Evolution Acceptance

What if I told you that there's nothing about you that needs, fixing, correcting, changing, improving, enhancing, or bettering? What if I told you that you're perfect just as you are...as perfect who or what made you? I guess the question that may arise then is, to which "you" am I referring; the you looking into the mirror or the you staring back?

Curiously, the Truth about who we are and what our purpose is in being here in this life has an odd way of hiding itself in plain view; right before our eyes and if we only took the time to delve a little deeper, just beneath the surface, we'd find all that we need and more.

For instance, I like words and I see how one word can reveal or unveil things we don't always perceive at first glance, and, profound truths are often found in simple words that we use each and every day! Take for example the word Individual. Break the word individual down and you get "Indivi" as in indivisible...unable to be divided, and "dual" as in two! So, when we put that together we see that the word we use to refer to a single person actually means the two that cannot be divided! Each and everyone of us consists of two parts that cannot be divided! Once we become aware of what these two parts are that make up who or what we are...once we see how these two aspects of ourselves connect and interrelate, we can then make sense out of everything within us and around us!

The truth is, there are several words used to describe the dual nature of man, or the two aspects of ourselves, and we can look all the way back in time and see examples of humanity grappling with or expressing the comprehension of what that two-fold nature of man consists of and how it's expressed, such as spirit and flesh, divinity and nature, energy and matter, god and devil, good and evil, heavenly and earthly, conscious and unconscious, yin and yang! There are many more, but those will suffice. We must admit, there is certainly a difference between who we are in the world, or how we present ourselves to the world, or how the world perceives us, versus who we think we are, or who we know ourselves to be, or who or what we deeply sense ourselves as being! There is a difference...a big difference!

Fundamentally, there is a part of us that never slumbers and never sleeps, a part of us as individuals that is infinitely intelligent, that knows without needing an explanation, that is always awake, always aware, always alert, always busy, always working, always conscious! This part of us is infinitely creative, capable of feats that man has not yet even imagined. You sense this part of yourself, you know that such a part of you exists, you feel it! You know that it is capable of engineering the life you were born to lead, but what happens? We ignore it! We put it on the back burner, we muffle it, muzzle it, dumb it down, dope it up, cut it, mute it, strangle it, and drown it out in favor of the other part and so many people leave this earth without ever having the opportunity to experience it because they never grow in awareness enough to Accept it!

The other part of us is going to school, is learning, is adapting, is thinking, toiling, talking, acting, fronting, pretending, doting, fearing, desiring, yearning, longing, hoping, dreaming, wishing and so on. In a word, there is that other part of ourselves that is Evolving!

My point is this, we don't need to change who we are, we need to ACCEPT who we are! We don't necessarily need "self improvement," rather what we really need is self acceptance and in that self acceptance we evolve and when one is evolving...when one is a conscientious, awake, aware, alert, responsive, and responsible partner and participant in their own Evolution, it is a gross understatement to say that he or she has improved or is improving! How can you ever feel the pain and torment of neglect when you Accept who you are; ALL of who you are? How can someone or something that has improved be compared to someone or something that has evolved? What would you rather do, improve or evolve? Who would you rather receive acceptance from, someone else or from within yourself? When someone improves, it basically means that whatever has been improved is, for the moment, made more efficient for whatever the purposes are, but when someone evolves or is evolving, they are transcending! All improvements have an expiration date and is dependent upon something alien to itself to maintain the improvement, but when you have accepted and committed yourself fully to an evolutionary process then you are no longer bound to a terminating timeline and you are driven from within and that drive is anchored unto something that is eternal and ever abiding! When you accept your evolution as a process that is driven by genetics and guided by awareness NO circumstance can alter or change the gains you've made! Your accomplishments become all your own. Patience becomes a pleasure rather than a vice!

Look no longer upon yourself as someone or something the needs to be improved! Begin looking at yourself as yourself by accepting yourself and surrender to the process of your own evolution! You are not a backswing that needs tweaking, or a house that needs remodeling! Technique and repetition will fix the former and an interior decorator and a second mortgage will handle the latter.  But you, dear soul, are not a backswing nor are you made of wood and stone. You are a living, breathing, thinking, feeling, sensing, intuiting, learning, and most importantly Evolving life form. The higher you evolve the more light you embody! The more accepting you are of yourself the more you'll value who you are as well as who made you! You honor your origin by accepting your destiny which is to be your self in greater and greater measure!

In this world of form, EVERYTHING is constantly changing! What does not change with the changes, what neglects to accept the nature of change, eventually dies, but, what forever lives on is what is forever adapting: The only thing that continues to adapt is what is intelligent or cognitive enough to evolve! YOU, however, ARE, so to bring an end to self-destructive rejection, step into Evolution Acceptance!

Embracing A "New" You!

If there's a thin line between love and hate, there's an even thinner line between being and seeming! It was Cicero, in one of his most renown essays, "On Friendship," who wrote, "Esse quam videri," which means 'To be rather than to seem."

Clearly, we are living in an increasingly global community, thanks in large part to technological advances, and now, like the title of Thomas Friedman's book suggests, the world is flattening! The world as we know it is becoming more and more like one global village, the pressure to conform, to move with the herd, is exponentially increasing!

Popularly, the "in" thing is to 'be different,' but the funny thing about it all is many people are, rebelling, pretending to be different, perpetrating as someone or something that they're not, and behaviorally protesting common sense, all in a worthless attempt to appear to be unique! It's still the 'everyone else is doing it bandwagon' mentality, but it's shrouded behind a facade cloaked in vanity. He is not different: he is imitating someone who is! She is not unique: she is imitating someone who is! Once you project this prevailing social pattern you'll easily see that children have inherited and are growing up in a world overpopulated with imitators imitating the imitations of other imitators! What a masquerade!  One word that accurately sums up this blissful ignorance and mindless madness is homogenization! Everything looking the same is the trending norm, seen in,  fashion, dress, speech, music, architecture, education, entertainment, sexuality, and on and on: so much so that originality has become a fading rarity when it should be a cool normalcy!

Ironically, the easiest, most fulfilling, most rewarding, most promising, most empowering, and most liberating thing to do is to BE YOUR SELF! Fake it till you make it they say! Get in where you fit in! Go with the flow! Those are treadmill philosophies because no matter how much energy you put into them you'll pretty much always end up exactly where you started, neither having advanced nor withdrawn, simply exhausted and more than likely frustrated from a rigorous exercise in futility: In short, putting your energy into seeming will get you nowhere fast!

The reversal is this, the main people who inspire us to be greater, empower us to truly be ourselves, who motivate us to realize and maximize our innate potentials are people who simply are who they are. Pardon the expression but, they be who they be. They don't make qualms about admitting, accepting, and embracing who they are, and more than likely, as words to live by they always say the same thing, "Be your self!" It's their originality, their uniqueness, their creativity, and their authenticity, their one-of-a-kind persona that motivates us. Sure, these inspiring people are just like you and I and they've learned from somewhere and someone, but with what they've managed to gather amidst what life has brought their way in the form of people, circumstances, information, environment etc., they went and did their own thing with it.

Finally, I'm not advocating a reinvention of the evolutionary wheel and I'm certainly not proposing you follow conventional wisdom which encourages you to find someone great and emulate him or her. What I am suggesting is that you ARE unique, you DO, have specific purposes or callings in this life, but in order to come into the knowledge of what that especial purpose is, you must see with new eyes, perceive with a new perspective, approach life from a new angle...you yourself must be made new! You have to commit, surrender to being a new you and in order for that to happen, you have to first embrace who you are right where you are! Tired, sleepy, hurt, confused, untrusting, stressed out, misunderstood, neglected, emotionally spent, broke, rich, famous, popular, celebrated or what have you, the journey to being made new begins with letting go of the old that has no place in the now.

When you let go of what is not for you, you automatically grab hold of what is truly for you because energy never dies, it simply changes form! To do this is to be reborn and to be reborn is to die and it all rests upon the awareness of what to hold onto and what to let go of, what is correct for you and what is incorrect for you in your own evolutionary process of self-discovery and self awareness!

This takes practice.  Notice that in the middle of the word practice is the word "act." You don't have to be a bible thumper to appreciate the timeless wisdom in the sayings, "Faith without works is dead and be ye transformed by a renewing of your mind."

It was a process that conditioned you away from who you really are, that stripped you of your "royal and divine" birth rights, your true universal uniqueness, so it will be a process to be made new and this process requires work within and without!

Case in point, I've always noticed, very early on, how the very simplicity of life is what makes it so complex. We have two of almost everything; feet, legs, hands, arms, ears, eyes, lips, nostrils, but, out of the seven windows in our heads, we've only got one mouth with one tongue! I see this as somehow being part of nature's instructions on how to live as who and what we are and that is, walking, working, lifting, seeing, smelling, hearing, listening, watching, and seeing...all of these we should do TWICE as much as we run our mouths! How? Practice what you preach and preach what you practice!

The difference between being and seeing is simple. To seem requires you to try and do something or be something, but being is completely different. Being means getting out of your own way and allowing the magic of everyday life to emerge. To do this you must be present, in the Now! If you get hung up on the future or the past, you'll completely miss the present. If you get caught up on what you don't have, you'll throw away all that you do! Ad if you spend all of your time trying to be who and what you're not, you run the risk of forever losing who and what you really are!

The moment you see that each day you awaken and are still alive is another opportunity to realize your worth, another shot at cracking the combination to your soul's vault and laying claim to the wealth within you and the wealth around you, another chance to, with two hands, embrace the greater you, each and everyday is never the same and that person is forever new!

Benefits of Life Coaching

Who's really in YOUR corner? Other than you, whose duty is it to be that positive, motivating, constructive, guiding force in your life? Who, with an open mind, free of preconceived notions about who and how you are, listens to and considers your every word with the sole intent of providing you with the soundest advice and most cogent mental framework to strategically, better your situations, improve your lot, and make your life as fulfilling as you desire it to be? A Life Coach!

Boxing Champion, Floyd Mayweather Jr., is called many things, but, when it comes to his career as a prize fighter, you'd be setting your self up for failure trying to label him as being anything other than one of the, if not the, greatest boxer in his weight classes and divisions of all time! He is 35 years of age and with a wardrobe of title belts, a professional record of 43-0, he is STILL UNDEFEATED!

Basically, the champ's success has been as consistent as the presence of the people behind him, in his corner. That factoid says a lot on many different levels but the point here is to illustrate the importance of the quality of support and the degree of consistency in your corner. A life coach and a trainer, though different in quality, are very similar in scope!  Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant share something in common other than remarkable athletic accomplishments, achievements, rewards, trophies, medals, and decorations. The two of them alike owe a great deal of their success on the court to the genius coaching and guidance of a single individual, the highly decorated Phil Jackson!

Furthermore, the greatest investment an individual can make is in themselves...to better themselves and one of the very viable avenues to do so is investing in expertise. Correct guidance can save you years of unnecessary toil and hardship. The perspective of a life coach, disinterested in all else accept your wholistic wellbeing and continued self development, can be invaluable and immeasurably rewarding.

Within us all is a force stirring us to be fully alive, a longing for a life filled with peace of mind, inner contentment, and purpose.  Life is a journey of peaks and valleys, fraught with difficulties on all sides, and, while we must look inside of ourselves to locate and use our inner conscious as a compass, the fact remains that no human is an island! A life coach is there, pledged to unwaveringly support you in your ascent from where you are now to where you desire, aspire, sense and feel as though you're supposed to be.

I'm not a superstitious person, but I do believe that everything happens for a reason and that people enter and exit our lives at different times, during different seasons, for us to learn a multitude of lessons. Other than your Higher Power, when it comes to turning your fears into allies in your growth and development-mental process, making sense out of confusion, finding order in chaos, finding meaning and purpose in your uniqueness, seeing clearly your goals and objectives, both short term and long term, developing and executing a clear cut strategy and plan of action to reach them, keeping you focus and assisting you in holding yourself accountable to the greater potential with you, encouraging you and motivating you along your life path, who in your corner can you turn to? Consider a Life Coach!