Wellness

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This is the Wellness category for www.steveleasock.com that considers topics about body, mind and spirit.

A Conclusion of the Mind

The mind tells you that everything is a process consisting of a start, finish and thus, conclusion during the life you live. The internet dictionary also defines this word as follows. The end or finish of an event or process. But what about how you actually live life during this process? Your presence is an ongoing occurrence, let’s call this the beingness of presence. Therefore, this state of presence is now. This should be obvious. Otherwise, you would not experience being here. Nevertheless, the mind seeks reasons for something and conclusions to everything.

Thus, thoughts and emotions distract your sense of being. The mind assesses. And, either unconscious or conscious interactions with the mind determine how you observe the beingness of your presence in life. Yes, there will still be various, often countless, details within the manifestation of the life you live. But please understand that your self-observation, mind and these details establish your presence of being. Therefore, my question to you. How do you choose to be?

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But the mind wants conclusions and will insist on analyzing life by any means and at any cost. The price you pay is a lack of conscious awareness and this can even cause physical discomforts and mental suffering. The brain formulates thoughts in attempts to justify how the mind thinks, especially to reach a conclusion. But life is not something to conclude so that living is over and done. Living should be the conscious and absolute experience of presence, here and now. Please consider what I have just written. The mind’s behavior and the brain’s processing abilities always conjure assumptions, beliefs, illusions, untruth and stories into your existence. However, aware consciousness during the manifestation of presence prevents the mind from distracting or confusing you with these insignificant details.

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Bliss Is Possible… Here and Now

Do this and, with practice, you will know and live in conscious enlightenment. Equally, you will know bliss and live in harmony with yourself and the world around you.

– Be you, completely, without limitation!
– Be happy when joy blossoms within you.
– Be sad when the experience justifies the expression.
– Be sick when the body is ill.
– Be poor.
– Be rich.
– Be fully alive, change what you can and accept the rest.
– Be dead through the acceptance that yes, someday, and in some way, you will die.
– Be…period! Don’t think, speculate or expect what to be.
– Just be. And, let everything flow. That is enough…
– In other words, be the presence within the moment, regardless of the details.

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All details within the moment transpire, come rain or shine, regardless of your thoughts, emotions, contemplation, expectancy and attachments. Therefore, know that whatever you think or feel does not truly alter the actual beingness of your presence. Continue reading →

Unfulfillment of Mind, Body or of Self?

Google AI offers us this insight into why unfulfillment manifests in our experience of life. Unfulfillment means a lack of satisfaction, purpose, or achievement, stemming from unfulfilled obligations, unrealized potential, or a disconnect from one’s values, leading to feelings of dissatisfaction, disappointment, or numbness, often marked by a sense of ‘going through the motions’ without genuine joy or meaning.

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Thus, is it accurate to write that dissatisfaction and unhappiness usually overshadow our perception of life and living? Why? Because we find discrepancies everywhere in our life. Therefore, mental reactions generate disappointment and unfulfillment. Personal and social influences cause a pattern of restlessness. Creative intelligence and emotions are attributes of our species. Yes, people think, feel, interpret and mentally react to everything in the experience of life. But all living organisms, great and small, think at some level and also have emotions and experience cellular metabolism development. I include metabolism in this discussion to give you an additional stepping stone to self-discovery. Understanding your body and the chemical and cellular processes within the body are beneficial to aware presence and consciously living. Continue reading →

Bottle of Water and the Flow of Life

Let’s do an experiment in the attempt to initiate conscious awareness of your presence. You need a glass and a bottle of water to conduct this exercise. The task itself is easy. Pour the liquid from the bottle into the glass. Thus, you might discover the presence of your being within the water as it flows. However, whether you recognize conscious presence or not depends on how you observe the water flowing from the bottle. What is the focus of your being as you interact with the liquid?

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Many individuals that read what I have just written will perhaps label me as crazy, or at the least, eccentric. Why do I ask you to consider your relationship with the water as it flows into the glass? Most likely, you are thirsty and don’t care about focusing on the act of pouring water. Nevertheless, everything evolves from your perception so let’s continue. Continue reading →

Wildfire of the Mind Burning Out of Control

Have you seen a wildfire burning in a field or forest. A single spark ignites a fire that engulfs everything in its path. Furthermore, the spreading flames seem impossible to stop. And, this destructive pattern is what happens to thoughts and emotions within an unaware person. Therefore, conscious presence and living in unattachment are essential in smothering these out-of-control thoughts and feelings.

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Mental and emotional wildfires usually consume your presence primarily due to unawareness and conditional behavior. Let’s use an everyday occurring example to illustrate. You experience a moment of serenity and nothing, not even your own mind, distracts or burdens you. Suddenly, a spark as a thought ignites in your mind. This thought kindles another thought and another. How is this possible? You are no longer at peace with yourself. Now, agitation and confusion consume your presence of being. Thoughts burn out-of-control within you.

You ask yourself how this can happen. And, you assume that work, a traffic jam or a crying baby cause your frustration and lack of conscious presence. But you should not base any experience on what you think in that moment. Instead, how you experience your own presence decides how you will live. This involves how you observe the moment, how you respond and how you behave. Conscious presence and unattachment to the wildfire of thoughts shift your state of being away from the mind. Continue reading →

Waste Not, Want Not, in the Presence of Being

Are you familiar with this proverb? The first documented use of this adage was in 1576 by Richard Edwardes. The passage is found on page 88 of his written work “The Paradise of Danty Devices”. This is the excerpt from the page as written in Early Modern English. “For want is next to waste, and shame doeth synne ensue.” There was a slight revisal of the saying that became popular around 1772. “Willful waste makes woeful want.” The wisdom of this axiom is obvious. And, the benefits of conservation are apparent relating to all aspects of our existence. Nevertheless, people are notorious for having behavior patterns that are completely the opposite of sensible and thrifty.

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Let’s inquire into energy efficiency pertaining to your presence in the vast nothingness of the universe. Your and our focus is to consciously acknowledge and conserve universal energy. The first law of thermodynamics is useful to illustrate the vibrations and flow of universal energy. Likewise, the Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but instead transfers from one form to another. In simpler terms, the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant. To paraphrase, the universal is a system that entails the transformation of energy unbiasedly transferring from object to object. Perhaps, this insight will answer the question that some people ask. What is universal oneness? Continue reading →

The Language of Life Speaks to You

Would you agree that language and communication are beneficial to your interactions in life? Well then, what about life and how you live? Do you feel the sensation of life speaking to you beyond the clutter of your daily existence? The universe is a manifestation of beingness older than life itself and as young as a flower seed that blossoms. The manifestation of your being is an inward and outward flow of energy. Furthermore, communication with the universe and life is ongoing. You interact with life and the presence of your being in each everlasting moment. However, you, I and the majority of people are usually unknowing and mostly unaware of our universal beingness.

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Life is a frequency. This energy flow and additional frequencies vibrate through objects. This energy manifests and pulsates within the fabric of being. Therefore, let’s consider this universal flow. How do you influence this energy? And, how does it influence you? Please, firstly visualize yourself as the conductor of this power flow. Thus, to know how you influence this energy manifestation is to distinguish how it will influence you. Sounds tricky, but easily understood when you divert your focus from mind and body to the aware presence of being.

There is a resonating whisper that everyone feels and recognizes in the background of all activities. Although each person acknowledges this communication at different and various levels. The essence of being and your unaware or aware presence influence this flowing interaction. Unfortunately, you probably don’t respond that often to this tingling and pure sensation of aware beingness presence. Instead, the mind distracts you with thoughts and details about existing in a world that seems insane. Continue reading →

Wishing for Paradise Causes Confusion and Denial

The world has become a playground filled with mental and materialistic superficiality. And yes, there are many things that we enjoy as human beings. This encourages us to continue on and want more. Still, deep within we already know that more will never be enough. Thus, we complain. And, frustration overshadows our day to day activities. Furthermore, reaching for more invokes attachment and dependency. Everyone expects more to be waiting for them down the road or just around the next corner. Therefore we seek and wish for a life in paradise. People refer to this behavior as the Tahiti Syndrome.

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Yes, a paradise is within your reach. But, you won’t live in paradise if you use the mind trying to get you there. A deeper awareness of living opens the portal to conscious presence. And, the practice of an unconditional presence of being offers the pure peace you seek. Our experiences are manifestations flowing from frequencies within universal energy. Equally, it is plausible and acceptable to write that we tap into this stream of vibrating energy. And, our use of universal energy either unconsciously or consciously happens in any given moment. Continue reading →

The Inner Path Guides You Home

The inner suffering within you slowly manifests over many years in clock time. You smile and you laugh day by day. But, the hidden tears and hurting are obvious due to the inner torment that restricts you. Nevertheless, it is possible for you to discover clarity and even ongoing bliss. Simple conscious awareness is the way to inner serenity. However, you will not find any logic, explanations, silence or calmness in the world around you. Therefore, always gaze within the self to the presence of being. Everything is within you. And, everything manifests outward. How you observe yourself in this life is essential to the process of awakening to aware presence.

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Nothing of this world can give you ongoing fulfillment and tranquility. However, conscious awareness unbinds these virtues that originate from the universe within you. Still, you are withdrawn. And, this is understandable because you live solely from the mind. Hopefully, and likely, the anguish you experience day to day will fade. The difficult situations suddenly will become new stepping stones to enlightenment on your inner path. Thus, focus on the realization that your difficulties and confusion result from mind conclusions during your unconscious state of being. Accordingly, the mind imposes the illusions of misery and despair when you are unaware.
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The Yellow Brick Road Is a Journey of Illusions

Most people know the story of The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy begins an incredible journey to find her way back home. This path in her life was on yellow brick road of enchantment. Doesn’t this sound familiar? The journey symbolizes a personal and collective conditioning that insists everyone has a path to follow. We have probably all said or heard the following sentences. I need to find my path in life. When speaking about others we say. They still have not found their path in life.

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Furthermore, it is also typical to speak with our children about finding their way in life. Thus, we dictate to our children. Here is an example. You are still lost. You have not yet found your path in life. But, the ramifications of this statement often have a profound and damaging effect on our children. Nevertheless, parents constantly evaluate and criticize their children and the very behavior that they taught them. Continue reading →