Did I Do That?

Once upon a time, in 2003 to be precise, when I first started to meditate, something brilliant happened to me.
I was job searching in a horrible economy and getting nowhere fast, so I sat down in a quiet place and began to visualize getting a job, using the technique of meditation. After a bit, I was able to clear my mind of all thought; my mind was blank and nothing particular was coming to me.

But then, all of a sudden, I began to visualize myself flying through the air over the city. I began to zero in on a cluster of buildings below me that appeared to be bland and lifeless; like an abstract painting. Then, as I lowered to an altitude just above the buildings, a name appeared in my mind; it was the name of one of the companies I had applied to over the last couple of months.

You should know that I had applied to more than 35 jobs during this desperate job search of mine, so for this one to pop up seemed arbitrary at best.

All I could see was the name of this company that was attached to a building. In my mind, the company name floated over the roof of one of the buildings.
Then, right in the middle of my meditation, the phone rang. Boy was I irritated, but I had to answer it, so I picked up the phone and said, "What?"

Low and behold, it was the hiring manager of the company I had just visualized. I was astonished. There I was meditating and visualizing about a company I had applied to, and then they called me. Wow! Had the Universe read my thoughts and made them real?

Well, to make a long story short, even after my abrupt phone etiquette, they hired me. They hired me, and as a result of working there for a while, I was able to obtain a house for my family, since we had just recently moved back to Oregon after spending a year and a half in Utah. And no, we were not practicing to be Mormons.

However, for years after that moment, I believed that I had created that job from my sheer meditation of it. But if you remember the story I just told; I did not specifically picture that job in my meditation. It came to me on its own out of a host of other possible jobs just from me being still and clearing my thoughts. As far as things seemed, it was totally random.

Did you get that? I cleared my thoughts; and that is what meditation actually is - the ability, or even the art, of clearing one's mind so that nothing gets in the way of the communication that the Soul is having with the brain of Its body.

Let me say it all this way:
The Soul, which fully controls the body, knows EXACTLY what It wishes to do, and there is absolutely NOTHING that the physical body can do to stop it. And when the brain is quiet, the Soul's agenda is made known to the brain because all the clutter from the day is out of the way. I know many of you may believe otherwise, but listen.

Simply put, my mind did not see the job that was to hire me because I meditated on it, or visualized it; my mind saw the job because my thoughts were cleared out of the way BECAUSE of the meditation; therefore, I was able to see more clearly what the Soul was going to do with this body I call JB Lewis. Do you see it? The meditation made it possible for my physical brain to become synchronized with the Soul because my regular, daily worries and considerations were out of the way; and therefore my brain was able to see, in real time, what the Soul was bringing into existence.
In other words, the job was always going to call me regardless of any meditation. But because of the meditation, I was able to see what was coming; and as it turned out, I saw it just as it was happening. If I had meditated sooner, I would have known about it sooner, but the wow factor would not have been as significant as having the call come right in the middle of my thinking about it.

I hope all that repetitiveness cleared everything up. But anyway...

The whole process was orchestrated by the Soul so that my brain would notice the effect of meditation; otherwise, had time elapsed between the meditation and the call, the thought would have been dismissed as just another collection of thoughts about places I had applied to. There would have been no significance and my brain would not have made the connection. This same thing is happening to all of you as well - ALL DAY LONG. It is just that people do not regularly notice what the Soul has said.

What that really means is - if we meditate, or clear our minds the best way that we know how, we will be able to see what is coming for us far in advance. In a way, you will be behaving as a psychic or medium would be. That is what is happening with them; they are more sensitive to the Soul. But bear this in mind - in my opinion - a true psychic will not try to clean out your wallet, if they take money from you at all. Anyone who does, is not genuine and you should avoid them, no matter how authentic reality shows make the APPEAR to be.

Furthermore, because of films like, The Secret, people believe that THINKING and FOCUSING on what they want will bring it to them. But that is not true. That is because the body does not control anything - it simply OBEYS the Soul. And if the Soul wants something, the thinking of the brain is not even necessary. The Soul always gets what It wants - without exception.

So do you realize what this means?

It means that you do not have to worry about anything. You do not have to stress about what you think you want but do not have. This is because the Soul has everything that It wants right now at this particular time. I know many will not believe this, but that is only because those people are still relying on what the BRAIN believes.

Ask yourself this question: Exactly how weak do you think the Soul to be? Do you not know that the Soul controls every single part of Its existence as a human? There is NO middle ground. There is NO compromise with the body. The Soul does not ask the body for permission to do anything. If the body is not experiencing something, that is because the Soul does NOT want it right now. The brain may be trying to process other perspectives, but if the Soul does not wish to experience it, then it will not be experienced no matter how much the body may FEEL it needs it, or how much the brain FOCUSES on it, or how many VISION boards are created. Do you suppose the brain can tell the Soul something It does not already know?

It is only when the brain becomes quiet, usually through meditation, that it and the Soul can become symbiotic; this event will result in the brain being able to see directly, and in real time, what the Soul is doing. Now, an untrained brain may believe that the event is being created by sheer concentration, but that is not true. The brain is simply IN TUNE with the Soul and is able to view the TRUTH of things. Some people call this being psychic, or being a medium. But what is really happening is, the brain is no longer trying to peer through a closed door. During this synchronicity with the Soul, all doors to the Universe are open.

It is at this time that there will be no surprises as to what your future holds because, at long last, the brain will not be out of the loop.

Can you see it at last? There is no need to worry or stress. All you need to do is to stop relying what you THINK YOU KNOW based off of what life APPEARS to be showing you because ALL of it is a serious misinterpretation of what is actually going on.

ALL of life is the result of what the brain has misconstrued about what it thinks is going on around it because people have been trained to believe only what they can see or feel physically. This completely negates the Soul as a source of input in our lives. And negating the Soul will result in the feeling of being lost, empty, confused, and misdirected. But remember, these are only feelings the brain can have because the Soul is NEVER lost, empty, confused, or misdirected.

Wouldn't life be so much better if you could find a way to quiet your mind in a way that works for you. It may not be meditation the way others teach it, but perhaps something original that only you do. It may be a quiet drive. It may be drinking a beer (wink), it may be that space of time just before you drift off to sleep. Whatever it is, find it and make it part of your everyday life.

Life does not happen the way your brain thinks it should be - life happens the way that the Soul wants it to be.

JB Lewis

Are Dreams An Alternate Reality?

The body sleeps but the Soul does not. The body is organic, requiring organic things to survive, but the Soul requires nothing. No air, no food, no sleep.

With this in mind, imagine this...

As your body is sleeping, the Soul would not need to lie there in the bed with Its body, waiting for the body to awaken before activities can begin again. Instead, since the Soul is always connected to Its body by thought, the Soul can go on to have other experiences anywhere in the Universe during this time, having never really departed from the body. The Soul can simply (become) something, (go) somewhere, or (live as someone) else at the speed of thought. The Soul can re-live or continue an experience it had earlier in physical form, or a new experience can be made elsewhere, as long as the process of thought can continue; and since thought is progressive and never stops, there are no real limitations to what experiences a Soul can have, where It can have them, or where they can take place.

But where would this other experience take place? That is the interesting part and may explain why scientists cannot exactly determine from what part of the brain dreams emanate. Let us consider that dreams do not originate within the brain itself, but are merely processed there.

When our eyes are open, our brains process the things that go on in our world and we consider this to be our reality. Dreams are also processed in the brain, so as far as the brain is concerned, dreams are real too. Remember, the brain is just a processor and not the source of original thought. Original thought comes from the Thinker Behind the Thinker; or otherwise known as The Soul. The Soul's thoughts are then processed through our organic CPU; the brain. That is why dreams cannot be pinpointed in the brain - they do not come from the brain - they merely pass through it.

So why are dreams often less clear than the experiences we have in our daily lives? Consider this...

Our brain is the center-point of the body that is encountering all of our daily activities. That is to say, our eyes, skin, nose, ears, and all other sensory abilities are tied directly into the brain; hardwired by a central nervous system, if you will. So all of our daily actions are translated into experience by the brain. However, let us imagine that the Soul continues Its experiences elsewhere, (In-Thought), as the physical body sleeps. Those (other-worldly) thoughts are not being directly felt through the body's tissues, seen through the body's eyes, and are therefore not directly processed through the body's central nervous system. It is comparable to the brain receiving transmissions through a Wi-Fi connection via a plethora of frequencies, and then using programming to decode the frequencies that was meant solely for use with an Ethernet cable - the messages may end up being a bit scrambled.

To clarify:

Dreams, as we call them, are not coming from anything physical that the brain would understand. Instead, the brain is receiving data from some other set of experiences that the Soul is (Thinking) about, and the brain does not know precisely how to interpret the information; but it does the best that it can by using the same ground rules for understanding that it uses in its daily life with the body. This method can often make dreams appear patchy, random, and even incoherent.

Still, the brain will attempt to incorporate these new thoughts, as it would any other, by sending the data through the central nervous system and throughout the body. The body, behaving as a reactor to the brain, which, in turn, is a reactor for the Soul, will try to translate the dream data into a physical response. That is why when a dog dreams that it is running, we can observe the dog animating a run while lying on the floor. That is also why people talk in their sleep when talking in their dreams. That is why the body responds physically when in a sleep state - it is reacting to the data that the brain is receiving and attempts to play it out as it would during its waking hours. The body simply does not know any better because it is a servant, not a creator.

Imagine that while the body sleeps, the Soul continues on with Its adventures. The Soul has no eyes to close, no stomach to feed, no clothes to wear, no muscles that become exhausted. So why would the Soul do nothing simply because Its current body needs rejuvenation? Do you believe the Soul is restricted by the body It uses? Do you figure the Soul cannot do more than one thing at a time? Do you understand that the Soul only uses the body to process the experiences It wishes to have? Can you fathom that the Soul can live more than one life at a time throughout multiple dimensions of existence; and that your brain captures a little bit of those other expressions through the body you currently believe to be YOU?

Since All things are connected, there would truly be no reason to think these things are not possible; there would be no separation to consider, except to say that your current physical brain would be unaware of other physical brains and bodies that are being used by the same Soul. 

In that way, the illusion of separation would exist.

Until now, that is...

JB Lewis

My Daughter, Holly

This morning, my six-year-old, Holly, was gazing off into the ether while wrapped in a blanket. Then she said, out of the blue, "Daddy, the brain is the most powerful part of the body." 

I sort of mumbled back saying, "Yeah," and then continued with what I was doing, not really considering what she was talking about. 

Then she said, "Actually, Daddy, the brain is probably the most powerful thing in the Universe." 

That was when she caught my attention. I stopped and wondered why she would say something like that out of nowhere. Maybe the things I talk about were getting into her psyche. Maybe rather than a foundation of fear, I have subtly given her the tools for success. 

Although her statement came from the very basic edge of where I usually spend my mental contemplations, I realized that she was on the right track to becoming a thinker of unlimited ability. 

"This is how it all starts," I mumbled to myself. This is how children grow up understanding that it is their own thought process that takes them precisely where they want to go in life. Perhaps...just perhaps, I have not completely messed up this whole parenting thing after all.

JB Lewis

The Jet-Stream of the Universe

There is a jet-stream in our atmosphere that is always moving and its path is always fluctuating. There is a current in the ocean that is always moving and its path is always fluctuating. These currents completely circumference the Earth. There is also a current within the field of energy that we know as life. It is always moving and its path is always fluctuating. This current completely fills the Universe.

Besides the constant movement of these forces, the one thing that is the same of them all is, not one of these flows ever goes backwards. And the secret seems to be, if we get into the middle of any of these movements, we can travel effortlessly to any point that current passes. Fish do this in the ocean; they do not have to swim because the current carries them without consideration of what species they are. Birds do this in the sky; they do not have to work, but simply glide on what nature has given them regardless of bird type.

The same is true of the Universal flow of energy. We are welcome to ride the current regardless of race, upbringing, financial status, or belief system. And contained on the route of this electrical flow are all the things we could ever want. All that is needed from us is to reach out and grab it, mentally speaking, claiming it as our own.

But how can one tell if they are riding the wave of life? It all comes down to this simple question. Does your life feel difficult, or does it feel easy? If it feels easy then you are riding the stream. If life feels hard then you have stepped out from the flow and are fighting the current.

So how does one get into, or back into, the jet-stream of the Universe? This may sound impossible but, no matter what you are doing, you must stop. No matter how much you believe you must continue on with your current agenda, you must stop. If the job feels wrong, you must stop and change it. If the relationship feels wrong, you must stop and change it. No matter what the thing is that is going on with you, you must stop and do something else. If you are unwilling to take the chance to make a change, then do not complain that you are not going to where you believe you should. Remember, everything in life is our own fault. The best way to know what to change your life to is to let go of life as you know it; that is, simply turn your back on it. There is no other way. If you quit your job, do not look back in regret. Just be glad in your decision. Do this in everything because that is how the expression of (letting go) works.

You should know this as well: there is nothing about life that is trying to stop you from living freely, or being prosperous, or successful, or being loved. The flow of life is ever moving and has no opinion about you. The flow is progressive and only knows how to create. The only thing preventing anyone from being more today than they were yesterday is what is believed mentally. As my mom always says, "Can't never could."

I've watched people born with no arms learn to drive with their feet, comb their hair, brush teeth, take care of children, and type out a novel with feet faster than some can type with fingers. I have seen a man with no feet or arms become a professor, a motivational speaker, write multiple books and become published, and even marry the love of his life. His name is Nick Vujicic. Look him up on his website: http://www.attitudeisaltitude.com/about-nick-his-story.

These people did all that they wanted because they believed they could. So what is your excuse for not being the person you envision? To find the answer, there is only one place you need to go - the mind.

It is time to ask yourself, "What do I believe?" Are you a Can Do thinker, or a Can Not thinker? This is something only you can answer and change. And more than likely, only someone with a "Live Life Fearlessly" mentality will be able to uproot their current existence and make such a change, but what do you have to lose? What do you have to gain?

The jet-stream of life is waiting for you all, my friends. I'll catch you on the wave!

JB Lewis

Beam Me Up

One of my favorite images is of the Earth, looking back from space. And I realize this next statement will sound strange, but I love it because I cannot see the people on the surface, which makes everything just seem peaceful.

Meanwhile, down on the surface, millions of activities are going on. Billions of people are moving, fighting, struggling, killing, building, destroying, and reshaping the surface of the globe. But from space, none of that is visible. It is just a quiet planet floating in space. 

Then, as I stare longer at the picture, I cannot help but notice that, from space, Earth looks like one giant cell – just like the ones in us, except Earth is a cell in the body of the Universe. And humans resemble that of a destructive virus, moving all over it, devouring the cell wherever opportunity exists and without regard to itself. The virus simply seeks out the next thing it can latch onto, take it over and consume it until that thing is depleted.

I often wonder what we would look like to other beings in the Universe that just happen to be cruising by the Earth in their 2014, top of the line, candy-apple red UFO, with curb feelers, a built-in navigation system, and some fuzzy dice hanging from the anal probe, looking down at us in observance. Would other beings in the Universe consider us to be a good neighbor? Would other beings even want us as a neighbor?

This is how I see things – this lovely blue planet is nothing more than a shared dwelling where all of us humans are, more or less, roommates. And in the vein of being roomies – we all share the electric, the food, the space, and even the same blanket of stars. 

There simply is not enough room upon our small domicile to live comfortably with each other as long as we act violent, angry, greedy, entitled to power, jealous, murderous, envious, and the like? I mean, would any of you actually put up with a roommate that behaved in those ways? Probably not – you may even ask them to move out because these are the most non-progressive ways in which we can live. Nothing good ever comes from such behaviors; no unity, no Utopia, no peace, no lasting prosperity, and no real understanding of what love is. And one does not have to be a psychic, a prophet or a messiah to figure that out. 

I have found myself going out at night, looking up at the stars and jokingly saying, “Okay, I’m ready for the Mothership to come and beam me up now; I’ve had enough.” But the stars just wink back at me and carry-on about their business while I let out a sigh and secretly wish people on Earth behaved all the time as they do when guests come over for a visit. That is polite, caring, generous, loving, and happy.

Still, even though we don’t see beings from elsewhere in the Universe parking on our front lawns in their 1957 rag-top flying machine for a visit; wouldn’t it be nice if, as a collective, we behaved as though we were receiving company at any moment?

A Mental Percentage

It has been said that humans use between 5 and 20 percent of the mind, and I can see how this conclusion has been made. It is not that we cannot use more, but that we were never given a chance to.
From birth we have been told of everything that we cannot do; everything that we should fear; everything that is impossible. Had we been shown precisely the opposite, we would be doing things in our everyday lives with the power of the mind that would make life on Earth the Utopia authors have always written about.

We write about such things, not because they are fantasy, but because there is still a part of us deep inside that knows we have these extra-sensory and super-human abilities built within us - they are simply dormant. But they are still with us because these abilities are programmed into our DNA.

We were programmed this way because of how magnificent and powerful the Soul is. Our bodies were formed as a direct compliment to our Souls. The brain was built to comprehend and carryout anything the Soul gives it, while the body was designed to comprehend and carryout anything the brain gives it. Anything less would be like putting propellers on the space shuttle; the two just would not compliment each other.

You are more powerful and magnificent than you may have ever been told.
You may read these words and believe they are true, but can you feel this truth deep inside?
You are a brilliant Soul, and you did not inherit an inadequate body. 

Wheelchairs, paralysis, handicaps, illnesses, obesity - these are not the limitations of your physical structure, for I have seen a girl dance from a wheelchair; I have seen a quadruple amputee swim the English channel; I have seen illness laden bodies on the verge of death be rebuilt; I have seen overweight beings reform their bodies into a picture of health. I assure you that nothing has ever been put on Earth that can stop you from being yourself unless you allow it.

It all depends on how much you are willing to Think into any given situation.

For example:

A five percent thinker believes nearly everything is impossible. A twenty percent thinker can build a craft that can go into space and back. A fifty percent thinker can manipulate almost everything in a physical environment with only their mind. A one hundred percent thinker is unstoppable.

So - tell me - how much of your brain power are you going to use tomorrow?

JB Lewis

It Takes a Nation

The life we implement for ourselves is solely our doing. But taking responsibility for what we have decided can sometimes be the one thing that we want to avoid at all costs. Certainly it would be easier for our own state of mind to place the blame onto someone or something else; but refusing to acknowledge what we have chosen will not lead to a progression of awareness.

Think of this.

I could find no records that show Hitler, as a member of the Third Reich, as killing one person. Perhaps he did so as a member of the Bavarian-Army during World War I, but not during his reign through WWII.

So who indeed killed more than 11 million people, which included 6 million Jews? Hitler was the mastermind that initiated the chain of events, no doubt; but he did not fire every weapon, he did not operate every prison camp where families were incinerated, and he did not personally steal tons of property, including priceless works of art. It took an entire nation and a lot of the world to allow this to happen. Hitler, as leader, took away the retribution that would normally come with the murder of innocent people, causing those who were already inclined with blood-lust to act out their will freely. And with no fear of penalty under the new laws, the people of a nation were allowed to become who they really wanted to be at that point in their existence. But if you ask anyone who killed millions of people during the war, people will answer, Hitler did it. That is because it is just easier to blame someone else than to admit everyone allowed it.

No one forced the inhabitants of the Earth to take up arms and burn, shoot or otherwise desecrate their former neighbors. They did so of their own free will because Carte Blanche on murder was the new law of the land; all one needed to do to participate was the desire to do so. Through Hitler, one side of the nature of humanity was able to reveal itself. Through the army, people had the means and the justification to do the most heinous acts ever seen to that date. Even today, militaries all around the globe offer the experience of unrefined violence to whoever has a desire for it.

All that is needed is the absence of punishment, accountability, and the care-free displacement of blame.
People say, “They made me do it.”

Or soldiers may say, “It’s the enemies fault.” Or, “I was only following orders.”
This is how humanity lets go of responsibilities.

But remember this: life is a progressive force of creation – it never goes backwards. Life is circular; always complete with no beginning and no end. And although experience is great, as long as people move contrary to progressive behaviors, the expansion of their awareness of how creation works will be slow to come, and the carnage of history will be sure to repeat.

Naturally, humanity will discover the truth over time, for the truth cannot ultimately be suppressed; but until we begin to lay claim to our own actions as a united Whole, we will continue to live in a world seemingly bent on being destroyed. 
We may take as many lifetimes as we wish in order to realize this truth in the flesh, and that is all right; there is no rush since there is nothing else for us to do and no particular place for us to go. But however long we choose to live physically in a world of pain and sorrow simply depends on what level of consciousness we want to experience, and for how long we are willing to endure it. It is all up to us - not someone else.

However, I say this: if you are ready to experience as much pleasure and grandeur that a human body is able to now, in this life – you will have to announce your secrets, dirty deeds, and displacement of blame aloud to the world. That is the only way to release it; otherwise, you are still living a life of denial; you are resisting responsibility as long as you are unwilling to admit these things. And as long as you continue to deny who you've been, you can never reveal who you really are.

JB Lewis

Imagine

Imagine that you are at a carnival, surrounded by every imaginable type of ride in existence. Then, imagine that these rides all become invisible. Of course the rides are still around you – they just cannot be seen by your eyes. Perhaps this is because the rides exist as a different frequency than you, making the eyes unable to focus on them.

Then imagine that you suddenly wish to experience riding on a particular ride, so it becomes visible to you. 

Perhaps this is because your very desire to experience it has realigned the frequency of the ride to match your own – causing it to appear as part of your world.

After you ride the machine, you choose another, and then another; adding to your experience all the rides in the park. During all of these experiences you feel like your desire to ride has created something new, since the rides were unavailable for viewing prior to your wanting of it. However, you have not created anything new – you have simply used for experience, that which was all around you and invisible to the naked eye already.

The same is true of your life. We are not creating new things; we are merely using that which surrounds us at all times, every minute of our existence. Having no visibility of All That Exists does not mean that it is not there. When we want to experience something that is new to us, all of the parts that were previously unseen gather together and come into view, making us believe the illusion of creation. But we are only putting into motion the completeness of creation that surrounds us, and even envelopes us at all times.

That is to say, all that we will ever experience is waiting for us to call upon it. This is possible because creation is already complete. All you have to do is pull from the infinite field of All That Is, and it will form for you; this will occur regardless of a good or bad designation that is assigned to it. All parts of creation are in perfect homeostasis with itself; that is, creation is neutral in nature. Experiences only become positive or negative after we put them into use.

Now imagine that you have the power to call into existence all of the good you have ever dreamed for your life. Suddenly, goodness will no longer be invisible to you – but will take you on the ride of your life.

Light

See yourself as being filled with light. This light is so powerful it leaves no corner of your body in shadow. It illuminates so brightly that your skin becomes featureless as the light radiates outward through it.

Through this light, no gender can be identified, no race can be seen, and no social class is obvious. Even the tiniest of molecules, in the deepest part of your body, are brightened from the inside out.

Because this light fills every available space in your body, no room is left for sickness, worries, or illusions about who you really are.

You are light - and light has no back, no front, no up, and no down. Light goes out in every direction and it does it all at once. This light of yours blankets all that you do, reveals all of your secrets, and does not know how to extinguish.

You are everywhere - You are eternal - You are brilliant

JB Lewis

Letting Go

I have found that every time I have worried about something, it generally came to pass. And since worry is usually brought about over something that troubles us in some way, having the event fulfilled is certainly not a good thing in our eyes.

But as I grow older, I notice that every time I let go of my feelings toward an undesirable circumstance, the event seems to pass over me quietly, having no real effect on me or my life.

What is letting go? How does one accomplish such a mental thing when the entire mind seems to want to replay the stressful moments of life over and over again?

This replay of thought is just the mind's way of role playing every possible outcome it can until a solution is found. However, if the stressful thing is something that the mind has no reference for - that is to say, no previous experience or knowledge to draw from - then no suitable outcome will likely be found. That is where Letting Go becomes useful.

To me, letting go of any undesirable situation is the act of turning off my emotions about that situation. That is, I have no perspective on the issue one way or another; I do not care how that particular thing turns out - I am all right with the outcome no matter what.

I know this may feel impossible, and yes, it will take practice to discipline your mental state to this degree; however, it is worth the effort. I say that because the act of a mental release will free up mental processing power that was previously being consumed by worry or stress. This in turn brings peace, and being filled with peace allows new ideas to flow effortlessly.

To begin practicing the art of letting go, you may want to start with little things where the outcome would truly not matter significantly in your daily life whether you let go of it or not. That is because the action of saying, "I let it go" aloud is monumental. Then, do not think of what you have let go of again in any real capacity. If the thoughts cross your mind during the day or night, simply answer the thoughts with, "I have already let that go." And then breathe deeply, exhaling slowly.

Soon, you will be able to do this same thing with the grandest of circumstances. And as you watch those troublesome things appear in your life, they will have little power over you; and you may have even come across a solution by then because your mind was at peace and able to postulate what the Soul has been trying to tell it.

And the Soul is trying to tell you that no matter what happens in your life - it is not the end. You will not fall over a cliff from your perils, since perils only exist within your thoughts. Thoughts give events power - so in turn, thoughts can take away that same power and make your perceived troubles cower before you. Know that in this very moment, you are all right.

Still, should everything you hold dear suddenly disappear, you must be okay with that; you must be okay with having nothing. Are you okay with having nothing? To find out, ask yourself this: Am I okay with dying today? Am I okay with leaving this life behind right here and now?

If someone puts a gun to your head today, you must be okay with them pulling the trigger and taking you from all that you think is real in your life. If the thought of this makes your heart pulse faster or gives you pause then you are too attached to that which does not matter, and letting go of the other trivial things in your life will be difficult.

When you are okay with the ultimate outcome of death, you will be a master of life. But it won’t be until you are okay with the outcome of unpaid bills, broken relationships, or all the uncertain things of life, that you will begin to feel peace and in control of your life on a daily basis.

For now, let us start small by saying this aloud,

“I let everything go that does not bring me joy.

And so it is.”