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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Faith Building – The World Is Your Gym!

June 20, 2011 — Jihad Saad

Believe.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve!

Believe it till you see it.

Ask, believe and receive.

Believe in your self. Have faith.

You can do it if you believe you can.
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OK Ok we got it, we’ve got to believe! It is said everywhere and by almost everyone, in personal development teachings, in spiritual traditions, even in pop culture and our grandma wisdom!

But how can we actually believe? What does it mean to have faith? Many of us do understand what faith is conceptually, but when it comes to the real world, we’re not so sure of what it really is.

Faith is not this metaphysical abstract concept. Faith is a very down-to-earth attitude and behavior that we can learn and practise. And no it is not kneeling on your knees to pray, and not repeating endless mantras and affirmations.

To have faith comes back practically to 2 things:

1- Choosing always and always to interpret life events and circumstances with a thought that means “it’s going great”! Whatever happens in our life, we can interpret it the way we choose. When we have faith, we always choose the interpretation that supports us in the direction of our desires and dreams.

So to illustrate this for you, say for example that your business results are not doing well. Don’t think about bankruptcy, choose to think that it’s temporary, that you’ll learn a great lesson from it and that you’ll rebound incredibly. Say for example that a dear person to you is not connecting well with you, don’t think that you lost the person for ever, think that this is happening so you can connect together better and even stronger later. Say for example that you have a health problem, don’t think that you’ll get weaker in life, think that this sickness will make you adjust your life-style and emerge healthier. Say you had a painful experience in your past, don’t think that you’re damaged, think that it’s a blessing for you to overcome and be stronger and even help others.

You see, it’s up to you to interpret any event the way you like. If you have faith, whatever happens in your life, you automatically choose the interpretation that basically means: “that’s ok, i trust it’s for the best and it’s going to be great anyway!”. Now that’s faith!
Now let’s move on to the second pillar.2- Having faith is feeling calm and peaceful in the heart. Yes this is the feeling that practically faith comes down to. Whatever you face, even in the midst of turmoils, when your heart is calm, it means that you believe. It means that deep down you’re not scared because you know eveyrthing is going to be all right. It means that you trust things will always turn for the best.

So keep a check at your heart. When things start getting out of control or moving in an unwanted direction, do you loose your inner calm? Does you heart feel agitated? That means you don’t trust yet. And that you’ll attract to you what you fear.

Be always mindful of the heart muscle. Breathe deeply and focus on it till you feel it calm and warm. Focus on the physiology and the feeling. Yes it’s possible to keep the heart non-agitated! Imagine you’re in a business meeting but you feel bored and sleepy, don’t you still manage to keep your eyes open and a smile on your face? Well do the same for your heart! If you feel turmoil or unwanted life events, keep your heart calm through conscious control. If you’re able to maintain your heart calm and peaceful throughout the day and throughout your life events, watch out, your faith will make great things happen for you!

Conclusion:So now that you know what faith practically is, it’s time to exercise and to develop it. Just like you do weight-lifting to develop your muscles, you need to practice continuously the art of choosing always the “it’s going great” interpretation, and the discipline of keeping your heart calm at all times.

After few days and few weeks of practice, your faith muscle will be so strong, that you’ll be continuously vibrating the “I BELIEVE” energy, and life will prove it to you by making what you believe in become true!

And the good news is: you don’t need to go to the gym! The world is your gym! Every event and circumstance is a chance for you to practice your faith. And it’s also easier than lifting weights on a bench press, but Gosh a developed faith can give you incredibly more powerful results than a developed biceps!

Ok? so let’s go and hit our workout! 🙂

What does faith practically mean to you? How do you think we can better develop this unshakable trust that we’ll realize all our dreams? Please share with us below your insights too!

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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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