I was in Montreal last weekend and loved the opportunity to get away from the computer completely for five days. I love the computer, and I love the internet, both for the opportunities they bring and the possibilities for learning and communication. And I also love to take time every once in a while do to something completely different from my usual routine. It helps me expand my thinking.
Anyway, this week I just wanted to mention that I read Joe Vitale's new book Zero Limits ... and I have to say that I felt my awareness shift, open and expand with every page. My body felt so relaxed as I was able to let go and forgive myself for so many things I have been carrying with me.
The central message is that you are your reality and when you accept that and take full responsibility for it, forgiving yourself and using love to heal yourself heals your reality. In other words:
You are your world. Heal yourself and you heal your world.
It's the first book that I've read that promotes the idea that one person is responsible for, and can heal, the entire planet. And that person is YOU. There is nothing outside of you. Your world is in you. Heal yourself, heal your world. I love it!
Most people my age (and especially guys who want to act tough), scoff at the idea of forgiveness and saying "I love you", and even at the idea of healing yourself. That's for sissies, right?
Just try it, for real, and you'll see. There is nothing sissy about it. You don't even need to say it out loud. What this book is, is a doorway to power. True power. A reality with Zero Limits. I don't know about you, but I love that idea. Total freedom, Zero Limits. Oh yeah.
After consistently using what I learned in this book for the past few weeks, I am already feeling relaxed to the point where my entire body is comfortably warm and the energy flows consistently throughout my arms and legs. I am calm with an easy smile and added brightness in my eyes. My breathing is deeper and more relaxed. I know I am powerful. Finally. I knew it all along. Now I feel it. Now I can start living it.
Thank you for this.
CHB
Copyright © Charles Begin
Friday, August 31, 2007
Saturday, August 18, 2007
A Swift Kick - Part 2
Ah yes, fear.
The greatest block to everything in the universe. It acts like a thick cloud of darkness that stimulates all kinds of strange and horrible images of all the worse that could happen.
You could trip. You could fall. You could get hurt. You could die. You could lose everything... People could laugh... Aren't those the sort of thoughts that prance around in your mind when you start to feel the fear of the unknown? Isn't that the sort of thing you worry about when you're afraid? You say to yourself, "what if I fail? What if I miss something and it all goes horribly wrong? What if I can't do it? Why do I even bother? This is stupid, I always get my hopes up...". And that's how we defeat ourselves.
We fail because we feel the fear and convince ourselves that all we can experience is failure... or petty success that feels just like failure.
Of course, there is an answer to the question of fear. To overcome fear, or at least move forward in spite of fear, focus on its opposite. It is a movement towards courage. That is the first step. To "feel the fear and do it anyway" as Susan Jeffers encourages. To find our power and move forward. In other words, to give yourself a swift kick in the rear and get going. That's usually something that happens only when people reach the breaking point, where they think, "I can't go on like this... I've had enough!" and they move into what Tony Robbins called "massive action" and total life transformation.
And that's how it starts. First, we feel tremendous pain that pushes us to the edge. Then we find courage. Eventually, we move deeper and deeper into greater courage through many stages of acceptance of personal responsibility for everything in your life and releasing of attachment to specific outcomes until finally we arrive at total fearlessness.
Yes. Total Fearlessness. Where everything could happen as before, or 100 times worse, and you feel no fear at all. You are just a watcher, although perhaps slightly curious...
Fearlessness is very near the opposite end of fear on the emotional spectrum. Yet it's still not quite it's opposite. Fearlessness is an absence of fear, it isn't really anything itself. It's more like a vacuum which needs to be filled with something, otherwise it will revert back to its opposite - just like the relationship with the yin and the yang.
So, what is the opposite of fear?
"The opposite of fear... is love," as Steven Pressfield writes in Gates of Fire.
The opposite of fear is love.
Take a deep breath and think about that for a minute.
...
What does that mean?
The opposite of fear is love.
It means that instead of thinking about all the bad things that you fear about making the changes that you desire, focus on all the good that you love that will come out of that change. The more you think about what you love, the more your mind will get into the habit of thinking about what you love. And thinking about what you love will fill you with the energy and joy to make it happen. And that's how you get over fear and actually accomplish something.
Focus on what you love. It will envelop your mind, and soon, your entire reality.
JOYGASM!
Haha!
Go for it. Be fearless.
Life is your garden, cultivate all that you love.
CHB
Copyright © Charles Begin
The greatest block to everything in the universe. It acts like a thick cloud of darkness that stimulates all kinds of strange and horrible images of all the worse that could happen.
You could trip. You could fall. You could get hurt. You could die. You could lose everything... People could laugh... Aren't those the sort of thoughts that prance around in your mind when you start to feel the fear of the unknown? Isn't that the sort of thing you worry about when you're afraid? You say to yourself, "what if I fail? What if I miss something and it all goes horribly wrong? What if I can't do it? Why do I even bother? This is stupid, I always get my hopes up...". And that's how we defeat ourselves.
We fail because we feel the fear and convince ourselves that all we can experience is failure... or petty success that feels just like failure.
Of course, there is an answer to the question of fear. To overcome fear, or at least move forward in spite of fear, focus on its opposite. It is a movement towards courage. That is the first step. To "feel the fear and do it anyway" as Susan Jeffers encourages. To find our power and move forward. In other words, to give yourself a swift kick in the rear and get going. That's usually something that happens only when people reach the breaking point, where they think, "I can't go on like this... I've had enough!" and they move into what Tony Robbins called "massive action" and total life transformation.
And that's how it starts. First, we feel tremendous pain that pushes us to the edge. Then we find courage. Eventually, we move deeper and deeper into greater courage through many stages of acceptance of personal responsibility for everything in your life and releasing of attachment to specific outcomes until finally we arrive at total fearlessness.
Yes. Total Fearlessness. Where everything could happen as before, or 100 times worse, and you feel no fear at all. You are just a watcher, although perhaps slightly curious...
Fearlessness is very near the opposite end of fear on the emotional spectrum. Yet it's still not quite it's opposite. Fearlessness is an absence of fear, it isn't really anything itself. It's more like a vacuum which needs to be filled with something, otherwise it will revert back to its opposite - just like the relationship with the yin and the yang.
So, what is the opposite of fear?
"The opposite of fear... is love," as Steven Pressfield writes in Gates of Fire.
The opposite of fear is love.
Take a deep breath and think about that for a minute.
...
What does that mean?
The opposite of fear is love.
It means that instead of thinking about all the bad things that you fear about making the changes that you desire, focus on all the good that you love that will come out of that change. The more you think about what you love, the more your mind will get into the habit of thinking about what you love. And thinking about what you love will fill you with the energy and joy to make it happen. And that's how you get over fear and actually accomplish something.
Focus on what you love. It will envelop your mind, and soon, your entire reality.
JOYGASM!
Haha!
Go for it. Be fearless.
Life is your garden, cultivate all that you love.
CHB
Copyright © Charles Begin
Monday, August 13, 2007
A Swift Kick - Part 1
Most people want to change something about themselves. Whether it's something that has to do with their health, their wealth, or their relationships, there always seems to be something wrong with everyone (I do include myself in this critique, by the way).
There is a very tiny, minuscule, infinitesimally small portion of the population throughout history that has realized that everything in the universe is perfect and exactly as it should be in every single moment... yes, even that rude woman who cut you off, and even that cat who comes and shits in your flowerbed.
You would not be the person you are right now without all of those experiences... good or bad. And those experiences have led you here. To the place where you now have the desire to change for the better.
Face it, if you feel comfortable, you want to stay were you are. We need pain to push us forward. And it comes in different ways.
There is the physical discomfort of being unhealthy or fighting disease. There is the psychological pain of having a body that is perceived as being ugly. There is the suffering of wanting something and being incapable of having it, or losing it. I could go on, and on.
So what now? You feel the pain, and it sucks. You don't want to feel the pain anymore. So what can you do?
Well, there are two options:
1. Resort to drugs or alcohol or any other substance or activity (like losing yourself playing games online, or shopping, or training, ect.) to try to take your mind off the pain or numb it.
2. Face it head on and figure out what you can do to improve your situation and move forward towards the ideal that you dream of.
Class, can anyone tell me which one of those two options will be better for you in the course of your life? Wow, look at all those hands up in the air! It seems that everyone knows the answer to this one!
But if everyone knows the answer, why are there still so many who live with this constant pain?
It might have something to do with fear.
To Be Continued...
Copyright © Charles Begin
There is a very tiny, minuscule, infinitesimally small portion of the population throughout history that has realized that everything in the universe is perfect and exactly as it should be in every single moment... yes, even that rude woman who cut you off, and even that cat who comes and shits in your flowerbed.
You would not be the person you are right now without all of those experiences... good or bad. And those experiences have led you here. To the place where you now have the desire to change for the better.
Face it, if you feel comfortable, you want to stay were you are. We need pain to push us forward. And it comes in different ways.
There is the physical discomfort of being unhealthy or fighting disease. There is the psychological pain of having a body that is perceived as being ugly. There is the suffering of wanting something and being incapable of having it, or losing it. I could go on, and on.
So what now? You feel the pain, and it sucks. You don't want to feel the pain anymore. So what can you do?
Well, there are two options:
1. Resort to drugs or alcohol or any other substance or activity (like losing yourself playing games online, or shopping, or training, ect.) to try to take your mind off the pain or numb it.
2. Face it head on and figure out what you can do to improve your situation and move forward towards the ideal that you dream of.
Class, can anyone tell me which one of those two options will be better for you in the course of your life? Wow, look at all those hands up in the air! It seems that everyone knows the answer to this one!
But if everyone knows the answer, why are there still so many who live with this constant pain?
It might have something to do with fear.
To Be Continued...
Copyright © Charles Begin
Monday, August 6, 2007
Learn From This Misktake
I made a mistake and only just realized it.
What's more, it's a mistake that pretty much every single person in the world has done, or does. What is it?
I made the mistake of telling myself that I was just too busy right now to write something for my blog, and I even convinced myself (temporarily), that I was taking a break from writing these posts so that I could write something really really good. In other words, instead of living fully now, and simply taking a minute here and there to write a short message every week, I set it aside and told myself (and you) that I was working on something really big (*see last post).
I meant it when I said it. At least I thought I did. I even said the same thing about practicing my guitar (I haven't touched it in three months!), "I'm too busy... too tired... not enough time...I'll catch up later...I'm focusing on what's more important for the moment, ect".
The truth is that each and every one of us make up excuses for not doing the things we really want to do, or have to do to reach our chosen destination. Yes, there are always things to do. Yes, it can be difficult sometimes to find the time. But there is a solution.
This solution is in 3 parts:
1. Know what you love and enjoy.
2. Eliminate/delegate or outsource what you don't love and enjoy.
3. Do more of what you love and enjoy.
Very simple, yes?
Complete? In the general sense, yes.
The whole point is to create space for yourself. To create space and time (or 'spacetime' as they would say in physics) so that there is room for the good and the fun to enter into your life. Just like the old Zen story about the overflowing cup of tea, most of us have way too much going on at the same time, and we cannot see the beauty that surrounds us. When our lives are full, there is no room for anything new. Just like the cup, we must empty ourselves so that we may be filled with new life.
To experience something new in your life, you must make room for it.
You must clear the clutter, give away the old clothes and possessions, and spend less time in activities and with people that are burning you up or not enriching your life in any way. Once that space is made, only then can it be filled with other objects of greater beauty, loving people and even more wonderful experiences.
And don't wait for the time to be "just right".
Don't say "later I will", or "someday, when I have more of...".
Know what you love, what you enjoy, what you really want for yourself. Then take whatever steps you can think of to start moving towards the realisation of that reality. Do something. Anything, to get started. To get some momentum. AND KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING.
It may take some time, so start now. Right this instant. Be honest. You know the first thing to do. Go do it.
Now that I've gotten back to my writting, I'm going to play a little bit of guitar...
Charles
Copyright © Charles Begin
What's more, it's a mistake that pretty much every single person in the world has done, or does. What is it?
I made the mistake of telling myself that I was just too busy right now to write something for my blog, and I even convinced myself (temporarily), that I was taking a break from writing these posts so that I could write something really really good. In other words, instead of living fully now, and simply taking a minute here and there to write a short message every week, I set it aside and told myself (and you) that I was working on something really big (*see last post).
I meant it when I said it. At least I thought I did. I even said the same thing about practicing my guitar (I haven't touched it in three months!), "I'm too busy... too tired... not enough time...I'll catch up later...I'm focusing on what's more important for the moment, ect".
The truth is that each and every one of us make up excuses for not doing the things we really want to do, or have to do to reach our chosen destination. Yes, there are always things to do. Yes, it can be difficult sometimes to find the time. But there is a solution.
This solution is in 3 parts:
1. Know what you love and enjoy.
2. Eliminate/delegate or outsource what you don't love and enjoy.
3. Do more of what you love and enjoy.
Very simple, yes?
Complete? In the general sense, yes.
The whole point is to create space for yourself. To create space and time (or 'spacetime' as they would say in physics) so that there is room for the good and the fun to enter into your life. Just like the old Zen story about the overflowing cup of tea, most of us have way too much going on at the same time, and we cannot see the beauty that surrounds us. When our lives are full, there is no room for anything new. Just like the cup, we must empty ourselves so that we may be filled with new life.
To experience something new in your life, you must make room for it.
You must clear the clutter, give away the old clothes and possessions, and spend less time in activities and with people that are burning you up or not enriching your life in any way. Once that space is made, only then can it be filled with other objects of greater beauty, loving people and even more wonderful experiences.
And don't wait for the time to be "just right".
Don't say "later I will", or "someday, when I have more of...".
Know what you love, what you enjoy, what you really want for yourself. Then take whatever steps you can think of to start moving towards the realisation of that reality. Do something. Anything, to get started. To get some momentum. AND KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING.
It may take some time, so start now. Right this instant. Be honest. You know the first thing to do. Go do it.
Now that I've gotten back to my writting, I'm going to play a little bit of guitar...
Charles
Copyright © Charles Begin
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