2009-11-25 05:00:00
JJ: This something DK [Djwhal Khul] talks about and Wayne was just talking about. He expands upon the idea of meditation. He points out that the East and the West are a lot different. In the East they go into the inner world and in the West we go into the outer world. They both take a point of focus and they both require the principle of meditation itself. If you're a runner and want to break a four minute mile or whatever, it's going to take a tremendous meditation on your part to perfect yourself. The same applies if you want to be the best basketball player or football player.
They did a study that I read way back when I was in college. They took a group of people and divided them into three groups. They had all of them shoot free throws with the basketball and they tabulated how good they were. Then they had each group do something different. The first group was to practice twenty minutes each day shooting free throws. The second group didn't do anything. The last group practiced in their mind shooting free throws and visualizing making the throws but they didn't shoot any actual basketball. They did this for something like six weeks. After the end of the six weeks the group that physically practices improved something like 21%. What do you think the rate was for the group that didn't practice at all?
Audience: "60 percent (laughing) -- Zero."
JJ: Zero. They were pretty much where they were before. What do you think was the outcome with the group that visualized shooting the ball and making it but didn't actually practice physically?
Audience: "60 per cent? -- 35 per cent?"
JJ: The first group improved 21%. The group that visualized practicing was short about one point. They improved 20%. As I remember, it was a one point difference. So the group that physically practiced did just a hair better than those who just visualized shooting the free throws. I don't know if you could learn how to play a guitar that way though.
Audience: Laughter.
JJ: Mike is our guitar player here. You'll have to bring the guitar when we do our Karaoke and we'll give you a chance to become rich and famous.
So, what does this tell us about meditation and the principle behind it? It tells us that the star football player, the time he spends when he isn't really practicing or playing but is sitting around thinking about it is in part what is making him a better player.
The players who go to practice and go through the moves then afterwards are out partying or having fun but aren't thinking about football, they don't improve nearly as much as the guy who goes to the practices and then when he isn't practicing physically he is still practicing in his mind. He is still visualizing making that catch or having that opening come up where he can score the touchdown. This is the person who really begins to excel. It's the same with business. It's not only the guy who does the right things but also thinks the right things. He's got his focus on it.
I found this out in real estate. When I was in real estate I found that when I put my entire focus on what I was doing I did pretty good. Then towards the end of my career in real estate I went into selling mobile home parks. I figured if I sold some mobile home parks I could retire and write some books and to my delight, within the period of one month, I sold three mobile home parks. I was going to make a whopper of a commission off these three parks. I thought, "This is my dream come true. I can take a couple of years off and write these books."
Well, you've heard the phrase, 'Don't count your chickens before they're hatched." I counted my chickens before they were hatched. I figured at least 2 out of 3 would go through even if my luck was bad. So I started writing a book. After 4 or 5 weeks the book was coming along great but the energy was completely released from my business. My energy was on the book.
All three mobile home parks fell through. Not only did all the mobile home parks fall through but all of my real estate customers seemed to disappear. It was like starting completely fresh. I had to go back to work again and let the book go. It took tremendous focus to get back and make money in real estate again. I about starved to death over the next 6 months and here I thought I'd have enough money to take some time off to write.
But I learned an important lesson. I really learned how the principle of energy follows thought works. After that happened I reflected back on my life as to how that has really been true on other things but it didn't sink in. But when I lost the commission off those three mobile home parks it really sunk in and I did a lot of reflecting on my life and I saw that a lot of failures in my life was because I didn't maintain that meditation or focus.
One must maintain the thought until the goal is consummated. I should've kept my attention on those deals until they were closed. When the signatures were there and I had my commission, then I should've started to write a book but I dropped everything early because I thought it looked like a sure deal. I released my focus on it, the energy was released and everything fell apart. Like I said, when I examined the rest of my life I found this was a bad quality that I had that I was repeating over and over.
This experience really made it sink in. So I determined not to let it happen again.
I have several goals myself that I focus on. One of the goals I have is the Gathering of Lights. This is a really tough goal that nobody has done since Moses. (chuckles) So it's going to take tremendous focus of not only me, not only Artie but of a lot of people. We need to get this concept into as many minds as we can so the Lights can be gathered. As I've said many times the gathering principle is this: When the Lights gather out they create a better form of teaching within themselves, a better form of government then they can move ahead in evolution. When they move ahead in evolution other people will say, "We want that too" and that will end up changing the world.
This is what happened in America. The Lights were gathered out of Europe. The most independent advanced thinking people came to America. They wanted to make a better life. They gathered together in one land. There were men like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and when men of this quality got together in one spot the old ways weren't good enough. They wanted to create a new way. When they created it even the mother country who fought against them wound up adopting a lot of the ideas. Now they have a constitutional monarchy. This is what happens with the gathering of Lights. It's very powerful.
So that's where my focus is right now and I'm determined to keep my focus there until there is a major gathering of Lights. Sooner or later, because my focus is there, something significant will happen. I don't know how long it will be. When I married Artie I told her it may be 20 years before there is a significant breakthrough and it's been 18 years since I said that. I figured that the focus I was putting on this would take a significant amount of time till it matures. So we'll see if the 20 year mark is a mark of accomplishment.
Let's suppose I was able to write a book that became as popular as the "Celestine Prophecy" or "The DaVinci Code" or something like that, something that could really permeate society. I was hoping The Immortal series might do it. I have two more books in the mix. One will be "Eternal Words" which is the next book coming out. Then I'm going to write a book expounding on Revelations which we're posting on the Internet now. So the next two books will come out fairly close together. If neither one of them takes off I'm going to write a book totally different. I'm going to keep my focus on writing books until I really get one that strikes the public consciousness.
"The Da Vinci Code" is interesting because Dan Brown wrote three or four books that were not very big hits. Then when he wrote the "Da Vinci Code" it became a such a big hit that now people are going back to buy his other books that nobody bought before. "The Da Vinci Code" was number one and "Angels and Demons" was number one or two on other lists. "Deception Point" became very popular also but these other books were not very popular until the Da Vinci Code came up or became popular. Sooner or later my idea is that I will write something that will really strike the public consciousness and when that happens people will go back to read the others. Sooner or later something is going to happen. Something has to happen because to create the gathering we have to have many times the interest that we have now. But that day will come when we have millions of people paying attention to the words that we're learning right now.
If it doesn't happen in this life I'll come back and continue. I'm determined to do it. My meditation is on this until it is consummated. If somebody comes and shoots me tonight I'll come back and still work on finishing the job, unless somebody does it ahead of me. That's the type of meditation you're going to have to have and the focus upon it. And consequently because my focus is on that so strong a lot of other things in my life get ignored. That's where Artie steps in and crosses the t's and dots the i's in my life to keep things organized.
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