UPDATE: 3.09.12 – Episode 2:
“The Six Stages of Creation” is now available HERE

I’d like to begin this post by thanking all of you folks who listened to WROAR last Thursday eve. WROAR blog talk-radio has launched. (Episode 1 is available Here )

Jk and I have some tweaking to do, to let knowledge grow and flow form the broadcast. I can assure you that the heart of the conversation that Jk and I are introducing is strong, valid and true.

I want to give special ‘thanks’ to Deeone and Hugh for having the courage to come on air and offer all of us an opportunity to see what stops them from succeeding regularly. When we share our problems, we help others see their problems in a new light. What a gift that is to those who are listening. Thank you, Deeone and Hugh.

I also want to thank Pat McCain for his comment on my blog, after the show: “Ahahha… you got the chops my friend . You guys need some fine, fine tuning but the Grand Piano is there and ready for the Symphony. I’ll be back… ROAR!”

Jk and I love feedback (all of it). We love the good news so we can reinforce it. We love the bad news so we can refine our miss-takes and correct what needs correcting. Thank you, Pat.

Over the next several Thursday evenings, we will examine the Six Stages of Creation that offer you the ways and means of having incredible breakthroughs in your life.

This is a conversation unlike what you’ve read in typical self-help books. Here is a brief outline to wet your appetite.

The Six Stages of Creation

Stage 1: Be aware of your expression – you are always expressing what you believe about yourself – Know Thyself.

(You cannot move onto Stage 2 of creating yourself anew, unless you are aware of who you have right now created yourself to be, which includes your feelings of insecurity)

Stage 2: Set up a powerful relationship with letting go – until you let go of the flaws that you consider are true about you, you cannot create a magnificently grander version of you.

(You cannot move onto stage 3 until you learn to call an MD)

Stage 3: Give yourself permission to fail your way to success – it takes failure to learn what we need to know to create the truth about our unlimited nature.

(You cannot move onto stage 4 until you learn to see your failures as fascinating opportunities. They are not frustrating roadblocks)

Stage 4: Fine tune your failures so you may predict future successes – fine tuning failures requires noticing what you’d not noticed before.

(You cannot move onto stage 5 until you have developed a powerful relationship with your miss-takes)

Stage 5: Exceed your wildest dreams – managing your successes so they come with more regularity and with greater outcomes than you imagined.

(You cannot move onto the final stage 6 until you open to the abundance that is waiting for you)

Stage 6: Attain understanding and wisdom – the ability to BE who you choose to be, no matter what challenges may confront you.

(Understanding sees what common eyes cannot see. Wisdom hears what common ears cannot hear)

True freedom to enjoy your hidden yearnings resides in a free mind and a soaring spirit. The above Stages of Creation direct you to that state of being.

The conversation that is unfolding on WROAR (every Thursday eve from 8:00 to 8:30 EST) will give you the self-reliance you need to overcome any crisis or difficulty that is stopping you from experiencing your limitlessness!

Please leave a comment so we keep the conversation going while waiting for next Thursday eve to come. I hope you listen live to WROAR (yes, you can listen to the podcast anytime after the show) … and do not be shy to call in with your questions.

Thank you,and Blessings

Tune in here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wroar. Every Thursday Eve 8:00pm – 8:30pm EST.

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UPDATE – 03.02.12

Episode 1 is now available on WROAR

I’d like to take a moment to invite you to participate in my new Blog Talk-Radio Show. I’m calling it W.R.O.A.R. Blog Talk-Radio. It’s about learning how to Win in life by learning how to Recognize your true aspirations and aims … Organize your self-talk so it supports you … Absorb the truth of your unlimited nature … so you can Realize your dreams of winning. W – R.O.A.R. (Click here for a preview.)

The first talk-radio program begins on Thursday, the first day of March at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time … JK Allen will be co-hosting with me, and we will be on the air for thirty minutes. Please join us. It’s going to be a lot of fun.

The purpose of the talk-radio broadcast is to help you disentangle yourself from negative habit-patterns that stop you from living your dreams. We will examine opinions that stop you from acting in a productive manner. We will also investigate what it takes to be the superlatively creative being that you are here to experience yourself being.

You are invited to call in and participate … you can ask questions … you can offer suggestions. And if you decide to just listen, it will still elevate your consciousness so you may rise into the awareness of your incredible potential.

The conversation will be revealing … it will reveal your conditioned self to yourself.

You will gain insights and understandings about how your mind works, which determines how well your life is working.

You will become aware of your superlatively creative power … and … will be surprised and amazed at how foolishly you sometimes use it.

All of the struggles between ‘the self’ and ‘the world’ arise from one’s ignorance of his or her curious and ambitious nature. This ignorance of the true self is the only thing that stops you from accessing your hidden talents … your unrealized potential.

Please do tune in to WROAR on Thursday eve at 8:00. I will offer you WORD-lessons, and more importantly – I will show you how to convert the WORD-Lessons into WORLD-lessons – that’s where the power lies. WORD-lessons become WORLD-lessons when you learn to express them.

It’s when you express the empowering truths, that we’ll discuss on the radio show (so they become WORLD-lessons), that you gain lasting wisdom. Wisdom opens a whole new world to you.

I’m looking forward to chatting with you … and until then, imagine yourself the designer of your life-destiny… because that is what you are going to learn to be.

Please leave a brief comment, so I know you dropped by and read this post.

Thank you and blessings

Tune in here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wroar. Thursday, March 1st 8pm EST.

“Best Comment of the Week.” This weeks best comments come from Brian Driggs of www.dr1665.com and sylvia. Thank you for your heartfelt sharing. See their comments here.

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A quick note before we begin this week’s blog: I would like to introduce you to WROAR Blog Talk Radio. Beginning Thursday, March 1 at 8PM EST,  I will be hosting an enlightening and empowering discussion of the weekly blog with my co-host JK Allen. All of my readers are encouraged to call in to participate to take the conversation deeper. Stay tuned…

The Purpose of Aging

There is a reason for aging; it has a grand purpose. There’s more to aging than getting wrinkled skin and aching joints. With aging comes an increased ability to enjoy life at deeper levels than what’s offered in the vigor of youth.

In the vigor of youth, we learn of the dangers of trying something new. We hear 60,000 NO’s while experimenting with life between age two and six. It’s only with age that we learn to overcome the overwhelming damage of childhood NO’s, and the subsequent WOES that come with the NO’s.

As you age, you learn to surpass the limited self that you create in childhood moments of failure and fear – is this happening to you? Are your fears decreasing with your years increasing?

When you age productively, growth becomes the prevailing passion of your mind. You spend time more effectively. You take up less time with useless effort. At least, that’s how evolution wants it to be – how’s that working for you?

As we age, we increase our love for different domains of living, be it an increase in spiritual growth, emotional growth, financial growth, growth with family, friends or community. And from this comes a greater depth of understanding of the nature of humanity.

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Illuminating Tip
Living is unbearable when one is robbed  of  life’s pleasures.
If the imagination is used to giving life to fears of
calamity and decay, we pine our lives away.
If the only purpose of living is to survive, then we are not really alive.

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When we make it our ‘purpose of life’ to reduce misery and avoid failure, we cannot discover the four essential truths about ourselves:

(1) We are rich and majestic children of infinite intelligence.

(2) We are marvelously made.

(3) We are destined to win at whatever we set our minds to (be it good or bad).

(4) We are worthy of all that is good and beautiful.

Have you heard me speak about these four truths before? You will hear me speak of them repeatedly. When these truths are accepted as valid, there are incredible answers to be found that enable you to create yourself beyond the tiny self that you’ve come to know yourself to be.

Life fulfills the dreams of those who participate in rigorous self-investigation and ongoing self-expansion. If you are aging with an intention of discovering new truths about the superman that you truly are, you will find your own human dignity, which adds to the dignity of humanity. What does your heart say about that?

Seek to find the benefits of aging, and you will contact higher powers within you that are not available in youthful years. You will be amazed at how feelings of past injustices will quickly fade away as your spirit soars higher. In this state of mind, you experience the greatest thing that you can experience – your unlimitedness!

What say ye to this philosophical conversation. What might you offer to take it deeper, to add a broader perspective. Become part of the conversation; leave a comment. Allow your response to this post to lead you to new heights of living as you continue aging.

“Best Comment of the Week.” This weeks best comments come from Patricia of Patriciaswisdom.com/WiseEars and Kara. See their comments here.

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I have learned that before I can defeat that which is defeating me, out there in the world, I must defeat that which is defeating my naturally curious and ambitious mind.

Whenever I find myself procrastinating, I ask myself the following healthy question: “What idea of lack is holding me back?” I call moments of procrastination: lack-attacks.

I have learned over the years that lack-attacks are what defeat the mind; these thoughts of inadequacy and feelings of lack are the primary enemies of one’s incredibly creative nature. Thoughts of not being smart enough, or not having what it takes to succeed, cause lack-attacks, which are cruel and abusive to the mind.

Seeing lack-attacks as cruel and abusive, can motivate you to put an end to the matter right now. Are you ‘lack-attack free’ in all domains of living (mentally, emotionally, physically, socially, financially, family?) Do you ever think, “I’m not smart enough” or “I’m not pretty enough” or “I not wealthy enough” or … ad infinitum. Those thoughts, right there, bring on lack-attacks.

The only reason the mind urges us to do the wrong thing is because it cannot see the right thing to do. And it cannot see the right thing to do when cruel and abusive lack-attacks block its view. By following right rules, I always act rightly when confronted with cruel and abusive thoughts of failure and lack.

Here are two great ‘right rules’:

Rule # 1: Do not struggle to win a victory over losing thoughts, but do look directly at them – and ‘Deny the Lies‘.

There is a part of you that is displeased with lack-attacks. This part of you does not want these self-limiting opinions to have power over your choices and decisions.

Student: What should I do?
Teacher: Call upon this part of you to let these self-limiting opinions know how wrong they really are about you.

Within a corner of you mind, there is always the means to question any negative opinion that you hold of yourself. You need only use this curious and ambitious part of your mind to investigate further into what you say to yourself that discourages you.

I ask myself, “Do I really want to believe this discouraging self-opinion, or am I willing to replace it with something new.” You will be amazed at how easily you can stop a negative thought-pattern when you become fully awake to it. A great way to awaken to such patterns is to ask questions that put you in command of your mind, not the pattern.

Rule # 2: Ask empowering questions when feeling affected by any thought-habit that hurls sticks and stones at you. Empowering questions place you on a mountaintop – out of range of lack-attacks.

Here is an empowering question that I ask to interrupt any thought-pattern that brings on a lack-attack when I am trying something new: “Do you think I find pleasure in listening to you?” Then I say, “well, I don’t, so you’ll have to talk to yourself.” Simply separating myself from the thought-pattern in this way creates mental space for me to see things differently.

There is a ‘special kind of dissatisfaction’ that leads to true success in any endeavor in life. You must be dissatisfied with thought-habits that put you down. This is the inspirational dissatisfaction – it lifts you up!

Your means to defeat the mind’s enemies is a firm and unwavering decision. Decide right now, “I will no longer allow my mind to be vandalized by cruel thoughts.” Say it again, out loud, “I will longer allow my mind to be vandalized by cruel thoughts.” One more time: “I will longer allow my mind to be vandalized by cruel thoughts.” Do you like this idea? Then use this idea.

Where have you experienced lack attacks?

How have you overcome them?

Thank you for your feedback, Rob

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This blog is in response to someone who is young and naïve, someone who came to me and said, “I want to teach at your Learning Center.” She wants to teach others how to live a prosperous, happy life … yet, she does not experience much happiness and is behind on her rent.

Make an aim to see and then to BE … and then you can aspire to help others where you’ve succeeded BEING. This is my philosophy when it comes to teaching.

The best way I can help this young woman, who came to me asking to teach at the Learning Center, is to help her destroy what is harmful. The misconception that she can teach what she has never experienced is harmful. It is harmful to her and to those who listen to her. The harm done is failure masquerading as success, hoping that will turn a dark night into a bright day.

Misconceptions supply the illusion of being qualified when one is not. What would qualify a person to open a Learning Center and offer classes on how to succeed in life? What qualifies me?

(1) I have made many mistakes on my journey from a small, impoverished mill town to a large state university to a big city where I taught school for seventeen years and then quit to become a millionaire in real estate.

(2) I made even more mistakes when I decided to expand my real estate domain from the East coast to the West coast, and then decided to become a restaurateur.

One of the big mistakes I made on this journey was that I often succumbed to the wrong attitude and mood many times during crucial decision-making moments.

Had I not learned from my many mistakes in high school, my poor attitude, and my many moods, I’d not have successfully been the first person in my family ever to attend a college (coincidentally, I worked my way through college, paying for tuition, books, meals and lodging all by myself – was that a coincidence?)

Had I not learned from the many mistakes I made in college, I’d not have successfully moved from a country college campus to the big city of Boston by myself, found an apartment, and eventually got a job teaching. (I’d never been in any city before, had sixty dollars in my pocket when I moved to the city, no contacts in the city, and no job promise when I got to the city).

Had I not learned from my mistakes while teaching, I’d not have successfully quit a cushy teaching job with tenure, leaving my retirement plan and great health plan behind so I could make millions of dollars in real estate.

Had I not learned from my mistakes, when I plunged into the deep end of the real estate pool (by deciding to become a real estate developer before I’d barely got my feet wet), I’d not have successfully opened three restaurants in the best locations of Boston on a simple desire to do so.

It is the massive action I have taken and the hard-earned lessons I learned from my thousands of mistakes that qualify me to start a business called Mind Adventure Inc. and open a Learning Center where I will offer concepts of prosperity, harmony in human relations, and life-success in every domain of living.

Along with the philosophical concepts, I will offer methods and means of using the concepts in one’s daily affairs so one can accomplish the secret dreams that have faded into the background of one’s mind.

I am a pragmatic philosopher. I am a philosopher in a perfectly practical way. Every one of us is a rich and majestic child of infinite intelligence. Yet, this means absolutely nothing if you do not know how to apply it to your life. I do know how to apply it. I will show you when you take classes at the Learning Center.

When you fail at anything in life – there are steps to take: (1) look for the cause (2) find the lesson being offered (3) correct your mistakes so the same failure doesn’t happen again.

When we live our lives, failing again and again, it’s because history inevitably repeats itself if we don’t inventory our past mistakes and work to correct … not protect. (Correct the mistakes, not protect our delicate egos by coming up with a thousand reasons why we failed).

I have offered some valuable lessons in this blog. It may sound like I am just talking about me. I am talking about you. How have you had breakthroughs? What real and comfy world did you leave to travel into the unknown so that you may recreate yourself anew? That’s what I mean by a breakthrough.

What are you really qualified to teach? Where have you walked through the human jungle and proven yourself king of the beasts, therefore qualifying you to help others? In what areas of your life are you really strong?

Blessings to you, please leave a comment of any nature … it always adds to the depth of the blog.

Thank you & blessings.

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The major purpose of the Mind Adventure Learning Center is to invite folks to assemble and support one another to understand what it truly is to be a human being:

I believe the above understanding is a culmination of man’s endless search for something beyond himself. The search is over. The something that we are looking for is an understanding of this truth:

Understanding this Ultimate Understanding places one on a high mental vibration that attunes him to many more supporting truths. You need not understand everything there is to understand about yourself, but if you are to live the glorious life you came here to experience, it is important to understand that you are a rich and majestic child of infinite intelligence. When you thoroughly understand this, understanding the rest is easy.

Speak these words slowly: I am a rich and majestic child of infinite intelligence. Speak them with full meaning in your voice: I am a rich and majestic child of infinite intelligence. Speak them aloud and hear them with mindfulness, not just with your rigid intellect: I am a rich and majestic child of infinite intelligence. Sing the words from the heart until you intuitively feel the tantalizing lure: I am a rich and majestic child of infinite intelligence.

All efforts to understand this first part of the Ultimate Understanding strengthens you. It leaves you with an astonishingly agile mind that enables you to abandon any false image that you’re holding of yourself.

You decide what this understanding specifically means to you. One thing is certain – contemplating it deserves your time and passion. With contemplation, you travel the inner road to higher ground where you unite with your soaring spirit. Your spirit knows this truth about you.

Feel the rightness of what you are reading. The feeling of rightness makes it easy to erase any misleading opinions that try to ground you.

It is great news to understand that you are a rich and majestic child. The mental magic can be used to prove it is true. Infinite intelligence is an endless source of incalculable wisdom and truth. When you understand that you are a child of this intelligence, your mind tunes into universal mind and it’s endless reservoir of enlightenment.

When attuned to universal mind, you cannot help but feel super self-sufficient, which is the feeling of being whole and complete, just as you are. There is something very appealing about this. Would you agree?

This Ultimate Understanding is the fundamental philosophy of Mind Adventure Inc. It is the raison d’etre of Mind Adventure Inc. And the purpose of the Learning Center is to spread the word.

We are used to being human, aren’t we? However, the human beings we are used to being are fraught with thoughts of inadequacy and unworthiness to some greater or lesser degree. Thus, we hear people commonly say, “I’m only human” or “It’s just me.” At the Learning Center, we will conduct classes to ponder the ‘I AM’ that exists beyond ‘only human’ or ‘just me’.

The next time you hear yourself saying, “It’s Impossible” about achieving something … stop and say, “Impossible?… not so. I’m possible, therefore it’s possible.” What’s in it for you when you say this? New possibilities!

Student: What is the ‘I AM’ that’s possible?
Teacher: The ‘I AM’ that is possible is the rich and majestic child of infinite intelligence, and therefore the ‘it’ that is possible is whatever you set your mind to.

 Now sing out the truth one more time.

Are you beginning to understand? Be glad when this understanding reveals something very different from what you believe about yourself right now. The revelation is lifting you to higher plateaus of perception.

I’ve only written about the ‘majestic child’ part of the Ultimate Understanding because there is only so much room in a blog. The whole enchilada is covered in my soon-to-be-released book.

Please share your thoughts on this Ultimate Understanding. No one needs to remain timid anymore. Be bold. Speak out! Let us know what this brings to mind for you.

Thank you and Blessings

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Mind Adventure Inc has finalized the purchase of its new home and is opening a Learning Center. The purpose is to allow like kind minds to mingle.

Student: What’s the outcome of mingling minds?
Teacher: When two or more minds align with an aim in sight, a Third Mind is created. This third mind contains a powerful dynamic that all of the aligned minds can tap into.

Imagine mingling your mind with other like-kind minds and arousing a common interest to accomplish a singular outcome. When the minds align in the name of the agreed upon outcome, disquieting confusion and doubt quickly dissipates. Each mind is able to plug into the created third mind, and think beyond the usual.

Most ‘genius ideas’ come from the mingling of several minds. Was the Declaration of Independence written by one person? Did Wilbur Wright invent the heavier-than-air flying machine by himself, or did he mingle his mind with his brother, Orville? What about the Marx Brothers – was their comic genius found in only one of them?

‘Genius ideas’ come first as a sensing, as when you feel the rightness of your intuition. Then, by actually talking about the idea with those who mingle their minds with you – you proceed from one illuminating thought to the next. At that point, it is possible to turn the idea over to the created mind – the Third Mind. Then the rewards will come.

The mission of The Mind Adventure Learning Center is to help folks come to the Ultimate Understanding:

Human beings are rich and majestic children of Infinite Intelligence. We are marvelously made, and destined to win at whatever we set our minds to. We are also worthy all that is good and beautiful. 

Imagine mingling your mind with other minds with the intention of gaining this Ultimate Understanding. Perhaps it’s a group of real estate brokers who want to gain this Ultimate Understanding so they can generate more sales. Perhaps it’s a group of mothers who want to gain this Ultimate Understanding so they can pass the message on to their children. Perhaps it’s a group of struggling individuals, in all walks of life, who want to gain this Ultimate Understanding so they can turn their lives around.

Seeking to gain the Ultimate Understanding is seeking to gain that which is most valuable to any human being on the planet. It supplies incredible inner strength in all walks of life.

Imagine mingling your mind with other minds, and making it your chief aim to see and be someone who feels marvelously made and destined to win at whatever you set your mind to. Read that sentence again, please. Take a minute to reflect on it. Obedience to truth is one’s first obligation; that is if he wants to ‘win at winning’. The other option is to win at losing. You will win at whatever you set your mind to – winning or losing. How have you been doing with that?

So, that is what Mind Adventure Inc is up to right now. The sale of our new home is complete and is being converted into a Learning Center as we speak. No one is obligated to think like a victim, just because millions of people do.

The Learning Center will help folks bring a new kind of happiness into their lives, a happiness that they never before believed was possible. And Guess what! The Learning Center is located right in the center of the vibrant city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is right across from the famous Jamaica Pond, and it has plenty of free parking. How great is that!

Are you ready to mingle your mind with other minds in the name of gaining this Ultimate Understanding? Are you ready to fly easily over the walls that block you from solving life’s problems? Are you willing to turn your problems over to a Third Mind, created by the mingling of minds? Will you stop insisting that you can find the solutions to your problems by using your old method of logic? If you’ve answered, “YES, YES, YES, & YES,” then your own released light will guide you to the Learning Center. I’ll see you there.

Have you discovered the difference between doing something by yourself and doing something by mingling your mind with others? Will you tell us about it?

Thank you and blessings

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This blog is for a friend who I will call “Sam.” Sam is making $65,000 a year as a life-coach; a decent living. Sam asked if we could meet and talk a little about esoteric ideas; he wanted to learn a little more about what it means to go deeper than motivational theories.

Sam appeared calm and easy going, but underneath I could sense a nervous man. As we got into the conversation, he said that he often feels anxious, even though he dresses to the nines and goes into the world pretending to be very happy, confident, and successful.

Sam asked me, “I just want to understand myself so I can understand how life works; Where have I gone wrong?”

I just want to understand myself so I can understand how life works.
I just want to understand myself so I can understand how life works.

The above statement rang through my ears; it is the best wish Sam could ever have; it is the greatest wish anyone could ever have.

I told Sam, “Understanding yourself is more important than understanding principles of success, understanding the keys to happiness, and even understanding God. All of those things will be understood when you understand yourself.”

I told Sam a story that touched me years ago. A woman was thrown into prison in India in the early 1900’s. Because she understood herself, she understood her capabilities, she understood her power. She was absolutely free, and it was obvious to her neighbors.

This woman was gathering large crowds of people who wanted to be in her presence. They were amazed at her easy and loose way of living. This was intolerable to the male authorities in power at the time. Woman were not to hold themselves in such high regard – it’s just custom. One day, soldiers came and took her away in chains.

There seemed no possible way that this woman would ever get a reprieve, be released, set free. However, she knew she was born to be free and her destiny was to live her life as she intended it to be. She was as relaxed in jail as she was in the streets. There is nothing that can interfere when we TRULY know ourselves and know what we want.

This woman had discovered the passage to inner liberty, and within a few weeks she was released to outer freedom; she was set free. How could that be? There was no explanation given; providence seemed to just move on her behalf. She’d designed her destiny to be free; she’d vowed never to do anything just to please others, and she dropped all inner chains of guilt, shame, inadequacy and fear. Outer chains cannot hold the person who drops all inner chains.

I explained to Sam that millions of folks toss themselves in psychic prison; they wrap themselves in chains. Then they search for the key to the prison door by looking for recipes and prescriptions and methods and techniques to pick the lock. Moreover, thousands of people try to set themselves free by reading self-help books and even becoming life-coaches (like Sam). These folks work hard writing blogs, chatting on the computer, tossing inspirational quotes back and forth, but still fear looking foolish or being ridiculed.

I explained to Sam that many folks who become life-coaches, believe that if they work hard to find answers, and work hard to fix others, sooner or later the answer they are looking for will come. However, they do not find the answer they really want because they are always looking outside of themselves.

The problem is this: millions of people seek to understand everything else in life, but they don’t seek to understand themselves, they don’t observe themselves with painful honesty. They wish to find the castle beyond the dense forest, but they do not want to confront the one thing that stops them from finding it – themselves. They cannot get around the obstacle to life’s real treasure because they refuse to say, “The obstacle is ME.”

Student: Why would anyone avoid confronting himself?
Teacher: He is frightened by the discouraging ideas of self that are buried deep in the basement of his mind. The 60,000 NO’s that are heard during childhood rearing, have him believing that he is undeserving of the castle. He believes he is inadequate or unworthy to some degree, and fears that if he confronts this belief, it will destroy him.

Most human beings feel a dull ache as they go through the days and weeks and years of living (relationship aches, money aches, health aches), but refuse to acknowledge it. They stuff it deep and put on an act.

I informed Sam that thousands of ‘life-coaches’ suffer with the same dull aches that he experiences while striving hard to help others improve their lives. One’s real answer is to stop trying to solve everyone else’s problems and ‘solve yourself’.

A wise man told me, “It is said that the best way to find answers is to help others find answers. However, you cannot find answers if you spend all of your time avoiding looking at yourself by looking at others.”

YES, YES, YES, there is something beyond the ache, Sam. Life truly is meant to be a joyous experience, day in and day out; watch children and puppies.

Student: How can Sam make a fresh start in life?
Teacher: A true fresh start requires developing an awakening love for what’s authentic about oneself; it requires wanting freedom from concealed anxiety. Sam’s first duty is to himself. How can a bahing sheep teach others about soaring high in the sky like an eagle?

Recognition of one’s woeful state is the perfect opportunity to begin understanding one’s authentic nature … which is WOW. Your real nature never fears your real nature. Start seeing the difference between the false self and the real self. Voluntarily detect and abandon all thoughts of insufficiency that make you feel insecure and anxious.

It’s the enlightened individual who recognizes that his struggling personality is nothing more than a cheap imitation of what he truly can be. When you recognize this, you meet opportunity after opportunity to prove it is true. Prove it to whom? To YOU!

Student: What’s the first step toward recognizing the cheap imitation of myself that I’ve created myself to be?
Teacher: Recognize that almost everyone you meet is more confused and scared than they show on the surface. Have absolute compassion for them, and realize that you are not alone. Now you can safely walk home; the way will quite naturally come to you.

Blessings

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All of your ego’s responses come out of fear. He / she who acts fearlessly, is acting from authenticity (which is different from the ego).

The ego is your coat of armor; it’s what you use to protect yourself. As a child, you started feeling fearful because of the 60,000 NO’s you heard between age two and six. Do you know what you did about that? You created a false version of the original you IN ORDER TO PROTECT YOURSELF.

You created this false version of yourself (ego), so no one could harm your real nature. You were saying to the world, “It’s not the real me that you are scolding – it’s a false version of me … ha ha to you.” Not a bad trick, except most of us never drop the coat of armor; we live our lives from the ego – forever reacting to fear (be it fear of intimate relationships, fear of money, fear of adventure, blah, blah, blah).

You are looking into your ego right now. GOOD! Once you see the basic cause of your ego, life gets easier. Perhaps you cannot shed the ego all at once, like a snake sheds its skin in springtime, but becoming aware of the cause gives you a great start.

Student: So what is the ego – the symptom or the disease?
Teacher: Great question; the ego is the symptom; the disease is the different fears that come with 60,000 NO’s.

The secret to success, when dealing with the ego is this: begin looking at your fears. When I was twelve, I had pimples on my back. I feared that I would be made fun of, so I always wore a t-shirt at the lake, when swimming. There, right there, was my ego (my coat of armor). I decided that I was an individual who made up my own mind … and I decided I would never take my t-shirt off in public, and no one could make me. This decision became part of my ego’s point of view. Did the EGO do me harm, or did the FEAR do me harm?

The ego was simply a symptom of the fear … the fear did me harm; the fear of being humiliated. My coat of armor was to act tough and insist that I think for myself (so nobody’s going to tell me what to do).

So, if you want to recreate yourself anew, don’t fight with the ego; look at the fear that created the ego and deal with that. Why are so many millions afraid of money? They must be – so few have it. Why are so many millions afraid of being humiliated? They must be – so few dare to dance like nobody’s watching. Why are so many millions of people afraid of ill-health? They must be – hospitals are filled with people with psychosomatic illnesses (doctors estimate its as high as 60%).

All human beings experience fear of one kind or another. Perhaps a few don’t, but the rest of us do; this is why we all have egos.

The answer to recreating oneself anew is to accept the fears you have, and decide to work on ridding yourself of them. If you do this effectively, you do not have to deal with your ego; it will vanish on its own. If it has no reason to protect you from fear, it has no raison d’etre (reason for being).

2012 is a great year to begin working on your fears – fear of poverty, fear of loss of any kind, fear of criticism, fear of success, fear of death, fear of loneliness, fear of the world coming to an end (according to the Mayan Calendar). What is one fear that it’s time to work on?

You took on a personality to hide your fears, now take on the courage to look directly at your fears (the fire-eating dragon ‘harrumphs’ and walks away when the dragon slayer confronts him face to face).

With even a small but sincere wish to understand your fear, something cracks wide open – your EGO! Now you see things totally different; you are a little more conscious, which causes more cracking.

What is a fear that gives life to your ego? What do you do to protect yourself from the fear? What past fear no longer affects your attitude or mood? How did you deal with it to vanish it from your psychic state of being?

Have fun with this; leave us a comment. Your insights bring the conversation alive.

Blessings

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It is fascinating how a new year begins.  It all begins when two hands of a clock meet on twelve.  The two hands are one; they are no longer two … and a new year presents itself to you.

The moment when two become one is also considered a moment of enlightenment; a moment when all separation ends and absolute wholeness begins.  A new year is an opportunity; it’s an opportunity for you to become one with your aspirations and aims – we call them New Years Resolutions.

What are you supposed to do when you bring in a new year?

Are you to close the door on the old year?

Are you to stop clinging to old ways, and begin living fresh and new?

Are you to enter the new year with empty hands?

In the old year, winning came and losing came … pleasure came and pain came; everything came upon you and retreated in a circular motion.

And where were you?

Were you not in the center of the circle, experiencing all of it?

With 2012 coming upon you, what are you to do with 2011?

Can you clutch to 2011, or does it simply drop out of your hands, leaving you standing, empty of its contents?

Kahil Gibran said that we are all like rivers, flowing toward the vast ocean … and in that moment when the river water flows into the vast water of the ocean, the rivers rich life of a thousand miles dissolves into nothingness. Will this happen to you when you flow into 2012?  Will your rich past dissolve into nothingness? Will your miserable past dissolve into nothingness.

If you do not allow 2011 to dissolve into nothingness, how can you enter the new year, alert and sharp, able to manifest your new resolutions?

Are you wonderfully obsessed with knowing the unknown that lies in the new year?  Is it more important to you than the known that you’d experienced in the old year?

You can’t go back, so why waste time looking behind you? Why not look ahead of you?  You will be marvelously surprised.

It’s always good advice to drop the old, to lighten the load, so you can jump on something new. This is what it takes to make one’s life an exciting adventure.

What will you do to jump on the new in 2012?

What will you let go of to make your New Years Resolutions come true?

When there is a choice, will you choose the unknown (the risky, the dangerous), or will you choose to do what you always do?

Please let me know what this blog brings up in you.

Happy New Year.

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