{"id":5165,"date":"2009-10-06T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2009-10-06T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:44:09","slug":"finding-balance-gregg-braden-says-were-not-bystanders-were-part-of-what-we-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/finding-balance-gregg-braden-says-were-not-bystanders-were-part-of-what-we-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Balance. Gregg Braden Says We&#8217;re Not Bystanders, We&#8217;re Part Of What We See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a very productive day yesterday.\u00a0 After I <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=5145\" target=\"_blank\">spent the weekend painting furniture<\/a>, I was ready to get back in the office and I got a lot of work done, even for a Monday. I spent the morning compiling quarterly documents for my tax accountant, and making my way through the emails that had come in over the weekend.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been spending time visualizing PayPal donations and so I wasn&#8217;t surprised that I had a half dozen waiting for me.\u00a0 In the afternoon, I ran to the post office, the bank and the produce stand for broccoli, onions, carrots, scallions, mushrooms, tomatoes, romaine and lemons.\u00a0 I like squeezing lemon juice on my vegetables. It used to be butter on everything; now it&#8217;s lemon and parsley &#8211; evolution! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the late afternoon, I went outside and did some hand watering, and then I set the sprinklers to run in 3 areas of the yard.\u00a0 I&#8217;d get it set just right in the back yard, then when I&#8217;d turn on the east sprinkler, I had to go back and reset the back sprinkler.\u00a0 Then I&#8217;d finally get both of them watering the right way, and I&#8217;d turn on the front sprinkler.\u00a0 Then the back two would be off!\u00a0 Grrr!<\/p>\n<p>It took me about 15 minutes of running laps between the sprinklers to have them all turned on and all reaching the area I wanted them to reach.\u00a0 I thought how my own personal energy is like these sprinklers: I&#8217;m focusing on one thing just fine and then I add something else into the mix, and my attention gets diluted.\u00a0 So I work at finding a balance and then I add <em>something else<\/em> to it.\u00a0 Like gathering tax documents at the same time I&#8217;m uncluttering my file cabinet at the same time I&#8217;m creating a friend&#8217;s website at the same time I&#8217;m sanding and painting furniture.\u00a0 Yes, I can do it all, but it takes me awhile to find my balance in the doing of it.\u00a0 Like getting the water pressure just right in all three sprinklers.<\/p>\n<p>Like we know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicgreenandnatural.com\/2009\/07\/14\/a-message-to-graduates-everything-is-connected\/\" target=\"_blank\">everything is connected<\/a>.\u00a0 What I do <em>here<\/em> affects what happens <em>there<\/em>.\u00a0 If I do something to impact<em> John<\/em>, <em>Jane<\/em> is also impacted. This is easy enough to remember, but it&#8217;s not always easy finding the balance to do all I want to do, in the waking time I have to do it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greggbraden.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gregg Braden<\/a> tells us in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AjM9JhzlXR0\" target=\"_blank\">Divine Matrix<\/a>, &#8220;It should be clear that it\u2019s impossible for us to be simply bystanders in our world. As conscious observers, we\u2019re part of all that we see. In the realm of quantum possibilities, we appear to be made to participate in our creation. We\u2019re wired to create.\u00a0\u00a0 Our quantum link with the cosmos runs so deep that scientists have created a new vocabulary to describe what such connections really mean. It\u2019s called the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=858MnPizsnkC&amp;pg=PA103&amp;lpg=PA103&amp;dq=%22butterfly+effect%22+Gregg+Braden&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=_wSDlh4mP_&amp;sig=9_StodyU9TuUp5jkzESjaUTYBEA&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=cHzKSqWRKKOBtweEh-31DQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=3#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Butterfly Effect<\/a>. The bottom line of this phenomenon suggests that a single small change in one part of the world can be the trigger for a huge alteration in another place and time. The quantum net or matrix that connects everything suggests that you and I direct a force within us that works in a realm that\u2019s free from the limits of physics as we know them.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s why I try to do so many things at one time: I know I am not bound by time and space, unless I think I am.\u00a0 I just need to be mindful of where my physical energy gets placed.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to let myself run out of steam doing things that could have waited, while neglecting doing what I wanted to get done first.\u00a0 It just takes a little going back and forth to find the right balance.\u00a0 I&#8217;m finding it.\u00a0 Little by little.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5174\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/raccoon-cropped-72-0262.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5174\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5174\" title=\"raccoon-cropped-72-0262\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/raccoon-cropped-72-0262.jpg\" alt=\"Raccoon on porch\" width=\"138\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raccoon on porch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speaking of balance, last night I heard the screen door crash and looked out and saw two fat raccoons on the back porch.\u00a0 When I opened the door, one of them ran right back out, but this guy ran up the screen. 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