Motivational Article

At the age of 24, I firmly believed that life was a series of meaningless coincidences. My birth on a 'sixties spring day was a coincidence of nature, and my death someday in the future, after a life of coincidences, would be the same.

I looked at things with analytical mind, and believed that life was a series of sensory experiences. What I couldn't see, hear, taste, smell or touch did not exist. (I did believe the claim of modern science that sophisticated machines could be used for sensing, but that was it!)

Concepts such as God, spirit, soul, higher consciousness, life purpose, healing, past lives and reincarnation simply did not exist for me, because they were not visible to my naked eye.

Other people needed these concepts, I rationalized, to validate their insignificant lives through a belief in something. Meanwhile, I was simply on this earth to enjoy the ride until the day my body, a machine, ceased to function and...that's all folks!

Until... one evening I was sitting with a small group of people, learning the basics of a massage technique. The teacher instructed us to rub our hands together and observe what occurred.

I rubbed my palms together vigorously until they got hot and then brought them closer and further away from each other and suddenly...

There was something there!

In between my hands there was a clear ball of... something.
I couldn't see it, but nevertheless it was present. It had a spherical shape, an elastic quality, a clear size - it was there.
My teacher called it Energy.

Though it was many years ago, I still remember vividly running home enveloped in excitement about this new phenomenon that instantaneously penetrated my rigid view of the world.

The days and weeks after this experience, however, were kind of tough. I was elated from the realization that there is so much more to life than I thought, but my entire world view had crumbled overnight.

Since one of my firmest convictions about life was drastically altered so easily and instantly, I was left wondering about the validity of my remaining beliefs and ideas. I was forced to question each and every one of my beliefs, opinions, points of view and convictions.

My path of personal growth had begun. That winter evening, when for the first time, I rubbed my hands together and discovered energies, I opened up to be able to look at life with new eyes.

I heard for the first time about enlightenment and, without being able to grasp its meaning, I knew with all my being that this is what my life was all about. I began traveling the world in search of answers.
I encountered many experiences along the way that I couldn't even begin to grasp. They were no longer coincidences - I simply named them "magic".

Step by step I began to experience subtle realities. I learned to consciously create the magic that transforms a thought into physical reality.

On another night across the world, I was dancing ecstatically in an ashram in India during a monsoon, when I had an asthma attack. I had suffered from asthma for 20 years, but that was the worst attack ever.

I crawled to the nearby hospital, fighting for breath. I forgot my shoes. No rickshaw was stopping in that rain. I thought I was going to die.

I made it only to have a man gave me an injection with an unsterilized needle, but I was beyond caring.

For the first time in my life, I made a vow. "If I am to continue living, I will never again suffer from asthma."

Twenty minutes later I was fine again. Barefoot in the overflowing street, I was simply happy to be alive.

A month later I participated in an energy-healing course. On the last evening, I gave myself a five-minute session to heal my asthma. I never suffered from asthma again...That was 8 years ago.
Magic!

Since then, I have encountered magic countless times. I have practiced energy-healing on others and experienced multi-dimensional realities during trances and learned to translate them into an understanding of my physical and emotional truth.

Experiencing life with all its subtlety made me realize that there is order underneath the apparent chaos and coincidence. Life was so boring and meaningless when I believed that I just 'appeared' one day into existence and at another random time I will simply 'dis-appear' to become... just compost.

The more I experience, the more I realize that there is a purpose to life.

I now know we all exist for a reason. We all have a purpose.
We have work to do, lessons to learn, wisdom to gain...

Life is more than a series of coincidences and sensory inputs. Be open to more than what you can see, hear or touch and experience the magic!