C'mon, really! So many words of advice. So many prescriptions, better ways, fool proof ways, 9 steps to this or that (why is it 9? why not 14 steps or 3?), self help books, daily sayings/thoughts, do this and you'll have that--no kidding for sure. Ulch!

We need to get over ourselves. There is no magic formula. There is no pill. There is not prescription. We are human beings. We are always constantly changing. What worked for Dr. Dwyer, Cheryl Richardson, Alyson Armstrong, David Deida, etc. worked for them at a particular time, in a particular place, with particular people. Yeah! for them!  But what on earth makes us turn it into the next spiritual behavior we have to adhere to because if we don't our lives will suck?

Then we're trapped. It's a fool proof formula right? So if it's not working for us, we're the one who's wrong. AND worse than that, we now have yet another belief system to try to squeeze into our already full of beliefs consciousness that keeps us from being here and now with our own experience another one of us--cleanly and newly.

THE TRUTH: Each and every one of us have to muck around in our own selves until we discover our unique path. What works for us and what doesn't. What serves us and what doesn't.

But the problem is, you just can't market 'do it on your own.'  What sells is formulas, prescriptions, and steps. Marketing is about promises. We buy promises. We don't get paid back if the promise isn't fulfilled.

It's our own lack of confidence in ourselves that trips us up and traps us. We want it fast and easy. We want someone else to sell us the magic beans.

THE TRUTH: Each of us, you, me, them have everything we need to enlighten ourselves--already. AND we can. In fact, you could say we are already awake. 

WAIT A SECOND! What did I just say? We're already awake? Whoa! That would mean there is no where to get to, no Secret, no having to change, no --- hold on-- does that mean that maybe there's nothing wrong with us? Uh oh. What if nothing's wrong? Then where do those 9 steps lead?

EXPERIMENT: For the next twenty four hours, go around asking yourself and others, "What if nothing's wrong here?" How does it feel?What responses to you get? What if it's true that there's nothing wrong here?