Julian Kaufmann

EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO LIVE AND LOVE, FULLY

When Life Explodes Not Unfolds

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The Creative Process, Life, Can Be Explosive

Lately, I have been contemplating how life evolves.

While navel gazing, I have been contrasting the life I observe around me with spiritual constructs that I hear and often read about. In particular, the notion of life unfolding seems to be contrary to what I am seeing at the moment. Juxtaposed to still waters running deep; I see roiling waves buffeting about.

New thought teaches how the gentle spirit will be manifesting and that life can simply be a matter of allowing the unfolding to occur.  Yet what we experience in life can be turbulent and terrifying.

Consider Esther Hicks’ saccharine advice:
Everything is unfolding perfectly. And as you relax and find ease in your attitude of trust, knowing that Well-Being is your birth-right, amazing things will happen. Things the likes of which you have not seen before.

The idea of life unfolding conjures up the image of a gentle, flowing river. A sea of universal consciousness meandering along, with everything, including you and me, evolving in divine order. With enough perspective and viewing life from afar, the gentle light flickers like that light from a supernova dying star.

The reality is that at point-blank range, life can be incredibly violent and chaotic. Shit happens to us, around us, and to those we love.

On a physical level, our best understanding of the universe entails a big-bang.  Tremendous amounts of energy were released in an explosive burst of mind-boggling proportion. The big-bang is, in essence, an explosion not an unfolding. We are living after our universe blew up and our life is often punctuated by explosive events of varying kinds.

When I hear that word unfolding, I think of neatly packed towels or linens. Words matter to me and I find myself struggling to accept a concept when there is observable, physical evidence to the contrary.  So I want to unpack the concept of life unfolding.

Life is not a neatly packed origami puzzle, but rather like a bomb.  We can be humming along and then our world is abruptly and fundamentally changed. A loved one can suddenly die without any provocation. Perhaps you lose your job, your health or your lover. These are not gentle flowing events. Our life can appear fluid but it is in fact binary. There is a great discontinuity that bookends our experience here on earth.  We are manifest (born) and then we are unmanifest (we die).

You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow – Jason Isbell, 24-Frames

Volatility is a measure of the changing nature of things.  Ultimately we need to learn how to accept the nature of things in whatever words or practices can help us.  Personally, I think that we are better served by embracing the unpredictable nature of life, including the explosions.  This recognition of life’s preciousness and finite experience may help us to enjoy it more until we can not.

Everything is blowing up perfectly

Beautiful things can and do emerge from the destructive process. Some of the most beautiful sunsets I have seen in my life immediately followed hurricanes that tore through Florida when I lived there. The key is to survive the storm.

Accept the unexpected. Roll with the changes and learn to live and love the volatility.

 

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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