Sunday, January 15, 2023

DESIGNING YOUR LIFE - A Refection on Perception


According to Wikipedia, “Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction. Design has different connotations in 

Whether we know it or not, Design plays an intricate part in all of our lives.


For as long as I can remember, my passion has been to design my life so as to be as happy and stress free as humanly possible. Perhaps my Aquarian soul was part of the trigger that ignited this passion.


Each and everyone of us has the innate power to direct or redirect our lives. In my early twenties I studied occult sciences under a man by the name of Swami Kriyananda. I believe it was he who finally helped me understand how science and technology interface with spiritualism and common sense. Whether it is Feng Shui, Wabi Sabi, Astrology, Psychology, or Numerology. Life is a collection of past and present experiences molded into a thing which becomes the future. Therefore, you could say that we indeed design our lives, and in fact orchestrate our lives.


We all have the need to experience beauty and joy in our lives. To be happy equates to being successful in our daily routine, and to do that it is necessary for us to know our strengths and weaknesses. Once we learn who we are we can then determine where we want to go. Design is the tool that allows us to build our inner world and to use it to keep us safe and strong.


“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose”. (Charles Earnes). 


While Design is the plan creativity is the motivator. Creativity is all around us – in the homes we live in, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear, and the food we eat. Therefore, it is important to be aware of all that is around us, especially those things that touch us individually.


I once wrote that “our lives are a mosaic, a tapestry if you will, woven from our daily experiences and rendered by our will to remember them”. It is what makes us who we are.


However there are times I feel that I am walking on yesterday’s debris. The soil and ruble of past years and memories are mixed into a jumble or forgotten remembrances’ that revived only by their distillation in the mists of time itself.


It can sometimes be easy to give way to depression and to embrace defeat, but that is not what I am made of. I have always been an optimist and will continue to be so until the end. What are we if not a compilation of our hopes and dreams? When we reach out to the universal continuum do we not feel its power and lay bare in its healing energy?


Not so many years ago I ventured from my life in a small Midwestern Town and arrived in the Metropolis called Chicago. At the time, so eager to experience the stimulation that comes with a world class Utopia, I found myself enveloped in a cloud of electric euphoria. That euphoria has carried me many places both magical and benign.


As the years advanced I found myself to be somewhat of an anomaly, a creature of the air both elevated and grounded by my mathematical mind. When air meets a mass of conclusions, it tends to elevate in order to be free again.


So there you have it, common sense, confliction, and euphoric energy am I.


Someone asked me just the other day how I can stay so calm and collected in a world  of constant change and dereliction. My answer? I’m not and I don’t.


To be truly content and comfortable with yourself you must, on occasion, leave the chaos and turmoil in order to reset your soul. I am talking solo here, no distraction, no interaction, just peace and oneness with the universe. Healing happens when you begin to feel that soft but strong energy that lifts you up to the place and space you call your own.

 

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