Sitting in an airport hotel, a nice one, navigating my last five hours of flight to Bali, and Denpasar airport. I am held over in Seoul, or SOUL due to a volcanic eruption in Indonesia. 

The writer’s retreat I am attending has been thrown into adventures galore, as the participants all have challenging experiences getting there.  As writers, it is just more stories or grist for our mills.. But as humans 
We don’t relish interruption and delays in our human made plans. Fear creeps in, doubt, self-doubt, all kinds of thought creatures try to make their home in us. Martha Beck uses the expression, “I did not see that coming,” 

A moment of humility comes to us, and we are forced to navigate with surrender as well as desire for an outcome. 
When you suffer sudden loss, or change of any kind, it is human nature to reject reality and want something different. It is hard to look at the ‘what is” and accept that too, as the Divine Plan.   

I slept fitfully, not only because of jet lag, but because strangely, the clock did not seem to advance, and everything became slow and deliberate, and I had to look at several devices to prove to myself that the clock was not lying! 

I heard the song, as I awoke at 3:30am, Into the Woods, outa the Woods. I considered what that message was about from the Great GCB (great cosmic being). I decided, I would arrive today in Bali, and that I really wanted to see it! I decided to play along with reality and see what I could do about shifting it along the generous lines of Heavenly perfection. Que Sera, Sera, whatever will be, will be, the futures not ours to see, Que sera, sera.  

So, when navigating uncertainty and changes, or sudden loss, be kind to oneself, go slowly, make time your ally, and trust that, in truth, we are all just tourists, traveling this Holy pace called Earth, all with temporary visas, of differing supposed lengths. As in the legendary exchange between Eckhart Tolle and the Great Teacher Krishnamurti, “Eckhart, have you discovered my secret?” “I am OK with whatever is. 

ME TOO! 

Wishing you the best of all worlds, 
From seoul, to soul, 

Satchi

Hello there dear Readers… Today I got a call from someone who experienced a personal meltdown. He did not know how to find his way back to himself. After yet another broken promise, another broken relationship, another emptied bottle and spirit. 

My instructions were,” spend the  day writing to oneself, all the pitiful things about oneself and when you get tired and bored enough, write down in bold, on another sheet of paper 5 more interesting and creative things one could have chosen differently... Then the next time you feel like blowing your life up over some girl, life challenge or work stress, make yourself do at least 3 of the 5 things first. 

Occupy You! Not Wall Street or Pity Street, or Suicide Street! Occupy YOU and see who is in there.. 

Stay with it until you feel the recognition of Self with a capital S! Capital S or Superman or Supergirl, has ways of avoiding Kryptonite and embracing self-love and self-worth.  Think enough of Self, to make a choice that he/she would celebrate and be proud of. 

Some people call this God Reckoning, some call it coming home, whatever the metaphor, and know that it really is the only place for you. We need to learn to source ourselves from the deep well, not the shallows, of social media or TV or even blogs. 

Occupy YOU! Get to know yourself, watch and study your thoughts not only like the passing clouds they can be, but the toxic ones, observe like a cat, watching a mouse, stay calm, motionless and catch your mind at its familiar patterns and then say, STOP! Who goes there! Who are you to destroy my Hope, my Love, my Courage, my sacred human BODY, MIND or SPIRIT!????Who Are YOU? What ARE YOU? 

I did this once, and the result was the end of a pattern that had plagued my life and my joy since childhood. Instantly, once cornered the neuron paused in its execution, (ironic turn of phrase) and just like that I rewired myself. 
Occupy You! Do it now! Do it often! Like Nike, just do it! Please let me know how it works for you too… 

With Love and Light 
Satchi ​

Someone called me recently and said, “Hey what’s going on in the Universe? It feels like someone is crop dusting Crazy!”  I think they felt themselves out of whack in the Universe and then when the reflection of others mirrored their own experience the question becomes…” Is it me? Or is the rest of the world off its rockers..?

I love the inference in” Crop Dusting For Crazy,” since it implies that not all crap belongs to us…It is a positive way of saying, there is a disturbance in the force and we are all responding to it, in the myriad ways our psyches allow. When the crop dusting companies spray pesticides etc…on agriculture crops, trouble occurs when they are not precise and end up spraying the organic field next door. Killing bees, poisoning pets etc…

“Crop Dusting For Crazy” acknowledges that we are sensitive and we can get caught up in the worlds unhealthy fascination with all things of a disturbing and negative nature. Cue all the murder, death and mayhem in news broadcasts and television shows. I often wondered why we had so many NCIS shows in all kinds of cities, until I realized that people are trying to forensically understand their own violent tendencies and fear addictions. There also is the element of facing the primordial fear of death, once you have vicariously died all these different ways in the characters of these shows, it  tends to desensitize one to ones’ own possible end.

So, whether it is your astrology chart, a problem with your meds, or the world is just plain disturbing, remember that all things pass, and this moment will too, try not to own everything, it may simply not belong to you, just part of the Universal Collective Consciousness of humanity trying to find its way to peace. If they are Crop Dusting for Crazy…get the heck out of the way….

Wishing you the best of all worlds…

Satchi

3/3/15

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