Resistance is Futile

You many know this line from Star Trek The Next Generation, uttered by The Borg to inform some soon to be conquered individual that they might as well give up because ‘resistance is futile.’

I agree, in principle but for a far different reason. I dont believe in giving in to a hostile force trying to bend my will to their way of thinking (Microsoft has been referred to as a corporate version of the Borg … sort of fits if you think about it in a monopolistic sort of way). I have a quote in my book that explains my perspective a little bit better:

“The root cause of anything that diminishes our wellbeing can be found in resistance.”
-Abraham-Hicks

This is from the teachings of Abraham, provided to us by Jerry and Esther Hicks, a couple of very leading edge thinkers and teachers in the area of the Law of Attraction and other metaphysics. The point is that when you are resisting, the universe is trying to tell you something: you should not be doing this, it is not the right time to be doing this, you are doing this for the wrong reasons, etc.

You emotions are how your subconscious communicates with the real world and your conscious mind. If you are pissed off about something, angry, sad … whatever … resistance is rearing it’s head. Listen to your feelings, explore all the possible sources of why you may be resisting the situation, activity, or person that is causing you to not go with the flow.

An example: I am in the process of writing news releases for my book coming out on May 9th (The Wealth Manifesto). I have been struggling with getting this done for the better part of a day and a half. I MUST send these out to all the major reviewers (everything from the New York Times to any magazine that has anything to do with my subject material) as this is free publicity and an essential part of my marketing campaign. I wont get into the reasons I uncovered for WHY I was resisting this (unless someone asks me to) but I finally figured out that it was not the right time to be writing these news releases, the flow was not there.

It’s not like I dont have plenty of other things to do in getting the promotion together for my book (dozens of things, many of which I really enjoy) - I was essentially wasting my time beating my head against the monitor trying to crank these out.

If you are having a hard time with something and it is causing you grief (”diminishing your wellbeing”), leave it and move on to something else that feels better for the time being. Your mood and your productivity will increase dramatically if you dont resist the subliminal messages you are getting from the superconscious mind.  There is great power there … we must learn to listen to it.

Cheers.

Article 2: Wealth is created by the transformation of energy

There sure is lots of talk these days about energy: the cost of energy, the need for renewable energy, saving and conserving energy, investing in energy - not exactly new subjects but they sure are getting a lot of attention. What’s the big deal anyway, why is energy so important?

Well, for starters, all living organisms rely on energy to grow and reproduce. Whether it’s radiation from the Sun causing photosynthesis in green plants or chemical energy from food firing the metabolism of animals, we all depend on energy to survive. From the astronomically huge world of galaxies to the infinitesimally tiny world of subatomic quanta, energy relationships are perfectly balanced to provide us with the world we live in. Everything is energy. Energy is everything. Energy is the currency of wealth, literally and figuratively a factor in all aspects of our lives.

Energy is the subject of the 2nd Article of The Wealth Manifesto: Wealth is created by the transformation of energy.

If you look back at some of the previous blogs, I have been talking about wealth, how it works to define all the dimensions of your wellbeing, the stuff that you do that makes your life worth living. The nice thing about having all aspects of your life operate under one concept such as wealth is that it means all aspects of your life, whether you are trying to generate more income, have more friends or get in better physical shape are governed by the same fundamental laws. And a lot of those laws have to do with energy. Consider a few examples.

The 1st Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed (meaning into other forms of energy). If you want to be paid more at your job, you have to demonstrate additional value to your employer so they will compensate you with additional cash. Money itself is potential energy because it can be used to get whatever you want (at least among the things that money can buy). Your additional hard work, brainpower, creativity … whatever it is that you do to add value is converted into the potential energy of money.

Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion states (simply) that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If you want to have more friends …guess what? You think that is going to happen without being a better friend yourself? Nope … not going to happen. You need take action - expend energy and effort to be a friend - to have that energy come back at you (the opposite reaction because it is in the opposite direction, towards you) in the form of more friends.

This works at the quantum level too, where intentionality aligns our thought energies with our feelings to help minimize entropy (taking into consideration the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics) and create the reality we want.

These universal laws are found the realm of common “rules of thumb” and spiritual teachings as well. “What goes around, comes around” - is more than just a saying, it is an everyday version of the 1st and the 3rd Laws I just discussed … you dont need to have a degree in engineering to know that you only get out of something what you put into it. Finally, there is the one Rule that everyone knows from their religious upbringing. It doesnt matter if you are a Christian or a Jew, Muslim or Buddhist, or hardly ever went to church, everyone knows some variation on:

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

This is the way the world goes ’round and it all ultimately comes back to energy management (way more important than time management, by the way). Learn how to manage your energy and you can have all the abundance, in whatever form, that you desire.

Cheers to your (energy transformed and delivered) wealth!