Do we really understand our own despair? Let's take some time to discover this fake news we give ourselves. Is it even real? How do we use things to not feel it?

Fear and anxiety can get the best of us, no? This is a meditation to expand awareness linking conscious breathing with our visual imagination.

Mostly we avoid pain. Perhaps that is why there is so much depression. If we keep putting energy into not looking into the darkness the darkness will continue. Let's look at what cicadas might have to say about it from their long life dwelling in the dirt for more than a decade before they come into the light.

Who Am I Absent of Conditioning? Imagine all of the influences that have shaped who you are today...even down to how you brush your teeth the right or wrong way. How can you possibly be good enough when everything in your life has culminated to make you this way? Begin to imagine what life could be life if you came to know your own unique nature...and fell in love with it.

To paraphrase Khalil Gibran, our children are not ours, but they come through us. What is the purpose of fatherhood? What is the impact each of who choose parenthood have on the future of our children? No, not all of us are suited to perform this task if we are to elevate the consciousness of our species. Yes, it is on us to nurture our children to carry forth their own abilities beyond us. No, it has nothing to do with us and they will be who they are.

Mostly we think of ourselves as having infinite choices to make as any given moment, unaware of the influence our past has on us now. Here we consider the specific limitations, specifically those of the inherited perception of our parents there are, and question what our experience of life might be like if we add other options.

Without knowing who we are and what we are here for, or more accurately creating those aspects, we may very well be doomed to suffering and unfulfilled in our being used by those who do know these things. I powerfully request you, my listeners DECLARE these to me directly right now, what are the VALUES at the core of who you are and FOR WHAT are you here. Email me, send me voicemail, whatever it is that works for you. And, if you don't not know, tell me this and that you will explore and create them before 2010. I am counting on you.

Aren't we special? Our mind is ours yet we behave like we are our mind. This ignorance has kept us in trouble since formation. Mostly we cannot even think anymore with this blob of matter between our ears. Sure we have thoughts, but they are used to perpetuate a prison mentality of all of humanity. Shall we identify with our minds and remain in hell and at war with each forever? There is a way out.

Above all, I want you to find this small space, this tiny little space between breathing in and out and in again. We go looking all over the place for big things outside of ourself, however, when it comes to the inner landscape, we often avoid the most profound and smallest of spaces within. Join me on this directed meditation in identifying and expanding the pause...see you there!

Many of us still relate to our mind as if it is us, as if we are our minds. This is silly. We have minds. Minds do not have us. Or do they? All of us would like to be at peace, however as soon as we are seeking it it is no longer with us. We simply can't have what we seek. Seeking is a phenomenon saved for another day. Use this meditation to find yourself in the moments you no longer are seeking and expand the experience of yourself.