Hey This is Leo For Actualized org and in this episode I’m gon na be talking about understanding awareness. This is a very important, very foundational topic.
If you care about self actualizing, Just as a quick side note, I’m changing up the video settings again trying to improve the video quality, the lighting quality, the microphone quality.
So you might notice some of that stuff changing in the next couple of weeks, but lets get to our main topic, which is awareness speaking of noticing things Man.
This is such an important topic.
I’ve actually thought about shooting This episode right here and talking about this topic for over a year, and the reason I’ve held back is because, If I don’t communicate this information right now in just the right way, it will not get Through to you, It will just go in one ear and come out the other and you’re gon na fall right back asleep.
So I’ve been very careful about the words I choose and how I present all this stuff, because your brain will just shut me down.
The first thing I want to tell you is right: now you have no idea how important awareness is, No matter how important you think it is it’s woefully underestimated in your mind, even after watching this episode right here, you will only appreciate and understand, perhaps 1 of the importance of awareness that it plays in your life in your fulfillment levels, in your understanding of reality and um in your ability to be successful and in your ability to self actualize, it’s that important It’s incredibly important and my goal Here pretty much the soul.
Role of this episode is to just show you and convince you of how little awareness you have, how much more you could have and how you deceive yourself about your lack of awareness.
The reason it’s so important awareness is because all lasting growth of any kind, whether you’re growing in business or relationships uh or you,’re growing with your emotions.
It all involves increasing awareness in one form or another. So I hope you can start to appreciate how absolutely essential this is, and we have a big challenge here.
We have several big challenges when we discuss awareness.
The first one is that this word awareness, you know awareness.
This sounds like such a vague new age.
Word Sounds like something: hippies would talk about rasing consciousness, raising awareness, but what does it really mean and see? Because of this your mind has a tendency to easily dismiss these kinds of topics or, to just say something like Oh yeah Leo.
I already know that I already know that you know I read some Eckart Tolle and I read some stuff about awareness and you know I meditated a few times I went on a retreat.
I know what awareness is Be very careful about that, because actually you don’t know what awareness is It’s a very tricky thing And knowing what it is, is one thing Actually having.
It is a totally different thing, Erm What I wan na start to show you and I will with additional episode.
Future episode is not just that awareness is very important, but awareness is actually very tangible, very concrete thing, its not some new age, wishy, washy language, It’s very important, but it takes some time for you to start to To to like really see it and Get it because it’s not an easy topic to discuss it.’s, a very self deceptive and tricky topic to discuss.
In fact, this leads us to challenge number 2. The second challenge we have for awareness is the catch twenty two problem.
Why do I call it the catch twenty two and it’s this When you’re unaware, when you’re lack awareness By definition, you’re not aware that you’re not aware You get that Er.
This is huge.
This is a huge point, Because this allows for a giant self deception trap to happen.
In your mind, It’s like a huge blind spot in your entire world view right here right now.
Your level of awareness is probably at a 1, maybe a 2.
Maybe a 3! If you’ve done a lot of consciousness, work It’s at Maybe a 3 on a scale of 10 million On a scale of 10 million.
You’re out of 1, maybe a 2, maybe a 3.
If, like you meditate once in a while, and you watch a bunch of my videos, you are probably at a 3 out of 10 million and here’s – the problem not only this but to you, it doesnt feel, like you,’re at a 3 because Of this catch twenty two problem, when you’re unaware, you’re, not aware that you’re unaware.
So what this means is that when you’re at a 1, you feel, like you,’re at 10 million when you’re at a 2. You feel, like you,’re at 10 million and when you’re at a 3, oh man, you feel, like you,’re at a 100 million.
You’re like oh, but look.
I already progress so high up to up to a chain here.
Look how high I am I’m, not a 1 or 2.
I’m a 3.
There’s nothing higher, and this is the catch twenty two problem and it leads to the mother of all bad assumptions, which is the assumption that you are aware when in fact, you’re not aware at all mind tricks you into thinking that you’Re aware and the the last problem I would say that we have is that awareness cannot be taught and it cannot be bought.
You cannot get awareness from reading books or from Buying it from somebody or even from listening to me, or even by sitting there and doing philosophy or doing religion that’s not gon na get you awareness.
So how do you actually get? Awareness was a little tricky we’ll get to that perhaps, and I definitely will cover that in future episodes.
But for now I just wan na focus on this idea of urm, showing you how asleep you actually are.
Have you heard about people talking about how you’re in a dream state, You’re asleep, You’re, not awake! Oh, that is your situation right now and I wan na show you exactly tangibly what that really means. I want to make you feel it in your bones: It’s, one thing to know it, intellectually, it’s a totally other thing when you actually have a true sense of like Oh, My God, I am ASLEEP, and to do that.
I’m gon na be talking mostly about one guy here today.
His name is Peter Respenski and he wrote a brilliant little book.
Call the psychology, the psychology of man’s possible evolution.
He wrote this book nearly a 100 years ago.
It’s a really tiny book.
Look at it.
It’s just a couple hundred pages: it’s really small.
Actually less than a hundred pages erm.
There was like 130 pages erm man, you don’t even need to read the whole thing. Just the first 50 pages are sufficient to really get you a sense and open your mind to just how asleep you really are erm By the way, a little background on Respenski him and his buddy Gurdjieff.
They were really interested in enlightment, but this was 100 years ago before the internet before access to erm many of the resources we have today and they were living in Europe and Russia.
So it was really difficult for them to get access to this kind of information.
So they basically went around the urm kind of like the Afghanistan regions of like southern Russia and like the northern middle east, looking for clues for how to get enlightment, urm and urm.
So they have some interesting urm adventures there.
But what I wan na do is I wan na talk about some of the really important points that Respenski made in his book.
I read this book about 3 or 4 years ago, when I sort of getting really seriously involved with personal development work, and I was immediately struck by the importance of this book.
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