The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever
Michael Neillamazon.com
The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever
We’re playing with the house’s money. There’s nothing real at stake. The only thing we have to lose is the illusion that something outside us can make us happy, safe, and secure.
To put it another way, everything we experience in life is a function of three spiritual facts: we are alive, we are aware, and we think.
While most of us are aware of Thought at the level of what we think about life, we tend to be unaware of how much of life itself is created and maintained by Thought. Much of what appears to be solid and real is actually part of the illusion of our personal thinking.
At the level of illusion, the mind is seen to work less as a camera or paintbrush than as a kaleidoscope, creating endless patterns of experience as it diffracts the oneness of life via the prism of Thought. This is the level of understanding that invites the miraculous – transformations that defy rational explanation and insights that redefine the
... See moreWhat are Mind, Consciousness, and Thought? Mind is the intelligence of all things; Consciousness makes you aware; and Thought is like the rudder of a ship. It guides you through life, and if you learn to use that rudder properly, you can guide your way through life far better than you ever imagined. You can go from one reality to another. You can f
... See moreUnderstanding that we’ll always get back online when our thinking slows down takes the pressure off – it’s not up to us to manage our state. This allows us to take advantage of our state of mind when it’s high, stay in the game when it’s low, and not waste much mental or physical energy trying to change, control, or ‘fix’ it in between times.
What would it be like to play the game of life with that same degree of fearlessness and freedom, knowing that everything that really counted – your well-being, happiness, love, and self-worth – was already yours to keep? After all, you were born with them, and the only thing that can ever take you away from them is a thought.
The simplest way to gauge your current level of consciousness is to tune in to your feelings. When you’re feeling low (angry, frustrated, stressed out, uncomfortable, unwell, etc.), chances are that your level of consciousness has dipped and your view of yourself, your life, and the world is relatively limited. When your mood is higher and you’re f
... See morethe moment we stop fighting with ourselves and others about what to think and instead focus on the miracle that we are thinking, the details of life begin to work themselves out, all by themselves.