Happiness is Your True Nature

In my younger years driven as an elite athlete I was passionate about peak performance, armed with a degree in psychology I would spend the next 25 years of my life training my mind.  Discipline, positive thinking, structures and routines for success, you name it I probably did it.

And don’t get me wrong it led to a lot of success and a life mostly of pleasure.  I founded a very successful natural health company, loved what I did, got paid well for doing it, was super healthy, super fit, had an incredible property, a beautiful family, even had one of the top Life coaches in the world and was killing it, the year was 2019.  Yet, there was very little peace in me, I still felt not good enough and there was a deep feeling of missing something important in life. 

At this point I realised that there’s some major problems with relying on the mind for our happiness…

I believe that our mind’s cannot be relied upon for our source of peace and happiness.  It’s just too dependent on what’s going on in your life, and even if you have a near perfect life, there’s still things that the mind doesn’t like.   On top of this, our mind get’s used to what we have and then looks for MORE and MORE in order to feel satisfied, leaving us feel it’s never enough, robbing us of our feelings of peace.

Another factor is our mind’s have a negative bias, an evolutionary safety trait that looks for negative things in the environment - tainting our view of the world to the negative.

So in 2019 I decided to up my game and explore more beyond the mind.  I’d started doing many extreme practices to go beyond the mind, even the body… One of these practices was an extreme form of breath work.

In late 2019 during breath work I had an intense vision and experienced a bolt of electricity up my spine.  From this moment my life started to change dramatically.  I started merging with inanimate objects, I would become them.  While the actual experience were very pleasant, I had no control over when it would happen which was incredibly disconcerting.  I would go up to Auckland for a board meeting and end up sitting on the curb with a tree.

I lost all interest in nutrition and being healthy, in fact just about everything that had been important to me before this event now seemed irrelevant, many of my closest relationships started to struggle, including my marriage.  By 2020 I had fallen into a deep hole of suffering and anguish.  One that was only relieved by endless hours of meditation.

Then in early 2021 I had a revelation, I found a place within me that felt ok, this ok’ness grew and grew, finally into a deep peace, a blissful joy.  I didn’t need to do anything to sustain it, I simply had to place my attention on it and there if was.  I realised that this state is our natural state of ‘being,’ it is our true nature.

Finding your natural state of  ‘Being’…

Finding your being, which is quite funny, you know as a concept to find your being, because you can't not be it. It's always there. It's always looking out. And so you can't not be it.

Unfortunately, though, it's often covered up by our mind. It's covered up by distractions of the world. And so while it's there, we maybe don't realise it's there. And not only that, it's so close to us. That we don't see it.   

Fortunately there are many ways to uncover and experience our being and the peace and joy that’s associated with it.   They generally have one thing in common, the mind is very quiet. 

One way is to do things you love, things you get lost in doing, another way and it’s related to doing things you love is to be fully in the present moment.  For me I experienced ‘being’ when I surfed, the moment I dropped down a wave, my mind is quiet I’m fully in the present moment.  Of course, anything but my full attention would probably result in me falling off the wave!

For many people they experience Being when in a flow state such as playing music, dancing, painting.   Don’t worry if you don’t sing, dance or draw, there’s plenty of other ways to experience your being and I’ll be taking you through a number of them on the night and will also give you a direct experience, plus give you tools to take home to continue to be able to experience your ‘Being’ on a daily basis.  

Come and discover where peace and happiness is, in you.  Join me in a live event at town near to you for only $44.

I have spent over 30 years  searching for the information to make my life better before discovering this place of 'Being.'  I read hundreds of books, had life coaches and psychologists, did endless personal growth courses, lived with Monks, got initiated into ancient meditation practices, traveled the world to sit with Spiritual guru's.

I don't want you to have to go through all of that and have to wait 30 years to find the peace and happiness that is already inside you.

I look forward to seeing you on the night..