The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

The meaning of life: to be happy and the need for time is very personal to me. I just got up from a nap. Nice luxury, you say. Sure, that it is. Except for this – the pain does not allow me to sleep enough. I have a very messed up back. My back is ten years older than the rest of me. Which means my back is 75. I have had two back surgeries. The surgeries went well. But the problems are so numerous that I really need more surgery. However, back surgical procedures are always iffy. Even with the best surgeons in the world, the chances are great that there will be further problems down the road.

So, I go to bed at about 12:30 AM., and need to wake up at 5:00 AM. to take pain medication. But I really need also to get out of bed to change the positioning of body enough so as to relieve the pain. (Also, during those night hours, I awake almost every time I have to turn in bed so as not to cause even greater pain.) So I usually meditate from 5:00 to 5:30 AM; then work until 7:30, when I eat my breakfast. After breakfast, it is help

Exhausted Kitty

with our two dogs as one is just 17 weeks old and still has house-breaking issues. (And all that almost unbounded energy.)

After this is done, I read until I cannot keep my eyes open and usually sleep between 9:00 and 10:00 AM. Exercise the dogs, eat lunch and then nap from 1:00 to 2:30 or 3:00 PM. Sounds like luxury, right? NOT. Work till supper. Work after supper. Start all over again. Between lack of uninterrupted sleep and the pain medication I never feel rested. The point of this saga?

I feel I have little time. I am with you if you feel you don’t have enough time, for whatever reason. I just wanted you to see that I know how you feel, if you feel you don’t have enough time.

Two things: The great sages have said and say, there will be enough time for everything needful; and make the best of what you do have. I was reading Neale Donald Walsch, of Conversations with God fame, and he said, as 2009 closed, things get done just as there are supposed to. I was amazed. But when I thought it through, I saw some truth. When you are sincere about your life and work, things will get done as they need to. Yes, the things that are truly required in my life – get done. It sounds strange. Feels strange. But I find it to be true. Try it on and see if it works for you too.

Make the best of the time you’ve got. Obviously statement? Maybe. Maybe not. People with limited time sometimes pressure themselves into cramming too much into too little time. They never relax – thinking they don’t have time. Here’s a quote from Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was chided for taking a month per year off. He replied, it is said, “I can do 12 months of work in 11, but I can’t do 12 months of work in 12.” (Something like that.) The point is, he was better able to work when he had sufficient rest and relaxation.

Oliver Wendell Holmes when he was appointed to the Supreme Court

If you are resting to be more invigorated when you do work, you have a good plan, in my estimation. In other words, make the best of the time you do have. There are all kinds of tools to be found on the Internet to help you with time management, if you need them. If you are just feeling guilty over not “spending enough time,” maybe you need to stop the guilt-trip. When you do cease to feel guilty about your responsible use of time, you will get more done. I know; that’s where I am now.

Declare your time independence. Just use the time you have wisely. Everything will get done that needs doing. Just look how long God has been working. When you use your time wisely, you find yourself smack in the middle of the meaning of life: to be happy. Why? How? When in connection with God at the core of your being, you find bliss, that bliss is then beamed into the world. One of the ways that happens is through the guilt-free, responsible use of the time you have.

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Fred, who was having meaning of life problems, came to my office for an official visit. He was an amiable guy, about 5′ 10″ with thinning black hair, age 46. He kind of plopped in the office chair. I began drawing him out on what he was having trouble with. He just wasn’t happy he said. I asked the usual questions about family, friends, health. He said all those were fine.

When I asked about work, I sensed his personal intensity grow immediately. We had hit the tingling nerve. He was just not happy in his work. I was surprised to hear him say that he could not use his creativity in his job. Bosses wanted exactly as they prescribed, no more, no less. He did a good job of that and even won two promotions over the seven years he had been with the company. But he felt stifled, cut off from himself.

I was surprised because men don’t usually bring up this sort of discomfort. They kept it to themselves thinking that sharing it is unmanly. But this is part of the meaning of life which is to be happy.

When our creative side is thwarted, we cannot express the happiness we carry inside out in the corporal world. Then we will feel as if something is missing. We are missing participation in the meaning of life. This was Fred’s base problem.

His base problem? The problem that was causing all his other meaning of life problems.

Fred asked the question, “What am I to do? I, of course, need the job. Just can’t quit. Family to support and all that. What am I going to do?”

I told him simply that he needed to find the freedom and the means to express himself creatively. What was it he felt he wanted to do, creatively? He wanted to build furniture. He said he had ideas for unique pieces and he wanted to try those ideas out.

We explored this possibility. Did he have the tools? No. Could he afford to buy them? Yes. Would his family be on board with him taking some time to play with his ideas? He thought they would as they had several times remarked at how restless he seemed.

“But do I have the right to do this?” he asked. I asked him what he meant by “right.” He said it had to do with breaking the mold of always toeing the line as he had ben taught as a child. Then we got to the foundational problem.

Foundational problem? He was taught that happiness and the meaning of life were straight-jacketed into routine. His nurturing family did not believe in creativity. His father worked 40 years in the same job, for example. (Nothing wrong with that in itself.)

Yes, I said, you have every right to express yourself as you see fit. You are free to do that. Besides, I said, he could start in his spare time and see if it turned into a career where he was not stifled. Maybe it would be no more than an important hobby but some folks, I told him, definitely make a good living creating hand-crafted furniture.

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Fred left the office beaming. You can be beaming too. Find what it is that expresses your happiness and do it. Starting today; starting now. You’ll be fulfilling the meaning of life.

And I invite you to pick up more info about the meaning of your life. I ask to you sign up for Free Instant Access to some of my Force-Source-Resources. One of which is titled, “Two Free Life Phrases for Self Development ‘I Am My True Self’ and ‘I am Conscious’.” Remember, one bit of information can give you a superior point of activation.  Just click here and you’ll be on your way. (Or, if it appears there, please sign up now in the upper right hand corner.) These resources will change your life.

I found the meaning of life in my own worth. Once upon a time people did not listen to me. I said something and the conversation just went on as if I had never spoken. Perhaps I had nothing worth saying, I thought.

As I personally evolved, I discovered something about myself and about people in general. If you want to have people pay attention to you, you must feel like your words have worth. And the way you feel your words have worth is to know that you, yourself are worthy.

I have seen it both ways. I have watched people speak for 20 minutes and say absolutely nothing of substance or import. These were people who held positions of esteem in the communities to which they were speaking. One person merely shouted one cliche after another for those 20 minutes. Some people raved after the speech as if what the person had to say was extremely profound. Some raved because they wanted to curry favor from this important person. Others raved because they thought the person actually said something.

I did not think the person had really said anything. I checked with other colleagues who are usually honest in sharing their feelings. They felt as I did. Nothing there but hot air. The speaker, however, was listened to because of the worth that speaker felt for herself.

The other side of the coin came as I learned to feel worth in and of myself. As I grow in self esteem, I felt more worthy. As I felt more worthy, I noticed that people paid more attention to what I said. Did they always pay attention? No. The percentage climbed, however, as I matured in self esteem.

How did I mature in self esteem? I came to understand that The Cosmic Thought’s “need” is to experience The Cosmic Thought’s  potential. Cosmic Thought experiences Its potential in the life of every sentient being. I am an individualization of The Cosmic Thought experiencing on Its behalf. The Cosmic Consciousness experiences the cornucopia of Its potential through humans (and all other sentient entities). This happens because we are the incarnations of The Cosmic Consciousness in the physical realm.

You can make this self esteem part of your life as well.

People will then pay more attention to what you have to say and think. Make contact with the Cosmic Conscious through meditation. Find yourself and believe yourself to be an individualization of The Universe, experiencing on Its behave. You words will have weight and significance.

Caution: Never think yourself the only one who is in contact with the Cosmic Consciousness. Many, many others have been and are in contact. Never think yourself the best amongst all those.

Actually, you won’t have to worry about it because when you are in true connection with The Ageless Fabric of the Universe, you know of no competition between sentient beings. You are content within your own ability.

So, begin today to better understand your own worth. Define yourself as an individualization of God. Accept your own worth. Think reasonably and well from that worth and people will pay attention to you. Your words will have substantial worth and you’ll be carrying on the meaning of life.

And I invite you to pick up more info about your worth. I ask to you sign up for Free Instant Access to some of my Force-Source-Resources. One of which is titled, “Two Free Life Phrases for Self Development ‘I Am My True Self’ and ‘I am Conscious’.” Remember, one bit of information can give you a superior point of activation. Just click here and you’ll be on your way.  (Or, if it appears there, please sign up now in the upper right hand corner.) These resources will change your life.