The belief factor!

Do you know about resistance?

Do you know about release?

Are you questioning every think?

How aware are you of what is going on in your own mind?

What are your belief systems?

I had a client the other day share a belief that he had. It was very interesting. Typically during a session( to Stop Smoking), I talk about the affect our daily choices have on our mind and on our overall health. I usually sum up quickly the abridged version of The Slight Edge Principle by Jeff Olsen.

How our small daily choices compound and accumulate over time to lead us to either a better place or a worse place. The difference is in the small daily choices that are both easy to make and easy not to make. A typical example I use is the choice to eat a big greasy burger and fries or choosing a salad instead.

I usually share some background about that choice. Just the basics really. About how humans are not really designed to eat meat and how it will typically rot in your body and not get digested fully. The fact that these animals are being fed chemicals and antibiotics which is what you are now eating through their flesh. The most important fact is the point that you are eating a piece of meat to get the nutrients into your body that it got into it’s body by eating plants. My thought and suggestion would be “why don’t you just eat the plant directly to get your proper nutrient rich food/fuel?” In my opinion it is like having a third person at a two person party, totally unnecessary.

My point is this. My client had very strong beliefs on this subject. When I shared with him that I am a vegetarian and started to go into the above facts. He didn’t want to hear it, it totally brought up resistance. He shared amusingly that he would be considered a beefetarian. When I brought up the facts again he started to go into defense mode. He quickly made a comment that his belief is that animals were put here to be our food and then followed it up with he wanted to focus on stopping smoking. Of course I did not push any further but told him I respected his beliefs and steered the conversation into a recap of all the things we had gone over so far that were specifically related to his goal of becoming a non-smoker.

It was a smooth session and totally successful but for me I reflect on these things afterwards. I couldn’t help but ponder what happened. It is funny because we were talking about programs and beliefs in the sub conscious and how they are the ones that actually run a persons life. It was a great example and afterwards I brought his attention to just that, a great example of a belief that is affecting his life and choices.

In a good way of course. It is not my job to judge.

Now I don’t have all the answers and am not going to pretend to. I do know that meat is not healthy for you. Yes, it can keep you alive if you happen to be starving but if you can actually choose your food why would you choose a food that, while keeping you alive for the short term, over time, compounded, is actually killing you. ( more people die in this country from fork related disease than all other ways combined)

I guess it is the same answer as to why a lot of people smoke, drink, overeat, turn to drugs and hang out in bad relationships.


This might hit home for you.

If you would like, please leave your comments!

God bless,

Gavin


P.S. - Don’t forget to check out the Slight Edge Principle, it is certainly worth it!

Pressure of the Heart

Right now, there is a big pressure to open the heart. Have you felt it?

Right now, is a time to realize that you could move your awareness from your mind down into your heart energy.

Right now, is a good time to practice releasing all the ideas and thoughts that are whipping you into a suffering mind. Don’t deny it. Sometimes you are your own worst enemy. It is now time to stop doing that. If you were in your right mind, do you think you would hurt, chastise or whip yourself?

I would think not. It may not be physical but it is still real. Let it go.
Release all the worries, thoughts and “shoulds” from your mind right now.

Like:

I should be better.
I should be more successful.
I should be skinnier.
I should be smarter.
I should conform to society more.
I should do more.

These should statements create bad mojo in your mind, stop using them and stop listening to them from others because a lot of these have been programmed into your mind by these so called others who only wanted what is best for you. Don’t be fooled into it!

One of my favorite teachers, Louise Hay*, says to change your “shoulds” to “coulds”.

Say “ I could_______ if I wanted to.

This implies choice. Which in any given situation is what you have! ALWAYS!

It also implies the power you have because there is a world of difference between your “have to’s” and “want to’s”.

I don’t know about you but my “have to’s” get pushed and pushed as far as they are able to, while my “want to’s” are the ones I passionately work on for the majority of my time.

That may sound selfish but I call it self centered (balanced) and living in my passion. Couldn’t everyone live this way if they wanted to? Yes, they could. I still do “have to’s” but I made the choice to put my passion or “want to’s” first and I willingly receive the consequences of that choice.(This is called RESPONSIBILITY or ability to respond)**

I love helping people but I don’t throw myself under the bus or totally unbalance myself in the process. That would be really silly, wouldn’t it? This is not about sacrifice, struggle and suffering it is about releasing those exact concepts. You don’t need them and they should never have been put there. The good news is you certainly don’t have to accept them. Do you want to? If you said “ no, I don’t want suffering , struggle and sacrifice in my life” , then the solution is, make the decision and DON’T.

Release everything! Right now! Let it go. Only accept love into your life. Realize that only love and loving thoughts are real, accept no substitutes within your mind, for they are false! It is your own mind resisting and bringing up your inner fears. Do not fear. Not in this moment, for there is no need, not in this moment.

Release it, release it and…..it is released!.

Continue to focus and expand awareness of your heart energy to silence the blabber of your mind.

Yes, the mind is a part of you, but you could be in control of your mind and not have your mind in control of you, if you wanted.

Get silent, get still,
Yes, have your heart and mind work in harmony and unison but set the intention for the heart to be in charge.

Love and blessings ,
Gavin

* See a copy of Louise Hay's "You Can Heal Your life" by clicking here. This book is a must have if you intend to transform your thinking and your life. She is phenomenal with her positive affirmations.

**Jesus sums it up best about stepping into spiritual responsibility with the very true statement when he says: "my yoke is easy and my burden is light". From personal experience i can add that the increased levels of joy and peace that come about are amazing and more than worth it also. (most people shy away from responsibility and change, this only keeps a person getting the same poor results in life that they may be experiencing already, it just changes form)

The Healing Journey

Yet again, I found myself seeking guidance to make it through another day!

I feel really blessed at this point, due to the fact that every time I ask, I receive an answer.

I have yet again upgraded or changed this blog site as a result . As you may realize I changed the title from Spirit Express to HEAL-THY-SELF.

This, I believe, falls more in line with my true inner journey and the expressions of that to you. We are all on a healing journey and I am here to help. I want to help myself along that journey and I want to help you in any way I can. I consider myself to be a healer and a teacher but most important of all, a continuous student.

So I will use this blog to inspire and share the realities and experiences that I find on my journey that may be helpful to you. I will share inspirations, experiences, tips and techniques that work for me and I believe will also have great benefit to you. This will include pointing back to articles and material I may have written 3-4 years ago that are still relevant and also to new current material reflecting my most recent inspirations, experiences and musings.

Like the following:

This morning I had the realization that I was coming too much from the intellect and mind rather than being focused on and working from the heart. I had to let go some of the things I was working on and fall into the shelter of my highest source. The good news is that I am alright with that. There is no other place I would rather be. Sometimes you just have to let things fall the way they may. So having experienced that this morning, I say to you.

“Know that all is exactly as it is supposed to be and attempt to learn the lesson that is right in front of you today. BE PRESENT. Take the time to really appreciate your family and loved ones. You know, the ones you should treat better than the strangers you meet everyday but for some reason, due to built up frustrations, you treat rather horribly.”

Work on that today.

God bless you,

Gavin

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YOU, the Business Warrior!

You, The Business Warrior
by David Cameron Gikandi

What is The Way of the Business Warrior? If business is your game, get ready for the ride of your life.

First, let us begin with the obvious. In your business, you either make the sale, or you don't. You do or you don't, there is no try. You get the customer or you don't, there is no try. Your business makes a profit or it doesn't, there is no try. There is no in between. Why? Why do things work this way?

There is an order by which all things arise and work. Every moment is a moment of new creation. On and off states, called dualities, is what we experience in all of life, including business.

Here is a question for you. Do you think our moments arise
by accident or as an exactly perfect outcome of a series of natural laws? Remember, there is no middle ground. It is either all accidental or all perfection, but not a mixture of the two.

If it was all accidental, none of the laws of physics would work, biology would not work, nothing would work. Therefore, it is all a precise outcome of set laws. The Way of the Business Warrior is the one that gets you on the path to discovering the truth behind what happens in your business.

Now you can make your life a glorious adventure financially
by understanding the totality of experience and creation.

Michael Gerber, author of the best-selling business book,
The E-Myth Revisited, says in that book that "Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know, but because of their insatiable need to know more. The problem with most failing businesses I've encountered is not that their owners don't know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don't, but those things are easy enough to learn - but they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. The greatest businesspeople I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost."

Here is another interesting bit of information. Harvard Business School and INSEAD (the top European business
school) have concluded from research that the two most effective new business tools for twenty-first century executives are meditation and intuition. These are metaphysical subjects! Why?

Robert Kiyosaki, in his best-selling book Rich Dad, Poor
Dad, says that money is just an idea.

In fact, money is merely an 'energy exchange system', a
means of exchanging complimentary values built within any
two participants. The Way of the Business Warrior looks
under the hood to know how this all works, and uses that knowledge to create exact outcomes, to create and thrive instead of react and survive.

Henry Ford once said, "Whether you think you can or you
can't - either way you are right."

Everyone has things that they can do now that they could not
do before.

You can now walk while as a child you could not. The ground never changed, but you did.

You can now read while you once could not. The English
language never changed, but you did.

At one time, Bill Gates could not write software, now he
can. The world did not change, Bill did.

At one time, Oprah Winfrey did not have the attention of millions of people worldwide, now she has. The world did not change, Oprah did.

At one time, Jesus could not perform miracles, and then he
did. Miracles did not change, Jesus did.

At one time, the Buddha was not enlightened, and then he
was. The ways of the universe did not change, the Buddha
did.

As Deepak Chopra says, "Within every desire is the mechanics
of its fulfillment." And of course there is the famous quote
by Jesus Christ that says, "If you can? Anything is possible for him who believes."

Do you get the picture?

There are a million things that a great person can do now
that they could not do years ago. Why is that?

It is never those things that changed. What changed was the idea that this person had of himself or herself. Have you seen the movie The Matrix? When Neo changed his idea of himself, he was able to do the undoable. It is so with everyone.

Capability is nothing more than a shift in what you think
you are. What You Really Are is a being with infinite possibilities. Everyone is. We are all literally an idea.

As such, success is not something we can chase and get, it
is something that we attract by the persons we become. We become those persons by changing the idea of what we think we are.

The problem is not with the world. The problem, if there is one, is with your recognition of yourself and your world. The way you perceive and interpret yourself and your world is a system. Change that system, through seeking new truths, and you change your world. This is The Way of the Business Warrior.

Think now of a Karate dojo. In a dojo, the sensei gives you
an opponent to fight with. But your opponent is not really
an opponent. He or she is there simply to give you a
framework through which to test yourself. In a dojo, you get
to discover and learn about yourself, your flexibility,
focus, potential, and so on. You rapidly do so using the illusion of having an opponent to beat, go back and train, so you can come back and beat. But in reality, the dojo is merely a place where you can work on your inside. The externals, such as the opponent, merely give you a frame of reference to work on your inside. And the better you get inside, the more you master outside.

A business is the same. It is an inner work mirror, an inner training harness. Whatever successes you see in your business are a reflection of your inner state in that regard. Whatever challenges you face in business are a reflection of the illusions or fears you still hold and believe in. In fact, even childhood fearful events that you never resolve can show up in your business as negative business matters until you resolve them. The essence will be the same, but the context will change.

Carl Jung put it well when he said, "The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when an individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves."

And James Allen points out that "What you are, so is your world. Everything in the universe is resolved into your own inward experience. It matters little what is without, for it is all a reflection of your own state of consciousness. It matters everything what you are within, for everything without will be mirrored and colored accordingly."

The Way of the Business Warrior is to look at all things in
her or his business as fun challenges for inner work. The Business Warrior recognizes that things are not good or bad, blessings or curses, but all opportunities either for enjoyment or for finding new truths to break through to new levels. Even a really hard challenge has fruit hidden within it.

The choice is simple. You can either remain in the rat race
or join the eagles. A rat and an eagle have different
cognitive systems, different ways they perceive the world.

The Way of the Business Warrior is to change their cognitive system, for it is the only way to move from the rat race to the eagle's open skies. It is a choice to go through to the end without retreat, detached and open, asking why at all turns, asking for help, being unstoppable by refusing to stop, and moving forward with nothing to defend. As Carlos Castenada says, "Every living thing has been granted the power, if it so desires, to seek an opening to freedom and go through it."

"There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty." These are the words of Wallace D. Wattles.

You may have often wondered why some people seems to have
all the luck and others do not, even though they may
outwardly look to be more deserving. Now you are beginning
to see that The Way does not discriminate. The Laws work precisely, no matter who applies them. All that matters, therefore, is to know The Way. And in that, from one Business Warrior to another, I wish you the highest possible achievements.


If you wish to know more about this fascinating topic, click here:
The WEALTH FUNDAMENTALS

Blessings ,

Gavin