I help people create their own reality.
This sounds crazy, at first, but it’s actually based in solid principles, following a predictable process that gets results every time. I’ve seen it happen so many times now in my life and in the lives of my clients that I don’t question it anymore. I just keep figuring out how to optimize it. One of those ways is to help people understand the context around creating their reality.
Intention is the rudder that steers our life boat. It drives our lives.
As you’ve already noticed, we can’t control the ocean beneath us—sometimes it will roil and toss us around, maybe even dump us in the freezing water, jolting us into a new level of sobriety and awareness.
I sat crying on my living room floor. I’d spent the past four hours deep in meditation, doing a Tibetan practice called Tonglen, which focuses on processing and healing the world’s pain.
At the end, I felt deep compassion for all the people suffering around the world, and this felt virtuous. But I also felt depressed. Like tears-streaming-down-my-face, still-sitting-in-my-pajamas-in-the-late-afternoon depressed.
Pain has taught me many valuable things. For example, our deepest pain points directly at our life purpose, like the true north on a compass.
Have you ever feared awakening as your True Self, worrying that you’ll become a boring spiritual being who just sits around radiating light all day?
The other workshop attendees sit on the couch, while I sit alone at the dining room table. As I scan the room, pretending to be deeply engaged in everything I see, I feel the familiar clenching in my chest and throat. All my thoughts and feelings are slamming into each other in a kind of mental-emotional traffic jam.
In psychology speak, this is called “Emotional Flooding”. And in this case the flavour is: “anxiety”.