Key To Success

What do you do when you come across a key to success in a book you're reading? You ponder over it. Since I read many books and come across many keys, I thought it would be fun to share the ideas that arise as I contemplate a key to success. Reading is not just about absorbing information, it's also about contemplating, allowing the ideas to blossom within, and nurturing a seed tossed in the rich soil of the inner garden.

Name: Saleem Rana
Location: Denver, Colorado, United States

I got my Master's degree in psychotherapy more than a decade ago. Since then I've studied the human condition with fascination. Over the years, I've learned a singular lesson: your life does not work when you oppose your soul nature. If you want a magical life, you have to drop your inauthentic transactions with the world. You discover your own power when you spend time alone to figure out what you really love to do.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

How Fear Inhibits Self-Expression and Personal Growth

"The thing I fear most is fear, "said De Montaigne.

This sentiment is echoed by other great writers.

"Nothing is terrible except fear itself," said Francis Bacon.

"The only thing I am afraid of is fear," said the Duke of Wellington.

"Nothing is so much to be feared as fear," said Henry David Thoreau.

Fear is the ultimate limiting emotion. It overthrows reason. It paralyzes action.

In very rare times, in an emergency, fear may help us to act to save ourselves or someone else, but for the most part, it ruins all initiative, growth, and spontaneous right action.

Shakespeare commented that "Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed."

The number one fear most people have is of public speaking. Yet, this fear has no survival value at all. The worst that can happen is that you are not articulate and people disapprove of your ideas or your way of delivering them.

Fear is simply the nauseating sensation in your abdominal area that over-rides any good sense you might have about anything. If allowed to persist, the surge of adrenaline causes your body to break down at a cellular level. We call it stress, but that is only the name we give for a body that is taut with fear.

Yet when you examine the cause of any fear, it is usually nothing more than a highly-charged negative opinion.

Unfortunately, it is in those areas that we must grow that we feel the most fear. In fact, beyond the boundary of your fear is your next greatest opportunity.

The result of this fear is that we stay trapped in limiting realities--poor paying jobs that barely allow us to survive, relationships that whittle our self-esteem to mush, educational opportunities that could expand our perception and massively improve our lives.

The most ironic thing is that those who push themselves to deal with their fear--find nothing there.

Someone, for example, who is afraid to speak up will find when he or she does that nobody is shocked, appalled, or indignant. In fact, things seem to improve because of it.

Fear left unchecked can lead to all kinds of neurosis and inhibitions. An extreme fear, which has no basis in reality, leads to paranoia.

The whole thing about fear is that unless your life is being threatened, it makes things far worse than they need to be.

The aggressions of governments, the escalation of nuclear armaments, express individual fears magnified a thousand-fold.

And the reaction to fear is so extreme that something is actually created to fear.

On an individual level, fear is partially or completely debilitating. It is the misuse of the imagination to create horrible scenarios. As Michael Pritchard once said, "Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."

Understanding that fear is a False Estimation About Reality is one step toward eliminating it.

The final step is to do the thing that you fear, either all at once or through baby steps, and discovering that the monster in the closet was only your own imagination run amok.
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Saturday, January 27, 2007

The Greatest Invention In The World

One of the most remarkable inventions ever in the history of the human race is the invention of the World Wide Web.

In the middle of the 15th century Johannes Gutenberg a German goldsmith, invented the movable type printing in Europe.

His technology replaced books that had to be created by hand . Knowledge spread like wildfire and the human race became more rational and less superstitious. The result, of course, was an improvement in the evolution of civilizations and the speed with which they arose.

The availability of books made the Renaissance possible. It facilitated scientific publication. It resulted in the collapse of the domination of dogmas of Catholicism because Martin Luther's 95 Theses, posted on the door of his church, were widely printed and circulated.

Similarly the invention of the World Wide Web by Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, KBE (born June 8, 1955 in London, England) is changing the face of our world. Knowledge is now literally at your fingertips. If you need to find out anything, from the weather to some obscure facts in a specialized field of study, just type in a search for it and with the billions of websites now available, you are bound to find the answer. The entire database of human knowledge has now become available to everyone..

He was born in London, England. Both his parents were mathematicians and were part of the team that built one of the earliest computer, the Manchester Mark I. He learned to use mathematics everywhere, including at the dinner table.

At Oxford University, he built a computer with a soldering iron and an old television.
Graduating in physics in 1976, he went to work for a company called Plessey Controls Limited in Poole that specialized in traffic lights. Then in 1978, he created a typesetting software and an operating system when he worked for another company in Poole, D.G. Nash Limited. Berners-Lee then worked as an independent contractor for CERN. The NeXT cube became the first Web server. He proposed the concept of hypertext to facilitate sharing and updating research information. He built a prototype system named ENQUIRE.

In 1989, Berner's Lee saw how to join hypertext with the Internet. In his own words:
"I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web."

In 1990, working with Robert Cailliau, he produced a revision. He used ideas that were behind the Enquire system to fashion the World Wide Web.

He built the first web browser and editor called World Wide Web and the first web server called Hyper Text Transfer Protocol daemon.

CERN had the first web site in the world. It went online on August 6, 1991. It explained browsers, servers, and directories, and how to set them up.

Berners-Lee made his idea available freely. He did not reserve a patent or ask for royalties.

He has received numerous academic and business honors and awards, including USD $1.2 million by President of Finland, Tarja Halonen, on April 15, 2004, as the first recipient of Finland's Millennium Technology Prize for inventing the World Wide Web.

He was also given the rank of Knight Commander (the second-highest rank in the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II. This was part of the New Year's Honors ceremony, on July 16, 2004.

The 1999 Time Magazine edition called him one of the 100 most influential people of the twentieth century.

Today he lives in Lexington, Massachusetts (USA) with his wife and two children.

The world wide web is literally an artificial global brain, where information is contributed by millions of people around the world and made publicly available to all.

The next step in the evolution of knowledge will be when the entire university system will be coordinated and organized and made available online at no cost, and anyone will be able to learn anything without having to worry about location, cost, admission standards or any of the other barriers that keep education reserved for the wealthier people in the wealthier countries. The future holds the promise that everybody, all over the world, will have the chance to be literate. The technology exists for that to happen.

As long as the internet is allowed to continue to grow without interference from controlling powers, knowledge will also continue to flourish organically and bring humans together in a common understanding of how to make this world a better place.

The invention of the World Wide Web is in our day what the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment was for people of an earlier era. It may even prove to be more of a giant leap for humankind than the landing on the moon.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

How To Make Serious Money

How To Make Serious Money

The best way to get rich is to focus on developing your own potential.

People make money doing all sorts of things. It really isn't necessary to be in any one particular business to get rich. True, some businesses pay better than others, but any business can be escalated to produce riches.

There is, then, no one right business to be in.

There is, however, the right attitude to be in when you undertake any business.

The right attitude, ultimately, depends on how you FEEL about things. The better you feel, the more you will learn, the more you will mingle, the more you will produce, and the more you will recover from setbacks.

Those who make the most money are those who do work that they love.

Bill Gates has a passion for putting his software on every computer. Warren Buffett really enjoys the stock market. Donald Trump gets a kick out of building bigger and better buildings than anyone else in New York. Anthony Robbins loves teaching people how to change their lives in an instant. These people aren't in it for the money; they have plenty of it for the next couple of generations. They are in it because it is work that they love.

People underestimate the value of feeling good. It is everything. In wealth creating, passion is the magic ingredient. Wealth, in fact, is just a way to keep score.

Besides passion, another important thing to do is to get smart about money. In other words, get a financial education. Learn how money is managed. Napoleon Hill used to make a lot of money but kept on losing it, too. Then between his wife and his friend W. Clement Stone, he learned how to manage it. Only after he learned how to manage it did he become a millionaire, despite an earlier string of best-selling books and lectures. It's not how much money you make that matters, it's how much you get to keep.

Managing money is an essential wealth skill. For example, if you are naïve about money you might believe that by saving it you will have more. This is simply not true. The reason is because inflation outstrips the interest that you earn from the money in a saving account. The value of money decreases over time. To increase your money, you have to invest it.

One of the best ways to invest money is to invest in yourself. This means put the money into your education. Learn how to do the work that you love better than anybody else. Hone your skills until you are an expert at your craft.

Assuming you have learned how to choose the right work, tapped into the power of your feelings, acquired the skills to manage your money and invested your money into getting an education on how to get really good at your chosen work, then the last key to really get you on your way to affluence is to be highly productive.

In your pursuit of riches, you have to give up myths about how you have to be in the right place at the right time and know the right people. You will only get there by taking care of the other common sense techniques discussed here.

These ideas may not be glamorous, but real wealth is based on organized labor; it does not come, very often, from abandoning a practical approach. No doubt there are other vital tips to getting wealthy, but these pointers should get you started on the right path.

Here they are again:

1. Do work that you love.
2. Learn financial management.
3. Invest in your education.
4. Become highly productive at your work.

These are the four cornerstones. This is your foundation. An empire can be built from them.

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Sunday, January 21, 2007

How To Maturely Deal With Upsetting Experiences

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try to keep things organized and running efficiently in your life, unexpected things happen that threaten to completely undermine your sense of well-being.

These upsets can be big or small, ranging from identity theft to losing your car keys. Yet they are enough to make you feel that they completely ruin everything for you. They hit you emotionally like a punch in your stomach, knocking the wind out of you.

I'm not sure why life throws these curves. Is it a product of our own thinking coming to attack us, some type of karmic rebound? Is it random misfortune? Or is it some weird cosmic "test" of our mettle. It is almost impossible to find the cause. Focusing on the cause is one way to become confused and unglued.

However, understanding the cause may not be necessary. Instead, dwell on the solution. This is the mature way to keep your sense of balance when the ground has been pulled from under your feet.

Here are some emergency steps to take:

1. Release the frustration and all the other emotions. Do this immediately. You can do this through deep breathing and imagining letting it go, talking with a friend to get some perspective, or simply taking a long walk until you calm down.

2. Assuming you are now calm, the next step is to regain your control. Here is where you regroup your resources. It may help just to start tidying and organizing things around you, thus restoring your faith that order can be regained. In other words, you will get a sense of order by doing some routine ordering in your environment.

3. Now that you are calm and in control, make a list. Start with a question that asks you what to do about the situation. Then answer that question by making a long list of possible answers. Do this quickly, without thinking too much about it. What you want is to push past your conscious ideas and dig up some original insights. This is why speed is important.

4. Refine that list. Hone in on your best possible choices.

5. Take action. Do what you can. Make things happen. This will make you feel a whole lot better. If it is a theft, file a police report. If it is a financial issue, find ways to get money flowing into your life again. And so on.

Sometimes the situation may be really bizarre, where you have no idea what to make of it. Yet you also find you need some insight before you can take any type of meaningful action. In this case, at step 3, ask your question then leave it blank and go do something else, including taking a long nap. You can even do step 3 just before bedtime. Your subconscious mind will now work on resolving it.

A farther way to deal with this upset is to imagine the opposite. If for example, someone stole your credit card, think about how the bank has restored your balance and sealed off the card from future use and how it is engaged in issuing you a new one.

Doubtlessly, fearful thoughts will start creeping in throughout the day. If you respond to them, they will force you to go on all sorts of nightmarish mental safaris. Do not go there.
Depression, helplessness, emotional outbursts, behavioral acting out is not the solution.

Bad stuff happens to all of us at some time or another. The trick is to grow stronger, not to fall apart. As Nietzsche said, "What does not kill me, makes me stronger."

There is no point in futile analysis, "why me?" "why now?"

You have to keep reassuring yourself by thinking of a new scene, where you not only envision getting what you lost but even better things are showing up for you.

None of these steps are easy to take, because your natural inclination is just to rant and rave and progressively fall apart. You feel as if there is a huge hole in your chest. However by taking these common sense steps, you get your common sense back. By taking the best action you know how, you can either mitigate the problem or even resolve it in a meaningful way.

Even when really bad stuff happens, know that you are a powerful person and will not let it ruin your life. Focus on what you still have left. Focus on the new way that has opened up for you.

Sometimes out of the worst situation, miracles come out of nowhere. Who you are is greater than the misfortune life may sometimes throw at you. When you cleave to a mature view, you will come out of your upsetting situation and regain your sense of personal power.

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Friday, January 19, 2007

Do Fish See Water?

Fish do not see the water they live in because that is all that they swim in. It has become an invisible part of their experience. It is not only in their environment but in themselves. Similarly, people who create limited thoughts, think that the world itself is filled with limitations.

How do limited thoughts create limited people?

Let us count the ways.

One: Reversed Use Of The Law of Attraction.

According to the Law of Attraction, you get what you think about most of the time. In other words, thoughts are things. And the more you think about things and the more you feel about them, the quicker you draw them into your experience.

The Law of Attraction is not an airy-fairy philosophy. You can find evidence for it.
In Quantum Mechanics. In Bell's Theorem. In the traditions of many spiritual philosophies and ancient religions. But, above all, through trying it out and seeing the results for yourself. There is nothing irrational about this law. It is as solid and as irrefutable as gravity.

It works all the time. Those who do not know about it, use it by default. It is a perpetual source of their mis-creations. It seems to them that things are just flying at them, that things are always happening to them, and that they are innocent victims of other people and circumstances.

Many people actually know all about the Law of Attraction, but it still works against them. This is because they do not use it consciously. So, they continue to mis-create.

These people fall into two groups: one, the skeptics, who claim to have a rational predisposition; and two, those who forgot about it.

The skeptics dismiss it out of intellectual pride. They choose to dismiss it, not
because the theory is vague and there is no proof for it, but because they do not do any kind of research and experimentation with it. Even an elementary study of ancient spiritual literature, Jungian psychology, and the New Physics will show that the world we think of as common sense has some bizarre anomalies to it.

The forgetful dismiss it because they are overwhelmed by phenomena. They cry for a way to quench their thirst, while all along a glass of pure, clean water is sitting on the table before them. They yearn for the rich fruits of life while sitting in front of a banquet table.

If you fail to either acknowledge the Law of Attraction or fail to use it, for one reason or another, then you will continue to use it by default, bringing more and more of the things that you don't want into your experience.

Two: Lack of Vision.

Those who think in limited ways, lack vision. They do not see the possibility and opportunity before them. They have learned how to filter out the good and focus on the bad.

Here is a real life example:

Thousands of people drive through the desert regions of the U.S.A. on a main highway. All they see is a lot of hot, dry, arid land.

One man, however, was driving through it, and he saw something different. He saw a man-made lake, shady trees, and a beautiful retirement village. He bought a parcel of land for a low price, after all, it was considered worthless, and transformed his inner vision into a wonderful housing complex. His vision transformed into reality made him wealthy.

Opportunity for self-betterment in every area of your life is available to you, but you have to notice it first before you can act. One way of failing to notice opportunity is to wear the blinders of limited thinking.

Three: Low Energy.

When you think limited thoughts, you tend to neglect good eating, exercising, and doing things that encourage your body to be in a state of optimum health and vitality. The result is low energy, and this, in turn, creates a highly unproductive way of living in the world.

Four: Birds of a Feather.

People who have limited thoughts do not like to mingle with those who have expansive thoughts. It irritates them. In turn, those who have an optimistic view of things, do not have the patience to spend time grumbling, gossiping, or playing the game of "Ain't It Awful!" Limited people like to associate with others like them, who are open to their line of thought. This reinforces their tendency to think limited thoughts.

Five: Low Self-Esteem.

People who think limited thoughts have low self-esteem. This is because they have low energy, feel depressed, associate with people like themselves, lack vision, and are constantly baffled by how things just keep getting worse for them. They appear to have the Midas Touch in reverse. All of this results in low self-esteem. It's really hard to feel like a winner when you're losing all the time.

A remarkable way to really explore your potential is to use the Abundance Course. It was created by the enlightened master, Lester Levinson. You can find out more here: http://get2site.com/u.asp?i=2103

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

A Freudian Interpretation Of Enlightenment

Sigmund Freud believed that human beings were motivated by two inner drives: eros and thanatos.

Eros was the drive for life, for more of it, for the abundance and fullness of it.

Thanatos was its opposite, the urge to overcome the disappointments of life by craving forgetfulness and, ultimately, oblivion through death.

While most of Freudianism has been debunked because his ideas, although exciting to the imagination, lack self-consistency, observed verification, and close correlation with reality, his ideas on life and death appear to have an axiomatic quality to them. This could be because these ideas have such a primal quality. It is difficult to deny they exist because a casual observation of any human life shows these two forces at work.

In fact, it may not be unreasonable to ask that since death is inevitable, we should not rush to it prematurely, by trying to arrest the quickening of our desires. Thanatos will have its day soon enough. Wisdom, perhaps, consists of simply embracing eros while it is still available to us.

When for a moment you stop thinking about all the things in your life that are not working very well and instead focus on the sensation of livingness, what you experience is joy. This joy is a powerful vibration. It stimulates more of itself and rises, if you let it, to the point of ecstasy, a place where you are standing outside yourself in exhuberant wonder at the miracle of it all.

Another interesting thing happens when you allow eros to have a say in your mien and predispositions. You experience a sense of communion and sympathy with other sentient beings. A corresponding reaction then manifests within them and they start to view you as a friend, as one who is aligned with their own urge for well-being.

This attitude, if allowed to continue, expands even more profoundly. From directing it to specific points of light, other places where sentience is vibrant, it moves to an all-encompassing, all-embracing perspective, where all things, living or non-living, close or far, familiar or unfamiliar start to correlate with your affection. You see not your own life or that of other beings, but a galaxy of Life. You experience not only your own awareness but that of all intelligence everywhere.

If pushed still further, you will fall into a mystical experience, where who you are is everyone, and in this oceanic consciousness of unification, life itself is seen as an infinitude and your view of thantos fades into viewing it as an illusion.

This idea is not a beautiful fiction. Examples of people who have reached this state, people like the later Lester Levinson or contemporary teachers like Echart Tolle, can be found.

The principle of eros then is one of circulation. It expands and explores, it connects with all, and it is in sympathetic vibration with all.

From this perspective, you find no opposite, no direct contradiction to eros. You step out of the realm of dualistic thinking. You enter the here and now and lose all interest in the then and there. Thanatos is exposed as an imposter. Instead, you appreciate that while forms come and go and entropy does appear to be a universal constant, consciousness itself never fades or dies but only transmutes itself into ever-widening arcs of comprehension of itself.

Yet the uplifting power of eros is rarely fully liberated in most human lives. People generally do not think of enlightenment as a possible future. If they do think about it, it is regarded as an anomaly best avoided. Their imagination is not inflamed by such visions.

The culprit for this narrow perspective is thanatos. It puts a lid on everything. You dare not hope too much, you dare not try too much, and you dare not say, feel, or think too much because of thanatos. Inherent in the cultural codes of most societies, encrusted in its mythos and logos, it has taken on a consensus reality.

Another way of looking at eros is love. Another way of looking at thanatos is fear. Love pushed to an extreme is liberation, but fear is what restrains love from full expression. The pursuit of enlightenment is the pursuit of pure being; it is a movement toward maximal allowing; it is a declaration of liberation. People who pursue it are those who desire to fully experience themselves, pushing their individuality until it expands into a universality. Most religions aim at fostering obedience, not release into true self-emancipation. They are corralled by a thanatos so subtle it is only discerned by the most acute, who upon suddenly discovering it may just as quickly repress it.

Eros is held in check by thanatos. When a person can get free of this bond, then life in its fullness is experienced and is embraced as an eternal factor. It is a rare and special experience; so rare and so special, in fact, that it is seldom even articulated. Thanatos has a way of squelching the idea of being more than human, of being more fully alive.

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

How To Be Smarter

The term half-wit may actually be more true than we realize. And it also may be more common than we care to admit.

There isn't really a term for thinking with all of your brain, so we'll call it whole brain thinking.

Whole brain thinking is not only top to bottom thinking but also left to right thinking.

Evolution has created three brains, and they built themselves one on top of the other.

The first brain is the Reptilian Brain. It emerges directly from the spinal column. It controls basic instincts and responses. Those who are good at video games or racing cars where reflexive, fast-action thinking is important have this early brain well developed.

The second brain is the Limbic System. It is also called the Mammalian Brain. This includes the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. It controls emotions, sexuality, and pleasure. People who are ruled by strong feelings stimulate this brain quite often.

The third brain is the Neo-Cortex. This is the new brain, the "thinking brain," the one we use to figure out what things mean. When someone is described as intelligent, it is a reference to this brain. This is the brain that goes to school.

At first blush, it may seem that all we need to do to develop more intelligence is to just focus on the most recently evolved brain. But this is not entirely true. The limbic system, for example, once aroused can improve learning, too, because emotional arousal activates more mental powers than normally used.

Now looking at the Neo-Cortex, we see two that it splits into two brains, with a tissue in between, the corpus callosum, that acts as a type of type of communication bridge.

The left brain is what is most developed in Western Cultures, especially through the process of education. It specializes in serial, sequential thought. It is logical and likes step by step reasoning. When you appeal to someone to be rational, it is an appeal made to this part of the brain.

Someone who is considered well-spoken and has a good vocabulary, shows mathematical ability, argues in a logical way, and likes things to be organized and sequential is using the left brain.

The right brain is what is most developed in cultures that are considered more artistic. The right brain grasps things all at once. It sees whole patterns. It synthesizes. People who are right-brained are able to see patterns, enjoy spatial reasoning, and show a talent for music. They are imaginative. They like to visualize new possibilities. The next time you see someone humming a tune, they are in rhapsody with their right brain.

The way to be smarter is to develop more of your brain both vertically and horizontally.

By developing your reflexive responses, your emotional range, your sensitivity to pleasurable stimulation, and your ability to figure things out, you are developing your brain vertically. You can also develop it horizontally by doing more of the things you are not very good at doing. If you have a scientific view of the world, you should develop your artistic side; and if you have an artistic leaning, then develop the skills of sequential reasoning. You will instinctively know what to develop by working on what you are weakest in. It's not that those parts do not exist for you; they are just dormant through lack of exercise.

Previously, it was believed that intelligence is fixed and that it deteriorates with age. This is simply not true. These ideas evolved during the times when neuroscience was not as sophisticated as it is today. Today we know that a well-used brain gets smarter as time unfolds.

The way to be smarter is to work on providing an enriched environment for your brain. Besides exposing yourself to more interesting and challenging things, this also includes improving your physical health, diet, and attitude.

It takes a lot of effort to develop a really fit and healthy body. It actually takes less effort to develop a really sharp brain because the brain, unlike a muscle, can work longer and harder.

Is it worth the effort? After all, why bother to be smart when most people are content with just coasting by with what they know, indulging in mundane conversations and engaging in mindless television programs for hours on end?

Here is why it is worth it:

Life becomes increasingly more interesting because you actually start to experience more of it. You literally let more of your experiences come alive for you. You not only have more experiences, both literal and vicarious, but you also enjoy more vivid ones, experiencing more aspects of any situation.

Also, in a world that is becoming increasingly more complex, with information exploding at a rapid rate and technology and social interaction becoming more sophisticated, learning how to learn and pushing yourself to understand more of the amazing world around you might just make your life a whole lot better.

The future depends not on people who understand a few things but by those who are fascinated by the rich diversity inherent in any experience.

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