Greetings my gentle readers to another week and another
installment of the “Be Yourself, Often” blog at www.joelwlamoure.com . This represents
perhaps a checkpoint in the week when we can step back and reflect of the
moments and sands of time that have traversed the hourglass and gave themselves
to help us reach the point and state that we are today. And that the moment and
present that is the now can be translated into the dreams of tomorrow.
There are so many potential subjects that can be addressed from a
spiritual nature filtering through the concepts and parameters of H.O.P.E., which
we are striving towards. This is a
worthy spiritual agenda that advances our holistic health and ways that we can
capture and encapsulate it, outcome driven objectives, personalized perspective
and the end goals and challenges associated with empowerment.
If we agree that we are spiritual beings having a human existence
and proceeding through the school of life, with all of its classes, challenges,
dynamics and trials/ tribulations then we can consider each step begets the
next. Ther are the challenges and roadblocks that exist and demonstrate
themselves in the course of our life and how we perceive and deal with these
define outcomes. Certainly, there are freak accidents and events that we cannot
even begin to conceptualize as to the why of them occurring. Far too often, bad
things happen to good people and where we translate the learnings defines our
“mark” in this particular class.
Do we focus on the learnings in the moment or dream towards the
future? Remain firmly rooted in the past perhaps? There are certainly pros and
cons to all of these and perhaps as opposed to having to pick one, in this
class of life perhaps we may be able to approach it more as a smorgasbord or
buffet of life. There are the various courses that we are fully able to mix and
mingle and intersperse with other components. Nothing saying that we cannot
take the past learnings and nostalgia of times go by, be aware of those moments
and enjoy a quiet reflective moment and a tranquil smile. Knowing that YOU have
been given that gift to experience such a wonderful thing and that it can
persist across the quantum dimension of time… and time past is equidistantly
dead and are unable to touch or change that past. So our filter of perspective
should be one of positives, for want of otherwise living in regrets.
To capture that moment in the smorgasbord is an intense blend of
utilization of our 5 senses in the here and now and encapsulated/imprinted on
the psyche in the moment. These imprintations will trigger future memories
based on sight, sound, touch, taste, or smells are the root of the event and
stimulate our wits, which senses used to be termed in Shakespeare’s time.
But perhaps my friend we are even more than that from a spiritual
existence and the senses impart a feeling which we can link and be aware
through the gift and inspiration of cognition. So many other senses then are
drilled down such as pain, nociception, kinesthetic sensory input and so much
more. That we are able to balance and assign a “feeling” to an event that files
the event in the sensorium in the filing cabinets of good or bad also will
translate through across time.
So then, what we absorb, intuit and feel will become the picture
that we will carry around in our mental wallets forever, and through the
premises of HOPE can assign the degree of robustness and richness the picture
will have. Personally, I feel the truest way of remembering an event in true
vivid high definition (HD) imprinted in our mental wallet is to have the event
resonate on all senses, embracing it with the gifts and talents and being that
we are. My father used to call it being “in country”, which means that we fully
immerse ourselves in the surrounding environment and learn by being part of it.
That is a wonderful way to collect facts and understand the why of the event as
opposed of standing by passively and casting stones and Judgement.
Moments that are very dichotomous in nature as well tend to be
filmed in the very best HD film as well. These moments can be easily created by
the observer and often creates a smile and pleasurable associations if they are
planned to be. They are the adult at play, Light within a period of dark, Water
element touching earth and a kind smile on a gloomy day. Captured in fact by
the Rolling Stones on their album “Aftermath” and the song “Paint it Black”. We can be light even in dark.
That is the root of spiritual living is to be the beacon of light
and provide a positive lesson to others in the moments of darkness. To help
others in an altruistic way see and be the positive side of the dichotomy.
There is a choice and that is to be the negative…if you wish. But by seeing the
light and positives, then we can help others see it and then me and you can be
yourself, often.
~~~~ Rev. Dr. Joel
Lamoure April 2013