The Road to Funk

You don't have to believe in the Law of Attraction to experience it. You don't even have to subscribe to any particular tenet to experience what must surely be the "natural order" of life. Because no matter what you call it, what you experience on a daily or even momentary basis is a direct result of your choices. All of it. Regardless of your beliefs, all you need to do to realize just how much power you have is to pay attention. It will all become crystal clear, even after a very short time. Here's what I mean:

Let's say you've been in a Funk for a few days (or weeks or months. YIKES!) You can't seem to get yourself into any kind of flow. Your every thought is wrought with fear or anger or worry or some other Ickiness. You try to distract yourself with tasks or hours of television or loud music or five bottles of Jack Daniels. (double YIKES!) You get out your journal and write til your hand hurts. You take long naps. You go to the gym twice a day. You consume massive amounts of chocolate. All to no avail. No matter what you try, nothing seems to get that pesky Funk to lift. Now, according to this Law of Attraction, the reason you're not able to lose the Funk is because the Universe is matching what you're focusing on. In other words, if you're doing all this stuff to get your mind off the Funk, what you're really focusing on is the Funk. So, what you get is more Funk.

If, on the other hand, you were to wake up one morning and think, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! What a grand opportunity I have on this bright and beautiful morning! I am alive and well and open to all manner of possibility to grace my life." In those thoughts there is not a trace of Funk, yes? There isn't any mental note of a Funk that has been present for the last however many days. There is only eagerness for what may come on this brandy new day. If you were to walk through your entire day keeping those thoughts at the fore of your mind, simply looking for things that make you smile and ignoring everything that doesn't, you would not have a moment to think about the Funk. You would be so focused on what Grooviness might show itself that the Funk would be trampled by your focused attention on the Groovy. Because you can't have both. It's one or the other: Funk or Groovy. {You can call it whatever you want. I just happen to like the word "groovy" and think we should revive it. There. I said it. I like the word "groovy". So there.} Anyway, the point here is that you DO have control of where you take your thoughts. The wheel is yours. You can steer your pretty little Self where ever you wish to go. And if you're still in that Funk, it isn't because the Funk is your lot in life. It is because you aren't paying attention to where you're going. You're on Auto-Pilot, allowing your thoughts to take you without any input. This is not rocket science. Nor is it fluffy PollyAnna baloney. It is a proven fact: our thoughts are ours to use however we wish. Don't like the Funk? Focus on the Groovy. Simple as that.

One last thing before I get on with this glorious day: even if you think all of this is nonsense, or you think this Blogger is high on crack, or you think the time it took for you to read this post is time you'll never get back...if you are on the road to Funk the only person who can get off that road is YOU. Unless, of course, you're letting somebody else drive.

Those Crazy Kids

The funny thing about shifts is that they're often so subtle you don't even know they're happening...at first. Then, one day, you wake up and it kinda hits you. You notice that the air smells fresher and the sun seems brighter. You notice that there are more birds singing and you can hear the frogs when you'd never heard them before. You suddenly feel lighter, happier, easier about your new day. It's nothing big, so to speak. Just little nuances that seem big...because YOU feel different.

I bring this up today because I've been thinking a lot about how "hard" people try to get stuff done. They use words like "achieve" and "earn" and "struggle" and "work". They think, mostly because they've been told, that everything they want must come with a price. They've learned, by way of those who meant well but didn't know any differently, that the "only" way to get anything is to work your ass off for it. The old "no pain, no gain" attitude. But what if it's not that way at all?

Think about all the kids coming up right now. Little kids. Kids who have these amazing talents and ideas and visions. They're freakin' 5 years old and they know more than the average 50 year old. They can build stuff or compose incredible symphonies or sing like angels or dance their little hineys off. They're computer wizards and gadget freaks. They can set up your whole stereo system without ever glancing at a manual. How do you suppose this is? How do you suppose these kids know what they know or do what they do at such a 'young' age?

I hear "grown-ups" bitching all the time about how "kids these days don't want to work. they just want everything handed to them. they're lazy and spoiled and impertinent." It cracks me up every time I hear this kind of stuff. Because what these grown-ups don't seem to understand is that these kids are coming forth with all the knowledge that has been born of previous generations. They're arriving on the planet with all kinds of evolved thought and blossomed energy. They don't want to hear that crap about how hard life is because they know it's baloney. They know because they still remember. They remember All That Is and they're dead set on keeping it that way. The more resistant they are to what others are telling them, the more they retain what they brought with them.

Or maybe...

Maybe we really are evolving. As a species, that is. Maybe if we took a moment to consider just how much things have changed, and continue to change, we would be able to see that these kids are proof of this incredible evolution. They're not trying to piss us off. They're simply living what they know to be the way they meant to live. Right here. Right now. Without all the baggage that "grown-ups" can't seem to let go of.

I think it's refreshing. And inspiring. And utterly magnificent. I think they have volumes to teach us, if only we would put our monstrous egos aside and have a listen. They know. They understand. They remember. They have seen what we refuse to see. That this life we chose is not about struggling or trying or sweat or blood. It's about groovin' our way through, allowing all that we have asked for to come right on in. It's about letting go of old beliefs and useless teachings. Let the new in. Let the well-being flow. Let go of the stupid, stubborn pride and lighten up. That is what they are trying to show us.

If only we would allow them.