The $10 million question
This simple very revealing question, “What would you do with $10 million?” causes the answerer to experience a huge exploration into human nature, the mind, and enlightenment.
We have been experimenting asking this question to different groups of people, and then watching the sequence of emotions that the group goes through as they share and discuss their answers.
For many people to have $10 million in the bank would alleviate all their financial fears, a core level of fear. In the group participants would suddenly feel free, and the change in their energy was palpable, from constricted to expanded. Their shoulders would relax and their hearts would open. Smiles would break out on faces. It was wonderful to see and experience.
We would then often witness the participant’s minds kicking in, and a list developing of all the items that would need to be obtained to feel that feeling again. Waves of greed, lists of purchases, often portrayed as the external items of pleasure or status, the fast car, the expensive dresses. Discussions would then center on external objects that actually bring temporary happiness.
Then we observed another wave of discussion emerging. Participants started throwing ideas about how they would like to help others. Ideas from teaching meditation, to helping homeless, to feeding impoverished people all emerged. You could feel that heart-expanding feeling again in the room, joy was written all over people’s faces, enthusiasm overflowed, conversations were animated.
Then the conversations shifted again to realizations. Realizations that in fact the fulfilled state is available all the time and can be accessed with some awareness. There were “Wow” moments in the room. Realizations that simply deciding to help others and enrich their lives increases fulfillment. The decision to do so is all that is needed, and then a willingness to overcome inertia and take action causes such benefit to oneself. These realizations caused a shift again in the room, as many individuals experienced increased completeness and quietness inside. We started the formal meditation with deep silence already present!
For you the reader:
- Suggest you write out what you would do with 10 million dollars; give yourself just 5 minutes at the most to do this.
- Note the feelings in the body; observe how your body chemistry changes to positivity.
- Allow that feeling to radiate out to the world.
- From that feeling of completeness observe how you find yourself wanting to help others?
- What you would like to do to help others? It could helping animals, helping the homeless, or so many other unique expressions of yourself.
- Decide to take action:
o Self expression- Decide to feel the completeness that comes from $10 million 2 times per day for 5-10 minutes. Doing this visualization habit is imprinting that energy in your body.
o Helping others- Plan on taking the first steps in the next week that would help others, and share those first steps with a friend who will encourage and support you.
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