The School of Greatness - 408 The Power of a Beautiful State

Episode Date: November 18, 2016

"You cannot create anything great unless you're living in a beautiful state." - Lewis Howes If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes and more at http://lewishowes.com/408

5-Minute Friday, episode number 408, and you must live from a beautiful state. I'm in India right now at a meditation retreat called One World Academy, and what an experience and journey I'm going through. Last week, I got in, and the first couple days started out great, learned a ton, went through these incredible experiences, learned some ancient Indian spiritual wisdom and modern day science to teach me how to literally have a superpower. And that superpower is how to overcome any stress, any anxiety, any overwhelm, dis-ease, hurt, suffering, fear of the past, fear of the future, any of that. How to overcome it through this ancient Indian wisdom coupled with modern day science, with the wisdom and the meditation practices, along with the breath and the meditation practices along with the breath and understanding how the body works. Unfortunately, day three, I picked up a really bad

bug. I must have eaten something in Delhi a few days prior that finally caught up with me and got me knocked out for about three days in my bed, could barely walk, going to the bathroom pretty much every hour. Fever, shakes, sweaty. It was not fun. Not fun being in another country and experiencing that. Over the last three days, I've recovered and I've been back in class. And there are so many things that I've learned. Even with that unfortunate experience of getting sick, I learned throughout that experience because I had one of the teachers who was working with me

one-on-one essentially while he was taking care of me. And there was so much that I learned about myself throughout this entire process. I'm going to be sharing more over the coming weeks, but this is all about living from a beautiful state, a beautiful state of being. And you cannot create anything great in your life unless you're living in a beautiful state. Now, what does that mean? There are two states that we can live in. One is a state of suffering where we're thinking about our fears. We're insecure, we are suffering from something that

happened to us in the past that we haven't let go of. So we're in that state of suffering, of anxiety, of stress, of overwhelm, of fear, of guilt, of frustration, of insecurities, of comparison. All these different states are a suffering state, a state that holds us back from our greatness, a state that doesn't allow our true being to step forward in the world. And that suffering state is not something you want to create from. It's not something you want to create a meaningful relationship from or a meaningful business from, or a meaningful business from, or impact the world in a positive way. When we are in a suffering state, every time we create, it's never fulfilling enough. It's never good enough. We're always comparing ourselves still. We're never satisfied inside

fully. So even though on the outside, on the external, we may be achieving our dreams. We may be achieving certain marks. We may be making money. We may be making an impact in the world. But on the inside, because we are living from a state that is not beautiful and we are suffering inside, that motivation that driving us is a suffering state. suffering inside, that motivation that driving us is a suffering state. We're going to continue to suffer until we understand how to let that go and how to move into a beautiful space, a beautiful state of being. The other state is a non-suffering state. So we have a suffering state

and a non-suffering state. Those are the two ways that you can experience and live life. and a non-suffering state. Those are the two ways that you can experience and live life. And the non-suffering state is a place of joy, a place of love, a place of contribution, a place of giving, of service, of passion, of excitement, of connection, of intimacy, of openness, of realness. All the things that allow for synchronicities and magic to come alive in your life, but you must live from a beautiful state. Now, how do we live from a beautiful state? How do you move into that? How do you let go of suffering and move into that? Well, suffering of all levels come from the obsessive self-centric thinking that we have about ourselves. Think about it. Every time we suffer, it's always about ourselves, what someone did to us, what didn't work out for us,

how we are insecure, how we are frustrated at someone else and what they did. Whatever it is, it comes back to me, me, me, me, me, me. I'm suffering because of the way I feel. I feel someone hurt me. I feel someone did something bad to me. Someone took advantage of me. I'm suffering because of the way I feel. I feel someone hurt me. I feel someone did something bad to me. Someone took advantage of me. I'm focusing on myself. And you're unable to remove yourself from that situation. When you focus on that and you allow yourself to suffer because you feel comfortable in that state, you're never able to create something meaningful, something powerful. Yes, you can still create. Yes, you can make things happen in life, but at the cost

of still suffering because you're creating from a suffering state. So in order to create something in this life and believe in guys, this is something that I lived with for essentially 25 years. I was creating everything in my life I wanted to, but I still suffered. I was a lonely feeling all the time. I felt insecure still. I felt defensive and guarded, like I was going to lose my identity if someone tried to attack me or tried to question me. And I constantly suffered for years because I was focusing on my obsessive self-centric self. So how do we move out of this self-centric thinking that puts us in a suffering state? How do we do that in the first place? This is something that opened me up big time. It may

sound simple, but for me, it was very profound and it's having a spiritual vision. Now I've always been clear about having a vision of my life. This is the first chapter of my book in the School of Greatness is have a clear, powerful, purposeful vision. What we've learned about here at One World Academy is that a spiritual vision is much deeper. A spiritual vision is not what you are going to do or the goal that you have or what you're going to create. Rather, it's who you're going to be in this world. So when we have a foundation of a spiritual vision of I'm going to be a loving, considerate, compassionate, wise man that lives of contribution in the world. that lives of contribution in the world. That's my way of being. That's who I am and my foundation. Now, what am I going to create in the mechanism? The mechanism is I'm going to impact a hundred million lives. And I'm going to do that through my speaking, the actions that I take, which is

speaking, creating content, my podcast, my books, my programs, my events. That's the mechanism. That's the actions that I'll do. But first I must be, and first we must create a spiritual vision. Who are we going to be in this world? Who do we want to be? No matter what happens, what circumstances, who do we want to be at every moment in of our lives? That is the foundation we must build first. If you don't know what your path is, if you don't know what you're passionate about, if you don't know what business you want to create or what you want to do in your life, that's okay. Start with who you want to be. What's your spiritual vision? And I talk about this a little bit in the School of

Greatness book. We talk about creating that leader's compass, those principles that you want to stand on. When I heard the idea of spiritual vision, it just made it a little bit more sense. It's like when we come from this place of being first, and we understand that all suffering stems from obsessive, self-centric thinking. This is what the founder, Krishnaji, says. And we can be aware of it first. When we are suffering, we are aware of the suffering first. And bringing that attention to the suffering and being aware of it allows us to remove ourselves from the situation much easier,

move past that and reconnect to our spiritual vision. And from there, move into a beautiful state of being where we can then move forward to create the life of our dreams. You cannot create anything great unless you're living in a beautiful state. My friends, this is Five Minute Friday, episode number 407. If you found that this resonated with you, that living in a beautiful state is the only way to be living from joy is the only way to be, then let me know over on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook at Lewis house. Let me know. I'd love to hear from you. And if this resonated with you at all in any way, then share this with your friends, lewishowes.com slash 408. If you want to be great, you must live in a beautiful state. Go write down your spiritual vision right now. Write it down. Put it in your

phone, write it down on a piece of paper, in your notebook, whatever it may be, write down your spiritual vision. Who am I going to be? That is the foundation on which you will live on moving forward. I love you guys very much. I've got so much more to share and I'm still decompressing, deciphering all this knowledge and wisdom and meditation that I'm learning. It's been incredible. deciphering all this knowledge and wisdom and meditation that I'm learning. It's been incredible. I will be a meditation instructor certified here in a few days after this full week of training and so much to learn. And I hope to share with you all the tools I'm learning, all the skills and

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