Learning as we go…

Depak Chopra in The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success starts with the Law of Pure Potentiality. He sums it up with these three commitments:

(1) I will get in touch with the field of pure potentiality by taking time each day to be silent, to just Be. I will also sit alone in silent meditation at least twice a day for approximately 30 minutes in the morning and thirty minutes in the evening. (My sister uses walking meditation, and as I learn more about that I will post it. For me, allowing moments even of peace and being in peace is helpful when I remember to do that! Those moments can be at the park or in the car and anywhere really, but especially in nature)

(2) I will take time each day to commune with nature and to silently witness the intelligence of every living thing. I will sit silently and watch a sunset or listen to the sound of an ocean or a stream, or simply smell the scent of a flower. In the ecstasy of my own silence, and by communing with nature, I will enjoy the life throb of ages, the field of pure potentiality and unbound creativity.

(3) I will practice non-judgement. I will begin my day with the statement,"Today, I shall judge nothing that occurs," and throughout the day I will remind myself not to judge.

(What is "funny" is that my children know these things. They do not like it when I judge other people and situations. It makes them uncomfortable. I wonder how much we teach our children to judge by our reactions to life. "When you judge people, you are pretty much not saving your energy for how you can use your energy. You can use it for something else," says my 9 yo. We agree that identifying "what is" or the truth as we see  it today is a good thing. Harping on and living in judgement is where energy to live life is wasted. I know that I get upset when people abuse children and nature, but I can focus on judgement or I can focus on "what can I do to make things better.") 

From Depak Chopra's The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success:

(1) Today I will commit myself to detachment. I will allow myself and those around me the freedom to be who they are. I will not rigidly impose my idea of how things should be. I will not force solutions on problems, thereby creating new problems. I will participate in everything with detached involvement.

(2) Today I will factor in uncertainty as an essential ingredient of my experience. In my willingness to accept uncertainty, solutions will spontaneously emerge out of the problem, out of the confusion, disorder and chaos. The more uncertain things seem to be, the more secure I will feel, because uncertainty is my path to freedom. Through the wisdom of uncertainty, I will find security.

(3) I will step into the field of all possibilities and anticipate the  excitement that can occur when I remain open to an infinity of choices. When I step into the field of all possibilities, I will experience all the fun, adventure, magic and mystery of life.