Author: Matthew Ferry

Over the last few years, it has become more evident to me that enlightenment is just consciousness seeking higher and higher states of order and efficiency. Isn’t that what peace really is? Enlightenment is just a very high level of awareness and acceptance of what you are aware of. At very high levels of awareness, you realize that we are all one thing. We are all connected. This creates the impulse to treat everything with care since you are everything and everything is you. You can see the interrelatedness. You can see that we are entangled in the background field…

I lowered the bar… and I raised my game! It’s a paradox. Okay, This is CRAZY! 554 days ago I decided that I wanted to do 365 days of Yoga in a row. Up until that point I had been inconsistent. It always felt like a burden or I couldn’t fit it in. I couldn’t get myself to practice regularly. So I decided to lower the bar so low that I could do it no matter what. I decided that as long as I did it for 8 min (which happened to be how long one of my favorite Deva…

When your mind is free from the clutter created by resistance, you are free to create your dream life. When your mind is free from the clutter created by resistance, agitation, annoyances, doubts, fears, and uncertainty… you are free to focus on what matters. You aren’t distracted by the mind’s obsession with looking good, being right, judging people, avoiding negativity, or being popular. All that suffering, caused by your judgments, subsides. You are no longer burdened by lamenting thoughts like, “Am I doing it right? Do they like me? Am I going to succeed? Am I good enough?” In your…

Kristen and I are in the middle of a 3 week trip to Southeast Asia, thanks to our Spiritual Hooligan friend Manish Chanda. So far, the trip has been filled with a nearly indescribable amount of food, friends and sights (from profound poverty to incredible luxury… the contrast here is extreme). While traveling through Tibet in 2006, my mind went quiet after meditating for 16 days. The Drunk Monkey literally stopped talking, and for the first time, I experienced living with pure inspiration. Then, I got home. It was only through the specific, and deliberate use of muscle testing that…

Did you know that you will react differently to the exact same situation, depending on which state of mind you are in? You do. Things are completely different when you are using the Survival Mind vs. using a Quiet Mind to go through the days, weeks and years of your life. Here’s an infographic that illustrates the profound difference between Survival Mind and Quiet Mind.

Enlightenment creates the power to respond effectively to the adversities you face in your life. One of the master skills of the enlightened being is to create meaning that is empowering. I call this skill Recontextualization. Recontextualization is the skill of describing the conditions and circumstances in a way that create an empowering reality for you. Very simply… If you’re going to make things up, you might as well make things up that feel good. Be honest with yourself. You don’t know what happens after you die. Everything that you know is a likely story. It is something that somebody…

To achieve and maintain enlightened states of consciousness, you must be able to identify what degrades your enlightened state and then reorient your life to eliminate or mitigate it. Conversely, you must identify and embrace enlightened perspectives so that they influence your daily experience, cause your mind to go quiet and help you see that we are all one thing expressing itself with infinite variety. That is a tall order, my friend. A teacher will help. Meditation can help. But I’ve found that muscle testing accelerates the entire process, creating what I call Rapid Enlightenment. I use to believe that…

More people are becoming enlightened beings than ever before. Yet, there is so much dogma about being enlightened. Most people are not making the assent because their belief systems say, “It’s not possible”. Here are 6 reasons I see that more people are achieving enlightenment now… more than ever before. 1. We are ready. Our safety is secured. We have the food we need. Our lives are our own. We are no longer slaves to survival. Enlightenment is a thriving state. Now that we have evolved to place where our basic needs are met, the platform for thriving is upon…

Years ago, I laughed when I saw a shirt with Spiritual Gangster on it. I wondered if I was one of them. But, I couldn’t find an alignment with the idea. I thought, “What am I? Am I a gangster? No! But I am a troublemaker. I’m more like a hooligan. I break the spiritual rules. I challenge the cultural status quo. I don’t believe in the dogma or follow the conventions. I believe in oneness and that disrupts most traditional types.” I called Kristen up that day (She lived in Seattle at the time) and I said, “I…

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