Emergence with Derek Rydall - A Revolutionary Path for Radical Life Change: Recent Episodes
Derek Rydall
Listen in as the World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practices that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self-improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness. Join the many listeners who have had instantaneous breakthroughs and healings …and begin living your Emergence! Inspiration. https://derekrydall.com.
We’ve been trained to believe that the world we see, touch, taste, and feel is the ‘real world,’ and the only way to create lasting change is to manipulate the conditions we find ourselves in.
But trying to improve your life by manipulating appearances is like trying to make a better movie by messing with the movie screen its projecting on. Life is not happening ‘out there,’ it’s happening within you. And only within you can you ultimately change it.
This reverses your whole framework of living. You realize you’re not on your way to more abundance, you’re coming from it. You’re not on your way back home to God, you are the way Life is putting Itself on display. You are the greatest Wonder of the World. But in order to experience this Truth, you must tap into it, become congruent with it, and live as if it’s so. This leads to ultimate freedom and power.
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We struggle so hard to ‘cause things to happen.’ But cause & effect is an relative perception, not an absolute law. Nothing is causing anything; everything is creating the conditions for something to emerge. When you let go of a pencil and it falls, you didn’t ‘cause’ that. You created the conditions that allowed the invisible pull of gravity to ‘manifest.’ When you water, weed, and feed a seed, you don’t ‘cause’ a plant to happen. The plant was already there; you just created the conditions for its emergence.
Similarly, our belief that we have to cause our desires to manifest is actually the very resistance to them emerging. Like that plant in the seed, our desires are the invisible pull of the Thing We Want, trying to be born. The desire isn’t a sign of what’s outside that we must get, but a sign of what’s inside trying to get out. Once we understand this, the key is to then know how to create the conditions for the fulfillment of our desires to emerge.
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If you strive for safety and self-preservation, you’re guaranteed to die without really living. If you live for a vision bigger than yourself, you’ll live forever. The reason we remember great people is not because they maintained the status quo, but because they elevated life to a new level and took us with them. It’s not just the great things they did that move us, but the great lives they lived and the divine potential they activated in human consciousness.
This is what it means to live a Legendary Life. It’s not about merely solving problems, but about living a grand adventure filled with grand questions (it’s no accident the first part of that word is ‘Quest.’) A legendary life isn’t about getting a bigger box – whether it’s a box with doors called a house, a box with wheels called a car, or a box with money called a bank account – it’s about breaking out of the containers we’ve been put in and discovering a territory of beauty and abundance that can never be contained!
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Your life is eternal, perfect, and unchanging. Life experience is your relative perception of this infinite perfection. The greatest block to living your full potential is the fear of death. But death is just the process of letting go of our limited self concepts.
What if you could die while you’re still alive? What if you could let go of all the limitations and experience your immortal, indestructible, unstoppable self NOW? What could be possible for you then? Who could you be, what could you accomplish?
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You were designed to be, do, and contribute in a very unique way. All the power, wisdom, and genius you could ever need to fulfill your destiny are already within you, a perfect blueprint for total success, fulfillment, and impact. Like nature, with each species doing its own thing, creating a brilliant ecosystem, we were created to express the same level of elegance.
But society has conditioned us to believe we must fit in, conform, or do a lot of things we’re not built for. If nature operated the way we do, it would destroy itself. And when we spend too much time doing things we’re not designed for, we wreak havoc in the ecosystem of our own lives – and on the planet.
When you try to fit in, you become a commodity; when you bring your unique genius, you have no competition. In this podcast, “Own Your Genius Zone,” you’ll learn how to design your life so that your unique gifts and talents take priority, and your life can begin to flourish the way it was meant to.
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Cutting-edge spiritual principles and success strategies for living the Best Year of Your Life! World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self-improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness.
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Every unfinished pattern of the past robs us of the present energy needed to create a compelling future. Holding onto these past events is like investing in real estate we don’t own anymore! What’s worse, if you don’t complete the past, you can’t have a future, you can only have more past. So how do you stop borrowing from your future to feed the debts of your past? You have to acknowledge it’s done, uncover its gifts, and release the rest.
This requires you to embrace your failures, knowing that there is no failure, there’s only a situation you haven’t found the blessing in yet. And when you do, that event is transmuted from a debt to an asset that pays rich dividends forever. Healing the past also requires you to face your darkness, and rather than avoid it, dig your roots into it – because the deeper the roots, the higher the shoots, and the richer the fruits!
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Cutting-edge spiritual principles and success strategies for living the Best Year of Your Life! World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self-improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness.
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Cutting-edge spiritual principles and success strategies for living the Best Year of Your Life! World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self-improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness.
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Cutting-edge spiritual principles and success strategies for living the Best Year of Your Life! World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self-improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness.
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Cutting-edge spiritual principles and success strategies for living the Best Year of Your Life! World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self-improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness.
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Cutting-edge spiritual principles and success strategies for living the Best Year of Your Life! World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self-improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness.
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Cutting-edge spiritual principles and success strategies for living the Best Year of Your Life! World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self-improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness.
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Cutting-edge spiritual principles and success strategies for living the Best Year of Your Life! World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self-improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness.
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BONUS SESSION: Derek Interviews with Deb Ozarko on the Unplug Podcast.
In this powerful conversation, Deb and Derek talk about how so much of what’s offered in today’s personal growth/self-improvement world is aimed at trying to fix or improve what’s perceived as “broken” within ourselves. We’re set up for failure from the get-go by starting from a place of lack where we believe that we’re deficient in a way that requires some sort of miraculous technique or affirmation to fix us. This ensures that we continually search outside of ourselves …for what we’ll never find. What we’re really after is right under our nose – literally – bursting from within our hearts desperate to emerge! We don’t need to fix anything. We just need to open up to the truth of who we’ve always been.
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BONUS SESSION – Listen in on Derek’s interview with Rob and Brenda Michaels on Conscious Talk Radio where, together, they explore the powerful principle of Emergence, and get into some of the seven steps for radical life change.
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BONUS SESSION – This was a powerful interview Derek did with Karen Luniw at the Law of Attraction Centre, about the 7 stage process for unleashing the full potential of any project or area of your life.
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BONUS SESSION – Derek’s interview with Jake Nawrocki on the Operation Self Reset Podcast talks about the missing link to creating lasting change. In this special bonus session, you’ll see why Jake believes that Derek’s process for finding your passion is the best there is, hands down.
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Join Derek and Rachel Rofé on the A Better Life Podcast about “How to radically change your life!” Derek Rydall believes you can have anything you want. What’s more, he thinks you can have it WITHOUT using self improvement or law of attraction (neither of which he Derek believes in).
In this episode, Derek goes over his framework for creating anything you want, including the exact process of how he moved from his small apartment into his dream home in less than 90 days.
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Derek Rydall joins Barnet Bain and Sandi Stuart on the Cutting Edge Consciousness Podcast for a really wonderful conversation about Emergence. Enjoy this terrific conversation.
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Derek Rydall and Rev. Heidi Alfrey invite you into the “realness” of you: an opportunity to reveal to yourself the beliefs that you keep you imprisoned. In this powerful conversation, Heidi and Derek talk about “spiritual nakedness” as the key to unlock your emotional freedom and magnificence. “Let’s Get Naked: Revealing Our Authentic Selves” will allow you to love your “stuff,” even in the buff. No dress code required!
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One of the most difficult, exciting, rewarding, challenging, exhilarating, frustrating, and most satisfying journeys is the entrepreneurial journey. The highs are so high, and the lows …well, they’re just the pits. To ride this roller coaster, you’ve got to master the inner game. But even if you·re an avid practitioner of personal development, sometimes things just don’t work out for you. This eye-opening conversation between Derek Rydall and Michelle PW on the PW Unplugged Podcast gets into the nitty gritty of why, no matter how hard you work on your challenge in your business, finances, health, relationships, or even all of the above, it’s still not coming together for you the way you visualize/affirm/etc. How do you master that inner game? Enter the Law of Emergence…
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One of the most difficult, exciting, rewarding, challenging, exhilarating, frustrating, and most satisfying journeys is the entrepreneurial journey. The highs are so high, and the lows …well, they’re just the pits. To ride this roller coaster, you’ve got to master the inner game. But even if you·re an avid practitioner of personal development, sometimes things just don’t work out for you. This eye-opening conversation between Derek Rydall and Michelle PW on the PW Unplugged Podcast gets into the nitty gritty of why, no matter how hard you work on your challenge in your business, finances, health, relationships, or even all of the above, it’s still not coming together for you the way you visualize/affirm/etc. How do you master that inner game? Enter the Law of Emergence…
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Like an acorn is a perfect acorn that becomes a perfect oak tree, there is not a part of you from beginning to end that isn’t exactly what you should be. And so, the harder we try to change, the deeper in the hole we get because the basic principle of life – the Law of Emergence – is disrupted, stopping us from knowing that our inherent perfection. We find a new partner but have the same old fights. We strive for an ever-bigger paycheck but end up broke at a higher income bracket. Today’s episode shares three steps to uncovering the one simple, radical truth: the answer is already in you.
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Especially when we’ve got a spiritual inclination, when we try to grow we tend to focus only on our “yes.” Our attention is solely on trying to ascend, and if we do have a “no,” it’s got a lot of negative connotation, guilt, fear associated with it. But “no” is just as important and positive as yes – you need both a clear understanding of what you want ….and of what you DON’T want in order to make real progress toward your goals. Today’s episode, “The Power of No: Removing What Does Not Serve,” demonstrates how, exactly, removing what doesn’t serve your highest good will create the support structure that will unleash your full power and creativity.
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We think we’re living in the moment, reacting to what’s really happening in the situations that confront us. Living in “reality.” But if we’re stuck in life, if we’re still broke at higher income levels and still having the same old arguments in new relationships, then we’re not responding to “reality.” We’re reacting to a map that we created early in life. A map of a scary place, a world in which we have to struggle to survive. And then, instead of creating what we desire in life, we run away from what our map tells us we must avoid. Today’s episode reveals how to escape that limiting map and live, instead, in the perfectly-abundant Universe (where you really belong).
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When you share exciting news, do the people in your life say, “I knew you had it in you!” …or do they just say, “That’s nice?” When you check your bank balance, do you hold your breath a little while you check if you’re “safe and secure?”
Everything is relationship: to ourselves, to our conditions, to our situation. It’s how our relationships make us feel about ourselves that matters. Our human journey has us always looking for feedback from that person, place, or thing that will complete us, make us feel safe, lovable, and important… …Until we wake up to who we really are and the completeness that is our natural state of being.
Today’s podcast episode reveals how to plug into your natural being ….because it’s not two HALVES that make a whole. It’s two HAVES.
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The harder we try to change, the deeper in the hole we get. This is what happens when the basic principle of life-the Law of Emergence-is disrupted, stopping you from knowing that you are the perfect you. The Law of Emergence provides the foundation to re-engage with this ancient principle. In this seven-stage framework, spiritual life coach Derek Rydall shows that we aren’t lacking anything; everything we need to fulfill our full potential is already inside us.
Backed by an ancient truth that has largely been lost, Derek changes the conversation around how to achieve your potential by showing you how to activate the genius already in you and empower your purpose in life. Change Maker podcast: http://www1.play.it/audio/change-maker-with-zhena-muzyka/
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People end up becoming like those they love. In fact, we end up becoming ONE with whatever we love.
Alas, the same is true about what we hate. So the secret to unstoppable success is to keep your eye and your heart singly dedicated on your ultimate emerging condition.
Listen to today’s episode, “The First Love: a Secret Path to Unstoppable Success,” and find out how to embrace everything you love.
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What does it feel like to let go of it all, to fall down …and to be caught and held? It is the most beautiful experience you can imagine.
This is the experience of Emergence.
Listen in on this amazing conversation between Derek Rydall and Pamelah Landers, Master Hand Analyst and International Best-Selling Hand Analysis Author (www.HandsOnCompany.com).
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Niagara Falls: beautiful, powerful, magnificent. A wonder of the world. It never ages because the water, the energy, the life force that’s pouring over it is always new in every instant.
But what is Niagara Falls, really? It’s nothing. It’s an empty space where Lake Erie pours forth in a unique way.
In fact, if you took Lake Erie away, isolating Niagara as a thing in and of itself, the flow would stop. Whatever small amount of water was contained within that space would begin to stagnate and age. It would lose the constituent qualities that it had when it flowed freely. Ultimately, with no flow, it would become a swamp where nothing could thrive and where everything dies.
This is the analogy of human living – as an isolated thing, without Source – versus spiritual living – as a magnificent pouring-forth of the infinite flow of the Divine.
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Listen in as the World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self- improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness. Join the many listeners who have had instantaneous breakthroughs and healings …and begin living your Emergence!
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Listen in as the World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of selfimprovement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness. Join the many listeners who have had instantaneous breakthroughs and healings…and begin living yourEmergence!
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Whether we’re cooking, working, raising children, or creating art, we often feel most alive when we’re creating. This is because our fundamental nature – the fundamental nature of the universe itself – is creativity.
Because the Divine principle is infinite, and forever unfolding, the very nature of life itself is creative emergence.
Today’s quantum healing helps you to welcome your creative impulse into your everyday life as a very dear friend.
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What sense is there in the tragic experiences of our lives? Our setbacks feel so permanent.
These setbacks feel all the more terrible when we are striving to create good in the world. Because as soon as we set our desire in motion through prayer or intention, we’re on a conscious path of growth.
“Tragedy” strikes while we’re growing and simultaneously trying to hold onto our sense of identity: all of the people, the places, the situations we’ve become attached to and identified with as “me.”
This is when we start to really freak out, dig in, and try to hold on to our protective shell. Put another way, just when we start to crack open and emerge into an experience of greater love, joy, abundance, or whatever it is we have committed to …it feels like something “bad” is happening to the circumstances we’ve become accustomed to.
We might even call in some healers to try to heal our situation, to repair the cracks, because if you have the ability to fix what appears “wrong” with your body, your relationships, your circumstances, that’s what you’re at least going to try to do.
It’s an endless cycle.
So, how do you live in a place of relative peace and joy and freedom and trust and on a path of growth and progress when you’re going to bump into these challenges and crises on an ongoing basis forever?
“Your Setback is a Setup for a Comeback,” shows you how to enjoy the drama of your life, to play your part …but to then walk off the stage when the curtain falls. And not look back.
Today’s powerful audio shows you how, as Jesus counseled, to “Take no thought for your life; neither be of troubled mind.”
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We all want more confidence and self-esteem
We all know that acknowledging and validating and seeing the goodness and the greatness in your child or in anyone is very necessary.
And we all know that, in many cases, that acknowledgment and validation is completely absent. Or (and worse, ironically), we try to boost others’ self-esteem by providing praise and rewards and making everyone win, even when they haven’t achieved anything.
But what many people might not know is the damage this creates.
When you promise yourself that “I’m going to write this book,” or “I’m going to lose these 10 pounds,” – whatever it might be – but then you don’t follow through, you’ve just breached your own inner structural integrity.
Sure, we get a temporary relief by kicking back on the couch and eating Haagen Daas and watching “The Bachelor” instead of going to the gym. But the next time you need to make a commitment to yourself, you’re going to feel weaker about your capacity to keep your word.
It’s going to get harder and harder until you just give up.
True confidence and self-esteem are really our innate capacity to truly love, value, respect ourselves. These qualities are already the truth of our being …but like all of the qualities, they have to be activated.
The good news is that your inner confidence and self-esteem are inherent to you right now. You’ve only got to activate this inner strength, and you will know the great joy of achieving your creative and productive goals.
Listen to today’s episode, “Rapid Confidence and Self-Esteem,” to unleash the strength and stability within you.
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Today’s Quantum Prayer – “Rapid Confidence and Self-Esteem” – will help you to unleash the strength and stability within you so that you can achieve your highest creative and productive goals.
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We ask, “Hey God, where are you? We need help down here!”
And God’s like, “What do you think I sent YOU for?” You ARE the help!”
Many of us spiritually-minded folks are waiting for some power to touch us on the top of the head, for something to happen to us – enlightenment, Grace, whatever – before we can really show up and be who we really are.
We’re kind of waiting for God to show up.
This constant and incessant drive to get what seems missing or get rid of what seems to be a problem comes from a mortal sense of self apart from God.
But you can’t add anything to God. Any prayer or affirmation to get or add to yourself is pointless.
Today’s episode shows you how to ask a completely different question in order to give what appears missing, to radiate the love that heretofore we were seeking, and to pour that imprisoned splendor into the world.
The best part? Compared to the frantic action we’re used to using to try and get what we want, the real work of being happy looks a lot like just resting.
Listen now to find out how to get back into a state of knowing and remembering the love, abundance, joy, and peace that you desire for yourself.
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The LIFT Process: Reclaiming Your Destiny
Essentially, the basic premise of Emergence is everything you could ever need to be all you were created to be, do, contribute, create, etc., is already within you.
Just like the oak tree is already in the acorn – there’s a perfect pattern awaiting the right conditions, and when those conditions match the pattern within the seed, that inherent pattern of potential naturally emerges. The same thing is true for you.
There’s a perfect pattern of your destiny that is already planted in the soil of your soul, and when the conditions are congruent with that pattern, it naturally emerges.
Another way to think of it is your favorite music is broadcasting where you are right now, amongst a bunch of broadcast stations, but you can’t hear or experience the music. The music is not yet manifest, even though it’s fully present and broadcasting. It’s not manifest until you tune the dial of your radio so that your frequency matches the frequency of that broadcast. When you do that, when the frequencies match, then that broadcast that was already playing becomes manifest. You have found your manifest-station.
In the process of Emergence, the first step is to identify the seed that’s seeking to emerge in your life. Otherwise known as the vision, whether it’s in some area of your life, or your life in general. What is the vision that’s trying to emerge in your life? There are clues for that all around you!
The LIFT practice stands for Living In the Feeling Tone, and this is part of the Emergence process. This is a simple method used to help engineer or design a way of life that is congruent to that of your grand vision.
Listen to the in-depth podcast on the subject to get the full explanation, discover the clues to your vision, and learn how to put it into real-life practice TODAY. This will be a real game-changer.
Also, learn how to create a life of unlimited abundance in my brand new Awakened Wealth Mastery 8-week program! There are already tons of comments of people having breakthroughs just from watching the free training videos! But it all comes down today, Tuesday, September 6.
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[The following is the full transcript of this episode of the Emergence, A Revolutionary Path for Radical Life Change, with Derek Rydall Podcast]
Welcome to Emergence: A Revolutionary Path for Radical Life Change. This is Derek Rydall, your guide on the side, the founder of the Law of Emergence and author of the bestselling book Emergence. It’s just great to have you here today for this topic, where we’re going to be talking about the LIFT practice, super conditions and reclaiming your destiny. The LIFT practice stands for Living in the Feeling Tone, and this is part of the Emergence process. If you’ve been doing the Emergence work in any capacity for a while you’ve probably heard that term, been in any of the programs. Essentially the basic premise of Emergence, if you’re new to this, is that everything you could ever need to be all you were created to be is already within you. Just like the oak tree is already in the acorn, a perfect pattern awaiting the right conditions, and when those conditions match the pattern within the seed, that inherent pattern of potential naturally emerges.
The same thing is true for you. There’s a perfect pattern of your destiny that is already planted in the soil of your soul, and when the conditions are congruent with that pattern, when they match that pattern, it naturally emerges. Another way to think of it is your favorite music is broadcasting right where you are right now, amongst a bunch of broadcast stations, but you can’t hear the music, experience the music. The music is not yet manifest, even though it’s fully present and broadcasting. It’s not manifest until you tune the dial of your radio so that your frequency matches the frequency of that broadcast. When you do that, when the frequencies match, then that broadcast that was already playing becomes manifest. That station that was always playing becomes manifest. You have found your manifest-station.
So the process of Emergence, fundamentally speaking, is identifying, number one, what is that seed that’s seeking to emerge in your life? Otherwise known as the vision, whether it’s in some are of your life or your life in general. What is the vision that’s trying to emerge in your life? There are clues for that all around, and I go much more in depth in that in my book Emergence, as well as my program on Emergence. Then the second step is cultivating those congruent conditions, creating conditions that are a match to that vision, to that seed. Cultivating the conditions of your soul, of your mind, of your heart, of your body, of your experience. Now the difference between an acorn or any seed is it’s indigenous, meaning that it’s largely at the whim of external conditions, but you are endogenous, which means that your conditions are self-generated. So you have the potential to generate the right conditions, regardless of where you’re planted in the world.
The LIFT practice is a part of that Stage Two. Stage One is the vision. Stage Two is cultivating the conditions. It’s a part of that process of once you know what your vision is, or have some idea or inkling, is now you begin to cultivate the conditions so that you can live in the feeling tone of that vision, the vibration, the frequency. The more you can live in the frequency of your vision, that is akin to tuning the dial of your radio, the dial of your consciousness, to the station where the music of your destiny is playing, where that beat of abundance, that symphony of success, is already playing. When your frequency matches that it manifests in your experience. It was already there. It’s already broadcasting, but when you cultivate the conditions through the LIFT practice that broadcast now becomes tangible and audible and manifest in your experience. You see?
There’s several things with the LIFT practice, but the core work with the LIFT practice is you start with your vision. So I invite you just to follow along and do this. You can pause this. You can take the time you need to do this, but you start with a vision of what you want to create in your life. Again, I invite you to get the book Emergence, because I walk you through it step by step by step to identify the clues to what’s trying to emerge in your life, so you can really create a coherent and cohesive well-defined vision for yourself. You can start with, let’s just say for example you had a vision of having a life of more abundance, more wealth. You were building some kind of business or venture, and you would have a level of wealth and abundance.
So you would begin to now use the tool of visualization to tap into really seeing and feeling what it’s like to live in that vision. This is really the correct use of visualization. The old use is to try to visualize stuff in order to make it happen or attract it to you, but the more congruent use of the visualization, particularly in the Emergence work, is since it’s already happening to you you’re not trying to attract anything, since it’s already present, but you are using the angel of your imagination by visualizing your highest idea to activate the feeling tones of the vision. Because the truth is that from your imagination, your current self-concept, you really can’t always, or even ever, truly imagine what your future will be like. Just as anacorn, if it had self-consciousness, or a caterpillar if it had self-consciousness, couldn’t really imagine what it’s like to be a butterfly. The caterpillar, if it was using visualization, it would imagine a better caterpillar life, but it wouldn’t necessarily be able to tap into what’s really emerging as its destiny, which is to grow wings and fly.
That’s one of the limitations of merely visualizing your ideal life and just leaving it that. When you use the visualization to activate a feeling tone, you can never go wrong with the feeling tone. Let’s say you visualize your life with this successful business or venture, and this money, and all that that would bring you, and all that you would be able to do and be and have and create and contribute, and you really get into the vision of it, and you really feel what it would feel like. So I invite you to do that with your vision. Really feel what it would feel like. See the vision. Feel what it would feel like. Notice also who you’re being. Then you can let go of the picture, and merely stay with the feeling tone, the vibration.
Perhaps in this example you feel powerful. You feel joyful. You feel peaceful. You feel inspired. Those are the feelings. There’s three pillars to your vision. There’s feeling, being, and doing. There’s the feeling, and then you notice, who am I being? How am I being in this expanded vision? You notice, as you’re living into this vision you’re being more generous, more outgoing, more playful, etc. So now you’ve got a set of feeling qualities and a set of being qualities, and you can just hang in that vibration, breathe. Let it expand, fill your body, radiate it. Just really soak in that feeling tone. Now, we go to the next step. That is the Emergineering part of the process, which means engineering the emergence of your life.
Now that we know how we would feel and who we would be if we were living our ideal vision, we begin to engineer a way of life that is congruent with that, a way of life that will begin to activate those qualities just as a matter of course. As you’re doing this practice, don’t try to do it all at once. Don’t try to do all the feelings and all the being qualities, but start with the one that has the strongest change, the greatest pull. Let’s just say in this case it’s joy. You notice that’s a quality you really long for or lack, or want more of. You just take the quality of joy.
Now you’re going to break that down in the following categories: people, places, activities, and objects. How this works is you would start with people, and you would go, what people have I spent time with, do I spend time with, or do I want to spend time with, that when I’ve been with them or when I think about being with them it activates a quality of joy in me? Again, this is whatever quality you’re working with. I’m just using joy in this example. That could be people that you’re literally with live and in person, like a friend at lunch or a family member doing a fun outing, or it could be somebody that you’reexperiencing virtually, like you’re reading them in a book, reading a book by them, reading a book aboutthem, or watching a show with them, or listening to an audio with them. It doesn’t have to be literally the person living or live and in person, or even on the phone. It can be when you’re experiencing their presence through any medium it activates joy. Right?
For example, some people that have really strong religious leanings just reading the Bible or reading the teachings of Jesus, or watching a documentary about Mother Teresa. In fact, they did a study and saw that individuals watching Mother Teresa do her thing. Her generous service activated in the people watching the same qualities of love and the same chemicals even as somebody who was doing it themselves, part of the mirror neuron experience. You don’t have to be with the person, but begin to identify. Make a list. It might be people that you see sometimes, but you want to see more, or spend more time with them, or people you used to, but for whatever reason that you’ve come up with you don’t spend much time at all with them anymore.
Now, what’s another important distinction, if you’re already spending a lot of time with this person, virtually or life, that’s not somebody you need to put on the list, because if there’s not a need to spend more time with them they’re not a core activator right now for you. I mean, they may already be activating something, but they’re not going to necessarily take you to the next level, unless within that relationship, like I said, you know you want to spend more time with them. Make a list of those people, live or virtual.
The second thing is the places. You want to begin to identify similarly what places have you been, or do you go to, or would you like to go to, that activate this quality, in this case joy? Perhaps you notice when you’re going to see a movie you feel this joyful quality like being a child again, which is also partly an activity. Maybe you notice when you are in nature, or when you sit by the window and look out at the yard, drinking your tea. That place in the house brings you a lot of joy, or being in church, whatever, a place. Again, this might be a place you used to spend more time in, but now you don’t think you have the time or the money or the energy, or whatever you need to be there, or it’s a place that you sometimes do, but you know you want to be doing it more, like being out in nature, or it’s a place you haven’t done, but you’ve been wanting to, or you thought about it and maybe you’ve pushed it away, because you’re like, that’s just not going to happen, for whatever reason, time, money, energy, whatever other excuse you’ve given yourself for why you can’t be there. You want to make a list of those. Again, if it’s already a place you do spend a lot of time in and don’t necessarily, and maybe it does make you feel joyful, or whatever the quality is, but you already do it a lot, that’s probably not a place you want to list. You want to find the places that you’re not doing, that you used to do, or that you want to do, or that you don’t do enough.
Then we get to activities. These are obvious. These are things that you do. When you do them they activate this quality. In this case, joy. So it could be when you’re dancing, singing, do some kind of creativity, hiking in the mountains, swimming in the ocean, whatever that might be, singing in a choir, taking yoga class, exercising. When you do this activity it makes you feel joy, or when you imagine doing it you feel a sense of joy. You want to write those down. Don’t monitor or filter. Write it all down. Write everything that comes to mind that used to bring you joy, that brings you joy sometimes, that you think would bring you joy if you were to do it, or whatever quality you’re working with.
Then finally we have objects. Objects are any objects of the sense. So a sight, a smell, a sound, a trinket, an actual physical object. So it might be a picture of someone or something. It might be a sound, the sound of chimes, the sound of the ocean crashing, the sound of water flowing. It could be a smell, thesmell of certain aromatherapies or essences, chamomile, frankincense, jasmine, whatever, or certain flower smells, the smell of freshly cut grass, the smell of freshly baked bread, because it’s got perhaps sense memory attached. Being at grandma’s house and smelling the bread. Coming from school, smelling the fresh cookies that mom’s made for you, and you felt so joyful or loved, whatever the quality may be.
You want to write down all of these objects of the sense. It could be statues of saints, stuffed animals, little trinkets, whatever. Like I said, any object of the senses. Now again, you want to look for the things that you want to have, that you’ve had, but don’t have, that you have sometimes but don’t have enough. Maybe sometimes you smell the fresh cut grass, or hear chimes, or smell the bread, but it’s not often. Maybe sometimes you listen to certain kinds of music, and it really activates that quality in you, but you don’t do it very often.
What you’re going to do is you’re going to take this first quality, and you’re going to take those lists, and you’re going to identify at least one, and you don’t necessarily have to have one from every list, but it’s fun to try to do that, and identify at least one that you’re going to implement and engineer into your life over the next week. Some of them will be once a week. Some of them will be every day. Some of them will be things you put into your life as part of your environment permanently. That’s you engineering the feeling tone, at least that side of it.
The other side of the LIFT practice is look at those qualities of being, and notice what are the qualities of being, which one of those qualities really stands out for you? Remember, a feeling quality is more static, like peace, love, joy. A being quality is more dynamic. It’s more action oriented, like more giving, more outgoing, more playful. It’s something you can do. So you want to pick one from that list that speaks to you the most, has the greatest charge, the greatest pull, and you want to take that out and simply ask the question, what would it look like for me to step into being fill-in-the-blank more fully in my life now? If you’re working in a particular area, like relationship or business, your job, and let’s say the being quality was outgoing or playful. You might say, what would it look like for me to be more playful at my job? To be more playful in my relationship? Just to be more playful in my life. As you ask that with sincerity, eyes closed, and listen and notice guidance, things will start to emerge, impressions, images, ideas, thoughts.
If it comes across vague, like something like you say, what would it look like to be more playful in my life, and you hear get involved in music somehow. Then you want to be more specific. You want to say, what specifically would that look like? Then you hear, sing more, or dance more, or dance around the house, or take a dancing class. You want to keep asking the guidance, and what would that look like? What specifically would that look like? Until you get something that is actionable. You don’t want guidance that just says, love yourself more. You want to ask, what would that look like if I loved myself more? What would that look like for me to love myself more? Until it becomes something concrete and actionable. Then you want to engineer that new action into your life. Again, this is only one quality in each category, but that alone could begin to make significant difference, just starting to activate some of these qualities in your life again. Another side thing to understand is you’re not just engineering things into your life, but those people, places, things, and activities that are no longer congruent with your vision. You want to begin to look at making a list of those. What relationships or people steal my joy? What activities take my joy away, or whatever the quality is? What environments deplete my joy, or whatever quality? What objects in my environment? Then wherever it’s possible, without doing harm to anyone, you remove those. You start to remove those things. For example, maybe you’re watching a lot of TV news and listening to talk radio,and you feel pulled to it, but it always makes you sad or scared or mad. That’s not congruent with your vision.
It’s beyond the scope of this session right now to talk about this, but in some cases, in fact, if it’s pushing your buttons there is still valuable work there to do, shadow work, values conflicts. If the news is pushing your buttons, scaring you, that’s really giving you something to pray for, to pray about, to heal, but for the sake of this process, and especially depending on where you are in your growth, it’s really important to first remove the things that are not lifting you. When I first got on this path there was a point where I had to completely get rid of everything. I got rid of TV news, a lot of books, videos, and people, and sort of cloistered myself and just had in my life only the people, places, and things that nourished what was emerging in me, a deeper spiritual connection, a creative connection, things that affirmed me and inspired me and fed me.
As I grew stronger I could start to step back into some of those relationships and things. For example, I could step back into some relationships with my family, extended family. Whereas for a while I had to extricate from some of those relationships and not see them or talk to them, at least not as often, until I had the inner strength from doing this work that I could step back into those without having it take away my power. Sometimes that’s necessary. Again, take it step by step. Don’t suddenly kick everybody out of your life and get rid of everything and join a monastery. That’s not what we’re saying here. Take it step by step. You’re building a new way of life.
So you’ve got the feeling, the being, and then the doing part, which you’ll already be doing some things is, depending on your vision, there are certain things you can begin to do to live into that vision, even before the vision appears. For example, when I wanted to have our first home I was doing all of these first steps, but then I also started going and looking at new homes, even though we couldn’t afford it, even though it seemed crazy and most people would never do that. Because I was doing the inner work of feeling it, of being it, of activating it, I had the vision. The third step is the doing it. So I began to do what I could do to live into that vision, and all that I could do was learn about buying a new house, visit dream homes, look at the models, hang out in the models, play house at the models, and come back to our little condo and feel sad and depressed by contrast. I would do the work again, feel good again, feel like I’m living in my dream home, feel the vibration, the quality, the frequency. Go look at homes, and in a matter of a couple months I had a breakthrough and an opening and realized that we could do it, that we would do it. A month or two later we were moving into our dream home.
That all was part of doing this LIFT practice, and I’ve done this in many areas of my life and helped clients to do the same. You can add that one in as well if you’d like. Again, this is a process. Be gentle. Be patient. You’re developing a new way of life. You’re developing a new emotional, mental, vibrational set point. So be patient with it. Focus on creating a life that really is congruent with this vision. It’s based on the old adage, surround yourself with the people, places, and things that represent your future, or where you want to go, not where you’ve been, or even necessarily where you are. As Wayne Gretzky, the famous hockey player said, I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it is.
I just want to say one other thing about this, what I call a super condition. What that is is when you find where you can put multiple things together. This doesn’t mean you’re going to add necessarily a bunch of things extra in your life. If you’re already exercising, let’s say, and you know that being out in nature is one of the activities or places that really lifts you, you might do some of your exercising in nature. If you already know that spending time with Bob or Sue or whoever lifts you, you might invite that friend to go jog or hike in nature. Now what have you done? You’ve combined a person, a place, and an activity that all lift you, and maybe there’s even certain objects, certain kinds of clothes, maybe the smells around you, or something you can put on you, and you combine all of these sight, sound, activity, person, place, all into what’s called a super condition. If you look at your life, there have been moments in your life when this happened organically. You found yourself with the right person in the right place doing the right thing, surrounded by the right objects of the senses, and you were completely lit up. Right? You weren’t just a little bit happy, a little bit peaceful. You were totally lit up. That’s what called the super condition.
Granted, sometimes you can be completely lit up by grace and by some spiritual activation where you’re feeling that way even when the outer conditions aren’t that great, and that will eventually come as you embody this frequency, but for now we’re looking to build those super conditions into our life. Interestingly to note, babies and young children do this naturally. Young children will naturally gravitate toward super conditions. In other words, before they’re conditioned to believe what’s right and wrong and what they should and shouldn’t do, be, or have, or who they should or shouldn’t be with, they will naturally gravitate towards the people, in the places, with the activities and the objects that completely light them up, that completely feed them and nourish them and grow them. Right?
Then a well-meaning relative or parent comes along. This happens with children. Uncle Joe wants to hold little Sue, and little Sue doesn’t want to be held by Uncle Joe. Right? Mommy forces little Sue into Uncle Joe’s hands, thinking, come on, Sue, Uncle Joe loves you. He wants to get to know you, or whatever. Little Sue doesn’t want to get to know Uncle Joe. Then you might even shame the child. Why are you being such a brat? Intuitively and instinctively, little Sue knows Uncle Joe’s vibrational field, for whatever reason, she may know some things that mommy and daddy don’t know about Uncle Joe, but for whatever reason it’s not a match for little Sue. Likewise, a parent or teacher or relative might force a kid to be in an environment that is antithetical to their developing vibration. This happens all the time. It happens a lot in our rigid formulaic school systems. The child is forced into a frequency, into a space that’s not lighting them up. It’s not congruent.
On and on this happens until little bit by little bit, through shame, blame, fear, fear of rejection, loss, that child begins to develop coping and defensive mechanisms to adjust and adapt to their environment, to the people, places, things, and objects that seem to be what they should do, be, and have as a means to survive. Until you end up an adult, and you end up in a home, in a job, in a relationship, and in certain situations that at least somewhat, and sometimes almost entirely, has been designed from a place of survival. Do you see that?
What we’re doing now is taking back that natural ability to create a way of life that serves and feeds our soul’s emerging potential. It’s a natural ability. We’ve been conditioned out of it. We’ve been shamed and guilt tripped out of it. Now we’re reclaiming our destiny. Isn’t this exciting? Even though I’ve taught this so many times I just get excited every time I talk about it. I hope you’re getting excited or inspired as well. I invite you to take this, listen to it again, write it down. Do the work. Do something to activate this potential, and lift your frequency, lift your life to the next level.
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We all have challenges and struggles, big and small.
Because life is progressive, there’s more trying to unfold all the time. The next stage of our life is constantly emerging.
And the next.
But we become identified with current mental, emotional, and physical forms, believing that’s who we are and that’s what life is.
We find comfort and security in these beliefs.
Self-improvement teachings urge us to push forward harder and faster. Yet, to the extent that you’re consciously desiring that bigger, better life …you’re activating that emerging impulse and it is going to crack and push against the shells of your personal identities and limited concepts.
Listen to “The Dark Night of the Soil” now to awaken to the spirituality that leads to true freedom and release from suffering.
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One morning at 4am, the Northridge earthquake threw me out of my bed and convinced me that I was about to die.
It really shook me up. For days, I walked in fear, facing my mortality and the realization that my body and existence could end in an instant.
Most of us carry this fear of death. It shows up as a literal fear of loss of our body, but also dominates our lives as a fear of death of parts of life such as the death of a relationship, a job, a dream, or our physical beauty.
But what, exactly, is it that would die?
I continued to ponder this over the following days. Then the truth hit me hard: just as physical objects take up limited space in an infinite universe, time is just a limited concept within eternity.
I realized that immortality is what’s real, and my short, mortal life is just a limited concept.
This meant that I – the real Self that is the true “I” – cannot die!
So what does die?
What dies is our mortal concept of time and space: our limited concept about ourselves and our lives. Our belief in limitation and lack.
This is all that dies.
With this realization, a prayer shot through me: “Since dying is just the releasing of all these limiting beliefs …then why not get on with it NOW?”
I didn’t pray this prayer; it prayed me. It prayed to die while I am still alive so that I could be liberated from my fear of death.
This is what all the great teachers have been teaching, because, to the degree that we hold on to our mortal sense of self, we are limited. Our life energy can’t fully expand in us because of our fear of death.
And so, to truly live, we must die to the lie.
Listen to “Dying While We’re Alive,” to reveal and release the fears that are limiting the full expression of who you are.
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Some people think that life is largely against us, that life is the roll of the dice. As Einstein said, “The dice of God are always loaded.” It means that life doesn’t just happen, but life happens just. There is order. There is a certain pattern and lawfulness to life.
Chaos theory says if you step back far enough from what appears to be random chaos, you will see a pattern. You will see order. The Universe is not chaotic. It is chaortic.
What I really mean by ‘why life is set up to fail you’ is something I call the great betrayal, or the big betrayal. I talk about it in my Awakened Wealth work. It’s best to tell you by means of a story…
The basic story is how years ago when I was first on a spiritual path, and I had pulled out of society for the most part to go on this inward journey. I was doing all of the right things. I was doing so much deep inner work, and there was a lot of great benefits for it, a level of peace and joy and creativity that was emerging. At the same time, as that was emerging my bank balance was submerging. It was collapsing. It was going away, and eventually I found myself broke, literally living on a prayer, and sitting in my meditation chair in the middle of the room with a bill collector knocking at the back door and the landlord knocking at the front door, on the verge of being evicted. Having no human means to support myself anymore.
I was, to be quite honest, pissed off at God. I had what I call my Gary Sinise moment. I don’t think Forest Gump was even out at that point, but I know call it my Gary Sinise moment. Where he’s in Forest Gump, and he’s on the mast of the ship, and shaking his fist at the heavens and the storm and saying, “Bring it on, God.” I didn’t understand. How did all my efforts get me back to this place again where I was once again broke? I remember saying, “This stuff is either a bunch of BS, or there’s something real here. One way or the other I’m not getting up from this chair until I know. I’m not going to go through this cycle again and again anymore. I’m done.”
I sat in that meditation chair, and I sat and sat. Daylight turned to dusk. The crickets come out for their nightly chorus, and I began to wrestle my demons and get pinned to the floor.
At some point in the middle of the night this awareness broke through, and I don’t know if it was a voice or a thought, but it was definitely Divine awareness of guidance. It said, essentially, “You made your savings account your God.”
I had basically had a savings account, a nest egg, and I was leaving that alone as a form of security, but then putting all my extra things or whatever I was doing beyond any money that was coming in, if I needed more money I was just putting it on credit cards. I had built up this credit card debt, but I wasn’t touching the next egg. Little bit by little bit it dwindled until it was pretty much nothing. It said, “You made that savings account your God, your Source.” Essentially, thou shalt have no other gods before me. I half expected to turn around and see Moses there holding a tablet up, looking strangely like Charlton Heston!
As soon as that awareness broke through this peace came over me. It was like this pressure valve released, and all the stress drained away. The insight that came was that it’s literally designed this way – that you don’t put anything outside of you as your God, as your Source. When you make anything outside of you your Source of safety, supply, security, or support, it’s designed to fail you.
The reason is because when you make something outside of you your source what starts to happen? You start to give away your power to that thing or person you think is your Source.
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[The following is the full transcript of this episode of the Emergence, A Revolutionary Path for Radical Life Change, with Derek Rydall Podcast]
Welcome to Emergence, the revolutionary path for radical life change. This is Derek Rydall, founder of the Law of Emergence, bestselling author of the book Emergence, and your guide on the side for this journey of awakening the full potential in every area of your life through this process and model of emergence. Today were going to be talking about why life is set up to fail you. Isnt that just a crazy title? Why would life be set up to fail us? Now some people think that life is largely against us, that life is a crap shoot, that life is the roll of the dice. As Einstein said, The dice of God are always loaded. It means that life doesnt just happen, but life happens just. There is order. There is a certain pattern and lawfulness to life. Chaos theory says if you step back far enough from what appears to be random chaos you will see a pattern. You will see order. The Universe is not chaotic. It is chaortic.
Why life is set up to fail you, and what I really mean by that its something I call the great betrayal, or the big betrayal. I talk about it in my Awakened Wealth work. Its best to tell you by means of a story. The basic story is how years ago when I was first on a spiritual path, and I had pulled out of society for the most part to go on this inward journey. I was doing all of the right things. I was doing so much deep inner work, and there was a lot of great benefits for it, a level of peace and joy and creativity that was emerging. At the same time, as that was emerging my bank balance was submerging. It was collapsing. It was going away, and eventually I found myself broke, literally living on a prayer, and sitting in my meditation chair in the middle of the room with a bill collector knocking at the back door and the landlord knocking at the front door, on the verge of being evicted. Having no human means to support myself anymore.
I was, to be quite honest, pissed off at God. I had what I call my Gary Sinise moment. I dont think Forest Gump was even out at that point, but I know call it my Gary Sinise moment. Where hes in Forest Gump, and hes on the mast of the ship, and hes shaking his fist at the heavens and the storm and saying, Bring it on, God. I didnt understand. How did all my efforts get me back to this place again where I was once again broke? I remember saying, This stuff is either a bunch of BS, or theres something real here. One way or the other Im not getting up from this chair until I know. Im not going to go through this cycle again and again anymore. Im done. I sat in that meditation chair, and I sat and sat. Daylight turned to dusk. The crickets come out for their nightly chorus, and I began to wrestle my demons and get pinned to the floor.
At some point in the middle of the night this awareness broke through, and I dont know if it was a voice or a thought, but it was definitely Divine awareness of guidance. It said, essentially, You made your savings account your God. I had basically had a savings account, a nest egg, and I was leaving that alone as a form of security, but then putting all my extra things or whatever I was doing beyond any money that was coming in, if I needed more money I was just putting it on credit cards. I had built up this credit card debt, but I wasnt touching the next egg. Little bit by little bit it dwindled until it was pretty much nothing. It said, You made that savings account your God, your Source. Essentially, thou shalt have no other gods before me. I half expected to turn around and see Moses there holding a tablet up, looking strangely like Charlton Heston.
As soon as that awareness broke through this peace came over me. It was like this pressure valve released, and all the stress drained away. The insight that came was that its literally designed this way that you dont put anything outside of you as your God, as your Source. Just think of it that way. Whatever language you like. If you dont like the word God thats fine. Think of it as Source, as the source of your life, as the source of your supply, your safety, your security, and your support. I basically said, When you make anything outside of you your Source of safety, supply, security, or support, its designed to fail you. The reason is because when you make something outside of you your source whatstarts to happen? You start to give away your power to that thing or person you think is your Source. If its a job you start to be less and less who you really are, or if theres something you really want to say or do you maybe dont, because youre afraid youll lose your source of employment.
You might be going right now, duh, Derek. My job is my source of employment. No. its actually not. If youve been following these teachings for some time, or any time, you know that thats true. Theres only one Source of everything, and that is God, or Divine Spirit, or whatever you want to call it, Uncle Joe if thats what you want to call it. Whatever you call it, you have to understand that its within you. This is what all the great teachers and teachings have ever said. The Kingdom of Heaven, the Nirvanic Realm, the Tao, whatever name, its within you. Within you is the center and the Source of all of creation. Not within your ego, not within your body, not within your personality, but within your consciousness, within your soul, which is your true nature and being. It is the Source of everything. Thats why the word for man in Sanskrit means the dispenser of Divine gifts. You are literally an opening, an instrument of the Universe, of Heaven. You are literally the opening, the portal through which all of infinity gets to pour forth. Nothing comes into this world unless it comes through us. Thats why from the Emergence model whatever is missing is what youre not giving, and whatever youre waiting for youre waiting with, and often weighing it down. This is ultimately the greatest wait loss program.
Heres what happens. When you make something outside of you your Source, whether its a bank account, a boss, a business, a client, you have to start manipulating and controlling and cajoling and twisting yourself into a pretzel to do and be whatever you think is necessary to get what you think you dont have, or to hold on to what you think someone can take away. Right? If you think its the government, or you think its your partner, your spouse, family members, whatever it is, you cannot truly be in a place of power, because you have to keep adjusting to something outside of you. If the economy starts to take a dive, you will panic, and you will start to withdrawal and shrink and constrict and adapt, which is the worst thing to do. To constrict and shrink in the face of contraction is exactly the opposite of what you need to do. You need to expand in the face of it. You cant expand if you think thats your Source. If you think the economy is your Source, and when it shrinks youre obviously going to shrink. Youre going to adjust. Youre going to cut back, cut down.
I remember years ago when I had this awareness. I had already had this official awareness, but it was one of the recessions, and my initial fearful response was to cut back, cut down, reduce my charitable giving, maybe even stop it for a time. What came through was, No. Were going to double it. I was like, What? What do you mean double it? It was the remembrance, you are the Source of infinite supply. Youre not beholden on whats going on out there. Nows a chance to prove it. I dont know if I doubled it, perhaps I did, but I definitely greatly increased it and began to give even more. On the other side of that so-called recession where so many people I knew their savings accounts, their income had shrunk. Some of them were even losing their homes. Mine had greatly expanded, perhaps even doubled or more. There was so much potential on the horizon, because I recognized and I practiced the truth that I was the Source, not I, Derek, but this I that I am, the same I that you are.
As you notice where youre giving your power away, you also begin to resent that Source, if its a person, if its a partner, a spouse, a boss, and you start to feel guilty or ashamed within yourself. You start to resent yourself. You start to feel cheated, betrayed. Just notice that. Notice wherever you feel someone is your Source. Notice your relationship to that person. Notice how you can feel used or cheated or betrayed so easily. Notice how theres elements of resentment. Notice how theres a part of you that wants to break away and perhaps even has from a rebellious standpoint. Notice the times where you have made something your Source, and its gotten worse and worse until eventually that source did fail you, did cheat you, did betray you. You may still be really hurting from that, like they really did cheat you, betray you, but no. They played their part exactly as they were supposed to.
The Universe is designed to fail you. Life is set up to fail you when you put your power, your source of safety, security, supply, or support in anyone or anything outside of you, so that ultimately you will come back home again to realize that everything you could ever need is within you. When you get hooked up with the Source within you, and really understand that it is everything you could ever need, now you begin to free yourself from these power plays. You begin to free yourself from all the resentment and feeling like a victim. You begin to heal those relationships. You begin to forgive others, release others, forgive them their debts. You realize nobody owes you anything. Nobody. Not even God. Its all within you.
Likewise, you begin to realize you dont owe anybody anything either, because its all within them too. That doesnt mean that you dont ask for help and that you dont help others. Its quite the opposite. Once you realize youre the Source, you know that you dont owe anybody anything, but because you know youre the Source of infinite good, you start thrilling in all the opportunities to give. Giving starts to be your greatest joy. Its like more and more all you want to do is give. You live to give. Then you start to look around and realize thats what all of life is doing. Look at nature. Its so abundant. Its so lavish. Its so opulent. This invisible presence of nature, it doesnt just give enough to get by. Are there just enough leaves to get by on the trees? Are there just enough stars to get by? Just enough grains of sand? Just enough species, just enough anything? No. Theres more than enough. Theres abundance. As the scriptural passage says, I have come that ye may have life and have it more abundantly. You start to realize that you play the same role. Its all that you can do to just keep giving and sharing and shining and circulating this infinite storehouse of good within you. Then you start to notice that you cant out give God. The more you give, the more life seems to give back to you, pressed down and overflowing. You cast your bread upon the waters of life by giving and giving, and it circulates around back to you multiplied.
Whats really happening is that the more you know youre Source, and you give from that consciousness that you are Source, you expand the portals of your consciousness. You become a bigger place. The Universe goes, Theres someone who knows who they are. Theres someone through which I can completely shine. The Universe pours more and more and more through you, because it wants to put itself on display. It says, You are my beloved, in whom now I am well pleased, and all that I have is yours. It just pours and pours through you, as you. That consciousness then manifests as what appears to be more and more situations where you are blessed, where you are rewarded, where you are given to.
In order to get to that state you have to begin the practice of fasting from getting, from seeking to get. You have to begin to notice all these places where life has seemed to fail you its because youve made something or someone outside of you your Source. You need to begin the practice of what I call the giving challenge where you begin to practice as if its actually true that everything is within you, because truth doesnt do you any good if you dont know it and if you dont live it. Thats why it says, You shall know the truth, and then the truth shall make you free. The truth doesnt just make you free, like electricity knowing that its everywhere doesnt do you any good unless youre plugged in.
Likewise faith without works is dead. You must act upon the good you know. You must live from it, live into it. It doesnt mean you have to start walking on water or give all that you have away to the poor. It does mean you have to begin to take steps in living and acting as if. Just start with those places where its a little uncomfortable, like when you go to work out for the first time you dont go and lift weights so heavy that it rips your muscles, because then you end up in the hospital and cant work out for the next month or longer. Heres my challenge to you. I want to invite you to take the giving challenge. Lets just say for the next seven days. You begin to write down all the places youve been looking to get something, to get love, validation, approval, support, supply. Anyone or anything youre trying to get something from or believe that they should be giving it to you, maybe youve even stopped trying, because youre resigned or resentful, write it all down. Then I want you to reverse the flow and become a giver.
Heres how the giving works. Its based on the Law of Circulation. You cannot give what you dont have. The first step is wherever youve been trying to get something you have to give it to yourself, whether its love, validation, appreciation, respect. You ask, what would it look like if I really loved or validated or appreciated myself? How would I act today or in this relationship or at the job or in this moment if I really, and then fill in the quality, loved myself, validated myself, approved or appreciated myself? How would I be today or in this situation? What would I do? What would I say? What would I stop doing? What would I do more of or less of? Thats the first step. You have to give it to yourself.
If its money youre trying to generate more in your life, if its something physical, you can do it a couple ways. One is you can look for ways to spend money on yourself in a way that you have withheld from yourself in the past or currently. It doesnt have to be major. Maybe its like you just wanted to get some organic apples, because theyre high in pesticides, but you find yourself going, I just cant do that. Its $0.99 extra. Youve wanted to get a massage, and maybe youre better at giving to others, but you just dont give it to yourself in those areas. Find some area like that. The other way you can work with money or physical things that youre trying to generate is ask, how would I feel about myself if I had more money, or if I had more of that thing? Maybe you would say, Id feel more confident, more powerful, more worthy. Then you can ask, if I truly treated myself as a person who is more worthy, if Ireally believed I was worthy, how would I show up today? If I really believed or felt confident, how might I show up today? Thats the first step. You cannot give what you dont have, so you begin to practice giving to yourself.
The second step is you cannot keep what you dont give away. So you have to now look to those places youve been trying to get and start to find ways to give the thing you were trying to get. If its a boss, youre looking for more respect, look for legitimate ways to give that boss more respect. You dont have to limit it there. You can try to give it in other places too. That would be the main focus. Youre giving it to yourself, you cannot give what you dont have. Youre giving it away, because you cannot keep what you dont give.
Then finally you cannot sustain what you dont receiver. You notice, just be aware where life or others are trying to give you something, love, validation, appreciation, respect, even if its in their own awkward way. Its actually love coming at you, and you can look in the area where youre struggling, but you can also be open to it anywhere. You start to notice how much is coming to you that you dont notice, that you take for granted, that you misinterpret. Not just from people, but just look around you and notice the chair youre sitting on. Its supporting you. Its giving you support. That sun thats shining is giving you Vitamin D and other nutrients, warmth. Just look around and begin to catalog and inventory all the things that are coming, and breathe it in. Somebody compliments you, they say, That dress is great. You notice how you might normally go, This old thing? Thats you deflecting that love. They mention something. They try to do something nice for you, and you want to immediately give it back to them. They give you a gift. You want to immediately give them a gift. Thats you not letting it in. When somebody compliments you, take it in, say thank you, and be quiet. Dont have to give them one back. They give you a gift. Thank you. Really take it in. You dont have to give it back.
Thats the Law of Circulation. Youre write down all the places youre trying to get. Youre going to fast for the next seven days from trying to get anything, and youre going to feast on the Law of Circulation and the giving, giving to yourself, giving to others, and then receiving. Its like one complete breath cycle. Breathing in, breathing out, and once you exhale all that out from your lungs naturally receiving the air back in again.
Now when I say youre fasting from getting that doesnt mean you dont get to keep doing stuff in life, that you dont get to keep going out there and trying and doing good work. Lets say you have a book, and you want to get it published. That doesnt mean you stop sending out query letters. Thats not what I mean. I mean you look at those areas where you believe theyre your Source, and you shift that dynamic. If you shift that dynamic you can still be asking for help, asking for a promotion, asking for a book deal, seeking out a new client, but its from an energy of knowing theyre not your source. Your good does not come from them, although it may come through them. Theyre a channel. Theyre not the Source. You, and you alone, are the source. You got it?
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As Einstein correctly said, “The dice of God are always loaded.”
In other words, life doesn’t just happen. There is order. There is a certain pattern and lawfulness to life.
But there’s a catch.
Until you understand how God has loaded the dice …life is set up to fail you. I call this “The Big Betrayal.”
This quantum prayer anchors and deepens your understanding of how God has loaded the dice …you’ll never have to worry again about where your good is coming from.
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What is true freedom?
And why should you strive to have true freedom? What’s the reward?
In many therapy and self-help programs, such as 12 step programs, it begins with a desire to have freedom FROM something: freedom from pain, bondage, limitation, addiction.
But, as the Buddha taught, aversion – our desire to get rid of something in order to be free – is part of the core of the false self.
See, if we’re trying to be free from something, we’re still married to it vibrationally. As long as you’re focused on what you’re being free from, you’re still in bondage to that very thing.
In fact, the more we try to get freedom from, the more bonded we become to that cycle and the more we’re stuck on that wheel of karma.
Every time we try to get or “get rid of” from that place we create more karma, because we’re increasing our sense of separation from the one life, the source, and the substance of all of creation.
That substance of all creation is who and what you are now …not who you’re going to be when you get freedom from a circumstance you don’t like.
And so, as helpful as many self-help programs can be in the beginning, at a certain point we have to shift from trying to get freedom FROM …to stepping into our freedom TO.
A freedom towards something. A freedom to choose. A freedom to live the way you want to live.
There’s economical freedom. There’s mental freedom. There’s emotional freedom. And there is, of course, physical freedom in the form of feeling safe and secure or feeling health and wellbeing.
When we have freedom, it gives us more choices in the midst of circumstances to do what we want regardless of how we feel, how much money we have, even what our beliefs tell us.
You start to get distance, which allows you to observe patterns, expand your awareness, and experience even more freedom.
Listen to “The Price of True Freedom,” which reveals a deeper truth that leads to greater intuition, greater insight, greater wisdom, and even Divine ideas.
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“Who do you think you are, God’s gift to the world?”
Heck yeah!
You are literally the gift of God to the world, just like me.
Now you might be thinking, “What is this crazy person talking about? Has he looked around at human nature lately?”
Don’t worry. I’m not blind to the facts of experience.
Yes, there are a lot of crazy people. Frankly, we’re all pretty crazy …humanly speaking.
But that’s not who you and I really are. And that’s not what we’re worshiping.
You are the Buddha, the Christ, the light of the world.
In fact, the very word “human” comes from the Sanskrit for “man” and means the “dispenser of Divine gifts.”
So the very ground you walk on is holy and sacred and hallowed. Because you walk on it.
Therefore you must worship the ground you walk on.
The alternative is false modesty, false humility, or worse: self-loathing.
It’s not arrogant or egotistical to worship yourself. It’s arrogant and egotistical to beat yourself up, to think of yourself as less than gorgeous and beautiful and powerful and wonderful.
That’s arrogant. That’s pure ego.
Listen to “Why You Must Worship the Ground You Walk On” now to rediscover the love, joy, peace, beauty, abundance, wisdom, genius, and magnificence that’s shining within you.
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What is the Garden of Eden story?
Adam eats of the fruit of the knowledge of the tree of good and evil. Then all hell breaks loose.
Adam falls into a dream of being separate from the one life or the one power.
In his dream, he succumbs to the belief that there are many powers, divided fundamentally into two types: good power and evil power.
Adam’s “knowledge” of good and evil is the fundamental flaw in human consciousness that creates all suffering.
The problem of good and evil is the one problem that creates all of our human problems. It is our sense of being separate from this one life or this one power.
All great religions are established to solve this illusion of two powers, of duality.
The illusion that there’s God and you.
Listen to “Why You Should NOT Stand in Your Power” now to learn what Jesus, Buddha, and Lao Tsu were teaching: a path to dissolving your sense of separation.
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There are different types of freedom: emotional, mental, physical, social, financial and many more.
These types of freedom are what we strive to achieve by escaping what have been called “The Five Gates of Hell” that trap us in emotionalism, intellectualism, sensualism, personalism, and materialism.
Ultimately, real freedom can never exist as long as we believe someone or something outside of our consciousness is the source of anything in our life.
As long as we’re caught in any way believing that anything outside of our pure center of awareness – any thought, person, situation, emotion, condition, law – is our source, we cannot be free.
Because we are caught in one of these Five Gates of Hell.
(It sounds pretty bleak, doesn’t it?)
We’re hypnotized into striving to get more and more and more from outside us, or get rid of what is inside us in order to feel okay. We’re on a treadmill of false freedom.
This is the ego’s grandest trick, and it is bleak, indeed!
Listen to “The Path of True Freedom” today to discover how to step off the egoic treadmill that traps you …so instead of trying to achieve freedom FROM your problems, you can experience freedom TO enjoy your perfect consciousness.
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What have your loved ones given you?
And those that you haven’t even known, but who you love because they gave you so much – Buddha, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Jr., Shakespeare, your ancestors – what specific thing or item did they give to you?
It was no material object.
Their real gift was their Presence: the activity, quality, or frequency of Consciousness that they caught and downloaded and anchored on Earth.
Perhaps that Divine idea was love. Perhaps it was a belief in yourself.
Whatever it was, they activated and downloaded some eternal quality in a unique and unprecedented way.
Listen to “Opening Up Your Presence” now, and find out how to catch and anchor that beautiful quality that is your gift to the world.
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There’s a story in the Bible about Jesus cursing a fig tree, because it wasn’t bearing fruit. The fig tree dies.
Seems kind of out of character for the Christ, doesn’t it?
But it’s a cautionary tale for all of us; if we don’t produce the fruit of our kind, if we do not allow that which is our nature to come to fruition, then Life will get rid of our current forms and circumstances.
We live in a culture that seems to have been built on a single main thrust of, “Buy more! Get this!”
The promise of these advertising messages is that you’ll gain more comfort, convenience, safety and security by these external means.
But this comfort and convenience is holding you back from bearing the fruit of who you really are.
If you want to be free, fulfilled, progressive, innovative and creative, to live a life of true vision and purpose, you have to grow and bear creative fruit. You must allow your evolutionary impulse to have its way with you.
By prioritizing comfort or convenience and avoiding growth, you’re in opposition to Life itself, and you will experience crisis, stagnation, and – like the fig tree – death in some form or fashion.
Life isn’t a problem to be solved. It’s a mystery to be lived. Understand that the pursuit of comfort and convenience at the expense of the emergence of your soul’s purpose will hold you back every time …and – ever-so-softly – kill you.
Listen to “Killing Us Softly,” to see what’s holding you back, discover how to become unleashed again, and allow yourself to finally rest in the part of your being that’s on the emerging edge!
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Every day, we experience thoughts and impulses that bring about a sense of joy, creativity, and inspiration.
We want to move in the direction of these desires, be guided by them, because these are the soul’s expression. This is the emergence of your higher vision.
But then you’re stopped short by fear.
Yes, there is healthy, protective fear: the kind that makes you pull off the road when you sense dangerous driving conditions ahead.
But the kind of fear that stops you from coming into alignment with your higher self, stops you from saying “yes” to your Yes …this fear prevents you from moving the edge of your own self-concept.
Fear and its cousins: struggle, anxiety – even frustration and anger – come upon you like an electric fence. The more energy you put into moving in the direction of your desires in the “greener pastures” beyond the fenceline of your current state, the more energy you’ll have to put into protecting yourself from this terrifying, painful threshold.
Until you break down.
Tellingly, this is just when most of our breakthroughs occur, and the reason is that those limits must be broken through in order to grow into our fuller selves.
So, how do we live in a world in which fear is a regular occurrence that’s never going away?
The end of fear comes at the beginning of our understanding what fear is.
Every poker player has something called a “tell.” This is the twitch or quirk, change in body language or tone of voice or focus of the eyes, some signal that lets other players have an idea what you’ve got in your hand.
Fear is your ego’s “tell.” It’s your personal twitch or quirk that signals you are coming up against your ego’s limited self-concept. Your old, limited way of being is cracking open, breaking down, and giving way to something much bigger, bolder, and better.
Listen to “The End of Fear” now to recognize what your fear is really signalling, to end your fear of fear, and to transmute your fear into excitement about what is about to emerge in your new life of unstoppable courage and confidence!
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The End of Tomorrow: How to Stop Anticipating Your Future Good & Start Participating in it NOW!
There is no such thing as a future. The past is a memory, the future is a fantasy. Even the present is in your imagination. The ‘now’ moment, is the only thing that’s real.
The essence of the Law of Emergence is that everything is now. Everything that will be done, is already done. Everything you could be, you already are.
All the joy and the happiness and fulfillment you will ever experience as the result of what you want is already here.
Check in with yourself. Any time you are anticipating, ask yourself, if I already had this, how would I behave or react differently? Let this define your actions to bring the desired outcome forward rather than acting from a place of ‘want’.
Listen to this episode now so you can start participating in your future good NOW.
Stay inspired!
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What does it mean to you to be free of letting your past determining your future?
How much are you letting your past determine your future?
It’s not the past that’s problem, it’s your present. If you are letting your past emotions determine your current state, you are determining your future based on that.
Your current circumstances are the result of your past but they do not determine the circumstances of your future.
As a visionary you have the capability of imagining and thus creating a more abundant, vibrant and fulfilling future.
What is emerging requires more focus on roots than the fruits coupled with a knowing that your harvest is already and always here.
This requires the development of a new set of skills and, in some ways, to ‘not be of this world‘ of circumstances.
In this episode Derek uses the analogy of financial debt to describe this new skill and how you can shift your relationship to the future.
Listen to this episode now to support your personal development and spiritual growth and to start participating in your future good NOW.
And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
Stay inspired!
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There’s a reason why the word ‘Quest’ is in ‘Question.’ If you want to live a great quest, live with great questions.”
A question is not something that is seeking to get something we don’t already have. From the Emergence model, the question is something that’s trying to emerge. Every question is answered. As the principle says, “Ask, and you shall receive.”
It’s not just the good questions, or the helpful questions, or the “positive” questions, but every question. It’s not personal, it’s principle. Every question is answered. If you ask, “Why doesn’t anything work for me?” You’ll get an answer. The answer will be plugging you back into all the reasons things don’t work for you, and bringing up a lot of new discoveries of why things don’t work for you.
That’s why things don’t work for me. You plug into the database of all of these patterns, but it doesn’t necessarily bring you any close to having things work for you better, because that’s not the question you asked. You didn’t ask, “How can things get better?” You asked, “Why don’t things work?” You get it?
The key principle here is ask the questions the answer of which is the actual result you want. In other words, if you want more abundance, you don’t ask, “Why am I always broke?” Right? Why is the economy so bad? Why can’t I find a job? No, because you’ll get a whole litany of answers for why. You’ll see later it’s not just answers you’re going to get in the sense of just ideas in your head.
Listen to this episode now to support your personal development and spiritual growth and to start participating in your future good NOW.
And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
Stay inspired!
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In this journey of truly living a radically alive and totally fulfilled life where we don’t live life on accident, but we live life on purpose, with a purpose, and allow that true and complete potential of our life to emerge.
You can do this.
You were designed to do this, and as I’ve worked with people all around the world from Academy Award winners and Emmy winners to Fortune 500 executives to artists and authors and teachers and coaches and speakers and healers, from most walks of life this principle has proven itself out. The Law of Emergence which states that when the conditions match the pattern within the seed the potential naturally emerges.
The good news is that unlike seeds in nature, which are indigenous and are dependent on their external environment, you are endogenous, which means you bring your environment with you wherever you go.
So no matter where you’ve been planted, what side of the tracks, no matter how much sun is out or how many clouds are blocking the light, you have the power through self-effulgence to turn on the light, to fertilize and cultivate the soil of your soul and create the right and ripe conditions for that destiny of greatness, that seed of infinite potential to emerge in your business, in your family, in every area of your life.
Listen to this episode to find out these clues and to support your personal development and spiritual growth and to start participating in your future good NOW. And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
Stay Inspired!
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Create your compelling vision not just for life but for the coming 12 months wherever that falls for you right now.
There is a Chinese saying when is the best time to plant a tree? 30 years ago – And when is the next best time? Now!
Wherever you are in your journey it doesn’t matter what ever time of the year it is doesn’t matter. The date is arbitrary the right time to create your compelling vision for next 12 months 12 days 12 hours is always NOW. It’s always the right time to tap back in.
There is always something seeking to emerge, there is always a larger version of you seeking to emerge, more life more light, peace, love, joy, beauty abundance, harmony.
All that makes life wonderful and good is infinite and exhaustible and uniquely patterned as you. And it’s always unfolding, always knocking at the door of your consciousness saying ‘Let Me Out’.
The more and more we are willing to live on that emerging edge of newness the more we will find our life continually renewed and restored. In fact the only place that real security exists is on that emerging edge, the emerging impulse, that evolutionary impulse.
If you’re ready and willing to live on the emerging edge listen to episode 120 of the emergence podcast and support your personal development and spiritual growth and to start participating in your future good NOW.
Stay Inspired!
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The Myth of Believing and the Secret to Achieving. This is somewhat provocative and maybe even a little shocking for some of you. Particularly if you are immersed in the self-help, in spiritual agility, and the whole field of changing our thoughts and our beliefs in order to create the life of our dreams.
You see, while there is truth-the power of your thoughts. The importance of mindset. These are all very, very important elements. But in fact, it’s become in a way a disease where the idea that we have to feel it, to do it, to believe it. We have to believe it to achieve it. We have to feel confident to do it. It has created in many individuals this waiting period.
We are not going for our life. We are not living our life. We are not doing the thing we most want to do in creating and being because we are waiting.
We are waiting to believe it.
We are waiting to feel it.
We are waiting to have the confidence.
We are waiting for it not be scary and we checking in, with our beliefs. I’m I there yet?
We are contemplating our navel instead of getting out there where the action is and going forward. This is really becomes a problem that I see more and more. Where individuals are waiting.
Remember from the Emergence model. Whatever you are waiting for you are waiting with. Whatever is missing is what you are not giving. Where you are not generating your divine power plan.
A power plan doesn’t receive energy it generates it. You are waiting for amuse to knock. You are waiting for inspirations. As if it’s going to come knock at your door, but instead of understanding it’s the inspiration is in you.
YOU have to act like an inspired person and you will activate inspiration.
YOU have to act like a confident person and you activate confidence because it’s ALL IN YOU.
YOU see the truth is it’s already done. It’s already happening.
What you need to do is to become in alignment with that which already is happening.
Listen now to episode 121 ‘The Myth of Believing, The Secret of Achieving’ of the Emergence Podcast. to Find out these clues and to support your personal development and spiritual growth and to start participating in your future good NOW. And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
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This episode is really a transmission that’s been moving through me now for months. It’s part of a series of talks that I’ve been giving that are calling for an entire up-leveling of our fortitude and our resilience, and our stamina, and our courage to do whatever it takes.
Whatever it takes to get the results that we truly want to get. Not just results in terms of materialistic elements in the world but also internal results. If we want to have a deeper connection with peace and want to grow our sense of peace or our sense of love. That’s a very, very difficult path to really embody unconditional divine love. That is for the faint of heart. As Emerson said, “God will not do his work through cowards”.
And so it takes a mighty level of strength, and courage, and stamina to be a person of true unconditional love. To be a person of compassion. A person of patience.
As you probably heard me say, “It’s hard to be a light in the world when you can’t pay your light bill”.
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Welcome to another episode of Ask Derek. Where we do shorter trainings based on the most popular questions that you have asked over the weeks, months, years, in our groups, in our forms, and in our classes, as a way to get a quicker hit than some of our longer trainings. To really create a library of very clear answers to the most important and often the most debilitating issues that block us from really living our full potential. Activating our full emergence.
Today’s question is such a common one. Is it ego or guidance talking? Or is it my ego or my spirit talking?
This question often comes from an unconscious shadow, brought about by an early experience where someone has taught themselves to doubt their own judgement.
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Today we’re talking about and answering the question how do I choose which way to go? In terms of should I do this? Should I do that? How do I stop just trying to figure things out and actually choose a path, choose a lane, choose a direction?
This is one of the most common challenges and struggles with entrepreneurial creative types, especially if you have that unique design of the Renaissance type of person, because there’s so many possible ideas, so many things that you want to do, and so many possibilities, and primarily it also comes from some unconscious, or maybe conscious, false assumptions and fears, such as I need to know for sure that the choice I make is going to be the right one, and you may not be aware, but often that’s really what’s underlying your fear, or your procrastination, or your hesitation to just make a choice, to just commit and go for it.
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TranscriptionWelcome to Ask Derek, where we do shorter trainings based on the questions that you’ve asked in the forums, in the groups, in the social media platforms, and just throughout the weeks and months and years. Questions that have been the most common, and those that have become the most urgent, and almost archetypal in their nature, and this is to get a little bit shorter responses, little bit shorter trainings, a quick hit, or at least quick by my standards. I can talk for hours, as you probably know. Today we’re talking about and answering the question how do I choose which way to go? In terms of should I do this? Should I do that? How do I stop just trying to figure things out and actually choose a path, choose a lane, choose a direction?
This is one of the most common challenges and struggles with entrepreneurial creative types, especially if you have that unique design of the Renaissance type of person, because there’s so many possible ideas, so many things that you want to do, and so many possibilities, and primarily it also comes from some unconscious, or maybe conscious, false assumptions and fears, such as I need to know for sure that the choice I make is going to be the right one, and you may not be aware, but often that’s really what’s underlying your fear, or your procrastination, or your hesitation to just make a choice, to just commit and go for it. If you look back when you were a kid, and you were playing different imaginary games and making stuff up, you spent a minute or two coming up with the game and who was going to play what, and it’s lava, and you’re going to be a captain, and you’re going to be this, or you’re going to be Peter Pan. You’re going to be Captain Hook. You didn’t care. You might have argued for a moment who got to be who, but making a decision to commit to that path and that particular game you didn’t have all the stakes to it.
You have to, in a very real way, enter in the same kind of childlike curiosity, sense of adventure, sense of wonder. Now I’m not saying go take out a loan, mortgage your house, and make those kind of decisions, and that’s usually not where the problem lies. The problem lies with just making a choice to begin to really create something, and when we’re talking at this level of creating an entrepreneurial program or product as a coach, teacher, healer, author, etc. it’s mostly your time and energy as an investment. The stakes are relatively low, and the other thing is that in many of these cases you can’t really know what the “right” way to go is until you go.
I’ve used the analogy often. It’s like sitting in your car waiting for the GPS to give you all of the directions, and then you’ll start driving, but it doesn’t work that way. Right? You have to start driving, and then it starts telling you which turns to make. When do you know when you’ve actually been guided correctly? If you’ve never been to the place it’s taking you, when do you know it actually guided you correctly? The answer is, the very final turn, that very last moment. Because, for all you know, it could have been taking you in the exact wrong direction, but you follow step by step as it unfolds. If you’re an explorer, and you’re going through and exploring new terrain, you can’t wait, come up with all of the decisions and answers and know if it’s the right track until you climb at least that first mountain, or that first hill and get a higher perspective.
The same is true with many of the decisions in our life. Now, I’m not saying there’s not certain elements of being a good steward, doing due diligence, but, again, that’s usually not the problem. Of course, do your due diligence. Do the research. Study a program. Read a book. Make sure you know most or some of the best practices that are available to you, but, again, as I work with people, and I’m teaching them all the best practices, and they still struggle to decide which one of the many ideas should I choose? Should I write this book? Should I make this my program? Should I offer this? There’s other criteria when it comes to market testing and checking with your audience and seeing what is their real problem, what is their real ambition? Understanding your ideal client, your tribe. These are some of the basic practices, but then at some point you still have to pull the trigger. You still have to start driving. You still have to decide I’m going to create this program or write this book.
You know what? You might be wrong in the short term. That program might turn out to not be the big seller. The annals of time are littered with all the failures, seeming failures, of the authors and the inventors and the innovators and the leaders, but every single one of those was a stepping stone, and I know that’s almost a cliché, but it was a stepping stone to that which created their success. So in a very real way it really wasn’t a failure at all. What could have been a tombstone was a stepping stone, because they learned something. Edison and his thousands of so-called failures of the light bulb taught him the right way to do the light bulb, and also lots of other ideas around conductivity and different metals and different things that went on to inform his other inventions and things. But you must commit. You must take a step.
The way you choose which way to go, and I know this sounds so simple. Most things are, if you’ve done your normal due diligence, and you’ve studied the basic best practices. You just choose. You’ve heard my story probably, if not, there was a point in my life where I had many things I was trying to do, and I was making some progress, but wasn’t getting any real momentum, and I finally realized I had to pick a lane. I just had to pick a lane and commit to it for a sustained period of time, because otherwise what’s going to happen is you’re going to bump into all your thresholds, even if it’s the right things. You’re going to hit thresholds. You’re going to hit the doubt, the fear, all the reasons why you didn’t want to do it, why you don’t think you should do it, why you don’t think you’re good enough. You’re going to bump into all of those no matter what you choose. If you have not committed to it, you’re going to read that sign as I guess that’s the Universe telling me I’m not supposed to. I’m not good enough. I’m too young. I’m too old. I’m too this. I’m too that. It’s too soon. It’s too late. Most of which are often false diagnoses of the problem. They’re just simply telling you you need to grow. You need to learn. You need to dig deeper.
When the resources seem to dry up, you need to become more resourceful, but you won’t get the learnings and the growth of those opportunities if you haven’t committed to that direction. You must choose. When I finally realized this I chose. I chose the Law of Emergence, and I committed for 18 months. I was going to create a program. I was going to flesh it out, create a framework, begin to offer it. No matter what, I was going to stick to it. It was really hard, and all those reasons why I didn’t want to commit in the first place, all the other ideas that I thought were better, suddenly looked really shiny and exciting. I bumped into all of those thresholds, the shiny object syndrome, boredom, fear, doubt, not good enough, the naysayers. Many of the top marketers, who are now a lot of my friends, telling me you can’t make a living doing this particular kind of thing. You’re having to literally create your own niche practically.
I just stuck. I stuck to the path, and I did the work, which I teach. I worked on my values conflicts. I worked on my shadows. I worked on my limited beliefs. I dug deep and anchored myself in truth principle. I built a vibrational frequency that was congruent with my vision, and here’s the other thing. When you commit to a path, and you do the Emergence work of becoming vibrationally congruent, so let’s say you decide you’re going to create this book or this program, and you’re going to launch that business, and you articulate what that vision would look like and feel like, and you begin to do the inner work of congruence to being to feel like that person and show up and be that person, so that vibrationally you are a match for that vision.
Here’s the great news. If by some chance that’s the wrong path, you will ultimately be moved, inextricably or without question, because vibrationally you can never go wrong. If you are vibrationally in a state of power, confidence, joy, peace, love, generosity, service, expansiveness, abundance, but you’re on the wrong path, that frequency will tune you in to the right path. That’s the beauty of the Emergence process is that ultimately it’s really all about you becoming more of the real you, even more than it is what you do. Then that inner GPS, that inner God Positioning System, will redirect you.
Do the best practices. Do your due diligence. Be a good steward, and then choose. Now, one final little thing you can do is you can certainly create a list of the pros and the cons for each choice that you want to make, and then as you read down the list feel into what it feels like as you read each one of those, and feel in your body which one feels more constricted overall or more expanded. That’s another little criteria you can go by, and then finally you can even say let me dream of this color if this is the right one. Let me dream of this color if this is the right now. Maybe you narrow it down to two or three choices, and it’s red, blue, or green, and then wake up and see what color you dreamt of. These sound kind of silly on some level, but they’re actually potentially very powerful, and they do work.
I said this was going to be short form, and it’s already gone longer than I intended, but I think that’s enough for now. How do you choose which way to go? You choose. You dig in. You make a commitment for a period of time, and then everything that that brings up, the fear, the resistance, the doubt, the thresholds, you do the work on those, as I’ve described in other trainings, and as I teach. Then even if it’s the “wrong” goal, you will grow into the right person, and then that will lead you to the right path.
I hope this has served you. This has been another episode of Ask Derek. Until next time, remember to live authentically, love unconditionally, and follow your destiny.
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When we understand that life is emergent, that life is not happening to us, but it’s happening through us and as us, that whatever’s missing is what we’re not giving, that if we want more to come into our life we have to let more life come out of us, or as the poet Browning said, “We must find a way to release this imprisoned splendor.”
We’re talking about today the seven reasons why things aren’t working, or just why aren’t things working? This is such a common experience, of course, and we bang our head against the wall, and we get depressed and disillusioned, and it’s important to understand so we can begin to diagnose why aren’t things working? What’s going on when things aren’t working?
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TranscriptionDerek Rydall here, founder of the Law of Emergence, and author of the bestselling book, Emergence, and it’s just such an honor and a pleasure to be with you again as we take this deep dive into understanding the principles for successful living that sometimes can be quite radical and exactly the opposite of what we’ve conditioned to believe. When we understand that life is emergent, that life is not happening to us, but it’s happening through us and as us, that whatever’s missing is what we’re not giving, that if we want more to come into our life we have to let more life come out of us, or as the poet Browning said, “We must find a way to release this imprisoned splendor.”
We’re talking about today the seven reasons why things aren’t working, or just why aren’t things working? This is such a common experience, of course, and we bang our head against the wall, and we get depressed and disillusioned, and it’s important to understand so we can begin to diagnose why aren’t things working? What’s going on when things aren’t working?
I want to start off by saying it’s almost never a sign from the Universe that you’re not supposed to be pursuing this. Now, certainly sometimes you aren’t supposed to be pursuing what you’re pursuing, but that old trope of New Age belief that when things are difficult and hard it’s a sign that you’re not supposed to do it from the Universe, if that was true, pretty much all major innovations in history would never have happened, because it was really hard for Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi and Edison and Disney and Steve Jobs and Jesus and Buddha, pick your master, creator, inventor, leader. Every door was closed to them. Every window was closed, and storm shutters nailed to them. So that wasn’t a sign they weren’t supposed to do it, it was an opportunity for them to dig deeper to become stronger, and it was really a sign that they were in many cases on the right track of progress, because it was bringing up all the resistance in their direction.
I just want to start off right out of the gate and say that your struggle and your challenge, don’t fall for the belief that it’s just a sign from the Universe you’re not supposed to do it. The only real sign you’re not supposed to pursue something is you no longer want to. I want to say a caveat to that is sometimes you don’t think you want to, because it’s hard, and you have to trick your ego and say, “If it could be easy, if I could still do it, be successful, be well received, have a great time, would I want to do this and be this and create and contribute this?” That kind of temporarily clears away the dust and debris of the journey, and allows you to feel that glow of your heart’s desire again. As long as that glow is still there it’s still true for you, and the difficulty is about growing and getting stronger and building soul stamina and developing certain muscles and skills so that you can carry the energy of that vision or mission.
Let’s go through the seven reasons why things are often not working. The first one, and these aren’t necessarily in any given order, but the first one it’s often a sign that you’re trying to achieve something with old tools, and an old model, and an old map. In other words, in our developmental stages of life you end up having experiences, and you end up deciding this is the way life is. Life is hard. Resources are limited. I’m not that worthy, and people aren’t to be trusted, as an example. Right? That’s based on some experiences you have, so you quickly draw a map of reality, and it literally gets laid down neurologically, and then you create a model for living based on that map. Then you end up creating a toolkit to operate and survive in that territory.
The problem, of course, is that the map is incorrect, but for a time it can actually be useful, because, if you’ve studied my shadow work, you end up developing a lot of skills and abilities and things as a reaction based on coping and defense mechanism and self-preservation, a lot of skills and things that are actually beneficial. This is what’s called the gift of the shadow, but at a certain point, especially if you really get on a path of self-development and self-actualization and spiritual awareness and consciousness expansion and real vision, you are calling forth and activating a larger consciousness, a larger perception of reality, and what starts to happen is that old model, that old thing, no longer works. It’s like you’re trying to use the tools that they used to work on the Model T Ford to work on your Ferrari, or even your Prius. The tools don’t work anymore. You don’t realize that, because these tools and this map and this model are so close to you, but that’s one of the reasons is that you’re trying to get from LA to New York using a map of the old world where it’s still got little drawings of dragons and stuff, there be dragons. They would write those on the maps whenever they didn’t know what was there. They would just draw a picture of a monster or something, because that was how the mind perceived the unknown.
That’s one sign, and you begin to question. What if my map of reality is wrong, and my model of operating therefore is wrong, and the tools I’m using to work with that model are therefore outdated or no longer work on this new model that’s trying to emerge in my life? That starts to open up a whole other line of questions, of inquiry, and of discovery. As well as transformation and real evolution.
The next of the seven reasons, and this is connected to this first one, is often your chronic challenges or problems are a sign that you’re trying to manage a life that is too small. You’re trying to manage or cope in a world too small where you’ve activated a different or bigger life, a larger life. For example, like the acorn analogy you’ve activated your inner oak tree, but you’re still trying to stay a safe acorn and hold onto your protective shell. That inner oak is trying to crack through, and it’s creating the crisis. It’s creating the experience of things falling apart or not working, and you’re trying to call in a shell repairman to fix your shell and all these kinds of things. Like the caterpillar trying to hold your caterpillar life together. You’re trying to manage. You’re trying to cope and hold onto a self-concept and a life concept that is breaking apart, because you’ve activated a bigger life.
It’s similar, but it’s different by degree. In the first example you’re trying to use tools and a model and a map of the world that you’ve outgrown, and eventually when it becomes a chronic problem you are now trying to manage and cope in a world that is too small for the world life that you’ve activated, for the energy that you’ve activated. This becomes increasingly challenging and painful the more you are on a conscious spiritual path, and the more you have desires and intentions and prayers, because you are activating all this energy that’s now trying to emerge, but you are still holding onto the old self-concept, the old world concept, and trying to actually manage your life within that paradigm. It won’t work. It’s extremely painful, and ultimately impossible. You can’t be an acorn and an oak tree at the same time. Once you’ve activated the inner oak, you cannot remain an acorn without suffering. Does that make sense?
Then the third reason why things aren’t working is a values conflict. You may have heard me talk about this before, but basically you’ve been wired a certain way because of experiences. Perhaps growing up you were trying to do a certain endeavor or project, and maybe make money or be successful or be creative, and it was causing problems in your family, and you got the message somewhere along the line that you were hurting your family, or you were hurting your sibling, because you were outshining them. You got the message that you either have to be a good child, a good son, a good daughter, and be part of the tribe and have family and connection and love, or you have to leave it, abandon it, for success and for name, fame, and fortune. It may not have been that overt, but you got a message that it was one or the other. It was mutually exclusive.
Internally you still valued both things. You still wanted to shine your creative genius or be successful, and you still wanted to have love and family and connection. Those values still existed in you, but now they were sibling rivalry. They were mutually exclusive they way they were wired. So every time you would start to go for one, it would create problems in the other. It would create anxiety, or you would self-sabotage, so that you could ultimately go back to the other value. Then you would eventually yearn for the other value, the opposite value, and somehow self-sabotage this one so you can go for the other one. Right?
I used to do that as well. I’d start to get successful, then I’d pull back, back away, self-sabotage, and then I would go do my spiritual practice, be with my family, feel a sense of relief. Then eventually I’d start to feel anxious and like I’m not doing anything, I’m not living my potential. I would start going for success again, and eventually start to feel anxious, guilty, disconnected from my spirit, from my family or friends, and then I would sabotage and go back to that again. Until I eventually saw that based on my upbringing I had these values conflicts, and in my mind to go for one would mean I’d have to sacrifice the other. I just created a reconnection of my values, a values affirmation, where I essentially said, the more successful I become, the more deeply connected I am to my heart, to my art, to my loved ones, and the more I honor my need to be connected to my spirit and to my art and to my loved ones, the more powerfully I am inspired to go for success and make a big impact in the world. That felt good. Yes. I can have both.
Those values aren’t intrinsically exclusive. They were only wired that way. The minute those wires touched again there was an energetic spark. Energy started to flow again, and as that became a mantra and became embodied then the more I would go for my success the more I would be inspired to take my spiritual path deeper and connect with loved ones, and the more I connected with my art and my heart and my loved ones, the more inspired I was to go for my work, and it served. They became complimentary and served each other. So values conflict, that’s often a reason why things aren’t working. It’s like you’ve got one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake.
Then we get to the shadow block. Again, if you’ve studied my work you understand some of the shadow work, and this is there’s a shadow around whatever the next step of growth is. You’re bumping into the shadow, and this shadow is connected to values conflicts, can be connected, and can be similar, and can emerge out of similar developmental stages of your life. This basically means that, for example, maybe you actually need to take a different direction or slow down or take a break or take more time at some aspect of the work you’re developing or the relationship, but when you imagine doing it you’re afraid of the outcome. What if it doesn’t work? What if I fail? What if I look stupid? What if I look bad? Then if you ask yourself, if that happens, what would I make that mean about me, or what am I afraid others would make it mean about me? You hear certain judgments, like I’m lazy, I’m a loser, I’m a failure, I’m unworthy, I’m not good enough, I’m selfish. For example, you really want to go for this thing, and you find you just don’t feel the momentum or the energy, or you keep sabotaging it, and when you ask, what am I afraid is going to happen? I’m going to succeed. What am I afraid people are going to think about me? I’m self-centered. I’m selfish. I’m insensitive to their needs, whatever. That’s a shadow.
So when you do the shadow work, and you embrace the selfish self, or the lazy self, or the failure self, you integrate the imprisoned energy within that shadow. I don’t have the time to go into the full understanding of shadows within this particular talk, but you unlock it, and now that energy becomes available to you, and the wisdom, and the insight, and the gift of that, and it’s no longer blocking you, because you have now made friends with the selfish self. You don’t care if somebody thinks you’re selfish, because you’ve embodied selfishness in its optimal state, which means to honor the self, to take care of the self. Now, if you want to do the shadow process once you understand what your shadow is, you can go to DerekRydall.com/shadowprocess. Download a free shadow process audio training. If you really want to master the shadow work, you can get the program Shadow Dancing. It’s a total in depth mastery of the shadows in all the major structures of your life, and that will radically transform you and unleash the energy within you. You can go to DerekRydall.com for more information on that, or email support@DerekRydall.com.
The next, Number Five, why things aren’t working, wrong goal. Let me just break this down a little bit. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t still, let’s say you want to write a book, build a business, grow your clientele, or find the love of your life. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have that as a success endeavor as a part of your plan and your vision and something you are going for, but ultimately there’s only one legitimate goal, and that is to live in a deep connection with yourself, with your Source, with God, with truth, whatever name you want to give it, and to be in a state of peace, love, joy, in this moment. That’s the only legitimate goal. That’s what all the great masters have taught. You can actually test and verify this if you ask, if I got that outer goal, what would that give me? Why do I want it? If you ask what I call the five whys, why do I want it, why do I want it, why do I want that? Then you get this, and why do I want that? Then you get this. You eventually get down to I’d get the money, so I can buy the house, and I’d get the house so that I can enjoy my life. Then I can enjoy my life, so I can finally be in joy or peace. You’ll always eventually get to a quality, a state of being, a state of deeper connection with life. Always. That’s all we’re really ever going for.
Any attempt to have an attachment to an external goal immediately turns on the stress response, makes it increasingly difficult to achieve it, creates all kinds of resistance and toxic chemicals and toxic thoughts, and may make it difficult to impossible to ever achieve it, or if you do the cost will be so high, and you will not experience joy or freedom, if only temporarily, and then eventually you’ll be right back to thinking you need to get the next bigger, better thing, and you’ll be miserable. You want to look at, what do I really want? What I really want is a sense of peace and joy. So then you shift your goal to be developing and embodying whatever the vibrational feeling tone of achieving that goal would be.
That becomes your core goal, your top priority, so that as you’re going through your day and doing the work you’re doing, you’re stopping on a regular basis and checking in and going, what am I really after here? Remembering, getting reconnected to your real goal, to be in love, to be in peace, to be in joy, in this moment. For the next 30-60 minutes that’s my goal. Then you go back to work, and you still do whatever you’re going to do. Some people are like, if I just only want peace or joy, and I’m just resting in the moment and peace and joy, I’m not going to be inspired. I’m not going to have momentum. Everything’s going to fall apart. That’s what the ego tells you, but exactly the opposite will happen.
The more you are connected to and achieving a state of peace, love, joy, gratitude in the moment, legitimately, the more dynamically creative and active you will be, because your spirit is not neutral. Love is not neutral. It’s dynamic. According to your unique design and pattern it will unfold. You know the old thing where your parents might have told you, “You keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.” The Universe is saying, you keep being in joy, I’m going to give you something to be joyful about. You keep being grateful, I’m going to give you something to be grateful about. That state of joy and gratitude will manifest more experiences that give you reason to be joyful and grateful. If you’re struggling and things just aren’t working, you want to check in and see, what’s the real goal here, and realign yourself with that.
Then we get to the sixth reason why things aren’t working, and that’s competence. Sometimes you hear your voice say, I’m not good enough at this. I’m just not good enough, and you know what? That voice might be right. A lot of times we brush over that and try to just do an affirmation, but it might actually be accurate and giving you guidance and saying, “You need to go back to the drawing board. You need to dive a little deeper and get a little bit more learning and understanding and mastery of this particular thing.” There’s gold there that you have yet to mine, beyond what you may even know. You may go back to research and study, and all of a sudden it opens up a whole new world, a whole new possibility, a whole new potential. Don’t dismiss the possibility that you need to develop more competence. Sometimes it also might mean you need to work harder, not just smarter. You might go back and discover the people that really succeeded in this, the very best of the best, they were the ones still at the gym when everybody else went home. They were the ones willing to completely redevelop their particular skill even when people were saying they were good enough. Like Tiger Woods willing to break down his golf swing and rebuild it at the height of his career. Like Michael Jordan going and shooting 300 free throws every time, even at the height of his career.
If you’re the person who suffers under perfectionism, this is probably not your issue. Your issue is probably the opposite, you just need to ship it, as Seth Godin would say. You just need to get in the game and not just stay on the sidelines practicing. It depends. Depending on where you are, there’s some deeper learning either that the best practice is you need to just do it, just get it written, get it out there, or that you need to learn Step A or Step B or Step C. This is the most practical of the seven reasons why things aren’t working, but, believe it or not, often overlooked.
Step Seven, finally, you might just need to rest and stop taking action. The analogy is you plant the seed. You water it. You weed it. You feed it. It doesn’t grow right away. You dig it up again, plant it again. Water, weed it, feed it. It doesn’t grow right away. You dig it up, plant it again. Is that seed going to grow? No. It’s not only not going to grow, it’s probably going to die. There is a period of work and labor and sowing, and then there’s a period of resting, and then there’s a period of reaping. If you go to the gym, and you work out every day the same muscle over and over again, it’s not going to grow stronger. In fact, it’s going to tear down and eventually fail. You have to rest. Actually, all of the greatest progress happens during the rest. That’s when the repair and the rebuilding and the signal in the body goes and makes the muscle stronger and bigger through the process of repair.
The same thing is true with your ideas, your creative projects. Sometimes you have to just put it in a drawer for a day or a week or a month. It’s not saying you’re giving up. It’s understanding the gestation, germination, creation process. There are cycles. You don’t just breathe out. You have to also breathe in. Again, for some individuals that are go, go, go, go, like a shark afraid if they stop swimming they’re going to die, you want to look at a values conflict or a shadow, because there’s something you’re afraid is going to happen if you rest. For some of you you need to develop new structures in your life so that there’s space for playing, that you actually build into your calendar your mediation practice, time to be with friends and family, time to play, time to exercise, time to just goof off, free time where you got nothing scheduled. So that you’re designing a life that’s conducive to the natural rhythms of conception, creation, gestation, maturation, and ultimately manifestation. Sometimes you just need to stop and rest. Be still, and let the work you’ve done begin to work on you.
These are the seven core reasons why things aren’t working. Usually you can find and diagnose the problem within these seven. I hope this has served you, and my prayer, my intention for you, is that no matter what you stay the course. You stay engaged, and you stay inspired. Until next time, remember to live authentically, love unconditionally, and follow your destiny.
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It’s just great to be with you again in episode to help you take things to a whole new level. To master the principle of emergence in every area of your life.
What we will be talking about today is ‘All of Your Tomorrows Are Part of God’s Today.’ How to access your future NOW. This is no small thing.[bctt tweet=” Time and space is like the canvas upon which we paint our perception of eternity of infinity.“]
They’re not absolute realities. Time and space is like the canvass upon which we paint our perception of eternity of infinity. There’s perfection which is infinity, mortal, eternal. There is perception which is our awareness of it. That little sliver of our awareness and then there is projection, which is the manifestation of our perception.
The way we paint on that canvass of time and space. And then there’s protection which is the frame we put around it and call reality. But it’s not. It’s just a painting or a photograph if you want to use that analogy, thinking of the photos, the film, and the camera shutter. It open ups for a split second. Captures a little bit of light. A little bit of the landscape. That’s perception. The light and the landscape is the infinite perfection. And then it projects it on the film strip, which becomes the photo. That’s the projection. And then we print it out or whatever. Put a frame hang it on the wall and that’s protection. And we look at that and say “That’s such and such a person or such and such a landscape.” Well no, it’s actually not. It’s a picture of that. But if you can imagine we have a gallery of paintings or pictures and we just live in that gallery and eventually forgot it was a gallery. Forgot it was just pictures and photos. We’ll be lost in time and space or lost in the gallery of our concepts and pictures of reality. And that’s really what happens.
That’s really the very definition of being merely a human being.
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Yes, you do have an awesome purpose, and you do have unlimited potential. We’re talking about today the Five Step Potential Activator, and this is a really powerful thing. We hear all kinds of things about potential, but one thing to really understand is that your problems are potential activators. That’s actually why they’re there. Understand that your potential always trumps your problems. Your potential is always, but only always, bigger than your problems.
Just think about that for a moment. Whatever problem you face, whatever problem, your potential is bigger than that. Whether it’s mental, emotional, physical, relational, financial, your potential is bigger. Your potential is bigger. Indeed, your true nature is an infinite individualized expression of life itself, all the power, all the presence, all the substance, all the wisdom, all the genius, all of the whole of the cosmos uniquely individualized, uniquely knowing and expressing itself. That’s what you are.
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TranscriptHey, Derek Rydall here, founder of the Law of Emergence, bestselling author of the book Emergence, and your guide on the side for this journey of emergence of the full potential and awesome purpose for which you were born. Yes, you do have an awesome purpose, and you do have unlimited potential. We’re talking about today the Five Step Potential Activator, and this is a really powerful thing. We hear all kinds of things about potential, but one thing to really understand is that your problems are potential activators. That’s actually why they’re there. Understand that your potential always trumps your problems. Your potential is always, but only always, bigger than your problems.
Just think about that for a moment. Whatever problem you face, whatever problem, your potential is bigger than that. Whether it’s mental, emotional, physical, relational, financial, your potential is bigger. Your potential is bigger. Indeed, your true nature is an infinite individualized expression of life itself, all the power, all the presence, all the substance, all the wisdom, all the genius, all of the whole of the cosmos uniquely individualized, uniquely knowing and expressing itself. That’s what you are. In order to experience that it must become manifest in some way, shape, or form, and in order for it to manifest, for it to come out of you, sometimes it requires challenge, crisis, problems, struggle. Just like the jack pine needs a forest fire to activate its potential. Just like there are many species in nature that need struggle, challenge, “problems”. The meaning and the message and the reason for that challenge, crisis, or problem is that there’s another level of evolution, another level of progress, another level of potential. So the very purpose of your problems is to pull out of you more potential. Make sense?
That’s why they’re happening. Your problems aren’t happening because you’re bad, because you’re a sinner, because of just merely karma. Karma may have created the starting point of a problem, but your karma does not determine your destiny, nor does your conditions determine your destiny. Your destiny is determined by your character, which is the etch of God on your soul, which is that level of embodiment of the truth of your being. Your character is determined by your core habits. Your habits are determined by your consistent actions. Your actions are determined by your emotions and by your beliefs, which are determined by your point of focus, intention, attention, and by how you choose to frame whatever condition you face.
Notice the thing that we often think is the thing that determines our life, condition, that’s actually way down at the bottom of the list of what determines our life. It has absolutely no determination unless you let it. It’s the starting point. Your condition is the starting point. From there you get to frame it. You get to decide what it means. What you decide that it means determines how you feel about it. How you feel about it determines what you do about it. What you do about it determines the habits. The habits determine your character. Your character determines your destiny. That problem is giving you a fresh starting point for a new journey of activating your potential. You can begin to get excited, because the truth is there’s only this infinite reality of wholeness and harmony, and it’s seeking to express itself in ever greater ways through and as you. So these challenges, everything is conspiring to reveal more, to put life even more fully on display.
There’s five core steps to taking your problems and turning them into potential, what I’m calling the Five Step Potential Activator. The first step is recognizing that that problem is a call to pull more potential out of you. It’s a call. You don’t want to try to avoid the problem. You don’t want to try to anesthetize yourself from the problem. That’s letting the call go to voice mail, and the Universe gets the message, mailbox full. You don’t want that call to go to your voice mail. You want to answer the call and recognize it’s a call to pull more of you out. That’s it. That’s it. It’s a sign that you’ve already activated a bigger life. Somewhere along the line you’ve said yes. You’ve intended. You’ve prayed. You’ve affirmed. Your back was against the wall. You cried out, and in that moment the larger version of your life, that greater dimension of your potential, that next step of your evolution, began to emerge, but then it bumped into your small self-concepts, your limited paradigms, and as it starts to bump into that and rub up against that, it creates what looks like a problem.
It means that somewhere along the line you’re still holding on to smaller ideas, concepts, or you just don’t yet have the infrastructure, mentally, emotionally, physically, vibrationally, energetically, etc. strong enough to carry the voltage, the wattage, the capacity, the velocity, of the life that’s trying to emerge. So it’s time to uplevel. It’s time to get to the 2.0 version. It’s time to create stronger structures to carry more energy, more capacity, so that you can express more of your beauty and your brilliance and your abundance. There’s some outdated worldview or self-concept, or just structures that are no longer able to carry what’s coming next. There’s more traffic that wants to come down the freeway of your life, and you’re going to have to start expanding the lanes. Some kind of growth is trying to happen. That’s the meaning and the purpose of that problem. That’s Step One, recognizing that, coming to terms with that, releasing all judgment and resistance, and getting ready to do the real work.
Step Two, ask what are the qualities or the quality or the skill or the skills that you would need to embody and express in order to be free and empowered in the midst of this problem? Notice Step Two is not how do I solve this problem? It’s what are the qualities. By the way, that’s not a terrible question to ask when we talk about asking the right questions. How do I solve this problem is not a terrible question, but it’s not the most effective or empowering question, because it ties you back into the energy and the frequency of the problem. Often times when you solve it at the same level of energy you just recreate that same problem in a different way. You haven’t actually evolved, and you just see the same problems getting recycled again in different ways. It’s the same frequency. Like you’ve heard me use the example of ice. You can’t solve the problem of ice as long as you’re living at 32 degrees. That’s where ice lives. Even if you pour hot water on it, you’ve solved it for a moment, but then what happens? That hot water now turns into more ice. You have to actually rise above that temperature to a higher frequency. You have to evolve, and then the problem isn’t solved, the problem dissolves, because it cannot live above that temperature. It cannot live in that higher frequency. This is true of all problems.
The real meaning of a problem is it’s time to evolve. You ask, what qualities or skills would I need to embody and express to be free and empowered in the midst of this problem? For example, it might be more trust, more peace, forgiveness, love. You may be struggling financially, and for you money and finances really represents safety, security. So what’s it’s really calling for you is a deeper quality of trust, a deeper inner conviction that you’re taken care of, that you’re okay, which a feeling tone of trust. In fact, that’s really what your soul is yearning to feel and experience and express, and you can know that just by imagining if I did have that money, how would I feel? There’d be this inner sense of freedom or fulfillment or trust, a sense that all was well and you were okay. That’s the quality that’s trying to be expressed. So you ask, what is that quality?
It might be a particular skill, which could be a skill of character or a literal skill, a skill like being more patient, or being more generous, being more focused, more determined, more resilience, more stick-to-itiveness. That’s like a skill of character that you’re being called to develop. Maybe the thing is not happening as fast as you think it should be happening, and it’s created a crisis, and rather than just digging in deeper and pushing harder, maybe what’s really being called is to develop patience, which is developing a capacity within you, as the course in miracles says, “Infinite patience brings about immediate results.” It’s a soulful capacity that when you develop patience it opens you up to be an instrument of greater power and potential in many areas. It’s also the evidence in consciousness that you’re already there. That’s why it says infinite patience brings about immediate results. It dissolves all resistance, all pushing and forcing, and is an underlying vibration that it’s already done.
Perhaps it’s focus or resilience, the willingness to stay at something even when all seems lost, even when you seem to be having failed. There’s a deeper soul stamina that’s trying to be built, that’s making you a stronger instrument for even bigger opportunities. You’re asking, what are the skills or qualities that I need to embody to be free and empowered in the midst of this problem? So even while the problem’s there, I’m good. I’m strong. I’m empowered. I’m free.
Third Step is you ask, who would I be if I overcame this? What qualities or skills would I be expressing or exhibiting? How would my character be different, changed, improved? What would I feel? Who would I be? How would I be able to show up, if I overcame this problem? So you allow yourself to imagine yourself on the other side of this. Who are you then? What are you capable of? How do you show up? How do you express yourself? Again, you begin to unpack some qualities. You can unpack these qualities in two ways, feeling qualities and being qualities. The feeling qualities are more static. The being qualities are more active, which again are more like the skills of character. A feeling quality would be peace, love, joy. A being quality would be generous, creative, outgoing, spontaneous, playful. You see how those lend themselves more to action, whereas the feeling qualities are more a state of being.
I know it’s ironic when I say the being qualities lead to more action, and the feeling qualities lead to more being, but essentially the feeling qualities are more static. You can’t really do them. The being qualities are more active. You can be them. You can consciously be them. You can ask, what would it look like for me to be more generous in this situation? That will lead to actions. Versus how does it feel to feel more peaceful, to feel peace, to feel joy, to feel love? It’s a feeling state.
You’re asking, what skills or qualities do I need to embody and express to be free and empowered in the midst of the problem, and who would I be and how would I be expressing if I overcame the problem? So you end up with a series, or maybe just one or two, qualities of feeling and/or being, which can also include skills. Some of these skills might be things like focus, determination, patience, stamina, perseverance, or whatever might come to you. They might even be more practical skills. Maybe organization comes through. You need to be more organized. It can be more practical. It’s whatever is necessary for your growth and development. What’s important to understand now is that what you’re discovering is not something you’re trying to do or add to the situation. What you’re discovering is that this condition, this problem is setting up the condition for those qualities that are already in you in latency and incipiency to come out, and even more, if you want to go down the rabbit hole even more, those qualities within your soul that want to express more have actually created the problem and the condition under which they will be able to express.
When you pray for patience, do you think the Universe just bops you on the head and says, you’re patient? No. Rarely. Usually you don’t just wake up more patient. Instead you end up finding yourself in long lines and traffic jams, and you might even cry out, “God, why have you forsaken me? What happened to my prayer of patience? I’m more angry and pissed off and impatient than ever before.” No, you’re not. What’s happened is that condition is revealing the pockets within you where you are caught in anger, judgment, complaint, unhealed issues, unforgiveness, and it’s creating the fever that’s pushing the poison out of your system. So that the natural effervescence of your soul, which is patient, can begin to emerge. So you can build the muscles and the infrastructure to hold the vibration of patience. Just like when you go to a gym, you don’t just go poof, you have muscles. You have to go into resistance training. When you’re in that traffic, that’s a form of resistance training to activate and grow the muscle of patience, amongst other things. Your current problem is the very resistance training that your soul has created for you, so that more of you can come out, more of those muscles of your being can be made manifest, more potential. Got it?
Then Step Four, now create a potential activation plan. It’s not enough usually just to notice there’s a problem, more is trying to emerge. What are the qualities that are trying to emerge? Okay. More love, more peace, more patience, more generosity, more focus. Now you’ve got to actually have a plan, just like you’d have a workout plan. Otherwise it’s often very likely that the inertia of old patterns and old habits will take over, and you won’t really have the focus and the continuity of action and ultimately the momentum to really grow and change. Create a plan.
You can have a 21 day plan, but ultimately I say stick to the plan until you get the results. If you want to lose weight you don’t just say a 21 day plan, and if after that I don’t lose the weight, I quit. Maybe you start off with a 21 day plan. Then you take these qualities and new skills, and you weave them into your daily plan and practice. There’s a variety of tools you can use, but the core goal is you’re going to activate and integrate and embody these qualities or skills that you’ve discovered is what’s being called forth from you. There’s the VVR process that I teach, visualization, vibration, radiation. Go to DerekRydall.com. Go to the free resources section, and you can download that audio training to do that practice. There’s prayers and affirmations to activate those qualities. There’s just visualization, which is a part of the VVR process, where you visualize yourself living this life where you are expressing these qualities. There’s just the moment by moment practice of these qualities. If you’re trying to be more loving and patient, maybe you stop for a minute every hour, what I call the One Minute Mystic, and you stop and just tap back into the feeling of that quality or that vision. You set a goal that in any given hour, when you remember, for the next 30 minutes I’m going to practice this quality. I’m going to be loving. I’m going to be more generous. I’m going to be more patient. Then just see what unfolds.
The key is to create a real plan where you are practicing. If you’ve studied, as I go into some of my other trainings, the LIFT practice, and you can get that in my Emergence podcast archives or library. LIFT stands for Living in the Feeling Tone. I talk about in there how you can take these qualities and turn them into the people, places, objects, and activities. So you’re literally designing a way of life that is congruent with the qualities of character that you’re seeking to embody. You can literally begin to redesign your life around these qualities, which in many cases is also what’s seeking to emerge. This problem isn’t just seeking for you change your nature. It’s often seeking for you to change your way of life in some way. The people you hang out with, the conversations you have, the environments you spend time in, the things you put into your mind and into your mouth, as well as the things that come out of your mouth.
It’s often seeking for a revolution of your whole life, especially depending on the degree of the problem. Sometimes it’s just seeking for you to transform some aspect of character. I would definitely encourage you to get the LIFT practice podcast if you have not yet studied that. In any case, you’re creating a potential activation plan. That’s Step Four, so that you make it real. It’s not real until it’s really in your plan, and then on your calendar. You won’t do it otherwise, in most cases, until it becomes a habit.
Then Step Five, assess, reassess, on a weekly or daily basis. In other words, at the end of the day look at your day, and go, how did I do? Rank yourself. A scale from 0-10, 0 I didn’t do anything around this, 10 I gave it my all today. Just see if you can uplevel that a little bit every day until you’re getting a lot of 10 days, which just simply means you really showed up for this. You really gave it your all. It doesn’t mean you’re perfect. It doesn’t mean you decided to be loving and patient for the next 30 minutes, and you were perfect. It means you know you really showed up. That would be a 10. You can’t force growth. You can only show up fully to it. You would assess. It could be daily, or it could be weekly. Whatever interval you think feels appropriate, every other day. At least once a week. You’re looking to see, how did you do? Are you being or becoming more of this version of your new self in terms of these qualities and capacities and skills?
How is the problem? Rank the problem 0-10. 0 being there’s no problem, 10 being it’s as bad as I can imagine it when you start, and then when you reassess each week look at the problem and reassess it. It was a 10. Is it a 9 now? Is it a 10+? Is it 11? Without judgement, just notice. Sometimes a problem will seem to get worse before it gets better, because what’s really happening is as you’re doing the work to grow more of the unconscious layers come to the surface. Like an infection rising to the surface, like a sliver rising to the surface. If it’s not changing at all, you’re not feeling better and more of this new version of yourself at all after a period, go back to Step Two. Reevaluate the qualities or skills you need to develop. Just see. Is there anything you’re missing, or is there something new?
One set of qualities you definitely want to begin developing if you don’t already have is be patient and loving and kind to yourself. This is a process. You’re building new neural pathways, new conditioning. Sometimes changing conditioning you’ve had a lifetime, and conditioning and beliefs that your family, your friends, and society is potentially still bombarding you with. This may be a change in the way you’re being that you’re current circle of friends are totally not living. That’s not easy, or it might be a break from your tribe in a dramatic way. Maybe they’re a family of complainers, and maybe one of the things you have to let go of is complaining. Did that just send a shiver up your spine? Gossip or blaming.
By the way, I should add, as you’re developing these things that’s another way you can look at it. Not just what do you need to develop in terms of qualities or skills, but what do you need to let go of? As I talk about in the LIFT practice, it’s not just about reengineering people, places, objects, and things that are congruent into your life, but it’s about engineering the people, places, objects, and things that are no longer congruent out of your life wherever possible. The same thing is true here. You’re not just embodying and embracing new qualities and skills of character and being, but you might be letting go of some.
Often when you embody the thing it begins to release the thing that’s opposite it. It’s good to know what it is that’s being released. If you’re being called to embody more love and forgiveness, it’s impossible to do that while still holding onto blame or resentment. If you’re a person who’s got chronic blame and resentment, and you get a call to have more love and forgiveness, it’s good know what’s going to have to go. If you really do focus on love and forgiveness, it will bring up the blame and resentment, and that’s what I mean by things might get worse. You might find yourself more pissed off and angry and resentful at this person or at yourself, and that doesn’t mean it’s getting worse. It means that the depth of that root is coming to the surface. You just weren’t conscious of all of that pain. It’s starting to bubble up. Love casts out all fear. So when you embody and embrace a new quality, that which is not vibrationally in alignment with it starts to come up.
It’s a good practice to also write down what do you need to let go of? You may have to stop having conversations around the coffee pot at the coffee station at work about how bad the economy is or how bad other people are, or blaming the boss. You cannot become the next stage of your best self and hold onto those old bad habits. Can’t become an oak tree and stay an acorn. Can’t become a butterfly and stay a caterpillar. Sorry to tell you. I’m not really sorry to tell you, but I guess I’m saying that to your ego.
Be aware of that as you’re assessing, reevaluating, and being patient and kind to yourself, and to those around you, because as you’re growing through these processes you’re not always the easiest person to live with. Maybe that’s already true. It’s funny to think, when you’re in therapy, or you’re going to through growth and thinking about all the people you might want to blame, just imagine how many other people might be in therapy because of you. That’ll give you a good moment of pause. I’m sure that I have been the cause of many sessions of therapy and healing practices for others. Be kind. Be patient with yourself and with others as you grow through this.
Those are the five steps to the Five Step Potential Activator. As you do this more and more, this becomes a way of life too. This just becomes habitual, and then growth becomes a little more easy, or a little more continuous. It doesn’t have to always be these incredibly dramatic growth spurts, although you’ll still have those.
As a bonus, I invite you to get some accountability, get some leverage on your life, on your growth. Find a partner to work with, somebody you can do it together with. If you’re part of my groups, get in one of those groups and find somebody in one of those groups that you can work with. Do some kind of regular check in, whether it’s daily or weekly, when you do it together, or do it with a group. If you’re part of a Mastermind group, maybe you all do it together. It makes it more powerful, and when you come together in agreement around what you’re doing and what’s possible, where two or more are gathered in agreement, the higher potential becomes activated. It’s an accelerator to the potential activator. It ensures you’ll be less likely to fall off track, to go into hiding. When you do it alone it’s easy to fake yourself out. It’s easy to hide. When you do it together, much harder.
There’s the Five Step Potential Activator. I hope this has served you. Remember, you might get a little juice, a little inspired by listening to these trainings, but listening and learning the theory, that’s beginner’s play. If you really want to grow and master you’ve got to practice.
Thank you again for being part of this. Remember to go to DerekRydall.com. Go to the Resources section. Get all the free stuff you can, so that I can truly support you in making a real difference in your life. If you haven’t already gotten the book Emergence, I invite you to get that book. It’s been named one of the top books by several entrepreneurs, and you can also go to GetEmergenceBook.com and get all kinds of free bonus support when you get the book. If you haven’t joined my podcast and registered so that you can get all kinds of cutting edge or emerging edge training, please go to iTunes and check out the Emergence Podcast. Leave a review.
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We’re going to talk about today, is how you begin to unpack that conscious offering in the world, how you begin to decode what I call your Messenger Matrix and YOUR Soul Signature Offer that really resonates with you, that resonates with your tribe. It becomes like a homing beacon that attracts the people you’re meant to serve and attracts you to them, and how part of that is what I call the Six Ps of your platform that you need to create to maximize your leverage and your impact and your accelerated success, as well as the sacred support structures that will make you unstoppable ultimately.
This is for people that maybe are struggling. Maybe you’ve already got some momentum, or maybe you’re struggling and don’t have the momentum yet, but you’re ready to stop getting ready and start playing full out. You’re ready to stop coming up with all the reasons and excuses why you can’t and figure out how you can, because, like I said, I want to help build a community of people that are doing the work, that are saying yes to their yes, that are living their vision, that are out there where the action is, all systems go.
I want to talk a little bit about how this works. You see, we’ve all had really interesting lives with twists and turns and challenges and struggles, and what we would call core wounds, which are really core initiations, and the whole story has been designed to develop us into the person we’re meant to be to deliver the gifts we’re meant to deliver. Nothing has been by accident.
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As we take a deep dive into unconditional living, how to be joyful, successful, and free all the time. Now this is a bold promise and premise, but it’s really the way we were designed to live, and it’s something that’s been unfolding and emerging for me over time, and the thing about it is, we’ve heard about unconditional loving, and that basically means to love someone without conditions. It also means to love them regardless of conditions. So they don’t have to earn your love, and they can never lose your love, because your love is independent of any criteria or agenda or conditions. That’s unconditional love. Another word for that is agape love. It is the love of God, Divine. That is the truest nature of love, and that is the true nature of life, and that is our true nature.
What we don’t often think about is the rest of the qualities of our being, the rest of the qualities of life: peace, joy, radiant gratitude, celebration, freedom, fulfillment, all of these other qualities. The same principle applies that all of these qualities: love, peace, joy, beauty, abundance, freedom, gratitude, celebration, generosity, service, support, all of these qualities are meant to be, and are ultimately as unconditional as agape love.
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Welcome, Derek Rydall here, founder of the Law of Emergence process, and author of the bestselling book, Emergence, and it’s just so great to be with you again, as we take a deep dive into unconditional living, how to be joyful, successful, and free all the time. Now this is a bold promise and premise, but it’s really the way we were designed to live, and it’s something that’s been unfolding and emerging for me over time, and the thing about it is, we’ve heard about unconditional loving, and that basically means to love someone without conditions. It also means to love them regardless of conditions. So they don’t have to earn your love, and they can never lose your love, because your love is independent of any criteria or agenda or conditions. That’s unconditional love. Another word for that is agape love. It is the love of God, Divine. That is the truest nature of love, and that is the true nature of life, and that is our true nature.
What we don’t often think about is the rest of the qualities of our being, the rest of the qualities of life: peace, joy, radiant gratitude, celebration, freedom, fulfillment, all of these other qualities. The same principle applies that all of these qualities: love, peace, joy, beauty, abundance, freedom, gratitude, celebration, generosity, service, support, all of these qualities are meant to be, and are ultimately as unconditional as agape love. They are all in some regards synonyms for each other, synonyms for God, for the Divine Intelligence. As it says in the Bible, “He shines his light on the just and the unjust, pours his rain on the saint and the sinner,” or maybe it’s the other way around. It says, “God is no respecter of persons.” What it’s saying is the whole personal sense of self, which is good/bad, saint/sinner, sick/healthy, rich/poor, good today/not so good tomorrow, worthy today/not worthy tomorrow, that whole personality way of living, the way we take care or treat ourselves or others based on personality, based on stature and status, name, fame, and fortune, based on conditions, that whole box, that whole paradigm of looking at ourselves and each other and life, that’s the personhood. That’s the personal sense of life, and it says God is no respecter of that. Meaning the mind of God and the mind of Divine Intelligence, is has no knowledge of that, and supposedly even in the Akashic Records there is no record of a person. It means a mask. It means a concept of the self, but it’s not the self.
The self is unconditional and unconditioned, immaculately conceived. It is not a product of time, space, conditions, karma, astrology, or any ology. It’s not a product of any of that. It’s a product of Divine Consciousness, of Divine Substance. That’s our true nature, and made in the image and likeness of God means that we are ultimately designed to be like God. By the way, when I say God, I have to say this occasionally, I’m not talking about a man with a beard in the sky. I’m talking about this presence and principle of life that is a Divine Intelligence, the Force, the energy behind all of creation, the first cause out of which everything emanates. Made in the image and likeness of that means that we are like it. We are a chip off the old Divine block. We are an emanation, a radiation, a beam of this one sun. So that means that we are meant to live the same way as it describes in that scriptural passage, to shine our light on the saint and the sinner, to pour our rain, our nourishment, on the just and the unjust, and what that means is that we’re supposed to be shining these qualities regardless of conditions. There’s no criteria. There’s no agenda. Nobody has to earn them, and nobody can do anything to prevent them, because they are our nature. Our nature is love. Our nature is peace. Our nature is joy. Our nature is radiant beauty and gratitude and generosity. Not a generosity once we’ve been given something, but our nature is givingness, because our nature is infinite fulfillment.
We’re not just merely talking about how we treat others, of course. Indeed, and in fact, initially it’s really how we treat ourselves and how we show up in our own life on a day to day basis, because in our own life we are deciding whether we will be happy or joyful or giving or loving to ourselves, or just to allow ourselves to feel those qualities based on conditions. So if my body’s feeling good today, I feel happy or peaceful. If it’s not feeling good, I feel angry or sad or frustrated. If my bank account is looking good today, or I get a new client today, I’m feeling happy, joyful, confident, powerful. If I lose a client, or have to pay bills, and I’m in debt, I feel sad, scared, angry, victimized. We think that’s normal, and it seems very justified and very reasonable, and from the human standpoint it is. It’s a life completely and totally lived as a reaction, not as a proaction, as a victim, not as a victor, not as a leader. It’s a life lived asleep in the dream that we are merely the product of our conditions, and that conditions determine what we think, what we feel, what we say, and what we do, and I really want you to hear this truth.
Conditions determine nothing. Nothing. I feel like I have to shout it. A condition has no power. It cannot determine what you think, what you feel, what you say, or what you do ultimately. Any more than the wake of a boat determines where the boat goes. The wake is not pushing the boat; the wake is the effect of the boat. It’s the ripple the boat leaves behind. All conditions are the wake of our current, or rather our past energy output. All conditions are effect. They are merely appearances, perceptions coagulated into experience. They have no power. They have no life. They have no law. They have nothing to hold them together. It’s the wake of our boat. They’re not driving the boat. They’re not driving our life. They’re not determining what we think, feel, speak, or do.
Now, all they determine is a starting point. That’s it. they determine a starting point, but then what you make of that, how you decide to feel about that, what you decide to think about that, how you frame it, determines what you ultimately end up believing about it, what you ultimately end up feeling about it, what you ultimately end up saying and doing about it, and that determines your character, and your character determines your destiny and determines the next wake or ripple that you create in your experience, otherwise known as a new condition. The condition itself doesn’t determine anything. It’s a feedback system. It lets you know where you’re living in consciousness. It’s always a representation of the past, just as the wake is. It’s not telling you what is driving under the hood right now. That will appear as the next moment, or the next day, or the next week, or the next month, as it unfolds.
That’s also why it’s very important that when you’re doing the inner work to develop a new mindset and heartset and soulset and activating new power that you don’t look out at your experience and go, it’s not working, because what you’re looking at is the past. You may be doing the work in the present, and it may not be showing up yet. There might be a time lag, a download time, before it becomes coagulated as experience. Like the analogy of the car spinning out towards the wall, and if you turn the wheel towards the wall, or look towards the wall, you’re going to hit the wall. You have to look away from the wall, and your hands follow your eyes, and it starts to course correct, but even when you’ve turned the wheel away from the wall, the car is still often sliding towards the wall for a while. It’s still got momentum towards the problem, towards the wall. If you then look at the situation and judge by appearance, by conditions, and think, it’s not working, and take your hands off the wheel or turn the wheel back towards the wall, you’re going to crash. If you just keep the wheel turned away from the wall, keep your eyes on the prize, on the vision, on the way, eventually the wheels catch, and the car pulls out of the turn.
The same is true with our own life. Your life condition is the past. It’s just telling you where you were. It’s not necessarily telling you where you are, unless you are thinking and feeling and doing exactly the same thing as you were yesterday and the day before and the day before, and it has no power to determine your future, not even to determine your present. This is what I really want to talk to you about today is that what you think about it, you have metacognition, the ability to think about what you’re thinking about. This is what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God. You have the ability to think independent of circumstance. As you think, so shall you be. As you focus your attention on what you want to focus on, not what the condition would seem to be tempting you to focus on, you activate a feeling tone based on that focus.
So even in the midst of what might look like a lack and limitation situation, you can frame it as this is an opportunity for me to really get stronger. This is showing up so that I can dig deep. This lack of resources is showing up so that I can become more resourceful, and then turn your attention to that. Begin to imagine yourself having all of your needs met. Begin to activate a feeling of abundance, joy, power, peace. Meditate on that feeling tone. Fill your being with it. Radiate it into your environment, and actually begin to feel joyful and peaceful and abundant, even when your conditions are telling you the exact opposite. As you hold your space in that expanded place, or hold your place in that expanded space, eventually that frequency integrates. It embodies. It becomes a permanent part of your signature frequency, and then that feeling tone becomes clothed. That new frequency gets clothed or coagulated into new experience.
Living an unconditional life, unconditional living, and how to be joyful, successful, and free all the time means starting by the realization that your conditions have never, cannot, never will, determine what you think, what you feel, what you say, and ultimately what you do. I say ultimately, because temporarily they may determine what you do, in the sense of if your legs have been broken, and you can’t walk, then that condition of broken legs is temporarily limiting your ability to walk, but it can’t limit your ability to imagine yourself walking again and running and exercising, and imaging yourself living the life you want to live and other wonderful things in your life, and feeling what that feels like and beginning to feel wonderful and powerful. There are many examples of people that were told they’d never walk again, that were paralyzed, in bed for days, weeks, months, and visualized and activated a life of vibrant athletic health, vigor, and regrew nerves and bones and muscles, and defied all the doctor’s orders. You’ve heard these stories. These are not just anecdotal. There’s a principle at work.
Even if you never did literally walk the way you used to, that can still not prevent you from living the life you were designed and destined for, a level of joy, a level of power and peace, because your state of consciousness has nothing to do with your state of condition, other than that the condition can create the experience, the pressure, that in some cases forces you to have to dig deeper and get stronger. The same way that when you go into a gym, and you are lifting weights or running on the treadmill or the track, that condition forces your muscles to grow. It tears them and causes a rebuilding cycle to kick in. As in nature, the forest fire causes the jack pine and many other trees and parts of nature to ultimately break down and to grow and evolve, but it’s not that the condition is doing that. The condition is literally creating the condition to reveal the potential that was always there.
When the wind blows and the apple falls off the tree, the wind doesn’t actually cause the apple to fall. From the Emergence paradigm, there’s only emergence. There’s not cause and effect. The wind created a condition that revealed or made manifest the principle of gravity that was always pulling on the apple. By creating that condition, it allowed that gravity to pull the apple down. That was always there in potential. The wind created the condition to manifest that invisible potential. The same is true for you. Within you, your potential is always bigger than the problems you face and the conditions you face. If you face a condition that appears to be very sad, the joy within you is always infinitely greater. If you face a condition that appears to be limited, the abundance in you is infinitely greater. If you face a condition that appears to be sickness, the health and the vitality and the joy in you, infinitely greater. So all these conditions are doing is giving you the challenge and the charge to dig deeper, to become resourceful, to turn on that heart light, to activate that potential, to stand in your true Divine authority. As the Bible says, “Prove me in this, and I will open up the windows of Heaven and pour forth a blessing too big to receive.”
Unconditional living is about beginning to understand that your joy, your peace, your love, your power, your freedom, your fulfillment, has nothing to do with conditions, and your job, your work, your work play from now on is to decide, who do I want to be? How do I want to feel? What do I want to shine? How do I want to show up? Now my practice is in this moment, and for the next 30-60 minutes, throughout the day, to be that individual, to shine that light, to be in love, in gratitude, to open up and invite peace, regardless of conditions. The real goal then becomes not making a lot of money or healing your body, or getting a better relationship, per say. That can certainly be a part of your vision and be on your wish list and all that, but real goal is how would you feel, and who would you be, if you had those things, which is the soul’s real goal anyway. You’d be happy, joyful, peaceful, relaxed, etc.
So your real goal is now, starting with one or so of those, is to begin to get in a state of being and feeling and radiating and showing up as that being now. That means when you pray, when you meditate, you’re not trying to pray for anything. You’re praying from it. As Jesus said, “Pray believing that you already have, that you may receive.” That wasn’t a metaphysical trick to attract something you don’t have. It was the mystical truth that you already have it, and so prayer becomes the way by which you touch the ultimate nature of your being and activate it. Affirmations are not a-for-mations. They’re a-from-mations. You are affirming from. I have it all. I am the light of the world. I am the dispenser of Divine gifts, which is the real definition of human in the Sanskrit. I am a unique, infinite, individualized expression of all the power, the presence, the love, and the life of God, of infinite good. The whole Universe is in me. The Kingdom of Heaven is in me. Nirvana is in me. The Tao is in me. It’s all in me, so whatever’s missing is what I’m not giving. Whatever I’m waiting for, I’m waiting with and weighing it down. Life’s not going to happen to me. It has to happen through and as me. It won’t just happen. It will happen just. It will happen by law, by order, by me living under the principle that I already have it all, and I must shine it. I must share it. I must circulate it. I must generate it. I must activate it.
If I ever find myself saying, “God, what are you going to do about this?” Know that God is saying back to you, “That’s what I sent you there for.” You are the ambassador, the emanation, the radiation of the light here to shine it. If there’s darkness, you don’t rail at the darkness. You remember, I’m the light. I’m supposed to shine more light in this area. If there’s sadness, you don’t go, why is this happening to me? You go, I am the joy. This is showing up so I can activate more joy and embody more joy permanently. If there’s chaos, you remember I am the peace that passes all understanding. If there’s lack, you remember I am the source of infinite supply. It’s all within me. It has nothing to do with the conditions. I am an unconditional, all conditional instrument, radiant transparency of the life and light and love of God, here to shine it, to share it, to circulate it like never before. In a unique and unprecedented way that only I can. I’m not waiting for anything to change. I’m not waiting for anyone to change. I’m not even waiting for me to change. I’m going to be the change I want to see now.
Show me, God. Show me, Life. Where is the love? Where is the joy? Where is the peace in me? Let’s bring it. Come on. Right here, right now. I’m living and moving and having my being in the infinite Kingdom of God, in an infinite realm of unbounded good. I’m living in it now. It’s living in me now. It’s not bound by time or space, and has nothing to do with conditions. It’s here. It’s now. It’s happening. Let there be light. You begin to pray with that kind of fervor. You begin to affirm it. You begin to stomp your feet and shake your hands and lift your spirit and open your mind and activate your heart. You don’t wait for anything or anyone to change. You’re the change you’ve been waiting for. You’re the answer you’ve been looking for. You’re the solution in this moment. If you’re looking around looking for someone to come save you or something to come save you, look in a mirror, and you’ll have your answer.
Now, it’s not easy. That’s the fine print, because we’ve been conditioned. So the natural habits are to react to the situation and condition, feel victimized by it, angry, sad, scared, withdrawn, etc. and to believe that something or someone has to change, including us. All that’s natural and normal. It’s not really normal, but it is human nature let’s just say. It’s all really altered and aberrated, but it’s very familiar. We’ve been conditioned that way, so you have to be gentle and kind and patient as you’re rebuilding a new habit, which is in every day your priority, your core goal, is to be the answer, to be the joy, to be in the peace, to be the love, the gratitude, the celebration, the generosity that you’re waiting for someone else to be, or that you think you would be if you had what you thought you should have. That’s the work play.
As you build that as a habit, you begin to find that you’re able to be joyful even in the midst of sorrow. You’re able to be peaceful even in the midst of chaos. You’re able to feel powerful and confident and safe even in the midst of lack and limitation. Now you are truly able to be the light in the world, and you’re not only an answer to yourself, but now you become an answer to everyone that touches your field. This is my charge to you. This is my invitation to you. Unconditional living.
Just start with a simple practice. Pick one quality, love, peace, joy, gratitude, generosity. If it’s something like abundance, embodying the quality of generosity or gratitude is a very good way to start. Just make it your practice, as part of the One Minute Mystic that I teach, to just stop every hour as a practice. Set your timer on your watch or your iPhone or your computer, and stop every hour. Remind yourself that conditions don’t determine how you think, how you feel. Whatever’s going on, name it all good. Give thanks for it all. Affirm that it’s all working together for your highest good and the good of all, and then cultivate whatever quality you want to work on. It can start by a simple prayer of, Dear God, or life, please fill me with peace or joy, regardless of circumstances. Then from there you can see if you start to feel it, or you can do a quick visualization and imagine something that would bring that feeling tone. Then as you start to feel it, affirm it.
You’ve prayed the prayer, fill my heart with peace, or joy, or confidence, or power, and then you visualize a brief scene that allows you feel a little hit of that. It could be something that you’ve already experienced, or imagining something that would make you feel that way. Then as you’re feeling that peace or that joy or that power or that confidence, now you affirm it. I am an expression of pure peace, of radiant joy, of unbounded abundance, power, confidence. Just riff on that, and just vibrate and activate and stir that feeling tone. Then time permitting you can also do the radiation, where you now radiate it. Just take a deep breath and as you breathe out feel it filling your body first with a breath or two or three. Then radiate it. You can raise your hands and imagine the planet in front of you like a small ball, or just raise your hands, or just imagine your mind’s eye breathing out and this energy radiates and fills your environment, radiates and blesses everyone and everything in your life. Radiates and blesses everyone and everything on the planet. Until you’ve just created a field where all, everything is in this field of your radiance. Then put your hand on your heart, and bring it all back. You can keep it radiating, but now give it to yourself is what I mean. Then take a breath, and then go on with your day.
Now, I described several parts there. You don’t necessarily have the time or have the need to do all of that every time. Sometimes it might just be stopping for 30 seconds, or 10 seconds even, or just a minute. It might take that long just to get back into the state of the feeling tone and do a brief affirmation. Other times you might get caught up in it and have the time to do two or three or five minute process and include all of it, the prayer to be filled with the quality, the visualization to activate the quality, the affirmation to begin generating the quality, and then the radiation to begin giving it away and circulating the quality, because you cannot give what you don’t have. So you have to first have it, and then you cannot keep what you don’t give away. Then finally the receiving of it, because you cannot sustain what you don’t receive. So you take that full cycle. Maybe you do that full cycle a few times a day, but you stop for 30 seconds or a minute, five, six, seven, a dozen times a day.
As you do that, over time, sometimes dramatically, and otherwise incrementally, you begin to build up this frequency and vibration and integration and embodiment, and you just start to beam that energy, regardless of conditions. Then when new conditions arise that challenge you, you just get to go deeper. You get purify more fully. You get to get stronger in that quality. This is unconditional living, how to be joyful, successful, and free all the time.
I hope this has served you, and please don’t just listen to this. Listening and theory is wonderful, and that’s beginners work. Practice is the path of mastery and manifestation. Please take this, even if all you do is stop once a day, and begin to practice unconditional living, being the light and the answer that you want. You’ll be on your way. Share what you’re getting in our Facebook groups, or on my Facebook fan page, so I know that this is serving you. Leave a review in iTunes for me, so that I can know that this is serving you. Whenever you leave a review I’ll do some extra energetic work to support you. Share it with your friends and loved ones and clients that this can serve. If you haven’t already registered for iTunes or for this podcast, please join it so that you don’t miss any of these teachings and trainings to support you in living the life of your dreams, fulfilling the destiny of greatness that’s in you. Because you are here to deliver a very special gift, I promise you. I guarantee it. Everything is conspiring for that.
I hope this has helped in that conspiracy, and until next time, remember to live authentically, love unconditionally, and follow your destiny. Stay inspired.
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There’s so many angles that I can come at this from, but really meditation carries a lot of baggage for a lot of people, and it’s also something that more and more is becoming as normal as going to the gym. It used to be a time when you had to talk about meditation in hushed tones. What are you doing this weekend? I’m going to a meditation retreat. It’s like, what? You’re going to be silent? You’re going to go crazy. It used to be very unusual to know meditators, and especially in business and academia, but now everybody from rock stars to celebrities to hedge fund guys running big multibillion dollar hedge funds are all meditators. They’re doing it for a variety of different reasons: health, mental clarity, focus, spirituality. Ultimately, the meditation is the most powerful, one of the most powerful technologies for connecting with what is true, what is real, and the basic reason is because your mind is a set of programs and a swirl of thoughts and filters and concepts and perceptions, and all of it is the content of your consciousness. It’s content.
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TranscriptionWelcome to another episode of Ask Derek, where we do a deep but quick dive into some of your most common asked questions and issues. This is Derek Rydall, founder of the Law of Emergence process and author of the bestselling book Emergence. It’s just great to be with you again, as we dive into this question what if I can’t meditate?
There’s so many angles that I can come at this from, but really meditation carries a lot of baggage for a lot of people, and it’s also something that more and more is becoming as normal as going to the gym. It used to be a time when you had to talk about meditation in hushed tones. What are you doing this weekend? I’m going to a meditation retreat. It’s like, what? You’re going to be silent? You’re going to go crazy. It used to be very unusual to know meditators, and especially in business and academia, but now everybody from rock stars to celebrities to hedge fund guys running big multibillion dollar hedge funds are all meditators. They’re doing it for a variety of different reasons: health, mental clarity, focus, spirituality. Ultimately, the meditation is the most powerful, one of the most powerful technologies for connecting with what is true, what is real, and the basic reason is because your mind is a set of programs and a swirl of thoughts and filters and concepts and perceptions, and all of it is the content of your consciousness. It’s content.
Most of what we identify with, most of who we think we are, and what we think is real and true, is content. It’s like the clouds passing through the sky, the birds, the planes, the storms, the elements, but none of that is the sky. It’s like all the stuff that flows through the ocean, the fish, the bushes, and the garbage, but none of that is the ocean. There is an essential nature to ocean, essential nature to sky, and then there is the content in it. There is an essential you, and then there is all of the content. As the essential you emerges as experience and phenomena, it creates content. It creates perceptions, concepts, experiences, mental, emotional, physical patterns. None of that is you. That is the story and the character and the part in the play, but you are the Divine author and actor that is never submerged by the character, the part, the story, the play, that is never limited by it. It arises out of you, and then passes away again, but you are something that is behind and beyond all of that.
As the great metaphysical or mystical statement, supposedly attributed to Jesus, “Before Abraham was, I am.” That’s a profound statement of the I am nature which preexists and preexisting is not quite the right way. It’s not a linear thing. It’s not so much before time, as it is behind time. Time and space is a canvas upon which we paint with the concepts of our soul, but right behind that stands the real you. So meditation is that technology that allows you to move through the content, to see through and beyond the mental, emotional, physical, biological, sensational, sensual content, and have a direct encounter with reality, with the real you that was never born, that never ages, never diminishes, and never dies, the real you and the real nature of life itself, which is whole and complete and perfect and infinite and eternal.
Another thing to understand is that meditation isn’t the thing you do. Meditation isn’t sitting in lotus position or walking like Thich Nhat Hanh. It’s not the different techniques that you do. Meditation really is the moment when you have that undistractible, as Michael Beckwith would say, paying undistractible attention. Meditation is that moment when you shoot the gap, and you touch reality with singleness of focus. If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. Meditation is that moment when you are focused without distraction on reality. So all the techniques, of which there are many, ultimately are to get you to that moment, and then the practice of meditation is to allow you to strengthen dominion over your attention so that you can hold your place in that expanded space, so that you can hold that moment for longer and longer periods, that moment of silence, that moment of stillness, that moment of undistractible attention to ultimate reality.
That’s what we’re doing when we meditate. We’re building that muscle, that dominion, that ability. Now again, there are many kinds of meditation. There’s contemplative meditation where you contemplate a passage, a piece of scripture, or a quote, or just some quality in you. Roll it around, and you let it unfold and reveal its deeper truths, and eventually that leads you to a moment of silence. In that moment of silence you have a moment, hopefully, of meditation, of an undistractible connection with reality, with God, with the presence which is within you.
There’s other forms of meditation where you use a mantra. It could be a mantra, or it could just be a quality, love, peace, joy, God, Christ, Buddha, and/or just a sound. Again, that is to focus the mind, to still the mind, and allow you to drop down beneath the tension of the surface tension of the mind and touch some dimension of ultimate reality, or at the very least, have a sense of respite from the storms of the mind and a sense of peace that bubbles up from within you.
Ultimately all of them, in the truest sense, are to get you to this moment of making connection with reality, and then getting strong enough so you can make it long enough until reality takes over your being, and dissolves all that isn’t reality. So that the light so breaks through that it shines away all the darkness, and we call that Enlightenment, to be awake. Being awake merely means you’re no longer identified with any of the content. You’re identified with that which is unchanging, that which is true, that which is real or spiritual. Spiritual really just means that which is real or unchanging. So meditation is for that.
When people say, I can’t meditate, what they’re really talking about is my mind is going crazy. It’s too busy. I sit, and I’m fidgety. My body is anxious and irritable and itchy, or my mind is just going to this project and that project and this argument and that shopping list. What’s important to understand is the practice of meditation is not about not having all that stuff going on. It’s not about stopping your mind from thinking. It’s not about stopping your body from feeling itchy and painful and agitated. All of that is content, and the reason why it’s hard is because, at least for now, if you’re struggling with this, or whenever you are, you are so closely identified with that part of you there’s not really a spaciousness in that area, and so you are the itchiness. You are the agitation. You are the clouds and the storms and the birds and the things moving through your sky of mind.
The practice of meditation, at least let’s just pick one, a mindfulness approach where you are mindful, insight meditation and mindfulness meditation. You are observing what’s going on. So you start with the breath perhaps, and you could start with a mantra or a quality. Then your mind gets pulled off into a fantasy, and you don’t even realize it until several minutes later you’ve been making shopping lists or trying to win that last argument or win the argument you’re about to get into, or you’ve fallen asleep, whatever the case might be. The minute you become aware of that the practice is to bring your attention back to the breath or the mantra, and then in some cases when the thing is pulling you really strong, like an itch or an ache or a particular emotional energy, as you strengthen your dominion you can place your attention on that itch, on that pain, on that ache, and you don’t try to get rid of it. What you resist persists. What you fight you fuel.
As Buddha taught, we are learning to release craving and aversion, which means when there’s a good feeling we don’t try to attach to it. When there’s a bad feeling we don’t try to get rid of it. We’re learning to find equanimity, which is that where we have no attachment. We’re not detached. We’re non-attached, unattached. Nonattachment, not detachment. So we’re present. We’re absolutely feeling and seeing what’s there, but we’re not reacting. We’re observing, and we begin to form a gap between the stimulus and our response, or the content and our pure consciousness, our pure awareness, the I am, and we are able to observe there’s an itch. It’s not my itch. It’s the itch.
As we observe it for a while, we notice it’s just energy moving, and as we continue to shine the light of our awareness on it it starts to swirl and eventually spirals and disintegrates. It might spiral out of our body. The energy’s always trying to move somewhere and ultimately move out of the body and disintegrate into higher and higher levels and speed up. As you observe it mindfully without reaction, it is transmuted. It’s redeemed. The karmic patterns and the emotional patterns and the mental patterns and the physical patterns, they are redeemed. That energy gets released and then another layer emerges. It might be a moment of freedom, release, bliss, and then another layer will come up.
The good news is that you don’t have to get rid of all of that stuff going on. You just have to observe it. Now, the bad news is that it’s hard. It is difficult, and that’s okay, because the good news is you don’t have to be good at it. You don’t have to observe it for a long time. You observe it until you get distracted again, until it gets too hard, and then you can observe the part of you that feels like it’s too hard, or you bring your attention back to the breath or the mantra if it gets really hot in the kitchen. You just keep beginning again. It’s like how do you train a puppy? You sit the puppy down and say, “Sit,” and it runs off. You sit it down, and you say, “Sit,” and it runs off. You sit it down, you say, “Sit,” and it rolls over and then runs off. You keep giving little treats, and eventually it sits for longer and longer and longer, and eventually you say, “Sit,” and it sits, and it stays.
So you’re training. You’re in training. You might have to go back to the breath or the mantra a thousand times, or at least dozens of times, in a sitting, and in the beginning you also don’t have to sit for a long time. When people say, “Why can’t I meditate, or I can’t meditate, or I just can’t do this. I’m not wired for this,” the first reason is because all this stuff is coming up, and they think it shouldn’t be, or it’s painful and uncomfortable, and they think it shouldn’t be, because they hear about all these people that just go off on these lala land trips of meditation, or they’re able to just relax, and they just disappear. That’s not meditation. If you don’t remember what happened, that’s not meditation. That’s you just going off. For all you know you went into dream state, or some other dimension, but you weren’t necessarily meditating.
Meditation is about increasing conscious awareness, not decreasing it, not going unconscious. A lot of times what you would call a bad meditation, for the ego is a really good meditation for the soul. You might have spent that 10 minutes 100 times, like every second you had to bring your attention back to the breath, and then you got distracted, and you had to bring it back to the breath. Then you had an itch, and then you had to bring it back to the mantra. Then you were doing a shopping list, and you’re like, oh my God, am I ever going to get this? Then you notice that part of you saying, oh my God, am I ever going to get this? You observe it. Then there’s a moment where there’s the thought or the feeling, and there’s you observing it, and you suddenly realize, I’m not that thought or feeling. I’m not that sensation. I’m the one watching it. In that moment a gap begins. You are now a little more awake. You have now disintegrated a little bit of karma. You are now a little bit more enlightened. You now have a little bit more free will, because free will is a function of expanded awareness. Until you have space and can look at the patterns that are driving you, the compulsive patterns, you don’t actually have choice. You have the illusion of choice, but you’re not really choosing. The patterns are just acting out. You can observe the busy mind, the nervous body. You can observe it and then come back to the breath or the mantra.
Another thing is you don’t have to sit for an hour or a half an hour, or even necessarily for the 20 minutes or the 22 minutes or whatever the TM length is. You can start off by doing what I call the One Minute Mystic, which is where you stop for one minute. Instead of sitting for 20 minutes, stop one minute 20 times. So every hour, every half hour, just stop for one minute and watch your breath, and notice what’s going on in your body, in your mind. Notice the feelings. Notice the thoughts. Don’t react to them. If a part of you rises up to react, oh my God, I can’t believe I’m thinking that, or oh my God, as soon as you become aware that you’re reacting, take a breath. Observe the reaction, and then as soon as you can, bring your attention back to the breath or the mantra for a minute. Then go back to work or play or whatever.
Set a timer to stop once an hour to start with, and eventually maybe it’s twice an hour. Maybe in the morning then you notice you start with your one minute and maybe it becomes two or three or five, and that’s fine. Maybe eventually you stretch to have two or three periods of five minutes a day, one in the morning, the afternoon, one at night. You still have these little moments throughout the day where you’re stopping and reconnecting, where you’re suddenly bringing yourself back to conscious awareness.
This is really important. Some would even say it’s more valuable than sitting for 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 minutes, because you’re training yourself, cutting a subjective groove to wake up. It’s like if you’ve ever practiced lucid dreaming. One of the strategies is throughout the day, on a regular basis, you have to question reality. You have to go, am I dreaming? You have to look around you and look at the people, and look at a book and try to read it. You know how it’s hard to read in a dream? Ask, am I dreaming? Am I dreaming? It creates a subjective groove for you to be absolutely not taking anything for granted, and then what happens is when you’re dreaming something happens. It triggers that, and you suddenly ask, am I dreaming? You realize, oh my God, I am. You become lucid in your dream.
That’s lucid dreaming practice. This is lucid living practice. Stopping multiple times throughout the day and saying, where’s your attention? Where is my attention? What am I thinking about? What am I feeling? Let me notice it. Let me watch the breath. You’re just driving, and you come to a stoplight. You watch your breath. You’re waiting in line at the bank. You watch your breath. As you’re watching your breath you’re not trying to control your breathing. You’re just noticing it. The air coming into your nose kind of cooler, coming out of your nose slightly warmer. A little bit more into the right nostril, a little bit out of the left nostril. Noticing the abdomen rising or the chest rising and falling. Then maybe you notice an itch on your right arm. You’re just observing. That’s practice. You’re a meditator.
The key is to do what works for you and build from there. Don’t do what is going to make you stop doing it. Seems common sense enough, right? But you know the old saying, common sense is uncommon. Something like that. You want to do what works that you will build on, but I really do want to suggest that if you’re finding yourself saying I can’t meditate, it’s too hard, and giving up on it, that you do not, because it really is one of the most powerful technologies for waking up, for increasing focus, for purifying your consciousness, for healing, for expanding and accelerating your creative capacity. It’s truly the greatest technology to humankind. So you want to make it part of your practice.
Again, start off small, but consistent, and build from there. If it’s hard, that’s okay. Do it anyway. Observer the hardness. If your mind’s going, feeling victimized by it, observe the part of you that’s sad and mad and upset that you have to do this. In that way what you’re actually going to begin to notice what’s really driving you, because that part of you that feels angry, agitated, impatient, frustrated, sad, depressed, alone, all of those things that come up when you meditate, that isn’t being caused by your meditation. The meditation, you becoming mindful for a moment, is allowing that to come up to conscious awareness, but all of those patterns are running roughshod in your unconscious or nonconscious awareness and sapping your energy and creativity and power and creating all manner, wreaking all manner of havoc in your life.
It’s okay if it’s hard. In fact, it means you’re in for some really awesome and powerful growth if you stay with it. I promise you. You’ll go through periods of what’s called chemicalization where those patterns will start to break up. You’ll have spaces of what Michael Beckwith calls afterglow, where you feel a sense of openness, spaciousness, lightness, and then you’ll also have after grow, which is spaces where it feels like all the junk’s coming up, and you feel worse. All that’s normal. It’s like a washing machine. The first part it’s creating all the friction and getting all the dirt and debris out of the clothes, and they’re rubbing and beating up against each other, and it’s gnarly. All that dirt gets released, and then it washes all that dirt away, and then it goes through a spin cycle. Eventually it comes out all nice and clean and fluffy.
There’s a process, and when you first start meditating it’s often going to be crazy. You’re going to be like, oh my God, my mind is a dangerous place. I would never let anybody I care about go there. Then as you begin to witness that circus and observe it, those patterns begin to break down. The noise gets a little quieter, and you have moments of peace and awareness and expansiveness, and you feel like, oh my God, I’ve reached it. I’ve reached the Promised Land. I’ve arrived, and then all of a sudden you sit down one day, and it’s gnarly and terrifying and terrible and noisy, and you’re like, what happened? It’s all gone backwards. No. It’s a whole other wash cycle coming up. So it goes.
The difference is that over time you just understand the patterns. You are able to observe them. You’re not identified with the content as much, and you just know, just another rinse cycle. Just going through it. You observe it, and you move through it quicker often as that happens, except for those rare periods where you’re really doing deep transformative work. It’s a very powerful, very vital, and I would go so far as to say really irreplaceable part of your practice. Begin it today. Do it consistently, and when you stumble, and when you don’t do it, and when you forget, as soon as you remember, stop. Take a minute, and begin again. Just like in meditation. When you get pulled off track, you don’t go, this is terrible; I suck at meditation, and give up. You notice you’ve gone off. You bring your attention back to the breath. Whoops. I’ve gone off again. Bring your attention back to the breath. Like the airplane that’s heading from one place to the next, it’s off track 90, 95, 99% of the time, buffeted about by all the elements, inertial forces, weather, pilot error, but it keeps getting brought back to the flight plan, brought back to the flight plan, and it makes it to its destination relatively on time.
The same is true with meditation, and the same is true with meditation as a way of life. You wake up one day, you don’t do it, or you forget. You’re too busy. Then as soon as you have time, as soon as you remember, just like in the meditation, you notice you’ve forgotten. You notice you didn’t meditate. You bring your attention back. You sit. You stop for a minute, or maybe you just do it at the stop light. Now you’re back on practice. You see what I mean? You can get back on track at any time during the day. The minute you remember, you come back. As you do that now you cut a subjective groove. You create a subjective habit. You transform your character, and you absolutely activate a destiny of greatness in you.
I hope this has been helpful. It was longer than I anticipated, but I guess I had a lot more to say about it. This has been an episode of Ask Derek. Please post your questions in the Facebook groups, on the Facebook pages, and you’ll keep listening for the answer to your question. Until next time, remember to live authentically, love unconditionally, and follow your destiny, and meditate.
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Today’s episode is about what it really takes to create the best year of your life. First of all, what it really takes? Not what you think it takes, not what they tell you it takes, but what it really takes.
The best year of your life is a completely subjective thing. What is best? What is best? Now, from your ego standpoint, it has one idea. From your soul standpoint, it has a very different idea. As the old saying goes, “A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul”. It’s really important we acknowledge this because we’ve been conditioned to what is success, what is best, what is good, what is right, what should be, and what shouldn’t be; but most of that that we’ve been conditioned into from the world, the truth is often opposite.
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From the world standard, the best year would be a year free of pain, free of most challenges, free of lack and limitation and struggle. For most human consciousness, the best year would be greater wealth, greater success, greater health, greater relationships, improvement of our human experience. That’s what most people—and then again, it’s relative if you’re living in Syria and trying to get out the best year of your life would be to find a country that would be willing to take you in, so finding a safe place to live. If you’re on the street, it’ll be finding shelter.
So it’s always relative to where we are.
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TranscriptGreetings my fellow Emergineers, Derek Rydall here, and it’s great to be with you in this eternal moment, whatever it is that you are hanging out in the time zone. What we’re talking about today is what it really takes to create the best year of your life. What it really takes? What it really takes to create the best year of your life? There’s so much coming through right now. I got to pick a lane because I got to feel this slot opening up so much because there’s so much just in that title. First of all, what it really takes? Not what you think it takes, not what they tell you it takes, but what it really takes.
The best year of your life is a completely subjective thing. What is best? What is best? Now, from your ego standpoint, it has one idea. From your soul standpoint, it has a very different idea. As the old saying goes, “A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul”. I was not going to talk about this but it’s just coming through really strong. It’s really important because we’ve been conditioned to what is success, what is best, what is good, what is right, what should be, and what shouldn’t be; but most of that that we’ve been conditioned into from the world, the truth is often opposite. From the world standard, the best year would be a year free of pain, free of most challenges, free of lack and limitation and struggle. For most human consciousness, the best year would be greater wealth, greater success, greater health, greater relationships, improvement of our human experience. That’s what most people—and then again, it’s relative if you’re living in Syria and trying to get out the best year of your life would be to find a country that would be willing to take you in, so finding a safe place to live. If you’re on the street, it’ll be finding shelter.
So it’s always relative to where we are. But it’s also, we have to really begin, if we’re really going to be individuals on a path of really waking up to our true potential, our true purpose, our true self, true spiritual liberation, not merely using God to get more stuff in the world, but using everything in our world to get closer to God. Whatever that means to you, closer to love, closer to truth, closer to beauty, closer to real freedom, real peace, remember, when we talk about God, we’re not talking about it anthropomorphic, white-bearded man in the sky, in the cloud with the scepter in one hand and sitting in a golden throne, and Jesus at his other hand. That’s not the God that we’re talking about. There is no such God. We’re talking about this principle, this presence, this divine something, that is our true nature and being and the ground of all being.
So there comes the point where we make the flip. We try to use all these things to improve our human experience, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Absolutely nothing wrong with that but what our soul is aching for, and if you’re in this community, and if you stay to hang around for any amount of time, is because your soul is aching for this other piece. And that is to awaken, to really become free because as long as you think the world has something for you, as long as you’re merely trying to improve your body or bank account or business, you are still trapped in a human dream. Again, there’s nothing wrong with having all the good things of life experience, but as long as that’s your main, prime motive, you are stuck on the wheel of human life and will suffer. If you sowed the flesh of the flesh, you will rip corruption. If you sowed the spirit, you will rip everlasting life, eternal life.
All that I was really saying is if you are anchoring yourself and planting yourself in that which is unchanging and real and to true about you, a.k.a. the spirit, love, peace, joy, beauty, abundance, that has nothing to do with conditions, then you will rip a harvest that is eternal, that doesn’t change with the economy. You will live in a state of joy and peace and greater fulfillment regardless of condition. That’s real freedom. That is what everybody really wants if you can get them to think about it long enough. They think that it’s one of better paycheck or a better body, but then they know that that paycheck could go away and that body could break down the next day; so, what they really want is a state of peace and well-being, and abundance that the world cannot take away from them, that even if their body goes sideways and the bank account goes the other away, and their relationships go another way, they’re okay, and they know it because they’re anchored in the real, the real love, the real companionship, the real health, the real wealth, the real life that the world didn’t give to you and so the world can never take away.
So there comes a point where we have to choose what are we really going to primarily be about. I say primarily because the statement to be in the world but not of it. So we’re not just becoming ascended masters and floating off the planet, we are absolutely here to be in the world and to play full out, all systems go, out on the field, creating and building and projecting our concept and consciousness of good into the world. But, it’s the context that we live in that matters most, more than the content. So we’re definitely here to create some content, to write that book, launch that program, build the business, build the family, and then just paint a masterpiece on the canvas of time and space. But are we going to do it and forget that it’s our canvas and that we’re the artist and get lost in the picture, or are we going to do it from the context of I’m whole, I’m complete, I’m already free, I already have everything I could ever need and from that place, now I’m going to paint.
So there comes a point incrementally, sometimes dramatically, where we make that shift and for a lot of you, you’re making that shift, and for some of you, you’re making it but you don’t know it yet because the longer you hang out in this community, the more it’s going to get a hold of you and you’re not going to be able to help it because that’s the vibration of frequency and underlying intention of all this work, is to set you free, truly free. I’m saying all these to say that as we begin to think about what is it really takes to create the best year of life, we have to look at what is the best year really look at. Again, we have to decide how we are going to determine that. What is the criteria by which we determine that we’re having our best year or not?
If we’re going to use the world’s criteria of more money, improved health, relationships, whatever, that’s one metric and we will then be tying ourselves back into sowing to the flesh, tying ourselves back into all the ups and downs, in the rollercoaster ride of human consciousness, the laws of duality, up and down, good and bad, and we will to some greater or lesser extent, be fold along by the tides of the human trend. Will we decide that the best year has something to do with a deeper realization and demonstration of who and what we really are and why we are alive. In other words, at the end of the year, let alone the end of our life, it’s not so much what we have but what or who we become that determines our success.
It’s not so much how many possessions we’ve attained, but how much we are in possession of our true self and of the truth that makes us free. Have we gained some outer treasure or have we gained that pearl of great price? Have we laid up our treasures on earth where moth and rust will corrupt and thieves can break in and steal or have we laid up more treasure in heaven in consciousness, in the development of our conscious realization of these inner treasures where moth and rust can never corrupt, where thieves can never break in and steal, where the world can never take it away? That’s the treasure we take with us. So, that first inquiry and the first sort of challenge I put to you, my question is what’s going to be your definition of best year?
Again, I really want you to hear this, there’s no judgment which one you choose, and I want you to understand that when you choose the ladder which is it’s going to be about me having great possession of myself, greater possession of the truth, about who I become, it does not preclude you from also having and going for your outer success goals. We’ll talk about that. It’s not an either or. It’s just what is your priority and by priority, I mean at the end of the day or the end of any moment, or in the midst of any moment, when you must make a choice, choose this day who you will serve, God or mammon, truth or appearance, cost or effect, love or fear, the material acquisition or the spiritual realization. Which one are you going to choose? And that is determined by what is your priority and where is your commitment.
In other words, if you got a moment where there’s really a choice where you could go out and you could do something, say something, make a call, send an email, it’s really coming from a place of fear because you’re afraid if you don’t, you’ll lose something or you’ll be taken advantage of some kind of humanly driven acquisitive, some action based on your ego, based on the appearances, etc. Or are you going to choose to become still and to reclaim the truth about you and to re-anchor yourself on who and what you really are, and remember my best year is more peace, more joy, more love, more compassion, more of my real self; so, now in this moment, because that’s my priority, I’m going to choose that. So that’s what I mean to choose this day who you will serve, and it’s multiple moments throughout the day, but that’s determined by where have you made the commitment, where have you made the priority, what have you decided really is most important to you.
At the end of the year, do you want to have more possessions or more possession of yourself? And then based on that, because that’s your definition of best year, now on a daily, weekly, monthly moment-by-moment basis, when the choice arises, you get to know what you’re choosing, and that doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy. In fact, in many cases, it’s going to be really, really difficult. That’s why the way is straight and narrow and few there’d be that walk in, but if you decided that’s what best year looks like, you have to do the hard thing. If you don’t make a choice, if you try to kind of play both sides of the fence and never really get clear on what best year is for you and make that priority and commitment, then you are serving two masters; and if you try to serve two masters, that’s like trying to ride two horses at the same time going in opposite directions, not a pretty picture.
As the Bible says, it’s like you have a house divided and a house that’s divided cannot stand. So you have no structural integrity, and you’ll be not only torn internally, but you won’t be able to galvanize the energy to actually be truly successful in any direction. So you do have to choose which is going to be your primary context. Again, I want to say this also – it’s not like you make the choice now and you’re done. You have to keep re-choosing. You’re building a muscle. It’s in your heart of hearts, you really want to be anchored in the truth of your being, you want to become truly free, truly empowered, and the only way you can ever be empowered is that you choose the conscious spiritual path, you choose the path of having more possession of yourself. You will never ever be empowered truly if you’re choosing the former or the latter, whichever the order is.
The best year is defined by outer success because you’ll be always be at the whim of some external appearance and so you’ll always be having to give away your power to it. Whenever you make something external to you, your source of support, supply, security or safety, you have to start giving it your power and eventually you’ll become its servant. When the locus of power and control is within you, within your consciousness, that’s where you begin to have true power, true mastery, and ultimately true freedom. There is no other way to get that. I believe all of you want that. So I invite you all to make that choice but then again, it’s going to require on a moment by moment, sometimes, daily, weekly, monthly basis to re-choose and re-choose and re-choose, to get stronger and stronger in your ability to hold your place in that expanded space.
As we looked at this, if we decide that the best year looks like me having greater possession of my true self, looks like me becoming more of who I really am and letting more of that out, then we have to ask—and I also want to say that it changes the nature of how we judge what’s working, what’s not; what’s good, what’s not. When you go to the gym, and you work out really hard, it doesn’t always feel good and especially if you haven’t done it for a while or you’re taking it to a new level, the next day or two or there, it doesn’t always feel so good. If you remember the analogy of when you go to the gym, and let’s say you’re max weight, you can do 10 reps. What’s the easiest rep? The first rep. I joked. That’s actually the hardest because you got to go to the gym first, but let’s just sit and take that for granted. The easiest rep is the first one or second one once you get warmed up.
Then I ask what’s the hardest one and people will say the tenth rep. Now you all heard me tell this, so you know what the answer is here, and I would say no, it’s the eleventh rep. It’s the one you can’t do yet, because you can do the 10 reps. It’s hard, I mean it still requires effort but you already know you could do 10 but you can’t do more. That’s why they call it your max. It’s on the eleventh rep where all the growth happens. One through ten is just maintenance. So you have to get to the eleventh rep, maybe not every day, maybe not even every week, but frequently and regularly you have to push into the eleventh rep because that’s where all the growth happens.
So living your best life from that metaphor and your best year could mean real challenge. It could mean real challenge. It could mean a year full of challenge, struggle. Yes, pain even, doesn’t mean to be suffering because pain is inevitable suffering as a choice because we resist what’s happening. But it might be suffering. Edi Rama said years ago when they asked what did he think about America and how America is doing and he said, “I wish for the Americans more suffering,” and he meant it with absolute, loving compassion because he understood that America was a very young nation, very young and somewhat immature because they’re barring the revolutionary war and then the civil war. America has had a long, long time of just pretty much prosperity and power, not a lot of real growth, and interestingly, this was before 9/11, not that long before either.
So sometimes, again, a bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul. Sometimes the bad year for the ego is a good year for the soul. I’ve had what on some level, some people would consider a bad year in the sense of a really, really difficult challenging year where a lot of my structures were disabled, disintegrated, disassembled, let’s say, a lot of my identities and concepts around relationships, family, and all kinds of things, many is not most of my major life structures where had to be disassembled. I was at that point in the Rubix cube where I got in the bunch of sides looking really, really good and, remember the Rubix cube, what’s working that’s in your way and you get it all looking really good, but in order to get the next side of the next side, you got to keep messing it up. I got a bunch of sides looking really good, and I was like, “Oh, I’m really something. I got it going on.”
Then life was like you’ve been praying some pretty big prayers of transformation. To get to that next side, you got to let some things fall apart, some structures that can’t hold the next level. From an ego standpoint, it’s been a very, very difficult year. Now, there had been a lot of successes, too. I released a book, had it best seller, launched and had an amazing life event, have an amazing program happening, there’s lots and lots of good. But emotionally and spiritually, and again in all these areas, physically, financially, relationally, all those structures have been just torn down and disassembled. It’s like when you go to Ikea and you buy a whole bunch of new furniture. In the first few days or weeks, you just got rooms fall apart and pieces all over the place, and you’re like, “Oh, my God.” At the end of it, you’ve built everything and you’ve got all these extra pieces, then you’re really not in trouble. I know from a soul level, it’s one of the most productive years of my life.
Now, I’m not going to lie to you. From an ego level, from a human level, it’s really hard and I’ve wished, and still have a part of me that wishes, I didn’t have to go through it. And that’s why it’s so important that I have a practice and that I have support, my coaches, my spiritual practitioners, my friends, and that I have a practice that I go back to daily, hourly, moment by moment sometimes. Because my prayer for the best year of my life and the best life is to fully awaken, is to become truly free, is to become completely anchored in that that is real, so that I can stand in the face of any appearance and be the truth and know the truth and be the light and shine the light unconditionally and all conditionally, that I can pour the love and the joy and the peace, the gratitude and celebration and the power onto everyone and everything, everywhere at all times regardless of condition.
So that’s a big prayer. It’s a big intention. A lot of structures don’t support that internally and externally. So I’m saying all that to say that it’s really important as we set our sides for the best year, that we understand these elements to it. What does that really look like?? What does that really mean? Now again, we’re not setting the intention in going on there, I am really going out there and have a really great year in pain and suffering so I can grow. We’re not saying that. You don’t go to the gym with the vision and intention of lots of pain and suffering, I hope not. You have a vision for sure of a beautiful, healthy, vibrant, vital, athletic, maybe sculpted, strong, flexible, agile body. That’s the vision. The vision isn’t pain and suffering and breaking down and tearing muscles and all that. You understand that along the way, that’s going to happen. If you didn’t understand the process of growing from the work-out standpoint and you experience the pain and all that, you might misdiagnose that and stop.
So the same thing is true with your life. That the challenges you’re going through particularly as you’re going to conscious path are some of the most valuable and important and potent aspects of really creating a best year. So you’ll look at the best year and you say, “Okay, it’s going to look like me having more possession of myself, more possession of truth. It’s going to look like becoming more of my real self and letting more of real self out.” So we have to look at. So what is that real self? And that real self is the divine and it’s made up of, at least we’ve broken it down this way, into qualities: love, peace, joy, beauty, abundance, creativity, gratitude, authenticity, truth, right? So the criteria for the best year is—am I more of these qualities? Are these more active in me? Am I more anchored in them? Are they become more important to me? Am I expressing more of them? I tell you that even though there’s all this challenge I’ve gone through, my internal generosity has magnified.
I’m getting chills here right now, so I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting it from me or from someone else. I’m getting a lot of tears and chills coming through me right now. So there’s a download happening. Like the level of love in my heart for humanity, for those around me, especially those that I’ve experienced challenge with, the level of generosity, the inner desire to love and to serve and to be an instrument of service, it’s profoundly magnified to some moments where, I think I’ve shared it with you guys, where I literally wanted to give away everything. There was so much love and so much desire for people to have everything and that is real progress, spiritually speaking. That’s the sign of what I’ve been talking about and there are many more of those kinds of signs. Those are the real fruits of the spirit and just a greater and greater realization and dedication to my path.
So you have to look at yourself and go at the end of the year, am I more loving, more giving, more forgiving, more peaceful, more joyful, more grateful, creative, authentic. That’s one level of criteria. That’s the new bottom line versus do I have more money, do I have more health, do I have more relationships, do I have better relationships. You might not have better relationships. In some ways, a lot of you know that me and my wife separated, some of you maybe not if it’s new. That happened the end of last year. That was one of the big catalysts to my growth, something that is really been in the works for a while in terms of internally what was emerging, but in some respect, our current relationship is not better than it was then in the outer appearance of things. Internally, my level of love for her is magnified, and internally, my level of humility and just to my level of so many things. So we’re looking at a new bottom line.
In a very real way, I’m having this conversation with somebody last night. This is really a new emerging paradigm on the planet and that is that we have a bottom line on the planet right now that’s about living in an economy that’s non-renewable. It’s a non-renewable economy based on non-renewable resources based on raping and plundering the planet and war and killing and very masculine energy, run amok without the balance of the feminine. We keep trying to fix it but we’re still coming from the old paradigm, it’s because our bottom line is still is what are those quarterly numbers look like. Is there more money, more profit, profit at all cost, profit above people, profit above planet? That is the materialistic, human motive run amok that is non-sustainable and that it will destroy us.
In my micro concept, this is what we’re being called for as ourselves. We have to have a new bottom line. We have to have a new bottom line that looks at the end of the corner and goes not just do I have more money and more profit and more of what the world calls success? But do I have more of the biggest success? Am I more loving? Am I more forgiving? Am I more giving? Am I more generous in my heart? Am I more peaceful? Am I more joyful? Am I more grateful? It doesn’t mean we have all of these, but are you seeing some of the real fruits of the real new bottom line of this emerging paradigm on the planet. If your life is not aligned with that, you’re not in integrity with what we’re trying to emerge on the planet because what we’re trying to emerge is this new model that is sustainable, renewable, holistic, and when the bottom line is more love, more peace, more joy, more beauty, more real harmonizing prosperity and abundance, more gratitude, more creativity, that is renewable, that is inexhaustible and the fruits of that are greater and greater structures and institutions and organizations and environments that support to sustain everyone. Right?
So that is what you’re looking at. You might be saying, “This is all really nice, Derek. And you’re talking a lot today, Derek, and it’s very poetic, and it’s very sweet.” Yeah, I want that but you don’t understand. What I really just want to do is pay my bills and finish my book, and launch my business. I would say, “Cool.” I would ask if you would achieve those things, what will you be then? Why do you want those? And if you’re honest with yourself and you answer, keep asking, why do I want that? Well, I want to finish my book so I can’t sell it. Okay, why do you want to sell it? Because if I can sell it, I can grow my business. Why do you want to grow your business? If I grow my business, then I can have more money. Why do you want more money? Because if I have more money, I can pay my bills. Why do you want to pay your bills? Because I don’t want to be out on the street and be without power. So if you did have the power and you weren’t out on the street, why would you want that? So I can relax and enjoy my life. Okay, and if you’re relaxing and enjoying your life, why would you want that? What would that bring you? You find you take a deep breath and go, “I finally have peace.”
There you are. That’s what you really want. It’s not those other 50 things. It’s like, “Yeah, I finally be in joy. I finally feel secure. I finally had peace. I’d finally be happy. I finally feel good about myself.” Yeah, that’s what you’re actually going for, is that state of feeling good about yourself, of peace, of joy, of happiness, a sense of generosity if you had more abundance, whatever. So it’s those state of being that you’re really after. Always, since the beginning of time and forever, that’s all that every being will ever be really going for. It’s just they move to all the filters of separation. We don’t know that. The reason why that’s all that you’re going for—I really want you to hear this—is because that’s what you’re made of and the only impulse of life is to express more of itself and life is made of love and peace and joy, and beauty. You’re very nature in being with those qualities so the only way you’ll ever truly be free is in the expression of the more of you which is those qualities.
So everything is conspiring for you to reveal and express more of those qualities. That’s all that your heart and soul really longs for even though we’ve been tricked because we projected those qualities onto people, places, and conditions and believe therefore that the peace and the love and the joy was based on a certain amount of dollars and the bank or health and our body or relationships in our life, and we projected onto that for so long that now we’ve got this belief that say my love, peace and joy is in that condition. And that’s a lie. It has nothing to do with condition. Nothing. We can prove it because you could go within right now and activate those qualities even though the conditions have changed. So the real thing is you are always only really going after the state of consciousness, state of being.
So all I’m really suggesting is let’s cut out the middleman. Let’s go straight for what we really want. Let’s create a bottom line in our life that actually reflects what we really want, which is the truth for the world, the human, the companies that whatever that are just only profit motive. It’s because they believe if they have enough money, they’ll finally be safe, be powerful, be free. They want the same thing. They just don’t know it. It’s our job to know it and to live it. So let’s cut out the middleman and go straight for these. This is what it really means to seek first the kingdom of heaven when to take no anxious thought for your life, how you will be clothe, what you’ll be fed, etc., etc. but instead seek first the kingdom of heaven which Jesus said was within you which is another name for this state of connection, for this realm of the real, these qualities. Buddha called it Nirvana. Lao Tsu called it the Tao. They also all taught how to let go of that incessant mechanism of trying to control your conditions. Buddha called it craving and aversion.
In other word, you must let go of all craving and aversion, trying to get or get rid of in order to be free, and instead seek first Nirvana. Seek first the Tao. Seek first heaven which all of them taught was within you. Now in quantum physics, they’d say in your consciousness. So that’s really what we’re going after. The best year of our life is about a greater and greater connection to these qualities of our being, to our true nature and a greater realization of them and a greater expression of them. That’s what our soul is after. That’s what our true self is after. That’s all it really cares about—the emergence of more of these qualities and then we get to paint with the colors of our soul which are these qualities. We get to paint with those qualities of love and gratitude and joy and peace and abundance, and create this beautiful works of art called our relationships and our businesses, wonderful, but we know what we’re really doing now. We’re artist of the heart and the soul painting with the colors of our spirit onto the canvas of time and space.
So our focus is on developing our palette, developing and activating these colors, these qualities because we got a very rich, rich palette full of great wonderful abundant qualities to paint with. We can paint with these qualities no matter what the conditions are. They are unconditional and all conditional. They have nothing to do with conditions. And then the more we see this and acts from this, the freer we become from all conditions which is what we really, really want and then bonus, our conditions begin to match what we are being in expressing and painting. That’s what Jesus meant when he said seek first the kingdom, don’t worry about your life, don’t take thought about all those other things, seek first the kingdom, this connection and then those other things will be added onto you.
So the way to create your best year is to begin with the end in mind and then design a plan that puts you into a practice to activate and express more and more of these qualities, more and more of the colors of your soul. And as I said that also does include the outer success goals, the outer paintings that you want to paint. If you’re a great artist, you have a vision for the year like I want a… my wife is a nurse and she’s like I want to paint this kind of painting and this kind of painting, this kind of painting, that’s great. But she didn’t think the canvas was the source of the painting. She knew that her palette and her colors and her paints in her was the source of it and then she’d go about over time painting these paintings.
So you definitely still have your outer vision of what will your life look like when you painted this magnificent masterpiece on to the canvas of time and space with the colors of your soul. You definitely want to include that. But remember it’s secondary to your real soul goal which is in any given moment, week, month, if you find that you’re starting to make the achievement of some outer goal, to the detriment of these qualities of your soul, that’s when you have to stop and get back to your practice. So if you find the chasing after more dollars is actually cutting you off from the development and expression of more of a consciousness of abundance, you have to stop chasing the dollars at least for the moment and get connected again to abundance.
If you find that the chasing after a relationship or the chasing after your partner or spouse to get them to change that you don’t feel so uncomfortable is taking precedent over and actually cutting you off from a sense of feeling whole and complete, and loving and kind, you need to stop chasing relationship or stop chasing your spouse around the house and stop and get reconnected again to your real goal which is to feel whole, to feel loved, to feel loving, to activate the qualities of peace. So instead of convincing your partner that you’re a good person, which is actually making you feel it’s retarding your development of the qualities that would make you a good person, the joy, the peace, the love, etc., you have to stop and go back to that. When it comes to relationship, two HALVES do not make a whole. Two HAVES is the only thing that will make wholeness in relationship.
So if you’re seeking a relationship, or trying to control or manipulate a partner to get yourself to feel better, you have gone off the beam of your real goal, of what will really make the best year of your life and you need to stop and come back to activating, cultivating the qualities of your own soul, and then go back into that relationship and then go back to that client, to that business project. Now, not trying to get anything from it, as if you’re an artist going to a blank canvas and shaking the canvas and saying, “Why won’t you create some colors for me?” You’d look kind of crazy. You stop and you go back to your palette. You mix some more paint and you activate those qualities then you go back to the canvas and paint on it.
So now, you’re entering into that relationship for what you can give. You’re entering into that project for what you have to give – more joy, more abundance, more power. It’s why Jesus said when you pray; pray believing that you already have it that you may receive it. You’re not praying for your praying from. It’s not an out for nation; it’s an out from nation. You’re going out into the world not to get anything but to let more of your real self out. Yes? So that’s how you begin to think about your best year and then begin to design it, reverse engineer it. So one of the things I would invite to just to think about right now and do as homework is—so I want to open this up to some questions—is if you had overcome all your challenges this year and over the next year, we’re really preparing you for next year, and if you had achieved what you most deeply wanted in terms of the outer success goals, who would you be, how would you feel, how would you act or show up in the world?
What I would invite you to do is to break that down for each major life structure: health, wealth, work, relationship, spirituality, personal development, and service. Personal development is things like if you’re wanting to develop your ability to be a speaker or writer or a chess player, whatever, that’s personal development. You’re developing talents and capacities. Spirituality is obviously your spiritual practice and a deeper connection to the divine and all that. So looking at those areas, if you were to make the progress you most want in those areas, how would you feel, who would you be, so it’s qualities of feeling and qualities of being. A quality of feeling looks like peace, love, joy and quality of being is more active like loving, playful, spontaneous, outgoing, generous, it’s more active quality, and begin to articulate for those core, big goals that you would want to either overcome or achieve. What would those qualities be? And then that is what your real goal now becomes.
At the end of the year, my real goal isn’t just do I have more money. It’s do I have a greater sense of safety, security, power, confidence, whatever that means to you, whatever the qualities are, and then in terms of the way to determine, to create a metric around this, you can ask yourself very honestly on a scale from 0 to 100, where am I right now with this quality. Then at the end of each week or month or quarter, you can reassess the bottom line. So we can still use math here. We could still use metrics, and I think it’s very important that we do. Otherwise, we can fool ourselves, and go, “Okay, I started off as a 25%.” Zero to a hundred, 25. Of a greater sense, where I want to be at the year? I want to have a sense of at least be 100% more peaceful than I am now. So let’s say, I started off right now. I’m at 20. I want to be at least at 40 by the end of the year, as an example when choosing the scale of 0 to 100.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be at 100. If 100 means complete and total, perfect peace, you want to look at where are you really and what would be the kind of growth you want to see. I want to see a 50% improvement. That’s a really good improvement. Just think about it. If you could be 50% more loving, more peaceful, more compassionate, more of a feeling of abundance, of all needs met. 50% more by the end of the year, would that be a pretty good year? So you decide. But the answer is probably yes. So you could look at where you are, create a metric and then that’s the bottom line you judge by, and you could even create a metrics for each day, and go at the beginning of a day, “Where am I with my peace?”
Like if you’re a salesperson and you know that at the end of the year, you want to achieve $100,000 and to do that, you have to sell a thousand of these programs, products or whatever, and for that means, every quarter, you have to sell 250 of them. That means every month, you have to sell 80 of them. Then that means every day, you have to sell whatever two and a half of them, whatever, it’d be 3 if it means business days. So then at the beginning of the day, you would have a metric. You started off at zero. By the end of the day, you’d see that I sell three. So you could begin to break this metrics down and look at, “Okay, today, I now know that in order to be I’m on track for my growth of 100% improvement of my peace, I realized that I need to see a 5% improvement, or 1% improvement, whatever that would be.”
Then you get really honest with where is your peace that morning on the scale from 0 to 100. If zero is baseline, it’s where you are. It’s where you were the day before or whatever; and 100 is achieving that 1% increase, whatever you decided. At the end of the day, look and see where am I on that scale, and you might go, “Yeah, I’m 100%. I did it. I’ve increased my peace by such and such.” Some of you are starting to glaze over whenever I talk numbers. We all have different intelligences, but it’s important because it’s hard to really manage what you don’t measure. A dream without a real plan is just a fantasy or a vision without a plan is a fantasy. A plan without a vision is chaos or mediocrity. But it’s important to break it down, so this is real, right? Like you’re really looking at your day or your week and going—am I making progress? Am I feeling a little bit more connected to this quality, a little bit more expressive of it? How many times today did I consciously express?
That could be one of the other ways. Like with sales conversion, they’ll have not just the number of sales they want to make per week but that will determine what is the number of conversations they need to have about the product to make that many sales. Let’s say 10 sales a week is 100 conversations. Then the metric is am I having those 20 conversations today. So you could look out a quality of joy, let’s say, and break it down and play with it and come up with the metric that say 10 acts of joy each week. And you can use the lift practice where you’re taking these qualities and breaking them down into the people, places, objects and activities that activate that quality and that becomes your metric. Let’s just say you realize joy is a quality and you discover that one of the activities that creates joy for you is dancing—music and dancing. And so you decide, “Okay, I’m going to dance to music for five minutes every day to get my joy fixed, to activate my joy.” That’s the metric I’ve got. And then if at the end of the day, you haven’t got that in yet, you might turn on some music and dance.
So you can start to play with this and break it down ultimately to create this best year of your life. It’s not just about, again, the outer success goal and the plans to achieve that, all which is great. It’s about creating a way of life that is actively activating these qualities of your being. And so you can reverse engineer it. Once you come up with your big vision which is the other success goal, then you reverse engineer it into the qualities and then you break it down into where would you want to be with those qualities, where are you from the scale of 0 to 100, and where would you want to be at the end of the year, and where would that be at the end of each quarter and then ultimately what kind of activities and people and situations would help you to activate those.
Now, you can start to put together a real life plan that is integrating those elements that you now know will lead you towards activating and expressing and bringing forth more and more of who and what you really are, more and more of the colors of your soul, the qualities of your heart, and you know that you’re now on track to what a best year really looks like and feels like. So I know that this is a lot and I didn’t realize how much I wanted to come through. I know this is a long talk and a lot of content. Hopefully you found it very helpful, and I really encourage you don’t just listen to it, get inspired and move on. Listen to the replay. Sit down with this, work on this. Work on this. People often would say in giving all these different ideas, “Okay, when do we get to the advanced stuff.” This is the advanced stuff.
The beginner’s work is all of the theories, the concepts, the principles, the ideas. The advanced class is practice. It’s all practice. So take something from this call today and put it in to practice and really do the work to play. You can think about it, dream about it, plan about going to the gym and being in great shape all your life and you will never grow a single muscle. You have to go to the gym and lift the weights. You can theorize and philosophize and write books on the power and the magnificence of broccoli but the only way you’re ever going to get the value of it and really grow is if you eat it. So, you got to do the real work. That’s the real path of mastery.
All right, my dear ones, let’s take a deep breath and allow this all to just soak in. As I just say a very brief prayer and knowing that the prayer has been ongoing, that we’re dropping down into this field of grace, where life is so very, very good all the time, where these qualities of love, joy, peace, beauty, abundance, wholeness, harmony, order are always expressing, are always emanating, always radiating, always fully and completely being themselves everywhere present. This is the presence that is never an absence. This infinite all loving, all giving, all knowing, all powerful presence, that is infinite so there’s nothing outside of it. It’s omnipresent so there’s no other present. Omnipotent, there’s no other power. Omniscience, omniscient, all true knowledge, there’s no other knowledge. There’s no other mind, no other intelligence. It’s all in all as all, it’s all there is, and that nature is love, is life, is goodness, there has no opposite. It is all there is, and therefore it’s all that we are.
All that there is to me is thee. All that there is to each and every one of us is unique, infinite, individualized expressions of the one life, the one love, the one power, the one presence, and nothing else. All the appearances of luck, limitation, world without fear, diminishment, disease, dysfunction, karma, astrology and every other ology, the whole human scene and experience from time and memorial, all of that is rolled up into this one ball called content, concept, belief, projection, perception. None of that is I. All of that is just a projection, a relative perception and projection of the infinite perfection and I am the infinite perfection, before Abraham, was I am. Meaning before all of human experience behind the whole human picture, I stand infinite, immortal, eternal, whole, complete, perfect, all loving, all giving, all knowing, all powerful, all containing, all possessing, nothing can be added to me, nothing can be taken away, no person, place or condition has ever diminish when I ought to, nor ever can who by taking thought can add one cubit to their stature.
What God has put no man can put asunder. All that there is is the power and the presence and the love of God infinitely expressing as the divine self that I am and nothing has ever touched that. Nothing has ever diminished that. Nothing ever can and in this holy instant, all the years of diminishment are now restored. Everything is made new. In this instant, all of the finished kingdom of infinite good, infinite riches and treasures of life that we could ever imagine in the so called future are right here, right now shining expressing circulating broadcasting right where each and every individual is because each and every individual on this call and in this community is a unique center in divine mind through which all of life shines in every shine. Yes, that’s it. So everything is conspiring to bring forth more life, more love, more truth, more beauty, more abundance, more of the divine, infinite pattern of perfection as each and every individual here. It’s dissolving, disintegrating, disassembling all the belief, concepts and structures that no longer serve the fulfillment of their destiny, of greatness which is happening now.
Oh, healings are breaking out. Miracles are breaking out, mentally, emotionally, physically, astrally and theoretically. Great transformation is the order of the day. Whatever needs to be seen, spoken, heard, thought, released, embraced, to support the full on emergence of genius and greatness and fulfillment and real power, real joy, real peace, the full manifestation of heaven on earth in every dimension of living is happening now. It’s happening right where each individual is. It’s the only thing happening. It’s the only power. It’s the only cost. So it’s a law of fulfillment on to where it is set. It needs no resistance, no obstruction. It is fulfilled, pressed down, shaken over. It is done, and so it is. Amen.
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In this journey of truly living a radically alive and totally fulfilled life where we don’t live life on accident, but we live life on purpose, with a purpose, and allow that true and complete potential of our life to emerge.
You can do this.
You were designed to do this, and as I’ve worked with people all around the world from Academy Award winners and Emmy winners to Fortune 500 executives to artists and authors and teachers and coaches and speakers and healers, from most walks of life this principle has proven itself out. The Law of Emergence which states that when the conditions match the pattern within the seed the potential naturally emerges.
The good news is that unlike seeds in nature, which are indigenous and are dependent on their external environment, you are endogenous, which means you bring your environment with you wherever you go.
So no matter where you’ve been planted, what side of the tracks, no matter how much sun is out or how many clouds are blocking the light, you have the power through self-effulgence to turn on the light, to fertilize and cultivate the soil of your soul and create the right and ripe conditions for that destiny of greatness, that seed of infinite potential to emerge in your business, in your family, in every area of your life.
Listen to this episode to find out these clues and to support your personal development and spiritual growth and to start participating in your future good NOW. And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
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Create your compelling vision not just for life but for the coming 12 months wherever that falls for you right now.
There is a Chinese saying when is the best time to plant a tree? 30 years ago – And when is the next best time? Now
wherever you are in your journey it doesn’t matter what ever time of the year it is doesn’t matter. The date is arbitrary the right time to create your compelling vision for next 12 months 12 days 12 hours is always NOW. It’s always the right time to tap back in.
There is always something seeking to emerge, there is always a larger version of you seeking to emerge, more life more light, peace, love, joy, beauty abundance, harmony.
All that makes life wonderful and good is infinite and exhaustible and uniquely patterned as you. And it’s always unfolding, always knocking at the door of your consciousness saying ‘Let Me Out’.
The more and more we are willing to live on that emerging edge of newness the more we will find our life continually renewed and restored. In fact the only place that real security exists is on that emerging edge, the emerging impulse, that evolutionary impulse.
If you’re ready and willing to live on the emerging edge listen to episode 120 of the emergence podcast and support your personal development and spiritual growth and to start participating in your future good NOW.
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The Myth of Believing and the Secret to Achieving. This is somewhat provocative and maybe even a little shocking for some of you. Particularly if you are immersed in the self-help, in spiritual agility, and the whole field of changing our thoughts and our beliefs in order to create the life of our dreams.
You see, while there is truth-the power of your thoughts. The importance of mindset. These are all very, very important elements. But in fact, it’s become in a way a disease where the idea that we have to feel it, to do it, to believe it. We have to believe it to achieve it. We have to feel confident to do it. It has created in many individuals this waiting period.
We are not going for our life. We are not living our life. We are not doing the thing we most want to do in creating and being because we are waiting.
We are waiting to believe it.
We are waiting to feel it.
We are waiting to have the confidence.
We are waiting for it not be scary and we checking in, with our beliefs. I’m I there yet?
We are contemplating our navel instead of getting out there where the action is and going forward. This is really becomes a problem that I see more and more. Where individuals are waiting.
Remember from the Emergence model. Whatever you are waiting for you are waiting with. Whatever is missing is what you are not giving. Where you are not generating your divine power plan.
A power plan doesn’t receive energy it generates it. You are waiting for amuse to knock. You are waiting for inspirations. As if it’s going to come knock at your door, but instead of understanding it’s the inspiration is in you.
YOU have to act like an inspired person and you will activate inspiration.
YOU have to act like a confident person and you activate confidence because it’s ALL IN YOU.
YOU see the truth is it’s already done. It’s already happening.
What you need to do is to become in alignment with that which already is happening.
Listen now to episode 121 ‘The Myth of Believing, The Secret of Achieving’ of the Emergence Podcast. to Find out these clues and to support your personal development and spiritual growth and to start participating in your future good NOW. And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
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This episode is really a transmission that’s been moving through me now for months. It’s part of a series of talks that I’ve been giving that are calling for an entire up-leveling of our fortitude and our resilience, and our stamina, and our courage to do whatever it takes.
Whatever it takes to get the results that we truly want to get. Not just results in terms of materialistic elements in the world but also internal results. If we want to have a deeper connection with peace and want to grow our sense of peace or our sense of love. That’s a very, very difficult path to really embody unconditional divine love. That is for the faint of heart. As Emerson said, “God will not do his work through cowards”.
And so it takes a mighty level of strength, and courage, and stamina to be a person of true unconditional love. To be a person of compassion. A person of patience.
As you probably heard me say, “It’s hard to be a light in the world when you can’t pay your light bill”.
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Welcome to another episode of Ask Derek. Where we do shorter trainings based on the most popular questions that you have asked over the weeks, months, years, in our groups, in our forms, and in our classes, as a way to get a quicker hit than some of our longer trainings. To really create a library of very clear answers to the most important and often the most debilitating issues that block us from really living our full potential. Activating our full emergence.
Today’s question is such a common one. Is it ego or guidance talking? Or is it my ego or my spirit talking?
[bctt tweet=”The ego looks for guarantees, the spirit looks for opportunities”]
This question often comes from an unconscious shadow, brought about by an early experience where someone has taught themselves to doubt their own judgement.
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Today we’re talking about and answering the question how do I choose which way to go? In terms of should I do this? Should I do that? How do I stop just trying to figure things out and actually choose a path, choose a lane, choose a direction?
[bctt tweet=”Just commit and go for it!”]This is one of the most common challenges and struggles with entrepreneurial creative types, especially if you have that unique design of the Renaissance type of person, because there’s so many possible ideas, so many things that you want to do, and so many possibilities, and primarily it also comes from some unconscious, or maybe conscious, false assumptions and fears, such as I need to know for sure that the choice I make is going to be the right one, and you may not be aware, but often that’s really what’s underlying your fear, or your procrastination, or your hesitation to just make a choice, to just commit and go for it.
Listen in now for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future good NOW.
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TranscriptionWelcome to Ask Derek, where we do shorter trainings based on the questions that you’ve asked in the forums, in the groups, in the social media platforms, and just throughout the weeks and months and years. Questions that have been the most common, and those that have become the most urgent, and almost archetypal in their nature, and this is to get a little bit shorter responses, little bit shorter trainings, a quick hit, or at least quick by my standards. I can talk for hours, as you probably know. Today we’re talking about and answering the question how do I choose which way to go? In terms of should I do this? Should I do that? How do I stop just trying to figure things out and actually choose a path, choose a lane, choose a direction?
This is one of the most common challenges and struggles with entrepreneurial creative types, especially if you have that unique design of the Renaissance type of person, because there’s so many possible ideas, so many things that you want to do, and so many possibilities, and primarily it also comes from some unconscious, or maybe conscious, false assumptions and fears, such as I need to know for sure that the choice I make is going to be the right one, and you may not be aware, but often that’s really what’s underlying your fear, or your procrastination, or your hesitation to just make a choice, to just commit and go for it. If you look back when you were a kid, and you were playing different imaginary games and making stuff up, you spent a minute or two coming up with the game and who was going to play what, and it’s lava, and you’re going to be a captain, and you’re going to be this, or you’re going to be Peter Pan. You’re going to be Captain Hook. You didn’t care. You might have argued for a moment who got to be who, but making a decision to commit to that path and that particular game you didn’t have all the stakes to it.
You have to, in a very real way, enter in the same kind of childlike curiosity, sense of adventure, sense of wonder. Now I’m not saying go take out a loan, mortgage your house, and make those kind of decisions, and that’s usually not where the problem lies. The problem lies with just making a choice to begin to really create something, and when we’re talking at this level of creating an entrepreneurial program or product as a coach, teacher, healer, author, etc. it’s mostly your time and energy as an investment. The stakes are relatively low, and the other thing is that in many of these cases you can’t really know what the “right” way to go is until you go.
I’ve used the analogy often. It’s like sitting in your car waiting for the GPS to give you all of the directions, and then you’ll start driving, but it doesn’t work that way. Right? You have to start driving, and then it starts telling you which turns to make. When do you know when you’ve actually been guided correctly? If you’ve never been to the place it’s taking you, when do you know it actually guided you correctly? The answer is, the very final turn, that very last moment. Because, for all you know, it could have been taking you in the exact wrong direction, but you follow step by step as it unfolds. If you’re an explorer, and you’re going through and exploring new terrain, you can’t wait, come up with all of the decisions and answers and know if it’s the right track until you climb at least that first mountain, or that first hill and get a higher perspective.
The same is true with many of the decisions in our life. Now, I’m not saying there’s not certain elements of being a good steward, doing due diligence, but, again, that’s usually not the problem. Of course, do your due diligence. Do the research. Study a program. Read a book. Make sure you know most or some of the best practices that are available to you, but, again, as I work with people, and I’m teaching them all the best practices, and they still struggle to decide which one of the many ideas should I choose? Should I write this book? Should I make this my program? Should I offer this? There’s other criteria when it comes to market testing and checking with your audience and seeing what is their real problem, what is their real ambition? Understanding your ideal client, your tribe. These are some of the basic practices, but then at some point you still have to pull the trigger. You still have to start driving. You still have to decide I’m going to create this program or write this book.
You know what? You might be wrong in the short term. That program might turn out to not be the big seller. The annals of time are littered with all the failures, seeming failures, of the authors and the inventors and the innovators and the leaders, but every single one of those was a stepping stone, and I know that’s almost a cliché, but it was a stepping stone to that which created their success. So in a very real way it really wasn’t a failure at all. What could have been a tombstone was a stepping stone, because they learned something. Edison and his thousands of so-called failures of the light bulb taught him the right way to do the light bulb, and also lots of other ideas around conductivity and different metals and different things that went on to inform his other inventions and things. But you must commit. You must take a step.
The way you choose which way to go, and I know this sounds so simple. Most things are, if you’ve done your normal due diligence, and you’ve studied the basic best practices. You just choose. You’ve heard my story probably, if not, there was a point in my life where I had many things I was trying to do, and I was making some progress, but wasn’t getting any real momentum, and I finally realized I had to pick a lane. I just had to pick a lane and commit to it for a sustained period of time, because otherwise what’s going to happen is you’re going to bump into all your thresholds, even if it’s the right things. You’re going to hit thresholds. You’re going to hit the doubt, the fear, all the reasons why you didn’t want to do it, why you don’t think you should do it, why you don’t think you’re good enough. You’re going to bump into all of those no matter what you choose. If you have not committed to it, you’re going to read that sign as I guess that’s the Universe telling me I’m not supposed to. I’m not good enough. I’m too young. I’m too old. I’m too this. I’m too that. It’s too soon. It’s too late. Most of which are often false diagnoses of the problem. They’re just simply telling you you need to grow. You need to learn. You need to dig deeper.
When the resources seem to dry up, you need to become more resourceful, but you won’t get the learnings and the growth of those opportunities if you haven’t committed to that direction. You must choose. When I finally realized this I chose. I chose the Law of Emergence, and I committed for 18 months. I was going to create a program. I was going to flesh it out, create a framework, begin to offer it. No matter what, I was going to stick to it. It was really hard, and all those reasons why I didn’t want to commit in the first place, all the other ideas that I thought were better, suddenly looked really shiny and exciting. I bumped into all of those thresholds, the shiny object syndrome, boredom, fear, doubt, not good enough, the naysayers. Many of the top marketers, who are now a lot of my friends, telling me you can’t make a living doing this particular kind of thing. You’re having to literally create your own niche practically.
I just stuck. I stuck to the path, and I did the work, which I teach. I worked on my values conflicts. I worked on my shadows. I worked on my limited beliefs. I dug deep and anchored myself in truth principle. I built a vibrational frequency that was congruent with my vision, and here’s the other thing. When you commit to a path, and you do the Emergence work of becoming vibrationally congruent, so let’s say you decide you’re going to create this book or this program, and you’re going to launch that business, and you articulate what that vision would look like and feel like, and you begin to do the inner work of congruence to being to feel like that person and show up and be that person, so that vibrationally you are a match for that vision.
Here’s the great news. If by some chance that’s the wrong path, you will ultimately be moved, inextricably or without question, because vibrationally you can never go wrong. If you are vibrationally in a state of power, confidence, joy, peace, love, generosity, service, expansiveness, abundance, but you’re on the wrong path, that frequency will tune you in to the right path. That’s the beauty of the Emergence process is that ultimately it’s really all about you becoming more of the real you, even more than it is what you do. Then that inner GPS, that inner God Positioning System, will redirect you.
Do the best practices. Do your due diligence. Be a good steward, and then choose. Now, one final little thing you can do is you can certainly create a list of the pros and the cons for each choice that you want to make, and then as you read down the list feel into what it feels like as you read each one of those, and feel in your body which one feels more constricted overall or more expanded. That’s another little criteria you can go by, and then finally you can even say let me dream of this color if this is the right one. Let me dream of this color if this is the right now. Maybe you narrow it down to two or three choices, and it’s red, blue, or green, and then wake up and see what color you dreamt of. These sound kind of silly on some level, but they’re actually potentially very powerful, and they do work.
I said this was going to be short form, and it’s already gone longer than I intended, but I think that’s enough for now. How do you choose which way to go? You choose. You dig in. You make a commitment for a period of time, and then everything that that brings up, the fear, the resistance, the doubt, the thresholds, you do the work on those, as I’ve described in other trainings, and as I teach. Then even if it’s the “wrong” goal, you will grow into the right person, and then that will lead you to the right path.
I hope this has served you. This has been another episode of Ask Derek. Until next time, remember to live authentically, love unconditionally, and follow your destiny.
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When we understand that life is emergent, that life is not happening to us, but it’s happening through us and as us, that whatever’s missing is what we’re not giving, that if we want more to come into our life we have to let more life come out of us, or as the poet Browning said, “We must find a way to release this imprisoned splendor.”
[bctt tweet=”The only real sign you’re not supposed to pursue something is you no longer want to”]
We’re talking about today the seven reasons why things aren’t working, or just why aren’t things working? This is such a common experience, of course, and we bang our head against the wall, and we get depressed and disillusioned, and it’s important to understand so we can begin to diagnose why aren’t things working? What’s going on when things aren’t working?
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TranscriptionDerek Rydall here, founder of the Law of Emergence, and author of the bestselling book, Emergence, and it’s just such an honor and a pleasure to be with you again as we take this deep dive into understanding the principles for successful living that sometimes can be quite radical and exactly the opposite of what we’ve conditioned to believe. When we understand that life is emergent, that life is not happening to us, but it’s happening through us and as us, that whatever’s missing is what we’re not giving, that if we want more to come into our life we have to let more life come out of us, or as the poet Browning said, “We must find a way to release this imprisoned splendor.”
We’re talking about today the seven reasons why things aren’t working, or just why aren’t things working? This is such a common experience, of course, and we bang our head against the wall, and we get depressed and disillusioned, and it’s important to understand so we can begin to diagnose why aren’t things working? What’s going on when things aren’t working?
I want to start off by saying it’s almost never a sign from the Universe that you’re not supposed to be pursuing this. Now, certainly sometimes you aren’t supposed to be pursuing what you’re pursuing, but that old trope of New Age belief that when things are difficult and hard it’s a sign that you’re not supposed to do it from the Universe, if that was true, pretty much all major innovations in history would never have happened, because it was really hard for Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi and Edison and Disney and Steve Jobs and Jesus and Buddha, pick your master, creator, inventor, leader. Every door was closed to them. Every window was closed, and storm shutters nailed to them. So that wasn’t a sign they weren’t supposed to do it, it was an opportunity for them to dig deeper to become stronger, and it was really a sign that they were in many cases on the right track of progress, because it was bringing up all the resistance in their direction.
I just want to start off right out of the gate and say that your struggle and your challenge, don’t fall for the belief that it’s just a sign from the Universe you’re not supposed to do it. The only real sign you’re not supposed to pursue something is you no longer want to. I want to say a caveat to that is sometimes you don’t think you want to, because it’s hard, and you have to trick your ego and say, “If it could be easy, if I could still do it, be successful, be well received, have a great time, would I want to do this and be this and create and contribute this?” That kind of temporarily clears away the dust and debris of the journey, and allows you to feel that glow of your heart’s desire again. As long as that glow is still there it’s still true for you, and the difficulty is about growing and getting stronger and building soul stamina and developing certain muscles and skills so that you can carry the energy of that vision or mission.
Let’s go through the seven reasons why things are often not working. The first one, and these aren’t necessarily in any given order, but the first one it’s often a sign that you’re trying to achieve something with old tools, and an old model, and an old map. In other words, in our developmental stages of life you end up having experiences, and you end up deciding this is the way life is. Life is hard. Resources are limited. I’m not that worthy, and people aren’t to be trusted, as an example. Right? That’s based on some experiences you have, so you quickly draw a map of reality, and it literally gets laid down neurologically, and then you create a model for living based on that map. Then you end up creating a toolkit to operate and survive in that territory.
The problem, of course, is that the map is incorrect, but for a time it can actually be useful, because, if you’ve studied my shadow work, you end up developing a lot of skills and abilities and things as a reaction based on coping and defense mechanism and self-preservation, a lot of skills and things that are actually beneficial. This is what’s called the gift of the shadow, but at a certain point, especially if you really get on a path of self-development and self-actualization and spiritual awareness and consciousness expansion and real vision, you are calling forth and activating a larger consciousness, a larger perception of reality, and what starts to happen is that old model, that old thing, no longer works. It’s like you’re trying to use the tools that they used to work on the Model T Ford to work on your Ferrari, or even your Prius. The tools don’t work anymore. You don’t realize that, because these tools and this map and this model are so close to you, but that’s one of the reasons is that you’re trying to get from LA to New York using a map of the old world where it’s still got little drawings of dragons and stuff, there be dragons. They would write those on the maps whenever they didn’t know what was there. They would just draw a picture of a monster or something, because that was how the mind perceived the unknown.
That’s one sign, and you begin to question. What if my map of reality is wrong, and my model of operating therefore is wrong, and the tools I’m using to work with that model are therefore outdated or no longer work on this new model that’s trying to emerge in my life? That starts to open up a whole other line of questions, of inquiry, and of discovery. As well as transformation and real evolution.
The next of the seven reasons, and this is connected to this first one, is often your chronic challenges or problems are a sign that you’re trying to manage a life that is too small. You’re trying to manage or cope in a world too small where you’ve activated a different or bigger life, a larger life. For example, like the acorn analogy you’ve activated your inner oak tree, but you’re still trying to stay a safe acorn and hold onto your protective shell. That inner oak is trying to crack through, and it’s creating the crisis. It’s creating the experience of things falling apart or not working, and you’re trying to call in a shell repairman to fix your shell and all these kinds of things. Like the caterpillar trying to hold your caterpillar life together. You’re trying to manage. You’re trying to cope and hold onto a self-concept and a life concept that is breaking apart, because you’ve activated a bigger life.
It’s similar, but it’s different by degree. In the first example you’re trying to use tools and a model and a map of the world that you’ve outgrown, and eventually when it becomes a chronic problem you are now trying to manage and cope in a world that is too small for the world life that you’ve activated, for the energy that you’ve activated. This becomes increasingly challenging and painful the more you are on a conscious spiritual path, and the more you have desires and intentions and prayers, because you are activating all this energy that’s now trying to emerge, but you are still holding onto the old self-concept, the old world concept, and trying to actually manage your life within that paradigm. It won’t work. It’s extremely painful, and ultimately impossible. You can’t be an acorn and an oak tree at the same time. Once you’ve activated the inner oak, you cannot remain an acorn without suffering. Does that make sense?
Then the third reason why things aren’t working is a values conflict. You may have heard me talk about this before, but basically you’ve been wired a certain way because of experiences. Perhaps growing up you were trying to do a certain endeavor or project, and maybe make money or be successful or be creative, and it was causing problems in your family, and you got the message somewhere along the line that you were hurting your family, or you were hurting your sibling, because you were outshining them. You got the message that you either have to be a good child, a good son, a good daughter, and be part of the tribe and have family and connection and love, or you have to leave it, abandon it, for success and for name, fame, and fortune. It may not have been that overt, but you got a message that it was one or the other. It was mutually exclusive.
Internally you still valued both things. You still wanted to shine your creative genius or be successful, and you still wanted to have love and family and connection. Those values still existed in you, but now they were sibling rivalry. They were mutually exclusive they way they were wired. So every time you would start to go for one, it would create problems in the other. It would create anxiety, or you would self-sabotage, so that you could ultimately go back to the other value. Then you would eventually yearn for the other value, the opposite value, and somehow self-sabotage this one so you can go for the other one. Right?
I used to do that as well. I’d start to get successful, then I’d pull back, back away, self-sabotage, and then I would go do my spiritual practice, be with my family, feel a sense of relief. Then eventually I’d start to feel anxious and like I’m not doing anything, I’m not living my potential. I would start going for success again, and eventually start to feel anxious, guilty, disconnected from my spirit, from my family or friends, and then I would sabotage and go back to that again. Until I eventually saw that based on my upbringing I had these values conflicts, and in my mind to go for one would mean I’d have to sacrifice the other. I just created a reconnection of my values, a values affirmation, where I essentially said, the more successful I become, the more deeply connected I am to my heart, to my art, to my loved ones, and the more I honor my need to be connected to my spirit and to my art and to my loved ones, the more powerfully I am inspired to go for success and make a big impact in the world. That felt good. Yes. I can have both.
Those values aren’t intrinsically exclusive. They were only wired that way. The minute those wires touched again there was an energetic spark. Energy started to flow again, and as that became a mantra and became embodied then the more I would go for my success the more I would be inspired to take my spiritual path deeper and connect with loved ones, and the more I connected with my art and my heart and my loved ones, the more inspired I was to go for my work, and it served. They became complimentary and served each other. So values conflict, that’s often a reason why things aren’t working. It’s like you’ve got one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake.
Then we get to the shadow block. Again, if you’ve studied my work you understand some of the shadow work, and this is there’s a shadow around whatever the next step of growth is. You’re bumping into the shadow, and this shadow is connected to values conflicts, can be connected, and can be similar, and can emerge out of similar developmental stages of your life. This basically means that, for example, maybe you actually need to take a different direction or slow down or take a break or take more time at some aspect of the work you’re developing or the relationship, but when you imagine doing it you’re afraid of the outcome. What if it doesn’t work? What if I fail? What if I look stupid? What if I look bad? Then if you ask yourself, if that happens, what would I make that mean about me, or what am I afraid others would make it mean about me? You hear certain judgments, like I’m lazy, I’m a loser, I’m a failure, I’m unworthy, I’m not good enough, I’m selfish. For example, you really want to go for this thing, and you find you just don’t feel the momentum or the energy, or you keep sabotaging it, and when you ask, what am I afraid is going to happen? I’m going to succeed. What am I afraid people are going to think about me? I’m self-centered. I’m selfish. I’m insensitive to their needs, whatever. That’s a shadow.
So when you do the shadow work, and you embrace the selfish self, or the lazy self, or the failure self, you integrate the imprisoned energy within that shadow. I don’t have the time to go into the full understanding of shadows within this particular talk, but you unlock it, and now that energy becomes available to you, and the wisdom, and the insight, and the gift of that, and it’s no longer blocking you, because you have now made friends with the selfish self. You don’t care if somebody thinks you’re selfish, because you’ve embodied selfishness in its optimal state, which means to honor the self, to take care of the self. Now, if you want to do the shadow process once you understand what your shadow is, you can go to DerekRydall.com/shadowprocess. Download a free shadow process audio training. If you really want to master the shadow work, you can get the program Shadow Dancing. It’s a total in depth mastery of the shadows in all the major structures of your life, and that will radically transform you and unleash the energy within you. You can go to DerekRydall.com for more information on that, or email support@DerekRydall.com.
The next, Number Five, why things aren’t working, wrong goal. Let me just break this down a little bit. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t still, let’s say you want to write a book, build a business, grow your clientele, or find the love of your life. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have that as a success endeavor as a part of your plan and your vision and something you are going for, but ultimately there’s only one legitimate goal, and that is to live in a deep connection with yourself, with your Source, with God, with truth, whatever name you want to give it, and to be in a state of peace, love, joy, in this moment. That’s the only legitimate goal. That’s what all the great masters have taught. You can actually test and verify this if you ask, if I got that outer goal, what would that give me? Why do I want it? If you ask what I call the five whys, why do I want it, why do I want it, why do I want that? Then you get this, and why do I want that? Then you get this. You eventually get down to I’d get the money, so I can buy the house, and I’d get the house so that I can enjoy my life. Then I can enjoy my life, so I can finally be in joy or peace. You’ll always eventually get to a quality, a state of being, a state of deeper connection with life. Always. That’s all we’re really ever going for.
Any attempt to have an attachment to an external goal immediately turns on the stress response, makes it increasingly difficult to achieve it, creates all kinds of resistance and toxic chemicals and toxic thoughts, and may make it difficult to impossible to ever achieve it, or if you do the cost will be so high, and you will not experience joy or freedom, if only temporarily, and then eventually you’ll be right back to thinking you need to get the next bigger, better thing, and you’ll be miserable. You want to look at, what do I really want? What I really want is a sense of peace and joy. So then you shift your goal to be developing and embodying whatever the vibrational feeling tone of achieving that goal would be.
That becomes your core goal, your top priority, so that as you’re going through your day and doing the work you’re doing, you’re stopping on a regular basis and checking in and going, what am I really after here? Remembering, getting reconnected to your real goal, to be in love, to be in peace, to be in joy, in this moment. For the next 30-60 minutes that’s my goal. Then you go back to work, and you still do whatever you’re going to do. Some people are like, if I just only want peace or joy, and I’m just resting in the moment and peace and joy, I’m not going to be inspired. I’m not going to have momentum. Everything’s going to fall apart. That’s what the ego tells you, but exactly the opposite will happen.
The more you are connected to and achieving a state of peace, love, joy, gratitude in the moment, legitimately, the more dynamically creative and active you will be, because your spirit is not neutral. Love is not neutral. It’s dynamic. According to your unique design and pattern it will unfold. You know the old thing where your parents might have told you, “You keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.” The Universe is saying, you keep being in joy, I’m going to give you something to be joyful about. You keep being grateful, I’m going to give you something to be grateful about. That state of joy and gratitude will manifest more experiences that give you reason to be joyful and grateful. If you’re struggling and things just aren’t working, you want to check in and see, what’s the real goal here, and realign yourself with that.
Then we get to the sixth reason why things aren’t working, and that’s competence. Sometimes you hear your voice say, I’m not good enough at this. I’m just not good enough, and you know what? That voice might be right. A lot of times we brush over that and try to just do an affirmation, but it might actually be accurate and giving you guidance and saying, “You need to go back to the drawing board. You need to dive a little deeper and get a little bit more learning and understanding and mastery of this particular thing.” There’s gold there that you have yet to mine, beyond what you may even know. You may go back to research and study, and all of a sudden it opens up a whole new world, a whole new possibility, a whole new potential. Don’t dismiss the possibility that you need to develop more competence. Sometimes it also might mean you need to work harder, not just smarter. You might go back and discover the people that really succeeded in this, the very best of the best, they were the ones still at the gym when everybody else went home. They were the ones willing to completely redevelop their particular skill even when people were saying they were good enough. Like Tiger Woods willing to break down his golf swing and rebuild it at the height of his career. Like Michael Jordan going and shooting 300 free throws every time, even at the height of his career.
If you’re the person who suffers under perfectionism, this is probably not your issue. Your issue is probably the opposite, you just need to ship it, as Seth Godin would say. You just need to get in the game and not just stay on the sidelines practicing. It depends. Depending on where you are, there’s some deeper learning either that the best practice is you need to just do it, just get it written, get it out there, or that you need to learn Step A or Step B or Step C. This is the most practical of the seven reasons why things aren’t working, but, believe it or not, often overlooked.
Step Seven, finally, you might just need to rest and stop taking action. The analogy is you plant the seed. You water it. You weed it. You feed it. It doesn’t grow right away. You dig it up again, plant it again. Water, weed it, feed it. It doesn’t grow right away. You dig it up, plant it again. Is that seed going to grow? No. It’s not only not going to grow, it’s probably going to die. There is a period of work and labor and sowing, and then there’s a period of resting, and then there’s a period of reaping. If you go to the gym, and you work out every day the same muscle over and over again, it’s not going to grow stronger. In fact, it’s going to tear down and eventually fail. You have to rest. Actually, all of the greatest progress happens during the rest. That’s when the repair and the rebuilding and the signal in the body goes and makes the muscle stronger and bigger through the process of repair.
The same thing is true with your ideas, your creative projects. Sometimes you have to just put it in a drawer for a day or a week or a month. It’s not saying you’re giving up. It’s understanding the gestation, germination, creation process. There are cycles. You don’t just breathe out. You have to also breathe in. Again, for some individuals that are go, go, go, go, like a shark afraid if they stop swimming they’re going to die, you want to look at a values conflict or a shadow, because there’s something you’re afraid is going to happen if you rest. For some of you you need to develop new structures in your life so that there’s space for playing, that you actually build into your calendar your mediation practice, time to be with friends and family, time to play, time to exercise, time to just goof off, free time where you got nothing scheduled. So that you’re designing a life that’s conducive to the natural rhythms of conception, creation, gestation, maturation, and ultimately manifestation. Sometimes you just need to stop and rest. Be still, and let the work you’ve done begin to work on you.
These are the seven core reasons why things aren’t working. Usually you can find and diagnose the problem within these seven. I hope this has served you, and my prayer, my intention for you, is that no matter what you stay the course. You stay engaged, and you stay inspired. Until next time, remember to live authentically, love unconditionally, and follow your destiny.
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It’s just great to be with you again in episode to help you take things to a whole new level. To master the principle of emergence in every area of your life.
What we will be talking about today is ‘All of Your Tomorrows Are Part of God’s Today.’ How to access your future NOW. This is no small thing.[bctt tweet=” Time and space is like the canvas upon which we paint our perception of eternity of infinity.“]
They’re not absolute realities. Time and space is like the canvass upon which we paint our perception of eternity of infinity. There’s perfection which is infinity, mortal, eternal. There is perception which is our awareness of it. That little sliver of our awareness and then there is projection, which is the manifestation of our perception.
The way we paint on that canvass of time and space. And then there’s protection which is the frame we put around it and call reality. But it’s not. It’s just a painting or a photograph if you want to use that analogy, thinking of the photos, the film, and the camera shutter. It open ups for a split second. Captures a little bit of light. A little bit of the landscape. That’s perception. The light and the landscape is the infinite perfection. And then it projects it on the film strip, which becomes the photo. That’s the projection. And then we print it out or whatever. Put a frame hang it on the wall and that’s protection. And we look at that and say “That’s such and such a person or such and such a landscape.” Well no, it’s actually not. It’s a picture of that. But if you can imagine we have a gallery of paintings or pictures and we just live in that gallery and eventually forgot it was a gallery. Forgot it was just pictures and photos. We’ll be lost in time and space or lost in the gallery of our concepts and pictures of reality. And that’s really what happens.
That’s really the very definition of being merely a human being.
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Yes, you do have an awesome purpose, and you do have unlimited potential. We’re talking about today the Five Step Potential Activator, and this is a really powerful thing. We hear all kinds of things about potential, but one thing to really understand is that your problems are potential activators. That’s actually why they’re there. Understand that your potential always trumps your problems. Your potential is always, but only always, bigger than your problems.
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Just think about that for a moment. Whatever problem you face, whatever problem, your potential is bigger than that. Whether it’s mental, emotional, physical, relational, financial, your potential is bigger. Your potential is bigger. Indeed, your true nature is an infinite individualized expression of life itself, all the power, all the presence, all the substance, all the wisdom, all the genius, all of the whole of the cosmos uniquely individualized, uniquely knowing and expressing itself. That’s what you are.
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TranscriptHey, Derek Rydall here, founder of the Law of Emergence, bestselling author of the book Emergence, and your guide on the side for this journey of emergence of the full potential and awesome purpose for which you were born. Yes, you do have an awesome purpose, and you do have unlimited potential. We’re talking about today the Five Step Potential Activator, and this is a really powerful thing. We hear all kinds of things about potential, but one thing to really understand is that your problems are potential activators. That’s actually why they’re there. Understand that your potential always trumps your problems. Your potential is always, but only always, bigger than your problems.
Just think about that for a moment. Whatever problem you face, whatever problem, your potential is bigger than that. Whether it’s mental, emotional, physical, relational, financial, your potential is bigger. Your potential is bigger. Indeed, your true nature is an infinite individualized expression of life itself, all the power, all the presence, all the substance, all the wisdom, all the genius, all of the whole of the cosmos uniquely individualized, uniquely knowing and expressing itself. That’s what you are. In order to experience that it must become manifest in some way, shape, or form, and in order for it to manifest, for it to come out of you, sometimes it requires challenge, crisis, problems, struggle. Just like the jack pine needs a forest fire to activate its potential. Just like there are many species in nature that need struggle, challenge, “problems”. The meaning and the message and the reason for that challenge, crisis, or problem is that there’s another level of evolution, another level of progress, another level of potential. So the very purpose of your problems is to pull out of you more potential. Make sense?
That’s why they’re happening. Your problems aren’t happening because you’re bad, because you’re a sinner, because of just merely karma. Karma may have created the starting point of a problem, but your karma does not determine your destiny, nor does your conditions determine your destiny. Your destiny is determined by your character, which is the etch of God on your soul, which is that level of embodiment of the truth of your being. Your character is determined by your core habits. Your habits are determined by your consistent actions. Your actions are determined by your emotions and by your beliefs, which are determined by your point of focus, intention, attention, and by how you choose to frame whatever condition you face.
Notice the thing that we often think is the thing that determines our life, condition, that’s actually way down at the bottom of the list of what determines our life. It has absolutely no determination unless you let it. It’s the starting point. Your condition is the starting point. From there you get to frame it. You get to decide what it means. What you decide that it means determines how you feel about it. How you feel about it determines what you do about it. What you do about it determines the habits. The habits determine your character. Your character determines your destiny. That problem is giving you a fresh starting point for a new journey of activating your potential. You can begin to get excited, because the truth is there’s only this infinite reality of wholeness and harmony, and it’s seeking to express itself in ever greater ways through and as you. So these challenges, everything is conspiring to reveal more, to put life even more fully on display.
There’s five core steps to taking your problems and turning them into potential, what I’m calling the Five Step Potential Activator. The first step is recognizing that that problem is a call to pull more potential out of you. It’s a call. You don’t want to try to avoid the problem. You don’t want to try to anesthetize yourself from the problem. That’s letting the call go to voice mail, and the Universe gets the message, mailbox full. You don’t want that call to go to your voice mail. You want to answer the call and recognize it’s a call to pull more of you out. That’s it. That’s it. It’s a sign that you’ve already activated a bigger life. Somewhere along the line you’ve said yes. You’ve intended. You’ve prayed. You’ve affirmed. Your back was against the wall. You cried out, and in that moment the larger version of your life, that greater dimension of your potential, that next step of your evolution, began to emerge, but then it bumped into your small self-concepts, your limited paradigms, and as it starts to bump into that and rub up against that, it creates what looks like a problem.
It means that somewhere along the line you’re still holding on to smaller ideas, concepts, or you just don’t yet have the infrastructure, mentally, emotionally, physically, vibrationally, energetically, etc. strong enough to carry the voltage, the wattage, the capacity, the velocity, of the life that’s trying to emerge. So it’s time to uplevel. It’s time to get to the 2.0 version. It’s time to create stronger structures to carry more energy, more capacity, so that you can express more of your beauty and your brilliance and your abundance. There’s some outdated worldview or self-concept, or just structures that are no longer able to carry what’s coming next. There’s more traffic that wants to come down the freeway of your life, and you’re going to have to start expanding the lanes. Some kind of growth is trying to happen. That’s the meaning and the purpose of that problem. That’s Step One, recognizing that, coming to terms with that, releasing all judgment and resistance, and getting ready to do the real work.
Step Two, ask what are the qualities or the quality or the skill or the skills that you would need to embody and express in order to be free and empowered in the midst of this problem? Notice Step Two is not how do I solve this problem? It’s what are the qualities. By the way, that’s not a terrible question to ask when we talk about asking the right questions. How do I solve this problem is not a terrible question, but it’s not the most effective or empowering question, because it ties you back into the energy and the frequency of the problem. Often times when you solve it at the same level of energy you just recreate that same problem in a different way. You haven’t actually evolved, and you just see the same problems getting recycled again in different ways. It’s the same frequency. Like you’ve heard me use the example of ice. You can’t solve the problem of ice as long as you’re living at 32 degrees. That’s where ice lives. Even if you pour hot water on it, you’ve solved it for a moment, but then what happens? That hot water now turns into more ice. You have to actually rise above that temperature to a higher frequency. You have to evolve, and then the problem isn’t solved, the problem dissolves, because it cannot live above that temperature. It cannot live in that higher frequency. This is true of all problems.
The real meaning of a problem is it’s time to evolve. You ask, what qualities or skills would I need to embody and express to be free and empowered in the midst of this problem? For example, it might be more trust, more peace, forgiveness, love. You may be struggling financially, and for you money and finances really represents safety, security. So what’s it’s really calling for you is a deeper quality of trust, a deeper inner conviction that you’re taken care of, that you’re okay, which a feeling tone of trust. In fact, that’s really what your soul is yearning to feel and experience and express, and you can know that just by imagining if I did have that money, how would I feel? There’d be this inner sense of freedom or fulfillment or trust, a sense that all was well and you were okay. That’s the quality that’s trying to be expressed. So you ask, what is that quality?
It might be a particular skill, which could be a skill of character or a literal skill, a skill like being more patient, or being more generous, being more focused, more determined, more resilience, more stick-to-itiveness. That’s like a skill of character that you’re being called to develop. Maybe the thing is not happening as fast as you think it should be happening, and it’s created a crisis, and rather than just digging in deeper and pushing harder, maybe what’s really being called is to develop patience, which is developing a capacity within you, as the course in miracles says, “Infinite patience brings about immediate results.” It’s a soulful capacity that when you develop patience it opens you up to be an instrument of greater power and potential in many areas. It’s also the evidence in consciousness that you’re already there. That’s why it says infinite patience brings about immediate results. It dissolves all resistance, all pushing and forcing, and is an underlying vibration that it’s already done.
Perhaps it’s focus or resilience, the willingness to stay at something even when all seems lost, even when you seem to be having failed. There’s a deeper soul stamina that’s trying to be built, that’s making you a stronger instrument for even bigger opportunities. You’re asking, what are the skills or qualities that I need to embody to be free and empowered in the midst of this problem? So even while the problem’s there, I’m good. I’m strong. I’m empowered. I’m free.
Third Step is you ask, who would I be if I overcame this? What qualities or skills would I be expressing or exhibiting? How would my character be different, changed, improved? What would I feel? Who would I be? How would I be able to show up, if I overcame this problem? So you allow yourself to imagine yourself on the other side of this. Who are you then? What are you capable of? How do you show up? How do you express yourself? Again, you begin to unpack some qualities. You can unpack these qualities in two ways, feeling qualities and being qualities. The feeling qualities are more static. The being qualities are more active, which again are more like the skills of character. A feeling quality would be peace, love, joy. A being quality would be generous, creative, outgoing, spontaneous, playful. You see how those lend themselves more to action, whereas the feeling qualities are more a state of being.
I know it’s ironic when I say the being qualities lead to more action, and the feeling qualities lead to more being, but essentially the feeling qualities are more static. You can’t really do them. The being qualities are more active. You can be them. You can consciously be them. You can ask, what would it look like for me to be more generous in this situation? That will lead to actions. Versus how does it feel to feel more peaceful, to feel peace, to feel joy, to feel love? It’s a feeling state.
You’re asking, what skills or qualities do I need to embody and express to be free and empowered in the midst of the problem, and who would I be and how would I be expressing if I overcame the problem? So you end up with a series, or maybe just one or two, qualities of feeling and/or being, which can also include skills. Some of these skills might be things like focus, determination, patience, stamina, perseverance, or whatever might come to you. They might even be more practical skills. Maybe organization comes through. You need to be more organized. It can be more practical. It’s whatever is necessary for your growth and development. What’s important to understand now is that what you’re discovering is not something you’re trying to do or add to the situation. What you’re discovering is that this condition, this problem is setting up the condition for those qualities that are already in you in latency and incipiency to come out, and even more, if you want to go down the rabbit hole even more, those qualities within your soul that want to express more have actually created the problem and the condition under which they will be able to express.
When you pray for patience, do you think the Universe just bops you on the head and says, you’re patient? No. Rarely. Usually you don’t just wake up more patient. Instead you end up finding yourself in long lines and traffic jams, and you might even cry out, “God, why have you forsaken me? What happened to my prayer of patience? I’m more angry and pissed off and impatient than ever before.” No, you’re not. What’s happened is that condition is revealing the pockets within you where you are caught in anger, judgment, complaint, unhealed issues, unforgiveness, and it’s creating the fever that’s pushing the poison out of your system. So that the natural effervescence of your soul, which is patient, can begin to emerge. So you can build the muscles and the infrastructure to hold the vibration of patience. Just like when you go to a gym, you don’t just go poof, you have muscles. You have to go into resistance training. When you’re in that traffic, that’s a form of resistance training to activate and grow the muscle of patience, amongst other things. Your current problem is the very resistance training that your soul has created for you, so that more of you can come out, more of those muscles of your being can be made manifest, more potential. Got it?
Then Step Four, now create a potential activation plan. It’s not enough usually just to notice there’s a problem, more is trying to emerge. What are the qualities that are trying to emerge? Okay. More love, more peace, more patience, more generosity, more focus. Now you’ve got to actually have a plan, just like you’d have a workout plan. Otherwise it’s often very likely that the inertia of old patterns and old habits will take over, and you won’t really have the focus and the continuity of action and ultimately the momentum to really grow and change. Create a plan.
You can have a 21 day plan, but ultimately I say stick to the plan until you get the results. If you want to lose weight you don’t just say a 21 day plan, and if after that I don’t lose the weight, I quit. Maybe you start off with a 21 day plan. Then you take these qualities and new skills, and you weave them into your daily plan and practice. There’s a variety of tools you can use, but the core goal is you’re going to activate and integrate and embody these qualities or skills that you’ve discovered is what’s being called forth from you. There’s the VVR process that I teach, visualization, vibration, radiation. Go to DerekRydall.com. Go to the free resources section, and you can download that audio training to do that practice. There’s prayers and affirmations to activate those qualities. There’s just visualization, which is a part of the VVR process, where you visualize yourself living this life where you are expressing these qualities. There’s just the moment by moment practice of these qualities. If you’re trying to be more loving and patient, maybe you stop for a minute every hour, what I call the One Minute Mystic, and you stop and just tap back into the feeling of that quality or that vision. You set a goal that in any given hour, when you remember, for the next 30 minutes I’m going to practice this quality. I’m going to be loving. I’m going to be more generous. I’m going to be more patient. Then just see what unfolds.
The key is to create a real plan where you are practicing. If you’ve studied, as I go into some of my other trainings, the LIFT practice, and you can get that in my Emergence podcast archives or library. LIFT stands for Living in the Feeling Tone. I talk about in there how you can take these qualities and turn them into the people, places, objects, and activities. So you’re literally designing a way of life that is congruent with the qualities of character that you’re seeking to embody. You can literally begin to redesign your life around these qualities, which in many cases is also what’s seeking to emerge. This problem isn’t just seeking for you change your nature. It’s often seeking for you to change your way of life in some way. The people you hang out with, the conversations you have, the environments you spend time in, the things you put into your mind and into your mouth, as well as the things that come out of your mouth.
It’s often seeking for a revolution of your whole life, especially depending on the degree of the problem. Sometimes it’s just seeking for you to transform some aspect of character. I would definitely encourage you to get the LIFT practice podcast if you have not yet studied that. In any case, you’re creating a potential activation plan. That’s Step Four, so that you make it real. It’s not real until it’s really in your plan, and then on your calendar. You won’t do it otherwise, in most cases, until it becomes a habit.
Then Step Five, assess, reassess, on a weekly or daily basis. In other words, at the end of the day look at your day, and go, how did I do? Rank yourself. A scale from 0-10, 0 I didn’t do anything around this, 10 I gave it my all today. Just see if you can uplevel that a little bit every day until you’re getting a lot of 10 days, which just simply means you really showed up for this. You really gave it your all. It doesn’t mean you’re perfect. It doesn’t mean you decided to be loving and patient for the next 30 minutes, and you were perfect. It means you know you really showed up. That would be a 10. You can’t force growth. You can only show up fully to it. You would assess. It could be daily, or it could be weekly. Whatever interval you think feels appropriate, every other day. At least once a week. You’re looking to see, how did you do? Are you being or becoming more of this version of your new self in terms of these qualities and capacities and skills?
How is the problem? Rank the problem 0-10. 0 being there’s no problem, 10 being it’s as bad as I can imagine it when you start, and then when you reassess each week look at the problem and reassess it. It was a 10. Is it a 9 now? Is it a 10+? Is it 11? Without judgement, just notice. Sometimes a problem will seem to get worse before it gets better, because what’s really happening is as you’re doing the work to grow more of the unconscious layers come to the surface. Like an infection rising to the surface, like a sliver rising to the surface. If it’s not changing at all, you’re not feeling better and more of this new version of yourself at all after a period, go back to Step Two. Reevaluate the qualities or skills you need to develop. Just see. Is there anything you’re missing, or is there something new?
One set of qualities you definitely want to begin developing if you don’t already have is be patient and loving and kind to yourself. This is a process. You’re building new neural pathways, new conditioning. Sometimes changing conditioning you’ve had a lifetime, and conditioning and beliefs that your family, your friends, and society is potentially still bombarding you with. This may be a change in the way you’re being that you’re current circle of friends are totally not living. That’s not easy, or it might be a break from your tribe in a dramatic way. Maybe they’re a family of complainers, and maybe one of the things you have to let go of is complaining. Did that just send a shiver up your spine? Gossip or blaming.
By the way, I should add, as you’re developing these things that’s another way you can look at it. Not just what do you need to develop in terms of qualities or skills, but what do you need to let go of? As I talk about in the LIFT practice, it’s not just about reengineering people, places, objects, and things that are congruent into your life, but it’s about engineering the people, places, objects, and things that are no longer congruent out of your life wherever possible. The same thing is true here. You’re not just embodying and embracing new qualities and skills of character and being, but you might be letting go of some.
Often when you embody the thing it begins to release the thing that’s opposite it. It’s good to know what it is that’s being released. If you’re being called to embody more love and forgiveness, it’s impossible to do that while still holding onto blame or resentment. If you’re a person who’s got chronic blame and resentment, and you get a call to have more love and forgiveness, it’s good know what’s going to have to go. If you really do focus on love and forgiveness, it will bring up the blame and resentment, and that’s what I mean by things might get worse. You might find yourself more pissed off and angry and resentful at this person or at yourself, and that doesn’t mean it’s getting worse. It means that the depth of that root is coming to the surface. You just weren’t conscious of all of that pain. It’s starting to bubble up. Love casts out all fear. So when you embody and embrace a new quality, that which is not vibrationally in alignment with it starts to come up.
It’s a good practice to also write down what do you need to let go of? You may have to stop having conversations around the coffee pot at the coffee station at work about how bad the economy is or how bad other people are, or blaming the boss. You cannot become the next stage of your best self and hold onto those old bad habits. Can’t become an oak tree and stay an acorn. Can’t become a butterfly and stay a caterpillar. Sorry to tell you. I’m not really sorry to tell you, but I guess I’m saying that to your ego.
Be aware of that as you’re assessing, reevaluating, and being patient and kind to yourself, and to those around you, because as you’re growing through these processes you’re not always the easiest person to live with. Maybe that’s already true. It’s funny to think, when you’re in therapy, or you’re going to through growth and thinking about all the people you might want to blame, just imagine how many other people might be in therapy because of you. That’ll give you a good moment of pause. I’m sure that I have been the cause of many sessions of therapy and healing practices for others. Be kind. Be patient with yourself and with others as you grow through this.
Those are the five steps to the Five Step Potential Activator. As you do this more and more, this becomes a way of life too. This just becomes habitual, and then growth becomes a little more easy, or a little more continuous. It doesn’t have to always be these incredibly dramatic growth spurts, although you’ll still have those.
As a bonus, I invite you to get some accountability, get some leverage on your life, on your growth. Find a partner to work with, somebody you can do it together with. If you’re part of my groups, get in one of those groups and find somebody in one of those groups that you can work with. Do some kind of regular check in, whether it’s daily or weekly, when you do it together, or do it with a group. If you’re part of a Mastermind group, maybe you all do it together. It makes it more powerful, and when you come together in agreement around what you’re doing and what’s possible, where two or more are gathered in agreement, the higher potential becomes activated. It’s an accelerator to the potential activator. It ensures you’ll be less likely to fall off track, to go into hiding. When you do it alone it’s easy to fake yourself out. It’s easy to hide. When you do it together, much harder.
There’s the Five Step Potential Activator. I hope this has served you. Remember, you might get a little juice, a little inspired by listening to these trainings, but listening and learning the theory, that’s beginner’s play. If you really want to grow and master you’ve got to practice.
Thank you again for being part of this. Remember to go to DerekRydall.com. Go to the Resources section. Get all the free stuff you can, so that I can truly support you in making a real difference in your life. If you haven’t already gotten the book Emergence, I invite you to get that book. It’s been named one of the top books by several entrepreneurs, and you can also go to GetEmergenceBook.com and get all kinds of free bonus support when you get the book. If you haven’t joined my podcast and registered so that you can get all kinds of cutting edge or emerging edge training, please go to iTunes and check out the Emergence Podcast. Leave a review.
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We’re going to talk about today, is how you begin to unpack that conscious offering in the world, how you begin to decode what I call your Messenger Matrix and YOUR Soul Signature Offer that really resonates with you, that resonates with your tribe. It becomes like a homing beacon that attracts the people you’re meant to serve and attracts you to them, and how part of that is what I call the Six Ps of your platform that you need to create to maximize your leverage and your impact and your accelerated success, as well as the sacred support structures that will make you unstoppable ultimately.
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This is for people that maybe are struggling. Maybe you’ve already got some momentum, or maybe you’re struggling and don’t have the momentum yet, but you’re ready to stop getting ready and start playing full out. You’re ready to stop coming up with all the reasons and excuses why you can’t and figure out how you can, because, like I said, I want to help build a community of people that are doing the work, that are saying yes to their yes, that are living their vision, that are out there where the action is, all systems go.
I want to talk a little bit about how this works. You see, we’ve all had really interesting lives with twists and turns and challenges and struggles, and what we would call core wounds, which are really core initiations, and the whole story has been designed to develop us into the person we’re meant to be to deliver the gifts we’re meant to deliver. Nothing has been by accident.
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As we take a deep dive into unconditional living, how to be joyful, successful, and free all the time. Now this is a bold promise and premise, but it’s really the way we were designed to live, and it’s something that’s been unfolding and emerging for me over time, and the thing about it is, we’ve heard about unconditional loving, and that basically means to love someone without conditions. It also means to love them regardless of conditions. So they don’t have to earn your love, and they can never lose your love, because your love is independent of any criteria or agenda or conditions. That’s unconditional love. Another word for that is agape love. It is the love of God, Divine. That is the truest nature of love, and that is the true nature of life, and that is our true nature.
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What we don’t often think about is the rest of the qualities of our being, the rest of the qualities of life: peace, joy, radiant gratitude, celebration, freedom, fulfillment, all of these other qualities. The same principle applies that all of these qualities: love, peace, joy, beauty, abundance, freedom, gratitude, celebration, generosity, service, support, all of these qualities are meant to be, and are ultimately as unconditional as agape love.
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Transcription
Welcome, Derek Rydall here, founder of the Law of Emergence process, and author of the bestselling book, Emergence, and it’s just so great to be with you again, as we take a deep dive into unconditional living, how to be joyful, successful, and free all the time. Now this is a bold promise and premise, but it’s really the way we were designed to live, and it’s something that’s been unfolding and emerging for me over time, and the thing about it is, we’ve heard about unconditional loving, and that basically means to love someone without conditions. It also means to love them regardless of conditions. So they don’t have to earn your love, and they can never lose your love, because your love is independent of any criteria or agenda or conditions. That’s unconditional love. Another word for that is agape love. It is the love of God, Divine. That is the truest nature of love, and that is the true nature of life, and that is our true nature.
What we don’t often think about is the rest of the qualities of our being, the rest of the qualities of life: peace, joy, radiant gratitude, celebration, freedom, fulfillment, all of these other qualities. The same principle applies that all of these qualities: love, peace, joy, beauty, abundance, freedom, gratitude, celebration, generosity, service, support, all of these qualities are meant to be, and are ultimately as unconditional as agape love. They are all in some regards synonyms for each other, synonyms for God, for the Divine Intelligence. As it says in the Bible, “He shines his light on the just and the unjust, pours his rain on the saint and the sinner,” or maybe it’s the other way around. It says, “God is no respecter of persons.” What it’s saying is the whole personal sense of self, which is good/bad, saint/sinner, sick/healthy, rich/poor, good today/not so good tomorrow, worthy today/not worthy tomorrow, that whole personality way of living, the way we take care or treat ourselves or others based on personality, based on stature and status, name, fame, and fortune, based on conditions, that whole box, that whole paradigm of looking at ourselves and each other and life, that’s the personhood. That’s the personal sense of life, and it says God is no respecter of that. Meaning the mind of God and the mind of Divine Intelligence, is has no knowledge of that, and supposedly even in the Akashic Records there is no record of a person. It means a mask. It means a concept of the self, but it’s not the self.
The self is unconditional and unconditioned, immaculately conceived. It is not a product of time, space, conditions, karma, astrology, or any ology. It’s not a product of any of that. It’s a product of Divine Consciousness, of Divine Substance. That’s our true nature, and made in the image and likeness of God means that we are ultimately designed to be like God. By the way, when I say God, I have to say this occasionally, I’m not talking about a man with a beard in the sky. I’m talking about this presence and principle of life that is a Divine Intelligence, the Force, the energy behind all of creation, the first cause out of which everything emanates. Made in the image and likeness of that means that we are like it. We are a chip off the old Divine block. We are an emanation, a radiation, a beam of this one sun. So that means that we are meant to live the same way as it describes in that scriptural passage, to shine our light on the saint and the sinner, to pour our rain, our nourishment, on the just and the unjust, and what that means is that we’re supposed to be shining these qualities regardless of conditions. There’s no criteria. There’s no agenda. Nobody has to earn them, and nobody can do anything to prevent them, because they are our nature. Our nature is love. Our nature is peace. Our nature is joy. Our nature is radiant beauty and gratitude and generosity. Not a generosity once we’ve been given something, but our nature is givingness, because our nature is infinite fulfillment.
We’re not just merely talking about how we treat others, of course. Indeed, and in fact, initially it’s really how we treat ourselves and how we show up in our own life on a day to day basis, because in our own life we are deciding whether we will be happy or joyful or giving or loving to ourselves, or just to allow ourselves to feel those qualities based on conditions. So if my body’s feeling good today, I feel happy or peaceful. If it’s not feeling good, I feel angry or sad or frustrated. If my bank account is looking good today, or I get a new client today, I’m feeling happy, joyful, confident, powerful. If I lose a client, or have to pay bills, and I’m in debt, I feel sad, scared, angry, victimized. We think that’s normal, and it seems very justified and very reasonable, and from the human standpoint it is. It’s a life completely and totally lived as a reaction, not as a proaction, as a victim, not as a victor, not as a leader. It’s a life lived asleep in the dream that we are merely the product of our conditions, and that conditions determine what we think, what we feel, what we say, and what we do, and I really want you to hear this truth.
Conditions determine nothing. Nothing. I feel like I have to shout it. A condition has no power. It cannot determine what you think, what you feel, what you say, or what you do ultimately. Any more than the wake of a boat determines where the boat goes. The wake is not pushing the boat; the wake is the effect of the boat. It’s the ripple the boat leaves behind. All conditions are the wake of our current, or rather our past energy output. All conditions are effect. They are merely appearances, perceptions coagulated into experience. They have no power. They have no life. They have no law. They have nothing to hold them together. It’s the wake of our boat. They’re not driving the boat. They’re not driving our life. They’re not determining what we think, feel, speak, or do.
Now, all they determine is a starting point. That’s it. they determine a starting point, but then what you make of that, how you decide to feel about that, what you decide to think about that, how you frame it, determines what you ultimately end up believing about it, what you ultimately end up feeling about it, what you ultimately end up saying and doing about it, and that determines your character, and your character determines your destiny and determines the next wake or ripple that you create in your experience, otherwise known as a new condition. The condition itself doesn’t determine anything. It’s a feedback system. It lets you know where you’re living in consciousness. It’s always a representation of the past, just as the wake is. It’s not telling you what is driving under the hood right now. That will appear as the next moment, or the next day, or the next week, or the next month, as it unfolds.
That’s also why it’s very important that when you’re doing the inner work to develop a new mindset and heartset and soulset and activating new power that you don’t look out at your experience and go, it’s not working, because what you’re looking at is the past. You may be doing the work in the present, and it may not be showing up yet. There might be a time lag, a download time, before it becomes coagulated as experience. Like the analogy of the car spinning out towards the wall, and if you turn the wheel towards the wall, or look towards the wall, you’re going to hit the wall. You have to look away from the wall, and your hands follow your eyes, and it starts to course correct, but even when you’ve turned the wheel away from the wall, the car is still often sliding towards the wall for a while. It’s still got momentum towards the problem, towards the wall. If you then look at the situation and judge by appearance, by conditions, and think, it’s not working, and take your hands off the wheel or turn the wheel back towards the wall, you’re going to crash. If you just keep the wheel turned away from the wall, keep your eyes on the prize, on the vision, on the way, eventually the wheels catch, and the car pulls out of the turn.
The same is true with our own life. Your life condition is the past. It’s just telling you where you were. It’s not necessarily telling you where you are, unless you are thinking and feeling and doing exactly the same thing as you were yesterday and the day before and the day before, and it has no power to determine your future, not even to determine your present. This is what I really want to talk to you about today is that what you think about it, you have metacognition, the ability to think about what you’re thinking about. This is what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God. You have the ability to think independent of circumstance. As you think, so shall you be. As you focus your attention on what you want to focus on, not what the condition would seem to be tempting you to focus on, you activate a feeling tone based on that focus.
So even in the midst of what might look like a lack and limitation situation, you can frame it as this is an opportunity for me to really get stronger. This is showing up so that I can dig deep. This lack of resources is showing up so that I can become more resourceful, and then turn your attention to that. Begin to imagine yourself having all of your needs met. Begin to activate a feeling of abundance, joy, power, peace. Meditate on that feeling tone. Fill your being with it. Radiate it into your environment, and actually begin to feel joyful and peaceful and abundant, even when your conditions are telling you the exact opposite. As you hold your space in that expanded place, or hold your place in that expanded space, eventually that frequency integrates. It embodies. It becomes a permanent part of your signature frequency, and then that feeling tone becomes clothed. That new frequency gets clothed or coagulated into new experience.
Living an unconditional life, unconditional living, and how to be joyful, successful, and free all the time means starting by the realization that your conditions have never, cannot, never will, determine what you think, what you feel, what you say, and ultimately what you do. I say ultimately, because temporarily they may determine what you do, in the sense of if your legs have been broken, and you can’t walk, then that condition of broken legs is temporarily limiting your ability to walk, but it can’t limit your ability to imagine yourself walking again and running and exercising, and imaging yourself living the life you want to live and other wonderful things in your life, and feeling what that feels like and beginning to feel wonderful and powerful. There are many examples of people that were told they’d never walk again, that were paralyzed, in bed for days, weeks, months, and visualized and activated a life of vibrant athletic health, vigor, and regrew nerves and bones and muscles, and defied all the doctor’s orders. You’ve heard these stories. These are not just anecdotal. There’s a principle at work.
Even if you never did literally walk the way you used to, that can still not prevent you from living the life you were designed and destined for, a level of joy, a level of power and peace, because your state of consciousness has nothing to do with your state of condition, other than that the condition can create the experience, the pressure, that in some cases forces you to have to dig deeper and get stronger. The same way that when you go into a gym, and you are lifting weights or running on the treadmill or the track, that condition forces your muscles to grow. It tears them and causes a rebuilding cycle to kick in. As in nature, the forest fire causes the jack pine and many other trees and parts of nature to ultimately break down and to grow and evolve, but it’s not that the condition is doing that. The condition is literally creating the condition to reveal the potential that was always there.
When the wind blows and the apple falls off the tree, the wind doesn’t actually cause the apple to fall. From the Emergence paradigm, there’s only emergence. There’s not cause and effect. The wind created a condition that revealed or made manifest the principle of gravity that was always pulling on the apple. By creating that condition, it allowed that gravity to pull the apple down. That was always there in potential. The wind created the condition to manifest that invisible potential. The same is true for you. Within you, your potential is always bigger than the problems you face and the conditions you face. If you face a condition that appears to be very sad, the joy within you is always infinitely greater. If you face a condition that appears to be limited, the abundance in you is infinitely greater. If you face a condition that appears to be sickness, the health and the vitality and the joy in you, infinitely greater. So all these conditions are doing is giving you the challenge and the charge to dig deeper, to become resourceful, to turn on that heart light, to activate that potential, to stand in your true Divine authority. As the Bible says, “Prove me in this, and I will open up the windows of Heaven and pour forth a blessing too big to receive.”
Unconditional living is about beginning to understand that your joy, your peace, your love, your power, your freedom, your fulfillment, has nothing to do with conditions, and your job, your work, your work play from now on is to decide, who do I want to be? How do I want to feel? What do I want to shine? How do I want to show up? Now my practice is in this moment, and for the next 30-60 minutes, throughout the day, to be that individual, to shine that light, to be in love, in gratitude, to open up and invite peace, regardless of conditions. The real goal then becomes not making a lot of money or healing your body, or getting a better relationship, per say. That can certainly be a part of your vision and be on your wish list and all that, but real goal is how would you feel, and who would you be, if you had those things, which is the soul’s real goal anyway. You’d be happy, joyful, peaceful, relaxed, etc.
So your real goal is now, starting with one or so of those, is to begin to get in a state of being and feeling and radiating and showing up as that being now. That means when you pray, when you meditate, you’re not trying to pray for anything. You’re praying from it. As Jesus said, “Pray believing that you already have, that you may receive.” That wasn’t a metaphysical trick to attract something you don’t have. It was the mystical truth that you already have it, and so prayer becomes the way by which you touch the ultimate nature of your being and activate it. Affirmations are not a-for-mations. They’re a-from-mations. You are affirming from. I have it all. I am the light of the world. I am the dispenser of Divine gifts, which is the real definition of human in the Sanskrit. I am a unique, infinite, individualized expression of all the power, the presence, the love, and the life of God, of infinite good. The whole Universe is in me. The Kingdom of Heaven is in me. Nirvana is in me. The Tao is in me. It’s all in me, so whatever’s missing is what I’m not giving. Whatever I’m waiting for, I’m waiting with and weighing it down. Life’s not going to happen to me. It has to happen through and as me. It won’t just happen. It will happen just. It will happen by law, by order, by me living under the principle that I already have it all, and I must shine it. I must share it. I must circulate it. I must generate it. I must activate it.
If I ever find myself saying, “God, what are you going to do about this?” Know that God is saying back to you, “That’s what I sent you there for.” You are the ambassador, the emanation, the radiation of the light here to shine it. If there’s darkness, you don’t rail at the darkness. You remember, I’m the light. I’m supposed to shine more light in this area. If there’s sadness, you don’t go, why is this happening to me? You go, I am the joy. This is showing up so I can activate more joy and embody more joy permanently. If there’s chaos, you remember I am the peace that passes all understanding. If there’s lack, you remember I am the source of infinite supply. It’s all within me. It has nothing to do with the conditions. I am an unconditional, all conditional instrument, radiant transparency of the life and light and love of God, here to shine it, to share it, to circulate it like never before. In a unique and unprecedented way that only I can. I’m not waiting for anything to change. I’m not waiting for anyone to change. I’m not even waiting for me to change. I’m going to be the change I want to see now.
Show me, God. Show me, Life. Where is the love? Where is the joy? Where is the peace in me? Let’s bring it. Come on. Right here, right now. I’m living and moving and having my being in the infinite Kingdom of God, in an infinite realm of unbounded good. I’m living in it now. It’s living in me now. It’s not bound by time or space, and has nothing to do with conditions. It’s here. It’s now. It’s happening. Let there be light. You begin to pray with that kind of fervor. You begin to affirm it. You begin to stomp your feet and shake your hands and lift your spirit and open your mind and activate your heart. You don’t wait for anything or anyone to change. You’re the change you’ve been waiting for. You’re the answer you’ve been looking for. You’re the solution in this moment. If you’re looking around looking for someone to come save you or something to come save you, look in a mirror, and you’ll have your answer.
Now, it’s not easy. That’s the fine print, because we’ve been conditioned. So the natural habits are to react to the situation and condition, feel victimized by it, angry, sad, scared, withdrawn, etc. and to believe that something or someone has to change, including us. All that’s natural and normal. It’s not really normal, but it is human nature let’s just say. It’s all really altered and aberrated, but it’s very familiar. We’ve been conditioned that way, so you have to be gentle and kind and patient as you’re rebuilding a new habit, which is in every day your priority, your core goal, is to be the answer, to be the joy, to be in the peace, to be the love, the gratitude, the celebration, the generosity that you’re waiting for someone else to be, or that you think you would be if you had what you thought you should have. That’s the work play.
As you build that as a habit, you begin to find that you’re able to be joyful even in the midst of sorrow. You’re able to be peaceful even in the midst of chaos. You’re able to feel powerful and confident and safe even in the midst of lack and limitation. Now you are truly able to be the light in the world, and you’re not only an answer to yourself, but now you become an answer to everyone that touches your field. This is my charge to you. This is my invitation to you. Unconditional living.
Just start with a simple practice. Pick one quality, love, peace, joy, gratitude, generosity. If it’s something like abundance, embodying the quality of generosity or gratitude is a very good way to start. Just make it your practice, as part of the One Minute Mystic that I teach, to just stop every hour as a practice. Set your timer on your watch or your iPhone or your computer, and stop every hour. Remind yourself that conditions don’t determine how you think, how you feel. Whatever’s going on, name it all good. Give thanks for it all. Affirm that it’s all working together for your highest good and the good of all, and then cultivate whatever quality you want to work on. It can start by a simple prayer of, Dear God, or life, please fill me with peace or joy, regardless of circumstances. Then from there you can see if you start to feel it, or you can do a quick visualization and imagine something that would bring that feeling tone. Then as you start to feel it, affirm it.
You’ve prayed the prayer, fill my heart with peace, or joy, or confidence, or power, and then you visualize a brief scene that allows you feel a little hit of that. It could be something that you’ve already experienced, or imagining something that would make you feel that way. Then as you’re feeling that peace or that joy or that power or that confidence, now you affirm it. I am an expression of pure peace, of radiant joy, of unbounded abundance, power, confidence. Just riff on that, and just vibrate and activate and stir that feeling tone. Then time permitting you can also do the radiation, where you now radiate it. Just take a deep breath and as you breathe out feel it filling your body first with a breath or two or three. Then radiate it. You can raise your hands and imagine the planet in front of you like a small ball, or just raise your hands, or just imagine your mind’s eye breathing out and this energy radiates and fills your environment, radiates and blesses everyone and everything in your life. Radiates and blesses everyone and everything on the planet. Until you’ve just created a field where all, everything is in this field of your radiance. Then put your hand on your heart, and bring it all back. You can keep it radiating, but now give it to yourself is what I mean. Then take a breath, and then go on with your day.
Now, I described several parts there. You don’t necessarily have the time or have the need to do all of that every time. Sometimes it might just be stopping for 30 seconds, or 10 seconds even, or just a minute. It might take that long just to get back into the state of the feeling tone and do a brief affirmation. Other times you might get caught up in it and have the time to do two or three or five minute process and include all of it, the prayer to be filled with the quality, the visualization to activate the quality, the affirmation to begin generating the quality, and then the radiation to begin giving it away and circulating the quality, because you cannot give what you don’t have. So you have to first have it, and then you cannot keep what you don’t give away. Then finally the receiving of it, because you cannot sustain what you don’t receive. So you take that full cycle. Maybe you do that full cycle a few times a day, but you stop for 30 seconds or a minute, five, six, seven, a dozen times a day.
As you do that, over time, sometimes dramatically, and otherwise incrementally, you begin to build up this frequency and vibration and integration and embodiment, and you just start to beam that energy, regardless of conditions. Then when new conditions arise that challenge you, you just get to go deeper. You get purify more fully. You get to get stronger in that quality. This is unconditional living, how to be joyful, successful, and free all the time.
I hope this has served you, and please don’t just listen to this. Listening and theory is wonderful, and that’s beginners work. Practice is the path of mastery and manifestation. Please take this, even if all you do is stop once a day, and begin to practice unconditional living, being the light and the answer that you want. You’ll be on your way. Share what you’re getting in our Facebook groups, or on my Facebook fan page, so I know that this is serving you. Leave a review in iTunes for me, so that I can know that this is serving you. Whenever you leave a review I’ll do some extra energetic work to support you. Share it with your friends and loved ones and clients that this can serve. If you haven’t already registered for iTunes or for this podcast, please join it so that you don’t miss any of these teachings and trainings to support you in living the life of your dreams, fulfilling the destiny of greatness that’s in you. Because you are here to deliver a very special gift, I promise you. I guarantee it. Everything is conspiring for that.
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There’s so many angles that I can come at this from, but really meditation carries a lot of baggage for a lot of people, and it’s also something that more and more is becoming as normal as going to the gym. It used to be a time when you had to talk about meditation in hushed tones. What are you doing this weekend? I’m going to a meditation retreat. It’s like, what? You’re going to be silent? You’re going to go crazy. It used to be very unusual to know meditators, and especially in business and academia, but now everybody from rock stars to celebrities to hedge fund guys running big multibillion dollar hedge funds are all meditators. They’re doing it for a variety of different reasons: health, mental clarity, focus, spirituality. Ultimately, the meditation is the most powerful, one of the most powerful technologies for connecting with what is true, what is real, and the basic reason is because your mind is a set of programs and a swirl of thoughts and filters and concepts and perceptions, and all of it is the content of your consciousness. It’s content.
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TranscriptionWelcome to another episode of Ask Derek, where we do a deep but quick dive into some of your most common asked questions and issues. This is Derek Rydall, founder of the Law of Emergence process and author of the bestselling book Emergence. It’s just great to be with you again, as we dive into this question what if I can’t meditate?
There’s so many angles that I can come at this from, but really meditation carries a lot of baggage for a lot of people, and it’s also something that more and more is becoming as normal as going to the gym. It used to be a time when you had to talk about meditation in hushed tones. What are you doing this weekend? I’m going to a meditation retreat. It’s like, what? You’re going to be silent? You’re going to go crazy. It used to be very unusual to know meditators, and especially in business and academia, but now everybody from rock stars to celebrities to hedge fund guys running big multibillion dollar hedge funds are all meditators. They’re doing it for a variety of different reasons: health, mental clarity, focus, spirituality. Ultimately, the meditation is the most powerful, one of the most powerful technologies for connecting with what is true, what is real, and the basic reason is because your mind is a set of programs and a swirl of thoughts and filters and concepts and perceptions, and all of it is the content of your consciousness. It’s content.
Most of what we identify with, most of who we think we are, and what we think is real and true, is content. It’s like the clouds passing through the sky, the birds, the planes, the storms, the elements, but none of that is the sky. It’s like all the stuff that flows through the ocean, the fish, the bushes, and the garbage, but none of that is the ocean. There is an essential nature to ocean, essential nature to sky, and then there is the content in it. There is an essential you, and then there is all of the content. As the essential you emerges as experience and phenomena, it creates content. It creates perceptions, concepts, experiences, mental, emotional, physical patterns. None of that is you. That is the story and the character and the part in the play, but you are the Divine author and actor that is never submerged by the character, the part, the story, the play, that is never limited by it. It arises out of you, and then passes away again, but you are something that is behind and beyond all of that.
As the great metaphysical or mystical statement, supposedly attributed to Jesus, “Before Abraham was, I am.” That’s a profound statement of the I am nature which preexists and preexisting is not quite the right way. It’s not a linear thing. It’s not so much before time, as it is behind time. Time and space is a canvas upon which we paint with the concepts of our soul, but right behind that stands the real you. So meditation is that technology that allows you to move through the content, to see through and beyond the mental, emotional, physical, biological, sensational, sensual content, and have a direct encounter with reality, with the real you that was never born, that never ages, never diminishes, and never dies, the real you and the real nature of life itself, which is whole and complete and perfect and infinite and eternal.
Another thing to understand is that meditation isn’t the thing you do. Meditation isn’t sitting in lotus position or walking like Thich Nhat Hanh. It’s not the different techniques that you do. Meditation really is the moment when you have that undistractible, as Michael Beckwith would say, paying undistractible attention. Meditation is that moment when you shoot the gap, and you touch reality with singleness of focus. If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. Meditation is that moment when you are focused without distraction on reality. So all the techniques, of which there are many, ultimately are to get you to that moment, and then the practice of meditation is to allow you to strengthen dominion over your attention so that you can hold your place in that expanded space, so that you can hold that moment for longer and longer periods, that moment of silence, that moment of stillness, that moment of undistractible attention to ultimate reality.
That’s what we’re doing when we meditate. We’re building that muscle, that dominion, that ability. Now again, there are many kinds of meditation. There’s contemplative meditation where you contemplate a passage, a piece of scripture, or a quote, or just some quality in you. Roll it around, and you let it unfold and reveal its deeper truths, and eventually that leads you to a moment of silence. In that moment of silence you have a moment, hopefully, of meditation, of an undistractible connection with reality, with God, with the presence which is within you.
There’s other forms of meditation where you use a mantra. It could be a mantra, or it could just be a quality, love, peace, joy, God, Christ, Buddha, and/or just a sound. Again, that is to focus the mind, to still the mind, and allow you to drop down beneath the tension of the surface tension of the mind and touch some dimension of ultimate reality, or at the very least, have a sense of respite from the storms of the mind and a sense of peace that bubbles up from within you.
Ultimately all of them, in the truest sense, are to get you to this moment of making connection with reality, and then getting strong enough so you can make it long enough until reality takes over your being, and dissolves all that isn’t reality. So that the light so breaks through that it shines away all the darkness, and we call that Enlightenment, to be awake. Being awake merely means you’re no longer identified with any of the content. You’re identified with that which is unchanging, that which is true, that which is real or spiritual. Spiritual really just means that which is real or unchanging. So meditation is for that.
When people say, I can’t meditate, what they’re really talking about is my mind is going crazy. It’s too busy. I sit, and I’m fidgety. My body is anxious and irritable and itchy, or my mind is just going to this project and that project and this argument and that shopping list. What’s important to understand is the practice of meditation is not about not having all that stuff going on. It’s not about stopping your mind from thinking. It’s not about stopping your body from feeling itchy and painful and agitated. All of that is content, and the reason why it’s hard is because, at least for now, if you’re struggling with this, or whenever you are, you are so closely identified with that part of you there’s not really a spaciousness in that area, and so you are the itchiness. You are the agitation. You are the clouds and the storms and the birds and the things moving through your sky of mind.
The practice of meditation, at least let’s just pick one, a mindfulness approach where you are mindful, insight meditation and mindfulness meditation. You are observing what’s going on. So you start with the breath perhaps, and you could start with a mantra or a quality. Then your mind gets pulled off into a fantasy, and you don’t even realize it until several minutes later you’ve been making shopping lists or trying to win that last argument or win the argument you’re about to get into, or you’ve fallen asleep, whatever the case might be. The minute you become aware of that the practice is to bring your attention back to the breath or the mantra, and then in some cases when the thing is pulling you really strong, like an itch or an ache or a particular emotional energy, as you strengthen your dominion you can place your attention on that itch, on that pain, on that ache, and you don’t try to get rid of it. What you resist persists. What you fight you fuel.
As Buddha taught, we are learning to release craving and aversion, which means when there’s a good feeling we don’t try to attach to it. When there’s a bad feeling we don’t try to get rid of it. We’re learning to find equanimity, which is that where we have no attachment. We’re not detached. We’re non-attached, unattached. Nonattachment, not detachment. So we’re present. We’re absolutely feeling and seeing what’s there, but we’re not reacting. We’re observing, and we begin to form a gap between the stimulus and our response, or the content and our pure consciousness, our pure awareness, the I am, and we are able to observe there’s an itch. It’s not my itch. It’s the itch.
As we observe it for a while, we notice it’s just energy moving, and as we continue to shine the light of our awareness on it it starts to swirl and eventually spirals and disintegrates. It might spiral out of our body. The energy’s always trying to move somewhere and ultimately move out of the body and disintegrate into higher and higher levels and speed up. As you observe it mindfully without reaction, it is transmuted. It’s redeemed. The karmic patterns and the emotional patterns and the mental patterns and the physical patterns, they are redeemed. That energy gets released and then another layer emerges. It might be a moment of freedom, release, bliss, and then another layer will come up.
The good news is that you don’t have to get rid of all of that stuff going on. You just have to observe it. Now, the bad news is that it’s hard. It is difficult, and that’s okay, because the good news is you don’t have to be good at it. You don’t have to observe it for a long time. You observe it until you get distracted again, until it gets too hard, and then you can observe the part of you that feels like it’s too hard, or you bring your attention back to the breath or the mantra if it gets really hot in the kitchen. You just keep beginning again. It’s like how do you train a puppy? You sit the puppy down and say, “Sit,” and it runs off. You sit it down, and you say, “Sit,” and it runs off. You sit it down, you say, “Sit,” and it rolls over and then runs off. You keep giving little treats, and eventually it sits for longer and longer and longer, and eventually you say, “Sit,” and it sits, and it stays.
So you’re training. You’re in training. You might have to go back to the breath or the mantra a thousand times, or at least dozens of times, in a sitting, and in the beginning you also don’t have to sit for a long time. When people say, “Why can’t I meditate, or I can’t meditate, or I just can’t do this. I’m not wired for this,” the first reason is because all this stuff is coming up, and they think it shouldn’t be, or it’s painful and uncomfortable, and they think it shouldn’t be, because they hear about all these people that just go off on these lala land trips of meditation, or they’re able to just relax, and they just disappear. That’s not meditation. If you don’t remember what happened, that’s not meditation. That’s you just going off. For all you know you went into dream state, or some other dimension, but you weren’t necessarily meditating.
Meditation is about increasing conscious awareness, not decreasing it, not going unconscious. A lot of times what you would call a bad meditation, for the ego is a really good meditation for the soul. You might have spent that 10 minutes 100 times, like every second you had to bring your attention back to the breath, and then you got distracted, and you had to bring it back to the breath. Then you had an itch, and then you had to bring it back to the mantra. Then you were doing a shopping list, and you’re like, oh my God, am I ever going to get this? Then you notice that part of you saying, oh my God, am I ever going to get this? You observe it. Then there’s a moment where there’s the thought or the feeling, and there’s you observing it, and you suddenly realize, I’m not that thought or feeling. I’m not that sensation. I’m the one watching it. In that moment a gap begins. You are now a little more awake. You have now disintegrated a little bit of karma. You are now a little bit more enlightened. You now have a little bit more free will, because free will is a function of expanded awareness. Until you have space and can look at the patterns that are driving you, the compulsive patterns, you don’t actually have choice. You have the illusion of choice, but you’re not really choosing. The patterns are just acting out. You can observe the busy mind, the nervous body. You can observe it and then come back to the breath or the mantra.
Another thing is you don’t have to sit for an hour or a half an hour, or even necessarily for the 20 minutes or the 22 minutes or whatever the TM length is. You can start off by doing what I call the One Minute Mystic, which is where you stop for one minute. Instead of sitting for 20 minutes, stop one minute 20 times. So every hour, every half hour, just stop for one minute and watch your breath, and notice what’s going on in your body, in your mind. Notice the feelings. Notice the thoughts. Don’t react to them. If a part of you rises up to react, oh my God, I can’t believe I’m thinking that, or oh my God, as soon as you become aware that you’re reacting, take a breath. Observe the reaction, and then as soon as you can, bring your attention back to the breath or the mantra for a minute. Then go back to work or play or whatever.
Set a timer to stop once an hour to start with, and eventually maybe it’s twice an hour. Maybe in the morning then you notice you start with your one minute and maybe it becomes two or three or five, and that’s fine. Maybe eventually you stretch to have two or three periods of five minutes a day, one in the morning, the afternoon, one at night. You still have these little moments throughout the day where you’re stopping and reconnecting, where you’re suddenly bringing yourself back to conscious awareness.
This is really important. Some would even say it’s more valuable than sitting for 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 minutes, because you’re training yourself, cutting a subjective groove to wake up. It’s like if you’ve ever practiced lucid dreaming. One of the strategies is throughout the day, on a regular basis, you have to question reality. You have to go, am I dreaming? You have to look around you and look at the people, and look at a book and try to read it. You know how it’s hard to read in a dream? Ask, am I dreaming? Am I dreaming? It creates a subjective groove for you to be absolutely not taking anything for granted, and then what happens is when you’re dreaming something happens. It triggers that, and you suddenly ask, am I dreaming? You realize, oh my God, I am. You become lucid in your dream.
That’s lucid dreaming practice. This is lucid living practice. Stopping multiple times throughout the day and saying, where’s your attention? Where is my attention? What am I thinking about? What am I feeling? Let me notice it. Let me watch the breath. You’re just driving, and you come to a stoplight. You watch your breath. You’re waiting in line at the bank. You watch your breath. As you’re watching your breath you’re not trying to control your breathing. You’re just noticing it. The air coming into your nose kind of cooler, coming out of your nose slightly warmer. A little bit more into the right nostril, a little bit out of the left nostril. Noticing the abdomen rising or the chest rising and falling. Then maybe you notice an itch on your right arm. You’re just observing. That’s practice. You’re a meditator.
The key is to do what works for you and build from there. Don’t do what is going to make you stop doing it. Seems common sense enough, right? But you know the old saying, common sense is uncommon. Something like that. You want to do what works that you will build on, but I really do want to suggest that if you’re finding yourself saying I can’t meditate, it’s too hard, and giving up on it, that you do not, because it really is one of the most powerful technologies for waking up, for increasing focus, for purifying your consciousness, for healing, for expanding and accelerating your creative capacity. It’s truly the greatest technology to humankind. So you want to make it part of your practice.
Again, start off small, but consistent, and build from there. If it’s hard, that’s okay. Do it anyway. Observer the hardness. If your mind’s going, feeling victimized by it, observe the part of you that’s sad and mad and upset that you have to do this. In that way what you’re actually going to begin to notice what’s really driving you, because that part of you that feels angry, agitated, impatient, frustrated, sad, depressed, alone, all of those things that come up when you meditate, that isn’t being caused by your meditation. The meditation, you becoming mindful for a moment, is allowing that to come up to conscious awareness, but all of those patterns are running roughshod in your unconscious or nonconscious awareness and sapping your energy and creativity and power and creating all manner, wreaking all manner of havoc in your life.
It’s okay if it’s hard. In fact, it means you’re in for some really awesome and powerful growth if you stay with it. I promise you. You’ll go through periods of what’s called chemicalization where those patterns will start to break up. You’ll have spaces of what Michael Beckwith calls afterglow, where you feel a sense of openness, spaciousness, lightness, and then you’ll also have after grow, which is spaces where it feels like all the junk’s coming up, and you feel worse. All that’s normal. It’s like a washing machine. The first part it’s creating all the friction and getting all the dirt and debris out of the clothes, and they’re rubbing and beating up against each other, and it’s gnarly. All that dirt gets released, and then it washes all that dirt away, and then it goes through a spin cycle. Eventually it comes out all nice and clean and fluffy.
There’s a process, and when you first start meditating it’s often going to be crazy. You’re going to be like, oh my God, my mind is a dangerous place. I would never let anybody I care about go there. Then as you begin to witness that circus and observe it, those patterns begin to break down. The noise gets a little quieter, and you have moments of peace and awareness and expansiveness, and you feel like, oh my God, I’ve reached it. I’ve reached the Promised Land. I’ve arrived, and then all of a sudden you sit down one day, and it’s gnarly and terrifying and terrible and noisy, and you’re like, what happened? It’s all gone backwards. No. It’s a whole other wash cycle coming up. So it goes.
The difference is that over time you just understand the patterns. You are able to observe them. You’re not identified with the content as much, and you just know, just another rinse cycle. Just going through it. You observe it, and you move through it quicker often as that happens, except for those rare periods where you’re really doing deep transformative work. It’s a very powerful, very vital, and I would go so far as to say really irreplaceable part of your practice. Begin it today. Do it consistently, and when you stumble, and when you don’t do it, and when you forget, as soon as you remember, stop. Take a minute, and begin again. Just like in meditation. When you get pulled off track, you don’t go, this is terrible; I suck at meditation, and give up. You notice you’ve gone off. You bring your attention back to the breath. Whoops. I’ve gone off again. Bring your attention back to the breath. Like the airplane that’s heading from one place to the next, it’s off track 90, 95, 99% of the time, buffeted about by all the elements, inertial forces, weather, pilot error, but it keeps getting brought back to the flight plan, brought back to the flight plan, and it makes it to its destination relatively on time.
The same is true with meditation, and the same is true with meditation as a way of life. You wake up one day, you don’t do it, or you forget. You’re too busy. Then as soon as you have time, as soon as you remember, just like in the meditation, you notice you’ve forgotten. You notice you didn’t meditate. You bring your attention back. You sit. You stop for a minute, or maybe you just do it at the stop light. Now you’re back on practice. You see what I mean? You can get back on track at any time during the day. The minute you remember, you come back. As you do that now you cut a subjective groove. You create a subjective habit. You transform your character, and you absolutely activate a destiny of greatness in you.
I hope this has been helpful. It was longer than I anticipated, but I guess I had a lot more to say about it. This has been an episode of Ask Derek. Please post your questions in the Facebook groups, on the Facebook pages, and you’ll keep listening for the answer to your question. Until next time, remember to live authentically, love unconditionally, and follow your destiny, and meditate.
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Today’s episode is about what it really takes to create the best year of your life. First of all, what it really takes? Not what you think it takes, not what they tell you it takes, but what it really takes.
The best year of your life is a completely subjective thing. What is best? What is best? Now, from your ego standpoint, it has one idea. From your soul standpoint, it has a very different idea. As the old saying goes, “A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul”. It’s really important we acknowledge this because we’ve been conditioned to what is success, what is best, what is good, what is right, what should be, and what shouldn’t be; but most of that that we’ve been conditioned into from the world, the truth is often opposite.
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From the world standard, the best year would be a year free of pain, free of most challenges, free of lack and limitation and struggle. For most human consciousness, the best year would be greater wealth, greater success, greater health, greater relationships, improvement of our human experience. That’s what most people—and then again, it’s relative if you’re living in Syria and trying to get out the best year of your life would be to find a country that would be willing to take you in, so finding a safe place to live. If you’re on the street, it’ll be finding shelter.
So it’s always relative to where we are.
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TranscriptGreetings my fellow Emergineers, Derek Rydall here, and it’s great to be with you in this eternal moment, whatever it is that you are hanging out in the time zone. What we’re talking about today is what it really takes to create the best year of your life. What it really takes? What it really takes to create the best year of your life? There’s so much coming through right now. I got to pick a lane because I got to feel this slot opening up so much because there’s so much just in that title. First of all, what it really takes? Not what you think it takes, not what they tell you it takes, but what it really takes.
The best year of your life is a completely subjective thing. What is best? What is best? Now, from your ego standpoint, it has one idea. From your soul standpoint, it has a very different idea. As the old saying goes, “A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul”. I was not going to talk about this but it’s just coming through really strong. It’s really important because we’ve been conditioned to what is success, what is best, what is good, what is right, what should be, and what shouldn’t be; but most of that that we’ve been conditioned into from the world, the truth is often opposite. From the world standard, the best year would be a year free of pain, free of most challenges, free of lack and limitation and struggle. For most human consciousness, the best year would be greater wealth, greater success, greater health, greater relationships, improvement of our human experience. That’s what most people—and then again, it’s relative if you’re living in Syria and trying to get out the best year of your life would be to find a country that would be willing to take you in, so finding a safe place to live. If you’re on the street, it’ll be finding shelter.
So it’s always relative to where we are. But it’s also, we have to really begin, if we’re really going to be individuals on a path of really waking up to our true potential, our true purpose, our true self, true spiritual liberation, not merely using God to get more stuff in the world, but using everything in our world to get closer to God. Whatever that means to you, closer to love, closer to truth, closer to beauty, closer to real freedom, real peace, remember, when we talk about God, we’re not talking about it anthropomorphic, white-bearded man in the sky, in the cloud with the scepter in one hand and sitting in a golden throne, and Jesus at his other hand. That’s not the God that we’re talking about. There is no such God. We’re talking about this principle, this presence, this divine something, that is our true nature and being and the ground of all being.
So there comes the point where we make the flip. We try to use all these things to improve our human experience, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Absolutely nothing wrong with that but what our soul is aching for, and if you’re in this community, and if you stay to hang around for any amount of time, is because your soul is aching for this other piece. And that is to awaken, to really become free because as long as you think the world has something for you, as long as you’re merely trying to improve your body or bank account or business, you are still trapped in a human dream. Again, there’s nothing wrong with having all the good things of life experience, but as long as that’s your main, prime motive, you are stuck on the wheel of human life and will suffer. If you sowed the flesh of the flesh, you will rip corruption. If you sowed the spirit, you will rip everlasting life, eternal life.
All that I was really saying is if you are anchoring yourself and planting yourself in that which is unchanging and real and to true about you, a.k.a. the spirit, love, peace, joy, beauty, abundance, that has nothing to do with conditions, then you will rip a harvest that is eternal, that doesn’t change with the economy. You will live in a state of joy and peace and greater fulfillment regardless of condition. That’s real freedom. That is what everybody really wants if you can get them to think about it long enough. They think that it’s one of better paycheck or a better body, but then they know that that paycheck could go away and that body could break down the next day; so, what they really want is a state of peace and well-being, and abundance that the world cannot take away from them, that even if their body goes sideways and the bank account goes the other away, and their relationships go another way, they’re okay, and they know it because they’re anchored in the real, the real love, the real companionship, the real health, the real wealth, the real life that the world didn’t give to you and so the world can never take away.
So there comes a point where we have to choose what are we really going to primarily be about. I say primarily because the statement to be in the world but not of it. So we’re not just becoming ascended masters and floating off the planet, we are absolutely here to be in the world and to play full out, all systems go, out on the field, creating and building and projecting our concept and consciousness of good into the world. But, it’s the context that we live in that matters most, more than the content. So we’re definitely here to create some content, to write that book, launch that program, build the business, build the family, and then just paint a masterpiece on the canvas of time and space. But are we going to do it and forget that it’s our canvas and that we’re the artist and get lost in the picture, or are we going to do it from the context of I’m whole, I’m complete, I’m already free, I already have everything I could ever need and from that place, now I’m going to paint.
So there comes a point incrementally, sometimes dramatically, where we make that shift and for a lot of you, you’re making that shift, and for some of you, you’re making it but you don’t know it yet because the longer you hang out in this community, the more it’s going to get a hold of you and you’re not going to be able to help it because that’s the vibration of frequency and underlying intention of all this work, is to set you free, truly free. I’m saying all these to say that as we begin to think about what is it really takes to create the best year of life, we have to look at what is the best year really look at. Again, we have to decide how we are going to determine that. What is the criteria by which we determine that we’re having our best year or not?
If we’re going to use the world’s criteria of more money, improved health, relationships, whatever, that’s one metric and we will then be tying ourselves back into sowing to the flesh, tying ourselves back into all the ups and downs, in the rollercoaster ride of human consciousness, the laws of duality, up and down, good and bad, and we will to some greater or lesser extent, be fold along by the tides of the human trend. Will we decide that the best year has something to do with a deeper realization and demonstration of who and what we really are and why we are alive. In other words, at the end of the year, let alone the end of our life, it’s not so much what we have but what or who we become that determines our success.
It’s not so much how many possessions we’ve attained, but how much we are in possession of our true self and of the truth that makes us free. Have we gained some outer treasure or have we gained that pearl of great price? Have we laid up our treasures on earth where moth and rust will corrupt and thieves can break in and steal or have we laid up more treasure in heaven in consciousness, in the development of our conscious realization of these inner treasures where moth and rust can never corrupt, where thieves can never break in and steal, where the world can never take it away? That’s the treasure we take with us. So, that first inquiry and the first sort of challenge I put to you, my question is what’s going to be your definition of best year?
Again, I really want you to hear this, there’s no judgment which one you choose, and I want you to understand that when you choose the ladder which is it’s going to be about me having great possession of myself, greater possession of the truth, about who I become, it does not preclude you from also having and going for your outer success goals. We’ll talk about that. It’s not an either or. It’s just what is your priority and by priority, I mean at the end of the day or the end of any moment, or in the midst of any moment, when you must make a choice, choose this day who you will serve, God or mammon, truth or appearance, cost or effect, love or fear, the material acquisition or the spiritual realization. Which one are you going to choose? And that is determined by what is your priority and where is your commitment.
In other words, if you got a moment where there’s really a choice where you could go out and you could do something, say something, make a call, send an email, it’s really coming from a place of fear because you’re afraid if you don’t, you’ll lose something or you’ll be taken advantage of some kind of humanly driven acquisitive, some action based on your ego, based on the appearances, etc. Or are you going to choose to become still and to reclaim the truth about you and to re-anchor yourself on who and what you really are, and remember my best year is more peace, more joy, more love, more compassion, more of my real self; so, now in this moment, because that’s my priority, I’m going to choose that. So that’s what I mean to choose this day who you will serve, and it’s multiple moments throughout the day, but that’s determined by where have you made the commitment, where have you made the priority, what have you decided really is most important to you.
At the end of the year, do you want to have more possessions or more possession of yourself? And then based on that, because that’s your definition of best year, now on a daily, weekly, monthly moment-by-moment basis, when the choice arises, you get to know what you’re choosing, and that doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy. In fact, in many cases, it’s going to be really, really difficult. That’s why the way is straight and narrow and few there’d be that walk in, but if you decided that’s what best year looks like, you have to do the hard thing. If you don’t make a choice, if you try to kind of play both sides of the fence and never really get clear on what best year is for you and make that priority and commitment, then you are serving two masters; and if you try to serve two masters, that’s like trying to ride two horses at the same time going in opposite directions, not a pretty picture.
As the Bible says, it’s like you have a house divided and a house that’s divided cannot stand. So you have no structural integrity, and you’ll be not only torn internally, but you won’t be able to galvanize the energy to actually be truly successful in any direction. So you do have to choose which is going to be your primary context. Again, I want to say this also – it’s not like you make the choice now and you’re done. You have to keep re-choosing. You’re building a muscle. It’s in your heart of hearts, you really want to be anchored in the truth of your being, you want to become truly free, truly empowered, and the only way you can ever be empowered is that you choose the conscious spiritual path, you choose the path of having more possession of yourself. You will never ever be empowered truly if you’re choosing the former or the latter, whichever the order is.
The best year is defined by outer success because you’ll be always be at the whim of some external appearance and so you’ll always be having to give away your power to it. Whenever you make something external to you, your source of support, supply, security or safety, you have to start giving it your power and eventually you’ll become its servant. When the locus of power and control is within you, within your consciousness, that’s where you begin to have true power, true mastery, and ultimately true freedom. There is no other way to get that. I believe all of you want that. So I invite you all to make that choice but then again, it’s going to require on a moment by moment, sometimes, daily, weekly, monthly basis to re-choose and re-choose and re-choose, to get stronger and stronger in your ability to hold your place in that expanded space.
As we looked at this, if we decide that the best year looks like me having greater possession of my true self, looks like me becoming more of who I really am and letting more of that out, then we have to ask—and I also want to say that it changes the nature of how we judge what’s working, what’s not; what’s good, what’s not. When you go to the gym, and you work out really hard, it doesn’t always feel good and especially if you haven’t done it for a while or you’re taking it to a new level, the next day or two or there, it doesn’t always feel so good. If you remember the analogy of when you go to the gym, and let’s say you’re max weight, you can do 10 reps. What’s the easiest rep? The first rep. I joked. That’s actually the hardest because you got to go to the gym first, but let’s just sit and take that for granted. The easiest rep is the first one or second one once you get warmed up.
Then I ask what’s the hardest one and people will say the tenth rep. Now you all heard me tell this, so you know what the answer is here, and I would say no, it’s the eleventh rep. It’s the one you can’t do yet, because you can do the 10 reps. It’s hard, I mean it still requires effort but you already know you could do 10 but you can’t do more. That’s why they call it your max. It’s on the eleventh rep where all the growth happens. One through ten is just maintenance. So you have to get to the eleventh rep, maybe not every day, maybe not even every week, but frequently and regularly you have to push into the eleventh rep because that’s where all the growth happens.
So living your best life from that metaphor and your best year could mean real challenge. It could mean real challenge. It could mean a year full of challenge, struggle. Yes, pain even, doesn’t mean to be suffering because pain is inevitable suffering as a choice because we resist what’s happening. But it might be suffering. Edi Rama said years ago when they asked what did he think about America and how America is doing and he said, “I wish for the Americans more suffering,” and he meant it with absolute, loving compassion because he understood that America was a very young nation, very young and somewhat immature because they’re barring the revolutionary war and then the civil war. America has had a long, long time of just pretty much prosperity and power, not a lot of real growth, and interestingly, this was before 9/11, not that long before either.
So sometimes, again, a bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul. Sometimes the bad year for the ego is a good year for the soul. I’ve had what on some level, some people would consider a bad year in the sense of a really, really difficult challenging year where a lot of my structures were disabled, disintegrated, disassembled, let’s say, a lot of my identities and concepts around relationships, family, and all kinds of things, many is not most of my major life structures where had to be disassembled. I was at that point in the Rubix cube where I got in the bunch of sides looking really, really good and, remember the Rubix cube, what’s working that’s in your way and you get it all looking really good, but in order to get the next side of the next side, you got to keep messing it up. I got a bunch of sides looking really good, and I was like, “Oh, I’m really something. I got it going on.”
Then life was like you’ve been praying some pretty big prayers of transformation. To get to that next side, you got to let some things fall apart, some structures that can’t hold the next level. From an ego standpoint, it’s been a very, very difficult year. Now, there had been a lot of successes, too. I released a book, had it best seller, launched and had an amazing life event, have an amazing program happening, there’s lots and lots of good. But emotionally and spiritually, and again in all these areas, physically, financially, relationally, all those structures have been just torn down and disassembled. It’s like when you go to Ikea and you buy a whole bunch of new furniture. In the first few days or weeks, you just got rooms fall apart and pieces all over the place, and you’re like, “Oh, my God.” At the end of it, you’ve built everything and you’ve got all these extra pieces, then you’re really not in trouble. I know from a soul level, it’s one of the most productive years of my life.
Now, I’m not going to lie to you. From an ego level, from a human level, it’s really hard and I’ve wished, and still have a part of me that wishes, I didn’t have to go through it. And that’s why it’s so important that I have a practice and that I have support, my coaches, my spiritual practitioners, my friends, and that I have a practice that I go back to daily, hourly, moment by moment sometimes. Because my prayer for the best year of my life and the best life is to fully awaken, is to become truly free, is to become completely anchored in that that is real, so that I can stand in the face of any appearance and be the truth and know the truth and be the light and shine the light unconditionally and all conditionally, that I can pour the love and the joy and the peace, the gratitude and celebration and the power onto everyone and everything, everywhere at all times regardless of condition.
So that’s a big prayer. It’s a big intention. A lot of structures don’t support that internally and externally. So I’m saying all that to say that it’s really important as we set our sides for the best year, that we understand these elements to it. What does that really look like?? What does that really mean? Now again, we’re not setting the intention in going on there, I am really going out there and have a really great year in pain and suffering so I can grow. We’re not saying that. You don’t go to the gym with the vision and intention of lots of pain and suffering, I hope not. You have a vision for sure of a beautiful, healthy, vibrant, vital, athletic, maybe sculpted, strong, flexible, agile body. That’s the vision. The vision isn’t pain and suffering and breaking down and tearing muscles and all that. You understand that along the way, that’s going to happen. If you didn’t understand the process of growing from the work-out standpoint and you experience the pain and all that, you might misdiagnose that and stop.
So the same thing is true with your life. That the challenges you’re going through particularly as you’re going to conscious path are some of the most valuable and important and potent aspects of really creating a best year. So you’ll look at the best year and you say, “Okay, it’s going to look like me having more possession of myself, more possession of truth. It’s going to look like becoming more of my real self and letting more of real self out.” So we have to look at. So what is that real self? And that real self is the divine and it’s made up of, at least we’ve broken it down this way, into qualities: love, peace, joy, beauty, abundance, creativity, gratitude, authenticity, truth, right? So the criteria for the best year is—am I more of these qualities? Are these more active in me? Am I more anchored in them? Are they become more important to me? Am I expressing more of them? I tell you that even though there’s all this challenge I’ve gone through, my internal generosity has magnified.
I’m getting chills here right now, so I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting it from me or from someone else. I’m getting a lot of tears and chills coming through me right now. So there’s a download happening. Like the level of love in my heart for humanity, for those around me, especially those that I’ve experienced challenge with, the level of generosity, the inner desire to love and to serve and to be an instrument of service, it’s profoundly magnified to some moments where, I think I’ve shared it with you guys, where I literally wanted to give away everything. There was so much love and so much desire for people to have everything and that is real progress, spiritually speaking. That’s the sign of what I’ve been talking about and there are many more of those kinds of signs. Those are the real fruits of the spirit and just a greater and greater realization and dedication to my path.
So you have to look at yourself and go at the end of the year, am I more loving, more giving, more forgiving, more peaceful, more joyful, more grateful, creative, authentic. That’s one level of criteria. That’s the new bottom line versus do I have more money, do I have more health, do I have more relationships, do I have better relationships. You might not have better relationships. In some ways, a lot of you know that me and my wife separated, some of you maybe not if it’s new. That happened the end of last year. That was one of the big catalysts to my growth, something that is really been in the works for a while in terms of internally what was emerging, but in some respect, our current relationship is not better than it was then in the outer appearance of things. Internally, my level of love for her is magnified, and internally, my level of humility and just to my level of so many things. So we’re looking at a new bottom line.
In a very real way, I’m having this conversation with somebody last night. This is really a new emerging paradigm on the planet and that is that we have a bottom line on the planet right now that’s about living in an economy that’s non-renewable. It’s a non-renewable economy based on non-renewable resources based on raping and plundering the planet and war and killing and very masculine energy, run amok without the balance of the feminine. We keep trying to fix it but we’re still coming from the old paradigm, it’s because our bottom line is still is what are those quarterly numbers look like. Is there more money, more profit, profit at all cost, profit above people, profit above planet? That is the materialistic, human motive run amok that is non-sustainable and that it will destroy us.
In my micro concept, this is what we’re being called for as ourselves. We have to have a new bottom line. We have to have a new bottom line that looks at the end of the corner and goes not just do I have more money and more profit and more of what the world calls success? But do I have more of the biggest success? Am I more loving? Am I more forgiving? Am I more giving? Am I more generous in my heart? Am I more peaceful? Am I more joyful? Am I more grateful? It doesn’t mean we have all of these, but are you seeing some of the real fruits of the real new bottom line of this emerging paradigm on the planet. If your life is not aligned with that, you’re not in integrity with what we’re trying to emerge on the planet because what we’re trying to emerge is this new model that is sustainable, renewable, holistic, and when the bottom line is more love, more peace, more joy, more beauty, more real harmonizing prosperity and abundance, more gratitude, more creativity, that is renewable, that is inexhaustible and the fruits of that are greater and greater structures and institutions and organizations and environments that support to sustain everyone. Right?
So that is what you’re looking at. You might be saying, “This is all really nice, Derek. And you’re talking a lot today, Derek, and it’s very poetic, and it’s very sweet.” Yeah, I want that but you don’t understand. What I really just want to do is pay my bills and finish my book, and launch my business. I would say, “Cool.” I would ask if you would achieve those things, what will you be then? Why do you want those? And if you’re honest with yourself and you answer, keep asking, why do I want that? Well, I want to finish my book so I can’t sell it. Okay, why do you want to sell it? Because if I can sell it, I can grow my business. Why do you want to grow your business? If I grow my business, then I can have more money. Why do you want more money? Because if I have more money, I can pay my bills. Why do you want to pay your bills? Because I don’t want to be out on the street and be without power. So if you did have the power and you weren’t out on the street, why would you want that? So I can relax and enjoy my life. Okay, and if you’re relaxing and enjoying your life, why would you want that? What would that bring you? You find you take a deep breath and go, “I finally have peace.”
There you are. That’s what you really want. It’s not those other 50 things. It’s like, “Yeah, I finally be in joy. I finally feel secure. I finally had peace. I’d finally be happy. I finally feel good about myself.” Yeah, that’s what you’re actually going for, is that state of feeling good about yourself, of peace, of joy, of happiness, a sense of generosity if you had more abundance, whatever. So it’s those state of being that you’re really after. Always, since the beginning of time and forever, that’s all that every being will ever be really going for. It’s just they move to all the filters of separation. We don’t know that. The reason why that’s all that you’re going for—I really want you to hear this—is because that’s what you’re made of and the only impulse of life is to express more of itself and life is made of love and peace and joy, and beauty. You’re very nature in being with those qualities so the only way you’ll ever truly be free is in the expression of the more of you which is those qualities.
So everything is conspiring for you to reveal and express more of those qualities. That’s all that your heart and soul really longs for even though we’ve been tricked because we projected those qualities onto people, places, and conditions and believe therefore that the peace and the love and the joy was based on a certain amount of dollars and the bank or health and our body or relationships in our life, and we projected onto that for so long that now we’ve got this belief that say my love, peace and joy is in that condition. And that’s a lie. It has nothing to do with condition. Nothing. We can prove it because you could go within right now and activate those qualities even though the conditions have changed. So the real thing is you are always only really going after the state of consciousness, state of being.
So all I’m really suggesting is let’s cut out the middleman. Let’s go straight for what we really want. Let’s create a bottom line in our life that actually reflects what we really want, which is the truth for the world, the human, the companies that whatever that are just only profit motive. It’s because they believe if they have enough money, they’ll finally be safe, be powerful, be free. They want the same thing. They just don’t know it. It’s our job to know it and to live it. So let’s cut out the middleman and go straight for these. This is what it really means to seek first the kingdom of heaven when to take no anxious thought for your life, how you will be clothe, what you’ll be fed, etc., etc. but instead seek first the kingdom of heaven which Jesus said was within you which is another name for this state of connection, for this realm of the real, these qualities. Buddha called it Nirvana. Lao Tsu called it the Tao. They also all taught how to let go of that incessant mechanism of trying to control your conditions. Buddha called it craving and aversion.
In other word, you must let go of all craving and aversion, trying to get or get rid of in order to be free, and instead seek first Nirvana. Seek first the Tao. Seek first heaven which all of them taught was within you. Now in quantum physics, they’d say in your consciousness. So that’s really what we’re going after. The best year of our life is about a greater and greater connection to these qualities of our being, to our true nature and a greater realization of them and a greater expression of them. That’s what our soul is after. That’s what our true self is after. That’s all it really cares about—the emergence of more of these qualities and then we get to paint with the colors of our soul which are these qualities. We get to paint with those qualities of love and gratitude and joy and peace and abundance, and create this beautiful works of art called our relationships and our businesses, wonderful, but we know what we’re really doing now. We’re artist of the heart and the soul painting with the colors of our spirit onto the canvas of time and space.
So our focus is on developing our palette, developing and activating these colors, these qualities because we got a very rich, rich palette full of great wonderful abundant qualities to paint with. We can paint with these qualities no matter what the conditions are. They are unconditional and all conditional. They have nothing to do with conditions. And then the more we see this and acts from this, the freer we become from all conditions which is what we really, really want and then bonus, our conditions begin to match what we are being in expressing and painting. That’s what Jesus meant when he said seek first the kingdom, don’t worry about your life, don’t take thought about all those other things, seek first the kingdom, this connection and then those other things will be added onto you.
So the way to create your best year is to begin with the end in mind and then design a plan that puts you into a practice to activate and express more and more of these qualities, more and more of the colors of your soul. And as I said that also does include the outer success goals, the outer paintings that you want to paint. If you’re a great artist, you have a vision for the year like I want a… my wife is a nurse and she’s like I want to paint this kind of painting and this kind of painting, this kind of painting, that’s great. But she didn’t think the canvas was the source of the painting. She knew that her palette and her colors and her paints in her was the source of it and then she’d go about over time painting these paintings.
So you definitely still have your outer vision of what will your life look like when you painted this magnificent masterpiece on to the canvas of time and space with the colors of your soul. You definitely want to include that. But remember it’s secondary to your real soul goal which is in any given moment, week, month, if you find that you’re starting to make the achievement of some outer goal, to the detriment of these qualities of your soul, that’s when you have to stop and get back to your practice. So if you find the chasing after more dollars is actually cutting you off from the development and expression of more of a consciousness of abundance, you have to stop chasing the dollars at least for the moment and get connected again to abundance.
If you find that the chasing after a relationship or the chasing after your partner or spouse to get them to change that you don’t feel so uncomfortable is taking precedent over and actually cutting you off from a sense of feeling whole and complete, and loving and kind, you need to stop chasing relationship or stop chasing your spouse around the house and stop and get reconnected again to your real goal which is to feel whole, to feel loved, to feel loving, to activate the qualities of peace. So instead of convincing your partner that you’re a good person, which is actually making you feel it’s retarding your development of the qualities that would make you a good person, the joy, the peace, the love, etc., you have to stop and go back to that. When it comes to relationship, two HALVES do not make a whole. Two HAVES is the only thing that will make wholeness in relationship.
So if you’re seeking a relationship, or trying to control or manipulate a partner to get yourself to feel better, you have gone off the beam of your real goal, of what will really make the best year of your life and you need to stop and come back to activating, cultivating the qualities of your own soul, and then go back into that relationship and then go back to that client, to that business project. Now, not trying to get anything from it, as if you’re an artist going to a blank canvas and shaking the canvas and saying, “Why won’t you create some colors for me?” You’d look kind of crazy. You stop and you go back to your palette. You mix some more paint and you activate those qualities then you go back to the canvas and paint on it.
So now, you’re entering into that relationship for what you can give. You’re entering into that project for what you have to give – more joy, more abundance, more power. It’s why Jesus said when you pray; pray believing that you already have it that you may receive it. You’re not praying for your praying from. It’s not an out for nation; it’s an out from nation. You’re going out into the world not to get anything but to let more of your real self out. Yes? So that’s how you begin to think about your best year and then begin to design it, reverse engineer it. So one of the things I would invite to just to think about right now and do as homework is—so I want to open this up to some questions—is if you had overcome all your challenges this year and over the next year, we’re really preparing you for next year, and if you had achieved what you most deeply wanted in terms of the outer success goals, who would you be, how would you feel, how would you act or show up in the world?
What I would invite you to do is to break that down for each major life structure: health, wealth, work, relationship, spirituality, personal development, and service. Personal development is things like if you’re wanting to develop your ability to be a speaker or writer or a chess player, whatever, that’s personal development. You’re developing talents and capacities. Spirituality is obviously your spiritual practice and a deeper connection to the divine and all that. So looking at those areas, if you were to make the progress you most want in those areas, how would you feel, who would you be, so it’s qualities of feeling and qualities of being. A quality of feeling looks like peace, love, joy and quality of being is more active like loving, playful, spontaneous, outgoing, generous, it’s more active quality, and begin to articulate for those core, big goals that you would want to either overcome or achieve. What would those qualities be? And then that is what your real goal now becomes.
At the end of the year, my real goal isn’t just do I have more money. It’s do I have a greater sense of safety, security, power, confidence, whatever that means to you, whatever the qualities are, and then in terms of the way to determine, to create a metric around this, you can ask yourself very honestly on a scale from 0 to 100, where am I right now with this quality. Then at the end of each week or month or quarter, you can reassess the bottom line. So we can still use math here. We could still use metrics, and I think it’s very important that we do. Otherwise, we can fool ourselves, and go, “Okay, I started off as a 25%.” Zero to a hundred, 25. Of a greater sense, where I want to be at the year? I want to have a sense of at least be 100% more peaceful than I am now. So let’s say, I started off right now. I’m at 20. I want to be at least at 40 by the end of the year, as an example when choosing the scale of 0 to 100.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be at 100. If 100 means complete and total, perfect peace, you want to look at where are you really and what would be the kind of growth you want to see. I want to see a 50% improvement. That’s a really good improvement. Just think about it. If you could be 50% more loving, more peaceful, more compassionate, more of a feeling of abundance, of all needs met. 50% more by the end of the year, would that be a pretty good year? So you decide. But the answer is probably yes. So you could look at where you are, create a metric and then that’s the bottom line you judge by, and you could even create a metrics for each day, and go at the beginning of a day, “Where am I with my peace?”
Like if you’re a salesperson and you know that at the end of the year, you want to achieve $100,000 and to do that, you have to sell a thousand of these programs, products or whatever, and for that means, every quarter, you have to sell 250 of them. That means every month, you have to sell 80 of them. Then that means every day, you have to sell whatever two and a half of them, whatever, it’d be 3 if it means business days. So then at the beginning of the day, you would have a metric. You started off at zero. By the end of the day, you’d see that I sell three. So you could begin to break this metrics down and look at, “Okay, today, I now know that in order to be I’m on track for my growth of 100% improvement of my peace, I realized that I need to see a 5% improvement, or 1% improvement, whatever that would be.”
Then you get really honest with where is your peace that morning on the scale from 0 to 100. If zero is baseline, it’s where you are. It’s where you were the day before or whatever; and 100 is achieving that 1% increase, whatever you decided. At the end of the day, look and see where am I on that scale, and you might go, “Yeah, I’m 100%. I did it. I’ve increased my peace by such and such.” Some of you are starting to glaze over whenever I talk numbers. We all have different intelligences, but it’s important because it’s hard to really manage what you don’t measure. A dream without a real plan is just a fantasy or a vision without a plan is a fantasy. A plan without a vision is chaos or mediocrity. But it’s important to break it down, so this is real, right? Like you’re really looking at your day or your week and going—am I making progress? Am I feeling a little bit more connected to this quality, a little bit more expressive of it? How many times today did I consciously express?
That could be one of the other ways. Like with sales conversion, they’ll have not just the number of sales they want to make per week but that will determine what is the number of conversations they need to have about the product to make that many sales. Let’s say 10 sales a week is 100 conversations. Then the metric is am I having those 20 conversations today. So you could look out a quality of joy, let’s say, and break it down and play with it and come up with the metric that say 10 acts of joy each week. And you can use the lift practice where you’re taking these qualities and breaking them down into the people, places, objects and activities that activate that quality and that becomes your metric. Let’s just say you realize joy is a quality and you discover that one of the activities that creates joy for you is dancing—music and dancing. And so you decide, “Okay, I’m going to dance to music for five minutes every day to get my joy fixed, to activate my joy.” That’s the metric I’ve got. And then if at the end of the day, you haven’t got that in yet, you might turn on some music and dance.
So you can start to play with this and break it down ultimately to create this best year of your life. It’s not just about, again, the outer success goal and the plans to achieve that, all which is great. It’s about creating a way of life that is actively activating these qualities of your being. And so you can reverse engineer it. Once you come up with your big vision which is the other success goal, then you reverse engineer it into the qualities and then you break it down into where would you want to be with those qualities, where are you from the scale of 0 to 100, and where would you want to be at the end of the year, and where would that be at the end of each quarter and then ultimately what kind of activities and people and situations would help you to activate those.
Now, you can start to put together a real life plan that is integrating those elements that you now know will lead you towards activating and expressing and bringing forth more and more of who and what you really are, more and more of the colors of your soul, the qualities of your heart, and you know that you’re now on track to what a best year really looks like and feels like. So I know that this is a lot and I didn’t realize how much I wanted to come through. I know this is a long talk and a lot of content. Hopefully you found it very helpful, and I really encourage you don’t just listen to it, get inspired and move on. Listen to the replay. Sit down with this, work on this. Work on this. People often would say in giving all these different ideas, “Okay, when do we get to the advanced stuff.” This is the advanced stuff.
The beginner’s work is all of the theories, the concepts, the principles, the ideas. The advanced class is practice. It’s all practice. So take something from this call today and put it in to practice and really do the work to play. You can think about it, dream about it, plan about going to the gym and being in great shape all your life and you will never grow a single muscle. You have to go to the gym and lift the weights. You can theorize and philosophize and write books on the power and the magnificence of broccoli but the only way you’re ever going to get the value of it and really grow is if you eat it. So, you got to do the real work. That’s the real path of mastery.
All right, my dear ones, let’s take a deep breath and allow this all to just soak in. As I just say a very brief prayer and knowing that the prayer has been ongoing, that we’re dropping down into this field of grace, where life is so very, very good all the time, where these qualities of love, joy, peace, beauty, abundance, wholeness, harmony, order are always expressing, are always emanating, always radiating, always fully and completely being themselves everywhere present. This is the presence that is never an absence. This infinite all loving, all giving, all knowing, all powerful presence, that is infinite so there’s nothing outside of it. It’s omnipresent so there’s no other present. Omnipotent, there’s no other power. Omniscience, omniscient, all true knowledge, there’s no other knowledge. There’s no other mind, no other intelligence. It’s all in all as all, it’s all there is, and that nature is love, is life, is goodness, there has no opposite. It is all there is, and therefore it’s all that we are.
All that there is to me is thee. All that there is to each and every one of us is unique, infinite, individualized expressions of the one life, the one love, the one power, the one presence, and nothing else. All the appearances of luck, limitation, world without fear, diminishment, disease, dysfunction, karma, astrology and every other ology, the whole human scene and experience from time and memorial, all of that is rolled up into this one ball called content, concept, belief, projection, perception. None of that is I. All of that is just a projection, a relative perception and projection of the infinite perfection and I am the infinite perfection, before Abraham, was I am. Meaning before all of human experience behind the whole human picture, I stand infinite, immortal, eternal, whole, complete, perfect, all loving, all giving, all knowing, all powerful, all containing, all possessing, nothing can be added to me, nothing can be taken away, no person, place or condition has ever diminish when I ought to, nor ever can who by taking thought can add one cubit to their stature.
What God has put no man can put asunder. All that there is is the power and the presence and the love of God infinitely expressing as the divine self that I am and nothing has ever touched that. Nothing has ever diminished that. Nothing ever can and in this holy instant, all the years of diminishment are now restored. Everything is made new. In this instant, all of the finished kingdom of infinite good, infinite riches and treasures of life that we could ever imagine in the so called future are right here, right now shining expressing circulating broadcasting right where each and every individual is because each and every individual on this call and in this community is a unique center in divine mind through which all of life shines in every shine. Yes, that’s it. So everything is conspiring to bring forth more life, more love, more truth, more beauty, more abundance, more of the divine, infinite pattern of perfection as each and every individual here. It’s dissolving, disintegrating, disassembling all the belief, concepts and structures that no longer serve the fulfillment of their destiny, of greatness which is happening now.
Oh, healings are breaking out. Miracles are breaking out, mentally, emotionally, physically, astrally and theoretically. Great transformation is the order of the day. Whatever needs to be seen, spoken, heard, thought, released, embraced, to support the full on emergence of genius and greatness and fulfillment and real power, real joy, real peace, the full manifestation of heaven on earth in every dimension of living is happening now. It’s happening right where each individual is. It’s the only thing happening. It’s the only power. It’s the only cost. So it’s a law of fulfillment on to where it is set. It needs no resistance, no obstruction. It is fulfilled, pressed down, shaken over. It is done, and so it is. Amen.
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Life is friendly and all of life is conspiring for your highest good, and here this title says Life doesn’t care what you want or don’t want and then it says, it cares about this . . .
So it’s true. Life doesn’t care what you want or don’t want. Life doesn’t actually know that you want or don’t want. Life is not binary. Life experience is filled with duality – want, don’t want, craving and aversion as Buddha taught.
In fact the whole cornerstone of Buddhist teaching was the dissolving of that pattern of craving and aversion, which is the wanting and the not wanting, the incessant drive to get or get rid of in order to be free, with the understanding that the desire to want or not want actually is, the core source of the false self and all of the resistance and all of the suffering.
And when that mechanism dissolves, when you no longer want or don’t want, what is underneath it is the great ‘isness,’ is life itself, is wholeness itself, harmony itself, freedom itself, fulfillment itself, naturally expressing and naturally occurring.
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TranscriptDerek Rydall here, founder of the Law of Emergence and author of the bestselling book Emergence. And it’s just such an honor and a pleasure to be with you again. As we take a deep dive on this path of Emergence, this never ending, ever expanding unfoldment of your infinite potential, and hopefully this title of today’s talk piqued your interest. And that’s why you’re listening because of course I’m always talking about how life is for you, and life is friendly and all of life is conspiring for your highest good, and here this title says Life doesn’t care what you want or don’t want and then it says, it cares about this . . .
So it’s true life doesn’t care what you want or don’t want. Life doesn’t actually know that you want or don’t want. Life is not binary. Life experience is filled with duality, want, don’t want, craving and aversion as Buddha taught. In fact the whole cornerstone of Buddhist teaching was the dissolving of that pattern of craving and aversion, which is the wanting and the not wanting, the incessant drive to get or get rid of in order to be free, with the understanding that the desire to want or not want actually is, the core source of the false self and all of the resistance and all of the suffering. And when that mechanism dissolves, when you no longer want or don’t want ,what is underneath it is the great isness is life itself, is wholeness itself, harmony itself, freedom itself, fulfillment itself, naturally expressing and naturally occurring.
Jesus taught the same thing just use different languages when he said if you try to save your life you’ll lose it but if you lose your life for my sake you’ll have life eternal. Same basic teaching or when he talked about loving your enemy and forgiving them and that the enemy was in your own household. He was also seeking to teach how to dissolve this incessant drive of wanting and not wanting, of trying to get or get rid of. Indeed all the great master teachers were fundamentally teaching that, because the very core of the false self is this pain pleasure mechanism. Are we seeking pleasure and seeking to avoid pain? And so the average human life is a constant circle and cycle of seeking pleasure, avoiding pain, but really getting nowhere in terms of our true awakening and our true evolution. So when you understand this and you understand the real nature of life itself, that it is non-dual, that life is an isness, that love has no opposite.
Fear is not the opposite of love except in the world of duality, there’s love and fear but in Reality, with a capital R, love has no opposite. Chaos is not the opposite of peace or peace is not the opposite of chaos. Peace in reality is non-dual, it has no opposite. All qualities of truth are infinite and omnipotent and omnipresent meaning there’s nothing opposite or other than them. Because all qualities of truth are ultimately synonymous with God or infinite intelligence or life itself whatever concept you want to use. That love, peace, joy, beauty, abundance or supply, freedom, fulfillment all of these are just other ways and names of describing the aspects or describing a facet of this one great jewel of divine reality.
They’re not separate, they’re not opposite, they have no opposite. And so the divine intelligence, the divine impulse of life it doesn’t know anything other than its own wholeness, harmony and perfection. As the bible says God’s eyes are too pure to behold iniquity, or as it says, I believe it’s in the Bhagavad Gita. I might be misquoting the right place, but the basic teaching is that there are seven veils between us and God but no veils between God and us. In other words, we have all these filters and perceptions and sense of duality and separation but from the perspective of divine intelligence it only knows us as its own, as itself, as an emanation of its light.
So this divine life, this divine intelligence which in ultimate truth is the only thing there really is, has no opposite, has no otherness. There’s nothing other than it so when you are wanting or not wanting it doesn’t know that language. It doesn’t hear you. I know that’s hard to understand especially it seem like a contradiction in terms. If God is all there is and God is everywhere how can God not be aware of that. And it’s just that you’re having a perception of the sense of separation. You’re perceiving a sense of a self apart from life, a part from fulfillment and in that dream or really nightmare, you perceive yourself separate from the things you want or you perceive yourself as being or having a condition that you don’t want. And then you go about wanting to get more of something you don’t think you have or get rid of the thing you do have that you don’t want.
All of that is happening within the realm of the dream, within the realm of the hypnotic spell of separation. But only you are experiencing the hypnotic spell not the divine intelligence within you. It only knows you as itself, perfect, whole, complete. So when you are wanting and not wanting it’s not a signal that reaches this divine law within you, this divine life within you. It’s not acting upon the want or the not want. But here is what it does care about; here is what it is acting upon the law itself, the law of mind. It’s acting upon what you’re interested in; it’s acting upon what you are focused on. So this was a long way to get to the point that it doesn’t know or care what you want or don’t want. It cares about what you’re interested in. So if you say I want more abundance or I don’t want death, and if you’re saying that simultaneously you’re actually giving two messages because again all it hears is, it hears first the focus of abundance and then it hears the focus of death. It doesn’t hear that you don’t want death because there’s no duality in it, it is only aware that you’re focused on something.
There’s only a yes in the universe ultimately speaking or in this divine law. So if you’re focusing on I don’t want, I don’t want, I don’t want ,all that it hears is whatever the focus is I don’t want to be sick , I don’t want to be sick, I don’t want to be unhealthy. I don’t want to be fat; I don’t want to be -all that its hearing is sick, unhealthy, fat, sick, unhealthy fat. Okay I guess they want to experience sick unhealthy and fat. And I know it sounds so odd because you’re clearly saying I don’t want that. But the focus of your attention is where the energy goes, the energy flows where your attention goes.
You know just like you’ve heard, you may be use the analogy of the race car driver. They’re learning how to drive and how to pull out of the spins and when the car starts spinning towards the wall, everything in the body does not want to hit the wall, everything in the instincts doesn’t want to hit the wall. And so the tendency is to look at the wall. I don’t want to hit that wall; I don’t want to hit that wall. So I better look at the wall and then what you do you hit the wall. And so even though you don’t want to hit the wall, the only way to pull out of the spin and give you the fighting chance of not hitting the wall, is to actually look away from the thing you don’t want, and look towards the thing you do even while you’re spinning towards the thing you don’t want – the wall. You got to look towards the finish line or towards the next bend or whatever. You got to look back on to the track to where you want to go and then the hands follow the eyes and you course correct. So of course you are not guaranteed in that example to always pull out of spin but you are guaranteed to hit the wall if you focus on the wall. If you focus on what you don’t want you are guaranteed to hit it.
So likewise, in life if your focus is on what you don’t want, if you are going into prayers and affirmations and praying and affirming about what you don’t want, what you’re actually programming into the law of mind and action is the very thing you don’t want. It’s like the story of the guy that was going on a family trip and he spent the first hour of the morning praying and affirming you know, that his family wasn’t in any danger, that they would be safe and that nothing bad would happen and you know he prayed and affirm this for an hour and got on a highway and got into a terrible accident, where they almost all died, they ended up all in the hospital. And afterwards as he reflected on this and got some counsel, he just could not understand it, and when the counselor, the practitioner was listening to them they finally said, well you spent an hour focused on not getting in an accident even though you were saying I want to be safe , we don’t want to be hurt , we want to make sure we’re safe we’re surrounded by the car and the white light, the focus really was I don’t want us to be hurt or get in an accident. So you spent an hour creating a powerful energetic focus on accident.
So we want to be very mindful that in all of our prayer work and our affirmation work, just our thinking and our talking that whatever our dialogue is inside and out, that the focus is on what we do want. This is also why as I talked about in other trainings the questions you ask must contain the actual result you want. If you’re asking why is this happening to me? Why aren’t things working out for me? The focus is on the thing you don’t want and so the answers you’re going to get will only bring you more of what you don’t want. You’ll get a bunch of reasons why it’s not working for you. But that’s not going to necessarily get you any closer to working. Is it going to make you feel bad and worse and worse about yourself and just keep you plugged into the database of human consciousness of lack and limitation? But if you ask how can I become free or what is the divine lesson and opportunity for growth here or what is the larger version and vision of my life trying to emerge by means of this?
Now the focus even if you don’t have the answer, the focus is still basically saying I know there’s an answer here, I know there’s a solution. I know there’s something good here that’s trying to emerge, a lesson, a blessing, an expanded vision and that’s the focus. And so the answer to that question will bring you closer if not right to the doorstep of the thing you want. And so we have to be very mindful that when we frame and fashion our conversation inside and out that we focus on what we want.
Now of course the caveat to all of this is that if you’re focused on wanting just in general, the very concept of wanting connotes that you don’t have. So you want to be aware that whatever you’re wanting is actually an indication of what is trying to emerge. As I teach that desire is not a sign of something out side of you that you need to go get, but a sign of something inside of you trying to get out. So that deep desire, aka wanting is a signal of something, a seed that is hatching within you. You are pregnant and the baby is kicking and so you can still be aware of the want and the desire. You can absolutely make it a conscious awareness, yes I really do want to have more wealth or health or happiness or love. But then from the emergence model you have to begin to reorganize the way you deal with that want, the old model is I want this now let me go make it happen. The new model is I want this which means it’s already in me now let me make it welcome.
So we are no longer focusing on what we don’t want or if we are focusing on what we don’t want we only use it as a very brief moment of guidance because sometimes if you’re not sure what you do want focusing on what you don’t want as a contemplated exercise where you’re not necessarily giving a lot of energy in trying to like fix it you’re using it as a way to go, well I really really don’t want this kind of relationship or this kind of body. So then that gives you an idea then, a direction of what you do want which is some degree of the opposite of that.
I really, really don’t want to have to be in traffic all the time. Okay so well what would be the opposite to that? not being in traffic or maybe you look a little deeper why don’t you want to be in traffic? Because it makes me so angry and frustrated I really, really don’t want to be angry and frustrated for an hour or two or three every day. Okay so what do you want? What is the opposite of that? Being at peace, being happy. So what you want is either not being in traffic which could mean you get up earlier or leave work later, or if you can’t do that because you’ve gone a layer deeper, what you want is to be in a state of peace and joy.
So now you can ask good question how can I be in a state of peace and joy even while I’m in traffic? So you can still get what you really want, which really wasn’t about the traffic but was about the state of being. And you could go a little deeper and go well it’s a waste of time. But what would you rather be doing then? What would be the opposite of wasting the time? What would you do with that time? I would be creating something or learning about something, growing in some way. Great! So now you can fashion your want as I want to use my time in traffic to deepen my sense of peace and joy and to learn and to grow and to create in some way.
Now you’ve got a very real vision and you can actually go about creating that. Make you’re drive a mobile university, have your tape recorder, you know iPhone whatever the recording, dragon dictation or some recording device and you could be creating things while you’re driving. You could be praying and affirming, you could be listening to audios. I’ve gotten easily more than a degree or two worth of knowledge in education by driving in traffic. But notice so that I use the not wanting traffic scratch the surface a little deeper to see what I really do want and then was able to flip that into a vision that could turn my driving into something that was truly nourishing, nurturing, inspiring and expanding. And maybe even if I really am honest it might allow me to grow in ways that I would have done otherwise, if I did not have that situation if I wasn’t a captured audience you know, a captive audience for that hour or two every day.
So focusing on what you don’t want for a moment as an exercise, to see what the opposite of it is, so that you could begin to unpack what you really do want, create a vision out of it and began to move towards that is a valuable exercise. But you don’t want to just unconsciously be a complainer and focus on what you don’t want and then try to change your life from a standpoint of what you don’t want. And then again once you’ve done discern what you do want ,you want to reframe that and in the emergence model which is the understanding that that signal of something that you already have, a seed of potential planted in the soil of your soul that is now budding. And as it cracks open and buds it feels like a wanting or a desire but it’s really an emerging potential.
So you can still go for it but you begin to nurture it and feed it. And like you would a baby, when you’re pregnant with a baby you don’t feel the kick and go, Oh my God I have to get a baby and start to go out and try to find the baby or even try to get pregnant again that would be called crazy. And a lot of people we’ve basically gone insane because we’ve got this desire which is a sign that we’re pregnant with something and then we go out and try to get it. And so you still can do a lot of things to nurture it you know the different lift, practice, work of living in the feel and telling the vibration of it already being done, praying, affirming, visualizing , radiating, taking wonderful appropriate actions steps.
It’s all coming from the standpoint of I’m giving birth to something, and now I’m going to be and to do and to feel and show up as if this thing is emerging in my life, very different energy and much more congruent, much less resistance and ultimately a much greater chance that you’ll actually give birth to that next stage of your unfoldment. So don’t focus on what you don’t want, but you can use it to determine what you really do want and then reframe what you do want from the understanding that it means you’ve already got it, and now you just need to bring your inner and outer life into harmony with it, into integrity with it, so that you don’t make it happen but you make it welcome.
You midwife the birth of the next stage of your own growth and unfoldment. This is what life really cares about. It doesn’t care about what you want and don’t want. It just cares about what you’re focused on. So make sure you’re focused on what’s truly trying to emerge. I hope this has served you for a deeper dive. Make sure you go to derekrydall.com; make sure you sign up for the podcast so that you can continue to get more and more of these emerging training and activations all that good stuff. If you go to derekrydall.com you can get other free downloadable content trainings etc., to really support you on this journey of emergence. If you like this please leave a review and five stars, go to my Facebook page post a review or insights and get engaged, get involved and stay inspired. Until next time remember to live authentically, love unconditionally and follow your destiny.
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You’re in the right place if you find yourself generally challenged to start and really move in the direction of your big endeavors, your big vision, even if you know what you want but to follow through on them once you start, and to actually complete them.
To make a choice or a decision, means to cut away from, versus to be perpetually sitting on your psychological emotional fence because you’re afraid that “What if the grasses are greener on the other side?”, “What if I’m making the wrong decision?”, “What if it doesn’t work out?” All of which the ego is tricking us to believe or actually giving us good reasonable excuses for not taking action, for not making a decision; BUT they’re not actually, because the truth is you can never ultimately know what’s right except in hindsight.
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Now, you can develop intuition to know what’s the right true move, regardless of outcomes and conditions; but, you don’t develop that until you start acting. Then, through hindsight, discern what it felt like when your intuition led you to something that ultimately worked out, and what it felt like when it led to something that you can’t get to, except with having focus and the ability to make choices and decisions, to build the next stage of your life, to follow through to completion and to follow through all the thresholds that will otherwise tempt you to lose focus, to start something different, or to do multiple things at once.
If you experience all of these, of course you know you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common complaints and challenges.
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I’m really excited to be talking about this particular topic today, Prove It! – The Path to Mastering Manifestation in any area.
I know that is a bold statement but this comes from a scriptural or biblical quote which says, Prove me now in this saith the Lord and I will open up the windows of heaven and pour forth a blessing too big to receive.[bctt tweet=”No matter what you lack in resources, you never lack in your ability to be resourceful – ‘full of source’ – again”]
So whatever teaching you studied, if you can get beyond the dogma and the doctrine, there are perennial principles that, when you understand them, apply and practice them, there is no particular one path fits all. There’s a principle and then there’s unlimited ways to express it. So the principle of proving it as I have spoken some other trainings is that there are principles to life, and ultimately they are all here everywhere expressing they’re not unfolding or evolving.
Life in its true nature does not evolve, life experience what we called evolution is the unfoldment of that which was first involuted. There is an underlying idea or principle or pattern. So the ability to fly planes existed during the time of Buddha. But somebody had to come along and discover the principle and begin to create a structure that could work in harmony with it and when they did we had flight.Listen in now for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future good NOW.
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What we’re talking about in this moment is birthing your best self, how to shine like the North Star no matter how dark it is.
This is really, of course, talking about it in the season of the birth of the Christ consciousness. This is about a term that I called endogenous, and the thing is that we are endogenous.
Unlike an acorn, which is a metaphor I use a lot, or any seed in nature which is indigenous, meaning that it’s ability to grow and unfold and produce what it needs and to thrive, has a lot to do with its external environment. You are endogenous, which means that everything you need to fertilize the soil of your soul, to activate the potential within you and to give birth to it is all within you. It doesn’t really require any particular external situation.
[bctt tweet=”We rarely experience life or each other, but rather OUR STORY about life & each other. Who would you be if you let go of your story? “]
Now, you can cultivate external conditions to support you, but lacking any external condition, you still have the full and entire capacity to manifest your potential. This is one of those things that you’ve heard me say many, many times if not others, but what is it really mean to live it? That indeed within you is everything that you need, within you is your fully franchised, self-contained, infinite individualized expression of life. Complete, whole, nothing is lacking, nothing is missing and nothing can get in to diminish it or disrupt it, and there is really no in or out because you’re infinite.
Listen in now for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future good NOW.
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I’m excited to talk about this particular topic today – the Power of No.
We’ve talked a lot about the power of yes – saying yes to your yes, which is critical to learn how to get in touch with, and say yes to what matters to you most.
What’s maybe not talked about as often, but is really as important, is getting clear on your no’s.
Our no actually allow us to set healthy boundaries. The lack of having a clear no blocks our ability to ultimately allow life to organically, spontaneously unfold through us.
[bctt tweet=”Limitations are not limiting if they are the right ones”]
Where are you using your energy saying yes to too many people, places, things, and where you can begin to say no, so that you can say yes to those things that are going to move the dial in terms of your big vision, and that really matter most to you?
Listen in now for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future NOW.
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Listen in as the World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self-improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness. Join the many listeners who have had instantaneous breakthroughs and healings …and begin living your Emergence!
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Today we’re talking about one of my favorite, favorite topics lately, that I have had so many insights and distinctions around, and that is ‘Getting to your yes – the only thing you need to succeed.’
The more I think about this, there are really only two things you ever need to do in order to move your life forward. That is to get clear on your yes and to say yes to your yes. That’s it.
It’s the only activity that there is, and it’s infinite.
[bctt tweet=”The next stage of your life trying to emerge and it has to come through you; it will never come to you.”]
Your yes shows up as a sincere burning desire, that thing trying to emerge as you. It is the evolutionary edge of your own being. It is the next version of your greatest vision, knocking at the door of your consciousness trying to get out.
The question is, will you say yes to your life, so that yes is the emerging impulse?
Listen in now for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future NOW.
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In this topic we’re talking about ‘Why Your Soul Doesn’t Care if You Succeed. (And will it even sabotage your success?)’
You know I like to be a little controversial or a little provocative and say things that sound contradictory, but it’s really not.
What’s important to understand is that at a soul level your true nature isn’t material, it isn’t physical. Your true nature is spiritual, your true nature is consciousness, your true nature is qualitative, not quantitative. So what your soul really cares about isn’t quantities or material or physical manifestation.
[bctt tweet=”The goal of your soul is to express more and more of the qualities of you’re divine being.”]
From the soul standpoint, in terms of the soul path and the soul purpose, you didn’t come to earth to get a bunch a stuff, to acquire a bunch of money and houses and stocks and bonds and even relationships and anything in the world that appears. From the soul level it did not come to get any of that primarily because you can’t take any of that with you, right?
Listen in now for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future NOW.
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In this new series, I will endeavor to do a magic trick–attempt to tell the truth about the truth–something that can never be truly known or articulated.
Still, the journey of truth seeking, truth speaking, and living the truth to the best of our ability, is the only path to becoming free and deeply fulfilled. (And of course, not even those words are true!)
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Cutting-edge spiritual principles and success strategies for living the Best Year of Your Life! World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self-improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness.
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Welcome to another episode of ask Derek, as we explore this very important question: What if I hate sales and marketing?
This is such a common question that is asked or posed in various ways, by individuals who have a lot of resistance and objections, when it comes to putting their work and gifts out there. This is partly because of the structures around power/money that we learned growing up.
For instance, we could have been made to think that things connected to money often resulted in some kind of pain, shame or guilt.
So for many of you, you have a burning desire to share your gifts in the world: your book, your teachings, coaching, healing, or consulting, but you’re finding taking the actual steps to market, or close the deal, very difficult.
[bctt tweet=”Give your business a sacred purpose.” username=”derekrydall”]
Listen in now for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future NOW.
And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
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Other powerful free trainings in the podcast library:
Behold, Be Held, Be Whole – How to Activate True Healing and Abundance
Pushed by Pain or Pulled by Vision: The Choice is Yours
No Cause, No Solution, No Problem
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It’s an honor and a pleasure to bring you today’s topic, The Commitment Code: How to Use Your Word to Make Quantum Leaps, and Why Your Wrong Use of them is Sabotaging Your Life.
This is such an important topic, and there are several areas I want to touch upon with this, but the essential principle is this – Making and keeping your word is one of the most powerful and fundamental ways you build self-worth, self-confidence, and ultimately, integrity.
When you make or give your word, and keep it, you send a message which says “I can trust myself”, “I believe in myself”, “I am competent”… All of which breeds confidence, so you begin taking more chances, putting yourself out there more, and making bigger commitments to yourself.
[bctt tweet=”Commitment is the foundation of building character.” username=”derekrydall”]
There is a mechanism to which this upward spiral of the confidence-competence loop is created, and giving and keeping your word is that mechanism. Making and keeping commitment is that mechanism.Listen in now for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future NOW.
And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
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Other powerful free trainings in the podcast library:
Behold, Be Held, Be Whole – How to Activate True Healing and Abundance
Pushed by Pain or Pulled by Vision: The Choice is Yours
No Cause, No Solution, No Problem
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We’re diving into another really important, and frequently asked question, “How do I find my purpose?”
This questions is also phrased as, “What if I don’t know my purpose?” or “How do I know this is my purpose?”
The first thing to understand is one of the reasons why we have a hard time finding an answering to this question, is that, first of all, we think that our purpose has to be some big grand thing, and so we are often missing the tree for the forest.
Other times we think our purpose means our job, but it’s important to understand your job is one very important aspect of your purpose.
[bctt tweet=”Like the sun, true vision is always shining. It’s always waiting for you to pierce the weather of your mind and let its warm revitalizing power into your life.” username=”derekrydall”]
Everybody has the same ultimate purpose, which is to awaken to their true identity, to come into self-actualization, and give their unique gift.
While all of our purpose is the same, our mission is a refined or more niched aspect of that, having at its root, some dimension of self-actualization and delivering your unique gift in your own way.
It’s time to get clear on who you are, why you are alive, get clear on your vision and mission and start living it out fully – then all of that energy will move through the branches of your life and begin to create new blossoms, new fruit, and a harvest of good, heretofore un-imagined. Are you willing?
Listen in now for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future NOW.
And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
Stay inspired!
Other powerful free trainings in the podcast library:
Behold, Be Held, Be Whole – How to Activate True Healing and Abundance
Pushed by Pain or Pulled by Vision: The Choice is Yours
No Cause, No Solution, No Problem
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I’m so inspired in general with today’s topic, The Best Day of Your Life: How to Create Rituals That Put Your Growth and Success on Autopilot!
When we talk about creating the best day of your life, we’re using the day as a template, as a platform to design, build and structure your ideal day.
You want to look at this day as your masterpiece. This is your work of art, your great sculpture. You get to sculpt this day in a way that reflects and reveals your unique artistry.
How you show up in this moment is what determines how you show up in the future moments. If you’re not showing up with a specific quality of being in this moment, it’s not going to magically show up in the next.
[bctt tweet=”Today is a perfect idea in the mind of the Universe, it’s a Divine template.” username=”derekrydall”]
Are you showing up as the artist of your life and really giving it your all?
Listen in now for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future NOW.
And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
Stay inspired!
Other powerful free trainings in the podcast library:
Ask Dere: How Do I Manifest More Money or Anything?
Why Your Soul Doesn’t Care if You Succeed
No Cause, No Solution, No Problem
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Greetings, my fellow Emergineers, it’s great to bring you another very important topic, ‘Always be Planting: How to Harvest Your Past and Seed Your future.’
The first thing to understand is that you’re always planting, and you’re always reaping what you’ve planted in the past.
The thought, the word, the action, the seeds you’re planting in this moment are the potential fruit of your future moments, and every now moment is the fruit of your past planting. There is no other element that enters into the equation.
[bctt tweet=”This moment is nothing more or less than what you’ve planted or sown before.” username=”derekrydall”]
As you sow, so shall you reap. I don’t reap what you’ve sown, and you don’t reap what I’ve sown.
As you begin to realize that, you can take full responsibility for this moment because this moment can’t be more or less than what you’ve sown or planted before. This means that nobody else has ever or can ever determine the quality of this moment, the fruit in this moment, but you.
The good news is no matter what harvest you find yourself with right now, whether it’s a harvest of sweet fruit or sour and bitter fruit, or just a lot of weeds, that you can always begin to sow a whole new crop. You’re never stuck with whatever’s just there. You can absolutely begin sowing again.
I invite you to identify one area of your life that may needs a little cultivation. Does it need watering, weeding, feeding, or seeding?
Listen in now for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future NOW.
And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
Stay inspired!
Other powerful free trainings in the podcast library:
Snap Out of It! The 5 Hypnotic Spells Sabotaging Your Success
Quantum Prayer: The Potential Activator
Ask Derek: How Do I Stay Productive When I’m Struggling or Uninspired?
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Why Do Good Things Happen to Bad People (And Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People)?This is an age-old question, and its answered in my latest podcast.
It can be a crisis of faith when we start to look out and see what we might call ‘negative’, ‘destructive’, or ‘greedy’ types of people, and we wonder why they have so much more abundance than really ‘decent’, ‘good-hearted’ people.
Or why are these decent, good-hearted people getting sick, and these somewhat greedy, materialist people are just doing great and flying around in their jets?
There are some key distinctions to understand here. The first one is that what the law of life operates upon is consciousness, principle.
What appears to be a good person and a good personality, in and of itself, is not what the law of life is operating upon.
Here’s a great way to look at it. If you don’t understand the laws of conductivity, electrical principles, and you just take some live wires and grab hold of them, or you touch the wrong wires together, and they blow up, or they electrocute you or even kill you.
Electricity is no respecter of persons. It doesn’t care how nice of a person you are. If you don’t understand the law and the principle of electricity it doesn’t matter how good you are. You’re going to have some problems.
[bctt tweet=”Life is no respecter of persons. It’s a respecter of principle. It’s a respecter of consciousness.” username=”derekrydall”]
If you learn how to float you could be a really evil person, and you’ll still float in the water. Think about that. If you know how to fly a plane and operate in alignment with the laws of aerodynamics, you can be a really bad person, and you’ll still fly that plane.
The plane will fly, because, at least in that area, you are in integrity with the principle. It’s principle. It’s not personal.
Listen in to discover the other key distinction around this topic and for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future NOW.
And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
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Other powerful free trainings in the podcast library:
Always Be Planting: How to Harvest Your Past and Seed Your Future
Quantum Prayer: The Potential Activator
Ask Derek: How Do I Stay Productive When I’m Struggling or Uninspired?
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Listen in as the World’s #1 expert on the Law of Emergence reveals ancient secrets and quantum healing practice that have helped hundreds of thousands end the struggle of self-improvement, find their life purpose, achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness. Join the many listeners who have had instantaneous breakthroughs and healings …and begin living your Emergence!
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We’re doing a deep dive today around the topic ‘The Fields Are Always Full: How to Transcend Seasons and Cycles and Experience More Abundance Now’.
You’ve heard me use the analogy of the radio broadcast: Right now, right where you are, your favorite music is broadcasting. There’s information, inspiration, and music broadcasting that if you were to suddenly hear, it would inspire you, and would change your mental, emotional, physical state.
The only distance between you and the manifestation of the music is a distance in frequency. When the frequencies match, you have music. You have a manifestation.
So that music is potentially in your life, but it’s actually broadcasting at the frequency where it exists.
Just like the music, the fields are white unto the harvest, the abundance is already here now. It’s not here in potential. It’s actually here – health, wealth, wholeness, harmony, joy, peace, love, the fullness of life, Heaven, Paradise, Nirvana – everything you could ever want, hope for, desire and need are already here actually!
Not in potential, but actually… It’s only potential in terms of your experience.
[bctt tweet=”Life wants to manifest its glory, its greatness, its goodness as us, infinitely more than we want it for ourselves. ” username=”derekrydall”]
Our call today is to no longer wait for the harvest to come, to no longer wait for the economy to change, or wait for our family, our friends to agree with or validate us.
We will no longer wait until we think we’re good enough or have enough, but take a stand today, in the middle of the field of our life and begin to know, affirm and live from the truth that we are surrounded by and are an expression of abundance!
I invite you to make a commitment to yourself, to begin to show up, to take your basket and step into your “field” and harvest the good that’s there. Start to show up as if you’re really supported.
With this commitment, how will you begin to show up differently in your life?
Listen in to discover the other key distinction around this topic and for the full explanation and support your personal development and spiritual growth and start participating in your future NOW.
And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
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Why Do Good Things Happen to Bad People (And Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People)?
Always Be Planting: How to Harvest Your Past and Seed Your Future
Ask Derek: How Do I Stay Productive When I’m Struggling or Uninspired?
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This is both a powerful principle and somewhat controversial because it doesn’t always look like the Universe is rigged in our favor.
When we say life is for us, we are tapping into the principle of oneness, and the truth that life is always working to express more of its wholeness, abundance, and perfection — always supporting its own fulfillment.
This means it’s all working for your highest and greatest good.
As W. Clement Stone said, “We must become inverse paranoids, believing that all of life is conspiring for us.” You are a unique infinite expression of life, and through and as you life gets to know itself as an individual being.
The Universe is conspiring to completely unleash its potential as you, yet we don’t experience it directly. We experience our relative perception, our belief about life, our thought about life or about a condition.
But because all there really is is love, and life forever giving and supporting itself, even those conditions that we would call “bad” are working together for our good. This episode shows you how to live in alignment with this..
[bctt tweet=”Every individual is an instrument through which the universe is seeking to put Itself on display” username=”derekrydall”]
When you begin to embrace this principle, every problem becomes answered prayer. Every so-called negative condition becomes an evolutionary catalyst. You begin to ask evolutionary or emerging questions:
“How does this support my growth and expansion? How is this making me stronger? How can I use this experience to become more awake, more aware, a purer, stronger instrument of life, of truth, of beauty, etc.?”
When you don’t understand this, you ask questions like “Why is this happening to me? What’s wrong with me? What’s wrong with life? God, why have you forsaken me?”
Those questions keep you hooked into a paradigm of duality and separation, believing life isn’t for you, and that leads to more experiences that reflect that back to you.
Listen to this new podcast and learn how this principle works, and how you can put it to work in your life TODAY.
And remember, self-help is shelf help – you have everything you need already!
Stay inspired!
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The Fields Are Always Full: How to Transcend Seasons and Cycles, and Experience More Abundance NOW
Always Be Planting: How to Harvest Your Past and Seed Your Future
Ask Derek: How Do I Stay Productive When I’m Struggling or Uninspired?
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There is a Divine Flow of life, a natural emerging impulse that can order all of our steps with ease and grace.
What could be possible if you followed only what was your deepest, most authentic truth? How joyful and playful could life become if you let life live fully through you?
To experience this, we must design a way of life that is congruent with our highest vision of joy and inspiration—a life that allows us to both play and rest.
In this episode you will learn how this principle works, and how you can put it to work in your life TODAY.
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Part 6 of Derek’s Series. To Your Emergence! Stay inspired! Derek Like this episode? Please share it! Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes, Stitcher, via email or Android
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Join us as we continue to delve into the seeming dichotomy between the seen and unseen and seek to find common ground and integration between the two — so that we can access and manifest the full potential of our lives, individually and collectively. To Your Emergence! Stay inspired! Derek Like this episode? Please share […]
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Join me for another session in this series, in search of deeper truth, a greater understanding of reality, and our place in it — so we can thrive and prosper and evolve together towards a world that works for all! To Your Emergence! Stay inspired! Derek Like this episode? Please share it! Subscribe to Podcast […]
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Matter versus what matters: in this talk, Derek dives deeply into the nature of reality — so that you can reclaim your personal power and creative capacity at a whole new level! To Your Emergence! Stay inspired! Derek Like this episode? Please share it! Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes, Stitcher, via email or Android
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The perfect pattern of purpose and potential is already planted in the seed before it is planted in the ground. The same is true about the seed of your being — your destiny was planted in you even before you were planted in your mother’s womb. In this training, Derek explains the revolutionary principle of […]
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We don’t experience life as it is, we experience life as we are — through the filters of memory, fantasy, and imagination. In other words we experience our story about ourselves and life, and as a result we miss most of what is really available to us. In this talk, Derek helps you step out […]
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Chaos and disorder are a natural part of life, the raw creative and destructive nature of a world constantly changing. When you can understand how to not only live with this but to use its power to transform your life — and even take quantum leaps — you become free and you become a true […]
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If you want to be an influencer in your work, the world — or even just your personal life — you need to understand how you’re being influenced now, why we are so susceptible to influence, and how to vaccinate ourselves from the most dangerous viruses of all…thought viruses! In this talk, Derek breaks down […]
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