Welcome to the November Edition of 'Your Monthly Wake Up Call'. Welcome to Issue 24 of Your Monthly Wake Up Call. That's 24 months of Waking Up the World, one sleeper at a time. In this issue: A Play of Color and Light With no messing around, let's go! *** A Play of Color and Light We are to a large degree creatures of habit, conditioning and circumstance. Over the course of my Life and due to many circumstances and situations beyond control, I have established particular patterns of reactivity such as anger and fear, as well as patterns of occasional empathy and friendliness. I am often intense and dark, periodically humble and gentle. These particular patterns have served to give me my particular and unique personality or, ‘color’, if you will. I am now accountable for how this particular color is presented and expressed to the world. To take this analogy further, as an individual I am a unique color of Life. That unique color is illuminated by the one Light of Life. There are infinite colors, but only one Light. I am exactly the same as you as the one Light, but also infinitely different from you as a unique color. This unique color that I am is a product of chance and is for the most part, beyond my control. (Imagine a melted box of crayons.) The one Light that I am is also beyond my control. When this understanding arises, a new perspective arises with it. The perspective is this: in any given moment, I can relax my identity and open as the one Light of Life that I am, or I can lose myself as the unique color of Life that I am. If I contract as a particular color, then my identity takes the shape and form of my patterns, limits, and fears. My identity and therefore my happiness and suffering becomes dependent upon the conditions that surround me and that I mistakenly use to define me. I become identified with the patterns of behavior and thought that have resulted from all that has happened in my Life. My identity is based upon conditions, and therefore my happiness and sense of freedom is always conditional. If I open as the one Light that I am, my identity is without pattern or condition. If I open as the one Light that I am, I become, in a sense, the colorless open space and Light in which all patterns and conditions appear, reside briefly, and disappear. My identity is without condition, and therefore my happiness and sense of freedom is condition-less. Nothing I have ever done, felt, or experienced makes any difference to the one Light that I am. When you identify as the one Light of Life, that light grows stronger. As that one Light of Life grows stronger, your unique color also becomes intensely magnified as that one Light of Life shines AS you. You become the expression of color and Light that you truly ARE, rather than a faded or half-lit shade of a dreary color obscured by fear and contraction. We are all a play of color and Light. At times we are uniquely colored. At times we are the Light of Life. And sometimes, in the moments of our greatest truth, we become a play of such vibrant color and intense Light that we simultaneously express our full humanity and our full Being-ness as human beings. Color and Light, humanity and being-ness, inter-woven into a brilliant rainbow of Life. Not sometime in the future, but right here and now. May we all remember and shine as the Light of Life, illuminating our truest and most brilliant colors as a gift to the world. SWACK! For more of this type of transformative perspective, check out this seminar/workshop, right now. Gratefully, Aaron McNaught A.K.A. The Wake Up Guy