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I haven’t always been a positive person in my life. In high school and junior high school I was nice to people around me, but deep down I felt like the world itself was a place of chaos. I felt that in order to survive in a chaotic world, I needed to embrace chaos itself. I didn’t truly trust other people. I only trusted myself. I felt like I knew something special about how the world worked because I accepted the fact that everyone was out for themselves, and the people who weren’t out for themselves were nice, but they were kind of chumps. I had an attitude of, “That’s great that you’re nice and you sacrifice yourself for others… That’s one less thing that I have to do now.”

But is this outlook on the world actually how the system really works? By system I mean, the system by which people interact and have potential to prosper. The answer lies in one question, “What do you really want?” If you want to live in a system of chaos, the system will appear that way to you. Your desires shape the system by which you live. It’s not the other way around. This may seem strange at first because we are taught in school to imagine civilization as a force that brings order to the world. And without it, we would live in the opposite, which is savagery. But the fact of the matter is that if you are reading this, you haven’t known true savage existence in your life. Sure you may have been on a camping trip, or you may be an extreme sports hero or you may be one of those outdoor survival types. But for the most part, after everything is said and done, we can come back to a world of civilization and order after stints of chaotic episodes. But does that mean we perceive the world to be this way? Many of us perceive the world to be chaotic because we see things relatively. School and work and family seem to float over us in a blur of confusion and responsibility. And we compare these busy schedules to the small amount of free time that we really have and we say, “Life lately has been chaotic.”

Well I say, life can be tranquil, peaceful and full of kindness. And that kindness can cause opportunities to sprout like beans and little sprouts in a hydroponic garden! One of the first ways to make life tranquil is to learn to accept things and fight less. This in no way means to give up in life. What I mean is to take a stance in life that if we were to liken it to a fighting style would be more like Aikido than Boxing. Use the energy of life to your advantage. In Boxing, you have to keep your guard up and block hits and counter attack and be really strong in order to overcome your opponent. (Let’s say that your opponent represents problems and complications in life.) But in Aikido you use movement to parry and redirect the energy of the attacks from your opponent. How how can you redirect problems in life to lean toward tranquility. The answer is that you need to change your perspective on things. If you find yourself getting frustrated then instead of swearing all the time, try and find the source of the frustration and then learn from it. Once you learn from your frustration then adjust your perspective. If you can’t change what’s frustrating you right now, then look at the situation differently in order to save, what I call, “Precious Mind Resources.” For example I was in Los Angeles over Haloween trying to find a place to park so I could go to a party with a good friend. LA was packed with cars and there were cops everywhere and there was honking and overall it wasn’t the best time to drive. Not to mention I don’t like traffic so it was double trouble for me. Well, I started to get really frustrated when I couldn’t find any parking. And when I started to make wrong turns into the part of town where you go up the hill to the houses overlooking the city, I was just like “WAAAA! Get me out of here.” Then I thought I could turn right to get where I needed to go, but it was a dead end into a gated community and I was like, “GRRRR!” I was starting to waste time and I was beginning to fear that’d I hit my car or miss the party entirely. So the first thing I did was identify the source of my frustration, which was being in traffic. Then I learned from it and said, “Ok. I know I’m not the best LA driver. I need to find somewhere to park fast.” Then I changed my perspective and said, “You know what. I don’t think I’m going to find anywhere to park anytime soon. I’ll just park at that pay parking area and cough up the $20 bucks!” My friend was dissappointed and felt like we could have found something if we kept looking but my new perspective was, “He can think I’m a driving wimp all he wants, at least I didn’t get into an accident. And now I can enjoy myself at the party.” Take special not of the “enjoy myself at the party,” part. It is important. The reason why it’s important is because it symbolizes the “Precious Mind Resources” that I was talking about earlier.

Thanks for reading Kindness Multiplies and can cause Opportunity PART 1

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I eat meat. I drink coffee. Well, latte’s. I don’t drink caramel macchiato’s anymore. But for some reason I feel like it is time for me to start learning Reiki. I recently read the book, Crystal Enlightenment. And I learned a great deal about the healing properties of crystals. And I also read that some crystals are actually crystalline life forms. Deep down I always believed that some crystals were life forms, but it felt great to see it in writing. I personally believe that everything that is and everything that is not in our universe has varying degrees of life force. Actually, just writing that down makes me feel good. I love life forms! That’s how I feel about it. So maybe I should persue Reiki because I love life forms. And since I believe in crystalline life forms I will include them in crystal healing sessions in the future. I was born June 26th, 1980 so that makes me born the week of the empath. That means that I’m supposed to be empathic. That means that I am able to share in the emotions and feelings of others. This is true about me.

I remember in high school I used to tap into the empathic side of myself. I was in the peer assistance league in high school and I also was a part of this program called KSR the Knowledge and Social Responsibility Program. Those programs taught me to tap into my emotional and socially aware sides of myself.

Why do I want to learn about Reiki? Is it because I am trying to become more powerful? Is it because I feel something inside or lack something inside that I am trying to fill by supposedly helping other people? Is it out of greed? Deep down I think I can honestly say that I have been interested in Reiki in the past because of one or more of those reasons. I mean it is very romantic to envision oneself as having the power to lay hands on someone else and use the power of one’s own life force to heal them. But I think my old desires to want to help people were what was stopping me from taking the first steps in Reiki. What I mean by this is that Reiki is more about accepting energy that is already there than creating something out of nothing. I know this now intuitively without having to talk to someone else about Reiki. This is because just like how I am now more in tune with my crystals, I can understand that wants come from lacking, so do desires. But abundance comes from accepting responsibility. You have to accept things like they both come from within yourself and are confirmed by the outside cosmos at the same time.

Lately I have made some major breakthroughs in my life. I have been able to sit down and study math, albeit basic math. I have entered into programming with the Python language, which is something I’ve always wanted to do since I was very young. And now I am starting to finally study crystals and begin to treat crystals as lifeforms that need to be listened to not like how one listens to a person, but how someone might listen to a tree or a mountain range. I can feel my quartz crystal ball upstairs wishing that it was down here on the kitchen table with me helping me write. But the mere fact that I am sensitive to my crystal and can remember it’s beautiful spherical shape and many intricate planes and interior sensitivities.

As you embark on your own spiritual journey. I wish you nothing but great success. You already have all the tools you need to find what you are looking for. You just need to accept the fact that each new skill and ability requires responsibility. To yourself, and to the cosmos. The more powerful you become, the more mindful and emotionally and intuitively stable you will need to be. Otherwise, your power will be short lived. I can attest to that personally too many times than I’d like to admit. It seems like every time that I thought that I got to the place that I needed to be where I would either be happy or financially self-sufficient to support my goals I would eventually self-sabotage myself or become overwhelmed. The only solace is that for every failed attempt at either enlightenment or tranquility, the cosmos and I have shared a few memories. Those memories can be learned from and they make the process of becoming more in tune with one’s own spiritual, physical, mental and emotional abilities less like a chore and more like a pleasant brisk walk to the ocean.

It may be cold outside,

but the walk keeps our bodies warm,

like the gyro,

always spinning slightly,

we too learn,

with every new revolution.

Thank you for reading this article of mine and I hope you remember that now that you have read it, this article belongs to you as well. For the observer and the observed, the writer and the written share the sacred bond friendship with every drop of time that they spend together.

-Tyler