Leveling Up Requires Imagination
Leveling up requires imagination.
It’s possible for the world to just keep happening to you and for beautiful things to come of it - the book The Surrender Experiment comes to mind - but in general, and especially if you’re not spending every day meditating in the woods in the house you built with your friends like the author Michael A. Singer did, you may need a bit of intentionality around things.
As usual, this starts with what you want.
But the idea of what you want can come from surprising directions.
It may be revealed by your judgments - from sarcastic remarks against other people “oh she’s SO pretty” or “he’s so fit” to ones against yourself like “I could never do that or have that” or “it’s just the way I am.” Each, when you train yourself, can set into motion a little tiny baby alarm that notifies you that there is a desire underneath of it, one that currently you don’t imagine is possible for you. Watch, and you may notice things like “that’s so expensive or wrong” secretly decoding into your jealous desires to be the person that doesn’t think that way.
What you want is usually something underneath of what you initially notice and desire. You could want the specific thing, and I fully support you going after it, but I’d like to ask you to think about what the feeling underlying the desire is. Is it freedom? Is it acceptance? Is it simply a fucking white convertible end of story? Great. Even if it is a fucking white convertible (end of story) you’ll enjoy it more if you focus on the feeling of it, because otherwise you could end up addicted to the process of striving for it, which you do feel, and be fully disappointed when the game ends and you get it. Looking at the feeling allows for more flexibility and presence. The goal evolves and reflects the opening of your soul and your shadow that occur along the way.
Once you’ve established the feeling you want to have, do us all a favor and examine whether this is something you can give to yourself. Oh wait I was talking to myself again.
What you give you is always more satisfying. Meaning you may actually be satisfied if you give it to yourself.
This involves imagination again, where you can drop into what it would look or feel like in order to give yourself love, affection, or approval. Then you get to deal with all the demons in the way of doing that. This is the work that I specialize in with people and I love it.
In the end, begin programming yourself with mantras and thoughts that reflect the things you want as totally normal, as if they were nothing special at all.
If you stack this with meditating on it or a daily walk you’ll get a shift in the way you carry yourself and orient your life very quickly.
Want more help with this? Here’s three ways:
Simply follow the ideas in this newsletter. Examine and identify what you want and think about them often as if they are nothing special and you already have them. Let yourself feel the feelings that come up as you practice.
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If you can’t even imagine it being true, then there’s something stopping you. haha rhyming. Let’s clear things up.