Hey guys,
This is in response to an email I got from a student who seemed to be doing all the right things, but still wasn’t getting anywhere.
He bought products, changed his lines, went ‘natural’ but still couldn’t solve the basic problem of having, but most importantly, enjoying a love life.
A lot of how we do comes from the context in which we do things in.
I’m going to share two stories of two different individuals who are living the same lives but get different results.
Let me tell you the story of John.
John was a guy who spent everyday going for a chocolate
that he didn’t care for much, but he liked it. It was delicious, but it’s “a non-essential luxury”
Now the problem is that to get that chocolate, he had to cross a border to another country, and between where he is,
and the other country is a field of mines that he had to cross.
This was a bummer because any wrong movement would cost him an arm or a leg, which in his mind, wasn’t really worth
the chocolate but he went for it anyway.
Now here’s the interesting part: There were two different kinds of mines. One type of mines were green colored whereas the
other mines were blue colored.
The green colored mines were put there by the bordering country, just to tell the crossers to watch their step as they proceed, and
to proceed more slowly or quickly. The blue colored mines….well….no one knew where they came from…until now.
You see when John was sleeping, he would sometimes wake up with durt in his fingernails and he never figured out where it came from, until someone saw him at night, and told him the reality:
the dangerous, deadly and lethal blue mines were being put all over the field by John himself….
This sounds illogical and unreasonable, but our lives are not led by our logic, but by our emotions….
Do you see where you can relate to John? Don’t we all, sometimes, act like John?
Now here’s another story of Tim.
Tim was a guy who spent his days going for what he genuinely wanted: chocolate..and made no excuses for what he wanted.
For him, eating the chocolate was one of those amazing experiences that life had to offer, and his genuine enjoyment of it allowed him to take the experience of eating chocolate and make it even more wonderful..like an art in itself. He would also bring some back to share it with people he liked, and would guide them towards enjoying it as well!
Although for him to get the chocolate, he too, had to go through a mine field, but he saw the field in different ways:
- for one thing, each path to the chocolate is different. Some paths have more mines and others have little to no mines…it’s just as if the country wanted you to enjoy the chocolate…and wanted its chocolate to be enjoyed by you…
- for another thing, he understood that putting the blue mines around was a choice that he made or didn’t make, whether consciously or subconsciously.
It was up to him.
If he did place blue mines in his sleep, and realized it, he would do whatever it took to change his thinking and habits so that he didn’t place those mines anymore. So that he could go back at enjoying the chocolate.
Who do you think lives a more satisfying life? John or Tim?
You see, our perception of reality affects our life, which we already know about.
What we don’t know is how, why and to what extent do our perceptions about certain things affect us.
The best way we can look at how we’re changing or what we’ve changed in, is by reading stories, watching movies, or listening to songs that we’ve read before, and noticing the changes in how we think and react to what we’ve read, seen, or listened to.
Get good at taking a step back and looking at what you’re doing in your life.
Thanks for reading!
BlueM