Down to Earth

Take the Earth message in deep, and make the changes, don't just sing the song. There is less in the way than you think - in fact, that might be all that's in your way. 'What you think', or your thinking, in other words, holds you back more easily than anything outside of you that is in the way.

How to overcome THAT? Look at facts, not your thoughts about the facts. Facts, actions, and thoughts - define them, become aware of the meaning of each of those words. Facts are. Actions do. Thoughts come and go, change, and dissolve. Now run every idea through that filter and be aware of which is influencing you.

That prepackaged, pop it in the microwave meal hasn't seen Earth in a long while. It will not meet the needs of your cells. Eating is a function of the body to meet the needs of the cells. These are facts. Are the facts different when you are in a hurry? When you don't know what you are eating? When you don't know why you are eating? The facts are the same, the results of your actions (eating) will change according to the facts and your actions, not as a result of what you think about them. Your thoughts, or feelings if you can't tell the difference (and there is a huge difference), will guide your choices, and you choose your actions. So, what you think (or know or feel) influences your choices, and you choose your actions (or inaction) which impact the facts.

Results (A.K.A. consequences) make new facts. So when the fact is that your body is not working, what needs to change? The facts? Or your thoughts about the facts, which will give you the power to take actions that will effect the facts. Facts just are - the road gets wet when it rains. There are ways to keep the road dry, but then you will be taking action that will effect other facts - so now the road isn't getting wet, but the roof you built is, and the ground by the roof is getting more wet than it used to, and the water collects and runs where it didn't have to run before, and on and on. Why? Was the initial problem with the road being wet worth all the actions it took to keep the rain off? Sometimes we get so far removed from the facts that we can't even figure out why or how we got so far away in the first place.

Learn and practice good living. Eat what you know your body needs. Get familiar with your emotions and use them for their purpose (they are made to influence your actions, not to dictate them). Learn about nature, study it and practice working with it, not against it. Acknowledge your role in the overall scheme of things - and believe that every action you take affects the entire scheme (we are, after all, part of one planet, one collective). Good living results in resilience, happiness, health, progress, power, growth, and all manner of good things in their natural proportion and order. Don't worry about the results - just know they will come AFTER you practice good living. And don't worry about the past - those aren't facts but memories and no amount of energy now will change them. Get your crap together - start by knowing deeply the difference between facts, actions, and thoughts - just like milk in the refrigerator and cereal in the cupboard. The other way around just doesn't work very WELL. You can do it, but it doesn't work WELL.

The title is Down to Earth, but it may have been coming out of me to fast and furious for that. This one is the basis for more work, more pieces when tuned up. Thanks for reading.