Somewhere inside I am alive. I am switched on, a being with boundless and infinite energy.
It is called spirit, we all have one and we kill it, then in turn we search for life eternal.
That ancient metaphor, the riddle of self since time (or language) began.
What turns you on? Lights you up? Rocks your boat?
There are moments in life when your true nature is revealed to you, the good life, the moments you wish you could live forever, if only.
If there were a way to permanently tap into this energy source without having to be in one of those moments would you take it?
If you could have the boundless energy of being even in your darkest moments would you choose it?
If the answer were simple and I could tell you what to do in one sentence would you do it?
My interest in self development has always been about finding inner peace.
Then a couple of years back, I started to get frustrated about the way I handle money.
I looked at money and money gurus.
I realised I hated people with money. They were bad people. Then I looked at a list of the richest people and found out the people I hated were doing a lot of good in the world. It was a nice thing to find out, though nothing changed in my personal circumstances.
I was in the bath earlier listening to an audio book. The author suggested we form our opinions when we are little children (by the time we are six) and they stay with us for life.
Great, I thought. So how could I apply that to money?
As I lay there in the bath an image popped into my head of me sitting on a swing in my childhood garden with a tin box on my knees. I am six years old. It is an image I have often recalled when trying to decode money issues.
In the box I have some money. A ten shilling note and a fifty pence piece. I am wondering over the shape of the freshly minted coin. It is not a hexagon or an octagon, it has seven sides. I often tell people the story. It’s quite a magical memory. But wait, I have left something out.
In the box is a book. The book has printed columns and I have carefully worked out how much money is in the box. The columns relate to pounds, shillings and pennies. I am the ONLY boy in my class who can do this.
There are twelve pennies in a shilling and twenty shillings in one pound. I had also finally figured out the meaning of a guinea, twenty one shillings. It had taken a long time to learn all this and it is very complicated. I even knew the relationship between crowns, half crowns, florins, sixpences and threepenny bits.
As I recall all this I am aware of a huge and overwhelming disappointment. It lives in me now like a “what’s the point” an absolute hatred, like a “have to” do. And I don’t want to, it ruins everything!
With pounds, shillings and pennies (L s d) I got to be brilliant. And here was a new shiny fifty pence piece. And with it, a new system. A hundred pence in a pound. Ten shillings (one hundred and twenty pennies) equals fifty pence. No more “If Tom buys five apples for threepence and Mary has a shilling, how much change will Jack have from a crown?”
I hated the new system, plain and simple. I had spent hours on the old system and now it seemed I had completely wasted my time. What was the point?
I was a very clever boy and could show how clever I was with money. Nobody else understood it. And THEY had ruined it!
Any idiot can add up base 10. Really!
What’s the point!!!
THAT feeling, associated with money?
I got…
I HATE MONEY
See you on the other side of the looking glass,
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It’s A Wonderful Life is now considered the most inspirational American movie of all time, yet when it was released it was considered a box office flop.
It took around forty years for people to really “get it”.
As Christmas rolls around the globe, I want you to consider an opportunity.
The opportunity for each and every person on the planet to have an enlightenment experience.
The kind of experience people trek thousands of miles to Tibet for. The moment an experienced yogi would cite as profound. An awakening. And all available from a single weekend experience.
And a prediction…
Sooner or later, what I am about to tell you will be considered the most inspirational material of all time.
In 1971 a man named Werner Erhard created a seminar based large group awareness training called EST.
What you may not be aware of some thirty eight years later, the experience is still available in a similar training offered by Landmark Education.
The impact of the lives of the people who participate is profound.
Having recently reviewed the course, I now realise the huge positive impact originally participating in 1999 had on my life.
Apart from being born, 4:52pm on day three of the Landmark Forum is ongoingly the most important moment in my life.
I have access to living a life I love. And I love my life because I love my life.
My own book is based on principles I learned indirectly from Werner Erhard.
More interesting, my entire life is influenced by him and so is yours.
As the originator of the conversation about transformation and making a difference, almost everything these days hinges on these premises.
Virtually every conversation inside personal development and self-realisation lives in the idea we are perfect the way we are, when we remove our issues.
The way we are, AND the way we are not…
But how do we remove issues which would take a life time to evolve beyond?
Simply by removing our sense of self. The Ogre. Like Yoga. There be monsters between you and God!
So here is a Christmas gift to you. Let me take you in a direction by inviting you into a conversation.
For the twelve days of Christmas, I am giving away a free eBook download of my book The Logic Of Attraction (normally £9).
You can download it here:
http://LogicOfAttraction.com/MerryChristmas/LOA_XMASFREE.pdf
The password is: XMASFREE
And to accompany the book I am giving away an audio meditation, recorded by the fabulous Rich Hilton, which compliments an exercise in consciousness in the book.
All you have to do is sign up for the newsletter to receive it.
If you like what you get, comment below.
See you on the other side of the looking glass,
mark ty wharton
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