“What makes you think you aren’t enlightened?”
The question came from a quiet man who heard my presentation the day before at the Miracles Coaching event in Utah last month.
He went on to say…
“You write in your books that you are in the third stage of awakening but we all heard you speak, and we feel you are enlightened. We felt the energy in the room. We felt what you did for us. We feel you are there. Why don’t you think you are enlightened?”
I was honored and impressed.
After all, he was accusing me of achieving the very state spiritual seekers have been striving for centuries to attain.
It was a compliment.
But I saw this as a moment for him, not me.
“I love the flattering nature of the question,” I said, “but I think you can ask yourself the same thing.”
He looked at me, waiting for more.
“The only thing stopping you from being enlightened is your thinking about being enlightened,” I explained. “Your mind separates you from the experience. It’s probably as true for you as it is for me.”
I could tell he wanted me to explain, so I did…
“What most of us do is argue with reality,” I said. “Because we fight and complain and get frustrated over what is, we can’t allow ourselves any peace. When we accept reality, and know that all is good, we move in the direction of awakening, or enlightenment. But most of us simply think ourselves out of our bliss.”
But the gentleman persisted.
“The so called gurus of the world claim to be enlightened and act the part,” he countered. “Because they do, others follow them. Maybe you just need to own that you are enlightened.”
Again, I was tickled at the suggestion.
But I knew I would no more declare enlightenment as he would.
Saying “I’m enlightened” feels like what a non-enlightened person would say.
I’m told Buddha awakened and said we were all awakened but didn’t know it.
Maybe he was right.
Maybe the gentleman at the event was right.
Maybe all you and I need to do is own our enlightenment.
I’ve often said that if you want to tell if you’re enlightened or not, go visit your family.
Your family knows your hot buttons.
They put most of them there.
If you can visit them for a week and still feel at peace in every moment, you may be enlightened.
Then again…
I love the question and offer it to you…
“What makes you think you are not enlightened?”
Well?
Ao Akua,
PS — Check out Miracles Coaching right here.
Later this year I’ll be releasing a new book titled, The Secret Prayer.
It will reveal a three-step formula for attracting miracles through right prayer.
Prayer is a way to activate the Law of Attraction by requesting an intention and inviting inspiration.
In researching, I’m reading really old books, such as Prayer: The Forgotten Secret, from 1906, and really new books, such as Healing Words by Larry Dossey and Draw the Circle by Mark Batterson.
From what I can see, prayer has been around since the beginning of time.
But as we all know, they don’t always seem to work.
So what’s the secret to having a prayer deliver?
Let’s look at incorrect prayer first:
First, I don’t think most people actually believe their prayers. They pray without any real belief that anyone is listening or anything will happen. They simply “toss” one to the sky, like a stranded person on an island throwing a note in a bottle into the ocean. They hope someone picks it up. Then they hope someone acts on their plea.
Second, desperation is the other problem. Most prayers are just begging. People pray for help, solutions, miracles, healing, money and more. But when they pray, it’s often because they don’t see a way out and are pleading for intervention.
Third, most people don’t take action. This is a common thing in the world of metaphysics. People think their praying is action, when it’s really an action, but not the entire blueprint to results.
Again, prayer is a way to activate the Law of Attraction by requesting an intention and inviting inspiration.
So what’s the right way to pray?
“When you put yourself into the state of the wish fulfilled and think from it, you are praying, and in a way your reasoning mind does not know, your wish will become a fact in your world. You can be the man or woman you want to be, when you know how to pray.” – Neville, The Right Way to Pray, 1967 lecture, http://realneville.com/txt/the_secret_of_prayer.htm
First, begin with a spirit of gratitude.
To me, this is the core issue. If we all felt more gratitude for what we have, even the things we complain about, we’d shift our focus, our mind, our thoughts, our energies, our spirit, our direction, our action, and more. Gratitude for the now is the number one way to begin any prayer. When you sincerely do it and feel it, you can stop with this step, too. It’s that powerful.
Second, requesting rather than begging is wiser.
After all, we don’t know the big picture or the whole story. Begging for a certain outcome is an ego trip; it’s pretending we know it all. We don’t. We barely know a tiny percentage of what is happening in our personal world at any one time. A wiser approach is to make a request but acknowledge that something better may be more appropriate. End requests with the phrase, “This or something better.” This step requires faith.
Third, acting on the insights, inspiration, intuition.
We co-create results. The Higher Power (God, Divine, Universe, etc) works through you, not for you. When you see an opportunity, seize it. When you receive an inspiration, act on it. You are the missing ingredient in most results from prayer. The famous joke about the man who prayed to win the lottery but was reminded to buy a ticket, is good to remember.
“Prayer is the effort to bring the human soul into tune with the Infinite.” – W. J. Dawson, Prayer: The Forgotten Secret
My book will explore all this and more when it comes out later in the year. For now, I wanted to give you a crash course in prayer.
If you really want your prayers answered, then follow a proven formula:
1. Be grateful.
2. Detached request.
3. Inspired Action.
Try it today and note the difference.
Expect Miracles.
Ao Akua,
joe
PS – If you have other pointers or stories about prayers that work, please let me know with a comment below. Thank you.
PPS – If you want to explore prayers and music, be sure to check out my latest album http://www.InvokingDivinity.com
At my recent presentation at Sundance in Utah, I invited everyone to think of a problem that they wish would go away — a nagging one that seemed to stick no matter what — one that they never even tell anyone about because it hurts so much…
I wanted them to feel the block — whether a block preventing them from attracting money, health, love, or anything else — so I could help them release it once and for all.
I then played just four of the eight tracks from the new healing album, “Invoking Divinity.”
I knew the inspired music, calming 432 Hz frequency, and clearing ho’oponopono prayers would help them melt anything in the way of their experiencing bliss right now and being free to have, do, or be virtually anything they could imagine.
Did it work?
Here’s what one person said..
“As I listened to Invoking Divinity for
the first time, in my mind I thought about
something recent that had happened to me
that was very painful emotionally.“Each time I thought or talked about the painful
experience, I couldn’t help but cry. Even though
I tried to let go of the emotions, it seemed like
I couldn’t. When Joe Vitale asked me to think
about something that needed clearing, I immediately
thought of that event.“As I listened to the first track, sure enough,
the tears streamed down my face. I felt the emotion
of the event very deeply. Somehow, by the third track,
the pain was gone. After all this time, just sitting
and listening to your healing music soothed my pain,
and then completely healed me. As the fourth track
started, I began to have clear inspiration about what
I should do with my class (I’m an elementary school
teacher) and particularly with some of the students
that struggle for one reason or another.“Not only did the music heal me, it opened up a portal
to inspiration for me. I believe this shift from within
me will create miraculous positive influence on my
students and many others. Thank you, from the bottom
of my heart, for the blessing of your healing music.
Now I have a deep desire to get the music translated
in Chinese so my Chinese-speaking family can benefit
like I did!”Yang Yue
Huai Nan, China
And…
“Listening to your newest album Invoking Divinity was
profound for me, thank you for healing me, thank you
for inspiring me– again.“That was probably the best 20 minutes I could ever
spend. Moving from track to track on the CD and just
feeling my energy shift was absolutely profound. Your
music is a blessing to humanity.”Steve Gardner
www.discoveringlifenow.com
Thank you, Steve and Yang Yue.
The eight tracks (40 minutes total) on the album are a combination of subliminal and audible clearing prayers and Divine music.
All I played at the event were 20 minutes of audible sounds and prayers (just four tracks).
Imagine what all 40 minutes could do for you!
Please do yourself a favor and go discover the power of “Invoking Divinity.”
Story, photos, audio samples and more are at http://www.InvokingDivinity.com
Expect Miracles.
Ao Akua,
Joe
PS — If you want to raise your vibration, relax, clean, clear, and experience heaven, just go see http://www.InvokingDivinity.com
Recently I posted this on my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/drjoevitale :
“Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.”
That statement helps clarify what it takes to attract what you want. But let’s explore it deeper than a Facebook text-bite so you understand the power of it.
First, an idea is what you get a feeling to do.
An idea is an internal nudge to create something.
It’s different for each person as each of us has a different life mission. My inspiration might be to write another book, or compose a new song. Yours might be to run for political office, open a bakery, or raise happy kids.
An inspiration is either from what I call the Divine, or it’s from your ego.
Nobody outside of you knows for sure what is right for you. It’s your life and up to you to discern the difference. With a little reflection, though, you can tell where the idea is coming from. Nothing wrong with an ego desire, but it’s nobler to come from a higher purpose.
Recently a listener of my latest audio program, The Zero Point, contacted me and told me about the word “Afflatus.” He thought it might be a better word for the kind of inspiration I refer to these days. He was right.
According to Wikipedia, “afflatus” is a Latin term used by Cicero. It means more than “inspiration,” and in fact translates as —
“…the staggering and stunning blow of a new idea, an idea that the recipient may be unable to explain.”
I love the word afflatus so much that I dedicated my latest album, Reflection, to it.
Again, you can receive an idea based on Memory (previous data in your mind), an Inspiration (combining previous ideas into something new), or from afflatus (a completely new idea that stuns you).
The idea should move you to want to take action.
As I also wrote on my Facebook page –
“If you don’t have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven’t dreamed big enough.”
And that leads to…
Next, your decision is what gives the idea power to become a reality.
You have free will, so you can ignore the idea, or you can decide to bring it into reality.
I learned decades ago that if I ignore my inspired calling, my life is bumpy. When I decide to follow my inspiration, life is smooth. I prefer the latter.
Again, it’s your choice. When you decide to follow your inspiration, it now becomes an intention. Intentions rule the earth. It’s just wiser to pursue a higher intention than a lower one.
What’s the difference?
Decades ago I spoke on the same stage as Jose Silva, the founder of Silva Mind Control. Jose said a goal should influence you and at least three other people.
I love that guideline. It gets you out of your own individual experience of life and moves you into a deeper awareness of others.
It also makes taking action easier.
When you know that your actions are going to touch at least three other people, then you are more motivated to decide to do something.
So step two is to decide.
And that leads to…
Finally, action brings the idea, now an intention, onto the earth plane.
Nothing happens until something moves.
You are a co-creator with life. Life itself wants you to do something. When you do it, you trigger it becoming real.
If I want to write a book, I have to sit down and write.
If I want to play the saxophone, I have to sit down and practice.
If you are going to open a bakery, you need to fill out the forms and do the work.
This is where a lot of Law of Attraction students fall short. They think if they just affirm it, it will appear.
Well, it might.
But more often than not, you have to do something to work with reality. It’s no accident that the word ‘action’ is in the word ‘attraction.’
Let me give you one final example of how this process works:
Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon and myself are in the studio recording the third album in our trilogy of “zero” music, following the success of At Zero and Aligning to Zero, this one to be called 432 to Zero.
As is our custom, we don’t plan or strategy. We “make space” for inspiration to guide us, and we are ready to take action on a moment’s notice. We are in the studio, prepared and ready.
One day neither of us felt compelled or inspired.
We sat in the studio and looked at each other. We’ve done this enough to know that sometimes you have to wait, and sometimes nothing will come. We’ve learned to trust the process and be patient.
Suddenly I felt afflatus strike.
I looked at Mathew and shared my idea.
“What if I played two harmonicas?” I asked.
“But we don’t have a bass line or a foundation track for you to play against. You’d be playing to yourself.”
“I know,” I said. “But I feel like trying it. If it doesn’t work, we can just delete the audio file.”
“Why two harmonicas?”
“I’m not sure,” I said. “I somehow feel if I just improvised harmonica in what’s called the second position, and then improvised playing in the first position, I’d be in the same key but the two harmonicas would sound different.”
I have no idea where that idea came from.
But since it arrived as a gift, the next step was to decide to act on it, and the third was to take action.
Mathew agreed to try it.
I pulled out two harps, and started to play.
I simply allowed myself to be guided by whatever feeling was welling up and directing me.
I didn’t think about it. I trusted that the process would be whatever it was, and that was good enough.
When I was done playing, Mathew was beaming.
“That was incredible!” he said. “We may have just created a whole new genre of music!”
To hear how it came out go here:
http://youtu.be/uGKQpa48z_o
That’s how this process works.
The formula is simple.
Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.
That said, what are you going to do next?
Ao Akua,
joe
PS – My Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/drjoevitale
Who says you need money?
Last weekend I received a mega gift in Las Vegas – a late 60th birthday present – that was so unexpected, overwhelming, rare, loving, priceless and magnificent, that I’m still nearly speechless.
Over 50 people were involved — none were paid, all gave out of love and generosity — and the result was a gift of such magnitude and historic importance that I’m not sure how to describe it.
But here goes…
I love everyone in my Miracles Coaching program.
The coaches and staff are upbeat, positive, loving and loveable people.
Once a year the top coaches and sales people meet me in Las Vegas for a dinner, awards ceremony, sharing, meeting and more. I always look forward to the trips and the catching up.
Over dinner, they hinted early on that they had a surprise for me. I figured it’d be a cigar or a book. I didn’t think too much of it. I wasn’t there for me. I was there for them.
Little did I know that their little surprise would change my life forever.
Steve Gardner, one of the team leaders, began.
He handed me a little key.
I joked that it must be for a little car.
Wrong.
Turns out it was to a guitar case.
Not to any guitar, though.
What these people had done was build the world’s first Clearing Guitar.
It was hand crafted out of Kauri wood estimated to be over 50,000 years old (!), and included gems and mantras and other healing mojo to make it a truly one of a kind healing guitar.
It was crafted of other wood that I love, such as koa, flame maple, and purple heart.
It contains unique additions, such as a mammoth tooth estimated to be over 12,000 years old (!).
It also has chakra stones for fret markers, and more.
It’s tuned to the 424 Hz frequency, said to be more harmonious to our bodies than the standard 440 Hz.
And it is a baritone electric guitar.
I’m in awe of this incredible guitar, made with such precision, and care, and so personalized, and with such healing qualities.
I’ve never seen anything like it.
More than that, they built it for me.
They talked to Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon, my guitar teacher and partner on several musical albums, to determine what kind of guitar would be best for me. He told them of my love for baritones.
With the inside info from Mathew, and further insights about clearing and ho’oponopono from Suzanne Burns, my right (and left) hand partner in business, they went to work.
The whole idea was the brain child of Abi White. She went to her friend, luthier Mark Seddon of Oxbow Guitars in the U.K., and they began the process.
In the end, six months later, over 50 people gave product or service, to help create this Miracle Guitar, what they call The Clearing Guitar.
Mark named it Morrnah, after Morrnah Simeona, who gave us all ho’oponopono (as described in my books, At Zero and Zero Limits).
They presented the guitar to me in Las Vegas.
After I heard the story of its creation, I was almost speechless.
When I held the guitar, I felt the love.
When I played it, I felt the magic.
But the story gets even better.
Abi, who came up with the idea, and Mark, the luthier who crafted the guitar, flew to Vegas from London to meet me the next morning.
Mark answered my questions about the guitar, and set it up for me to play for everyone at our private meeting in Vegas. It was a joyful experience to strum such a one-of-a-kind baritone electric guitar, with the unusual but soothing 424 Hz frequency tuning, and all the esoteric specifics that went into it.
I teach that you need to “get clear” of unconscious limitations so you can attract what you want. Along the way, certain tools can help you.
This Clearing Guitar is designed to clear me as I play it, and clear you as you hear it.
So you can expect music created with it down the road. 🙂
Abi White summed up the creation of this guitar this way…
“For me this guitar inspired by Joe and manifest through myself, The team at Prosper, Mat Dixon, Mark Seddon and so so so many others whom I love and am very gratefull for is far more than just a guitar. It a a stunning beautiful completely balanced highly powerful clearing tool that I hope will assist and support Joe in the work he is doing in the world to bring healing and clearing through music or as Mat Dixon The Guitar monk puts it far more eloquently: ‘To simply call this a guitar would be an understatement, it is a Masterpiece! A one-of-a-kind piece of art, created with love by all those involved’.”
And for me…
It’s difficult to describe the love and gratitude I feel.
When I realize that 50 some people were feeling such love and gratitude to me, that they wanted to create this for me, the feeling of love is almost incomprehensible.
There is no way I can list everyone involved and thank all involved, but a good place to start is looking at the website they created for this amazing gift.
It’s right here: http://www.theclearingguitar.com
And of course, this was a gift from everyone in Miracles Coaching.
I thank you, one and all.
I am beyond grateful.
Ao Akua
joe
PS – If you are interested in a Clearing Guitar of your own, contact Oxbow Guitars at www.oxbowguitars.co.uk