Fucking Perfect E-Book

Sabine Metzinger

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 351

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

An ever increasing number of diseases, crises, conflicts, wars, environmental disasters and catastrophes are frighteningly omnipresent nowadays. The big dream of humans about real love, peace and health seems more impossible than ever before. What solutions approaches could make the miracle happen, that humanity will reach the inherent deep longing for love, peace and health? How can be dealt with all these challanges on the small scale in our daily environment, as well as on the large scale globally? "A book which is asking questions and giving answers, that those dyed-in-the-wool hardliners who call themselves realists, never succeeded to address." G. Kilian, Editor

Leseprobe

To my Children

Medea

Neriah

Joshua

This book would not have been possible without the three of you.

You helped me onto the right path.

I am extremely proud and grateful to be your mother.

I love you.

Table of Content

Part 1

Success

Fear

From the Fear of Poverty to Wealth

From the Fear of Illness to Health

From the Fear of Death to Living

From the Fear of Loneliness to Love

Part 2

Longing and Desire

Trust

Inner Dialogue and Autosuggestion

Observation, Personal Experience and Knowledge

Intellect and Understanding

Fantasy and Imagination

Action

The Subconscious

Self-Awareness

Determination

Perseverance

The Power of Community

Union – A little different Meaning of Sexuality

Summary and Essence

THANKS

PART 1

1. Success

Ihad a dream and it was unbelievably vivid. I dreamt that there is a paradise. In this dream, I sensed that this vision could somehow become true, and that this life is meant to be much easier. I dreamt that peace, health, prosperity and love could live within me and everywhere in this world. Under these circumstances, life would be a celebration. I experienced all of this, as if it were already real. When I awoke from the dream, I knew with every cell in my body, yes! This is possible! But how?

Nowadays we are often confronted with spiritual phrases like: “Everything is all right, right now” and so on.

But, how can this be true, when we realize the circumstances on earth, in our society or even in our own little environment? And what is “true” and “false” or “right” or “wrong” at all and where leads this way? “Right” seems not to be meant in the context of ethics itself. Obviously there is something wrong, when there exists so much evil. “Right” seems only to be based on the fact, that an action causes a reaction and that we simply have to harvest what we sow.

Fear sustainably influences always what we call success and this seems to have us lead to such a worldview, which we have to face meanwhile. Is there a way to change success with only one heightened perception and use it in another and better way?

So – I think yes. And I will describe how to shift.

Then, we would be able to change not only the meaning of success in a positive way, but also our worldview and the understanding of ourselves as well. This new expanded approach would enable us to align our thinking, feeling, speaking and acting towards peace, happiness and love. A potential growth and change would cause automatically this way. It looks very much like we as human beings are figuratively speaking stocked in a filial imprinting phase of our true potentials and abilities. The lack of knowledge about these circumstances brings along this world we created altogether. So, we can stop blaming each other, because everybody seems to contribute this unconsciousness on its own way. Similar to a baby, we also would not blame its attempts of communication and interaction when its development of mother tongue and body coordination is not as good as you find it when you are grown and have finished school.

What is success

Success itself is based on certain characteristics, without the interplay of which it is likely difficult to be or to become what we call successful. The characteristics on which we base our success are: Longings and Desire, Trust, Inner Dialogue and Autosuggestion, Observation, Personal Experience and Knowledge Intellect and Understanding, Fantasy and Imagination, Action, The Subconscious, Awareness, Determination, Perseverance and the Power of Community. We will examine the word “success” very carefully in this book, and repeatedly looking at the parameters of the various perceptions of success from different viewpoints because “Success” – or “being successful” – as interpreted and experienced until now, has been the source of a great deal of hardship, struggle, misunderstanding and misfortune.

Strictly speaking, “SUCCESS-FUL” merely means that a desired aim or purpose has been accomplished. Every action is followed by a reaction, and the more often this action is taken, the more often the reaction takes place. Thus we are FULler of „that what follows“, and „that what follows“ is our SUCCESS. When we think, say or do certain things – or refrain from saying or doing certain things – frequently, a certain reaction or result will follow in a corresponding frequency. So the “full” in “successful” refers to the quantity of the particular “success”, and not to its quality. Saint Francis of Assisi coined a quote that points to this misunderstanding:

“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

The significant first step here for holistic success has been forgotten until now, leading to fatal misconceptions. Standing in the conventional understanding of success, we already expect a certain desired quality – in other words, the second step – from the outset, without consciously evaluating the quality of the initial action beforehand. We are continuously trying to achieve the possible without paying attention to the necessary, all the time wondering why everything seems so impossible.

Our complete responsibility for ourselves and everything that is, lies hidden in this misconception. The “response” in responsibility points to the fact, that a fundamental truth about ourselves is at play here. What is this variable X, that we have forgotten to include in our equation of life? Maybe the true awareness about, who we really are?

It is not only love that multiplies when you share it, as sayings want to make us believe. That is not true. Everything multiplies if shared. Seen from a quantitative point of view, we are always successful, no matter what happens in our lives. No matter how horrible what we experience may be: it is always a result of the sum of our actions or acts of omission, and therefore our success. Everything that we experience is a consequence of our thoughts, words and actions. Initially, these consequences are entirely free from judgment; they are neither good nor bad, both on the large and small scale. Often, the impact of the own action or omission does not become clear – whether consciously or subconsciously – until some time has passed, so that our responsibility remains unrecognized.

Nonetheless, we have apparently always understood the laws of success. Our every molecule seems to be oriented towards it, just as it is omnipresent in nature and our environment. Or has anyone ever heard of the necessity for a drop of water to go to school to learn, how to transform itself into steam under the influence of heat or the sun, so that it can defy gravity and rise to the sky, only to concentrate and condense? I am not aware of the need to teach a thus transformed drop of water how to become a drop of water again, or as a unique and perfectly shaped snowflake to fall back to the earth, in order to continue the eternal cycle of life. Why we human beings think that we don’t operate according to the same laws that govern everything around us?

Actions and Reactions are Habits

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, habits are defined as “a usual way of behaving; something that a person does often in a regular and repeated way”, and “an acquired mode of behavior, that has become nearly or completely involuntary”.

Everything that exists today is based on the context inside of which we have defined and experienced success until now. Habits show the “how” of our relationship to everything that we ourselves are and everything that surrounds us. In other words, we only notice what we do, think, feel and say, when we begin to consciously pay attention to it.

Until now, actions and reactions (results) – that are not aligned with the values or wishes of ourselves or others, have been seen as failures. From the vantage point of our new and extremely basic definition of success, however, we can already surmise that we have been suffering under a fatal misconception.

What is failure really? In the German language failure is „miss-success “. Interestingly enough, we have always defined failure as a lack of success, rather than a lack of quality or awareness in the action and the reaction, as the original context of the German word would suggest. Instead of placing the focus on the lack of success, the word failure or „miss-success“ actually contains the solution. When we focus on the cause rather than the effect, we can actually see that something is indeed missing – the quality as well as the purposefulness of the originating action.

The Basic Motivation for Habits

It appears that the habits of so-called unsuccessful people are largely negativity or deficiency-motivated, whereas the habits of so-called successful people, for the very most part, appear to be positivity-motivated – they are oriented toward and motivated by abundance. Nonetheless, a certain background motivation seems to be missing, when we get present to the current situation and observe the results in this world on the large and small scale.

Basically we can distinguish two primary motivations for human beings. First, there is that, which we call fear or deficiency, and secondly, there is what we refer to as love or abundance. Everything that we have defined as failure until now is actually success, as much so as everything that we have called success. Whether “success” or “failure” – both are reactions to an action, and therefore both are a success seen from the vantage point of natural laws or success principles.

How can it be then, that we have a world that looks the way it does?

Well, all of us have collectively thought, felt, said, done – or refrained from doing – those things that occurred to us as the right things to do (or not to do) based on our interpretation of success until now. Instead of success as we have defined it, however, these things have produced the „miss-success“ or “failure” that we see today. That which the collective consciousness - we should actually call it collective unconsciousness - has created is, what we experience as success and failure, resulting all too often in violence and/or injustice, especially against the more vulnerable among us. The statement “I have no success” is based on a misconception. We are lying to ourselves, because we have never really recognized the actual scope of our responsibility and with it our power.

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.” – Albert Einstein

This quote hits the nail on the head. Our present interpretation of success creates the world that we experience right now, with all of its violence and the increasing number of atrocities and injustices. The variable X, along with a new definition of success based on that variable, can transform that very same world into the paradise, that has always been there.

Our negative habits began very early in our lives – in early childhood – and grow like a perennial plant in the sequence of annual cycles time and time again. The seed germinates, ripens, carries its own seeds and dies, only to have the new seeds germinate again with the next cultivation. Consider, though, that a plant made of seeds carries a multitude of new seeds. And so it is with our strongest habit: the habitual way we define and experience success.

But far too often, however, we treat our negative habits, concerning success, as if they were weeds, having forgotten that those weeds possess healing powers. Weeds are medicinal herbs. And they are trying to tell us, what isn’t working about our definition of success. Like those weeds, our negative habits hold a gift for us – they want to bring us healing, yet we pluck them out without paying any attention to what they are trying to tell us or making intelligent use of them. If we examine the origin of these habits, they will show us the path to our true potential and to the aforementioned variable X, and we will have a much easier time of uncovering our faulty definitions and misinterpretations.

Our habits originated jointly and severally from our familiar interpretation of success. Similar to a puzzle, we have already completed the frame. Many pieces are already in place. But the more similar the colors and textures of multiple pieces become, the harder it becomes to find the correct piece. We have placed some of the right pieces in the wrong place. We have removed critical pieces from our puzzle and laid them to the side, believing that they belong to someone else’s puzzle. No wonder, then, that our picture of ourselves becomes ever more removed from the picture it actually should be. Fundamentally, we are familiar with the overall picture. However, we are missing the conscious view and the understanding of where which piece belongs, and that those pieces lying to the side are actually the pieces missing from our own puzzle.

In order to make use of the true power of our habits, it is enormously important that we first recognize and understand the curse of our negative habits that originated out of deficiency and fear motivation. The sum of these habits brings about the worldview that we live in today. Our habits bestow upon us massive wealth and massive poverty at the same time, as well as the impending doom of the planet upon which we live.

Far-Reaching Consequences

The true magic of our habits is than the reversal of the curse of our negative habits, and yet it is so much more than that. It’s about creating our future successes in the same way, that they were gifted us at birth, and consciously setting actions that make sense and create happiness, fulfillment and love far beyond our current definition of success. This particular shift seems to be especially urgent at this juncture in human history. Reversal is therefore not enough, for we would be turning a curse into a blessing, and a blessing into a curse, and would still be in a polarity. The true magic of our habits lies behind it. It contains the resolution of the greatest misconception this world has known.

Exponential Growth

Exponential growth, in other words a quantum leap for humanity, is possible, if we integrate the missing or forgotten variable X in all of our thoughts, speech and actions. If we comprehend the information in this book as what it truly is, change can come easily, because everything is ok, right here and now, and nothing is for naught – what exists now is “fucking perfect” (forgive the provocative expression), and we can then recognize and understand that.

The following context illustrates how this exponential growth in a positive direction is possible. It has been documented that a company needs four positive employees to compensate for one negative colleague. It is much the same with habits: figuratively speaking, it takes four positive habits to compensate one negative habit. Here, we’re simply replacing our “outer employees” with our “inner employees”, represented by our habits. In both cases, it is the amount of energy or life force connected with these people or habits, that is required to maintain a balance.

Negative habits are based on negative beliefs, which generally join to form larger belief systems that in turn support and feed one another. The smallest common denominator among the belief system we call life is, directly after the misconception “love”, the resulting misconception “success”.

If we could bring ourselves to new, positive beliefs and habits in this regard, potential growth in the desired direction will follow. A veritable explosion of wonderful concatenations and events will come to pass. The sum of our negative habits is replaced by positive habits. Simultaneously, the capacities of the four bound positive habits are set free, since they are no longer required to compensate for the conglomeration of negative habits. The consequence is obvious: the domino effect changes direction and activates a series of useful and positive chain reactions. What’s more, these released energy reserves in turn ease the process of integrating more and more new positive habits. For one thing, we are much more motivated by the experience of success that feels like a quantum leap. For another, we actually have more energy available, which in turn makes it easier to detect, distinguish and replace negative patterns and traits. At the same time, we come into contact with potentialities – new positive habits - that we previously knew nothing about, although they may have lain dormant in us.

A positive cycle of exponential growth can arise and will pull us along inexorably, if we allow it to. A cycle, we are familiar with from negative, undesirable chain reactions, only reversed: a cycle of the desired, wished-for, positive kind. Lastly, this path is in spite of its simplicity and banality the greatest challenge of our lives and human history, since it forces us to question everything that we held as truth until now.

The Consequence of Exponential Growth

As a consequence, sooner or later we will not only be capable of creating life the way we want it, but also of uncovering our true purpose and destiny, as well as the ideal way to express it. All that already lies within us, waiting only to be discovered or better to be remembered. Just as a tree does not need to be told which tree it will become, and no plant must be told which plant it will become – we also know which talents we are meant to express. We ourselves decide, when this will come to pass.

We have believed that we must forget, or more accurately, deny ourselves, and have struggled to become “good” or “someone better”. We now have the opportunity to remember this misconception. To put it in the words of my mentor, Eugen Simon, (success coach, author and founder of Gedanken-doping): “It is time to forget, what we have forgotten to forget, and to remember, what we have forgotten to remember.”

Remembering is an act of „being aware“, so fore, self-awareness or consciousness. I would actually like to use an invented word here, PRIMEMBER, to represent remembering who we truly are – reMEMBERing the original, PRImordial version of our self. The more human beings primember who they really are and why they are here, the more the true magic of our habits can show itself. This magic is capable of bringing about the sought-after transformation of this planet, which we until now have believed to be impossible.

It is time to remember who we really are, who we have always been and who we always will be: a part of the DIVINE WHOLE, the EVERYTHING-THAT-IS – without compromise and with every consequence.

We will begin by examining our deepest fears together, before we take a closer look at the basic structure of our behavior based on the aforementioned success characteristics. We will examine how, where and why a particular characteristic is already being applied on the basis of a misconception, and how it could be applied in service of our responsibility to ourselves, and with that in service of our responsibility to our entire environment.

Your subconscious is waiting for this. It is on the starting blocks and led you to this book – perhaps unconsciously, but certainly not indeterminately.

2. Fear

Fears are shadows and don’t really exist. They are assessments and judgments that emanate originally from the perception of our environment and occur to us as an unalterable, menacing truth. Nevertheless, they are nothing more than pure interpretations. They have been picked up from the environment, our families and society, who just know only this way of success and world. We experienced the fears of everyone around us – parents, friends and a multitude of others – and adopted them as our own truths. That happens without reflection when we are children. Even when we are grown, we have a difficult time recognizing and overcoming these phantoms. Moreover, we continue to propagate them - and by the way completely unaware of what we’re doing - further infecting the world with our frightening misconceptions. Every time we articulate a fear, we sow the seed of that fear in ourselves and others, so that it is continuously strengthened and adopted anew. This happens at times even without a spoken word: hesitant, fear-based actions and decisions, or even those often underestimated failures to act or decide, also create chain reactions in our environment, legitimizing and strengthening our fears.

Needless to say, most of us would never intentionally spread fear. On the contrary, these events usually happen without any conscious awareness, and are all too often grounded in those deadly “good intentions”. In many cases, it is hidden behaviors that fuel fears. The result, however, is always the same: fear carves its path, becoming greater and more powerful on the way.

The Impact of Fear

Fear deprives our personality of its charm and steals our clarity. It weakens our concentration. It undermines our perseverance, and sucks every bit of motivation and will out of us, leaving an inner state behind that resembles a parched salt lake. Fear tends to close every door and, in fact, deplete our entire belief in anything positive. If we give it enough power, it can even rob us of our positive memories. It seems as though the love within us dies. Fear paralyzes reason, undermines self-confidence and strangles all spontaneity. Insecurity runs rampant. Inspiration becomes a foreign word and seems light years away. Emotions get suppressed. Constriction arises and our bodies seem to hunch and tense up, as if by some invisible force. Insomnia and restlessness, lethargy, misery and doubt are common consequences.

It is fear that drives us to inflict damage upon ourselves and our environment – both people and nature – on a daily basis. Fears are thoughts that determine and direct our actions, and therefore our daily routine and our entire lives. Fears are self-imposed energies and misconceptions, that make their way from our inner lives to the outside world, to draw our attention to something.

And that is exactly the core point: They want to show us up, that we at that point, misunderstand our connection with ourselves and all that is around us, as mirror of the holy devine.

Our Mindset

That is why our mindset – our attitude toward this great divine spirit – is so important. Everything that doesn’t inspire us stands as a separating entity between us and the Great Spirit within us and around us. Everything that exists is imbued with this energy; is this energy; is life. It is condemning thoughts that act as separating entities here. Condemnation - in German „MISS-JUDGMENT”- in this context is the expression of lack consciousness from childhood, which we learned to adopt and apply. Lack consciousness in this context refers not to a lack of material things or other benefits. Rather, it refers to a lack of awareness of our true divine universal origin and the power associated with it. By contrast, being deeply connected with the divine spirit within us results in evaluation - in German „JUDGMENT“. Appreciation is the expression of abundance consciousness, which bestows upon us a feeling of deep love and bliss.

Love is not something that we DO; rather, love is something that we ARE in the moment, when we do something out of heartfelt inspiration, profound connection and joy. Then we are able to recognize the “original part of divinity” in everybody and everything that surrounds us. In this state of mind, any adversity can be overcome. This is, however, exactly what has been so effectively trained out of us. Thus it is hardly a wonder, that many of us often feel like having no control of our lives. The reality is, however, that we have learned to exercise a false control over ourselves and therefore a false way of power, strength and authority.

It is fear, along with all of its perceived consequences, that leads us to believe in less than we truly are and carry within us. These fears are actually capable of robbing us of all purpose, even if we are living in apparent prosperity. For there is one thing that fears will never give us – namely that, which we all long for: true fulfillment.

Filled with Fear: We Create What We Fear

True fulfillment, a state where happiness and satisfaction are predominant, will not be experienced with a fearful mindset. It would not be accurate, however, to claim that a fearful person is not capable of experiencing a state of fulfillment. Strictly speaking, we are also fulfilled when we have a fearful mindset. The word “fear-ful” speaks for itself here. When we wallow in deep fear, we are actually fulfilled – full of everything that fear has to offer. As already mentioned, it’s not only love that multiplies when shared. Why else would our world look like that nowadays? All other emotions as well as the so associated actions are grounded in that same multiplying factor. The major difference between a mindset of true fulfillment and a fearful mindset is the consequences. True fulfillment generates a state full of happiness and love. A fearful person, on the other hand, will experience the opposite – misfortune, “bad luck” and malaise. The statement that fear robs us of all imagination is not entirely accurate. On the contrary: fears actually create an enormous playground for imagination and thus are instrumental in the process of the horror scenarios, that arise from imagining the worst possible outcome of a threatening situation. sooner or later this is becoming reality in one form or another. It is uncomfortable enough for a single person to look at their “failures”. When an entire collective nurtures a particular fear or even several fears, this collective will subconsciously do everything to ensure that the dreaded reality occurs, for this too is success.

The Fear of Loss

The fear of loss is the fear from which all other fears can be seen to originate. It shows us that we have lost contact with our true origin.

Loss is equivalent to lack or deficiency and first and foremost, loss means that something or someone is missing, without which we believe we cannot live or survive. Basically, the big misconception lives right here. What’s missing is the awareness of the connection to our true selves, which many of us lost very early on, because it is so effectively trained out of us. Therefore, we are lacking something that we consider natural and essential for survival and living. This misconception is the root of all fear, and forms the basis for our assessment of ourselves and of our environment.

If we observe fears and name them differently, we will get aware of the smallest common denominator, which is necessary for a fundamental change and the solution becomes visible. We define fears negatively, i.e. the fear of poverty, the fear of death, the fear of illness, etc. Causally, however, what we really fear is the loss of prosperity/wealth, life or health. If we could realize that, we would think, speak and do completely other things in order to create what we really want instead of what we don’t want. We would suddenly be able to get aware of the whole paths which led us to illness, war and poverty - to separation - and would change them. This reversal alone should be enough to clearly demonstrate how game-changing a shift in focus can be. These fears cause and nourish each other, and take turns in regard to intensity. Whether it’s the fear of death in wartime, the fear of poverty during economic and financial crises, or the fear of illness – especially after wars and catastrophes – fear rules the world. We live in a world in which fears run increasingly rampant, and for good reason. We will be examining several fears and reasons more closely in the following chapters, for finding this „good reason“.

One grave example of fear, or the absence of fear, can be found in Napoleon Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich”. An entire collective of people let go of their fear of something and achieved something extraordinary:

During the “flu” epidemic, that broke out during the world war, the mayor of New York City took drastic steps to check the damage, which people were doing themselves through their inherent fear. He called the newspapermen and said to them, “Gentlemen, I feel it necessary to ask you not to publish any scary headlines concerning the ‘flu’ epidemic. Unless you cooperate with me, we will have a situation which we cannot control.” The newspapers quit publishing stories about the “flu”, and within one month the epidemic had been successfully checked. So powerful is the absence of fear.

The Power of Fear and its Abuse

There are people who are familiar with the manipulability of people and masses of people through the instrument of fea and who use this knowledge to further their own power-political and monetary goals. They use this knowledge for their own capital gains – both material and ideal. This has happened countless times, bringing humanity to its knees even at the threshold of its full bloom. Even Albert Einstein’s grandiose achievements were turned into a political power toy – the atomic bomb. Here once again we see the effects of our erroneous definition of success and the fear of loss that causes manipulations grounded in some version of misconstrued “good intentions”. Based on the interpretation of life from the viewpoint of what these people may believe, this may make sense for serving to achieve success and prosperity. But nevertheless something went forgotten – something that Gottfried Keller once expressed so beautifully: “Study people not to outwit and exploit them, but to awaken and mobilize the good in them.” The only thing that would ensure an adequate application of all our discoveries and current achievements toward mastering our challenges would be a return to the principle, illustrated in this Gottfried Keller quote. This return comes about automatically, when fears are uncovered and we find our way back to self-love and true self-awareness. At that point, using our resources for anything but positive causes are only possible under severe emotional suffering. Pointing out reversely, it becomes a necessity for the ethics of the soul to follow the golden thread of the divine universal origin of all of us, and everything that is.

Currently, humanity is once again standing at the threshold of its full bloom. Evolutions are happening at a breakneck pace. Meanwhile we are faced with a plethora of catastrophic scenarios – enormous monsters that wander like phantoms through the media, feeding our fears. Everyone that adopts and nurtures this fear will think, feel, speak and act accordingly, thus playing their part in allowing these sketched-out catastrophes to become reality. We should use the above mentioned example of the „flu epidemic“ and use it for our medias. Regardless of whether we are for or against the catastrophes, the focal point and the nucleus of the entire phenomenon is the catastrophic scenario. The focus is on the so-called evil or bad, so that it is almost forced to take place.

As Albert Einstein put it: “The world is not threatened because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who allow the evil.” Catastrophes can be prevented, if the fear of it disappears and in the place of the catastrophic scenario a desirable scenario exists, for which actions are taken.

Everything that exists now can be used in a positive and beneficial manner. Nothing is for naught in this world. Yet only a return to the divine in us will cause us to use the key to all of our achievements for good instead of for evil.

As Gandhi said: “You must be the change that you wish to see in the world.” The more people that are in touch with their divine core, the more people will know how our achievements are to be used. They will have access to that knowledge simply because they are connected to the great entirety, and because together we can establish a single goal: a new world – our paradise.

Media Abstention: A Step Toward Self-Awareness

Anyone who struggles with fear and whose fears are exacerbated by the headlines and articles in the media could serve themselves to undergo at least four weeks of media abstention, to observe what happens.

It would make sense to use the time during this abstention to closely study yourself.

The more we shut off manipulations from the outside, the more aware we become of our inner being. This process is critical in order to learn when we want to apply something differently, and how we should go about it, whether we are targeting ourselves or our environment.

Doubt and Indecision as Guides

Along this path, indecision and doubt will be constant companions. They often begin sowing their seeds in the underground, fully undetected. They are masters at disguise and deception, and they repeatedly promote new fear, doubt and indecision wherever they go – unless we learn to recognize how they can be utilized to our benefit. In this way they are similar to soccer players that are not allowed to play in their actual position. The team will only be successful when these players are placed in a lineup that matches their talent level.

Applied to doubt and indecision, this context means that if we apply these characteristics to our own benefit, they can decide the game for us, and show us, where the cause of our fear comes from and which treasure lay forgotten there. The more we do so, the more self-confidence we develop. As self-confidence grows, fear, doubt and indecision begin to disappear automatically. In this book you will find many examples of how we can use doubt and indecision to our advantage in order to transform our old “success world view” into a new one.

We are not aware that behind habits that we consider positive, is all to often fear as well. When we discover the misunderstandings of these fears, we had no idea about, we will find behind there our own divine potential, that had to be forgotten and renounced. This is precisely, why it is so important to identify our own fears. They reveal the direct path to our own misconceptions, as well as to those shared by society and collectives. Moreover, they reveal the path to our collective true potential and self.

3. From the Fear of Poverty to Wealth

Poverty is the opposite of wealth or prosperity. Interestingly, the German word for poverty is “Armut”, which means “lack” or “deficiency”. But literally spoken „Arm“ in German is „poor“ and „Mut“ is „courage“ - so the literally meaning is „poor of courage“. Poverty seems to be at home, where people have not enough courage to re-think their system they are living in. Wealth and poverty stem from the same flow of life and are subject to the same regularities and principles. Until now, however, we have lived under the misconception that poverty equals failure and wealth or prosperity equals success. Traditionally, poverty has been associated primarily with the loss of material prosperity, which is the logical consequence of our current definition of success. However, poverty is much more than that, and the opportunities hidden within it become clear, when viewed from a new perspective of success.

The Fear of Poverty

The fear of poverty exists wherever we are lacking the courage to allow new thoughts, in other words wherever attitudes and values are not questioned. It exists wherever old valuations and the corresponding assessments and judgments, as well as prejudices, cannot be let go of. The word judgment is used here in the sense of appraisal and disdain of a person or thing, based on a lack of awareness. Contrary to pure assessment, judgment is not neutral, but contains disdain and denigration. In German pure assessment is named as „Ur-Teil“, which means: „the original or true thing“ in its literally sense. Real Judgments are based on fear and lack, whereby the fear always disguises one thing: our “true thing”, or the truth of our origin, that lives in everything. This “true thing” is the innermost core, the primal energy; it is love and life. When we fail to recognize this core essence because of the fear of poverty, whether in other people, situations, things, or in ourselves, lack arises with all of its consequences, such as we are witness to today. This fear is like a chameleon: it is so adept at disguising itself, becoming an invisible part of the inner jungle, that it can be carried as a burden throughout an entire life – or even an entire human history – without ever being recognized. The growing number of people that have the courage for honest self-reflection are however allowing us to become aware of this heavy baggage that we have believed to be a part of us.

Poverty

The fear of poverty stems from the fear of being hurt, of being less or less liked, of being small or being made small. We have often experienced life in this. When one suffers from the fear of poverty, they are not generally willing to give or share without condition – regardless of whether material or immaterial. A lack of faith in life itself, along with the learned skeptical belief, that we rarely get anything good in return, when we give of our child-selves out of pure pleasure and the joy of life, are responsible for this fear. We attempt to hoard, collect or multiply, without ever achieving true happiness. And when something akin to success does arise, it is often unknowingly at the expense of others. Particularly in what we call first-world countries, the fear of poverty prompts people to jump onto the proverbial hamster wheel of insatiability. We have a permanent drive to consistently do more and have more, rarely or never finding satisfaction and peace of mind.

Interestingly, we sometimes discover something fascinating when we encounter people that are materially poor. They are often much happier with the little that they have, and even gladly share their humble possessions. Ironically enough, we try to convince these “less fortunate” people, that live predominately in the so-called third world, that they would be happier with our way of life. All the while we are living proof that this concept is dubious or at the very least should be questioned. Could it be, that in reality it is exactly the other way around, and that we could possibly learn something from them, and that everyone concerned would be happier if we could sensibly combine the two approaches?

Anyone who has ever willingly chosen to break loose from the prosperity cycle and renounce worldly pleasures knows, how liberating this is. This example teaches us something: it is important to know what type of prosperity we are striving for, in what way we wish to experience prosperity and how much of it we wish to experience it. These factors are directly correlated to our own motivation. If the fear of poverty is our motivation, or our “why” – whether we are aware of it or not – we will sooner or later experience about as much success as an ant trying to move a boulder. It will be virtually unavoidable that we experience poverty. Whether it is material or psychological/emotional makes no difference – we will experience poverty. This can manifest in many different ways: the loss of material goods, a war of roses over some material issue, or perhaps an illness that results in the inability to work. On a global level we might experience an economic meltdown, an environmental catastrophe, or a cataclysmic war. If, on the other hand, our motivation is the expression of the knowledge of our true nature as divine creatures of love, we will receive the opportunity to transform the above-mentioned challenges – with us and through us.

The Fear of Poverty Rules the World

The fear of poverty manifests itself not only in the lives of each one of us – as a society, we are also increasingly experiencing the consequences of this fear that has been completely hidden from our view, for it seems to reach far beyond our customary interpretation of consciousness and success.

Calculation – in the literal sense of the word – seems to be the core of the problem here, which is inherent in our entire societal system. Debit and credit stand ubiquitously in opposition to one another, like two titans in an eternal battle. When the credit is strong and growing, we experience positive attention and recognition, and we receive more opportunities. When the credit is weak, or if it consists solely of debits, things typically look exactly the opposite. The market for books, lectures and seminars that promise to teach anyone how to attain great riches, is growing at a rapid pace. Some of them advocate and teach the use of methods such as legal loopholes, cheap labor in the Far East, as well as other questionable practices. These things work, of course, on the basis of our current economic and financial systems, and on the basis of what we define as success. They do not, however, create a win-win situation. Not all parties benefit from these practices. More importantly, someone always loses here. This system primarily targets profit; in other words, quantity, but rarely quality. Other people suffer, as well as the environment.