The Story of The LITTLE SOUL Might CHANGE Your LIFE..!!

TODAY'S “MYTHOLOGICAL MAGIC”

~~~  George Bailey   (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)


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Back in 1996, I was caught in the middle of an incredibly vitriolic and spiteful business relationship that nearly cost me my life.  I had only been out of college for a couple of years and still finding my way in the wild and at the time wonderful world of television broadcasting.  After a two year stint working for WRC-TV (NBC-Washington, DC) as a sports producer for the ‘George Michael Sports Machine’, I decided that 80 hour work weeks and Holidays spent behind closed doors editing video tapes of college football games while chowing down on what I THINK was cold turkey and stuffing was not the things my dreams were made of!  

So I landed a job for a local TV production company in the suburbs of DC.  They produced a local half hour business program(that I shall refrain from naming for legal purposes) that promoted up and coming tech companies in the DMV area.  The first year was a total BLAST!  Here I was 24 years old, holding meetings with the likes of Steve Case of AOL, and Larry Ellison of Oracle.   This is when the technology revolution was in its infant stage, and simply being around the icons who were prescient enough to see the future was mind blowing!  And in the process I definitely got my MBA at the University of MIH- MAKE IT HAPPEN!  LOL  

During the second year of employment, my boss and then close friend asked me to relocate to San Francisco to start a West Coast version of the show in Silicon Valley, where most of the most influential tech companies were setting up shop.  I had been itching to to get back to the West Coast (I was born in LA) for years and jumped at the opportunity.  And for the first four months, I woke up every morning thinking I was in some sort of duplicate Universe where dreams ALWAYS come true. It was the Land of OZ for the tech set!   I had daily meetings with the CEO's of companies like Sun Microsystems, Yahoo, and Oracle.  Although I sometimes felt out of my league, I NEVER let em see me sweat.  And they accepted me as one of their own.  Meetings by day and parties at night, all in one of the most beautiful and eclectic cities in the world!  I was truly a STARGAZER collecting information and memories of a lifetime.  

And then, one October morning in 1996, I got an email from one of the companies I had met with the previous week.  They were calling me a fraud because I had told them that the sponsors of the show which was to air on the local ABC affiliate were The Wall Street Journal and Dunn and Bradstreet.  The company had connections at both companies and they claimed they were in no way affiliated with the show.  While reading the email, my heart began to pound arrhytmically!  I started having a minor panic attack.  They were threatening to send a letter to every tech company in San Francisco telling them that I was running a scam and to not accept meetings with me.  

I immediately called my boss back in Virginia to try and straighten out this unbelievable mess!  After all, he was the one who told me that those two entities were the sponsors of the show.  I was only repeating the information given to me by him and our company.  After an explicit tirade he fired me on the spot and told me I had 24 hours to vacate the apartment he had set up for me and the rest of the crew.  Needless to say, I was shell shocked.  What the HELL was going on, I thought.  

After having no other choice than to hire a lawyer, the TRUTH slowly unfolded like a guilty lover hiding his dalliances with the utmost discretion.  My boss had lied about the sponsors singing on to the show.  In his infinite wisdom, he believed he could get REAL sponsors signed onto the show before anyone found out.  In the meantime, I was the companies face man out on the West Coast.  The waiter serving food that had been screwed up by the cooks in the proverbial company kitchen.
To save his own ass, he blamed me for all the confusion and sent me to the awaiting wolves.

When I was fired I lost my health insurance and the massive amount of stress over the possibility that my reputation in the tech community was ruined, caused my Crohn's disease to spiral completely out of control.  By the time I was actually able to obtain decent health care, my doctors said my colon was so diseased that it was about to perforate.  Which meant, instant death.  I had lost an enormous amount of weight under the pressure of the previous few months and was actually too weak for the 12 hour surgery to have my colon removed.  But after a long chat with my doctor, I decided to take the risk of having the operation rather than waiting to regain enough weight and strength before going under the knife.  

The memories of the whole surgery and the almost 16 month recovery is still haunting to my soul.  It was excrutiating in ways human beings should never have to suffer.  And let's say that wearing a colostomy bag at age 27 is not exactly a hit with the ladies!  lol  Even though it was hidden underneath my t-shirts, every time I passed gas, the bag blew up like a balloon, scaring the shit out of anyone in arms distance of me.  Yeah, that's how I rolled!   :0)

While recovering from this nightmarish ordeal, you can only imagine the amount of anger and frustration I had toward my former friend and boss.  He went so far as to forbid ANYONE in the company to visit me while I was in the hospital.  There were days and nights in which I absolutely fantasized about ripping all the tubes from the hospital machines from my body and taking a taxi to his house to ummmmmmm...have a little chat!  With my fists acting as compassionate truth seekers!

I held onto that anger and pain of betrayal for quite a while.  In fact, at times it consumed my every thought.  Ironically enough, it was during this time that my current path of self realization started to take its core form.  While still in the hospital, a friend of mine gave me a book called ‘The Celestine Prophecy’, and for the first time in my life I felt like I was home. A few weeks later I was finally released from the hospital and went straight to the nearest Barnes and Noble with that book firmly in hand.

I excitedly asked the nearest store clerk where this book could be found in the store.  And within a few yards, I was in a row that felt like Conscious Christmas land.  Books after books of like energy to the one I had carried into the store.  I bought about twenty of them and stormed back to my car to get home as fast as I could to begin what I know now to be the start of my own Hero's Journey.

The first book I read is still the most influential on my own personal resonance with the world of spiritual divinity and Universal Law that felt like TRUTH to me.  The book's title was ‘Conversations with God’ by Neale Donald Walsh.  Page after page was filled with wisdom and knowledge that fed my soul and strengthened my faith!  This was as close to feeling Heaven on Earth as I had ever felt!

And then something that transformed my understanding of human interaction occurred when I got to the section where Mr. Walsh told the story of The Little Soul.  And that parable struck a cord so deep within my consciousness that it still informs my daily interactions nearly twenty years after reading it.  Here is the excerpt from the book itself:

There once was a little soul who knew itself to be the light.  This  was a new soul, and so, anxious for experience. "I am the light,"  it said. "I am the light." Yet all the knowing of it and all the saying of it could not substitute for the experience of it. And in the realm from which this soul emerged, there was nothing but the light.

 Every soul was grand, every soul was magnificent, and every soul shone with the brilliance of MY awesome light. And so the little soul in question was as a candle in the sun. In the midst of the grandest light- of which it was a part- it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who and What it Really Is.

Now it came to pass, that the little soul yearned and yearned to know itself. And so great was its yearning that "I" one day said, "Do you know little one, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours?" "Oh what, God? what? I'll do anything!? The little soul said.

"You must separate yourself from the rest of us," I answered, "and then you must call upon yourself the darkness."

"You may choose to be any Part of God you wish to be," I said to the little soul.

"You are the Absolute Divinity, experiencing Itself. What Aspect of Divinity do you now wish to experience as you?"

"You mean I have a choice," asked the little soul.

I answered, "Yes." You may choose to experience any Aspect of Divinity in, as, and through you."

"Okay," said the little soul, then I choose forgiveness. I want to experience my Self as that Aspect of God called Complete Forgiveness."

Well, this created a little challenge, as you can imagine. 

There was no one to forgive. All I have created is Perfection and Love

"No one to forgive?" asked the Little Soul, somewhat incredulously.

"No one," I repeated. "Look around you. Do you see any souls less perfect, less wonderful than you?"

As the Little soul twirled around, and was surprised to see himself surrounded by all the souls in heaven. They came from far and wide throughout the Kingdom, because they had heard the little soul was having an extraordinary conversation with God.

"I see none less perfect than I," the Little Soul exclaimed." Who then, shall I have to forgive?"

Just then another soul stepped forward from the back of the crowd. "You may forgive me," said the Friendly Soul.

"For what?" the little soul asked.

"I will come onto your next physical lifetime and do something for you to forgive," replied the Friendly Soul.

"But what? What could you, a being of such Perfect Light, do to  make me forgive you?" the Little Soul wanted to know.

"Oh," smiled the Friendly Soul, I'm sure we can think of

something."

"But why would you want to do this?" The Little Soul could not figure out why a being of such perfection would want to slow down its vibration so much that it could actually do something "bad."

"Simple," the Friendly Soul explained," I would do it because I love you. You want to experience your Self as Forgiving, don't you? Besides, you have done the same for me."

"I have?" asked the Little Soul.

"Of course. Don't you remember? We've been All Of It, you and I.

 We've been the Up and the Down of it, and the Left and Right of it.

 We've been the Here and Now of it, and the Now and Then of it.

 We've  been the Big and Small of it, the Male and Female of it, the Good and Bad of it. We've been the All of it.

"And we've done it by agreement, so that each of us might experience ourselves as The Grandest Part of God. For we have understood that.....

"In the absence of that which You Are Not, that Which You Are, is NOT.

"In the absence of 'cold,' you cannot be 'warm.' In the absence of 'sad,' you cannot be 'happy,' without a thing called 'evil,' the experience you call 'good' cannot exist.

If you choose to be a thing, something or someone opposite to that has to show up somewhere in your universe to make that possible."

The Friendly Soul then explained that those people are God's Special Angels, and these conditions God's Gifts.

"I ask only one thing in return, " the Friendly Soul declared.

"Anything! Anything," the Little Soul cried. He was excited now to know that he could experience every Divine Aspect of God. He understood, now The Plan.

"In the moment that I strike you and smite you," said the Friendly Soul, " in the moment that I do the worst to you that you could ever  imagine---in that self-same moment....remember Who I Really Am. For I will have forgotten."

"Oh, I won't forget!" promised the Little Soul. "I will see you in the perfection with which I hold you now, and I will remember Who You Are, always."

~~~ from Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsh

And that is why Jesus the Christ, on the cross, looked to the prisoners also being crucified to his left and right and looked to the sky and said to SPIRIT, “Forgive them father, for they know Not what they do.”

That parable created a wave of conscious sensation that removed the veil of illusion from my shortsighted emotions toward my former friend and boss almost instantaneously.  He had given me an opportunity to learn the true and authentic power of FORGIVENESS.  And from that moment on, I decided to hold a space of LOVE and LIGHT for him for as long as I lived. 

In what way does this story touch your feelings about the possible intentions behind the actions and words of those who have hurt or wronged you on your path?  Could it be that there is someone in your past or even in your life currently who stepped up on YOUR behalf to allow you the exact experience you chose to have on your Journey?!  And more importantly, have you remembered WHO THEY TRULY ARE when they caused you that strife and pain, because they chose to forget themselves as the ultimate gesture of Love and Compassion? !  

It might be something worth pondering  as you continue on your path and purpose!  I know it has saved me an enormous amount of resentment, pain and suffering.  And my wish is that it does the same for you......


Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez

Here Is My BEST ADVICE..!!!

I'm quite sure I am not alone when I declare that one of biggest pet peeves is  UNSOLICITED ADVICE!   Isn't it interesting how many 'experts' there are amongst our peers who know EXACTLY how to lose that 10 pounds, or quit smoking?!   Or what you "should" or "need" to do in order to manifest that new business, or end that relationship.  And how absolutely giving they tend to be with their knowledge, especially when we RARELY ask for it.

While I was studying for a master's degree in Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica, the law regarding this epidemic was laid down the very first day of school.  While our class of nearly 300 was mingling about, introducing ourselves to one another for the first time, I noticed one of the program's lead instructors writing something in Gi-normous letters in the middle of the blackboard on the auditorium's stage.  Although she was writing in wipe away chalk, it was etched as indelible grace within my mind.   She wrote,  ‘The Most Damaging Deed One Can Do to Another's Soul, is Give Them Unsolicited Advice’.   For many in the class, that spiritual sentiment was worth the price of admission alone!  Learn it, Live it......   Spread it!!   Please!    Spread it!!   ;0)

Does this mean that we can't offer past experiences or insight to others with the intent of assisting them during a 'bump' in their personal Journey?  Absolutely NOT!  However, there are much more caring and impactful ways that we can be of service.  Here are THREE suggestions toward not giving anymore UNSOLICITED ADVICE:


1.  Determine how you should be showing up
Much of the time, we simply have the desire to be heard in life.  Especially those of us in the beautiful world of service. (teacher, coach, care-taker)   We tend to immediately rush in with an attempt to fix a situation or try and 'coach' somebody toward their goal.  I know I'm super guilty.  Perhaps the greatest act of respect you can offer someone is to simply ask them how they would like you to show up in the moment.  They may, for instance, just want you to listen.  Without saying a word.  Now there is a thought!!  lol

The next time you catch yourself wanting to pipe in with a soliloquy of unsolicited advice, try simply asking, "How would you like me to show up for you right now?"    You may be shocked to see how grateful they become!


2.  FIRST, ask if they would be open to a suggestion
One of the reasons giving unsolicited advice can be so hurtful is because most of the time, it comes across as though the way they are currently handling the situation or issue is ‘wrong.’  Nobody wants to feel inadequate, less than, and/or stupid.  By humbly asking if they would be ‘open’ to your suggestion, their defenses will typically go down, because it won't feel as though you are directly challenging them.  
And let's not kid ourselves.  Often times, we are really making something all about US when we extend unsolicited advice.

3. Refrain from using phrases that contain the words ‘Should’, ‘Need’, or ‘Ought’ 
I hate to break it to you, but as absolutely brilliant as you probably have come to be, you do NOT have anybody else's answers.  Don't take offense.  Neither did Jesus the Christ.  
My point is that the ONLY person who truly knows another person's TRUTH, is that person them-self.  You have no idea what anyone else needs or must do.  I have found great success by implementing the phrases, "What would it feel like if you..............  or  What do you think might happen if you.....".   Plus, by not giving specific advice, you don't have to worry about being held responsible by the consequences of your own words!

If you try implementing any of these tips, please let me know your experiences in the comments section below.  I would love to hear your thoughts!

Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez

Are YOU Ready For Your Next DO OVER..??!?

Today's Inspirational “MYTHOLOGICAL MAGIC”

FROM DAREDEVIL ON NETFLIX

Young Matt Murdock: So what kind of training is this?

Stick: You like ice cream?

Young Matt Murdock: Yeah.

Stick: Then shut up and eat it. I'll ask the questions. First thing you gotta understand is nobody feels sorry for you and nobody ever will. 'Cause when it comes to being born lucky you won the friggin' lottery.

Young Matt Murdock: I did?

Stick: [Smacks him with his cane] What did I say about questions?

Young Matt Murdock: "Shut up."

Stick: Good. How old were you when you got blinded?

Young Matt Murdock: Nine.

Stick: Nine? So you had nine whole years of looking at movies, blue skies, up girlies' skirts that I never had. I was born blind. You don't hear me whining about it, do you?

Young Matt Murdock: No.

Stick: So, you're nine years old, walking along, minding your own business and whammo! Get hit by a truck, killed dead on the spot.

Young Matt Murdock: I wasn't killed.

Stick: You lived? Praise God, it's a miracle. So you survive the truck and get this chemical shit in your eyes. What next?

Young Matt Murdock: I hear things.

Stick: What kind of things?

Young Matt Murdock: Everything. Coughs and fights and cats meowing. Sometimes blocks away. I can sense things. I know where things are and when they move. But I can't see.

Stick: You know what they call stuff like that? Gifts. The special kind. The kind that very few people have. Or deserve.

Young Matt Murdock: I never thought of it that way.

Stick: Well, that's because you're stupid.

Young Matt Murdock: I'm not stupid, I'm smart.

Stick: Because you taught yourself how to run your little fingers over the bumps and read Braille? Smart don't come out of books, kid. Smart is making the right decision at the right time. Like now. What's it gonna be, Matty? You gonna spend your life crying and rocking yourself to sleep at night? Or are you gonna dig deep and find out what it takes to reshuffle those cards life dealt you? Your call. [Matt looks at Stick] [chuckles] Good choice, kid.

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Growing up in the 80's, Bill Murray was one of my comic heroes.  As I am quite sure he still is for many fans of comedy.  But there is one particular film of his that is much more profound for its inherent nature of sharing many truths about the path to self improvement that it is given credit for.  The film is called ‘Groundhog Day’ and if you have yet to see it, I highly suggest carving out some time in the near future to do so!  

The film is also a wonderful representation of one of life's greatest gifts, that being the delectable DO OVER.  And for those of us who use this magnificent opportunity when in it presents itself in our lives, it is perhaps the most effective manner in which to be RE-BIRTHED into a Greater Version of The Greatest Vision of yourself!  

In the film, Bill Murray's character gets caught up in a ‘time loop’ that has him reliving the exact same day, Groundhog Day in fact, over and over.....and OVER again!  Each morning as he awakes, the day starts EXACTLY as it did the day before.  As he progresses  through each day, he is confronted at the same time by the exact set of individuals and circumstances from the day before.  A virtual life glitch that has no ON/OFF button he can find.  

Murray plays an obviously discontented meteorologist who believes the menial task of traveling to Punxsutawney, PA to cover this annual event is way beneath his talent and good sensibilities.  Like most films transcendent in nature, there are many lenses through which the manner in which the story unfolds can be interpreted.  For me, it is a superb metaphor for the way that the Universe, sensing a need, will essentially RECREATE a very similar set of circumstances in our lives from the past, giving us the opportunity to engage them(Hopefully) with a new earned sense of understanding and change in perspective;  basically we are given the gift of a DO OVER!   And very often, if the prerequisite lessons are not learned, the Universe has absolutely NO problem setting up the circumstances once again, until we finally grasp the knowledge that these events were provided for.  Some of us are perhaps slower learners than others, and that is OK!

The movie plays out such an example on DAY 3 of this perpetual GROUNDHOG DAY.  Murray's character once again steps in the middle of a large muddy puddle, ruining his shoes and pants, still not having learned his lesson from the previous two days.  Sound familiar?!  Filled with self judgement, he begins to despair his actions and choices in life.  Again, does that resonate with you?!  It sure does with me!  LOL  That night in a local bar, he decides to drown his sorrows with booze and says, “I was in the Virgin Islands once.  I met a girl.  We ate lobster and drank pina coladas.  At sunset we made love like sea otters. THAT was a pretty good day.  Why couldn't I get that day over and over again?”  Ah, but what lessons could be drawn from reliving a magnificent day such as that?  No, we receive FAR more wisdom and knowingness from reliving situations that caused us despair, pain, and suffering.  At at its core, that is exactly what a DO OVER is all about!

In fact, I am currently in the middle of a DO OVER myself.  And I couldn't be more THRILLED!  I mean how often have you even prayed for a chance to go back in time and relive a set of experiences, already knowing how you would engage them with a higher sense of care, consideration, and intent?  Well guess what, the Universe has this paradigm built into its programming.  And when there are certain lessons and knowledge that are needed to complete your Hero's/Heroine's Journey, the Universe, like a genie in a ‘life circumstantial’ bottle, will offer you the opportunity that you seek.  You will inevitably receive a DO OVER that mimics many of the same set of circumstances as something that has transpired before.  Just like MAGIC!  All in the hopes that THIS time, you will grasp the gift and opportunity at hand, and receive this gift with reverence and awareness!  

Murray's character Phil, after sensing there is nothing he can do but ACCEPT his situation of reliving each day over and over again, finally succumbs to his reticence about the situation and begins an arc of self improvement.  He begins practicing generosity, reading books, taking piano lessons, and even learning French!   Admittedly, many of his actions are at first all in an attempt to impress his producer Rita.   It isn't until Phil (Murray) begins to Let Go and Let God and allow the changes he has made in himself to be experienced and noticed by those around him in a truly authentic manner, that he wakes up and it is FINALLY February 3rd, the day AFTER Groundhog Day.  His lessons learned, his purpose now clear, he is allowed to continue on with his life!  

What I find quite fascinating, is that the film's late director and comic genius in his own right, Harold Ramis has been quoted as saying that Phil (Murray) needed close to 30-40 years of reliving the same day to  have the lessons he needed for his Hero's Journey to be fully engrained in his sense of BEING.  And as harsh as that may sound, I know that it has taken me decades to finally come to the understanding and full comprehension of many of my own life lessons!  There are many more I am still working on!   And, if you are truly honest with yourself, I am quite sure the same rings true for you!  Agreed?!  :0)

Life is a constant Journey, that allows us many opportunities for us to learn from our past mistakes and is more than gracious in sending us as many DO OVERS as we may need until we receive with deep reverence the knowledge and understanding at their core.  However, it is up to us to stay AWARE.  We are often so consumed with LIFE, that we are not present enough to recognize that circumstances are lining up in such a transformative and magical manner to allow us to relive our own version of Groundhog Day for the Re-memberance it can bring.  And when we are fortunate enough to have the Universe bless us with such a gift, enter into it with verve, gusto, and no fear!  Become a SOULdier of Love, and a Steward of Remembrance to extract every juicy amount of wisdom the opportunity was brought to unfold into your experience! 

And BE AWARE, if you chose NOT to learn from these blessed gifts of DO OVERS, they WILL RETURN.  So it's your call!  Do the work NOW, or later.  Either way, eventually it must be done!   
And take it from me, the longer you wait, the harder it is and the more it HURTS!  


Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez

Did You KNOW You Have Your Own MAGICAL WAND.....?!?!

TODAY'S INSPIRATIONAL “MYTHOLOGICAL MAGIC”

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Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Given the fact that I have a amassed a collection of over 400 books, it is no wonder my TRIBE members are very apt to ask me if I have read a particular title from time too time.  And I am so grateful for each and every suggestion I am engaged with.  In fact, many of my favorite tombs have come from these very recommendations through out the years since I began on my journey of Self Actualization.  Most of the time, I actually receive these inquiries with complete reverence and gratitude, because I believe it is the Universe's way of tapping me on the shoulder to pay attention.  Something is on its way that I must be ready to receive in all its ethereal glory!  Now when this typically occurs, I stop whatever it is that I am doing and take a note on the book/film/blog being introduced to me and investigate the source material as soon as possible.  When the student is ready, the teacher appears.  And I have come to realize that my Journey is a continuing oscillation between being a teacher and student, often at the same time.  LOL  Which makes perfect sense because I have come to find that most coaches/teachers preach that which they need to learn themselves.   Even master Miyagi from the Karate Kid had much to learn from Danielson during their symbiotic relationship.

So when a true TRIBE member of mine recently inquired about my knowledge of a decades old book title, I did not hesitate to investigate everything about it.  And once again, I found it to be a wonderful addition to my robust collection.  Even the book's title had me excited as it was imbued with a mythical, fairy tale essence that completely resonates with my love of MYTHOLOGY and the Hero's/Heroine's Journey that informs The New Age Nerd within us all!

The book is called ‘Your Words are Your Wand‘ and it was written back in the 1920's by a pioneer in the New Thought movement named Florence Scovel Shinn.  Born in 1871, Ms. Shinn was an artist and metaphysics teacher in New York city in the early 20th Century.  Although she had a devout following during her time, her legacy has not had the same sort of long lasting impact of other New Thought leaders from her era such as Napoleon Hill and Earl Nightingale.  And that's a shame because her book, while short in length, contains a wealth of practical and wisdom filled knowledge for anyone who is a TRUTH SEEKER and Bringer of the Light.  The archetypes that are so desperately needed in our current times of disconnection from the fact that WE ARE ALL ONE!

There is something about the book's title itself that strikes a powerful image of the magic that is imbued deep within each and every one of us and can be unleashed with the use of our WORDS.

Being a writer, I personally have a love affair with words and their ability to shift perspectives, heal long held wounds, and give clarity and newfound direction to the most lost of Souls.  Author Diane Setterfield, a like minded lover of words said, “There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.” 

Of course, the simple wisdom within ‘Your Words are Your Wand’ are equally powerful.  In one passage Shinn espouses, “Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power.  So man has the power to change an unhappy condition by waving over it the wand of his word.  In the place of sorrow appears joy, in the place of sickness becomes health, in the place of lack appears plenty."

The point here is that or as much as we sometimes feel as though we have little control over our lives, there are several elements and tools which are such a powerful part of the experiences that manifest into our world. Our word is certainly one of those controllable factors we all share and that has a massive amount of influence in our own disposition, not to mention how much it has to do with the manifestations that appear in our experience. 

In fact, God himself told Abraham that his name was ‘I AM’.  And that whatever words were placed after those two words, literally send out a vibration of energy to the Universe as a declaration of who you think you are and your experiences become a direct correlation to that very pronouncement.  Makes you want to think twice before uttering flippant declarations in that manner doesn't it?!  LOL  And if it doesn't, learn to become much more aware of every word you utter to yourself and others and see the massive difference it causes in your life.  

Our words are such miraculous gift given to us all, and they have the ability to both empower and terribly injure in due nature. In fact, many believe that verbal abuse can be more damaging than physical abuse.  And for those of us who have been or are currently being verbally abused, we know the devastating effect words can have.  Why would we choose to use our words as form of hurt and pain, when our words are TRULY our wands and can be used in ways that create MIRACLES and to help others Re-member who they truly are!  What a wonderful world that could be!!   Right?!

So this evening I ask you in what new ways can you begin a daily practice of realization that our words are our personal magical wands, able to conjure transcendent amounts of LOVE, empowerment, confidence, connection, and belief in everyone we interact with on a daily basis.  And incorporate this incredible magical power within us all, to use our words as a form of transcendent action and energy toward one another ALWAYS and in all ways from now on.  



Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez

CELEBRATE the 250th New Age Nerd POST!!!!

Trailblazers, Spiritual Goddesses, Wounded Healers and Warriors, Empaths, and Truth Seekers...........   THE DAILY BLISS has returned........

We have come back for a very Special Visit as you have formed a community of Doers and Spiritual Shakers and Bakers and have reached quite an AMAZING pinnacle.  Today is the 250TH POST in THE NEW AGE NERD!!!!!   We once again traversed the Universe to come to this wonderful accomplishment and SOULABRATION!!  You KNOW how much we love SOULABRATIONS!!  ;0)

During the past 12 months, you have come together as ONE!  And this is EXACTLY what you came here to do!  Not to BE anything particular.  But instead simply Re-member who it is that you truly are;  which is No Thing less than PURE LOVE and BLISS!!  And then share that Re-membrance with everyone you meet!  Wake them from their slumber!  Your human experience on this planet is quite short indeed so there is NO TIME TO WASTE.  Of course, you will come to understand that TIME in and of itself is a complete illusion.   But in this realm it serves a very important function and  should be followed accordingly!  

Through caring daily observance, here are just some of the things we have witnessed over the past year on your planet:

More giving for no particular reason than ‘Just Because’
Family members For-giving one another 
Hero and Heroine's Journey's starting fresh and new
So many more of you truly becoming AWAKE......
Your understanding of the importance of working on your CHARACTER 
Sharing your stories with one another so that others realize they are NOT ALONE....
Random acts of kindness and compassion 
Daily practices of a spiritual nature so that your SOULS are nourished properly
But most importantly, the Re-membering of who you are and what you came here to be.....

And please, before we go, let us further help you understand the TRUTH about your path.  Because the fact is that every single precious SOUL on this planet has but ONE true purpose.  And that is to share LOVE and kindness with one another.  Through the gift of free will, you have an infinite choice of possibilities in which to do this.  But PLEASE do not get stuck in worry about this.  For worry is No Thing less than a prayer for Chaos.  Instead , learn to GO WITH THE FLOW!! 

It matters not so much what you are DOING with your life but instead what you are BEING with your time here on Earth.  Being a doctor, lawyer, or actor that is being selfish, disrespectful and completely stuck in a slumber of ILLUSION does nothing for the bettering of this planet or the Universe.  Instead, concentrate on how you would like to FEEL as you go about your day of DOINGNESS.   And let your feelings be your guide toward how you choose to share the LOVE, talents, and gifts you came here to share with the world!!

And please always know how much you are Loved and Cherished.......    and that you are NEVER ALONE.....   Everything is a co-creation and you CANNOT MAKE A MISTAKE ON THIS JOURNEY!!   All we ask is that you take this information and live a life worthy of WHO YOU TRULY ARE.....   Time is ticking and there is no more excuses.....   You can do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING you came here to be, do , and experience.......We Promise.....

With Much LOVE and Blessings......

Until We Meet Again,

THE DAILY BLISS

Learn Why The BEST Is Yet To COME...!!!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATIONAL “MYTHOLOGICAL MAGIC"

~~  Rocky Balboa  (Rocky Balboa)

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SALUTATIONS to our Favorite NERDS ...  It's The Daily Bliss Back for a Brief Visit...   WE have missed you terribly.....

This visit was quite unexpected indeed...   As we were caught in a Spiritual Bypass of SOULS traversing the crowded cacophony of clouded ILLUSIONS attempting to actually ARRIVE somewhere forgetting the reality that as they ARE, I AM, and thus so are YOU..... EVERYWHERE.  SO.... there is no need to BE anything or anywhere other than exactly where you currently find yourself to ...BE!!!!   And because this is where we find ourselves to reside....    There is NO THING we would like more than to use your Earthly luminary Jackson Kiddard's wondrous Re-membrance for all you to receive a CALL to Soulful Arms on your planet as you continue the arduous process of recalling you are Spiritual Beings having a Miraculous Human Experience for the eternal growth and Understanding it provides............

And who do you think gave Superman's father Jor El his words of wisdom as he sent his only begotten son down to your planet as the ultimate act of SACRIFICE and STRENGTH...

Please do not take lightly the fact that it is YOUR particular planet that is being constantly observed, protected from unfathomable unconsciosness, and guided by the hand of a GOD that sees the Wonder in your potential, and the Miraculous Deeds you have yet to accomplish toward both yourselves and others......   The DENSE energetic MATRIX each and every soul who was brave enough to accept this earthly experiential challenge is a true Hero and Heroine and shall be held in such reverential light ALWAYS and in ALL WAYS throughout eternity itself....    The Jedi Council even considers all of YOU the true MASTERS of energetic Matter and the ways of the FORCE....    Pretty cool , huh?!?

We have begun to notice that the ILLUSION of this powerful experience is starting to take its collective toll on your own ability to achieve your true potential on this planet.   And it is our job to ensure you that even in your darkest moments, you are each unique emanations of Pure LOVE.  It only feels like that is not the case to offer you the dichotomy of all the juicy preferences that are always at your disposal.  You can only experience light, by first experiencing  darkness.  Joy through pain and suffering.  Like your own personal Fortress of Solitude, you were embedded with the Universal Truth of your core essence, which can be accessed whenever you need it through going WITHIN.  CONNECTING with the Infinite Intelligence that marks the core being of all that you were created from.

We are here for you ALWAYS and in All Ways whenever you need us.  That is our promise to you in exchange for taking on such an arduous Journey on your planet.  And there is No THING you ever have to do to prove your absolute worth to every being within the COSMOS.  WE SEE YOU.....   Especially in the moments when you feel you are doing this all alone...........   And that is a Blissful Promise that is written with the remnants of Time and Space itself........

Until We Meet Again....

We Love and Cherish YOU MORE than you will ever know ...   JUST BECAUSE.......

The Daily Bliss.............

There Are NO MISTAKES.......!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATIONAL “MYTHOLOGICAL MAGIC”

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In a recent post, I wrote about the gift of receiving a DO OVER from the Universe.  If you haven't had the chance to read it as of yet, I suggest doing so before continuing with today's entry.  Typically, the reason we are given these opportunities are to learn from our ‘mistakes’ so that we can move forward with a renewed sense of purpose and understanding.  However,    for many of us, we are forced to face a series of DO OVERS that could have been superceded had we not been so wary of making the same ‘mistake’ over again.  It can paralyze us with fear and anxiety.  Stop us cold in our tracks from making authentic choices with the limiting beliefs that we are somehow JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH to make better choices this time around.  Life is just too damn short to spend too much of it in a vortex of resimulated patterns of circumstances and experiences until we receive the understanding and Re-membrance they were presented for us to grasp.  I have seen too many precious Souls with so much potential who waste great periods of their life paralyzed with fear and worry, too afraid they may make a ‘mistake’ and screw things up, yet again, rather than reframing their past actions as NO THING less than MISSTEPS along their Journey.

So what exactly is the difference between a MISTAKE and a MISSTEP?  A Misstep is when you take an action that is not of the highest choice for the given situation you happen to find yourself in.  But, RELAX, because that is precisely how we learn. And it is proof that you moved past your fear and gave something a TRY!    In fact most Missteps are unavoidable because we have never been in that particular set of circumstances before.  As the saying goes, “Life is 10% what happens, and 90% the way we show up in its wake to handle it.”  A MISTAKE can only occur when we make the same MISSTEP over and over again with no course correction.  Most of the time this is caused by the EGO, which either cases us to beat ourselves up or  refuse to take any responsibility for the action in the first place.  It causes energy of self-judgement and fear.

But we live in a society that demands perfection.  I recently had a rundown of my Godson's nightly homework assignments (He is only 10) and I needed a drink just to contemplate how such a young lad could handle such a massive amount of information!  Aye dios mio!!  We are taught at a young age the importance of ‘being right’ and social media has made it critical for us to show the world a persona sans any signs of imperfection!  

But as the great master teacher Yoda says, “If no mistakes are you making, another game should you be playing.”  And he is so right!  In fact, most of the world's great visionaries used this reframing to their great advantage.  Take Thomas Edison for instance.  He tried to make that bulb in his office light  so bright from electricity over 2,000 different times.  Yet, he refused to ever say he made a mistake.  Instead, he reframed these attempts as missteps, each one actually a revolutionary success.  Because each time the bulb failed to light, he knew he had discovered a way that electricity would NOT WORK!   How many of us would have gotten frustrated, embarrased, or fearful that we would never succeed in the endeavour if we were in his set of DO OVERS?!  My hand is up in the air, is yours?!  lol

As long as we learn from them, mistakes don't even exist.  Harold J. Smith said it best when he declared, “More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't too busy denying them.”  Amen!  I believe your best teacher is your last MISSTEP!  If you take the time to listen, and learn from what it taught you!

What pains my own Soul, is the thought of how many great works of art, poems, paintings, songs, architecture, books, and relationships NEVER came to be because  of those individuals whose fear of taking action steps kept them from ever completing their Hero's/Heroine's Journey!  It's absolutely sobering to contemplate!  If only they could have had the foresight to reframe any perceived MISTAKE as simply a MISSTEP on their path to soulful fulfillment. 

Please do not be one of the special Spirits who came here to bring their magnificent talents and gifts to share with the world only to become stifled for fear of making a MISTAKE along your Journey.  Instead, remember MISSTEPS are not only allowed, but essential for our learning process!    For you are a perfect emanation of God and as long as you stay aware, he will guide your MISSTEPS into the Re-membrace of why you came and the BLISS you are here to share!

Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez