Archive for the ‘Mid-Life’ Category

An Evolutionary Life!

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

FROM:  Steve & Suzanne

Here is a quote from the American visionary thinker and pioneer of evolutionary enlightenment, Andrew Cohen.  This speaks to us at this time in our lives and we want to share it with you.  Namaste!

What motivates us to make the important choices that we make? Are these choices informed by the deepest insights and the highest perspectives that we have seen? Or are these choices driven by conditioned impulses or unquestioned “shoulds” that we’ve unconsciously absorbed from the unenlightened world around us? If the choices we make are motivated by anything less than the very highest part of ourselves, we will always, at some level, experience a sense of unease, as if something is wrong that we can’t quite grasp. Unless the important choices that we make are in alignment with the highest we have seen, reaching towards our own edge, we will always be spiritually dissatisfied. We will not feel whole.

 But when this changes in a dramatic way, when the important choices we make become a genuine reflection of our own deepest and highest knowing, then we’re going to experience what it means to be alive in a completely new way. We’ll be living at our own edge. In fact, we’re going to have to run just to keep up with that edge. Once we’ve made the choice to align with our own higher but as yet unmanifest potentials, undoubtedly we will become even more painfully aware of the many parts of ourselves that are very far from that edge. So we are going to have to spend most of our time doing all we can just to catch up with our own extraordinary potential. But that’s what it means to live a truly evolutionary life. It’s the ultimate challenge and the biggest thrill that there is—always living on that edge. 

Rare Recommendation!

Monday, May 24th, 2010

FROM:  Steve

I’m going to do something today that I generally don’t do!  I am going to recommend a magazine that I have found very informative and helpful as I travel the road from midlife and beyond.  I recommend it because it is easy to read (mostly short, entertaining articles), specific to my needs as I grow older and wisergenerally apolitical (other than being supportive of people like me), and just all around interesting!! 

AARP: The Magazine, a hip, glossy monthly,  is filled with genuinely useful, up-to-date, vital information that captures the essence of the variety of opportunities and lifestyles available to us as we grow older in what seems to be an ever more complex society.  I like it because it alerts me to things I think I should know to live a longer, happier, healthier life.  It also shows me how other people are doing it!    I like that!

The magazine came as a perk when I joined AARP, an organization targeted to people 50 and over.  I remember when I was first approached (by mail) to join the organization back when I was 50.  Still being middle-aged and nowhere near retirement, I chuckled to myself and trashed the mailing without even opening it!  Perhaps you did the same thing!?  I’m turning 63 next month and I wish that I had opened that initial mailing and taken the time to read some of the material.  The time taken then would have been useful in perhaps helping me pay attention to the inivitable a bit sooner!  There was information there about health, finances, relationships, law, travel, politics, etc. that I could have used sooner in my last 13 years.

It only costs $16 to join for a year (with significant discounts for longer term subscriptions).  The magazine in itself is worth the cost.  But in addition I get another monthly publication called the AARP Bulletin that is chock full of additional useful information.  And for those of us that like to surf around in cyberspace, I have unlimited access to AARP.org (included in the $16 fee) which looks like it contains all the information I need to navigate my future.  And if it isn’t right there at my fingertips, I can find numerous links and references telling me where I can go to have my questions answered!  What a deal!! 

So if you are really serious about making the rest of your life the best of your life, click on over to www.aarp.org and do a little exploring.  Follow the directions to join up.   Then look forward to getting the magazine and be as surprised and delighted as I am ever time I do!