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For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been focusing quite a bit on learning your filters and getting around them. The reason for this is that as tempting as it may be to go and make changes in the world around you, I would suggest making changes inside first.
The magic word: Leverage.
An important word in the business world and no less important in day-to-day life. Leverage is all about making the maximum effect with the available resources. closing a door is easiest if you’re doing it at the doorknob and hardest if you’re pushing near the hinges.
Likewise, our experience in the world is shaped not only by the physical factors (near the hinges) but also by our inner world (near the doorknob). We can work on both, but I’d rather work where I can make the greatest amount of change.
As I go through the process of refining and enhancing my inner world, I notice things moving faster and faster. This is where I reign supreme, so I can make full use of my abilities. As my inner world moves, so does the physical world.
For example: I am now in greater health and mood than I have been in years. Not high school football trim (that’s still down the road a bit) but I have rather effortlessly given up coffee/caffeine in the last two weeks. My only reaction has been mild amusement that it was so hard to do before. This makes giving up soda look hard, and that wasn’t terribly taxing. Now my biggest beverage problem is finding something tasty that has neither caffeine nor copious amounts of sugar. Rather difficult to do while out-and-about, but that’s a problem I’m enjoying having 
Don’t use your bare hands when you have a crowbar handy.
I’m not saying that we should abandon the physical realm. Far from it. It’s rather fun here. However, whatever methods you’re using in the physical realm will be greatly enhanced if the person at the controls (you) is someone you can look up to.
One of the small advantages I’ve had in learning emotional release methods is that I have had much greater success at work. I am not particularly “working harder”, but I am infinitely harder to put off balance. That centered state of being comes across to my co-workers and to the customers that I help. No amount of attempting to control the outer world could have possibly brought this result.
My point is this: If you find that you are having a hard time controlling the situation, stop trying to exert control over outside factors. You may meet with some limited success, but it’s not likely and never efficient. The real edge comes in learning to be your own best ally. If you can become that which you wish to be inside, the rest will flow from there.
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