Sitting in the Osaka Airport in Japan for 9 hours waiting for my flight connection back to America. Its been just 6 days shy of one year since the last time my feet touched American soil and wow what a long strange trip its been. From the mountains of Spain to the Sahara of Africa to the volcanic islands of Southeast Asia and back again. I have now lived in 5 of the 7 continents in this world. So what? WHY? Maybe for some people this life style doesn't seem logical or practical or some people say its just a matter of "getting it out of my system" so that I can one day settle down again, get a 9-5 job, get married, procreate...you know the "American Dream" right? I think its time to recreate the idea of the American Dream....completely throw everything we have conventionally thought about what it means to be happy and successful in this life time out the cosmic window of our reality and challenge ourselves to find true bliss in its purest form. This doesnt mean that we all need to become Gypsy travelers like myself...in fact I would love to be able to stay in my birth country without feeling like a serial coded robot. Without feeling like I am slipping into the depths of debt. Without feeling like a rat caught in a race. So how do I do this? How do we all do this? How can we completely recreate our reality within our twisted and tangled realm of the society that has been created for us? How can we learn to escape from the negative pathways that have been created around us? We are reaching a level of critical mass in our existence a breaking point in which we will no longer to continue living the ways that we are used to living. Change is a scary thing for all of us but its time we take action ourselves in order to offset some of the intensity that is about to consume our current consumer lifestyles. These questions I am asking are questions that I can only begin to speculate the answers for my self and my body and my experience but I can only hope to inspire each and every person who reads this to begin to apply these same inquisitions into their own lives. How do I bring consciousness into every aspect of my life? How do I begin to take back control of this auto pilot reality I have been living in for so long? Studying meditation and learning more and more about awareness and presence has helped me tremendously. Being open to new types of healing such as Emotional Freedom Technique, Theta Healing, SCIO technology, and many others have helped me begin to heal the scars of my past and my Karma's. I have also been resonating more and more with the idea of getting back to our pagan roots. I have learned so much from eastern religion but at the same time I feel that I am able to connect, learn, and relate with my roots of pagan tradition on a completely different level. Community is huge....I believe in the future we will all be teachers and healers...the time has come to break away from traditional school systems in which children spend so much time learning things that are completely irrelevant and often times completely untrue...and yet have no idea where a tomato comes from or how to feed themselves from the land. I look at my high school, for those of you who don't know I went to Columbine High School the year after the tragic shootings. I couldn't handle more than one year in that school as I was completely shocked and appalled at the way nothing changed after the killings. There where no community building activities or communications. The "jocks" where still bullying the "nerds" the only thing that changed after 14 people lost their lives in that building where the amount of cameras, metal detectors, and police officers roaming the halls harassing us skater kids and smokers. One of my dear close friends committed suicide that year because he has been caught smoking cigs so many times his dad was going to send him to military school. THIS IS NOT OK!!! We cant sit back and let things get worse because if we do its going to me much more difficult to adjust when the pole change occurs in 2012...I don't think the world is going to end anytime soon...but I do believe that it will be a huge time of transformation and we have 2 choices, we accept change and we evolve or we die. I am excited for our future and am grateful everyday to be alive in the this pivotal time in human experience. My ideas for personal, communal, and global evolution......breath and bring consciousness into every breath. Bring consciousness into every aspect of your day to day life and use tricks to remind your self to be conscious. For example every time you turn on a light switch or walk through a door way use it as a reminder to come back to the present moment and breath. When you find your self off in the past or the future with your monkey mind...compassionately remind your self to come back to the present moment and breath. Gratitude! Everyday for everything! Be in communication with your idea of higher spirit, God, the Universe....and be thankful for everything it gives you...even if that moment it appears to be a negative situation. A Balinese man told me the higher you are the harder the wind blows and you are being tested to see if you can remain strong and happy thought out the hard times. Pray over your food and water, this increases the vibrational level of what you are putting into your body. Plant a garden, learn as much as possible about seed banks and how to grow using non genetically modified seeds...without intervention we will soon only be left with genetically modified seeds WE CAN NOT LET THIS HAPPEN! Learn, teach, and share as much as possible about alternative healing practices and ways we can naturally heal ourselves. Take time every day to meditate and exercise in one form or another....no matter if its yoga, hooping, tennis, guitar, or swimming. Find something that you can do that allows you to turn off your mind chatter at least 30 min everyday. Read more. Start doing Laughter Yoga! Its amazing and we all need to laugh and smile more. Group meditations and mantra are so powerful and raise the vibrational level of the world around us. Do some form of art...even doodling on a regular basis. Create a better and closer relationship with your family and the people around you...even the "strangers" see every person you meet every day as a brother or sister. Listen to recordings of Eckhart Tolle and Alan Watts, Saul Alinsky or any other mind stimulating people who get your wheels turning...the brain is a muscle use it or you loose it! Above all remember that we are all just crazy random expressions of energy just bouncing around space time interacting with each other and having this human experience. Try to make is softer and lighter and remember that love is the source of it all and we all have an inexpressibly large amount of love inside all of these molecules and that this love is completely inexhaustible no matter what happens.
Ok there is my soap box...take what works for you and leave the rest. I am going back to America for 5 months and this is now my challenge to see if I can integrate this knowledge into the Western world. I will be living and working in California for the first time and I am very excited to be immersed into a whole new culture shock! I have been so graciously given the opportunity to play with fire with the conclave which performs during the burning of the man at the Burning Man Festival this August. I have been given the amazing opportunity to design jewelry in Bali to sell this summer in California. I have been given the exciting opportunity to work for my beautiful friends at Holistic Hooping in there hoop store during the festival season. I am so blessed. I will be living around San Francisco, bouncing around with friends all over the Bay area and Golden Triangle. Home base will be in Sebastapol. I will be coming to Colorado the end of June and will stay for about 3 weeks for the exciting birth of my first niece! I am sooo looking forward to seeing all my loved ones back home!!!!
Until then...
ONE LUV!
