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mikestopcontinues · 11-17-2008, 05:52 AM

Steve, I signed up for the forums today, after years of reading your blog, just to tell you: Continue.

Clearly, this juice feast has been a challenge for you. It's been apparent to everyone who reads your blog here that you've been being dragged through the muck physically, emotionally, and I dare say spiritually over the course of the last 23 days. That can't have felt very good.

But I'd wager you do feel good knowing that you'll never have to feel the way you did in these past 23 days ever again, don't you? By virtue of the determination that you've shown time and time again, you've made it this far--which is pretty far, I might add--and in doing so, you have inadvertently created a situation whereby your upward motion has revealed new heights that you've yet to conceive, and it's now time to aspire to them.

There's something that the great ones say: "The further you go, the further you can go" but what they don't tell you is "the further you go, the harder it is to turn back."

Sure, you had probably thought of quitting the juice feast every day for 23 days, but what if you were to envision a 24th or 25th day, in which you thought only of success? Can you feel, right now, the strength of knowing that where you once had ambivalence, you now have drive? And can you imagine the 92nd day, where you can look back on 60+ days where you felt exponentially increasing levels of bliss in everything positive more positively more vibrantly more? I think that you could look back on today as the day that you really got into the groove...

See, you're building a tower every day, and every day, lifting further and further out of the gravity well we live in. You're lucky, because you're tower is higher than many others, and you're even luckier because you have the responsibility of leading those below you.

I'll bet you can imagine a time where you had thoughts of giving up, where driving forward yielded results far greater than you had even dreamed. And when you look at the bright prospects of those times, it can allow you to see this juice feast in fully saturated colors, as the new opportunity you know it is, as a chance to find a focused new path through the ambivalence that used to make you so ambivalent, which now only makes you so potent, so energetic, and so much more able to soar.

I know that you feel good right now, because you can experience so deeply the vibrancy you're made of that with each passing breath you can realize what you had perceived as an emotional roller coaster yesterday was only something that used to be attached to you, and now you are more perfectly yourself than ever before.

You got yourself here, so you sure as everything can get yourself there.

11-17-2008, 05:52 AM	#47 (permalink)
mikestopcontinues Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Sigil. Posts: 1	Steve, I signed up for the forums today, after years of reading your blog, just to tell you: Continue. Clearly, this juice feast has been a challenge for you. It's been apparent to everyone who reads your blog here that you've been being dragged through the muck physically, emotionally, and I dare say spiritually over the course of the last 23 days. That can't have felt very good. But I'd wager you do feel good knowing that you'll never have to feel the way you did in these past 23 days ever again, don't you? By virtue of the determination that you've shown time and time again, you've made it this far--which is pretty far, I might add--and in doing so, you have inadvertently created a situation whereby your upward motion has revealed new heights that you've yet to conceive, and it's now time to aspire to them. There's something that the great ones say: "The further you go, the further you can go" but what they don't tell you is "the further you go, the harder it is to turn back." Sure, you had probably thought of quitting the juice feast every day for 23 days, but what if you were to envision a 24th or 25th day, in which you thought only of success? Can you feel, right now, the strength of knowing that where you once had ambivalence, you now have drive? And can you imagine the 92nd day, where you can look back on 60+ days where you felt exponentially increasing levels of bliss in everything positive more positively more vibrantly more? I think that you could look back on today as the day that you really got into the groove... See, you're building a tower every day, and every day, lifting further and further out of the gravity well we live in. You're lucky, because you're tower is higher than many others, and you're even luckier because you have the responsibility of leading those below you. I'll bet you can imagine a time where you had thoughts of giving up, where driving forward yielded results far greater than you had even dreamed. And when you look at the bright prospects of those times, it can allow you to see this juice feast in fully saturated colors, as the new opportunity you know it is, as a chance to find a focused new path through the ambivalence that used to make you so ambivalent, which now only makes you so potent, so energetic, and so much more able to soar. I know that you feel good right now, because you can experience so deeply the vibrancy you're made of that with each passing breath you can realize what you had perceived as an emotional roller coaster yesterday was only something that used to be attached to you, and now you are more perfectly yourself than ever before. You got yourself here, so you sure as everything can get yourself there. __________________ -Mike Stop Continues (Inside You)