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Paul Ricken

Paul Ricken

Love being a husband, trainer, coach, developer, author and sportsman.

Release Control And Grow

3 min readAug 10, 2015

Wanna know if you’re on the right path?

Wanna know how you are supposed to know if you’re on the right path?

When you experience life it comes from the inside out.

We can only experience our life through our thoughts.

Our thoughts create our feelings.

Our thoughts create our experience of reality.

You’re watching your own movie.

You can not change that and it is something that is going on and on.

You can’t improve this process.

This process is always there. It is a natural process designed by universal intelligence.

But sometimes you mix up feelings with thoughts.

Maybe sometimes you think you have to act upon your feelings.

So, when you feel great or excited you think you are on the right path.

So, when you feel bad or down you think you are not on the right path.

Feelings like this may cause you to spin out of control.

Don’t mix up these feelings thinking you have to change direction or make you think you’re on the right path.

The feeling track is never telling us anything about our navigation.

It’s telling us that we are caught up in our thoughts. Remember, feelings are created by thoughts.

Thoughts can get you stuck in your thinking.

Thinking about your feelings.

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Or thinking leading to self-fulfilling prophecies.

It’s like (re)programming your mind to a desired outcome.

Don’t ever do that. It is hard work and it might work sometimes but it’s almost always like you are reading an anatomy book trying to discover whether you have a tongue or not. You are feeding a false psyhological process.

There is however another feeling we know very well. We recognize the place it’s coming from.

It’s the place within you.

A place of wisdom. Some people call it heart or soul.

That place of wisdom knows what feelings to follow.

You’ve experienced it before.

It’s can be a very small feeling or insight, a big one or something in between.

Inside you know the insight is true for you.

It’s not a brain thing. You already know this. Rely on that. Stop controlling your life with your brain and thinking your thoughts over and over again.

And you know, Mind will always back you up in it as well.

Know your life and the life of everyone out there has it ups and downs.

Know the sun will go down and come up in the morning. Same counts for your mood. Your mood will be there. There are some things you can do to improve it, but it is not natural to do so. It costs energy and you train your brain to fix you. Nothing needs to be fixed. When you have a bad mood you just have a bad thought. Knowing you are the one holding on to that thought controls you being persistent in holding on to that bad mood. And all of a sudden you are that bad mood…..

Thoughts come and go.

Life is in the moment, so just enjoy being conscious of the miracles around you and inside of you.

There is always something new to discover inside.

Your consciousness will always grow with less control. Hmmmm, sounds like a nice quote….

And even by knowing all of this there will be times you need your resilience to support you. Just know it is there. And let go. Resilience will do its work. Like knowing your complete skeleton will be renewed each 7 years. In fact it is going on right now.

Release control and you can be sure, suddenly you’ll know.

Hmmmm, nice quote once more….

Love all, play to the max, achieve anything. Be Awesome.

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Paul Ricken
Paul Ricken

Written by Paul Ricken

Love being a husband, trainer, coach, developer, author and sportsman.