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Life's 3 step formula
“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much
as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
~ Joseph Campbell ~
Hi everyone,
Over the last two weeks, we talked about the importance of getting to know yourself
at deeper and deeper levels, and the need to make time for self exploration and growth.
Today we'd like to share a simple 3-step formula that summarizes how to do life.
Applying these three steps can spur continuous growth, whether we start from a point
of pain or distress, boredom or even high motivation and empowerment.
Here are the 3 steps for doing life:
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Experience
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Expand
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Express
Experience - How are you experiencing life right now? From a positive or negative
perspective? With acceptance or judgment? From your point of view or others'? With
an intention to get love or to give love?
Tune into your experience in this moment. What are you feeling? What thoughts
are giving rise to these feelings? Is your experience heavy or light, contracted
or expansive? Don't judge yourself here - just get an objective reading of your
experience. This is the research step.
Expand - Once we consciously perceive and experience something, we hold the power
to improve our experience by expanding our outlook. How can I expand my perspective
to feel better, to gain more clarity or inspiration or appreciation ...?
Sense life with open, new eyes. We want to see beyond what we believe to be ‘the
facts' and perceptions arising from the bias and distortion of our unconscious filters.
Be willing to meet each event, thing, person, idea ... with a fresh, unbiased mind.
Tune into your hunches, callings, intuition, insights and ideals. What qualities,
values and feelings do you aspire to bring to your experience?
Try exploring, elevating, embracing, enhancing, exaggerating, evolving or empowering
the essence of your experience. Go to a new level where the little stuff in life
starts to make more sense.
Express - After doing our inner work of expanding our perspective, it is time
to take action. Do something different or do the same thing but in a different way
to live from this new, expanded viewpoint. Action grounds our new realization or
goal and places us on a new path forward.
Remember ‘RAP' to anchor your new insights: Repetition, Authority and Peace of
mind. In a peaceful, meditative state, with emotion and will power, repeat your
new goal, affirmation, visualization or choice.
Play with other ways to help the new concepts, images and ideas move into action.
Risk breaking out of your comfort zone. Write them down. Draw them. Sing them.
Discuss them.
To create significant change, we must integrate our new expansive viewpoint into
our being. When we focus on it, internalize it and own it, we make it part of our
subconscious. We overlay old engrained programs that are not serving us with new
and empowering habits and thinking patterns.
What is the 3 word formula for doing life now?
Experience, Expand, Express!
P.S. Next week - Learn more about the first step - Experience - as you STOP and PAY ATTENTION - NOW!
“Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. And you can change your life anytime you aren't enjoying the dream.”
~ don Miguel Ruiz ~
“How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life - and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: 'What's good in my life?' and 'What needs to be done?'.”
~ Nathaniel Branden ~
Resources
Goal Setting Workbook - Achieve your true potential
Know Yourself Workbook - Find out "Who Am I?"
A Reminder
Daily mini Re-Treat Yourself Process – Make the most starting and reviewing every day.
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