You construct your reality out of your understandings, convictions, and hopes of what reality is. So, if you were to revise your understandings, convictions, and hopes, your reality (or perception of it) would change.

But most of us don’t revise them voluntarily; more often than not, we are forced to do so through facing the loss of a loved one, illness or any other form of adversity.

Emotional suffering is what usually encourages us to revise our perceptions of reality.

And this is essentially why personal/spiritual/emotional growth is changing the way you see and understand the world around you, your identity, and how you relate to others.

Recently, I opened Peter Diamandis email with top predictions of what our reality is going to be in 2045. It immediately challenged me to revise my reality.  

•    Late 2010s: Glasses will beam images directly onto the retina. 10 terabytes of computing power (roughly the same as the brain) will cost about $1,000.
  
  
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I have just completed a trekking in Himalayas and am spending a couple of weeks in Leh, an ancient Buddhist town of India. 

There was something about my Himalayan experience that corresponded to the samurai training I did in Japan half a year ago.

Both - the samurai training and the Himalayas trekking - have challenged my body and mind in ways that I hadn’t experienced before.

'You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain,' writes one of the most revered samurai, Miyamoto Musashi, in the Book of 5 Rings.

When climbing a Himalayan peak or hours on end practising foundational sword moves in Japanese mountains, my mind had given up on trying to rationalise the unfamiliar experience and ceased its tireless stream of thinking.

And in that moment of no thought, there was a space for 'nothingness' to arise, or as Musashi calls it, the Void - the 5th element in the Book of 5 Rings.

That very state had become an opportunity to rise above...

In the world of multiple voices speaking at you through social media, apps, and ads, it’s hard to truly be authentic.

And if you somehow managed to switch off from all of the noise, there would still be colleagues, friends, and family…

So, how do you stay in touch with your authenticity?

It requires creating a space within and listening to it (and not the voices of others.)

It requires taking time out to continuously revisit what authenticity means to you and so that the voices of the environment would have less power over you.

It requires looking in the mirror every day and embracing who you are so that the need to emulate others is no longer there.

This is what we are going to work on in samurai-themed retreats in Tokyo and Lithuania:

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