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1. You Are a Physical Extension of That Which is Non-physical.
All-That-Is, or that which you call God, is not finished and waiting for you to catch up. You are the leading edge of thought, here seeking more: more of all that feels good to you, more of that which is fresh and gloriously uplifting. (You are, in essence, bringing heaven to earth.)
2. You Are Here in This Body Because You Chose to Be Here.
You chose the opportunity to experience this delicious contrast in time and space, and with great anticipation you came to co-create with other joy-seeking Beings, to fine-tune the process of deliberate thought. (What, where, when and with whom you create are your choices, too.)
3. The Basis of Your Life is Freedom; the Purpose of Your Life is Joy.
You are free to choose to discover new avenues for your joy. In your joy you will grow; and in your growth you add to the expansion of All-That-Is. (However, you are also free to choose bondage or pain…but everything anyone chooses is only because they believe it will help them feel better.)
4. You Are a Creator; You Create With Your Every Thought.
By the Universal Law of Attraction, you are attracting the essence of whatever you are choosing to give your attention to — whether wanted or unwanted. And so, you often create by default. But you can know by how your emotion feels if what you are attracting (creating) is what you are wanting or if it is not what you are wanting. (Where is your attention focused?)
5. Anything That You Can Imagine is Yours to Be or Do or Have.
As you ask yourself why you want it, the essence of your desire is activated, and the Universe begins to bring it to you. The more intense your positive feelings, the faster it is coming to you. (It is as easy to create a castle as a button.)
6. As You Are Choosing Your Thoughts, Your Emotions Are Guiding You.
Your loving Inner Being offers guidance in the form of emotion. Entertain a wanted or unwanted thought, and you feel a wanted or unwanted emotion. Choose to change the thought and you have changed the emotion — and you have changed the creation. (Make more choices in every day.)
7. The Universe Adores You for it Knows Your Broadest Intentions.
You have chosen to come to earth with great intentions, and the Universe constantly guides you on your chosen path. When you are feeling good, you are, in that moment, allowing more of that which you have intended from your broader perspective. (You are Spirit Incarnate.)
8. Relax into Your Natural Well-Being. All is Well. (Really It Is!)
The essence of all that you appreciate is constantly flowing into your reality. As you find more things to appreciate, your state of appreciation opens more avenues to more for which to feel appreciation. (As you think, you vibrate. As you vibrate, you attract.)
9. You Are a Creator of Thoughtways on Your Unique Path of Joy.
No one can limit where you can direct your thought. There are no limits to your joyous journeys to experience. On the path to your happiness you will discover all that you want to be or do, or have. (Allowing others their experiences allows you yours.)
10. Actions to Be Taken and Possessions to Be Exchanged Are
By-products of Your Focus on Joy. On your deliberately joyous journey your actions will be inspired, your resources will be abundant, and you will know by the way you feel that you are fulfilling your reason for life. (Most have this one backwards, therefore most feel little joy in their actions or their possessions.)
11. You May Appropriately Depart Your Body Without Illness or Pain.
You need not attract illness or pain as an excuse to leave your body. Your natural state — coming, remaining or leaving — is that of health and Well-Being. (You are free to choose otherwise.)
12. You Can Not Die; You Are Everlasting Life.
In grace, you may choose to relax and allow your gentle transition back into your Non-physical state of pure, positive Energy. Your natural state is that of Foreverness. (Have fun with all of this! You can’t get it wrong, and you’ll never get it done.)
P.S. It is not necessary for even one other person to understand the Laws of the Universe or the processes that we are offering here in order for you to have a wonderful, happy, productive Life Experience — for you are the attractor of your experience. Just you!
(*Taken from: http://www.abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/about_hicks.php)
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If there is anyone you would want to take as a role model, then take W Clement Stone – this is his life’s story:*
When William Clement Stone was just 3, his father died, leaving nothing but gambling debts and a widow and son in poverty.
Living with his mother and relatives in an apartment on Chicago’s rough South Side, 6-year-old Stone sold newspapers to help support the family. In this hardscrabble environment of the early 1900s, he had to compete with older boys for street-corner territory. But the young Stone was adaptable and resourceful. He began concentrating on restaurants as better places to peddle papers.
In what he later recalled as his first experience “turning a disadvantage into an advantage,” he returned repeatedly to one restaurant to try to sell papers, only to be thrown out each time by the owner. Finally, through audacity and tenacity, Stone persuaded the owner to let him set up shop. The owner soon became a great friend, and Stone continued to grow his humble newspaper enterprise. By 13, he owned his own newsstand.
In a life that spanned a century, Stone ultimately became an insurance magnate, philanthropist, publisher, best-selling author, and a pioneer in the field of personal development. Indeed, W. Clement Stone was Mr. Positive Mental Attitude.
But what made him so excited about the possibilities for success? What enabled him to see opportunity in every situation, even in adversity and failure? Colorful and fun-loving, Stone seemed to repel negativity. His life trajectory was a steep climb to ever-increasing success, with every challenge transmuted quickly into useful insight. His personal life was equally successful, married 79 years to his childhood sweetheart, with three children and 12 grandchildren. What did Stone know about living life and doing business that eludes the average person, who is so often subject to disappointment, negativity, frustration and despair?
A ‘Self-Builder’
Even as a boy peddling papers, Stone was becoming what he later described as a “self-builder” in his autobiography, The Success System That Never Fails. He was modeling his life after the inspiring Horatio Alger stories about poor boys who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps to lead lives of purpose and wealth.
When he was 16, he dropped out of high school to work for his mother at a casualty insurance agency in Detroit. He later would obtain a high-school diploma as well as some college credits, but for the time being, school would have to wait. Already an accomplished salesman and positive thinker, Stone quickly took to the insurance business. His experience selling newspapers made him a fearless cold-caller, speaking of his prospects as “gold calls.” Stone sold staggering volumes of small, inexpensive policies, at one point more than 100 in a single day.
In 1922, he returned to Chicago and, with an investment of $100, established what would become Combined Insurance Company of America (now part of ACE Corporation). The following year, he wed Jessie Verna Tarson, making good on a promise to her when he was 16 that they would marry when he turned 21.
Meantime, Stone set about building a sales force and training his employees in his developing methods and philosophy. Positive mental attitude, or PMA, was the Combined Insurance mantra. Another favorite three-letter abbreviation stood for his favorite form of fi nance—OPM or “other people’s money”—which Stone used to buy other insurance companies and expand his burgeoning empire.
Along with Combined Insurance, Stone’s business acumen, wealth, confidence and happiness grew steadily. He freely shared his sales and self-motivation experience with every salesman who cared to put his bold methods into practice.
An Irrepressible Optimist
Stone began every day by exclaiming, “I feel happy! I feel healthy! I feel terrific!” and he encouraged his employees to follow his lead. He cut an unforgettably jaunty figure with his signature thin black mustache, smart spats, and brightly patterned vests and bowties, and was seemingly indefatigable when it came to maintaining an upbeat outlook. He once said, “What’s a few million dollars? Everything’s relative.” And when he sensed attention fl agging at meetings, Stone would cry, “Bingo!”
Finance expert and journalist Terry Savage attested to Stone’s morning routine in a 2002 Chicago Sun-Times column commemorating his 100th birthday. “Once I sat a row in front of Mr. Stone on a flight to Europe. As the flight attendants were trying to rouse sleepy passengers for an early morning landing in London, I suddenly heard a loud voice behind me: ‘Stand up. Raise your arms. Repeat after me: I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!’ And, you know, I did feel a lot less jet-lagged after I joined him in his everyday ritual,” she wrote.
Even the Great Depression couldn’t diminish Stone’s spirit. By 1930, he had 1,000 insurance agents in his employ selling life and accident insurance. He often hired people with little or no education or prospects, and was likely the catalyst for many a Horatio Alger success story.
Stone later told a New York Times reporter the Depression was a constructive influence, in that it stimulated hard work and ingenuity. It certainly seemed to have that effect for him, as he continually sought ways to increase sales and motivate agents. When he read Napoleon Hill’s seminal work, Think and Grow Rich!, he was so inspired that he distributed copies to every Combined Insurance salesman. Stone credited the resulting upswing in sales to Hill’s principles.
A Fortuitous Meeting
Some years later, Stone made a point of meeting Hill when Hill came to Chicago to give a lecture. Stone convinced him that, through their combined philosophies, they could accomplish great things and inspire people the world over—and in 1952, they began a legendary partnership. Together, they produced books, courses, lectures, and radio and television programs. In 1954, they published Success Unlimited, the predecessor to SUCCESS magazine.
In 1960, Stone and Hill published what became one of the most widely read personal-development classics, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude. The book was an instant best-seller that attracted other disciples, including Og Mandino, who claimed it was the turning point in his life, helping him escape a downward spiral of alcoholism. Mandino later joined Combined Insurance, as well as Success Unlimited as its editor, and became a best-selling author in his own right.
By 1979, the little insurance company W. Clement Stone started with $100 in savings reached $1 billion in assets. Terry Savage remembered interviewing Stone during this time period for a stock market program on TV. “His enthusiasm for the possibilities of life burst through the camera, as stock market quotes streamed below,” she wrote. “It was as if he were exhorting the viewers to believe that they could do whatever they dreamed. And, in fact, that was his message.”
In 1980, the same year that Combined Insurance went public on the New York Stock Exchange (with the ticker symbol PMA), Stone was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for an illustrious life’s work that focused heavily on philanthropy. Over the years, W. Clement and Jessie Stone donated money to myriad charities and individuals, never hesitating to give if they thought the cause worthwhile.
Abundance Through Giving
A candid bit of advice from Stone originally published in Success Unlimited sums up his philanthropic beliefs: “Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate; yes—give especially to those to whom you don’t want to give. Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have.”
When he died several months after his 100th birthday in 2002, W. Clement Stone had given an estimated $275 million away to charity. One of his favorite organizations was the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and many young people went to school on his dime as part of his dedication to widespread empowerment and education of youth. The W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation that he and his wife established continues to support countless humanitarian, mental health, religious and community causes. His estate also provides funding for The Napoleon Hill Foundation.
But perhaps the most valuable contribution of W. Clement Stone’s long life was the fact that he was a happy, fulfi lled man who shared his understanding of the simple—but not necessarily easy—habits and attitudes that produce success, wealth and happiness, namely his beloved positive mental attitude. In books, articles, speeches and one-on-one encounters, he shared the universal principles of success that he had used in his own remarkable life as Mr. Positive Mental Attitude.
“All I want to do is change the world,” Stone once said. And through attitude and action, W. Clement Stone, a Horatio Alger story come to life, did exactly that.
(*Taken from Success Magazine)
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I came across this wonderful, beautiful, and strong lesson in life and wanted to share it with you…
BE NICE TO OTHERS BECAUSE…
TIME WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
ONE DAY YOU WILL NO LONGER BE THE BIG DOG…
JUST THE OLD DOG…
AND IT’S NICE TO BE SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS ;)
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Once upon a time there was a poor Scottish farmer. His name was Fleming. One day, while trying to eke out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman’s sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
“I want to repay you,” said the nobleman. “You saved my son’s life.”
“No, I can’t accept payment for what I did,” the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer’s own son came to the door of the family hovel.
“Is that your son?” the nobleman asked. “Yes,” the farmer replied proudly.
“I’ll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education. If the lad is anything like his father, he’ll grow to a man you can be proud of.”
And that he did. In time, Farmer Fleming’s son graduated from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the nobleman’s son was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved him? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.
His son’s name? Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once said that what comes around goes around.
Reading this wonderful story reminded me of the book “Life of Pi”, where at the end, after having recounted his adventure, or was it an ordeal?, Pi offered a different, much more sober version, leaving it to the Japanese officials, who had traveled halfway across the globe to interview him, to decide which one they preferred.
I chose to believe the original and not the sober version.
Also here you can choose for yourself whether you would want to go with the above version or go with the version that is provided by The Churchill Centre and Museum.
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There are no “good” or “bad” energies. Energies are energies, period; we are the ones who categorize them into “positive” and “negative”. In the energetic realm there is only an “is” or an “is not” without any distinctions whatsoever when it comes to race, gender, education or wealth. By simply existing, everyone is given an equal access to them. They not only come for free and in unlimited supply, they also work for everyone in the same way, with only one caveat to this: you have to trust and believe, as without faith nothing can be achieved.
On one hand it felt liberating and joyful and invigorating to discover this fundamental law as it meant that we could create and achieve almost anything we wanted; and since we are all equal we all have equal chances to utilize them. On the other hand though it also felt scary and intimidating when I realized that we could just as much abuse this law and cause harm and destruction instead of creating the loving, joyful, and happy life we seek.
Let me explain: some of us, too few until now, have realized the co-existence of the physical and the energetic worlds. Those few though have been able to move mountains and change the world within their lifetime. Whether they had an experience similar to mine or not makes no difference, somehow they must have felt the interconnectedness of our universe and utilized its unlimited potential and power. Here are some examples: Mohandas Gandhi, who created the modern State of India and liberated it from British rule through passive and peaceful resistance; Nelson Mandela led South Africa out of its apartheid constitution and became the first black president of his country; the Buddha dedicated his entire life to healing people once he realized that everything is evanescent; and the Dalai Lama has been traveling the world as an ambassador for pacifism working on peaceful means to liberate Nepal from its Chinese rule.
Most regrettably though, as already indicated before, one must not necessarily have the best of intentions to learn how to tap into this realm and utilize it for their benefit. Aiming to utilize the energies so that they benefit mankind is a conscious and noble choice that each one of us must make in order to be able to step into the footsteps of the aforementioned highly admirable humans. There are ample examples in our history though where the cosmic energies were abused by individuals, groups, and systems, from Adolf Hitler to Josef Stalin, to devastate, abuse, and extort.
Since my life is about love, healing, and taking charge of our life, showing us that we are not a Bouncy Ball but indeed can learn how to Ride Our Horse, I do not want to focus any more on these negative examples; although I felt obliged to give a full and complete picture of the energetic universe to do justice to its neutral nature and to show that it is up to us, and no one else, to cause good in this world.
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Napoleon Hill was born into poverty in 1883 in a one-room cabin on the Pound River in Wise County, Virginia. At the age of 10 his mother died, and two years later his father remarried. He became a very rebellious boy but grew up to be an incredible man. He began his writing career at age 13 as a “mountain reporter” for small town newspapers and went on to become America’s most beloved motivational author. He dedicated more than 25 years of his life to define the reasons by which so many people fail to achieve true financial success and happiness in their life.
During this time he achieved great successes as an attorney and journalist. His early career as a reporter helped finance his way through law school. He was given an assignment to write a series of success stories on famous men, and his big break came when he was asked to interview steel-magnate Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Carnegie commissioned Hill to interview over 500 millionaires to find a success formula that could be used by the average person. These included Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Elmer Gates, Charles M. Schwab, Theodore Roosevelt, William Wrigley Jr, John Wanamaker, William Jennings Bryan, George Eastman, Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, John D. Rockefeller, F. W. Woolworth, and Jennings Randolph, among others.
He became an adviser to Andrew Carnegie and with Carnegie’s help he formulated a philosophy of success, drawing on the thoughts and experiences of a multitude of rags-to-riches tycoons. It took Hill over 20 years to produce his book, a classic in the personal development field called Think and Grow Rich. This book has sold over 7 million copies and has helped thousands of people to achieve success. It has also been considered to be the most influential book in the lives of W. Clement Stone and Og Mandino.
The secret to success is very simple but you’ll have to read the book to find out what it is!
Napoleon Hill passed away in November 1970 after a long and successful career writing, teaching, and lecturing about the principles of success. His work stands as a monument to individual achievement and is the cornerstone of modern motivation. His book, Think and Grow Rich, is the all time best-seller in the field.
In recent years The Napoleon Hill Foundation has published his bestselling writings worldwide, giving him immense influence around the globe.
(This information has been taken from Napoleon Hill’s FaceBook Fan Page)
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The biggest revelation I had when my journey as a healer started was that we oscillate at a specific frequency. Energies whizz through our entire body in a precise way from the top of our head to the tip of our toes. This constant flow is highly organized and structured; you can picture it like the German autobahn system, where freeways connect organs, bones, tissues, and everything else in between and transport information about the status of each atom and particle in our body to the rest of the system. When we are healthy and every molecule of our body operates smoothly our aura radiates like a sinusoid. It is in perfect harmony with the rest of the universe.
Whenever a system is well lubricated and at one it oscillates like a sine wave: a meadow at sunrise, singing birds in the spring, a promotion at work, falling in love, a new born baby, the flow of traffic post rush-hour. All these are examples of a perfectly pulsating entity. Tapping into such a harmoniously vibrating environment usually impacts other areas of our life very positively. If the sinusoid is strong enough it can even equalize and correct disharmonious aspects of our life.
A sinusoid is one of mathematics core functions describing a smooth, repetitive oscillation. Sine wave patterns are the most commonly found wave patterns in nature. The two most common waves in nature, light and sound waves, are sinus waves. But also ocean waves as well as wave patterns you see in deserts or the way a hissed flag dances with the wind are sinusoids that we come across in our daily lives.
Depending on whether we just look at the wavelength of an organ, a body part, or at our entire system the sinus wave is either more compact and flows like a creek in the Alps or wide and symmetrical resembling the Mississippi on its southward journey to New Orleans.
But if the flow of energy in our body is distorted then the waves start running amok.
If this distortion remains for too long then it will manifest itself in our body as a physical discomfort, be it a migraine, an ulcer, a heart attack, or a broken bone.
The same can be said for life situations, such as stress in our job or in our relationship. If we cannot harmonize these frequencies then we will see a manifestation of their distortion in our daily life. They could be physical as described above or situational, where we lose a job or separate from our partner.
Where in your life do you see your energies flowing harmoniously and where in your life do you feel stuck? Maybe, when looking at the depicted waves above you can identify the areas where your energies are distorted?
More will come on helping you identify and streamline your energy-flow in future blog entries.
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It is in our nature to aim for better, bigger, and more. A bigger house, a bigger car, a more expensive watch, a better school, a more exquisite neighborhood, more money, a more prestigious job, etc., etc., etc. Even at a time where we are faced with the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression, we still aim for the exact same things. The financial crisis might have put a temporary dent in our quest for accumulation of stuff and prestige, but as soon as we can make out a silver lining in the horizon, we go full steam ahead again for the exact same things that originally gave us the headaches and the ulcers to begin with – a never ending vicious cycle/game we are condemned to play until…well, until we realize that we are in a vicious cycle and then take the necessary steps to get out of it – and everybody can do so.
Who says you must, just because you currently earn the money, buy a house in an exquisite neighborhood, maxing out all of your credit lines and turning you into a slave of the banks for decades to come? Just so that you and everyone else know where you stand in society? Why do we have to upgrade our car and lease/buy a brand new gas guzzling behemoth of a vehicle (or two), just because we can? Just because we currently earn the money or have a job – lawyer, physician, manager, business owner – that “requires” an adequate status symbol in the form of an expensive import does not necessarily mean that we have to give into this perpetual game of “having to work to feed the monster” (i.e. our own ego, banks, credit card companies, and local municipalities).
You are not a Bouncy Ball and believe it or not, you do have a choice! You can not only “survive” by just living in a smaller house, driving a less exquisite car, and acquiring simply less stuff, you can actually lead a happier, healthier, and more fulfilled life! It is that easy!
Why?
Well, the less you live on the edge, by having exhausted all of your credit lines, the less you must be worrying about having to make the next paycheck. You can use the money you save to go on a vacation, buy higher quality foods, contribute to charity, or simply, and maybe most importantly, have more time to spend with your friends and family!
You are now telling me you cannot do so?! Don’t try to BS me, yourself, or anyone else for that matter!
If one of the wealthiest men of our times, Warren Buffett, can do so, I guarantee you, you can as well. I have been an admirer of Mr. Buffett for many years and I consider him to be a role model for me and my life. I do not mean this from a financial success point of view but rather how he carries himself, his philosophy on life, and his philanthropic traits.
Even though this man has achieved practically everything a man could ask for in a long, fulfilled, healthy life, he has remained a most humble and down to earth human. His primary home is the same he bought in the 60′s in Omaha, and he drives a Toyota Prius. Despite the fact that his personal net worth is estimated somewhere are fifty billion dollars, give or take a few billion, he only pays himself an annual salary of $100k. Not to mention that he has vowed to give away 99% of his wealth! How incredible is that?!
Whenever you feel tempted to “upgrade” whatever it is that you would like to upgrade: house, car, job, career, neighborhood, memberships, network, credit cards, insurance, pause for a moment and evaluate whether you really would need that “upgrade” or whether you are just feeding your ego?
Maybe this little mantra can help you as much as it has helped me: “If Warren can do so, I certainly can do so, too!”
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I am a big fan of the documentary “What the Bleep do we know” so I thought I would share with you a part of the movie and start a discussion with you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB6-OY-c9rk.
One of the parts of the movie that peaked my interest was the fact that it tries to convey to us, in layman’s terms, how powerful our mind is. It so powerful – way beyond what we can process – that it constantly creates our experiences, even split seconds before we actually experience them. And this is where the Random Number Generators or RNGs come in.
It took me several years to realize that we, our mind, not only is the starting point for getting sick or healed again, but also for everything that we experience every single day of our life. As a naturally gifted healer I had no problems in seeing the interconnectedness of body, mind, spirit, and cosmic energies as I perceive all dis-ease as an aberrated flow of energy. All we have to do to regain our balance and health is to make sure that the energies flow smoothly again. This is actually much simpler done that you might think. Your breath is the key to healing. If you do not know anything else, simply close your eyes, put your hands on your belly button and breathe air in and out of your tummy for some 10 minutes. While your belly goes up and down, visualize a river and its flow of gentle water running down your body, from the top of your head to the tip of your toes. Over and over again. Soon you will feel calm and relaxed. This relaxation will take over your entire body and start to penetrate your painful part of the body. Continue to breathe. Repeat this for several days and you will realize that through your own breath you have brought healing to your body and mind.
Our mind is so much stronger than to just being limited to the boundaries of your body. It goes way beyond that. It penetrates other people and helps co-create other people’s experiences as much as it does for our own life.
Over time I gradually learned how to utilize our body’s self-healing powers and apply to life experiences. We can alter, improve, redo, or start anew anything – as long as we know what a powerful tool we carry between our shoulders.
I challenge you to utilize your powerful mind to create something tangible within a week. Draw a mental picture, as vividly as you can, and dedicate 10 minutes of your day, ideally before falling asleep, in focusing on it while taking your deep, relaxed belly breaths. A short vacation destination, finding the car that you can afford or the cocktail dress for your friend’s wedding in a couple of months. I am confident that you will be able to bring about whatever it is that you would want to see manifested in your life – as long as can streamline your energies and tap into the cosmic realm of possibilities.
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While I was on vacation in Greece the other week I came about a book called “Life of Pi” written by Yann Martel. Boy o boy, what a story. Very creative. Very captivating. Very thought-provoking.
For those of you who have not read the story, here is a super short write up: in this fantasy a vegetarian, 16 year old Indian boy called Piscine “Pi” Molitor Patel survives some eight months after a shipwreck, while stranded on a small lifeboat with a tiger named Richard Parker, a hyena, a zebra and an orangutan. The hyena eats the zebra and orangutan, and then Richard Parker eats the hyena, leaving Pi as the only other survivor. Food and water supplies are low. Pi starts fishing to get food for him and Richard Parker, whom he keeps alive so that he will not be all alone on the ocean. Pi ensures, with his knowledge as the son of a zoo-keeper, that Richard Parker believes Pi is the alpha animal and therefore doesn’t attack the boy. After 227 days the lifeboat reaches the coast of Mexico.
This book has sold almost 10 million copies worldwide, and rightly so I may say. There are several aspects of life that the book touches upon in great detail: religion, spirituality, interaction of man with the animal kingdom, survival, etc. Today I would only want to focus on one aspect: transformation. Those of you who have either worked with me one on one or have attended a seminar know that I am a total believer in taking the necessary time for things to unfold and grow – I always say that “slow is fast and fast is slow”. Through gradual but persistent work we can change anything and everything: behavior, thought processes, belief systems, weight, fortune, etc.
Change can come through two doors: 1) outside circumstances, such as dramatic changes in ones world: revolution, sickness, accident, weather catastrophes, etc.: through this door one is forced to change and adapt to the new situation rather swiftly or “drown” and 2) from within, where we want to change out of our own free will: we are tired of playing around and want to get married and settle down, being overweight bothers us so much that we change our diet, we are unfulfilled in our job and so we take a leap of faith and switch jobs, industries or even start running our own small gig…
The only difference between the first and the second “door” is that one is apparently pushed upon us and the other is self directed change. Both can be equally powerful as long as the wish for change/survival is big enough…
In Pi’s case change was pushed down his throat and became a matter of life or death. He grew up as a total vegetarian, his parents were vegetarian, everyone he knew were vegetarian, as a matter of fact, the entire region he lived in was primarily vegetarian. He never had eaten meat or fish in his life before, and the sheer thought of having to do so made him feel nauseated. In his life he would have died happily being a vegetarian never knowing the taste of a juicy burger or a finely grilled fish.
Well, fate meant it differently with him when he woke up in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific ocean. He survived not eating at all for the first couple of days but then he started to eat the bland survival cookies he found on the boat. After a couple of weeks those were all eaten and hunger started to take over his body and mind. He was thus forced to either do the unthinkable and eat fish or simply die.
During his time on the boat the reader gets to observe the gradual but nonetheless drastic change in Pi, who entered the boat a total vegetarian but left it 227 days later as a carnivore of the first order. After catching his first fish he has the biggest of difficulties to kill it. It takes him a while to overcome his own fears and inhibitions before he finally wins the battle against himself and the fish. From total vegetarian to a raw fish eater within five minutes, incredible how life sometimes unfolds itself to us. In the weeks and months to come he then gradually threw overboard all of his inhibitions so that he ate sea turtles and drank their blood and even killed a bird with his bare hands and ate its raw flesh without thinking twice.
The question now arises as to why he was able to turn 180 degree from a total vegetarian to a raw fish and meat eater? The motivation to do so was big enough, that simple. Either he changed or he would have died. A very simple equation.
This brings us now to the second “door” and the voluntary change that lies behind it and this is really what we are interested in.
Figure out what it is that you would want: different job, less work hours, more money, family, more travel, new home in a specific neighborhood, etc. Be as precise as possible, mere wishful thinking and blah blah won’t just do it. How much do you want to earn? Give the exact dollar amount you would like to earn in a year. You want a new home? In which neighborhood? How big/how many bedrooms, bathrooms? How much should it cost max? I guess you get the picture here.
Focus on the end result. Put yourself in the new house and see yourself submitting your tax return with that specific dollar amount.
Believe that you will receive from the bottom of your heart. If your believe is as big as Pi’s and if your motivation is as big as Pi’s you will get there with 99% certainty! Pi wanted to live. This simple but very powerful motivator helped him overcome his aversion against meat and gave him the courage to tame and subdue a wild tiger on a tiny lifeboat.
Do you have the motivator it takes to proactively go for the things that you would want?
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