First … please allow me to express gratitude to ‘the infinite’ for sending me four marvelous teachers while at the Miami International Book Fair:

(1) I want to thank Monica (a 16 year old girl) who shared that she would wake up in the morning feeling angry for no reason, and wondering why. We had a marvelous discussion about ‘the polarity of thinking’ and how to handle it. Such a young inquiring mind – what a gift to humanity

(2) I want to Thank Rhonda, (a woman in her early twenties) who insisted on paying for my book (180) when I tried to give her a free one. Rhonda was such a delight (and such wisdom at such a young age). She said that she would get no value from the book if she did not pay for it. Rhonda said, “I wouldn’t even be motivated to read it, if I am not willing to give something so I know it is worth something”. She affirmed one of the basic life principles; the inexorable principle of ‘sowing and reaping’.

(3) I want to thank Jeffrey (a young man around age 18), who was ‘set back’ when I offered him a free 180 book. He inquired, “What’s the gimmick?” I told him, “I believe in ‘The Law of Multiple Returns’, and if I cause a smile or give value, I receive a multiple of the same back from the infinite … there is no gimmick.” His facial expression changed and a wonderful smile came over him. This was a transformational moment for Jerome. It was a moment of shear delight for me.

(4) I want to thank John R. (a man in his forties), who exclaimed, “If you want me to buy a book from you … you are going to have to work for it – what is so valuable about your book?” What a gift! Michael got me off my duff. I explained what made my 180 book special. He proceeded to buy one for himself and one for his 12 year old son (who was with him). He said, “you cannot start too early, learning to train the mind” , as he gave the second book to his son. We had something else in common: he loves Dennis Waitley’s stuff (me too).

And now … I want to share with you a few insights that I had while meditating at the ocean’s edge at South Miami Beach (during the evenings of the book fair).

While meditating, I asked:

(1) What is the prime purpose of animal life (to human beings)?
The answer came: animals teach us how to survive on this planet. They intuitively understand the rules of earthly living … and if we pay attention to them, we learn what we need to know to have nature cooperate with us.

(2) What is the prime purpose of apparent imperfection that human beings notice on earth (harsh weather, disease, earthquakes, tooth decay, and the likes)?
The answer came: The destructive forces found on planet earth are necessary to keep human beings on their toes (so they do not get too complacent). How else are we to exercise our superlatively creative skills and experience ourselves as the supreme beings that we are?

(3) What would it be like if earth was always a heavenly state?
The answer came: It would be like hell = BORING. What would be so much fun about living in a physical body and achieving your dreams in every instant? = NOTHING. There would be no exhilarating feeling of triumph, no sense of winning, no enjoyment of overcoming obstacles if our lives were always with no struggles.

Wow, this blog is chock full of wisdom and important life-lessons.Can you feeeel it?
Choose one illuminating bit of information that you’ve gleaned from this blog … and comment on it … please.
Perhaps you have a personal life-story to validate it?
Do it for you … because when you share with others – you cannot help but personally gain from it.

Thank you … and … blessings

See some pictures of rob and Mind Adventure at the Miami International Book Fair here.

P.S. We are back! This Thursday, 12/2 at 8:00PM EST rob will be hosting an Interactive Mastermind Alliance Webinar. This life transforming Webinar promises to be enlightening as well as empowering … and a lot of fun! To join this weeks event: http://vivu.tv/portal/Join?flow=253-203-1509

“Best Comment of the Week”. This weeks best comment comes from Sylvia. The runner up is Armen Shirvanian. See their comments here.

180 is on J.D. Meier’s list of “Insightful Leadership Books” on Sources of Insight

I remember when I felt like nothing was working out in life for me; I felt like I was nobody. I wanted things to begin working out better for me, so I could feel like I was somebody. I said to myself, “I’ve heard that the squeaky wheel gets the oil, and so it may be time for me to make a nuisance of myself. Certainly, I am not getting what I want out of life right now, and I am feeling like nobody; it can’t hurt to give it a try.” I decided to make fussing and insisting my new way of living.

I made an interesting discovery while going through that phase in my life when I was fussing and insisting – my ego felt like it was ‘an important somebody” (even though no one else saw me this way). I also noticed that now that I’d come up with a scheme to satisfy my ego’s urge to feel like ‘an important somebody’, I felt compelled to fuss and insist over things that really didn’t matter to me. My God … I’d created a life of self-imposed misery, all for the sake of feeling like ‘an important somebody’.

It wasn’t but a few weeks before I found myself compulsively fussing and insisting about the smallest of matters. I began feeling discontent about everything! I created myself to be a spoiled brat, all in the name of shallow vanity (what else could it be?)

I was slow to admit it, but it was time for me to stop fussing and insisting; it simply wasn’t working for me. The habit of fussing and insisting wasn’t satisfying my inner urge to grow and develop in the least; as a matter of fact – fussing and insisting was downright dissatisfying … and I was doing it to myself!

Now came the problem: The habit of fussing and insisting wasn’t as easy to break as it was to take on. The first thing I had to do was let go of my delusion that feeling like I was ‘an important somebody’ meant anything. I had to look at the truth of the matter: my hypnotic love affair with my ego was downright insane … in the end, it explains every human tragedy that I cause in my life.

Is it possible that we all have hypnotic love affairs with our egos? Is that the cause of all human tragedies? Is it possible that when our view of ourselves in life is wrong, it promotes wrong action in our lives, which causes unnecessary self-injury? Could that be???

What is your love affair with your ego?
What do you do for ego satisfaction?
C’mon now … tell the truth.
And what human tragedy has it caused you to endure?
Are you saying you are always humble and willing to look bad (and even be proven wrong), in the name of learning something new? So few are willing to do this; so, so few!

Teacher: Do you want to know one way to channel your attention rightly?
Student: What do I have to do?
Teacher: Be willing to look at your ego-habits.
Student: What will this do for me?
Teacher: Correctly directed mental energy becomes a form of psychic healing.
Student: What is the result of psychic healing?
Teacher: If you want self-command so that you may design an extraordinary destiny for yourself – do not seek it in the ways of the ego.

What can you share about your ‘humanity’?
Dare’st you expose an ego habit in the name of helping others to grow and develop as a consequence of learning from you?

This is a challenging blog, indeed… Carpe diem!

See some pictures of rob and Mind Adventure at the Miami International Book Fair here.

“Best Comment of the Week”. This weeks best comment comes from Rus. The runner up is Anita. See their comments here.

If you are following our Thurs eve webinars, you are aware of the uncommon dialogue in which we are engaged. It is uncommon to admit the truth in a world that feeds you lies. We are starting a movement toward the empowering truth.

Here is a truth that it is vital to admit (if you intend to create your future as you want it to be): positive thinking alone is not powerful. Why doesn’t positive thinking (alone) work? Let’s proceed.

Positive thinking does not empower you; it can point you in the right direction once you are empowered, but it cannot imbue you with the power you need to design your personal destiny.

There is a need to catch a glimpse at how polarity works, if you are to have any real power in your life. Polarity, like gravity, is not going away (at least not while you are living in this realm of relativity). We did not learn how to travel to the moon without dealing with gravity. Denying that gravity exists would have been insanity.

So, lets look at polarity – where opposites exist. It’s been said that planet earth is that place between heaven and hell where all opposites exist, and how much of heaven you experience (and how much of hell) is entirely up to you!

Denying that polarity exists (with its kazillion opposites), is a sure way to a hellish existence of disappointment and frustration. So, where the hell is heaven? Heaven is right around the corner!

Positive thinking, alone, will not get you to that heavenly state of prosperity (where the fulfillment of your dreams exist). You live in a world of relativity; don’t deny it. You cannot experience UP without an occasional relationship with DOWN. How are you to enjoy a happy smile if you’ve not had a miserable relationship with a frown? Thinking that you can ‘just think positively’ and all good things shall come to thee… that is insanity!

Memorizing positive quotes, and repeating them 1,000 times daily, amounts to very little progress until you allow the negative ‘YA BUTS’ to wiggle their way in. I didn’t say ‘accept the YA BUTS as godsend … but do allow them to pass through … don’t deny their existence; don’t suppress them; don’t push against them with an even louder affirmation of YES. What you resist shall persist. That which you push at – pushes back!

REAL THINKING IS POWERFUL, all else is weak in comparison. Learn to be real about your perception of life. You fail your way to success. Human beings are divinely discontent beings. You are part of polarity … don’t resist this fact and you have power over polarity.

Student: Why do most human being fail to hear the facts about how the mind works, how polarity works, how being a powerful creator works?
Teacher: Most humans fail to hear the facts because their egos have no interest in hearing anything outside of what its collection of beliefs allows.

If your life isn’t unfolding as wonderfully as you once hoped it would, it is time to catch a glimpse of another way of thinking. Imagine the absence of ego-competition when thinking of your aspirations and aims. Imagine allowing all of the ‘YA BUTS’ that come along … to interrupt your positive affirmations. Don’t argue with those ‘YA BUTS’
… don’t try to drown them out with a louder positive affirmation … just allow them to enter your field of consciousness and pass through. This gives you a glimpse of another way of dealing with your mind.

Failures, mistakes and disappointments reside in that part of each of us that insists we can overcome our negative thoughts by ignoring them or pretending we are separate from them. Negative thoughts are part of the marvelous whole. YOU ARE PART OF THE MARVELOUS WHOLE. You are within the harmonious flow of the positive part of the marvelous wholeness when you allow the negative part to be. When you allow the negative part to be – it allows you to be: NOW YOU ARE FREE TO CREATE YOUR LIFE AS YOU WANT IT TO BE! This is not a starry philosophy. This is reality.

Perhaps you will not grasp all that is being offered in this one chunk, but if you stay with this conversation long enough – you will be giving yourself a standing ovation for understanding the truth. THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE OF THE GRIP OF NEGATIVITY.

Are you reflecting on this blog?
Are you connecting it with your life.
Are you connecting it with what you have learned (that it is time to unlearn).
Watch what happens to your feelings of negativity; they will begin to fade quickly.

Regarding last nights webinar: Thank you … (1) Jk for sharing your feelings of insecurity and confidence (2) Jenny Ann for wondering what your raison d’etre (purpose in life) may be (3) Matthew for asking a great question about procrastination (4) Parker Lee for admitting your sensitivity, and (5) Sylvia for sharing the breakthrough that you are experiencing as a result of a prior webinar.

The first principle of positive self-work is ‘an honest look at polarity and allowing it to be’.

Comments please. What can you add to this blog (insights or life-lessons that you’ve enjoyed) that further enhance this conversation.

blessings

Please note: We will be away next week at Miami Book Fair International and the following Thursday for the Thanksgiving Holiday. We will reconvene the Mastermind sessions after the break… thanks to the many who have been such great contributions. Sign up here to receive more info and access to future Mastermind Alliance Webinars.

“Best Comment of the Week”. This weeks best comment comes from Belinda from The Halfway Point. The runner up is Jenny Ann from Arriving at Your Own DoorThank you all for your great contributions. See their comments here.

Why Positive Thinking Doesn’t Work

Part Two of an Eight Week Interactive Webinar Series and Mastermind Alliance

We will continue the conversation this Thursday evening. To state it simply: you can learn to use your mind in a very different way, a way that is as natural and powerful as the flow of the incoming tides of the ocean. Would you like to learn how? Learn how to make your personal mind work right … and your personal world will work right …. guaranteed.
(read last weeks re-cap here.)

The purpose of this mingling of minds is to discuss real life issues; the aim is to help folks overcome contradictions that stop them from succeeding with their dreams. These Webinars exist to help participants make growth-choices – choices that enable them to solve recurring problems and daily difficulties through sound, pragmatic advice. Many folks have described these mind-mingling sessions as spiritual experiences…. as rob says… If it ain’t practical – it ain’t spiritual!

This Thursday night at 8pm EST, author and philosopher rob white is hosting the first of its kind Interactive Mastermind Alliance Webinar. This is a participatory experience with live video of rob and guests. Attendees are welcome to participate on air. They can also type in their questions via real time group chat, or simply sit back and observe. Mind Adventure is utilizing new technology to deliver a consciousness shifting and entertaining high quality video event.

Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 8:00 PM – 8:46 PM (EST)
To join the event:

http://vivu.tv/portal/Join?flow=800-019-5293

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5-10 minutes before the start time, please click on the above link to join the event.

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Don’t forget your Headphones if you wish to participate on air.

What is a Mastermind Alliance? Read more here.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
If you wish to participate via video conference you will need a camera and a set of earphones. Hand held devices and mobile phones will not support video conferencing. If you prefer, you can simply listen in and type your comments and questions. Participants can sign in anonymously if they so choose (enter a screen name and pseudo email when prompted.) Do a simple system check here.

Software Requirements
• Java version 1.5 or later; Java can be
downloaded and installed from

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• Flash player version 10 or later; Flash
player can be downloaded and installed
from the below link

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Browser:
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• IE 7 or later
• Chrome
• Safari (not recommended)

Minimum Hardware
Requirements
• 2 GB RAM
• Core 2 duo, 2 GHz Processor
• DSL line or private network

“Best Comment of the Week”. This weeks best comment comes from Lance from The Jungle of Life. The runner up is Jenny Ann from Arriving at Your Own Door. Thank you all for your great contributions. See their comments here.

This blog, and the Thurs eve webinars, are all about how to solve daily problems. This is not just some intellectual theory; it’s spiritual common sense. And as I always say, “If it ain’t practical, it ain’t spiritual!”

Last evening, we looked at what it takes to win self-command. To win self-command means to cease being a reactive machine and learn to think and respond to life independently. It means not allowing polarity to overwhelm you. We live in a world of relativity; opposites exist with every thought you think. You cannot think ‘smile’ without a glimpse of a ‘frown’ hanging around. How can you appreciate the idea of ‘pleasant’ if ‘unpleasant’ doesn’t poke its head in to say “hi” every now and then? If ‘pleasant’ is all there is; if ‘pleasant’ has no relationship with ‘unpleasant’ – then there is no experience, no happy feeling, no heavenly state of being to express.

What if everyone was ten feet tall; would everyone have an experience of being very tall? Of course not … tall is only tall in relationship to small. Someone has to be five feet tall if ten feet tall is to feel tall. We come to this realm of polarity in order to experience opposites and then choose which side of the stick we most prefer to live on. Don’t we? The thought-world also contains opposites; there’s no excaping it.

Last night we looked at what it takes to take up battle for self-victory while living in a thought-world of opposites. The mind can be a closed door or an open door to self-victory.

Student: What is self-victory?
Teacher: You experience self-victory when you experience yourself as incredible creation with incredibly creative skills. Self-victory is knowing that you have access to your incredibly creative abilities in the face of any problematic YES/NO thinking patterns.

Aim for self-victory requires that you allow mechanical thinking to occur; allow YES and NO to show up in your consciousness as they will … AND … while allowing these opposites thoughts to appear, you separate yourself from them by choosing to reside in the gap between these thoughts. There is a gap between “I know I can do it?” … and … “Who am I fooling; there is no way I can do that!”

Indeed, thinking comes fast and furious, but there is space between all thoughts, and you can reside in this space when you stop identifying with any mechanical thought … be it a positive or negative opinion. You are a supreme being who is able to elevate yourself above the psychological level of conditioned thinking. Conditioned ‘positive thinking’ is not powerful thinking … it’s mechanical. There is nothing powerful about mechanical affirmations – they are vain repetition. So many folks find themselves on the rocks of despair because they memorize positive affirmations, hoping that ‘that’ is all it takes to succeed.

What gives you the capacity to take command of your mind and take control control of your life? It is is when you neither attack the negative thoughts that enter your mind, nor do you defend the positive thoughts that enter your mind. When you are in this elevated psychological position – you are completely open-minded: THIS IS WHERE YOUR INCREDIBLE POWER EXISTS!

An open minded attitude searches for the truth; it does not defend the ego’s point view … nor does it throw you in ‘mental debtors prison by condemning you when you make a mistake.

Wow, the above statement is a big one!! Let’s personalize it by adapting it and saying it out loud three times:

“When I am open minded, I search for the truth. I do not defend the my ego’s point view … nor do I throw myself in ‘mental debtors prison’ by condemning myself when I make a mistake.”

“When I am open minded, I search for the truth. I do not defend the my ego’s point view … nor do I throw myself in ‘mental debtors prison’ by condemning myself when I make a mistake.”

“When I am open minded, I search for the truth. I do not defend the my ego’s point view … nor do I throw myself in ‘mental debtors prison’ by condemning myself when I make a mistake.”

Do you know how many folks live their lives in ‘mental debtors prison’? Millions! Nay, even billions! You have the key to releasing yourself from your own ‘mental debtors prison’.

Student: What is the consequence of ‘mental debtors prison’?
Teacher: The consequence is a consciousness of resentment and scarcity.
Student: What does that do?
Teacher: A consciousness of resentment and scarcity attracts the wrong crowd of people into your life; it raises havoc with your health, with your relationships, with your financial affairs and with your general well-being.

This is a blog, not a book, so it is time for me to wrap this up for now.

I want to give appreciation to:

1. Jk – for co-hosting the thurs eve webinars with me, and for offering to send (free of charge) a headphone microphone set to the person who requests one so that they may participate (live) in the webinar.

2. Sylvia for sharing her troubling indecision nature with us, and then transforming from a woesome attitude to an inspiring and uplifting wowsome attitude right before our very eyes. Can we do that? Indeed, we can, and Sylvia proved it!!!

3. All of the rest of you wonderful folks who mingled your minds with ours, and offered responses on the chat board.

We will continue this conversation on next Thurs eve webinar. To state it as simply as I can: you can learn to use your mind in a very different way, a way that is as natural and powerful as the flow of the incoming tides of the ocean. Would you like to learn how? Learn how to make your personal mind work right … and your personal world will work right …. guaranteed.

Please join us on the webinar …

Comments please – how can you add to this blog so that others may learn more?

‘Whatever you wish for others, you wish for yourself’; do you wish that others may learn a better way to use their mind so they may experience healthy, prosperous, happy lives? Can you give a tip (here) to help them with that?

Blessings, rob