Joey Poltor

Religion!?!

Okay, here is a sticky topic. I may lose some readers over this topic and hope that you can keep an open mind. First of all, let me tell you that I believe in some type of higher power. Personally, I say in tuned with the Universe and the Universe is God. In this blog, the name God and Universe are interchangeable. I will never claim that I am going to heaven over a man who changes the name of God, whether it be to Universe, Buddha, Allah, or any other name. To me it is the understanding and belief in a higher power that matters. I apologize to you if that offends you but please try to realize that this is where my mind is at this time as I will appreciate where your mind is at this time and our levels of understanding our different. You will never be mad, if you can understand that people operate under their levels of understanding and you try to appreciate every circumstance and learn from everything. We are truly just student and teacher at all times. Nothing more and nothing less. Right now you are learning my understanding and when I read your comments you will be my teacher.

So I have been reading a great book about all the different religions. The book is called," God's Breath" and it touches base on about six books of religion. At this time, I have only read the book of Genesis and am currently reading the Tao te Ching. The book of Genesis is different. I am not saying that the book is any type of outrageous but I didnt really understand why certain events happened. I understood being mad at man and drowning everything so we needed the Arc. I understand that Eve was the cause, man was dumb and happy with doing what he is told. (Ha, Ha) I understand jealousy and Cain and Abel. I understand faith but did not understand circumsizing everybody or being willing to kill my child in faith of God or the Universe. I may be killed for this blog but I would die and spend an eternity in Hell before I would kill my child. Im sorry but that is how I feel. I feel that God as a gracious being would not ask someone to do that. I understand that it was just a test but I think he tests in other ways. What is up with the circumsizing? So is that the reason why we are all circumsized? Really, because King James may have misinterpreted something, we have all been circumsized? Why would God want us to do that? I mean no disrespect to the higher power. I have utmost respect for God or the Universe or whoever built it all.

In my mind, there has to be some higher power as even if you believe in the big bang theory something had to create the gases and the matter to blow up. There had to be a beginning. There has to be the Alpha. I feel bad for people that arent open minded enough to at least explore the possibility of there being a God or higher power. I know you are going to be mad at me for this one, but I also feel bad for the people who are not open minded enough to believe that their religion may not be the only correct answer. Religion also to me is not going to church. There are Pastors who are evil and bad people just like in every other part of the world. Some are worse because they use the church as their excuse. When I evicted my last tenant due to non-payment, she told me that it was because she was working at the church for free during the day. I told her to get another job and she told me that it would work out. Real christian lady that drove a Jaguar but refused to pay her bills. I had to get rid of her. To spite me, she drove her car through my yard, nearly missing my baby's room, poured bleach on the carpets, and destroyed the house. Just because you go to church doesnt mean you are a good person. I am glad for this experience as I have learned a lot about punishing myself and my family at the benefit of other people. That condo was brand new and she destroyed it. I will never hurt my family to help someone out again. I have learned a lot about myself, my values and my priorities since the birth of my baby Sophie.

Next in the book is the Tao te Ching. This book is an Eastern religion meaning the way or the spiritual way. Its a bit confusing but what I take from it are sayings like; if you have to ask, you will never know. To me that means many things; patience and the answers will come, you already know the answer, balance in everything, everything is correct in its own way, and so much more.

Well, that is what I have for now but expect more as I learn more.

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Alright Ladies and Gentlemen, here is a blog topic that I have wanted to go into detail on for quite some time. Did I write before about the topic of lucid dreaming? Well, this blog is about the potential of lucid living and is the idea that I have and is why I am going to be a wealthy man. Why wealthy? Because this is the topic that you are going to be willing to pay a lot of money for. This is what Tony Robbins and Rhonda Byrne are both missing. I dont mean any disrespect as those are two of the people that I idolize. This is just my theory and what I believe I will be willing to spend my life researching and developing.

Lucid dreaming is coming awake in your dream. Being that you are dreaming you really can do anything. The movie "The Matrix" would be the best comparison to what you are able to do in your dreams. This awakening in your dreams helps you to beat challenges in your life by taking chances in your dreams and not having to face repurcussions. It allows you to have fantasies under your control, bond mentally with yourself, get to know yourself, figure out fears - pleasures, everything really. Obviously, in your dreams if you can think it you can do it.

This ability to awaken in your dreams and philosophy of how it will affect your life can be traced back since the beginning of time Im sure and in Eastern communities such as the dream yogis in Tibetan monasteries. Now, I am not 100% sure of where they are from but I do know that they are monks called the dream yogis. The ability is trained and I believe that the lucidity of your dream has a lot to do with lucidity in life. Let me talk a bit more about lucid dreaming and then I will get into our main topic lucid living. I have only had a few truly lucid dreams. In fact, I had the ability and through lack of rest I kind of lost it for a while and am working on getting it back now. To become lucid or wake up in your dream you need to constantly ask yourself if you are awake. All day long, say at least 20 times in the day ask yourself if you are awake. This trend will follow into your sleep until you finally say, wow Im not awake, I must be dreaming. If you are not sure, look at a digital number and try to change it with your mind or look away and look back to see if it has changed. This may help and you have to keep a dream journal by your bed. The average person has 5-6 dreams per night and tell yourself you are going to remember your dreams and when you wake up, immediately write them down. The first couple of times that I found that I was dreaming I awoke due to my excitement. I have only had one or two lucid dreams where I managed to stay asleep and began to control my dream. In fact, even though I was lucid and knew what I was doing, I still went with the flow of the dream and didnt for lack of better words "superman it like NEO in the Matrix".

The next step for me is to confront things that I dont want, things that dont bring happiness to my dreams and figure out why they are in my dreams. This will allow me to help grow in my mental and emotional state of my life. To become a truly whole person and begin living a lucid life, one needs to be at peak performance mind, body, and spirit. Eventually you will be able to enjoy your dreams to the point of no repercussions, you are the alpha, if you dream it you can do it and all of that. You actually gain 2-4 hours of your life back everyday until you die. As fast as time flies, lucid dreaming is worth just that. Your awake life will be easier because you will be happier all the time I promise. Even if you live the worst possible, in jail, or feels like in jail life - you will be happy everyday because at night you are free with what I have just taught you. No physical, social, emotional, economical, Hell- no boundaries at all. Do you and your wife need a vacation? Go rent a documentary on the Louvre and go vacation to Paris in your lucid dream, all except have Da Vinci himself explain Mona Lisa's smile. Amazing possibilities arent there?

Once you grasp this concept and, if you try it you will, move into my blog on Lucid Living - awakening in your awake life. This stuff is all true. When you see negative people, try to appreciate that they are unable to see what you are able to see and this will allow you to not give out that energy and allowing them to force you back into your mundane meaningless lifestyle.

Are you aware of the fact that the human mind only uses around 10% of its capacity. Its a fact, everything that I write has something to back it up. The other 90% of the mind is the lucidity. How are some people able to "know" when something bad is about to happen? How about the people that are able to move things with their minds? Lucidity? If I am lucid in my dreams, I can do anything. If I can use lucidity in my life or awaken, I can do anything! Easy Algebra. How often have you felt like there has to be more than life than this? You made more money this year and bought more things. You had heartache and happiness, but is that it? No, it isnt! Did you get the feeling that everything is right? Do you even know that feeling that I am talking about? There has only been a handful of times when I knew that I was in the right place at the right time. Completely in tune with God or the Universe, just that higher power. I am offering you that answer right now. I understand that this must be hard to wrap your head around but think about manifestation and how it works. Read some of my previous blogs on me getting $10k in unexpected checks. Making $25k with less than a week's worth of work for signing a piece of paper. It is not just some type of phenomenon as it keeps happening. I'll tell you right now, my wife and I never worry about bills and the money is always there. We dont worry at all and are never late. If we want something we buy it with the firm belief that the money will be there and it always is. Those example are it and I want to capture it and stay in that feeling of completeness forever.

I still have a lot of learn about living a lucid lifestyle but I have tapped in to it. As I learn more, you will learn more and please comment, we should learn together.

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Thanks and I truly feel this is one of the strongest topics I have ever written on.

In balancing life, I just wanted to talk a bit about how I have been balancing my life. I work, man I have made over $40k in a month on multiple occasions. Until recently, I managed to consistently make between $10k and $15k per month. I would work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. It was all for the business. Well, due to the birth of my new baby I have realized that I couldnt care less. The more money I would make, the more I would spend and I have just as much in savings as I would if I worked the bare minimum that I am able to.

I used to work to build my business, BSO, I wanted to build a legacy and wanted it now. I am a guy that built a million dollar plus portfolio out of pennies and thought I was completely in the right. It was completely near sighted, patience is a virtue and all of that. I guess right now I am overcorrecting as I dont care to acquire another listing and sure dont want to deal with another property right now. It is good though as I am now hiring people to do all of the work that I dont want to do and hopefully the company is growing without me.

In fact, I have decided to sell one of my half finished renovations at a huge loss and another property that I dont care to deal with anymore. I am going to lose in the short term but the happiness that I am able to bring to my family pales in comparison.

This brings on two more of the laws of spirit. The cycles law and the law of nonresistance. These two laws definitely deserve their own blog posts each and I hope to give them to them but for now I will just touch on them. The law of nonresistance is what I practice in my martial arts training and involves never forcing anything. You may call it going with the flow or plainly nonresistance. In Jiu-jitsu I try to be like water flowing around my training partner and moving with his every push or pull. If he pushes I pull, if he resists I change position, I constantly am moving away from what he doesnt want me to do and using my energy or ki as the Japanese say it to control what he wants.

Can you understand that? It is just the same in life. I have referred to this process before as being in the flow of the universe. I have even written about it in this blog http://investingrocks.com/?p=255 - Manifesting.

The cycles of life are also very important. Look at your life, when your baby was born - how did your life change, how about high school or college, can you remember these cycles. The laws of spirit teach us to recognize these cycles, good or bad appreciate them, and move forward. Have you lost a loved one, discovered the negativity of family members and had to part ways with them? Im sorry for your loss and try to appreciate the reason for it, as hard as it may seem, there are reasons for your pain. As far as parting from family, can you appreciate that member of your family is unable to be more open or is trapped in his way of thinking.

That would bring me to a whole different topic, the topic of lucid living but we will get into that in another post.

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Here is another great post by me or at least I hope it will be. If not a great post, it is definitely a great topic and hopefully one that you will comment on.

I read a book the other day "The Law of Spirit" by Dan Millman, and this book is great. It was the first time I had ever read a book cover to cover in one sitting. It may be a very small book but still a great read. It is what they call an adventure parable in which a story tells much about life. I personally have been learning so much about myself over the past couple of years and now that I have a beautiful baby girl, everything that I thought was correct, of course was not.

So in this book, a man meets a sage in the woods and they go on a mystical journey. My half Indian wife ( feather no dot) would call this some type of nature quest or something. Though I cant remember all of the law, I do remember some stuff that sticks out to me particularly. The first part of the law deals in balance. Balance not meaning standing on one leg but balance in your life. Are you working more than you should be? Playing too much? Is it time to get out and start your life? Move out of Dad's basement? How does your wife or spouse feel, are you giving enough emotionally? That kind of balance.

This part of the law says that it is easy to identify what is off balance in your life but hard to correct. You are so used to being off balanced that it is hard to change. The book says to try to act completely opposite of yourself to find the corrections needed. If you have been told you are very aggressive, try for a day to be very passive and see how it feels. This will help you guage where you need to be. Overcorrecting is what Mr. Millman calls it. It is easier to understand if you think of throwing a baseball. Throw a baseball at a picture 10 ft away. Try to hit it dead center. Did you miss? Well, odds are you missed dead center. Now overcorrect to the opposite of how you missed. If you missed high left, throw low right and purposely miss. Now that you have purposely missed you can appropriately gauge where to throw. Well, howd you do? Hit it didnt you? Even if you still didnt keep throwing and it will happen.

That is balance.

The next two posts are going to be about my lucid dreaming and what it is doing for me, Aikido and Jiu-jitsu, and the cycles or seasons of life.

I am going to try to consistently write more and I hope you intend on reading more.

This blog is also changing from a real estate investing blog into a "real" person blog. It is changing with me. I am understanding more about life and am sharing it all with you.

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You know I have ran the road of success for quite some time now and have had a great level of it. Through manifestation and plenty of hard work and perserverance we are doing great and only see levels of accomplishment and success to increase.

I watched the movie Funny People with Adam Sandler and Ill tell you, you should watch it - hilarious, but it made me think about what I am working toward.

Let me tell you; I have my own island, nothing outrageous just a few houses of family some land and a lot of beach. A very big home, big enough to get lost in and enough funds to give any and everything away. Real happiness in traveling the world and spending time with great minds. I am talking about people on the same level as some of these superstars in the media, when I think of the type of person that is my friend, I think of Tyler Perry. My best friend is of course my wife and like in Funny People we are good friends with these successful people. People like Tony Robbins calls to keep us motivated, I mean why not?

Tony Robbins went from making less than $30k in one year to over 1 million just through manifestation. He is no better than me and I am no better than you. I have realized that I am a great mind and we all have the same ability. Wow, just writing that brought a tear to my eye.

What do you think the truth is? Is it your 9-5, your dissappointed child or your second guessing wife? For me and Tony Robbins, thats not it at all. For people that believe, we are able to eliminate that negativity and prosper through the positive.

So, right now I am building the road map to these Big, Hairy, Audacious, Goals and I have been thinking about all that I need to do to ensure the future that I will have. First thing I was thinking of was a radio show. I help people one person at a time right now and I need to reach more people because we all need to think like this. We need to be in control. We are the smartest specie in the world yet in masses we act like cattle. What is the old saying, "A person is smart, people are stupid." Why? Well, Im not sure but I want to have a stronger influence on a better way of life for everyone.

We should all lead a life of peak performance - mind, body, and soul. A life without fear or hatred, a life where we are honestly happy. Are you honestly happy?

Well, I am looking into the radio show now and hopefully you will listen in and please comment on this post. I owe my success to my way of life and I couldnt be any happier. Even in the worst recession ever, you dont have to accept the bad you are able to manifest the greatest life you could ever imagine. Stick with me and I will show you how to honestly bring this life to fruition.

This blog used to be all about investing in real estate, it has quickly become about the ultimate investment, investing in yourself.

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