Updated: Soul Correction: Finish What You Start

Soul Correction: Finish What You Start

Update 7/10/2016:

The archetype is the flatterer scam artist. If you are their victim: They will hook you with their compliments, flattery, while suck you dry, take you for your last dime, without ever caring about you, and without ever delivering on what they said they would do.

If you are the person with this soul correction: You find yourself with projects half started, never finished. You find yourself getting enough satisfaction out of buying a self-improvement program, but you don"t actually listen to it or use it.

Your self-image is "insignificant." Maybe even weak, inconsequential, not important. Or you suffer from delusions of grandeur: you are or should be the best the best looking, the smartest, a hero... except that you are literally unwilling to do the work to make it happen... What"s in the way is that pesky "should already" be that. Or "it should be easy for me, even if it is hard for others"

You instinctively know who is a sucker, and you latch onto them. I must be a sucker: you are attracted to me... Why? How? I am sensitive to your flattery... that is MY weakness, and you know it.

It"s all a game.

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One path to Self you may want to take

One of the capacities you want to cultivate is the capacity of being in awe. Awestruck, awe-inspired.

Why? Because unless you can be moved on the inside, you are dead and I can"t help you... nobody can.

Unless you can attain to a certain level of awe, you are not going to be able to have a purpose to your life, or love, or rise above the pedestrian existence of the current humanity.

And no, I am not going to turn it on for you, please don"t ask.

This is a project you need to invent for yourself, and try to get in the state of awe. Inspiring stories, inspiring books, inspiring people, inspiring movies.

Awe is being present to the beyond... the beyond of the level where you are, the beyond of the knowable universe... from where all power comes.

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The sad guru... Paramahansa Yogananda

Yogananda... I have measured his vibration at different times, in different contexts, always having a different number come up. So today I spent some time in his space... to see what"s up.

Paramahansa Yogananda was a sad person. For two reasons, the two sides of the same coin: he had something that he wanted to share, and it wasn"t shareable.

His words are simply his idea what made him the way he was, and the words did not communicate. Did not do for others what they, he thought, did for him.

So, slowly but surely, his words became a lie. Now, he himself wasn"t the way he said people should be: he had sadness, grieving, devastation move into his heart.

And greed... wanting. Wanting it to be different. Wanting that burning go away from his throat and his upper chest.

And then it all fell apart... and what remained is pretense.

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5 Characteristics Of Grit -- How Many Do You Have?

Reprinted from Forbes... ((by Margaret M. Perlis I write about Excellence in practice, people, places & product.))

Recently some close friends visited, both of whom have worked in education with adolescents for over 40 years. We were talking about students in general and when I asked what has changed with regards to the character of kids, in unison they said “grit” – or more specifically, lack thereof. There seems to be growing concern among teachers that kids these days are growing soft.

When I took a deeper dive, I found that what my friends have been observing in-the-field, researchers have been measuring in the lab. The role grit plays in success has become a topic du jour, spearheaded by Angela Duckworth, who was catapulted to the forefront of the field after delivering a TED talk which has since been viewed well over a  million times.

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I am changing... Why aren"t you?

I have been changing. Subtly.

The biggest problem with subtle changes is that they go unnoticed. And if you are like most people, you want encouragement, you want people to see that you are becoming something better.

But your environment is about as aware and as present as you are, which means: not very. And besides they are busy having their head up their ass... so until you are very very very different, they don"t notice it.

A good example is your weight: if you drop two dress sizes... then they notice it. But if you are doing it right, in a sustainable fashion, it"s taken you months... And for those months you had gotten no feedback.

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The only spiritual practice that raises your vibration, and can take you all the way

If you live a fragmented life... your life is full of wanting to, having to, needing to and should.

The common thread that can unify your life, the different areas, is who you are.

But if you don"t know who you are, then you consider yourself the different roles you play in different circumstances, with different people... and there is no YOU to unify your life.

Life is horrible for a person like that. Disease settles in the space between what is real and what is pretended. The inner tension uses up all the energy that could be used for life, for the immune system to kill the nasties, invaders, viruses, cancer cells, toxins.

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Arrogance.

I have been dealing with arrogance in my students.

Arrogance is unearned boastful superiority.
Most people don"t know, don"t care because they themselves are not achievers... but you can have confidence that is justified by your accomplishments, your superior knowledge.

To the uninitiated, they look and sound the same. But they aren"t. You only need to scratch the surface.

I have detected a certain ancestral commonality in that behavior.

And have been pondering why and how and for what purpose are certain nationalities arrogant.

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Updated: Hungry? Eager? How resisting "hunger" can raise your vibration.

Hunger is a poor advisor
It is said by many people, that you shouldn"t go grocery shopping when you are hungry.

Why? Because when you are hungry, the context of your being becomes to satisfy that hunger. Everything seems to be the answer to the question: this is the best way to eliminate hunger, to satisfy hunger.

So you end up spending money on stuff that is not good for you, that you should not have bought, maybe ever, in the first place.
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Get well first. I can"t take people to spiritual growth unless they are well

Source says: You can"t take people to spiritual growth, people who are not well... This is the signal I have been waiting for.

To be able to do Source"s work, I have surrendered to giving you what you want.

You want to grow? Then you want to be well? Not my favorite topic, not as high minded as I hoped I will work... but Source says: I can"t take people to spiritual growth, people who are not well.

Maslow has said it, and it should be self evident: unless your basics are covered, money, health, you won"t have any interest and any energy to give to spiritual growth.

So I have surrendered... OK. I"ll get you well. If that is what I need to do so I can take you to the level of human being... which requires serious spiritual growth, new capacities, new way of being.

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Call me blunt, call me judgmental... I don"t care.

I am going to share, in this article, some of the judgmental sounding questions I ask when I try to get a full picture about someone who is asking for help.

As you probably don"t know, judgment comes from ego, from comparison. I am smart and you are stupid... that is judgment.

You are stupid isn"t judgment unless you feel something in your chest or throat as you say it. Unless it means something about you.

I feel nothing, or maybe sadness, when I ask these assessment question... that help me make sense out of the convoluted picture each person is.

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You are in trouble... And you don"t know that you don"t know that you are in trouble

One of the most educational experiences is to listen in to Dr Wallach"s radio show.

It"s on youtube. But before you rush, let me tell you what to listen for.

People ask about a disease. A problem. Although Dr. Wallach"s approach is not disease+fixing directed, he needed to learn how to ask questions that drive up the actual nutritional deficiency issues, so he can address the underlying deficiency, instead of providing a fix that makes no difference.
One question he repeatedly asks and a question that seems totally irrelevant, is this: Was there childhood rash? ((
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmWTLmCqpHI&list=PLhEsUt1QY8ndXofeeUevvN4GFL0GbWsyg&index=12))He also asks, repeatedly about childhood asthma.

I have been pondering these two questions, and I finally cracked the mystery with regards to one of them: the rash, and I am starting to see the relevance of asthma.

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What is health?

A German who escaped just before all the Jews were hoarded into concentration camps in Germany, came to the United States.

His name was Robert Hartman.

His experience with evil uniquely qualified him to set out to deal with the age long question: what is evil, what is good?

He took on himself to define good... the strait and narrow. Many philosophers failed in that: after all the strait and narrow is delineated by the land that encloses it, not by itself...

But he succeeded.

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Osho on Knowledge and Knowing

ASCENDING TO THE HIGH SEAT, DOGEN ZENJI SAID: "ZEN MASTER HOGEN STUDIED WITH KEISHIN ZENJI.
ONCE KEISHIN ZENJI ASKED HIM, JOZA, WHERE DO YOU GO?"
HOGEN SAID. "I AM MAKING PILGRIMAGE AIMLESSLY."
KEISHIN SAID, "WHAT IS THE MATTER OF YOUR PILGRIMAGE?"
HOGEN SAID, "I DON"T KNOW."
KEISHIN SAID, "NOT KNOWING IS THE MOST INTIMATE."
HOGEN SUDDENLY ATTAINED GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT."
ZEN IS JUST ZEN. There is nothing comparable to it. It is unique -- unique in the sense that it is the most ordinary and yet the most extraordinary phenomenon that has happened to human consciousness. It is the most ordinary because it does not believe in knowledge, it does not believe in mind. It is not a philosophy, not a religion either. It is the acceptance of the ordinary existence with a total heart, with one"s total being, not desiring some other world, supra-mundane, supra-mental.

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The natural law that prevents you from growing

What is the natural law that prevents you from having human being capacities while preserving the seed of right and wrong.

Just like the seed needs to die, before the plant can grow, a new version of humanity depends on the seed dying.

The seed level characteristics of the new version of humanity that prevent evolution are all behaviors, attitudes that are based in scarcity.

How do you recognize scarcity?

There are many, all fear based, but one behavior I just recently discovered, that in fact the behavior comes from a scarcity way of being.

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The poisonous tree that you are... and what you can do about it...

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” —Marie Curie, Our Precarious Habitat

The "What"s The Truth About You" workshop series is kicking off this afternoon.

As usual I haven"t done any preparation: I never do. I like my life, my teaching fluid. Freezing it would be to ignore guidance, stop growing, and start becoming a sculpture on a pedestal.

I slept well last night. I had a ton of guiding dreams. All about what I am trying to do in the workshop this afternoon: take you over the threshold between human and human being.

Being human means being a poisonous tree.

You weren"t born that, you became that. You are poisonous in predictable ways, along predictable lines, predicted by your soul correction.

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What"s the truth about you? Your health

Trace minerals... what do you need to know


I have been doing these 90 essential nutrient evaluations for about a month now.

Yesterday I had some time and tested a few people I know, clients, readers, friends, and emailed them my findings... at least the numbers.

I sent an email to one of my clients, and she wrote back arguing. I had a typo in the email... by mistake I wrote that she had 90 of the 90 essentials missing... obvious typo.

But yet, there is a question that she didn"t ask, and I want to ask it for her, so you can learn something.

Trace minerals are needed in higher quantities when you are under stress.

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Updated: Learning lessons the hard way or the easy way: choose

You can make the same mistake, over and over, expecting different results.
You can eventually learns from your mistakes, but you insist on making them a few times...
You can learn from other people"s mistakes.

I am not talking here about your IQ? About ability?

I am talking about behavior. Behavior that comes from your world view, your self-view, and the number of the capacities you are wielding...

To consider doing things differently needs a modicum of humility. Modicum means: a little bit. Most people have none... Just watch a 3-year old: "Don"t tell me what to do! I know!" yells the little boy... and they freeze into that attitude.

Humility is a capacity. Without some humility there in no curiosity, there is not real learning, there is no experimentation, thought or otherwise, there is not growth.

If you are a fatalist or determinist, ((religious?)) you probably have no humility.
If you find the juice in life in being a victim: you probably want no humility.

Thought experiments are tools for growth, tools for evolution...  ((Occasionally you can do the thought experiment in an illustrated form, like a mind map, or in the case of military: on the war map. You need less intelligence to do it in an illustrated fashion, and the accuracy of the thought experiment is very much in question... You can be seduced by the physical activity of writing and drawing... feeling really smart...))

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Living Dangerously: The habits that keep us feling safe, small, bankrupt, and feeling dead UPDATED

I had a one-on-one session with a student yesterday.

Sometimes I notice something "out"... something that doesn"t fit the picture, and just like a good detective, I latch onto it, and watch it, and if I can, I use it to unravel the mystery someone"s life is.

But sometimes it takes a while to really identify what it is that doesn"t fit... it is just a hunch, it is just a feeling... like the faint scent of death for a search dog...

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What if you have something blocking you from growing? The Seven Boulders principle

Some ten years ago I learned a valuable way of looking at making life meaningful, or living a meaningful life. The teacher suggested that we pick a horizon, a direction, and then look what"s blocking the way of getting there.

Since then I saw that even seeing the horizon is blocked... Blocked by seven boulders, lined up one behind the other, blocking your view, blocking your movement.

So, in my coaching practice, when I ask people to set a direction, and they can"t see any, I am inclined to suggest that they choose the direction: living a meaningful live, or a fulfilled life... without specifying what it is.

The goal is to see the first boulder that blocks your view, that blocks your path.

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Updated: So you want to feel special... how is it going for you?

So you want to feel special?

We are all special, if special means, as special as our thumbprint... But that is not special enough for you, is it?

You want to be SPECIAL... so you can be treated special... a special talent, outstanding, mind boggling, awesome, the best.

In this article I will shed light to an important phenomenon that we are all experiencing... the ITCH, that keeps us miserable, and the HORIZON that keeps us on track, sane, happy and always well.

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