One of the biggest problems to being an addict is trying to solve the addiction through sheer will power rather than the thoughts that created it. Every addiction starts with a persistent thought that eventually spirals out of control, and makes you feel powerless. Until you realize the origin of your dependency, you will not truly be healed. Focus on the thought first, then actualize your goal, and then you will truly be healed. Danny G.
Follow Your Intuition
Does anybody ever know what is best for you? We all have intuition and intentions for every choice along our path. Our intuition and intentions are meant to guide us towards safety and inevitably towards our goals and desires. We’re trained to listen to the experts or to follow what is considered appropriate or normal considering the circumstances, but is this ideal?
I believe the experts are there for a reason, and we should respect their expertise and consider their suggestions as well. However, the problem begins when we allow their suggestions to overwrite our gut feeling and intuition. When we feel uneasy about something, our soul is trying to speak to us. How many times have the experts been wrong? How many times did you say I should have followed my gut feeling? Then why are you basing your choices only on what is considered appropriate in another person’s approach?
Advice is good, especially from trained individuals and they can guide you and may keep you on course. However, no one knows exactly what path you should take other than you. Every individual on this planet is unique in some way, and we’ve been given feelings to distinguish our likes and our dislikes. These feelings are also there to make choices, based on our preferences and observations and ideally our gut feelings.
How many times has someone said I’ll just go with my gut on this one and he was right? How many times has someone followed through with something he knew he didn’t have peace about and he was disappointed? Our intuition is meant to guide us. Without intuition and feelings we’re depending only on others and what is considered appropriate or worthy in their opinion.
How can anybody else be certain what path you shall take? People including your loved ones, truly want you to experience joy and fulfillment, so they tell you what they believe will bring you joy and fulfillment. They tell you with complete sincerity whatever they believe will bring you joy considering what brings them joy. But what they don’t understand is that what brings them joy will be different than what brings you joy. What they believe is the best course or choice for you may not be in your highest interest.
Don’t live a life based on other’s expectations, the should’s and shouldn’t, based on somebody’s observations of what brings them joy and what they think will bring you joy. There’s no obligation in life other than the obligations you impose on yourself. Everyone has a different path and every journey is different. There’s no right or wrong way, there’s simply better choices based ideally on your life. You have free will to choose the better path, which inevitably creates your life story.
Have you ever seen a famous painting that wasn’t unique in one way or another. What makes the painting unique is that the painter decided to follow his intuition and not someone else. If you want to be your authentic self, follow your unique gifts and don’t allow others to conform you into their idea of appropriate action or normalcy. True creation is saying I’m going to follow my gut feeling and motive and I won’t allow others to convince me otherwise.
Creation and Seasons (Poem)
Seasons,
They come and go.
Like a withering Hand,
And a beautiful pearl.
A beautiful day,
Along with the raging storm,
It always comes back,
To a beautiful day.
The storm rushes in,
With little no signals.
We hide in the safe harbour,
As fast as we can,
Where peace and safety,
Is in our reach.
It has always been,
We simply lost the key.
Others remain,
In the storm,
Uncovering the mysteries,
Deep within.
Some relinquish, some persevere,
In the world of no certainty,
Of reality and dream.
We chug along,
The unknown path,
Trying our best,
To not hold back.
Reality uncovering,
In every fashion,
Steering you, in every direction,
We think, is there an end,
So we create this reality,
Not knowingly and forget.
Are we just taught this way,
To accept reality,
Its only prophecy and world disarray.
So many choices,
Along the path,
So why not choose God,
And let him steer the raft.
We are ambassadors,
In this created reality,
We create it as we want,
And then let our mind conceive it,
As it leaps in.
Let’s create ourselves anew,
In this illusionary realm,
With a peaceful world, living our dream.
The Mountain of Clay (Poem)
Out in the wilderness,
Where winds burst away.
We are all creators today,
On a mountain of clay.
The mountain can be atrocious,
With its height and surface.
But we keep pressing on,
Until the day we’re gone.
Our nests high up in the trees above,
The winds toss and turn its branches and trunk.
Our nests shake in the storm at night,
But we still remain,
Because we’re eagles who soar,
And don’t take flight.
The clay is moldable to our disguise.
We shape it the way we want,
Upon the mountain of clay.
We stand tall affirm out loud,
Even if we waver we still consider,
We’ve survived it all,
Despite the turns and falls,
All according to the inexplicable laws.
We call this time space a mountain of clay.
We are the change to transform today.
Although the turns and detours,
Won’t lead us astray.
Many sights and experiences to chase away.
This is our life, stand and relax.
Don’t hold back in the pottery and clay.
Look above, all the answers lies,
In the one who created the skies
Quote for Today
Mistakes are not the true killer, guilt and condemnation are. Mistakes teaches, and guilt and condemnation eventually eats away at the body and mind. Danny G.
Pulled Myself Together and Claimed (Poem)
When I lay in bed,
Remembering the nights I spent in dread.
I realize it was not long ago,
That I felt so sad and low.
I so wanted an escape,
To solve all my problems and my rage,
Prayed for help from up above,
Said help me now if you’re a source of love.
Confusion swept away,
When nothing happened I burst away.
I kept treading on the path,
Trying my best when I was sad.
I kept a happy face,
When all I did all day was pace.
And speak to God, is this worth it,
If in the end I’m sad and lose it.
Then the day finally came,
I pulled myself together and claimed,
The fear and dread isn’t here to stay,
As I thank God for the coming day.
Changed my beliefs and spoke the truth,
Spoke it into being while feeling aloof.
Although at first I didn’t believe it,
Spoke it so much that now I feel it.
Thanked God from up above,
Said thank you for being a source of love.
That day I finally meant it,
As before I was broken and loathed it.
Stay positive and don’t waiver,
Stand boldly, praise, don’t reconsider.
Know you have control,
As you seek expansion of the soul.
And know this day won’t come,
If you relinquish before it’s done.
Letting Go and Embracing
What happens when your only concern is material possessions or wealth or recognition, then you lose it? You lose yourself in the process. If you want to put all your heart in something, choose God and your soul, for this never leaves you. Danny G.
Look At The Source Not The Surface
Overcoming an addiction can be difficult if we focus merely on our will power creating the change, so why not focus on changing the underlying beliefs that created the addiction in the first place?
What is a drug addiction? Is it a craving that is beyond your control? Or is it a belief you don’t have control? Is anything beyond your control in reality?
If you say my behaviour is beyond my control, then you’re basically saying you can not control your thoughts, words or actions. What creates or feeds an addiction other than your thoughts, words and actions? You’re either thinking or speaking about this addiction being out of your control, thereby, causing you to behave inappropriately.
What would have happened if you lived your entire life saying I will never have an addiction problem, since I have discipline and will power. I don’t care to put harmful drugs in my body, since I care about my physiology.
If you say your thoughts and words hold power, would you be in the same place today? Talk yourself into a new way of thinking about the addiction, and about your beliefs about the addiction. You talked yourself into creating this addiction, so now the job is to talk yourself out of it. The problem is you don’t believe you have control over this dependency, so you create a reality out of your control.
This addiction may be caused by overwhelming emotions that you’ve been trying to avoid all these years through drugs. It’s your way of numbing the pain. You take this drug and you’re distracted from your emotions, which causes you to feel less for the moment. You suppress it over and over again through the same drugs and you never deal with the emotions to begin with. Then you say this addiction is beyond your control because you can not face this turmoil inside of you.
The drug impairs your mind and you revert to behaviour that gets you in trouble, and then you have all this trouble that you brought on yourself. You then say I brought this on myself through my own stupidity and I could have changed all of this by making better choices. You then blame yourself and you feel guilty for bringing this turmoil in your life.
If you created this addiction, then you can change it through the only means that created the addiction to begin with, your thoughts. Start declaring I can do it, and sooner or later you’ll be living your new beliefs and acting on it. Overcoming an addiction can be difficult, but you have two options, believe it’s within your control or believe it’s the forces of nature deciding for you.
Don’t give up if you have a few trials and errors. For every new beginning and anything worthwhile, there are detours and challenges along the path, but they all lead you back to wellness and happiness.
You may say I just like to get high, I love the feeling. I just like to get drunk, I love the feeling. One doesn’t negate the other, you can still be addicted to the feeling or craving. However, you adopted a belief that you have poor discipline and poor self-control. You’ve adopted a belief that you don’t care what you do to your body.
Ask yourself this question. If you cared deeply about your longevity, about your physical and mental wellbeing, and you knew street drugs were harmful for you, would you use them regardless?
Besides just going through the motions, why do you want that high so much? Do you believe you can’t be happy on your own terms, or have fun without the high? Another reason for using drugs may be that you’re mentally ill and you feel you need this drug to reduce the overwhelming fear or despair.
Why not visit your doctor and let him prescribe you an actual medicine that would alleviate your symptoms? Do you believe street drugs will help your condition? Which one do you think will be more effective, street drugs or the medicine?
Furthermore, If you want to overcome this addiction, don’t be too preoccupied with the surface. Surface would imply trying to overcome an addiction through sheer will power. Why does sheer will power work sometimes and other times, it’s not enough. We need to change the underlying beliefs which says, “I just have poor discipline, and I’ll always struggle with this. It’s just my reality, or disease.”
When you behave in a certain manner for a long period of time, you begin acting on autopilot, not paying any attention to why you’re doing something, and then you conclude it’s out of your control.
Have you ever had a day where you had many things to do and everything kept on piling up and you said I’m just not with it today? I can’t focus and I’m not feeling very well, but I can’t put my finger on it. How can you focus on the source of the problem when you’re focusing on everything but the source?
The only way to truly heal is to quiet your mind, change your thoughts and create a new belief. What happens when you quiet down and you’re still? Are you preoccupied with anything other than your thoughts? What is the primary reason of your addiction? Isn’t it your thoughts?
The answer isn’t medicating yourself through drugs and alcohol. The answer is to go to the source, which is your thoughts and God.
Acknowledge that you’re going to face this reality and not avoid it until your life spirals out of control, and dare to say I CAN DO THIS!
Quote For Today
We’re all made of flesh and bone, the only difference is in our thinking, and perception changes everything. Danny G.
The Pioneer
There’s a pioneer for every mission anyone has ever embarked on. Every time we embark on new territory, and it’s unfamiliar grounds in which no one travelled, we’re setting an example. By taking action and succeeding on a task or challenge that seemed impossible at first for ourselves or humanity, people start to believe it’s possible. They have validation that the task or challenge is within their control and they have the power to overcome and achieve success.
Why is that? Because they saw it or heard it or read about it, and if one person did it, they believe their goal or dream is within their reach and achievable.
Our experience or breakthrough becomes a confirmation for others that what was once impossible, is now achievable. We lead and teach through the clarity of our example and through experience.
There had to be one person or a few who first healed from cancer to break our limited thinking and believe if one man did it, then we all can. When cancer was first discovered, how many people survived compared to how many are surviving today?
Cancer was almost a death sentence a few decades ago but today there are more and more cancer survivors. Before that one breakthrough, cancer was incurable and many people believed the disease to be impossible to recover. But one person fought long and hard for something he knew he had the potential to heal despite everyone telling him it was incurable, and he healed.
What would have happened if he would have listened to everyone who told him, cancer is incurable or the prognosis is not good? Would he have planned for his healing? Would he have kept on fighting and focusing on his healing? If he believed it was impossible, would he see a point in focusing on his recovery?
There had to be one person or a few who so wanted justice for everyone on this planet and who fought long and hard to provide equality for everyone, which started a shift that is still making a difference today.
Why was slavery abolished in many parts of the world? Why have we had the integration of visible minorities in many parts of the world? How are women’s rights today compared to the 19th century when women weren’t able to vote? How was sexual harassment against women in the workplace a few decades ago when there wasn’t any law against extortion?
These individuals had the compassion to change the injustice and they fought for equality and peace on the planet, which created a change that we’re still experiencing today. There had to be one person who stood up for what he believed and never backed down despite everyone being against him, but because of his determination and persistence, he prevailed.
Looking at the statistics or listening to the experts can be helpful and can be wise, but the wiser person says, I don’t need someone else to prove to me that this is attainable. I can set my own boundaries, and be the first person to change a so called impossible to I CAN!
All of us can be pioneers because we’re unique and we have our own skills and abilities, meaning there’s no exact replica of any individual on this planet. Don’t wait for confirmation and validation from others to do something someone was never able to do, whether it’s healing from a particular health challenge, or achieving a dream.
Value everyone that freely gives you advice, and receive it if the advice agrees with you, but be the pioneer who says, I’m going to succeed and I don’t need validation to say I CAN!