Julian Kaufmann

EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO LIVE AND LOVE, FULLY

Pain and Gain

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Like a broken tooth, an illness or a divorce, sometimes life has a way of helping you bring your awareness to the present moment.

Pain is the body’s way of letting you know that something needs your attention. When you are hurting your focus is directed to the affected area. Something happens to us that wakes us up and draws our awareness to whatever may be ailing us. We are jolted us up and out of the stupor we may have fallen in to.

It is not necessary however to experience painful disruptive events as the only way to bring your attention to the present moment.

Eckert Tolle encourages us to actively increase our awareness and consciousness in the good times and not just the bad. “So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency. No unconsciousness, no negativity, no discord or violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light.”

A regular habit of prayer and meditation can help slow the brain down to bring awareness into the present moment.  If we live in the present we allow life and all it’s changes to occur while we remain in equanimity.  Acknowledging the hurt, the grief, the anger, …, THE FEELINGS, and allowing them to flow through your body, reduces their energy.

Mindfulness practices have been shown to have dramatically healthful benefits to those who practice this.

Keeping an open heart while going through painful events can be difficult.

But if we are to grow and learn through these challenging times, it is exactly what we must do.

The 4-Flowgates

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In my upcoming book Let Go, Let It Flow – a P.A.T.H. to peace and personal power, I present a 4-part framework describing the Flowgates that regulate the amount of Flow (divine life energy) that travels through us.

My theory of conductivity states that we are conductors of God’s energy and that as prime movers we convert God’s energy into our life’s work.  It is my goal to help you be more efficient in this conversion process – to waste less and to produce more.

P.A.T.H. is an acronym for the 4-Flowgates of:

  1. Presence
  2. Acceptance
  3. Thankfulness
  4. Helping

Electricity is one of the 4-fundamental forces of our universe.  And when discussing Flow, we are describing an energy flow that has many properties similar to electricity.

When measuring  the flow of electrical energy, we observe the relative ease of flow of the charged particles – electrons. Electrical resistance is a measure of how difficult it is for the electrons to flow.

The inverse of resistance is conductance, and this measure describes how easy it is to flow.

There is an inverse relationship between resistance and conductance.

As we’ll see, that as resistance goes up, the corresponding conductance goes down. The reverse is true. That as resistance goes down, conductance goes up.

What regulates flow?

If you can imagine turning on a faucet, as you turn on the handle, you open the valve more, so you can get more flow. The video below is taken from my course Flow 101 –What Is It and How to Get More of It.

Right now I am offering this as a Free course.

Please sign up and let me know what you think.

https://juliankaufmann.com/flow-101/

Namaste

 

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A Bowlful of Desire

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As part of my meditation practice I like to use sound to help my brain slow down.

As a musician I have been gifted with a good ear for rhythm and melody. My body, mind and mood respond to sound rapidly and match the corresponding frequency of the music I am listening to.

Recently I began experimenting with Tibetan singing bowls.

In case you are not familiar with them I have included a link below this post for you to check out.

 

My singing bowl is designed to resonate with my throat chakra – a center where when properly activated allows me to speak universal truth.

My singing bowl also reminded me of the tale of the Beggar’s Bowl which is retold below:

The Beggar's Bowl
The Beggar’s Bowl

The lesson of the story is that our desire can be impossible to satisfy. No matter how hard we try to fill ourselves with external things we are left empty, wanting more.

We can however break this cycle of craving, stuffing and remaining empty only to long for more, by simply becoming aware of our desire. We can stop and appreciate what we have and the gifts already within us.

Please let me know about your bowl and the lengths you may have gone in the past to try and fill it.

Namaste

 

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Riptide

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When the weather’s fine; We go fishing or go swimming in the sea
We’re always happy; Life’s for living, yeah, that’s our philosophy

In the Summertime – Mungo Jerry

Summer will be here soon and, if we are fortunate, we can spend some time down by the shore.

When we learn how to swim in the ocean we are cautioned to swim with and not against the ocean’s current –particularly in the case of encountering a riptide while swimming.

Riptides occur when the ocean waves after breaking on the shore retreat back to the sea very quickly, concentrating a large amount of water into a relatively narrow space.

The wave’s energy traveling through the water is confined as the water returns back to the ocean from the shore, thus increasing the force and power of the water as it travels through the guide. The retreating, rushing water is called a rip current. These currents are formed as the ocean water is literally being ripped back to the sea due to the powerful forces of the ocean. If you are ever caught in a rip current while swimming in the ocean and if you don’t go with the direction of the current, the flow, you may well drown, as you are no match for the mighty sea. Try as you might, you may eventually give out of energy, as you struggle in vain against a force much greater than you.

While perhaps not as drastic as fighting a rip-current while swimming in the ocean, our lives on land are also harmed by us fighting the flow, the Flow of life itself. By not going with the Flow, we are wasting precious, divine energy and not fully harnessing the infinite potential that resides within us. As a result of not flowing with life, we are wasting our life’s energy. Needlessly we resist, we struggle and as a result we suffer.

There is a better way to live and that is to go with and not against the Flow.

By going with the Flow and not resisting it, we are practicing energy efficiency since we are not expending energy in opposition to the force of our Source Energy – God. By not resisting, we can more fully tap into the infinite potential that exists for us, and allow more of the divine energy of Life to flow through us.   When we go with the flow, we work with life and in turn life works with us and ultimately through us.

Jump into the river of life – the water is fine. Enjoy your swim!

Namaste.

How to stop the Brain Drain

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There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so – William Shakespeare

Did you know that the human brain is about 2% of our total body mass yet it accounts for about 20% of our body’s energy requirements[i]⁠?

That’s right. Pound for pound, our brains are energy hogs that consume much more energy (calories are just another measure of energy) on a relative mass basis than our other organs do.

Of course our brains are the key, super-computer that regulates everything we do and experience, much of which we are not aware of. It makes sense that our cognitive capabilities require more calories than otherwise. Unfortunately this unawareness and the misdirected power of our mind can rob us of energy that we could instead be using to direct towards completing our life’s work.

Recall energy is the ability to do work. When energy is wasted it is no longer available to do work.

In some ways an unattended mind can be like leaving a window open in your home while heating or cooling the home. The result of the open window is that the home’s HVAC system has to work harder to overcome the drain in conditioned air that is flowing out of the home through the open window. If we are not careful and pay attention to our brains and how they are thinking, we are letting precious energy go to waste.

In his book The Power of Now, Eckert Tolle states, “Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people’s thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy[ii]⁠1.”

To solve a problem with an organization, you gotta start at the top.–unknown

Awareness of a problem or situation is the first step in order to correct it.

Becoming aware of the nature and quality of our thoughts is a great step to taking control of your executive office and at the same time allowing you the opportunity to plug any leaks.

Meditation or other mindfulness practices are a good way to go within and simply observe your thoughts. My prior  post 7-Minutes in Heaven provides additional benefits of meditation and a simple 7-minute routine for calming your brain. If you are not already meditating please try it and let me know. If you already have a practice, I would love to hear more about works for you.

Like removing a boiling pan of water from a heat source, when we meditate we allow our brains to calm down and reach a more peaceful state that does not require as much energy to maintain.

Energy and frequency are directly related. That is as the frequency of an object increases so does the energy required to keep the object vibrating at that speed.

When we are worried or anxious our brave waves speed up – the frequency of our brain increases. Conversely when we meditate or rest, our brains operate at much lower frequencies than when we are anxious or worried. This conserves mental energy and allows our minds to reset and return towards a state of equanimity.

Shut out the physical world. Control the mind. Then you will become free. –The Bhagavad Gita

NAMASTE

Julian

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[i] Drubach, Daniel. The Brain Explained. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2000.

[ii] Tolle, Eckhart (2009-03-25). The Power of Now (pp. 21-22). New World Library. Kindle Edition.