(This thought experiment works best spoken, maybe I’ll record a meditation out of it or something later)
Picture this. You’re on a long straight staircase. For those of you afraid of heights go ahead and add whatever you need to make it feel safe, a railing a wall, a barrier, anything. Now imagine the staircase is infinite. Into the beyond above and into the depths below. You look in front of you and you see all the best dreams you could ever imagine unfolding in your life. Don’t run up just yet, turn around to look. Behind you, you see all the negatives you could imagine in life.
You honestly can’t even see where you started from it’s so long. Rest here and think about that. You look behind you and recognize parts of your past so you know you are going up.
Congrats, you made it this far.
Look at how you have gotten so far and there’s still so much more to go.
Start walking up. Literally if you must, the goal to actually feel yourself moving up. Imagine your life reaching those amazing dreams as you walk up the stairs feel those joys. You just walked into every single dream you could imagine for yourself, yet there’s still more. There always is.
Turn around and look back down. You can see the life you just came from, you are here now in the spot where all your dreams have been achieved but there’s still so much more ahead of you. Let’s not force those dreams, turn around and walk back down to where you just were. Don’t worry those dreams are coming you will see. Walk down until you’re back to the spot you were at when you started reading this. Do you feel here again? Your dreams once again back up ahead of you on the staircase.
Okay now is where the magic is shown
Start walking up and realize as you are walking up
You’re actually on an escalator.
See what I mean about forcing it? Turns out you can just ride this escalator.
Just ride it. Know that you have to do nothing and you are on the ride up.
This infinitely long escalator that leads to all the best things you can imagine even past what best things you can imagine right now
Feel your life improving as you ride
Turn around and look back. You see the parts you left behind but you’re still going up. Why? Because you know you are on the escalator and you are going up.
You see everything you are growing from. All of it in your past, versions of you not quite the same as the current one.
If you turn fully around now and just focus on the negatives eventually you will start seeing every one of them clearer and clearer. But this can’t be you were going up! Turns out you are going down now. Your focus took your attention and the escalator operator saw where your attention was and brought you there.
Breathe now, realize the control that you had, turn and look back up. Focus on your goals and soon you will remember you are going up. Eventually as you focus the escalator will again change direction. If it doesn’t change direction quickly you might try to walk up. Walking up an escalator going down would be quite hard so forget that it’s going down if you haven’t yet. Do so by looking at what’s ahead and envisioning it. Eventually as your focus is up, you will find that you’re going up.
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