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It’s 11:11 on 11/11 🙌
The 1111 portal day is the best time to shift into a NEW timeline…start something new, more aligned…and leave the old behind.
Remember…you have sooooo many possibilities available to you…but they are only accessible if you understand they’re there o experience them.
So aim BIG…and ask yourself “I WONDER what it would be like to ______________?”
Insert your BIG new life path…
Then say “Let’s go find out!”
Take a minute to visualize the new experience you’ll have when it all goes right.
Feel joy. Smile.
Now, you’ve made that future timeline accessible and increased the probability of it happening.
Finally…take one step in that direction today. No matter how small.
BOOM.
Keep it going…
The 1111 portal day is the best time to shift into a NEW timeline…start something new, more aligned…and leave the old behind.
Remember…you have sooooo many possibilities available to you…but they are only accessible if you understand they’re there o experience them.
So aim BIG…and ask yourself “I WONDER what it would be like to ______________?”
Insert your BIG new life path…
Then say “Let’s go find out!”
Take a minute to visualize the new experience you’ll have when it all goes right.
Feel joy. Smile.
Now, you’ve made that future timeline accessible and increased the probability of it happening.
Finally…take one step in that direction today. No matter how small.
BOOM.
Keep it going…
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Walking into the @Figure_robot HQ this morning and I couldn't stop thinking to myself... What do we call a group of Figure robots... A gaggle? A flock? Taking suggestions!
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🚨: Finland successfully transmits electric power through the air without using physical wires — just like Wi-Fi!
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You are still EARLY. The train hasn't left; there's much to learn. You aren't behind. Get to work and make your dreams come true. In the way, impact the lives of a billion people and see how it changes your life!
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This lady tells 1 year of studying quantum physics in under 60 seconds:
Quantum physics isn't just science; it's logical spirituality.
Quantum physics isn't just science; it's logical spirituality.
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BREAKING🚨: Science confirms your cells hear you talk to yourself─ for your cells, telling yourself “I’m a mess” has the same toxic impact as running away from a predator.
Meaning ─ YOUR WORDS CAN ALSO MAKE YOU SICK!
Meaning ─ YOUR WORDS CAN ALSO MAKE YOU SICK!
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Rudolf Steiner on the importance of meditation, concentration and how to prepare the soul in waking life.
We tend to think of sleep as nothing. We close our eyes, and upon entering our sleep we slip from consciousness and everything goes dark. However, something real happens in e soul leaves the body, but for most of us it goes out without our knowing. It has no organs to perceive the world it enters, so we come back with nothing.
(Some people wake up during this process by accident. This is known as Astral Projection.)
At most we return from sleep with confusion and after-images from our dreams, small glimpses lingering from our sleep. They are all over the place and don't make sense. However, sometimes they feel "meaningful" or leave you with strong impressions. This lack of knowing is what Steiner calls a lack of "continuity of consciousness."
But there are ways to train this faculty of consciousness.
"Meditation, concentration in waking life have after-effects on the astral body when it separates from the etheric and physical body in sleep. Such exercises work on the soul, so when the soul exits the physical body it will develop its own spiritual eyes and ears."
– The East in the Light of the West
This is where concentration comes in. When we fall asleep, the astral body carries the impressions forged in waking practice with it into the spiritual world, free of the senses. Intentional concentration brings order to the astral body. It places you at the centre of your desires and compulsions, rather than leaving you pulled around by them.
The first and most foundational exercise Steiner gives is "Control of Thought." Take an ordinary, dull object, like a pencil, and for a few minutes think only about it. What is it made of? Where did it come from? How was it designed? You've probably never really noticed. Bring your full consciousness into it, and hold it there as long as you can without drifting into daydreams or letting your thinking run on autopilot.
The point is to bring your will into your thinking. Practised daily, it orders your thinking, so your attention becomes something you direct, like a strong ray of light with pinpoint precision, rather than something that happens to you. And that steadiness carries into everything else you want to give your utmost focus to.
In my experience, this practice bleeds into meditation, which many find hard at first without any prior experience. When meditating, one has to see oneself in a different light, almost from a third-person point of view. As Steiner puts it in How to Know Higher Worlds, we should learn to look at our own sufferings and joys the way a stranger would look at someone else's.
This means developing an observer towards our own thinking. For example, it is not "I am feeling sad." It's "Tom is feeling sad."
We make this distinction between “I” and our name, which I would call our “Outer-Personality,” because we begin to see that thoughts flow into us. They are not really our thoughts, and they are not of our choosing. Making the distinction cultivates our inner observer. Observing how these thoughts come, without identifying with them, is the key to developing our middle, our centre. From this point we can begin to awaken to the illusions that have been ruling us, and to see the difference between our outer life and our inner life. You will see this once you find your silence.
Of course, this isn't easy. Steiner, who wrote down this modern path, said that even those who can barely find the time need only about five minutes a day, though the longer the better. These exercises are not a way of detaching from the world. Through inner experience and strength, they should strengthen our outer experiences and give us the power to complete our mission on Earth.
This also develops our courage and fearlessness. Even through turbulent times, one must always remember to view one's own suffering as one would view a stranger's. (We always see another’s suffering differently from how we experience our own.)
I would extend this to Steiner's "Rückschau", the "Backwards Review" or "Daily Review." In the evening, before you sleep, go through your day in reverse order, from that moment all the way back to when you first woke up. It's almost like walking through a mirror of your day. Within this flipped perception, the world can be seen differently.
This is why the review matters. Steiner taught that in sleep the soul lives back through the day in reverse, and after death through the whole of life in reverse. The Backwards Review lets us practise consciously what the soul already does.
Waking Life - Forward
Sleeping Life - Backwards
Life - Forward
After-Life - Backwards
In that sense, it is a preparation for death.
We tend to think of sleep as nothing. We close our eyes, and upon entering our sleep we slip from consciousness and everything goes dark. However, something real happens in e soul leaves the body, but for most of us it goes out without our knowing. It has no organs to perceive the world it enters, so we come back with nothing.
(Some people wake up during this process by accident. This is known as Astral Projection.)
At most we return from sleep with confusion and after-images from our dreams, small glimpses lingering from our sleep. They are all over the place and don't make sense. However, sometimes they feel "meaningful" or leave you with strong impressions. This lack of knowing is what Steiner calls a lack of "continuity of consciousness."
But there are ways to train this faculty of consciousness.
"Meditation, concentration in waking life have after-effects on the astral body when it separates from the etheric and physical body in sleep. Such exercises work on the soul, so when the soul exits the physical body it will develop its own spiritual eyes and ears."
– The East in the Light of the West
This is where concentration comes in. When we fall asleep, the astral body carries the impressions forged in waking practice with it into the spiritual world, free of the senses. Intentional concentration brings order to the astral body. It places you at the centre of your desires and compulsions, rather than leaving you pulled around by them.
The first and most foundational exercise Steiner gives is "Control of Thought." Take an ordinary, dull object, like a pencil, and for a few minutes think only about it. What is it made of? Where did it come from? How was it designed? You've probably never really noticed. Bring your full consciousness into it, and hold it there as long as you can without drifting into daydreams or letting your thinking run on autopilot.
The point is to bring your will into your thinking. Practised daily, it orders your thinking, so your attention becomes something you direct, like a strong ray of light with pinpoint precision, rather than something that happens to you. And that steadiness carries into everything else you want to give your utmost focus to.
In my experience, this practice bleeds into meditation, which many find hard at first without any prior experience. When meditating, one has to see oneself in a different light, almost from a third-person point of view. As Steiner puts it in How to Know Higher Worlds, we should learn to look at our own sufferings and joys the way a stranger would look at someone else's.
This means developing an observer towards our own thinking. For example, it is not "I am feeling sad." It's "Tom is feeling sad."
We make this distinction between “I” and our name, which I would call our “Outer-Personality,” because we begin to see that thoughts flow into us. They are not really our thoughts, and they are not of our choosing. Making the distinction cultivates our inner observer. Observing how these thoughts come, without identifying with them, is the key to developing our middle, our centre. From this point we can begin to awaken to the illusions that have been ruling us, and to see the difference between our outer life and our inner life. You will see this once you find your silence.
Of course, this isn't easy. Steiner, who wrote down this modern path, said that even those who can barely find the time need only about five minutes a day, though the longer the better. These exercises are not a way of detaching from the world. Through inner experience and strength, they should strengthen our outer experiences and give us the power to complete our mission on Earth.
This also develops our courage and fearlessness. Even through turbulent times, one must always remember to view one's own suffering as one would view a stranger's. (We always see another’s suffering differently from how we experience our own.)
I would extend this to Steiner's "Rückschau", the "Backwards Review" or "Daily Review." In the evening, before you sleep, go through your day in reverse order, from that moment all the way back to when you first woke up. It's almost like walking through a mirror of your day. Within this flipped perception, the world can be seen differently.
This is why the review matters. Steiner taught that in sleep the soul lives back through the day in reverse, and after death through the whole of life in reverse. The Backwards Review lets us practise consciously what the soul already does.
Waking Life - Forward
Sleeping Life - Backwards
Life - Forward
After-Life - Backwards
In that sense, it is a preparation for death.
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Gratitude is the antidote to the two emotions that mess up our lives the most: anger and fear.
Embracing the gift of gratitude at #UnleashMiami 💜🙏
Embracing the gift of gratitude at #UnleashMiami 💜🙏
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Kevin O'Leary's mother invested 20% of her pay every week and held that portfolio for 55 years.
When she died, a lawyer had to tell her son she was rich.
She worked in her father's business, in billing, and got paid in cash.
Every week, 20% went into two things: big dividend elco bonds paying about 6.5 to 8%.
She never touched the principal. The dividends and interest paid for college for her two sons and helped her sisters through hard times.
Her rules: no more than 5% in any one stock or bond. No more than 20% in any one sector. Ever.
In the video below, O'Leary says it plainly: "This is not genius. This is just diversification."
When the lawyer called him in as executor, he told him his mother was middle class. "No, you've got to come down here."
She had kept the account secret from both of her husbands. She wanted money no man could control.
Over 55 years, he says, her results beat "any hedge fund guy."
Her son built a career on big deals. Now he invests almost exactly like his mother.
Boring rules you actually follow beat brilliant bets you don't survive. My worst loss came from ignoring the 5% rule.
What percent of your money is in your single biggest position?
When she died, a lawyer had to tell her son she was rich.
She worked in her father's business, in billing, and got paid in cash.
Every week, 20% went into two things: big dividend elco bonds paying about 6.5 to 8%.
She never touched the principal. The dividends and interest paid for college for her two sons and helped her sisters through hard times.
Her rules: no more than 5% in any one stock or bond. No more than 20% in any one sector. Ever.
In the video below, O'Leary says it plainly: "This is not genius. This is just diversification."
When the lawyer called him in as executor, he told him his mother was middle class. "No, you've got to come down here."
She had kept the account secret from both of her husbands. She wanted money no man could control.
Over 55 years, he says, her results beat "any hedge fund guy."
Her son built a career on big deals. Now he invests almost exactly like his mother.
Boring rules you actually follow beat brilliant bets you don't survive. My worst loss came from ignoring the 5% rule.
What percent of your money is in your single biggest position?
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