The Paradigm Shift | Consciousness Expansion Through Letting Go

breakout New York Times bestselling book, which I loved. And as I'm reading through this book, certain things jump out at me. And one of these chapters I felt was so strong that I felt the need have to share it with you. It's chapter twenty seven in the book. It's very short, and it's called the Paradigm Shift, and I think, before I get started, need to mind you.

He talks about something called sam Scarow's and sam Scarow's are thought forms that we form in our intellect, in our minds, in our bodies, that lead the way we live our lives. A sam scare is a mental impression, a recollection, or psychological imprint that shapes our thoughts and actions and the influence future actions and circumstances. For each one of us, and we do that to ourselves very naturally. We've been programmed to do it, and it is a

very organic way that it happens. He explains it in the book, but he touches on sam scares in this chapter, so I wanted to make sure that you understood what that means. For a deeper dive into sam scars and how they work, I would strongly encourage you to pick up the book Living Untethered. It's a fantastic exploration of how we can learn to release these sam scaros and break free from the metaphorical imprisonment that we are all under. Okay,

here is chapter twenty seven, the paradigm Shift. Everyone wants to improve their experience of life. People are always looking for more joy, love, inspiration and meaning. The question is how to achieve this. Let's do an experiment. Imagine an all powerful force has asked you to write down some things that need to happen for you to totally enjoy

your life. If you're like most people, you'll write down things like a new house, a special relationship, a higher paying job, maybe a year long vacation to your favorite spots around the world. When you're done, you will be so excited to turn in that list and get your wishes granted. Unfortunately, you're gonna have to wait a moment because we're gonna go deeper with this experiment. If you examine your list more closely, you'll see that it's not

what you want. Let's say you wrote down that you want to get married to the person you love, and you want a wedding in Maui with birds of paradise surrounding the ceremony. After the wedding, you want to live in a beautiful, mortgage free house overlooking the ocean with two fancy cars in a driveway. It's the dream you've had since childhood. The problem is that that's not what you really want. See, your mind has played a trick

on you. Say you have the wedding, the house, and the cars just like you wanted them, but your new spouse turns out to be a real jerk. You're treated terribly and it's obvious right from the start that this is going to be the worst marriage in human history. On top of that, you're Catholic, so you can't get divorced. Do you still want that wedding? Unlikely, so it wasn't really the marriage you wanted. You wanted the beautiful experience that you thought the marriage was going to give you,

So why didn't you ask for that? The same thing holds for the new job, the million dollars in the bank, and the respect of the other people. Fine, you can have it all, but what if it creates so much stress and worry that you're miserable. You'd wish you could have your old job back. You didn't really want the job, the money, or the acceptance. You wanted what you thought they would give you. You wanted happiness, joy, and a

sense of total well being. How about a constant innerstate of love, beauty, and inspiration at the highest level you've ever experienced. Why didn't you ask for that? What you did was allow your strongest past experiences to define what you think will make you feel happy. It doesn't work that way. There are plenty of people who have what you wrote down on your list, and they're not always happy. There's nothing you ever experienced that left you totally fulfilled

for any length of time. You've always needed more your entire life. You've been saying, if I get this thing I want, I'll be okay, and if I don't have to get what I don't want, I'll be fine for your whole life. There's been a list. When will you realize that doesn't work? If you've been doing something every minute of your entire life and you're still doing it, Obviously it doesn't work. When I go directly to the root and say, what I want is to feel love

and joy. What I want is every moment of every day, to feel complete well being as high as I've ever felt before, and to be inspired by everything I do. Now there's a list, let's turn that one in well. The interesting result of our experiment is that it has led us away from worldliness and into the essence of spirituality. Not that worldliness is a negative term. It just means you think the answer is in the world. You think the answer lies in what's unfolding in front of you.

It isn't wrong to go to the world for what you think you want it it doesn't work. You're trying to find something outside that matches your sam scare of the day. Once you get what you want or avoid what you don't want, that will no longer be your major desire or greatest fear. Once that's out of the way, there will always be the next time or the next issue coming to the surface. Eventually you wake up you realize that you want to feel love, not that you

want to love someone or have someone love you. You just want to feel love all the time. If your love is not dependent on anything or anyone, it can last forever. We call that unconditional love. The great Yoga master Mayor Baba taught that love must spring spontaneously from within. It cannot be coerced, and it cannot be dependent upon anything. That is what pure love is. Otherwise, you have a

temporary situation that just happens to match your stored patterns. Unfortunately, this won't last, and you've got lots of sem scarows in there. In addition, if you're in a relationship, the other person has lots of patterns of their own, quite different from yours. This is why relationships are so complicated. Not only are each person's past sem scaers different, but both people have different experiences every day to add to

the collection. If somebody yelled at your partner at work, they're different when they come home than if somebody was nice to them. You of course had your daily experiences. If your feeling of love is dependent upon your partner behaving a certain way when they come home. You're in trouble, and so were they. You have enough difficulty dealing with your own sam scarrows, now you have to deal with theirs also. Now, don't get scared. This doesn't mean you

don't have meaningful relationships. There are beautiful relationships and they can last forever. In fact, they can get more and more beautiful all the time. But they are not sam Scara relationships. They're not based on the world outside matching your inner patterns. They're based on unconditional love. Once love is always flowing freely inside you, you'll be pleased to share it with another person. Such love is not based on needs or expectations. It's based on pure love wishing

to express itself unconditionally. So how do you reach such a state of unconditional love and well being? Instead of trying to get the world to match your blockages, you work on letting go of the blockages. That's the secret of real spiritual growth, That is the real paradigm shift. If you don't have the sam scaros, nothing will be blocking your inner energy flow. You'll feel love, joy, and inspiration all the time, willing to experience the moment unfolding

in front of you. You'll have the opportunity to be inspired by everything. The simple fact that things exist will be sufficient to move you. You only have two choices. Either you devote your life to getting the world to match your sam scarows, or you devote your life to letting go of those sam scaros. If you choose the ladder, you don't end up with both a worldly life and

a spiritual life. You end up with one life. Work, meditation, retreats, taking out the garbage, sweeping the floor, driving, showering through all the same The same thing is going on in all your activities. You are letting go of your blockages. It's equally beneficial to be letting go of your blockages at work, when you're driving the kids to soccer, picking up the groceries, or doing whatever it is that you're doing.

Every single moment of your life, you are either naturally enjoying what is or letting go of what's keeping you from enjoying what is. If you let go of the wants and fears that are limiting you, you'll always be okay letting go of yourself instead of serving yourself. That is a real paradigm shift. That's the end of the chapter. I hope that you got as much out of it as I did. This whole book is mind blowing. It's

not an easy one to break into. But once you're in the right mindset and you let it speak to you, like truly speak to you, the wisdom is unbelievable. It makes so much sense. Things that I have experienced are causing me to react to the world in a certain way. And how many teachers and yogi's across the world have always said that. I think it's the Buddhist thought process of philosophy that says the sources of all suffering is attachments. Well,

in essence, that's what a simska is. I guess right. You're attached to a particular outcome. Someone cuts you off in traffic. Your experience in the past has been a negative one, so you react negatively. But if instead you think about the fact that, oh, they just cut me off in traffic, Thankfully nothing happened, everybody is safe. It really doesn't affect you if you allow it to feel that way. Of course, our first reaction is to let it affect us. In buoy in a big way. But

what good does that do. It's not going to make that person not have cut you off. It's not going to teach the person a lesson if you suddenly get all road raging on them, right, what's the good in it? All it does is hurt you inside. It makes you feel bitter and angry and resentful, and then your entire day is led from that energy perspective. And that's no

good for anybody. If instead we said, ooh, okay, this person's in a hurry, or maybe they got in the wrong lane and they were trying to get over didn't know how or anything that you want to. When you assume good intent, good things happen. But even further than that, what the book is talking about, with what the chapter is talking about is I'm not even assuming good intent,

but rather not letting it phase you. It's just an action that someone has taken because of their own Sam scarows that doesn't affect you unless you allow it to, unless you want it to. And I believe me, it's a much easier thing said than done. I've been working on this since I started reading the book. It is not easy. The good thing is later on in the book.

It does give you very specific ways of how to release thee Sam scarows these energies are being blocked inside your emotional system throughout your entire life, and so I'm starting to get it. I'm starting to see it. I'm starting to make changes inside myself, release certain things, some situations that in the passive call me to be super anxious. By utilizing the steps he is showing me in the books, I have found a way to deactivate those situations, and

that anxiety is not as strong for me anymore. I got a long way to go, but boy, I've come a long way, all right. If this spoke to you in any way, I encourage you to pick up Living Untethered by Michael Singer's It's remarkable if you allowed to, if you're ready for it. So curious if you're reading Living Untethered, or if you've read it, what your thoughts are on It'd love to hear your thoughts. You can

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