Julian Kaufmann

EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO LIVE AND LOVE, FULLY

Time For Giving Thanks

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We have 24-hours available to us in a day. Of course, we need to get adequate rest, so assuming 8-hours of sleep, that leaves us a full 16-hours available to us to live our day.

Whatever the remaining time you have in a day, how much of that time is devoted to expressing gratitude?

How many times do you say thank you and acknowledge all the blessings you have received?

I confess I had not made a conscious effort to make gratitude a part of my day until about 3-years ago. Now I use an app called the 5-Minute Journal which as its name implies only takes about a few minutes to record 3 or more things to be grateful for in your day.

Expressing gratitude has been shown to have many benefits, from helping people be more prosperous to being more resilient to disease and other challenges.  If you are interested in additional information, the New York Times has an excellent article from a few years back detailing the many benefits of practicing gratitude.

Five minutes is about %0.5 of 16-hours.

Imagine how we might feel if we practiced gratitude for more of our day.

To help further cultivate an attitude of gratitude I have created a 10-Day, Thankfulness Tune-Up challenge. During this Tune-Up we will focus on a particular aspect of life to focus our gratitude on. We will also have a Facebook group to share our experience.

Please sign-up here  to receive the emails as well as information about the Facebook Group.

Thank you!

 

Maybe It's All Good

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I See You!

Hey, I just met you,
And this is crazy,
But here’s my number,
So call me, maybe!
Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe

Maybe Carly Rae’s song has nothing to do with this post. Maybe?

There is a classic Zen story about an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, the farmer’s neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically about his horse running away.

“Maybe,” the farmer replied.

The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. “How wonderful,” the neighbors exclaimed now that the farmer had more horses.

“Maybe,” replied the old man.

The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune.

“Maybe,” answered the farmer.

The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son’s leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out.

“Maybe,” said the farmer.

Man is born, man lives, and man dies
And it’s all vanity.
And that’s about the way it is in the merry-go-round
Cake – Thrills

Polarizing change lies at the heart of life. The sun rises and then it sets. Light gives way to night. Sometimes life’s unfolding can be violent and chaotic.

Many times events occur to us that are beyond our control. Often we ascribe judgments to events which can leave us either prideful when things go well or in despair when things go bad.

But we can find calm in the storm by adopting a higher perspective. We can be in the stillness, practicing equanimity like the farmer in the Zen story.

We can go with the flow of life and allow it.

What other choice do we have? After all, we are the awareness that watches all of this unfold.

Maybe, just maybe we can love it.

Namaste

p.s. Please share this with anyone you think may benefit from a slight change in perception and perspective.

p.p.s.: If you would like some practice on how to appreciate more of what is, please sign up for my FREE  10-Day Tune-Up on thankfulness and gratitude.

 

 

 

 

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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