The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

Mitch said, “I am restless, Dr. Bob. I wake up in the middle of the night and am wide awake. What could be happening with me?”

“Do you get physical exercise?” I asked.

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“Three times a week to the gym, each time about an hour and a half in aerobics and resistance training. Pleasantly tired when finished each time,” Mitch said.

Mitch did look physically fit. He was medium height with a solid build. Perhaps he was thirty five.

“Everything O.K. at home?”

“I am not aware of any major problems. Oh, the small things with work and kids. Nothing to keep me awake that I am aware of.”

He looked at me. I looked at him. I took a shot in the dark. “When was the last time you expressed yourself?” I asked.

Mitch asked in return, “Expressed myself? I don’t get what you mean, Dr. Bob.”

“I mean when was the last time you wrote a love poem to your wife? When was the last time you made up a bedtime story for your three kids? When was the last time you air-directed a symphony orchestra?”

“Whoa,” he said. “Where are you going with this?”

“I am not sure, just a hunch. But what about the answers to my questions?”

Mitch thought for about 20 seconds and then said, “I haven’t done any of those things in a long time. I still don’t know where you are going with this.”

“We all have spirits that need expression, Mitch. If we don’t exercise that expression, those spirits become restless. Some people just go along until their spirits become dull and empty, no longer asking to participate in life. Sometimes this non-participation leads to restlessness. Awake at odd hours. No forward life-progress. Sounds like maybe you have this affliction.”

“Affliction? You mean I am sick?” asked Mitch.

“No. I mean that live was meant to be lived. To be happy is to know you are alive by trying to expand your life. By trying to change. By trying to grow. Life is overcoming obstacles or dangers. Life is getting out of your comfort zone. Sound interesting?”

Mitch developed a small smile with his lips and eyes. Maybe I had hit a resonating chord within him. It was only a guess. It was a place to start.

“You think I am restless and can’t sleep well because I haven’t expressed my spirit enough?” he asked.

“I think it a real possibility. When was the last time you took some time and did express the fact that you are happy to be alive?”

His smile grew wider. “I can’t remember. I used to invent stories for the kids all the time. How did you know I air-directed symphonies? I can’t remember the last time I pushed the walls of my comfort zone in any way. Wow.”

“All of us need to embrace our lives and take every opportunity to expand them through the expression of happiness. The Very Spirit of the Universe seeks to express itself through you and your reaching beyond the ordinary.”

“My fidgetiness may be because I haven’t told my kids stories recently? That simple,” Mitch asked.

“Well, not quite that simple,” I said. “But making up stories is a way of giving tongue to your spirit. It can be gardening, photography, videography, learning a new language, Tai Chi, skydiving, lifting the next heavier weight. Express yourself.”
Mitch said he would try my suggestions. I reminded him he was the best developer of his own spirit; he needed to think of his own ideas to fulfill his spirit. We made an appointment for two weeks in the future.

When Mitch came to see me again, I could tell immediately he was much more rested than when I had seen him last. He told me he was developing his spirit and was sleeping better. He felt happier as well, he said.

I bid him come again if he needed more. To this point, he is doing fine without further help, as far as I can see.

Dear reader: the Supreme Spirit seeks manifestation through you and your spirit. When you leave this aspect of your life unfulfilled, you will find yourself restless. The very phenomenon of being alive and happy is to participate in enlargement, variety and advancement. Do so beginning now.

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Some time back a blog-reader expressed a concern about forgiveness. I replied to her that she needed to forgive but she did not need to forget. She replied in turn that she could not forgive because the damage was just too great.

I cannot imagine all the hurt that has come into someone’s life. I know it is sometimes even beyond my imagining. I know, also, that unless you can come to forgive, the one who caused the hurt is still in control of your life.

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Which means they are still in control of your happiness. Forgiveness favors you and your meaning and happiness.

Forgiveness allows you to set aside the hurt. I realize that the wounds can be so painful that you do not wish to let go. That’s where the problem enters.

When you cannot let go, your life is so attached that it is affected by that appendage. It would be like having a 50 pound weight duct-taped to your back. Everything you do will be impacted by the load.

Soon the burden, being so persistent and constant, would touch your mental and spiritual states. It would literally weigh you down.

How can you find the ability to forgive? Mind you, I am not taking your situation and the hurt done to you lightly. But if you want to forgive so YOU can get on with your life, how do you find it?

You discover it by going inside of yourself. I know – easy for me to say, but not so easy to do. Let us try together.

The seat of your life’s meaning and the happiness derived therefrom begins in your interior or spiritual life. You find the meaning of your life, which is to be happy, at the center of your being. There you make and keep contact with the Conscious Cosmos.

You find there in that connection that you are loved and accepted just as you are. No strings. No hidden agendas.

In other words, you are totally forgiven yourself. As a matter of fact, you are totally accepted no matter what you may do or not do. If you will, you can see it this way: You are totally forgiven even before you do or do not do anything.

(I know. That is not an easy concept to grasp.)

That does not mean that you can get away with anything. There is the idea of karma. Karma means that whatever you do, there will be a reaction. Do something good and good will come to you. Do something not so good and something not so good will come your way. This is not punishment, it is cause and effect.

So, while you are forgiven, there will be a reaction. Just so with the person who has hurt you. Their actions will cause reactions. This will get them their just compensation. What will come to them is in the hands of the Universe and or in the arena of the social justice system.

This takes vengeance out of your hands. Vengeance is subject to the law of karma as well. Allow the Conscious Cosmos to recompense the one who delivered the pain.

No matter what has happened to you, you can forgive because it does you the most good. And because whatever retribution is coming to the perpetrator is in another’s hands.

You keep your meaning, purpose and happiness intact. You release yourself from the hold non-forgiveness puts you in. It is self-inflicted slavery.

Therefore, find your connection to the Conscious Cosmos. Know that you are forgiven. Understand that karma is real and will affect the one who caused you pain.

When you have discovered these realities you have regained control of your own live. Forgive today.

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You were born to beam. So many folks think and act as if their lives are to be without meaning and without happiness.

Let me make this clear. You are free to choose what your life shall be. I am not trying to tell you that unless you do thus and such, your life is not worthwhile. Never.

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Whatever life you choose for yourself, it is of significance. The Universe has need of you.

But why not choose more happiness and meaning? Your were born to beam.

By that I mean you have been given a very special place in the Universe. The Cosmos cannot do without you. You may think otherwise, that the Universe can do without you. If you think that way, you are sadly mistaken.

You were born to experience on behalf of the Cosmos, the Mega-Consciousness. The Conscious Cosmos is One. As One it cannot experience for experience is always in relationship to something else. Hot and cold. Light and night. Sharp and dull.

You can and do experience all those dualities. From your experiencings your feed the knowledge base of the Conscious Cosmos.

You come to know you are of value to the Universe through the meditative arts. It is also in meditation that you find your meaning in life, which is to be happy. From meaning, happiness and purpose your life expands in such a way that it seems as if you actually beam your happiness into the substantive world.

Thus, by my logic, you were born to beam. How much you beam is up to you. Make no mistake, though – you beam to some degree in any case. How about choosing to beam better? That is, why not decide to be as happy as you possibly can be?

How does beaming affect your happiness? Simple. The more you beam, the more you reinforce your happiness. Happiness does not come from beaming, but beaming demonstrates happiness.

This is not demonstration to prove to others that you are happy and have meaning and purpose. You never need prove that you are happy to others. This is a demonstration for yourself.

It energizes your happiness. It puts your happiness into the world. When you have found purpose, meaning and happiness, it seems that they spill over into your corporal life.

How do you beam? By sharing your happiness with others. What does your friend need that you can supply? What does your neighbor require that you can help fulfill? What does the world want that you can supply?

Do you see? Beam as you were born to and you will increase your own happiness. The greater the beaming, the greater the actualizing of your life.

There is where your life is going – to actualization. If taken literally, you are making yourself actual. What does it mean to be actual?

It means you can understand yourself as real. That your life, words, actions, count for something. They do even if you do not set out to beam. Your life counts.

But how would you like to witness that it does? Of course you would. You witness your life as reckoning import by beaming your happiness into the world. You do that by serving others from the foundation of your life’s meaning and purpose.

Begin better beaming today.

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