Philosophy

How to find your “purpose” quickly

Looking for Purpose is like looking for yesterday’s shadow. You know it’s there, but you will never find it.

Recently, a friend enlightened me on a quote, “Hands that help are holier than lips that pray”. When I heard it, I laughed it off. You mean I’m supposed to serve others? How crazy is that? What about MY needs? What about MY purpose? What about MY dreams?

After many months looking for it and not finding this ever-elusive shadow, I tried an experiment. I gave up looking. I said to myself “If I stop looking for one, what happens?” Nothing. I live. Instead of looking for a purpose (something that sooths my ego and gives me a reason to be here), I will stop looking and become a vessel for god’s purpose. I will let god handle purpose, and I will handle the work.

As a business owner, I know that if I don’t help my clients, and my audience, I won’t be successful. Jim Rohn, a famous business leader and one of my mentors, once said, “Service to others leads to greatness”. I have heard it many times, but I didn’t really clue in until recently.

I’m convinced now, that purpose is created in the work we do. We can serve others in many ways. Volunteer, run a business, invent solutions, answer our clients and customer concerns, keep a family together, serve a husband or wife in their endeavors, help an aging parent, develop a business that helps people.

If you get busy helping, creating, inventing, and serving you will quickly understand how fulfilling that act is. The act of serving others lightens the soul. It gets you focused on others, and not on yourself. And in return, a gift is given to you: peace in your heart. You come to realize that YOU don’t matter as much as you think. Life isn’t just about YOU, its also about helping the ones close to you. Find out what THERE concerns are. Have you asked a close friend or client what do THEY need help with?

If you are a business owner, one of your main jobs is to create value. Create solutions for your customers. They come to you looking for answers to their problems. Ask questions. Probe their mind and find out what causes them pain. Find solutions. Provide VALUE.

As a business owner, THAT is your primary role. Create VALUE for your clients. You may have other purposes in other areas of life, but VALUE creation must be a high priority for you in your business.

I’m convinced now that “Find your purpose”, should really be re-labeled to “Find your value”. Too many people are lost because they don’t believe they deserve to exist. They are looking inside for their purpose outside, but it’s an endless search. Find the VALUE inside that helps the world, and you will realize that your purpose is to find that gift.

Alexander the Great visits India

Once Alexander the Great was coming to India, his spiritual master had told him, that during your conquest if you go to India, you should get a spiritual master and bring him to our country. So when he conquered and came to India, he told his assistant “I want to see a spiritual guru!”.  So the assistant inquired and was told that in Vrindavan there was a guru. So he went to Vrindavan and told the guru “Our Alexander the Great wants to see you.”

The guru said “I don’t care”. So he got angry and went back to Alexander, and said “He doesn’t want to come!” Alexander was equally infuriated. He was angry. He said “I will teach him a lesson!” Alexander picked up his sword, sat on his horse, came to Vrindavan, grabbed the saint by the neck, and said “I will teach you a lesson! You dare disobey me? I asked you to come! Why didn’t you come?”.

The saint said, “Relax, why are you getting so agitated? Who are you? ”

Alexander said “I am Alexander the Great!”

The saint asked, “What is so great about you?”

Alexander said, “I have conquered all the lands!”

The saint asked, “Oh. What will you do now?”

Alexander said, “I will conquer more lands!”

The saint asked, “Then what will do?”

Alexander said, “Then I will conquer the whole world!”

The saint asked, “Then what will do?”

Alexander said, “Then I will get the 100 most beautiful women and marry them!”

The saint asked, “Then what will do?”

Alexander said, “Then I will get 10 sons from each of them!”

The saint asked, “Then what will do?”

Alexander said, “Then I will divide the whole world which I have conquered to my sons!”

The saint asked, “Then what will do?”

Alexander said, “Then I will relax!”

The saint said, “That’s what I’m doing now. Come and join me!”

 

Source: https://youtu.be/R3mSCFU8Miw?t=40m37s

It’s simpler than you think…

It’s that TINY little shift of energy within you.. the one you never paid much attention to….when you are doing something ordinary.. making breakfast.. driving.. at work.. ..the one where you start to sing along when a song comes on the radio ♫♪♫…and you start tapping your feet and smiling..

Can you remember it now? Yep.. thats the one.. and then suddenly like the clouds parting, everything seems more clear and bright, and makes a lot more sense.. and you find hope and light and love again..

How to get their? Start with hope.. the voice of hope speaking within you.. a voice of guidance asking you smile and laugh and tap your feet.. hope is asking you first to believe, to dream, to never give up…. an once you let it speak to you.. the voice will change… and reflect the new you.. and then your world will change.. one tiny shift at a time..

See it on Facebook here.

The Cold Within, a Poem

The Cold Within

Six humans trapped by happenstance
In bleak and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood
Or so the story’s told.

Their dying fire in need of logs
The first man held his back
For of the faces round the fire
He noticed one was black.

The next man looking ‘cross the way
Saw one not of his church
And couldn’t bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.

The third one sat in tattered clothes.
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?

The rich man just sat back and thought
Of the wealth he had in store
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy shiftless poor.

The black man’s face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from his sight.
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.

The last man of this forlorn group
Did nought except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave
Was how he played the game.

Their logs held tight in death’s still hands
Was proof of human sin.
They didn’t die from the cold without
They died from the cold within.

For more info about this poem, click here

God doesn’t play favors…

With a friend on the phone…
 
So I’m trying to show a friend Hicks… and I send a few Youtube videos.. and give them a week and then ask if they watched…they tell me they aren’t ready cause it scares them….They say..”WHO is Abraham????” I respond.. “Well I don’t know either exactly, and I don’t worry about it all that much.. there is just good advice about happiness there.. thats why I gave it to you cause its what I use.”…Nope..it doesn’t help… they aren’t ready…they make excuses and say it scares them or that they think I’m controlling them.
 
So I change the subject and ask how their day is going.. small talk… then at one point the friend says “You know, you are so blessed.. you always get parking spots and things aren’t hard for you.. your life is so easy! Not like me.. everything is so hard!”.. and I say once again.. “Life is not supposed to be difficult or painful.. at least not all the time.. life is supposed to be mostly joy”
 
I just shake my head
 
Moral of the story.. even your closest friends can SEE the laws unfolding right before their eyes in your life.. and never clue in .. its not some bonus blessings or a blessings lottery…or God/source punishing them. Its them. God/source doesn’t play favors. We all get an equal share.
 
“If source can’t make them see, what makes you think you can?” – AH

Mooji – Speaker, Author, Teacher

A recent discovery you might enjoy…Moojiji

“When you truly find love for others inside your heart, it is so empowering, so beautiful, because you are seeing with the eyes of God. There’s no selfishness there. Selfishness did not create this world. A great love and generosity did.”

https://www.youtube.com/user/Moojiji

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooji

http://mooji.tv/

 

Get out of the GOOP

Get out of the GOOP (good opinions of other people):
 
It’s not that they don’t want to make you feel good (as much as they love you, they probably don’t if they really had to think about it). It’s actually more about you. If you rely on others, you can never truly find source/vortex/god, assuming you want to that is.
 
Why is GOOP bad? Because you always see others like an “air compressor”, pumping you up when your “tire pressure” is low. Looking around for someone else to “pump up” your state, makes you reliant on something outside yourself. It makes you weak and ineffective and stops you from really looking at yourself.
 
LESSON: every time you look outside, you simultaneously miss an opportunity of looking inside.
 
Once you aren’t attached to the opinion of others, you can begin look within yourself for source/god/vibration/vortex. It’s a beautiful way to live. Knowing that something bigger than you (or anyone else) is within you, working for you. As you go deeper into this mindset you reach a new state of awareness.
 
From this new vantage point, you will start to see other people as they are: beings on their own journey. You will watch others passively with a kind of beautiful detachment, enjoying their entire presence, and yet not being involved in it. You can appreciate them more fully and that in turns brings you closer to alignment and more downstream.
 
If you find it hard to make this shift, a simple strategy is just reaching the awareness that there is an opportunity cost every time you look for GOOP: a moment of time to find source within yourself.
 
#nomoregoop

Fixing that one area of your life you can’t seem to get right

Funny how sometimes, the teacher becomes the student, almost instantaneously..

I was commenting on someone’s Facebook post..

For a long time I’ve been trying to manifest financial abundance for freedom, and to be honest I have really tried, but I’m getting nowhere, I’m so frustrated with the whole thing as now I just feel depressed about not being able to manifest this, I want it and I know I deserve it so what’s the deal? Where do I go from here. I’m no quitter but right now I feel tired and fed up

 

And so I decided to respond in my usual style.. to just type instinctively without judgement..

“Reach calm waters. It might mean doing something outside of this manifest so that you are at a point of peace within yourself. Its not to give up, or to forget about it for a moment. Any kind of good energy helps. Get out of “tired and fed up” mode and into something happy and fun and higher vibration somewhere else.. health.. love.. happiness..food.. friends.. hobbies.. once u reach higher vibration states.. open up slowly to the manifest you seek.. talk to it from joy and smiles and love.. approaching it from pain probably isn’t doing it any good.”

The moment I hit post.. I suddenly realized that I could use that same advice for myself.. reach calm waters. In fact, anybody could. Can you really solve a problem if it’s at the point of frustration? Does working harder and harder get you anywhere? Perhaps you need a break from the challenge. A break to go find joy and happiness elsewhere and then from that happier vibration, tackle the problem once again with a fresh perspective.

Here is a quick step strategy you might try if you have reached frustrated/broken/depressed:

  1. Put  “the problem” on hold. Not forever.. just long enough for a mini-vacation.. It might be an hour, a day, a week, or a month. It might mean being away from someone temporarily. You get to decide how long the vacation is for.
  2. Go find some happy places in your life and promise yourself not to think of “the problem”. Just look for joy.
  3. Once you reach joy, try to remember the feeling.. capture it.. Write down what it feels like. Take photos.. record a video
  4. Once the vacation is over.. start with a blank sheet of paper, metaphorically speaking. Target the problem again, but do it a bit differently. At first, the instinct will be to go back into the lower vibration and energy pattern from before. It’s natural. But the moment you sense yourself easing into that pain, go and grab that happy moment you captured before. Mirror it. Make the happy moment indistinguishable from “the problem”. See “the problem” as solved. See it as done. See it as if you took a snapshot, just like your other happy moment.

By doing the above exercise, you are re-patterning and re-writing the story of “the problem”. You are giving yourself a chance to see “the problem” as solved and completed. You are able to see beyond the current difficulty, and see the finished outcome with a happier and more energetic vibe, and hopefully, will be able to de-construct the end result into an action plan you can follow now.

An example…

Let’s have a look at an example. I have two “problems” I’m dealing with right now. Relationships, and good health. My health is fine, I just don’t look good and feel good in my own skin. I want to look a lot better.  I want to be able to take my shirt off on a beach and not feel like everyone is looking at me. I have definitely reached the stage of frustration and giving up.

Until writing this post, I have never considered that there is an energetic component to it.  That from the happy places in my life (finance, hobbies, work to some degree) I’m feeling pretty darn content and satisfied that it’s going to be fine. Why can’t I use the same higher vibration to solve this other thing? Yeah!  Why not? Of course I can!

Today for the first time, in regards to health, I am picturing the end result of fitness in a higher and happier vibration version of me. I see myself fit AND smiling and laughing.. (how I FEEL is the key to the answer), I can now more clearly see a path. Some dedication to a daily regimen is all I need. A walk or jog. Perhaps a change in my pantry (removing temptations) as well. If I can do that, and know the end reward is the same happy feeling I get playing snooker, or writing on my blog, then I can lose the weight and look fit.

I can do this!

Takeaway…

See the future version of yourself visually AND emotionally. Attach a happy/proud/successful/loving emotion to that future picture. The emotional component of that future version of you is crucial.

Emotions attached to a goal/dream/desire allow them to reach deep into your consciousness and transform you. Once you see the future version of yourself in a higher vibration, you can then de-construct from that place into the present circumstances, and can then see a way out.

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Eye of the Hurricane

Discovered something useful tonight about vortex.. happiness..flow state..and the fragile and sensitive nature of it

I often go to play snooker (a billiards game) at the local pool hall. It’s a bigger table.. harder to play.. and requires more concentration. I get immense joy playing and competing, when I’m playing well. Its as close to meditation and flow state as I know (next to graphic/web design, my other happy place)…

I’m fully aware how to get into flow state in snooker and I know under what conditions I probably won’t as well (lots of distraction.. noise.. people). I played someone tonight who “turned me off” by his style.. mannerisms.. edicate…table manners. At first, I blamed him for my poor result. But then I realized he is trying to find his vortex/source/flow state as well..

I tried extra hard to lead by example… hoping it would have an effect on him. It didn’t.

But then I remember Hicks said something crucially important in regards to finding vortex: “OTHERS don’t need to do anything to help you.. you get to choose.. “.

During a break.. I went back inside looking for joy.. I tried to remember what about the game makes me truly happy and I stayed there in my mind.. and the result was wonderful.. I played well enough to win, not my best, but I enjoyed it because I found flow.. I stopped worrying about winning or losing.. but I won anyways.

I left the night feeling successful cause I found access to vortex even when the world around me was chaotic and full of interruption..I didn’t play to the standard I’m capable of.. but I left the place with a smile in my heart..

LESSON: The tiniest things can throw you off.. when you take your eyes of vortex/source for even a few minutes… Especially in activities where you think source doesn’t matter.. it always does.. always.. The experience tonight reminds me of the poem, “IF” by Rudyard Kipling (http://mayur.ca/if-by-rudyard-kipling/)

I think I need to pursue meditation…I heard it helps you stay inside throughout the day

Original post on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AbrahamHicksVortexGroupOfLOVE/permalink/1312412598885203/
A more in-depth discussion for Billiards players and sports enthusiasts: http://snookerdelight.com/snooker-articles/flow-state-meditation-and-the-chaotic-billiard-room