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Have you every struggled to deal with a problem your are facing in your life situation?
Taking time to strategize (using the facts) and then implementing my plan has helped me a lot.
Not long ago, I was in a role that sucked. Overworked, drained, and falling behind. I would get a case of the “Sunday Scaries” every weekend — while working to catch up on the previous week’s work.
During the week I would escape reality with endless doom scrolling, alcohol and a meaningless relationship.
I used radical realism and the framework at the end of this letter to find a lasting solution.
“Thank God for reality, and for the means to escape from it.”
- Anthony De Mello.
We must learn to be absolute realists, and let go of our fantasies — but not in the conventional sense. The way I see it, is that the contemporary realist is a pessimist, and optimists are the true realists.
Learn to live with eyes wide open. Remember: reality is stranger, and far more fascinating, than fiction.
To tune into this truth is to silence the mind and go within. Connecting with this pool of intelligence and potential is blissful. Do not cut yourself from this source by looking away.
The problems we face dissolve in the light of our full consciousness.
Welcome this moment, this situation, as a friend. This is how your turn reality from an enemy to an ally. Work with it. Do not resist. Resistance causes negativity. Acceptance induces flow.
Negativity deprives the flow. Acceptance accelerates it. Why block your own blessings?
When faced with problems, applying the following framework.
This is how you win:
Grab a notebook and close your eyes.
Set the intention to solve the problem.
Evaluate the known facts.
Create space for your intuition to bridge the gap.
Enter the stillness of meditation.
Open your eyes and write a list of the solutions.
Keep open to insights, dreams, and synchronicities that occur over the coming days.
And of course follow the plan with action.
Try it now!
Within you there is an intelligence that lies dormant and is often unconscious. Shining the light brings it forth.
To Your Awakening,
Michael