I’m watching ‘The Bridges of Madison County’ for the second or third time. The timelessness of the film brings thoughts of my mother and our life together.

As I watch the film, I’m hoping my mother and dad had laughter…strong and loud; just as Robert and Francisca did during the kitchen dinner scene, that first day. I hope they had the kind of passion Francisca and Robert experienced: The kind that takes your breath away!

Every Minute of Every Day

What is the Passion that takes my breath away? How will I meet and fulfill my passion? As my ‘day job’ comes to an end…Isn’t it amazing how we just skip over the words ‘day job’. Surely, you’ve thought about how much time your ‘day job’ takes away from fulfilling your dreams? Did you know there are eighty seven hundred and thirty (8,736) six hours in a year? I spend 2,580 waking hours a year going to and from and at my ‘day job’. I spend approximately 2,912 hours sleeping; which has left me with 3,874 waking hours to do with what I want. Precious hours to fulfill my dreams! How exciting to think soon I can do what I want with every minute of every day!

Defining Who We Are

How I spend every hour of each day defines who I am and is relevant. Do we ever disconnect from our dreams? No. If you think that you do; you are incorrect. Our dreams are as much apart of us as an arm or a leg. Disconnection is futile. It can not be done. Do you think trying to disconnect from your dreams has anything to do with disease and dying; for yourself or the planet? What do you think? Trying to disconnect from what we really want to do and be is like trying to swim up stream…you will wear yourself out; become weak and drown.

Living the Dream

My dream is that our development stops creeping in on wildlife. My dream is that we continually expand spaces that acknowledge our inter-connectedness with nature and wildlife. My dream is for spaces that celebrate this connectedness; exciting and joyful places; places were bird songs, babbling brooks and the winds through the trees supply much of the entertainment we crave.

My dream is that the Office of Economic Development and Public Finance offer environmental incentives that have an extremely high tax break for people and business that want to move here and NOT drain our resources; wildlife and natural habitats. Wildlife does not understand the ‘concrete jungle’ that keeps crumbling the land.

How do you feel we you hear these words? Most people want to strangle the deliverer, shoot the messenger, because their very soul shouts out that it doesn’t like this message. It doesn’t like it, because it isn’t true.

It’s Just Not True

You know it isn’t true because when you were 4 years old, you really wanted a bicycle with stabilisers, and you didn’t get one. The pain of not getting that bicycle is with you today, that’s how much it hurts not to get the thing that you most want in life.

There were many bicycles when you were growing up, and so you decided not to want, it’s better that way. Then you don’t get disappointed.

Learning Not To Want

And that is how you’ve lived your life up until now. Never wanting and never being disappointed.

Holistic Living Is Cheap

When you saw that people were living their lives ‘holistically’, it seemed like a great idea. It was definitely a less expensive life-style. You could learn to heal yourself, make fresh nourishing food, make your own cosmetics and appreciate the countryside. You need never depend on others again.

You’re reading this post because it didn’t work.

Can’t Get Away From Advertising?

Try as we might, we would have to become desert hermits to get completely away from modern life. You still have children who go to school, and come home wanting the latest trainers, hairstyle, bicycles.

You are unable to get away from all advertising, even if you have disposed of your television. The billboards outside shopping malls, and the hoardings on the side of the road still attract your attention, letting you know what you are missing, and creating a longing deep inside your soul.

Pain Needs Healing

The pain of not getting that bicycle when you were 4 years old is still with you.

It is this pain that needs healing. It is this longing that needs attention. Only then will you be able to live on bean soup and eat vegetables that you have grown yourself and be content. You will know that you have a choice. That holistic living is your decision, not your necessity.

Lack Of Choice

You may choose to grow herbs and learn alternative healing methods, not because you can’t afford to pay doctor’s bills, but because you know that these healing ways are far better for you.

Choice is everything, and your choice involves wanting. You need to work out exactly what you want, by letting go of your childhood disappointment and risking wanting something different.

Stabilise Your Desires

The chances are that you have gone way beyond wanting a bicycle with stabilisers, but those stabilisers can now be attached to your desires. Thinking that material things will satisfy the soul is another mistake that many people make.This strategy doesn’t work because they have not consciously chosen what it is that they truly desire.

Free Teaching

There is a wealth of free teaching that you can access in your quest to consciously choose your preferred life-style, I’ll put the links at the bottom of this post.

Listen To Esther And Louise

Listen to Esther Hicks and Louise L. Hay, two great women who live the life that they have consciously chosen. They both have enough money to purchase anything that takes their attention, but they both choose to live a holistic life…joyously.

http://www.divinepurposeunleashed.com

http://www.healingsimplicity.com

http://www.hiddenknowledge.net

Click the Video link.

‘Aging’ has is what you give it.

The years you live are defined by the directions you choose and the trail you leave. Our mind is our communication line and defines our attitude about those directions and the trail we leave.

I’ve often wondered how my mind develops its thoughts’…where do they come from? This question has lead me to study the many ‘belief systems’ in the world.

I Am So Lucky

to have had the mother I had. She did not demand that I attend her church, or any church; nor did she attend her place of worship every week. However, when I was old enough, she took me to her church and said, “this is were I worship, there are many such places and you are free to chose where you want to go or not go”. Luckily my curiosity lead me to attend and investigate many religions.

Common Denominator

I’ve learned a little about the many belief systems of the world; Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Buddhism,Christianity, Hinduism, Taoism. What they all seem to have in common is the belief in ‘kindness’. Accepting this common denominator makes it possible to identify and develop a positive attitude which is beneficial to all. You may ask, what does a kind attitude have to do with ‘aging’? I believe a kind attitude creates an inner joy and peace that is permeated through our physical action and defines the aging process.

Inner Peace and Joy

gives us the ability to live long and healthy lives; peace and joy make it possible to make positive choices which enhance not only our lives, but the life of the planet! Only when we make positive choices that are all inclusive do we truly experience the long and healthy lives we wish for.

The Majority of the Human Race

is like a three year old rushing into everything as fast as we can, grabbing everything in sight, putting everything into our mouths; getting sick and sometimes dying; more often than not, throwing up on everything!

Our insatiable appetite for more, more and more has created a strain on all earths inhabitants and our planet. We must REDUCE our appetite for more and more!

Humanities Biggest Weakness

is our inability to recognize, understand and accept the message; be kind to everything we live with! If we wish ‘aging’ to be graceful, we must resist the shallow ‘belief system that more is better’, created by those who wish to benefit from our folly!

Happy Gracefully Aging Trails!