Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:33 pm by globalturbo
How much do you appreciate?
Posted on September 26, 2012
www.favim.com
Have you stopped lately and asked yourself how much you appreciate
life? The very act of living on auto pilot I so often speak about causes
us to live life without thinking consciously of what we are doing. It
deadens our appreciation for everything we have in our lives and life
itself begins to lose its meaning. There is so much beauty to behold but
do we really notice it? Take the dew drops in the picture to the left
mirroring the flower beds behind them. What a truly beautiful thing to
behold. The colors of fall as they turn their dayglo orange and reds and
yellows, the fields of wild flowers blowing in the breezes in summer,
the many shades of brilliant new greens as plant life unfolds in early
spring and even the stark white pallet of winter against the azure blue
skies. There is so much beauty to witness each and everyday, but do we?
The new world will be all about appreciation. We will have time to slow
down and reconnect with what we appreciate in life, everything will hold
new meaning, the old world of materialism will drop away and we will be
left with simplicity in life and how wonderful it really is.
I was standing in the yard yesterday looking up at the mountainside
behind me and I could see individual trees starting to pop with color. A
bright orange tree here a red one there. It was so pretty to look at
and made me feel good inside. I could hear the cows bells clanking two
fields over, it made me think of scenes from the movie Heidi in the
Swiss Alps, those cow pastures filled with beautiful blankets of
wildflowers. The sheep next door to me were grazing about the hillside
all fat and fluffy with their curly white coats getting ready for
winter. I felt blessed to be surrounded by such beauty, but it is not
just by luck that I landed here. We all create our reality and what we
put into life we get back from it. If you want better, then you must be
willing to give yourself to life, go after it and make it happen.
Nothing is stopping us but ourselves!
I believe all of this stuff in life is like riding a bike. We know
how to do it we just need to remind ourselves. We have allowed ourselves
to become too busy to take notice of the world around us. I am sure
some will want to say “Me? It is the dark ones that have done this to
me”. Yes they have, but only because we have allowed them to, only
because we became so infatuated with wealth and getting ahead and having
it all that we were not paying attention to what the dark ones were
doing, stealing our lives! We are to blame as much as they are and if we
wish to change things around, then we must do something about how we
live our lives! It is time to simplify our lives and appreciate life
again.
Once you begin to simplify your life you begin to see how much better
it actually feels. With less in your life there is less demand on you
to take care of it, the few things you now have you have because they
hold the most meaning for you, with less crammed into your rooms you are
better able to see everything and admire it. If you let go of social
gatherings every day of the week and turn that time and energy towards
family, things change. I am not saying get rid of everything, I am
saying use moderation in life. Play golf one day a week instead of
whenever you can, use the internet for an hour not half the night so
your spouse always goes to bed alone, turn off the TV or better yet get
rid of it. All of these activities distract us from family and the core
values we should uphold in our lives. It is time to create the new world
where life is free, life is slower and life is fully appreciated by
all!
Blessings to you all,
Visionkeeper
Thanks to: http://oneworldrising.wordpress.com
Posted on September 26, 2012
www.favim.com
Have you stopped lately and asked yourself how much you appreciate
life? The very act of living on auto pilot I so often speak about causes
us to live life without thinking consciously of what we are doing. It
deadens our appreciation for everything we have in our lives and life
itself begins to lose its meaning. There is so much beauty to behold but
do we really notice it? Take the dew drops in the picture to the left
mirroring the flower beds behind them. What a truly beautiful thing to
behold. The colors of fall as they turn their dayglo orange and reds and
yellows, the fields of wild flowers blowing in the breezes in summer,
the many shades of brilliant new greens as plant life unfolds in early
spring and even the stark white pallet of winter against the azure blue
skies. There is so much beauty to witness each and everyday, but do we?
The new world will be all about appreciation. We will have time to slow
down and reconnect with what we appreciate in life, everything will hold
new meaning, the old world of materialism will drop away and we will be
left with simplicity in life and how wonderful it really is.
I was standing in the yard yesterday looking up at the mountainside
behind me and I could see individual trees starting to pop with color. A
bright orange tree here a red one there. It was so pretty to look at
and made me feel good inside. I could hear the cows bells clanking two
fields over, it made me think of scenes from the movie Heidi in the
Swiss Alps, those cow pastures filled with beautiful blankets of
wildflowers. The sheep next door to me were grazing about the hillside
all fat and fluffy with their curly white coats getting ready for
winter. I felt blessed to be surrounded by such beauty, but it is not
just by luck that I landed here. We all create our reality and what we
put into life we get back from it. If you want better, then you must be
willing to give yourself to life, go after it and make it happen.
Nothing is stopping us but ourselves!
I believe all of this stuff in life is like riding a bike. We know
how to do it we just need to remind ourselves. We have allowed ourselves
to become too busy to take notice of the world around us. I am sure
some will want to say “Me? It is the dark ones that have done this to
me”. Yes they have, but only because we have allowed them to, only
because we became so infatuated with wealth and getting ahead and having
it all that we were not paying attention to what the dark ones were
doing, stealing our lives! We are to blame as much as they are and if we
wish to change things around, then we must do something about how we
live our lives! It is time to simplify our lives and appreciate life
again.
Once you begin to simplify your life you begin to see how much better
it actually feels. With less in your life there is less demand on you
to take care of it, the few things you now have you have because they
hold the most meaning for you, with less crammed into your rooms you are
better able to see everything and admire it. If you let go of social
gatherings every day of the week and turn that time and energy towards
family, things change. I am not saying get rid of everything, I am
saying use moderation in life. Play golf one day a week instead of
whenever you can, use the internet for an hour not half the night so
your spouse always goes to bed alone, turn off the TV or better yet get
rid of it. All of these activities distract us from family and the core
values we should uphold in our lives. It is time to create the new world
where life is free, life is slower and life is fully appreciated by
all!
Blessings to you all,
Visionkeeper
Thanks to: http://oneworldrising.wordpress.com
