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Does anyone ever get up in the morning and desire to 'be'
less, 'do' less or 'have' less? Of course not, other than possibly
be less frustrated, eat less and have less emotional stress or
burdens. No, it is our inherent nature and intuitive desire to
expand and stretch ourselves in all areas of our lives and
certainly in our overall awareness and influence.
A
s I have travelled the
world and met people
from ail walks of life
and
presented
my
signature programme.
The
Breakthrough
Experience, I have observed many
character traits and ambitions in all
seven areas of life that are commonly
expressed.
We all want to learn, expand our
mental capacities and grow our
knowledge about what is truly most
important to us. We want to feel upto-date and informed, and adept in
our areas of greatest interest. We
desire to educate ourselves to the
fullest (formally or informally) and
want to share what we have learned
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with others. We want to feel that we
know and are at least well-informed
and we desire to raise the bar on our
mental understanding about our very
existence. None of us want to awaken
at sunrise and feel stupid or ignorant,
so we inherently search for hidden
patterns of order and meaning in our
daily routines.
In addition to expanding our
mental capacities, we also want to
develop a meaningful career and
provide greater and more influential
service for the satisfaction of
accomplishment as well as for
financial remuneration and prestige.
We want to make a difference and fill
other human needs by creating
businesses that provide vast benefits,
change lives and impact the world.
We want to feel the thrill of
conquering the challenges that a
business offers and experience the
adrenaline of achievement. We want
to participate in a cooperative and
competitive environment of the
greatest productivity.
Only few that I have met ever
truly believed that financial wealth
was not vitally important. We are
hard-wired to desire more of what
money can provide, and what and
how it can influence and serve. The
accumulation, management
and
mastery of money offer us a way out
of mediocrity and onto a journey of
the finer experiences that life can
offer. Wealth is associated with
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well-being and it correlates with
higher standards of everything as well
as wellness, more than illness
and
magnificence,
more
than
insignificance.
Family
is
also
genetically
programmed into our being and our
natural desire to manage it effectively
is one of the greatest training grounds
for then managing ever-greater social
dynamics. Besides love and intimacy,
communication
and
consistent
reflection,
the
satisfaction
of
watching children grow and bloom
and carry the torch of influence
beyond and further than our own
efforts is inspiring and meaningful to
say the least. Thousands of years of
creative evolution have made us guide
and direct our genetic lines to ever
greater standards as a means of
expressing our immortality through
the ages.
Regardless of our individual ideals
we all desire to contribute to the
welfare of others or socially influence
our immediate if not our global
community, and find a way in which
we can lead and direct our and others'
destinies.
Power and influence are rewarding
and yet with this comes new
responsibilities that make us grow
more creative and accountable even
faster. We want to be remembered,
make a true difference and leave
our legacies.
Could anyone honestly say they
want to be forgotten or insignificant?
The greater our service to the world
and more powerful our influence, the
more likely we will leave our mark in
history, not for the sake of grandeur,
but for the sake of higher fulfilment
and contribution.
Physically, we also desire to be
vital and fit, and handsome or
beautiful. We want to sip from the
fountain of youth as long as possible.
We have places to go and things to
accomplish that require energised
bodies animated with wellness. When
we eat to live more than live to eat we
unveil our greater physical potential.
When we honour the feedback that
our bodies provide us to live a more
balanced, rhythmic and consistent
life, we maximise our levels of
endurance and stamina. We are then
ready to tackle the challenges our
lives bring us and are equally primed
to accomplish what
is most
meaningful. Whether it is climbing a
mountain, sailing the seas, running a
marathon or simply creating a garden
that inspires, being physically fit and
at our peak is worthy of all the efforts
of raising our own Olympic bar.
Of course, last but not least, is our
common need for an inner spiritual
quest, one that calls us to inspired
actions of humanitarian service or to
the arts or aesthetics or even the
finer, more masterful and mystical
settings in life. Whether meditating
before an ocean, praying on top of a
mountain or walking in a lush forest,
our desire for the contemplative and
humanitarian service-oriented life
seems never to evade us. Whatever
our individual values are they will be
reflected in our distinctive and
honourable spiritual expression.
But why are these seven areas of
life forever calling us to expand, grow
and experience the finer things in
life? Possibly, because by having them
do so we more effectively pave the
way for others to climb their
mountains, ever broader, ever taller
and ever more powerfully in the desire
to fully express their highest nature.
By giving ourselves permission to live
to the fullest and function at the
highest, we exemplify what is
amazingly
possible
and
give
permission for others to do the same.
The greater our lives, the greater will
be our contribution to the whole
of humanity.
At the end of our lives we will ask
ourselves at least one important
question: Did we do everything we
could with everything we were given?
We want to be able to say absolutely
yes. We are here to raise our bars
and stretch ourselves beyond our
limits. We arc here to inspire others to
do the $ame so humanity breaks
through any stagnant ways of
previous generations and is catapulted
forward to newer and ever more
magnificent ways of being, doing
and having. *
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Or John Demartini is regarded as
the world's foremost authority on
human behavior and one of the
greatest teachers of our time. He is
also the author of numerous
books. Out of his many years of
research and study, he founded The
Demartini Institute, the home of his
various courses and programmes.
His signature
programme. The
Breakthrough
Experience.
has
profoundly changed hundreds of
thousands of lives. John's lifelong
commitment is to help as many people
as possible develop and transform
their lives to one of increased
fulfilment.
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