Bridging the Gap

4 The One Minute Sabbatical

The Sabbath is a day of worship.

A Sabbatical is typically a leave taken once every seven years. The leave might last as long as a full year. However, if you wait too long, it’s possible to experience so much stress that you can totally lose yourself. Your productivity could fade.

You don’t have to wait seven years. You don’t have to wait seven days. You can take a one minute sabbatical every seven minutes.

Of course you’re not going to do this with a stopwatch. You can establish the practice of setting an intention to accomplish something in the next few minutes. Then you can take your one minute sabbatical.

That’s it. It’s all you have to do to make a fast, steady upgrade in your level of happiness.

It’s that easy.

5 Creativity and Communication

Have you ever noticed that when your being creative you express yourself more? Or is it that your self-expression increases your creativity?

Which comes first? Maybe they enhance each other. When you express yourself you’re more creative. This works whether you’re talking to another person, a voice recorder, a video camera, or to your image in the mirror.

And it works the other way too. When you’re being creative you naturally express yourself more.

This whole formula works with writing too. If you’re stuck with writing something creatively, you can blast through by simply writing anything. Write nonsense. Before long you’ll be writing some worthwhile creative ideas. The idea is to just write.

Surrender control. Let go. Nonsense will come through. But there will be some gems and gold nuggets in the muck.

Although we want to behave well when in polite society, it’s a great idea to have some time and space where we can freely feel our emotions. We don’t have to edit emotions when we’re by ourselves.

Let emotions flow. Live life more fully.

We can open flows. We can invite new opportunities. We can open up to new positive experiences.

All this is alignment with the blog post about letting it go and letting it flow.

6 The Truth - Imagine That

It’s been said that what we see is the world of illusion.

Great spiritual teachers have said that the Real Truth lies behind a veil of illusion. The sages have said that everything is perfect the way it is.

That’s the Real Truth. All is immensely beautiful. All radiates its’ inner splendor.

You might say “Yeah, but I just spent an hour on the freeway. What can I do about it?”

You can do this for a minute. Or you can do it every waking moment.

When you’re just starting this exercise, please don’t do it while you’re driving. After some practice, you can also do it while you drive.

This practice produces an instant change in the way you see Life.

It feels amazingly good. You can do this exercise frequently throughout the day. Try it. You’ll love it! It can bring you to bliss, peace, and possibly beyond.