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True Champion of Life
"A true champion of life is variety
of many things. A true champion isn't someone who wins the most or looks the best, a true champion is defined by how he/she
treats his/her life and the life around them."
Dedication
Dedication is something that must be attained and mastered at a superior level. A true champion must apply their dedication through a variety of elements and push through their own plateau of dedication.
My Whole life is a quest to be dedicated to improving
my own dedication everyday to my current amount of dedication. When true dedication is reached nothing can stop you, nothing can even touch you physically or mentally.
Dedication is all about sacrifices. Every sacrifice I make just makes it that much more important in my life. I've given up a lot of my friends, a social life and anything else that would describe another 17
year-old; however, each time I say no to an invitation to go to a party I find another level of my love to becoming a true champion.
Sacrifice is measured in many aspects. In order to
break a plateau, you must sacrifice, in order to become something, you must sacrifice, in order to love, you must sacrifice.
There's line that crosses through 2 different kinds of people. These 2
different kinds of people are the dedicated and the rest of the world. In order to make yourself a dedicated person you must apply your whole train of
thought to your objective.
For some people becoming dedicated can be very
hard and non rewarding, but for some people it can be as simple as a sound or a sight. Anything can change a person's dedication, but when true dedication is reached, like I said, nothing can stop
them, they even use the negative energy as a positive.
In many cases of my life I've had disappointments, but I always figure a way out and use it to my advantage. Everything happens for a reason, so
I've accepted that, so when something bad happens I automatically think of an alternative and a way to make something good out of it, or make the best out of it.
Dedication has no levels, being dedicated doesn't mean taking a vitamin every day, Dedication is
something that is powered by love and only love. Love is something I'll explain later.
Dedication can begin early in life or later in life, but It must always begin with a restarted state
of mind. With a restarted state of mind you can accept anything and challenge the unchallengable. To begin your quest to become dedicated first you
must apply goals.
Then when your goals are realized you must adapt to the sacrifices and intensity these goals require. Goals aren't something that you do in your spare time to occupy your self, your goals are your life.
Everything else must fall down the chain of importance and your goals must be implanted in your integrity to maximize your potential. You must think of it as your life is a obstacle to reaching your goals.
When your at work/school you must block out everything and preserve your
mental energy to tackle your goals after work / school. Think of it as if you're in love and you want to show that person you love, but something is stopping you from showing that person your love.
You must tackle and solve the obstacle standing between you and your love. Same as with goals, if there's a goal you want to obtain, but something is stopping you like school / work, you must tackle and solve the obstacle to obtain your
goals. Love is what will drive you to reaching your goals.
How I said before, when true dedication is reached
nothing can stop you. You'll be able to solve and tackle anything, cause nothing is stronger then love and dedication is PURE love.
Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the true key to becoming a true champion of life. Without
sacrifice there's no advancement. Sacrifice is a formless entity, with a wide range of yield. To become dedicated one must sacrifice everything to reach there desired dedicated goal.
Each sacrifice I make creates a boost in my dedication to become more dedicated. It's like everytime I make a sacrifice,
I steal the sacrifice's energy & use the energy to my advantage. A sacrifice can be optained by giving something up you
once loved for the progression of something you currently love. Sacrifice is what makes us progress to next level.
Self Image
Self image is a phycological projection we create for our selves. It's what we want other people to see us as. It also can make some progresses in our quest to becoming a true champion.
i.e., When I walk into a building, I walk like I own the building. I act like I own everything and I'm the boss of everyone.
People see the confidence in me and respect that. But it's not a smoke screen, it's ust a means to creating confidence in yourself and soon you'll get use to it and never realize you're doing it.
Self image can also be as small as getting a new hair cut, or buying a new pair of shoes. When you see yourself with a new hair cut
you feel you look different and you look better, creating a confidence boost.
When you get a confidence boost you can go after anything and create new ideas or solve problems. The major decisions in my life have been on the same
day I got a new pair of shoes or a new hair cut, etc. When you get a confidence boost like that, you tend to want to challenge and when you challenge you create dedication in your self.
Strength
Strength doesn't come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you
go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. When something fails and you try to figure something else out right away, that's strength. When something bad happens and you accept it and not only move on but jump to the next level, that's strength.
When you're dedicated you have amazing strength,
like I said before, when dedicated nothing can stop
you, not even the worst news in the world, because you'll accept the news and use the negative energy from the bad news to your advantage.
In my life the biggest progressions in my dedication has came from losses or something
bad that happened. When something good happens, you accept it an keep going. When something bad happens you create inner strength and smash through your own plateau and make your self push through the limits of your self, creating a new level of dedication.
Love
Love will take you to levels you thought could never be reached. The most important aspect of becoming a true champion of life and becoming truly dedicated is love.
Dedication is powered by love any only love. When you love something nothing can stop you. To be truly dedicated to something / someone you must love that someone / something. If you don't, you will not be dedicated enough to fulfill that goal.
The only way to be the best at something is you must truly love that something. For everyone, there's someone they truly love and that love will never go away. They'll even dedicate their lives to bettering the life of their love.
And that in opinion that is what dedication is all about, That's a true sacrifice. It's the same as a goal, there's a goal in life for everyone and when that goal is found, you'll realize a new inner strength.
This inner strength is what I've been talking about. This inner strength is a force
only in certain people. Some people have it, some people create it. This inner strength is what's needed to become a true champion of life.
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Dedicated to Your Higher Self
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As you strive to live an honorable life and be a good person, you find you need to make many sacrifices. Many opportunities to get ahead in your personal life or career often require
some sort of compromise or dishonesty on your part but you discover you're unable to make personal advancements which require a compromise of your ideals and growing sense of what's right. At times you very likely will have to fight, take risks and stand up for your ideals.
These crises or turning points often become times of loss or sorrow in that you'll lose friends, opportunities, or be
thought ill of by those who have a casual attitude about morality, ethics or the
value of the lives of others. You, however, feel you have no choice but to be true to yourself
and that you must necessarily take the consequences of your heartfelt commitments
Proceeding in this way, you grow a great deal in your character and become a fitting person to experience higher consciousness.
You become a person who'll not try to dominate others or take advantage of people when you have greater power and insight through your enlightenment.
You may also, during this formative time, feel periods of loneliness. You feel out of touch with former
friends who have fewer values and sensitivities than you do. You also feel deeply lonely because you haven't yet experienced your higher consciousness. You're caught between two worlds; yet you have
the courage and conviction to go on into the unknown, whatever the consequences. You have faith in the reality and the supreme value of what you're endeavoring to do.
After many trials and deeply important learning experiences, you begin to form a humble but gratifying self-esteem. You feel at home in your quest and realize you're more committed to it now than you were even at the, beginning.
Indeed, your determination and delight in the path are consolidated and strong. Perhaps at this time you've experienced some higher moods or tasted of samadhi. Perhaps not.
The Mystic Marriage
Suddenly - by a timing you can't perceive or understand - you find yourself thoroughly committed and dedicated to your higher self, even though you haven't experienced it in many - or any - direct ways. Somehow your life has been coordinated
by subtle means so that your most special day of "the wedding" may come.
Generally, this wedding experience doesn't occur deliberately and no preparation other than your good conduct of life
is involved. Because you're living dedicated to and committed to your higher consciousness and your Creator, a change must necessarily occur in you.
It's only a matter of time and somehow today is the day.
Determined to be true to your path,
no matter what, you suddenly feel yourself called to sit down, to pause in your activities and enter a meditation or reverie. Perhaps you feel like praising the Lord or are unable to speak the deep gratitude and love you feel in your heart.
Suddenly this major event in your life, which once you never dreamed could happen to you, begins to thrill you. Deeply calm but sweetly surrendered, you feel an inner upheaval. A delightful, ecstatic movement of energy begins to rumble
or shoot up your body.
From your lower back and legs, powerful, ecstatically thrilling energy warmly (on rare occasions it may feel cool)
pushes with great strength all the way up your body past your heart and throat, face and into your head. This rush of ecstasy
pushes on beyond your head and out into infinite space! All you're aware of is infinite, super-vivid light, love and power.
You might later reflect that you felt, in this state, like a bird finally let out of its tiny cage to experience universal freedom. You might also reflect that you weren't aware of your inert body sitting there motionless.
However, while in this state you're only aware of the infinite nature. While in the experience, you don't reflect on your body, mind, or concoct some inappropriate metaphors. Rather, you experience your lofty and grand higher consciousness.
You now know your essence, your source and that it's ever so real and profoundly worth any sacrifice. However, even these mental thoughts and this verbiage are too slow for the state you're in. These reflections occur only afterward. This ineffable rush of consciousness is called the wedding, or the mystical marriage. In this indescribable event your
finite, limited consciousness, your distinct individuality, has embraced your infinite self, your spiritual or divine self and it's love at first sight. This rush of your finite being into your infinite being is an embrace you'll never forget and never want
to leave. Your feeling nature has become one with your knowing nature. Your small will has met and abides for a time in the greater will.
Returning Blissfully
However, fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your view, your body can only stand so much ecstasy and
bliss. Also, the higher consciousness doesn't want to crisp you into a cinder, to wipe out your individual life. So, you return
blissfully and ever so sweetly to regular consciousness, usually 20 minutes to half an hour after the experience begins.
You come out feeling not only that you've been in heaven but everything you behold around you in your room, or in the park, seems
to have that hue, that tincture, of blessedness. You feel astonished and amazed that such an experience happened to
you, that it was so much grander, vaster and more powerful than you could have ever conceived it to be.
With profound memory of the experience and a yearning it happen again soon, you resume your normal activities and find
yourself keenly motivated to meditate again whenever the opportunity presents itself. No longer is meditation a chore or a difficulty. You now know what meditation can provide and what a life lived for higher values can mean to you.
Other people may mention that they see light around you. Dogs, cats, butterflies may love to be close to you, to enjoy the free flow of higher consciousness as its momentum continues to a beautiful extent, resonating in your individual life.
Little girls and boys might think of you as their dear friend and feel perfectly at home with you on first meeting. Financial and other opportunities
may also gravitate toward you as if moved by an invisible hand.
You see the world in a new perspective. You're now feeling your completeness. The finite wave of the infinite ocean has sensed its true source and how great that source
really is. In this mystical marriage your finite and infinite nature have embraced in love. From now on they'll work together, the finite and the infinite, each serving and helping one another as mates,
as partners in love.
Likely you don't understand after this first experience what the wedding really means to you and your life. You may have many
questions but this new sweetness in your life tends to give you faith and patient confidence that you'll know everything that you need to know. After all, that great consciousness has embraced you as its own.
From this point on, you conduct your life like a wave on an ocean of joy. You see people and things as part of this oceanic consciousness. You recognize how few people sense or are in any way aware of their true nature and birthright, so you strive to be helpful and inspiring, but never dominating or proselytizing.
Each individual must proceed at his own rate - which is based on the development of character and a willingness to surrender
egocentricity for a state of humble self-surrender.
Your greatly stretched and transparent ego now seeks to re-experience the celestial wedding, to experience
the divine lover. The ego seeks to arrange time and appropriate circumstances so that the finite individual consciousness
may rush into the arms of the infinite consciousness often and without interruption. You begin to realize that these ecstatic meditations and towering exaltations aren't an end in themselves but something more is about to happen.
You're Being Changed
As your finite and infinite nature play together and ecstatic rapture fills your being, you begin to discover
that from the very first embrace, the very first wondrous experience of the rapture and unification of your being, something
new has been planted within you, much like a seed.
During the colossal periods of unification with the higher consciousness your mind and ego are completely absorbed in the universal awareness. However, you then find yourself coming down out of that state to function in your daily life, conducting regular
activities against the background of immense joy and a sense of fulfillment.
Still, you begin to realize that the goal isn't yet reached. The wedding, no matter how beautiful, hasn't had its true fruition. Somehow you yourself
are being changed. While the wedding was very transforming in the new perspective and in the new powerful comfort that you realized, you now understand that there's a good part of your daily life and consciousness which remains separate from the
higher self, separate from the higher consciousness, except when in deep embrace in meditation.
You begin to recognize that you're now as if "with child." Somehow a new being is stirring within you. This new being, this seedling,
is of the quality of the higher consciousness; yet it's growing within you in your regular daily consciousness. This inner
life continues to develop as the days and often months go by.
And now, on another great and special day - perhaps even a few
days in a row which have been suddenly made available to you, a vacation or special time off from work - you find yourself
extremely quiet and ever so full of the ecstasy of higher consciousness.
You become very still and like a woman in labor, totally concentrated
on the birth that's about to occur. This birth begins to have the feeling of inevitability. This birth challenges your mind with this mystery - a birth which, in its coming forth, pushes your mind and emotions back into a reliance and trust on a great life process which is in the hands of a master midwife.
The Birth
Gradually, birth occurs. Then, you suddenly realize the cry of your new being! You know in your
totality that you're reborn. Your birth is a transformation of your finite consciousness. You now understand.
You've become, truly, a new creature. You're a new person, free of old tendencies, habits and attitudes which have bothered you throughout your life and caused harm and misery to yourself and others.
You are new. You're filled with the infinite consciousness and yet you're able to maintain that realization of the infinite
consciousness here in your sweet finitude. You, the individual, are a conscious part of the infinite ocean of awareness; yet you're human, finite and distinct also.
You wonder at the birth. You wonder at your Creator. You realize that you now are the finite beloved of the
infinite. It's no longer a matter of "something within" your consciousness being married to the infinite consciousness.
That was during the period of the wedding. Now, your entire being - inside and out - is reborn. You're aware of the infinite consciousness moving in every cell and tissue of your being, from your toes to your hair.
You recognize yourself completely renewed and the beloved of your Creator! Your life takes on
immortal and eternal dimensions. Your wonder and your joy, along with your gratitude, are never-ending.
Most all true aspirants for higher consciousness experience this wedding and great rebirth. May you in your quest one
day know yourself and the higher consciousness in this new incomparable way.
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