Prosperity: The Choice Is Yours
April 30, 2005
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it
through my conscious thoughts.
~ Anthony Robbins ~
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As we continue our pursuit of finding the Secret of Life, did you
get a chance to watch the movie, Joe vs the Volcano?
Joe, like many of us, found that his life was being controlled by
everyone and everything else, except by himself. And Joe was sick,
he was soul sick.
Joe lived in a state of psychic slumber, he was asleep.
This issue is about one way we can all wake up out of our own
psychic slumber, about how we can have courage, its one more
aspect of the Secret of Life.
We'll pursue more about this in our upcoming issues of this
newsletter.
Happy reading,
Dave
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Do You Have Terminal Brain Cloud?
By: Dave Cole
When the movie, Joe vs the Volcano came out in 1990 it didn't get
good revues, in fact many of the critics believed it was Steven Spielberg's
attempt at comedy and a flop at that.
But inside what seems like a comedy/romance there are some
real gems of inner life wisdom.
Joe is an ordinary guy (played by Tom Hanks) who is stuck in
a despicable job with despicable people. His life is pitiful, plus
Joe's a hypochondriac on top of it all.
Joe goes to doctor after doctor and finally Dr. Ellison (Robert Stack)
tells Joe he has a terminal brain cloud with only a short time to live.
So Joe quits his job, tells his boss off and takes the secretary out
for dinner.
An eccentric billionaire Samuel Harvey Graynamore, played by
Lloyd Bridges approaches Joe and promises to give Joe the
lifestyle he always wanted and in the end, Joe jumps into the volcano.
See, there is a mineral on an island called Waponi Woo that
Graynamore needs and a volcano (the Big Woo), which needs a
human sacrifice every 100 years. So Joe agrees to jump in the end.
Joe gets the lifestyle of a king then is transported to Waponi Woo
by the billionaire's daughter Patricia, played by Meg Ryan.
Joe was a hero in the fire department before going to work in his present
job. He had courage. Part of Joe vs the Volcano is about courage.
But Joe lost his courage and sold his soul to Mr. Waturi (his old boss)
for a lousy 300 bucks a week. Joe was afraid. Afraid of losing his
despicable job, afraid to say what was on his mind for fear of upsetting
his boss, afraid to live his life, afraid to make a change.
And Joe became soul sick, he knew he was losing his soul.
Joe's life was controlled by one thing: Fear.
When Dr. Ellison told Joe he had terminal brain cloud, Joe was already
dead. He didn't have a life, he was in a situation that he put
up with
every day for a paycheck and a totally false sense of security.
The minute Joe said he would jump into the volcano, it was
then that Joe once again regained and re-found his courage.
It was at that point that Joe began waking up out of his psychic
slumber and started to become alive.
Joe had allowed himself to be controlled by his own thoughts
of illness and allowed himself to be a victim, which lead him to the
despicable lifestyle he found himself in.
The minute he said he would jump into the volcano, his life and lifestyle
immediately changed, much for the better.
Joe was controlled by his fear, by his situation, by his boss, by the
pursuit of a couple of dollars a week.
You and I are either going to be controlled or we are going
to be the one doing the controlling in our lives.
We can be controlled by many things such as:
money
financial situations
family
marriage
work
fears
anger
health or physical
weight
drugs
alcohol
drive for success
religious viewpoints
superstitions
With each situation, we can be controlled by the situation
or we can choose to not be. This is a conscious choice that we
alone make, and we make it hundreds of times every day.
Is a situation or other person dictating to you how you are going
to think, feel or act?
Every choice, every situation is met only in the present moment.
It is in that moment that you and you alone have the power to make
the choice to be at peace with this or to let this situation/person
allow
you to be angered or upset or controlled by it.
Being in control of your own life begins with making the conscious
decision to be the master of your own destiny.
Joe re-gained control of his life. It took a wake up call that he was
going to die for Joe to wake up and live.
Dr. Ellison said to him, "You only have a short time to live, I suggest
you live it well."
Joe, like many of us, had terminal brain cloud. His brain was clouded
by fear. That fear affected everything Joe did in his life. That
brain cloud controlled Joe's life and was slowly destroying Joe.
We all only have a short time left to live. We can live the rest of
our
lives being controlled by something else, or we can live life being
the one doing the controlling.
It takes courage. Just like Joe..... you and I already have that
courage within us. We were born with it.
It is in our power to discover who we really are has nothing to
fear, but we make ourselves fearful each time we look outside of
ourselves for some power to make us feel fearless.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due
to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you
have the power to
revoke at any moment.
~ Marcus Aurelius ~
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