SAM WITH THOUGHTS OF DEEPAK CHOPRA

SAM is one of the souls I have been privileged to meet along my life's journey. As we walk on the same path together, I have invited Sam to be a guest blogger with the hope that he will realize his spirit, inspire others, and recognize his purpose. This is his journey. Your comments will be forwarded to him from MaxFabry@lifestylechangescounseling.com
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“The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success”: Yes but what is success?

I have recently begun reading the book "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success" by Deepak Chopra. These daily reminders of how to live our lives are very interesting and I have begun to see how they play out in my life. I also have begun to implement them and use them in my life to gain more insight into myself and how the world around me works. I have decided that I am going to share my reflections and introspections regarding these laws on a personal level. I intend to share with you fellow travelers in the hope that by doing so we can all begin to see more clearly how they apply and can help us to see how to make our life on this planet better.

In this book I have learned to look at how I have the power to create my own life and what that manifests as. I have also learned that I create my own life by my choices and by my actions, that I am the architect of my life. I never felt that before and I have to admit that sometimes I still have trouble believing that I have the power or creation. I kind of left that power to God as a younger person. It is only now later on in my life that I have begun to see the power that we all have in creating and manifesting things in our life.

When I first saw this book, I admit I thought it was kind of small and was probably just one of those countless self-help books that sound good but don’t really mean much in the real world of things. For one thing what is success? Success means what? What are we talking about here? I had always thought of success in only one way, that being financial. I never felt myself as being successful in that way. So I never saw myself as a success. But in the book it talks about success being "the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease." I always thought that success was a result of very hard work and a long time coming. I never equated "effortless ease" with success. Nor did I believe necessarily that success was about "worthy goals" except that goal of making money. I come from a time and place where I learned that money meant success and even though I was given the message that money doesn't buy happiness, it seemed as if the messages I received where kind of mixed up. So I did not really get the spiritual definition of success until much later in life. That to be successful doesn't necessarily have to do with money as much as it is based on spiritual law. That this spiritual success could lead to happiness, joy, harmony, peace, low and a balance with nature was unknown to me until fairly recently.

So I guess the definition of Success was kind of skewed for me. I am now learning that success can include money but that it doesn’t have to include the financial realm. Life is about the journey not the destination and while money does help in some ways to make the journey more pleasurable, it is not the goal necessarily. There is no destination. That was kind of enlightenment to me when I heard it. I believe that more and more as time goes by. Success as Deepak Chopra says in his book consists of "good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well being and peace of mind." He goes on to talk about how we all have the "seeds of divinity inside us". This allows for the creativity and miracles that we sometimes see in others. I had a hard time getting that message as a younger person. I always believed that divinity was something for god not for humans. Because we have that divinity in us we have what the first law states as Pure Potential.

We have this potential, all of us do, to create and manifest the unmanifested. He talks more about that in the first law, which I will share more of later, but for now I think it is important to acknowledge a few things. He talks about the source of this creation as being divinity or the spirit that we all possess; the "process of creation" he says is this "divinity in motion or the mind"; and the "object of creation is the physical universe or our body". So that relates to the whole mind body, spirit connection. He says that these all come from the same place that place of pure potentiality that is "unmanifest". Our jobs, so to speak, then are to manifest the unmanifest. Or at least that is my impression. We have the ability to do so using the seven spiritual laws. I have been told that you can focus on all of them at the same time or you can focus on a different one each day. I believe that either way will create a transformation in you. I have recently begun to focus on one a day and yet as I do this I have found that they are all pretty much interconnected, just like all of life. So as I focus on one they all seem to become more a part of my consciousness.

So I plan on sharing one a day, kind of like the vitamin, for the next week. I hope you enjoy and find some enlightenment in them and that they help you to see things and think things and experience things that you have not seen, thought or experienced before. May they help you to live a more successful life, see above definition of success. I will begin tomorrow with the Law of Pure Potentiality and progress each day with the next one. Sooo lets begin then fellow travelers. Shall we? Til next time, peace, namaste and good journey to you.

Sam
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