Put Down that Cocktail of Confusion.

What would happen if you let go of all conceptual ideas of what enlightenment is or is not?

What would happen if you stripped your judgments of this concept of what it means to be an enlightened person?

Could it be that it is a false belief that enlightened beings are always in a state of bliss and that no emotion could create an imbalance in their peaceful stillness?

Or, that an enlightened person is totally free of negative thoughts or free from the ego?

Do we attain enlightened mastery by repeating an exact number of mantras or perfecting a yoga pose or do we have to live in a monastery?

Do we need to live in poverty and strip ourselves of all material possessions?

Or do we live as a martyr or better yet learn superhero powers that will allow us to see into the future and time travel?

This quest for enlightenment hurts the head and makes one think that it is no wonder that the average person is turned off or discouraged from this idea of enlightenment and incorporating it into their life.

So, how about doing something radical?

Put down that cocktail of confusion and reach for something more satisfying and sustainable to quench your thirst for the desire of enlightenment.

Let’s cultivate a simple state of awareness and awakening to the truth that when you strip away all of the concepts and ideas of what you wonder enlightenment to be, you are only left with YOU, the conscious being doing the wondering – You ARE enlightenment because you are the one who is paradoxically searching for the light outside of yourself. The paradox is that during the entire search and wonder of what enlightenment is, it is you who is the light that illuminates the path of your own search!

Is it possible that the remains of your searching would be the discovery of your own extraordinary essence which in itself is the pristine essence of light that we call enlightenment? Some of us are searching for some great answer to some great question- but really isn’t that just another way of staying in the dark in search of some great mysterious enlightenment outside of ourselves? While it is fun and interesting to learn about different religions, philosophies, the science of enlightenment, and to experience great transcendence through dreams, prayer, and meditation, our consciousness is evolving to a space of recognizing that these fun, interesting, and transcendent teachings and experiences are not the ‘end all’ to enlightenment or THE way to enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a place to get to. Enlightenment is always here by simply recognizing the present moment of who you are. It IS who YOU are.

Do something radical! Stop searching for the unobtainable certainty of THE answer. You are already free and light (underneath the blanket of ideas and concepts of what enlightenment is), now just relax in the vastness of infinite presence of who you are and who you’ve always been. Now, go do an embodiment practice. Go for a walk, do a yoga class, play with your child, take the dog for a walk, tell someone you love how much you care about them.......ahhhhhhh, enlightenment is as simple as that.

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Is intuition ever practical? In my experience, navigating through the murky waters of intuitive guidance is hardly ever a practical process. This is what makes following my intuition a challenge when I address an intuitive hunch from a practical perspective. I have to step away from the inclination to dissect an intuitive hunch from an analytical perspective. A better way for me to navigate intuitive guidance is through an emotional intelligence process, which is always from the perspective of my feelings, rather than what I am thinking.

For example, I go to a mechanic to get my car worked on and my first impression is that I have a feeling that this mechanic is untrustworthy. I have no particular reason why I feel this way, I just do.

Well, if I analyze this situation, I could very easily talk myself out of my feeling and continue with the transaction because; 1) there is no rational reason why I should think he is trustworthy, 2) a friend that I trust recommended the mechanic, 3) if I left I would not have a good enough reason to leave, 4) it would be inconvenient for me to leave because I need my car fixed. I have 4 rational reasons why I should continue the transaction.

So, if I were practical, I would leave my car with the mechanic and see what happens. If I acted on my intuition, I would bypass all of the rational reasons and stick with the guidance of my intuition and leave.

More often than not, my intuition rules my day and my emotional intelligence is usually smarter than my practical intelligence, as in this example.

When it comes to 90% of the decisions in my life, I use my emotional intelligence to make choices in relationships, health, money, career, life purpose. The other 10% of decisions I make through practical intelligence such as when I need to make a decision where there is a higher probability of a consequence.

For example, if I were diagnosed with a potentially terminal disease and I had the choice to take a medicine to cure it that had an efficacy value of 99%, I would take the medicine. That is a practical choice based on the statistical and proven data for success. I am sure that if I really had this decision to make, my practical intelligence and my emotional intelligence would be in alignment.

Watch George play with Emotional Intelligence - A humorous take on the subject

Click on the following YouTube video: http://youtu.be/u3k7lykTWTk

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Hello….I was inspired to express some thoughts after I did this video and I really would love some feedback from you. If you would have met me 10-15 years ago, you might have thought, "Wow, this girl can't put two words together without choking or turning bright red". I am doing better now, and the process of unravelling myself is a continuum and I am getting better and better every day at expressing what is in my heart and speaking it out through my cake-hole.

So, in my personal life, I am surrounded by really intelligent people (docs, engineers, professors) and quite often find myself at dinner parties, backcountry ski trips, among other places with highly intelligent people that have accomplished a lot through the gift and determination of their huge left brains. I love and admire them so much because they can recall a story, an event, a fact with ease and they tend to be very quick and witty in the delivery of that message. I do, however, find myself at a loss for words because I live in my big heart most of the time and my memory muscle of facts and figures is very small. I tried the academic thing and managed to get a degree out of my desire to be smart, but I have realized that I am not intellectually smart but emotionally smart and have since changed careers to express my strengths.

So, here is where YOU come in. I want to know where you hide out most of the time? Do you hide out behind your head or your heart? In other words, are you imbalanced like I am where one part of your intelligence system outweighs the other? Are you more heart-centered or are you more head-centered? Or, are you so freaking awesome that you are perfectly balanced?