limitless...

According to the movie "Limitless" 100% mental clarity can be accessed by taking a pill called NZT.  A drug that skyrockets every synapse into activity allowing the user to enjoy an abundance of money, power, sex and fast cars. 
Briefly, until the pills run out.  Then one crashes and burns into sickness with a short attention span, rapid aging, with a bitter end result of a sad and tragic death. 

I get the idea...I like the idea... increased brain activity and unlimited potential... I have books on the shelf, the coffee table and pretty much everywhere in the apartment that speak directly to this idea.  But none of them promote taking short cuts. It's a process...it's work...it's continuous effort that takes time. The results have lasting impact with permanence and significance that go far beyond adrenalin rushes and quick cash.

Clarity, if you want clarity uncluttter your life, physically, emotionally and spiritually.  Take the time to let go of what no longer serves you.  This is best done in layers.  My move to a new city and a new life was a drastic way to shift a lot of material belongings.  This was just the first of many layers. Nine months later the emotional and spiritual layers of uncluttering is just settling into my bones. 

Hey, nine months...just the same amount of time as a full term pregnancy.  Coincidence...hmmmm...not to a symbolic seeker such as myself :-) 
Growing life takes time to incubate and take form.  I couldnt' rush the process.  Our culture would have us believe otherwise...here take a pill and find enlightenment.  But in 30 seconds we're not ready for what comes next.  Our minds and hearts have not grown to take in what is happening.  Thus we feel the rush of openings and closing rather than the calmer transition into expansion.  Our life is thus a scattered, cluttered cycle.  It's like only being happy when it's sunny and warm outside rather than being happy even when it's raining, snowing or cold and cloudy.

I am expanding now into keeping my heart open as I learn to let go with more grace rather than fear.  The potential in this is limitless.  It's not a stock market algorithm eureka moment.  It's looking around me and seeing my apartment as a palace rather than a failure; it's allowing people to do what they need to do even when it doesn't include me; it's encouraging my kids to be free even when it means they'll move away; it's about accepting myself even when I feel the pangs of rejection.

For me the process includes walking my dog, writing blogs, swimming in poetry, losing myself in movies, reading inspired texts, zombies watching and gazing at Christmas lights that sparkle from sun up to sun down.  There is no one thing that is getting me to this new place of being.  No short cut.  Just practice, practice, practice.

Yes, this takes me back to the skating blog.... I am reminded again of the importance of practicing even though the ice has melted and the "rink closed for the season" sign is posted.  Skating was only one medium.  Life gives me many and it's up to me to use them to their maximum, limitless potential. 

When I step back and put life situations in to this perspective...wow, does I feel better than getting all twisted up, like the junkie who is crashing from a synthetic high. I'd rather feel the Awesomeness of life through life's natural highs and lows than filling myself with the false reality that something outside of me,  be it a person, place or pill, will help me be myself. 

Moving is not required to unclutter.  Nor is rushing.  Slow down.  Look around wherever you are and start there, one room, one thought, one belief at a time. Don't rush. Be gentle yet encouraging to keep going as the new life on the other side of release is worth the effort...it's a feeling that NZT will never come close to giving you....peace...the beautiful peace that manifests when the limitless power of love becomes bigger than fear.

Have a

day!