Tips About How Humans Function
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In modern society, we are often bombarded with complex “regenerating thought programs”– patterns of contagious cultural information that parasitically pass from one person to another, altering the behavior of those who receive it. As a child, you were taught about the world as it was seen by adults. AI has made this pattern even more complex.
You soon learned what is sacred and profane, and what was important or unimportant for them. With this information, you created a value system of which you attempted to live. Much of how you now see yourself is based on this.
If your parents belonged to a specific religious faith or organization, you may have grown up to believe in the tenants of that religion — practicing its rites, rituals and ceremonies, and accepting its beliefs about faith, God, morality, and what is good or bad. You may even have struggled to act in ways that you thought others in this religious group would approve rather than saying and doing what you genuinely felt. Now, you may feel disconnected from whatever God or the divine might be, yet you still sense that pain of longing.
For some of us, it may seem that organized religion is the only place to go for spiritual sustenance. This is just not the case. In our increasingly digital and globalized environment there are many new options available to us to nourish that inner hunger.
Disconnecting into Nowhere
Organized religion can often offer many powerful social connections for the conscious business person and in many communities a church, temple, mosque or spiritually based group can help to introduce an individual to the community. But then, there is that “pain of longing.” As you begin to explore spiritually based business models it is not necessary for you to embrace a dogmatic religious approach, nor reject religion as evil or unnecessary. You will simply follow the Path.
Do you strain to be “good” so that you might get to Heaven or avoid Hell? Are you often emotionally and psychologically tortured by your inability to follow a specific religious path, especially a path defined for you by your parents? Do you feel torn from the group which has defined who you are? Is your internal sense of community tied to a specific religious organization with rules and regulations that do not truly address your needs? What is a person to do when he/she always feels imprisoned by a religious philosophy?
Are you tired of listening to long debates about who understands what God is or what God wants, and what our relationship with him (her or it) is, or should be? Are you one of those individuals who watch all of the debating, disagreements and competitive talk about God and religion and cannot see how any of this talk can help you to understand who you really are?
If you choose to dig deeper and explore your faith and the teachings of your own religious upbringing you may end up confronting unsupportable beliefs, unnecessary struggle and hypocrisy and run into problems with the clergy and religious hierarchy. What can you do then?
It is easy to sell yourself on the idea that every positive action has, at its most extreme, a negative response and vice versa. To be truly happy you must transcend this idea of karma, detaching yourself from the idea of a positive and the negative sense of cause and effect. Is there cause and effect? — of course, this is basic mathematics! But good and bad karma? — maybe not.
I am more personally interested in the middle path of ethical clarity than I am with traditionally morality. Identifying with only one side of a pair of opposites will bring you suffering.
To become detached from what is not important, it is useful for any spiritually based businessperson to know the following truths about how the mind works.
With rare exception these 9 things are true:
• Human beings love comfort and habit.
• Every action has a reaction.
• As a thought is repeated, we speak it and act on it.
• The repetition of thought and word creates habit, desire and expectation.
• When an action is done to fulfill expectations, this creates a reaction.
• The mind naturally becomes attached to these actions and reactions. If you do not like the reactions to what you have done, you will likely think of ways to avoid the repetition of these unpleasant experiences.
• You will have ideas that cannot be acted upon immediately. Any thought, though not acted upon, can form emotional patterns/psychic grooves on a cellular level which is called “cellular memory.”
• You can free yourself from all these actions and reactions by embracing the Five Pillars
• This process begins with meditation/introspection.
The Takeaway
When you create a consciously based business that integrates spiritual principles, you have access to most of what you will ever need. And if you desire no more or less than what you truly need, you will not suffer and your business will prosper.
This story is an excerpt from my course “How to Become Really Wealthy”
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