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I got an email yesterday with the subject line: One Emotion to Rule them All
I had to know what it is. But the dude who sent that email buried the answer into a long interactive video I wasn’t willing to go through.
So I went to Mr. Google, and put that whole sentence into the search box. Only one dude used that exact sentence, a pastor.
Ugh, so it’s religious. Ugh ugh ugh. He said that it was joy… Big sigh.
Asking Source what that ‘one emotion’ was futile, proved to be futile, because there is no one emotion… said Source, and yet, I still wanted to know.
It is like getting hold of that one ring that rules them all… I have to have it.
What drove me?
Greed? Curiosity? HUNGER… says Source.
Hunger? hm. Hunger for that power, influence over others? Ugly. And yet…
Without that craving for power there would be no humanity. No intelligent species. Because it is the energy of striving.
It is the energy that made me say, back in 1985: ‘Please god let it be me!‘
What gets me up in the morning… about three hours before anyone…
I call it Life Force… because without it there is no life.
And not the petty ‘I am right and you are wrong‘ energy. NO. This is robust. And the energy that is largely gone from humanity… Or maybe not gone, but redirected to consuming? Maybe.
So as usual, I got up at 3:22 this morning, and started looking for whatever is there to see. But unconsciously I was, I feel, looking through this filter, this frame or powerful-powerless.
Read a few articles. Watched a few videos. Read my email.
And all I could see is people want more power.
Of course, I think, people call it control… but that you can’t have. Control is not available… The illusion of control: yeah. But real control would be only available if there were no reality, if you lived in a personal VR… virtual reality…
So I watched John Travolta suffer through British humor (ugh). The twitter man, some Polish name, wiggle his way to be not just influential, but ‘powerful’.
And then I watched my clients cry for the bottle. The bottle that some other people have in their hands.
If you set up a ‘rule’ for yourself, that before you want what someone else has, you’ll do everything to use what you have, you could increase your sense of power by a thousand-fold.
If you are willing to tell the truth for a minute, you are not using what you have…
- The client who is frustrated because some business relations don’t do what she says they should do fast enough. Is she trying to force or is she using her power?
- The client who feels that taking care of himself is hard. not realizing that all his life he was trying to FORCE others to take care of his needs. Emotional needs, but they are needs too.
Even when you pay me to pull your anchor to doom, or activate a DNA capacity for you: you don’t even THINK to use your own power first, or even to co-create with me, with Source. No, you play limp dick and hope that I’ll give you power.
I know I have no right to ask you, but I can, nevertheless. The power to accept or the power to ignore is yours:
Would you start a growing list of things you have power over, that you don’t fully use?
Like taking care of yourself. Like chewing your food so your innards don’t suffer. Or like drinking enough water, so your cells can function as intended. Or taking a deep breath and doing what you CAN do while you are waiting for someone to respond to you.
You want to do that growing list… and while you are writing things down, you want to verbalize the attitude that is underneath your powerless attitude.
Oh, yeah. All the things that you complain about are pretenses of powerlessness. As if there were a ‘universal eye’ that is listening to your complaint and will do what you could do for yourself but don’t.
This is exactly what I got for myself in 1985, about a month before the ‘please god let me be the one to fly’.
For whatever reason I was in a synagogue in Jerusalem, and opened a prayer book. Oh yeah, it was Rosh HaShana… Jewish New Year
Between the hard cover and the actual book there is always a page, that is normally used for assignation, or dedication.
It had two lines. in Hebrew.
If I am not for myself, who is for me?
If I am only for myself, who am I?
The first line opens up the Life Force to do for myself what I can do for myself.
The second line warns against competing. Warns again the attitude of ‘either you OR me‘, the only evil there is.
I didn’t get the second line until about twenty years later… But the first line woke me up.
There is a habit of wanting other people, the universe, society, god to give you things that you can actually give yourself.
You may need some guide, a friend, a mentor to remind you, but you can.
My moment was when my friend, when I called him asking to bail me out from not being able to pay my bills.
He said in a hypnotic way: ‘You can do it’.
And I found out that I could.
I got off the phone and looked from where he looked from. And I could more than just ‘bail myself out’…
I still struggle with the inner fight of powerful-powerless… But the powerful is now more frequent than the powerless. The begging, complaining, twerpy me is getting much less air-time.
How is it for you?
Have you started your growing list yet?
What you’ll notice is that you have relegated yourself to be a recipient. an effect. Never a cause.
You have never said ‘if it is to be it is up to me‘
Not about happiness, not about joy, not about health, not about love.
I had my landlord visit yesterday. He came to share that his mom died. She was 92 years old. He wanted to feel sympathy.
Was he acting according to ‘if I am not for me, who is for me?’
No. He wanted it from me. And I gave it to him. I am sure he doesn’t even KNOW he can give it to himself. I sure didn’t know before my friend said ‘you can do it‘
But why can’t we, why don’t we know?
I am almost certain that the Sight capacity is what allows you to SEE. Once you see it you also KNOW it… Tree of Life. You can act on it. because it is not mind-knowledge. It is real.
Here is another illustration of something I can do for myself, instead of waiting for someone else to give it to me.
I made two slices of toast for breakfast. My toaster oven is about five yards from where I wanted to eat. The toasted slices were somewhat burned. very hot.
I change the hand that held the toast rapidly, so the heat didn’t burn my fingers.
This is exactly what you do in firewalking. Ask any firewalking participant if they knew that they could do the experiment that teaches them courage this way. They wouldn’t know. Neither did Oprah…
You need the Sight capacity for that. to see the sameness is seemingly not related things. The pattern.
I am going to do a Sight capacity Challenge.
When? I don’t know. Probably many different ones. Probably I will do the first next week.
I’ll have a different assignment each day. A mini project that has a specific and measurable result. very much like that list of things you complain but could do for yourself, I asked you to make today.
The challenge will be free, but you’ll need to have your Sight capacity activated to participate.
You can get a headstart, and do that darn list today.
and if you don’t already have the Sight capacity activated, get it now.
If you got it previously but it turned off, you qualify. I’ll turn it on for free again for you.
Get your Sight capacity activated
