My favourites
Deepak Chopra’s seven spiritual laws of success.
What a great man! He should be up for the Nobel price 10 times! Then, I read it again while I was in Cuba and I couldn’t reflect on it. It was totally different. I couldn’t take it in. It was my environment. The people are so poor there, with no hope, no future and I found myself really selfish trying to work on self development and trying to better my mind when they were trying hard (and not successfully) to feed their baby’s. Maslow’s pyramid of needs came to mind. That you can only work on yourself when the other needs are met. In the case of the Cuban people, needs where food and shelter. And there I was playing the tourist sipping a 2 days work cup of coffee, while reading Deepak Chopra’s seven spiritual laws of success.
So while reading this book I started to doubt myself. I can’t do this. I’m not able for it. I think I’m ready for self development but I can’t take it in. Everybody else is really deep and brilliant and witty and compassionate, except me. How can I not know the answer to all those questions? It feels like I’m lacking a trillion brain cells.
However I found myself repeating things in the book to my clients. I went overtime in consultations trying to transfer the knowledge in the book to the clients. In their case, it’s the same as in Deepak Chopra’s vision. If the mind is in the right frame, the body will follow. And just like Dr. Banfield, I tell them; if they focus on what they want in the long-term, it’s much easier to say no.
But then as a paradox of ‘when the mind is in the right frame, the body will follow’, in my case, it’s the other way around. My body does fairly what I want it to do, few exceptions here and there, but my mind doesn’t follow. So how do I explain that? How will I ever learn to meditate like Mr. Chopra promotes? 30 min in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening?
Anyway one thing is good. At least I’m happy with trying to achieve my path in life and this books helps.
