Today’s post will be brief, as I am also doing a guest post for 30pov.com. It won’t be up until around the 30th, but take a look at the site, and if you find yourself in your thirties, go ahead and get signed up to do posts with them.
18. Blind Spot Meditation: Werner Erhard once said, “Most people don’t make any distinction between an experience and a memory of an experience. They treat them both the same. And what’s worse is they don’t know they treat them both the same. That’s called blindness. To not know is one thing. To not know that you don’t know, that’s tragic.” (emphasis added) (Click here for a site full of great Erhard quotes.)
Method 18 is a very simple method to discover and identify what you don’t know. This can be extremely useful in many life experiences for differentiating between what is actually occurring in reality and what is occurring only in the mind. In friendships and relationships, this can make the difference between harmony and strife.
Use a journal, or simply use your mind. If there is a particular situation bothering you, write all that you know about the situation, and then write all that you don’t know. Once you have identified that you don’t know something, you then have choices. You can decide to investigate the things you don’t know. You can let go of assumptions and beliefs that have no content in reality. You can free yourself from the pressure of pretending to know things that you really don’t know.
Over time, this approach will allow to you seek and find the tings you don’t know. It will afford you the freedom to operate without having to know everything. It will bring you closer to your true biological nature as a creature on this planet.
19. The Million Dollar Experiment: Make note, again, that all of these tools, methods, meditations, etc. are nothing more than experiments for humans to discover more about themselves, and to gain in awareness, authenticity, power, and joy. It is my firm belief that there are no beliefs inherent in Creative Deconstruction.:) There is only experiment. Experiment, gather data, move on. Repeat.
This particular experiment was started by Steve Pavlina. Click here to check out his excellent website. The basic premise is based on Steve’s take on the Law of Attraction, which has been given much attention and fanfare since the movie The Secret came out a few years ago.
For the sake of brevity, I will only give you the barebones approach to the exercise and let you do your own background research by providing the links. You will find the main experiment page by clicking here.
From that site, you can easily find your way to Steve’s other articles about the Million Dollar Experiment. There is a particularly interesting one on experiment 2.0 found by clicking here.
All that the experiment requires is taking 60 seconds a day and repeating the following intention created by Steve Pavlina:
“In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all, I intend $1,000,000 to come into my life and into the lives of everyone who holds this intention.”
If you still need to challenge the slave mentality that having loads of money is a bad or negative thing, read more by Pavlina on this subject. Suffice it to say that the more money and resources you have, the more positive change you can make in the world, if that is your desire. Imagine if you had millions of dollars to give away. You could put put inspiring or life changing films for large audiences. You could support hordes of start-up businesses that operate in line with your ideals. You could do almost anything you want on a more massive scale.
By simply complaining and hating on the wealthy, you keep yourself enslaved in your own mind. Much of this stems from jealousy over not having things the way you want them. Think about what you really want to accomplish and you might realize that a lot more money would help you in accomplishing many of your goals. Of course, if you think that I think that “it’s all about money,” check out my earlier post, “It was never all about money.”
I wish you all $1,000,000 to do with as you please. Make life work for you.
As Dr. Hyatt said on a video I watched today called the You Mantrum, “The world has no troubles. The trouble is your brain.”
Enjoy Everything.
-Garrett
