Words to Live By
by Simon Lawrence
The words you speak and the thoughts you think are a confession of your private doubts
and fears, or your joy and love of all things.
Here is some inspiration to create your life exactly as you want it, rather than
the one you don't...
Simon’s book ‘Words to Live By’ will inspire every one of us... it makes us think about who
we are and where we are in this wonderful thing called LIFE...
And Simon say’s... ‘I hope this little volume brings enough inspiration for you to begin your own
journey towards what you do want to show up in your life - from this moment on. If you are already
on the journey then I hope it helps you to keep going when a tougher moment creates more of an
uphill climb, and you need a little push, a reminder of who you really are and to listen only to the
one mind that is going to create the life of your dreams.’
Introduction
Every single one of us, without exception, are of two minds, there’s our doubting mind and then the other mind that is ‘us’… some refer to it as the ‘i’ – that’s the authentic, the true us, who we actually are, the one that desires love and forgiveness… a life of excitement, of creating and achieving all those things that bring us joy, making us want to sing from somewhere breathtakingly high, it makes our heart beat faster and puts permanent creases around our eyes because we’ve been smiling so hard they have become a feature of who we are.
Culturally our planet teaches us to listen attentively to our other mind, our doubting mind, that judgmental us, the voice of caution, that tape we have recorded in our head that asks all those questions like, ‘yep right, who do you think you are thinking that!’ I’m sure you’ve heard yourself saying exactly that, because it exists in all of us… yes I want to do that, it’s my dream. But then the reservations come, ‘what will everyone think, or where will the money come from, or, or, or…!!’
We need to listen less to that part of us and to follow our heart, our true passions… it is only the fear our doubting mind thrusts into the mix that stops us, it sits there, the bloody little gremlin that it is, on our shoulder putting uncertainty and worry, even terror into any thought we might choose our lives to become. Then we tell ourselves that it’s only a dream and fall back into the life we have always had.
But this is how we heal ourselves, the doubting mind is a part of our ego and is one of illusion. It takes anything we can think of and puts a barrier up, it puts the fear of God into us, but only if we let it. If we pay it scant attention and concentrate our thoughts towards who we really are, to what we would truly love to do with our lives, then we can fly, we can boogie into the face of any insecurity we might experience.
So who shouts the loudest inside your head? I bet most of the time it’s your doubting-ego mind! But it is that other part of us the real ‘i’ of our imaginations that demonstrates truth, and if you learn to listen to it and to trust it then eventually the illusions have no value, we re-attune ourselves by recognising that aspect of ourselves, and then our lives can become extraordinary, full of anything our imagination can dream up.
So did your doubting-ego mind just go… ‘yeah right!?’ There is only one way to prove it, and that is to try following what you do want your life to be rather than the one you don’t. Following the one you don’t is like standing in a room with two teachers talking at the same time, Mr Doubt and Mr Truthfully-Me and listening only to the one who yells whilst the other speaks in a tranquil voice… who are you used to listening to?
Why not politely ask Mr Doubt to shut up for a moment and just listen to the wisdom and inspirations Mr Truthfully-Me speaks to us… and if Mr Doubt butts in ask that he leave the room… if you can practice that with every thought that comes into your head, then eventually your life will become extraordinary, it’ll be whatever you can dream up…
In ‘Words To Live By’ I want to share some of the thoughts that have inspired me, ideas and feelings that have made me want to dance through what at first appeared the darkest of moments… but because I knew that so long as I kept my focus on what I wanted as an outcome and ignored completely my screaming, panicky, doubt-ridden-ego-mind then my life would become the one I focused on, my dreams rather than my fears.
We’ll chat about life and living too… what is it all about? To be honest I have absolutely no idea, and I’m sure that’s the same for all of us, but what I do know is that we are all exactly the same, we all have the same desires, we all have a passion for something, we are all surrounded by the same rhetoric that booms at us day in and year out… and we are easily conned into thinking it’s important, more important than who we are… I also know that life is not meant to be a struggle for any of us, or unhappy or stressful in any way… unless of course that is what we choose it to be like.
Our life should be and can be full of remarkable moments, of laughter and learning constantly… who we are and what we want… the bottom line is love, not just getting it, but giving it too… and our lives will always be like that so long as we continue to believe it to be like that, to choose that in every moment.
You might well ask, how do I know that’s true? Well it’s my own experiences, they’re my guide, and experimenting with it too, I have tried it both ways so often and it works both ways too, so the only conclusion I can draw is to always go with my preference, the outcome I’d prefer.
I hope this little volume brings enough inspiration for you to begin your own journey towards what you do want to show up in your life from this moment on. If you are already on the journey then I hope it helps you to keep going when a tougher moment creates more of an uphill climb, and you need a little push, a reminder of who you really are and to listen only to the one mind that is going to create the life of your dreams.
Simon. Brighton December 2014
Every single one of us, without exception, are of two minds, there’s our doubting mind and then the other mind that is ‘us’… some refer to it as the ‘i’ – that’s the authentic, the true us, who we actually are, the one that desires love and forgiveness… a life of excitement, of creating and achieving all those things that bring us joy, making us want to sing from somewhere breathtakingly high, it makes our heart beat faster and puts permanent creases around our eyes because we’ve been smiling so hard they have become a feature of who we are.
Culturally our planet teaches us to listen attentively to our other mind, our doubting mind, that judgmental us, the voice of caution, that tape we have recorded in our head that asks all those questions like, ‘yep right, who do you think you are thinking that!’ I’m sure you’ve heard yourself saying exactly that, because it exists in all of us… yes I want to do that, it’s my dream. But then the reservations come, ‘what will everyone think, or where will the money come from, or, or, or…!!’
We need to listen less to that part of us and to follow our heart, our true passions… it is only the fear our doubting mind thrusts into the mix that stops us, it sits there, the bloody little gremlin that it is, on our shoulder putting uncertainty and worry, even terror into any thought we might choose our lives to become. Then we tell ourselves that it’s only a dream and fall back into the life we have always had.
But this is how we heal ourselves, the doubting mind is a part of our ego and is one of illusion. It takes anything we can think of and puts a barrier up, it puts the fear of God into us, but only if we let it. If we pay it scant attention and concentrate our thoughts towards who we really are, to what we would truly love to do with our lives, then we can fly, we can boogie into the face of any insecurity we might experience.
So who shouts the loudest inside your head? I bet most of the time it’s your doubting-ego mind! But it is that other part of us the real ‘i’ of our imaginations that demonstrates truth, and if you learn to listen to it and to trust it then eventually the illusions have no value, we re-attune ourselves by recognising that aspect of ourselves, and then our lives can become extraordinary, full of anything our imagination can dream up.
So did your doubting-ego mind just go… ‘yeah right!?’ There is only one way to prove it, and that is to try following what you do want your life to be rather than the one you don’t. Following the one you don’t is like standing in a room with two teachers talking at the same time, Mr Doubt and Mr Truthfully-Me and listening only to the one who yells whilst the other speaks in a tranquil voice… who are you used to listening to?
Why not politely ask Mr Doubt to shut up for a moment and just listen to the wisdom and inspirations Mr Truthfully-Me speaks to us… and if Mr Doubt butts in ask that he leave the room… if you can practice that with every thought that comes into your head, then eventually your life will become extraordinary, it’ll be whatever you can dream up…
In ‘Words To Live By’ I want to share some of the thoughts that have inspired me, ideas and feelings that have made me want to dance through what at first appeared the darkest of moments… but because I knew that so long as I kept my focus on what I wanted as an outcome and ignored completely my screaming, panicky, doubt-ridden-ego-mind then my life would become the one I focused on, my dreams rather than my fears.
We’ll chat about life and living too… what is it all about? To be honest I have absolutely no idea, and I’m sure that’s the same for all of us, but what I do know is that we are all exactly the same, we all have the same desires, we all have a passion for something, we are all surrounded by the same rhetoric that booms at us day in and year out… and we are easily conned into thinking it’s important, more important than who we are… I also know that life is not meant to be a struggle for any of us, or unhappy or stressful in any way… unless of course that is what we choose it to be like.
Our life should be and can be full of remarkable moments, of laughter and learning constantly… who we are and what we want… the bottom line is love, not just getting it, but giving it too… and our lives will always be like that so long as we continue to believe it to be like that, to choose that in every moment.
You might well ask, how do I know that’s true? Well it’s my own experiences, they’re my guide, and experimenting with it too, I have tried it both ways so often and it works both ways too, so the only conclusion I can draw is to always go with my preference, the outcome I’d prefer.
I hope this little volume brings enough inspiration for you to begin your own journey towards what you do want to show up in your life from this moment on. If you are already on the journey then I hope it helps you to keep going when a tougher moment creates more of an uphill climb, and you need a little push, a reminder of who you really are and to listen only to the one mind that is going to create the life of your dreams.
Simon. Brighton December 2014
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