Yes We Can See The Invisible! – Sufi Mystics Knew The Secret Too!

June 23, 2011 — Jihad Saad

“How can I know you, and You are the inwardly hidden, not wishing to be known?
How can I not know You, and You are the outwardly manifest, wishing yourself to be known in everything”
What a wise Sufi saying that expresses so beautifully the universal truth! God or the Universal Force is non-visible to us, It is the inwardly hidden, pure consciousness that has no shape nor form. How can we know It?

But the inwardly hidden is the same as the outwardly manifest, that can be seen and touched and felt everywhere. So how can we not know It?

What’s fascinating is how this mystic poem written centuries ago echoes our modern-day spiritual and personal development teachings.

Our inner world creates our outer world, they are both the same. This is what the Secret book basically explains, this is what Sean Stephenson means when he says “Mentality creates Reality”, this is what quantum physicists refer to as “thoughts become things”.

Our inner world consists of what is invisible and intangible to us, such as our thougths, our believes, our feelings, our desires, our intentions…

Our outer world is what we label as our reality: our body, our job, our relationships, our environment, our finanical conditions, etc..

And of course you must know by now, to change our outer world, we need to change our inner world. But how to change this inner world that we can’t see, nor touch, and that most people aren’t even aware of?

How can we know what’s in-there in this invisible formless inner-world??

Well, it’s simple. Just look at your life!

Look at your job, look at your energy, look at your relationships, look at your financial situation, look at your health, look at your environment.. Find where is it that you prosper? Where is it that your struggle? Are you rich or poor? Victorious or defeated? Happy or grumpy?

You see, it’s clear, it’s already out there! Even without long hours of introspection and self-analysis and meditation, you can still guess what your inner world is from your outer reality!

Indeed, how can we not know it, and it is manifested everywhere, in us and all around us?

So please have a good look on your world, and cheer up! If you see what you don’t like, that’s ok, it’s just a mirror. You are beautiful inside if only you remove some of the dusts and dirt that you picked up along the way. Get rid of these negative thoughts of lack and unworthiness and undeserving, remove these guilts and regrets from your hearts, clean these limiting believes that are holding you, and watch your real beauty manifest in a world shining with glory!

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What about you? How do you become aware of your thoughts and believes? Do you carry a journal and do inner-work exercises? Do you analyse your reality? Share with us your best practices on how to uncover our hidden world!

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None But Ourselves Can Free Our Minds – Inner Freedom The Bob Marley Way!

June 22, 2011 — Jihad Saad

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds “

Bob Marley, Redemption Song

Who doesn’t know Bob Marley? This freedom icon has penetrated the world consciousness with his music and message. Wherever you go on our planet, you’ll find Bob posters hanging, and you’ll hear his music playing. At an age where no internet no social networking existed, Bob transcended cultures around the world, uniting people from different countries, races and religions.

In the timeless Redemption Song, one of the last songs he ever wrote, Bob says it all: None but ourselves can free our minds!

These words take an even deeper meaning when we remember who Bob was. He was a descendant of black captives deported to Jamaica, and his people had suffered 400 years of slavery. In this song Bob calls people for freedom, but not freedom from external conditions, not freedom from political systems or freedom from outside chains… but freedom from mental slavery!

Yes Bob was an inspired mystic, and he knew the Secret too. Freedom, wealth, abundance, health, you name it, starts first and foremost in our mind!

Can you see that all inspired persons from different traditions, basically say the same thing? Whether it’s entrepreneurs or musicians, teachers or prophets, eastern or western, rasta or yoga.. the message is one: we’ve got to take responsibility of our lives, and it all starts in our minds!

So won’t you help to sing, this song of freedom…

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Just Undo It! – How To Break Free Forever From Your To-Do List!

June 21, 2011 — Jihad Saad

If you’re like most goal-oriented people , you probably organize your life with endless to-do lists that you make every night before you sleep and pursue every morning when you wake up.

You probably prioritize your to-do items, organize them in different categories, and take pleasure in checking them off once they’re done. But what is most probably true is that you continuously feel frustrated from all those items that remain undone, and from all those to-do things that keep on adding up on your lists as you go!

It seems that life is a race between you and your to-do list, a race that you can never really win! No doubt you feel stressed, overwhelmed and frustrated.

But that’s not your fault! It’s the fault of the primitive to-do system that we use to organize our lives!

So here we go.. let’s break free from it all!

Tony Robbins in his program Time of Your Life explains very powerfully why to-do lists are not efficient and why they cannot yield to a high quality of life.

It all comes back to this: what’s the question that you ask yourself in order to develop your to-do list? Obviously the guiding question is: What do I have to do? Or what do I need to do? Or what should I do?

According to Tony Robbins, this is a very disempowering question to guide our life with, because when we ask this question, our brain will certainly come up with all the shoulds and the musts and the tasks that need to be done! Our focus becomes centered on the tasks ahead, and we loose touch with our purpose and with the outcome that we desire, and worse of all, we rarely feel good about it especially when we need to do tasks that are not exciting nor pleasant.

The law of attraction teaches us that we should focus on the OUTCOME. We should see and feel the outcome in order to manifest it. That’s why focusing on the simple to-do items make us miss the whole point!

The law of attraction also teaches us that we should feel good about what we do! But how can we seriously feel good about en endless list of items that seem to be burdens and obligations on us? How can we not feel frustrated if our to-do list never seems to finish, and we feel that we’re not progressing at all?

In his Time of Your Life program, Anthony Robbins proposes a whole new alternative for managing our time, that he calls OPA = Outcome Purpose Action. In this system, we replace the question: “what do I need to do?” with 3 new empowering ones:

1- What is the most important outcome that I desire now?
When we answer this question and list the outcomes that we want, we get in touch with our desires, we see the end result of what we want to achieve, and we shift our focus to the result we need to manifest.

2- Why is this outcome so important to me now?
Here we list all the reasons we have to achieve the outcome, all the benefits we would get by achieving it, all the pains we would go through if we don’t. This question is designed to get us in touch with our purpose, and to quote Tony, to give us the fuel, the motivation, and the juice to pursue our outcome.

3- What actions can I take now to achieve my outcome?
Now we list all the actions we might take that would make us achieve what we want. Note that several different actions might lead to the same outcome we desire. So here we’ll be able to choose the action we’re most comfortable with, and without loosing sight of the outcome we desire.

So from now on, every morning or every night before you sleep, ask yourself the 3 questions above and write down your answers on a piece of paper. Not only you’ll keep your attention on the outcome that is most important for you, but you’ll also feel more motivated to take action, more free to choose your way, and more aligned with your purpose.

So drop that to-do list and forget about it, and clear your mind from all the stress feelings and overwhelms. Life is much more exciting and joyful than to manage it by a linear to do-list. So just undo it!

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How about you? How do you manage your time and your days? How do you keep the balance between being a high achiever with lots of work “to do” and still feeling free and aligned? Do you use to-do lists or do you have any better way? Does this OPA system speak to you? Share with your feedback below!
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None but ourselves…

April 19, 2011 — Jihad Saad

There is a HUGE lesson I learned lately.

OK it’s not new, it’s been years that am realising that of course our outer world is only a reflection of our inner world, that our thoughts, believes and emotions shape our reality even more than our actions, that to change our life, we have to change our inner world. OK, all of that is great. Think of what you want, believe you can, feel good, take action and your objects of desire will manifest. It is true.

But now I realise something really very powerful as well, which complements the truth above. That we are absolutely free to choose any thoughts or believe or feeling that we want! That our thoughts or feelings need not be induced by our current reality, but are directly emanating from our Source.

This is really huge, this is pure Creation! Let me explain.

In our lives, we usually look outside of ourselves. We pick up ideas from the outside world, those ideas become ours. We are told stories, they become the stories that circulate in our minds. We see things, and we take them as “reality”. When we experience pleasant things, we feel good. When we experience unpleasant things, we feel bad! In conclusion, what we think or feel is always shaped by outside reality.

But the Truth is it should and need not be this way!!! Reality that we experience is the result of what we have thought, felt and done in the past. It’s like a printout of our past inner life. A mirror. We are in the habit of watching “reality” and then thinking/feeling/believing based on this “reality”. So we are always caught by our past creation of reality. But there is NO link between “reality” and our “inner world”!! Our “inner world” emanates from the Source, our “reality” emanates from our “inner world”. Reality does NOT have power on our inner world, unless we do give it this power. But why should we? Let’s claim our creative power back, and free our minds!

So, to illustrate in simple formulas:

Our habitual old pattern of thinking:

[Reality] —-> [ our thoughts/feelings/believes/actions] —–> [Reality]

In this pattern, Reality induces our thoughts/feelings/actions, and then these thoughts/feelings/actions will shape back Reality accordingly. As you see, we have no power here, it is Reality (our creation!!!) that has power on us!

The truth is:

[Source] —–> [ our thoughts/feelings/believes/actions] —–> [Reality]

In this pattern, our inner world emanates from the Source within ourselves and not from Reality. At any moment, we can go within, and CHOOSE what to think and feel so that we shape our life accordingly. Reality is just the manifestation, but the creative power is within!

Bottom line, we are absolutely FREE!

We are only caught in our minds because we link our mind to “reality”.

But if we understand that we are absolutely free to navigate in our minds in whichever way we like, that inner world emanates directly from the Source within us on which reality has no influence, then we can experience whatever we desire and shape our lives in whichever way we like.

Of course, what we want is to expand Life in ourselves. To feel the dance of life, to feel the love, to feel the peace, to feel the thrill of being alive. This need for life expansion gives birth to heart-felt desires within us and to soul longings. All we need to “do” is to surrender to Life’s calling within us, our Source, and to Life’s desires and longings that are born within us. Just allow them to be, and let our thoughts/feelings/actions be aligned with our Source, and “reality” will transform accordingly!

It’s beautiful. This is pure freedom bestowed on us by our Creator. This is ultimate hope for ourselves and our race. This is indeed emancipation, redemption and salvation.

God I love You! 🙂

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Being the Change!

February 2, 2011 — Jihad Saad

I finally get it.

In life, we don’t get what we want, or what we work for, or what we simply intend, not even what we fight for! We get what WE ARE!

Before thinking, feeling and acting.. there is BEING!

A happy person for example will think, feel and act in a certain way, very different than an unhappy person. Correct? A secure person, a strong person, a trusting person, a wealthy person, will think act and feel very differently from an unsecure person, weak person, anxious person or poor person. Right?

Now please listen carefully: By BEING happy, we actually CREATE happiness. By BEING strong, we actually become strong. by BEING trusting, events of our lives will validate our trust, etc…

Please realise, if we want to get happy but we are regularly being grumpy, we will never succeed in creating happiness in our lives.
No matter how hard we try.
No matter how well intentioned we may be.
No matter how honest we are.

Whatever we want to be, we should STOP SEEKING it!

If we want to be strong, or happy, or wealthy, we SHOULD NOT seek strength, happiness, or wealth. Instead, we MUST BE strong, happy and wealthy.

We must BE in that state of being that we desire. Right NOW.

Being strong, happy or wealthy practically means thinking, feeling and acting strong, happy or wealthy.

How can we do that?
Hers is a clue. Ask yourself: If I was so happy now, how would I feel? What would I think about? How would I talk? How would I move? How would I respond to my day events?

Or ask: If I was completely trusting and sure that all my needs are being met, and all my dreams are coming true, how would my heart feel? How would my mood be? How would I talk? And sleep? And behave?

You’ll get the answer. It’s not a secret. We all know the answer very well. We all experienced happiness or trust at times, and we know how it feels like and how we behave when we feel it.

So now, observe yourself. Are you feeling that way? Are you behaving that way? If not, than please realise that you ARE NOT BEING the change you desire, and that simply you won’t experience it, nor create it in your life. Even if you do your homework well, even if you finish all your job, even if you behave polite and you act responsible. You won’t create what you desire unless you are who you desire!

DECLARE who you want to be, and forget about all circumstances of your life, and commit to being it!

Keep asking yourself, if I am who I truly want to be, how would I think, and feel and act? Can you see the difference between how you currently think feel and act, and how you would think feel and act if you were the person of your dreams?

Everytime you spot yourself for example thinking, feeling or acting weak, grumpy, or poor, STOP, remind yourself who you are, and start again, this time acting strong, happy and wealthy!

No it’s not faking it! No it’s not acting.
It’s commitment to Be who WE WANT to Be!

It’s understanding that Happiness, or Strength, or Wealth, or Love, or anything we might desire, come from WITHIN, and not from our outside CONDITIONS!

Choosing to be who we want to be is our ultimate FREEDOM! Freedom from the world conditions and events and from the past and from any circumstances!

Yes I know, many things will hold us back, old habits, blockages, memories, etc… but with consistent effort and intention, we can breaktrough them all.

Our work and focus and intentions must be to overcome the old habits and patterns in ourselves, rather than to fight the outside world! This is much more within our power anyway, and is infintely more rewarding as well. And believe it or not, change yourself, you change your world, and you change the whole world!

It is a facinating process. It might be challenging but it’s possible. It can even be much easier than what we expect once we get momentum and understand the game. It can be fun as well.

So let’s have fun. What are we waiting for? Let’s just COMMIT, and

BE the CHANGE we WANT to SEE!

🙂

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