Another vid I suggest you take the 9mins to watch and absorb….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaVrn1Sz0H8

With my head buzzing with so many possibilities, this really cool interview with Harry Dean Stanton, followed through from one of my favorite films Repo Man, brings me back to the Source. If you ever wandered what this Taoism kick that I keep on going on about,this gives as good explanation as any 😉

I will never be able to listen to “Row, Row, Row your boat” in the same light again 🙂

Arggh Winter should be over now! Why is it not over! Its the Illuminati they want to kill all us proles, with colds and flu and UNSEASONABLE WEATHER. 😛

Well they are not going to get me, I’m far too Awesome for that 🙂 [and so are you if you admit it]

Family on the mend. Henry and Rach made great strides forward this week. Kick in the teeth though is that I’m dad-alone this weekend cos Rach’s work put her on 5 days of shifts 🙁 Oh well we’ve been here before and it is so much more palatable (fun even) in the big extended house.

I”ve got a lot more energy. Still a bit cold ridden, but more 10%-25% than before. Proper sleep and good diet (as in cut waayyyyy down on the processed food during/after work and replace it with more fruit ) is doing wonders and propping up the bloody mindedness that has prevented me from falling ill fully, to the point were that bloody mindedness has become a calm strength 🙂 I WIN!

The downside of course of all this sudden energy has been a huge fustration that its still winter and that I can’t race ahead with my best made plans.

I let my rage out this afternoon, while Grandma had the kids for couple of hours and I was left home alone.It wasn’t a particularly fun test drive. It involved

• Loud distorted rock music,
• Playing Max Payne 3, one of the most violent computer games in the history of computer games.
• Feeling hard done and sorry for myself,
• Annoyed that in Leeds they’ve glassed over the inner City Centre to form another High Church to Capitialism.
• Being indignant and enraged about the gov’s plan to break the law and not pay people who worked for free on their Workforce scheme. [Which is ok, but go and sign the e-petition to call them on it and get them to back down]
• Some random chap who’s not fulfilled his Kickstarter obligations and admitted hes being lazy about it on his blog rather than telling his backers via proper updates.

And then my mate posted a link to Boris Johnson, being called up for “sandpapering the truth” on telly this morning.

Then a strange thing happened. I cracked up laughing, and got out of my Rage state (or more accurately Nerdrage since I was sat in front of the PC at the time).You see Boris Johnson by my set of personal values is an awful awful vile man, but I can not take him seriously because he’s what I call a Clown. In my book a Clown is “Someone who is so far off the Way of proper and decent behavior, I have to laugh instead of cry or get upset”.

Which made me realise that laughing in the face of Darkness, leaving you in a state of love and capable of countering it,  is much better than getting angry and made impotent by your rage 🙂

Today, like most days in my Awesomeverse,has been a long journey, living in the moment as much as possible.. From the total fail of still being full of snotty cold, to the triumph of seeing our Henry (similarly afflicted but much more so) get much better and doing a ton of house work almost effortlessly (which got me a heartfelt hug from our Rach, who usually despairs on that front). Late in the day some one close to us gave us some Game changing news, which isn’t very good and needs to be handled as gracefully as possible (so I won’t go into the details of what). It would be the sort of thing that could have driven me into a state of total panic, which I would loose myself in for months.(like what happened this time last year) Instead I have quickly regained my calm and assessed the situation for what it is. If nothing else it is going to bring about a change in my family’s day to day routine, and I hope that with clear heads and compassionate hearts we can do the best for all concerned.

While musing about this just now, the following snippet popped up and  resonated strongly with me:

“… but when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money— booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”

W.H. Murray, , The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951)

Anyhoo, just when you thought things were settled in the Newt household, here we go again 😉

Short version: The Mind on its own is pretty darn fun, but put Mind + Heart together and you’ve got something that’s infinitely Awesome 🙂

Longer version: This something I’ve suspected for a while, and as a believer in the Chakra system (of which the Heart is one of the Severn energy centres) something I made a conscious effort via a magical working to ‘open’ that energy centre last year (the key phrase of which “Do you want to be a Grumpy old  man”). A working I might hasten to add had a very dramatic and noticeable effect in the second half of the year 🙂

However all that was slightly turning on the tap compared to what happened when some new information, summed up by the the video at the end of this post, unlocked new realisations on how central the Heart is and how to practically use it in every day life.

Important realisations.

• The Heart is the centre which all other energy centres send energy flow through in your personal system (micro), and the link to the external energy grid (i.e. the rest of the world). If your Heart is closed then this puts a squeeze on the other energy centres, and in time the whole thing breaks down.
• Also the Heart thinks. There is evidence from the scientific community on this one (see linked article below and the video at the end of this post). This is codified in our language by the old saying “Follow your Heart”. A lot of our problems are caused by over reliance on the Mind, and ignoring the Heart. Get the two working together and you’ve got a very strong partnership. I’ve been putting the principle I started this post with (the short version) into practice for the last seven days and its had a huge effect on my life. During that time I’ve had a very intense family crisis that having my Heart switched on has allowed me to zoom through it and actually come out ahead.
• “Compared to the electromagnetic field produced by the brain, the electrical component of the heart’s field is about 60 times greater in amplitude, and permeates every cell in the body”, Open your Heart and you are working on energy plus when compared with just working on Mind alone.
• You don’t have to do some intense  form of yoga, kung-fu, magic, charakra working to open the heart and work with it. Just say hello, give it a bit of attention and let it do its thing.  Meditation, Yoga etc. may help you develop and refine, but you can’t beat just listening and acknowledging it and building it up by living with it switched on.
• You’ll know when your Heart is open, since you’ll feel a warmth throughout your body, your thoughts will be fluid and you’ll generally feel upbeat and at ease with the world. It will also be very difficult to knock you from that position, unless you actively give into Fear (because you think you should do) which closes down the Heart and pushes you into Mind.

I realise I’ve probably jumped ahead and mentioned stuff a few folk who read my blog will be unfamiliar with. But this realisation really has linked and made sense of a lot of things that I’ve been working with for a good 20 years and sharply upped the ante of my life. I therefore felt it important enough to dive right in and shout out.  From now on I’ll be categorising posts that deal with what is popularly termed “the metaphysical” with the category “Heart matters”.

Right the following video is a good 12 minute summary, enjoy and enrich.

Remind me to watch this……

Ok its me again, being all soppy* and ‘new agey’** on you. But really, take 12, sit and open your mind. This stuff really works (and has been for a good twenty years for me 🙂 ).

Notes:

* My Kung Fu master used to say “when Softest becomes the Hardest”
** This stuff is actually very very very old, its just we are remembering it in this so called ‘New age’

If you underestimate the power of turning on the Awesome and bringing home the Win.
Or you think its just a cute phrase I shout out on Twitter without any power in reality.

Watch and absorb this….

Also for me when I lose my mojo.

“Things will get much easier very soon, as long as you engage with it now“  says the voice straight from the ever loving pulsating source.

Did you receive that one? I did loud and proud about a week ago, a couple of days before life got completely crazy , even by the high standards crazy set by my good self in my drug n booze addled twenties. Except this time I’m completely sober and apart from a few annoying habits pretty tight sanity wise.

……its been a rough time but equally a  time of magic, wonder and awe.

The world is changing, for the better I believe 🙂

Watch the skies. Observe your inner world. Its all important.

(More to follow)