The first one is something that a healer and a shaman told a number of years ago he said words to the effect of that the key to magic is to admit to yourself that whatever it is you’re trying to create is possible, that it could happen, and then get out of your own way.

I think that this is really what you’re getting at when you said, “You just have to believe you can be happy now. ”

I think there’s something more to it, in this case I don’t think it’s just a matter of believing that you can be happy, (although I think that that’s necessary.) In my experience, you have to *decide* to be happy.

This ties into the other thing that your post got me thinking about, it’s so easy for us to forget that our perception of the world is not, in fact, the world. It is just our perception. We are only capable of perceiving, and processing a tiny fraction of the information in the world immediately around us in every moment. We take that information that we do perceive, filter it through expectation and pattern recognition, and act like that’s reality. It isn’t, not even close. It’s like spending so much time staring at a map that we forget that the map is not the territory. It’s just a map, a collection of data about the territory filtered and organized in a hopefully useful way, but that’s not a guarantee of accuracy or even usefulness.

One of the things that I loved about Inspired Marketing, and the reason that I spend so much time listening to so many different peoples ideas is that it challenges my map, it reminds me that there were always possibilities that exist in the world around at every moment that I’m not seeing. It reminds me to be open to those possibilities even when they seem to conflict with my understanding of “reality”

Thank you for refreshing my map,

Be well

Andy
http://binauraljourneys.com

I agree completely……
we get out of life what we put into it…

do nothing….get nothing in return!
The world is an open canvass…..get a brush.