I spent a few days with my family the other weekend, we went to a holiday resort place so the children could be occupied and enjoy themselves. It is wonderful to get together with everyone and spend time chatting about life and what is going on with each person, and for us it is not a regular occurrence as I live and travel in many other countries. I like to observe my family as they are my reference of people who I have grown around and much of the time they mirror things in me that I feel I have conquered or passed. It is quite a learning experience to be around them and observe myself.
Now writing about the economic situation with regard to how it affects our health, the family gatherings become a more exaggerated situation than normal when so many people are together, rather than when I am alone. The three main issues I contend with are Noise, Over eating and Waste. It was not just being with my family but being in this setting with all the other people as they went golfing, to restaurants, watched TV and did the customary drinking that made the situation overwhelming for me.
As people discussed politics, the economy, sports and talked about food I realized that this is very normal to everyone, whether they are here or at home, this is a continuation of the same style of living they normally have.
I was thinking while observing all this, how everyone is waiting for the economic recovery to be able to do more of this! Why is all this excess so attractive to everyone and where is the end to it? The noise I digested through Yogic breathing but the over eating and how much waste we create from throwing out excessive food and their containers was troublesome to watch. What can we do about all of this?
Yogi Cameron
on Sep 20th, 2009 at 10:32 am
The spiritual teaching we offer is the only salve for this burning excess. People hide in things, distort the call of truth with noise, and prove their worth with waste. They cannot hear you, but you must keep speaking. Otherwise how will they discover their true nature and their interdependent connection to each other and the planet? I will help lift up your voice above the fray, if you let me.
on Sep 20th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I don’t think it’s an issue it could be addressed directly by expecting to “make” somehow people stop acting like that.
I think what it is within our reach and the variables we can control is to just keep on educating and helping people to develop more their own intrinsic skills to achieve higher levels of awareness. Expanding the reach of spiritual practices, like yoga or meditation, by making them available to more and more people and allowing them to connect with those and learn what they are all about, is one way of doing that.
With improved awareness all the rest follows; the acknowledgment of the excess, their actual repercussions, and all that will lead to a change of behavior; but one that is self-promoted from inside of each one and not externally imposed but some regulating rule, law or inorganic force.
on Sep 20th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Sweet heart Cameron - you know I’m in the middle of my prayers right now as till next Sunday.Honeylove I couldn’t resist opening your page as I also need the computer for my prayers
.Once again I find it kind of exciting & overwhelming that you have gone through something I’ve been thinking of.Then I’ve been playing with these thoughts since some time now.I’ll write later.Tomorrow.I’m continuing with my prayers right now.I adore you Cameron.Hugs & kisses
on Sep 20th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
”What can we do about all of this?” - plenty darling Cameron,there’s plenty we can do!
Firstly it’s the awareness.I’ll write tomorrow my sweet darling TigerBear Cameron.I love you!Hugs & kisses
on Sep 21st, 2009 at 3:03 am
hi sunshine….in general sweet heart Cameron there will always be lots of noise,people over-eating & producing waste,CREATING waste,excessive behaviour,etc.Hun you have shifted awareness.Others around you may not have yet attained the same awareness as you have.When you decide to be around people for any amount of time,spending time with them - be it whosoever - then you have to be in complete awareness of the fact that you may or may not be in harmony and oneness with yourself,your higher self.When we reach higher awareness - ofcourse it’s an ever on-going process - we have to be very purposeful in our behaviour and choices - we have to move around in the world purposefully - making decisive & deliberately purposefull choices.We don’t have to think of the outcome as that is a limitation but we have to think we are taking a particular step - here for example ‘family gathering’ : you decided you want to attend your family gathering - BUT darling Cameron,that was not the point hun! You should also have thought,(besides you meeting up with people close to you),you should have thought - AWARENESS - how many of the people attending this gathering are living in the same awareness as I am, okay then consider what kind of a place and environment you will be in or spend time in,then make a mission,a purpose,an intention - A SPIRITUAL ONE - before going or participating.When one makes a purpose & intention,then one’s perspective changes - one doesn’t go about tapping aimlessly around - feeling like the rug has been pulled away from under one’s feet,feeling uncomfortable about the whole event.
:) or anyone for that matter - cousins,uncles,aunts,friends,etc.It’s about awreness and spirituality and maybe you are lucky in this lifetime to be born into the family you are born into but maybe in another lifetime you’d be totally with different people.Each person has their own karma and came into the world with their own burdens and workload.That to each his own!So you take care of your own karma & purpose & doing good.You be clear about yourself and your life-purpose & this will shift your focus and make you one-pointed again.No distractions sweet heart.Disentangle yourself from emotions attatched to you now in this moment.
Honeylove I read the post last night & I think it has been on my mind the whole night because I know you are feeling quite unwell with such memories.It’s not so much about the people,IT’S ABOUT THEIR AWARENESS.You stop attaching yourself to other people’s behaviour,whether it be you mother,your,father,your (doggie)
Okay sweet heart I just got out of bed & will have my tea now.I will write ENVIRONMENTALLY GENERAL ,
later on today.There’s so much one can do towards higher awareness & for the world.Let’s start right now.
on Sep 21st, 2009 at 9:30 am
I love my family very much and I see and speak with them rarely : ) It is an interesting viewpoint that that situation gives one. It can be eye opening. It seems that many of the rituals that we do in this physical world mimic the feeling of touching higher realms, or planes of existence. In our core, in our center, we know love….highest vibration. When we have forgotten (or are unaware of) our unity with all living things……we try desparately to find “things”, “people”, or “situations” that give a pale resemblance to feeling “at one”. I believe this is why the practice of yoga….from the forms to the inner self management…..is such a gift, and one I’m glad you are learning to share with humanity more and more. It is a blessing.
~Namaste
on Sep 21st, 2009 at 10:39 am
Surely we all look to find answers somewhere, whether it is in religion, nature, friends, family or even on the internet. Sometimes we like to read things and pretend that we belong to those who aren’t being blamed in the article when the truth is that we are all, every day struggling to find our balance and our place in this world.
My concern is this:
We are easily inspired by people like Cameron, because we see them as being at peace with themselves and being able to deal with the every day obsticles of life in a content and meaningful way. I wish I could do the same. But on the other hand when I read your article about being together with family, friends and around other people, and having to witness the waste and over eating, my eyebrows slowly start to approach my hairline…
Yes, indeed we live in an imperfect world where we will always be able to point our fingers at what seems to diguist us because we have found a better way to live in these hard times.
What helps me the most is to remember that I was not always the way I am today.
There was a day, a week, a month in which I decided to change my life and live it in a healthier and in my opinion more productive way. But it was the people that did not judge me before hand but rather helped me to realize myself that I was being wasteful, over eating or materialistic, simply through their actions, their patience, and their kindness, to accept me for who I am that eventually led me to reflect on my self…it was the people who did not give up on me even though they might have been disturbed at my beahvior, mentality and lack of spirituality that intrigued me to take a look at their life style.
I think it is important, in the midst of our journey, to be there for people. We cannot always hide in our like minded groups and talk about others (I tend to find myself doing this sometimes). We need to have faith in people and know that as we have changed so can they. What can we do about this? We can be there for them but not in a judgeful way because that tends to push people away rather than invite them to create chage towards better ways.
Lead by example… Surely, many people read Cameron’s page and are inspired by him but half of us never take the time to write him how much he has impacted our life. The same goes for us, as individuals, in our jobs, communities and families we won’t always get a ‘thank you’ card but that does not mean that people are not watching us and learning from us, therefore we should always have patience and let our actions teach others.
The important thing is that we love others and understand that they indeed can change. Just as you have conquered and passed things in your life so can they. And in the midst of it all be greatful for the friends and family that we have… always.
What else can we do…I strongly believe in the power of a community. Be an example in your community, get together with people and think about your situation in your community, what is going wrong and what can you do together to take steps towards a healthier enviornment, take action and most of all include those people whom we least expect to want to be a part of this, because many times they do! And as I write my last lines while dreaming of a wonderful, clean, recylcing and healthy community I will leave you with this: We all need to challeange ourselves to speak less and act more, for ‘every little actions triggers a reaction…’
With peace and love. Sophia
on Sep 21st, 2009 at 4:42 pm
The thing is that people try to make their life happy and they believe its possible going shopping or over eating. All pleasures should be enjoyed in small portions. But this is difficult to get, as I can see around. The secret is to show people how to feel good with themselves, so everything else they will be done in the correct way and all of us would be happy. Love from Spain.
on Sep 22nd, 2009 at 4:09 am
Darling Cameron a few days back I did 108 sun salutations for World Peace.I did them alone in a forest.I took my blanket with me & spread it out,did my sun salutations & so simple as that it was!Besides that was the first day of my nine day fast.I am fasting on milk & fruits for nine days with the purpose of SHAKTI.
Cameron - this is the first time I am fasting on milk and fruits for a period of NINE DAYS.Today is the fourth day and already from yesterday I am realizing the difference it makes - how it feels.Hun this fasting gives one such a cleansing feeling & effect!It’s awesome!Most of all I can feel it working in terms of ‘non-attatchments’ - how it unglues one from attatchments.Attatchments are really only just ‘feelings’ we hang on to and cling on to.When we eat food - the food goes in the body - in the intestines - and clings onto the walls of the intestines as well!Attatchments are just the same.Things on the lower astral levels attatch themselves onto us - they are invisible but very tangible! - these lower astral level things,once they attatch themselves onto people to derive energy from them - the same people in turn look for others to feed on.This vicious cycle goes on & on!This is also one reason why we have to purify ourselves & keep regular fasts.THEN WE STARVE THE BASTARDS AWAY.These were the exact words the person used who taught me about the existence of demons & entities.I admit that for a few years,untill recently,I have been terribly turmoiled & confused about this fact - the existence of demons & entities - and I did not know what to believe although it is for me in my,this life,the easiest thing to believe as everything in my life is a proof of their existence!
I have to tell you that I also researched on books about these things.And now I finally know for sure that these things DO exist!
The way past these things is afterall the mind!These things are not imaginary - they belong to the world of maya!Because beyond maya - once one reaches GOD and is one again with source - DUALITY ENDS.That is then the essential existence of truth.
108 sun salutations is divinely purifying!Honeylove - I also have to admit that although I do regular sports & YOGA ofcourse - still the sun salutations are such a wholesome exercise that after 108 reps - that makes for 216 cobras & downward dogs! - my lower back was sore - so VERY sore for three days & my hamstrings are sore after two days still quite sore,my calves are sore,my shoulder - back is somewhat sore - uff - I AM FEELING SHAKTI - and this is awesome!
By the way sweet heart Cameron I do my sun salutations exactly like you’ve shown how to do them in your video.
Sweet heart Cameron did you also do something for World Peace?Are you also fasting for Shakti hun?
Cameron I was thinking so many people - obviously not all - think they are classy and sexy or that’s what they like to be.Anyhow - classy is being simple,neat,(no excess),being NATURAL,and being in harmony with nature - but look at so many people who consider themselves to be classy - is their behaviour classy too? Are they in harmony with their environment and nature? The general attitude should be ‘ENVIRONMENT’ - we should all be environmentalists in heart & mind in the first place!This should be a leading factor in our lives.Times are changing on the earthly plane - we are going back to nature.The atomic age is over & now a different age is setting in again and that is back to nature!Are all the people moving along with this change in time?Fashion is an evolutionary industry - fast moving & ever-changing - people like moving along with fashion,we love to look beautiful,sophisticated - but are the people also moving along with the changeing time on earth?This change from the atomic age back to nature?!
And SOPHISTICATION - what is it? this here is the meaning:
” the process or result of becoming cultured, knowledgeable, or disillusioned; especially : cultivation, urbanity ”
So then,are the same people who consider themselves to be classy,sexy,sophisticated - are they it really?Their behaviour and general attitude would show it,would be proof.One’s behaviour towards mother earth and to the environment is a great measure to one’s classiness,sophistication.
Are people cultured?Or are people like ordinary hooligans in their behaviour?That will also reflect your mind.
Why did Gandhi say ‘Be The Change You Want To See In The World’ ?
It all depends on what you want to see in the world.
on Sep 22nd, 2009 at 12:04 pm
”The three main issues I contend with are Noise, Over eating and Waste. It was not just being with my family but being in this setting with all the other people as they went golfing, to restaurants, watched TV and did the customary drinking that made the situation overwhelming for me.”
Cameron,you are in a different awareness through your yogic & ayurvedic lifestyle.You want to keep your family ties.So you have to think of a solution of how to do this and at the same time participating in such family gatherings.Both sides have to accept and respect the changes in a person.If you do all the things they do and then feel wrong about it or untrue to yourself then something has to be changed there.So you ought to find a solution about it.
”….but the over eating and how much waste we create from throwing out excessive food and their containers was troublesome to watch. What can we do about all of this?”
Change the lifestyle ofcourse and the general attitude of people towards the environment.
One can do one’s best in one’s own life but one cannot force everyone to do the same as oneself.It’s awareness afterall.Who is ready for higher awareness, is the question, and those who are seek it and gravitate towards it like magnetic gravity.
So how to participate in such gatherings and at the same time feel good.That’s what you have to figure out.
on Sep 22nd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Cameron when one meets up for such gatherings why can’t the location be an environmentally friendly one?
Tourist resorts should be environmentally conscious and everything available at such resorts or villages should be ECO-FRIENDLY products.
All food packaging must be eco-friendly and re-cycable,re-usable.
Therefore one must look to go to places which are eco-friendly places.
When families gather,it’s nicer if they can prepare their own food.That way they would perhaps do less over-eating!
Or if one buys foodstuff for the day spent outdoors,then the packaging of such foodstuff must be eco-friendly.Re-usable products,everything GREEN, - why not have a family gathering with a motto? For example - GO GREEN.
Family gatherings with environmentally useful mottos should be the ‘ in-thing.’ Most probs people think too much of themsleves,thinking conceitedly that they always are doing everything right & that that’s the way they are living anyway,so what’s the big deal?Well Cameron - it is a big deal.It’s an issue.To be solved.To be planned and to be carried out.
So it’s advisable to plan such gatherings with an environmental motto and to book places which are eco-friendly resorts.This is one way of doing it.Why scatter energy in useless ways - it’s better to invest it in rather useful ways to oneself and to mother earth.
on Sep 23rd, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Cameron hun - thank you sweet heart for uploading a new version of your video.
I just saved it & I love it gorgeous,sexy Cameron!
on Sep 23rd, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Sophia……what a lovely post. It touched my heart and inspires me to speak less and act more.
Thank you : )
~namaste
on Sep 24th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Cameron - the amount of waste we throw away reflects our minds.It mirrors precisely what ’state of mind’ we are in.It’s not only just what we throw away but also what kind of waste we create!
The one kind of waste being all the excess we take in which are expelled by the body in form of biological waste being expelled from the living body.
The other kind of waste is produced from scattered energy thrown randomly into space.This is when we don’t achieve goals or anything specific in life.
When people buy more food than they can eat and the rest of the food is thrown away - the food which is thrown away decomposes somewhere.Those who are starving of hunger in the world are starving anyway.I wish for those starving people to develop yogic attributes to end their misery.And animals find their food in the wild.
The packaging though which is thrown away - well - if it’s not organically decomposable, - then that is a factor of ‘destruction’.Because it is destroying the earth & the earth’s habitat.
The people who engage themselves in ‘making such waste’ are also wasting energy and life.They are wasting their minds and wasting precious opportunity to feel the awareness of GOD, to feel LIFE,to feel the ENERGY OF BREATH,Yes the energy of breathing!The energy of creation!
GOD is not just about - having faith in an invisible FORCE/POWER and praying for one’s wishes to come true.
GOD is about feeling the presence of God in oneself by increasing one’s awareness,by knowing who one’s creator is and by seeking oneness with the creator.Coming closer to God and feeling God’s presence is when we feel ‘true energy’ and invest this energy in life.when we feel this way,then we naturally also begin investing this precious energy in our lives and we create even more life!You see - if this energy is invisible electric currents flowing through one - then when one is filled with such electric magnetic currents of life - it also flows from every cell in one’s body and this results in creating further life around one that even touching a dying or injured or sick living being brings about healing!
This is also why nature heals one.Because nature is a direct electric magnetic current of God’s energy.But plastic & chemicals are not,because plastic and chemicals do not contain within themselves and do not conduct electric magnetic currents of this vital energy of life.So plastic and chemicals bring about an end of life - destruction of life.
Metals and rocks are part of nature and although we consider them to be non-living,in-animate - but lo and behold - they are filled with electric magnetic currents of this vital energy!Therefore they,being part of nature,conduct this vital energy and have healing properties!!
So the big deal is in what things,in what materials we invest our energy in.It will either create healing and life or destruction and death.