Age is mostly in the mind

This morning, I realized that I felt “pretty good.” I believe that many of us had this same feeling. I have yet one more birthday approaching. This reminds me that time is relentless — it marches on: the body continues to age. But where is the pain and suffering that I anticipated at my age when I was 18 years old? It has not yet appeared. It would be false to claim that the 69-year-old body mirrors that of a 23-year-old one: it doesn’t. However, the frustrations and anxieties associated with physical age are no longer with me.

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Podcast Episode 110: It is your birthright to be “free as a bird.” But this liberty is something I can only give myself in an increasingly totalitarian and draconian world. The bureaucracy wants to control and regulate all of us.

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Getting it right

It is hard to get it right, isn’t it? This is especially true when it comes to the functioning of human relations. I am often frustrated, late, afraid, anxious — the list goes on and on. Recently, I was reminded that “the meek shall inherit the earth.” (1) I fail at this, too. I can easily become overwhelmed with anger and frustration. So what am I to do to improve my failings in life? The prescription: sometimes, to rebuild your emotional health, you must simply take a break, suspend all judgments — enjoy a day wherein “you do not pass sentence” on yourself or others. You don’t forgive or evaluate anything — a state of neutrality. You have an “existential pause.” (2).

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We are all superstars: what is holding us back?

Most parents are exceptionally good at telling their children how special they are — how very unique! Then comes the “kicker”: “You can be anything you want to be.” This lasts until we are around 16 years old and then, suddenly, we realize this is a total fabrication: a lie. We can’t be anything we want to be, or do anything we want to do, because … and you fill in the dots. We have been given a false view of what life is, and the constraints placed on that life.

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To be free, spiritually, emotionally and financially is your birthright.