The Bliss of Being

Stress seems to be caused by worrying about things that already happened or things that haven’t happened yet. Here are some great tricks to stay present and reduce your stress.

If you are stressed out about the past realize you did all you could do at the time, what is, is. Give as much weight to “What if’s” as you would a bed time story, because that’s all they are. What happened is what happened, leave it there.

If you are stressed about the future realize that it will happen when it happens there is nothing you can do about it now. When it happens it will happen, but now you are here, now.

Relax. Breathe. Take a moment and be in this present moment. You did your best, you will do your best, always. Relax in that. Treat yourself well.

I stumbled upon this website today:

http://www.spiri2al.com/ – Sharing Spiritual Knowledge.

Its like Digg for “Spirutal” posts. Good idea. I’ll be visiting.

Zen Habits has a great post on finding your passion.

Here is the quick breakdown:

1. What are you good at?
2. What excites you?
3. What do you read about?
4. What have you secretly dreamed of?
5. Learn, ask, take notes.
6. Experiment, try.
7. Narrow things down.
8. Banish your fears.
9. Find the time.
10. How to make a living doing it.

Read the post here:
http://zenhabits.net/2009/11/the-short-but-powerful-guide-to-finding-your-passion/

To make the Dvorak keyboard layout even faster, and to take a que from the Colemak layout, I have created a modified Dvorak keyboard layout.

‘I’ is used far more than ‘U’ so it makes since for me to have I be where U currently is on the Dvorak layout, i.e. right under the left forfinger on the home row.

It took me about a week and a half of using this new layout until I was up to my old speed on the official Dvorak layout. I really like this layout, I move my fingers even less now and type at the same speed!

If you are interested here are the layout files for Mac and PC:

For Mac:

Place this in /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ and then select it in Settings -> International.

Dvorak-ItoU Mac

For PC

Download this file Dvorak-ItoU PC
and open the .exe, it couldn’t be easier.

Props to Code Axe for the inspiration and the tutorial on how to get the custom keyboard working on a PC.

Enjoy!

We need nothing.
We are not here to learn, we are here to enjoy.
We are therefore we have won!

Excerpt from an email I worte tonight:

…there is more to this world than these material things, there is more to life than a “job,” you know? This culture we live in seems to put a lot of emphasis on what we -do- and not how we -are- how we -be-. We are more than what we do, what we do doesn’t define us, we are, we ARE human BEings, not human DOings. We are, we BE, and thats it, from that state of being comes what we do. We are not what we do, we are sooo much more. You know? And thats life…

It always works out, life is whatever we want it to be, we can be upset about whatever we want to be upset about, we can be happy about whatever we want to be happy about, its all up to us to define our reality how we want it. And -that- is life, its up to us, how we define our reality is up to us, we don’t have to buy into any old belief systems if we don’t want to. Its up to us. Our life experience gives us our contrast to create the reality we want in the future. Its rather beautiful, this life we live.

So lets live it to the max, think about the most amazing, beautiful, outrageous experience you want to be, then go, and BE that, why not? The world, the universe is truly in our hands, its our playground, and there is noting to be scared of, ever. We are eternal, one, being, constantly being, anew.

So, yea, life is fun. Lets live it to the max.

Your love, is my love.

Being doesn’t require definition. Just be. From that doing will happen. Notice your own Beingness first, notice others beingness first, doingness is secondary, and doesn’t really matter, really. From being all radiates out. Why not go to source first? Go to the root to understand.

I have been using twitter pretty extensively lately… to the extent that I have mostly stopped posting here. This is probably because its so easy for me to post to twitter from my iPhone.

Anyways, from now on this blog will automatically update from my twitter feed, so follow me there or if you don’t have an account just keep following me here. In any case, expect many more updates.

Long story short Anthony W. has put my blog on his little pixle home page here. And Jim Peters put healingbeats.com on the front page of his SBaGen website, which are all great link builders.