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I made it happen for myself

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You, and only you, can make things happen for yourself. While there may be people that encourage or have an influence on your life, at the end of the day you are the only one who allows such encouragements or influences to have a positive or negative effect on your being.

It is only up to you to take everything that you can from every single situation. I know that sounds daunting and rather limiting (if you are trying, you are not experiencing), but what good does it really do for your being to go through a “same shit, different day” life, routine, or mentality? I often jokingly use that phrase to my peers whenever I’m asked, “What’s new?” because, in my reality, every single thing that I experience is new and ever-evolving, and most of those experiences are felt rather than spoken.

If you want things to happen you need to make them happen. Set goals and work towards them. You may not know how to reach those goals when you first set out, but every step, every experience, and every situation along the way offers some sort of possible insight, guidance, or interpretation as to how you can reach your goals (that is if you are open and unbiasedly experiencing). Experience everything that you can within reason because you never know what it may bring. Experience without boundaries, expectations, regrets, or judgements. Experience, learn, and then make it happen.

 

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Sunday wrap up july 22nd

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Define: Fear

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What are you afraid of? Make a list of everything you’re afraid of… and why. Go on. Do it before you read any further.

What do those fears represent in your life? What do those fear reflect and affect? What do those fear say about who you are? How do you act or react to your fears? Do your fears prevent you from making decisions or encourage round-about decisions?

Fears aren’t real. We make them up. They’re illusions of what we perceive to be reality. We blatantly know that fears are not real because there are people that experience and live through our personal fears each day – commitment, responsibility, public speaking, flying, sky-diving, cliff jumping, the ocean, the dark, sleeping alone, relationships, judgments, losing, etc. We attain fear through various life experiences and distance ourselves from those fears thinking that we are succeeding by removing the problem from our life. In a universal reality, the problem still exists within self, we’re just burying a part of self in hopes that it won’t show up later in life… but it always does, doesn’t it?

  • Fear is the presence of assumption, judgment, boundary, protection, separation, manipulation, shame, and weakness.
  • Fear is the absence of knowledge, confidence, comfort, familiarity, trust, stability, awareness, responsibility, and faith.

Fears are symptoms to a greater, deeper, and more meaningful cause. Those causes are found above as the presence and absence of fear. So, go back to your list of fears and see if you can dumb them down to their true cause – to the part of you that you are protecting, running away from, and not confronting.

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Define: Death

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We experience death on a daily basis: the set of the sun, the set of the moon, the wind ceasing, the exhale of a breath, the act of waking up, the act of falling asleep, the completion of a project, the passing of every second, any given experience of life that has come and gone.

  • Death brings an end to a beginning and it simultaneously creates a new beginning.
  • Death, when accepted, can allow for learning, growth, perspective, gratitude, appreciation, understanding, and responsibility.
  • Death, when denied, can breed hate, anger, resentment, dishonesty, irresponsibility, and blame.
  • Death is universal, inevitable, and necessary.

Death isn’t a bad thing, it isn’t anything to be scared of, and it isn’t a reason to avoid experiences. To take perspective on death isn’t simply a matter of not being afraid of the concept… it’s knowing what you are afraid of and why.

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Are bad times not-so-bad after all?

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Why are bad times bad? 

Why can’t we spin the bad times to actually be good – if not the best thing to happen to us?

We can learn a lot from the worst of the worst; the bad of the bad. Absolutely everything can prove to be a learning experience – an untapped perspective on life and on ourselves that we’ve never seen before. I understand that certain bad times aren’t ideal. For instance, I’ve recently dealt with the loss of a good friend and it’s certainly not an easy reality to grasp… but I have come to learn a great deal from the experience. I’ve learned a lot about a lot: how I experience myself, how I experience my loved ones, and how I experience life. Do I wish I came to this realization in a different manner? Of course, but the impact or gratitude may not have been as prominent.

I’m encouraging you to look at every bad experience as good, if not the best experiences of your life to date. Instead of asking “why did this happen to me?,” say “I experienced this through my personal definition of reality and I am going to take responsibility for my reality, my experience, my thoughts, my feelings, my actions, and my reactions, and I’m going to use that responsibility towards the betterment of myself. Nothing ever happens to me, only I decide how I let an experience affect or reflect upon me.”

We can’t always prevent bad times, but we can certainly view them in a different light so they’re not-so-bad after all.

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Define through experience

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How can you define ease? By experiencing difficulty.

How can you define strength? By experiencing weakness.

How can you define success? By experiencing failure.

How can you define love? By experiencing loss.

How can you define happiness? By experiencing sadness.

How can you define patience? By experiencing impatience.

How can you define responsibility? By experiencing irresponsibility.

How can you define awareness? By experiencing unawareness.

How can you define comfort? By experience neglect.

How can you define acceptance? By experience shame.

How can you define heavy? By experiencing light.

How can you define white? By experiencing black.

How can you define high? By experiencing low.

How can you define rich? By experiencing poor.

How can you define full? By experiencing empty.

How can you define right? By experiencing wrong.

How can you define need? By experience want.

How can you define healthy? By experiencing unhealthy.

How can you define life? By experiencing death.

Written in Chinese, the word “Crisis” is composed of two characters.
One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. (John F Kennedy)

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We Are All Doing Our Best

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Our full potential is 100%, right?

We do our very best to give 100% of 100% of ourselves.

Sometimes we are only able to give 80%, 75%, or even 50% of 100% of ourselves.

Whether we give 80% or 50%, we are still giving our best effort of 80% or 50%.

We all have emotions, beliefs, obstacles, burdens, struggles, conflicts, past pains, judgements, and shames that have the ability to limit our potential.

Let’s say you and I are in the same class together. We have a test one morning that is graded immediately. After 10 minutes you hand in your test and get back a 100% of 100%. After 30 minutes I hand in my test and get back 30% of 100%. Naturally, we can conclude that you’re smarter than me based off of the grade and the time it took to complete… but is that really true based off of one (or even several repeated) experience(s)?

What if I didn’t eat a good breakfast that morning and that affected my blood sugar, mental clarity, and ability to retain information?

What if I wasn’t able to fully study because I had to take care of my little brother who has been sick for quite some time?

What if I was dealing with an internal emotional battle because my parents were going through a divorce?

What if I don’t care about school and constantly fail tests, but that is a manifestation of a sexual shame that I experienced when I was younger to believe I am not good enough in present day?

What if I knew all of the answers but chose to fail because it was more fulfilling to be perfectly “stupid” rather than being perfectly “smart”?

I may have failed the test, but I was giving my best – it may not have been my 100% best, but it was my best effort given my situation(s).

Do not judge, assume, or blame others for their faults (we do that enough to ourselves) – have faith, trust, and encourage others for their abilities.

Do not give people the benefit of the doubt – give people the benefit, the respect, and the empathy that they deserve.

Be kind. For everyone you meet if fighting a hard battle. - Plato

Mistakes

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To commit a mistake is not wrong – commit as many mistakes as possible because that is the way you will be learning more. But don’t commit the same mistakes again and again, because that makes you stupid. 

-Osho

While Osho is a bit blunt in his words, they hold some truth. But let’s throw out the word stupid. Let’s throw out the negative connotation of [continuous] mistakes. Are not we all on our own path? Are not we all learning at our own pace? Who’s to say that a continuous mistake is wrong when we learn the right in the end? In hindsight we can see where our path took a wrong turn, but can we argue that turn was necessary regardless of its time or the time it took to understand?

A perspective shift is in order for the word mistake and the action of making a mistake.

Why are mistakes considered wrong?
Why can’t we see within the moment that “wrongs” can actually turn into a future “right”?

Those very mistakes that we perceive to yield [temporary] failure can lead us to [eternal] success.

Everything that occurs is a culmination of perfection.
There are no wrongs. There are no mistakes.

With that mentality you don’t have to make a mistake ever again.
With that mentality you can only experience success.

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Define: Experience

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  • An Experience is a moment of one’s reality
  • An Experience is purely individualized
  • No two people Experience the same reality
  • No two people equally define an Experience or a reality
  • Reality is an independent perspective of our Experiences – non-physical – past and present
  • A non-physical Experience is our true reality
  • We Experience reality solely through our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs
  • One cannot “have” an Experience without the Experience of the mind
  • A physical reality is a manifested Experience of the non-physical self
  • A physical reality is not actually a “real” – it is only Experienced by our non-physical self
  • We have the power to choose how an Experience influences or defines our reality
  • We can choose if an Experience is good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative
  • We can choose if an Experience makes us happy or makes us sad
  • The same moment will be Experienced differently by two (or more) people
  • It is important to understand that your Experience will be different than someone else’s Experience
  • It is important to understand that your Experience of me is different than my Experience of myself
  • Our present Experiences are a reflection of our past Experiences
  • It is impossible to recreate a past Experience – it can be a reflection of, yet entirely new
  • We can choose to repeat past Experiences or to learn from past Experiences (good or bad)
  • Experiences are necessary and an integral part of life

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