Month: January 2021

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A Way To Avoid The Sisyphus Syndrome ?

A Little Background About Sisyphus

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was the first king of Ephyra (Corinth). Although he helped the city become a commercial hub, he was a sly and deceitful person. He violated the Greek concept of Xenia (the concept of hospitality shown to guests and travellers) by killing guests so he could show everyone that he was ruthless and somebody you did not mess with. These dishonorable actions really got the “big cheese of all the gods”, Zeus, pissed off at Sisyphus. Then Sisyphus “pushed Zeus over the edge” when not once, but twice Sisyphus cheated death.

Finally, Sisyphus died at a ripe, old age and Zeus said, OK Sisyphus old boy, now you’re gonna pay for all your bullshit. Zeus decreed that Sisyphus would be punished by making Sisyphus push a boulder uphill until he was able to push it over the top to the other side. However, as soon as Sisyphus would get to the top of the mountain, Zeus made it that the boulder would eternally jump and roll back down to the bottom of the mountain again, making the efforts of Sisyphus the ultimate act of futility.

Dealing With “The Sisyphus Syndrome”

Have you ever experienced the Sisyphus Syndrome? Trying and failing time and time again, just when you thought that you were going to finally have a breakthrough. You work and perservere and just as you approach the crest of your mountain, your “boulder” jumps and rolls back down to the bottom again. I will be the first to volunteer a “yes” to that question. Not a particularly good feeling when that happens. In fact, it’s downright shitty.

The good news that I can tell you however, is that unless you have Zeus pissed off at you, there is a difference between you and Sisyphus. The situation of Sisyphus was hopeless. Yours is not. If you still have breath in your body, you have hope. Sisyphus was dealing with a “stacked deck”. Zeus gave him a “jumping boulder” that was never going to allow itself to roll over the top of the mountain. Your boulder is not “enchanted by Zeus”. The next time that it rolls back down to the bottom, stop everything and take a short break to sit still and go within.

Scripture states that the Kingdom of God is within you. Be quiet. Just shut the fuck up. Then, listen to that divine Inner Voice within you. It is called Intuition. Many choose to switch it off. Hit the switch to “on” and as that sign used to say at railroad crossings “Stop. Look. Listen.” Look around you for potential helpers. Maybe it is a special tool of some sort or a person who will assist you or a different technique or the same technique with an adjustment of some type. If you strongly feel that your goal is really “meant to be”, that your goal is part of your true destiny, then persevere in your efforts. You have no other choice than to keep on pushing. Edison stated that he did not fail a thousand times before he hit upon the right filament for the light bulb. He said it was a successful process with a thousand steps to it.

Feel Your Success

Discipline yourself. Spend some time each day in the SATS (state akin to sleep, see 12/10/20 blog post) even if it is only a minute or two. That is still better than nothing. Feel what you would feel when, after all the heartbreak and disappointments, you finally succeed in getting that MF boulder over the top. Then hold on to that feeling — hold on to it as long as you possibly can, then totally let go and go to sleep (or if it is daytime, go on with your planned activities). You do not have to be Sisyphus if you choose that you do not want to be. Oh, and one final thing — Don’t piss off Zeus. He’s got a big ego and a nasty temper.

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Evidence Of Things You Can’t See

Suppose for a moment, that you were a police investigator. You go in to the office of your supervisor and say to the boss, “Chief, I have some evidence in that case we have been working on. I feel that it is enough for us to make an arrest.” Your boss says, “Great, what did you find?’ You reply, “Well, there’s just one thing. The evidence, it’s there, but you just can’t see it. We’re gonna have to present our case to the DA and tell them the evidence is there but they just can’t see it.” Well, there could be several responses from the supervisor, none of them particularly pleasant. Definitely could imagine you being put on admin leave and them scheduling you for a visit to the department psychiatrist. In successful manifesting efforts however, this is precisely the case. You have to fully “buy in”to the desired results as real, as real as the nose on your face, before you actually get to see the results. It ain’t easy Magee, but — if you can pull it off, you’ve won the grand and glorious jackpot — the ability to manifest every sort of good thing into your life.

Let’s examine those concise yet incisive words from the book of Hebrews, chapter 11 — Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Now the word “faith” has been tossed around every which way over the centuries. Faith is an extremely strong and effective power in your life but it can definitely be misplaced. One of the most famous examples of misplaced faith is the tragedy of the followers of jim jones and the drinking of the kool-aid at jonestown. Also, the ubiquitous guy in the psychiatric facility who thinks and believes and has faith that he is Napoleon is another case of misplaced faith. Something has gone wrong with his mind. I ain’t no psychiatrist and I don’t have all the answers to everything. Nevertheless, over the millenia that human beings have walked the earth, all manner of things have indeed been manifested millions upon millions of times via the avenue of faith. Faith — The actual substance of what your heart hopes for. Faith —the concrete evidence even though your eyes cannot see it. This is the stuff that true power consists of. And the fact of this matter is that you, right now, have full access to this faith stuff — if you so desire.

The formula for manifesting laid out in the book of Matthew, chapter 21, is so simple, so uncomplicated, so concise, that most human beings in this world of ours, zoom right past it. Believe…..Receive. In case it got by ya, I will repeat it — Believe…..Receive. You may immediately say to this, “Oh, you just don’t know what I have been through. I believed and believed and it never came true and the disappointment was crushing.” You are not the only one to have walked down that particular road. I can tell you from first hand experience that when I say I have been crushed by disappointment, it was like I was in one of those auto junkyard “car-crushers”. However, like a bee to honey, subsequent prayer just led me right back to those same words in the book of Matthew: Believe…..Receive. That Inner Voice that the Quakers talk about also said to me, “and this time pal, get rid of all those nasty doubts and fears that you’ve got hidden under the bed”.

The evidence of things that you know are there but that you just can’t see them. I think the gist of the whole thing is, you might not see them, “but you can choose to feel them” — if you so desire. In a nutshell, this is the seed of every manifestation you undertake in your life.

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Sometimes All You Need Is An Adjustment

You have planned out in your mind’s eye everywhere that you want to go in your life. You have put into place everything you can think of to allow you to go there. You believe with all your heart that your efforts will prove successful. Then, plop, you walk straight into a brick wall, a foot thick and ten feet high. Frustration starts seeping into every part of you. What the hell happened?! Well, it may not necessarily mean that everything that you did before hitting the wall was dead wrong. You may just need to make an adjustment and/or get an objective second set of eyes on the entire situation.

The Overnight Hike

In what seems like, at the same time, a thousand years ago and just last month, when I was in my mid-twenties, I was working in a large office in Newark, NJ. One day, during a conversation with a co-worker, the subject turned to backpacking. He was an avid hiker and he suggested an overnight backpack hike in the Adirondack Mountains. He was an experienced backpacker and was familiar with the various trails. I had never backpacked before. My brother and I had plans to do so but he died before we got the chance. I told my co-worker that I was game for it and we made plans for the hike. I drove to his house on Saturday morning and we drove up to the Adirondacks in his vehicle. I had all the proper gear — backback, tent, sleeping bag, canteen, provisions, etc., which I would be carrying on my back. The plan was to hike to the midway point of the trail he had chosen, camp there overnite, then finish up the hike back to the parking area on Sunday.

We set off on the hike with “all systems go”. The weather was perfect. The trail was clearly marked. The scenery was outstanding. After about an hour or so, I started feeling a little bit of pain in my shoulders. I just shrugged it off as something to be expected as a newbie backpacker. After another hour, the pain was not so little anymore. Not wanting to look like a wuss to my fellow hiker, I continued to trudge on. After the third hour, the pain was excruciating. I had finally had enough and told him to hold up a minute. I then told him that I was experiencing a great deal of pain in my shoulders and that we would unfortunately have to turn around and head back to the parking area. At first he just thought it was because I was a novice backpacker. He told me that my body would adjust as I went on. When I insisted that I could not go on, he changed his tune. He looked at me closely and asked me to turn around. He then said, “Let me try something.” He proceeded to make an adjustment to the belt portion of my backpack. All of a sudden (cue the angelic choir singing and sunbeam shining down on me) the weight of the world was now off my shoulders. All the weight of the backpack was now squarely centered on my hips which were infinitely better suited to carry the burden than my shoulders were. I thanked him and we proceeded with our hike. The soreness of the shoulders receded and the overnite hike was a success.

Step Back And Take Another Look

Sometimes, you are on the right track but it all still seems to be going all wrong. You have taken the necessary steps to plan and achieve success in your chosen goal. You have chosen the winning mindset. Yet you are still losing. I have been in that place a number of times. You take a step back, look at the situation and say to yourself, “F**k — What am I doing wrong here?” At this point, an uninformed observer may just throw platitudes at you and merely urge you to push onward. If I had done that with the backpack situation, I may have ended up doing serious harm to my shoulders and spinal column. I was on the right track but an adjustment was definitely required. I needed an experienced and knowledgeable second set of eyes to help me out. When the adjustment was made, my goal was subsequently achieved.

Many times we do not have another experienced and knowledgeable human being nearby that we are able to ask for help. If I had asked someone who was as much a novice as me, it would have been a case of the blind leading the blind. In those situations where you are floundering and have nobody to turn to — go within. Stop. Take a deep breath. Take two or three. Center yourself. Ask for and quietly claim the answer that you need from Universal Supreme Intelligence. Refrain from begging for it. Ask for it with peaceful confidence that you will receive it. You will you know, unless you start doubting. Doubt always throws up a curtain over the solution and causes you not to see it. Be quiet. Ask. Seek. Knock. Listen. When you receive the answer, implement the solution in faith and proceed to bring success to yourself.

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Unclutter Your Life — Make Room For Your Good

OK, 2021 is here. Virus or no virus, you have some things that you definitely must get done this year. You have charted out a specific path that you will walk in 2021. Your path leads to whatever reward you envision for yourself at the end of the path. Doesn’t it make sense to you then, to refrain from weighing yourself down with unnecessary “stuff” while you are walking on that path? Carrying that extra burden only slows you down and makes your journey so much more difficult. Choose to make 2021 the “Year of the Unclutter”. Make the choice to unclutter yourself, both on the outside (material trash) as well as on the inside (mental, emotional and spiritual trash) if for no other reason than it will help y-o-u.

Outside Uncluttering

Start with all the things that you own that you no longer use or need. The first thing that may pop into your head might be — “I may have a use for that one day.” When you start thinking that, put your mind in “manual override mode”. Say to that thought, “Excuse me but I am in charge here and I say that trash needs to go”. You will experience, when you rid yourself of junk that is cluttering up your life, a rush of clarity, lightness and freedom. You no longer have these “weights” tethered to you. If it is something you haven’t used in a long while, start actually using it, give it away, sell it, recycle it, or toss it. Unless you are Fred or Lamont Sanford, you just don’t need all that junk in your life.

Start with old clothes that you no longer wear. Maybe they are long out of style, or they don’t fit anymore or are in a state of major disrepair. The “junk loving” part of your thinking will immediately come up with reasons to hold on (“that style might come back someday”, “I’m gonna lose that twenty pounds for sure”, “maybe the tailor can fix it — I have to get over there someday”). Just take it to a clothes recycling location and be done with it.

Next go on to small appliances (that old toaster that you are never going to use), old electronics (the broken Commodore 64 you can’t bear to part with), anything broken that you wouldn’t use even if you got it fixed (the coal-fired barbeque grill from Uncle Lloyd and Aunt Thelma) , outdated items in the medicine cabinet (Come on, they don’t even make Konjola anymore), that old bottle of salad dressing in the fridge from three years ago, that dusty bundle of mail that has long since lost any value to you, all other paper related stuff such as old documents, momentos, souveneirs, photos, newspapers, magazines, etc. Being an unabashed book lover, I confess that I simply just cannot bring myself to add “books” to this list. It would be like throwing away a friend in the trash. Finally, take a good look at that “I just might have a use for that down the road” stuff that “down the road” you’ll be saying to yourself “Why the hell did I hang onto this crap!”

Inside Uncluttering

Getting yourself to part with the material junk is good. You will benefit. Congratulate yorself. When you are ready, then walk further yet into the realm of enhanced freedom, clarity, lightness and energy. Begin the process, little bits by little bits, to unclutter yourself of all the detrimental junk on the inside — energy-draining negative emotions, bad memories, unhealthy habits, lingering resentments, deep hurts, big disappointments, stupid mistakes, futile jealousies, toxic regrets and one hundred and one fears of this, that and everything in between. Yeah, I know, believe me, I know, that is most definitely the hard part of uncluttering. The rewards you that you subsequently receive however, are absolutlely worth it, many many times over. Human beings have this perverse tendency to hold on to these negative, dis-empowering “inner things” with inexplicable tenacity. All that they are however are a huge sack of rocks that you lug around with you every single mf day of your precious life. Drop the rocks. Walk away. Free yourself.

It has been theorized that there are endless dimensions of reality (other worlds) where every possibility that one can possibly imagine is actually occurring right now. In your mind, the only place where you are truly in charge, put yourself in a dimension where good things are happening for you right now. If your mind is in “that place”, it will drop that sacks of rocks in order to grab onto the good stuff. Make the choice to unclutter yourself to make room in your life for the good to come rushing in.

Success to you in 2021!