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Realization Stage

Your Life Everyday
What do you see when you look in the mirror every morning? The person you have always wanted to be? Are you strong, healthy, confident, fulfilling all of your wishes and dreams? Content, fulfilled in your relationships with others, happy and successful at work? Productive and evolving? Full of life and passion? Just maybe, if you have stumbled onto this site, you are not thrilled with the person you see in the mirror every morning. Don't blame yourself, you did not consciously decide to tune out the energy of passion, but sure enough day by day it just happened.

  Maybe you are ready for a change in your life?

Now that you have reached the realization stage?

Realization
In its simplest form, the term realization means to acknowledge your own reality. A realization can be triggered by many events, but usually a realization begins while re-evaluating your life. Sometimes the loss of a relationship, a loved one, or the loss of ones own health will trigger the start of the realization stage. Many people believe they have an endless supply of time and years to live, the life they dream of is a winning lottery ticket somewhere in their future. When you experience a dramatic loss in your life, you begin to realize, today is your future and tomorrow may never come. Who you are today and what what you do today, this is your life. A realization can occur without loss and suffering, sometimes occurring when you are going through time transitions, your birthday, the start of the new year, or anniversaries. If you have noticed yourself asking these questions, they originate from your realization.

Where is the life I have dreamed about? What is missing?

Where are my feelings of fulfillment, self worth, excitement for my career, who are my true friends?

What do I really want and need in life? Do I feel deeply connected to anyone or anything?

Why did I give up on my dream? How did I give up on my dream?

Do I choose to settle for what my life has become?

What is important in my life?

The lack of passion in your life is creating these questions in your thoughts. You cannot be happy, satisfied or fulfilled, without some type of passion in your life. Your life is shouting at you, wake up and begin to listen. The point you begin to look at your life and ask yourself these questions is called your realization. If you can answer these questions and are happy with the answers, you have successfully navigated the realization stage.
Life in Survival Mode
Millions of people just like you and I wake up every day and are not so happy with the life they live, I guarantee not one of them says, I want to have a dull boring passionless life. Many people exist in survival mode, but surviving life, is not the same as living life it is merely sustaining life. Survival mode can be a trap, which is difficult to escape. A never ending routine of work sleep eat work sleep eat work sleep eat watch TV work sleep eat, get paid, drink because you hate your job and your boss, clean run errands all weekend watch TV all weekend and then back to work sleep eat next week. Where's the life part? Where is the life you dream about? Are you evolving? Are you improving yourself every day? In survival mode your physical body begins to loose energy, and can become drained and run down. Without the energy of passion revitalizing your mind and recharging your inner core the trap of survival mode will be hard to escape. In survival mode your brain is working at its lowest capacity, how do you escape this trap without the use of your creative thoughts, rational thinking, or even being able to look clearly at your life?

What do you mean I have already made the first step?
   
   
 
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