Are you willing to wake up, really wake up? 

In these times of great change, chaos and overwhelm for
many, more and more are asking the question, "How can I
move beyond living like this?"  The answer is not nearly
as complicated as it may seem. 

First, it's important to fully recognize that the way
your life is going is not working for you.  You've
heard that one definition of the word "insanity" is doing
the same things over and over again but expecting
different results.  What  you have been doing and
thinking has not been paying off for you with higher
levels of calm, wisdom and happiness.

For many who want a more satisfying life, it's very
important to get to a place where you are completely
fed up with how your life is going.  I am not
suggesting that you should get angry, hopeless or
frustrated; what I am asking you to do is to simply
say to yourself: "Enough  is enough."

Get fed up!

Getting fed up is a motivator, as long as you are
not also loading your mind up with thoughts of present
overwhelm, fear, depression or suffering.

So the second key is being present.  It's so common
for people to focus their attention on self-judgment
for past actions or fear for what is coming up soon.
True empowerment is only possible when one is willing
to be with each moment as it is while having trust in
one's own ability to deal with whatever life will bring
to you in the future.

The third key to waking up is shifting the way that you
identify yourself.  Identifying with the body or mind is
a very direct way to confuse and frustrate yourself. 
Both the body and the mind have inherently insane ways
of responding to life.  Each has sets of demands that,
when followed, tend to be destructive.  The body and
mind can both have addictive and destructive demands. 
When you cave to those demands, you weaken yourself. 
Those who give in to such demands on a frequent basis
are more and more integrating a sense of mistrust in 
themselves.  It is not possible to have a sense of
true personal power if  you are regularly doing or
thinking things that prohibit trusting yourself!
Please think about that.

It takes courage to move through the challenges of
life in a powerful way.  How do we build courage?
Trust is necessary.  If you don't trust that you can
deal with what is to come, and if you don't trust
that your life is simply a series of opportunities
to integrate a more loving way of being, then you
are allowing your life to be run by your fear.

If you are living in fear, you really are being run
by your head, by the imaginary egoic self that
exists only as it is fed.  Please contemplate this.

There is a simple way that you can move beyond the
fear-based, head-run life:  You can recondition
yourself.  We tend to be conditioned to certain
patterns in how we live our lives.  Many of these
patterns are based upon sets of lies that we have
heard so much in our lives that we think they are
true.  We've been conditioned by the propaganda of
religion, governments, educational institutions, the
mass media, and our families and friends to think
many lies are truths.  The lies are virtually always
based on somebody's fear.

When you take the radical step of identifying
yourself as the will and the wisdom of your heart
and soul, you open up for yourself an entirely new
way of dealing with the world with spiritual sanity.
By finding clarity about the loving intent of the
heart, you open the door to creating more calm,
happiness and wisdom in your life.

Once you are clear on your beliefs, you are then
able to prioritize your actions so that they are
more and more consistently loving.  Just as you may
have become conditioned to the fearful life by seeing
hearing, reading and otherwise experiencing
falsehood, you can recondition yourself to a more
loving way of living by practicing action and thought
that is consistent with the loving will and wisdom of
your own heart and soul. 

This is what we have all come into this life to do.

So my challenge to you today is to consider
prioritizing your loving reconditioning as the most
important purpose of your life.  NOthing could be
more important than becoming what you came into this
world to become.

LIfe is just a process of unfolding your love fully,
and I have a deep sense that we all can keep coming
back into new lifetimes until we fully realize our
loving nature.  As we prioritize this process, living
becomes a more vibrant, happy and calm experience.

When you trust, it's so much easier to wake up.

Are you willing to consider prioritizing your own
realization of your love?  What could ever be more
important?  As you prioritize this realization, all
the challenges of life lose the harsh edge that you
may have experienced at times. 

Please read this article a second time, pausing at
least briefly at the end of each paragraph as you
ask your heart if what has been expressed is true for
you.  "Click on" your internal pause button.

Feel your own truth.

All Love,
Carlo Ami