Happy New Year

Happy New Moment Everyone.

I was just about to say, “Have a Happy New Year!” when I realized that though this is customary it goes against what I am trying to accomplish and that is being fully in the moment. So I sit here typing on the verge of the New Year and yet I am present, both in breathe and consciousness. I still have hopes and dreams and goals, but they can change at any moment so they are not to be worried over. What has happen over this last year has been difficult, but I have learned more because of the difficulties and my willingness to see what opportunity it brings. In this moment of the morning I chant AHHHHHHH, AHHHH it feels so good to just be here, AHHHHHHHH. In the evening I say, “Ommmm/Ohhhhhh” what a beautiful day this has been. Oh how I appreciate every little thing that has made this the day that it was. Walking in the sand the other day, close to the small breaks upon the shore, I saw the footprints I had made. I realized it was not these footprints that made me move forward but me willing myself forward. I had no reason to think the footprints were pushing me forward. Thus, why would I think my past is what pushing and guides me forward? It is only a passing memory that will vanish with the tide leaving no trace of what has passed. I am in this moment and only exist in this moment, nothing more and nothing less. It is how I interpret the past and how I plan the future that is relative on who I am and what I bring to the table from my continuous moments. When I meditate, pray, or chant, I am here and even when I drift I allow myself to return to my focus and the truth becomes clearer to me. I have been practicing this for some time now, but it is something I am still working on and will continue to work on.. I am a wonderful work in progress, and I am OK with that. I am Happy, at Peace, and with God and I wish Everyone a Happy New Moment throughout the rest of this year and beyond.

E laka E
E laka I ka Leo
E laka I ka Loa’a
E laka I ka Wai Wai
Me ka Mahalo Ihi

Happy New Year

Happy New Moment Everyone.

I was just about to say, “Have a Happy New Year!” when I realized that though this is customary it goes against what I am trying to accomplish and that is being fully in the moment. So I sit here typing on the verge of the New Year and yet I am present, both in breathe and consciousness. I still have hopes and dreams and goals, but they can change at any moment so they are not to be worried over. What has happen over this last year has been difficult, but I have learned more because of the difficulties and my willingness to see what opportunity it brings. In this moment of the morning I chant AHHHHHHH, AHHHH it feels so good to just be here, AHHHHHHHH. In the evening I say, “Ommmm/Ohhhhhh” what a beautiful day this has been. Oh how I appreciate every little thing that has made this the day that it was. Walking in the sand the other day, close to the small breaks upon the shore, I saw the footprints I had made. I realized it was not these footprints that made me move forward but me willing myself forward. I had no reason to think the footprints were pushing me forward. Thus, why would I think my past is what pushing and guides me forward? It is only a passing memory that will vanish with the tide leaving no trace of what has passed. I am in this moment and only exist in this moment, nothing more and nothing less. It is how I interpret the past and how I plan the future that is relative on who I am and what I bring to the table from my continuous moments. When I meditate, pray, or chant, I am here and even when I drift I allow myself to return to my focus and the truth becomes clearer to me. I have been practicing this for some time now, but it is something I am still working on and will continue to work on.. I am a wonderful work in progress, and I am OK with that. I am Happy, at Peace, and with God and I wish Everyone a Happy New Moment throughout the rest of this year and beyond.

E laka E
E laka I ka Leo
E laka I ka Loa’a
E laka I ka Wai Wai
Me ka Mahalo Ihi

Correcting Your Course

Recently a friend said, "Tomorrow will be the first day of the rest of my life." It brought to mind how many times I've said the same exact thing. I also know that many other people I have met have said this as well. Recently I saw a little video on how studies have been done throughout the years on our inability to walk a straight line when blindfolded. What kept happening, study after study, test after test, was that when blindfolded or walking in fog etc. people would start to curve right and would end up walking in circles and they would end up in the same place they started. Hummmmm. I know I've done the same thing with my eyes open. Making mistakes, poor choices, dating the same person in a different body, continuing to repeat these situations because I didn't correct my course. It was only when I fessed up to my role in good and bad situations that things changed. I'm not talking about BLAME, that doesn't do either party any good, and only adds drama and victim hood to our lives. What I am saying is to just ask ourselves which part of this I am responsible for or that I have the power to correct. When we take this action then we give up our position that someone else is responsible for all our problems or that we are just victims of the time. Now let me clarify something, many times I've heard the metaphysical hogwash that everything in our lives we asked for or happened because of our Karma, but this is where I personally disagree. Sometimes, as the bumper stickers says, "SH%@ Happens!" That's right the child born with a rare disease didn't choose that. The accidental death in a crosswalk. Being robbed or murdered. Sometimes we just end up in the wrong place at the wrong time and we get caught in someone else s life struggles. We can't control that, except to stay alert and don't walk down dark alleys with four guys standing on the sides with bats. But what we can control is how we think and how we see the world, and how we treat ourselves and others. What we can do is to make every moment a special one and to correct course every now and then so we don't keep walking in circles.
Life is wonderful, and sometimes life is difficult, this is the way it is and it is also the way we learn. As others have said, if we don't experience some bad things how will we enjoy the good. And when we do learn a wonderful life lesson or survive some devastating tragedy, some of us are able to take what we have learned and help others. We also know when to step back and let someone learn on their own which is equally as important. (Don't forget this.) So today, I repeat what my friend said, "Tomorrow will be the first day of the rest of my life!" and I will add to that, "Today is the beginning of something Wonderful!" Now have a great day and don't forget to OPEN YOUR EYES and correct your course from time to time and remember the most important thing, that it is the journey and not the destination that is life. Now Breathe, relax, and love this life with all your might.

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Thanks for Everything.

It is the day after Thanksgiving. The food in my stomach is finally starting to settle. The day was filled with family and good times. I am so thankful for all that exists in my life. Now I could create a list of positive, wonderful, experiences, but that just wouldn't be enough. You see I'm thankful for EVERYTHING in my life, YES EVERYTHING, even that stuff. That list of bad things, that list of mean people, that list of terrible, awful, unreal things, that happens to all of us when we least expect it. Ok, do I have your attention? Are you saying, "What the Hell did he just say?" But it is true. all throughout my life I have fought the bad stuff off. screaming, "Why me! I don't deserve this Sh@*! Is this my Karma for something mean I did years ago?" But being 50 years old has its privileges. The world becomes, a little more understandable in all of it many facets. Instead of saying, "Why", I say, "OK". Don't get me wrong, I still get peeved when the bad stuff happens, but it is just that now I realize there just might be a lesson for me to learn here and perhaps God is setting up something that hasn't been shown to me yet. Throughout my life months or years later, I see the reason for the stuff that has happen, and all the complaining, fighting, cursing, and why me ended up being a waste of time and energy. These terrible periods had a reason and now I am a better person because of them, and I have learned so much from all these different situations. I lost my job recently, during a period of bad sales, and a constant string of DRAMA and difficult times. But after the normal frustrated reactions, I quickly realize something wonderful is going to follow this. I know there is a reason for this to happen to me. So instead of blaming someone else, or retelling my terrible victim hood a thousand times, until even I am even sick of hearing it, I simple accept it and start looking for the reason and the new doors opening up for me with new challenges, and new lessons, and new wonders to behold. Sure sometimes more problems unfold before the good ones, but the good ones eventually come, if I don't give up and I keep the faith.
So, Thank you for EVERYTHING. Thank you Universe, for the manure for my garden. Thank you for the storm, that cleaned the sky of all the pollutants. Thank you for the persecutor who aided in ending my relationship that I couldn't leave on my own. Thank you for helping me get fired, so I have time to start a new career, and take my parents to Las Vegas so that I could help my step-father get around. Thank you for the time to let me help my sister study for her college classes and teach her how to be a better student and study wiser. Thank you for the help she gave me financially for helping her and the stronger connection we have formed because of it all. Thank you for the time to breath and think and grow. Thank you for EVERYTHING even that Sh#%, my garden needed it and it is beautiful and the cat-tallies are in bloom.

Richard Nedervelt
11/26/2010

A New Step In a New Moment

It is the day before Thanksgiving. I decided to take a new step in my life. I have worn many hats in my lifetime, often times for others even though I thought it was for myself at the time. In the end, or the present moment, I realize that for whatever reason or psychobabble I use, my experiences have made me who I am today. Even at this moment things could be better or they could be worse, so I choose to make the best of it and to keep a positive attitude. It isn't easy, don't get me wrong. It is just that I am consciously trying to find sugar to add to the lemonade that I made with my lemons that life served me. I might even want to add some cherry syrup to it all, but I can't if I refuse to be thankful for what I have and who I am. If I can't then I am only fooling myself to the illusion I create to complain about. Though I have had a tough life, many others have had it worse and what these people have gone through makes Hell look like summer-camp. They are survivors and teachers, they hurt yet they help themselves by sharing and helping others, they find the sugar as well as the syrup and make one heck of a lemonade for us all to enjoy. So today, before I find some pity pot to take a squat on, which I won't, I will take a step in this moment, knowing everything ends and begins with this action. So relax, acknowledge your life, breathe deep, pray, and meditate. This is the best step ever, of course, until I take the next. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, May God Bless us, be with us, and laugh with us for being such funny little creatures.

Richard Nedervelt
11/24/2010