Wheel Alignment as Mental Alignment

Wheel Alignment/ Mental Alignment

Do you ever feel like you are not quite on the right road? Or that your a little out of sync with the events in your life? Or has an emotional earthquake shifted your mental status?

Well, like a wheel alignment keeps your car steering accurately, or sheering up a tilted wall can right it, meditation can align your mind to make the ride smoother in your life.

And you don't need to sit for hours a day. In fact, you don't necessarily need to sit to meditate. There are moving meditations, like Yoga. When done mindfully, yoga is a great way to align your mind and body to ease into or out of your day. Or Chi Gong, which I've been enjoying lately. 

The Chi Gong routine I do takes 40 minutes each morning and 20 minutes each night before sleep. It sounded like an awful lot of time before I started, but I find that if I do my practice in the morning, it makes the day go so much more smoothly that it's a great investment of my time. 

And for those evenings when I worked too late or watched TV too late, it makes a big difference in the quality of sleep I get. So on the nights when I think ,"I don't have time for Chi gong tonight. I need to get to sleep." I may spend as much time laying trying to sleep as it would have taken to do the evening routine.

Even just a few deep breaths as a break when you have been sitting at the computer for a couple of hours can be a mini-stress-relief vacation, and make you more productive when you re-focus on work.

And one thing that I've learned the hard way... when I am at the computer, I am learning to listen to the first sign of hunger instead of my usual "I just want to finish this one thing." Because if you're like me, that one thing can easily turn into an hour or more. That's another form of mindfulness. And it is a very good investment.

Moments of Oneness

Have you ever felt a moment of one-ness?

Like watching a sunset and feeling the expansiveness of that gorgeous sky inside of yourself?


I'm sure you must have.
These moments are precious. But not few. They surround us. They are right there in the beautiful moments and even underneath the ugly ones.

Did You Feel That?

We have small earthquakes from time to time where I live, and people always ask the next day, "Did you feel the quake last night?"

We are lucky that they are small quakes. Most of the time, I don't notice them. It feels like a semi truck drove by and shook the walls a bit. Twice in the last 40 years, we had rolling quakes. I felt those. They were like being on a boat with a wake crossing under it. I guess that it's more like what I expect an earthquake to feel like. It's definitely different from a truck driving by. So I notice it.

So how often do I miss the moments of subtle beauty in my life?

And too often we let the moments of Peace and Beauty slip by without savoring the moment. Or sometimes even noticing them. I missed the chance to wake up just a little more.

Aren't these the moments that give life meaning?
Aren't these the things we all want?

We work, maybe have a family, have a long to do list.
But underneath all of that, isn't the goal to have peace, love, and joy?

Isn't that what we all want?

A Suggestion

Next time you notice something beautiful, whether it is the scent of a rose, a child's beaming face, a beloved pet, or a magnificent thunderstorm... Stop a moment and notice the beauty and peace around you, and take a breath. Ask yourself, "Isn't that what it's all about?"

Give yourself permission to drink it in fully. To allow more Beauty and Peace in your heart that you ever believed you could stand. Stay long enough to feel that space and Joy and Magnificance inside of you.

Blessed be.

Align with the Divine

How do you align with the Divine?

And while we're at it, what is the Divine to you?

What Do You Call the Thing That Gives Us Life?

Do you call it God, Spirit, Infinite, Source, or one of the dozens of other names used around the world? Or maybe you like Deepak Chopra's term: the Field of Infinite Possibilities, or Einstein's term, according to Wikipedia: a comprehensible mystery.

Whatever you call it, there is something going on beyond what we can see, hear, observe with our five senses, or measure with current scientific instruments.

That something is what allows us to know that we are conscious beings, to have an awareness of ourselves as a person.

That same something tells us who we are, what we want in life. What we don't want. It's more than our own brain. If you don't believe that, who is it that knows that you had that thought?

Change Your Thinking - Improve Your Life

So if you would like to improve any area of your life, where do you start?
If you are stuck in a rut, what do you do?

If you keep thinking the thoughts you've been thinking, you will get the same results. Your life will be the same next year and in ten years as it is today. So if you want to change something in your life, start by noticing your thoughts and choosing more effective thoughts.

It's Bigger Than Denial

Turning away form the condition does not mean being in denial that it exists. It is remembering that the Infinite is much bigger than whatever is going on right now.

You are the landscape. The events in your life are the things that pass through it.

How About You?

How do you align with the divine?