Meditational Musings

 accepting what is doesn't mean relinquishing the ability, or desire, to change it. accepting things as they are means not keeping yourself trapped in a frequency. it means regaining your focus - your ability to choose another frequency in the face of this one. that's how acceptance helps change your reality. accept what's there right now in the sense that it's delivering a message. appreciate what's around you in the sense that it's there to show you something. Imagine it's as thought someone you love very much handed you a letter. That letter might be filled with bad news - you might be surrounded by things you don't like at all. Your surroundings, in this analogy, are the contents of that letter. Source can be seen as the impetus that arranged your surroundings - the one that delivered that letter. you can hate source for what it's showing you. Absolutely. Or you can 'not shoot the messenger', accept what it is, reclaim your power (your ab...

 one of the basic freedoms you've been asking for when you think you want freedom is freedom from thinking.  not to say you want to follow someone else. no. not sheep or cattle, in that sense. freedom from the vast amount of thoughts attached to every desire. judgements, worries, fears, doubts, definitions. all of those are bars on freedom. that observer state, that is your freedom. maintaining your ability to turn your focus wherever you -want- to turn it, rather than having an emotion or thought grip your focus away from you, is what you want. (Do you -want- to be feeling fear? Hatred? Anger? Anxiety? You may think it a logical reaction to the person, place or situation you're observing, but do you -want- to feel it? If not, you use focus to move your attention to something else. How well can you focus? Amazingly well, if you retain your grasp of your focus. It's when the thoughts and emotions dictate your focus that you have difficulty, or end up having difficulty.)