by David Cameron
All we do is create experiences. That is all we do, as human
beings. There is nothing else we do here on earth. Think about
your whole day today - wasn’t it a collection of one experience
after another? As creators of experiences, we make good ones
happen and almost every day, surprisingly, we put a monkey wrench
in our own lives and mess things up. Every day, and for no reason
at all, unconsciously, we destroy our own efforts and then fail
or suffer unnecessarily. When it comes to success, we are our own
worst enemy and we don’t even know it. We take one step forward
and two steps back, or more. Today we can all stop this
unnecessary step backwards. Do you know how much more your life,
business, relationships and health would improve if you changes
one little thing? Let us see how.
In this article, we are going to focus on work, the experience we
most often find ourselves in. But you can apply the principles to
anything else, including health and relationships. Work in itself
is an experience, and we work so that our ‘future’ experiences
can be better - or so we hope. Instinctively, we know that we
create our own experiences, otherwise we would not bother put any
effort into work. And we desire ‘good’ experiences, that is why
we work so hard, believing that the reward will be a ‘better’
life. You have no doubt in your mind that you create your
experiences - the only doubt you may have is the extent to which
you are in control of the creation of your own experiences.
Further more, most of humanity recognizes that they make the
‘good’ times, but they are in denial of the fact that they make
the ‘bad’ times as well, the ‘failures’. They mostly blame other
people and conditions for the bad ones. Well, here is the biggest
reason why we have bad experiences and failures in our work,
business and marketing:
Worry and fear.
That is it. That is what causes all the failures in our work,
marketing, business, relationships, health and everything else.
And do you know why? Because we become what we think about most.
Our thoughts create our next experience, our next moment. We have
a mountain of scientific, spiritual and psychological evidence of
this fact, yet we hear it and forget it. Quantum physicists have
proven beyond a doubt that the material world is fully dependent
on its observers. They have proven that all matter is made of
energy, and this energy ‘arranges’ itself into the matter we see
based on the expectations of the observer. In other words, it is
our intentions, attention and observations that ‘collapse’ this
energy into matter. This is not scientific speculation any more.
Nobel Prize winning scientists have proven this without a shred
of doubt. And what do our religions tell us?
All our religions,
all of them, tell us that what we believe we become. The Bible,
for example, tells us that whatever we ask, we receive, whatever
we seek, we find, whatever we believe, we are, and as a man
thinketh in his heart so is he. Whenever you are thinking, you
are asking. Your asking does not start when you start praying and
end when you say ‘amen’. All your thoughts are constant
communication with the universe, communication that is acted upon
exactly. Every thought of fear and worry that you have produces
an outcome in your world. It is this outcome that you call
‘failure that was beyond your control’. It was never beyond your
control - you just were not conscious of what you were doing and
the power that you had. You have now heard evidence from science
and religion that this is so. Let us now see what psychologists
and philosophers say:
"The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not
made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when
an individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of
his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the
conflict and be torn into opposite halves." - Carl Jung
"Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by
which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore
trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and
tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by
the tender hand of the Unseen." - Kahlil Gibran
"The attempt to escape a problem is the problem. See the logic
of this. When a man tries to escape, when he moves away from the
problem, he divides himself into one man with a problem and
another man who will escape the problem. In reality, there is no
such division, so the escape must always fail, as the man sadly
experiences. But when seeing that he is the problem itself, that
he and his problem are one, he stops trying to escape because he
sees there is no other course. In this state of intelligent
acknowledgement of reality, he will not have the problem." -
Vernon Howard
"The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not
only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensive
as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life."
- James Allen
"Whether you believe you can or you can’t - either way you are
right" - Henry Ford
Let us now look at how most people go about creating their lives
and their business: They have a goal, a desire. In terms of work,
this goal may be to advance in their career, to launch a new
marketing strategy, to have their web site achieve success and
high traffic, or whatever else. They decide to go for this goal.
They then have countless thoughts about this goal or desire. A
great percentage of those thoughts are worries and doubts as to
whether they will achieve this goal. A great percentage of these
thoughts are analysis of how they will achieve it and how they
may fail. They then analyze the analysis and analyze that
analysis until what is left is a mass of confusion and fear and
doubt. They reach a point where they don’t even know how they
wish the goal to turn out - one confident side of them says
outcome A will happen, then a fear comes up and it says B, then a
newspaper article makes them think C, and so on. How does anyone
expect anything but havoc in the outcome of such haphazard
thought full of fear and doubt? You must be like a child. A
child, a small child before they are influences by adults into
fear and doubt, is of one mind, certain of outcome, ever happy.
You can guess how much more successful you would be with such
clear thought.
Worry and fear is the single most destructive force in this world
and in our personal lives and businesses. Yet we do it every day!
Why? Because we believe it works. It is that simple. I was
watching an Oprah episode with Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, author of
Self Matters, as the guest that day. He said, as most others have
said before, that humans do not do anything unless we believe
there is a pay off. The only reason we worry is that we believe
it works! That is the payoff. As insane as this idea is, we
somehow buy into it. Why? Mainly because we do not know the
future. So we have a goal, then because we cannot see the future,
we have this thought that it may not come true, so we worry,
thinking it will help us. But because we become what we think
about, the very worry itself comes true. That which we fear and
worry about materializes. We are worries about things because we
are worried about things. It is a vicious cycle. We believe what
we see yet what we see is created by what we believe. But that
cycle starts in our belief. We change our belief and reality
changes.
So what is the solution? Stop worrying and drop your fears. Time
for more evidence. Again, every religion and spiritual path, not
to mention psychologists and psychiatrists, tell us not to worry.
For example, the Bible tells us "Be anxious over nothing", "Be
still", and so on. But most importantly, we are guided over and
over again into detachment of outcome. Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism,
Christianity, Islam, and all other faiths, over and over, in
various ways, teach detachment, non-resistance. Letting go. The
very idea of struggle is made necessary because of our
resistance.
Look at nature. Things work out without resistance in the most
miraculous of ways. Change must happen in this physical realm.
Nothing stays the same. Yet everything blooms. Deepak Chopra, in
his best-selling book the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success,
outlines detachment as one of those laws. In any case, what you
resist persists. So if you find yourself resisting an outcome you
do not wish to occur, you are simply energizing it into
occurring. So why is so much emphasis given by sages, masters,
teachers and guides to be detached, to let go? Because you do not
know every possible outcome, combination and miracle needed to
get to the best outcome possible at the best time. And because
you do not know, when you feel the need to control what you don’t
know, you worry and cause suffering to yourself.
You forget that you are not alone. The universe is not just made
of physical stuff. There is a Source of the physical, that which
all thought and matter springs from and goes back into. Spirit is
the source that everything, from yourself to your car to the
stars, comes from. It is First Cause, and eternal. It knows what
you do not. And if you have ever observed your life, you will
notice that often things have come to you in ways you would never
have planned to give an outcome much better than you would have
hoped for. How did that happen? See, when you decide to do
everything yourself, including what you know not, you limit
yourself to your fears and finite possibilities. Stick to what
you know and leave the rest to That Which Knows. If you have a
desire to succeed in a certain thing, express that intension,
will it, know that it shall be acted upon without fail by the
universe, just like all of nature is, and let go, with faith and
certainty. Detach yourself totally fro the ‘problem’, outcome or
steps needed for the outcome to happen.
A goal set with certainty is already accomplished, and because it
is, all the miracles necessary for its manifestation are already
set and will happen in good time as long as you do not get in the
way. If you start analyzing and worrying, setting deadlines and
conditions, steps and metrics that only serve to scare you in
case you miss them, you are getting in your own way. Simply
intend, believe, be grateful because you know it is being taken
care of, and leave it, move on to the next thing. This not only
saves you from failure, but it frees you so much time to intend
so many more things instead of spending hours worrying over that
one thing. Here is a quote that should get you thinking:
"The lesson is forcibly taught by these observations that our
life might be much easier and simpler than we make it; that the
world might be a happier place than it is; that there is no need
of struggles, convulsions, and despairs, of the wringing of the
hands and the gnashing of the teeth; that we mis-create our own
evils. We interfere with the optimism of nature; for whenever we
get this vantage-ground of the past, or of a wiser mind in the
present, we are able to discern that we are begirt with laws
which execute themselves. The face of external nature teaches the
same lesson. Nature will not have us fret and fume." - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Detachment has been proven to work over and over. Worry and fear
has been proven to destroy over and over. I saw the following
fantastic bit of information in Joe Vitale’s new book, Spiritual
Marketing: "According to research done at Spindrift Foundation on
the power of prayer, a "Thy will be done" prayer gets more than
twice as many results as a specific "give me this" prayer." You
do not have to be a religious person. You don’t even need to have
a religion. The laws of the universe work uniformly for all, no
matter whom or what they are. And intention with detachment will
work for you regardless.
So there you have it. Focus only on that which you can do. And
the only thing you can effectively do is intend and enjoy Now. J.
Krishnamurti once said that we should live "as though one were
living for that single day, for that single hour." Did you know
that all problems exist in the mind in the past and future? Look
at your thoughts of problems. They are all memories or worries
about something in future that has not even happened yet and can
very well be avoided if only you stopped worrying. Stop your
mental noise, focus on Now, and you will start having inspiration
instead of worries.
Learn how to apply these new ways in your life. In any field, be
it marketing, business, child care, relationships, health,
finances, or whatever, you can live in this new more effective
way. Let go. Focus only on what you know and can, and leave the
rest to the Source, Providence, Spirit, the Universe, or whatever
other term you find comfortable. If you don’t, you only get in
your own way. Let go and enjoy!
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Article written by David Cameron, CEO ImagesOfOne.com, author of
Raising Humans and A Happy Pocket Full of Money, and developer of
the Prova LifeGoals Effortless Achiever+ and Prova LifeMap
Numerology software. These and titles such as Think and Grow
Rich, As A Man Thinketh, and more are available for download at
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