The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire

That’s amazing.

I can’t think of anything more important than learning “to live from the level of the soul.”

We need to take every opportunity to move through our fears. Why? Because we need to take action NOW and not get caught up in hesitation?

Fact is, most of our hatred and anxiety stem from our own unfulfilled creative impulses. And the moment we truly commit to giving ourselves most fully—moving through our fears and doing the next little thing in front of us WITHOUT hesitation, a funny thing happens…

We find ourselves living from soul. And the fears and anxieties and competitive energies we found ourselves consumed by yesterday feel so foreign to who we are now.

Guess what happens when we let fear creep back in? When we hesitate to take the action our intuition is guiding us to take, then the anxiety, the hatred, the disconnection steps back in.

So, my question: What can you do THIS MOMENT (!!) (and the next and the next…) to live from your soul?

Please do that.

I’ll be here when you get back. :)

Fear.

How’s your relationship to it?

As Deepak says, when we gain an understanding of the true nature of reality, we lose all sense of fear. Isn’t it amazing how easily we can get swept up by this fear and that fear?

Remarkable actually. And, we KNOW that being overwhelmed by these fears is a one-way ticket to a lifetime of regret, but for some reason it can still be so hard to do anything about it.

That’s why I consistently tap into the wisdom of some of my favorite teachers.

Emerson (see Notes) tells us: “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.” And pleads with us: “Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do.” And assures us: “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

Hafez says: “Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”

While Paulo Coelho (see Notes) says this in The Alchemist: “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

Abraham Maslow (see Notes on Motivation and Personality): “It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.”

The Roosevelts (first Eleanor then Franklin): “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” And: “The only thing to fear is fear itself.”

Frank Herbert (from Dune): “Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

Wallace Wattles, the author of The Science of Getting Rich says this in his great little book The Science of Being Great (see Notes): “You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.”

I could go on for quite a while but I think you get the idea. Fear, the mind-killer, is the only thing we have to fear. We MUST conquer our fear if we hope to live our hero’s journey to the fullest. Here’s one question that’s helped me address a lot of my fears: “What would I do if I wasn’t afraid?”

You know who answers that question?

Your Highest Self.

And that’s a good person with whom you should have an ongoing dialogue, eh? :)

So ask and answer that question (through your actions) every day. Why? Because that question gets us closer and closer to the power of intention.

Ah… The Power of Intention.

Wayne Dyer wrote an (amazing!) entire book on the subject (highly highly recommend it and my Notes on it).

And Deepak is very clear: “Intention is the very basis of creation.”

As he points out, the Upanishads, the ancient Vedic texts, declare: “You are what your deepest desire is. As is your desire, so is your intention. As is your intention, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny.”

Wow. That’s worth a re-read.

And, it certainly triggers the questions: What is your intention? What are your DEEPEST desires?

We MUST be in touch with our deepest desires.

As Deepak says, “That’s why, if you really want to break out of the mundane, you must learn to think and dream the impossible. Only with repeated thoughts can the impossible be made possible through the intention of the nonlocal mind.”

It’s frightening how quickly we give up on our hopes and our dreams—falsely thinking it’s possible to invest our soul in a compromise. But you know what happens when we do that? We’re miserable.

The remedy? We need to learn to dream again. We need to remember there’s something much (!) bigger than us that’s generating those ideas of ours. We need to get over ourselves, get out of our own way and get on with the business of manifesting our greatest lives!! Ahem. Pretty please.

If we want to create something (our ideal lives, perhaps?) we MUST learn to hold that vision in our minds as often as possible. The fact is we’re going to manifest what we think about most of the time—if that’s a failed relationship, we’ll get that; if it’s a failed business, we’ll get that. OR, if we spend our time contemplating our deepest desires—a wonderful relationship and successful business and a life in which we are living as our Highest Selves, we’ll create that.

So…

What are you spending the majority of your time thinking about? Is your life pretty much a reflection of that?

What is your ideal?

Can you spend more time thinking about it today?

And, every time you catch your mind taking you down the “Oh, no!!” path, catch it and steer it in the direction of your dreams.

And then take the next step toward that dream.

Amazing things will happen…

I love that.

Deepak’s basically saying that as you set your intention, check in and see how the manifestation of your desire would affect the world. The fact is that we are part of a much larger organism and every single part of this organism MUST serve every other part. Period.

Martin Seligman, one of the pioneers of the modern Positive Psychology movement was clear on this as well. In Authentic Happiness (see Notes), Seligman breaks down the science of happiness. He tells us that if we want happiness we need to discover our greatest strengths and learn to use them in our lives every day. He goes further to say that if we want to have a truly meaningful life, we must not only strive to use our strengths often, we need to give these gifts to the world and serve a purpose bigger than ourselves.

Viktor Frankl, in the Introduction to his seminal book Man’s Search for Meaning (see Notes) paints one of the most beautiful pictures of this truth.

He says: “Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.”

Amazing.

What do you want? And how can you serve?

You ever notice how when you look back on your life you can see the innate wisdom and flow and rightness to the path? You know—the job you lost or the relationship that ended that, although it felt horrible when it occurred, in hindsight was so clearly the exact right thing for you?!?

Funny how that works, eh?

Well… Deepak’s telling us that as we align with Source, we don’t need to wait to appreciate the perfection!!

Going through a “challenging” patch? Flow with it. KNOW it’ll reveal its divine perfection in time.

And it’s not just Deepak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson likes to say: “The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.”

And Tony Robbins (see Notes) has one of my favorites. He says: “Ten years from now you’ll laugh at whatever’s stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?”

I love that.

What’s stressing you out right now?

You really think you’re still going to be stressed about it in 10 years? Probably not!

So, why wait?!? Laugh now. And enter the flow and live at the level of the soul!

I love that.

So… WHAT DO YOU WANT?!?

* whispers … *

Don’t tell anyone but there’s a conspiracy working to help you get it. :)

As Deepak advises, one tool we can use to get better at seeing the synchrodestiny in our lives is to ask ourselves: “What is the message here? What is the significance of this?”

As we ask and answer this question, at the very least, you’ll gain a deeper sense of pragmatic self-awareness and knowledge of your life.

And, if you believe Deepak’s ideas (I do), you’ll be aligning yourself with a force much bigger than yourself and learning to dance with your soul!

That’s brilliant.

If we can’t own our own flaws, guess what?

We’ll be annoyed by anyone who has the same flaws we do. It’s a classic case of projecting our issues on someone else.

I’ve heard this many times and I bet you have as well.

The bottom line is simple: When you’ve fully embraced your own light and dark, you accept these qualities in others.

If you haven’t, pay attention to what most annoys you in people. Is it their ambition? Their vanity? The fact they’re always interrupting people or always late for meetings?

Here’s one of the many great exercises from the book: Get out your journal. Ask yourself: “Why am I here?” Write down what first comes to your mind. Don’t edit or fret. Just write.

Do it again. Ask yourself, “Why am I here?” Again, just write. Doesn’t need to be complete sentences. Just write what comes to mind. Do this 20 times.

Now check out your responses. Notice the patterns and notice that there is something bigger at play than just you. As you do this: “You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world.”