'NYC Fit Living'

  Consider something extraordinary, old friend.  What if the greatest spiritual journey isn't becoming something more but remembering who you already are?   To discover yourself. Two beautiful paths lead back to Being. The Direct Path . . . Simply Being. No chanting. No techniques. No striving. Just Being . . . Being Present. Just Being . . . Being Still. Just Being . . . Being Aware. Simply returning to  Being… without trying to become anything more. And then there is the Indirect Path . . . the Journey Back to Being. We chant. We hum. We meditate. We practice self-remembering and self-inquiry. We explore yoga, qigong, and pranayama. A thousand and one practices . . . all pointing toward the same discovery. The Being we seek to become is already the Being we are. But somewhere along life's journey, we became so entangled in personality, conditioning, thoughts, and the endless drama of  me  that we forgot the silent Presence beneath it all. And so we practi...

Consider something extraordinary, old friend. What if the greatest illusion of human existence is believing that there has ever been a separate me and  Thee? What if the billions of people walking on this Earth are not separate fragments of existence but countless expressions of the One? The One wearing a thousand masks. Playing a thousand roles. Looking through a thousand eyes. And each little me , so absorbed in its own story, has forgotten the mysterious Presence behind the mask. Look at the world around you. We spend our lives constructing identities. Our names, occupations, beliefs, possessions, achievements, and personal histories become the story of who we think we are. We polish our image, defend our opinions, compare ourselves with others, and struggle to become somebody. And somewhere along the way, something remarkable happens. We become so identified with the character we are playing that we forget there is something deeper than the character. The mask has mistaken itse...

Reflect on this, old friend: what if you've been living your life without  really being there? Consider something rather extraordinary. What if you’ve spent much of your life doing one thing with your body while your mind is somewhere else entirely? Walking, eating, working, speaking, and performing a thousand ordinary activities, yet rarely being fully present for any of them. And what if the greatest hypnotist you will ever encounter is not someone standing before you with a swinging pendulum, but the very mind you have mistaken for yourself? Welcome to the greatest entertainment center . . . the human mind. A broadcasting station that never closes. A theater endlessly projecting yesterday's memories, tomorrow's possibilities, imaginary conversations, unfinished arguments, hopes, fears, and rehearsals of events that may never happen. And here is the remarkable part. You have become so absorbed in the entertainment that you have forgotten you are the one watching the show....

Imagine your mind as a gearbox with three positions. First Gear—The Negative Mind. Thoughts of fear, worry, doubt, and limitation. Neutral Gear—The Still Mind. No mental struggle. No positive or negative thinking. Simple stillness. Second Gear—The Positive Mind. Thoughts of confidence, possibility, gratitude, and optimism. Now notice something interesting. We spend much of our lives shifting between first and second gear. From negative thinking to positive thinking. From fear to hope. From doubt to confidence. And then, before we know it, back again. Yet in all this endless shifting, we overlook something extraordinary: the neutral gear of stillness that lies between them.   And perhaps that is where the real discovery begins. The Exercise—Resting in Neutral 1. Become Still. Close your eyes or keep them open. Relax your body. Take one slow, deep breath. 2. Notice the Gear You’re In. Observe your thoughts without judging them. Are they negative or positive? It doesn’t ...

Consider something extraordinary. What if one of life's greatest mysteries has been quietly unfolding through three remarkable wombs of creation? The womb of the Earth. The womb of the Mother. And the mysterious womb of Possibility itself. Three seemingly different worlds . . . yet each whispers something about the same ancient mystery. How does something hidden become something seen? How does a tiny beginning unfold into a magnificent expression of life? And what might these mysteries teach us about the creative power of intention, imagination, and conscious living? Perhaps nature has been offering us a lesson all along . . . and we have been too busy searching elsewhere to notice. The First Womb—Mother Earth Where the Seed Awakens in Darkness Consider the farmer. He holds a tiny seed in the palm of his hand. Within that seemingly insignificant seed lies the possibility of something magnificent . . . a towering tree with spreading branches, blossoms, and perhaps thousands of seed...