We Are Our Memories – Or Are We?

What makes us uniquely human is that fact that we have memories and can take them and ask the proverbial question, “What If?”. We, as human beings, can shape our present moments and future moments by using our past experiences and memories in a conscious, self-choosing way.

The problems arise when we have lots and lots of negative or less than pleasant experiences and memories that we get to choose from. Perhaps we were abused, neglected, left out, made to feel worthless – you can literally insert anything that you want to here that works for you. Over time, you brain begins to collect more and more of these memories that it will use as the basis of forming your personal identity and reality with.

The Hippo-campus is the part of the brain that is responsible for using memories as the basis of planning for future action as well as for allowing you to believe what is possible and what isn’t. The interesting thing to consider at this point is that this part of the brain is largely responsible for why so many people can’t seem to “break through” their limitations and walls while trying to achieve their goals. They may understand personal development and self improvement better than anything or anybody else alive, and yet they can’t apply it to themselves.

How come? Why should such a thing be possible?

As it turns out, the answer may be more neurological then we could have ever have guessed. Your Hippo-campus is responsible for telling the rest of the brain that we can’t do something based on our past memories and experiences.

Have you tried to start a business, lose weight, increase your income, go back to school or do just about anything else, and fail at it? We all have, and your brain remembers each and every single time you’ve tried and failed. Over time, as you start to work on trying something again and again, the past “failure memory” pops up and tells the rest of the brain that what you are trying to do is impossible.

And you know those feelings of never feeling motivated to take action? It’s all part of the mix. If you brain has determined that what you are trying to do is “impossible” based on your memories and accepting the past memories of failure as reality, then your brain is literally signaled to never take action. And why should it? If you have convinced yourself, in this present moment, that your past memories of failure are reality, then why would you brain ever be expected to be persuaded into taking action?

The thing to remember here also is that your brain cannot tell the difference between actual “reality” (what is really taking place in your external world and life) and your “fantasies” which are just your thoughts, beliefs, expectations and internal dialogues taking place within your mind. When your memories arise, if you cannot separate yourself from them and observe them, then your brain is going to believe that your reality is whatever memory you are recalling at that moment.

This will ensure that if you try to start that business again, you will fail because the memory of your last attempt will be triggered. As long as that memory keeps recurring and you accept it, then you will come to believe it as true and so this will create your reality.

The GPS of the Brain

Your brain has it’s own built in GPS system that will guide you to your most dominant thoughts. Always remember this. If you are always seeking opportunity and trying to do new things, but don’t believe that they are possible, then guess what? Your brain’s GPS system is going to lead you straight into failure. Think about it: why would you brain ever want to put your whole body into motion and have it take action towards something that it has already proven to itself is impossible? From a biological and evolutionary standpoint, this is suicide. Your brain will only be committed to taking action towards the things that it believes are possible.

And always remember – your brain cannot tell the difference between your reality and what you believe to be reality through your thoughts, feelings, beliefs and expectations. It is going to make value judgements to determine is what you are trying to do is worth it based on the reward that you believe it can produce for you. If you believe in what you are trying to do 110%, believe the reward to be worth it and be willing to die for it’s obtainment, then your brain’s GPS system is going to kick in and provide you with all of the action and energy you need in order to achieve it. Don’t fool yourself, because your brain is already way ahead of you.

This is why, I believe, that we always hear the advice of “following one’s heart”. So many celebrities and other successful people preach that they were always following their heart, would never dream of anything else etc until they obtained their goals. What is really happening here is that they were neurologically wiring their brains for success. They aligned each and every single part of their brains around their goals and so their brain rewarded them for this by setting its GPS to allow them to drive straight to their success. Truly unlimited potential is opened up to the individuals who can do this. So many people set goals for things like “making more money” or “losing weight” and fail. Why? Because they either don’t believe that it’s possible (because they have failed in the past or don’t have the confidence to succeed) or because they don’t believe the reward is worth it (they would have to give up eating the food they love, for example).

The Secret of Success

Here’s the secret of success:

It never matters how many times you try something. It just doesn’t matter at all. Every time you try something and ask yourself, “Is this for me?” and then answer with, “I don’t think so” or “I just don’t think it’s right for me” then you have just told yourself a huge load of BS.

The main question you must ask yourself, is this one,

“Are there a few things that I could have done differently, that would have changed everything?”

That question is where the money is.

Say for example, you tried to start a business. You researched everything you needed to know, you learned all of the knowledge, the skills and you got the training. You bought the tools and got everything setup. But you just didn’t succeed. This failure burned a deep memory into your brain and every time you think about starting a business again, this memory comes back to haunt you – you identify with it as it permeates your being and you feel so much of a failure that it’s palpable.

You can say to yourself, “I don’t think that starting a business is for me” and you can almost fool yourself. However, as the months, weeks and years go by, all you think about is starting your own business and you can’t understand why…

That’s why you must ask yourself, “Are there a few things that I could have done differently, that would have changed everything?”.

Maybe I could have developed better work habits…
Maybe I should have learned to better over come my fear of selling…
Perhaps I should have been more responsible…
I guess I could have developed better communication with my clients…
Maybe I could have become better at asking for the sale…

These things could come to mind, but don’t make the mistake of pushing them out. Go into them and explore them. So many people try to push these answers out of their heads when they are your brain’s purest and more honest feedback. Embrace the answers and the realizations and use them as the springboard you need in which to grow. Deeply explore each and every thought and feeling that comes into your mind and understand it inside and out. Don’t be afraid of doing this.

This is where being brutally honest with yourself is going to help you overcome the mental blocks you’ve created through your memories. You have to be honest. There must have been something you avoided doing, perhaps, that contributed to the problem you are currently experiencing. I find that a lot of people tend to avoid doing things that make them feel uncomfortable.

If you are afraid of being rejected, you might never reach out to potential clients.
If you aren’t convinced that your business will work, then your brain is going to prevent you from doing any work at all. Period. Without doing work, how can you be successful?
If you have a fear of success, you’ll never want to work towards success because the results of it will be too overwhelming to bare.
If we are trying to lose weight, but don’t want to give up our diets of sweets, junk food and fast food, then we’ll never lose the weight.

When the major fears we have are critical key components and action steps that we must take in order to be successful, then we have arrived at a huge problem. This is where the heart of personal development must kick in. We are usually required to grow beyond our own comfort levels in order to obtain the success and results we are looking to experience. As long as we cannot do these things, we will continue to experience failure and lack of any good, meaningful results.

You must be brutally honest and ask yourself what you could have done better and what habits you could have changed. Then, revisit the question. Suppose your business didn’t do well because you didn’t have enough clients and sales and you’ve honestly identified that if you would have over come your fear of being rejected, that things could have been different. You must allow this memory to grow and arm you with a newly found confidence, instead of your previous memories of failure. As long as you keep identifying and accepting your memories from the past, you will never be able to grow in this present moment and in the future. Move into every thought and feeling you have and try to get to the root of the issue. Find out what you could have done differently and then do it.

The Answer Is Not More Work, Usually

Sometimes greater actions and effects are not needed. Instead, sometimes we just simply need to redirect our effects and our actions.

I remember one time I was standing in my backyard watching my small dog bark through the glass door to come outside. I thought about the situation and couldn’t help but laugh because I knew that just around the corner in the other room, the side door was wide open (and he damn well knows about this door). I watched my dog bark at me for a good 5 minutes relentlessly. If I didn’t do anything about it, he would have barked there for hours until he either passed out or I came back inside. Needless to say, my dog is as equally stubborn as he is persistent.

This blind persistence is often idolized in our world, however, it is also not in our best interest sometimes. All my dog had to do was snap out of this blind, angry persistence that ONLY THAT DOOR was the one that he wanted to open. He tried too hard, barking, screaming, jumping to get attention and to try and open it himself. All he had to do was stop being ignorant and think about what other options were available to him.

I often think about human action like this as well. Sometimes we just have to stop being stubborn and recognize that there are all sorts of different ways to achieve something. If something is too hard at first, it might simply be because we are going about trying to achieve it in the wrong way. Once I showed my dog the side door, he learned very quickly to always look for it and check if it was open the following times he wanted to come outside.

Turn Away From the Memories That Hold You Captive

We have to learn to turn away from the memories that keep us held captive. Our past memories of failure happened in the past. They are not now. Every time they come up, if we believe and identify with them, the brain will interpret this as reality and so it will signal to cause disharmony between the mind and body in order to stop you from taking action. You will find that you can take unlimited action once you achieve the necessary balance in the brain, this requires:

The belief that what you want is possible
The willingness to work for it
Not willing to quit after major setbacks are experienced

The mind truly cannot tell the difference between what is real and what is fantasy.

I remember reading once in Seth Speaks – The Nature of Personal Reality Seth’s own opinion about memories. He said that basically beliefs are like organ systems in the body and that thoughts are like the individual cells. When our belief systems are acting like organs, they guide the tasks and the actions taken within the body and are more fixed and permanent until they are changed. Thoughts are like cells because they are always coming and going, being born and dying… The thoughts are always consistently made of the same “stuff” as the belief systems just as the nature of these cells are always similar to the organs in which they came from.

I believe that we will encounter people throughout our life times that seem to have an affinity towards one of these types of love. For some people, their focus will change as they grow older or more mature.

The Love of Self or The Love of Others

The Love of Self is characterized by an individual who is only concerned with their own well being at the expense of another. There are no exceptions. Their love is conditional and self-serving.

The Love of Others is characterized and best embodied by those individuals who can be found, literally, serving and helping others. Their self worth and happiness is largely generated through making sure others receive unconditional love, care and respect.

Who Wins In This World?

I’m from America, and being so, America is definitely a capitalist economy. In the early stages and days of any country, many sacrifices must be made in order to secure and obtain freedom, liberty etc. As of right now, this world is set up to favor the capitalistic hand or those who are able to parade around as good capitalists.

The truth is that right now, the world slightly favors those who are in service to their own self. Why? Because those who are in service to their self are usually only concerned with generating material possessions. A good capitalist is one can produce material results.

Our capitalistic society, however, is necessary at first because it is sort of a meritocracy where very passionate individuals will build and take advantage of natural resources very quickly and effectively. The downside to this, of course, is that the power and control falls into the hands of a few.

In time, when capitalism has served its purpose, it will fall off like the skin of a snake; only to be replaced by a new, thicker and more serving skin. The new skin will have a different purpose.

In this iteration, the world will favor those in service to others. Clean water, electricity, power, food etc will be the focal point here. The basic needs of everybody will be met and then we can truly begin to thrive instead of struggling to survive. Imagine a world where we didn’t have to worry about providing our own basic necessities. What would you do?

What could you do with all of that fear, worry, stress and anxiety gone from your life? You would be free to create yourself and your world and environment exactly as you’d like it to be.

Capitalism Is A Test

I like to think of our current situation as a test. The over bearing weight allows for a greatly accelerated personal evolution to occur. The purpose is to see how one can manage themselves, body and soul, without being crushed by the weight. It’s not an easy task, because we must first and foremost recognize that we are all one.

We can no longer just worry about ourselves and our own well-being, we must worry about the well-being of every other human being on this planet. This creates a calling. The calling is Service to Others, or Love of Others. Only though this path, can we truly and freely discover who we are because it will require us to discover that we are One with everyone else here, sharing this experience.

It’s worth repeating when I say that we are here to learn. Yes, we most certainly are. The conditions under which our businesses and banks operate is twofold. There are legitimately people who are Self-Loving in power – this is undeniable. However, there are others who are Loving of Others in power as well. They understand that we must find our own way.

Like the parent who can’t force their views and beliefs on their own children and expect good results, those who Love Others understand that we must all experience a personal evolution through our own decisions about who we are and what is right for us. That is the point. This is what it’s all about. There is no other reason or purpose. Those who Love Others understand that they must let some things occur that are less than desirable, so that we may understand why and what is bad about them.

The Kingdom of Heaven is Within

The Kingdom of Heaven is Within. That’s the whole entire point. We cannot be shown the way. We can be guided, but the truth cannot be revealed in one brilliant stroke. It would blow our minds.

The Truth is that we must discover everything from Within before it can be understood and known Without. When we finally understand why hatred, rage, jealousy, violence etc is wrong, we will discover that we are One; when we discover that we are One, what more violence and anger can linger? For to hate or wish ill upon another is to do this to yourself.

Welcome to the accelerated playground Many individuals claim that Earth is a Hell. I am claiming that it is like taking an accelerated degree from a college. If you want to finish your degree, then you must learn that the world is setup like this to teach. It’s this way to remind us that we must approach life from the Inside, Out.

Even those in Service to Others will not come and save the day. They are waiting for us to save ourselves. This is the great teaching. We must understand our world for what it is and we must understand why these things happen the way that they do. We must develop the perception and the illumination in order to understand the great inconsistencies between the way the world is and how it should be. Then we must act upon what we know using our own God-given gifts, talents and abilities backed up by a well thought out and meaningful plan.

Once we grasp these truths then we will have the power to change not only our present circumstances but the current state of the world as a whole.

Cryptic – I know – but it’s what is called for.

What Do You Love?

The Universe Wants You To Do What You Love

It can very well be said that you can determine the outcomes of your life and of your choices by asking this question. For instance, do you want more money? Do you want a better relationship? Do you want a new car? Do you want a new boss?

Well, why do you want these things?

Chances are you want these things, or whatever it is that you might want, because you don’t love what you currently have.

And here’s the problem. The problem is that so many people only want something because they don’t love what they currently have – this is not so much the problem as it’s the natural polarity that exists that helps us to evolve as humans beings. We can experience what we don’t want in order that we might understand what it is that we do want so that we may begin and act on achieving it.

The real problem is that so many people try to improve their lives from this place of “no love”. They are dissatisfied with their jobs, financial situations, living conditions, relationships etc and they want to improve them. They seek new things not out of love but out of desperation. Most people want “better” things because they believe that if they attain them that all of their suffering will stop. The irony is that their perpetual wanting of these things, combined with being out of harmony and not being a vibrational match for them keeps them far away and in the distance suffering in an endless cycle.

Never want something because it promises to be better than what you already have, and then try to obtain it from a feeling place of desperation, hopelessness and disparity. Don’t try to make more money because you are broke. Don’t try to buy a new car while you hate the one you have. You must first acknowledge that you don’t agree with what is currently in your life and then seek to have something new without negatively condemning, cursing or judging what you already have. When you are ready to obtain something new, you must push aside what no longer serves you just as you would push yourself away from the dinner table when you are full and have had enough. Don’t look back at all. Focus on your new love and new passion with happiness, positive expectation and enthusiasm and let it empower you, not drain you or drag you back down.

Polarization is the Key – Positive and Negative

When you are living out a negative situation in life, chances are you are going to stop cold, develop a distaste for it and desire something better. One of the fundamental aspects of living on the Earth in this day and age is that we live in a world that is polarized Negativity by default, or at least that’s a helpful way of thinking about it; it certainly DOES NOT have to be this way. This polarized negativity exists so that we can have FREE WILL. Think about it – if our world could only be a place of positive polarity (or basically a perfect world, where no “bad” would be allowed to occur) we’d have a Garden of Eden, or a perfect world, but we’d have no choice and absolutely no free will, and thus, we’d have absolutely no chance of growing or evolving as Souls or as human beings. We would in a sense be slaves – prisoners in paradise since the only objective of the soul is to gain knowledge and experience which translates into growth.

When a negativity polarity is introduced, then choice and free will is introduced. Being introduced to a negative polarity is something that is not bad at all – only our incomplete perception of seemingly negative (or bad) events, however, is.

If we say that a negative polarity was introduced into our world of positive polarity, then we can say that we lean slightly towards a negative state of mind by default. Looking at the basic survival instinct of any animal can show you this, but at our stage of evolution, we are re-introduced into having a conscious choice between the positive and negative polarities. If you are lucky enough to be aware of this in our current state of evolution then you are indeed a lucky individual.

When you find yourself in a negative situation, or a situation that you’d like to change, let me give you the most valuable piece of advice that one could ever share in order for you to change absolutely anything you want to in life:

Instead of feeling resent, hate, anger, frustration, victimization, dissatisfaction or any other negative emotion towards your negative situation, reach for a feeling of love.

I say this because it’s quite a logical formula. Let’s consider it this way – if you find yourself in a negative polarity regarding your job, for example, the obvious thing a person feels is the physical and emotional burden it weighs on the soul. You don’t like your job, then you slowly begin to hate it to more advanced and serious degrees. What starts out as a small dissatisfaction eventually grows into an all-consuming hatred and outright disdain of it. This is always a gradual process and a process that can never be remedied or healed by giving yourself further to negative thoughts, habits and actions. You can fantasize all you want about changing your circumstances and use the law of bulls**t attraction to help you, but in the end it all comes down to what you either love or simply don’t love. You can never fix your negative situation by feeding it with the energy of your negative thoughts. Let’s say you wanted a glass of juice, but your current glass is full of water. You’ll never get a glass full of juice by constantly pouring water into your cup. Instead, you must become aware of your actions and understand that you can’t produce a glass of juice until you stop pouring water into the cup. You could, for example, keep pouring juice into the cup even when the water was still in there. Eventually, all of the juice will push all of the water out of the cup and you’ll have a glass full of juice. Life works the same – you can start with a life full of negativity. Eventually you became aware of how your negative emotions and actions produce a life full of negativity so you begin to change your life by pouring love into yourself, your actions and your thoughts. At first, pouring the love into your negativity produces a weird mixture that is somewhere in-between a positive and negative spectrum that eventually gives way to more and more pure love. This is also why polarity exists both positively and negatively – it gives us a chance to understand ourselves, take responsibility for our lives and decide what we want and how to best express ourselves.

Thus, if you want to better yourself in any and all areas, then all you have to do is learn to love whatever it is that you want. Love it so much that all of the negativity is eventually displaced and removed from your inner cup.

Want a better job? Love the one you have now and use that momentum towards a better future. You’ll move from job to job hating each and every single one until you can find love for your work. This will in turn guide you right into a career that you will love and believe in.

Want to make more money? Then you need to love money. Chances are you don’t love it, that’s why it makes you so frustrated and angry. Why do you think people who work directly with money are always the ones who make the most of it usually? They are there because they love money and so vibrationally, money loves them back. Notice that a lot of the people who make a ton of money aren’t always the happiest. They still make a lot, because they love it, but they have other issues to deal with. Their love of money just ensures that they have a lot of it, everything else is subject to the rest of their beliefs and what they either love or don’t love.

Here is something to chew on: what is your relationship with money like? Is it a constant source of disappointment, worry, stress, fear and anxiety? Does it let you down? Does it prevent you from living the type of life you want to live? If so, then you’ve most likely got a limiting belief about money that you need to work through. The problem is not money. The problem is in the belief that you have about money which in turn generates your response and actions towards it, including how well or not so well that you manage it and live with it.

Want a better relationship? People who are in love don’t say this. If you even have to think this thought, then you have A.) no love in your current relationship towards your partner or B.) have a tough time making them work because you have not yet learned how to love unconditionally and without expecting anything. Alternatively you could also have a difficult time with accepting the love of others and trusting others.

Do you see how everything boils down to either a love or lack of it? I want you to think about the things in life you’ve loved. Was it a person, hobby, pet, job or something more specific? I bet you did amazing at it and it treated you the same way. I bet even if this didn’t happen to you specifically, you learned a hell of a lot about it in the process whether you know it or not.

The Sliding Scale of Love

Remember how before I said that a simple distaste of something like your job slowly evolves into a full-blown hatred of it? How many times have you hated your current job, managed to land another (even with more money) and then began to hate that job, too? The secret to solving these types of problems and all related ones is to stop your own personal negative polarity. Consider this scale below:

(I suggest printing this out and even keeping it with you in your wallet or your purse as it is quite handy and serves an excellent purpose)

If you start in the orange zone you can quickly find your way into the dark reds and even the grey area rather quickly if you don’t reverse the flow of your own personal negative polarity. To be clear, you start the downward spiral by typically starting to feel the emotions in one section and then not stopping them – energetically they build up and gain momentum before vibrationally shifting into lower and lower (more negatively charged) states.

There are a lot of ways to stop and reverse this flow. One method is to identify where you are feeling on the color chart and then seek to move yourself vibrationally up “one scale” at a time until you get to the top. With practice, you can move from the deep reds to the purple in just a few minutes even though it won’t be that way at first.

You can shoot right to the top just by feeling love, appreciation, joy and happiness right now. I suggest that you fully explore your emotions while you are in every state and get a feel for the outcomes that these emotions always tend to bring. If you notice that a particular person, situation, group of people or job keep you stuck in one area, then it’s time to find out why, and if necessary, remove yourself from that presence.
This is just your inner way of identifying that you’re in a negative situation and you’d like to move to a positive one. These emotions bring about the same, predictable results. Just learn to spend more time in the higher, more positive states.

When you have found yourself in a negatively polarized situation, you can’t move yourself into a positive one by feeling any of the negative emotions listed on the chart. You can only move yourself up and towards your desired positive result by gradually increasing the amount of love you have towards that thing until you reach the top and the goal that you desire. You will always find the results of your life in perfect alignment with your emotional state and feelings towards them. This is all you really need to know. This is the master key of personal development.

Why Does Love Work?

Love is the language and the structure of the universe. Love binds everything together. Love is the great architect and creator of the universe itself. Love can be felt to different degrees of intensity and so it can produce different results in perfect alignment to those degrees in which it is felt. Think about that. Your life is nothing but the degree of love you feel towards all different things made manifest. To what Degree do you love money, other people, your work, life, your home? Your answer is what you currently have in your reality. No exceptions. Promise.

When you begin to harness the deep feelings of love, joy and passion in your life right now, then you are energetically aligning yourself with the very force that created the universe itself. Since love and passion go hand in hand, it’s no wonder that the most successful people on Earth are the most passionate about what they do. Think about the soccer player who practices every day for hours and hours their entire lives. The guitar players who play for 8 hours or more per day for decades. The universe favors those who find passion and love for themselves and their talents. Since the universe seeks to know and express itself, you will always succeed once you understand that you need to listen to your heart and follow those things that you love.

Love is the language of creation. I’m not talking about the “airy fairy” concept of love, I’m talking about love that is deep and sincere. I’m talking about the love that you can cultivate and feel within your own soul for yourself and the things that you do. We always feel this while doing the things that we love to do the most. There is no substitute for them. A life without passion and a life without love is a spiritually, mentally and emotionally dead existence.

Only give yourself to those things in which you can love unconditionally. Only surround yourself with people with whom you share a mutual love for a common goal with. Only involve and give yourself to others that can offer you equally as much love in return without expecting anything in return for it. Once love is united for a common and virtuous goal, then nothing can stop it.

As they say – Emotion is just “Energy In Motion”. I like to believe that love gives you the most motion possible.

Do what you love. Always.

That’s just another secret of creation

Becoming Aware You Are Dreaming and Waking Up

As of lately, I’ve become really good at becoming aware of the fact I am dreaming and then being able to wake myself up from it. I guess you can say that this is a state of lucid dreaming. Once I become aware of the fact that I am in a dream world, I become able to become more present within the dream and control it.

During one of these dreams, I kept encountering a person that, dream after dream, would push me to become aware of the fact that I was dreaming. As dreams would unfold, he’d suddenly appear over and over again and force me to shift my awareness into the dream. Within the span of about 4 weeks I gained the ability to know when I was dreaming and then wake myself up. I consider this all to be one of the best personal development exercises I’ve ever had.

Know Your Dreams – Know Your Reality

During my last dream, I found myself surrounded in a couple of familiar places with very familiar people. However, for some strange reason, during the course of the dream I noticed that when I had left a room and walked back into it another girl that I’ve never seen before was there. She was sitting down in a chair and immediately jumped up and introduced herself. She said, “Hey! My name is (it was something with an A), how are you doing?”.

At first, I felt weird that she was there but it instantly vanished and I replied by saying, “Hey there! My name is Steve and I’m doing good, what about you?”.

The second I said that sentence, the entire dream fell apart, almost like it collapsed, and I found myself sitting in a huge white room like something you’d see out of a movie or would expect Purgatory to look like. All of a sudden the figure that had so cleverly guided me through my dreams before this and helped me to be able to waken myself during them appeared. This is what our dialogue was:

Me: What happened? What is this place? Where am I?

Figure: You are exactly where you have intended yourself to be.

Me: But I don’t understand, why would I intend myself to be here?

Figure: Why does anybody intend themselves to be where they are in the first place? Your dream collapsed because you began to question the nature of its reality. When your mind cannot understand where you are, and why you are there, it loses all substance and collapses. At least, this is what happens in dreams when you learn to become aware of them. Your mind creates, and yet it doesn’t. It’s more like an organizer. When you suspend the creation and organization, the film runs out. There’s nothing more to see. And so, you end up here, with me.

Me: So then, this place is where you go when you have nothing to think about? When you have no thoughts or purpose?

Figure: This place is much more than that. You could say that this place is pure potential and you are here in-between your thoughts. I know that’s hard to understand. How can you be anywhere in-between your thoughts, especially as they are occuring? To think of that in terms of human time is ridiculous. Just understand that this place is potential, it’s where thoughts come from and exist simultaneously – they are one.

Me: So you’re trying to tell me that my dream collapsed because I began to question who the woman was that appeared?

Figure: Almost. You need to consider the most important question here, and the most obvious question. Who was that woman? And if you didn’t know her, and you were aware of the fact you were dreaming, then why did you let her into your dream? Life is the same way. Life is like a dream, and yet your mind brings all sorts of people, events and circumstances into your reality – yet why don’t you question as to how and why these things show up? Your reality is alive, it’s living just as much as you are. The people and events that come your way are also just as alive as you are. They are the universe’s way, and your mind’s way of talking to you; they are feedback. They are your thoughts in motion and they reflect perfectly and precisely the thoughts you are having. This is why you must always question the things and the people in your life, whether they are coming or going or even if they refuse to leave. These things are you – your mind populates them and shows them to you and you become tangled in the picture and believe it’s real, and so it is.

Me: But…

Figure: But nothing… You didn’t question who that girl was, she could have been anything or anybody. Your job from now on is to become aware of yourself as a creator. Both in your dreams, and in your everyday life. There isn’t much difference between the two, and one day, you will understand this in its entirety. The same rules apply in both worlds. The only difference is time – time works differently on different levels of reality and for now you needn’t concern yourself with this – just merely be aware of it. That’s all. I know you can do this. And that you will. Just remember to apply this all to your everyday life. Always question what’s in front of you and who is in front of you and why. Do the same with everything: your finances, your relationships, your situations. Understand this.

And Then I Woke Up…

And after I woke up it felt like I had awaken from one of the deepest sleeps I had ever had.

What Is My Destiny

I want to state right off the bat that I don’t believe in a fixed and unchanging destiny or purpose. What is the point in living if everything is 100% scripted and 100% knowable in advance? However, I do believe that we have a destiny that we are trying to aspire to, something that we came here to accomplish, learn and experience for ourselves.

I also believe at this point it’s important to understand that the only reason that we are alive is to understand ourselves as an awareness that is able to create consciously.

The universe that we live in is also a consciousness of itself – it is something that is just as alive as we are and is a part of us. If you accept my idea that we are trying to aspire towards a certain destiny we have chosen for ourselves, then you are accepting that destiny is just an idea. It’s the highest idea about who and what we are as a person. To live life and to figure out one’s own destiny is to live a life in which we are consciously creating and engaged in a living universe that is able to help us create based on the thoughts, feelings, beliefs and emotions we put forward. This also means that it is inevitable that during this journey of figuring out one’s own destiny that we somehow become aware of the fact that we are creators. We become aware of the fact that we are here in order to learn how to create and how to apply ourselves towards our highest ideas and visions about ourselves; to do this, and become aware of what you are doing, is to find your destiny. These concepts are so cleverly tied together because they are the same exact things that are being expressed differently.

The concept of a universe or God from which all things come from is not a joke. There is an energy from which all things come from, and through our minds, thoughts and actions this energy directs itself and becomes real in our own physical world. Our minds are the ultimate traffic directors as they allow certain things to travel down the road into becoming physical while rejecting entry to other things and keeping them trapped in the non-physical.

The universe is also aware of what we have in a sense “destined for ourselves” as we are a part of it. This is why you can always expect a sense of direction and guidance from it. It always knows your highest ideas of yourself and what you are aspiring to become. It sends all of the people, events and circumstances to make these things a reality as long as they don’t conflict with any beliefs that can contradict them. If you aren’t taking any risks in your life, then you will become stuck and stagnate. The universe will keep knocking and sending the next thing to help you along your own self chosen path but you won’t have sufficient power to challenge it or purpose it because you are afraid of the associated risks. We can accelerate our own personal development the quickest by analyzing what options we have available to us and then pursuing them relentlessly until we obtain our goals. If we become paralyzed and unable to take any sort of action because we fear the risks and their consequences then we are destined to live a life that never changes – for how can it change if you are afraid to take any steps away from the life and all of it’s situations that you are living in now if you are afraid to take a risk? The universe is always there and bringing you what you need. It all becomes a matter of how you motivate yourself to take on new challenges and risks.

But how come people seem to get stuck and nothing ever seems to happen? What keeps some people locked down while others seem to enjoy rapid and exponential growth?

You’re Risking Your Destiny

It all comes down to risk. How much are you willing to risk? How much DO you risk?

I love these quotes that I’ve recently just received from Bob Proctor on risk:

“You may avoid suffering and sorrow if you don’t risk, but you simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing and has nothing. Only a person who risks is free.”.

“What causes individuals to shy away from taking a risk, even if it is a low risk and will give them something they really want? Well, certainly high on most people’s list would be fear of loss, failure and perceived humiliation if the loss were to occur. Why would we automatically think that we would fail at something? Why wouldn’t we first try and see, and then if we did fail, learn from that experience and move on? What causes us to have these thoughts of inferiority? Failing will never make you a failure unless you quit.”.

“I clearly remember the first time I heard Earl Nightingale. Earl was telling a story about a farmer who was out walking in a field. He looked down and saw a tiny pumpkin growing on a vine. Nearby, he spotted a small glass jar. The farmer reached down and placed the tiny pumpkin inside the small jar. The pumpkin continued to grow until it filled the inside of the jar. Beyond which it could not grow. There are a number of people like that tiny pumpkin. They limit themselves and refuse to take a risk. They never truly test the strength of their abilities.”

These are ALL great quotes and do wonders in explaining the nature of why we can sometimes be afraid of risk. You’ve always got to remember that unless you are taking risks, then you cannot possibly hope to receive any reward in turn for your efforts. You can only grow as a person in proportion to the amount that you push and challenge yourself to become better at those things that you are afraid to do on a daily basis.

If you are still stuck on trying to figure out and answer the question, “What Is My Destiny?”, then perhaps you should begin at analyzing the way you handle risk. If you’re blocking yourself off because of a massive fear of failure, rejection, loss or humiliation then you should evaluate the situation and take the appropriate courses of action to understand the reality of what it means to take a healthy risk once in awhile.

Starting with small risks and working your way up will help you in untold ways. You’ll be shocked at first to see how much internal resistance and friction even the tiniest risks can instill inside of your mind. As long as you remember that the universe is always there and providing you the next step, then you never have to worry once you understand that engaging with whatever comes your way and seeing where it leads you is something that happens for a reason. If you seem to be stuck in a cycle that always has the same ending (like having many different relationships with the same outcomes or many different jobs with the same outcomes) then you should step back and observe yourself. I’d be willing to bet that you are always faced with the same problems and you take the same actions which produce the same results. Try to identify those things that you intuitively think will help you and challenge them while taking that risk.

For example, sometimes we know that the problem we are having with our relationships that prevent them from moving forward can be due to our fear of opening up and learning how to communicate ourselves to our partners better because it makes us feel vulnerable which could lead to humiliation and pain. At work, we can become meek, stressed out and high strung for the same reason.

Do we have to justify, validate or prove to the universe that what we want to create is somehow “right” for us?

This is something I catch myself doing every now and then that always makes me laugh. When people are thinking, planning and setting goals for their lives, they often attach certain moral stipulations to things. For instance, they will plan what they can or cannot do around what they believe to either be right or wrong.

Are You Arguing With The Universe?

When you are trying to justify what you are doing in life what you are really doing is having an argument with yourself, and yes, the universe. But you know what? The universe doesn’t care about your internal arguments. It doesn’t care how much you try to validate yourself, justify things or “prove” things to be right or wrong.

Why?

Because at the end of the day, the universe only cares about one thing and one thing only:

Alignment

That’s right. The universe does not discriminate when we are in the process of thinking or creating our realities with our own thoughts, feelings, emotions and beliefs. The universe doesn’t need to be persuaded or convinced to make things happen for you. This is what I mean when I and other people say that essentially “before you ask, it is given unto you”. This statement is just telling us that the universe will allow us to create anything that we desire without judgement or bias so long as we are in alignment with that thing we are asking for. This also explains my post about Taking Inspired Action and in-fact defines it; it is through this way of thinking that you allow your desires to flow to you and finally let attraction work for you, instead of against you since you now understand that you are creating with the universe and not struggling against it trying to make it work for you.

When you are questioning, arguing, doubting or doing anything that isn’t thinking about and clearly defining what you want and then taking action towards completing what you want, then you are not in alignment. Here is your alignment checklist:

- Have you clearly defined what you want?
- Is what you want something that you can say is a true Soul or Heart’s desire? Or is it just something that somebody else wants for you?
- Have you begun to rearrange your life around this desire and then from this place of BEING, take relentless action and be prepared to not stop until you achieve it?

The action part of alignment is about more then taking any old sort of action. It’s about declaring what you want as a way of life and then admitting, accepting and preparing to live your life from this place and path you have consciously chosen for yourself. This is why you must be absolutely certain that something is a True desire and not what somebody else wants for you as you can’t generate any sort of real happiness unless it’s a True desire. Sometimes these “other” desires can be what society says we should be doing and is a result of a sort of tug-o-war between people and individual’s that you don’t even know fighting to control your beliefs so that they can direct you towards a goal that will suit their needs. If you haven’t chosen your own alignment, then you will act unconsciously and live out the desires of somebody else instead, doing what they want and expect you to do. This is such a huge cause of dissatisfaction, especially in people’s careers, that it is mind-blowing when you consider it. Ever feel stuck where you are in life? This could be your reason why.

The universe isn’t interested in hearing what you have to say about what you want. It only wants to know if your thoughts, actions and heart are aligned. You’ve got to be doing these 3 things in balance. This is why we are free – we live in a universe where the only thing that separates us from what we want is our own selves. The universe isn’t working against us unless we are working against ourselves. The universe is there to reflect back to you what is already happening inside of yourself. It is the mirror that takes your thoughts, feelings and actions and shows them to you by way of presenting you with the circumstances and experiences of your life.

In reality, no experience is ever wasted and the universe can find a way to use it for the benefit of your own self and for other people. It will take experiences and turn them into teachers of wisdom which is why life is so diverse and free. It’s time to free your mind of the thoughts that keep you limited. It’s time to stop trying to convince yourself and/or a higher power to make things happen for you. Once you adopt the energy of self-responsibility things start to get a lot easier from there.

My final advice would be to stop arguing internally with yourself or any other “higher power”. Just relax, be yourself and be calm. Once you identify what you want to do in life then you should recognize that the universe is already loving and supporting you with every decision you make as it will always allow you the freedom and provide the creativity you need to make it your reality. Know that whatever you decide you want in life, the universe already supports your decision and the proof can be found in this because the universe will allow each and every single one of us to create and manifest whatever we desire for ourselves. The universe is always waiting for us to decide what we would like to be. We are creating our bodies, personalities, environments and lives in accordance with our own highest image of ourselves in that moment and there are no limits as our imaginations, like the universe, are infinite. We only need to decide and make the decisions for ourselves.

Being in alignment with what you want is just your affirmation and confirmation to the universe that what you are desiring is really what you want to create in your life. Once the universe receives this confirmation of yours, it will immediately begin helping you to create it. This is a beautiful system when you master it, because you’ll quickly understand that we have complete control over what things show up and don’t show up in our lives. All we have to do is master how we feel towards the actions we are now taking instead of doing these actions blindly. Instead of looking at what actions are being done and what results are being generated in a shallow way, force yourself to look deeper so that you may understand how these things make you feel because the results you generate come from that place of feeling and where they dwell inside of you rather then through the actions you are taking.

Your life is an emotional and creative journey. Living your life with this perspective brings you to a level of deep control that brings confidence because it is here at this place of knowing that you can finally live your life on purpose and deliberately because you will already understand that you are a soul who is learning and creating by way of its own thoughts, feelings and emotions rather then anything else.

But have you ever really wondered how it works, how thoughts create reality? Rather then try and tackle the entire question in this one article (I have many articles on this topic all over this site if you are curious), I am going to make it my goal to address a few specific points, namely that your thoughts are just alive as you are, and what you create with those living thoughts is also just as alive as you are. This is possible because everything is a single, living, conscious energy.

How do you like that one? Allow me to explain.

Thoughts Create Reality Because They Are Living

You should always think of your thoughts and desires as alive and living through the use of your imagination.

You begin to deliberately create your life and anything you want in life when you begin to understand and accept that the physical world you see is formed by the characteristics of the thoughts, feelings and emotions that are found within you. This is the same thing as saying that the overall quality of your innermost thoughts determines the overall quality of your exterior results in life because your innermost thoughts are projected into physical reality by your emotions and your imagination combined with your expectations.

If you try to hold any emotion in your hand, such as happiness, joy, sorrow or sadness you will quickly find that it is impossible to do this.

Instead, it would be wise to learn and understand that in our lives we can only ever experience the results of our emotions, thoughts and feelings and that we can never hold them in their hands like a brick or any other solid object.

This is important, because by understanding this we can begin to further accept and understand that our thoughts originate outside of what we call physical reality; these thoughts become real when our emotions, imaginations and expectations help them to cross the barrier from non-physical to physical existence.

The Role of Expectations

I find that so many people are always constantly talking about thoughts, feelings and emotions that they forget something as equally important: Expectations. Our expectations can be defined clearly as what we expect to happen to us, or what we expect to happen, involving any situation or circumstance in life.

Expectations are also wildly important because they provide the structure of our realities since it dictates what we believe to be truth or fact, often before anything actually even happens.

Think about this and what it means. If we fail to ever change our expectations, then we will continue to create the same reality over and over again just with different people. We’ll relive the same thing over and over and get the same results every time. Everybody has friends and family members that they can see this happening to. I’d be sure to say that when you look a little closer at yourself you’ll find this to be true about many areas of your life also.

I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen who try and change their thoughts, feelings and beliefs towards things and still fail to achieve what they want in life. This is because they continue to expect the same things to happen to them whether they realize it or not. Your expectations can sometimes block you from receiving the things that you are actively trying to create in life because your expectations are a kind of belief themselves.

Some great examples would be the following:

* In relationships, we often expect to have something done to us. Maybe it’s being cheated on, lied to, used, physically or verbally abused or just about any other thing you can think about. You’ll find that as long as you continue to expect these things to happen to you, they will no matter how many relationships you enter. It’ll be the same results just with different names and faces.

* In your career, you might expect that you are worthless, not able to be recognized, not paid enough, over-worked or too stressed out. If you can’t change your expectations then you will never change your results.

Once we expect something to happen to us, and believe it strongly enough, we automatically begin to act and attract those situations and circumstances that will ensure these things happen to us because it becomes a strong part of the conscious and sub-conscious mind. This would be an excellent example of our expectations acting as a belief since our beliefs do indeed guide our actions into creating our realities.

Matter Is Alive With Your Thoughts

I want to give you an exercise to do that’s easy. I want you to observe your thoughts so that you can see yourself giving life to them. We all imbue our thoughts with a vitality all of their own. Many people desire to create more success or abundance in their lives, however, they are unable to produce high-quality thoughts that are capable of sustaining these results. You can’t expect to produce amazing results with low quality thoughts and output.

It sometimes helps me to think of my goal as a brick wall. I’ll then identify each individual step I need to take and monitor each thought I have. I’ll then ask myself, “Of what kind of quality is this thought? If it were a brick, would I trust that I could build a strong and steady wall with it? Would I want to use it at all?”.

Every thought that you put out in the world has been given birth by your mind and your intentions. It carries with it it’s own energetic frequency that is tied back to you. The quality you put into those thoughts will come back to you since we live in a universe where All Is One. You always get what you give without exception. The body that you are occupying right now is the result of your living, conscious thoughts that have been shaped to create your body. We often look at people and get “vibes” about them. The way they appear, the energy they give off and other little subtle clues says a lot about them. If you are intuitive you can feel this quite clearly yourself.

Everything from the body you have to the results you produce in life is a result of your own conscious, living energy that you are constantly moving from non-physical to physical reality through your emotions, imagination and expectations. The quality of our health, of our relationships and of our lives in general and overall is directly related and tied into the quality of our innermost thoughts, feelings and actions. When you look at a person’s finances, health, happiness or any other area of their life, these things are ALWAYS a window into what they are thinking and feeling without exception. Our thoughts, by way of our emotions, are perfectly projected into our realities without any flaw.

Can You Change Your Reality?

The answer is yes, you can change your reality. But first you have to work through the hardest part of life:

You must learn that your beliefs ABOUT reality are not TRUTH; they are just that – your beliefs ABOUT reality.

To put this in better context what I’m trying to say is that most people take their beliefs about life and blindly accept them as FACTS without questioning them. Since there is no inherent “right” or “wrong” in life, and everything is a matter of personal preference and opinion, we can say that our beliefs about reality are just that – our own personal beliefs about the way that life and the world works. We always create around these beliefs and everything we do, or don’t do, in life is a direct result of what we believe to be possible or impossible.

There is a strong part of the mind that fights to claim that these beliefs are to be regarded as “right” above all other things, so you don’t ever think to question your own beliefs as this could force your mind to lose it’s grip on reality and what it has come to know to be true about the world and how it works. Regardless of what you think, these beliefs continue to create the landscape of your reality.

When you want to change anything in life, you begin by working through all of the things that we have discussed here. Starting with your thoughts, beliefs, actions and expectations, you can begin to creatively imagine what you want in life and then begin to work towards that knowing that you are a living energy creating and sending out thoughts of other conscious living energy that will either work to create or repel your desires based on how you feel in relationship to them and whether or not you even believe you can have them.

Accepting The Mystery of Creation

Accepting the Mystery of Creation is the process that involves us dropping all inner and self resistance to the things we want in life so that we move from a state of resisting to a state of allowing. This eventually makes it so that the amount of action that we need to take in order to get the things we want is reduced by at least 90% or more. Most people think that taking action by itself is the way to get what they want. I am not here to say that it is wrong to do that, because clearly for most people it is working. However, what I AM here to say is that you can cut the amount of action you need to take by that 90% or more while dropping your stress and anxiety if you learn how to align yourself with what you want before you take that action.

Don’t ever let yourself get hung up on the “how” part of what you are trying to create in life. You should never, ever, try to force any circumstance to happen for you. I will tell you that if you ever feel any sort of inner-resistance of any kind, then you are most certainly not in alignment with what you are trying to create. Instead, realize that the universe is your ally and you must accept the “how” part of creation to come from something larger then yourself.

This is the hardest part to teach in this subject because it’s difficult to share my experience or for anybody to share their experience with another person directly. Instead, you have to trust what I and other people have to say about this. It’s like living in a different reality or almost like being in a fast lane because the time it takes for things to manifest is drastically reduced as long as there is no inner-resistance or sabotage setup and this frees the things you want in life to come to you faster.

Your Consent Is Your Power

I want you to picture for a moment in your mind and open up to the possibility that there are different “levels” of awareness that you can move through. To keep this nice and easy, let’s say that there are only two states that we can be in:

1. Universal Alignment
2. Victim Thinking

What determines which level of awareness we are in is ALWAYS a result of our consent, not of our worthiness. With everything that happens to you in life, you have a choice. You get to choose who and what you will be in relation to what is happening to you at any given point in your life. Always remember that.

Somebody who is in Universal Alignment is quick to forgiveness and never takes on “Victim Thinking”. We can define victim thinking as a total lack of self-responsibility for one’s life. A victim thinker blames outside and external things and uses them to justify their own lack of results and performance.

When you move past victim thinking into Universal Alignment it is here that you find that you can reclaim your power through your own power of consent. The way to do this is to understand and develop a deep sense of personal accountability and responsibility for your own life. An individual who is at this level also understands that the point or thoughts of their focus is what expands in their life to become their reality because it is their point and basis of attraction that the universe will use to create their reality for them.

Don’t Force It

The biggest difference between a victim thinker and someone experiencing universal alignment is the way in which they receive their “stuff” from the universe. A victim thinker will struggle, work hard and worry over every little detail. While a victim thinker is busy trying to manipulate, force and control their world and their lives (while seemingly getting “slow” results or none at all), a universally aligned individual will experience a life in which abundance and desirable things flow towards them effortlessly in the sense that they spend little to no time trying to deliberately setup certain chance meetings or events. Their lives are governed more by synchronicity and typically experience less of a sense of separation to the world and their desires.

Case and point: the victim thinker is receiving THE SAME EXACT FLOW that the universally aligned individual is, however, since the victim thinker is focusing on what they don’t want, that is exactly what they are getting.

Do you see this now?

There is no difference between the person who is getting what they want and the person who is getting what they don’t want.

The same law is working for both of them, only the victim thinker is opened and aligned to getting what they don’t want because their point of focus (which is their point of attraction) is what they don’t want in life while the universally aligned consciousness’ point of focus and attraction is what they do want in life.

Each type of person is getting the contents of their mind. There is no difference in the process, only in what becomes their reality and what their reality ends up looking like to them.

Everything You Want Is There Either Way

Just like I’ve illustrated before, everything you could ever want is there either way. You are always getting what you are “asking” for based on your point of attraction. I like to think of the mind as a muscle. Sometimes we develop mental muscles that become very strong at keeping us focused on what we don’t want while others develop muscles that keep them aligned with what they want. The good news is that none of this is permanent and muscles can always be re-trained according to what you want. It just takes persistence to do this.

But you absolutely have to commit yourself to this and trust in the fact that a few positive thoughts are not going to over-ride or instantly erase the effects of deeply rooted negative, habitual way of being and acting. You’ve got to do the inside work before you see the outside results.

Suddenly, The “How” Doesn’t Matter Anymore

Finally, you’ll find that accepting the Mystery of Creation means accepting that you are One with creation and that everything is the Same. In this state of being, you completely trust in yourself, because you understand yourself and the universe to be one in the same entity and this in turn expands your awareness to create for you in such a way that you have given your consent to allow what you want to happen to you. Resistance is done and gone, and that should be the goal. Things flow to you effortlessly, because they were always there and now you are aligned to stop avoiding them and start accepting them. The universe doesn’t deny you anything. You deny yourself what you want by telling yourself the story that you can’t have it for whatever reason you choose.

Acting out of a victim mindset makes you think that you know the best, fastest and most efficient way with your limited human consciousness to make something happen or to get what you want. Acting out of a universally aligned consciousness means that you trust enough in yourself and the fact that you are the universe to have it work in your favor and conspire in your behalf to figure out the fastest and most effective way to bring you what you want. A victim thinker is only operating with the human mind and denies the help and guidance of the universal mind, or the soul while the opposite is true for a universally aligned individual.

Bonus Brain Teaser: Remember, if we are all connected and of the same consciousness, then the calculations that this consciousness is capable of would make every single computer’s processing power on Earth (if combined) not even register as anything remotely significant when compared to what the universe is capable of. The universe, or God, would also INCLUDE and be the SOURCE behind even the computer’s ability to calculate anything. So a good question to ask yourself is, would a computer even be capable of calculating or quantifying it’s own Source, it’s own Creator? This is a good argument when considering Artificial Intelligence.

Practical Application

Sometimes we just have to back away from trying to control life and instead start learning to trust it more. I know that this can seem and sound counter productive and intuitive but look at it this way:

When you’ve identified something that you want to have in the world, then you should focus ONLY on it. Only choose those things which destroy resistance by selecting the thoughts and other ones that make you feel better, lighter and more empowered about yourself and your surrounding situation. I always say that in this world we are blessed with relativity; this means that we are able to see things that are both positive and negative, good and bad, right and wrong according to our own beliefs and perceptions about the world making life just a matter of personal preference. When we focus on something that begins to make us feel bad, nervous, fearful or anything related to these feelings, then that is a deeper part of us activating to tell us that is something that we don’t want. It’s not our job in the creative process to focus on what we don’t want and these feelings just serve as something to tell us what is undesirable according to our beliefs about life. Nothing or nobody says that we have to give these thoughts any life by focusing on them so you shouldn’t do that.

When you begin focusing on what you want you should begin by using all of what we’ve talked about here, and then trust and accept it. I’m not saying that things will come free or out of the sky. There is still a lot of personal growth and work to be done and learning how to deliberately put yourself into alignment is a skill that pays off for the rest of your life because it will help you to remove the amount of time it takes for things to manifest by being energetically aligned with them. Then as a result, you can begin to enjoy your life more freely because some of the smoke and mirrors behind life has been torn down for you since you understand where all things come from.

In reality we can never avoid having to take action, but we can define and say that there are two types of action that we can take:

1.) Unconscious action out of fear that makes us feel pressured, worried, stressed out and fearful.

2.) Taking Inspired Action while we are in alignment with what we want that “feels” right and will guarantee us that the positive thoughts, habits and patterns we have in our minds will manifest exactly how we see them in our mind’s eye by leveraging the magic of trusting in the creative process of the universe.

My Survival-Based Thoughts of “Not Having Enough”

This is what I am guilty of. When I trace back the roots of a lot of my thoughts I find that my mind likes to do the following:

Scenario 1: When applying to college, I always thought to myself, “this is going to be so difficult to get in to! There are so many other bright people and I just don’t believe I have a high enough GPA or good enough credentials…” even though I KNOW I have above and beyond what they want.

Scenario 2: I spend a vast amount of my time and professional life selling things, so I always think that there is no reason for people to buy from me, and even though I go through great pains to ensure that I only associate myself with selling the best products in the world, I feel like that for some reason just because I am selling them, that they are somehow bad, or not as good as what other people are selling even though they are the same products. If that doesn’t work, I observe the fact that I tell myself that there is something wrong with the way that I go about selling things.

Scenario 3: I am just about ready to sell my car which is something that I have come to love over the years. I find myself yet again telling myself that “nobody will want to buy my car” because it is in bad shape or because there is something wrong with it, when I know that it is a beautiful car that I have kept up both mechanically and aesthetically (most of the time anyway!) to the best of my ability.

What Does All of This Mean?

If you read between the lines, you can easily figure out where I am going with this. The fact is that I sabotage myself for no good reason whatsoever even though I know nothing is “wrong”. It seems as though my default method of thinking is to first identify what is wrong with something and why nobody would want it. For some areas of my life, this is a great strength because it allows me to find what’s wrong with something, fix it, and then go about my business with a positive result. In other areas of my life, once I seem to find what’s wrong with things, I strongly identify with those feelings of inadequecy once I feel as though it’s out of my reach or beyond my means to fix or repair it. In all of those scenarios I have listed above, you’ll notice that once a fear, doubt, worry or anxiety pops into my mind, if the process involves something that I can’t understand or control (applying the college involves a decision process that I have no control over, selling the car involves somebody making up their mind independent of my opinion) then I seem to let my mind run away with what is wrong with things. This is how a lot of my family is and is a way of thinking in which I have without question “downloaded” from them.

You could also argue that in a sense I have very low expectations and that I put myself down before somebody else has a chance to. While this is something I am aware of, I don’t really think it’s important in my own individual process although I can’t deny that it does play a part in it for sure.

This Is Important Because You Will Get What You Expect, Feel and Know

In my case, with low expectations, feelings of inadequacy and a run-away train of thought, I will only ever create and attract these things to me. My actions will no longer become inspired or imbued with any of my highest creative ability and my talent will become stalled and hard for me to use in everyday life. I’ll start to attract rejections from schools, bad buyers for my car and a lot of bad customers/buyers and this is completely and totally to be expected because if you can’t appreciate the things you own, are selling or learn to appreciate yourself, then how can you ever expect to attract other people who can appreciate these things?. It just doesn’t happen and you’ll quickly realize that you are attracting and creating based on the dominate ways in which you feel about certain things in your life.

Going Beyond All of This

There are different levels of awareness in life and we are constantly moving in and out of them. What I have just described to you is what I experience in relatively low levels of awareness, however, I can experience relatively high levels of awareness in which the thoughts I think will become physically manifested in such a short amount of time that it often blows my mind. You can gauge where you are in life and what kind of awareness you have in that moment relative to how quickly you are able to to attract through inspired effort and not forced action, the things that you desire.

Most people are under the impression that spiritual levels of awareness and conscious are permanent and stable once you reach that point. That is not true. Trust me. You will find that you can reach amazing levels of awareness and then slip back down to the bottom and find yourself stuck in in lower levels of awareness. The good news is that even if you do manage to slip and fall back down, is that the memory of the higher awareness is more readily available to you through your memories and you will be better able to tell what kind of awareness you are in and then work to quickly change it. I suggest developing a system in which you constantly ask yourself, “What kind of awareness am in right now?” every time you do something routine like check your e-mail or see what time it is.

Gratitude Is The Key

Think of gratitude as the key that opens you back up to receiving higher levels of energy. Being grateful for every little and big thing that you can find has always taken me out of the lower levels of thinking in which I have just described above. When I feel a deep sense of gratitude for things in my life, I feel much lighter and I’m sure you’ve felt the same at some point in your life. If not, then try it. The thing I always strive to do is replace heavy (negative) thoughts with lighter (positive) thoughts, but I always make sure that my positive thoughts become my default, habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, acting and doing because you can’t ever expect to change a life-long negative habit with a single or even a day’s worth of positive thoughts. They must become a way of living and a way of life. This is the way in which you become more consciously present in your life and in your decisions.

In other words, I wanted to show myself that who we are, and who I am, can’t be rooted in anything that I might own or possess as an item, property or anything material. For example, if I based my Happiness around money, then my “Happiness” is subject now to fluctuating with how ever much money I end up making, or not making. This isn’t very good for any individual, and yet it is something I think every single one of us does.

Detach Yourself From Things You Can’t Control

This is all about detaching from things you can’t directly control and learning to attach yourself to things that you can directly influence. You might think you can influence how much money you can make, how much you can get out of that deal or out of that sale (and maybe you can to SOME extent) but at the end of the day you must admit that there are certain variables and factors involved that you cannot directly control with any degree of certainty in a sense. There are other people involved in the world too you know, and while you might be able to influence them – why would you waste and spend all of your time doing this when at the end of the day they are going to be the ones making their own decisions anyway? Trying to mess with these little details is what drives people insane.

You Can Control Your Thoughts, Feelings, Emotions and Being

The good news is that you CAN directly control what your thinking, feeling and acting like on any given basis from moment to moment. Instead of basing your Happiness, Health or anything else inside of something else, you can free yourself from this unhealthy dependence by learning to create these feelings inside of yourself all of the time, regardless of what is going on in your physical and material surroundings and regardless of what you may, or may not, own at that moment in time.

No individual who purely thinks thoughts of harmony, joy, laughter and wealth lives in a “poor” world. It’s kind of like having a giant container, and there’s only room for one or the other. If you fill this container with Happiness and then try to poor in Sadness, there is absolutely no room for the Sadness.

The Mistake of Dependence

The mistake I made for many years was the mistake of dependence. I was only thinking thoughts like, “I will be so happy when I can finally afford this, or that.”. It was truly an endless cycle because I was never giving myself permission to be truly Happy. I was miserable all of the time and using these thoughts as a way to justify that “someday” I was going to stop being lazy, get up and go get the things I’ve been dreaming of for years. It just doesn’t work like that.

The Cause and Effect of Thought

It’s important to learn that our Happiness and all other things we desire to have in life must originate from deep within ourselves and our Being and not be dependent upon anything that we have, or do not have in the physical world. What we “own” or possess in the physical world is just the EFFECTS of our thoughts and our thinking. We spend so many years of our lives trying to change the EFFECTS that we forget to sometimes realize that our thoughts are the CAUSE of these EFFECTS.

I have to sneak in my Mantra here: As Within, So Without.

Before you can expect to become wealthier, healthier or have anything else that you want. You need to step back and observe yourself and your thoughts and ask yourself the question, “Am I that which I am asking for free of the dependence of any physical circumstance, event or person happening or occuring?”.

If not, you need to ask yourself why. Learn to be happy without any of the apparent happiness you are seeking being present in your life just yet, because you will create this. When you center yourself and become this happiness on the inside, it busts out and radiates into all that you do in life and eventually becomes your desired outcome and result.

Sometimes The Mind is Part of the Problem

Sometimes our mind, our thinking and our thoughts are part of the problem.

We think and think and think and think and think and think and think and think and think…

And think and think and think… Does this sound familiar?

We think so much about what we don’t want or what annoys and bothers us that we are really putting on a pair of goggles that only lets us view and see the things we are thinking about. The result is that we keep getting what we are thinking about. No surprise there. Nothing you haven’t heard before.

I know you’ve heard this a thousand times, but you must really stop, pause and dwell on this because this is just how the Universe operates. To make progress, you must first learn to change your thoughts by withdrawing yourself from thinking about the things you don’t want.

After you have withdrawn yourself from the constant mental noise and chattering thoughts about what you don’t want, you must stabilize yourself in a feeling and place of Happiness, Love and Harmony that is not dependent upon physical or material circumstances, people or events. You must learn to not have your Happiness be DEPENDENT upon the EFFECTS, and instead, you must learn that you, at the deepest level of your being, is the CAUSE of your own Happiness.

From this place of understanding, you are the fully Conscious Creator without limits, capable of creating and manifesting whatever you must in your life in order to live it and experience it the way you want to.

What Is Truth

Here is my favorite way about thinking what TRUTH really means, especially to each and every single person. Since we have said that there is no such thing as “right” or “wrong” and everything just is, the first thing we need to realize is that all “TRUTH” is relative to each and every single one of us. That is to say, that each person possesses in their mind, heart and body what they believe to be the TRUTH about anything. You can call this your truth, beliefs, belief systems, paradigms or whatever other word you can come to think of, the bottom line is that they are all the same.

Each person develops what they believe to be their truth as a result of the experiences they have been through in life. Our beliefs are always changed based upon what we experience in life, but most important, our truths and our beliefs change based upon how these experiences make us feel through our emotions.

All Experience Is Relative

This is important to understand, that All Experience IS Relative. What I mean by this is that you can take 100 people and carefully make sure that they have the same exact experiences, and at the end of this each one of those people will all take a different meaning from that experience. We see this all of the time in society with art, movies, music and poetry. Even if the creator of the piece has a set intention, meaning or message, all of the people who come to watch or listen to the piece will all take a different meaning out of it.

This is the essence of life, this is our free will and choice demonstrated. We all learn and develop beliefs that mean something special to us, and all new beliefs and experiences we acquire in life are going to interact with our past experiences and beliefs to create new ones. This is to ongoing process of life and this is why life is so dynamic and alive.

Because no two people in existence have the same exact set of past experiences, we can determine with certainty that when anybody goes through an experience in life, it will result in newer TRUTHs, beliefs and a way of looking at life that is unique to them, and only them. Nothing is able to be exactly duplicated because everybody is unique, everybody is different. Most people will tell you that this is bad, that having too much diversity is somehow going to hurt us, but that is ignorance. We are all so different because this is the Universal Source’s way of living through us and with us. It looks for us to express and live its own life so of course diversity is what it is seeking in order to live for itself.

Living Your Truth

In this life, it is your God-given right to find out what your personal truth is, and then live it to your highest and best ability. There are a few things we need to know about truth to first know how to actually live in harmony and become what we believe is our truth first.

I have said that “good” and “bad” is relative. In the universal eye, it does not exist and things just simply “are”. The judgements of “good” and “bad” are given to events, situations and circumstances through our human experience and eyes, not through the eyes of God.

I have also said that in life we come to believe what we think is our TRUTH based on these life experiences that we go through. In the physical world, we need relativity. We need to be able to go through an experience and say that this is “bad” for us so that we may know what is good. What is good for another, may not be good for you, and what is bad for another may not be bad for you. It all comes down to who you think you are in that moment of TIME; TIME is important because as we gain new life experiences what we think is “good” or “bad” or even “right” or “wrong” will change drastically. These things can even change based on the period of time you are in or your geographical location in the world as different groups of people believe in different things based on what time period and geographical location you are talking about or referring to.

It’s important to remember that all of this is happening at the individual level, that is to say, it is all happening to us personally. This is very much an internal thing, but it is happening to everybody living in this world at once. The sum total of the individual’s beliefs is going to become the dominant way of thinking for the living group of people on this planet. We see that with each new generation, we receive a whole new belief system and way of thinking about and doing things. This is universal consciousness finding out its own TRUTH by way of living through us. Each generation grows up in a world that they disagree with, and as they become older and their elders lose their power in society, they replace the old beliefs with the new ones they have while keeping or slightly modifying the ones that they agreed with. This is really the universes way of living – this is spiritual evolution and the evolution of Spirit – done through us as we are all One consciousness and One Being.

The Universal Truths

While you explore what personal TRUTH means to you, it will eventually come time that you naturally want to try and create things in your own life for yourself and others. I have observed that there are Universal Truths, or Universal Laws that are best to be followed if you want to create anything in your life. I still don’t like to use the word “Law” here because it does not do justice to the point of all of this. I say these are “Laws” only because the universe will not let you break them for long without a sudden realization dragging you back into reality. All you need to know is that we are One, and that acting as though you are a separate being from the rest of creation is going to drop you out of harmony with the creative power and force of the Universe and God. When you are acting as One and in harmony with the force that has driven the creation of all things in the universe, including the universe itself, then you are going to be shielded from failure in whatever it is you are doing.

You are a creator, not a thief. This means that you should be creating from the infiniteness of the universe itself, not trying to steal what another person has. This requires the eventual realization that greed, jealously, anger, lust etc get you no where, fast. When you feel these emotions, then you are coveting what another person has, and you believe you are separate from the very force that has created and sustains you. This leads to the next point:

You already are everything that you want in life. This is perhaps the most challenging one to understand and eventually come to accept. While we are here in the physical realm, it is difficult to see past the appearances of all things. All too many times when we see something, we come to accept it as TRUTH just because that is how it looks. You know that you have discovered the greatness within you when you can look at the appearance of something and say that it is not something that serves you and then quickly and rapidly begin to change it. What you have done in this scenario is look past the appearance of the thing and instead look into yourself. While looking into yourself, you have, based upon your experiences in life, said that this thing is Not Who You Are and instead you have chosen to create something new, a new TRUTH. You are already this TRUTH, that is how you have seen it. You have found this TRUTH and made this decision because you have already searched inside of yourself and found it, now you must manifest it for the world and your own self to see, benefit and enjoy from. In reality, we are all possibilities and all truths. There is no limit to who and what we are and can ever become.

Your creations should never take anything from the life of another, they should always add more value to anothers life then what they have paid for it. This is where I expect people to go crazy, yet anybody who has generated an enormous amount of wealth following the rest of these methods knows this. Under no circumstances will the creative force of the Universe, of God, ever take something from another person in order to give it to you. To think this way is to demonstrate that you do not believe in abundance, it is to demonstrate that you do not believe in the fact that God can provide all things and create all things needed in life. This is to deny the very nature of God.

This is an important one, because you always need to provide more then what people are paying you for your service. I am not saying that you must foolishly give away your goods and services, I am just saying that you must give away more in value then what the person is paying you for. Look at this entire website for example. Am I charging you to read this article right now? No way. And that isn’t going to change unless someday I decide to do some kind of program that I charge for, but even if I ever do that, you can bet the price tag of that program is going to be VERY LOW compared to the information that I will offer inside of it. And I can promise that all of these articles will always remain free even if I do that.

The only reason I am doing this is because of my next point:

The Universe and God is living life through you and with you. This is another doozy to wrap the mind around, but yes, God is living his life through you and yes, you are Divine. Every action you take must guarantee that God and divine awareness is able to express itself more fully through you. Throughout the many religions in the world, we always hear how holy figures have said countless times that they are “God’s instruments”. What they have been trying to tell us is that they have reached enough and high enough awareness to know and to understand and realize that God is actively living through all of us at every moment, of every day. Like I have always said before, my definition of God is, “The sum total of every awareness throughout the universe”. And since God is everything including every atom, human, animal, cloud, drop of water, tear or anything else you can conceive of, he is perfectly aware of the universe from every angle, dimension and perspective you can ever imagine.

In life, you must only seek to increase the expression of God through your own self, using your own special abilities and talents. God isn’t looking for everybody to live in poverty or be deprived of the things they love. If you are excellent at telling stories, then you must have a computer to type them. If you are great at playing guitar, then the guitar will find its way to you. Whatever your talent is, it is your God-given right to have access to the tools that will help you to express God and share this talent with the world as long as you follow the Universal Truths of Creation.

The mistake that I feel most people make is that they believe that they must compete for a limited number of spots in the world for them to share their own unique talents. People feel like they must “make it” before they can share themselves with the world, or with anybody for that matter. That goes against everything we have talked about, as the universe is not looking to reward those who believe they are separate from the rest of creation. The universe is going to give priority to those who just want to share what they love doing the most with others whose hearts are free from greed, competition, jealousy or anger.

In God’s eyes, there is plenty of room for everybody to share their talents and abilities, only each person has a different capacity and way for doing so. The single greatest thing you can do in life is to drop the mentality that there is “not enough” for anything. Realize that the world is ready for your talent, but also that it can take years of hard-work and discipline before you are ready to share yourself in that way.

You can have anything you want, but you must realize that you don’t need to fight others or take what others already have to get it. If you are doing this, stop it because the end results will never be in your favor, because they are not in alignment with the universe itself. When you are not in alignment with the universe, your mind is on a massive power trip and thinks and believes truly and deeply that it understands the universe and God which is something that is impossible for the human mind itself to comprehend all of creation. When you harmonize with the universal creative powers in the methods outlined and described here, then you are unstoppable since your sharing of your own unique abilities and talents will result in other people also realizing their abilities and talents and then sharing them with the world. This is how creation works to further itself and run the world.

One last thing I want to add is a story. Say you are a software designer and you create a piece of software that allows other people to create movies in a certain way that lets them directly upload it to sites like YouTube or FaceBook. Because you have created this tool and shared it with the world, you have helped to further the creation of other people’s God-given expression within. This is what the universe wants, and as the developer and designer of this software, the universe would guarantee you success. Now let’s say another software developer sees what you have done and the success your software has and decides to create his own in order to compete with you and take some of your profits away. The entire motive of this project is to take away from, to steal and to cut into what the other has already done successfully. The result can only be bad. If another software designer has another idea to create another great movie editing program, but only out of good intention and to share something that he believes is invaluable free of greed or competition, then he will also be a success.

Look at how businesses run. One company creates something successful and does amazingly well with it and then everybody and their Grandma has to create a similar product to compete with it. But wait a second, where was this product or service before the first company was successful with it? Oh that’s right, it didn’t exist because all of these companies trying to recreate or create replicas of it or things of a similar nature are only doing it because they know the original version of it is successful and profitable.

Be innovative, not greedy. Stay ahead of everybody else with your own ideas and turn those ideas into valuable products and services that other people will buy because they can use them to better enrich their lives and their own existence and expression of God within.

When you look at life, what we are seeing is the product of many little things acting in harmony. For example, when you see colors, they are the combination of different types of light. When you listen to music, it is the combination of many different “single” notes acting in harmony as one to produce a “sound”.

The very things we call “real” or “solid” like the phone you have, the desk you have in your living room. That is not “really” what it is – what it “really” is is many different single atoms that have combined themselves into other things such as wood, then the wood is made into the desk etc.

The air that we breathe is the combination of oxygen atoms and the water we drink is the combination of oxygen and hydrogen. Life is the result of two or more things joining together to create something new. Whether it’s oxygen and hydrogen combining or two people having sex and creating a child, one thing that is obvious is this:

Everything already exists. The oxygen molecule existed before the oxygen and hydrogen combined to create it and even the child the two people created out of love existed before it was created. What brings everything into physical manifestation and reality is when two things come into harmony with each other. We are always creating from what already exists around us, we are constantly pulling from the infinite and abundant universal energies that sustain us.

These energies never run dry.

This is the elegant truth of the universe. Everything is the result of some kind of harmony, or a universal and cosmic dance in which two or more things join together to create something anew.

Nothing is really created from “nothing”, everything already exists and everything is already “there”. What makes it real in our physical dimension is when the proper harmonic dance happens, this is what is required to bring something into existence and “reality”.

It doesn’t matter who or what you are and what you are coming into harmony with to create. We are all different, yet of the same source and when more complex things, such as human beings, begin to combine themselves in harmony then we get brand new and unique creations. When something like oxygen and hydrogen combines together, that is the extent of with that is. It is just oxygen and hydrogen – nothing more, nothing less.

But as the oxygen and hydrogen combine and create more complex “things”, these “things” in-turn are able to go on and create more and more complex “things”, and who knows what the limit to creation is? This is the dance of life, everything we perceive is made up of smaller and smaller things, yet life is impossible without even the most smallest detail, or the tiniest atom; we have to not take advantage of any of this and realize what is occurring in life and in the universe.

The most interesting creation ever is when something like human beings begin to apply their unique minds to their passions, pursuits and goals. One human being alone has the unlimited energy to directly effect the entire outcome of humanity, and in turn, the universe in which they live in. The very planet we exist on effects our universe by way of the collective and group conscious energy it is emitting out into the vastness of space and time. The potential and capabilities of even one human being is unfathomable and is conclusively infinite – so don’t ever doubt yourself or what you are capable of.

Sometimes we just need to create a deep sense of focus, appreciation and even acceptance of who and what we truly are. Awakening your mind to your truest potential is almost unreal and can take a large portion of your life to do, but never give up. It’s always up to you.

We all understand just how important love is, there is no question about it. When we love somebody, we are in love with them and we can feel that on every level of our being.

It feels good, we love to be in love. We love to be in love with.. Whatever it is we love!

The thing is that we only think about love in terms of other people, or situations. “I love her”, “I love these pair of pants” etc.

But why can’t we love things like Money? Or Happiness? These are the things that make us very happy, but 90% of people believe that these things are somehow “evil” or that wanting and/or having them make us a bad person some how. Or maybe we feel unworthy…

That is bull.

Before you can have A TON of anything in your life, you have to LOVE IT. If your thoughts are based out of fear, or out of thinking that having a lot of money, happiness or anything makes you a you know what, then it can never be present. You have to, just like the people you love, be totally in love with anything that you want; in doing this, you declare that that what you love is a part of who you are, and the natural universal result is that it must be attracted to you.

Since all of the universe is nothing but love, IT IS MADE OUT OF LOVE, you can bring to you whatever it is that you love (or don’t love/lack love for).

I think all that we can do as humans is learn to love what it is we want in life. It’s the only security that keeps things around and close to us. If something feels good, like money, it doesn’t mean you are bad or evil to love it – most people deny their love for such things but this is the root cause of their misery.

To never deny who you are is to never deny what you love and to never deny love is to never deny who you are.

What It Means To Live In The Now, In The Moment

To me, living in the NOW means living from the depth of your soul. It means that with each new experience in life, I am not just acting out and responding to it based on my previous experiences. The ego and the mind will respond to life on a kind of “auto-pilot”. It searches your memory for similar experiences and comes up with responses to those situations based on past encounters.

Stop it.

Why would you ever want to live life coming from a place that lacks any sort of real feeling, or emotion? We need to look at every moment in life as if it were brand new. It’s very true that the future and the past, in this moment, are irrelevant. Where are they? What power do they hold? The answer is, only whatever power you give it over yourself.

When living and dealing with life, you need to look at life and respond to your current situation with whatever is required of you. If you are worrying about money, or love, or whatever it is you worry about – clear your mind, nothing matters. All of the stuff we worry about doesn’t matter, we only think about it because we think we have to. We only think and worry about things because we view life as a ticking time-line that will eventually move from point A to point B.

If you are trying to start a business or find a new job, you will destroy and cripple yourself in every moment of your life with your thoughts. You will say, “Well yesterday I couldn’t find a job when I looked, so when I look today, based off of my experiences of yesterday, I won’t find anything.”. Do you see how bad this will become if you leave this unchecked?

Be Yourself, Be Present In The Moment

Those who do anything amazing in life are crazy, they are out of their minds. They are stubborn, they don’t listen and they don’t take NO for an answer. They don’t look at their past experiences and use them to determine future outcomes. They don’t look at the experiences of others and allow them to alter their perspective and perception on reality. When the crowd zigs, the successful person zags. They don’t do things because somebody else’s value system or ethics say it is right or wrong. The successful person creates their own system of beliefs and values as they go along in life in accordance to who and what they are and believe themselves to be.

In every moment of our life, we need to look around and see what is required of us. We need to ask ourselves, “based on what I believe is best for me, based upon who I really think I am, what action is going to make this a reality for me?” and then do it. Do it without letting anybody stop you or influence you.

Instead of worrying about money, or grades, acceptance or anything at all do only what is best for you, because what is best for you is what is best for everybody else. That is the most valuable life truth that is out there. Know that when you do things, as long as they are done because they are what is best for you, then they are what is best for another and everybody else.

I no longer do things because of the money, the financial reward or anything else. I do things because I use them as channels and as outlets to develop specific traits and characteristics in myself that I want to have.

I want to learn discipline, the value of work, perseverance, dedication, compassion, strength and courage. I must then find activities and work that align with being able to teach me all of these things. I must do the work and the activities for myself and remain only focused on what I want to develop in myself. I can only do work that will teach me these things.

In doing all of these activities I must always remember that I can never let my previous experiences create my current or future realities. As long as I am living within my mind, then all of my previous judgments, assumptions and expectations will repeat until the end of my life. By judging others or holding expectations, I am doomed to repeat them until I realize that I must live my life fully in the present, and this requires me to do only what is necessary of me in that moment and not rely upon what I have held to be true in the past. By doing this, my reality and concept of myself, what is true and what I love will begin to change and move into alignment with the new person I am becoming.

Here is a great example:

If you are a white male, and you are racist then every time you see somebody of a different skin color then your mind is going to judge that person even before you begin speaking to them. What is the point in this? That person could have been your best friend, highly intelligent or any other number of things. But you don’t care, your mind only sees what it wants to and it is always based off of some ridiculous concept of the past. You can’t live in the moment and appreciate the people and events around you because as soon as you see something familiar, your mind immediately prescribes it a label or a judgement that prevents you from experiencing life in a more full and complete way. I’m just using this as an example because it is a common thing to find in the world, not for any specific reason.

By living in the present, you free yourself from all of the shackles and the chains that have bonded you down and forced you to live a limited experience and limited life because of your ego and your mind continuously wanting to judge and label things as soon as they are encountered.

In short, each of these three things are interdependent upon each other. You can’t have one of these three elements be strong and lead you to success unless you understand how to use and apply the other two things towards it.

How to Have Faith

While any person can believe in what they see in front of their eyes, it takes an extraordinary person to have faith in what they can’t yet see. Faith is not as hard as you have been taught to believe. It’s quite simple, actually, because anything you can think of or about in your mind is possible in the world. If you can’t bring an idea or thought to life in the world, then you have not yet developed the BELIEF that it is possible.

Believing is not always seeing and you need to develop the FAITH in knowing that your vision is possible. This requires a lot of ENDURANCE because the process of making your dream real is going to involve a lot of periods of time where you are still unsure if what you are doing is correct, or even if it is leading you towards the right direction.

We need to develop a massive amount of endurance with anything that we do, because we also need to realize that we are working with time. Another simply concept is this:

Bigger Ideas → Require More Time
Smaller Ideas → Require Less Time

If your goals, ideas and visions are massive, then you need to develop the endurance necessary to wait however long it takes for you to develop into the person and to develop the character and characteristics necessary and required to achieve what and who you want to be. There is no fixed amount of time for being able to manifest specific goals. Depending on who you are as a person and what skills and traits you have mastered in life, manifesting your dreams will take each and every single person different amounts of time.

I like to say that even if you become, say, a successful actor and give 100 aspiring actors a 100 point step-by-step guide on how to achieve what you did, 99 of them won’t be able to do it. Why? Was it because your directions were bad? Absolutely not, it’s because even a direct map to our desired destinations, dreams and places in life is useless to us unless we develop the traits, personality and mastery of the more basic skills in life we need to be able to handle that goal. In the case of becoming an actor, maybe you are struggling to develop things such as timing, a sense of comedy or drama. Maybe you have trouble and just can’t sustain the faith required to become one.

The point is, even with direct steps and courses of actions, if you have yet to master things like fear, anxiety, anger or any other negative character trait then you are sabotaging yourself because these things underline all of your actions, no matter what they are.

How to Have Endurance

Endurance gives us the ability to improve our character and work on mastering our traits in life. If you want to be anything in life, there will be times of trial that will force you to either develop what is necessary to succeed in that field or ultimately leave it. When we talk about endurance, we are talking specifically about developing two types of character traits.

We need to develop specialized knowledge about our desired goal and basic mastery of things like fear, anxiety etc that can hold us back.

Specialized Knowledge – is tricky and can’t be learned all at once. Gaining and finding this type of knowledge takes a lot of time and patience as well as a willingness and ready to learn from whatever sources come your way. Time is the key factor here and you can’t force this. A great deal of submission may be required in order to successfully learn what you need to learn. While it may seem at times that what you are doing is a waste, you need to have the FAITH and the BELIEF that what you are doing in the short-term is really contributing to your long-term goals, dreams and desires.

While it can seem tough when you are actually gaining your specialized knowledge, it’s a vital part of the overall success of your entire vision. This can involve schooling, internships, hands on or direct knowledge or simply just learning your skills directly from somebody with more experience then you.

Basic Mastery – is my favorite thing, and while I have definitely need to come up with a better name or title for it, is the most important part of success and learning endurance. I like to say that while you can learn all of the specialized knowledge in the world, it is USELESS unless you learn how to apply it. If you remember my example of the 100 actors from before, the reason why 99 of them wouldn’t make it is because while many might have the specialized knowledge, how many of them have developed what it takes to be able to successfully use and apply it?

If things like fear of success, fear of failure, fear of the unknown, shyness, intimidation, lack of faith, lack of believing, no sense of self worth, depression or any other number of these seemingly negative things are present in a person – what can they hope to ever achieve or accomplish in life? The type of person we are will underline all of our actions, even our specialized knowledge.

If we are afraid of success, we will unconsciously sabotage our own success because that is what our mind is programmed to do. In order to obtain success, we need to be actively working toward it and become ready to receive it and take responsibility for all of the responsibilities that will come with it. If you are afraid of success, you might be afraid of responsibility as a whole. And look at that, you have just sabotaged yourself right there.

This is not an easy process to master and depending on what your dream and your vision is, can take many years of your life to truly master what is needed and required of you to be successful in that field. That is why your dreams should never be little. Pick one thing in life that you have to have, become or experience no matter what and devote yourself to it because there is no such thing as instant gratification in personal development; this is a life long commitment and without the endurance and self awareness to realize this you will be bouncing back and forth aimlessly in the short term perspective of things because you lack the endurance necessary to learn all of the specialized skills and knowledge as well of the basic mastery required for your success in your given and chosen field.

Endurance is also my favorite part of this process because it is during this time that you will grow and develop personally into the person you need to become in order to manifest all of your drams into the world. Endurance teaches us what we need to know to sustain our visions in the world. As a result of this, you can expect this period of your life to be extremely intensive – as it should be since you are like a caterpillar transforming into the butterfly. This is the phase in which people either become made or broken. Realize that you are only “broken” if your faith and belief in yourself and in your ideas and dreams is not rock solid and something strong enough to support your dreams. Only you can determine this, as only you can become the person you need to in order to become the person you want to be and achieve the things you want to achieve.

How to Have Belief

Without belief, we would never be sure that what we are doing is right. That is why belief takes an enormous amount of FAITH to realize that we have to power to ultimately create whatever it is that we want. With an understanding and good sense of how ENDURANCE is our best insurance policy for success, there’s nothing that can stop us from achieving our vision and our goals.

Belief is closely associated with endurance, however, I think that belief is something that occurs deep within our hearts and our souls before we begin to have to endure anything. Belief is going to be the deciding factor and our way of convincing ourselves if what we are after is possible or not. Only once we have total belief that something is possible can we ever hope to achieve it.

Before we start believing in anything, we often do not have the luxury of seeing it directly in front of us. Belief always requires us to be a bigger and better person then we are now, because it requires us and calls upon us to have faith in knowing we can achieve something that is in that moment bigger and beyond who we are and our capabilities. This is profound, because everything starts here within us. Without a strong sense of belief in our cause, we are doomed because our hearts will never be in the right place.

Belief and faith are closely interconnected because we often have to give our entire self to having complete faith and complete belief in something that is not yet existing in our reality yet. If you look back into history at the great men and women, they had to have such large amounts in order to accomplish the things they did. Look at any emperor, artists, architect, philosopher or religious figure. Their visions were huge and as such they were called upon to exercise very large amounts of endurance, faith and belief to execute and make sure their visions were carried out and made manifest and real in the world.

If you think about all of this, it is YOU who is acting as the channel and the medium by which all of this is made possible. It’s all your responsibility to act as the anchor and the ground so that your dreams, goals, visions and ideas can have a shot at life in this world. They manifest to the degree in which you have developed your ability to have faith and believe in what you want combined with your relentless endurance in waiting however long it takes for something to become real while knowing that during this time you will be pushed to develop yourself into the new person required to manifest such a huge dream.

Belief also sews the seeds of our dreams. Without belief, we would never have a profound sense of knowing that all of the work in the form of time, energy and maybe even money is going to be worth it. I will tell you that when you have complete faith and endurance in your mind, then you can’t fail and your beliefs should reflect that.

Why We Need To Have Faith, Endurance and Belief

Like all things in life faith, endurance and belief are interconnected and interdependent upon each other. You can’t have one without the others, and they all require us to give more then we are capable of at that moment so it can force us to stretch and grow into a new and improved person. We have to have the faith in knowing that we can achieve anything, the endurance to understand that we need to learn a specific set of skills and the belief that what we are doing is right and in alignment and correct position with what we want.

While we do create our own realities, we have to be aware of the fact that the universe works in mysterious ways and sometimes there is what seems to be like a plan or a direction that is much larger then us. While I don’t want to use the word “destiny” here, I will say that we are one with the Supreme Consciousness and are just a smaller piece and extension of it. We are simultaneously creating our reality on the human level and on the level of higher consciousness which we would call the Source. All is One and can’t be in conflict with itself so we need to trust that despite what our current circumstances or living conditions might say about us now, our belief can and should be strong enough to recognize that what we are doing is part of a larger picture that will gradually reveal itself over the course of time.

The best part of life is when you finally achieve your goals and look back at yourself during all of those rough and hard times. Maybe you were at a job that paid you no money, or in an abusive relationship or a family that didn’t love or appreciate you. No matter what your situation was, when you look back in hindsight and in retrospect you will finally have the wisdom and the clarity to see exactly why you NEEDED to be in those places and why you NEEDED those experiences to obtain your much, much larger goals, dreams and accomplishments. Everything has its place in the world, the universe and in life. Our belief will help us to understand all of this and combined with our senses of faith and endurance we can’t fail.

If your current life is stressing you out, don’t worry about it. You are ENDURING, learning much needed skills that will better serve you in life down the road for much bigger and better things. When you feel that pain of not having what you want, you are enduring and learning the specialized knowledge and basic mastery skills needed and required to bring to you what you want. This is Personal Develop and growth at its finest. This is how you know you are becoming something much bigger, better and beautiful. These pains are just your “growing pains” and you should understand that they will help transform you into the person you want to be as long as you have the faith and belief to understand that this is the process of endurance – this is the process of life.

We can remember the past and use its experiences to grow.

We cannot, however, predict the future with any degree of certainty. But why?

The art of predicting the future involves finding which events are most likely to occur. When you consider the fact that there are an infinite amount of possibilities that can occur in the future, it’s a bit rough trying to pinpoint exactly what will or will not happen. You can begin to argue for or against the belief in destiny here, but I still argue that we are the creators of our own lives, worlds and realities. If any sort of destiny exists, it exists because every single human being is one with each other. This whole universe and everything inside of it is one, and if that One conscious is creating destiny for itself, it is not against the free-will of all of the individual pieces that make it what it is.

In other words, we are consciously creating our realities as part of One consciousness. Call this what you want – God, the Universe, the Source because it’s all the same. Everything in this universe is part of the One so therefore whatever this One energy wants is never inflict with itself. We as humans get to retain our free will and create what we see fit, and the One is still able to remain intact and be able to offer free will to all of the pieces that make it up.

We Create Our Future

Forget trying to predict the future. We create our future more precisely and have more control over it then any memory or experience in our past. Let us past be our guide, but out futures be our direct choices – our own conscious creations. Let it be Who We Are.

While we can think about the past all we want and dwell over it, the fact of the matter is that it is gone right now. We can learn from our past and grow from it and take what we learn and directly apply that knowledge towards creating what we do and do not want. Don’t let your past hold your prisoner because you are not that person. Every time you recall a memory, don’t treat it as if you are reliving that memory now – you only relive that memory by focusing on it and choosing to create it in your future. This is why it’s important to only ever focus on what you want.

If you are dwelling on memories from your past that you want to change, the past is not the right place to change them. You must change them in the future. While you might have been extremely hurt as a result of your choices and actions, it is the price you had to pay for making that decision at the time that you did. Learn from it, grow from it and then decide if that is what you want or not. You can never change past outcomes, but you can always prevent them from continuously occurring again and again in your future.

Personal development all comes down to the saying and expression, “Know Thyself.”.

It’s important that you understand your thought patterns and habits. If you are living in the past, then you need to wake up and become alert, otherwise your future will always mirror and resemble the past and this is rightfully so; what else do you expect to happen if all you are focusing on is the past, especially if that is not what you wanted in the first place at all?

The key is to find what you want and lock on to it like a heat seeking missile. Why would you focus on anything else? Having faith is also what all of this revolves around. Developing the ability to understand that you are a creator capable of whatever you put your mind towards is huge – know that you can only fail if you don’t put in the required amount of effort and energy to get what you are desiring.

Predict your future by creating it. You don’t need others to tell you who you are and what you want in life. This is you, and only you. Nobody else understands this. While it’s good to listen to advice from others, we must sometimes be careful that their advice does not become our only voice of reason. We are our own person, our own individual entity.

“Know Thyself”

Everything happens from within. Each individual life is its own fragment of the one consciousness, what you would call God or the universe. Each fragment has its own perception and its own perspective in the life that is the universe.

When you begin to add each human life and existence together as well as all other perceivable objects, you then have conscious reality. No fragment is complete in its own accord until it realizes the deeper meaning behind its own existence. On the deepest level, it is already whole, it is complete.

In the physical realm it doesn’t need to worry about perfection or becoming anything near it. The truth is already that all actions taken and performed are in themselves beautiful acts of perfection, truth and beauty, regardless of how we judge them to be. Everything, everyone and every action is already perfection. Everything is just BEING, and how is BEING not perfection?

We are expressing the potential energy of the unlimited potential of the universe at this very moment. It is OK if we make mistakes, or if we fail.

Because this is part of perfection as a whole, this is the process, this is the BEING.

The process is the perfection. The perfection is in the process.

We can’t reduce all of our actions and interactions down to the pursuit of enlightenment or to perfection because we will never find it that way – it will always slip away from us until we understand that we must become that, we must become the BEING that is enlightened. Or in a more general sense, we must become whatever it is that we want to become. This requires us to shift our perception and behaviors to become the person we need to be in order to achieve our goals, even before we actually reach our goals; this is the great challenge and mystery of life.

In this moment, in all that ever is, and all that we ever have, all is already perfect. We just need to wake up and see this and realize it. It all comes down to Awareness – Perception – Perspective.

If you want to know what true enlightenment is, it is nothing more then having the awareness, perception and perspective that knowing everything as it occurs is nothing but perfection. Everything always obeys the laws, like attraction or gravity 100% of the time. Everything is perfection, just by the nature of its BEING.

Most people have such a hard time accepting and seeing this because instead of dedicating so much time, effort and energy into seeing this and what is good, they would rather redirect that energy into just the opposite of that which is to focus on seeing only what bothers them and makes them feel bad. This is what you become.

The biggest mistake is that we do not see ourselves as worthy of perfection because we have been raised and taught that we are sinners since birth. Just look at the Heaven and Hell complex. We are literally born into believing that Earth is imperfect, Heaven is perfect and Hell is where we’ll go if we are “bad” – whatever “bad” can be defined as. For a good time, go find 10 members of the same religion and ask them to define what “bad” is and what will win you a one way trick to Hell and see what they say. To make it even more fun, ask 10 priests of the same faith and you’ll still get different things from each of them.

You always see and experience in your world through your eyes and the rest of your senses exactly what you feel and think about inside of yourself

This is Oneness between Spirit and Matter, what it means to be multi-dimensional beings. This is one of the greatest mysteries of life and part of the great process of BEING. It is just another way consciousness becomes conscious of itself, it is just another way to prove to yourself and show you that you are a creator.

In knowing that, you should choose wisely about what you think, because you will truly become what you think, act and feel. This means that the next time you realize that your life and things aren’t going the way you want them to be, you must look inside and find the reason for this. Changing the person you are internally will cause that person to reflect into the outside, external world. This is an inside job and only something we can do, as it occurs from within the mind, body, soul and the heart. This is personal development right from the source – you.

You are the Creator of your universe, only you can change it. Create something worthy of yourself and your talents and abilities for the rest of the universe and the world to enjoy and benefit from. This is the definition of true wealth – you build it and increase it by sharing what you have (talents, abilities, skills, money or anything else you have) with others.

When you are doing what you love the most and are most passionate about – you become intensely present as you do it. All of your awareness seeps into doing it and nothing else matters. All fear is gone and suddenly you will find that all of your questions about your purpose in life magically and mysteriously disappear.

That’s OK, they never really mattered in the first place, because now you know. But you always knew, didn’t you? Sometimes all it takes is you just getting started, then there is no turning back.

Those who are the best at what they do are the best because they have eliminated all of the internal resistance that once existed that stopped and blocked them from doing it.

All fear, all resistance is gone. Only pure presence, pure BEING remain.

If you want to do something and you are resisting it on any level, then you must find out why – but most importantly you must find out if it is right for you. Usually what we are most afraid of is what we want the most for ourselves because it is right for us – it is who we are. We can only ever know by trying and not being paralyzed by fear over it. Sometimes thinking less about it is better as we won’t cripple ourselves with unnecessary fear.

But yet, I am paralyzed 99% of the time. Something keeps me blocked off from my vision, my goals and ultimately what I want to become. It’s almost as if there is a glass door there that is locked down tighter then you can ever imagine. I can see through it crystal clear, but when I go to move through it, I am repelled almost as if there was a huge force field blocking me and denying me.

I can’t understand why I know exactly what I want, and generally how to achieve it – yet I cannot. Whatever could this be? What could it mean? What does this say about me?

Think Less, Follow Your Inspirations More

When I think about it, there is always one thing that is undeniable and what seems to hold me back. I have a huge problem in that I like to think a little bit too much and not trust in myself and what I know enough.

If left unchecked, my thoughts run away wild trying to analyze “the future” and potential outcomes. My mind, and my thoughts, likes to play damage control in the sense that it tries to figure out how to do something based on these things:

- How can we get the biggest result with the least amount of effort?

Instant Gratification – this just doesn’t exist. The universe isn’t stupid, you have to give equally to receive equally

- My thoughts always challenge me and like to say, “Well what if you do the work and you don’t get the results you want? What if it’s all for nothing? What if… What if… Blah, blah blah. What if everything we do, every effort we make is wasted, and done for nothing?

This is my new favorite thing, because this is what has paralyzed me my entire life. I would rather do nothing then potentially try and do something that could be a waste of my time. Do you see and realize how dangerous and unhealthy this is?

It’s important to realize that no action in life is wasted, no potential is ever wasted. At every moment in time, you are doing something, you are giving and offering some form of energy to the universe and to your surroundings and your environment. Equally and rightfully so, as you are giving off this energy, no matter what you are doing (even if you are watching TV on the couch) you are being gifted and returned an equal amount of energy based upon what you are doing.

This is the grand scheme of results, to realize that everything is a process and that nothing is ever wasted. You are always giving something and receiving it back equally. When you seemingly “fail” at something, after that “failure” has occurred what you were really gifted with was a result that has pointed you closer to the answer that you have been looking for in the first place.

Everything, and certainly every action, produces results based upon the energy you are giving off. If you are actively trying to build a business, that business will be the result of the effort you put into it. It is the living, breathing result of all of your hard work and dedication, or lack of it. This applies to anything you could ever want to do in life.

Human Beings Are Afraid to Fail, They Are Paralyzed By the Unknown

For most of us, we are terrified of what we don’t know, or what our mind can’t guess will happen. We have become so afraid of failure, that we train our minds to play damage control and constantly run “calculations” to try and figure out our chance of success or failure. The irony here is that we have trained our minds to do a whole lot of worrying, processing and thinking and always to come to the same conclusion: whatever we are trying to do is impossible because of <insert excuse, reason or something based off of whatever else here>.

The same holds true for our relationships and our jobs. We know if it just “feels” right to either be there or not be there. It’s the constant thinking that drives us away from following what we know is true. We are at our most powerful state when our thoughts are in alignment with what we think, know and feel to be right about ourselves. Maybe this can do a much better job of explaining the concept of being wrapped in energy better then I can.

This does not hold true for everyone at this very moment, but I would have to say it held true for each and every single one of us at some time in our life or another. Those who are truly successful in anything they do will all tell you that they had no idea what was going to happen; there was no way they could have guessed what events unfolded to take them to where they went, or did what they did. They will only tell you that they knew what they wanted, and they persisted at it until they made it happen. Those who never achieved what they wanted gave up to soon, however, it is never late to go back and start again.

The mind can’t wrap itself around energy, it can’t even begin to understand how the universe works or how events unfold. If we start to think the mind can do this, then this becomes our perception, and our perceptions become our reality. We have to take care to not limit ourselves – we have to remain open to whatever inspirations come our way, then we must immediately act on them fast before they become lost and swallowed up by time.

You Already Know Who You Are, What You Goals Are And How To Complete Them

You already know who you are.

You already know what you want in life.

You already know exactly how to achieve all of this.

It all just comes to you. Even if it seems impossible, you just “know” it’s true. No matter how far out there your dream or goal may be, you somehow understand that it is not something you are uncapable of achieving unless your mind likes to spit out thirty different reasons per minute why it’s not possible.

Stop listening to your thoughts and start listening to your heart. If you follow what you are inspired to do, if you follow your inspirations as they come in that moment, it will lead you down the path of becoming your dreams and goals. It will show you, if you allow it, your highest potential, who you really are and exactly what you are capable of.

Don’t let your thoughts say or convince you otherwise. Follow those inspirations as they come and your reality will shift rapidly. You can never do anything or become anybody that you are not in alignment with, and your thoughts will rapidly knock you out of your alignment. By following your inspirations as they come in that moment, you build a huge wave of momentum that will open a lot of paths for you.

Sometimes our thoughts are just a lot of noise. They side track us and stop us from hearing and aligning with our inner voice. All thoughts aren’t bad, it’s only when we are afraid of failing, doing the work required of us and wanting instant gratification that they become the problem because the lens by which we view the world will change and what we think will no longer align and match up with what we feel and know to be true about ourselves. True harmony and success happens when we can retrain and program our minds to match up and align with what we truly think and feel to be true about ourselves – this is when and where harmony begins to exist and our perceptions of the physical world align perfectly with our higher spiritual visions of ourselves.

Then nothing feels like “work” anymore. Things just happen, everything is inspired and it feels like you are going down a slide instead of climbing up a ladder. When your mind perceives the world as your heart and soul do, you have found yourself and your purpose. Nothing can stop you.

And don’t try to lie, there is nobody you can fool inside of yourself.

Also, sometimes you just “know” what you “know”. Just like being in love, or being happy. There is no thought about it there, it is just who you are in that moment. Always know what you know and never second guess yourself, things often tend to become and get extremely painful that way.

What determines who and what a person becomes?

Everything from education, to family and job – I had always wanted to know WHY these things were the way they are, I knew a lot about energy and I knew everything happened for some definite, measurable reason. On a basic level, you’ll never find a straight A student in a top university who hasn’t learned to cultivate discipline and rigorous study habits and you’ll never find a CEO of a company who struggles with making decisions, being smart and being the best at what they do in their field. It just doesn’t happen. Everybody is where they are in life for a certain reason, and that reason is a reflection of your internal state of being or who and what you think and believe yourself to be.

If you begin to look at certain towns and cities you’ll first notice that there is an overwhelming sense of group consciousness that is present, this is to say, you’ll notice that the general “tone” and “attitude” of all of these people are rather similar. You could say that there is almost a default, or accepted way of living life present that all members of that city or town are an intricate part of. We’ve all either seen in TV, movies or in our own lives the persistent need of wanting to “get away” and leave home; the drive is so strong because our inner sense of self and being is not long a vibrational match for our surroundings. We will begin to feel poisoned or like we’re living in a toxic environment in which we can no longer tolerate. Our personal energy field can no longer exist happily within the larger energy fields of our families, schools and town any longer, we have to leave.

What Makes Anybody Who They Are?

I have had the pleasure of observing thousands of people and thinking for many, many years about these people and how they came to be who they are. One of the more interesting things I have learned in life is that while most people seemed obsessed with “figuring out the answer” and “finding the secret sauce” behind success, I have observed that the answer to success is not in figuring out the secret, but rather trimming down and shedding excessive baggage.

Before I get a bit deeper into this, I want to use the analogy of a sculptor who carves and chisels the finest statue you can ever imagine. For the sake of this example, let’s use Michelangelo’s David as our center of attention. When Michelangelo set out to create this statue, he knew that he only needed one thing besides his imagine: a single block of stone. Any great statue starts from a single block of stone, marble or whatever other material it is to be constructed out of.

The job of the artist, or the sculptor, is not to add unnecessary baggage and burden to this block, but rather it is their job to slowly chisel and carve away at it. It is their job to carve this statue day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year little by little barely making any progress. The only thought that satisfies them is their own determination and passion in their work – in their minds, it is not a question of IF the statue can be completed, but WHEN.

The next time you are reflecting on your personal development I ask you to challenge yourself to look internally, like the great sculptor, and ask yourself, “Am I adding unnecessary baggage to my block of stone? Am I wasting my time and effort by trying to complicate things in my life more, when I should be getting rid of what isn’t who I am?”.
The takeaway of this story is that our lives are a lot like this block of stone. Even if you give people a literal “blueprint to success” it simply won’t work for them because their minds will doubt it, they will say, “That’s a lie, it can’t be this easy!”. Your mind always WANTS TO ADD MORE, it always WANTS TO COMPLICATE every situation and add drama to it because for most of us, the reality of pain and suffering are much more real then the reality of success, so we unconsciously hang on and cling to the other thing that we truly have come to know – pain.

Why then, is the sculptor such a master of taking their ideas, their imagination and chiseling away at the block until the form of the block matches the formless imagination and being? The answer is because to the artist, it isn’t just a block of stone they are working on, but more so it is an outer reflection of WHO THEY REALLY ARE. It is the artist’s way of expressing himself simultaneously through the mind, body and soul since they have become “one” with their work, and one with the universe – with being.

What Does It Mean To Be One With The Universe and The Self?

This is one of the largest topics of the New Age movement, one area I don’t really necessarily take a liking to because my ideas run in different directions and take different meanings then the more popular New Age terminology you’ll find floating around. Before we continue, I’d like to define what I mean by being “one” with everything because it will certainly help to clarify things deeply.

Being at one with something is when you finally realize that there is no such thing as “over there”, “him” or “her”. It is when you finally realize that every single action and movement you take will come to effect the entire universe, no matter how seemingly small or significant. It is when you come to realize that all of the people in your life are nobody else but your own self. It is when you realize that every single action taken by anything living within this universe is going to effect people you have not even yet, or may never meet.

How is this possible? We hear all of the time of things such as karma and that “do unto others as you would like done unto you”, we also hear that whatever we do to others will come back to us. While we can use our minds and our egos to entertain these ideas, they often times don’t take on any meaning to anybody because we can’t experience that, or rather, we don’t understand how.

1. Understanding Karma – By and large, our old friend the ego has a lot to say in this situation. Karma is not some mystical force that follows you around that waits to screw you over because you screw other people over. Karma is the prison of the mind and the ego, it is the energy that your ego generates that follows you wherever you go. The people who always complain about karma are the ones who live and go around in constant circles.

When you do something bad to a person, you feel superior, however, when somebody does wrong by you, you’ll swear that karma will be your agent of revenge. These vary statements are all based within the ego – they are methods your ego uses to gain empowerment. If you think about it, when you do wrong to somebody, the ego is (temporarily) satisfied and you feel as though you have won. You will deny anybody that accuses you of anything because you have just had your day.

The second that somebody wrongs you, suddenly they “disrespect” you, they hurt you, maybe they even physically or verbally abused you. Then you feel like a victim, you wonder why people in the world can be so mean and cruel and god forbid somebody realizes in that moment that is how you tend to be towards other people – your mind and your ego will then become violent and deny it and resist it.
2. The basis of karma and who you are can be summed up in an elegant truth. Our external worlds are nothing more then a reflection of who we are on the inside. We get exactly what we give and give exactly what we get. If we turn inwards on ourselves and take a long hard look, we’ll notice that our external and apparent reality matches our thoughts. If we cannot come to love others, then we will never know true love. If we cannot give anything to another person, then we will never receive anything more then that which we give.

It sounds nice and conceptual, but you really need to read and live between the lines of that statement. YOU ARE A SPIRITUAL BEING, AN ENERGY that operates within an energy field that is much larger then your own, yet, you are an inseparable part of that energy. Energy, as it so happens, always brings to it other energies that operate on a same frequency.

I still have a hard time believing how in this day and age people have such a hard time accepting something that science has proved over and over again to us: what we see is not really “what is”. Our senses act as a transmitter and way of converting the energy of the universe into our 5 senses in which we perceive the world. Underneath our senses is a world of energy in which nothing is random, there is absolutely no chance in the world that the laws that govern the universe will just stop working tomorrow.

We cannot see gravity, yet it is there, continuing to work. We can’t see magnetism, yet it will always be there. When you look at a tree, or a house or a car it is NOT REALLY that form, it’s an energy that is immeasurably deep. We cannot ever truly “know” what a tree is, our senses just perceive it to be that whatever it can feel, see, taste, touch and smell. What the 5 senses tell us is in front of us is not really there, but rather an interpretation on the part of the senses. What’s interesting is that even though we all share the same 5 senses, people will interpret the tree, house or car differently. It means different things to different people because THEY GIVE IT DIFFERENT MEANING based on their own unique being, or self.

All the senses can do is try to read the essence of the energy in front of it and then send our brains a signal in which it translates into a form. If you could move past the mind and the 5 senses while looking at a tree, you could spend the rest of eternity trying to comprehend what you would see. It just is, the energy behind it is infinite in its own right – do you really think our physical senses do a halfway decent job of trying to understand something that is infinitely deep in its dimensions? What we see is a symbol or an interpretation of what is roughly there.

3. If we take all of this and begin to try and understand it in human terms, we begin to realize the reality we exist in is deeper then what we can perceive. We exist in a world and a state that is infinite in its own nature. There is a fundamental and underlying energy that exists behind EVERYTHING, and this energy is selective. In science, if you mix certain colors together you’ll get a new one. If you try and fill a big bottle up with rocks, sand and water you’ll notice that the rocks, sand and water each have their own place in that bottle. The rocks fill the space, the sand fills the space in between the rocks and the water fills what’s left. These 3 ingredients are entirely different from each other, yet the energy that is beneath them gives them a form, a life and a shape even though it is not permanent it has its place in this moment as whatever it is.

Human beings are essentially no different from any of this. Underneath our bodies, we are nothing more then an energy operating within a field of larger energy. Just like magnets, certain energies of the human spirit and energy field can either attract or repel each other. The element we’re leaving out is INTELLIGENCE. I am not talking about the type of mental and cognitive intelligence of the mind, but rather the universal intelligence that floods through life itself. While we have a mind that can think, that in itself is not the pinnacle of intelligent – it is not intelligence in its truest and purest form, it is what we perceive it to be, just like the tree.

If we think about this in perspective, we know a tree is made up of more energy then our senses perceive, when our eyes look at that tree our brain translates the energetic signal and we get and see “tree”. The same holds true for our mind, when WHO WE REALLY ARE, OUR BEING comes through from the state of pure being, or pure energy into the physical body, we are left with “mind” or mental intelligence. Just like the tree, our mental intelligence is nowhere near the perfect representation or perfect depiction of what really is; while it certainly is an intelligence with a consciousness in its own right, it is NOT THE SOURCE of intelligence but rather one generated by an infinitely higher intelligence in its own right. It is consciousness created by consciousness, that which we would call God or Creation.

This leaves us with a dilemma at hand, after all, how can we be split into different types on intelligence? On one hand you’re telling me we have intelligence that originates from the brain, or the mind, then you’re telling me we have an intelligence that originates from an undercurrent of energy that is much deeper then that?

Yes. And there is even more.

Intelligence and consciousness are perpetual and always in motion, always able to create more of itself. You have to imagine this in dimensions because one thing can exist in different dimensions at once. I like to imagine the dimensions as being these:

Source
Being
Physical

The Source is all intelligence, it is the primary intelligence that moves all things, then that intelligence also simultaneously exists in the state of pure BEING, what we call spirit, and that BEING is also simultaneously existing in the physical world. The same unified being, LIVING AS ONE. It’s entirely possible for one thing to exist simultaneously in more then one depth, level or dimensions. Again, I’m not talking like most New Agers are when I use the word “dimension”. When I use the word “dimension” I am really saying the word depth.

If you are a Christian you know exactly what I am talking about – look at the famous saying of “Father, Son and Holy Spirit”. This is just a reference to: God (Source), Holy Spirit (Being, Soul or Spirit) and Son (Us, living in the physical world at this moment in time). When Jesus spoke of himself as the “Son” he was really speaking about all of us, because at the heart of Jesus’ mission he showed us that we are all “ONE” and that he was not anymore then us, nor were we any greater then him despite the fact that there will be a time when other individuals will surpass what even he could do on this Earth.

4. Another thing that I’d to reference is the famous debacle and never ending debate of Heaven and Earth. First of all, you have to realize that heaven is not something “out there”, “over there” or “above us” but rather it IS US, IT IS INSIDE OF US. Heaven is within each and every single person, in a state of pure being and spirit. The earth is just our physical manifestation of our SELF – but what is OUR SELF, or THE SELF?

Glad you asked!

It is whatever you want it to be. It’s important that when you look at the world you realize one important fact: everything “just is”. Nothing can automatically be good, or bad, right or wrong. Everything just is. It seems like an idealist way of thinking but it is entirely true.

The only thing in this world that “makes something anything” is our own minds, it is through the value we prescribe things to be. You can have 100 people in a room witness the murder of an individual, have 99 people say it was an atrocity, a horrible crime that cannot be forgiven, yet you can have one person who looks at that murder and enjoys it or who doesn’t mind it, and the other 99 individuals will look at that person in awe, perhaps even attempt to physically assault that person.

But why then, do we all watch horror and other movies that people are murdered in? To the mind, it can’t tell the difference of what is reality and what is in the movie. When you are watching somebody murdered in a horror movie, your ego and your mind is feeding off of that energy, it cannot KNOW that the person was not really murdered, it just wants the energy of the situation. Your mind can never differentiate between what happens in a movie and what happens in real life, it is not there for that, and if you think otherwise then your own ego has you in a delusion. The only time you are going to care if someone is murdered is if it threatens your sense of identify or takes away something for you. That’s why you don’t care about the murder occurring in a fake movie, because your ego is not losing anything, it knows that nothing is lost so it is perfectly OK with it; when somebody is murdered in real life, and that person’s death directly took something away from you, in any way, shape or form, then there is a terrible reaction of pain and suffering but all along, your ego and your mind cannot tell the difference between your thoughts and what you call reality

AHA!

This is the space we want to be in in order to answer our original question. We have to understand that to our mind and to our ego, there is no separation between what we call fake and what we call reality; we are living in an illusion either way so it’s just adding more layers to the original illusion – if you want to complicate things then by all means, do so. But it’s always better to be like the sculptor whose life mission in it to “chip away” at whatever isn’t a part of who you are and your vision, otherwise your adding more to your block which will make it harder to chisel away at a later date in time.

And I do believe this is our answer, people become whatever they are based on HOW THEY SEE THEMSELVES. The tricky part is that there are what I have come to see as essentially three different types of people: awakened, unconscious and what I call aware (aware would be an individual somewhere between awakened and unconscious).

Awakened – These individuals act completely out of a level of being, or knowing and understanding the underlying energy behind all things. These individuals are creators, they take full responsibility for their life and only live not for money or for potential material gain but for the joy and happiness or discovering and remembering who they are. There is no action committed by the ego to sabotage the overall actions these individuals take – they can achieve whatever they want because they are fully realized in the sense that they have no more physical limitations. They’ve become aware of, and fully integrated and realized the body, mind and spirit unison – some of them even up to the level of SOURCE which makes them aware of larger scale levels of consciousness. There is almost or near complete predictability in these individuals and you can predict their actions all of the time.

Unconscious – These individuals are still enslaved by the mind and repeat the same events and drama habitually over and over again. Everything seems to go “in circles” for them, there’s no escape and karma is a very real reality. The ego does not even see this and in fact it will deny any and all information that poses a threat to how it wants to live its life. The ego’s main goal is to cause pain and suffering to itself and also others so that it creates an “energetic environment” in which it is favorable to absorb and feed on the negativity surrounding it. The ego is clever and knows exactly how to keep you identified with it; it will seem like there’s nothing in life except for the feeling of competitiveness, always wanting more and never being satisfied with what you come to possess and accumulate. I’d say those who are awakened operate ego and mind free roughly 85% of the time. These individuals operate on a 50/50 basis of unconsciousness and being awakened, there is absolutely no predictability in these individuals and you never know what to expect of them as their actions will differ with each and every single circumstance.

Aware – This is perhaps the most difficult state of living because you have become aware of the ego but have not managed to fully eliminate it from your life. You will find these individuals constantly juggling back and forth between unconsciousness and being awakened. It’s very common for these individuals to be awakened in some areas of their life such as their passions but be completely unconscious in other areas such as social and family relationships. By and large, the past dictates these circumstances and must be made amends before progress can be made. It is hard to find predictability here because you never know what you are going to get. You might find in their professional work they are completely predictable but in their social and intimate relationships they are completely unpredictable.

Now that we have been introduced to what I call the three main types of consciousness you’ll find on the planet, and very broad types of people we can see them in action. It’s a very real observation indeed but we still need to add one more element to the equation:

Everything comes from either the level of SOURCE or BEING and works its way down into us in the physical world. The ego is like a great filter that can act to distort our being or help it become the reality that the being aspect of us wants to see. Let’s look at two distinct concepts here 1. love 2. good and bad.

It’s important to realize that we are heaven, we are all ONE and therefore everything originates within us before manifesting out into the world which we call Earth. When we go to love somebody, we must first find that love within ourselves, otherwise it cannot exist. Most people are “in love” with the form of something, NOT THE BEING behind it. Most people look at their spouse and “love them” or rather the identify, or the form of them, that is to say they love the symbol of them and what they represent. It’s virtually impossible to truly understand and ever KNOW who any human being is. This is why the ego is so present, it was effective 5,000 years ago when the basis of all relationships were personal survival and the need to multiply and have the human race survive. These days, it’s useless to us and is the seed of all human unhappiness.

We need to stop looking at things and “wanting” them or “loving” them in the way we have been taught to and have become familiar with. We need to ask ourselves, “what do we really love about this person?” they might be tall, skinny, handsome, fat, round, caring, giving, generous, protective. There is no right or wrong answer to this question, however, all of these answers are centered around physical attributes or traits of personality. What if the traits of personality that we love so dearly in our spouses are nothing more then illusions created and played out by the ego? What if they aren’t “real”? This happens all of the time, and we can observe it in every and any relationship. We usually fall in love with somebody because they seem to complete us, and we just happen to fill that particular void for that person (like is attracting like, one need or sense of wanting attracting another), but I can almost safely say that this is serving only one purpose: to fill the avoid the ego is experiencing, because once a person moves past the mind, and past the ego, THERE ARE NO MORE VOIDS, there is no “wanting” to be loved, there is no need for attention or anything and there is no more “seeking” or “looking”. The individual and being is whole and complete, it is only looking for a person to share their perpetual happiness with and the individual is only searching for somebody to grow alongside of.

We must therefore find the love that we have found within our SELF and then seek to share it with another, and have the other person do the same for us. Why else would you have a relationship if that wasn’t the basis of it? Why would you want anybody who doesn’t fully and completely love themselves for who they are and are willing to share it? Anything else is the grounds for a lot of pain. I’m not talking about conceited love or affection here, what I am talking about is the realization of who you are, what you are and what you are becoming and wanting to be. It’s not the ego’s false sense of created self and confidence, it is total and pure happiness and abundance.

The same thing applies to our concepts of “good” and “bad”. Nothing exists AS good or AS bad. There is no default, and there definitely and certainly is no God that can ever judge what is good or bad, everything JUST IS. The only thing that makes something “good” or “bad” is when our mind judges it or tries to understand and know it. In order for the mind to know or understand anything, it must attempt to judge it, to label it and call it this or that. It searches it’s entire history and existence of what it knows to be true and then it tries to find a spot to put it – can’t you see the dysfunction in this? Our judgments are just the ego trying to classify everything based off of its experience with similar events, situations and circumstances of the past. To judge is not something any divine entity can do or take part in, it is entirely unique to the human experience because it is entirely of the mind and of the ego. In the realms and dimensions of the depth of being and source, there are no judgments, there can be only THIS MOMENT, WHATEVER IS. Whatever that may be, is then open to the interpretation of the mind and of the senses in order to orient you in the physical world.

If you think about it, it makes perfect sense:

On the level of Source there is infinity, perfect intelligence and the “beingness” of all things

On the level of Being or Spirit there is existence within the ONENESS, there is the spirit that seeks to know itself but cannot directly experience because it cannot judge this against that in order to find that out.

On the Physical level there is experience by relativity. There is time, judgments and the senses. The physical body has the option of experiencing its being in whatever way it feels necessary to create this.

AND THIS CREATION is the mystery, secret and answer to life. Understanding that we create from all three of these level simultaneously and in unison is the deep seeded answer humanity needs to hear and has been looking for. Knowing that you are a creator with the power to create, out of an infinite amount of possibilities, whatever you want is fundamental and key to success in living your life.

When we create, our being and spirit is creating FROM within itself, from the source and then reflecting that into the physical world we occupy right now. While we are creating, we must realize that everything we create on the physical plane is a statement of who we are and how we are feeling and seeing THE SELF in this present moment.

If we call or judge something bad, then we are calling our SELF bad – we are saying, why did you create this? This is bad, I don’t want this. You are resisting. What we sometimes don’t realize is that by calling things bad or undesirable we cannot make them go away, in fact, we are creating more of it. When we call something bad, in that moment, our energy becomes negative, because that is what we have called THE SELF and our creation – “BAD”. That is what we become as that deeper seeded energy. Then that energy begins to fill the body and also the universe (which is WHAT WE ARE LIVING IN AS ONE) has no choice but to flood our life with more “BAD” because this is what we are in that moment (KARMA – this is KARMA).

One statement and quote that is always used is “whatever resists, persists” and I absolutely love that statement. In fact, whatever thoughts we have inside of our head is what WE ARE. Our being might be wanting one thing, but if the ego is still strong then it will dilute and cloud out what the BEING already is. In the physical world, the mind and the ego need to be harnessed and brought under control because the matter here is denser, the essence of our BEING cannot JUST BE, it cannot JUST EXIST here without bypassing the mind and the ego. You either need to control your ego to allow for the being to flow through, or have your mind and ego control you. It’s always one or the other, the good news is that you decide which one it is.

This is why those who are “aware” have such a difficult time. They know what they want to be, but they just can’t seem to make it happen. The reason and case for this is that because the fire of the being is not strong enough to burn through them and manifest what they truly want. They exist in a state where the ego is not strong enough to exert control on its surroundings, but yet they do not feel what they truly want to be enough because in the ego’s last stand, it withholds you from doing that whichever you truly want to do. The mind is not dumb, and it knows how to stay alive, it knows how to stay strong. Even when you have managed to weaken it significantly, it will cause you to doubt yourself, to say that you are crazy and it will call open the power and strength of the collective consciousness of the world to call you crazy and a heretic to make you stop and get back into line, to confirm once again.

You already know what you want to be and what you want to do. It’s important to let nothing stop you, not money or friends or family. Just be, just be and do who and what you truly are, and what you TRULY FEEL and KNOW you already are. The universe is going to open up and flood you with opportunities and chances to be more abundant then you could ever even imagine.

Once you open up from your being and begin to love others by loving yourself, and give respect and love to others through yourself then you will get that back. You are just an energy that will receive whatever it puts out. If you want more of something, then you are not giving enough to get that back. This is the way the universe is setup, you can either agree with it, experience and benefit from it or just continually resist and deny it and live with misery, suffering and pain. In order to receive one thing, your very own energy must be operating and functioning at the level because it is just unrealistic and selfish to think, demand or ask otherwise – this is how you open the door to that which you truly want. You must understand that you are one, you are creating from within yourself and you are operating in a larger energy field that is the same energy that you are made from. It is the Source. You are getting whatever it is you think you are.

The physical world exists because it is here to show you how your thoughts, feelings and actions are creating who you are. While your being or spirit is trying to know who it is, it is creating that very scenario here on Earth, you are that being and spirit. Eliminate your ego in order to get back into touch with your being and your spirit, don’t make it an uphill battle for yourself, let it be easy to remember who you really and truly are and then experience it.

Your entire life is the result of your own thoughts about YOU, nothing happens by chance, nothing happens by accident. You are functioning in concentrated areas of energy that you are creating to show you who you really and truly are. If you don’t like something, then recognize it for what it is and then change it. This physical world should be your play playground, it should be Heaven on Earth and not the hell most people create it and make it out to be for themselves. Do what you want with your own life, but just no longer resist whatever already JUST IS.

1. What Do You Want To Be or Do Right Now? How Do You See Yourself?
2. What Are You Doing Right Now To Become That?
3. The Important of Work & Looking At The Mind Again

Before I go ahead and get started on another mega personal development post, I want to say that studying the mind and the ego is going to play a great deal of importance in this post for soon-to-be-made obvious reasons

Step 1: What Do You Want To Be or Do Right Now? How Do You See Yourself?

This is where it all begins, asking yourself what you want to be doing in life is where potential begins. If you ask people this question, they might have a vague or general idea of what it is that they really want to be, but you’ll find that most people actually don’t even know or will give you a broad answer like, “I want to be a millionaire or a movie star”. While I don’t doubt for some people that’s their legitimate dream, you really need to ask yourself another important question – How do YOU see YOURSELF?

The light you come to see yourself in is important, because it tells you a lot about who you really are. Often times, how we see ourselves lines up perfectly with what we ultimately want to become, but still, it doesn’t seem to work – but why?

A lot of people have problems with looking at themselves and seeing something that they like, other people look at themselves and can seem themselves in a positive way but it just doesn’t seem to move them into being what they ultimately want to become. This is a difficult situation and it’s important to inject something here that can help you a lot:

Have you ever thought for a moment that the way the world sees you is different then the way you see yourself?

In other words, have you ever thought for a moment that the way you see yourself, in terms of your potential, is NOT what the world sees in you? Seeing potential in other people is difficult and it depends on the person you’re looking at. Sometimes you can look at a person and see all the potential in the world, and other times it’s just non-existent and just something you can’t explain. You’ll find that a lot of people will live their lives sort of in an illusionary way because they can honestly look at themselves and say, “I’m so smart/brilliant/awesome/amazing that I don’t need to try and do anything because I can do the minimum amount of work and just get by like that”.

That last statement is important and is something I’m guilty of. I see a lot of that statement in myself, I was like that in school and in my own business because I would often just KNOW that if I wanted to get A+s or increase my income by a certain amount this month that I could do it, but I never would. I’d just say to myself that I know it can be done, I’m smart enough to do it so there’s literally no reason to.

Right there is the number one way to destroy potential. When the world looks at you, they don’t look into your thoughts or what you think about yourself – that is something that is impossible. When the world looks at you, they can only measure you by your actions and the things you come to do that come to effect yourselves and the world as a whole. The most profound statement of who you are is what you do, remember that!

Therefore, when we look at potential, a common thing you will hear people say and do is that they will literally be so confident that in 2 years, 2 months, 2 weeks or whatever amount of time you want to insert there they will make more money, have a better job or have that car that they want – but that never seems to happen? Why? This is the “business” side of personal development because so many people will be more then happy to coach you or sell you a program that will “cure” this for you.

I’m not bashing people who do this because there are many successful people who have developed their own programs that work exceptionally well and they are great people, but for every one successful person in this field there are at least 10,000 others selling you false hopes and dreams.

In order to break this cycle and move yourself from your potential to your goal it takes a fair bit of understanding how you and your mind works in unison to create your physical reality and results.

I can spend the rest of my life teaching you techniques to over come this, yet there is only one thing you ever need to develop and understand to make yourself finally break out of this habit that I will ever recommend to you – you need to eliminate your mind’s control over your reality.

A lot of people must look at me like I’m crazy because I talk about how “evil” the mind is, and if you can identify or relate to that statement, then you need to take a moment to readjust and reorient yourself. The mind is one of the greatest tools of your own being, just ask the Ancient Greeks, but what I am trying to stress and get across is the fact that we let our minds take too much control of us – we are not our minds. We need to focus on finely tuning and adjusting our minds so that they don’t come to dominate us and our personalities. Our mind serves a great purpose in life but we can’t empower it to take too much control of us, otherwise fear, jealousy, anger and you name it will begin to slowly take control of us, and those emotions aren’t really who we are, they are just the mind reacting to circumstances and the world it sees through our five senses.

To make a long story short, the way we “put the mind in its place” is to not empower it and allow it to become over or under rational. By focusing on the present moment, the moment of “now” the mind no longer has the ability to take control of us and dominate our perception; instead it recedes back and allows us to live fully in the present moment free of any effects of what we call “negative” forces such as fear and aggression.

I like to compare the mind to a set of goggles because when it becomes the dominate force of our personality it’s like we’re putting on a set of goggles that will begin to skew our reality and alter it. We begin to see the world through the mind, not from a deeper place of our soul and being which will make us more aggressive and fearful. When we focus into the present moment, the mind no longer has the power to dictate and influence us any longer and the result is a more complete and whole version of ourselves which is the perfect conditions necessary for potential to be realized.
With all of this being put into you, let’s go back and take a look at why most people ever fail to realize their potential once again.

The single greatest downfall of the personal development in any individual is that when the mind is present and active, it continually tries to rationalize the likeliness of achieving success, and to the mind, this is always an impossibility; this is because to the mind changing it’s current circumstances and forcing it to leave its current situation is pushing it out of its security. The mind would rather live in misery and poverty then try to push towards wealth because there is always a chance that in pursuing this wealth the present situation it is in can become worse then it already is, and to the mind, this is not a risk it ever wants to take.

To the mind, the moment of now, the present, cannot exist because the very instant you focus on this moment and try to become present, the mind cannot exist any longer. It’s important to understand this, because you know you are thinking from the bias of the mind when you tell yourself that things will be better in the future or when you use the past to dictate your future results. Your mind will never force you to look at the present or do things RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT because to do so would shift your focus away from the mind and completely into the present, the very moment where the mind happens to not be able to exist.

The mind is also obsessed with the future and the past because it is so unhappy with its present situation – this is why when you begin to have thoughts like, “In 2 years from now, I will finally realize that dream! I will finally get good grades, start that new company!” or do whatever in the world else you want to do. Also, the mind likes to look to the past and either dwell in it or project it into the future. The mind will never sit down and say, “Hrmmm, what can I do in this very moment to realize that dream I’ve been wanting to make a reality for all of this time?” because the second you do that – the mind is gone, it can no longer exist.

If this sounds a lot like you and how you think, then I think it’s safe to assume that even though it SEEMS like you have all of the potential in the world, because your mind is fooling you to think this, when other people look at you they see a lazy and unmotivated person. Unless you are actually actively building and working towards your dream, then you are allowing your mind to be lazy and weak because it’s taking control of your thoughts for you.

When you look at somebody who is working hard towards their goals, even if they don’t have their potential or dreams realized yet, it doesn’t matter because people will call that person a hard worker, disciplined or any other type of adjective or other descriptive words you can think of. The difference is that their dreams have enough and so much value to them that it increases their desire so much that nothing else matters – they have aligned themselves and their potential with that result and they won’t stop working until they have it. This type of motivation is enough to destroy the laziness of the mind because the second you begin actively working towards your potential on a consistent basis you don’t allow your mind to take control of you any longer, or you have simply conditioned and convinced your mind that the success you are after is obtainable – and there is a difference in those two things and statements if you can find it.

If you are an avid student of personal development then chances are you have tried it all: seminars, books, workshops, videos, meditation and everything else from law of attraction to god knows what else – unsuccessfully. Have you ever wondered why this is? Have you ever gotten sick of it?

I bet it all goes down like this:
You read a new book, attend that seminar, that class or whatever else you can think of and it INSPIRES you to no end! You go out for the first few days and you feel that your life is so drastically changed and you feel like superman because you can go out and do anything!

Then maybe 3 days… 3 weeks…. 5 days…. later, it all comes to a screeching halt and you’re back at square one again, feeling the same exact way! So what really happened here? You felt brand new, then you reverted back to your old self again

What happens is because the information contained in whatever it is that you read or attended wasn’t new information, in fact, you already knew it. That information was able to move you successfully back into the PRESENT moment, the MOMENT OF NOW where you rightfully belong and it all made perfect sense, however, since you didn’t keep up the moment and begin to live your life like that (because that wasn’t how you saw yourself) your mind was able to gradually slip back in.

This usually happens because you return to your normal day to day life in which you believe the moment of now has no purpose or right to exist. You think that driving to the grocery store, picking up the kids or doing your regular routine activities is something that doesn’t make you feel alive and aware, you think you need to be engaged in a book or a seminar to make you feel alive and to teach you what you need to know. But what I’m telling you is that you are already what you seek to be, you just haven’t convinced yourself, or your mind, that this is the truth (and trust me I have a monster, maybe 10k word post!) coming up about all of this very, very soon to help you remember this.

Also, when some people absorb the information from these books, seminars and videos it makes perfect sense to them in the moment of now because the mind is no longer present, however, the mind will slowly creep back in and start to get its dirty little hands on the information. The fact is, the mind has no business in the present, it has no business trying to wrap itself around and understanding something that you can only feel from a deep level a being, from living in the moment of now. Some information is just not for the mind, it is only for the being – for the soul. When the mind begins to try and understand this information, it simply can’t do it and so it goes into its own self defensive and preservation mode in order to stop you from doing anything because it becomes afraid.

When you remember a valuable piece of information from that book or video you need to make sure that it becomes who you are, you need to make sure that you now see yourself in the light of your truest potential and begin to WORK towards it. Don’t allow your mind to pull you away from this, you have to keep the control necessary to continuously see yourself as what you want to become.

You know your mind has a good grip on you when you go to do something and you start to think thoughts like these:

- What if I do the work and don’t get any results?
- I’m afraid to take any action because I might lose a lot of money (or lose anything else in general)
- I don’t feel ready for this yet, I think I need to study and learn a lot more before I do anything or take any sort of action because the more information I know and am aware of, the more of a chance I have to succedee (this is my personal favorite, I call it Analysis Paralysis or simply a state of mind in which you think that information is the remedy for success. You tell yourself the more you know, the less likely you are to fail – the only problem is that no amount of information is “enough” and people spend years in this state of “mind” in which the mind focuses on the future and uses the past to tell yourself that in the future you will be successful when you finally have “learned” all you need to do. The reality of this statement is that 90% of the information you need to know only comes by TAKING ACTION and DOING anything)

The mind asks questions like this, however, the BEING, THE SOUL part of you isn’t afraid of anything because it knows that every single “failure” is analyzed under the light of the being/soul will contain pieces of information that will lead you to the success you are looking for.

I like to think of failure as a form of feedback from my actions that tell me if the action I took was in alignment with the success or goal I was looking for. If it wasn’t, I will know right away because the result wasn’t something that could produce by goal or help my potential to be realized. BUT what failure does tell me is EXACTLY what I need to do in order to “get it right” so I’m not a person who is afraid to fail or do things wrong a thousand times because each time I “fail” I know that I’m getting closer to the answer.

I was originally going to make this one giant long post, but being that I’m over 3,000 words in already I think I will split this up into 3 distinctive sections to save your sanity as you read all of this. I’d also take the time between posts to reflect on what was said already, the next part of this giant personal development post is going to be to about helping you to understand that doing WORK is the “secret sauce” of all of this and the only true way to realize your highest potential.

We create based upon whatever our primary feelings about a thing are.

It may seem a little vague, but in my traditional fashion of writing super-mega-three-thousand-word-posts go, I will explain myself. I have to point out, as the years have gone by and as I’ve devoted my time (and essentially, my life) to remembering all that I can about how the universe, life and reality functions, I am always amazed by one thing – it always gets easier, less complicated and more elegant. What I mean by that is that the more I remember, the more I observe that all along my thoughts, my own ego and my mind have clouded out the truth, which was always a simple one.

We are under the impression and even most likely assume that seeking enlightenment or any other high state of awareness is a challenge, but I would like to challenge that and say that it’s the exact opposite. The more you begin to remember, the more you will observe that all of the components and recipes for remembering who you really are is simple and elegant. Maybe because we expect this to be difficult we create it to be so, but going forward I will always be amazed by how simple the answers are and how much we tend to over analyze and rationalize things. I would have to say that because we feel such things as enlightenment are so far beyond us, we create a barrier between us and “that” which limits us and makes it damn near impossible to remember any of these things in any sort of capacity or way.

I am not opposed to the mind, however, I have studied myself and others and have come to know the mind as a tool that if left sort of “unchecked” will be more then happy to over or under analyze a situation or circumstance. The simple truth is that you just need to BE, to FEEL and to be living in nothing but the present.

Quite often you will catch yourself thinking one way about something while you FEEL a complete different way, and this is common. Unfortunately enough, we will always manifest what we are feeling, not what we are thinking. The thoughts can impact our feeling, our being, but the thoughts themselves do not directly create our reality. The BEING aspect, the part of us that is pure soul, pure energy, is what creates and this part of ourselves is completely known to us, just look to your feelings, NOT to your emotions.

The difference between just being (feeling) and your emotions is that your emotions are the effect of your mind’s presence in the body whereas your feelings are the effect of your soul’s presence in the body. Emotions are usually fear-based whereas your feelings are based out of who you truly are. It’s completely normally to feel one way and have your emotions drag you down another route simultaneously. It’s an age old plot that you have all heard of before, sort of like the “devil” and the “angel” that appear over the shoulders of many of your favorite sitcom characters. You want to do something but another side of you knows that it isn’t for you, because it just goes against who you truly are. The key and the trick is to align both, and all of the different aspects of yourself into a being that acts in unison, that has no division and that understands itself completely on all of its different levels.

The more you remember and the higher you push yourself in awareness and consciousness will teach you one thing, and one thing only:

Learn how to become so present that you live your life by just “being” and at this level your ego vanishes and your mind, body and emotions return to a state in which they are neither too over and under active, allowing you to just live your life in accordance with who you truly are what you truly want.

Whenever you create something, it’s important to realize that we create from that part of us that just is, that feels and that exists in the infinite. That’s all there ever was and all that is – INFINITY. In our world of physical reality and forms it’s difficult to understand this, but once you actively learn how to consciously create in your own life, it quickly becomes apparent that you can only ever create “on demand” by realizing that long before you have even asked, it has been done. This is a popular saying throughout many religions, and the reason it is so is because everything exists in infinite potential, with an infinite amount of possibilities waiting to be created.

To say that there was no infinite would be the same as saying that life doesn’t exist. When was the last time life just stopped because “it ran out of possibilities”? It just doesn’t happen, there’s no break in life because we hit a bump in the road in which we couldn’t go any further just because “there wasn’t anymore left”. That’s absurd.

Creation works in the same context, and to say that there is no infinity would defy the very laws of nature that we live by each day. If you want to actively learn how to create whatever you want, then it’s best to understand that before you even begin to create whatever it is that you are asking for, you’ve already received it.

This goes far beyond the object or circumstance you are asking for, that is almost irrelevant because it is a form. It’s only every important to realize that you are a being of infinite potential living, existing and operating in a physical reality. The physical reality is not unlimited in any sort of way, however, the physical reality can only hold in it whatever the infinite being creates within it. It’s a bit to confusing, but if you think about it, the physical world is only limited by what we create our reality to be. The only limitation in the physical world, thus truthfully said, begins in the mind. Whatever we define as “impossible” and “possible” will dictate the limits of this physical existence.

The boundaries and borders of this physical existence are whatever we create and manifest them to be. If we say that X is the limit, then for us, it is. I can guarantee you that if X is the limit today, then for the next generation Y will be the limit, so on and so forth into, guess what? Infinity. This also applies for group consciousness as well, as it is nothing more then the sum and collective consciousness of every individual already living on the planet.

I hope I have done a good job to make you realize that when you are creating something, whatever you are creating whether it’s a job, more money, being accepted into a specific school or even a car, it’s not what you are asking for that matters, it is knowing and already being thankful in advance for knowing that which you asked for has already been given to you; this is because you are sort of a hybrid that exists between the infinite and the physical world. You can use your body, mind and soul to bridge the infinite world with the physical world and in knowing this we can now realize that the physical world isn’t limited at all, that’s only what we think of it. The physical world is unlimited also, but only so far as we believe it to be as it requires our creations to expand it as far as we wish to take it.

Another important thing to remember is that no matter what re receive, even if it was not what we had originally asked for, is the we must bless it and give thanks for it. If we don’t do this, then we enter states of lacking confidence in ourselves and in the creative powers of ourselves and the universe. We should also be aware of the fact that if we didn’t receive what we originally asked for, it’s nobodies fault other then our own as we must have lacked, in that moment, something specific required to create exactly what we had been asking for. It’s unrealistic to expect things to just happen out of the blue, or to us out of the blue.

All creation works off of specific frequencies and vibrations, and these things begin deep within our being and our consciousness. If we wish to become or have something, then we must already know we are that (since we are infinite) and move into becoming it.

I should also mention that it’s not a good idea to look at yourself and the universe, and even God for that matter, as three separate and different beings – they are all one. You are essentially creating out of the infinite which is just another world or term for creating out of your own self – this is what and who you truly are already, you are just experiencing it on different levels of being simultaneously.

Every thought, feeling, emotion or anything else you can and will conceive of can be reduced down into one, simple and elegant truth:

We are all One. We create as an expression of who and what we really are and believe ourselves to be. Whatever we are creating in this moment is a reflection of our thoughts and how we see ourselves in this moment – others can pick up on this as well. Our creations come not from the mind, but from the deeper sense of Self and Being.

All creation and our Reality are interconnected and are a result of our creative expression of who and what we are in this moment.

We all have infinite potential but may live a life of deprivation and lack or one that leaves us feeling unfilled because we don’t understand our power as a creator with an infinite amount of potential – our minds may cloud the truth and lead us to believe that the physical world we live in is limited and that we cannot control or create any circumstances in our lives which essentially leaves us feeling helpless and powerless is every situation and circumstance that we engage and enter in.

You are an infinite being, living in a world with infinite potential. It’s waiting for you to wake up and remember this so you can get to work; it’s more then glad to give you whatever it is that you ask of it providing that you remember the formula.