2010 Buffalo Auto Show

We are “thrilled and excited” to join with the Niagara Frontier Automobile Dealers Association (NFADA) for the 2010 Buffalo Auto Show. The Buffalo Auto Show is one of Western New York’s largest indoor events with attendance approaching 100,000 each year.

Paul Stasiak, President of NFADA, stated that the Buffalo Auto Show “is looking to continue its success and growth under the direction of Quinlan and Company’s special events team, which is being led by Al Klenk.”

We will be providing creative promotional and media buying services for the event. Our hopes are to make the event an even bigger hit in the community than it has been in years past.

The Buffalo Auto Show will be held February 10-14, 2010 at the Buffalo Convention Center. From viewing the latest cars before they hit the showrooms, to meeting celebrities and a chance to win prizes, the Buffalo Auto Show will prove to be a fun event for the entire family.

Visit http://www.buffaloautoshow.com for more information on this year’s Buffalo Auto Show and http://www.quinlanco.com for NFADA’s top choice for full-service advertising in Western New York.

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So, I’ve come to a conclusion about the concerns I expressed on Monday about blogging.  I was speaking from a negative, fearful place with a pitiful thought process called defeatism, defined as “acceptance of defeat without struggle.”  Otherwise known as “not putting yourself out there” and playing small!  Here’s the best explanation I can point to:

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of G-d.

Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to manifest the glory of G-d within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.”

–Nelson Mandela, 1994 South African Presidential Inaugural Speech,
quoting spiritual leader Marianne Williamson of the Church of Today in Detroit.

I’ve been surrounded by defeatists my entire life.  The-sky-is-falling Chicken Little types.  And I have always swung aggressively in the opposite direction and stubbornly insisted that everything I do will work out perfectly.  Making bold decisions and listening to my own instincts.  Trusting the universe.  I’ve been accused many times of being naïve, a foolish Polly-Anna.  But you know what?  I don’t listen to that crap!  I married Mr. Right and he’s helped me become EVEN MORE positive.  Our family motto is ABUNDANCIA.  We are abundance!! We don’t just have everything we need in abundance…we ARE abundance.  Does that sound crazy? 

Sooooo…I slipped a bit and now I’ve self-corrected back to my typical mindset of positivity!!!  It took me a few days, but I’m back.  I’m blogging because it’s brave and hopeful and I have a light that wants to shine bright.  And like my wise new friend EatMoveLove said, anyone who doesn’t want to read it can just avert their eyes!

Do you have defeatists in your life?  How do you react to their verbal or non-verbal feedback which attempts to squash your ambition and plant seeds of doubt?

Wednesday December 2, 2009 By Kevin Morrow

I don’t mind going to the store, but I do mind when I have to decide what 8 different people should eat. Especially when one of them always complains, and I have not acquired cooking skills lol..I don’t wish to complain but this is what’s on my mind at the moment.

I’m starting to notice people being fake and very simple minded in my reality, and it seems to me that maybe these are parts of myself that I don’t like about myself. Otherwise why would I see it? I “think” I’m seeing these things though. They’re in reality “real” illusions.

It seems that sometimes my ego tries to take me down when I’m on a high positive note. So I know it’s not real. My dislike for wanting to decide, is actually my identification with what isn’t real. I should, on the other hand, see what I’m doing out of love. I don’t have to feel agitated and upset because of illusionist implications.

BROKEN CELL PHONE CHARGER….

The charger for my cellphone broke and so I’ve been using this universal charger that I share with a sibling. My phone has been dead the entire day and when I borrowed the charger I left for the store.

When I returned from the store my phone was unplugged, and the person who unplugged it was talking on their cell phone. At first this really annoyed me. Because I’m thinking to myself, “This is very inconsiderate, my phone has been dead all day, and you know this.” They just looked at me and continued to talk on the phone like they didn’t give a shit about my phone being unplugged.

This may seem bad to me, but right now it seems really good. It looks as if my reality is changing to truth. Which means things are going to happen to motivate me to make a change. This is how my mind works.

After a few seconds I calmed down. The upset factor actually came back and resurfaced when I felt like I was being forced to do something. There really is no point in me being mad about something trivial. I decided to do something constructive with my time and write this blog. It’s helping me to forgive myself for what I think is real, and forgive the person for what they don’t know. That way I’m not holding on to imaginary bitterness. The other good thing is I’m no longer directing negative energy to the person that appeared to be doing me inconsideration.

Like I’ve said in other blogs, I’m responsible for my reactions. All of these things I perceive as real, like my bank account being low beyond recognition, and being unemployed are all things I’ve created through my mind to “see” as negative things.

I see how my mind is reflected in my reality that I “think” I see.

As I’m writing this blog I’m starting to heal my mind of the illusions. I just received a message that led me to read a blog from http://www.bakerthebrand.com.

I will read it after I’m done here.

In the supermarket I was creating an awkward moment for myself. I didn’t want to be there, and I was upset about things that only existed in my mind. They weren’t really there, and I didn’t have to go through the emotions I went through. I did it to myself. Now I have a better understanding of why.

What’s the point in brooding, I didn’t start changing my mood until I noticed the illusion. So now I’m passing the story onto whoever reads this.

The message is to realize that the negative energy is illusion, the self doubt, and brooding, these are all illusions. They are all reactions that you control. Once you realize this you can see through the fake smoke screen and embrace the true loving self.

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I always knew what courage meant but I never actually have looked it up before. The definition is more powerful than I originally thought.

Courage: The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery.

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One of the most widely accepted universal truths is that people will love and be loved, others need. This is a need that is not only present, but also very demanding.

Particularly for young people, this can be a real common denominator of their self-confidence and security, so there are so many guides and advice on how to get a girl you like to receive.

Guys want to be tough and macho, because that is what means the cliché but the truth is that mostthem are seriously injured when their significant others do not respect them, in most cases they will not try to do anything to change that, by default a wrong approach.

The most important thing, the guys need to keep in mind that girls are social beings. Social creatures tend to have strong social skills that are associated with high self-esteem and strong confidence. These skills are the girls in any case and how is a good way, like a girl like youThem.

The timing is also very important. Girls are patient creatures, and they expect people to be the same. You should not be too far off too early, because this is a major attraction-killer, especially if you talk a lot about you.

It is always a good idea, the girls are in that you show a good listener interested, because it shows a great interest in her. Girls do not like men who boast too much, but are always grateful for those who are willing to listen to them andParticipate in meetings that have to do to them and their problems. This behavior reflects a kind of emotional attachment and sensibility, and if you show them that you really like that, you will be able to come in contact with them and build the attraction.

Be yourself and try to avoid that too much of a little too sensitive, too macho, too open, too flirty. Too much of something that has never helped anyone. One of the best ways how to make a girl like you is to be open and useFrank.

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Sunday November 29, 2009 By Kevin Morrow

The topic that has come into my awareness at this moment is that of “Wealth beliefs vs. Poor Beliefs.” I’m going to reference money in this blog because that is what most people are familiar with.

Money seems to reverse engineer the belief of wealth. It appears to be a material form of wealth. However, the wealth that the material has comes from how the observer “sees” it.

Events have no meaning until my/your mind decide what’s true in our minds. Take the last statement and apply it to money. Money means nothing until “the mind” decides what is true about it.

A wealth belief is a mind deciding what is true for it. A poor belief is a different truth, but also a decision made by a mind. Whether indirect, or direct, the mind is creating it’s truth through events that have no meaning.

What is a lot of money to you?

$100, $200, $500, $1,000, $1,000,000? It all depends what you decide in your mind is true. I know someone who receives monthly checks of over $900. They don’t have any expenses, their tv,food,room,electricity,and all expenses are covered by someone else. The only thing they have to pay for is anything they want to buy that’s extra. And yet in their mind they are poor. They go to the store already in a lack mindset. Everything seems to be a life or death decision to them.

But the way they see it is just one truth. There are many truths that can be seen from this situation. I see it as a belief in being poor. Read my other posts and you will see that the only reason why I see this is because I have some “poor” beliefs within me.

One way to purge my mind of these “poor beliefs” is to change how I see the person in my mind. This is where forgiveness is key. I have to forgive the fact that what I think I see is real, and then I have to forgive that fact that the person does what they don’t know there doing.

What’s happening is a person operating off of an old form of lack mind programming. The only reason I would see this, and be annoyed by it, is if I’m doing this to my self.

Back to the question about how much money is a lot to you…

To Bill Gates $500 is nothing. He receives it so often that it may seem to be like a nickel to him. An even better way to say it is that $500 is more than normal to him.

To my friend $500 is a lot of money. They don’t see themselves being able to receive that consistently in a normal setting. What they see is really a “poor belief.” They believe poor is a reality for them.

To me I know $500 is not a lot of money. I know I have to believe that I am worth that amount of value in order to experience it. There may still be some “poor beliefs” within me, but as they surface I realize they are no longer true to me.

The beliefs about money actually reveal underlying beliefs about my image of self.

Money is commonly attached to the image of importance. So in the society that I see, money is attached to importance. In the reality that I believe, money is a tool, and importance comes from how you feel about yourself. To me the only way to feel important is to help other people feel important. Like a revolving door of importance.

I view money in the same way. I wouldn’t want to earn millions of dollars and not show people how I did it. That would be lame.

Poor and wealth beliefs apply to any situation that you “think” you see.

Your reactions to things will tell you what your mind is looking for.

At the moment I’m unemployed, and I don’t know how much money is in my bank account. I was once very stressed out about this. It was a “poor belief” of mine. “I’m doomed, I’m unimportant, I’m a low class citizen, I can’t afford to live, I wish I had a billion dollars…”

Those were all poor beliefs that I made true within my mind. But wait a minute…What’s the point in thinking that? I decided to flip my truths. I’m in an excellent position to make myself a multi-millionaire through doing things I love. Now what’s the purpose in thinking that? Seems better to believe that then the “poor belief.” Otherwise I would remain the same.

This blog is the result of my transformation of truth…

Saturday November 28, 2009 By Kevin Morrow

Recently I have had some events happen to me in which I attributed negative meanings to. I have realized that these events really had no meaning. The actual event meant nothing until I decided what it meant to me in my mind. Before I decided to attach meaning to the event there was none.

It was just something that happened that I could react to any way that I decided. I felt like I was being attacked by the other person. But was I being attacked? Maybe my ego was being attacked. I could see that. But even my ego is something that I believe is in my mind. Is it really there though?

There can be many interpretations of what an event is. But the event really has no meaning until I make one within my mind. I create my beliefs. My beliefs determine my life. It may not be direct, but I create the meaning of the events that I see. I’m not saying I am the creator I’m saying that my free will allows me to pick what meaning I give to events.

If I create my beliefs, I can change how I believe about what an event means to me. So I’m looking to the future and seeing that my new belief in my mind will allow me to remove illusion/limiting beliefs.

If I believe that a relationship in my past causes pain within me today, then that’s what I choose to believe as true within my mind. But is it really true? It would seem it’s only true in my mind. If I can change my mind like I can decide what clothes to wear, then I can also choose how I feel.

The events in my reality don’t have meaning until I decide what it means to me. I don’t have to believe that red is “red” I chose to believe like everyone else. But I don’t have to believe things that have limited me. I choose not to put limiting meaning to the events in my life. What would be the purpose?

If I can choose either way, why would I not choose the beneficial one?

Am I the sum total of my beliefs. Or am I the awareness that chooses the sum total of my beliefs?

This is the question that I ask myself.

This topic is important to me because I see it everyday in my reality. There are a lot of different things going on within relationships between myself and family. I’m learning more and more that it all has to do with the thoughts created by my mind.

I started noticing that the things my family feared were the same things that I feared. The most common fear is attached to money. Most of my family has the same fear/belief system. It appears that most of them don’t realize it though. I see the same thing within my mind.

I have been thinking that even if a family member is a negative influence, they are family and should be held on to as such. This may or may not be the case. In this process of learning I have figured out that I cannot change another person. I cannot change another persons reactions, but I can change mine. The element I just mentioned is crucial to how I handle so called relationship problems.

For example, I’ve noticed that anything I don’t like about something my family member does, is actually something that I don’t like about myself. It’s almost as if my mind purposely creates situations in which I see things so that I may correct them. If I see something in my reality that I don’t like, its because I’m thinking about something that I don’t like.

The only way that I have found to handle any family problem, is to have forgiveness. I ask myself what I would I want someone to do to me if I was unconsciously causing hurt. If something I said hurt someones feelings, it’s like I myself am hurt. In order for me to be hurt I have to consider the opposite of love as real. I love my family, so if my sibling appears to do something that hurts me, the only thing I can do is forgive. First I forgive myself for believing that what was said was really them, and then I forgive them for not knowing what they are doing.

I have a family member who I feel for some reason is only nice to me when they want something. This family members life is run by the concept of fear and scarcity. They always come up to me like I can read their mind or something. It seems they try and assume that I know what they mean when they don’t speak and just stare at me. I had to ask myself why am I seeing this? What is there to learn from this? At some point in my life I must have done this to someone right? They are always afraid. I realized that I don’t like that about myself. I don’t like to be afraid and in a scarcity mindset. So this family member tends to annoy me a lot because that is a belief about myself that I am annoyed about.

I control my reactions, which means if I get frustrated and annoyed it’s because I’m choosing to. But why would I consciously choose to feel bad? It must be because I believe that a lie about myself is true. Looking at the situation negatively makes the person serve no purpose in my life unless….Unless of course I act out of forgiveness. I forgive the lie I see and see the truth. The truth is I have inner conflict within my mind, or else I wouldn’t see conflict in my reality.

I have a sibling who is frequently upset, always creating a reality in which they feel that they do everything. They complain a lot and it’s really annoying to me at times. I had to ask myself, why am I seeing this? I’m seeing this because it’s a part of me that I don’t like. I don’t like my complaining self, I don’t like my controlling self, I don’t like my superficial self. I see all these things, but these things are not them and they are not me. These things are beliefs in lies. The only way to remove it is to heal our minds.

This may mean that as I heal my mind I enter into a new dynamic of reality in which I don’t see these things. If the people can’t support the change, then I will see new people in my reality.

Things that I complain about in my life – “I’m bossed around, punked by elders.” This is not what it seems. What it really means is that I feel like my life is out of my control. My mind is telling me that I’m not being my own boss, I’m giving my power away. Wake up and take it back. So it’s an internal belief that isn’t true.

I feel like sometimes some of the relationships are not healthy for me because they support my old way of thinking. But then I must forgive the fact that I think the old way of thinking is real.

The most prominent attempt to control me is through guilt. One family member especially tries to impose guilt mentally through reactions and sighs and anything else they can think of. It seems really childish to me, and yet if I’m seeing it I must be doing it. I must be thinking it. Lately I’ve been ignoring it, it must be apart of myself that I don’t like. I mean who likes to feel guilty. I’ve felt guilty about school, about money, about work, and then I see it in a family relationship. It seems to me I must forgive myself of believing in this lie.

Check this out…

I’m not much a planner but someone close to me is a planner. I get annoyed when bombarded to plan because I like to go with the flow. But maybe deep down inside I want to become a better planner. I think this is more reality than the illusion that would say I don’t like planning.

I’ve decided to compile a list of things that I think I don’t like about other people, to confirm what I don’t like about myself. If I don’t like something about myself then it must not be true. It must be a lie I’m believing in.

I’ll make a post with the things listed so be sure to read it. I’ll call it “What I don’t like about people.”

Then I will explain why it really is my mind telling me what to correct about myself.

In general, we do not think of flowers as an accessory when it comes to lawn care. If, however, presents a beautiful lawn, what better way than to bright, colorful flowers provide. And know how to care for your flowers is just as important as knowing how to grow a lush, green lawn.

Here are five simple tips, the flowers are blooming and keep you healthy:

1. Skip the Basics
As simple as it may seem, we might be surprised to know that peoplewill be a lot of time and money for the purchase of flowers and plants, while in principle the basics that will keep the flowering plants and flowering skipped. Thus, the flowers on fertile ground did. ) A county extension agent (under the Government look into the phone book can help. You can test the ground and telling you how much and what type of fertilizer you need.

Under the care of the soil, your plants need water and sunlight. Irrigation is not usually a problemSunlight, but could if they were planted in or around bushes or a shady place. Remember when deciding on a location.

If you are planting bulbs may need them in the correct depth of installation. The package instructions give you the details. If you are planting perennials and shrubs, be careful you do not have the mulch and soil to the root. The plant needs room to keep from overheating and not enough room for the water in the sink and drain.

2. Add Variety
SomePeople just like perennial plant, so they do not have to intervene to plant flowers every year. You can still do that, of course, but by a variety of flowering annuals you can plant to make visually appealing by continuously, colorful flowers.

3. Deadheading
Deadheading is pretty much exactly as it sounds – cutting off the head of the flower after it has finished flowering. This encourages the plant produce more flowers, but do not get lazy and let the deadhead on the ground covered by thePlants. Very bad move. Plant diseases and molds may end up attacking and destroying your equipment. They lose not only the plant itself, but money and time you put in the planting of the first place.

4. Bugs
You can be happy or you may not like them, but understand – you need them! The problem is that most people do not know the good from the bad so that they end up killing the good guys who open the door for the poor. Remember that most insects are good in your garden. The pollinatorsFor example, bees, beetles and butterflies, the plants are fertilized by the transfer of pollen from one plant to another. That can not survive your day, but about 80% of flowering plants, the insects need.

Other insects, bacteria, fungi and microorganisms are part of the decomposition process of dead plant material. This is important because it enriches the soil by nutrients back to where they are needed and used by growing plants. Sow bugs and dung beetles areInsects involved in this important process.

Nature has a way of supporting us with checks and balances, but unfortunately we have a possibility of messing it up because we do not know what we do. There are insects that do damage, like aphids, but there are other insects such as dragonflies and lacewings, as natural enemies to these destructive insects.

Sure, you can things get out of control, and we must help in every step, the nature, so make sure you expert advice, what kindof insects are involved and the best way to address the problem. When it comes to pesticides, think "green."

5. Fertilizer
Like everything else in your garden you can use your plants and fertilizer. Remember, read the instructions on the container. More is not better when it comes to you fertilize your lawn or your flowers.

There are five simple tips for presenting your lawn with exciting, colorful flowers. As with everything, it can be a little more workHowever, the results will be with her.

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Friday November 27, 2009 By Kevin Morrow

The following blog spawned from a conversation I had earlier today. I have changed the persons name to keep them anonymous, but this is the the actual text conversation.

anonymous female : “What you doing today?”

Me : “I’m with my family, what’s up?.”

Her: “Nothing im doin the same.”

Me: “Cool, I’m bout to lay down and warm myself up.”

Her: “Me to its cold.”

Me: “Yeah, looks like that means you’ll be up awhile…”

HER (will now be bold print) : “Yea if I stay awake.”
Me: Oh. I’m getting this weird vibe. What’s on your mind? How was dinner?
HER: Not much I’m hella bored and alone and dinner was aight and u?”
Me: Alone? And dinner was good.
HER:Yea alone no matter wat I do I feel like shit
Me: Wanna talk about it?
HER: I cant say how it feels I just always cry I wonder why I’m alive.
Me: You gotta find something that helps other people and yourself at the same time and you’ll start feeling better.
HER: I don’t know what to do.
Me: Try starting by believing that your life is not a waste. That’s just a lie that your believing.
HER: I feel that way nothing good comes to me nothin i’m a waste of air.
Me: What’s the purpose of thinking that?
HER: I don’t know really.
Me: There isn’t one. Not a single one. Fuck what anybody else says. What you think is what matters, you have to ask yourself what’s the purpose of the thoughts that make you feel like your lifes a waste. You’ll never find a good one…cuz your life is not a waste.
HER:I just feel like nothing goes right with me I cant explain how much I hurt everyday Kevin.
Me: You’ll have to start small to start changing that around.
HER: I try I do.
Me: Have you ever wanted to be psychic?
HER: Hell yeah who wouldn’t want to?
Me: A lot of people apparently lol. What would you do if you were?
HER: I don’t know tell what people are doing or whats going to happen.
Me: Would that make you feel better?
HER: A little bit.
Me: Dang. What would do more than a little bit? Money or something?
HER: Money hell yeah.
Me: How much money will make you feel better? 1,000 2,000 6,000…How much do you think?
HER: Millions
Me: Then what? After you get the millions?
HER: Buy what I need with no worries.
Me: What do you need?
HER: House cars ect…
Me: And all that will make you happy? Just like that?
HER: Yes
Me: Did you know that the same happy you feel when your dancing is the same happy you think youll have by getting money and cars and houses? Your the same you when you have money and when you don’t. You just convince yourself that your different.

If money will make you happy…you have to be happy before you can get the money that you want. That’s why it makes you sad.

HER: Dancing goes away but money and cars stay.
Me: Money and cars go away too. Money and cars don’t last forever.
Are you putting the value of who you really are in money cars and houses? What about the part of you that wants to be loved? Isn’t that part of you worth more than that?

HER: I’ll never be loved and I’m worth nothing.
Me: That’s bullshit, you know that’s not true. You wouldn’t want to change if you honestly believed that.
HER: To me its true I hate every part of myself if I had money I would use it to change myself.
Me: You hate every part of yourself because the things that you hate about yourself are not true.
HER: But I hate everything so whats left to love?
Me: Everything…your situation could be a lot worse…Right now your talking to me because you know that you can change how you feel about yourself, and you want to change how you feel about yourself. All I’m doing is reminding you how you got to think about yourself in the way you do now. The same way you got into how you feel about yourself, is the same way you will change it.
HER: I don’t know what to think anymore.
Me: What do you mean?
HER: I don’t know I’m just sick of life.
Me: But you don’t know why? What’s the point in being sick of life?
HER: Not wanting to enjoy it I don’t care about anything.
Me: That’s a point? You think that the point is not to care about anything? Then don’t care about the thoughts that make you feel bad.
HER: I try not to but the thoughts come to my mind.
Me: The thoughts aren’t real. They are what your mind creates to support what you feel and see in your life. It can be changed.
Do the people you hang out with feel the same way you do?
HER: Some of them.
Me: What’s the purpose of being friends with the ones who do? So yall can drink and complain and feel bad together?
HER: Basically that’s what happens.
Me: Exactly. Shouldn’t yall be helping each other to get out of the crap than staying in it together?
HER: Yeah but we don’t talk about it all the time.
Me: That’s good, you said you hate everything, but you just said something good.
HER: I did?
Me: You said yall don’t talk bad all the time. So that must mean you and your friends have fun right? Isn’t fun good?
HER: Yeah I always have fun but at the end of the night im back to life soo…
Me: You never left life when you were having fun. You just changed how you felt and thought about it. Its not like when your having fun you become someone else right? Or do you? Think about it…
HER: I kinda do become someone else when I’m drunk I forget who I am.
Me: You forget who you “think” you are. Cuz your not thinking when drunk. But it also depresses you cuz when the alcohol is done your back to “normal” but if your hating yourself your not really seeing yourself. Your seeing a lie.
Enough about this tonight though, we will talk about it later.

That ended the conversation because I was feeling drained. I felt like it was time to just end the conversation. That’s just how the flow went. I noticed that the conversation helped heal both of our minds.

Friday November 27, 2009 By Kevin Morrow

Actually it already has been done. I have this concept of time which leads me to believe that there really is no time. I feel that anything I want to do is already done and I just have to catch up with it. When I think about doing things I remember this – “Be, Do, Have.” This implies to me that there is no time.

Other people have told me what they think I should be doing. I’ve even been told what I was doing was not giving me knowledge or putting money in my pocket. I understood where this came from because I observe levels of mind in interactions. Had I been only about money, this comment would have motivated me to become a better salesman. That’s not what I am however, I am not a salesman. Money is not my motivation, in fact motivation does not have the same meaning to me anymore.

Inspiration is what I relate to the most. I feel that it comes from the spirit. Any belief I have tends to limit me to a perception. The trouble of limiting myself to a perception is that when you I’m more aware and something that required more awareness comes along, I’m not be able to accept it.

So if I’m going to believe something, I might as well chose to believe in something that will not limit my awareness. That’s what I mean when I say I have an open mind.

Here is how I experience reality.

This is just within my mind, and it doesn’t mean that it’s true to anyone else. This is how I chose not to limit my mind. I see reality as if it’s one big dream. Life is like a video game being played within the minds of people. I use these terms to create a visualization within the minds of those who read this. I think there are fundamental basic rules and then the player believes in what they choose to be reality.

In this life there is a physical aspect and a spiritual aspect. I cannot function well in this reality without being balanced within those realms. I see that everyone has a mind and that the minds are similar in how they perceive and construct reality.

I also realize that I’m the only one conscious in my reality. Meaning there are other players in the game, but I am the only one consciously perceiving from my eyes, and through my point of awareness. Where that point is I cannot tell you, but as you can see, you are reading this from your point of awareness.

So, it seems that reality can be molded like clay. Therefore the mind can be molded like clay. I feel that my mind should be molded to benefit the highest good of myself and of all people. This is my reality. I see this reality as already being done. I’m just catching up to it.

ONE MIND…

The above is a segue into my belief in one mind. Of course language and words can be misinterpreted, so let me explain what I mean. I don’t believe that anybody is separate from me. I feel as though the one point of awareness is shared by all as if there is one mind.

The reason I say this is because the more I look outside of myself and see separation, the more I see dysfunction. I see unity in great teams, families, projects, and even gangs have an element of unity. In all themes there is general acceptance to one frame of mind.

So it seems that at a deeper level, maybe the one mind is fragmented and therefore experiencing in many different forms. Just like I was not the homeless man on the freeway in Vegas, I could see myself as him and therefore I had to help him. If I saw him as insignificant or as something negative, I would not have helped him. But I saw no purposeful reason to not help him. I was looking for any way that I could help him.

Some people call what I’m talking about “The watcher of the thoughts.” That is the consciousness. The consciousness must be in another realm of existence than that of physicality. So words like awareness have been formed to describe that which we are discussing. The people that seem to be outside of me, eat, sleep, and use the restroom just like me. No matter how rich or how poor they are. This to me is a sign of the “real” reality.

I have dreams, and I awake from the dreams into a physical reality. Sometimes I don’t remember the dreams. How do I know that I don’t wake up from physical reality as if it’s a dream and I just don’t remember it? I don’t. There must be a reason for that.

The reality of pain

I feel as though reality is in the mind. What you believe to see is what you see. What you believe you can have is what you have. What I believe I can be I am at any point in time.This is possible because there really is no time, everything happens now. When in pain, I believe in the pain until I have reason to believe that it’s gone. I have literally believed pain to disappear and it did.

This leads me to feel as though anything I want to accomplish is already done. Anything in consciousness that has been done can be done. Anything that can be done through consciousness, can be done. Essentially everything has been done, or will be done, in the realm of conscious ability. Great projects are formed first in the mind, which means they can be done when aligned with physicality.

Physical reality is slower than mental reality because its vibration is much denser. Look into the world and you can see evaporated water moves faster than raindrops. Observe your own self and you will see thoughts move faster than your hand.

There are different levels of thought, it takes thought for you to move your hand in the first place. Once I believe something is “possible” that already was “possible” it becomes automatic. Just like moving my hand.
In order for my consciousness to win something like the lottery, the money would have to come to me not from a form of lack, and FOR the greater good of myself and others. Otherwise I don’t believe its possible for me.

Intentionally, I wouldn’t want it any other way. Who I am right now at this very moment is ready for something like that to happen. But what are the deeper levels of belief? What are the deeper levels of direction? Those are the true questions.

Conflict in relationships and between minds

I occasionally witness conflicts in relationships and between minds because they feel they are separate. As things that are separate they operate for survival of self. Whether it be ego identification or something else. To me this is my mind working itself out. I have to forgive things that I think matter and heal my mind. Therefore what I do to others is like I’m doing it to myself.

“Peoples judgments are more about you than they are about themselves.”

There is this show on TV that my sister watches called “Bad Girls Club.” The girls on the show tend to have a lot of pain. Pain comes from fear of separation. A good majority of the women on the show hurt other people because they are hurting on the inside and don’t know how to heal it.
The mind mirrors into reality what is being fed to it. So if your hurting you will see and create more hurt.

I see this within my own mind. I see that there are things that I may believe as true that may be hurting me, so I must forgive them and move on. What’s the purpose of holding on to something like that?

It’s not my fault syndrome

Anything you want to accomplish can be done. But when you blame others for it not happening, or say it’s not your fault, you create this reality in your mind. I have to be responsible for my reality. My thoughts and beliefs create it. Separation creates pain, so I have to heal my pain. If I blame it on other people, I’m really blaming it on myself.

Doing that creates a cycle within minds and it gets repeated over and over. The same way it does within your mind. That’s why I say “One Mind.”

Perceptions of reality

Perception always limits awareness. It narrows awareness down to a point of view. A perception is like sitting in the nose bleeds at a basketball game or sitting court side. Awareness is seeing the game from all possible angles with no distinctions. This is something the mind may not be able to comprehend, therefore it operates through perception.

Fear is a perception

Anything I want to do can be done, and is done. That is a perception, because it leaves the idea that it can’t be done, which is also a perception. Why wouldn’t something be accomplished? Take the time to ask yourself the question. The only reason something would not be able to be accomplished is because for some reason fear becomes reality.

Fear is a perception, if I were to look at something I wanted to do from all awareness at once, why would I be aware of the fact that it can’t be done? What’s the purpose of seeing that way? To me there isn’t a purpose to that.

If I’m experiencing in a physical world and I have the choice of operating from a source of love, faith, and belief, why would I chose fear?

So what is it that I Want to Do?

I’m doing what I want to do right now. Some people see it as weird because of what it appears to be. Some see it as cool because what it appears to be to them. To me it appears to be what I want to do. I see it as healing the minds of others and my own at the same time. I provide content that’s interesting and follow my intuition. I have created my own job. The things I need are already inside of me, and are provided to me right now. As fact my reality that appears outside of me reflects my beliefs. The things within in me that I have already, appear available to me in my outer reality. This includes, money,transportation,tools,people, and anything else needed to be of overall good to all.

My articles get better as I write them, and I do what I say I will do. As I provide more truth and more value, my income mirrors that. Right now I have no worries about money because I know that I’m never poor. I’m always rich no matter what my physical world may say at the moment.

College completed faster than “normal” happens in my awareness because I believe it to be possible. This is something I see as possible within myself. Money flows to me in avalanches of abundance because I provide value from my spirit. Not because I lack money, but because I believe myself to be valuable. I see others as apart of me and anyone in my awareness is there for me to help in some way, or vice versa.

Some may not understand because it’s not the main stream approach to reality, and that’s okay. To me it means I have limitless potential. Every person I meet is an opportunity to heal the one mind. Everything I think,do, and believe, is opportunity to heal. I feel so much love right now.

This picture does not require text. It demands thought.

Some thoughts on my mind…Let it shine.

Tuesday November 24, 2009 By Kevin Morrow

Time to heal your mind, open your eyes and know the origin of time. The split of mind from the eternal divine.
Separated, intimidated and sedated from a right state of mind. Grind out the passionate because the ego ain’t having it. It Loves confusion that’s why I speak on it. Creep on it like I sleepwalk a week on it. Not a weak moment in my existence. Make sense out a racist, a pointless attempt. See the mind makes what it sees then will die to make it breath. What do you hate for, because you don’t know where you came from. Dumb, blind, and ignorant, like trying to capture your shadow. Claiming hate is what’s relevant. Can’t escape the truth, the truth’s in hot pursuit. Equipped in a bodily suit, tryna know perfection. My projection has a malfunction. Play the movie of my mind coming, running into restitution. Retribution is not needed. Believe me, Love is what you really wish to be in. Gin and juice cannot reproduce the detoxification of the truth. What’s the use?

Racism is the mental illness within G-D’s children, I feel them, I live them, I breath, I am them. I speak to the soul because I no longer hold deception as a weapon. Blessed when I put on the armor of G-D. Invisible cloak, cause there is no war only lost hope. Dope filled veins with fear tryna cope. On a mental high of illusion though. Lose control and be lost forever. Not very clever to speed in stormy weather.

This is easy for me I say what I believe. In the face of reality I can really see. Insulting my intelligence, but ego is irrelevant, the truth has set me free. I be what I be , that’s why some “think” they fear me. The love is hard to trust when you stuck in lust, tryna bust the same nut like a squirrel in world of trees not climbed up. Confront me how, mass fields plowed, hunger in a lonely child, wild like the king of the jungle to you because I seem real humble.

Afraid to hear the truth so it seems I mumble. Attack my point of view, because it means I love you. And that’s impossible because I you say I don’t know you. But you in me and I in you like my cousin say. Play with the illusions and you will get burned one day. Time to be removing your hand from the stove, don’t need to create a glove when you swimming in love.

Shit, I keep saying things to shake your spirit, when people hear it they they experience what’s beyond the senses. Like seeing new life from beyond closed lenses. All stations go, this is mission control, racism’s a decision, non-element of soul. Spirit doesn’t fear it, cuz spirit doesn’t know it, see it, need it, or hear it.

You can’t separate the TRUTH from the TRUTH. 4

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Sa Ra – I Swear

Raphael Saadiq – Chic Like You

Common x D’Angelo – So Far To Go

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Creating a Résumé That Sells (Wall Street Journal)

Oprah’s New Project: A Sexy Pilot With HBO (Essence)

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It lied there. Forgotten, caked in the dried blood of what may have been a Russian Cossack, or a British Dragoon. Perhaps, it was the blood of a general or, perhaps, just of a simple infantryman. The soft grey blade rested amongst the stems of grass, it’s grim ornamentation glistening in the noon sun.
I touched the hilt and felt the twisted leather’s rough texture underneath my palm. I pulled it free from it’s prison and raised it above my head. Unlike what I had heard from those who tell stories, it did not shine brilliantly. The only thing that happened was that more light was cast upon the scratched, bloody surface.
I wondered, with some childish excitement, who could have held a sword as fine as this. It could have been a  mounted cavalryman or an officer, perhaps even a general! I lowered it and dragged it’s edge along the grass, watching the grass bending underneath the blade. Holding it in my hand, I could feel the power, the essence of it’s glorious owner overtaking me. I imagined that I was the Emperor himself, riding into battle, the cavalry of the Guard struggling to keep up with me and artillery firing in the distance, the loud explosions frightening man and beast alike. Of course, that’s not how it happens. He doesn’t ride into battle like a suicidally brave soldier. He stays behind the lines and plans, thoughts and strategies swirling in his mind, until he comes up with something so perfect that it cannot fail. And, usually, it doesn’t. He has tasted defeat, of course, but not nearly as much as his enemies.
Slowly dragging the sword behind me, I left the field and stood on the road that led to a city. I imagined that along this road with me walk the grenadiers, fusiliers and many other soldiers, the music of the drummers ringing in my ears, the song of these frightening citizen-soldiers striking fear into the hearts of the enemy.
I sang with them that day. I walked along the dusty dirt road and sang every song I knew, whether it was a marching song I heard from the storytellers or a lullaby my mother taught me.
I could see the ghosts of the past coming back to life in the fields around me. Tens of thousands of soldiers rose from the fields, like armies doomed to fight for an eternity. To my sides stood the fusiliers, the glorious Guard, the cuirassiers  and carabiniers with their shining armour. On the opposite side stood the the vile enemy, who only come to burn the land, steal treasure and enslave us.
As quickly as they appeared, the ghosts vanish. I sit down in the shade of a tree and wait, minutes passing slowly as I lean on the sword, staring at a ditch in front of me. Perhaps, this reality is better than the one I imagined. It is peaceful now. The sea is not far. Birds sing as they soar across the sky and the lazy spring dust settles upon the road I’ve walked since I was born. The snow had already melted and the may sun sends it’s warmth down to us earth dwellers.
I heard something and looked to the skies. It sounded like a dragon, roaring and spitting fire, but there was nothing.
I stood once more and walked into the centre of the road. Dust was  being raised in the distance.
This was something I had not seen before.
Slowly, it was moving towards me – the cloud of dust, so thick I couldn’t see anything. It was frightening, but I held firm the sword and stood my ground. It was closer now and I could make out what was coming.
Barrels jutted like spikes from the cloud as the tanks neared, the black crosses on their sign appearing as the eyes of the beast. Tracks pressed into the dirt, but the war machines moved swiftly.
My father had spoken of them. He saw some, in the War. The roaring returned and I looked up. This time, the sky was filled with dark shapes. Many dark shapes, similar to still birds, their wings extended. Hundreds, maybe.
The dust cloud was now only a few kilometres away and I could see the trucks, the war machines, artillery. I stood on the side of the road, to let them by.
The steel beast passed me, it’s dark grey frame like a monster from ghost stories. They were all grey. The machines, the trucks, the artillery and even the soldiers. A single man broke off the final column and approached me. He asked me what was I doing here and I answered, with unnecessary bravado, that I was watching for the enemy and defending my homeland. He just laughed.
He removed a small blue helmet from his side and placed it on my head. Now, I was a real soldier. With another laugh, he stood back up and appeared much taller than he was before. He grinned down at me and said, with a heavy accent:
“To protect your homeland, you’ll need a lot more than a stick and a helmet.”
And then he left, running after his platoon. I dropped the stick, which until now was a sword, and ran towards home. That day, I learned a lesson. Sometimes, the enemy is far closer thank you think. And sometimes, he is not even my enemy.

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I put motivating pictures all over my bedroom, in my locker at the gym, on the fridge – generally everywhere, to keep me mindful of the life I want to live – and the types of powerful-looking women I aspire to be like.
Have a look on the Internet for images that inspire you, print them out, put them around the place and I guarantee you’ll train harder!

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