First Worlding our Way thru Life

Warning....
Trigger Title maybe?

How's that heart beat doing?
Your breathing?
Did you unintentionally clutch your butt cheeks a bit more, or maybe just your jaw, as you wonder why you opened this letter?

Did you know those are 2 little habits that tap into your fear coping scene?

I will admit this world we live in does bother me quite a bit. There is so much nonsense and suffering that can be avoided. Sometimes I catch a tense jaw beginning to happen or a left butt cheek squeezing. And my breath seizing.
I agree very much with Daniel Lieberman's concept of Dysevolution. 'Dysevolution is what Lieberman calls “the deleterious feedback loop that occurs over multiple generations when we don't treat the causes of a mismatch disease but instead pass on whatever environmental factors cause the disease, keeping the disease prevalent and sometimes making it worse.”

The choice of continuous suffering is a habitual feedback loop that can latch on thru generations or it simply doesn't' have to. Our actions imprint our Essences with new cells of First World quality.
What is this First World thing all about?
They say rich, but what is really rich?
Suffering amongst the concrete or breathing with the trees. Busting our butts under flourescent lighting with windows of a building that will never open to just have 2 weeks a year to immerse in some of nature? Or living a life where we can breathe freely with the open windows of our souls?
We each have our own definition of rich.
How about rich in life, where each cell is vibrant and happily tubing through the rivers of peace.
How about the simplest of simple. Like sitting and watching your doggie play or your child laugh or your parent rest. That sounds so lovely to me.


What's it like for you to personally live in a 'First' World?

For me, I see options. Lots and lots and lots of options.
So many options, that we could easily lose our way and our most inner connections with life and one another. So many optiosn some don't know even where to begin, so they just stay in their suffering.

..... So much about what is next.... Let's dive deeper...
Victoria says "Sometimes we are so focused on what is next or what has all ready happened that we are blinded by those attachments and lose sight of the very moment we are in".

So what is Now for you?
What is your Present for yourself? Are you wishing for your life to be different or are you taking the richest of the smallest steps to live a rich life for you?

Mine.
Is Still the same.
Breathing.
Breathing makes me happy.
Breathing is the most basic option.
We have this incredible opportunity to breathe.
And it is something many take for granted.
It essentially tells me where I am. Where Chris is. Where Victoria is. When one of them want to share something but don't want to share it at the same time, their breathing changes. I always just look at them and they are like.....'How do I share this'. And I am like... 'Just share it, bC You are holding on too much and why do you want to hoard that in when we can hash it out now?'

Chris is almost 6 years younger than me, and well Victoria is 9. We were all raised differently. Different ways of conversing and Victoria learns a mix of our learned patterns of conversing. It has been a fun journey. Some ups and some downs, but communication in our home is so important. And our first level of communication is with our breathing. We read one another by observing our breath.
Breathing is VITAL!

Breathing provides us with the most amazing of all gifts.

Living. Living an authentic life.
& What the hell does that mean these days? Authentic like organic? Like 1 of the 5 igredients in something we buy is organic, now it is all organic? hmmmmm....a bit confusing really.

I posted the other day, How wonderful it would be if we could just try to stop feeling the need to convince or convert others and start focusing inward on ourselves. Think about it?

I know I have tried to convince others but really what for? For me or for them?
Is this writing a convincing writing? or educating?
All perspective.
I say it is a sharing of my thoughts and understanding processes of my life.
I was chatting with someone the other day and they were very upset that I didn't "consult' with them about something. They said.....I depend too much on others opinions.
I could only laugh.
They said I didn't care about them bc I didn't ask. Meanwhile they sent me a whole bunch of their ads of attempts of convincing me or converting me.
My response was simple.
'I don't need to consult anyone if I look deep within myself. And ask myself and only myself... what is right for me today?' Not them.

We all know right from wrong, bc we have each experienced a pureness of right and we have all had moments of suffering. We all know what makes us feel at peace.
Life will be filtering thru us, in many ways and the goodness of our hearts will help us rest a bit more. If that goodness is not absorbed on the nonsense of the world's drama.
At the end our lives....at the end of our days it is what we know true within our souls that lets us rest peacefully.
Why do we need to convince, why not just act our truths.
At the end our lives....at the end of our days, it is what we know true within our souls that lets us rest peacefully. And that is an authentic life to me. A life free of breathing obstructions. Bc when I don't breathe ,I have obstructions. The lack of communicating with myself and others or the lack of observing our breathing is an obstruction and a further cause of suffering.

If I purposely breathe,
I find peace,
I find quiet,
I find simplicity,
I find love for myself,
I find Life!,
I find a hidden world of trees, rivers, currents, streams, electricity, and a lot more.
I find no need to convince others,
I find my truth, my Orenda.
I no longer suffer.
I flow with the tides.
AND the world around me feels promising.

Let me loop this around......Victoria says "If we can convince others to do something they don't really want to do, then we are fully capable of allowing ourselves to do something we need to do. First beginning with oursleves."
She later says..
"If you are fully capable of doing what you truly need for yourself, then you are fully capable of making the proper and wholistic decsions for you."

And this can only be achieved with 1 thing. Our Breathing.
BC Breathe is Life.

~ maktub
Claudia