Setting The Stage
The Intrepid First Step To Say "Yes" To Boundaries
There are many tragedies, dramas, horrors and even adventures, or misadventures as it were, dystopian nightmares, that start with a negligible lack of attention to, much less misuse of personal boundaries. Most of the challenges we face are on account of our lack of focus on our end goal, our plan to get there and/or our belief in ourselves as worthy of striking out toward such a lofty ambition as to find our own joy.
While one may look lo here, or lo there for the kingdom of heaven as it always was within each of us, so, too, may one look lo here or lo there for the source of hell and villains only to find that it wasn’t the government, the patriarchy, the public education/indoctrination system, critical race theory, the lack of affordable health care or mental health care, the gun control, the LGBTQ+++ agenda, the climate alarmists, the evil corporate greed, the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates nor Anthony Fauci and his legions of twisted, mad scientist public health officials that has kept us from obtaining our goals. Nor was it the ex boyfriend, the ex wife, the shitty or invalid parents, our louse of a spouse, family courts, a crappy coworker, a backwards boss or our leeching, insufferable, grown children that create the miserable situation that distracts us from our joy.
Even with a proper vision, a vision board, planning, goal setting and scheduling, we can fail to achieve our dreams if we don’t believe we are worthy of happiness and thus, allow ourselves to get pulled this way and that, expending our energy and resources to help others when we haven’t fortified ourselves. Feeling unworthy, we feed into all the aforementioned demons and hellscapes that occupy our minds and keep us from focusing on the magic in the work of moving in and living in joy.
What I’m saying is that just as the kingdom of heaven lies within, so, too, does our personal hell. Most of that arises from the belief or lack therein of our self worth.
So, let me tell you a little bit about how much your attention is worth, regardless even of what a piece of shit you may have behaved like up until this very moment, assuming as it were, you are the worst case scenario.
Every industry in the world, all the ones you have ever heard of and plenty you haven’t are spending anywhere from thousands to trillions of dollars every year (and that’s per company or industry) to make themselves or their subsidiaries and agendas known to you, yes, you! You sitting there in your chair, reading this chapter and potentially imagining yourself to be worthless or helpless or hopeless (even if on a subconscious level) are the recipient of the efforts of countless work hours, sweat, tireless, exhaustive psycho-analysis, engineers building analytical programs and mechanisms to figure you out, to learn about your wants, needs and desires, your thoughts, your behaviors and what makes you tick and then to package their products in such a way so that you specifically buy them. Then there are the databanks and databases to host, serve and store all the information gathered about you. And more still, the government agencies and agents and marketing gurus assigned to read all your data, collate it and interpret your level of susceptibility to manipulation, pivoting to counter your hesitation or resistance and even how you threaten corporate and government agendas and rank the level of threat industries (including national defense) assess about you.
I am not talking about mere goods and services that make your life work or not. A lot of crap we buy that we didn’t need is thanks in part to these efforts and more spent on your behalf to model and shape your purchase. I’m talking about every political agenda, every news headline that caught your eye, every post you read on social media from your friends which has been honed and selected to lead you and shape your perspective to buy whatever (bullshit, often) they are trying to sell you. Let’s say you notice, you hardly see any of your friends’ posts anymore and the sporadic few you do are full of how to survive the doomscape? They are selling you the idea that you are on your own and the world is coming to an end.
So, the point of me telling you all this is not an activity to show you how hopeless it is for you against the machine and its efforts to ensnare you. Quite to the contrary! It’s to show you that your attention, the steering of your thoughts and actions to their purposes is obviously worth a hell of a lot to these people.
Anyone who tells you that one little person isn’t worth much to the agenda is obviously wrong. I follow the money and in this case, the numbers say otherwise. These industries go to a lot of trouble and expense for each individual’s attention if it were actually worthless.
Even as you see that the majority of unhappy people already buy the bullshit or the excuses to live in mental enslavement of their personal hell with little to no expense or effort, I need to point out that the greater budget is spent on you and me, the intrepid few who seek to control our own minds and destinies and build a fortress around our well being.
If you are looking into boundaries, there’s something in you seeking such a fortress whether or not you know it. Just by virtue of your desire to create healthy boundaries in any area of your life, you are inherently worth more (expense) to these industries. Building boundaries is the foundation for escaping the matrix. Whether or not you wanted to do all that, something in you seeks freedom and so, you are here. Even if you read the whole book and find you want to plug yourself back into the machine, this knowledge can’t take your choice away from you to do so. In fact, it helps you understand that you have a choice. That’s more freedom than most the population exercises mindlessly being shuffled into the factor of broken dreams. (See Joe Vs The Volcano)
I think of the Covid “pandemic” and the fact that a hint or suggestion of influence caused the vast majority of people to play along with almost zero pushback, whatsoever. Sure, there were complaints of inconveniences, but the resistance was nearly imperceptible. Yet, look how hard and how much money and resources were spent to quiet and subdue the negligible few who refused to play the game!
As one of those people, I was rather surprised at how much of a war, again trillions in think tanks and propaganda was targeted at my tiny minutia of dissenting voices and activities and at the mindless mob to make us stop so the puppet masters never had to lift a finger.
Why? Why does a drop of water matter so much to an ocean?
Why?
I think it’s because one person defying the system who lives off-grid in undesirable levels of lack and poverty, miserly and in great suffering, yet scrappy and resilient as he may be, doesn’t matter so much to the beast. Nobody else sees that guy despite all his worthless suffering.
But someone joyfully, gleefully and with immense health and well being defying the system in the face of the fearful, destitute, obedient masses, one solitary person smiling while shopping within an entirely faceless mob is like a billboard with lights and whistles in a dark, quiet place. And that billboard reflects the hot girl in the Ferrari holding the tasty sandwich that the masses all aspire to have, do and be.
When they tell you, “you have to comply to get by”, but you and everyone else who have been complying while life keeps getting worse, suddenly see someone not complying and has it all, your entire worldview comes into question.
While some may try to act in jealousy or fear to stop you or stamp you out, it only takes one person in color to infect a black and white world. A smile is far more contagious than the common flu and even more powerful than a super flu. It’s exactly that infection of personal, individual purpose that needs to be snuffed out in order to make the trillions and trillions spent on little, old you worthwhile to the handful of people who want to rule the world.
So, to find your worth as someone who sticks to the basics of who you know you are (not even necessarily special in any way, per say, you don’t have to have a million degrees from college or have climbed Mt. Everest), what you know you are and what you know to be true about life and one who chooses to live in truth in a world of people enshrouded in ignorance, darkness and misunderstanding, your first assignment is to watch the movie Pleasantville.
You don’t have to be big or special or better than anyone else in the world to be worthy of affecting positive change on the world. You don’t have to do anything out of the ordinary to have a Christ-like influence on the world or to even be worthy of it.
Plain old you, just as you are is capable (while just being you) of making a big difference just by saying what you know is simple, true and real.
You deserve the value of the trillions and then some spent to stop you seeking your joy. Because if you carry on in finding joy, regardless of all the influences pulling you from protecting your fortress of well being, your joy in a joyless society will emanate and quickly color the world.
Once you’ve watched Pleasantville, write down 3 ordinary, enjoyable things you do in your everyday life that make corporations spends billions or trillions of dollars to keep you from doing.
(Example)
Here are mine:
I love to learn about herbs, oils and other home remedies so that our family isn’t buying into the sick care funded medical trap that keeps people sick and dependent. I love being healthy, and this is all something I do organically.
I love learning about diet and nutrition for the same reason. We don’t buy into food dogmas and believe diet is very personal and individual. As we live our truth, we exemplify the characteristics of good health.
I keep my focus on what I can control in the here and now as well as in the future. I refuse to get caught up in the talk of doom or even planning for doom so I very much enjoy planning for good, taking action toward good outcomes, each day laying the golden pathway I can walk upon into tomorrow.
I can see that from these three things alone, the baddies waste trillions of dollars trying to get me into the misery machine, and how I have avoided all of it unscathed as I enjoy my life of health and happiness which I share with the world!
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