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Through You VIP

Hello VIP and welcome to this month’s lesson. Now, this lesson is called ‘Through You’ or ‘Through You Consciousness’. It’s an interesting idea and, as always, I’ll explain what I mean by this.

Let’s start with the idea that there are three basic levels of consciousness. At least for our purpose today, we’re going to describe three levels of consciousness. Now, “consciousness” means awareness, thinking, things like that. So kind of three very, very big general ways of thinking, ways of being aware, ways of believing about life. So let’s describe them.

Level number one we’ll call ‘to you’ consciousness, to, t-o, you consciousness. Level two we’re going to call ‘by you’, b-y, ‘by you’ consciousness and then level three we’ll call ‘through you’ consciousness. So let’s describe what these are.

‘To you’ – ‘To you’ consciousness means this, it means, generally speaking, in life you have the feeling or the idea or the belief that life is happening to you. Life is something that happens to you. External events happen to you. Good luck or bad luck happens to you. Events happen to you.

Now, as you can see with this basic mentality, it’s very much a passive or even a victim mentality because it implies – it suggests – that you are not in control; that you’re not the one determining your life that it’s external events. You can label that as the Universe or a God or chance or whatever you want to call it, but it’s something external that’s happening to you.

Even though most people don’t think of it this way, in fact, a lot of people, I’d say most people, in fact, do have this level of belief or this basic level of consciousness, generally. Now, we all may have parts of our life where we feel more empowered, but I’d say most people most of the time feel like life is something that happens to them.

Something bad happens and then they think oh, something bad is happening to me, right? I’m kind of a victim of this bad thing. You can see that that creates in your mind, even if it’s unconsciously, a feeling of being passive or powerless or at least not empowered; having less power. So that’s ‘to you’ consciousness.

Now, the next level we’ll call ‘by you’ consciousness. In ‘by you’ consciousness, you have the feeling, the general belief, the general idea, that life is being created by you.

You are creating your own life and you are determining your goals and then you’re going and getting them and achieving them.

You are envisioning what you want in your life and then you’re making it happen through your focus, through your actions, through your ideas, your beliefs, your communication, all of these things that we talk about a lot in the VIP Program.

So a ‘by you’ consciousness, meaning that life is being created by you, it’s a very active approach, right? It’s proactive. It means I’m the one causing things to happen and, yes, challenges may occur in the external world and difficult things may come up, of course, but in general I choose what happens and I choose my response to those things because anything bad that happens you are still in control of how you respond to it.

You can choose to get depressed and feel powerless, which is what a lot of people do.

You can choose to blame and kind of point the finger and ah, you know, this person or this situation is bad and that’s why and, again, you’re giving your power away to them.

Or, you can decide okay, this is not the situation I want, but I’m going to create something different. I’m the one who determines my life, who creates my life. My life is created by me and I determine my own responses to it and I’m proactive. That’s a very powerful level of consciousness and I’d say most of the VIP members have this level of consciousness.

For a good part of my life, especially recently, I’ve had that kind of level of consciousness, but there’s an even higher level. The higher level is called ‘through you’ consciousness and ‘through you’ consciousness is the idea that some greater purpose or energy or power or whatever you want to call it is actually operating through you. That you are part of something much bigger, that your life is not just about you personally, but your life is about creating something positive or contributing something positive out there in the world and that some kind of positive force is moving through you and guiding you and helping you.

Now, if you have a particular religion then you might think it’s your particular God or saint or something is doing that. If you don’t it might be more of a feeling of the life force or the collective unconscious, meaning the collective sort of minds of all of humanity.

There’s lots of ways to think about it, but the general idea is that you’re connected to something bigger, that you’re a part of something bigger and that that larger thing, that larger mission, that larger purpose, that larger energy, is working through you and supporting you and guiding you at all times. And, as you might guess, that’s a super powerful belief.

So let’s talk about that one. That’s the focus of our lesson this month, ‘Through You Consciousness’. So, again, it’s the idea that there’s some kind of life force or a greater energy or something that is moving through you and guiding you and helping you. Now, of course, this only happens if you believe it and if you act accordingly. So if you’re stuck in ‘to you’ consciousness, you’re blaming the external environment and you’re constantly complaining and you’re thinking like a victim then you’re not going to get much energy or creativity or inspiration or guidance or help from this kind of greater energy or power, whatever you want to call it. Its not gonna happen. You have to change your beliefs first.

You know there’s this very common cliché, it’s a common phrase, God helps those who help themselves. It’s kind of that idea. If you don’t start helping yourself first, if you don’t start doing what you need to do, what you know is right, if you don’t change your beliefs and the way you think and your level of consciousness then there’s no way that you can get any kind of inspiration from something greater.

It doesn’t have to be a religious idea, there’s plenty of inspiration. If you read enough about cutting edge physics, for example, you’ll find all the inspiration you need in terms of everything being connected and there being these kind of universal sources of energy. So it doesn’t matter if you think of it as God or Buddha or Tao or the Universe or the life force, whatever, it doesn’t matter, you choose, but it’s an important idea and it’s a powerful idea and a powerful way of thinking; a powerful perspective, a powerful core belief.

So how would this work? Well, you know you kind of train yourself to do this and to think in this way and here’s what you do. Anytime you have something difficult or painful, a challenge that happens in your life – and we always do – you have a choice of which level of consciousness you’re going to focus on or use in this situation. So let’s say something bad happens. You lose your job. Now, you can choose ‘to you’ consciousness, which means you’d say oh, I’m a victim. Oh, I was a good employee and look what they did to me.

You can be complaining, complaining about your boss and the company and then you could start just feeling depressed, every day getting depressed or you could focus on yourself and maybe all the bad things you did or your own failure and oh, I didn’t do what I should have done. Oh, I’m not good and oh, my God, this is terrible. I have such bad luck. That’s ‘to you’ consciousness and, of course, you’re just going to feel weaker and weaker. It’s not going to help you.

Now, the next level of consciousness you could focus on, which is preferable, better, more empowering to you, would be ‘by you’. You could say okay, this happened. It was bad. I didn’t want it to happen, but I create my future. I create my life. It’s being created by me. So you could make a list of goals about how you’re going to get your next job or start your own company or whatever it is you want and then you could determine exactly how you’re gonna do that and you could get yourself very motivated. You could wake up every day and focus on that goal with a lot of intensity and emotion and take actions and go out and get another job. That’s a good thing to do.

Now, if you want to really get some power, however, you could focus on ‘through you’ consciousness. At that level what you do is when you have a problem or something terrible happens, the first thing you believe, you decide to believe, you choose it, you decide that this is happening for a reason. I am being guided to learn something. I am being guided to grow in some way. I am being guided to make an important change, a change that’s important both for me personally and for my mission and for my purpose and for the people in my life. That is super powerful when you think in that way, because then you start seeing everything as an inspiration, even difficult things.

So in our example you lose your job, I describe with ‘by you’ you get really motivated, but in ‘through you’ you would think okay, how I’m being guided. What is the deeper reason I lost my job. How am I being guided? What am I being guided towards? Maybe, for example, you would decide you know I always wanted to start my own company and I never had the courage. I never did it. I am being guided to do it now, right? This happened for a reason. I need to start my own company so I can have a better life for myself and my family and my customers and I can serve more people. This is happening for a good reason. Even though it’s difficult for me now, I’m being guided towards a bigger, more important, more positive purpose.

Or maybe the purpose wouldn’t be to start your own company. Maybe though you could choose to believe that you’re being guided to have a more inspiring job and that this is an opportunity to grow, to maybe change careers. Maybe you’ve thought about that.

Maybe you were tired of your old career, but it was safe. It was comfortable and so you stayed in it, but now you’re being guided to do something bigger, something that will give you more happiness and other people more happiness or maybe stay in the same career, but just get a better company, a better job, a better position.

You see how this works, though, is instead of seeing this difficult thing that happened in a negative way, you start looking for the deeper positive reasons or purposes. You’re looking for inspiration and you have a deep strong belief that this happened for a positive reason. I am being guided in some way by some power greater than me. Super powerful.

And, of course, when good things happen, when you have good opportunities, when wonderful things happen, you think in the same way. You’re like I’m being guided. This is an opportunity for me to not just help myself, but to grow and to help and contribute to other people. So you start seeing good things in that way also, that you’re being guided, you’re getting inspiration for something bigger than yourself – a purpose.

So, what are the core beliefs that you need to have to experience this consciousness, this attitude toward life? Well, number one – I just gave it to you – you need to believe that everything happens for a reason. Everything happens for a reason. If you read the story of your heroes, your role models, great people that we admire, almost all of them have this belief. Everything, even the worst thing in your life, the most terrible, horrible thing, you have to believe deeply it happens for a reason.

We have examples of many people who’ve suffered terrible horrible things and some of them just became depressed and had horrible lives afterwards and some decided that it happened for a reason and they used it to grow stronger and to help lots of other people. That’s the power of it. Everything happens for a reason and you gotta believe that deeply inside.

Another one, you have to have this belief that you are being guided. Something is guiding you, helping you, looking out for you, directing you in some way. You may choose to call that the Universe or life or your own subconscious or unconscious or whatever you call God or Buddha or Tao or whatever. It doesn’t matter. The name doesn’t matter. They’re just words, but the point is that you are, in fact, it’s a scientific fact, you are connected to everything in the Universe and therefore you can decide to draw inspiration from that; to get inspiration from that, to touch into and tap into that power.

There’s an amazing power that happens when you’re working for something more than just yourself, when it’s not just you that you’re focused on. That’s the third core belief, is that I have a purpose and a mission in life. I have a purpose and a mission and you gotta believe that deeply. Maybe it takes you time to figure out exactly what it is, but you’ve gotta believe it.

When you have those three beliefs that’s when you start experiencing this ‘through you’ consciousness. You start feeling that wow, something is happening. I’m being guided.

You start meeting people who can help you. You start getting ideas that you never got before. You start finding books on just the right information at just the right time. When it’s necessary you get a challenge or a problem, because maybe you were getting a little too comfortable and it forces you to grow and get stronger. Just when you’re about to give up hope, some great opportunity happens. Something wonderful happens and you have this great positive change.

This happens. I can’t explain it. I don’t know why. It’s a bit of one of those mysteries of life, but I promise you it does happen and as I have been more and more focusing on this ‘through you’ consciousness, this has been happening to me and it’s an amazing powerful feeling.

So this month I want you to focus on developing these beliefs yourself. Any problem you have in your life right now, I want you to view it as an opportunity. I want you to choose the idea that you’re being guided, that this problem is there for a purpose. Then I want you to think of as many reasons as you can as to why you’re being guided. Why you were given this problem. What’s the opportunity in the problem? How are you being guided and what are you being guided towards? Then get on our social site and share your ideas.

All right, that’s it. You are being guided. You do have a purpose. You just have to change the way you think and as you do you’ll start to notice these things happening more and more. It feels like a mystery. It feels like magic, but I promise you it’s real, but you have to change your own thinking to experience it.

All right, well that’s it. I will see you again next time, bye-bye.