Money has us think
in shortsighted ways, and often it's not until we reach a point of complete
dissatisfaction -- as I did -- within this one-dimensional approach that we
become willing to look for the bigger reason we are here, for the bigger
contribution we are here to make.
When you discover
how to utilize your unique talents in the service of others, a thriving career
and a rich, abundant life are the natural by-products.
The nonphysical
forces -- such as polarity, clarity, alignment, resonance, momentum, and
magnetism -- that coalesce and join together to create and organize everything
we experience in our physical manifested world.
You were born with
great purpose, and when you allow yourself to align with -- rather than resist,
contradict, or deny -- that purpose, you thrive in every possible way. Quantum success is the natural consequence of
this alignment.
This is a
participatory universe, and they way you choose to participate in it determines
the reality that unfolds in your experience.
You can actually
align in thought, emotion, and energy with the desired outcome, and that energy
will draw you to the actions that will support its unfolding.
As you give up the
outworn mind-sets of separation, lack, scarcity, and competition and make way
for a broader reality to emerge, your pain-body begins to loosen its grip and
you become more and more aware of the presence of the subtler dimensions from which
everything arises.
Anytime we look
outside ourselves for an experience that can only be generated from within --
such as approval, recognition, acceptance, or love -- we are coming from a
mind-set of lack.
As you examine your
current situation, be open to discovering all the ways you are actually in
alignment with the emotions of lack or longing or discontent in the area of
your career or finances, and then allow yourself to put a name to that channel
in order to distinguish it as something separate from yourself. Are you tuned to the Struggle channel? The Frustration channel? The Overwhelmed
channel? What is the emotional or
energetic essence of the channel you're tuned to currently?
To uncover the
deeper feelings that are driving your desire to create quantum success in your
career, you need only ask yourself, "Why do I want this?" and
"What is the feeling I believe I will experience in the having of
it?".
No matter what you
want to create in the outer world, what you are really seeking is the feeling
of this internal essence. Learning to
attune yourself -- in thought, emotion, and energy -- with the essence of what
you want to manifest, white it is still in its unmanifested form, is the key to
attracting it, in living color, into your "real" life.
Consider that the
status quo you are living now -- especially in the arena of your career -- is
functioning exactly like a gravitational force that is made up of all of the
experiences, conclusions, and stories you have come to believe and expect.
You will have to
learn to give more attention -- and therefore more credence -- to the reality
you desire to create in the future than to the reality you are presently
living.
In every moment --
by virtue of the thoughts you think, the perspectives you hold, and the mood or
feeling state you bring to each action you take -- you are nourishing into
existence one of two future realities.
You are either creating the future experience of your ideal career, or
you are creating the continuation of your current experience.
If you keep telling
the story of the past -- particularly if it's a past that wasn't satisfying to
you -- you will perpetuate those same experiences and feelings. To create a future unlike anything you have
previously known, you have to break free of the gravity of the past, generate a
new momentum, and tell a new story.
Our life stories are
constructed at an unconscious level and are made up of the sum total of all of
the experiences we've lived -- the pleasurable as well as the painful -- and
the interpretations and beliefs about ourselves that we came to as a result.
It's important to
keep in mind that anytime you set an intention to create something more in your
life, whatever is standing in the way of you having it will naturally come to
the surface.
Anytime a lack-based
emotion such as fear or insecurity surfaces, you can be certain that it is
connected to a belief in limitation that you've bought into about yourself.
Energy is both the
basis of and the precursor to everything that eventually manifests.
By becoming more
allowing, we become more receptive to the replenishing energies of relaxation,
surrender, and peace.
"Shoulds"
for me are an indication that we are holding on to lack and limitation. When we "should" on ourselves, we
limit our options, and we are deciding something based on someone else's idea of
what our lives are supposed to be.
There is no
"is" in what currently is. All things are in a process of becoming,
and what they become depends in large part on the way we choose, in every
moment, to look at them.
How you are feeling
in any given moment has everything to do with the way you will perceive your
environment and all who are in it.
The discovery of
your ideal career begins when an opportunity in the outer world speaks directly
and powerfully to the questions and longings that have been stirring in your
innermost self.
Anytime something is
drawn into your experience that opposes the experience you desire, you have a
fundamental choice to make: you can
focus on and complain about all that appears to be falling apart, or you can
use that contrast to clarify exactly what you want to rebuild in its place.
The degree of
sensitivity I am inviting you to develop is one in which you ask yourself,
before uttering any word or even making a simple gesture, "In which
direction is this action leading me, and do I really want to arrive at that
destination?"
"People who
live average lives look at their current situations, knowledge, skills,
abilities, resources, money, friends, et cetera, and then choose the goals that
they think they could achieve with those resources, and this is
backwards." John Assaraf
This contrast
between the reality we want to live and the reality we are currently living is
an essential part of the creative process.
Whether it shows up
as something mildly irritating or majorly troubling, and whether we experience
it as the absence of something unwanted, contrast serves a very specific
purpose. It draws our attention to a
discord that exists between our inner desire and our outer reality, and this
discord creates a point of tension that we register in our bodies and minds as
a feeling of discontent, disappointment, impatience, and a lot of other
emotions we label as negative. But it's
from this very point of tension that an intention is born, and with a clarity
that can only arise from raw, unfiltered feeling, a powerful signal is
transmitted instantaneously through every fiber of our being: I want something different.
