Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner, Mental Alchemist, Accelerated Evolution and Sub Conscious High Performance Expert, Len Wright, speaks to The Sweet Adversity Podcast about Mind Mechanics and Simple Decision Making Techniques.
When Len thinks about success, Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci are examples that come to mind.
But what do you really think about when you think of success?
Len defines success not as the material objects he ‘rents’ in life but more in terms of how long the change that he has affected or been the cause to, can live on and how legendary it can be.
Len believes that none of the experiences we have in the world have intrinsic meaning unto themselves, that things happen with no emotional tie or meaning to it, in itself.
Events don’t have a universal meaning and each person will feel differently about every event and put their own meaning to it.
Success, for high performers in life, is typically about externally perceived performance and how we need to keep moving forward yet high performers rarely seem to have a sense of internal balance.
What are the possibilities, the potential of our three-fold temples, body, mind and spirit, within this lifetime.
The less you know yourself, truly within, the less potential you realize and the more self-aware you can become and the more you tap into, the more potential you release, the more joy you have, the more passion it brings you and the more peace it brings you at the same time.
The real lesson is to be able to realize there is no destination or end point to our growth or potential.
It is commonly believed that we use less than 10% of our potential, but the more you know yourself, to realize this potential within, leads to legendary lives and legendary behavior.
Len’s quest, to discover the powers of the mind started with an understanding of NLP and questioning that if we only use 10% of our potential, to discover what the remaining 90% was for leading to the discovery that our thoughts can actually be electromagnetically detected up to 2-Feet outside our mind
Len searched for and started adding tools as to altering and shifting consciousness, deep personal change and altered states in 1994 as he obtained his first NLP certifications with Richard Bandler and subsequently covered advanced NLP topics including NLP master trainer, human design engineering and patterns of persuasion before branching out into hypnosis, hypno-therapy, psycho-linguistics and continued gathering tools to apply to his own growth, mentoring through to starting and growing businesses driven by personal evolution.
Understanding the mysteries of life, to know thy self as the most important thing we are here for and the understanding that there is no person in history that no person has lived without challenges in life and determined to understand the importance of challenges in life and how they provide an opportunity to rise above who we are in the moment by learning something about ourselves through that experience.
To reflect on the phrase, rough seas make for a good sailor, then you can no longer run from the rough seas in fear but relish the challenge and value these as gifts that like a pearl, is made from irritation, and may not be fun but that provide an opportunity to flow gently down the river of life, as told in the old fairytale’s deep rooted spiritual meaning, row, row, row your boat as a guide to how you should live your life.
Recognized as an old Freemasons song as a guide on how to live life, that whole enlightenment attached to ‘know thy self’ and self-examination can bring you to a point of relief, the lessening of suffering as the more we know ourselves, the more we know our mind, the more we know what makes up a thought that creates the chemicals that fire off in our body that makes the states we experience and act from….the more we are in control of our complete being.
You have to stand on our own two feet to stand on your own two feet. Continually going through challenge, meeting it and exceeding it, builds strength. The struggle is there to make us better and the only way to become better from it is to experience it.
Application and practice holds the key to the reward. An inner depth of learning and applying in your life so that the actual performance or results show up, defining success.
Preparing to meet challenges head on, to see them as opportunities, creates growth.
Avoiding challenges also makes them stronger, whatever you resist in life, persists and grows because your focus is still on these challenges, just that you don’t want them, however the focus is still there and that is the only thing you can control. Practicing focus, is key in life, as the only thing you truly control is where you focus your thought and what thought you focus on.
By focusing on your thoughts, even for a second, you give it energy and it comes alive and grows. By continuing to focus on the thought your belief system gives meaning to it from your experiences and from the meaning of the experience our body knows what chemicals to release to match a state of being in line with what we believe to be the meaning of the experience, thus, the state takes place and we act from that state.
All of the negative experience through those thoughts is self-sabotage, self-limitation, self-harm and the key to success is all about doing no harm, both to yourself and others.
Understanding how your mind works allows you to identify the points you need to improve on.
Every experience is brand new when it happens. While it may feel like another moment or experience or place expectations on how it will take place it is the start of how everything lines up if things don’t go as planned it creates a conflict and a resistance in the moment you didn’t want to occur and you belief system tells you it isn’t something you want and leads to stress if you’re choosing the thoughts, you’re putting energy into them resulting in your body joining with your mind and the state that matches the thought of frustration or agitation.
Once you are in the experience and the chemicals in your body begin to create the state that you’ve chosen to go into, happen rapidly, creating a state that matches what you originally thought about the experience resulting in all that you see around you giving evidence to what your first decision of belief was, that you don’t want this, that it isn’t a good thing, subsequently all of the feedback you are focuses in on, gives evidence to your belief that this isn’t what you want to be happening.
The opportunity is to grow through these experiences, by choosing your thoughts properly, and doing no harm to yourself or others and subsequently, the laws of cause and effect come into play, causing the experiences to repeat in different ways. Providing another opportunity to go through this perhaps in a way that brings no harm to yourself or others.
To resolve this, alchemists discovered ways to turn states of lead into states of gold, into states that serve you in a valuable way. You can choose to meet these experiences with a different perspective.
By focusing your thoughts on possibilities, of things that you couldn’t see at the moment, focusing from a fear based on what is happening to you to a perception of how this experience is happening for you. If you can’t see it right in the moment, it is still happening for you in some way, shape or form, creating a subtle and powerful shift from thinking about what is happening to thinking about how it is happening.
Our minds constantly think information about ‘what’ is happening where instead we should be thinking ‘how’ you want to perceive it, how do you choose to go through the experience so you get the most from it.
The goal of our life is not to chase outside of ourselves and hustle down the answers more but to seek the invitation to go inside to look for the silence and stillness within so that the answers bubble forth. Nothing has meaning to it unless you give meaning to it and you have the choice as to how you learn and rise from the experiences you go through.
Looking back through history, and in our current world, everything points to a greater understanding.
If you look at Socrates, Plato, Phio and all the old philosophers of Ancient Greece and Egypt you will unlock more truth as they were all a part of what are called mystery schools and the esoteric information is where the truths are really found.
These philosophers, along with people such as Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci, were all interested in knowing about themselves and the esoteric value (teachings that point within).
There are two schools of thought, two paths in this world. One is looking for salvation outside of yourself, in seeing the power is out there somewhere or happening in another place or time. The other path, all of it is within you, everything is about within you and if you review the old Hermetic principals, everything points to the world, the universe happening within you, pointing to that philosopher’s stone, which is you.
The more we learn about ourselves, the more we connect and learn about it.
Mystics understand life from a point of view that is really performance based, about doing no harm to yourself, but also to others as well. You have to first understand yourself in order to be loving to the world. Focusing on yourself, understanding the power within you, then you can express that outward.