Sunday, February 24, 2013

My body is not a trash box...



My body is my precious, unstained vehicle, transporting me from experience to experience.

Experience is like food...There is no "good food" or "bad food",
it all depends on the way I am digesting...
There is no good or bad experience either, it's all a question of digestion, assimilation and elimination...

All experiences bring us "knowledge". We are always enriched by experience.
I repeat it in bold and capital : "WE ARE ALWAYS ENRICHED BY EXPERIENCE"
There is no error, no wrong way. All is about acceptation, digestion, assimilation and elimination.

If I live an experience and think it is bad, I start by a non acceptation of reality and this keeps me stuck...
It is what is called "indigestion"...When I have an indigestion, the more I think "I should not have eaten this", the more I will feel bad...

On the contrary, if I open up and think "Ok, let the system do the digestion, the assimilation and the elimination" things will evolve naturally.

But we have a strange tendency... we keep people, anger, frustration within the system. Some people keep old traumas like family jewels...They talk about it, remember it...

This is nothing else than a trash box. Anything we wish to keep from the past goes in the trash box and the trash box is buried within our subconscious. After a while, it stinks but we are not aware of it...

We finally become aware when the smell is strong enough to bring troubles...
We get sick or our relationships get bad, our life gets frustrating...
This happens when our body-mind system gets full...

Any experience is like a meal; we eat, enjoy it or do not enjoy it, then we let our stomach and our intestines do the job so we are able to move to the next meal...

That's what our old friend Moses was telling to the Hebrews about the Mana : The mana is for today, it should not be stored nor kept until the morning...

Sunday, February 10, 2013

How can it be so pleasant and easy to make money?


It is interesting to see that a large part of the so called "spiritual healers"are making promises about making huge money by using secret universal laws. I get almost every day, junk mails about how to attract more of it. Those messages are sent by first row "spiritual luminaries" trying to sell me products or programs supposed to clear all my lacks.

In the past, Moses had to react very severely against the return of the Golden Calf. He was guiding his people to "Jerusalem" which means "Dwelling place of peace" and not to an "Universal Bank"pouring banknotes and gold. Moses was not against gold and money but he was just trying to convince his people that unbreakable peace is the only place where it is safe to build a temple.

20 years ago, when I did my first steps in the Business world in Tokyo (Japan), letting behind the safety of my job at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I had only one motivation, giving people something that nobody else was giving them. I liked to cook and entertain so I started the project of a very unique restaurant located in a private house.

The seed was only the pleasure to give and share something that was boiling in me. I did not apply any recipe based on the law of attraction, I did not even think about "being spiritual", I was just feeling that my passion was supportive enough to guide me.

And it worked. I spent 10 years in a synchronistic flow. I found the perfect house in an area absolutely remote from any business spot. In the middle of nothing I started without any doubt. I knew that a lot of people are looking for unique things and what was in my imagination was so unique that I was feeling already in Jerusalem.

Peace was on me and around me and when we opened, the first 15 days without any customer, this did not affect my mood. I used this free time to paint, complete the garden, build the last shelves. I acted from the center of my excitement the same way as the sun shines: without any concern about being successful in lighting the world. Shining naturally was enough.

A month later, the Buzz was started. Magazines got mad about our concept, our decoration, our kitchen, our food. I had interviews almost everyday so people started to book to be sure to get a table. We had famous designers as regular patrons. The team was only 4 people working hard, then 5 and 6. We were becoming a legend.

After 3 years we opened our second shop then our 4th one. Our team was now around 35 persons all strongly motivated by a mission : enjoying and giving enjoyment. The only spiritual concept we had was "giving" full power with an attention to all the details. I was teaching my staff : "Always give the best of yourself to yourself so if you died by surprise while doing the presentation of a dish you would die in peace with your heart: "JERUSALEM".

I have nothing against selling programs about "how to make more money" but it actually sounds to me that our 3 dimensional world is now looking for something else. Our "material" dimension is a level of expression. Expression means giving. Coaching to more abundance is a gimmick, the snake is biting his tail.

If we had more banks, securities companies and brokers than people working to create goods and services the whole system would crack. That is what is happening in the world right now, people act in fear, they don't follow their dreams, they are in a collective research of security : it is the return of the old golden calf and the false gods of an illusory prosperity based on itself.

If you look around you will see that all prosperous businesses are healthy because they are not mainly motivated by money. They are led by passion, by purpose. Staying open to our passions and giving them shape and expression is the way to our "Jerusalem". I remember walking in my first restaurant and feeling : "Oh my..., how can it be so pleasant and easy to make money?"

Saturday, February 9, 2013

100% Responsibility (what does that mean?)


I see through my meetings with people, in my consultations and workshops that the idea of accepting the now famous "100% responsibility" is often interpreted in a dangerously false perspective and not as the radically liberating attitude it should be.

Many people think the notion of responsibility in terms of "past". They see all the problems that occur in their "present" as a result of past mistakes, which singularly weight on their consciousness instead of alleviating it...

In fact, the concept of "100% responsibility" is purely related to the present experience: I live and assess the experience only in relation to my thoughts about the experience. I see that everything must necessarily pass through my mind to access my consciousness. I have power at any time to change my perspective and see the world as the « Other » sees it so I am able to "interpret" how my wife sees the world but it will always be a projection from my inner patterns of interpretations. If I think "you'll never change", this is only my own judgement and if I believe it is "real", my inner theater become frozen and frustrating. Too bad for me.

This is where "cleaning" and "erasing" within my "field" of awareness is useful if I don't want to stay trapped in a frustrating representation. I will never be able to "clean up" a conflict « outside » my Self but I can ask my subconscious to help me erase certain of my representations to update my reality filter. This will allow me to "de-freeze" my concept about the world ... My « reality »will then naturally change shape by itself from the now and in the now.

Without my interpretations, the world is forever blank and neutral. A cake on a table is only an object of the world absolutely equal with all others : chairs, animals, people, cars…. It is by entering into my consciousness that the cake will meet my "Responsibility". Is it" good "," fresh ", "do  I like it "... all will depend on me. And it is the same with society, politics, and my « reality » of everything. I am a filter through which everything enters my consciousness of the world. This process builds what we call "my reality".That’s all that is!...

From there I see that "100% responsibility" really means « 100% power» because when I know that all my ideas are only my own I understand the futility of the illusion of controling or manipulating  the outside. From this realization I will never act again as a victim of the outside world. The key of my "cell" is in my pocket and it can instantly become the key of my paradise (If I choose it).
"Am I responsible for my present at 100% or not?", it is at every moment the only question worth asking ...

Friday, February 8, 2013

The present and the prayer


Praying at all times is not about changing something about myself or about my life, it is about staying in the flow of BEING in it's richness.

It is not about getting more money, more love, more peace or more or less of anything, it is about the direct, physical realization that NOW contains everything I need right NOW...Even beyond a problem, in the middle of a conflict with my partner, even behind a state of frustration, prayer can reveal me what really is, without changing anything except my ideas about the situation...Give it a try...

...and I become then able to feel in my whole being that the Present is given to me for my enjoyment moment after moment and that the only "realistic" way is to love it unconditionally or I will be praying amiss.