The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 165

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Look... Nothing swipes the air from my lungs faster than reading another story about a comedian, actor, musician, famous chef or canvas artist that's stolen the life from the origin of ambition.  I can't figure out why it feels like so many creative people are giving themselves permission to turn off the lights.  Is it the world of social media?  We get news and information so quickly that we no longer have enough space to allow word of mouth reach the human ear?  I don't know.  Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.  Gone too early.  Nobody called it a suicide.  The history of entertainment has endlessly been overthrown by stories of those who've let go.  On this podcast we talk about those moments.  Here's what makes it different.  I don't speak only of creative people.  No matter what you do in the everyday world you use that head and heart to get the process accomplished.  Being creative is an everyday real thing for all people.  We have to stop asking about what went wrong and begin the journey of recognizing the path before the storm.  I hate television weather people because they aren't that good at predicting why we elected to stay inside while the sun shines so beautifully bright.  We try to predict our own storms.  I'm feeling like something isn't right.  Guess I should keep to myself.  What we need to be doing is respecting ourselves.  Shout it out loud!  Let your system of decisions and choices hear how much you truly care.  Yes life feels like it sucks more often then expected.  Respect yourself.  Let your voice be heard without other people's judgement.  I openly admit that it bothers me when the preachers layout the ground work of a happier life when you bury your heart in the book.  It's a brilliant beginning but life itself shows there's no guarantee.  Recovery from the remnants of dark storms isn't about the decision of going to Heaven or Hell.  Respect yourself.  I say three things every morning at sunrise, "I am not lost.  I am not in fear.  I am grateful for this moment."  In my heart there's a lot of God but this isn't about that.  This is about reaching all creative people on every path.  No judgement here.  Respect yourself.

Release

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Its funny how we are taught as children to have an open heart and mind. As life moves forward we become stuffy and bloated with all these things we've collected because nobody comes along to teach us how to release. We horde our experiences. Mine! Mine! Julia Cameron writes about the letting go process in her book The Artist Way. She teaches us to clean out the closet. That doesn't necessarily mean the physical itty bitty room in your house. It means your head and heart. Clear it. Set things free. Learn to develop a dropping off point. Forty plus years of radio and I thought in order to make it to the top we're supposed to collect the experiences. Laugh out loud. What you were given last week and the months before are outdated. Having a cleared process of discovery gifts your path with new age success. It's a huge change in your lifestyle. All things in your everyday are moving in forward motion. To be present with its purpose and power you have to be ready to release. Get rid of it. Which sounds like a negative until you begin to put focus on who is receiving it. We float the Catawba River several times a year. The water is released from the dam. Without it we would float in one place. Your mind body and soul are no different. That burst of energy from all things being held back allows you to grow forward. Giving yourself permission to let go helps open the door for you to also rid the body of the negatives. Once free from those weighty objects the senses begin to find new fields of growth. Hard to picture in the beginning but incredibly beautiful when you realize that what you hold isn't as special as you think.

One Thought Away From Being Afraid

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The title says it all. One thought away from being afraid. Of what? Of whom? Of where? We've all heard the term one paycheck away from homelessness. One thought away from being afraid is no different. We automatically put stuff in front of us to keep that ill feeling of reality from entering our systems of choice. On this podcast we bump up against those way and means that take over the way we think. One thought away from being afraid. I do a podcast everyday called The Daily Ray Of Light. At the end of every episode I literally say "We are not in fear. We are not lost. We are grateful for your presence." I have to remind myself every chance I get how we are one thought away from being afraid. And when we do feel that fear that's when we fight like hell to break free of its curse. We act like dogs trying to cover it. We try to fly into the sky like bright red cardinals. Once you are bitten by fear you can't easily shake it off. So how do we grow beyond the impact. The majority of us accept the concept of being one thought away from being afraid. I'd rather be twenty or fifty thoughts. Its completely out of our hands because we're allowing so many others to control the way we act, think and become. It's in their ability and ultimately it becomes your choice to activate their methods of mind play or stay truer to your walk and way. One thought away from being afraid.

Going Deeper

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The most fascinating walk is the one left by the tip of a writing instrument.  There's always something to explore when you return a different day and time.  On this podcast I reach back to September 2016.  The morning after meeting the 155 survivors of the Miracle On The Hudson.  We were at the movie premiere of Sully.  This is a story that will forever change lives beyond our time.  To be present with them.  To stand side by side.  To share conversation.  You take in the moment.  You breathe in the atmosphere.  Without my writing instrument it would already be gone and forgotten.  It's nearly three years later!  We aren't built to hold onto moments such as this movie premiere.  It may come up as an oh yeah moment but to embrace the energy of the subject we talk about on this podcast would not possible if it wasn't for the writing instrument.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 164

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No day passes that we don't feel like we're being pushed or pulled toward something.  It's an invisible energy that may or may not have a positive destination.  We just know that we showed up and answered the call.  I wish I had the strength or knowledge to walk a path where the reply to this so called pulling is, "Hey!  I've got this handled."  Most of us aren't designed like that.  The other day I spent a few moments sharing a conversation with Mike Love from the Beach Boys.  An open field of message sharing fed by streams of awareness.  Which means what?  Because we both have chosen to live the lifestyle of making meditation an important part of our process we were united in being mindful of the moment.  My meditation is Nidra.  His is Transcendental.  Although they both are part of  our present atmosphere each are separate walks and take a long time to understand as well as activate.  Nidra is how I learned how to locate rest during those 2am to 5am pop out of a deep sleep moments.  I put myself in a place of awareness so the mind can invite peace.  It requires action.  Being aware of the moment of now.  Whereas Transcendental meditation already has you here in the now.  Being present in all things not just when you wake up 1:45 am.  Nidra isn't sleep.  It's resting the subconscious.  REM has a way of filtering sounds out. You hear them but don't truly react to them and or remember.  Nidra is meditation in the way of awareness.  Although you are in an extremely deep mental moment of release you hear and understand everything around you.  Therefore an early morning moment of meditation can last anywhere between five minutes to an hour and twenty  minutes.  Transcendental doesn't require that much energy.  You're already there.  No matter which direction you're being pulled at work, home or everyday life in a plain world, being present in your now without having to use energy to stay here is learning a more peaceful expression of universal acceptance.

Corporate American God

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I do not read from the day I presently write.  I ferment my thoughts.  Not for a week but rather years.  I return to the daily writing long long long after what was put down on paper because I live off what I've grown from not where I currently stand.   It's safe.  I feel secure.  I broke that self created rule today because of a burning itch to try and figure out why we are endlessly being tested, challenged, turned upside down and shaken till there's nothing left in the core of feeling accepted.  Upfront I need to make extremely clear that this is not an argument with God, the higher power and or universe.  On this podcast I simply ask why preachers endlessly tell their congregations that your bad day, slip with love, lost job and all other things going wrong isn't the work of a devil but rather God testing your faith.  He needs to know you are walking in his image and identity.  I question that type of education.  No friend or marital partner on this planet would last longer than a day if the only thing they did was put your relationship through a constant test.  I didn't want to do this podcast today but after jotting it down on paper it wouldn't leave me.  It's almost as if the greater power is shouting, "Do it!  You aren't alone!  Put it out there so others can think deeper, longer and with more understanding that preachers with their way of words are hitting followers with expressions that make God Corporate America.

Activating Your Dark Clouds

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Nowhere is it written that having faith guarantees a greater day than those that don't.  In fact the preacher people I'm close with say the opposite.  While traveling this journey I've made it a point to be what I call a free form writer.  Not just once but each time I daily write and or defrag in the afternoon.  It's being truthful with your presence in the present.  No matter what you're thinking, feeling, dreaming or facing, the expectation is to use the right words while writing.  Not to right the situation but to be truthful to your place in the Now.  We're all guilty of sharing a white lie with the images in the mirror.  Everything from motivating yourself to have a great day to physically recognizing how dull your job is and how much weight you're carrying daily that deals with family matters.  All of that junk is sitting in your trunk.  So often we hear our business leaders and others shout out, "Open your heart!"  I'm not sure we need to.  There's already too much in there.  Learning to clear your heart and putting to use the experiences is how to begin to move forward.  Not opening your heart to newer ways and walks.  Clear your heart.  Clear your mind.  On this podcast we talk about those huge mountains in front of your progress and the 15 brick walls behind it.  Yet you're expected to somehow move it all.  How?  By activating your dark clouds.  Those moody moments.  The depressions and dents in your passion.  They've all got experience attached to them.  Learn from the atmosphere present and utilize the fuel those dark clouds carry.  Free form writing helps us become aware of why the steps are through murky pits of muddied pasts we can't change.  It's fuel that can be turned forward and outward.  Your back feels nearly broken because you keep using the limited amount of energy you get the moment the morning clock sounds off.  When that fuel is used up boom biff pow and zow we go down for the count.  Free form your writing and thinking.  Let the negative move through you.  The longer you hold onto it the weaker you become.  The only thing you have control of is Now.  Utilize that space.