I was in a meeting this week, a one on one session with this spiritual, intelligent man who is facilitating a course that I am taking. During this meeting, I was explaining in a nutshell what I am trying to do professionally in my life. How the life coaching is taking off and how that I am acting as a support services co-ordinator.
I was surprised at how detailed this guy's insights were into my character, as I don't remember meeting him before at all.
At one point I was saying something sheepishly about perhaps taking too much onto my plate and that might have a tendency to backfire. I was thinking that simplicity might be the real cure, I was actually sure that he would agree with my clarity in that moment.
However, he looked me straight in the eyes and told me that he worked with people like Madonna in the past, and that the only way for me to actually reach the levels I want to reach is to actually have the desire and the action of reaching for much more. Rick you can reach higher, the more you get, the more you can share, the happier you will be.
Ok, I thought, what an inspiring message, but can I really pull this off? Do I really have that much to say? Based on this series of blogs I might not, but there is something underneath that is untapped.
There is this great quote that I have put on my wall from the Indian philosopher Pantanjali. Quite honestly, I had never heard of him, until I read this quote from the Sharma book.
"WHEN YOU ARE INSPIRED BY SOME GREAT PURPOSE, SOME EXTRAORDINARY PROJECT, ALL YOUR THOUGHTS BREAK THEIR BONDS: YOUR MIND TRANSCENDS LIMITATIONS, YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANDS IN EVERY DIRECTION AND YOU FIND YOURSELF IN A NEW, GREAT AND WONDERFUL WORLD. DORMANT FORCES, FACULTIES AND TALENTS BECOME ALIVE AND YOU DISCOVER YOURSELF TO BE A GREATER PERSON THAN YOU EVER DREAMED YOURSELF TO BE."
Brilliantly said. I know that when I am working on a project that is forward in thinking and spiritual in content and actually reaches other people, time seems to go very slowly during the process. Love it.
I do have those moments however where I think, where does a guy who sabotaged his youth with drugs and alcohol and had a revolving door of interesting woman basically complicating his narcissistic existence. Where does this guy get the depth and the back story necessary to influence other people in a positive way? I suppose it comes from personal honesty and discovery. It all remains to be seen. I may not influence anyone but myself and that will be fine in the end.
In the continuing pattern of synchronicity that is part of my life. I am lucky to be a part of a new relationship which seems to be based on integrity and truth and the like attracts like concept. I want to elaborate on this, but there is no need to synthesize and analyze at the same time, especially in this case.
I feel comfortable however elaborating on this surprising woman I have met recently through my work.. She is the event co-ordinator for a motivational speaker that I happened to be reading voraciously at the time of our introduction. We were in sync very quickly out of the gate. She also wears a number of other hats, including, opening a website for addiction therapy, she is a master hypnotist, she is a mother of two, and she is a practitioner of Reiki.
From a few minutes into our first meeting we were laughing and challenging each others mental boundaries in a playful but respectful way. I am very happy to say that we are going to be working together as partners in crime in the near future.
The funny thing is that she has said from point one that she really wants to give me a better understanding of her hypnotism process by putting me under..
"I do it all the time to my husband and he gets alot out of it" Great I thought. "And I never make him bark like a dog while under although the kids request it, and I could probably do it" Not so great....
Ok, so she is coming over next Friday to put me under and get to some core issues..Should I be totally open to this or slightly petrified. I suppose it is simply a fear based on whether I can trust her with my deepest secrets, why the hell not. You are only as sick as your secrets anyway.
I wanted to end today by saying that I don't give other people enough credit sometimes for their mentorship or influence on me. There have been alot of people recently that have really been quite powerful by example.
However about a year and a half ago I met a man who was the father of a person I was close to.. I didn't really know too much about him except that he was a friendly, likeable, former Buddhist philosopher and child of the sixties...
He started a company that was one of the first to come up with the technology for tracking bears in the wild for studies and environmental purposes; as well as he had this Island that he raised his family on in the summers that was complete with solar power long before it was in vogue. This I found very cool.
This soft spoken affable guy had seemed to do it all with dignity. Raise a gifted daughter, recover from health issues, change countries he lived in based on political principle. He even was a prolific musician.
He man was a good example of what can be accomplished by being proactive and yet staying anchored in the moment, the music of the moment. I never got to tell him and thank him however,it would probably have been awkward, that is why I write this thing, so I have the opportunity to say thank you or whatever else might be flowing out of this ageing mind.
My spiritual teacher actually said on Thursday that "aging" is simply the loss of DESIRE and nothing more. We can all make a conscious effort to work on getting back our DESIRE in a big way. I am not speaking of lustful desire, I am speaking of INTENTION.
My DESIRE IS BACK That's all for now. Cheers.
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