Those seemingly ordinary moments of wonder in your life – when you are arrested by the sunset, the swell of music or your child’s face, and the line between you and everything blurs – are not throw away moments. They are actually portals into the sacred nature of things. 

What are the portals that have captured your heart?

What is it the moment you saw your child born and open their eyes? 

Was it a glorious sunset that painted the sky in every shade imaginable? 

Was it an artistic performance that left everyone breathlessly cheering in a standing ovation? 

We are very seldom exposed to opportunity that can give us cause or reason to experience one of these magical opportunities to come into the most sacred combination of variables. 

As we grow and explore the rare moments when we actually encounter one of these, we are sucked instantly through the vortex into a state of awe and wonder. 

They are rare enough that we very seldom happen upon one of them, but in that ultimate experience, what is it exactly that metaphorically sweeps us off of our feet and literally takes our breath away? 

Are we coming in direct contact with the sacred and divine? 

Is this an opportunity for us to recognize that we are interconnected with things so much larger than that which is within our control as to remind us of the gentle frailty of our human 3D experience? 

Are we continuously living within a world of countless variables such that billions of people may have similar experiences tailor made to their own lives and awareness?  The mathematical probabilities of this are beyond comprehension, and yet, each and every one of us has had several of these experiences at a minimum.

In our experiencing these larger than life events, we are given the opportunity to mature, and thereby blossom with our exposure to something of divine magnitude. 

Yet, regardless of our inability to fully quantify that which we have just experienced, our heart, our mind, and our emotions are accelerated to a vibrational frequency that is so high, that the ultimate ramifications of having had such an experience can never be denied. 

Happy Thursday!

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Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us,

of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

ERWIN SCHRODINGER

Why does music have the ability to instantly transport us to feelings or emotions from times gone by?

The tiniest segment of a melody, or a random segment of certain lyrics are capable of instantly leveraging our deepest emotions, and elevating them to new levels of feeling and engagement, based solely on a tiny little bit of audio that we have just heard. 

How is it even remotely possible that several well crafted notes or lyrics or both could have such intensely transformative power as to take an individual or an entire arena full of tens of thousands of people and accelerate everyone’s deepest emotions in tandem with one another? 

Is it possible that the vibrational energy of the music is causing a chemical reaction in our body? 

When we hear music that truly stimulates our soul, is the stimulation in part caused by a release of a chemical in our brain that is triggering these distinct reactions? 

Why does that happen? 

Why does the auditory experience of being exposed to specific vibrations facilitate the deeper emotional reactions that are triggering in a proximal or nonproximal, digitally-connected audience? 

When the snake charmer plays the pungi in order to hypnotize a cobra, is the same reaction taking place in the brain of the cobra or is there a different cause or reason that this is happening? 

When we are intoxicated by a tune, and our emotions start to build, are the emotions at a constant or are they continually fluctuating, predicated upon which part of the music we are hearing at any one moment in time? 

If it is a track of music that you are very familiar with, do your emotions fluctuate specifically at the favorite moments in that particular song? 

Why is it that those particular notes are so much more stimulating to you than another segment of the exact same track of music? 

Is it the musicianship or the particular melody or lyrics which ultimately grow that much more appreciated by us? 

Are we continually changing our reactions based on a specific mood or circumstance in our world that gives this particular music greater cause to connect or stimulate us? For example, the same track may impact us differently if we are working out, running or driving, than if we heard it under more calm circumstances. A romantic track may be all the more appreciated in the company of the right person, whereas a sad track may be all the more poignant in the absence of the right person.

There are so many variables as to how and why our relationship with music is so critical. Getting in harmony with those variables enables us to fully appreciate the music in our world.

Science may never be fully capable of explaining these deep mysteries, but their impact on us and other living creatures, beings or plants, is undeniable.

Happy Friday!

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make, makes you. 

JOHN C. MAXWELL 

What choices have you made that define you?

We literally make hundreds of choices, every single day, and yet only a tiny handful of them ultimately define us on a large scale. What is it specifically about any particular choice that makes it cause and reason to become one of the defining variables of our lives? 

When we opt for some form of significant choice in our lives, we are metaphorically hitting a fork in the road in which we are opting for one of several paths at our disposal. 

The choice that we make in opting for any one of these paths literally relies on the outcomes of numerous choices that we have made prior, each of which have further empowered us to make the new choice at hand. 

When we look back from our respective vantage point and see the depth of opportunities at our disposal, we are perhaps more readily capable of discerning how, and why, specific options that we have leveraged, are coming to play in this next chapter of our existence. 

When earlier choices have armed us with knowledge, experience, understanding, technical wherewithal, or other critical variables, we are in an increased position of being able to take full advantage of next opportunities that have arisen, potentially as a direct result of the earlier choices we have made. 

In many cases, people become convinced that having made a specific choice previously could potentially be decreasing their ability to make some of the new choices they would like to make at this moment in their lives. 

In a majority of cases, prior choices do not in, and of themselves, rule out all opportunity to make some of the new choices that a person would like to opt for. When someone is sitting on the fence metaphorically, trying to determine whether or not, they have ample cause and reason to take full advantage of new options at their disposal, they are more likely to reflect on outcomes of prior choices, and potentially allow those outcomes to weigh heavily on their determination of whether or not a new choice is best suited for them. 

Our continuous ability to remain liberated, and fully engaged in life, starts very specifically with each of the choices that we have made at landmark moments in our lives. 

I think perhaps one of the best resources an elder statesperson might opt for becoming, is a sounding board for younger generations, who are facing similar choices to those that the elder statesperson might have made at an earlier juncture in their lives. 

Allowing a younger party to hear the thoughts and reflections on those choices could not be potentially more important if they are being proffered with an open heart and desire to help that younger participant prevail in whatever decision, they are ultimately ready to make. 

Make your choices wisely, they add up to everything in your life, long-term.

Happy Wednesday!

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What do you think?

Are you certain?

Why?

Having a devout opinion is a half cup of water. At times it is half full and others, half empty.

Your opinions can propel you into a future that no one else can see. 

Sometimes that is most valuable. Other times, it is a prison you have set for yourself.

The problem with having an open mind is that others are always more than willing to fill it up for you. And sometimes that can be a real blessing.

Leonardo grew up in a world that denied him education because he was born out of wedlock. So his knowledge was self perpetuated with the help of his uncle.

In the course of forming his own opinions, he would walk through a canyon and find fossilized shells at different layers in the canyon wall. So he reasoned that the great deluge (the flood in the Bible) had to be wrong because how would these fossils have settled at such different heights?

He watched light and threw out the concept that vision was an emission from the eye and must instead, be particles that are entering through the eye. That idea was revolutionary.

He studied the heavens and concluded that the Earth was not the center of the universe.

But his ability to share any of these thoughts were blasphemous and would most certainly lead to his execution.

Growing up outside of the school system eliminated many of the preconceived notions from his mind. No doubt the children he played with would share ideas, and he was exposed to many over the course of his life.

But I believe that Leonardo starting with a different slate, set a life journey that may have taken this brilliant brain and helped it to formulate with a different set of parameters.

We are all quick to formulate our own opinions. I am most certainly high on that list of people with a preconceived mindset. Sometimes my own opinions are so strong as to make it near impossible for my perspective to change.

But I would be lying if I did not admit that there are times in a discussion with someone whose intellect and opinions that I respect, when I find myself being readily persuaded that perhaps my own opinion is wrong and that there is a much better perspective to take.

Most frequently, this happens with my team at The Illusion Factory. I can work into the wee hours of the night, jubilant that I have found the most amazing idea or concept. Then I present it to my team with pride and excitement and I usually get the response of “that’s interesting, let us play with it for a bit and we’ll regroup.” Inevitably that means… let us do what we do best and we will get back to you…. And when they do, the idea is much different and may only contain a tiny spark or glimmer of what I was so excited about.   And the truth is… what they have turned it into, is much better!!! We most certainly would not be where we are now with Sizzle if we had followed all of my ideas. And that is a blessing!

Opinions are like a….holes…. Everyone has one. But that does not make them valid or concrete. So taking a moment to contemplate that no matter how in love with our opinions we become, we are still very well served to contemplate those of others. In that process, we continue to grow… and personal growth (in my opinion) is far more important than being right all the time.

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Some people look great in blue. Let them keep holding their breath.

When you decide to see the world through an entirely different filter, you are left with one of two choices: stand firm in what you believe in or pale in the face of ridicule and scorn.

Seeing life through the distortion of your own perspective can be both liberating or imprisoning. Making the choice to be vocal about such a perspective can carry extreme consequences. Therefore, many who are willing to question the most fundamental aspects of reality are the ones who are going to either propel us into the future or suffer the slings and arrows of their own misfortune…. or both.

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.  His revelation caused everything that was known about physics to be redefined as a result of his assessment of reality.

Think different🌞