The conditioning we experience through cultural and individual beliefs can obliterate our ability to access the sheer joy and wonder of being alive . All that programming creates such a veil . Rather than believing in ourselves and our eternal nature , we can believe in our limitations and forget the essence of who we are . We keep forgetting the joy and wonder we felt in our earliest years .

We get caught up doing , doing , doing all the things to survive in life . We go to school and study hard , memorizing tables , dates , facts , and figures so that we can then get a job . We find employment to make a living , put food on the table , and pay for the necessities of life . We work until we retire and take a break from all the busyness we have been involved in to get to this point . And all the while , we have spent time getting ourselves positioned for the next stage in our lives . In all this , we have been so transfixed in the mind ’ s eye that we have missed the present moment and the yearning of our heart ’ s desire to experience the richness that lives in our presence .

We get caught in the dualistic perspective - good and bad , good and evil , and love and hate ; these are undoubtedly powerful dualities that can have devastating effects . From this viewpoint , we live between the positive and the negative poles . And here , we are comparing the past with the present or projecting into the future about the present , but we are not entirely in the

present . Life is happening now , not in the past or the future . Yet , when we live from a dualistic perspective , we miss experiencing what is happening here and now .

At the very least , there is a third option here : the neutral . By leveraging this third possibility , we harness the power of the most stable structure in the world – the triangle . Here we incorporate the trinity of the mind , body , and spirit . The number three represents growth , expansion , and abundance on all levels . When we find ourselves in a challenging situation and caught in the duality of right or wrong , good or bad , this or that , we can triangulate into the neutral position . We can realize that “ it is ” rather than “ it is bad ” or “ it is good .” My friend , who became depressed on her seventieth birthday , could have saved herself from suffering if she had

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