What's Important To You?

From PATHEOS.COM

Want to get an objective look at your priorities? Take a look at your bank statement. If you’re like most people you have a finite and easily discernible amount of money to spend each month. So what do you spend it on? If you spend your money on one particular thing, it makes that amount unavailable to spend on other things. Over time then, your spending habits give a clear and objective picture of your priorities.

To get a good feel for your priorities, take a good look at your checkbook or credit card statements. Remind yourself of the things you’ve paid for over the last few months. Pay particular attention to the discretionary items — things you didn’t absolutely have to have, but you bought because you wanted to. What was it about each of these things that appealed to you? Did you buy them with the expectation of solving a particular problem, or in hopes of enjoying a certain kind of pleasure, or did you make some purchases mainly out of curiosity. Which of the products lived up to, or exceeded, your expectations? Is there anything that you don’t really need, that you still would very much like to purchase if you had enough money? Why do you want it? How will it bring enjoyment to you?

Money certainly isn’t everything, and yet in the world today it is an important thing. It is the primary way we exchange material value. So what things do you value? And, more importantly, are the priorities with which you live on a day-to-day basis consistent with the inner values you hold dear? A look at your bank statement will provide a lot of good food for thought.

Let Life Be

Firstly, the Serious Buddhist...

"People naturally fear misfortune and long for good fortune, but if the distinction is carefully studied, misfortune often turns out to be good fortune and good fortune to be misfortune. The wise man learns to meet the changing circumstances of life with an equitable spirit, being neither elated by success nor depressed by failure.

If you are committed to being present, it will happen.

And even if being present is just a state of mind, so what? It's a good, constructive state of mind.

Let Life BeReposted from: Patheos.Com

Are you so busy fighting against life that you have no time left to live it? Are you so worried about what’s going on in your world that you have no energy left to get things done? Do you put so much of your attention into judgment that you fail to notice the real treasures right in from of you?

Let go. Step back. Detach. Free yourself to live. Free yourself to experience. You don’t have to take a reading every millisecond and then pass judgment on what you see. You don’t have to respond to every little shift in the wind.

Take a deep, relaxing breath and remind yourself of who you are. Look at life as it is, and let go of the need to always do something about it. See the beauty that is in even the smallest things.

And feel. Let the feelings come, and then let those feelings go. Don’t be obsessed with predicting or constructing what will come next. Instead, be fully present so you can see and experience and know and gain permanent value from whatever comes along. Enjoy, without always wondering whether or not you should.

Peacefully let life be. Act from a perspective of acceptance and gratitude rather than from a perspective of need and desperation. All is well with now, for you are here to live it with positive purpose.

The Good Mountain Climber

The good mountain climber is slow, meticulous, and in the moment.

Shadow Work with Teal Scott

In this video Teal Scott explains why it is vital to not reject negative emotions.

Quotes by Teal:

"Negative emotions are like the question, and positive emotions are like the answer. So you cannot condemn the question, without condemning the answer at the same time."

"Your fight or flight response is triggered when you don't get enough sleep."

The sum total of negative emotions can be referred to as THE SHADOW.