Fog Monster, G. Reid Helms

One common theme that has consistently been brought up during my various sessions of Resonance Repatterning and Consultations among recent clients from the Internet Marketing world has been Greed.  I offer these types of sessions to this specific market as IM’ers are very open to the idea of getting their Inner Game aligned to experience profund success in thier Outer Game- this makes them very receptive to the ideas of Energy and how Energy works and flows through us.

Greed isn’t so much wanting more and more even though we may have so much already- that’s normal.  That’s being simply human.  We all foster needs and wants and desires that cause us to expand, that’s just Life.  Greed is something else entirely- an idea, a perception that has been mis-translated and barely understood.

It’s ok to want… it’s perfectly natural. Buddha even acknowledges this when he delivered his Lotus Sutra on Eagle Mountain . He tells all present that have been studying him and his other Sutras that the idea of nirvana and obtaining it, by eliminating desire, is itself a desire- a wanting, a longing. Only with that desire is one able to expand and grow. By explaining to others that their quest of not wanting desires, was itself a desire, he allowed an intricate explanation of human nature to be told through a spiritual perspective. Indeed, the more desires one has, the more one will expand and grow- but they are doing so because of the desire, not due to it. It’s an important distinction.

Greed is having all you need to be happy, right here and right now and also being able to get to other places of happiness, but not using those resources and then asking for more to do what you already can.

Why would anyone even need to be greedy?  Good question, glad you asked…

a) Because they don’t know they are already capable of doing whatever it is they want to do, and,

b) Because they don’t know all the tools, people, and events needed to do what they want to do are already lined up and waiting to be a part of that action.

Need some “real” world examples?

Warranties and Gurantees:  Since I  still spend a few hours each week dealing with I.T. policy and I.T acquisitions, reviewing applicable codes, laws, and regulations, warranties and guarantees remain one of the most costly unnecessary expenditures in budgets I see.  Warranties make the purchasing agent and managing buyers have a warm and fuzzy feel good selling point.  If something goes wrong with the hardware or software, hey- “it’s covered”.  Are warranties and extended coverage plans really worth the 1.2 million on an 11 million contract?  No, but we have a great feeling about the product because we can plan our life cycle costs around the fact that we’ll use this hardware/software for the next 5 years.  Hmmm… why not expand your I.T. section with one an extra technician ($55,000/yr) for 5 years ($275,000 plus health care, taxes, etc) whose sole job is hardware/software maintenance on that equipment and send that person to the vendor’s training to become certified on that product (up to $45,000.00 in fees).

The Vendor is exploiting that natural Greed in the buyer.  Selling something extra (warranty) on top of a product also exploits ignorance.  If the product is already a valued product, then it should work, and it should perform.  Selling a warranty with it is slight admission that maybe it’s not that valuable, or won’t perform the way the Vendor says it should.  However, The buyer and The Vendor alreadyknow that a small percentage of the prodcut, over a period of time, will break down- it’s just simple statistics.  The Vendor is simply promising to do what the Buyer could do (with the extra I.T. tech) if “something” happens… see, Greed is a two way street.   The Buyer is purchasing something based on a perception of lack, not abundance- “this product will eventually break” instead of “this is a product I value and it will perform how I need it to”.

The one that got away: We should all be able to relate to this example…  the girlfriend/boyfriend/job/buisness that we just couldnt hold on to.  Somehow, it left our lives and left us clamoring to get it back.  the loss of it really affected us, and often we didn’t even see the loss of it coming.  We feebly try to replace it once we know we can’t obtain it again, yet that action too fails.  Greed in this case is a matter of ignorance, in not knowing that although the original object we lost may be unobtainable, we can still manifest what we would like- and often do once we “let go” of that original object.  However, we remain too confused and unclear and focused solely on re-obtaining what is no longer there, allowing our actions to be based on lack.

The silver bullet: The myth we create for ourselves that “everything” will be all right and ok, when and only when, this one Action is successfully done.  “I can retire early if….”, “I’ll be rich if….”, “She’ll be ok if…”, “I won’t lose my house if…”.  It’s pure Greed as it places the onus of responsibility on that action itself, instead of where it needs to be, on ourselves.  It allows us the subliminal thought process that indeed nothing right now is ok or all right until this action is completed successfully, that I am myself not ok or all right until this one action is successfully ompleted.

There is a common theme in these examples:  How greed is applied and manipulated through our actions.

Lack Based Actions and Fear Based Actions are actions we undertake from a point of, of course, lack and fear.  We’re doing something becuase we know we don’t have something.  This can only allow struggles and obstacles, hardships and defeat.  Paddling upstream hard enough may eventually get us to our goal, but too often we get caught up in the power of it, and it pushes us further downstream.

Inspired Actions are actions undertaken when everything in our reality tells us to undertake it.  You may be thinking of writing a book, and several people in a month might mention to you that you should write a book or a book, email, pamphlet may come into your reality explaining it’s never easier these days to write a book and how you can do it…  Inspired actions are the easiest because they are literally the path of least resistance… it just feels natural to do it.

When Actions are undertaken with a sense of greed, they tend to usually fail.  When Actions are undertaken with a sense of being inspired to do it, they tend to usually succeed.

Take any field, any career path, any person that is successfully doing what they are doing, and you’ll notice that they’re doing it because they love it, because they were inspired to do it, and by doing it, it is inspiring them to do even other and greater things.  They are loving what they do, otherwise they wouldnt be doing it.

If you’re not doing what you love, if you’re not being inspired to do things you love, then why?  Can it be traced back to the state of perception you undertake your actions with?  If so, then why? If things are hard and unbearable and filled with obstacles, then why are you choosing the path of most resistance?

What specifically, is disallowing you from traveling the path of least resistance to your goal, desire, objective?  The easiest objections to this statement are the ones that are probably causing the hardest obstacles to appear.

For exmaple, “I’d love to travel the world, but, I have a mortgage payment each month and have to work.”  His  real desire was to travel yet he couldn’t because he had a “normal” job he didn’t particularly like- ironically, in the travel industry.  His primary Desire was coming through loud and clear, and he thought that by working for that industry he’d be able to travel, yet this wasn’t the case.  So, after four sessions over a three month period, he realized that traveling was his inspired action.  He was able to sell his house with realtive ease in the current D.C. market, quit his job, and is following the detailed mind map of all the places he’d like to see.  With his knowledge of the travel industry he beaome an independent travel agent to several online companies- a self owned business he can perform anywhere in the world with internet access.  Additionally, he’s discovering multiple streams of revenue by capitalizing on his travel experiences by writing (and monetizing) different blogs related to travel and specific geographic regions.  He’s “working” about 4 – 6 hours a day while travleing across the world.  He’s done all this in the last 5 months.  Do you see how “Greed” was actually preventing him from his goal in the first place?  He wanted to travel the world, but couldn’t, because he didn’t believe in himself enough.  In the end, Chad’s doing great for himself.

Another recent example, “I  need to be at home with my daughter but have to work so much I can’t.”  This single Mother of one lameneted her dismay to me at never having enough time to be with her 4 year old.  During the first session with her, she even complained that she should be spending that hour with her daughter instead of me.  Her desire was more time with her daughter, her reality was that she never had that time- and she didn’t.  Her position required 10 – 20 hours of overtime each week.  She wasn’t worried about money, she had that and was quite affluent.  We spent three sessions over a two month period together.  Once she “gave in” to her primary Desire, an opening in her firm came open- one that paid a little less and had less responsibility.  At the same time, she inquired into openings at a competitors firm, and was offered a similar position. She approached her Regional Director with a solution to her problem (which alone takes a great amount of intestinal fortitude), allow her to slowly transition into this other position while working from home, or she would work for a competitor.  Guess what that Regional director chose.  While she’s still working (from home), it’s only a few hours each day and she can spend the remainder of the time with her daughter.  She was so caught up in the Desire of what she wanted, she didnt know that she alone could provide herself the answer to her steps of Inspired Action.

If you’d like to know more about Resonance Repatterning, Techniques of Organic Marketing, or how Energy is all we have to work with, drop me a line at shiftedenergy.com

Be Inspired!

Big Hugs,

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