Do less better! | The incredible power of doing nothing
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Do less better! | The incredible power of doing nothing
Dear Friends,
Whether it is a shopaholic at the shopping mall, an alcoholic at the bar, a food addict opening their fridge, or a gambling addict at the casino, most people would likely be much happier and healthier if they just sat at home doing nothing instead of doing whatever they would otherwise do.
There is incredible power in doing nothing. There is incredible power in being able to happily do nothing. There is incredible power in always having that option to happily do nothing because you have discovered the so-called "true happiness" that is unwavering free-spirited inner peace and what some would even call spiritual fulfillment.
Consider the ever-present deep hole that addicts desperately try to futilely fill with food or money or drugs or alcohol or bodily comforts or sex or good reputation or fame or any externals. Yes, you can call that a "spiritual hole" that those addicts are trying to fill with externals and bodily comforts and indulgences, but it can never be filled with such things. The more one attempts to feed the spirit—to fill the hole—with such things, the hungrier one gets. The hole gets deeper the more you chase or catch externals. The more you feed it, the deeper and hungrier it gets. In that way, the greedy always starve. They starve themselves by feeding themselves. I'm not just talking about literal food here, but any externals or bodily comforts, including money, wealth, your reputation in your neighborhood, sex, alcohol, gambling, cigarettes, all of it. That—and real food—is all part of the food of which I speak when I say the greedy always starve because they get hungrier the more they feed themselves such things. Anyone who attempts to obtain happiness and/or fulfillment via such things will be miserable and have an ever-deepening ever-hungrier spiritual hole that makes them miserable, sad, and depressed. Starving in this sense isn't bodily pain or bodily death from not getting enough literal food; no, it's the ever-worsening omnipresent misery of that ever-hungrier ever-deeper spiritual hole that only gets deeper and hungrier the more you attempt to fill it or feed it with such things. Money and bodily comfort don't just merely not buy or give true happiness; it's precisely the addiction to comfort and/or money that causes the comfort-addicted comfort-chasing person to be so miserable and seem and feel so spiritually empty. But, friends, there's hope: even when you feel most spiritually empty in that way, and even when to outsiders you seem most spiritually empty in that way, I assure you there is a spirit in there. And that hidden beautiful spirit is you. I'm not talking about anything superstitious or any kind of woo-woo or unscientific supernatural stuff here. Spirit is just a word that means consciousness. It's basically just a synonym for the word self. When I talk about that spirit hidden in you, meaning hidden behind the actions and activity of your body and the noise of your human mind in that loud crowded brain you might have, I am simply talking about the real you, meaning your true self. It's not something you have. It's something you are.
It can be a bit misleading to talk about finding it or losing it, meaning finding or losing yourself, your true self, because, again, it's not something you have or could thus really lose or find; it's something you are.
But it's fair nonetheless to say you can lose sight of it. You can lose sight of yourself.
You can find it without me. Many have. Countless have, long before this human writing this to you was ever born.
Nonetheless, I can help you find it. If you accept my help, you will find it guaranteed.
Once you read my book, that hole of which we spoke earlier will be unwaveringly filled for you. You won't need any amount of any of those things, like money, food, sex, material wealth, or bodily comfort, to feel fulfilled. You will feel fulfilled even without any of them. Nobody and no amount of bodily discomfort or poverty or material loss of externals would ever be able to take the fulfillment away from you. That's why it can be called 'spiritual' fulfillment. It's something you cannot get with food or money. And, likewise, even if they take all your food and your money, they cannot take it away from you. Nobody and nothing can. That makes you invincible. And, friends, I cannot describe in words the deep level of unwavering safety and confidence that comes with that invincibility.
Nobody can take it from you. Nobody can keep you from getting it. It's the kind of thing you can only choose to throw away. And it's there for you to pick up the moment you choose. If you aren't choosing to pick it up right now this second, my best guess is that it's simply because you don't know or believe it even exists yet, or because you don't see it. But it's you, and you exist, and it's there. I can unhide it for you.
If you follow all eleven of the infinitely easy-to-follow numbered suggestions at the end of my book, In It Together, you will have that invincible unwavering fulfillment guaranteed. I guarantee it.
With the invincible free-spirited inner peace and unwavering fulfillment that my book, In It Together, teaches you to have, you thereby will have found the option to always happily do nothing if you so choose. That omnipresent option to happily do nothing will be the most powerful tool in your tool belt.
The irony is, with that incredibly powerful tool and the other similar ones that come with it, you will also—as a result of reading my book and following its infinitely easy-to-follow instructions—then achieve incredible external success in your career and other personal goals. You will, of course, end up being ridiculously rich with comforts and seemingly lucky fortunes that most others enviously long to have.
But you don't get these things with greedy desperate envy.
The irony is that once you stop chasing them as a futile means to happiness and fulfillment they will never provide, they start chasing you.
What greed, miserable envy, and miserable desperation push away, true happiness attracts.
My aim is to teach you to be happy in the sense of having true happiness and spiritual fulfillment, that is, unwavering invincible free-spirited inner peace, because, compared to that, money is worthless. I'd rather be poor and happy than rich and miserable. But the irony is that my book and teachings will not only give you that much more valuable free-spirited inner peace and unwavering spiritual fulfillment (a.k.a. "true happiness"), but they will also, in turn, give you the money and such.
I don't choose to have an abundance mindset because it attracts abundance; I choose it for other reasons, but, ironically, it does happen to attract abundance.
And once you understand that irony and that choice, you will understand everything, and then my work with you will be done.
With love,
Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
a.k.a. Scott
In addition to having authored his book, In It Together, Eckhart Aurelius Hughes (a.k.a. Scott) runs a mentoring program, with a free option, that guarantees success. Success is guaranteed for anyone who follows the program.
"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."
I believe spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) manifests as bravery, confidence, grace, honesty, love, and inner peace.
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