You’ve beaten it,
You’ve beaten them
The fight outside,
Is the fight within;
Know then,
That if you so choose;
You will always win
~ M.L Adams ~
Category Archives: Life lessons
Detachment and Attachment
After practicing Jeet Kune Do for the last 3 months I’ve found myself having some philosophical insights and reflections after classes, so I’ve decided to add this as a regular topic on my blog in hope these insights may also be of some inspiration to you.
The following is my latest insight, please do share your thoughts and comments too. Thank you. 🙏
Detatchment and Attachment
Ultimately it’s about detachment, in detachment you have conscious awareness and control. You are able to direct your energy where it is you choose to go.
Find and attach as you need and is right to do, at the right timing and then let go.
You are your own unit of conscious energy, learn and trust in your directing of it. Only then can you be equally aware of where others are and what they are doing.
In order to not be directed, you need to be detached in the sense that you are the observer – to direct, you need to be in control, in charge of where you are at all times, always- knowing.
From here you are really in a position to guide and teach others because you can see all and be all- you can adapt, direct & let go.
This is full awareness from the ultimate whole – it sees all – it’s not in a fixed position – it flows, it adapts. Be like water therefore, don’t attach, be the flow, always moving, flowing, adapting and changing. Always letting go.
In letting go you find new things, new ways- you open your mind. You are never fixed or stuck but always moving as you need to, just like water.
Sometimes you may direct and sometimes you are directed, sometimes it is still and balanced but it is never fixed. Everything changes and has to change otherwise it does not grow.
Water within is always centred but it adapts as it needs to- to the environment- to the one it’s with. To learn, grow and move, it adapts, it follows. Only then may it rise and as it’s stronger it can guide rather than be guided.
Trust within that you do and will adapt and flow just as you need to do, that your energy is one, always is and always will be. Therefore use your mind, trust with feeling that wherever you go is the right way, as you are always learning.
“Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe the techniques as though not observing.” ~ Bruce Lee
Energy is everything
“Energy is everything, what we focus on or hold on to, we become.”
As energy is everything, the importance of conscious energy direction is vital yet something we can so easily forget. We are however most often in a position to consciously direct it.
This is because we are always in a state of choice, whether we are consciously choosing however is something else. There is a large amount of influence to be followed and this can happen to us in many situations, where we can get pulled in one direction or another without much conscious awareness.
It is possible however to be in a state where we allow ourselves to see that we do always have a choice, even if in that moment it may not at first appear so.
A great place to be in is one of balance, where we are not pulled in one direction or another but completely in charge or our own state. This may be called one of the observer. When you are in this state of balance then you know you are in the drivers seat of your life and choosing where you want to go.
This way you are always conscious and rarely if ever unconsciously directed. It is important however that we practice continuously to be attentive to our own energy state.
To do this the best way I have found is to step back and look at a situation or energy state, and consider “is this useful or wasteful to me.” We are then free to redirect our energy on to where it is best placed.
There is never any point in attaching ourselves to that which is wasteful, when we can choose to focus on that which is beautiful, creative and productive instead. Everything starts from within and is then directed out so by consciously choosing we take back the power that is truly ours and create our lives as we choose them to be completely.
Your energy is you, so place it where it is most valuable to you, and make it most meaningful. Then you will know that you’ll never have a wasted day or even a wasted moment, for it will be you that is fully in charge of your energy flow. ❤
Reflections and New Beginnings
Looking back on 2015 I feel it’s been a journey of many inner transformations, some very challenging.
However from everything no matter how challenging can come positive, as long as we seek it and change it that way. I’ve developed on my spiritual path more than ever as my faith has truly deepened. Making this even more important was at a point earlier this year I almost gave up.
The most important lesson I learnt in this was to never look outside myself. I have to regularly remind myself of this but ultimately the one who is solely responsible for everything in my life in terms of how I shape it is me.
I achieved external goals too but ultimately and most powerfully I began to truly love myself as infinitely worthy and that we all are equally worthy just as we are.
Any goals I set now always come from here and therefore i know that by serving this truth and purpose I teach it too. Nothing we ever do or achieve makes us more or less valuable, we are always infinitely worthy and loved, therefore anything we do can and should be a joy and those things that come to us that are challenging can be turned around this way.
I wish you all an amazing 2016 with all the victories and joys you infinitely deserve. Thank you always for following and supporting me this year. Much love Miranda ❤
It’s all up to you
Not everything that happens can be positive, but it can always be shaped this way,
Not everyone who comes in to our life accepts us, but there is always a lesson to take,
Not everyone who comes in our life stays here but in our hearts they will always remain,
Life is full of changes
Some are bitter and some sweet,
In our hearts however a constancy will always stay,
In anything, anytime
Whatever you choose to take with you, Is your choice and yours alone
If you are love;
You always will be
Allow everything to serve you this way,
It’s all up to you;
Whatever you choose, simply allow it to be,
When coming from love; you are always free ❤
~ M. L Adams
Perfectly Imperfect
In trying to be perfect we only fail ourselves,
For we forget to realise,
That it’s in our simple imperfectness;
We’re perfect just as we are
It’s when we begin to stop questioning;
Accepting all as it is,
Where all is whole and one;
All becomes perfect ❤
~ M. L Adams
All you have learnt
In all, it’s about what have you learnt;
What is it that you hold in your heart,
Do you see in others what they see in you,
Do you see the truth no matter what others do,
Continue to learn, grow and develop;
Holding the gratitude you know is true
Then the love in your heart;
The truth that you see,
In all that you ever have; That is all you will ever need ❤
~ M. L Adams
Letting go of expectations
Along our life journey things can at times happen the way we don’t want them or expect them to.
Whether it be with relationships, work goals or any other area of life, not everything happens how we would like it to and sometimes it can be really tough.
So what do we do when this happens..?
Fight on? Resist?
Or allow our journey to take us where it may be guiding us, to any lessons we may need to learn or benefit from?
Our life journeys as I see are like flowing water, rising and falling, coming and going, and ultimately flowing. If we resist however, the flow then stops.
We may not always understand why something happens or we can even see it as wrong in some way, yet in resisting it we stay there longer. Stuck in not learning, until we finally let go.
Finally in letting go of any expectation in how it should be we are allowing ourselves to flow on our journey again.
When we fight what is however it can only take longer to move to where we want to be, it also stops us from living in the now. Everything on our journey has a purpose and meaning and can be directed towards achieving our ultimate goal. We only need to find the lesson and there is always one. Letting go of expectations allows us to do this.
In letting go of expectations and allowing ourselves to flow on our journey instead of holding on to how we think it should be, we then open ourselves up to far more possibility.
We can then set our path in line with our higher energy and allow ourselves to receive more of what is available to us, far more than may ever be perceived through our own preset expectations.
Here for a reason
Everything can happen for a reason;
Stay open to possibility,
Simply be right here in your flow
You will always find a reason;
All can help you reach your goal
Simply stay in line with purpose
Then you can never really fail
Your path is set for higher purpose
Simply trust in the way to go
Everything is here for a reason,
Trust you will always be guided well ❤
~ M. L Adams
Where are your thoughts coming from?
Don’t become attached to the clouds, when you are in fact the whole sky, the clouds will pass.
How much of our thoughts are coming from fear and defensiveness and how much are coming from love?
Have you ever considered this question? Personally I have never really been so consciously aware of it as recently whilst studying a course in miracles.
It’s as though our minds are somehow trained in this way of thinking in fear/survival and separateness when in reality it’s the opposite. Even for those of us who know and believe in this, the tendencies to respond in fear or defensiveness can still be there.
The only way I can see in overcoming this on a larger scale is through more of us realising the truth underneath the illusion of separateness. When we know that everything starts from within, in that nothing we see outside has not already been perceived from within, then we have true freedom.
We always have a choice to come from our own truth, from love instead of fear. Change always starts with(in) us.
Miranda ❤
Changing patterns
We can often live in a place where we are are following patterns,
When we can just as easily in a split second choose to let go of this and make a new choice, to follow a new pattern.
This is the power of choice,
The power we all have from within.
Choose where you come from,
From a higher space of serving a higher cause,
For yourself and others,
Always in oneness ❤
~ M.L Adams
Beyond Position
There’s no right or wrong, Only positions,
Where there’s a choice beyond this; Aim higher above,
In transcendence, non- attachment, With purpose in compassion
Coming from love, beauty, understanding
Seeing all as one; only in love
~ M.L Adams
Journeys in Writing 