Let it be perfect.
In almost any situation, Let it be Perfect is the perfect attitude to take.
What ever is happening, it doesn't matter.
What matters is your attitude toward it.
What matters is your attitude toward it.
What could be a more perfect an attitude than, Let it be perfect?
There's another way to phrase it, Allow it to be perfect.
It's common for human beings to have a habit, learned early in life, to say, "I can't." Well, after all, in that crib, what could we do? Can you go and get your food? "I can't." Can you walk, or even stand on your feet? "I can't." Can you use the bathroom? "I can't." It's easy to see how the, "I can't" habit developed, isn't it?
Now as we have years behind us, we can make a different decision. We can say, "I can." We can decide, "I can."
We can get seemingly ridiculous and say, "Can you go to the moon?" "Can you go to Mars?" "I can't." Even then, if we can allow ourselves to be the unlimited being that we really are under all of that, "I can't" talk, we can decide to say, "I can." If we allow ourselves to be unlimited, the seemingly ridiculous becomes ridiculously, easily possible.
We can get seemingly ridiculous and say, "Can you go to the moon?" "Can you go to Mars?" "I can't." Even then, if we can allow ourselves to be the unlimited being that we really are under all of that, "I can't" talk, we can decide to say, "I can." If we allow ourselves to be unlimited, the seemingly ridiculous becomes ridiculously, easily possible.
Most people will say, "I'm not unlimited though." Could it be, is it just possible, that you feel that you are not unlimited because you say, think, and feel, "I am not unlimited?" Hmm…
What if you just as strongly thought, "I am unlimited?" Or even better, what if you had the conviction, "I am unlimited?" If you held onto the thought and feeling, "I am unlimited," all the time, would you be unlimited?
Think about it, right now you hold onto the thought, "I am limited," and you get to be right.
Why wouldn't you get to be right if you held onto the thought, "I am unlimited, I can do anything?"
Right now the voice in your head, the same voice that's been saying, you're limited, might be saying, "Because it's not possible." What if you allowed it to be possible? Rather than it's not possible, what if you held the thought, "It's possible?"
"Because that's different," says that same voice. What if you allowed it to be the same exact thing? Namely, that every thought you hold onto very tightly is what you get? If you look closely at your daily life, you'll see that's what you've been doing all along, and that is what you've been getting all along---whatever you've been holding in mind is what you get.
Here's a very common holding in mind: I don't have enough time. What if you thought, I have plenty of time? Or, I have all the time I need to get everything done that I want to get done.
Practice it and see for yourself. I can't keep my eyes open I'm so tired. I allow myself to be awake and energized. There's no way I can get that deal done. I allow myself to get that deal done. I can't meet the right person. I allow myself to know the right person. I don't have enough money. I allow myself to have plenty of money.
See where your self-imposed limitations are as you think, or speak, and turn it around. I allow myself to be able to see it. I allow myself to be able to turn it around.
Another common example is, I don't know or I don't know how. Once again, it's easy to see how you put that one into your repertoire back there in the crib. Parents helped with that one.
Let me do that for you, you don't know how. Give that to me, you don’t know how to use it. I don't know how to throw the ball.
Let me do that for you, you don't know how. Give that to me, you don’t know how to use it. I don't know how to throw the ball.
I allow myself to know. I allow myself to know how.
I can't get it right. I allow myself to get it right.
Get in touch with the word "allow." It's a magic word, a magic wand.
It's a habit of thinking, of speaking, of feeling. I'm not rich. I allow myself to be rich. I don't know how to resolve my financial situation. I allow myself to know how to resolve my financial situation. Or even better, I allow myself to have a wonderful financial situation.
Some might say, "Aw I'm just kidding myself if I say those things." Consider this thought very carefully: What if you've been kidding yourself thinking, I'm not, I can't, I don't know. What if you're kidding yourself if you say, I 'm not rich, I'm not svelte, I'm not fulfilled, I'm not happy. Is it possible you're talking yourself right into those states?
What if you kidded yourself into the, "I can't," state of mind on some subject? There's a way to find out. Try the opposite approach. Get in touch with the word allow. Allow yourself to have, to do, to be whatever you will or desire.
Just decide. All day long, everyday, substitute the thoughts and feelings of what you want for the thoughts and feelings of what you don’t want. You've been holding onto thoughts and feelings of what you don't want for a long time, haven't you? It may take more than a day, or a week, or even a month. However if you practice, it will come true for you.
How can it be said, that if you practice it will come true? It can be said, because you've practiced the other thoughts and feelings. and they've come true haven't they? It won't work, that ego might be saying. Allow it to work.
It's not a mantra or an affirmation. It's replacing the thought of what you don’t want with the thought of what you do want. I don't get it. I allow myself to get it. I don’t have it. I allow myself to have it.
Yes, it is our attitude that counts. It is our thoughts and feelings that count.
Try it and see. Try it for enough time to see, because you have been practicing the opposite a long time. "Well, I don’t know, I can’t decide." Allow yourself to know. Allow yourself to decide. It's your life, isn't it?
Let it be perfect. "It doesn't look so perfect." Allow the perfection. Let it be perfect.
It's up to you. It's not what is happening, it's your attitude toward what is happening.
I can. I know. I am. Let it be perfect.
Let go of negative feelings.
Negative feelings make us feel bad. They take us down.
One such feeling is stress. Stress is actually an accumulation of negative feelings.
Not knowing what to do with the negative feelings we accumulate them, we hold on to them. We put them in a closet in our mind because we don't like them, and we don't know how to deal with them. When we get overloaded with an accumulation of negative feelings, we call it stress.
Stress isn't a happy way to live. It's likely that most everyone agrees that stress is not good for anything. It doesn't make us more effective. It doesn't help us solve problems. Stress makes us nervous, anxious, fearful, confused and we feel out of control.
Stress isn't good for our bodies, for our attitude, for our ability to interact with other people or make good decisions.
So the question is, what to do with stress?
The first sentence above says, "Let go of negative feelings." Did someone say, "That's easier said than done?" That's what a lot of us believe. We believe its not easy to let go of negative feelings, like the accumulation of negative feelings called stress.
The first thing we have to do is to check and see if we secretly (or maybe not so secretly) like our stress. Some people might consider that a ridiculous thing to say. "Like my stress? How could I like my stress?"
Our reaction to the question of whether or not we like our stress could be a tip off. Did the question touch a nerve? Did the question annoy us, or make us angry? Did the question make us want to lash out?
It is not uncommon for people to like their misery and suffering. It's like a security blanket to them. It's been with them so long they feel it's natural.
Some people are subtly fascinated by negative feelings. Some people are excited by negative feelings. Misery and suffering make them feel like they are somehow in-the-action.
Some people have made an identity of their misery and suffering. "I'm just that kind of person." "I have always been that way."
Some people have been in misery and suffering for so long they don't recognize or believe there's another way. They think, "That's just the way I am." "It's in my genes." "It runs in the family." " I take after my father."
It takes a lot of self-honesty--- and sometimes we're not able to get that honest with ourselves until our back is really against the wall---to see that we do love our negative feelings even though they make us miserable, cause us to suffer, and make trouble for us in our lives, including major health problems.
Once we see that stress---the accumulated negative feelings---absolutely doesn't do one positive thing for us, we can decide to end our love affair with those feelings. We can look for the payoff that we perceive behind holding on to those feelings, the payoff for accumulating them until we want to scream.
It's at that point that we are ready to let go of those feelings. We are ready to decide, enough, no more. I want out of the feeling-bad way of life with all it's bad days and bad moods.
Next, we will look at how to do it, how to let go of negative feelings.
Letting go of feelings.
How many times has someone told you to, "Just let it go?"
How many times have you said to yourself, "I wish I could just let these feelings go?"
The very first step in letting go of negative feelings is to see them. That might seem to be very obvious. However, it isn't how most people live their lives.
They live their lives accumulating negative feelings and don't notice they're doing it.
They're getting mad, annoyed, frustrated, fearful, their head is spinning, and they really don't see it until it's too late. Too late meaning, until they're about to blow a gasket. Or until they get sick, or freak out, or come to the end of their rope.
The very first step is to see the feelings when they happen. Something happens, maybe a dark thought goes through your mind, maybe it's the news, maybe it's an email you receive, something happens and a feeling is generated.
Most of the time people take the feeling for granted. They just go along with it and now they're in a bad mood, freaked out, anxious or scared to death. It's because they didn't see the feeling arise OR they didn't know what to do with the feeling if they did see it arise.
So the first step is to be vigilant, to be alert, to see the feelings as they happen.
Then what? If you don't know what to do next, you will accumulate the feeling or maybe it's better said, add the feeling to the accumulation of feelings you're already holding onto in that subconscious hiding place.
After you see a negative feeling arise or come across you mind, like a cloud that blocks the sun, the next thing to do is to let the feeling go.
You see the feeling and recognize it doesn't do one positive thing for you. In that moment, in that split second, it's a decision hold onto to the feeling, or let it go.
It's a decision to grab onto it, or let it float by like a cloud floats by the sun.
Frequently we may not see the thief sneak in, or we may latch on to the feeling without noticing we did it.
We may suddenly notice we feel glum, or anxious, or sad. We may feel like we're in an out of control row boat about to go over the falls.
Now what?
Now we have the feeling, now we feel it, now what? It's a decision. Hold onto it or let it go.
How to let negative feelings go.
"How do I let go?"
"I don't know what letting go means."
Letting go may not be something most people are used to doing.
What does it mean to let go of a feeling?
The first thing is to take a look at the opposite of letting go, which is holding on.
We're used to holding on, especially when it comes to negative feelings. We may not do it consciously. Holding on to negative feelings is a habit we began long ago and it continues today.
Now we see a better way, letting go.
If we make a fist with our hand and clench real tight, we can see, that's an example of holding on.
Remember, as a child someone gave you a dime and you held on to that dime for dear life, especially if some playful adult asked to see it and took it away from you? You're not doing that again, you're holding on real tight.
Letting go is just the opposite. You open your hand. You let go.
Maybe a bratty brother put his hand out as if to give you something and when you took it, it was a worm. Remember how quick you let it go?
Maybe as a child you grabbed something hot. You let it go instantaneously, didn't you?
And that is how we let go of negative feelings.
We see the feeling is negative, and instantly we let it go.
You didn't take that worm or lizard or whatever your friend handed you and examine it and hold onto it or put it in your pocket, did you? Of course not. In a split second you let it go, you dropped it. And that is what to do with a negative feeling.
It is not complicated. It is simple.
See that feeling and let it go, drop it.
Maybe you thought you let the feeling go and it's still there or it comes back. Let it go.
You have accumulated these feelings for a long time. As was said earlier, you might have felt previously that these feelings do something for you. Maybe they fascinated you. Or by habit, you just hung onto those smelly old worms.
There could be a lot of them in your pocket, so just keeping letting them go every time you feel them.
You have to decide. These feelings do not help me. These feelings do not do one good thing for me. I am going to let them go every time I see them.
See the feeling. Let it go.
Letting go of Thoughts.
As with feelings, we are in the habit of holding on to thoughts for dear life too.
A certain thought floats through our mind and we latch on to it. We grab it. And sometimes we just won't let go, no matter what.
Have you ever said to someone, "Gosh, can't you just let that go?" Or maybe someone has said that to you.
A thought passes through our mind. If we merely watch it, we see it's a thought, and we can just let it go on through our mind. Usually, though, we grab on to thoughts. We hold on to them.
Oddly enough, the scarier the thought is, or the more irritating a thought is, the more provoking a thought is, the more we hold on to the thought. If you haven't noticed that already, take a look and see if it it's true.
Does holding on to an unpleasant thought make sense? Wouldn't it be better to just let that thought go?
There is a big draw, a big attraction, among us human beings to keep our mind agitated. Take a look at all the sources of agitation in our daily lives---like news, for example. Or, loud music, especially loud music with lyrics. Or scary movies. Those are examples of how we keep our mind agitated.
But the biggest cause of our mental agitation is ourselves. What if some loud, very obnoxious person comes to our door. Do we let him or her in and then sit there and listen to them for hours or maybe even years on end? They're driving us nuts, but do we just listen to them blab on and on?
Someone might be saying, "I would never let someone in my house like that." Yet we allow into our mental house even more obnoxious intruders, called crazy, disturbing thoughts.
We do it all the time.
Those thoughts generate feelings like fear, or anger, or frustration, or even hopelessness. Those thoughts make us feel unloved, they make us feel out of control and they make us feel insecure. Yet we let them in, we let them stay and set up housekeeping right in our very own mind.
Maybe we read a headline about the economy, a thought arises we could lose all our money, and fear is generated all in a split second.
Something happens with a customer, a cascade of thoughts begins, accompanied by all the doomsday feelings.
And then those doomsday feelings generate more thoughts, such as, "What will I do now?" And that thought generates some more fear and out of control feelings, and the beat goes on as they say.
You end up caught in a swirling Bermuda Triangle of your own making.
Just as with a feeling, we have to be awake and see the intruder, called a negative thought, enter our mind. As soon as we see the thought, we have to let it go just as when we see a negative feeling.
Ever notice what can happen when you have a negative thought come in?
First thing, it generates some negative feelings, like, say, panic which is fear-based, for example. And then the thoughts can start to run out of control: well what if this? and what if that? and what if the other thing? The thoughts grow fast and furious into an colossal scary imagination of catastrophe with all the accompanying negative feelings.
And then, how often do you check later and find out that nothing actually really happened? Or something happened and it was quickly resolved? Or it wasn't nearly as big as your mind made it out to be?
And even when the imagined catastrophe does develop, as those thoughts predicted, would you have been more or less effective in coping, or solving, or dealing with the situation, had you not allowed those thoughts to run amok?
What's a better way?
Just do not let those intruders into your mental house. Just don't let the outlaws move into the town. Remember the movie High Noon? Just don't let those bandits in or they'll tear up your town.
Let go of negative thoughts as soon as you see them. Drop those thoughts instantaneously.
Drop thoughts. Let them go. And maintain a peaceful, happy life.
What's on your mind?
So. what's on your mind? Yes. Right now. What's on your mind?
What are you thinking about all day long? Do you know? I mean do you make it a point to watch your thoughts and feelings all the time?
It's important. It makes a big difference.
Because what you think about all the time is what you get. The stuff in your life right now, good stuff or not so good stuff is there because you put it there with your thoughts and feelings.
You attracted it by the thoughts and feelings you have on your mind all the time. It's called "holding in mind." Meaning the thoughts and feelings you keep on your mind, or hold in your mind all the time day and night, waking and sleeping, day in day out, year in year out.
Check it out. Are your thoughts, thoughts of having or are those thoughts about wanting. A little of each, right? Sure. Check me out on this. Better yet, check YOU out on this.
Things that you have, you've been holding in mind, I have that, that's what you have in your mind. Things you don't have, you've been holding in mind, I want that. You've been holding in mind I lack that thing or person, haven't you? Notice. Lack is a pretty strong feeling, isn't it? It sure is.
Let's take a popular one, the feeling of wanting more money. That's the feeling of lacking the money you want, right? Let me ask you a question right now. Do rich people have a feeling of lack about money. Of course they don't because they have money. Sure they might want more money but it's not because they lack money. Thats exactly why the rich get richer. And it's exactly why the poor get poorer.
It all about what they're holding in their mind all the time. They attract exactly what they hold in mind.
So now take a look at something that you feel you are missing in your life. Notice the lacking feeling about that thing or person? You don't feel like you have it, do you? And that's probably the feeling you've been carrying around with you long time, right? Look at somebody you know that already has what you want to have. They don't have that lacking feeling do they? Heck no, they don't because they have it.
This is the place you might want to kill me. This is the place you could want to shout out and say, "What do you want me to do? If I don't have it what am I supposed to do?"
Simple answer: Hold in mind what you want. Keep in your mind the feeling that you have it. It's easy. Just use your imagination. Make a mental picture, in as much detail as you can, of having the thing you want.
You've heard it said, "Act as if." Let's say it a little different. "Think as if." "Feel as if."
Be the director of the movie called your life. Put in the thoughts and feelings of already having that object of your dreams.
Another one: Fake it 'til you make it. Somebody said we have 50,000 thoughts day. Right now 50,000 thoughts and feelings are that you want something. Why not start replacing those wanting thoughts and lacking feelings with having thoughts and having feelings?
So tomorrow maybe it's 49, 995 thoughts and a lacking feelings. Keep it up. Fake it till you make it. Chip away everyday. Then one day, you'll have a lot more thoughts and feelings of having--- then, guess what? You'll find yourself having that dream of yours.
Start out by asking yourself, what's my feeling about...? (money, health/fitness, relationships, job, dreams,etc.) Asking, what do I think about or what do I feel about, reveals to you what you're holding in mind. It reveals to you your block to having, it shows you what you have to do to turn your life in the direction of having your dreams.
One final thing. Watch what you're talking about all the time. That too reveals what you're holding in mind. Words of lack, complaint, grumbling are fueling the thoughts and feeligns of lack. Remember: Hold in mind what you want all the time and that's what you'll get all the time.
Goodness is Everywhere.
There's a lot of goodness out there.
Have you noticed?
It's all over the place if we look for it.
A night watchman helps me out. Then his car won't start and two people appear and lend the watchman a hand.
You do that kind of thing, I know. You see someone in need, you give them a hand. You need a hand, someone is there eager to help you.
You've got the Mother Theresa's who dedicate their entire life to helping other people and you've got people like the guy who jumped into the icy river to rescue someone who is about to drown after a plane crash.
Those are super heroes. Yet, though the expression "every day" hero might seem tired or overused, it's accurate. Everyday people are there to lend a helping hand. A big earthquake or tsunami happens and the money flows to help.
Less dramatic however just as valuable and meaningful are those acts of kindness, opening a door for someone, helping someone move a heavy object, giving someone a ride to get gas after they've run out, opening a door for someone, letting someone go ahead of us.
And how about the smile? Smiling at someone, a pleasant face, taking responsibility for the look on our face, on our demeanor. Those too are acts of goodness and giving.
It isn't always easy to remember the goodness that exists in every single human being. You have to look pretty hard at the news sources to find it. The news represents the ego and the ego doesn't want us to look at the goodness. The ego pushes us to look at the bad, what's missing, what we don’t have.
But if we're looking for goodness, it's easy to find. If we're looking for people to help they're easy to find. If we need a helping hand, that's easy to find too.
The reason is that goodness is our natural state of being. It's who we really are if we scrape away all those negative feelings, anger, fear, resentment, jealousy, for example. Get all that out of the way and there is only goodness.
The ego may want to argue about it. What about the mean boss, what about the crabby neighbor, what about the grouchy spouse? The ego might want to give us a lot of examples of non-goodness. We all have our moments.
It depends on where we want to place our focus. What we think about all the time expands. If we expect goodness, we see goodness. If we hold in mind goodness we see goodness. If our focus is on goodness, we get goodness in our daily experience.
It's the law of the universe, positive attracts positive. It's the law of attraction.
As with all of life, it's a decision. A moment-to-moment decision.
To experience goodness, look for it, see it, be it.
It's who you really are.
Are you a Master?
Can you see that you are a Master?
Can you see yourself in your Mastership?
If you can't...
Why can't you see that you are a Master?
Why can't you see yourself in your Mastership?
Why, when you look in the mirror, do you see something other than a Master?
The answer is simple. You're looking in the wrong direction.
All the 24 hours a day, everyday, every year, multiplied by your number of years, you're looking in the direction of who/what you are not.
It's no wonder. It's been the habit of humankind going back too the very beginning.
It's also no wonder because that noise playing in your head is so loud, so noisy, it so dominates your attention. It has all your attention all the time.
And, because of habit and not knowing any other way, you listen to it. You listen to it intently.
In fact conditioning tells you that you should let that noise run you. Do what it tells you. Believe what it tells you. Take what it tells you for truth, for that's the way it is.
Back to the question of why you may not be able to see yourself in your Mastership.
It's because that voice playing in your head, that voice that you've grown to believe without questioning it, that voice you've grown to obey, tells you that you are not a Master.
That voice scoffs at the idea. That voice bristles at the idea of you being a Master. Doesn't it strike you at all odd that the voice talking to you all the time, probably talking to you right now, doesn't it strike you as odd that the voice doesn't want you to even consider the possibility that you right now are a Master?
That voice is loud, dominating and it has tools.
"Master? Mastership? Are you kidding? If they only knew you like I know you." That's how it talks to you.
That voice spends all it's time, day and night, waking and sleeping, telling you what's wrong with you, what's bad about you and your life, about all that you are missing.
And when you even begin to consider that you are a Master, that voice turns up the volume and intensity. It uses everything it's got, like...the past. Oh yes, it drags out the past and holds it against you. It brings up all the memories of what it calls your mistakes, your failings, your most secret, embarassing things you've said and done.
It uses it's tool called comparison, and points out to you that you've never kept up with the Joneses much less the Rockefellers. You can't do this, you can't do that, says the voice. For example, it tells you that you can't be a Master.
It uses it's tool called regret and a dark cloud comes over you blocking the brilliant sunshine of your Mastership.
It has many tools and it employs them all to keep you right where you are, dutifully obeying the voice, it keeps you unwilling to consider another way of life, of living. It keeps you unwilling to have a life which celebrates your Mastership and allows you to express the beautiful song still in you.
"You've made such a mess of it. Your finances, your bank account, your credit card debt, your first mortgage and your second mortgage, you don't even have a mortgage, your state of health and fitness, the shape of your body---just look in the mirror; and what a royal mess you've made of your relationships, that going nowhere job that you have, or maybe you don't even have a job...oh yes, don't mess with me or Ill drag out all this evidence and more and terrorize you all day and night with it. Just don't mess with me and forget all this talk of Mastership."
Does any of that, does some of it, does all of that sound vaguely or maybe not so very vaguely familiar to you? Of course it does, because otherwise you would clearly see , acknowledge and live your Mastership right now and always.
You are a Master right now not able to see it because of all that noise clanging in your head.
And what if you could see that you are a Master? What difference would it make? For one thing, you would see that you no longer need to believe, listen to or follow the orders of that voice in your head. And that's why the voice battles you so hard when you begin to question it, when you begin to acknowledge your Mastership.
Remember the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey? "Don't mess with me Hal. You don't know what you're doing Hal !"
The voice knows that if you catch on to it's game, lights out, out of business; the voice knows it's done, finished, kaput.
It pulls out it's extreme tool, "if you mess with me Hal, you're gonna die." Something will die all right, but it won't be you, the real you. The unlimited Master that you are under all that noise will not die. The noise dies. It dies down and it becomes your servant rather than your master. It becomes your servant and you reclaim your Mastership.
Battle that noise, fight with it and it grows. Scorn it, hate it, jeer it, it grows. After all those are it's tools.
Begin by not listening to it. Begin by watching it's every move. Begin by questioning it. Begin by disobeying it in the face of all the noise it makes to oppose you. Begin by simply turning your attention in another direction.
Begin by turning your attention away from whatever it is saying. Begin by turning your attention in the direction of the quiet place right inside you, right behind that noise, waiting for you to rediscover it.
You can't do it by watching TV, listening to whatever is on your iPod, or participating in the myriad escapes designed to pull you into the noise.
You do it by asking yourself, what am I behind all this mental noise? And you look in the direction of quiet. You turn your attention to quiet. And quiet will come to meet you there.
You can do it, because despite all the taunts of the noise, you are a Master. See yourself in your Mastership. Hold in mind your Mastership. Make your behavior like that of a Master.
Hold in Mind What You Want.
So. whats on your mind?
Yes. Right now.
What's on your mind?
What are you thinking about all day long? Do you know?
I mean do you make it a point to watch your thoughts and feelings all the time?
It's important. It makes a big difference. Because what you think about all the time is what you get.
The stuff in your life right now, good stuff or maybe not so good stuff is there because you put it there with your thoughts and feelings.
You attracted it by the thoughts and feelings you have on your mind all the time. It's called "holding in mind."
Meaning the thoughts and feelings you keep in your mind, or hold in mind all the time day and night, waking and sleeping, day in day out, year in year out.
Check it out. Are those thoughts of having, or are those thoughts about wanting? A little of each, right? Sure.
Check me out on this. Better yet, check YOU out on this.
Things you have, you've been holding in mind, I have that. Things you don't have you've been holding in mind I want that. You've been holding in mind I lack that thing or person, haven't you?
Notice.
Lack is a pretty strong feeling, isn't it? It sure is. Let's take a popular one, the feeling of wanting more money. That's the feeling of lacking the money you want, right?
Let me ask you a question right now. Do rich people have a feeling of lack about money? Of course they don't because they have money.
Sure they might enjoy having more money but it's not because they lack money. That's exactly why the rich get richer. And it's exactly why the poor get poorer.
It's all about what you're holding in their mind all the time. You attract exactly what you hold in mind.
So take a look at something that you feel you are missing in your life. Notice the lacking feeling about that thing or person. You feel like you don't have it or him or her, don't you? And that's probably the feeling you've been carrying around with you long time, right?
Look at somebody you know that has what you want to have. They don't have that lacking feeling do they?
Heck no, they don't.
This is the place you might want to kill me. This is the place you could want to shout out and say, "What do you want me to do? If I don't have it, what am I supposed to do?!
Simple answer: Hold in mind what you want.
Keep in your mind the feeling that you have it.
It's easy. Just use your imagination. Make a mental picture in as much detail as you can of having the thing you want. You've heard it said, "Act as if." Lets say it a little different. "Think as if." "Feel as if."
Be the director of the movie called your life. Put in the thoughts and feelings of already having that object of your dreams.
Another one: Fake it 'til you make it. Somebody said we have 50,000 thoughts day (or whatever the number is). Right now 50,000 thoughts and feelings are that you want something. Why not start replacing those wanting thoughts and lacking feelings with having thoughts and feelings.
So tomorrow maybe it's 49, 995 thoughts and a lacking feelings. Keep it up. Fake it till you make it.
Chip away at it everyday. Then one day, you'll have a lot more thoughts and feelings of having--- then guess what? You'll find yourself having those dreams of yours.
Begin by asking your self, what's my feeling about...? (money, health/fitness, relationships, job, dreams, etc.)
Asking your self what you think about, or what you feel about something, reveals to you what you're holding in mind. It tells you what your blocks to having are. It reveals your thoughts and feelings of lacking that need to be changed to thoughts and feelings of having.
One last thing. Watch what you're talking about all the time. That too reveals what you're holding in mind.
Words of lack, complaint, grumbling are fertilizing the thoughts and feelings of lack.
Remember: Hold in mind only what you want all the time and that's what you'll get all the time.
You are Happiness.
Would it help you to know how your mind works?
For most the workings of the mind are a huge mystery. We think it's something we don't get to know about.
What is the mind anyway? It's a collection of thoughts and feelings.
That very mind is saying to you right now, it can't be that simple. That's what our mind wants us to believe. It wants us to believe it is very complicated and takes years of study and advanced degrees to begin to understand the mind.
It's something for you to check out and prove to yourself. Your mind is a collection of thoughts and feelings. Your mind runs your life according to those thoughts and feelings.
You mind works like a computer. You program your computer and your computer operates exactly according to the instructions you have put into it. If you put corrupt programs into your computer, or if you put conflicting programs into your computer, your computer will malfunction. If you input enough corrupt or conflicting programs into your computer it will turn into a pile of junk and you have to call an expert in to repair it.
It's the same with your mind. It runs whatever programs you put into your computer. You can look at your life and see what programs you put into your computer. Your life is a picture of the programs in your mental computer.
If you have input conflicting programs into your mental computer, those programs will run until you take them out. You will have conflicting results in your life until you remove those conflicting programs.
Just as with your home or business computer, as soon as you delete the programs that block your computer from working like it's supposed to, your computer starts functioning properly.
We have all heard the term "flow." There has been a lot written and talked about on the subject of flow.
Flow is nothing more than clearing out the corrupt programs, thoughts and feelings, blocking you from achieving all you could be, do or have. Once the programs are deleted, your life flows. It flows because there are no more blocks to the flow. It's like taking the logs out of river. With all the logs blocking the river, the water can't flow. Remove the logs and the river flows.
Anything in your life that is not working like it should is because your mental computer is jammed up.
Somewhere along the line you threw logs, negative thoughts and feelings, in the way of the flow.
Begin to see those thoughts and feelings as they come up all day long and instantly drop them. Just let them go. End the habit of energizing them with your attention. And you will experience the same thing you experience when you apply a virus remover to your computer. Your day, your life, will begin to work like it was designed to work. And you will be happy. Your life will be filled with harmony---you'll be in the flow.
Check it out. Try it. Prove it to yourself and have all the happiness and goodness you deserve.
Clean Up Your Mental Computer
Would it help you to know how your mind works?
For most the workings of the mind are a huge mystery. We think it's something we don't get to know about.
What is the mind anyway? It's a collection of thoughts and feelings.
That very mind is saying to you right now, it can't be that simple. That's what our mind wants us to believe. It wants us to believe it is very complicated and takes years of study and advanced degrees to begin to understand the mind.
It's something for you to check out and prove to yourself. Your mind is a collection of thoughts and feelings. Your mind runs your life according to those thoughts and feelings.
You mind works like a computer. You program your computer and your computer operates exactly according to the instructions you have put into it. If you put corrupt programs into your computer, or if you put conflicting programs into your computer, your computer will malfunction.
If you input enough corrupt or conflicting programs into your computer it will turn into a pile of junk and you have to call an expert in to repair it.
It's the same with your mind. It runs whatever programs you put into your computer. You can look at your life and see what programs you put into your computer. Your life is a picture of the programs in your mental computer.
If you have input conflicting programs into your mental computer, those programs will run until you take them out. You will have conflicting results in your life until you remove those conflicting programs.
Just as with your home or business computer, as soon as you delete the programs that block your computer from working like it's supposed to, your computer starts functioning properly.
We have all heard the term "flow." There has been a lot written and talked about on the subject of flow.
Flow is nothing more than clearing out the corrupt programs, thoughts and feelings, blocking you from achieving all you could be, do or have. Once the programs are deleted, your life flows. It flows because there are no more blocks to the flow. It's like taking the logs out of river. With all the logs blocking the river, the water can't flow. Remove the logs and the river flows.
Anything in your life that is not working like it should is because your mental computer is jammed up.
Somewhere along the line you threw logs, negative thoughts and feelings, in the way of the flow.
Begin to see those thoughts and feelings as they come up all day long and instantly drop them. Just let them go. End the habit of energizing them with your attention. And you will experience the same thing you experience when you apply a virus remover to your computer. Your day, your life, will begin to work like it was designed to work. And you will be happy. Your life will be filled with harmony---you'll be in the flow.
Check it out. Try it. Prove it to yourself and have all the happiness and goodness you deserve.
Live a Life Of Optimism
Optimism is Your Decision.
Optimism is the glass half full. It's a rosy outlook. It's looking out at the world through a positive lens.
It's seeing the goodness of it all.
And, it's your decision.
Your ego may not like that information. Your ego probably wants you to think optimism comes from some external source.
Happiness is the same word as optimism, positive, goodness. You can make a list of words that match up with happiness. It's a good exercise to make a list of positive, good words.
Sometimes when the world pounds on you, turn it around by making a good words list. Fill up a whole page with good words. It changes how you feel. It helps you see where happiness comes from: Right inside of you.
One of the words high on your list might be, success. Yes, success is up to no one but you. Success is your decision just like optimism, happiness, goodness, harmony and all the other words that will flow out of you once you ask for them.
Making your world optimistic and successful, begins with discriminating---seeing what's going on, seeing what words and pet phrases you’re saying, seeing what you're thinking---seeing the thoughts you're allowing into your mind and holding onto all day long. It's seeing pessimism. And, it's seeing that pessimism moves you in the opposite direction of optimism and success.
A long time ago we learned to accept things. That's my mama, that's my papa, that's my story. That's my religion. That's my politics. That's my station in life. I'm rich. I'm poor. I healthy. I am not healthy. People like me. People don't like me. I can. I can't. I know how. I don't know how. That's just the way it is. It isn't something we thought about. We just assumed it. We didn't know about discriminating. We accepted it as, just the way things are.
Here is an even more potent assumption most people make and they keep making: The assumption is, they have to listen to that voice in their head. They assumed they had to listen to their "elders" without thinking about it or questioning it. In the same way, they think they have to listen to that voice in their head. Whatever that voice says, most of us usually listen to it, and act on what it tells us. We follow its orders.
Here is something to consider: Most of the time that voice in your head is not telling you the truth. Check it out for yourself.
Here's an example.
Remember the pilot of the plane that landed in the Hudson River? He said, that in the days after the crash, he was tortured with thoughts about how he could have done more and better when he landed that plane in the river.
That’s the man who saved 155 lives because he did his job with such perfection.
That's what the ego/mind does to most people. It's never satisfied. Too much, too little, too big, too small, and on and on and on it goes, 24/7. It's constantly rattling on about our inadequacies. It tells us to look for what's wrong, not what's right. It wants us to look for what's missing rather than what we have. It wants us to look at the bad rather than all we have that is good.
Frankly, it drives most people nuts. It makes them anxious, nervous and fearful. What's more, it makes them pessimistic and unhappy.
There are a lot of outer manifestations of your ego/mind. Like the news. Like talk radio. Like TV commercials. Like that guy chattering away about what's wrong. Like somebody who just must tell you about some bad news they just heard about the economy, the stock market or something that happened down the street.
It's like getting drugged up. People load themselves up with all that negative garbage. They fill themselves to the brim. They're drugged up with negativity.
And, that's the way your mind likes you to think: That it's all true, just the way it is, and you're stuck with it.
That's the exact opposite of Truth. Truth says, you decide. You decide your world. You decide your happiness, your optimism, your success.
You decide not to listen to that mental noise. You decide not to listen to all of the manifestations of that ego/mind out there in the world.
You decide not to pay attention to what you think. You decide not to believe your think, your thinking, your thinker.
You decide to only allow good things into your awareness. You decide to look at what's right in your life. You decide to focus on what’s good in your life and in your world. You decide to look at what you have, and to hold in your mind only thoughts of what you want and never thoughts of what you do not want.
And that's how you expand optimism, happiness, success, and all the rest of those words on your good words list, in your life and everything you experience all day long everyday.
Check it out. Try it. Prove it to yourself and have optimism, happiness and all that flows from goodness.
Gratefulness and Giving it Your All.
There is a basketball coach at the University of Memphis, Josh Pastner, age 32. He was the new head coach this year. He's different. He doesn't cuss. He doesn't drink alcohol or soda. He doesn't berate his players. He doesn't bark incessantly. "He doesn't fit the profile of the fevered young coach…" said the New York Times article about him (12/14/09).
After he got the job he had a word painted on the wall of his office. "Gratefulness."
Here's a guy who got his Bachelor's degree from Arizona University in 2 ½ years. One semester he took 11 classes, the Times article reported.
After he was promoted to head coach he had to build his staff. He had a lot of recruiting to do. He went without sleep for 72 hours.
Here are his words: “You know what it is?” Pastner said, explaining his motivation, “It’s wanting not to look back and say we should have done this, we should have done that. You want to maximize your time, which doesn’t necessarily mean you are going to win a lot of games; it just means you can look back and have a peace of mind knowing you gave it your best shot.”
He explains, “I feel so indebted to these people (his team) that I can’t let them down.”
How about you?
Are you indebted enough to yourself that you can't let yourself down?
Many of us live with regret, chewing over what we should have done in the past. It's too late. It's gone. We can't change it. Yet many of us hang-out on the street corner of the past bellyaching about what could have been. Right? No wonder we get a bellyache out of it.
The past is long gone. It's a dream. It's fading more everyday. What we have is right now. The present moment. No matter about the past. We can do something about right now. We can decide. We can make each moment what we want it to be. Just like Josh Pastner. We can give it our all. We can go at it passionately. We can go at it with determined commitment.
You can do it. You don't have to look back and say, I should have done this. I should have done that. Maximize your time, and you can look back knowing you gave it your best shot, just like the coach said.
Josh is talking about basketball. What we're talking about here is your life, your destiny, your realization, your Freedom. We're talking about the reason you are on this planet. We are talking about you having all you would like to have.
Lester Levenson showed us the way. Josh is doing what Lester did. Lester had a gun to his head. He knew he had to maximize his time. He showed us the way. He gave us the tools. Lester sat down and dropped all of his non-love feelings. He dropped all of his wanting to change anything or anyone. He gave it his full attention. He was at it full time, and he made it. He tells us, over and over, we can do it too.
Like the young coach at Memphis, live in a constant state of gratefulness.
Be grateful that you have this unique opportunity in all of history to Breakthrough and Achieve the Ultimate Freedom and thereby achieve all your goals. Be able to say, I did not let myself down. I went for it. I gave it my best shot. I maximized my time. And I achieved the greatest gift of realizing my true Self.
Happiness Can Spread Among People Like a Contagion
Washington Post by Staff Writer Rob Stein. Friday, December 5, 2008.
Happiness is contagious, spreading among friends, neighbors, siblings and spouses like the flu, according to a large study that for the first time shows how emotion can ripple through clusters of people who may not even know each other.
The study of more than 4,700 people who were followed over 20 years found that people who are happy or become happy boost the chances that someone they know will be happy.
The power of happiness, can span another degree of separation, elevating the mood of that person's husband, wife, brother, sister, friend or next-door neighbor.
"You would think that your emotional state would depend on your own choices and actions and experience," said Nicholas A. Christakis, a medical sociologist at Harvard University who helped conduct the study published online today by BMJ, a British medical journal.
"But it also depends on the choices and actions and experiences of other people, including people to whom you are not directly connected. Happiness is contagious."
One person's happiness can affect another's for as much as a year, the researchers found, and while unhappiness can also spread from person to person, the "infectiousness" of that emotion appears to be far weaker.
Previous studies have documented the common experience that one person's emotions can influence another's -- laughter can trigger guffaws in others; seeing someone smile can momentarily lift one's spirits. But the new study is the first to find that happiness can spread across groups for an extended period.
When one person in the network became happy, the chances that a friend, sibling, spouse or next-door neighbor would become happy increased between 8 percent and 34 percent, the researchers found. The effect continued through three degrees of separation, although it dropped progressively from about 15 percent to 10 percent to about 6 percent before disappearing.
The findings, Christakis and others said, provide striking new evidence of the power of social networks, which could have implications for public policy. Happy people tend to be better off in myriad ways, being more creative, productive and healthier.
"For a long time, we measured the health of a country by looking at its gross domestic product," said Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego who co-authored the study. "But our work shows that whether a friend's friend is happy has more influence than a $5,000 raise. So at a time when we're facing such economic difficulties, the message could be, 'Hang in there. You still have your friends and family, and these are the people to rely on to be happy.' "
Other experts praised the study as a landmark in the growing body of evidence documenting the influence of personal connections and the importance of positive emotions.
"It's a pathfinding article," said Martin E.P. Seligman, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist. "It's totally original, and the findings are striking."
Stanley Wasserman, who studies social networks at Indiana University, said: "We've known that one's network ties are important, but we've never looked at anything on this scale. The implications are you can't look at individuals as little entities devoid of their social context."
Others, however, questioned the findings, noting that it is difficult to account for every variable that might affect the outcomes of such studies.
Because the researchers did not find the effect for people living on the same block beyond a next-door neighbor, they were confident that the positive mood was not the result of living in the same good neighborhood. Because people tended to get happier if someone they knew became happy, the researchers could rule out the alternative explanation that happy people tend to be drawn to each other.
"We know it's not a 'birds of a feather flock together' effect," Christakis said.
Unhappiness also appeared to be catching, but not as strongly: An unhappy connection increased the chances of being unhappy by about 7 percent on average, while a happy connection increased the chances of being happy by about 9 percent. While having more friends is important for a person's happiness, the benefit of having more friends appears to be canceled out if they are unhappy, the researchers found.
The researchers and others speculated that the emotion may be important on an evolutionary level by helping people cooperate. Seligman likened happiness to an orchestra tuning up.
"Laughter and singing and smiling tune the group emotionally," Seligman said. "They get them on the same wavelength so they can work together more effectively as group."
How about moving from being a seeker to a finder?
In all likelihood, since you're reading these words, you think of yourself ---or at some point have thought of yourself---as a seeker, a seeker or truth, a seeker of the ultimate?
Seeker, meaning we know the Truth is out there somewhere, if we can just find it.
Unfortunately the identity "seeker" is the opposite of finder.
Our mind is creative. We create what we hold in our mind.
How can we ever get "finder" out of seeker?
Those that are holding in mind, "I'm a seeker," often continue to seek, forever.
Seekers are in constant search for a new and better way. They are looking for the "next big thing". They continue buying books. Seekers are book buyers and seminar goers. Seekers are like a bee bouncing from flower to flower, yet never finding pollen that satisfies them.
If you are bouncing from flower to flower, ask yourself, does the ego want you to find what you are looking for?
Does that mind noise, which has you buying another book, looking for another angle, seeking your guru, does that mind noise want you to find what you are looking for? You are holding in mind seeking. Your creative mind will take your instructions and have you seeking all of your life but never finding.
Maybe being a seeker isn't too great an idea after all.
How about "finder?" Wouldn't that be a much better way to go? Wouldn't that be a better thing to hold in mind. "I've found it!"
A finder finds.
Yogi Berra might put it this way: We have to take a look at what we're doing, or we can't see it.
You know the Acres of Diamonds story. Hafid, the tragic anti-hero of the drama, is a seeker. Hafid chases all over the world. He's desperate to find his fortune. He dies in despair, penniless, beaten and broke, never having found what he was seeking. Meanwhile, right under Hafid's old farm that he sold---so he could go seeking---was discovered one of the richest diamond mines in history.
Just like you and me.
We're all sitting on the richest diamond mine in history, or gold or whatever kind of mine you like. We are sitting on it. That's a way of talking. Fact is, the richest of the richest of treasures is right inside of you and me right now, this very second. And it didn’t arrive just now. Like the diamond mine, it's been there, waiting for us to find it all along.
I'm 99.9% sure you've had many glimpses, and maybe even more than glimpses of what I'm talking about.
Here is what Lester Levenson said. The answer is right where you are.
Same as was true for Hafid.
The ego/mind tells you to buy more books, to look for the next thing. The ego/mind distracts you. It keeps you looking just as it did Hafid.
Lester Levenson said, G-U-R-U. You are your guru.
There is nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to find.
It is, and always has been, right inside of you, right in your very own nature.
Begin by letting go of thinking it is not.
Begin by being your Self.
Three Ways to Happiness.
We all have heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Yet, day after day, year after year, we do the same things and wonder why nothing changes in our lives.
Are you ready to do something different so you can have something different?
If you are, then these three steps will turn you in the direction of happiness. These three steps will turn your life in the direction of having what you have been seeking.
Catch Yourself in the Act
Catch yourself in the act simply means to watch yourself, and see what you're doing to yourself. Catch yourself in the act means to see that you are reacting automatically to what happens in your world. It is seeing that your automatic reactions are often negative. You get angry. You get sad. You get scared. It all happens in a flash and you don't notice yourself doing it. You react from habit to what happens in your life. You freak out. You flip out.
"How Does This Help Me?"
The next step in the direction of changing your life, of making your life happy and having the things you want is to ask, "How does this help me?" You catch yourself in the act of anger or rage. Ask, "How does this help me?" You ask yourself, how does it solve anything for me to go off on someone? You ask yourself, how does it help me to go off on myself? How does raging help me feel better? You ask yourself, does getting sad, does getting in the doldrums make me feel better? Is it a real solution to make things better? Or does it just add to making things worse? You ask yourself, does getting scared make anything better? Does getting scared about what is happening in my body somehow make it better? Does getting scared about money help me find a way to financial abundance? Does getting scared make me happy?
Do Something Different
Check and see if the following statement doesn't make a lot of sense? To have something different, you have to do something different. Now a lot of the time we may wonder, "Okay, I see that, but what do I do? I'm willing to do something different. What is it?" The first step in the direction of happiness is to end what you are doing instantly, as soon as you see it. So, you see yourself freaking out. Stop it. End it. Right there on the spot. The feelings are yours. They belong to you. You can end them anytime you decide to end them. To get control of your life, get control of your feelings. To have a different future, do something different. As soon as you see any negative reaction, just end it on the spot. You can do it. It is your feeling. Decide to end it before it takes you down.
Starlight Express
Starlight Express, Starlight Express...
STARLIGHT
Only you have the power within you.
Just believe in yourself -
The sea will part before you,
Stop the rain, turn the tide.
If only you use the power within you
Needn't beg the world
To turn around and help you
If you draw on what you have within you
Somewhere deep inside.
RUSTY
Starlight Express, Won't you confess,
Are you real, yes or no?
Starlight Express, answer me yes.
I don't want you to go.
STARLIGHT
Rusty you're blind, look in your mind -
I'm there. Nothing's new
The Starlight Express is no more nore less
Than you Rusty. I am you.
I'm you and
STARLIGHT / RUSTY
Only you/I am the Starlight.
Have the power within you/I can achieve
Just believe in yourself/anything
The sea will part before you
Stop the rain and turn the tide/
All the things I didn't believe.
If only you/I am the Starlight.
Have the power within you/I can achieve
Just believe in yourself/anything
The sea will part before you
Stop the rain and turn the tide/
All the things I didn't believe.
If only you/I am the Starlight,
Use the power within you/I can see it throught.
Needn't beg the world to turn around and help you
If you draw on what is deep inside.
RUSTY
I won't let you down.
Don't Pay Attention to What you Think
Don’t pay attention to what you think.
That’s what it said on a bumper sticker I saw the other day. You’ve been paying attention to what you think, haven't you? It’s driving you nuts.
Right now what you think has you scared, anxious and confused about…well just about anything in the news, or going on in your world. Maybe it’s the economy, the stock market or something that happened in a far away land. Maybe it's something that happened down at the office or over at the store. It’s always one thing or another because what you think likes to look for the negative.
It likes to look for what’s not right. It likes to look for trouble. No matter what you get. it’s never satisfied. You did well, but you could have done much better. That’s good, but it’s not as good as so and so. That’s right, but if you would have made this little tweak, how much better could it have been.
It rattles on day in and day out, night in and night out.
What you think has your regretting. It has you judging. It has you doubting.
What you think tells you that you can’t do it. You can’t have it. You can’t be it. What you think does not tell you the truth. It lies to you and makes you nuts.
If that’s not enough, what you think constantly tells you to beat yourself up, to disapprove of yourself. Anything that happens is a reason to beat yourself up. You lost your watch. Beat yourself up. You can’t find your keys, beat yourself up. You got a stain on your shirt, beat yourself up. And, on and on.
Your thinking is telling you to beat yourself up all the time, about everything, all day, and even when you’re asleep at night. Check it out.
And, then, tricky as it is, thinking catches you getting mad at it it. It catches you disapproving about all this negativity its spewing out. It gets you into disapproving of yourself about the disapproval---the very disapproval it talked you into doing!
That bumper sticker I saw was right, Don’t pay attention to what you think.
It goes against all you have ever been taught. They tell you. Go to school and learn how to think. You learn to idolize what you think. You are conditioned to believe you have to follow whatever you think. You always pay attention to what you think. And you always follow the advice of what you think.
Maybe, just maybe, you have been duped.
How does it help you to be afraid? How does it help you to be angry? How does it help you to be frustrated? How does it help you to be out of control? How does it help you to beat yourself up? Yet, what you think tells you to do it all the time. What you think lies to you and tells you negative somehow brings you positive.
So, what’s the answer? Keep it simple. Don’t pay attention to what you think---just like it said on that bumper sticker. Then you’ll be happy. Check it out. Prove it to yourself.
You get happy by letting go of what's making you unhappy, like all that thinking.
Don’t pay attention to what you think and see what happens.
Give it a try and find out.
You are that which you are seeking.
What is true? What is truth? What is it?
You have asked yourself those kind of questions many times.
You wonder who has the answers.
Should I follow this path or that path? This path seems good but maybe another path would be better. Most people spend their entire life chasing around from one supposed guru, one supposed truth teller, one supposed knower of the way to another.
You ache to know the Truth because you innately know there is more than what you're experiencing right now.
You try out another new idea. You check into another guru. It's very confusing, because you’ll never run out of finding new gurus, new see’ers, and new knowers.
Your quest is complicated because your ego/mind is never satisfied (check it against your own experience). Whatever or whoever you find, your ego/mind tells you there is more and better.
In the story Acres of Diamonds, Hafid, a farmer, was frustrated because he could not attain the wealth his ego said he should have. His farm could not satisfy his ego’s desire for wealth. Hafid sold his farm and traveled the world over, scratching and struggling to find wealth and satisfaction. Not finding it, his life ended in frustration and misery.
Meanwhile, the man who bought Hafid's farm found a dirt-covered rock in a little creek. Scraping away the mud, the rock turned out to be one of the most valuable diamonds ever found. Hafid’s old farm was the site of one of the richest, most productive diamond mines in the history of the world.
Can I tell you something, please? YOU are sitting on riches far more valuable than Hafid’s diamond mine. Because, YOU are that which you are seeking. You, the real, natural you is the diamond mine of all diamond mines, riches beyond all riches. It seems so far away to you, doesn’t it? You feel like it's a nice idea, but you think you are so far from getting it, to reaching the ultimate.
That’s why you race all over from would-be guru to would-be guru. Your ego tells you, there's so much to do, so much to figure out, so much about you to change before you can attain or know the ultimate Truth.
You spend your life searching, just like Hafid. Here's a news flash. Continuing to search all over the place is only going to lead to the same place as it did Hafid. Why? Because, the answer is NOT out there somewhere.
What you are looking for is not out there. What you are looking for is right where you are. It isn’t far away, it isn’t hidden somewhere that you have to get the right guru so you can find it. You are that which you are seeking.
It is simple. There is not a dozen steps to take. There is nowhere to go. Does anyone need to show you, YOU? How many books do you have to read to find you? How many mantras, how many affirmations, how many special techniques, how much of so and so’s insight do you need to tap into to find YOU?
What do you have to add to yourself to find YOU?
Of course, therein lies the answer. You do not need to add anything to find YOU. All you need to do is to let go of all the garbage, the stinking thinking, the thoughts and feelings, called programs, that are smothering that which you are, have always been and always will be.
You, like Hafid, are searching. You try this supposed master, that supposed master. Sooner or later you will find out YOU are that which you are searching for. GEE-U-ARE-YOU. Sooner or later you will see that you are the guru, you are the master.
Chase around to this or that if you will. You are free to do that, of course. In the end, sooner or later, this lifetime or a thousand lifetimes, you will see. Your ego will fight and resist. It will blame personalities, and money, and a million escapes and distractions.
However, sooner or later, exhausted, just as Hafid was in the story, you will see, you will realize, you are that which you are seeking. All you need to go is let go of all the negative feelings and the convictions which say you are not.
Sooner or later you will tire of your searching, why not right now? Why wait? Why delay?
Peeved About Anything?
What are you peeved about?
What is your pet peeve?
Do I hear somebody saying, "Where do you want me to start?"
A lot of us live with a long laundry list of pet peeves, things that make us mad, that irritate us, that annoy us.
It’s easy to begin listing them for most of us.
I'm sure since you began reading this a few seconds ago a lot of them have popped into your head. For some of us they began pouring out like a gusher.
It's because we live with pet peeves. More than that, we like our pet peeves.
What's that all about? Somebody could be asking, "What's what all about?"
What's it all about, that we do things that hurt us?
How do pet peeves, hurt me? Are you wondering that?
Well are pet peeves positive or negative? A wise guy might say, "I'm positive about the things that peeve me." So let's look at the energy behind something that peeves us.
Does it put a smile on your face? Does it make you feel more peaceful? Does it make you happy? Of course it does not. By definition a peeve makes you mad, it generates some degree of anger. Let's face it. Peeves are negative energy.
And that's how peeves hurt us.
Peeves, annoyances, irritations, are all negative energy that pile up. All that negative energy adds up, and results in stress, anxiety, perturbation. Peeves agitate us. Peeves are the opposite of happy. They're in opposition to happiness.
And that's how peeves hurt us. They rob us of our happiness.
Wouldn't it be a great idea to live with all the happiness you can have?
Wouldn't it be a great idea to have your cup running over with happiness?
How can you have all that happiness? One way is to end habits that take away your happiness. One way is to end the habit of being peeved.
C'mon. Look at all the ways you get peeved all day long. It's just a habit we've developed, reinforced and somehow gotten the idea its part of the way the game of life is played.
If life were baseball which has hits, runs and errors, getting peeved about a lot of things all day long would be considered an error.
It's a good time to recall the name of the book, "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff. (asterisk) It's all small stuff."
In other words, check it out, all this stuff we get mad about, that we get peeved about all day long, all that stuff is small stuff. It really just does not matter. Check that out for yourself.
What does matter is that we rip ourselves off with all the negativity energy we create and accumulate with all of our pet peeves.
Like any habit it's a decision to change the habit, to end the habit.
To maintain and increase happiness, decide to end the habit of getting aggravated, irritated and annoyed all day long. It's a decision to see it coming and decide, "I am just not going to go there." Decide to drop that peeved feeling as soon as you see it. Drop it like a hot potato.
End the habit of pet peeves. End the habit of negative reaction. As you do, you maintain and increase your store of all the happiness you can have.
(End… for now. More to be added.)