It’s often debated when it comes to manifestation. On one side you got the one that believes that action is required to make one’s desire to come to fruition. You’ll hear things like the action is the last word in the Law of Attraction or that massive actions are needed once you have the right mindset (i.e) Tony Robbins. On the other hand, you have others who believe that things will come to given the proper way of thinking.

Sadhguru said that when one’s mind is set in the right way. One needs not even lift a finger to have one’s desire manifest so which is it? I want to read one excerpt from Napoleon Hill Think & grow rich book and one except from David Hawkins Letting Go book.

Spread love to your loved ones. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. The time is now.

Express your love to your loved ones. Take the time to do it. Do not think you'll always have time to do it another time. Do it now.

Letting go is very simple but few will apply it to their lives. It’s a discipline of the mind that needs to be cultivated but as Leo from actualized.org, it is a superpower.

Letting go will make your life much easier in every aspect. Whether it is your goals, your spirituality, your relationships. Letting go will help tremendously depending on much you are willing to let go.

Letting go is the disciple of surrender to a particular thing, generally speaking, it’s an emotion that can lead all the way to an attachment. Once you let go it is like putting the weight down. You automatically feel lighter. As Bruce Lee it’s not the daily increase, it’s the daily decrease.

Fear will play a role in your life. You get to choose how much of a role it will have in your life.

Jim Carrey

We talked about gratitude previously. We are now going to talk about it’s “evil opposite cousin” fear.

Fear is a very low vibration, it’s not the lowest because fear still has a lot of energy as opposed to other vibrations of apathy, guilt, and shame.

Fear can run your life and pretty much ruin it. Fear is looking at the future and seeing all the things which might go wrong.

Fear is not doing things you want to do because you fear what others might say. Fear at its very core boils down to survival.

We fear that we will lose everything and everybody and end up alone, destitute and depressed.

That’s why we want to conform, that’s why we don’t after what we really want. That’s we stick to relationships that do not benefit us.

Fear oftentimes is paralysis by analysis. We see a girl. We are attracted to her but instead of acting we start thinking and she’s gone.

Do the thing you fear and the fear is certain to disappear. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Contentment is the highest wealth

Gratitude is a word thrown around so easily these days yet we overlook it so often. Gratitude is an attitude but it’s also a muscle, a practice, a feeling, a must-have in one’s life. The first noble Buddhism is that life is suffering. The cause of suffering is craving. Now I don’t want to sound pessimistic and start ranting on the consumeristic society we live in. In some of my previous content, I talked about the vibration of desire. David Hawkins in his map of consciousness has desire as one of the lower levels of consciousness.

Desire, craving, yearning is trying to find happiness outside of oneself and that’s the reason why it is on a lower level.

Gratitude on the other hand is on a much higher level because it is an appreciation of life. It’s the contentment of our current situation.

It’s adding love to the present moment. When we crave we look for faults in life. We look for the lack of what we don’t have and forsake and take for granted what we do have. When we practice gratitude we look for beauty and put the lens and magnify the beauty in our own life.

Perspective matter. We lost it. Media and ads trick us with subliminal messages to want more and more. We succumb to peer pressure. Our need to conform coupled with our desire and insecurity put us in an everlasting rat race.

Gratitude is the answer. Gratitude is the key. Gratitude is our guardian angel. Gratitude will save us. Gratitude is the best attitude to adopt.

Stay put, I will you guys more examples and ways to adopt gratitude in your own life. Gratitude is not only to manifest our desired reality. Gratitude is also for those harder moments in life. The inevitable ups and downs. When you adopt an attitude of gratitude. You’ll have a more general sense of well being but shit still happens because that’s just life.

We have no control over life. Life is ephemeral, transient, and fragile. I am not saying that because it’s negative. It is what it is. However, life is more beautiful because of those facts of nature. Because things don’t last we have to care more. Because relationships will end one way or another we have to care more. Because we will get old and die we have to care for our bodies and mind. If we were immortal and could control everything in our external world gratitude would be useless but because the outside is subject to the law of uncertainty, decay, and death we MUST have gratitude.

We must stay in the present moment, we must have gratitude for that moment. We have to shine a light on all that is beautiful in life.

Shakespeare said that it is no good or bad. Only thinking makes it so. The “good” and the “bad” is always available. Shine more light on the good.

When the “bad” happens, there is always a silver lining. Look deeper.

When you are sick, be appreciative of the rest of your body that is healthy and look at the sickness as a growing pain because sickness, old age, and death are the greatest teacher and bring the most wisdom.

Have perspective, instead of always looking at those who have more and are seemingly happier. Look at those of have less and look and how much you really have and lucky you actually are. You will realize more and more that you are so blessed and lucky.

Why sports are so captivating?  Sports inspire, empower, and keep us on our toes. We can just glance at how much money athletes are making, to understand how important sports are, in our modern world.   World cups, playoffs, Super Bowls, grand slams, master cups, and the list goes on. Why are those events so captivating? Why are our eyes so locked in during an event? Why do they make us so emotional?   The answer is one word. Greatness. We love to witness greatness. We love to see athletes comeback, fight back, risk it all when the stakes are high and there are only a few seconds left on the clock.   Sports are physical but if you look at any sports show, they will, more often than not, talk about the intangibles. Michael Jordan had that killer mentality. Roger Federer is so calm and at peace. Floyd Mayweather is so composed and in control.   The mental aspect of sports is so much more important than what people might think. That’s why we tune in to watch live events. That’s why we cheer. That’s why our hearts stop and that’s why we are tense.   When we watch a popular sports event, what fascinates us, is witnessing the impossible becoming possible. Nowhere else can we get a thrill like that. We watch those athletes and think to ourselves “how the hell did he/she do that ?”   For that reason, sports are ubiquitous and incredibly inspiring, for they make us believe in ourselves and the power of disciplining the mind and the body.