Happy New Year!

I realized that I haven’t made a blog post since November. It’s not like I have nothing to say… quite the contrary, I have SO much to say. Let me start by wishing you all a Happy New Year and I know it will be a good one for you because you say so. 🙂

Lets start from November if I may. I rode my motorcycle out to Sedona, Arizona. It was a very spur of the moment Thanksgiving treat to myself. I had four days off and I got the itch. Well it seems that quite a few people got that ‘itch’ as well. After an eight hour motorcycle ride from Santa Monica, CA to Sedona, AZ you would think that I would be exhausted. Not! I was totally jazzed to hit the 5000 ft. elevation and cool air. I got my hotel room and headed out for a bite to eat. The bar I ate at was having Karaoke and I couldn’t resist. It was fun hanging with the locals. The next morning I put on my hiking shoes and headed up the road determined to hike Bell Rock. I figured I would stop in for a cup of Joe first at this funky bicycle shop aptly named ‘Sedona Bike & Bean’.

This is where I met Socrates and Angela who in turned introduced me to Peter Alan Gersten. Now Peter has an interesting story. Peter is a retired Deputy Public Defender from New York City who moved to Sedona in 2000. His goal was to get a certain number of people up to the top of Bell Rock before December 21st, which he did indeed accomplish. I, being one of those people. Most of the people who set out to Sedona to accomplish this feat had planned this venture. I had not. Mine was a chance meeting, or was it? Peter believes that I was mean’t to be there at that time and I tend to believe him. When we hiked up to the top of Bell Rock we were up there for quite a bit of time. A couple of hours if memory serves. It was extremely peaceful as I sat there meditating and understanding who I am and what my vision truly is. The letters were written there in the sky for me to see. Trust. Yeah. Trust.
I got to test this Trust issue I have while riding back to L.A.. At one of the rest stops, somewhere around Joshua Tree I believe, I stopped for gas and then headed down the highway. Well… about 15 miles down the road I realized that I left my backpack at the gas station. That backpack had my MacBook Pro, my QR3HD recorder, my wallet, my journal… basically, my life. I turned my bike around and started heading back to the rest area, reminding myself of my vision on top of Bell Rock. To trust. Everything happens for a reason and everything is perfect. I maintained that until I got to the gas station. My backpack was not where I left it. Shit! Ok. Calm down. Trust Dave. Trust. I walked into the station and there behind the counter was my backpack. The attendent saw me leave it. I am indeed blessed. Very much so. 🙂
On December 20th I gathered together with two of my friends; Yvonne and Sara. We did an all night meditation at the Yoga Nest. At 3:11am we were awake and meditating. Saying our prayers for the transitional shift that was happening at that time. It was beautiful and we were on fire the next day.
Now it is the New Year. 2013. I am ready for everything to come. I am open to all of the possibilities that will be presented to me. I will post more about what is happening musically with me soon. For the meantime please check out these links below.
Rage of Angels
Soon to come…
Various projects I’m working on including my time out in New York working with Eighth Day Nation.
Peace,
D

Living in the ‘Now’

People say that I’m ‘lucky’. I wouldn’t really call it luck. I would just say that I’ve focused on the positive most of the time and that I have surrounded myself with powerful people. The only way I know how to focus on the positive is because I’ve experienced a lot of negative in my life.

Trial and error.

All of the relationships of my past could look like failures to some, but to me they were (in hindsight) great experiences to learn more about myself. We all have patterns that we can choose to look at and learn, or we can choose to blame on somebody else. Our choice. We’ve all chosen both somewhere in our lives until we’ve realized that we were just hurting ourselves.

Why am I writing this today? We have a New Moon Solar Eclipse at 21 degrees Scorpio. From what I’ve heard there will be profound shifts of value and depth in consciousness. I usually take this kind of information with a grain of salt, but over the past few months my values have been changing. I’ve been realizing who I am and honing in on that. Some of them have been hard lessons, some of them very fluid. I’ve watched people in my life go completely bonkers and others more focused. It’s been an interesting process for all of us.

Living in the ‘Now’ has probably been the most challenging thing. I’ve had a tendency to look at my past and this hasn’t served me in the least. My brain automatically reminds me of how I’ve failed in the past, and therefore it sabotages anything new from transpiring. My new experience of myself is focusing on right now. What is going on right now? How do I feel right now? Who am I right now?

Who are you right now?

I don’t belong here (or do I?)

Have you ever felt so out of place that you have no clue where you belong?

I’ve lived in many places in my life. I have a lot of friends around the world and yet I feel like I live in a bubble. The only real interaction I have with people is on the internet.

When I was young I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy. On one of the planets there were only a couple of million people. None of them knew each other. They all communicated with each other through what we would call today, the internet. This book was written in the 1950’s. Sixty years later we are there. We are so close and yet so far from human touch, which is so essential. Human interaction is imperative. Do you know how many misunderstandings there are through text and email? If we just sat down with each other face to face many of these misunderstandings would disappear.

Why are you bumming me out Dave?

I usually have a lot of positive things to say. But as of late I’m not feeling it. I’m not sure if California is for me anymore. But what is for me? Seems I had to come to California to learn that I am talented. That I do have what it takes to make it in the music business. So where do I go from here? I’m not sure but I’m open to the possibilities.

Analysis Paralysis

It’s easy to let the mind go into analysis paralysis when confronted with a situation that you have no clue how you’re going to handle it. It’s not our job to handle it. Our job is to declare to the Universe what we want and it delivers.

I’ve asked this question before about this to some of the ‘Manifestors’ that I respect and admire.

“What if I don’t get it? What if it doesn’t come when I need it?”

What they have told me, which I am passing on to you, as well as listening to it myself, is this….

The only reason the Universe doesn’t deliver is because you really don’t believe deep down inside that it will. The people that make millions of dollars just ‘know’ that it is there. There are no questions. It just is.

So, we need to come from the place that it is already there. Like riding a bike. You don’t get on the bike each time and say, “Oh Boy. I hope I can ride it this time. What if my balance doesn’t work? What if… What if…. What if…”. This is analysis paralysis.

Just know, like you know that when you get on that bike that it ‘just is’.

Keep Breathing,
D

 

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I Want

This morning while meditating I was concentrating on what I want. And then, I remember the teachings from Summit Education that I was taught about wanting.

I get conflicting stories because Abraham says it’s good to want. I guess its how you classify the word want.

‘Wanting’ something is telling the Universe that you don’t have something. When you come from a place of already having it, envisioning it to already be there or coming to you. That it is coming to you when it is time for it to come to you. You are not putting out that desperation on ‘want’.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Be. Do. Have.

How is your meditation going? And your journaling?

Namaste,
D

 

My Morning Mantra

The Mantra for today will be,

I will follow my heart. I will love myself. I will see myself. I will be myself.
We are (as a society) surrounded with a lot of ‘shoulds’ in comparison to others, only to find that those people who we look at who somehow got it ‘right’ were only faking it in the first place. There wasn’t a rulebook that told them this is the correct path to follow. They made their own road.

What if the new path you decide to take, because you are following your heart, leads you to something you never even thought of? The road you are following now? Does that make you feel safe? Does that give you comfort to know where your life is heading? Or does that leave you wondering and longing for something different?

I’m not a perfect being by any measure. I wear my heart on my sleeve and I have made a fool of myself in my small community here on Facebook, Twitter, and in the ‘real’ world more than once. You’ve seen me go from relationship to relationship, band to band, state to state, etc. In my own defense (and I’m only defending myself for sake of this blog); I love completely and unabashedly. I look at everything and everyone as something new and magical. I don’t look at the past to compare because I know if I do I will close this heart of mine. I just can’t do that. My hope is that in your own way you love just as much and with as much zest as you can muster and that you can push it a little more each time. Sure, you’ll get hurt. But the next time you’ll have a little more clarity and there will be a little more growth. And then you’ll be like those people that you ‘should’ be like and making it up for yourself.

Here are a few tools to use on your new path.

Write 3 pages every morning. Don’t think. Just write. If you’re only writing ‘blah blah blah’ or ‘I have no idea what to write’, at least you are writing. Trust me. Something will eventually start flowing. Don’t look for it. Don’t wait for it. Just do it.

Meditate for 10 minutes in the morning to start. Clear your mind. Close your eyes. If you want more direction in this I recommend a course on meditation. I’ve done a couple. The one that I HIGHLY recommend is with a friend and mentor of mine, Julie Zipper.