Posts Tagged "Personal Growth"
Human Beings Are Extremely Powerful
When I say you guys rock, I really mean it. 
Humanity is extremely powerful, individually and collectively. There are tales (documented or otherwise) from all over the world, of people doing incredible, mind-blowing things. Hermits in remote places, monks, record-breakers, small tribes… They walk across hot coals, punch through concrete or wood and so on. How do these people seem to manage these seemingly superhuman feats? Well, if you were to speak to any of them, a common thread may show itself: they each have very little pride and ego.
They don’t use their abilities simply to show off or for personal gain unless they can see that it helps others and the greater good. Often they also teach that we can all perform the feats they do as well. My brother just got back from an invitation from teachers at a temple in China to study Tai Chi Chuan with them. He also has an invitation to Japan to study Aikido on the horizon. There is love for students to come & learn amazing things. The thing is, a good portion of the population really lets themselves be held back/down by pride and ego, and since that is the main block to acquiring these skills, it’s important to transcend that first; sort of like learning to crawl before we walk, or walk before we run. Now, some people would have you believe that this process takes years of study or hard work, but actually one can transcend all these issues and crap in an instant (I’m a good example of this 
), as well as embrace a new way or form of personal power.
So if we say someone is cold, alone in a storm, and they wished to not feel miserable/uncomfortable, or they wish to manage their core temperature, or they want to manifest some miracle… this can actually be done! I’d recommend not becoming super-picky about how things happen – if a person can truly put aside ego, judgement & fear, and be open to learning, then all of a sudden maybe the wind dies, or maybe your hand goes numb. or maybe a car pulls up & offers you a ride. Anything can happpen and actually will if one is truly open to it. Still, everyone has their own path and time and focus, and of everyone who reads this only a certain portion will get it. They may understand it from the point of view of "The Secret" and "Law Of Attraction", they may get it through Christian Faith in miracles, or from a "We Are All One" connectedness, or even through a quantum physics understanding of the "Observer Effect" ,whatever the case, it was fun writing it.
Feel free to rock (cuz you guys rock) some feedback in the comments section. 
Sunday Sports Is Fun
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All my life, I’ve had awesome people around me to spend time with. My siblings are all amazing, and as children, we would always play all sorts of things together. Made-up games, sports, video-games, whatever. And each of us would bring more and more cool friends over to our house. Our house was like grand central station. It was always open and welcoming to everyone, and people were in and out the place like a hostel.
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One thing that we’ve done for quite a few years, is something called ‘Sunday Sports,’ which as the name suggests, usually (but not always!) takes place on Sunday. The sports part of the name, is equally descriptive because that is what we play… ‘Sports.’ We’re never 100% sure what we’re going to play, and it doesn’t matter. It could be any sport: we’ve played soccer, football, frisbee, and whatever other standard games you might be used to. We’ve also played more creative games like zero-wall dodgeball, tandem-javelin, and pepper-your-friends-with-the-ball.
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Some of the major differences between Sunday Sports and most other sports league, is that it is completely based on how people feel. No one is judged if they don’t show up (we may make the occasional good-natured joke 
), anyone can sit in or sit out from any game at any time. Everyone is completely flexible and there are no egos involved. We play with wonderful family and friends, and even when new people show up, they’re into the vibe as well. We’re all there with no agenda, a playful competitiveness, and a desire to have fun.
Enjoy The Contrast
When someone is super-sick, how strong is their desire to get well? Pretty friggin’ strong I’d guess. If you’re just ‘healthy’ or standard or normal or whatever… it’s harder to really hit that new level of ‘supreme health.’ I mean you might think, sure that’d be nice, but it’s likely not exactly what you’re focused on. A sick person though, probably has no greater focus than becoming healthy. And a really sick person, might firmly vow to never become that sick again. And so they focus on becoming one of the most fit people around.
Basically, by playing around so extremely with the one polarity, and learning how much they don’t like it, they’re well-equipped and highly focused and very motivated to be the exact opposite. That kind of thing can apply to pretty much anything. A very bitter, negative, hateful person can realize that those things truly are not the way they want to be, and they can change and end up being one of the most helpful joyous people in the world, because they, more than a lot of people, are hyper-aware of how it feels to be negative and positive. Another example: let’s look at someone who is ‘lazy’ and doesn’t do anything with their life. In many cases, eventually, circumstances lead them to realize that it feels much better to do something. And someone who was once extremely lazy can easily end up being one of the most motivated, driven, ambitious people the world has seen, because they distinctly remember how bad it felt to do nothing. Same goes for overweight people. Being fat, can make someone extremely aware of how good it feels to be healthy, fit, and beautiful (which isn’t to say fat people aren’t beautiful,; you know what I mean).
So, what follows from this, is A) it might be worth appreciating people in dark places or who are currently dealing with big ego issues. Because often, they reach a point where they evolve or become a superpowerful force in the other direction. And B) forgive yourself for any vices or issues you’ve ever had, because each of them is an opportunity for you to learn and demonstrate the opposite way of living.
Read MoreI Want Some of This and I Want Some of That
Maybe there’s something in your life that you’ve wanted or are wanting and you’ve always considered it ‘hard to get’.
Intention-manifestation works, based simply and specifically on what we think. (If you’re unfamiliar with the principle of intention-manifestation, it is that the true ’cause’ in any ’cause-and-effect’ scenario is our thoughts and decisions. Nothing that happens in life comes without a thought first, and so focusing on having the thoughts we wish is the most powerful and productive way to generate a certain effect. Steve Pavlina wrote an excellent post on this concept some years ago which is still an awesome read today.)
So if you’re always thinking everything you desire is ‘hard to get…’
What follows is the result that what you want is hard to get.
If on the other hand, if you’re open to getting what you want in a bilion ways, it can come through so many channels. It starts to become easy. Say you want a new belt; you may think things such as “I never see any belt that suits me, I have a really small waist, it’s hard to find, I don’t feel good paying [blank] amount, I don’t even know what stores have belts that suit me, etc”. Thinking these things translates into a task that will end up being hard.
If you’re more like, “Hey man I don’t know, I could find a belt on the ground tomorrow. My dad could empty out his closest and give me one. I could connect with a tailor or a clothing maker who could hook me up with one in no time. Tomorrow I could meet somebody… yeah!” All of a sudden it’s a different story. You’re thinking that it’s easy to get what you want and that there are a lot of ways to do so. Keep in mind it’s important to think these things if you want them to happen. and it could happen with bigger things than just a belt, like, a new piece of technology (ie: iphone, laptop) or a new place to live.
A woman I know wanted a space of her own, badly. She was out of a job, had no steady income at the time, no reserve funds at the time. To almost everyone else it would look impossible; it would look so difficult to get a place. “What am I going to do?” would be the main thought, or “I’ll have to settle for some retail job or something”. But she did not think this way. She chatted with me about it one day, all excited, and telling me: “I know I’m going to have a place of my own. I know it’s going to come easily. I’m going to be out by September and I can’t wait. I’m so excited Jay!” One day we had a conversation where she was explaining to me what her new place was going to look like, the decor and how good it would feel to live in her own space. Very detailed, very honest, truly having a wonderful dream-life feel about it. The very next day, her family moved her brother and his fiance out of the basement, and gave the space to her.
This occurred the *next day*, she didn’t even have to wait until September. The root cause of all this was her INTENTION. Because she thought and focused and intended on that space coming easily, she didn’t once bitch about how hard it would be to get it and she had no job and money and oh oh it’s going to be an impossible dream, forcing her to have to work like a dog. She was open to getting things easily, and she did.
It seems that up until now in our society, a good portion of people are all focused on *how hard everything is* and they can rarely think or say out loud that awesome or imaginative things could come into their lives. Not for one second do they think “I could get something good, easily”, and I for one, think it’s time for a change.
There are some other interesting nuances of the principle, but the basics are “think happy thoughts”, Peter-Pan style.
If there’s anything you’ve wanted for a while and haven’t been getting, perhaps give intention-manifestion a try. What could it hurt you to think different things for fun? Try it on something small that you can really believe you’ll get and that you could really see coming easily, the results may be surprising.
Read MoreTraffic Light Abundance
Driving down Birchmount near Scarborough Grace Hospital (currently being changed to another name because the Salvation Army is no longer sponsoring it) I came across a feeling.
I looked around and noticed the surroundings were a melody of glorious green and yellow. The dandelions dotting the evergreen grass reminded me of how my yellow t-shirt and jacket also brought to the trees around me a nice complement as well, in a je ne sais quoi (‘I just can’t describe‘) type of way.
The entire scene lasted a very interesting 3.5 seconds, my vision changing with its’ surroundings moving further south on the road, was eclipsed by the bright red light from the intersection… which then turned green perfectly in time for me to continue my journey.
Life’s problems, of all shapes, sizes and sheerness are like that; what feels difficult goes from gone to good as soon as we accept.
I was actually meditating on abundance as I was looking at the green and yellow scene. Green representing greenbacks, and yellow, brilliant gold. Greenbacks are the U.S and entire world’s image of financial power, and gold was the traditional measure of monetary abundance.
When you look at everything in your home, if you want, you can see abundance in those things. Turn on the tap and you can see water flow, just like money flows in and out of our lives in various amounts; you can imagine turning the tap and controlling how much water (money) flows. Or y’know, you might think that’s a lame thing to do.
If you own plants, and see them growing, you can think about them as your accounts, loving them and excited to see them grow.
These things may not seem to matter to most people, and in an easily noticeable sense, they don’t, but if one has the choice between looking at things as positive symbols of one’s success, or ‘just objects,’ the positive thoughts are the way to go.
There was a study done a little while ago on the effects of positive thinking on health. The study highlighted what appears to be a direct correlation between positive thinking and the occurrence of Alzheimer’s. Of course this study, like many, is only a hint towards a direction to explore, not some kind of conclusive concrete proof that everyone will easily swallow. A more in-depth look at the science behind positive thinking can be found in Barbara Fredrickson’s book Positivity.
Excerpt from a review:
She knows that Positivity is not particularly likely to further her academic career. She knows, too, that the benefits of positive emotions have already been widely touted…By explaining how science can show what actually happens in a person’s body and life as a result of positive emotions, Fredrickson hopes to reach the skeptics who might otherwise dismiss positivity as just a new set of rose-colored glasses.
Though she radiates joy and compassion, Fredrickson is no Pollyanna. Her initial motivation for investigating positive emotions was simply that few other psychologists were doing so. She also admits to once having been told (by a close friend) that she studied emotions because she didn’t have any.
I haven’t read Positivity personally (I’ll probably pick it up soon,) and I’d like to note that solid, scientific (double-blind) research on the effects of thinking positively are difficult to find, and that fact brings me to this interesting quote from Dr. David R. Hawkins (author of Force Vs. Power).
Human reason exhausts itself ceaselessly to explain the inexplicable. Explanation itself is high comedy, as preposterous as trying to see the back of one’s own head, but the vanity of the ego is boundless, and it becomes even more overblown by this very attempt to make sense of nonsense. The mind, in its identity with the ego, cannot by definition, comprehend reality; if it could, it would instantly dissolve itself upon recognizing its own illusory nature. It’s only beyond the paradox of mind transcending ego that what Is stands forth, self-evident and dazzling in its infinite Absoluteness. And then all of these words are useless. (Emphasis Added)
So it seems there’s little-to-no scientific evidence as to why one should look at everything as a positive metaphor. There’s also a 2000+ word long tirade on why positive thinking sucks from e-skeptic.com (though I think it rails against people who don’t really understand the concept yet fanatcize about it from what I gleaned.) Still, there’s plenty of anecdotal or empirical evidence for it, and metaphors for abundance, beauty, and success can be seen anywhere and in anything, if you’re open to it.
I’d suggest giving it a real chance. You may be pleasantly surprised.
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