Manifesting A Trip To The Philippines Is A Quick Fix & Avoids Real Issues
Posted on November 11, 2007 in the Breakthroughs, Real Life, Namaste's Posts, Manifesting, Goals, Law of Attraction category
In my last blog post I talked about how I was going to manifest a trip to the Philippines. I realized after my weekly Kabbalah class a few days later that I don't actually want a trip to the Philippines. What I want more than that trip is I don't want to be depressed and burned out anymore. Let me explain….
I arrived in Las Vegas 2 1/2 years ago. I never expected to be here longer then a year so I never bothered to build a group of friends that I hang out with on a regular bases. I made friends. I just never hang out with them because I'm working all the time. Up to this point I've worked for 10 or 11 months full out (6 days a week and a lot of times 7 days a week). Then when I'm TOTALLY burned out I take off to party on a beach on the other side of the world for a month or two.
I got to Vegas in 05. At the end of 05 I spent just a few days shy of 2 months in Southeast Asia. At the end of 06 I took off a month and headed to party on the famous beaches of Goa, India. Now we are coming to the end of 07. I realized that this year I'm not in the position to take off for a month or two because of my business re-launching. This realization caused me to get seriously depressed. A few days ago I posted a blog about how I was going to manifest a trip despite all the time issues so I could break the depression. Then I walked into my Kabbalah class and realized manifesting a trip would be nice but it's a quick fix. It doesn't deal with why the depression is actually there in the first place. Here's what I learned…
Tonights Kabbalah class was on PAIN. Their view of pain is that it's a gift. Why? Facing it is an opportunity to "let in the light" i.e. flood your life with happiness. So if you want more happiness you seek out more pain. Skeptical? Keep reading….
Take a quick moment and think of 2 areas in your life where you are experiencing some kind of pain (physical pain, depression, sadness).
Write those down.
Now look at those areas and ask yourself, "How is this pain a gift?" If you really LOOK you will find it's truly a gift.
Here's what I got…
I wrote down depression. I asked, "How in the F$#K is this depression a gift?"
The answer came quickly. I realized the depression is due to working all the time (at least 6 days a week and many times 7 days a week) and never taking anytime out to have a life. Up to this point I've avoided having to take the time out to have a life because I take off and travel when I get really burned out. This year since I'm not in a position to take the trip I got really depressed. The PAIN (depression) is a GIFT because it's gotten so intense that it's causing me to have to stop and do something different. If the pain weren't so intense I'd keep right on working and missing out on having a life.
Seems crazy at first but the pain REALLY IS A GIFT.
Long story short is I realized that manifesting a trip would be a quick fix. What I really want to manifest is a group of really good friends that I hang out with once a week. I still want the trip to the Philippines but not as much as I want the group of good friends. Why? A month long trip really would get in the way of me getting my dream business www.privateernation.com. I'd have fun traveling but I'd constantly be thinking about my business. Taking an extended vacation in the middle of a business launch is a really bad idea. There is a time for a vacation and this is NOT one of them.
My goal this month is to manifest 4 really good friends that I hang out with once a week. The friends I have in Vegas now are good people but not the kind of people I want to hang out with once a week (which has been perfect until now). My belief is that this will break the depression because I won't have to take a trip to the other side of the world to have a life. I'll report the results in the coming weeks.
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