Владимир Светлов – The Path to Yourself, or the Road to Happiness: First Steps. Vladimir Svetlov (страница 4)

Now you know what health consists of. But that doesn't mean we've become healthy. I've pointed you in the direction of health, but you must take care of your own health yourselves. Tackle these issues. Start running. Start getting in shape. Sign up for yoga. Practice breathing exercises. Meditate… And don't allow yourself to be emotional about every little thing.

When a child is born, they go through several stages of psychological states: envy, jealousy, resentment, anger, pity, blame, cunning, deceit, a state of fear, a state of loneliness, and other such elements. They pass through this. And if the parents don't help them cope, they get stuck. And they will spend the rest of their life going through it. They will live with resentment, disappointment, a sense of entitlement, a feeling of loneliness. All of this gets stuck in your inner child state and goes inside of you. And you are triggered by it every day. It's a wound that activates this mechanism within you. Childhood pain triggers the mechanism of today's reactions. You can't help but react. Because your inner child reacts. And since you didn't cope in childhood, today you need to go to a specialist who can fix it.

But today, in adult life, you can't solve this in one go. Because you had that resentment in childhood, then in adolescence you resented even more, and then… Now you'll have to process that resentment maybe twenty times over to solve the problem. Until you get to the root of it. Because that resentment was born there, in early childhood, then sprouted, and those sprouts bore fruit in the events that got stuck there. Remember: there's a whole chain of these episodes along the timeline of your life. And you need to unlock every link, remove all the blocks, starting from the last one. You need to trim all the branches of this resentment. And pull it out by the root.

Otherwise, later comes resentment toward your mother, resentment toward your brother, resentment toward your partner, resentment toward your children. In the process of your growth, this resentment starts constantly being triggered in the processes of your life and solidifies into patterns. But a good specialist can help. And you will stop being resentful. The specialist will cut off all the little branches, pull the resentment out by the root, and lay it in the sun so it dries up and withers away.

But are you ready for this? A person can be helped. But not everyone will allow it to be done. If they are not ready, they will either start acting stubborn, or the process becomes too painful for them, and they won't be ready to solve the problem further. They thought they could devour the whole cake in one sitting on the specialist's couch. The specialist suggests: "Let's eat it over several sessions." But in response, they hear: "It won't work anyway."

Or the "eater" decides they've already figured everything out and says: "I've sorted everything out for myself, I don't need any more." The specialist has only plucked off the first little branch. Only removed the first candle from the cake. But the "eater" has already decided that everything is fine with them now. They don't understand that their level of awareness is far from the specialist's vision. They want to drive on, but the specialist sees that the car is broken and can't go anywhere.

Chapter 3. Goal, Dream, and Levels of Happiness

Let's start with the dream. And here's why. Everyone should have a dream: it gives us wings for the soul to soar, a state of happiness, and faith that we can achieve the impossible.

Here, the word "faith" becomes the key to understanding everything. When a person believes in themselves, they accomplish what seems like madness to others. Even if people shout from all sides: "Are you insane? That's impossible!" — they act. And they achieve. The formula is simple: Dream + Action = Result. And what drives such a person is inner conviction — that very force that turns castles in the air into reality.

In our world, about 80% of people have forgotten how to dream. But you are not like that.

Sometimes I attend seminars by various gurus and observe the participants. These people... it's as if they exist in a parallel universe. Their consciousness is asleep, and the questions they ask are primitive, as if they are interested not in truth, but merely in mental titillation. If I were to speak to them about what is real, they would not hear me. Their minds are locked in a cage of mundane routine. Their interests, their dreams revolve around a petty bourgeois, consumerist paradise.

Recall "The Battle of Psychics." I was invited for the first seasons, but I refused. To boast about spiritual gifts is akin to trading in something sacred. Even Yakov Grigoryevich Galperin, the president of our "Healers Association," tried to persuade me, but I was firm: "No, I won't go."

A friend of mine participated in the second season—and it broke him. He became so disillusioned that he sent everything to hell and fled to India. Why did he go there? Ambition. But I am not an ambitious man. The force that guides you and helps people will not forgive such betrayal. Why degrade yourself to a show? For fame? Money? The power will recede, it will leave you—and it will be right. Those of the light do not go there. Have you noticed? In the later seasons—only sorcerers and charlatans, hired for the spectacle.

And then these "winners" are sold off. The public eagerly attends their performances, asks tricky questions, savors intricate answers... The mind is satiated, but the soul empties. A person thinks they have "understood" something, but life remains the same.

In exactly the same way, a goal differs from a dream. You can achieve a goal—buy a car, a house, attain status—and feel nothing but emptiness. How long will the joy from a new car last? A week? A month? And then it just becomes a piece of metal. A dream, however, gives something else: an inner fire, a sense of purpose, an energy that lifts you off the ground.

Dreams and wings are connected by an invisible thread. There is horizontal development—movement outward, across the plane of reality. And there is vertical development—a leap upward. For the latter, you need wings. And God gives them to those who dare to dream.

You know these wings. You have felt them. Recall moments of being in love—the lightness in your chest, as if ready to take flight. Or those seconds when a dream uplifts you so much that wings become almost tangible. The initiates from the Temple of Immortality see them, touch them, study them... But for those who have stopped dreaming, their wings are severed at the root. It's not their fault—the world sets the task: to pluck the feathers so that a person forgets about flight.

Then the process of intellectual degradation begins. A nod to German Oskarovich Gref, who diligently works in this field. And following that—demonization. A person ceases to distinguish good from evil, light from darkness. Their consciousness sinks—and entities enter it. Not those primitive demons that possess alcoholics, but powerful demons. Their task is to control the masses. They choose those in power: leaders, idols, media figures. And through them, they cripple the world, passing off evil as the norm.

For me, these are not metaphors. I see this as clearly as I see angels behind the shoulders of the righteous. I see demons whispering to politicians and celebrities—right there on television. And I see wings behind your shoulders—even if you haven't yet spread them.

What Should We Dream About?

Children dream with the help of their soul's state. They dream easily — their souls haven't lost their wings yet. They soar, not knowing the word "impossible."

For adults, even dreaming requires a foundation:

1. Knowledge and a concept of the world — the foundation of existence, an understanding of how the universe works beyond the mundane;

2. A concept of humankind — our purpose and the meaning of life: why we are here, where we are going, whose shadows we chase.

One historian put it harshly: "A person must answer: Who am I? Where from? What for? — or accept the role of a cog in the machine."

Sometimes I'm in Moscow and talk to people from the special services. I tell them: "My students are different from others. Ordinary people have only one life, the one that was imposed on them, but my students have an alternative life. And no matter what happens in this life, they live in an alternative reality, and you could throw them in jail—they wouldn't care. That reality of theirs cannot be taken away. And it is more real than this life. That's why they become healthy, unfazed by anything, no matter what happens. They understand the why, the what for, the reason behind everything in their lives. And how quickly it can all be ended or extended."

People without dreams postpone their lives. "Later. Not now—work, debts, circumstances..." Their excuses sound like mantras. But you're reading this book not for the words, but to reclaim your wings. So that the angels sleeping in the corner of the room finally lift you above the gray plane of "must" and "should."