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recently someone commented on one of my
videos asking me if I could answer two
questions the first one is why are we
here and the second one is what is this
life all about I definitely have my own
opinions about this first though I want
to say that that's not really what NLP
does but I will attempt to bridge that
gap between NLP and purpose and meaning
and life many NLP instructors try to do
this and a lot of the a lot of the times
they will write books on trying to bring
the two together I think it's really
important to keep them separate and
understand them separately NLP is more
about a how-to if there's something you
want it Opie is about how to go about
doing that how to figure out how to do
that how to create a strategy for doing
that how to find the internal resources
to put you in the the most resourceful
state the most abundant state so that
you can achieve what it is you want and
have the life experience that you want
to have the more existential and
philosophical questions and maybe even
religious questions about what is our
purpose why are we here on this planet
what is the whole meaning of existence
these are more like I said philosophical
questions and NLP doesn't really go into
the philosophical realm that much it's
more of a methodology and a tool set or
a skill set
as well as techniques and processes and
I like to think of it more as a
technology and mental technology for
getting what it is that you want and I'm
going to talk a little bit more about
that want and desire and how that might
be connected to our overall meaning and
purpose a little bit later in this video
there's some other points that I want to
address first though for about 99
percent of the population we do need to
feel like we have a purpose in life we
need to feel like our life has meaning
meaning and purpose is so important to
human beings and Viktor Frankl
Illustrated that in his book his classic
self-help book man's search for meaning
if you haven't read that book I highly
recommended and what he goes into in
that book is that as long as you have a
sense of meaning and purpose in life you
can pretty much endure almost anything
and for him he was in a concentration
camp and he found happiness in a
concentration camp of all things I mean
that's absolutely amazing because he
found meaning and purpose in his
suffering that he didn't glorify
suffering I know some people
philosophically or in certain religions
they really glorify suffering I want to
make that distinction that the
glorification of suffering in my opinion
is a not a great thing but if you are
suffering like not imposing suffering on
yourself but if you in and you are
suffering and you give that suffering
some meaning our purpose you will be
able to endure that much easier and
maybe even find a way to fulfillment and
happiness in that suffering the question
is though is there an objective meaning
and purpose to life is there something
outside of ourselves maybe a Supreme
Being a god we can think of it as the
universe that has a meaning and purpose
for us a single meaning and purpose for
all life outside of what we apply to it
or the meaning and purpose we may give
our lives or whatever we do in our lives
are our behaviors our activities our
pursuits is there an outside objective
reason for everything you will never
know that I will never know that no one
will ever know that I don't care what
religion or philosophy or guru says that
they know it all they know is what's in
their own experience so you can't
possibly step outside of you and then
grasp some sort of understanding about
purpose and meaning about yourself
you're always going to be contained in
your own experience so it's impossible
to know or even speculate about what
that really is we can of course we can
speculate on it and I have my
speculations on it and it's a it's a
fine thing to speculate on however let
this go if especially if it's troubling
you especially if it's taking up a lot
of bandwidth and your your thinking and
your focus let it go you're never going
to know the answer to it we can go on
and on speculating about mysteries and
things about the universe that we will
never know some things we can figure out
but this one's not going to be one of
them because there's a bunch of
presuppositions about life and the world
and intelligence that we don't really
know to be true we can make a lot of
assumptions but again where do those
assumptions and presuppositions come
from they come from within you they come
from within
you're contained experience so to try to
tap into whether or not there's actually
a reason that we here is there a purpose
to our life is there a meaning to our
lives again you're never going to know
what that is so let go of it and turn
your focus to something that I think is
absolutely extraordinary that we often
overlook especially when we're asking
all these existential questions that
we're never going to find the answer to
we overlook the amazing capacity that we
have as creators of our own lives as
creators of our own experiences and not
just the creation
our sense of meaning and purpose but we
get to create our lives we get to create
experiences it's almost as if the
universe said okay you're never gonna
understand why you're alive here you are
you have this life and you're never
gonna get it your brain can't handle
that your brain can't handle the answer
you don't have that capacity but you
have what capacity you do have is
something even more extraordinary and
that is you create your own world you
create your own universe now some people
would push back against that and say no
I don't do that and that's for New Age
people and that's for you NLP people and
you think you can create your reality
and your universe in your world no
everybody creates their own reality
their own world their own universe if
that weren't true we all would be
exactly the same we're not we're all
unique we all have our own individual
experiences and why do we have our own
individual experiences because we create
the meanings about our experiences and
those meanings are individual there no
one else creates exactly the same
meanings about your life about your
purpose about your experiences than you
do and this is where NLP comes in how
you create your reality and all the
meanings and the purpose of the
experiences in your life and your own
meaning and purpose that NOP can break
down and find the structure to in fact
that's exactly what I teach in my online
trainings and of course when I do live
workshops what I'm teaching people is
the structure of how you create your
reality and if you delve into that
that's that's magical that's actually
miraculous and that's why in the
beginning
NOP talked about magic the first book is
the structure of magic so what might
seem magical does have a structure to it
and in NLP we find that structure we
elicit that structure so you're never
going to know the answers to why why
you're here what's the meaning of life
what's the purpose of life
but you can discover how you're creating
that meaning for yourself because we're
doing it automatically even if you say
well I don't my life has no meaning my
life has no purpose well you could only
say that as if you were comparing it to
having a purpose in having a meaning so
they're connected you can't escape this
and people are meaning making machines
we make meaning of everything and you
might even say well what about this
isn't this that was purely meaningless
well you're judging that based on
meaning so if something is meaningless
to you which it might be meaningful to
someone else but if something is
meaningless to you or you're calling it
meaningless that's the meaning you're
giving to it so you can't escape it when
you learn NLP you're learning how you
structure meaning in your life how you
take behaviors and experiences and apply
meanings to it so you can change the
behavior or you can change the structure
and there's no better way one way or the
other you you get to decide that you get
to have that choice and again that's
what NLP is about it's about having
greater awareness of how you're creating
your reality and when you do that you
have choice about your reality you have
choice about your experiences you have
choice about your internal programs that
have that are mostly unconscious that
you've been creating since you were born
and because they're mostly unconscious
they're running you but when you bring
them into consciousness you bring them
into your awareness and you now have
choice about them and you can change
them then you run the programs rather
than the programs running you this is
extraordinary this to me is more
extraordinary than what is the purpose
of life if I could know the purpose of
life or the meaning of life first of all
I'll be honest I don't think there
really is some being out there saying
okay I've got this reason to make
everyone live or I've got this reason to
create life and here you go here's life
I don't I really don't think that's how
it works what I do know and what I can
access here in this life is my ability
to create a reality whether you realize
or not your
a reality so I'm acknowledging my
ability to do that and I acknowledge
everyone's ability to do that it's so
amazing this it actually kind of gives
me goose bumps to think about it what I
love about NLP the reason why I love
studying it the reason I love practicing
it and teaching it is because really
what we're understanding here is how we
create meaning and purpose and we and
our own individual realities so
therefore we are creators now let's get
really good at creating life creating
our realities if you're going to live
this life you might as well be a creator
of it a conscious creator of your own
life in your own reality and this is fun
like this is this is the best thing in
the world this is what I would rather
spend most of my time learning and
understanding so that I can become a
greater creator of my own life and on
top of that I want to help other people
do the same thing because this to me is
so extraordinary I love coaching people
I love teaching people for this same
reason I'm helping people understand
their own structure of their own reality
so that they can change it and so that
they can become a creator they can
become this combination of a scientist
and an artist as they create meaning
value purpose in a life that becomes
more and more fulfilling as you live it
if you're still focused on this question
about what is the purpose of life why
are we here what is the meaning of life
my advice to you is to take that energy
that effort that focus that mental
bandwidth and move it to something more
useful you're never going to know the
answer to those questions or you're
never going to know the answers to those
questions so you might as well focus on
understanding how you're creating your
reality your universe and how you feel
more purposeful and meaningful in your
life because this for a lot of people
this seems to come and go sometimes I
feel
meaningful and purposeful and sometimes
they don't it's not that it's this
elusive thing that keeps flowing in and
out there is a definite structure to
this and you can learn what that
structure is and you can feel fulfilled
purposeful and meaningful nearly
constantly if you want and you can do
that by learning NLP so put your
attention and your effort in the area of
what you do have access to what you can
understand and what you can create and
you can create a meaningful and
purposeful life and when you do that you
won't even bother with these existential
questions they won't even they won't
even get your attention anymore because
you just know this is just not something
you're going to know and they don't even
if you could know it it's not going to
make you feel any better it's really not
going to make you feel any more
meaningful and purposeful that's really
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