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WHERE IS THE PROFIT IN THAT?
by Beca Lewis © 2/2008

Marketing expert Dan Kennedy tells his followers to always ask this question of themselves, “Where’s the profit in that?”  He means this from both a business point of view, and a personal point of view.  

Isn’t this a great question?  Using this question we can counteract almost any negative thought pattern or limiting point of view.  We can unearth and destroy forever the life answer to the life question that has been undermining our lives without our clear understanding or consent.

We all have a life answer, and yes, it is usually just one.  Of course you may have more if you like, but I ask you, “Where’s the profit in that?” 

Our life answer to our life question, unlike our true selves, is not unique. Unlike Infinite Mind that is ever expanding, the dualist idea of good and evil within the worldview is always contracting and therefore not very creative. That means our life answer is very easy to unearth, and once seen, destroyed.

Let’s look at one very common life question and answer and then see how we can use this new question, ‘Where’s the profit in that “ to shatter it forever.

A common life question is,  “Can you do this?”  We rarely hear this question, but it exists in the hidden layers of human thinking.  The common life answer is, “I don’t know how.“  This question and its answer is so pervasive and unconsciously accepted that if you stop and listen to any conversation long enough, you will hear this underlying point of view spoken in some form by almost everyone.

The answer in itself is not really limiting. Some things we may not know how to do – yet.  But as a limiting life answer it does not usually carry with it the corresponding statement, “And, I will learn how,” or even more simply, “I can learn how” or “I want to learn how.” 

Who, or what, does profit from this limited life question and answer? The dualist worldview gains from our living in this point of view.  It profits from our fear of defeat, failure, rejection, lack etc.  The worldview profits when we constrict our lives, because that is its intent.

Our new question asks, “Where’s the profit in that?”  There is a kind of magic in asking this question.  Because, if we listen to the answer it will reveal the hidden profit we receive by living in and agreeing to the constricted worldview. 

Do we get to be right if we are unloved, “See told you I am unlovable.”  Right if we are not living a life that gives us joy, “See told you that life is about suffering. Right if we are living in pain, “See, told you that I am able to endure anything, See, I don’t deserve love.”

This is profit? Absolutely.  But only in that limited constricted view of ourselves.  There is no joy in this profit, and by continually asking ourselves the new question of “Where’s the profit in that” we will destroy the old life question and answer that has built walls in and around every area of our lives.

How might this look if we apply in our life? Here’s an example. Let’s say we are responding to someone in a habitual way.  Maybe our best friend says something that we would automatically react to by shutting her down and off.  Asking, “Where’s the profit in that,” means we would discover what we gain by this reaction.

If we like what we have gained, ok, ask again. So we gain the right to be right.  Then what?  “Where’s the profit in that?”  We continue with this question until we reach the awareness that there is no real profit in this kind of reaction. Once we become aware of the lack of true profit within the worldview it becomes easier to switch over to a response more aligned with the expansive and creative infinite Intelligence of Love.

Perhaps this is the meaning behind this statement, “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul.”  Matt: 16:26

As we continue to ask ourselves, “Where’s the profit in that,” we will find our true unique self, free from the worldview constrictions.  We will live within the safety of the only profit that can never be diminished, the profit of living as good in action.

Shifting With You!

PS:
Don’t fall into for the worldview, manipulated perception of Recession. Ask yourself, “Where’s the profit in that?”  Follow the true meaning of the word Repent: “Turn around and walk the other way, shift the way you think.”

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