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It's Up To You

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Channel: Damon Cart NLP · 2016 · People & Blogs

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As I drove back to Santa Cruz from San Diego (8 hours) I reflected on the past week at Steve Gilligan's Trance Camp and found myself overwhelmed with gratitude.

At one point I felt such intense joy that I was moved to tears.

Like suffering I knew even this joy would pass and I didn't try to cling to it or hold onto it. I didn't fear it subsiding either. For the first time ever I realized that the joy I felt contained all the suffering I've ever felt.

"Isn't that nice to know," Steve's voice echoed in my mind.

Knowing this means you don't have to ever fear suffering again. Knowing this means to experience suffering without joy is to shut yourself off from part of you. All you have to do is accept the suffering and allow the joy back in.

Even better than that; welcome the suffering and the joy will follow. You can't have one without the other. Rest assured though that when you can acknowledge both at the same time suffering no longer feels like suffering.

I felt my knees wanting to bend and I felt a strange desire to pull my car over on the side of Interstate 5 and fall to my knees and bow my head in gratitude for this life.

Well I didn't do that. I had a time constraint.

But the feeling was intense nonetheless and such an odd desire, one I've never felt before.

We get what we ask for in life. I know that might sound woo woo, but I assure you it's not.

We don't control the weather, we don't control other people; there are so many things we don't control, but you do control what you ask for from life. And life will give you what you ask for. Trust me on this.

Even if something shitty happens to you, take a moment to own that somehow you asked for this and see what happens to the feeling.

Look at your life and know that whether you love it or hate it, it's what you asked for. This is total responsibility. 

If you use the above statement to beat yourself up for creating a life you don't love, you're missing the point. That's not taking responsibility.

If you choose to accept fully that the condition of your life is what you asked for whether it was conscious or not, you will know that from this point forward, the condition of your life is up to you.

And from this point forward you're going to really fucking live!

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