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When everything looks terrible…

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What do you do when something that was once precious from you suddenly disappears from your life?  I had something like this experience this past Saturday.  It caused me tremendous grief for the following 24 hours, but after constantly releasing all my attachments to it, I noticed I was SIGNIFICANTLY freer.  It took me several hours to feel much of a difference, but it was well worth it.  It freed me so much that I am feeling thankful!

Basically, my girlfriend chose to break up with me. 

It was a huge shock as I totally didn’t see it coming, but now I see that it was best that this had happened.  Of course at the time I couldn’t see it.  After having taken a good look my relationship with her, I began to feel grateful, and I saw very clearly that she and I were literally hindering each other from moving towards where we each ultimately wanted to go which was clearly in two radically different directions.

During the turmoil, I felt like I had done something wrong, or that something was wrong with me, but in fact, it was merely an incompatibility issue.  She and I had different values and goals, and I often compromised mine to make the relationship work, which put me in a binding situation.  The break up had nothing to do with the ‘wrongness’ of me, but rather the incompatibility between her and me.

And this leads me to wonder:  What if all the ‘negative’ things that happen in life are merely an indication of incompatibility?  What if any negativity you experience is simply telling you to be, do, and have the things that ARE compatible with you?

While letting go often feels so difficult, it is by far the best thing I’ve come across, and The Release Technique taught me how to do it.  I am so grateful for what I’ve learned and how I am able to see things with far better clarity.  Sometimes I wonder if the breakup was one of the best things that happened to me, because it was CLEARLY telling me to let go of these attachments.  Having let most of them go, I am feeling GREAT! :)

What if life could be easier?

What difference would it make if your life was easier?

Yesterday I made an interesting realization: Having helped 3 people with completely different issues (2 of which were very challenging for me), I noticed how much our lives are driven by our emotions. Nearly everyone I see has some problem or another. It’s absolutely ridiculous how we are conditioned in such negative ways. I am not suggesting I am any better since I was once there, but life becomes so much easier without the emotional clutter that gets in the way.

Over the years, I’ve learned so many different modalities towards improving my life, and the one that has (thus far) made the biggest difference is the Release Technique.

I once had a throat problem which disappeared just by repeatedly asking myself, “Can I accept this pain? Yes.” over and over. At one point, I somehow ‘forgot’ I was doing this, and after like 15 minutes of it, my sore throat literally disappeared. It has also helped me when I needed some inspiration. As I’m releasing on some frustration, suddenly a random idea pops in my mind, and I’d know to act on that. That happened to me twice in the past few days!

The technique also helped me land a well paying job as well as helping me deal with difficult people. And when I help others with the technique, they get great results too, like my girlfriend once resolved a problem with her students just by mentally letting go of disapproving them and giving them approval.

It’s amazing how this stuff works. The key is to just let go of holding onto emotional clutter, and then life literally becomes easier, and many would say seemingly effortless.

As for those three people: One person had a traumatic experience in a classroom, another person had a stuttering problem, and the last one had a problem with approaching women. All three of them had made improvements, and it’s funny how all I did was ask questions repeatedly and they would clear their problems. I’ve been using this particular technique for the past 8 months with many people I’ve worked with, and they all report changes.

I sometimes wonder if life was meant to feel effortless, because that’s how it feels when emotional clutter is gone.

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Busy weekend!

Wow.. In the last 48 hours, I think I spent nearly 30 of them working on creating a sales page. I’m excited because I’m finally getting things done. Two weeks ago I chose to take care of the marketing campaign for a seminar that I and several other people are putting together. Eventually, push came to shove, and seeing how there’s less than a month left, I’m taking MASSIVE action all at once. :)

And, I’m having a blast at the same time! While I did get a bit frustrated from time to time, I was generally quite happy to have spent so much time doing this. Perhaps I was crazy but I crafted an entire sales page from scratch using HTML alone. I literally didn’t know any other way, and I learned a tremendous amount by merely taking the time to figure out how to make a sales page with pictures, testimonials, proper formatting, etc. Writing good sales copy was quite a challenge as well!

I’m very proud of the page I put together. When it is complete, I will post the link on my blog.

And I’m excited about the upcoming seminar! I’ve got some really amazing gems to share. Just preparing for it is turning out to be quite a fun experience. :)

Turning things around!

I’m making progress.  I just landed a VERY nice job.  The conditions are fairly average but the pay is unheard of in the English teaching industry here in Seoul.  My interview went very well so I’m quite thankful for having gotten this position.  My only major concern is that it doesn’t begin until next month, which means I don’t get paid until August since payment begins a month after I begin work.  So, I’m still at a point where there are more things that needs to be done.

But, certainly, I’ve made some major progress.  I wonder what other developments will have been made by the end of this week :)

While my last 3 days of this challenge has ended several days ago, I now see what I have done ‘wrong’ (or rather now I see what is right).  Nearly every single day of these past 30 days had to do with not believing in myself, and so I am relearning perhaps the most fundamental lesson that I had glossed over so many times:

Do I really believe in myself?

I suppose some fundamentalist Christians would suggest I am not trusting in God, but in myself.  Well, the fact is that for me to trust in God presupposes that I trust in my own faith in God.  I have a firm belief that God delights in his children doing amazing things, as it would make any father proud to see his children do amazing things.

I see myself as created in the image of God, which means I am created to be a reflection of his glory through my attitude, behaviors, and ultimately my entire life.  Thus, any negativity in my thoughts, feelings, and behaviors is quite literally the antithesis of God. (I realize this post does sound a bit religious, yet what I am describing doesn’t necessarily contradict what people of other faiths/traditions believe in.)

The major lesson I am now learning is that I LITERALLY create my reality by believing or not believing in myself.  By not believing in what I am truly capable of doing as a child of God, it’s like I am smacking God in the face (though He is unconditionally forgiving me).  I have a firm belief that He is on my side, and that I am called to greatness by virtue of the fact that I am a child of God created in His image.

Ultimately, as I look at my current financial situation, there is an obvious correlation between my beliefs and my physical reality.  However, I wasn’t even aware of the beliefs until they fully manifested into reality.  Now that it’s clearly out in the open, I am in a position to make some major changes.

So, do I believe in myself?  I have now decided that I do :)