Ok so I have arrived at a huge bridge on my Path to Bliss. It is one of those rope bridges that you see in the movies, a big wobbly one. On the other side of the bridge there is a sign that says “Where all your dreams come true”. The sign on this side of the bridge says “Fine then, stay in mediocracy and want”.
I have been at the entrance to this bridge for a while, wondering how to cross it without falling off into the depths below. It wasn’t until yesterday that I really “got it”. I really realized how to cross the bridge.
I am a huge fan of the movie “the Secret”, for me “the Secret” contains alot of truth, it also profoundly moves me everytime I watch it. “the Secret” though focusses on how if we change our thoughts we change our reality. I have been trying to change my thoughts ever since I saw “the Secret” back in 2006 and with some success but not to the magnitude that I know is possible.
Yesterday I was reading a book called “Spiritual Marketing” by Joe Vitale (one of the Secret teachers) and something clicked.
There is no use trying to change our thoughts, we have to change what is beneath our thoughts, which is our beliefs. Our beliefs are the source of our thoughts. Change our beliefs, which are the source of our thoughts and our thoughts change automatically.
So I have a whole lot of beliefs about myself and the world including “You have to work hard for money”, “Noone buys my album” and “When I get back to Sydney I am going to have to take an I.T. job because I could never make a living from music” etc etc.
But there is a belief that underlies all of them: “I’m not good enough”.
So today in the forested Andes of Venezuela I shouted “I’m not good enough” several times really loud. It just made me laugh. Now that I am at ease with not being good enough, I can replace it with “I am so good enough”. I can cross the bridge. And who cares if I fall off into the depths anyway, as Randolph Stone said “We are as afraid of the depths as the ancient mariner was of falling off the Earth at the end of the sea”. Maybe the sign at the bottom says “Where all your dreams come true and more cause you just let go”. Letting go, what a concept. I am letting go now, really I am. Sometimes I see images of a big hammer (gods hammer) smacking at my fingers. God’s love in a hammer – let go my child I am trying to give you more than you could ever imagine.
I will.
Tomorrow.
I just want to suffer in my drama and mediocracy for one more day.
Why?
*sigh*
I can choose lasting bliss in an instant by changing my beliefs and letting go.
It is there for the taking on a silver platter.