Throughout my life, seeking answers to what I really wanted out of my life,  I could not help but suspect that the actual answer was masterfully disguised, buried under a facade of external diversions. The more I asked it, the more clear it became that I did not have the right angle. If only I could get beneath this fog, I thought. I was committed  to finding an answer because it felt to me that without tapping into my Truth, my life would simply be wasted. Deep down I knew I had a special Purpose, a Calling, an Awakening that once revealed, would totally transform my life. Yet, I could not get to it.

Sorting through all the constant bombardment of thoughts, perceptions and emotions, coupled with the daily demands imposed upon us from the outside is not an easy task. It actually can seem monumental at times. How does one breakthrough this entrancement? Believe me, I have spent the majority of my professional career and the total focus of my doctorate coming to decipher the secrets. Yet, at the same time, I have also found myself succumbing to all the distractions that endlessly come our way.

My search led me to a deeper understanding of far reaching effects of cultural conditioning. This incredibly powerful process takes hold at an early age.  We are all subtly taught what is to be important, what to want, what to buy, how to live and what our true priorities should be. Through powerful means, our cultural conditioning commandeers our attention. It can’t be avoided.

The end result – we are each conditioned to perceive life a certain way. Without really having the chance to choose, we now choose what we have been conditioned to want. And, even more relevant is that we are actually conditioned to never even ask the important questions – What do I really want? Who am I? How can I express my greatest talents and realize my true potential?

Being unconscious and living on auto-pilot is the norm on this planet. Most people really do exist in a fog, though they don’t usually recognize this. What is appalling to think about is that most people live out their lives rarely cognizant of what really matters most to them. They remain ignorant of who they really are.

So when you ask yourself the question – what really matters most to me – who is answering? Is it your programmed personality (false self) or your Authentic Self? While you may think like most people that you are clear on what you want, have you dug beneath the surface to ask why you want that?

On auto-pilot, in drift mode, you do not really have control of your choices. Choices have been pre-programmed. You simply like everyone else attend to what has been deemed important by powers outside of you. Your life will just play out in pursuit of purposes not your own. You will continue to make choices not really of your own choosing.

How to break free and emerge from the fog? My suggestion: observe what you attend to moment by moment.  Simply that. Stay with this until you begin to realize what is really going on within you. Over time, you will begin to notice that your attention is in a sort of ‘drift mode’ most of the time. It drifts from one preprogrammed focus to another, driven by agendas that are mostly not of your own choosing. This unconscious process has been happening most of your life. Bred to fulfill the needs deemed important by our culture, we want the things we have been told to want.

Getting beneath the facade is essential. To do this is a matter of regaining control of your ability to attend. In fact, we really have control over nothing else.   What I am saying is that unless you take back control of your attention, take it back from the conditioned entrancement imposed by cultural conditioning, you will never be free nor will you wake up to who you really are.

Attention has its root in the reticular formation in the brain. It is exactly where our life happens – moment by moment. The accumulated effect of what we have attended to each moment represents the actual content of our life. To what do you give your most precious of gifts – your attention – on a regular basis? Where you direct your attention is where you life happens. And here is the mind blower – who is it that is deciding where to focus attention?

Most fundamental to making a genuine connection with your inner Truth is to somehow bypass the almost constant demands on your attention that are dictated by the False Conditioned Self.  Your Truth only resides within your core Authentic Self.  The Authentic Self is all about waking up to who you really are (behind the illusions of conditioning). It is about waking up to why you are here and how you will make a difference to yourself and the world with your unique set of talents and capacities.

Why I feel it is so paramount to discover your Calling or true vocation is as you do, you must by default, become aligned with your true or Authentic Self. As this Vocational Awakening occurs, you start the process of individuation in earnest. You begin to act from the Core of who you are which is also one and the same with Source Energy or the vsat Creative Intelligence. You, in other words, come into a state of natural flow and unfoldment of all of your potentialities. This is where your attention must be directed to.

For over 30 years, I have been focused to this mission – to wake people up to their true vocations or calling. Why? Because Vocational Awakening and Self-Realization go hand in hand. In this transformation, one begins to break out of the cultural conditioning that has commandeered the attention to purposes not really of your choosing. Without this, life remains just a dream, an illusion, playing out scenarios created by others.

Waking up then, Self-Realization, is nothing other than regaining control of your attention and focusing it to what really matters. This is what my training is about. There is nothing else that really matters more than recapturing your Essence, breaking through the hypnotic trance and becoming your own person. It is only then that you tap into your true passion, talents and become the person you are truly capable of being.  Join me in discovering your Calling, your Truth and the person you were born to be.  Join me in creating a new world.

A few years back my business advisor suggested that I start a new practice in my business. He said, “Starting today, start saying Yes!” He followed this with, “then start saying Yes in the rest of your life.”

It just seemed so odd, so I immediately began finding reasons why this would not work. He followed with, “Right now, you are saying no. God does not say no, why should you?” So I thought, why not. Make it an experiment to see what happens. I have trusted him in the past and his advice was always good.

So I began saying YES. I said YES to situations that came up in my business, with my kids and in my life in general. It was quite a reversal in my normal way of responding to what life presents.

Something amazing began to happen. Subtly at first, then more obviously, I began to realize how powerful this simple word really was. All manner of personal transformations began happening, in surprising ways!

It was like opening a door. At first it was hard, especially with my kids (ages 9 and 14). For the parents reading this, I know you can relate as to how much of a shift this requires. Kids ask you for stuff constantly. Just don’t let them know that is what you are doing!

So here is how it really works. Life presents you with something, a decision, a circumstance or turn in the road. Your job – say YES! That is it – just say YES.

The just saying YES is the easy part of course. Then comes the follow through. The follow through requires some genuine creativity. Now you have to figure out how to walk through the opening you just created. This is where it gets really interesting.

In this, you are aligning with the powerful flow of Source, accepting whatever life presents. Being in the flow of life is what it is all about, that is, if you want to feel truly alive. I discovered that stretching, transforming into the future comes from YES, not NO.

The Simple Wisdom of Y-E-S

What I discovered in the few years I have been working with this principle is that NO closes doors. It constricts you and it certainly obstructs flow. NO says not now and closes denies hidden opportunities. It also changes my kids when I say NO, I can feel a let down, a constriction in them.

YES, as I discovered, actually ignites a whole new outlook on life. It also precipitates deeper self-understanding and personal growth. YES aligns you with the very essence of life itself, with Divine creative energy.

It’s funny that I missed this incredibly simple, and yet revolutionary strategy for the majority of my spiritual life. I like to consider myself a spiritual person. However, to me, that means self-actualization, rather than the spiritual distractions of ego. To me spiritual is about living to my full human potential, in this body, now.

Nothing happens by coincidence in life. Carl Jung called it synchronicity. We can say that God or the Divine or Spirit provides us exactly with what we need for our personal growth.  That said, and perhaps believed, then do you say NO to what has come your way, to the gift that life has presented to you?

This is a good question to ponder. Kids certainly learn more about life when you say YES. They learn that the universe says YES, that there are unlimited possibilities in life. The power of YES truly lets your spirit soar.

This is something further I discovered. Years of cultural conditioning started getting reversed in a relatively short period of time. Old negative patterns, unconscious habits, began to give way to the person I truly was and had always wanted to become.

What was truly incredible is how my kids changed. The resistances and little conflicts stopped. They began to feel closer to me, and even became more creative. A powerful bond began to form. They felt loved because YES gives the gift of attention, and time, the greatest gifts you can give to your kids.

Your inner kid needs the same gift. Even more remarkable was that it was through this practice that I found myself feeling younger. Life became more magical and I began noticing the synchronistic harmony of events as they unfolded for my highest good. All manner of positive events began appearing in my life.

Does it work in business? It sure does. It opens you to new opportunities and breaks the habit of just saying NO out of past conditioning and unconscious habits. Yes stimulates commitment, which generates true creativity, the essence of entrepreneurship.

Now I can guess what you might be wondering. How can you say YES to absolutely everything? Well, perhaps not. However, observe yourself when you respond to what presents itself. Just try this little experiment for a while and observe.

Try saying YES the next time the opportunity arises. As you do, notice your bodily reaction. With YES, does your body feel more open, relaxed, energized? Then try saying NO and see what happens. Your body will actually reveal the truth.

This simple practice is much more about just saying YES. What is important to recognize and align with, on a spiritual level, is the Divine Presence. Life itself is always saying YES to our desires and intentions. YES gets you back in alignment with the flow of the universal life force.

After all, the greatest spiritual practices are usually the simplest. The truth of who you really are reveals itself as you align with Source. YES easily creates this alignment. Ultimately, when you say YES to all that life offers to you, good or bad, you will awaken to the Self and the Oneness of all. This is when the real magic happens.

Blessings and Awakening,
Doc

Doc Roberts

The Truth about Vocational Awakening

If you are radically honest with yourself for just a moment, ask yourself – have all your hopes and dreams for your life really worked out? Are you making money doing what you are passionate about? Do you know why you are here? Have you really made any substantial progress in discovering why you are here?

In your deep longing to discover what your Calling and True destiny is, and thereby realize your full potential in this lifetime, have you ever felt stuck? Do you find yourself instead struggling with doubt, dead ends, conflicting interests and fears? Do you feel like your life is passing you by? Coming to the realization of your Authentic Self and what you most want to do with your life is not easy. This quest is fraught with obstacles. That’s what makes it such a mystery, and so special for those who make the effort.

Like most seekers, maybe you’ve tried lots of things to get clear – prayed, gone to counseling, attended workshops, got all the latest books, taken tests and more. Yet nothing seems to really break you through for long (if at all). Why does nothing seem to work?

Like most sincere seekers, you simply must unravel the mystery of your destiny.

This is one of the most monumental initiations of your life. It is the distinguishing factor between those who self-actualize and lead truly fulfilling lives and those who only keep searching and feel disillusioned. Yet the quest won’t be denied. It keeps calling to you. It always has throughout your life. You were born with a purpose and it seeks expression.

Of course, you could try to ignore this deeper yearning (and probably have been), instead getting lost in the many distractions the conditioned or false self creates. However, you can’t totally escape that nagging suspicion that there is something more fundamental, more transformational, more creative that seeks expression through you.

Your spirit absolutely needs to express itself. At least on an intuitive level, you know this – you were born to fulfill your potential, express your gifts and be the person you were born to be. Vocation (or Calling) is the direct path to self-actualization and awakening to your potential.

My Calling first revealed itself early in childhood. Not that I knew what the word ‘Calling’ even was at that time, but I do remember having a strong desire, an awakening really, that happened. I became clear that I had only so much time in my life and I wanted to live to my full potential. I knew even as a kid that I wanted to make the most of my life.

This urge to realize my full potential began to captivate my attention more and more as I grew older. I remember certain recurring patterns in my life that reminded me of this initial spark of Calling. The older I became, the more I found myself studying any teachings that I could find to further develop my understanding of how one can fulfill their unique human potential.

I quite naturally and joyfully devoured every book I could to uncover the hidden truths about the nature of human possibility. I read autobiographies and ancient religious and spiritual texts, attended numerous Satsangs, and listened to many different spiritual masters.

One of my key discoveries was that just as the Authentic Self seems to be hidden behind the Conditioned ego-self, so too one’s true Calling, the discovery of your life’s work, is hidden beneath the “must’s, have to’s and should’s” of daily life. We are literally taught to do what we have to, not what we really want to when growing up.

I now know, from my over 30 years in working with clients, that to know your true Vocation points the way to realizing your greater potential and being all that you can be. In extensive research on self-actualizing individuals, it shows that they all these individuals were engaged in a life’s work, expressing their passion and greatest talents and making a difference in the world.

If you are born to this purpose, why does it seem so difficult to discover what you are really capable of?

The conditioned self (or ego-mind) keeps us in confusion, doubts, fears and clueless-ness. Early cultural conditioning teaches us how to be in life. Self-realization and vocational awakening are rarely, if ever, spoken of and mostly forgotten in mainstream society.

Fear and doubt, the tools of the conditioned self, keep us in check. As a result, we act and do what we are supposed to do. Every single day, our lives are dictated by ego-mind. The subtle process of redirecting the attention more and more disconnects us from our awareness of the Authentic Self and soul’s purpose as we age.

Led to believe work is about survival and that accumulation is what the good life is all about, we systematically lose touch with our deeper truths, our soul’s purpose and the gifts we were born to share. The purpose of our life becomes instead about doing what we are expected to.

Compromise never brings you the lasting peace or deep joy that you most want.

Conditioned from an early age to fit in and live the mainstream life, we get jobs, so we can afford to buy the good life. We trade our precious time in life for future expectations. This is ego-based living in a nutshell. And, it is a major sell-out!

Unfortunately, in the process of acting from conditioning, we let go of our dreams, suppress our greatest talents and compromise our life-energy all in the name of being realistic. After all, we want to be real about our survival and that often means pursuing goals not usually of our own choosing. This again is what we are taught.

In my work with 1000’s of clients over the years I have come to notice that often times, they knew what they really wanted, but somehow felt the need to put if off to some future time, when circumstances were more right. Though nagged from within to discover their truth, something kept them in avoidance mode.

Putting off joy to some imagined future is the status quo. Work hard, toe the line and hope for things to work out. Most people unconsciously settle for living a small fraction of the life they could have. Though rarely aware of the “Not Yet”, people often come up with all manner of excuses for why they can’t live their dreams now and put things off.

This Not Yet is insidious. It all seems so logical when we say things like “I don’t know what I want to do with my life” or “I don’t have the talents”. Looking beneath the surface however, these excuses don’t hold much weight. They come from the same source.

That source is that most people are afraid of their own greatness. Experiencing the fulfillment of one’s dreams, knowing joy beyond what one has ever known before and realizing prosperity and success beyond all imagination frankly is overwhelming.

Bred to expect living commonplace lives while held back by invisible limitations, most people do what they should do, what everyone else does. After all, ego-based controlled living is so much more predictable and therefore comfortable. In comparison, living your dreams can feel like a naïve illusion at best.

At least, that is the false scenario painted through years of conditioning. So we learn to resist our deeper calling. We learn to say “not yet” to our future (and to what is real and true for us). Driven by conditioning, we become caught in an endless loop, stuck in the past, projecting into the future, and all the while, ignoring what is in our hearts.

Resistance is natural because to the conditioned self, awakening to Calling and pursuing our dreams sounds like madness. Truth is the conditioned self would lose control over dictating our lives. Instead, you would be stepping out of mainstream thought and behavior and following your own inner light – wherever that may lead.

All the small talk, thoughts prescribed by forces outside our selves, will no longer hold our attention. Something greater is calling to you now. Liberation – breaking free from conditioned living – means surrendering to Divine flow. It means allowing your self the freedom of living your truth, no matter what.

The only way conditioned self can resist the inherent destiny to awaken is to create a hidden disclaimer. When distractions don’t work, when have to’s or should’s don’t work, this usually does. So instead, our conditioned self agrees that awakening and living to our full potential is vital, “but just not yet”!

Secretly driven by the reasoning of conditioned self, even Awakening becomes some future goal – a ‘Not Yet’.  A brilliant strategy of ego-mind, the inevitable Awakening is made into some future event to be sought out. And so, welcome to the ranks of the perpetual seeker and impotent dreamer.

Are you ready to stop seeking? Are you ready to stop inflating your ego with all the devout spiritual acts you perform? The fact is there is nothing in awakening for the conditioned self. It disrupts all the status quo we have been taught to conform to.

Locate that spark of desire to awaken within you. It is always there. Stop the Not Yet and embrace what brings you joy now. Living your life to the fullest is not some day, it is every day, starting now.

Though insidious, conditioned self is limited, Authentic self is unbounded. Be open and your life will guide you, and is right now. Life itself will help you to follow your dharma or life’s work. Your Calling, your larger life, is seeking you and craving to be recognized as much you are seeking it. Hear your “Not Yet”; follow it to its source. Become aware of your conditioning – how it shows up in your thoughts and actions (or inactions). Always remember that just beneath your conditioned responses lies your heart’s desire.

There are many ways to get clear, especially once you realize the “Not Yet” in your life. If I can be of service in your greater unfolding, feel free to contact me.

Blessings and Gratitude.

Make your life extraordinary.

To fully embrace and express the richness that you possess within, your primary task then is to continually breakthrough all internal and external limitations that hold you back. Awakening to the person you were born to be, you would, quite naturally, begin to radiate your light.

You were born to be the best YOU that you could possibly be. To utilize the exceptional combination of talents and distinguishing personality traits and characteristics that you alone possess is why you are here. You, and you alone, have been entrusted with certain unique gifts you must express if you are to live fully.

It is your most sacred agreement that you express your gifts and live your life full out. It is only in the unrestricted expression of these divine attributes in line with your Soul’s purpose that will allow you to awaken to the fullest realization of your extraordinary potential.

Vocation or Life’s Work is that special life path that will propel you to your highest manifestation of who you truly are. The breakthrough that beckons to you then, in your quest to shine as brightly as you can, is to discover your unique Vocation, the Work you must do.
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As you discover and align with your True Vocation, you will experience the greater success and sheer joy that comes with becoming the person you were born to be. You will emerge into your true potential.

Refined through 30 years of individual work and research with 10’s of 1000’s of individuals, this program is a time-tested, powerful program of vocational transformation. This process will guide you to:

• Awaken your soul’s purpose.
• Express your greatest (often hidden) talents.
• Clarify your real motivations and deeper passions.
• Experience the freedom and ecstatic joy that only your calling can arouse within you.
• Reveal all of your vocational possibilities matched to your higher purpose, including making money on the internet.
• Prosper doing what you love in today’s marketplace.
• Break free of the “earning a living rut” and make the difference only you can make.
• Live from your Authentic Self, express your true magnificence and claim the career success that awaits you.

WELCOME TO YOUR TRUE DESTINY.

Join me, and the growing numbers of those who are living lives of joy, ever-growing prosperity and the actualization of their greater potential. Explore the contents of this website, find the particular services that speak to you and awaken.

Richard L. Roberts, PhD.
Vocational Consultant & Intuitive