Dear reader,
When I was growing up I was a very introverted person. Other words would be the "shy", "loner" or "mysterious" type. Yes, yes, you can "awwww" if you like. In an ideal world I wish that I could say no matter who you were, you would still be able to climb the social ladder. While you attract a lot of intrigue as a mysterious quiet type, you are ultimately creating a reality where people are forbidden to enter. I call this reality the "bubble".
The bubble is the world you hold over yourself. When you make friends, when you buy a new pet from the pet store, or become an uncle or auntie, your bubble opens up and welcomes in that new thing. That new life, that new energy. You'll feel stronger and more open every time this happens. In this same sense when I was younger I found that I lived in a very small bubble, and consequently a very small way of thinking where I lived so much in my own head. I didn't want to let people in. Now certainly if you an artist such as myself, sometimes we need to keep these ideas in, but ultimately in the end you intend to share your ideas anyway which means the result is the same. Everyone can benefit from what I hope to share with you.
Now what if I was to tell you that in each bubble there was a golden light, a light so bright if let out it would consume everything. The light is amazing: golden and warm and fills you with happiness and makes you feel like the king or queen of the world. Many people call this light: "confidence" but I call it "energy". Do you want to know the feeling? It is like acing an exam, finding out that your high school crush likes you, like finding out your a Dad. ( Sorry, I forgot to mention I have twelve children...). If you're telling me that you have felt these feelings, then keep reading, because if you can't reach for that energy inside yourself you can reach it from other people.
Understand that if you choose to trap yourself in that bubble you are not only keeping that amazing energy inside of you from the world, you are being selfish because you are not willing to share that energy with anyone else. I believe that in every single one of us there is something amazing that the world has never seen before. So how do we let people into this amazing feeling?
This is about living in the moment. What living in the moment is about is popping that bubble around yourself and completely letting out the light. Living in the moment is to make the world your bubble, so that everywhere you go your energy releases and touches everyone you meet. Now, I know that I'm talking about bubbles and energy, but stay with me you crazy person. :D
Why are celebrities so influential? They have fame. What does fame do? It makes your bubble the size of the world. People love you for your talent, they love you for your energy. Similarly, when you go to a nightclub and have some alcohol (I assume that all of you readers are alcoholics anyway :P) the effect of it is essentially tricking your mind to think that the bubble does not exist. The effect is that you will do things outside of your comfort zone and it feels great to do that. You begin to notice that when you hear the teens of England on the buses after college shouting "We're gonna get so pissed tonight!" it's not getting drunk that they are looking forward to. (Although I am sure some people love throwing up and dancing with their boxers or bras on their head). What they are looking forward to is the freedom of escaping their reality. Of piercing that bubble.
The same thing applies to fiction, or fantasy--my true love and passion. It allows you to escape into a reality by throwing you into another one which in turn inspires you to think openly--to expand that bubble. When you are attracting a beautiful woman, (another blog post, another time :) ) I realized that women respond to money not because of greed or want of material things but because with money the man lives in a much larger bubble, the possibilities are larger. Most of all women and people generally respond to great energy. This means that you don't have to be handsome, or wealthy to attract that person. You simply need to show value in other words, show that you are "someone". How do you show the world that you are someone? By living in the moment--because almost everyone else does not live in the moment. They are busy with deadlines, they are conscious about the size of their bum, they are worrying about the stove at home, they are thinking about waking up tomorrow for work. You will be making yourself 99% more attractive and successful if your bubble is larger than life itself.
So how does one enlarge their bubble, how does one live in the moment? Let me tell you. Living in the moment is about living with feeling rather than thought. A great example is the feeling that you have when you are living at home. This is the closest you'll feel to living in the moment. No-one can change the way you feel because your bubble has expanded to your entire home: you know that place inside and out. Similarly, when you are doing something you love or that you are good at. There is no thought, no fear--you are completely comfortable in your habitat because you have done it a thousand times. You should feel like that every single second of the day, no matter where you are and what you are doing. What I am teaching you is to make the world your habitat.
If you are reading this and you are coming from a very small bubble, the next time you go to a bar, or go anywhere with people, try to talk to ten people. It could be anyone--the bus driver, the shop assistant, your teacher, some random class mate, your Mum or your dog. The words that you are saying are not the important part, what is important is that you release that energy. The more people that you can make smile, ie: the more that you let people into that light, the more you will feel good about yourself. You'll notice very quickly, that more people will respond to you, especially in social environments like nightclubs. People can smell happiness like anything and you will leak this energy the moment you know how. This is the character of Genie from Disney's "Aladdin" meant when he said: "Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee yourself"
What society has taught us is to trap ourselves in a bubble--a bubble limited by what other people think of us, by how we should or should not behave, when in actual fact there are no limits at all. All there is, is living. Living for me, living for you, living for everyone. Live. In. The. Moment.
Peace and love :)
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