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NATURAL SPIRITUALITY - the value of Real Spirituality in Everyday Life
Every single person I meet has a dream. Some, GOT TO people have 30 second dreams. Those are important. Some LOVE TO people have 300 year dreams. Those are equally important.
The time frame of a person’s dream is totally dependant on their perceived circumstances. If we feel unsafe or insecure we’ll shorten the dream. The most extreme circumstances are life threatening, and that’s often why people create “heavenly pacts.” They just turn their earthly time frame into seconds, and replace it with an infinite heavenly one. Many medittators do this too by creating the idea of enlightenment as an escape from life.
The more desperate we are, the shorter our time frame. This is a very important awareness for a leader, looking to inspire a team. If one individual is in a desperate situation, they’ll draw the whole team into that short term thinking. And desperate people do desperate things.
What I find even more fascinating is that it’s the lowest of our seven areas that dictates the rhythm of the rest.
I was meditating in a cave, I guess becoming quite awakened spiritually, when I noticed a dull ache in my big toe. “Irrelevant” I said to myself, and continued the meditation. After a few days, “irrelevant” became quite painful, and then started to go greenie -blue around the edges. Another 24hours of excruciating pain and irrelevant was in control. I meditated on it, I worried about it. It kept me awake at night. And, my program started to become uncertain because i started to worry about getting medical help. Soon I would have to crawl down the mountain to go for help.
There I was, Mr. Enlightenment, sitting in a cave in the mountains of Nepal, being dictated to by my big toe. What sort of meditation is that? But this is life.
We might have 7 wonderful ambitions and aspirations: A V.I.P in each area of our life. And with all sincerity we might really mean it, but if one of those 7 areas, sort of like my big toe in meditation, starts to operate at a desperation level, the other 6 become secondary.
So, the lady who came to Nepal with great intent, but with a variety of conflicting ambitions, was just operating as nature intended; at the lowest one.
So, we might be in LOVE TO in 6 areas of our life, but if that last one, the seventh is operating at a GOT TO level, it runs the ship.
When I had my engineering business I had 6 out of 7 too. I had wealth, relationship, health, social, career, financial, but even though I didn’t know what it meant, I didn’t have my spiritual side worked out.
I was an ungratefull bastard, living in a spiritual GOT TO world, as low as it gets. I thought I had everything under control. I want’s even aware that there was a Spiritual area of life.
Spirituality is about happiness with life as it is. As long as it’s not polluted with religion, which has a completely different function, spirituality can really bring a sense of health and wellness to our lives by creating gratitude for what we’ve already got.
The Western model of life omits Spirituality. When I speak about spirituality at corporate events people stay away. They think spirituality is some sort of religious doctrine. I understand their suspicion, as I said, I didn’t even know there was a spiritual dimension in the balance of life.
I disguised spirituality in the first 3 chapters of this book. The mission of spirituality, the Eastern model of success, is to be happy, content and grateful in the Now. Not tomorrow, or next week, not when the project is over or the money is in the bank. Spirituality is about being connected in the Now.
I really didn’t even know there was a spirituality. All my education, including two university degrees, a full awareness of religion, Yoga and some meditation, and I still didn’t know.
And I’m not alone. For the vast majority of people, there’s religion and that’s the end of it.
But spirituality can help you be successful, healthy, balanced, in love and happy. Spirituality is the science of Now, this moment, contentment, and although this is only half what life has to offer, it’s a big half.
Because I didn’t know how to Stop, I didn’t know how to listen, and because I didn’t know how to listen, to my own inner voice and the feelings of others, I missed a lot of corners. I banged walls.
For me, the only guidance was from experience and those experiences were usually quite costly. Either losing huge amounts of money, or doing things that had short term pleasure but long term pain. Spirituality could have saved me stacks of money, and certainly a lot of heart ache.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Walker on -
And, there’s another benefit. Spirituality is the deliberate short cut to three things that are really important for success:
Love - Learning to TURN-UP.
Happiness - Learning to be CONTENT with what I’ve got
Vision - Learning to be INSPIRED about the future
I don’t know about you, but for me, all the success in the world would not be worth having without those three. And the clumsy process of hoping they come along when we most want them, doesn’t work. So, Spirituality is a short cut to things I, and from my experience, all human beings really want.
Someone to love
Something to do
Something to look forward to.
The beaut thing about Natural Spirituality is that there’s a real independence involved. You’re not mimicking somebody, following a guru, imitating a teacher. They are all helpful, but eating half cooked chicken is as bad as eating a raw one. Natural Spirituality is a ladder, a process that adapts and changes with you everyday of your life. It explains things, so you stay cool, it cuts through things so you stay in Love and it opens the door to your heart which is where your V.I.P exists.
Natural Spirituality does not promise masses of gold or rainbows. No, those things are up to you.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Walker on
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This guy had the guts to post this on his internet page
YES, I'M A BAD AMERICAN
I Am the Liberal-Progressives Worst Nightmare.
I am an American..
I am a Master Mason and believe in God.
I ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles and believe in American products.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some Liberal governmental functionary be it Democratic or Republican!
I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!
I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer, it makes you a smart American.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized,
and does not entitle you to anything. Get over it!
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I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.
My heroes are John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and Willie G. Davidson that makes the Awesome Harley Davidson Motorcycles.
I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.
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I've never owned a slave, or was a slave, I haven't burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks and neither have you!
So, shut up already.
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go back to where you came from and change your own country!
This is AMERICA ....We like it the way it is!
If you were born here and don't like it you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you..
I want to know which church is it exactly where the Reverend Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution.
Can I get an AMEN on that one?
I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you're breaking the law, regardless of what color you are.
And, no, I don't mind having my face shown on my drivers license.
I think it's good.... And I'm proud that 'God' is written on my money.
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the next four years.
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If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I'm a BAD American.
If you are a BAD American too, please forward this to everyone you know.
We want our country back!
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Permalink Reply by Chris Walker on
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When we can’t STOP and find Love, Happiness and Vision right here in this moment, we start groping for things. Then the other six areas of life become imbalanced too.
I remember going to a seminar with an American motivational speaker. I came out the front door after the weekend, forgiving everything and totally committed to manifesting my dreams. It was an EGO based Spirituality. I had no idea about that. I felt so happy, so empowered. I became blinded to reality.
The promise that had presented itself was to “Do what you love and love what you do.” Great, but someone might have been wise to add, only jump when you’re good enough.
My EGO was so pumped and all done in the name of spirituality that I just jumped tracks, and changed my life. Nature evolves things it rarely jumps tracks, if ever.
So, following a “Guru” I got pumped up, invested in my “spiritual” side, and ended up in a field where my skills were not adequate, but my affirmations were meant to carry me through.
I’ve seen this EGO based Spirituality many times in other people since then. There is a DVD which claims some sort of “Power of Attraction.” and this is very motivating. It taps straight to the EGO and makes people feel almost God like.
There are six other areas of life that are instrumental in creating happiness. That idea of ‘drawing what you want toward you” is complete and utter rubbish if, it is taken in complete isolation to our capacity to manage, be happy without it, love, be content and most importantly, have the skill to back it up.
One lady came to me for help, she was so angry. She had divorced her ex, he wasn’t right, and she wanted a new partner. Now, with respect she was no “spring chicken” and was quite bitter. He aspiration was for a hunk guy, 20 years younger than her, wealthy and delicious. And I was wondering what made her believe that that guy would be happy to stay with her. I wasn’t judging the possibility, I was just looking at the 6 areas of life she wasn’t considering because for her, as long as she wrote it down, and made it her intent, it’d come true.
Reality is such the most honest and beautiful truth. We get what we’re ready for. This includes Spirituality, but is not dictated by that. Success is a holistic thing. Health is as important as Wealth is as important as Spirituality. Let’s keep this in context. A happy person is not just happy in the Now because of mind games, their future is confident, they can pay their rent, they are “good at” what they do. It’s a package. All things are connected.
And what might be shocking is to know that whichever area is at the lowest, dictates the destiny of the rest.
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