Get help from the Un-seen / Create your system – Day 12

Hello everyone! Back to the routine in full throttle! Things are moving fast and at times it seems like there are not enough hours in a day to do all that I want. Also, not sleeping my daily 8 hours for the past week or so is being noticed by my body and brain. I like to sleep 8 hours a day at least hehe.

Today I have another meeting with my boss as a continuation of the performance review. New creative opportunities are arising at work requiring my full attention and action. I am excited! Also, today is the class with the kids next door which I need to prepare for, and my environmental IT consulting work is ramping up quickly! It’s go time and I am thrilled to be writing this blog to share it with you!

Have you ever had the feeling of not having enough time to accomplish everything? I have several ideas that we can think about to strive through these moments.

First, rest, healthy food and exercise. I know these are not always possible but they are essential to maintain brain functions at their peak. Also, by having a full functional brain I can be open to opportunities that arise that might help me in my projects, reducing the time I have to spend on them.

Second, spirituality. Having a spiritual practice helps me be connected with existence and also trust that the right answer and the right opportunity will come at the right time. This also liberates me from being a prisoner of my mind’s dilemmas and my mind’s infinite to do list. Yoga fulfils this category and part of the one above.

Third, intentions/goals. Having a periodic visualization of your intentions and your goals make the universe help you realize these. Believe me, when I know what I want and I expose this “want” to the universe, the universe provides by helping me create the reality I want or by simply creating it for me. It is that simple. Find your wants and set your intentions every day and check what happens. Do it!

Fourth, externalize, manage and determine only next steps towards the goals. Getting everything out of my head by writing or by talking to someone or by making a voice note helps keep my mind clear, and again, ready for this moment where all the answers arise. I only need to focus on what I need to do now. That is it.

Fifth, my environment. I talked about this in my Designing and Creating our Happy Places post. Having our environments work with us is essential to experience the full potential of our energy. Our energy gets leveraged.

Sixth, my life team! As I mentioned in another post we are all the same Being with different ways of experiencing the world, hence different perspectives and different strengths and weaknesses. These different perspectives and different strengths and weaknesses are key to my success. Our team is what takes our work to our next level. It is up to you who is in your team. It would be great to have a team member that mentors us in every of the areas I am identifying in this blog.

Seventh, maintain happiness. Do something that makes you happy every day. Commit to that! You are the most important Being in this world. If you are not happy the world isn’t either. Happiness is key to success. Success does not bring happiness, it’s the other way around.

All of the above work in the un-seen realm which does not depend on time so we can strive and succeed in our physical realm that depends on time. The un-seen brings in the answers in the Now.

The team

Since the beginning

The Shifts - Day 11

Here we are with Elkita heading back to beautiful Costa Rica. The nostalgic feeling is still lingering and at the same time other exciting emotions start creeping up due to the new horizons that start to pop up. The closest horizon is, my performance review with my boss today. This is an opportunity to talk about lessons learned from the past year and start envisioning new paths for the new year. Another horizon, as you all know, is my Wednesday class with the kids, so I will be preparing myself with new material. A longer term horizon is our move to Holland, so Elkita and I need to continue moving forward with our preparations. At the some time other projects are in the brewing. Maybe one day I will actually have a real brewing project. And also I am back to my writing which I had paused for the past days.

It is like I am in a realm shift. Coming from an emotional, full of connectedness weekend (Realm A), into a project, creativity full, routine mode (Realm B). The only travelers in this journey are my wife Elkita and myself. Our bodies are our vessels, existence itself is the medium which we are navigating, and as I mentioned in the previous post, our emotions are our guides. We are constantly navigating this medium into infinite different realms.  

Two Souls Dancing in Union - Day 10

Hi everyone! After this weekend full of magic and emotion with Chris and Marynes' wedding, I choose a different format to share the story.

 

I did a hand written entry for the blog and then I recorded myself reading it. Enjoy the journey!

 

On a side note. I am missing Day 9 which is another hand entry which I will upload soon.

 

 

 

 

Kids, the teachers - Day 8

Good morning everyone! Or good afternoon or goodnight if you are reading this later in the day! It is an exciting day. Last day before we leave to Austin for Chris and Marynes’ wedding! Yoohoo! Today is the big day. In my first day of my 30 day commitment I gathered the courage to offer to volunteer giving an English class to kids in the pre-school next door. Today is that day!  The first day I get the chance to work with kids.

My plan is to interact with them only in English since I read from the article Tracy sent me (thanks Tracy), that kids learn by sensing and if they are immersed in English in my class they will learn the best by listening and then by trying to repeat. As for materials, I will buy a bunch of fruits and will have a show and tell of the fruit names, colors, shapes and how many there are of each and in total. I will then have them say the colors and numbers themselves and then I will have them interact with the fruit so they can experience it fully. Maybe next class will be actually eating the fruit. More sensing, tasting! This is the basis for the class. I am excited, because I have heard that the pre-school teacher is really creative so I am going to have a great opportunity to learn from her and to learn from the kids themselves. I know kids are the greatest teachers especially if you spend a lot of time with them.

Young kids are one of the closest sources of wisdom from Being. They have just arrived from the Source with all the wisdom to develop themselves. They do not have all the filters created by the belief systems that grownups have. Actually, kids have all the wisdom and then their filters and brain patterns start forming as they learn. It is important to me that kids learn through their curiosity and senses so the brain patterns that are formed let them continue to use their curiosity and senses to explore life as they grow up. Their learned brain patterns should let them grow and evolve always instead of blocking them based on fear of doing something wrong. I trust that Being will give me the wisdom to interact with the kids in a way that expands them and not contracts them. I will let the kids guide me since they are the source of wisdom.

Below is a picture of Tommy and me soaking up the Sun as little kids with my mom and grandma Rorra. The second picture is my mom with one of the families she works with. She also is an educator. I will definitely have a post about her soon.

Mami, Tommy, Allan and Abuela Rorra

Mami and one of her families.

Grounded to Fly - Day 7

Hello everyone! Happy Tuesday! Here I am in my home in Atenas, Costa Rica with my almost everyday morning mate, after my almost everyday smoothie and almost everyday tortillas with cheese, avocado and spicy sauce. Mmmmm! I want seconds! Also, this morning I did my yoga session and sent some prayers to the universe so the floods in the Austin, TX stop and so my brother Chris and Marynes can get married under the nice shiny Sun on Saturday. If you can send some prayers that way that would be amazing. At the end is the suggested prayer that you can focus on. I also went to the bathroom to do number two, which felt great, and took a shower. Now I am writing here. After this I will be ready to tackle the routine.

Routine and creation station.

 

As you can read, this is what I try to do every morning of a routine day, and by routine day I mean days in which I have do work for my work. Basically, I do a routine in the morning so I can then step into the work day’s routine. The yoga and the writing are new parts in my morning routine and I LOVE them! For any of you that have not tried yoga or tried it but did not stay with it, I encourage you to look into it. Find a place in your area to practice it and if you can find a good teacher that teaches you the meaning of every pose, the better. Yoga changed my life. After I practice it I feel more rooted, heart centered and mind focused. It is the best body, heart, mind, spiritual practice I have done.

Regarding routine, there are great things about this and some non-great things about this in my opinion. One challenge is when we “HAVE” to stick to the routine and our mind and body are somewhere else or want to be somewhere else. Another challenge is the opposite, when we are anxious or scared and we do not have a routine to anchor ourselves in. Remember creating our environments? A routine in my case is a great anchor. A sequence of events that keep me grounded. This being said, sometimes I just want to fly and not be grounded, like a crow in la Quebrada de los Cuervos in Treinta y Tres, Uruguay.
 

With Elkita, Quebrada de los Cuervos, Treinta y Tres, Uruguay

Quebrada de los Cuervos, Treinta y Tres, Uruguay

 

I have noticed that week days are normally more mechanic, more structured, there is more routine and we go through the motions, hopefully still creating things, and we don’t leave space for many outside events to come in and rattle us. We are in it. The weekends or holidays are different. If I take long holidays I adapt to the non-routine or I even create a new holiday routine, but as I mentioned before when the weekend comes and I have been in a routine and now the routine is broken, I have to get a hold of myself and then fly with it.

In the macro view of my life. Routine grounds me so I can then have non-routine which gives me the freedom to fly, explore and let my mind be creative. I like to live between routine and non-routine. This is in tune with a teaching my friend Beto gave me regarding how the Candombe drums interact with each other and reality. The Candombe is formed by 3 drums, the Chico, Repique y Piano. The Chico screams into the sky or flies, the Piano maintains the wisdom or is the ground and the Repique dances freely between both of them creating the new earth.  I will focus on creating an environment that allows me to live like this.


Prayer for Austin and Chris and Marynes' wedding.

Please Being, slow down the floods in Austin and keep the people safe.
Let the sun shine on Saturday May the 30th so Chris and Marynes can get married under its light.
Thanks

Marynes and Chris

Be ok with your crooked license plate - Day 6

Holiday in the country where your company is set, but working day in the country you live in. This equals a perfect day to run government errands. Dealing with the government and its processes is not the most fun. I just went to get my new license plates for my car. The process was pretty smooth actually but guess what? The license plates' holes do not match the old plates’, so they cannot be easily placed on to the car hehehe! Some things are ridiculous. I am deciding if I should drill a new hole in the license plates or 2 new holes in the car. You let me know. I think I am just going to drill the license plate. It’s not the cars fault.

The week has started busy. It even started before expected when one of our garden faucets exploded in the middle of the night yesterday. Elke and I tried fixing it and eventually found a temporary solution until today. The mystery was that we could not get the water to stop running. We closed the main water supply and the faucet still sprayed water like a bubbly, shaken champagne bottle. We eventually found out that that specific faucet is connected to the neighbor’s water line. Huh???? Obviously the neighbor was already asleep so we could not do anything. Today, it’s already fixed.

Like last night, we never know what is going to happen. I even had gone to bed early to make sure I slept 8 hours before the week started, but no. We spend a lot of time planning and trying to construct the path ahead of time through plans, but always, the path taken is another and is unknown. It is great to set goals since they give us a main direction and something to aim for but trying to plan the specifics is a waste of time in my opinion. Or even harsher, a recipe that creates frustration and un-met expectations. I recently heard somewhere, that it is better to establish our values and then navigate through life using those values as a reference, as our compass, rather than trying to control the outcome of every single event.

As part of God or the Universe or the Being (the Being is what I will call it from now on) we are a piece of the whole, a set of windows where the One Being looks into the world. The Being works through us. Since we have a consciousness and an awareness sometimes we get lost in how we are separate from the rest and we have an identity crisis because we think we are separate but deep down we know we are not. This causes crisis to arise until we start realizing the Oneness. Imagine or know, that every single person is YOU just with a different set of filters and eyes. Wow! The Being will work through us and our values, no need to try and control everything. Another piece of advice I received indirectly from a Chilean Economist talking to the young generation was to keep your antennas up, be alert and focused, and surf the wave of life. I like that.

Sometimes you just have to be ok with a crooked license plate for a while.

Let your Sun shine!

Sunday. Tricky Sunday. A day that has not much structure in my life, a day that provides the opportunity to go with the flow, a day that brings a little anxiety because the illusionary free time is fading away, a day where the mind can go places and also a day to sleep in, slowly enjoy breakfast, listen to the rain fall and just be. It’s what we make of it. Again, we create it all. I guess generations have gone through this process of Sundays being this odd day emotionally and that is still with us today. The only truth I can frame in my mind about this day is, that by its name we can take the opportunity to give thanks to the Sun which provides us with all the necessary energy for us to Live, and as human beings, to Love. Put on your most magical music and come on for the ride. Let creativity flow. It’s Sunday.

Lots of times we ask why are we here, what is this all for. The rabbit hole is endless and trippy. All the beautiful, mysterious and hard times make us, and we give thanks for being here. It is a journey to investigate the “Why?”, but the magic happens when we are just grateful for being here no matter the why.

I was not going to write about this at all when I started the post but now looking at what I wrote I might understand why Sundays and why a lot of us use Sundays to pray, to connect with source, and to give thanks. This just came into me without me even knowing. God or Universe or Spirit or the Source or the Energy have a way of working through us and if we want to be light beings we needs to uncover ourselves and completely trust the Light that shines and works through us to fulfill its mission. Trust yourself.

Blessings to all. Let your Sun shine!

Heading to the Hornocal in Humahuaca,
Provincia de Jujuy, Argentina

And it's the weekend again!

Good morning family! Awake at 5 am with Elkita and Stevo to take the dogs out. Now 9 am and still half a sleep but the mates are making their effect.

The mate is always a great companion. Not only to wake me up but it’s the perfect excuse to go share a while with someone at their house or in a park. The mate connection. Hooray for the Guarani Indians that discovered this tree in the basins of the Parana, Paraguay and Uruguay rivers. Today mate is a cultural icon.

Mate time with the lady

 

Welcome to the weekend. In the recent past years the weekends have been good but strange days for me. Normally, the weeks days have all the structure and the pattern were we do our “work” and then the weekend comes around which gives us two days to do all the rest of the things that we wanted to do throughout the week. When Saturday begins, a wave of ideas regarding personal projects, fun times, rest and other things rush into my head creating an anxious and overwhelming feeling which blocks me from accomplishing anything, plus there is literally not enough time to accomplish everything in my mind and then the weekend finishes and there is a feeling of non-accomplishment, plus I am still tired and plus I have half assed many things. I realize all this is a reality but also a reality coming from my mind and also I am already working on personal projects throughout the week so I think my brain patterns are changing.

It is funny that the weekend arrived and I find myself writing about this because actually this weekend I am not feeling that anxious. Maybe it’s because I am writing everyday so that is my structure rolling into the weekend, or because I was able to do a lot of sports this week so my brain does not have that extra energy to ramble, or maybe it’s the Dumortierit the stone of patience that my mother in law just gave me that she brought from Italy. This stone has metaphysical properties of promoting accomplishments, positive attitude, courage, trust, harmony, and helps us cope with panic and fear, based on the Damali – Jewelry for the Soul website. Hmm interesting synchronicity. Things are moving along. Regarding the mind rambling on I have heard some interesting ideas on calming the mind which comes from Buddhism and also training the mind so the talk inside the head is inspiring instead of expiring. This also ties to the designing our environments to make us strive concept that we talked about last week, This last idea comes from another Unmistakable Creative podcast with Seth Godin. There is infinite knowledge and wisdom in these podcast.

 

Dumortierit stone and it's bag,

I trust the universe is leading all of you through the path of learning and action to fulfill your prophecy this weekend.

Happy weekend to all. We are heading to my mother in laws birthday celebration and then we are celebrating with friends at night. Let’s see what the universe actually has for us. Practice openness and acceptance and set intentions as the first step of you creation. Blessings to all!

 

Designing and Creating our Happy Places

Woohooo! Exciting morning! No new revelations in the past hours but a lot happening in the physical realm. So as I said yesterday, we picked up veggies at the farmers market. I have a full cooler of fresh organic veggies. We also hit the surf. The waves were medium with a really nice shape so it was an epic session with the sun setting behind the clouds creating all the magic effect of dispersion and coloring the entire sky in different tones of red and blue.

These little moments make me happy and keep me sane. This takes me to another teaching I have received through a podcast of the Unmistakable Creative while driving to the beach yesterday. The main teaching is that we can design our environments so we can then feed from them without having to spend insane amount of will power energy to plow through the energies of our surroundings. By designing our environment appropriately the environment feeds us energy that helps us move towards where we want to go. The podcast’s guest that talked about this is Jim Bunch and the title of the podcast is called Designing your environment for optimal performance and creativity.

Nowadays a lot of people are trying to find their way and their purpose through this maze of life. More and more there is cluttering of information and cluttering of material things so it is hard to find the path or to set the vision. People are looking at wisdom leaders to find answers and in a lot of cases when listening to these leaders the guidance seems great but then when going back to their environments their energy gets sucked out of them again. Being an architect of our environments is a skill set we can develop to design and create the environments that help us strive to fulfill our purpose every day. Also, environments are not only our physical environments. Other environments can be our email inbox, our computer in general, our brains, our emotions, the people we hang out with, etc. Check in what state all your environments are and which ones make you strive and which ones suck the energy out of you. If we are creative we can could even design our environments so they interact with each other for extra benefit. If you are interested in this check out the podcast and check out other podcasts from the Unmistakable Creative, they are great and inspiring.

Going back to the things that have happened to me these days, like going to the farmers market, receiving sunshine, surfing and writing, these are all contributors to making my environments healthy which then help me strive in the rest of my life. In my case I need sports to be happy, I need to eat healthy food to be happy, I need to connect with nature to be happy and I need to cuddle with my wife to be happy, so that’s where I am heading tonight! Baby I’m coming home!

Facing Fears, Going for it, Teaching and Learning with Kids - Day 2

Ok, day 2, here we go! This morning I drove from Atenas to Playa Hermosa to Dave’s house. This is part of my Thursdays’ routine. There is an organic farmers market here in Playa Hermosa every Thursday so I make the trip to be able to hit up the market to have veggies for part of next week and I combine it with a visit to Dave and a couple of surfing sessions, so surfing this afternoon! Yohooo! It also looks like the waves are good.

Back to the commitment. The first day of this journey already gave its fruits. I was able to seize the moment and overcome fear and make a volunteering offer and create another purposeful commitment with my community all in one move! I love the universe showing the way and one being able to see it and going for it. Face your fears that’s where the path is, otherwise you just stay in your shelter with no path. My neighbor, a pre-kinder teacher in her home school started chatting with me across the fence and I made the move of offering help with the kids. I have been thinking about working with kids for a while, specifically using healthy eating and planting your own food as the basis for their education. Making a parenthesis, a man and a program that are already doing this pretty successfully and changing kids’ lives are Diego Ruete in Uruguay with his program Petit Gourmet. Check them out. Back to the preschool next door. This school always seemed like a great opportunity to put my foot through the door of education. The moment arose and I jumped in. The teacher and I agreed that I will volunteer once a week helping the kids with their English. Next step is to start preparing the class! Face the fear!

Do any of you have suggestions regarding progressive teaching tools? I was thinking I would use the environment to work on colors and numbers and make some interactive activities. Any ideas you have would be greatly appreciated. I will try to incorporate some of Diego’s ideas.

Numbers and color through food.

This takes me to a second topic that has been in my recent life. Creating systems that do not depend on the monetary system, for example an all-help-all system without money in the middle or learning how the money system works and making it work for you. I will possibly expand on these subjects in other posts but I wanted to let you know that there is a movement starting that uses favors as the exchange between humans. Also, last night I went with my wife Elke to listen and interact with Robert Kyosaki the author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and he clearly showed how money is worth less and less every day, so working for money is working for something that does not really have value. Let’s work for what we believe in and work on helping others.

Serve our future.

On that note see you tomorrow!

Commitment, Focus and Finding the Passion Within

Hi all! I am back to the cyber world through this writing. This time I am using the cyber world to channel what’s in my brain, to put in writing in front of me all the ideas and projects I am working on so I can then distinguish the relevant, determine my passions and then focus on them like there is no tomorrow. The commitment starts today! I am committing to write for 30 days and I will only skip 5 days of the month. Come with me on this ride of introspection and connection. I will cover new amazing things that come into my life, updates of the projects I am working on, new projects that arise, the rough moments and my evolution. Come with me on this journey!

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Conectandonos con la Pacha Mama Organica!

Joyful Living y Everybody Just Relax presentan la segunda charla sobre el bienestar. En esta charla se tocan los temas de la tierra y la comida que se crea en ella. Es otro tema fundamental para el ciclo de charlas ya que hace enfasis en nuestra Madre Tierra que es la que nos provee un hogar y alimentacion y tambien hace enfasis en el proceso usado para generar estas comidas (Organico, no Organica, exportado, local y geneticamente modificado).

Disfruten la charla. Hay 2 partes a la charla asi que pasen al segundo video despues de la primero. Como siempre estamos abiertos a todos los comentarios y sugerencias ya que compartir nos ayuda a todos a evolucionar.

Jah Bless!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiV1LZjSJJM&list=PLrG5uyCB22ssYCCRMtBmqcPP6OYvYqOjw&index=1

Bienestar con Joyful Living (Chris Campbell)

Joyful Living y Everybody Just Relax o Chris y Allan comparten ideas sobre como vivir una vida feliz, saludable y siguiendo el corazon de uno mismo para estar conectados con su camino en esta vida! En esta charla se comparten ideas sobre un punto base, la bio-individualidad! Disfruten y compartan!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joyful-Living/270085816525570?fref=ts

Kids of the new generation!

Hi lovers!


We all know that kids come into existence through a loving experience and they come into this world with infinite wisdom. They have the ability to learn things quickly and their bodies are developing and mutating at high rates. Also they come into this world to provide infinite love to the people they come in contact with. It is also a reality that some kids are not given the opportunity to flower and reveal their full potential. We as kids' guides need to make the right decisions to ensure the flower in the kid has the chance to flourish. We could ask? how do we do this? How do we know what to do and how to guide them. Well, I am sure that all parents can say that there is an infinite wisdom inside them that comes out to help the kids evolve.


I have been thinking about this a lot. I have been given many opportunities in my life to flower myself and I am infinitely grateful for these. Also, I have been given some limitations, based on fearful society beliefs, that have limited my flowering. I am also grateful for these because it has given me a chance to recognize the opposites. Lately I have been thinking a lot on how to make the world a better place for all of us. I think this is something we all think. I get a little overwhelmed with the massive task but I have also started to recognize that big things can happen through small acts. I guess that's a little bit of a cliché but I think it is true. I have been gardening quite a bit lately and it is always a magical experience. First because I share with nature, second I have been able to be directly linked to the natural cycle of the mother earth and third it has given me the opportunity to share with close ones and show them my projects. I have to confess that I do feel proud of my projects .


Well, putting all of the above together a great idea came into manifestation and basically it is to start teaching kids about the life cycle of mother earth and show them how it is directly related to our existence. On a side note, kids are very present in my life because my mom works for a Montessori program, the house next door is a nursery and my girlfriend has young cousins which I had the pleasure to see grow and evolve the last couple of months. So how could I or we start teaching kids or start showing kids how to interact with mother earth? Start from the beginning I said, and well, that took me straight to composting. Composting teaches so many things of the cycle and it is a very simple hands on activity. COMPOST! I love compost so much hehe. Basically it teaches us and the kids how EVERYTHING is INTERCONNECTED. Our direct waste from our kitchen ends up being our food! That is the cycle. It also teaches us how the different levels of existence are so critical for everything to be. If the bugs, fungus and bacteria are happy, then the soil and birds are happy. If the soil and birds are happy then the plants are happy. If the plants are happy then the animals and humans are happy. If we are all happy we compost and then the bugs and the fungus and bacteria are happy! Wow! Well, this is what I have been thinking to myself a lot, but to start making this a reality, our kids have to be connected to this cycle. They don't have to be connected to it directly but they have to be in tune with it and to be in tune with it they have to see it and be with it.


So much of now-a-days inspiration comes from nature and who does not enjoy healthy mother earth?


I wanted to start this forum to collaborate on ideas on what you think kids now-a-days should be learning. The world is changing and this is a magical time. Let the ideas flow!

Stress?

Hi loving Oswaldians,

Here is the deal. Stress is a recurring subject now a days. From busy and demanding jobs to financial shortages to fear induced propaganda to long traffic heavy commutes, and the list can go on and on. Basically stress is part of the western society now a days. Maybe its part of all societies. I am no sure.

In the current belief system we advocate the belief that stress is harming to our lives. That if we could live with less stress we could live a happier, healthier, worry free life. I think this belief makes a lot of sense. Who wants stress!? Well, Kelly from the video below teaches us otherwise. If we could stop creating our belief systems based on supposing and create our belief system based on what is i think we could believe the same as Kelly. As many religions say, existence manifests itself in divine perfection. What is to be must be and what is IS. Here we go! So if we experience stress, that must be divine as well! Well, then we can ask? Why do we have to experience stress in this divine experience of existence! Well stress is nothing less than an amazing reaction that the body and the mind create to help us rise up to the challenging moment. Stress is a very powerful mecanism created by us, the humans and maybe animals, to help us cope with all the challenges that come our way in our life. And the challenges that are presented to us in our life are nothing less than trainings and teachings to take us to the next stage in our evolution. Don't avoid challenges to avoid stress. Inmerse yourself in your challenge-full calling and purpose and trust that your magical human nature will guide you through it.

Check out Kelly's video below which explains everything about stress.

Open your heart and bring your thoughts in and lets collaborate!

Blessings!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcGyVTAoXEU&feature=youtube_gdata_playerwww.youtube.com/watch?v=RcGyVTAoXEU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Cycle Starts

Bueno familiy, hace mucho que no he escrito a traves de este medio pero es el principio de un nuevo cyclo.

Hace 8 meses q estoy en el hermoso pais de Costa Rica. Me vine a vivir con mi mejor amigo Dave en octubre del año pasado. Ya lo siento como mi casa. Hace un poco mas de un año que salgo con Elkita, la mujer de mis sueños, y una mujer q me a inspirado y a dado coraje para take action. Hace una semana q estoy en mi nueva casa de Atenas y con eso empiezan nuevas relaciones con el lugar y nuevos proyectos.

Como parte del comienzo compre un whiteboard enorme para poder organizar las ideas q vayan saliendo.

Les queria compartir el plano de la casa con las zonas de permacultura y el inicio de todo q es el compost. Jah bless gente! Vamos a ir planeando y ir saliendo del sistema de la avaricia y vamos hacia el sistema del amor, creatividad y cooperacion. Podemos ir cambiando desde ahora. Put your ideas out there!

Re-Inventing the Wheel

What an invention the wheel! It let’s us exponentially increase our carrying capacity and makes it easy to transport things by changing a constant drag force to single point drag force. Following this invention came industrialization, and the media controlled propaganda to accommodate industrialization and some careless destruction of our Mother Earth was done. As a way to organize ourselves and all the production that came with this boom, the information and technology era arouse. Now technology, and specially the internet are letting us reconnect with ourselves again and freedom of speech is stronger than ever. People are being able to transmit their most inner truths and spread love and care and evolve to be able to survive this apocalypsis. Beware there is also misleading information.

After this little melancomedy, I come to the re-invention of the wheel, more specifically, the bicycle! Humanly propelled it uses air and food as its fuels and through and internal digestion and mental controls we are able to make the bicycle run efficiently with no GHG (Green House Gas) emissions (well, yes, technically we are producing GHG emissions, some from the use of Oxygen that then turns into CO2 by our lungs and every once in a while some Methane, depending on what foods we ingested jeje). Keeping our human temple fit we make the bicycle run.

Now, who uses bicycles now a days? I am thinking kids, people living in small communities, people that cannot afford cars, pedi cabbers, bi-cyclists and the list can go on! Hurray! The bicycle is still amongst us!

The car has made it a little harder for the bicycle to strive in our western community. Based on the car we have developed spread out communities where the human interaction (interactions human to human and human to Earth) is very little in the commute times, where bicycles and humans are having trouble surviving and where fauna and flora is being eradicated and even extinct by the development of highways and roads necessary for the use of the car.  Questions arise in me: “Why are people starving, why are we running out of food? Are we misusing our precious Mother Earth the provider of everything?” Even though the Earth has the potential for Abundance to maintain the balance of all living creatures we have derailed from or existence path (or maybe this way is the only way we could have gone to eventually SEE), and NOW we are here NOW, not using the Earth’s potential for Abundance and living with suffering in this beautiful Earth.

I have found a way to re-invent the wheel in my lifestyle. I try to use the bicycle as my common transportation (sometimes I use the skate and sometimes I use the car to make things easy and convenient for myself). But now I also found a trailer that I can hook up to my car. Now my bicycle is not just only a means to transport myself. I can transport myself, someone else, my groceries, fun things from the side of the road and even my dog Lupe when we go for long bike rides.

Re-invent the wheel in your daily lifestyle. Eventually we will have communities planned for the bicycles to ride easily and freely. Riding my bicycle, especially with the trailer, makes me feel great! I leave you with a little clip.

El Futuro de Vivir

Hola,

Un muy bueno amigo, el Pato, me ilumino con este documental. Siempre pense que tendria que haber una manera de poder vivir sin tener que depender de una ciudad o un sistema electrico o un sistema de saniamiento o de un supermercado. Pero estaba limitado por mi condicionamiento. Como hacian los originarios de todas las tierras? Ya se que hemos evolucionado mentalmente (no espiritual o astral o natural) y que hemos creado increibles cosas como seres humanos pero al ir "progresando" no hemos hecho dependientes de muchas cosas y hemos mal-evolucionado hasta el punto que casi que no podemos sobrevivir por nosotros mismos, como lo hace cualquier otro animal. Dependemos del sistema!
Michael Reynolds es un revolucionario del asunto. Ha puesto su evolucion intelectual a trabajar con un meta muy clara. Resolver el problema de la escaces de recursos que el sistema nos propone en este momento. Construir hogares y comunidades auto suficientes. Basta de contaminacion, basta maltratar a la tierra y basta de sistema que nos ata a ser herramientas y no a ser creadores. A ser humano, a crear, a convivir, a compartir y disfrutar la tierra.

Aqui les dejo el documental y una pagina sobre sus disenos. Gracias Pato.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrMJwIedrWU&feature=related

http://www.dreamgreenhomes.com/plans/earthship.htm

Love and each one of us

Rastafari stands for universal love, a higher spiritual ideal that is not usually emphasized in the mainstream of Western society. To be a Rastafarian is to be a righteous person, continuously seeking to improve SELF. This process of self discovery is further clarified by the words of a St Lucian Rastafarian who said "The word Rastafari as I understand it means purely, the power that lies within any man which enables him to do anything he wants…. To be a Rastafarian therefore is to be conscious of that divine power, and to be developing one's power potential for achievement... Rastafari becomes therefore a philosophy of life fulfillment". 


http://www.rastafarispeaks.com/articles/The_Re-evolution_of_Rastafari.html

Viviendo Como Nos Dicata el Corazon

Hola hermanos y hermanas!

Encontre la historia de Kyle Thiermann en el i Reader de Goolge. La verdad es que me inspiro mucho. Es sobre un surfer Californiano que se dedica a hacer short films sobre el ciclo de las cosas a traves del mundo. Por ejemplo, el plastico que tiramos en nuestras casas a donde va? Miren y lean sobre los proyectos que hace, les va a cambiar la vida. A vivir el cambio gente. A vivir en una tierra justa, hermosa, con amor hacia todo. A vivir con el corazon en la mano. Hoy quiero que sea el dia en que empiezo a hacer todas las decisiones basadas en el amor de mi corazon. A vivir la vida! Los quiero mucho y ojala los vea a todos pronto.
Besos y abrazos,

http://surfingforchange.com/