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Understanding the Connection

Brent October 11, 2023

CHAPTER 01

UNDERSTANDING THE CONNECTION

 

So this is a self-study program. We are developing personal growth and understanding how to build and complement the physical and mental aspects of our “selves.” This is a search for balance between creative and the rational, the right and the left brain hemispheres. It’s a way to develop tools to dig deeper. Get a handle on emotion and desire. Break through fears. Minimize failure. Maximize success.

But here comes a radical concept. Let’s now look at everything but ourselves. By taking an inside out approach and training our minds on the minutia of our lives, we risk missing the all-important context, the setting: everything and everybody else. It’s like being so focused on picking up a penny on a crowded sidewalk, that we miss the parade going by. That’s not to say our worth in any way compares to a mere penny on a sidewalk. In the grand scheme of things, it is far less. That is of course if we only focus on the inside. Because the irony to all of this is that by understanding the world, the universe, the complicated science and the grandly interwoven connection, we turn copper into gold. By looking outside in, we discover our true power, our influence and our unique ability to stop the world from rushing by and access the mind-boggling abundance that surrounds us.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars. — Walt Whitman

On a blank piece of paper draw a circle in the middle. This is you. Now begin charting your circle of influence, your connections. Write the names of the people closest to you, your friends and family members who mean the most. Next, extend lines to the things or activities that you hold dear. Make a connection to your work if it is something you value. Each person and object has probably led you to another connection, another acquaintance. If required, tape new sheets to the edge of your paper to give yourself room to write. Think and keep extending your connections until each branch, each person or extension no longer extends to a connection that you value. This is your circle of influence. Notice any patterns. See where your interests lead you. Check which connection has brought the most valuable people into your life. See how your energetic connections skip between time, space, borders and continents. In the next two days contemplate ways you can extend the lines where they stopped, or re-chart other lines to cover areas that were bypassed.

Believe it or not, the power of our minds, both the conscious and particularly the subconscious, have the ability to alter reality. And it starts with your reality. Possession of higher consciousness also delivers an abundance of choices. You can either help yourself, or choose to ELEVATE the whole. In these days of a beleaguered planet, the truest intention for the whole, leads directly to the most spectacular rewards for you.

Don’t forget to click the mark complete button when you have finished completing your journal.