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How Much Are You Worth?
UncategorizedHello my Lovelies,
As a fitness trainer it becomes quite comedic, and also sad, at the excuses I hear for not either wanting to exercise, eat healthy, or simply even purchase a gym membership. It seems that society and all it’s entertainment tools have really caused the majority of humanity to become a lazy, uneducated, lazy, lazy, did I say lazy? culture.
As most of you who read these posts know that I do my best to always see the larger picture, but I hope that those of you who read this take this into consideration.
My first and most important question is, “How much are you worth?” Honestly…how much do you feel you and your body are worth? $50? $1,000? $1,000,000? Priceless? I ask this because I hear all the time, “Gyms are just so expensive!…Personal Training is just so expensive!!…Eating healthy is just so expensive and I don’t like cooking!!!” And my question to you is…”Well, are you and your body worth being expensive or are you and your body not worth much?”
This body that you have, this vessel, will be the vessel you carry with you forward into the rest of this life experience. The cells in your body will replicate daily. The food that you ingest will become those new cells. The daily exercise you partake in will make those cells become either lazy and weak or vibrant and strong. Those cells not only will be made from the food you consume, but the old cells will also be affected either beneficially or not so benefically by the food you consume.
Another question I’d like to ask is, “Do you know which foods allow your cells to be affected beneficially? Do you know what type of exercises and programming will allow your body to be affected beneficially?” If you do, congratulations, you’re in the 5% of people that actually LIKE their vessels. If you don’t but heard that a new herb will help you lose those 25 lbs instead of changing how you live your life, then do you boo boo.
If I sound cynical, then this message is coming across correctly. 😉 If you get sick where do you typically go? If your car breaks down where do you typically go? If you need your teeth cleaned where do you typically go? Do you get my point? 😉
Exercise comes in all forms! Dancing, yoga, basketball, soccer, football, crossfit, weight lifting, running, martial arts, playing tag, jumping on the jungle gym, so many modalities to be active! Why are there gyms? Because majority of the time those gyms have a variety of those modalities to choose from. But is $25/month too much to spend so that you can start moving your body again, and use it to experience life?
Is a few hundred dollars per month too expensive if the tools you will learn will help you live a more proficient life? Think about it? Truly think about it? “Is $500 worth gaining the knowledge I need so that I can help my body become the beauty-full vessel I’ve always wanted? I am worth $500 when the information I learn will allow me to live a fuller, more enjoyable, care-free life? Or will I just keep moseying around like I have been for the past 15 years being unhappy, sad, depressed, afraid of life, feeling gross in my vessel?”
Truly think about those questions! HOW MUCH ARE YOU WORTH?! If you knew that you were here in this Earth experience to run around, be playful, live WITH Nature, jump, dance, sing, frolic, sprint, fall down, roll around, bump your knee, do the splits, do a somersault, climb the trees, chase your beauty-full animal friends, wrestle, spin around, just all the amazing crazyily beauty-full experiences of being human, would $500 be worth doing those things again?
I know that you are priceless! I know that each and every one of you has not one dollar sign upon you because of Who You Are, Spirit! But your TV has caused you to forget that! Your commercials have caused you to forget how good eating from the earth feels! Your bibles and books have said you need to grow up, when you were BORN to play!! Your doctors have said, “It’s just part of getting old!” When deep within you you know that you are forever Eternal! That you are first and foremost a child of Source, yes…a CHILD! Not an adult of God! Not a grown-up of Source! A child!
In the eyes of the Creator you are forever priceless! The question is…are you willing to look at yourself as priceless? Are you willing to say, “Oh $25/month to go and play with some toys everyday so that I am living happily, of course!” Ask yourself how much you’re worth…when you find that number multiply it by Divine and you’ll have your answer!
I wish you all well so that you live your lives full of health and with the reminder of why you are here!! Live life like a game and no matter what the outcome, it will always have been worth it!!
All My Love,
Zach IAM
BE 100%
UncategorizedHello My Lovelies,
As I was driving home just now I noticed a bumper sticker on the car in front of me that said, “Namaste.” For those who are unsure what namaste means, basically put it means, “The Divine within me recognizes the Divine within you.” As I drove past the car I looked at the driver, I immediately noticed she was smoking a cigarette to which she then took a drink of a pepsi. I thought to myself, “How ironic. This woman has a sticker that says how she not only recognizes the Divine within you but also herself, and yet she is poisoning her body temple.”
I am in no way aiming to be judgemental, it was simply God reminding me to BE 100%. What I mean by being 100% is living true to the thoughts we think, the words we speak, and the actions we take. To be living life with my thoughts, words, and actions all in harmony. It also can mean to enter fully into each moment. To be 100% present living NOW, the only moment we will ever have.
In order to live a joy-full, purpose-full life we must be 100% with what we think, say, and do. For instance, seeing as I am a personal trainer, I know in my heart and from all the research ever, that vegetables and fruits are beneficial for my body temple. I then counsel my clients to eat fruits and veggies, but then do not eat them myself. I am not being 100% am I? I am disregarding the knowledge I know in my heart is correct. Another example would be for me to tell somebody to be kind and express Love and then go out and judge somebody for smoking a cigarette and drinking a pepsi 😉
Not only does this cause others to lose respect for us because we are not practicing what we preach, but more importantly we feel guilty because we override what we feel and know is right in our hearts.
I’ve never read the Four Agreements, but from what I know about it, I feel this post goes along the same lines. When we are speaking and acting from our deepest Truth, from the wisdom that resides within all of us, we feel alive. When we live in accordance with our deepest Truth, life is purpose-full! Our minds are no longer in battle with our hearts, our hearts now directs where our minds will go. We gain awareness of if a thought is in harmony with our deepest Truth or in dis-harmony.
So ultimately what I want to say to you, and in doing so, to myself, is BE 100%. Why waste time not enveloped in this present moment? You only have right now to express your gifts! And now…and now…and now! Have you read these words with full presence or have you been dazing off thinking of something while your subconscious scanned these words? BE 100%! Speak the words of your heart even if they might upset others. Don’t force others to listen, nor force your opinion, but speak with an open heart full of Love. Act with your deepest integrity! When you drink your water…DRINK YOUR WATER!! That is truly the first and last sip of water you will ever has as the individual you are NOW!
We are ever-changing, Divine incarnations of Love! Experience this world NOW because it will never be the same. BE 100% in this moment, BE 100% at a business meeting, BE 100% in conversations with a friend, BE 100% while taking a walk, BE 100% in the embrace of your child, BE 100% as you cry hysterically, BE 100% in the ocean of a strawberry, BE 100% when you dance in the ecstasy of sex, BE 100% because if you’re not life will keep passing you by. BE in life. BE in Love. BE here now!
And while you are here, live from your deepest heart. Give your deepest gifts to the world. Present them on the Divine platter of your words, actions, and through your Presence. BE 100% with your life!
All My Love,
Zach IAM
Mind-Full or Mind-Empty?
UncategorizedHello my Lovelies,
As I’m sitting here this little wonder popped into my awareness…if we are truly BEing, if we are truly present, do we want to be mind-full or do we want to be mind-empty?
If your mind is full do you not feel cluttered? Do you not feel scattered over what is happening in your mind? Do you not feel bombarded? Contrastingly, what happens when our mind is empty? Do we not feel peace-full? Do we not feel relaxed, trusting, faith-full?
When we meditate what is the focus? Is it not to simply let go and BE present? To empty our minds and reside in the Silence that is Source? Would we not then call this mind-empty? 🙂
A man once asked Buddha, “When you attained enlightenment what did you gain?” Buddha responded, “I gained nothing but lost everything.” This statement allows us to infer that emptiness of mind can allow us to recognize the Divinity within. If we are always stuck looking at the surface of the water, and the waves that are bombarding the surface, and never take the time to see the vast stillness below the surface, how can we ever find the peace of the deep stillness?
I thought this was a fun idea and wonder that came into my awareness and hope that what is written here can get you to ask the same quest-ions.
All My Love,
Zach IAM
Message To The Criers
UncategorizedMy Lovelies,
Don’t you dare, not for one second, resist the urge to cry!!! When you cry, you cry so deeply and fully that the Angels cry with you. Don’t for one second allow the views of society to hinder your expression! We can cry because it is part of the experience called this Life. The ups and downs, the falls and climbs, the heart-break and the heart-warmth, all of these things that bring us to tears are the BEST parts of Life! It may not always seem that crying may be the best release, but do not resist the urge to cry, embrace it! Say, “I will fully embody myself in this crying until it has run its course,” and then let it go. Do not be afraid to cry, do not worry if anyone is watching and judging you, do not resist the urge, simply let it happen. When you decide to let your body go and return to that place of pure Consciousness, I promise you will look back and be so joy-full at al the sad, happy, ecstatic, confused, joy-full tears you’ve shed!
All My Love,
Zach IAM
To All My Meat-Eaters
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Hello My Lovelies,
Just now as I was cutting my mango and kiwi and pear for a little evening snack the thought came to me of my friends teasing me for being a vegan. Images of my friends’ faces flooded my mind, “We are supposed to have meat!…Where would we get our protein?!…I could never do that I love my meat!…What am I going to live on twigs and berries?” And I started to ponder their proclamations.
As a fitness trainer it is very interesting to hear a lot of people’s arguments of WHY they continue to eat meat…”I grew up on it and it reminds me of home…what about the Paleo (cave-man) diet…you can’t get enough protein without meat…it tastes so good though…” I want to say that I in no way condemn others for eating meat, I simply want to know why? Why do you choose to eat meat? Why is it that you choose to take life of another?
There is in no way any judgement coming from me on this topic I just want to see if YOU, the reader, can begin to question why you eat meat.
Imagine yourself with a large knife as you walk into your backyard. You see one of the hens you’ve raised for the last year. You pick her out, Betsy. You look into her eyes, see that within her there is Life. There is a soul behind her eyes, and that soul looks directly into your heart. You grab Betsy by her feet and as she is hanging upside-down you take your knife and slit her throat.
Now if you are able to read that without cringing, then you have probably had to do that before, but if you did cringe, I have some questions for you.
My first question would be to you, “If you had to kill the animal that you ate, would you do it?” Now a lot of the hunters out there would say, “Absolutely!” Coinciding with that question, “Do you truly honor the Spirit of the animal whose flesh you ingest, by giving thanks throughout the entirety of the meal?” Most people would say no to these questions. Also, “Do you know how the animal is being treated before it is slaughtered?” Most people would answer no to all three of these questions. So if you would not kill the animal, why would you eat it? If you don’t give thanks for the blessing of its flesh for your sustenance, why would you eat it? If you don’t realize that the animal is being tortured before it is killed, don’t you think you should educate yourself so that you don’t become a proponent of animal torture?
Second question…did you know that it doesn’t matter whether you get your protein from grains, nuts and seeds, eggs, milk, chicken, or beef, your body must still break down the protein into the amino acids present in that protein so that the amino acids can be re-synthesized into proteins arranged in a different pattern that will make up your hormones, muscle tissue, skin tissue, and many other things in your body? Meats just have amino acids that your body can’t make (essential) in a more prevalent amount than most plant sources. Plants still contain these amino acids just not in the amounts of meats.
I always get told, well we have incisors to cut meat, just look at our teeth. And this seems like a nice argument until we look at actual predators in nature such as lion, tigers, sharks, OH MY! 😉 If we look at their teeth it is obvious to see what flesh-eating creatures teeth look like. Our teeth are flat, not razor-sharp to slice through dense flesh. If, however, we look at a gorilla’s, herbivore, teeth they are much more similar to that of human teeth. Additionally, if we look at the acidity of different animals’ stomachs, we see that strictly omnivores, lions, tigers, have a pH in their stomachs of around 1-2 in order to digest all the protein they ingested…herbivores, gorillas, elephants, have a pH around 4-5. Take a guess at what the pH of a human stomach is? When food is ingested the human stomach is at 4-5 pH. There are so many biological components that suggest that humans are meant to be herbivores, far beyond what I just explained, and yet we continue to refuse Nature.
What I really want to ask, my third question, is, “WHY DO YOU EAT MEAT FOR AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE?” Whenever I tell someone I’m vegan the first thing I hear is, “I could never do that, I love meat!” And my question is, “Why do you love meat?” Does it remind you of a simpler time when you were a child and your mother or grandmother used to make chicken and potatoes? Is it because it is the American thing to do…kill things and cook it on the barbecue? Is it because, “It tastes so good!!!” Is it because, “I don’t like vegetables!” Is it because it is convenient to drive up to a window and ask for a double meat patty?
Now I know it seems like I am picking on the meat-eaters, but I just want you to begin to ask yourself, WHY. Why do I refuse to watch a video demonstrating the horrors of animal cruelty in all forms of business? Why do I refuse to research if I actually do need to eat meat? Why am I resisting changing my dietary habits even if it goes against Nature?
I in no way think this little post is going to change your eating habits, I just want you to stimulate asking yourself WHY. Why let memories of simpler times dictate your present actions if those actions bring pain to another? Why continue on with an egocentric attitude that your culture taught you? It is NOT American to kill things and blow shit up, that is barbarism. You are a highly advanced Spiritual BEing come forth to demonstrate the Love of the Creator God/Goddess. You are not a heathen. You are a compassionate journeyer on the road of Love and Truth. You are to make manifest the glory of God, we all are. And along that road eating meat may more than likely be a part of that path, but as long as you do it with conscious understanding. I don’t want you to stop eating what you enjoy, but I do want you to understand for yourself WHY you are doing it so that you may act with awareness and reverence!
I Love your path, I respect your path, and I honor your path. Where you are is in perfect harmony with where You are suppose to be. I hope you begin to ask why, through that asking you shall receive!
With All My Love,
Zach IAM
All Is Well
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Hello my Lovelies,
I haven’t written in a while, seeing as the energies from the Spring Solstice hit me like a ton of bricks, but just now I felt compelled to share this. I believe I have written on this topic before but here we go again…
I want to let you know that all is well. We hear that al the time, and sometimes it doesn’t always seem like all is well does it? It seems like the shit is hitting something….maybe the fan, maybe the walls, maybe it’s hitting you directly in the face, but truly all is well.
Now what makes me certain, such an expert, that I can tell you that all is well? I can tell you that by the simple fact that what you are experiencing is no longer what you are experiencing. No, I am not on drugs with that statement.
You see, as we desire a new situation, say more money, that money exists in the very moment we desire it. How could that possibly be? How could I want something yet it not exist? That’s the rub. The very reason that you are wanting something, that you are desiring something, is that your soul already has it. Your soul situation already possesses the lover, the health, the money. Now how do I know this?
Well, you have the desire for it, do you not? You can’t want something if you don’t already possess it. You can’t want air if the air wasn’t free to possess. The trick with now experiencing it in this reality, having it manifest, is to focus your attention on already having it. You must beLIEve. When you beLIEve you lie to your senses…your eyes, ears, tasters, feelers…and instead use your inner guidance….your intuition, your heart….so that you can then experience your desire with your senses.
When you are concerned or worried about not having enough money, or not having the best health, or not being with your perfect lover, just remember that the reason you want it so bad is because your soul already has it! You can also look at it as the desires you have, your heart’s true desires, are God’s wanting for you. God wants you to be abundant in all aspects of life, but it is up to you to manifest those things…and they become manifest by your attention to them, of already having them.
If you want a better world, recognize that it already exists and focus your attention on the new world. If you want peace for animals, recognize that that place already exists and to see that world. If you want an equal society where Love and peace abounds, recognize that it already exists and to keep your attention on it.
That is how I know that all is well. Even in the midst of darkness there is always Light. Keep your attention on the Light and it will grow.
“Desire ye what ye will, and behold, it standeth before thee. Throughout the aeons it is has been thine without thy knowing, e’en though thou hast but just asked for it.” ~ Message of the Divine Illiad
With All My Love,
Zach IAM
God Perspective
UncategorizedHello my Lovelies,
Wanted to share a little somethin’ somethin’ that was on my mind 🙂 ❤
LET ME…Ode to Her
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Let me be enveloped in your essence,
To be surrounded and nourished in our complete presence.
Not knowing past or future,
But experiencing US in Eternity.
Let me taste of your beauty,
Through a gentle caress we swim through ecstasy.
Your eyes like the sea,
Gazing deeper only to find depths never realized.
Let me take hold of your heart,
Put your faith in me, as we journey through Infinity.
Walk side by side, heart by heart,
Sauntering in Ultimate Union.
Let me guide us through a journey of our Selves,
Holding me tight, we dance within Bliss.
Let me have you as my gift,
Each breathe we tip-toe through the forest of Consciousness.
Let me bask in the scent of your Spirit,
Enveloped in the glory that is You.
Smelling the sweetness within the Garden of your Soul.
Let me worship every crevasse of your Truth,
Constantly getting lost only to find stability once more.
Let me honor every inch of your Temple,
Exploring every scar, every freckle, every hair,
Raiding your body 1000 times only to find myself searching deeper.
Let me stroke every particle of your mind,
Exposing your fears, knowing your pains,
Only to guard them with my undying Love.
Let me praise your Goddess,
So that my God can know True ecstasy that only You can awaken.
Let me have you now, fully, present,
So that our Love makes the Angels sing.
Let me be yours,
For you will never want again.
Let’s Talk About Sex
UncategorizedHello my Lovelies,
Lately I have been discussing the topic of sex with quite a few people. Many of my friends are having a difficult time with this topic. It seems ironic since I have engaged in none of it for some time now, however it seems that our opinions and beliefs are really holding us back from really determining for ourselves why we are engaging in sex, or love-making. This evening, while I was at the gym, a wonderful man I am friends with was explaining to me his opinion of sex. His belief was that pre-marital sex ruined relationships and I’d like to share my Truth with all of you that I shared with him.
You see, sex in and of itself is not a temptation, it is not a path to sin, quite the contrary. Sex, as it was intended by the Divine Principle, was very much a beauty-full experience that many spirit BEings came forth wanting to participate in. Sex is a highway to higher states of consciousness. When we can understand that love-making is a sharing of one’s life force with another person, it is a blending, a coming together, of two fingers of the same hand, it is opening yourself up and sharing the most intimate parts of yourself with another person, then we understand how that can expand our awareness. The Kamasutra was not a book to show you how to have sex, that is natural. The Kamasutra was a book showing us how to make love to the person we wish to share our soul with, and by doing so reach God Consciousness.
Sex is a key, a key to higher states of understanding who we are and seeing that in others. Think about it for a second. When, or if, you had an experience with someone you felt so deeply connected to when you made love, did it not fill your heart up with so much joy and ecstasy that you wanted to experience that forever? Were you not in a state of union with the Divine as you expressed and felt the eternal Love between you and that other person? We can see how so many can become addicted to that, of wanting to feel that constant state of joy, however many of us don’t understand why we are wanting that, just that we want it.
Sex is also a way to physically express inner feelings towards each other. It is an expression very much that allows us to demonstrate how much we truly care for that person. Also, not to mention, that is a way by which we bring new beauty-full Divine vessels into this physical reality.
However, through our collective lack of understanding, and lack of education, through channels such as religion and schools, we are taught that sex is a bad thing. Sex should be avoided because it is a sin. Sex causes STI’s, and pregnancy, and unwanted labeling, and fear Fear FEAR!!
Now I am not suggesting that situations such as those do not occur from engaging in sex, I am simply suggesting that we go about teaching it to ourselves, others around us, and our children differently.
What if from an age when we began to feel the physical attraction to those we were attracted to, those who we looked up to said to us, “Now, I can see that you are beginning to recognize physical beauty and are becoming interested in engaging in sexual behaviors. I’d like to tell you something very important regarding this topic…
“When you engage in a sexual act with someone, you are sharing the most sacred part of yourself. When you decide to engage in sexual behaviors be aware of who you choose to do it with. You can choose to engage in such an act with someone who honors you, who cares for you, who respects you, and who loves you. Or, you can choose to engage in such an act with someone who disrespects you, who treats you poorly, and who is simply using you for physical gratification. If you choose the first person you will not only experience unlimited joy, but you will learn about who you really are and be able to share that with someone. If you choose the latter, you will experience sorrow, regret, and yearn for someone to fill a void that only you alone can fill.”
What if we were told this simple statement? What if WE spoke this simple statement?
You see, the majority of us have lost sight of why we engage in sex. Many of us do it to fill a void, maybe due to an unloving parent or parental figure or insecurity, and think that by engaging in sex with someone they can somehow fill that void; yet when they leave that void still remains. Some of us have been sexually abused and think that the way we express love is through engaging in sexual activity. Some of us simply do it for physical gratification. There can be many reasons why we engage in sexual behaviors. If you see yourself in one of these situations, I do not want to pass judgement at all, because that is your path and it is beautiful, but if we can gain awareness of why we are engaging is sex, we can understand how we can truly experience it’s purpose.
I have never had an unloving parent, I have never been sexually abused, I have however, at times, just wanted physical gratification. I do not know why you engage in sex, only you know that, I do know however, that if you are reading this you are ready to experience the purpose for which love-making was intended.
We have to remember that we are naturally given feelings of wanting to experience sex for a reason. It is NOT because the devil is inside you and wants to take your soul! It is NOT because we are animals and need to procreate. It is much deeper than that. Sex, Love-making, can be an intense, ethereal, out-of-body experience filled with much joy, ecstasy, and Love, or it can be a unenjoyable, boring, regrettable experience. Either situation is very possible, and sometimes we will have both experiences with the same person. However, if we can enter into such an experience with an awareness of WHY we are going to have sex it can lead to many avenues. It can take us down many paths, it all depends on which one we consciously choose.
I’ll finish by saying, I highly recommend that when you choose to engage in sex, choose someone who you would smile glee-fully at when you woke up next to them in the morning. If you do engage in sex, choose someone who not only makes you smile, but has demonstrated through their words and actions that their eyes for you only. If you do engage in sex, do it with someone who lights up your heart when they enter the room. If you do engage in sex, choose someone who you have gotten to know on a deep level mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. If you do engage in sex, make sure it is with someone who you are willing to bare your soul to. If you do engage in sex, make sure it is with someone you are willing to experience and see the face of God/Spirit with.
I wish you, my lovelies, all so well on your trekking through sexuality. It is a journey to be walked with awareness.
All My Love,
Zach IAM
Spiritual Life Coach | Zach Tavcar 