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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 if you could lean back into something that would hold, lift and support you throughout every moment of your life? What if everything in the universe was conspiring for your freedom and fulfillment? How would you feel? How would you hold yourself? What might you do?
In this week’s podcast, you’ll learn the three key steps to creating miracles in your life.
Listen to “Behold, Be Held, Be Whole: How to Activate True Healing and Abundance” and discover how truly simple it is to let that wholeness naturally unfold!
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We don’t experience life as it is, we experience it through our perceptions about it. Life is already whole, perfect, and complete, but when we judge ‘life experience’ and let that determine what’s true and possible, we’re stuck with the limited beliefs of the world and can’t fulfill our deepest potential.
In today’s podcast, you’ll discover the fourfold path that sets you free from the shackles of past experience and opens you to the realm of ultimate reality — where unlimited power, abundance, and boundless joy are waiting to pour forth and renew your life on every level! It’s not personal, its principle; it’s not wishful thinking, it’s wish fulfilling!
Our attempts to pray, affirm, or visualize away all the bad, ugly, filthy parts of ourselves and our life are like a seed trying to pray away all the dirt – which is made of everything that has died and decayed before.
If it could, and it succeeded, it would find itself sitting atop a rock, no dirt in sight. And when that sun came out – the very thing that is meant to activate the life within that seed – it would burn it to a crisp!
Instead, that seed naturally plants itself in the dirt. Buries itself in it. It doesn’t reject it, it embraces it. It doesn’t see it as a grave, but a womb – from which it draws rich nourishment and begins to “grow down,” not just up.
As the roots dig deeper, the shoots reach higher. As it descends into the darkness, it ascends toward the light. If you look at an X-ray of an oak tree, the root system is like a mirror of the branches, showing that what’s below is not only as important as what’s above – it’s all one.
Our culture has taught us — and unfortunately, the self-improvement movement has only exacerbated the idea — that the dark, dank, decaying parts are to be fixed, hidden, manifested over, or eliminated altogether.
And all our efforts to change, cover up, or ignore these parts have only served to make them stronger. What you resist, persists. What you fight, you fuel. What you can’t be with, won’t let you be. And like a monster locked in the dungeon, it eventually breaks out and wreaks havoc.
But when we embrace these alienated, judged, rejected aspects of ourselves, we discover they’re not our enemies, but our allies. We realize that they hold new gifts, talents, strengths, and abilities heretofore unimagined.
That angry part of us, denied out of fear and ignorance, becomes our greatest source of power and protection, helping us transform from victims to victors. That selfish child within, covered in shame and guilt, when honored and set free, shows us how to finally take good care of ourselves.
All the dark, dirty places become the rich fertilizer in the soil of our soul that allows the seed of our potential to grow. When we finally relax into the ground of our being, all the energy we had used to stay on the surface becomes like the sunlight that finally activates our evolution.
There is nothing wrong with you. You are not broken or lacking. You were not born in sin, under a bad sign, or with bad genes. Everything you’ve been through and everything you’re experiencing is divinely designed to awaken you to your true identity and fulfill your destiny.
Embrace those aspects you’ve been trying to deny or destroy. They are wounded children acting out, only needing your love to heal. Ask them what their lesson and blessing for you is. Ask them what they need in order to take a constructive place in your life.
Then honor their guidance – and watch as everything you’ve been fighting for begins to emerge in ways that are beyond your imagination, without the stress and struggle of self-improvement.
If you do this, you’ll discover a great truth: The self you’ve been trying to improve never existed. It was a fiction, born in the mind of a child – while your real Self, whole and complete, watched the drama unfold, awaiting the day when you could recognize it.
Just as Michelangelo believed God had already done all the work, and his job was simply to see the completed masterpiece imprisoned in that block of stone and release it – take time today to behold that masterpiece hidden in this block of mortal stone… and set it free.
Until next time, live authentically, love unconditionally, and follow your destiny!
Derek
