TEMPLATING

When the Small Decisions Get in the Way

When I tell someone the hardest part of my day is deciding what to wear, I am only half kidding. I have discovered recently that the dozens of small decisions I make everyday are getting more difficult while the big decisions are getting easier.

What to wear. What coffee to order. What music to play. What form of exercise. What kind of yoga. What mantra. What to order at dinner. What style of eating, from raw to non-vegan. What book to read at night. What news to watch. What news to not watch. What phone calls to return. And on and on.

With each of these minor decisions, I can Yelp, Google, find an app, create an app or instantly access multiple tiers of information and choices. I can actually never make a choice and just keep researching.

I seriously started thinking that my brain was going through something that I needed to be concerned about. Then I realized, maybe we have too many options and too much info at all times, and all at an ever-increasing rate of delivery. TONS OF INFO AND CHOICES.

But why is it more intense than ever? It’s because it is now all INSTANTLY AVAILABLE. This gives a whole new urgency to things. I feel like I must respond to texts just because it is a recent and urgent piece of information. Sadly, I may give as much importance to a realtor wanting to know if I own an extension cord as to my mother who needs an account number to settle my father’s will.

In an article in Newsweek magazine called “Brain Freeze,” March 7, 2011, Sharon Begley speaks to this phenomenon and calls it info-paralysis. Scientifically, the brain shuts down with too much overload. We already knew this, but now it is proven that the pre-frontal cortex stops working with too many choices, especially at a rapid and urgent rate.

Texting is a good example of instant response. If our brain thinks it is immediate, it must be more important; another example of reduced decision making from too much overload.

Dr. Joe Marshall, author of “Repeatlessness” submits that this is what 2012 is all about: the dissolving of the pre-frontal cortex, which also controls our sense of time, thus the fulfillment of the “end of time.”

What will decision making be like without the pre-frontal cortex? I really don’t know, but in the mean time, I am TEMPLATING.

What is Templating? It is the creation of sets of pre-made decisions, according to what is happening in your life. For example, right now, I am in the process of healing from a wound and needing to rest and reboot in all areas of my life. What I want to increase is vitality, meditation and a keen sense of where I am going in the big picture.

So what does my template look like?

HIGH VIBE TEMPLATE

Mantra: Meditator, Athlete, Positive Thinker

Mental Activity: Dreaming Big

Music: Classical

Visualizations: Beauty in all things

Diet: Bright color fruits and vegetables plus protein

Clothes: Comfort and yoga clothes

People: The ones who plus others. Caretakers. Smilers.

Drink: Fresh juice and one Americano coffee with steamed soy per day.

Modus Operandi for dealing with cell phone: Call Harvesting. I turn the phone off (yes off). I turn it on at 10am, 2pm and 8pm to “harvest” calls, listen to messages and respond accordingly. Difficult to do at first, but the rewards are tremendous. I can’t always get away with it, but during “High Vibe Template” it is important.

BAM. Many of the constant, urgent, small decisions I make all day long are eliminated, freeing up my mental real estate so I can own it. Fact: At some point, the brain needs to be cut-off from new info to be creative.

I have several other Templates I am test-driving such as:

On the Road

In Training

Crunch Time

Probably the only constant on every list will be the Americano with steamed soy.

Let's Love 3.0 Style

Is there a new version of love floating around? How else can I explain the new facets being reflected all around me like a crystal whose blinding radiance has been super juiced? Omniconditional love must be here. It is the espresso version: more potent, stronger, full-flavored and explosive. Border-crossing and mind-bendingly inclusive.

Are there new states of consciousness as well? Is serendipity no longer an AHA moment but a continual state of living and being?

Is there new sight? Am I seeing the embodiment of those around me?

Are there new senses? Is there a new captivating/melting/merging into beauty and harmonic community? Is there a new flavor of breath-taking gratitude?

Thank you Universe for the free upgrade.

Thank You, Sharon Stone

Thank you, Sharon Stone, for your amazing role in The Muse. It seemed like such a fantasy at the time, but it is kind of my life now. Love you for that.

Magical Mystery Tour

Feeling very blessed these days to be a part of The High Frequency Tour with Dr. Joe Marshalla. I talk about walking through open doors as a guidance system and I have actually been practicing it. By that, I mean recognizing what doors are opening to you and seeing them as portals to something or somewhere you are meant to be going. Not just noticing them, but walking through them.

I can think of so many times in my life when I have tried to force open doors that were too heavy or sealed shut or locked. In relationships that were not meant to be, (but still hoping), in business dealings or in anything where I found myself grasping.

Once I committed to the open door only policy, I now see how my psychology used to lead me to expect the struggle. But for now, I am relaxing into the great flow, allowing and enjoying the ride. The universe will open the right doors if we just pause before we grab the handle to yank it open and allow them to be open for us. So simple!

Check out The High Frequency Tour on Facebook. The doors are wide open!

But Am I Living It?

As I watch my mind and my experience do all the human things, from the lowest to the highest, I wonder: When am I not living my sacredness? The only answer I have is: Never. It's impossible to not be the sacred beings we are. The truth is, I am just having the human experience in all of its flavors from the sublime to the low. And THIS AWARENESS is how I love myself.

Taking Out the Trash

After the full moon of July 26th, everything seems to have imploded. The word from “on high” was that some star gates opened up, taking us all to a new level of.....well, for me, intolerance. I noticed that everything that needed to come up and be cleared presented itself. Healing old and deep wounds with partners, being shown what was not in my highest interest and the feeling that I needed to wipe the slate clean were all loudly present. General mayhem ensued. Every relationship seem to need an upgrade, starting with myself. The difficulty was not in taking responsibility for my part but for clearly communicating that which was exposed, feeling the hurt in myself and others and then allowing for a new way. There were sensitive and potent mixtures that needed to be brewed with the right amounts of action, honesty and fearless heart communication. There is beauty in breakdown.

Today is the solar eclipse and the new moon. So equally intense to the disrupting and shattering full moon is the magically powered new beginning that this space has created. I even cleaned out my car, my purse and my room. Hello new world! I am deeming bright, shiny newness to all aspects of this existence. Let the reorganized and upgraded begin along with all of the joyous surprises awaiting, beyond our wildest imaginations. My mantra:

Let it be a surprise!

Bright and shiny love to all

The Universal DJ

The romance with this process started a few days ago. I blocked out the world and completely plugged into music. I hit "shuffle" on my iTunes so that the Universal DJ could do its thing and play songs that matched the vibration I was in - profound love, bliss, private revolution and sacred soulfulness. With this soundtrack of songs like "War" by Lennon or "Early in the Morning" by Doyle Bramhall II, I was no longer an appreciator of deeply connected music, I was an extension, an amplification of this holy vibration.
The playlist kept getting better as the day went on, taking me deeper and deeper. Wrapped up or encoded in this music is every human emotion, every heart-quaking desire, every bone-splitting pain, every love-tendered salve; in other words, the full human experience.
Music is at the heart of inspiration. If I were to say that it is everything I would not be far from the truth. It is the cosmic language. Everything is just vibration and music is vibration. It moves us and never fails to inspire us. Vibration is the future of all healing and all science. Sometimes when I am deep in the flow, I cannot even listen to music. It touches me too deeply and I just cry.
There is new music to be made to keep us all matched up together in this vintage sensuous dimension known as Planet Earth and the full-on human journey.