Breakthrough

Are you ready for a BIG AHA?

BREAKTHROUGH = a METANOIA; AHA!

QUESTION: Are you ready for a BIG AHA?

STORY: I’ve had many breakthroughs in my life. The first one was when I was in my junior year of college at the UW-Oshkosh. It was 1967 and I marched with hundreds of young people screaming: “Make love not war!”. We protested the Vietnam War and the rising inhumane treatment of black, brown, Asian, Indigenous people. I got curious and asked the universe: What the hell is going on in the world? What can I do? I decided to leave college for one year. I flew to San Francisco, eager to explore, willing to face my fears and open my mind to a whole new understanding of life. After 6 months of LSD and other hallucinogens - I had a breakthrough! I saw that there is far more to life than what I had been told! I returned to Wisconsin - realizing that I needed to wake up and explore a whole new understanding of life. Little did I know that this insight would construct my whole life! Where are young people today?

QUOTES

“There is no breakthrough without breakdown.” ~ Werner Erhard

“I always did something that I was not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through - that's when you have a breakthrough.” ~ Marissa Mayer

“Art and science have so much in common (the process of trial and error, finding something new and willing to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.” ~ Peter M. Brant

“Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.” ~ Terrell Owens

EXERCISE

STOP.

Sit quietly.

Assume an erect posture. Sense the breath. Be curious. Where in your life do you need a breakthrough to a new understanding?

Get your pen and paper and write words or draw lines expressing the AHA or breakthrough you desire.

FEEL the energy of a new understanding as it flows through you! And move forward into your day feeling the beautiful AHA!