Emergence: A Revolutionary Path For Radical Life Change - With Derek Rydall | Spiritual | Productivity | Self-help | Happines

“If I could just get rid of this pain or limitation, if I could just get what I want, I would be happy and safe.” Buddha taught that this type of thinking is the root of all suffering. We must get rid of craving and aversion in order to become free. But the very mechanism of seeking to get what we want or get rid of what we don’t want is the primary driver for all human action. You look out at the throngs of people on the freeways, in the streets and the highways and byways of life, and that is their primary objective. In fact, really the only conscious objective is to get more of something or to get less of something, to get more good stuff, and to have less bad stuff. ...Or so it seems. Most of us have been conditioned into believing that what we really want and what we really need is some kind of change in our experience, in our condition. It’s to have more money, or a better job (or a job at all), improved health, a relationship, a different relationship. But even when you know what you want, you have bee

The Crisis of Incongruence - The Hidden Cause of Unhappiness This is such a powerful concept because, through Emergence principle, you know that life doesn’t happen to you, it happens through you. All of life is pouring through and as you, or at least trying according to a Divine pattern. You don’t experience life directly. You experience your perception of life, or experience life through your filters. Never is there a life outside, happening to you, although that is the illusion. There is a Divine pattern and idea, a real purpose and destiny. It’s always seeking to make you congruent to the blueprint or the self-concept that you have accepted, and that is a part of and active in your consciousness. Like the principle of homeostasis, it’s always trying to bring us back to a state of balance. This mechanism within you is always trying to make you congruent.  For example, if you have a blueprint or self-concept that, “I’m not good with money” or, “I’m not good with money, money is hard, etc.”, when it comes t

The biggest challenges for many of us is either getting and keeping momentum, or having momentum, but that it’s going in the opposite direction – downward momentum. For the latter, it’s like having one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake. We have a downward pull, and then we’re simultaneously having upward pull. If you’re driving and pushing to make stuff happen in your life, it’s because you’ve got momentum going in two directions. The worst thing that we try to do when we’re pushing and pushing is to push more, or push harder, at least in same the way that we’ve been pushing. We must notice where is the momentum going in the opposite direction. This is one of the deeper esoteric meanings of the Biblical statement, “Where two or more are gathered in agreement, there I am in the midst of them.” The two or more can certainly be two or more people as in a church, organization, spiritual organization, but it also represents the two or more aspects of ourselves – the conscious, the unconscious, the mental,

How do you deal with the haters? This is an issue that has always been part of human culture, but with the ability of so many people to comment anonymously online, our need to deal with criticism and the haters has been greatly magnified. There’s a thing in the UK called ‘Tall Poppy Syndrome,’ which is based on the need to cut off the top of a poppy if it grows above the rest — to create uniformity. But it also applies to people — if someone gets too big and rises above the rest, there is an impulse to cut them down. When people start to outgrow the tribe, then members of the tribe seek to pull them back down so that they can feel safe and secure. The key thing to remember from the standpoint of Emergence is that everything, without exception, is there to serve you. You are creating your own Universe, and so everything, if you’re willing to practice this way and to live in this framework, is there to serve your awakening, empowerment, and evolution — to make you an ever stronger instrument of what you’re here

Where are you REALLY? Have you ever been in a big shopping mall where you were trying to get to a particular store, but you didn’t know where you were in relation to it — so you had no idea which direction to turn? Then you found one of those maps that showed the layout of the mall and had an X that said, “You are here’ — and instantly you knew which way to go! You can’t get where you want until you know where you are. This seems obvious on the surface, and when it comes to simple things like finding our way through a mall, it’s fairly easy to figure out. But when it comes to finding our way to more important destination and accomplishing higher priorities, getting clear on where we are requires a different kind of map, and a deeper kind of work. To support you in mastering this, Listen to the in-depth podcast on the subject, where we break it down and put it into real-life practice TODAY. This will be a real game-changer. Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes, Stitcher, via email or Android HAVE YOU READ 'EMERGENCE

It can be very challenging to know when to stay the course and when to change or to switch lanes. As I’ve often talked about, one of the most important things to do as a creator and entrepreneurial type is to pick a lane and to stay in that lane. If not, you typically try to juggle multiple things and play the field, and find that nothing ends up growing, and you don’t gain any real momentum. I struggled and suffered from that for many years until I understood the power of picking a lane and sticking with it with total commitment, no matter what for a certain period of time. In order to succeed, one must develop the capability of sustained focus. One of the key distinctions that separate achievers from non-achievers is that the non-achievers stop when things get hard, when they get bored, or when the results aren’t forthcoming; whereas, the achievers stay the course until they reach the finish line, no matter how hard it is. This will require you to break down those walls of conditioning and cross the thresho

Especially in the self-help, self-improvement realm of things and even beyond that, we’ve come to really put a lot of stock in our beliefs. At a certain relative level, it’s important to improve your beliefs and your thoughts. It’s important to do the inner work, to take back control of your mind and reprogram the patterns and condition your mind. Step-by-step, you can uplevel your thoughts, your beliefs,and your emotional fuel, so that you are ultimately running on high-octane thinking, feeling and believing. Ultimately the goal is to move into greater expanded awareness, that pops you out of your stories and beliefs. That then expresses itself as what the world will call improved experiences and conditions. The difference is they’re different in quality. When you pop out of your belief and touch reality, and it transmutes itself into better experience, you know that you didn’t manifest that experience through your own mental thinking and believing. I invite you into this next level of beginning to contempla

We hear the expression “I’m just going to go with the flow” a lot from heart-centered, spiritually-minded people, or even those who are just trying to have less stress in their life. In many cases, this is a stall tactic or an avoidance tactic. It’s an egoic defense mechanism – what it really means is, “I’m stressed out”, “I’m burned out”, “I’m overwhelmed”. Going with the flow is not always good on certain currents. 

Why Can’t You Get What You Don’t Have? There’s life and there’s life experience, and life (which is a synonym for God, or love, truth, universal power, spirit, etc.) is all that there really is. Life is forever unfolding and expressing. It’s giving of itself everywhere, maintaining and sustaining its own perfection eternally. You are a unique individualized expression of this infinite life. You and the truth of you is already a done deal. You’ve already made it. You’ve already arrived. You’re already a success. Your life is already fulfilled. This is the fundamental truth of all being. We’ve been conditioned to believe that life is an outside-in game, that we are separate from life, from each other and from all the things we want. So much of how we’ve developed and conditioned our mind, emotions and our body to live in this world are based on beliefs and concepts that are contrary to the way life really operates. The mechanism by which you experience this infinite, eternal pattern of good, is by your own cons

Stay Rooted as You Rise... This is the secret to unending growth, success, and abundance. From the analogy of a plant or a tree, think of a farmer who’s harvesting fruit trees…  The farmer cultivates the soil, plants the seed, waters, weeds, feeds and exposes it to the proper light.  Eventually, the seed sprouts and becomes a tree, but all along the farmer continues to nourish its roots. Over time, it starts sprouting fruits, which the farmer harvests and enjoys, but he stays very much focused on the roots. Whereas the analogy to a lot of individuals, is we may spend time on the seed, the soil, and the roots for a period of time. When we start to get some level of success in our lives, whether it’s that we’re not in as much pain, or in as much resistance, or we start to feel a level of momentum, we tend to get caught up in the fruits, and stop tending to the roots. Our ego has been programmed to think that what’s appearing is where the power, source, and substance is. It’s great to enjoy and celebrate the fru

This is a very powerful and personal question that I’m sure many of you have had. I’ve certainly been asked it many times and have asked myself this many times… From the Emergence model and the perennial truth teachings, whatever is missing is what you’re not giving. The whole of ultimate reality is in your soul and your consciousness.  So if you are praying for something, trying to get, attract, achieve it or draw it to you, and using prayer either as a supplication and beseeching of something outside of you, you’re already praying amiss, because true prayer is an activation. Prayer is an opening through and as which you get to express more of the infinitude that is within you. You’re never praying for anything, you are praying from the thing itself. You touch reality. The core idea is that it’s already here, and I’ve used the radio analogy a lot to help explain this… The music is already broadcasting right where you are, but it’s not manifest until you tune your dial into the vibrational frequency of the st

What is the Path of True Abundance? Unconditional giving – it’s the whole foundation, and ultimately, the core principle of Emergence. As the emergence work says, whatever is missing is what we’re not giving. Whatever we’re waiting for, we’re waiting with. If you are really operating as if the whole kingdom of Heaven, as if all of the Universe was within you, and whatever was missing was what you are not giving, your life would look different, as would mine. We are the way the whole Universe has individualized itself; we are unique individualized expressions of all of the power, the presence and the love of God. (Whatever term you use, this is what it means to be the son of God. This is what it means to be the offspring of the Most High. This is what it means to be a radiant light, the light of the world, the lights of every man and woman.) Right where you are is the whole Universe, therefore, there is no God or power or anything separate from you, or outside of you, that’s going to come to you, ever. Remembe

The core reason Why Aren’t Things Working Anymore is evolutionary… You’ve activated a larger life and something more is trying to emerge through you. You’re being called to let go of those lesser tools, habits, and mindsets that are no longer congruent and begin to embrace a more refined way of living that’s in integrity with the emerging vision. Maybe you’ve come to understand the Law of Emergence but you’re still operating trying to attract, achieve, and make things happen. You’re still operating in the old paradigm, using the old models and toolbox. It’s like you’ve suddenly gotten a Ferrari, and you’re still driving it like it’s a Honda and not understanding that a much more fine-tuned instrument and requires a different way of handling. In order to keep evolving up levels, you have to let go of the predominant tool of the level before, even in some cases, things that worked. Where things are no longer working, one of the first things you want to look at is: What is the larger life trying to emerge thr

Today’s topic comes from this fundamental idea that, God, as we’ve been conditioned to know it (whether you believe in a God or not) is a power outside of us. We are unpacking these ideas, busting these myths, and letting go of old limited archaic concepts of God, life, and power, in order to come to a deeper and truer understanding of life principles. What I really want you to get is the fundamental understanding that life is not personal, it’s principle. The nature of God is an isness. God is a principle and a presence. It’s not something that’s changing or something that evolves. On some level, this has entered into our culture and conditioning, into the way we see ourselves, life, and the way we see the universe (Again, whether you believe in a God or you believe in a universal power, universal laws, or you believe in good luck.) All of that is a part of this fundamental concept of our belief in God. Your belief or your concept of what God is absolutely has a major impact on how you experience life, how y

Forgiveness is such a loaded subject, partly because we don’t really understand what forgiveness means, and that there are multiple levels of forgiveness. The most primary level is a sort of superiority; it’s very much an ego-driven thing.  At this level, you, to some extent, recognize that unforgiveness is unuseful; there’s some level of recognizing that holding a grudge is painful and it’s not helping you. The second level is when you’re willing to no longer withhold from another individual.   At stage, when you think about forgiving someone, there’s some degree of either neutrality, or maybe even a degree of love, (or at least wanting the best for them) even though there may still be a little bit of a sting because you’re still seeing them as having done you wrong. That’s a very powerful step, but it’s still not the truest meaning of forgiveness, however, it’s very advantageous and preferable to the alternative. Here’s something to understand: Forgiveness is primarily for you.  If you are withholding love

I’m shaking up things a little bit here. Today’s topic may be the most controversial thing I’ve ever talked and taught about: ‘Jesus Was Not His Name’. The real purpose of this particular talk is to try to clear away a lot of the dogma, doctrine, extremism, and the fundamentalism around the great philosophies and religions. I really want to open you up to become contemplative, a student of truth, who questions, even down to the words we use. Words have power. Stories have power. History has power. There’s a particular interest I have in the teachings of Jesus and the Christian teachings because of the power in them, but also because of how profoundly misunderstood they are, and how profoundly corrupted they have become in terms of the real meaning, intention, purpose, and power. These cultural iconic elements of our history such as the teachings of Jesus or Buddha, etc. have tremendous power and influence over us. They are exerting influence on us until we become conscious of them. We can integrate them, or i

I'm going to say something that might seem controversial, but if you want results in your life you must understand this... No matter how much you beg or beseech God, God will not help you get what you're praying for. But when you understand this critical principle of life and change the way you connect with your divine nature, you will NEVER be without help again. Life isn't personal, it's principle. No matter how good a person you are, if you don't understand this principle, it will be as if there is no God and no real help in the universe. Listen to this podcast and watch as your whole concept of God, prayer and affirmations -- and life itself -- changes forever...and for the better! Like this episode? Please share it!  Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes, Stitcher, via email or Android HAVE YOU READ 'EMERGENCE: SEVEN STEPS FOR RADICAL LIFE CHANGE' BOOK YET? Order your copy here, PLUS get free bonuses Other powerful free trainings in the podcast library: Rest, Play, Repeat: Embracing Ups & Downs and Finding

Today we’re talking about the topic, ‘Play, Rest, Repeat: Embracing Ups and Downs’. This is about becoming more in alignment with the Divine Flow of your life, that natural emerging impulse that can order all of our steps with ease and grace. What could be possible if you only did what was your deepest, most authentic truth? How joyful and playful could life become if you let life live fully through you? It’s about designing a way of life that is congruent with our highest vision of joy and inspiration, that allows you to both play and rest. Eventually, you get more anchored in the natural rhythm of your soul, where you become more creative and productive, but with less and less effort. This ultimately is what it means to live a life of grace, and that’s the life I invite you into. Listen to this new podcast and learn how this principle works, and how you can put it to work in your life TODAY. Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes, Stitcher, via email or Android HAVE YOU READ 'EMERGENCE: SEVEN STEPS FOR RADICAL LIF

This is both a powerful principle and somewhat controversial because it doesn’t always look like the Universe is rigged in our favor. When we say life is for us, we are tapping into the principle of oneness, and the truth that life is always working to express more of its wholeness, abundance, and perfection — always supporting its own fulfillment. This means it’s all working for your highest and greatest good. As W. Clement Stone said, “We must become inverse paranoids, believing that all of life is conspiring for us.” You are a unique infinite expression of life, and through and as you life gets to know itself as an individual being. The Universe is conspiring to completely unleash its potential as you, yet we don’t experience it directly. We experience our relative perception, our belief about life, our thought about life or about a condition. But because all there really is is love, and life forever giving and supporting itself, even those conditions that we would call “bad” are working together for our g

  We’re doing a deep dive today around the topic 'The Fields Are Always Full: How to Transcend Seasons and Cycles and Experience More Abundance Now'. You’ve heard me use the analogy of the radio broadcast: Right now, right where you are, your favorite music is broadcasting. There’s information, inspiration, and music broadcasting that if you were to suddenly hear, it would inspire you, and would change your mental, emotional, physical state. The only distance between you and the manifestation of the music is a distance in frequency. When the frequencies match, you have music. You have a manifestation. So that music is potentially in your life, but it’s actually broadcasting at the frequency where it exists. Just like the music, the fields are white unto the harvest, the abundance is already here now. It’s not here in potential. It’s actually here - health, wealth, wholeness, harmony, joy, peace, love, the fullness of life, Heaven, Paradise, Nirvana - everything you could ever want, hope for, desire and need a