Conscious River

Conscious River . Current . 14

2011-08-28T10:03:00.000-07:00

IVY - "Forgiveness"

Part 1 - "I'm not living up to my full potential." The Work of Byron Katie

Twin Baby Boys Have a Conversation - Part 2

Renewable Energy Solution of the Month: Wind - Part 2

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UPCOMING EVENTS

In a recent collaboration with United Steps, approximately 30 people came together to give 1,000+ hugs with the core intention to invite people to strike up a conversation with and give at least ONE hug to a homeless person. Stemming from that, for every sign we sell, FHLA has decided to designate 1 sign for United Steps to use or give away in their work with homeless people. You may purchase a sign @ www.freehugsla.com or simply donate as generously as you can towards the purchase of signs to literally give away in this regard. Very excited to announce that FREE HUGS Los Angeles has distributed over 800 FREE HUGS signs already! Also very excited to be heading to Las Vegas again this coming Labor Day weekend to raise even more awareness of this concept and give even more FREE HUGS there! If you can join us at any point, call Andrew @ (818)237-3487 or just check the Facebook page.

FREE HUGS Giveaway Signs

Join the conversation with others from around the world (via LIVE chat) for a dynamic synchronized screening of the groundbreaking film You Can Heal Your Life, 2nd Sunday of Every Month @ 11:30am. Visit the Lobby to view the trailer, invite friends, set a text message reminder and more ...

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‎"Your only limitations are those you set up in your own mind or permit others to set up for you."

-Elizabeth Arden

Conscious River . Current . 13

2011-02-05T17:29:00.001-08:00

We Humans Are Capable Of Greatness

You Can Heal Your Life

Daughtry - What About Now

The Beatles - All You Need is Love (HQ)

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Look out for FREE HUGS Excursions Coming Soon from FREE HUGS Los Angeles!

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‎"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

-Wayne Dyer

Conscious River . Current . 12

2010-10-17T00:48:00.000-07:00

MC Yogi - GIVE LOVE

2012: Time for Change theatrical trailer

William Li - Can we eat to starve cancer?

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UPCOMING Affiliate EVENTS

Don't miss a unique opportunity to Give Love @ FREE HUGS Burbank, this Saturday, October 23rd

Far more than an event, The Global Summit delivers a whole system approach to address humanity’s most critical challenges from the ground up.
Co-CREATE the Change you Want to See the World, Mon-Wed, November 8-10, 2010

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‎"What we fear doing most is usually what we Most need to do."

-Timothy Ferris (from The 4 Hour Work Week)

Conscious River . Current . 11

2010-05-16T00:08:00.000-07:00

Singing Bear - "Again" Music Video - HD

Fear is our biggest lesson!

Renewable Energy Solution of the Month - Wind

Live near LA?

How to Be at Peace with Your Dad and Create the Friendship You Really Want.
Greg Larsen will be Singing, Celebrating & Signing his book "Better Friends", this Saturday, May 22nd

Don't miss this unique opportunity FREE HUGS Santa Monica Pier, this Sunday, May 23rd
Pass it forward ...

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Judge me and you'll have no time left to love me.
-Drizzy Drake

Conscious River . Current . 10

2010-03-16T00:33:00.000-07:00

What we are

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana part 1 of 5

Flight of the Conchords Ep 4 Sello Tape

Live in or near LA? Don't miss the GREEN LIFESTYLE FILM FESTIVAL, THIS Friday, March 19-21 http://bit.ly/aAtHJX Pass it forward ...

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

-Eckhart Tolle

Conscious River . Current . 9

2010-01-19T19:07:00.000-08:00

Love is Energy.... Pass it forward !

Beyonce "Halo" (Live) Hope For Haiti Now

MIT Algae Photobioreactor

Jump in

Closest thing to BEing in it . . . . . . is wearing a part of it.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

-Eckhart Tolle

Conscious River . Current . 8

2009-11-25T21:08:00.000-08:00

Expedition 21 Thanksgiving Message

Kute Blackson- What if today was the Last day of your life?

World's coolest flight attendant

The Shadow Effect - Trailer

Climate: A Crisis Averted

To re-visit any of the links you receive in this newsletter and experience more conscious web content, inspirational quotes, and empowering books, visit Conscious River. To share anything, click on the "contact" link from the bottom menu of the website. Our collective eyes are the best tool for finding conscious material to share with and uplift others. Whatever it is, if it makes people feel good, has a quality that unites people, or just stands out in your mind, please don't hesitate to share it.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

-Eckhart Tolle

Conscious River . Current . 7

2009-09-13T17:30:00.000-07:00

♫ Smile -Charlie Chaplin

The Age of Stupid

Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe

To re-visit any of the links you receive in this newsletter and experience more conscious web content, inspirational quotes, and empowering books, visit Conscious River by clicking the logo. To share anything, click on the "contact" link from the bottom menu of the website. Our collective eyes are the best tool for finding conscious material to share with and uplift others. Whatever it is, if it makes people feel good, has a quality that unites people, or just stands out in your mind, please don't hesitate to share it.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. -Dale Carnegie

Evolution of the Mind - A New Earth free online class

2008-04-17T18:43:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone,

I've been noticing lately in people, that much of our thinking appears to be tainted with FEAR, which keeps us from pursuing what we really want in life. FEAR appears to be a remnance of the fight or flight mechanism still ingrained in our psyche from our "animal" ancestors.

The human mind, if put on a time line of evolution of all species that have come before Human Beings on this planet, is at it's absolute infancy. Basically we as human beings have this new tool that sets apart from all other animals, yet we haven't figured out yet that it is a tool, and instead of picking it up and using it to accomplish tasks and putting it down when we have accomplished something, we are like a carpenter who after a long day of work, still has a hammer in his hand at the dinner table. We rarely put it away. It's as if the tool, our thinking mind, is using us.

The collective human mind has yet to evolve to self awareness, true consciousness. We are slowly learning that we can completely dis-identify from our thoughts and emotions, yet we are still ONE with them, most of the time. Most of us may not have known that observation of the mind was even an option. If unchecked (un observed), our thoughts and emotions have the potential to snowball to the point of insanity.

Many people go to psychologists and take prescription drugs to solve this human condition. This is no longer needed!

To learn more about how to free yourself from your mind, from fear, without drugs, and heighten your sense of aliveness every moment of every day, join the online class for "A New Earth" with author Eckhart Tolle and Oprah Winfrey, Monday nights at 6pm Pacific Time - US
http://www.oprah.com/anewearth

Discovering Your Own Reality

2008-01-21T23:19:00.000-08:00

I am realizing more and more that most people are living someone else's truth. We are so bombarded with information 24/7, we are like zombies, believing without question what we see on TV or hear on the radio, buying this or that, striving/hoping for more, repeating the same routine day in and day out, that we forget that we have a fully capable mind that can direct our lives in the general direction that we want to go.

We are TOLD by the media, our close friends or family that this, that or the other will make us happy, yet when do we ever stop for more than 5 minutes to look inside to find out, investigate for ourselves, listen to our inner child to FACE and acknowledge what we've been really wanting to do with our lives.

Yes, that child we incessantly ignore.

When are we going to STOP allowing the mad, unconscious daily barrage of information to govern our lives, and face the fact that all those things we think we need, can not and will not make us happy.

When are we going to see that it is all just a great big blind fold to keep us from free, rational, logical, creative thinking.

When are we going to take off the blinders to allow ourselves to see that it's all just a big screen to keep us from our essence, to keep us from the one thing our incessant, noise making mind (our ego) doesn't want us to see, . . . the NOW . . . this very moment you stare at this screen and read this text . . . THIS moment, your life as it unfolds.

In reality, our thinking about what happened a minute ago (the past) or what might happen 5 minutes from now (the future) is all just a figment of our imagination (of our mind), yet even those thoughts will always happen, NOW.

I'm seeing more and more every day how miraculous the NOW really is. No opportunity in life, big or small can ever happen if we aren't present enough in the NOW to transmute the fog of thought our mind usually puts up to keep us from even seeing let alone acting on those opportunities.

So many miracles, so much magic happens every day of our lives, but most of the time we miss it because, as Eckhart Tolle states in his book "The Power of Now", our mind is making too much noise.

So my advice is this. Observe Your Mind. Discover Your Own Reality, not the one others create for you. And of course share what you learned that helped you get there. It can only make you stronger.

Conscious Camels?

2007-12-22T10:16:00.000-08:00

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
-Eugene Lonesco

What the human race is faced with is the NEED to mobilize every man, woman, and child to a critical mass akin to what The United States accomplished during WWII on the home front to help win the war. The difference with Global Warming is that for many people there is no apparent anguish, no apparent or specific malicious idology, and therefore no apparent need or urgency to act. It comes down to Faith unlike any other, not religious faith, but faith in it's purest sense, faith in a sustainable future.

The point that ought to be addressed FIRST and foremost in order to achieve the critical mass of people we’ll need to force BIG decisions by big players in politics in time to have a lasting affect is this.

Despite all the information we are fed by the media about global warming, the majority of us are overwhelmed by it, overwhelmed by the responsibility of saving the planet and therefore AFRAID to act, so we pull back and do nothing.

We are all well aware of what could very likely happen to all of us if we don't act NOW . . . and that every moment that passes that we DON'T act could very likely mean catastrophic, irreversible changes in OUR future. It is very likely that a large majority of us are not taking action because we do not have the mental tools yet to deal with or cope with the reality of the problem we have all helped to create, and the solution we all need to be a part of.

Partially paraphrased and borrowed from the book, “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle*, the majority of us are unconsciously run by our mind. We still instinctually react to many aspects of life and continue to possess the same fight or flight mechanism of all other animals on the planet. We want to run away from the problem, hoping our decision, or rather indecision, doesn’t come back to haunt us.
If you look at the timeline of the planet and consider the amount of time the human mind has existed, our mind, the exceptional tool that makes us human, has just barely been conceived. It has not had enough time to evolve into a usefull tool.

According to Tolle, the next level of evolution for the mind is consciousness . . .
• The concept of observing our mind (observance of our thoughts as if they were not our own – and having the ability to laugh at them as we would the antics of a child)
• The mindset shift from having our dwelling place in Time (past and future) to having our dwelling place primarily in the one place out of time, the NOW, the present moment. This is mentioned in the book as “Satori” or “No Mind”
• Holding longer and longer sessions of “Satori” or “no mind” (holding a state of being void of past or future thought)
• Using our mind as a tool, as it was designed to be used, when we need it, then putting it back or turning it off, as we would a hammer or computer; not allowing IT to use US in the form of incessant mental noise.
• The fact that we are NOT our mind. That our mind is the infinitely creative (separate) tool, that we as humans happen to have (built-in) that sets us apart from all other life on the planet.
• We need to realize deeply that the present moment is all we ever have . . . that there is never a time when our life is not NOW, nor will there ever be.
• That resistance to the present moment, to life as it unfolds, is insanity; that nobody is “consciously” insane.
• We need to move to this next level of psycho-evolution as a matter of urgency before we can hope to cope on an individual level with a crisis of this Global scale.

What’s happening is that we’re getting dragged around so much by the incredible momentum of our thoughts (past and future) like a wild river (our unconscious mind in full control), that we completely miss what IS, the present moment (pure consciousness), in this case, the REAL step we can take right NOW towards preventing global warming.

The simple truth is, as was stated at the end of the 11th hour film, “The Earth has all the time in the world, and we don’t.”

Going along with the old saying “You can lead a camel to water, but you cannot make it drink” . . .
Like a billion thirsty Camels standing at Waters edge . . . we’re Afraid to drink, knowing that if we don't drink the water NOW, we will all likely perish before making it across the desert (to a sustainable future). We need to break the fear (the old mindset) that’s keeping us from drinking the water.

I propose we talk more about the evolution of the human mind to consciousness; about how to give the majority of us the tools of the mind the we will need in order to have the fortitude to cope with the overwhelming emotions and fear that comes along with knowing that we ARE responsible for and fully capable of "saving the world".

* I propose the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, specifically his book "The Power of Now" (currently rated 4.5 out of 5 stars on average from 746 reviewers on Amazon.com)
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-0036043-6371047?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188025375&sr=8-1
This book is the highest rated book on Amazon.com in its category. No other spiritual or religious text (neither of which accurately define THIS book), including the Bible, has come close to the universal truths and broad appeal that this book has to offer.

I propose the need for all of us to relinquish (through cross cultural immersion and education) all forms of resistance to our differences in race, culture, religion, and politics.

I propose we also begin to discuss these and all other methods currently available in regards to the mind-shift that will be necessary to get the camels to drink . . . and of course make them think/know it was their choice . . . because there are the tree huggers . . . and there is the rest of us . . . unfortunately it will be winning the minds and hearts of the rest of us that will be essential to bringing about the collective conscious change needed to STOP global warming and the slew of other crisis threatening the survival of our race.

As one of the experts in the film said, "as within, so without." We need to fix our collective inner pollution before we can hope to fix our current outer pollution.

I’d like to thank Nadia Conners for encouraging me to blog about this critical topic.

Conscious Pioneers

2007-12-22T10:04:00.000-08:00

I believe conscious change is not inevitable, but very much needed in the world today, especially in regards to our very current issue of Global Warming and other environmental Crises. In the future, people will more and more be forced to change by circumstances beyond their control and without the conscious tools of mind, drug use will likely become a more prevalent problem than it already is, making it harder and harder for any of us to reach them.

We are conscious pioneers! We can all be very proud to have the knowledge of the Power of Now.

Let's try as often as we can to use the present moment to never miss the opportunity to give/share the gift of consciousness.

I suggest we use this thread to discuss ways to reach the unreachable . . . because not everyone likes to read or listen to "audio" that's not music. And they are usually the ones who need this info the most . .