When Reality Doesn't Turn Out the Way We Want

Often our lives don't turn out the way we want because they're built upon shifting sands. In other words, the foundations upon which they're constructed are faulty.

We are, in a very real sense, caught in a tug-o-war, a conflict of laws that we don't know exists, much less understand how they influence our lives in this world.

We think that our conscious thoughts and actions create our lives. And certainly in a sense they do. But there's far more going on beneath the surface that also influences the success of those efforts.

The Inner Rules of Engagement

Our realities are built upon certain rules.

Some of the most prevalent, and detrimental to our creative processes, are those formed by beliefs about our evolutionary spiritual journey -- a journey that most of us don't even know we're on.

And one of the strongest of those is the struggle ethic -- that we get our greatest advancement through a process of struggle and sacrifice.

Picked up over lifetimes of effort and conclusions we've drawn from those efforts, they construct an inner framework around which we create and experience life. This framework I call the rules of engagement, for they determine how we go about the process of life.

Embedded deep into our subconscious, they hold that struggle means greater advancement in our travels along the path, conditioning us to think that deprivation and hardship are necessary to get where we want to go. Even if it means not getting what we want in life.