Problem Solving, Enlightened Style

What if there are no problems to solve? 

What if the very idea that there are problems to solve is just another idea born in the Scarcity Mindset, devoid of any real, reality and sustained by the immaturity, unskilful means and irrational fear of the very mindset you use to participate?

What if the Scarcity Mindset itself is the 'problem' - sorry, just can't avoid paradox - and in solving that problem, the idea that there are problems to solve, evaporates.

Tension Deficit  - Germinal Ironworks

Tension is not a Problem 

Let’s create a distinction between PROBLEMS and TENSION and here, as all good researches are prone to doing, let’s get a common definition from Wikipedia.

A PROBELM

1. Is an obstacle, which hinders the achievement of a particular goal, objective or purpose. 
2. It refers to a situation, condition, or issue that is yet unresolved. 
3. In a broad sense, a problem exists when an individual becomes aware of a significant difference between what actually is and what is desired between one or more individuals. 

Sounds reasonable, even intelligent.

Sure, it may have been leading edge reasonable and intelligent a few thousand years ago, but now it only serves to keep you stuck, frustrated, stressed, angry or depressed.

This does not mean that the common understanding is wrong, or that it does not still serve the level of maturity of most people on the face of the planet. It simply means that if you're reading this, it no longer serves YOU.

Contrary to popular belief 

I know it feels as if there are obstacles blocking your way, but what if that feeling was simply a consequence of your own irrational fear and pushback (resistance). What if, in dissolving the fear and in transforming the resistance, you came to discover that life was endlessly seeking only to satisfy and fulfil its own escalating need to evolve?

What if life, your life, is never going to be solved, and it is its destiny to remain forever unresolved. And, through your irrational belief in resolution, you are inadvertently creating a very big 'problem' for yourself.

The key lies in the third perspective.

"A problem exists when one becomes aware of a significant difference between what actually is and what is desired" 

Whoweee ...

This is a wonderful definition of TENSION and not of a PROBELM. It only becomes a problem when we become a VICTIM of the tension, throw our hands in the air, usually in a huff, and blame everyone else or better yet someone in particular, for our inability to hold and relax into the tension we feel.

Some dreadfully BAD news 

I have some bad news for those who think Abundance (the Abundant Mindset) is the same as NO TENSION.

Because as you relax and deepen your desire, you WILL become aware of an ever-growing distances between where you are and where you intuitively would like to be.

The tension grows, it does not fade.

I call this tension, 'Evolutionary Tension' and it is in resisting this TENSION, that we create PROBLEMS.

The Abundant Mindset seeks to ... 

... Creatively, Intelligently and Skilfully bridge the gap between our intuition of a better brighter future, and the recognition of where we are, right now.

The Traditional Mindset grasps at a hope ... 

because it naively believes, that the more it struggles the less tension it will experience and the better results it will get.

It experiences life now, as a problem to resolve. 

The Path 

The Abundant Mindset creates a path from here to there, aligned with the qualities your wish to cultivate in your life.

So if you want joy, meaning, purpose, confidence, well-being, serenity, peace, love and unity, then 'The Way' from here to there, MUST embody those qualities, right from its very first step.

This is obviously a vastly more mature, sophisticated and complex position to take. It's exponentially simpler to resist circumstances and struggle in the hope of creating a tensionless future - which is not possible.

You pay a price for living in a world of problems, resistance and struggle.

And rgardless of whether you actually achieve your objectives or not, you

1. develop the reality that problems actually exist 
2. deepen the habitual response to resist and struggle 
3. inadvertently become the very violence, fear, intolerance and anger you see in this world. 

Let's get clear

We can use the Traditional Mindset to achieve objectives, like to make money, but your problem, which means your stress, anxiety, frustration, anger, depression or illness, grow alongside it - this is the Ferryman's price.

There is now, and there is where you would like to be in the future. And it's your abundant job to find a way of getting from HERE to THERE without feeling and acting as if you are struggling to solve problems.

Why? 

Because if you don't, then you're stuck and your problems get bigger, even if you manage to achieve some 'limited' success.

How? 

Watch, observe, realise and come to know the truth in what I am saying.

And this will provide the necessary motivation to begin researching, reading, contemplating, studying, and meditating.

Take a course, join a program, get coaching ... There are a zillion things you can do to get UNSTUCK, and free yourself from your unhealthy belief, that you live in a world of PROBLEMS to solve.

Not sure where to begin? 

Give me a call right away or send me an email and I'll be happy to make some suggestions, point you in the right direction or give some advice.

Image: Courtesy of Lee Sauder, Germinal Ironworks