What is your attitude towards the new? How do you respond to new things? Do you immediately set up "evaluative" blocks -- which are defensive in nature -- before you decide that the new is worth welcoming?
Remember, life is change -- there is no constancy, though it may seem like this. And in fact, many social, political and other structures are designed to create this appearance of "certainty" -- of permanence.
However, such a creation is fundamentally against the very nature of the world. The world is driven by change; by flow. It's a river -- not a rock.
In your life, pay attention to how you accept or don't accept the new. Are you inviting? Are you flowing?
One of the hardest things for people to do is, well, not to do what the title of this blog asks you to do: don't chase success.
After all, we're guided by the "advice" that we must strive and put effort to achieve things. So how can we not chase success? Isn't that basically telling us to become passive vegetables?
No -- because you should still strive to do things, and put effort, and indeed, pay attention to whatever task you have in front of you; whether it's running a company or making a cup of tea. The lesson here, however, is that you shouldn't reduce what you're doing to a means of achieving success; you shouldn't neglect your current task because it's simply a part of something called success.
When you chase success, you stop paying attention to the HOW, and you become obsessively focused on the WHAT. As such, you simply lose the power of the present moment; or what EckhartTolle calls, The Power of Now.
NOW is where your power is. NOW is where you have to pay attention.
For the next few days, try a very simple and extremely "user friendly" experiment. Track your life.
Really. Take a piece of paper, and throughout the day, track both what you're doing and just as importantly: how you're feeling.
You don't have to take detailed notes; this is a friendly little experience, after all, and you no doubt have other things to do! Just jot down little notes.
After a few days -- and not before! -- reflect back on your notes and see if you notice some very interesting patterns. Chances are, much to your surprise -- and possibly delight or even possibly your shock -- you may find that you have so much more control over your life than you may currently realize. Little things like when you sleep, what you eat, who you interact with, even what you watch on TV or listen to on the radio can profoundly influence how you experience life.
Remember, self-help is always about the ordinary -- don't try and make big, huge changes. Make small, simple ones -- one at a time, and then see how they work together to transform your life for the better!
Questions are still being asked to me about The Sequel to The Secret?
We are starting to hear whispers from some of our contacts about The Sequel not being too far away . At this stage they are still very small whispers, but we do know for sure that Rhonda Bryne and team are definitely working on a book to follow on from The Secret Book, and THEN a Sequel to The Secret DVD too. The DVD will be based on the new book we are told.
When is this to arrive? September was mentioned, but we’ll see.
If you were hoping to get the Secret Calendar again this year I’m afraid you are going to be disappointed. Even though The Secret Calender was very popular last year, Rhonda is so busy with the other projects that she is not going to produce one for 2009
Planet Earth Forever
The most recent release from The Secret is a wonderful inspirational clip called Planet Earth Forever. Who knows, maybe this is what the sequel to The Secret will be about.
Do take a look at this lovely film clip, just sit back and enjoy the music and our beautiful Planet Earth for three minutes. It’s good for your soul.
Have you noticed something...quite unique about joy? Something that makes it different than pretty much everything else that we, as humans, can experience?
Joy is an experience that takes us out of time. When we're truly in the midst of joy, time simply disappears; it's as if there is no time at all, yet somehow, we continue to experience our selves.
And there's another thing to note, too. When we're enveloped by joy, our thinking stops, but our consciousness remains utterly alert. We, for perhaps the only times in our lives, experience what life could be like if we could simply stop thinking and re-connect with our being.
Meditation is the journey to the center of joy. That is really the only purpose of meditation; to guide us back to our selves. Little children do not need to meditate; they are already meditative. It's only us adults, with layers and layers of personality, ego and other artificial things, need to find the way back home.
It's a big statement I know. Hardly ANY school teaches goal settingand the Law of Attraction and you won't find other books for kids about this either.
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Habits and routines are, sometimes, helpful -- they give us a way to organize our lives, and often, this is necessary. We may have many commitments and obligations, and developing healthy, productive routines and habits can help us meet those commitments.
However, often, habits and routines can become more than just "helpful tools" that guide us; they can actually put us to sleep. They can serve to numb us from reality itself, from our very lives and our hearts. They can make us think or believe that we're aware and "doing stuff," when truly, we're on auto-pilot, following a routine or habit that has outlived its use.
In your life, look at all of your habits and patterns, and see which ones are enabling reality and which ones are preventing reality.
Millions of people around the world have a very negative relationship with their body. They actually hate their bodies. Naturally, this hatred is both unhealthy and destructive, since hate is a very low quality "energy" that doesn't actually lead to solutions.
What is your relationship to your body? Do you neglect it? Are you treating it like the friend that it is? Remember, without your body...there is no you (at least not in this human form). Are you treating your body like your very best friend?
Even if your body "falls ill" -- and these things happen and will happen to most of us if we live long enough -- don't start to take an oppositional position to your body. Don't start viewing it as something you hate, or something that is against you.
Your body is your friend. Make friends with your body!
A while ago, we visited the concept of projection. Since it's such a big issue in so many people's lives, let's look at it again now.
Here's the basic thing: what you reject in yourself, you project onto other people.
You see, you are "designed" to be a whole person. You aren't designed to repress or reject any of your being. Why would the universe design something that was supposed to reject itself?
When you reject something in yourself, it has to go somewhere. Life is a totality -- and if you neglect something in you, it becomes a gap in your vision; you start searching for it.
Hence, if you reject your own ignorance, you'll find it in most other people. If you reject your own selfishness, you'll find it in others. Sames goes for fear, anger, jealousy, lust...anything else. Whatever you refuse to see in yourself you'll almost immediately find in others.
So the lesson is simply this: pay attention to what you're projecting, and from that, start to see what you're rejecting.
Fix the missing gap inside you, and you'll instantly fix the "world" -- without having to change a thing!
Hi, my name is Richie! I'm an Aussie living on the beautiful Great Ocean Rd, Victoria, with my wonderful Swedish partner Anneli and two gorgeous daughters – our “newest” arriving at the beginning of March 2008.
As you can guess, some of my life passions and interests are personal development, The Law of attraction, The Secret (the now world-famous DVD and book), and learning how to fulfill my dreams and those of the people around me. Read more
What is your attitude towards the new? How do you respond to new things? Do you immediately set up "evaluative" blocks -- which are defensive in nature -- before you decide that the new is worth welcoming? 
