This is the Dalai Lama Calling

Are you Ready?

In New York City there is always someone doing something amazing, off-the-charts, innovative, out-of-this-world, gorgeous, connected, and well, just BIG! And living in New York City now for over 20 years, I have noticed the cycles of creativity and the rhythm of flow and there are seasons for everything.

There are moments in our lives when we feel that nothing is happening. We are bored, flat-lined, depressed, out of sorts, not motivated.

And then comes the existential wondering :s What am I doing with my life? What's the big picture? or maybe you consider questions of happiness ....  What's going to make me happy?  Is what I'm doing now bringing me joy? 

The cycle of inquisition and reflections starts and the mind, the heart and the body start to move in all sorts of directions.  What's is all about?  And what am I supposed to do now?

Wherever you go with this cycle, it often-times may feel like it is a state that lasts too long and yet, this "flat-line" time period may be the most important times of your life.  Pay attention to them.  And watch and listen and take action.  One conscious step at a time.

When it feels like there is NOTHING happening in your life is precisely the time when you need to PREPARE and PLAN for the moment when something IS going to happen. 

Because when the Dalai Lama calls for you, you want to be ready!

And you don't know when that time will come. SO get ready.

The time you need to go deep is during that downtime when there is no creativity flowing, when the world feels dull, when the days are long and you feel lonely and disconnected from your source. 

This is the time you need to go deep and it looks a little different than you might expect.  Maybe it is going on that yoga retreat or meditation weekend or writing or getting the therapy appointment on the books.  But, if you've been down this road a couple of times, you know, those activities may be good for a short-term fix but then the duldroms creep back into your life.  So what makes real change?

It's not what you think.  Ready?

Get ORGANIZED!  

Get organized with your external space and your internal space will miraculously shift, too.

Here's your homework:

Clean the closets, wipe down the counters, organize the pictures and the mail, sit for longer meditations, stock the pantry with food, sweep the floor, buy candles and incense, do the laundry, clear out the cobwebs and button up the shirts!  In other words, PREPARE for your magic day.  And do it with purpose and intention and clarity for as long as it takes until you have the moment when you get the call from the Dalai Lama. And it will come.

And You will be ready! YES!

The "call from the Dalai Lama" is code for the opportunity that you've been waiting to arise.  And when that opportunity comes, you want to be ready.  And furthermore, you want to be ready  to CHOOSE if you wish to engage and receive it or not. 

Our preparation leads us to the awakening to more opportunities. And these opportunities are happening in every day many times a day. When we are busy with other circumstances and conflicted with extraneous noise, some opportunities do not have a place yet and we have to wait for an opening. 

When you get skilled at this preparation practice, you will notice that you may sometimes desire the periods of flat-lining to return again so there is time to relax and renew and reassess values, goals, intentions and quality of attention. Then the time comes and we start again.

This flow is not always so smooth. There are big waves and small waves and obstacles and setbacks, but the important thing to remember is to continue to prepare for the future that is awaiting you. And when opportunity knocks you can say, "I'm Ready!" and choose if it is what you wish to create or wait for the next opportunity that comes.

It is in the preparation that we have the power of choice.

And that is ultimate power : self responsibility, self accountability and freedom of choice!

So make your bed, take a bath, fold the laundry, do the dishes, sweep the floor, fluff the pillows, prepare the flowers, pour the tea and sit.

Your opportunity will come and you will be ready!

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