Hi, I'm Max Osho-Well
May this be a source of inspiration, love, light, humor, healing, gratitude and all good things to you who visit here. May it give us all the clarity of awareness to embrace every new situation and challenge, and move forward with confidence and trust in ourselves as Spiritual Beings of Light - having a physical experience.
Presence is a gift that is always with us. Even to talk about presence - being present – will lead you away from being present. “I will be present” is a thought – about the future. The thought “I am present” is closer – but it is still a thought “about.” When you are fully present there is no thought “about.” Only “isness” exists.
A simple way to be present is to be with something or someone who is present. Since everything (except humans) is present, this is not that difficult. To maintain an awareness of yourself while being present with something outside yourself is the best.
Here are two methods to play with…
The first method is to become conscious of your breathing as you focus on something outside yourself. Something in nature is really good, like a flower, or even a garden. Be with the flower’s presence as you simultaneously maintain awareness of your breath. Don’t label the flower with any names, just be with it. If thoughts arise let them come and go just like the in and out breath. Don’t identify with your thinking. Enjoy.
The second method asks you to be in the center of your head. To find the center, place an index finger on each temple. Imagine a line going through your head, connecting them. Next shift your fingers so one is on your forehead just slightly above and between your eyebrows, with the other finger opposite at the back of your head. Imagine a line connecting them. Now where those two lines intersect, that is the center of your head.
Close your eyes and imagine that point. Imagine yourself as an aware being occupying that space and observing from there. Take 3 long slow deep breaths – watching from the center of your head. On the next breath, slowly breathe your eyes open, remaining the watcher from the center of your head. As you look out, look through your eyes as if they were simply windows to look through. Don’t label anything you see, simply look. Be with what is. Try it with a flower or the garden. With practice anything will do. Enjoy the presence.
When thoughts arise, don’t give them any credence. The mind will try to pull you out of presence. Just allow it to go on as if it’s a radio station in the background that you are not listening to.
With experience of presence, this background noise gradually lets go and disappears.
Be the Present.
-MaxWell
If
ocean waves could think like humans, would they think themselves separate from all
the other waves? Would they think themselves separate from the ocean? Would they
believe they are going their own way and in control of their lives? Would they
try to be the best wave they could be? Or perhaps try to be like the other
waves they see? Would
they feel small and humbled at the vastness, power and beauty of the ocean? Would
they fear the ocean, or perhaps worship it as a power - or even a god - outside
themselves? Would
they never realize it is who they are - until that moment when they merged back
into that from which they came? Could
be. I don’t know. What do you think? -MaxWell
Have you ever noticed that when you are happy, feeling good, the people around you are happier and things seem to go more smoothly?
You are invited to enjoy this short movie that I created a while back. Just click on this link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGPrlJfAcpE
The mind is always wanting, seeking, for some new thing from which it believes it will gain satisfaction and fulfillment. That’s how it keeps you tied to the future. Hoping, always hoping - but has it worked yet? If you achieve your desire, then mind loses all interest and presents the next future thing to hope for, again keeping you in future and out of present time. The only lasting satisfaction and fulfillment (happiness) I’ve found, is being here, present, feeling 100% appreciative for what is - and for what is not - no past, no future, just here and happy to be. - Max Osho-Well - Kauai photo by Max
Your body’s energy is run by electrical and magnetic
impulses. We know that electricity in our home must be grounded to handle surplus
energy, otherwise we will overload circuits and could burn it down. The same is
true for your body. If you are not grounded, you can cause damage to your
physical body.
How do you ground yourself? It’s really very simple, and as with all energy tools, it is done through the imagination.
Here is how to do it. Sit in a quiet space with your feet flat on the floor for a few minutes. Close your eyes and take 3 smooth, deep breaths. Now put your attention on the very tip of your tailbone. This is an energy center called the first chakra. Now imagine a point in the center of the earth (it’s not very far away). Next, with your imagination, connect these two points with a line. You could imagine a line of energy like a laser beam, or it could be a rope with an anchor attached, or anything that feels good to you. The idea is to connect the tip of your tailbone with the center of the earth in a way where you feel really connected and anchored. See if you can actually feel the energy of this.
After you get a little used to the idea, you can expand the diameter of this cord to about 8 inches.
The truth is you are already grounded with the earth, but you haven’t consciously used this faculty, and like an old pipe that isn’t used, it gets clogged and rusty. Now like running water through that old pipe, you are going to be running energy through your grounding cord, cleaning and clearing it out.
What are you going to run through your grounding cord? You
are going to allow any electrical and magnetic energy that is not
who you are be released down into the earth. All you have to do is activate
this cord. This is done by giving it the command to “activate” electrically and
magnetically. It will take care of the rest.
When we birthed onto this planet, we came in knowing who we were, and we were quite happy and capable of managing our energy, and left to our own would have lived into our purpose and talents easily and effortlessly. However, the big people around us had their own ideas about how we should live our lives, and planted their beliefs and opinions into our energy field, effectively moving us out. Then as we grew up we forgot what our own thoughts and feelings were. We ran, and still run other people’s truths through our circuitry, all the time thinking it our truth. The thoughts, beliefs, feelings, opinions of other’s energy stays attached to our energy field our whole life, unless we do something about it.
Thoughts are electrical, emotions are magnetic. When you activate your grounding cord, you are telling it to remove and dissolve all thoughts and emotions that are not yours, to get them out of your energy field. As this happens you begin to become aware of your own thoughts and feelings, unencumbered by others.
Here is a simple way to start this process. Once you’ve established your grounding cord, sitting quietly with eyes closed, slowly scan your body from head to toes, noticing any places of tension or discomfort. As you notice these places, imagine them dissolving and flowing down your grounding cord into the earth.
When you have completed that, imagine a bright golden sun over your head, about 18 inches above you. Make it about the size of a beach ball, 20 inches in diameter. This sun is connected and filled with the energy of the divine. Imagine this sun slowly descending through the top of your head, behind your eyes, face, throat, chest, (slowly) abdomen, pelvis, legs and out your feet. As it passes through you it will fill all the spaces where you have removed unwanted energies with Divine Light.
I suggest you imagine your grounding cord every day, being there, doing it’s job. You will find many benefits to this. It is a great thing to do while driving your car. If you are a meditator, always ground yourself when meditating. Bring the Light into your body right here on this planet, rather than leaving your body as many eastern traditions teach. This is how we will create Heaven on Earth.
Yours in the Light, Max Osho-Well
Learning to create a space of protection around your energy field, also called the aura, or etheric body, is a wonderful thing to do. Your aura radiates out about 18 inches to 2 feet all around you, in front, behind, to the sides, above and below your physical body. The aura is an information bank containing all there is to know about you, even from past lives. It is amorphous and when unprotected it is easily permeated by the thoughts and emotions of others. With a little care, you can protect your space, your personal energy field, from being bombarded with energies that are not yours.
Begin by holding your arm straight out in front of you, bending your wrist until the palm of your hand is facing you. Your hand is now at the perimeter of your aura – assuming you’re a healthy and relatively happy being. Let your body turn in place, in a circle, holding your hand out in this way and you will easily see and define the space that belongs to your personal energy field. Everything within that circle you just drew around your self is mostly you. There may be some energies in that space that aren’t 100% you, that have been placed there by others, and that is dealt with in my article on grounding. For now let’s assume it’s mostly you contained within your energy field, and that you’d like to prevent other energies that aren’t yours from entering therein.
Enter the Protection Rose. Put your hand out in front of you again at arms length, and imagine you are holding a rose in your hand. The rose can be any color, and it’s about 12 inches in length including the stem. Imagine that rose just being there in your hand. Now close your eyes and continue to imagine it being there. Now let your arm down, and allow the image of the rose to remain. Again, open your eyes, imagine the rose is still there in front of you. If you are not good at visualizing or imagining, just set an intention for the rose to be there, and feel the energy of it being there.
Again open your eyes, and look at whatever you see beyond the rose, keeping the rose in place. Everything you are seeing beyond the rose is not you. Everything from the rose in -to the center of your heart is you.
Next imagine a rose out at arms length to your left side, keeping the one in front of you where it is. And then another to your right side, and then one more behind you at the same distance. Now imagine it is all really the same rose, and it is circling around you at a very high rate of speed, like an electron moves around an atom. It is going so fast you don’t even see it’s motion, you just see the individual roses at the 4 points where they were created. Feel the feeling of being contained within this energy circle. Everything inside this circle of energy is your space, everything outside of it is the dream, the movie, the theater of the absurd. Begin to notice how good it feels to have your own space defined.
The next thing to learn is how to allow it to be flexible when others come close enough
to you to penetrate your space. If your aura is out 2 feet from your body, and someone else’s aura is around their body about the same distance, at 4 feet your auras are just beginning to touch. If they take one more step towards you, their energy field will have penetrated yours, unless you bring in your energy field closer to you. The best way to do this is to imagine your protection rose, moving toward you until it is halfway between you and the other person. Now your energy field is still contained, it’s just closer to you. No matter how close to you that person moves, you can always place your protection rose at a distance of halfway between you and them, thereby keeping your space protected. As they move away from you, allow your rose to move back out to the edge of your auric field, but no further. All of this gives you the choice, the option of allowing someone else’s energy into your space, or not. Without the rose, anyone can penetrate your space and there’s not much you can do about it.
This process is fun to do, and to make it real takes some practice. It is good to practice with it when it isn’t seriously needed. That way you make it more real, and when the time comes your really need it, it will be there in form and consciousness for you to use.
Practice it wherever you go where there are people. Try going to the supermarket, activate your rose at the door, and go inside and just walk around. Save your shopping until later. Practice passing people with your protection rose up, drawing it in when you get too close. Notice how people are around you when you have your rose up...are they smiling more, moving out of your way? Try some casual conversation with the checker: “Hi, how are you today?” “Busy today?” Notice how different life is when you use a protection rose. Most of all, have fun with it and be happy. Nothing is more important than feeling good.
-MaxWell
