Posts categorized "Happiness"

The psychopaths in our lives; what can be done?

There are people in your life who are never wrong. With the blame for everything being external, there is this total commitment to being right.

This common and powerful delusion is caused by a total service to ego identity. Lacking faith in anything other than their own ego, admitting any form of imperfection feels akin to self-destruction. 

Ego-centeredness (self-centerdness) destroys relationships by making everyone wrong and guilty. To defend against the perceived threat of ego-frailty, no insult or attack is too great. Everyone around must be made lesser for them to feel superior. The problem is also clear at work. These people are very difficult to employ because they take no accountability. It's everyone else's fault and to suggest anything else is perceived as a personal attack. 

Yet how they insult, attack, and cause drama yet none of it is this seen as a mistake. Apology and course-correction is impossible. Kindness is also impossible because there is always a negotiation in play to take and get more. To this type of person, there is only one goal: building up a grandiose ego identity. It doesn't matter if they know nothing about a particular topic, they are the expert. Doesn't matter if their relationships are a disaster, it's someone else's fault. The company is losing money, blame a colleague or even the customers. The rest of us only exist to validate their need to make their own egos more important than anything else in life.

When you think about it, this is psychopathic behavior. Common, but psychopathic nonetheless. As a wife or husband, their partners are made to live in guilt, fear, and trauma. As a parent, children are used to build up their own image of success. All of life becomes a game to look important, rich, attractive, smarter, more well-travelled, whatever it may be--and to this individual, those attributes where they see themselves as strong are all that matter. 

What can be done to change such a person? Nothing, really. So fixated on this one goal, they would sacrifice anyone, anything, or any situation at the altar of their own ego. If you confront the person, they will either cut you out of their life or claim to need more time to work on it. They will claim that they are doing better, working on it, making progress. Yet the same behaviors continue, and nothing really changes because the thought assumptions haven't changed. 

When we humble ourselves and realize that we are not special, life opens up, flows, and feels lighter. Love becomes our natural, uninterrupted state. When ego thoughts subside, we serve higher ideals. We value who and what we have. We serve. We take care of ourselves and look within, accepting that there will always be problems in the external world but none of it is actually real.

But the determined, inflexible psychopath will never choose to change. They are blind to life's beautiful dimensions that can only be found if and when they do.

Sacrifice of ego-identity is ultimately a personal choice and only tends to happen when there is a crisis. But even then, most people don't make the transition. The most difficult thing to understand is that there is no changing a psychopath. You can only stop playing their games, work on your own spiritual development, and accept the consequence that you are likely going to lose the person. As difficult as this is, the cost of sacrificing your life on the altar of someone else's ego is too great. 

Perfect love is possible, both within yourself and when shared with another similar person. Do not fear psychopaths, play by their rules, and sacrifice this eternal present moment for the benefits of any arrangement or situation. God and reality, itself, have something superior for you beyond the bounds of ego.


Learning to breathe

After my 50 years in this world, yesterday I finally learned how to breathe. 

For some time now, I have been struggling with low energy. My eyes were almost always tired, my vision blurry, and I constantly wanted to close my eyes. By the end of the day, I felt lousy and oftentimes drank too much just to feel good in the evening (which, of course, compounds the problem at the start of the next day).

I tried everything to improve this, but nothing seemed to work. Then yesterday, I watched a few videos by Dr. Ekberg, who offers a new perspective on health.

Another health issue I've had my entire life is high blood pressure. At least the doctors would tell me it's a problem, but I would never take their prescriptions because I simply don't believe pharma is the path to healing. Thankfully, Dr. Ekberg has found an approach that works. Learning to breathe properly. 

In this video, he explains proper breathing as the way to heal from high blood pressure and a improve overall health. I had been taking short, shallow breaths. I was not inhaling properly or exhaling properly. As a result, I was not getting enough oxygen (the inhale) and was not regulating blood pressure (the exhale).

He suggests, in the video, that you try this method for 5-10 minutes per day for 6 months. This is enough time to make proper breathing an unconscious habit. In my case, I started yesterday and have yet to go back to my old breathing pattern.

I feel like a new man. My eyes are great. I feel relaxed. I feel more energy, throughout the day, then I can remember feeling. Proper breathing is a cornerstone to good health. It blows my mind that I have never been taught how to breathe. Thank you, Dr. Ekberg, for everything you are teaching. All of it is true.  

 


How to not care what people think of you

Some people say that they don't care what people think. I truly mean it.

To care what anyone else thinks is to give them control over your life. It also adds layers of confusion into your thinking. One person might react this way, another that way.

How can you be sure what to do or say? How can you even know what anyone is thinking or if they are even thinking of you at all?

Better to care what you think and believe about yourself.

  • Am I being loving?
  • Generous?
  • Forgiving?
  • Honest?
  • Am I willing to tell a necessary truth?
  • Am I fighting for a better future for my children and grandchildren?
  • Am I creating value at work and doing the job I am paid to do?
  • Am I fair to everyone, even my enemies?
  • Do I see myself as an equal to all brothers and sisters?
  • Do I generally want to make people feel good and set them free?
  • Do I feel good and am I happy?
  • Am I in a state of internal peace?

When I can answer those questions to my satisfaction, I don't care how anyone else reacts to me.

Your thoughts and reactions are about you, while I am free. I am good. I welcome anyone and everyone with open arms if there is respect going both ways.

But if you are the kind of person who cares what people think...here's what I do think of you: if you seek these types of positive ideals, you have my admiration! To the extent that you fall short in terms of basic human values, I hope and pray for a change of heart. What are you doing with your life? You aren't shining your truth. You can do so much better, and your life could be wonderful. As it is, I don't think you are happy. You are suffering.

Now stop caring what I think and fix that. You are capable of healing yourself and fixing your world in love, truth, and freedom. The real truth about you is that you were born perfect and remain so. 


Tucker Carlson on the topic of honesty

On a lazy Sunday, I enjoyed listening to Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson talk openly for 3 hours. A recurring theme from Tucker's side was the importance of honesty. 

As I write about in The Switch, all our problems are rooted in dishonesty. When we are dishonest, our suffering is ongoing, and crisis is inevitable in time.

When we commit to telling only the truth and wanting only the truth, problems cannot exist. We are aligned with reality. We sort out misunderstandings, avoid error, and there is a lightness to life.

In this interview, Tucker is a perfect reflection of this lightness. He is having so much fun it almost appears childlike at times. I, too, have experienced this same joy for so many years now. One need only commit to perfect honesty and this is our natural state. 

This is a topic that seems so absolutely boring to the ego. But if you look at the topic of honesty from the perspective of the true identity as love, consciousness, life itself; you see that all truth and wisdom are found within it. By the way, endless fun and adventure can also be found in honesty...and can be enjoyed without negative consequences.

This is what 5D human interaction looks like. Two great beings sharing their true selves without any filter. 


Letting go of all that is false (a story about moving in with the in-laws)

Even years after I thought that I had let go of all that is unreal in my life, the truth is that I continued to honor and carry so many beliefs, assumptions, and obligations. We are all conditioned to take on layers of false beliefs. When we do, we carry it around that the weight can become so heavy.

The weight of my false load translated into financial stress. The need to make high child support payments, to rent an office, and to rent a nice apartment in a beautiful part of a city. This meant that, as soon as I got paid every month, most of the money left my account. I had only enough left for groceries and camping. Yet, even when traveling with my family in the camper, I felt the weight of what I was paying for back in the city and not using. If there were any unexpected expenses, I would exhaust my savings (and there weren't much in the way of savings to begin with). 

As a father and loving partner, financial stress and uncertainty is the most difficult part of life. I knew that, if I lost my job for example, I would no longer be able to support that situation. Everything would fall apart.

Fear remained real for me in the form of financial worries. When fear is made real, love cannot exist. In the state of salvation, spiritual awakening, presence, being, fear cannot exist. But were my fears baseless? Imagined? 

The truth is that, where there is fear (or any type of negative emotion), reality is telling you that there is a problem that needs to be solved. In my case, I earn far more than enough income to live comfortably, yet because of the false expectations, I was spending too much. I wasn't saving. At age 48, I also had no plan for where I would live a decade or two from now. Nothing was right and something drastic had to be done.

For as long as I had been with my wife, Zuzana, her father always told me that we can live upstairs in their village house. He said it hundreds of times, but I was too proud to listen. The place is only 15 minutes outside the city of Kosice (where I had lived for 18 years). While the house is old and the upstairs needed a lot of work to make it livable, the truth is that her parents do have enough space. There is even a new preschool and elementary school just down the street. We both work at home anyway, so no issue there. Plus, we already park the camper at the house (traveling will be easier). Was what I had always thought of as our worst-case scenario actually the right move and best option?

After deep soul-searching and conversations, on November 1st we announced that we would be letting the apartment go, as well as the office space, and we would be withdrawing our son from his private preschool to enroll him in the free preschool in the village. Over the next few weeks, we spent the equivalent of 1 month's rent to buy new doors, paint the place, and carpet the entire space as we slepped outside in the camper.

Now, for the past month, we've been living upstairs in the village house. Our son is enjoying the new school. My daughter visited for Christmas. To her pleasant surprise, I even made the rec room into a full-blown jam room where we played music together for hours (not something we could do in the previous apartment).

Now we're saving thousands per month. No driving around town every day. We have more time, money for skiing, waterparks, and travel when there is a need. There is a nice hiking / biking trail here to escape to nature. Everything is fine. All that was false in our life has been released. My wife even has a parcel of land in the village and we plan to slowly build a house here with the money that we are saving.

Life is never easy. There are always challenges, especially as it relates to our relationships with other imperfect people. In our case, we share a kitchen with my wife's parents. Of course there are the sort of games that any ego plays, but we see it for what it is. We forgive any errors, we do our best, and the love in our family remains as strong as ever. 

Now I look forward to the dramatic world events that are about to come to light, the new financial system and advanced technologies that have been kept from us. I look forward to the financial abundance so many of us will enjoy with the confiscated wealth. I don't know what the future brings or exactly when these changes will come, but our present moment is aligned. We are living in truth, in full acceptance of the situation, sleeping well, having fun, feeling good. 

Let's stop being afraid to truly let go of anything we are carrying which is unreal or unnecessary. Reality will adjust and the fear will be gone. Everything will be fine. Make changes. Go forward in faith.


What's true is always true and always was true

For the first time in so many years, I find myself in a state where it seems nothing more needs to be said. I could analyze every detail about what's going on in the world; but I have no firsthand intel. I will leave this to others who have access or are more inclined.

Everything I have said about spiritual awakening, perfect love, the need to shift away from fear, about freedom, truth, reality...of course it all remains true and relevant now and always. There are hundreds of posts, books, talks, and all of it remains perfectly relevant.

I have stopped living in time, waiting for the world to change. As changes happen, I am paying attention. But waiting for fiction to end only makes the fiction seem real. Instead, we can focus on what is real now and always.

What I am here to live and teach is perfect love; what it is and what it does. Bring unconditional love into your relationships and find that they become holy, eternal, blissful. Bring perfect love into your work and enjoy financial abundance. Know that perfect love means the same thing as honesty, forgiveness, acceptance, freedom, health, bliss, and reality. Live in alignment with perfect love, in the eternal present moment, and you will feel good and be freed from fear. 

This is salvation, and it is here now for anyone who chooses to recognize that you already have everything. There is nothing to wait for. If the world changes for the better, that's wonderful. If evil deeds are being stopped, we can all be grateful. If we are one day freed from this system of propaganda and debt slavery, we can celebrate. But even if current events take a turn for the worst, the truly awake remain in a place of joy and safety.

There is nothing to wait for and nothing to fear. What's true is always true and always was true.