I’ll tell you a little about what’s been going on with me lately. I have been realizing things about myself that were either unknown to me or just outside of my conscious awareness. I’m making connections and making distinctions that – while not always pretty or flattering – are pretty accurate, and the truth is setting me free as I open myself up to it.

We need to become aware of the things that are true about ourselves (or that we think are true but are actually false). To create awesome lives, we need to see and know what we do not see and know about ourselves right now.

We’re all going through our lives with blind spots. These blind spots come in all shapes and sizes. The problem is that these gaps in our fields of perception blind us to a lot of stuff that is right in front of our faces. I’m not being hyperbolic here. I really mean that these things are right there to be perceived, and we just don’t see them at all. Yet, we are constantly bumping into them like invisible force fields, closed glass doors that we think are open, or invisible glass ceilings that we do not think we can pass through. As this happens constantly (again, no hyperbole intended) we wonder what is going on. Hint: You attracted it through the resonance of your personal energy field(s) with other energies that harmonized well-enough with the circumstance to bring it into your experience.

To the extent that we do not perceive our true and false selves and to the extent that we deny, suppress, and ignore our false and true selves, we suffer. This lack of perception leads to disruptions in our connections to the powers that are our birthright. As a result we experience suffering and pain. We create illusions that reinforce the lies that have become attached to our being (because we allowed them to attach themselves in the first place), sapping our strength and power. We do not fully experience our connection to the Source because we are pointing our attention in the wrong directions.

If it is the things that we do not see and do not know that we most need to deal with in order to experience our true selves and our true capabilities. How do we do that? Here are a few suggestions:

1. Get someone else with a different perspective to help you see the things that are hiding in plain sight. You need someone who will not let you off the hook and who will hold you accountable for the way you are creating your reality.

2. Remember a truth that is sprinkled throughout this blog, your experiences are a mirror of what is happening within you. Everything! When you see or experience anything that creates any kind of automatically emotionally charged reaction for you, realize that you attracted that circumstance and your reaction gives you clues as to what you really think and feel. These thoughts and feelings are clues to your deepest motivations or what I like to call intentions.

3. Pretend that you are just stepping into the middle of your life for the first time, right now. You could imagine that you are an alien from an advanced civilization who has hijacked your body. This being comes from a world that has already solved all of the problems and issues that plague you and many of your fellow humans at this time. This being would have access to your thoughts and feelings and memories. What would this advanced, enlightened and absolutely compassionate being’s perspective be on your experience of your existence? What would he or she find confusing, amusing, limiting, untrue, etc?

4. Keep a journal or some other kind of record of things that have your attention and look for patterns and themes. Realize that anything you experience as outside of you is an excellent reflection of the drama of what is actually going on within you. These can be waking or dreaming experiences, “real” or “imagined.” They can involve situations that have no obviously direct connection to you. It doesn’t matter. They are all giving you useful information that can help you transform your life when you pay attention. If you are not yet skilled at interpreting your reality or “reading between the lines of your life,” get someone who can help you develop those skills so that you can understand what your life is telling you about what is happening within you.

5. Come up with other ways that feel joyful to create more objectivity with regard to your experiences. Come up with other creative ways to hold a mirror up to your experience.

Who we are is more than enough. This is not what we have been taught so far. For most of us this idea has not yet become true. There is nothing deficient or lacking in our being. We just happen to have acquired some things that are not in harmony with the truth—with who we actually are. When we release these things (and release them we will!) our lives become unfolding adventures that are beyond our ability to imagine at this time. We exist to experience a Life of infinitely unfolding possibilities.

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I am going to share something with you that has taken me a long time to learn. But if you apply it to your own daily habits and practices, your life will take off in ways that you cannot imagine.

One way to look at human beings is through what I call the four levels of power. I have continually found these four distinctions to be incredibly useful in my life. They are probably not new to most of you:

• Physical
• Mental
• Emotional
• Spiritual

These realms of power have been listed in ascending order of relative frequency, meaning that the energies associated with each level are increasingly refined, and therefore more powerful, as you go down the list.

Think of how much more powerful an atomic bomb is compared to a stick of dynamite. The atom bomb derives its power from forces that operate at the atomic level (relatively more refined). The dynamite derives its power from the molecular/chemical level of energy (relatively less refined). As another example, who makes more money? Is it the construction workers who are actually building a skyscraper or the people who envisioned the skyscraper in the first place?

This understanding of relative frequency has been absolutely huge for me. I have found that spending time and effort in developing habits and applying disciplines to these four levels of power in accordance with their relative frequencies has helped me to transform my entire life.

I emphasize working consciously on all four levels of power because of my personal experiences. For a long time, I just focused on developing the soul level of my being (the subtlest level of power yet discovered) and applied spiritual disciplines to that level of my being exclusively. I believed that that the other levels of power would soon fall into line as I worked exclusively on developing my soul.

Well, I found that (while there was a lot of truth to this belief) I had made a significant error in my interpretation of Jesus’ teaching to “seek first [God’s] kingdom…” (Matthew 6:33 NIV). For a very long time, I interpreted this to say, “seek only [God’s] kingdom…” And while I am grateful that I created such a strong soul foundation, once I started consciously incorporating disciplines related to the emotional, mental and physical realms of power, my life really took off in incredible ways. I want the same for you.

So please, please, please in your habits and disciplines give your time and attention to the development of your four realms of power in accordance to their relative frequencies! By this I mean that you more give time and focused attention to each realm of power’s relative frequency increases. Take consistent daily actions with regard to these four energies of your life, and you will see your life become a constant stream of incredible miracles!

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