Have you seen the Film The Matrix with Keanu Reeves?

Watch it if you are a High Performer or High Performing Leader or High Performer!

You can watch it on Netflix. And if you don’t have Netflix but a DVD player rent or buy the DVD. I know I am old school but I am in my 50s. And by the way if you do have the DVD in your house and not a DVD player watch it on a PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5.

Whatever you do watch it.

Why?

This is because it will bring home how much of a Technological age we live in.

How much we are caught up in the Technological Matrix that is affecting our consciousness our own individual consciousness and the collective consciousness.

And when I speak about Consciousness I am talking about both the Collective Unconscious and the Collective Consciousness.

I studied Consciousness deeply when I trained to be a Counsellor and trained in  Psychodynamic counselling back in the early 1990s. I studied at Goldsmiths college one of the colleges of University of London in the UK. I studied and attained an Advanced Diploma in Counselling. The theories of Klein, Freud, Winnicott and Jung I had to dive into and apply to the work I was doing with counselling clients at the time.

I fell in love with the theories of Carl Jung and Donald Winnicott.

I had so many difficulties understanding and accepting the theories of Klein and Freud.

The long and the short of learning about Jungian theories for me was coming across his understanding of consciousness and how consciousness has been affected by myths and  stories that have been handed down through the years. These stories shape our psyche which by the way means spirit not mind.

That blew my mind too.

I know it does for you.

Jung saw there were patterns and themes in these myths and stories and came up with the concept of the archetypes. Archetypes are ENERGY patterns.

These Archetypes are so many like The Mother, The Father, The Child, The Soldier, The Sorcerer, The Priest etc.

They all reside within us and are also in the collective consciousness.

In the Matrix the Movie Morpheus is The Father Archetype. The Oracle is The Mother Archetype.

Neo is The Child at first that grows up to be the Warrior and then The Magician.

As I said if you have not watched the film go and watch it.

Why do I want you to and how does the film relate to who you are.

You are probably reading my articles because you are a high performer, very successful, very hard working and you have achieved SO much in your life and you want to achieve so much MORE. 

Or you feel you have not succeeded enough but want to be successful.

Or you are a Leader who feels lost leading your community, your audience because God you thought you found was not The Compassionate God you felt in your body to be. This is because you are surrounded by those in this so-called God conscious community who are not kind, not fair, very manipulative and using God to stop you and others from thinking for yourself.

In your bones you always knew that God gave us capacity and wants us to think for ourselves.

God gave us brains to think.

The Bible is full of questions.

The Qur’an is full of questions.

The Bhagavad-Gita is full of questions.

God gave us free will.

God gave us agency.

Yet your experiences have been living in a family or community that keeps saying to you follow this teacher, this priest, this leader blindly.

Yet when you read about Abraham and Jesus and Muhammad, you can see none of them had blind faith.

So why in the 21st Century is this still being taught?

You really want to know.

You operate on drive mode most of the time.

Because of this question in your head.

You feel so disillusioned because everyone seems to not want to question why did Abraham go and was about to sacrifice his son?

Why did he not question God?

But he did question God when God was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?

It’s there in the Bible and the Qur’an clear as day.

So you  operate on threat mode. Feeling that your community will reject you or stop talking to you if you raise this question.

Or perhaps they have already rejected you.

They don’t talk about religion to you but everything else because of your unconventional lifestyle.

And even now after several years of not going back into a building where God is worshipped,  you still feel those in your life currently that you dearly love still threaten your creativity or your flow of energy, your safety etc.

You hardly operate on soothe mode.

For various reasons.

You have this drive to make an impact.

To touch the lives of those who you meet at work, in your life or in your business.

That is just you.

He did not know he was in the Matrix

That is how your father was and your mother was.

That is the only way you know of being.

Drive towards your goals.

Drive towards your dreams to make them come true.

To live in the future.

That is what you do.

You work hard to make your dreams come true.

You work super hard.

The thing is that dream you had probably had has already come true but it gets replaced by a different dream and you work hard to achieve that and then you work hard on the next dream. And the next and the next.

You are always living in the future.

You are not in the present.

Your cage is the future.

Your matrix is the future.

You are caged in this distorted unreal world of the future.

The future you think you will relax.

The future you promise yourself will be the one where you will go on holiday or take that sport up or see that friend or cook that new recipe or learn that new language or listen to that music or really study the Qur’an or the Bible like you always wanted to.

Because although you stopped going to that building where your family went to or going to any building where God is worshipped, I know you did not lose your faith and trust in God.

You know God is not outside of you and God is not inside of you.

God is both inside and outside of you.

You understood this and still understand this even when you were part of this New Age Spirituality group or community.

You just couldn’t articulate it FULLY because you were shouted down or silenced because this New Age movement actually was threatened by you saying God is outside of you too.

You could see the movement was egotistical.

What I want you to do is to realise that whatever community you enter a traditional religious one or a New Age ones you will end up being caged in the matrix.

That is why it is so important to explore the relationship you have with God with a soul you trust. I would suggest you do this with someone outside your family or your community.

I would suggest you do it at first by yourself and then choose someone you trust.

Trust is essential.

If it is someone like me including me, follow them online.

If they are on social media , follow them on there not just by reading their blogs and articles but by observing carefully if what they write matches what they say in their articles.

When clients have worked with me, they have hired me because they trusted me.

That took time.

And I prefer it that way because when clients embark on the spiritual alchemy quest which is this deep dive into the soul WITH me, exploring their relationship with God is one of the relationships we explore fully.

I call this practice the Identity Alchemy Journey.

Because how we identify with God is how we identify ourselves.

How we see God determines our other relationships.

If we see God as this Rescuer we end up rescuing others.

If we see God as this Saviour we end up saving others.

To know yourself is to know your Cherisher and Sustainer

A saying of Muhammad

You may be Muslim reading this or you may not be.

We Muslims usually say peace and blessings be upon him each time we say his name.

And this is why in the Identity Alchemy Journey a client also looks at their relationship with themselves in detail.

Your relationship with yourself determines your relationship with God and others.

The thing is when you are a High Performer you don’t often spend time by yourself.

That feels too much of a LUXURY.

I want you to listen to me. Look at me like Morpheus in the Film giving you a choice between the blue pill or the red pill.

The blue pill you can take if you are not wanting to wake up and want to stay in the Matrix of your current reality.

The one which you observe as a passenger in your life rather than the driver of your life.

You are content with being in this mediocre reality where you are so busy.

Like Neo was so busy in his job.

So take the red pill like Neo did.

Get out of the Matrix

Stop living in the future.

Live in the here and now.

Take the red pill.

And by that I mean go and live your life.

Do what your soul fancies.

Do what makes your heart sing.

Not what you think you should be doing.

Not what you think will give you freedom.

Stop for a moment.

Pause

Ask yourself this

What do I really want?

What do I really want to do?

Who do I really want to become?

Sit in silence for a minute every day and see how your body responds to that question.

Sitting in silence is what I teach you in The Personal Alchemy Journey.

Guess what when you start sitting in silence regularly and stop being online so much, you will see you slowly get out of the matrix.

You will start living your life today.

Instead of living it tomorrow.

That is living a fulfilled life because the FULFILLMENT is in the here and now.

In enjoying the company of those you love and doing what you really want to do.

Because guess what sometimes service is also serving yourself by soothing yourself.

By having a relationship with God within and outside yourself.

That is the GOLD you seek. That’s the feeling you yearn for. That’s the TRANSFORMATION you seek.

You felt soothed when you saw in the movie Neo eating the cookies in the kitchen with The Oracle.

The Oracle is within you.

Home is within you.

That soothing will be done by yourself when you start living your life.

So unplug from The Matrix aka The Internet.

Go offline and go and live your life

Even if it is for an hour

Stop being in drive mode

Your safety will not be disturbed or undermined.

You will actually start feeling safer.

Your creativity and productivity will probably increase to levels that are off the charts.

I nnow mine does each time I go offline.

So whether you are a High Performer or High Achiever or High Performing Leaders..,be brave…. do this at least once a week every week unplug from the internet for the whole day.

And if your creativity or productivity does increase by phenomenal amounts please tell me about it by contacting me with all the details.

I really want to know.

So now I am going to do what I just told you to do.

Go offline and unplug from the Matrix aka the internet.

Oh by the way who am I?

I am not Morpheus.

I am The Muslim Alchemist

A Transformation Coach

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