Go Fast - Slow Down
I am encouraging you to work smart, not hard.
You may think that less time working on a project is dangerous.
This is the baby boomer mind that belongs to an older generation.
Less time better spent is a sure guarantee of better creativity.
And in a cluttered world, creativity is the competitive edge you need.
Less time working on a project does not mean the absence of investment.
It actually means spending more time mastering the art, more time contemplating the action, and then cut to the chase on the project.
Do it once, do it right.
In business I meet many people whose mode for success is tiredness.
They tell me how tired they are and then have to leave to go to another meeting.
But in that meeting are people who are not tired.
Clients who are relaxed, happy, not caffeine charged, who is on the backfoot in that meeting? Do it once - do it right is an important jump from do it hard.
To achieve the do it once strategy requires that you devote significant time to contemplation before pen goes to paper.
In spiritual language we say, "the soul speaks in pictures" - this means that in your "minds eye" the process, production and outcome must be a sort of slide show before you act.
See it in my mind, before I get off my behind.
For me, I find this a very important part of my life.
In any area of life, I know that if I can't see it, then it won't happen.
Sometimes I can't see it but want it.
But then I just can't act because I know, if my soul wont project it, any action is just robotics that I will have to do twice.
The clearer the picture, the deeper the conviction Sometimes the pictures you will have in your minds eye will be so clear that you will be confused between actually and reality.
You'll think you are sailing on a boat but really you're walking the dog in the snow.
Be careful where you do this minds eye stuff.
Pictures come to you, not from you Inspiration is the art of awakening the minds eye.
I teach inspiration.
There are three layers to inspiration.
In - means it comes alive within you Spirit - means it's not in material form Ion - it comes from outside of you The soul speaks in pictures.
This is true.
But any pictureyou conjure up in your head is not a real picture in this sense.
Pictures come to you, not from you.
This means the minds eye sees things you don't - so you, the thinker cannot project the thought into a picture and expect this to be a true inspiration from the minds eye.
You have to become a receptor.
Not a projector Inspirations come to you, not from you.
That's why monks, artists and creative people do all sorts of weird rituals.
They are softening their mind for receptions.
Youdo have permission to ask for a certain reception.
For example you might need an idea for a new marketing campaign.
So, you can sit or walk with the intent of generating a new idea for a marketing campaign.
But that's it.
The idea, (it must be a form of picture) must come to you.
Activities that inspire mind pictures There are certain activities that will inspire mind pictures.
A painter might paint with no real intent to finish the art, they are just practicing.
The composer might play the old music just getting lost in the simplicity of familiar territory.
The movie maker might make love.
The business tycoon might swim.
The key, is slowing down Mind pictures cannot enter a working mind.
There are many parts of your brain, the highest is centred in the top of your skull, there is even a place you can put your finger and feel the dent.
This place is the receiver of signals.
It is always receiving inspiration, but the other 6 levels of the brain make more noise, so it's hard to get reception when there's too much static.
Thinking, like learning, worry, emotion, stimulation, tiredness blocks mind pictures.
In my workshops I do exercises to help people quieten their mind.
I suggest to them that when their mind is quiet they will have an inspiration.
I always suggest that if something comes, during this exercise, these people write them down, because nothing can come, if we are trying to remember the last one.
(lower brain).
There are always one or two people who complain, "Nothing is coming" - and this is really funny because they can't break the habit of reaching out to grab things, they can't sit and let the ball come to them.
Let mind pictures land in your hand.
Mind pictures cannot come to a mind that is trying.
To catch a ball that is thrown to you, your job is to hold your hand in the general direction of the ball and allow the ball to "find home" - or in better language, land in your hand.
The universe is filled with vibration - again in spiritual language, this is called the "Akash" or the "Akashic Record" - in ancient times it was referred to as the great library of all knowledge.
The job of the Thinker, was to learn how to "shut up" long enough to tap into the "AKASH" It's a free resource - available to all who are ready Einstein, Plato, Pythagoras, Shakespeare, Newton, Galileo, Picasso, Miro, Joseph Campbell, Gandhi and anyone else who has left behind something immortal, tapped the Akash.
Each one acknowledged that something came to them and this is what caused their genius.
Stupid scientists look for something in a human brain to explain genius, but they are stuck in a prison of material reality.
Nothing worth thinking ever came from us, it only comes to us.
The only thing you need to do is "slow down" Monks call it enlightenment.
Artists call it "the drug.
"Composers call it the "other voice" mathematicians call it "a moment of inspiration" - the branding is diverse, but we must stay simple.
Mind pictures are natural, you get them all the time.
The only thing you need to do is "slow down" - This does not mean watch TV.
No, that is called speeding up.
Slowing down is to do something you love, for the love of it.
For the love of it To act without desire means to run for the love of running.
To walk for the love of walking.
To paint for the love of painting.
To sing for the love of singing.
To dance for the love of dancing.
A child can play for the love of it, can you? Without competition with yourself, with others without a goal.
I think we lost this art in life.
I work all over the world and the only person I ever met who lived for the love of it, was Sri K Patthabi Jois.
My yoga teacher in India.
He started yoga at the age of 10, practiced for 50 more years, had only 10 students in his yoga school for all those years (he worked full time as a professor at the University to pay the bills) - the only reason he taught and practiced yoga, even at the age of 90 with 500 students paying US$350 each for classes in New York, was because his "minds eye" saw it, so he followed it.
Hard Work is not Good Management Try to catch the ball before you run for a touch down.
Try to see the future before you set goals to cause it.
Hard work is bad management.
This, minds eye picture means doing it once, right.
It means waiting for the ball to come to you.
Trust is required, because sometimes the ball isn't thrown.
Hold your intent.
Spend time learning how to calm the lower parts of your mind, and find the activities that allow you the space to hear what is coming to the higher realms, your minds eye.
A story When I was 5 years old, I stood in front of my class at school, proud to have done my homework, and read from my reader book to the class.
I stood there, happy, joyful, that for the first time in my life, a mind picture would be realized.
Even in my dreams after my mother died, I saw myself on a stage.
Now, here I was on stage for the first time.
But, alas, my pants were home made, and poorly sown.
The stitching was adrift, my little penis shared itself with the audience.
Humiliated I sat down.
It took me 30 years before I ever stood in front of a crowd again.
But that whole time, that picture repeated itself over and over and over.
And now, I get paid to do it.
(minus the exposure) Another story When I was 18 I saw myself with a woman.
6 months later I met her, she was hitch hiking, I was driving.
One of my friends picked her up, while I drove, they kissed.
I found it hard to think of any other girl but her.
8 months later, I was invited to a party, and there she was.
We eloped a week later, she moved in, we had babies, and lived a happy life.
But it finished.
One day when I was contemplating the future, she was not in it.
I couldn't see her.
Unbeknown to me, the relationship had ended.
3 years later we separated.
Did I create the picture of the future, or was I reading it? Last story.
More than 10 years ago my son came to my workshop.
During that program we all did "minds eye" exercises.
He joined in at the ripe age of 15 and wrote his picture down.
He would sail the world, to the most exotic places, inaccessible by land, showing people the great beauty of the world, the boat would be 120 ft long, he would race in the Americas cup.
This vision was so clear, when he spoke about it, every body saw it in their minds eye too.
A mere 5 years later, everything he saw, manifested.
What he said to me after that was profound.
Seeing the picture of the future, the only thing it changed in him, was now he knew what to say no to.
He was offered all manner of sailing jobs, he turned them down, because none of those would lead to this.
He knew what to say no to.
Minds Eye There are people who have mastered the art of tapping the great Akash.
They see the future.
This skill is yours if you wish it.
Learning to tap the Akash means learning to slow down in order to speed up.
Learning what to say no to.
Learning how to get answers from outside of yourself.
These answers do not come from a God.
They come from a library, a library that is free for all humanity, unconditionally, without expectations of good, or worthiness.
All, man, woman, child, good, bad, of all religious persuasion can, if they choose, access the Akash, and therefore see answers before they hear them.
Live with Spirit Chris Walker
You may think that less time working on a project is dangerous.
This is the baby boomer mind that belongs to an older generation.
Less time better spent is a sure guarantee of better creativity.
And in a cluttered world, creativity is the competitive edge you need.
Less time working on a project does not mean the absence of investment.
It actually means spending more time mastering the art, more time contemplating the action, and then cut to the chase on the project.
Do it once, do it right.
In business I meet many people whose mode for success is tiredness.
They tell me how tired they are and then have to leave to go to another meeting.
But in that meeting are people who are not tired.
Clients who are relaxed, happy, not caffeine charged, who is on the backfoot in that meeting? Do it once - do it right is an important jump from do it hard.
To achieve the do it once strategy requires that you devote significant time to contemplation before pen goes to paper.
In spiritual language we say, "the soul speaks in pictures" - this means that in your "minds eye" the process, production and outcome must be a sort of slide show before you act.
See it in my mind, before I get off my behind.
For me, I find this a very important part of my life.
In any area of life, I know that if I can't see it, then it won't happen.
Sometimes I can't see it but want it.
But then I just can't act because I know, if my soul wont project it, any action is just robotics that I will have to do twice.
The clearer the picture, the deeper the conviction Sometimes the pictures you will have in your minds eye will be so clear that you will be confused between actually and reality.
You'll think you are sailing on a boat but really you're walking the dog in the snow.
Be careful where you do this minds eye stuff.
Pictures come to you, not from you Inspiration is the art of awakening the minds eye.
I teach inspiration.
There are three layers to inspiration.
In - means it comes alive within you Spirit - means it's not in material form Ion - it comes from outside of you The soul speaks in pictures.
This is true.
But any pictureyou conjure up in your head is not a real picture in this sense.
Pictures come to you, not from you.
This means the minds eye sees things you don't - so you, the thinker cannot project the thought into a picture and expect this to be a true inspiration from the minds eye.
You have to become a receptor.
Not a projector Inspirations come to you, not from you.
That's why monks, artists and creative people do all sorts of weird rituals.
They are softening their mind for receptions.
Youdo have permission to ask for a certain reception.
For example you might need an idea for a new marketing campaign.
So, you can sit or walk with the intent of generating a new idea for a marketing campaign.
But that's it.
The idea, (it must be a form of picture) must come to you.
Activities that inspire mind pictures There are certain activities that will inspire mind pictures.
A painter might paint with no real intent to finish the art, they are just practicing.
The composer might play the old music just getting lost in the simplicity of familiar territory.
The movie maker might make love.
The business tycoon might swim.
The key, is slowing down Mind pictures cannot enter a working mind.
There are many parts of your brain, the highest is centred in the top of your skull, there is even a place you can put your finger and feel the dent.
This place is the receiver of signals.
It is always receiving inspiration, but the other 6 levels of the brain make more noise, so it's hard to get reception when there's too much static.
Thinking, like learning, worry, emotion, stimulation, tiredness blocks mind pictures.
In my workshops I do exercises to help people quieten their mind.
I suggest to them that when their mind is quiet they will have an inspiration.
I always suggest that if something comes, during this exercise, these people write them down, because nothing can come, if we are trying to remember the last one.
(lower brain).
There are always one or two people who complain, "Nothing is coming" - and this is really funny because they can't break the habit of reaching out to grab things, they can't sit and let the ball come to them.
Let mind pictures land in your hand.
Mind pictures cannot come to a mind that is trying.
To catch a ball that is thrown to you, your job is to hold your hand in the general direction of the ball and allow the ball to "find home" - or in better language, land in your hand.
The universe is filled with vibration - again in spiritual language, this is called the "Akash" or the "Akashic Record" - in ancient times it was referred to as the great library of all knowledge.
The job of the Thinker, was to learn how to "shut up" long enough to tap into the "AKASH" It's a free resource - available to all who are ready Einstein, Plato, Pythagoras, Shakespeare, Newton, Galileo, Picasso, Miro, Joseph Campbell, Gandhi and anyone else who has left behind something immortal, tapped the Akash.
Each one acknowledged that something came to them and this is what caused their genius.
Stupid scientists look for something in a human brain to explain genius, but they are stuck in a prison of material reality.
Nothing worth thinking ever came from us, it only comes to us.
The only thing you need to do is "slow down" Monks call it enlightenment.
Artists call it "the drug.
"Composers call it the "other voice" mathematicians call it "a moment of inspiration" - the branding is diverse, but we must stay simple.
Mind pictures are natural, you get them all the time.
The only thing you need to do is "slow down" - This does not mean watch TV.
No, that is called speeding up.
Slowing down is to do something you love, for the love of it.
For the love of it To act without desire means to run for the love of running.
To walk for the love of walking.
To paint for the love of painting.
To sing for the love of singing.
To dance for the love of dancing.
A child can play for the love of it, can you? Without competition with yourself, with others without a goal.
I think we lost this art in life.
I work all over the world and the only person I ever met who lived for the love of it, was Sri K Patthabi Jois.
My yoga teacher in India.
He started yoga at the age of 10, practiced for 50 more years, had only 10 students in his yoga school for all those years (he worked full time as a professor at the University to pay the bills) - the only reason he taught and practiced yoga, even at the age of 90 with 500 students paying US$350 each for classes in New York, was because his "minds eye" saw it, so he followed it.
Hard Work is not Good Management Try to catch the ball before you run for a touch down.
Try to see the future before you set goals to cause it.
Hard work is bad management.
This, minds eye picture means doing it once, right.
It means waiting for the ball to come to you.
Trust is required, because sometimes the ball isn't thrown.
Hold your intent.
Spend time learning how to calm the lower parts of your mind, and find the activities that allow you the space to hear what is coming to the higher realms, your minds eye.
A story When I was 5 years old, I stood in front of my class at school, proud to have done my homework, and read from my reader book to the class.
I stood there, happy, joyful, that for the first time in my life, a mind picture would be realized.
Even in my dreams after my mother died, I saw myself on a stage.
Now, here I was on stage for the first time.
But, alas, my pants were home made, and poorly sown.
The stitching was adrift, my little penis shared itself with the audience.
Humiliated I sat down.
It took me 30 years before I ever stood in front of a crowd again.
But that whole time, that picture repeated itself over and over and over.
And now, I get paid to do it.
(minus the exposure) Another story When I was 18 I saw myself with a woman.
6 months later I met her, she was hitch hiking, I was driving.
One of my friends picked her up, while I drove, they kissed.
I found it hard to think of any other girl but her.
8 months later, I was invited to a party, and there she was.
We eloped a week later, she moved in, we had babies, and lived a happy life.
But it finished.
One day when I was contemplating the future, she was not in it.
I couldn't see her.
Unbeknown to me, the relationship had ended.
3 years later we separated.
Did I create the picture of the future, or was I reading it? Last story.
More than 10 years ago my son came to my workshop.
During that program we all did "minds eye" exercises.
He joined in at the ripe age of 15 and wrote his picture down.
He would sail the world, to the most exotic places, inaccessible by land, showing people the great beauty of the world, the boat would be 120 ft long, he would race in the Americas cup.
This vision was so clear, when he spoke about it, every body saw it in their minds eye too.
A mere 5 years later, everything he saw, manifested.
What he said to me after that was profound.
Seeing the picture of the future, the only thing it changed in him, was now he knew what to say no to.
He was offered all manner of sailing jobs, he turned them down, because none of those would lead to this.
He knew what to say no to.
Minds Eye There are people who have mastered the art of tapping the great Akash.
They see the future.
This skill is yours if you wish it.
Learning to tap the Akash means learning to slow down in order to speed up.
Learning what to say no to.
Learning how to get answers from outside of yourself.
These answers do not come from a God.
They come from a library, a library that is free for all humanity, unconditionally, without expectations of good, or worthiness.
All, man, woman, child, good, bad, of all religious persuasion can, if they choose, access the Akash, and therefore see answers before they hear them.
Live with Spirit Chris Walker
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