lot more time cultivating our sixth sense. More time navigating the vast abysses of truth. More time surfing the winds and waves of those secretly decisive influences of existence.

Cultivating this sixth sense has many aspects to it; it is the essence of personal transformation and spiritual evolution. Becoming a clear channel where “doing nothing” produces results might require emotional healing work, a regular meditation practice, visualization, contemplation, deep reflection, or any number of other transformational practices and processes. In the external world this work of cultivation might look like doing nothing. However, as you walk the path you will come to know, trust and love this mysterious power of doing nothing, doing less and less while achieving more and more.

To develop your partnership with the secretly decisive influences of existence, I invite you to engage The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Take five minutes and do nothing. Just sit and notice all the good things happening without you doing a thing. Notice that your body is being breathed, notice that your heart is being beaten, notice that your food is being digested, notice that the grass is being grown, notice that the sun is being shined, and notice that the breeze is being blown. What other good things happening do you notice while you are doing nothing?

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

 

 

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Is Your Unconscious in the Driver’s Seat?

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

This past weekend I was leading a portion of the ITP (Integral Transformative Practice) Mastery program at City Aikido in San Francisco. I was talking about the power of affirmations, the theory and philosophy underlying this power, and in particular the two elements of consciousness and transformation.

There are many ways to define consciousness. However, for the purposes of the teaching it was best defined simply as awareness. If something is not conscious, it is unconscious, or un-aware. This definition fits very well for the work I do with ITP as well as with my individual clients, for much of what we are doing on the path of transformation is making the unconscious aspects of ourselves more conscious. Said another way, we are simply becoming aware of that which we were previously unaware.

It has been said that awareness is the first step in any spiritual transformation. Once you become aware of something, you can then begin to work with it. Until then, it’s just running the show without you. Carl Jung said “Until you make what’s unconscious conscious, it will run your life and you will call it destiny.” That’s powerful stuff!

In this week’s blog let’s take a closer look at this mysterious aspect of ourselves, our unconscious, and explore ways we can begin to work with it for our positive transformation.

Read on and enjoy!

“God can do for you, only what God can do through you.”

Michael Bernard Beckwith

If  God can only do for you, what God can do through you, what’s limiting God? Well, that’s right, you. But most often it’s a particular part of you: your un or subconscious. Therefore this “work” is most about getting yourself out of the way. This is your self with a small “s”. Life force energy, big “S” Self, wants to flow through you but we tend to block it up with resistance, dis-belief, and fears of all kinds, from large to small. Some of these are conscious, but many are unconscious.

It helps to look at these unconscious parts of ourselves as old commitments that we originally put in place to protect us, back when our mental, emotional, and spiritual capacities were not developed enough to be capable of withstanding some of the circumstances we were experiencing. Hence, we created automatic protection mechanisms to shield us from the pain. And they worked; they kept us alive and safe for the most part.

However, now that we are older, more mature, with much, much larger perspectives on the world, these childhood protection mechanisms typically create more pain than they prevent. We’ve simply outgrown them and it’s time to thank them and let them go. This is the essence of shadow work: discovering, acknowledging, embracing, integrating, and releasing old commitments and old thoughts about ourselves and the world, then creating new ones.

We could call these parts of ourselves Subconscious Limiting Beliefs (SLBs), or Previous Commitments Becoming Conscious (PCBC), because we typically made these decisions about the world and ourselves long ago in our lives. We then reinforced those beliefs over and over again, and kept our commitments with integrity, until they went subconscious and became just the way the world is (for us).

It’s important to note that a belief in and of itself is not limiting, it only becomes limiting when you are inspired to grow beyond it. So you are, on the one hand, inspired to a greater vision of yourself, but on the other you are limited by old beliefs, habits, and patterns. As you might imagine this can be a frustrating and conflicting place to be. But on your Hero’s Path, your path of evolution, this will be a common experience. However, over time, it’s an experience that you’ll eventually be able to powerfully navigate with grace and ease.

There is no one and no thing to transform but yourself.

What we are up to here is no less than the transformation of ourselves from victim to creator. We are freeing ourselves in all areas of our life, even from our own subconscious.  It is a huge shift.  Access to the world of the creator is through evolving yourself. Evolving yourself means clarifying a vision for your life, then watching yourself very carefully as you step into that vision.

Your unconscious beliefs (and limitations) will make themselves known through your behaviors. You have an opportunity and a moment of choice each time you see yourself doing something out of alignment with your vision. In that moment you are conscious, and in that moment you can make a more authentic choice for your behavior. One that is more aligned with the new vision of your Self.

Taking this moment of choice opportunity over and over again is the path of transformation. This leads you to the next and newest you – the one you desire to become!

To step into the next and newest you I invite you to engage The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

To get a sense of how much your unconscious may be limiting you, and limiting what God can do for you, ask yourself the following questions:

  • How free am I? In all areas of my life.
  • How joyful am I?
  • How loving am I?
  • How much love do I experience each day?
  • How peaceful am I in my life?
  • How present, in each moment, am I?
  • How much awe and beauty do I experience each day?
  • Am I fulfilling the highest vision of my life?

Your transformational opportunity is to become that stillpoint at the center of all creation, with complete and total freedom to move in any truly authentic and Source-inspired direction. When you are fully connected to this aspect of yourself, with no intervening unconscious beliefs, naturally flowing through you will be deep levels of joy, peace, presence, and the needed power to fulfill your highest and most authentic life path.

Get your unconscious out of the driver’s seat!

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

 

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Do you have too much stuff?

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

 

Stuff.  Most of us have a lot.  We think we are blessed, and indeed we are. However, the more you have, the more you have to care for, think about, manage, maintain, move around, worry about, etc., etc. In other words, you can become possessed by your possessions!

For many, the holiday season can become a season of consumerism with too much focus going towards what is being given and gotten. If you’re like me, you already have enough stuff, and getting more is more a burden than a blessing! Too much stuff can create more stress than joy in your life.

Last week I moved to a new, larger home and was faced with the challenge of moving all my stuff. I’m sure you have encountered this challenge. For me, moving is always an opportunity to take stock of what I have and “clear out the crap.” At its core this is a letting go process that takes real courage; all kinds of feelings can come up when sorting through your stuff. Each and every item was purchased, received, or created at a particular time for a particular reason and purpose. To let something go you must suffer a little death of that thing dying – whatever it is – as you release it from your life. If you can navigate that little death, wonderful lightness and freedom is found on the other side.

In today’s world there are so many ways to enjoy the benefits of something without the burden of ownership. For example, I have always wanted to drive an expensive sports car. In this week’s Major Good Mojo Moment, you can take a ride with me in a $260,000, 480 horsepower red convertible Ferrari Spider! We’ll take three spins around a test track in the parking lot of San Francisco’s Candlestick Park (home of the San Francisco Forty Niners), at speeds up to 100 MPH! For a reasonable fee I was able to experience the essence of this exotic car and drive it really fast on a closed course with no worry of getting a speeding ticket. And I did not have to deal with any of its care and maintenance. This was a very high benefit to cost ratio and I wasn’t possessed by it at all!

 

What’s behind our drive to keep buying things? Why do so many people have so much stuff that they can’t even fit their cars into their two-car garage?

Read on and enjoy!

Do You Have Too Much Stuff?

So far, it appears our time here on this planet has been about getting things, controlling things, and having pleasurable experiences. Why? I propose it’s because we are empty inside and we are afraid. That may be a bold statement and perhaps a bitter pill to swallow, and yet, our commitment to full self-expression (and deep joy, peace, and satisfaction) demands we take a closer look. Accumulating stuff stems from our drive for survival, but leaves us exhausted and ultimately dissatisfied. We are constantly running on a treadmill.

And the truth is, getting things, controlling things, and having pleasurable experiences are all transient. All of these things come and go, and are outside of you: relationships, possessions, jobs, money, etc. And when things “go,” what are you left with? YOU! Eventually, like the 60 billion that have come and gone before you, all things will be gone, all control will be gone, and all experiences will be over.

Consider that many of us are living in fear afraid that if we don’t “stock up” and have everything under control, then bad things will happen. Certainly bad things do happen, and sometimes even to good people, right? And if we don’t watch out, we might be next. That’s fear talking – a fear that is at the core of the human experience right now. This fear drives a collective frenzy and sense of dissatisfaction. This is a life based on survival, speckled with moments of pleasure here and there, to make it more bearable.

Where does this fear come from and how is it so many of us are run by it? To be alive as a human being here in the 21st century is to be inundated with messages about how you should live, about what you should be/do/have/believe/and experience. We are constantly barraged by manipulative messages written and concocted by others interested in getting your time, attention, and money … by others living in fear trying to get things, control things, and have pleasurable experiences.

You may think you are thinking for yourself, but you’re actually only responding to a long-standing propaganda machine perpetuating a social hypnosis of the worst kind. It’s mostly fear-based and needs you to stay that way for its own survival. No other human being before us has suffered such a constant barrage of brainwashing messages. It’s practically impossible to avoid – have you ever caught yourself singing the jingle to some commercial selling a product you couldn’t give a damn about?! (Where I live it seems mattresses are ALWAYS on sale! – it seems I can’t escape the ads for Sleep Train, Mattress Discounters, and Mancini’s Sleep World!) It’s literally drilled into our heads, on both a conscious and subconscious level!

It’s important to note that it’s not the amount of nor the means by which information coming at us. No, it’s far more to do with the content of the messages. For the most part the media is either entertaining us with mind-numbing bullsh*t OR putting us into a state of fear: “Watch out” because “this might happen to you.” We ping-pong between states of distracted drama, the pursuit of pleasure, and the avoidance of fear-based worries. This is no way to live, yet this is the state our typical cultural conversation and our media will put you in, BECAUSE YOU PAY THEM FOR IT. You pay them with your time, your attention, your energy, and your money.

It takes a conscious, proactive decision to shift your time, attention, energy and your money, and focus it solely on what you truly desire to create and experience.

Commercials are constantly selling you messages that your life could be better and that others are enjoying life more than you; this can drive you to buy those things in hope of achieving some promised fulfillment. However, the joy is short lived, the purchase soon becomes a burden, and off we go looking for the next holy grail of happiness and fulfillment.

A major evolutionary opportunity of our time is the realization that material acquisition and consumption does not result in deep joy, peace, and satisfaction. When you look closely, you’ll see that these intangibles are what we are trying to find – what we are trying to buy. What we’re missing isn’t “out there,” it is inside. As a society we’ve thoroughly tested (and disproved!) the “happiness can be bought” hypothesis, and yet we keep on trying, and buying, and buying, and buying. Consumerism is just another form of addiction with the drug being stuff we think we need.  We all know the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. But it appears that won’t stop us from trying!

It’s time to wake up and break out of this cycle of insanity. It’s time to move on and evolve!  It’s time to trust something larger and come to know that deep inside each and every one of us is a “Divinely Inspired Being” whose capacity for fulfillment goes far beyond simple happiness to deep joy, peace, and total life satisfaction. In partnership with our unique essence of the Divine, the pursuit of happiness becomes the actual experience of happiness. This is the journey of a lifetime. This is the journey of our time.

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:

To what extent has your life been about getting things, controlling things, and having pleasurable experiences?

Pick an area of your life that could use some cleaning up and clearing out. Where have you accumulated too much stuff that is now more a burden than a blessing? Go into that area of your life and pick up into your hands the various objects, materials, and items in question.

As you pick up each item ask yourself “Do I love this item? Does it bring me joy, inspiration, and good energy? Or does it feel more like a burden, a drag, or like something I “should” keep around? You will almost always immediately know which camp an item falls into.

If you love an item and it does bring you joy, inspiration and good energy then keep it. If not, then choose to sell it, give it away /donate it, recycle it, or trash it. Watch out though, for your mind may speak up after you’ve decided an item is a burden and is ready for release. It may chime in with all kinds of reasons why you should continue to keep it (even though you haven’t touched it for years!). Just notice that these “reasons” are usually based in fears, worries, and concerns. Just thank your mind for sharing and move into the good energy that is waiting for you as you release these burdens that are truly ready to go!

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

 

 

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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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Experience the Magical Energy Field Around Us!

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

The above picture of me was taken IN THE FIELD of the Teotihuacan pyramid complex one hour north of Mexico City. On this pilgrimage to the site, our objective was to steep ourselves in the energetic fields of the complex. We were to sense into this place of great history and feel its messages for us. The guidance was not to “look at” the place, but rather to “be in” the place.

We were challenged to set aside our familiar tourist tendencies of snapping photos, reading signs, buying souvenirs, and listening to the nearby tour guides. Instead the goal was to remain totally focused in each moment, fully present, open and aware to the more subtle aspects available at this sacred and profound site.

Thanks to excellent group facilitation and each individual’s commitment to the process, over the course of a week we explored our depths and allowed the energy of Teotihuacan to have its way with us. We laughed, cried, walked, ran, jumped, crawled, danced, and hugged – indeed we may have been the weird “new-agers” doing some crazy things. However, through all of this there flowed an amazing energy and presence, working its magic on all of us, bestowing its gifts, answering our questions, and showing us the way.

This “field” of energy we experience at magical places like Teotihuacan is actually all around us, everywhere, all the time. What is it? How does it work? How can you tap in? In this blog we’ll dive into those questions and explore some answers!

Read on and enjoy!

“Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world.” Lynn McTaggart – The Field.

Read that quote again. Do you believe it? Does it feel true to you? If so how do you know? What is your experience of this energetic field? These are important questions if we are to move into a conscious relationship with this energetic field. Even though it is in and through all things, including us, without our tangible, conscious experience of it, what difference will it make for us?

We look at the world and see a world of separate objects. “I am here, and everything else is over there, separate from me.” It sure looks this way, doesn’t it? However, what scientists have been discovering is that this separation between things is an illusion. Everything is actually connected at a very deep and profound level. As Lynn states, “There is no me and not-me duality to our bodies in relation to the universe, but one underlying field. This field is responsible for our mind’s highest functions, the information source guiding the growth of our bodies. It is our brain, our heart, our memory – indeed, a blueprint of the world for all time.”

An emerging theory is that consciousness is not something that arises from inside us, but rather from OUTSIDE us – it is the field we are swimming in. In research labs with magnetic resonance imaging technology scientists can correlate various brain functions with various reported emotional or physical experiences. In the scientific, materialist model, a researcher would conclude that brain states are causing the emotional/physical states and that the brain is the source of the person’s experience. However, we don’t actually know that to be true. All we can say is there is a correlation between areas of the brain that “light up” and the reported experiences of the research subjects.

Another possible model holds that the brain operates more like a filter, with a much broader range of possible energies and input. In other words, the brain is not the source of input; it is simply a filter. Think of your television set. If you were to look only at the TV you’d see a bunch of images being projected on the screen and you could naturally conclude that the TV itself is the source of these images. We know that is not the case! The TV set is simply a filter of the myriad signals coming from outside and beyond it. Imagine if this is in fact how our brains and bodies work; that we are simply tuning devices, or channels, for a far larger energy and information field. Whoa! What channel are you tuned in to?

On a path of personal evolution and spiritual transformation, you may come to know and experience this universal truth: you are an integral part of an infinitely larger field of energy and information. This is a HUGE paradigm shift not only for you as an individual, but for humanity as a whole. As we come to realize we are all connected, the health of every single one of us becomes personally relevant to us all.

This energetic field is the source of life. It is the same field that is beating your heart, digesting your food, growing your hair, breathing your body, and doing all the other billions of things needed for you to exist as the human being that you are. This is an absolute miracle!

To get more connected to your energetic field of life I invite you to engage The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

This life force energy is on your side; it wants you to live and thrive. You can know this is true by the fact your heart continues beating. Take this deep trust you have in your heartbeat, and move it out further into your world. Start to relax a bit more and settle into this field and you will begin to connect with it. The more you hear and follow its guidance, the more magical your life will become!

Try this short visual exercise: Sit quietly in front of a favorite flower, such as a rose or a lily, in a vase, just before you on a table. Get quiet, still and center yourself. Study the flower quietly.  Take in its lovely shape, its color, its perfect beauty. Feel its essence, its energy of peace and joy. Now feel that energy filling your body; let it flow through you from the top of your head to the bottoms of your feet, filling you and overflowing.  See if you can feel at one with the flower. The more you do this, the more you will feel the connection.

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

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Can you Drop the Social Mask?

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

As I prepare for my pilgrimage to the sacred pyramid complex of Teotihuacan near Mexico City later this month, I am reading books on the Toltec Path and Shamanism. Depending on who you talk to, the name Teotihuacan means “where man meets the gods” or “place where gods are born” or “place where man becomes divine.” Some of the material I am reading indicates this meeting, birthing, or becoming was facilitated through a transformational process of purification.

To become a shaman there are initiatory rites of passage – one could say a transformational process of purification – that the candidate must endure. This is typically some kind of death and rebirth experience that develops the soul of the candidate, introduces him or her to the mysterious and invisible realms in which he/she must operate, and frees him /her from the fear of death. As you can imagine, these are incredibly challenging experiences that are life changing not just for the candidate, but for the entire community within which they live.

In this blog, we explore our own process of purification and how this is necessary to become the “shaman” in our own lives. This is sacred work of the most profound nature. This is the kind of work that heals not only your own life but others as well.

Read on and enjoy!

Can You Drop the Social Mask?

Don’t be fooled by the Social Mask. Life is messy, and everyone is working through their own challenges – but it doesn’t look this way – people hide that part, and put on the image, put on their smile, put on their social mask as it is known. To know this is true, just look at your own life. I bet you do this yourself, I know I do. We may be suffering, but we’ll put on a happy face so others don’t have to deal with it.

Often this is quite appropriate. In social situations the grand majority of people are not equipped or have any idea how to support your healing, so to drop your social mask and bear your “ugly wounds” would end up, more than likely, alienating others and leaving your wounds gaping even larger. We intuitively know this, or have directly experienced it, so we don’t do it.

It takes a person who has faced their deepest fears, has healed their own wounds, and can meet your pain with compassion and understanding, to support you through it. In many cultures, this is the role of the wise elder. If you have a wise elder in your life, consider yourself blessed. However, since most people have not done their own work, when you share your hurts with the average person, it only activates their own. It can launch them into judgment and rejection mode, or some kind of sympathy or fixing mode, which can leave you worse off than when you started!

Now again, note that wearing the social mask is beneficial, to a certain extent; none of us wants to hear a bunch of dumping and complaining from others. But it’s also important to note that this is what people often do: they assume the role of victim and then dump and complain. Rather than looking inside themselves for the cause of their suffering, they project it outside onto others (a natural protection mechanism of the mind). Being aware of this enables responsible sharing; you can own your own stuff with an authentic desire for healing AND an openness to coaching and insight.

Many adults have avoided this kind of responsible, authentic, and courageous exploration and sharing. Why? Because:

1) their present life is not painful enough for them to deal with it,

2) initially it’s much easier to stuff issues down, paste them over, and pretend that everything is OK,

3) they have no structure or model for deep exploration,

4) they fear being vulnerable in this way will somehow hurt them and make them less powerful, and

5) they have no one in their life that can actually help them heal their wounds and evolve into more freedom and love.

Therefore, these people – and there are a lot of them out there- are walking bundles of reactionary protection mechanisms. They continue to foster patterns from their past in each and every present moment. To a large extent, these are the average people in our “general public.” My therapist once said to me “Roger, don’t be fooled by the big bodies and open eyes.” Just because people look awake doesn’t mean they really are.

Your unconscious limiting belief patterns are instilled in you from childhood, but may still be running your automatic behaviors and perceptions of your present world. The process of exploring and unraveling them is typically a long-term process requiring tremendous courage, insight, tools, support, compassion, and persistence – and there is no more highly satisfying and personally rewarding work!

Of all those traits mentioned, I think persistence may be one of the most important, since the nature of these mechanisms is very “crafty.” Just when you think you’ve got one handled, you’ll find it popping up in a different circumstance wearing different clothes. Then, with further investigation, you find it’s the same old fear-based mechanism at work that you’ve seen before. Aha!

So just be aware of your environment; be aware that your fellow human beings are all working through their own issues, even though it may not look like it. Be aware of who you are sharing with; recognize the limitations the average person will have in helping you with your wounds and your healing process. Be the first to extend compassion to others and especially to yourself.

And above all, actively engage and transform your own issues, subconscious limiting beliefs, and childhood protection mechanisms. This is the path of the modern day shaman: taking on your fears, meeting them where they reside inside you, dying the little death that’s necessary for their transformation and release, and being reborn on the other side. As you become responsible for and transform your own issues – sharing authentically with a true desire for healing and support – you can then become the one who listens compassionately and helps others heal their own wounds. And over time, the need for your social mask becomes less and less as you become more fully transparent with nothing to fear and nothing to hide.
Looking for support on your path of transformation and healing? I invite you to engage The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don’t know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it.
~ Christine M. Huppert


 People frequently live behind a social mask.

As you are walking down the street, or sitting in your car at a red light, look around at the people you can see. Some are on phones, some are chewing a fingernail, some are completely absorbed in their own thoughts. Choose one person, and imagine what might be going on in their life, or in their fears and self-doubts, that you cannot see in their faces or in their body language. This will not only raise your awareness and openness to other peoples’ struggles in life, it will raise your levels of compassion and tolerance.

Now look at your own social mask. Be aware of how you probably appear to others, even though you may be working through an issue or problem in your life. Be kind to yourself, and acknowledge the effort this mask entails. And acknowledge that it’s OK to use this mask for your safety in the world as you continue your healing and transforming.

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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Two winners! Great responses to our survey, “What are your next steps to align with your purpose?”

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

We have two winners!  Laura Young and Maria Franconi, are the winners in our survey, “What are your next steps to align with your purpose?” We are sending them out a free signed copy of my book NexGen Human – A Modern Age Path to Fulfillment.

Laura wrote:
“I have been listening to speakers online, trying new better ways of “being” and working at putting them into practice. I am gaining new perspectives, clearing blocks, and sorting out what is true for me. I am getting out of fear from the doom and gloom of the old paradigm and into my heart living more in love and joy. Spreading the word God is love and will provide, and sharing my new ways.. I am serving others, many of which are needy, despite being between 2 houses in 2 states trying to get moved.”

Nice, Laura! You are very much on the path, doing your work (both internal and external) and serving others.  To acknowledge and further support the great work you are doing I am honored to send you a free signed copy of my book “NexGen Human – A Modern Age Path to Fulfillment.” 

Maria wrote:
“My next step in aligning with my purpose is actually asking people to work with me. It is so essential to moving forward, the dang ASK. How much more aligned can you be? Yes, always more, but ya gatta ask people if they would like your help, if your purpose is to help them. I’m doing a workshop tomorrow night and I’m going to ask to people to work with me. Programs I had in place ages ago are rusty, because I haven’t asked people to work with me. I’m going for it anyway. As uncomfortable as it may be, I’m aligned and asking. Yah!”

I love how you are being more bold and courageous in getting your gifts out into the world. Reminds me of the saying “You already have the no, therefore you have nothing to lose by asking!”

Congratulations to you both, and thanks to everyone who responded!

Namaste and Blessings,
Roger

Roger Kenneth Marsh

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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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