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Now I’m sure if you feel strongly about your commitments you’ll be wanting to defend your position and say things like, “well if I don’t put so many hours in at work, the bills won’t get paid and we’ll lose our house”, or something to that effect. If that’s the case, then quite frankly, you’re out of balance and most likely, living beyond your means. The circumstances you’re in now are simply a reflection of what you believe. The idea that you need to live in a certain neighborhood, or a certain type of house, or drive a certain type of car, or send the kids to a certain type of school all stem from preconditioned thoughts of the way you see life, it’s not set in stone, you can change this if you choose.

Now don’t get me wrong, you should live the lifestyle your heart desires, and maybe there are other ways of attracting money that doesn’t involve you devoting so much of your time. Ultimately, you deserve to live a life that is a reflection of your abundant, joyous Self, it’s just that you may not have found a way to do it so that you are in harmony with YOU.

More tomorrow…

Angelo Campione

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The “XY” principle is something that came to me recently and explains desire and achieving in a basic sense.

Firstly “X” is what you desire and “Y” is what’s required in order to have “X”, so if you want “X” then you need to do “Y”.

Let’s say you want a house (X), you think about the area you want it to be, how many bedrooms, the type of kitchen, the amount of land, etc. The thoughts fill you and you feel the inspiration. You begin doing research on the Internet to find it. You then find a couple of homes that look like they fit all the criteria and you go to the bank and sit with the manager to work out how much of a loan you can service and then go to look at the houses and put in an offer. All these steps that happened after the thoughts of your desire are your “Y”.

Now what you find when your desire fills you with enthusiasm, is that you FEEL INSPIRED to take steps. If the steps feel like a natural progression, it all flows beautifully but if you find yourself beginning to force yourself to do things because you think that that’s what’s required in order to get what you want, then you’re going down the path of struggle and most likely it’ll feel like you’re beating your head against a brick wall.

The most important part of this is getting in touch with the enthusiasm for the things you desire and see yourself already enjoying them in your mind, that’s the “X” at it’s most powerful. If thinking about your “X” doesn’t bring up feelings of joy, then it’s not really something you desire at a deep level, it’s just something you think would be nice at some point. Don’t waste your time with this, unless what you want is in fact struggle!

Despite what “realists” will tell you, life is supposed to be fun and joyful, so why not spend your time thinking about things that stir up this joy in you? When you feel yourself overflowing with joy, the action you take is super charged and it doesn’t feel like work to you, it simply feels like a natural progression to the next joyful moment. And remember that no matter where you find yourself (physically or emotionally) you do have the ability to reach for a thought that can give you relief if you’re not feeling so good right now.

Angelo Campione

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Think about someone you consider has been or is successful, and then ask yourself, “What do they have that I don’t have?”

Are they smarter than you? More persistent? In the right place at the right time? Better looking? Lucky? Well connected? Have a better family background? More creative? Have more money? Are more educated? Have a bigger house? Have a better car? Have fame?

This line of questioning assumes that you do feel that there is something lacking within you so that it feels that others are in some way in a better position than you.

If you feel full and you know that everything you desire is already within you and it’s simply a matter of allowing life to unfold, then this won’t apply to you, but you may find it interesting reading anyway.

If there is something that you want that someone else has and you feel that you’ll unlikely achieve this, then you’re resisting the natural flow within you and blocking yourself from receiving.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that you want that you can’t have, it’s a birth right that whatever is within your realm of desire, is within your ability to have in your NOW. I know that it may not feel that way when you see lots of obstacles in your way, but it is assured.

The paradox is that if you feel that the chances of you succeeding are low then no matter what formulas or guides for success you find or actions that you take, you won’t succeed. It’s a little trick of life that if you know that something is possible for you, then you can allow it in.

When you want something, every fibre of your being needs to be in agreement with it otherwise it simply won’t happen. It’s like getting into your car and saying to yourself, “I’m going to work now”, but then finding that you’re arm doesn’t move to stretch out and turn the key to start the engine.

I had an interesting experience recently, where I had an outing and needed to get up very early to get there on time. The alarm went off and my mind was saying, “it’s time to get up now”, but only the muscles in my right arm flickered like they were getting ready to push me out of bed, the rest of my body wasn’t responding. Without the full cooperation from the body, I wasn’t going anywhere, it was interesting to watch this and eventually I got myself into alignment to get out of bed because the outing was important to me.

So why wouldn’t you allow yourself to succeed at something that you want? It’s because of beliefs that have been established through past conditioning or childhood.

In theory it’s quite simple to say, “well I’m going to allow success”, but the reality is that it’s a gradual process of turning around and changing the old deep beliefs.

So how do you change the deep beliefs that don’t support you?

You do it through looking for things that have you feel better in this moment.

This is a KEY aspect, look for joy everywhere, the little things, the big things, anything. I know that it’s not easy when there’s so much stuff around you that triggers past pain, it can be in something a colleague says or does, something a family member or partner says or does, something you see on TV, something the government does, absolutely anything can be a trigger point.

If you start by becoming aware of when you don’t feel so good and see if you can find the trigger point, see if you can allow that you are going to be triggered (I call it getting “zinged”) and forgive yourself for being zinged. Slowly, with this awareness, you’ll get to a point where the awareness will grow to the extent that you will realise that something has happened that you would normally have reacted to (a zinger), but now you have a choice and you can respond from a place that feels better to you, rather than more pain.

A final point I want to make is that the essence of who we are at our core is the same as that which created the universe, this energy is capable of anything and it’s at our command! We generally have an inkling that we are powerful beings but we’re often fearful of letting that power out because we think that we’ll annihilate with it. For this reason, it’s a gradual process of learning to allow that power to come out so that it’s used to experience joy rather than create pain.

Angelo Campione

Student Is Ready