Weekly Om - Sense of Urgency

Does anyone else feel a sense of urgency to change the world? In essence I mean, do you feel this wave of change happening as you sit at your desk? You just KNOW things are changing but you have no idea what to do or where to start? You just KNOW that times are changing and we can either change along with them consciously or we can continue along our path of a robotic existence.

But how can we possibly make change? There are bills to pay, jobs to keep, kids to raise...so many things to "do" in our "cube of life".

When we feel this sense of urgency, it means it is time for us to prepare.

Prepare for what? Enlightenment; conscious aliveness; divine wholeness. Are we ready for that? Some of us are ready. I think of Arjuna now from the Bhagavad Gita. Ready to put down his sword when he realized he was fighting his family. Ready to give up out of fear. But really what was he fighting? Himself and his own beliefs. What makes us different than Arjuna? Nothing.

The reality is that some of us like the complacency offered by routine and expectancy. But that is not to be. Life is impermanent - it's ever changing and always flowing from one stage to the next. And right now, like it or not, it is time to wake up and live life consciously.

What if I told you that the images we see and choose to focus on become our reality? That we do actually have a say in what we see and experience in every single day of our lives? Would you believe me? Or would you like to believe that we are just a victim, watching a movie that is pre-destined to be our life?

Let me awaken you for a moment: You have the power to create your reality. Yes, amidst all the Hollywood blockbusters about to emerge on our life screen, YOU have the power to choose what you want to see.

This is where life gets good. The time is NOW to understand the importance of disciplining our thoughts so our reality truly reflects our inner perception. Along this quest for wholeness and reality, what are we up against really?

The media. Hollywood. Other people's ideas and perceptions of what reality truly is.

Pretty daunting battle I would have to admit - if we were asleep. But we are awake, so it's no problem. We can do it. We can choose. Ask yourself, what do you want right now? For you? For your children? For your future? Do you want competition or cooperation with others? Fear or love for others? Which is it because this is important.

One with others or a separateness that divides.

Patanjali said, over thousands of years ago that the key to life was disciplining our thoughts. And here we are inundated with so much media we are confused with what is reality and what is illusion. The time is now to discipline our thoughts and discern what is truth and what is illusion.