Dear friends and clients,
This week let's look at Strategy 17 and 18 from my upcoming book "Wake up, Jump into your life." 

Wake up, Jump into Your Life - A Journey into Self Observation

By Steve Lentini
 

 Twenty Strategies for a Life of Joy, Satisfaction and Success

So let's take a look at Strategy Seventeen and Eighteen this week.

Strategy 17 - Possibility is under everything.

My teacher, Toni Stone, speaks and writes about this topic often. How many times do you come upon a situation that seems hopeless? You feel totally stuck, blocked, like there is an immovable object in your path. I know in my own life, that I have felt this way many times and since learning that possibility is under everything, many miracles have happened. Toni says that "no limitation is the true condition of being. If we start to see evidence of what's wanted next...it will occur faithfully like a movie that follows the coming attractions."

Waking up, is the process of relearning everything that we have previously been taught. It is our default patterns, the automatic responses to every situation, which we have to recognize and eliminate to relearn a new response. Relearning that possibility is under everything, is a new response for many of us and it probably applies to all of us sometimes.

When faced with what seems immovable, like an immense obstacle has just been placed on your path, thinking, "Ok, there is possibility here, no matter what this seems like and I am going to see it," gives us the space to relax and see what could be. Sometimes, waiting is key or taking no action. Have you ever had a challenge appear, fill you with anxiety and fear and then a few days later  the problem seemed to take care of itself?

The key to having the "possibility appear" is to relax your grip, meditate on the possibilities. Asking "show me the possibilities," and waiting for intuition to guide you to the correct response. Perhaps someone will call with an answer or some unexpected thing just happens. Maybe you will get a deep feeling about what to do, but GOD, or Source or the Universe will respond if you allow space for the help to come. It starts with believing that possibility is under everything. WE ARE ALWAYS GETTING WHAT WE BELIEVE, NOT WHAT WE WANT. Change your belief to the idea of "possibility is under everything."  

No matter what, do not get thrown off your path by what seems immovable. Re-program your mind to believe that "possibility is under everything." Imagine approaching each and every person and situation in your life with that belief. What is your current belief system? How do you operate now when challenges present themselves? Our lives form around our predominant thoughts and beliefs, so what kind of life would form around the thoughts and beliefs that "possibility is under everything?" 

We live in a galaxy and in the midst of blackness, everything required for life is right here, on Earth. The view from space is that we are surrounded by nothingness and yet in the middle of space, here is Earth, with all that we require for life. Doesn't that give rise to the idea that possibility is under everything?  

Relax, loosen your grip, you are not the general manager of the Universe. You have a higher power all around you, demonstrated in nature and in this Universe every moment. All things are in perfect order in the Universe, so then why not in your life? Perhaps life is moving you in a new direction and it seems "awful" to you. With the idea that "possibility is under everything," you could be in gratitude for what is now coming your way and be filled with excited anticipation for what the new possibilities are. You could relax in that every situation seems "out of control," just knowing that nothing is out of order and that new possibilities will appear. Imagine how much joy and satisfaction you could add to your life with that new view?

IT IS POSSIBLE, ISN'T IT?

Strategy 18 - Satisfaction is first a decision, feelings follow.

In Western Culture, we are always looking for something or someone to make us happy and satisfied. We are working at a job and thinking about how we'll feel when we get the "dream job." We are never quite satisfied with what we have. On the contrary, we are in the state of "we'll be satisfied when." When we get that new house, new job, or move to that new town. How could we be satisfied "when," if we are not satisfied now? Imagine how your life would be if you started everything from being happy. "To-be-satisfied let everyone know 'happy' is where you start from...no one has to make you happy, or work hard to satisfy you," says Toni Stone.

What would that message, of being satisfied no matter what, say to others around you? How would that change your current circumstances?  

Being satisfied would show up in your language, your posture, action and your willingness to include others. Your boss, significant other and all others would notice the difference. Their response to you would have to be different if you previously showed up as "dissatisfied and unhappy." 

By making the choice to be satisfied first, eventually the feelings of satisfaction would follow. By "acting as if," your mind and body would follow. Soon, no matter the circumstances, you would be satisfied. That attitude would follow you everywhere as satisfaction attracts more to be satisfied about. Choosing satisfaction creates an attitude of gratitude and prosperity is a natural outgrowth of that gratitude. 

Try choosing satisfaction. Test it. See what happens. Notice how those around you respond.  

Being satisfied is also a spiritual state. It says to GOD, or your higher power, Source or the Universe that you are happy with "what is so" in your life. Not being satisfied is an arrogant state. That state of mind says to GOD, the Universe or Source, that you could do it better, that you are not happy with how you life is and with what is being presented to you. That arrogance says "things are not in perfect order" and yet if that were true, wouldn't this Universe cease to exist? Wouldn't the earth and everything on it go flying out of control through the Universe if things were not in perfect order? Then how is it that our lives are not in perfect order just how they are?  The unsatisfied state of mind makes you the General Manager of the Universe. There is no room to help you, the energy of the Universe or God has no place to enter you and flow through you, after all you know better. Who would want to help someone with that attitude? 

When you make the decision that things are in perfect order, you decide to be satisfied no matter how things seem. You are grateful or in gratitude even for the people or events that seem awful. Wonderful things appear when we make that choice. I live between the two states, being human. I notice that when I am satisfied, everything flows easily in my life. I am happy and filled with joy when I choose to be satisfied. When I catch myself not being satisfied, I notice how everything seems difficult, hard and joyless. I realize that choosing satisfaction allows me to see the miracle that living in a galaxy is. Miracles show up everyday. New clients appear. Extra income abounds. New partnerships are on the horizon that will take my work around the country and the world and it started with being satisfied and grateful.  

So here is the uncomfortable part. Choosing satisfaction is not a natural state for most of us. You can always find those that will convince you that being dissatisfied is better. Complaining and complainers abound. Which will you choose? Why choose being satisfied? It’s probably not for you. You will be happy when..........????

 Grateful and Satisfied,

 Steve