LifeStudent
By Halcyon
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Love, connection, and dishes from the Belief Buffet. Hosted by John Halcyon Styn
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“I am a F**k-up. I Am Divine.” – Hug Nation Feb 21, 2012 | This powerful broadcast started with trouble and ended in tears. We are all perfect. And we all struggle with the roller coaster of the human experience. | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guided By Love – Hug Nation Feb 14, 2012 | How can we use LOVE (instead of anger or fear) to guide us in the world? (This was inspired by some criticism I’ve received lately about my “Float More” beliefs and how it can contribute to an unjust world.) INCLUDES: - “love” – 3 types Phileo “brotherly love”, eros “romantic, erotic.” Agape “divine love” [spelling?] - Agape Love - Love more, Fear less. Float more, Steer Less. does not mean INACTION! - the same action done from a place of love, feels different from an action done from a place of anger, or guilt. - GOD as Love, the highest form of vibrational flow. become more in alignment. - you notice when you are out of alignment. you can move towards this from a negative place. - you can fight darkness, or you can spread light. you have to take action. - Criticism of my positivity. whether moving away from negative or towards positive, we are on the same team. - spread light. look for opportunities. have integrity in the moment. | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Meaning of Life – Hug Nation 01.17.12 | I believe the meaning of life is to EXPERIENCE the gift of life, itself. But I’m starting to realize there is a set of rules or “Best Practices” to this grand Game of Life, as well. Here is a link to the Turkish Mountaintop Story I mentioned. | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Morning Blessing (video, Mp3 & full txt) | Good morning, you beautiful being. Welcome to this amazing day. As you shift from the dreamstate, and your eyes begin to focus, the world awaits to welcome you. Take your time…all is perfect and as it should be. The darkness of night is slipping into memory. The landscape around you is being showered with heat and light by a massive star of unimaginable power. It is but one star of the 200 billion in our galaxy. – but it is special to us. It is the perfect distance from the earth to maintain a rich balance of life. Countless species of plants and animals are all interconnected in a constant dance of life & death. From iceberg to tundra to desert to jungle, life thrives. And you, you awaken with a consciousness that can see, hear and experience all of this wonder. All of this life, as well as all of the soil and rocks and water and air – is ageless. It may newly be in its current form, but it is all made of stardust. Every atom on our planet can be traced back to the Big Bang. The ancestry of Everything we can conceive to know can be traced back to a single source. Every rock and skin cell and water droplet is made from the same family of matter that comprises the planets of the most distant galaxy and the fuel of the most distant star. And you….you awaken inside a body made of this stardust. You awaken to a consciousness that can perceive all of this interconnected magic. Wow. Our minds conspire to play a trick on us. We hear thoughts that we mistake for truth. We slip into beliefs that we are limited. That we are finite. That we are separate. We are not. The entire universe is a timeless, infinite mobius strip. All we are is an integral part of all that is. The universe is a single ever-connected unfolding event. A vibrational kaleidoscope of waves and matter and space so vast and expansive that it is beyond comprehension. The vantage point of human consciousness is witness to a but a tiny speck on that mobius strip of the cosmos. And from that tiny point, Human perception can still only perceive a tiny fraction of the vibrations that make up the cosmos. But this blip of vibrations during this minuscule fragment of time is still infinitely more than we could ever hope to comprehend or appreciate. The fact that we are conscious to witness ANY of this miracle is a gift beyond measure. And you… you awaken to this magnificent gift. Let the magnitude of this blessing settle in. In this infinitely complex, timeless, and miraculous universe, you are aware of it. What a rare and priceless gift! This body of yours is not only is graced with thriving life and existence…but consciousness! You can gaze at the stars… you can feel the wind…you can ponder your place in it all! This awareness is something to be basked in – not understood. Awe is more important than understanding. Understanding is a myth. We have no vantage point to truly understand anything. We must let go of the drive to achieve, and surrender to the ability to receive. It is arrogant to think that the knowledge of a single human lifetime – or the collective knowledge of ALL human lifetimes can compare to the timeless wisdom of the cosmos. We are but one cell in the body of the cosmos. It is silly to think any cell can understand the workings of the whole. The Universe is filled with perfect cycles. Of flawless harmony. Of constant movement in energy and matter. And you…you awaken to be a part of this perfection. It takes no thought or effort on your part. You simply are a part of this harmony and Flow. Our bodies are filled with these cycles and systems. It is what we are: From breath, to heartbeats, to healing cells. Our mind needs do nothing for these systems to thrive. Just as the tides and seasons flow without thought, so do the patterns of our bodies. This flow towards growth. This flow towards healing. This flow towards harmony and connection. This is the flow of the universe. When we surrender fully to this flow, we | 1/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Happy New Year Hug Nation – Jan 3 | -- | 1/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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“9 Tips to Creating Healthy, Happy New Year’s Goals ” Hugnation 12.25.11 | 1) Avoid goals that make you feel stressed or guilty. 2) Go towards things you want, not away from things you don’t. 3) Express it in present tense. 4) Make sure you believe it can happen. 5) Include things you are already doing. 6) Make sure it feels good! 7) Allow for magic outside your control. 8 ) Align it with your higher self. 9) Let go of attachments. Happy New Year! New Year’s Eve is pretty uneventful from space. There is no cosmic “click” when our calendars expire. The passing of Time is an allusion. Time simply is. We humans experience Time as a present moment streaming along an imaginary timeline, preceded by a past and with a future ahead of us. All we ever experience is the present moment, but our big ol’ brains allow us to remember and create elaborate stories of how we got here and where we are going. That being said, it can still be helpful to use arbitrary times on the calendar as plotting points of a journey. Like longitude and latitude coordinates that – when a line is drawn between them – gives us a sense of space. This space between calendar points is time. So when the calendar notifies us of a milestone, it is fun to check in and see where you stand on your journey. Are you on track? In alignment? Are you uncovering the script inside you? Or following a script given to you? Are you being pulled from your heart? Or pushed by your mind? Are you making choices from Love? Or Fear? As we analyze where we are come the end of December and where we want to be in the New Year, it can be tempting to make a list of Resolutions. This instinct can be good… but it is critical that you craft your statements and sentiments with care. And before we even get started, lets use be use the term resolutions lightly. Resolutions sound way too aggressive. NATO and the UN make resolutions. They are like barbed wire fences in idea form. Here are 9 Tips to Creating Healthy, Happy New Year’s Goals 1) Avoid goals that make you feel stressed or guilty. Resolutions are not your opportunity to chastise yourself for things you meant to do but didn’t. People often list the things they wish they were doing better at. There is an element of guilt to things like “Hit the Gym at least 3 times a week.” If the idea makes you stressed, try reframing the idea with a similar intention like, “Honor my body’s ability to thrive and be active.” 2) Go towards things you want, not away from things you don’t. That which you resist, persists. Mother Teresa said she would never attend an Anti-War rally, but would consider a peace rally. Going to war with something means all you attention is on that thing! The key is to create a future that is warm and inviting and creates an emotional gravitational pull towards it. Rather than marching away from your fat thighs, walk towards your strong legs. Instead of “Stop eating crap. “ Try, “Be conscious of how I fuel my body.” “Find good-feeling thoughts and good-feeling manifestations must follow” Abraham (Esther & Jerry Hicks) 3) Make it present tense. Rather than set a list of rules that you need to follow, try to visualize a future that makes you happy. See yourself in 6 months. Jacob Glass teaches something he calls “The Lunch Game.” You agree with your lunch partner, in advance, to speak in the present tense as if it was 6 months from now. Don’t get caught up in the “how,” just speak as if obstacles have been resolved and decisions have been made. What are you doing? Who are you spending time with? What is your job like? Allow yourself to feel this future as if it was happening now. This same technique is a great way to articulate goals. Write your “resolutions” as joyful statements about your life. “I am doing yoga most mornings and then going for a short walk. I make a point to appreciate the plants & flowers along my path.” “I finished the 1st draft of my novel and am thrilled with the ideas that have emerg | 12/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thoughts & Motivation 12.20.11 | Understanding the motivations of external forces can help you understand where the influence in your own thoughts come from. (Also avail as audio on iTunes.) Additional clip from the afternoon broadcast: | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hug Dec 13 – Self Love vs Narcisism | The story of Narcissus is told as a cautionary tale. A man, so entranced by his own beauty that he becomes trapped in his own gaze. But as I grow in wisdom and calm in ambition, I am increasing my gaze into the pond as well. The universe is amazing. And I have no more elaborate or intimate experience of the universe than of my own mind, in my own body. I witness food become energy. I witness healing. I witness breath and heartbeat. I witness thoughts and emotions. The entire Universe exists – to me – inside my head. Everything I can perceive is done so inside my brain. Every image, every touch, every smell. EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE is a sensation sent along my nervous system to my brain to be interpreted. There is a lot to see in that pool! *** School teaches us a little bit of history. We get simplified lessons of empires and tyrants. Of inventors and liberators. We learn about the birth of our country and the modern world. We learn about the progress at the hands of industry. We are taught that we are a tiny droplet born into a massive wave. We are lucky to be a part of this amazing wave of industry and progress. We are taught that – if we apply ourselves – we can work for one of forces that is steering the wave. But a wave is a poor metaphor. A wave is connected to the whole and is a harmonic part of the natural cycles. What we are experiencing is more like the rush of water after a damn breaks. The rush of this wave is not limited by cycles or nature. It violently cuts its own path towards progress. That this is a good thing is seldom questioned. And so we are prepared in school to build a raft. We learn about the direction of this flood as if it is inevitable and wonderful. “We are bringing moisture to the desert!” We scream, as 1000 desert cacti are exterminated forever. And where, really, is the flood heading? To the ocean? To more water? Do we need that!? The cultural mythology is that we are heading in a positive direction. The growth and achievement and acquisition are the direction of happiness. And so we jump in the raging flood and paddle towards the sea. And while I don’t mean to say progress is bad – I am saying that it is not good in and of itself. Perhaps Narcicis had it right. Maybe all the joy we need is in a tiny puddle. *** Self Love may be the key out of the madness. The first step is to understand that we are as great as any person who has ever walked the earth. We have the same biology and brain. We have the same capacity to feel and learn. So if we feel that the rush of the flood no longer serves us, we can crawl out of the water and re-evaluate. Steve Jobs said, “When you grow up you, tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. “ We are taught that the world exists and culture is in motion. The evolution of progress is wonderful and beyond our control. But Jobs is right, everything in the system was created by people no smarter than you. And most probably , by people with less spiritual connection than you. Possibly by people with incredibly distorted ideas of what is important. Definitely by people who valued victory over compassion and had an unhealthy drive for achievement. Don’t get me wrong, there are millions…billions of people to learn from on the earth now and in history. And we should absolutely value the wisdom of those before us. We can see so much farther when we stand on the shoulders of giant. But who is to say what direction to look? Learn from history, books, and others, but be critical of anything you don’t experience. Have faith in other’s teachings, but never let it trump you | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOW & Imagination | It is hard to know where to focus our attention in this attention deficit world of pop-up ads, video billboards, and sign flippers on every corner. It can be maddening. If we view life as something that we take a seat for and passively receive – then we are in for a frenzied ride that we have no control over. But once you start to understand how your brain works, things are much simpler. There are only 2 things you can put your attention on: 1) This NOW moment. 2) Your imagination. The Now is the real visceral experience you are always having. The sensations. The visuals. The infinite richness of the universe right now. If you are not experiencing the Now, then you are in your imagination. Whether an fantastic imagined future or potential outcome to the workday – or a memory of transgressions of yesterday – they are all generated by the imagination. This understanding is critical. It is critical because it helps us to understand that the imagination is a tool – and we control where it takes us. Until we learn to discipline our thoughts, it is easy to believe that we are at the whims of our thoughts. But what we think and whether we believe those thoughts is absolutely in our control. Without discipline, our imagination tends to pull to the dark. Our mind likes to wander to negative places of doubt, fear, & anxiety. Fear is imagination used negatively. The future is just a story – so what is the benefit of telling yourself a story that is stressful? People will argue that it is important to face reality. Many people who seem pessimistic actually self-identify as realists. And as simple as this is, I don’t want to sound simplistic. There is a value to considering negative futures. The squirel who doesn’t consider a cold winter will fail to store enough food to survive til spring. But the key here is subtle: The squirrel can imagine a pleasant future where he has plenty of food to last all winter. Then he can take action in the Now to ensure that he is headed in that direction. Or he can imagine that he will not collect enough, or that his stores will rot or be stolen. The action taken in response to the second scenario is identical to the first. Both require collecting nuts today. But the first squirrel does so with cheer, the second does it with anxiety. Now this is an unfair metaphor because the squirrel doesn’t have the same cognitive abilities of a human. A human has an imagination. It is our great evolutionary gift – and curse. We can look at tracks and imagine where an animal has been and where it is going. We can look at a field and imagine what the of rainfall it gets and what it would look like with rows of wheat. We can even imagine a combination of tastes we’ve never tried and have an idea of if it would taste good or bad. Let’s try this: Imagine biting into a crisp dill pickle. Can you taste the briny saltiness? Now imagine biting into a candy cane. Do you think the two tastes would compliment each other well? I’m pretty sure they would not. But have you ever tried that combination? Now imagine the sound of a loved one’s voice who has passed on. Can you hear it in your head? Can you feel a trace of emotion as you experience them in your imagination? Do you feel warm inside? Now lets take a second and consider the difference between a memory of your cat, and seeing your cat walk by. I heard Sadguru Vasudev, an Indian mystic, instructing his followers. He said where do you see me right now? Many pointed at him. He said again, “where do you see me?” He was trying to demonstrate that nothing is seen except for within the processes of the brain. Light is reflected to the eye, which processes an image upside down, the brain then flips it and sends it to other parts of the brain to be experienced. The imagination can – essentially – send an image a sensation from one part of the brain to another to be “experienced.” So we return to this awareness that there i | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spiritually + Mentally + Loving = Feeling better physically through healing. As a Honorable Discharged, Rescue Operations Captain, USMM/USCG: Halcyon is a born leader, his appearance may seem questionable at first glance. But, I make no mistake when I say, "He's extremely intelligent! His wisdom serves for the greater-good of peace, and mankind.
