Mindfulness

What is mindfulness?

Energetically, when you focus your attention and presence in the present moment, you connect all of your energetic molecules to the rate of vibration that occurs with all the other energetic molecules that surround you.

In other words, when you are present in a given moment—perfectly present—then the vibration of you and your being perfectly matches the vibration of what’s around you. Y

ou experience a sense of flow. You experience a sense of peace. You experience a sense of timelessness.

Is the state of mindfulness possible to maintain all the time? Is this something we should aspire to?

It is theoretically possible to be perfectly mindful in absolutely every given moment.

However, we don’t necessarily suggest this as something to aspire to.

For one thing, it is quite difficult to attain. There are constant distractions and demands upon your attention and focus. It is the rare person who has the luxury of time to not be drawn away from the present moment except under certain circumstances throughout the day.

If you were, for instance, a hermit living alone in the caves up in the mountains, constant mindfulness is something you could likely attain—provided you had the wherewithal to find enough to eat and to meet your other daily needs without having to spend a great deal of attention on them. Most people don’t live like that.

Expecting yourself to attain an idealistic perfection only sets yourself up for failure and self-judgment.

We do, however, encourage you to make the space within your day on a reasonable level to find some sense of mindfulness. You can likely find time on a regular basis for just two minutes. And those two minutes can be of benefit to you.

What are the benefits of mindfulness, even for only a few minutes a day?

There is much less wear and tear on the physical being when you are in a state of flow and timelessness.

When you vibrate in such a way that perfectly matches the vibration of all that is around you, it is as if everything within you is suspended for that moment. Indeed, you create a space that is outside of the confines of time as you know it.

Therefore, during perfect mindfulness, the physical aging process does not take place.

For those two minutes your body will not grow older.

The benefits are multi-fold: not only do you escape two minutes of wear and tear on your body energetically and physically, but you also gain a pathway to find a sense of flow at other times during your day.

When you become accustomed to this exercise of pure attention for your two minutes a day, after a few weeks you will find other ways to create a sense of timelessness in your life.

If you have a high degree of demand upon your focus and attention, and you feel stressed by this (as most people do), your Being will have already found a pathway to those two minutes of flow in your life.

You will be able to apply that pathway to the more chaotic and stress-creating demands of your day.

At the very least, practicing mindfulness helps you reduce stress.

It helps you find new ways to feel peaceful, and people who engage in such a practice are also able to look for other ways to find the same flow within their day even when not faced with chaos and stress.

Once you are used to the feel of what it is like to be in a space of timelessness, you will bring your experience of mindfulness to other situations.

I’ve spent the past ten days in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, far from my present home in the northeast but closer, much closer, to my true spiritual home, and during this time one of my specific goals was to immerse myself into a deeper connection with Nature. Though my home is in a semi-rural area, affording me an opportunity to frequently bike through rolling hills amid cornfields and farmhouses, I really don’t feel all that connected with the nature element of it usually. Perhaps it’s because I don’t connect energetically with the space, or resist a deeper connection; perhaps it’s the human element in a long-inhabited space that has overwritten the elements of nature, but in any case I felt a huge difference in my little cabin in the forest, a short walk from the beach, easily moving into a space of love and appreciation for Nature and my place within it. I spent several hours roaming the trails through the forest, meandering along the beach, and standing in the rain under the trees at night.

And then I upped the ante considerably and spent some time in a different forest last night.

I entered the forest under a nearly-full moon, bright on a cloudless night, and instantly I felt a different sort of welcoming, an embrace, an invitation. Through connecting with the trees who are themselves all connected and always aware of that connection to one another, to the earth, and to All That Is, I could reach back into time and feel roots tapping into the dawning of human consciousness on the planet with such primordial innocence that it took my breath away.

At the same time I was aware of every possibility that continues to stretch before us in time: possibilities for each one of us and all the myriad possibilities available at any given moment, every choice, every road taken and not taken, and I felt vast, knowing that I was a part of everything that ever has been and everything still yet to come. I was as tall as the trees and as bright as the moon, and I turned my face toward her, accepting the spotlight, fully acknowledging my completeness and perfection.

To say this was a joyous and magical experience doesn’t quite do it justice.

But it served as a wonderful reminder, one that I will take back to my home with me and one that I offer you now, that our connection with Nature is an essential of simply being human. It’s part of us, and to deny it is to deny part of Self.

Afterwards, I channeled this:

There is of course value in connecting with animals, trees, and other elements of what you consider to be “nature”. These elements, are of course, part of your home, part of your world, and are as such connected to you, to humans, in a very intimate way. You share space. You share air. You share resources. Not only that, but you share in the creation of your world, the global creation of the reality you know as life on the physical plane. And because of that, there is an undying connection between you as a human and ALL of the so-called “natural” elements of Nature.

Some of you feel this connection more deeply, more emotionally, than others. Some feel a return, when confronted with Nature, especially in her most raw state, to that innocent and childlike state of simply Being, existing, that lies dormant within all of you. And as such, you feel it deeply when one of nature’s children, one element of the intricate tapestry that is constantly being woven and re-created, moves through natural transition into another state. There is, for you, a deep sense of loss, as there is the recognition not only of the timelessness of transformation and the cycles of life on the planet, but also of the transference of human-type connection to an element of nature. You can mostly only experience connection with nature by transferring those feelings to a more human perspective, and when loss of an element of nature, such as a pet or tree, occurs, there is transference to the human state of grief.

We have mentioned the energetic connections between you and your pets and we wish to elaborate. Again, not only is there a very real symbolic connection here (discovery of Self, of Love, of perspective: these things were gained through and with your interaction), but also there HAVE in most cases indeed been some past-life associations. Though most animals live lives in mainly hive-type soul arrangements, there is a constancy of energy that can flow generation after generation through one individual animal to another, and even of course crossing boundaries of species. There has been for many of you, then, a common thread through many lifetimes of connection with various elements of nature, and it is this thread, now running through you and the pets you love, that has touched this present lifetime.

The lessons from connection to Nature are many and varied and often depend on the individual, but regardless of perspective there is ALWAYS growth opportunity through human connection with Nature. After all, it is your home. It is your LIFE. To deny Nature is denying an aspect of Self, and to fully EMBRACE Nature, to ACCEPT it in all its splendor, ugliness, and beauty, is a HUGE step in actually accepting your Self.