Preface
We are here on this Earth as individual human beings. We live for a period of time, one that is full of events, challenges, and our own unique experiences. Our purpose in life is to learn from these events, whether they are good, bad, or ugly. Without these lessons, what are we truly getting out of our journey?
Life can be felt as a series of Long, Interesting, Frustrating, Events. We need to find our purpose. Our lives, whether short or long, are a journey. On this journey, the key is to stay happy, and we can only do so if we understand ourselves better—learn to deal with our thoughts, emotions, and feelings and learn about ourselves and the world around us. This can be done by understanding how the universe works and asking questions about life: How did we get here? Why were we given the parents we have? Why were we born in the place we were? Why did we grow up the way we did?
At birth you were like a soft dough, full of love and ready to be molded by the world. Day by day, the dough got harder and harder; you adopted a certain belief system based off of your parents, school, society, culture, and religion. This adopted belief system has shaped you into who you are today. At this point, you believe that you are who you are, no longer a soft dough but a hard rock. You need to wake up and realize that inside of you is still the same “loving dough” that was there when you were born. You need to focus on your higher self and make changes for a happier life, a more creative and compassionate life. Learning to love every being and spread your joy, your love, and your happiness with everyone around you.
As long as you do what you’ve done, you will get what you’ve got.
My true intention for this book is to illustrate to you that you are a loving person. Living this lifetime on Earth, you came with a purpose; your purpose was to experience certain events that your soul needed to feel, learn, and grow. You are given the freedom to choose to do whatever you desire in this lifetime. However, realize that you are going to experience certain events that your soul desires to complete as a result or consequence of your past actions, your soul’s evolution, and your new desires and choices.
We must recognize that all our thoughts and actions have consequences, good or bad; what we say and do to others have consequences. For every action, there must be a reaction. At the younger soul level, you made many choices, and because of karma, you will still experience the results of those choices, whether good or bad. If you do not have darkness, you never see the light. Therefore, nothing in life is bad; it is only experiences, choices, and consequences of our choices. This is karma. So, in this life, you have your past circle to complete (past karma to be cleared), your soul evolution (soul growth level), and consequences of your choices in this lifetime. We learn from all of these as we grow, so at an infant soul level, we go through different experiences and choices than a mature soul level. We will discuss these soul levels in a further chapter of the book. Please note, you may clear some of the past and present consequences, but some may remain for your future lives. To put this into terms that may be more readily understood: If you were in charge of your children and gave them choices to act how they wanted, would it be fair to say they have free will but you make sure they know for every action there would be an equal reaction?
The beauty of life is the ability to make choices. That means we have the ability to experience what we wish, but the main consideration is that these choices have consequences that will come about based on our karma. If you do something loving to someone, you will receive a loving reward or experience, but if you say harsh words or take bad action toward another being, your consequence is to learn how your actions feel on the other side. Once you realize this fact, then you see things differently and try to avoid negative karma going forward. You want to live a life according to the universal law, which we go into detail about later in the book.
Understanding and Knowledge of How Things Works Makes You Aware in Life
You must look inside to find true happiness. We are often chasing things outside of ourselves that we think will make us happier. Once you find peace inside of yourself, then you will learn to be more observant and less focused on material things and happiness outside of yourself. You will learn how not to suffer from the events in your life, and instead, you will live from the happiness and love that is already in your heart.
You may say that this philosophy is easy to say and impossible to do. Realize there is nothing you can do now to change your events in the past, whether they are good, bad, or ugly. It is done and gone; it’s in your rearview mirror. To waste your beautiful energy to rehash and replay the past is nonsense. This concept may be part of your upraising and cultural beliefs, but you can only control your present. So, enjoy NOW and focus on positive future outcomes. This practice will result in positive feelings.
Whatever Energy We Put Out, The Same Kind Energy Will Surround Us
If we send positive thoughts and feelings out to the universe, then the same type of energy will be attracted to us like a magnet. Every time you find yourself going back to rewind old movies and relive old memories, you waste the valuable present moments of your life. Most people live in the past and daydream about the future; their life in the present gets lost. Every time you find yourself in the past, grab the back of your neck, and bring yourself to the present moment. After a while, it will become a habit to stay tuned in with the present and only focus on NOW.
My dear friend, once you understand the big picture, then it is easy to deal with all the events that have taken place in your lifetime. You will learn how to become happy, content, grateful, and appreciative of the life that you have. This is the “New You.”
“The Old You” is a wonderful person who has lived as you, until now. You were programmed from childhood to have certain belief systems, taught to feel and react to things in a certain way, and forced by parents, family, society, culture, and schooling to do as you did.
Everything you have done and learned in this lifetime until now is due to the choices you made in this lifetime or experiences that your soul desired and learned from, your karmic experiences and consequences. You will face certain experiences because of past karma and current choices. Things pop up daily because of three things related to your soul: your choice/desire; consequences that are karmic or unfinished; and your soul evolution—the lessons you need to learn to move up. Please, wake up and learn that everything in your life is a lesson for you to learn. We came to “Earth school” to have the freedom to do as we wish and learn lessons from our choices, plus our soul evolution lessons.
Here is an example. School, 1st grade through 12th grade, starts in the fall and ends in the spring. During this time, we are to learn different lessons in the school year. In the early years, we learn to write; then as years go by, we get to learn more and more mature subjects and skills. Some of us continue our schooling at a university. During these years, the choices we made from the first grade on were personal choices that have consequences, good or bad. These consequences must be met during this lifetime or a future lifetime.
Earth is a school for us to keep coming back to in order to continue our evolution, experience life, make our choices, and feel and learn the conse-
quences of these choices.
It seems as if God separated us from himself and set us free to learn lessons and free us to make as many choices as we wish. What is very important, and what is somehow lost in our life, is that most of us do not understand that things we do or say have consequences, and they all have to be cleared. We are missing the knowledge that all the choices have consequences.
Once we have completed all the above, then we can go back and rejoin him, knowing the fact that God was there in every step of the journey with us, protecting and loving us.
The “New You” means you are aware of this and are grateful for these experiences no matter what. The “New You” has gratitude to everyone that is a part of these experiences. The “New You” has a clear understanding and appreciation for the things that happen and is in total peace with them.
Now it’s time to become the “New You” full of peace and harmony.
I am going to keep this transformation as simple as possible, and in the future books, I will go into more detail about all the elements and facts.
The “New You” is going to understand the purpose of this life on Earth, the main reason for the journey is for you to experience certain events that are needed for your soul to feel and experience. Simply said, your soul decided for your physical body in this lifetime to feel certain experiences as a part of your soul evolution on this Earth journey (soul level).
In order to be great at something, you need to learn as much as you can, as this learning leads to understanding. This understanding leads to applied knowledge. In the same manner, your soul wants to learn and understand in order to achieve its greatest potential. Maybe this example can help you understand this concept more practically. Let’s say you want to become a good offensive coach in American football. You started your career playing the game yourself, and as a player, you began to learn about every position in the offense.
Over the years, you had the opportunity to play a variety of offensive po-
sitions. You chose to be a quarterback, lineman, running back, tight end, or wide receiver. Before each season, you picked your position or positions to focus on. Maybe you even had the opportunity to play in different geographical areas, on different teams, with different coaches, and for good, bad, and mediocre teams. You chose what skills to focus on and learned the types of drills that help hone those skills. You also learned the playbook and constantly reviewed the different types of plays. After years of this, you come to have an incredible understanding of the game. The bottom line, all the choices are open to you when you start, and you use those choices to learn. In the same way, your soul goes through different life cycles to learn to be the best version of itself. As in football, it may take you several seasons (in this case, lifetimes) to learn everything you need to know.
We will learn and realize the power that we have to make choices. This is a power given to us by God; we can make unlimited choices. We will learn not to have attachments to things and people and not to have judgments about things and people. Becoming an observer will help you to be at peace, learning to accept situations as they are and to make better choices going forward.
In the next several chapters, we will learn to understand the universe and our place in it as it pertains to us.
The most important question to be answered is how did we come to these parents, the place that we were born, and the family that we have? Was it the choice of our parents, was it the random selection, or was it all planned ahead?
You have been asking all these questions about yourself, your life, and the universe. Where did your physical body come from? For what reason am I here? Why here or there? Why this family? Personality? Job? Residence? And how is it going to end and why? Perhaps now, you are getting tired of being “normal,” and you are searching to find happiness. You may be thinking “if I had this” or “if I had that life would be great.”
You may be convinced that if you read a book, or listen to a tape, or watch a video, then you can change your life. Until now, none or very little change has occurred from all these attempts. I agree that most of these books and tapes will help you temporarily before you go back to your old self. The main reason for this is a lack of deep understanding of the overall picture and an expectation of outside sources to make the change in your life. As you read this book and understand the basic concept and knowledge of how things work, you will learn how to live your happy, content, and peaceful new life. It is going to be an exciting and loving life.
Once I understood how things evolved around me, why things happened in my life, and how my choices affected my present life and my future, I began to slow down and became more of an observer than a judge. I understood better why everyone acts as they do, accepted things as they were, and made better choices going forward.
Through breathing meditation and alignment of my chakras, I began to release my anger, hostility, and fear, and I started using my biggest source of influence, which is love. From my intuitive intellect, I began having good intentions for my choices and connecting myself to a higher source. In connecting myself with the higher source, I began to manifest my desires and live a life full of joy and love. I still face the consequences and the lessons to learn in my journey, but I am able to digest them better and more calmly.
The biggest change will be a “New You!”