A few weeks ago I attended a seminar in Sydney to see Robert Kiyosaki and his advisors live on stage. I was really excited about going and enjoyed what I heard at the seminar. However one of the speakers ideas had really stayed with me on the thoughts she delivered.
I was surprised to see when Robert Kiyosaki introduced all his guests, Robert’s sister Emi Kiyosaki a Buddhist monk who has actually been ordained by the Dali lama. For a non professional speaker I must admit she spoke very well, and clearly as well as insightful. She had told us that she has been working for several years in Hospice’s, and I’m thinking to myself I don’t even know what that means. Emi explained, its when doctors can no longer help a patient to get better, that’s when she steps in, and gives emotional support for patients who are going to die.
As she started to talk I was wondering why Emi was giving a talk about caring for people who are dying in a wealth seminar, but listened on and I quickly got it. Emi said with all the years she had worked at Hospices she noticed a recurring trend with people on the regrets that they were carrying as they approached death. Emi shared that these regrets that seemed to always come up for people were:
1. Not taking a leap of faith
2. Saying what you really wanted to say to people / friends / associates etc.
3. Not forgiving people.
Now I’m sure most people who are reading this, have many many years of life to go on this great planet. However how many of us including me have considered these 3 ideas / insights here and can actually say yes I’m all good in all 3 areas that Emi covered above.
Leap Of Faith
If your one of those people that has always said one day I’ll …….. or when __________ happens I’ll go and do (fill in the blank). It could be to start a business, ask someone you like on a date ,or to start training for a sport you’ve always wanted to do. Go on that holiday to Europe, the list can go on and on, but hopefully you get the idea here. What are you waiting for. Like I have said before, when would NOW be a great time to take a leap of faith.
Saying What you Really Wanted To Say
There is no point keeping in all inside waiting for a day to come, or deciding never to share something to someone you really have wanted to say for so long. It could be positive, like telling someone special you love them (blokes out there that means you too) or it could also involve saying how upset or hurt you feel about some event that has happened in the past to the person involved. Keeping it bottled up inside causes a lot of anguish and hurt, pain and even sickness in how you feel. Those beautiful words that I’m sure everyone has heard “The truth shall set you free” (Unknown) are so true. What do you need to say today to someone to set you free?
Forgiving Others
I know I have carried a grudge or two in the past. But I also know it doesn’t serve me to not forgive others, so I do my best to forgive them and release them to their highest good (Wish good things to them).
Just like not saying what you really want to say, not forgiving others causes us to keep that anger or hurt in us til we go to the grave, and it too can and usually causes a lot of illnesses in us by holding onto our grudge and not forgiving and moving on. Robert Kiyosaki had shared on stage how last year he had a major operation that was related to Robert being very angry with several different people in the past and not forgiving them. Now I know for a lot of people who just read this, will probably won’t agree with what I wrote about not forgiving others and direct links to health related problems. That’s OK, but you have to ask yourself one question.
Is there someone or several people I need to decide to forgive about something they have done or said so I can move on?
As an exercise so you learn something new, I suggest you google the phrase ‘Anger and Illness’ and have a read on one example of how we can literally make ourselves sick by the emotions we carry with us that we don’t deal with.
After Emi Kiyosaki had shared the 3 main regrets, I could see how these beautiful insights are linked to wealth. As wealth by my definition is abundance in all areas of your life not just monetary aspects. So having a clear A-Ha moment that there may be some areas that we need to work on so that we can become happier and healthier and hence wealthier made so much sense to me.
I hope what I have shared has benefited you in one way or another, or at least caused you to think about making changes if needed.
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