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I'm tired.

It's not that life is getting me down. I still love life. But I just don't like the way it's lived in this world.

This is a world of opposites -- good-bad, hot-cold, etc. And frankly, neither side holds a lot of appeal for me any more.

Don't get me wrong. I believe in doing good and all the positive sides of our pairs of opposites. And do my best to reflect them in my life.

Allow me to share another view of life, one you may never have considered. It may test your beliefs and ability to consider new ideas. Or it may feel completely right and natural at a place deep below the workings of your mind.

We are souls born into an interactive system of creation, dropped into a strange and unforgiving world without any rules other than the limited teachings passed down from generation to generation. Limited, for their wizened advice is in effect little more than the blind leading the blind, based on the distorted perceptions of their outer experience where conflict and struggle were their only reliable tools to survive.

Here we go again. Another new year, another fresh start to redefine who we are and how we'll live our lives.

I used to make resolutions. And to be honest, I sat down and wrote up a few for this year. But even before the new year started, I threw them away. Because they weren't much in the way of resolutions anyway. Only things I wanted to come about this year, and maybe a couple of the action steps I thought might help me create them.

Does life ever seem a bit upside down to you? I know it does to me. And while it might not look that way to others, we sure do notice it when it happens.

Take, for instance, your My Whisperzone page. Most of you see it with the latest entries first. Me, I see it backwards, and have to go to the end of the list to see what's been added recently.

When life seems to be upside down, maybe that's a good indicator that what you think you should be working on is the last place to start. And the last thing on your list should come first.

Try it a while. Maybe it will help you set things right. In the meantime, I'll check back with our programmers to see if I can get things right-side up myself.

There's a new consciousness blowing across the land. Can you feel it?

It's showing up in many ways. We see it in the burgeoning social enterprise movement, where people are starting businesses that can make a difference, not just profit. And we see it in the general dissatisfaction of most people with the way things are. For existing systems and methods aren't really serving us as well as they once did.

But you'll notice that we don't see much of an impact in the beliefs, systems and institutions tied to the old ways. Religious beliefs are still fighting at every turn. Political sides are warring, not to mention the haves and have-nots in the world power struggle. And the corporate world for the most part only things doing good is a matter of public relations, and not a reason for doing what they do.

Most of what I try to do here is to get you to look at what's going on inside you. So you can begin to bring it to the surface of your outer being.

Once you start, though, then it becomes an even grander adventure. Because then you're faced with the challenge of allowing yourself to be what you are, notwithstanding all that you can be. Even while digging deeper and deeper to know it.

What are you experiencing while you go about your journey?

Traveling the spiritual path is all about seeing the experiences of life in a new way. And using them to learn things about ourselves. This art of self-examination is the primary tool of the inner path.

Some of those things are on the surface. Like our personality responses and patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior. But the journey doesn't stop with just looking at them. It means considering what causes them and how and why they serve us. And that means digging ever-deeper, looking for the hidden inner factors that shape our outer lives. And then digging deeper still.

Somewhere along the line we went astray. We believed that we could simply make a choice of direction, and the rest of our life would magically fall easily along the path we set.

It doesn't happen that way.

Even when you're closely attuned to your inner voice, a choice one day doesn't mean you're headed for more of the same the next. No, it simply means you faced what you did today, and tomorrow you'll deal with what comes then. And sometimes that means a change of direction.

Making another choice. That seems to be a big hurdle for us, like our previous choices are etched in stone. Sure, we'd like there to be continuity. And of course, we have such things as commitment and responsibility to keep us going. Still, today's choice is not binding upon tomorrow. It is only one of many factors we can consider in planning how we want to experience our future lives.

In The Last Samurai, Algrin, a captured prisoner played by Tom Cruise, asked Katsumoto what Katsumo wanted from him. Katsumoto replied, "What do you want for yourself?"

What do you see in your life that you wish were different? What about in your world? If you see that in your reality, something within you allows it to be, and contributes to keep it in place.

If you really want change, address those things in you that are keeping you from acting upon your desire for something new. Something in you is leading you to dislike the way things are. What is it? Why do you push it aside, and not allow it to lead you to change the way things are?