A Request from Finding Daily Inspirations

For many years, I have led inspirational groups and life-training sessions, given inspirational talks, worked individually with people seeking a Better Life, both professionally and personally. In all of these instances, I have been able to see my “audience” – their faces, their reactions, hear their questions and comments. And I have adjusted everything I have done to match the specifics of the persons involved, using the visual and auditory feedback from others as a GPS device to guide me in helping others find understanding and daily inspirational living.

Now for the first time, I am writing and communicating out into the vast expanse of the internet -- where there are no faces, and no voices – no feedback or cues to tell me what is being received or confused – to tell me what specific needs or interests people have – or really whether or not anyone is even there at all.

For this reason, I am requesting something from you, whomever you may be who is reading this. I believe that you will receive in return the personal benefits of my many years of being therapist and a spiritual and human guide. My responses are personal – my own experience, strength and hope – and deepened by my professional clinical experiences.

Inspirational living, for me, involves finding and experiencing a loving, caring, unconditional Presence that passes human understanding and comprehension. This Presence is not the “God” of traditional organized religion, but does not conflict with Christian spirituality.

This Presence somehow takes us above the purely human frailties and isolation of normal life, to a place of peace, joy, and companionship that no longer requires the obsessive outcomes and illusions of the past. And this Presence exists most powerfully in the connection of two or more of us together – for in this union of souls, God becomes flesh and dwells among and with us.

Here are my requests:
1. When my writing creates a question, please send your question to me so I can respond. If your question is one several people are asking I may post an article on my site addressing the question in more detail. But I will address your question, as I understand it.
2. When my writing seems related to something that you are experiencing or struggling with presently, please feel free to ask for my suggestions, comments, and support.
3. If you have a life experience that seems to relate to or contradict what you hear me saying, please share it with me
4. If you have a friend or acquaintance who is struggling to find daily inspiration – hope – in a current life situation, ask them to read some of my writings, and/or to send me their questions and struggles so I can support and maybe even help them find some inspired solutions.
5. And if anything else comes to mind that you would like to simply express or ask, please do so. Whatever you write, feel, or think is perfect – unconditionally. Having the freedom to be and experience freely who we are can be one of the most liberating and inspiring gifts we can receive.

Let’s find daily living inspiration – together.

I am listening.

Will
BetterPlaceByD@aol.com or comment section below.

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How Do We Take Care of Ourselves? -- an Introduction to the Question

One indicator of emotional, mental, and spiritual health is the willingness and ability to “take care of ourselves”. The words sound simple. JUST love and affirm yourself, have relationships with people who do the same, and be attentive and responsive to your needs and wants – and you will be happy.
“Once upon a time….. Happily ever after.”

If it is so simple why do so few people actually accomplish it? And why do the majority of people experience a nagging shadow of a feeling-thought in the back of their minds that something is missing? What if this is as good as it gets?!

The truth that I have experienced in my life is that self-care is not hard – it is totally impossible. Rather radical for someone advocating hope, and daily inspiration, and a better life. And this radical awareness is a crucial beginning to taking care of ourselves through finding daily inspirations, journalling, developing a daily intimacy with a higher Presence, ourselves and other human beings.

Perhaps a starting point would be to realize and accept that we do not know what we want and need. In an inspirational talk that I have given, I give a situational question: Image that you have been given $500 million dollars, with one stipulation. A sensor will be placed on your wrist that monitors your happiness or unhappiness. And it will beep if you are unhappy. If it beeps, telling us you are unhappy, we will take away everything you have. HOW LONG COULD YOU KEEP THE $500 MILLION?

This question could be repeated with health, relationships, success, and fame – virtually anything that humans value and desire. The reality is that having the whole of the material world as we would want it could not keep us from “losing our own souls” – our soul being our sense of being unconditionally loved by, and connected to the presence of others, and unconditionally caring and loving of ourselves.

At first glance, it looks like we are “screwed” – hopelessly and helplessly condemned to fluctuating levels of pain, fear, loneliness, sadness, rage -- misery.

The most commonplace way that mankind has dealt with this reality is “denial” – "don’t even know I am lying”. In unconsciousness, the brain creates, to survive, an alternate universe of facts, thoughts, perceptions, and reactions. It is experienced as acceptable because it virtually eliminates the experience of pain and fear, except in exceptional moments and events.

Happiness in this universe is experienced as relief from flashes of pain, and as emotional numbness. I can remember thinking that I had a good day if I had experienced little or no conscious emotional energy.

So taking care of ourselves, in human terms, means becoming distracted by external circumstances and events, with a corresponding loss of self-awareness, and experiencing this blindness as hope and happiness.

For many in our time, this unconscious state is deteriorating. The truth is beginning to invade our alternative universes. And the initial gifts of conscious pain and discomfort are beginning to open wonderful fountains of living presence and change which can wash away the darknesses of the past and bring us into the Light of inspired living.

We will be continuing to find daily inspirations that can give us new light –Life.

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INTRODUCTION TO INSPIRATIONAL LIFE TRAINING

This instructional series is meant to be an introduction to Inspirational Life Training for persons who want more from life than they have now. In the last twenty years of my life time of spiritual seeking, I have come to experience the effectiveness of certain principles and suggested guidelines for inspired living. I believe that having an experienced spiritual guide can make this inspirational life process much quicker and more life changing. Finding such a person may initially be difficult. And you can start your inspirational transformation here and now -- even without such a person.

For those who read this series, this is the ultimate life question: Would you be satisfied or happy with you present life – if this were as good as it gets? Or would you feel some level of nagging sadness, dread, depression, hopelessness about or just a general dissatisfaction with your life?

Consider for a moment: On a scale from 1-10, with 10 meaning you are totally satisfied and excited about your life as it is, and 1 meaning you are totally dissatisfied and depressed about your present life, how would you rate your life as it is today? Some days are better than others but rate your life as it generally is.

The majority of human beings have grown accustomed to a mediocre life of unconsciousness, and are afraid to believe that there could be a better life through living daily inspirations. Hope of a better inspired life for them has become a luxury they cannot afford. They are afraid to be disappointed – again!

A second question: On a scale from 1-10, how willing are you to invest some time and energy in having your life changed – 10 meaning extremely willing, and 1 meaning “it’s just not that bad.”

An Inspired Life is not for people who need it, and not really for most people who want it. It will become a reality only for those who want it enough to “Do It!”. And it cannot be done ALONE.

This is the beginning of experiencing and practicing how to live beyond this physical world’s limitations and mental illusions. It is about HOW do we find ourselves and our lives in daily inspirational living.

This is an introduction to a new understanding of inspirational power:
•What does it have to do with or without “God”?
•How do we learn to live with a timeless and unconditionally loving Presence that is bigger than our brain can process and know – a Presence that transforms our lives by inspiring the transformation our mental perceptions and our emotional reactions?
•How do we learn to relive the injuries and losses of the past, with new and inspirational outcomes?
•How do we find a new and amazing quality of inspired living that our minds have not been able to manufacture?

If you are dissatisfied with your present life, or just curious to see what this new Inspired Life is about, please feel welcomed to join me on our journey to A Better Place by Inspired Design– Life.

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