How you do anything is how you do everything
Today I had the insight of the century… It’s a potential breakthrough in creating Expanding Human Beings.
The source of the insight was a quote from Jim Rohn, “America’s foremost business philosopher.”
“Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.” he said
Most of us treat fear as a valid indication, a valid guidance of what we should avoid.
Others never consciously experience fear.
I have done the “what’s missing” exercise this morning, while still in bed, in my head. I saw that what was missing that would make a difference in my life, right now, is courage.
Then I proceeded doing my day the way I have been doing it for the past month or so: No fear.
Then I had the thought that the fear we are talking about in the title only comes when we attempt something that is new, that has an uncertain outcome, where there is some choice.
The purpose of meditation is to be able to live in the present, powerfully. That is to say: not an experience, some some mystical “meditation experience” like you thought it would be. Meditation experience, if any, is the booby prize… and many fall into that trap… Clear indication that they went into some la-la-land, half-asleep, all mind-induced. I have students like this, they are miserable in their lives.
The purpose of meditation is to be able to live in the present, powerfully… and be happy, joyful, fulfilled… and all that lovely stuff you say you want.
What does it mean living in the present?
Note: I adapted this post using a salesy email I got this morning… I liked the questions… not the product… If it sounds a little bit salesy… I apologize. That was not my intention.
It is time to be brutally honest with yourself… just like spring cleaning, Passover cleaning, etc. You need to do a cleaning of your house at least once a year…
If life has lost its taste.
If life has gone hum-drum.
If you stopped really enjoying what is supposed to be enjoyable.
If the people in your life lost their beauty.
If food is only there to be eaten… but really who cares.
If you have become dutiful, duty-bound. If it is an effort.
If blessed sleep is valued more than your awake hours.
If being with yourself has become something to run away from.
What is the difference between you and someone who makes good decisions, understands the questions and issues, and responds in a way that the response produces the desired result?
That is what smart is, right?
How to pick an activator, aka a spiritual practice for the fastest raising of your vibration?
This is an important question, that I have not answered publicly yet, so here you are…
What raises your vibration is the spiritual practice that you are being nudged to do by the activator, and not the activator itself.
Each activator works on a certain level of your consciousness.
I will use, again, the analogy of a highrise building to demonstrate how this works:
Most people, when they come to me, live, fully, in the basement of their being. Nowadays I have received requests from people that are, at least partially, on the ground floor.
I watched an episode of House last night. One of the characters says to Dr. House: “But you are not curious!” The bells went off in my head. That’s it! That moment suddenly made it clear to my why all my work has been ineffective with you, why you haven’t become an Expanding Human Being, in spite of your good intentions, in spite of all my articles, activators, courses… Your fundamental view of reality hasn’t changed, hasn’t changed at all.
You live in a world where you consider yourself a thing among other things. Where you and others have the characteristics of things: fixed, permanent, unchangeable and unchanged.
That is your world view.
This morning I was browsing the internet for sites that deal with the vibration of emotions.
I found a few, and dug deeper on one.
The website I found had a really good, high vibration piece of content, that I even felt worthy to put into a pdf, so it is easier to read on your mobile device. And if I am lucky, I can have the computer read it into an mp3, so you can drive while you listen.
The vibration of the document, which means its truth value is 600.
The person’s vibration is 170.
WTF, right?
Knowing yourself well is vitally important when you want to interact with reality powerfully.
What’s in the way of you knowing yourself well?
Illusions, delusions, flattery, comparison, I could continue this list for a whole page.
So given that so many things are in the way, blocking or distorting your view, how do you get to know yourself?
Before we get to that, let us see what happens when your view of yourself is distorted or lacks information… like a blank spot on a canvas?
When the world is your oyster, you have a world that can create pearls for you, valuable pearls for you life… That is the meaning of the expression. You just have to create irritation in that world, a difficulty, like the grain of sand in the actual oyster and it starts building a pearl (value) for you.
As long as you shy away from controversy, difficulty, hardship, pain, etc… the world won’t offer you its pearls…
I have been listening to old, 5-6 year old recordings. For most teachers their talks would not be old… they have been, habitually, saying the same tired Tree of Knowledge stuff forever… but for me, they are fresh and surprising. Most of it I wish I remembered.
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