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My more than 3 years fascination with Buddhist readings from both western and eastern authors have helped me to accept the importance of Being.  But my Monkey Mind plus my many books on business management tear me apart. Business management books warp my thoughts about time. They urge me to return to the past and mine it of lessons till I lose track of the NOW. The familiarity of the past makes me comfortable with it including some unpleasant thoughts. The future also vies for attention. It is as though the NOW can wait while I obsess with the future. I keep on forgetting that over a thousand times at least what I painstakingly plan for don’t happen anyway.

I live in the frantic world. “How can I live in the moment.” I often question when I’m confused or anxious. “ It’s good to live in the NOW provided there are no bills to be paid. How can I live in the NOW when every so often I have to deal with our one and only daughter living in a different time zone? How can I live in the NOW when my husband thinks differently daily depending on which university he goes for the day. Today he is CSR or CSI personified. The next day he can be reached only if I agree with his research terms and designs. Still another day it is education tailored to his Chinese, Vietnamese, Iranian etc. students.”     Teaching an MBA course with my husband has compelled me to question many of my beliefs. Are they merely due to social conditioning? Questioning my beliefs and experimenting with ideas have widened my world view.  But I do this with due diligence towards health care. I do this at my own pace without doing violence to my sensibilities.

Ironically it’s Lynn Grabhorn somebody from the West who relieves me of my agitation. While on a self- developed program designed along Buddhist thought I move to the West for help. Unexpectedly she urges me to surface from the world of limited thoughts thriving on struggle, survival and judgment. At times she sounds like most life coaches acting like the leader of a cheering squad. But once I drop my rational defenses and resistance I get to feel better. I plunge into the directions and eventually enter her realm.

With Grabhorn, I am surrounded by an electromagnetically charged field of high-frequency light. This outer field is my connection to the “Mind of God”. So near yet so far because I can access the “Mind of God” only if my brain’s frequency matches that of God.

Sadly my brain is filled with earthbound thoughts limiting my frequency to what Grabhorn labels as “social consciousness”. These thoughts are characterized by fear, competition, anger, lack, survival etc. These thoughts weigh my soul down like the knelling of the church bells of San Isidro at around three-thirty in the afternoon. To raise the frequency Grabhorn recommends expanded thoughts of oneness, love, joy, life, energy, god etc. For me an introvert, thoughts of oneness are anathema. “I don’t want to be one with the crowd.” “I want to be different.” Even the thought of dissolving into pure spirit to merge with god after death isn’t an inviting idea to me. Yet I don’t want to be a Lucifer.

I think the added attraction to Grabhorn is the fact that she is a graduate of the Twelve Steps Program for Addicts. Life didn’t come easy for her too. To one who grew up dominated by the Original Sin paradigm and educated rigorously on the forever-alert for sinfulness, Grabhorn is

a balm to a tired spirit. She drew a hopeful picture of reality; God is ever so near.

Here come the doable tips. To elevate the frequency of our brains we better take care of our pituitary gland. I personally have been massaging the acupressure point for the gland. It is located on either thumb. Simply massage from the stem of the thumb all the way to the tip. Those who prefer can go straight to the point by thinking of higher level thoughts. I have tried thinking of creative ideas which are different from what I usually think of. For example, I push the limits by thinking of travels without the hassle of visa application.

I believe it is worth it. I noticed that even my physical aches and pains disappear or at least become manageable when I think of lofty thoughts. Whenever I transcend my social conditionings I feel kinder to myself and naturally I attract better responses to my personal interactions.