Robert Scheinfeld

Thanks for sharing, Rob!

I know these things with my head,
but need them repeeted again and again!!

:-D

Greetings,
Claus

Hey Robert!

Your post compelled me to share something about planning, but first I have a confession to make:

I am a planner. The type who is obsessed with researching and making detailed lists, budgets, and flowcharts. As such, I read your Busting Loose from the Money Game and I'm now halfway through Busting Loose from the Business Game.

My immediate reaction to the Phase 2 expansion was to view my love of planning as a bad thing; that instead I should simply react to what pops into the hologram and do what I feel motivated to do. This confusion is why it's true that direct experience of the Phase 2 process is the only real way to understand the words you've written. Without this kind of experience it's easy to over analyze and come to the wrong conclusions.

It's been about nine months since I started using the process daily in order to drain power from my limiting patterns and I realize now that planning is not the problem. The problem is when I assume planning is going to change the hologram.

However, planning itself is actually fun (for me anyways) the same way I have fun doing a logic puzzle or playing a game of chess to exercise my brain. So I get to have my cake and eat it too. I now make plans for the sheer joy of making them.

Viewing planning in this way has the added benefit of draining power from expectations because the point is to create a goal, not rigidly adhere to a plan to achieve said goal even at the expense of something more joyful. Without expectations, if the goal never comes to fruition then it doesn't matter since there wasn't an expectation for it to do so in the first place.

Back to the chess example. If you've played chess you know that a large amount of the fun that stems from the game is when you try to anticipate the moves of your opponent. As the game continues, however, it almost never goes to plan and the fun becomes improvising and changing the plan in response to the new arrangement of pieces on the board.

Even if you don't win the game you enjoy the satisfaction of a game well played. This is assuming that you're playing against an evenly matched or harder opponent and your expanded self is certainly that.

"Winning" is not about achieving goals, it's about expanding consciousness. Part of expanding consciousness is draining the power from goals that, when not achieved, create disappointment. And in order to access that power you must first repeat the Phase 1 pattern of planning to "fix" the hologram.

Don't get me wrong, I have lots of things that I want to (and fully plan) to do, especially as I grow to realize my infinite nature. But it's all just part of the game. Strategy and planning are simply aspects of the game that engage and immerse me.

Yet a plan is just a plan in the way that money is just a piece of paper.

Chris:

This is a sign of expansion and progress working on the cloud cover.

There is, however, some potential "quicksand" here where it seems like planning is just for fun, but it's really still wanting to change, fix or improve the hologram cleverly disguised -- or "If I don't plan, terrible things will happen..." kind of thing, again, disguised.

This will take care of itself as you continue using the tools and expanding.

A good ol' friend Effie left me with some of the most valuable career advice I have ever recieved; your article rings so true...
"Do what you love and the money will follow"!

"Do what you love and the money will follow"! is excellent "advice" -- but it can only be consistently and Truly experienced once you knock out enough cloud cover in Phase 2.

robert
i got it
knowing about this since years
now i also know how to do
great
thanks it is a tool that allowed explosive results

i experienced that there are " wounds" that are covered very deep inside
so i have to take energy back very often
and it is not done with one series ?

Still immersed in the Phase 1 game, I can't see yet how not taking massive action (a mantra from my most recent IM training) and planning my retirement, etc. can really work.

However, there was a time in my life when I was younger, like in my 20's and 30's when I worked very little and played a lot. I had lots of friends and time and did things like acting and singing and playing my guitar.

I don't do any of that anymore, I'm working all the time.

I'm just really getting started with busting loose. I just finished reading BLBG and I'm halfway into the Journey to the Infinite DVDs.

So... here I go. Thank you for this blog and everything else you offer, Robert!

Aloha Robert,
I have been with your program since July 7, so only a few weeks, and have found it EXTREMELY difficult to follow your lead - however, I am using the Process, and although I do not see any progress, I assume that something has begun.
I trust, I allow, I process.
love,
francesca

We did such a fantastic job of convincing ourselves of the Phase 1 dynamics in Phase 1 (we're the opposite of who we really are and the illusion is real), that it's quite common to FEEL The Truth of the model, but have difficulty "understanding" it -- as you specify above.

If this path is "right" for you, this will pass as you use the tools, knock out cloud cover, and expand.

Cheryl:

Give it time. All of this will take care of itself.

- Robert