This is Your Life. Enjoy it!

Solve your biggest problem…
enjoy your life more…
– or you never have to speak to me again!
(and it doesn’t cost you a cent)

Imagine yourself loving what you do, dealing effortlessly with life, enjoying each day, and accomplishing your personal and career goals. Sounds impossible? It’s not…

Remember how energetic you were as a kid? Remember when you were excited about your goals and what you were going to achieve in your life? Did you lose some of that energy and excitement?

We all did!

The question is…. If you could get it back, would you?

Of course you would! Carry on reading and I’ll show you how you can.

GETTING IT BACK

The simple solution is to recover the energy you lost along the rocky road of life. The energy you took for granted as a child, the energy and passion you had when you first started towards your big goal is still there. Its just tied up in the past. And with all that energy tied up, its hard to get excited about life. Its hard to look forward to tomorrow.

Imagine you could recover all that energy! – You would be like a kid again – boundless enthusiasm and excitement, looking forward to the adventure of each new day. In short you would love life! Surprisingly, you will also find that life begins to go right for you. Your intelligence soars. You are more able to finish what you started, you don’t procrastinate like you used to. Your self-esteem shoots up. You biggest dreams in life are within your grasp again.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO IT ALL YOURSELF

You don’t have to do all the work. Let the experts help you. Over 40 years of research and over 200,000 people are proof that these methods work. We have carefully searched through what works and what doesn’t and kept only what really works so that you get only the best, proven results. You are putting the natural laws to work for you.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

That depends on your situation and how far you want to go. However, most people spend longer taking golf or tennis lessons than they do on this program. And, if you don’t start, it will take forever! Flexible hours and evenings are available

CAN YOU AFFORD IT?

The question is, can you afford not to? What is it worth to you to be able to live a life you love? That’s priceless!

WILL IT WORK FOR YOU?

Yes – if you’re really committed. If there is something that you want, and you are willing to do something about obtaining it, you will be successful.

WHO AM I?

I am an experienced clearing practioner (clearing is an advanced form of coaching). For the past 3 years I have studied full time with a recognized leader in the field of Human Potential and Clearing Technology. My mentor’s past clients include Oscar winners, Olympic Athletes, Billionaires and heads of multinational corporations. The proprietary techniques I use are incredibly powerful and precise. If you ready to launch yourself to your new life, this could is the ticket. But I’ll let you experience that for yourself.

IF YOU’RE READY…

to stop trying and start achieving; if you’re ready to do less and achieve more; if you’re ready to reach your big dream, to take your life to the next level, to start living the life you’ve always wanted – I’d love to talk to you, so please call me at the number below. I never interrupt my clients’ sessions, but I will get back to you personally. If it sounds like you’re a candidate for the program, we’ll send you a Personal Profile Questionnaire. After reviewing your Profile, if I feel you can be successful with this program, we’ll arrange a consultation. The consultation will last 45 minutes, without fee, and I promise you that within the first 10 minutes I will give you a dramatic demonstration of how you can change your life to be the way you want

Call me at 940 825 5188 for a no obligation chat about achieving your goals. I will tell you honestly what you can achieve and what it will take from you.

For your Success,

Paul Drayton

Supermarket Catalogs and Enlightenment

I was shivering in a restaurant bar nearby the beach I had just surfed. As I absent-mindedly paged through a supermarket catalog, my partner told me the story of Milarepa, the great Tibetan monk.

Milarepa started out as a less than ethical sorcerer who spent 12 years in the Himalayas in “contemplative retreat” with just a cotton robe as atonement for his previous acts of “negative evolutionary momentum”. His growth from this long stint in the freezing mountains resulted in his being considered as the “first Tibetan to become a perfect Buddha within a single lifetime”.

As my partner told me this story I was gawking absent-mindedly at a catalog containing a garish mélange of shampoos, new and improved razors, and super powered toothpastes. The bright colors of the catalog clashed with the images of cotton robed monks living in below freezing conditions, wandering the snow covered mountains in open-toed sandals.

Suddenly the new and improved can openers, the super charged toothpastes, the extra cleaning power shampoos and gazillion rpm blenders looked strangely stupid and superfluous. Before the monk entered my consciousness I was looking at the catalog with mild interest for something that might be missing from my life. Semi-consciously I was grazing for that little something that might give my life the subtle lift I was sure it needed.

With the monk in mind the catalog looked like a junk store.

What could any of these synthetic products add to my true happiness? Would a can opener really make a difference to my authentic experience of life?

I didn’t think so. Yes, a can opener might be a prudent option, but as a filler, as something to quiet my deep longing for a genuine experience of personal awareness and growth and my aching, it was sadly lacking.

This is not to say the attractions of our modern lives are bad and evil, or even good and saintly. They just are. If you have a can to open, a can opener would probably help. But to unconsciously or unawarely assign a gadget a place in changing your life, or providing you with any of the experiences in life that really matter, you would most likely end up disappointed.

As with all things in life, balance is required. Keeping perspective on what will contribute to your deeper growth and genuine experience of life, and what will create a buzz for the moment to fill a hole, will allow you to chose the path of greatest growth and avoid the myopic fog of modern shortcuts and quick fixes. Be aware of your choices and the path you are choosing to experience self and life through.

Choose consciously that which you desire to bring into your life, and leave the unnecessary extras alone.

There Are No Accidents

(Excerpt from Chapter 1 of “Blueprint – Change Your Life From The Inside Out”)

“The heavens themselves, the planets and this center,

Observe degree, priority and place

Office and custom, in all line of order “

– Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, sc. 3, 1.85

There are no accidents.

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Everything you did today, everything you have accomplished in the past, everything you own and cherish, everything that exists, has followed an exact sequence of steps to its creation. If you follow these steps, your dreams will become a reality. If you don’t follow the steps or you don’t know the steps, your life will be a battleground of invisible enemies who seem to have nothing better to do than make your life difficult.

This is a lie. There are no enemies. There is only working with the laws or against the laws.

In the second year of my physics degree I began to see the incredible order and structure of laws governing the movement and interaction of all things around me. Years later I landed at Miami International airport and had the sobering realization that there are no accidents. Everything happens because it was made to happen. Everything happens according to the laws of the universe.

We accept there are laws governing the movement of the planets. We accept the laws of gravity and magnetism, yet we have difficulty seeing or accepting the laws that govern our movement through our lives.

I am constantly amazed at people who believe their lives to be the quirk of fate or fickle circumstance. They believe they have no control over what happens in the lives. “That’s just life” they say, as if that explains it. They don’t see through the apparent disorder to the simplicity of the Blueprint beneath.

This chapter is a quick tour through the entire Blueprint. It starts at the end and works back to the source of everything that happens (or doesn’t happen) in your life. In subsequent chapters we will look at each step of the Blueprint in detail. This will give you a clear picture of how and where to make changes in your life that will make getting what you really want as easy and effortless as possible.

Avoiding the Dangers of Self-Improvement, Motivation and Empowerment

Go to a self-improvement seminar, feel good. Read a book, get motivated. Get an attitude adjustment and start winning big in life. You know you can do it. You just need to get motivated and get into action. The only thing stopping you is yourself.

Yes, yes, yes. All very true and definitely temporarily inspiring. And you’ve heard it all before.

But unfortunately, that’s not all there is to it.

Even here in the reasonably uncharted waters of personal evolution and empowerment, there are monsters that lurk in the deep. These monsters are seldom recognised and seldom assigned their fair portion of blame when the house of cards that today’s motivation and inspiration are built on comes crashing down on the baffled head of the erstwhile self growther. Yes, even here amongst the glittering promises of a new life, success beyond belief and an end to all personal suffering through the latest and greatest scientifically developed, laboratory tested, can’t fail success system, the immutable laws of physics still hold sway. ” For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” is as true for self-improvement as it is for objects in motion in the laboratory.

What does this mean in your path towards self-realization and growth?

It means that when you have a breakthrough and move to a higher level of self-awareness, ability or action, you are likely to suffer a backlash of some kind. Clear examples of this phenomena include Elvis Presley’s ignominious decent and eventual death, president Clinton’s and Rev. Jimmy Baker’s sex scandal, even self-improvement guru Tony Robbins’ bout with betrayal and bankruptcy. All these events happened after a rise to power by the person concerned. Most of these backlashes took a relatively long time due to the size of the growth spurt. For more sudden backlashes, you only have to speak to a cross section of people who recently attended a motivational seminar. They will tell you how they left the seminar fired up, ready to change their lives for the better but that days, maybe weeks later, they were less motivated than they were before attending the seminar. Sound familiar? It may have even happened to you!

How to Avoid the Backlash

Why does the backlash happen and what can you do to gain the growth and avoid the backlash as much as possible?

Good questions. First of all, know this. You can’t positive think, or inspire or motivate yourself out of the backlash. There is no way to completely avoid the backlash. If you hold it off with positive thinking, motivation or other suppressive techniques, you are only postponing it. When it finally catches up with you, and believe me it will, it will hit you harder than ever.

But enough of that negative stuff, let’s look at what happens when you grow, so that you will understand why the backlash must happen and how you can actually benefit from it.

The circle below represents your current consciousness. It is what you are conscious of right now – the words you are reading, the thoughts you are conscious of thinking, the emotions you are consciously feeling, the attitudes you are aware of, the chair you’re sitting in, the sounds you are hearing, what you are feeling through your body, etc. These contents of consciousness are perceived by what is called the “I”. The “I” is what experiences the contents of consciousness, it is not the contents of consciousness. The “I” is the thinker, not the thought. The “I” is what experiences the emotions. It is what remains if we take away all the thoughts, all the feelings, all the bodily sensations; in other words, “I” is what is left when we remove all the contents of consciousness. “I” is what experiences the contents of consciousness.

It is exceedingly common for the “I” to forget it is consciousness and come to believe it is the contents of consciousness. This is called “identification” and is the major obstactle to enlightenment. Ever had a moment of clarity, an insight, ephiphany, a peak experience, a breakthrough? What probably created that experience was separating the “I” from a particularly engrained piece of consciousness that “I” had become identified with. In other words, the “I” or You, believed it was the contents of consciousness and so lost it’s experience of self. A si example of this is espoused by an expression such as “I am sad”. In saying this the “I” indicates that it has identified with the sadness. “I” now believes it is the sadness. Of course this is not only not true, it is also impossible – if all the “I” was, was sad it couldn’t know it was sad since it would have nothing to compare it to. A more accurate expression would be “I am experiencing sadness” or “I have a feeling of sadness”. But I digress. The point here is that the “I” is the real you that experiences the changing contents of consciousness, and that this “I” often becomes misidentified with what it is experiencing - it forgets it is the experiencer not the experience. “I” is represented below by the circle.

The Conscious Self or “I”

Obviously this consciousness is not all there is. After all, aren’t there some things you aren’t consciously aware of? For example, your left pinky toe. Until I mentioned it, were you aware of the sensory information your pinky toe was sending to your brain? How about your left ear? You weren’t paying it much attention until I mentioned it were you? What about the sounds around you – the birds cheeping, the airconditioner humming, the people talking - you weren’t consciously aware of them until the “I” moved to include them in it’s current experience of reality. But all these possible contents of consciousness are there whether you are paying attention to them or not. They represent the potential “field of consciousness” – everything you can easily become aware of. This includes memories and thoughts that are easily accessible. The picture now looks like this.

The Field of Consciousness

Everything you can easily bring to your awareness is contained within your field of consciousness which is depicted by the dotted circle surrounding the “I”. If you can remember it, think it, conceive of it or imagine it, easily, right now, then it is within your field of consciousness.

But what about the things take a bit more effort to call to consciousness. Things such as where you went to school when you were 10 years old, or what color socks you wore on your prom night, or the last time you ate sushi, or your first boyfriend/girlfriend, or your worst date ever, or the best time of your life, or the worst time of your life, or… you get the picture. These are all memories you can recall if you put a bit of effort in. You have to move the circle of the “I” around a bit to find those memories. The area which the “I” searches for obtainable information is called the “Middle Unconscious”. It is considered unconscious becuase you don’t know it is there unless you really focus on it. Conscious means “with knowing”, so when you don’t know about it, it is unconscious, i.e. not within knowing.

Other examples of middle unconscious contents would be things like your heartbeat - you have to really focus on your heart to know what it is doing under normal circumstances. Middle unconscious also contains your accessible survival patterns, your ingrained but conscious attitudes and beliefs and your conscious self image. It can be depicted like this:

The Middle Unconscious

I suppose you’ve guessed by now that there is also an area of potential consciousness above and below the middle unconsciousness. These areas are ingeniously named the Higher Unconscious (or Superconscious) and the Lower Unconscious (or Subconscious).

The lower unconscious houses all those demons and skeletons in the closet that we would rather not admit to or go near to. We have so stongly forgotten them, that to us, they don’t exist. The types of artifacts you might find while travelling in the lower unconscious are traumatic events, perverse sexual drives, extreme phobias, etc. The catch 22 is that by definition, you can never know what lives in the lower unconscious, becuase as soon as you know it, it is no longer unconscious.

It’s not all bad in the lower unconscious though. The lower unconscious also houses the involuntary (read unconscious) body systems such as the hearbeat, breathing, waste control and elimination, digestion, etc. All these systems function independently of the field of consciousness – you don’t have to be aware of your heart for it to beat. It is amuzing to note that while most people will admit there is a powerful yet unconscious drive keeping their heart beating, they are less likely to accept the idea that their relationships, their self image, their live circumstances, their deeper personality moves to the rhythm of unconscious beat from the lower unconscious.

The higher unconscious contains the higher drives, emotions and tendencies - altruism, heroism, selfless love, expansion, betterment, love for humanity, sacrifice, compassion, understanding, tolerance, etc. It is here that we find the more intrepid explorer’s of consciousness, especially those seeking release from the mundane world of survival for the sake of survival.

It is when the conscious self or “I” moves into the higher unconscious that we have peak experiences, epiphanies, breakthroughs, ascension experiences. These expansive states are our recognition and alignment with our own higher nature. Coming to terms with the fact that these euphoric and altruistic states are not only our birth right, but a genuine part of our greater Self, is no small task. It is this integration which often causes the unwitting traveller in consciousness to fall into the thrall of the lower unconscious. Learning to integrate the higher nature into daily consciouisness while ‘taming’ the lower nature is the purpose of this series of articles and will be continued in part II.

End of Part 1

Local Writer Publishes First Book

“Blueprint – Change Your Life From the Inside Out” (ISBN 1-41079547-0 Hardcover, 1-41079548-9 Paperback) 196 pages, December 2003, is available in bookstores including Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble or by visitingwww.changeyourblueprint.com