The Results
Peace
Peace, not of the kind that resembles a quiet, more sedentary type of life, but
the kind of peace that one experiences when your mind is completely quiet. When
the voices in your head disappear. You know, the ones that clutter your
thoughts and fill your mind with all the reasons why you can't have or do
something you would like i.e. my thighs are too big, I'm not smart enough, or
good looking enough, or tall enough….you get the picture.
I'm talking about the kind of peace that people spend a lot of time and money
to achieve through Yoga and Meditation and various other means, which is
usually great when you're doing it but it's hard to keep it going in your life.
It's an experience of peace that, once achieved, follows you wherever you go
and into whatever you experience day-to-day, whether it be in an audition, a
high-powered business meeting or walking into your teenager's room to have a
chat!
Freedom
This is not the kind of freedom that allows you to go here or there, or the kind of freedom that one has when you have a lot of money and can buy whatever you want. I'm talking about the kind of freedom that one experiences when you can “be” and “do” exactly what you want, the kind of freedom that will allow you to express who you are at any given moment of your life, without fear! Being able to choose whatever you want, moment to moment without worrying if you will look ok, or if you will be criticized, or if you will stand out or sound like a freak or appear to be a loser. You get the picture. In many cases it's actually the freedom to have choice. How many of us have to look a certain way and don't have any choice to change your makeup or hair or the style that you are wearing. Maybe you are bald and wear a hairpiece but you don't even have the choice to be in public without it. That thought alone is incomprehensible. We have all had these thoughts, minute-by-minute, day-by-day. They run your life. I'm talking about having the freedom to choose. I'm talking about being free to express yourself without fear!!!
Happiness
I'm not talking about the kind of happiness that one experiences when something great happens, such as getting a promotion or a new job. I'm not talking about the kind of happiness that one experiences when you buy yourself something you've wanted for a long time. I'm talking about a very quiet feeling of happiness. A feeling that just ”is” and does not leave in the face of any of life's circumstances. It's a feeling of well-being. One that comes when your mind is at peace, when you are free to choose anything you desire, and you suddenly are clear about what you want and that you can actually have it. It's not easy to describe and it is a complete surprise when you experience it for the first time. All the other feelings of happiness that I described earlier are simply “icing” on the cake.
Love
Love is a concept that I believe most people look to have through other people. You hear it all over the TV, the Movies and the Radio. “I need to be loved”, “I want to find someone to love me”, “Find me somebody to love” and on and on. It's a concept that has people looking towards other people to love or to be loved. Anyway you slice it, it's a concept of love that is about other people.
Through this way of thinking, your concept of love shifts from other people to oneself. You become clear about what your experience of love is. You see that it is something that you generate from within. Through this, your experience of being loved or loving someone else then becomes the “icing” on the cake. It ceases being something that you need, and shifts to something that you can choose to experience with another person if you want it. You already have the freedom to choose to be single if you want without fear of looking like a loser!
Everything else
All the other things I mentioned above i.e. the money, possessions, & career etc., follow suit except now you get to create these things based on what you want. The days of creating things for your life, based on what you need, become a thing of the past. You will no longer look to create lots of money to make you happy, or a better job to make you look good, or a promotion to make you feel better about yourself or a relationship so you can feel loved. You will decide what you want and create it from desire rather than need, and as you create, you eliminate the kinds of behaviors you exhibited in the past when you were operating from need. How many of us ignore all the red flags that go off when we are dating because we think we need to be in a relationship so badly that we are willing to overlook the things that really don't work for us?
Imagine what can happen to your business or creative life if you are taking actions to increase your income without fear of failure, without worrying about how you will look, with a quiet mind and a clear sense of where you are going and that you will get there! Life will shift from a ride that you have no control over, to an adventure that you create, moment to moment.
The possibilities are endless...
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