A couple of weeks ago someone asked me if I had any kind of cause in my life that I was very passionate about.  These days it seems that everyone has some kind of cause they stand behind from saving the planet to ending animal cruelty, stopping drinking and driving, curing cancer or any number of the tens of thousands of causes out there.

I had to really think about this because even though I don’t want the planet to self-destruct, and just thinking about someone abusing a dog makes me want to vomit, I’m not really inspired to pursue any of those types of causes.  Meaning, logically they all make sense to me but speaking directly from what I am naturally inspired to be passionate about – none of those causes really inspire me.

After thinking about it for a bit I came up with an answer.  The one thing that I’ve been really passionate about, especially in the last few years has been to help the Lightworker’s in this world to embrace the Internet as a way to expand their global reach and to stop playing small.

In the last five years I have scoured the Internet researching the websites of and meeting countless talented Lightworkers, who are absolutely amazing at what they do, but who also have some of the most hideous and most unoptimized websites I have ever seen in my life.  Like looking at a bad 80′s haircut, every time I come across yet another hideous website I cringe in horror.

Honestly, there are 12 year old kids out there with better looking websites about their favorite video game than most of the Lightworker sites I’ve seen.

The challenge isn’t so much that Lightworkers don’t know how to build good websites, because I wouldn’t expect them to waste their time learning how to do that when they have more important things being the amazing Lightworkers that they are.  The real challenge I have constantly run into with Lightworkers revolves around one or more of these issues – which I have only slightly over exaggerated below:

• Lightworkers don’t value web sites, the Internet, and are largely unaware of the amazing potential the Internet has for connecting people.
• Lightworkers don’t realize that helping people 1-on-1 is great, but they could also balance that out with 1-to-1 million type work by publishing content, Blogs, writing eBooks etc. and help a lot more people.
• Lightworkers sometimes carry anti-technology sentiments, somehow equating technology with evil so deep down they don’t want to have a “good” website.
• Lightworkers often use the “I don’t have time” excuse for not building a good website with good content, yet when their clients tell them they don’t have time to meditate they lecture them on the importance of making time.
• Lightworkers often don’t realize that one Blog post can reach millions of people across the Internet and potentially inspire people for generations to come.
• Some Lightworkers actually still think that the Internet is a fad that will go away soon. They’ve been thinking that since 1995.
• Lightworkers don’t realize that you can outsource pretty much every technical aspect of building a good website.  All they need to do is to create the content, which is as easy as using a word processor or turning on a video camera.
• etc.

Of course not all Lightworkers fall into the statements I listed above, but for years now I have had this passion for helping Lightworkers to embrace technology instead of fighting it and it’s something that I have a blast doing.

So after some thinking about this I realized that this has been my “cause” for quite some time now, with my Blog, my businesses, my coaching/mentoring etc.

Best Way to Help a Cause

Once I realized that I did in fact have this cause that’s been in my blood for years now I sat down and did some meditation on how I could be of best service to this cause.

At first I started thinking about all the good in the world we would have if energy healers had websites and marketing strategies as awesome and effective as those of pharmaceutical companies, and if dog rescue shelters knew how to use the Internet as effectively as dating websites do to match up dogs with owners.  I imagined a world where Lightworkers had awesome websites and I saw that the wold would completely change.

The Internet is the ultimate equalizer.  Everyone now has the same opportunity to reach everyone on earth with their YouTube channel as only a small group of people did just a few decades ago in the mass media.  I saw a vision of a world where Lightworkers dominated the “airwaves” with awesome Blogs, awesome YouTube channels, and all the other amazing opportunities to connect with and communicate with people available today with the Internet.

While I was visualizing this, something strange happened.

For a brief moment while seeing all these Lightworkers with awesome websites I felt a moment of panic – “Oh no, now what do I do with my life?!” – popped into my head.

I opened my eyes and in a moment of enlightenment I thought to myself – “Oh oh… am I creating this problem?”

The following words from “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace Wattles came to mind:

“Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites.  Health is never attained by studying disease and thinking about disease; righteousness is not to be promoted by studying sin and thinking about sin; and no one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

Medicine as a science of disease has increased disease; religion as a science of sin has promoted sin, and economics as a study of poverty will fill the world with wretchedness and want.

Do not talk about poverty, do not investigate it, or concern yourself with it.  Never mind what its causes are; you have nothing to do with them.  What concerns you is the cure.

Do not spend your time in so-called charitable work or charity movements;  most charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate.”

These are very powerful words and can easily be misunderstood, but in that moment of enlightenment I understood my part in perpetuating the “Lightworkers have crappy websites” problem that I’ve been so passionately wanting to fix in this world.

I realized that perhaps it is my own need of feeling needed, and having some kind of purpose in this world that has been creating this problem in the first place, so I decided to do a little experiment.

Becoming Cause-Less

What if the best way to really help a cause is to solve it at the highest level of consciousness, instead of trying to fix it in this world of effect?

Psych-K teaches us that what we see in this world we live in is like a printout from a computer.  It teaches us that trying to change the printout is futile because even though you can grab a pen and scratch out any mistakes in the printout, the second another copy is printed it will once again have the same mistakes.

A much wiser thing to do is to go into the “source” of the printout – the computer program that contains the data that is being printed out and to alter the program itself.  In Psych-K, the programs are our beliefs and by changing our beliefs we can alter the printout we see in our lives.

So I decided to experiment with this.

Instead of living with the belief that there are all these Lightworkers out there with crappy websites that need my help, I decided to see what would happen if I changed my belief structure to believe that Lightworkers have now begun to truly embrace the amazing power of the Internet and are going to totally change the world by embracing technology, instead of avoiding it or being scared of it.

Furthermore, I also released any beliefs I had about me needing to have some kind of “cause” out there to fix in the world.  Instead I chose to believe that the world out there is already perfect with or without me.

Instantly I felt like a big burden has been lifted off my shoulders.  I didn’t even realize it was there.

I decided to no longer pursue solving this “cause” I once had.  Of course I would not ignore anyone who would seek out my help, but I wouldn’t go looking for “work” out there helping any Lightworkers with their websites.

Amazing Changes

Almost instantly I started seeing amazing changes in the world, even though I didn’t “do” anything short of changing my own beliefs and healing the parts of me in global consciousness which needed healing to let go of this issue.

One of my good Lightworker friends sent out an email to her list the very next day announcing that she is going to be taking her online presence to the next level and no longer playing “small”.  Her email contained some of the exact same words and descriptions of what I wished Lightworkers would do which I wrote out in my journal the day before.  By healing the consciousness within me, instantly I saw things being reflected “out there”.

Another friend of mine also emailed me the same day with a similar set of goals for his website.

Yet another friend of mine emailed me a link to a new Lightworker coaching portal now being developed by the likes of Deepak Chopra and Bob Proctor.  I took a look at it and although I didn’t like the setup of it so far myself, it showed me just how powerful it can be to go to the source of the cause you’re trying to put yourself behind, instead of trying to change things “out there”.

Every day since this has happened, I have seen wave after wave of evidence that I am not needed “out there” to solve this problem.  I simply need to keep forgiving, and accepting the parts of me that I am attempting to cure “out there”.

How Will I Make Money Then?

If what I’m saying actually does work – and I know it does – then how will I make money then?  Meaning, prior to this realization I could charge a Lightworker money for consulting services related to helping them with their online presence – but how do I make money if I end up solving these problems at the level of consciousness?

I mean, if I can change my beliefs and affect consciousness directly which makes it way easier for a Lightworker to launch a successful website quickly and easily, can I send them an invoice for that?

Like if you came to me asking for consulting help with your website and I helped you with your website, it would be easy for you to accept that there would be a fee for that service.  If however I said to you “I will meditate on this and eliminate that within me which is making it difficult for you to have a wonderful website”, would you be willing to pay a fee for my “meditation session”?

Not to mention the fact that when I address this problem and do healing on it at the level of consciousness, I’m healing ALL Lightworkers out there not just one.  So can I invoice all of them for services rendered?

Somehow I don’t see that happening (yet).

Evolving to a New Paradigm

I realized that my old ways of making money, by solving problems for people “out there” aren’t going to work any more.  I can’t make a living solving any problems “out there” because every problem I solve I also helped to create.

I know what I’m saying is not easy to accept.  It can actually be quite depressing to think that all the problems that we try to solve out there only exist because we created them so that we could solve them.  However, if it is the truth, then there is no sense in hiding from it.

Think about it this way.  What problems have we, as humans really solved by trying to solve anything “out there”?

We discover the cure for Chicken Pox, and all of a sudden a new disease pops up.  We fight for peace in one area of the world, and fighting erupts somewhere else.  We solve the problem of food production with modern farming practices and technology, and we create one of the most overfed and undernourished populations ever.

I’m not saying I know all the answers, but I have been given a glimpse of an awareness that goes beyond trying to fix things “out there”.  It’s as futile as trying to change the printout when the software is what we should be addressing.

So if the solution is not trying to “fix” the world “out there”, then what?

Well, first of all I have always believed that there are many levels to life.  You can’t ignore the physical reality world right in front of you – which is why I said I will gladly help anyone who comes to me for help.  However, in my “spare time” I will expend my energy on solving the root cause of the problem at a higher level.

What this means is that if you are presented with a problem in your life such as a person in front of you is drowning – don’t go and meditate on the situation – save their life!  Then, meditate on why you are creating emergency situations in your life later.

Testing This Out

If what I’m saying scares you or just doesn’t sound right – why not test it out?  If your cause has always been to “save the animals” from animal cruelty for example, why not let go of it for a month.  Instead of fighting for that cause, try letting it go.  Try embracing, forgiving and loving the part of you that is abusive and destructive in some way.

You may say that you’re not abusive at all, but do you smoke cigarettes?  If so, you are abusing your own body.  Do you lose your temper and yell at your spouse?  Then you are verbally abusing them.  Where in your life are you “abusing” something precious and beautiful?  What “abuser” part of you are repressing?

I’m not saying that “abusing” your own body by drinking alcohol for example is the same as kicking a dog.  What I’m saying is that by acknowledging and healing the part of you that is abusive in some way – even in the smallest way – you will be able to lessen the abuse on animals automatically because we are all connected as part of the same consciousness and whatever you heal within yourself, you heal in the world.

What if your cause is saving the planet?  Well, the “cause” that is creating an imbalance on this planet is over consumption right?  It’s the fact that we are squandering and overusing the precious resources of mother earth and not respecting the natural balance of things, right?

So where in your life are you not respecting the natural balance of things?  Where are you squandering resources?  I’m not talking about installing energy efficient light-bulbs.  I’m talking about it from a deeper level that you are perhaps not seeing.  You may not be using any “toxic” cleaning agents in your house, because you’ve switched to products that don’t pollute the environment, but what about your attitude?  Do you bring peace and tranquility to your relationships with people or do you “pollute” their energy the second you enter their “environment”?

If you’re not ready for working on things at this level yet, I totally understand.  Just keep working on the causes you’re inspired to get behind, but if you’ve been finding yourself “cause-less” lately or very uninspired to pursue your cause, perhaps it’s time to evolve to another level.

Perhaps it’s time to let go of having a “cause”, and embrace self-love, self-healing and self-forgiveness.  It may just help the world “out there” more than chasing that cause.

Where to From Here

I’ll detail where I’m going from here in a future post, but the short version of it is that I’m exploring a much lighter side of life.  Instead of trying to “fix” things out there in the world I’m much more interested now in “playing”.  I am loving the idea of playing in this world and maintaining a sense of playfulness, fun, excitement, joy, relaxation and creativity.  This is why I’ve been so drawn to things like playing with my Savage Flux RC Truck and painting my Warhammer miniatures.

The way I see it, the more fun and peace and creativity energy I maintain throughout the day, the more I affect the world “out there” with the same kind of energy.

And on that note, off I go to enjoy painting the my squad of Ork Nobz from the Assault on Black Reach starter set I recently bought.