Seems to me providing you can get your limbs moving, your bowels moving, can pee, can breathe, can eat, can sleep, can wash, have some shelter, clothing, congenial company, a few essential tools to do what you have to do (computer, phone, vehicle for instance) and the facility for having a few original ideas, life can go on and the world is rife with possibilities. All the rest is just stuff in the head. But in the same way people love watching horror movies, they love creating them in their head. It’s for the adrenalin. Adrenalin is highly addictive.
The opposite of fuelling the adrenalin addiction is relaxing into the moment, breathing, softening the muscles, allowing the mind to settle, allowing yourself to enjoy the simple yet profound fact and miracle of being alive, regardless of how benignly or otherwise the external action seems to be panning out for you and trusting that everything is essentially OK and will continue to be so.
The difficulty in doing so mostly derives from internalized parental voices telling you life is meant to be a struggle.
Struggle is a choice you make
However the struggle is merely with yourself, in terms of how much resistance you put up in any single moment to whatever life is throwing at you.
If instead you stay in the non-struggle state and are willing to receive all incoming information as an expression of the Tao’s love for you, no matter how dastardly and convincing its disguise to the contrary, something remarkable happens. The Tao somehow eases up on you and grants you unexpected boons, turn-arounds, healing miracles and so forth, which radically alter external conditions for the better without you having to meddle to make it so.
Adopting such a stance requires great courage of course, but courage isn’t about being without fear. To the contrary, it’s about being willing to let go into the trembles and continuing with a cheerful heart regardless of outcomes.
Have it any way you want it
The Tao is a mirror. Whatever story you project onto it is the story that will manifest for you.
Project a story of life being benign and that no matter what happens, you’ll always be provided for, indeed that the harder it swings out to the apparently negative, the harder it will swing back to the apparently positive, and that’s what you’ll get.
Of course the propensity for running a horror movie is always there – that tendency to tense the chest and inhibit the breath to pump the adrenals – but the more often you allow yourself the alternative, the more habitual it becomes, until over time, the horror movie phases become the rare exception.
Alleviating suffering
With but a brief intermission of a few hundred kilometers, which I felt obliged to curtail because my co-pilot’s reaction times seemed a bit slow for dead-of-night driving and his veering between lanes was making me nervous, I’ve just driven 2,000 kilometers up from Ibiza in three days, or more precisely Denia on the mainland, to London, with a 24 hour stop-over in Barcelona simply because the weather was too nice to leave behind and I love that city anyway, and am watching the thoughts and realizations unfold now as my mind re-steadies itself and readjusts to being on still ground here in the intensity of London, where I’ve come to do a vehicle changeover, a slew of meetings and three workshops up and down the length and breadth of the land.
And as I go, I’m always seeking the common denominator – those factors that affect all of our lives, so I can offer the appropriate remedy. That’s the essence of my work and has been for decades. It all started when I was a small child and was struck and upset by the inordinate amount of suffering others were feeling around me. And though not particularly selfless, indeed often prey to narcissism and even egocentricity, I’ve always been instinctually impelled to make things better for others by helping to alleviate the suffering however I could, in the same way I do it for myself.
To wit, do be on the lookout for emails telling you about some free videos this week containing powerful remedies for the main areas of strife in life.
Meantime, I’m sending you an infinite wave of deep love and peace to ignite those qualities within you at a cellular level and hope you’re feeling it a bit.
With love, Supercharged
Project a story of life being benign and that no matter what happens, you’ll always be provided for, indeed that the harder it swings out to the apparently negative, the harder it will swing back to the apparently positive, and that’s what you’ll get.
