Attracting the + Energy

We are energy beings and we’re filled with electrical vibrations which in turn means that we have plenty of positive and negative ions coursing through our body systems. In a more philosophical sense, we have positive and negative emotional and spiritual energy. We can either invite the good energy into our lives or attract the dark stuff. While it’s not always our decision whether darkness enters our lives, we can choose how we cope with it and how to shield ourselves. Yup, it’s all around but you don’t have to give into it.

Cultivating the positive energy takes work and determination. Ironically, it’s easier to give in and be cynical and pessimistic about how difficult life is and be overwhelmed by the negatives of life. Once you do this, you set up a pattern of inviting in adverse energy into your life which includes negative people.

Personally, I like to work hard and everyday, I ponder how fortunate I am to be healthy and surrounded by love. I put up a shield when I feel like any dark souls are trying to draw my energy. If my depression comes a knockin’, I put in extra effort to stay in the light and have my friends and/or family around. when my dark nights visit me. Of course, I also try to meditate more too.

We have choices about our energetics and the more we get the positive ions flowing, the more we’ll attract the same.

I like to surround myself with the positive energy of nature. The banyan trees in Florida always rejuvenate me..

Hate Is Hell

In this world, people who hate are in their own private hells. It’s sad but my hope is that we can help them see a secular heaven in their present lives that is filled with faith, hope and love. I want to inspire the haters and help them to see the beauty of this existence.

Hope, 2012 – copyright Paul E.G. Lee

Nirvana & Heaven Are All Around

Many people are living their lives expecting to eventually enter the gates of heaven, paradise or reach Nirvana but only some of them realize that these places already exist in our worlds. Now I’m not saying that there isn’t some beautiful place at the end of our lives that we arrive at but I’m still a skeptical about it. What I’m saying is that there is so much more paradise in our lives that can lie outside of our everyday awareness. I find mine in simple moments like meditating, hiking, eating a grand meal, swimming or just being with people who I love.

It’s really easy to find simple Nirvana in your lives. You just have to open your awareness and you’ll find them more and more.

Understanding Ourselves: Get Back To Your Roots The Hominid Way (Part 1)

my colored pencil rendering of a model by the brilliant paleoartist Viktor Deak

I have a passion for the study of paleoanthropology as well as trying to get a handle on our human origins; it’s a key to understanding ourselves as people and where we come from. This science can also help us better understand our mental health, our humanity and our neurobiology.

When I say understand our origins, I mean digging back at least 3 million years or more. Studying this science fits in with my pursuit of wellness psychology, social psychology, positive psychology, and health psychology.

Since I was young, I’ve always had a fascination with our hominid ancestors and was particularly struck by the fossil known as Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis that was discovered in Africa in 1974. She became this magical icon for me and represented my human connection to primates so much so that I drew a version of her based on paleoartist Viktor Deak.

If you want to know how big a nerd I was when I was 10, my parents bought me Lewis Leakey’s classic book “Origins” for my birthday and I jumped for joy with equal excitement of getting my G.I. Joe Egyptology action figure set.

boy, did I love this set!

My fascination with all things paleoanthropologic continued through high school with a human origins class, in college with another human origins class and also a primatology class. Attending American University in D.C. I was able to go to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, check out the cool prehistoric human fossils and then go to the National Zoo and sit and watch the gorillas, orangs and monkeys numerous times. and has continued with my studies in psychology and art.

(To be continued….)

Episode #4: The Fork and The Flame: Maintaining Yourself And Your Energy In The Midst of Change

Here it is, #4 in the Fork & THe Flame series with Chrystal Kubis and myself. Please enjoy!
We like to bring the laughter to wellness!

The Fork & The Flame Episode 3:

Here’s episode # 3 or Chrystal Kubis and me discussing and how we overcome tricky situations with gusto and humor!

The Fork And The Flame: Cha…Cha…Cha…Changes video.

Here’s Chrystal Kubis and I with our episode 2 of our show “The Fork & The Flame”. This time, we discuss thriving with the changes in our life.

Our purpose is to help people find as much happiness, inner-peace, humor and strength as possible in their lives. In addition, we also want to help people find the freedom to find their joy and remove their internal and external barriers.

Party Like It’s 2012

Having a grand time running into a sculpture...

Here’s a simple sentiment today for you folks: get out and have a good time. Party it up. Live life to the fullest and just have some fun. I use the term party for any activity that involves upping your positive energy. This includes pursuits like hiking, hitting the beach, sports, artistic endeavors, being with loved ones, meditation or just having a party because you’re six feet above the ground. I can’t say it enough but our existences’ are impermanent and there ain’t no guarantees that you’re going to live to a ripe old age so get to it.

Beyond Life

If a man tries not to learn he grows old just like an ox!

His body indeed grows old but his wisdom does not grow.

I have gone round in vain the cycles of many lives ever striving to find the builder of the house of life and death.
How great is the sorrow of life that must die!
But now I have seen thee, housebuilder: never more shalt thou built this house.
The rafters of sins are broken, the ridge-pole of ignorance is destroyed.
The fever of craving is past: for my mortal mind is gone to the joy of the immortal NIRVANA

- The following excerpts are taken from the book The Dhammapada translated by Juan Mascaro published by Penguin Books