Why Deep Living is Vibrant Living

I used to think that the phrase "vibrant living" meant leaping joyously around in life, beaming a big smile without a care in the world. But it wasn't until the advent of the passing of Shay Arave, the founder of Pure Energy Rx and my life partner, in January, that I truly understood what living vibrantly really means. The phrase is tossed around flippantly by other hawkers of health products, so I think it's time to comment on it.

Nothing can be considered vibrant, or even living, unless it has depth. It is the richness of feeling, and the gratitude for it that really defines what is vibrant. Vibrancy requires appreciation for life, a reverence for change, and a supreme faith that it is all good. Tibetan monk, Chögyam Trungpa speaks of "basic goodness"; that all of life and our lives personally are basically good. "There is a gut-level sense of health and wholesomeness taking place in our lives, as if we were holding a solid brick of gold. It is heavy and full, and it shines with a golden color. There is something very real and, at the same time, very rich about our human existence."

I see it as a choice, really. Are we going to, as in the Matrix movie, take the "red pill" and proceed headlong down the rabbit hole to the Truth of Everything, or do we take the "blue pill" so we can continue to float along on the predictable surface of life, self-assuredly complaining, judging, and avoiding ourselves and our lives? We choose to do one or the other. It's that fork in the road that is before us at every moment. We choose to be grateful for everything we used to take for granted, we choose to appreciate difficulties that break open our hearts and allow us to embrace the perfection of God's plan.

This deeper choice doesn't happen in the mind, because the mind is ruled by the ego--that little separate self that keeps trying to prove it's alive without really connecting with anyone or anything. The deeper vibrant choice is made in the heart, or in the gut as Trungpa would say. It can only be from the heart because the heart contains the true intelligence of who we are. Only the heart can live in the Now, and only the heart can truly trust the mysterious processes of Nature. While the ego sits on the sidelines criticizing the game and the players, the heart is all in the game, loving the players, deeply grateful for the opportunity to play.

At the final depth there is nothing but love. That is the basic goodness of life. It is the deepest vibrancy of all that is alive. Love is the compass of the heart, never waivering like a universal North Star. By letting go and falling deeply into gratitude, we fall in love with life. We regain our clarity of vision, we see everything in the Truth of Love, deeply vibrant, deeply alive.

In vibrant health,

Boyd Martin, Caretaker
pureenergyrx.com