One world, one blog – an experiment

These days and months everything seems to come together for me in all areas of life – and also I notice how it has been separated in different ways. For example, besides this blog I have several others. Right now it feels most natural to me to bring it all together in one place and see how it works. This one place will be The Awakening Blog here. In fact, that’s where I’ve written what this is all about – I hope you will find it inspiring too.

Read about Dancing between Oneness and Separation here

Being unstoppable

A few days ago a question in my email box: Would you introduce your subscribers to Guy Finley’s “Secrets of Being Unstoppable“? It immediately caught my attention – not the question as such but the name of this work: “The secret of being unstoppable“. Wow. I have hardly ever used the word “unstoppable” in my life – it has a taste to it that I don’t quite identify with yet it’s such a great word. Because I have felt so terribly stoppable all my life! Haven’t you?

Can I really be unstoppable? Well, it took me most of my life to realize that the only way I can be “unstoppable” is to go where my life takes me. Every time I have been going against the flow of my life, I’ve been stopping myself.

So, on the surface, it’s a no-brainer. Go where life takes you and you will be unstoppable. Surrender – awaken to freedom. But then, if it is such a no-brainer why is it so hard to live this way? I mean, even in my attempts to go with the flow, to just be, I have found myself stuck and confused again and again …

Life cannot be stopped – and it can’t be figured out or outsmarted either. So, I’m giving up! But then – it is in giving up that I am finally finding my way. I really am…

And from there I can tell you, giving up and finding your own way is not the easiest way in the world. In my experience, it is extremely challenging. Which is why it can be very helpful to be guided through the steps and open up to whatever teaching/inspiration can support you in eventually finding the secret of being the unstoppable, real you, living your life the way you truly want to live it. Here’s a few suggestions for guidance – teaching – support:

Let me be your personal coach on your way

Learn from Robert Scheinfeld about living without limits and restrictions

Learn from Byron Katie about loving what is

Or perhaps let yourself be guided through one of the books at Amazon’s Self-Help, Health, Mind and Body and Religion & Spirituality departments.

If you consider Guy Finley’s system but aren’t sure:

More ways to expanded consciousness

This blog could humorously be described as “hundred ways to start the busting loose journey” . Just about every article here has some sort of reference to busting loose – simply because it’s been such a radically empowering way to expanded consciousness for me (and countless others, if numbers matter to you).

But then, even for the most enthusiastic busting loose enthusiast there comes a time where you have to move on, move beyond this or any other “pre-defined” path – partly because you more and more awaken to being yourself as such, beyond all paths, roads, models, philosophies, systems… which by the way I have started expressing in the new Awakening to Freedom blog…

… and partly because you joyfully notice that what started as an absolutely unique path is slowly but surely being re-created as one among other paths to awakening, to your expanded consciousness.

One such path could start for you on October 10-12th in Loveland, Colorado through the

Leap! Beyond Limits Live Event

Besides the fact that I feel like doing it – I recommend it because I appreciate Isaac Allen’s and Chad Cameron’s dedication to exploring different expanded consciousness paths, teachers and models – and from there extract the essence and create their own version.

Isaac and Chad are by the way the creators of the LEAP! movie that “features interviews with many of the greatest visionaries, scientists and authors in the world today – mind-expanding, heart-opening, and a real treat for the senses”.

True Joy in the midst of stress – affirmations revisited

I received this video from Darlene Siddons a few days ago, with an invitation to share it in any way I want. It turned out to be an interesting gift in the way it gave me a sense of “perspective”. It reminded me how I enjoyed affirmations some years ago – it was such a nice feeling, and it sounded true somehow. Even if it wasn’t quite how I experienced my life.

For that same reason, there were also times – many times – when I would get kind of annoyed with affirmations, and the cute images and the sweet words and the perfectly relaxing music – because it was so far from what I experienced in my life – it felt like sugar-coating.

The latter was exactly what I saw reflected in my initial reaction as I took the first look on the video. There was a slight residue of that old irritation: “I don’t need all that sugar, I prefer the real thing, I prefer to feel what is”. And this I did, I did feel what was there — and it was surprise!

Because as I watched the video, my experience immediately changed from a reserved “No” to a joyful “Yes”! Yes, this is true, this is how my life is like – I just don’t go around and think these thoughts, I don’t do affirmations – but I do feel it this way most of the time.

I don’t use affirmations and I don’t try to reduce stress. I seldom create stressful experiences, but when I do, I don’t try to reduce them – I dive into them and transform them, until I find my True Joy right there. Because it’s there as much as anywhere else. And that’s not sugar-coating – that’s the natural sweetness of love that permeates everything and everyone, unconditionally. Flowing through you.

Robert Scheinfeld and Joy

In Robert Scheinfeld’s “busting loose vocabulary” joy, or rather, True Joy, means much more than it usually does. He explains it in detail in his brand new “A Path To True Joy” multimedia introduction.

To me, the experience of True Joy was really puzzling at first: All of a sudden, I felt this wonderful joy (all kinds and shades of it), and I was so used to it coming from outside of me, that I spent quite some time looking for its source all over the place! It was cute, I think, me looking around and trying to find out what made me feel so happy. Was there a special letter in my inbox? No. Me winning in lottery? No. A new work opportunity? No. A new friend or lover waiting just around the corner? Nothing of the kind. Everything “out there” was “as usual” (or sometimes even appearing worse than usual ) – yet there was all this Joy within me! Weird…

As time went by, it became more natural that it comes from within and that I take it with me where ever I go, into every experience. I find myself enjoying every situation, every moment, every person exactly as is. I don’t really need to change anything (what a relief! ). And yet, it all keeps on changing, keeps on transforming, as True Joy keeps on expanding.

Yes, True Joy is an expansive feeling as such – there is no upper limit to it, and it does not make you explode either. It can be experienced as peace, joy, wisdom, happiness, love, abundance, creativity, humor – any state that you would attribute to what Robert Scheinfeld calls busting loose and others call awakening or enlightenment.

By the way, I notice how Robert’s “labels” of his teaching materials are changing and expanding too: From the “Busting Loose series” to “Journey to The Infinite” and now “A Path To True Joy“. A path – not the path! An infinitely creative Being – and that’s who you really are! – plays with many variations of a path and as many unique ways to walk it as there are people doing the walk. It’s not just one way.

This being said, while I tried many different approaches in Phase 1, never quite fulfilling all their promises, Busting Loose became in fact “the last self-help book I ever read“: The search was (and is) over and what’s left is exploring and enjoying the path as such. I’m creating it in my own way – as will you if that’s where you want to go.