How to stop working so hard and get more from life.
Feed your head. I love these words but never truly understood the meaning of them. I guess it depends on the context they are used in. Are we feeding ourselves illusions and assumed truths? I wonder why I believe what I believe and it fascinates me to such a degree that my thinking takes me to places that don't match with that what I see around me in our day to day 'normal' society/way of being. As a result I don't seem to fit in anywhere except in the space that is created when I let my thoughts and imagination take control and let them create my experience.
The messed up part is that for most of the day I am playing this role of who people think I am and I am damn good at it too. But it's not me. I have taken on this personality, a way of being that does not serve me (any more?) and it is very difficult to step out of that role. Correction: It WAS very difficult to step out.
My quasi real world allows for fast experience creation. There are virtually no delays, judgments and social expectations and I can not stop thinking about how to bring this in my 'real' life. It's like I'm obsessed with merging my consciousness of our physical realty with the one of the not-so-real reality.
I'll never get it done. I've been on this journey for a while now and it's taken me much longer than I ever would have expected and wanted. Truth is that I'll never be able to finish it and I know now that that's part of why I am here. Finding peace within feels amazing and is a catalyst for success.
New life. In 2009 I had an experience that changed my life in every way. I belonged to an investment club and every year they would set up a 3 day seminar. I always wanted to make good money in the stock market and although I was making some I wasn't getting rich. So I go to the seminar and within the first hour I had a very strange experience were I could see myself and everyone sit in the room. It was like I was watching over the room from an outsiders perspective. Weird. I also knew why I was there. I realized I wasn't there to make money. It was obvious that I was running away from a life I wasn't fully enjoying and I believed money was going to set me free. In that moment I made a decision to stop trying so hard, to stop struggling and quit investing all together. I made a promise to myself that I would stop resisting life as much as possible. A few minutes later I walked out of the seminar to never return.
A lot of stuff has happened since 2009. I stopped investing. I stopped trying to make the world a better place. I stopped trying to find a relationship. I stopped asking for raises. I stopped complaining. I stopped caring about what is good and bad. I stopped judging what I ate. So what did I do?
Cravings disappeared. Initially what happened was that as I had stopped resisting anything in my experience for as much as I was able to I would give in to all kinds of urges and habits that weren't too healthy. One example was that I gave in to my chips addiction and pretty much ate a large bag every night which didn't make me feel great to say the least. Bad quality sleep and an unhealthy dose of potato chips would cause me to feel like sh*t for weeks on end. But I kept 'letting it happen' to me and I refused to fight it. All I would do is watch myself eat and notice how I felt in the moment without judging or interrupting what I was doing or even questioning why. In less than two months my chips craving disappeared. No action required. This must have been about two years ago now and an addiction I had for most of my life was gone. I have no desire to buy chips anymore. It's awesome.
Less is a lot more. I gave up fighting and trying to achieve things and I definitely didn't get less in my life. I put much less uninspired energy in and the results I see in my life are equal or better than before.
Inspired action makes for great results. I don't really know what it is that makes this world of ours tick the way it does but I do know that life doesn't need to be hard. The more I am at peace with myself the easier it is to receive inspiration. Finding alignment with self is in my opinion the greatest gift you can give yourself and a doorway to guaranteed success.
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