Joseph Rodrigues

The goal is to maintain an ideal state of mind; an identity or self-image that is in alignment with my vision. Along the journey of embodying that which I truly am, I may encounter inner-resistance. Inner-resistance affects my ability to maintain a flow-based journey to the destination. Whatever I need to do will reveal itself through inspiration. This inspiration is what I take and put into my projects to see them all the way to completion. During this, I may experience inner-resistance, not related to the project itself, but it's the doubt, frustration, and impatience related to my vision or the outcome that seem to convolute the day-to-day tasks. This is why it is important to let go of inner-resistance

Attributes

• Identifying with any of these three leads to more of them. However, if I do not identify with any of them, then I am able to further embody the ideal self-image
  • Doubt
  • Usually involved with an aspect from my past
  • Frustration
  • Deals with the now
  • Impatience
  • Looking at the vision and saying "We aren't there yet" and "I wish I had it now!"
  • Doubt and impatience tends to lead to frustration

Resistance

• Letting Go // David Hawkins
  • Letting go is like the sudden cessation of an inner pressure or the dropping of a weight
  • It is accompanied by a sudden feeling of relief and lightness, with an increase happiness and freedom
  • It is an actual mechanism of the mind, and everyone has experienced it on occasion

Detaching from Resistance

• Flow and Now
  • Eckhart Tolle // The Power of Now
  • "One day I'll make it." Is my goal taking up so much of my attention that I reduce the present moment to a means to an end?
  • Is it taking the joy out of my doing? Am I waiting to start living?
  • If I develop such a mind pattern, no matter what I achieve or get, the present will never be good enough; the future will always seem better
  • Eckhart Tolle // The Power of Now
  • Whenever I am waiting, whenever it may be, use that time to feel the inner body
  • In this way, traffic jams and line-ups become very enjoyable
  • Instead of mentally projecting myself away from the now, go more deeply into the now by going more deeply into the body
  • The art of inner-body awareness will develop into a completely new way of living, a state of permanent connectedness with being, and will add a depth to my life that I have never known before
• Elements of Flow
  • Clear goals at an abstract and granular level
  • Doubt
  • Without a vision, I may find it hard to calibrate myself towards something that is ideal
  • In order to find clarity in my focus, I start with a small goal
  • However, remember that the only difference between a small and big goal is our interpretation of it
  • Frustration
  • Over-thinking throws me out of flow and leads to frustration
  • Impatience
  • Instead of work for a time crunch, I must get into a deeply submerged flow and realize that the goal will be achieved when the time is right
  • Immediate reporting and feedback
  • Doubt
  • All feedback and criticism is optimization data
  • Frustration
  • Maintaining that all is in contribution to my ideal vision and what may seem as challenge, failure, and loss are actually there to guide me towards the optimal path
  • Impatience
  • Patience comes from a different perspective of how events are unfolding
  • Harmony between challenge and skill
  • Doubt
  • Developing a mind skill to change how I relate to experiences so I can facilitate success
  • Frustration
  • Maintaining an ideal state of mind allows for intelligent uses of my time
  • Impatience
  • By committing to a vision, I remove disempowering information which purifies me, allowing me to see growth in even the smallest of actions and events
  • Action and awareness become one
  • Distractions are excluded from consciousness. Fear, doubt, and indecision tapers away
  • Time is distorted
  • The activity and person becomes autotelic