TheTricky Paradigm-shift Which Could Save Your Life

The trick with all this is not a trick - it's a paradigm-shift. A person has to move from belief in this mortal plane into simply belief in self. (Or Self, depending on what you're preferences are.)

And I'll tell you that the point is to make your visualizations and then let them go. Mock up the world just the way you want it as a fact. Then let the world roll it out as it will.

This takes courage - probably more than facing the most devilish opponent that can be mustered up.

Of course, it's one of the easiest things you can do in your life.

The reason being is that all this evil, all these opposing forces, all these conspiracies which are keeping you down - are just self-created fictions. Fictions. Lies. Theatrics. Puffs of smoke-and-mirrors which you created to keep yourself amused.

Politics, government, shadowy crime syndicates, rogue dictators pursuing nuclear weapons - all these "real-life" characters stem from your own participation in that game they are playing.

Because, in actuality, all these characters are you. We are all connected. And what is out there is your responsibility, because you put it there.

At some point, you have to (or not) take charge of that point of your mind where you are giving up your power of choice and self-determinism to something else - creating those entities which can "run your life" and that you "have no say over."

But take this single idea for now: The world is what you think it is.

Sure, that's an old Huna principle, one of the oldest they have (and it's a very old philosophy).

If you take that single principle really to heart, then you see that all of this world is in fact a stage. But you are the director, in charge of casting, wardrobe, scenery design - the whole works.

You write the play that you star in. Every single, itsy-bitsy bit of it. All the large scenes where the hero or heroine comes in and saves the day, as well as the small ones there just to accommodate scenery changes.

How these scenes come out is exactly as you script them - in advance.

Because your thoughts create your reality. And you think too much sometimes. But all those collected thoughts you've been amassing for so long are just your "swipe file" so you can create the next scene.

When you sit in movies, or watch TV, or listen to your uncles' stories, you are piling up more and more references to build your life with. And to the degree you hold onto the tragic ones instead of the comedies, just to that degree will the scenes in your life play out that way. To the exact degree that you let go of the critical ideas and considerations you hold - just to that degree will your life be peaceful, joyous, and free.

Because any and all internal, personal peace stems just from this one point of faith: that you create your own reality through your own thoughts and actions.

And you can say these are the ravings of an old man who lives on a remote farm in the middle of nowhere. But I would reply - yes, and I put myself here just so I could study out the insanities of this planet and culture to get to their actual base. And report on these back to you and your created world we live in.

What you want out of life are your own choosing. What you get is what you want. Too simple.

Try it for yourself. See if you can't change your own mind. Even a little bit.

Leverage

There are two essentials to leverage in a person's life:

• Time.

• Mind.

Below and controlling these - Love. The creative, not merely the carnal.

Money is no leverage - it only registers flows and exchange. A false god.

Leverage those two single forces - and all prosperity and peace will be yours, forever.

Don't seek how to leverage these through belief in or study of financial data. Render unto Caesar...

Mind and Time solve each other - one only has to listen. In silence.

Quickly reprogramming your life - the Internet way

And if you reprogram your mind, via the Internet,

do you lose it down a rabbit hole?

Nah - it's not that easy. There's lots of failsafes along the way - plus, there's an automatic route back.

OK, why I'm bringing this up: in my marketing research, I've discovered 1) that the world is nichefying at an incredible rate because of the Internet - which is a good thing, and 2) there are now technical ways to do this which allow you to concentrate and narrow your focus - which will then ultimately reprogram your mind into something quite different than what you currently think is "normal".

First the failsafes: Common sense keeps you from doing things that would be self-destructive. Well, most of the time. These can be over-ridden, but usually one keeps from personal destruction. If you're hell-bent on doing it, anything is possible. But for the vast majority, there are certain patterns you've held onto which keep you safe in most circumstances.

The road back is because you never really forget old patterns. And usually you can readopt these easily - it just takes a little less effort than changing an old habit into a new one. Slipping back into old ways (like an addiction) is easier than coming off that addiction. Mental bread crumbs and all that.

Now, what are these ways to reprogram yourself via the Internet? Well, the social media we have also has developed aggregators which can be programmed to simply and only give you the data you really want. Like Yahoo Pipes and FriendFeed. You can take all sorts of data which has RSS feeds and get these filtered into only the data you want - and then pipe these into a feed reader so you only get the data which interests you and you think is valuable.

When I went down this line with marketing, I soon saw that by putting these blinders on, you would simply and quickly become an expert on that niche subject and would be putting yourself into conversation with other people who have similar interests to yours - your clients and associates. And that is the way to really make it in any niche - surround yourself with key data that has to do with just that niche, and then blog/write/podcast/video about it all the time. People who are collecting that type of data will then seek you out.

It's actually a natural function. That's how you pick your friends and how they pick you.

And it's how you are constantly reprogramming your mind.

Only now, the Internet also allows you to do this much quicker - and influence a helluva lot more similarly-interested people than ever before.

The worry was the rabbit-hole concept from Alice in Wonderland (as made famous by The Matrix movie). People have described going down into rabbit-holes of interesting data-leads, only to emerge hours later with nothing to show for all their fascinating Internet surfing. (Probably a smile on their face, but maybe not.)

By creating aggregators to find you data and filters which then clean and purify this data into only things you are interested in, you can then build your own blinders so that you are only getting that data which makes you happy. And so, you become a walking expert in a particular niche - and in search engine marketing, this is how you can then grab top spots so that people can find your products.

Essentially, you reprogram yourself into success.

But that is really what all these books and tapes and videos on self improvement are all telling you, isn't it? They are trying to get you to quit listening to the herd mentality and start listening to yourself. And when you do, you become concentrated on the one thing which will give you everything you want in life.

That "one thing" is different for every single person alive on this planet.

It's just the way things are. And why the way things are - if you wanted to look.

So, worry not - it's all cool. Just be yourself and listen to those things you feel you should - that make you feel good all the time. And as you improve your filters and aggregators, you'll be easily replacing your old datums and mental habits with new ones.

Cheers - and Good Hunting!

What you run into when you start to change your mind...

Changing your mind will run you into some interesting fixed ideas.

Kinda like finding a pole in your way when you're driving down what you thought was a clear street. You can run into all sorts of things when you start to change your mind on purpose.

I've covered before how we are constantly re-programming ourselves - it's part of learning, which is something we never quit doing every second of every day and even while we sleep.

But I was even surprised when I started down this road -- surprised how many strong ideas I'd held onto which were in turn holding me back. Those can even be painful, it seems.

The stronger the idea, the harder it is to let go of. Critical thought is one. Being able to differentiate and find better ways of doing something is a valuable skill. Running people down or finding fault isn't. It's just how you view the same action and what you expect to gain as an ed result which determines how you are going to approach something.

But if you have this nagging, almost carping criticism going on in the background, it's really a hard addiction to crack. Because that is what it is - habits are addictions: you don't think you can live without them and you can't envision your life without them. But they are simply chronic ways of thinking which limit your abbility.

Of course, they come with their own justifications and emotional reasons to justify their existence. And these make perfect sense. However, you can't see how they need to be changed until you start seeing something's got to be in your own road. And then you see the outline of he beast, and WHAM -- you just hit something in that road in front of you.

Most often, it comes with a (cracked) mirror, since that is your own reflection looking back at you. You see, you put it there years ago to deal with something your life and now it's just not needed anymore.

But don't figure that just because you know it's there that it's going to be easy to deal with, or easy to move. Sometimes it just goes *poof* and the whole thing blows over like a single dark cloud. Other times, it has to be painfully-inched-out-of-your-way-with-incredible-effort-at-every-single-step.

And there's no particular sense as to why it moves or doesn't move. But the point is that you are really only going to get it moving if you start purposefully changing your mind.

Here's the kicker, though: evolution/learning is a constant process. So you are going to be finding these "instant roadblocks" from time to time as you move through life. Some will be easy to change and others not. The trick is to realize you are continuing a learning process and so are going to be getting "lessons" from time to time.

How to make your lessons easier

The easiest way is to take everything that happens to you as an additional lesson. Some inconvenience which occurs on your lines can be resolved, but it can also be learned from. Simply ask yourself, "What is the lesson here?" And intuitively, you'll probably receive some sort of hint about that.

Any situation, as Huna sages tell us, can be analyzed four ways: 1) Objectively, 2) Subjectively, 3) Symbolically, and 4) Holistically.

When you "seek the Silence" daily, you drop in your request to learn solutions to whatever problem you are running into. Then you are expecting an answer in some form or other.

This is simply another version of manifesting, which several people cover (like Joe Vitale's "Spiritual Marketing" and Jack Canfield on "The Secret" DVD):

1. Be still, relax completely.
2. Concentrate on the peculiars of the situation you want to resolve - all the details.
3. Simply request a solution to the Universe.
4. Consider next that your solution is here, applied, and the situation resolved.
5. Let go. Move onto something else.

Some find, as I do, that the best time for this is just before going to sleep at night.

Charles Haanel's "Master Key System" gives all the theory of this and 24 lessons to get these practical points into your own life.

Good Hunting!