Dated:
November 9, 2009 – 10:35 am
One of my life coaching tips that creates profound states of happiness and peace is to declare everything perfect. At first, many of my clients push back and say, “That’s just ignorant!”. My response is always the same:
The Drunk Monkey in your head is designed to see changes and differences. This is a powerful survival mechanism that has allowed our species to rise to the top of the food chain by understanding what isn’t good for us, in advance (without even getting near it). The Drunk Monkey (your mind) examines your world, compares everything to what is known and decides if something is good or bad in order to keep you away from what is bad.
Not Declaring Life Perfect is Actually Ignorant
Declaring something good, bad, right or wrong is just an opinion. Opinions are generated by observing the world, deciding if something is good or bad and declaring it so. In other words, opinions are just made up phantoms of thinking, not the truth. Just because you have an opinion about something doesn’t make it right.
So why is having an opinion that life is not perfect ignorant? Because declaring something “wrong” has a negative impact on your relationship to it. When you declare something wrong, you are stuck and you limit your options. Opinions don’t allow you to choose your actions, opinions create reactions. When you are in reaction, you are not living a life of choice.
When you learn to ignore your reactions to life, you take control of your choices and ultimately your destiny.
Dated:
August 18, 2009 – 11:02 am
Seems easy enough. Choose to make life easy, right? Wrong! Be honest. How many times have you chosen something knowing it would make your life difficult later? Consider that action is hardly ever a choice.
Notice today how your reactions to life’s situations are automatic. Most of the time you can not choose to make life easy because you are unconscious of what is running your life… The Drunk Monkey!
The Drunk Monkey, which is also called the personality, the ego or your unconscious mind is an unexamined set of habitual ways of viewing the world. These various points of view are the source of your action.
The only way out of this automatic reaction mode is what I call, “The Game Changer Process”:
- You need to become aware of your reactions.
- Once you become aware of what doesn’t serve you, you naturally become more flexible.
- Your flexibility opens up a whole new set of options.
- Options give you power.
Try it today. Notice how your behavior is automatic. See the source of your action as “the way you are seeing the situation”. Begin to see your life’s situations in new and interesting ways. Feel your new power to choose a life that is easy.
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Dated:
July 7, 2009 – 8:57 am
Right and wrong are words you put on your life after it has already passed you by.
Right and wrong are words you fantasize about and they keep you from taking chances.
Right and wrong are words you use to make yourself more and others less.
Right and wrong are your justifications for being ignorant.
Right and wrong are your battle swords.
Right and wrong are just a point of view.
Right and wrong are just your opinion.
Right and wrong limit your happiness, fulfillment and enjoyment.
Right and wrong are born of The Drunk Monkey and not of the Earth. Nothing here on Earth is right or wrong. It’s just talking in your head… blah blah blah…. get over it.
