The Motivation Prostitution Solution
The motivation industry.....sigh. Not that there isn't some good (maybe?) that can come from it. I have done quite a few of these....even last I year attended Mary Morrissey and her very well constructed Dream Builder extravaganza. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Enrichment_Center.) In spite of all the financial scandals, not only has she made a comeback, Mary has re-directed the public's interpretation to convince her public that not only is she is not corrupt (or a failure-- after all, if your product is so good, why do you have to rip off people or the IRS?), but that in fact her getting busted and still owing MILLIONS of dollars and the fact she is still in business is evidence of how powerful she is and how good her techniques are. And..... the lemmings apparently are buying her story. Wow. (A similar example, but one who eventually burned out is Susan Powter... a weight loss motivation guru $$$$ who eventually admitted she was drunk at all her presentations. She then tried to turn her self into a sobriety motivation celebrity. ( http://www.infomercial-hell.com/blog/2008/04/15/what-ever-happened-to-susan-powter-of-stop-the-insanity/ ). That is the motivation industry for you. Back to Mary......Her workshop did include all the best aspects of all the similar workshops I have attended since the 70's, plus new language and great tech. Is this material good? Yes! Can it work? Yes. It can move you past some blocks, open your thinking, energize you.
So can good porn. Or a great escort (male or female). Watching well crafted porn (yes it is out there... for example Good Vibrations, a pro-woman sex shop offers well defined porn of all kinds, all respectful of women), or a skilled sexual escort person can definitely rev up a marriage, reconnect one to his/her body, inspire a tired sex life. However, like porn, or a great escort, motivation seminars can become addictive.
I felt SO good during and after the Morrissey workshop. I admired the craftsmanship of it and got off on the cheering, humor and sense of "belonging" to a group of people who truly believed that they were going to change their financial destiny.....even though looking around it was clear that many there had..."issues." Even as a believer that our destiny is completely determined by our Self before we incarnate, not only did I enjoy the weekend, I wanted to believe. I wanted to belong. I wanted to keep feeling like that.....forever. The evil tongue of addiction was licking my cheek.
Thankfully I have grown. There is nothing wrong with seeking out external motivation. However my perspective on that is, use the external stimuli to develop a strong inner motivational voice. Begin to believe in your Self, your Higher Self, your spiritual Guidance enough that you can become your own coach. Unless you want to buy stock in the Motivation Industry, and then continue to help that industry prosper.
Even in New Age, Yoga studios, fitness centers, and some classrooms, motivating people is part of the curriculum to ensure attendance. Teachers and leaders are trained to hand out complements like doctors hand out Prozac. Instead of this making people strong, if not supplemented with inner motivational skills, we are producing a population that now expects to be made to feel good, even if they are not behaving good. Yet another layer of the entitlement culture of the millennium, at least in the West. Many people prefer to study with a martial arts person, yoga or meditation studio where there is a constant flow of statements about how special, beautiful, gifted etc. given to participants. Handed out like sugar, to me, these statements lose any meaning and value other than a quick high.
There is nothing wrong with complements..... except when they become a tool Just like there is nothing wrong with being sexy, until it becomes a tool. For true Seekers, we reach a state where complements and complaints have no value. We understand that many use complements and complaints to manipulate and control (like the love bombing done by a narcissist), or to avoid their own feelings, or to project their own unresolved feelings. Instead we are motivated, excited by, inspired by, humbled by, our deep and authentic connection with Spirit, with our own internal energies, with our sincere efforts to evolve while living in the human body. Complements, complaints, they are all weather. When motivation becomes internalized, it is our constant companion, like our heartbeat, like our breath. It is stable and accessible and not subject to manipulation. Use tools, but strive to create your own inner heart felt motivation.
Journey On.
So can good porn. Or a great escort (male or female). Watching well crafted porn (yes it is out there... for example Good Vibrations, a pro-woman sex shop offers well defined porn of all kinds, all respectful of women), or a skilled sexual escort person can definitely rev up a marriage, reconnect one to his/her body, inspire a tired sex life. However, like porn, or a great escort, motivation seminars can become addictive.
I felt SO good during and after the Morrissey workshop. I admired the craftsmanship of it and got off on the cheering, humor and sense of "belonging" to a group of people who truly believed that they were going to change their financial destiny.....even though looking around it was clear that many there had..."issues." Even as a believer that our destiny is completely determined by our Self before we incarnate, not only did I enjoy the weekend, I wanted to believe. I wanted to belong. I wanted to keep feeling like that.....forever. The evil tongue of addiction was licking my cheek.
Thankfully I have grown. There is nothing wrong with seeking out external motivation. However my perspective on that is, use the external stimuli to develop a strong inner motivational voice. Begin to believe in your Self, your Higher Self, your spiritual Guidance enough that you can become your own coach. Unless you want to buy stock in the Motivation Industry, and then continue to help that industry prosper.
Even in New Age, Yoga studios, fitness centers, and some classrooms, motivating people is part of the curriculum to ensure attendance. Teachers and leaders are trained to hand out complements like doctors hand out Prozac. Instead of this making people strong, if not supplemented with inner motivational skills, we are producing a population that now expects to be made to feel good, even if they are not behaving good. Yet another layer of the entitlement culture of the millennium, at least in the West. Many people prefer to study with a martial arts person, yoga or meditation studio where there is a constant flow of statements about how special, beautiful, gifted etc. given to participants. Handed out like sugar, to me, these statements lose any meaning and value other than a quick high.
There is nothing wrong with complements..... except when they become a tool Just like there is nothing wrong with being sexy, until it becomes a tool. For true Seekers, we reach a state where complements and complaints have no value. We understand that many use complements and complaints to manipulate and control (like the love bombing done by a narcissist), or to avoid their own feelings, or to project their own unresolved feelings. Instead we are motivated, excited by, inspired by, humbled by, our deep and authentic connection with Spirit, with our own internal energies, with our sincere efforts to evolve while living in the human body. Complements, complaints, they are all weather. When motivation becomes internalized, it is our constant companion, like our heartbeat, like our breath. It is stable and accessible and not subject to manipulation. Use tools, but strive to create your own inner heart felt motivation.
Journey On.
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