Often
times we intend to do all the right things, with all the right motives and
still can’t see why things are grim or don’t turn out the way we planned. Have you ever had one of those days when
nothing seems to go right? Heck…. have you ever had one of those weeks, months or
years? It seems that the black cloud
follows you everywhere you go. Amazingly
enough, going the extra mile is all a part of Karma. Doing what is right when no one else is
watching is a part of Shibumi – self-perfection. So why is it, if you do your best, life still
seems to beat you up and punch you in the face?
Don’t fret, just because it seems so, doesn’t mean it is so:
My Yoga Teacher Swami Buaji, who
passed at approximately 122 years old, once
told me, that your perception, is your reality.
Remember just because you believe it to be true doesn’t necessarily mean
it is. Hundreds of years ago, people
thought the world was flat. Also, there
are many depths of perception; whether you see yourself as giving 100%, others
may not or you see yourself as having a bad day when in fact it may not really
be. It just takes a shift in perception and
what I call a “Paradigm Shift.” I
remember when I was reading a book and I kept reading the word Paradigm. This
may be hard to explain in writing but I was reading the word and pronouncing it
as Para Did GIM. When I mentioned it to
my friend, they asked are you saying, and then the pronounced it Para Dine. I
laughed as if they were wrong, thinking they meant something else and I
repeated Para Did Gim as if I was teaching them. They said “show me the word.” I grabbed the book and did, they laughed and
said, the word is pronounced Para Dine.
My entire Paradigm immediately shifted, what I thought was real, wasn’t
at all, and I was ready to stand my ground.
My life as it was, shifted into an entirely different Paradigm.
Do you see where I am going here? Going the extra mile in your mind, may not necessarily
be true in the real world. The old adage
you get what you pay for is not necessarily true. I remember watching a T.V show that was
researching the mentality of a consumer.
They were serving three different types of water to the restaurant
clientele asking which they thought was best.
One had a beautiful label, the other had a basic label, but a beautiful
bottle and the other had a spider lying in the bottom of a bottle. This bottle was carefully designed with a
very interesting logo and slogan. Most people would be sickened by the spider,
but the waiter had told everyone that his was a tradition in a particular country
and the spider was known to increase health and vitality due to its natural
properties.
One bottle of water was $5, the
other $10 and the spider water was a whopping $50 per bottle. Do you believe, people were actually ordering
the spider water? Thank goodness at the
end they revealed to the watchers that it was a rubber spider and somewhat of a
gag. But the reality is people believed
the story and their paradigm had shifted.
Oh, by the way, all of the water was exactly the same and directly from
the tap in the kitchen. Perception is
reality, but only your reality!
Do
you believe that you are giving your ultimate best and living up to your
potential? If not maybe it’s high time
you did. A big factor in achieving your
potential is for every potential negative thought or destructive behavior in
your life, you have to nurture positive behaviors. Those negative behaviors make your life that
much more difficult. To nurture a proper
positive reality and perspective you have to start to shift your perception and
attitude.
This is not an article or blog
post on how to do that, however, it can help you be on your way toward making
the necessary changes and to do a great deal of reformatting and reanalyzing. Getting the pulse on what you think is most
important. Take the time and search for the truth, and retrain your mind, the
truth is out there. It will be well
worth the effort.
In my book I talk about this and so
much more. I am still offering my book
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