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He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
Here’s an awareness exercise (meditation) that I particularly like for rejuvenating yourself with silence:
Sit up straight.
Close your eyes.
Take a few deep breaths to settle down. (if you know how to center yourself, you can do it first) Continue reading “Step out of your mind and the noise in your head”
One of the things that immediately de-fuses an explosive situation, being frazzled, stress, etc. is accurately identifying what is going on, where you are at.
It takes stepping outside of the situation, looking at it from there, to identify what is going on.
You may have over committed… and so you are overwhelmed
You may have made promises without consulting the people you live with, and so your are out of integrity
You may be trying to prove that you are special… so you are in greed
etc.
Once you see exactly what the situation is, restoring peace, restoring calm, restoring effectiveness is a piece of cake.
Continue reading “Power tip: locate yourself… in reality”
Which is the most important when it comes to succeeding in the world?
How do YOU waste your life? How do YOU leak?A student of mine watched a movie last night. In the movie she heard the following dialogue:
“Thank you for saving my life” “Don’t waste it.”
She cried. Later her husband was picking a fight with her. She stepped back 1 and didn’t react.
An hour later the husband came downstairs. She offered him tea. He apologized for his behavior.
Why am I sharing this with you? Because one way or another we are all wasting our life, or most of it.
The most useful question I have found to snap me out of this wasteful way of being is:
Here are some examples. All are life-wasters that you can eliminate by bringing consciousness to life… stopping for a moment, and choose…. Helping you with that are, of course, the the activators.
Continue reading “When you realize that YOU are wasting your life… Updated”
Therefore: Your conviction is not the same as your dominant behavior. So what am I pulling?
One of the biggest discoveries, for you and me, is the fact that you can’t produce a different life by changing a belief.
If it worked, and it doesn’t, then all the people who do affirmations, afformations, self-hypnosis, hypnosis, brain entrainment, EFT, would be the most successful people on Earth in the area that they are targeting.
They aren’t… and that is not surprising to me.
Continue reading “Therefore: Your conviction is not the same as your behavior”
Everybody and their sister is teaching you to be in the present moment, to surrender to the present moment.
I have observed people who loved it in Eckhart Tolle’s book, and now I am observing a famous marketer marketing an ebook on the same principle.
But…
There is always a but, have you noticed?
Everything of this genre works for some people and doesn’t for most.
What is the difference between people, and how come the people teach it, don’t know the difference? Because they don’t…
Continue reading “What’s missing from Rapid Peace, the Power of Now, and other books…”
The pursuit of happiness pushes happiness away, like a snow plow pushes snowI find myself more often than not, in complete sync with my favorite people, one of them is Roy H. Williams, the Wizard of Ads, famous ad man with a whole school of like-minded amazing expert, and thousands of students.
Roy H. Williams is a Christian, and that bothers me, but it’s the concept that bothers me, not the man. He writes about the subject I have been pursuing on this blog for the past week or so… so here is his piece from today’s Monday Morning Memo.
Continue reading “Pursuit of happiness? or Noticing happiness?”
This article stands the current culture and the current approach to spirituality, consciousness, self-growth on its head… If you are happy to be miserable, please don’t read it!
Watch this short movie. If it doesn’t bring tears in your eyes, pain in your heart, then probably this article isn’t for you Continue reading “The evolutionary approach to your inner stress, lack, misery”
Every negative, uncomfortable, unpleasant feeling that you feel, experience, indicates drama. A story played out inside you. While you are involved in that drama you are not involved in life, you are taking an entertainment break: your relationships, your health, your work will suffer as a result.
Some of us are even addicted to that drama: for all I know it creates a sense of aliveness for the morbid, especially for people whose life is otherwise empty, void of purpose.
Continue reading “Drama… your story… did it happen?”
I am here, waiting for the cable man to fix my internet. It’s been down since yesterday afternoon.
It is hard to remember what we did with our lives before the internet… for me it’s been 18 years. It is hard to figure out what I can do that does not involve the internet… Finally I settle on writing, editing, and such.
It’s 11:30 am. The repairman was scheduled to be here at 11. I am sitting here, uncharacteristically anxious, contemplating that the man won’t even show up, that he will lie, that I will have to be another day without the ability to work.
It’s excruciatingly painful. I am diligently making room for the bad feelings, including them, breathing normally. Then I have a suspicion: is this mine? I normally don’t get anxious: I take life as it comes.
Turns out I tuned into the repairman: it’s his anxiety. Hm.
Continue reading “What is consciousness, really? Where is it?”
