Craving more than my average Netflix search could provide, I asked You Tube for inspirational stories. I was presented with the ‘watermelon’ lesson, Tony Robins, and Dr. Joe Dispenza for 45 minutes. It still shocks me when I hear the lessons repeated and I am reminded like a slap in the face that stings. Thinking of all the videos’ common denominator it was present not to preside in states that didn’t yield the result desired but still, how can one live a fulfilled life with enough certainty to roll with uncertainty in the 21st century world of distractions, errands, and obligations?
The ‘watermelon’ episode asked an age-old question of, how does one attain happiness, joy; from a young boy to a an elder. The master tasked the boy to go to the market, finding the biggest juiciest watermelon he could, and carrying it back on his head. The boy did as he was told awhile the onlookers cheered, clapped, and made funny faces as he trekked diligently, carefully.
His success was met by silence, and then the elder burst into laughter. Why? The assignment was ridiculous but the young man had put in so much effort forth because of his appetite for universal truth’s, resulting in himself, exploding with giggles. The old man proceeded to explain the ability to shift to joy even under the harshest circumstances, was a decision within all’s ability to execute. It’s not conditions but decisions that shape our vitality, being, world; now.
Mr. Robins touched on something I found very interesting, a conundrum of sorts. He said that humans crave a level of certainty to maintain but at the same time they seek the unknown, because if you’re certain all the time life is boring. He referred to it not as a balance, but an individual will find themselves on either end putting their time there. An interesting concept to avoid pain and gain pleasure but eye-opening. ‘Don’t rock the boat,’ or ‘I travel where the wind blows me.’ Although one needs wind to fill the sails of satisfied.
He continued to talk of real failure, not being fulfilled, using the example of Robin Williams’s suicide. A sad story of a man who succeeded at many levels but was hurting enough to take his own life. Personally I’ve felt the pain of having everything I thought was success but it was empty. Tony goes on to speak of accepting a celebratory state, while also giving because you got too much. Switching into a vibration of gratitude is easy when, as he points out, 2/3’s of the world lives on less than a dollar a day. But how one defines success is instrumental to where their time, focus, energy, and passion are spent.
I once heard, when are you happier, when you’ve had a busy day and took on all the challenges that were on your mind; or the day you sat around, drank beer, watched football, and ordered in? Although Tony reins in on crushing lists per se he says that’s only half of it. If you’re not able to grow by giving in any meaningful way how can you feel success, fulfillment? The need to be loved, significant, heard, and important can be discovered in the aid of an individual’s passion to exercise their expertise while serving the collective; because an assist is as good as a score.
Dr. Joe brings a mix of art and science to help bridge the gap between the natural and supernatural in order to activate what has been dormant. He made me aware, again, to be more wave and less particle. We often refer to the ‘real world’ as what we perceive with our 5 senses but what is ‘real’ starts in a domain of waves. The alpha seems to yield to the omega instead of the opposite. Searching externally as Tony pointed out doesn’t reach the gratification of a soul on the earth plane. Why?
From my view a number, goal, will lead to another raised bar. So does one help as many people as possible to feel realization then? No, again this is seeking behavior not fulfillment. If I do this, it will result in a feeling of euphoria. Attainment of a life of achievement resides in the self. An entity, not of ones name, title, or status, but one of the lucky few who witness from a first-person shooter experience in an avatar of a human. One that forgoes the lesson of separation and accepts, even if they don’t understand. Because one needs so much uncertainty to visualize, create, experience, to behold instead of gawk; transcending the past, not to the future, but to the present.
Fulfillment, I suppose that’s a mortal’s term.
