Make Your Online Passwords Positive Affirmations

It’s so simple… That it’s actually brilliant.

While I won’t get into the details here of why I believe positive thinking and affirmations are so important in developing a success mindset, I will admit that this personal development trick will increase positive thinking and inspiration.

Think about it – we type in passwords all day for online accounts. If we are constantly typing in passwords that contain words like love, productivity, self improvement etc then we are creating create little life hacks and brain hacks that will “hard wire” this thinking into us.

Pretty cool, huh? You’ll never have to dread the repetition involved in typing in your online passwords all day now Try this for yourself for a couple of weeks and see how much this increases your motivation.

When I tried it out, I noticed that it was harder to forget my passwords and I actually did feel a little bit of a “boost”, especially since I was dealing with a lot of stress at the time I entered the “positive” password.

Be Creative – Positivity Hacks for Achieving Goals

You can get creative with this. If you have a goal for increasing your bank account balance, why not change your password to something like, “BuildingWealth4″ or whatever. The main takeaway is that you can find creative ways of applying this knowledge to relevant situations.

Some of these goals are very concrete and tangible things such as financial goals, work stuff and other related items while some of the other goals are more abstract and can’t really be measured or tracked.

After I wrote these goals down, I literally went through them about 6 times a day for a month straight. I would open that damn App and read them in my head, out loud and while I was sitting around doing nothing. I really burned those goals into my memory. I can still recall my goal checklist without even looking at it.

How I Achieved My Goals By Forgetting Them – The Process

I eventually started to get a bit busy with work as a lot of new projects came my way. I also became “too busy” to read my goal list and eventually I stopped entirely. I had gotten so wrapped up in school, work and other projects that I literally forgot about those goals cold turkey.

Today as I was randomly browsing my through my phone I had stumbled upon that dusty old Note that contained all of my goals and then it hit me like a ton of bricks…

In just about 5-6 months I had managed to accomplish about 20-25% of the goals that I had originally set out to accomplish over a 3-year period…

How The Hell Did That Happen?

Now, I am no stranger to setting goals… I’ve done this plenty of times in the past and nothing had really come of it. In fact, this last time around, I sort of did it out of desperation. I needed a way to organize my thoughts and to focus my energy on creating exactly what I wanted.

Why This Worked

I believe that this worked because after I had burned what I wanted into my mind – I had told the universe and my brain exactly what I wanted to create and experience.

The secret was that forgetting about my goals was actually the best thing that I could have ever done… By forgetting about my goals, I had detached from the details about how they could and would manifest. Instead of being emotionally attached to them and having lots of “ups” and “downs” when things either happened or didn’t happen according to how I would have like to see them, I was instead free to be passionate about the things I loved doing.

In summary, I was:

Not obsessing over the details of how these things happened

I was more concerned with the goal itself and was able to focus my energy into creating it instead of worrying about how it would come to me

Not emotionally invested to the point where I was completely drained and fatigued.

Did The Goals Happen on Their Own?

The irony here is that I got so busy with a stream of things that at the time were taking me closer and closer to my goals. I hadn’t realized it until now, but just the right circumstances, ideas and people came to me at precisely the right time. I didn’t resist any of these things whatsoever whereas in my past I would resist things and kill them before they even got a chance to get off of the ground, so to speak.

The goals didn’t just “happen” by themselves. First, I had to get out of my own way and learn to stop self-sabotaging myself with certain goals. Once I was able to do this effectively, I was more receptive to seeing the opportunities that presented themselves to me at just the right times. This allowed me to take advantage of certain things that I’d otherwise be too scared to do.

Once I stopped self-sabotaging myself, I learned to work my ass off without interrupting my own progress. You can’t get anything done without hard, driven work. In fact, I can see the correlation in the realization of my goals with how busy I’ve been over the last 6 months. I have sacrificed a lot of my time and energy to get to where I did and there was no way to short cut this.

In Conclusion

By forgetting about my goals, I had freed up the necessary mental, physical and spiritual energy I needed to accomplish the goals. I set the universe in motion by burning the goals into my mind and then I stepped out of my own way and worked my butt off to complete all of the work and tasks that started to pour in front of my face.

My advice to you would be to look at the goals you are trying to set and then see what kind of “mental chatter” goes on in your brain about them. Do you believe that they require too much work? Then they will. Do you believe that you don’t know how to achieve them? This thought will be true also.

I had really “snapped” and decided to throw all of my pre-conceived notions about my goals out of the window. I decided to start and approach my problems with the infinite curiosity of a child. I was willing to admit that perhaps what I believed to be true about my goals (I believed they were too hard, required too much work, time etc) actually wasn’t true now that I am accomplishing them at a faster pace.

I have been faced with the universal truth in life that the things, circumstances and events in our life are usually as challenging as we frame them and perceive them to be within our own minds and our own thoughts.

Well, I am going to argue that there is a certain kind of understanding that you can tech yourself that explains “success” is a pretty straight forward fashion.

Lessons from The Animal School Fable

The other day while I was in class I saw a student raise his hand and ask the teacher, “I don’t understand why all of the other real estate agents in my company are so successful when they are so stupid. They have terrible people skills and are ignorant. I am a good person and I struggle just to do a few deals per month”.

My Professor turned around and told us the fable of The Animal School. Here is a short adopted version from Forbes:

The animals organized a school to help their children deal with the problems of the new world. And to make it easier to administer the curriculum of running, climbing, swimming and flying, they decided that all their children would take all the subjects. This produced some interesting issues.

The fish was last seen heading for Canada to request political asylum. The moral of this story is:

Let the fish swim. Let the rabbits run. Let the eagles fly.

or, Play to people’s strengths.

The Moral of the Story of Success

The moral of the story that I takeaway is that successful people are successful because they focus on their strengths to accomplish the goals at hand.

My Professor said to the student, “You need to stop focusing on what YOU believe is required to be successful at real estate. You need to clear your mind and figure out what the successful agents you work with do. You might not agree with their morals but you can’t deny their results. Figure out how they run their businesses, what they do, where they go and who they talk to. You need to figure out what basic tasks must be accomplished in order to generate results”.

For example – if you are in real estate then you must break the business down into its basic components and figure out what you must do. You will probably find that you must generate leads, build a network and the knowledge to close sales.

If you want to be a contractor – you will need to figure out how to generate leads and have the knowledge (or the people who know who) to fix things etc.

If you can’t figure out exactly what your industry demands of you or if you’ve stuck and spinning your wheels then you need to seek out a mentor who can show you the process. Have them show you what they are doing to be successful.

The End

The entire point that I am trying to make here is that success has a basic formula.

You can take anything and break it down into its most basic components and then, from there, you can figure out the steps that you must take in order to make progress.

If you are stuck then it would be wise to listen to the advice of my Professor. Perhaps it’s best to admit that we don’t know the “way” and that we need help – that is perfectly OK. Instead of being bitter and complaining that something doesn’t work or giving 1,000 excuses as to why it can’t work – it’s always going to be a better idea to commit yourself to figuring out how to make it work.

One explanation might come through an interesting theory that was at first developed by the University of Michigan as well Ohio State University before being adopted and further developed.

After doing a bunch of really, really boring research… They have concluded that human beings can focus on two types of behavioral styles which are known as Task Oriented Behavior (TOB) and Relationship Oriented Behavior (ROB)

TOB & ROB – Names You Won’t Forget

TOB People derive a sense of personal satisfaction from completing tasks. They also derive an immense sense of satisfaction from scheduling things, setting deadlines and knowing and being told exactly what to do. They are highly organized and love being able to feel like they’ve accomplished something.

ROB People derive a sense of personal satisfaction by cultivating harmonious relationships with other people. Rather then being focused on task completion, ROB people focus on maintaining their relationships with other people in a positive light. ROB individuals will go to great lengths to ensure that other people like them and see them as favorable individuals. They would much rather spend their time cultivating harmonious environments then actually completing tasks and worrying about the details of projects.

ROB vs. TOB

Usually, ROB and TOB individuals have a difficult time understanding and relating to each other when it comes time to actually complete a task. ROB and TOB people might make excellent friends but terrible coworkers because they focus on 2 entirely different things.

You can find a ROB individual usually doing something at the last minute while a TOB person has what they were suppose to do completed a week ahead of time. You get the idea. If you are into Myers Briggs then you might see the relationship being similar to comparing “TJ” individuals to “FP” individuals as familiar territory.

Know Thyself

You can find out which one you are for yourself by taking this test known as the Least Preferred Co-Worker Index. Many companies use this test either directly or indirectly to figure out who they need to hire and how they need to form teams.

The takeaway by completing this test is to understand what we are most likely to prefer doing in our personal lives and in our careers. If we have self-identified ourselves as task-oriented people then we can understand what actions we can take to increase our satisfaction. If we are relationship oriented then we can understand how our interactions with others will contribute to our happiness.

Just as it would be foolish to force a bird to learn how to swim, it can oftentimes be foolish to expect a relationship oriented person to find happiness in life through the forced complication of a bunch of mundane and routine tasks that are likely to bore the living hell out of them.

My Results

I scored a 79 on the LPC which indicates that I am relationship oriented. I would say that this is true of myself and therefore I know this is where I should focus the majority of my efforts in life. It’s difficult for me to get tasks done personally unless I know that I am liked by those who I am working with.

As Myers Briggs INFP I scored what I would have expected to on the LPC.

With these results, I know that I need to focus my efforts into relationship building. I’ve learned to compensate in my profession by working and surrounding myself with individuals who are task-oriented. They tend to help me execute on all of my creative ideas and designs and this creates a win-win scenario for everyone.

I would suggest that once you understand your specific behavioral type, that you begin to think about this in relation to the work you do and the people you interact with. When you know what you emphasize, you better position yourself to take advantage of your natural strengths while not letting your weaknesses blindside you and your efforts.

But I quickly learned that wasn’t true.

Feeling A Sense of Control = Happiness

I am not talking about control freaks or crazy egomaniacs who feel they must dominate and control everything. This is not what I am suggesting.

Instead, I have learned that feeling a sense of control over things such as my career, finances, relationships and other things is one of the biggest components of Happiness. How could you expected to every be “Happy” if you could never feel in control over things like knowing where your next paycheck is coming from, where your next meal is coming from… Or if your spouse is going to become crazy and sleep with an entire football team?

I’ve observed these basic components in myself and others. I’ve seen friends worry about constantly being fired. I’ve seen other friends constantly feel as though their life controls them and they have no say in the matter.

Tell me – in this sort of existence, where is Happiness to be found?

Your Happiness Is Not Happening To You

I’ve come to learn that my happiness is not happening “to” me. Meaning, I should always work towards developing a strong internal locus of control if I ever want experience the happiness that I want in life.

When you feel in control of all of the major areas in life such as career, finances, relationships and yourself etc, then you begin to experience a relief of the burdens that rest on your shoulders – or at least this is what I have found while observing myself and others.

Common Sense?

This should all sound like common sense and I do believe that it is. The point of this post is to merely highlight the importance of this feeling of control and to put it into proper perspective.

The way I see it is that these people don’t have a clarity or definiteness of purpose for which energy can attach itself to. Energy provides the catalysts we need to get a project started and see it through to its end.

What I say is this:

When you can clearly organize your thoughts and say definitely what you what to accomplish and define it – then you provide the proper organization for energy to wrap itself around what you are trying to do and deliver the results you are expecting. This is the essence behind how to accomplish goals.

This concept is entirely simple yet utterly difficult. If you can, just see your life and all that happens in the world as an energy. The people who are successful at anything in their life are consistent. They are able to affix and hold their energy and continuously channel it into what they are doing because they are so clear.

They don’t juggle different options; they aren’t opportunity seeking in such a way that paralyzes them. They know that they want to accomplish, and so, energy firmly affixes around them and infuses their actions in a way that fuels them to accomplish their dreams.
This is why you don’t have to be the most educated or intelligent person to become successful. Energy only cares about:

1. Organized Thought
2. Forming itself around organized Thought

When you gain the ability to organize your thoughts and achieve definiteness of thoughts and action, then the energy will infuse you. Forget about Willpower – it will come once the thoughts are organized.

Let Your Feelings Empower You

On our world, we are taught that people who are overly sensitive or emotional can be at a fault. I don’t believe this to be true. Why?

Because once you get your feelings involved into anything you set out to accomplish – your energy will become limitless. The secret to accomplishing goals or anything else in life besides what I have just mentioned is passion. Passion is raw energy and when you can form this passion and combine it with your organized thought then you tap into an energy source that makes you a force to be reckoned with.

People who are extremely sensitive and/or intuitive have a lot of passion but often times don’t know how to control or direct it. The sensitivity itself is an energy and one of the most potent forms, however, it is subject to being able to read a lot of information that it receives from both the physical senses (hear, see, taste, touch etc) as well as the emotional and intuitive senses (feeling, perception, gut feelings, intuition etc). In order to control this energy, you must give it an outlet.

How do you do this?

By aligning and organizing your thoughts around definite things that you feel strongly about.

This means that if you love animals, you shouldn’t get a job as a butcher. If you want to help turn the world into a “green” place, then don’t work in an environment that pollutes the Earth and her natural resources.

Sounds simple, right? It is, but you wouldn’t believe how many people don’t make these correlations in their lives. You must seek to remove your negative feelings, tiredness and feelings of being drained by doing what you love. You must align yourself and your energy and focus it by channeling it into organized thought and definiteness of purpose that satisfies you mentally, emotionally, morally and spiritually.

Be aware that your emotions in your moment of excitement around making that purchase will, for the most part, trick you into buying stuff that you really don’t want.

Here is the 3 step process that I use to shop less, save money and enjoy more of what I actually do buy.

Golden Rule #1

The other day I was thinking about buying another dog. Every couple of months I go in and out of this weird phase where I consider buying another German Shepherd puppy and this time around I couldn’t help but to indulge myself.

I went to the pet store, shopped around and saw a beautiful female puppy for sale. I didn’t even want a female German Shepherd puppy (this I knew) but I took a few pictures and a few short video clips and went off to a family dinner.

At this dinner, I was showing everyone the puppy and getting all excited about potentially going back to buy her. However, I know myself pretty well, and I always abide to this Golden Rule #1:

Always wait at least 3 days before making any major purchase decisions over a certain dollar amount.

This 3 day period gives me a lot of time to explore how I truly feel about what I want to buy. In the instance of getting the new puppy, I came up with a whole list of reasons as to why it wasn’t a good idea to buy her. Funny enough, all of these ideas were bouncing around my head while thinking about the puppy and even while I was at the pet store but my emotions were simply going nuts and working in overdrive and, as a result, got the better of my rationality.

I didn’t buy the puppy because:
- I really didn’t want a female
- I am planning to move into another apartment closer to school and having another German Shepherd would make this a nightmare
- I would hate to buy that dog and have to leave it stranded with a family member who doesn’t really want it, can’t control it and doesn’t understand how to train it properly.

There were a couple of other reasons but those were the main pressing ones. Had I let my emotions get the better of me, I’d be out a lot of money, have a dog that I wasn’t ready for and then I would have to subject the dog to unfair living conditions or worse after time.

Golden Rule #2

I set a personal limit of about 50-100 dollars. If what I want to buy costs more than that amount, then I automatically wait out the 3-day minimum before I reevaluate as to whether or not I actually really need the item or truly want it.

Specifying a certain dollar amount is essential to making this process work because it allows you to establish a definite and knowable “trigger” that should force you into waiting out the 3 day period.

Once you set your own personal limit, then stick to it and don’t deviate it. It will provide the easy structure you need to make this whole process work.

Golden Rule #3

This 3rd Golden Rule is more of a budgeting and shopping tip or suggestion more so than anything else. Personally, my 3rd rule is that I generally don’t buy anything that I can’t afford with cash. Period. The only exception would be a car or place to live which would be subject to further due diligence that I’d apply the first and second Golden Rule to.

I can tell you with my strong personal experience and conviction that when I was younger I had a terrible money-mentality because I was constantly buying things on credit and leaving my cards with high balances while never really paying them off.

I was always over-extended, broke and stressed out. It wasn’t until I put all of these rules together a few years ago did I finally start to “get” personal money, budgeting and financing.

By applying the First Golden Rule, I’ve significantly cut down on what I buy because I am just simply discovering that most of the crap I think I want is not actually something that I ever truly wanted or needed.

I Save A Ton of Money and Enjoy My Stuff More Because…

As a result of following all of these Golden Rules together, I’ve managed to buy less junk and save more cash to buy and/or finance those bigger things that I actually want on a deeper level. The ultimate result is less debt, less clutter and a deeper appreciation and ability to buy things that I love and can get the most use out of.

Overcoming Fear By Being Pragmatic

You might be saying to yourself, “What the hell does being pragmatic mean?” so let’s get a definition and clearly state what it means,

Pragmatic: Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.

Now let’s dissect that meaning. It’s always been my experience to observe in myself and others who are paralyzed by fear that they are locked in a state of what we’ll call theoretical considerations. That is to say – all of their thoughts are not typically based in any sort of concrete reality. They are always “What if” based.

By doing something pragmatic, you stop your mental syntax from dealing with the pain of these theoretical considerations. By dealing with the problems at hand in a sensible way, you are forced to stop thinking about it and instead you begin to actually take meaningful action to solve the problem directly.

The Squirrel and the Nut – The Ultimate Pragmatist

Consider for a moment how a squirrel stores up nuts for the cold winter ahead. One at a time, it finds nuts and stores them away for safe keeping. The squirrel does this continuously until it stores away enough nuts for the winter.

Now, what if that squirrel could experience a paralyzing fear of the winter coming? It could sit back and think thoughts like:

What if I can’t find enough nuts? I’ll starve!
What if another squirrel steals all of the nuts that I’ve worked so hard to acquire? They can’t find my hiding spot!
I’m too tired to go out looking for nuts. I don’t have the energy. Now I’m worried I’ll be hungry.
I’ve been looking for nuts all week and I don’t think I have enough. I’m totally screwed for the winter.

Now just simply imagine what the human-equivalent of these problems would be and you’ll start to get a good picture of how most people who experience a paralyzing fear think. However, squirrels are still the ultimate pragmatic creatures because they simply do what needs to be done.

One at a time, they gather their nuts and store them away for safe keeping in the winter. If it were possible for them to experience fear and become paralyzed by it, most of those squirrels would never even try. They would just starve during the winter. They’d be too afraid to take action or to be pragmatic about their situations and instead they’d succumb to these theoretical considerations and/or fears of theirs.

Take Pragmatic Action

So what’s the point that I am trying to make here?

You can break your fear by becoming more pragmatic about your situations. Like the squirrel, break your tasks down into little but highly manageable circumstances and one at a time, gather the pieces and bring everything back together.

Fear itself has a nasty habit of creeping in when you aren’t being pragmatic about your current situations. However, you can deny fear any power over you by becoming more pragmatic. This works for any type of fear – simply recognize that fear is distorting your mental syntax by creating these “What if” and theoretical situations that generate massive amounts of stress in your body and in your mind.

As you begin to accomplish these tasks, you will break down the fear. Also, it can be extremely mentally burdening to feel as though you have all of this stuff sitting around in the back of your mind to do that doesn’t get done. As you work through your list like the squirrel slowly gathers its nuts, you will start to feel the weight being lifted off of your shoulders.

But how, how do you actually earn more money?

I want to answer this question for you and give you my opinion as someone who has a strong background in business/marketing/personal development.

The Difference Between Being Successful and Effective

Please, read over that headline a million times… Then a million times more and let that sink in. I want you to understand one thing that is critically important before we move on. There is a difference between Successful people and Effective people.

The difference between being successful and effective is the difference that dictates why certain people have a lot of money, and why other people, who are amazingly intelligent, might not have a lot of money despite their tremendous knowledge.

For the purposes of my blog post, I will define an Effective person as an individual who has gathered an amazing amount of intelligence, skill and knowledge/wisdom in their chosen field or profession. An Effective person is a great mechanic, an amazing school teacher, a brilliant scientist or a death-defying airline pilot.

These people are amazing at what they do and their skills have been so highly developed and refined that they are truly one of a kind. They are the mechanics that can listen to your engine for 30 seconds and know how to fix your car. They are the school teachers who can finally help your child understand the material better. They are the scientist or doctor who knows precisely how to treat your medical condition.

Also for the purposes of this blog post, we will define a Successful person as an individual who has “won” the financial game. They have figured out how to make a lot of money or they have risen to the top of their field. They are the successful businessmen, writers, CEOs, high level managers and business owners etc.

The interesting thing about becoming a Successful person is that you can become successful without being highly specialized and knowledgeable in your field. You don’t have to be the world’s best mechanic, you might not even be the best at school…

But Successful People Have Mastered A Few Tricks

The common thread among most Successful people is that they excel at the ability to understand, organize, plan and execute. In other words, people who are successful are wonderful at creating structure and processes for things that can be duplicated and scaled to huge heights.

I once had a client who would spend 10 hours a day working on creating beautiful pieces of furniture. They were hand crafted, painted and designed. He always complained how he couldn’t keep up with Bob’s furniture or IKEA etc and what I told him after that didn’t really make him happy.

I said, “You know what your problem is? It takes you 10 hours to produce one piece of furniture when Bob’s and IKEA can create 1,000 pieces of furniture in 10 hours and sell them to a market looking for cheap furniture that looks good. You aren’t in business to sell your furniture; you are here because you love to create amazing pieces of furniture. There is a difference.”

Look at fast food chains as well. Their food is usually horrible or decent at best, but they make tons of money. How come? Because they have mastered the ability to create decent food quickly and sell it in mass to hungry people. Some days you might be in the mood for a Mc Donalds burger (I hope not) and others you might want a nice steak… See the difference? These are two different markets. Successful people have built systems and empires that are able to mass-produce a product that people are willing to pay for.

By now you must see the moral dilemma – why do Effective people, the world-class talent and skilled workers, get “punished” when compared to Successful people who understand how to build and scale systems? It probably has a lot to do with Capitalism, but let’s save that for later.

The Limitations of Effective People

The limitations of Effective people are that THEY ARE THEIR BUSINESS. Their entire business and their ability to generate an income usually is entirely dependent upon their own professional skills. Usually, if they try to expand, they run into the problem of finding it difficult to do so because they will quickly discover that other people might not have the same level of knowledge and ability as they do.

This, as you can understand, creates a significant problem.

How to Become Successful AND Effective

The ultimate goal you should have with anything in life is to become Successful AND Effective at whatever it is you’re doing.

Why?

Because becoming an Expert in your chosen profession positions you ahead of everybody else. An Expert with a proven track record of results is hard to find. You will literally be able to name your own price in whatever it is that you’re doing. Seriously. People will flock to you and beg you to solve their problems with money in hand, if that’s what you want.

Becoming Successful demands that you master the ability to do the following:

- Build Systems
- Build Processes
- Network with other people
- Learn how to Sell
- Learn basic Accounting
- Understand basic concepts in Law or hire a great attorney

Remember, once you become an Effective person or an Expert, you can then establish a system around yourself and your talents/abilities. Look at a simple ATM transaction. That is a good example of a business that has built a good system/process for expediting how people are able to deposit and withdraw money from a bank. Food food chains are living, breathing examples of systems and processes.

All of these systems and processes basically take something and make it easy to reproduce a desired end result quickly and cheaply. Want a hamburger? Mc Donald’s does this for you. Want to withdraw money at 2am? Use the ATM. Don’t want to wait on line for a teller at 3pm? Use the ATM.

Systems and Processes remove YOU from the equation. It makes your business and your work easier because the system that you establish can decrease the burden that you have to deal with significantly.

Consider This

In today’s digital age, people make a fortune selling informational products. But take a look at what an informational product really is – it’s an Effective person who has used what I have defined as the blueprint of what Successful people do.

Basically, informational products package the knowledge of an Effective person and use a system to sell it to multiple people. Instead of one person having to coach thousands upon thousands of other people over the phone or in person… He could just create a series of videos and other materials, package them up and then create a system to sell them online. That’s genius in motion.

If you can find ways of packaging and selling your Effective person and Expert advice then you will be ahead of the curve. This is the basic way to begin building a system and a process. Remember, once you have the product, your system is going to be the way you sell your product. Your website, accepting payment information, product delivery etc are all a part of your system and your overall set of processes.

These things are super easy to setup yet it’s where most people get hung up. If it stresses you out, and you truly do have a lot to offer, then I would suggest paying someone to set it all up for you then get to work on learning how to market and sell what you have.

Click Here to see the book that inspired this, titled The Brain That Changes Itself written by Norman Doidge, MD.

The Scientific Power of Thought

In today’s landscape of Personal Development – there has been a strong push into turning most matters concerning personal development and even spiritual development into something “Scientific” by providing a lot of solid neuroscience to back up claims. This results in a more straightforward approach that hopes to provide a better blue-print or road map for people to follow in order to obtain success.

This video was interesting though, here are a few points I have picked out and wanted to comment on:

* I believe it was Sigmund Freud who first said that our brains didn’t change at all past a certain age around our childhood and that we would always be a slave to the habits we’ve learned up to that certain age for the rest of our lives. We now know today that this is of course, false. This is amazing because our brains actually change physically as we learn throughout life to accommodate for our newly learned information, habits etc.

* The video states that, “Imagination and Action are integrated and engage the same neuro-pathways. Practicing one actually influences the other“. This is something that all motivational speakers, personal development thought leaders and spiritual/religious thought leaders have been saying since the early 1900s and for thousands of years; only now do we have the appropriate technology to actually confirm this as truth.

This means that all of your vision boards will eventually have to manifest, right? Well, something like that… This finding is great because it helps us to understand that achieving success is indeed, after all, as much of an inner-mind game and discipline as it is about the physical actions we take. We can significantly increase our chances and odds at becoming successful when we learn to finally integrate the correct habits and patterns of thinking with the correct types and kinds of actions. Simply stated, we must learn to engage both our imagination (thoughts, feelings, emotions etc) with our actions (what we physically do to achieve our goals) and combine them so that we are harmoniously focused on our goals.

I’ve learned, quite painfully, that it is not enough to just focus exclusively on one while ignoring the other. For example, for years I was all about the “inner” and “mental” game, never taking any action. I believed that if my thoughts were perfect, then action wouldn’t be necessary. This wasn’t true. At best, all I could ever attract were things that acted like doppelgangers to my dreams and goals that always fell through. These were imposters. You could take massive action without any concentrated thought or effort – but I found that this quickly burnt me out because I had no end goals, no rhyme or reason behind anything that I was doing. It became wasted effort. I learned that I had to combine my thoughts and my actions and focus them together towards my goals in order to be successful. Focusing on just one or two “big” goals at a time was stressful enough and anytime I tried to add more to my plate, I became too scattered and unable to focus mentally or take actions towards my goals any longer.

* From the video, “So while your thoughts don’t have some mystical or magical power, mental practice is an effective way to prepare for a physical skill. Each thought actually changes the structure and function of your brain on the microscopic level…“. This is no secret to Olympic athletes who have been doing this for years. In fact, you can apply this to just about anything, even if the skill isn’t physical in itself.

For example, I would practice these types of mental exercises while building my businesses or trying to strengthen my communication skills. I would just constantly imagine over and over what I wanted and it would help tremendously when it came time to actually do the tasks required. I even do this while teaching myself guitar and it helps; there have been instances where I would spend hours trying to learn a song with struggle… And then… While dozing off to sleep, I would mentally practice the song and when I would wake up, my playing would be significantly better then the day before. Neat, huh?

Neuroscience and Personal Development

As I’ve said before – we live in interesting times because now our modern technology is able to give valid scientific credit and acknowledgement to many of the ideas and claims made by spiritual, religious and personal development/new thought circles for thousands of years. This trend will help us to better understand ourselves through understanding our brains and this should lead to some great advancements behind understanding how to become successful.

Think about this for a moment with me -

You are sitting down inside of your bathtub. Your eyes are slowly fixated on the faucet as you watch the water begin to eject that faucet as it slowly fills up your tub… Slowly you begin to feel the temperature of the water and, before long, you notice how toxic it is.

Now, I want you to imagine that as you are sitting in that tub, the contents of your mind (your thoughts, feelings & emotions) are beginning to pour out of the faucet into the bathtub you are now laying down inside of as water.

All of your negative thoughts, feelings and emotions are black and toxic. They burn, they hurt. They cause discomfort and pain. They leave you feeling drained, tired and full of fear and doubt.

All of your positive thoughts, feelings and emotions are white, purifying, rejuvenating and regenerate your mind, body and soul. They leave you energized and full of vitality and passion.

What Kind of Bathwater Are You Laying In?

So, what’s the verdict? How does that water feel to you?

Is your bathtub and it’s water highly toxic, or is it purifying you and leaving you feeling great?

I don’t care if you’re not laying down inside of a bathtub 24/7 because the fact of the matter is still the same – the point of this exercise is to get you thinking about the environment your thoughts are causing and creating around you. Whether you are in that bathtub, driving, talking to somebody or just plain living your life…

Your thoughts are still running rapidly out of that faucet and they are causing the air and the environment around you to become infected with that nature of your thoughts. No matter where you are or what you are doing, the air, water and land around you is imbued with those thoughts and immerses you. It guides you, like the beacon of a lighthouse, and steers you in certain direction automagically.

Both in business and in our daily lives, it’s very important to understand the value of the information that you know and learn on a daily basis. In fact, you can take it even a step further and say that it’s important to understand the value of all of the information you have learned over your entire life.

Why?

Because what you know and have learned can significantly help other people to learn and grow by cutting down on their own learning curve. Your information, shared with others, can give insights to them from your personal failures and successes that they can then learn from.

My Best Advice for Feeling More Fulfilled and Satisfied

Teach and share what you know. Write it down. Share it with others verbally. Share it through creating pictures, songs or dances. Do whatever it takes.

We are creative human beings and we are, believe it or not, highly social creatures. We are meant to learn and to share ourselves, our talents and our knowledge with the world.

When I go through growth phases mentally or spiritually (or even through my businesses) and neglect to share my experiences either on this blog or with friends, I feel weird. It’s like there is some sort of burden or weight on me that is begging for me to release and to share what I’ve learned with others.

Why You Need to Share Your Knowledge – Become an Expert

This all has benefits for your career as well. In today’s online environment, there is a lot of emphasis being placed on how important it is to distinguish yourself as an “Expert” and leading authority in your career or niche so that others come to you and buy your products and services – or even to hire you so that you can provide these things.

When you share your ideas with the world through a blog, youtube videos or whatever other mediums you can think of, you are naturally going to attract and audience that loves what you do and what you have to say. This can help to make you feel better and more fulfilled as you begin to naturally surround yourself with a group of like-minded individuals who can engage with the way you think and feel. All of this can lead to more accelerated growth and learning which will in turn lead you to discover more things to learn about and share.

You can certain make a career with sharing your knowledge today or you can improve your existing one by demonstrating what you know on the Internet and beginning to interact and learn with people that like what you have to say and have similar interests as you.

I want to focus in on making one extremely important post today. I always speak to a lot of my friends who just don’t seem to be happy with their lives or with what is going on around them. A lot of people tend to feel lost, fuzzy or muddy and don’t really understand what direction they should be heading in.

I just want to address to first issue in that statement. Let’s think of this stuff like math, where 1 + 1 = 2. If you are feely muddy, fuzzy, lost etc, then, just like 1 + 1 = 2, what kind of results do you think you will produce in life by feeling that way? I’d be willing to bet that they are going to be muddy, fuzzy etc. You can either approach this from a spiritual point of view or a purely logical one, preferably both.
If you are like many people I speak with, then you are going to ask me and follow up by saying, “Everyone always tells me that I need to become clear, non-fuzzy and muddy! Easier said then done!”
Actually, you already know how to solve this problem, because you already have the answer. I always recommend looking deep inside of yourself, and finding anything and everything that you are passionate about and bringing it to the surface – then living it.
Sometimes life is really just that simple. We deny our passions and dreams because society or someone else has told us that we must be successful, we must become someone else. Let me give an analogy here.

Joe the Fisherman’s Journey

All Joe wanted to do with his life was become a fisherman, however, his parents have convinced him that it’s just a crazy dream of his, and that he must instead go to college, get his degree and find a great job.
Joe took the route his parents have prescribed for him and it never made him happy. He was constantly dissatisfied, or, at best, content with his friends, relationships and work. Joe would basically just spend all day dreaming about fishing and trying to escape the routine life he lived in order to take part of it whenever he could.
One day, Joe reached his breaking point and decided he was going to live his passion and become a fisherman. He left everything and followed his dream.
In his new life, he met new friends who loved to fish, a new partner who loved and supported him and his decisions as well based on common interests and he soon found himself living a life centered around his goals, values and interests. What more could a man ask for?

The Point of Joe the Fisherman’s Journey

Joe’s story is very brief and intentionally not very detailed for a reason. The point that I am trying to make is that your world and universe are going to rearrange around the passions you choose to pursue. Remember that everything is giving/receiving so where you decide to give of yourself, you will receive back in likeness relative to that in which you give. Re-read that statement, please, until it makes sense.
If what you are getting back from your life makes you unhappy or if you simply don’t agree with it then chances are, I’ve learned, that you are giving too much of yourself into a dead-end passion or something that you just don’t really want or see as something that is valuable to you.
The key in life is to find out the passions that ignite you and then use that energy as a car would use gasoline to move around. Living a life in which you have no passion for what you are doing is the equivalent of trying to fill up the fuel tank of a car with water. It doesn’t work. You might be filling the tank up and your gas gauge might even say you have a full tank – but you and I both know that that car isn’t going to go anywhere on a gas tank full of water.
We should always check to make sure that our own gas tanks aren’t full of water. Sometimes, we must double check that we have filled ourselves up with the right kind of fuel in order to get our vehicle to where we want to go.

Bonus for this Post

This post was inspired by a conversation I just had with a friend. I’d like to just include my portion of the chats and block hers out in order to protect her privacy:

* I remember forever I felt super lost and like I was drifting around… it’s because I was very intuitive and alert/aware and felt like everything around me was this huge lie that I could see through… thus I didn’t want to participate in it. However, as time progressed I realized that people who are as such intuitive have a unique advantage because they sort of bridge the gap.. Between those two worlds.
For lack of a better term, we just have to find a passion to channel into.
It’s easier said then done.. but if you think about it, I promise you that it really is just that simple
* Your world and universe are going to rearrange around the passions you pursue… Remember that everything is giving/receiving so where you decide to give of yourself, you will receive back in likeness relative to that.
If what you are getting back is shit or you don’t agree with it then chances are, I’ve learned, that you are giving too much of yourself into a dead-end passion
* This is how I think about it: say you love to fish, and that’s all you want to do…. You might try to work in an office, live that life.. You will attract things related to that life.
But say you decide to just live the life of a fisherman, you’ll fish all day, meet a lady fishermen to fall in love with… find fishermen buddies to hang out with all day.
It’s aligned around what you love
* See.. Too… even… granted I am sick and in bed all day, but the opportunity to type that put me in this kind of flow that only comes when I can talk about stuff like that… that passion is like a type of food for me, I can taste it and live off of it when it comes down to it.
The key is to find out what does that for you I feel…
For anybody

A Man’s Character Is His Fate.

Simply put, this statement is telling us that the tone of one’s character or who they are as a person determines the experiences that they will encounter in life. I find this fascinating, because in this day and age we are so obsessed with the New Age/Thought movement of how to create things while trying to understand and master the creative forces within us.

Before we can allow ourselves to run deep into this philosophy, we should pause and think about who we are as people.

What actions do we perform?

What ethics do we live by?

How do we treat ourselves and other people?

The essence of saying that A Man’s Character Is His Fate means that all of these things determines what kind of life we will live and the experiences we will have. This could also very well be defined as the concept of Karma. Here’s a quick fact: Buddha and Heraclitus were both born and alive at the same time. They were both born into royal families and gave up their rule and their inheritance to pursue philosophical lives. They both arrived at very similar conclusions and yet there is no proof to ever suggest that they had met each other. It’s important to mention this because many of Heraclitus’ surviving teachings are in alignment and similar to the Buddha’s.

A Man’s Character Is His Fate

Let’s take it a step deeper and examine the belief of Cause and Effect, which Heraclitus and the Buddha both believed in very strongly. If we say that all of our actions, choices and deeds are our Character, then these “causes” basically lead us into our “fates”. I don’t believe that Heraclitus was saying that fate is fixed and written in stone by the gods. Instead, I believe his intention meant to say that we create our fates by the quality of our Character.

From all of this, we can then say that the quality of our Character (our choices, actions, morals, ethics etc) creates a certain flow of Cause and Effect that leads us down very certain and predictable paths of Fate. Think about anything you know and search for common threads that bind them together. Is it so crazy to believe that their fates are tied together by the nature of their Character? I think not. A man or woman of a high quality Character is not going to be involved with another man or woman of a weak and low quality character, so long as he is aware enough to understand what’s occurring to him or her.

Predicting Fate Through Character

The quality of our Character allows us to predict our “Fate” within a certain degree of reason. Also, it’s important not to measure Fate in purely materialistic terms. There can be a low income man, for example, who has a strong family life and is surrounded by nothing but love and happiness. Whose to say that he is poor when he enjoys a certain kind of emotional happiness of Joy and Love; perhaps a rich man could look down upon the poor one and judge him in terms of material success, but what if the rich man was devoid of all feelings of love, support, empathy etc?

I believe that this is what many religious stories try to convey, but we must read between the lines here – forget about focusing on the materialism and seek to understand instead the underlying meaning which is to understand and accept the fact that we must seek to be happy, strong and joyous first through our actions so that they create a wonderful loving and supportive environment. Once this environment is created and established, we can more successfully pursue our physical ambitions and find greater levels of success in doing so. Reread this last statement because I believe it to be the fundamental meaning of “A Man’s Character Is His Fate”.

Putting It All Together

A man who has a strong Character is going to be in the best position to be able to create and seal a great Fate for himself. The actions, words, deeds, morals and ethics that we practice and share with the people in our lives are going to come back to us in the form of people, circumstances and events and create for us a life in direct accordance to these things. By living and acting from our highest possible Character, we are going to create for us the greatest outcomes possible.

How To Apply This Wisdom Right Now

This wisdom from Heraclitus has always been one of the things I live and act by. One of my deepest core values and beliefs is that one should live their life through the highest form of Character that is possible for them. By doing this, you will notice that whatever goals you have will usually take care of themselves. If you are trying to attract a certain kind of relationship, job or friendship etc you will be able to attract the most ideal one for you by completely acting from the highest form of Character that you are able to. By doing this, you are putting out all of your best creative energy into the universe and the world around you. You are also creating the best system of Cause and Effect possible and this will serve to create the best momentum possible for you as well.

By acting from a place of high Character, you are also telling the world who you are what is worthy of you. All of the correct people, places and things that you need will come into your life in order to match the level of character you are at at. This is what the meaning of “Fate” is also in this statement. You are always attracting to you the people, places, circumstances and objects to you that currently match your level of Character.

Change your Character and you will change your Fate.

Change your Character and you will change the Cause and Effect taking place within your life at the moment.

It’s all up to you. Nothing is set in stone unless you believe it to be, and I would call that giving up.

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.

How To Get Somewhere in Life

Last night while I was walking along the sidewalk, I had my eyes fixed on some point in the distance where I was going. I was thinking about nothing else except walking towards that one, fixed point. I was even beginning to compliment myself at how much focus and willpower I had.

As I walked forward, nothing else seemed to matter to me. The only thing I saw, heard and felt was that single point I was staring at and beginning to slowly walk towards – ever so delicately yet with a certain confidence that I knew as long as I continued to walk, I would eventually reach my goal.

Then a voice came into my head, and it said,

“Why?”

I couldn’t understand why I had asked myself, “Why?”, so I cleverly responded with, “Why, what?”.

Then the voice again responded by saying,

“Why are you focused so much at walking towards this one point? What does it mean and what does it matter?”.

Being confused, I thought about it… I had told myself that my Will was strong, that I was disciplined and that I knew what I wanted. I knew where I was, where I was going and exactly what I had to do to get there.

The voice responded with, “Are you sure?”

I couldn’t understand this, and so instead of arguing with myself, I started to walk a little bit more slowly and began to listen to myself, and this is what I heard:

“You seem so confident as to where you are and where you are going. You may think you even know exactly how to get there. But you are making a fatal mistake – you are so focused on your future and your goal that you are forgetting about being right here, right now. You are at this point in the road, and nowhere else, right now. You may want to advance to that distant point, but you are still right here, right now.

You can tell yourself that based on what is happening now, all you need to do is keep on walking until you get there. Maybe that will be true, but maybe not. Why would you ignore life around you, though? Look to your left, don’t you see how beautiful that rock shimmers in the moonlight? Now look to your right – look at how that beautiful cat crosses the street and walks so elegantly. Now look around you, and notice the things that your eyes have been to busy to focus and fix themselves on to.

The beauty is everywhere, you don’t want to focus so much on where you are going because you will forget where you are now. This makes you stiff, rigid and like a board. It makes you unwilling to adapt to changes as they come your way. If you miss the beauty of everything around you in this moment, then you miss out on life. You miss out on the greatest gift of life, which is to live.

As long as you keep focusing on the future, you will never get there. You only advance towards your future by advancing in the Now. There is no other way. The sum total of all of your now moments is your future. This is why you Predict the Future By Creating It. There is no other way.

You must never forget about the life you have around you and what you have around you. The more you focus your attention away from this, the more of a disservice that you are doing to yourself.

The surest way to get to wherever it is you want to go is to understand and know within yourself where you want to go, what it is you want to do or who it is you want to be. Then, in each present moment of your life, do the things that will allow you to become that person, to reach that place or destination. This is the great secret of life. It’s called, simply, “Living”.

You live by being present in your life and doing the things in this present moment whose total course of actions equals to your desired future. This is not an easy concept to grasp, but once you hold it firmly, you will have understood one of the greater truths of what it means to live. This is one of the best concepts in personal development that one can ever learn, as well as in spiritual development.

Life is About Balance

The sudden tranquility, silence and peace that flooded my mind after all of this was a magnificent experience. I’ve learned over the years that by taking the time to become insanely silent and still, that I can observe the simple things in life such as the wind, the water, a park bench, or simply a seldom point in the distance and from these things distill great truths about life.

I love it when this happens because it allows me to further develop my capacity for thinking and reasoning. When I read books or the works and thoughts of others, I find that I am being given a fish, rather then being taught how to fish in many instances. By constantly and repeatedly exposing myself to both new ideas and ways of thinking from all different sources, I slowly find myself becoming the person that I want to be.

One moment at a time.

The Greatest Secret is Evolution of the Mind, Body and Soul

It’s been experience to notice that evolution is the language of the Universe. The universe exists to evolve, and whether or not we realize it, our lives are our own unique stories of personal evolution from birth to death. As we live, we evolve, and as we evolve, we live. There’s no way to separate these things out from each other.

The funny thing about evolution is that as an individual evolves Mentally, Emotionally, Physically, Sexually etc they will tend to cause the things around them to evolve as well. It’s like a wave effect – just picture throwing a stone into a pond. The things closest to the individual (or the stone) experience the most intensive burst of evolution and uplifting energy while those further away experience it less and less. Even after the waves in the water disappear, the entire body of water will be effected by the toss of that one stone.

The same can be said about life. As we evolve, the impact that we make on those around us is the most significant and noticeable. However, just like the stone, a single individual life will effect the entire world it lives in, even if we can’t notice it directly with our eyes. Everything is one and there is no separation.

We can’t and we won’t ever know fully how our individual life, or how one individual life, comes to effect the entire world. The world needs you to live. The world needs you to evolve and to contribute to the great and diverse pool of life, because without you, the world just wouldn’t be the same. So it’s time to share your talents, to share your knowledge and to just be you.

As you evolve, you will effect the people closest to you. As they evolve from what they have learned from you, they will effect those around them and this will continue on into infinity and come to interconnect every single thing on this planet in an immeasurable way. Just think about how parents raise their children, then those children eventually become parents themselves etc.

How to Make Any Relationship Work Once You Understand Evolution

In order to make any relationship work, I believe that the people involved in the relationship must be capable of further evolving together in a meaningful and productive way. Also, the people involved in the relationship must be willing to evolve with the other people/persons in the group towards a commonly agreed upon and desired goal.

Any kind of relationship, whether business, personal, friendly or romantic won’t and can’t ever be expected to survive unless everybody involved in them can benefit from them. It’s hard to benefit from something if the people involved just don’t want the same things.

In business, this could manifest as people all wanting to take different directions with the company. In romantic relationships there could be disagreements as to what the future of the relationship should hold. In friendships, there could be disagreements over issues of trust or intent.

I personally live my life in a way that is pretty simple and straight-forward:

I try to surround myself with people, ideas and information that will help me to consciously grow and evolve everyday on a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level.

It’s that simple. Granted we all can’t help but to experience evolution just as a result of being alive, however, I tend to consciously choose to try and evolve as much as possible. When I feel that relationships begin to limit or block me from evolving the way I want to, it makes me feel very frustrated, drained and grounded. It’s not a good feeling.

For this reason, it’s my personal commitment to myself to always make sure that I am engaged and evolving in the ways and in the directions that I want to be. It’s hard to justify keeping various relationships in my life is I feel as though they are somehow limiting me, whether they are business, friendship or romantically oriented. If something stops me from walking the path I want to be in life, I get hung up.

This is why I suggest that you attempt to think about your own personal evolution when choosing to create and maintain relationships in your life. Ask yourself important questions like, “Can I move in a positive direction with this person?” and “Can this person support and understand my beliefs, values and judgements?”.

It’s equally important to ask questions of standards. That is, we should make sure that the people we let into our personal environments share and have the same values and standards as we do as this promotes a certain level of growth. I can tell you that in my experience, the most important elements of life and evolution are Support and Love. Find support and find love and you will find success, happiness and creativity to any degree that you could ever dream of.

These things tend to be great at breaking down any and all resistance that you can find yourself facing in life.

The Evolution of Others

Likewise, I always make sure that I am consistently surrounding myself with other people who are choosing to consciously evolve themselves physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. If you remember from before, I said that as one evolves, everything and everybody else around them tends to be brought up evolve as well.

Since I believe this to be completely true, it only makes sense that I would want to surround myself with people who were constantly evolving themselves. It feels good to choose to be around people who are constantly evolving in a meaningful and positive way because their good energy will, without a doubt, rub off on you.

I’m sure you must be thinking at this point that this sounds like it goes against many of the things you’ve ever read and heard. After all, the entire personal development and even the spiritual development industry is built in a way that presents various solutions to the problems people believe that they are facing and that are holding them back from achieving what they want in life.

The Holy Grail is the Journey, NOT the Destination

Let’s pause and think about this for a bit. Our society is one that has evolved to value the end results. The “ultimate” possession. We are taught to believe that we must obtain the prize, win the lottery, get the gold etc.

Have you ever thought about why we do this? And if/when we do, what’s next? Another larger goal? Another bigger dream left to be desired?

All of these thoughts and this way of thinking blocks out the sun, so to speak. We must commit to understanding that the ultimate purpose of life is to live it. Life is about the actions we are taking, right now. Life is about the process and the unfoldment of the infinite potential and possibilities into actual reality. Life is about Being, becoming, evolving and experiencing everything to the fullest and highest degree as it happens and then using those moments to better ourselves and those around us, including our planet and everybody on it.

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That’s a beautiful statement. Love, beauty, intelligence, appreciation, willpower and compassion are able to, through us, become real and tangible forces that are practiced and maintained in everyday physical life. Life should be lived in accordance with these values because, “As you sow, so shall ye reap.”.

Living Life is the Entire Point

As you live your life, you are evolving. You can’t help but do this. As you evolve, you take the rest of the world and the people around you with you along for the ride. Every action you take and the way you live your life effects everybody in existence in a way that is undeniably evident yet not so easy to grasp at first glance. Every decision you make is like a new thread woven into the tapestry of human existence and this grand tapestry will exist and persist for the rest of time.

I’m not saying that you should give up on all of your goals, desires and dreams in life. What I am saying is that the universe will do it’s absolute best to test your knowledge, skills and commitment along the way. It will present you opportunities to learn great truths and secrets about life and then test your understanding of them immediately. This is the dance of evolution that everything in existence experiences as evolution on a larger scale unfolds.

Only those who have the passion to follow their hearts and do what they love will find that the universe reveals it’s secrets in a most distinctive way; every challenge is designed to imbue and impart us with wisdom, knowledge and experience. Every adversity in life is designed to yield an equivalent amount of positive potential and usefulness. We must only see these challenges for what they are, and when we do, we will understand that life exists for us to grow. We must pick and choose our challenges wisely and which ones are worth overcoming, for when you can do this consciously, the amount you can learn and grow becomes infinite.

It just so happens that the most successful people in life are the ones who follow their true heart’s desire because these tempers them and provides them with the necessary strength to ride out the perceived challenges that they face in life. These individuals understand that the overall process of their life never ends and is where all of their strength, talent and wisdom comes from. Forget about instant gratification. Anything of value in life requires time to produce. Think about home made food versus fast food. Time is required to build character, strength and skill.

Time Waits for No One

Times wait for no one. It’s not going to slow down, it’s not going to stop. It’s going to keep on ticking on by. What will you do? What are you going to do? We only have so much time in this life.

This is a blessing because without a limited amount of time, we’d feel immortal and indeed would be. If we were indeed immortal during our brief visit to this physical world then nothing would be of importance since we have all of the time in the world to do what we want. While the soul may have this luxury, we do not have it here and now while in our physical and elemental bodies. We are in existence to bring the forces of love from the heavens into the physical world in order to create a literal “heaven on Earth”. It can and will be done with enough time.

Nothing ever dies. There is only change. Matter is recycled throughout various levels of being but it is never destroyed and it never “dies” itself. Matter, however, is capable of evolution; this evolution is the secret of life and it is wise to understand.

A worm can eat the corpse, a bird can eat the worm, a human can eat the bird and the worm can eat the human’s corpse. In due time, the world and it’s dirt eats all things, both created and evolved.

Resistance Builds Strength Inside and Out

If you have ever done any kind of exercise, strength training or weight lifting then you will, without a doubt, know that the stress and resistance generated on your body by these forms of exercise generates growth in the form of increased size, strength and endurance. All of our life challenges work the same way. By gradually overcoming resistance in life we will build more and more inner and outer strength.

It can be quite hard to judge just how much inner-strength we’ve built, but I can guarantee you that the progress happens. For example – would you consider yourself the same person that you were, say, 5 years ago? If you think about it, the answer will most likely be a “no”. This is because you’ve had 5 years worth of unique challenges, problems and resistances that you’ve faced and overcome to develop your new-found strength.

As we get older and progress through life, we tend to have more and more experience with what it takes to overcome resistance. If you’re stuck on the same problems, then maybe they are a bit too difficult for you at the moment and perhaps you should reassess what you are aiming for and try to decrease the size and scope of the goal. For other people, knowing exactly why and for what reasons you want to achieve your goals for tend to help. Achieving a goal for the purposes of further advancing and sharing your talents for the benefits of others is a more noteworthy and fulfilling reason then is to just want to accomplish something because you think it’ll make you rich. You might not believe this at first glance, but a lot of people hold themselves back because they focus on these ideas of making tremendous amount of money (greed) when in their truest of nature, they just want to help others, be generous and just find happiness with sharing their talents, gifts and abilities to the world.

The lyrics themselves are most certainly taken and adapted from various New Thought movement authors, writers and speakers from the early 1900s and right on up to the 70s. These lyrics express the thoughts that our current day Spiritualism, New Thought and New Age movements are still spreading.

The music represents some of guitarist Eddie Hazel’s greatest work and when listened to in combination with the lyrics combines to create one of the best pieces of music I’ve ever heard.

Lyrics:

Travel like a king
Listen to the inner voice
A higher wisdom is at work for you
Conqering the stumbling blocks come easier
When the conqueror is in tune with the infinite
Every ending is a new beginning
Life is an endless unfoldment
Change your mind, and you change your relation to time

You can find the answer
The solution lies within the problem
The answer is in every question
Dig it?
An attitude is all you need to rise and walk away
Inspire yourself
Your life is yours
It fits you like your skin

The oak sleeps in the acorn
The giant sequoia tree sleeps in its tiny seed
The bird waits in the egg
God waits for his unfoldment in man
Fly on, children
Play on

You gravitate to that which you secretly love most
You meet in life the exact reproduction of your own thoughts
There is no chance, coincidence or accident
In a world ruled by law and divine order
You rise as high as your dominant aspiration
You descend to the level of your lowest concept of your self
Free your mind and your ass will follow

The infinite intelligence within you knows the answers
Its nature is to respond to your thoughts
Be careful of the thought-seeds you plant in the garden of your mind
For seeds grow after their kind

Play on, children

Every thought felt as true
Or allowed to be accepted as true by your conscious mind
Take roots in your subconscious
Blossoms sooner or later into an act
And bears its own fruit
Good thoughts bring forth good fruit
Bullshit thoughts rot your meat
Think right, and you can fly
The kingdom of heaven is within
Free your mind, and your ass will follow

Play on, children
Sing on, lady

Are You Living Your Life Or Your Idea About Life?

There are really 2 effective methods that I will ask you to consider here in order to know whether or not you are truly living your life rather than just your idea about it.

1). If we are truly living our lives then there should be no delay between thought and action. For example, the delay between me thinking about writing this blog post and me actually writing it was probably less than 10 minutes (and that’s because I got the idea for it while driving). The information in my mind went from a thought and a conceptualization to a published work on the Internet rather quickly; the result is that people can now read this article and benefit from my thoughts and ideas. The time it took me to apply my idea into the physical world and create a physical result and impact wasn’t long at all.

Because of this, I will argue that I am truly living life in this sense because I am quickly applying the ideas that I am having to my immediate world. As a result of this, other people are able to see my ideas and benefit from them as well. If I was living a conceptualized idea about life, I wouldn’t be publishing any work or articles. Instead, I’d just be thinking about how life should work and not actually trying to live by my ideas or share them with others. The results of this are that nobody else besides myself are able to experience any of my ideas, learn from them or put them to good use.

Living life is all about living your ideas about life rather than just thinking about how life should work and never actually doing anything about them.

2). If we are just living an idea about life then we are most likely stuck trying to live from deep within our imaginations without actually acting upon any of our ideas. In our society today where we favor things like Kim Kardashian, celebrity news and gossip and what celebrities look like etc it can be quite hard to know just how to live life since we are subliminally being told that we can’t ever hope to be popular or attractive unless we look like the most famous stars of the time.

Our generation will grow up with more beautiful people (both in appearance and personality) then perhaps any other generation that feels ugly, useless, unpopular, guilty, unacceptable and crappy just because of the way our society dictates the way that people should look, dress and act. We have to do our best to ignore what’s popular and just listen to ourselves and find out what we want to do in the world. Once we have an idea of who we want to be, we must understand that life is nothing more than a unique setting that allows us to realize the potential of our ideas – especially the greatest idea of all, which is our own grand idea of who we think we are.

We are all guilty of thinking we are unacceptable because of the success, gifts, talents or attributes of another. How that person has come to develop their own assets, gifts, talents and traits is their business. I always advocate that we should never just seek to duplicate successful personalities in life (Bruce Lee has also once said this) and instead we should develop our own unique successful personality and present it as a gift to the world.

Life is A Process

Life is a process and we participate in it by living out our ideas, not just merely by thinking about them. Most of the ideas that we have are simply amazing and if they were implemented into the world, could cause great change and success. We must remember that we can never put the cart before the horse – we must always bring our best ideas and actions to the table and fully develop them for the world and others to see before we can expect anybody to acknowledge how great and useful they are.

First, I just want to say that negative experiences in all of their forms and manifestations are the single most important element and tool you will ever work with in life. Why? Because by experiencing negativity we are granted the ability to exercise our most sacred and precious gift: Free Will. Through our own Free Will we are able to decide and choose for ourselves a life in accordance with who believe we are and what we stand for.

>Negativity is the most precious gift of all because our reaction to it shapes and defines us as individuals and as people. The way in which we choose to react to negative circumstances will little by little come to shape our personalities, our thinking and actions as well as the results we are able to generate in the world. I can’t say this enough – negativity allows us the opportunity to create our lives based on what we either believe we are or are not. I believe that there are 3 main ways in which we can react to negativity that come to shape our lives and our destinies.

3 Ways We React To Negativity That Define Us

1). This group by and large represents individuals who tend to stay “neutral”, but when I say “neutral”, I really mean that these individuals are usually the people who let things happen to them and then do nothing to try and change anything. I find that these individuals are the first ones to complain about how bad something is and are also the first ones to complain about how everybody else is doing things wrong, which in turn, comes to effect their lives and make them miserable. I also believe that these are the people who just want to sit back and wait for everybody else to fix everything for them, and when nothing gets fixed to their satisfaction, then they continue to complain about the incompetence of others.

The bottom line for this group is this: You have more power and are capable of creating the change you wish to see in the world. In fact, just like Ghandi had said, “We must become the change we wish to see in the world”.

Do you see the problem with the thinking in this group? The problem is that the emphasis is always on others. They immediately release their power to other individuals thinking that they can and should fix everything. This transfer of one’s Willpower to another or group of other people robs you of your ability to change or create anything in your own lives. The individuals in this group must be extremely cautious of looking for “secrets” and “shortcuts”. I can tell you that the secret is in the work and dedication that you bring to the table and that you do. There really is no substitute for hard work, dedication and practice. What often seems like luck to us on the outside and looking in is really the result of a ton of hard work, dedication, action and mind set in reality.

The main message for this group is to learn to find the power within. Everything starts from the foundation of your beliefs and with the basic way you believe that the world works. Without changing these beliefs then the outcome of one’s life following this particular reaction to negativity is, like all others choices, one that will keep delivering the same results and expectations. These individuals are prone to feeling let down by others because the way in which they live their lives sets them up to be controlled by the thoughts and actions of another.

With practice, dedication, commitment and heart these individuals can turn the negativity into positivity and be armed with a great sense of “both sides of the coin”; they understand what it feels like to both be dis-empowered and empowered as a result of their own thinking and acting and so they become great catalysts for change in the world since they are capable of understanding and aligning with the way other people usually think about themselves and the world.

2). This group represents people who are able to rise above negative circumstances, conditions and events because they believe in themselves so much that they known their own value and self-worth; these individuals would appear to be beyond negativity, because indeed, they are quite literally because of the way they think and act. The mindset that is found in this group of people is that they are more then and better then their circumstances so they will continually fight until they achieve what they want. These people don’t settle for what happens to them and instead they learn that in life they are the ones who are capable of consciously creating their own results. The understanding of cause and effect in this group is strong and they understand that if they are unhappy with the results they are generating then they are able to change them by dedicating themselves to their purpose with work and correct thinking. Nobody in this group is scared to work hard and they usually don’t look for shortcuts. They understand that they are the catalysts that allow them to go from Point A to Point B.

The people found in this group often times either conscious or subconscious are creating their lives by understanding what they are not. That is to say that these people have probably experiencing a lot of negativity in their lives and are choosing to create lives in which they seek to stop the flow of negative circumstances and experiences both for themselves and for other people. I like to say that a transmutation is usually occurring here that transforms negative energy into positive energy; this flow happens because the individual chooses to become a conductor of positive energy rather than allowing negative energy to flow through them.

The most important message for this group to remember is that of the Heart. Is what you are doing a path your Heart and/or Love would follow? If so, keep marching on. If not, stop it. I guarantee you that as your Heart opens more and more and your capability for extending Love increases, you will come to loathe and disdain work that doesn’t have a Heart.

3). Perhaps the best way to sum up this group is the age old saying, “If you can’t beat’em, join’em!”. These individuals are usually so highly affected by negativity that they believe the only way to cope with the world and other people is by becoming negative themselves. Another good expression that sums this group up perfectly is, “An eye for an eye”. A lot of times I see really great people fall under this spell, and after years of living it out consciously, they lose their Hearts and it becomes a permanent way of living and being for them. I always believe that we are grand conductors of energy and once you subscribe to believing that life works this way, then the only negativity that will pass through and come to and through you is that of a negative nature. This means that most of the experiences you will end up receiving in life is of a negative nature. Sometimes people become this way as a defense mechanic, or perhaps it is because they convinced themsleves that the world is only about the survival of the fittest and so they should become as ruthless as possible to get to the top of it. But at what cost would you want to do this for? Would you be willing to lose yourself and your Heart/Soul in the process? To whom does this benefit? You, or somebody pulling your strings?

It’s like setting your radio to the station 104.7 and then complaining that the only type of music and the only station that you can hear is 104.7. But guess what? That’s just what the radio is tuned in to. The human mind/body/soul complex works the exact same way. What are you tuned in to? Do you like it? If not, just change the station! You can definitely do that

The message to take away from this group is for them to realize the Golden Rule: You get what you give and you are that which you are. Literally. Everything that we choose is what shapes us because our own mind/body/soul energy complexes, just like a radio, eventually “tune in” to the stations and thoughts that we most think about. The universe is just BURSTING at it’s seems to express itself in this physical world of ours and if you’re tuned into a negative station then you will become the universe’s preferred method of channeling necessary negative experiences into the world.

It’s just that simple!

Your Reaction to Negativity Is Who You Are – No Exceptions

The last point I made is specifically important. Just remember that we are like radio towers tuned to specific frequencies and that the universe is broadcasting through us. By believing and expecting negative circumstances and conditions to occur in the world, then they must receive them and create that at the same time. The universe can’t ignore these requests for creation just because they are “bad” and so the universe must find methods of creating these experiences in the world. Those who are tuned into the “negative stations” become great channels and conducts for this energy which turns into very real experience.

If you want to go a little bit deeper than think about why we have chosen to live our lives in a world in which negative experiences seem to outweigh the positive ones. It would seem like to me that we are here in order to find ourselves and choose the positive or the negative in order to determine who we really are and what we stand up for and believe in.

Can You Trust Psychics That Give Dates and Times?

My straight-forward answer is that I would be EXTREMELY careful in accepting dates OR times from psychics, and here’s why:

The problem here is that once you are made to believe that something will occur within, on, or by a certain date or time, if it doesn’t happen, then that psychic has been very successful in extinguishing your own self confidence, worth and belief in your own self. The psychic has effectively stolen the part of you that believes that what you want is possible. This is very dangerous for many obvious reasons and I ask that you think about how else this can effect somebody. In addition to this, the psychic has stolen that part of you that believes that something is possible and can happen to and for you.

While I don’t doubt that some psychics can be very accurate and what they say can take years to pass, the problem is that they are only human and they are only picking up on what YOU ARE CREATING. No exceptions.

For this reason, I highly recommend that you also read my post about how Life Doesn’t Happen To Us – Life Comes From Us. Because of this philosophy, I believe that we don’t really need psychics to tell us anything because we are always creating everything all of the time from within our own selves. A psychic is just attempting to read what you are already creating from your own thoughts/actions. If you invest too much of your faith and belief into a psychic then it’s easy to be lead down the wrong path by a not-so-good psychic that is negative in their orientation. Some psychics are vampires themselves and set up these type of relationships of dependency so that they can feed off of the expectations of others. It’s important to remember that just because a person calls themselves a psychic doesn’t mean that they are imbued with some kind of mystical divine favor that requires us to hold them as the highest Spiritual authorities in our lives.

Just keep in mind that ultimately when a psychic tells us something that doesn’t happen, we can be setting ourselves up for a major emotional breakdown and let down that shouldn’t ever occur. You are always creating the events in your life. We should never let what a psychic tells us steal the essence and happiness of our dreams and aspirations. We can never be afraid to fail and we must keep on trying until we are successful. Feel free to take what a psychic says with a grain of salt, but please just understand the core of my message here

Credibility – Good and Bad for Business

Psychics, besides weather forecasters, are the only profession I’ve ever come across that stay in business constantly despite the fact that they fail a number of times at giving accurate dates and times. Would you do business with investors who mismanaged your money this way? I don’t think so, and I wouldn’t hope that you would! Also, it’s amazing that psychics can keep their credibility once they predict dates/times that don’t come true. It’s a little backwards to think that we can keep their credibility in our eyes while they can destroy our dreams when their dates/times don’t come to pass. Doesn’t seem fair, huh?

It’s just my personal experience that many psychics are indeed gifted but of a negative orientation. This means that they would rather serve themselves then serve you unconditionally. It’s always important to guard yourself from a vampire psychic who tries to set up an energy dependency on you. If you sense and feel intuitively that you are seeing a psychic that has created a dependency and addiction within you, then please stop as you are only harming yourself. All of our answers are within us and we must bring them out and into the world through our own accord. Also, some psychics create this dependence because they just want your money – Miss Cleo, anyone? There’s no secret there and being a “psychic” can generate some extremely profitable business.

There are also gifted psychics who are great at serving others unconditionally and while it can be fun to see them once in a while, just please keep in mind again the overall message, meaning and tone of this article . It’s a good idea to ask around for a highly experienced psychic who has a reputation for serving others unconditionally. A good psychic will even tell your from the start that what they are reading depends on YOU and what you are thinking about, believing in and acting on consistently. Just realize that you are the point of power and that without you, what can the psychic even read? Nothing. That’s because everything comes from within you. Everything is created and maintained by your Thoughts and Actions.

I do spend a lot of time talking about Willpower on this blog, but I’d like to yet again give you an entirely new perspective and way of thinking about it. I believe that most people get so entirely caught up in developing their Will or their Willpower that they actually forget that Willpower is meant to be applied and used. I sometimes call the application of Willpower “Dopower”.

To have all of the Will in the world is not enough. We must ultimately apply what we know. We must take our Will and do great and amazing things with it. The expression of our Willpower and our Will leads us to growing our human potential.

Just remember that as one strives to develop the Will and Willpower one must also strive to equally learn how to direct and apply that Willpower with a focused intent and intention.

The results of this should produce an individual who has a fully developed Will that can be applied without hesitation towards a goal.

I know that I myself am sometimes guilty of having a massive storage of Willpower but not enough Dopower at my disposal. We must never become so actively involved in trying to develop and increase our Willpower that we actually forget to use it. I believe that we often have more Will and Willpower than we think we do – this leads us to feeling as if we need more so we begin trying to develop it and develop it without actually realizing the superior inner-strength that we have already developed and built for ourselves.

How to Inspire Others, Yourself and Action

When communicating with others, it is important to know your Why. Why do you do what you do, and Why do you do that? Forget about asking “What Do You Do?” or “How Do You Do It?”. First – just tell me Why you do it and the What & How will naturally make sense and follow.

This is built into our brains. How often do you encounter somebody who just gives you the What and the How? How inspiring is that?

We can usually pierce their bulls*** because they don’t seem to have a Soul – and this is why attaching stories to companies and products helps them to sell so well – because their stories usually (if done properly) help to satisfy the “Why?”.

When people sell us on the What and the How – they normally just try to sell us on features and benefits, then we are stricken with that all too familiar feeling that just “doesn’t feel” right – it’s the feeling of feeling like we are just being sold to. And nobody likes to feel like they are just being sold to because it makes you feel like you are less than a human and more like a piggy bank that is ready to be broken open. It’s a cold and shallow feeling that we have grown to resent and yet we feel this because our senses are trying to tell us that something isn’t right with the situation; usually because the energy that the other person is emitting is deceitful.

Without the Why – there is no Trust or deeper sense of connection. When the Why is satisfied – people are attracted to you and will share your vision – not for you, but for themselves. They Align themselves with you because they believe deeply enough in your own message since it resonates with their own and what they believe in.

Most people, especially sales people, have it backwards. They sell based on What somthing can do or How much it can do it.

I used to personally work in a certain retail store for a certain big name computer seller and I have learned very fast 3 Golden Rules of selling physical technology products that are applicable to selling Anything.

3 Golden Rules of Selling Anything

Never sell on the How, even if you understand How something works on a more intricate and technical level. You have to evaluate who you are selling to and decide what they know and understand. Do you think that the college student, business person or Doctor wants to know how a computer works on the technical and back-end? Do you think that they want to understand how an external hard drive saves files? Do you even want to know how it works? Only roughly about 5-8% of you will. The How for the average person is How something will improve their lives and make something easier for them. They won’t buy anything until you can convince them Why it will change their lives.

They need something to believe in. They need the Why.

Here’s a good example:

Are you tired of getting viruses, popups and always having your computer slow down? Are you tired of always losing your data because viruses crash your hard drive constantly? Yeah? Well, we were too and this is Why we built our computers – to substantially improve upon this and to give additional levels of protection, security and more options in case any of these things do happen in order to guarantee that you and your data are protected.

Sounds good, right? That makes somebody Believe in the Why – from there, the How and the What makes better sense, and should flow naturally and logically. The How and the What will now make better sense and compliment what you are saying and seem like the next logical answer in the order or sequence of conversation.

“The What”. Most people will make the mistake of selling the What part of how what they have to offer can do for you without having the Why in place and firmly established. This is a good thing – it just means that our built in human bulls*** detectors are working properly. When I was in physical product sales I saw it and I’ve seen it for years in my own marketing companies. Selling the What first usually shows your true intentions first:

“I just want to make money”

It says this because if you lead off with What from the start, then chances are you only care about What you are selling and NOT who you are selling it to. Think about this – you encounter this all of the time yourself I bet. Do you like it? Does it feel right? How does it make you feel on the inside when you encounter this in the world and everyday?

The What side of something is usually just a shopping list of benefits. It might look something like this:

* It will scratch your back and tickle your toes, just the way YOU like them!
* It does X, Y AND Z better than A, B AND C could ever dream of by 150 PERCENT!!!
* It will vacuum your floor for you. This saves you time!
* Our version is improved over our competitor’s by 30 TIMES! This means you get more for less!

Think about most TV Advertisements, especially infomercials and As Seen On TV products. There is really no “Soul” behind them and they seek to sell solutions to lazy and desperate people. They also take everyday items and give them their own “brand name” and then try to resell you something that you probably don’t need or already have, just dressed up to look a bit cooler. Think about the Snuggie and all of the other As Seen On TV junk that nobody needs or already has such as can openers, laundry detergents and slippers etc. They capitalize on these things, why? Well, why not? It’s because they feel as though they can do it and we buy it.

Just compare my examples of What and How to my examples of Why and you’ll see the difference.

Also, compare the examples I have given about the What and How to a more Why based approach such as Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream Speech” or a Steve Jobs keynote speech. I believe that Steve Jobs always did a truly exceptional job of blending the Why successfully with the What and How. He mastered that approach.

The Why is the soul and intuitively satisfies and confirms what people believe in.

The How and What are the physical manifestations of the Soul Behind the Why.

The How is also the technical process of how the Why works and functions. It’s how it physically is assembled, or what it does.

And the What is what it can do in order to satisfy the soul of the question behind the original and initial Why.

Leaders and Visionaries Always Understood Their Why

All of the people who know Why they do what they do are innovators and visionaries – they don’t do what they do for a paycheck. They do it because they believe that they can change the world and make it a better place for everybody at once to enjoy and benefit from.

And they do this, one soul at a time.

All visionaries are like artists in that each use a different medium of expression. Some use technology to give us what we didn’t even know we needed and others help to give us more abstract things like Equality (think about Martin Luther King) that we have so desperately wanted and longed for.

Some write great articles on their Personal Development blog and write great books about Philosophy and Spirituality that help to inspire others as well as himself (think about Steven Michas ).

They all serve to Unite people around a common thread of belief – that the Universe is built upon the philosophy and Law of Unity.

Most important, we need to understand why these people can become so successful AND be Happy.

It is because they have figured out and continue to live their Why from their hearts and their souls.

Additional Content For You to Follow Up With

If you’re starting to feel REALLY inspired then I’d also suggest that you watch this video. Despite what has been going on with this guy lately, it’s truly an excellent video on Arnold’s 6 most important rules for creating and generating success:

How to Tell If Something If Meant To Be – The Resistance Test

While it’s no secret that I do have a lot of problems with the Law of Attraction, I will of course admit that yes, the universe does indeed work off of the concept of attraction since it will attract things (through vibrational harmony) that are similar while simultaneously repelling things that aren’t of the same frequency. I also advocate that the universe is a consciousness in and of itself, and with practice, we can have a conversation with the universe through the observation of everyday events, things, people, our own thoughts and things like synchronicities etc. Carlos Castaneda would referred to this as the art of “Seeing” within his series of books.

In my own life, I use the simple and highly effective Resistance Test to help me better understand what things are worth pursuing and what things aren’t. The test works like this and has two parts to it:

Resistance Test – Part 1 – Does No Mean No?

If I desire something, I will attempt to pursue it. If at first I am meant with a form of resistance that blocks me from obtaining it, I will back away and try a second time. If after that second time, I still am meant with a form of resistance that blocks me, I will back off and try for a third time. If at the end of my third attempt, I find myself not able to penetrate the resistance holding me back, I generally will understand that I am just not vibrationally compatible with what I am pursuing and desiring at that moment. Of course, there are exceptions and deep urges that can over ride this, but let’s learn about the rest of this method This leads us into the second part of this.

Resistance Test – Part 2 – What Next?

Over the years as I’ve attempted to fulfill and achieve the things I have desired I have noticed a definite pattern that has made my own personal development and growth a lot simpler, easier and faster. Whenever I am pursuing something that I am just not in harmony with, and manage to achieve baby steps and progress with, I always look at the resistance involved. If I manage to overcome my first obstacle, but each and every step after that seems to become harder and harder while I become more and more frustrated and “turned off” with it, then I am typically inclined to immediately back off of trying to achieve it. Why? Simply because I have learned over the years that sometimes the reason that I am not able to achieve certain things is because I really don’t want them to begin with. If every step seems to get harder and harder, than my heart isn’t supporting me through my process of achieving my desired goals and outcomes. It’s simple to prove this to myself because if I was truly 100% committed and in alignment with something, it should only feel natural, easy and the resistance doesn’t feel like something that will hold me down.

When you are attempting to make a desire real and happen for you, it should feel as though all of the resistance you face are challenges that you won’t ever back down from; all of the challenges in the world should feel like something that you can overcome and you should have results and measurable success for proving this to yourself with as well as being able to back yourself up with. I’m not saying that life is entirely a picnic, but what I am saying is that if your heart is in alignment with what you are desiring then you will find the inner-strength and willpower that is necessary to help you work through your resistance while remaining persistent. Some people describe this as a sort of flow that makes them feel like they are floating down stream instead of fighting to swim upstream.

Many people spend years and years in the toughest of life situations and they are able to break through while others aren’t. If you just listen and study the resistance patterns you are receiving in life, then you should come out of it with a better understanding and awareness about where you are and where you are trying to go. I find that a lot of people hold on to old dreams and goals (such as becoming a wrestler, actor, singer etc) when in their current and present life situations it clearly just isn’t the best or smartest choice for them. This can create a lot of internal conflict and feelings of being lost or having wasted a lot of time in life – all things that don’t serve is in a positive way in the long run, especially when the past is the past and the present is here, right now, waiting for us to fully step into it.

The Proof Is In the Pudding

A huge part of the Resistance Test is your progress. Your measurable results are one of the greatest assets you have in understanding yourself and the kind of resistance you are receiving and how you are dealing with it. If you are pushing towards a desired goal and yet you have no results to show for it, then you are most likely facing resistance that you can’t get past, which in turn would suggest that your heart isn’t behind you and you really, on a deep level, don’t fully want what you think you do.

A huge part of life is being able to let go of the things that don’t serve us and this is what the ultimate part of the Resistance Test is all about. We need to identify the things that we just aren’t in alignment with so that we may learn to let them go in order to let newer and better opportunities and challenges come into our lives. If we stay stuck clinging to something old, then the universe can never “update” your life with the appropriate people, events and circumstances etc that are worthy of you in this present moment of life.

Also, without this “update” from the universe, we stay stuck in old patterns of growth that just can’t provide the lessons and experience in life that will allow us to learn what we need to in order to achieve what we want in and out of life. You can typically feel this happening to you when the people and circumstances that surround your life don’t seem to be in alignment with your own goals. I feel as though most of the times we can be prone to blaming others for our shortcomings when we are the ones choosing to keep our relationships with people and circumstances who just aren’t the best for us in life in terms of being able to support us with what we want to achieve.

Remember that we are the Creators and we choose everything and everyone. Always. Without exception.

Life doesn’t happen to us, life comes from us.

I can’t really stress how important it is to not only know, but fully understand that statement. I like to go a bit further but thinking about the world in terms of cause and effect. Our mind, our ideas, our hearts and souls are truly the world of Cause while the physical world is one of Effects. Before something can become an observable and measurable effect in the physical world, it must have a Cause somewhere in the mind of either an individual or a group of individuals.

The biggest argument people put together is that all of the seemingly random events that occur to them cannot possible be intelligent, ordered or not a coincidence. How come? Why? Who said? If this is your way of thinking, then you perhaps need to go a little bit deeper down the rabbit hole and see what can be found – and trust me, challenging your entire belief system is not easy but is the most necessary step in personal development. True intelligence and self awareness is never obtained by blinding accepting as truth what has occurred to you in the past, present and future. True conscious self awareness and intelligence comes by questioning the very things on which you believe your intelligence to be based, including all of the “facts”, “truths” and “history”.

The average person lives their life through the conscious (ego) mind, but life is more than that. Life comes from us also through our sub-conscious minds and even deeper such as at the level of the Heart or the Soul. The beliefs that we carry inside of us that are stored in the sub-conscious mind are an excellent place to begin looking when trying to figure out how Life does indeed come from us.

We create our lives and allow it to come forth through us and out into the world by the combination of all of our conscious and sub-conscious beliefs, ideas, thoughts and actions. In order to gain or accomplish anything in life, one must figure out how to harmonious put all of these forces into a single, focused and heart-inspired desire or goal that is worthy of themselves and their skills, talents and abilities.

I’d also suggest reading more into what Dr. Amit Goswami has to say and I’d highly suggest and recommend his theory where he believes that “Consciousness Is The Ground of All Being”.

I am writing this post to primarily deal with one concept that I see, feel and think is especially important to talk about; the fact is that today I am seeing more and more people trying to “manifest” and “intend” their way to wealth, happiness, success, love etc and yet they keep coming up short. I want to talk about why I think this is and what I believe the cure is.

Can You Really Manifest Success, Love or Wealth?

Before we get deep into the reasoning behind my answer, I want you to think about this and reflect on it:

If you are a Spiritual or Religious person and you’re trying your very hardest to manifest something, using the law of attraction or anything else you’d want to call it, and are having difficulty doing so, why do you think this is? Does it often seem like sometimes non-spiritual or religious people tend to be able to manifest large amounts of money, success, fame etc, while you’re struggling so hard for the same results? Let’s take a look at a lot of the common things people say about how other people who they deem not as spiritual, religious or aware as themselves could have come to acquire their things:

1. They were dishonest in acquiring it.
2. They are evil, have no sense of “heart”, “love” or “compassion”.
3. They hurt others and screwed them over in order to get things.
4. They don’t care about the environment.
5. They have a secret, hidden agenda and we can’t ever be in on it.
6. They do work that is motivated by greed, power and any other type of energy that is associated with the Will or lower, base Chakras.
7. They acquire their money by deceiving others, conning them or siphoning it away from them dishonestly.

The goes on and on, and you get the point. I see that there are great examples in which all of these things or a few of them could be true, however, ultimately, none of this matters. Why? Because there is a Golden Spiritual Truth that is built into the very structure of the universe, and this is it:

The Universe Rewards Value

You can be the most Spiritually dead and unawakened individual to ever exist in the history of mankind, but the fact of the matter is that if you can build a business that sells a product or service that is valuable, then people will do business with you and buy your products and services. This is an oversimplified version but it’s the truth.

Over time naturally the businesses with the best products, customer service, reputation and overall excellence tend to win out. But this is sort of like a natural selection process that sorts out what is truly valuable from what isn’t.

Now I made this first statement because I want you to think about it carefully. The actual truth at hand here is that we must do our best to make sure that we don’t become too caught up in our thoughts, plans and goals and forget to actually implement them.

Yin and Yang of Success

The concept of Yin and Yang is one that has been around for thousands of years and can help us to both understand and further prove this point.

As described in this excellent article about Yin Disease:

Yin refers to a quality of matter that tends to be colder, more expanded or disintegrated, centrifugal in nature (which means moving sideways outwardly and sometimes upward), often more feminine in nature, tending to be damp or more watery, more flaccid and softer.

While Yang is:

Yang in Chinese medicine and Taoist thought is the quality of more massive, more solid, harder, hotter, more contracted, more masculine, more intense, more dense, and moving downward and inward toward the earth, generally.

Ancient oriental philosophy holds that all of creation is just the interplay between these forces of Yin and Yang. You can see this everywhere in life. For example, the morning dew that forms on the grass that is wet and damp (Yin) is later dried out by the heat of the Sun (Yang). These forces have always coexisted and will continue to do so for the life of the entire universe. In other cases, Yin is directly able to change itself into Yang and vice versa – they are always flowing into each other and interacting to produce various states of matter.

When we begin to again talk about success, we can talk about it in terms of Yin and Yang. The problem that I believe most people are faced with is that they simply spend too much time trying to learn about things, and not enough time trying to implement them. As both a business owner and somebody who spends a great deal of time blogging, studying and talking to people about Spirituality, I feel that this is a very Yin characteristic.

If you remember my original point about success, it still holds true to be a golden rule.

Converting Potential Into Success

I view excessive amounts of Yin as excessive amounts of potential. The more you learn, study etc the more potential you develop within yourself. Those who are already Yin-dominated individuals are prone to becoming more infatuated with how something works, rather than how to translate it into practical real-world success and results. The Yin mind is intellectual and likes to think, especially about the bigger picture. The Yin mind is also very free and liberal and is one that is extremely in alignment with what we’d call the upper Chakras which can explain their profound need to find a “cause” in life or a work that is deeply fulfilling and of a Loving nature. Without fully activating and integrating the lower and more practical Chakras that you’d find in the Yang mind, the Yin individual finds themselves a factory that manufactures the greatest ideas on Earth yet knows not what to do with them.

I like to say then, that Yin is potential waiting to be expressed while Yang is the matter, or activator/catalyst that allows the Yin to be expressed and self-aware.

However, the good news is that the whole purpose of this blog as well as Life itself is to cultivate and promote awareness. The best quality a Yin mind can learn is how to activate and integrate the Yang within them so that they effectively learn how to take their amazing ideas and put them into immediate action in order to generate results.

I meet and talk to all sorts of people who beat themselves up over being lazy, day-dreaming procrastinators who want nothing more in life then to be able to change. There’s really nothing wrong with them. These individuals are usually just excessively Yin in nature and haven’t yet opened up to their Yang energies. Opening up to these Yang energies will cause a profound shift in the way in which you view the world. Along with Yang energies come a strong source of Will, or a type of aggressiveness that isn’t damaging yet can be frightening at first to the Yin-dominated mind.

Success In A Nutshell

The bottom line is that in order to be successful we must convert our potential into success. Those who aren’t overly Spiritual or Religious in nature can do this without a problem because they are simply expressing their potential. I don’t care if you perceive yourself or others to be the most Spiritually dead or Awakened individual walking on the face of this Earth – the point is that you can’t allow yourself to fall into the trap of not converting your Potential (that which you have learned, studied about etc) into Success (success is just the practical application of the things one has learned or studied about through books, direct experience and even practice of a particular art, craft or anything else).

Remember those who are excessive Yang can be more prone to taking action within seconds rather than thinking excessively about something. Those prone to Yang thinking can benefit from thinking things through and trying to see the bigger picture.

In my experience, Yin-oriented individuals tend to be unsuccessful because they don’t know how to apply their theories and ideas effectively while Yang individuals tend to not be successful because they can’t adapt quickly enough by thinking about how to best cope with the demands that arise rapidly during their pursuits. In a nutshell:

* Yin individuals are often too busy thinking how to be practical rather than actually being practical and trying figure out how to implement their grand ideas and plans.

* Yang individuals can sometimes be to single-minded to see the biggest picture behind what needs to be done, and why it needs to be done.

We must do our best to become successful by finding a meaningful pursuit in which we can invest all of our time, effort, intelligence, Will and Heart into. The full integration of all qualities of Yin and Yang can produce a powerhouse of an individual that is equally balanced and capable of simplifying their grand thinking into manageable and actionable steps that are simple, easy and practical to understand and work with as well as create and manage.

We will never know just how Spiritual or Religious a person even is and we should never attempt to guess. After all, Life is providing a unique learning experience for them that is exactly in alignment with who and what they are at that moment. We can’t judge or question the universe or the experiences in which others are attracting to them for their own growth and personal development.

Just remember that success doesn’t favor the Spiritually advanced, however, knowing the laws of success from a higher level of consciousness and awareness will amplify the results you can achieve in such a profound way that it isn’t able to even be calculated. The key is to stay in alignment with all of this by balancing your Yin and Yang while moving towards your desired goals in unison. This can take a bit of practice at first but it is overall one of the most valuable combinations of skills that you can ever learn and develop within yourself.

Therefore, you generate the most success just as long as you are providing a truly valuable product or service to others given enough time and patience. It doesn’t matter what level of achievement you have obtained and we must think of all things in life as catalysts to helping us further develop our consciousness and awareness. For some people, especially the Yang oriented, they can’t help but to learn through experience which is why you’ll find them chronically trying to start new products, businesses, careers etc while the Yin are chronically trying to think about new ideas or ways to change beliefs that will make them successful.

The Yang are always trying to work with the physical and material world around them to create success while the Yin are trying to work with ideas in which they hope will create and generate success for them. This doesn’t hold true 100% of the time as most individuals tend to be a mixture of both Yin and Yang, however, it’s my experience that the vast majority of people have a strong preference to one or the other. There is always the Chinese medical term of “damp heat” which we can explore at a later point in time But in all honesty, if you haven’t checked out this article about Yin and Yang Diseases than I’d highly suggest doing so as it will help this article to make a lot more sense to you as a reader. It also goes into more health-oriented stuff and how Yin and Yang tend to manifest as disease within the body.

These are the two main ways in which the Yin and Yang energies approach the world. One is not better or more “right” or “wrong” than the other. They are both custom-tailored learning experiences for two different styles of individuals to learn by and work with in their lives.

When a caterpillar has come to the end of a blade of grass, it reaches out to another blade, and draws itself over to it. In the same way the soul, having coming to the end of one life, reaches out to another body, and draws itself over to it.
A goldsmith takes an old ornament. and fashions it into a new and more beautiful one. In the same way the soul. as it leaves one body, looks for a new body which is more beautiful.
The soul is divine. But through ignorance people often identify the soul with the mind, the senses and the emotions. Some people even identify the soul with the elements of earth, water, air. space and fire.
As people act, so they become. If their actions are good. they become good; if their actions are bad, they become bad. Good deeds purify those who perform them; bad deeds pollute those who perform them.
Thus we may say that we are what we desire. Our will springs from our desires; our actions spring from our will; and what we are, springs from our actions. We may conclude, therefore, that the state of our desires at the time of death determines our next life; we return to earth in order to satisfy those desires.

What I Believe This Means

Regardless of it’s attachment to Hinduism, I like this quote because it expresses the fact that we are basically the sum total of all of our actions and deeds – this is our Being. I always say that we are our “BEing”, we become that which we do, and what we do is what we become.

Picture for a moment a glass of water that is currently empty. Let’s pretend that this glass is the human soul. As we perform these “bad deeds” the glass fills with a black liquid, and as we perform these “good deeds” the glass becomes full of a white liquid. Now, try to picture this glass as your own self. What percentage of this glass is filled with black and white liquid, at any given moment? Imagine that this white liquid contains a vibration of purification and love that helps to accelerate us towards achieving our desires while this black liquid carries a vibration of selfish control that is devoid of love, caring and empathy that pollutes everything that it touches.

Those deeds that we perform in a selfless manner without gaining something at the expensive of another would generate white liquid, while those deeds that we perform that benefit us at the expensive of another in a selfish manner would generate black liquid.

I really specifically like the line that says, “As people act, so they become”. This is quite true. If you could follow anybody in the world around for a day and observe their actions, you’d easily be able to see why they have become what they have become. I always try to do this with myself as I believe it is a valuable exercise in personal development.

The next part to pay attention to is, “If their actions are good. They become good; if their actions are bad, they become bad.”. This is also entirely true. How can you perform a “bad” action (one that negatively impacts the life of another) and hope to become good through it? For example, let’s say you were a school bully and stole lunch money from 10 kids a day, everyday. The actions you took produced a pollution effect in you at that time. The best way to sum this up comes from a line in an Austin Powers movie, from the character Fat Bast***. He says, “I eat because I am unhappy, and I am unhappy because I eat”. This is a classic paradox and duality that many people are faced with. It can be hard to identify where the problem or thought that leads to these actions truly comes from, but stepping outside of your mind and observing the thoughts helps you to remember that you are not your thoughts, you are the observer of them. This also means that you are not your mind nor are you the contents of your mind. Instead, you observe the thoughts you have and the contents of your mind from your soul as consciousness doesn’t originate in the mind itself.

The next line that I like is, “Thus we may say that we are what we desire”. This is also quite true, because everybody has desires; we are constantly trying to become in life (or have/hold/do) those things that we desire. We as human beings only tend to pursue those things that we desire and they vary from person to person. Some people have a strong desire for money, power, control, women or fame. Others have strong desires for peace, cheaper energy, better education and government systems. The bottom line is that we ultimately spend our life times trying to become, have and see those things that we desire become real and manifest in our lives. Thus, we can say that we are constantly becoming the things that we desire in life through our actions.

Our Willpower stems from our desires as well and the strength of it is determined by the quality of our actions and the amount of passion that we possess for our desires.

Reincarnation Quotes and Opinions

I acknowledge that this quote is primarily about reincarnation, but I must admit that I posted it to evoke you to think and make a connection between your thoughts, desires, actions and what you are “becoming” in life as a result of how these things work in combination. I don’t doubt for a second that we reincarnate, however, my own opinions on that manner are best saved for another time

Creating Results In Life Takes Time

I’m not here to say that certain dreams, goals or desires will take a certain amount of time. I don’t have the unlimited wisdom in order to determine how people reach their dreams in life. What I can tell you is that what you believe to be true about your goals will greatly influence the way in which you achieve them.

For example: there was probably a period of time in your life where learning how to tie your shoe laces together was the biggest goal imaginable. Now, where does learning how to tie shoes score on your priorities for things to learn, accomplish and achieve in life?

Once you learned how to tie your shoes, you most likely quickly made it into a habit. At first, you probably tied your shoe laces 30 times per hour in order to feel how good it felt to know that you learned a new skill that you’ve been trying to develop. You probably tied your shoe laces for all of the world to see many times over. Eventually you also learned that you couldn’t walk without tripping over your shoes unless those laces were tied. So what did you do about this? You made tying your shoes together a daily habit and a part of your routine. These days, I doubt you’d approach tying your shoes with the same enthusiasm as you did when you first learned. While you were still little, you’ve recognized that tying your shoes is an important part of everyday living and comfort so you took the time to incorporate it into a habit. After thousands of hours of practice, it comes effortlessly – but just remember that this effortless tying of your shoe laces that you enjoy today didn’t come so easily and naturally to you while you were still little and learning how to do it.

The point is that it took time to learn and develop this skill. The more excited you were about learning how to do this, the more time and practice you were willing to dedicate to learning how to tie your shoe laces. Most likely you could have learned alongside a group of friends of a similar age which could have even sparked a little bit of competition.

At the end of the day, it took a certain amount of time to learn this skill. The feeling of “wanting it now” can sometimes help us to create things faster in life, since it’s a natural flow and channel of Willpower, however, we must be careful that these feelings of “wanting it now” aren’t accompanied by a feeling of lack, despair or abandonment. Let’s think about the tying of shoe laces analogy again. Let’s consider some of the different types of children and how they approach learning to tie their shoes:

- The child who is passionate about learning how to tie shoes that possesses a natural curisoity.

- The child who is pressured into learning how to tie their shoes because the other “grown ups” around them all say that they should know how to do it by now.

- The child who wants to learn how to tie their shoes but just feels as though they don’t know how, can never learn and feel as though they can’t ask anybody for help because they are afraid of the criticism that they might receive.

- The child who is trying to learn how to tie their shoes but becomes easily frustrated, disappointed and let down whenever he experiences a failure. His attempts are filled with anger at himself, the shoe laces and the people who are trying to teach him how to do it correctly.

- The child who is afraid to even begin to learn how to tie their shoes. This can be for any reason – maybe they are filled with fear in general, are afraid they will do it wrong or maybe they are even afraid that they will do it right. The child who is afraid that he/she will do it right is usually paralyzed by the fear of not knowing what’s “next” after they are successful.

Do the stories of these children sound familiar to you? They truly echo and reflect back to us the roots of personal development.

Before You Can Create Results & Success – Understand That It Takes Time

Any goal that is worthy of yourself, your skills, talents and abilities is probably going to be a goal that doesn’t happen over night. It’s important to try and visualize what you are wanting to accomplish and see how this is true. For example, I’d love to have this website become the biggest personal development site and resource on the Internet. I know that isn’t going to happen by tomorrow (although there is a slight chance, it’s still largely improbable). However, I understand that I can largely influence how fast that this does happen by examining some of the factors I have control over such as:

- How many articles I write per day
- How much time I spend promoting this personal development blog to others
- Making sure I create content that others would want to read/link to

And I can also setup smaller goals and plan for smaller milestones that act as smaller “successes” that help me to know I’m moving towards my larger goal that will help to keep me motivated. Some examples include:

- How many visitors per day I am getting
- The percentage increase in my traffic from month to month

If any of these things stay still or begin to slid backwards, I know that I am not doing the amount of work necessary in order to achieve my goals. It’s all about understanding that these truly big, mind-blowing dreams are not built all at once. Like the construction of any building, it is built piece by piece at a time. I know the work I do today that will help me to better understand new concepts (such as learning to tie shoe laces) will come in better handy for tomorrow while working on bigger goals (perhaps the child went on to become somebody who climbs Mt. Everest and thus had to become an expert at learning how to tie certain knots and using equipment that people trust with their lives to help them reach the top).

While you are creating or working towards any goal in life, it’s important to know and truly understand the following and believe in it:

- My goal will have periods of ups and downs, and I am prepared to face the challenging times and move into them. I understand that I can only overcome my fear of something by deliberately throwing myself into it, figuring it out, and mastering it. By doing this, I develop a stronger and stronger Willpower until those things that I once feared become easy-to-do habits, such as tying shoe laces.

- Everything happens one step at a time, and I should identify the things that I can easily do and then break them up into even smaller steps and do them little by little as I see fit. Eventually, as I master newer and better things, I can increase myself in a way that doesn’t cause a “burn out”.

- I will identify smaller marks of success that I will use in order to keep my spirits high. These smaller successes will tell me that I am moving forward in the right direction. Discipline

- If I am repeatedly trying something and not being successful with it, then I need to be honest with myself and ask if this is something that I truly feel is right for me and want for myself. Passion/Willpower is often the greatest driving force that we have access to as humans. It gives us access to a certain quality of inner-strength and energy that can only be activated and tapped into while we are coming from a deep place of Passion. Without this energy, we must be willing to accept that we are only bringing a fraction of our true potential to the table.

My last piece of advice is this:

It’s OK to allow some things to take time to develop fully the way you would like them to. The skills you are using and learning today can be applied to bigger and better things tomorrow. This is why it’s important to give yourself fully and completely 100% to everything that you are doing in life right now; you never know how what you learn will be of vital importance and use to your goals and dreams tomorrow.

The most important thing is to just apply the knowledge that you gain through your experiences in life towards the things you are most passionate about. Your Passion is your Willpower which is your gateway into unlimited potential in life.

What Is Willpower?

I believe that Willpower is first a foremost a form of Self-Discipline. Willpower is the art of mastering knowing when it’s time to take action and when it’s time to refrain yourself from taking action. Being able to successfully use your Willpower will then involve learning how to do two things:

* Understanding when it’s time to act

* Understanding when it’s time to refrain from taking action. This includes Procrastination. Procrastination is still a form of “doing something”. Being able to successfully cultivate Willpower then requires us to refrain from doing certain actions, such as Procrastination.

I believe that the most important aspect of Willpower, that is often overlooked, is mastering the part about refraining and stopping yourself from taking action. Most people have a goal in mind, such as to lose weight, quit smoking or drinking, and they think that the answer is to just summon an immense amount of Willpower and stop these things cold turkey. While this may work for a small percentage of people, the vast majority will fail; but it doesn’t have to be this way.

The best thing you can do is to look at your goals and put them into perspective and break them down into smaller and tiny manageable parts. You should then try to understand what actions in your life are the actions that you should stop taking immediately in order for you to make progress towards your desired goal or intention. This is much more effective and easier then trying to force yourself to overcome something. If you ever feel resistance in life, it’s because it’s there for a reason. Resistance is our feelings and emotions trying to tell us to look and something and question its presence deeply so that we can find out what’s really troubling us.

For example, if you are trying to achieve a goal, such as getting an A on your next paper, then you should consider both things that you need to act on and refrain from acting on in order to make this a reality. Obviously, you should be acting on the fact that you need to be studying, writing and researching a lot. You should probably also refrain from doing a lot of things also, such as playing video games, going out with friends when you have important work on the paper to do or excessively procrastinating. It’s common to just force yourself to write, but that feeling of force will create a lot of pressure that you’ll rebel against. Instead, you’ll most likely end up doing the things that make you feel good and produce an instant effect, such as playing video games, going out with friends etc. A trick is that if you use your Self-Discipline to refrain from doing those things that work against you and your goal, then you’ll only be left with acting on those things that will bring you closer and closer towards it until you finally achieve it.

Willpower Is Best Used In Combination With Thought

Here’s what I have to say about Thought:

Thought in and of itself is Creative – it sparks new ideas, interests, goals and passions in our lives. Thought is where all of our ideas about who we are and what we want to be and do in life come from. It would be impossible to take any sort of action without Thought.

Once we understand this, then we can then understand that Thought is the Cause of all things and so we must develop Willpower in order to apply our Thoughts (in the form of ideas, knowledge, dreams, goals etc). Willpower is then the means by which we can apply our Thoughts and make them a reality.

It’s not uncommon for people who lack Willpower to come up with great idea after great idea and then do nothing about them. How many people like this do you know? Perhaps you are this person? I know I myself am guilty of being this person quite often. The ideas themselves can be absolutely brilliant and if applied could be roaring successes, however, the problem is not with the ideas themselves usually. It’s just that the individual behind the ideas lacks the Willpower to make them a reality. I like to think of these great ideas as catalysts since they are usually present in order to inspire us to act on them. The universe will continue to send great ideas our way until we understand the process better and can begin working on and learning the next set of lessons life has to offer us.

But how do we do this?

Being able to use Willpower in order to make Thought real and tangible requires the above two steps I’ve mentioned, and a hell of a lot of Focus. One of the best skills you can ever learn to develop in life is Focus since it’s the means by which you can channel your efforts into something long enough to see them through to becoming a Reality. This is what Willpower is all about.\

All of these things work exactly like a muscle does. You have to perform a lot of concentrated exercises in order to make the muscles of your Thought, Willpower and Focus grow large enough to the point where they can be effective in helping you to achieve the goals and desires that you have set for yourself in life. And like all muscles, there are a limitless amount of ways in which you can train them to make them stronger, faster and bigger. The key is that you must constantly keep training them in order to get the results. This is why it’s important to be able to focus so much.

Keep a lookout for my next article. I plan to discuss how Willpower often “leaks” out of an individual because of one particularly strong belief that can be present.

This belief is one of the most strongest negative inhibitors to personal development that I have ever seen. It all has to do with understanding and expecting what it takes to be successful. Most people aren’t willing to develop Willpower because they aren’t willing to dedicate and put in the necessary amount of time to become great at something. They shrink away from any challenge and constantly just try to do what’s easy and comfortable and they repeat this scenario thinking that the next thing that comes along will present them the “break” that they have been long waiting for.

I believe that in order to first answer this question, like all other questions, we need to first drop and shed all of our previously held beliefs (especially including our religious beliefs) so that we may find and explore an alternate way of thinking about this.

I’m going to tell you right now that the problem isn’t with the “answer”. When I say this, I mean that I’ve observed hundreds of people struggle, debate, fight and go to all sorts of extremes to A). come up with the “right” answer and then B). go through great lengths and periods of needing to prove that their answer and clever rationalization about the question is “right”.

I’m going to challenge you right now by asking you a NEW question after challenging your existing beliefs about the original question. It’s safe to say that most people (especially Christians) are born into a mindset that from the moment they are born, they are evil sinners waging an internal war for their souls based upon their actions, deeds and offering so that they can end up in Heaven with God instead of Hell with Satan.

Yet, if I believed that I was inherently a negative sinner born into a world of negativity and sin – I would imagine that this belief would heavily influence my own actions and my expectations of other people’s actions towards me and their world. I find that many people attempt to remedy this action by proclaiming some higher deity or figure as their “savior” which, in my opinion, totally strips one of self responsibility and self awareness. I’m not saying these figures did or didn’t exist, but what I am going to bet my house on is the fact that they didn’t come in order to be the easy way out for people to get free rides into their Heaven of choice – these figures taught that one must continually work on themselves by increasing their awareness, developing character, strength, love and compassion. They were meaning to be the “way” in the sense that one should study their way of life, actions and compassion and then duplicate it in their own lives and relationships towards others; this ensures that we, as individuals, live a life that is fundamentally the same as our deity of choice. This is also the way in which we come to increase our own self awareness and awareness of the fact that we are indeed Creators.

But wait a minute!

Most religions will then teach that we can never be “equal” to these divine figures because they are usually some sort of special manifestation of God. Then where do we as human beings stand? We are told to emulate and be exactly like those figures that we are also told we will never, ever, be able to become since they are the physical manifestation of God. Sounds like a bad purgatory to be in (all pun intended)… Anyway, moving on!

Why Doesn’t God Get Rid of Evil, Sin and the Devil?

I believe this is the wrong question to ask as it tends to be heavily biased towards a religious way of thinking. Instead, let me challenge you a little bit by asking you this question,

“What If This World Was Never Meant to Be Free Of Evil? Or What If, Long Ago, It Really Was Free of Evil, and Now, It Isn’t (Think the Garden of Eden)?”

“What if, in this perfect Garden of Eden, God came to notice that we as individual souls could not further grow or evolve as souls because we lived in a perfectly positively state, free of evil. As a father, mother, uncle, brother or a good and caring friend you need to ask yourself, “Don’t I want the best for the people I love the most? Don’t I want them to know happiness, to know themselves completely?”.

What if all of the souls in this perfect Garden of Eden hit a block. What if it became impossible for them to expand their own conscious awareness and to grow and develop further? What if they had perpetual love, joy and peace, but couldn’t even fully understand what it was, since they lacked any real experience with it? What if they really couldn’t “know” what these things were, because they had never experienced them before and only knew them intellectually? Wouldn’t that seem like an awkward existence?

Most people at this point are turned off and enraged by these statements. They reflect back on their lives and feel all of the pain, anger and frustration that they’ve felt and they want nothing more then to return back to such a state of perfection. You must realize that All Evil and Bad Things Become Good Things and that even in the root of all anger, hatred and greed are the seeds of love, joy and passion. You must become aware of both sides of the coin. You must choose one over the other, and do so with Free Will. It has to be YOUR CHOICE and the choice of nobody else, not even the Infinite Creator.

Don’t you think it would get boring after awhile, to be stuck at a certain level of consciousness, when you knew that achieving even higher levels were completely possible? Think about it. What if you were trying to increase your income. You know it’s possible, but you can’t do it. Your stuck. How does that feel? Say you want to have a family, but you can’t have kids. You’re stuck. How do you feel? Say you don’t like the way you look and you know it’s possible to change, yet your stuck. How does it feel? Rather then dwell on what the pain of life feels like, I want you to focus on what it’s like to feel stuck in life and hold on to that thought as we start going deeper into this.

The Answer Is Free Will and Free Choice

Yes, the answer is Free Will. What if I told you that the entire purpose of this existence is to have “negative” “evil” and “bad” events present alongside with “positive” and “good” things so that you could grow and expand your conscious awareness as a human being and a soul?

I hope you are starting to see the point of this article here, and how religious such as Christianity begin to stumble on its own toes here.

The bottom line, and most important thing to remember after reading all of this, is that Free Will is a great place to start when trying to decide upon your Truths that you will believe in life. Why do I say this? Because you can prove without a shadow of a doubt, that Free Will exists. You are using your Free Will right here and now. You’ve decided to read this article this far, and you can decide this very instant to stop, to read it later, to read it faster… Or to read it slower…… You always have a choice. Free Will in essence (as many religious also confirm) is “God’s Gift” to us. Yet, you must understand that Free Will is not possible without a negative polarity existing at the same time as a positive polarity. Simplified, we can say that Free Will is not possible without both Good and Evil, because we must always ultimately decide between the two. Good and Evil, Positive and Negative give us our orientation, our identity and our own unique awareness.

If God were to eliminate all Evil and Negativity, then we’d be back into this perfect Garden of Eden with nothing but “Good” but no opportunity to grow. Going back to my own analogy about what it would be like as a father, mother, friend etc to watch your loved one live life – you’d want nothing but the best for them. Sometimes we have to watch those we love go through a lot of pain, but the whole point of life is that we go through this pain, using our Free Will, to become aware of ourselves and what we stand for. The Infinite Intelligence of the Creator is built in to us, because we are the same, as I will demonstrate shortly. The Creator is always there and its Infinite Intelligence is always able to guide us along our paths as long as we are actively engaged in becoming more aware.

You will notice this whenever you think you find a certain Truth or an answer to your question. The universe will always push you to become better and test how well you know yourself and are willing to standby in what you believe. It always knows what to bring you next so that you may continue to grow, or live life however you want. The next book, relationship, friendship or situation is only a thought away. You just need to be making progress. If you aren’t, then just ask for it.

We experience Negativity so that we may declare that it is not for us. We experience Evil and Bad so that we stop creating it in our lives and in the lives of others. We must experience all evil so that we can use our Free Will to decide that it’s not for us, it’s not who we are, and that we will have no part in creating it in the lives of other people all at the same time.

Be The Change You Wish To See In the World

What if I told you that you were a Creator, made of the same Essence as the one Infinite Creator?

Consider this analogy I’ve just thought of: let’s call the ocean the Infinite Creator. If you take a cup and scoop up water from the ocean, then what is that water? Let’s call the water in the cup the Soul and the cup itself the Body. The water in the cup is still the Infinite Creator even though it is contained in the Cup/Body. It may experience itself as being Separated from the Ocean/Infinite Creator because of its containment, when in fact, it is not. It is still the same water from the ocean, just being expressed in a different way. We too, are like the water in the cup. We are part of the Infinite Creator, but in our cups, it’s easy to forget where we originally came from. We, just like the water in the cup, will always return back to its Source.

The Soul will always flow back into its Source, as will the water in the cup flow back into the ocean. Always. And negativity is present in our world to help remind us who we are by helping us to reawaken to our true essence even while we are not able to see how we are made of the same essence as the Infinite Creator. In perfection, it’s way too easy to live in joy, bliss and harmony for eternity. But you’d never actually know what it feels like to choose those things and to live by them. This is what life helps us to accomplish. You must know and understand Evil, Bad Negativity etc in order to understand yourself as a Loving, Good and Positive being. This is the realization the soul needs to understand in order to flow back into its source.

God doesn’t let any sort of Negativity or Evil exist in the world to punish us. He does it because he loves us. And too give you something else to think of, consider the role of Free Will in all of this. If God gave us Free Will, I doubt that he’d cast us into bodies and tell us to live our lives blindly or as any sort of punishment. We CHOOSE to come here. We CHOOSE this life and all of the wonderful things it has to teach of our own Free Will. You wanted all of this to teach yourself and to remind you who you really are. Just live a life of love/passion and learn to use your Free Will to your advantage. Your world is just the mirror of your thoughts, words and actions.

*** Important Update *** Click the above link for all Steve Jobs Book Reviews and additional information such as where to buy Steve Jobs book, pricing and more descriptions.

OK, this is a very exciting day as 10/24/2011 marks (according to Amazon) the official release date of the new Steve Jobs book and biography as written by Walter Isaacson. Currently, I see it available for digital download, hardcover and as an audiobook if you click the link above here. I’m personally buying the Kindle edition and sending it to my iPad – however, it hasn’t started downloading yet as of early morning on the 24th.

Steve Jobs Book Review

In the meanwhile, let’s take a brief look about the history of the book and what it promises to deliver.

* The first interesting fact is that Steve Jobs approached Walter Isaacson to write this book and wanted absolutely no control over the entire project. He didn’t even want to read it and give it a final approval before it was to be released. He did this because he wanted all of his strengths and weaknesses to be highlighted most by the people that both knew and competed against him. The content was created based on over 40 interviews from Jobs himself as well as numerous other unedited and unfiltered interviews about the people who he knew, worked with and loved, as well as those who were forced to pit their companies and their minds against his. The book will highlight some of the straight-forward, almost brutal things Steve had to say as well as what others had to say about him in return.

* The book tells the story of a young Steve Jobs all the way up to his present life and death. It promises to deliver an exceptional insight into the mind, habits and influences that have come to shape him as one of the most successful and innovate Creators of our times. This material will help shed a lot of light into a life that was kept relatively secret and simple over the years; just like many of Apple’s products.

What You Can Expect from the Steve Jobs Book – Where to Buy Steve Jobs Book

Although a lot of information about Steve is public knowledge, this book promises to look more in-depth and past all of the secrecy that has surrounded him for years. Plain and simple: this book should help us to understand Steve’s personal life and what went into creating and sculpting it which we can then use as a resource to better understand his philosophy behind running Apple and creating its visionary products.

Jobs was undoubtedly a man whose personal life and philosophy permeated everything he did in his business affairs. Some have called him a genius while others have called him a maniacal control freak. The bottom line was that he will always be remembered as a pioneering, visionary genius who saw things and had ideas about how technology could improve our lives that we, as people, haven’t even thought of or even considered we needed yet.

One of the most promising parts of the book I hope to take away is to see how his infusion of passion, control, willpower, genius and spirituality all combined to create the Apple products that we know and love. If anything, that is why I will buy Steve Jobs book.

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.

It’s a great philosophy. I can’t claim to have personally known him nor can I claim that this was his own personal philosophy, however, after watching (all of the material I will link to below) I think you can agree with me on one important point:

Steve Jobs Was Not Afraid to Die.

How can I claim this? I believe what separated Steve Jobs from other people in terms of his mentality and the way that he thought and acted was quite profound. For example, Steve Jobs understood that he was not an immortal being. People usually procrastinate, become lazy and don’t aspire to achieve much and I would argue that this could be based upon a belief that one is immortal and that there will always be the future to rely on. After all, the future has always come so why shouldn’t we expect it to be there?

Steve Jobs understood that he was not an immortal human being (despite his wild success, popularity, fortune and fame) and this provided the impetus for him to take risks that modeled this way of thinking. He understood who he was, what he wanted and that he only had a certain amount of time on his hands for him to achieve his vision. It doesn’t matter how creative, innovative or genius you are. If you believe that you have all of the time in the world to play around with, then you are going to fall short.

Steve Jobs understood a great deal about life. We can catch glimpses of the personal philosophy of Steve Jobs in these videos and quotes:

Steve Jobs Quotes

“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”.

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.”.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much — if at all.”.

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech

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.

The meaning you give your life in terms of what you mean when interacting with yourself, others and the world helps to shape and create who and what you are. It is also the first real opportunity we have to examine our beliefs (both conscious and unconscious) which allows us to have more control when trying to create what we want in life and when dealing and interacting with others.

When I say this, for the next few days, whenever you get involved in a situation with another person or begin to have an internal dialogue with yourself, I want you to sort of step out of your mind for a moment and watch yourself. We always prescribe a meaning to all of our interactions. We do this by setting up expectations about ourselves, about the other people involved and about what we believe the outcome will entail.

The Meaning Behind the Meaning

If you hold certain unconscious or conscious beliefs such as “this is too hard”, “I’m not ever good enough”, “I hate the people I have to deal with at work” or “nobody loves me”, you’ll quickly find out while doing my exercise that these very beliefs are actually causing you to influence your own interactions more than you could ever believe. At the root of this is one basic fact: we cannot ever assume our lives to be one-way, selfish existences. Other people are at the other end of our interactions and they are going to feed off of the energy, mindset and behavior that we first bring to the table.

As you become better at observing what you are bringing into your interactions in terms of energy, expectations and mindsets, it should begin to become clearer to you as to how and why people react to you the way that they do. After all, you do this all of the time to other people. Have you ever looked at somebody and judged them? Have you ever started to talk to someone and then started to form an opinion about them? It’s all about the expectations that we create when we see and interact with people; these expectations are largely influenced by many things such as:

- Overall appearance/How we present ourelves (Think sloppy vs. well put together)
- How we speak (Intelligent and Knowledgeable vs. uneducated and using slang speech etc)
- Your overall outlook on life, events and people (Are you a constant downer to be around or are you positive and upbeat? Do you talk about your health problems and what’s wrong with the world and do you bring joy, inspiration and creativity to others? Do you make people feel bad about themselves or do you push people to do their best while they are around you?) I’m not saying that it’s never acceptable to talk about what is bad once in awhile, but do you do this constantly to the point that it’s all you can talk to others about and relate to them with? If you can only connect to other people through negative aspects, such as what is wrong, why something is bad etc then you seriously need to evaluate your overall sense of mental and emotional well-being and begin to do some work there and find a seed of happiness to build momentum off of. In a world where our thoughts color the portrait of our souls, the outcome of an individual who does this is always predictable without failure.

These things help to give people an idea about you which in turn helps them to create a mental category and class for you. Studying these things and coming to know yourself is one of the most important personal development tools that we have – especially when you partner this with the understanding that we shouldn’t be selfish and assume that nobody is actually having to deal with us as human beings. Everything that we do and every interaction we have, whether with ourselves, other people or the world, leave an undeniable blueprint and trace of everything that makes us who we are.

You Give The Meanings, You Create Everything

As you become more of the meanings you give all of the different elements in your life, you will begin to understand just how and why you create the things you do while simultaneously understanding why people interact the way that they do with you. Everything should be considered with a holistic, whole-body approach while not trying to hard to focus on one aspect of something that doesn’t matter in the larger picture.

When you can understand the meanings you are giving to people, yourself and circumstances in life, you can also use this awareness as a window into the thought and belief system that is unique to you. What you can do with that window, no matter how small at first, is unlimited.

Always be present in everything that you do, and everything will remain clear.

I’ve learned that if I can get through anything in life, then it’ll make me stronger.

What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Stronger

My first insight into discovering this is looking at the human body. Even though we can observe much illness and disease in the world, we can also observe one single fact – the natural state of the human body is not disease, it is health; whenever a human body becomes diseased, then it’s natural drive and inclination is to repair itself and find health again.

I believe that as much as we feel as individuals that we have a purpose in life and as much as we seek our own fulfillment, so does our own human body. The human body has its own highest image and version of itself that it tries to fulfill constantly even if it slips in and out of our awareness. We all have a certain way that we want to look or feel and you can say that this is the energy of the body trying to tell you what it’s own highest image of itself is.

Think about this:

The last time you scrapped yourself and bled, how did you stop the bleeding and repair the wound?

Exactly.

You don’t know, because the bodily processes that are responsible for this happen under our own conscious awareness. However, just because we can’t understand how such a repair process begins or functions doesn’t mean that it doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you are from, but I can assure you that as long as you are alive, and whatever medical or health condition you have, your body is working to repair itself, fix the damage and return itself back to health regardless of anything else. It doesn’t matter how educated or smart you are. None of those things matter. The only exception would be a chronic illness that works to systemically weaken the body, but even in these examples the body is healing itself by working to prevent the extent of the damage being done while working within its limitations to keep itself as healthy and alive as possible.

I guess we can argue that another big exception exists as well, and these are what I would call environmental factors such as toxins (drugs, alcohol, smoking). A big emphasis should be placed on certain prescription drugs as well as they can cause great imbalance within the body leading to all sorts of health problems. The problem with synthetic drugs is that we are talking about chemical compounds that don’t occur naturally within nature – this means that your body has no idea how to process them, because it’s not something that the cellular memory within the body has ever seen. Even in the presence of these toxins, the body never stops working to return itself to health. Even the individual who is constantly poisoning their body with drugs and alcohol has a body that won’t quit on them. It will keep on fighting until its last breath is taken, all because the body feels the compelling urge to find its own purpose and fulfillment in life.

The Body in Body Building

Years ago I began to understand this when I started to lift weights. It became very apparent to me that after each workout I had, I became bigger, faster and stronger. This meant that after I stressed and damaged my muscles, they were repairing themselves to better handle that kind of sustained stress. The result is that my strength and endurance increased.

After discovering this, I wanted to take this understanding and test it to its limits. My philosophy quickly became one that allowed me to undergo the most intensive workouts imaginable, but the entire time I would laugh and say to myself that I understood one simple fact:

The more I push myself through my perceived limitations and weaknesses, the stronger I will become because my body knows exactly how to repair the damage that I have done to it so that it can make itself stronger and more able to withstand heavier weights, more intensive workouts and whatever else I could physically put it through.

I had no idea how my body knew how to repair itself, all I knew is that it did. Every single time. And I came to trust that.

Eventually I started to think outside of what the body was able to accomplish. I wanted to next understand if this same principle would work for the mind, or the soul, so that I could produce better results in my life. And if this was possible, I wanted to understand how it was done.

If You Can Do It, It Makes You Stronger

The answer that I have found is that yes, this does work as a practical philosophy of life. Just like I discovered I could push my body to become bigger, stronger and faster, I found that I could use these same strategies and apply them to my life to achieve any result that I wanted to.

I quickly found that by subjecting myself to certain experiences in life and getting myself to accomplish them, I could basically get the same result.

A great analogy I have developed is this:

Life is a lot like trying to lift weights. There are certain times when I’d be lying down flat underneath the bench press, just about to try and lift an amount of weight heavier then I have ever attempted before. Sometimes I’d be able to lift it no problem and then I’d do it a few more times until my body gets used to it. Other times I can get the weight up but can’t really finish it; that’s no big deal because I’ve learned that even if you can’t finish what you’ve started, the limited amount of work you did will still make you stronger for your next attempt even if it doesn’t seem obvious to you right there in that moment. If I can’t lift it at all, then that tells me that I’m not yet ready to function at that level and further training is required.

Life works the same way. Sometimes we try things and even if they are hard, we can get through it. Then we repeat the process until what we are doing becomes easy to us, like second nature. Other times, things are challenging enough where we can’t do them easily but they still require a lot of effort and further dedication on our part until we can make it easy for us to do and repeat with less effort the more we try. Other times we try and try but we can’t seem to get anywhere which means that we have not yet developed the inner strength, skill and talent to accomplish what we have set ourselves out to do.

Most importantly, the difficulty in which we face doing something (whether it’s easy, hard or somewhere in-between) is a direct form of feedback. It’s telling us how easy or hard something is relative to our unique abilities, skills and talents in that moment. You should never become overly discouraged or even overly happy by how easy or hard something to do is. Instead, see it all as a form of feedback. And you know what they say – failure and success are feedback, and feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Chances are if you keep on doing things that are extremely easy for you, then you aren’t going to get much out of them over the long run. When something is to easy, it’s a form of feedback saying that we aren’t challenging ourselves enough to grow. Where growth is not present unhappiness isn’t very far away. Counter to this you can say that if you are continually trying something that is too hard for you to lift, or to do, then you should consider moving yourself over to something that is out of the “hard” range and more in the “medium” range until you can build up the strength you need. I hope you consider all of this with your goals as well. Sometimes buying that house or that car or starting that business is just in the “hard” range at the moment. Identify what is in the “medium” range and tackle that until you’ve developed yourself to the point where you can move into what was previously considered “hard” and try again.

Keep On Trying

Using those strategies that I have just outlined above should keep you busy for quite a long time. To take another chapter out of my personal experience, I can recommend that you don’t ever avoid things that seem too hard or too much for you to handle as those are often the things that you need to do right away. For years I used to do this until I learned that avoiding these things was actually the cause of why my energy was always so low and why I always felt so drained. The more you avoid these things, the weaker it actually makes you feel. Then you sit back and say to yourself, “Damn, I don’t have any energy to do that!”. It’s really because you’ve set up a bunch of vacuums in your energy field that are sucking you dry.

The universe is instead set up in such a way that you receive the greatest amounts of energy and fuel when you are doing those things that challenge and demand the most out of you. I know it doesn’t seem very rational, but it’s the way things work. And if you think about it, this is very rational because it’s the universe’s way of providing you with new and creative energy since the universe itself is nothing but a creative entity. When you are pushing yourself, being creative and trying to expand yourself by tackling problems larger then yourself, then you are commanding a certain type of spiritual energy that fills you up and floods you if you allow it to that will help you to overcome anything. This is because you are tapping into the essence of the universe – creativity – and drawing it for your own use.

I also like to view my mind as the memory in a computer. A certain type of memory called Random-Access-Memory, or RAM, is responsible for running programs and other things on a short term basis. When you open up new programs or a web-browsing session, it’s the job of RAM to provide the computer with enough memory to see that things get done smoothly and not slowly or with delay. I’m sure you’ve all had the pleasure of using a computer that was “slow” at one point or another in your life. The computer is slow because there are too many programs open that are demanding too much of the computer’s RAM. The human mind can work the same way. If you try to think about too many things at once (especially negative things) then you are effectively draining your own RAM, your own vital life energy until things become so slow they crawl to a sudden stop. Don’t let your life run this way. Viruses (which we can compare to certain negative thoughts and habits we have developed) can be picked up along the way and many times we don’t even know we have them. The only symptoms of their presence is a computer that behaves slower then usual or crashes more then usual and again this is because viruses are like parasites that leach RAM in the same way that certain negative habits and thoughts that we don’t even know we have such our energy dry until we too crash.

Instead, understand that the universe provides you more energy with tackling larger problems in life. When you get through these problems and difficult experiences, you become infused with intelligence and wisdom in the form of experience that is difficult to explain to others but all-so-real and certain to your own self. This still means that you need to keep track of your own energy and close down those programs and thoughts that don’t serve you and steal your RAM and your energy. With practice, you’ll eventually be able to direct your own energy and you will learn to fill yourself up by only doing those things that flood you with energy over time.

Just Do It

Just like with exercise and workouts, completing the workout and remaining alive will guarantee you that your body knows exactly how to rebuild itself and become stronger. This same rule works in your life with everything else. Get through it and you’ll be infused with the experience of knowing what to do and what not to do. You’ll figure out a way to get better at doing things with practice and repetition.

What I want to talk about today is the concept by which how “bad” or “evil” things ultimately always become “good things”. This is really tough ground to walk on because a lot of this involves a very subjective way of thinking, but here we go!

First I want to say that we need to move past our human need to judge, validate and criticize what we see in our lives and the world. As human beings, it is impossible for us to ever gather 100% of all of the data, information and experience that we would need in order to successfully “judge” anything, let alone to call something “right” or “wrong”; this is impossible as we can’t hold all of this information in our waking, conscious mind. With this in mind, I’d like to introduce the concept of judgement as something that is entirely unique to the human being doing the “judging”. Why? Because they are using all of the data, information and experience that they themselves have gathered over their lifetime in order to arrive at any sort of conclusion or judgement about anything at all.

I believe that this is where the concept of an omnipotent God, or all an all-knowing God or set of dieties was born from. Very early on in the beginning of what we’d call conscious human existence, man lived in a world full of fear based on the fact that they couldn’t see any order or predict events or natural disasters with any sort of certainty in the world. Thus, early man created their religions and Gods to fulfill what they believed was missing from their lives – some sort of element that seemed to “know everything” and was capable of judging with complete authority because of their divine nature. To this day we as human being still live in fear of the fact that we cannot predict anything in life or the world and we live in fear of the fact that we still cannot see any sort of natural order in the world or our lives. That is, until good ‘ol science came along!

Good, Evil and Science

The power of science came to be as a result of a domineering early Christian church that was often very corrupt and demanded that it’s followers take it’s teachings, doctrines and word on faith alone. Eventually, this wasn’t enough for some people as science offered a new approach that allowed us as human beings to quantify, classify, study and measure with exact mathematical laws that could be duplicated and replicated. Instead of trying to understand the world by trusting what people told you to believe without any sort of merit except for their brand and status, for the first time in recorded history the physical world could be understood and demonstrated through precise and calculated methods.

All things “spiritual” and “religious” suddenly found themselves being replaced by the expansive grasp that this new science was having on the world since people had more tangible results and expectations to cling to. Most importantly science offered a lot of answers to the world that otherwise couldn’t be had before with its previous system that just required people to accept blindly what church leaders told them. This is due to the fact that science makes us feel more comfortable as it would have us think that we no longer live in a world in which we can’t control. The effect that science has had on us is that since we can use it to see more order and control in the universe (because we’ve discovered mathematical and other laws that are stable, constant and repeatable) it would have us think that maybe life isn’t as random or uncontrollable as we once believed it to be.

For many individuals, this slowly but surely replaced the need to have a divine or omnipotent figure present in the grand scheme of things because science seemed to offer it all and make the world less scarey since it leads us to believe that we can come to know our reality by studying the physical laws that govern it. However, we aren’t quite there yet as these are just the physical laws and not the whole picture since we need to explore further the spiritual laws of existence. More on this in another post in a bit… But for now, let’s get back on track a little bit here.

All Experience Is Guided By Love, Growth and Expansion

This is our bread and butter:

All Experience Is Guided By Love, Growth and Expansion

What does this statement mean to you? There is no right or wrong answer, and that is the point. It, like all things in life, is designed with the intention of making you think and feel a certain way to draw your own conclusion about the nature of the statement. While it implies a particular point, you can feel an infinite number of ways about it. But the catch is that you can’t ever arrive at a conclusion or a decision about something that doesn’t fit what your current model of reality (which would be your thoughts, previous experiences and ways of thinking) says it can. This is a great thing because we have a huge number of unique opinions and point of views arguing over topics and issues which eventually leads us to the fact that…

Human beings themselves are observers of reality, and through their own life experiences, provide feedback to their communities and other human beings by sharing their own opinions and experiences. When considered on a much larger scale, all human beings are doing is interpreting the world “as is” and then voicing their opinions about what is happening. I believe at the moment most of our reactions to the world are just that – reactions. It’s no secret that government’s such as the American government are set up to be “reactionary” and by that I mean no significant change can truly occur unless some event or situation takes place that opens a call to action that leads to some type of change being reached through the law making process. The proof of this can be found in many of America’s most famous Supreme Court cases that resulted in new laws for the entire country.

Good and Bad Is Irrelevant – It’s About Increasing Your Perspective

Yes! Here we go! What is good and bad is ultimately irrelevant, they are just roads that lead to the same street. Whether something “good” or “bad” happens to you is NOT the point. What we really need to pay attention to here is the effects that good and bad experiences have on our conscious minds and our lives.

And that is always the same thing: These good and bad things are nothing but experiences that let us expand and grow our conscious minds in order to see things in a different light and from different angles. I find that many people are trying to destroy their habits or ways of thinking because they don’t believe it serves them. Most of us are naturally taught to hunt out and destroy or kill what bothers us, doesn’t serve us, or isn’t something that we just don’t plain like. The fact here is that even those experiences that are painful and make us suffer add to the expansion and growth of our mind and how we reaction to other people and circumstances in the future.

Ever wonder why people seem to repeat the same experiences in life over and over? Because like I LOVE to say, what happens to us and what we do in life really doesn’t matter all that much because it’s not a crime to do bad or have bad done to us unconsciously. The true crime is in failing to grow from that experience and adopt a larger viewpoint or perspective since all we are in life in the sum total of all of our experiences.

When we do bad or have something bad done to us we begin to process that experience internally before finally arriving on a decision about how that made us feel. We then react to similar situations in life based on that decision we’ve made. I find that a lot of people can’t “put down” bad things that have happened to them, so they are constantly bombarded by situations in life that are similar to that bad experience – it just doesn’t leave them alone. This is because the law of attraction is bringing this situation to you so you can work through it and consciously grow from it. In a sense, you are dealing with that issue because you are trying to grow from it.

Are you struggling with bad relationships? Lack of money? No self esteem?

There are lessens in all of these for us to learn at one point or another in life. Playing a victim isn’t the answer. It’s about consciously observing how these things make us feel and then determining what we can do in order to learn and grow so that we can move past them and become wiser before we begin to teach others with similar struggles how it’s done…

When you begin to see life through this lens it should become a lot clearer.

Life Is Conscious Creation and Expansion

It’s all creation. It’s all expansion. It’s all growth. Anything anything good or bad happens to us, it should add to our overall consciousness in such a way that we now have another way to view something from. You can’t ever eliminate what’s bad because then you’d never know what your preference as to what is good really is. It would be silly to try and make it ever stop raining anywhere in the world ever again just because you had a bad experience with a rain storm once. You’ve got to learn from it, and again, that’s the true crime – never learning from your experiences in life whether or not you deem them to be good or bad. Both are equally valuable.

It’s time for a quick story here. Look at an individual like Hitler. Collectively, even though we could say that he was one of the most “evil” human beings to ever exist we learned a lot from the atrocities that he’s committed. We’ve learned about human dignity, values, equality and a whole myriad of other things.

To understand this we need to move yet even deeper into things… We live in a universe in which we have free will and free reign to create anything we want, as even Hitler did, but ultimately this is because the universe is a living entity of love. All is love and all experience eventually transcends into love. We will always, with enough time, come to see two things about any experience:

1.) We had a roll in consciously creating it.

2.) It will always bring us to see and understand a higher truth both at an individual and group/global level of consciousness.

We can’t ever let history repeat itself. Events like what Hitler put the world through are perfect opportunities for us to wake up and say, “Hey! This was terrible… We can’t ever let this happen again!”. Then we need to look deep within ourselves even if we weren’t even directly effected by it to see what is required of us to transcend these experiences because what we are doing is choosing which experiences we’d either like, or not like, to have.

What Does This All Mean?

The universe is not a hostile, unforgiven or merciless place because it lets “bad” things happen. The universe loves us enough to let us create anything we want and ultimately our highest versions of ourselves and the universe understand that “bad” things must happen in order for them to be transmuted and turned into something more desirable. We can’t even know what we’d prefer in life if we didn’t have any experience that was relative to judge against that which we considered less desirable. This is the result of living in a universe of relativity.

Instead of focusing on the good and bad side of things, I’d suggest that you focus on the deeper issues in life. Understanding that all experience results in higher levels of awareness because of the fact that we are expanding our perception is what life is all about. This opens up a lot of doors to living our everyday lives when we can appreciate the various levels of awareness and thinking that are open and accessible to us. Each individual contributes to the whole with their unique life experiences; if not directly then it is done through their energy being present in their community. You can’t live in this universe and not directly effect it. That is impossible. We all choose the areas we which to influence with our energy – just think of marketing and marketers and how they sell their products. They’ve all mastered this.

If we or any other individual chooses to create something that can be deemed as “bad” then it will self-correct itself with enough time once enough people get together and choose another reality. Presently, we do this with war, violence and hostility but in the future it will be able to be done through open debates and reasoning where all people and parties involved care and love life enough to understand that the killing and bloodshed associated with war over a disagreement of ideas is primitive and something that they have collectively deemed to be undesirable and something they choose not to have any part in creating. Those will be true leaders.

I don’t really know how else to say this any more ways or in what directions I can take this with anymore.

Think of the universe like this - What is “good” and what is “bad” is relative to the person who is observing that event. It’s possible for people to see a single event as both good and bad. This is easy for us to do, just think of any sports team playing each other. One team usually wins (and it’s fans are happy and deem it to be “good”) while another team will lose (and their fans will be unhappy and say that experience is “bad”). This is just an experience that is neutral and we are observing it based on our own system of values and judgement. This experience will lead to all people involved (including the fans, players, owners and managers of the team etc) to study the event and the experience and learn from it so that they can achieve their own personal desirable outcomes the next time around. This is how the universe works – there is no winning or losing, there is only growth and expansion and it’s not necessarily towards any single end point. It’s more like a wave that collapses and expands in a vast, infinite ocean. The universe itself is not a “perfect” or “completed” entity as it learns through each of us about itself and the characteristics and potential it possesses. The point of the universe is not to obtain any sort of completion as it is already perfect in it’s own way. This is tough to grasp, just re-read that statement even though it seems to contradict itself. The process is perfection, and perfection is in the process.

This is a lot like how our lives work. Anybody who has ever set a goal and achieved it knows this. Even if your goal was just do something simple like go to the bathroom… When you completed that “goal”, did the universe end? Did the world stop, the curtain fall and everything just end? I don’t think so, and this is how life and the universe works – everything just keeps going always and forever into infinity and without an end. That’s why it’s a wiser thing to concentrate on yourself as a developing person rather then concentrating and centering and making your life about reaching certain goals or deadlines because there is always more after that. And that’s exactly how it should be as the system was designed that way. It’s just like a giant playground that we get to run wild on and do anything we want with. I always observe the characteristics and qualities I develop as a person while pursuing my goals because I know that’s the experience I am really after on a much deeper level and also because this is how I allow my consciousness and my mind to grow and expand which is what it is really all about, remember? If I am faced with challenges or obstacles in my life, I know that they are there because I am trying to teach myself how to develop the qualities necessary to overcome, deal and move past these things. I also understand that they will keep showing up over and over again until I finally “get it” and then I can move on to the next set of challenges that will allow me to become a better person both as a human being and a soul. All of this inspires a deep sense of eternal purpose once you think about your place and roll in the universe along with the total freedom you were given. So why waste that doing something you don’t love or something that you deem to not be worthy of yourself, your power and your creativity?

This may or may not apply directly to you, but I’d suggest that you just go with the flow and stop trying to control, organize and order your life “perfectly”. To an extent, that is a very good thing, but don’t forget that the universe and life is built and structured to be dynamic, flowing and never the same. Sometimes the more you try to wall yourself into a corner and control things, the more you’ll feel cut out from life or the rest of the world because that’s not a very natural thing to do. Most people always feel over-whelmed because they are trying to build a dam that is trying to block the entire Atlantic Ocean at once. Being intuitive is also about understanding how to connect to the dynamic flow of the universe. It may shock you to hear this, but the flow of the universe is actually the most ordered and structured thing you can ever imagine and count on. It’s tough to trust it until you understand the non-physical laws that guide and control it. You are basically the universe, trust yourself, trust life and trust the creative process because it’s ALL you!

A little over a week ago, my girlfriend decided that she was going to walk 139 miles in 19 days. She originally signed up to walk 150 miles over a 6 week period but decided with only 19 days left that she would finish the 139 miles she had left and prove to herself she could do it.

Earlier this evening she sent me a text saying how she only had 8 days to walk 88.8 miles per day. I watched at first how she struggled to find the confidence to complete her new “mission” as she had some health problems that could potentially hold her back despite her will.

We found out that she’d basically have to find the time to walk twice per day and this would require her to wake up at 4:30AM and walk for 2 hours; then she’d have to walk for another 2-3 hours when she got home from work after 5 for 8 days in order to finish her challenge.

Watching Yourself Set Goals

I watched as she struggled to think it was possible before moving to the mentality that she could do it. As far as I am concerned, it’s all about the mental game. Just based on my observations of people I can predict the outcomes and results they will get based on their attitude as far as their ability to clearly define what they want and back it up with consistent action goes. This, my friends and dear readers, is the best definition of Alignment that I can think of.

Aligning yourself with what you want in life is a matter of defining what it is that you want and then relentlessly backing that desire up with a lot of action. In all of it’s simple glory this is the key to a life of liberation. You can’t take a lot of action without a clearly defined purpose that you can relate to on a deep level and you can’t think about what you want all day without taking any action towards making it a reality in your life. You have to find the balance of setting goals and taking action while trusting that the universe is going to guide you towards what you want successfully.

I don’t think my girlfriend has realized what she’s done but even if she can’t complete her walk because of her health issues, I’m proud of her for developing a state of mind and a state of action that will thrust her towards completing something she set out to do. Once you train your mind to function this way the rewards you can reap are swift and decisive and you can take what you know and apply it to anything else you want to achieve in life.

Keep On Watching Yourself

I’d like to challenge you to watch yourself setting your own goals. It’s fun to observe things such as:

- Do you think/believe/feel what you want is possible?
- What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for something to happen to you before you can get started? (This is a lot of bull…)
- Do you not feel smart/strong/pretty enough?
- Is what you want in conflict with what others (like a parent or spouse) want for you?

- Do you have too much energy but not a direct desire to channel it into? Maybe you aren’t 100% clear on what you want yet.
- Are you afraid to start because you don’t understand how you’ll get to where it is you want to be?
- Are you full of fear?
- Are old, bad habits preventing you from taking the kind of action you know you need to take in order to be successful?

We all have our reasons, but it’s a great idea to listen to your mental noise once in awhile and see what you can find so that you can begin to reverse it. Remember, just because you think a certain way doesn’t make you a “bad” person – it just means that these are areas in which you have tremendous potential and room for growth. That is probably why you have become so aware of it; you are trying to focus your attention on these areas so that you can improve them and ultimately improve your circumstance and position in life. Sometimes it just takes a little bit of time to reverse our bad habits and ways of thinking before we can get it just right. We all want to learn how to keep the goals we set

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.

I can’t take all of the credit for this analogy myself as I heard it from another source, however, I have put a bit of my own twist on it.

What I hope you can take away from this video is a new perspective on how chronic stress can wear us down over time. It’s also my intention to show that the “size” of our problems is not really the biggest thing that we should be concerning ourselves with either.

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 case you were wondering, after “The Bat and the Weasels” on the next page, there is a line that reads: “It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.”.

I have to admit, I especially like the the story of the wolf and the lamb and I felt compelled to share it. I was downloading a bunch of stuff on my iPad using my Kindle application when I noticed that I didn’t have to buy Aesop’s Fables as it was already there for me; and like I always say – if it’s free, it’s for me!

Either way, especially in today’s world, I just want to emphasize how important I think it is to deeply understand the story of the wolf and the lamb. We can see this happening in the world and in our personal lives on a daily basis and when we can see through these types of things, we become less easily fooled.

Enjoy

“My psychic told me that the tall, dark and handsome rich man of my dreams is coming into my life soon! Oh, what, how do I know?! Because she gave me his name and what he looks like!”

“My psychic told me that soon I will be getting a six figure job doing what I love! She even told me where and doing what!”

“Yes! My psychic JUST told me that soon enough I will get the motivation to {go back to school|lose weight|gain weight|find a better spouse|etc}”

Whoa… Whoa…. Whoaaaaa…

Now granted that there are very skilled psychics out there (albeit they are very rare and hard to come by) and there are certainly more fakes, unskilled and just flat-out bad ones as well. However, let’s take a look at one thing, and one thing only as far as we are concerned here:

Most people will cling so hard to what was said to them that they forget to do one thing – LIVE IN THE MOMENT and in the NOW. Most people will become deluded by this and begin to live in a fantasy world where they think that are going to be saved because XYZ circumstance or person is on the way – this is one way in which psychics are bad. They constantly tell themselves that what they want is coming IN THE FUTURE, instead of right now. Turning to the future for your answers, salvation or anything else is only going to lead into disappointment and frustration coupled with anger. You have to realize that your power only resides in this moment as it’s all that we have to work with. It’s one thing to set goals, but it’s another thing to expect something to fall from the sky and right into your lap for you.

Always take things with a grain of salt, and if a psychic ever makes you feel uncomfortable by forcing you into pushing you past something that you know is wrong or bad for you, then it probably is, so ask to stop the reading and walk away.

Are Psychics Real?

Oddly enough I have had psychics tell me things that at the time would have fallen into one of the above categories that I never would have believed, but you know what? They came true. A lot of it did. I’ve had psychics tell me the names of specific companies I’d work for, specific people I’d work with. I’ve had them tell me when a relationship would take a certain direction and I’ve even had one tell me logistics of the health of certain family members. I even had one tell me the birthdays of significant people I would meet in the future and the names of future friends.

My point, and the key here though is that once I was told this information, I completely forgot about it. I never let it rule my life. The average time frame it would take for these things to come into fruition would be 2-3 years and in many cases I completely forgot what was said to me and I only remembered it after finding notes from the sessions during cleaning sprees I’d have many years later.

You could definitely argue that just by being told this information, it reshaped my belief system and expectations. I don’t think you’d be wrong, but I can guarantee you that none of those things just happened to “happen”. When I was told I would work specifically for company X, 2 years after the fact I was approached by a friend who had just been hired there and asked me if I was interested in applying there. It took a lot of courage, action and commitment to apply and go through the hiring process. It didn’t just happen, but I was aligned with it by taking a lot of action towards it.

Don’t Forget To Live Your Life First

I just don’t want to see people’s lives ruled by anger and frustration because they expect these things to come true tomorrow, or better yet, yesterday. These things might very well come true for you, as will almost anything that you give your dominant thoughts, attention, focus and energy to with enough time and passion on your part. But you have a whole entire life you need to live between now and then.

I can’t tell you how many people have waited 10 years for their perfect rich soul mate to come into their life. Or how many people have waited for the stars to align before switching careers and just about anything else that you can think of. The bottom line is that we are here, now, and you greatly increase your chances of success when you do things for yourself and take initiative.

What Do You Really Want to Hear From Your Psychic?

You should ask yourself why you want the things that you want, and then try to figure out why you want them. Do you want to meet a rich man/woman? Why is that? Perhaps you feel that you are in some way lacking something, feeling unfilled or limited? Do you want a better job? Why is that? Is there a part of you that feels as if your more creative talents are not appreciated or perhaps you feel as if people don’t respect you or see you as an authority; perhaps it ties back in with the fact that you want to increase your income, which will then loop back into the first example and continue the cycle indefinitely until you work these beliefs out.

It’s just my intention that people rely a little bit less on things aligning and coming into their life out of chance, and that people start to understand that they are powerful creators who have the ability to consciously choose the direction and the focus of their life. We all love to hear incredible news from people, and psychic readings can be fun and inspirational but ultimately we need to understand that these things just don’t “happen” to us. And when they do, and if we are somehow able to create these things, then they will give us the experience of what we asked for.

What better way is there to learn anything aside from being able to manifest our deepest thoughts, desires and fears and then living them out in life? For this reason life and experience always has been, and always will be, our greatest cooperative teachers.

Dr. Goswami is a Quantum Physicist who believes that Consciousness Is The Ground of All Being which simply means that the physical world as we know it arises from a Universal Consciousness. He states that our world doesn’t exist because physical matter interacts with other physical matter randomly to produce reality. Rather then spoil it, you’ll just have to watch the videos.

Instead of writing another mega post, I’ll let Dr. Goswami do all the talking for me today

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In actuality, the creative process is in itself a creative dance in which these thoughts, feelings and emotions become alive and conscious in the physical world. It’s a process where who we are within is manifested to the world without. This is one of the core concepts in personal development.

Thoughts, Emotions and Feeling Are Reality

A thought is the origin of all creative processes in the universe, but an emotion breathes life into it. While we can say a thought is like a blueprint, it is the emotion that does the work and brings it to life. The stronger the intensity of the emotion, the faster and more quickly you’ll find you can create it in your reality. You’ve got to be careful though, and not trick yourself into thinking that thoughts alone give birth to circumstances. Your emotions lead you to act on your ideas, which are just in themselves thoughts. Thinking about thinking gets you no where. Nobody knows how they are going to finish a sentence when they start it, they only have the idea of what they want to have happen when they start talking. You don’t think as you talk, and when you do, it becomes overly
Obvious and you begin to stumble and look questionable. You shouldn’t turn to your own thoughts for all of the answers, only for constructing the overall plan or blueprint of anything you want to create. Once that is done, then you begin by adding in the very human ingredients that make any creation possible – feeling and emotion. Without these two ingredients, nothing would have any sort of meaning what so ever. Even the words you are reading now, do not have fixed meaning. We don’t all look at a word and derive one single and universal meaning from it. They are a means of expressing, or trying to express, the vast array of emotions and feelings we are constantly experiencing and generating. We use words in combination with other words as a way of trying to express more complex ways in which we are thinking and feeling.

Our thoughts, and our creations, work the same way. We may all be trying to create similar things, but because of the human experience of feeling and emotion, two people trying to create EXACTLY the same thing on paper will end up with two entirely different results. This is to be expected because no two human beings share the same belief system or emotional system. No two human beings could ever possibly look at something and see the same thing, because all objects and circumstances must pass through the belief system and memories of that human being, therefore, based on all of that past data a truly unique experience and perspective is the result of observation. Our observations can therefore said to be reflections of our personal beliefs systems which brings us back to the same point: we create in according to our beliefs. The environments which we surround ourselves in, that also include the people and objects within them, are very real and very conscious extensions of our own creative power. Even inanimate objects in our environment are conscious extensions of ourselves. What we have, or do not have in terms of both material (money, possessions etc) and non-material (health, happiness, joy) are living and conscious creations that we ourselves have given life to. We are these things, we are these people and these circumstances including all of what we either possess or do not possess, because we are all one conscious constantly extending itself and either drawing or repelling things that are either like, or not like ourselves.

How Thoughts Create Reality

Every time we have a thought, I like to visualize in my head that it goes out into space and time, into the universe and the space around us. From there, depending upon how intense our emotions were behind it, it begins to activate atoms, molecules and the physical space around it in order to bring it into creation. I believe that this can be summed up in the following way to be used for personal development:

1. The emotions create intensity. The amount of intensity always dictates how fast a creation comes to be.

2. The thought provides the framework but the emotions conjure the creative energies.

3. Atoms are just like little nodes that respond to our thoughts. When we think, we send out a living unit of energy, and depending on the intensity backed behind that unit, it has the ability to draw to itself physical manifestations or the physical equivalent of that idea or concept using physical matter.

It’s a lot to swallow, but I can definitely appreciate and respect how and why quantum scientists believe that atoms are nothing more then just little tiny pieces of information now. These little pieces of information interact to bring about very real physical changes in definite proportion according to fixed and definite laws.

You might then ask why sometimes we think and think about something, some kind of change we wish to experience for ourselves that never seems to come. And the answer that I have for you is just that – you are thinking and thinking about it and not providing enough energy, not enough emotional intensity to make your new thought or idea more powerful then what already exists in your life right now. This commonly happens because you are more focused on what you don’t want, or what is more real and effecting you more directly then what you would like to see made real for you.

The key here is to withdraw yourself, both physically, mentally and emotionally from that which you don’t want and begin to emotionally charge yourself with what you would like to see. This does require visualization and imagination, but you can’t forget to FEEL it, to know it to be true with every fiber of your being right down to your core. Many people get caught up in doing visualization after visualization or setting goal after goal without results. You are not seeing results because you are only engaging your mind on that subject or that desire and you are failing to involve and bring your emotions and feelings into the picture. Thoughts create the frame – feelings and emotions give and create the life behind the frame.

When an artist paints a picture he might very well use thought to outline in his mind what he wants to create, but it is his human elements of emotion and feeling that bring it to life in only a way that he can see and truly understand because again, each human is totally and truly unique in how they think, feel and act according to their past experiences and interactions.

How We Are Creating Our Realities

What I would suggest that you observe in yourself is that you don’t become a “reactive creator”. What I mean by that is that you don’t put yourself into a position in which you are only reacting (or creating) things in your life based on the effects that influence you.

In other words, we need to remember that thoughts come before action and so we can understand that Thought = Cause and Result = Effect. The result is always a reflection of the thought behind it.

With that being said, many people don’t understand that they are the only cause in their lives. Nothing happens outside of what they themselves are thinking and feeling. Like we said before, our thoughts, backed behind our emotions, draw to them their physical equivalent in terms of manifestation. We are what we think, and we are what we feel.

If you neglect that you are the cause, then you live life constantly reacting to the effects in your world, which are being caused by nobody other then your own self. This can be disheartening because you feel like you are stuck on a wheel, that the same thing essentially keeps showing up in your life, only wearing different “costumes”. This is not because of karma or some other nonsense, this is because you are failing to recognize that you are the cause of that circumstance or condition so you try to manipulate and change it by trying to change the effects – not realizing that you are indeed the cause behind it with your thoughts and emotions.

Instead of just reacting to the events in your life, turn deep within yourself using your IN-SIGHT (Inwards Sight) and try to identify why you are causing this, why and where this is originating from within yourself and then change it from there, the level at which it is most effective.

Even if you can’t find the cause of some major problem in your life and even if you can’t understand why you happen to be creating that despite your own awareness of this then just withdraw yourself from that problem, situation, circumstance, person, relationship or whatever it happens to be and focus exclusively only on what you want to see happen instead. But remember, you are a human being and your thoughts alone don’t do your creations justice. You must feel them to be true on all levels of your own self and being.

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.

Your Relationship To Money Starts With Yourself

Let’s literally look at money as if it were the person or the object with which we had a relationship with at the moment. Forget about your significant other(s) and let’s just pretend that money was your partner in life.

How do you think this relationship would do? How long do you think it would last? What would the overall relationship look like, to yourself, your friends, your family and the world? How would the energy and the direction flow?

This should help you to develop an entirely new outlook and perspective on money. We spend all of our lives trying to find the person we love, and then we dedicate and devote ourselves to them, we try and begin a family with them and we just want to be happy while making them as happy as possible.

But I’m here to tell you that these same kinds of relationships exist with everything in your life. Your job, your family, your money, your possessions. You have a relationship with all of these things, and just like real estate, these relationships can either APPRECIATE or DEPRECIATE according to your own self. You are either appreciating what you have, and letting it grow in value, or you are casting it aside and not appreciating it.

All Relationships Start Within – As Within, So Without

This is my mantra: “As Within, So Without”.

It’s the one and only constant truth I have observed in the world and it holds true for everything. What I believe most people do is they try to love things, whether they are spouses, money, jobs, cars or whatever as objects external to themselves.

Another good way to put it is that people will love something because they WANT it, however, they are not these things themselves. How can you love money and have a lot of it if your underlying belief about it is that it causes problems, is hard to make, etc?

It’s like putting a very small Band-Aid on a very large wound, it just doesn’t work. If you want something like money, then you must look within yourself and observe ALL of your beliefs, habits and expectations when it comes to money, and then ask yourself if you were in a relationship with money with these characteristics and traits (which you are), how would that relationship end up?

Do you like focus? Do you think all rich people are evil? Are you afraid of managing money? Are you afraid of success? Of responsibility? Are you lazy? Do you not know what to do in order to make more money or increase your income?

If you take all of these things and look at them in terms of an actual relationship, then it’s no longer surprising or shocking to understand why things work the way out the way they do. These bad habits and beliefs need to be reprogrammed before you can see anything else besides the “same old, same old” that you are currently getting. These beliefs and habits are just acting like filters in your reality that are only letting you observe the same things, over and over again, even though you are not consciously aware of why they are showing up. At this point, your beliefs and habits are subconscious and happen automatically.

As soon as I use the word “subconscious” people tend to go nuts and crazy. They think it takes X amount of days to “reprogram” it. I say, don’t worry about any of that, the secret is in knowing what you want and being aware of yourself in relationship to it.

I’ve Got My Mind On My Money And My Money On My Mind

Yes, I totally just did quote Tupac on a Personal Development site. The key to anything is, as always, looking within. You’ve heard it all before, but it’s time to understand this powerful principle.

In order to have anything, you must first mentally think the thoughts required to bring you to a place of success. You have to repair that which you have found and determined to be harmful to your money relationships. If you want to start a business, you need to find out what stops you from getting the work done. If you want to do anything, you need to drop back and observe your thoughts in relationship to what you want, then it’s very clear why things either do or don’t happen.

If you were in a relationship where you had no focus, direction, couldn’t take action or make things happen – what would you honestly expect to happen? What’s going to be the end result of that?

Think about all of the best friendships and relationships you’ve ever had in your life (or any relationships, even to inanimate objects or pets), can you tell me why they were so great? Chances are, it will be hard for you, because they “just were” so damn great. Everything flowed naturally, the happiness and joy was present and it was just like a massive snowball effect. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when they took off or why they stayed so excellent over the course of time.

Money and Love

I’ve learned in life that you can’t love something else and just expect your constant bombardment of love to make everything work. If you are considering a relationship with anything, you can’t sacrifice yourself and just do your best to be unconditional and love that person or object just expecting that love to be all you need to make it work.

Without first loving yourself, without being completely unconditional to your own being then you can by no means project and share a true love with anything else. How can you give anything that you do not have to give? That is not love, as much as you might believe you are giving all of the love you have to give, the person receiving it will feel EMPTY or as if they were just receiving a VOID.

You can love something with all of your heart and soul, your entire Being, but if you do not love yourself then you are truly and really only giving a small, tiny fraction of the love you think you are giving. Without love for yourself, in relationship to anything, then you can’t realistically expect to give that to anybody else.

Whether it’s money, school, careers or just about anything you can think of, you must truly love these things before you can expect to have them. Fill yourself up with the love, imagine what life would be like when you actually have those things and the fullness will attract all of the circumstances and events necessary to see that love being made manifest.

We live in a universe of Love and it’s the single most strongest force we have, as human beings and Creators, to work with. Learning this makes us the most powerful individuals we can be, because the universe responds to love the quickest because all it knows itself as is pure, unconditional love. Where there is love, there is more presence. Before you can have anything or become anything, you must first become the love and then everything else will follow.

My closing thoughts are this: carefully observe yourself and your relationship to money in that you are truly APPRECIATING it. Appreciation is one of the highest forms of love. Even if you find yourself making a lot of money, without appreciation, you will lose it. Attention flows where the love goes. You’ve got to learn to love everything. Even if you are in a job you hate that pays you a fortune, the universe will find a way to pull you out of that position, because there is no love present. There’s no truly deep feeling of appreciation or any other sense of deep respect or thanks present. It’s then, as they say, only a matter of time!

Don’t forget that the path to Personal Development begins within you and your thoughts. It’s entirely about becoming consciously aware of how you think, speak act and conduct yourself relative to other situations. It’s tough at first and somebody has to do this job, but the thing is, only you know yourself.

It’s not going to be easy but it will be something that will turn you into the definition of “know thyself” if done right. Do your best and you’ll find out that it was all worth it in the end. It’s all for you.

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”

What ever happened to focusing on what and all that we have, right now?

It’s ironic because we don’t realize how much we really have in this moment until we are faced with the very real possibility or threat of losing it. Only under the shadow and the pressure of losing what we hold dear to us can we seem to readjust our focus like a laser onto the things we have right now and in this moment.

I’m not sure what causes this, or even why it is; what I am sure of is the fact that this is an emotional roller coaster. Being spaced out and not grounded, not centered into what is happening in life at this moment does two things to us that can be fatal:

1.    It robs us of our ability to create our futures
2.    It destroys our ability to live and enjoy life because we become obsessed with either “what was” or “what could be”

The universe and life is full of possibility, and the only person who can choose what we experience in life is our own self. I’ve developed myself to only focus on what I have in this moment, but even more, I only focus on those things that I want or see love in.

What Do You Love?

A lot of people will argue and say they don’t know what they want, but my response to that is always:
But you know what you don’t want. Knowing what you don’t want is essentially your window into finding what you love. If you don’t love X then you can find why you must or might love Y. The key is to not focus on what hurts you, what disempowers you or makes you feel any less of a person.

We all want things. A lot of things. My approach to life is to focus not on all of the little things that I want, but one goal that is so big that obtaining it would naturally result in me being able to have all of the now seemingly “little things”.

If a shred of negatively comes over me, I feel it run through me almost like a poison and I can detect it right away and shift my focus into something positive. It’s the result of a heightened awareness and increase in sensitivity to such things, I am sure, but the fact of the matter is I am not concerned with anything besides I want to see, have, be or do in life.

Why We Love To Hate

Call me crazy, but I believe the reason why we love to give so much of ourselves to “negative” or “bad” feelings is because they satisfy our urge for instant gratification. When we are mad, angry, jealous, envious or anything else, we feel the effects of those emotions NOW. There is no delay, they overcome us and they work to create a living hell faster then we can believe.

In a world where getting what we think we want seems to be so hard, when we are mad and that feeling overcomes us instantly we are empowered with a feeling that seems to give us a degree of power or control. The power is not in the negative emotion itself, but rather, the power is in the degree (or how strong and much) we feel that negative emotion in that instant. If we could feel and give such a strong degree of positive emotions and feelings at once we would be overcome with joy, happiness and love that it would be mind blowing.

But still… These fast-acting negative emotions are sometimes more tangible then their positive counterparts which sometimes seem like they are trying to hide from us. My point is that negative emotions are here now – we feel them, live them and become submerged and drunk with their power quickly. Every time we think about what we want and it isn’t there two seconds later, the negative emotions creep in and satisfy the part of us that wants something “NOW”. To feel these emotions, although bad for us and our health, give us temporary satisfaction because it introduces something that we can feel right now, rather then having it be far off.

This took a great deal of realization in myself to uncover. I would always focus on what I wanted and the story I would tell myself and others is why I can’t get it, or why I lost it. I just wanted to feel something, no matter what it was, I needed some kind of feelings to over come me and make everything OK again, no matter what it was.

I’ve since learned that having faith in what we are wanting and trying to create is what defines us. For example, any person can have faith in what they can feel, see, hear etc but how many people can have faith in something that they cannot yet see? Yet what I say is that having belief in something that you cannot see, hear, touch etc means that you have come to understand life, yourself and the world.

Having too much faith in material things and results isn’t all that its cracked up to be. Any person can do this, but how many people can look at something and say, “there must be more” or even “I wonder what else is hiding inside of that…”. I believe that you truly begin to master and command your life when you understand this. Life is coming from the imagination, it is coming from the dreams, idealisms and fantasies that we all have. What we can see, hear, taste etc is just the result of us putting in a lot of hard work to make these dreams and vivid pictures of the imagination real.

Imagination (the unseen) comes first and the physical and material world comes second as it follows our dreams. So instead of focusing on what is here in the flesh or in the material world, I have found it to be a wiser choice to focus instead inwards to all of the dreams and hopes we have and trying to make those real. They should be the highest vision and image you have of yourself. They should clearly express who and what you are as a human being, and nothing less. In every second of every moment and every day we should be creating nothing less then the highest vision and ideals we have of who we are – we must create our highest versions of ourselves in the flesh.

Ask And You Shall Receive

What are you asking for in life right now? I can tell you the answer to that:

What you are asking for, you are receiving, right NOW.

The next time you are thinking about what you want in life. I dare to challenge you and say it is already there, it is already done. It is up to you to create this vision and dream for yourself. If you want others to help you, they will be attracted to your cause. By and large, you are free to create what you think accurately represents you as a person and as a human being.

The second you hold an idea in your mind, you have given it life. It is then up to you to do what you want with it.

Will you let it die?
Or will you let it grow into the physical world to help others and yourself?

There is nothing in the universe that says all ideas need to become realized within a matter of seconds. Everything requires time in some sense. We are time bound individuals, and while time may be an illusion, the degree of love with which we can nurture our ideas will determine how fast we can see them become real to our physical senses and exist for our eyes and sense of touch to enjoy.

Nothing is impossible, but also, nothing is impossible without work. A certain degree of dedication and passion is required to bring anything into physical existence. We must use and harness our creative ability to direct the energy of life into a form that we can be proud of.

Focus On Manifesting

Surely you can understand the sense of urgency here. There is no “time” to focus on anything that isn’t what we want. We have to understand that there are no limits and that we can only create what we want through dedication, passion and a large degree of faith. To me, faith means the belief in knowing that what we are imagining, we are actively creating. Without faith, we fail to realize that our imaginations are what create our world and our lives.

There is absolutely no time to spend on thinking about the things we don’t want. I am so much better then that, as are you. Dwelling and focusing on what we don’t want fills us up with the energy of those things that we don’t want – that then becomes what our imaginations are made out of and those things have no other choice but to become real because we will focus 90% of our time, energy and focus on them.

See and be only what you want to be. Focus on the big goals, not the little things. If you could only achieve one thing in life, what would that be?

Start to do the things that will allow you to achieve that goal NOW, without excuses. If you don’t start now, or if you aren’t putting an effort worthy of yourself and having it towards it right now, then you don’t really want it. If you say I am crazy for calling you out saying you don’t want your goal, then go out there and show me up.

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.

I’m convinced there are just special things that enter into our life for these brief periods to show us something about ourselves. Because it’s no secret that when I look at my life and the world I live in, I view it all as extension and part of myself, it’s easy for me to look at the deeper meaning and symbolism behind what enters and exists my reality.

I believe that everything, and every person and interaction we experience, is just a fragment or piece of our own self. By coming to understand and see ourselves through other people and interactions, we learn a great deal about who we are and what we mean to ourselves and the world at large.

Every so often, we get a little Birdie to tell us something we need to hear

In my case, this little Birdie came to show me that I need to pay closer attention to how I take care of things. This little Birdie has shown me that what we think about ourselves will “jump” to other people and things and ultimately become them also.

In a sense, who we are will impose itself on other people and all that we do. If we are having bad relationships, career problems or whatever it is that is bothering us – we have to stop looking at them and blaming them, because our internal habits, beliefs and actions are creating and shaping that experience of ours.

This Birdie has also shown me that our worst habits will also cause a great deal of harm to others and ourselves. Not only do our worst habits hurt us constantly in this moment, but when bad things happen as a result of them, they negatively effect other individuals and then come back to hurt us again when we see the pain we have caused others.

This is a vicious cycle that we have all of the creative power in the universe to stop, at our own free will. What’s stopping us?

Personal Development and Birdies

What does personal development and this Birdie have in common?

Whatever meaning you can pick out of this message, of course!

The crime is not in what the result of our bad actions and habits result in. The truest crime is once these bad outcomes happen, our neglect to change and develop ourselves into better people.

You can be a person who has caused a lot of pain to others, but the moment you recognize what it is you have done to another, or yourself, no matter how small or large that is – it’s in your best interest as a conscious human being to change, improve and better yourself. Learn from what you have done, and seek to never do it again because you now know that your actions effect others and yourself. The only way to keep the pain going is to never learn and grow personally.

You are not your past actions in this present moment. While you may have to deal with what you have done in the past, you don’t have to keep doing the same actions that will deliver to you the same results. Begin to change what you want to change, and learn to spot the Birdies as they come to you and listen to what they have to say.

I find that these Birdies come and don’t stay long before they have to leave. While their time with me is short, what I learn from them is never taken for granted. I remember each and every single time that when these Birdies leave me I can never be sad if every moment of my time spent with them was me being my best; as long as I was being, doing and acting my best both towards myself and that Birdie, then when it is time for them to leave – I cannot be sad.

I’d rather be this way then wrapped up in myself kicking my own self because I was not the best person I could have been when those Birdies were around. I don’t want to spend the rest of my existence regretting not being the person I should have, and could have been to that Birdie.

Thank you, Birdie

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.

As with anything else that has to do with the physical world, you can look to your own mind and your ego for the answer to it. You see, the mind and the ego are responsible for that part of you that judges, compares and measures its surroundings; if you want to understand the place material goods have in your life and in your reality – you must ultimately confront your mind and understand your own beliefs about these things and what kind of grasp they have on your own personal reality.

As I have said before in my previous posts, the mind fears anything that has to do with death, scarcity, lack and the feeling of not having enough resources. The root cause of all problems such as jealousy, lust and even poverty are based within this universal truth. We have all been told from an early age that material possessions should have no place in our lives, that they come and go and some religions go as far as even stating that you will find gifts of greater and ever-lasting spiritual quality when you go to that magical place in the sky.

There are many religions that attempt to teach its “followers” that the only true path to salvation, redemption and enlightenment is the total detachment and abandonment of material and earthly possessions. I have a huge problem with that, because such a detachment is not going to automagically write you off a free path to that big hotel room in the sky. For some people, they feel that the harder they try not not identify themselves with material things, the closer they will move into alignment with a higher spiritual notion or aspect of enlightenment.

Yet, this is entirely comical because this action is done out of fear itself, it’s almost as if the mind has reached a point where it feels that in order to find salvation or wholeness it must ultimately come to disown what it has come to cherish so deeply and dearly – it’s physical possessions. Because this is so contradicting to the nature of the ego, all the ensues is a deep and unfulfilling suffering that seems to have no end, just as all others things seem to many people. If you think I am crazy for claiming this, I offer you a one-point solution to know this is the working of the mind and not the truest, highest self.

My case and point is that the mind lives in a state of scarcity and a state of lack. It’s of the nature of the mind to always assume in every and any situation that there just simply is not enough, for anybody. A lot of people get lost in translation here, somewhere between their BEING and their MIND and they find themselves stuck in a half-state of awareness where they can see the value in being selfless but they have yet to totally get rid of the mind’s grasp on reality. The result is an individual who renounces physical goods and possessions so that others may have things.

If you were living from the core of your BEING and your truest SELF, then you would not be stuck in such a state that is ultimately not satisfying; the reason for this is because the true self KNOWS ALWAYS that the universe is limitless and that creation is infinite. Therefore, you can always tell if your operating out of your mind (ego) or your true being and self when it comes to material goods by asking one simple question, “Is there enough – for myself, and everybody else?”. If the answer is YES, then you are operating out of your highest self and being, if you answer no then you are operating out of your mind and your ego. If your personal answer falls somewhere in-between then that is where your awareness also is at the present moment. Still a better question to ask would be if you were willing to BELIEVE and KNOW that you can always create from the infinite anything you wanted, whether it was more food, more, love, happiness, peace of joy. The same results can be applied here depending on whether your answer is YES, NO or somewhere in-between.

A person who has truly mastered their lives is free from their ego and is always free from financial and difficult situations because they no longer identify with their mind and their ego’s constant state of fear of there not being “enough”. I will go ahead and boldly state that any spiritual teacher who has any merit or legitimacy about them is also not going to be “broke” because their physical and financial circumstances is just a reflection of what is going on inside of them internally. If an individual is still stuck in bad financial circumstances then I can guarantee you they are still identifying with their minds and their ego and have not yet achieved as much in the way of enlightenment as they might fool you to believe they have.

Some people do this unconsciously, that is, they have learned how to not identify with the ego any longer. This can happen many different ways and sometimes the most practical and common is that after suffering for so long, a breaking point happens that totally abolishes the ego’s presence in your life, allowing the presence that you ARE to come in. Other individuals have a good sense of awareness instinctively and can witness the direct harm that their thoughts are causing them which results in them quickly fixing and patching things up – all while not letting those destructive thought patterns and habits reemerge any longer.

All of the great spiritual teachers and masters of the past and present have all fully realized this. Even more importantly, there came a point in the life of all of these great men and women where they realized one thing: material possessions are not eternal and are subject to the natural laws of birth and death, therefore, the true value is not in the earthly possessions themselves but in

An easy way to understand this would be try thinking about it a bit differently. The part of you that is, your soul, understands that everything is infinite, and such, it never can exist in a state of scarcity or lack. Your soul, your self, always understands that it is in its own right an infinite creative power that has the ability to call forth whatever it has a need and a desire for. On the other hand, the ego does not even understand this power at all and therefore it seeks to gather as many physical resources as possible to give it happiness and joy.

This is greatly difficult to teach to any person, because like with everything else in life you can’t just say the words, teach it to them and just expect to have them BECOME it based off of that alone – which is what we all expect from each other. Rather, the only way to realize this is to show other individuals how to BECOME it; the beauty in Jesus is that he did not forcefully teach anything to anybody and as he said, “I am the Way” meaning that he showed others who they were and how to become that through themselves.

One of my favorite quotes ever goes a little something like this:

“Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime.”

There is nothing more TRUE then that, and to borrow it’s original intent and message and to apply it to what I’m talking about here would allow me to say that we cannot just hand out fish in an attempt to satisfy the hunger and fill that void in life to others, nor can we reasonably expect any fish to do this for us. We must teach others to become the fishermen so they may realize they are fishing in the ocean of the infinite, of being and of themselves. Nothing can be given to any individual unless they first find it within themselves – we can most certainly help but we cannot just magically make it appear within the person until they consciously realize it through their own awareness and CHOOSE to either accept it or to deny it – to either make it who they are, or who they are not as all things must ultimately be decided this way, on the individual level and of the individual’s own free will, choice and consciousness. You will also find that it is impossible to help people who do not want to help themselves, which is a whole other and entirely different story either way

To begin to tie this deeply into what we were originally talking about, the soul knows there is not limits, therefore it is never worried about material items since it understands that all things are first formless and then material; the soul is then more concerned with the BEING behind all things because it understands that is where all material forms originate from, and the soul also understands that it has to creative power to move the formless into form, or from the infinite into physical reality. The ego and the mind only see what it can process with its own senses and emotions, such as hearing, seeing, tasting, touching and smelling.

There are some people who have used their egos to accumulate great fortunes and other large amounts of material possessions, however, those items are collected not with the deep realization of the soul but out of the fear and the greed of the ego. They are collected because the ego has become so afraid of not having them, that they attracted it purely by creation and through the deception and manipulation of other egos.

If you wish to understand who you are, I challenge you to turn your focus and your own attention inwards to your own self and begin to analyze all that you have just read against your actions. Where do you create from? For what reason, and for what end? When you eliminate your “need” for things, you will instantly approach life with a lightness and passion that was never otherwise known to you or made present for you in the past, until now. This is one of the many goals of the personal development of any individual, especially those who are looking to be less materialistic.

I know that for the majority of people reading this, it will come across as if I’m saying that the ego is just afraid of dying in the physical sense of mortality; while this is part of it the much deeper meaning is that the ego is afraid of anything that will cause you to not identify with it any longer. Your ego is afraid of death and it feels as they it is constantly being threatened by it, even if the physical body is not in any mortal danger.

What your ego and your mind truly fear is anything that can change the way it has come to view life. For example, all of your views, beliefs and ways of thinking about the world is how you have come to identify with yourself – the last thing your ego wants is to enter an argument or confrontation that will challenge these beliefs. To this ego, this is death. For the mind, death is ever-present in any situation where what you believe to be true is challenged and subject to change. If these views were to change, then who would you be, or rather the question should really be, WHO WOULD YOUR EGO BE?

When you come to realize this, you are one step closer to entering a state of being whereby a large portion of “the weight of life” is lifted from you. Any individual would defend to their death their views, and this is very noble indeed, but you need to question the motive by which they are doing this. Nobody should lay down and just have their beliefs walked all over, but you should examine the effects that the defenses of your beliefs cause. In the end, wars and other violent conflicts are started because man is afraid of death, only this death is caused in the mind and it is because to be stripped of one’s views is the ultimate end to the mind. Physical death to the ego does not compare to it losing it’s sense of identity through what it has come to believe and to know.

A good question to ask would be, “So then what about our beliefs? Where is the harmony?” and a good answer would be that you must separate who you truly see yourself as being from your mind; doing this will remove your inherent need to state that your opinion is right over those of all other men – the same problem that has caused every bit of grief, pain and suffering since the dawn of man. It is also this same opinion that has sent empires and nations to war against each other. It is wise to not come to know yourself based upon whether or not you are “right” or “wrong” because such things are imaginary and the makings of illusions.

Things become dangerous when men act upon their beliefs in a way that would subject another to harm or pain in their personal quest to prove themselves as being “right”.

You should always be aware of your self but not in a way that it needs to be proven right or wrong, instead, you need to be aware of yourself and your feelings from a deeper part of your being that feels no compelling reason to be either “right” or “wrong”. You must come to know yourself from a place of great love, joy and happiness that would never be a potential threat to another living being or thing within existence.

If you still feel the need to identify with your mind and cling to your power and authority to prove all others beside you as being “wrong” then you have done nothing more then wear a clever disguise that has temporarily covered up your weakness so that it can be presented as a form of strength. Anybody else other then you sees through this though unless they themselves are deluded by the notion that they must prove themselves to be “right” in the same sense and fashion that you are. Nobody can ever win in this kind of situation, therefore, it is best to eliminate them.

To go even deeper into the subject, it’s still a better thing to try and figure out why this occurs – why men fight with whatever they have from their nails to bombs in order to prove themselves as being “right”. To the ego (the mind) it must prove all other differing opinions as being “wrong” because to the ego, being “wrong” is DEATH to itself. You can understand, then, why the ego fights so mercilessly, why it has no problems going to war and even killing those who do not agree with it, for why would the ego want to kill itself? Why would it want to destroy itself and create its own demise, it’s own end?

If you come to identify with something and then have it proven wrong, then your sense of self is essentially murdered and destroyed, leaving you without a good sense and orientation of who you are – only this is on an illusionary scale because you are not truly what your mind has come to believe you are. If you were acting from your being, you would understand and KNOW yourself to be a much higher creature that is immune to the illusionary sense of “right” and “wrong”. This is a key aspect and insight into the personal development of any individual in any capacity.

In the past, the ego driven and maniacal emperors would annihilate nations and murder thousands, hundreds of thousands and even millions of people in an effort to prove themselves as being right – all in the name of something that the ego has come to identify itself with. The greatest form of manipulation any politician, emperor or “leader” can drive their people into is to make them identify with a common belief that they share and then unite them under it before driving them to do actions that no man would ordinarily do otherwise.

For you see, no war is anything more then a threat to the ego’s identity, it’s nothing more then a battle of the mind. Once you have united people under a common belief, they will fight and even give their lives to preserve that belief and see it persevere – if not for themselves, then for their children. This can be used to either extraordinarily good or bad means, depending on a lot of factors. Once people are united under a belief at the level of the mind, of the ego, then they will become possessed to defend that belief for a reason….

For many people the very act of trying to understand this information and incorporate it into your life is threatening the ego with death; it forces you to identify with something outside of your current perception of reality but you need to cast light on this and remember it, for it is truly who you already are and what you already know to be true.

That I will get to in my next post :p

Just remember for the time being that the MIND is afraid of death, it is afraid of change and it is afraid of everything that will cause it to change what it believes in; the mind is afraid of “never having enough”, of scarcity and of lack. When any mind is faced with these realities it will commit acts of murder, theft and violence to regain what it feels like it must have – and this is why the world is so violent and why pain and suffering are present. When we can move passed our minds and learn to identify ourselves with our TRUEST self, our own BEING only then can we move past all of the pain, suffering and lack. This is entirely possible, this is you.

This is your Personal Development at the level of the mind.

Our thoughts, our reason and our mind has it’s place in the world because it is an extension of our truest self, but it is not the whole and it’s easy to forget this. As with anything and everything else, it is necessary as long as it’s proper function remains in a state of balance and harmony, however, when this natural state of balance is disrupted and distorted, disease can occur.

This is what our minds have become for most of us – a disease. It’s a disease of hyperactivity (not ADD or ADHD by the way) that servers only to drive us into insanity by way of over thinking, over analyzing and taking us down dark alley ways of repetitive thinking that drive us into stress and eventual madness.

If allow to run “unchecked” the mind will slowly consume the void within us, the emptiness that is present because of the lack of OUR presence within our own body and our own life. This entire blog is exactly that, it is the focus and the emphasis on cultivating the personal development techniques that give us insight into the keen working awareness and the function that our mind, body and soul plays together in unison to create exactly who and what we are. In this particular instance, I want to make you aware of the fact that you are much more then “just your thoughts”.

The words thought, consciousness and being are tossed around a lot these days, especially in New Age terminology and the original meaning behind these words become quickly diluted and distorted. I will tell you that thought, consciousness and being are completely separate things, but consciousness and being are almost identical. The words, judgments, comparisons and need to place measurement on the world, the voices you hear pulling your towards different decisions and actions is the activity of your mind – this also includes your emotions as they are these aspects and expressions made manifest into your body. Your feelings are a separate entity altogether as they tied into the realm of your highest consciousness and your sense of being.

The easiest way to demonstrate to yourself this concept is to develop self awareness. The next time you are having a thought or any mental activity going on inside of your head, I want you to step outside of that and listen, listen and observe what is taking place. You’ll notice either one of two things happen.

1. The mental activity will cease immediately and you will enter a peaceful state of being for the few moments in which you can hold this. This void in mental activity has taken you closer to what many people call Enlightenment, which we’ll get to in a second.

2. You will, in your observation, begin to notice that the mental activity that is taking place in your head is nothing but a lot of noise, it drains you and challenges you. The more you feed into your mind and your thoughts, the stronger it becomes. For example, if within your mind somebody has harmed you and then you begin to dwell on that experience or on the thought of how you might “get back” at that person, then you are merely cultivating more anger (which is emotion made manifest in the body) which will slowly consume you, and fool you into believing that is who you truly are.

And there, that’s what we are looking to discover next – this notion of “who you truly are” which has been at the core of every personal development, new age and spiritual or religious movement since the dawn of ages. In your moments of extreme mental activity, thoughts and emotions, you enter a state in which you can identify strongly with. After taking the time to feed your thoughts, you become charged with a certain sense of action and purpose, so then it moves you and carries you with the strength found in that moment – but I ask you, where is that moment taking you? To where, and for what reason?

You’ll find, if you haven’t already, that by identifying with your thoughts, your desires and that which you want will lead you down into a path of misery, unfulfillment and pain. That’s a very strong point to try and exercise, however, you’ll find that it’s true that when you chase after your desires and what you “want” in life, you’ll always end up being hurt regardless of whether you actually achieve what you wanted, or not.

But why is this? Most religions have come to base their entire doctrine and existence around this and many people have incorporated this into their paradigms of life and ways of thinking about life. It’s not so crazy to walk up to somebody and have them tell you that suffering, struggling and feeling pain is a part of all of life’s experiences. But this simply isn’t true, and I will tell you that by merely desiring or wanting something will cause you pain, because the second you realize in that moment that you do not have it, you will feel something profound such as anger, jealousy, frustration or any number of other negative emotions.

The act of desiring, the act of wanting, is based out of the mind. The mind does not see the full scope of consciousness or the full scope of being, the mind can only understand the world through its senses and through its experiences, therefore the mind has a limited function, or SHOULD have a limited function in our day to day lives because it is an incomplete part of the whole. It’s true function is to orient our existence and give relativity to our physical existence, not to run and dictate our lives.

To empower the mind and give it full reign over us is to miss out on the entire glory and beauty in life. Given the power, the mind will only do what it is designed to do, only at its most extreme points. Instead of allowing us to judge, it will live by judging and instead of allowing us to measure one thing against another, it will compete and conquer other mind so that it may have more of that which it is measuring – you get the point by now, I’m sure of this.

To return and get back on track, if we base our existence by using our minds we can only have returned to us the limited experiences the mind is capable of and when we begin to move our focus into our BEING then we can have returns come from that which is infinite, that which is everything and is all consciousness.

I like to use examples, so let’s say right now I want to become a bodybuilder, no, I DESIRE to become a bodybuilder. There’s a part of me that just wants to be a massive 6’2 265lb giant because that thought seems to be in alignment with what I want to become. The very second I desire to be that, and give it up to my mind and my thought process a whole onslaught of thought will begin to take place. Immediately my mind will begin to look at others, then back at myself and judge my body against theirs. My mind will also go through periods of intense happiness and then intense sorrow when it realizes that it’s body does not look like the image it is holding. The swings between apparent joy and sorrow are as unpredictable as the weather – but why? Why is this so?

The reasoning behind all of this is simple, it’s because the mind does not KNOW it is already that, that mind cannot comprehend such a thing because it must only operate, function and use what it sees, feels and measures in front of it. Whenever you enter something on a mental level, you do not know it is already done, you begin to enter this entire process of having “good” and “bad” days because that is what the mind is experiencing. It is very common to be unproductive and go through periods or days where you will find yourself being very productive and doing a lot of things to move yourself closer to your goals closely followed by days where nothing gets done. Whenever you seem to develop and cultivate momentum, it is quickly thwarted by your mind and your thoughts and this all happens because your mind has chosen to stop and say, “Wait a minute! I only weigh 195lbs, not 265, what gives?” and this is then FURTHER PERPETUATED AND CONFIRMED by your acceptance of this fact.

When you accept the thoughts your mind has put forth, you have identified with your mind, and therefore have empowered your mind and told it that it is the dominate one. You have told your mind that it is right, that you have accepted its judgment as truth and therefore no other progress is necessary, or can be positive because your mind will always make this kind of decision and draw this same conclusion, over and over and over again until the end of time. By accepting that which your mind gives you, you have temporarily fooled yourself into believing that is who you truly are, but I am here to tell YOU that THAT IS NOT WHO YOU TRULY ARE – your mind is nothing more then a device that helps to orient you and give you functional performance in the physical world, since when did it become the benchmark by which you live your entire life?

Eventually if you keep on practicing what I told you before, the process of being ever PRESENT in your mind and your body, then you will begin to catch your mind and your thoughts doing this. As soon as you direct your attention to these thoughts, they cease to exist, they suddenly have no power because once they are turned to the light and revealed they can’t covertly convince you that that is truly and really who you are.

This is a beautiful truth and the entire point of this whole website. If I can ever trigger you remembering one thing in your life then I want it to be that you must constantly practice the awareness necessary to forever stay in the moment of “NOW”. All of the other personal development information on this website means nothing unless you can do this, because by constantly staying in this moment of the never-ending moment of NOW, you can eliminate the garbage your thoughts are using to control you. Your thoughts are not who you are, they are just the noise and the fodder of your mental body trying to make sense of the stimulations and sensations that are constantly bombarding your body at every moment of the day. It’s just like the darkness within a room – until you discover and learn how to cast light into the darkness, your mind and thoughts being the darkness, it is going to be the dominant and operative force in that room until you the light shine in that room and regain control once again. For as long as you do not understand that the awareness and presence is what you need to realize who you truly are, then your thoughts will continue to be the anchor in which you are weighed down, bonded and shackled and forced into thinking that is what you truly are.

I want to present a certain situation that can show you this dichotomy or great split between that which we call being and the mind. Let’s say for example the mind and my thoughts are relentless bombarding me with the obvious information that I don’t weigh 265lbs and that I’m not anywhere close; if a part of my being were to rise up and say, “Well, I may not weigh 265lbs at the moment, but that is who I truly am, that is how I see myself, my current body and weight is not who I truly am.” then that would create a part of the mind that would surely rise up and ask the question, “Well then, who are you really?”.

That’s what we are looking for, the part of the mind that rises up and begins to questions who are you really, because it is in that moment that the mind and the ego becomes truly afraid that you will no longer choose to identify yourself with it and begins to panic. After all, how do you know this? By what process or means do you have the faith or the knowing to simply just know that is who you truly are? By what process is this possible? This is something surely beyond that which the mind can comprehend, because it cannot be measured or understood by thought alone.

Being then steps in, along with consciousness, because where these two exist, thought and the mind cannot. Thoughts have no power over the individual who just is, who just knows who they are and who is ever present in the moment of now; when we speak of the moment of now, it is a state in which we are truly centered and focused on what is happening around is. The past and the future dissolve, we don’t care about any of that because it doesn’t matter. As long as in this moment of now, within our being we already feel and know who we are, then we eliminate the possibilities and dissolve out the judgments, measurements and competition that the mind was using us to hold us down and in place.

The mind cannot exist without us identifying with it and feeding it, however, the being exists only when we know with precision and certainty who we really are. Yet, the individual who knows and fully understands their being, their consciousness, their SELF is the mountain that cannot be moved because they are acting and demonstrating the higher portion of themselves that is one with the source and one with the single creative force. When you feel and act out of your being, there is nothing that can move you from that level of consciousness. Your mind in that moment returns to being the tool that helps to orient you into time and space so that you may exist physically and it can no longer serve to enslave you, because you have chosen to identify you with YOUR OWN SELF and not the mind. Once you realize that there is a self, a being and a consciousness, then you have found who you truly are and in that moment of NOW you are forever in a state of love that cannot be stripped of you, for true love is not subject of the experience of “highs” and “lows” as the mind is.

The mind experiences these “highs” and “lows” because the very act of desiring something makes that person subject to the positive and the negative aspects of it, for you cannot understand one thing without understanding that which it is not. You cannot understand hot without cold, nor cold without hot. Many individuals find their suffering because of the very act of desiring something. You see, the very act of “wanting” to become wealthy, or “wanting” to eliminate your pain will subject you and induce you into a state of being in which you will forever be in pursuit of those things without ever obtaining them, simply because whatever you resist will persist. This is the realm of the mind because the mind cannot JUST KNOW that it is already something, it can only know what it can feel, hear, see, taste, touch, measure and judge. It is an impossibility to ever expect the mind to simply have faith or know anything that it couldn’t prove without physical evidence. The mind and your thoughts will always keep you locked into a state of mind that constantly needs any validation to make any progress, however, progress is only made by knowing that you are already that which you have asked for which sets up and establishes the grounds and making of a brutally vicious cycle that can potentially go on forever until you develop the self awareness necessary to bring it to a hault and an end

Understanding creation and how this works is important, because when this is created in the mind it becomes a problem. The very act of wanting something will create the experience of wanting – something can only be had when you enter the moment of NOW, the present, because it is in that moment when you no longer desire anything and you know that it is yours and that it is done because you are that which you want already. Never “want” anything, because you are dooming yourself and initiating the universe to go ahead and give you more of what you don’t want, or more of what you fear. By becoming centered in the present, you have already become what you wanted and therefore the actions of what you need to do to become that become natural and etched into the fibers of your being and are already a deeply ingrained part of you. You will find yourself moving towards that naturally all while eluding the pain and suffering you have so clearly felt and experienced in the past.

When you simply know yourself to already be something, in the ever-present moment of now, you can only be that which you know yourself to be. This is what many describe as enlightenment because in the realization of the self, of being and of consciousness you have freed yourself from the “ups” and the “downs” of the mind that originate there because it was empowered to do something that it shouldn’t even be doing in the first place.

“Being” is also just that – BEING. Being is an absolute, it is not able to be disrupted, moved or influenced. When you are being, you are projecting who you truly and really are into eternity and that then becomes your reality. At the level of the mind and of thoughts, nothing is absolute and that which you think you are is easily able to be manipulated and changed based upon things external to you being able to influence your mind, therefore influencing that which you identify yourself with. When you move into the world of the self, of being and of consciousness you become awakened and alive to who you are and what you want to become and nothing is able to stop this, nothing can slow it down or bring it to a crawl because this is your consciousness, this is your divine statement of how you see yourself and it is also who and what you are. At this level of being, your thoughts have no meaning or impact in your life and they will have long faded away.

Fear is one of the most powerful aspects of our society or of all human beings in general because it is something we share in collectively and all understand. Nobody is immune to fear and it’s a powerful feeling that we’ve all felt since birth. We’ve tried over the many thousands of years to understand it and most recently we’ve had psychology spring up to attempt to explain some of the many reasons why humans are afraid.

Enough of that though, if you put fear on a pedestal and break it down we can all agree on one thing: fear results when we find ourselves uncertain of what is about to happen. In other words, the number one leading thing that sparks us to become afraid of anything is our uncertainty, doubt or any other emotion that leaves us feeling powerless.

That’s an important realization to make because it would lead us to believe that fear itself is so potent it has the power to strip away our feeling of control in any situation. But, wait a minute, look at the word control, that’s another powerful part of this equation because you can argue that when we feel we aren’t in control of something we become instantly afraid of it and from that point of entering fear any number of other negative feelings such as anger, rage or jealousy can take control of us; it still would seem as if fear was the gateway for every other negative emotion, and this is right to assume because once we lose our apparent control over something seems only natural that we then open ourselves up to any other negative or unwanted emotion that exists out there.

This is all a bunch of interesting thought because fear has become isolated as one of the main things that serves to disempower us as human beings. The instant we become afraid or something, whether or not we realize it, we are giving away all of our power and control to that which we fear.

Doesn’t that seem ridiculous? If you were a knight in the middle ages, and another person went to attack you would you throw down your sword and shield, remove all of your armor and then begin to fight that person? I would certainly hope not.

The same things hold true when we become afraid of things because we are shedding our armor and our weapons and then either choosing to stay and fight or run away – either way, I don’t think either outcome will be very successful unless the thing you were afraid of was a pony, or a 12 year old girl.

Then, what are we to do about fear? The answer to this question is to face it head on and confront it. We don’t want to face that which we fear head on because it forces us and challenges us to go places and do things that we don’t feel comfortable doing. You see, it’s also all about what makes us comfortable and we seldom choose to leave areas of comfort for understandable reasons but that is an unacceptable practice.

Unless you are willing to embrace fear and do what is required of you to have a successful outcome, then you are never going to leave the current status your life is in right at this very moment. Instead of shedding our power to fear, we need to heighten our awareness and stay at the top of our game during the times we find ourselves afraid because we must learn and realize that it is during these times when we will come to learn, grow and develop the most.

Fear is nothing more then an illusion that we live by because we have fooled ourselves into thinking that we can’t control everything that we would like to. Fear is pushes us out of our comfort zone because it is the realization that we cannot control everything that we wish to, and thus, people find themselves living in constant fear because they haven’t yet realized that they really CAN control things as long as they understood the process.

Expecting to control other people and what these other people do is foolish – they are their own person and you need to understand that. It doesn’t matter if they are your husband, wife, spouse or children, they are their own person and they will make their own decisions. Trying to force and control the lives of others is a losing battle because in your fear of their decisions you are shedding your power and allowing them to pick it up and fuel doing that which you don’t want them to. If you aren’t prepared to contribute to another person’s life in a positive, meaningful way then it’s probably best you part ways with them and each go on your separate paths.

Keeping people around you who compromise how you feel is never a good thing, however, if all you seek to do is control others then you will never keep a close circle of friends and family who can enrich your life in a positive and meaningful way.

From this day forward, you should make the strongest effort possible to eliminate as much “fear” out of your life as you possibly can. We can never eliminate EVERY bit of fear because it’s such a strong motivator for personal development and growth if you come to understand it correctly. The greatest people in the world understand that what they were afraid of made them who they are, but only because they learned to take the necessary action and steps to conquer and over come what they were so afraid of. Until you can figure out a way to identify what you are afraid of and then challenge it head first, you are going to be locked in your current state until this becomes clear to you.

In life, you need to stop asking the question, “What Can I Come To Obtain, and How?” and start replacing it with, “What More Can I Give To Obtain That Which I want, and How?”.

When you start focusing on what type of quality and value you can provide others, all that you can ever need or want will automagically be taken care of for you. It’s all reciprocal.

If you want the blueprint and the key to success, I can tell you what that is right now. Once you find who and what you want to be in life, you must immediately begin to share what you have learned and incorporated into your own life with others immediately. Don’t be concerned with how much or how little you may know in the present, because that is irrelevant. Simply putting out what you know right now, in this instant, is going to draw a large community of like-minded people around you who will function to help you grow and learn whether you realize this or not. You, in some form, are currently doing this right now to some extent and degree. Besides, once you start pushing further and further ahead you can always revisit your previous work and accomplishments and tweak them and fine tune them based upon your new knowledge, understanding and findings. I plan to do that with this blog – I’ll slowly come back and update things as I go along and I fully understand this website to be just a giant and continuous work in progress.

The point is to start DOING something right now, TAKE ACTION regardless of your confidence because as long as you are in motion you are picking up more and more momentum. Teaching others, no matter your perceived knowledge of any given subject, is going to help to expand your own awareness and serve to help teach yourself; when you show others the way, you miraculously begin to show yourself a new way, one of which can only be discovered and uncovered when you switch your gears and dedicate yourself towards helping other individuals. This law cannot be bypassed and the only way to accelerate your growth and finding out who you truly are with any degree of certainly is by being reciprocal with yourself and your efforts. Learning to identify with people and doing all you can for them, out of an unconditional love is going to literally cause you to become a gigantic black hole for all of the things you are trying to obtain for yourself. The universe is built to function this way – we can only take ourselves to the next level by passing what we have learned down to those who are ready to step up and walk the path we are beginning to leave – call it a form of higher or spiritual evolution if you will. That’s the thing about being unconditional, it’s the foundation of our entire universe and until you can learn to do this with a whole-hearted passion that is free from self-interest then you will be forever stuck wherever you are in life right now. The heaviest and coldest hearts will weigh you down and cause you to sink to the bottom the fastest while those that are filled with light, love, joy and happiness float upwards infinitely as they attract to them that which they put out into the world.

The hearts of most men and women fall in between love and self-interest so they stay in a limbo; this is frustrating because there seems to never be any growth and no progress, even for those people who many would call “good”. It’s striving to eliminate the tiny, negative bad habits and thoughts that keep you weighed down that will allow you to achieve the most progress. Having clear and concise goals is going to drive you forward in the direction you want to go – write these goals down and LIVE THEM with PASSION, DEDICATION AND LOVE each and every single day of your life while eliminating your self-interests. Understand that you can have what you want through your helping, love and dedication towards others.

You will never understand and come to know the abundance of life until you realize that all of the best things in life are free. These are shared experiences, memories and precious moments. We seldom come to know this until we begin to age, have kids or learn the importance of responsibility. Turn inward and look at yourself, look at your intentions and ask yourself what you are doing for other people and how you can better their lives. If your focus is fixated on improving your own life then you will forever be stuck in the pipeline of struggling to improve your own life without any results because you’re missing the element of love and understanding what it means to be part of a whole, something that is so great and magnificent that it’s only understandable once you shed the downright silly notion that everything exists separately and unrelated from each other. Moving past your perception that the world is divided and into one where you realize that we are all one in the same, just as the many billions of cells are alive and functioning together inside of the body, although they are separate they are all working together for a common cause and are all interdependent on each other. If the cells of the body begin to weaken in one part, then the rest of the body feels the effects, therefore, everything is a team effort and the moment one part of the team can no longer “pull its own weight” then the entire body feels the effects of this. Think about what a body would be like if EVERY cell was self-serving and self-interested… That’s right – there’s no such thing. While there are some cells whose entire life purpose is to be nothing but self serving, they are balanced out by other cells whose entire life purpose is only dedication towards others. If you lean too far into one direction, you through everything out of balance and have some real problems. The key is to find the balance, and often times you need to experience life as an extremely self-serving person before you can understand what it means to be one; you can then come to realize that you can have whatever interests you in life by first helping others and providing solutions and values to their needs. Everything else flows as a direction result of your actions towards those people.

You also don’t want to be too dedicated to other people because being a martyr will get you nowhere. Just learn to find the balance between the two but realize that the gateway still remains the same, and this is dedication towards helping and showing others whatever it is they need. Once you have identified that dedication and love is the gateway, you can begin to call forth from that whatever you may want within reason so long as your intentions are pure.

We are no different as human beings, however, we haven’t quite realized this yet in a full awareness, but the day for this is ominously close You will still find in life that you learn, grow and accelerate the most and the fastest when you are helping to teach others whatever your passion happens to be. There’s something special about interacting with each other and bonding to form an alliance towards a common interest or goal, no matter how small or large this is. The power of more then one mind can do many things together and it should be no secret or mystery that this is a universal truth.

You have a gift and a special unique talent that nobody else can call their own. Find out today the best way to share that with the world. I can tell you right now that it’s going to be a combination of teaching your gift to others and helping others to benefit from your extraordinary talents in whichever way possible. Be prepared to go down all roads, paths and walks of life to discover who and what you truly are and why your passions are something you can call your own – who you are and what you love is a very strong part of your personality and your outward expression to the world and all of us within it.

Now, what are you waiting for? Go figure out the best ways to share all of this newfound love and passion of yours

Actually, I have a bit of a problem with my own title of, “How to be Successful” because everybody in their own right way is already successful, maybe you just don’t realize it yet. There is literally an infinite amount of ways that you can define what constitutes being “successful” and each and every person you ask this question to will give you a different answer.

Since I’m not the type of person to go digging around for things in an infinite pool, no matter what you define as success or how to become successful can be achieved by some universal ways of thinking, acting and feeling. Once you tune in to some of the patterns that seem to cultivate success and that many people that we view as successful have, then you will quickly find that everything is well within your reach.

Step 1

DO what YOU love! There are so many people on this planet who have tremendous passion for so many things but throw it out of the window, all in the pursuit of money. I can tell you a lot of reasons why you should never take this route, primarily because you are going to end up a bitter and unpleasant person due to your constant search to find happiness. Once you find what makes you happy, you’ve found the part of your soul that is just screaming out, “THIS IS WHO I AM!” and the more you deny who you are, the more miserable you will be.

The things we love and are passionate and enthusiastic about come naturally to us which means if we were to do them for a living or even a hobby, it would be pleasant and enjoyable and feel a lot less like “work” which would leave us more productive in that chosen field.

And productivity is one of the largest keys and part of the statement of “how to be successful” that you can ever imagine. If you are more inclined to work harder at something because you see the value in what you are doing, then needless to say you are going to pour your heart, soul, blood, sweat and tears into that project. You’ll become emotionally invested into it and see that project or profession you do until you’ve built it to be the best thing you could ever imagine.

There’s something almost captivating that occurs to a human being when they find what they believe to be their purpose in life as suddenly everything just “matters” to them. Everything that has your name attached to it instinctively has a higher value and sense of urgency attached to it that you feel nobody can ever come close to matching. It’s as if your product or your service becomes a child and you slowly but delicately evolve it into being the best that it could ever be.

People aren’t dumb and they will see the pride and the value you give into your work. Your passion and your enthusiasm is a giveaway and people will be able to either see right into, or through that. When you take pride and value in what you do, no matter what it might be, it’s just going to be better. This is something you’ve had an experience with already if you think about; if you can recall the subjects you hated and despised the most in school – what were you grades like? Even if you had to force yourself to get outstanding grades I bet you hated every moment behind it even though you achieve a good grade. It probably felt like a huge uphill battle that you needed to win by crawling tooth and nail to get to the top. If you think back to a moment to the subjects or hobbies that you loved doing, did it even feel like work or a chore? I doubt it. The things that we love seem to come so naturally to us that when we’re doing them, we enjoy them so much that it doesn’t even feel like a requirement, or something that we have to do in order to become successful. We just do these things because we love doing them.

There are always those people who won’t ever do what they love because they fear the salary is too low or not worth their skill level or time. That’s nothing but a disease that exists in your mind that does you a huge injustice towards finding success and happiness. While it’s true that when you first start out in any new field or career that your services won’t be valued that highly despite what confidence you have in yourself and your abilities; you need to cultivate a track record and a proven history of success in order to show and demonstrate to other people why you are the best or why they should hire you.

You should never have to sell anything in your life. If you find that you spend the majority of your life selling things to people, then you need to stop selling and start solving, because all of the best solutions for people will lead them gravitating back to you for your product or service. It’s all about the relationship also, you can find yourself dealing with a lot of nasty and unpleasant people if you spent all of your time selling to them instead of solving. Positioning yourself and your services in a way that will help them to personally connect and identify with you will help you to create a certain kind of relationship that extends far beyond just “the sale” and is how you naturally grow and expand your business the way it should be done – by providing a quality service and product that has a snowball effect among all of your clients and customers. Distinguishing yourself as different and having different and out of the ordinary but extremely effective solutions to problems is going to get you noticed and propel you to the top of your chosen field or career. Even if you work in a market or field that is extremely saturated and drastically impact by harsh economic times, there are still people regardless of these circumstances who are looking for YOUR product or service and you can bring to you by staying at the top of your game, being passionate about what you do all while working to serve the best interests of your clients and customers, not your own financial goals.

Stop worrying about the salary you will make and start worrying how you can increase your influence, build a better product or service and then the money will follow. I’ll get to why this happens in more detail in a bit

Step 2

If we can sum up Step 1 of how to be successful, we should say that the first step towards this new realization and awareness is to first identify what we love to do and do it regardless of how much the associated and attached salary rates to that job or role are. We need to focus more on delivering quality and value and then potential clients and customers will come to us, money in hand, for our premium solution.

So what’s next in how to be successful? Glad you asked!

The next step is to turn the focus inwards towards yourself for a moment. Each and every single person, I don’t care who you are, where you come from or how much money you earn right now has a special and unique skill or set of skills that differentiate you from everybody else. I get a lot of people who don’t have confidence in themselves enough to come to grips with how talented they really were and their intense sense of humbleness is flattering but not very productive for them.

Nobody knows you better then yourself, and while other people can tell you what they believe you are good at (and believe me, they will) it’s up to you to realize this and own this realization for yourself. Once you’ve accomplished this, you need to find a good way of expressing your abilities. Whether you work for wages or for yourself, you need to start thinking the best way to deliver your true talents, abilities and skills to other people. Perhaps you work for a company and you want to start your own business, or vice versa but whatever the case may be you need to begin thinking of all of the different ways you can start turning your skills into products and services for others. By following the outline given in Step 1, it will have you more then on your way to being successful and happy.

If you want to know a little bit of a secret, a lot of people tend to get hung up on the money aspects of things. You’ll find millions of people who are extraordinarily gifted who work for great companies, but they are miserable because they want to branch out and do their own thing, however, they are terribly afraid and full of fear. Crossing this bridge is tough and you need to turn inwards and really ask yourself what you want – wages or your own business? Undoubtedly you must have friends very similar to you and ones that collectively could contribute and enhance your skills in such a fashion that it could make a business between all of you much more possible and much less scary.

Step 3

Step 3 in how to be successful is all about your mental attitude. Without a positive and solid mental attitude, you aren’t going to go anywhere fast – guaranteed. I know what you’re expecting to hear, that we need to stay positive, focused and motivated etc. The truth is, unless you’ve struggled with how hard doing these things can be, and what is required of you physically, emotionally and mentally to carry these states of mind to your success then grasping and understand the full depth of them is almost unimaginable. If we take a moment to revisit Step 1 again, then that step tells us if we pick a line of work which we are passionate about, then it’s not like work at all. Think about that for a second, picking something we love to do is going to give us an advantage, because it’s going to automatically tear down most of the fear, worrying, anxiety and other barriers that could otherwise exist.

When it’s suddenly not “just work” anymore and we become personally involved and tied to it because it is something we love, we are less inclined to give up so easily and be defeated. You’ll find that struggling with seeing things to fulfillment become a lot less of a problem when you’re doing what you love because it’s your passion and your purpose. The most successful people you’ll ever meet don’t ever usually worry about the money because they understand that the money comes as a natural byproduct of providing an extremely valuable product or service. If you stay fixated on the money then I can almost guarantee you are going to fail, because working towards money as an end is shallow and not sustainable because without a solid product or service backing it up, money is fleeting and has no way to replenish itself. If you company is built around greed and milking or scamming people out of their hard-earned money then everything you company produces product and service wise as well as its own personal image is going to reflect that – and people will see right through this and you might find yourself out of business quicker then you can think.

Step 4

Developing a healthy body and mind go hand in hand with how to be successful. Think about it, your body is the vehicle and way in which you express yourself to the world, why would you want this wonderful and beautiful body of yours not functioning in its highest capacity? Do you think it’s going to be productive and lead you to success having your body only running on 20, 30 or 50% of its total capacity?

Then you’ll agree with me that it only makes sense that we train, condition and give our bodies all that they need to ensure that we’re thinking clearly, focused and healthy. The best way to start this is your diet. ABSOLUTELY forget any type of food that is high in fats, sugar and, well, you know the deal; hearing this all again is going to be redundant, however what I will say is this: if you owned a Lamborghini would you put low grade fuel such as 87 or 89 octane into that engine? What the hell do you think would happen to that car’s engine if you were to use low quality gasoline, fuel and oils?

All of these principles apply towards your body as well. Fast foods, junk food and most of the package and other types of foods that we get from our local markets that are processed are just destroying us from the inside out and putting us at an extreme disadvantage. This has a lot more to do then just pure issues of weigh or obesity, we’re talking about your levels of rational and cognitive function here – there’s no reason to not be working at your best. I’m not saying you need to go out and become vegan, but taking the effort to incorporate more fresh fruits and vegetables into your diet is going to help you to become successful in the long run.

I always love the person who will counter argue with the point, “well, I am busy all day and have no time to eat like that!”. Well, guess what? I bet if you started thinking of your diet as part of your overall blueprint and plan of how to be successful then your attitude will change. It’s all about perspective, and by god if you have to include eating an excellent diet into your business plan, then do it – no questions asked because that’s going to be such a huge factor and influence on your overall success because it will bring you to enjoy higher states of energy and make you less prone to the ups, downs, moods and emotions of life as a whole.

The next part in this step of how to be successful: sleep. This is right up there with food, and I am just as guilty as everybody else in that I work about 12-16 hours per week at my business roughly 6-7 days a week; this is because I already found my passion and I don’t mind those hours, I actually love and enjoy my work and I have no problems doing it. On an upside, I can turn around and take a month off and my business would still produce for me, that’s just what I wanted to create and it was extremely important for me to have that so I included that into my plan for success. I suppose there will be a day that will come when I can afford to back off more and begin to enjoy the fruits of my labor more, but in all honesty I am not even worried about that during the present moment because I know there still has to be a lot more work done.

Step 5

By the way, how’s your personality? Your personality is a huge part of how to be successful because just like your body, it’s a prominent way of how you express yourself to the world. If you are an extremely pleasant and charming person to be around, you’ll find that networking (which is such a huge part of success) will come naturally to you and that all of your relations with your clients, customers and staff will go that much more smoothly and serve in your best interests of expansion. People prefer and LOVE to work with people who they deem as pleasant, loving, generous and kind – after all, wouldn’t you love to work with a company, owner or business person who embodied all of these traits?

Taking the time to cultivate your personality and learn how to have better interactions with people is crucial and vital to your success. Learning how to be a better public speaker as well as a writer who can clearly and concisely transmute their thoughts to paper is going to make you more well off then you can ever begin to understand. Also, learning how to become one who has a way with words and can clearly articulate is especially important.

On a special note, I am not talking about developing a “fake” personality here, because quite frankly, people can smell this bullshit from more then a mile away. It takes great courage to be comfortable in your own skin, therefore, it takes even more courage to become confident with yourself. If you feel you are lacking in one area, don’t over compensate for that with a fake personality because you are going to drive people away from you so fast it’ll make your head spin. We tend to be a lot more transparent then we think, and although we never hear from those close to us their opinions, you can be certain of the fact that if you leave a bad impression on somebody that it will detract and take away from your success and overtime this can accumulate and become a terrible thing to have to deal with on both personal and professional levels.

You don’t have to fool anybody – if you come off sounding, looking or giving the impression of being extremely fake then that is the message you are conveying about your products and services. Find out who you really are and build from there, you’ll quickly find you have all of the tools you need to be successful in this area and it’s easier then you might have thought in the past. People are extremely sensitive to impressions, especially first ones and it can be difficult to readjust how you come off to people once you give a bad one on the first shot.

Step 6

This perhaps the most important step, but it can only be realized which you collectively bring together and master the first 5 steps. If you truly and deeply want to know how to be successful, then these points are the greatest insight anybody can ever give to you.

Naturally, while you are out developing yourself in whichever way you want to in order to become successful in the manner in which you define it, you will notice that some things just “work” while others don’t. It seems so simple to say this, but it’s the truth: once you find what works, you have to then scale that into the size you want and desire. Scaling yourself and your results involves a lot of volume, and it involves a formula for success.

Once you figure out what works, you just need to duplicate those results as many times as it takes to see the results you want. Any factory is a great example of this, they found out through trial, error and a lot of testing what works and what doesn’t and when they finally got their formula for their best products and services figured out, they just simply scale it until they meet the goals they have set forth for themselves.

To tie the previous steps in going forward with this, the products that these factories make only go as far as the demand the people have for them. If you come out with a product that looks great but turns out to be smoke and mirrors, meaning there was a lot of hype but no value in anything, then those factory doors will shut so quickly you might even get stuck inside before you have a chance to run out of those big doors.

Volume is where a lot of people get hung up. They have outstanding products and services but they have no true way of delivering these things in volume because they often involve some type of business or a lot of money to start a way in which they can deliver these products and services – then all of the excuses start flowing about how and why they can’t do anything because they’re broke.

Honestly, if you have faith in yourself and what you can deliver then you don’t need to worry about these things. The quickest, simplest and fastest way to do these things would be to go out and start a website. Hell, even if you started a simple blog about why you are the best driveway sealer in the world – who knows what that can lead to? Learning some basics about things like Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can take your business a very long way and it will seem like your competition is just suddenly shrinking away as more and more people start seeking you out for what solutions you can present to them.

No matter on how small of a scale you begin your business or whatever else it is you’re looking to do, when you are great at what you do that will begin to spread like wild fire and suddenly you might find yourself in the perfect scenario of being immersed in what you love. Like always attracts like, and if you love genuinely doing your work and working with whatever it is that you do, then you are going to inherently attract more people, events and circumstances that will allow you continue on with doing what you love.

Step 7

This is where a lot of people succeed and they do this either consciously or unconscious of this simple fact. We’ve got to pay our old friend money a visit and take a good, long hard look at it and begin to yet again tie some of the previous steps into this one also.

You should focus less on money and keep having faith that as long as you keep on doing what you love, then you’ll attract as much money as you’ll ever need as a byproduct of your excellent products and services. Over the years, I’ve found it to be true that you can only make as much money as the total amount of value you are providing to either your boss or your clients.

The ironic part about this is that whatever your wages are, you are prescribing and assigning them to yourself. In a sense, you are determining what you are worth and working towards those wages. A lot of unhappiness can be found because people fool themselves into thinking that they love what they do when they are really unhappy; a balancing act between your emotions, mental state and your six figure salary then takes place and you won’t ever win that battle until you pony up and move on to doing what you love. Initially you may take a huge reduction in pay but that balances out and fixes over time. Thinking like a farmer is what I love to always do, because the seeds you are sowing and planting today aren’t going to grow tomorrow but you need to have faith and know how to be successful – you need to know that which you are planting today will grow tomorrow as long as you stick with it over time and nurture it correctly.

If you don’t want to reinvent your career and your profession then start doing things that will warrant an increase in your wages. Show more responsibility, leadership or other desirable traits that your company is looking in its employees and good results will follow. These tactics don’t only apply to people who own businesses, they can apply to anybody in any line of work or duty. If you want to move up in any way, then you need to give the people with the power to promote you or your position a reason to do this. It’s unreasonable to sit back and demand more money when the value and the output you contribute to your company doesn’t reflect what you are really doing. I see all the time people will say things along the lines of, “I’ve been working this profession for 20 years! I know everything, and my salary deserves to be a reflect of my time spent into this profession!”. That’s all fine and dandy, 20 years is a long time and to some extent I don’t doubt that your employer is in some way reflecting into your salary all of that time, but you can’t justify a six figure salary just based on the amount of years you’ve been working that profession, especially if all of those years haven’t been with one company.

In other words, you need to show good reason why you are worth the salary you want. You can make all of those statements, but if you are lazy or not exceeding the expectations upon you then you’re going to stay stagnant for a very, very long time. Expectations are important and you should always stride to exceed them at all costs. Going the extra mile, producing the extra volume and going above and beyond is what is going to separate you from all of the rest. One thing that is true, anybody who is successful has always gone the extra mile and that’s a universal truth.

If you still don’t know how to be successful, stop worrying about how much money you can make and start worrying about how you can improve what you have to offer product and service wise to your clients and customers. Money cannot sustain anything in and of itself, it needs to have the backing of something valuable, just as we saw with the earlier examples of the factories and the one just now about working for wages. The amount of money you make will be a reflection of the overall quality and quantity of the products and services you produce and distribute to the world; the length and the duration in which you continue to generate your profits is also strictly dependent about the overall quality and quantity of your products and services also.

Faith… That’s a word we hear a lot. Almost every religion talks about aspects of faith, to have it and to use it in your life daily. Even if you are not religious, even if you are an atheist and could care less about religion and God, you would still understand the concept of faith and what it means just by association.

When we hear this word, it immediately begins to evoke a strong emotion inside of us. When you hear somebody utter the words, “well, you just have to Have Faith”, but what exactly is faith? And how can you have it?

So how can this word based out of religious roots come to impact and mean so much to so many different people who share in different beliefs or lack of them? It doesn’t matter who you are, you understand that when someone tells you to have faith that they are asking you to believe in something – but believe in what?

They are asking you to believe or to know that which you are putting your faith in will eventually work out for you or come to be. But wait a second, when you hear the word faith, it doesn’t make you feel that way initially. When people hear the F word, they automatically assume that they must have a dead-end belief in what they what. It’s almost like if somebody tells you to have faith in something that they are saying, “keep believing in what you want and it might happen”. If I am being a bit ambivalent here, what I am trying to imply is that when we hear the word faith it’s almost like we start to assume that the word isn’t solid or concrete – we start to assume that having faith in something means that we won’t end up having it or having it come to be in the end.

Why then, did this word evolve into such a term that shifted from meaning having absolute belief in something to only thinking of what you want a whimsical possibility? That is quite an interesting thing, wouldn’t you agree?

I remember when I was growing up and people told me to have faith in things, even in religion classes, they would always attach the word faith to God and imply that he would always make sure everything worked out OK. Then as you grow up and get older, you will start to hear people to tell you to have faith as if it’s some outside force that dictates your success or failure – people start to use the word faith as if whatever you want is an external or force outside of you that is either going to magically work or not work for you. This is an unsettling notion, I don’t take kindly to things that suggest to me that anything I want is something that can be left up to chance. I don’t like and am not comfortable with hearing that if I put my faith into something, that some random order of events is either going to give or not give what I asked backed to me, no way, no how.

Faith then, becomes even more interesting when we look at it in this deep context. We need to ask ourselves the golden question about faith, “where does faith come from and who decides what happens?”. It’s all too easy to chalk it up to God and say well, God always knows so he determines it – he gives it to us. I am a believer in God, but I am not a believer that God is a figure of judgment, I believe him to be a figure of love, therefore, it is not within God’s judgment to either grant us something or take it away – that power is entirely reserved for our own use and application.

Then the answer to the question is that we create and bring things into our own reality based on our own degree of faith. We need to again come back to the primary rule of life and existence – we are the masters of our own universe. We create everything and we bring everything to us by way of our own thoughts and actions, there is no external force that has the power to act on our own reality and our own universe and do as they please unless we let them. God has nothing to do with this – we are God and we create through him, he is nothing but love and cannot interject in our own decisions; this is possible out of his pure and brilliant love for us. God loves us so much that he will stand beside us and watch us stumble trying to walk until we eventually learn to run. He does not directly intervene in our lives, but instead, he did give us something that we can operate within to create our own realities, the universe. He is the ultimate nurturer because he has given us all of the tools we need to be the best person we can be in life, we just need to simply remember them and accept them – until we can do this, then there is nothing he can do. God cannot force his love on anybody or anything, the person must first accept this love as part of their universe and as a part of their reality before God will begin to have any impact on that person’s life. The thing about that is that people will still treat God as external to them and their lives, so that is all they will ever come to know him by.

The permissions you set for anything in life, be it for God or your spouse and even your family is all of the power you are letting them operate in. If you treat God as an all-powerful being but say to yourself that he is beyond you and controls everything you can’t see, then you are effectively giving your power away to external forces to control your life for you. I can’t even imagine a life like this, it would be full of chaos and disharmony run by nothing but your own fear. This is the cardinal rule: things will happen to you as you want them too, until you can realize that nothing can effect you unless you have given it the power to, then your life will be run in seemingly disarray.

If you want the most benefit to come out of your life, then you need to see the value in accepting things and seeing them how they really are. Getting back to the topic of faith, it is wise to say that a man is the master crafter of his own faith as well as collecting the fruits of that belief and the labor. Every single wise person and teacher as far back as Socrates agreed on one point among their many contrasting ones: man is the master of their own universe, you sow only what you reap and you can only become that which you believe in and that which you make your own.

Looking back at the model of faith we’ve made now, we can see something funny come out of all of this. All along, we have been told to put our dreams and what we want to faith, but all along, faith was never something external to us, faith is something that we are in control of. We have been putting our dreams to chance all along, we can only begin to sow the benefits of our dreams when we realize that the act of both having faith and having faith deliver to us what we want is entirely in our own domain; that is to say, the faith we put into things is exactly like putting faith into ourself, in fact, it is just that. When we have faith in something, it should never be into an external force of chance but rather we need to believe that what we are having faith in will come to be because we are fully realized that it is entirely up to us to create what we want in life.

There is no need in life for predicting the future because this process is straight forward:

1. Faith is Belief, it is Knowing.
2. We must accept our own selves as the only entity in all of creation that has the power to give us that which we want. God has provided THE WAY by which this can happen, and the way is the all abundant universe. The universe will respond with our initial faith by aligning us with what we want – the more we know we are going to have what we want, the easier it is to get it.
3. There is no guesswork, if you already have faith, if you already know and believe that you are going to be something, then there is no need to predict the future. You already know what the outcome is going to be because only you have the power to decide what that outcome will be. All too many times people fail because they can’t see the elegance and beauty in the process. People think external forces will cause them to fail, so they will attract by their own thoughts a perpetual stream of seemingly random (although they are not random – they were CREATED by them) events that will bombard them and beat them down until it is impossible to succeed, at which point they give up. No one decides to give up except you, and no one can decide to make anything work except you. You are going to attract whatever you are thinking in your mind always.

Learning to master this process will move your life’s potential into the infinite. Begin to feel right now exactly what it is like to be limitless, to know the simple formula that will make life the greatest experience you can ever come to know.

Your faith is your knowing that you can have anything it is your thinking. This process is infallible and it’s not something you can deny, it continues to work whether you choose to accept it or refute and deny it’s existence. The universe is the ultimate way in which your thoughts become the reality you see in front of your eyes. Nothing is left to chance, nothing is random. Everything is ruled and dictated by the supreme love that God has for everything in creation; God is just a force that has come to be all things, and because he is all things, he cannot judge all things. A judgmental God would be dangerous and we would surely see the results of his judgments. When you judge something, it means you must become partial to a side and this is against God’s nature. He cannot be all things if he is only partial to one side, it would cancel a lot of things out, that’s just a thought for you to have.

Everybody is here to gain experience from the roles, jobs, positions and lifestyles we all assume and live day in and day out to gain experience and knowledge; these things are not to be judged or criticized.

An investment banker is not any better then a prostitute or a mail room clerk. These pre-judgments exist based on our views of their salary and lifestyle and these views all vary from person to person. Nobody thinks of the stress of the investment banker or the difficulties of the prostitute, but this is the area they have chosen to gain experience in on some level and no one position or way of life is any better or worse then the other. There are certain areas of interest and certain reasons why people are drawn into the paths they choose in life, they would not be there unless they were actively creating it.

We need to stop basing our judgments off of materialism and social status and we need to start realizing the beauty and reason where benefit can be had in all things. It doesn’t matter where you came from, we all need to see the good in the things that seemingly say they are not good. If you can’t see yourself doing something, then that does not mean it isn’t right for another person – they are in that situation because there is something there for them to learn and gain before they can pick themselves up out of it and walk away a stronger and better person. Just because we all don’t share the same one-track life doesn’t mean we have to. We are all unique and we are all different with variation being the spice and flavor of life – you shouldn’t expect the world to be like you and adhere to your standards because this won’t ever work. Trying to bend and control other people to behave how you want them to is not only going to make you a miserable person, but you are going to stagnate them keep them supressed. If you want the most out of people, you need to learn to work with them and let them make their own unique contribution to the whole without keeping them down or limited.

We also like to judge based on our own personal moral and ethical code, but we cannot do this, for example, with a prostitute because perhaps they chose to gain experience in that situation in order to explore and broaden their awareness while developing a stronger sense of personal morality.

We as humans have no rights to judge in any content because we do not understand the higher order working behind the scenes for anything. We just must be aware that we are all here to work in a co-dependence and better ourselves. Judging others is being counter-productive when we should all be working together and supporting each other to bring out the highest potential possible.

Another example of this in action is this:

Managers hold their positions and have assistant managers.

These assistants will learn naturally and one day be ready to move up – however, not every individual wants the responsibility of a full manager’s position and this is natural and to be expected. Some people only want to experience from a certain position, perspective or vantage point in the world and this is fine, things only become a problem when people have high potential but they lock themselves into a certain way of thinking, being and living because they cannot push and motivate themselves to be more.

I would look at people who live out of the norm lifestyles and professions and regard them highly. It takes a lot of courage and inner strength to push yourself to endure lifestyles that aren’t accepted or mainstream because they force you and challenge you to grow expand yourself at a rapid rate. Those of us who live lives that push the limits of convention are the ones who are on the fast track of growth; even if you don’t jump out of airplanes for a living or don’t do a dangerous job, that is fine, we all have the areas and ways in which we best can grow and explore who we are. More often then not you will find yourself cycling in and out of periods of intense growth and rapid acceleration of your surroundings and who you really are.

“To think is to exercise the divinity within us, and to act and create is the ability to express our individuality.”

We must strive to create, yet to create, or evolve further in what we are capable of creating (in terms of “better” and more desirable things) we must increase our awareness.

Awareness: is our perception of different aspects of reality, at birth it is zero but increases relative to our ever-expanding individual characteristics and learning experiences.

Awareness can never decrease, it can only advance, expand and increase despite what you may think. Even those who are ignorant are expanding their awareness constantly, even though it might not show they are choosing to suppress what they are learning and experiencing.

Every individual has their own unique perspective, their own unique awareness that is entirely different from the next person’s.

One of the main points of life is to first become consciously aware of awareness itself and then strive to develop it to its fullest potential. There are all sorts of different types of awareness, but the one that underlines all things is the ability of a person to act in a state of pure love and goodness. Once you can see the reason why it is beneficial to not only yourself, but the world, then you are well on your way.

Let’s explore that.

Creation happens at all different levels, it acts to increase our awareness. We can only create relative to how aware we are, and there are differences that exist from one person to the next. Becoming aware of ourselves as multi-dimensional beings allows full awareness and creational attention and potential to be actualized and realized. A good way to look at this is to look at a baby – they are only limited to create according to their awareness. A baby obviously does not have much awareness, but because awareness can never be stopped, nor can creation, it is always in motion, increasing itself even if we do not directly understand or realize the process. The beauty is that the process itself is intelligent and able to occur even if we do not comprehend why, but we feel the effects of it daily.

Creating with the intention of helping others creates the only self-sustaining world possible – when we create based out of self interest, greed etc we are creating dead-end pathways that threaten our existence as anything not created with love or the highest good in mind will succumb to itself. If something was born out of pure love, it cannot be destroyed, and this is what God is; he is the perfect creator because he creates with such a pure love that nothing he creates, including us, can be destroyed. Matter, souls or anything else you can imagine is not able to be destroyed because the creational force behind it is a pure and unconditional love – I dare you to try and destroy anything based out of this pure love. This is the universal secret.

The first level of creation we know as humans is to create based on what instinctively and logically makes sense. This level of creation is largely based on our instincts, and this is powerful. Animals create like this, and their instincts are so perfectly in-tune with nature we still do not even understand how it is possible.

The second level of creation is based on needs. Once consciousness starts to turn inward and become aware of itself, it discovers it has needs other then what it needs to survive and it will begin to fill those needs in an attempt to discover who and what it truly is.

The third level of creation is out of a need to survive and protect the self and the family. This may or may not be self-interested as some people look at the world, not themselves, and are present to further the lives and progress of those things outside of themselves. These are the bleeding hearts, but this can be dangerous because not paying attention to the needs of yourself will cause you to never be able to discover who you truly are and what you want out of life. On the contrary, there are individuals who only create out of their own self interest and not for the highest good of others, this is dangerous because neglecting other people and their needs will cause you to never fully develop an awareness that can give back to the world in a way that will keep it sustained permanently.

Souls then create to experience and grow. We can say God observes and is interested in what we create and learns a lot just through us alone. We know there is a measurable formula for creation that involves intent, persistence, love and discipline on our part – we need to move potential into action to realize it.

God may not necessarily be able to put things into action outside of actually creating what he has and what he does. Since he is all that is and all that ever will be, his creations manifest as the laws in which we live under and I do not mean commandments. The law of gravity, creation, math and those kinds of laws are the effects we feel of his creation and love. We do not understand how math may work, it could be completely subject and irrelevant, but we still feel the effects of these things. When we create, we do so by these governing laws with free will, therefore he can observe what goes into the process of creation itself, he can observe the effects we have had on the energy and the very universal laws themselves in order to bring out that creation. Even though we may not directly understand why gravity works or the intelligent force behind it, we know we can use it as a tool of creation and we can only create and work with gravity insofar as we are aware of it. Perhaps when we develop anti-gravity technology, our capacity to create in context to that will have to be readjusted. Life is a process of expanding awareness in all fields and disciplines of life. When we push the ends of one innovative process, we are rewarded with increased awareness that allows us to constantly push towards bigger and better things.

While we focus on how to create and manifest what God already is, God observes how we do it, he is interested in the process by which we manifest ideas or concepts into reality – we struggle especially in religion, to identify God because the only way we can truly come to know him is by manifesting him from what seems just like an intelligent idea into a reality. So in practice, what we create is God, and he understands all that he creates through us, because that is what he is. When you are everything and anything, when humans use their creative force to create, they are use the very essence and force of God himself to create. God is nothing and yet everything for this reason; he is the energy from which all comes to be, move and exist, yet he is not a fixed point that we can tangibly comprehend – he is just all that is and ever will be, driven by an unconditional love for everything so powerfully strong we would explode just thinking about it.

This level of understanding cannot be accomplished without an individual having obtained high levels of evolution of the soul and awareness because at these levels the individual has undoubtedly felt the effects of God and experienced them first hand to different extents. Miracles, lives driven by synchronicity and a better understanding of the creative process as well as our intuition and inner feelings are all examples of experiencing God no longer just as a fleeting intellectual concept but as a co-creator with us in a joint, symbiotic relationship with co-dependence.

The soul creates, and creation is the very act of bringing God’s being and gifts into existence for all other humans beings to live in and grow towards molding them into their own lives. God contains the keys to all things and all perfections and shares them with us in our love for us – but his gifts are locked and the keys become available to us at different stages of our awareness and evolutionary progress; we need to teach others the way in which to unlock this wisdom – the way in which to “hand down the keys” or the way to discover the light inside of ourselves and finally come to realize our true potential.

This is why we are so diverse – we are all unique and we each lend unique perspective, input and unlock certain things in this reality based upon who we are – we all each have a specific potential we can realize and use to understand certain things while sharing what we have learned and discovered with other human beings in life.

When we fail to live in harmony and balance with anything such as the Earth, our fellow human race or anything else, a great distortion occurs that backlashes and effects ALL energy feeding into it that triggers something to cause the balance and harmony to be reset.

As far as the Earth is concerned, it will destroy us while simultaneously restoring balance to itself. The Earth is alive and shares a soul and its own unique sense of balance with us, it also is a part of the collective conscious of our souls and of God – the “oneness” of all things is present here. This balance and harmony exists in the smallest of sea shells to the way planets, galaxies and universes work, operate and function.

Anytime balance and harmony are upset in any of these systems there are changes to the energy surrounding them. Another good example of this is anytime balance and harmony is upset inside of the cells of our bodies, they might either die or be caused to react accordingly – if you cause a disruption to an atom (say by means of a chemical reaction) you will force that atom to change properties and the result is that it turns into something new.

There are three types of changes that occur as far as harmony and balance are concerned:

Negative State – atom, cell, body, planet, galaxy or universe purges itself through destructive action (these things know that there is rebirth in death, when it is not functioning right, nature knows this and the defect in it will somehow cause it to die so that it can be recycled and born into a higher state or newer state of existence. This is done by memory. Darwin saw this through primitive eyes with natural selection – only we need to master the cyclic understanding and notion of there being rebirth in death, and not fear it. Matter is our own self existence, it must evolve completely and it has its own spiritual memory.

Neutral (for lack of a better word) – A state of being achieved whereby the entity (cell, body, universe etc) lives in harmony because it no longer negatively contributes to its environment, therefore, no signal for destruction is triggered, this leads to

Positive State – Which is itself the evolutionary process in terms of continually advancing and improving the base or original starting point of the entity. In this state, only expansion is experienced as it moves towards its highest point of being. The positive state is a state of love, harmony and growth in which that particular entity is positively contributing back to the whole picture and is in a state of growing and increasing its awareness.

How about that for a paradox? The seemingly impossible thing to understand is that which often is the simplest concept, the ones that we live by day to day without fully understanding. Sometimes in life, we need to take a moment out of our busy day to sit down, relax and contemplate on life in general and we will find some brilliant insights. Learning the ability to kind of “slow down” life is an important one – we often get caught up in the hustle and bustle of being so busy we lose ourselves in that time and in that moment. One of the most fundamental things to understand in life, and something we can all come to identify with, is that our thoughts are the means by which we activate and perpetuate (or put into motion) all of what happens to us.

Think about this for a second and you will start to hear the bells ring inside of your head. Nothing really happens by chance, does it? Sure, sometimes things that happen to us externally seem to be beyond our comprehension, after all we can’t ever fully understand those things, but what if that didn’t matter? What if those things happen to us regardless of how aware we were of them or not for a higher reason? What if we had a part in those things, even though we didn’t realize it?

Everything you did today was by your own choice – your actions, the words you spoke, everything you have done or said today originated inside of you, as it was your decision. Certain things may have happened today that caused you to act good, bad or somewhere in between the two, but still, the way you acted based upon what was delivered to you was your own choice.

If we start to look at this a bit harder, you can begin to understand that none of the choices you make just “happen” by coincidence, everything must originate from you somewhere, somehow. This is important, because it thrusts us into the position of being the creator of our lives, in this moment, we understand all of which we do and act upon the world with just does not happen; we can argue that which happens to us is beyond our control, but I will shatter that belief in just a moment.

What now, if we begin to look at other people and how they decide to act upon themselves, others and the world? Surely none of that is coincidence, those are all their conscious decisions and actions, they are not just “happening” because nothing can force you to think or act and even do anything you do want to do. At the end of the day, no matter if you are being manipulated, tortured or even abused, you are the one who ultimately makes the conscious decision and takes conscious action – nobody can do this for you on your part in the name of your identity; you can be influenced or persuaded with material gain or even punishment, but you still decide what you do. You may give up your ability to do this to another, but no person can take over your body and make you act – action, thought and the decision process are unique to the individual consciousness and the body being occupied by that consciousness.

On this note, once we step back and look at this from a higher angle, all of the input going into the world is completely the conscious and purposeful actions of every single thing living within it. Therefore, nothing is going into the world that is really ever random or acting on its own part. All of the conscious energy and input into the world originates from the conscious minds of those who occupy it.

Now we are going to get really hot into this. You can then argue that because all of this input is conscious and not random, all of the external and outside events, circumstances and things we face in life are kind of like the collections of consciousness being forced together and working in unison. If enough people believe in something and put their conscious creation into it, it has no choice but to manifest as a force into the world that goes out and effects other people. We may have a hand in creating powerful movements of collective conscious that can come back and bite us in the ass eventually. Sometimes we are part of a movement, and the energy becomes so powerful it will eventually consume even those who created it because once they lose control of themselves, the same fate follows for their creation(s).

If you are a racist person, you are contributing to the collective conscious of the world by giving your energetic input into this course of action and therefore you are fueling it. You might not be the type of person to go out and directly harm another person or bring racist action against them, but you are still contributing to the world your energy of racism and although you may not be harming anybody directly, you are still responsible in part for feeding that movement. Because you are holding that thought, whether you believe it or not that goes out to effect the world, and that effect is felt within your own mind, your community, your country and the world. Even if you are not bringing direct action to the table, you are responsible for creating and crafting the environment in which that kind of belief can exist. If you pool together many hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions or whatever number of people, the collective action of that movement increases with the energetic input it receives.

This also works for good things, such as peace, love or anything else you can imagine. I can say with a great deal of experience that I would not invest my time by coming to hate or loathe something. We tend to get back what we put into this conscious system, so if you are focusing your energy on how much you hate something, then you are going to create and draw to you more circumstances in which you are able to exercise your hatred. On the other hand, if you focus on how much you love something, you will only draw to you situations in which you get the opportunity to express your love towards things.

All of this helps us to understand how consciousness is creation, it is the way in which all things are moved. Nothing can be acted upon unless some kind of consciousness has acted upon it and moved it. Consciousness is the way all things are ultimately shaped, crafted and molded.

If you are perpetuating racism, yet sitting back and complaining the world is going to hell, then maybe you should stand back and consider the fact that you are having a negative impact on the world with your first creation, and now you are making it worse by losing faith in humanity altogether because you have not learned to see the value in things. This is obviously a chain effect, and I really do not mean to pick on racist people, but this example helps to prove a good, valid point. Hate breeds hate, violence breeds more violence. You need to change the source and root of the problem, the thoughts that create and perpetuate before everything can be brought under control. As Ghandi said, “be the change you wish to see in the world” even if you are just one person, because as your energy begins to input into the world it will join a higher collection of energy like yours and eventually when enough energy is there and has been collected, the forces of manifestation will become greater and greater until the presence is overwhelming. Do not feel inferior because all that happens must first start within each and every single conscious mind before it goes out into the world, every mind matters and every person counts could never be more true then in these statements.

Creation is also consciousness because it is the polar opposite of conscious creation – this one sounds weird, but if you think about it, creation MUST be conscious because if we are not conscious, we cannot creation.

Let us break that last one down a bit more – if we are using our consciousness to create things, then all of those things are created as a result of our consciousness. To create requires nothing more then having a consciousness, and many people will argue that there are different levels and forms of consciousness, and to which I would only agree to an extent.

We need to stop being so hung up over what is better then the other, or that one thing is superior to another, because in the end, everything is one. A lot of people will argue that human consciousness is higher then that of an animal, but that is irrelevant, animal consciousness is just as vital to the overall system as human, and one could not exist without the other. They must work in unison and often times one form (such as the human form) might be the offspring of the other (such as the animal form); this does not make the human form superior to the animal, both are necessary and vital to the overall efficiency and function of the world as one living organism. We need to erase the competition and sense of better and worse, because they are only reference points in the larger scheme of things.

Somewhere out there exists conscious beings that are far superior to us, and we need to be OK with that – this is just the natural order. Even in our current forms, this level of human achievement and advancement is far from our total potential, and I don’t think anybody can really process that piece of information because it is so far beyond us that it is hard to grasp and bring into understanding.

If you take one thing away from reading this article, and I know I have made this one a bit more abstract and complex then usual, it should be that you are the conscious force in which creates your world and your life. Combined with all other human beings and forms of consciousness in our reality, we are all inputing consciously into our world, and while we might not be directly attacking or effecting anything, the collective forces of conscious that we create, such as love, hate, prejudice, sexism or racism have the ability to go out into the world and cause harm – these things are the EXTENSION of our thoughts and our are creations in action in mass-effect (<– that is important to understand! Make that a part of you, it is the way in which we extend ourselves out into the world and it is the way in which we all live as one). If you trace the force, say of sexism, back to its roots, it is going to originate 100% of the time in the minds of the human beings who think those thoughts and continue it by perpetuating those thoughts, ideas and actions. Even though they are not taking direct action in most cases, they are breeding the environment in which other people become influenced and aspire to take action that may be harmful and suppressive. This is especially true in the world’s subcultures and prevalent in our music, TV, movies and books.

One little last thing I would like to leave with all of you is a hint on what consciousness really is. Scientists and most other people would like to believe there is only one form of conscious – and that is biological. No one is sure how it is created, but what I would like to leave in your minds is that conscious does not necessarily have to be biological. The wind, water, air, rocks, sand or whatever very well might be conscious, just in a way we do not understand yet. We might look at it and say, “it is not alive, it just takes up space” but the rocks, sand and air might look at us and say the same thing. We do not have the capacity to define or prove what makes conscious or what the different types are. I would say anything that takes us space or exists in our world is conscious because I believe the very atoms and smallest building blocks on the subatomic level is what consciousness really is – just because it takes the form of a rock and looks like it is not conscious is bull crap, because the same atoms that were one day making the rock what it was will be a part of your body, and magically those atoms are now conscious because they become part of cells.

To find consciousness, we need to stop being ignorant and looking at animals and humans, and we need to start looking at what creates our reality. All of the happenings of things on the subatomic level is conscious, this entire universe is just a constant state of consciousness and just because it exists in different forms at any given time should not deceive you into thinking otherwise. This entire world is alive, we are operating only based off of five senses and they might not have what it takes to see the entire picture at this point in time – but who knows, maybe part of our evolution will allow us to develop and evolve into different beings with the ability to see energy, consciousness and other things we cannot even conceive of at this point in time yet.

Keeping an open mind is the key to freedom and the key to true knowledge and wisdom.

Having knowledge is not nearly as important as what experiences we have went through to receive it. When we talk about knowledge, we are not talking about an absolute or something that is a measurable or calculated understanding of something, we are instead talking about all of the learning, experimenting and creating that is unique to an individual while on their way to achieving knowledge – for knowledge is in itself an awareness, something subjective that is both simultaneously created and lived (experienced).

Trying to measure this would be equivalent or the same as trying to measure the soul itself – and good luck with that!

The entire human race carries with it at any given point in time its very own distinct frequency and vibration that is unique to that generation. This “vibe” becomes something we can use to remind ourselves of what this generation stood for and what they accomplished.

Many people still try to relieve the generations of the past (let us use hippies for example) because they feel subconsciously that their individual goals are very much aligned today with those of that particular past generation, so the “hippie” way of life is readily adaptable to them and easily related because that is how they perceive themselves. The same can be said with any type of subculture of collective group of thought. However you see yourself is what you will identify yourself with. Whether it is hip-hop, metal, hippies or intellectuals you will gravitate towards that and try to merge your identify with it as it represents who and what you believe yourself to be.

The hippie generation carried a vibration of free love, value, appreciation, expression and rebellion to an extreme, maybe so they could learn the importance of harmony under the stress of a time that demanded them to exert themselves in a meaningful response that best handled their expectations. To give another example, the government pushed them, but the hippies did not break, they simply bent and flexed around the force of the push, which is a valuable concept and piece of practicality to learn as it is a powerful symbol of what love can accomplish.

The memory of the hippie legacy becomes etched in our very own DNA, like all other mass-human movement experiences do – it also is a set vibrational tone part of, and representing that existence in the human mesh and fabric of existence. Even if you were not alive during that time, because your past family members were, they have opened up your DNA to that specific concept and vibrational energy, giving you access towards it in retrospect.

The children growing up to parents in the hippie generation take part in a special evolutionary process – they must learn to incorporate a new way of thinking, feeling and acting with an already established and accepted social standard of practices. This means, that yes, children are always suppose to push our limits, and those of others, because they are meant to, and suppose to expand our horizons and bright our cultures by looking at what they view to be wrong and discarding it and including what they believe to be right; over a period and number of years, that generation will spark its own cultural movement to instill what they believe is right and remove what they believe is wrong. This is a powerful effect of cultural evolution that sculpts the entire world over many generations in the past, present and the future will be no exception to this rule.

Why do adults stop this when they get older? Because they become to worn and tired out from work and life, so they retire into the individual and family expression of teaching which results in them passing their personal beliefs, (which have foundations in the culture from their own times until now) that children readily explore and bring back into the world refreshed by a collective mindset they will come to create and share.

All artists, musicians and even inventors work with only one concept in their life: how the current human vibrational frequency interacts and interchanges with their own vibrational frequency to produce a painting, picture, song or new piece of technology that could only be devised at that particular point in time, because the energy was “right”.

No musician, artist or inventor can ever duplicate the same sound or style once the generation they worked in has gone and passed – music is frequency – the unconscious drive to express a need, concern or point of the time in which the piece was conceived it. Once a time or generation has passed, it is impossible to recreate the exact feeling or memory and further impossible to replicate work as you would need to be surrounded by the energy of the times to successfully do this.

As a whole, I believe certain music, art and inventions can be produced at certain times only because the vibrations were just “right”, I believe only certain human awarenesses, perspectives and insights can develop at this particular point in our human evolution that cannot be directly felt or experienced once they are gone.

These developments are the spiritual side of human existence at work and are like the matching sequence of the evolutionary response to grow a tail, or sprout wings, or even to gain the ability to walk upright – they are the natural results of needs, wants and demands, no matter what they are – more freedom, remembering how to love, equality or anything else you can thing of; there is a natural urge and drive that tells us when we are ready to awaken to certain things and experience them while learning how to make them parts of our own daily lives on a global and world scale – never forget this.

These points of interest in our evolution are the conscious-based realities of our evolution and result naturally from each generation’s collective mindset.

I believe that our Spiritual Evolution continues on, even if in the subconscious mind if anything. It knows exactly what it has been and where it is going and it will stop at nothing to get there, even if we are still by and large unaware of the process – let us call that one a built-in “fail safe” device

Here is an interesting concept for you guys to grasp, this should shake you up a bit. I want to talk about the difference between external and internal forces on your life, your consciousness and you as a whole. Now, you might be saying to yourself, what the hell are external and internal forces? Literal? Symbolic?

What I mean by external and internal forces, or we can even call them stimulus if you want, is living your life in according to either one of these factors, or a combination of the two. You can often judge yourself accurately depending upon what type of force causes you to react and what kind of force guides your responses and your output back into the physical world.

External Forces – If your mind is focused on external forces, you are living your life on the “whim” of things and you feel like you are at the mercy of other things that are outside of you. For example, if you get fired, have your car towed, end a relationship or have anything else happen to you – you view these occurrences purely as coincidence and things that just happen, forcing you to just have to “deal” with them. Having this type of focus means you become fixed in your mindset and remain relatively asleep when it comes to the world as you are most likely constantly reacting and trying to readjust your life relative towards what happens to you. This causes an immense energy-draining effect on you physically, emotionally and mentally because you feel as though no matter what happens in your life, you just simply cannot control it. There is a personality type that we can classify as “control freaks”, these types of people are the most gleaming and outward example of external forces. If you are one of them, or even if you know or have encountered one of them, they cannot cope with uncertainty and spend every waking hour trying to control people, situations and circumstances trying to make things happen according to their own rationality.

To an extent, we are all control freaks but we all respond differently to external forces. Some of us are inclined to control while others try to pull away and not engage anything because they are afraid of doing so. The dominant attitude is that people living by means of external forces acting upon them are doing so with unhealthy responses based out of a mixture of fear, aggression and anything else in-between the two and beyond.

Those of us who fall into this category usually become fixed (the keyword here IS fixed) in our ways and are not growth oriented. Few people will seek out enriching and experiences that will challenge them and their beliefs, forcing them to grow. Those in this category tend to choose (not so much voluntarily, but it is what happens) to not grow very much as a person but believe what they know to be the absolute truth, no matter what. Subconsciously it is perhaps a fear that growing, learning and developing is hard and requires a lot of journeys to areas that make us feel vulnerable and uncomfortable, so many choose to stay stationary and live in a self-created illusion where life is easier that way. I would make a personal guesstimate that people are usually “fixed” in their ways by the ages of 21-23 and little change or progress is made beyond those years.

Internal Forces – If you are living by concentrating inwards – towards yourself and not relying on the stimulus from the world – you are awakened deeply and see things in a much different light then your external friends. Those who have turned their attention inwards towards themselves will find the true meaning of infinity as there is no fixed depth to any single soul. You could spend all of eternity just trying to figure yourself out. At this level, your awareness heightens and you begin to process information from the external world differently. The main insight and advantage here is self responsibility and awareness; you will begin to take responsibility for your actions or lack of them, you will begin to see yourself as a creator and you will take gain a deeper understanding of why things happen. Nothing is a coincidence anymore, you begin to see the world as nothing but your creation – your playground. What you put into it, you get back out. It is a real-time, real-world learning experience where you are constantly applying all of the knowledge and experience you have gained while trying to find out who you truly are and what you are truly capable of.

The another thing people on this level of being gain an understanding of, and come to know very, very well, is that the stimulus of the external world no longer has a hold over them. Peer pressure, “bullys”, negative people, angry people or you name it – the actions of other people towards us rarely effect us as deeply anymore and we instead begin to see what actions of their own lead them to live their life they way they are. Needless to now say, we gain the ability to help other people, our communities and our world with the newfound insight we develop. As we turn inward and begin to analyze ourselves and our actions, there is no more mystery surrounding life any longer. When we win, lose, fail or succeed, we see these as measurable outcomes based upon how much effort and how much of the proper mentality we applied towards these goals.

Living inwardly also allows us to process information differently. Instead of us flying by the seat of our pants to external stimuli, we direct all of this inward and begin to filter it through our consciousness and our soul and thus we are able to perform an internal system of regulation, checks and balances before we react.

The mark of an internal focused human being is their thirst for growth, development and “newness”. A lot of times we see people who are beginning to switch from external to internal stall here and their desire to grow may at first manifest in very material forms, however, this over time will change. These types of people engage life and are found in all different degrees varying widely from experienced to inexperienced. Since life is all a learning experience, where you are on the totem poll (so to speak) is irrelevant and foolish to judge, but I do advise you try to pinpoint a guess only to help you identify where you are now and establish a goal as to where you would like to be in the future. Internally focused individuals are relentless and will subject themselves to new and uncomfortable experiences, constantly keeping what works for them and discarding what does not serve their higher and truest purpose. By going through different experiences we force ourselves to change and discover newer aspects and sides of ourselves that we might have not been previously aware of. Some people take this to the extreme and subject themselves to crazy experiences to find out who they truly are, while other take a conservative approach; whoever you are and whichever approach you take is fine, because that is who you are and one is not better then the other. Forcing yourself to go too far outside of your comfort zone or not far enough can create their own problems.

The most significant marks of those who are internally focused is they begin to see themselves as the infinite creators they truly are, and they begin to notice how their thoughts and actions work together interdependently to create their own external reality. At this level, you have become aware of the external world as your creation and you begin to take the necessary responsibility required to take control of it and change it how you please.

If you are wondering which one of these camps you fall in, I cannot help you do that directly – what I have done is provide you with the information that will best help you decide for yourself which focus you are currently in. I can also say with relative confidence that the majority of people reading this will be internally focused or shifting there, because those who are external would rarely read this far, although some might so they can leave all kinds of lovely comments about how much of a you know what I am

This takes an honest bit of self reflection and refinement to do, but either way, no matter who you are, you are capable of doing it so long as you remain honest and truthful with yourself.

As my friend Dave has just so truthfully reminded me, “Never stop growing.”

I have learned that trying to predict the future is pretty, well… Useless.. Why is this do you ask? Because I believe on some deep level, our higher selves always remember our ultimate vision – the plan we came here to fulfill.

It would be very useless and inefficient of our time and effort to sit back and just adopt the mentality that our plans will be fulfilled. There are two kinds of visions – the ideal and the real.

Our physical existence is based upon making the correct choices and decisions to move the real into the ideal – aligning them perfectly.

I still do think using intuition or being intuitive upon things is important and has its own place in the world and our lives, but not as a way to tell the future, but rather to tentatively plan for it or even around it.

Our intuitions are not concrete realities, they are there to show and guide us while keeping us on the right path is creating what we planned to happen originally. Intuition, therefore, is something that can kind of be used in the “now” moment and in the present. It is something that reflects what we have created thus far and what we are in the process of creating.

One thing that I always like to keep in mind is what quantum physics tells us; just merely observing matter changes it; would that not mean that trying to predict the future would change its very outcomes? Just a thought! If you think about the future and begin to ask questions, you have just begun the process of changing it.

We cannot sit back and assume pre-destiny – as co-creators, we must make it real and be careful not to spend too much time thinking about the ideal. The only way to do this is to identify and work with the proper tools and find what they should be truly used for (for example, these tools would be synchronicity, intuition, feelings and our emotions).

Blocks

Blocks are something we need to remain consciously aware of. The reason why most relationships (whether they are friendly, intimate or of a working nature) fail is because people do not learn how to be open, honest and communicative.

The smallest block, even over a number of years, in any relationship that is left unresolved can crumble it – destroying it from the inside out. What I mean by this is that all of the “little things”, if left unresolved can potentially bring down even the strongest of relationships. The snowball effect applies here, meaning if you take a tiny snowball and let it roll down a mountain, if unchecked, that snowball just gets bigger and bigger and accumulates more size as it continues to roll down the hill until it inevitably hits something and destroys it because of its pure size, strength and power. This can be applied to all of the little things like bad habits, set patterns of behavior and being a victim of what I call love lost syndrome which occurs when we forget and even take advantage of why we love the people in our relationships.

Unresolved blocks leave people feeling as if they have nothing in common and/or as if they are out-growing their relationship partner. Some people can never resolve these problems and they will forever continually persist throughout life and follow them through every relationship they ever enter until they become consciously aware of the problems present and make an effort to either repair them or fix them outright. You are a lot less sneaky, cunning and devious then you would assume. People are not often times very tolerable of things that bother them – they may seem that way for fear of damaging their relationship with you, but if you listen very, very closely you will begin to hear people mention things (most likely in a joking or small talk fashion at first) before moving into outright presenting what they do not like about you or find annoying. This is where the snowball effect moves in, and we need to ask ourself if maybe multiple people are having problems with something we are doing – then something must be wrong. Obvious things such as laziness and other negative attributes as reasonable to accept, but if we feel people are challenging us fundamentally on who we are, then that is a different problem. We must be open and willing to others to hear what they have to say about us, because there is a truth in every perspective, and in every statement that comes from a perspective other then our own, there is some underlying message or truth – even both sometimes that we should at least consider.

The higher our awareness is the more we can pick up on the truth and not just the results of what our energy makes us feel – not see in totality.

One thing that I always like to keep in mind is what quantum physics tells us; just merely observing matter changes it; would that not mean that trying to predict the future would change its very outcomes? Just a thought! If you think about the future and begin to ask questions, you have just begun the process of changing it.

Chances are if you have stumbled upon this article, then you are most definitely not taking direct action to complete your project or task at hand, although you could argue you have at least taken the initiative to find this article, we need to find the most efficient way for you to transfer initiative into action. There are many different reasons as to why people tend to procrastinate and we would most likely find ourselves going in and out of the various phases of inaction at any given moment. The key is to single out and identify the specific thoughts that are causing us to not take action.

If you could imagine for a moment seeing your life as nothing but an energy field; this field is all around you in every way, shape and form and it permeates your entire reality for the moment. This energy is your thoughts and the power they hold over creating your reality and your life. In order to get the best understanding of exactly why we are doing anything in life, I always like to do this exercise so that I can begin to feel what I am creating at any given moment.

Now that you have visualized this “place of energy” that we have established as being our thoughts and patterns of behavior, begin to think about it and study it. Really take a moment to think about your tasks and what it is you really want to do or accomplish, now see how the energy and thoughts around you begin to react. Are you afraid of something? Of fear? Of success? Of failure? Do you feel you do not have enough of the right information or people around you to succeed? Is money the problem? Are YOU the only one blocking yourself? Have you given yourself permission to become successful? Do you feel you are missing or lacking anything crucial or vital to your project or what it is that you are truly wanting?

In this state you can begin to feel your thoughts in progress and what it is they are doing to you and how they are creating your current reality and what you see in front of your eyes. In my mind I usually see these as winds, when the winds are violent and turbulent I take it upon myself and study that gust of wind and ask myself why it is so violent and strong, what thought is causing this? I do this one by one until I solve all of the problems in my mind concerning the problems. Without developing a strong sense of self awareness and honesty, freeing yourself and your mind from these limiting and blocking patterns of belief will become almost impossible.

One of the major problems of not taking action is our fears and state of feeling that we do not have the right tools, people or amount of time or money to see our projects to completion. They can be big or small, but I will guarantee you the same mental and emotional blocks are holding you back from completing either one. For me, I always had a problem in the departments of “information paralysis” meaning I always thought I was missing some vital piece of information somewhere which would prompt me to go out searching for days, weeks, months with no clear concise goal in mind. I would just go out and read tons of information about whatever it is I was wanting to do and never really get work done. This was twofold both good and bad, but while I was continuing my education on the subject I was just creating more confusion and not sticking to my goals, in fact, I was just making my goals more broader and less focused.

You NEED to have specific goals in whatever you do. The more specific, the better, do not be afraid to set these goals, but be realistic with yourself and what you think is obtainable. Some times it is better to set smaller goals and work your way up as you expand your comfort zone and abilities. If you are a victim of fear, information paralysis or anything else, you need to step away from that which is hindering you and just get to work. You need to come to grip with the fact that not everything can be learned intellectually, or else we wouldn’t be incarnating into physical bodies if that was the case. Whatever we learn intellectually ultimately has to be applied and used in our life experience and projects. Learn to come to grip with the fact that however much information you gather from different sources is not going to determine your success or failure, it is going to be how you uniquely apply it. If you aren’t able to apply anything because you are locked in a state of fear or gathering more useless information, then you will never apply it and begin to grow or see the fruits of your labor pay off. There is always going to be that certain kind of magical experience you can only learn by doing things; that type of experience that is the result of applying our intellectual knowledge with our own unique creative input and way of doing things that will result into a perfect outcome that is only unique to the individual, to us.

Always remember that. There is no other you in the world. You can give a million people the same exact information and you will always get a million different results. Start spending less time fearing and more time doing. The most crucial experience you are going to gain is when you take action – if you feel you are missing something it is not something that is able to be read, what you are missing is the unique wisdom and knowledge you will gain by diving into your tasks and projects and doing what we do best in life – learning, experiencing, developing and growing. The formula for anything requires both thinking and planning, but it also requires us to get to work.

Also remember – there is no such thing as failure. One can never “fail” at anything as failure is a matter of perspective, it is what you define it to be. On the larger scale of thing, failure is the most important part of success, because through “failing” we can the insight we lacked before hand. Failure, when we come to see it for what it truly is, motivates us, changes us and causes us to transcend and continually improve. The worst thing you can ever do in life is quit after failure; failing is not the act of being defeated or not achieving your goals, the only way you can truly fail is to give up after being let down or disappointed. The true crime is not in the action itself, it is not in “failing” at anything, the only true way to fail is by not learning from the mistakes you made, because given the correct perspectives, one man’s failures is another man’s key and insight to success. Our failures are important, because when we ride them they will deliver us to the correct answers. Instead of being put off by failure, we need to embrace it and learn to see what it is teaching us and in what direction it is pointing us in. Without developing an eye for failure, and the eye to see how failure is making us a better person, we will always live in fear of doing anything for we will fear failure. Be afraid to fail, that is not the crime, the crime is in not applying what you have learned as a result of that “failure”.

Our failures define us, and what we do with them make us who we are. In our choices, within our actions, we come to learn who we are and test our characters by seeing what we do with, and how we handle “failure”.

Now calm those winds, subdue that energy and your thoughts and get to work!

The law of attraction is much more then we can ever imagine, just like the more familiar things we have come to know in the universe, such as gravity or magnetism that work without fail, the law of attraction is always present and working whether we are consciously aware of it or not. Cavemen had no idea what gravity was, they might have feared that they would just suddenly float away like a bird but over time they would realize that it just did not happen. The most interesting thing is this concept of how these laws of gravity, attraction, magnetism, electricity or any other governing body in the universe still function even if we do not have a full comprehension of it. These laws do not care if we, at this moment in time, have forgotten them, because we are the ones who have created them. The universe operates and continues its own life by way of complicated mathematical and scientific calculations, but these calculations are all the result of one thing: thought. All observable things we see in the universe do not happen by chance, they are the results of our own thoughts having effect on the very energy that makes up the universe itself. It is not a secret anymore that on the most basic level of the universe and all that we can see and observe, the area where quantum physicists and other pioneers dwell, is that the very matter that we can see, feel and even come to known as our own physical bodies is all a by-product of our thought.

That’s a big statement to make, so think about that for a second. Nothing is chance, nothing moves without first being moved. For the last couple of thousand years right up until today, many philosophers (St. Thomas Aquinas was the biggest one) have come forth and told us that everything needed a “first cause”, or something that came along first and then sparked everything else into action and into being. Naturally, this “first cause” to them was God; while I do not have a problem saying that God came first, these philosophers told us that because God is everything, always was and always will be, that he alone is responsible for the movements of the universe and all that occurs within it, they also have said that God is kind of like an overlord of his own creation and the universe – this is where I have a problem. We need to totally and completely get this notion out of our minds that God has plans for us, we need to stop thinking that God has some special mission for us and that he whispered something into our ear before we were born or that he gave us a blueprint to study and then kicked us off of a cloud in the sky into our mother’s wombs, because that is not the way it works.

The truth is, while God is everything, and we are in fact even God, he does not have any pre-plans for us. We are here to do what we want with our lives, and however we want to do that is fine with God. Because we are made in the image and likeness of God, we are aspects of him, meaning each and every single one of us represents a piece of who God really is. All of our lives, we are the masters of our destiny, and God NEVER judges us – he is completely incapable of judgment and cannot see “good” from “bad” because the concepts of good and bad are purely objective and are limited to the perception of a singular human mind. In God’s mind, the mind that holds the thoughts, forms and potential creations of all things, he is not able to see good or evil in anything because it simply dissolves away. All things are necessary, whether we see them as good or bad, in order to bring about higher changes, bigger shifts in consciousness and awareness as well as to foster evolution. We could not learn anything without have good and evil, every force needs something to counter that force, and it is between these two forces and at their most extreme points, will we ever hope to find ourselves.

You cannot simply just “be” a good person without experiencing what it is like to be a bad person. There cannot be any good without their being any evil, because we must understand what we are truly not before we can understand who we truly are. Having good and evil, hot and cold, big and small allow us to operate within a certain realm of being where we can align ourselves anywhere between the big and the small and then use it to determine who and what we really see ourselves as.

As far as action goes, it is also no big secret that God gave us something called free will, and I don’t like that word, I think we should add another word to that and call it free will to create (OK, that was technically two words, sorry!). Since we now know that nothing is separate from each other, and that we are all part of God and one universal thought, we need to know our role in this world, and that role is a creator. Since we are all a part of God, no exceptions, we also share in his image and his likeness the ability to create. One thing that St. Thomas Aquinas told us that I am fond of is that he believes God already contains the perfections of all things, of all thoughts and forms and that we are free to do what we want with any of these gifts within God. I like this because it establishes a sense of God as the perfect architect of life sharing his creations with us, giving us the ability to tap into the unlimited potential of God’s mind and use his gifts in our life in any which way we think will help us to best understand, as individuals, who and what we truly are. An example St. Thomas Aquinas would have used is this: the chair you are sitting on always existed, always has and always will be long after it is gone and before it was even built. The image of the chair existed in the invisible field of energy and thought that we all exist in, somebody had a need for that chair and brought it into existence one day and used it. All creations, past, present and future already exist, we are just merely tapping into the unlimited potential of ourselves and of God to retrieve that it is which we are seeking and needing to use in our lives. God is sort of like the ultimate creator in that he has already created everything and it is up to us to experience those creations and apply them to our own lives individually with the goal of creating a unique and wonderful experience.

The best part about that statement is that it empowers us and helps us to understand another important element of life: life is here for us to enjoy and experience using our own creative process in conjunction with God. I should add this other important part before we go on, as I am sure many people will begin to say, “Well what about those who enjoy life best by hurting others or doing harm to themselves?” and the answer is that since we are all one, they are not hurting only others, but themselves as well. The law of attraction tells us that we attract the images, thoughts and feelings we hold in our head, but the missing piece is also actions. Actions are the bridge between our thoughts and feelings, the world and the universe. How we act is a powerful message to ourselves, others and the universe as to what we really want to experience more of – it is also a powerful message because it tells the universe what to give us more of. For example, say we had an individual who only liked to argue with other people, treat them poorly, abuse them physically and verbally because it made them feel better and less insecure about their own self, by way of their actions they are just screaming to the universe, “Hey! Look at me! I am insecure, afraid, lonely and weak-minded! Yeah that’s right, I just do not love myself and I am just completely a fool!” so the universe has no choice but to continuously deliver to them experiences and circumstances that will just consistently allow them to argue with and abuse other individuals, but upon careful consideration of the situations and circumstances, the one who is really suffering the most is the one who is doing all of the arguing and the abuse, because they are attracting to them with the law, the feeling of being insignificant, afraid and weak, they just use ignorance to cast away their troubles and fears, but ignorance is the greatest downfall of man because unfortunately, “out of sight, out of mind” does not work with the law of attraction.

Therefore, we can see that our actions is the biggest way we can declare who we really are and how we really see ourself as being. A lot of people will do this and act this way to a certain set of people, and towards everyone else will act as if they were an angel, and again, this does not work, you can not fool the universe or the universal mind, it is your own energy that creates and created this universe and therefore there is absolutely no way you can ever hide yourself or your actions from it. When you die, no one is going to be there to punish you; you only punish yourself by way of your thoughts and feelings and how they manifest in your actions. The universe is alive and is constantly delivering to you the reality you see in front of your eyes by way of your thoughts, feelings and actions. By hurting others, you only serve to hurt and damage yourself, because you are telling the universe how you see yourself, and then the universe has no other choice but to broadcast back to you a life in accordance to how you see yourself. This never fails, every individuals life is the perfect product and sum of their thoughts, feelings and actions one hundred percent of the time. No exceptions. Even if you do bad things, and chose to remain ignorant, deny what you have done or are doing or even if you choose to mask things and tell yourself what you are doing is actually good or beneficial to others by deluding yourself the universe knows this and this is the way in which you communicate to yourself, the world and the universe what kind of person you really are and how you see yourself. Your actions are always what define you, because your actions are nothing more then your thoughts in motion. Every action you do is your mark on the world and a demonstration of what you are thinking and feeling – some people will try to hide or mask their true actions and choose only to act one way around certain people and another way around others, but the universe sees all and it knows exactly what is going on. Your actions are like magnets which draw in additional circumstances and situations that are necessary to fuel your thoughts and actions. Whatever habits you have created within your mind and your thoughts manifest out into the world, therefore drawing back to you the necessary people and situations needed to keep up your perception of yourself and the world, without fail. The law of attraction in action is one of the most powerful forces in the universe, it is the force of pure creation and being.

Our actions change our vibrations and energy within this universal field of energy we exist in and then attract to it energy and events of similar vibration. The question might still remain, “But I do not want these bad people and actions being done to me in my life, I do not understand why I am here or what this is doing for me as a person” and the answer is that on some part of your being, somewhere in your thoughts you are a vibrational and energetic match for all that is happening to you in your life. It can sound frustrating and infuriating at first, but again, we must learn to increase the awareness and take responsibility for the thoughts we are having and the actions we are taking. In order to best change our life and what is happening to us and around us at this moment, we need to change the thoughts and feelings we have as well as the actions we are taking at the present moment. We need to learn to separate our own ways of thinking and get more into alignment with what we truly want out of life and how we want to experience it.

The thing is, life is not “pre-set”, there is no destiny we need to fulfill, there is no huge block of stone in the sky with our fate sealed on it with a little tiny progress bar underneath it. Do not be afraid to make mistakes, to learn, to explore, because this is how we all learn, grow and most importantly, how we EVOLVE. The laws of attraction exist to further help us evolve as individuals and reveal to ourselves and the world who we really are by way of our actions.

We can try to manifest whatever in the world it is that we want, but just holding the intention of manifesting is not enough. The thing we must always be aware of here that is in play is free will; while the universe can attract to you the people, events, situations and whatever else is necessary to manifest what it is that you want, the universe cannot in any way force that outcome upon you. By way of free will, it is entirely your own choice what to do with what the universe gives you – at the end of the day, you are the one who acts, who takes actions on those things in which you are wanting and that the universe has delivered to you.

If you are still not manifesting the things you want in life, you have to turn and step back and take a look at your actions. Are you doing what you think is the best, and the right, thing to do in any given situation concerning your manifestations? It is possible to push away what it is we really want because there is something in our minds that we are unsure of. For example, if it is money that we are wanting, is there perhaps something in our mind that is separating us from that money? Is there some kind of ongoing thought we are processing in our head that drives money away from us? Maybe it is the perfect mate you are seeking, but is there something in your mind you are doing to drive that person away? The answer is always to develop the awareness required to check your self, your intentions, your manifestations and your actions. If all of your intentions and manifesting is happening correctly but there is still no sign of what you are asking for – check your actions. If it is the perfect guy or girl you are looking for, you may be exceptionally well at visualizing that person (and you must be EXACT with the universe, the less broad and more focused and concentrated you are the better) but your actions on a day to day basis may work against having that person. If you are still floating from guy to guy, or girl to girl with any sort of uncertainty in your mind about finding your perfect mate, you are sending a strong signal back to the universe saying, “my actions, what I am doing is really what I want.”. If you are seeking this person so that you may begin to settle down and start a family, going out every night or every other night is going to strongly counteract what you really want by the nature of its own accord, you need to begin to ALIGN yourself into that it is which you are really wanting. You must already start to live the life you want as if you had what you were asking for already. If it is the perfect mate, you must live your life as if they exist in your life already, so all of the little things like setting an extra plate at the table, making room for their belongings and possessions in your house is going to tell the universe by your actions that you are ready, that is what you truly want and it will have no choice but to deliver that to you since you are ALIGNED with it. If it is money you are asking for, you must begin to live life as if you had the money you want now. Do not look at things and stress the fact that you cannot afford them, do not live a life in which you see yourself as a martyr or one who needs to sacrifice in order to provide either for yourself, your family or both. The universe does not know lack, or “not having enough”, the universe is plentiful and it can never, ever run out of anything. The old saying is that, “there is plenty to go around for everybody!” and this is true of the universe, the trick is that the universe is going to give back to you what you are thinking. So as long as you think there is not enough, or that you must struggle and stretch yourself, the universe will line you up with events that will demand that of you in order for your reality to be ALIGNED with how you are thinking.

What it all comes down to is knowing that the universe is just a big mirror. It is going to literally mirror and echo back in front of your eyes what you are thinking in your head and performing on a day to day basis. If you can begin to think about and become aware of your thoughts and actions and how they are interacting to create your life, you have empowered yourself to take control of, and change your life immediately. It is only required of you to develop this awareness so that you can begin to see how everything interrelates and takes form to manifest.

Now if you ever finding yourself asking how to use the law of attraction, you can follow these great law of attraction tips and be more then well on your way.

In summary, I will say this. The process of manifestation and using the law of attraction goes like this:

1 – Declare to the universe EXACTLY what it is you want, and be specific. If you are too broad, the universe will give you back what you are asking for just as broad in a wide-range spectrum. For example, I would not ask for “more money”, I would say, “I would like to make X amount of dollars by X date”. The more specific in what you ask for as well as when you want it, the better a job the universe can do in delivering the package – think about it like the postal system and how much of a nightmare it would be if they had to deliver packages without addresses, such a vast amount of possibilities exist as how to deliver it and where. Also remember that to the universe, size does not matter. 100 tons is the same as 1 ounce, 1 million dollars is the same as a dollar; it is only the way you perceive the size to be, you need to retrain your mind to accept that the universe can bring 1 million dollars as easily as 1 dollar to you, and the universe does this with zero effort, every single time. Do not ever worry about “how” it will come to you. The “how” is for the universe to determine and if you start asking or wondering how, you will destroy the flow of the universe, which leads us into the next step.

2 -  Forget about the “how”, our minds want to worry and always ask “how”, but by asking this question, we demonstrate through our actions that we do not trust the universe can give us what we are asking for. We need to enter a state of receiving where we are confident without fail that everything we ask for is already given to us, that is, that it is in the process of coming to us but it is already ours.

3 – The actions that we are doing in our daily lives are in line with what we are asking for. We have to make sure that our actions are not fighting against nor are they counteracting against with what we are trying to manifest. Developing self awareness here is the most necessary and important component.

Remember also always that we are the universe, we are God and we are the ones constantly creating, in the image and likeness of God. It is his gift to us to allow us to create and discover who and what we truly are, life is meant to be fun and we will find the most abundance in having love towards everything and everyone. If we cannot love that which we are wanting, we can never really have it or enjoy it completely, or even at all. This law exists so that we may draw into our own lives whatever experiences and realities we believe we show to us who and what we truly are.

Self Awareness is the Holy Grail of Relationship Advice

Before you can have a healthy relationship you and you partner need to develop self awareness, and now you ask, what the hell exactly is this “self awareness” you speak of? I would define self awareness as having a profound understanding of your own thoughts and how they translate themselves and become your reality. For example, if you are having recurring thoughts or are engaged in prolonged ways of thinking, then that is going to be inevitably what you see in front of your eyes, only in due time. Self awareness is the greatest tool you can ever develop in life, because once you become consciously aware of what you are doing, and why, you can begin to see what is already in the process of coming and this allows you to act on things before they can ever manifest.

This all is just a fancy way of saying that self awareness is an ability you can develop that will let you come to best know yourself and understand yourself on a level where you no longer deny or ignore what you are doing. This involves taking responsibility for yourself and your actionss, and even your own thoughts (because remember, what you are thinking will eventually become real). Now let us take this concept of self awareness and begin to mesh it into a relationship and see what happens.

When we enter a relationship with self awareness, we are already responsible for our actions and how we think, now this relationship is going to demand of us that we become responsible not only for our own thoughts and actions, but our specific thoughts and actions towards this new person who we have chosen to become intimate with. Already you can begin to sense how much responsibility is involved and also how much work and commitment it is going to take to find a harmonious relationship.

Relationships Join Two Individuals Into One Entity

That’s right, when you enter into a relationship with another person, you are quite literally becoming one with that person. On an energetic level, you are melding your energy and the energy of your partner into one being, and for any relationship to work you need to understand this. You are not two separate people having two different lives or realities any longer, you are now a combination and exist in unison – this is what many people fail to realize. Your thoughts and actions will slowly start to effect this new being you have created with your partner and will slowly start to direct the life of your significant other. You do not have to be married to see the effects of this as it applies to even the newest of relationships.

We all have experienced this. We eventually come to know our partners so well we can feel their feelings, finish their sentences and understand them on levels that seem almost beyond comprehension, yet it is there, living and breathing.

This is where many relationships go wrong, because it is hard to expand your self awareness to this level where understanding this becomes possible. To give you an example, let us use John and Jane as our imaginary example couple for a moment. Let us say John and Jane have just started a brand new relationship and follow it along as a case study. Before their relationship even began, it started with an attraction. Attraction, on an energetic level, occurs because there is something one individual has that the other is seeking. This can be money, looks, sex, charisma or charm, the sky is truly the limit here. At this stage, the attraction can either be mutual or one way. If the attraction is one way, the individual who feels attraction towards the other but gets no response is wasting their energy, I always viewed this as the human mating call, or the human mating dance. We use our energy on different levels in an effort to attract, or even seduce, the person who we have feelings for. During this stage we probe, prod and feel out the other person and we begin to feel the effects our energy has as it comes back from the other person. At the most basic level, we can say that attraction occurs because one person has what another person lacks or is seeking to become themselves.

If the feelings stay one way and become a dead end street, then the attraction eventually fades away because the ultimate realization sets in that it is not going to work, there is something on an energetic level that is preventing the other individual from responding to the energetic mating call of the other person. In reality, we see this all of the time as crushes and minor attraction occurs all of the time. These minor infatuations are our own ways of “testing the water” so to speak, before we dive in to see if the conditions are right.

Let us now say that John and Jane have a mutual attraction, they both see something in each other that they have deemed as valuable, so they enter a relationship. At this point, their energies have become one, there is now a separate entity that is energetically being fed by both John and Jane – this is to say they are both making contributions of their own energy to fuel the entity, let’s call it Johnane, that they have now combined to create. Johnane is now going to act as if it were one new consciousness, and is going to be directly influenced by the energy it receives from both John and Jane.

In a newer love relationship we tend to be overwhelmed by the initial energy and feelings of happiness and pure joy we feel because our attraction to that other individual has finally be received and put into effect. I do not even have to describe what that feels like as on some level we have all experienced that feeling, but what I do have to do now is again force you to look at another important note. Once the newness of the relationship begins to fade away, the true intentions and thoughts of what John and Jane are really thinking begin to feed into Johnane. Each and every single thought that originates from either John or Jane has to be experienced, created and felt by Johnane, so if John begins to become possessive, domineering and controlling of Jane, it will begin to effect Jane immensely.

A good way to understand this is to understand the way the energy flows.

We can have any number of possible ways, and here are a few:

John > Johnane > Jane – In this case, what John is thinking or feeling gets fed into Johnane and then ultimately comes to effect the emotional state of Jane because of their connections.

Jane > Johnane > John – This is the opposite of the first example, with what ever Jane thinking having an effect on John.

Jane > Johnane < John – In this example, Jane and John are both feeding their thoughts into Johnane, and this is the case with any example. What we need to understand is that this constantly causes Johnane to change and reflect the thoughts and inputs of both individuals and eventually Johnane will live either in a state of balance and harmony or utter chaos, confusion and result in disaster. The end product and point here is that Johnane is going to reflect back and resubmit the combination and collective thoughts and feelings of both John and Jane’s thoughts back to them. So what John and Jane are feeding into Johnane merges into one, and that one product goes back equally to John and Jane where they feel and experience it.

Let us now revisit the thought of what would occur if John were to suddenly become very jealous, possessive and controlling of Jane. These thoughts of John would be fed into Jane, and this would cause Jane to start to feel inferior, afraid, backed into a corner and a whole plethora of other related emotions among other things. Let us now imagine that over time, this starts to sharply cause Jane’s self esteem and confidence to decline, but John is not aware of what he is energetically doing to Jane, as long as he can control him he feels safe and confident himself. This introduces the concept of the vampire and the self sustained individual.

Relationship Advice – Vampires and Self Sustainability

On an energetic level, a vampire is an individual who drains the energy of another individual to fill some sort of void within himself. For this example, let us say John was originally attracted to Jane because she was exceptionally beautiful, talented and smart, while Jane was attracted to John because he had a certain kind of charisma, charm and sense of humor she had not quite seen before. John may have started to become possessive of Jane because he is insecure in himself and in his own looks. He might be intimiated by Jane’s beauty and he knows that other people are attracted to her and that she might become more interested in them instead of himself. John then has to have some mechanism to fill the insecurity he feels. Within his own energy, he feels incomplete through his own insecurity and he does not understand why he feels that way, so he needs to find some way to restore that energy. In his mind, and perhaps without realizing what he is doing, he starts to become controlling of Jane because it eases the constant worrying and stress in his mind that he feels towards Jane, but what he does not understand, because he is not self aware, is that he is draining Jane’s energy and causing her to become unhealthy and fatigued.

Going back to attraction, we can now further say we are initially attracted to another individual because we see something in them that we lack in ourselves and/or something we wish to learn how to develop in ourselves. In running with this thought, if self awareness is present in any relationship, all people involved can start to realize how the energy flow is working in that given relationship. In this case, Jane and John should become aware of what is going on, and should work to solve the problem mutually. It is John who feels insecure of what Jane has, because he feels he lacks those attributes himself, but ironically enough, that is what sparked his attraction to her in the first place. If Jane was self aware, she could pick up on this and begin to work with John and empower him to find this within himself. Jane cannot simply give this to John, he has to help him find this within himself, and this could very well be the purpose of this relationship.

I would like to take this little time to personally say that what I will mention next is the single most important thing you should realize and understand as a human being looking to have relationships with other people.

The number one reason why relationships fail, like in the case of John and Jane potentially, is because with a lack of self awareness we can never see the true roots or meaning of these kind of problems, we only ever see them as their superficial forms: jealous, controlling and/or possessive. We need to come to see them for what they truly are – cries for help, the longing to want to develop a new way of thinking for oneself and the out reach of a human being to another already established in that way of higher thinking for help.

With all of that being said, relationships fail when the individuals in them cannot accept that relationships in general require the ability to flex to the constantly evolving needs and demands of their partner and themselves. A relationship cannot survive unless the people involved in them come to understand that keeping them alive and healthy requires a greater understanding and willingness to make personal sacrifices to expand your horizons and become something that which you were not before. A relationship test is born in this image and we are tested to see if we can create ourselves into what we are truly looking to become with the help of our partner. Being stubborn, resistant to change and fixed in your beliefs is going to sink your ship faster then you can even have time to react.

Through self awareness, we can identify the reasons that are causing problems and breaking our harmony apart and tearing us down in our relationships. Just because individuals have been in relationships for 2, 5, 10, 20, 30 or however many years does not mean they are successful or healthy. Sometimes we become trapped and unable to faciliate the changes we need, sometimes because of financial or other situations leaving the relationship is not done, but whatever the reason, it is never too late to begin to develop self awareness and often you will find if you begin to spark the thought of change for the better even in your own mind your unwilling partner will begin to suddenly react and be willing to work with you again. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves and our partners that we need to work at our relationship constantly and that there is never a time for a break or a rest to put it down for even a moment. It is always going, living and breathing.

As Ghandi once said, we need to become the change we wish to see in the world, and this can be applied to our relationships as well. We need to become the change we wish to see in our significant other, and if that change is going to prove to not be possible at that moment, then the proper result will follow, and that can be any number of things. It is all about having a similar energy, if the energy is not on a similar plane or field then it can not exist together. If you can picture you and your partner as pure energy, if yours is not similar at that moment then you will find that you guys will not simply work, you will not see each other or be in physical proximity or location with them until your energy once again becomes a match for each other. It is almost like the two polar ends of a magnet, if the energy is opposite then it repels each other, but if it is like then it will attract. Only when that energy is similar can it work, and we must do everything in our power to get that energy to work under that desired attraction.

In any and all relationships, we need to become what I call self-sustained, that is, we do not depend on our partner for energy, this eventually means we will not want to control, feel abandoned, jealous or any other negative feeling. Once self awareness is developed, we can begin to notice why our relationships began to turn sour and begin to perform a relationship rescue and save it before anything goes wrong. To be self sustained means that we have learned to empower others and ourselves and have developed a way of teaching others to become the best of their potential without holding their hands through the entire process. Most importantly, we develop the ability to identify problems and accept responsibility for them without putting blame on others, denying or ignoring them because we do not want to deal with them. To be self sustained is to be in a state where we can best serve our partner by not causing them to feel harmed by our own thoughts or put them in uncomfortable situations as a result of our own bad thinking.